New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-06
LU7HERANS BATTLE
FOR CHURCH Title
St. Mats Play SWeles Tonight
Decision Again Reversed
inter-CilllrCh Standing

The 1nter-Church league cham
pionship for the second half of the
season will he decided this evening
when the First Lutherans and St.
Matthews German Lutherans meet
on Diamond No. at Willow Brook
park and break the tie for first place
in which they are joint participants.
The St. Mats picked up a half
game last night when the Swedish
Bethany team defaulted to them,
and the half-season title hangs upon
tonight's result.
Both teams are very strong, adj
mittedly the two strongest in the
circuit. and the game should be ex-
ceptionally close and hard fought.
Billy Pre.sser will probably pitch for
the st. Mats. although Otto Suess
may draw the assignment and will
probably be available for relief duty
if needed: Billy Fink will catch.
The famous battery of Bill Fresen
and Elmer Nyborg. which has work
cd together for three years, will be
the points for the Swedes. Tigh;
defenses and hard clubbing attacks
are possessed by both teams. and the
result of the game is toss-up.
Whichever team wins, it will be
no new thing to be champion. as
these Lutheran churches have alter
mated at winning the pennants since
the league was formed. the Swedes
coping ir 1925 and 1927 and the
st. Mats in 1926 and the first half
of the present season. If the Swedes
win tonight series of three games
with the ST. Mats will be played to
determine the championship for the
whole season. If the ST. Mats are
victorious, they automatically take
the full-season title. A game or
series between the Church and Fra
ternal league winners is in the
works.
for tonight, but only one will be
played. The Trinity Methodists will
face the First Baptists on Diamond
No. /, while Stanley Memorial will
win from the Swedish Bethany nine
by default.
Decision Again Reversed
X. Z. Parker. league president,
has again, reversed his decision re-
garding the outcome of the First
Baptist Swedish Bethany game
Tuesday evening. At the end of the
game the scorer handed in the book
with the comment that the Baptists
had won by ST after scoring two
runs in the last frame. A later ex-
animation OF the book showed that
the Baptists had apparently been
the visiting team and that the game
had been called in the first half of
the sixth inning without giving the
Swedes their turn at bat. A tcle-
phone conversation with one of the
Baptists tended to verify this and
the league president stated that the
Bethany had won by 10.
Last night there were fresh de-
velopments. The Baptist players,
including the one who had made the
incorrect statement Tuesday night
protested that they had been the
home team and that they had made
the winning runs in the last half OF
the inning after retiring the Beth.
any IN its turn. It developed that
the scorer had also been called upon
to umpire the last few innings and
had been forced to neglect his
book, emitting the Bethany half oi
the last frame. The game has
therefore been recorded as Bap.
list victory.
The scheduled game between tho
Everyman's Bible class and Firs'
| Baptists last night was called off be.
cause neither team had enough mel
on hand. An effort will be made II
play 1t off tomorrow evening.