The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-30
WIN FIRST GAME
 AWAY FROM HOME
Mechanics With Pollard Pitching Capture Honors From New Haven in Champion
 ship Series.

The 1910 season of the Connecticut League was successfully inaugurated
 yesterday in New Haven as far as the Bridgeport team is interested. The
 Mechanics with about half a hundred
 local fans on hand to give them the
 big lift waded into Manager Carrick' S
 bunch, winning 3-1, after a game in
 which the hitting was light. because
 of the effective work of both pitchers,
 and in which errors counted for all
 but one run.
 The day was raw and damp. Dur Ing parts of the game a light rain fell.
 At the finish it was raining hard. There was a good sized crowd on hand to witness the start.
 From a local point of view it was a good game, the few fait1fuls on hand breaking their sides watching players. And maybe they didn't warm up to the Mechanics. From the start of the game to the final. the local root CTS were with every man till the cars were boarded for home.
 As a slight diversion from the or dinary, Catcher Clyde Waters of the club house by Umpire Walsh in the fourth inning. Waters had been scrapping with Walsh from the first inning on. Pollard waited a fooler to him when he advanced to the plate in the fourth. The umD called it a strike, and Waters said it was not, so there. Ihat was enough, as waters got the signal to quit. He tried to remonstrate but what was the use. Jerry ConneI was pulled in from right field, Nealson taking up that job.
 undecided as to whether to send Pol lard or Upham to do the work. Aft CT the warning up process. he decided that the fRube'' was the more trim. With bewildering change of pace, he had the New Haven batters falling all over themselves trying to connect. ITeS d. -1i <,z1t when Jerry ConneI. the first man to face ta chin, him, walloped 2 vicious vicious driye . to at least three bags. but Skipper" Eley sprinted. robbing the Winsted farmer of what should have been a. hit. Perhaps the catch took the heart out of the New Haven batters, for what was the use in hitting them out when the ffelders would get under them like E1ey did.
 After the second session the game sizzled down to a pitchers battle, with the honors even. Big Foster, the New Haven slab artist, was all to the floss chanicS were blanket to the end. If Foster had been supported rightly, the teams might have been playing yet.
 stRube'' Pollard allowed but four hits three of them going to Old Doc Bun- van who covered first for the Bridge ports last season; The other was the slap stick work of "Biff' Bailey shone out more than any other, but neither of his hits helped in the run getting.
 Steinhauser started the season with a strike out, just to show the New Haven fans that the Mechanics were not invincible. Hey flied to Be1den, but the latter made one of the clean est muffs possible. It was a life. Miller in an attempt to drive the pill out of the lot. slammed a scorcher at Sherwood S s1lins, which almost knock ed the kid over. He recovered though in time to throw Miller out. Eley going to second in the play. Ladd's drive at Howedel was rather too frisky for that player to handle properly, the smash going for a hit, while E4ey the pan with the first tally Bailey walked. While Foster was winding up. Bailey ran down to sec ond, but Ladd was not alert enough, 1 being run down between second and third.
 Hall started the second with a drive | to left field. Bobby Stowe received a ]