The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-08-21
BOYS REGAIN STRIDE
Princeton Ball Team Goes Against
~ .Abeles Bros.' Nine and Trims
Them to q Finish.
New Clothes Men Come Here Next
Sunday to Have Their Raiment
Bespattered With Mud.


displaying complete reversal in
form from their playing in the Foley
game on the previous Sunday, the
Princeton team regained their stride
and swent under the wire an easy
winner in their game with the
Abekes Bros. team from St. Cloud
at the local ball yard last Sunday.
The locals played in their old-time
form and gave "Fish'' the finest
kind! OF support throughout. Hard
chances to the outfeld were knocked
down and converted from hits into
putouts, much to the disgust of the
SANITY City lads, who pasted them
out to the sun gardens. Galley, Bill
Roos and Doane played the outfeld
and smothered everything that came
their way, getting in all a total of
five putouts, several of which were
difficult chances. The infeld was
somewhat shifted around for the
Sunday game, but the new combina-
tion seemed to be we'll fitted to-
gether and went through the whole
game with only one error chalked up
against them out of many chances,
some of which were easy and others
difficult. Art Roos was out of the
game owing to illness and Wilkes was
mustered in to cover the initial
sack. Smith was at his old stand at
second, Berg covered the short field
position and Harry Davis was cavort-
ing around the third station with all
his old dash and pepper. These four
men covered the infeld in great
shape and presented a stone wall
defense to the St. Cloud attack.
Fullwiler was on the firing line and
proved to be the right man in the
right place. For nine straight in
nings he shot them over with deadly
accuracy, striking out eight of the
opposing batsmen and allowing only
thee hits, which were scattered
out over as many innings. "Fish'
nevet let up during the whole game
and seemed to grow stronger as the
gameprogressed. Porter and Skahen
worked behind the bat: and al
though Joe's sojourn back in the
land Of bird cages and chest pro-
tecters was only for a brief while,
he demonstrated that he was an old
postmaster Of the catching art.
Skahen relieved Joe of his strenuous
duties in the second round and
caught his usually good game, be-
sides doing some exceptionally clever
work in nipping off several prospec-
tive scores at the plate on close plays.
The whole team played together as
one man Sunday and reminded the
fans Of the earlier days of the season
when the machine was running SO
smoothly and beating all corners.
St. Cloud got a healthy start in
the opening round when Smith, first
man up, got life on Berg's error,
and later galloped to second and then
home while the locals were endeavor-
ing to get the correct range for base
throwing with a wet and slippery
ball. This was the best the Saints
could do for this inning, and it ap-
peared to be just enough to madden
the locals into one of their old-time
batting bees. W. Roos was hit with
a pitched ball and stole second, going
to third on the overthrow when the
Saints catcher threw the slippery
sphere to center field in a vain at
tempt to catch "Rabbit" Roos as he
scooted for second. Doane dropped
a Texas Lacquer over second and Roos
scored the first run. Davis waited
it out and was awarded free trans
portation to first for his patience.
Wilkes hit a roller down the first
base line and all hands were safe
when the Saints first baseman tried
for forced play at third. With this
heavy congestion Of traffic. waiting
on the bases Smithie smashed a
triple to left field and three more
of the maroon stockinged lads
waltzed home. This one inning was
really enough to win the game, as
the best the Saints could do was to
collect one more lone tally in the
third. But the locals kept breaking
loose frequently throughout the game
and collected in all a total of nine
safe hits, which proved to be good
for eleven runs. Every man on the
Princeton team got a hit except
Roos and Fullwiler, while Berg and
Wilkes each grabbed off a pair OF
+ st. Cloud used three pitchers dur
ing the game, and the locals seemed
to take kindly to the offerings of all
three of them.
With the unanimous consent of the
visiting team Heine Plaas was select.