New Britain herald., 1928-08-20
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Baseball fans in general in this
city rejoice with johnny kIatka in
the honor bestowed upon him YES
terday by members of the Falcon A.
=. II is rare thing TO have anv
elub publicly honor it's hard workers
ana yesterdays ceremony wherein
Alatka was presented with a gold
watch and gold fountain pen, WIS
pretty one.
The conittee In charge waited un-
W klatka came up to the bat for
the first time. Then. with both
teams lined up on the diamond, the
presentations were made. AS col
orful aside to the picture. a little
girl. dressed in the native Polish cos
tame, presented Johnny with
bouquet of flowers
Needless to say, Johnny received
ell with solemn and bashfui mien,
although onlookers state that he
bore up well under the embnrrass-
ment. The reaction, however. was
quite natural because. for the second
time this season. Johnny failed TO
come through with a sufe hit.
Through some unexplained slip IN
today, the Herald has not received
the results Of the two games played
over the weekend by the kensing-
ton baseball team. Usually with
promptness that has not been ex-
ceiled, the kensington management
gives the newspapers the informa.
ton sought.
kensington plays Windsor Locks
"Wednesday evening in Windsor
LOCKS. Saturday the team goes to
Taftville. Sunday. kensington has
a game scheduled with Bristol for
next Sunday but this may be
changed before the week is very old.
The Sokol baseball team upheld
the honor Of New Britain yesterday.
While the Falcons were bowling to
Taftville and the Burritts were being
beaten by Holyoke, the Sokols bat
tied to victory in II innings over
tollinsviIle. This happens to have
been the only New Britain diamond
victory over the week end
II
deadlock in the New Britain City
League with the Pirates and the |
West Ends slated to play out the tie. |
Saturday the Pirates, despite glazing
errors. defeated the veteran crew
and remains only a few points be- |
hind first place. The Pirates hay. !
played one game less than the West !
Ends and that is the reason why the |
teams are not tied.
The game in the Girls Industrial
League tonight between Stanley
Works and Fafnir has been post
poned. Tomorrow night, Fafnirs
and North & Judds will play an i'm
portant game. 4 win for the North
& Judd crew will put them in tie
for first place with the Bearing
Makers.
The mems league game between
Stanley Rule & Landers will be
played August 80. Thursdays gam.
between Stanley Works and Eatnirs.
VII be played August IS. This
WeSk sees the end Of the regular
schedule in the Industrial Baseball
Leasse.
Weir. Tirate captain. cheated him
self out of home run Saturday
afternoon in the hectic city league
game with the West Ends and pre-
vented himself from being the abso-
lutte and undisputed hero of the
game. Before play started he made
an agreement that a ball hit into
the crowd in left field would be !,
good FOR only two bases. but he re-
GREETED that before the game was
over.
Weir was the first batter in the
last OF the 18th inning. and he lined
the first ball squarely into the left
field crowd. where it rolled across
the second diamond. Lefty" Huber
tripped over the ropes in chasing it
and took a comic-strip sprawl. and 4
Wojack had to run out from short
stop TO recover the ball. 1t was an
Easy home run. but mpire ManKan
held Weir at second because of the
latter's own rule.
1t really mattered little. for Pete
Ia patka scored his captain with Il
imely hit to center. although there
was great mix-up at the plate.
blocked Off but Weir hit
aim with gargantuan slide. Both
'a1l and runner caromed off Smith :
wick. and the. two scrambled over 4
md under each other. one aftar the .
oall and the other foundering for ;,
he plate. But Weir won the wild !,
rec -for-all and his team took the y
'ame. 1t was what you would call q
weird" finish.
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