Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-25
THE DIAM OND.
SPARKLING WITH
 GOOD PLAYING.
Never Was Game More Exciting Than the One of Yesterday r
 Norwich Forging Ahead.

Had the quarrel between Captain Harry O'Hagan of the Waterbury team and Manager Dan O'Neil of the team taken place the night before last. or even early yes terday morning, the base ball grounds would have contained rec ord crowd. It happened so close to the time of the game that the report was not circulated as promiscuously as 1t would have been had there been more time. As it was there were ten or twelve hundred fans out on the grounds. many of them, we are sorry to say, hoping to sec the two come together again. The quarrel was the talk of the city last night and 1t was regretted by the majority of the best meaning fans that such sturdy old timers as marry O'Hagan and Dan O'Neil should let their tempers get the best of them and cause them to indulge in a game of fisticuffs on the public street. That they can settle their grievances amicably this season is doubted now by everybody and in Springfield to-day they may clash once more. Perhaps the prospects of another meeting between them at tracted the several hundred fans who left Waterbury this morning with the team to take in the double header in the Massachusetts city. There is not the slightest doubt but that the bat tie of yesterday will also attract thousands to the Springfield grounds this afternoon, for the American pub lie, almost in general, love a good scrap as dearly as they do good ball game.
 But there was no repetition of the
 quarrel during the progress of the
 ball game, but if the people did not see fight between the Waterbury and Springfield gladiators, they did see one of the most brilliant and ex- citing games of base ball, which end- ed in victory for the home team in
 the middle of the eleventh inning.
 It was one of those games where solid men of business, professional
 men, merchants and their clerks, the
 boss and the employe fin the factory.
 in fact, men in all conditions of life,
 forgot themselves for the time being and plunged into the seething whirl- pool of excitement and vied with the
 little shavers in strenuous applause that at times yerged on the hysteric. There was no holding such a crowd and the scorers were carried along with the rest in the paroxysm of base
 ball madness. Coming out of the
 grounds and riding home on the cars many of these men asked themselves if they really did act as they knew
 they did or was it all a dream. It was the old story so oft repeated, an exciting base ball game can make an Indian out of a perfectly sane and reserved man of business.
 Eddie Farley was selected to do the honors for Waterbury on the fir- ing line, and Jack Hess, the premier twirler in this league, was sent up to oppose him. The former was hit al- most doubly as hard as was Hess, but the most phenomenal kind of base ball was played behind him, ard 1t was this sensational work that sent the fans almost to the funny house. Waterbury started off like a three time winner and caught Hess nap ping before he got his machine-like arm in working order. Four of the seven hits credited to the Prodigals were made in that first inning and three of the four runs were scored. through the pitchers box which landed him safely on first. McCabe and Swander went out from secor>l to first. Nichols. O'Hagan and Thackara then set the fans wild with safe hits. and when Curtiss dropped the thrown ball on third pandemoni- um broke loose. Walsh flew out to left and ended the disaster for Hess. and the three runs were up on Wa terbury's score board. There we stopped. for not another run did we get until the eleventh inning. which will be spoken of later. We got but two more hits, too. until the elev- enth, and those two came in the same number of innings. Hess was pitching masterly base ball and had our alley for a certainty.
 Springfield began to find Farley very early in the game. In the first inning, after the first two men had been retired. Bill Yale hammered one to left field which looked good for two. In trying to make the dou- ble Swander nailed him at second by a pretty throw if m the field. In the second Flanagan wns passed free. stole second: Standard smashed out a double to the fence. CurtIss struck out and Luby followed with another double. but was left, as the net two men were retired Two runs were over the plate, however. In the third kept after Farley. Tan sey started oil with a single, was sac rificed to second, took third on Yale's out from pitcher to first and came home on . Fianagan's safe drive. Flanagan was caught between the bases and run down. but the score was tied. Then began the battle royal between the two teams. Stank- ard started oil the fourth with a two sacker, was sacrificed to third and when Luby knocked up a foul fly back of first base. which Harry O'Ia- gan captured. Stankard tried to dash for the plate. By a perfect throE O'Hagan sent the ball to Thackara and the latter fell on Sfankard be- fore he could reach the plate and the crowd cheered to the echo. The fifth saw some startling playing on the part of the Prodigals. Drake began with a hit. took seeond on an irf1eld out to first. and. when Tansey smashed a safe drive to center gar den, he darted like a shot to make the two bases NcC7be scnoret u7 the ball and sent ft screechEur as straight as an arrow fnr Tharksra-