The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-09-01
The Battle Of WinhaIl River.
As Witnessed by one of the sapheads
and Minors.

As Witnessed by one OF the sapheads
and Minors.
Last Saturday in company with party
of friends we determined to attend the
base ball game between the Bondville and
Weston mines played on Burbank's mead
ow, near Bondyille village. A good
crowd was in attendance, both mines were
in good condition and both evidently de-
termined to win If good hard work would
do it. Some delay was made in getting
started, owing to objections being made
by the Weston's to Landmap acting as
pitcher for the Bondvilles. This was
soon settled, however, and the teams set
tied down to good, hard, earnest, work
and four innings were played before
either side scored. Finally the Bond
ville's scored two and the Weston's one,
and this was slowly increased until both
sides had about five scores each, fine
work being done by both sides and good
feeling being very motto lbel through the
crowd and between the opposing clubs,
although it should be said here that there
were three or four men on the grounds
CONSIDERS )who appeared to be somewhat
under the influence of liquor, and who
were noisy and inclined to be quarrelsome,
and the game was stopped for moment,
once, by umpire Bolster, to quiet man
who was using profane and obscure Ian
guage. Notwithstanding this, however,
good feeling prevailed, and both clubs
were doing fine work, until Boynton, of
the Weston's, on whom two strikes had
been called, jumped in front of his base
and was of course hit by the ball and
claimed his base. A wrangle ensued over
this, which was taken advantage of by
some of the outsiders to ventilate their
opinions and exhibit their prowess. One
man in particular was noticed who evil
IDENTIFY believed he could thrash the whole
just one minute, but who was seen very
soon after mopping the claret from his
nose and feeling of the places where his
front teeth used to grow. The wrangle
was soon settled however, and both clubs
went to work again, but the Bondylle's
had got little ratified and the game was
finished with score of for Weston and
6 for Bondville. =.
A good-natured scuffle ensued for the
possession of the ball between Hannum
of Weston and Burbank of Bondvile and
in three shakes of sleeps tail, we had
Donnybrook Fair, Kilkenny Cats, Null
doon's Picnic, and the greatest one ring
circus on earth in which all the actors
tumbleu. Men fought like demons with
out knowing who they were fighting or
drew set of metal knuckles and began
to strike with them, but was soon over
powered and disarmed, and then hammer
ed and choked until he was in a much
more sober condition than when the fight
started. Two men were standing side by
side when some one came up behind and
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instant, and seeing the other in fighting
attitude they both ;'sailed in" and pro-
ceeded to pound each other as best they
could until they were pulled apart and
discovered that ''the other man" was their
friend, instead of zone of those ID
Weston fellows" The wife of one of
these men scented the battle from afar
and came tearing across the field with the
speed of ''Nancy Hanks" and the
scream of a gravel engine, and proceeded
to belabor her husbands opponent with
great big-parasol. Those who were
over thirty miles away enjoyed the music
i'll this seance better than those on the
front seats.
sold Broad" and a few other sturdy
men succeeded in separating the waring
factions and peace was restored after
time, but the story of this great battle
will go down to posterity only eclipsed by
the glory of the great Battle of Keyes'
Farm