The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-05-07
THREE BALL GAMES
Fast Nemic Theater Team of St. Cloud
fleets Defeat at the Hands of
Princeton First Nine.
Two Other Exciting Games ia Which
Princeton Comes Out With
Enough Scores to Win.

The local baseball season was duly
opened last Sunday at the fair
grounds The first offering was the
Nemec Theater team of St. Cloud
and they proved to be real ball
team. Everything was all set for a
grand opening of the season. Man
ager Roos had gotten the suits all
Numbered up and had supplied his
athletes with gorgeous maroon base
ball coats and in their brand new
regalia they looked as Respondent as
the much commented on governors
military staff. The grounds had
been put in excellent shape for the
contest, fast team secured to give
battle to the locals and all that was
needed t. make the official opening
huge success was the proper kind
Of weather. But here's where the
weather man failed to ''come across
as the gambling fraternity express it.
Instead of nice, warm May weather
the flood gates we're turned open and
beginning with Saturday night,
shower after shower chased each
other across the sky and this was
kept up with more or less regularity
for twenty-four hours thereafter.
In the morning it let up just long
enough to let the St. Cloud team
get started on their way to Prince
ton with the idea in mind that it
was going to clear up. After a
strenuous trip across country
through the mud they finally hit
town about O'Clock and it was de-
cided to play seven inning game:
regardless of the inclement weather.
The seven innings were played in a
driZZling rain that made the ball wet
and slippery and hard to handle.
However, the two teams seemed to
have lots of pepper and proceeded to
pull off pretty snappy article of
ball considering the weather. OBJ
stacles they were working against.
Neither side scored in the first
inning, but in their half Of the
second, the Dutch comedians from
ST. Cloud succeeded in pushing one
of their blue coats across the plate
for their first and only run.
At the beginning of the last half
of the fourth inning the score stood
l to 0 in favor of the visitors. Smith
was the first man up in this inning
and not liking the looks Of the score
board he leaned against one of
O'Malley's choice offerings for a
screaming three-bagger to left field
From here Smithie scored when
Wilkes hit hot grounder to O'Mal-
ley, who threw home to catch Smith,
and in the mix-up that followed
Smith scored when Welsh, the St.
Cloud catcher, threw high to third
base to catch Smithie. Wilkes went
to second while all this chasing
around was going on and then stole
third and scored on Welsh's high
heave to third to catch him steal
ing.
In the fifth round Princeton added
two more to their sum total when
FullWiler got a life on Schmidt:s err
ror at third, stole second and scored
on Bill Roos' hit down the first base
line Bill then worked his way to
second through the mud and slush,
went to third on Doane's sacrifice
grounder and scored on a clean hit to
right field by Capt. Skahen. This
ended the scoring for both sides and
the game was called at the end of
the seventh inning. Score, Prince
ton /, ST. Cloud I.
The Milaca and Princeton high
school teams played a real old-fash-
Toned game at the local ball yard on
Saturday last, when they battled
with each other for nine innings and
finally quit with the score standing
Princeton Is, Milaca 9. the game
was old-fashioned in the sense that
there was plenty Of smuggling on both
sides, wild heaves and more or less
mufnng OF the ball by both teams.
However, the game was real inter
esting because it was won and lost
for both sides on several occasions.
and it was entirely a matter OF
guesswork to tell which team was
going to go under the wire a winner.
as first one side was ahead and then
the other.
Milaca took the lead in the first
inning when they scored two runs
Princeton held their fire until the
third and then scored four runs
Milaca regained the lead in the sixth
inning when they hammered in five
scores, which brought their total uE
to eight, they having scored lone
one in the fourth. 49,. 81
With the score four to eight