Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-01
THE DIAMOND.
Springfield Dropped Two Games
 to MePiden.

Hartford Still Refuses to Get Out Of
 Last Place-Holyoke Persists in
 Staying at the Top-Norwicn Beats
 New Haven and Is Chasing Holyoke
 Hard.
 Meriden, Aug 1.-Meriden lost to Holyoke here yesterday by score of 4 to 1. "Rube'' Vickers was in the box for the visiting team and allowed but three hits, which were we'll scat tered, and the only run that the Meri- dens were able to bring in was the re- suit of a base on balls and errors. Rog- CTS toed the slab for the home team and his work was altogether creditable, but Holyoke punched hits and so won the game by three runs. Everybody seemed to think that Holyoke would win. and before the game started there was no one who would say good word for Meriden. Yesterdays game took all enthusiasm from even the rankest of fans, and Meriden cer- tainly had black eye at home. Af- ter the game had begun it was not long before the old-time spirit was in evidence, and every play was cheered or hissed as it happened to appeal to them. The latter was the more popular, and Dave Hill had to stand more than has any other umpire. The pet names which were attached to him would fill small book, and the number of decisions that were rightly Nensured would be as large.
 At first it looked as though Holyoke was going to run up much larger score than it did. Rogers started off by hitting McAndrews and thereby giving him first base. Fitzpatrick then hit down first base line and Mac" went down to second. A wild pitch moved McAndrews to third, and Fitz- patrick took second. Batch tried to knock them both in, but Burke got af- ter the ball as 1t fell in left field. Me Andrews scored, but Slater and Nc Cormack got out before "Fitz" could get around the course. Then there was nothing doing until the fourth, Ewhen the Paper Cities brought in two more runs. Slater began the trouble bya hit that went out straight to cen z ter field, and he was crafty enough to steal second. Mccormack then tried 2 the same spot, and his effort met with success. The sphere never stopped un- j til it had rolled into Weisbecker's hands and Slater had scampered home. ,Weisbecker threw the ball in to Thei- sen at the plate, but it was too late to S catch Slater. They collided quite fore ibly and general mixup ensued. Thei- sen had bumped Skaters head and ''Pop' had spiked Theisen. There was bad cut in his shoe, and the game was delayed several minutes until he could persuade himself that he was 4 able to enter the game again. Finally T he put on his mask and again joined in the game. Mccormack had gone around to third in the confusion. Ross man struck out, but Landy made the hit that sent Mccormack flying over the plate. Vickers and McAndrews were retired before any more could tally. -
 Rogers got wild in the fifth and gave kirkpatrick free pass to first, and he went to second when Batch sacrificed Ed Slater came up next and after look ing over the ground carefully decided that the grasses of left field would be a comfortable resting place for the ball. Accordingly he proceeded to put it there, and Fhile Fitzpatrick was crossing the plate he took second base. Mccormack and Landy finished the in ming and Holyoke scored no more runs. Nferiden taIlied in the fourth inning and that was the extent of the good work The score:
 H0T,YOKE