The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-07-25

Bennington defeated North Adams
at Tudor Park yesterday afternoon
by a score of to L. After the rather
listless work OF Saturday afternoon
the fast, snappy play Of the home
team vas a revelation. Every man
on the team went into the game on
the jump and kept jumping until the
last man was out Only six batters
on both teams struck out leaving con-
siderable work for the fielders.
Mitchell, the Dartmouth pitcher
was pitted against big Chief" East
man and the college boy had much
the better Of the argument. He held
the Tunnel Diggers down to three
scattered singles and had King been
able to hang on to Kenny's long fly
I'm the seventh the game would have
been shut out. King had long
run TO reach the ball but fell and al
lowed # to get away. Carolans hit
scored Kenny.
Bennington touched lp Eastman,
the Connecticut Lacquer. for seven
hits, one OF them good for two bases.
big Chief" also gave two bases on
balls and In attempting to initiate
Case patten by returning the ball be
fore the batter was In position made
wild pitch that figured prominently
in the scoring of two runs for Ben
nngton.
burlington although hampered by
badly bruised leg, went into the
game like a bull terrier after cat.
He made two foul fly catches in that
same aggressive style which charac-
terized his work With the team last
season. Grape handled seven chan
ces at second base, some of them
hard hit and difficult balls. Finnegan
took seven out of his eight opportuni-
ties, one OF them n fast bounder close
to second base that was a wonder
Heath played a clean game at third
and some of the infeld hits that went
to him were difficult to field across
the diamond in time 10 catch the run.
nef.
RYAN led the batting with two hits
but the best clout OF the game was
Kings sacrifice Gy to center field as
It brought in the two runs IN the fifth
iuninr.
Only three North Adams batters
faced Mitchell In the opening inning
but Bennington put two men on bases
through nheld errors on the part OF
the Tunnel dlggers.
There was nothing doing by eth
or team in the second. In the third
Murphy. the now shortstop on the Wis
itlng team. hit q hot grounder through
Sullivan but advanced nofurther thar
first base For bennington both Ry
an and Grape singled to center fielC
with one out, but the next two batter'
put the ball up In the air.
In the fourth Vance. the first maj
up for North Adams, hit clean sin
gle to center. Keefe sacrificed him e
second but when he attempted e
make third on Carolan's grounder h,
was neatly pegged out. Finnegan e
Heath. For Bennington Sullivan
with one out. hit two-sacker TO cen
ter Geld. Flnnegau flied out to lef
field and Eastman then filled the has
os with two bases on balls. Ryai
was too anxious to make hit an'
fell victim to Eastman.
In the ffth Kenny got on 10
North Adams through Finnegan'
slow work with slow grounder bu
failed to advance beyond the frs
cushion For bennington Heath an,
prindlc singled to right Heat
went TO third ON a Wild pitch ant
prlndlc stole second Then KIM
lifted his long ly to center an,
Heath sprlnted for home. The bal
was returned to the plate and Catche
Kenny attempted to catch prindl'
who had made n break for third
Vance didn't hold the ball and Prir
die scored
IN the sixth Keoie HE safe an,
went to third when Grape failed Il
handle Burrington's throw. Tw
were out at the time and Finnegar
helded the next batter out at frs
Hits by Ryan and Flnnegan and
sacrifice by burlington scored Finn,
gan.
In the seventh a hit and an erro