Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
THE DIAMOND
WE ARE STILL
 ON THE TOBOC
Bad Playing and Failure to Find the Ball Lost Us Another---
 Other Results.

The misjudged fly by Cooney Rice
 Tn the sixth inning, which allowed
 Bill Yale to make three bases
 started the rout of Waterbury yes
 terday in the game with Springfield.
 Up to that inning there had been no
 scoring done by the Dan .O'Neil
 tribe and McNulty looked as if he
 was going to add another victory to
 nis clean list. But the fates had de-
 clded otherwise. In that sixth in-
 ming Joe Connor had rapped out
 Iong ny to center, which Herman
 bronkie surprisingly dropped. Joe
 continued on toward second. but he
 was promptly nailed there on the
 throw in. Then came Bill Yale. He
 hammered one out to right field. It
 was high enough for any ordinary
 nelder to have got under, but Rice
 didn't have the proper judge of dis
 tance and as consequence it went
 over his head and Yale took third.
 This rather disheartened McNulty
 Tor the next man up drove out sin
 gle between first and second and
 Tale scored. Standard had done the
 driving and he took second on the next out and came home when Luby
 popped a safe one back of third base.
 That was two for the visitors against
 one Tor our side. In the eighth they
 added one more after two were out
 at that and Bill Ward Bastian
 was the responsible party. Standard
 orove out screamer, after the two
 were out, which landed him on sec
 ond. Rising then popped little
 fly into the air and Stankard. know Ing two were out. kept on running
 for home. Bastian got under the
 fly, but the ball pushed a hole through his hands and Standard was over the plate with the third run
 Tor the strangers. Bastian followed that bad error up with another when he fumbled Luby's drive, but
 Rising was caught on the phony
 throw to second, as he tried to come home, and the side was re- tired. Our finish came hard in the ninth and McNulty got a few more bumps. Waite slammed one against the left field fence for two sacks and Burns sacrificed him on a base. Pow ell drove one to center which gave him two bases and sent Waite home. McAndrews's pretty single sent the long, lanky Powell over the plate and there Springfield stopped.
 We had several chances to score during the game but our bats had the spring fever and they couldn't locate the ball. In the third with men on second and third and but one out. Fitzpatrick ignominiously struck out and Swander died from short to first. In the fourth we did score one run. There was one out when Bronkie nailed one of Pow els slow ones and when the left field fence stopped 1t, Bronkie was on third. Tom Standard fumbled | Shincers drive just long enough for | Bronkie to come over the plate. but | Shincel was nailed at first. Single ton then struck out. In the eighth | we scored again. Bastian got life | when Standard threw badly to first | and Bastlan took second on the throw He went to third when Fitz- patrick flew out to center and he came home on Swander's fly out to right. With two out then Lepine drove out corking two-bagger, but he was left there as Bronkie died from short to first. In the ninth we fell dead entirely. Shincel got to first on safe little pop to left. Singleton just knocked one over head and we had two on bases and none out. Lucia went up 10 bat for Rice and he waited for four bad ones. This filled the cor ners and things looked good to us. had made a record as pinch hitter in Bridgeport and as he was next up, we felt pretty easy. McNulty. however. hit one 10 McAn- irews and Moody Mike nailed Shin ,el at the plate. Bastian was al- ways a good waiter and he got three )alls and two strikes on him. The lext one over. was decidedly to the lad and Bastian believing it was to ,e called ball. dropped his bat and tarted for first. McNulty thinking Ilso that it was four balls started or second. Rorty surprised every. ,ody who saw the ball by calling 1t strike. which made Bastian an out. Quick as a flash Joe Connor nailed he ball to first and McNulty was aught before he could get back and gain did we have 1t rubbed 1t into IS by Rorty and his life tenure of fice, with headquarters at Water I iury seems like a cinch. The $