New Britain herald., 1926-08-19
LOCAL POLICE W7N TIGHT
 CAME FROM MERLDEN COPS
McMurray Brings in Winning Run On Pass Ball in
 Ninth Innng-Huber and Blanchard Hitting Stars
 of the Game-Wilcox Gets Three Out of Four Blanchard Saves Game Through Great Pitching Kline in Wonderful Fornl-Feeney Shines in Field.

New Britain's Finest" staged the finest baseball exhibition in the ath- Ietic history Of the Hardware City Police Department yesterday when after being the under dog for seven long and tedious innings, the locals tied the score and then won out in the ninth by to 5 count. 1t was tho best game seen in years be- tween the two departments in the ilrSt game of the annual home and home series between Meriden and New Britain. Meriden prayed for ram at several stages of the game so that it's team could slip out uu- der u wet cover with an abbreviated victory, but the traffic squad kept the clouds moving and only an oc- casional sprinkle came down 10 dampen the brows of the erstwhilc biuecoats.
 Mayor Gardner Weld of this city shot over perfect strike for the first ball of the game while Meri- dens mayor, II. Wales de Lines de Bussy. sat on the New Britain bench and judged it a rotten throw. The betting between the two first citj- Zens of the two cities was heavy during the game, each betting the other on almost every inning.
 New Britain gave Billy Kline the surprise of his life in the first in nlnS when after Feeney had struck out and Poiitis drove one to center field which Higgins gathered in,
 Alcky" Huber crashed one between center and right for three bases, Then Tommy Blanchard came through with a stinging single to center and Huber crossed the plate.
 Slim" Politis met his Waterloo in the fourth when Meriden, be- iieving in doing things in punches, slapped out enough hits to count fo';r times. McGrath singled along the left field line. Kline sent him to second with another single over second. Wilcox then got his second hit of the game, single to short right and McGrath and Kline rode home. Baer followed with another slap to short right and Wilcox came in then after Kurcon went out at first, Slater crashed a double in- to center over Huber's head and Baer scored.
 Meriden got another in the fifth. Politis walked McGrath and Kline, and Wilcox got his third single into right center and McGrath came home.
 New Britain staged another rally in the fourth. Huber doubled over into right center and and Blanchard followed with another wo-bagger in center on which Huber scored. O'Mara hit to short but his throw was wide and Blanchard scored on a pretty slide. Singles by Huber and Blanchard in the sixth brought New Britain to within one of tie ing the score and the locals almost did the trick except that Blanchard was caught out at home.
 Blanchard went into pitch in tEe sixth and .Meriden's bats were all excess baggage after that. Tommy struck three out one after the other in the eighth after flaming three in the seventh and he held the team hitless and runless for the re- mainder of the game. Slim" Po- litis caught one of Kline's fast ones into deep center. Higgins stumbled and fell and Slim" kept on to third. Wilcox got relay and shot the ball to third, but the throw was wild and Slim tied the score. Then the fatal ninth dawned. MacMurray slammed one for two bases into center. Cabelus lined out on on the right field line for a single and Mac Murray scored. The crowd blocked the ball and Umpire Sautter ruled