Putnam patriot., 1915-09-03
NO 36
BASE BALL
Cannon Ball Bedding Appears, Gets His
 Bumps, and Loses lis tame
Moosup Takes First oi Series. Second Game Scheduled for Sunday Postponed
 on Account of Rain

on Account 0f kain
 There was joy in ,the Moosup camp Saturday. The team from that vil- lage took a hard fall out of Putnam. The score was to !, Putnam had the short end and Il was short indeed con sidering that it was hundred to ono shot that the locals would win,
 The uncertainties Of the great nation- al game is one of the features that make il interesting. If you were betting man and had money to place on Putnam Saturday it would still re- main in your jeans. Because, the great Cannoabal Bedding was down to pitch, did pitch, and no one had the assurance to risk hard earned money against him. It was ioregone con clusion that Putnam was booked to win. Nothing sounded like Moosup victory until along about the 6th when Reddng's smoky ones were found by visiting batters.
 Reading is acknowledged the great est eolored pitcher in the game today. Why didn't he hold Moosup down9 That Is the question that Is being ask ed. Those that can see through hole in The fence and dope out inside base ball are ready with their answers. These answers are the true reasons why the oolored giant got the worst drub- bing of his career. Here Is the inside dope, Everyone present saw that Me- Lean was not holding the redhot drives of the colored boys right wing. | Through five innings the visiting bats- men could not make dent in the Ge- 1 livery worth while. But all the time the balls were springing from Larry's big init as If 1t contained a hidden | spring. Larry was the man that sig nailed for what should be pitched and how it should be pitched. A pitcher that needs speed to do business witk and can't use 1t because of his catcher hns got 30 per cent handicap against him. We leave the matter right here and let the fans draw their own com clnsions. But 1t k only fair to Red ding to state that he has agreed to come here to pitch another game against the same team, bringing his own catcher, and If he doesn't win his game he doesn't get q copper That Is how he feels about the matter, all though 1t Is to his credit to say that he is not making excuses. Those who snw him warm up and saw him pitch the first five innings, Tn which the only man to get to third arrived there on two passed balls, can reason out for themselves why he got two strikes on man after man only to see the third one go sailing out to safe territory. The answer to all this Is too easy.
 But Moosup won. They won on their merits and batted out victory that deserves credit. The team play ed snnppy ball, the HOO fans saw good work, and it was good game all around, except for the fact that Put nam didn't win. There were no glar- ing feature plays but there was some- thing moving all the time and Umpire l iStd Ibbitp ifiNdt h tfiPito- sion. He showed his gameness when ball passed Mclean and hit him in the side, in the sth or 9th, and broke rib. The nervy little Ump kept right on to the finish and then went under doctors care and had the broken mem- ter braced up. 1t was a demonstra- ton Of sand that would have received hearty recognition had 1t been known l at the time.
 Sullivan pitched q fine game. He held Putnam to seven little bingles. 1 The two runs that Cassent's bunch an- nexed in the sih were gifts. Walsh went in as pinch hitter and rolled an easy grounder down to 0'Neil. With all the time in the world the Holy Cross player made q poor throw letting two runs over. Putnam ought only to have a right to one run earned in the second when Bedding and Mafcusiry singled and Leddy put a double over the canvas.
 There is, we believe, cosey little corner in the hearts of Putnsm fans for Bedding, and most of the Putnam pushefs would like to see the colored man work out under more favorable conditions. No one who watched the smoke artist put thesbest his catcher would stand for over but would like 10 see him throw the clutch into high geer and go to it. He had the gaso- lene, the carDnrator was working, the valves were ground 10 perfection and the whole machine WAS working at better than Il two minute clip but he WAS held back by the ogy manipula- tor Of the traffic department, m other words the despateher was working with crossed wires and afraid that he could not hold the cannonball express at the crossovers.
 Bat the whole game was not the i Lincoln Giant. There were others in lhe game. Paul kFltchalI formerly ef Hartford, and later Of the St. Louis Browns, was holding down the initial sack. sullivan was wise 10 the gent from Louie and presented him with passes. Old Joe Mafcustry, just recoy- ertnz from A couple of Jcb's < comfort-