The Princeton union., 1920-09-09
AN0KAW WINS THE DAY
Too Many Big Leaguers in the Down
River Team for Princeton to
Successfully Combat.
Last Game of Season Will Be Pulled
OFF Between Locals and st.
Michaels on Sunday.

for the locals laSC Ounuay anu Ine
Craig -Manke outfit took the short end
of the score. In fact they took no
score at all-their sum total amount
ing to about the same as zero with
the rim torn off. When the fracas
was over the official score board
blazed forth to the world four big
counters for the down river bunch and
nothing for the Princetonians. 1t was
a far more interesting game than the
score indicates and only in the ninth
inning, after two Princeton men were
out and nobody on bases did the big
overflow crowd begin their exodus
toward the outward-bound gates. 1t
was one of the biggest crowds OF the
year at Anoka and apparently they got
their moneys worth.
Louis Labissoniere and Fred Spencer
again opposed each other and it was
as pretty pitching dual as one would
want to see. The ex-big-leaguer had
the edge on Louie, however, and, while
each was touched up for nine hits,
Spencer kepthis scattered around more
where they would do the least harm.
Anoka bunched on Louie in the two
innings and in the fourth frame they
piled up four singles in row, good
for two runs. A smash over the short
left field fence by O'Leary in the third
round ifad given Anoka their first
score. Under their ground rules it
went for a circuit clout but, as mat
ter of fact, it would have been an
easy out on "a regular, full-sized play
ing field. AS it was the ball was ac-
tually back in the inield by the time
the Wild Irishman was passing second
base on his way in with Anoka's first
counter.
Anoka's last tally came in the un-
lucky seventh. Corbett and Bemfs
both singled, Jimmie Williams, who
used to clout them over the fence at
Nico1let Park when he was on the
CantTIion pay roll, banged one over
that Part of the burlap screen that
Manager Mccarthy uses to conceal
the movement Of his high priced ath-
letes from the unsympathetic fans
who fight Shy Of the regular turnstiles
for econony's sake-that goes under
the ground rules for a two-base hit
This scored the feet Corbett, but
Bemis, who was at first when Louie
made the mistake of growing one for
Williams, was held at third by His Ex-
cellency Billy S. Hoke, umpire-in-chief
and arbitrator extraordinary.
Princeton had men on bases in al
most every inning, but when a hit
meant score Spencer was as stingy
as Silas Mariner back in the old days
when we used to read classy English
instead of these slangy baseball
write-ups that clutter up the pages Of
our modern newspapers. At various
stages of the game a lucky smash
over the near fence in right or left
field would have put the locals in the
running. The breaks Of the game all
went to Anoka, and while the Prince
tonians fought gan1ely back they were
clearly out-played, out-pitched and
out-lucked.
The game was clean and free from
any rowdy tactics on the part of either
side. Billy B. Hoke and an Anoka
gentleman umpired the game and gave
general satisfaction.
A goodly crowd of Princeton fans
took in the game but had little chance
to exercise their vocal organs as An
Okla took the lead in the third inning
and held to it grimly until the finish.
The Princeton team did it's best, and
that's all the fans asked for. They
don't expect the players to do the i'm
possible.
Anoka showed up with an array of
imported talent that made them look
like a regular big team outfit. Nearly
every Anoka player was an ex-leaguer
of some kind, knew how to play ball
and did play ball. Princeton did we'll
to hold down the score as low as they
did.
The two youngsters on the team,
Raiche and Peterson, set pace that
was too fast for their teammates to
follow Both played errorless ball in
the field and banged out over half of
the hits that were made off Spencer.
Raiche got two, one Of them two
base hit over the right field fence.
Peterson got three singles out Of four
times up, percentage of .75O. Evi-
IDENTIFY his unfortunate experience of
getting beaned at Milaca several
weeks ago has only given him that