Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-04
coPPERs WERE COPIED.
New Haven Trimmed by the Local
 Police Guardians.


 The richest game of baseball seen in this city since the war took place at Rockville yesterday afternoon when the Waterbury policemen after II innings of weird playing defeat ed the New Haven coppers by the score of 8 to z. It looked all over with the home team in the eleventh when Our Tom" Dodds, the boy who chuckles like walrus, came to bat. His curly locks hung loosely over his little nose almost lost on his adipose face. There was a man on second and No 62 on first, the in innate friend of Chief of Police Egan. One run was needed to tie the score and two to win.
 Several of the Waterbury finest had a chance to make heroes or themselves up to this time, includ- ing MT Madden and White" Riley. But they plunged right into the juice tub by striking out But not so .Dodds. He walked to the plate like a gladiator, He doffed his cap and surveyed the field; he looked for his old friend Delehanty for a bit of advise but Del was not there. His bat is now on his shoul- der. Dermody unwlnds, and the ball comes over the base like bean some said 1t was as big as bal loon. Well Dodds had 1t on the celebrated Casey 90 different wayt' as batsman and damned the leath- CT to left field for a beautiful wal lop. The tying run came in and an- other was on its way. Around from first base ''Honk" Horan went like a porpoise. He is now at third all most exhausted; on, on he comes, faster and still more fast. His feet are moving as quickly as an ele- plants. Will he make 1t? Five thousand eyes are upon him, 1t would seem so because of the manner in which he is sprinting. But the shortstop has sent the ball whirring towards the catcher. But Horan Is of such dimensions that the ball had no chance to get by him. It con nected with his back as he landed on the plate. He struck the rubber in his entirety. Such crowd of fana- tics has not been in many moons as the policemen and their rooters when the winning run came in. Horan was carried off the field on the shoulders of the policemen while Dodds, who really won the game. was for the moment forgotten. Later they raised the little one on their shoulders and carried him to the bench, there to rest his tired limbs.
 But the game was interesting even though 1t was scream. In one inn ing John Cavanaugh ran Joe Mclean of second base but the New Haven bunch became so dumfounded that Mclean reached third in safety.
 Wallace and Dermody both pitch ed good ball and both were miserably supported. MT Madden and MT Riley at short and third for Waterbury were like wall--with lot of holes in it. White made several classey attempts to catch foul balls. AL though it is not actually known, 1t is said 19 Waterbury men were left on base. Waterbury connected all right except when necessary. With Wallace pitching Waterbury should defeat New Haven every day in the week. The home team was greatly weakened by the absence of Jim Wagner while much of the poor coaching was due to the non-arrival of S. Mccarthy. One of the fea' lures was the roofing of the New Haven brigade which really outnum- bered the Waterbury contingent.
 The tean-s lined up as follows:
 Waterbury--Horan 1b, Dodds c, Madden ss, Wallace p, Mclean If, Cavanaugh 2b, Mcdonald Of, Stew ems If, Riley 3b.
 New Haven-Lautenbac 1b, Der mody p, Mccormick c, Sullivan ss, Doherty 2b, Lyons If, Traynor 3b, Connolly If, Tracy of. The score:
 R.H.E. Water'y o14010o0o 2-S12 8 N. H. ...0 ? 0 0 040000 1-7 77