Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-10
THE. DIAMOND
TREAT WAS NOT
 BADLY TREATED
Shut Out the Holyokes in . Clean Cut Game The Other
 Results.

The Prodigals played as they know how to play yesterday and with ex- cellent pitching by Parker Treat and almost errorless support behind him, the Holyokes were shut out by the close score of 2 to 0. It was totally different bunch of visitors that appeared here with the Holyoke sign on their bosoms than has greet ed the fans on other occasions. All their fighting clothes had been left at home and they came here to play baseball, and how they did play the game, too! It was no cinch for Water bury, for Twirler Volz was putting them over the plate in .pu2zling style and aside from just two in- nings he held the alley of the locals free from all scoring. 1t was pitch ers' battle for certain, and while Holyoke secured just one more hit than Waterbury, the. bangs of the Prodigals hit the bullseye. It was one of the shortest games played on the local field, too, taking only one hour and twenty minutes, but in that time there was plenty of exciting action and lots of snappy plays to keep the fans in good nature and send them away satisfied that the Prodigals can beat any team in this league If they only exert themselves.
 Eddie Swander drove in both runs scored by the locals and 1t happened in this way: In the fourth inning af- ter McAndrews had been retired on a pop fly, McCabe drove screaming hit to the center field fence which placed him on second. Swander, who followed him, smashed one to the right garden and over the plate came McCabe like race horse with the first run of the game. In the sixth McAndrews waited for four bad ones and promptly purloined the second sack. Swander was there again with his trusty wallop, for he hammered another one to the right garden and McAndrews trotted home with our second and last run.
 But there were other plays dur ing the game that kept the fans in- terested. In the first three innings Waterbury had just nine men at the bat In the third Walsh started oil with a hit, but Rice's bunt was talk en on the fly by Massey at first and little Lawrence covered the first bag and doubled Walsh who had the lead of. The next man flew out which, made three men up in each of the first three innings. In the seventh inning Pitcher Volz showed his cali- Der by striking out the first three sme1i that faced him. In the eighth we might have had chance to score had not the Holyoke inf1elders snap ped the ball to bases so quickly.
 The Prodigals were not far behind in executing some fast plays, as the shutout would indicate. But sev- enteen men faced Pitcher Treat for the first five innings and in that time not a man reached farther than sec ond. In the sixth came Holyoke's first real chance. Two men had been re- tired when Mccormack, our old friend Kid, rapped out a pretty sin gle. lott, who followed him, smashed out a screaming line hit to right gar den and around the circuit flew Mc- Cormack. Nichols partially fumbled the ball, but quickly recovered and hurled it to O'Hagan. The latter wheeled quickly and let 1t zip to lit- tie Hughes, our new backstop. The ball went high. but Hughes sailed in- to the air. as if on springs. and pull ing the ball down dropped like a rock on Mccormack before the latter could get his feet to the plate, as he slid beneath him. It was baseball with a vengeance. In the seventh after two were out a base on balls and a man hit by Treat made things look serious but Cooney Rice took the pop fly of Lawrence, retiring the side. In the eighth on McAndrew's excusable miss volz was given life and Hoffman. the next man up, hammered . whist ling drive to little Walsh. The latter swallowed it, cover and all, and snapped 1t to 0'Hagan at first. doub- ling volz and again was the hope of Holyoke dashed to the ground. In the ninth the visitors made another bid for even one run. Lepine. jollied by his Canadian friend in the grand stand, hammered out a two-sacker and the fans sat up. The next three men went out on infield plays, how ever. and the end had come. The score:
 WATERBURY.
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