The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-25
Leonard's Twirling And
 Locals Hard Hitting Too
 Much For New Haven Nine

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 are peclliar lot on the road; like group of children on a vacation. What the Americans will do on the road is nothing very easy to dope out for the teams with which the locals will have to contend are an uncaring lot, liable ! to swamp their opponents one iday and fall hu1nbly before them on the next Yet the locals have a gigantic task before them, for while they are but | one full game behind the Grays, who slipped yesterday by losing to the Waterbury contingent, to $, they are being closely followed by the Brass | City workers and Boosters either of l whom can give any team on the cir cult good stiff argument.
 It was the same old reason why the | Americans won---c1ean hitting and l hitting recorded at the opportune | time. The team has been hitting in ! sensationaIly great form right along l for the past two weeks and has won all its games this week by hitting the | old pill vtciously and often. Yesterday | the locals slammed everything that came their way and they didn't care to look things over, either; they just l banged away and hard enough to put over IA good clean talltes.
 | New Haven wanted yesterdays gam e--but it didn't know how to take it. Take, for instance, Tyler. This bird is supposed to be a dangerous actor, having once upon time twirled a. no-hft no-run game. Yes teIday he was probably out to per form just the opposite thing. tor he l was failure if ever there was a fail ure on the mound. He tried. but how epwiwardiy and feebly were his eff forts. He had nothing on the ball but ! ths air around it.
 1 He couldn't help 1t, for try as he did ! everything seemed to have gone wrong. He lasted through some heavy storms. For four innings the old burghs from this here town slam ;'ban ged him and hard, too. Then came along the fifth and just when he who claims having once pitched a no-hit, no-run game was warming up and settling 6own to real business ! Chief Meyers yanked him.
 Jack Leonard was in the points, on the hill or whatever you choose to
 call the hurling platform, for the Americans He proved as hard a worker as any of the local hurlers 'i who performed this week. He played with every bit of fight in him and given the advantage of a seven-run lead, he had little trouble keeping the enemy back where it could do the least harm. With the exception of the fourth and fifth, when the weather probably interfered (?) with his work, Leonard had things pretty much his own way.
 This chap Leonard is an independ- ent sort of boy, anyway, and if he can't have 1t ALL his own way he doesn't want 1t at all. That's why he got real peeved after the fifth and
 swore-yes, Clarice, this individual ! o1, vvhanz-that
 New Haveners would not win. And win they did not. Oh di mi.
 Hank Bracket, he with the rHbish name but the ideas of a Broadway lady of the chorus, was with us again yesterday. As if you didn't knew it. We'll, if you didn't 1t wasn't Hankus' fault. For this guy made on helluva racket at the ball park yesterday and he did not care who knew it. He
 was in that scramble fighting all the while and doing all the hard hitting for the local contingent. He hit four times out of five chances and once made a double.
 His old pal. Gene Martin, too, had most dee-lightful day. Genie made a triple and a teasing single. These bffferinos together with those of the other players were instrumental in bringing about victory for the Ameri- cans But lest you forget remem b CT: twas the hard hitting of the locals mingled with the timidness and lack of control of the New Haveners to- gether with their cratic playing at times that gave the locals IA runs. The Grays, leading the league, found it impossible to win in Waterbury. Both sides hit hard and often, but tn e Brass City boys won by one-run margin, the final score being to G.. Both teams used two pitchers, the winners using Craig and Herbst and the Grays Mulrennan and Horn Bunched hits enabled Hartford to wallop Pittsfield to 1. A single with men on second and third in the 10th inning beat Springfield for Worcester, 7-6.