The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-30

All things conspired, even the weather
man. to make successful the grange held
day which was held on the Valley Far
grounds last Friday. At about O'Clock
the grangers began TO arrive but the
larger part did not arrive until nearly
noon when it is estimated that there
were fully 1000 people on the grounds
All day long no threat OF ram or Weat hcf
otherwise inClement marred the festivities
and no one had an excuse Tor remaining
at home. OF the % oranges invited prae,
tically everyone was represented anu
some oranges sent the majority OF their
members. The reception committee WORK
ed over time and to its efforts largely
were due the enjoyment OF those attend
ing.
The starting of the field events was
DELAYED somewhat by the non-arrival
of the contestants but they finally
began at about 1915 o'clock and were
run off with dispatch and the results as
stated in last weeks paper. Many en-
tries failed to show up but nevertheless
there we're enough to furnish some good
snort. Dedrch Stolte, jr., acted as start
er. II. j. Jordan as timer and j. l.. Hard
ing as Judge. The first and second men
IN the contests received substantial prizes.
The tug.of-war between teams from
Guilfom and West Brattleboro was hand
lis won by the former and the winners
divided a box of cigars, The members
of the winning team were Bert WmttI-
more. captain; F. /. Wellman, L. .;
Huntley, 4. X. Miner, L. n. Lynde ana
Merton A. Thomas and the members oil
the losing team were Roswell Frost, cap
tain. Fred johnson, c. Ryder, Austin
Prouty, Albert Amidon and George Peek
After the tug.of-war a stop OF an hour
was made for dinner. Tables were set III
the grove and the lunches. spread upon
them, Halls restaurant furnished dln-
pers for the band and officials,
After the dinners had settled the eX-
element of the day centered on the base,
bail game. The game had been deferred
from time to time until it finally went
over until after dinner with the men all
an the anxious bench lest it should not
he PLAYED at all Capt. Austin Millers
foam from the Windham County Pomona
grange were: Everleth, 2b; Haynes, Sd;
Wbittimore. SIS; Pierce, p; Thayer, CT;
.Jcrdan, @: Prouty, lb Eames, If; Mack
and Miller, IF. The yeam from SaXtonss
River Pomona grange was made up OF
Campbell. 3D. Fitch, c; H. Simonds, 2p'
Morrison, p; knowlton, Id; l1ltcncoce.'
eff: Rand. ii; B. Simonds, IS; Harlow II;
The game was a hummer, hot IRON al
parts of the optical standpoint. Every
| thing was done in some way put geherali
the wrong way. In the first inning Wind
ham comfy scored one man and that was
all during the inning. SaXtons River was
robbed OF the game In the first inning
With n man on third base the batter mt
foul ball and the man on third started
| TO score and was hit by the foul grounder'
| The umpire called the runner out, con
! trarv to all ruling on the subject and at
| the same time all called the batter, back
70 the plate where he was touched out
| This took two runs from SaXtons RIVER;
enough to win the game. One run scored
| for Saytons River in the first inning
Windham county scored once IN the flVn
inning and twice in the seventh ana al
ter that did no run getting. A vol9nteei
umpired the game and he steadfastly re
fused to be interviewed. HIS name i
unknown but his memory is sun lresn
t;ngcnt. In the ninth inning the SaXtons
River plavers made an attempt to WIN
With several hits and errors on the parl
If Windham county two runs were scoreo
and there was a man on third with tWt
ant when the batter went down and ou'
on three good ones and the game wa Wa
over, won by Windham county by the
score of to 3.
Score by innings:
Windham. 90 0 Q z
Saxtons r., l 0 0 0 0 0 U =,
The speaking began while the base6 pa
oome was still in progress and 1t was dll
fcult to tell whether the applause wa'
Intended nrau for the speakers or bat,,wield.e,r,
as as on one occasion at least when the
speaker So was at serious part of his argsn 9,
m pe some batter banged out a long fly
,,L;oh was collared by a fielder and prac