New Britain herald., 1924-08-18
PIONEERS NOSE
 PIRATES OUT.
City League Contest al Walnut
 Hill Park


 for Saturday afternoon at Walnut Hill
 park the Champion Pirates were nos
 ed out hg the Pioneers ih a City league
 contest The same was eKasiing from
 start to finish and Was featured with
 extra hase hits hy Fitzpatrick,
 schmidt, Meeormiek and Dudaek, In
 the ath inning tine Pioneers, who were
 trailing The c0rsairs, came from he-
 hind and pushed across the winning
 ran after two haismen had been. rer tired,
 The veteran atehie Dudack fr0,ed
 Ia be the hera af the Pioneers victory,
 for he plodueei the hit that brought
 in the tieing rnn and came across the
 home plate with The winning run when Jasper fuMhied Frank sheehan's
 grounder,
 Joe Fitzpatrick, who throws them them from inc south side Of inc plate,
 was assigned for mound duty and
 lasted four innings, The Pirates found
 his offerings 10 their liking and he was driven from the mound. He was rs- lie.ed by Peter Fields whose fast ball proved to be puzzle to the Pirate hntiers and they were unable to do much with his offerings, The Pirates went through the City league last year without defeat and mp 10 Sat prday ran mp a total of seven ,ietor- ies.. it was | great piece of work of Fields, who allowed the Corsairs to dent the platter once in the five in- nings he pitched and helped to lower the colors of the Pirates, the first time in two years in tho City league.
 The contest started off fast with Fitzpatrick flaming Conway. Schmidt flied out to Johnny Mccormick and Sheehan got hit 10 centerheld. Beagle hit to Johnny Mccormick and sheehan was thrown out at second. | The Pirates m their second turn at | bat dented home plate twice when | the Pioneer iniled went to pieces and | made several errors Poitis, the first | batter hit to ccnterfield and went to | third when Fitzpatrick threw Halls | grounder into the crowd at first base. l Reynolds hit to Jim Mccormick and | he played it homo to catch Politis, but | the runner was safe when Smithwicl | dropped the ball. Fitzpatrick threw to Restelli on first 10 catch Reynolds mapping. In running him down the Pioneer first baseman threw the ball into centerfeld and Hall scored. Rey- holds going to third.
 The old timers came back strong in their turn at bat and swatted the of- fering of Politis to all corners of the lot and dented the platter six times before they were retired. Frank Shee- han the first batter hit to right field and went to second when Resteli hit one in the same place. Both runners scored when kopec sent long single to the right garden. The Pioneers then filled the he,ses when they bunt" ed and caught the Pirate infield asleep.
 With the bags crowded Joe Titz- patrick smote lusty clout to right field that was good for three bases. He scored on Stevie Dudack's sacrifice fly to left field The Pioneers held a four run advantage over the Corsars, but this was soon cut down in the following inning when the Pirates tented home plate twice. Tn the fourth hey went into the lead when they ,watted the offerings of Joe Fitzpat- 'ick all over the lot. Jasper started he frame by hitting to centerfeld. Iorelli, the next man, was walked. schmidt the Corsairs left fielder. then ;watted ono of Joe's offerings on the lose that went to the second diamond or a homo run. Beagle smote the ill to the same place for three bases md scored when Jim Mccormick nussed up Polltis' roller. Conway an for Politis and after getting round to third, stole home for the nal tally of the inning.
 In the last of the fifth the Pioneers made another score when Jim tcCormick caught hold of one of im's curves to his liking and sent it yer to diamond two for one of the ongest hits seen at the park in some inc.
 The Pirates made their final tally l the seventh inning when Hall, the rst batsman, was hit by Fields, who as now twrling for the old timers. Lall went around to third while two atsmen were being retired and SCOT | when Morelli lined one out to right eld
 The ninth frame proved to be luck full of excitement for the ioneer rooters, for in this inning with le score 10 to against them, the d boys went out andtput across the acessary runs to win the game. John the first batter, got hit trough short and went to second hen Smithwick fired one out to ght field. Mccormick scored from cond by doing some fast stepping, hen Fitzpatrick got d hit in back
 second base. Jim Mccormick hit
 short and Smthwick was forced 1t at third.
 Stevie Dudack then came into the nelight when he pasted out a triple d sent across the runs that tied the ore. The hit was the first Stevie t in the game and it was nice e for it went just left of the tree in nterfied on diamond two. Dudack