Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19
THE SPORTING NEWS.
SEMI-PROF GAMES.

SEMI-PROF GAMES.
 Manchester Gave Waterbury Close Rub Saturday.
 Manchester lost to the Waterbury state league team Saturday at Man chester, ? to 1, in pretty game full of fast plays and sensational stops. Bron- kie. the pride of Manchester, pitched for the Waterbury team and the way in which he performed was pleasing to his many friends in Manchester. When he came to the bat for the first time in the second inning William c. Chen ey, who was president of the base ball association when Bronkle was member of the Manchester team. step- ped to the plate, and while the play CTS of both the teams, the umpire, Manager Durant ard President Fl. o. Bowers gathered around the plate, said that as acting mayor of the city 1t gave him great pleasure in behalf of the fans and cranks in town to welcome Bronkie to Manchester, his native town. All were proud of his work and were pleased to see that he was making good'' in base ball. He closed up by presenting to Bronkie 3 gold watch.
 Dubuc pitched for Manchester and the game was a pitchers battle throughout. While Dubuc gave more bases on balls than Bronkie, but Bron- kie got better support. Dubuc started off by striking out the first two men up for Waterbury and the third one flew out to right field. Bronkie, not to be outdone, struck out the first three men to face him. Both had nine strikeouts. The lineup and score: Waterbury-Bastian If, Fitzpatrick 2b, McAndrews 3b, Swander If, O'Rourke 2b. Lachance 1b, Lucia ., Moore of, Bronkie p.
 Manchester-Nichols ss, Dubuc p, Hanniran 3b, Casey c, Conroy If, Breckenridge 1b, Schieldge If, Nor lander cf, Campion 2b. R.H.E. Waterbury % 1O O000O-2 3 ? Manchester O D 0 o % 1 0-1 , 8 Stolen bases, Lachance, Campion; double play, Bronkie to Lachance, Casey to Nichols: base on balls, of Bronkie ?. off Dubuc 5; struck out, by Bronkie 9, by Dubuc 9; time, l:35; un- pire, Rorty.
 The Waterbury Brass Go base ball team defeated the Litchfield team Sat urday afternoon in an interesting game by the score of 6 to 8 in Ltchfield. The Waterbury team did all their SCOT ing in two innings. the fourth and ninth, while the Litchfield team was blanked until the eighth when q com bination of hits and passes produced three runs. The feature of the game was the pitching of Moran of Water bury, who struck out eleven men ana the work of both third bosemen. The lineup and score:
 Waterbury Brass Co-Kelly If, Me- Enroe of, Lallier 2b, Bowling 1b, Tighe If, Carr 3b, Noonan ss, ponnelly
 ritsnhsid hogan ss J. Monaghan If. Moran 3b, NJ. Monaghan c, Coy 1b, Kielty 2b, Higgins If, Morse cf, Still son D..
 RH.E. W. Brass 0004O 1000 2-6 10 1 Litchfield 70 0 o o 000S 0-3 "A
 Bases on balls. of Moran 4: struck out, by Moran II, by Stllson 3: wild pitch. Stilson; left on bases, Water bury Brass 8, Litchfield Q.
 Rockville applied the whitewash brush on the Stafford Bi-State league nine in the game at Rockville Sdtur- day afternoon, the score being 6 to D. The game was characterized by bril- liant fielding on both sides, Rockville excelling.
 The greatest batting bee which the Southington team ever enjoyed was pulled of on Sand Hill grounds at Southington Saturday afternoon when the nome team trounced the Bradford team 16 to 2. The visitors came with a good reputation, but twenty-two hits were made of the pitcher, seven being two-baggers.
 The Sufiield cigarmakers' bnse ball ICdiu iioul iS- HBlootiio Nikdi idOtpiN ' at Suffield added another victory to its long list Saturday by defeating the Hartford cigarmakers' team from the Rosedale factory in Hartford on the Institution grounds at Sufiield [ to G.
 Middletown defeated Chester to 1. at Middletown Saturday in a we'll played game. The tail enders put up good article of ball and scored q run before Middletown got started.
 Deep River won the final game Of a series with Saybrook. Saturday after non at Deep River. to 3. Manager Hosmer put James. the colored won der, in to pitch and he twirled the best game of his career. He struck out fourteen men and Wright got three out of the i've hits made off him.
 UnionvilIe defeated CoIlinsvil!a Sat- urday. { to l. for the third time this season. A dispute arose between Manager Campion of Unionville and Manager Dunn of CollinsvIlle, Mana ger CampIon alleging breach Of con- tract When the series was arranged an agreement was drawn ID and sign cd by both managers. which gave the number and names of players which