Then slowly Mellen began his wind up. The ball started for the plate. It was coming straight over. Was it possible that Mellen had decided to take a chance on his hitting it safe? Ty thinks he’ll fool him on that. He will just put that ball over the fence. He pulls back his bat to meet it squarely. He makes a savage swing at it and listens for the crack of the bat. Instead he hears a thud--and Ty knew he had struck out, and the game was lost to Lowell by the score of 4 to 2. BOX SCORE JEFFERSON AB R H PO A E LOWELL AB R H PO A E Laird, 3b 4 0 1 2 1 0 Everson, 2b 5 1 1 2 3 1 Beach, cf 4 0 3 2 0 0 Larke, lf 5 1 2 0 2 0 Church, 1b 4 0 0 10 0 0 Talkington, cf 5 0 2 0 0 0 Hollins, ss 4 1 1 1 3 0 Robb, rf 5 0 2 2 0 0 La Joy, 2b 4 1 2 0 1 0 Hagner, ss 4 0 2 2 3 0 Warcford, lf 4 2 2 1 0 0 Case, 1b 3 0 0 7 3 0 Twitchell, rf 3 0 3 3 1 0 Delvin, 3b 4 0 0 3 2 0 Brest, c 2 0 0 8 0 0 Gibbs, c 4 0 1 8 2 0 Cam, p 1 0 0 0 4 1 Radams, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 Mellen, p 1 0 0 0 1 0 Black, p 1 0 1 1 0 0 Huyler[A] 1 0 0 0 0 0 ----------------- -------------------- 31 4 12 27 11 1 39 2 11 [B]25 16 1 JEFFERSON 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0--4 LOWELL 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0--2 Two Base Hit--Gibbs, Twitchell. Three Base Hit--Robb, Beach. Home Run--La Joy. Sacrifice Hits--Brest, Case, Cam. Stolen Bases--Hagner, 2; Larke, 1. Left on Bases--Lowell, 10; Jefferson, 6. First Base on Errors--Lowell, 1; Jefferson, 1. Double Play--Hagner, Case--Everson, Case. Struck Out--by Radams, 3; by Cam, 3; by Mellen, 2; by Black, 3. Bases on Balls--off Cam, 3; off Radams, 4. Hits--off Cam in seven innings, 8; off Radams in seven innings 11. [A] Batted for Radams in seventh inning. [B] Cam out bunting third strike. La Joy out; hit by batted ball. It was now one game apiece and it would take a third to decide the championship. CHAPTER XXIV HANS’ SECOND TRIP TO NEW YORK For the second time in the history of the contests between the two big schools each had won a game and it was necessary to play a third game to decide the championship. To provide for such cases they had a rule that where a third game was necessary it must be played on neutral ground, the location to be agreed upon by the captains. This was generally done by tossing a coin. The winner had the right to name the place.