The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-04-25
A CLOSE BALL GAME
Princeton Loses Closely Contested
Base Ball Game to Elk River
at the Fair Grounds.
Princeton Lads are Not DISCOURAGED.
However, and Will Strive
to Redeem Themselves.

to Redeem Themselves.
By the close score of 3 to the Elk
River highs defeated the orange and
black team last Saturday at the fair
grounds. The weather man relented
somewhat from his unkindly attitude
of the previous Saturday and came
across with some good baseball
weather to make things more pleasant
for the players and spectators. A
fair sized crowd was out to see the
contest and although their favorites
drew the short end of the scoring, still
the game was interesting and exciting
and was anybody's game until the
last man was out in the ninth inning.
With all due respect to the victorious
team let it be known that it was really
the tucker team that got away with
the Saturday game, as all the So
called-'sbreaks'' of the game went
to the down river lads and the luck of
the game seemed to be all against the
orange and black athletes. 'Rube"
Stay was on the mound for the locals
and was slanting and hooking them
over like a major Lacquer, and with -
strikeouts to his credit, really de-
served to win the game, but the
Princeton hoodoo was out and per-
sisted in keeping the locals hits
scattered, befuddling them when on
bases and otherwise mixing up their
fielding and batting. Elk River took
the lead right in the first inning and
their one run in this inning was really
enough to win the game although they
cinched it for keeps in one of the later
rounds by adding two more to it.
The first score was handed to them
free gratis, as the Elk River lad who
finally got over the home plate safe
was out on an inGeld grounder had
not McVicar been too anxious to get
the first round over with. With two
men out and nobody on bases, one of
the Elk River batters hit an infeld
grounder which was folded Clearly
and hurled across to Mac at first; the
throw was in ample time to get the
runner at the bag but Mac got over
anxious and forgot to get his foot on
the base and the runner was safe on
close decision. This proved a costly
error as this runner finally made the
complete circuit before the side could
be retired. Although Princeton failed
to score they did succeed in getting
men on bases in almost every inning
and several of the runners even got
as far as third in their ramblings,
only to die there a moment later for
want of wallop by one of their team
mates to bring them in. McVicar and
Berg proved to be the real artists
with the stick, each one polling out
clean double over the center 6elder's
head. Several of the others came
through with singles, and sharp field
ing by the Elk River infeld saved
their twirler from having several
more singles chalked up against him.
But when q hit meant run there was
nothing doing. and during their nine
trips to the bat the locals failed to ne
gotiate a single run.
The Elk River team played a fast,
clean game and, with the luck of the
game with them throughout, had no
trouble in taking the lead right from
the start and holding it for the nine
innings of play. Their veteran in
field was working like big leaguers
and it seemed impossible to find
weak spot in it anywhere. The out
field also did some fancy fielding and
pulled down several drives from the
Princeton war clubs that would. have
been good for extra bases had they
been allowed to get away. The visi-
tors were gentlemanly bunch of
boys and put up fast, clean article
of baseball, the wrangling and rag
chewing being conspicuous by its alb
sence.
While this defeat is big dis
appointment to the locals it has in no
way dampened their ardor for the
great American game, and they have
gone right back to work with a grim
determination to clean up the rest of
the games on their schedule. The
season is young yet, and by taking a
brace now and cleaning up the ma
jority of the games left on their
schedule they can finish the season
with a fat percentage of wins at that.
Another thing they have to be thank
full for is that the arrangement of the
schedule gives them another crack at
the Elk River bunch and, with an even
break of luck, it is pretty hard to tell
which one of these teams would win
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