New Britain herald., 1914-08-31
HARDWARE CITY CAN
 SUPPORT GOOD TEAM
No Town You'd PdrOnz; Club Like
 New Britain, Says Challenger.
(Written for the New Britain Herald by $. w. Challenger, Official Scorer, Eastern Association)

l by $. w. Challenger, Official Scorer 1 Eastern Association)
 l Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 31.-Witf
 New Britain's team now in the Arat 1 class, not much can be expected ir
 the closing days of the season. Com. | pelled to contest every game upor l foreign diamonds, the team failed tc get win and six defeats were marked
 up. It is too bad such a mistake was 1 made in forming the team at the
 start. With anything like a, winner New Britain would have backed ur l Scinski as we'll as two-thirds of the l ether towns in these days of baseball slump. But with combination sc | far behind the others it was not to be expected New Britain would great ly enthuse. No other city would There are only a very few fans in each city who go to see a baseball game for the pure love of the sport
 without regard to the victor. Three quarters of those who visit the stands want the home team to win. New Britain would be all right if it had that New London team, or even wa terbury or Bridgeport. That is all there is to it.
 With the season only two weeks to run New London has well nigh a sure thing. 1t made an even break of it during the week in the four games, played, and at that gained a game on Waterbury, Fohl's men getting only two wins out of five games. The Planters need to make an even divi- sion for the rest of it's games in order to stave off a Waterbury rush of six teen or seventeen straight victories. It looks as though Whaletown would get what it has been striving for on and off for twenty years.
 Hartford and Bridgeport are run ming we'll in their fight for third place. Each won three games out of four. New Haven did we'll with four wins in six games and a climb to sixth place. Springfield won four out of eight and had one tie. Pittsfield took the other half of the tie and divided three and three on games fought to finish.
 Most of Scinskis boys lost points in batting. Jones fell out of the 300 class with a loss of four points Egan dropped twenty. Smith nine. Wood ward seven, Toland two, Zeimer one. Clark was the great gainer with an addition of 175, points. Tetrault put on nine, Dawson four and Heath and Hancock three each. The records:
 Jones .297, Clark .275, Zeimer .267, Egan .252, Tetrault .25O, Heath .245, Moves .239, Dawson .226, Hancock .195, Poland .167, Wilson .155, Smith .-52. Bowden .152. Woodward .132.
 Individual Batting.
 There is an event of notable in- terest to be recorded today in the movement of the batting corps. It has new leader. The man who has directed it's pace for the greater part of the. season has been forced to re- tire. Manager Fohl of Waterbury at last found pacemaking and pennant chasing too arduous. He dropped off nineteen points during the week and is in third place. Angemier of New Haven is the leader and Barney of Hartford, whose sticking has been of remarkable character is second. In the last six weeks the Hartford sailor has hit at a .390 pace. In th1rty-eight games he missed connec- tions for at least one hit in only six. Two league veterans landed in the 800 class this week, one of them for the first time. Barr of New Haven and Hallman of Bridgeport performed strongly and just passed over the line. Hallman now leads the league in hit contributions with 121. Barney is second with 11S and Becker third with i1S. Hallman started to climb seven weeks ago and in that time he has hit at 1875 clip. In forty-four games he missed making at least one hit in only seven games. Barr got into the 300 ranks by hitting at .518 clip for fifteen games. No wonder they want him in the New York Americans Phillips of Pittsield and Quinn of New London were healthy workers with the willow. Here are the lno