The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-10

Meriden at Holyoke @ games).
 Springfield at Bridgeport
 Hartford at Waterbury.
 Yesterday afternoon the locals broke the tie with Springfield for second place in the Connecticut league by bat tins out a well-earned victory In weird game of baseball. The final score was 9-7 anl the only redeemlng feature of the contest was the stick work of the New Haven men. In this respect t pleased the fans more than any oth CT game that has been played at the Prairie this year. Lefty Wilhelm, one of the cleverest twirlers in the circuit started on the slab for New Haven and despite his inability to locate the plate was effective in most instances. It so happened that on Monday at Meriden he pitched to the batters prior to the game there that they might be- come accustomed to a southpaw de- lIyery--for Tom Tuckey was to work against them. and In so doing handi- capped himself to no small degree for yesterdays battle. The weather was particularly warm and at the begin , ming of the seventh Inning he asked to, be relieved Consequently Phil Cor coran was sent In This proved to be most unfortunate for New Ha-en's smiling box artist for after working ; two innings without tally being re- 1. corded against him an error by Eddie Havel ruined his chance for breaking a worlds record. JAS everyone knows Corcoran had pitched forty-four inn i ings without allowing his opponents to score off his delivery. The worlds record Is fifty-four innings and the local twirler had great chance to es- tablish new mark, However, Cor coran Is a philosopher and accepted this hard luck with his accustomed good nature. Today he will pitch against New Britain and 1t will be in- ,.teresting to see what might have been. The followers of Bone's team were greatly tickled over yesterdays bat fest. George Simmons and Blondy Zacher broke up the game with home run drives and the former made his on smash within the gruonds-a feat which has been accomplished but once since the present grounds have been used. Jerry Connell and Pleies got two pretty safe ones and the Winsted man who clearly robbed of an lnheld sfit' hy .lfdicrous decision of Ken nedy's.
 The runs were obtained as fallows:
 In the first Cornell singled, Pleiss bpnted safely Havel advanced both with neat sacrifice, Simmons two-bag- ger scored both men; zacher fouled to o.Gonnors; Duggan walked and Sher- wood went and stankard to Yale.
 In the second Waite got two base hit, Burns famed; Hess hit to Havel who overthrow first; Dnggan attempting to get aWite at plate threw wild to Wa ters, Waite scoring; McAndrews out on simmons assist; Conrior walked again; Yale singled scoring Hess; ,stankard hit safely scoring Connor, Rising flied to Simmons.
 In the third after Havel went out, Simmons singled, stole second and scored on zacher's homer; Duggan and Sherwood out on infield hits.
 The following inning Hess went out; McAndrews walked and went to third when zacher made very eXcusable err TOT of Connors single, Connor reach- /; ing second Yale famed; Standard flied out to .Connell
 For New Haven, Waters singled and reached second on Wilhelm's sacrifice; ,Connell went out Hess to Yale; Pleiss got two bagger scoring Waters; Havel scored Pleiss with another two base hit; Simmons out on Burns fast as sst.
 In the fifth, Rising singled went to third when Pleies let LuDy's hard fly drop, Lrby reached second, Waite flied to Cornell and Rising left third before Cornell had the ball, Kennedy however allowed his run 10 count; Luby was caught at third by Waters quick throw to Sherwood; Burns famed.
 The visitors scored in the sixth, Hess famed McAndrews walked and by fast running scored on Connor's two- bagger, Yale flied to Simmons. Stank- ard flied out to Zacher.
 Last of sixth, Parker went in for Hess; Connell singled reached second on Pleiss' sacrifice Havel reached first on Luby's error, Cornell getting to third; Havel stole second Simmons got homo run scoring Cornell and Havel ahead of him. Zacher got two bagger but was left at third as next two men went out.
 The next inning Corcoran went in for Wilhelm; Rising hit one too hot for Sherwood to field; Luby and Waite famed and Burns flied weakly to pleiss.
 The first of the ninth after Yale had gone out, Standard singled Rising hit to Simmons who threw to Have to double Standard at second; Havel dropped the throw and both men were safe Luby singled to right scoring Stankard, Rising reaching third from where he scored on Wate's fly to Pleiss Burns hit to Havel who forced Iuby at second ending the game.
 The summary:
 Springfield