Putnam patriot., 1909-07-30


 nings lo ihe Is gone before, making x innings in all, and three games, in which the Greys have been unable to score on them this season. IL has been harder and harder, however, for the Colts in each game to hold the Greys down. In The first game, in this city, June f2. 1t was waikoVer with to q score, Wauregan getting three men as far as the third cushion. In the sec ond game, at Wauregan July l7th, the Canadians scored one Tn the seventh, and one in the eighth, and not a grey suit decorated the third station. In last Saturdays game il took ten in- nings, hard foaeht aIl along. befofe Putnam succeeded in getting man around, and in the meantime our guests had not seen third, and only three Of them got IN far as second.
 When you say Il was the best game ever you can let yeuf voice fall. IL was moi the kind of game in which things happen to to furnish material for base ball dope. It went along like moving pictures, with just spfinkilng Of pun Ky fielding and panky ba4e running to Iet one know il was real. The game seemed to be picked up right where 1t aas Jeff of The Saturday before down among the Wanfegnn pines baek of fhe chnfehynrd II was I resumption of that humming battle of the Bs, Bar. naele and Boyle, with the latter hnv- ing q shade the best of II on points, bul The former getting in the one best punch and winning out.
 II WAS gamey scrap all the way, and If darkness had come on suddenly and put an end to IL before either had taken the count it wouldn't have seemed such Ipueh hard luck, for il Has hard game 10 see anybody lose. Hut the loser had nothing te be ashamed Of and there was plenty of sympathy for the Gfeys even from those who wanted the Canadians to Win.
 The Greys had been given the short end of every close decision, and they had taken their medicine like good sports. Whether the decision al third, in the tenth, when Captain Joe scored the winning run, wns right or wrong, II somewhat maffed, and was not a fitting finish, for so good a contest. and made il seem all The harder luck for the losers.
 Noi Colt had gotten a safety up to the time Labelle opened the tenth. He found II for n little fly To short left. Raymond apparently thought it was going foul, for he didn't get quick start. When he got there the ball had estrnek and he oxefrnn II, giving l.a. : bs. c a double. Az a matter of fact the hatsSruek ten feet In from fuul terri ioFy, asf.t was directly in line with the scorer bonrh. The inteld gathered together near the pitchers box to quiz fhe ump, While they were at 1t Joe shade noise like a pillow and just slipped away to third The csowd set npa yell, at'put'the Greys wise to the mansnsef and the whole outfit rushed toNarsk tsAif@ Co cover up. There was Y Tangled mass of arms, legs, and feet, and no one could tell from d distance ~iso was who or why. The ball WAS thrown high aud long arm was seen te shoot up, and hand grab il ffom Inc air and disappear,a and that was the last thing seen by all--except few on Ghe third base hleaehers directly back of the bag Three or four \ ray ma ehines, or an alrship, might have heen some help to the poor umr.who It WAS up to to tell from without what had happened within, hai without such as- slslanee he knew about as much where lhe bali MAS as spectator docs at football eame when the baii goes into sefimmase. He might have tossed eoln or cut the cards, but thss Is not provided iaf in the rules. Aslde from tnefe guess work there Mas just ene knesa set of facts from which to make .asductions. The las, time he sew the halifr~as being pulled down ha hand seven or eight feet in the al. He knew fAas down an0ae inc elndersi sur rounded bs hts enemies, Potnam s eur " headed captain was doing slide for life on his belly towards that coveted bag of sawdust. Now, from this stln- alton, he must decide whether the ball gol from its height, where last seen, to the haeA uI glse slider below, before the sltdfu got 10 the sack. Il was ten to srae shot |, didnt. and so the official decided. Those directly in line ~ith Inc bass said IL WAS correct deaae- ton, but from all parts oi the neia, where the inside play coaid mol ee seen, il looked the other way. II was one of those decisions that could mol ee made satisfactorily 10 all.
 The Gress made very little fuss and they have been highly commended for tAeir department all through, while apparently up against 1t. But they aese playing ea their nerve il the s4agh. and this incident sent them ? \ asfeh heyond endurance. Mailon ~snx ap mith couple of strikes on him N hen ggoyle hit hisu- shaw was next ln line. fge reached an oatShoog on ihc sat ar his club that rolled down taN-