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McAuliffe grounded out to Griffin by way of McLaughlin in the first inning, deflected off Max Gloves.

Left-handed batter from around the Hartford area originally.

Pro-type player, very aggressive, quite a battler.

The pitch to him is a ball outside, fastball.

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On Manhattan Island and in the valleys of the Hudson and Lower Mohawk settled the Dutch a few years after the English at Jamestown.

They erected forts on Manhattan Island and at Albany, Hartford, and near Philadelphia.

They partitioned vast tracts of fertile lands among favorite patroons.

They built up a successful trade in furs with the Indians and sent the profits home.

After forty years of prosperity in trade they had failed to become a settled and well-ordered colonial state, looking bravely forward to permanence, expansion, and eventual statehood.

The first free school in America is credited to their initiative, and they were tolerant of other religions than their own, but they planted no other seeds from which a great state could grow.

As Coligny before him had sought to plant in Florida a colony of French Huguenots so Raleigh who had served under that great captain in the religious wars of the continent sought to found in Virginia a Protestant state much private wealth and many of his best years were given by Raleigh to the furtherance of a noble ambition but all to futile immediate results Raleigh's work however like all good work nobly done was not lost out of his failure at Roanoke came English successes in later years John Smith at Jamestown the Pilgrims at Plymouth oldest of permanent English settlements in America is Jamestown but the English failures at Cuddyhunk and Kennebec antedate it by a few years and the failure at Roanoke by a quarter of a century at Jamestown ten years after the arrival of the first settlers a legislative assembly was organized a miniature parliament modeled after the English House of Commons and the first legislative body the New World ever knew here too in Jamestown began negro slavery in the United States and in the same or the next year thus legislative freedom and human slavery had their beginning in America at the same time and in the same place Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay next among the English settlements followed in due time the failure of Gosnold at Cuddyhunk and the description of New England John Smith wrote and printed in 1614 after a voyage of exploration along her coast after several years Plymouth contained only about three hundred souls but the Bay colony founded ten years later increased rapidly by 1634 nearly four thousand of Winthrop's followers had arrived many of them college graduates from this great parent colony went forth Roger Williams to Rhode Island Hooker to Hartford Davenport to New Haven so that by the middle of the seventeenth century five English colonies had been planted within the borders of New England long after all these came the Maryland and Pennsylvania settlements founded by Lord Baltimore and William Penn as lords proprietor owners of vast tracts of land and possessing privileges more extensive than ever before were bestowed on British subjects in the new century arrived Oglethorpe with his insolvent debtors soon to find Spaniards from St. Augustine hostile to his enterprise but Oglethorpe was a soldier as well as a colonizer he had served in continental wars and after laying siege to St. Augustine further aggressions from that source ceased thus at last in the new world the English race their flag their language and their laws had displaced the Spaniards in that world-important contest for dominion and power of which the second issue was soon to be fought out on many bloody fields with France F. W. H.

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