The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-29
Hartford Plays With New Brit ain, Holyoke Downs Spring field, and Waterbury
 Beats Meriden.
CONN. LEAGUE STANDING.
GAMES TO-DAY. New Haven at Bridgeport. Meriden tt Waterbury. nolyoke at Springfield. New Britain at Hartford.


 New Britain at Hartford.
 A most suspicious opening marked the start of the tenth annual champion ship season of the Connecticut league yesterday throughout the circuit and
 especially at the savin Rock prairie, where Bert Ddleys New Haven team, in one of the most exciting heavy hit- ting contests ever seen in this city, de- feated "Jeems' ORourkes Bridgeport nine by the score of l3 to 10.
 The debut of the two teams in this seasons struggle for honor and a rag was witnessed by g37 faithful fans. Among the worthy notables present was "Clams,' who for the past few years has considered 1t his business to rule the bleacherites and battling hines with his incessant roaring pratte. He
 was in full bloom yesterday and all
 though apparently d most unattractiye parsonage held sway during the eigh,
 and one-half innings of play. Wilkin-
 son, one of the new members of Ken
 nedys tribe of umpres, held the lndl-
 cetor yesterday and did the first an-
 nouncing act of the season, Wilkinson halls from Indiana and has raised a
 voice which is more impressive than his appearance, His squeak Is a cross between the squeal of pig under q gate and a quartet of cats pItifully warbling on q back fence shortly after midnight. Wilkinson is a different kind of type of official than the men who have been obtained to watch the games in the Connecticut league He Is a far superior orator but would make a more
 decided hit as a street vcnder,
 Cornen for Bridgeport and Stoup for New Haven were picked hy their re- spective managers to start the game in the box. Billie Lush, whom Daley and Weldenheimer have secured as playing manager, decided after a brief council with Hayel that Stoup should be used first. The visitors were given the first chance to become famous but they f1il-
 cd to grasp the opportunity. Young Jimmie O'Rourbe ran Into enc of Soups handers and landed 1t safe in the direction of New Hayen's right gardener Bertwhistle scooped a high
 
 sent O'Rourke to third by landing on stoup for a neat bingle. Havel nippei IIadds sky-drive and Sherwood and Kane made easy work of Phelan's bounder, closing Bridgeports half of the inning.
 Kane. the first man up for the lo- calls, won the great of the day, swerv- ing one of Cornen's twisters over the left field fence for home run. The rest of the side died after vain ef- { forts to repeat kane's good start.
 The three batters that faced stoup in the second inning struck out. For
 New Haven, Hit made n wild heave
 of Simmons stiuging groundcr zacher ] walked Both players were advanced q base on Abbott's sacrifice and scored on Grlfln's double to left Hit again 1, whirled the ball wide to Phean, after making beautiful stop of Stoup's stinglng liner, Griffin scoring on the f play The rest of the side retired in
 order.
 { Jimmie O'Rourke repeated Kane's a trick of driving the ball over the left
 field fence for a home run in the third. 4 Cornen's career so did the fourth mark As the third had marked the end of Cornen's career so did the fourth mark [ the end of the careers of Stoup and
 Noonan With two out, Kennedy, who went to bat for Cornen, hit Stoup for ! two bagger into deep left, scoring \ Nelson and Hughes O'Rourke then lined out three basger, scoring Hilt { and Kennedy Bertwhlstle's timely hit 9 brought in O'Rourke and finished Bridgeport's scoring in this inning.
 New Haven in their half of the fourth H did things Noonan tossed four wide ! ones to Griffin and then hit Stoup Kane and Sherwood singled scoring Griffin and Stoup, HaVels double, A Hayward's single and Hachers long fly, coupled with wild pitch by Noonan, totalled four more runs. New Haven scored two more runs in
 the fifth, but no more excitement pre-
 sented itself until the ninth when < Bridgeport landed on Phil Corcoran, 9 Soups successor, for five singles and four runs
 The playing of the local nine was 4 most promising and with the efforts of
 Billie Lush, New Haven will turn out K one of the fastest teams which eyer
 represented New Haven. The score: