New Britain herald., 1914-05-27
IVORY PLAY FEATURE l OF NEAR BALL CAME
ksIIher Tries to Steal Third With
 GadeHa There.

The Scinskis were pushed further nto the mire yesterday by Hartford by the score of 2 to i.
 Local fans who went to the Capital City to see ball game were deeply disappointed From Hartford stand point .some real baseball was played but the New Britain men acted more like field statuary than ball players,
 sNSi !McDonald's crew went stark mad on the bases and in the third inning Engineered two double steals and triple steal, making seven stolen sacks in that session. Despite this alarming speed, the Senators netted only two runs in that frame.
 Dug Smith was as wild as the pro- verbal hawk just when he should have been steady. Twice he filled the bases with free passes and in the eighth inning two successive shoots cavorted over the head of the catch CT and whacked against the grand stand, thereby waking the represen- tatives of the press who were in somnolescent state of mind due to the "excitement" Catcher Egan, who was with Albany in the New York state league last year, wore the pro- M LeCJOT IOT 4NcW DIltdll. IhS Hidoc ! "a couple of wild pegs but If he can N control his speed he may become VI Valuable.
 George Browne, the ex-New Britain pilot who has been sentenced to \ lHartford, was not in the game as he ig still sore where Paddy Greene's poke hit him on Monday at Electdic aield.
 Pop" McPartlin, the "owld fox," whp was once in charge of the Wa terbury club, held the indicator. One good feature about Pop" Is that you never are in doubt as to his decisions as when he calls a strike he assumes A pose like Demosthenes addressing the wild waves. Some of his deci- sabns were questionable in the opinion of many of the fans. On balls ana strikes he was like the soap that Is nearly 100 per cent. pure but on base decisions he was not exactly like that soap. a,
 Speaking of soap brings to mind an ivory play made by Mickey Keliher, who drags down salary on the nf- teenth and tihrtieth of each month for stopping balls thrown at the initial sack The "bone" was placed on exhibition in a glass case in the fourth inning when Keliher tried to steal third when that base was al- ready occupied. Yes, he did, too. "Mickey'' had reached second and was congratulating himself on get ting that far. Gardella was on third but that didn't make any difference to Kiliher. Getting up steam for the short dash Keliher approached the M dizzy corner like a vest pocket edition of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
 Gardella waved the signal of distress and the coacher yelled frantically bu,
 .sMickey' was both blind and deaf to
 their pleadings When about three
 wards from the base Keliher realized
 where he was at and stopped short.
 Gardella gave him a whitening look.
 After an interchange of glances both
 decided that something must be done
 as the entire New Britain team was
 beginning to swarm around third base
 to watch the proceedings and to sep
 arate the combatants if any blows
 were struck Gardella being the bet
 ter dodger started for home. He zig
 zagged, ducked and slid under the
 hail for a few seconds but was final
 ly tagged out sfter the sphere had ! haen in the hands of about every New
 Britain player. h~
 Outside of a few features of this - nature the game was uninteresting. Ii
 the spectators were satisfied to watch Marathon they got their moneys
 worth. But if they went to see base ball-weIl they would have had better
 luck if they spent the afternoon al aethe pit'' on Myrtle street.
 The score: rs-..- ,a