The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-06
HoosIck FALLS STYLE
Sunday Game and Result Character
istic of that Town

Muckerism won the second game
for Hoosick Falls. 1t is more than
probable that the New Workers. could
have taken the game in a sportsman
like and gentlemanly manner and the
tactics adopted by the team and its
hackers are all the more to be re-
GREETED for this reason. Beginning
with the last half of the sixth inning
with the score to | in favor OF Ben
nington there happened one Of those
unexplainable changes that occur so
frequently in baseball. Hoosick
had up to this point secured but a
lone single off Corey but here began
to bunch hits. Three singles netted
two runs and the lead of the Benning-
ton team was cut down in half Like
a flash of powder the New Workers,
both players and fans, awoke to the
fact that they had a cnance to pull
the game out of the fire. The play
ers jumped into the same with new
enthusiasm and y.gor and the rooters
were rallied on the side lines to
rattle the Bennington battery. In the
seventh another hit and two bad
throws gave Hoosick another tally
and the score was three to four.
There was a setback for Hoosick
in the eighth when Watson, who
made his third hit of the game scored
on Williams single to right field, but
Hoosick came back with two more
hits, which added to a base on balls
tied the score. With two men out
Fish was sent in to bat for Cottrell
and sent a grounder to Corey who
fielded him out to first and retired
the side but Umpire O'Brien was SO
thoroughly unnerved by the abuse of
the Hoosick players and spectators
that he did not dare to declare the
runner out for fear of being mobbed.
Fish was given the base and in the
meantime Mack ran I'm from third
base with the winning score. The
decision was decidedly rank, but
there wasn't a spectator from Ben
nington who, would admit that
OBriep could have done otherwise
Had he declared Fish out, as he real
ly was, .0'Brien would have undoubt-
eddy been mauled within an inch of
ais life. He had already been abused
and threatened to such an extent
that his nerve was gone and after
the game he remarked that he would
not again go through the. experience
for any amount of money
When Fish hit the grounder to
Corey Mack started from third base
toward the plate but when he saw
the play he stopped about half way
supposing that the inning was ended
| rs there were already two men out.
This is his first season in Hoosick
| and he is probably not posted on the
game as It is played there, but he
was at once coached into action from
the sideline and made break for
the plate, In the mean time tne bull.
doing tactics with Umpire O'Brien
had been successful and Fish had
| been given the base he never earned
Harry ssrutsvn mad started 80 ..s.... a
| the ball to the umpire when Mack
resumed his run for the plate, but re-
covered and threw the ball to Ensign
| almost in time to catcn the runner.
At the close of the game Manager
Higgins announced that he would not
submit his team further treatment OF
the kind meted out to it in Hoosick
Falls and cancelled the other games
scheduled for August In this he will
have the support of the Bennington
sportsmen, many of whom nave all
along questioned the advisability OF
the series arranged this season. The
score OF the game follows:-