Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-06-06

PARIS II. Q. II; WEST PARIS n. 9. 8.
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PARIS Il. 9. II; WEST PARIS h. 9. 8.
Paris High and West Paris High mel
In ar interesting gsme Of ball ct the higl
school grounds Wednesday aftersoon
Il was ono of those games whore tht
players mixed good plays with bat
ones, hit the ball hard and froquentl!
and kept things moving oil the time
| The real fireworks came In tho last two
innings, however, Paris High scoring
six runs In their half Of the eighth In
ming, and the visitors coming back very
strongly and scoring four runs In theil
half Of the ninth.
! The score announced at the end OF thu
game was Paris High 10, West Paris
High 8, bat the writer In thinking the
matter over 10 convinced that Paris scor
cd one run In the eighth that Was moi
credited to them, to which they are On.
titled. This run was scored BY Perham.
He was on second With two men ont
when Edwards drove the ball into center
field for q single. Perham scored and
no fielder could have prevented him from
scoring on such hit, but Edwards tried
to stretch bis hit into two Dagger and
was thrown out at second. Perham.
however, scored seconds before tho put.
out was made, and a. he scored on the
hit, not on the putout, there ID no rea.
son why the score should NOT be count
cd. -
Paris run In the first inning was the
result of q fine hit by Perham. BE
drove the ball into the woods 80 far that
he made the circuit before 1t got back to
the diamond. West Paris tied the score
in the second on McAlister's double, an
error by Curtis and passed ball. Paris
sent across two earned runs in the third
on hits by Shaw and Merrill and Per
hams double. This hit was really Q
triple, a. he beat the throw to third but
overslid the bag and was touched out
before he could get back. In the fourth
an error by McAlister and singles by
Campbell, Curtis and CLARK, gave Paris
two more runs.
West Paris scored three In the fifth.
Packard and Hill hit safely. Gardner
bit to Merrill and was out at first. Wight
threw to third to get Packard, made an
overthrow and Packard scored and Hill
reached third. McAlister hit to Perham,
who threw home with absolutely no
chance of getting bis man. The thow
was bad and McAlister reached second.
and scored on Bacon's double. West
Paris tied the score In the first OF the
eighth on Bacon's second double and
two out at first.
In the last half OF this inning errors
by McAlister, Packard and Billings, .
two base hit by Shaw and singles BY
Wheeler, Perham and Edwards gave
Paris six runs, four of which were soor-
ed after two men were out. This made
the game look safe, but the next inning
proved that the lead was mono too big.
With one out, Packard, Hill, McAlister
and Bacon all got to Merrill for singles,
Curtis and Wheeler mixed In an error
each, and the visitors had scored four
runs and still there was only one out
and q man on second. However, the
next two batters, Emery and Written,
went ont on foul flies to Campbell, who
made two nice catches in getting these
put-outs.
It was q narrow escape for the local
team, but they do not consider victory
over the West Paris boys matter to be
made light of. Paris High realized the
strength of the West Paris team and put
it's strongest team on to the field. Any
high school team that thinks 1t can de-
feat West Paris easily wants to tackle
the job, and we will warrant that they
will be wiser lot of ball players before
the game ID over.
Features of the game we're the batting
of Perham, who made home run, .
double and two singles In five turns at
the bat, and two double plays by the
visiting infleld. Hill, McAlister and Ba-
CON each got three hits, two Of the lat
ter's being good for two bases.
The aGOre.