The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-13
ST. JOSEPHS COP FIRST BLOOD IN. BATTLE FOR
 CHAMPIONSHIP OF CITY

At last a game has been won in
 the series for the city baseball cham pionship.- Yesterday at Newdeld Park, the St. Josephs actually won a game from the West Ends, the first in a series of three. The score was 10-9, the contest, being called at the start of the ninth because of darkness. Two previous games were called for the same reason, but at those. times the matter of runs. Yesterday the Joes were the lucky ones, they being one count to the good The next game will be played at Newfeld on Satur- day, Should the Joes win they will be the city champs. A win for the West Ends will entail another game, probably Sunday either at West End Park or at St. Joseph oval
 The game, if it may be called such, was kept exciting: because d 4ha of o6he the stant run-ins between the spectators. The rooters for both clubs were at fever heat, giving vent to their en- thusiasms in swapping blows. mere was, however, no blood spilled The Joes ..by their play proved they were
 good walters, for it was in the last stages of the game that they turned defeat into sweet victory. When the Joes took their. pokes in the sixth inn ing, the West Ends were leading 8-2, while up, to that time but three hits had beenA made off Amos Johnson Who had enAgoing slike a shot1se afire- But there wassa a stepping for Amos. In the sixth those Joes, just to show that they were tstin there, spilled duo or runs ButSsth was not all. It re- Inained for the seventh session to show their mettle. It. was the fatal seventh for the West Ends, ana the lucky seventh for the Joes. They bat ted and batted and batted some more. They pulled from the rear at 8-4 up to tie, and by more plugging addeo two more before the inning was over, gathering half a dozen counts in all. The antics of the East Side rooters during this squally session can easily tirernent of Johnson and the advent of
 kelly started the fire works for the Joes. He was not in ms pest IorIn, rr,as, hit hard, but superb fielding behind him kept those runners from scoring. Kelly saw his finish after the hfth inning During the time he was wording, the West Ends found him for a dozen hits. Tommy Ryder, the New Haven southpaw, was the next but one inning, when his opponents gathered three scores. Ray .keat1ng, the youthful phenom finished the game for the Joes and would have kent the west Ends from scoring but for a passed ball by Lavery.
 The West Ends got away to good ing four singles with g. pass, sfeld- erss choice and an error, all for three runs. In the fourth the Joes broke the stiffness. Benham gave Halpin life on tumble, ''Wiggy' scoring on Mosher's savage slam for three bases 4o ,-ief1t field Run Number Two for tb the Joes came in the fourth. Lavery was passed going to third on Nelson's wild heave of Kelly's hit, scoring on I.aughIfn's slow bounder to Johnson.
 The West Ends looked good to pull away in the fifth when they punched five singles on Kelly for two runs:
 The Joes kept on adding in the si~tb Halpin promenaded advancing to third on ENoonan's single As the latter started to steal second Kerr threw wildly to Carter, allowing Hal