St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-24
BASE BALL Matters.

Several wild throws on the part OF
St. Johnsbury gave the Boston Reds
two runs in the first inning Of Fri
days game, while the home team
failed to score at all. Then the boys
braced for business and the result
was very pretty contest, with a
total of 4 to 8 in St. Johnsbury's
favor. In the third inning Gauthier
tapped the ball prettily and got far
enough round to come home on a
neat hit by Shufelt, who was in
turn able to find the home plate be-
cause Clayton used the stick "for
keeps" This tied the game, 2 to 2,
and the interest deepened. The Wis
itors stopped scoring till the 9Th in
ming, when they added one to their
account, and came near doing even
better, but Quackenboss was putting
up a good game and struck out the
batsmen in season to prevent IT..
Before this, in the 9th inning, eau
theirs play at the home plate and
Shulelt's throw from short to first
gave the Reds blank and the home
team hit for another run, making
the figures to 2. st. Johnsbury
scored again in the seventh inning,
the attractive features of which were
lively raps of the ball by French,
Moore and Renfrew. Here the
home team stopped scoring; the
eighth inning gave one more to the
visitors and they were "Chicagoed"
in the ninth. The Reds are good
natured set of players, and the game
was free from Objectionable features.
Quackenboss and Gauthier did fine
battery work, and were well sup
ported. The score:
81 so' jobn Fsas; Q g % %
The Reds and the St. Johnsburys
had a second game on Saturday
afternoon, in the presence of large
number of people. 1t was not St.
Johnsbury's day to win, but the
boys put up fine game and the
crowd was not slow to recognize it..
Shufelt was in the box for the home
team, while Gauthier did the honors
behind the bat. The visitors pitcher
was Mahoney, and his work was
very effective, the batters as a gen.
eral thing failing to hit him beyond
the in-6eld. Their failure to do any
heavy hitting and some looseness in
base running and at other points
operated against the st. Johnsburys
though, up to the sixth inning, they
did finely. Neither side scored till
the third inning; at one time in the
second it looked like a run or two
for the visitors, but splendid fielding
headed off the danger. In the fifth
inning the Reds had a merry time
and made three runs after two men
were out, the third man being finally
caught by tricky throw to first by
Shufelt. The seventh was a picnic
for the Reds; base on balls forced
two men in, and two Others touch
ed the plate before the home team
steadied down again. The final
score was Q to 2 in favor of the Reds
and the crowd got its moneys
worth of good playing on both
sides. The score:
Reds o 2 0 0 4 0 0-f
St. Johnsburys, o 0 o O..
A third game between these two
mines was played on Monday after
noon, with Quackenboss and Gauth
Ter as battery for the home team, re
sulting in victory for St. Johnsbury
5 to 2. Fine pitching by Quacken
boss, good catching and second-bast
throwing by Gauthier, and admira
BILE fielding by the rest of the min
made it impossible for the Reds t.
break the spell which lowered owe
them; they failed to score at all til
the 9th inning, when they made tw
runs and were only kept from gettin
more by "ball playing by the HON
team. Meantime the St. Johnsbury
picked up two runs in the Sd an
three in the 4th inning, with zeroe
all the rest of the way. 1t was
fine game from beginning to enc
THE only way we can win it now
to hit it OUT said a Red in the ct
inning; but the hitting did not m;
terialize. Mahoney, the tall catche
found the ball for two or three pre-
ty raps, and really brought in II
two runs for his team. The score :
Boston Reds o o o o 2 0 o.
St.Johnsburys- o o 3 o 0 o.
CAMP MEETING.
The twenty-seventh annual sessi(