The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-04-21
THE HOME nine WINS.
The Princeton and Milaca High School
Mines Meet In a Terrific Strug-
gle at Fair Grounds.
Contest SkilIful One But Princeton
Vanquishes rliIaca by Score
of Four to Three.

Last Saturday the Milaca and
Princeton high school baseball teams
played their first game for the season.
AS indicated by the score-4 to 3-the
mines we're pretty evenly matched.
The game could not have been better
played had professionals been engag-
ed in it.
Milaca batted first and it's roofing
squad shook the earth with it's yells
when Swanson tunked the first ball
pitched away over the infelders'
heads. However, he succeeded in
making but one base and was follow
ed by Lund, who struck out. Nc
Gilvra and West succeeded in tapping
the ball and bringing in one score.
1t looked rather rocky for the
Princetons when one score was chalk
ed against them in the first inning, but
all doubts and fears we're laid aside
when they also made a score in their
half of the inning. The score thus
stood to l after the first round Of
the contest was over.
Again, in the second, the result of
the game was doubtful for the Prince
tons. Shustrom succeeded in hitting
safely and was followed by Goebel
and Engebretson. These two brought
in Shustrom, and Engebretson also
crossed the pan before the inning was
over. Princeton came up boiling
over with revenge but in consequence
of hard luck every ball was batted
into the hands of the opponents, who
gobbled it up as though it were an
everyday occurrence. The inning
ended with no score for Princeton and
the game stood to l in favor of the
visitors.
The third inning was different
spectacle for the anxious onlookers.
Milaca failed to land on the ball and
Princeton turned the tables-three
scores we're credited to the orange
and black. Misher, Shaw and L.
Angstman were the lucky sons of
Princeton who succeeded in reaching
the goal safely. This series of events
gave the Princeton rooters something
to yell about, and yell they did to
their hearts content. The game now
stood to 3 in favor of the home
aggregation. and little did any one
suppose that the fates would thus de-
eide the game at so early a stage of
the contest.
From then on each inning was vir-
tually a duplicate of it's predecessor
so far as scores went. Both sides
worked furiously in their attempt to
gain another score, but all to no pur-
pose. Goose egg followed goose egg
in rapid succession and the game
ended with no additional scores on
either side.
Archie, better known as esquire"
Hull, was the slab artist during the
entire game and Jake Angstman was
on the receiving end Of the line for
Princeton. This was the first time
Squire Hull pitched for the Princeton
high school team and, after he had
coaxed his "glass" arm to work free
ly in it's socket, he showed the visitors
that he could do things. Shustrom
pitched for Milaca while McGilvra
caught the crooked missiles.
Perhaps the most noteworthy feature
Of the game was the absolute absence
of wrangling. This was doubtless
due to the squareness of the umpire,
Mr.. Rowle of Milwaukee. A better
Or fairer umpire never oA6ciated on
the Princeton diamond. The two
teams lined up as follows: