Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-07
BATTERY B WINS FIRST INDOOR
 BASEBALL GAME FROM NUGGETS

In A Eame which was replete with \ thrills and spectacular fielding the | Battery B indoor baseball team nos | ed out A well earned victory of the l Nuggets at the State Armory on Mon 1 day evening defeating the cfgarnak- CTS I to 6. It was Stew Wilson's crash ing double scoring Mills in the last half of the eighth inning that sent the Nuggets down the toboggan to defeat for in their half of the final stanEa they were cut off from a pos sible run by some fast fietofng. For excitement and merriment this game far exceeded the outdoor game by Sev- eral blocks and the errors in the g2cne were so numerous that it was fmpos- sible to score them.
 The Battery team started off like the New York Giants and had their opponents bewildered with their on- siaugflt. Bill Mcknight at third was their chief mark and Bill was kept hopping around like a pea on a hot Sriddle trying to keep from getting hit After the smoke had cleared the soldiers had two runs to their cred it. It looked bad for the Nuggets but in the first half of the second inning they became accustomed to the glare of the arc lights and they pounded five runs across. This looked big but Rhe soldier boys let down another barrage of hits that had the Mug gets gasping for air. When the sol diers were finally driven from their position at bat the score stood 65 in favor of the army.
 The Nuggets seemed to be at loss what to do with the ball and the high flies that came to them were left to shift for themselves. When the Mug gets took their turn at bat they were bewildered but managed to get one counter across. Manager Madden took his men to task and cautioned and consoled them. His talk seemed to do a world of good for it was a new team that took the field. They play ed as if they were at the Fairgrounds with a championship at stake. Never was such a reversal of form seen on the armory before; it was nothing hhort of marvellous. Try as the sol- diers would they could not get any runs across for double plays, spec tacular catches and stops put a stop to any rally that the army started. The Soldier boys however were equal to the task and their fielding was just as snappy and faEt, Slippery Le- mieux, Heavy Coleman and Dizzy Mills performing acrobatically did much to save their budd1eS.
 The game went four and a half innings under this nerve-racking ten- sion and then alas, the Nuggets cracked It was the same Manager Madden who first showed the signs of weakening for in the last half of the eighth inning his arm weakened and he lobbed one over to Mills who promptly pasted it up into the beams. Several Nuggets rushed to the place where the ball was expected to fall hut taking an uncanny bound it fell in uncovered territory while Mills went to second. Stew Wilson, pitching ace for the soldiers, was the next man up. He let two go by and then swung wickedly and the ball nearly knock ed the hinges off the lockers at the back of the hall while Mills rolled home with the run that proved to be the winning run. The Nuggets ral- lied to the cause but the damage was done.
 The Nuggets made a desperate at tempt in their half of the ninth to tie the score but a double play sent them back defeated team. It was a good game who ever won and the boys had lots of fun. In speaking of the wonderful showing made by the Nuggets it must be stated that they played the indoor game for the first time and 1t is certain that with 2 little more practice they will developt real team One of the rernarkabl, plays executed by the Nuggets wa. triple play in the sixth inning whe1 with three men on base a triple play was pulled off. Madden caught a fll that came to him out of the rafters threw to JOe Burke at second for th, second out and Burke threw to McKa, at third for the third out, Had no this play been pulled the score woult have been much larger in favor of tn, soldiers
 For the soldiers the Breault Twin oerformed exceptionally well and be tween them shut off the Nuggets iron scoring. The lmeups follow:
 Battery B-Adams c, Wilson D. Mill ID, Coleman 2b, Len1ieux 3b, Senio Breault ss, Junior Breault ss. Con ture If, Lewis of, Gu-nhard If.
 Nuggets-'Manchest e. Madden r Nelson 1b. Burke 2b, Mckay 3b, Stan dish ss, Mcknight ss, Boyle If, Trac. cf Warwick If.
 Umpire-Shorty Malcolm.
 In speaking of the umpire it nus be said that Shorty was all that couI be desired in an umpire It's a case a when is the next game for the fan as well as the players are desirou of having another between these tw teams.