New Britain herald., 1927-08-08
League Standing

l w. l.. PC. | ourrlttS .......... LULU 1 Pirates .......... .S33 West Ends ....... 3 2 500 l Rangers ......... .333 Speedboys ....... .l67 Tabs ,............ 5 .167
 The champion Burritts barely managed to maintain their lead in the City league race Saturday after noon, losing an early 7-1 lead when the Speedboys rallied strongly in the late innings but pulling out a 9-8 victory when Johnny Rose went into the box, stopped his opponents, and 1 hit a home run with Zaleski on third in the final inning, The game started out like the usual slaughter which the Burritts have been inflict- | ing, but the leaders had to work their hardest at the end and were then just able to get the extra run needed for victory.
 The Pirates kept within half a game of first place by pounding out a 15-S victory over the Rangers in a carelessly played game. The win ners hit hard and the losers hardly hit The West Ends got the jump on the Tabs and took a 5-2 decision on the strength of a lead gained in the first two innings.
 Burritts 9, Speedboys The Speedboys came from far be- hind in the late innings, drove Zaleski out of the box. and went into the ninth inning with one-run lead. only to have Johnny Rose win his own game by crashing out his third home run of the season and give the Burritts 9-8 victory in the most exciting finish of the season. Morse Richtmyer, with his hoodoo still on his trail. was late arrival and went into the box cold, the Burritts hammering him for five hits and as many runs in the first two innings. After that he curbed their slugging tendencies and kept them well in hand until Roses smash. Zaleski was wild and weak ened toward the end, but Rose took up the pitching and saved the game in the eighth and ninth frames,
 Zalesl1i was hit in the first inning and scored on a pair of errors. In the next frame five hits, including Partyka's double, gave the Burritts 50 lead. The Speedboys picked up their first in the fourth. making 1t out of two hit batsmen, force hit, and Bus" Miller's single. Roses triple scored Luty in the fifth and Osborne's error after J. Bud- nick had walked in the sixth made 1t 7-1.
 Then the Speedboys, rapidly be- coming the laughing stock of the league by their weak play, pulled an amazing comeback, and the Burritt infield, which had been playing per fectly, blew up under the shock. Mil Ter started the seventh with bis third straight hit. Cherpac fouled out. but Scott was safe when Kuklinski dropped the throw on his sacrifice bunt. A wild pitch brought Miller in and Richtmyer walked, two more runs scoring on Osborne's safety to right and two errors in bringing the ball back. Milewski famed. L. Budnick made a two-base error on Erickson's grounder, Ditsch walked, and Harold Bacon dropped hit into right to score Ditch. Miller came up agatn but forced Bacon. How ever. the score was tied at 7-7 and the contest had become real base ball game.
 The Speedboys took the field with renewed confidence and turned back the Burritts in order. then went into the lead. Cherpac opened with a two- bagger to left center and Za- leski who had waited too long, re- tired in favor of Rose. Johnny walked Scott before he warmed up. and, after Richtmyer had forced Cherpac, Osborne drove Scott home with a looping hit back of second. but when Rose famed Milewski and got Erickson on a ground ball to Zaleski.
 The Burritts came In fighting mad for their last turn at bat. Richtmyer hit Zaleski for the second time, and it proved fatal, for after Luty had been retired Rose lashed a screaing liner over third for home run and won his own game. The hit was a terrific one, the ball at no time being more than seven feet off the ground, and it was perfectly placed to elude Cherpac in left. The speedboys worked hardin their half and Bacon got around to third, but Cherpac took third strike with his bat on his shoulder.
 The feature of the game was "Yordy" Osborne's work at first. Yordy had IS putouts, six of them unassisted and started g double play. Rose and Miller led the hitting of their respective teams. The box score
 BURRITTS
 AB. R. H. 20. A. E. Partyka, If ........t l