The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-07-24
WITH THE LOCAL BALL
PLAYERS
What the SkOwhegan and Madison
Teams are Doing in the Games of
the Series Which They are Playing

Skowhegan went TO Madison Thurs
day and trimmed the Madsons in a
ball game by score of 10 to 8
The game started with "Cavey'
the idol of Madison, in the box and
Skowhegan in the first inning, while
it did not shatter the idol did crack
it. The first man up. Emery, ac
! cepted one of Cayeys slow ones on
his shoulder and walked to first. CAL
liant made another crack in the idol
by a clean single to the right field.
Lebeau, not wishing to shatter the
| idol at once, rolled an easy one to
Cavey, who threw to second forcing
out Gallant. Hunter, just to show
what he was going to do picked out
one to his liking and knocked it over
second base. Pooler, the next man,
was called out on strikes, then La
casce, the midget, came to the bat
with three men on bases and two
down. The smile on Cavey's face ex-
banded after having thrown two balls
and getting two strikes on the midget,
but after fouling off two more that
smile was suddenly erased when La
casce knocked one out into the field
that Madisons right fielder was kind
enough to drop. During the process
of the dropping Gallant, Lebeau and
Hunter had scored. In Madison's half
of the first inning after two men were
out, Skowhegan, not wishing to take
advantage over Madison in the way
of gift runs, presented Madison with
two and again in the third inning
evened up matters by presenting Mad
| ison with another run. That was the
last time that a Madison man touched
third base. Madison kept Skowhegan
from scoring in the second and third
innings, but in the fourth with one
down, Lowney hit for single, stole
second and third and scored on For
tiers two base hit. Moore then came
to bat and showed that he could bat
as we'll as pitch by hitting a clean
single over third scoring Fortier.
After Emery had struck out, Gallant
hit single to short that he beat out
on a close decision with Moore on
third and Gallant on second and they
worked the scissors play on Madison.
With the ball in Cayey's hands, Gal
liant started for second base. Cayey
fell for the move and threw to second
to catch Gallant, who had no inten-
ton of stealing second but started
Cavey, Heald and Marden hung, chas-
ing him back and forth, Moore ambled
in from third with the score after
which Gallant's work being done, he
was tagged out by Heald That end
ed the scoring for that inning. In
the fifth, three singles by Hunter,
Pooler and Lacasce in a row complet-
ed the SCATTERING of the idol of Madi-
son and caused his retirement from
the game.
Waldron assumed the pitching for
Madison and made a very creditable
showing allowing Skowhegan only five
hits and two runs in four innings and
striking out seven men,, While Show
hogan was hitting the Madison pitch
ers to all parts of the field, Madison
was going to bat looking over what
Moore had to offer and then making
a brave effort to knock the ball out
of the diamond. This they succeeded
in doing only four times, twice by
means of hits, one a scratch and the
other a fungo hit, that the Skowhegan
second baseman and left fielder stood
and watched drop between them. The
other two balls that went out of tie
infield were easy flies. Only four OF
the Madison team succeeded in reach
ing the first sack during the entire
game. while the other five never had
the pleasure of touching it.
SATURDAYS GAME
One of the most interesting ball
games at Fairview Park this season
was that of Saturday when the Madi-
son team won over Skowhegan by
score of 3 to 0. 1t was a game that
could have been won or lost in any
inning. Madison won by punching
three OF its six hits in one inning,
while Skowhegan scattered its seven
hits throughout nine innings. Five
times with men on second, Skowhe-
gan batters came up and faced Wal
dron and either famed the breezes
or after hitting the ball would have
their expectations of run shattered
by some sensational fielding by the
Madison team. Although the score
was close it was a game that kept not
only the players on both sides upon
their toes but kept both the Skowhe-
gan and Madison rooters cheering
first one team and then the other.
How the game was either won or
lost all depended exactly as one of