Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-27
THE CRIDIR0N
The All Waterburys Gave ihe All Breoklyns a Defeat
 Yesterday.


 q crowd of nearly 2,0O0 persons, l. S25 of whom had paid admission. the All Waterbury football eleven clear ly demonstrated that they are cham pions of the city, for they defeated the All Brooklyns to the tune of 6 to O. It also demonstrated one other fact and that is that a team of play CTS, no matter how good each man may be individually, must have many weeks practice together before they can cope with an eleven that has the signs, signals and plays down like iclockwork. There were many who staked their all on All Brooklyn sim. ply because in the lineup were many good individual players. There were others, who have followed the game for years, who believed that the All Brooklyns had just as good if not better players in some respects than All Waterbury, but the team work was lacking and they knew it, and for that reason alone they backed up their better Judgment against their sympathy. There was much money changed hands on the result of the game and the packers of All Brooklyn were forced to the wall be. fore the game had fairly started. Two to one was offered by the friends of the All Waterburys, with few | takers. There were some heavy losers, too, among them being Mike O'Connell of Naugatuck, who is re ported to have dropped $100 Bob Hayes of this city, too, is said to be a heavy loser. Manager Matt Dun phy of the losing team has proved himself corking good sport, and all though he is loser on this seasons work he put together great band Iof football warriors, who could not do themselves justice yesterday pc. cause of the lack of practice together
 Among the big winners were the members of the South End club, whl are said to have turned the trick to the amount of $200. N
 Bergin of the All Brooklyns played a star game at quarterback. Ir catching Thompson's punts and run. ming them back he seemed to be the only man on the team who could ac, complish that trick successfully. The | All Waterburys did not have one il tumble in the game, while their op
 ponents had many, although they were not very costly. Pete Thomp
 son, the quarterback for the win ners, duplicated the feat he accom-
 plished last Thanksgiving day wher he scored for Winsted against Tor
 rington, winning the game to 0
 Thompson's work with All Water bury all season has been a feature
 being a fine punter himself and sci
 dom missing punt that comes hi way There was some report a few days before the game that SchildgeI :, of Naugatuck had a little sympath, for his fellow townsmen on the op
 posing line and would not put up the game that he was capable of doing preferring to let All Brooklyn win
 Those reports were smashed tt }, pieces just as quickly as was the line when Schildgen bucked it. He played star game and time and time agair he broke through big Tom Dodds ant nailed Bergin in his tracks. In tht second half Dodds was taken iron center and placed opposite Bauby or the right. Schildgen acted so diff
 ferently from another Naugatucl player, Dick Neary, who has beer practicing with the All Waterburys for some time and almost up to the last practice game received all the signals. He had given his word tC Manager Tommy Lawlor that he would play with his team, but at the last minute he changed his mind ant tried to get in the All Brooklyns
 lineup. In this he foiled himself for as both managers had given theil line-ups when the game was agreed upon Neary was barred from playing with All Brooklyn.
 I Bird did not make very good center. His passing time and time again was bad and he had Ashmore !, jumping into the air to catch the ball. Many times throughout the game the All Brooklyns tried to gel around the Waterbury ends, Cronar Il and Mulligan, but almost every time they were thrown back for a loss T All Waterbury made two successful
 forward passes, but All Brooklyn pre-, ferred straight football bucking and made no attempt at a forward pass I After Thompson had made his sensa
 tional touchdown strong objections were entered by Captain Hayes and lBill Mahaney that Thompson ran out.