The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-03
SETON|ANS OPEN
BASEBALL SEASON
WITH BIG VICTORY
Bowd0in, Victor Over Brown, No
Match for South Orange
Collegians.
BLUE AND WHITE SCORE
RUNS TO VISITORS 2
johnson Stars in Game by
Cracking Out Three Two
baggers.
BY G. A.

NUT on Setonia Field, where the
" breezy-eezes blew and sent one
gent after another chasing in
pursuit of his hat, the college baseball
season in these parts was launched yes
terday afternoon.
Seton Hall played it's first game and
nodded the first link of a new chain OF
victories by defeating the Bowdoin col
lege nine, of Brunswick, Maine. Score,
6 to ..
Only the day before Bowdoin lowered
the color of the Brown University
team at Providence. 3 to 4. But The
Down East" aggregation was unable
to cope successfully against little Seton
Hall, the team that defeated Columbia,
Holy Cross and a half score of ot.ler
college mines last year.
Old Setonia batted we'll, fielded vel
and her pitchers worked well. The
South Orange eam,t tore off clever hits
Including a quartet of t~wo-baggers
Captain Ferry and Pitchers Powers and
Burke took turns on the firing line
Between them they compelled thirteen
of the Bowdoin batters to watt thu
b~reezes. Pc
Johnson Star of Came.
Third Baseman Johnson was the in
dividual star of the game. Just watch
that boy hit was the word passed
along the line before the game. And
he did. He just banged out three two-
baggers n made as many trips
around the circuit.
Johnson has a baseball name II a
baseball future before him. il early in
dications count for anything. He
fields his position with the snap and
dash of a polished Lacquer. That he IS
there, too, in welding the willow the
box score shows.
More than one professional ball play
er blossomed out at Seton Hall, among
them Catcher Duggan, who leaped
from the college ranks TO the Provi-
dence Eastern League team. Johnson
will have a chance to show his ability
against professional pitchers tomorrow,
when Seton Hall meets the Jersey city
Eastern Leaguers at West Side Park.
Setonia starts Well.
The South Orange team tore OFF w
runs right off the reel in yesterdays
game. Clark, the first man up in the
opening inning, was hit by a pitched
ball. He was sacrificed to second by
Mahoney, but tagged u at third on
Daly's drive to Stanwood. johnson
cracked out a double to left field. and,
with DAILY, scampered over the plate on
a wild pitch,
Hillock opened the second round With
a safety to centre, and scored on
Clark's two-bagger TO left garden.
Two more runs went down on the score
sheet in the third. Johnson came along
with his second double. Ferry followed
with a hit to left. Both men scorched
home on Meegan's drive to centre,
which got away from Caldwell.
The Bowdoin teams two runs were
charitable gifts. Bower hit past third
for two bases and scored on a wild
heave after two men had walked the
plank. Stanwood was ticketed to first
oil a dead head in the fourth, and
was pushed home by singles from
Harris and Lawliss.
1t was Johnson again who crossed
the plate with Seton Halls last ruu.
The slusger biffed his third twin-sacker
to left field in the seventh inning.
IIillock did the rest with a %screecher
to right centre.