Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-06
WINTHROP, II; HALLowELL.z
Winthrop Hit at Will and Pounded
Out Her First Victory.

Winthrop, Me, July 5.-(Special.-
Winthrop won its Fourth Of July gams
| with Hallowell in a walk, the score be-
| ing IL to I. Nothing was easier. All
| they had to do was to hit and they
| certainly did it for fair. landing on
Fatten for IL hits. And what was
more. they did this kind of work when
| it counted. Hallowell batted Irish in
good shape; enough in fact to win COM
mon-sized, everyday ball game. but it
did no good. the Winthrop lads
| went them one better, or rather four
better and won out.
The crowd was big one for
| forenoon game-and incidentally-a
noisy one. The young lad with his
| fire cracker and walking cane Chose
| kind with Russian bomb on the end
| which he slams dawn on the sidewalk
while passing nervous old lady or
a frisky horse while he looks away of
toward the horizon studying the wealth
er) he was at the game. Then there
were the pretty girls in white from
| Maranocook and Craig's Point. toge-
Their with Winthrop's own daughters
(who are not to be sneezed att and all
equipped with tin horns. Then again
there was the business man who
| watches the game as he would the
stock QuotationS-irom business
standpoint, and who figured il out in
| the early stages on a purely CONNER
cial basis as to who would win.
And then there were the old sports
The kind who set up on that right
bank next to the High School build
ing, and with big wad of "B.-L" an
| chored securely between the left jaws
will tell you how they used to play the
game when they were boys-before
| they had all those new tangled rules.
When Three Old Cats was good
enough for anybody. He enjoys the
game. however. and he is a genuine
sport. l tell you, for he has one Of the
characteristics in which Winthrop can
beat any nine in the Trolley League
loyalty to his town and her team. Yes.
it was great crowd--the kind you
like to sit down and watch-and spec
ulate on. It's almost as good as the
game.
And the weather. Well. If you were
up there, we can't tell you. 1t was
hot. 1t may have been hot down at
Augusta in the afternoon, as you sway
ed up against the rope and watched
Augusta and Winthrop play. 1t was
hotter than that. 1t might have been
hot in Hallowell, later on. as you sat
on the bank behind right field and
faced the afternoon sun while Gardner
put it all over the home team. But
1t was hotter than that. In fact 1t .
was hotter than any place you ever
saw and ever will see-perhaps.
The game. 1t was all right. AS we
have already said 1t belonged to Win
throp. At first there was a little see
saving, Winthrop securing one run In
the first. then Hallowell securing two
in their half Of the second. and then
Winthrop taking four more In their
half. and then Hallowell tieing the
score in their half of the third. In the
fifth Winthrop secured two to the good
and clinched it in the sixth by four
more. Hallowell got her other two
runs in the sixth and the eighth.
Both teams played good ball. The
feature was the hitting. some OF the
hunts being the prettiest placed hits
you would see In a good while. and the
ftelders earned their pay beyond 4
doubt.
To one who watched the game
would seem that Winthrop has got
team that will make a mighty bid for
the games they play in. Take them
man for man and compare with tne
other teams and they are all right
There's lots of luck in baseball. ana
Judging from this game one couldn't
help thinking Winthrop has had her
share of the bad part earlier in tnis
season.
The score: