New Britain herald., 1929-08-12

Unequal to the task of upsetting the league leaders in their chase for the pennant in the City baseball league, the Pirates baseball team went down to defeat to in the most important contest in the cir cult Saturday afternoon. This put the Pirates in third place and all but out of the running. The Cardi- nals upset the West Ends and thereby went into sole possession Of fourth place in the league. The Senecas failed to put in an ap- pearance for their game and Um- pire Larry Mangan forfeited the contest to the Holy Cross Presi- dent Kenneth Saunders of the City league reversed the decision of the umpire and called the game mo- decision. Rainy conditions Satur- day afternoon caused the president to take this step.
 BurrittS 7-PirateS 3
 "Huggy" Carlson, almost deserted by his mates on the Pirate baseball team on both the offensive and de- fensive, bowed in pitching duel to Johnny Rose of the Burrtts on Dia- mond No. 2 Saturday with the result that the Burritts came through with a sweeping to 3 victory over the Corsairs and thereby all but put the Pirates out of the race for the City league championship and tucked the o1,o
 While the Pirates were unable to collect any runs or bunch any hits off the delivery of the Burritt hurl- ing ace, the league leaders squeezed in two runs in the first six innings. Up to this frame, it had been a tight game with only one or two slip-ups to mar the play of both outfits. Johnny Klatka Nad scored in the fourth inning after Begley let him get on through a bad throw to first and he had go to third on infeld plays. Then Smith, with a high fly that landed in the grass behind his position, failed to hold the ball and the Burritts had their first run. The second came in the sixth when Klat- ka hoisted one of Carlson's offerings over the high fence in center field for a round trip.
 The big blow-up came in the eighth. Monjue Zaleski, playing sec ond base for the winners, was the hero of the contest and it was his bat that broke up the old ball game. After the Burritts had scored once, with klatka, stub" Budnick and Johnny Rose on base, Monjue hit a terrific line drive into right field that was good for a home run and gave the Burritts four counters mak- ing total of five for the inning. The Pirates made a weak attempt to rally in the ninth but the best runs which were not enough by half of tying the total of the Burritts.
 The Pirates had plenty of oppor- tunities to score but they couldn't come through with the much-needed punch. Batter after batter went up to the plate and allowed good, hit able balls to go down the alley and then tried to paste out the bad ones, each time the hits resulting in weak taps to the infield. On the other hand, the Burritts landed on every opportunity with zest and came through holding the victory and probably the league cham pionship well tied up in the honorable sack.
 A costly misplay in the eighth put the Burritts in a scoring position. With man on first, a sacrifice was attempted and Charlow through a fast bit of fielding, had the ball be- fore Havlicll could get started rom first. He threw to second but Smith mig as well have been home in bed because he wasn't on the bag and th3 throw went into center field. This cost the Pirates an out and paved the way for Zaleski's homer.
 Rose was in the best form he has seen this year. He held the Pirates under a thumb that failed to let up until the ninth inning. The Pirates, it is true, outhit the Burritts II to &, but that didn't mean thing in re- lation to the score at the end of the game. Havlicll was the only Bur- ritt able to find Carlson for more than a single hit while Begley with three out of five and Charlow and Mangan with two each, were the only successful Pirates to solve the delivery of Rose. The summary:
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