Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-08-07

for a two-bagger, which brought in q
man. Capt. Ready, however. had no
doubt that the hits which were being
made Off Crawford were getting danger
| Gus, and when, in the ninth. he stepped
into the box himself there was feeling
of respect for the censured captain which
stopped all criticism. to say the least.
What his previous judgment had failed
to accomplish was more than offset by
his Willingness to take the result OF losing
the game, il necessary, upon his own
shoulders. The results OF his last attempt
were, however, an easy hy, a dhcult
grounder a base on balls and a strike-out.
ending the game with the score to 6.
The game, briefly, by innings Is as fol-
lows:
a base on balls followed by an attempted
steal and he was out at second. Reeve
followed by a single, reached third on a
hit by Conroy and home while Ccnroy
stole second KeRdy and foderIsh for airslG
reached first on a single, second and third
ON errors by Orcutt and Corcoran. Sher-
lock flied out to Crawford, and bradley
was out by sensational assist made by
Mcclellan after catching Taylors n.y. Rice
was out. short to first.
Second inning-Cowing was up for Il sin
gle and reached third on an error by
Truesdale Corcoran got single. Nc
Lellan hit safely. Crawford drove II fierce
grounder to Rice, who captured 1t, ran IL
feet to second and dispatched 1t to first,
putting out his two men by the quickest
double play which has been made by one
man during the season. and retiring the
side.
F'airfield's half was the most loosely
played by Waterville OF any stape of the
game Allen singled, followed by Ed
wards. Truesdale walked Allen scored
on an error by Orcutt. Truesdale was
assisted out at third and Clark and Rob
inson were out on flies. In Waterville's
half her previous carelessness was re-
deemed by heavy hitting which netted
us four scores. 1t was this heavy work,
undoubtedly. by the cheering effect pro
duced which won the game. Orcutt sin
gled and was scored by Reeves twO-bag-
ger. Ready struck out. Conroy flied out
at first. Roderick knocked a two-bagger
which was made a run by COWing's sin
gle. Mcclellan secured two bases which
scored Cowing. Corcoran singled, but
In the other half. Bradley got first on
a single, stole second, got to third on a
single by Taylor which also scored Sher-
lock. Rice and Allen both went out
Crawford to Conroy. and Edwards flied
out to Roderick.
In the fourth inning not n man on either
team succeeded in reaching first. Sharp
work by Sherlock and quick pickup
by Orcutt with one man out on a fly and
third strlke-outs, summarize the work.
In the fifth, Ready and Conroy were out
at first and Roderick threw down his bat
without touching the ball. Fairfields
most effective work however, was done
in this half. Bradley hit a three-bagger.
Sherlock struck out. Taylor repeated
Bradley's trick, scoring the latter. Rice
singled and Taylor scored. Allen flied out
to Corcoran and Edwards was assisted
out at first by Reeve. The score was now
Watervlle, 5; Fairfield, 4. 1t was Water
ville's turn at the bat. COwing reached
first on an error by Allen and Mcclellan
was allowed to reach first on Cowing's
Ol1t n Sherlock Cnrcnran
two-bagger, scoring Mcclellan, which was
followed by single scoring Corcoran.
Orcutt was out at first assisted by Clark |
For Fairfield, Truesdale limped off, hit
by the pitcher. Crawford, however, fol-
lowed him up and put him out while at |
tempting to steal second. Clark famed. |
Kehot got single, was advanced by an
other by Bradley to second. and reached |
third on an error by Orcutt. Sherlock flied
Fairfield. 4.
center fielder, Ready singled. Conroy |
was easily out at first and Edwards
caught Rodericks fly by running half
field. @ Rice singled; Allen reached T first '" on
Kice's put-out while attempting to steal |
second. The most sensational feature of /
the game. which. however, game TO dis
appointing end. was when Edwards lifted /
a clean fly over short-stop beyond the le- |
gal territory of center field. Edwards |
made three bases easily and would have /
continued to happen. The ball was dis /
covered and pulled out of the grass by |
Ready, thrown by mighty effort to /
Reeve. who dispatched it at once to Cow |
ing. Even then Edwards would have
made home run. and, to tell the truth. |
everyone on the grounds was sorry that |
he didn't. His slide was clean and pretty, |
but as soon as the ball struck Cowings |
nit the latter made a duck and reached |
the hollow of Edwards back before his /
feet could find the home plate. The score:
Waterville, {; Fairfield, 5.
The story of the eighth and ninth in /
nings during the work of Pitchers Ready /
and Herd needs no repetition. Bradley's /
two bagger scored Truesdale and Allen /
error brought in Reeve. the latter prac-
tically ending the game Waterville s;
Fairfield, 6. The score: