The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-09
HARTFORD WINS FROM LOCALS IN
 CLOSE CONTEST
(Hartford Courant.) ]

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 Tom Connery's ambition to overhaul Bridgeport for second place in the Connecticut League received an added impetus yesterday afternoon at the Wethersfield grounds when the Climb CTS, after some hard picking, managed to squeeze out victory from the Me- chanics by timely stick work, to 1. Three nice bingles, all three of them Tn the very same spot, and the last one by Chief Miller, sent in two runs In the fifth inning, and they were Wilson working at top notch speed, But. though the Climbers got away with the game, they did not have much to spare, for if Wilson was in fine form. Gibbs was almost as good.
 Bridgeport started off with it's eye on the ball. Fisher slamming one out 10 kauff, who pulled it down after a hard run; Baker pushed one through third for single and then stole sec ond. Crook was there with another single through third, but Hugh fielded 1t so fast that Baker did not dare to try for the plate. Spratt then almost broke up the game with a hard line drive at Warmer. Johnny grabbed at it, away above his head, and pulled it down, but he could not hold it. As soon as he dropped it Baker started for the plate but a. quick recovery by Warmer and a neat peg to Vann nail ed Baker in the nick of time, shut ting off the run. Snyder flied out to Kauff
 Tn the third the Mechanics got dan gerous again. After Gibbs had popped to Moves Wilson walked Fisher. Ba- ker hit to Warmer, who fumbled and both runners were safe On sharp drive by Crook to Moves, Baker was %ln ,1.. %A IL . cision, Fisher going to third. Wilson was again equal to the occasion, the best that Spratt could do being 8 grounder to Warmer. who threw him out at first.
 Hartford broke into the run column in the fifth. inning. Little famed. being a weak victim to Gibbs wide drop. Vann, however, sent screech- ing single through short and second, and Moves followed it up with an- other one between short and second that Fisher booted, both men advanc- ing a base on the error. With a man on second and another on third, mat ters looked rosy. and Miller was just the boy for the opportunity. He dis covered that there was a fine groove between second and short, ploughed out. by the hits by Vann and Moves, and he proceeded to put still another one down the same path, both vann and Moves scoring. On the throw. to the plate to head off Moves which was too late to be of use, Miller took second. Gibbs frightened up once more and he famed Wilson. It look ed like still another run for Hartford in this session when Kauff slammed swift one down the first base line, but Crook just made long reach and it landed safe in his mitt, beating Kauff to the bag by a, small margin.
 The Mechanics made a desperate at tempt to get those two runs back in the sixth, but just fell short. After Crook had flied out on a foul to Moves, Spratt slammed out a three-bagger to the center field fence. Snyder then put a safe one through the pitchers s box on which Spratt scored. Bridges and Stow both took healthy swings at the sphere. but they could not put them by Little, who gobbled both flies, retiring the side. That was Bridgeport's last chance, for, outside of a transfer for Gibbs in the seventh, they did not get a man on first again during the rest of the game.
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