New Britain herald., 1928-07-23

Timely hitting in the early innings
 brought the Falcons their seventh
 straight victory yesterday afternoon
 at st. Marys field when they deteat-
 ed the strong Insilco nine of Meriden by q to score. It was the Fal-
 cons ninth win in IF starts and At-
 woods seventh win since joining the
 Falcons. The game was witnessed
 by one of the largest crowds of the
 season and the fans were treated to
 to a fast exhibition of ball
 Lefty Atwood allowed but eight
 hits and one run but was away of
 form The fielding and hitting of
 his teammates pulled him through
 to win. The portsider was miss
 ing his curves and was very wild
 during the game. Eight men re- celved walks from him. As usual, however. Atwood came through with men on the bases and escaped with out being scored upon. The veteran Casey" Nagle hurled for the Meri- den aggregation and was hit hard in the first few innings He settled down after bad start in the open ing stanza and pitched a steady game of ball but was forced to take the losing end when his teammates failed to hit in the pinehes.
 Both teams played a fast fielding game and backed up their pitchers in taultless style. The Falcons con- tlnued to play errorless ball and dis played that their previous shovinks were not flashes in the pan. The infeld worked like q clock and ac- cepted l< chances without an error. Duffy Lewis as usual was the fielding star of the battle The Hart ford boy made two great catches of short fliers in center field that were beautiful, De Vito, former Falcon and kensington star, appeared at third for the locals and put up good battle. Riley, regular third baseman. is recovering from m operation for tonsils and will be back in the lineup next week.
 soule, in spite of his extra weight played a great game in risht field and made two catches that were sem sationAl. He raced in from the field in the fourth to get a Texas leaxuer and in the ninth he raced to deep right field and made a wonderful catch of Morgan's bid for | hit that looked like q sure triple
 Mckernan was the batting star of fhA AftArNnAA Yn
 screaming triple and two singles in four trips to the plate and was rob- bed out Of d fourth hit when Nor gan made d great catch. Klatka continued his heavy cloutink smash ing out two singles. Kredar rose to his glory and connected safely twice, For the Meriden team Morgan and Patroske hit hard. each man batting out two safe blows.
 Neriden threatened to score in the first inning when Buckley singled and worked his way around to third base. He attempted to score on Morgans infeld rolled to De Vito but Lewis raced over and recovered the ball after De Vito had erred and made fast throw to Noonan catch ing Buckley at home. The Falcons started the fireworks in their half of the inning and put the game on ice by heavy hitting. Patrus. as usual, was hit by pitched ball and took first base. Kredar laid down a perfect bunt and both men were safe. soule popped out to Gaetano. Lewis hit terrific smash into right field and Patrus scored. Klatka fol- lowed with another hit and Kre- dar crossed home plate for the sec ond run. McKernan duplicated Klat- ka's blow and sent Lewis home for the third run of the inning 1
 Neither team threatened in the