New Britain herald., 1922-08-24
ON THE FIRST BOUND
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According to the spokesman for the PlAinYille baseball team which. &C., cordinH to the management of the VikinGs A. c. nine of this city. called on last Sundays game at such a late hour Saturday night that the local management was unable to secure an- other sams for Sunday. the Plain vile team did not have n game scheduled with the local team for laAt Sunday.
 Artie Nehf. manager Of the Plain- vile nine, stated last night that the VikinSs manager, as he has discov- cred since last Sunday, had been in communication with a members of the PlAtnville team, but he had not com municated with Mir. Nehf. who had another game scheduled for that date.
 Mir. Nehf will publish a letter ex- plaining to the baseball public of this city his side of the story, and we will sladly print 1t whenever 1t arrives in this office.
 The local cops are practicing hard for their first game with the Meriden department this year. to be played next Wednesday.
 Slim" Politis, star guard on the Nutmeg football eleven last season, has made application for a place on the supernumerary force of the police department. He is therefore eligible to play with the local department against Meriden.
 John O'Brien, supervisor of St. Mary's Playground. has also been sworn in as a special. and he will also be in the local lineup. With Politis and O'Brien in the lineup. the focal team will be greatly strengthened.
 The fans who have attended the games between the Meriden and local police departments in the past years, will miss the sight of Bill Hart on the diamond this year. As far as we know. Chief Hart doesn't intend to play this year, but he will be missed just the same.
 Pat O'Mara. catcher and captain of the local nine, is loud in his praise of the locals showing He states that his charges will run away with the Mer- iden crew as badly it not worse than the Meriden nine did to the locals last year.
 The interest of the local baseball fans of this city is centered on the first game of the series between the Kaceys and the Corbins at St. Marys field next Sunday.
 Both managers are claiming that their teams will wil but contest on the diamond is the only way to decide the question. The Kaceys are the fa- vorites in the series. but the unexpect- ed can always happen and with the lineup that Manager Tobin of the Corbins expects to put in the field he is just as confident that his charges will beat the Kaceys and beat them bad.
 The Kaceys will practice tomorrow night at 6:50 o'clock at St. Mary's field. Manager McConn requests all players to be present as the lineup for Sunday will be chosen from the play CTS who show up for practice.
 Pepper Martin continues to assure an anxious public that he will take the measure of Johnny Dundee when they meet at the New York Velo- | drome next Monday night. Martin may do so but it is not denied that he has a keen personal interest in the man he picks to win.
 Spectators at the Frederick Cham bersburg Blue Ridge League game in Frederick, Md, yesterday, after hooting Umpire Shaner for six innings finally invited him into the grandstand | to render his decisions He promptly obliged them and went into the stand. | After he had umpired in this location | for half an hour, officials of the Fred ! erick club protested and he returned | to his place behind the bat. Frederick 7 lost the game, 10 to 5.
 Three Metropolitan A. A. L. aquatic < championships are scheduled for deci- sion tonight in the Madison Square