The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-10-06
Fairbanks Team Defeated
BY Boston Braves
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when the game finally got under way
4 The visitors were late in arriving at
the field and thew had to 90 through
their practice in order to get &C
quanted with the playing field. The
fans who had gathered early were lc-
Warded by fine practice exhibition
in which many startling catches were
made and long base hits Walloped out.
, The Braves injected certain amount
Of humor both into their practice and
i in the game and while some of it was
real good stuff Il lot Of it was OF the
, small town" variety. Through the
| courtesy of the Caledonlan-Record
/ the spectators were enabled to keep
/ in touch with the Cleveland Brooklyn
/ Worlds Series game, which was play
/ ed in BROOKLYN. A large score board
with the score by innings was placed
in view Of all and the baseball extra
sold during the game, gave them
complete story of the fast game of
| the post-season series.
Clarence Witty, the ace" OF the
Fairbanks pitching staff, was on the
mound for the locals and performed
in a velv efficient manner. Pitching
AGAINST odds. such as the weather and
q big league outfit, the premier right
handed finger put up as fine an eX-
hibitiOn as anyone would wish to see,
and had it not been for errors made
behind him there IS no question but
what the result Of the game would
have been different That does not
mean that the St. JohnsbuIY team
Ett1,
doubt that the score would hove been
closer Witty allowed only seven hits,
while his distinguished onnonent on
the hill, EayreS, yielded eight safe
cracks While the "W igwam" flinping |
artist struck out six Fairbanks batter,
Witty caused four Of the Bostonans |
TO fan the thin air in the course of |
the nine frames Each side had six |
errors chalked up against them, which |
goes to show that the "city chaps" !
fail down Just the same as the "coun-
try boys It is true that a couple Of
the BOstonese errors were the result |
Of unfamiliarity with the local |
grounds, but the others were caused |
by either poor judgment or over con-
Edcnce.
Stuart Of st. Johnsbury and Eayres
and Powell Of the Braves were the
hitting stars of the game. The To-
al boy smashed out two hits while
Powell knocked out three and Eayres
two, There was no real heaving hit
ing in the game although several
OF the Braves sent up long flies thai
could eaSil" have been muffed had
rot the Fairbanks fielders used rare
judgment and speared them. Sullivan
covered his ground in left field in
fine fashion, making several I'M
possible catches close to the fence,
while Cred Wilde took everything
that came his way in the center gar
den. In the third inning "Red" made
circus catch of high fly off Chris
tenbury's bat that looked like sure
three Dagger or Il home run. The
local outfeld had an errorlcss after
noon. Maranville played his usual
stellar game at short although he
made a couple of miscues owing to
his lack OF knowledge Of the playing
field. One of his errors was made in
the sixth, when he attempted a
grand stand catch of Brackets
high fly in left field, which belonged
to Sullivan. The Other mlscue was
executed in 9th, when WHY'S ground