New Britain herald., 1928-07-23
Speaking
 of Sports

"eSe AAoieAolu follce Department
 marathon. The course was laid on,
 from Burnside Center to Charte,
 Oak Park and three times around the track. Dan received a cun fo, 'hls put ne received first prize fo,
 making the fastest time in the race
 The run was won by Ted Lawson
 o1 ulastohpury who came in first,
 ne WAS gwen two minute handi- cap over Healy who was running
 from scratch. Lawson finished th1
 grlno Tn one hour. four minutes and
 %o seconds. Healey's time for the
 distance was one hour. four minutes and 40 seconds
 Lawson has entered the New Rri- tain Police Department marathon al WILLOW Brook on August s and Healey will oppose him there.
 Howard s. Humphrey won the Class A. sweepstakes at Shuttle. Meadow club Saturday with card or S5-14-69. Louie S Jones and Clarence Barnes were fled for sec ond and on the toss-up, Jones won His card was S2-19-72, E. M. Smith won the Class B. sweepstakes with an s'-1s-G9. Frank Nachter was second with SS-1s-70.
 Bill Sweeney is playing a great game Of golf these days Yesterday dt shuttle Meadow he went around the lower nine in 40 and the inner nine in 52. Thirty-two for inc un. pen IS two under par and his score or '@ for the IS holes IS on. over par.
 In the Brokers Rournament at Nampanoag last week, Sweeney made that difficult course in 75 and won the days play. This is an un- 1 usual feat for any golfer and | s"eeneys work came in for much i praise.
 chy league games are becoming record rcakers for length, Two weeks ago the Pirates and B1rritts went IA Innings. and, after a Sat ufday Of rain, the Rangers and Burrltts battled for Is frames this weekend. The Burritts were unfor- tunate enough to get the short end or both scores. The game this Sat Ifday was real baseball game. with spafAllng plays, heady and capable Plleh1ng, few errors, and some time " hitting. To us it looked like by Tar the best game of the league sea- son up to date l1
 The Burritts have proved a sur prlslng flop. With their two-year championship team greatly strensth- ened by Falcon players, they were favored to be easy repeaters. but F they have yet to win a game, Still l. with two extra-inning games they T nave played longer than any other z team, II that could get them any l, where. Z In casting about for an explana ton Of the poor showing of the Bur n rltts, the only reason We can find is L the absence of Maryan Zaleslli from ,. me ilne-up. La!eski kept the team s: It fighting pitch in all circum stances and the team had a confident nash which overwhelmed all op- ponents.' This year the Burrtts are still playing excellent ball, but they ire silent and uninspred. lacking S' spark and seemingly without real lighting spirt.
 The Rangers sport two of those 'aseDall anomalies who throw with heir left hands and bat right hand al "a. They are Al Anderson and nj 'enborg. The latter has not vet ba tart1ed the league with his hitting, M ut Anderson is one of the circuits to most dependable batters. te
 ba Ed Hlnchey made an error in the tn Vest EndTab game but it had to be H; cored as an assist. With a man on ga rst Blanchard drove one to short, pl linchey fumbled it. messed it wa round, and finally kicked it-but l,r le klck sent it right to Kane for a lar
 
 - pr When the Pirates took fl minutes th. >r their turn at bat Saturday they tea lust nave set something of record. kl nd yet they did little batting, only for X official times at bat being record mi, l. dozen bases on balls, all in all, 1e Wklld and sickening splurge. nu ok up the time. .,,s all A discussion over what was a hit u-o i'd what was an error came up on ,r,, lturday. and one player, while ad- n1, tting the practice of giving hits l,ri m hard driven balls. still claimed ,ha at the rule book said that any, ing touched by fielder was an ~ ar+ TOT. i'i.
 the But Section of Rule S4 states actly the opposite: "A base hit all be scored when the ball be hit Jerv th such force to an intielder or Hay cher that he cannot handle it in 1l., t,o' le lo put out the batsman or Vent 'ce out a base-runner. In a case kuli doubt over this clase of bits :, Grip SC hit should be scored and the ~ E1ar der exempted from the charge of Witt error." There is also a provision scoring hits when fielders in mo- To can only stop or partially stop IS. Mtka
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