Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-05-11
Base Ball.

PARIS H. s. 16; NORWAY H. S. 8.
Under perfect weather conditions bu
with an attendance smaller than the in
terest and excitement of the game de
served, Paris High School and Norway
High School base ball teams met for the
first time this season at the fair grounds
Saturday afternoon. The game was moi
advertised at all in this village, few
knowing that it was to be played. and
those who did know about it and wished
TO attend had to make considerable
effort to find out what time it was to be
played.
1t was evident from the first that the
players on both teams were much nerved
up over the contest, and as conse-
quence the playing was at times rather
loose and good headwork decidedly
lacking. Notwithstanding the fact that
the supporters Of the Norway team far
outnumbered those of the Paris team,
Paris remained the steadier at critical
times and because of this reason they
stood the strain of the seventh, eighth
and ninth innings, aud then won out by
some splendid batting combined with
two errors of the Norway team in the
first half of the tenth. Mixed with the
loose playing there was some first class
ball. Five double plays were pulled off
in fine shape during the contest, Paris
making three and Norway being credit.
ed with two. A glance at the base hit
column in the score below tells the story
of Paris victory. Twenty hits with a
total of twenty-four bases shows that the
Paris batters liked the kind of pitching
the Norway pitchers were serving up to
them, the only wonder being that Paris
was obliged to 60 an extra inning to
win, as in the nine regular innings Paris
made sixteen hits to Norway's eight and
only seven errors to Norway's nine.
Neither team scored in the first but
things got exciting in the second. Paris
scored five runs on three singles, a
double, two errors and a fielder's choice.
Norway got three of the runs back in
their half of the inning on three hits, an
error and base on balls. Norway gOi
one run in the fourth when Rawsor
dropped throw from the pitcher with a
man on third, his only error of the
game. A triple, double and two errors
gave Paris two runs in the sixth, and
then Norway took the lead by scoring
five runs on single, double, a base or
balls, two errors and fielder's choice
Paris tied the score in the seventh with
two hits, an error and base on balls
There was no more scoring until the
first of the tenth, when Paris commenc
cd to hit Haskell, who started to pitch
in the eighth. Four hits, two errors
and fielder's choice netted Paris sever
runs and the game. The Norway sup
porters tried to urge the Norway team
on to batting rally in their half Of the
inning, but it was useless, neither of tht
three batters who faced Cutting being
able to drive the ball out of the diamond
Klain did good work for Norway II
getting back into left field on fly balls
but bad very bad day on ground hits
his errors being very costly to his team
Geary and Barker also played we'll, ant
Partridge was the only member of hi
team to get two hits. For Paris, Dun
ham made two fine throws from cente
field, getting one man at second and ont
at third. Lowell, who started playing
in the seventh, had perfect batting
score, getting two hits and drawing {
pass out of three times at the bat
William made four hits, while Rawson
Barrows and Durham each got three
Rawson's three-base-hit being the bes
hit of the game. The score: