New Britain herald., 1926-09-01
.S0. CHURCH TAKES FOURTH STRAIGHT
Defeats KenSington-St. Mats
 Win Wild Burlesque
Church League Standing

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 Stanley Memorial g s .52o
 South Cong. ..... 2 9 500 1 Blue Army ...... .467 First Baptist .... 2 .43S | Center Cong. ...7 10 .412
 White Army ...6 10 1875 l kensington Cong. fl .067 l The South church won its fourth
 straight game last night in the In | ter-Church league by defeating Kensington, S-2, in postponed af- i fair. The winers are thus the first team in the circuit to complete their
 schedule, and the victory gave them an even break for the year. Last nights game was well played the South church having the margin in both hitting and fielding and earn ing a clear-cut victory. Parker let Kensington down with three singles, while the South church landed on | Goodrich for eleven safeties. Both were given good support most of the way.
  inning on an error and hit but were stopped when Washburn turn ed in the fielding gem of the night.
 racing far into left field to stab liner with one hand while going at top speed. Errors evered the count in the last half. Kensington threatened again in the second, but double play, Mercy to Peterson 10 Rockwell. wiped out men at the
 plate and second base. In their half the South church put the game away, Washburn, Bomba, Parker Bell and Adams all hitting safely and driving in five runs. From then on neither team did much scoring. but each staged a double play, Hart getting q not liner and doubling Mercy off second and Bell doubling the runner off the same base after hauling in a trick foul.
 Bomba led the attack of the win ners with three straight hits, while Bell and Parker got two apiece. Good outfielding featured the de- fense Chotkowski making series Of pretty catches for Kensington and Washburn and Adams doing the
 same for the victors. The line-ups and score by innings:
 kensington Congregational Els worth, c; Wright, Of. Griffith, 1b; Hart, ss; Goodrich, D: Strobel. 2b;
 V. Lewis, 3b; Chotkowski, If; Myers,
 If.
 South Concregational-Rockwell 2b; Parker, D; Bell, 3b; Adams, If; Peterson, c; Weed, 1b; Morey, 1b; Vessels, ss; Washburn, of; W, Bom- ba, If.
 Kens. Cong. .... 100 001 1-2 South Cong. .... 150 101 0-S
 St. Matts. Add Another
 The St. Matthew's Lutherans add ed another totally unnecessary game to their long string and ran their number of consecutive wins to 13, when they defeated the Center Church. 15-7, in Il game which was more or less a burlesque. The St. Matts hit hard and ran wild on the bases in the first three innings, pill ing up their 5 runs while holding their opponents to one counter. Then they began the burlesque, attempt ing catches behind their backs, bat ting left handed, shifting positions, giving men to the Center church. and pulling other stunts which did not improve the quality of the game but did give both players and the large crowd succession of good laughs. The Center church rallied against this type of playing but could not overcome the winners big lead.
 Walter Linn, St Matt. center field CT. hit a home run, while Bliss Clark, who played second base and several other positions for the losers, made two triples and scored three runs. Aided by dropped throws, Carlson stole a lot of bases Billy Preisser made the catch of the year with his hands behind his back, the ball bouncing out and over his head where he picked it off again with a quick stab. Deodorian made stat uesque and uncomprehending double play on second. The scorers could not decide what were hits and what were errors and gave up the at tempt. It was poor baseball, but it was good fun. The line-ups and score by innings: Center Cong.-Christ, 3b; Szabo. ss; D; Carlson, c; Apclgren, If; 1b; E. Clark, 2b: Paro, If; Pinkerton, If; N. Deodorian, Of; w. Surko, cf
 St. Matt.-E. Preisser, 2b; w. Preisser, p; E, klopp, 1b; w. Linn, Of; K. Klopp, Of; W. Surllo, If; G. Linn, If; Fink, e; C. Linn, 3b; F. Kiopp, If; Neumann. ss. Center Cong. .... 001 024 O. z St. Matt. ....... 726 GOO 0-15
 Managers Meet Tonight
 A meeting of the board of man. agers will be held at 8 o'clock this evening at the '. 4'. c. A. Several matters are due to come up, one being the protest of the First Baptists regarding the game in which they were defeated by the First Lutherans. The final obse- 1uies over the baseball season will be gone through with and basket ball and bowling will probably be sounded out.
 The Trinity Methodists and First | Lutherans will play a postponed l game on Friday night. Others will |