New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
ST. MATHS DEFEAT
 CENTER BY l3 ID 1.
Wild Finish in Dark-StaDmorS
 Beat Swedish Bethany
Iea1ue Standing

 Center Cong. ....... 10 .2S1 Kensington Cong. .... 0 IT .ooO
 The St. Matthew's German Luth- erans walloped the Center Congre- gational church by 1S-1 in a one sided Inter-Church baseball league evening. The losers again played with makeshift lineup, but after the fifth inning the St. Matts ran In a nondescript crew which made the losing team look like veteran com bination. For the first five in njngs the St. Matts worked Bradley for passes and hit and bunted their way around, taking advantage of all most innumerable wild throws and poor plays to run up a 13-o lead. Otto Suess kept the Center church at bay during these frames, holding them to three hits and not allowing a man to pass second bass. He struck out a large number and i showed that, with control, his curves were the most effective of those of any pitcher in the circuit.
 In the sixth inning the St. Matts sent in pinch-hitters, recruiting them from their loyal spectators who had followed all their games. 1 These could not score. but when they took the field they kept the Center ] church down to one run. The sev- enth. which was played in the dark ! by managers agreement. saw still more substitutes injected by the winners, and both sides succeeded in ! getting almost every man to first 1 base only to have them all picked 1 off in the darkness. With two down Litke replaced Suess. He walked : Deodorian but trapped him between bases for the final out. The jubilant 1 St. Matt crowd carried the heroic relief pitcher off the field on their shoulders and a great fireworks celebration followed
 The pitching of Suess and some 1 pretty running catches by Booth featured. The line-ups and score by innings:
 St. Matthew's German Lutheran F. Preisser, 2b; Litke, 2b-p; w. Preisser, ss; E. Steege, ss; Fink. C; Steinke, C: w. Linn, cf: K Klopp. Of; Neumann, If: E. Surko. 3b; G. Linn, 3b; w. surko, If: Hausrath, If; NJ. Steege. 1b; O. Suess, p-2b.
 Center Congregational-G. Carl son, c; B. Clark. 1b: Sanderson, ss- p: Bradley. p-ss; Booth, If; Board man, If: G. Deodorian, 2b; N. Deo- dorian, If; Hoyle 3b.
 St. Matts .... 416 no 0-13 10 3 Center Cong. 900 o01 o. 6
 Stanmors Beat Bethany
 The pitching of Carl Rittner and slugging of Jack Thornstenson en- abled the Stanley Memorial church to defeat the Swedish Bethany, 9-5 After the losers had scored twice in the opening inning the Stanmors came back with six runs. enough to win, as it turned out. During the rest Of the game the two teams bat tied on even terms. playing good ball. but the early lead of the win ners kept them in front.
 Carl Rittner pitched a fine game in the pinches, while Dahlman was
 hit hard in spots. Thorstenson smashed out two three baggers and a double and scored two runs. while Hamlin made two hits. Lagerlof got three hits for the Swedes, with Carl son. Dahlman, Johnson. and Olson making two apiece. The winners
 used two Ritters and three Rittners. The line-ups and score by innings: Swedish Bethany-H. Carlson. c; Dahlman. p: D. Johnson, b; Hjerpe,
 2b; Lagerlof, 3b; F. Johnson. ss; o.
 son, If; Nilsson, Of; strom, If. Stanley Memorial-Hamlin, If: F.
 Rittner, ss; H. Rittner. c; J. Thor stenson. cf; Iverson, Sb: A. Ritter, If; Johnson, 1b; c. Rittner p: F.
 Ritter, 2b.
 Swed. Beth. .. 200 21o o-5 II 4 Baptists Win One
 The First Baptists took a game from Kensington via forfeiture.
 They also played a game with the Trinity Methodists, but no score has been turned in by the teams as yet. Games Friday
 Three games will be played Fri day The Methodists will play the
 South ongregationalists on Dia-
 mond No. 1, the First Lutherans
 will take on the Everyman's Bible class on Diamond Mo- 2, and the
 Baptlsts and Stanmors will play on
 the grass diamond"
 Next Monday the league season
 will come 10 close with two regu-
 larly scheduled games and play
 off between the Center and Stanley
 Memorial churches. There are still ten postponements and replayals to