The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-04

Came Hoernle, Charles Lewis
Hoelnle, a-pinch- hitting for Tom
my Starr.
Upon his own shoulders, he had
superimposed the task of macing
the way to conquest. Charles is
not known as a buster of circuit
smashes. A sure hitter, he ordin-
arily has to content himself with
the conventional mono or duo
sack,
But this time Charles, of the
House of Hoernle, imbued with
the fire of victory, chose from
among the neatly aligned bats, u
bludgeon heavier than those be-
side it. The Scaletown chief
STROBE to the saucer.
Buck Weafer, the Saranac Lake
sharpshooter, little rocked of the
fate that lay Immediately before
him. Buck, however, went to
work cautiously on the pinch-hit-
ter. He propelled a ball wide on
the outside OF the plate, craftily
thinking that the Scaletown men
tor might offer at it. Charles
waited. Again Buck wound up and
shot the pellet with increasing We
locity across an inside corner.
Charles mace remained inert on
his shoulder,
With the count one ball and one
strike, the willy southpaw be-
thought himself to utilize his
curve. The ball broke neatly over
the heart of the plate, and Char
les of the House of Hoernie
smote it with fire and vengeance
in every muscle. AS if shot out
Of a catapult the agate rose high
and then settled out of sight be-
hind the left field barrier.
Merely to comply with the for
mality of the rules, Charles trotted
around the sacks. So far was the
ball hit that the Saranac outfeld-
ers had no time to retrieve it.
When the Fairbanks A. A. leader
finally stepped on the home plate,
the game was over and st. Johns
bury fans had seen the climax of
as exciting a diamond battle as
has enliVened the Campus in years.
@ In the fourth inning, the Fair
banks, A. A. wrecking crew fell
upon Buck Weafer with gusto and
ran up a lead of five runs, an ap-
parently safe margin of victory.
But in the verv next chapter, the
invaders encouraged by bad er-
ror of omission in the locals left
field, set out to cancel Fairbanks
advantage of five tallies.
Before three men had been snuff
ed out in Saranac's fifth, a quin-
tet of runs had flowed over the
plate and the score was knotted 7
to 7 to remain unbroken until
Hoernle's homeric hoist in the
eleventh stanza.
Brilliant bits of fielding by San
toro, former Holy Cross star third
sacker, by Buck Weafer, and by
Arthur Kelley, the local guardian
of the hot corner served to keep
the crowd on edge. The Saranac
Lake outheld pickets, although
handicapped by a terrible sun-feld
especially in right coralled many
flies and saved Buck Weafer much
trouble. Buck Freeman, who once
wore a Fairbanks uniform gather
ed six long catches.
Saranac tailed in the second
frame when Owen Keefe singled
sharply over second, ambled to sec
ond on Hafford's clever sacrifice
bunt and scored on Buck Free
mans line drive to left field. Buck
went to second on throw-in by But
Ter and stole third, but was left
there as no more safe hits were
forthcoming.
Fairbanks evened up the contest
in the second. Starr and Kellev
both flied out to Trudeau, but
Frank Mclaughlin found his pa
tience rewarded with a base on
balls. Mac purloined second and
came all the way home when San
toro bobbled Fuller Martins
grounder.
Weafer was subjected to a heavy
barrage of base blows in the four
tn. TED Butler pumped a line drive
into centerfeld for one sack and
Starr singled to right. Conlin per
mitted the pellet to roll through
him on Kelley's bounder and the
cushions were clogged. McLaugh-
lin hit to Cochran who pegged
home in time to nip Butler at the
plate for a forcc-out.
With the bases still replete,
Martin got little hit to the left of
the Saranac second baseman and
the bombardment continued with
successive nits by Witty, by Grieve
by Bracket and Maloney. Witty