http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0416448
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: French, G. E.
issued: 2022-07-20
issued: 1922-06-02
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note: THE PRINCETON STAR Published in the Interests of Mining and Agriculture in the Similkameen Twenty-third Year—No. 28 PRINCETON. B.C.. FRIDAY. JUNE 2, 1922 PER YEAR: Ja.oo Cash Single Copy $c. SENIOR BOYS DEFEAT MASONS 8UNDAY BASEBALL GAME ENDS IN WIN FOR BOYS BY SCORE OF 15—5 Local baseball fans who attended the ball game at the Race Track diamond last Sunday were treated to a few surprises by the members of the Senior Boys' baseball team. The local Masons' team also received a severe jolt in the defeat handed out to them by the young players. Some of these boys give promise of developing, in the not distant future, into players of which followers of the game in large centres might well be proud. In the first inning the Masons went to bat first and made a good start; Huey, Allen and Harvey each scoring a run. Hughes managed to reach third; Muir got as far as second. Only one run was tallied by the boys in the second half of the first inning, although the batting was of a good order. In the second inning the boys scored two more; in the third,, three; in the fourjb, one; in the fifth, four; In ilif*sixth, three; in the seventh, one. The Masons managed to add two more .to their total in "the eighth inning, leaving the score at the finish, 15—5. Dr. Lee Smith umpired the game to the entired satisfaction of all. The line-up of the two teams was as follows: -Masons—V. Smith, c; J. Huey, 3rd b.; O. Allen, p.; W. E. Harvey, 1st b.; T. Hughes, 3rd b.; A. Muir, s.c.; D. Cunningham, l.f.; C. Burr, r.f,-; M. Oreskovttch, cf. Senior Boys—D. Muir, r.f.; E. L. Colton, cf.; L. Prest, p,j R, McKinnon, 1st b.; J. Pesut, 3rd b.; G. Schisler, c; J. Campbell, r.f.; M. Wright, 2nd b.; M. Prest, s. a, HEDLEY BOY8 DEFEATED BY LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL NINE Last Saturday the Princeton High School baseball team visited Hedley and in a well contested game returned home with the bacon, which they won deservedly, still continuing their winning streak. During the first four innings it looked as though i…