The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-16
Barre A. C. Pitcher Had Pitched
Well Up to That Point
ST. J0HNSBURY WON, 7 TO 4
Bases on Balls and Errors Gave tn,
Visiting Team the Game Saturday
Before Good Crowd on
Goddard Campus.

The waning baseball season witnessed
a defeat for the Barre Athletic club at
the campus Saturday afternoon, when a
delegation of diamond artists from st.
Johnsbury administered humilatng
wallop to the home boys that left the
iigits standing to 4, with the long end
fayoring the Lily White products. For
Ave innings, the get together affair bore
every resemblance to the conventional
baseball game, with the Barre team pre-
dominating in the score column. The
sixth round saw the locals put to rout
and the Caledonia people spilling all
kinds of energy in making the circuit.
large crowd was OH hand for the
mill, and the mussing-up event threw
many into paroxysms of grief.
Young Gilman Moses Gay, the embryo
head liner from Randolph, was pitted
against Fl. Levasseur in the artillery
capacity, and the youngster acquitted
himself proudly for the first five heats,
His downfall in the sixth lacked nothing
In its completeness, and after one out of
possible eight batsmen had suecumbed
before his fire, the management dis
patched Davidson from the first sack OIL
a relief expedition. Tommy let the first
man to menace his regime whaek out n
single to center, but the next two quail
fled for the bench by the strikeout route
and the danger of prolonged slaughter
was eradicated.
Against the c. Moses GAY, Davidson
combination; the "overhomers' played
trump card in twirler who is said to
be the idol of the east side. II. Lev.
has a name that is the despair of the
scorers, but he had the goods and deliv
cred them with the proper labels on
each bundle. Levasseur was tickled for
a total of six safeties, while his team
mates were garnering four from the
Barre box men. The makers showed
marked propensity for making mis-
cues, but their errors of commission
somehow failed to count talles for the
vanquished team. Moore, at short field,
appointed himself committee of one
TO pull off all the star plays for st.
Johnsbury, but in doing this he also
contributed to the error column.
The Barre contingent played uniformly
we'll, and this in spite of the fact that
It's infield was shot full of holes by
the absence of valuable men. 0ppor.
buHltlfc ipi SpfNidNului ibhhS NtAt ltNs
but the Athletics made out to perpetrate
several hair raisers.
Barre delayed hostilities until the
third, when Gay got life on LeCasse's
boot and tailed on single to center by
Brave Fowlie. In the fifth Bill John
ston gunned roller through the pedals
of Mr.. Moore at short field and stole
second and third. Catcher Gray's fail
ure to hold the ball returned to him from
the box by Levasseur resulted in the sec
ond tally. Captain Johnston made the
round trip again in the seventh on a
lafe one to left, stolen base and a
delder's choice Again in the ninth, lit
tie Brother Bill raced around the dia-
mond for No. 4, before his comrades
had time to strike out.
Moore was the man who started the
winning for st. j. He lifted one to the
maple orchard in right at the beginning
of the fourth and purloined the second
pillow, skipping home when B. Fowlie
threw the ball to third during the tenn
porary absence Of the third baseman.
The ball continued travelling toward
Merchant street, while Moore raced to
the plate
! Inning six was Just a repetition of
the "overhomers" trailing home with the
bacon. Connors, Morrison and GilflliaA
were among those chosen to hold free
tickets and B. Levasseur earned his title
to first by getting hit in the knee
Pitcher Gay furnished an error and
Smythe contributed the only hit in that
gloomy chapter, Six youths from the
east side came tripping gleefully over
the lea before the curtain lowered for
the finish Two men gained positions
in the seventh, but Keeler and Tommy
Davidson kept them within safe bounds.
Tho snoro.