The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-15
.TOMMIES MEET: THEM TONIGHT;
 UNDER LIGHTS
Locals Win Four Straight Yesterday, COnquering.-
 Detroit, 8 to 7 s,:;
BY JOHN A. CLUNEY

OdyUOI1, OIlIO, 0epUSIIlper 10s, - Strange as 1t may seem to the folks ''back east, as the folks out here refer to Connecticut and New Eng land, Waterbury's North End Thomas Club, is the talk of the tournament. At this writing, the Tommies, by virtue of their sone- what miraculous 8 to 2 victory over the gigantic gang sluggers from Detroit this afternoon are one of just two undefeated teams in this tourney, which by the way, and sad to say, seems to be made to order for the home club. Dayton's Lon- don Boobies who got away with Q 2-l decision over Weirton, West Virginia, tonight through the me- dium of a pair of crucial umpires decisions that seemed nothing short of piratical. .,,.
 Something to This
 Another unfair angle to the situ- ation which has proven very favor- able to the Dayton team from the start of the meet last Saturday is that scheduling of five successive night games for the Dayton team, one of whic hincludes the Water bury-Dayton encounter Wednesday night at 9 o'clock (EDT). Mild corn- plaints to the tournament commit tee from Weirton Steel of West Wir- ginia relative to the tournament come making all Dayton opponents play under lights has met with rec sponse: We have to make expenses via the committee authority under dule 12 for the rules governing the tournament which read: Might games will be played early nights at the local field. Professional party teams will be scheduled to the best field advantage of local baseball committee" r.
 Short but snappy Is that rule which seems that team that never saw night game before. Let alone played one, must meet Dayton iin. der the lights because the commits tee feels the home club will return the most amount of money, and by the same token give the Dayton team large and important ad- vantage. Then when the visiting teams get under lights 1t has 1t has the umpires to contend with, as was proven once again in the Daytoi1- Weirton game tonight. '""'
 Though such explanation may seem in the nature of an alibi in case of defeat the plain truth iS that visiting team has two strikes on 1t going up against Dayton un- der the present setup, and that iS beside that fact that the local com. bine has @ pitching staff that would put many a minor league class club to shame.
 Haas to Hurl Tonight .
 Manager Harry Melvin will start his ace righthander, Arthur Red. horse Haas against Dayton, who. If he can duplicate his four.hit pitching performance of last Satur- day backed by the best defensive players in the morning will put the Waterbury outfit into the sennt4 finals right up against the national championship, which everyone lil Waterbury thought beyond their fondest dreams. Yet, they have averaged runs game and won four straight for new competitive record for Brass City teams in a national tournament and that, rec. ord was made today by team rep resenting Q club that never won a city amateur league championship until the present session.
 Detroit outhit the Tommies IS to 10, but the Brass City champions have been fighting like half-starved' ' tigers and have accomplished re- '. suits on three different diamonds t odate, othing short of amaging.
 Got Something There
 From woman's angle, here's oile. for the baseball book reported by Frank Roberts, right-handed pit- cher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1903, who played with Kitty Brans. field, Hans Wagner, Beauhold, Con- roy and others who helped make big-league baseball history. A woman was watching Q game in the tourney a day or two ago, in which a tall, 6 foot, 3 inch shortstop was performing with one of the teams. After good look at him she piped up: "How can he be the short stor when he is so tall?" Isn't that just like woman? Roberts, by the way, played with Louisville, then with Jack Dunn's famous Baltimore" Orioles, and Jersey City, he rates Iris Speaker, Harry Hooper and Duffy Lewis as his all-time great outf1eld with which Gene McCanli, Yankee Scout here at Dayton, does not agree. McCann insisting one cannot. leave out Cobb and Ruth from any great outfield, especially, the greatest of all time. "''"
 Roberts also tells of Q time he pitched no hit ball for 2 innings and then was beaten when Q single two walks and a home run cleaned the bases for four runs in the eighth. He also saw three Cleveland play- CTS get Q griple. One walk and two singles yet there was no score ae' the Speaker, Hooper, Lewis, oVtfield cmbine of Boston, threw out three men at the plate. s'"7 2 NEYACE Tn TMMnCE '-F