The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
REMARKABLE GAME
COLLEGE TEAMS PLAYED EIGH-
 TEEN INNINGS.
Amherst Won from Princeton In Record Breaking Contest, the Score Being One to
 Nothing.

The most remarkable college game in the history of baseball was played last Wednesday between Princeton and Amherst, the latter winning in the eighteenth inning on a players choice. a passed ball and clean hit.
 During the entire game only three mer had reached third base-two for Princeton and one for Amherst-while up to the twelfth inning not a man on either side got further than second base.
 The following. account of the re- markable contest is from tho Prnce- ton Alumni Weekly:
 made it still more remarkable, was the unusually steady pitching ana me en- durance of Doyle of Princeton and Nc, the entire eighteen innings. Every Amherst batter came up seven times. A conservative estimate would put the number of balls delivered to these SIX ty-three batters at nearly 400, which gives some idea of the great strain un- der which a pitcher is placed by sucn eighteen innings Doyle did not give a single base on balls, nor hit a batter. nor deliver a wild pitch; And while he scored only eight strike.outs, he Snn Si, were scratches. After the sixth, or for twelve innings, the Amherst pat ters never hit the ball safely. Also Doyle had six assists. two put-outs, TO errors. and at the bat he shared the honors with Captain Wells. each rnak- ing three hits. Donald Bryce Doyle member of the academic senior class. He made the varsity last year as a substitute pitcher, but before that his baseball at Princeton was confined to scrub games on the campus.
 "McRae's record in this game was also notable. He allowed only ore base on balls. hit two batters, scored seven strikeouts, assisted in one double play had one put-out and eight assists, and no errors. He did not. however, make a safe hit.
 Lean and Bard played brilliantly for Princeton, and Palmer. Stark, Beach and Kellisher for Amherst
 came in the second inning whsn. with one out, L. Doyle singled and reached second on Alaire's error; but he was D. Doyle hit safely, but Reid at tempting to sacrifice. hunted pop fly second but McRae kept him there while retiring the next thrae batterS In the ninth int kellisher of An Amherst tst doubled at second by the most sensa!,, knocked a high foul, which Mclean bleachers. After the catch Kel- fisher started for second, and Mclean made remarkable throw to Wells. who completed double play. In the twelfth Prince ton had runners on second and third with only one out, but L. Doyle and Byram (who was put in to bat for For sythel both went out on pop flies. Am hersts only good chance to score came in the thirteenth inning. Alaire reach ed first on Wells's only error. and sec ond on McRae's sacrific; Wheeler was out on fly to Bard. but Mclean s tumble of Palmer's gounder advanced Alaire to third. Then Doyle brought the excited spectators to their feet by striking out Stark, the Amherst star third baseman. After that, while the excitement continued at fever heat, both teams played great baseball, and for four innings there was no chance for a score, It looked as though noth- ing but home run would win the game But finally, in the last half of the eighteenth. D. Doyle reacher first on Beach's error and was forced at sec ond by Reid's grounder the latter, how ever, being safe at first. Then Dana hey, the Amherst catcher, allowed one of McRae's curves to gSt away back best of his opportunity. When Dana hey got the ball, Reid was on third With only one out, here at last was another chance for Princeton to win the game. And Hej!n was passed to first on a hit-by-pitcher and stole sec one. Then Captain Wells got in a slow grounder which broke. up the. game; across the plate in a heap, just beating out KeIlisher's throw. IL was a cloudy day and when Reid's cheerful smile emerged from the dust at twenty min utes to six. the shades of night were falling fast