The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-05-23
BENNINGTON WON
BOTH OPENING
BALL GAMES
Pittsfield by 4 to 8 and vii
Jamestown II to |
CLOSE GAME AT TUDOR PARK
Weather Was Cloudy but Crowds Of
700 Were in Attendance on Both
Days

than 700 people Bennington opened
the baseball season at Tudor park
yesterday by defeating the fast Pitts
field aggregation to 3. The home
team should have won the game to
l as all the runs made by the Huckle-
berry Boys were earned while the two
TALES registered by Pittsfield In the
9Th, tying the score, were due primar-
lily to errors by Leonard and Waters.
Pittsfeld encountered hard prop
osition in Plank who was on .the
mound for Bennington. The big pit
cher struck out II of the batsmen
from the shire city On two occas-
ions two of the five hits made off his
delivery came in the same inning. In
the fourth inning he retired the side
on strikes.
On the other hand every time a
Bennington batter came to the plate
he either hit the ball. was given a
pass to first or was hit by the pitcher.
This fuslade of batting kept the Pitts
field fielders on the jump and after
the first inning they accepted every
thing that came along.
Pittsfeld scored a run In the open
ing inning. Jennette. the first man
up, hit to right field for a single, he
stole second and went to third on
Wheeler's Wild throw. Leonards
muff OF an assist from Plank gave him
a run. He would have scored, any
how, on Goden's single to right.
Jones opened the second for Ben
nington by walking TO first, Mills who
had started the game in the box for
Pittsfeld, retiring in favor of Crank
er. Criss neatly sacrificed Jones to
second. Waters received a swift one
on the hip and llmped to first. Wheel
er smashed hot single through short
stop and Jones scored. On the throw
in Waters went TO third and Wheeler
to second. On Plank's corking two
Dagger TO left Waters and Wheeler
scored Plank had to expire on sec
ond as the next two batters went out
on infeld hits to second and short
Pittsheld tied the score In the fifth
inning which. by the way provided
some rafting baseball. Sui ivan, the
first man up, hit safely TO short cen
ter. he stole second and wen. 20 third
when Robarge was given a lie on
Leonard's error. Cranker sent a rap
Id bounder TO Finnegcn and Sullivan
made break for the plate but was
out, Finnegan to Wheeler Jennette
hit for two bases and Robarge scored
Cranker going TO third. Kennedy, for
the first time In the game, hit q
short. low fly TO Waters. Umpire
Kennedy ruled that Waters took
the ball after Il had hit the ground
but Waters and many OF the specta
tors insist that the fly was cleanly
fie.ded. Waters threw the ball to sec
ond base with the expectation that
Finnegan would be covering the bag
"Finny" wasn't there however. and IN,
ball went out into center field while
Cranker crossed the plate and Jen
nette went to third. While playinl
of from third base Jennette drew ,
throw from Wheeler. The ball hi
the Pittsheld shortstops leg and roll
ed behind the base. Jennette starte,
for the plate but Jones picked up tn,
ball and threw him out. Planl
struck out the next batter.
The winning run for Bennington
was made by Prindle In the sixth. n,
was the first man up and he put
screamer out into center field. IL wa
good for two bases but Prindle threw
on the high geer and slid safely int
third base. blowing good sized hol,
in the rich black loan OF Tudor park
Jones second sacrifice, long ny q
Kennedy completed the score.
Pittsnold got a hit In the seventh
and base on balls In the eighth bu
this was all there was doing duriu
the remainder OF the game. Tn
score.