Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-27
THE DIAMOND
NOW YOU SEE IT AND NOW YOU
 DON'T GAME.
Waterbury Had the First Game Well in Hand When She Lost It.
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 in Hand When She Lost It.
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 Sit up there, you Captain Mike and you eX-Captain Terry Rogers, and you also Pitcher Fenske. Tell us what do you mean by throwing away aLgame just when we had it cinched? For all the fans out there yesterday said, as they journeyed sadly homeward, that is just what you three ball tossers did. The fatal eighth inning is where it all happened, and how it happened was something like this: Mike Mo Andrews had chance to tag a man running to third base, but preferred to toss the ball to Terry Rogers at second to catch another Bridgeport CT. Terry Rogers didn't have his mind on the ball just at the time and the leather sphere fell to the earth. Fenske, who had been bit unruly all day and was like a young colt just being broken, observed all this foolishness and he joined the funny house bunch himself and then the gates were thrown wide open and the Bridgeports dashed through with whole army of base hits and runs, and Waterbury was doomed to eat crow at the first base ball banquet she has sat down to in several sea sons,
 It was gala day for the opening of the season in this city and nearly fifteen hundred fans suffered the ac- CD of the trolley cars to get out to the new field to see The Prodigals," for that is the name adopted by the general vote of the young ladies of the city, with all returns not yet heard from. There was no fatted calf offered these same Prodigals after the game was over, for the fans were plunged into sor- row, deep, excruciating sorrow. Even the gay flags and bunting with which Manager Durant had decorated hls pretty grand stand hung Imply and seemed to weep with the sad gather ing of sports beneath. The Water bury team looked very neat and pretty in their uniforms of white with the blue trimmings and blue stockings. They trotted out onto the field amidst the cheers of the many Waterburians, and John M. Henry, he who played base ball back in the time of "one old cat called out the batteries for the day Fenske was slated to do the work on the slab for this city and from the very first he. acted nervous and was coached repeatedly by Catcher Thackera.
 There was nothing doing for either side in the first inning, nor for Bridgeport in the second, but in our half of that inning we began bom- bardment of Twirler Coughlin.. Lit tie Eddie Meehan started off with a pretty hit to right field and yBts Bill Thompson was called on to kill 1t. Bill landed a high one out to left field and took his seat on the bench. Then Terry Rogers smashed corker and Thackera sent one into the left field territory, and Mir Castle, not Ackly w, let 1t slip through his fln- gers in pleasing manner for the Wa terbury people. Fenske followed with another safe smash and McAn- drews did the same, and McCabe flied out to right garden. This array of hits and misplays netted us three runs
 Bridgeport evened up matters in her half of the third, for with only one safe hit she scored three runs. This was all accomplished by one base on balls, an error by Rogers and an error by Fenske. Waterbury was not to be outdone, however, in her half of the same inning; she landed three men over the plate after two were out. Hits by Meehan. Thomp- son. a base on balls and two sacker by Thackera did the work. We made one more in the next inning on McAndrews's two bagger and long fly out to left of Nichols. One more came in the fifth without a hit. on errors of short and pitcher. Bridge port did nothing in the fourth or fifth, but in the sixth she got a bit busy. Fenske gave two men their bases on balls and those two men crossed the plate on Coughlin's rap to the outfield which landed safely.
 Here the score stood eight to five for Waterbury when the eighth in- ming began. Beaumont started of with a safe one. but was forced by Dwyer; Phoenix flew out to left and with two out everything looked rosy for Waterbury. Fenske got a case of stage fright, however. and sent the next man to first on free pass. then slammed his second safe hit; Jimmy o'Rourke. Jr, did likewise. making three for Jimmy during the game then came the funny play between McAndrews and Rogers, and Bockstahler filled the bases with another safe bingo. HI Ladd stepped to the plate with a new bat as big as himself. Fenske shiv- cred all over and after several at tempts sent a nice straight one over the plate. Did Hi meet it? Ask the chorus of frogs over back of center field fence as they hustled out of danger when the ball dropped into their happy home. That made seven runs and five hits in that inning and there Bridgeport stopped, believing she had done enough. Waterbury to get one more in the ninth and the game was over. The score:
 Waterbury.
 ABR. H. 20. A. E.