New Britain herald., 1927-05-14
Speaking of Sports

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 Matty Hayes, for several years the mainstay of the Ranger A. C in the catching position, has been signed with the All-kensington team. by Manager Dan Malarney according to notices received from the South End team. Eddie Mack. barth of Meriden is another likely addition to the Paper Goods lineur although he is starting out tomor. row with the Insilco team of the Silver City.
 Either of these two men will re- place Adam Sullick who left the kensington team during the week because of a difference in the mat ter of finances with Manager Ma. larney.
 DeVito and Jasper are still being tried out for the position of short. stop on the Kensington team. De- Vito has had the bulk of the work with the team but he hasn't shown a great deal either in the way o1 fielding or in hitting. After a few more games, Manager Malarney should be able to get line on which of the two men is the better player.
 With the Pirates and the Corbin Red sox planning to play alternate games at Willow Brook park on Sunday. the Falcons are going to meet with serious opposition in the mater of drawing crowds.
 Then there is kensington down tre line playing at homo also on Sunday. With three games at the pleasure of New Britain fans, svnue one team is going to suffer.
 The necessity of the Corbin Red Sox in securing a home field is evil dent from the fact that the team il entered in the Central Connecticut Baseball League but the main req son why the team went after | home lot was because of the freeze out" 1t received last year in the city series.
 At that tinme the claim was put forth that the Corbin Red Sox was not a home club and therefore should not split equally in the re- ceipts from the games. Now this reason has been entirely erased of the boards with the Sox one of the official teams at the Willow Brook park diamonds.
 The Falcons have a large follow ing of fans who will keep on at- tending tho games at St. Mary'a field but the Corbin Red sox and the Pirates also have following who have been denied the pleasure of seeing their favorites in action on Sunday.
 It always has been and it still Is our opinion that league ball will draw more interest always than in dependent ball and when the season is well on the way, Willow Brook ark should be a popular drawing card.
 Criticism was expressed at the meeting of the school board over the few games which the New Brit ain High school baseball is playing at home. This season. one sched- rled game is being played here. the one against Hartford High today while another date is open and an- other game might be played in this city.
 If we remember rightly, the main reason why these games have al- most all been scheduled away from homo is the fact that interest among the students at the high school in the home games has been lacking and only a few have attended the games played at home.
 Members of the board criticised the fact that 50 many games were 10 be played in Hartford. It hap pens that regular teams on the New Britain schedule have been the La Sallette and St. Thomas Seminary teams of the Capital City. AS these cams are not allowed to travel out ol Hartford, the games must Of a necessity be played there.
 Should the students at the High school show more interest in the games played at home. there would be no apparent reason why the High school nine should be away -om home on all except a few dates. We believe that this interest could be worked up so that at least halt of the games could be played at home with a profitable return to the school athletic trea- sury.