The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-11
 LOCALS BREAK EVEN New Haven Downs Holyoke in First Game, But Is Blanked in Second. SPRINGFIELD DROPS TWO Hartford, by Defeating Ponies Twice, Has Secure Hold on First
 Place.
CONNECTICUT LEAGUE STANDING.
GAMES TO-DAY. Hartford at New Haven. Meriden ct Holyoke. Springfield at Waterbury. Bridgeport at New Britai,

George Bone's troupe of individual stars got an even break with the Hol- yoke club yesterday afternoon at the Savin Rock grounds. winning the first handlly by score of 10l3 but falling down badly in the final contest, which was lost S-O Both games were intense ly interesting and some of the great est fielding stunts of the year were pulled off by Eddie Pleiss, Blondy Zacher and Candy Lachance The for mer in particular distinguished himself time and again by making really mar velous catches of hard drives close to the left field fence and of Texas leag- uers in back of third His one hand catch of Burkes foul in the ninth in- ming of the opening exhibition will long be remembered by those who saw 1t and the crowd rose in body to show their appreciation of his great work Zacher was the man with the big stick in the Initial game, getting safe swat every time up but the first, when he sacrificed neatly. Andy Herbst be- sides pitching a fine heady game, hit the ball on the nose In approved fash lon, securing three bingos out of four times up. His support was well-nlgh perfect and when Holyoke needed a hit 1t was not forthcoming Lavender, Jack Tighe's premier twirer, was q target for the locals and clearly show ed that he had not fully recovered from his recent illness His support was ragged in the extreme, however, and this may account for his somewhat in- different work in the box neat dou- ble play pulled off by Sherwood Sim mons and Lachance in second session caused many knockers in the stand to sit up and take notice and when Blon- dy Zacher, working with Andy Herbst fin the eighth, pulled off the squeeze play, all hands allowed that the inside work had begun In great shape
 With this for starter the crowd ex- pected second victory, but were fated :. to see the New Haven men fall down materially in their fast work of the first contest. Joe Stoup, who was In the box, worked we'll and outside of the first two innings kept the hits well scattered His teammates were woeful- ly weak with their clubs and had no less than ten men left on bases in the first four innings. Time and again the locals needed only a hit to tie the score, but nothing resulted. On several oc- casions the squeeze play could have well been attempted, but was not. Es- 'pecially was this true in the opening inning. A fast double play unasssted by Perkins retired the locals with the sacks filled. In the fourth and eighth Bones men had a great opportunity to tie up the score, but 1t was the same old story. Stoup made a ridiculous play in the ninth, when with a man on first and third he actually hesitated as to where he should throw the sphere that Perkins had tapped to him. First he elected to heave to Lachance and when warned by the infield turned and made a pitiably poor throw to second while the man on third tailed. The simplest sort of double play should have re- suited but as this did not really change the result everything cannot be charg- ed to this play. All in all an even break was good enough as the team Is now playing.