The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-05-28
Princeton Defeats Sank Rapids.

June g.. .@.. "Fs@lt 49,
Princeton Defeats Sank Rapids.
The much footed Sank Rapids
baseball team have come and gone
and the locals still have clean slate
in the number of games lost this sea-
son. The farce, for, even giving it
the benefit of the doubt, that's the
best you can call it, was staged at
the local ball yard last Sunday before
the biggest baseball crowd of the
season. In sense the game was a
disappointment to the fans as the
visitors had been hera]ded near and
far as real live baseball team and
the congregation gathered with the
idea in mind of seeing an alright
exhibition of the national pastime.
On the other hand there was some
real baseball displayed during the
afternoon and the locals gave real
old fashioned demonstration of the
hit and run game and in all scored
16 tallies in their eight times at bat.
Mons. Skeats, he with the ironical
smile, essayed to hurl them over for
the invading forces. and the locals
took to his hooks and slants like a
duck takes to water, slamming them
back through the infeld, over it
and some of the longer shots even
went out over the heads of the out
felders. The Princetonians seemed
to be hit-hungry and the fusilade of
hits that greeted the visiting hurler
sounded like Company G at target
practice. Skeats took his medicine
for eight innings and was then re-
LEVIED by Helmet for the final round.
DR.. Roller was trotted out by Capt.
Skahen as the man of the hour for
the home boys and proved too much
for the Sank Rapids swatters. DR..
Roller, the latest addition to the
multitudinous pitching staff of Art
Roos' colts, is working here with the
crew Of Great Northern tank build
ers, who are replacing the bursted
water tank up in Joe Mossman S
preserves with a brand new substi-
tute. Roller had been out with the
boys at several practices and allowed
as how he would like to try out his
salary arm on his one-time pals
from over on the LIE Sank. For the
first. game this season he did fairly
we'll and in only two rounds could
the Sank Rapids boys score on him.
He appeared to have considerable
smoke and had fast breaking curve
bal! that was a fooler for most of
the visiting team.
The team behind Roller played
fast snappy game and nipped several
prospective rallies in the bud. AL
though several errors were made in
the fielding of the home guard the
support given Roller was A Mol
and shows that the locals are rapidly
rounding into smooth running base
ball machine.
Sank Rapids put in an early bid
for the game, when they scored one
run in the first round. but the
Princetonians refused to give them
the lead at all and scored three runs
for themselves in their opening
round. From this on it was just a
question of how large the score was
going to be and when scorer Vonde-
mier had "rassled" for several hours
with the returns from the front it
was officially announced that the
score stood 16 to in favor of Prince
ton. In the official report of the
game the maximum amount is safely
hedged about by the quality clause,
''more or less,' as "Von' says there
were times during tie fray when the
locals hurried past him SO rapidly
on their way to the scoring station
that peradventure, he missed some of
them. But be that as it may the
crowd was we'll satisfied that enough
scores had been run in to win half a
dozen games.
x" T. MOTIFS. 49,
Wilkes. proved to be the premier
swatsman in Sundays fiasco, get
ting a single, a double and a home
run. His home run drive came in
the frstsinning and was the real be-
ginning of Mr.. Skeates' downfall. j
The regimentals displayed by the
visitors lead many of the spectators
to- think that Yankee Robinson's
,rube band had got to town ahead of
scheduie:time. They had everything
in the line of togs from log drivers
red shirt to tango slipper and no,
two outfits alike. i.
Heinie Plaas umpired balls and
strikes and Cliff Cravens handled the
decisions on the bases. Needless to
say that the game was free from
wrangling and that everybody was
satisfied with the way the mediators
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