Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-05
BASE BALL NENS.
An Exciting Game Was That of
 Yesterday.

Waterbury Played Fast and Had the
 Umpire to Fight Against Also-One
 Decision of Umpire McCues Gave
 New London Three Runs Clancy
 Almost Knocked Out by Pitched
 Ball-Ned Slater Smashes Out
 Timely Hit in the Ninth, Sending in'
 the Winning Run.
 That was a rip shorter or a Dan game at the Athletic field yesterday, and it was the first time in many weeks that the fans had chance to fail all over themselves in an effort to Kill the umpire and root for the home team. There is one thing certain that II the people of this city were not so good na- tured and generous 8 certain gentle man by the name of McCue, who comes from Hartford and who held the indi- cator yesterday, might now be soJourn- ing up in the building that oyerlooks the ball field and is presided over by gentlemen with an NJ. D. attached to their names. McCue had not been doing brilliant work up to the inning where the howl went up from the fans, but he had not done anything very disastrous In the sixth inning, however, is where he went wrong, and 1t almost gave the game to New Lons don By good throw to second Clan cy nailed a runner who was off the base and then in mix-up another run ner who was trying to get home was caught. What was the surprise when the umpire announced that the man touched on second was not out. In stantly there was howl and the um. pire from that time to the end of the game never went behind the plate, for he could not stand all the pet names that were being hurled his way. That decision cost us dearly, for after that New London scored three runs.
 We were not to be beaten yesterday even under the circumstances, for Cap tain Peter Kiernan went for his men and advised them to play all the hard- CT, and play they did. A little revenge came our way in our half of the sixth, for the boys took on batting streak and the Whalers went into the air. So badly did we punish the curves of MT Long that he was removed from the box after that inning and MT Paige substituted. We netted four runs in that inning and in the seventh we
  but this scoring almost deprived us of our only pitcher. Charley Clancy was the first man to the bat in that inning and it was Paige in the box. The very first ball pitched was a high inshoot. and it struck Clancy with terrible force on the side of the head and he dropped like. a log. It was feared he was badly hurt, but after a minute he recovered and was cheered by the spectators. and he finished the game in the box, too. That one misplay by aige sent him into the air for three singles were made off his delivery, and we had the tying run in.
 Then there was fun and excitement. Clancy was now on his mettle, and that crack in the head seemed to make him work all the harder. Tn the next three innings he allowed but two hits and not man came near getting to the plate It was the last half of the ninth and everybody was on edge. Clancy was first up again and he flew out to center. Kiernan then waited for four bad ones, but was forced out at second on McAndrews's hit to third. McAndrews, however, was looking for that winning run and on the first ball pitched be sped away for second. He got it, and as Ned Slater stepped to the plate the fans became more confident. Slater waited for nice one and he got 1t. He met it, too, squarely on the nose, and it sailed into left garden and McAndrews trotted home with the win ming run. It was sensational finish to a sensational game. The score:
 WATERBURY