The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-05
BEAT WHITEHALL
BY 8 TO 4 IN Ten
INNING GAME
PrindIe Batted In Two Runs To
Tie In Ninth.
TWO OUT AT The TIME
Similar Crisis In the Tenth When Nc
Crehsn Hit Through the
lnfied

Bennington defeated Whitehall at
Morgan park yesterday afternoon
TO in ten-inning game. The Huck-
leberry outfit tackled the proposition
under the impression that it had
some easy picking on hand and as a
result of this over confidence narrow.
ly escaped a trimming.
There was nothing bashful about
the canal boatmen They came on
the diamond fully convinced that
they were just as good as any bush
league bunch that ever won a Tri-
City series. With Ryan and Mahar,
the St Michaels college battery, on
the points they had smooth-work.
ing pair that held the Vermonters TO
six hits. During the first eight in,
nings Bennington collected but three
safe swats.
Burns, who started the game for
Bennington, had a bad inning in the
seventh, the period which has come
TO be something of bugaboo for the
home team. Bennington was leading
by score of 2 10 |. The inning op.
ened with a safe hit followed with
sacrifice, Burns gave the next batter
a free ticket and put in a wild pitch
to help on the trouble. A two-bagger
and errors by Brill and Connors top.
ped out the climax and when the side
was finally retired Whitehall had
scored three runs. The grand stand
fans naturally concluded that the ca
nal boatmen had packed the game
away in the refrigerator and the CON
tingent of Whitehall rooters on the
visiting teams bench kicked up its
heels like a poney ballet.
Bennington failed to "show any
thing" in the eighth and some OF the
spectators put themselves in moGCn
toward the supper table Whitehall
was unable to add TO its score in the
ninth. Delaney. however, made an
opening by catching one OF Ryan's
slants on the arm and walking to
first base. On an attempt TO catch
him of the base a muif gave him a
chance to go to second. Brill struck
out but burlington was patient
enough to secure free ticket With
runners on first and second Wheeler
whitfield but On the TIT.
ter's third strike Dclan.
ey and burlington started dou-
bic steal Both landed safe and il
was up to Prindle to pull the game
out OF the fire. The Williamstown
boy, with two strikes on him. turned
the trick by banging a liner out in.
to right field on which Delaney and
burlington came over the pan with
two runs TO tie the score. The grand
stand rose to the occasion and devel
oped a large amount OF enthusiasm
for so small an audience and then
settled down peacefully on the boards
to see the Huckleberrians win the
game. There was no more ginger In
the canal boatmen. The three bat
tiers who faced Wheeler were easy
outs. For Bennington. Connors open
ed with a three. Dagger TO left field
/ Carolan and Finnegan were out OF
easy grounders and another crisi,
had arrived in the baseball career o
McCrehan. The lengthy center field
er has all the season demonstrated |
faculty for hitting the ball when ;
hit means victory and he was oil
hand with the timely bingle once
more. Ordinarily McCrehan has
tendency to lift the ball into the al
and depend upon the length OF th'
elevated swat to maintain his batting
average Yesterday, however. h.
smashed II through the inheld AM
/ 1t was all over but the shouting Tn
score;