New Britain herald., 1927-05-14
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SWEDISH TEAMS IN INITIAL VICTORIES
Lutherans and Bethany Nine
 Win Church League Contests
Church League Standing


 w. l.. PC, | kensington Cong... 0 1000 , First Lutheran ... 1 o 1000 l Swedish Bethany ..l 1000 st. Matthew's ..... ,ooO l First Baptist ...... 0 0 1000
 Stanley Memorial 70 o .OOO | Trinity NJ. F.. coo. 0 0 .ooO l South Cong. ...... o 1 .00O l Center Cong. ...... 0 1 .O0O ] l.. B. C. ........ 1 .000 The third season of the Inter- | Church baseball league opened last night with two fast and close games at Willow Brook park, the First 1 Lutherans holding off the Center Congregational team and winning by
 5-3 and the Swedish Bethany best
 ing the South Congregational by 1-5. The kensington Congregations d1 church team won victory by de- fault when the Everyman's Bible ! class did not put nine on the field.
 Fair sized crowds witnessed both
 games. Bethany ys. South One big inning featured the l Swedish Bethany-South Congrega- tional church game, nine runs being scored between the contestants in the opening frame, but the Swedish | team continued to score in later in-
 nings and won the game by 7-5
 Bill Darrow scored the first run of the league when he led off with a 1 long hit to left and scored on Park ] ted around in this inning and SCOT ed five times. The Bethany team i came right back with four in its own | half. slow out1lelding aiding in their l making. For the net three innings
 it was q pitchers battle between Dave Swanson and Parker; each l was in trouble once and was saved l by a double play. The winners took the lead in the fifth and cut off South church rallies in the sixth and seventh, there being men on second and third when Spring fouled to Dahlman and ended the game.
 The work of the two infields was brilliant, Bill Darrow's work at shortstop being exceptionally fast. Carlson. Hierpe, Swanson. Spring, Barta and Hammy Darrow all con. tributed neat plays. Every man on the losing side hit safely, while Hammy Darrow was the only play CT in the game to get more than one hit, but the Swedes put their blows together better and won by timely batting. The lineups and score by innings:
 South congregational-W. Dar- TOW, ss; Parker, p; Barta, 1b; H. Darrow, eb: Peck, c: Spring. 3b: Mercy If; Vessels. If; Washburn, cf
 Sw.dish Bethany-D. Swanson. p: c; D. Johnson, 1h: Hjerpe. 0. Stron,, ab; H. Carlson, 3b; Lage- lof. ss; Olson. If; c. Strom, of; E. Johnson, ct: Person, If. South Cong. .... 500o000-5 10 ? , s-ed. Beth. .... 400021x-7 I 3
 Lutheran> vs. Center |,
 The First Lutherans got away to .. an early lead on the Center Congre- gational team and managed to hold off the latter tean. Nag enough to win by 5-3. Skinner. regular pitch er for the losing team, did not ap- ; pear until late, and Bradley sub stituted: he did we'll, but the team lacked confidence until the regular ooXman came in the fifth inning Meanwhile Fresen had been pitching Y ,o-hit ball and had turned back the Center church in order for five con- ;ecutive innings while his own T mates ran up a 50 lead.
 Empire-Sautter. !
 sanderson opened the sixth with he first Center church hit: George | )eodorian. Skinner and Stockman k ollowed with safe smashes and I hree runs came in. Another rally a vas made in the last frame, but s anderson was caught off third and he threat ended. Each team made h i've hits. the pitching being of a high l alihre and the Swedes playing er- a orless ball behind Fresen. Nyborg o ad the winners attack. with San- [ erson getting two hits for the 0 'enter church. The line ups and Il core by innings: L
 Center Congregational--A. Stock 1an, Jr., ss; Apelgren, elf; Christ, L b; Bradley p-1b; B, Clark, 1b-cf; c 'lodgett, ch: Sanderson. C; Tom 0 ins. If Skinner. D; Booth, If; G. I 'eodorian. rf II First Lutheran-Frisk. ss; Nelson, a b.: H. Ericsson #: Hoist, 1b: g. il ohnson. Of: Nyborg. c; Fresen, D: If: Foberg. 2b. V enter Cong ... 00o0oS0--3 E 0 q irst Luth. .... 110So0N-5 5 0 h Cmpire-F. Rittner. a
 Games Monday
 On Monday night kensington will f, lay the South church. the Trinity f, ethodist will meet the St. Mat n Iew's Lutherans, and the Bible e, lass will stack up against the o yedish Bethany combination. :, 4