New Britain herald., 1927-06-07
ST. MATS APPLY
BRUSH TO SWEDES
NhiteWaSh Lutheran Rivals
Stanm0rS Have Technical Lead
League Standing


The st. Matthews German Luth-
Grams forced the First Lutherans out
of first place in the Inter-Church'
baseball league last night by win
ming a hair-raising battle of pitch
ers by 20. The win allowed the st.
Mats to keep pace with the STAN
mors, while it dropped the Svedes
from the top to third position: it
was the latters' first defeat of the
season. The game was witnesser by
about 200 spectators.
Otto Suess started for the st.
Mats and held the Swedes we'll in
check, but when the game developed
into such a close struggle he was
relieved by Billy Preisser. star box
man OF the champions last year. Be-
tween them they allowed but four
hits, two in the final inning, but err
rors behind them put them in
trouble once In a while. Bill Fresen,
who worked for the Swedes, also
pitched great ball. The winners scor-
ed one run off him In the third in
ming, and the count remained at 10
until the last frame. Then. with two
out. Hoist made a pair Of bad err
rors and another run scored. In the
last half OF the inning two hits and
an error allowed the Swedes to fill
the sacks with one down, but Preis-
ser picked a man off second and
Nyborg grounded out to third.
~ foh
borg. worked hard and with good
effect. while Walter Inns work at
first base was fine. The line.ups and
score by innings:
St. Matthew's German Lutheran
E. Preisser, 2b; w. Preisser. cf-p;
w. Surko, If: Fink. c: w. Linn, 1b:
Neumann. SIS; E. Surko, 3b; O. Suess,
p-rf; G. Preisser, rf-cf.
First differentiation. Sb; Ny
borg, c: Rengston. SIS; Johnston, CT:
Ericsson. If: Hoist, 1b; Peterson, II;
Foberg, 2b; Fresen. p; Anderson,
pinch hitter.
st. Mats ..... DOL ooo1- 8
First Luth. -. 900 900 90 4 2
South Church Victorious
The South Congregational church
nosed out the Kensington Congrega-
ttonal church by 4-3 in the playoff
OF a postponed game and went into
tie for fourth place. Two slow
ball pitchers. Otto Barta and Good
rich, engaged in pretty duel, with
Barta having shade on his oppo-
nent in both effectiveness and luck.
East team had one big inning in
which 1t scored all its runs: outside
OF those. only one man on each side
got as far as second base.
The winners started with a rush.
Morey slashed triple along the left
field foul line and scored when
Parker hunted safely. Barta thump-
ed a long double to center and
scored on Hammy Darrow's single.
Peck sacrificed and Washburn sent
Darrow home with a single. Wash
burn was picked off second and the
rally ended. In the fourth session
D. Negri was safe on an error and
so was Griffith. Strople connected
for solid blow. and Goodrich's
sacrifice fly completed a three-run
rally.
Washburn made three safe hits
but was caught mapping off base on
two occasions. Feature plays were
turned in by Hammy barrow,
Schaeffer, Barta and Rockwell. Den
ny Negri played a great game at
third for the losers and strople was
death to flies in left weld. The line
ups and score by innings:
Kensington Congregational-Chot-
kowski 2b. II. Clark CT. D. Negri 3b,
Griffith 1b, strople II, Goodrich p,
Hart c. Woodford SIS. Gugerty RI.
South Congregational-Morey IS,
Parker 1b. Barta p. H. Darrow Oh,
Peck c. Washburn cf-rf. Rockwell
II. W. Bomba RI. w, Darrow CT,
Spring 3b. Schaeffer 3b.
Kens. Cong. 90 0 3 0 0 % 3 2
South Cong. 10 0 0 0 0 x-4 3 8
Baptists Defeat Methodists
The First Baptists sprang sur
prise on the Trinity Methodists and
handed them a ~ defeat in a game
of many hits. The result dragged
the losers down to sixth position but
allowed the Baptists to climb out of
the cellar. Each team scored a run
in the first inning, and in the fourth
the Methodists found Keiffer for
two more. The Baptists had been
hitting Alden Hewett hard but could
not put their blows together for
runs, In the fifth, however, they
| finally made their hits tell and
scored three runs, taking the lead.