The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-05
Waterbury Republican,

The 400 fans who gathered at Reid vile yesterday morning were treated to about as many kinds of excitement
 as could be crowded into seven and one
 half innings of baseball That every
 one who witnessed the game did not drop from over-exertion was no fault
 of theirs It was one Of the most
 the city this season, including as it did a runaway race for Bridgeport, with Waterbury making terrific spurt in the sixth followed by the
 running amuck of Captain Crooks of l the Mechanics at the close of the con- test. Tn that sixth Miller was the first
 man up. His home run in the fourth
 started the crowd yelling for another of the same brand. Swanson conclud- ed that he had it on the Chief and piled one straight across the rubber,
 that is, it started that way but stop
 ped about half way across and when picked up was found close to the fence in left field, while Chief Miller smiled
 charmingly at Swanson from the sec
 ond sack. That got to Swanson for
 keeps, and it was merry go round immediately afterward.
 Ahearn smashed a wicked one to Snyder on third, and the ball caromed from his glove to left field. Man ming dumped a pretty single into left
 field and the Chief scored Needham
 hit a short one into center field but Ahearn was held on third Colvin slammed high fly to right field and they made the play for Manning on third but everyone was safe with
 Ahearn scoring on the throw in. East
 man. hit to Swanson who lost his head
 and threw the ball about three feet from first base, the ball going under ha ir, 1aff alr o
 Needlram and Eastman crossed the
 plate. Nichols hit to left field. O'Hara went down, Stowe to Crooks.
 Farrell hit a hot one to short which -Litschi could not handle in time to make the putout and both men were safe. Miller came up again and was hit by Swanson, filling the bases.
 Manager McCann signalled for a
 change and Gibbs went to the mound to replace Swanson. Ahearn was the
 first man to face Gibbs and he smash ed the first ball pitched to left field for two bases. scoring Nichols and
 Farrell. Manning died, Stowe to
 Crooks. Thus endeth the reading of the last lesson.
 Ladd was first man up in the in- ming and he made his third hit of the session. Russell sacrificed him to sec ond and then Captain Crook decided to start something. He did. He ran to the center of the diamond and be- gan telling Umpire Lanigan how many kinds of bum umpire he was, at the same time showing by his aggressive attitude that it would not take much for him to punch the ump good and hard. Lanigan was right here with the comeback and he waved Crooks off
 the field. Crooks grew furious and Gene McCann and several of the Bridgeport players rushed between the nd fIoo ,foin n1c ctr
 gied to get away and his voice rose
 to shriek. He was beside himself
 with rage and it took the entire Bridgeport team to get him back to
 the Bridgeport bench.
 The crowd then started for Crooks in earnest. They ripped it to him
 right and left and if there was any one thing needed to crown the players
 ire it was the grandstand's talk. Max
 ing a running jump for the railing
 Crooks nearly succeeded in getting
 over the stand before he was caught and hauled back by his teammates.
 He was blubbering like a child Sev- eral of those sitting in front of the
 grandstand noticed his condition and
 passed the word about that he had a
 touch of sun with the result that the crowd immediately stopped it's nag ging and expressed sympathy for the
 player, although he is most diNiked. Crooks was then taken fronY the grounds and passed through the crowd without murmur from anyone, which showed Waterbury's sporting blood at least. He was taken to the center in an auto.
 The game continued during the
 trouble with Crooks on the field, and
 Kauff, following Russell, went out,
 Needham to Miller. Umpire Lanigan then called the game, two being out for Bridgeport.
 The score: