The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-02
STAGE SET FOR
BOSTON BRAVES
Will Play at Island Park To-
morrow If Weather
Permits
LINEUP is SENT
HERE BY TELEGRAPH
McQuillan, Morgan or Demaree to OPP
pose johnson or Stowell in Pitchers
Box-Nearly All Merchants Agree to
Close Stores.


The stage is all set for the game to-
morrow afternoon at Island Park be-
tween the Boston Braves (National
league team and the Brattleboro Ath-
letics, and it is now up to the weather
man to furnish good weather for the
next 80 hours The game will start at
$50.
The Athletics treated local fans to
two exceptionally fine games Sunday
and yesterday In both games they
showed the old fighting spirit, which
is the most important element of any
successful team. In Sundays game
they went into the last half of the ninth
three runs behind, but proceeded to tie
the game and then won out to tie tune
of 20 3 in the 11th. The local boys
| lost the game yesterday, which was a
hard fought contest, 3 to 2.
The lineup of the Braves has been re-
| ceived by telegraph and is as follows:
Boeckel, 3b; Rawlings, 2b; Powell,
rf; Thorpe. eff; Holke, 1b; Mann, IF;
Maranville, SIS; Gowdy, c; McQuillan,
Morgan or Demaree, p.
The Athletics will lineup as follows:
Austin, SIS; Kaine, rf; Filion, eff; Tay-
lor. 3b; Kennedy, If; Dunlevy, 2b;
| Angler, 1b; Clune, c; Johnson or Stow
ell, p.
To relieve the minds of those who
may be thinking that the game tomor-
row might have to be called off because
/ the Braves did not play yesterday morn
| ing in New York, it NAV be stated that
| Manager Austin was in telephone com
munication with Secretary Riley of the
Braves last evening and was informed
that the Brattleboro game was not af-
fected and that they would arrive on
the 9.4S train Wednesday morning. The
cancellation of the morning game yes
terday made it necessary to cancel the
game they had scheduled in Pittsfield
today.
A paper was passed on the street
/ Saturday requesting the merchants to
close their places of business from
clock until after the game tomorrow
and it was readily signed by all but 8
very few. The arrangements of prac
) tically all the factories have expressed
their Willingness to allow those of theil
employees who wish to do so to attend
4 the game.
5 The advance sale of tickets has beer
very satisfactory and at the rate they
A are going at present very few desirabl,
I seats will be left by the time the stands
a are thrown open to the public.
o This is the biggest sporting even
Y ever staged in Brattleboro and the frs
: time in over 30 years that big leagu
!, team has played here, and it is now Vi
IN 4hn -, !
appreciation by large attendance.
! On Thursday, Oct. 25, 1888, SO year
d ago, the Boston National league tear
d played in Brattleboro, the ball ground
l. then being what was called the Eros
n meadow, where Holden & Martin IS hun
is ber yard now is The team won tn
G feather in the cap of Manager Hall @
t. the Brattleboro team to get the bi
'e leaguers to come here. The local tear
W had an attack of stage fright, maxim
re Is errors, and was beaten, 13 to 3. TIL
v Reformer of Oct. 26, 1888, in colum
story of the game, made the followin
M explanation at the opening of th
lie story:
~ s'Saturday and Sunday it was a
rs ranged by Manager Hall to get Il
er of baseball The negotiation was vel
IS, easy because Morrill,, the captain al
Tx manager of the Bostons has mar
" friends in town, where he has ofts
of been a guest, and being guaranteed
ey 1925 they agreed to come yesterday,
they had arranged to play the Al
tt herst college nine today. OF course t
ar Brattleboros had no idea of doing mu
tn, against the solidest and best organic
N nine in the world; but the game, viii
he was probably witnessed by fully 20
al. people, was finely and closely enou
played to be very interesting. Foley
tricks, left-hand pitch and difficl
downward shoot bothered the Bosto
.te a good deal. As they themselves S
when they found that they weren' It
ing much with it, they felt uneasy
on the end of the game and played
in every bit they were worth. This W
on. evident enough to the observer who |
or derstood the game. The Bostons {
lis the heaviest batters that stand on lie
of but three of them never succeeded
me hitting Foley at all, and Is times, ma
mas iy in the early part of the game, tn
ele- went to the bat to strike out. In
they got 16 base hits against six
the Brattleboros.
so "The weakness of our nine is,
if course. at the bat, but besides this so
nd, unusual errors by our best players a
on a mistaken ruling by the umpire W
uld responsible for at least six of the b
an ton scores.
Brattlpboro had four of IFS regu