New Britain herald., 1925-06-09

the City League Was accepted by the public amusement commission last night at meeting. Jimmy gave the commissioners an earful about how good the City League Is going 10 be and his words were not the old g. o. S. but the real thing. The league Will be faster and better this year than ever.
 Four more teams tried 10 enter the league but they were too late because it had already been decided to limit the league to six teams. With a showing like this year, the city fathers who hold the reins over the city's gold will probably have \ good argument to have them loosen up with larger appropriation next year for the furtherance of baseball In this city.
 Still you hear the wise ones crack and say. "Oh, baseball Is dead Tn this city" What with Landers' league in full swing and the City league 10 open so on, Johnny Tobin's Corbin Red sox playing the road and the Falcons at home not to mention the Rangers, Orioles, Burritts Speed Boys. the Church league and all the other junior teams, some people have to have an awful lot of base ball to have the game alive.
 The Gascos will play team com posed Of T.anders players at Walnut Hill park tomorrow afternoon. The Gascos have yet to lose game this year.
 The date set for Judge Bill Man san's team to play St. Thomas. Seminary nine Is fast drawing close and Bill will have to assemble his lineup pretty soon. That Is the day on which Jimmy Naughton steps back into the old togs and does his stuff. Bill himself. years ago a pitcher of no mean ability. will probably occupy the mound again this year.
 The New Britain high school base ball team ends up the present sea- son this year with two games one against the LaSalette Seminary and the other against St. Thomas Sem ihary, both of Hartford. The local bows are out to win these two last games to even up the slate which has been a poor one.
 High school athletes don't neces- .arily have to feel so awful bad about the showing of its baseball and track teams because the sports the past year are about evenly di- vided, New Britain beat them all at football and only for bad breaks, q perfectly good basketball team would have cleaned the slate. Base hal, and track haven't been so much, but then New Britain can't have everything and another year Is com- ing.
 Babe Ruth hasn't found his bat tinr eye. Out of four trips to the piate yesterday he checked Up laYse goose egg in the hit and run column,
 Buster" Lou Gehrig. last year with Hartford, Is busting them plenty in the big leagues. Tester day Lou got homer, triple ana lis sacrifice fly scored the winning run for the Yankees,
 The Pirates baseball team will practice tonight at Walnut Hill park, This is an important session and all members are requested to be pres ent. The Orioles will practice tomorrow night on Diamond No. 1 at Walnut HUI in preparation for hard game next Sunday. The local nine will tourney to Meriden to meet the fast travelling Clovers of that city. Re ports from the Silver City state that the Ciovers will have strong lineup in the field and the local boys will all be on deck tomorrow night 10 erase the rough spots discovered se far.
 The Rangers and Matty Hayes. star catcher for the team. are on the outs Last Sunday an argument cropped out between thel manager ,f the Rangers and Niatty, and both got angry with the result that Mat V swung over and played with the Tafnir Dragons against his own teammates. The. Rangers all con slider this bad breach of athletic e,iouette and they state that they and Matty have severed relations TOT all time.
 This will be a bad bit of news for all those who have been following the Rangers in the pursuance or their sports because much or the team's pep has been ascribed to Matty's work behind the hat. Hayes is a coming'catcher who could make something VI lnt bdsebdiA "0''u - he follows the straight path. His act of switching against his own men last Sunday was anything but sportsmanlike and savors a bit of elevated opinion Of himself This, however. does not seem to be at all like the Matty Hayes of the dia- mond. who. a couple of years ago. was SO loyal to the Rangers club that even when his head was split open by a batter who swung back too far. he refused 10 quit until he was literally forced to do so, It is the ardent hope of all fans that Mattv and the Rangers will patch up thsir differences and that the future