Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-18
THE DIAMOND.
Holyoke Beat Meriden and
 Fricken Was Not There

It Vas a Good Battle, in Which vick-
 CTS Had the Advantage-New Haven,
 New London and Bridgeport the
 Other Winners-Lynch of Brown
 Pitches Remarkable Ball.
 Meriden, June 18.-"Rube'' Vickers won another game for Holyoke yester- day, and the Meriden youths found themselves defeated by the score of 5 to 2. This was the first time the Paper city team has visited this town since that day when Dan O'Neill took it unto himself to dispense with the ser- vices of Umpire Fricken. When the Holyeke players came on the field a great shout went up from the bleachers and cries of "Quittersv' "Babiesp' and Back to the woodsr' filled the air, but they never faxed the visitors, and they seemed almost encouraged by the kindly remarks. Fitzpatrick seemed to be the special object of their favors, and every time he came to the bat he was hailed as the ''squealer," and in formed that there was no Fricken to umpire that game. Kennedy. however, though he filled the trying position with credit, was hissed on almost every strike he called from the delivery of the Brooklyn farmer and every ball that passed Holyoke batter. Mean drews made the only error for the vts- itng team, and that was on the easiest kind of ball. Slater performed 8 pretty double all alone. Batch and R6ssnaan did the heavy hitting for Holyoke, and both slammed out dou- bles that were effective. The prettiest hit of the game, however, was madeNby a Meriden player, and it was beauty. It was from the bat of Weisbecker, and it nearly went over the outf1eld fence, but as 1t was it struck the upper part of the fence and bounded back near the ever yigilant Batch, who pre- vented the batter from taking more than two bases on 1t. Larkin at short and Hoffman on third played well and were of much use in the field. But the star games of both teams were played by the pitchers. The stronger of fhe two won out.
 The opening was not suspicious for Holyoke, for the first man walked, and Vickers was inclined to be wild. But this didn't last long, and he soon had everything under control Though Larkin was given first. he was put out at second, and the first three men up were out. Drew led off in the second with single, and another by Walsh put him across the plate. This was the only score the home team made, except one in the eighth, when Altizer got home The play was simple. He hit safely and came across the rubber on sWeishecker's double. A roar went up from the Meriden host, and 1t was hoped that the struggle must last an- other inning, but the Holyoke boys were not willing. Fitzpatrick, the sec ond man up for the visitors, got to first on the wildness of the twir1er and stole second in a pretty manner. Batch went out on an easy grounder, and Slater hit sFitz" home. The next bunch came in in the second. With two men out, the captain stopped the ball with his body. Batch, determined to regain bis reputation, swung his bat for single, and the captain came over the plate on the hit. Slater again pounded, and Batch completed the cir cult Rossnan and Kellogg scored in the sixth on hits and Altizer's error. The game was full of good playing and but for errors of the home infield would have been fast game, that is, as fast as any game that Nickers pitches in could be. There wels two double plays on the program. Cne of them was a simple play performA by Larkin stepping on second. The other happened in the sixth inning. There was but one man out; Drew had gained first on hit. and Walsh stepped to the plate, determined to swat the ball out for a safe hit. 1t would have been a safe one, too, if Slater had not got in the way. The ball started for the far field, just inside the first base line, and Drew was on the good road to second Slater put out his hooks, grappled and secured the liner before 1t had touched the ground, and all the guardian of the bag had to do was to step on the base It was in the same inning that Larkin made pretty one-handed catch while on the run from short to second base The score:
 MERIDEN