New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-30
FIRST LUThERANS
CAPTURE PENNAN7
ClinCh IDter.CburCh Baseball
League Championship
League Standing

w. l.. PC.
| First Lutheran Is | .941
/ st. Matthew's. IA 3 SPA
| h. b. c. ... 8 5 .643
Trinity NJ f. =. / .5Gs
South Cong. E.. s 500
Stan Memorial s 9 All
Swedish Beth. 10 .412
i First Baptist -. s 10 .375
Center Cong. e.. 10 .oSs
kensing'n Cong. 0 Is 900
The First Lutheran church base
' ball team clinched the champion
! ship of the lnter-Church league last
/ night by administering an So drub-
| bing to the Swedish Bethany church
team. With two-game lead and
only one game left to play, the
SWedes would have a margin of a
| full game even if they lost that re-
i naming contest and the ST Mats
! captured their lone game left. 1t
; is the second baseball title which
the First Lutherans have won in
! three years. They captured the pen
nant in 1925 but bowed last year to
the st. Mats, returning to power
/ this year after the closest race in
| the league history.
Last nights game was a battle
| between Bill F'resen and Dave
swanson, with the former winning
because he was in control at all
times. Swanson had one bad inning,
| or perhaps it would be more correct
to say that the Lutherans had one
big inning, as they customarily win
their games with one grand run
producing rally. This time it came
in the fourth inning and netted xev-
en- runs, enough to put the victory
away.
Hoist and Fresen led the winners
offense with two hits apiece while
H. Carlson made two Of those gath
cred by the Bethany players. The
llneups and score by innings:
First Lutherans-Nelson 3b. Ny
borg C. Fresen p, Bcngston Oh Eric
son If. +. Johnson IF, Hoist 1b.
Frisk SIS, Foberg Ct
Swedish Bethany-Dahlman c, D.
Swanson p. D. Johnson 1b, Hjerpe
2b. l.agerlof 3b, Carlson S. Olson
If, Strom cf Nilsen rf
LIST lutherans 0 Q 0 ! 0 0-S s .
SWed. Beth. 0 0 0 % Z 4
81. Mats 6, >tanmors :;
The excellent pitching of Otto
Suess and a pair of home runs by
Eddie Surko and Walter Linn gave
he 81 Matt haN-'S,
ans 6-S decision over the Stanley
Memorial team. Suess held the slug
ging Stanmors to three scattered
hits and struck out six men. Carl
Rlttnef. who worked for the losers,
Whitfield two but was found for 10
sateties. The St Mats bounded into
the lead in the second inning and
stayed there in spite Of Stanmor rail-
lies which brought the losers up to
AS in the sixth frame.
Eddie Surko, in addition 10 his
homer, made single, while Coody
Preisser came through with two hits
Smyrk made two-thirds OF his teams
MT total but he also was responsible
for both OF its errors. Strangely
enough. Eddie Surko also made his
teams two misplays. Fink featured
with running one-hand catch OF a
foul. The linc-ups and score by
innings:
Stanley ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, If; II.
hilttner. c: +. kittner, IS; j. Thor
stenson, 1b; Williams OBJ T. Thor
stenson. IF; Smyrk, Of; lvereon. Sd;
G. Rittner, p.
st. Matthew's German Lutheran
f. Preisser, 2b; +" klopp. ob: w.
Preisser. IS: Neumann. IS: Fink. c:
W, Linn. Of; l.. Surko, 3b: W. Surko,
If; q. Suess, p; NJ. Steegc, ID; G.
preisser. RI.
Stan. Mem. ....."ol 1o1o-3 ..
st. Matt ......o3l 40o2*- 6l3 2
F.. -. c. ~. South Cong. )
The Everyman's Bible class slop-
ped its way to victory over the South
Congregational church on a diamond
Which was so covered with water
and mud that fast play was impos-
sihle. The score was 10 but would
hay" been smaller all around had it
not been for the lake behind short
stop, Hit after hit fell into this body
of water, escaping the sliding field
crs and rolling out Of reach The
South Church scored in the first two
innings and held the +. Is. G. safe
despite three hits, I'm the opening
stanza, but in the third the winners
broke loose. \ steady succession OF
hits and errors gave them IL runs
in three innings. Parker took Ham
my Darrow's place in the sixth and
Was found for TWO more counters.
The South Church rallied threaten
ingly in this frame, but it was TOO
far behind and was cut down after
scoring three times.
Stromqust pitched a strong game.
relying mainly on his speed Arburr
played Il good game at third and
Mickey Luke pulled off two nice
catches of liners, Barta and Billy
Boluba each made difficult catch
in the lett field lake. Freddy Swan
son made four hits, while Frederick
son. Arburr. johnson and Schacfer
got two apiece, The iine-ups and
score by innings:
South Congregational Rockwell.
OBJ Parker, 1b-p, Ba1ta, If: H. BAR
row, p-1b; W. Bonba. CT; Schaef"r.
SO: II. May. c; Spring, IS; Wash
burn. IF; II. Bomba, RI
t.v"ryman's Bible class-F Swan
eff; Stromquist, =; HalIin. lib; Ar