The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-07-28
BENNINGTON GAVE
ELECTRICS FIVE
TO ONE SHOCK
Made Eastern Leaguers Look
Like School Boys
COULDN'T HIT CONNOLLY
Lanky Boxman Had PlttsfeId Play
ers in a Continual Guessing
Contest.
COULDN'T HIT CONNOLLY

Before the largest crowd that has
witnessed a baseball game in Ben
nington since Il professional team
was maintained in town, the Huckle-
berry boys administered to /
shock to ,he Electrics of pittehcld
at Fowler Park yesterday afternoon.
The heralded leasucrs from the Eas-
tern association were made to look
like a team Of high school players
The picnic trip 10 The bushes"
turned out to be a trimming.
A Bennington bah team has not
put up a better game than that OF
yesterday in the local history OF the
national spurt. While the heavy end
Of the work was carried by the bat
terry, Connolly and Shea, every play
er on The team was right on his
toes from The first to the end of The
last inning. There were but Two mis-
cues, Caroan failed to hold a low
thrown bail from third in The third
inning and in the fourth there was
misunderstanding between the in
field and ou,feld whereby a pop ly
that Should have been caught went
iOi . hit.
Pittsficld had ono ragged inninr.
the second, when Billy Fnncean.
the former Bennington shortstop.
fell down on two hunts ana Sommcr
lot, the pitlsield first baseman.
threw wild over thiid bacc. Those
three errors gave Bennington tw1
cf live runs hut the other three were
made on heard, clean batting.
During lhe hrst cis!lt hmiuas Con.
aoliy had Che i1lectNcs standinI on
their heads During eight nnths of
the game Pittshcld made only four
clean singles and a scratch and no
TWO Of them were close enough relat-
ed To be considered second cousins.
lie used curve bah nenry ali the
time and was especially effective
when there were runners en- bases
Connolly not only pitched good bail
bat he held the runners on the has
es and ably assisted Shea in "pog
cling out the three runners who at
tempted to steal second base. Shea
caught like a big lcaguor and hand
led three foul fly balls in SooG
shape
In the ninth inning, with the score
. to O in favor OF the homo team
Connolly undertook to finish The
game with straight balls and was hil
for double and a triple and asacri
flee fly. The combination gave PITTS
field its one lonely run. Connolly
then frightened and The next two bat
ters were easy outs.
Pittsheld used three pitchers. Du-
chenils. who went the first three in
nings, Jared the best OF the trio. Car
olan hit him Tor "a single in the sec
ond and the three errors in The Pitts.
field inlleld Immediately following
gave bennington Two runs. Smith. n
lefthander, was on ,he mound for
the next three innings and Benning-
ton twice punched a double and a
single Cough was the third pitcher
and he came in for a double and a
single in the eighth.
The first inning was ratified off in
JIG time. With two ont Baker, the
Pitsfeld second hascman. singled
through the diamond. Baker is con.
sidered the specdiest base runner in
the Eastern association. but he certain
~ didn't look it when he tried to 80
down TO second. Shea sent the ball
across the diamond like a bullet and
CCnnors met the speed marvel ten
feet from The bag. Bennington went
out on three ground balls.
Cough was the first batter up for
Pitistcld in the second and he singl
ed to center. He was sacrificed "a
second and then attempted a Hide
vaudeville work between second and
third. lie was easy picking for Con
molly. Conley and Mccarthy who ran
him down withOu, q ghost of a show
| 10 get away. Finncgan finished The
inning 10y grounding ont, shortstop to
nrst Carolan opened the inning for
Bennington with the first hit OF the
game for the home team. pclOquin
and Conlcy followed with racrificc
hunts ip FinncEan. The former Ben
nineton shortstcp booted the FIRST
chance and on the second threw wild
over first First hascman Sommcrlot
sent the bali back over third and IVA
scored Edgar. Shea and Connolly
went out on inGold ercunders.
one iliisheid runner reached first
in the third lie attempted 20 steal
second and persisted on the way. on
IN three Bennington haitcrs came ia
the plate in this period.
After Burton had struck out i'm the
fourth. Baker got a Dit This limo
De managed tc steal second because
OF the miXup between Connofs and
Edgar. lie made no further progress.
however Tor the next two batter.
vent out, one on a rs 10 Edgar ans
the other on foul 1y 10 shea. ia
ear made his pu.-out after g. long ru1
and the play was rour6lv anar7rfe,
from the stand T-rtauro- Snni