The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-02
BASEBALL, OLD STYLE.
Old Timers Give an Exhibition of The
Game That Was.

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There was nothing of the burlesque
order in the remarkable game of base.
ball played on the Huntington avenue
grounds yesterday by forty three old
time professional and amateur players
IL was game in which men famous on
the diamond in the 10's and SOS took
part, and by instinct their old cunning
6ulled bit by long lank of practice,
came back TO them for the afternoon
and they played the best baseball OF
which they were capable. For seven
innings men with gray hair, men with
little hair Mt all, men grown rotund and
men grown thin, assumed the old base
ball gait, lay for infleld and outileld
flies and handled the willow at the bat
es only men to the diamond born can.
For six innings the score ran evenly, the
amateurs, or collegians, getting two
runs in the first, the professionals one
in the third and two in the fourth, and
the amateurs tying the score in the
sixth with two more runs added to the
one they had pounded out in the fifth,
In the seventh inning the professionals
fell on Smith, Harvard, $50, and by
timely work at the bat secured two
runs. As the amateurs were BANKED
in that inning and the game was called,
the final score was; Professionals, n;
Amateurs, 5,
Practically everyone of the celebrities
of decades ago who had promised to
take part showed up. To mention all
the achievements and past affiliations
of each would require columns OF space I;
suffice it that A. G. Spalding, who used
to pitch for Boston thirty-seven years
ago and probably is the best known man
in the baseball world. was there and in
clean white flannel uniform occupied
the pitchers box for several iRnings.
Next to him was Col. Samuel f. Wins
low, who was captain of the Harvard
team of 's5, which took the collegiate
championship by winning twenty-six
games and losing onej and after him
Walter Badger, Yale's old football and
baseball player OF the early eighties.
The two latter acted as captains of the
amateur teams yesterday. Mr.. Badger
played throughout the game; but it was
Col. Winslcw who received the cheers
OF the crowd of 5000 people when, the
first and only time up at the bat, he
dropped beauty in short centre and
made possible the tying run. He had
only one chance in right field and that
was to chase a rolling ball clear to the
back fence. His throw in was a work
of art.
The majority Of the college players
were old Harvard men; but there were
several from Yale, Dartmouth, M. |. r.,
Amt1est and the university Of Iowa
Twenty seven men were used on their
side, while the professionals had six
teen men. Everybody had crack at
the ball or chance in the field. There
were three umpires, Hon. Louis A.
rockingham, candidate for the Repub-
liean nomination for lieutenant governor
and an old Harvard baseball captain
himself; Hon. James a. GaIlivan. an
other Harvard man, and Joe Kelly,
manager Of the Boston Nationals. 1t
was odd to note under what rules the
old-timers played. They moved the
pitchers box nearer the plate at least
ten feet; the pitchers threw an under
hand bali the batsmen called for
high, low or fair bali, and they had to
have it; they had chance to have
nine balls called before they took
base; they ran the danger of being out
on caught foul tips; and the catchers
could catch foul flies on the bounce
and still have their man out Also,
to effect double play, the catcher
could drop the ball after third strike
pick it up, touch the home plate, and
then nail a runner between bases, seor-
ing double play All of these things,
with the personalities and the histories
OF the players, with men with maya
phones to announce everything, and with
the First Corps Cadet band to break
the innings with tunes appropriate to
the individual players, made very
interesting afternoon. Boston Tran
script.