The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-29
Defeated at Berlin Street
Saturday by Green Noun
tain" Ball Team
VISITORS PICKED UP
FROM MANY PLACES
Palmer, on the Mound, Kept
the Home Batters
Guessing

Sig hundred people, including peanut
vendors, saw the Italian Athletics go
down to defeat by a score Of 4 TO 2,
before team from Burlington and else
where at the Berlin street grounds Sat
urday afternoon. 1t is no eNaggeratlon
to say that a better game has not been
seen in Barre in some few seasons. Tn
der the guiding hand of Manager Will
Maiden, that master mixer there wac
mustered team from the Burlington
Eagles, Burlington high scnooE Lawrence
academy in faraway Massachusetts, ami
the University of Vermont, an aggre-
CATION that uncorked the best brand OF
goods that has been spread before Barre
fandom this year. If the whereabouts
of the much heralded all-Vermont team
perpIexed good many spectators when
The team trotted into the field, their
misgivings We're straightway lost when
Manager Maiden whipped his charges
into motion.
Could an adept dahster wipe away the
traces Of sundry grievous errors of com
mission and omission that wormed their
way into the scorebook we would have
TO record the story Of as pleasant con-
test as anyone could wish to see. De-
spite the fact that Palmer. the brainy
Lawrence academy lad, with his quite
marvellous change of pace, his elusive
drop, and his cross fire, had the locals
going all the way, it was not a one
sided affair, and if bad base running had
not INTERVIEWED in the interests of the
winning team, victory might have been
pinioned on another banner. Joe Weafer
was the selection for the !. A. G. He
twirled a masterfu game, and it was a
pity that some of the fine headwork he
displayed in the pinches couldn't have
been communicated to the Italian base
runners on the eve of several disastrous
Aulxes which they made on the circuit.
There wasn't a surfeit Of brilliant field
ing performances, but there was snappy
fielding, withal, and if the truth must be
known, there were some very curious
errors.
Two of these errors were measurably
responsible for the Mountaineers' first
run. In the second inning, Merrill and
Ashland had persisted without so much
as a struggle, when Burns cuffed out d
single to shallow center and gained an
easy second while Bottigi was pushing
the ball around the snakeweed with his
boot Burns tailed when Gilbert lee
down a roller which Triggs passed up.
Gilbert stole second, but was nipped by
Weafer and Giacamuzzi Weafer had his
hands full in the fifth. but only one run
was garnered. and that came when
Palmer tailed on Grows sharp single
through second. Previously Palmer had
earned the second run by sending safe
ty to left and then scoring on Swett's
nice looking double. 1t was a gloomy
third, and it was a gloomy fifth for the
Italians until they pulled themselves to-
gcther and retired the side without fur
Their scoring. Tally No. was cheap
enough to suit the most thrifty. Gill
bert had grounded out to Calcagni, when
Palmer got life on Giacamuzzi's foo
zle; he went to third on Maiden's sin
gle and stood there only long enough to
see SWEET send up an easy fly to first
Hamilton shot a swift ground TO David,
but the latter brought Calcagni off his
base on the throw. and both the batter
and Palmer were safe, the latter at
home.
In five innings. the Italians were out
in order, but fortune smiled on them in
the fifth and again in the eighth She
essayed a smile in the ninth, but it was
rt-lved. Two men were down when
Bottigi got scra tch hit in the fifth and
went to third on Giacamuzzi's single
Hamilton could not knock down the
third strike on Weafer, and Bottigi saun
tered in with the ball rolling toward
the grandstand. Again in the eighth two
men had been retired when Triggs start
cd the pyrotechnics with a double and
stole third, scoring or Ashlands bad
mufi. Caloagni drew pass and was
caught at third in trying to make too
much out of Davidi's good-for-one- base
only 20 right. In the ninth, there was
late rally that should have developed
some scores with the proper base coach
ing. Comolli grounded out to third. but
Counter hit safely and went to third on
Williams single. Bottigi famed and
Giacsmuzzi raped out a clean one to
right. The crowd was on its toes in
iiffy, but Gilbert made beautiful return
to the plate in time to catch Counter BIZ
a length. The score: