New Britain herald., 1922-06-10
ON THE FIRST BOUND
WITH CI.ERKIN

The Lafayette baseball nine. defeat cd Penn yesterday 3 to 1 at Easton, Pa.
 From London comes the word thai George Carpenter has agreed to a re- turn match with Joe Beckett, The British tomato is going to get hurt yet ID meeting fighters.
 The performances of Flames Koleh- nainen turned in at Helsingfors, Fin land, on Thursday, will not be accept cd as worlds record for the 25 kilo- metres. On measuring the track, it was found to be 47S metres short of the regulation distance.
 The admirers of Kid" Kaplan ought to Hay of that stuff," about his meeting Johnny kilbane, the featherweisht champion. This talk |. has been nothing more than bunk and last nights bout showed that Kaplan Is not to be chased as a con- tender for Kilbane's title. The United States Submarine Base ball nine, defeated Boston college yes terday at New London. 12 to 1. Discovered why the New Britain High school has been losing all the
 baseball games this season. The ex- ample of yesterday when the players started into crab one another, and the
 IA Alx iolt h. member of the team Is enough to put any team, baseball or otherwise, in the , hole. Coach Cassidy never said truer word than he did yesterday afternoon when his team started to throw away the ball game. According to the coach, Its easy for any team to play baseball when they are winning but the mark of true sports is the ability to play when you are losing"
 There seems to be a great deal of feeling against Clayton Gray, the local High school twirler. His team mates yesterday didn't like it a bit when he relieved Williams and they started Tn to say so. If that has been existing all season, then, it is no puzzle why the team has lost the majority of its games.
 The Meriden team seemed to be all shot yesterday in the first frame. The .shortstop, third baseman and second basen1an made errors. but instead of laying down, the team buckled to- gether and came right back. The sin cerity with which the players on the Meriden team backed up their pitch CT almost shamed the local men.
 The best man on the local team, the hardest worker, and the boy that is in the game at all times is klatka, the catcher. In yesterdays game, there was not a murmur out of him throughout the nine innings, but he was talking it up every second. That boy can catch and he can also hit.
 Duke" McCabe played whale of | game at first base. His length serv- ed him in good stead on the initial sack. If he will get into the habit of stretching for the throws as they come across the diamond, there are many runners who will miss being safe by a step.
 Talking of individual players and their good points, the New Britain men are as good an aggregation as has been seen among the High school team of the state. They have yet to learn that no team can play ball un- less they play together.
 The Junior High school team play ing yesterday, showed some good ma terial for the future. Coach Delaney of the track team was out looking over the youngsters in yesterdays meet and he has his eye on several whom he thinks that he will be able to develop. Phelan, especially, looks mighty good as coming athlete.
 The Corbin ball team will play at New Hartford tomorrow afternoon The players and rooters will leave at IF o'clock from the corner of Main
 
 automobile truck.
 The Redwoods defeated the Nut megs last night 14 to 9. The batteries | for the winners were Griffen and Solin | and for the losers Clinton and Mur- phy. The management of the Red woods announces that his team is | tired of playing the Nutmegs and would like to arrange with any other teams in this vicinity, averaging 1SI to 40 years. Martin O'Neil of 132 Oak street is the pilot of the Redwoods.
 It has been on the way long time, | that scheduled Ating for "Kid' Kap- Ian, but it's arrival was delayed until !, last night Kid" Wagner left no doubt in the minds of those present |