The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-07-15
MERRY-GO-ROUND
IN NINTH INNING
At RUTLAND
Bennington Won From DOnO-
vans Men IS to 6
GAME FULL OF MISPLAYs
Marble City Aggregation Had IA Err
rors and Bennington 6, Its High
Record for the Season

Record for the Season
The Bennington baseball team
went to Rutland yesterday and trim
med up the Marble City aggregation
to the tune of Is to six. The game
was rather ragged. Rutland made IA
errors and Bennington 6. The latter
figure is the largest total of misplays
recorded against the home team since
the season opened.
There was a good crowd in atten-
dance and when Rutland tied the
score in the fifth inning and went to
the front in the sixth the Rutland
rooters INDUCED in considerable en-
thusiasm.
Following is the description and
score published in the Rutland Her
aid:
Heath opened the game being safe
on fly to short center, and Bur
rington took his base on a dead ball.
Ryan was hit with the ball and this
filed the bases with nobody out
Prindle sent the ball down by second
base and while it was being fielded
home, Heath and burlington scored
Eagan then gobbed up a couple Of
flies and Prindle was forced out by
Kings grounder driven to Barrett.
In the second inning Joe
Carroll walked Alberti struck out
Heath's little grounder to Wilcox was
slowly felded and the throw bounded
off Cox's mitt. A little by-play be-
tween first and second and Heath
was safe on the bag No. 2. Carroll
ran in on Hayden's nun Burlington
hit left-wards Nobody was there
and before the ball was returned to
the diamond Heath had scored and
burlington was on third. Mulcahy
, tagged BURY" with the ball while
the runner was asleep. Ryan singled
and Prlndle grounded out to Wilcox.
The feature OF the second half was
Pfindle's running catch Of McAllis-
ter's fly into the left garden Rut-
land failed to score.
Finnegan was first man up In the
third and he grounded out to Barrett
and Sullivan struck out King got
first on slow grounder- CAROLS
/ fly to an open space in left scored
King Albert struck out. King
caught Cox's fly after long run, and
BURY" negotiated Eagan's perpen-
dicular foul Irving tlied out to Car
roll
In the fourth Heath was safe on
lrving's error. burlington sacrificed
Ryan was safe on grounder to Irv'
ing. which was slowly fielded. Eagan
was there again when Prindle's fly
came along. Hayden dropped Finne-
gan's third strike but tagged the
runner out.
Hayden died out to Sullivan and
Butler grounded out TO Albert. Null
cahy walked. BURY" threw badly tC
second, and Carroll threw the ball
away over third, Mulcahy scoring
Barrett struck out.
Three Bennington men went tc
bat in the fifth In Rutland's halt
things got started and the crowd
! developed unmistakable symptoms OF
excitement In the midst of II all
Bosk replaced Albert in the box
Wilcox ran all the way home on a fly
that stuck in the earth out some
where in the distant left garden Nc
Allister's fly to left was too low
| for fielding Cox struck out. Eagan
grounded out to Finnegan but scored
McAllister. Irving changed his bat
/ for the third strike and sent the ball
far enough into left field to net him
three bases. Hayden's easy ground
er let Irving In. Butler grounded out
to Finnegan.
With the score even, Rutland
loosened up for another tally. Bar
rett scored on Sullivan's wild throw
to third Neither side scored in the
seventh. Bennington scored twice IN
the next. King drove fly out be
yond Eagan and got third. Carol
struck out. Bosk grounded to Bar
rett who fumhed the ball and Bosl
took second on Barretts wild throw
to first. King scored. Heath wal
safe on a grounder TO Mulcahy anC
Bosk scored. BURY" grounded e
Wilcox who threw TO second, forcinl
Heath. Ryan got a dead ball ant
Prindle fled out to McAllister
Rutland failed to score in this or thu
ninth inning. seven men coming q
bat In the two innings.
The first half OF the ninth was In
describable. II was a medley OF Ell
rors, poor fielding and rank throw
ing The bases were filled up a
once and kept loaded all the time
Everybody had a boot at Il.
The score:-