Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-24
It Begins To Look Like Parade In The American League
|CONY LADS DROP THEIR FIRST
CAME WITH LEWISTON VICTOR, 8-6

Cony High tasted of the cup of de-
feat, to 6, Saturday afternoon. 7,
was unpalatable. but far from bitter
1t was the first game of the sea
that the Red and White found itself
on the short end of the battle. pa,
Frenehs pupils of Jordan High were
the administrators and the Andres.
coggin aggregation manifested keen
delight In making the count fiffv.
fifty for the season.
The Cony lads played good bal,
They also played bad ball. Incident.
ally they played Indifferent ball On
the right side of the ledger two field
ing gems acted as a sop to defeat
The first came in the opening fran.
"a lightning three-ply killing thai
made even the old timers gasp.
The stations were fully peopled AZ
the time, due to a brace of walks and
a bobble-Then Matthews rifed one
toward left but Stiles was in front
of it and hesftating not moment
whipped it to Overlook aheae of fha
back-pedalling Beliveau and Tinr
with the play all figured ont.
shot the pill to Bradstreet who min.
ped Crowley in hurried retreat II
certainly was a pretty piece of act.
ing.
The second scintillating play
came in the eighth. The piIiows
were again crowded with one ont
Hall laced a hot one to Stiles who
whipped it home for a nifty out and
Fletcher. wheeled in time to peg ont
Giguere racing to first. 1t was worth.
while ball.
Parquette performed for s,v
frames. He was a trifie wild at times
but outside of the second stanza was
not hit hard. Unfortunately some ~
his passes were mixed with miscues
His dope ball was effective. but his
assortment was not varied enough
A fast one mixed in would have
proved an ideal recipe to hand a de-
feat to the visitors. He was given =
hand when Coach Pierce wigwagged
him out in the seventh. Lapidus re-
lieved him without any warming I'M
and after doing fair job in clean
ing up that frames mess. held the
Lewistonians runless the rest of the
route.
Scribner, the portsider flash. had
oceans OF speed, which though ef-
fectiye' at times, was discounted nv
Cony batsmen choking UP on the viii
low. Excellent examples of This
style of attack against his speedy
were given by Overlook, Nickless and
Fletcher. On the other hand at leasr
tour with set lips and frownfnr
brows were determined to Babe Ruth
the pill out of the lot and as a result
they either threshed the ambient at
mosphere Or dribbled weakly to the
infieId.
Analysis of the play shows som.
odd findings. Take the case of Yin
Nickless. In the field his work as a
whole was decidedly messy. AT the
BAT and on the paths he was bril-
nant. Three times he scra tched in
field hits due to his remarkable speed
to first Again he was flash In the
matter of pilfering, his theft OF the
third station being clever.
Stiles at third was also an in-and-
outer. Twice he tangled himself I'D
In neIdlng easy ones, but sweet
mama, these were forgiven by the
two snappy plays that he initiated.
The count see-sawed for the first
SIX frames and it was anybody S
game. 1t was in the seventh that
OLearN' probably having in mind THE
disaster that accompanied the act
of one of his ancestors cows, kicked
hot one to right center and sent
over brace of runs that proved the
undoing of Cony. The score:
LEWISTON HIGH