The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-11
Barre Team Took First and
Montpelier the Second
of Double Bill
GALLAGHER WAS HIT
HARD IN OPENER
Laird Came Back and Held
Barre Safely in
Second

Gallagher. the star pitcher Of the Mont
pelier team, received the hardest pound
mo that he has taken hits season, when
the Italians OF Barre opened fire on ms
delivery Saturday afternoon N the hrst
game of double bill, sammlng the eN-
Vermont star to all corners OF the lot,
including a home run, three doubles ana
five singles, for total OF six runs, as
against two for Montpelier. The second
game ended at the close OF the sixth IN.
ming, with the score to IN favor oil
Montpelier.
Stuart and Joe Brickley led in the
heavy stick work OF the first game, stu
art getting two doubles ont Of four times
at bat and Brickley rapping out two
Dagger and home run, the latter MT
sailing into the river by the way OF the
center field fence. Lavoie did some pref
tv work with the stick in this game, hit
ting out two singles, beating one lnheld
roller by only a few inches at the iirst
station. He drew a pass and sacrificed
man to second ON his other two trips TO
the plate. Gaco. the sterling second
baseman on the Barre team, came across
with pair OF hard hit singles that aided
in the run getting. Not only was Gal.
lapher hit hard, but he seemed as un,
steady as the four winds with men on
the bags In the second inning ne trled
to get Lavoie nervous by pitching slow
and taking long time TO deliver the
bali. When he had three balls and two
strikes, Gallagher held the ball until the
crowd commenced to get uneasy; then
he threw to third to catch Gaeo, VINO
was on this bag, throwing wide to Doyle
and letting Gaco across the plate Tor the
first run of the game. This seemed 70
upset Gallagher for a minute, as ne
served a wide one to Lavoie, giving him
his base Melanson. on the other hand,
pitched nice game after the second IN
ing. allowing but five scattered hits, al
WAYS pulling out of the tight holes winch
he worked into at different periods IN
the game.
In the first two innings, however, Me
lanson started off little wild, hitting
three men and passing one, but after the
second frame jeff seemed to shake the
link" that mas been on his trail through
out the season, striking out nine men
and not issuing pass from the second
inning to the finish.
The fielding behind the pitchers was
very good, considering the cold wave
that lowered over the field all the after
noon. Gaco at second base pulled oil
some stellar performances, taking every
thing that he could get his hands on IN
the line of batted balls, while Stuart
pulled few bad ones out of the dirt
around the initial sack.
Barre started off the scoring in the sec
ond inning, when Gaco singled, went to
second on an error BY jun Laird, who
muffed the throw and continued to third
on a wild pitch by Gallagher coming
home on Gallagher's wild peg to third.
The Italians made three more runs In
the fifth inning. Lavoie, the first man
up in this stanza, hit one too hot for
Gallagher to handle; Melanson laid down
pretty sacrifice hit sending Lavoie to
second, and a two base blow by Stuart,
combined with a singing four base clout
by Brickley, Tailed the three runs.
In the sixth, they scored their last two
runs. Tomasi, first up, singled to lett,
and then Lavoie knocked him home with
a single. Lavoie proceeded to rattle Cal
laoher bv stealing second going to third
on the next pitched ball, and to make a
perfect play, he stole nome plate IN
regular Ty Cobb style.
Montpeier's first run came in the
fourth on an error two base hit and a
sacrifice fy They scored their second
run on an infield error and long single
into left field by Doyle, sending F. Laird
across the rubber for their last run 81
the game. The score is as follows;