The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-08-21
CUT ANOTHER NOTCH
Locals Strike at Crowns of MinneAp-
oils and Force Them Back
Into the Trenches.
Cambridge Pill Tossers to Try Their
Mettle With Princeton Boys
Sunday, August "a. IMP

Mettle With Princeton Boys
Sunday, August "a.
And it's one more shut out to Prince
toms long list Of victories. The fast
Crown team of Minneapolis invaded
the Princeton fair grounds last Sun
day in a vain endeavor to repeat their
past performances of cleaning up
Manager Hoff's battle SCARED veter-
ans. This same team gave the locals
a beautiful trimming in the early part
of the season and came back to re-
peat the dose with all the confidence
that goes with misguided youth. But
where they had driven The former
Princeton pitcher to the woods in the
first contest they stacked into differ
ent timber this time in the shape of
Big Bill Beckett, who has got into the
habit Of pitching shut ball lately. The
big fellow was in rare form Sunday
and struck out his usual quota Of the
opposing batsmen. Fifteen Of the
Minneapolis huskies came up to the
plate, took three healthy swings at
the little old pellet and calmly went
back to the dog house to get drink
of water. Bill allowed just one
scratch hit and Captain Bob came
near knocking this down on hard
running catch. The ball just barely
evaded the captains hungry paws and
goes on the score book as a hit. Beck
EFT struck out every Flour City player
except Peck, who was doing the hurl-
ing forethe visitors and refused to be
retired by Bits famous strike out
route. Their leadof hitter was up
four times and went down as many
times before Bits hooks and slants.
the second man on the list got it in the
neck the same for three consecutive
times and Wagner, their big cleanup
hitter, went down thrice by the strike
out route and his other effort only
resulted in high fly to Grow in right
field. On top of all this it must be
added that Princeton's hurler did not
walk a man nor hit a man and not a
single runner got as far as second
base during the whole game, and for
the first five innings not an invader
was able to get safely to first and for
the whole game they are credited with
getting three runners on first safely.
Princeton was out to get revenge and
they surely got it in large gobs.
The visitors played an exceptionally
strong fielding game and made Prince
ton go the limit to squeeze in their one
run. But they finally got it across
and in this game one run proved to
be just as good as a hundred. Peck,
a youngster who has been hurting
some good semipro ball in Chicago,
was on. the firing lime for the bunch
from Joe Cantillon's town and his rec
ord almost comes up to Beckett's for
the afternoons pastiming. He struck
out nine of the Princeto1lians, allowed
only two hits and never hit a man.
His worst drawback was his tendency
to lose control, and he walked six of
the locals and his wildness eventually
helped lose him the game. The de-
Tenders almost Slipped in a run right
in the first round. Doane led off with
a hit and went to second on block
ball. While Galley was at bat the rum
ner went to third on a wild pitch and,
with Andy Anderson at bat, it looked
like a sure score. Andy drove out
ground ball to the second baseman and
Doane tried for home on the play but
was called out on close decision at
the plate. For the next four innings
Peck held the locals harmless and
scorless but they got unruly in the
sixth frame and finally worked in the
winning run. Doane was first man up
in this frame and Peck passed him to
first on -four wide ones Again the
Minneapolis catcher let the ball get
~ him and the runner proceeded to
second. Galley hit grounder but the
ball played so closely that Doane was
unable to reach third on the play and
Galley was retired at first. Andy flew
out to center and the runner was still
moored at second with two hands
down. Then came Andy's big brother
to bat, and he grabbed off sufficient
revenge for the whole Anderson clan
when he smote the ball fairly and
squarely on the nose for screaming
single, which sent Doane safely across
the rubber for the winning run. Final
score, 1 to 0 in favor of Princeton.
NOTES.
One of the largest crowds of the
season turned out to see the game, it |
being estimated that about 400 fans