Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-26
BASEBALL.

BASEBALL.
During the county fair at Barton
last week Orleans ball team added
! three games to it's ever-growing list of
wins. To be sure two of the games
were forfeited to them, but not until
there was every appearance that they
would be victorious if the game had
been played out to finish.
THE FIRST GAME WITH ST.
q JOHNSBURY
= Wednesday the Orleans team went
up against supposedly fast team
from St. Johnsbury, and for five inn
ings it looked as though St. j., would
get their scalps, but in the fifth inning
/ their pitcher became wild and two
scores were made off him on wild
pitching and two hits and in this inn
ing with the bases full, the umpire,
I Thomas. called ball on one of the
Orleans men, which would have forced
a run and thereby tied the score.
Right there all the trouble commenced
and pitcher Spear of the ST. Johns
bury . aggregation put up a terrific
howl, that it, the called ball. should
have been a strike. The umpire could
MT see it that way and refused to
change his decision, whereupon the
St. j., team left the field and the
score went to Orleans as 80 on a
forfeited game. The actual tally.
no viewer. would have been 3-3 with
the bases full and the kick looked as
though St. Johnsbury were afraid of
being beaten and wanted to save their
supporters the money they had been
betting on the same on odds of two to
i'll H. Ill oI,,>~
pitcher was getting his bumps in the
was going better all the time, the last
four innings not St. Johnsbury man
had tailed and Laird seemed to have
everything on the ball. The score by
innings follows:
12345 678 RH E
st. Johnsbury3 0 900 33 2
Orleans OOOO3 "a 2
Batteries for st. Johnsbury, Spear
and Hoernle; for Orleans Laird and
Bassett. Umpire Thomas.
THURSDAYS GAME
Thursday the Orleans team met the
North Troy aggregation and the inter-
est from the very first was intense, as
these teams had met twice before dur
ing the season and each had a game to
it's credit. The game developed into one
the finest pitching duels ever seen in
Northern Vermont, with Bernard Lee
in the box for Orleans and "Pop"
Gardyne doing the honors for North
Troy. For eight long innings not a
single man on either side crossed the
rubber and in the first half of the ninth
North Troy was able to put one over,
but in the last half of this inning there
was all kinds of trouble. A couple of
hits put two more men on bases with
no one gone, then came the close play
at third in which apparently the Orleans
man going from second to third was
called safe by the umpire. Immedi-
ately there arose most terrible howl
from the North Troy fans, who de-
clared the man was out and refused to
go on with the game unless the umpire
changed his decision, which naturally
he refused to do, and after about half
an hour this game was declared for
feited from the fact that North Troy
refused to play further. The refusal
to play. however, need not be blamed
to the team. but was due to the North
Troy contingent of, rooters, who de-
clared that if the boys returned to
the field they would no longer support
the team. There is no question but
that in their zealousness they made q
serious mistake, because if Orleans
had won by the score of to @ it WOULD
even then have gone down in the his.
tory of baseball as a wonderful game
To old "Pop" Gardyne, who sal
through all the wrangle contentedly or
: the mound ready to go back at then
hard any minute, the greatest credi
J is due. He pitched a splendid game
, and was beaten only when in thei
utter foolishness the North Troy root
ers refused to permit Dana to ccntinu
, the game. The score follows:
1884 56789 R H
: North Troy 10000 A
: Orleans 90 COOK a
=, No one gone and two on bases whe
game was called in ninth.
Batteries for North Troy. Gardyn
and Barrows; for Orleans, Lee an
j Bassett. Umpire, Thomas.
v THE GAME WITH NEWPORT
The game Friday was very tam
compared with the first two game.
;. and although the umpire was changed
:. Newport never had any show of VIII
ming the game. the final score shown
at II in favor of the Orleans boy:
i "Pus' Connor. who did the box wor
o for Orleans, struck out nearly half {
s the number of put-outs required, Will
Kennison for Newport was at time
hit hard, Heath and Barrows doin
: some good stick W. rk for the Orlear
: team. Newport did tie Orleans or
{ score made in the first inning in the