The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-25
SIMMONS AGAIN SHINES
Clouts Out a Double and Triple--Er-
rors by Boucher Give New Ha-
ven Winning Runs.
CONNECTICUT LEAGUE STANDING.
(OMcial.) t
GAMES TODAY.
New Haven at New Britain.
Mefiden at Waterbury.
Springfield at Hartford.
Holyoke Mt Bridgeport.

Springfield at Hartford
liolyoke at Bridgeport.
Although the game at the prairie
yesterday was not fight for the PEN
nant, but only battle for the owner
ship OF third place In the Connecticut
State league, still It was hummer and
proved of great Interest, the Paper
makers forcing the locals TO do their
prettest. First one, then the other nine
alternated In the lead and II looked
like the fourth berth for our team at
the beginning OF the sixth. when, by
a sudden avalanche of hits, Bone
crew overcame the lead of the visitors
and secured comfortable lead.
George Simmons. who has been tear
ing up the soil and breaking fences on
the various diamonds throughout the
circuit, was again In evidence as a
sugger. His wallops figured greatly In
the locals victory. driving in runs
when they were needed. This member
Of Swat Mulligan's clan also helded
perfectly In the sixth session he pull
ed down ,scorcher that was labeled
hit after a hard run with one hand.
Spectacular catches certainly were in
vogue yesterday. many "erandstand"
plays being pulled off In great style.
In the fifth inning Havel the local
guardian of the dizzy corner. made a
Embarrassing catch. Running at full
speed he nabbed the ball far In baca
Of third base making one of the pref
test catches of the game. Cozy Dolan,
the visiting center fielder, had his say
in running catches. In the fifth Cozy
tore In from deep center and smother
ed the ball within six inches Of the
ground.
Murray who has been released and
retaken by Manager Bone. spoiled a
clear slate for the locals In the error
column. He still has difficulty In hold
Ing on to the ball and Is continually
juggling It. Besides having two passed
balls. Murray made wretehed play
at the plate in the sixth. presenting
the visitors with tally. With Massey
on third base, where he had wandered
after two-bagger and a sacrifice, the
next batter up clouted TO Forgue at
shortstop. Gill was on his Job and
threw prcttily to the plate, getting
Massey a mile. Murray, however, made
mess of the play by dropping the
ball, the runner scoring
1t appears impossible for local fans
TO believe that their team won out
with only four hits to their credit
TO the visitors nine. The clue to this
lay In the sixth inning when three Of
the four hits were secured In batch.
That was the only inning that George
Bones men got, on to Sindler's shoots.
Joe twirled In magnificent form, being
effective In every inning with the ex-
ception of the sixth, up to which he
had allowed but one hit His team
would easily have won out had Bouch-
er not made costly error In that in
ming. Andy Herbst, although batted
hard, had perfect control, not letting
q man walk and tanning the visitors
with men on bases.
The locals broke up the goose egg
fable in the second inning of play when
Simmons got one of his hard clouts in.
He punched the sphere far towards
right field, and when the pill was re-
covered he was safely perched at third
base. George then brought in the locals
first run when Havel flied to Ham
bacher In left field
The visitors forged ahead In the
next inning, two runs resulting on four
singles Their last tally was Struggled
In In the sixth on Massey's two-bag-
ger, Hambachers sacrifice and Muir
rays wierd muff, as told above
With the score three to one against
them, the locals, headed by CAPTAIN
Zacher, began their campaign against
the visitors. Elmer sent out pretty
single to center field and deliberately
stole second. Blondy had already con
fiscated two bags earlier in the game
and matters were coming TO crisis
Innocent Zacher could hardly be &C.
cused of such an act but sad to saw II
was true. He was given no other
chance to steal, however for after John
Reischman had flied out, Simmons pre-.
sented himself for hts chance with the
stick The first one over looked good
enough and Simmons, melted by the
loud applause from the bleachers, sim
ply connected for swat and that was
enough, Blondy Zacher scoring and
Simmons resting on second Have
helped matters considerably by hitting
to left field. Simmons was bent on scor.
ing but luckily for him Phil Corcorar
held him on third. In the throw In tc
catch Simmons, Havel took second
With Simmons on third Havel or
second and his team one run behind
Forgue worked the squeeze to perfec.
tion, scoring Simmons and advancine
Havel. Gill then followed Zacher's
method and stole second. The nexl
play practically decided the fate Of the
visitors. Murray hit a grounder tc
shortstop Boucher who booted the
error meaning two runs and the game
for the locals, Havel and Forgue scor.
Ing That put an end to the scorina
for both teams and the game ended
with our team in third place and the
score to 8, the locals on the big end