Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-21
THE DIAMOND
GREAT FINISH
 OF THE LOCALS
Frank Fitzpatrick Cracked Out . Two Bagger Which Brought
 in the Winning Run.

that bout of yesterday as follows:
 After going nine consecutive games without meeting with disas- ter, the league leaders were throttled and thrown by Waterbury in ten inning skirmish yesterday afternoon. It is quite galling at this stage of the season to drop game to the nearest neighbor in the percentage circle, but still more bitter is the fact that the upset was caused by Frank Fitzpatrick, a former Holyoke captain and one time idol of Paper city fandom, but undoubtedly the most unpopular player in the circuit with the local base ball public. After being booted and guyed all af- ternoon, Fitzy scored ample revenge in the extra inning. when he belted out a two bagger that sent in the winning run, breaking the tie score, 2 to 9.
 By every right the game belonged to Holyoke and comparison of the work of the two teams will bear this out. Four hits were all that Stack pole allowed. He had great speed. sharp break to his bends and Wa terbury couldn't do anything with him to speak of. Bastian, otherwise known as Ward, and a timber swing CT of some repute, was struck out three times, which goes to show the kind of ball Stackpole was sending MT puf tharo xnaro foU nm fc when Stack missed connections with the plate and of his four slips three of them were most damaging, and to them he can contribute his defeat. Of two batters hit, both eventually tallied, as did the receiver of one of his two bases on balls. Perfect con- trol in these places would have held Waterbury scoreless.
 Rogers, though found for hit by every one of the home crowd, had good control, and after the first in- ming when Holyoke scored its only runs, he was steadied by Shincel and got by unharmed in three instances when a hit might have lost him the game. Outside of the sixth and tenth, Waterbury had few privileges on the bases. Twice 1t was put up to Biffer Burke to win the game; once he struck out and the other time he boosted up fly. Thackara, too, had an opportunity to annex the hero's crown by cracking out a sim gle that would have counted out his old team, but as hard as he swung he could do nothing better than raise an outfield skier. Of the two Waterbury errors, both were very punk, Moore and Fitzpatrick mufing easy flies. Otherwise the fielding was snappy and clean on both sides.
 Everyone settled back in their seats in the first round, gazed at Holyoke's two runs and felt satisfied that the issue was settled then and there. The inning had opened with double by Hoffman. Lepine sacri- feed and lazy was thrown out at third when Burke hit to Rogers. Massey had home run tucked away in his bat bag all season and he figured that this would be a good time to unlock 1t. His ash stick caught MT Ball on the snout and pushed 1t over the left field fence, scoring Burke ahead of him. Bills big bang made a s5 cavity in the managerial roll. Moore had long time to prepare for Grubb's fly and when 1t did strike his mitt 1t kept right on until 1t hit the ground and Grubb was safe on the error. Baker closed with a ground slap to La- chance. Waterbury didn't do much else outside of trot to bat and back to the bench until the sixth. Then the score was tied.
 Stackpole started his own misfor- tune by sticking swift shoot on to Pitcher Rogers's shoulder. Stack was still looking for the plate when Bastian came up and he passed him. There was a mighty hitch on the Stackpole belt and Fitzpatrick in at tempting bunt popped one right into Massey's hands. Mike McAn- drews whiffed the wind and Swander looked like simple picking until he hit away to the fence in right for two bases. Hoffman and Lepine were on top of the ball together, there was a moments mixup and Hoffman picked up the sphere, re- laying 1t to Baker. Baker tried to get swander sliding to second when there wasn't chance in a million. His hesitation allowed Bastian to score along with Rogers.
 Three golden chances to get a tally came to Holyoke in the seventh, eighth and ninth and Waterbury did not have peek in until the tenth. The overtime inning had opened fa- vorably enough when Sehincel struck out But Stackpole slid one too close to Moore. it skinned his shirt and he walked to first. Rogers's hit to Grubb was toyed with long enough to give the Waterbury pitch CT a life. For the third time Bastisn vas struck out. and then Fitzpatrick came up. Fftzy had been guilty of a sinful misplsy in the sixth inning when he let a pop skier slip be- tween his fingers and he vas down for a lot of roasting. in fact he had been getting pleasant praises" all afternoon. and they were ringing in his ears when he came to bat. Fitzy soon found one that suited and turned 1t into a sharp double to left. scoring Moore and settling the dis pute." The score:
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