The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30
THE ATHLETICS GOOD GAME
WON 4 FIERoELY CONTESTED CAME
 YESTERDAY FROM ANSONIA.

Home Team Took a Brace in the Third | Inning-Funny Revenge on the Umpire | With Good Results-Good Work by | Johnston and Dunne--A Score of 9-0 in Favor of Athletics Settles the Game. The strong Ansonia team of the Nau- gatuck Valley league crossed bats with the Athletics of this city yesterday af- ternoon and met defeat to the tune of 9 to 6. The game started in with swift playing by Ansonia and very slow playing by New Haven, so that for the first two innings everything pointed to victory for the Valley boys, but in the third inning the Athletics awaken ed from their slumbers and began to work. In the first two innings New Haven was shut out with goose eggs, while Ansonia scored three runs each inning. making the score to in their favor but right here they were pulled m short and not another batsman did they get over the plate during the rest of the game, they being retired in one, two, three oruel III eSeSiA inning.
 Tn the third, Johnston of the Athlet- les reached first on bunt and on good hit by Dunne reached second. Then on an error by Yum, the Anso- mia third baseman he reached home' this being the Athletics first run. The side was soon retired, however. In the last of this inning New Haven made pretty double play Coffey was on first when Leary batted to McHugh, shortstop. McHugh quickly threw to second, blocking the base runner, and Sedgwick on second quickly put the horsehide down to first, stopping Leary from reaching first.
 In the fourth, Thesen got first on light hit and an error by Yam, while Sweeney was forced off second, how eever, by McHugh's hit and was punk ed at third. An attempt was made for a double play by Ansonia but failed to materialize Sedgwick then reached first on hit and advanced McHugh to second With bases full and two out, Lauter let a good safe one back of first, and while Ansonia was finding the ball Theisen, McTIugh and Sedg wick scored. Johnston followed up with safe one to left of center and brought Lauter home on a gamey run. Greist, then fouled out, Dunne reached first and brought Johnston to third, but Bone, contrary to coaching orders, lived and went out on a catch, thus re- tiring the side.
 Tn the last of this inning Ansonia was sent to field again in short order n,5 NIax., LJovro, oo yoa tn tba Y,la fa fOr the fifth. Here, again, the Athletics showed that they knew how to play ball. Sweeney, the first to bat, was thrown out, but Thesin, who followed, was hit by the ball and was given first. McHugh next flied out and it began to look as though a shut-out was coming, but Sedgwick, the reliable was next up. He was given some adverse decis-' ions on strikes by the umpire and got even by foul tipping the umpire bee liner in the breast. This seemed to bring the autocrat to terms and his de- cisions thereafter were given with some degree of justice. Sedgwick is good judge of curves and so waited for a good one, but finally got base on stolen third. Sedgwick now showed the value of his training on the Brown university team and put up a foxy nnanoeuvre. He led off widely from first and induced Reagan to throw down to second to stop him. The ball was thrown back and forth between first and second for a few times to catch him, but in the meantime, The sin, at third, had led off for a consid- erable distance. He finally started for home at a hot pace and the ball was thrown in, but Leary made an error and Thesin scored, while Sedgwick in the melee reached third. Lauter got first on balls and started to steal sec- ond. Just here a fatal mistake was made by Leary, the Ansonia catcher He threw to second to stop Lauter, who nimbly skipped on and slid under the second baseman while Sedgwick scored. The home boys were soon sent out and the score was z to in their favor
 In the last of the inning Ansonia again was "trun down." In the sixth the Athletics secured two more runs. rais- ing their score to g, and these were the last runs made by either team dur ing the game.
 Particularly good work was done for SAtS 1AsAAtSSASS by rOullSOA III LIG DOX and Dunne behind the bat Only five good hits were taken off Johnson, while Dunne did noble work behind the bat. SedgWick at second was up to his usual high standard of playing, and Me- Hugh at shortstop did some fine short stopping.
 One noticeable feature in which the Athletics excelled the Ansonia team was in the base running, which they certainly have a great knack of do- ing. To this, as much as anything else may be ascribed the Athletics victory Dunne made several beauty throws to second. The only costly er- TOTS of the game were three by Bone in the first part of the game, but he later redeemed himself by good play
 The umpire was Dave Hill of Sey- mour and the attendance was about 200. The New Haven baseball loving public desiring to see some good games may rest assured that the Athletics will fully satisfy them as the game they now put up is the finest in the Valley league, which number among it's mem- bers some star players.
 The score by innings yesterday was as follows:
 N H. A. A...0 0 4 2 2 0 0-9 Ansonia :. ..3 0 0 0 0 0-6