The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-13
BOYS SO|LED NEW
PANTS BUT WON
GREAT GAME
Bennington Trimmed Pittsfield
at PittsfieId.
BATTLE WENT 10 INNINGS
Score S to 3-Haynes' Pitching and
Batting Won the Game for
Bennington
BATTLE WENT 10 INNINGS

Almost any fan will tell you that a
/ game of baseball is never ended until
the last man is out in the last inning.
! That is what the fan. and player for
that matter will tell you. but neither
always believe what they preach For
instance, at the game in Pittsfield on
Thursday afternoon when the score
stood Pittsfield and Bennington
in the ninth inning, Manager Higgins
began to pick up the bats, "Joe" Car
roll began to change his shoes and the
local people began to leave the grand
stand. Then things began to happen.
| Prindle put fast grounder out into
right field and King who had been
waiting on first while two men had
gone out broke away for third base
which he reached in safety to be fol-
lowed by Prindle to second. Then
Haynes, the University. of Vermont
pitcher batted out his first single
the others were two-baggers-and the
score was tied.
Manager Higgins took the bats out
of the bag. Carroll replaced the base
ball shoe he had taken of. the people
who had started for nome resumed
their seats and thereafter the Pitts
field diamond was the scene of four
more innings of hair-raising, nerve
racking baseball. There was nothing
doing in Pittsfelds half of the ninth.
but in the tenth Mark burlington. the
| first man up for Bennington biffed
long one into center field and before
the Pittsfeld occupants of the outer
gardens could relay the ball back into
the diamond Mark was on third base.
There were a number of the Benning-
tor fans an attendance who said that
the hit was good for a home run and
that Mark should have been coached
to keep on TO the plate. IL was a tan
talizing situation. a good base runner
on tnird and no one out, and the hopes
of the Bennington contingent ran
high Jack Ferry. however, put on a
little more speed, struck out the next
two batters and threw out the third
In Pittsfield's half of the inning Nc
Donald got hit and stole second but
HAYNES took care of the next two, one
by the strike-out route and the other
on an easy grounder and the curtain
rose on inning IL. Carroll was given
a base on balls but was doubled up on
Haynes grounder to short for the
third man out. For Pittsfield McHale
reached first on an error and was
sacrificed to second by Gardella but
made no further progress.
In the twelfth Bennington secured
two hits after two men were out and
Watson had just a ghost of chance
for a break to the plate from third
base, but didn't quite dare chance IT,
The grand slam came in the thir-
teenth. Waters, the first man up got
single between first and second and
was neatly sacrificed to second by
Carroll. Prindle's hit sent him to
third-and> the Williamstown boy at
once proceeded to occupy the second
bag himself. Ii was trying situa-
ton for a pitcher who had been up
against a hard hitting team for
twelve greuelling innings but Haynes
was equal to the emergency A sin
gle was all that was needed but he
responded with a two Dagger and
Bennington was two runs to the good.
Haynes had won his game for his
IVeAiii uOt OillN llio
but his batting drove in four of the
five runs. The ordeal was not over,
however, for in Pittsfelds half of the
inning waen n dropped fly by Bren-
nan and a hit had put a shire city
runner on second and third he struck
out two batters and the third went
out on 4 grounder to Carroll.
The game was far more spectacular
than the thinning contest played at
Tudor park with the Pittsfield team.
Haynes, during the early part of the
game did not have his usual control
though he had speed to burn. He i'm
proved in effectiveness as the game
progressed and during the extra four
innings was at his best. He must be
given the credit for not only pitching
a winning game but also for batting a
winning game. His stick was behind
every run but one made by Benning-
ton.
The team played a fast, hard game
The players down at the foot OF the
batting list, to be sure, were the ones
who did the work with the stick but
none of the Bennington people who
witnessed the game have word of
fault to find. The score: