The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-14

Final Score 1S TO 5, Old Timers Crossing
Plate Eight Times in Opening Frame
West River Has Been Fans Every
Opponent.
The Clerks yesterday took a terrific
walloping at the hands of the Old Tim
ers. The score was Is to >, and the
Old Timers led from the opening frame
until the last man was retired in the
ninth. Johnson's wildness and the err
rOrs of the younger generation, coupled
with solid clouting, accounted for the
one-sided contest. If the clerks make
as many errors juggling change as they
do Juggling the spheroid they are nearly
fired right now. 1t was the final game
of a series of three, and each team had
one victory to its credit.
Cox started the game for the halt and
lame veterans but was withdrawn after
the third to give Landman, star pitcher
of the West River Valley league few
years ago. a chance to show his stuff
He did The Clerks got only a single
safety off his delivery in six innings and
10 batsmen faced him in that time. He
famed every clerk at least once dur
ing this period, with the exception of
Raymond Davis. Nine strikeouts were
chalked up to his credit, three of these
coming in succession in the sixth inning
Johnson had worlds of speed, but he
was wilder than Il hawk. John Tasker
could easily have takea on some more
life insurance if he had only realized
the possibilities of the contest. McDon-
ough really would have taken the oppor-
tunity except for the fact that he was
| kept busy jumping for ,TOhnSon's wild
ones. The support accorded the Clerks
twirler was worse than the pitching,
and that was bad enough. Even when
johnson did begin to settle down his
teammates still kent heaving the ball
around and stumbling all over anything
that came their way.
The old veterans put up a pretty good
defensive game, although they didn't
get much exercise during the closing
frames as the Clerks couldn't have hit
| Landmarks slants if they had had
plank a foot wide. Frequently the ball
would be almost back TO Landman when
Il Clerk would swing and then again the
younger generation would clOut at ii
while the jamaica veteran was still
winding up. These were only the ways
his straight ones fooled the batters. His
curves were even more disastrous to
the Clerks. When the vet put a hook
on the ball he and Fitch would have Il
little game of toss and catch while the
changcmakers came up only to shortly
travel back and sit down.
The Old Timers got eight in the first
inning, Chase scoring twice in this
+ frame Three passes, coupled with three
hits, two sacrifices and three errors
tells the story.
! The veterans got another tally in the
second on Taylor's hit. "A couple of er-
rors and a sacrifice. Six more came in
the fourth. Fitch singled, Taylor and
Sparks got on while the infielders were
debating where to heave the pill. Dimes
famed, and Lawrence sacrificed a pair
Of runners across the plate. Landman
singled, scoring Sparks. and March got
long single, scoring Landman. Chase
walked and scored with March when
| TaSker doubled to center. Fitch
grounded out The other three tallies
came in each case on two hits coupled
with miscue.
The Clerks got their runs in the sec
Ond and third frames. An error let Ray
Davis get on in the second, and after
| stealing a pair of bases he scored on a
sacrifice. In the third. consecutive hits
| by McDOnough, Tenney, Blake and
! Rate. and one a bit later by Johnson.
| gave the Clerks their last runs OF the
| game. The summary: