New Britain herald., 1925-08-11
 
CITY TITLE
 SERIES ON SUNDAY
Pirates and KenSinSton to Meet
 in First Preliminary Games

New Britain will have q series of games to decide the championship Of tlhe city, it was decided last night at d meeting of the managers of the four leading baseball nlnes. The | first game will be played on Sull.ay, August i6, between the Pirates anu AlI-Kensingtons in K"nsnglon
 The teams that will play of wilt be the Pirates, Kcnsingt on, Falcons and the Corbin Red SoN and two elimination series will be held with a final series to determine the cham pions of the Hardware City. The first series starting next Sunday will go to the best two out of three Igamcs. Tho second series which will start between the Falcons and the Corbin Red SoN, will start on sun day, August 23 and will be inc best two out of three games. The win ncrs of these two will play each other q series of two out of three land will be declared champions Of | the city.
 The meeting last night was all jimpromptu | one called during the day. The managers explained last night that they thought that some l thing ought to be done with regard ito holding a title series and because
 the time was too short, the managers of the home diamonds expressed the | desire 10 have the Corhin Red SoX land the Pirates enter the series to determine which team shows up best for the season.
 Those at the meeting last night were P, Buckley and "Riprer" Me- Keon of Kensington; Kenneth Saun. ders and Charles Miller of the Pi- rates; John Tobin, Hal Corbin, Will liam Fitzpatrick and Paul Snyder of i the Corbin Red Sox and Joseph Ncniski and Ziegler of the Falcons
 Each team will post certified check for SlOO with the sports edi- 1tor of the Herald on next Saturday as q guarantee that they will go | through with the series and it was voted that no player would take part in the game unless he has at Isome time during the past season played in at least one game.
 The managers decided to use the 1 following men as umpires during the games: Mike Lynch, Ed Crowley, Herb Sautter and James Maher with Artie Campbell as alternate in case any of the four could not officiate.
 Managers Joe Veniski and P. Buckley drew lots for their first op- Iponcnt and in the draw, Veniski pulled the Corbin Red Sox and Corbin drew the Pirates. Manager
 Buckley stated that he was ready to start on next Sunday and as the Pirates haven't game for that date, ! it was agreed that the first game would start in Kensington next Sum- day The Corbin Red Sox will be away on a two-day trip over Satur- day and Sunday and they will start play on the following Sunday against the Falcons at St. Marys field.
 "Chuck" Smcdley and Gerald P. Trean were appointed treasurers of the series, It was voted to split the met proceeds on a 60-4O per cent basis the winner of the series to get the larger share and the 4 loser to take the small end and a split will take place after each series.
 This aCtnon of the managers last night now gives the fans of the city an opportunity to warm up to their respective champions and it is ex- Ipected that with four such teams as will he represented, the title series
 of games will be a knockout. The preliminary series are expected to
 ho the hottest battles of all as that will decide the players in the finals.