Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-12
CAPTURED CAME IN FIRST INNING
Westerly Bats in Six RunsDan Murphys Trio of Doubles
Athletics Close Up on Detrot-Friends Say Jeffries
Won't Fight Johnson


Getting a bad start in the first inn
ing at Sachem park on Saturday aft
ernoon, the Norwich c. A. c. team Of
the Rhode Island Connecticut league
lost to Westerly, to 8. Westerly
clnched the game in the first clash
Dy scoring 6 runs and the C. A. C.'s
were in the down and out class for
the rest of the journey. not being able
to do any damage to the inshoots that
Lynch pushed over the plate.
The c. A. C. hoodoo got in it's dead
ly work right at the start and drove
Jackie Kane from the box in the first
inning after five. hits, couple of err
rors and two passes had netted the
visitors their runs. Bentley led off
with a single, Kane funbled Athens
sacrifice Bentley was caught off sec
ond and run down, Kane to Luke Ri
ley to Tim Sullivan. Aitken hade
second on the play and scored on
single by Noyes. Tim Sullivan's throw
pulled Jupes Mcintyre off the bag,
giving Loxon safe and the runner stole
second. Kane walked Dryer and Jack,
Payne scored two with a single. After
John Payne famed, Dyer's double to
left scored two more. Lynch walked
and Dyer scored on Bentley's second
single in the inning. Kane ended the
session by tanning Aitken.
The {. A. C.'s got a lonely tally in
their half of the first when Brennan
was passed, stole second and scored
when Tim Sullivan slashed one be-
tween first and second after Danny
O'Brien had famed. This was their
sum total until the ninth inning.
For the second inning Dan Maria
TOOK. Kane's place on the mound, Kane
going to short and Brennan coming
out of the game. With Maria in the
fbox it was a different story and the
Westerly men went out in one. two,
three order. Maria had speed to burn
and shot them over too fast to be
touched, except for easy infield
chances. For three innings Westerly
failed to get a hit, but in the fifth
Dryer whanged doublet to right CEN
ter and then crossed the plate on two
wild pitches by Maria. Westerly scor-
ed another in the sixth on a. single by
Aitken, steal and a bounder from
Moves bat that got away from Kane.
Jimmy Clabby, the Milwaukee boy,
was on the coaching lines for the home
team and was put into the game in
the seventh inning. Jimmy's lucky star
was again in the ascendant for he
scratched hit in the ninth that was
factor in scoring the last two runs.
Jimmy also pulled in a drive to right
in pretty style, and showed that he
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as in the ring. Luke Riley opened the
ninth with q safety to right. but Tom
Casey famed. Clabby landed the ball
down the third base line and beat the
throw to first, while Riley sprinted
to third. Houlihan was a victim on
strikes, but Dan Maria propelled one
over the shortstop's head on which
both Riley and Clabby crossed the
rubber for the final tallies After
Mara stole second, O'Briens ground
er to second ended the game
Umpire Shackley got a good deal of
attention from the crowd for his de-
cisions on balls and strikes, which
were as bad for one side as the other.
He furnished one of the features in q
slide for third in an effort to catch a
close decision at that bag. The ump
took to the grass about the same mo-
ment as the runner plunged for the
bag and came up with the result from
a squint over the grass tops. The
score: