The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-01
SHIRE CITY COLTS
DEFEATED HOME
TEAM TUESDAY
Darkness at End Of Game Re-
sp0nsible for Defeat.
7 TO 6 WAS THE SCORE
Holy Cross Players, D. Mahoney and
Jones on Pttsfield Nine-Errors
by Both Teams.

The uncertainty of baseball was
again demonstrated at Pittsfield yes
terday afternoon when the Benning
ton team, after scoring six runs in
the first four innings and shutting
out the shire city aggregation in the
meantime, finally lost the game tc
6. Bennington clearly outplayed the
Colts and the winning run was made
after the sun had disappeared and dhe
| gathering darkness made ii almost
impossible for burlington to see the
ball. He was hit once during the
| final inning, dropped a third strike
and overthrow third base permitting
Mcdonald to cross the plate with the
run that gave Pittsfield the game
With the opening the ninth the score
was tied at 6 and and there would
not have been light enough to have
played another inning.
| Armet started the game for Pitts
| field, but was taken out of the box
during the third inning in which Ben
nington hit him for two three base
hits and single, Ryan finished the
game. He did not allow Bennington
to score and kept the hits down to
| four scattered singles.
Corey went into the box at the
opening of tife game for Bennington
and during four innings pitched mag
nificent ball He was hit for but two
singles and gave but one free pass to
first base In the fifth, however, he
was pounded for four hits. one good
for two bases, and gave a free pass
TO first. burlington had n passed
ball and Cherry and the new short
stop. Busch, allowed an infield fly to
drop between them. The result was
five runs. Haynes finished the game.
He was nit for five singles and
walked man. Two of these hits
and the free pass came in the eighth
inning filling the bases with but one
out. The university of Vermont boy,
however, frightened up" and struck
out the next two batters. He had
already struck out one batter, making
three for the inning.
In the first inning after nit by
Hickey, two bases on balls and a
passed ball had filled the bases Car
roll drove hot liner at "Cy' Ferry.
The ball not only went through the
big Businessman, but 1t also went by
Patsey Keefe in right field and
Hickey, burlington and Cherry
scored
In the third an error by Gardella,
hit by King and an error by Pitts
fields new second baseman, Jones
sent Carroll across the plate. King
was thrown out at third base.
Corey. who had already made
single, opened the fourth inning with
a three base hit. burlington singh
ed and Corey scored Harry Watson
put the ball out for another three
sacker and burlington scored. Armet
was then-taken out of the box, but al
though his successor, Ran, gave two
bases on balls, King was the third
out on a pop fly to the catcher.
Bennington had chance to score
in the fifth when Prindle on hit, a
stolen base and Gardella's error
reached third with Hickey on second
and only one out, but Ryan was too
much for the next two batters who
whitfield out Prindle reached second
again in the seventh on a hit and a
steal, but was forced out at third
base. With two men on and only one
out the two following batters were
of on infield grounders.
Hickey made a hit in the ninth
and "Cy' Ferry's error allowed Bur
rington to reach first and put "Hick
ON second. Watson, however, flew
out to center field, Prindle to left |
field and Haynes was Third out on a
grounder.
Pittsfield's runs were made as fol
lows: Five on the batting rally in
the fifth assisted by passed ball and
a misjudged pop fly to the inheld.
In the seventh on two singles and a
sacrifice hit In the ninth on a hit, a
stolen base and two errors. The |
score: