St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-07-28
ON THE DIAMOND.

Ihe 81. JOhuSDury NIue rays a series
with Strong State Nine
Thursdays Game a Defeat for the Home
Team.
Last week the St. Johnsbury ball
players crossed bats with a combin-
alton of Haverhill and Holy Cross
College players, III series of three
games, and while the net results were
not entirely satisfactory to the home
team by way of victories won, the
spectators were treated to some fine
ball playing, especially in the last
two games of the series. The first
contest was won by the visitors in a
score OF Z to 2, and the story of the
disaster runs thus:
The Haverhills went to the bat,
and were quickly retired in the first
inning without a run, Shufelt and
Hawley making speedy connection
with Meigs on first and cutting off
the runners. St. Johnsbury met a
similar fate. two men striking out
and third failing on first, though
Hawley had hit well and got as far
as second base In the second one
of the visitors was given his base on
balls. then the home team were slight
lv ratified and the visitors scored,
but the next two men failed to find
the ball that Shufelt pitched, a third
put fly into Hawley's hands, and
the run-making was stopped; St.
Johnsbufy failed to score, though
Ide bunted and sprinted we'll and
Meigs made a clean hit.
In the third inning the visitors
were whitewashed and the home
team scored one on a good hit by
Bannan, which the second baseman
neatly muffed. In the fourth Gau-
thier assisted the pitcher in retiringa
couple of men, and Hawley found a
foul that came his way; then two
men famed the air and sat down
and another fouled out to the visit
ing catcher, and the score stood 1 to 1.
In the fifth, two of the visitors got
on the bases through errors, and
then, after two men were out, there
was another slight touch of "rattle''
on the part of the home team and a
Haverhill man touched the home
plate; for St. Johnsbury, after two
men out the bases were full, where
upon Sam Moore knocked a fly
towards the second baseman, which
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sun was playing with the ST. Johns
bury team just then, and a home
player touched the plate, tieing the
score again-2 to 2.
The sixth inning was d holocaust
for the home team, and if the spec
tators had had any hope of St. Johns
bury's winning the game up to this
point, that hope was abandoned;
tumble by Bannan proved decidedly
expensive, letting IN two runs, and
the visitors secured one more before
hes OUT was heard for the third
time. Three strikes, foul tip and
fly sent to left field settled the fate
of the local nine, and the figures read
5 to 2. The situation was unchang-
ed in the seventh, when the visitors
were vanquished in short order by a
strike-out followed by double play
bv Moore, Bannan and Meigs; St.
Johnsbury fell in one, two three
order also. The figures were not
altered in the eighth either, two of
the home players being foolish enough
to try base stealing against heavy
odds, when the risk was not neces-
sary.
In the ninth the visitors found
two more runs, having hit the ball
fairly hard during the whole game;
and the first of the series was theirs
by a good majority. The battery
work of the Haverhills was excellent,
McCartv being teaser IN the box,
and the catcher's throw being effect
i've Shufelt and Gauthier put up
good game of ball, but the support
given them by most oft in-held was
nothing to brag of; o. Clayton's
work in the center field was fine.
The score:
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