The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-22
VETTER IN EXCELLENT
FORM ALLOWS | HIT
IN SECOND GAME IN DOUBLE
HEADER WITH CARBONDALE
SATURDAY.
Ancient Rivals of Maple City Team
Go Down For Two Defeats-Vet-
ter's Slow Curve Got Them Going
Large Crowd Saw Game.


teP's Slow Curve Got Them Going
Large Crowd Saw Game.
William Vetter was THE hero in
Honesdale on Saturday when the To-
calls defeated their ancient rivals
from Carbondale by the scores of IL
to 2 and 1 to in the first double
header in one afternoon in the towns
history Vetter pitched the whole
eighteen innings, allowing but seven
hits in the first game and but one
very scratchy hit in the second
game when Dondican beat out bunt
to Slim Mangan. The fact that Man
gan's arm is in bad condition gave
Dondican his hit, for with a good
arm behind the throw to first, DON
;dican would never have been safe.
1t was laughable to see the Min
ers" break their backs trying to kill
Vetter's slow benders, but usually
all they could do was lift a small
pop fly or send slow roller to the in
field. Vetter's pace during the whole
game was the same. He was about
as excited and as heated as block
of ice, no matter whether the bases
were full or not. He received good
support, especially in the second
game, the all around work of Capt.
Brader featuring.
Carbondale came here with the
intentions of capturing both
games of this double header and
thereby winning the series as they
were strengthened by two Jermyn
players of the County League, Mack
and Dondican, but they had not
counted on one William Vetter of
Honesdale.
Vetter did not start the first game
as though he was going to make
any records, as Carbondale scored
in the second inning on an error by
Stevens and a hit by Craft. They
scored again in the third on two
solid two-base wallops, but after
that Vetter had everything his own
way with the aid of rafting good
support from his team mates. Homes
dale made five runs in the third in
ming on three hits, a sacrifice, three
errors and hit batsman. The whole
Carbondale team seemed to go
"ballooning" in this inning which
was McAndrew's last on the rubber.
We scored two more in the fourth
with Dondican pitching when Brad
er, Lily and Sandy hit in succession.
In the seventh three more crossed
the plate. Weaver hit for two bases
and Stevens and Larson singled and
Fee allowed a throw in from CEN
ter field to go through him. Homes
dale's last run was scored in the
eighth when Brader and Lily both
hit for one base and Dondican threw
to the bleachers trying to get Brader
off first. tsr.
For six innings in the second
game only three men in each inning
faced Vetter and no one reached
first base. 1t looked bad for bill"
in the seventh for a few minutes.
Larson erred on Crafts grounder
and Dondican beat out his bunt,
(Carbondale's only hit) and both
moved up base when Larson fumb-
led throw to catch Craft at sec
ond. Walker attempted to bunt and
popped a fly into Mangan's hands,
who tossed the ball to Brader at
third, completing a nice double play.
Brader whipped the ball to second
and came within about one-eighth
of an inch of making triple pay of
it.
Honesdale scored it's only run off
"Sods" Watkins, who also pitched
very creditable game, in the ninth
inning. Sandy started it with a
clean single. Tarkett was safe on
an error Dy barrett; weaver Dunted
to Watkins who caught Sandy at
third, Faatz rolled another one to
Watkins who again, by tossing to
third, caught Tarkett. Larson lined
one to Carpenter who threw to the
bleachers and Weaver scored the
only run of one of the best games
ever seen on the Honesdale grounds.
Here are the scores:
HONESDAIE