The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-18
Leaders and TaiIenders
Had Long Battle.
A MOST EXCITING GAME
Bobby Dresser and Sammy Ap
perious The Heroes Of the Day.
Burlington Shuts 0ut Rutiand

The leaders and the tail.enders In the
Northern league race clashed on the Inter
city grounds Saturday afternoon, and
when the smoke oil the impact was raised,
or rather when Umpire Shea decided that
1t was too dark to play ball, Barre
Montpelier had secured four runs and
Plattsburg ditto. That was at the end Of
the fifteenth inning How many more in
nings the teams might have played with
out decisive results Is a matter Of con
lecture The sun shone on brightly for
half an hour after the game was called.
The ball players, and the crowd, as well,
we're tired, however, and there was really
no one sorry that the umpire called the
game II Is the longest game Of the pres
ent league season and it was probably a.
full Of mixture Of good and bad plays as
any that will be served up to the patrons
Of the game this season.
Fifteen hundred people saw the contest.
and large number started to leave the
grounds ID the ninth inning believing
that the game was lost to the home team
But the latter gave an excellent exhibition
Of that lighting spirit at the finish and
STAYED off defeat
Little Bobby Dresser, the foxy south
paw, and that tall gentleman. SAMMY
Apperious, were the heroes of the game SO
far as the home team was concerned. Az
ter johnson, who started in to pitch for
the home team, had apparently lost the
game through his inability to locate the
plate, Dresser went into the box in the
ffth inning and held the visitors down TO
one score for the next eleven Innings.
Sammy Apperious assisted in tying the
score In the ninth with a double and ha
tied the score iii the thirteenth inning
with q home run, making the longest and
prettfest bit ever seen on the grounds. Not
only did he do that but Apperions also
batted out an extra two bagger and one
single making four hits with d total Of
nine bases out ofsix times al the bat tt
was splendid exhibition of stick work
and made the tall left fielder solid with
the crowd.
Dresser. the other hero. twlrled as pret-
/ " - ~qAA1E va HfkAt t9 Aa1 AEE4 eGEH AA q
long time. With the score three to noth-
ing against him, be went into the box, held
the Plattsburgs down To four hits for the
rest of the game, famed eleven OF them
and presented but four passes to first on
balls. He put up fast game. Johnson
was disappointment, He was very wild,
giving six passes to first in the four In
lnings he ofiieiated, allowed three hits and
struck out only one man. His bases on
balls were most costly, two of the free
passes developing into scores In the fourth
inning, aided BY errors on the part Of the
home team. johnson was pulled out Of
bad holes Id each Of the first three innings
by excellent work on the part Of bis feld-
ers. In each inning Piattsburg had two
men on bases when the side was retired.
Burke on first was responsible for Platts-
hurg's failure to score In the first, through
some fast fielding Of hard grounders; and
the other fielders worked hard to keep
down the score
When Dresser went into the box the
crowd breathed easier, and the players
seemed to have more confidence The lit
| tie fellow was an enigma To the Platts-
burgs for the remainder OF the game Nash,
the local catcher, gave wretehed exhibit
tion OF baekstopping, and his dropped and
passed balls with J0hnson's 5 pitching near
~ made gift Of the game to the tatl-end.
ers Nash needs to brace up in bis work
to keep pace with the rest Of the team.
Mclean, the plattsburg twirler, pitched
d steady and consistently strong game,
He allowed ten hits but managed TO keep
them scattered with the exception of the
seventh and ninth innings, when the 10.
calls landed on him for three In each inn
| Ing. Up to then he had been touched up
for only two hits, and ia the remaining
six innings Barre Montpelier got only two
more, one of them beiug "Sammyfs'i home
run. Mclean gave but three bases o.
balls and famed eleven Of the home stick
ers, Sheldon falling victim four times.
/ Mclean received fine support from bis
teammates the infeld particularly max
ing some fast plays. Kellogg Dunn anC
Shuttle each shut off what was apparently
sure single by brilliant catches Of hard
bit balls. For the home team, Poland wa
all over the field, Morgan played a fas
game and Stewart made q beautiful catcl
of difficult fly ball
Skeily and Cosgroye, the first two Platts
burgers up were given free trips to frs
base and Flynn advanced them with sac
! rifiee. Things were breaking badly fo
] the locals when Burke gobbied Dunn
: grounder and touched the runner out hold
ing the other runners on second and third
shuttle was 50 foolish as to send anothe
gronnder TO the same man and was out
A sigh of relief went mp from the crowd
|. Cosgrove in eenterfieid robbed Apperiou
of an apparently sure hit ia the same iur
! ing, falling down just as he caught th
g ball
D johnson presented kellogg cheap bas
j | 10 the second. Stroh hit % Burke an
Kellogg was forced at second Johnso