Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
IS INNINGS.
Fairfield Wins, Six to
Five, From WateIVI||s'
Game Abounds in Hitting,
Mixed with Costly Errors.
Each Team Uses Two Pitchers...An Excit-
ing Contest for the Spectators.

| Field in this city by a score Of 6 to b.
| The result of the game has been a most
| happy one. The prime object OF the
| forming Of the Waterville and Fairfield
League was not so much for the sake Oh
developing jealous rivalry as i. was for
| furnishing ideal sport through the sum-
| mer months for q sport-loving public
made mp of gentlemen in either town
who were determined to see clean, Sci
| ontific baseball. This object was not i'm
| mediately realized, but, in the minds OF
| those who Witnessed the game of Satur-
! dav which nearly from the start was
| a question of heads 1 win, tails you
! lose" the labor and expense of forming
| this league has been rewarded fourfold.
The best features of the game remain
TO be described liz detail, but the best
feature of the result was in the evident
| fact that each side realized that, in the
| other, they had met a foe of about equal
| metal. Indeed, there were smiles on the
faces of friends and Toes after the win
| ming score had been declared won by the
umpire.
| No, there never was a greater degree
| of friendly respect manifested between
! two opposing teams since the sods of the
| Colby diamond We're first torn from their
! roots. Tire air vibrated with suppressed
enthusiasm from the hour of 3.23 until
n eliminating cloudburst of sound made
the rafters OF the grandstand shver as
if they We're afraid Of being disturbed
| in their firm resting places.
| In winning this game, Fairfield has
won back what she lost from Waterville.
! last Thursday, and has become firmly
| planted on her feet to face the chances
Of the future games. There is no pros
! pect thus far of the personnel of the
teams being changed at least for this
week, with one exception which will be
spoken of later
| AS for the playing in general. it should
| be said that it was the pretticst exhibit
tion of spectacular baseball. probably,
| ever seen on the Colby diamond. The
game was played, not between two
! pitchers alone, but between the two
pitchers who We're dependent upon every
man behind and around them for their
Il support The pitchers were batted. it is
! true, but never for once were they put
! to confusion. 1t was a practical impos-
sibilty for a fly to get beyond the
swarthy runners who captured every
! lNluS Ill Sight anu, VII Soluc casts, ooiic
| which were not in sight at the time OF
! capture
| For instance. when Mcclellan picked
| that one, with n desperate reach which
must have made his ribs start, from its
| seeming destination on the boundary
| fence and when Truesdale, seeing Tom
Keadys fly describing the flight of a
| swallow somewhere in the vicinity of
! the dome of Shannon observatory, dart
ed out from beneath its tall shadows just
fast enough to prevent it from reaching
! the ground-that is what we call "spec-
! tacular' ball.
! The plays in the infield were not sub
! jected to the criticism which has so
often been heard. With a total of % hits
as the box score shows and but nine
| errors to attest the manner in which
| these were handled. it will be easily seen
! that, although the batting was lively,
! the fielding was at all times steady. Not
passed ball occurred to mar the pleas
ant excitement of the day. Cowing be-
hind the bat, played the game OF his
| lifetime. Dodging around the corners Of
! the grandstand and through the coats
of a hundred spectators was what he
|
crisis Of the close of the ninth, when q
| man on second and one on third We're
watching the opportunity of running in
the finishing score.
| Running around the corner Of Shan
non observatory and nabbing a ball
| which everybody on the Waterville side
said with dismay had leaped the fence
| and was rafting along the pebbly shore
| of the kennebec next to Winslow was
what Mcclellan did in the last part of
the 18th. when Fairfield had again run
| in the tie score and third and second
| bases were squrming under the impa-
! tient heels of Bradley and Barnstead.
! Five dollars for q run. cried an ex-
asperated gentleman, who evidently felt
tina: he would prefer risking that amount
for the sake of preventing a greater loss;
! but the echoes echoed away when, in the
Eth, Allen, after netting a two-bagger,
was put out at third.
BY the time when Taylor. last half
of the 18th, by taking n base on balls
from Ready, had worked his homeward
passage for the deciding score, there
were signs of disappointment. it is true,
on the part of Waterville, but not
which the visitors had won the game or
at the manner in which it had been lost
by Watervile
Another noticeable thing should pc
mentioned, to the credit Of Fairfield,
that never. throughout the game. even
at the close when their victory was as
sured. was there heard an annoying
amount Of jeering or 'yagging which
is generally noticeable feature of these
close contests. The majority of the plays
were Of such a critical nature, in fact.
that mere breaking of the silence"
might have affected the equilibrium of
the players, whose nerves seemed to be
preserved in such excellent command.
through all Of the trying situations of
the game.
We believe that baseball has reached
its eliminating interest in Waterville
and a repetition of this day is expected
not a few times before the season closes.
The game briefly, by innings In the
first half. Waterville scored two. Or
cult and Conroy singled the former get
ting home on an error by Edwards. and
Eaod.y raa ching first on an error at