The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-09
Bellows Falls Found Him for
Ii Hits, Including a
Three-bagger
UMPIRING BY
WHITNEY A FARCE
fIayers on Both Teams Disguised
Visitors Won to O Victory, Home
ieam Never Threatening Plate
New Men in Brattleboro Lineup.

what dampening the rain of 80 min
utes and the delay of 80 did not put
on the game at Island park yesterday
between Bellows Falls and Brattleboro,
the wretched umpiring of Whitney and
the lneffectiveness of MacGowan did.
The small crowd failed to paw much
attention to the fact that Bellows Falls
scored eight runs while Brattlef5oro
never even threatened the plate.
Joe Harrington, who was or tho
mound for Bellows Falls, at no time
exerted himself, but the home home
seam could collect only five singles and
Just two men got as far as second.
Manager Breckenridge presented
three new men, Moll at second. Nc
graw at short and Dunbar in right.
Mol IS vast improvement over Hav-
erty, both in fielding and batting, al
though he did not connect for hit
yesterday. Whether McGraw is better
IN the field than Chenoweth was not
determinable yesterday He would
not have to hit much to be better az
the bat AS for Dunbar, after he let
Daley have a gift double because he
did not see the ball in the sun. he
made three catches, but he was slow
at going after two-base hit bv Tor
phey IN the fourth which Whitney
called foul. He did nothing at bat.
That decision by Whitney, calling
Torpheys hit foul, was the rawest
possible. The ball struck 20 feet back
OF hfst base a yard in on fair ground
and did not roll to foul territory un-
III just before it~reached the flag A
blind man with his back turned to
the ball would have guessed nearer
right than did Whitney, who is indig-,
nant over the fact that people criti-
elze his work. Even with this decision
favorable to the home team Whitney
was jeered by the grandstand crowd.
After that the betting was even as to
whether Whitney would guess right as
often as he did wrong. Eugene Tan
sey, the old Connecticut Lacquer who
sat on the grandstand directly back
of the plate, said that he had been
up against some pretty raw umpiring
in his day, but that Whitney's exhi-
bition was absolutely the worst he had
ever seen.
1t was early apparent that Mae
GoWan was not going to be a puzzle
Tewhill dug him out of hole in the
second when he made a running catch
of Torphey's attempted sacrifice bunt
and doubled Donnelly off first. In the
third Daley got IFS gift double from
Dunbar and scored on Delaney s single.
Briggs opened the fourth with the
longest hit of the season on these
grounds, a triple beyond the fagpole.
scoring on Donnelly's single to left
Torphey was called out on strikes
Harrison singled to left and Meagher
dropped Lynch s perfect assist at the
plate, DonneIly scoring. Daley hit to
MACEDONIAN and Harrison was run
down between second and third, Mac
Gowan getting the out at third.
Another came in the fifth on a pass
to Delaney, Wright S single to right
and Briggs s sacrifice fly to Dunbar,
the lad making a pretty throw to the
plate
Three more came in the sixth Tor
phey opened with a single to left. Har-
rison sacrificed, Tewhill to Bennett, the
| third-baseman making a pretty run
ming assist. Daley drove a hot single
through McGraw and Harrington sim
gled clean to center after showing his
temper to Whitney over so-called
strike. McGraw made a low throw on
Delaney grounder and Wright S
single scored Harrington, Daley and
Torphey having previously scored.
A single by Donnelly, a sacrifice
and Bennett s error off Harrison s
hard grounder to him, brought Donnel-
ly home with the last run in the sew
enth.
A catch of a liner off MACEDONIAN by
Torphey, which saved a pair of runs
in the second, catch by Mowl in
center and one in deep left by Lynch
| were the fielding features. The score: