Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-27
THE DIAMOND
TIDE IS HIGH
 FOR NEW YORK
Pitt.burgs Hopes Dashed to Pieces By the Onslaught of McCraw's
 Men Other News.

Pittsburg, August 21.-The New hard to hang on to their recently acquired lead as they did to get the lead, and yesterday they topped of their sojourn by winning the fourth game in succession from the Pitts burgs. They cleaned up the entire series and took to the rail last night confident that they would win enough games in Chicago to coma back East still in the lead. They have won nine out of eleven games since they invaded the west, and hav- ing done that much they are not har- boring any thoughts of not holding on to what they have fought So hard and successfully to obtain.
 Yesterdays game was the most eventful of the four. It was the most exciting of the four. The score was 4 to and the three Pitts burg runs were all made in one inn ing, while the New Works bagged three of their four tallies in the last two innings. They won the game with powerful finish, rising to the demands of the occasion when in the last ditch and conducting a relentless assault which netted the two run. | needed to win. In order to hold the Pittsburgs off in the second half of the ninth, Mathewson was hurried to the mound, and the three Pittsburg batters who faced Mathewson were put out in order.
 Sudden outbreaks of. scoring and tangled, wrangled mixup over a play in the sixth inning were phases of the strife which kept the pot boiling. Cy Young lost his grip in the last two innings and exploded after do- ing well up to that time. Taylor pitched seven innings for New York and was taken out to let somebody hit for him. McGinnity pitched the eighth inning. The Pittsburgs took to him kindly, but he got by without scoring. McGraw. however, did not let him go in in the ninth, the New
 Yorks having gone to the front in the meantime, and it being essential that the Pirates be hurled back their last time up.
 Tenny opened the ninth by hitting to Young and dying at first. Doyle
 landed on the ball for a robust liner to right. A pitched ball skinned
 Bresnahan's shirt sleeve and put
 Roger on first. It would make the description more dramatic to say that
 Donlin looked determined when he
 shouldered his bat and walked to the plate, that he bore a do or die ex-
 pression and all that sort of thing, but Mike looked just as he always does. He was not unusually con-
 cern, not to all appearances. He hit the ball venomously though. It
 went flying to right center and look
 ed like two or three bagger, but
 good fielding by Thomas limited it to
 single. A single at that moment
 was pretty valuable. Doyle came in
 and Bresnahan went to third. Seymour caught the ball on the
 end of his bat and pulled long fly around to right. It was then a ques- , tion between Bresnahan's speed and ] Wilson's arm. It was nip and tuck between ball and runner. and nobody breathed for an instant. The ball
 came straight to the plate, but did not bound quite true, and Bresna. han with a half slide and half jump struck the plate with a terrific thumT as the missile settled in Gibson's , hands.
 Just before Seymour flied to right and while Bresnahan was on third
 McGraw sent Mathewson out tc
 warm to. Immediately afterward McGraw, the strategist, discovered
 something in Bresnahan's eye. The
 game was halted for a moment while Dr McGraw removed the mote from Rogers lamp. and it so happened that this gave Mathewson just that much more time to warm up. The score: | ! fuh