The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-10
FAT MEN COULDN'T
STAND THE PACE
Started Strong but Were Soon
Lost in Cloud Of Dust.
FINAL SCORE STOOD 20 TO 8.
seventeen Runs Made by Rails in Las,
Two Innings Took tho Heart out Of
tho Heavyweights-shea's Work at
First Was . Redeeming Feature.

As long as IL was ball game the iaI
men kept within hailing distance OF theil
brothers, the lanky ones; when il de
: srloped into an endurance test the
knights OF the protuberant pauneh were
soon lost IN cloud OF dust which they
We're Obliged 10 mastleaie as thoroughly
az II they were disciples OF fletcherisln.
HE contest ON the island Saturday after.
noon ceased 10 be ball game somewhere
near the close of the fifth inning but il
was not until the eighth and ninth that
the heayyweights began 10 realize how
deep the sting OF defeat was being driven
m by the anti'obcsity advertisements
Along toward shutdown, when the lat
mems last opportunity paled into insight.
heanee with Dunham's dinky grounder TO
inst, the official scorer touched Captain
Meliae lightly ON the shoulder and broke
TO him as gently as possible the news
that the game was over. The battle
SCARED veteran OF the diamond bore up
nobly under the crushing blow, but sew.
eral bystanders assert that his lip aniy.
cred slightly when he was told the hnal
score-2s TO g.
One OF the largest crowd Of rooters
ever assembled on the island grounds
were sweltenng IN the heat when the
two teams marched TO the grounds 10
the martial music OF drma corps
There was no preliminary practice. Cap
tain McRae won the toss FROM the leader |
OF the opposition, Granger Miller, and
Immediately summoned his band Of ice. |
wagons TO their respective positions. Sto. |
well was on the mound for the fat men |
Tor two innings but his wildness was such |
that he was shifted TO third and Averill
took his place. The former high school |
player did the delivering for the next six |
and took his medicine without gfimacr. Il
In the ninth "Bingo' Fox was drafted,
but it was too late TO stem the current
that was sweeping irresistibly bean-pole-
ward. Miller did the box work for the
rails with the exception OF the fifth inn.
ing when George Wellman went in TO
relieve him. The clothier had great
assortment OF shoots and would doubt.
less have proved effective had not his
picked out this occasion TO
make a balloon ascension. The result
was four runs for the fat men and Well
mans unconditional release.
In the first two innings there was some
real baseball. Tax Collector Shumway
got big hand from the crowd by making
running catch of Wright's fly to center
md doubling Fox at second base; and
fox did the very same thing when he
,ulled down Everleth's fly and doubled
Ware. There were other good plays dur ]
ng the first part of the game, but they |
radually grew fewer and farther be. !
ween The work OF Frost at second and l
Ray at first was more than anything else
esponsible for the thin mems victory, I
he former accepting IL chances without c
n error and figuring strongly at bat and 7
n bases. d. Frank Shea did the best
ll.round work for the heavies. lie got
our hits out of five times up, not count
" one in the first inning which was a
Judged foul by the umpire, and fielded "
is position with remarkable agility. The
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