Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-08-02
MEXICO WINS FIRST GAME
New London Champions Badly Defeat
ed in First Contest-Big Crowd
Witness Initial Performance.

1t was only because Of an excusanie
wild pitch by Hays Sunday that tne
boosted New London Champions were
enabled to creep into the scoring col
um at all. 1t looked an easy shut-out
for Mexico ana Hays, lths last man on
earth to make a bad pitch) got a little
careless and got one a little too low
for Lakeland to catch and n OF the
visitors, who in some unknown man
ner had succeeded in reaching third,
ran IN home with their only run OF the
game. -,
During the nine innings, the local
team was unusually busy, piling up
a total OF IL runs. They went after
Watson the New London south paw
selected to do the pitching stunt ior
the day, In the first inning and after
the smoke and dust had cleared away
II was found three Athletics had MADE
the circuit of the bases. IL was a nne
two base drive BY Hisey that did the
work. The bags we're all occupied
ard the fans called for Hisey to 90
something. He has been hitting the
ball at a great clip all season and ne
took this occasion to further strength
en- himself with the crowd and inciden-
tally to farther his batting average,
and choosing one that looked good ne
smote II hard on the nose into right
center for two bases and three men
scored. This had a teDdancy to put
the visitors in the air and thereafter
Mexico made runs regularly through
out the remainder Of the game.
The feature Of the contest was a
triple play in the seventh inning. New
| London had a man on first and q on
| third with no outs. The batter hit
down the first base line. Morris field
ed the ball and by aquick throw to the
plate cut OIL the runner from third.
The man who was on first was tenn
porarily paralized and made no effort
whatever to make second when the
ball wa hit, The batter reaching
first started for second on the play at
the plate but Lakeland threw to His
ey and laid him out by several feet.
This retired the side as the runner on
first was forced when the ball was
hit.
While several errors were made dur
ing the game, the Athletics neverthe-
less played a fast game, making three
double plays besides the triple play.
They also slugged the ball with a ven
geance getting 10 clean drives during
the game. Hays was .nvincible, as
usual, and held them to G hits
To-day's game promises to be better
as two new men have been imported
to strengthen the visitors Mexican
instead Of Justus will twirl. He has
regained his old time form and is ex-
pected to return a winner.
An unusual large crowd was in at
tendance at Sundays game and
though a little disappointed at New
London's showing, they nevertheless
enjoyed the game. The visiting team
is a ~gentlemanly, quiet and orderly
bunch Of ball players and their be-
havior both on and off the field has
been generally commented upon.
In the second game OF the New Lon.
don series, The Mexico Athletics were
again winners by a score Of Of I TO 3,
The visitors showed a little better
form than the previous day, having
imported a man or two and rearang-
ing their players, and for a while,
with the score Of 4 TO l against them.
Ii looked a little like the locals would
be beaten. The whole trouble lay In
their inability to connect with the
shoots of n Elliott, who twirled 8
fine game for New London. The game
ran along for several innings without
Mexico gettlnga safe drive but wher
they did start hitting the ball, it was
all over for New London.
The rally came in the last Of the
seventh, when a couple of hits and
some errors gave Mexico 4 runs and put
them in the lead. The next period.
just to make matters safer, a single
by Pitcher and sensational home run
drive by Hemp counted two more and
gave the locals a safe margin Of
three scores.
The visitors made four OF theil
five runs in the fifth inning after two
men were out, by a bunch Of hits
After that Mexican held them safe
though they did add one more in the
ninth. They are credited with IL hit:
in all but many Of them were Of the
"luke" variety and in all Mexican
twirled an excellent game.
The third and last game of New
London Series at Cauthorn Hill Tues
day afternoon was perhaps the great.
est baseball farce enacted on the local
grounds this year. 1t wasn't even in,
teresting. The fans and players all
became quite u~nconcerned and a spec
tator suddenly arriving IN the ground
would have concluded a funeral was In
progress instead Of a ball game.
After the fourth inning, when Mex.
leo had to the visitor ! run, Just TO
awaken a little excitement and put
some life in the game, the local play
ers changed positions on the field.
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