Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-07
THE DIAMOND
SAD INDEED
 WAS THAT FALL
Holyoke Drove Us Into a Corner and Pummelled Us Well-
 All Other Games. ..

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 as a cat would toy with a mouse
 in the earlier stages of the game, and
 Holyoke gave us killing in the final two innings, that made us long
 for home and mother yesterday af-
 ternoon. Carson Hodge, he did it
 and did it well. He revealed to the
 fans and to the local players the
 mystery of why Washington has
 purchased him for next season. He
 had all our stickers hypnotized and tied to the starting post and really we should be credited with only three hits, for one of the two-bag-
 gers, placed opposite Mike McAn-
 drews' name, was almost a gift to
 friend Mike and the saving of an
 error, to one of the Holyoke out fielders. It was when Waterbury
 had the best opportunities to make a feast of runs, that Hodge unloosed the dogs of war, and chased us to the tall timbers Three times did
 Joe O'Rourke face him, when a lit-
 tie safe swat would have evened
 matters, and placed us in the run ming. Three times did O'Rourke do
 his best to get that swat and three
 times did he slam the ball, but
 Boucher eat up the first one in the
 fourth inning, Ahearn pulled down
 the second one in, the sixth inning and Izzy Huffman took prisoner the
 third one in the eighth inning It
 was trying hard enough, but the
 safety that we longed for never
 came.
 Big George Lachance was the field
 ing sensation on our side of the
 house and startled the fans with his
 work in two double plays. The first
 one was in, the. third, when he ranl
 way out on the foul line and pulled
 and turning quickly nailed Hoffman
 who was flashing for third. In the fifth O'Rourke stopped Lepine's ,grounder, held Hoffman at f third -momentarily, then sailed the. ball to first catching Lepine, while Lachance shot the ball with the speed of a rife bullet to Shincel and Hoffman was killed at the plate. Aside from this there were couple of other things that created little interest. Both happened in the eighth inning.
 Grubb was on second base and was leading off. O'Rourke covered the bag and Rogers sent the ball to him, sGrubb- got back all right5 tbdtaJoe got strangle hold on his leg and separated it from the bag and Terry Rogers sad out, while the Holyoke players said other things that were not complimentary to MT Rogers the ump. In our half of the eighth Bastian was on second and Fitz- patrick on first, when McAndrews hit grounder to Baker at second. Fitzy started to run for second and then stopped short. This puzzled Baker as he could not imagine what trick Fitzy was working. In the meantime McAndrews was nearing first, while Baker still held the ball and Bastian was dashing for third. Baker awoke from his sleep at last, but instead of throwing to second, to force Fitz, he threw to first to capture McAndrews. The latter was caught, but Fitzpatrick was now racing for second. The ball was thrown to second to catch him but it was too late and Bastian rounded the corner for home. The ball was then sent from second to home but Thackara let it go through him and Bastian was home. all through the quick thinking and the working of the old Danbury trick by Frank 
 Holyoke scored the first run in the fourth, when Grubb hit a ball over Bastian's head to right, and the little sphere rolled through a hole under the fence and Grubb took all the corners and the home station as we'll. Another came in the fifth on a single by Hodge, the first one he has made in century, and triple by Hoffman. Another followed in the fourth on Moore's muff of Bak- CTS long ny to center, which was an excusable huff at that, and Boueh- CTS snappy drive to center. In the eighth and ninth was where the Hol- yokes swatted and swatted hard. | Hoffman, Massey and Grubb made | singles and these coupled with a l showed two men over the | plate in the eighth. Boucher's sim gle and stolen base, Ahearn's two- ;acker to the fence, the sacrifice of Hodge, free pass to Hoffman, Le- pines single to left which Eddie Swander passed along to the boards behind him, and Shincel's error, brought three more visitors to the counting room and there the feast I ended for them.
 We scored in the sixth, when Fitz- patrick allowed himself to get a .ap in the back and McAndrews lrove him home with his peculiar to center. Two came to IS in the eighth on Bas.anis single, 3oucher's error of FitZpatrick's rive, which was thrown badly, and hen the Fitzy trick, in which Baker vent up a tree and had a sleep for himself. Then came Swander's safe rive which sent Fitz home. That