Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-13
THE ELKS
TIE EEkO
  THE PENNANT FOR WATERBURY Eight Straight Games Won and None Lost is a Good
 Record.

The Waterbury Elks baseball team closed the season out at Reid
 vile yesterday afternoon by defeat
 ing M1ddletown for the second time, thus winning eight straight games. There are two postponed games to be played with Bristol and New Brit
 ain, but, as 1t was impossible to keep the team together longer, those will
 not be played. The local team has gone through the season without a
 defeat and has beaten every team
 twice, with the exception of Bristo. and New Britain and they were only saved, because of stormy weather,
 which prevented Waterbury from going over to their fields and trim-
 ming them. It is pretty good rec ord for any team to make and it re-
 fleets great credit on the captain and the boys who composed the team. The credit should be all the greater, because none of the players received one dollar of salary ana they quit their work whenever they
 were wanted to go to other cities, or play in their own, without ono thought of remuneration. They did it because they were Elks and tho manager takes this opportunity of thanking them one and all for the generous spirit they displayed and the game fight they put up in every contest to bring the pennant to Wa terbury lodge of Elks. They cer- tainly deserve every honor and every bit of praise that their lodge can give them, and the members of the lodge from the exalted ruler down feel the same way. Many members would have liked to finish out the two postponed games, but that is an impossibility. There are five or six of the team, who have been holding back on their vacations in order to complete the schedule. which ended yesterday. It would hardly be fair to ask them to put off those vacations longer and therefore the manager disbanded the team last evening in the Elks room. The only thing that would bring the team together again would be the possibility of getting a Sunday game on with the Wa terbury league team. The boys are all willing to get into that game if 1t could be arranged, but the out look is not favorable.
 In. the game yesterday Waterbury tried out a new twirler in the per- son of Dr Fruin. He did we'll enough, until some of the unruly fans on the grand stand got his goat and rattled him so badly in the sixth inning, that Middletown got within two runs of the local score. The reliable Jim O'Connell then took his place and the visitors were blanked for the rest of the game. Waterbury had taken a good lead in the early innings, scoring two in the first, one in the second and five in the fourth, which practically put the game on ice. All these ] runs were made on the heavy slam i ming of the ball by the locals. Tn 1 the fifth Middletown, assisted by i the band of bad boys on the raised ! seats, got next to Fruin for two runs. | In the sixth came Fruin's utter rout and the locals looked daggers in the direction of the miscreants, who | were getting all their goats. The | manager poured oil on the troubled | waters by reminding them of the good things that were in store for them at the club rooms and in the seventh inning they whipped in four more runs and made the game a se- cure one.
 Aside from. the clouting that was given the ball by the Water bury Elks, there were two distinct that shone out in very pro- fessional style. The first one was performed by George Gaffney in center field, when he took a low irive after a long run and assisted n a double play after catching the 1all. It was at particular time in he game. too, when that hit would have meant two runs. The other eature was the catch of a hot liner y Big Roger himself in the eighth ming. It was high one hand tab that brought back reeollec- ions of the old days down in New fork, when Jim Mutrie sat on the 'ench. watching his pets perform. hat play also saved us from ats nance to be beaten. "a
 After the game the visitors and ( II their friends were the guests Of { he Waterbury lodge and team and here were great things doing up in he Elks club rooms There was !. lenty of good things for everybody nd the Middletown boys left on the { :06 trolley for home with hearsy heeTs for the local boys and the 'lks baseball season closed for thi4 { ear in a fitting manner. The ! core:
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