Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-05
New Haven here. to-morrow.

There was something doing yester- day, and Derby was doing it.
 Notwithstanding the hammering he was receiving in almost every inning Waller never once lost his head, but kept digging away trying to stop the slaughter.
 We hit Tuckey hard enough to win any ordinary game but the hitting was scattered. Of the thirteen hits Weis- becker got five of them, and four play ers had twelve of the thirteen. That shows how We were defeated.
 Jack Scannell is a pretty foxy catch CT and the man who leads too far from any one of the bases will remem- Der that fact. He has his throwing arm with him this season and the man who is mapping will be caught for Q dead certainty.
 Bob Drew, who was never known to hit the ball hard enough to break an egg. smashed it out yesterday until he made the fans tired. It tickled Bob as well as Jerry Denny, both of whom would go a long distance to throw it into Roger Conn0r.
 There are several~membels of the Waterbury teann Nho cad1nnd bRe ahiE never will become stickers. In tight pldCcS Hll0Ie al 1ntduS SOluClUlnS they get stage fright and are afraid to step to the plate and make an effort to hit her out.
 About as fresh player as has ap- peared here this season is O'Brien, who covers third base for the Derby team. So fresh did he become yester- day that he got call from Umpire Shannon and was told he would be walked to the bench if he did not closefhis trap.
 The Young Hustlers of the Merrl- man school would like to play any team i'll the city under F years of age. They would like to meet the Bluebirds of Pemberton street. The lineup of the Young Hustlers is as follows; E. ,Whalen, C; J. Carroll, D; W. Leary, ID; J. Whalen. 2b; T. Aaniccui, 3b; T. All man, ss; R. Altman, If; T. Maniccui, If.
 Manager Barrow of Toronto is one of the magnates who has a claim on Matthewson of New \ York. President Powers is reported as having the same opinion as Barrow and the Eastern league will back the latter in making the claim. Manager Barrow arranged with Captain Cunningham of Norfolk to sign Matthewson and Cunningham was to get half the money received if the pitcher was sold.
 On your way to the machinists' pie nic tomorrow you can spend an hour and a pleasant one by stopping down at the Athletic field and see the Wa terbury and New Haven teams face eahc other. It will be an interesting game and well worth your attention. Manager Connor says he will win that game if he never wins another and the fight will be one that will make the fans vie with each other in applauding.
 There is one very bad failing that seems to bev owned only by the Wa terbury team and that is a loss of heart whenever a team has taken good lead of her. The local players lose their grip, their hearts sink down into their boots and they act like a lot of dead ones. They even forget to coach unless in the mildest and quietest terms Fight the game out to the finish; that is the way many vic tory has been pulled out of the fire.
 Dan shannon rubbed 1t into us good and hard yesterday, and he presented Derby with at least five runs. This is no prejudiced statement either, for the writer has been inclined to praise the work of shannon since he took the situation of umpire. Waterbury has q good natured and even tempered crowd of fans and 1t was just as well for Dan that this was so. Certainly his decisions on bases were about as rank as have been given in this city since the State league started.