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curcutiHecTroy Team Wiped OutBy Piqua High Soys' oca!*Are the Victor* By Score of 8Before about three hundred enthusiastic baseball fans with over one. hun-dTed loyal high school students in the rooter's ro#, P. H. 8., v * ~ dilplayed their colors by taking anovjrwhelmlng defeat frein their oldar.d closet rival, Troy high schc-ol,in.^a game played a.- the Athleticpark yesterday afternoon. For thefirtt time in several years the Piquate«tn dif*played absolute supremacyover th# neighbors of 'the south andIt was indoed a happy and boisterouscrowd that witnessed the administer-/• *ing of the defeat. - *'Outplaying the opponents in every d-epaPtanent of the game the P. H. S.nine found R an easy matter to walk away with their victims and as the curtain fell on the ninth inning the home team had the game cinched” with a score of 3 to 1.' Never before have the nine displayed such perfect team work, such individual playing and such absolute confidence. From beginning to end the players worked in faultless unity and the very playing of the nine boys showed thait there were better things to cotne.Poor Troy was as defenseless as nine small children, and when it came to withstanding the hiarnassiog of the Piqua boys, they were contented! to give up all hope and meet defeat without a struggle.. They were weak In all part* af their lineup. Errors were made time aftertime when with a l-Rtle forethought they could have been avoided .and the batting was far. belowvthe average of even the common scrrtb team.From the very first the Piqua team itarted scoring and rallied dta-ring the entire game. The first round brought in. three runs for the home 'earn, while Trov was shut out. The aecond inning proved to be equally as bad for the Trojans and they immediately proceed in warming up'another pitcher. Although this new twirler did some better in the box box it was too late, as the gaJne was already won.The fourth inning was marked bya feeble attempt to tie the score on the part of the Trojans. Stock hit a single which was rejteated byGeiger. McClain succeeded in get-Are Trojans, Who Were Outplayed in Every Department of the Game.“Warrrlnfl Up“ the Pitcher.ting on first by an erroT on Cranston and the bases *were full. The next man up, by some superhuman effort got in the way of H-inach's fast curve and' the lone run was scored by Troy. Twirler Hinech of the Piqua team was indeed in a tight place bun he straightened up and Just ae the Trojan who was on third base attempted to steal, this player threw the ball to i.Matrhews and palled himsolf out of a hole.”TMI5 lb 50ME TltrHT PL ACEHe Pulled Himself Out of a “Hole.From this time on it was an easy mattor for the home boysy and the rooters witnessed five inninxs of read baseball. One more run -was brought in and the game ended with a glorious victory to the credit of P. H. S.Our Players.•It there ever was a .player sthat deserved the praise of all high School sympathizers, this player Is Have-man. Out of tour -times up at bat■ ■!■■■— ■ __[Simplex Entry Five-Hundred-Mile Race
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Piqua Leader Dispatch
Piqua, Ohio, US
Sat, May 18, 1912
Page 8
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Marsha H.
USA 26 Mar 2017
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