Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-23
BASE BALL NENS.
Waterbury With But Two Hits
 Defeats Hartford.

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 Lindemann Pitched Fast Ball forWa- terbury and Allowed Hartford But Six Hits-Errors Assisted Water bury in Winning Bridgeport Stops Norwich's Flight Springfield Beat Meriden and New Haven Did the Same to New Londop-Base Eali Notes.
 The Hartford Courant's account or yesterdays game is as follows;
 The Hartford ball team has noI as vet mastered the science of winning two games in "concussion" ana ullli they do they must be satished WILL an obscure position in the league race. The game yesterday was rather Ian- talizing affair and two of the nome players made errors at Inopportune times As in the previous game the pitching talent was above par ana put two ualtry hits were made off the well-known Reisling. The principal weakness in the team is at third base
  much difficulty in getting man who can play as we'll as Hebble. Mack has been tried in the position for two days and as an experiment he does not pass muster.
 The experiment. made bad throw yesterday and at the bat he was fail- ure. He not only struck out twice but he allowed three good balls to be called on him. The only time he hit the ball he had a chance to send in a. couple of runs but he did not get the ball beyond the shortstop. And after the third base is satisfactorily covered it would be good idea to get first baseman. Quinn is out of position there and he does not handle a all quick enough to partici- pate in any real first-class plays. Reed was touted as an improvement over Bannon, but the new right fielder dropped two flies in the fourth inning yesterday and the men scored in each case
 Reisling pitched a nice game, he made the longest hit of the day and he caught two men off first base. Linde- mann also pitched well and if he had had perfect support Hartford would not have scored. Mccormack and Kierhan playe,f the finest kind of ball in the infield and one catch by McCor- mack was as good as any ever seen on the field. In the third inning Miller sent out liner and Mccormack caught it three and a half inches from the ground while he was prostrate in the dust. He also cut down a couple of supposedly safe hits. Henry had some hard running catches and McCallister and Miller made good catches.
 Captain Fitzpatrick was put out of the game in the fifth inning for con- duct unbecoming a gentleman and ball player and for using indecent language to Umpire Morrissey. Fitzpatrick ques- tioned a decision on first base and he kept talking about it so much that he was told to go way back and stand up. He insisted on an argument and he was threatened with dismissal from the game. This enraged the player, who recently said he would punch his man. ager in the head, and he defied Morris sey, using vulgar epithets. Then he was ordered from the game and threatened with being put off the ground if he said anything more This decision of the umpire had the desired effect
 For three innings Waterbury went out in order. In the fourth Fitzpat- rick's fly was dropped by Reed and the runner gained second. Slater singled and the run came in. Slater reached second when the ball was thrown to the plate. kiernan sacrificed. Slater going to third. Weisbecker hit to first and Slater beat the throw to the plate Weisbecker was caught off the bag. Luskey sent a fly to Reed and this was also dropped, the runner making second. Henry hit to Mack and the latter threw wild to first, Luskey SCOT ing. Mccormack ended the agony by going out at first. In the eighth Robin son was safe on Wilhelm's error. Lindemann sacrificed. Clancy, who re- placed Fitzpatrick in the game, singled and Robinson scored. Miller returned the ball but Nelson let it get by him.
 Reisling made the first run for Hart ford. He hit for two bases in the third. Mylett and Reed flew out Wilhelm hit a short one and Lindemann made q wild throw fo first, Reisling scoring and Wilhelm making third Miller hit al liner that Mccormack caught. thus ~ Saving a run. Hartford had two on the bases in the eighth, after two were out, but Quinn could not send run in. McCallister opened the ninth with a single. He was forced by Nelson. Ramon was sent up to bat for Mack and he hit ball that was too hot for Slater to field in good time and he made such bad throw that Nelson scored. Ramon passed second and then stop ped. He was caught between second and third by his foolish base running. .Reisling hit to third and the game was over
 The attendance yesterday was about 800. The score:
 HARTFORD.
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