The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-17
TIE GAME CALLED
At END OF nth
INNING
Big League Base Ball at Morgan
Park Saturday Morning.
JEFFS AND BENNINGTON 8 --3
Backed BY Excellent Fielding Nc CURE
Pitched Remarkable Gsme-Benn
inston Won Afternoon Game

The baseball fans of Bennington,
whether they stay at home or attend
the series of games to be played for
the National League pennant, will see
mo better exhibition of the national
game than that given at Morgan Park
Saturday forenoon. 1t has become
fixed In the minds Of fandom in Ben
nmgton that our best games OF the
season, no matter which team wins,
are played with the Jeffersonians of
Schenectady and Saturday mornings
contest was generally conceded to be
the star performance of ALL
The game went IL innings and then,
because another had been arranged
for the afternoon at the +. NJ T. A. b.
picnic was called with the score to
10. IL was baseball from the beginning
of the first to the end of the 18th in
ming, for of the nearly 80 batters who
faced the pitchers only seven struck
out and only five were passed-the
fielders had to do the rest.
The pitchers, our old southpaw
friends, Ketchum and Mcclure, not
only gave great exhibitions but they
appeared to work better the longer
they pitched and when the game was
called 1t was toss-up as to which
one had the best of II. Ketchum was
wild in the first innings and gave
three passes to first but during the
remainder of the game was as steady
as a clock. Mcclure had only one
strikeout to his credit but he held the
Jeffs down to five hits and only two
putouts were scored in the visitors
outfield.
While the fielding of both teams
was of the big league order II was the
way the runs came that made the
game interesting. Had the crowd been
composed half and half of Benning-
tonians and Schenectadyites every in
Idividual would have enjoyed the game
as much as his neighbor.
Bennington scored the first run Of
1.-THE game I'm the fourth inning when
Cathcart, who had banged out a nice
Itwo-bagger to right field went home
on Waters single. Waters went to
second on an error by shortstop and
a moment later scored on Bressett' S
single to center.
The Jeffs got one In the next inning
when McDermott sent a corkipg three
Dagger over Eddie Warrington 8 head
in right field and came home on Har.
vey's' long fly to left. The Science
tady boys went at II again in the neat
inning, punched single, steal and
a twosacker and tied the score.
In the eighth the crowd was ready
to admit that the Jig was up when two
errors and a sacrifice hit gave the
Jeffs the lead but the grandstand be-
came cheerful again when Cathcart's
timely hit sent Barksdale across the
plate. The Jeffs got a man on second
In the ninth but in the tenth and elev
enth only six men faced Mcclure.
In the 10th with only one out Banks
dale put out two-bagger to right ant
the prospects Of victory we're more
than promising. Ketchum, however
put on some extra steam and took the
! scalps off the next two batters.
In the 18th Cathcart, the first mar
up made his third hit for the game bu
he was doubled up at second and tn,
next two men went out, one on {
grounder to pitcher and the other t
right field. AS 1t was then afte
1890 and the teams were scheduled
to play again at o'clock the gam,
> was called. The score: