The Princeton union., 1911-05-11
HOODOO IN PURSUIT
Princeton Again Meets Defeat, This
Time at the Hands of the Pow
erful Mora Aggregation.
Game Was, However, a Close One Not
withstanding Fact That Hand
schau Pitched for Mora.

schau Pitched for Mora.
The "hoodoo" which seems to be
following the Princeton high school
team tagged the team over to Mora
last Saturday and hoodooed the team
so that they lost close and exciting
game to the Mora aggregation by the
narrow margin of a score, the final
count being l to in favor of Mora.
The Princeton team, accompanied
by few loyal rooters, made the long
cross-country trip from here to Mora
in autos and landed at the grounds in
good physical condition. Mora went
right after the long end of the score
and, before they could be retired from
their first turn with the bat, they had
scored two runs, enough to win the
game, as it afterwards proved.
Princeton had failed to score in their
half of the first. Werntz was first
man up for Mora and was retired at
first on an easy infeld grounder.
Woodbeck singled and Struble came
to the front with a safe wallop. With
these two men on bases Handschau,
captain, pitcher and just about two
thirds of the Mora team, drove a two
bagger to left field, scoring the two
men ahead of him. The side was
safely retired before further damage
could be done. Princeton got their
lone score in the second inning by
punching two hits off Handschau and
a passed ball by Mora's catcher
which allowed r. Stay to score from
third base. After these first two
innings there was no more scoring by
either side. Princeton came near
putting the game in the bat sack for
keeps in the third inning and only a
lucky catch of hard drive made by
Mora's right fielder saved the day for
the Kanabec county lads. Peterson
was first to bat in this inning and
stopped one Of Handschau's fast
ones with his elbow and took first on
the play. Handschau then opened
up some Of his reserve supply of
twisters and struck the next two
batters out. Umbehocker then got
free transportation to first and Berg
filed the bases by dropping safe one
in back Of second base. With two out
and three men on bases "Murph''
Angstman came to bat. After swing
ing widely at two fast ones he slapped
the third ball pitched away to deep
right field. The fielder saw that the
ball was going to- 60 over his head
and started on the dead run in the
same direction that the ball was going
in. Running in a rough field and in
the same direction as the ball was
going, the fielder flung up his hands
in frantic grab for the ball just as
it went over his shoulder and pulled
it down by one of the luckiset catches
ever seen on a ball field, and one that
wouldn't happen once in a hundred
times. It was highway robbery of the
rankest kind and parted "Murph''
from three-bagger which would have
scored three runs for Princeton and
would have won the game without a
doubt. This catch sent the Mora
crowd off into spasms of Joy and
drove deep gloom over the Princeton
players, but the little "hoodoo" who
had followed the team over to Mora,
and who was hiding safely under the
Princeton bench, smiled a placid
smile at this Princeton hard luck and
said to himself, "Didn't I tell you
so?"
Handschau, who did the pitching
for Mora, is a wonderful little
twirler and a good all-around ball
player. His pitching was one of the
features of the game, as he struck out
Is and only allowed three hits, and
two of these we're of the scratch
variety. He also drove in Mora s
two scores in the first inning with his
two-base wallop to left field. This
lad has been pitching great ball for
the Mora team this spring and has
been getting a large number of strike
outs in each game, and been letting
the opposing batters down with very
few bingles to safe territory. Hand
schau struck out 81 batsmen in a game
with Pine City and Is in a game with
Milaca this spring. Princeton made
the best showing against him of any
team that they have so far played.
He has curves and speed, and seems
to know how to mix them up in game
winning mixtures.
The Princeton pitching department,
composed of "Cy" Robideau and
"Wallie' Berg, was somewhat out of
running order last Saturday, as both
fingers we're suffering from sore
arms, a common ailment among ball