Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-02
THE DIAM OND
TO THE VICTORS
 BELONG THE SPOILS
Norwich Pulled Down From Her Lofty Station By the Fight
 ing Prodigals.

Once upon a time there was an emperor and this emperor aspired to conquer the world. One day this same emperor had fall, in fact he met his Waterloo and the world survived. Generations have passed since that time, but other kings and !emperors and even baseball managers have tried to emulate the dethroned em- peror's policies, but all have feasted upon that same banquet of defeat. Such was the case yesterday. when the Prodigals faced Jack Tighe and his bunch of unconQuerables. sweep ing all before them the Rose Buds from the city of Norwich met on Reeds battlefield yesterday an en- emy so strong and skilled in baseball tactics that when the smoke of the double attack had cleared away, Jack Tighe and his lusty cohorts were humbled in the dust and were flying the flag of distress. The two victories were accompanied by many exciting features, but none more mo- table than the premier twirling Of Hogarty, the Holy Cross boy who has the credit of the two games attached to his name. The writer of this paper has claimed right along that under proper conditions Hogarty can give all the stars in the league numerous points on offensive and defensive work on the pitching slab. This does not detract one iota from the work of our other twirlers, either. for sure ly every other Waterbury pitcher will be pleased to see young Hogarty do well, because he is clean cut, hon. est and gentlemanly ball player. An other feature that deserves special mention is the work of Mike McAn- drews at short. This player has been given his bumps by the press and the public alike and the writer has not been backward in criticizing him on several occasions. Where credit it due and due with interest, it should be given no matter what has been said and done before. The game put up by McAndrews yesterday coult not be improved upon. It was the old Mike McAndrews that we all knew and applauded so often. He saved u' from possible defeat on several occa- sions and the fans were not slow to catch on to the fast work of the Prodigals' shortstop. He deserved ev- cry bit of applause that he received.
 The first game started of with a rush by the Norwich crowd. Treat had been selected to do the slab work for the locals and he evidently was not in the best of form. Harry Ball the first man up singled and was sacrificed to second Golden then struck out, but Lord smashed out . two-sacker and Soffel followed with single, while the next man was re- tired. This netted Norwich two runs. They scored one more in the second on a free pass, fielder's choice, a single by Halligan and an out to left field. The Prodigals began scoring in the second when O'Hagan walked free, took second on an attempted sacrifice and came home on Rice's single to the outfield. Norwich in- creased her lead in the fourth on a two base hit by Perkins, sacrifice by Accorsini and an out to the center field.
 In the fourth was where the Prodi- gals got busy. and which saw the finish of Mir Halligan, who was doing the twirling for the visitors. Captain O'Hagan, the first man to face him. rapped out the cleanest three-bagger to right center that has been seen on the field. Thackara followed with two sacker, and Walsh was safe on Accorsini's drop of thrown ball. Rice popped up an easy one to the catcher but Treat hammered one out for another three sacker. That settled Halligan and he mournfully journeyed to the bench while Stevens took his place. McAndrews smashed his curves for single. McCabe flew out to left, Swander followed with another single and Nichols retired the side by flying out to second. The result of all this was five runs. Nor wich evened up matters in the fifth | by hammering Treat for two double sackers and Treat was called in and | Hogarty was sent out. A single by Soffel helped matters along and the score was tied Norwich making two | runs. ANOiWltn ctoitu ohc LII JUN seventh and so did the Prodigals. The visitors fell down in the eighth but the Prodigals scored once. taking the lead. In the ninth Norwich squeezed in the tying run again but the foxiness of Harry O'Hagan gave us the victory in our half O'Hagan got his base on balls. stole second, took third on a sacrifice. and then when a little fly was batted to left field, he did not wait for the ball to touch the fielder .hands, but dashed | for home. and the run was allowed.
 Then there was trouble. Two um- pires had come here for some reason and Dan shannon was umpiring balls and strikes while Mclean was over seeing the bases. Mclean would not call O'Hagan out although the Nor wich players demanded it. Jack tTighe headed a bunch of the visitors and had not several policemen jump ed into the breach Mclean might have fared badly. The things that Jack Tighe said to Mclean would fill a book If the book would be al. lowed to be printed
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