Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-07-01
BRILLIANT FINISH
Of BASEBALL SEASON
More Than 5000 People See Uni
versity Team Win from Boz
ton COllegians-Cr wd In
cludes Hundreds of Graduates,
Back for Commencement

with kibbee holdlne the bosron Coi~
legians to one scratch hit, the Uhiver-
sity OF Vermont shut out this team at
Centennial Field Saturday. with 3-to-0
score. in the last game OF the season Of
1920, the game being played before
commencement crowd which rivaled the
great turnout to the Holy Cross game
earlier in the season. There was the
largest number of automobiles ever sken
on the field and It is estimated that $40
people witnessed the game.
| Just before the game began q process
| sion, headed by the University band and
consisting Of several hundred of the alum
nj. many Of them in the fantastic Earo
which distinguished their classes, appear
ed and encircled the field before finding
places from which to watch the GAME
| II was ideal baseball weather and the
two teams settled into the game from the
| start, playing practically air-tght ball
| for the first three or four innings
! Neither side was able to score until the
sixth. when Vermont made the three runs
| which won the game. The closeness OF
| the contest made it much more interest
ing than Fridays game. 1t was actually
| pitchers battle between Kibbee and
the much heralded Fitzpatrick. and the
| honors were easily with the Vermont
twirer.
one semblance Of a hit and that Wa Of
the scratch variety, a well-placed hit
to the nfield, with nobody there to
handle 1t. During six Of the nine innings.
only three men faced Kibbee In each
frame. The only time that the visitors
got man as far as third base was in
the third inning, when Kibbee issued hit
only pass OF the game to Swan, which
was followed by Gormley's scratch nit
and Wilson'S sacrifice putting men on
second and third. with only one out
, The effort proved in vain. however. be-
cause Bond flied out to Burns, while
, Palmer sent one into the hands of Brock
r Burns, Vermont's hard hitting left
fielder. was the hero of the game at
: the bat In Fridays game he knocked
in the first run. and Saturday his pretty
. double the only extra base hit Of the
contest. brought in Vernont's first two
runs and Burns crossed the plate with
the third run himself.
This all happened in the sixth inning
, Kibbee led off and reached first when
l Palmer threw wild to the bag. McGinnis
: contributed a well placed single, advanc.
ing Kibbee. Tryon helped each runner
, along with a sacrifice bunt Then came
Burns and his two-pagger, putting Kib-
bee and McGinnis across the plate.
singled. scoring Burns. Spillane reached
second on the throw in. and stole third.
, Then he tried to steal home, but was
caught at the plate.
During the greater part Of the game,
I Kibbee had the opposing batsnnen swing
l ing at the air. During the first twu
= innings. he famed Ave men and not "a
, fair ball was hit. He was given good
e support all of the time. and Vermont
f may well be satisfied with the closing o.
. the 1920 baseball season. Kirwan rand
a Harris were playing exceptionally 3goot
i ball in the infeld. Kirwan receivedewelk
4 merited applause for capturing 4 hard
: one-.a long way back, of second. which
was just too far in for'the center .nelder
= It looked like a hit, but KirWan 60,
S there in time. Harris had six chances
S and played them all nicely except ora
s a low throw to first in the ninth which
o allowed a runner to get on.
= The reorganized team of the v1sftori
e was somewhat unsteady behind Fits.
e patrick although they were able to keet
i their errors from proving very costly
: with the exception of the one IN tn
8 sixth. Two of vermont's scores verv
h made on clean hitting, however. ant
n under these circumstances Fitzpatrick
would have been no better of with al
air-tight team behind him. The Vernon
team won by hitting Fitzpatrick, and b.
=, better baseball.
, The summary: