Show OLD BAT HISTORICAL RELIC Bowdoin College Treasures Memento of Baseball Ba ball Game Played Over ver Hall Hal a Century Ago A note In a current American newspaper newspaper news news- paper has peculiar Interest for all those American citizens who are Interested Interested interested In In- In n the national game Bowdoin Bow doin college has come Into possession of the baseball bat long In the keep Ing tag of ot the Maine Historical society which Which was used more than fifty years ago In the first game ever played between between between be be- tween that college and an outside team The old bat made of spruce on the very day of the game Is about the size of ot the bats still In use and Rud If the college had won ton on the game would doubtless have remained r ever since In a collegiate atmosphere But the Sunrise team made up of boys from the town of ot Brunswick defeated the collegians In that day of long scores to the tune of 40 46 to 42 and the bat Inscribed with the names of ot all the players went to the winners Later Later Later Lat Lat- historical so so- society society er they gave it to the clety which now presents present It to to the college But In 1860 no one of ot the players could have foreseen a time when what Is said to be the oldest baseball bat In the country would bean bo be boan bonn an nn object of national Interest Interest Chris Chris Christian tian Science Monitor |