Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-26
LANDSL |DE STRIKES MORSE HIGH
INFIFTH ANDCONY WINS 8 TO z


and won from Morse High school OF
Bath by an easy margin, to 2. The
game was better by far than the game
the preceding Monday with Edward
Little High school, but after the fifth
inning it was plainly Cony's game.
Brennan pitched an excellent game for
the local school. Several times when
Morse men were occupying bases and
threatening to race down across the
plate any minute, Brennan frightened
up his game, dressed his ball up with
full dress and a cane, and supported
splendidly in the field swept the OPP
stations again.
Gloomy First Inning
It was a raw, damp afternoon; 1t
looked like baseball but felt for all the
fans like football. And it lookeu
chilly, too, when Morse broke through
with their two runs in the first inn
ing. Sullivan took first on Purington'a
Juggling of a low one and Coss next at
the bat gained the first corner on
fielder's choice. Failing to force Sui
Ivan out at second the ball went
smoking down to first, went wild, ana
Sullivan raced home. White anu
Sprague both found Taber to be
good fielder, shooting grounders INTO
his territory which he scooped up and
delivered all in good order to Wyer.
Coss was advanced to third, however,
and when Miller hit safe he flew home
with Morse's second run. Talbot ia
vored Purinton with a chance and
Cony's short stop ended and the SCOT
ing for Morse by throwing Miller out
at first.
Froberger didn't need his bat as
SHILLING made a target of him In
stead, but the runner was not SO Sc
riously injured that he could not steal
second-which he did at once on the
first ball tossed up to ATaber. Taber
flied out to short. Captain Folsom
scanned the eastern horizon, surveyed
the ball, and sent one of his famous
cloud burners into deep left. Fro
berger scored while Morse was throw
ing Wyer out at first and the side was
retired when Folsom was caught try
ing to steal home.
Things Tighten Up
The game frightened up then until
the last of the fifth. Folsom was then
first at the bat and raped out another
ambitious one labelled Two-bagger,
but he was slow getting under way
and decided to stop at first. Wyer
bumped out ground-hugger to Sec
ond which Talbot mussed up and Fol-
som took second as Wyer claimed
first. Right then and there Purinton
reached the decision that Shilling was
going to be very kind to him and he
might as well tie up the game for thu
school. Consequently when the little
white sphere came floating his way
he dubbed it in the face so hard that
SHILLING didn't recognize it the next
time he saw it. It stopped in deep
left not many PAGES from the fence;
Purinton stopped on third base where
the dust was just settling in the wake
Of Folsom and Wyer who had hurried
home with their news for the scorers.
A Regular Track Meet
But the track meet was not yet
done. McGouldrick failed to find one
that suited him and went down to
first tagged. Kindness Of Shilling"
and with a disappointed look on his
face, too, for Cony's second baseman
has a way of abusing the ball with his
stick when the signs are right. john
son popped high one to center, but
the Morse man was wearing muff
and when the dust cleared off the
trail Purinton was across the plate,
McGouldrick on third, and Johnson on
first we'll pleased with the favor shown
him. Hill refused four wide ones and
walked. Brennan picked out one that
was not just right somehow and rap
ped it back to the pitcher for correc-
ton, but Shilling fielded it poorly and
McGouldrick came home with another
run as Brennan was called safe at
the first turn. Froberger busted one
down the line to Coss at third who
stopped to view Johnson crossing the
plate before he threw Brennan out at
second. 1t might then have been an
nounced that the side was out OF
breath and about to retire, for Taber
was thrown out at first and Capt. Fol-
som dropped his third long one into
deep left right where the now educat-
ed Morse LETT nelder was scouting.
Talbot Replaces Shilling
Talbot relieved Shilling for Morse the
last of the sixth, but the new ball
Amer had no better luck at twisting his
offerings around the sticks of the local
ball boosters than SHILLING had before
him. In the seventh inning Cony asked
for two more runs and got them with
scarce murmur against the plan. Bren-
nan and Froberger both hit safe and
stole all that is considered honest, so
that first was vacant when Taber went
down to occupy it at the suggestion of
Morse's second pitcher. expressed in
terms of four balls. Brennan was forced
out at the plate on Folsom's short groud-
er to Morse's boX-holder and Froberger
was forced out at third. Thereupon
Wyer slugged a smoking single over sec
ond and Taber and Folsom slipped along
the down grade to the plate with the
last two runs of the game. Purinton
lifted long one to center, but White
plucked it for ripe and Cony retired.
An Earned Game
The game was by no means gift.
Except for the landslide in the fifth
there were no indications that anything
one-sided was being staged and Morse
proved a rival well worth beating. The
attendance was somewhat smaller than