Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-28
THE DIAMOND
THE SCRAPPERS
 WERE WHIPPED HoIyoke No Match For the Prod igals Results of Other
 Games.

with no real live knowledge of the game, lacking sand and woefully ne- { glectful of his duties, was one of the unpleasant features of the game with Holyoke yesterday. A scrappy and very unruly band of ball players, with the insignia of Holyoke on their breasts, was one of the disgusting features of the game. It would ap- pear, from the way that Holyoke players conduct themselves when they come to this city, that they bot tie up all their ugliness and combat iveness in all the other cities and uncork the bottle when they arrive here. It is no wonder that the spec tators do not fall all over themselves in trying to get out to the game when Holyoke comes here. The days have gone by when baseball fans are at-t tracted to games because of the knowledge that they are apt to see | few pugilistic stunts Clean, whole some baseball, free from any sense- less kicks or rowdy tactics is what is 1 most desired by the great majority of fans. And it must be said about yesterdays game that had an umpire with any pluck or command been present, the insubordinate visitors would have been tanned in short or | der.
 | ntat tN &1 fox <,ff fh1, plesantries: Tom Dowd occupied a seat on the bench, and, whether it was by reason of his uniform being different from his teammates, or be- cause of the sultry day, his belli- gerency broke out in the very first inning, while Waterbury was at bat. A decision of Umpire Woodford caus- ed him to jump from his seat and into the presence of that official with quick dispatch. Then began a tire some argument between the official indicator man and the manager of the visitors which lasted almost five minutes. The people became disgust ed as they saw that there was pos sibility of Holyoke forfeiting another | game. In fact the watch was pulled on Dowd. who finally condescended to take his seat once more and let the game proceed.
 In the second inning when the Holyokes retired from the field to take their places at bat, the ball that was in play was missing and several of the spectators accused little Law renee of stealing 1t. Waterbury de- manded the ball and Dowd who was on the coaching line called on his men to throw 1t out if they had 1t. Another delay was occasioned when the ball was finally picked from un- der the Holyoke bench and tossed into the field and the spectators hiss ed and booted the visitors for the small trick of stealing ball in play.
 Again in the seventh inning did another unpleasant feature occur, which would have merited for the guilty player, had there been com petent umpire in charge, ejectment from the game and from the field as | we'll, with a fine attached. Schincel, angered at being called out on strikes and to be honest he should not have been declared out, threw his bat at the umpire. but it missed that off, cial by a big margin. Schincel, see- | ing that this act went unchallenged, berated the official in choice lam guage. In this same inning, Tom Crook, he with the unbridled tongue, which wags continually and general ly with unmusical sounds, mocked I and initiated the umpire on his. call ing of balls and strikes and paid lit- tie attention to the warning finger pointed at him. These were few of the bad features of the game.
 There were some excellent points in the game, however. which served in d measure to offset the others. The sensational batting of the Hol- yokes in the first inning when Eddie Farley came near being sent to the woods, the sensational catch of Kid Mccormack in the eighth inning when he pulled from the air with one hand a line hit of McAndrews and assisted in a double play, the snappy double play of Cooney Rice and O'Hagan in the ninth inning which robbed Holyoke of all chance of the game, the pitching of Eddie Farley after the first inning and last but not the least, the home run drive of little Walsh, which went like the wind to the center field fence and was not fielded in until the little chap had crossed the home plate.
 The scoring in the game was done as follows: In the first inning Hofs- man, for the visitors. the first man up, smashed out a three-bagEed. Me- Cormack sent him home with a clean hit, lott sacrificed the Kid to second and Lepine drove Mccormack home with another three-sscker. while the fans sat up in wonderment at the bomharding the premier twirler was receiving Crook drove out a two bagger and Lepine came home and then the next two men were easy outs. One more run came to the visi- tors in the third when Mccormack singled and Lepins drove him home with a two-sscker. That ended the visitors scoring. for they were easy pie for Eddie Farley after that first inning.
 The ProiiEals scored two in the first On singles by NcAndrevs. Me- Cabe and O'Haesn and double steal by the two former. Another came iu the second on a hit by Walsh and an error by Hartman Another came our way ia the third on triple by Ne- csbe. an error of Hartman and q single by Nichols. Singles by McCabe and Srander gave us another ia the fourth and our last scoring was done fr the fifth when Trerf.ra rzr-<f