Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-11
.CITY OFFICIALS EAT CLANS.
Bridgeport Made Most Tallies
 in the Ball Game

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 Bake That Followed the Game, In-
 terspersed With Music and Speech
 making, Afforded All Hands an Op-
 portunity to Put In an Afternoah of
 Real Pleasure.
 "Oh, Amt That Shame" was the aT Wnlcn tue American band, When was pIaylng. .seIectlons DeLWeen innings at the reLufn game between the Wa 7terbury aud b1.Ageport city onlclals at lne ALnIeIic nelu yesterday aLIernOon, sCruck up at the end or the Lnlrd ln- ulng When Frank --A1uuH maue a scratch mt which resulted in double play and Killed WaterDury s chances. or Iylng the score. AgaIn at the end or the SIXLn innlng, after COmmlSSIoner or the Board Ot Pubic SaIeTy D. J. Lahey had made three terr1nc SWipes. at the ball and had succeeded in sGrlk-s ing out lue band began to play I'm so Tired" The selecIions were very appropriate.
 But, to tell the plain truth, the game was much better than the 6u0 or more spectators expected. 1t was q good gam as the score f to 2 shows, but yet it was not lacking in amusing fea lures and might be placed ill the serio-, comic class The playing of some of the Waterbury players was rather poor, brimful with errors, mIsJudgments and mistakes. After Commissioner of the Board of Education Carmody had made one or two errors and had mlsJudged another fly, q little boy ill the audi ence shouted: .Get some fly paper A quantity of fly paper would have been Seryiceable to one or two of the players. Inc old timer, Regent Moran of the almshouSe. was in uniform and was a favortte with the crowd, but did not ring in with Roger Connor, the um- pire. Regent Moran got a base on balls in the third inning and thus reached a--~ base. AAe felt rather tired alter walking to first and asked TOT q run ner. It gave Roger much pleasure to refuse the request. Although the regent is an old timer the Briugeport- CTS caught him mapping on second base in the very first inning.
 -sut the game as a whole was well played and most interesting. Frank Kilduff pitched for Waterbury and his tWisters fooled the Park city boys, as is shown by the number of st1ike-outs to his credit. TheretWere no less than nine. But his support was somewhat Wretched. Judging from the playing of the Bridgeporters one would think that some of them were ringers. If they could bat as well as they could field one would be sure of it. Luby, Ford and Flanagan played q star game, and Buckingham was in prime form after the first inning. It was funny to see Johnson of the local team trying to hit out one of his slow oues. Johnson succeeded in striking out in the sev7 enth inning with a man on base. Some urchin said that his shoes were too heavy and he didn't wish to run the bases For seven innings the boys struggled for victory, but the Bridge porterS always managed to keep ahead. At the end of the seventh inning the game was stopped by Sheriff. McDon- aid, who said that he wouldn't stop s&e game fine thought Waterbury had any show of being in the lead at the end of the ninth. The most brilliant play of the game was a catch of a long fly by Carmody. The Bridgeporters had men on second and third base when Bowling came up to the bat and banged out long drive which looked good for two bases. Carmody, after g long run, succeeded in catching it. It was a star play, but a little tot shouted, 'Hully gee, dats mistake on dat play er's part" Slayin caught for the Wa terburys and made two hits and all of Waterbury runs.
 The only melancholy feature of the game was the sad and sorrowful look on the countenance of Manager and City Clerk M J. Ryan as he sat along the coachers' line and watched the sure defeat of his pets. It was sad pie ture, which was made more gloomy by the unaccustomed silence of the city clerk. A person in the grand stand shouted through a megaphone and asked if he needed a sponge to dry his tears. After the game many excuses were advanced for the loss of the game. Manager Ryan blamed It on the un- pire and said that Roger Connor was thinking o& placing a team in Bridge port next year. Alderman Blakeslee sa-~. that Waterbury people are always eonsiderate of their visitors and that's why the Park city boys won. His 1 friends asked him why Bridgeport was so considerate of her visitors when l Waterbury played in the Park city. All derman .sRed Stockings said that the l only cause for Waterburys defeat was I the absence of his red stockings and him from lne game. Attorney Bauby. candidate for judge of probate, said l that there were fifteen or twenty city l officials who were good ball players, but hadn't been gwen chance to play. If t-ey had the result would have been o.nerent. Constable Pryor was posi- tive that he knew what was the real cause of the. defeat of the locals. Tn the first inning Dr Kilmartin, who | played second base, wore duck pants. At me end of the first inning, when the score was a tie and Waterbury was 1 having shade the better of the con test, the health officer changed his uni form and his ducks, and Waterbury's s playing changed also. But the real cause of the defeat was as City Clerk Buckingham said, the visitors had a superior team.
 The tabulated score of the game tells the rest:
 BRIDGEPORT.
 A.BR.1B.P. CA. E. Bowling, 2b ........4 1 4 ? 0 Luby. ss ...4 1 1 ? 2 i t |