Putnam patriot., 1929-10-03
SILK SOX WIN BY
GRIT PLUS MERIT
Putnam Annexes Northern Con
necticut Championship and
c.. p. Title

The Bedding Heminway SILK Sex,
sporting the fighting blood Of Irish,
Jews, French. and Swedes. smashed
the last gate between them and the
Northern Connecticut Championship
on Adams Field last Sunday by hand
ing the strengthened Grosvenordale
Bakers a sensational 6-5 defeat. Thus
indicated IN the eyes Of all Putnam
fans the locals rest eontented for the
first time in ten years since the Cot
/ on-Towners instigated the post sea
son diamond classics
Izzy Weiss, lanky Putnam hurler,
not yet out of his teens, grabbed a
conspicuous chair IN Putnam's line Of
athletic immortals by losing and then
again winning Quinebaug Valleys
Battle Of the Century" What
game, what game It goes like this:
Poor handling of Canty's lead off
single placed the Baker third sacker
at second TO be advanced or a sacrifice
bunt A telling fly by Ravenelle scor-
ed Grosvenordale's first run. Sue
cessive hits by nesautels and Nelson
/ failed to count as Johnson struck out.
[ The Sox story from the first TO the
+ last OF the seventh was a washout for
/ Lefty Hebert who allowed but two
+ safe blows. Undoubtedly il was the
/ best six innings ever twirled by a p
G moundsman. Weiss made a bad
mistake in growing fast waist ball
I to Cooler Nelson in the third with the
/ bases full. While securing but a
single, the Baker catcher was instru-
I mental in chalking of 3 more visitor
runs Two hits following a duet Of
/ free base tickets Tailed another brace
of Grosvenordale runs in the fifth
/ bringing the Bates men scoring TO a
close.
/ With one out in the seventh Reddy
/ singled 20 left and was advanced as
/ Touchette walked. Hannifan drove a
I long fly 10 Ravenelle for a second out
advancing the two Putnam men. Ma
rion next drove the first pitch to right
for a double scoring two Putnam
runs. A screeching double into the
hole in left by Planter brought the
score to a 5-3 basis as Coderrc re-
I lieved Hebert for Grosvenordale.
I Cagey Dupre secured free pass on
Sims first offerings but died on the
sacks As Nelson rolled out TO Johnson.
Weiss smashed Coderre's first pitch
to right in the eight and scored from
first as Desautels missed a grounder
from Johnson in a double play at
tempt 1t then remained for the Bak-
err twirler TO retire Murphy and Tou-
Ghetto on infield flies.
The dramatic ri nth found CAVITY
and K. Rayenelle retired on two flies 10
Center II. Ravenelle dumped a
scratch drive to short left and adj
vanced % third on d double by Desau-
tells. Marion gobbled Nelson's foul
for the third Baker out.
Marion figured again as he walked
after a three and two count and rest
ed on third as Planky secured his
third hit OF the tilt Dupre flied 70
left as Nelson grounded TO Coderre.
The now tired Weiss found himself
drafted again at the climax of a
play only perfected in story books.
4 Coderre rose 10 the OCCASION placing
to well directed strikes at Izzy's weak
spot, next TO the shoulder. A first,
second and third teaser found the
mpassive Hebrew as a statue. Coder-
re spelled his own finish on the next
pitch as Weiss drove the grooved of
fering TO deep center, scoring the tying
and winning runs.
Thus ended the most colorful tilt
ever played in this section. Quite fit
tingly. II contained some wonderful
ball, fine spirit, and a colorful volume
of fan razz.
Little wonder the fans hoisted the
4 happy Izzy TO a shoulder ride off the
field He deserved il all and then
some Forgotten in the grand climax
were the other two Sox heroes, veter-
an Bill Reddy and Walt Planter. The
fact that each secured three hits as
4 the heavy Sox southpaw battery was
silent was itself feat.
Cooler Nelson was easily the out
standing figure for the Bakers as he
poled out a trio Of safe. telling blows
from FIVE trips in. Red" Desautels
crack Holy Cross catcher. while not
eifecting the usually fine game Of a
G-P wringer. turned in some fast