The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-25
Barre Montpelier Was
Swamped By Rutland
SHELDON NOT SUPPORTED
Stewart Taken Out Of Game and Page
Finished in the Box Rutland
Fans Disappointed

The-Scene-of-th Slaughter, August 25--
As a Rutland victory the game at the
fair grounds In this city yesterday after
noon between Montpelier and Rut-
land, which the locals won By the large
majority Of eight runs, was big success,
for victories count just at this stage Of
the game aud BY defeating the Intereity
team Rutland gained a good lap on the
former leaders. AS an interesting game
Of baseball, however, it was big disap-
p0intment to the !, 800 or more cranks who
went TO the grounds expecting to see a
battle royal. The score was ii to 81
Sheldon and Minnehan were pltted
against each other and previous to the
game everybody thought the contest would
be close, with few runs by either side.
Sheldon only pitched four innings and by
that time the home team had eight runs
to the visitors, one. He then retired TO
center field and Page took the slab and
finished the game In his place, Stew
art going to the bench for some reason
Sheldon's failure to keep the runs
down was due more TO hard luck and poor
support, however, than to poor pitching
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four innings which he pitched, three
were 8 Texas leagners' pure and simple
easy l0bs that fell Just out Of the reach Of
everybody Another was a grounder to
Flynn which the latter gathered ID SO far
OIL first base that be could not get back to
the base Id time, and one other that went
as bit was drive past second that a
live second baseman would have blocked
and probably gathered Id. Only two OF
the seven hits were good hard clouts In
addition to that sheldon had eve of the
yellowest kind OF fielding errors behind
him. 1t would have taken Chesbro or
Matthewson TO have held Rutland down
with the support that was accorded Shell
dom
Page, who succeeded Sheldon, had bet
ter support, the visitors making but one
error III his four innings Pages slow
ness made poor impression II taking
him anywhere from so seconds to two
minutes to deliver the ball
Minnehan was almost invineible, only
one of the visitors runs being earned.
The feature of the game was phenom.
email catch By Cotter, who ran hard from
deep left field aud anght fly from Dor
mans bat close to the ground about 30
feet back Of the shortstop's position. Cot
ter then threw straight into Kobertson's 4
nit, catching Poland off the base.
Rutland won the game Ia the first In
ming. Robertson, who led off popped an
easy one into short center. 0'Hara sent
a grounder to Flynn, but the latter could
not get back to drst. Sheehan sacrificed
neatly, advancing the runners to third and
second. Duff sent one past McEnany and
Robertson and 0'Hara scored Poland
threw toward the plate to catch duff, but
the ball went about 10 feet over Nashs
head and Mcmahon scored. Cotter scored
when Kennedy lobbed another easy one
back Of Morgan. Kennedy was caught at
second trying to steal, and Wall struck
out, ending the inning.
Rutlandis three in the fourth were due
TO three rank errors by the visitors and
Duff's hit. The two In the seventh and
the final one In the eighth were batted
out.
Barre Montpelier scored one each IN the
first, sixth and seventh but was never in
any danger of being In the race.
The genras