The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-29
Italian A. C. Went After God
dard's DefenseS in 18th
BATTED OUT l4-6 VICTORY
Goddard Had Tied Up Score in Ninth
Inning After |. A. C. Had Seemingly
Gained Secure Lead--Game Was
Played in High Wind

Goddard seminary and the Italian Ath-
letic club waged the first eXtra-innng
game of the season Saturday afternoon,
when it took eleven rounds for the down
town swatters to get the decision. At
the end of the tenth inning, the score
was TO G. but the Italians came back
hard in tie eleventh and before the dust
OF battle had cleared they inserted eight
extra runs in the tally column. The
team that won its victory by several
lengths in the eleventh led the hill team
through nearly every inning until the
ninth, when the school boys managed 10
push three counters over the pan through
one single and errors.
Although the game was evenly con-
tested until the Overwhelming cloud
burst, two players were all more or less
affected by the Charley horse" and not
one man on either team was able to
show his best form. Bartoni was on
the slab for the Italian team, and his
wizard like speed failed to keep the sem
mary team from hitting. Certainly he
did not show the brand of goods dis
played at Mortified the other day. He
was opposed by johnson, the stocky
twrler from Bethlehem, n. H., who
pitched consistently until the fatal last
inning. Neither box artist was accorded
gilt-edged support, although both teams
showed flashes of big league work. A
chilling wind swept across the Goddard
diamond and seemed to hinder the play
ers, as well as causing discomfort to the
tenants of two heavily-loaded bleachers.
1t was evidently favorable day for
heavy hits. Until the last chapter, the
Italians had gathered only seven safe
ones, to a total of eight for the school
boys; but in the inning that won the
game for the |. A. c.. the fence busters
fell to with vengeance and garnered
seven safeties. Joe Comolli demonstrat-
ed that he had lost none of his old time
propensities for hits both high and far
away. Comolli touched the pin for
double in the first inning and was con-
tent to rap it for a couple of singles
thereafter Giacamuzzi was close con-
tender for first honors, for he hit safely
three times To Calcagni belongs the
credit for starting the batting bee which
sewed the game up for the Italian Ath
lctic club With two men down and
man resting on second, Calcagni con
nected with a triple and incidentally
seemed to take the sap out OF pitcher
johnson with his awful swat.
For the seminarians, Witt was one
of the scintillating stars In the fifth
inning, he scored LeCasse on his long
drive into the right field grove and again
in the eighth he slapped the ball good
and hard for homer. 1t was a hit
that easily cleared the trees in the rear
of center. and Witt was able to complete
the circuit twice with ease, after he had
failed to touch second on the first turn
around the bases. With Comolli's drive
over the fence into Merchant street
garden in the first inning Wits four
base feat was the longest Of the game.
The story of the game might well be
written of the last inning, for it was
then that the Italians began to be up and |
doing, after ten-inning period of near
dormancy. Previous to their squirt, the |
Athletics had contented themselves with /
a commanding lead gained in the second I
and strengthened in the fifth, when |
three tallies brought the score mp to s. |
with for Goddard. Singles by johnson |
and Lindsey a base on balls and Davidi's I
miscue, Melted the school team run in |
the second Tn the fifth, LeCasse singled /
and scored on Wits double. Witt CON |
tributed his homer in the eighth, and a /
short comedy of errors on the Italian |
side in the ninth netted three more
and tied the score.
During the last regular inning, the
Italians experienced something of set
back that their opponents later went
through, and for moment it looked
like a victory for the men on the hill.
Johnson furnished one single in the chap
ter and Of the three tallies none was
earned. Goddard tried hp-d enough to
increase their total in the tenth and
eleventh. but all to no avail, for the men
were retired in quick succession in both
innings.
The first score for the winning team
,ame in the initial inning. when David
drew pass and scored on Comolli's
irive over the paliDg. In the third Da
gdi again drew pass, stole second and
made the next two stretches on wild
pitches by johnson. BY punching three
safe ones in the fifth and taking advan-
tape of two errors and a handout, the
italians brought their total up to five
IN the fifth. Their operations were
brought to a close by quick double,
pulled off by Witt and Merrill A trio
,i errors was responsible for the sixth
'core in the eighth Soldini got life
IN LcCpsse's miscue and scored on John
IONS wild throw Craig and Merrill
pulled of fast double in the ninth that
lvcrted the danger OF another tally.
The eleventh and deciding round was
simply repetition of terrific bingles
dashes around the stations and
'unners tramping triumphantlv home
gith the scores that buried GOddards
temporary vision of victory for all time.
n this inning. Calcagni started things
" punching out a triple. after two men
lad retired ingloriouslv to the bench.
omoll. Giacamuzzi, Soldini, Bartoni and
)avidi figured in some of the singles,
while free ticket and Angeles error at
he plate also played prominent parts
n the grand promenade around the pill