The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-07-03
JINX STILL AT WORK.
In Consequence the Anoka Ball Team
Put Heavy One Over Prince
ton in Sundays Game.
But Anoka Will Play Here Next
Sunday and the Tables Will
Very Likely be Turned.

ed, has seen fit to attach itself to the
Princeton ball team in the last two
games, was right on the job at Anoka
on Sunday and grinned with fendish
Iglee as the score board man put up
the final score, showing II big mark
ers for Anoka and measly for the
Rum river outfit. It was another case
Of a good team gone wrong and unable
for some reason to play consistent
ball. To be sure the Princeton pitch
ing, or lack of pitching, had a big
share in the final result. However, it
can't all be blamed on to friend Glass,
who was hurting them over for seven
innings for the Princetonians. The
big fellows arm was not in the best
of condition and he was extremely
wild, allowing four or five walks, be-
sides hitting four of the opposing bats
men. When he did get them over, the
Anoka hired help would clout the ball
to the far corners of the lot or some
one Of the bewildered Hoffs, or call
them what you want to-, they lost,
would boot the ball or make mess of
the play, all of which meant more
runs for the Anoka outfit. It was
$3.50 proposition. You can blame the
result on to the pitching and the poor
field support behind it, share and share
alike. Added to all this tale of woe
should be the excellent playing of the
Anokaites. They have real ball team
down in that mans town where the Rum
river disgourges into the Father Of
Waters. They have smooth playing
infield that got away with an errorless
game Sunday, and their outfeld just
naturally ate up every thing that came
anywhere near them and some that
didn't even come near them they ate
up anyhow. Spencer, of former big
league fame, was doing the honors for
the home team and he held the visitors
down to earned runs. That was the
only way they could get one over on
that bird, and this was limited to only
one inning. In the fifth round the
visitors got to Spencer for two clean
earned runs on three singles and a
double The other eight rounds were
all Spencer.
Anoka took the lead right in the
start of the game and the final result
was never in doubt from the very
first. They got the jump on their
friends from upriver and proceeded to
run in four scores right in the first
frame and added two more in the sec
ond. They pushed another one over
in the fourth and wound up the whole
affair in blaze Of glory when they
cut loose in the sixth, and before they
could be driven back had piled up a
total of five more, making their grand
total for the day IL.
Princeton's batting and fielding was
far below normal and only at times
did they show flashes of the speed that
they are capable of making when their
old boat is hitting on all six. They
would play listless ball for minute
or two and then turn around and cleo
trify the crowd by flash of real fast
play, then lapse back into their old
gait again. Surely it was weird per-
Torrance and hard to dope out. All
their scoring they did in the fifth
round and this was the only rally that
they were able to stage. And at that
the score was z to against them, so
their chances were pretty slim at that
time. Captain Bob started this fracas
when with one out he hit to right CEN
ter for single. Clair Smith followed
through with another clean smash and
things began to look up. Leander was
next up and drove fast ground ball
through the first base position. It was
too fast to handle and goes for hit.
With three men on Grow was up and
the Princeton contingent was all up
on its feet yelling loudly for home
run or anything that the Anoka ath-
letes couldn't handle. Grow came
through with clean drive to left field
that cleared the felder's reach by a
good margin and lacked but few
yards of clearing the Burlap screen
for home run. Smith and Berg
Ebeat it home on this hit with
Princeton's only pair Of runs. Spen-
GERS hired hands gathered around him
in sympathetic conclave and, after
stalling around for five minutes, they
got the wind and courage worked back
into the big fellow and he forced the
next two batters to hit into easy in
field outs and the furry was over.
Anyhow it saved the Hofs from q