The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-05-29
A REAL BALL GAME
Foley Team Performs Excellent Work
But Princeton Boys Win Out
by a Single Point.
Game Throughout Was Clean and
Both Sides Satisfied With
Result of Contest.

foley and Princeton proved to be a
thriller and kept the record breaking
crowd on the anxious seat until
Princeton got the winning run in the
18th inning. For the full eleven
frames the two teams battled for
supremacy, with the final result of
8 to 2 in favor Of the locals. Foley
took the lead in the second inning
when Walters got to first and scored
when Captain Bob picked up an in
field grounder and threw the ball
away into the grandstand. They held
this one-run lead up to the 9th round
when Smith got on through an infield
error, successfully worked his passage
to third and scored on single by R.
Angstman. With the score 1 to l the
visitors came to bat in the ninth in
ming. De Mars was first man up and
drew pass. A sacrifice hit carried
him to second and clean hit of
Moore's scored him. It looked like a
clean win for the visitors, as runs
were few and far between and. one
run on the score board worth a half
a dozen prospective ones.
Princeton came to bat in their half
of the ninth in desperate frame of
mind. F. Nutshell was first man up
and was thrown out at first on an
infield grounder to the Foley short
stop. One out, nobody on, and the
crowd getting ready to leave, with the
score 2 to 1 in Foley's favor. Then
a momentary halt on tn part of the
crowd before they broke for the
gates to make their getaway, for,
There was Casey, mighty Casey, adj
vancing to the bat" Captain Bob
walked, out with his trusty bludgeon
.grfnped firmly in his grimy paws and
the never-say-die spirit of the Ameri-
can navy sticking out of every move
ment that he made on his way to the
plate. It was ''gob" against t'gob,"
as De Mars, the big hurler from
Foley, is also an American sailor, and
the two opposing athletes eyed each
other up as two fighting bulldogs give
each other the once over before they
close in action. The local boy got the
best of the argument for he caught
one of his sailor friends straight fast
ones full on the nose and drove it
away to the race track in center field.
Bob tore around the bases like a wild
man with the tying run. AS he round
ed third there was slight mixup in
the Foley relay that was getting the
ball back, and the big fellow tore for
home and beat the ball in by a safe
margin. Bedlam broke loose and the
crowd simply went wild, especially the
Princeton contingent, and more es-
pecially the wild-eyed rooter section
that infested the first base territory.
1t was one of those baseball plays
that you read about often but seldom
see and the crowd sure enjoyed it to
the limit.
This tied the ball game up in a
double bow knot and it took two more
extra frames before Princeton put
over the winning run. After blanking
Foley in their half of the tenth and
eleventh, Princeton got three men on
in their half Of the eleventh and mo-
body out. Again it was Berg to bat
and the crowd yelled wildly for an
other home run. De Mars spoiled the
fun when he hit Bob with a pitched
ball, thus forcing Glass in from third
with the winning run. Final score 8
to in favor of Princeton.
NOTES.