The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-05-04
TRINITY TEAM LOSES
A GAME TO BAYLOR
" 3TSON. THOUGH WILD AT
TIMES. PITCHED \
GREAT GAME.
With Four Hits To Baylor's One
Trinity Could Not Win
Mondays Game.

Eight passes to the initial bag by
Watson and eight glazing errors by
his teammates enabled Baylor uni
yersity to defeat Trinity at Yoakum
park Monday afternoon in game
that was slow, but rather exciting at
times. The score was and /, with
inning. But for the fact of being a
trifIe wild at times Watson pitched
a great game, striking out fourteen
men and holding the Baylor sluggers
down to a single hit. Catcher John
son, who was suffering from Sprain-
| ed ankle and injured hand, Wobbled
terribly when Watson cut loose in
! the early stages of the game, ana
divided honors with Estes III tossing
away the game. True Watson walk
| ed three men during the inning in
! which the scores were made, but the
! passes were so scattered that the side
would have retired without a score
| ildu HIS litlutuS Shpi'oI / btftt tSH'dt
| SANFORD for Baylor was not sc
effective as Watson but pitched a
/ good steady game, striking out eleN-
| en- Trnitonians. and yielding only
! four hits. He allowed no passes aud
| hit only two by pitched bats. He
| was given better support than Wat
| do H,,i,t
eight errors.
The game was anybody'a game un-
{ til the last ball was pitched Th-
local team Was connecting With the
| ball freely and twice reached third
in an attempt to even up the score,
| In first inning Crossman for Baylor
walked on close decision, stole
second when Stanton struck out,
went to Bird on Estes error in hand
scored when Johnson let one go by,
| Roach was safe at LIST. Miller fouled
out, and Roach made Bird and scored
when Johnson threw wild to End.
Hubby walked and Mendehall walk
ed, filling the bases. Henry struck
out. The inning ended with two
scores and no hits.
Trinity scored i'll this inning also
when Johnson was safe on a wii0
| throw from short, Estes made it to
LIST on nelder's choice, Johnson go
ing out at End. Beal repeated per-
Torrance and Estes went out at end,
! kuykendaIl stepped up and hit out
pretty one to right field that netted
three bags and scored Beall, Duncan
struck ont. one hit earned a run
In the second inning Trinity got
| man on End when Ward hit nice
| enc to center field, but Watson S hot
| liner to LIST retired the side. Her
real chance came in the fourth in
ming when Duncan connected with
one of Sandford's slants and raced
around the diamond for three bags.
| With one man out attempt was made
at squeeze play, but Orr made a
! pop up out of the bunt and Duncan
was caught at home.
In the fifth inning Ward made a
| sensational catch of Crossman high
lily TO right field. The youngster
| turned and ran back thirty yards
after the ball Went into the air and
| then made a second turn to get the
| pill before it touched the ground.
In the sixth Beall repeated the stunt
| in left field and saved a score.
! There We're three men on bases and
| Olenbush hit q high one to left.
| Beall made long run for it and pull
ed it down, retiring the side,
The same team will play here to-
| day. This will be Trinity's las game
on the home grounds for this season.
| Score:
| Baylor .... 200 900 000-2 / )
| Trinity ..... 100 600 000-1 s
-Sandford and Menden-
| hall; Watson and Johnson. Umpire
Kidd.