The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-04

rigan did not help to make matters interesting, by any means, either. He had a hard time and was continually in hot water.
 So far as hitting was concerned the Brid dgeporters more than held their own yesterday. piling up 12 nifty and timely hits. Only for the splendid support given him by his tea was Townsend able to keep the score down to the low point in which it ended.
 Braun shortstopped a spectacular game and was the outstanding star of the afternoon. He turned in a number of unusual plays, each of which won him great credit and some applause. Perhaps the best play enacted on the local diamond this season was that turned in by Braun in the eighth par agraph when he started a perfect double play saving the visitors the trouble of trying or kidding themselves that they were about to score.
 she game was one chock full of ex- perirlents, some weird, some spectac- ular and others of the ivory sort. The locals twice successfully worked the double steal.s Runs for the locals came in shower fashion, too.
 It all began in the fourth when Bracket walked and took third on Grimes hit. Baker sacrificed to Me
 Kay in the outfield, Hanl1us romping home with the first tally. Grimes, however, was nailed at second. Kelly drew a pass, stole his way to second and got to third on Martins hit, fin ishing the trip on O tardy steal play. Two more came for Bridgeport in the fifth on Townsend's hit, Braun's sacrifice, Holly's wild heave, Brack- etts scratch hit and an infield out. The other runs were scored in the seventh frame on two passes. scratch hit, single, sto-en base, infield out and sacrifice fly.
 New York made 1t three straight
 from Philadelphia yesterday winning
 a long drawn-out and ragged game 10 to g. Seven pitchers were used
 and all of them were wild and at
 times ineffective. Wards single in
 the ninth, when he batted for Shore.
 settled the victory as the ball got by.
 Walker and before it was recovered
 he had made the circuit, sending in
 Rue1 who had walked, ahead of him. A fifty-fifty split was the best the Brooklyn Robins could do against the
 Braves in another double-header in
 Boston. The Bostonians annexed the
 first game by a batting furry in the
 latter stages of the fray, putting over
 the winning count in the tenth inning The score was 2 to l. An effort to repeat in the second game was suc-
 cessfully thwarted, and though tho home team made a valiant bid for
 victory in the eighth frame they eventually succurnbed by a score of to 3. g,if%j The Phillies defeated the Giants to 4 yesterday. Woodward pitched good ball for Philadelphia after the first inning in which Doyle hit a home run with two men on bases. Woodward also did fine work with the bat, having a triple and two sin gles.
 The Red Sox took the second ga 70 of the seres from Washington by a score of to 3. McInnis and Scott by timely hitting drove in or scored
 all of Boston's runs
 Chicago Cubs made it three straight from Ptttsburg by shutting out the
 visitors by 1 run to in q pitching
 duel between Martin and Miller. Cleveland and St. Louis broke even in a double header yesterday, St. Louis winning the first game 14 to 6, after overcoming a five run lead. and Cleveland taking the second game. 8
 to 5. Both were free hitting contests
 with errors numerous. Doc Johnston Cleveland first baseman, fouled out in
 the second game after having made nine consecutive hits in nine times at hat