The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-22
NEW HAVEN COPS DEFEATED
WHIPPED BY THE MERIDEN PO-
 LICE 19 TO 1.

Local Men Unable to Hit Ives, the NIeri- den Twirler-Sullivan and FlanneTy Pounded at Leisure-SuIliVan Plays Good Game at ShOrt-Large Attend ance Including Many Meriden Enthu- siasts.
 The New Haven police, 1; Meriden Police, 19, was the final score of the first of the annual baseball duels be- tween the local cops and the Silver City police held at Savin Rock baseball grounds yesterday afternoon. The de- feat of our finest was caused by their inability to hit Ives, the Meriden twirl- CT and Meriden's ability to pound Sul- livan and Flannery at their pleasure.
 Before the game was half over the New Haven fans were leaving the grand stand, and the Meriden fans were.
 
 yelling Gentlemen, you are missing the best part of the show; the balloon goes up in ten minutes" Although the Meriden men played all around the cops, our team showed up well on sev- eral occasions. Ives, for Meriden, pitch ed splendid game, and his inshoot fooled all the New Haven batters so that but few scattered hits were made off him. Sullivan, for New Ha- ven, was no match for the Meriden players, and he was batted out of the box in the first four innings. Flannery, who was taken from first base, pitched little better Tn left garden Sergeant Connolly played a corking good game, but like all the other New Haven payers, he was weak at the bat. Sul- livan at short stop was all there and took everything that came his way without an error. In the seventh in. ming he made three assists, shutting out the side.
 New Haven made her only tally in the first inning and only once after that dtd he have a chance to score. This was in the sixth inning, when Do- herty was out from third to first, Sweet dropped Lautenbach's pop up, Connolly struck out, then Kerrigan was hit by a pitched ball, thus filling the bases. Then Kennedy walked up to the plate deter- mined to do or die and famed the air thrice, After this the fans spirits dropped and they awaited only the final score When Flannery relieved Sulli- van in the pitchers box at the begin hing of the fifth inning and closed the side for the Meriden team without a run, it seemed that the run making for that team was finished but no, in the next inning the slaughter was repeated and New Haven's cops were doomed to defeat and humility before large crowd of local and Meriden enthusiasts.
 Tracy behind the bat caught a good game but he was continually getting hit with the ball and the Merden root rse yelled Take your base while you've got the chance' Cassidy, who slept in right field. was adorned for the oc- casion with a beautiful green suit, and he was cordially greeted every time he got up to the bat. He was awakened but once from his slumber and this time he left the ball roll past him, al- lowing the runner to get to second. Phil. Lautenbach; at third caught sev- eral stingers and'a a whole fielded his position well.
 The line up of the two teams was as | follows:
 New Haven-sullivan, p; Doherty, ss; Lautenbach, Sb; Connolly, If; Tracy, e; Kerrigan. 2b; Kennedy, of; Flannery, 1b; Cassidy, If.
 Meriden-J. Doren, e; Borin, 2b; Thayer. 1b; F, Doren, 9b; Sweet, ss, Davis, If; Cook, of; Martran, If; Ives, D !