New Britain herald., 1917-07-05
ST. MARY'S GROUNDS
 OFFICIALLY OPENED
Varied Program of Sports Pleases
 Big CroWd-Poneers Win

The Fourth of July program at St. Mnrys playgrounds, which officially opened the grounds for the 1917 sea- terday. The games were very inter- esting. and some excellent sport re- suited. Director Pilz handled the games in his usual capable manner. The results follow:
 50 Yards Dash Minor---Class First W. klniry, time. ' Is seconds; sec ond, P. Rozanski: third. J O'Nen. 15 Yards Dash, Junior Class--First, J. Campbell. time, 4-5 seconds; sec- ond, B. Butler; third, J. Hays.
 100 Yards Dash. Senior Class- First. J. Ryan, time, ? l-5 seconds; second, P. Murphy; third. W. Long, 50 Yards Dash for Girls, Minor Class-Ffrst, M. Mesl<ill, time. : A seconds; second, w. Scheyd; third, M. Herman.
 60 Yards Dash for Girls. Junior Class-First Helen McAleer, time 8 seconds: second, Helen Deery; third Helen Long.
 75 Yards Dash for Girls. Senior | Class--tirst. Josie Ross. time, 12 1-5 seconds: second, l.. Morgan; third, i P. McCue.
 50 Yards Obstacle Race, Minor , Class-First, G. scheyd, time 12 sec- i onds; second, J.. Conlon; third F. 1 Donahue
 50 Yards Obstacle Race, Junior 1 Class--First. W. Lyons. time, Il 3-5 ] seconds: second J. Kiniry; third. ! T. Konoski
 50 Yards Obstacle Race Senior Class-Frst, J. Campbell. time. 10 2-5
 
 ! Hennessey.
 60 Yards Obstacle Race. Senior , Girls--First. H. McAleer time 12 1-5
 seconds; second. H. Deery; third, H. Lynch.
 Knights of the wheelbarrow (Best 1 3 in 5)--Won by Hennessey and
 Leghorn.
 Block Relay Race. Grade 3-First
 Frances Halloran's team, time, 13 1-5 seconds; second, Russell Tormays
 team: third. Helen Donahue's team.
 The baseball games In the City league. proved to be topnotch events,
 the Kamels and the Annex clashing in the morning games, the former be-
 ing victorious. score to 8. Warner
 Johnson on the firing line for the | victors displayed fine skill retiring eighteen of his opponents by the S.
 route and he did not Issue free l transportation. The score by innings: 1 r. h. e. Kamels ....... oos2ooo2o-7 10 I Annex ....... o300o00o0-3
 Johnson and Campbell; T. Blan- chard, Chalmers and Bloom and Cl1n- | ton.
 1 In the afternoon contest, the P1o-
 neers and Pirates put up fercely
 winning
 out score 1 to 0. Dudack, former
 High school athletic star was on the i mound for the south end boys and he gave a brilliant exhibition of hurl- l ing. Schmidt who tossed them over ! for the losers was also in fine fet- i tle Blinn's clouting was one of the 1 features Fifteen of the defeated team returned to the bench. the vic tim of Dudack's mystifying slants l and the big fellow was also very 1 steady refusing to allow any of the 1 opposing team to stroll to first by the b. o. b. route. In the eighth inning. after Goeb had landed on first base through an error. Howie Blinn swing 1 ing his bludgeon a la Ty Cobb, smashed a long single to right field 1 sending Goeb to third from whence he tailed on sacrifice fly by Lynch. The score by innings r. h. e. Pioneers .0ooooo01o--1 1 l Pirates ..... 0O0O00Oo0-0 l Batteries: Dudack and Schroeder; Schmidt and Connolly. , Church Teams Results. In the church league. St. Mary's team won from the team represent l ing the church of St. John the l Evangelist. score Ii 10 5. Dovnham and Metro were the battery for the 1 winners while Sullivan and McCue performed in similar capacity for the losers.
 The Holy Name societies of Jewett City and the church of St. John the Evangelist met yesterday afternoon, with damag ging results to the locals who went down to defeat. score, 10 to 5 w. Libert and F. Liberty com- prised the visiting battery and Sulli- van and Smith for the home team.