Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-19
THE DIAMOND.
Brooklyn nAthletic Club Is
 Champion Once More.

fsatted the BFook1yns, But the Lat
 ter Fielded Better.
 Ire race in the City Amateur league fs over for this season and the Brooklyn Athletic club team is once more the champion team of the league, having defeated the strong North End Athletic club in the final game of the series yesterday after noon. The ending was not a pleasant one in many respects for the North Ends believed that certain decisions zwere not just and those decisions helped along their defeat. Those de- oisions were given in all fairness, However, and there is probably no member of the North End team who Will say otherwise Manager Thomp son himself. while he feels the defeat Of his team very keenly will not hesi- tate to say the Umpire Patrick Cava- nadgh tried to do his best and tried to be Impartial. Naturally he has the light to say that he believes some of ] the decisions were wrong and those q decisions helped 10 defeat his team, but he will admit that the umpire had # 10 choice among the teams. He in j Eists, however. that the mistakes were made and his team was the suf- terer.
 On the other hand the Brooklyns claim that the criticized decisions were correct in every particular and g that they themselves received some z judgments which they considered un- just. It was a trying place to put a man, perhaps the most trying of any Eame yet played Umpire William kieley of Naugatuck was to have um- pired the game but he did not show ! up. The captains of the two9opposing Lfeanls decided on Patrick J. Caya- naigh. He stated to the president of the leaaue that he had umpired a S well as he was able to judge. That he had no choice in the matter and That. if there were mistakes made he did hot make them intentionally He wanted to see the best team win and win oh it's merits and he was very sorry that he accepted the position In the first place He gave his decisions 1 conscientiously and tried to be inn partial. Everybody who knows Pat flick J. Cavanaugh believes that too,
  Mdes one way or the other.
 There was a surprise in the morn ing when the Washington Hills and the Pagtiaaes got together for their final game. It was not believed by those who had followed the games during the season that the Pastines had a look in at the game. Every body conceded that the Pastinaes had a corking good team but there was a shortage of good pitchers and had been all season. The team had won but one game, that one from the Mer- rimac team and people could not see just where the Pastiines had a chance with the Hills. The latter team wanted the game badly as it would put them tie with the winner Of the afternoon game. The Pastimes sprung the surprise, however, when they stepped into the field for they had in the box young Commerford Of Brooklyn who has not done much twirling this season. hat he was fit as fiddle was in evidence before he had been up against the Hills many innings. He had the lads from the Hill guessing up to the ninth inning and behind him was a yeritable stone wall of ball players. Such snappy playing has not been seen Oh the dia- mond this season and try as they would the Hills could not get man across the plate until the ninth inning and then only one run was scored. The Hills also had been doing good work and Barker was twfrling we'll but fortunate hits and bad errors helped the team from the west end to score four times before the game end ed, and the Hills were defeated for a chance for the pennant by the score of fO l,
 The second game created the great est interest and it was almost dark when it was concluded. A cold breeze blew across the field but the thousands of spectators held their ground until the winning run was brought over the plate in the tenth in ming. The Broeklyns looked like four times winers in the early stages of the game and their friends who had backed them heavily were about tc wager odds when the tide of battle turned The North Ends had secured a run in the first inning by good hit ting and some bad playing. In theil half the Brooklyns made three runs because of some very ragged fnfleld work and a few hits. here the score remained until the fourth when the Brooklyns took a big lead by adding five more runs to their score. This was disheaftening to the North Enc fans, but not to the team, for they played all the harder and in the aftf secured two runs. Tn the sixth th$ Brooklytls made one more run and tht game locked like a cinch, but the tide
 of fortune turned in the seventh wher
 the North Ends landed on Johnny Kelly and pounded in four runs. Con adence returned to the North Enaers and in the eighth they made one more and the crowd went wild. Tht ninth saw the climax for excitement
 ment.
 Shaw of the North Ends had landed a safe one and when the next ont was knocked to shugrue at short hl attempted to nail Shaw at second hut I.allier let it get away from Him