The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-18
YESTERDAYS BALL GAMES
NEW HAVEN WON 4 DOUBLE HEADER FROM WATERBURY.
Two Poorly Played Games at the Rock = Ramon Starts in Well as n Pitcher Forty Hits Made-Other Games =
 PriDcetOm vs. Yale Freshmen To day.

Bannon Starts in Well as n Pitcher Forty Hits Made-Other Games
 Princeton vs. Yale Freshmen To-day
 Such a business Twenty-Five runs forty hits and fifteen errors. This tells
 the story of the double header between z the New Haven and Waterbury base
 ball teams yesterday afternoon at the
 Savin Rock grounds. The day was ad- vertised as bargain day and bargain
 day it was for the four hundred or more
 loyal fans who paid their little quarter
 for the purpose of seeing couple of
 games of ball. It might be of interest
 to know how this combination was d.
 vided up in the two contests" Both
 games were won by the New Haven
 team, not because of their brilliant
 playing but because of the all round tcigar sign exhibition of the visitors.
 The score of the first was IA to 2. New
 Haven made nineteen hits, Waterbury
 made two. New Haven played cleanly in the field, making one misplay, while
 Roger Connor's men made five. The second game began about 4:05, ten min- utes after the ending of the first game, and resulted in win for Canavan's men by the score of 8 to 1. This was a better game by long odds than the first, but there were some plays in it that would make "Beezy" McGuirk smile.
 New Haven made ten hits and four errors and Waterbury made half as | t1,o
 Rogers men, including Roger himself, were utterly unable to handle the ball. at times when 1t was needed to be ham dled, and the way they fell over the ground and themselves in their efforts to make an assist or a put out was at 1 times extremely sad. o., The men in the outfield could throw the ball on roll i fully as far as the diamond and three Or four times they made pitiful work of judging fly balls. Pete" Kiernan, who for years has played steady and reliable game at the third corner of the Waterbury infield, acted like dead one half of the game. His arm has entirely left him and poor "Pete" has been shifted nearer to first base accordingly In the eighth inning Canavan sent up high fly between center and right field Mathews and Dacey went after the ball and either could have had it easily. They ran toward each other thinking he was going to take it. When the ball was near earth both fielders sailed up in the air for it and as usual it dropped safe between them. Roger Connor was a little off in his fielding and he was caught mapping several times. Roger and his men evidently haven't played together very much for when the scorers went up to the big captain and asked him for the batting order he didn't know the names of third of his team. Maybe he wants to forget them.
 The game demonstrated two things, viz: Waterbury can, without much trouble, hold down last place in the league, and that Bannon, the versitile player of the New Haven team, can pitch with any twirler in the league with little more practice. He pitched the first game for New Haven and did very well eonsideing that 1t was his first act in the box this year Six sin gles were made off his delivery, but they were kept we'll scattered and he was tllecllNc Wltil illctI WcIC LII OdScS. |
 New Haven had good chance to | fatten their batting averages and they | took advantage of it. Canavan had his | eye on the ball from the start and cracked out seven safe hits with total | of ten.
 Ramon also played we'll Bone played | well at third, accepting. two of the most | difficult chances in the second game on hard hit balls. Queen, he of the wind mill motion, was touched up for five hits in the first inning of the first game and all of these, the first five on the list, reached home. At least one hit was made In each inning but the fourth, when the side went out in one, two, three order.
 In the third inning of the second game the Waterbury batters were retired on i've pitched balls. The first man struck put and the next two batters hit the first ball pitched and went out on short 1its to the infield. The half of the in-- hing last five and one-half minutes.
 This afternoon the New Havens play n Waterbury and the score of the game s looked for with interest.
 Murphy, the lively outfielder, will be with the New Haven team on Monday if next week and the best outfield in he league will be located right here at 3avin Rock. Horan pitched for ths visitors In the econd game and did well. If his sup ,ort had been good he would have had he honor of holding the locals down to wo or three runs. The work of Um- ,ire Connors was at times poor and in he seventh inning of the first game he vas almost put out of business. He , vas on the receiving end of a liner from f but that caught him just boye the kidneys and delayed the anne for fully five minutes. It was ainful to the umpire but laughable to I he spectator. ( The score by innings of the first game , as follows:
 % 0 0 o 1 0 0 0-2 lew Haven 5 1 8 o 0 o 1 *-14 Hits-New Haven 19, Waterbury G. Haven 1, Waterbury g. q atteries-Bannon and Luchia; Queen | nd Luskey. The score of the second game is as fol- [ )WS:
 WATERBURY.
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