Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-04
THE DIAMOND
THE PRoDIGALs ARE GOING A
 FAST PACE.
The Champions Were Trimmed Nicely Yesterday--All Other
 Games.


 Waterbury was busted out of a shut out for her opponents yesterday and it was a former Waterbury boy who changed the direction of the stars and clouded the eyesight of Umpire Stackpole alias Cooper. Those two names are given the um- pire because no one seemed to know him, although he wore Holyoke uniform. Perhaps they all, includ- ing himself, wanted to deny his identity and his name after present. ing Holyoke with the only two runs she made. Jack Bagley, the former Brooklyn boy, was the lad who ac- cOmplished all this and while the fans were more than pleased to see the local boy turn the trick, they would prefer to have seen it done more satisfactorily. It happened in the sixth inning. Farley, the new twirler from the Montreal team, had been holding the former cham pions we'll in hand apd was pitching excellent ball. In fact. before that inning the fans with one accord awarded him the credit of being a crackerjack. In this sixth inning with nothing chalked up to the vis- itors for the five innings previous, Farley struck out Mullen, the first man up. Lawrence landed a safe one and Tom Fleming banged the ball so hard to right field 1t almost went to the fence. but Arthur Nich- ols was waiting for it with open hands and closed on 1t. With two out, everything looked juicy, but here is where the trouble started Kid Mccormack. our old friend Kid, hammered one so hard at Mike Me- Andrews that he let 1t roll nicely between his sturdy legs. That put two on the bases and Jack Bagley came up. After batting several fouls to the left field he hammered one down the third base line which was outside the third base bag by at least a foot. Even the left fielder walked after the ball believing it a foul. but Stackpole alias Cooper saw a chance for victory for his compan- ions and fair was the word of com- mand, and Holyoke had been pre- sented with two as horseshoe luck runs as were ever given to team, and Jack Bagley was credited with two base hit.
 "Izzy" Hoffman was selected by Manager Tom Fleming to do the twirling for the visitors. and "Izzy" was made very dizzy before he was removed from in front of the Pro- digals' gatling guns. In the very first inning the Prodigals began their on the breastworks thrown up by the Holyokes. Mike McAn- drews smashed out pretty one and McCabe neatly sacrificed him,tO sse-l ond. Swander helped along his cap tain with a corker to the outfield and our first run was in. Nichols tried to knock board out of the left garden and rested on second af- ter his struggle while Swander took in the second run. O'Hagan and Wagner then died at first.
 Our next scoring came in the fourth. Baker hit the ball so far to center field and ran SO fast that he was on third before the ball was returned and the first three bagger on the field went on record. Thack- era went out to left, but Baker speeded over the plate on the out. Farley showed that he could hit as we'll as pitch for he hammered out safe one and McAndrews followed with another, and then Manager Tom out in right garden called a halt on "Iszy" and he was relegated to the central garden to rest him. self. while Schincel dropped out and Lothrop walked to the pitchers ter ritory. Lothrop did good work af- ter he got settled down. but the first ball he pitched was hammered by McCabe for a safe one and in came the runs. He hit the next man, but that settled his wildness, for he himself and no more scor- ing was done during the game. The Holyoke pitchers were given eycel- lent support by the flelders, parric- ularly Lawrence on second, Larkin 1t short and Baerwald behind the tat. The score:
 Holyoke.