New Britain herald., 1929-08-13
ST. MATHS DEFEAT S7ANNORS BY l5-6
Are Assured Of Tie-SOuth Church Wins Overtime Game
Intcr-Church Standing


 St. Matthew's .... 12 1857 First Lutheran ... II .1S6 South Cong. ...... .57l Stanley Memorial . .3OS Swedish Bethany .3oS Trinity M. E. ... F .133
 Certainty of at least a tie for first place in the Inter-ChurCh Ease ball lea que was secured by the St. Matthew's German Lutherans when start and pounded out a 15-G victory over the Stanley Memorial nine at Willow Brook park, Only one gamc is left on the schedule of the BPS champions. and if they defeat the Swedish Bethany nine next Monday night they will capture their seConG successive pennant and their third flag in four years.
 Otto Suess made faulty start last night. and E. Stohl, F. Rittner, and French found him for hits and run- with two away. Eddie Preisscr had been worked around in the St. Matt half of the frame and Martin Steege's home run with Klopp on base tied the score in the second. Kieffer put his team in the lead again in the third and it was 4-3, Stanmors.
 Then the losers blew up, and Cr4 without an out int tarrupting the pa rade, second home run by Martin Steeco climaXing the rally. The St Matts then ran up their lead rapidly more runs.
 With q third hit in addition 70 his two circuit blows, Martin StccSe was the batting hero of the game, while Eddie Proisser, Elopp. w, Preisser, and W. S'urlo also hit hardS w.. Stohl led the losers attack, but the Stanmors could not find Suess as often as the St. Matts reached Kief- fer. The line-ups and score by innings:
 St. Matthews German Lutheran F. preisscr, 2h; l.. Neumann, Of; F. l,lopp, lib; W. Preisscr. ss; M. Stecge, 3b; W. surllo, If; o. Suess D; W. Fink, c; o. Stecgo, If.
 Stanley Memorial-Hamlin, If; W. Stohl, 3b; J. Thorstcnson, c; r. Eittner, ss; French, 2b; Kicffer, p; F. Stohl. 1b; Joseph. cf; Olson, If.
 St. Matts -. 120 714 O-15 If 3
 Stan. Mem. ..S01 100 l. 6 Eight Euns in Eighth Forced into an extra inning by an unearned Swedish Bethany run in the last half of the seventh. the South Congregational church won its 1 fourth consecutive victory by falling upon Red" Lindgren for eight runs i in the eighth and pounding out a 1 G-S triumph. It was the third vic tory scored by the South church over the Swedish team this season and gave the winners record or seven wins in nine starts after hav- ing finished the first round in the | cellar.
 Neither team settled down for an i inning or two. and in the first | frame the winners, after scoring five runs, saw the Bethany aggrcga- tion come back with a slashing rally to knot the count. The losers moved | into 7-6 lead in the second but were pulled back into tie in the 1 third. An error with two out and a l man on second put the South | Church ahead in the fifth and i, went into the seventh looking like 6 winner, as Mercy had been bearing down and had not been scored or for four frames, But Lagerlof led off with a hit and E. Anderson dumped hit back of second. Park. CT overthreW third as Lagerlof raced to that bag and both runners cross. ed the plate. A discussion followed and Anderson was scrt back 10 sec. ond under the ground rule permit. ting but one base on an overthrow lie moved to third on the next play but remained there while Strom ant Ohlson went out.
 Then came the big b!ow-off Spring started thing with a doubl, and went to third on Morey's fourtl hit of the game. Parkes theI atoned for his error driving a dou ble to center and sending in bot men with the winning runs. Hit and errors followed in rapid ord de as the winners batted more Ihal around, and finally, as it was grow ing dark, Mercy struck out inten tlonally and Parker bunted purpose ly into Lindgren's hands. Then, il the growing murk, Mercy cut loos with all he had and retired the los CTS In order, getting two men ol easy infield flies and flaming Sea burg for the final out
 Mercy starred at the bat with
 double and three singles, while Park CT got q double, two Singles, and
 sacrifice and Elmer Johnson of tn losers gathered three safe hits. Th work Of Billy DarroW at shortsto 'or the South church was little shoI ot miraculous. Darrow threw ol several men from deep on the grls and started q lightning double pla by spcaring a long hard drive an catching q runner off first with
 riile-llke throw. Spring made
 spectacular shocstrng catch of
 line hit at third. The losers mad
 malieshitt iniiold, and it's errors har dicapped Lindgren greatly. The lint Ups and score by innings;
 South ConGrcgational-Morey, r
 Parker, cf; W. Darrow, ss; Bart; ib; St,lma, C; Osborne, If; Hat . L :.