St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-07-14
SHERBROOKE
WINS in Is
INNING GAME
st. Johnsbury Loses in 2 to
l Battle Filled With
Thrills

slammed red hot liner safely into
center field at Sherbrooke Saturday
afternoon he put an end to base
ball game that will go down in local
sporting history as classic. 1t
ended game that had been Il con-
tinuous series OF thrills for Is inn
ings with Il score of tive to one in
favor of the Canadian CITY against
the Fairbanks A. A. of st. Johns
bury.
1t would take columns of space to
do justice to this record breaking
sporting event. Nearly 100 loyal
rootcrs from St. Johnsbury were on
hand at the Exhibition grounds to
give their home team generous sup
port. Nearly 1000 baseball fans of
Shcrbrooke turned out to see the
game.
On July S in st. Johnsbury the
Shcrbrookc team was defeated by the
Fairbanks players by the score of S
to 0. 1t took Sherbrookc 1G innings
Of the hardest kind of baseball to win
from st. Johnsbuly. The third con-
test between these two teams-thc
strongest in this mart of the country
is now being arranged for.
The game opened by S. Johnsbury
with II run in their first frame of the
first inning. Conner drew a base on
balls. Hoernle slammed out a three
Dagger scorin" Conner. Conner who
ran for Hocrnlc was caught at the
home plate and Sullivan and Swan
famed. This ended St. Johnsburv's
scoring for the 16 innings.
AS the game warmed up and Sher-
brooke failed to get a man around
to third base feeling of bitterness
and disappointment graspcd the
Sherbrooke players. Newton, an cy-
cellent catcher and hardworking
player, lost his head several times.
First, he blamed the umpire, "Ted"
Brown of Shcrbrooke for calling
balls instead of strikes when the
home team was in the field. Follow
inr an argument at the plate he used
abusive LANGUAGE to Woods of st.
Johnsbury with the result that
Woods of St. Johnsbury gave the
Canadian a swift iab in the ribs.
The players interviewed and Newton
took off his catcher's outfit and was
for quitting the game. But his fell
low players prevailed on him to re-
sumo and he and Woods shook hands
and Newton went at the "ame again.
Att he end Of the first half of the
9Th inning< the score was 1 to 0 in
st. JohnsbSry's favor. Vaughan
sent a singing grounder to first
which Slayton was unable to
handle. Vaughan started for second
and on a passed ball and wild
throw to second, scored.
The game went the nine innings
without further scoring and into the
extra frames. From the tenth inning
on the contest was a grueling one.
Everytime St. Johnsbury took the
field the Sherbrooke crowd started a
mighty shout and used every Hh1eans
to rattle McMann, the clever Fair
banks pitcher. who twirled magni
fcent ramc. He did not allow a base
on balls and struck out nine men.
He had hard luck in the fielding
of his fellow players. What few er-
rors were made were on the first man
to bat. This rlaced man on first in
about every inning after the ninth
and it was a tight squeeze to prevent
a score. Right up to the finish Nc
Mann showed speed galore and was
as fresh in the 10th
frame as in the first.
In the 18th inning st. Johnsbury
hid a fine chance to win. Swan sent
a fine two-bagger over second base.
He reached third on Gormley;s
grounder. Woods sent Il singing
groundcr to third. Swan did not wait
to draw throw to first before start
ing for home but ploughcd for the
hme plate. He was out by mile.
In the 18th Sullivan of St. Johns
bury prevented Shcrbrooke from
scoring by magnificent catch of
short fly ball into left field. He
scoopcd the ball just before it touch
ed the ground. 1t was clean catch
but some of the Shcrbrooke rooters
claimed it was scoopcd off the
grund.
Gormley in the 18th made sensa-
tional catch which prevented Sher-
brooke from scoring. He chased a
fly ball into deep center and jumped
for it. He fell on his back but re-
tanned the ball.
The outfelding of the St. Johns
bury players was great. Wood muf-
fed fly ball into his garden but he
was running directly towards pick
ct fence and had he not stopped,
the ball would have been
severely injured by running full
force into the fence.
The infield work of st. Johnsbury
was of big league type. Repeatedly
Conner scooped up hot grounders in
he infeld, tagged second and in one
case got the ball down to first for
double.
McMann is a worthy colleague of
Witty for the pitching staff of the
Fairbanks nine. Under the master
direction of Hoernle he pitched
lean, heady game, never getting
'attled even under the fussilade Of
yroanG and shouts of the Sherbrooke
,rowd Hoernle deserved all the
praise that st. Johnsburv can be-
stow upon him for the great team he
S putting into the field. The team
vas not batting strong in Sherbrooke
out this was due to the mastery
game that Thormalen pitched. This
young wizard was going as strong in
he 10th as when he started the