New Britain herald., 1926-08-18


 ship last evening at Walnut Hin park when 1t beat the Bristol entry II 10 3. This means that the local boys are entered for the state cham pionship. The semi-flnals will be played in New Haven August 26 and the finals will be played there on the 27th.
 Larry Mangan's work with the boys never stood out any better than 1t did last night. He has his team in perfect control and no manager ever had more willing bunch of players in under him. We are quite willing to place a bet on the local team to win the state champion ship.
 It Is fact that the New Britain team will have to meet a team that is far advanced in baseball to lose out and although we haven't seen any of the teams in action from the other districts, we would. if we had any, lay our pile on the local tribe of apple busters.
 Next Sunday, the first game of the series between the kensington and Corbin Red Sox teams will be play ed In kensington. We look in this contest for complete reversal Of form for the Kensington team over the showing of last week. It isn't often that team blows up com pletely, but the saving is that every team has some poor bareball in it at important times and it is best that the kensington team get it all out of its system in the first game.
 "Yiggs" Patrus will be in the line up even if he has to use crutches, he states, His leg is healing up in fine shape and he will probably be able to play the entire game Sunday. ! He will serve as the best steadying influence the players need.
 Manager John Tobin of the Cor bin Red sox doesn't look for any thing soft in the game with Ken ! sington next Sunday My team has shot the works on occasions just like 1 the Kensington team did last Sun !. day" he says. but they always came back to play twice as good the 1 following week. That's just what ! Kensington is going to do and be- ! lieve me, I'm going to use the ! strongest guns I can to win that | first game"
 "Don't worry" says Manager Pat [ Buckley. the Falcons haven't won | the series yet. I don't know what 1 was the matter with my team last 1 Sunday. but they never played ball . like that. I know my team is as 1 good and even better than the Fall | cons or the Corbin Red SoX and | they'll come back, you just wait and sec"
 This sounds like great confidence ! in the Kensington team and we be- lieve that the team players are worthy of the consideration. We all have our poor days, but we may be down but not out. ,
 The Landers and Union Works baseball teams will play off their game postponed from last Saturday, at the Willow Brook park diamond tonight at 6 o'clock.
 The Washington team barely missed beating yesterday at the hands of the Burritt team through nothing else but good fortune. The, team played listlessly and nearly lost it's first game. The Washington team will certainly have to snap in- to it and play better baseball if 1t doesn't want to go into a tie with the Paradise Park crew for first place and thereby stand chance of losing the league title.
 The Washington team has two games left. One will be played against the Paradise Park team Fri day afternoon. This will be the cru cial game of the year for the team, as it will tell whether the Paradise boys will keep up the work and tie the league leaders On the last day of the league, week from next Fri day, Washington will face the Boys Club in another tough test. Losing these two games means a tie with Paradise Park, and If the team doesn't show better stuff than it did yesterday we are afraid the team will lose out.
 Bogdanski entered the role of pitcher in yesterdays game, and 1t was his work alone that saved Washington from defeat. Pierkow- ski pitched a poor game because he was so wild, but the fault does not lay alone with him. Ills mates would not play with him yesterday as they should, and this served to unnerve him.
 The Burritts tried hard to win yesterday because they wanted the name of beating the Washington team. The game should have been theirs except for the breaks that went against them.
 Johnny Clinchs local amateur bat tier, is stepping into his brother Jimmy's shoes in the amateur ranks Johnny won a third and decisive fight with Youseman of Hartford last night and it won't be long be- ( fore he will be appearing in the star I bouts on the amateur cards. e IllII . . . - U n . . |l =
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