The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-25
Greenfield Taken Into Camp
By Score of s to 4
Yesterday
SHERMAN DRIVEN
FROM BOX IN THIRD
Three Two Baggers and Single in
Succession Brought Downfall of
Elongated Twirler-CIassy Work
Shown.

BY the time the elongated Mr.. Sher-
man has been retired from the pitch
ers slab yesterday Rrattlebero-had the
opening game Of the league season at
Island park einched and Greenfield final
ly went down to honorable defeat by a
score of to 4. 1t required Just three
innings to retire Mr.. Sherman and in
that time Brattleboro by consecutive
hard hitting had scored six runs. Two
more came later when Gibbs hit 4
couple of men, nearly killing Captain
Bennett in the process, and when
others whanged his delivery for a
double and two singles in the same
inning.
Patten was wilder than Sherman at
| the start but when he settled down he
kept his hits scattered and after the
second inning was not in any trouble,
although he let up little in the ninth
and two runs came across to make the
score trifie more interesting.
There were 10 foTmalities of an
| official character at the opening.
Christie b. Crowell of the board OF
directors of the Brattleboro Baseball
club megaphoned the interesting fact
that - Nike Hickey, ''well known to
many of us, would umpire and left
the rest to - Mike and he got away
with it very we'll even to barring his
manly arm and drawing the lucky
numbers from the tin box President !
Gray tstey held at Il height that made
" Mike stretch to grab one There
was no deception about the drawing
and X. f. Mosher who has more auto
mobiles on rainy days and during the
winter season than he knows what t.
dc with, was the individual with the
proper credential for the Ford runa
bout which was the real prize of the
game. All this came after the game
The game started late becaus,
Greenfield did not appear for practic,
before $50 clock Gaudette drew
pass from Patten, who then contribut
ed a wild pitch and finished the spell
by permitting O'Keefe to walk
Kornstadt dumped one in front of tn
plate and Carpenter after twice fail
! ing to pick up the ball, plunked tn
: runner in the back with it and tn
sacks were crowded with runners
t Marty Conroy, the invaders leader
famed, his third strike being a wild
] out curve. Ready hit one to Haverty
who, seeing chance for doubl
. play hurried so much that he lost ev
: eryone and Gaudette scored. Burn
+ popped to Hallbeck and on the mex
? pitched ball Maiden slammed one abou
a foot off the ground and an equa
distance inside the third sack. Hal
= beck projected himself towards it an
: fell flat with the ball in his hand
+ amid the wild plaudits of the GROVE
: 1t saved two runs at the least coun
> and incidentally was the SWEETEST kin
! of a swell play.
Facing one run lead Brattlebor
4 started by McDermott working pas
Chenoweth hunted, the ball going hig
?. and to the left of Sherman who coul
not reach it but Maiden scooped it u
=. and threw wild to Conroy, putting til
= runners on second and third Lyme
'e singled over short, scoring McDermot
: Bennett slammed another to right an
Chenoweth counted Meagher hit OF
= to the right of Sherman who caugl
t. Lynch trying to score. Bennett worke
il around to third on the play, havin
e. made second on Ready poor retul
: of his hit to right, and Carpenter h
:; down the first base line. Benne
: scored while Conroy was tag
" ing Carpenter and then Conroy tire