The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-18

lt1tcner Brown was Given His Bumps
in the Fourth, When -Four Runs Were
scored-Eight Men Struck Out by
Light.
The Islanders wound up very salts
factory week Saturday afternoon Just
at supper time by registering their
third defeat in five days of the Champs
and their fourth victory out Of five
games in that time. The score was
to made possible by the good pitching
of Light, the effective batting of his
mates and the usual breakdown of
Brown, exNewport and ex-Toronto
pitcher and soon-to-be ex-Champs
twirler. Getting to- Brown is get
ting to be q speciality OF the Islanders
Every pitcher on the Champs staff has
now bowed to the batting prowess of
the tailenders.
The game was one hour late in start
ing owing to the train from Northamp-
ton being nearly two hours behind
schedule time, but, once the game start
ed, it was played in record time-one
hour and IS minutes.
Burns had busy day at short. err
| ing only once on Il ball that did not
bound true. Hammond made beau
tiful running stop of a hard liner from
Goodrich 5 bat that if it had got by
was good for a double at least and
| keegn contributed three clean hits, the
first two due to the fact that Light
pitched himself into a hole and had to
groove the ball, stunt that Just suited
the Eastern Lacquer. Goodrich was the
only other man on the Meadow Larks
who could touch Light for Parle 5 hit
was the vcricst sort of an infcld
! scratch. Eight of the Champs famed
and twice with the first man in an in
ming on first Light famed the next
three, both times the victims being
! Francis-who was down on the score
cards by his right name, Kennev-Her-
| rington and Brown
| With three balls and two strikes on
| kecgan to open the game Light put
one squarely over and Kecgau drove
it over second for a single. Foran sac
riticcd him and he made third on
BURNS 5 out. Mulvey to Sullivan.
blight and solomon got their signals
| crossed and Solomon had q passed bali
! on which Kecgan scored. Hammond
muffcd Goodrich 5 short fly and the first
| basemdn stole second aided hy low
| throw, but Light got Robarge, Il hard
| proposition on strikes
Brattleboro ovened up in the second
with two out Beran singled to left
and by good running scored when Null
vey double over Harrington : head in
left. Hammod flied to Forap.
With Parle on first, which he had
reached by a scratch hit through Light
that no one could handle in time. Kenny
was out on three attempted hunts and
Harrington and Brown famed vigor-
ously.
1t was in the fourth, an inning ear
/ lier than usual, that Brown "'blew. -
| solomon hit one that bounded badly
and hit Keegan in the chest and that
! player foolishly tried to make the play
but threw wild to the bleachers. the lit
tie catcher, who is lame, taking see
ond. lie made third on a wild pitch
after Sullivan had famed trying to
sacrifice. Yelle scored him with a
clean rap to center. Beran singled to
eft again. MuIvey grounded out to
! Goodrich and Hammond lifted n short
fly to right that Robarge trapped and
rolled over with the bah. but two runs
had scored and Hammond had reached
second before he could recover himself
and throw the ball. Brown made his
singing to center, Hammond scoring.
ed third. Light surprised everyone by
singlin to center, Hammond scoring.
Brown then went to center, Foran to
left and Harrington came in to pitch.
Proulx flied to Robarge
1t was in the third that Keegan, af-
ter his second single, tried to go from
first to third, a Ia ely Cobb, on Fo-
ran 5 sacrifice, Proulx to Sullivan, but
j'' Sully' slammed the ball back in
time to make the double play. Keegan
opened the sixth with his third hit, a
double, and scored on Goodrich S single
to center that Hammond made a pretty
running stop of and that, with a fast
double play by Burns, Parle and Good
rich III the eighth after Solomon had
singled, was about all there was to the
game out of the ordinary. These are
the figures: