The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-29
Laconia Made Is but Didn't
Bunch Them So
Well
THEREFORE VISITORS
LOST GAME, II TO 5
1t Was a Real Old-fashioned
Slugging Bee at Inter-
city Park

The order OF baseball at Intercity park
Saturday afternoon was varied some
what from the past months calendar, O
real old-fashioned, simon pure batting
bee supplanting the bitter struggles in
earlier weeks. The Barre team at the
termination of the nine innings was vic
| tor, IL to s, over team hailing from
Laconia, n H, That the game was moth
ing short of smuggling fest is evident
from scanning the hit column, which
shows that 20 hits were secured by both
teams for total of Al bases. The Barre
team registered IA of the hits, while La
coma contributed 10, but not with the
same telling effect. The game was wit
messed by about 400 spectators, many of
whom remained until the curtain was
drawn across the grounds.
| Barre opened the scoring in the third
inning by registering a couple of tallies
and during the subsequent three sessions
increased its lead until total of IL runs
had been piled up. Then the Barre play
assumed a lease of life, and Lacona
scored FIVE runs. Tommy Davidson,
Barre's star HEAVIER, was on the mound
for the local aggregation and found lit
tie trouble with the Laconia team Dur
ing the initial four innings he twirled a
superb article of ball and held the lads
from the White Mountain state score
less. At that time the Barre players
had accumulated comfortable lead and
under orders from the board of strategy
at the dugout, Davidson changed his
pace. Laconia then initiated little bat
ting bee of its own. Although hit very
hard, Davidson would always summon
his best during the remaining sessions
when scoring seemed imminent.
During the first two innings but six
Barre batters faced Mason, the lengthy
HEAVIER of the Laconia team. But in
the next round Barre opened its firing
artillery and started the scoring. The
fusllade OF hits continued and during
the middle portion of the fifth inning
Mason retrested to the bench. He was
succeeded by Lougee, who Jared no bet
ter than his mate. Lougee possessed
faster ball than Mason, which proved
more to the liking OF the Barre batters
than the first twirler Opportunities
were numerous for Barre scoring in the
latter innings, but reckless base running
obliterated many runs from the score
sheet.
The feature of the game was a spec
tacular running, one.handed catch by
Dante Peduzzi, the diminutive left fielder
Of the Barre team in the eighth inning.
The annals of baseball in Barre fail to
reveal any catch that surpassed Peduz-
zi's achievement While there may pos
sibly have been catches during the paImy
days of the old Northern league that
were as sensational there were never
any rated better. There was man on
first when Lougee came TO bat He
drove a burning line hit towards the riy-
err bank in left field. With the crack OF
the bat Peduzzi left his position and
travelled a fast pace towards the river
bank. After retreat of about 40 feet
he glanced upwards. Seeing the bali
close by he leaped into the air and pulled
it down with one hand while maintain
ing the same speed. The base runner
had rounded second After recovering
himself Peduzzi failed by few feet to
complete the double play.
Every player on the Barre team hit safe
ly except Peduzzi and Tomasi. Brown
and Laird led the Barre hitters with
three hits each. Brown hit twice for
doubles. Johnston, Mute and Fowlie
each negotiated two hits. One OF Johns
tons drives was a home run over cen
ter field fence, scoring Brown ahead of
him. The other was a long double that
would have been four bases on any 9th
er field. Mason. Joyce and Emery led
the Iaconia hitters with three each. The
score: