New Britain herald., 1914-08-19
|SNITH HAS BOLTS
 TIED UP IN KNOTS
Fans Twelve BridgcpoTteTS and Gives But Four Hits.

Pitcher Dug" Smith, of the local Rteam,i certainly earned his share of the receipts from yesterdays benefit Rgamei by his masterly work against ! Bridgeport yesterday when he let them ,down with two lonely runs and four lscattered hits while his team ] mates, were chalking up five runs and slamming out ten safe bingles. 0What makes Dugs victory the more Bsweet Is the fact that he humbled the great Marty Walsh, heralded and recorded as the best. twirler in the Eastern association. At all stages |4of thea game Smith had his opponents 4eatingvout of his hand while his team T mates went after Walsh in savage fashion from the time the umpire |tcried Play ball' until the last man Twas .out. But at that Walsh pitched tEood ballt and the locals had to I3fight for everything they got. And Hast, but not least, Smith struck out Ian even dozen of the opposing bats men while the best that Walsh could )do was to retire seven New Britain : Htes via the three strike route In tthe third inning, just to show that lthere was no hard feeling and that he was assuredly the master of the lsituation, Smithy famed Tierney, Erooks and Walsh in the order named. Inapassing it may be noted that Walsh and Tierney struck out three times each. failing even to kconnect with the ball. Both hines played clean ball and but one error Twas charged up to the New Britain lites, that being when Heath mis- sJudged an easy Texas leaguer. The NiSttOrs made two misplayS
 locals Assume Lead
 Tn their half of the first inning Bridgeport made two hits and scored tone run, Smiths wild pitch con- ttributing, but the" locals came back strong in their half and secured the Head which they never lost. Dawson Igot on base after which Tetreau1t beat out bunt along the first base I1ine. Then Wee Willie Jones beat lout bunt along the third base line and his two. predecessors scored when the Bridgeport third sacker threw wild. Jones landed on third and scored a moment later when 'ssKaiser' Zeimer came through with the needed punch. The inning closed when Boultes made a bear cat catch of short fly off Crooks bat. Tierney, Crook and Walsh all famed the empty air in Bridgeport's half of the second and the locals also failed to connect although they succeeded in finding the ball. Jones robbed Disbrow of sure hit in the third when he raced away over to the whiskey sign and pulled down one that was labelled two sacks" New Btitain's efforts were rewarded in this stanza by scoring another run on three hits. One of these bingles however was f1ukey one, the ball Bouncing over Boultes' head after he had set himself to scoop up Moves grounder.
 Jones Caught Mapping.
 Walsh passed Jones, the first man up in the fifth, but a moment later caught him mapping off first base
 'Wee Willie was run down between the bases and finally tagged out by Walsh himself who was we'll pleased with his achievement. Having seen Tetreault and Jones beat out inf1eld hits Ems essayed to do it in the sixth and succeeded when Egan stumbled and rolled over on the ground a couple of times while field ing the bal. This was Bridgeport's third hit and the fourth and last also came in this period
 Kaiser" Zeimer Scores.
 Things went along smoothly for both twirlers until the eighth when, after Heath had retired the side by robbing Disbrow of hit over sec- ond, the locals got to Walsh for three more safeties. Zeimer hit and stole second as the catcher juggled the ball Kaiser romped home when Tom Crook ripped off two ho 0a fo 1off o1e only hit of the game in this stanza when he poked one over second that was too hot for stow to handle,
 Bridgeport went out in order in their half of the ninth. The score:
 New Britain