The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-08-28
AGAIN TO THE FRONT
The New Clothes Men From St. Cloud,
as Predicted, Are rletaphori-
calIy Dragged in Mud.
Billy Doane's Swifties Swish Them
Around on Diamond and Conn
pletely Squash Them.


For nine innings the New Clothes
team from St. Cloud and the locals
struggled for base ball supremacy
with the long end of the score skid
ding first toward the visitors and
then toward the home boys, where it
finally stopped, the indicator show
ing five runs for the ''Dutch" and
twice that number for the Prince
tonians.
1t was a nerve-racking affair right
from the start and kept the crowd
on edge from the tap of the gong in
the first round until Referee Plaas
counted out the scrappy Dutchmen
in the ninth. Figuratively speaking
the Saints won the game in the first
inning, when they scored three runs
on clean double and three bad
errors made by the town boys.
Princeton failed to score in their
half of the first but refused to let
the Granite City lads have any more
in the second round.
Smithie opened up the locals half
of this round with clean double to
left field. Galley failed to connect
with any OF Skeats' fast shoots, and
Berg popped out to the Saints
pitcher, and it began to look as if
the big lieutenant was going to ex-
nj 70 G cooopS for Uoot Of q 1ya]IOp
of some kind to bring him toward
the registering station. However,
Capt. Skahen volunteered to help the
lanky one along on his uncertain
career toward home, and advanced
him one more peg when.. he poked a
single between the guardians of first
and second. With Smith on third
and Skahen on second Fullwiler hit
sharp one to the Saints third base
man and beat out the throw to the
bag. the two runners scoring on the
Eplas. It. was a close decision at first,
and the visitors we're inclined to
beef a little over Heine'S decision,
but his jumps ruled that the base
man had failed to get his foot con-
nected up with the sack and that
the runner was safe. The visitors
showed their disapproval Of the
Princeton scoring when they came in
in the third inning and drove in two
more runs just to cinch up the game
for keeps: as they thought at the
time. This pair of tallies came in
on a Inclination Of two hits, one of
which was a double, and another
bad wabble on the part of the Prince
ton inield.
With the score to against them
the locals made desperate attempt
in their half of the third to even up
the count, and finally succeeded in
filling the bases, but with two men
out. \ this critical juncture OF the
game Berg smashed one on the nose
for a drive, and it looked good to
the rooters for several runs, but
Bosworth cooled off the ardor of the
crowd when he made run and grab
after Berg's best bet and pulled it
down, retiring the side scoreless.
Neither side scored in the fourth in
ming, although the New Clothes
punched two hits off the local boys
delivery.
In the fifth inning Wilkes was sub
stituued in the box for "F'ish, - and
the big fellow proved to be in rare
form, and from this on the Saints
attack was stopped cold. Prem was
the first man to face the new slab
artist, and surprised himself and
everyone else by smashing out clean
single over second base. But the
next three batters paid dearly for
the audacity of the teammate, for
Wilkes frightened up and struck them
out in rotation. From this on
Wilkes was master of the situation,
and for the next three innings not a
Saint saw first base. Only in the
ninth did they again get on bases,
but this did them no good, for they
couldn't score. w.
With the stopping Of further scor-
ing on the part of the St. Clouders
the home talent proceeded to settle
down to the serious proposition of
scoring enough runs to overcome the
three-run lead of the visitors.
Skeats refused to give them anything
in the fifth, however, and retired
the three batters who faced him in
this inning in rotation.
In the sixth, with one down, Galley
started the bombardment with a
single and Berg followed up with
another one. Skeats frightened up
and struck Skahen out. Porter
waited it out and was given a base