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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
TABULATED STANDING.
Compiled from the Official Records of
 Local Official Scorer.

Waterbury is still clinging to the
 lead, but only by margin of two
 points. Norwich is begging after us
 and the two games to-day may make a big difference for some one of the
 teams. New London and New Haven
 are fighting hard to get up with the
 leaders and but one point separates the two teams from each other, while they are little over forty behind the leaders. The other four are not so far behind and few victories would
 bring them hurrying to the top. It is any teams race to-day for that pennant.
 Norwich wins the first credit for having taken double number vic tories from one of her opponents. Bridgeport is the guilty one, Nor wich having ten defeats over the |O'Rourkes. New Haven also got out or rut she was in, for up to Satur- day the Hens had but one victory over New London, but the defeat of the Whalers on Saturday made the Hens score two victories. Water
 bury, the leader, has less victories
 over Springfield than any other team,
 having defeated the O'Neils but three times. Norwich has but two victories over Waterbury; New Lon
 don has defeated Norwich but three
 times and Springfield three times; New Haven has defeated New Lon-
 don but twice; Bridgeport has three victories only over Hartford; Spring held has but two over Bridgeport: Hartford defeated New Haven but
 twice and Holyoke has beaten Wa terbury but twice. E Two hundred and ninety-four
 games have been played up to Satur-
 day night divided as follows: Wa terbury 73, Norwich 75, New London
 73, New Haven 75. Bridgeport 6S, Springfield 75, Hartford 73 and Hol-
 yoke 76. The following is the stand ing:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
THE DIAM OND.
PRODICALS IN
 AN EVEN BREAK
We Take the First and Springfield Takes the Second Results
 of All Games.

The Prodigals broke even with Springfield Saturday before a crowd estimated at nearly two thousand people and both games were shut outs. In the first game Cy Voorhees, wsa pitted against Jack Hess and the big fellow once more demonstrated that he can twirl with the best of them. He received gilt edge sup port too and the team played with a snap and ginger that was good to look at. The errors made were not costly, for Cy pulled himself out of every hole he either got into himself or was left in by his comrades. Me- Andrews had thirteen chances in this game, accepting them all but one. Springfield played good snappy ball, but could not hit Voorhees,, the five hits made off his delivery being di- vided into as many innings. The score:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
TABS WIN AGAIN.

The St Joseph boys pulled game ut of the fire yesterday when they efeated the Merrimacs by scoring xo runs in the last inning. This ictory puts the Tabs out of last lace and the Merrimacs will now be breed to take that position for the me being. The game was a blank ,r four innings. but in the fifth the abs vent after the victory with a engeance and scored three runs he Merrimacs in their half of the ming taltied twice The St Josephs ent ahead still more In the sixth
 hen they scored two runs. The ierrimacs were not to be outdone. owever. and in their half they took ie lead. scoring four times The sxf inning vas a blank for both, 1t fla the eighth the Tabs scored
 70 runs more and took the lead
 niA- Ihs Merrimaes tisd shsm ir
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
RHE
CITY LEAGUE STANDING.
Tabulated Form Shows How thu
 Teams Play With Each Other.

The Pastimes have jumped into the lead once more. having scored one less defeat than Brooklyn. The Pas times have beaten every team in the league one or more times with the exception of St Josephs. Brooklyn has yet to beat the Pastimes, the Hills have not beaten the Brooklyns or the Merrimacs, the North Ends have yet to gain victory over the Pastimes. Brooklyns and Hills. the St Josephs have the Brooklyns and North Ends to beat and the Merri- macs have no victories over the Pas times. Hills or North Ends. The fol- lowing is the standing:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

It was announced. last night that Manager Tom Dowd has signed two new men for the Holyoke team. Cox, a left-handed pitcher, comes from the Northern league. and Crapo. an in- fielder, comes from Willminton. Del. One or both of the new men may be in to-day's game.
 The talk in Norwich now is that Jack Tighe might be released and his salary saved. Tighe has not been playing much this season because of an injury in an exhibition game. but the Norwich directors would probab- ly find soon that the services of al- most any other man would be less essential.
 Andrew (Red) Nagle has been re- leased by the sharon team of the Ohio-Pennsylvania league. Rodney joined the sharon team shortly after being released by Springfield, and for a time played fair ball. His dispo- sition proved drawback, and the other players couldn't stand for his comments.
 The scene in the National league shifts to-day from Chicago to Pitts burg. where the Giants and Pirates will try to cut each other up. The Giants have raised the hopes of their followers by the splendid stand they made in Chicago, even though they lost two out of three. besides trying another.
 Out in Minneapolis Thursday. Um- pire Owens was greeted with a volley of antique eggs as soon as the first ball was pitched. and the game with Columbus was stopped. The umpire was taken from the field under police protection. A decision against the home team on the day previous was the cause of the egg-fest.
 Manager Burnham of the Newark team of the Eastern league has sold on condition to the Hartford club Herman C. Bronkie. the pitcher. The conditions are that Manager Burn ham can again have Bronkie by pay- ing the same amount as received and by making known his intentions of recalling him by August 10. Bron- hAt . AEANnlo AiA hhhNutcNCE nave DctH considerably stirred up about what he was going to do as a short time ago it was reported he was going back to Newark.
 News of the baseball games be- tweeen the clubs of the Cotton states league hereafter will be furnished to the jurymen in service in Judge Dash's vicksburg. Miss. court. for otherwise residents of vicksburg can not be induced to serve. The court was meeting with great difficulty in getting jurors to try L. W. Quacken- boss. an alleged forEer. and finally 1t was learned that lack of news of the close pennant race was the cause of the unwillingness to serve, and the concession was made
 Ia quitting Bridgeport at this stage Al O-DeIl shows himself a good deal of an inrate. When Jim 0'Rourke picked up the player he was nothing but a big awkward boy with a notion he could pitch. The veteran had patience with Al and developed him into fine inheIdsr- And yet its the fault Of just such men as OTRourke that players take the jump ing bait Jim vzs supposed to be somethins of power in baseball. but huzket up with the rest when there were chances to mzke examples of jumping plzFsrA
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
NEW HAVEN WON.

New Haven defeated New London at the Savin Rock prairie. Saturday, 5 to 1, in a we'll played contest. As a game, it was superb, although the local team was at no time in immi- nent danger. Corcoran and Long parted about chen from the box. for each pitcher struck out one and each gave four bases on balls. The score:
 R.HE. N. Haven. oo4I00ooo-5 Il o N.-London 0s-3 g { Batteries-Jope and Corcoran: Long and Refrange; umpire. Ken nedy; attendance. 1000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

Two base hits. F. Henebry. La. nance. Shugrue; three base hits iaffney: sacrifice hits, w. Lallier ;unningham: stolen bases. L. Hene' ry. F. Henebry. Dews, Hodge .egge: bases on balls. off Moran 3 f Kelly 3; double plays. Shugrue tc birmingham: Jerome. unassisted .rst base on errors. Pastimes 6 trooklyns 2: umpire. Mcdonald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
HILLS WIN THEIR GAME.

The Washington Hills and the North Ends were the two competing teams in the second game yesterday. It was nip and tuck battle up to the fifth inning, when the Hills scored four runs, making the score 5 to 2 in their favor. They made another in the next inning. In the seventh the North Ends made des- 'perate fight for the lead and came within one of it. One more inning was played with blank ufdrSeach and then the game was called to allow the last game to go on. The score:
 e R.H.E. Hills ...... 0100410 0-6 5 4 North Ends. 010100 O-5 6 2
 Batteries-Ross and McMahon for the Hills and Phelan and Conrad for the North Ends.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
THE SPORTING NEWS.


 error, which let in the deciding run, and just as victory was in Holyoke's S grasp Crabo, the new infielder, ran in front of Bakers hit, which would have brought in the two runs needed to give the game to Holyoke. There were three men on bases when Baker drove the ball between Moffett and Crook. It was well out of reach of both of them. but Crabo, who was on first at the time, instead of watching the ball as he sprinted for second, ran plumb into it. The score:
 RH.E. Hartford 001011 O00-3 8 1 Holyoke O00002 20 0 0--2 10 5 Batteries-Badgley and O'Leary; Dolan and Schincel; attendance l. 100.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
THE PIONEERS WON.
Defeated the Strong Quaker Team
 Yesterday.

In the presence of five or six hun dred baseball fans yesterday at Cor coran's lots, the Pioneers kept up their old game, by trouncing the Crack Quaker team of Railroad hill, by the score of 9-2. The feature of the game was the wonderful pitching of Stigberg, of the Pioneers. who allowed but two hits to the Quarkers, while Bricket did good work in hold ing him behind the bat. Smith. pitcher for the Quakers was hit hard in the first inning; the Pioneers SCOT ing five runs. Quinn held Smith be- hind the bat The deciding game be- tween these two teams will be played later in the season as each team won one The Pioneers will play second game with the Sunshines of Brooklyn next Sunday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
BASE BALL TID.BITS,
Next game Wednesday.


 Voorhees, was cheered by the peo- pie at the end of his game. Red Waller has lost his job with the Elizabethport team, which re- fuses to employ contract jumpers. Frank Fitzpatrick is certainly hav- ing lovely time in almost every game he plays against his former mates.
 President Harry Pulliam is named as the man likely to be owner of the Boston National league team next season.
 Hartford comes here Wednesday and 1t is up to the Prodigals to improve on the number of victories over that team.
 Si Sanborn sarcastically remarks that Chicago fans are glad to see New York strengthening, as the Spuds want some honor in winning the pen nant.
 When Jimmie Bertwhistle was with Holyoke he didn't hit hard enough to break an egg. Now he is one of the most reliable pellet punch CTS the Orators have. Rumor has 1t that Mccormack and Dolan are being sought by the Out laws, and are considering the tempta- tions. Here's hoping both will stay right where they are.
 Dan O'Neil is lucky just now to have a sprightly chap like Burns for Standards place. But it is not thought that Toms injury will keep him out of the game long.
 Clark Griffith is stocking up for the racking finish that seems a eer- tainty in the American league. His latest acquisition is Jansen, a left handed pitcher from Salt Lake City. The Brooklyn team may have to worry along without the services of Heine Batch for at least another fortnight. His attack of malaria has reduced the lively player to a shadow.
 Five hundred people more would have been at those two games on Saturday had the people realized that they would have been played. It looked at noon as if there would be no game.
 The St Josephs are throwing a scare into all the teams fin the City league now and perhaps they may be the pivot on which will revolve the pennant victory. if they do not win it themselves.
 Hogarty is not a bad pitcher by anee and he would naturally be ner- yoas and he was pitching with a wet ball His strike out of the last two Springfield men showed good head work.
 In his first game with Lancaster. Al 0'Dell made the natives sit up and take notice. The rubber-legEed Ora tor played right field. made three Of Lancasteris ten hits. got in a sensa- tIonal catch and did some brilliant base running
 Umpire Knovlton showed plenty of sand last week The strenuous kicking indulged in by some members ol lne notNohe team ude tune N1eu no good and resulted only in the benehing of two players and the in- fiction of three fines.
 Deal handles himself on first base as though he had played big league ball all his life and when it came to the usual Kidding that the New York Giants hand out to the youngsters. Deal handed Lack about as good as De got He has a good position zt the place snd with little schooling fn tie hitting line will unio1btsdIy te up with the nsxf o1e.-sportinE Ne.n
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
Leader. neat BrooLiyn.

CHICAGO. July 23.-Thc National leaders defeated Brooklyn in the sixth inning here yesterday. scoring five runs on two passes. a steal. two sin gles and two doubles. Lumley's great hit to the clubhouse. McCarthy's dou- ble and two errors scored the visitors three runs. the only inning in which they were able to touch Pnester. The notable feature of the game was the fact that Jordan had only two put outs at first base. Score. C 10 8
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

Monday. July zs-Hartford at Nev Haven. Holyoke at New London Bridgeport at Springfield. Waterbury at Norvich two gsmezl.
 Tuesday. July 24-Bridgeport at Hartford. Holyoke at Norwich. New Haven at Springfield. Waterbury ak New London.
 wednesdzy. July z5-Hartford e Waterbury. New Haven ct Holyu1& sprfnsaeid at Bridgsport, Nov LGn- toa at Norvick
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

Summary:. Two base hits, McAn- drews, Flanagan, Drake: bases stolen, Walsh. Ennis: double plays. Rice, O'Hagan: struck out, by Frill 5. by Hogarty 5: base on balls. of Frill 1. on Hogarty 8: hit by pitched ball, McAndrews, Burns; sacrifice hits, Yale. Flanagan. Robarge: time of game. 1h 35m: attendance. 1,s00; umpire. Rogers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

In the second game our new twirl- CT, Hogarty, was sent in for his maid en trial. It was not his faNlt.thas .lss lost the game, for the errors behind him were responsible for the two runs scored by Springfield. Hogarty pitched we'll and in tight places had the twenty-three sign on the Spring fields. Had his team done any batting themselves they might have pulled out victory. As 1t was Frill had the Prodigals tied to the grand stand. while he made target of them. The score.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
R.HE.
Norwich eeeIIeeIEI .s
LOST ON A FLrKE.

Nisplsys cost Holyoke another game on its home grounds. and Hart ford vas the beneficiary. in spite of the fact that the Champs" needed the game very badly if they are to climb out of last place before the dog days" are over Irxy Hoffman vas on deck with great big black
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

their half. In the ninth the Tabs scored two more and the Merrimacs tried hard to overcome the lead, but all they were able to do was score once and the victory went to the Tabs. The score:
 St Josephs .,... O0OO3 2-9 Merrimacs .... 00 o o 24 01 1-S
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
NORWICH WON OUT.

Norwich won at Bridgeport. to n. Callahan pitched a good game for the Orators. but he was poorly supported. Edmunds did good work for the Rosebuds and he was finely supported knovlton umpired- The score:
 R-H-E. Norwich 0oo11o0IET g 0 Bridgeport oO-1 12 s Batteries-Edmunds and Bridges: Callahan and Beaumont: attendance l,Is5.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

Summary: Bases stolen, O'Hagan, Walsh, McCabe, Flanagan, Tansey 9; double plays, McAndrews, Rice and O'Hagan; struck out, by Voorhees, 9, by Hess 3; base on balls, off Voor- hees 1; wild pitches, Voorhees,; sac rifice hits, McCabe; time of game, In som; attendance, 1,S00; umpire, Rogers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

NATIONAL LEAGUE. At St. Louis-Boston. 1; St. Louis 5. At Chicago-Brooklyn, 6; Chicago, 3. At Pittsburg--New York. 2; Pittsburg. 8. At Cincinnati-Philadelp l; Cincin- nati 2.
 AMERICAN LEAGUE. At New York-Detroit 6; New York, l. At Philadelphia - Chicago, g. Philadel. phia 2
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
e,.ein..,i Took Both c.me..

CINCINNATI. July 23.-The Cincin- nati Nationals won two games from Philadelphia yesterday. The superior hitting of the locals and the poor field ing of the visitors determined both contests. In the second game. vhich was limited to seven innings by sgree- ment. Cincinnati made the record of not securing an assist in fielding Scores. i3 to S and 10 to 3
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
p-es- str.~k o.s Thirse~- u---

ST. LOUIS. July 9-The St Louis Nationals won from Boston yesterday by q score of tO l. Bsete did great vork for the IocalS. striking out thir- teen men and allowing but two hits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23

Tom Dovd of Holyoke has been af- ter Dsvins of FTtchburz. but the FitchbarE man turned down Hol- yoke's offer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
Sporting Editor:

spUTNIuE EUIUUI-
 Dear Sir-In your morning issue Of date. I notice an item from the Nor. vich Bulletin which says the atten- dance at Norwich Wednesday was c disgrace. I would suggest the Nor wich management transfer one of its Wednesday games to Northampton I am sure the attendance would largely exceed the 500 mark.
 A FAN. Northampton, Mass. July 1s. 1sos-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
sENfI-PROF GANGS.

On Hotchkiss field, Naugatuck, Saturday the fire department easily defeated the Edgewood team, scoring fourteen runs and giving goose egg to their opponents. The Naugatuck boys played an errorless game. A feature of the game was James
 Sweeney's three-base hit in the sey- enth which scored Jones and Cliff ford. Weiner made an unassisted double play which retired the side in the fourth when Jack Clifford flied out to Weiner and Foley attempted reach home.
 Hoar's masterly pitching, aided by perfect support on the part of the
 men behind him, resulted in the Litchfield club being whitewashed on it's own diamond Saturday afternoon by the yet undefeated Coe Brass az gregation, the score standing 4 to
 at the finish. Litchfield was power less before Hoar's benders. Barstow, too, pitched good ball, but his sup port was poor.
 The inability of the Manchester players to hit the pitcher of the Gu
 ban Stars. the opponents of the Man.
 chesters at Manchester on Saturday,
 lost for them the game. while the Gu bans took kindly to the pitching of
 Howard Buckley, the Manchester
 twirler, and found him for fifteen hits. The final score was to o. Essex won from Deep River on the
 Southworth grounds in a contest that
 was full of errors Both McCabe and
 Thompson pitched good ball, but the
 support given them was ragged. The
 score was 12 to 6.
 The Rockvilles whitewashed the
 Murray Hills of New York Saturday
 afternoon in as pretty game of ball
 as was ever seen on the Union street
 grounds in Rockville. West and
 Courtney were pitted against each
 other, The Rockville twirler. was in fine form andrhefd the MurrayoHills to one scratch hit. Courtney was also a puzzler He allowed but three safe ones. The final score was 1 to 0 in favor of Rockville.
 One of the most disgraceful scenes that ever took place on diamond in this state was witnessed in Windsor
 Locks Saturday afternoon when the
 Jolly Socials, the amateur champions
 of Hartford, played the Windsor
 Locks Stars. The umpire, whose name is White, fgavored the home team at every opportunity and he was fre- quently hissed. The climax was
 reached in the first half of the eighth inning, when with men on first and
 second, Claffey of the Jolly Socials landed on a ball that bumped the third bag. The man on second scored
 on this hit, but the umpire called it
 foul and sent the runner back. He
 claimed that ball that hit the bag
 was foul. The Jolly Socials played the game out under protest, as they were anxious to get their expense
 money The Windsor Locks team won
 the game. 3 to 2, but for the decision on Claffey's hit there would have
 been a different result. After the
 game a fan addressed an insulting
 remark to one of the Jolly Socials
 and this seemed to be the signal for
 the onslaught to begin. Some of the
 spectators and Windsor Locks play
 CTS jumped on the Hartfords and
 gave them a severe beating. Frank
 Skinner, the center fielder. was so
 badly injured a physician had to att
 tend him. All were more or less in-
 iured.
 Huntsville defeated the City Parks of Meriden Saturday on the Sand
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
Plantsville defeated the City Parks

Plantsville defeated the City Parks of Meriden Saturday on the Sand Hill grounds 6 to 5. Matty Walsh. the pitcher. won the game by time ly hit over second base. bringing in Lewis. This was done with two out. Errors were made by both sides and all were costly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-23
THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE.

Northampton, Mass. July 10. 1906
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-04
PLAN FOR EXPOSITION.
Replica of Washington Monument to
 Be Built at Jamestown.

Washington July 3.-A meeting of the government commission of the Jamestown exposition was held today in the office of Secretary Shaw to initiate plans for the government participation in the ex- position. The commission consists of Secretary Shaw, chairman; Secretary Taft and General Bonaparte. with Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury Edwards as secretary. Secretary Taft Is out of the city. but the other members of the com mission were present.
 William NJ Geddis. who had charge of the government exhibits at the exposi- tlons at Buffalo. St. Louis and Portland. Ore. was appointed assistant secretary of the commission. He and MT. Edwards will have charge of the government ar- engagements at the Jamestown exposition. The plans for the replica of the Wash ington monument to be erected on James, town Island were approved by the com mission. The monument will be con structed of granite, will be 100 feet high. and will have base of thirty feet square.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-04
Count Boni Is Turned Down.

Paris July 3.-By a vote of 253 to 22l. the Chamber of Deputies today annuled the election of Count Boni de castel- lane to the Chamber. on the grounds of corruption and bribery Count Boni, who vigorously denied the accusations, made a counter charge of similar character against his opponent, and stated that a press campaign had been started against him during his painful family difficult ties" adding that he would have taken other means of replying to those attacks but did not wish to bring himself into prominence at that time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-04
No Formal Celebration in Gadsden n.

Gadsden. July 3.-(Special.) )-There will be no formal celebration of the Fourth of July in Gadsden. but most of the fac tories and all of the stores will colse m honor of the day. A double-header ball game will be played with the Anniston team, the first at 9:30 in the morning and at in the evening. Both teams are in good form and some fine sport is expect ed. In the morning Jordan and Paul Stevenson will do the work for Gadsden and Rivers and Mckee for Anniston. In the evening game Clyde and Paul Steven son will oppose Reynolds and Mckee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-04
CROP ESTIMATE IS
 PLACED AT S3.3
TEN-YEAR AVERAGE IS SHOWN TO BE 81.1-ALABAMA'S CROP CONDITION IS 84 PER CENT. TEN-YEAR AVERAGE, 84.

Washington. July 3.-The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics, depart ment of agriculture, finds the reports Of the crops and agents of the bureau that the average condition on June 2o was s33 as compared with S4.6 on May 25, 1sO6 ITO on June 25 1905. SSO at the corresponding date in 1904, and ten-year average of SAL
 The following table shows the condi- tion of June 25 of this year, with the re- spective ten-year averages: