New Britain herald., 1924-07-14


 standing as undefeated leaders Of the city league, having trouneed the Pioneers al Walnut Hill park satnr' day afternoon while the Rangers were winning from the Fafnirs and the Mohawks defeating the Saint Mary team.
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 Ability Of the Mohawks 10 field safe when safe fielding was necessary, enabled that outfit 10 win s and ( | from Saint Mary's team at Walnut 1 Hill park Saturday afternoon in inc third city league game, Both Preisser, the Mohawk hurler. and Walters, the Saints tosser, handed out a good brand Of ball, but Preisscr had the advantage Of safe fielding in the plnches, the work Of Second Base Rice having been especially brilliant in saving tho pitcher and turning on at least two occasions clouts that were labelled safetios into two put outs. On the other hand, the Saints cracked at the wrong moment and no less than six Mohawks got on first through errors by their opponents and three Of these were turned into runs. An error at homo in the form of q badly thrown ball accounted for an- other run, while an error in center field let in still another.
 An unusual feature Of this game was that while there should have been several stolen bases on each side, mis- plays by the opponents advanced the men by errors rather than thefts.
 The batting features were provided by the losers, klatka socked out a triple in the fourth that would have been good for a homer had Rice of the Mohawks or any speedy runner been on the bag. Then in the fifth Smiling Duke McCabe walloped the old ball over onto Vine street for a homer. The only other extra hit was two-bayger by Carrazzo.
 Neither team scored in the opening inning but the Mohawks virtually won the game in the second. Cosgroye, first up, was out, Grace to Mccarthy, but Rice was safe when McInerney let his hot grounder get away from him. Caliza hit safely and Priesser followed with a safe bingle. About this time the Saints started throwing the ball to the bags and on a throw from Kelley to McInerney the ball went wild and Rice crossed the pan with the first run. Venture was safe on Clair's error and on Carrazzos two base hit both Caliza and Priesser scored. Venture and Carrazzo tallied on Orsie's safe hit, the fourth of the inning. The frame ended when Nor feldt grounded out, Clair to Mccarthy. The Mohawks had batted all the way around. The fourth inning found the Mohawks tallying again. Priesser, first Up was out on a fly to McCabe but Venture got hit and was safe on sec ond on an error by Clair, the short stop throwing the ball wild after the runner had beaten out an infield tan. Venture scored on a wild toss by the catcher and the inning ended when Walters took things into his own hands and famed Carrazzo and Dahl- son.
 The Saints got their first taste of scoring in this same inning when klatka. who was second up, hit for three bags. McInerney was passed and started speeding toward second. The catcher made a beautiful throw to the bag in an attempt to get it re- iayed back in time to nip Klatka at the plate. The ball landed souarely Tn Rice's hands, but he dropped it and the runner was safe andsJ{latka SCOT Cd. Again in the fifth the Saints scored when McCabe got his homer put the Mohawks in their half added two to their total.
 Orsle, first up, singled. Norfeldt advanced him with another hit and Cosgrove was safe on McInerney's mlsplay. Orsie scored and Cosgrove scored on nice single by Rice. This ended the scoring for the Mohawks but the Saints were yet to throw a scare into them,
 The eighth inning was bad for the Mohawks.
 Preisser gave Mccarthy four halls ana an error by Orsie let Mccarthy around to third and Grace was safe. Another error, this one by Johnson. ana klatka was safe and a run was Tn. TWO more runs came in on Me- lnerney's hit and Mac, himself talIied on Walters hit. The rally ended, however, when McCabe was out. Henl nessey 10 Norfcldt.
 The score:
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