Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-27
THE SPORTING NEWS.

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 probably the hardest pumping he has
 had this season. Rockville saw some
 elegant stick work that did it's heart good. The way Collins, Carney and Wiltse laced the ball was gladstone
 and the fans were overjoyed. The Manchesters were wildly flaming the air, as lift, who was in the box for Rockville. has them hipnotized. They couldn't touch his benders. He had
 a total of nine strike-outs, more than
 any white nine has scored of Man
 chester this season. The Rockville
 nine backed him up in good shape
 the misplays being few and excusa- ble.
 Southington defeated Bristol at Bristol Saturday afternoon to 5. Had 1t not been for the miserable playing of Bristol towards the end of the game the Southington boys would
 have gone home defeated, but on the l contrary Bristol gave them every op- portunity to win and they took ad- vantage of the chance. Bristol had the game up to the eighth, when
 Bresnahan, the Bristol pitcher, who
 was previously very steady and did
 excellent work, lost the game. By | allowing two men to take their bases
 and then hitting the third one, five
 runs resulted for the visitors, and the | score was 2 to 5.
 One of the fastest games ever | pulled off in independent base ball. dom was played at Unionville Satur- day, when the home nine defeated | Plainville in ninth rally, 2 to 1 1 Hammer, the local pitcher, was prac- tically invincible, striking out dozen
 men and holding down his opponents | to five scatterng hits. Plainville' $
 lone tally came fin the eighth, when | Slater slipped up on Seeyles's hard drive and Sowney came home on the error. Unionyille in the last of the
 ninth went in in whirlwind fashion
 and Brastow weakened, and two hits | sacrifice and Fusari's wild throw gave Unionville two runs and the l game.
 The Echoes of Hartford defeated
 Rocky Hill at that place Saturday af- ternoon, to 1. Ledwith, the Rocky Hill pitcher, was out of town, and | Leary of Hartford pitched for them, doing first-class work in the box, but
 the Rocky Hills were unable to hi, ] Keith.
 The base ball supremacy between Windsor and Windsor Locks was de-
 cided at Windsor Saturday, the home team winning 6 to in the most ex- citing game of the season. This was | the last of series of five games and Saturdays victory was the third one
 for Windsor.
 The State Hospital base ball team defeated the City Parks of Meriden
 Saturday on the hospital grounds at
 Middletown, to 2, in the presence | of big crowd, many of whom came from Meriden. The feature of the game was the fine pitching of Zemke
 of the hospital, who famed fourteen
 men and allowed only four hits. In an interesting game played on
 the New Hartford grounds Saturday | afternoon, the New Hartford nine de- feated the Collinsville nine 8 to 5.
 In the sixth inning the visitors threatened to quit the game, claiming
 that a ball, put by Poole over first,
 was foul. Tie pitching of Poole of New Hartford was one of the features
 of the game, he putting out eight
 men out of eleven who batted in the first three innings.
 East Hampton was defeated by Es-
 sex for the second time this season at
 East Hampton Saturday afternoon,
 10 to 4. The poor playing of East Hampton's outfield in the early part of the game was partly responsible for the defeat. Thomas pitched good
 ball for Essex. keeping his hits scat
 tered and striking out eight men.