The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
GAME WENT
TO LITTLE GIANTS
Scored Is to 9 Against Fort Drummer
Mills in Apology for Baseball Con-
test-Few Bright Spots.

of judgment and of omission, TO say |
the game yesterday afternoon which |
resulted in the Little Giants of Green
field scoring 10 runs while the Fort |
Drummer Mills team was gathering |
eight, was some game. In any event
it required two hours and 10 minutes
to play, used up three pitchers on one |
side and part of one on the other, |
and the shifts in the players and bat |
ting order of the home team caused |
more Juggling of the score books than |
when couple of baseball generals are |
rushing in pinch hitters at every OPP |
portunity. Add to this the fact that |
the visiting team paid no attention TO
their batting order in their last time !
at bat and the home team paid no at |
tention to the shifts made il may be |
discerned with the naked eve that the
scorers had some troubles of their own.
There is one satisfaction, however,
they could make no more than the
players did, which is some salve to a
conscientious baseball bookkeeper.
One stunt was pulled off that is
probably without parallel in this sec
ton. Blake started in right field and
for two innings held that job Then
he was yanked out in favor of Millett.
Three innings later he suddenly APP
peared in the box, as the successor of
Bullet, who had been imported from
North Adams, Mass, to pitch for the
team. He had worked several balls
over the plate when Emery, who began
pitching for Millers Falls and Turner's
Falls before the American league was
conceived, and is today apparently as
good a workhorse as he ever was,
ambled out on the diamond and dis
cussed the situation with Umpire John
Clune.
There was a consultation which in
Guided the visiting captain, Porter,
Manager Thomas Whipple of the home
team and sundry players. Few in the
grandstand understood what was the
/ trouble. Finally, after a very brief
holdup, the umpire announced that, al
though it was irregular for a man TO
get into and get out of a baseball
game as he does football games, the
visitors had graeiously consented TO
concede the point. So Blake went on
pitching until the umpire S brother,
l"Jim, was rung in as a fresh relief
in the last two innings.
1t should be said plainly and dis
linctly for all time so far as it relates
to this especial game, that Walter
Johnson, himself, would have been dis
couraged BY the support, or rather
lack of it, that the pitchers of the
home team received both in the field
and at the bat, especially in the field.
The best description of the fielding
proposition came from young hopeful,
who knew something of baseball.
Quoth he, after an especially fragrant
exhibition of failure to connect with
an easy fly: "Them Fort Dummer
fielders are all right when they judge
'em-but that amt often. For a
comprehensive resume of the fielding
situation that was some gem. The au-
thor is unnamed only because of igno.
rance on the part of the ehronieler OF
this tale, but he would have been
Ipround to have been the originator
The visitors were considerate of eaef
fother's feelings for each man on the
! team scored one run in the first in
1 ming. But this was after Bressette
/ Ewhose ancestors and nearer relative,
I have played ball in faster conlpan,
1 =
? stop s territory and squarely muffeC
5 the easiest sort of pop fly raised b,
e the first man at bat. Next Noel, VIII,
:, offieiated for two innings in centr
9 field, misjudged and then muffed al
Y easy fly. Both should have been cas-,
IL outs. Then the delue began.
o There were real features. For in
y stance S. Graves, who held down tn
l,n4 eL,& Il
e thoroughly soaked as Island park ha
been for the last few months there
'r no real hot corner, banged out thre
clean, hard singles and one scratch
e one in six chances Weleh, who is no
81 exactly in Ty Cobb 5 class as bat,
he man, does the slide act well on tn
Il. paths and slid around to second an
third in the eighth, and then ther
e. was the careless way in which the vii
0 itors started their batting order in I'll
0 last round, which enabled Sargent, WI
0 should have been the first batter, I
o clean up two runs with a triple as ii
0 first batter.
0 All in all it was a real study-th;
0 game There will be lots more
0 which the Fort hummer Mills tea
0 will participate in Brattleboro. No
0 that their stage fright is over, wit
/ some coaching on fielding they shou
. play good ball. With Bullet, Blal
l and Clune, the latter a left handle
: they are well equipped for pitche
q and both Dennison and Mclean c;
catch. The score of yesterdays gar
should not be mistaken for some e
= ample in compound interest. Here
y is:
. Little Giants, alb. r. h. pc. a.
Steinpepe, SIS, 6 3 2 l )
! Mcclure, eff, . . ? O.
n Parier, 2b, s , / 5
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