Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-04
MATERBuRY EVENING DEMOCRAT TUESDAY,

NAAAss0sSs Rockville and Manchester Games End
 in Fizzle.
 South Manchester, Sept 4.-Three thousand people were at Baseball park yesterday afternoon to see the deciding game in the series between Manchester and Rockville. Manches- ter has won five games, tied one, and Rockville has the same record. Yes terday afternoons contest would have given the decision as to which was the independent champions or the state of Connecticut. Manchester had scored one in the first ming ana another was added in the fourtn, making the score to at the end of the fifth. Manager Breckenridge then decided to use his colored pitch CT, Holland, to clinch the game. pr Carney was to go to bat, but when the Rockville team saw the negro en- ter the box they left the field. Hol- land pitched the required three balls over the plate and Marc Keeney, the supervisor of umpires, who was hold ing the indicator, declared the game forfeited to Manchester, 9 to 0. The crowd surged on to the field and Hol- land was picked up and carried about on the shoulders of many admirers. The point raised by Rockville is that no colored baseball player is allowed to plate in the league.
 Rockville administered a white wash to Manchester in Rockville Tn the morning, winning by the score or 3 to 0. Manchester, reinforced by Long of New London in the bOx, came up to be reyenged for the de- feat of last Saturday, but they went back to the Silk town with tnelr sporits dropped, and their tail-feath- CTS bedraggled.
 After batting eleven exciting in- nings at Forestville yesterday morn ing the local nine succeerer in de- feating the Hartford Hustlers, 5 to 4. East Hampton defeated the New Britain Athletic club on Durham field East Hampton, yesterday af- ternoon, to 3.
 Plainville. Sept 4.-This town was full of joy last night over the double headed victory of the local baseball team over it's old-time rival from Southington. Bands of men march, | ed the streets with red fire and two drum corps. At their head was Cap tain Lewis proudly waving nursing bottle presented to him by the South | ington fans. Pete Wilson of the Hartford state league team was also the center of an enthusiastic group | who showered all kinds of money on him for his shutout victory. Pete's home run is proudly displayed on large placard. The morning game here was attended by over 500 fans who saw their favorites trim South ington to 1. The afternoon game 1 resulted in the score of to o. l Tn an exhibition game on South- worth's grounds, Deep River, yester- | day afternoon the Deep River base bail team defeated the Chester team, 8 to 1. in one of the best games ever l witnessed in this vicinity. McCabe, the local pitcher missed train and did not arrive on the field until the eighth inning. Left Fielder Daniels was sent in to pitch and he would have shut out the Chester team but for a wild throw to third base by Nance. Ingraham of the New Lon- don team pitched for Chester and was touched up for several hits, includ- ing a double. l After defeating Bristol, to 4, in Bristol yesterday morning, Unionville | took the second game in Unionville in the afternoon, 12 to 1, in a game marked by heavy hitting by the home team when hits meant runs. The feature of the games was the pitching of Hammer and Bronson. who held Bristol to five hits in two games, and the batting of James and fielding of Slater.
 In the presence of a big Labor day crowd, the Middletown Athletics de- feated the State Hospital nine, 10 to 4 on Athletic field, Middletown. AL phonso Thomas pitched for Middle town, and after the first inning did fine work. In this ming the Hospital team scored five of its eight hits, and scored three runs.
 The Middletown Athletics defeated Chester yesterday morning at Ches- ter, to 1. Peterson was in the box for the Athletics and pitched fine ball for seven innings. allowing only two hits and striking out seven men.
 He split his finger in the eighth and was relieved by Carlson who did good work.