Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-12
BATTERY B WINS BASKETBALL AND
 INDOOR BASEBALL GAME AT ARMORY

-b sweep of the evening of sports held at the state armory on Monday eve ming winning from Battery A bas- ketbau team of New London by score of a4 to IS and then winning tho sec oud game of the series from the Mug gets Is to F.
 The basketball game was held i'm mediately after the weekly drill and the Battery B boys were given tough battle by the Whalers, and it was not until the second half that the local boys forged into the lead. Harry Mills was the shining light of <the battery team caging seven baskets and drop TpinR in six fouls. Boyle for the New London soldiers shot six pretty bas- 'kets while Moriarty got two field bas- Ikets and two fouls. Coleman scored two baskets being the only other play -er to score, E. The New London team played fast game and had it not been for Mills would have easily won from the local battery. The fouls called on the Whal- CTS were many but the referee over looked many of the fouls made by the local team. The lineups:
 Battery B Battery A
 Left Forward
 DemEeux ................ ....'''''' boyle
 hSnL fOE"dIu
 Brcaak .................... Edwards
 Center
 Mills ................. GrlIIln
 Left Guard
 Coleman ................. ColeLndL
 Right Guard
 Field goals-Iills 2, Coleman 2, Boyle 6, Moriarty 2.
 Foul goals-Mills 6, Moriarty ?.
 Indoor Baseball Game
 In the baseball game the Battery team evened up the series with the Nuggets, the latter team having taken the first game of the series several weeks ago. The game was hard fought from start to finish and it was only when Big Chief Madden weakened in the fourth inning that the Battery boys went into the lead. This was a disastrous inning for the Nuggets for the soldiers scored [ runs in this frame. Murphy, not a member of the Old Erin five of Taftville, went into the box for the remainder of the game and held the soldiers to four runs, receiving wonderful support from Keith at third base and Big Ed liar Fis at short. It was not until the last half of the ninth inning that the bat tery men were able to win when they hit Murphy hard.
 The battery got away to good start dn the first frame by scoring one run and letting the Nuggets down with a zero. In the second inning the Mug gets scored runs and held the sol diers to nothing. In the third they Scored another and the battery boys also drove one across.
 With the score 5 to in favor of the Nuggets somebody threw a monkey wrench into the works and Madden hit the ceiling. When he came to earth after passing three men and forcing in two runs the soldiers were well out in front with a four run lead. The Nuggets went scorele.ss in the fifth inning as did the soldiers. In the sixth inning the Nuggets boosted their to- tai up to seven runs and held the sol diers on three pitched balks. Again in the eighth inning they tallied three runs bringing them into the lead by one. The soldiers made a desperate stand and scored three runs putting them into the lead again.
 The ninth inning had wonderful pos abilities which Umpire Murphy, one of the Sons of Erin five, spoiled by one of his habitual errors of judgment when he called Midget Warwick out on a ball about three feet over his head. The Nuggets had scored tive runs and with three men on and two down Murphy pulled his boner. With the score tied the soldiers started 6 rally with one down which netted then ono run and a victory in as pretty a game as played at the armory in many seasons.
 The outcome might have been diff ferent had Umpire Murphy worn hil glasses and used his head for some thing other than a hat-rack. Outside of that he umpired a real fine game The hneupS:
 Battery B-Adams, e. Wilson, D Mills, 1b; Coleman, 2b; Lemieux, Sb Breault, ss; Burelle, If; Lewis, If.
 Nuggets-Manchester c; Madden, and ss; Harris, 1b and ss; Nelson, Il and ss; Tracey, 2b; Murphy, ss anC p; Keith 5b; Mcknight If; Warwicl If; Boyle If.