The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-31
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East Arlington Team Leaves Field
With a Tie Score


Manchester, Aug S1.-The baseball
game between the Equinox and East
Arlington teams came to a premature
end Saturday afternoon when early Ia
the sixth inning the visitors left the
field refusing to abide by the decision
of s. B. Pettengill, who called a ball
hit to deep left, on which a man cross
ed the plate, foul.
The game opened with the visitors
getting one run in the opening chap
ter, while they succeeded in shutting
out the locals until the fourth. This
was mainly due to the superb pitching
OF Hayden in these innings. In the
second after one was out, poor sup
port put men on bases, but he rose to
the occasion and struck out two men.
In the next inning he struck out the
first man, but then passed one and hit
another. Men on bases seemed to be
just the right stimulus for he famed
the next two batters. In the fourth
the EAST Arlington men scored four
times by landing heavily on Francis
and loose work by the local infielders.
This lead of five runs did not last
long, however. In the fourth the
home team got two men across and
IN the next inning three score. This
was due largely to the slow work of
the visiting fielders. Three of them
were not regular players and the team
work and individual playing suffered
in consequence. The score by in
nings:
RH Il
| Equinox 90 90 3-5 s
EastArlington- 1904 0-5 s
Batteries-Francis and Mahar; Hay.
den and Walsh; umpire, S. B. Petten-
gill
(Another account of the game)
The East Arlington ball team went
to Manchester Saturday to play the
Equinox Walters. Through misunder.
standing two of the players failed to
be on hand and not wishing to cancel
the game two Arlington boys were
found in the crowd who volunteered tC
play. The usual large crowd was out
as the Arlington team is favorite In
Manchester and with +. Archibald as
umpire gave the crowd their moneys
worth The game started with Pet
tingill, an Equinox waiter, for umpire
and 1t was evident from the start thai
Mr. Pettengill knew nothing of base
ball, much less of the duties of an UNI
pire.
Francis was In the box for the Equir
OK team and did fairly well until the
fourth inning giving one hti in the
first and none in second and third
The fourth inning started with trouble
all around. The Arlingtonites started
this inning to get after Francis and be
fore Francis got his head again, foul
men had crossed the home plate. The
poor fielding and not getting every
thing from the umpire was too mucI
for the Equinox players and after al
respectfully bad decision, started TO PLAY
football with the umpire, and but fol
the Equinox manager, Pettengills car
eer as an umpire might have been end
ed quickly.
The Arlington boys by this time haC
become disguised with the game
Hayden was doing good work in tn,
box but was being robbed of every
thing. Some bad errors were mad,
by ,he substitutes which gave two
iNhS " i@HuiuOA III the lOuItU dut
three in the fifth. The end came II
the 9Th inning. The Arlingtons haC
two men on bases andnone out. Walsh
made fine drive down through the
left field so far inside the line tha
there was no question but what 1t wa,
a fair ball Umpire Pettengill lookint
the ground over saw that two run.
would score, decided his health would
be better for Sunday If he called
foul" This was the limit. Manager
Morrissey of Arlington threw up the
game
II has always been impossible fol
Arlington TO get square deal with
Equinox unless Frank Archibald UNI
pired the game This game was NJ
Exception and wishing to play clear
baseball or not any, refused to stant
the dirty work practiced by the Equin
ox players. The game stood at the
last of the fifth inning:
b. Arlington 1904 o.
Equinox 0OO2 a.
East Arlington, Hayden and Walsh
Equinox, Francis and Mcmahon.
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