Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-06
Second Game.

game and his work was better by far than almost every regular umpire that has been sent here. His judg- ment was good, much better than the judgment of those who decided to se- lect two players to umpire in the sec ond game. Jim O'Rourke had kicked on Curley umpiring that first game, but finally yielded and on only one decision was there any chance to question his work and that decision was correctly given according to the opinion of those who were close enough to observe. However. Secre- tary Jeems and son Jimmy decided to try the double umpire idea and what
 a mess they made of it. Cy Voorhees, was the one to blame for the begin ming of all the trouble and had Cy been a regular umpire and made the same decisions on balls and strikes that he did on Parker Treat, he
 would have been mobbed as sure as | fate In that very first inning Treat
 was robbed of at least six strikes and the consequences were that three | bases on balls were presented as gifts | by Voorhees, to the Bridgeports. A
 scene was enacted in this first inning, too, which proved what the writer | has contended right along that there
 is lack of harmony in the team and
 that Harry O'Hagan has not the en- tire confidence nor respect of the players under him.
 The decisions of Voorhees, nettled Treat, as 1t would any pitcher. Whether Captain O'Hagan believed
 Treat was not doing his best or
 whether he was disobeying orders is not known, but at any rate O'Hagan | stepped over to Treat and wordy war began between the two, while the fans yelled for ball game, not a dispute. This call from the captain on top of the roasting he was getting from the umpire did not put Treat in any better humor and from that mo- | ment the game became f1asco. Ev- | cry Bridgeport man faced him in that first inning. Three bases on balls, two singles and an error of Mike Me- Andrews brought four runners over the plate before the side was retired. | That settled the game right there so | far as the Prodigals were concerned, for We scored but one run and that in the second inning, when Nichols sim gled, Thackara sending him to third on another safe drive and the old war horse came home on an out to
 the outfield.
 The fiasco was dressed down with
 more hard luck in the fifth when
 Eddie Swander in attempting to stop line drive was seen to falter, then
 stagger to the fence and recline against 1t, evidently in pain. It was then discovered that Swander had
 strained himself in the first game and
 he had aggravated the strain in his attempt to catch the last ball. He had
 to leave the field for the dressing
 room and was in no shape to come
 back. A delay of ten minutes was oc-
 casioned while George Mulligan was
 hurried into. a uniform, and took Swander's place. Bridgeport in the fifth inning made two more runs on single by Castle. double by Beau
 mont and single by Bertwhistle. Four came in the sixth. Three more
 bases on balls, two singles and an er-
 TOT of George Mulligan's. Two more came in the seventh on three safe drives and then the umpires did the only good thing they had performed in the game by calling oil the slaugh- ter, because of darkness. The score: