Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-19
! THE AMATEURS. END OF
 THE SEASON
rooklyn Boys Are Once More Champions of the City Amateur League Great Was the Race.

bye the Brooklyn lAtheltic club cap
 red the pennant and the beautiful
 yer cup which goes with it. This
 lakes the third year in succession
 at the Brooklyn boys have won the hHership in the City Amateur league, ld perhaps no team in the league
 slerYes to win better thanS the lads om over the bridge. For the past
 ice years, in fact, every year since
 9 league was started, the Brooklyn aIyers start off the season in q Hirlwind style, and they never let h until the end. 1t is this dogged fFsistence that has landed them the 4nner those three successive years
 here have been claims that either
 e Pastimes or the Merrimacs could Eat Brooklyn, but the fact still re
 ains that they did not, and on this pint there is no kick coming. The FOoklyns never entered game only
 twin and even when their opponents sgd them beaten to q standstill i'll Mne games there never was let up E&til the last man was out. Manager
 Rchance was a new man at the head X the Brooklyns, but he proved q good
 e and deserves credit as we'll as the
 ayers. Captain Fred Lallier, who 2
 tled to a share in the glory, for never hs a team worked harder under a Aptain than did this same Brooklyn
 am. They all played ball and fought
 om the opening of the season to the Hpse. They lave been followed all
 aSon by a loyal crowd of rooters hd one gem in the athletic crown of
 e Brooklyn Athletic club can be at fbuted in part to the generous way
 which the Brooklyn people cheered l their team to victory
 The Merrimacs and Pastimes, who ee tied for second place, put up a reat fight during the last few weeks
 the race, and the winning of the Ip by Brooklyn can be traced to the beedy ball playing of the Pastimes, h0 knocked the pennant ideas4out of Ae Merrimacs in yesterdays game.
 anager Hayes of the Merrimacs is
 hustler and if the players under his barge had worked as faithfully and Blended to their work on. the field as he manager did to his on and off tie eld; there might have been differ It story to tell. The whole truth Of De matter is just this, that while the <eUrimacs have as good a battery as here is in the league, the team be. md them has not been doing the work Eher in the field or at the bat that iey ought to do. 4t was this failure
 the field and with the stick which st them the game yesterdaT
 Manager Kilmartin of the Pastimes hs as speedy a lot of ball players un7 er his charge as ever graced an anna ur diamond There is no doubt had his team been together all season 11 hod 10 sustle to keep anywhere near them. There is not a slow player nor shiIk, ss in the bunch. and they have bat, Dry that need not take water from sny battery in the league. If Man Rger Kilmartin retains this team in bet for next season there will be sustling among the other managers to trengthen up before the, opening of 2Ae season.
 II Manager Bergen of the Washington hills made a plucky fight and but for Icing handicapped by circumstances which came at the wrong time he night have made the leaders hump to win out. Washington hill always possesses the material for corking good team, but like some of he other teams, they do not begin
 think of the pennant until it is too hte A league without the Washing 'on Hills, however, would be like a sunday school picnic, for they can play RalI when they let themselves out. hd with their large band of steadfast
 oters they make things hum Wheth- E they win or lose.
 4 Manager Egan of the St JosephS kas also handicapped in the Injury Bf players and othe1 ways. His team has one of the best pitchers in this league in young Moran, but the lack sf catcher to hold him proved dis, lstrous. When Catcher Patrick Cav Anaugh was injured it practically put he St Josephs out of the running. Manager Moreau of the North Ends |vas handicapped just as some of the others. He had the nucleus of a good team, but 1t was a difficult matter to set good players to fill out to com bete with the others. At that he gen, era1ly proved dangerous against some bf the teams and kept them guessing as to just how the games would come put.
 MERRIALACS WEIRD BEATEN.
 The last game of the season in the City Amateur league resulted in a de- feat for the Merrimac team, and it was one or the 4adfueSL games lO lose hat the Merrimacs have played in this season. Wanting the game bad g ;. as it would give them one more 5hance to get after Brooklyn for the Bennant, they were forced to take a )eating, and, yes, 1t can be truthfully laid, by stronger and better team, he Pastimes. For five innings yester lay it was pretty battle with either team likely winner. Then came the Waterloo for the Merrimacs and er- fors galore helped the Pastimes to win out. The Merrimacs failed to find Barker, t6o, who was pitching the game of his life and inclose quarters ne had the Merrimacs at his mercy. He was well backed up by Spellman and he had stone wall infe1d and ,utfield behind him. George Byrnes 5f the .Merrimacs also did good work n the box and was well backed by Mike Slavin, but there was a scarcity )f hitting and muchness of error making which caused the game to be 0st. The score:
 PASTTMES.
 AB. R. H. 20. X. E.. Edmonds, ss :. 4 2 1 2 2 0