Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-11
HARD HITTING
Gives Gardiner Victory
Over Winthrop, 9 to z.
IKE" Johnson Shows EN-
Something About TWir|ing All.
The visiters Also Give a Strenuous Exhih-
ton Of WELDING the Stick.

Winthrop, Ne, Aug. 10-(SpeclaD.-
Gardiner took one Of them from Win
throp, this afternoon. very easily-very
| easily, indeed, 9 to =. She did it by
two methods. One was by hitting hard,
the glory of which the greater part Of
the visiting team shared in. The other
| was by keeping Winthrop team from
| hitting hard, the glory of which belongs
to a gentleman known as Exc" john
son of Machias. Me.
These two factors are the story in a
| nutshell. The Winthrop team as a whole
d4L not lose the game, only so far as
lack of hitting is concerned, and in that
particular the fact is not wondered at
by those who saw Exc" pitch. He had
tons of steam. reckoned on the pounds
basis by which steam is computed, and
more than that he had several hum
bred pounds of control, speaking in the
same TECHNOLOGY. In fact we never saw
him pitch such a game this year, even
in the college games. The lovely
weather on his long vacation from his
books at Bates must be having a bene-
pitched n great game.
And on the other hand Gardiner did
hit the ball hard and often, two home
runs and enough doubles to give a total
of IS tells the story Of what they did
to it very nicely.
Winthrop played a fine game. Prac-
tically ar errorless game in fact and
the most critical could find no flaws in
this particular. Carrigan caught and he
did a fine job, putting life into The team
and playing n fast all-round game as
usual. Huntington, Roach and in fact
the whole bunch played good game as
one could ask to see and if n Winthrop
supporter wishes to find fault with the
locals about the only thing he can say
about the team on yesterdays record,
is TO blame them because Exc" john
son pitched such a good game.
This is speaking generally. OF course
We do not mean that all Gardeners hit
ting courL not be helped ORourke was
not in it. Either he's been pitching too
much of late, or he was 'all in or an
"off day or something of the sort will
have to be brought forward. Or per-
haps he had one of the days that hap
Pened to the best of pitchers-that is.
days when they get hit in spite of all
they can do. No matter how hard they
try. 1t happens now and then. and il
may have happened, yesterday. The
position Of the moon, or the ides or
some other phenomena may have some
thing to 90 with 1t. Anyway he got
hit-and that one great blg factor show
ing how Gardiner won.
ba mo yaG
number of pretty plays-some of them
Of the unusual order. Winthrop made
two pretty doubles. the one made by
O'Rourke and Edmond being very In
teresting Then the two home runs by
Messrs Messenger and Clason of course
attracted their share of comment Per-
haps the prettiest play was the catch Of
Clason i'm the ninth Of a drive from
York's bat which looked labelled for
more than single, Clason running into
the corn patch and just buttoning ON
with one hand. 1t was a remarkable
play. This with his stick work would
seem to entitle Clason TO the individual
honor of the day.
Both catchers played finely. One
stolen base is an indication of what they
did in keeping men on bases, as previous
ly mentioned. 1t was a good game. and
if the score had been closer would have
been one of the best of the season, but
the dissimilarity in hitting made a diff
ference, as you will see if you study the
summary. The game by Innings:
First inning-Wilder drew a base on
balls and Allen sacrificed him to sec
ond. Clason sent pretty hit to right
and Wilder scored. Chadbourn sent one
to Huntington at second, who put it
handily to first for a double, retiring
the side. For Winthrop, Stanwood
famed and Fish and Norwood fol-
lowed suit. Score: Gardiner. 1: Win
throp, 0.
Second inning-Messenger put one
against the horse shed and the ball was
lost in the bushes, and he got a home
run out of the caper. Munro drew and
burlington struck out. Stone went our
to left. Munro stole. johnson was hit
on the elbow. Wilder hit and Munro
scored. Allen was out at first. For
Winthrop. Carrigan struck out and
Roach flied out to Messenger. Edmond
singled. Files struck out on close de-
cisions. Score: Gardiner, 5; Winthrop
D.
Third inning-Clason hit to right and |
Chadbourn got mis- on an error at |
first. Messenger was hit and the bases
were full. Munro hit Ia Secopd -,