The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-23
DEFEATED in
GAME FIGHT
Errors in Early Innings Re-
spOnsibIe for Loss
Yesterday
FORCED HAMPS TO
ELEVEN INNINGS
OVercame Big Lead and Nearly Land
ed V1ctory-Islanders' New Boxman
Worked Finely Throughout, While
Visitors Used Three Pitchers.

worked finely Throughout, While
Visitors Used Three Pitchers.
BY juggling his entire pitching staff
and taking advantage of every error of
OMISSION and commission on the part
OF Brattleboro and by playing air tight
,balI IN the pinches Jimmy" Burns
and his Northampton team made Brat
tleboro bite the dust once more yester-
day to the tune of to Z. But the
eellarmen made the champs go II in
nlngs to win. 4 fighting crowd kept the
home team on edge all through the last
half of the game. 1t was some game.
so hlled with errors on the part Of the
nome team in the opening innings that
there appeared to be no hope, but the
steady pitching of Driscoll, who work
Ell the entire game for US, backed by
some corking good stickwork by Dyke
and Sennett and timely singles by
Iewhlll and Hammond, braced every
one up and they fought to the last
ditch
A running catch with his elovcd
hand off Robarge in the 18th inning bv
hammond and the shortstop play of
Burns, who worked in three double
plays, one of them unassisted, were the
real fielding features, although Ham
mond S general work and a catch bv
Swasey are entitled to more than a
cursOrv word.
1t ism I so pleasant to tell why we
did not win in early stages of the
game, but among reasons might be
mentioned the fact that Captain Tew-
hill wandered off second so far in the
eighth that he was caught standing
still 10 feet away. With Dyke up that
killed fine chance for more runs. Two
grIevous errors by Finnegan and two
more by Carpenter and one by Sen
nett all counted to the extent of five
runs against us, but we got all the
errors out of our collective system at
the end of the fifth and then went af
ter the game-and darn near got it,
too.
Jennings started on the slab, but the
elongated twirlcr was in wrong with
himself. Tewhill and Hammond flied
out, but Dyke got hard single to left,
dying trying to stretch it to a double.
Northampton had previously gone out
IN order and single by King with
two out was all they could do in the
second. We scored first blood in tho
second on Sennett IS long double to left
center and Sullivan 8 single that near
~ took hand off King. Sullivan was
caught trying to make second on the
throw to the plate
Francis opened the third by pushing
"a long fly to right center that Carpen-
ter ran for and lost in the sun. the
ball striking him and rolling so that
the catcher took two bases. Jennings
tried hard to sacrifice and then hit to
tinnegan, who let the ball roll between
his feet, Francis scoring. Swasey sac
rifced and MacRobbie and Burns
singled, scoring Jennings.
pass to Finnegan, q sacrifice BY
Driscoll and another pass to TewhiH
and single by Hammond Just over
the infeld filled the bases with only
one out, but Dyke lined to Burns who
ran few steps and doubled Tewhill
at second.
a pass and steal by Parle was all
the damage in the visitors half Of the
fourth and the home team went out in
order.
The fifth put US farther down. With
one out MacRobbie doubled to left cen
ter. Burns put him on third when he
tapped to Driscoll who got the batter
at first Goodrich hit to Finnegan, who
let the ball go through him, Mae
Robbie scoring. Robarge singled to
right and Carpenter spent so much
time picking up the ball that Goodrich
trotted down to third. Robarge stole
and Sennett's throw went to center
field, Goodrich scoring and Robarge
keeping on to third King raised a
short one TO right and Carpenter
squarely muffed it, Goodrich scoring.
King stole easily, but Parle grounded
out, Whalen to Sullivan. Not one of
those runs was earned off Driscoll A
pass to Whalen opened our half of this
inning, but the next two famed and
Tewhill was easy.
double by Francis and single by
Jennings, after he had again tried
twice to sacrifice, gave the visitors
their sixth run in the sixth and we
got two of them back in our half.
Hammond was passed. After Francis
had given Dyke life by mufiing his
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to Jennings, who forced Hammond at
third. Sennett singled to center and
MacRobbie let the ball roll through
him and Swasey made poor return
of it to the diamond, two runs coming
in. Sullivan and Whalen flied out
Paul had been warming up through this
inning.
The champs retired in order in the
seventh and Brattleboro filed the bases
with no one out, but did not score.