The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-05-12
TWO BALL CONTESTS
Princeton High School Team Meets
Its First Defeat i'm Game at
Monticello Saturday.
Home Nine Downs the Becker Bunch
at Fair Grounds on Sunday
by a Score of 4 to 2.

The proposition that sstrange
grounds are hoodoo to the Orange
and the Black' was again success
fully demonstrated when the Prince
ton high school team went to Month
cello and met defeat at the hands of a
team very much inferior to them in
baseball tactics.
There are a number of reasons
which might be enumerated, but
suffice it to say that the game was ILL
starred in the first place and had to
be lost. The grounds were perhaps
the real cause of the disaster because
they are so much faster than the home
diamond. It would be a disgrace to
enumerate the errors made by each
member, but there is consolation in
the fact that all the players we're in
the same boat However there is one
exception to this statement, the
battery did nobly, but no battery can
win a game without support. With
perhaps one exception none of Month
cello's scores we're earned, but were
made on errors and wild throws. If
return game could be arranged here
there is no doubt that big score
would be the result for Princeton, but
such game cannot be arranged.
The Monticello battery was we'll
supported, without which support it
would not have held a candle to our
battery. Libby, the Monticello slab
artist, struck out but three men, while
Archie Hull has 10 men to his credit.
In team work the Monticello players
were away ahead of ours, however.
Ten errors we're made and everybody
played played good ball. The score
by innings was as follows:
Princeton. IS O 1 O o.
Monticello. ...........1 1 1 0 0 0 2-s
Princeton VS.. Becker.
Last Sunday the local ball team
met the Becker aggregation at the fair
grounds. The contest was first class
from start to finish and resulted in a
defs;at for the visitors by score of 4
to 2. <s.
The game was played with a very
few errors on either side. Archie
Hull pitched the first six innings and
all we're 'shut outs'' except the
sixth, in which Becker crossed the
plate twice. This was no doubt due
to the fact that Archie had also
pitched the Saturdays game for the
high school and consequently his arm
was "all in" otherwise Becker would
not have made these two scores.
Archie retired in the last half of the
sixth and Capt. Mallette put Clyde.
Robideau in the box. Clyde, although
he has had little experience, did
honor to himself for the remainder of
this inning and also the remaining
three innings, which we're all "goose
eggs"
The team play was excellent and
Shaw and Smith played star games,
although the whole nine did them
selves credit, and no doubt Princeton
has this year the material for a
winning first team.
But the game was not so one sided
as this much of this article makes it.
The Becker pitcher was we'll skilled in
the art of twirling and he was loyalty
supported by his co-partners. They,
like Princeton, made very few errors,
the most detrimental of which was an
overthrow which resulted in three
scores for the opponents. The line
up was as follows:
princeton Becker
lass ri. ............C. Peterson
L. AngStman =. 80. .f........,.G G. DrySon
Mallette. ..... ..1b............G. Fountain
Hull ............p ......L. AummenSOn
Smith ................2b..... III. DrySon