St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-05-17
OPENED
WITH DEFEAT
St.EJOhnsbury Academy Beaten By
Montpelier Seminary On The
Campus Wednesday
LOCALS WORK RAGGED
Allowed the Visitors to Make Seven
Runs In First Four Innings, Then
Showed Better Work-GaIia-
CHER Pitched Well But
Lacked Support.

The baseball season was opened Of
fcially Wednesday when Montpelier
Seminary handed out a proper lacing
to the St. J. A. The score of to 3
could hardly be accounted for by
briliancy on the part of the Capitol
entire lack of anything approaching
real baseball ability by the locals dur
ing the early stages of the affair.
In four innings the visitors piled up
their sum total of seven runs and in
accommodating this nest full only three
hits were registered, one in the first,
another in the third and a two-bagger
| by ST. Mary in the fourth. The fact
that seven men registered during this
open season for scores was chiefly
accounted for by the help received
from st. J. A. The locals seemed to
vie with each other in muffs, boots,
fumbles and plays that are usually &C
copied as conclusive evide ice of a
| concrete superstructure.
During this period insolvency
dropped two in center field, Witty lost
two chances, Warden another and
through charity the official scorer la
belled several other wierd plays as
fielder's choices.
In fairness to Gallagher it should be
said that he was working well and
with fair support this big lead never
would have been piled up against
them.
While all this was going on st. ]. A.
was giving an equally tiresome exhibi-
ton at the bat. Holloway was serving
up slow ones that couldn't seem to be
put beyond reach of the inner line OF
defense and things certainly looked
black for the locals.
A fifth inning rally turned the ia
: bles and Captain Gallagher and his
tribe clapped on the lid and wedged il
tight. After that the visitors were fed
in small portions, stingily doled out
by their hosts. Not a man was al
lowed to approach home and ever
| second and third began to grow dis
! tant to the visitors.
With the reversal in form the local:
went out after the leaders and al
though they were still four pegs be-
hind at the close they demonstrated
> to the satisfaction of the crowd tina
the alleged baseball served up by then
in the first four frames was not the
only kind they had in stock.
: Farnham was the first man to score
l for the home team. With one dow1
, in the fifth he connected with Hollo
ways delivery for a single and wa.
helped along when insolvency drew
pass and scored when a mix-up oc
Cured in trying to nab the latter il
purloining second. This rally put thu
J pep into the youngsters and from theI
on life was not so easy for Holloway
Although they couldn't hit him, sew
eral worried him into issuing passes
t and to cap all his defense wabbleC
2 several times and threatened to breal
7 down altogether. In the sixth Gala
, CHER started with a clout good for two
= bags, Kicker was out, Granai to Hatch
: and the old southpaw scored. WardeI
was given free transportation and ad
} vanced on st. Mary's error, scoring OF
the play that retired Jameson, Mar
to Hatch. Farnham popped one t.
Kelley and the scoring was over TO,
: the day.
, Holloway's pitching and Hatch's al
around work stood out in the day.
performance, but they were the only
ones who deserved anything in the
line of bouquets.
A team which can stage that come
back deserves a panning for theil
work in the opening rounds. and they
, got it from a small but interested
, crowd.
, The weather was better for hockey
and many winter coats and sweater
were in evidence on the bleachers
Albert Blake didn't let the wintry
guests disturb him. The fan privilege