New Britain herald., 1926-08-23
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Clty league saturday afternoon must have set several new records. The Pirates went to bat 62 times, scored 39 runs, smashed out 35 hits for 43 bases, and stole S9 bases. Begley faced the opposing pitcher nine times. Speck Howard hit safely five times in as many innings and was taken out with perfect record for the day. Turkey Claire popped on his first attempt, then hit six singles in a row and ended by drawing a pass. After striking out in the first inning, Red Mathis reached first every time and scored seven runs. In the third inning 16 men went to bat, there being II hits made; four men made two hits apiece in this session, Matulis getting triple and single. The Robins made IT errors; the only ones who did not tumble were Meehan and Rubon. and the latter did not get near enough to ball to even tumble it. Makula was the only Robin to keep his same position all afternoon, no less than five men playing four positions apiece. The game required within eight minutes of three hours and was not finished until the fifth in- ming of the second game on Dia- mond No. l. Those facts and figures tell more than a play-by-play ac- count what kind of game it was.
 Determined to snap the Robins out of their slump again, Coach "Reddy Makule' has called a prac- tice session for Tuesday night and will try to infuse new spirit into his charges.
 When Red" Campbell was hurt, one fan, more facetious than re- spectful, remarked that they ought 10 bar these youngsters from play ing, anyway" Campbell didn't give g. hoot about his injury and con- tinued to field and hit as before, hopping to first base on one foot.
 The City league likes redheads. Aside from the gloriously undying Campbell on the West Ends, there are Makula of the Robins, Lindgren and Cherry of the Rangers, and flock of Pirates. This team has three auburn-topped players, Claire, Mstulis. and Carlson. And there isn't poor player in the whole crowd.
 The good sportsmanship of Charley Miller has caused the with drawal of the protest entered by the Pirates after their defeat by the Burritts. The protest was entered when the field umpire failed to see the hidden ball play which the Burritts worked to end the game, and was overruled by the umpire in-chief. Manager Kenneth Saunders protested, but Miller. who is coach ing the Pirates, will not allow the matter to be pressed. He says that with the Burritts leading the league the other teams would vote against that team just to haul them down, even If all the arguments in the case were on their side.
 The powers that be, however, re- marked that there would be no end to it if Fields had been taken out at that time. They meant that the fal would have been on them so hard that there would be no peace left in kensington.
 This attitude on the part of the fans in kensington is all wrong. No team can play with about 100 coach- es, that is certain. And when every | one in the grandstand is shouting | what to do, as if he or she, and | there are g great many she's in this argument, were the expert on the | wGy the game should be played 1t | is no wonder that a team gets | rattled.
 It was certainly a great game for l seven innings and We look for some | real classics before the season is over.
 Pat Buckley was telling us yester- day that he had a third pitcher eligible to play in the series with both teams. Bucholtz was the man, b'-t he is unable to get him now because he is pitching in the NYCO league for Norwalk. We should think because of the sportsmanship shown by the kensington manager that the other managers should give him the right to pick another pitcher.
 The Fafnir baseball team looked somewhat natural Saturday in the Industrial League game when Hal Corbin, playing the first game since he hurt his leg and incidentally his second game of the season, appeared in the lineup, and Lipetz, the first baseman. took his position in the game after several week layoff be- cause of illness.
 The team squeezed through with q victory over the Stanley Works, and when we say squeezed through, we mean just that. The Bearing Makers barely won from Frank Me Conn's tribe.
 Only a small crowd of fans watched the game yesterday, but 1t was a thriller from every angle. The Kensington team was certainly over its f1ub-dub of the week before and only the hitting punch was lacking, caused the team to lose it's game.
 There are several criticisms 10 make in the plan of play followed by the Kensington team yesterday. ' We were of the opinion that Ray : Bcglcy should have played the [ 'snneeze" in the fifth inning with r