Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-09

Matthews 2.
 The usual large crowd saw the Washington Hill 4. c. defeat the St Josephs in another of those exciting and closely contested games which have been so frequent in the City Am ateur league this season. The game was played at the Driving park and the score was to 4. The St Josephs had a new catcher, who was reported to have come from Portland, while the Washington Hill A. c. had new sec ond baseman, Schmidt by name, and reliable Pete Kiernan was in short field. In the early part of the game the Washington Hill A. c. gained 1he lead, which they maintained through out Tn the first and third innings they scored four runs. and to Byrnes, who played second base for the Tabs, couple of them may be attributed. With two out in one inning Byrnes let a liner go by and thus missed an op-- portunity of retiring the w. Fl. A. c. without a run. Three runs came in, however, before the W. H. A. c. were retired. It was not until the sixth or seventh inning that the St ,Josephs commenced to score. A wild throw by Hayden, after muffing three strikes, al lowed two men to score, At the begin ming of the ninth the score was , to .. The VIII. A. c. scored one in the ninth, while the St Josephs scored two with no one out. But that was their limit. Both Myles and Therault pitched good ball.
 It is the same old story about the Brooklyn A. O., the story with which the readers of the Democrat are rather familiar. They won again yesterday as they have for many Sundays past. They defeated the St Thomas Cadets, by the score of to and thus won their fourth victory from the Cadets, who have not won gamef rom them during the present season of the ama- teur league. The game was more one sided than the score indicates. The losers were no match for the victors. The latter's team work was just as brilliant as ever. They scored five runs in the first four innings and kept the lead throughout the game. Toward the latter part of the game the Cadets woke up and scored few runs. Kelly pitched his usual star game. Walak- enis' twirling was of fair nature. Kane of Thomaston played in center field for the B, A. C.. and did. good work. The B. A. c. looks like pennant winners
 At Waterville the Pastime A. c. fell ! victims to the Jeffersons. The game was more interesting than the sscore, 9 to 2. indicates. Until the last few innings the score was close. Then tie Jeffersons began to slaughter the op- ! posing pitcher and hits and runs there were in galore. On the other hand, Brown was mystery to the opposing 4 batters. There is no doubt but that he is pitching great ball. The Jeffer- sons seemed to have gained their stride and they intend to make it warm for some of the leaders before the season is finished.
 Inasmuch as the Brooklyn A. c. and Washington Hill A. c. both won theil games yesterday, the difference in the standing of the two leaders remains the same. Both clubs are playing the fastest kind of ball and appear to have the hold upon the other teams II looks now as though the other teams may be considered out of the race ani the struggle for the cup will be fougn
 between the two clubs standing high est. Still base ball is rather peculiar game and it would be only one of it. characteristics to see the leading clubs lose the majority of their remaining
 games. But this is improbable Tn,
 Jeffers0ns also won yesterday and in creased its percentage.