New Britain herald., 1914-05-05
SClNSKI SEEKING
 TWO GOOD H|1TERS
Beating b) Ponies ConVinGes Him
 Present Team Won't Do.

The persistency with which New Britain has lost game after game through inability to hit at opportune mom ents is beginning to cause Own CT Scinski no little worry and he is now engaged in casting about for hard hitting infielder and slugging outfielder Time and again the club has had chances to win, but has fal- { len flat becau use no one could produce the clput. Scinsh is game and is not downcast over the showing of the ' team, but he Is determined not to- rest untir he gets an infielder and an Outfielder who can hit when hit looks like a porterhouse steak to tramp.
 The game yesterday was made un-. interesting through New Britain's great weakness with the willow. Springfield won 5 to o, but with Dug Smith travelling the way he was early in the game it is probable that the final count would have been different had his mates backed him up with a few healthy swats. Four hits-two in the ninth inning-was the total of lthe days work, and it wasn't because Justin was so good either. The local boys just failed to connect and al- lowed many straight plate -bisectors to go by them without offering at the ball ' x Ragged work in the field was also contributing factor by which Billy Hamilton's league leaders were al- lowed to romp away without interfer- ence. The New Britain team looked like day in April. good here anu there and bad there and here.
 Smith gave a. Wonderful exhibition early in the game and disproved that sa man can't lift himself by his own | suspenders In fact he gave the fin est imitation of human derrick imaginable and lifted him. self out of several holes practically unaided. He started off like prairie fire and might have finished just as strong had he been given any encour- agement. Out of the first twelve men up to bat he famed six and for the first five innings he allowed but two hits.
 Cabrera on Deck
 Cabaret Cabrera, the old New Britain shortstop, played in that posi- ton for the invaders and gave good account of himself. His fielding was OI A NO. I OTQ0T dUQ He SWdLCGQ the . first ball pitched to him in the second inning for two bags. He had his eye on the right field fence all afternoon and drove out several to that section of the lot that were few feet foul "Cabby" was given great ovation when he hopped off the train with the Springfield team and every man, woman and child he met said! '.Oh, there's rCabby,' ah there, 'Cabby'' ;
 Ponies Start Something.
 Both teams were going strong up to the seventh when, the Ponies turned loose with their bats. Pretty O'Hara dropped the ball out in the short right garden. Browne could have snagged it had Zeimer let him but the second baseman insisted on going after if and as a. result no one caught it. Then to make matters worse Browne fozzled on the first bound and O O'Hara reached second. Pratt cleaned lip with a grand slam over the left field fence
 The clubbing was continued in the eighth. From" Stankard singled. Tierney came through with an encore while trying to sacrifice. Smith made a bad peg to first, which was being covered by Nasher and Stankard, } reached third. A sacrifice fly by Cabrera brought him in. The home team appeared shot to pieces and be. fore the dust had settled Tierney had scored on a bad throw in by Ostrich on O'Hara's bang to left. O'Hara took third during the mix-up and sacrifice fly by Pratt ushered him over the plate.
 <. Tn the ninth Jones reached third I-.-- wild pitch but died there.
 Up to the seventh inning only one man on the New Britain side, Zeimer, had seen first base and he was forced at second by Bauer, who later fell , victim to Larry Pratt's arm as he was committing deliberate theft of the middle cushion. The side had \ been retired in order in each session and only eighteen men faced Justin.
 Tn the seventh Browne managed to get as far as second on a single and base on balls to Sullivan. He got no farther.
 Locals Come to Life.
 The locals fell into their old ways ], Of going out in order in the eighth in- ming but in the ninth started be- lated whacking rally. Ripley went in to bat for Smith and famed. Han cock understudying for Nasher, did the same Browne reached first on an lnfield hit and Sullivan sent the ball screaming for a double. putting Browne on third. Harry Moves put < every ounce of weight into his slam but Tierney netted the ball on a diff dcult chance.
 One of the feature plays of the Z Eame was contributed by Ostrich in the fifth innfnR. He captured Goode's