New Britain herald., 1929-08-15

the last half of the fourth and the Holy Cross aggregation came up to bat determined to do or die. Joe Budnick sliced a single over second. Marcinczyk went to sacrifice. Kania felded the ball and elected to play at second. His throw was there in time but Zaleski was straddling the bag and he touched Budnick late. Both men were safe. Krystopa laid down a neat bunt and sacrificed both men along. Dalkowski tried to squeeze" he hit triple on the right field foul line and two runs were in. Crossed signals with Kredar at bat brought Dalkowski in on a dead run for home. Kredar's play was to bunt but instead he swung hard and miss ed for a strike. Dalkowski was out a mile at the plate. Kredar then rolled out to short.
 A pretty piece of defensive base ball was seen in the Burritts' timo at bat. Gadomski singled and Hav- lick sacrificed him to second. Stub" Budnick was safe when DalkoWskt mussed up his roller at short and Gadomski went to third Budnick stole second. Johnny KIatka, was up but Krystopa elected to pitch to him. Johnny whaled a, mighty drive at "Starhead" Budnick at third and he threw to Marcinczyk at home to catch Gadomski coming in. This made the second out and although Stub" Budnick was on third and Johnny Klatka on second, Johnny Rose was thrown out at first by Dalkowski. The Holy Cross shortstop fumbled the ball but with a lightning like throw, he caught the runner.
 This about took the heart out of the Burritts. AS the Holy Cross team again came to bat, Joe Tronoski flied out to right field. Then "Starhead" Budnick put one past Gadomski in the game. Si Budnick worked Kania for a walk. s. Partyka slapped a drive to the tree in center field and Si scored on the hit but Partyka played it safe and pulled up at sec ond. He died there. The Holy Cross team scored again in the seventh when Krystopa's s roller went through Stub" Budnick's legs at short. Dal- kowski slapped a single to right field on perfect hit and run play and Joe Budnick. running for Krystopa, made third. Dalkowski started to steal. Kopec threw to second to get him and Joe Budnick tore home. l DalkoWski was safe at second and Budnick scored.
 The Burritts rallied in the last half of the eighth. "stub' Budnck led off with single. Johnny Klat- ka hit short fly behind short for another single, Budnick holding sec- ond. Johnny Rose singled into left but by a great piece of fielding and an equally great throw by Kredar, Budnick was held on third. Zaleski hit to 'starhead" Budnick on third and he tossed the runner out at first allowing Stub" to score. Then Kry- stopa reached the greatest heights of his career when he famed P. Party ka and Kopec for the last two outs of the game. The contest was called at this point on account of dark ness.
 Joe Tronoski made a great catch in left center of a drive off Zaleskis bat when, on dead run, he leaped ahead and speared the ball, holding it despite the fact that he fell and did a somersault. Si Budnick pulled another great catch right after him when he went away out in right field to pull down Kopec's fly. "Starhead" Budnick was the heavy sticker for the Holy Cross team while Johnny Continued on following page)