The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-18
Goddard Defeated Barre In
dependents, 2 to |
A Good Crowd Attended the Opening
Game at the Berlin Street Grounds
Saturday and Saw Some Good
Bail Playing.

In le-inning game, 10 victory,
Goddard seminary defeated The Barre
Independents at the Berlin street
grounds Saturday afternoon. It was a
dazzling send on for the opening Of the
baseball season in Barre and gave the
brightest prospects for some good ball
for the lovers Of the game to enjoy this
summer. The Barre team was organized
this spring under the leadership Of Paul
Scampini the well known pitcher, with
the pick Of the best local players for its
iembers. and they certainly made a
most oreditable showing for their first
game. This was also the initial game
for the Goddard team, and is work in
scoring the FIRST victory was most ausp-
cious al successful SESSION for the team.
70 start the ball rolling and get the
crowd interested, the two teams headed
by the Barre Citizens band formed at
Depot square and marched 60 the Berlin
street grounds, where the game was
PLAYED before a crowd of nearly 400
peopla
Barre scored what proved TO Be their
only run, IN the third inning, and the
score remained / TO 0 III their favor up
to the beginning Of the ninth inning.
Tho Barre team had held IL opponents
down so long and had crawled out Of 90
many tight places up to that time. that
It was generally expected that the game
would be theirs.
But II is the unexpected that always
happens, and it happened IN the first half
81 the ninth, when. with Goddard 1t thr
bat and two men out Wishart cracked
out a two base hit into center field
which scored Cosby from second and tied
up the game Cosby had paved the way
for this SCORE hy getting single and
stealing second just before Wishart sent
the bah sailing over the center tielder's
head. The hit was easily good for two
sacks. but he made three out OF II a.
wright threw the bail TO second base
and Nishart beat IL to third before the
ball could be 6eided again Another hit
would have meant the victory IN nine
innings, bat Smith. who Was next up
fell victim to Seainpinih skin and
struck out making the third down.
This put new interest into the game
and for two more innings both eides were
shut out from scoring By git-edged play.
ing, both in the box AMI IN the 6eld. IN
The FIRST half Of the rwelfth, however
the Barre infeld lost the game on two
errors, an made after two Goddard men
were ont and The bases empty. Priest
was famed ard Tinkham went out on
an assist BY Duncan Scott was the
third man up and he raped an easy
groHnder 10 Reid who threw little vide
70 lTst. Wright get the ball IN his bands
but dropped Il when the runner slid into
him Scott then stole second, while
White was at bat. Waite knocked
groundeg n Heaeie who threw Wild TO
first, and the ball went into tho crowd,
allowing Scott e score the winning run.
White attempted TO rake third before
the ball was recovered. but was thrown
out, ending this half OF the inning.
Barre was unable 70 connect safely
with The ball in IT'S half. and the first
three men Zip went out ia order.
The work Of the batteries on both
teams was a feature Of the game Smith. |
the Goddard pitcher, struck out l6 men
ard had the opposing batsmen entirsly
Under his control He was ably support |
ed BY Wishart behind the plate. For
Barre, 6campini made record Of Ig |
strikeorits and allowed but five hits. to |
four made on Smith. Davidson was be-
hind the bat and caught his ususl good
game.
The tabulated seore-