It looked as though the score might be tied, and if it hadn’t been for the fact that Warcford and Twitchell both followed La Joy, it might have resulted in a deliberate present of a base on balls to Larry. Black, indeed, did pitch two wide ones to tempt Larry to strike, but he didn’t bite. The next one Larry was also going to let go past, but as it came straight over he struck at it and went out in Ty’s territory far over his head.
It looked like a sure home run also, and Larry was on his way to first when the ball struck foul by not more than two feet, so he had to come back and Hollins returned to third. Miner sent up another wide one, but Larry reached out with his bat and sent it out to left field along the foul line and was again near first when the ball hit the ground foul by not more than a foot. So he had to come back again. By this time Black had decided Larry’s eye was too good and undertook to give him a base on balls. He did give him another ball, and tried to send up a fourth one, but Larry reached out again, gave it a quick tap, and it was a foul fly which came down in Hal’s mitt very close to the bag, and the game was over.
BOX SCORE
| Lowell | AB | R | H | PO | A | E | Jefferson | AB | R | H | PO | A | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everson, 2b | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Laird, 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| Larke, lf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Beach, cf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Talkington, cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Church, 1b | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Robb, rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Hollins, ss | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |
| Hagner, ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | La Joy, 2b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Case, 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | Warcford, lf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Delvin, 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Twitchell, rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gibbs, c | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | Brest, c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Black, p | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mellen, p | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 33 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 14 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 27 | 14 | 2 |
| Lowell | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0—2 |
| Jefferson | 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0—1 |
- Two Base Hits—Beach, Larke.
- Three Base Hits—Hollins.
- Sacrifice Hits—La Joy, Black.
- Stolen Bases—Hollins.
- Left on Bases—Lowell, 7; Jefferson, 2.
- First Base on Errors—Lowell, 2; Jefferson, 1.
- Double Play—Everson, Hagner, Case—Case, Everson.
- Struck out by Mellen, 6; by Black, 4.
- Bases on Balls off Mellen, 2; off Black, 1.
- Hit by Pitcher, by Black, 1.
It had been a hard game to win and might easily have been won by either side.
Almost every man on the Lowell team had saved the game by excellent work at one stage or the other, and the boys knew that the luck of the game had as much to do with their victory as anything. They knew now that they were up against one of the best teams of ball players that could possibly be brought together, and no one could say which was the stronger of the two. If the luck of the game should desert them in the next two, the result might easily be in favor of Jefferson. The championship was really in danger.
Hughie congratulated all of the boys on their excellent playing, and while none of them had done very much with the bat for they had been opposed by a wonderful pitcher, it was satisfaction to know that Jefferson had just as hard a time trying to hit Miner.
He was particularly pleased with the fine fielding displayed by the youngsters Hans, Hal, Ty, and Tris, who had stood staunch under the first big firing, but what pleased him more than anything was that the old stand-bys like Larke and Everson and Gibbie had been responsible for the actual runs and he felt pretty confident of the final outcome.