Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-07
Ha||owe|| and Winthrop
the Winners, Thursday.
Former Easily Shuts Out
Augusta Score, 9 to 0.
Winthrop Downs Gardiner, 6 TO a, in Ten
Innings Protest Over Carrlgan.

Something like 90 of the sports went
down to the Driving park, yesterday
Afternoon, ana saw the HalloWtll team
practice. Though they might have had
something else i'll mind when they
started, that is what they saw. They
might have had mental pictures of Au-
guSta'S taking a step toward Gardi-
ner III the league standing; of young
"Billir" Sparks being batted all over
the lot. ana of "IIallic, old boy fan
ming 'tm out with that celebrated
smile that has made his name Il house
hold word in the kennebec valley.
Er that as it may. it was but a
dream-a regular Midsummer after
moons dream" as Shakespeare might
have called it had he lived in the time
of the Trolley League. And the aWak-
ening il WAS cruel Gor Augusta peo-
ple). At first the Augusta sports could
not believe their eyes, then they began
the old trick of the baseball Sport-to
"kmOck.'
But really there was nothing TO
"knock" for, Augusta played an error
Joss game. ana besides. Iiallowell was
doing Knocking enough for everybody.
OILY tlltiI fiio' NILS .il'pii'b ~ ti'N ''S
they disl,ostd of the most peculiar
curves that Hall could think of. They
put them everywhere, that is, every
where but where the Augustus nelderS
could get them, and what was the I'M
kindcst cut of AL, they put them in the
Consecutive" order, which, to tell Sc
crct, is the greatest way TO win games
vet discovered Hall wasn't to blame.
.t..l htNf &c
WAS the common lot of pitchers-to be
hit sometime or other. 1t may be long
time III coming, but like taxes. it's Ger
tain. 50 don't blame Hall. He's a good
little pitcher, and on the whole Au-
guSta ought To he proud of him. Tie
simply got his" rs they say, ana that
is all there is to it. That. then, is one
reason why Augusta lost and Halo
well won-IlallOwell hit.
Here's the other reason: Sparks mad
them on Il string. After the first inning
ii was plainly evident that things were
coming his way in u manner seldom
seen. Everybody knew it. We who sat
on the benches knew it. He knew it.
and the Augusta players are willing TO
swear to it. They couldn't touch him.
"OId Reliable" doc" Abbott was the
only man who really saw the ball, he
getting two hits. one of which was
double, out of four times up. Augustus
other two hits We're made by Craig and
f.. Remission.
Just what Sparks recipe was we are
unable to state ut the time of going to
press. Ii cannot be stated definitely by
eye witnesses on the sidelineS and the
Augusta players can give no tangible
Information. As near AS can be guessed.
he mixed them every way-slow ones,
fast ones, crooked ones and straight
ones. Anyway he did it, and four scat
tered hits tell the second reason why
Augusta lost ana IIallowell won.
OF the other players concerned in the
game, Blair Of Halluwell deserves to-
be mentioned. Five putouts, five assists,
some of them requiring quick work,
two doubles that scored three of Hal
lowell's runs tell the story of his work.
1t was eilt-edged. In fact the whole
lIallowell team did excellent work.
Higgins, Newenham and the whole
bunch.
For Augusta, they didn't do much
one way or another, to praise or crit
icise. They We're simply "among those
present" and that's all. Here's the way
the scoring was done:
First inning, after Newenham had
struck out, Carey singled and Blair got
four. Then came couple of good cracks
ut tn" ban by Higgins and Davis and
Carey and Blair had crossed the Rubi-
con. Pugsley and Arata We're out at
first.
In the fifth. Hallowell got another
Patten famed and Sparks was out at
first. Then Newenham. without bother
ing to tell the catcher Just what he was
going to do. hit for two bases Carey
got his second hit and "Hod" scored.
All was quiet till the eighth when
HalloWell began the lamming act |
again. After Newenham was out to |
Files, Carey singled. Blair doubled |
Higgins singled and PuFsley and Arata
did likewise, three men coming i'm fast
er than you could put them down in
the score book.