The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-06
SHELBURNE FALLS
EASY FOR LOCALS
Visitors Fail to Show Any
Real Baseball, and
Lose, 1914
ATHLETICS ROLL
UP S IN SECOND
Blake Leaves Pitchers Box i'm Fourth on
Account of Injury in Practice and
Adams Finishes Game, Aided by Air
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| Account of Injury i'm Practice and
| Adams Finishes Game, Aided by Air
Tight Support.
The Brattleboro Athletics found the
Shelburne Falls outfit rather easy picking
Sunday afternoon on the Valley fair
grounds, defeating them 10 to 4. Like
all teams the visitors had an alibi claim
ing that four regular players had left, but
from the way they played one would
think the entire team had left. Goodell
and Gerry made themselves conspicuous
by their everlasting grabbing, which is
more or less a trait on the part of Goodell.
Shelburne Falls may have had good
team, but they failed to show anything
that looked like real baseball.
Blake, who was slated to pitch for the
locals, was on hand and worked for three
and two-thirds innings, but he wrenched
his hip during practice, which caused him
considerable pain, obliging him to retire in
the fourth in favor of Adams, who got into
some pretty tight pinches but was helped
out by air-tight support.
Like all teams on the skids, Shelburne
Falls began changing the lineup in the
second inning The pitcher was yanked
although up to that time only three hits
were made off his delivery, errors by his
team being largely responsible for the
runs scored.
BrattlebOro made nearly as many errors
as did the visitors, but most of them were
harmless.
The visitors were turned back in order
in the opening frames, but not so with the
locals. as Austin, first up, poked Texas
Lacquer over first. f. Dunlevy sacrificed
him to second. Kennedy lifted one that
the third baseman caught With Yarker
at bat Austin stole third scoring when
GOodells low peg bounced out to left field.
One perfectly good two-base hit then
went into the discard as Taylor was I'M
able to bring Yarker in from second, where
he perched after the wallOp.
Shelburne Falls made a bid in their
half of the second. Gerry, leading off,
singled but was forced at second ON Reil's
rap to B. Dunlevy. In attempting a dou-
BILE play F. Dunlevy threw high to first
advancing the runner to second. Goodell
damned one at b. Dunlevy that broke bad
one the hop, getting away from him. but
as Rel fOolishly tried to score on the play
he was thrown out by feet at the plate.
The Athletics made a killing in the sec
Ond, batting all the way around. Il. Dun
levy led off with a free trip to first. Law
less fell all over Filion's grounder. putting
runners on second and third. The locals
then pulled off a pretty squeeze play,
Plumb laying one down as Il. Dunlevy
came tearing in, making a pretty slide
across the plate. Blake famed. and the
sacks We're loaded when Lawless again
fell by the wayside on Austin'S grOunder.
The locals got set for another squeeze
play. Filion starting long before the pitch.
Goodell tried to push F. Dunlevy out of
the batters box in his attempt to get the |
ball, which he dropped. In accordance
with the rules the run scored and theI
batter was given first for interference by |
the catcher Kennedy skied out to left |
but Yarker came through with his second |
hit, a single, making a total of five runs |
for the inning, az Taylor, the first hitter
to face Rel, famed for third out.
The first runs for the losers came in /
the third on tw6 singles and two errors. |
Runners were on first and second when
the side was retired. One run was an
nexed in the third by the locals on Fill /
ions single. the second baseman's error
and GOodells poor pitch to third, which
allowed the run to count.
Shelburne Falls counted one in the
fifth on Peltier's triple with one on, after
two hands were down. They also put one
over in the sixth. BrattlebOro pulling out
of bad hole In this frame. Wild led off |
with a single. Il. Dunlevy spilled Flow
er's grounder Adams made bad peg to
first in fielding Lawlesss roller. Wild
scoring Mccarthy lined one to Filion for
the first out Woodland. rolled one to
Adams, which he lost and the sacks were
filed. Gerrys best was a short hit in
front of the plate that Plumb got, beating
the runner from third to the plate. Rel
hit a roller to Adams, who shot it to
Plumb. forcing the third out. This was a
bad hole but the locals got away from it
rheaply enough and held the visitors in
check for the rest of the game.
Brattleboro scored two in the sixth
when with two on and two down Yarker,
who has been hitting so hard of late.
slammed out his second twO-bagger and
third hit of the game. scoring Austin and
The last run of the game came
IN the seventh. b. Dunlevy led off with
A triple to deep right center. On the
throw to third the ball got away from
Flowers. and Dunlevy, who is always
live to the possibilities of such plays, beat
he play home by clever running
In the last of the eighth Goodell, who
had been grabbing throughout the game
made remark that the umpire could not
pass up and ordered him out of the game
Shelburne Falls withdrew from the field,
put after a short argument Goodell was
allowed to return to finish a bad job.
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