Putnam patriot., 1915-07-30
BASE BALL
Manager Teddy Cassent Puts Putnam on the Base Ball Map While Royal
 ROOterS Back Him 300 Strong
Takes ll.Inning Game from A. 0. Co. oi Southbridgs 5-4 and Big Crowd Will See Game Next Saturday Between
 Same Teams

Putnam base ball stock took jump way above par lasl Saturday when the fean that Teddy Cassent has recently taken under his wing took 3 fall out Of the strong American Optical Co. team of southbudge 5-4 in a game that went II innings. It Is the sfitst game that the Bay State team has lost this sea sor on its own grounds And while al credit is due Co the Putnam team for bringing home the bacon, south bridge has nothing to be ashamed Of in the loss of the game AS Il was either clubs contest until Larry Mclean re- tired the last man in the Ilth on foul fly Nearly 2000 people sa@ the game including about 300 Royal Rooters from Putnam, and the fact that this number followed their fayorites over in. to Massachusetts denoted their gfeat confidence in Puinamis new manager 10 deliver the goods. While Manager Casscnf was confident Of winning the fans were a bit skeptieai and consider ing the standing of the team they were 10 go up against. the fans lack af faith that Putnam could turn the trick IS litlle to be wondered at
 Not single man that followed The team has bit of regret. II was enc Of the most nerve-raeking exhibitions ever staged Tn old New England and at no point of the II innings WAS ex= eitement laeKing. Putnam was put on the base ball map with large dot and IL ought to mean a record break. ing crowd on the old Morse lot next Saturday when the two teams go 10 abattle for the second time. Putnam had many strange faces in the batting order and men were in Putnam uni form that have made records in the base ball world.
 White, who pitched the previous week under the nsme of Wilson, %as on the firing line for Putnam and his work was of s stellar quality. He had a worthy rival in Vernon of South bridge and the two bnse ball warriors were delivering about the sHme article Of curves, a qulek breaking out shoot that was hard for the batters to locate. In the l0lh and Huh frames White was working his head of for the new manager and not a man saw first in the final inning. In one or two tn- stances the men behind him were bit disheartening, especially in the oth when Fallon and l. HereuX let ball, that should have been an easy out, fall between them, which was followed in the same inning by Gallagherss fail- ing down while running for LaVoIe E fly, which let a run across. But White kept right 10 his mutton and If he fell the momentary W, tkness of his sup port his work did not show it, He pitched beautiful game and deserves great deal of credit for his work,
 Vernon, too, was not lacking in steam and curves. IL was his support that presented Putnam the winning run in the tb when Pleau after fine catch oil Paige, dropped an easy fly
 
 across by beautiful double by Charlie Farrel, the old reliable.
 There were a number ot pretty plays during the contest. In the lth Fallon nude the star catch of the game when he ran backwards and pulled down Gladu's fly way out in center near the score board. lie had to lilt his cap again and again as he came in from The field, Southotidee fans being gen erous in their appreciation of the nice catch, n the 9th Southbfidge jump ed in with tcouple of pretty ones, Lavoie pulled down hit of Paige that looked good for triple, or al least double, and Cooney made nice catch of Fallen fobbing him of hit. In the 10th Cooney robbed Mclean Of n hit by scooping up his grounder with one hand
 Larry Mclean, of the N. Y Nation. as, was doing Putnams baekstop work, and he got the crowd good na. tured before the game started with a little horse play that amused every body. In fact Che game, for one so hard fought, was good natured al through and there was no wrangling, although one or two of Umpire Com Muy decisions were questioned.
 Now ihe Game Was Won
 The rand stand and first and third base bleaehers were iuii and there was an overflow around third nase when the game started, Every mun, wom. au and chtld were on their toes when fail0n went lo bat as the first man up. lie eopped the first bal pitched but Vernon knocked it down for m easy out at first. lrYng fanned and Me Cofmlek flied to nrsi
 -outhbridge made ihe circuit right of tue reel. tooney singled to center. HickerSon famed but Gilsou singled 10 right letting Cooney ta 3rd laVoie hit to third and Irving juegled and then threw to Isl too late while Coon ey scored.
 Putnam tied in the second. Larry put a bounding grounder down the third base line. Il iouh n bad bound and hit Cpmmette in the face and be fore he recovered Larry was safe at sec ond. White was out short to first but Larry advanced 10 lhild from where he scored when Gallagher dropped a Texas leagner in short Jeff field Teddy tassent went wild and gave few Hugh Jennings le- | aas as the run came across