The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-07
NEWPORT TOYS
WITH MACOC
AND WINS II TO7
Bernie Starr and Wallie
KOpf Connect for
Home Runs

If one looked through the die
tionary for a word to describe
just what Newport did to Magog
at Gaines Park on Saturday after
noon, one would find, after select
ing, sorting and rejecting, that
"toy" expressed it as concisely and
accurately as any epithet known
to Mr.. Webster Newport toyed
with Magog. There is not a bit of
doubt about it And during the
toying process Newport sent II
playmates across the platter while
= Magog, the unfortunate toyee in
this game, was able to score but
seven runs. That the foyer did not
score more and the toyee less runs
was wholly due to said process of
toying.
Our hypothetical dictionary
searcher came upon several other
apt terms which would tempt him
because of thir appropriateness to
give additional rays of light upon
the way Newport treated her Wis
itors. Upon arriving at the word
"practice" he would wonder if af-
ter all that did not express in
nutshell all that the boys of Bor-
dertown had any intention of do
ing. Then, if he went beyond
Webster and drifted into a diction-
ary of slang, he would surely say
that kidding" was the finest and
purest vernacular for such conduct
as Newport displayed to Magog
The box score and the summary
do not indicate anything at all
The games defes analysis, and
when one is let in on the CONVEX
sation from the Newport players
bench after the second inning, one
understands why all this is thus.
"Let me pitch, and 81 want to
catch" were tossed back and forth
while "I'd like to try third base"
was followed by nearly every
player expressing a desire to try
a position which was unfamiliar to
him.
This strange craving for strange
positions ended by putting Bernie
Starr on the pitching mound,
Brainy Bower behind the platter
and Poll at second base where
they remained during the sixth,
seventh and eighth innings. Ber-
ME tossed as straight, easy, gen
tlemanly balls across the plate as
possible. He made no attempt 20
4 put anything at all on the balls
except an engraved invitation for
the opposing team to hit them as
hard and as far as they could.
All this time Newport lead
and superiority were so marked
that no danger was threatened by
the most nonsensical shifts of
players. Newport was so much
faster and so completely the mas
ter of the situation that Magog ev-
identity would not stand a chance
even though in-and out-feld posi-
tions were reversed and then sew
eral blind chances taken.
Magog did not play slipshod
ball; it was merely that Newport
was too fast for her. The Cana
dans' pitchers were not effective,
yet Coderre was not the worst
ever seen. Emerson, Of lordly
mien, who started slab-work for
the visitors, lasted but one and
one-half innings He ceased to be
} the center of attraction after Wal
lie Kopf lined out a pretty homer,
and the scorer says he suffered
seven bingles for total of 12
sacks, besides walking two men
and being stung for one sacrifice
in this brief time.
Ordinarily much is made of a
home run, but in this game one or
more was to be expected. Bernie
Starr duplicated Kopf's feat. Ber-
ME was the first man to face Co
derre in the second, and he con-
nected with the first throw from
the slab, putting a hot one away
out to right field. This proved
good for only three sacks, so on
his next trip to the bat, Bernie
tried it over again, putting the ball
in exactly the same direction but
a bit father and completed the
circuit before the ball came back
from its long journey.
Laird was as fast as usual and
batted for 1000, as also did kopf.