Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-29
THE DIAMOND
ANY WAY TO
 BEAT THE PONIES
Joe Connor Struck With a Bat and Had to Retire Almost Riot
 in New Britain.

New Britain, August 29.-After going through the most stormy ses- sion of the season yesterday after noon, the Ponies escaped with their lives and with one victory out of two games. For this much they gave due thanks, when once they were back within the limits of civilization.
 The New Britain manager said he was disgusted with the course taken by the crowd. Over 1,200 cranks had collected to see the league leaders perform and when in the second game they began to object to rulings of Umpire Malone, they attempted to take the law into their own hands. They swarmed upon the field and rushed the umpire about, making wild threats of killing the visiting players.
 The near riot happened in the sev- enth inning when Bunyan was called out for interference with Connor, who was trying to take throw from Luby to put man out at the plate. McCabe was on third with John Burns on second. and two were out. Luby hadn't even begun his windup preparatory to pitching, when Me Cabe dashed toward the plate and the Springfield pitcher stepped off the rubber before throwing the ball to | Connor.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the | ball wasn't then delivered to the batsman, but was simply a thrown | ball to head off the runner, as would | be the case were he going from sec ond to third, Bunyan stepped out and swung viciously as Connor sprang forward to take the ball. The bat caught Connor on the bare hand, in- turing that member so that the Springfield catcher was obliged to t1eave the game.
 Malone promptly ruled Bunyan out for interference. As the ball went
 up into the crowd, the New Britain men argued that 1t was passed ball and that both McCabe and Burns had
 the right to count on it. It looked
 like a free-for-all fight as the crowd
 which had been allowed to get too close to the playing field while the game was in progress, now went be-
 yond control.
 | Malone was pulled to this side and
 that, but he held to his ruling, and
 with many mutterings the New Bri-
 tain players were finally obliged to
 take the field. On the ground that
 self-preservation is the first law of
 nature, it would be hard to blame
 Malone for letting New Britain get
 away with couple of tricks we'll
 worked afterward.
 There was no mistaking the spirit
 of stopping at nothing to win. When
 finally the winning run was scored
 in the ninth, it was only after McCabe
 had given cause for being declared
 out by stepping from one side of the
 batter's box across the plate to the
 other after Luby was in pitching po-
 sition, and after John Burns had
 been awarded base, when he delib-
 erately stepped almost over the plate
 and into the path of pitched ball. The Ponies had gone to compar-
 atively easy win of the first game by
 to 1 score by fast work on the bases and by taking advantage of tho errors by the home team. They ap peared to have the second game clinched, too, by punching theiI
 three hits into the fourth inning. one passed ball helping them along tC , their three runs. A home run ovel the short right field fence by McCab, brought the home team within one o a tie in the fourth, and in the fiftt . it was made an even thing on a cou pie of hits, an infield out and sac rifice. The scores:
 , First game R.H.E Springfield O00O2101-4 [ : New Britain 0O010 00-1 s , Batterles-Powell and Connor i Ward and Refiange.
 Runs, Maggert, Standard, McAn : drews, Powell. Padron. Two-bas, ? hits, Waterman, Padron. Maggert 3 Sacrifice hits. Marsans. Connor i Stolen bases. Standard. Rising, Nc
 Andrews. Double plays. Rising tt ? Connor: Burns to Standard to Yale 7 Left on bases, New Britain ( ! Springfield 5. First base on errors , New Britain 1, Springfield 1. Hit b, o pitcher. McCabe. Struck out, b. s Ward 2. by Powell 5. Time, 2h
 Umpire Malone.
 S Second game R.HE 1 New Britain O101100O1-4 ]. lSpringfield 030OO0O-3
 Batteries-Brown and Rufiange . Luby. Hess and Connor. Hirst. = Runs, Padron. McCabe, Burns |. Brown. Standard. Rising. Wait, e Three-base hit. Padron. Home-rur V McCabe. Hits, of Luby in s g.
 innings. Sacrifice hits. Bunyan, RU
 fiange. Waterman, Cabrera. Stole
 bases, Rising, Padron. Burns (Ne- f BritainD. McCabe. Left on base z New Britain 10, Springfield o. Fir r base on balls, by Luby 5. Hit b s pitcher, Waterman. Burns tNew Br Y tainl. Struck out. by Brown 2. n Luby l. Passed ball. Rufiange. Tim IT In Ism. Umpire. Malone. 'Bunya