Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-31
THE DIAMOND BATTLE OF
 THE TWIRLERS Eddie Farley Had the Key to the Situation and Opened the
 Door to Victory.

l baseball Armament yesterday was Eddie Farley, who once more sent his selling price sailing upward, by the remarkable game he twirled against the league leaders, the Holyokes. Striking out ten men in nine innings and three of those men rated as ball killers by the Holyoke people, is go- ing at speed that is hard to beat. The greatest sufferer in the air fan ming melee was Louis Lepine, who is thought so well of as sticker that he stands third in the batting order of the Holyoke team. Four times did he face Farley and four times did ne retire to the bench without hav- ing a chance to test the air on the first station. Ramon, who is placed second in the batting order and Grubb who ranks fifth in the sam9 order, each cut holes in the atmos- phere and both were credited with two flaming bees. Boucher and Thackara were the two others who did the trick. And the eight hits that were made of his delivery were scattered through as many innings. Seven of those were singles and one triple from the bat of lazy Hoff- man. This triple has history con nected with it too. It was made in the third inning, Hoffman being the first man up. Even the most enthu- siastic fan never believed that Hoff- man would be left there, but he was, and all through snappy playing. Bannon, the next man up knocked up a fly that looked as If it might drop safely. Eddie Swander took the ball and held Hoffman at third. Lepine | then followed with strike out, his second one up to that time and then Massey hammered hard one in Far ley's direction. The local pitcher knocked it down just enough for O'Rourke to grab it and send 1t to | first, retiring the side, while Hon. man tried to hammer a hole through the ground with the bat that Massey left at the plate. It was the only real close rub we had of the day.
 The locals were playing fast ball behind Farley too and every man seemed to be on to his job. All kinds of tricks swere worked, Baker being the sufferer on two of them. In the second inning after he reached first base on free pass and Boucher had flied out to center. the ball was re- turned by Daniels to O'Rourke, who quickly concealed 1t. Baker and the coach, Hodge, knew 1t not, until Bak- CT had quit the first station, when the ball went quickly to Lachance and Baker was cut, while the fans roared in glee. On his next time up, in, the fourth inning, Baker was warned to be on his lookout for jobs
 He got his base on a perfect single and then Eddie Farley worked him on the bag so far that when the ball was sent to Lachance to catch him mapping, Baker. seeing it was hope less to return, started for second. He was easily nailed at the second sta- tion and again did the fans give him the merry ha ha, while Tom Dowd told him a few things that smattered of sting. Then in the seventh Boucher hit ball into the left gar. den that looked good for a hit. Eddie Swander came in on the run and all most back of third bag he took the Nball low down as it was about to touch the ground. 1t was grand catch and the people cheered the clever left fielder of the locals. We were eating up everything that came our way and the strange thing about 1t all was that every man On the team had some sort of chance to do some thing, with the exception of Mike McAndrews. who did not have an as- sist or put out.
 The winning run in the tenth came about in this way. Moore, the first man up. flied out to second. Eddie Farley. had made two pretty singles before this last trip and he tickled the fans by making his third one. Bastian forced him at second. how ever. and there were two out. Thack- ara let the next pitched ball get by him and Bastian was on second. Dan- iels then hit to Grubb and while the latter was throwing. the ball 10 first Bastian kept on to third and turned for the home station. Daniels and the ball had a great race for first bag, but the ball was thrown low and when Daniels slid for the first station, the ball was lost in the cloud of dust and Bastian was over the plate with the winning run and the fans went home satisfied that they T