Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-02
THE DIAMOND
THE PRODlGALS
 ARE SLIDING
New Haven Takes Her First Game By Hammering Rogers With
 out Mercy.

It looks very much as though Lief ty' Rogers, who was the wizard or the twirling staff of pitchers in the Connecticut league last season, has run his allotted time. He has been giV- en every opportunity to get into pitch ing form, but he does not seem to lnl- prove and his work of yesterday against the New Haven hens was very disastrous and disappointing. It was bad enough to be handicapped with Wagner gone and McAndrews disabled but when misfortunes are piled on still deeper by the inability of a pltcn- CT to find the plate, and when he does find it, to have the ball sent to all parts of the field, it is pretty near time n halt should be called. and our wounded and scattered army of ball players massed in battle array, with the dead and wounded allotted to their respective departments. No errors lost that game yesterday, but the clean smashing of the ball by the New Ha- vens, the crack of whose bats could be heard at the Savin Rock grounds. Before the game started it was seen that Rogers was not the Rogers of old. With a batter standing before him to throw to. he could not locate that plate and when he did. the ball was unusually curveless, ball that proved pie for the visitors as it devel- oped later.
 It was a disagreeable game in oth- CT respects too. for no umpire was on hand to hold the indicator and Mike McAndrews and Kid Wade was pressed into service. Both are good ball players but there would be no Car negie medals coming their way for their ability as umpires. Between the umpires, the two captains and the ground rules there was trouble all the afternoon. A portion of the fence was down back of the outfield,pre- paratory to moving 1t back. It was agreed that any ball that went to the fence would be good for three bases, thrown balls the same way. This oc- casioned whole lot of wrangling in which each side won and lost. The crowd. for the first time this season became very weary and it was even discovered that several of the fans had taken the opportunity to enjoy an hour or two of sleep. from which they were undisturbed by any hur- rahs from our side of the house.
 That we were not shut out was d. most miraculous. Tom Tuckey, he of the Naugatuck breeding. was on the firing line and he had fun with the Prodigals up to the sixth inning. Here realizing that he had his game as good as won, he let up H bit and triple by Treat, single by Rogers and a double by Nichols netted us just one lonely tally. Just think of that. three hits. single. double and triple and one lone run. Tn the ninth we scored one more when all chance of victory had vanished. This was ac- complished on base on balls to Baker and a triple by Goode, our new short-stop.
 New Haven scred three in the sec ond on an error by Goode. a sacri- flee by Hayward. single by Sher- wood, a free pass to Fitzpatrick. a single byBunyan. an error of Nichols and long fly to the outfield. Three more came their way in the third on a triple by Hanifin. fly to center by Burke. triple by Hayward. free pass to Sherwood. and single by Fitzpatrick. They made another In the seventh on double by Jope. a bad error of Rogers and an out at first Two more came in the ninth when they landed on Rogers for fair. A single by Burke was followed with a triple by Hayward and two singles by Sherwood and Fitzpatrick followed those. The score: