The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-15
LOSES BY ONE POINT
Princeton High School Team Encoun-
tiers More Bad Luck In q Con-
test With rIonticelIo.
Game is Splendid Exhibition of Skill
full Ball MANIPULATION but Fates
Are Against Locals.

! Are Against Locals.
The Princeton high school baseball
team motored across country last
Saturday to even up the grudge they
bore against the high school ath-
letes of our neighboring village of
Monticello. But the wanderers came
to grief at the hands of the town
boys and lost what professional
would call ''hard luck' game.
The game was closely contested on
both sides and was one of those
ninth inning finishes that holds the
crowd intact throughout the game.
The final score was to in favor of
the. Monticello cohorts and they were
luc Ky to get away with the game the
way they did, all of the so-called
"bfeaks'' of the game seeming to
break in their direction.
Wicktor opened the game auspi-
cionsly for the orange and black by
busting one of Shaw's slants on the
nose for clean single and then steal
ing second. He finally worked his
passage to third, but his team mates
failed to come through with hit
and third was as far north as he
got. Monticello proceeded to get
busy right in the first round and
pulled off little matinee that net
ted them three runs before the visit
orsS had really got settled down and
acquainted with their new surround
ings, and before they had become &C
customed to faster field than they
are used to playing on. Eight men
faced Fullwiler in this opening
round, and of these eight three
worked around to the home plate and
counted officially. This catastrophe
was due partly to infeld errors and
partly to timely hitting but, any
how. it put the orange and black
athletes in d hole right from the
kickoff and had them playing uphill
ball right from the start. For seven
Straight innings after this Fullwile1
had the Monticello boys we'll tanned
and, aided by sharp fielding both in
Che infeld and outfeld, succeeded
in blanking them, although at times
they looked dangerous and threat
ened to cross the plate with more
scores.
The Princeton score book had &
clean sheet up to the sixth inning
although they got men on bases ii
! almost every one of these innings
but when hits meant runs there wa:
nothing doing. But in the sixth
they started batting rally that tiet
the score. With one out, Trunl
bumped one for a clean single ant
stole second. Peterson smashed on
through the pitchers box and Trun]
went scurrying home. Peterson
stole second while Umbehocker wa
, being retired. Berg was hit with
pitched ball and, with two men OF
and two out, it was up to Kaliher t.
do something for his country, and h
did 1.-THE smashed one to left fell
that brought in the two runners O.
the bases and tied the score. Full
f wiler retired the side by groundin
, Iout.
: With the score in tie and bot
: teams playing desperately to wiz
the game drifted along to the las
inning. Princeton failed to score i
. their half of this inning and, wit
two out on Monticello and nobody o
. bases, it looked like extra inning!
but at this juncture Lippy, Mont
cello's captain, fell onto one of Full
j. wiler's slants for two-base clou'
But, with two gone, it did not loo
at all dangerous, and when Nelso
hit a little easy roller to Trunk
looked like Monticello's chances (
: scoring had gone glimmering. Jo
:. however, got overanxious to max
: his throw to first good, and thre
> little low so that the runner wa
- safe and, in the mixup, Lippy score
= the winning run.
4 p
g NOTES..
Il 1t was good clean game and tt
q treatment received by the Princetc
Il players and visitors from the Mont
cello people was beyond reproach.
Quite a delegation of Princetc