The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-06
Team From Norwich University
Gave But Little Opposition
TO ITALIAN A. C. PLAYERS
Good-Sized Crowd Had Expected to See
the College Varsity" But Was
Much Disappointed-Final
Score Was IS to 2.

journeyed down to the baseball arena of
| Berlin street Saturday afternoon, the
game between the Italian Athletic club
and team composed OF cadets from
Norwich university and Others with the
accent on "others"), in which the locals
won out by the score of Is to ,, was
in the nature of keen disappointment,
for the visiting outfit had been adver-
tised as the Norwich team and the infer
ence naturally drawn was that the fans
would be privileged to witness the |. A.
c. lining up against the Norwich varsity
nine. The game. as baseball goes, was
nothing short of farce and only Il
source of near agony to that portion of
the crowd that remained to the finish.
The team purporting to come from
Norwich might well have represented
the Four-Corners grange team at East
Burberry, and the brand of alleged base
ball it furnished brought only memories
of long ago days when the young men
played the benedicts on the village com
mon. The visitors made a snowy begin
ming by registering one tally, and again
in the seventh they gave an expiring
kick when the score in their run column
was increased by one.
In the light of the awful slaughter
that followed the first round that lone
counter was a graceful concession on
the part of the Italians, and the second
point in the seventh was also quite as
mplimentary. Sylvester. the port-sid
ed one, was on the firing line for the
Northtield aggregation, and his dispen-
sations We're denied at every turn. With
the seal of SylvesteF's left hand on the
cover, the ball was bounded and slapped
and pounded into every nook and corner
of the field. To successfully present
their mangling speciality, the Italians
employed sixteen fearful swats.
The story OF the game is tale of
pitcher horribly logged by the energetic
Italians and their ashen accessories, 1t
is pen picture of felders virtually pelt-
ed with a bali they couldn't hold. No
such carnage has been seen before this
season, and friends Of the game will hope
for no recurrence. So far as field play
ing was concerned, the game alternately
tagged and had its flares. From the
outset, it was evidest that glory was
TO be gained only with the stick.
Joe Weafer made his first appearance
in the ring this year, and whether the
fact that he let his opponents down with
only three safeties in seven-inning
regime is tribute to his fine form or to
lack of vision on the part of the scout
team may be left with the fans to de-
eide. Joe certainly appeared to be in
excellent shape, although he used only
enough stuff on the ball to keep the
invaders nibbling. Beaton, the East
Barre boy, went in to pronounce the
benediction in the eighth, and of the
six men who faced him, four took the
subway route to the bench. Beaton al
lowed one hit.
As a kind of forerunner of what
was to follow, the locals opened fire in
their half of the first and chased one
tally over the goal. Another large haul
in the second augmented the score by
six, and it was here that the game was
laid away in cold storage. Thereafter,
the Italians seemed to care little about
second servings and accepted Sylvester's
cordial invitations to hit safely with
reluctance. Two more were added for
measure in the third and so on until
the total reached eighteen The glitter
ing gem in a cluster of star performers
that staged the grand circuit act was
Joe Comoll. Comoll connected safely
three times, once for a double, and Stew
art was nearly up to his mark with a
trio of singles. With the exception of
Soldini, whose ribs were twice a target
for Mister Sylvester's crossfre, every
man on the team collided with the pill
for at least u single.
The bushwhaeker outfit was able to
boast of two men who played with con-
sistency, batted as best they could and
ran bases industriously. They were
third baseman Miles and Littleiohn. the
right fielder. Out of the maelstrom of
hapless attempts at fielding miserable
miscues and homely essays at properly
the plate and swinging the
bat, the all-around appearance of Cadets
Miles and Littleiohn was a pleasant
thing to be revealed. Together they
were accorded almost the only applause
that the crowd saw fit to tender.
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