Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-22
THE AMATEURS.
DAY OF
 SURPRISES
BrOoklyns Severely Beaten
 -Merrimacs Share the
 Same Fate-Best Game of Season in Smaller League

same kate-beSt tame O1
 Season in Smaller League
 Another record breaking crowd 1 gathered at Riverside park and wit l messed a game that, although one-sided, was chock full of excitement and in- terest. This was the Washington Hill- Brooklyn game. It meant the cup for the Brooklyn boys if they won and they started in determined to carry the day and the pennant to the district over the bridge. The Washington Hills were just as deter mined to prevent them and went right after their old rivals with vim and dash that left the Brooklyns in poor and battered shape after the slaughter was over. For slaugh- ter it was. John Kelly, the Brook lyn pitcher, was hit as he never was before and, although he pitched game battle, he was unable to stem the tide of victory that was constant ly going the Hills way. It was an ideal day for baseball, not too warm nor too cool; just the kind of wealth CT that puts life and vim into the players, and life and vim there was, lots of it, as anyone who was at the game can testify.
 As usual, the first obstacle was the crowd After the players had cleared the field of the biggest part of it, the game was commenced. Kelly and Dwyer was the batter for the Brookyns and Slocum and McMahon for the Hills. It started off all right and the spectators settled down to witness a good close contest. But after the fifth inning had been played the Hills started in and landed on Kelly's delivery so hard and so often that it soon developed into a runaway match Try as they would the ! Brooklyns couldn't stop nor catch their opponents Hit after hit was made by the Hills, not only by cer- tain number of the players but by them all Singles, two-baggers and .three-b base hits were banged out with great regularity and the Brooklyn fielders were kept on a constant chase after the ball when the Hills were at the bat.
 While the Hills were so effective at the bat, the Brooklyns were just the opposite They failed to do any thing to Slocumfs delivery and half of the runs that they did score were by grace of the Hills, who made a few errors and wild throws on which the Brooklyns scored three or four 4 JSIIg cAOSAuO AA1 IAAO ball good and hard, but "Jerry" could not win the game himself. Mulligan of the Washington Hills didn't hit the ball for the simple reason that he didn't have to, as he was presented with five or six passes to first by kel- ly Even when the Hills had good safe lead and the gathering darkness began to endanger their advantage, '.for the Brooklyns had the last bats, they refused to let up, but kept peg ging away piling up run upon run, and administering to the Brooklyns one of the soundest, if not the thrash dngs they ever received at the hands of any team in the City league.
 When the Washington Hills were retired after their last turn at the bat. they had scored twenty-one runs, while the BrOoklyns could count up only eight Although one-sided contest twas the most exciting game of the season and one that kept the z spectators constantly on their toes. EEhe score: R.H.E. B. A. c. ..1O3o 1Oo12- 6 6 Hills . 70 0 ? 1 1 o S-21 14 6 { Enthusiastically and Dwyer; Slo- cum and McMahon.
 IERRIAIACS CAUGHT MAPPING.
 1lS uISl RdulG llG dllGEHOOA fWCto not started until 3 o'clock and this lateness of the hour is not pleasant either to the people present nor to the defeated team, although some of the players of the Merrimac team were as much to blame as anyone else. The game was between the Merrimacs and the St Josephs, and before the game you could have secured all kinds Of bets at any odds on the Merrimacs. It looked as if they were too sure of it and when the St Josephs scored one run in the first inning the Merrimacs got thinking. In the second, however, is where their hopes went into the air, and into that same atmosphere went George Byrnes, the old reliable )twirler for the Merrimacs. He could mot locate the plate and when he did the St Joseph boys simply lambasted the leather. When the inning was 1 over a total of eight runs stared the Merrimac boys i'll the face and they realized it was impossible to overcome the lead, as the hands pointed to al most a quarter of 4, Byrnes was re- placed by Phelan i'll the box and tho Merrimacs began tactics to delay the game While, of course, there is some blame to be attached to them for that vet it is a trick that is done almost every day by teams in all leagues when they see defeat staring them in the face and when they want to look for darkness or the hour appointed to call the game The whole trouble with yesterdays trick was that too many were interested in the delay Had il been confined to one or two or ever, three they might have got away with it. The St Josephs got wise and so did the umpire, and when finally the uln pire got real tired he started to call the game. Had the Merrimacs even then been a little more wise they might still have got away with at least all unfinished game for when the umpire called the game it was after o'clock and the time was ur for the game to close. However, it is probably just as we'll that it happened ,e tt d3d fos. tho Sal-a of harmony bn