The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-05-10
BATTING MELEE
BY SPAULDING
Enabled Locals to Win, IL
to z, Over Cathedral High
School of Burlington
NO LESS THAN 20
HITS REGISTERED
Game Played in Rain and
on Very Soggy Cam
pus Saturday

Ignoring entirely the downpour OF
rain through the anxiety to play the
scheduled game of baseball Saturday
afternoon, Spaulding high of this city
and Cathedral high of Burlington bat
tied away on Lincoln campus for three
hours, and after being convinced that
the field was thoroughly wet, that every
player was drencbed to the hide, and
that Spaulding had won, 1911, the
young men consented to leave for their
dressing rooms.
The game never lacked interest until
the latter part of the seventh inning,
when Spaulding gained three point
lead, and from beginning to end was a
peculiar one to watch. in the first place
game Is seldom begun with such
weather as prevailed at $3.50 Saturday
afternoon; next, one did not have a
safe bet on either team until the sew
enth inning, for the scores were balanc-
ing almost every inning, and quite fire.
auently two men were on bases when
the side retired; then again, bats and
balls were wet and slippery and very
hard for the players to handle on the
grease like field. With such combina-
ton of peculiarities and extraordinary
circumstances, events kept the rain
protected spectators interested until
the end.
Delaney, the lanky Cathedral pitch
err, was doing fine work in the box
until the fifth inning oliver started
batting rally that netted four scores
in this period of the game, and from
then on the home team did little less
than hit and run.
Apparently the extra effort required
to put the ball, with its water soaked
cover, over the plate had weakened De
laney's arm. Oliver singled, Mcmahon
singled, Calcagni sacrificed and ad-
vanced the two base runners; then
George Douglas placed nice two-bag-
ger that brought in two scores, Murphy
carried on the good work by hitting
out single; Greig struck out, Calde-
rara got safely TO first on an intield rap
which Free muffed, and O'Leary drove
Douglas and Murphy in on second
two. Dagger before the third out could
be made.
This was the first sign of Delaney's
slipping, but from then on his delivery
was hit freely. However, some of these
hits might have been recovered by his
teammates under ordinary field condi-
tons, but with mud clinging to the
spikes and the diamond like hard
wood floor well creased, good support
was impossible.
Cork screw curves were all with pro
hibitionists, out of the rain, for the
delivery of such was impossible, and
the best a pitcher could do was to put
the ball over the pan" And If he
did that he was doing well.
To keep this contest on the go, base
ball seconds" were on the sdelines
rubbing down the horsehides. or rather
drying the balls with handkerehiefs
and clothes.
Spaulding had the advantage of the
visitors in their pitching stan, using
three men to Cathedrals one. Bobby
Nicora had an off day, so he was taken
from the game in the second. Calderara
pitched for three innings, and second
baseman OLIVER the remaining four,
Each of these men received fairly good
support on the part of his teammates.
The score: