Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-10
THE DIAMOND
WATERBURY
 BY ONE POINT.
Lost to Springfield Yesterday and Dropped Lower Down the
 Ladder.

Of that game yesterday IS as fol- lows:
 'Waterbury's wobbly warriors were the victims on Hampden park. yesterday, but they put up a bigger
 battle than has been their wont of late. With McPartlin, relic of Eastern league days, on the lower
 part of the park plot, in the box: for the visitors, the Ponies were. puzzled in their efforts to take the. lead, Hatpin Harry O'Hagan finally.
 giving them the opportunity to
 break at 1 to l tie by a huff in, the seventh. Springfield showed its appreciation by grabbing a run and that ended the scoring. J.
 Mclean had the visitors at his
 mercy. Waterbury is credited with quartet of singles, of which but. two were real hits. Hatpin Harry himself gained credit for hit
 through poor attempt at bunting, a punk pop fly evading Stankard, who made a desperate run for it. Bronkie beat out we'll placed bunt and Arthur Nichols nailed pretty single into right field only to fall a victim to the cunning of Chet Waite's arm when he tried to stretch it into a double. Spud Mur- phy landed the other hit, s ankard by a fine. stop holding 1t from the outfield and preventing a run.
 Bright bits of, fielding stood out prominently because of the dulness with which most of the game was clothed. Standards stop was headliner, while Jimmie Burns turn ed in nea: catch on Texas leag- uish tap from Swander in the eighth, Waite ended the game with a clever catch of O'Hagan. On the Waterbury side Bronkie and Nich- ols made fine grabs in the outfield, but the real star play was put on by Spud Murphy in shooting the ball to second for a force out on Waite after Yale had placed nice bunt for sacrifice.
 Waterbury couldn't find Mclean in the opener and then Pop Rising, who has been pounding them to every corner of the lot, surprised the enemy by bunting on his first time up. Pop easily gained the bag and went to second on Connor's sac rifice. Standard brought him in with a wicked wallop between Nich- ols and Bronkie. the rap netting pair of bases. He went 10 third while Luby was being thrown out at first, Waite then hitting to the pitcher and being the third out.
 Fortune favored the visitors in l,a thing up. Lauder worked his pas sage by patience in waiting for a walk. o'Hagan tried to sacrifice and pushed up pop fly that Stank- ard speeded in for. But 1t fell safe- l ly as Tom couldn't recover himself to throw. Bronkie bunted and was safe on first. With the bases full, Spud Murphy put up a sacrifice fly for Luby, Lauder racing in when the ball was caught. On Schincels fly | to Burns, o'Hagan was doubled of second. sa.. t | . After getting a pass in the second Bill Yale was so easily safe on steal that jeers greeted the decision when he was ruled out. McAndrews had famed as Bill stole. Burns was safe on poor throw by Lauder and Mclean was passed. but Rising was thrown out by Murphy. Neither team put man on in the third. but In the fourth Nichols opened with a hit to right field and tried for second, where the ball was waiting Tor him on Waite's throw to Stank- ard.
 Until the seventh Waterbury had 10 other chance for runs. Then Lauder, first up, was safe on a fun. ole by Burns. 0'Hagan advanced lim on sacrifice and he went to hird on Murphy's smash. which Standard saved from soiling the after Bronkie had fouled ,ut to Connor. Schlncel couldn't get one past the pitcher.
 After failing to get a run in the fifth when Mclean reached third with only one out on Murphy's high hrow and Rising's single, Spring leld secured the winning tally in he seventh. O'Hagan dropped a ny , rom McAndrews and Mclean , 'rought him in with a single past , hird. The scOre.