Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-03
THE DIAMOND
GREAT WAS
 THIS FINISH
The Prodigals Hammered Out Victory in the Eleventh Inning
 With Norwich.

out the Texas leaguer that brought | in the winning run in the eleventh in- l ming yesterday with Norwich. he had
 thrown the victory away from his | team on several occasions by some of I the most blundering errors that it is | possible for an infielder to make.
 Mike seemed to be in bad humor with | himself yesterday and perhaps there
 is an excuse for some or it from the fact that he is still suffering from a bad arm and hand. Parry Thackara
 Is another offender who was re- sponsible for some of the Norwich scoring and his three errors were
 more than costly. Another bad fault
 of this player too is his aptitude to sulk when called for any misdemea-
 nor. His actions yesterday in throw | ing his mask into the diamond and | the firing of the ball over the center | fielder's head, when rebuked by Cap tain O'Hagan, did not make him any more friends among the fans. Both
 of those gentlemen can play baseball and play it well. there is no doubt about that, but each should remember that he is open to criticism as well
 as to praise. The Waterbury team is
 the best team in the league as 1t
 stands to-day and the players have
 been putting up good article of base
 ball but when they do make misplays
 that are rank, they should not feel of
 tended at the captain of the team, nor
 at the members of the press. if they
 are talked too pretty sharply. No team
 in this league has been given the SUD-
 port by the press that the Prodigals
 have received in this city. The writer
 believes to-day they can beat any
 team in the league three out of five
 games if not more, but that does not
 bar them from honest criticism. if
 they deserve 1t and they should take
 it as it is given for their own good and the welfare of baseball in general.
 There was quartet of players in the game yesterday that brought vic tory out of the darkness for the local team and that quartet was composed of Little Jimmy Walsh, Parker Treat, Cooney Rice and Arthur Nichols. The first named eat up everything that looked like hit and came even into the home plate to pick up bunts and kill his man at first. It was marve- lous playing with a whole lot of the phenomenal about 1t and those eleven chances all cleanly accepted form a record for this city The second one of the four was Parker Treat, whose splendid headwork in the box. when everything was working against him, pronounce him a pitcher of the first quality. With the stick too, he helped his team to victory. The third one was Cooney Rice. who has received more hard bumps from the press and the public than any other player on the team. who never sulks. but goes right along trying to do his best. His bunt- ing and base running yesterday was one of the prime farvors in the sue cess of the team. Arthur Nichols. the fourth one of the above. even if he had not hammered out those two dou- ble headers, would have been award cd a prize for his work in the right garden. where in the fourth inning when Norwich had two men on bases he took down long fly while running to the fence, which would have won the game for Norwich as sure as fate. If 1t got by him. The scoring was | done as follows:
 Norwich started off when Ball | singled. was advanced on a sacrifice. got to third on McCabe's tumble in | center and came home on McAndrew's mess in the short garden. The Prodi- | gals tied the score in her half of the first when McAndrews got four bad ones. took second on McCabe's safe drive. went around to third on Swan der's out to right and scored on Nich- ols' two sacker. Norwich took the lead In the third on hit by Ball. a sacri- fce and an error of Thackara's which allowed Ball to score. Waterbury stole the lead in the third on Swan 1er's two barger. single by 0'Hagan and a single by Walsh, which netted two runs.
 The fifth inning brought disastrous results to the Prodigals. Cote started with a two sacker. and was sacrificed to third. Then followed bum plays by Rice. Thackara and McAndrews and TWO runs were scored up on the board. No more scoring did Norwich 10. for Treat settled down to business md held the visitors at his mercy. Tn he tenth we got scare. when. with ,niy one out. Aecorsini smashed ont l three bagger 10 the center field ence. Treat here showed his true worth for he famed Halligan who lad been doing yeoman work with the tick and made Harry Ball. another leavy sticker. cut the air three times.
 The Prodigals began the ninth In- ling with the Norwich team one run o the good. Rice bun-er and ran Ike deer for the bag He and the ball 'ot there together. but Accorsini drop 'ed 1t and life was given Us. Treat lmmei out a little one and Rice skip 'ed to second NcAndrews advanced 'ofh a base On q sacrifice and the ans began to cheer Nct-abe hit ont
 long fy fo center which was pulled own but Rice few Ike the wind for he plate In came the hsil hut under he catcher slid Rice with the tying un and the cheering began in earnest. rest retired the side however in try- lg to come in from secund on Swan er's hit- Tnerp was nothing doing un- | the eleventh when after one was ut Rice hunted again and heat the 2 aII fo first Treat smashed out anosh. [ and Cooney Rire srsmpcrei ro , hirsi McAndrews drurpel . Texas .agl1sr hack of short x1s- ffe Cornell lan came srross the plate with the timing run and the fans teft satisfied.
 The score.
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