The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-25
RANK SUPPORT ACCORDED
 WALLER'S BRILLIANT WORK
Blank Fnnegans for Seven Innings and Then the Team Blows Up-Kids Play Marked Second Contest Which Was Also Lost to Waterbury,

W1tn JOnn wafer the premier SidD- man of Class leagues and a hired man in the employ of H. Eugene Mo tCann working his head off to keep the Mechanics at the head of the list, 1.-two of his team mates Crooks and tKocher, usually reliable, accommodate iingly handed over to the Waterbury's s the first game of the double header played at Newfield park yesterday. Waller had been going like a house afire up to that fatal eighth inning. Not even a semblance of hit had been made by the plugging Brass City contingent and only six more men re-
 mained to be retired. Then what happened.
 Waller walked the first man up. Miller. This of itself meant nothing considering the work Waller was do- ing It must be perfectly obvious to anyone who knows anything about the game that with a pitcher on the mound who was unhittable the thing ! to do was to take no chance with 1 Miller unless he tried for pilfera- | ton of the central station when the play of course would be to kill him ! if possible. '.s
 Did Kocher play the game like brainy receiver. He did not. Think ing that Miller could be caught nap 1 ping at first he unheaved the sphere i and when Crooks got through chas- ing it Miller was on another base. Then followed huff by Crooks of a quick but accurate throw by stowe and the game was gone as no pitch CT working under such tension could | keep up his gait. Just think of It, 1 Waller allowed but two hits and there i is abundant probability that had it not been for the untimely error of judgment by Kocher in trying to make a circus play on Miller at first and Crooks subsequent huff Waller would have repeated his marvellous perform ance of last Saturday when he shut | out Hartford pitching no hit game in the second session.
 The second game was like the first in it's results, but vast difference ln | play. The Mechanics were about as alert as an army of somnambulists uniform. Their play was d1sp1r1ted, disconnected and pointless, the enemy taking advantage of every misplay, even rubbing it in more than they should. The Mechanics in the third inning in playing pennant winning ball only running up five errors. Great stuff for hopeful fans to witness.
 There was glory to Walters work In the first game for he added to his great record of Saturday by annexing seven more innings of hitless working, Is consecutive innings he has pitched
 
 If ever a pitcher deserved to win his game, that man was Waller. Had he tuned in a victory in the first, it was his intention to pitch the second game. sandy Bannister after being handed the game in the first, tried the iron man stuff a la Waller by going in to work in the second. There was one out and Hey was on third, when Capt Connaughton considered that BanniS- ter would not stand the strain. calling
 ,I- Tom gets credit for the win because the Mechanics presented him with the game.
 The Mechanics drew first blood in both games. It was this which anger ed the invaders, spurring them on to do better things. The Mechanics run in the first game the run which looked to be the only count of that contest followed Miller's hit, a steal. of second by the same player, walk to Crook and Jimmy Halls scratch hit to sec ond. Connaughton had Miller at the plate on the throw home, even Ump Hart waving Miller out. but Ahearn spilled the sphere. Waterbury's runs were a walk to Miller in the eighth, Kocher's wild throw to first permitting the runner to take second and Hoovers hit. The latter scored on Miller's wild throw of Ahearn's offering. In the ninth a hit by Rodgers, a steal by the same player, Crooks huff of Stoves throw of Hoey'S bounder allowing the runner to make second and Needham's hit spelled two runs.
 Hey was plunked in the elbow in the second game. retiring in the third in favor of Snyder. The slap on the elbow was followed by Stowe's sacri- flee and Ladd's hit on which Eley scored The other Mechanic run of the second game was in the eighth on scratch hits by Snyder and Stowe and Nedham's error of Ladd's grasser. Two hits and five errors gave the Fln- negans four runs in the third inning. Four hits and one error added three more counts in the seventh. The scores: