The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-22
CUBAN PLAYERS
TOO FAST FOR
LOCALS
Beat Bennington 8 to 5 at Nor
gan Park
ERRORS WERE RESPONSIBLE
Wheeler Pitched Good Ball and Made
Remarkable Record at
the Bat

The Huckleberry aggregation went
up against the hardest proposition of
the season yesterday afternoon when
it tackled the All Cuban baseball
team at Morgan park. The men from
the Pearl Of the Antilles constitute
far and away the fastest bunch OF ball
players that ever kicked up the dust
OF a Bennington diamond and there
was surely some dust rising when the
Cubans were on the bases Benning.
ton lost the game by a score OF to
. but the locals played one OF the
poorest fielding games OF the year
Had Bennington given Wheeler the
kind OF support we have been accus-
toned to expect during the present
season the score would have been
much closer. II is not az al diMcu.t
to figure out that with the three err
rors in the third inning. when the
Cubans scored three times, eliminated
the home team would have had an
even chance to win the game
Wheeler pitched exceptionally good
ball. Some OF the hits made by the
/ Cubans were long hard drives but
/ less than half the runs scored by the
dusky players were earned Wheeler
/ likewise made the greatest batting re-
cord Tor q pitcher in the recent his
tory OF baseball in Bennington. He
went to the plate four times and on
! each occasion he batted out hard
single Each one OF the four hits
was clean and all but one were in
( the same direction through the cen
ter OF the diamond Prindle also
made a good showing at the bat. two
singles and three Dagger out OF FIVE
/ times up Prindle also gathered
In one ny bali in deep left field that.
rather surprised the Cubans
The Cubans made three hits in
tie opening inning a single. a two
Dagger and a home run but the home
run hitter was the only man to cross
the plate With two out Carolan for
Bennington tore off corkng two
sacker to left field but Finuegan was
an easy out pitcher to first.
\ base on balls, a sacrifice and an
error by Brill gave the Cubans a run
in the second. With two out Brill
for Bennington, hit safely TO center
but persisted at first when Burlington
sent a high fly 10 right field.
IN the third two of the Cubans hit
safely and Wheeler, Finnegan and
burlington all broke into the error
column and three of the islanders
tailed Wheeler opened for Benning-
ton with the first OF his four hits and
had an easy trip around the sacks
when Prindle gave the Cuban right
fielder an opportunity to try the run.
ming out under the trees Carolan's
second hit OF the game drove Prindle
home A double play retired the
side
One of the Cubans hit for two ba-
SEES In the fourth bur tarried on the
keystone sack and Brill for Benning.
ton reached first on a free ticket
A hit and a sacrifice put Cuban
on second in the fifth but fly balls to
McCrehan and Finnegan prevented
further progress toward the plate,
Wheeler opened the inning for Ben
nington with another bingle and a
passed ball. a hit and an error put
him over the plate.
4 free ticket a hit an error by De
laney and a sacrifice fly put two Gu
ban runners across the pan in the
sixth. Bennington had only three
batters az the plate
Only three Cuban batters faced
Wheeler In the seventh but Benning
ton got really busy Burlington. the
first batter hit into right field and by
good sprinting made two bases on the
swat. Wheeler cracked out hit nc
three. On Prindles hit to right
Wheeler scored Prindle was doub
led up at second and the side was re
tired on a fly TO LETT and a groundei
to Fnnogan.
In the eighth Valdez. the Cubar
center fielder. was given free tick
et He stole second and scored IRON
that bag while Connors and CarolaI
were disposlng of ground hit Ped
roso. the star of the Cuban pitchini
outfit went in for the islanders II
this inning and struck out the three
FIRST batters.
three.hagger and single score'
one for the Cubans in the ninth. 10
Bennington. Burlington was th'
fourth straight victim for Pitcher Pc
} droso. All Cuban pitchers locke,
alike to Wheeler, however, and he BIZ
, fed one out into center field. Prin
, die followed with another safe on
(. but pedroso was too much for Con
. nors and Carolan went out second t
, first The score.
5 cubans