The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-12
LOST CLAIM TO
CHAMPIONSHIP
Goddard Defeated BY Mont
pelier Seminary
in A VERY CLOSE FINISH
Booth Weakened in the Ninth Inning,
After Pitching a Fine Game, and
Montpelier Scored Four
" Times.

Times.
! Montpelier scn,inary's baseball team
won the championship over Goddard IN
the second game Of their series at In
tercity park yesterday afternoon by the
margin OF one run, the score being 7
TO 8. There were nine innings cralu,ncd
full of interesting playing, il whisi
Montpelier after seemingly winning the
game III the fifth fell far behind in ths
seventh, only to forge ahead in the ninth
and then to hold the crimson and white
without scoring il, the last half Of the
inning. It was a game Of heart-breaks
fcr Goddard after playing an uphill
game and then TO have aImost sure VIC
tory snatehed away.
The ninth inning failure on the part
Of the Barre team was due to the weak
cning OF Pitcher Booth, after he had
| twirled an excellent game. Up to that
inning Booth had allowed but four hits
and had retired more than a third OF
the batters who faced him, on strikes.
After the spurt Of the crimson men Ia
the seventh, Booth appeared to have the
game on ice. But three hits, base
on balls and two errors by Pickering was
a combination which gave Montpelier
four runs and the game in the last ses-
sion. Nevertheless, Capt. Booth did
well, tanning fourteen men and allow
| ing but seven hits. He was a trife
Wild, giving three free transportations
and hitting two men.
Goddard outbatted Montpelier.
The Goddard stickers outbatted Mont
pelier almost two TO one, but with the
exception OF the seventh inning the hits
did not come at the right time. In
every inning they had men left ON the
bases and three times the third bag was
occupied when Wyatt, the south paw,
would pull himself together and retire
the side. As II hapPeued sn.sthree oc-
casions, the second, the sixth and the
ninth innings, the duty Of bringing in
men from third base fell to Booth ami
then to Tiiden, but both tumbled befere
their opportunities.
I Little WAS the star man with the club
for the score card gives him percent
age Of 1000 for the day five hits in
| five times at the bat. On OF these was
a scratch and the other was a certain
out, which Umpire Higgins didn't see
the way the crowd did and called Little
safe. It was a fine thing for Little's
batting average, however. and the lanky
boy is entitled to great deal of credit
for smashing the ball every time he
came to the bat. D,Itton and Smith
also batted well for Goddard, while BiQc-
low, Henson and Bishop were the only
ones who could do anything to Booths
pitching.
Fielding Was Ragged.
! In the field both teams PLAYED rag
ged game, although at times brilliant
| spot was noted. Bigelow, Montpelier's
first baseman, made stellar catch Of
a foul off Smiths bat in the seventh
inning, by running back and catching
the ball over his head. Dutton, although
he made one inexcusabIe muf of a
thrown ball, which proved disastrous,
did we'll and Booth fielded his position
cleanly. Both third basemen were weak,
making the bulk of the errors. and their
errors were disastrous. Shina, particu-
larly. made two yellow plays when he
dropped easily thrown ball from Wyatt
in the seventh for forccouts, and Picker
ing threw wild to first in the ninth and
| followed it up by dropping Berry's
throw for sure out, which would have
retired the side and the score would
have been a tie instead OF in Montpcl-
! ier's favor.
Of the thirteen runs there was only
one earned, that by Goddofd.
How the Scoring Was Done.
For three innings NJ. S. did not get
the sembIance OF q bit. Then Dutfen
started off the evil hour by dropping
Smiths throw OF Bigelow's grounder.
/ Mitchell pounded one ut Olsen on second
/ and the latter instead OF throwing the
runner out at first sent the ball to
third to head Of Bigelow lie headed
him off all right and in trying TO catch
the runner between the buses Olsen
threw poorly to Pickering and Bigelow
took third. Berry left the home plate
unprotected and Bigclow made cheap
nrn Meanwhile Mitchell had taken sec
ond and went to third on passed ball.
Henson landed on Booth for the irst
hit, clean twobag2cr, TO right center,
and Mitchell scored Then Booth
struck out Bishop, Wilcox and Fair
child in succession.
H. the fifth u base on balls to Wyatt
resulted in run. Bigelow followed
with single. Wyatt taking third.
When Berry threw TO second to catch
Bigelow the hall was handled 50 slowly
that Wyatt had an easy time scoring.
During this time and up to the sew
enth Goddard had been pounding the
ball for eight safe drives, to no avail.
IN the second, with one down. Little
singled to left and Smith to right and
the next two batters, Booth and Tilden,
couldn't help them; again In the sixth.
Pickering led of with two-barger and
Little followed with his third hit. but
Smith and Booth struck out and Tilden
went out weakly on grennder to
short
Six Runs in One Inning.
There was something moving in the
seventh, with the aid Of punched errors
by Montpelier. Olsen got in the way
Of the ball and Vivian got a free ticket.
Dutton hunted to Wyatt and Shins
dropped a perfect throw for force-out
at third. Olsen keeping right on home
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