New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
FIRST OUTBREAKS
 NOSE OUT BETHANY
Keep Pace With St. MattS- South Church Moves Up in Race
Inter-Church Standing

0Ouln UlluTC[ MOYeS Up Ill Race
 Inter-Church Standing
 W. l.. Pet. St. Matthew's ......I .S75 list Lutheran .......6 .100 South Cong. ........3 , .@l5 Swedish Bethany ..,3 ! ,375 stanley Memorial ..3 .&75 T riuity NJ. F.. ......2 6 .25O
 Four precious runs in the first in ring served to give the First Luth- vrans bare 4-3 margln over the swedish Bethany team in an Inter Church baseball game at Willow Brook park and enabled the win pers tc withstand tho shock of two 3ethany home runs in the last In- lings. The game was well played and the climax ,Wnen the nndl Bethany rally was barely stopped m time to prevent disaster 10 the Luthcruna, was the high point.
 Nelson was safe in the first in ming, after which a hit hy Ander- son, a pass, an error, and Johnson's blow combined to give the winners tour runs. Then Carl Scaburg settled down and kept the Lutherans away from the plate for the rest of the game. But Bill f'resen was pitching in great fashion, too. and tor i've innings there was not a l,reak in the score. In the sixth, however. Rcd" Lindgrcn caught cne of Fresen's slants on the nose and cloutcd it far to left for an easy home run.
 This served to encourage the los CTS. and in the next frame. with one out, Dave Johnson hit safely and Seaburg made q heroic effort to win his own game by duplicating Lind gren's Wallop. Ohlson went out. bu, Anderson hit to center and Lindgren. up again, drove a grounder through Stromqulst Anderson raced to third and kept on for the plate but was trapped and run down for the final out.
 The victory kept the First Luth- 'rans one game behind the St. Hatts. The lineups and score by innings;
 Swedish Bethany - Dahlman, c; I2gcrlof, 2b; D, Johnson. cf: Sea burg. D; Ohlson, If; Anderson. ss; Lindgren, 3b; Wcstergren, 1b; Strom, If.
 First differentiation. 3b; Erik son, ss; Anderson, 1b; Stromquist 2b; Ahlgren. If; Hultberg. of; E. Johnson, If; Nyborg, C; Fresen D.. SWcd. Beth ....000 001 9-3 2 lst Luth. ......400 000 X-4 1
 St, Matts Score Shutout
 Billy Prcisser pitched his second successive shutout and the St. Mat thcW's German Lutherans stayed in front Of :he league through snap 12-O win over the Trinity Metho- dists. Preisser, let the Methodists down with six singles. which were punched in only one inning, the fifth and could not produce a run then in spite of the fact that three were hit in succession in that frame. Meanwhile. he led a whitening at tack on Alden HcWett. a getting q triple and three singles for as many bases as the entire opposing team. His brother Eddie laced out a home run and single and Klopp account ed for three hits. The St MattS played crrorlcss ball afield.
 For three innings the St. Matts gallopcd around the bases at the rate of three an inning, and then the parade stopped for two frames. In the sixth Eddie Prcisser's home run started them again and another trio of rurs resulted. The line-ups and score by lnnjn"s:
 Trinity M. H,-Carle. If; p. HcW- ctt, 2h; Elton, 3b; A. Hewett, D; C. PinEerton, e; Ward, 1b; kIebcs, If; Lovejoy, ss, JJc.,son, Of; Tyler If.
 St Matthew's German Lutheran l.. Ncumann If; E. prcisscr 2D; E. klopp, In; w. Preisscr, D; NJ. Stece ss; W. Neamann. If; Schleicher. If. SteoGc, cf; W. Fink. c; 0. Suess, 3b Trinity M. F.. UU0 0o0 c. q { j St Matts. ....3&3 oo3 x-12 15 (
 south Church Wins
 The South Congregational team hammered its way to 10-2 victory over the Stanley Memorial nine and advanced from the cellar into third place. Kicffrr who started for the Stanmors, was hit fairly hard but fell more a victim to poor support than 10 any faWng of his opn Dave StohI 1,as more fortunate and quite succeeded in haGing the wiu- nors in the final innings, but by then they had too big q lead to be over come. Parker was hi} quite hard in the first innings, but his lean gave him peri ct support and h, brecze1 to an easy win. The work of Bell and Mercy on the left hal: Of tho diamond Wit3 particularly brilliant and chokcd off many q seeming hit or run. Mercy also led both teams in hitting connecting TOT IOtI sIhSl'S m HS many tunes al bat
 Tho winners started fast Morcy hr sa'olN stole second and cam, all tho way home on PaJEyr's sacri- 'lo" hunt Loose work in the Stan. more lntrold brought in two nor runs hc'or. tho inning ended. Hits by IIamlin Njnifrr and Fobar@ ea,. two runs back 10 th" S.4nnrors u their wrH lW rhr winners picll,, up another i'm the second on Fl tripa by %emE' and another Moroy siugf Then came tho hig lhrd whrn sc, "ral hits, including a double by Flat 'nes. cooprratod with some wrrtrh 'd fielding 10 bring i'm five South Church runs and drove Kicffer from
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