The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-24
BIGGEST BASEBALL
CROWD SAW HOME
TEAM WIN
Bennington Defeated All Gu
bans by 7 to 6 Score
VICTORY NEVER CERTAIN
Islanders In the Lead In First and
Seventh Innne--Game Won
in Eighth

Bennington defeated the All Cubans
of Havana at Morgan park Saturday
afternoon by score of z to 6. The
game was attended by the largest
crowd that has attended a baseball
game here during the present season.
The reputation made by the -Cubans
in the game played on Friday when
they beat the locals to proved to
be good drawing caro- ana well dem
onstrated that professional baseball
can easily be supported in Benning-
ton when it is possible to secure Wis
iting teams good enough to make the
exhibitions interesting.
Saturdays contest was a remark
able one in several respects. Both
pitchers were batted rather freely and
evenly. the hits being 10 and H. The
Cubans had one more error than Ben
nington and one more hit. Neither
pitcher walked or hit batter.
The finish OF the game was a spec
tacular windup. In their half of the
seventh inning the Cubans had bunch
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Melted two runs and put the island
ers one to the good in the score col
umn. When Bennington came to bat
Burns who had twice been whitfield by
the dusky boxman hit a hard single
to center field and a couple OF bad err
rors in the infeld put him over the
pan with the tying run. The Cubans
| .ere unable TO connect with the ball
in the eighth and the first two batters
for Bennington We're easy outs, Me
Crehan on fly to left field and on
grounder TO second base.
Bril- was the next hitter and but for
one OF the maple trees on the bank OF
the brook the game would have end
ed when he caught one OF Pereda's
outshoots on the end of the bat and
sent the ball on a line toward Gage
street The sphere, when 1t started.
had a tag attached labeled longest
hit ever made on the grounds" but
on its way 1t struck the tree squarely
about ~ feet from the ground and
bounded back almost to the edge of
the diamond. Brill, however made
two bases on the swat and a minute
later when Bennington located a clean
single in center field romped home
with what proved to be the winning
run of the game.
Burns pitched a remarkable game
He was pitted against by far the hard
est hitting team that Is likely to visit
this section for many a day, yet In
only two innings we're the Cubans
able to bunch hits to any extent. In
the fifth they gathered a pair of
singles but would have scored but
once but for an error in right field.
The seventh was the only inning in
which he was batted to any extent
J Hernandez. the sprightly second
! baseman, opened the game for the
islanders by smashing a twobagger
TO second and was scored by a single
TO center. For Bennington Prindle
reached first on wild throw by the
big Cuban catcher but while attempt
ing to 90 to third was thrown out at
the dizzy corner Carolan hit safely
to left field and stole second. Finne-
gan failed TO connect and the side
was retired.
The Cubans secured a hit In the
second but Burns whitfield two batters
and Brill threw out another at first
base. For Bennington, Delaney, with
one out reached first on wild throw
from short and scored on Burning.
tons three Dagger to right field.
In the third the Cubans secured one
hit and an error by Connors advanced
the runner to second Finnegan, how
ever disposed OF the third batter
Bennington made It's half of this per
Tod lively one. Prindle, the first
hitter, lifted the ball out into the
right garden for three bases. Con.
nors hit safely TO center and stole
second. Carolan struck out. Finne.
gan hit to center and Prindle scored.
On an attempt TO catch Finnegan at
second Catcher Molina threw Wild and
Connors scored McCrehan put the
ball out under the canvass and made
the circuit for the fourth run. De
laney flied out to left field and Brill
closed the inning by striking out
Not n runner reached first base In
the fourth but In the fifth two hits, u
steal and an error gave the Cubans
two runs. Carolan the only Benning.
ton batter to reach first was thrown
out at second
In the sixth an error by Finnegan
and hit gave the islanders a tally.
but bennington failed to put a man
on first base
In the seventh the Cubans got to-
Burns for their collection OF three hits
and sacrifice, scored two runs and
for the second time during the game
lead In the scoring. Bennington tied
up the score In the same inningon two
inneld errors and Burns hit and won
out Z to In the eighth ON Brill's
long hit and Burringtons single In
the ninth the first Cuban batter hit
safely and stole second
Two fly balls disposed OF
the next two and when the third
drove a long fly into right field there
were good indications that the game
would 20 another inning but by a
long run Delaney got under the sky
rcraper and rung down the curtain
| The score.
Bennington
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prindle. II l | l o
| Connors. % 4 l l 2 2
Il Carolan. 10 0 ii l
Finnegan,, ss l l 3
MOCrehan. Ct 4 | 0
Delaney, n 4 0 /
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