New Britain herald., 1929-07-01

Heavy hitting combined with the alright twirling of Lefty" Dugas gave the Taftville nine a decisive | 10 l victory over the Falcon team yesterday afternoon at St. Mary's streak of six games to an abrupt end. The visitors were the best combination to appear here this season and demonstrated their su- periority over the locals from be- ginning to end.
 Lefty Dugas, who had a try out with Hartford in the Eastern league, was in rare form and had | the Falcons helpless after the first inning. The portsider showed great change of pace and allowed the Polish team only four bingles, 1 three of which were scratch hits. Eight Falcon men were retired on strikes and, in six out of the nine innings, the locals were retired in order. The only real smash off the offerings of Dugas came in the ninth inning when klatl,a belted a single into left field
 The visitors meanwhile, crashed the offerings of Lefty" Atwood at will and only sensational fielding prevented a higher score. Atwood vas away off form and was toucned up for II hard bingles, most of them coming with men on the bases He was relieved by Lefty" Huber m the ninth.
 Three solid hits in the first inning started the visitors off to a good be- ginning. Cimmy opened the battle with a single. Tombari, Connecti- cut Aggie star, flied out but Jarvis of Holy Cross fame doubled into right. Lamory followed with single and both runners raced across the plate.
 In their half Of the inning the Falcons played headsup baseball, and pushed across a run on clever inside strategy. Walicki walked. Rose laid down a clever bunt and reached first easily, Walicki going to second. With two strikes against him, klatlla dropped a bunt down the third base line and all hands were safe. Huber sent a long sacri- flee fly 10 center, Walicki scoring. Here Dusas came into his own and retired the side without further score
 Both Atwood and Dugas pitched great ball in the second, third and fourth innings and retired the sid without scores. The local pitcher blew up in the fifth however, and Taftville scored two more counters on two hits, a walk and a wild pitch, The visitors continued their | hitting in the sixth session and punched two swats with an error 10 score two more runs. Another run was scored by the visitors Tn the seventh on two more hits, Atwood failing to have anything on the sphere that puzzled the batters. Er- TOTS figured in the visitors final 1 tally in the ninth.
 During these periods Of hitting by inc Taftville team. the locals bats were silent, Dugas twirling wonder full ball.
 IaftVllle presented good fielding aggregation, the infelders making great stops that killed any possible chances of rallies by the Falcons. Jimmy, William X Mary player. covering third base, was especially brilliant and made number of beautiful pickups.
 Pat Rose did great work for he losers on the defensive, picking four drives out of the air that appeared good for hts. All four catches were difficult but Rose got under them prettily. Walicki and Woiack also played good fielding games.
 Hitting honors tor the day were divided between Cimmy and Lamory of the Taftville aggregation, each man finding Atwood's offerings for