Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-29
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Baseball Players Ready
For the Bates Came
The Second Team Coming
To Augusta Monday.
Bates Players Also Preparing tor
Big Game Monday.

preparing by hard work and practice
for their fourth game in the Maine
intercollegiate series which is to ne
played on Garcelon field, Lewiston,
with Bates on Memorial day. 1t has
been a custom for several years with
these two colleges to play one of their
championship games at Lewiston on
this date and it is always great
drawing card as the Bates and Bow
doin teams are always very evenly
matched. This year is no exception
to the rule and with a pleasant day on
the holiday a record breaking audience
is expected. At present Bowdoln and
Bates are tied for second place in the
championship race, each with a stand
ing of 500 per cent. Bowdoin has won
two games from the University OF
Maine and lost two games to Colby:
Bates has won game from each Of
the University of Maine and Colby and
won from both Of these institutions
one game. Maine heads the list now
but with either Bowdoin or Bates win
ming the two games they play togeth-
Ell and Maine losing her other two
games would give the one winning, the
championship The Brunswick and
Lewiston institutions will each do their
best to bring this about and try hard
for first place. If this should not hap
pen it will be a close race between
the two old rivals for second place
so in any event the game Monday and
also the contest on Friday, June 4, at
Brunswick on Ivy day will be hard
fought and should result in a close
score which ever way the tide turns.
Bowdoin has won the championship
of the State for several years past and
all the other colleges will make a hard
fight for it this year 1t is a rather
difficult problem to judge the better
team whether of Bates or Bowdoin
by comparative scores of this years
games as Bates has lost to Maine
while Bowdoin won from that college
and Bates won from Colby while Bow
dom lost twice to the Waterville team.
Other scores with the out of the State
institutions indicate the two colleges
very nearly equal in power.
Since their defeat on Wednesday by
Colby the Bowdoin players have been
put through the most rigid practice of
the season. Each OF Bowdoin's four
most likely pitchers have been work.
ing out under special direction Of
Coach Deacon" Rawson. 3R&E
Two regular games have been play
ed with the Bowdoin Inelgibles and
the second team and each play was
criticised or approved by the coach.
Finally each man on the team is going
in to win according to Captain Manter.
The lineup will be very much the same
as in previous games in the Maine
college series and is as follows: Will
son ~, c; Hobbs 10. p; Means II, p;
Clifford II, 1b; Captain Manter '09,
2b; Bower '09. 3b; Harris '09. SIS; Nc
Dade 90. If; Wandtke 10, CT: Law
Hiss II, IF.
Interest at Bowdoin also is centered
in the game of the Second team on the
Reuel Williams field, Augusta with
Cony High. The team has been given
some hard and valuable work and
practice against the first team under
the advise and direction Of Coach Raw
son and is in the best condition of the
season. There are several very able
players either not large enough or fast
enough to play regular college ball,
who are very valuable to the Sec
ond team of the college. The team will.
however. miss the captain. Fred G.
Black H. who plays third. and r. Bur-
leigh Martin 10. the able center fielder.
as Martin will represent the college in
doubles and singles with J. Captain
Hughes in the tennis tournament with
the Portland Athletic Club on Memorial
day on the Athletic Club courts and
il is probable that Black. who has been
exceptionally fine form in ten
mis- this year, will be chosen as the
third member of the Bowdoin tennis
team by Capt. Hughes and ex-Capt.
TObey. 10 spite of the loss of these val
liable men the second team will do it's
best under Acting Captain Richard r.
Eastman to beat this years strong
Cony High aggregation. The probable
lineup follows:
George C. Brooks ~ c, James r.
Hamburger 10 p, Captain Richard r.
Eastman 10 ID. Harold P Marsh 10
2b, Frank Fl. burlington II 3b, Rodney
E. Ross 10 IS. Joseph C. O'Neil IL If,
Allen WoodcoCk IL CT, William Holt
IL IF.
The third athletic event which will
occur Memorial day in which Bowdoin
is interested is the tennis tournament
with the tennis team of the Portland
Athletic Club. The Athletic Club this
year is reported to have an execution
ally strong team and with Captain Ar
thur H. Hughes 'O9 and r. Burleigh
Martin 10 of last years team and an
other man picked from the best players
in college, all in fine form, the matches
should be close and hardly contested.
Martin and Hughes have been play
ing good game in practice matches
this week and last years State double
champions should prove q match to
the Portland team. Manager Robert D.
Morss 10 will take his team to Portland
Monday morning and he is expected by
the students to bring them back vic
torious. Tuesday the team representing
the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege will meet the Bowdoin team in
Brunswick.
Manager Warren E. Robinson 10 left
this morning for Boston with the five
members IF the Rowdoin track team