Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-25
THE DIAMOND
OUR BATS WERE
 K FULL OF HOLES
Mclean Had Us at His Mercy Throughout = Rorty Once
 More in Trouble.

Captain Harry O'Hagan signalled
 his reappearance in Waterbury
 uniform yesterday, by continually
 kicking to Umpire Charley Kennedy
 about the peculiar movements of
 Pitcher Mclean in the box, which
 Captain Harry designated as balk,
 but which MT Ump refused to see in
 that light When this kick failed
 to register any satisfaction for our
 side of the house, another tack was
 taken and in the last few innings
 the ball became the objective point
 of discussion. Our captain and his
 teammates claimed the ball was un-
 fit for use, because no matter how
 hard it was banged, they could not
 get it outside the diamond. But
 one ball went to the outfield in the
 last two innings, by either Spring
 field or Waterbury. The ball cer-
 tainly did not sound right, when it
 was hit, but to all outward appear ances it was a good one. Dan
 O'Neil got it after the game was
 over and showed it to the writer and it looked all right, although
 there may have been lump of lead on the inside. In shape and size it
 was apparently as good a Victor as any made. But the whole real trouble with us was that we could not hit Mclean and when we did get on the bases, we went to sleep and were caught while we were nod ding.
 Siliery pitched good baseball, too, and with any kind of stick work behind him might have pulled out a win. Seven hits are recorded against him, but three of those were of the scratchiest kind. In one inning, the fourth, he took a lit- tie aerial sail, but this inning was peculiar in other respects. Yale had driven out a safe one to cen ter. when Tom Stankard and Pop Rising followed with attempts to sacrifice. Each attempt proved to be a hit, however, for in each in- stance the ball was beaten to first. 1 Then with the bases filled things | looked mighty blue. The best Luby | could do was to hit one to SiIlery and Yale. was tagged at the plate. Then Sillery scared little higher and gave a free pass to Waite which 1 forced in Standard and Burns was thrown out from catcher to first, but Rising came in with the secod | run. Those two runs added 10 one made in the third. when Waite, who had hit to center, was sent home after the two following him were put, by a two base drive of Mike McAndrews,. made the complete score for Springfield. After that 'ourth inning Sillery pitched in rare good form.
 We had good chance to score in he first inning, but Mclean worked lis little elbow trick in the box and tltzpaGick and Swander fell his 'ictims. Fitzy got his base on a 1t and was leading off the first bag safe distance, when Mclean, by peculiar move fooled him into linking he was going to pitch and eitzy was caught by several feet 'wander then beat out a bunt and Ike Fitz he too was caught by the anne move and Captain O'Hagan 'egan his work on Mir Ump. We cored our only run of the game in he fourth and without hit at that. ,ne was out, when Nichols was hit y the ball, stole the second sta. Ion and then came all the way ome on dog trot. when Jimmy turns dropped Muilaney's pop fy ack of third base. There was not luch chance for us after that for ,e were helpless before the curves [ MT Mclean. The score: