New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-05-23
CORBINS SWAMP RULERS
WHILE OTHER TEAMS TIE
Last Years Champions Score Is to Victory In First
Game of Year-Fafnirs and r. & E. Deadlocked at
Six.Al When Game Is Terminated-P. & F. Shows
Same Power In Its Overwhelming Win-Plenty of
Good Baseball Seen on Diamond No. 2

One tie game called because OF
darkness and another In which the
champions Of last year swamped
their opponents under an IS to I
score. featured the opening of the
New Britain Industrial baseball
league yesterday afternoon. Faf-
Mrs and r. & E. battled to a to 6
deadlock on Diamond No. 2 while
P. & F. Corbins buried the Stanley
Rule combination. Mayor Angelo
NJ. Paonessa officially started the
league by tossing the first ball for
each game and an immense crowd
of fans viewed both battles.
Teams Are Deadlocked
Russell & Erwin and Fafnirs
opened up their season in the Indus
trial Baseball league by battling to
6-6 tie after game filled with
fast fielding and heavy hitting.
Both teams had numerous oppor-
tunities to win the game in the late
innings but the pitchers proved in
vincible in the pinches and retired
the batters without damage. Rus
sell e. Erwin held a one run lead
going into the ninth inning but a
rally by Fafnir tied the score and
almost brought victory to the Bear
ing Makers.
Mayor Angelo NJ. Paonessa Off
clally opened up the season by
pitching the first ball and Blanchard
promptly crashed his honor's pitch
to the field. Johnson was on the
mound for the Russell & Erwin
team and, although he allowed 10
hits, he was exceptionally strong in
the pinches. 10 Fafnir players being
left stranded on the bases. johnson
displayed fast ball that carried
plenty OF speed and II Fafnir bat
ters whitfield the air for the third
strike.
Woroniecki started on the mound
for the Bearing Makers and pitched
shutout ball until the fourth. He
suddenly weakened in this inning
and the Washington street team
found him for three hits and three
runs. He was relieved by "Al'
Havlick. former High school star,
who turned in a fine pitching ex-
}ibition for the remainder of the
game. Havlck allowed hut four
hits and would have escaped with
out being scored upon except for
two errors in the eighth.
Matteo and Schneider led their re-
spective teams at the bat. both men
crashing out three safe blows.
Venture and Kenure also hit hard
The work of "Starhead" Rudnick
featured the defensive play Of both
teams. his opportune stops stopping
rallies time after time. His one
hand stop in the ninth with the
score tied and man on third saved
his team from defeat.
Russell & Erwin's started the
scoring in the third inning. Blan-
chard singled. Morelli sacrificed, S
Budnick walked and Schneider and
l.. Budnick followed with triple
and a double respectively. This
melted three runs. Tafnir scored
two runs in the fourth when kenure
and Venture singled and crossed the
plate on lusty double by. Fergu-
son. They took the lead in the fifth
when they pushed across two runs
on a single by Kenure. and three
| walks.
Russell e. Erwin tied the score al
four all in the sixth when S. Bud
nick doubled and scored on Scheid
ler's single. In the eighth the
Washington street crew scored two
runs on errors by Matteo and Hay
lick and double by Cosgrove This
apparently put the game on ice but
Fafnir came back strong to register
a run In the eighth and ninth to
tie the score. Singles by Venture
and krause netted run in the