New Britain herald., 1928-08-28
OUTBREAKS TOPPLE l BETHANY AND LEAD
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Trinity NJ. F.. ...... .ooo South Cong. ....... 3 500 l.. b. C. .oou Swedish Bethany .... o 900 First Baptist ....... 0 4 .oo0
 The First Iutnerans pushed tenn porarly into sole possession of first place when they doWned the Swed- ish Bethany team by o4 in an Inter-Church League baseball game at Willow Brook park last evening. Fresen held the losers to four hits and ketp them from staging real rallies except in the sixth. Strom- quist, who worked for the Bethany nine. permitted only seven safe blows, but two of them were home runs and the others came at disas- trous moments.
 "Red' Nelson put his team ahead in the first frame by leading off with his third home run of the sea son and his second in two games. The losers tied the score in the sec ond, but the Lutherans went back again in the third and staged their big rally in the fourth, when Eric Anderson's home run was followed by a number of errors. The losers made their one bid in the sixth. when they scored twice before a man had been retired, but then the Lutherans frightened and Nelson got three men in succession at first.
 Clarence Foberg and Red Nelson continued their stellar work in the field. No player on either team was able to connect safely more than once. The line ups and score by innings:
 Swedish Bethany-Anderson ss; Frcderickson, 2b; Lagerlof, 3b; .Stromquist, D; A. Westergren, 1h; Nilsen, If; Strom, Of; Carlson, rf: Dahlman, c.
 First Lut 3b;- Ny. ! borg, c; Eric Anderson, ss; Jolst, 1b: Elmer Johnson. If; Hultberg. 2b; C. Foberg. of; A. Foberg, If; 'resen, ?.
 Swedish Bethany 01o 1o2 o-4 4 3 First Luth ..... 1O2 4o2 x-9 ' Umpires-Hamlin and J. Thor stenson.
 South Church Wins The South Congregationalists end cd their losing streak by falling up- on Carroll for II hits and defeating the First Baptists by 11-3. Wilton 1 Mercy granted four hits to the losers. but two of them were homo runs and were responsible for al the Baptist tallies, With faster l fielding, however, neither wonlc
 have been such a long hit an(
 Mercy might even have scored { i shutout.
 Mcdonald opened the game witt a long hit to center for three base:
 outtield was held too long, he trlec
 to stretch his hit and succeeded 1 The South church took the lead il 1 the next inning on hits by Hamm, Darrow and Donald Hating, and il the third the team batted around
 After Rockwell had gone out Park
 CT beat out an inheld hit, More, doubled to right, Darrow hit safel
 again, Johnson splashed hit, Wolf
 doubled, and the Baptists mad
 some weird throws, six runs comin
 in before Rockwell, batting for tn
 second time in the inning, flied ou
 The Baptists got two more J
 their half on Johnston's wild thro'
 and Carols home run to left flelt
 Mercy and Darrow collaborated {
 score two more in the fourth, Whil
 Morcv brought in another in tn
 sixth by a daring piece of base run
 ming and fine slide to the plate. Morey pitched a fine game an i struck out several Of the opposin side. The work of Stelma behind th , bat was exceptional, 'Nosh' leaI } ing and diving in all directions spear fouls and starting one doub , play which ended rally Or } headlong catch inches from II : ground was particularly brillian Nice work by Steege and Pinkerto : featured the defensive work Of 1T c I,a aptists Darrow and Johnston wei U the batting stars. splitting six hi . evenly between them. The line-ul " and score by innings:
 " South Congregational - RockWe n cb: Parker, 1b; Mercy, ?; H. Da q row. 3b; Johnston. ss; D. Hattln . If: Stelma. c: Wolfe, Of; Wagner, " First Baptist Mcdonald, Carroll. D: Bassett, 1b; Gagner, ? 0 (. Pinkerton, ss; o. Steege, 3b; l.
 gan, If; Anderson, of: Carle. If. south Cong ... .o26 2o10-11 Il 3 First Baptist ...102 oo"o-- !, Games Ahead
 e On Friday night two games , great importance will be playe
 The Everyman's Bible class :"
 play he Trinity Methodists. and [
 St Matthew's Lutherans will ia
 the stanley Memorial team. I
 winner of the latter game will n into 3 tie for first place with { j, First Lutherans.
 The schedule Of play-offs for ne
 week will be as follows
 Tuesday. September 4 - Sou y Congregational vs. Everymans BlE ,e class Stanley Memorial vs, Fiji it Lutheran, Swedish Bethany Vs. t'l1 1t Lutheran.
 IS Wednesday,. September - $" of dish Bethany vs. St. Matthew's l l. theran. F.veryman's Bible class l. First Baptist
 Thursday, September ( - Sta 'e ley Memorial vs. swedish BethaN 'e Trinity N l.. vs. First Bap'I le First Lutheran vs. St Mat1he' n German Lutheran
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