Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-06
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

the day. He found that the man who was endeavoring to enter the houses was one slightly demented and ap- parently was not looking for valua- bles for he took nothing. If the man is not taken In charge by relatives the charity department will in all prop ability look after him.
 It is understood that the suit Of Miss Gussie Danisevicze against the New York, New Haven & Hartford road, the outcome of an accident at the Bank street crossing about year ago, has been settled. The young woman was badly injured at the crossing when switcher crashed into a trolley car and was laid up TOT such a time that she sought heavy damages. It is said the case has been dropped by the payment of $l,O0O to the plaintiff by the company.
 John Ahearn, John Foley, Mat thew Gleason and Thomas McGrath, who went fishing about week ago and brought home nothing except what they bought at fish market, went out again to-day to try their luck. They took several different kinds of bait with them for they realize If they come back to Brooklyn this even ing without a good mess, they might just as well throw their hooks and i lines away for they will no longer be regarded as the premier anglers or this section.
 Next Thursday will be big day l for the members of the Third church ] congregation and special pro- gramme has been arranged to cele- i brate the anniversary of the parish. Although there will be special ser vices afternoon and evening the feat l ure of the day will be the burning Of 1 the only mortgage now on the church. During the afternoon from to , there will be addresses of brief na- l ture by. Congregational ministers from this city and neighboring towns. From to 6 the Rev and Mrs c. D. l Chunn will be the guests of honor at a reception. Luncheon will be serv- ed from to and from 7:3O to 9:30 there will be more addresses. The burning of the mortgage will then 1 take place after which there will be a short social session. The public is cordially invited to attend the exer- cises.
 Just when the letter carriers had l the game in a package ready to carry home, the Brooklyn business men, en- couraged by the cheers from the root ing brigade led by the original noise maker, P. Clark, made an eighth inning rally at the golf grounds yes l terday afternoon, chalked up three
 tallies and put the game on large cake of ice by 5 to score. It was a keen disappointment to the boys l who carry the mall and the letter Icarriers who were wearing out their
 trousers by warming the bench pro ceeded to use the hammer on their fellow workers who were trying tc l uphold the reputation of Uncle Sam's department. The balloon did not as
 cend very far and only few of the
 carriers took ride but when the
 team was again on terra firma ths
 business men were no longer one run
 in the rear but two to the good. The game, which was the first of series
 was witnessed by about 100 spec
 tators and was well played consider.
 ing the fact that some of the partici.
 pants are getting rather antiquateC
 and are no longer able to do 10t
 yards in ten seconds fiat. After Man
 ager Wilcox and Captain Fox of th' letter carriers had a conference, few
 minutes previous to the game, 1t wal
 decided to leave such men as J
 Legs" Kelly, Mir Campbell, Georg'
 Schwenck and Harry Mitchell on thu
 bench, as they are no longer consider
 ed fast enough for such an aggrega
 tion as sported the letter carriers
 uniforms yesterday. Morgan Burk'
 was badly missed as the rooters of tn,
 blue boys had no one to direct then
 until Captain Fox took 1t upon him
 self to do little hollering in addi tion to covering the short field. Tall
 about beating the barrier; we'll, tn letter carriers got away so fact tha in the first inning they made thre runs and everyone began to wonde
 how many they would pile up befor
 the nine innings were over. The Brook
 lynites sent one man around the cir cult in the first, thanks to the gen erosity of Lawrence Fox. who tried t
 throw the ball in the river about quarter of amile away from the dia mond. Tim Shannahan, the fat girl
 made a leap for the throw but h
 might just as we'll have been jumpin for cloud. There was no more SCOT ing until the fourth when the busi : ness men were able to push anothe man around, and the score was no' . 2 to 9 Although the letter carrier
 were hitting hard. brilliant fieldin on the part of the business men pre- vented any scoring, the catches c 3 Matt Dunphy. the elongated frs
 baseman, being especially worthy C
 mention. Well, the eighth innin
 came and Manager Smith passed tn
 word to his players that 1t was tim . to begin. Lusky started the firework 1 by getting a pass and immediatel r pilfered a couple of bases. Daltor . who until this inning had the bus 2 ness men strsining their backs tr,
 ing to knock the ball even out of th iuield. gave another pass. whic
 with a few errors and one hit adde
 a trio of runs to the total of tn
 Brooklynites. It took all the life oI
 of the letter carriers and they starte
 their half of the ninth In a hal | hearted way. couple got on ba: but they died when Gwilym caugl
 Nicholas fly with two down.
 Sehwenck had been sent in to bat 1