Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-18
THE DIAMOND WORKED TO
 THE LIMIT New Haven With Romer in the Box Threw a Scare Into Us-
 Other Games.

yesterday with New Haven and the game scintillated with many features that kept the fans busy in applaud ing, or filled them with misgivings, as the good and bad plays were brought into the lime light. In the first place Manager Danaher, who was present at the game, trotted out one of our discards, MT Romer by name, and he came near to dropping us from the first position. His own wildness at times, the errors behind him and a little stage fright, which caused him to do things not recog- nized in legitimate base ball, helped us to pull out victory by very close margin. 1t was an aggravat- ing game to the fans, and Charley Kennedy, the umpire, came in for some hard knocks, particularly on one decision. He presented New Haven with a run in the third in ming which caused Captain Nichols and the whole Waterbury team to protest loudly and strenuously. The ump's only reply to the protests was that he did not see the play, as he
 
 It happened this way. Jope had beat out bunt and had taken sec ond on Wards misplay of Romer's bounder. Cornell then drove one out to safe territory. filling the bases. Fitzpatrick banged another safe one and two runs came in and Cornell took third. McAndrews handled Hayward's grounder nicely and nailed Cornell at the plate. Wade got free pass, again filling the bases. Sherwood then hit one out to Nichols in center and when 1t was caught Fitzpatrick started for home and Hayward for third. Nich- ols nailed the ball to McAndrews, who touched Hayward out, and Fitz- patrick was still five or six feet from the home plate. He dashed over the base before the umpire could see him and New Haven claimed the run and the umpire allowed. it. After the game the New Haven players ad- mitted that the run should not have counted, but as the umpire did not see 1t they took what was given to them with many thanks.
 There were many other events that kept the people on edge throughout. In the first inning George Lachance was knocked down by one of Romer's in-drops and had to retire to the bench to rub the sore spot before he could walk to first. Schincel was caught mapping at first by Farley in the fourth and nailed by inches. McNellis was placed in the same predicament in the seventh when Jope caught him by feet of the first station. Ward made errors so fast that the fans grew very weary. Nichols, out in the center garden, made record for the league, taking eight flies, one of them being a peach, that made the fans rise up and yell to the captain to don his cap. Swander followed that catch with another long one that looked good for three bases but which the local left fielder ate up. Eddie Farley had an of day for him and was touched up quite freely all through the game.
 Waterbury began work right away on Romer, by scoring two runs in the first inning on three hits, two free passes and a hit by the pitcher. New Haven vent us one better in the third, when three hits, an error by Ward and present by Umpire Kennedy gave them three runs. They made two more in the fourth on three hits and two more errors by Ward. We took the lead again in our half of the fourth on three hits, base on balls and two bad errors by Barry and Sherwood, which netted us four runs. In the sixth New Haven again jumped in front, making two runs on a single and double and another misplay by Ward. We tied the score in our half with a double by McAndrews and a single by Lachance. In the eighth We took the lead and kept it by making one run on Bronkie's safe drive. sacrifice by Farley, an error of Romer. safe hit by McAndrews and the misjudgment of Romer in stopping ball that was coming like a shot to the plate. which would have undoubtedly nipped Bronkie before he crossed 1t. The score: