The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-06
SPAULDING
SCORED 27
Against the Patched Up
Montpelier Seminary.
Aggregation
WHILE THE LATTER
TAILED TWICE
S c h o o | m a S t e r S Rules
Served to Handicap
the Visitors

What is perhaps the highest score
ever attained by a Spaulding baseball
team against baseball nine OF Mont.
heller seminary went down on record
Yesterday afternoon after the two
school teams met on Lincoln campus
in Barre, Spaulding mercilessly driving
out 22 hits for n to victory, knock
ing in the meantime three pitchers
from the box. 1t was hitting feast
for the local schoolboys, and two hours
and 10 minutes of toll and torture for
the visitors.
For eight innings the seminarians
were distorting their spinal vertebraes
by swinging furiously at the horse-hide
in an endeavor to land on the bali
but fate did not decree that such they
would do till the ninth, so the l6-year-
old southpaw of spaulding, Louis
OIeary, who first made his debut in
school baseball last year, kept teasing
them with spine twisters and pitched a
no-hit game for eight and one-third
inrings.
hen in the ninth when everybody
W waiting for the last two outs, a
\ Aigal son from the timbers stepped
4 fth with his hickory and by lucky
hcement scored a run from what
Mould have been only single. The
ball went to the right field and Tier.
jney, in his endeavors to field the ball
I and prevent it from being hit, ran
swiftly in to meet it with the result
that the ball grazed his glove and
rolled underneath the wire fence sur
rounding the cemetery
According to the rulings the base
runner was entitled to as many bases
as he could make, and Hon. Mr.. San
born took them all in the first score Of
the game for Montpelier. The young
man had actually connected with the
ball squarely, and with good fielding
on the part of Mr.. Tierney would have
had credit for nice single. An inheld
hit rolling down the third baseline gave
Edwards the second hit of the game
for Montpelier, and assisted in robbing
OLeary of the distinction of pitching
a no-hit, no-run game. Up to this final
inning not seminary man had
reached second base safely.
Spaulding set the pace in the very
first inning by touching Gray's deliv.
cry for two hits, fielder's choice, and
induced him to give a couple of free
passes, netting one score. In the sec
ond the local lads batted around and
!. scored five runs. To tell it just as it
really happened, Coach Allen John
ston's cohorts were playing like a
squad of big leaguers, placing bunts
exactly down first or third baseline as
the signals were given them, fielding
the ball for 1000 and, roughly speak
ing, hitting it for 900. oLeary was
"going like a house safre, burning all
Of EN- over the plate;" catcher Brown
was supporting him ''like king" and
the felders were flashes of lightning"
all the time.
This team which Spaulding defeated
was not the seminary's best representa-
tion in the national sport, several o.
the better lineup, Mike Cerasoli, catch
er; Stancliff, a pitcher; Gormiey, a
first baseman. being out of the game
because of disbarment by schoolmas-
ters' rules, all Being over 81 years of
age. And Merz, who did his best be-
hind the plate, or before the plate, was
out Of his regular position as short
stop The team which played for the
seminary was the team which repre-
sents the school in games governed by
schoolmasters' rules.
This statement is not made 10 di-
minish in anyway the credit due to the
local players, for their playing yester-