New Britain herald., 1929-06-11
SI, MATES FORCED ID l! to B INNINGS
Dsialt SIdia Bethany in Long, @ Church Lague Game
.EIater.Cl,urch Staudiax

The,longcst game in the history of the Inter Church league baseball was played last night at Willow Brock park, and after its 1s innings had been completed the St. Mat thewa German Lutherans emerged with aA-3 victory over the Swedish Bethany team and finished the first round of play with their unrnarred string of five victories. The gan,e was just one inning longer than the previous distance affair. which oc- cured in 1926 and in which the St.. Matts found themselves on the losing end with the Trinity Methodists as their conquerora
 From start to finish the contest WAS replete with thrills as the team engaged in the bitterest, most de- termined sort of baseball in efforts to take the game. Seaberg, pitching for the losers, held the St. Matts to the low total of seven hits in the 13 inninGA two of these coming in the last seasien and proving his undoing. A few passes here and there, how ever were turned to advantage by the winners and kept them in the game despite their inability to hit. Tho Bethany players gathered ten safeties of Surko and Billy Preisser. A crowd of 250 saw the game.
 The St. Mats started in the initial inning when Eddie Preisser drew | pass and scored on Cartoons error with two away. The losers came right back to go into the lead in the second. Hits by Olson. Strom and LaSerlof sent the first two name d around for scores. Olson counted again two innings later. and with seaberg applying the brakes to the St. Matts. the Bethany went into the last inning with . 3-l lead.
 Then the St. Matts rallied. Reckert hit safely and Luddy Neumann dr.w q pass. Tho former scored on an error and Neumann when R. Fini, blasted q clean hit, but w. Fink tried 10 make the plate on the same play and was thrown out.
 The extra innings were thrilling all the way. Time and again one side or the other would get a man to third but fail 10 score. and man after man was caught at the plate when desperate base running was offset by perfect. fielding. The losers got a man to third with one out in the 18th, but Fink took foul and the next man was easy. At last. in The last ofthe 18th the blow-of came Klopp drove a single through short .Etole second, and went to third when the throw to get him was wii. Then Billy Preisser won his owr game jhy sending Kiopp home with q hard single to center field.
 The work of the rival catchcrs Fink and Dehlman. featured. The line-ups and score by innings:
 Swedish, Bethany-Dahlman, 2b. Lagerlof,. 3b: Carlson. ss; seabers p: Westergren. lb; w. Anderson. Of; Olson. If; Strom. If; B. Anderson cb.
 St. Matthews German Lutheran E. Preisser, 2b; w. surko. p-3b; E. Klopp, 1b; w. Preisser. 3b-p; w Neumann, ri: Reckert. If: l.. Neu- mann, ;fs w. Fink, c: o. Steege, Of; R. Fink, 20.
 swed.s Beth. .o2o 100 900 900 0-s St. Matts HOO 900 200 900 1-l Swcties Stay In Race
 The First Lutherans stayed right behind the St. Matts by handing q 10-3 beating to a crippled and wob- bly South Congregational church team. Bell received terrible sup. port in the first two innings and the ewedes piled up eight runs on a few hits and some loose fielding. Red Nelson, Swede third sacker. flea tured the second inning with home run to center field with one man on Barta took over the losers pitching assignment and, with tighter sup. port, succeeded in holding the Swedes in check for the remainder of the game. but the South church was able to score but three runs oil the delivery of Bill Fresen.
 Nelson. led the Hwede attack with