Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-06
THE DIAMOND.
LEMONS GROW
 ON MANY THINGS
They Were Plentiful Yesterday
 and the Fans Yielded a Juicy Crop.


 that tho Prodigals, also known by the name Waterburys, were hailed by the fans as they returned in the spring to their own bailiwick for another season of base ball and per- haps several seasons, if they acted properly and were not again driven away. The fatted calf was killed on their return and in fact several beeves were offered up in sacrifice because of the Pridigals' return. Yesterday there was another slaughter, but this time 1t was not in honor of the Prodigals return, but, If the fans could have had their way, would be in honor of their quick exit from the city which they had so much dishonored by allowing any team of ball players to commit such deoredations as occurred out at Rockville yesterday afternoon. 1t was a slaughter sure enough, with all the trimmings and extras thrown in free of charge Why it was allowed to continue cannot be determined only in the mind of the manager who sat on the bench, until the faus began to say sarcastic things to him.: when he fled. With his fled the owners of the team, the box attendants, who feared a charge on the treasury, the po- licemen who had not been trained to mob violence and who feared an out break before the murderous tactics of the Hartfords had ceased, q few of the more timid of the fans, perhaps disgusted would be better than timid, and the only ones left to prevent the visitors fronp taking the grandstand and perhaps the earth around 1t, was Danny Connor, the Rockville superin- tendent, and Maurice Reid, who, view ing the slaughter from distance, had locked up his cattle in the sub- cellar to prevent them from being in- cluded in the barbecue. ...-a
 It was cruel thing they did to Bill Rogers, and yet, by faster field ing, many two sackers could have been made good for but one. and sev- eral could have been placed in the out column. Everybody seemed to be with Hartford, even Umpire Mur- ray, who made his first appearance here, and 1t was not a good appear ance either. The fans were roofing for more hits and more runs on the Hartford side after that first inning. A call was made for the amateurs to come out and take the places of the professionals, but the word was pass ed around that the amateurs had been dlsfranchised, driven from home and were outcasts on the face of the earth. and tears of sorrow welled up into the eyes of the fans until "Chick'' Fitzpatrick sprung one of his jokes from Denny Lahey's joke book and the slaughter was urged on once more in earnest. Space will not permit O. the telling of all the dead and dying that were left on that field of battle Even Johnny Allnian wanted to ge, into the melee when he saw one ot the youthful rooters roughly used by bad man from the Capitol City. The bad man sized Johnny up and the bad man sat down to think 1t over and he is still thinking. The supper bells were changing as the last man was given his demise and the twelve hun dred or more fans sorrowfully wend' ed their way home. A few mort brave than the rest tried the box Of flee door to see If any of the officials or money holders were within. Calls for rain checks were heard. but mol by the ones for whom the calls were intended They had fled to the fast nesses of their castles where tney figured out just how they escaped and what punishment was marked up or the book of fate for being guilty ol asking the people of this city ou' to see base ball barbecue, not q oai game. The following score Will tel the whole story in a nutshell: