The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-06-28
With the Score 4 to 4 at the
End.
FEATURES OF FIRST GAME
On Home Grounds Yesterday-Except.
ing the Scrap, Game Was an In
teresting One, Showing Home
Team to Advantage.

The Barre Montpelier base ball team
opened the Northern league season al
Jntercty park yesterday afternoon with
its second game this season with the
Plattsburg aggregation and after twelve
innings of playing that was nerve rack
ing to the enthusiastic supporters from
the two cities and after three times tie
ing the score the struggle had to be
end Of the twelfth with the score 4
to a. All OF the two hours and half
time which the game took that was
used up in playing ball was good, but
that considerable time which was wasted
in fighting and wrangling was not what
the 1000 or more people from the two
cities care to see repeated. The two
pitcher umpire idea was the cause of
the whole trouble and the folly of it
was shown up in its fullest measure.
A close decision could not be made by
either umpire but that one team or
the other would put up howl and
a kick that lovers of base ball do not
pay their money to see. In the sew
enth inning with the home team at
bat Dorman sent grounder through
Fullerton that scored Davis and ASH
more. Second Baseman Wells got the
ball and threw it home in an attempt
to shut out Ashmore. The throw was
low and az Kretchell was reaching down
to catch the bali Ashmore jumped over
him, landing squarely on the base and
rolled over on the ground. Kretcheli
touched him with the ball claiming that
he didn't touch the plate. Umpire John
son Of Plattsburg called the runner
SAFE The whole visiting team imme-
diately rushed around the umpire and
protested. Capt. Cosgrave and Boots
Mcmahon who had had trouble in the
game last Saturday got to chewing
again and on Cosgrave's invitation for
Boots" to hit promptly got it in the
side of the face. The police separated
them and the game was finally resumed,
though the combatants tried to settle
matters again as they were coming in
from the field at the end of the inning
but the police stopped them. Through
Ashmore's failure to stop McDonnell's
grounder Plattsbuug scored run in
the first inning and not until the fifth
could the Intercity batters get on to
Broderick's superb pitching sufficiently
to tally, tieing the score in this inning
and in the seventh making two more.
The crowd then began to rest easy but
it was not for long for the visitors
tailed once in the eighth and tied the
score in the ninth.
The tenth and eleventh were blanks
and in the twelfth both sides tailed
once.
Davis, the Intercity southpaw, gave
general satisfaction in the box, besides
doing good work at the bat. He was
touched up for eleven hits for total
of fourteen bases, but the hits were
well scattered. He gave no bases on
balls and famed six. The husky Inter
city batters lined out some long drivers
but the gamey flelders Of the visiting
team would not let them touch the
ground. Several times the home team
had two and once three men on bases,
but safe hit which would mean one
or two scores, did not come. Wells was
the first man up to bat in the game
and flied out to Standard. Cosgrave
singled by the pitcher. He was caught
between first and second and while
Standard and Ashmore were trying to
touch him Ashmore threw the ball wild
and hit Cosgrave in the back, letting
him get to third. Mcdonnell raped an
easy grounder to Ashmore which he
let 90 through his hands and Cossgaye
scored on the error. Bottemus went
out short to first and Mcdonnell was
put out at second on pretty double
play
Ashmore, heading the batting list for
the home team, struck out. Donovan
singled to left field fence and was put
ont at second on a double play started
by Fullerton on Uniac's grounder
In the second inning Doc Hildebrand
lined out a single to left field. Fuller.
ton grounded TO Broderick who threw
Hiidebrand out at second, Fullerton get
ting first on the choice Washburne
flied out to Mcmahon, as also did
KretchelI. The Intercitys went out in
double quick time. Shaughnessy and