New Britain herald., 1928-07-05
FALCONS BLANK STRONG
 WATERVILLE AGGREGATION
Locals Suddenly Start to Hit in Seventh nning-Pitch
 CTS Furnish Pretty Battle for Six Frames-Atwood in Great Form-Riley and Klatka Lead Hardware City Team in Hitting - Visitors Unable to Dent Home Plate-Four Successive Win for Home Team.

After being held to one hit fol six innings the Falcons suddenly found their batting eyes and pounded the offerings of Johnson to all corners of the lot to score a 5 to 0 whitewash over the strong Waterville baseball team yesterday afternoon at St. Mary's field in a holiday attraction. Both Atwood and Johnson had the batters at their mercy but Johnson crooked under the strain in the seventh and eighth and the locals scored their fourth successive win by heavy and timely stickwork.
 Lefty" Atwood was on the mound for the Falcons and pitched a beau- tiful game of ball. He was in great form and had the Waterville bat ters grounding out weakly, all the time. He allowed but three hits, two of them being infeld scratch blows. He famed seven batters and had excellent control, not man reaching first on a walk. Atwood has yet to lose game while playing under the Falcon colors.
 Johnson. pitching for the visitors, hurled we'll during the first six in- nings but tired near the end and the locals hit his offerings hard. Two fast double plays engineered by his teammates in the first few innings kept him out of trouble. He was wild at times and allowed six bases on balls.
 The game was filled with good baseball. a number of beautiful stops being made by the infielders. Riley and Lewis, at third and short respectively for the Falcons, gave a wonderful exhibition of fielding. diamond to knock down sure hits. Riley made nice play in the ninth when he sped into left field and threw Johnson out at second when he attempted to extend single into two bases. Lewis made two stips of balls in back of second that were beauties. Ashmore and Vail played a steady game for the visitors and gave Johnson great sup port.
 Klatka and Riley led the local hitters with two bingles apiece. Riley secured the only hit off John son in the first six innings. kredar, Mckernan and Soule each connected safely once.
 The visitors went out in order in the first. The Falcons got man on base when Patrus walked but Soule hit into fast double play. Neither team threatened in the second. The third and fourth in- nings found the pitchers at their best and the sides were retired in order.
 Both teams put man on base in the sixth inning but were unable to push them around. The visitors were retired in order in the seventh and in the Falcons half of the in- ming the fireworks began. Lewis rolled out to the pitcher. klatka crashed a long single into right field. Mckernan drove a wicked ball over third base and Klatka raced home for the first run of the game. Riley was hit by pitched ball. Noonan walked, filling the bases. Atwood lifted sacrifice fly into left field and Mckernan raced home. Patrus famed to end the inning.
 The Falcons continued their hit ting in the last half of the eighth after Atwood had retired the visi- tors in order kredar shot bingle into left field. Soule hit to right. Lewis walked and the bags were loaded. klatka pasted one on the nose scoring kredar and Soule. Mckernan popped out to the third baseman. Riley connected for his second hit and Lewis scored Tn