The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-09-03
Tunnel DIGGERS
SHUT OUT BY
SCORE OF 80
North Adams Ball Team Defeat
ed at Morgan Park.
CATHCART'S GREAT FIELDING
5ennineton's Second 5aseman Made
All Kinds Of Stops-Speotaouiar
Catch BY PrlndIe.

Nine ball players from North Ad
ans, each with G bad case of expand
ed Uranium, came out into the coun-
try yesterday and received one of the
worst defeats that the Tunnel Dig
gers have experienced during the
present season. The game demon
strated the unreliability of baseball
predictions No one in Bennington
believed that the home team, COM
posed of players who don a uniform
but once or twice a week, had a ghost
of show to win against profess
sional team, and the North Adams
contingent had all kinds of confidence
that the team which had beaten the
Springfield league nine the previous
day would win in runaway.
The overconfidence of the North
Adams players undoubtedly marred
the work OF the visiting team but the
best game that the Tunnel Digging
outfit ever played would not have won
against the splendid work of Benning-
ton. No team that ever represented
the town or any opposing team that
ever played on Bennington diamond
put up such an exhibition of fielding
as was seen at Morgan Park yester-
day afternoon IL Seemed almost inn
possible for the North Adams batters
TO put the ball on safe ground. 1t
made no difference how far they bat.
ted the sphere into the outfield there
was a man under It and there was no
safe territory in the infeld.
Cathcart was the brilliant star OF
the game. Ordinarily his work is
clean and snappy but yesterday he
had all kinds Of chances, Founders
over his head and hot ones over
second when he was playing half way
TO first but only one got away.
Miller, too. nailed a hot groundeI
just as IT was going over second base
and caught the runner at first.
Five flies were batted into the out
field, two straight into the Lands o.
the fielders but Bressette had {
couple that required fast foot worl
and In the ninth inning Prindl,
caught one over his shoulder tina
looked good for three bases.
1t was McGuire's second gam,
against North Adams. The first tim,
= the game was played at North Adam
and the Tunnel Diggers dropped OF
to Paddy's twister's in a rather unkin,
manner. Mcclure. with more oppoI
tunity to work, has been coming fas
during the season and he allowed tn
pros but five singles, only two O
5 which came in one inning. In tn
I second inning North Adams sent
T.. base runner to third on two hits an
I a steal but that was the nearest an
a the only chance the visitors came t
q make run.
Q The Tunnel Diggers learned sewers
4 things during the game. One wa
2 that base runner has got to e
e quite a few to steal any bags o
Mulcahey.
Y Barksdale was unable to be preser
$ and first base was covered by Guy
Il Williamstown while Matte Killer
" the former Bennington pitcher hel
@ down the third corner.
q Bennington scored in the secon
s inning. Killeen, the first man u
o batted a ball through shortstop. II
n was nicely sacrificed to second /
Al Miller and came home when Ruel |,
1t another grounder go through his leg
q Bennington got two more in Il
a fifth. A base n balls and a wild {
ID gether with hits by Guy and Cathca
ID being the responsible features. TT
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