The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-08
YESTERDAYS BALL GAMES
U-i1ERBURY COULDN'T BE.fT NEJv
 HITEN IND THE UMPIRE.
Yesterdays Game at Savin Rock u Gift by MT. Cray to Captain Canavan-s Score Was | to B. Bridgeport Beat Bristol.

Was 4 to 3 Bridgeport Beat Bristol.
 Waterbury would have had trouble
 enough in defeating nine New Haven
 players yesterday afternoon at the
 to defeating the New Haven team and | Umpire Cray, too, 1t was d horse of
 another color. The umpires decision in
 the eighth inning which allowed Duff
 to bring in the winning run for the
 Blues was about the limit, and for, q
 time it looked as though the justly en-
 ragged Connorites would assassinate the
 newly appointed official.
 By good uphill work the visitors man.
 aged in the eighth inning to tie the
 score of three made by the Blues in the
 early part of the game. In New Ha-
 ven'S half of the eighth CanaVan, the
 first man up, went out on fly to Wels-
 becker and Duff cracked out clean
 single over Fitzpatrick's head. He stole second In good style, and things looked bright for the Blues with Luchia at the bat. Luchia bunted the ball along the
 first base line and Buss threw the bat ter out at first Duff started on a race lOi tllC plotC, anu QuANiA e's e' ittAoit N'Oi'- nor sailed the ball back to Buss in an attempt to nall the New Havener at the rubber. The throw was a pretty Iione and as Duff slid for home Buss tagged him apparently two yards from the plate in what looked to everybody to be an easy out. Umpire Cray yelled, Not out!" and Duff was still foot from home. This was the signal for all the Waterbury players to raise kick, and the whole team quickly surrounded the umpire. Buss grabbed him around the neck and. it looked dangerous for Cray The pickering continued for five minutes, and in the meantime Buss was ordered out of the game. Roger Con- nor had no other catcher, so Marshall was put behind the bat and Herndon went to center field. The decision was certainly wrong and spoiled the visit ors chances, as they lost all heart after that
 Umpire Cray had his nerve with him all through the game and kept calling bad balls strikes and good ones balls, each pitcher suffering alike. Tn the third inning Vollendorf was so enraged with the work of the umpire that after good strike had been called a ball he turned to Cray and said: Excuse me, but that was good ball, MT. Umpire" Vollendorf might not have said it In ex- actly those words but anyway he was put out of the game and the pleas of Captain Canavan ct al. were of no use Hodson went in and finished the game in fairly good style.
 Last year Umpire Cray gave good satisfaction in the State league, and he might this year. Yesterdays work was, however, very discouraging to the cranks, who have put up with bad um piring nearly all the season. But, like ball players and everybody else, um- pires have an off day occasionally, and | it is hoped that yesterday was one of | them
 Pitcher Clancy, who was recently re- | leased by Derby. was In the box for | and though he was wild, | he held the Blues down to six hits, two of which were scratch ones Fitzpat- rick and Conner spoiled New Haven's chances In the seventh inning with a brilliant double play after the bases were filled with only one out In the | eighth inning Fitzpatrick made beau- tiful handed catch of Buss' high | throw in an attempt to head off Fitz- maurice at second The play was loud ly applauded by the spectators, Aside from the above mentioned facts, the game was rather tame.
 Cusick was out of the game, having wrenched muscle in his back during the preliminary practice. pr. Metz at ended the player and said he would be m the game by tomorrow. Bone was in from left field and Duff took lis place, Ashe going into the right gar len.
 To-day Bridgeport will be at Savin Rock, and a redhot game is expected The score of yesterdays game is as fol- ows:
 NEW HAVEN.