The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-08-25
TTSFIELD WON
At FOWLER PARK
BY 90 SCORE
HuckIeberry Boys Beat Them.
selves With Costly Errors
SHEA'S ARM WAS WILD
Bennington lnfieIders Played RAG
gedly Behind Peoquin Who
Pitched Good Ball.

Bennington closed the baseball
season by losing to the Pittsfield
team OF the Eastern association at
Fowler park yesterday afternoon by
score of to 3. 1t is impossible to
predict what would have been the re-
suit in a ball game had not certain
things happened, but one is safe in
stating that the home team made
Manager Zellers men a present yes
terday afternoon. With perfect SUP.
port behind Peloquin, Pittsfield would
nave been shut out. provided. of
course, there was no change in the
sequence of plays. In the third in
ming Pittsfeld scored three runs
when one lone hit was followed by
bunch of errors. Shea, whose
throwing to bases has been one of
the features of the season, had an
OIL day. Once he made an error
while returning the ball to the pit
cher. Of the six errors the most
costly was charged to Taguer who.
with two out and two on bases in
the disasterous third inning. threw
low 10 Carolan. good peg woult.
nave retired the side without a run
put Carolan and Shea put in two
more misplays and the Pittsfeld
team Tailed three times.
lhere was a good crowd in at
tendance and some of the fans in
the stand were so disguised with the
poor showing of the Huckleberry
bunch that they were not only mn
reasonable but unjust in their rather
ioud-mouthed criticism. In tha
elghth inning with a Pittsfield run
ner en- first and third, the home
team started the short throw play
10 second base. Connors came in be.
nlnd the pitcher to take the throw
IN case the runner on third shonld
attempt to score. Shea threw To
ConnorS, but the second baseman oh.
serving that the runner on third
Iiiiue no attempt loaeve the base
moved to one side in order that the
pail might go on to second base to
eaten the runner coming from first
Shortstop Doyle failed to cover seq.
ond, as the shortstop should on the
snort throw play. the ball went out
INTO center field and Piusfield scored
run. Had Doyle carried ont the
play the runner going down from
hrst would have been caught at seq.
ond. Expecting that the runner on
third would try to score, the man IN
hrst took his time and would have
oeen an easy out had Doyle carried
OUT mis- part in the play. Although the
snort throw play had been success.
iuily carried out by Shea and Con
nors IN the first inning when Tommy
laguer was caught at the plate the
kncckers in the stand had nct been
aoie TO keep the idea in their heads
ana when the failure occurred in the
eishth some of them bawled at Shea
lor throwing and other shouted thar
Connors lodged the ball.
Feloquin and Smith both pjtcbed
good ball. The hits were nearly
even and were thinly scattered
throughout the game. Il was nor nm.
I'll the ninth that Pittsfeld succeeded
IN making two in the same inning
ana Bennington performed the feat
put once, in the sixth. The only
feature Of the game out of the ord.
nary was Jimmy Taguer's steal
nome in the eighth. The Remington
third baseman caught Smith when
inc Pittsheld pitcher was starting
MS windmill windup and with n long
slide beat the ball home. The score,