The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-28
Defeated st. Michael's Col
lege on Berlin Street
Grounds, 5 to 3
WINKLER OF VERMONT
IN BOX FOR ITALIANS.
Fowlie of Barre a Stellar
Performer for the Wis
iting Team

Five hundred fans passed away the
middle hours of spring afternoon at
the Berlin street grounds Saturday while
the Italian Athletics were busying them.
selves in defeating the st. MichaeIs
college team from up in Winooski.
Nothing need be discounted on the score
that it was too early for fast play, that
the teams were out of FORM or that the
grounds were wet No, because the sun
tshone with mid season warmth. the play
ers were in fine fettle all, and as the
sweepstakes winner in the whist com
petition says, "there was the rigor of
the game"
The home boys garnered a 5 to vic
tory. II was a rip-snorter of start
and every good fan will breathe a hope
that just such a brand of the well known
national pastime may be in evidence
all season long at the north end frsk-
ing grounds. Amos Winkler of Burling-
ton and the University of Vermont, who
spends most of his waking hours on the
diamond, served them up for the locals
and against him was arrayed the peerless
pitcher, Duchesinl In justice to the
reader, his name from now on will be
Just plain Ouch. For all of nomencla
ture, Mr.. Ouch might be the project of
police at Chalons sur Marine, or he might
be an understudy for Arsene Lupin but
the all around Inconvenience of paint
ing his name a dozen or fifteen times
will no doubt justify the abbreviation.
st. Michaefs best bet in the twring
department worried along for seven in
nings with only the good breaks in the
luck streaks for trump. Until the sew
enth session he managed to keep the
hits down TO eight in number, but with
the lifting of the curtain for the seventh
the J. A, c. sluggers sent him to the
ringside, groggy with three double slaps
in as many sections of the outfeld. |
Ouch. managed to keep the singles well
scattered, A half dozen two baggers
and a gyrating triple looked like re-
spectacle showing to the /. A. C. fans
when the eighth session dawned, he was |
yanked to the sidelines and replaced |
by Drum. The latter issued one pass,
allowed double and the ensuing tally |
before the inning ended.
Conspicuous among the men respon-
sible for the locals well earned palms
was Winkler, who pitched for all the
world as though he were leading his
collegiate teammates to victory. Wink
Ter, or Amos. as the boys around school
prefer to call him, confined the hits to
five and had the invaders wondering all 1
the time as to what was to follow OF i
course Brave Fowlie got home run,
but that is another story, and Winkler
wasted no opportunity in getting re-
venge, for he famed the former Barre
L. L 4
Then there was big Bill Brown, some
time of Hardwick Bill connected safe L
ly twice, each time for a double Bot |,
tigi covered a couple of city blocks in
the outfeld as usual and tckled Ouch
for three bagger, double and sin !
gle. Winkler also figured in some of
the effective hitting Warning VIM. Mai /
den made few pretty stops at third !
and few more that We're not so pretty;
but he proved to have lost none of his
old-time niftiness and that means some G
thing to hundreds of fans who have q
enjoyed watching the boy work in the d
past. Joe Comolli took hold of Wink :
ler's cannonading attack from the first
and confessed afterwards that it was
a warm afternoon for him But Joe I
held to his post well and showed tire '
folks that he was at home with al b
most any pitcher who ever sent 'em
across. There was variety of praise
worthy plays pulled off by the locals a
and the crowd was quick to pick out S
the stellar performances and applaud.
From st. Michael's came we'll ba-
anced team that showed frequent flashes s.
of class, but it lacked the punch when il
the punch was most essential to run is
making. Joe Doyle of Montpelier and N
Brave" Fowlie of Barre, a left fielder
named Mazzoni and McGraw at short
looked good in action on the field. Fow- n
lie, the favorite son of the south end, II
played consistent game at backstop n
and threatened to be a menaeing factor m
for the |. A. c., when he strobe to the
plate in the second and clipped the leath.
sr for four sacks. A large crowd OF &c
Braves "home town" friends were on I,
hand and evidently they were glad to fc
Zee him size up so well. Iy
The Scoring. fo
The scoring started in the second when =
dazzoni played on number four and got &c
! ticket; he managed to get third on .
Iiaiden's boot of 0'Meara's roller. and
allied on Fowlie's home run bang to
he left field boards. Until the eighth.
he st. MitchaePs men were nearer first
t all times than home. Their scoring
Machine simply wouldn't work. At the
ighth juncture. however, Ouch. got
ife on Maiden's tumble stole second
nd counted on a single 20 left bv
)oyle.
Scores for the local team were ike /
rise moored to either extremities OF
he game. there being an interval of
hree innings when the campaign for