Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-06
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Daniel Coss now employed in New York spent Sunday at his home in Brooklyn.
 MT and Mrs Alfred Stigberg of Bank street are entertaining their daughter from Orange, Conn.
 Only routine business was tran sacted at the meeting of the Brook lyn Athletic club held in it's rooms on Bank street yesterday.
 Charles Stenis of Charles street, while at work at the Waterbury Man. ufacturing company Saturday after noon, badly gashed his left hand. He was laboring with metal saw and it was that instrument which inflicted the injury.
 A number of the employees of the Hellmann Brewing company, includ- ing Charles and William Hassel, Will liam Lambert William Schmidt, George Reichenbach and Frank Yes kinkas went on fishing trip to Bridgeport yesterday. They return ed last evening and reported some good catches.
 Walter 0verton age about 16, while attempting to board freight train in the rear of his home on South Leonard street Saturday evening was injured to such an extent that Dr George Russell was compelled to put five stitches into one of the wounds in the boys head and two in another place. Overton with some compan- ions were playing hall and percelving the oncoming train thought he would hop it. He failed to make the step and as a result was dragged several feet and injured as above stated.
 The crowd that collected when Officers Bergln and Cavanaugh made an arrest in this section yesterday af- ternoon about G o'clock was of such large proportions that the coppers deemed 1t expedient not to walt for the patrol and started up town 10 meet the pie wagon. The reason why they decided to meet tiie hurry-up wagon was in all probability because they were of the impression that once they were on their way the crowd would disperse. The patrol wagon still seems to be great curlo for Brooklynites and whenever an officer has a prisoner in charge at box the walk is soon lined with slght-secrs.
 The Brooklyn Athletic club team. though it beat the barrier yesterday and made fine start, went to pieces before the homestretch was reached and allowed the AIerrimacs to romp home an easy winner in the first game of the season between these two teams It was worse than a comedy of errors on the part of the Brooklyn ties. but if they had stopped for a moment the Merrimacs would un- doubteily have taken the lead as re- gards the number of bungles, for they were making errors almost as rapidly as the boys across the bridge. The weather was somewhat cold and un- less the heat distributor loosens up. misplays are likely to continue. The Brooklyn rooters seemed to think the other teams in the league are weaker than last season and are conceited enough to think Manager Madden's team will have very little difficulty in again winning the pennant. But Brooklyn will have tO get in little practice as their playing yesterday was something awful to look at It was inferior to any game the Tabs have played the last two seasons and was about as bad as would he played by a team composed of players Ike Hubert Cunningham. But Brooklyn will travel rapidly when if gets Into it's stride and even though one or\two of the players are qp tue team more for mascots than their playing ability. 1t Is sure to be among the leaders.