Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-06
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UP WEAK PLACES
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waterville, May 5.-The Colby bas..
ball team was given 4 tough workout
this afternoon on Seaverns Field BY
Coach Freddie Parent. In spite Of the
wretched condition OF the clay diamond
and the cold wind which swept acros,
the athletic field. the Colby ball toss.rr
were worked to the limit all afternoon.
Coach Parent made one important
change in the garden positions on the
nine this afternoon when he replaced
Fagerstrom, who has been playing reg.
ularly at center field so far this season.
with Carson. This change came a. a
direct result of the game last Saturday
afternoon when the Blue and Gray
nine made schoolboy appearance
against Ben Houser's nine on the local
field and lost q ragged game TO the
Brunswick crew. Fagerstrom has been
going poorly all season and was to b
replaced in the Boston College game BY
Lorinsky, a freshman, but the Colby
baseball mentor changed his mind a,
the last minute and took Fagerstrom
along with the team. In the game last
Saturday Carson started and stayed
In the garden position for a better part
of the contest, until Coach Parent sent
In Fagerstrom when he felt sure that
the second-year player would not have
q chance to drop any long flies. In the
final stanza of the game, with two men
on bases and a hit needed TO tie the
contest, Fagerstrom whitfield the air
and Colby's chances went up the hue.
owing to this, Coach Parent decided 10
give the freshman player a chance 10
see what he could do in the gardens.
a.
hitting far better than Fagerstrom and
seems to be steadier and more reliable
in the field.
The Blue and Gray infeld was taken
to task this afternoon by the Colby
mentor and given plenty OF work in an
effort TO instill a little of the much
lacking pep in them. In the last game
the infield laid down on the Job and
booted the ball all over the field as II
the contest was being played in Novem-
Der and in moleskins, instead OF in
fiannels in May.
Coach Parent expressed himself as
thoroughly Disguised with the showing
of the Colby team TO date and stated
ii was his belief that any OF the prep
schools in the state could gain an easy
victory over the local college nine IL
they continued to play as they have
been playing so far this season. The
showing of the Blue and Gray nine 50
far this season has been more and moro
discouraging TO Coach Parent with ev-
cry game, and II looks as though =
team which seemed to have the State
title clinched on paper will have 10
fight to keep from being in the cellar
at the close of the State title games.
1t is the claim of many local sport
followers that the hurting end Of the
Colby nine in the greatest weakness,
and others, while they admit that the
pitching stan which Freddie Parent
has this season is far from standard.
believe that the crack infeld has gone
TO pieces and has become a cracked in
field. The Blue and Gray players seem
to be able TO clout the ball but their
weakness comes in the field. and the
opponents pile up the runs with sum
cient ability TO win the games.
Trenton. n. J.. May 5-Pat Mills.
Irish lightweight, scored an easy
victory over Joe Marks. OF Phils-
delphia. here tonight after ten rounds
OF milling according to newspaper
men at the ringside. Mills carried
every round.