New Britain herald., 1928-07-30
Absolutely no comparison.

THESE words express the superior
ity of the Falcons baseball team
over the All Plainville nine. Yester
day afternoon at st. Mary's field thu
Falcons outplayed the neishborins
town team in all departments of thu
game and cake-Walked to a one.
sided victory. After the balls had
been stopped by Plainville for the
final outs of the game it was found
that the Falcons had scored 10 run,
on - smashing hits while Plainyj)le
was unable to put across a man over
the plate.
Lefty" Atwood was on the mound
tor the Falcons and pitched them ia
the,r eighth straight win and their
loth Win In Is starts. Atwood might
nave been Herb" Pennock of 1.-THE
Yankees as far as Plainvjlle was
concerned. He held the visitors ia
Two n" asly blows and allowed onlv
% men to face him in nine in
nihgs. So far ahead o. the Plain.
S'll' Latters was he that not a single
visiting batter had the experience of
getting to second base. In every
lrE,lg OF the game only three bat.
ters faced Atwood excap, in. the
fourth when an error by Klatka al.
lowed a fourth batter to face hun
lncldently this was the first ever
maze by the locals in seven games
meanwhile the Falcons found the
oner'ngs of Plainville's star tvir,er
.'udack. without any trouble and
'ounded hits so often that the
scorer had to use two pencils to keen
up with them. Nineteen solid blows
fattled off the bats Of the Falcons
il Was nudack's first loss Of the s.a.
son and also Plainville's first heat
ing .
3efcre the game it appeared as
though the Falcons would have ,
hard time getting the decision when
y vas discovered that Riley. third
oa St man. Lewis. shortctop and Nc
Nernsn. left fielder, were SICK and
would be unable to play. Coach
Kay Fegley placed joining" Rose.
BUR- tt star at third base. Francis
lesley. one Of the bright lich1s of
Charlie Miller's and Ken Saunders.
Pirates. at short and Pat" Rose.
another Burritt player. in left t,e,d,
rhese three players made good with
bang and had the crowd cheering
1t their snappy work.
Kid Begley at short brought
10Y 10 the heart Of his veteran
brother by his sensstiona, PLAYING
Inc kid" accepted two faelJine
'hances without an error but his
BEST work came in the batting de-
'artment, Striding to the plate Ave
INES Beeley picked out four of
'udack's benders aud crashed ont
our safe hits. one Of them a double.
Johnny Rose played in faul+less
lyle at third and accepted five
hances without tn. sign Of an er-
or "Yiggs" Patrue. the old rel;a bile.
vas IN his usual good form at sec
nd base and took care OF Ave
hances without a bobb!e,
Somebody in fhe crowd told the
NO Plainville batters .hat we're
ortunate to reach first that
Mickey 'Nocnan had a glass arm,
/ few seconds afterwards both bat
ers were walking Off the field with
o"ncast heads after Noonan's /,
hroWs caught them a mile from
econd base. Mickey also demon-
frated that his batting eye Is still
18th him. sending out three safe
mashes.
Elliott and Goeb proved to be the
est bets for Plainville Elliott was
he only man that was able to con-
ect with Atwood's offerings. All ,
uring the game both he and Goeb l
'ade beautiful catches Of ~ balls, ,
Begley led the locals in batting I