The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-04-18
A FIVE INNING GAME
Princeton and r1ilaca High School Ball
Teams Met at the Fair
Grounds ON Saturday..
The Game Was Played Under Adverse
Weather Conditions Which
Delays the PIay.


Delays the PIay.
Under adverse weather conditions
the high school ball teams of Milaca
and Princeton battled to five inning
tie last Saturday, the game being
called at the end of the fifth inning to
allow the visitors to catch their train.
Evidently the weather man does not
favor early spring base ball in this
country, for he handed out about as
poor base ball weather as one could
imagine. Not being satisfied with
heavy and cloudy skies and a temper
allure which wasn't many degrees
above the freezing point, he also cut
loose bowling, clustering wind that
sent the sand swirling across the
diamond in clouds, and at times made
the players turn their backs to the
storm and stopped the play until the
swirl of sand had gone by. The game
was started late and, owing to the
>slowness of the play caused by the
high wind and blowing sand, the best
the teams could do was a full five
innings, when it was necessary to call
the game to allow the Milaca players
and rooters to catch the Sill RATHER
and beat it back to the parch-throated
regions to the north of us.
Milaca put in bid for the game
right in the first round. Bourquin
was first man up but grounded out to
McVicar. Fullwiler failed to get his
range finding apparatus in working
order for the next two batters and
allowed both of them free transporta-
tion to first. McGilvra soused one
out to Umbehocker in center field and
the ice king made a brave effort to
pick the evasive horsehide out of
swirl of dust and sand but failed and
Bourquin passed through the regis
tering turnstile with the first score of
the season. Van Rhee and Wills
finished the inning by striking out.
Princeton failed to garner in any of
the game winning scores in their first
cry at the bat although Angstman,
Princeton's stocly captain, succeeded
in getting as far as third base in
safety. The second inning disclosed
another blank for both sides and
Milaca s third time at the bat failed
to net them any further scores.
Princeton shot all their fireworks in
the third, and when the inning was
over it looked as if the Princeton lads
had sailed down the game for keeps.
With one out G. Stay hit corking
drive to left field that was good for
two bases, Peterson sacrificed him to
third and Angstman scored him with
a clean drive over second. Umbe-
hooker refused to bite at any of the
'twisters and was awarded free trans.
sportation, for his cool-headed perse-
verance. R. Stay refused to be out
done by his brother Casey and so
wallOped one of Swanson's benders
for a clean hit, scoring Angstman and
in the mixup that followed the throw
in Umbehocker counted and r. Stay
got safely to third. Pete Smith for
got his seniors dignity long enough
to drop a Texas Lacquer in short left
field and the Stay hoy romped home
with Princeton's fourth score for that
inning. McVicar put an end to the
fireworks by going out at first on an
in6eld grounder. With the score to
1 against them, Milaca proceeded to
do a few stunts in the batting line
themselves. "Susie" Moore started
this frame with clean single and
went to second on Searle's sacrifice
:grounder. Swanson cut loose a hit
scoring Moore. Bourquin got free
transportation to first on four wide
ones, and before the side could be re-
tired Swanson and Bourquin had
both counted, thus tying the score up
in 4 to knot where it still remained
at the end of the fifth inning.