Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-08
THE DIAMOND
NEVER WAS SUCH A GAME
 HEARD OF.
Waterbury Beaten By Springfield in One of the Bummest of Bum
 Games.

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 The Springfield Union writer hits that game of yesterday about right and we quote 1t for the benefit of our readers.
 ''Putrid is word which in the Big Book is given as meaning abomin- able, base, carious, corrupt, corroded, decayed decomposed, defective, fe- tid, foul, grewsome, horrible, ncx- ious, noisome, outrageous, rotten, stale, stagnant, unsound, vile, vii cious and wicked. We'll, yesterdays game between Springfield and Wa terbury was putrid The odOr of de- cay sullied the atmosphere. If the Connecticut river absorbed any of 1t there'll be pestilence down the line. True, bit of the curse was taken of by the fact that Springfield won. The score was IA to 8.
 The Ponies set out to eclipse re- cent record of the Boston Nationals. They didn't succeed in outdoing that record, but they equalled it.. They piled up 10 gorgeous errors, just the number that the Penney tribe succeeded in making against the Giants few days since. In be- coming joint holder of this record the Ponies made brave run. It looked at one time as if they couldn't do 1t. but Red Nagel came gallantly to the rescue with his fifth error of the afternoon and the trick had been done.
 It was good day that the Ponies took to get that stuff out of their systems For Waterbury was a strong contender when 1t came to a tussle to excel in the manufacture of errors. But they couldn't outdo the Ponies. who refused to be squelched yesterday. And the visi- tors had no such willing worker as Nagel, though Moody Mike Mean drews entered with zest into the spirit of the festivity. and gave the Springfield third baseman tight squeeze for individual honors.
 There was one redeeming feature about the thing. The Springfield team did some slashing hitting and refused to quit even when the visi- tors had piled up five runs in the opening inning. The Brassies were given fight all the way through. and the commanding lead they had in the first part of the session was finally pushed over to the other side of the account. While the lombard ment was going on Harry O'Hagan, he known as Hatpin Harry in the old Eastern league days, was ban ished by Umpire Hickey. who should have stretched some rule or other and ordered the garbage wagon for the whole bunch.
 | Red Nagel didn't get his first err TOT of the season until Saturday but he started right in yesterday to catch up. He contributed errors on McAndrews and McCabe, and was helped out with a poor throw by O'Connor and Taylor's fight with a grounder in the opening inning, a single by Nichols and double by Baker being the other ingredients for i've runs. A base on balls to Tansey, followed by wild pitch. a scratch hit by O'Connor. passed ball and a hit by Nagel brought the Ponies two runs in their first turn.
 Though the error making contin- ued in abundance, neither team scored again until the fourth, when an error by Nagel, McCabe's sacri- flee, and double by Nichols gave Waterbury run. Cy Miller had succeeded Frill in the box at,the be- ginning of the third inning and the lanky lad pitched good ball in spite of discouraging support. Frill re- tired because of blow on his left arm from a pitched ball. In the fourth Springfield scored three runs on hits by Crook, Taylor and Tam sey, an error by McAndrews and Fitzpatrick's sacrifice.
 Springfield jumped into the lead in the sixth, Waterbury having scored another run in the fifth on wagner's triple and Thackera's double. Fitzpatrick led on with a clean single and Taylor was given safe on first after an attempted sac rifice. Miller sent screamer through Billy Rogers, who had replaced Fem ske in the box, and O'Hagan claimed the ball hit the umpire. He talked SO rudely to Hickey that he was hit by a pitched ball and McAndrews lost 0'Connor's line drive. Nagel and Flanagan were benefciaries on fielder's choice and they scored with O'Connor and wagner's wild heave on Crooks scratch hit.
 On errors by Flanagan and Fitz- patrick, Baker made his way home from second in the eighth. hit and steal having put him on that perch. Springfield had made two runs in the seventh on a beauty pair of doubles by Fitzpatrick and Taylor and sacri- Aces by Miller and Tansey. Two more were added in the eighth on err TOTS by McAndrews and Nichols and Roharre's dy to Syander. The score: