The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-07-17
SAINTS co To EARTH
Blumer- Guthman Ball Team Flattened
Out and Skunked by Superior
Princeton TOssers.
Princeton Will Try Issues on Sunday
With the Victorious Rush City
Nine at Fair Grounds.

With the Victorious Rush City
Nine at Fair Grounds.
Playing their third consecutive shut
out game the Princeton team very
! graciously handed the cipher end of
the score to the Blumer-G uthman out
fit of St. Cloud and very carefully re-
served for themselves the business end
of the score. Hoff's athletes went to
St. Cloud last Sunday in dangerous
frame of mind and looking for a car
load of revenge or somebody to get
even with. This was only a natural
p result when you ponder over the result
Of the game Of the preceding Sunday
and how they had been manhandled by
Coleman's hired crew from Anoka
The Princetonians had no special
grudge against any of the Granite
City teams but as it turned out the
B-Gs were just the innocent bystand-
ers who always get hit. Playing like
bunch of big leaguers the Princeton
team tore into the opposition right
from the kickoff and, after the second
round was over, there was never much
doubt as to whose ball game it was
going to be. You wouldn't know that
it was the same team that had put up
such a sorry exhibition Of ball just
the week before; and if the boys had
played this type of ball against Anoka
there would have been a game to talk
about in the. box stove league next
winter Big Bill Beckett was on the
mound 1--WE use this word mound with
poetic license, as the real truth was
chat he was down in hole and pitched
from it, as that's the idea they have
of a pitchers slab over in the brush
country around the Father of Waters)
for the visitors and laid down such an
intensive box barrage that he had
the poor Saints cut off from their re-
serves, base of supplies, and finally
even the sympathy of the crowd, and
when Captain Bob took his gang over
the top at the zero hour it was more
like parade than real diamond bat
tie. Big Bill had things all his own
way and he had collection of shrap-
mel, high explosives and submarine
depth bombs that so bewildered and
demoralized the Stearns county bunch
that they were only able to get one
man as far as second base and he only
got there on a real close decision on
a steal. Bill allowed only five scat
tered hits, none of which exceeded one
base, and struck out nine and neither
allowed walk or hit a man. With
this kind of pitching for an example
Captain Bob led his men to the at
tack and the way they moved down
the chances that came to the infeld
was disheartening and discouraging
to the slipping Saints. Three times
the Princeton inner defense pulled off
2..plays on hard hit ground balls and did
it so rapidly and with such technique
that Jod Nutshell, the political wag
from Foley, finally announced to the
grand stand that, if they wanted to
see and follow the next double play
Princeton was going to pull off, they
wanted to start looking for it before
even the first runner got to first. It
was timely advice and the crowd fol-
lowed it. The Mushel-Berg-C Galley
route was the deadly route that the
Saints expired on in pairs. To aid to
this good work Grow at third was more
than handling his end of it and
topped his afternoons play off by run
ming at full speed into the crowd
around third and garnered hard hit
foul ball. Smith, Doane and Leander
worked in the sun gardens and every
thing that went out there was smoth-
cred in Ty Cobb shape. Leander
pulled over one-handed circus catch
", right when he hooked the ball with
Is gloved hand after he and Berg had
81 but collided while running after
fielder's choice in short right. In the
seventh inning Doane and Leander
withdrew in favor of Hedin and
Angstman and these youngsters con-
tinued the good work in the outer de-
lenses.
The final score was 8 to 0 and the
game was really put on ice in the
second round when Moose Anderson
led off with clean hit through the
Saints infeld. Berg, next man up,
attempted to bunt the first ball and
the St. Cloud infeld came to play
close defense. Seeing that this line
OF attack was blocked, the doughty cap
4tain up and smote the ball to the far
corner of left field, and before it could
be relayed back Bob was roosting safe
" at third and Anderson had gone in
with thn first Score nf ~,