The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-06-25
BASE BALL NOTES
Items of Interest to Local and Other
Fans

Bennington's percentage of games
won this year is 1893 which is much
higher than the leaders in the Nation
al and American leagues.
Brown, Williams student, who
played third base on the local team
until last Sunday, has gone to his
home in Kentucky for the summer
II tomorrow is as warm as today the
players will have no trouble in warm
ing w.. Therell be no excuse for bad
playing Oh account of cool weather.
Andle Mcconnell, the former Pow
nal boy, now with the Boston Ameri-
cans, is batting better than ever be-
fore since joining the club after his
/ recent injury.
North Adams defeated Pittsfield
Wednesday by score of 9 to f. W'ads-
worth who played with tne local team
this season until he failed to show up
at last Sundays same, played second
base.
Chic Evans who occasionally twirls
| for HoOsicA Falls went to pieces in
| the ninth inning of the Hartford-Holy-
oke game Monday. He gave five runs
and lost the game to Z. Chic" was
touched up for IA hits.
Tomorrow's game will be with the
Pittsburg Giants one of the fastest
colored teams in the country. The To-
cal fans think Manager Higgins nine
can't trim the professionals. Perhaps
not, but wait and see.
Templeton richly deserved the cap
tain of the Williams team for next
year, still many people believe that he
would pitch better ball another season
if he was not burdened with the res
possibilities of leadership.
The North Adams Herald says: Mar
Gus burlington whose home is in Pow
nal, has been signed to do tne back
stop work for the Burlington team in
the college league. burlington caught
for the Williamstown high four years.
Manager Higgins is in North Adams
today to secure two men to play in
place of Wadsworth and Brown. He
stated this morning that he had num-
Der of good men in view but desired to
see them personally before hiring
them.
The thirty foot addition to the grand
stand did not afford seating capacity
for the large crowd last Saturday. II
seemed as if similar addition on the
west end would pay for itself in a
snort time and give more comfort to
the fans"
The next two games in the Hoosick
falls-Bennlngton series will be played
on july and 4. The last contests
VIII take place on August and s. Be-
fore the next game Manager Higgins
expects to have a team on the dia-
mond superior to last Saturdays win.
hers, and hopes to cop all tne re-
naming games of the series.
The Hoosick Falls team will plav
tne Tunnel Diggers at North Adams.
saturday afternoon. On the follow.
| ing day one of the fastest colored
teams in the country, the "Pittsburg
| Giants. will try conclusions with Hoo.
sick Falls. AS this team has no su.
perior, even in the big white leagues
a game of ball can be looked for that
will be fast and furious.
Kennedy and Genest, it is said are
the only members of the North Adams
team who have emerged safely from
the pile OF debris that marks what was
until recently the abiding place of the
Midgets.' The managerial cyclone
which swept over Zylonite park made
an almost CLEAN sweep, and seems to
nave struck Pittsfield, too, Noonan.
oHearn, Lynch and Novack having
rendered their designations in a bunch.
-Hoosick Falls Democrat.
Billy" Howells who played center
neid two seasons with the local team
VIII leave North Adams tomorrow for
Cooperstown, N. Y, where he will
captain and manage the baseball team
Ior the season. Last year he can.
famed and managed the Richefieid
springs team which had a most suc.
CONTINUED on fourth naooNL4s