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and such proved to be the case for
when the golden opportunity came to
him in the sixth inning he made the
best of it, resulting In brace OF runs
for AthoI and the game.
It was a pure and simple hold-up and
robbery for with one out and man on
FIRST bv virtue of a fielder s choice, the
first batter being forced at second, st.
John. the next batter, hit one to b.
Dunlevy at second, who gathered up
the ball and attempted to tag the run
ner going to second. The runner, to
avoid being tagged, ran out of the
base line about four feet. Dunlevy put
the ball on him, however, although the
umpire claimed he did not. Whether
he did or not did not matter, for the
base runner ran out the prescribed
zone allowed him and should have been
declared out.
This would have been two out and
ONLY one on, but the decision put two
on and only one out. Lowney, pitch
ING for the Athletics, then proceeded
to put over two strikes on the next
hitter and the way he had been pitch
ing and did pitch throughout the
game leaves no question in the minds
of the Brattleboro fans and players
that at least two of the next four balls
pitched were good fair strikes, but the
umpire, following the same course that
he pursued all the afternoon, namely,
of not calling a strike on the home
team unless they offered at the ball,
allowed the runner to walk and just to
be sure that they got run repeated
the same performance on the next hit
ter. forcing in run, when there should
have been three out and only one on
the bases.
The Athletics were now so mad that
they could hardly see the ball. Tandy,
the next hitter, drove one at Under
wood. who lost the ball long enough to
let a run in. Higgins, the next batter,
was famed because he offered at them,
and Hill lifted the only chance the
outfeld had in the entire game to Aus
tin in leftfeld These two cheap runs
brought their total to three, just
enough to defeat the Athletics, who
had turned in two earned runs by good
clean hitting. Yarker scored the first
one in the fourth when with two out he
singled and stole second, scoring on
| B, Dunlevy s double to left field. Aus
| tin scored the other one in the fifth
after two were out by singing to right
| field stealing second and scoring on
Barry long single to right center.
Barry was thrown out trying to make
two bases on the hit.
AthoI got their last run, which was
not needed, in the seventh on a real
freak play. Shea, first up, was safe
on UNDERWORLD error. He moved up
| to third on two outs at first and came
home on n short passed ball which was
| lost by Clune and was not found until
! the runner was almost home. Then
! Clune in his haste could not pick up the
ball, which was within a few feet of
the plate.
The one bright spot for the Athletics,
/ however, remains in the fact that they
discovered a real pitcher in Lowney of
| Winchester. who was hired on the spur
| Of the moment when the team was I'M
able TO secure any of its own known
| pitchers.
He had the Athol team at his mercy
throughout the game, allowing only
four hits, and three of these were col
lected by one player. That he passed
| five men should not be charged against
him, for in the minds of many the
| passes that were issued can be charged
entirely to the umpire Only one ball
outside the four hits registered was hit
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