Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-14
BASE BALL NEVIS.
Waterbury Defeated by Spring
 field in Eleven Innings.

field in Eleven Innings. Two Men Were Out When the Winning Run Was Made-WaIler Pitched a Good Game and Waterbury Should
 Have Won-New London Defeated
 Bridgeport in a Ragged Game-Nor- wich Finds Miriam Easy and New
 Haven Goes Down-Hartford Again Wal1oped.
 Springfield. May 14.-It was the first time the Waterbury aggregation has been seen here, and it left most 1a- yorable impression. The players rom the Brass city made the Ponies work overtime. and many of the fans were also late to supper as result.
 The game opened in lively fashion. The only man to reach first for Water bury was Kiernan, and he was allowed to walk The Ponies also went out ln one, two, three order. although Hon man clearly beat out the bail 10 nrst on a fast roller to Mccormick. The umpire could not see it that way ana he was no longer a friend of the fans.
 The second inning was also q speedy one, although in this Joe Connor got as far as second on hard hit ball to the pitcher and stolen base. In the third the Brassies, with two men out, landed 5 on Mclean for four clean hits. One of them was in left field and the other three in center and they were certainly beauties. They netted three runs.
 In fJ,c l0c cf of inni3O fhn PnninS also did few things to the ball. Mur- phy and Mclean made clean singles and then Francis was allowed to walk, which filled the bases. Hoffman flied out to center, but this brought ill one run. Owens sent an easy one to the pitcher and Mclean was cut off at third With two outs Joe ConnOr popped a fly into short right, just out of reach, and stretched 1t into two bagger On this Francis scored.
 In the fourth inning came two of the prettiest plays of the day. Henry reached first on Francis's error. It was a hard ball to- field, but was one of the kind which the little third base man generally makes sport of. McCor- mick sent the ball down to Owens so fast that it burned it's way along. Ow- ems handled it cleanly and tossed it to Murphy, who fielded it sharply to first, making double play. The fans were delighted. Right on top of this came fly into left field and Courtney, after a long run, captured this, only to fall down. He held the ball, however, and the side was retired.
 In the latter part of this inning Ken nedy reached first on Kiernan's error and Courtney was allowed to walk Then came a sacrifice by Murphy. while 1cClean knocked a pop fly into short left field. Two of the outfielders and two of the infelders went after the ball with the result that none of them got it. Kennedy scored, but Courtney was caught at the plate, the decision being close
 The fifth inning was the last in which either side scored until the eleventh. The visitors by bunch'sH three hits. to- gether with an errory by Murphy. and sacrifice, netted two more runs. Hoff- man opened this inning with a drive to the fence for two bases. Owens fol- lowed with sharp hit through the sec ond baseman and then Joe Connor reached first on fielders choice al, though the effort to put Hoffman out at the plate failed. The next three men up were unable to connect safely. although Owens managed to score.
 With two outs in the sixth Francis Iook chances and tried to score on Hoffman's scratch hit, the latter beat. Ing the ball out to first Francis would have had more chance had he remained at third, although he made a pretty slide for the plate.
 In the. tenth the fans nearly had heart disease and thought the Ponies had surely lost the game. Slater. the hrst man up. made a pretty single into right field. The ball went past Hoff man and Slater reached second. Ther came sacrifice hit, advancing him fr third. There was one out with Weis becker. good stick artist. at the bar The latter, however, fouIed out and Mo Lean struck out Luskey. The fan, breathed again.
 The winning run was scored by tho Ponies in the eleventh. after two me. were out Mclean. who was given hi: first and had reached second on Fran cis's out. was brought home by Hofr mans line drive through shortstop The score:
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