New Britain herald., 1928-07-20
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 The tsaturs comedy es the ysa, vas put O at Walnut Aill park las night by tAs Tafntr and Lander, teams tn the Industrial leaxus ant . red feature of the feature itself vas the performance. not of tn, younsstsrs or the inexperienced, but the slip-ups of the veterans of year, of experiences.
 Nrst priss goes to Ray Begiey veteran of 70 many baseball cam, paigns that . man stops counting at 20, .,Who. with . record of sensation. al exploits on the diamond stretch. ing back into the days when tho Royal Typewriter Co. team of Hart. ford was one of the leading outht, in the state-yea, back to childhood days when hs featured as the best left-handed backstop in these here parts-stols third yesterday with the bases loaded.
 Maybe 1t was the heat, maybe Il was the listless aspect of the game or maybe 1t was hndred other thinYs, but whatever the cause. the fact of the case is that Begley. show- ing more speed than he was thought capable of. made ! dash for third in the second inning that would have been | sensational steal. only there was | man on when it was ac- complished.
 For | side-splitter, Begley furnish ed more comedy yesterday than . thousand others could have done had they planned for weeks in ad- vance to make the fans laugh. It is funnier when one tries to go back in memory over the long and starry path traversed by the pres ent coach of the Falcons. An ex- traordinary catcher although . southpaw, an outfielder of extraord!- nary ability and a first baseman whoss cleverness gave him the un- questioned reputation of being the best in the city. yet. with all these to his credit. he stole third with the bases loaded.
 And that wasn't all. In the next inning with Fafnir runners on first and second. | high fly was hit into right field where Begley was play ing. With time enough almost to walk in under the ball to catch it. Begley emulated Iris Speaker and played for | double by taking the ball on the first bound and throwing ts second. Needless to say. all hands were safe.
 Again. later in the game Begley in center held with Ferguson on third. took . sacrifice fly from Cor bins bat and instead of playing home. he nonchalantly tossed to Nester on second. Fortunately through the sturdy arm of the re- ceiver of this toss. Ferguson was nipped at the plate.
 Yet Begley, with his dizzy steal. wasn't alone in pulling the boners. with Harry Hillstrand on nrst, singled and then without stop ping. ran Hillstrand off second.
 Joey Fitzpatrick hit q clear home run into right held and failed to touch homo plate. The throw in 70 away from Kenure but the Faf- mir catcher took tho ball and touch ed Fitxy out. In this case, Fits couldn't move back to touch the platter. His wind was gone.
 These instances weren't the only comical aspects to the game. There were 70 many others that 1t is im- possible to recount them all. Al! that can bs said is that in our mem ory, the game was absolutely the weirdest thing imaginable.
 
 LAnders got eight runs in the first two innings. apparently enough to ~in any old time. Yet at the first of the ninth. Fafnirs was leading by khe score of IF to 10. Landers used dve pitchers in the game and Faf- nirs used two. Think of the score- keepers job .n case like that.
 Dr. Kinseua calls us to account for the item in Wednesday nights column about the now famous golf match at Ssquin. We stand correct. ed, Doc. though we believe there was method in the madness of our Informant
 wa stated then that Judges Nor ris D. G1xs and William F. Mangan defeated DsetSrs George Dunn and William Moyrissey in IS holes. We were brought. up short yesterday by the Information that 1t was vice. versa with Dr. Kinsella playing in plaes'ef pr. Dunn and he and Doc tor lorrissey handed the two legal light the boating. So be 1t! The 'cer, now staads 1 to 0 in favor of he doctors.
 Just, for the fun of it. we would liib to see the quartet again hook uy over the i1-hole course. We aould then make 1t . point to get .hs dope straight.
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