The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-02
UPHILL FIGHT WAS VAIN
HoLYOKE GOT START ON BLUES
 IN SECOND INNING.

Exciting Ninth Inning RaIIy-NOrwich Also Beaten at sIerIden-HartfOrd
 Downs Springfield After Ten Innings No Game at BridgepOrt-ResuIts in
 Other Leagues
 Luck, fairy-Iilke luck, danced magic rings around the Holyoke team during yesterdays game at the savin Rock grounds, and despitet the fact that they mere outbatted fourteen hits to eight, and despite the numerous opportunities they gave New Haven to win, the Blues were not quite able to break the spell. 4 regular hoodoo seemed to have set tied upon the local mems efforts.
 To begin the trouble, Kelly, who started in to pitch, passed Hoffman, the first man up, and he scored, al- though no hit was made in the first inning. Then in the second inning, be- fore New Haven had made start, the champions-to-be proceeded to put the game seemingly on the shelf by scoring five runs on three hits, a pass and two bad errors by Sherwood, who at short stop continued his wretched exhibition of Thursday. The lead seemed prohibit tive for the locals, but they went in with determination and from this time on landed consistently and with deadly effect on the offerings of MT. Hodge. Fourteen safe ones, for a total of eighteen bases. was the result. But the luck of the game was with Holyoke, and twice New Haven got but one run out of three hits in one inning.
 The game was full of about every, kind of baseball from inexcusable er- TOTS to unqualifedly sensational field ing. Of the latter sort were. especially the triple play made by Larkin and Deal, which cut off New Haven's chances in the fifth, and a magnificent running one-hand catch by Burke. The triple play happened this way: Sher- wood had singled. Bunyan hit to Lar kin, who allowed both men to reach their stations safely on his error, San franandre sent a lightning liner appar- ently past Larkin, but that short stop took it on the wing, ran, across second, extinguishing Sherwood, who had start ed for third, and threw to Deal in time to catch Bunyan. The play is one that is seldom executed, and, despite it's injury to New Haven's cause, was heartily applauded. s ... ss< e...... ...
 The grand up-hill battle of the local men won the enthusiasm of the crowd, and the game kept up excitement to the end. In fact in the last session, when everybody had decided that all was over. the Blues suddenly bounced upon Hodge again and all but tied the score.
 The tally board indicated to at the end of Holyoke's ninth. Jope was first up and he cracked out a ee-bagger which Hoffman could not get. The outfelders had crowded over towards the left of the field, leaving right field unprotected, ,land Burke took advantage of this to send another three-base hit into that territory, Jope scoring. This ; set the fans wild. Lenox hit vigorously at three balls, but failed to connect and went down on strikes. Corcoran went out, Larkin to Deal. Bunyan hit an easy one to the great Hummel and the spectators rose to go home, when that reliable player calmly threw the ball over Deals head, Burke scoring. San franandre singled. Lawlor, who had already registered three hits, was up, with Bunyan on third and Sanfranan- dre on second. A single meant, a tie, but Lawlor was overaxious and struck out, ending the contest.
 Sherwood took Kelly's place in the box at the beginning of the third inn ing and was superseded by Corcoran in theseighth. Hayward got back into the game in the third, taking sherwood's place at short when he went in to pitch.
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