The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-27
TWELVE SINGLES
IN SEVEN
INNINGS
Bennington Beat pittsfieId by
Consistent Batting
RAIN SHORTENED GAME
First Contest in Which Locals Have
Been Able to Find Pitcher
Harrington

Harrington, the little left.handed
boxman of the Shire City baseball
team, who has proved tough pro.
position for the Huckleberry outfit
this year failed to prescribe the right
kind of medicine at Morgan park yes.
terday afternoon and as a result Ben
nington beat Manager Garry's men
4 to |. The game went only seven
innings, being called on account of
ram, but II was crowded full of hard
clean hitting, sharp fielding and
lively work on the bases There
were but two errors and both were
made by members of the Pittsfeld
team.
Bennington ordinarily would have
scored a larger number OF runs on u
singles The hits were well punched
in several instances but the Berk
shire infelders put up a strong de.
fence They spoiled two good open.
ings with fast double plays and the
two slips did not figure largely in the
scoring
Two attempts to work the squeeze
play were somewhat novel features
OF the game, one by each team. Both
were failures. however the home
team falling down because one of the
players involved failed to carry out
ms part of the program On the
other hand PittsheIds try at the
squeeze was neatly nipped by De.
laney. The foxy backstop, instead of
pegging the ball to second base.
drove IL to Wheeler, and DAILY. the lit
tie third baseman from the big town
OF Berkshire county. who was sup
posed to come home with the run.
was caught between the plate and
third base and easily run down.
The only shire city batter who ap.
peared to be able to solve Wheelers
curves was Daily The first two times
at bat he hit the first ball pitched for
a clean single. On his first hit he
stole second and on Campbells single
scored Pittsfields only run.
Connors lead for Bennington with
the stick, making three singles and a
sacrifice out OF four times at bat.
In Bennington S half of the opening
inning Connors and Finnegan both
hit safely but Connors was forced at
second and Finnegan was left at first.
/ In the second Wheeler whitfield two
/ Pittsheld batters and the other flied
out TO McCrehan For Bennington.
/ Brill was passed and stole second
but failed to advance
In the third DAILY, the first Pitts
field batter up. hit safely but was
| thrown out at second by Delaney
/ Garry was hit by pitcher but failed
/ TO advance as the next hitter flied out
10 Burns. Prindle opened for Ben.
nington with a good drive TO center.
/ he was sacrificed TO second by Con.
/ nors and scored on Caroans smash
down the third base line. Carolan
stole second and scored on Finne-
gan's hit A fast double retired Fin.
negan and McCrehan.
Pittsheld made two hits in the
/ fourth but neither runner advanced
beyond second base. Delaney open
ed for Bennington with a hit TO left
| field and when Quinn. the Pittsfeld
( first baseman. muffed Herrington's
throw of Brill's grounder he went to
second. Burns hit through the dia.
mond scored Delaney and put Brill
on third. On the squeeze play that
failed to work Brill was out at the
plate and Wheeler retired the side
by striking out.
II was in the fifth that DAILY who
reached first on pass and was ad.
vanced to third base by Garrys hit
and Campbell's ielder's choice. tried
to pull OF the squeeze play that
was blocked by Delaney's quick
throw In Benningtons half OF the
inning Connors hit safely but was
thrown out going to second. Carolan
flied out to left and Finnegan struck
OUT.
There were only three Pittsheld
batters up in the sixth. For Benning-
ton, Delaney made his second hit Of
the game but sharp double play
blocked progress toward the plate
In the seventh the only pitts6eld
runner to reach first was Kenny who
made the trip on free ticket. Ben.
nington scored one run on an error
by Daily and three singles. The
larger portion of this inning was
played In the rain and the game was
called by Umpire Flaherty. The
score.