The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-05
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BRIDGEPORT GIVES
NEWHA VEN SURPRISE
Indians Defense Crumbes and Wild Heaves Fol-
low Fumbles of All Kinds-Ed Stautfer Strong
& on Mound and Entirely Controls the Came

New Haven, Aug. 6.-The Indians
ran into n big surprise yesterday af-
ternoon at Weiss Park when they took
on Ed walsh,s Bridgeport club, COM
ing out on the short end of a to 2
score at the end of the required nine
innings of national pastiming. The
whole team seemed to have an Off
day. both on the defensive and Often
sive, and looked more like tail-enders,
rather than the leading club OF the
Eastern league However, those in
nings happen to the best OF them and
bad must also be reckoned with when
lcomputing the good
In yesterdays game the locals
iahowed a defense that resembled so
much tissue paper. Five errors were
ehaiked up against them. due chiefly
to an effort to defy the laws OF ply
sics which preclude any possibility of
Throwing a baseball before it is re-
ceived and the execution of other pro-
ioltvfties not Listed in Spaldings or any
fother guide
Gillespie mistook the right field
islands. for first base on one occasion,
Meal Ball dropped a throw from
Magic, Maggie tossed one that bounded
several times before Torphy got his
hands on it, frankie woodward
dropped a fly ball in left field and
James contributed a wild heave to
first in an effort to catch Skif off the
bag.
1t was awful boys, but one finds
lconsoiation in the knowledge that
they made them all in one day, and
didn't save them for today or another
game When they come let them come
In punches. then they are over with.
Hits Scarce.
The hits credited to the INDIANS
were as ecarce as coai in the average
coal bin nowadays The bunch did
manage to get five of them, but only
an the ninth did they hook off more
than ono in a. single inning. Ed.
Walsh selected Stauffer to do the
mound work for the Park City invad-
ers and the husky parsonage did 1T to
the queens taste. He was inclined to
De cratic at times but managed to
weather the storm with. plenty to
spare. But even at that, with all his
seeming effectiveness, his team mates
gave him some giH-edge support, Dill
Ion, a newcomer to the Bridgeport
ranks, being the only offender in the
error column. Bonaguera at short
stop played about 30 miles over his
head This gent has been turning in
an average of from one to three er-
rors a game since joining the Walters
but yesterday he turned in IL chances
without a sipup. On his last chance
Ray Grimes pulled one down out of
the clouds to save him an error, but
otherwise he looked like a Beauty
Bancroft out there Kid Sherwood
also turned in nifty afternoons
work, as did Ray Grimes at first
Injuns Hard Hit
1t was an awful blow to fall before
those pesky Photographers but it
couldn't be helped. The aforemen-
toned Mr.. Stauffer just would not
loosen up a bit and consequently the
locals were left stranded when closing
time drew nigh. But even at that
they staged a rally in the ninth that
was productive of one run. but one
run at that time resembled the third
trip under of a drowning man.
The Indians got off to a onerur
lead in the third inning when Johnny
Maggie singled to right field and wen
to third while Dillon was booting the
ball to the fence. Stauffer let loose
a wild heave that Skin couldn't quite
reach and the local catcher scored.
Bridgeport tailed once in the
fourth after two men were out. Ray
Grimes walked and stole second, scor-
ing on Bill SkifTs single to left field
They added another in the fifth wher
Kenneth Grimes led off with a single
to left and Stauffer doubled to the
same garden and Buck Lai beat gu
an infield hit Two runs were chalket
up by the visitors in the next frame
Ray Grimes opened with a poke t.
center field and Skin dropped a role
in front. OF the plate that was mean
for sacrifice. Maggie made poo
throw to Torphy and all hands wer'
safe Sherwood hit to James and tn
local pitcher elected to make a pla,
at third but the throw was too late t
catch Grimes at that bag. Gillespi
figured he had time enough to hea
off Sherwood at first but his throJ
was labeled for the stands instead o
first and Grimes and Skiff scored
Sherwood taking third on the play
The old timer was caught nappin
off the bag and was out on a throN
from Maggie to Gillespie.
For good measure the visitors stuc
In another run in the eighth whe
Woodward dropped Bonaguera's fl,
Ray Grimes sacrifice and Skiff's sec
ond hit of the day. The Indian rail-
in the ninth was well meant but
petered out before they got dangerou
Nutter fouled out to Skiff but Ba
doubled to centerfield- Torphy single
to left but Ball held at third. scorin
when Torphy was thrown out at sec
ond on McGowan's choice at secon