The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-17
Ump Irown Keeps Ball Players Going, Locals
 " inning, 2-l, In Rally
Bridgeporters Get Scare, But Have st Over With In Ninth. Hartford Here Tomorrow.
By G. c. HAWNfAN.
] UR imagination was good and so

A uR imagination was good and so Y was our supposition, but darn .J Providence refused to be beaten by Wa a.sTbpry while our own American boys were trOuuclrg the New Haven contingent at Nowfield Park, yestar- day afternoon. ? to l. But cheer up, there Is time yet, for today the situation IS just the same as 1t was yesterday and if che same things that We imagined would happen yesterday happen today. then the 8ridgeporters will climb to the top. i.e.. if the Americans win and Waterbury beats Providence.
 However, Bridgeport fans can offer no complaint, for 1t might have been worse. It might have been a differ ent story that we had to write had he plans of the New Haveners ma terialzed. As the writer will notice
 our markin was only one run. It was not a game that the Americans had an easy time and it wasn't the sort of game that promised an easy time for the locals today, either. On he contrary the local team must be on the alert as it was yesterday for -his bunch from the Elm City Is honestly and truly a very hard az gregation of determined ball play CTS.
 As a matter of fact 1t was not un- ] til in that session when the "props'' calls for curtain that the locals | c1nched the game. It was a ninth inning rally, mingled with enthusiasm and determination, that enabled our | boys to come through on top of the 1 heap. Prior to that time 1t was any | body's battle, with many heart ache, for there were times when the 1o Il s-~lxA | they soon pulled themselves out with 1 the result that when they went into | that ninth they did so with a clear l conscience and fear for nothing nor
 nobody.
 Anyway, the game has gone on record as being the fastest played l heref For this the fans have no 1 one more than Umpire Brown to | thank. Here is one umpire who | knows what he is. doing One knows
 that there is an ump when Brownie l is on the field, for Bustea has um- l pired in leagues where toughness | happened to be the middle nag @ of | some of the players. Anyway ths | game was a brief one, but one hour
 and 45 minutes being consumed Of
 course, this is by no means the short
 est time in which nine inning game, for the average time in the majors this | season has been 1:2-5. Providence and | Waterbury played their game in | 1:39.
 Here in Bridgeport, however, it | has been different and very few fans 1 figured on getting out of the park
 much earlier than ten minutes to six. l It's been a hard struggle here and | there have been cases when two hours | were considered nothing. This was 1 because of arguments between play
 CTS and the umps. But Brown kept l the boys on their feet and they played oakland nothing else.
 l For the third time this season 1t
 was a squeeze play that defeated New
 Haven for Bridgeport in that ninth para graph. The New Haveners scor-
 ed their first and lonely tally in the
 second inning. Simpson scored on his own hit, a sacrifice and single by I Murray. This was the only time that the visitors looked terribly dangerous. | There were times when they threat ened, but on those occasions the locals | usually yanked them properly. After
 that inning four New Haveners reach ed first, but only one of these got as | far as second.
 Erratic playing aided the Ameri-
 cans in more than ways than one to I peat lAe NlSllCTS- III t16 IOuTLn DOLn | Bracket and Ray Grimes got first on l errors. Hank scored when Baker 1 singled to right, but neat double i play, Raymond to Murray to David
 son to Nutter pulled down the old i rag.
 After that neither side could do
 much. Then came the ninth. With
 the score one-all, the locals went into
 the session full of fight, ambition and
 dreams. Bill Lai chop sueyed one to l left that was good for two bases. He
 kept on eating his way to third when | Bracket singled. Manager Ray Grimes
 was an ambitious fellow and tried to | hit, but he rolled one to Davidson,
 whose peg cut Tai short at the plate 1 Bracket in the meantime had plant ed
 himself on second on a steal and l should have made third on the play
 to home, but he suddenly took a nap | and looked on unconcernedly. Baker | rapped q short one, but 1t was good
 enough to send Hank to third. The chap with the rube name came home | with the deciding run when Gene Martin squeezed a hit through. The pitching of Shanty House and
 Hehl was one of the outstanding fea- lures of the game for both were in I form and worked hard. Hits were not numerous, for both were steady untn
 the ninth when the New Havener | wobbled a bit.
 Three runs in the third inning sfor 1 Providence made victory for Water bury impossible and the GrAys grabbed the game 4 to o, thus holding 1 on to first place. Spaid for Provt- dence pitched his usual good game. Umpire Brown has been instructed to umpire the "Bridgeport-Hartfor
 game Thursday ''in Hartford" Any way, those are orders from Hartford.
 but the fact remains that the game is scheduled for Newfield park.
 Il Tiday it looks as if the locals will Ieat Herring. for he is booked to twtrl. Just whom the visitors will select was not announced this morning. Art. ! D6vlin. now coach at Eordhazn col-