Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-14
THE DIAMOND
QUITE A CHANGE
 IN THE PLAY
From a Slaughter to a Tea Party is the Contrast Between New
 Haven and Bridgeport.

when they began the battle out at Rockville against the coming cham pions They were just about as fresh too as they were husky, but before the nine innings were com pleted, Herman Bronkie had taken all the freshness out of them and made them look like a blighted ber- ry patch. Almost every player on the visiting team was continually kicking and protesting against Um- pire McCloud, Wilhelm and Waters. the first battery, being the chief of- lenders. When a pitcher, or an al- legged pitcher, will give five bases on balls in two innings work, you cant blame him much for kicking, because, naturally. he will want the man who pays him his salary to think that MT Ump is giving him roast This was what MT Wilhelm, erstwhile of the Newark Eastern league team. did yesterday. Evil dently Mir WilheIm's manager did not coincide with him. for he was hooked out after the second inning and Stoupe was sent to the mound. Wilhelm was mad, real mad as he went to the bench, after that second inning and, as one young lady re- marked on the stand, he looked ugly enough to bite himself"
 It is no wonder then that with all the. protesting against the umpire's deciS'ons on the part of New Ha- ven, final protest should have been made by the visitors against award ing the victory to the locals. This protest caused by decision on first base, in which the umpire was clear ly within his rights. It happened in the very first inning. Hayward was given free pass and Pleiss. the next man up, knocked up a pop fly, which Lachance very nicely dropped. Pleiss ran out the hit, but Hayward still remained at the first station. Captain Fitzpatrick took in the sit uation at glance and stepping be- hind the first bag, he had Schincel throw the ball to him. He at once touched Hayward and directly after placed the ball on Pleiss, who had gone over the bag, but had not touched it on the return, as Hay ward was occupying 1t and he sup posed that he himself was out be- fore that, on an infield hit. He evil dently forgot that there was only one man on base, and the infield hit rule applies only when first and sec. ond or first, second and third are oc- cupied. Even Billy Lush took a hand in the argument which fol- lowed the umpire's decision that nt,N the game was protested.
 But after those first two innings l it was a beautiful game from a pitchers point of view. Stoupe, who took Wilhelm's place, was an enig- ma to our batters. Not one sem- | blance of a hit did we get in the six innings he was in the box, and | but 20 men faced him, two over the regular allowance. But two balls were sent into the outfield in that time. It was lucky thing for us, perhaps, that MT Wilhelm officlated | in those first innings, in which we scored our only runs of the game.
 But if Mir Stoupe was going some our man Bronkie was going still bet ter. New Haven has been slashing l through the league. hammering
 pitchers without mercy, but yester-
 day all that they could lay claim to
 was one lonely hit, just one. It was a cltan crack. too, by Sherwood, m
 the third inning. Not another hit
 was made, for the two hits, that
 some of the fans believed should he credited to Cornell in the fifth and eighth. were errors on the part oi
 Bronkie and Fitzpatrick. In the l fifth Bronkie covered first bag for
 inc throw and although he got the
 hall in good time to retire the run
 ner. he stepped over the bag instead
 of on it. In the eighth the fly that | went back of second base should have been taken care of by the cen for fielder, but as Captain Fttzpat' rick went for it and dropped 1t. an
 other error must necessarily be the
 result One lone and clean hit then
 was all that New Haven could ac, eomplish and that is twirling some right in the beginning of the sea- son. ,.. i Swander made the only two hits
 on our side of the house. the hrsi one being of the scratchiest kind and in the first inning. too. The other one came in the second inning. Le' l nine whom some of the fans be- l iieyed had made a hit in the fifth inning. gained first by a mispiay ol inc pitcher. The ball was buni sure enough. but Mir Stoupe was mol . on io his job. or Louis would have | been retired. Another feature oi I the game was the sensational ono hand stop made by Bastian In the | ifth inning. It came from the hat
 of Sherwood and was going like tho | wind between third and short. wher Il Bastian took it on the run with ons | hand and nailed Cornell at second | It was one of the best stops evei i seen on the local hall field. OuI mispiays were two. while the visit | ors had three. hut the lack Of hit Il ting prevented any sensational vori in the field. The score.
 Waterbury.
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