New Britain herald., 1929-06-18
|ST. MATHS UPSET | BY SOUTH CHURCH
Deadlock Results as League
 Leaders Meet First Defeat
Inter-ChurCh Standing

l The winning streak or the et. Matthews German Lutherans was snapped last night when the South Congregational church nine adminis- 1 tered a totally unexpected 10 1 beating to the Inter- Church baseball | league leaders and dropped them back into a tie with the First Luth- erans. II was the seasons first loss for the St. Matts, who had com 1 pleted the first round without q I blemish on their record. while the victory lifted the South church from the league cellar and placed 1t in . tie for fourth place.
 Parker and Mercy singled with one away in the first, but the former was caught at the plate and the rally came to nothing. Two innings later the winners had another chance. but Ray Bomba was out at home trying 10 score from second on Parker's single. In the fourth. how ever, the break came. Barta hit with one down and. after Bell had
 
 run to right center, making the score to 0.
 In the sixth the St. Matts did all their scoring. Bobecka led off with hit, E. Preisser sacrificed. and Suess rolled a hit into right, sending in one run klopp and W. Preisser also hit safely, and the St. Matts took the lead. This drove Mercy to socer, and Bell took up the pitching. l.. Neumann's sacrifice Texas leaguer sent in the fourth run of the frame and then the side was retired.
 Billy Bomba opened the last ses- sion with hit, took second on q passed ball, and went to third as Vessels was being thrown out. He scored while Joseph was going out at first and, with one out. the St. Matts seemed sure of victory. But Ray Bomba sent tantalizing slow roller through the box into center field for single, and then Suess lost control and passed Rockwell and Parker, filling the bases. With two called balls on Mercy. Suess gay. way to Billy Preisser. but the latter gave Mercy two more and Bomba scored the tying run. Preisser also gave 8 free ticket to Barta, and Rockwell came in with the winning counter. Bell grounded out.
 With one gone in the last half. Billy Preisser slapped out his third hit and stole second, but Vessels sneaked in from center field to trap him off the middle sack and run him down, and then Bell famed l.. Neumann for the final out.
 Suess and w. Preisser got three hits each. w. Bomba's home run and single made him the outstanding hitter of the game, while Parker, R. Bomba, and klopp also hit twice each. w. Bomba and Bell made feature plays and R. Bomba turned in a freak catch in right. The line ups and score by innings:
 South Congregational: Rockwell, ss; Parker, 2b: Mercy. p, 3b; Barta, 1b; Bell. 3b, p: w. Bomba, If; Wes< sels, of; Joseph, C; R. Bomba. If.
 St. Matthews German Lutheran: E.. Preisser, c: o. Suess, D., ss; F. klopp, 1b; w. Preisser. ss, p; l.. Neumann, If: w. Nelmann, 3b; +. Fink. 2b; 0. steege, of; Bobecke. If. South Cong. .. 900 200 3-5 9 St. Matts ... 900 O40 0-4 II 1
 swedes Go Into Tie
 Five runs in the first inning started the First Lutherans on 6-1 conquest of the Stanley Memorial nine and enabled them to tie the St. Matts for first place. Everybody hit in that frame. and. although they held the Swedes even afterwards. the big handicap proved too much for the Stanmors to overcome.
 Stromquist made his first start in the box for the Swedes and held the opposition to five hits. Anderson and Gattings led the hitters with two hingIes apiece. The lne-ups and score by innings:
 First Lutheran-Nelson 3b. Brick son ss. Anderson 1b. stromquist p, Peterson cf. Nyborg c. Hultberg 2b, Johnson If. Bengtson rf
 Stanley Memorial-Ham If, w. Stohl 2b. Johnson Of, D. Stohl 3h, kieffer 3b. E. Stohl 1b, Gattings c, A. Folden ss, A. Folden If.
 1st Luth .. , Q c 0 O-6 9 3 Stan Mem Q 1 0 0 Q 0 O. 1 5 ?
 Bethany Trims MethOdists
 The Swedish Bethany team SCOT ed in every inning and pounded out a 16-4 victory at the expense Of the Trinity Methodists, who sank into the league cellar. Dave Swan son held the losers runless while his mates were running up 12 coun- ters in the first four innings. Then he eased up. but the Methodists could not cut down the Bethany margin.
 Gus Dahlman topped the hitters l.