The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-16
Americans Within Game
 Of Leading Fasteners;
 May Hop To Top Today
GrayS Must Lose to Water Waterbury, HONever-Marty
 Walsh's Pitching and Double
 Win for Locals Over PittSfield

nNE must imagine and take for V granted a lot of things in base
 ball.
 So today we will do a little imagin-
 ing and grant a lot of things.
 In the first place just let's suppose
 that the Americans wallop the New
 Haven team at Newfield park this
 afternoon. And then let us ina zine
 Providence being beaten by Jack
 Hymns Brass City delegation. If you have done this and will now glance
 at the standings. grant the Americans a win and the Grays a loss you will | fndthatthe standings today-if what we have imagined really does happen will show the following
 w. L. PC. Bridgeport -..-.---- 19 II -633 Providence --......- 19 II .633 In other words the Americans today
 have chance of tieing the race for first place. That this will happen is most probable, for the Waterbury
 contingent Is perhaps one of the most dangerous on the O'Neil circuit One
 can never tell what Jack Flynn or any
 of his men are liable to pull off. And particularly in Jack Flynn's home town. Providence never knows what
 to do when a team piloted by its own Jack Flynn comes into town at the helm of a contingent opposing the Grays. The cheering Is about evenly divided
 However, the Grays are going at
 their best just now and can be de- pended upon to give the Waterbury
 boys a stiff argument - if nothing else. But that means nothing in our lives. A Providence defeat today is
 what is wanted in Bridgeport. But first we would much rather have a
 Bridgeport victory Anyway, this is
 one day when Bridgeporters will ob- serve closely every move on the part
 of the four most dangerous clubs on
 the circuit, for surely the Elm City
 boys have developed into a lot of ter
 TOTS in more than one way.
 There was some talk in local circles
 that Manager Grimes would show
 "'Shanty' House here against the New
 Haveners this afternoon. A Shanty
 broke into the circuit with a loud
 bang last week and showed a lot of speed and pep. If he can repeat to- day the town will be his, for there isn't a game that the locals wanted
 more than that which is scheduled for
 Newfield park this afternoon
 MARTY WALSH, brotiler of Ed Walsh of major league fame, became a member of the Bridgeport Hall of Fame vest errfay when he not only pitched a brilliant game for the locals, but also smashed out a clean three bagger to right field with three men on bases In the second inning, bring Ing home as many runs. It was a stplendi5 game and the best part of it was that our boys won, 6 to 4. And how could the Pittsfielders win when contending with such impregnable op- position as that offered by the Amer jeans yesterday afternoon? The To- calls have played some fine games and q few poor ones, but yesterdays en- counter was one of the most spectac- ular and exciting witnessed at the Newfeld battlefield in many a day. Walsh was in winning form, any way. With his characteristic smile he went about his task like a youth just blossming into the big leagues While outhit 8 to ', the local moundsman kept the bingles scattered and when the enemy got too anxious or too'dan- gerous he aphed the brakes and with the good assistance of his fellow play CTS always managed to pull himself out. Not until the seventh inning ! however, were the Hillies able to do anything with him
 The team batted-s around in that seventh. Pickup opened with a hit off Walsh's glove. Devins singled, but Messenger fouled out Schilling sir- gled over short, scoring Pickup Mooers was safe on Bill Lai's unpar- donable tumble and the bases were taxed. Birmingham came through with a timely single, bringing home Devine and Schilling, as Bracket did a. good single juggling act in left field. Ryan drew a base on balls
 Here Marty frightened. however Brady sending an aerial drive to Braun who nipped it and McCorey dribbling an
 easy one which Baker got in time to throw him off at first.
 Again in the eighth the Pittsfie1ders
 got reckless and put over their fourth
 run Pickup again singled. Devine
 added another hit, Pickup moving to third Messenger was out on three
 strikes. Schilling smashed the pill to Baker who made an effort to catch
 Devin, but he suddenly changed his
 mind and tossed to Grimes, catching
 his man. Ray made a quick return
 play to Braun. nabbing Devine at the
 plate after Pickup had scored 1 THE AMERICANS started their run
 scoring in the second inning when
 they put bier five talhes. Manager
 Joe Birmingham of the opposition had
 the hardest time of the season in that frame . He made two very costly er-
 TOTS.
 | GRIMES started the ball rolling in ! port a team-a team that is playing | real class A ball.