The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-04-20
TIE GAME FOR START
Princeton and Elk River PLAY a Rat
thing Good Ball Game and
the HOnOrs Are Even.
Cambridge Will Come to Town on Sat-
urday and Try Its Skill With
the Local Aggregation.

Last Saturday the Princeton high
school baseball team journeyed to Elk
River and in the afternoon crossed
bats with the high school team of that
place for the opening game of the
season. The wind was blowing gale
during the whole day and the temper
allure was more appropriate for a
football game than for an exhibition
of the national pastime. A few loyal
supporters of both teams braved the
cold, raw wind and hiked out to the
ball yard to see the first game of the
season, and these loyal supporters
saw one of the prettiest contests ever
pulled off on the local grounds, the
teams battling for 10 innings to to
3 tie and the game being called at the
end of the tenth to allow Princeton to
catch the afternoon train.
Robideau and Angstman did the
battery work for the visitors, and one
lone scratch hit is all the Elk River
~sluggers have to gloat over in the line
of hits off of "Rabbit' Robideau.
Besides keeping the hits down to the
minimum, Cy struck out three,
allowed no passes and folded his po-
sition in excellent style. B. Davis
did the pitching honors for the enter
tainers and pitched a classy article of
ball throughout the ten innings. He
had several of the Princeton players
on the hip as far as hitting was con-
cerned and in all struck out ten men.
However, he was touched up for a
total of four safe ones, besides walk
ing two men and hitting another.
For the first four innings Princeton
could do nothing with the Elk River
finger and four big hollow ones we're
marked up for their efforts at the bat
during this part of the festivities.
Elk river was more successful and,
after going out in regulation l, 2, 3
order for the first three innings, they
broke into the run column in the
fourth round on a bunch of errors
and bad throws and, before the side
could be retired, they had garnered
in two scores. Princeton came right
back in their half of the fifth, Berg
and Robideau, first two men up,
hitting safe. Davis braced and one
score was the best the Princeton
players could pull out of this excel
lent start, Berg scoring from third
on slow in6eld grounder by Full
wiler. Princeton tied the score in
their half of the sixth inning, Galley
reaching second on hit and an error
and Angstman scoring him with hot
infeld wallop. Elk River retaliated
in their half of the sixth, Lee Bishop
negotiating a trip around the sacks
on scratch hit, aided and allotted by
several wobbles of the Princeton in
field. There was nothing doing for
either team in the seventh inning, but
Princeton put in another bid for the
game in the eighth, Fisher and R.
Stay, first two men to bat, succeeding
in getting on and advancing to third
and second respectively with nobody
out. Galley walloped one away to left
field, but the high wind slowed it
down so that the fielder got under it
and smothered it, and then threw
Fisher out at the plate on beautiful
throw-in and close decision on the
slide. Angstman came to the front
with another healthy wallop which
scored Il. Stay and tied the count into
a to knot, and here it remained
until the game was called, neither side
being able to score the winning run.
Score by innings:
PRINCETON EI Q l 0 l 0-3
Notes.
Princeton blOssOmed ont nramaturo.