New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-04
Speaking
Of Sports


The New Britain police depart.
ment baseball team has started seri.
Gus practice for the two coming
games with the Meriden team and
Manager Tommy Dolan is pushing
the squad 50 that the players will
all be in shape for pair OF real
battles.
Reports are current about the city
that the local department will ap-
pear in the games resplendent in
new uniforms. These are to be pur-
chased through a fund organized by
the lawyers in the city. 1t Is said
that the attorneys, who are among
til" most deeply interested fans in
the city in the police team. are
roofing hard for the local nine and
their action in getting them new uni
forms. means that they are backing
the team to win.
The Meriden team Is stronger than
ever this year and the team wants to
make q clean sweep of the seriet
with New Britain. Last year the
home and home series ended In q
tie with each team winning one
game. This year both arrangements
have predicted a clean sweep.
The Stanley Works baseball team
faces a critical test tonight at $50
o'clock in the Industrial Baseball
league when it faces the Stanley
Rule & Level crew. A win for the
Stanley Works will put the team in
a deadlock for first place with the
P. & F. Corbin nine while a loss will
practically give the Corbins the
championship.
The Stanley Rule team in Its last
few games has made itself the most
featured aggregation in the league
and the turn Of events that brings II
against the Stanley Works, is one OF
those things that happens.
Big Jim Scott will most probably
be on the mound for the Stanley
Works tonight while either Billy
Wolfe and Billy Schmidt will do the
work for the Stanley Rule. This
will be one OF the most bitter bat
ties of the season and there isn't
any doubt but that every rooter will
be out to back his favorite tonight.
The football season will be upon
us before we know it but the otfi-
Gals Of the All-New Britain team
are wide awake to the fact that the
season will open in another couple OF
months.
New Britain seems assured Of an
excellent team this year Red
receptive mood for an offer from the
home town club. Grafton O'Connell
of Bristol is another likely player
with New Britain Jim Manning and
the other Fordham players are yet to
be heard from but there are plenty
OF good football players around who
will probably be given the opportun-
lty 10 sign up.
The management this year will in.
sist on a practice once week. This
has been the rule in past years but
it has never been enforced. A player
who cannot attend practice once a
week will not be on the team this
season.
Play for rankings in the New
Britain Tennis club continues on
Yesterday Murdoch in a sensational
match. defeated Louis Vogel and
thereby set himself in No. place
The scores Of the match we're Sc
and ga.
Duncan stands in fifth place b,
virtue OF his win over Christensen.
Van Open stands in seventh place
by defeating Christensen, and VogeI
now is No. 5.
The other rankings are as follows:
Kirkh, n, No. l. Dressed No. ?. A
Benson No. 3, and Lienhard No. 4
The Cc1,iers almost won bal
game in the Junior City league last
night but they didn't seem to want
it. In the second inning they com
hined two nits with an error and
still had only one man on base al
a time. Bardek singled but over
slid second on steal. kolodzie.
was safe and worked around tt
third, but Florkowslx worked The
ancient hidden ball play on him and
tagged him off the bag. So Zar.
ecki's hit was wasted and the game
was tossed away.
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