Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-11
THE DIAM o ND
BATTLE OF
 THE TWIRLERS
Waterbury and New Haven Shug- gle For Eleven Innings
 Other Games.

New Haven, May 11.-For eleven innings yesterday afternoon at the prairie, Pitcher West of New Haven and Pitchers Yerkes and Farley for Waterbury fought battle royal, which was only concluded by the darkness which had set in. The at tendance was about the largest at the Rock this season and the fans were well paid for their attendance. The scoring was done as follows.
 Inkthe third inning Yerkes was given free pass to first. McAn- drews sacrificed. Ward walked. La chance cracked out two bagger and Yerkes came in.s West was getting as generous as the railroad and gave Swander pass. With three men on bases and the situation looking quite serious for the local team, Nichols sent the ball to Captain Hayward, and everyone knows the rest. Me- Nellis was now the man to dot some- thing. He did do something-died at first.
 With the score 1 to 0 New Haven rallied. Mahoney landed a nice mod est hit. J&pe sacrificed, as any good man should. West hit to short and was out. Cornell hit prettily for a single and scored New Ravens first run. Fitzpatrick flied out to McAn- drews.
 Young Stanley Yerkes was doing excellent slab work when Umpire Kennedy called Ball two.' Yerkes claimed it was strike. The official said "No.' But instead of begging the umpire's pardon for contradict ing him and promising to be careful in the future, the Waterbury player slammed the ball onto the ground and with an angry look, made re- mark which MT Kennedy took excep- tion to. Kennedy warned him. This did not seem to do any good, as when the Waterbury players were on the bench Yerkes again hurt Ken nedy's feelings. This time Kennedy was more severe and ordered the twirler off the field. Yerkes picked up his glove, borrowed nickel car fare from Manager Durant and passed the remainder of the after noon counting the tickets at the gate. Farley, who succeeded Yerkes in the box, pitched rattling good game.
 In the fourth inning Pitcher West showed his ability. Bronkie, Schin- eel and Yerkes, the three men before him, faded away on strike outs and the crowd cheered as West marched to his seat on the bench. Hayward opened the fourth for the locals by hitting to second base, but found 1t impossible, to get to first before the ball. Wade hit safe. Sherwood flew out to Lachance. Wade was dancing around on third base like a jumping jack. There were two gone when Old John Bunyan placed a pretty hit, scoring Wade and was then put out at the second bag by Mahoney's in- field hit.
 The score stood to 1 in favor of New Havea McAndrews bunted to- ward the pitcher and was out. Ward did about the same thing. Candy" Lachance earned base on balls. He darted off as If shot from a cannon, stole second and on Swander's hit made for home like deer. Candy" is good runner, but Mahoney in the meantime had picked up the ball in the center garden. He took good aim and landed the leather in Harry Jopes init. Out. well l guess, La chance was out by a mile.
 Lachance hit to second base in the eighth, but was lost in the fog. Swander died at first. Nichols sent out pretty hit. McNellis doubled, scoring Nichols, tying the score. Bronkie added nothing to the score.
 When Fitzpatrick opened the eighth for the locals he hit safely. Hayward offered sacrifice. Wade failed to reach first. Sherwood ac- cepted pass to first. Bunyan knocked out two bagger and brought in Fitzpatrick. Mahoney struck out.
 Sehincel, in the ninth, t1ok a base on balls and stole second. Farley went out. McAndrews reached first on bad tnroN by Sherwood. he went to second on another error by the Kid. Ward walked and made the third man on the bases. La chance flew out to Wade and Swan- der hit the ball to second and died at the initial bag. The score now stood to and both teams were playing like mad.
 The eleventh inning opened in darkness. Umpire Kennedy was squinting to catch a glimpse of the ball. It was starting to rain and those from the bleachers filled the garnd stand. Farley. first man up, died at first. McAndrews was hit with the ball. Ward put out an in- fielder's choice and McAndrews was caught at third. Lachanee reached first on Bunyan's error. Swander hit to West, who tossed the man out at first.
 New Haven tried hard to score. Jope struck out for the third time. West was put out by the shortstop and first baseman. Conneil was hit by the pitcher and Fitzpatrick Iand- ed his third hit of the game. With two men on bases Captain Hayward hit an easy one for second and re- tired at first. At this time Umpire Kennedy called the game. The score:
 New Haven.
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