Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-07
THE DIAMOND GOOD GAME
 TO ENJOY Candy Lachance Won It in the Last Inning Results of All Other
 Games.

There may have been more sensa- tional games played out at Rockville, but none more exciting nor better fought than the one of yesterday be- tween Norwich and Waterbury. From the first to the last it was fought out with never let up, and time and again each team crawled out of some tight squeezes. Halligan and Farley were twirling speedy and puzzling curves, Halligan probably having lit tie lead in the first two innings Some thing seemed to be resting painfully on the local twirler's mind, for he lacked his usual smile and he looked out of sorts in the first and second innings. The crack of the Norwich bats, when two hits were made off his delivery in each of the first two innings, brought him to realization that he was in the midst of battle scene, and unless he wished to see himself taken prisoner, he must let loose his batteries and train them on the Norwich batsmen. This he did, and as the confident smile came back to his face, he let the visitors down with just three more hits, one in the fifth, one in the eighth and one in the ninth. And what about the team that was backing him up? They were there with the snap and ginger that warns the hearts of the most dyspeptic fans. Right in the very first inning, when, with two, out and Duffy on third, landing there with fs fn nd placed hit to right, Shincel made a fake throw to second to nip Solfel, who was stealing that bag. Fitzpat- rick came in and took the throw and sent it back to Shincel cutting off Duffy at the home station by several feet Then in the third, with cue out, Golden reached first on free pass and Soffel drove a terrific liner be- tween left and center. No one ex- pected to see it caught, but Eddie Swander came in on the dead run and he and the ball met with a crash and the ball was his. Golden never be- lieved the ball would be stopped un- til it reached the fence, and he kept on running from first and had passed the second station, when he stopped, as he saw Swander holding the ball. It was too late for him to return and Big George received the throw in and beautiful double play had been work ed out. In the fourth Joe O'Rourke ran clear over to the stone wall on the left foul line and took down Perkins rap. In the sixth, with two men given free passes and one out, another man was nailed quickly at second and Farley struck out the third man, and in the ninth with one on base and only a hit needed to send Norwich to the front, Farley struck out the last man at the bat.
 Norwich scored her first run in the second on single by Accorsini and a corking three sacker to the right field fence by Bridges. Her second, and what proved to be her last run, was made in the fifth. Bridges. the first man up, hammered out another three bagger in the same place as before and when the ball was relayed in O'Rourke let 1t get away from him and Bridges never stopped running until he crossed the home plate. The locals scored one in the third. When, with one out, Farley stopped one of Halligan's inshoots with his left el- bow, a blow which drew the blood. From the first station Bastian sent him home with a corking three sack smash to the left field fence. In the sixth the fans were sent into the realms of supreme delight when the score was tied. Bastian was the lad with the stick once more. He drove out a two baser in the same spot as before, took third on a passed ball, when Halligan and Bridges got their signals twisted. and came home on McAndrews' safe swat by short.
 The ninth was filled with excite ment and 1t looked for a time like ten inning game. McAndrews wait ed for four bad ones, was sacrificed to second by Swander. 0'Rourke then few out to center and then came George Lachance. Captain Soffel had a whispered conversation with his twirIer and all believed that big Candy was going to be walked free. The first ball went very wide and the be- lief was strengthened. The next one was e good one. however. and strike one was called The next one was also good and a foul resulted and there were two strikes on the big fellow. Then came the third. wizz went the hall and bang went the bat against the leather. It went like a shot be- tween short and second and Mike Me Andrews did ten second clip from ,he second station and over the plate he came and the game was won. The