The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-11
Snappy Plays in Both Games
of Baseball Minstrels'
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NOTEWORTHY SHOW
BY LOCAL AMATEURS
Maranville, Boston Braves Midget
shortstop, Gets Good Hand-Big Au-
dience Enjoys Jokes, Music, Dancing
and Other Features.

and Other Features.
The first double-header OF the Brattle
boro Baseball minstrels was played last
evening in the Auditorium with grand
stand, bleachers and standing room
iammed to the limit and ground rules OF
one laugh to joke enforced. Rabbit
AIaranvilIe played sensational bali at short,
scooping EN- on the run and shooting 'em
over" 50 true to the mark that no one
was obliged to reat:h for a single toss lie
was backed up in faultlcss style by both
teams, and both games We're won by the
| home outfit through brilliant work at bat
and i'm the field and that wonderful team
work that has been taught by the Miracle
Man" john j. Nolan of Boston. While
| he is only bench manager he showed
| last night that he had succeeded in inn
lparting to his satellites the necessity for
team play first, last and all the time, and
it this team play that won out.
The first game went II innings before II
was finally challed up to the credit OF
Brattleboro and the defeat of the Cuban
Giants and the second game went with
Il snap and dash that showed the conf
dence the boys had in each other, and was
called on account Of need for sleep after
six innings. The same teams viii play an
other bargain bill on the same grounds To-
night, and ii anyone wants standing room
it will be case Of come early TO avoid
the rush
From the instant the curtain went up
on the first act until it finally dropped on
| the Red Cross drill team which had
thanked the audience for their presence
applause and laughter. there was scarcely
a minute in which good music. funns
jokes clever dancing, vigorous applause o.
hearty laughter was not working at tor
: speed. 1t was u mighty smooth amateur
: performance.
The opening overture, arranged by Di
lrector Nolan, was a very effective number
; and IN this the eight tambourine girls
r whose work was one Of the distinctly,
/ group features of the evening, early con
I WINGED the audience that the girls wer,
, not to be mere onlookers.
, Alcide Marion and Harry Plummer il
/ Back to Dixie had opportunity for Il cleye
+ song and dance, their dance number meet
ing with insistent demands for deserved
/ encore. To save time and space it ma.
as well be said here that every individual
number received an encore, and some o
them two, and all deserved them.
!. Jim Ferriter put over what he wa
: pleased to term some facts and the
. Iwere of somewhat startling nature an
j, cOnNulsed his audience.
Abbott Richmond trotted in with Iii
: Little Cane and Satchel in His Hand an
( his audience found enjoyment not onlyI
his impersonatlon but in his singing Of tn
q topical verses.
Onslow Thompson convinced all presen
II when he sang At the Ball, That's All, tina
! he is composed Of joints and nothing els,
J Here, as later in the evening, he did som
e clever dancing. His German senator
speech was delightful bit of misplace
&c and misapplied English.
Fred c. Adams, whose singing i alway
4 "a pleasure to hear. was cordially receive
e and sang Star OF My Dreams Shine O
! very effectively.
/ They All Had a Finger in the Pie W,
Il Hugh Harwoods vocal contribution, an
not only the words of his song but his gr
= tesque dancing met with instant favor.
Is George Childs introduced a new mod
e Ford automobile In support of his son
10 The Little Ford Rambled Right Alon
There We're times when there appeared
ID be something wrong with the transmissic
a gear, but George insisted that the machil
I ''Rambled Right Along and had 'som
I. thing on the regular cars.
lo 1t was right after this that Umpire-i
ne Chief Horton d. Walker introduced Il
III imported 100000 battery" Jean j. Va
III derveer and ID. Frank Shea The two III
some difficulty III breaking through Il
ne gate, SO Jealous were the members of Il
nc police force. but they got there and ca,
ls had managed to find time to steal chic
oS en-. They were fair looking birds, too, al
an had an interesting history.
nS Shea's sympathetic tenor voice IN Tl
OF Masters Key got the sympathy of /
IS audience and not only convulsed them b
IS convinced them that he could''come bacl
'e- as, in an impromptu encore Speech he 10
on his audience he was glad to feel that
lal had done.
&c Jean J. Nandervee1 put a lot OF vim in
he