The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-11
Defeated Montpelier X. of
c., 10 to s, in Smuggling
Match
TWO HOME RUNS
BY THE WINNERS
Barre Rallied Strongly in
the Ninth, Coming
from Behind

With the first of the batting list uT
in the ninth inning George Mcdonald
Montpelier X. of C.'s pitcher, weakened
Saturday afternoon at Intercity park
and the batting rally of the Barre
team Melted five runs and turned the
tide of victory from the Montpelierites
The latter had led all during the other
eight innings and even made quite an
effort to overcome the lead in the last
| half of the ninth, but in vain. Thus the
Kaceys lost 10 to s, in game full of
errors and hitting, slow in reality, yet
very interesting to watch.
First Of all there was mixup in
the hour of starting The Barre posters
advertised the hour at 3;l5 and the
Montpelier posters4 o'clock. Therefore,
the few fans who did go from Barre 20
see the game had almost an hour 10
wait, the Montpelier team not appear
ing on the. grounds until o'clock
Right here let 1t be said that unless
Barre baseball fans get behind this
Barre team right away there's going TO
be no baseball this summer, so far as
this city is concerned. Receipts at the
gate Saturday barely covered expenses,
which of course were very light with
the two teams reaching the grounds by
automobile and electric cars, no guar
antee being required. Both teams were
obviously worthy of better support,
and must have it in order to exist.
At the outstart Steve Slayton's cork
screw curves and snakeballs were all
up his sleeve. Somehow he couldn't get
them down until the third inning From
then on he pitched good ball, holding
his adversaries to three singles in the
ninth.
In that first inning Montpelier gave
their opposing fielders considerable 10
do. Jimmy Greig, the center fielder, in
pulling down h. Pape's long drive off
the wire fence backed over the river
bank into the water after he had
caught the ball. Ii was a nice catch
but cost Jimmy good dueking in the
river, and incidentally robbed H Pape
of a home run. Three singles, two.
BdEECl altN NNV GLUE wiz
throws to catch the base runners gave
the four score lead in the |
opening period.
In the first OF the second Fowley |
reached first safely on Dobbs' error, |
second on Laird's error when the pitch !
err tried to catch him off first, and i
scored when Jimmy Greig walloped the
ball for a home run into deep left |
field In the last half of that same in
ming Montpelier again scored two runs
On three errors, a single and felders
,hoice
Barre, determined to at least tie the
score, assailed McDonald's servings in
he third inning for four long singles
ind again made a couple of scores
Scoring ceased until the seventh.
when Slsyton reached first on a rap
o shortstop Dobbs, who threw wild
o first base, Slayton went TO second
IN the throw and on Righini's two
,agger scored the first run for Barre,
making the score 8 to 5 still in Mont
'elier's favor
In the ninth Parks for Barre, the
irst batter on the list. cracked out
ice single Johnston followed with al,
ice fly bunt near third base line, which
icDonald could not quite recover at
is bresk-neck speed. Parks meanwhile
dvsnced to second and Johnston was
afe on the attempted sacrifice Nicora |
rove a hot liner to the pitcher, who
hose TO get Parks at third, but lost
Ut. Then Slayton at the critical mo. !
rent, with three men on bases. hit i
D center field and scored Parks John {
ton tried to score on the throw in
at was caught al the plate Righiri d
ext up, hit TO the field scoring Nicura !
nd advancing Slayton to second. Slay
1n's lead off second finally caused {
itcher Mcdonald 10 throw 70 the base $
he ball went wild past the second i
aseman and both Slayton and Righini
,ored on IT, The bases were clear when
slderara stepped to the plate to drive
he ball over the fence, into the river,
VI a home run. Fowley was out on his !
field hit and Greig, after connecting
" a nice single, was caught stealing
.cond
Forglle. the first Kacey bstsman in I
lie ninth, hit to right field. Flannery t
ivanced him to second with a sin I