The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-06-11
BENNINGTON LOST
1913 GAME TO
PITTSF|ELD
GanIey Badly Pounded BY Shire
City Batters
COSTLY BASES ON BALLS
Hits Made by Home Team When
Most Needed-WheeIer Hurt
Again

The Bennington baseball team went
to Pittsfeld yesterday and was beat
en- by the Shire City outfit 10 to 3.
Thursday evening when making ar
rangements for the trip Manager Hig-
gins said Bennington has beaten
Pittsfield three times and is about due
for a trimming Bennington surely
got the trimming"
Ganley had an off day The little
spitball artist passed the first man up
in five innings and four of these bats
men scored He was also touched up
for ~ hits had wild pitch at a bad
stage of the game and two errors by
Murtha and one by Ryan all helped
to assist Manager Doherty's men in
their continuous circuit Of the bases.
In every inning but the last the first
Pittsheld batter up reached the init
ial sack in some manner and he near
ly always scored with another runner
behind him. Pittsfield not only hit
the ball hard and continuously but
Kennedy and Scanlon had two sacri-
fee hits each to their credit Both
of Kennedys hunts helped man
around but Scanlon's were thrown
away. In the seventh after two men
were out Pittsiield fellupon Ganley for
four hits in a row scoring three runs.
Bennington made a good start in
the second inning and for a brief per-
iod It looked as though the team we're
going to play its usual brand OF ball
at the shire city. Prindle who reach
ed first on free pass and Criss who
was given a'life through a muff by
Burns were both scored by Murtagh's
two-bagger to right. Wheeler hit
safely TO left but was thrown out at
second by Kennedy, while attempting
10 stretch the hit into a two sacker
Flnnegan made a single in the third
but was left at first. In the fourth
Burns struck out all three batters. In
the fifth Wheeler got on" through an
error in right field but advanced no
further than first base In the sixth
Prindle hit to left field. Wild pitch
advanced him to second and he scor-
ed on Criss hit TO right field. In the
seventh Murtagh, the first man up,
was safe through an error at first but
was thrown out trying to steal. With
two down Heath was given a base on
balls but was left at first In the
ninth Sullivan hit to center for two
bases. Burns wild throw put him on
third. Leonard's bunt was fielded to
first base in time to catch the batter
and returned to the plate with suffic-
tent speed TO cut of Sullivan.
The Pittsheld batters kept the Ben.
nington inhelders on the jump. The
outfelders had only three chances
and accepted them all. Heath. the
new man at third. nad FIVE opportun-
tiles and played errorless ball. One
OF his stops Of hot grounder close
TO the base line was roundly ap-
plauded. He also caught one badly
thrown ball from across the diamond
In spectacular style.
Sullivan handled his II chances at
first without an error. Wheeler up
to the time he was injured by being
hit on the knee with n pitched ball,
caught a good game. His wild throw
was probably due to the fact that the
ball was wet Finnegan had a wild
throw. something unusual for him, In
the eighth but the batter went only
as far as second base. The score;