Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-16
THE DIAMOND THIS WAS
 HARD LUCK
We Hit the Ball But Not at the Right Time All the Other
 Results.

 themselves from defeat yesterday the Ponies were called upon to put for. ward almost f1awless fielding and the most brilliant brand of base running They responded nobly to both calls and finished one run ahead of Harry Durant's Waterburys, although they were aole to reach Lefty Rogers for but 'our hits. The fruits of the victory brought a tie with Holyoke for second place in the league stand ing. Score, to 3.
 Joe Curtiss awoke the fervor at the start, after Waterbury had been retired. by banging to left center the first ball pitched. Nichols legged il for the bail and Joe legged it for third. Curtiss gained the bag in safety, the ball having gone almost to the fence as it sped past the field CT. The run was easy when O'Con- nor lifted q long fly to Swander though d fine attempt was made to head tt off.
 And then came the great big fea- ture of the game. Yale poked lit tie thing down toward Rogers and beat the path to first so hard that he's likely to have blisters on his ankles to-day. He didn't much more than hesitate before stealing second and by grand exhibition of head and foot work came around to the pan when Rising hit to McAndrews and was thrown out at first. It was l'practically steal from home plate all around the circuit, for Yale gain eds the initial bag only by fine slide
 Rogers wasn't reached again un- til the fourth. One was out when McAndrews was given chance to make 1t two on foul fly from Burns Moody Mike missed connections and looked more moody still when Burns showed his gratitude with a clean hit past third. A rousing smash was what Bill Luby landed on the pill then and 1t shot deep down into left field while Burns scooted around to the plate. Luby reached second on the hit, and was put out in try ing for third, as Waite hit to Me Andrews. <
 Springfield's final run, the tally that united the score after Water bury had evened it up, came along in the eighth inning. Curtiss be- ing the man to do the base running in this event.> He had been passed to first and was advanced a base while McAndrews was throwing O'Connor out. Then Yale rolled an other one down the first base line and made a valiant try to beat 1t out. This time Rogers got the sphere to first ahead of him, but Canday Lachance muffed and Curtiss slipped in from second base on the play.
 In the meantime Waterbury had been going some, but not much. Old Lachance had been obliged to doff his cap for fielding stunt when he ran to the fence and with one hand speared a difficult foul raised by Waite. It was the fielding piece of the game, but the former big leaguer couldn't keep up the pace with the stick.
 Waterbury had been held runless until the fifth, when base on balls to Lachance followed hits by Me Andrews and Ward. The runners were held while Rising grabbed a fly from Swander, but Captain Nich- ols had wallop to left that sent in a pair of runs. Springfield remain ed one ahead until the seventh.
 Two men were out then when La- chance sent pesky. grohnder to the left of Hess andit got away from the Pony pitcher. Safe hits by Swand- CT and Nichols followed, the Water bury captain having the distinction of batting in every run made by his team. McAndrews landed a Texas leaguer as starter in the ninth, but after stealing second. couldn't ad- vance, a spectacular capture by Cur tiss of Lacnance's foul coming in this inning. Score