The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-07-20
HOOS|CK FALLS IS
WEARING CREPE
ON ITS SLEEVE
For Its Dead and Buried Base
Ball Team
DECEASED SUNDAY, JULY 10
sennlnston's Ball Players offiolated
at the Grave Which Was is
Runs Deep,
DECEASED SUNDAY, JULY 10
"oh. Mabel. amt it awful"

Clif N0bNls an ~ aWihA'
The fog-horn voice of Doc" Mo
Gurn rolled out over the baseball dia-
mond at Hoosick Falls yesterday af-
ternoon as First baseman Ray Banks
dale of the Huckleberry boys "biffed"
Jimmy Dowd for a long hit to center
field 1t was Barksdale's fourth time
at bat and he had put similar "biffs'
ON Jimmey's curves at every appear
ance. To add to the "awfulness" Of
the occasion there were two men on
bases and they romped gaily over the
plate.
oh, Mabel. amt it awful
II was the ninth inning and Banks
dale was on second base where he
had landed after making his fifth hit
out of six times to bat A moment
later Neefe put the grand finale on the
disastrous days record for Jimmy
Dowd. 1t was the 10th hit and II
went over the fence.
'fhis was too much for the Hoosick
Falls fans and they began to hit the
trail for home. During the early
part OF the game, that is during the
first two innings before the Huckle-
berry boys began to bang Dowd's
| twisters all over the lot, they were as
noisy as a lot of boiler makers doing
a job by the piece, but long before
the game was ended the silence in
the stand became so impressive that.
barring the absence of the hearse,
Undertaken Lew Haussler must have
| imagined that he was out on a FRO
! fessional call.
| MoGurn uyog rigbt IL aWful
For eight long innings the fandom OF
Hoosick Falls was obliged to sit and
watch a trouncing the like Of which
| had never yet taken place on the
Reapertown diamond. Fifteen run
ners from Monument town had
crossed the home plate and not a man
from the home team had yet put his
foot on the third bag. The spectators
went home TO quick however for had
they remained through the game they
might have had the consolation NJ see
| ing Hickey squeak in that lonely run.
| BY beating out a grounder by hairs
margin he reached first base and was
sent home by little Bill Tierney's two
Dagger Up to this period Bills work
had been mostly recorded in the error
column and II must have been a
source of satisfaction to him 10 save
his team from a shutout.
"Oh, Mabel, amt it awful" Tur-
ner Cranston, George Bentley and a
half a dozen Bennington rooters
fockcd out in front of the grand stahd
and proceeded to rub It in," but the
tender-hearted custodian of the
grounds could not bear to see his peo-
pie suffer and ordered the rude ones
out behind the railing
Hoosick Falls evidently placed It's
dependence upon Dowd of Holy
Cross. The same Dowd who put 1t
on Williams college to l and who
pitched that long game for North Ad-
ans against Pittsfield. Dowd was
supposed to land the game, but in
stead was himself landed with what
was probably the worst beating OF
his baseball career.
Williams, who pitched for Benning-
ton, had the Reapertown aggregation
going from the start. He had speed
to throw away and often the ball was
safely in Springs big NIT before the
astonished batter's stick had swung
over the plate. Two OF the four hits
secured by Hoosick were scratches
and there was not a time during the
game when the home team had so
much rs a lock in.
Nothing got by the Bennington in
field and Il single error in center was
the only misplay. Spring caught in
his usual fine style and Prind'e took
his four chances in left perfectly
| His last catch was one of the plays
of the game. Curtin and Wallace
made some fine stops. The former
got liner on his bare hand that was
"stinger" but 1t stuck there.
II The score.