The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-02
BEAT P|TTSF|tLD IN
ELEvEN-|NN|NG
BALL GAME
Finest Contest in This or Any
Other Season.
"Ar HAINES' GREAT RECORD
Holds Hardest Hitting Aggregation in
This Vicinity Down to Three Safe
Bineles

Better ball games are not played on
the big league diamonds than the H.
inning contest with Pittsield on the
lnew field. In the opinion of many of
the spectators the game was not only
the most interesting of the present
season but of all previous seasons.
With the score tied by Pittsfield in the
sixth it required nearly five more
complete innings to decide the battle
and when the winning run was scored
two men were out.
Haynes, the University of Vermont
pitcher. was on the mound for the
home team for the second time
against Pittsfield and obtained salts
faction for the defeat at the shire city
few weeks ago. He not only &C
complished the remarkable perfor
nance OF holding the heaviest hitting
team in this section down to three
hits but showed remarkable judgment
In the eighth inning with man on
first he deliberately passed "Cy' Ferry
! in order to avoid the chance of long
hit by the big fellow whose two sacker
into left field had been responsible for
the only run scored by the Massachu
sets team.
Armett pitched for Pittsfield and in
only two innings of the long game
did the Huckleberry boys connect with
his delivery in a dangerous manner,
the tnird and the 11th
Prindle's stick work was responsib-
Ia for both r,tuc conrad nv DanntnU.
ton. His timely single to right field
in the third scored Parmenter who
had reached first base on a free pass.
In the 18th with one man out he sent
a long fly to right field and by close
shave made third on the ait. Watson
the next man up went out on fly to
short and Cherry was given his base.
1t was a man on first and a man on
third with two men out and when
King met the emergency with siE-
gle to short left field the game vas
won.
Bennington lost a chance to score
in the third inning before Prindle
made the necessary hit. With Par
menter on third Haynes was thrown
out going down to second without an
attempt being made to take advantage
of the play. Pittsfield worked the
same trick twice during the game in
Pittsfield ard the repetition of it
made some of the fans grumble.
A dropped third strike was respon-
sible for Pittsfield's lonely tally. Mr..
Donald who should have been the
third man out in the sixth, was by the
error given a life and when "Cy''
banged the ball about % yards over
Prindle's head Mac had an easy jour
ney over the other two bases to the
plate.
"Cy's" two sacker was the last hit
made by either team until the tenth
inning when Patsey Keefe, the first
man up put two-bagger over Kings
head into right field Keefe tried to
stretch the hit out for another sack
and in doing so lost Pittsfield a-chance
to win the game. The Williamstown
boy went out at third over the King
Carl-Cherry route. Had he remained
at second he could have scored the
winning run for the next man up, Ma
honey, put a grounder through short
stop.
There were an unusually large num-
Der of close decisions during the
game. On Prindle's three base hit the
ball was fielded to Gardella and the
little Italian danced in rage when the
umpire said the runner was safe. The
Jump was only few feet away when
the play was attempted and specta-
tors along the side line declare that
Cable was on the bag when he was
tagged with the ball.
While the game was marked by fast
and sharp fielding the play that top
ped all others was foul fly catch by
Gardella The little third baseman
tripped on the wire along the sideline
in catching the ball and was stood ON
his head on the other side but he did
not let go of the sphere. The score.
Pittsheld
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