The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-06-10
TUNNEL D|GGERS'
OUTCLASSEO BY
BENNINGTON
High SaIaried Ball Team is
Badly Trimmed
GREAT GAME BY HOME NINE
Drove One Pitcher Out Of the Box and
Badly Damaged the Reputation
of Another
GREAT GAME BY HOME NINE

Bennington's baseball team had its
'tryout" Wednesday afternoon and 1t
proved decidedly satisfactory to the
management and the local fans VINO
attended the game in goodly numbers
for a mid-week date. The nine was
pitted against the $1,000 aggregation
which has been collected in the Tun-
mel City to win the Championship
of Berkshire county, but when Ben
nington got through with 1t Manager
Flagherty wouldn't have been able to
hook a game with the Guideboard
stars unless he gave solemn
promise to strengthen his team.
Realizing that they were to play
against team with something OF
reputation the Bennington boys went
into the game with a determination
to make the best possible showing.
Every man was keyed up to high
and the result was surprisingly salts
factory. The Massachusetts bunch
apparently came to Bennington with
the impression that it had "cinch
and before it woke up TO the fact
that it was the smaller half of ball
game it was down and out.
Corey held North Adams down to
six hits. One of them was four
sacker, one of the longest wallops
ever seen on the grounds and made in
the third inning by Pacquet Anoth-
er was for three-sacks, made by Corn
wall in the fifth. Both of the long
hits brought in run and two out OF
three men passed to first scored.
North Adams was particularly FORUM
ate in punching the hits and free
passes. Had the safe ones been at
all scattered the Tunnel Diggers
would have had but small portion
of reputation to take home with
them, and they are not likely to go
up against another pitcher during the
season who will let them down so
hard. Corey was steady and conf
dent from the start. He fielded his
position perfectly and whenever
Tunnel Digger reached first base the
/ fact didn't seem to worry him at all.
For North Adams two hits and a
stolen base by Genest in the first in
ming scored the opening run.
In Bennington's half the tallies
were made one and one by Prindle's
smashing three-bagger and Watsons
long sacrifice fly.
In the second inning North Adams
used only three batters, but Benning-
ton got extremely busy. With one
man out Cornwall, the man who held
Hoosick Falls to a 5-4 score in-11 in
nings. began to go to the bad. He
gave two bases on balls and threw
wild on O'Meara's sacrifice filling the
bases. Corey put out single and
Catcher Deorhn tried his hand at
Withdrawing. Wadsworth Watson
singled, Pitcher Cornwall added a
wild throw and wild pitch and the
combined result of the mixup was
five runs for Bennington. In the
midst of the holocaust Cornwall threw
up de sponge and went out into the
center garden, Devine taking his place
in the box. te ~
A base on balls, an error and three
hits gave Bennington four more runs
in the fourth, making a total of ten.
Pdcquets homer and a base on
balls gave North Adams two in the
third inning. Cornwall's three-sacker
and a single netted one in the fifth
The visitors only unearned run came
in the ninth when bad-bounder to
Bohanski, a base on balls and a steal
! allowed Hogan to make the final tally
The score.