The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-04-10
OVER FIFTY GAMES
NOW BOOKED FOR
BENNINGTON
Manager Higgins Makes Dates
With Fast Teams
NINE NEARLY COMPLETE
Contracts Signed With All But Cat
cher, One Pitcher and One
lnfielder

Manager Edward S. Higgins of the
Bennington baseball association is
making excellent progress in the sign.
ing of his players for the coming sea
son which will open at Morgan Park
probably with the Williamstown team
as has been the custom in previous
years. The opening games with the
boys from the college town have al.
ways been good exhibitions and some
of the contests have been close.
Manager Higgins has already book
ed over so games for the coming sea-
son. Outside of the games with the
Pittsfeld, North Adams and Science
tady teams he has fixed dates with
Hudson Guild, fast independent
team of New York City, for June q
and "a, with the Glendale team OF
Long Island for August % and %,
with the Cuban Giants for June Is,
July s, and August 10, This plan CT
early booking will ensure far better
games than could be secured by en-
gaging teams later in the season at
short notice One of the drawbacks
of previous seasons has been the diff
ficulty to secure teams for the Satur-
day dates that are good enough to
give the Huckleberry boys a run for
the money. Ii has been necessary to
fill open dates with teams from Troy
and Albany, and in most instances
these aggregations have failed to
make good.
Outside of a catcher and one more
pitcher the team is already as good
as completed Manager Higgins has
been trying TO secure a John Han
cock from Marcus burlington of Pow
nal who has done the biggest share
of the backstop work for the team
during the past two seasons. Bur
ry" is anxious enough to play ball but
has an engineering situation and is
hestating He was not in the best
of condition a year ago but is in good
shape at the present time and his
friends would be more than pleased
to see him back in the game once
more.
The position of captain and field
manager is one that will be filed at
an early date. II is expected that
definite word will be received from
"Patsey" Keefe, during the present
week. 1t has been known for some
time that Keefe is not to be a mem
Der of the Boston National League
team during the coming season and
the understanding when he left to
take the training trip with the big
show" was that If he failed to land a
position he would return to Benning-
ton. The latest newspaper informa-
ton in relation to Keefe is that he
has been sold to Albany. Whether
he is to be with the Huckleberry
boys or not will be definitely decided
during the present week.
For a third pitcher Manager Hig-
gins has been negotiating for some
time with Burns who pitched for
Pittsfield against Fisher at Tudor
Park on June last, and held Ben
nington down to four scattered sin
giles. Burns has been playing in Ber-
muda during the present winter
1t is more than probable that A. G..
Ridlon, the captain OF the Westbrook
seminary at Portland, Me-, will play
one of the infeld positions. Ridlon
is reported to be a fast player and
was recommended to Manager Hig-
gins by Ray Collins of the Boston
Red Sox Ridlon has been offered
contracts with New England and New
York state league teams but as he in
tends to go to college refuses to play
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