The Washington herald., 1912-04-04
.HILLTOPPERS Win
FAST GAME FROM
VERMONT TEAM
Winkler Pitches Good Bail,
but Team Mates Furnish
Poor Support.
HEFFERNAN DOES WELL
BY NAT t. woRLEY.

Despite the good pitching OF one Wink
Ter. vermonrs husky spit ball HEAVIER.
Coach Sprigman's braves captured an ex-
citing game from the University Of Yer
mont yesterday on the Hilltop, 4 to l.
Winkler tips the scales at ls5 pounds
and measures six feet In height. and
throughout the contest he shot them over
with the speed OF an express train. No
less than eight of the Hilltoppers fell vic
tins TO his cunning and the seven bingles
which adorn Georgetown's hit column
were scattered through almost as many
sessions. the seventh being the only round
in which the Hilltop batsmen landed two
blows to safe territory. Two of the seven
were scratchy wallops to the inheld.
which were stopped. but could not be
fielded in time. With better support. the
giant might have landed a victory.
Opposed to vermont's young Samson
was Heffernan, a southpaw. and. while
his strike-out record in no way compares
with that of his rival and he was a
trife wilder. he held the boys from Bur
lington well in hand, letting them down
with four scattered hits. and deserved
shut-out In fact. but for the veriest
OF hard luck, Vermont would have been
retired without a run. for Davis made
a pretty stop OF Mayforth's hard ground
er and had plenty Of time to get him at
first, but threw low tSO'Connor. and the
ball bounded badly. permitting the run
ner to reach the bag In safety. In tight
places he was practically invincible. and
ten of the visitors died on the bases.
For five innings neither side chalked
up a run, and the way the pitchers were
working Il looked like anybody's game.
Then the old-time fighting spirit OF the
Blue and Gray cropped out, and the Hill
toppers grabbed two in the sixth.
DAILY Starts Rally I'm sixth.
DAILY tore OF a screamer along the
third base line which landed him on FIRST
and Mory o'Connor advanced him a peg
with a pretty bunt. Davis poled one
TO short, but the leather played hide
and seek with Dowd's legs and 'Inkey"
scampered safely TO the first corner.
while DAILY hoofed II to third. Davis stole
second on the next pitched ball and IN
an attempt TO catch Kim Mayforth |
threw wild TO second, DAILY scoring and
Davis taking third. The Vermont in
fielder played in TO get the man at home |
but on Lynch's poke Davis showed sur |
prising signs Of life and beat the toss,
registering Georgetown's second run.
A fast double play stopped the rally. |
but in the seventh Hollanucr opened with |
a double TO center. was sacrificed to
third by Cogan. and counted when Sit
terding slammed one on the nose to left
field for his second hit of the game.
Georgetown made its final taIley in the
eighth on O'Connor's two-base cIout to
left and Halstein's error.
With two out in the ninth. Herernan
passed Flaherty and Davis threw May
foTth's blast low to first Winkler then
placed one out OF reach in right field and l
Flaherty scored. Dowd coaxed free
transportation, filling the bases, but the
best Williams could do was a spiral to
Cogan and the battle was over.
The batting Of Cogan and Sitterding.
Cogan's sensational one-hand catch in
center, and Heffernan's fielding were fea-
lures worthy Of mention. the George
town pitcher handling eight assists with
out an error.
Georgetown ran the bases well, pilfer-
ing four cushions. and their work showed
A thorough knowledge Of the finer points
OF the game. |
The score: