The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-06-16
BATTEO Wet OR \
OFF No. ADAMS
PITCHER
Bennington Hit Daley For Three
Earned Runs
CLOSE SCORE OF 8 TO 2
Fisher Not in Usual Form But He
Kept Hits Well
Scattered

Bennington won 8 to 2 game from
North Adams at Morgan park yester-
day afternoon Bennington earned
all of the three runs and the game
was marked in spots by some brilliant
plays. There were two finely execut-
ed double plays, one by Fisher and
Sullivan in the third and the other
by Ryan and Crisis in the fourth. Ry-
an gave an exhibition Of speed on
bases in the third inning when he
made the hot corner on a long drive
to right field. The hitters for the
home team put in the safe ones at
the proper time, three coming in the
second and two in the third inning,
and the two errors credited to the
visitors did not figure at all in the
scoring.
On the other hand misplays by the
home team were largely responsible
for the two runs scored by North Adj
ans A pass ball by Leonard gave
BILLY King an opportunity to romp
home with the visitors first run in
the opening inning. In the ninth
| Mahoney got on through an mex
! cusable error by Criss and scored on
e. Daley's long three-bagger to left
field. There were two out at the
time and King the last man up could
not produce the necessary hit to tie
| the score.
There was a particularly close de-
cision in sixth inning which, as Il
turned out, would have given North
Adams the game. First Baseman
/ Carolan the first man up hit into left
field for two bases. An error by
Criss allowed Donovan to reach first
base and advanced Carolan to third.
Donovan took second but the next
two batters, were disposed of by Fish
er, one on a grounder fielded to first
and the other by the strike-out route.
Taylor the next man, hit a grounder
to Finnegan and. as there were two
men out, both CarOlan and Donovan
started for the plate. Finnegan did
not field the grounder clearly but
finally shot the ball to first. Umpire
Kennedy called Taylor out. The de-
cision was disappointing TO the mem
bers of the North Adams team and
many Of the spectators after the game
expressed the opinion that the run
ner was safe. There was no kick
ing, however, even on the part o.
the North Adams players. They al
concede that Kennedy Is as square {
man as ever held an Indicator. I
was hard to lose such an opportunit,
/. but they realized that an umpire Il
as human as the rest OF us and tina
his decisions must at times 20 seem
ingly wrong. On the other hant
there were spectators present whit
were just as confident that the bal
beat the runner to first.
Fisher. who was in the box for Ben
nington, did not pitch the brand o
ball he served out on his two prev
GUS occasions. lie lacked not onl
speed but his curves were not S
sharp and distinct The big fellov
I, admitted while during the game tina
he was not pitching up to his stanC
, ard
e Bennington scored two runs in IN
second inning on hit and steal b
Z Crisis, singles by Finnegan and Sull
l. van and a sacrifice fly to left field b
? Fisher. Ryan's three Dagger an
> Prindle's single in the third. aftt
two were out. were responsible e
the last and winning run. Criss VIC
& both. packages OF coffee, 10 pound
L for the first stolen base and 10 pounC
u for the first run, both made In Il
o opening inning. The score