Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-10
THE DIAMOND.
Unsatisfactory Ending of City
 Amateur League Game.


 Games Played Saturday and Sun.
 day.
 Three great games were played by .1he City Amateur league Saturday Two were played on the Riverside park and the other in Browns mead ows. The three games were close and exciting and the people who were lucky enough to be present were treated to a fine article of baseball.
 The largest crowd of the season turned out to see the games at River side park. The first one was be- tween the North Ends and the Brook lyn Athletic club and it was contested bitterly to the very last inning. Both teams played good ball and both pitchers were hit good and hard
 Stokes was in the box for the Brooklyns while zweibel tWirled for the North Ends. The game was very close all throughout and the Brook lyns won out by one run in the last of the ninth inning.
 With the score 10 to g against them tne North Ends came to the bat in the first of the ninth and batted in four runs. which put the score 13 to 10 in their favor.
 In their turn at the bat the Brook iyns started in and soon had three men on bases. This was the Brook lyns' chance and when Jerry Shugrue stepped to the bat the Brooklyn fol- lowers fairly went into a frenzy. The younger players of the league usually get rattled under such circumstances and fan the air. But not so with Jerry. He stepped to the plate and waited for one that just suited hfrn and fairly sent the Brooklynites into transports of joy by banging out a slashing threeIbagger and tying the score. Kelly was the next batter and knocked a hot liner to short on which Jerry scored, winning the game. The final score was fl to 13 in favor of the iBrooklyns
 The second game was between the two leaders-the Washington Hills and the St Josephs. This game like the first was warmly contested and wound up in a dispute.
 McGuinness. who has been doing such fine work for the Hills, started in to pitch for his team and was immedi- ately knock out of the box by the Saints, who took very kindly to his delivery, scoring four runs in the first inning. Pratt was substituted and pitched gilt-edged ball up to the last of the ninth. when the dispute arose.
 The score at the beginning of the last inning was 9 to 5 in favor of the Washington Hills. It was little be- fore z o'clock when the ninth inning began. The Hills were retired with out tallying and then the Saints came to the bat for their last try. They banged Pratts delivery all over the lot and soon had three runs scored and two men on bases with none out, when Captain Mulligan of the Wash ington Hills made a kick to the um- pire, stating that it was too dark for his players to see the ball and wanted the umpire to call the game. The umpire, Michael Fitzgerald, refused to give any decision, claiming that under the circumstances he had no right to settle the matter and would leave it to the league managers to decide at the next meeting.
 But the Washington Hills didn't look at 1t that way. They claimed that the ninth inning wasn't finished and consequently the score at the last Of the eighth was the deciding score. According to their theory the Wash ington Hills won the game by the score that existed at the last of the eighth inning, which was to 5 in their favor.
 The St Josephs looked at it in an entirely different light. They claimed that they would have won the game if the last inning was played out, and ought to be given the game. They say that as long as it was light enough to play in the beginning of the ninth there was sufficient light to con- tinue the game to the dose of the in ing. Both teams had, lot of follow CTS at the game and they, of course, took the sides that their favorites did. The matter will come up at the next meeting, which will be held next Tuesday evening at the St Josephs' rooms
 The game between the two tail- enders was scheduled to be played at the Driving park, but when the teams appeared there they found the grounds already occupied by a team that was playing from o'clock to and then only had played six innings.
 The managers finally decided not to await the finish, but brought their teams down to Browns meadows.
 And then the game commenced. A corporaPs guard witnessed the game. and made enough noise for a crowd twenty times its size. And tfey had every rn9 son fn tIo ruorId to make noise and lots of it for they saw a game that was really a hair raiser.
 The early part of the game was rather tame because it was all one sided. But after the sixth inning the under team took a brace and crept up on the leader and kept creeping up un- til they were within one run of tying the score-that run the Pastimes failed to get
 Both teams had about the same line