The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-27
BENNINGTON BEAT.
PITTSF IELO IN
FIRST GAME
AuCkleberry Boys VictOrs by
Score of 8 to |
COULDN'T HIT JOHNNY BOSK
Shire City Aggregation Unable to
Find the Ball When Men Were
on Bases

Bennington played it's first baseball
game Of the season at Pittsfield yester-
day and defeated the Shire City aggre-
CATION by a score of to l. AS the
Huckleberry boys had had but limited
opportunity for practice while Pitts
field had been on the ground for two
weeks and had played several games
1t was generally expected that the
Massachusetts players would win
But against the mastery pitching OF
Johnny" Bosk and an infeld' sup
port that was credited with but one
misplay Pittsfield was apparently
helpless. To be sure Pittsfeld made
double the number of safe hits, to 3,
but after the opening inning Captain
Garrys men We're unable to find the
ball at all when there was a runner
on the bases.
While there were not many men on
bases during the game it was still
an interesting contest for the reason
that the score was tied at l TO l after
the fourth inning
Jackson for Pttsiied pitched
strong game. He had good speed and
was admirably supported. Several
hard hit balls that ordinarily would
have gone for hits were gathered in
by the men behind him. Prindle hit
a grounder down the first base line
that the man covering the bag had to
fall on his face to stop and then
crawl back to the base on his hands
and knees to make the put-out Nc
Crehan hit one to center field that
the Pittsfeld captain just picked off
the top OF the grass. Connors put a
bounder down between first and sec
Ond that failed of being safe for the
reason that the Pittsfeld second base
man made a pickup of the big league
order.
Bennington, too, put up a number
of star plays behind Bosk. Finnegan
stopped one liner that was tagged for
two bases and Sullivan came into the
diamond and picked up with one hand :
a ball that was apparently going safe.
In the opening inning only three
Bennington batters faced the pitcher.
Prindle was out on a grounder to pit
cher, Connors reached first on an er-
ror at third but was pegged out trying
TO steal second and Sullivan ground
ed out to pitcher For Pittsfield the
first two batters were out, Nichols to
pitcher on a ground hit and Garry on
a fly to center field. Cookingham, the
third man up. hit safe into short left
field and stole second. Murray hit
safe into center advancing Cooking
ham to third The two runners then
pulled off a double steal and Cooking
ham scored Pittsfelds only run.
For Bennington two struck out in
the second and one flied out to left
field. For Pittsfeld one batter hit
to Sullivan and when the little third
baseman heaved the ball over first
base he went to third. Bosk proceed
ed TO strike out two batters and Con-
nors and Caroan disposed of the
other.
In the third Bosk was the only Ben
nington batter to reach first base and
he was passed. Only three batters
up for Pittsfeld.
In the fourth Captain Connors hit
one at the Pittsfeld shortstop which
that gentleman failed to stop and was
safe at first Sullivan pushed him
down to second with a sacrifice and
when McCrehan slammed the ball out
against the left field fence for two
bases Connors tailed making the
score / to l. Only three batters up
for Pittsfeld.
In the fifth Bennington went out in
order on ground balls to first and
second and a strike-out. For Pitts
field the first man up, Peartree, hit
to center for two bases. Kenny sac
rificed him to third but Bosk disposed
of the next two on strikeouts and
a punky grounder.
Bennington sent only three batters
to the plate in the sixth. For Pitts
field a second hit for Buckingham
which bounded past McCrehan put the
runner on second. He stole third
and tarried there while Bosk whitfield
out the next two batters.
Carolan was passed in the seventh,
the only Bennington batter to reach
first. With two out Catcher Kenny
of Pittsfeld hit safe to left field but
remained at first while Connors cap
tured Jacksons grounder and threw
the Pittsfield pitcher out at first,
In the eighth OLeary, for Benning-
ton, was given a pass and was sacri-
feed to second by Bosk, but Prindle
and Connors hit groundeTs to the in
uelQ anu Lue sluo was lOIli W. ~
first man up for Pittsheld was out on
a fly to Burns. The next batter, Cap
tain Garry, hit one into the same To-
cality which got away from "Dickie"
and Garry started for second. Burns,
however, recovered the ball and peg
ged the runner out at second. Bosk
stopped Cookingham with a strike
out.
Sullivan opened the ninth for Ben
nington with a safe hit to right. Nc
Crehan put a roller down the third
base line for which the Pittsield pit
cher made a scramble and then heav-