Show OLD BAT HIST HISTORICAL RI AL RELIC Bowdoin College Treasures Memento of Baseball Game Played Over Half a Century AgoA Ago I A note In a current American n newspaper news news- news newspaper wg paper paper has peculiar interest st for all aU those American citizens who are Interested interested interested in In- In the national game Bowdoin Bow Itow- doin doln college has come into possession of the baseball bat long In the keeping keeping keep keep- ing of the Maine Historical society which was used more than fifty years ago In the first game ever played between between be bOa tween that college and an outside team teams 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 If It the college college had won the r game me would doubtless have remained ever since in a co collegiate atmosphere But ut uthe the he Sunrise team made up of boys fr from m the town of at Brunswick defeated the collegians In that day of long Iong scores to the tune of 40 46 to 42 and the bat Inscribed with the names of at all the players went to the winners Later Later Later Lat Lat- er er they gave It to the historical society society society so so- which now presents present It to the college But in 1860 no one of the players could have foreseen a time when what is said to be the oldest baseball bat In the country would be bean bean bean an object of national Interest Interest Chris Chris Christian tI tian n Science Monitor |