The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05

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 waterbury at New Haven
 ' Merlden at Holyoke.
 Hartford at New Britain.
 Springfield at Bridgeport @ gameso If the local players ever did play brilliant ball. they did so yesterday af- ternoon when they cantered off with a to victory and s-2 defeat. after struggling with the Ponies for over four hours of exciting ball at the prai- ris The, exhibition given was full of thrills and hair-raising stunts and in- teresting throughout. both teams put ting up 8 plucky fight from start to finish Spectacular plays kept bobbing up right along and snappy work was induiged .in by both George Bones fleet and Dan O'Nell's squad Those who put in appearance at the Rock, were amply rewarded for their trou- ble, witnessing two beautiful contests. The excitement rose to white heat at times and the fans were continually kept in an incessant turmoil by the closeness of the contest. It was a grand struggle and the Savin Rock grounds presented a beautiful specta- cle, with the 1900 fans frantlcally shouting themselves hoarse and doing everything. in their power to urge their nine to victory.
 Hickory clouts filled the bags numer- ous times, the players smashing the pill with terrific speed against various divisions of the fence about the dia- mond. .Maggert of the visitors who once led the 300 stickers. was the ring leader in the horsehide slaughter. He started right of the reel and smashed out three-bagger to right field. That almost took the locals breath away and when he kept Up his terrible clouts getting another three-bagger a double and a single, the fans began to real ize what a tough proposition they were up against. Besides such swatting, he demonstrated few stunts about the art of base running, clearing the bags in great time. His slide to third base on one of his drives brought forth loud applause, and infused little bitter feeling in the hearts of the fans against him for he seemed to be the stumbling block, which the locals were unable to overcome. It was the prettiest slide ever seen here, Maggert leaving his feet when within big distance of the dizzy corner and neatly sliding up to the sack.
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 Carrick's strong twirling assisted by good work on the part of his team mates, secured the first contest for Bone's contingent. Bill Carrick, whc has been pitching remarkably steady ball in his recently played games, du- plicated his good work. being effective in all stages of the game. Not a mar was presented a walking ticket ant when any of the visitors managed tc infest the angles "Bill'' worked the cor. Ders and they were unable to tally. :, Andy Herbst was the candy kid witt the willow. banging out two long dis tance swats, the last one clnching tht game for the locals. His first was { double and second triple and while Andy was on the bases his prancini around the sacks kept the vistine pitchers in perpetual worry Herbs 'as well as Havel and Zacher pulled of some difficult plays which only increa S ed the interest in the Contest Hes, started to twirl for the leaders but wa. compelled to retire when his shoot, were being banged all over the lot Powell, one of Dams best replaced hin but was also banged for a few bingoes and when his followers blew LID thu game was easily New Haven's.
 Maggert was responsible for the wis. itors' first run by sending out tripl for a starter, and scoring on Conner sacrifice fly to Zacher New Haven al, better than the visitors in their half o the first accommodating three runs Witt one out Herbst walked and landed ol third on Blondy Zacher's double to thu Jeff field fence Kid Sherwood thel drove in the two local players by hi pretty single to left garden Georg Simmons came next with one of hi famous couts, which sailed majesti cally towards Pop Rising In left patch
 
 and which was good for Sherwood score from second where he had land el on the play for Zacher at the plate Simmons drive landed him on secon and he took third on Reischmans out Ho,el walked and stole second. On th play to catch Havel stealing, Slmmon attempted to score but was nabbed a the plate.
 With the score to in the locals favor, the game continued without an other score until the fifth when the wis itors tailed on collecting three hits That brought them within one run c the locals and they strove hard to over take them The Elm City nine In tn meanwhile were sending men to tn, bases but with no results for the time ly bngo failed to come. A batting ral in the eighth started by Herbsts tri pie and the visitors boots gave the lc calls a comfortable addition of thre runs and settled the game.
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