The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-15

no more than an umpire Will be
 permitted to tell him how to
 build his team.
 And as the confabs came up and went out of existence His Honor Mayor Clifford B. Wilson--the man who threw out the first ball-smiled and the band played on and on. And the mayor had ample reason for smiling. He had supposed that it was a ball game that he had been invited to attend-and not a pugilistic dem onstration from the New Haven con tingent.
 Yet it was the sort of a game that four fans out of five seem to enjoy. There was long and heavy hitting, good fielding and at times specta- cular fielding, snappy base running and some puzzling pitching outside of the argurneT ts. And we musn [ forget the music furnished by the Wheeler and Wilson band. Their rem ditfon of We Should Snicker' dur ing the NTeyers-Brown argument was what we viii call a, timely cue. | But it was. a perfect day; perfect because Bridgeport took the first game of the season, 8 to 2. Timely and long hitting together with excel lent base runnig gave Bridgeport it's | three runs and incidentally the game. It was in the second inning that the Americans scored their first tally. 1 On that occasion Ray Grimes op- ened with a single into right field and took second on Bakers sacri- flee, Stringer to Fay. NIitterling came 1 through with a timely and long sin l gle into center that brought Ray 1 home, Mitterling advanced to second on the unseC cessfuI throw to catch ] Ray. Braun swung three times and l then counted out. Skiff singled and | Nitterling came sprinting home al | top speed with the second run. Len non drew a. base on balls and Martin was struck by a. ball on which he tooB | his base. But he was thrown out al ! the keystone on a fieIder's choice i of Lafs bounder.
 1 Again in the fourth the Bridge l porters scored. This time it was MitterIing who started right. He l drew a, pass and stole his way to | second. Braun laid down a sacrI- l flee hit and NIitterling waded to the hot corner until Skiff hit and
 then he continued home. Sl1iff,
 however. went out at first. Len
 non grounded fatally to Red" Torphy.
 New Haven's runs were register ed in the second and sixth. Fay, il the second, singled. took second on hit by Nutter, after -deyers hat whiffed in his time at bat, and ro7np ed home when Roth slammed on back of short. Raymond recorded tht second tally in the sixth. With twt down he doubled into center field I Fay walked after Davidson got frs on an error. Meyers singled, scorinj Raymond, but Martins peg iron | center cut Davidson short at the plate
 This started the second argumen which is described above.
 Each side secured six hits, but tn New Haveners hit harder, Raymont
 end Torphy each laying on the bal
 for two base hits. Clever fielding
 porters. Lennon pitched the full gam
 and held his own. When in hot wate
 he confidently worked himself out o
 was helped out by his team mates
 Stringer pitched fair ball, a1thoug,
 he had nothing marvellous under hi
 wing. Tyler. who succeeded him, di
 as well, but was a trifle steadier, al
 lowing three hits in the four trip
 on which the Bridgeporters face
 him.
 For Bridgeport Mitterling, who i
 combating Vim for the outfieId pos
 was the shining light, getting tw
 hits and being responsible for two c
 the locals three tallies. He appeare
 at bat four times. He singled on hi
 first trip, walked on his second, fife
 to an outfielder in the third turn an
 singled to left on his fourth try
 Which is a fairly good days wor
 when one considers that he als
 grabbed off three putouts while pa
 trolling the secondary defence.
 New Haven has a formidable look
 irg aggregation and with more prac t tice should be stvin 3 its opponent t a tough argument. It's infield is a unusually fast one.
 | Anyway, Bridgeporters will hay j. 1 the opportunity of taking a.nothe . lamp at the New Haveners a4gaini l the Americans this afternoon. TC a morrow the teams move to New HaN f en where the inaugural exercise :, 1 carried out so well here yesterda l. will again be on the boards.