OCR Text |
Show OLD BAT HISTORICAL RELIC Bowdoin College Treasures Memento of Baseball Game Played Over Half a Century Ago. A note in a current American newspaper news-paper has peculiar Interest for all those American citizens who are interested in-terested In the national game. Bowdoin Bow-doin college has come Into possession of the baseball bat, loug in the keeping keep-ing of the Maine Historical society, which was used more than fifty years ago in the first game ever played between 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 the bats still in use, and, If the college had won the game, would doubtless have remained ever since In a collegiate atmosphere. But the Sunrise team, made up of boys from the town of Brunswick, defeated the collegians, in that day of long scores, to the tune of 48 to 42, and the bat, Inscribed with the names of all the players, went to the winners. Later Lat-er they gave it to the historical society, so-ciety, which now presents It to the college. But in 18(50 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 an object of national interest. Christian Chris-tian Science Monitor. |