Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-14
NUGGETS TAKE REVENGE
 ON GROWING AVANTS

Sweet revenge and bitter defeat went hand in hand Thursday night at the Fairgrounds when the Avants and the Nuggets met in the third frame of the struggle for the diamond su- premacy of the city smoke shops. The Nuggets just rolled in and gloated ov- CT their revenge while the Avants struggled hard to swallow their bit ter pill-a IT to Il defeat. Saddest~Nf, all sad sights was the downfall of Slim White, pitching ace of the Av- ants. who lasted just four stanzas against the onslaught of the Nuggets. Slim begged to be left in the box or go down fighting but his teammates held a eonclave with the result that Doc Kirby was sent in to try to turn the tide of battle. Alas, try as he would he could not stem the tide and the Nuggets rushed on to victory.
 George Madden who performed so ig- nobly iE the last game, redeemed him self Thursday evening with lots to spare. George had every thing possi- ble on the ball and they steamed in to the catchers glove with all the speed of Smoky Joe" George, who is naturally tender hearted and a good sportsman, saw how the battle was going and to give the Avants a fight ing chance relinguished the pitching duties to a less competent mounds man, "Honzi' Connor "Ponzi,' prov ed, contrary to expectations, to be as invincible as his predecessor and he likewise took pity on the struggling Avants and relinguished his position. Hanrahan took up the duties for the Nuggets, and not exerting himself to any great extent, allowed several hits few runs crossing the plate but not enough to alarm the Nuggets.
 Featuring at bat was Joe Burke Slim White, and Les Manchester, each pounding out home runs Sims hon. CT came just as he was smarting un- der the ignomy of being batted out of the box and his face, when he came to bat, was grim with determination Slim didn't grin at all, he was toe sore, Madden, however, grinned, but l that was soon gone. The mighty Mad den wound up and let loose one of the most wicked hooks. Slim saw it com ing, watched it as it racefully broke bn a beautiful out curve, anchored both feet close to the ground an6 swung with all his might. There was a resounding crash of leather againsf wood and that old pill just naturally did sail straight out to the old board l fence in center field Texas Callahan I ward in a vain effort to catch tn, i fleeing sphere but he did not recov. CT it until it came gently to res
 among the weeds where he pouncet upon it as a bird upon it's prey. H,
 turned to throw it home but Slin
 was calmly, thought a trifIe eut O
 breath, sitting on the bench.
 Jack Craney pulled the prize mum
 Der of the game. Jack came to ba
 against Kirby. Doc shot two fast one
 over and on the third attempt the bal
 went straight for Craney. Fearful a
 bodily injury Craney more in self defense rather than in any attempt f
 hit the ball put up his bat. The bal
 hitting the stick of timber in Craney'
 hand took a bound high into the ai1
 Craney heard the crack brlt did nlo
 see the ball and started to run in
 ,bewildered way to third base just a
 the ball nestled into Docs glove. A1
 Craney could do was to throw his clu
 into the ground and humble to him
 self, He fooled me, he fooled me"
 Outside of that it was a gosh dinge
 good game and ee how the crowd di | laugh