Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-13

winthrop .........5 .o56
Gardiner ...........4 ass
HalloWell .........2 ZZz
Brim full of confidence, inspired by
its recent win over Winthrop in that
famous thinning struggle and with
the mighty Pagan, the star twirler Of
the Waltham High team who made
such a brilliant record in the Subur-
ban League, on the firing line, Halo
we'll came to Augusta Saturday af-
ternoon only to have her bright ex-
pectations trampled upon in a tragi-
comic walloping of 10 TO 0.
Holding the 1913 champions to four
scattered safeties and striking out 20
men of the calibre of the Winthrop
sluggers, possessing speed and an as
sortment of curves that would SEEM
ingIy battle some of the big stickers,
the Massachusetts boxman was look
ed upon by many as a sure winner.
Even the well-known cleanup artists
of the Augusta team, who are seldom
. found wanting when punch is need
ed to put one across the pan, were
looking upon the youngster with an
air, skepticai in it's fullest sense.
A number of dopesters had predict
ed win for the down river team,
which is at present the full-fiedged
champs of the cellar; but that jinx
which has been skulking around the
Hallowell club house for the entire
season, appeared again Saturday, and
made itself more prominent than
Harry Devoes team desired, and Har-
~, too, looked a picture of gloom
as he sat on the bench and watched
his team go down in humble defeat
at the hands of the fighting Senators.
An Auspieious Opening
1t was exactly 4e4 when Umpire
Bate announced the batteries and
called play. A loud cheer went up
from the well-filled bleachers on both
sides of the diamond, people were
seating themselves comfortably to
witness one of the hardest fought
struggles in the history of the Troll
ley League. The weather looked du-
bious, to be sure, and it looked doubt
full IL the game would 60 over five
innings before the fans would be OBJ
J hged to scatter for cover. The frs,
three men up for Hallowell were re-
tired in order
Amid the ringing cheers of the 500
strong Hallowell rooters Pagan, who
was expected to have but little diff
Guilty in landing the game, walked to
the mound. In that very first inning
it was evident that the Augusta
clouters found his delivery to their
liking. The over-estimated Pagan, al
though no one can dispute that he
Is wonderful HEAVIER lasted just six
innings, and in that fatal sixth the
combination of hits and errors that
resulted in seven runs was enough to
take the heart out of any human be-
ing. Pagan pitched a better game
than the score shows, but when con-
fronted with the task, which result
ing favorably, would have stamped
him as hero for the second time
since his appearance in Maine there
was something lacking from the Won
derful delivery that worked Win
throp's downfall He was not the same
Pagan that bested Buekland in that
memorable thinning contest, but was
twirler of merely ordinary ability
gers that proved his undoing.
Augustans in Their Stride
Augusta played ball, and the men
played as they never played before.
Every man was in the game, there
was not dun moment Every player
ran bases, hit and flelded in a man
ner that stamps them as members of
Get hon
sented the Capital City in years.
Up to the sixth the game was close,
Augusta having but two-run lead;
but after that it was just simply
case of playing with the tailenders.
: stinson. the iron man. had matters
all his own way. He never was in
danger and had his opponents guess
ing for the entire nine sessions. He
pitched remarkable ball, and when in
pinch--and those occasions were so
few and far between that they were
unnoticeable-he would cut loose and
NOW down the Hallowell batsmen like
a seyen-foot Mccormick falls the
grass on State O. Maine farm.
How 1t Happened
Hallowell was first at bat. Farrar.
a teammate of Pagan, rolled one to
Newbert, who gathered it in and peg
ged TO Violette for the first out of
the game. Simpson was retired, Stin-
son TO Violette. the Augusta pitcher
making fast assist. Niles lifted to
Appleton for the third out
Pagan walked to the box amid loud
cheers in the last of the first session.
Appleton located the pellet and flied
TO Simpson. Smith, the next up, took
look at the first ball pitched at him
and planted il into right field for the
first hit of the game. Coady flied out
TO Simpson. Smith took second. VIC
lette hit safely, but Smith was caught
off second for the last out.
Augusta commenced its scoring in
the second inning A fiielder's chnino