New Britain herald., 1929-08-06
ALL LEADERS WIN
 IN CHURCH LEAGUE
Teams Consolidate Positions
 Nine Home Runs Are Made
Inter- Church Standing

ot' hatlneN ........ II .S46 First Lutheran ....1O 3 .T69 south Cong. ..,...... ' 6 53S stanley Memorial .... s .333 Swedish Bethany ... s .3S3 rlnlty M. l.. ......... ? II .154
 Only two games remain between the St. Matthew's German Lutherans and their second consecutive Inter- Church league baseball champion ship, for last night the league leaders scored their 11th victory of the year by overcoming an cratic Trinity | Methodist team by 10-7 and main- | taining their one-game lead over the | First Lutherans. Elton pitched good | ball for the losers and would have | given Otto Suess a real battle if he | had had any sort of support at all, | but his teammates kicked in with | errors galore and allowed the St. | Matts to run up an carly lead which the Methodists could never quite overcome.
 TWice-in the second and third innings-the losers tied the score e'i 'i'N iNbN0io idh puSb'u dI1tdu, but in the third and fourth the St. Matts ran up six runs on solid wal lops and bad misplays by the tail enders. Then, with the game practi- cally salted away, the St. Matts took their turn at blowing up. and the Methodists rallied furiously in the last two frames, being stopped only by a sensational catch by Eddie Preisser with two on and two out in the last inning.
 Four home runs enlivened the proceedings. Eddie Preisser, Billy Preisser. and Oscar Steege delivered the circuit wallops for the St. smashed one for the losers. Pinker- ton also made two singles and scored four of his teams seven runs. R. Kraut helped him around with two hits and scored twice himself. Eddie Preisser, St. Matt lead-off man. crossed the plate three times. The line-ups and score by innings:
 Trinity M. E.-C. Kraut, If; Elton. p; C Pinkerton. c; H. Pinkerton, 3b; R. Kraut, If; Ward, 1b; Skomars, 2b; Snl1o. ss; Patterson, cf
 St. Matthew's German Lutheran F.. Preisser, 2b o. Suess. D; w. Preisser, 1b; NJ. steege, 3b; R. Fink, eb; o. Steege, If; w. Fink. c; J. Preisser, cf; Bobecke, If.
 Trin. NJ. E. ...011 002 3-7 ' s St. Matts .....11a 4o2 a-1O s 4 Swcdes Hold Position
 Still holding to the last faint hope that something might happen to the 1 St. Matts, the First Lutherans kept one game behind the leaders when they battered the Swedish Bethany 1 nine for an 11-2 victory. Playing with a completely revised lineup and with Elmer Johnson pitching his first league game. the Lutherans played heads-up ball and were never headed. After getting pair of runs in the first innings they staged one big splurge in the fourth with the aid of some Bethany errors. and after that the result was never in doubt. Three more counters in the last inning were only clinchers. Elmer Johnson held the Bethany upon only in the fourth frame, when Wally Anderson and Dave Johnson crossed the plate. Red" Nelson and "Huggie" Carlson led the Lutheran attack with two hits apiece, while Ahlgrcn got hit and 1 Eohpro palalro cd his return to the game by knock ing a home run. Foberg has been out with a broken bone in his leg. The line-ups and score by innings: l First Lutheran-Nelson, 3b; Carl son. ss: Ahlgren, 1b; Stromquist c; Lindgren. If; A. Foberg, 2b: Ander- son, of; Elmer Johnson, p; A. John | son, If.
 son. If.
 Swedish Bethany-Da Dahman, c; R. Anderson. ss: I.agcrlof, 2b; Seaburg
 D; Lindgron. 3b; w. Anderson, If; D. Johnson, 1b; Westling, Of; Bloom guiSt, If.
 First Lutheran 1lO GOO a-11 10 4
 Swcd. Bath. GOO 200 C. 6 5
 Clinch Third Place
 The South Congregational church
 clinched third place last night when
 the Stanley Memorial nine could not
 put a full team in the field and the
 game had to be forfeited, The
 Stanmors, however. picked UT
 enough men to make a team and an
 exhibition game was played. The
 South church won this, 1S-G, un-
 corking a terrific attack which in- cluded four home runs and triple
 Otto Barta was the star of tn,
 game, driving in four runs with two
 homers, one of which came in th'
 first inning and the other in tn
 fourth. Rockwcll's circuit blow wa
 the longest of the night, the Soul
 church left fielder having crosse
 the plate before the ball had eVel
 been picked up by Hamlin, "Nosh' Stelma got the other homer but ha to slide for the plate to make it.
 The winners hammered Carrol
 for four runs in the first inning bU
 lost the lead in the third when hit and q series of intield errors gay the Stanmors the long end of a 5- ] count. The South church cam ) right back, however, and scored il every inning thereafter, while tn , defense frightened and Parker w.
 seldom in danger after that one ba inning. Incidentally, Carroll an, , Parker were the first two left-hand CTS to oppose each other this season Both were handicapped by rank CT
 TOTS behind them,
 Barta got a single in addition |
 his two home runs, while Mercy go three singles and Parker two. Tn , first four South church batters ac L counted for eight hts and as man