Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-19
AUGUSTA WINS
Loosely Played Contest
from HaNoweI!, 8 to 5.
Both Pitchers In Good Form
But Support Is Shaky.
Errors All Prove COstIy---The New Men
Show Up Nicely, Thank You.

Augusta won from the Hallowell ag-
gregation on the Driving Park grounds,
yesterday afternoon, in a loosely played
contest Of baseball, by the score of 3
to :. Tho contest started in well and
for the first five innings was worth wit
Messing, but after that the men began
to tumble and in the seventh and eighth
innings the Augusta team made six Of
iIcr rams while Hallowell also came
near tieing the score in the eighth by
securing three.
II was a game in which all kinds Of
baseball played Il part, for there We're
times when no ball tossers in the cOun-
try could play nearer perfect and then
there W.rD Othcr times when the way
the ball veg handled brought Woo to the
hearts of the fans. 'rhcn there were
several n"" ln"n in the game. men who
have played on the teams Of Water
vile and Fairfield ANA while they have
= fine regulation there must Of course
be an ;lluWaNC" To-. there not being ac-
quainted with til" team signals and
this at times made Il material differ
ence IN til" play.
Both pitchers pitched a good game
aud had thr perfect support that a
pitcher should have at this time i'll the
league race, il would, without doubt
been q pretty contest 10 watch, for
there We're but four runs earned during
the game. Remission probably had the
better end Of the game. for while he
allowed eight hits. there We're no free
passes, and his adversary, on the 9TH
er hand, allowed three free passes and
hit one man. Those things though can
not be helped ana his performance will
pass as Cretitab!e for Il first appear
hnCe.
The errors on both teams We're evenly
distributed ami proved costly. especial
ly those made by Pugsley. Pugsleys
work was cratic and one minute he
would make Il hair-raisinG play, taking
for instance his stopping of Keady's
hit III the fifth and then later in the
game making a double play unassisted
Had that been all his work his friends
would have thought him Il "corker."
but With this he had to add two err
rorS that We're awful ANA they far from
called forth plaudits from the crowd.
bradley. 4 new man, who has been
playing with Fairfield. showed himself
t. be 4 first-glass ball player, one OF
the kind that are born, not made. While
his work vas not of the sensational
kind it was good, and in one instance
he stopped d high line drive from Pugs-
ley that had he missed il could have
been scored no other way than an err
ror by the throwcr. But the way he
handles himself caught the crowd and
with this young man on the initial sack
it is safe TO say that Hallowell need not
look further for Il good first baseman
Fer Augusta, the errors We're for the
most part meXcusab bic, for they were
cope plays. although Dickinson did
miss on" iiy after making Il hard run
for the ball. doc" Abbott too. con-
tributed one to this column after stand
ing and waiting for the bah to land,
and as long as he makes very few Of
them and Augusta won. they can be
excused, but had the game been lost
through this error-well there is no
telling to what limit fans disapprov-
al Will go when it comes to baseball.
Penley contributed his customary er-
ror. after having the ball all Gagged
making Il pretty stop he turned around
two or three times to find It, and by the
time he recovered it was all over, the
man was safe.
OF the individual play during the
game the following story Of the game
and the summary tells the story thor
oughly of how Augusta won one Of the
loosest games Of the season and still re-
tains her prestige as the leaders in the
race for the Trolley League pennant,
although it is by a very close margin.
The story of the game:
FIRST 1nning-HallOweIl ut the bat.
NeWenham was cut at first unassisted.
Prescott famed and Blair fouled out
to sullivan. For Augusta, Moody
struck out. Dickinson connected for
two bases. Penley was out, second to
first and Ready followed, Pugsley to
first.
Second inning-Aldrich was retired.
second 10 first. Higgins hit for TIRE,
bases. Bradley lit to Nickerson ana
made second while Higgins was caught