The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-24
PARADE ON STREET
~ GOOD AS CIRCUS
Classy Stunts Pulled Off, Even tc
Stealing Second with Bases Full
About SITS Realized with Which tt
Send Track Team to Rutland.

land Labor day had any more fun out
of the game than did 33 ex-ball play
ers who participated in a full nine
inning game they had a lot of fun.
Perhaps they are not so sore today as
are some of the players who have
been discovering muscles that have
long been idle. Perhaps they are in
clned to the belief that they got more
for their quarters than did the play
ers for theirs (for even the ump had
to buy a ticket, but the players
doubt it. The proceeds of the benefit
were about $175.
The whole show was not on Island
park. There was a parade on Main
street before the game and it was
'some' parade. Charles r. Crosby
headed the motley aggregation of ball
players on his cid high wheel. Behind
him marched a drum corps composed |
of Fred Adams, Henry Reynolds,
- Cham Young and ''Clate' Daniels.
Each of them was CARRIED lin part) in
a jumper and a tive-cent straw hat.
They worked one tune nearly to death, |
but made it last all the way to the
! park. 1t was rumored they knew an
! other tune, but did not have time to
! shift, so great was the demand for
music. Behind them marched two lines
! Of "has beens,' and garrets and
| barns had been ransacked for moth
eaten regalia once used on ball fields
| in this and other localities.
No circus parade ever attracted al
much larger crowd on the street than
did the one that preceded the ball
game. Some appeared to have the sus-
picion that a wild animal was march-I
ing between the lines of players. This
was erroneous. 1t was merely the um
pire who insisted in wearing his face
in q cage as an emblem of his office.
Far be it from us to comment on the
work of the umP. AS a parade attrac-
ton he was close third to the mar
shall and the drum corps.
Marshal Crosby, who was forced to
stop at the foot of Main street hill
and have the tire on his rear wheel
, wired on, mounted again and resumed
, the job of marshaling the parade at
the grade crossing. He rode on to the
{. field at the head of his minions and
then dsmounted. The drum corps,
i greeted with wild acclaim by the
. spectators, still hung to the tune and
4 went the round of the bases in reverse
order, setting an example that was fol
! lowed later by some of the West SideTs
to the detriment of their score.
y The various players and substitutes
scattered Immediately and went
through warming-up exercises, or tried
to, as if they had once really been
PLAYERS. The two captains, d. Frank
Shea and Hon. John Wright, as was
expected. were not able to do any cap
tanning except of themselves. Capt
Shea officiated for a time at first base
= and hit for 800 and ran for 900. He
y insisted upon substituting Tax Collect
3 or Shumway as runner, and in thai
capacity Shumwav did a good job. A
a second baseman he was pretty punk
Capt. Wright may have played see
u ond once, possibly about the time I'll,
y Derby hat he wore was turned of
= the press. That hat, at it's highes
~ point, has less than two inches alti
tude He played as close to second a
his hat, at it's highest point, was to hi
y head and that was sons close. IL
! made only one error in four chances
n while his successor, the captain Of tn
gray haired brigade, part owner of l.
land park and an undertaken, mad
an error Of his only chance. Cap
n Shea s successor, slim child who wen
> by the name of Jones, showed lot c
70 class and because Of dub fielding b
the West Siders, gets credit for tw
hits in two chances. His fieldin
chances were all so easy any chuml
8 barring some of the West Slider
g would have accepted them. He shoul
in have no credit for his perfect score
nd When it came to using the willo'
'Louie' Allen got the idea he w
hurting mail sacks through the al
If he hadn t been so lazy his trip
h
double another one He stopped
third so as to steal home. Anyol
else could have done the same THU
if he could have got to third.
M. The East Siders clouted the ball
= over the lot, sgettingv as hits off the ~
alleged twirlers who worked for
West Siilers, And right here it shor
3 be said that the only pitcher who W
not scored on was q yanked'lt by
NJ alleged manager VINO sat on the ben
and who explained that he was afra
81. said pitcher would be hit if he stay
Oh, the, slab. This pitcher has no &.
,satgla,ek- coming exceptShe would like
"a airiaerst6od that he aid not voluntar
retire. 1t was bum Infringement.
The official league scorer has be
yapping around since the game Il
if it hadn t been for HIM failing to
out of the way of a line drive t
pitcher who was not scored on wo
'"o have been beaten to fragile.
you have to do is look over the I
ords He had two errors. He wo
have had a lot more if good pitch
lted had not kept the balls away ii
arls him.
heir The cIassiest stunt. and one seld
the seen outside of fast league ball.
baa full
was such fast work as that, by
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