Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
THE DIAMOND
DOWN THE LINE
 THE BOYS SLIP
New Britain Took a Fall Out of Us Yesterday-H Hartford is Now
 in the Lead

New Britain, May 6-The Noun taineers started Jack -in-the-B Stalk climb after the leadership of the league yesterday afternoon at Electric field And it was not a reed that was planted, but good oak shoot. As for the fans, they were delighted and blew down gust of applause upon the players when the victory was assured.
 The attendance was large for a mid-week game and with the rapid strides that the team is making and with March under the grandstand, as yesterday, the number of patrons of the sport will double and perhaps triple.
 It was the first game called at 3:30 o'clock in response to the de- mand of number of patrons upon the management that the time be changed to that hour. Petitions were circulated in the shops to have Manager Humphrey stick to o'clock and the management got on to itself at once. It was announced at the game that in the future the. mid week games would commence at I and the Saturday games at 3:30, and everybody is happy.
 The fans started in ito help the team up round of the ladder. They had an opportunity the first inning, when pretty double play was made. Waterbury had. Fitzpatrick on first and Swander at the bat. A grounder was picked up by Water man. The ball was at second be :. fore Fitzy and at first before Swan and the trick was turned.
 The second was an uneyentful in- ming for both sides and the third was only enlivened by two hits by New Britain from which she was unable to score. The players were right on to their jobs and both sides were down to hard pan.
 In the fourth the Hardwarites struck iron. Burns made two base hit, Bunyan sacrificed him to third and Rufiange got base on balls Burns scored on Patrons out and Rufiange scored on hit by Water. man. #
 The Brass Furnaces couldn't stand for that. so after they had blown off the inning closed with one run to their credit, but in this way. Sin- gleton got base on balls and got around through errors by Waterman, so the run was not much to boast of for the visitors and not much to the credit of the home team.
 The feature of the seventh was another clever double play bx the Hardware boys and two runs when it came thek turn to use the big stick. Waterman stole home and Connaughton soon scored after him. The fans then all became prophets and saw sure thing. The vision came true all right, but some of the prophets got weak kneed the last minutes-but wait.
 A fine running catch by Finn took .Fitzpatrick's fly in the opening of the eighth. Marsans caught a pret- ty fly off Swander and Lachance grounded out, which retired the wis. itors.
 New Britain was shut out in the eighth also, very much through the clever work of Swander, who caught a sky rocket from Bunyan's bat and another from Rufiange's, both plays being loudly applauded by the sports.
 The final inning rolled in and Kelly rolled out at first and SchinceI struck out. Then the Brass Cityites made a stand. Singleton got base on balls, when Rice, coming up, two bagger. The fans sat up and took notice. Rogers struck out and the game was over
 Manager Paige has great eonfi- denee in Almeida, the Cuban third baseman, who is booked to arrive here May IS. He has been informed that Almeida is the. best player on the isle. He headed the Cuban league in batting. The showing made by the two Cubans, Padron and Marsans, iustifies Manager Paige in his high expectations. The Cubans are as popular as any two players on the team. They excel in stick wield- ing and are fine all around players. Patrons pitching has proven a pug zle to every team which has gone up against 1t. The score: