Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-16
THE DIAMOND THE HIT NEEDED
 DID NOT COME Waterbury Had Splendid Chances For a Win But Fell Down
 Other Results.

Another game was thrown away
 yesterday because of the bad pitching
 of Lefty" Bill Rogers, and the just
 as bad misplays of Lauder, Cote and
 Nichols, The bad pitching of Rog- CTS will not be repeated, however, in
 Waterbury uniform at. least, as
 Rogers got the blue envelope last
 night, his unconditional release com
 ing after two seasons of disastrous
 work. The fans were pretty sore
 yesterday, so sore in fact that they
 called on Manager Durant several
 times to take Rogers out of the box and give them run for their mon ey. When he was finally given the
 hook, it was too late to recuperate, for Bridgeport had already sewed up
 the game for a to victory. Our hitting was dismal failure, which was one very potent reason also, why we took the count. Several times we had splendid opportunities to. figure in the run column, but on every such occasion we proved easy marks to Romer.
 Bridgeport scored in just two in- nings and we made our runs in enc. In the third inning was where bad pitching and dumb playing gave the O'Rourkes the lead that was never overcome. Phelan started off by banging one at Billy Lauder. The latter made a clever stop all right, but his under hand throw went bad ly to first and two bases for the run ner resulted. Kid Swick hammered screamer at Rogers's feet which bounded badly to one side and the kid was safe on first and Phelan was on third. Romer famed, but Jimmy O'Rourke slammed one to the left garden for two sacks and two runs were on the visitors score board. Cassidy then drove one to right gar den and Cote let it get away from him and 0'Rourke trotted home with the third run. That was all the SCOT ing done in that inning. In the sev- enth after O'Rourke had f1ifle dout to center, Cassidy drove out safe one to left. He took second when Rogers threw badly to first to catch him mapping. Beaumont then went out to Swander and Bertwhistle got a whack on the arm that made him cross his fingers for several minutes. With two on bases elongated Ladd drove one over to Nichols. The lat ter shouted for someone to cover first base, and while trying to do two things at once, watch first base and the oncoming ball, the latter bound ed little high, touched Nichols's hand, and bounded still higher over his head, and there were three sacks filled with base runners. Hit then drove on to center and two runners scampered home, while Hit was was thrown out at second, when the ball was returned to the infield. That | was all for Bridgeport, although they | did make bid for some more in the | eighth when Phelan, the first man up, smashed out a two sacker and then Rogers got the hook and Sillery was sent in. He stopped further scoring by the visitors. s.
 Our two runs same in the sixth. | Swander started that inning with a single and took second on Nichols's put from o'Rourke to first. Lauder sent the ball 10 the fence for three sacks and Swander was home. Bron- zie drove one out to center garden for m out and Lauder scooted home on he sacrifice. We had a chance to score in the second, but with two put and Cote and Murphy on bases, liter hitting safely. Shincel went out rom third to first. A hit then would have been good for two runs. had begun that inning by Hitting safely. Swander flew out to enter and Nichols drove out a safe me. putting two on the sacks. Romer vas then taking a flight and had two 'alls called on him, when Waller was slled into action and Romer went to he bench. Before Waller got firmly ettled. he gave two more balls and lauder took first filling the corners With but one out, any old kind of lit would have worked wonders. but Sronkie popped out to third and Cote { lew out to right and that was bout all there was to 1t. The score:
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