The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
BRIDGEPORT SLUGGERS TRIMMED IN SPRINGFIELD
 20 BY CLEVER PITCHING
leiher Hi Ladd Nor Tom Crooks Connects With Ball Hurled
 by Case and Christopher

The Mechanics would have & run
 way of the Connecticut League race if they did not go up Massachusetts once in a while. It's the air up that way, so they say, that has its bad effects on the batting eyes of the league sluggers. It has been such that every time McCann's men dust it up to the Bay State way, they generally manage to run into a series of set backs. Yesterday they caught it in Springfield 20. Case went great against the Mechanics, as also did Christopher, who is some noise as all over the pastures the next time he serves The Mechanics had chances enough to win.but the neces- sary hit would not come. There must have been something on the pill, when neither Hi Ladd or Tom Crooks could make connections. The Springfield Union says of the Pony victory:
 By tightening up their defensive tactfce at the most ticklish times and then taking quick advantage when thalr opponents put in . pair of blun0rrs, the lopies picked up an- other game on Hampden park yes- terday afternoon. Some sweet stick ing by Jimmy Garry was what broke up the game. Kustus making a mis-
  the eighth and allowing Larkin to score from first. When Miller miss ed connections in a juggling act, Garry, who had taken third on the hit and error. romped over the plate. These runs were the only ones made.
 Case held almost complete control over the Bridgeport sluggers during the six innings he worked and then Christopher took command and didn't let a man reach first for three in I, l three on bases and only one out, and in the sixth stuffed up the sacks be- fore a man had been retired. As he was handicapped by a sore foot and had been jared by being tagged in the pit of the stomach while trying to score, Case gave way to Christo- pher after the sixth.
 As Louis Barbour decided to take a day off to celebrate his wedding, Ed Larkin went to right field for the Ponies, and in the eighth scratched hit that put him in position to score Kustus and rolled to the right field fence.
 Each team got out of trouble through the medium of a double play in the first inning. For the Mechanics Kustus started by getting a life "a low throw by Guest. Nal lin sacrificed but Guest pulled in Crooks line drive and tossed to Red- mond before Kustus could get back to second. After Larkin had flied to Snyder in Springfeld's half, Garry sent single on a line to center. Waite drove a wicked grounder to- ward short. but Miller made rush across country, speared the ball with his left hand and whipped it to Stowe for force on Garry, Stowe relaying it to first ahead of Waite.
 Case was confronted by e trouble. some situation in the fifth. After Miller had flied out, Snyder planted a Texas leaguer in short left. Kocher hit to Case and an easy double play was in sight, but both runners were safe when Guest dropped the throw. Walters single to center crowded the cushions, but Redmond did some res- cue work when he handled a ground CT from Kustus and rushed the ball to the plate for a force out on Snyder. Case caught Waller mapping off sec- ond then.