The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15
fBy Ira Hall.)

Bridgeport with her five port-side stick wielders seldom runs into right handed mauler. Knowing the weak "kithogue' the circuit managers send in their side wheelers against the Me chanics Waterbury for the greater part serves up Tom Tuckey, Hartford comes across with Lefty Leverenz while the others generally dig up their best left handlers to turn the trick. When the Mechanics do face a heav- CT who earns his salary through the efforts of his dexter wing, they fall on him with a vengeance. Yesterday at Lighthouse Point, New Haven brought out two right side hurlers Big Ed Dent and "Slim'' Foster. Both were set groggy with the avalanche of hits from the Mechanic sluggers. Bridge port won 5-3. Dent was banished to the bench after the fourth inning. when the Mechanics got to him for two runs. Slim Foster who bothered the and though little better, was not good enough to hold McCann's pen nant pursuers.
 Lighthouse point might be a nifty place to watch a game, but for play ing a league contest, the field ought to be cut out until its owners, the East Shore railroad company. do something to put the field in condition. The infield is soft. a ball falling dead almost as soon as it strikes. The out field is even worse, the fly chasers going to their shoe tops in tearing after the hits. To the rear of the outfielders. with the exception of right garden. is a bed of small rocks. So soff Is the infield that Capt Tom Crooks after sliding into second base, likened 1t to falling into a barrel of sponges Players who attempt to score from second on a hit are easy out Hits that are good for two bas- CTS or more are held to singles, through the ball sticking where it first came in for the worse luck yesterday, they should have had a total of ten runs not five.
 Towering Ivor Swanson. the victori- ous Viking, did the stunts for the Me chanics Ivor served em up in his best style with the execution of the second inning when a walk and three double deckers, counted for three runs. After that session. Ivor had the Wings eating off his hand. Ed Dent. the big youth who slipped the 40 defeat to the Mechanics at Newfeld in the opening game of the season, started we'll by holding the Mechanics score
 
 recorded another cipher in the third, but Jerry Cornell. while Lou Litschi was on second, muffed Tom Crook s easy lift The result was that Litschi crossed the home station with the Mechanics initial count. It was the fourth which saw the retirement of MT. Dent In that inning. the Mechan- ics slapped out four hits. and were handed a base on balls. Slim Foster went along luckily until the eighth when class told
 Nick Carter, the best the South End has produced in years, was at short stop. Nick played sensational game. The first two times up he cracked out singles and also grabbed a promen- ade. He was tower of strength in the field. He had two chances, both of them phenomenal plays. In the fifth with two Wings resting on first and second. Carter raced back of third picked up Bunyan's torrid tap,, throwing the former Orator out at first. In the eighth after Bunyan had walked. Sherwood bunted in front of the plate. Russell heaved to second to head off Bunyan. but the throw was high and wide, Carter did a Lincoln Beachey. pulling down the pill and making the bag before Bunyan hove in sight.
 The Mechanics did little padding