The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-11
WESTVILLES MN SERIES
EXCITING GAME AT ROCK
Tigers Backers Drop Heaps of Money to the
 Winners.

The Tiger -Westville game at the rock yesterday afternoon, which was won by the latter team by the score of 6 to {, was a thriller from start to finish No Connecticut league game at the prairie this season could hold candle to it either in interest or in the quality of baseball. Bettors on the side-lines were kept on the jump on account of the see-saw fashion of the contest from the time the first batter was up in the first inning until the last man was out in the ninth inning. By winning this game the Westvilles have won the championship of the city and are head ed only by the Mifords for the cham pionship of the state.
 The victory for the Westville team Is due especially to the loose playing of the Tigers when men were on bases and also to the fine work of Brastow when there were players on bases. In nearly every inning Brastow allowed one or two men to get on bases, and then he had to rely on luck or to his beautiful curves. BrastowA was wild and especially so when the crowd of Tiger supporters attempted to rattle him by cheering the man at the bat, or by jeering him.
 | All of the Tigers runs were earned while only one of the Westville's tall ies came across the plate through hits. | Gauggels pitched a better game than his worthy opponent but he did not re- ceive the gilt-edged support which was | handed to Brastow. An example of a ] few of the misplays made by the Tig- CTS felders was a trick performed by Hertz, the star out-fielder. This play CT, after making a pretty catch of IO'Connelrs long drive in the third inn l ing tossed 1t towards Ernie Wade, who was playing rlght-feld for the Tigers, without showing Umpire, Billie Lush that he had caught the ball Wade un- aware that Hertz was going to throw the ball allowed the spheroid to roll past him. Lush did not sec the play, but he did see the ball rolling along I the ground and of course thought that Hertz had muffed the fly and called him out, This misplay started q rally for the Westvilles which totalled three runs. The error of misjudgment of a pop fly by Stowe in the eighth inning was the cause of the two runs which l won the game The bah was knocked 1 into Burkes territory but Weiner call ed to Jimmy Cook Cook was not | ready, but when he saw that Burke was not, going after the ball made a diving grasp for the ball but only just touched it and Merwin, who was or third, scored and Stowe was safe.
 Ernie Wade, obtained by the Tigers for the day, played out In right field His splendid hitting was the unique feature of the struggle for champions ship. Ernie got four hits out of five times at the bat and did his share ir trying to win the contest,
 In the first inning, Wades single over third base and a wild pitch by Brastow scored Welner and Benham 1 with the first runs of the game. A wil( throw by Griffin over third base in thu second inning gave the Westville z run. The third inning was deastrou. to the Tigers, Hertz's error, Lawson's and Merwin's singles, and a wild pitcf | by Gauggels pushed three men acros, the plate, giving the Westvlle tean a lead of two runs
 The Tigers evened up in the seventh linning, dragging two men across tho platter, Wade's single, Gauggel's dou. ble and Stewards bingle doing tht trick
 Excitement was at its height in tht leighth inning when, as has been ex lplained before Cook fumbled Stowe, | easy fly. The Tiger rooters slunk bacl 1 out of sight after their tedious en
 deavors to get George Brastow up il
 the aid, and only once after that dit
 they dare to show their faces Th
 came in the ninth inning when urge,
 on by the faintest hope of success the,
 cheered one run of George, but thi
 was not enough to win and they hand
 ed over their money, returned to thei homes and wept.
 The score:
 Westvllles.
 l O'Conne1 If " a 2 0