New Britain herald., 1929-07-01
LEADING TEAMS DEFEATED
 IN CITY LEAGUE BATTLES
Pirates Bow Before Attack of Holy Cross Combination and Burritts Lose Out in Weird Contest With West Ends-Last Years Champions Held Scoreless Until Last Inning, Stage Rally to Win-Cardnals Batter Senecas Into Sole Occupancy of Cellar.

1 the West Ends team started a rally in the last half of the ninth inning and ended only after the winning run had been pushed across the l plate. It marked one of the weirdest ! endings of q game played in any leasue in this city this year. The final count was 4 to 3 in favor of the champions Of last year.
 Tommy Blanchard, veteran moundsman. earned the soubrique5t of the "Old Master Saturday as ha ! breezed his way to a we'll deserved win. Tommy was in excellent shape and wcaked only once during the game in the seventh inning when | Zaleski collidnd with him on the first base line and hurt him. It took the West End pitcher most of the seventh inning 10 recuperate but once he had cleared the foggy mists from his brain, he pitched better than ever and gave his mates the opportunity to win a game for him l that should have been won in tb@ earlier part of the contest.
 Fitted against Blanchard was | Bruno kania. still master of the art of making hittcrs strike at bad | balls. Bruno was in excellent shape also and he was sailing screnely | along confident of q win when the unexpected happened 10 give him a l defeat that was as hcatbrcaking 10 suffer as the victory was glorious | for Blanchard.
 Two scratch hits that, in the opin- i ion of spectators. should have been ficlded, gave the Burritts run in | the opening inning. After Blanchard had been hurt in the seventh, a single into left. an error by Camp bell committed when George Fled cut in front of him in an attempt to field a ground ball and another single gave the Burrtts two more and with this lead, they rode into the ninth inning suprcmcly conn- dent of victory.
 The West Ends could have been anywhere but at Walnut Hill park as far as batting was concerned for the first eight innings. In the first frame, Tommy Basil got to second and stayed there. In the second, Johnny Smithwick connect ed for a triple to right field but that was as far as he got. In every i other inning, not man reached first and for five of them the West ] Ends went out in order The Burritts were playing alright ball behind the wonderful pitching of kania.
 Then, like a thunderstorm which comes up suddenly in the night to blast the countryside. the West Ends started to hit. What a sur prise for the Burritts and what an ending for the game. Fields, first man up, slapped a single through short, Al Blanchard slapped another to center. Cormier blasted a single over the shortstop's head Campbell continued the work with another single to left and two runs were in. Hayes sacrificed and the runners moved up. Then Johnny Smithwick, the hitting hero of the day, caught one and sent it against the screen III ilSHL CtllttI TOT two bases an Campbell crossed the plate with the winning run.
 John Smithwick with three hits out of three trips, single, doub e and triple and a Wcll-timed sacrifice was the hero of the day for the West Ends. He and Tommy Blanc hard practically won the game. Stup BudniCk played whale of game at short for the losers while Stanley BudniCk turned in the feature with d nico running catch in right field. The summary:
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