Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-29
GREATER WATERBURY STAND
AMATEUR NOTES.

The St JOSepnS were all IO Iue udu yesterday. They failed to do any thing at the bat and piled up errors too numerous to count.
 eSlocum, the pitcher of the Hills, paid more attention to the side line abuse he was receiving than to his work in the box. It looked like case of rattles for the young fel- low.
 That little league, the Greater Wa terbury is furnishing an article of baseball that should make Jimmy Kilmartin, the president, feel like a Ban Johnson or Harry Pulliam. 1t Is hair raising finish.
 Pete Lawlor of the Washington Hills made three or four fine catches in right field yesterday. One was a very difficult catch of a high fly. Pete couldn't get both hands after it so he hauled it in with one.
 When Curly made the wild throw over third in the tenth inning Wal lace made rush toward first base for what it is hard to tell-for he went back to the box again almost as fast as he went away from it.
 The Brooklyns presented a patched up team yesterday, but they were
 
 Kelly, the Brooklyn pitcher, caught his first game of the season for, his team and did almost as we'll as Dwyer.
 Mike Slavin, the crack catcher of the Merrimacs, certainly had his batting eye with him yesterday. He had a corking home run and three base hit. Mike is not only a fine catcher and thrower, but is also one of the heaviest hitters in the league.
 One bad decision was made yester- day in the Merrimac and North End game when Johnny Bride was called out for hitting at ball and having the ball hit him. It was not the third strike and therefore the batter could not have been called out. AS the out made no difference in the scoring, however, the mistake was not costly one.
 The whole trouble in umpiring down in the Riverside grounds is oc- casioned by the players themselves. There are too many captains and too many coachers on the side lines. If the teams want to see clean ball they should stay in their positions and let the captain settle all disputed points. No umpire is faultless and certainly National or American league um- pire would find his ability taxed to officiate at such games as those of yesterday.
 The playing of Burgess was one of the features of the Torrington-W Water bury Consolidated game on Saturday. His fielding was brilliant. He ac- cepted six chances, several of them l being of q most difficult nature, with out an error and he banged out two clean singles and a double. The Tor l rington manager was so pleased with 1 the work of the Brass City player 1 that he made him an offer after the game to play with him for the re- mainder of the season.
 l Several familiar faces were missing from the Brooklyn team yesterday. Dwyer was not in his accustomed place behind the bat and Cunningham and iLegge were missing from the out l field. It is said that the latter two were asked to lay off for q day and they refused to do so and got the1r release. Dwyer went with them out of sympathy. Johnnie Kelly, the best all around player in the league, played as catcher and he caught a 1 fine game. Cunningham of the Big | Seven club played first base, Shugrue played second, while F. Lallier went l out in the field Tiernan played in I Legge's place.
 A peculiar thing stopped the game I and caused an argument in the same l game A ball was batted into left | field which was crowded with spec tators. The left fielder disappeared l into the crowd but the umpire could neither see the ball nor the fielder. It looked to the umpire as though the fielder did not have time to get under the ball and called the batter safe. As q result the wrangle followed. The l fielder claimed. he did catch it, and was backed up by some of the specta- tors. Other spectators decided he had not caught it. Finally the field l was cleared and the two captains brought together and the umpire ex- plained that the better way to settle the whole matter was to have the batter take his place at bat once more and this satisfied both teams.