Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-01
THE DIAMOND
OUR SLATE IS
 CLEAN AS YET
Holyoke Champions Fall Before U. -Results of All the Other
 Games.

There were all kinds of weather
 all kinds of baseball, and all kinds o
 things said about Cooney Rice out a
 Rockville yesterday, and there is n,
 knowing just what would have hap
 pened to Cooney, if he had droppel
 that last ball. Following so quick.
 on his brilliant work of the other day
 the Wretched exhibition of yesterda. formed a decided contrast. On sey
 eral occasions he left openings for tht
 visitors to, pull out victory, but luck
 seemed to be with him, for Holyokt stubbornIy refused to take advantage of his misplays and drive home win
 Then, too, Bill Rogers was twirline great baseball, despite the breach that was. in the defense at second base. And the rest of the team was eating up everything in sight Little Singleton at short, Bastian at third and Eddie Swander out in the left garden were doing hair raising stunts that were overshadowing the erTorS of Rice and saved the game on many
 
 Rogers was twirling, the third in ming can be taken as an example Three men were on bases, one of them by an error of Rice, the other on a free pass and the third on a pop fly to the infield, that neither Rogers. nor Singleton, nor Bastian went for Things looked pretty blue for our side of the house, but Bill Rogers gritted his teeth and put on all his spare steam. Brodie, the next man up, struck out and he hurled his bat in rage at the back stop. Boucher popped up foul fly and Mike Lucia swallowed it in his init. Massey drove for us, but good to Holyoke. Eddie Swander came in on the dead run and captured 1t just before it hit the turf It was the most spectacular pulling out of hole that has been seen on the local field. In the ninth things looked bad again and Jack Tighe peeled off his coat and took the will low in hand himself. Lepine and Perkins, the first two men up smash ed out safe singles. Rogers settled himself once more and struck oui Baker, who, only two innings before. had driven one to the right field fence for the first home run on the grounds this season. Thackera drove one out to right field and young Coyle from Bristol eat it alive. There were two out and men on every base when Rodgers drove one at Rice. He fell all over it, or rather sat on it and Lepine raced home. It was the fourth misplay of the day for Cooney and the fans were getting angry. An other one like it and there might have been things doing that the po- lice would have to take a hand in. Drive it to Rice again." was Tighe's after he had reached first on free pass, given him by his chiefs command and he did drive It at Rice. It was a line drive and Cooney took 1t on the jump and held t and the agony was over and the victory won.
 It was frightful day for baseball The wind blews clouds of dust all ,ver the field in the first few innings md gusts of rain followed, until 1t eemed almost impossible to continue he game. Waterbury began her coring in the second inning. Romer vas on the firing line for the visitors md he tried hard to down his former Lachance, the first man ID in the second, smashed out a two acker along the third base line. Lu. ia went out one, two, three. Bronkie vas safe on Perkins's error but was ], aught between bases. Singleton 'oyle and Rogers followed with sin les and two runs were in, but Coyle ras nailed as he was trying to come ome on Rogers's hit. We scored gain in the eighth when three men anne over the plate. Swander start ] on with stinging two-bagger tc lght. Lachance got free pass and ( ucia singled. Bronkie followed 'ith the first sacrifice out to center ! cid. Singleton followed with an- ther single and the next two went 5 Ut. Holyoke scored once in the sev- 2 nun on bakers nome drive and once the ninth as described above. Another funny feature Of the game ' as the presence of John Wilkinson ' le new umpire. Hurry Up" VII. . nson he could we'll be called. He z 'peared to have an electric battery ,i tached to him and he tried hard tc !. ject some of the same lightning v eed into the players. He fined ten ', the players on the Holyoke bench :;
 thought he did. and then took it a hack. He hurled the ball al the - tcher as If he were pitching ma. v inc. In fact his every action was IT
 funny that he was amusing as x, sll to the players as he was to tho "a ns- And yet throughout It all he IS master of the field and was not D bad an umpire either. The score:
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