The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-16
YESTERDAYS BALL GAMES
NEW HAVEN FINDS HER FINISH IN
 THE NINTH INNING.

Steve Ashe Pitches With Telling Effect
 Until the Visitors Find Him-Fans Be-
 gan to Depart With a Feeling of Con-
 hdence the Brass City's Were Beaten
 When Matthews Starts the Hitting. The New Haven team weakened at
 terbury yesterday afternoon and were beaten by the score of to 4. It was a | hard game to lose. The spectators all 1 thought the Blues were sure of victory
 until the last minute, Steve Ashe
 pitched great ball until the ninth inn | ing when the visitors seemed to get the
 hang of his slow benders and succeeded in getting three runs across the plate. That was sufficient to win the game, as | the home team could not add to their | total of four in the last inning.
 It was breaking finish and no one felt it worse than Steve Ashe. He had pitched strong, heady game for eight innings and the visitors had made but five scattered hits that landed safe.
 In the meantime Clancy had been holding the Blues down in good shape l and the home players had made only seven safe ones. New Haven had SCOT ed once in the second inning and once more in the third In the sixth inning after Ramon had driven hard liner 41.,t @xI~ short stop Captain Canavan reached first base on called balls. He stole sec ond and Connor reached first on an er- TOT of Fitzpatrick. Canavan made third on this play, and then Roger stole sec ond. Luchia, the next batsman, lined out a single to henter field and Cana van and Connor anne home. Braun hit to the short stop, who played on Lu- chia. The New Haven backstop was caught between bases and died. Braun stole second base, but was left when Ashes grounder was well handled by Mccormick.
 The four runs credited to New Ha- ven looked big as compared with the two scored by Waterbury when the vis- iting team came to the bat in the ninth inning. Murphy, the first man up, flew out to Fitzmaurice. Courtney drove a fly to Canavan and was the second man out
 The cranks started to leave their seats at this juncture, confident that the | Brass City team was beaten. Then one of the surprises that go to make baseball very uncertain game occur red Matthews, who had not been able | to get the ball out of the diamond in three previous attempts, drove single | to right field. O'Rourke the Water bury youth recently signed"by Manager lined out his second safe | hit Then came Clancy with a smart | two-bagger over Bannon's head. It | was long fly, but the left fielder might have taken it but for a mistake in judging the ball. Two runs came across the plate. Captain Fitzpatrick follow ed with safe hit to center field and Clancey raced home with the winning run Weisbecker ended the rally by flying out to Ramon.
 In New Haven's last half of the ninth Bone reached first by being hit by the ball after two men were out, but O'Brien ended the hopes of the rooters by sending a grounder to short. Mur- phy sent the ball to first base and the game was over.
 The shifts noted in the New Haven score were caused by the failure of OBrien to reach the grounds in time to start the game. He went in in the third inning and the team took their regular positions. The score:
 NEW HAVEN.