New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
METHOD|STS LOSE
 ID SOUTH CHURCH
Leaders Move Step Nearer Title
 Fink St. Matt Hero
Inter Church League

I II SL Lutlltl all 'N''' Memorial Baptist ,5oo St. Marks Episc .. sos First Baptist ... 1G ,2H6 St. Johns Luth -: 4 II .26l Swedish Bethany e. IS .l35 Pounding Shepard for the surpris- ing total Of 20 safe hits, the South Congregational church team contin- ued it's march toward an Inter Church baseball league title last night by hurling back their most dangerous rivals. the Trinity Meth odists. by 1O-5 in a disappointing game at Willow Brook park. The l contest failed 10 develop into the tight pitchers duel which had been their batting eyes well trained and | hit hard and often. Mercy yielded nine hits. including two home runs. ! but he had much the better of the ! contest with Shepard. as he prevent ed the losers from putting their 1 seventh in a row for the South 1 church and enabled it to protect its | half game margin with only two | contests remaining.
 i "Shep" ran into trouble right at i the start, for with two away Q the | Stelma. and Jacohi hit in rapid sue | cession to score four runs, and an- l other attack in the second frame raised the winners lead to 70. . Charley kraut's triple and John- stones sacrifice fly gave the losers one in the third and each team pick 1 cd up a counter in the fourth, the . Mcthodists getting their home run 1 by Hall. With two on and two out in the fifth Horace Pinkerton pasted what should have been another cir cult blow but Stelma blocked him off at the plate and tagged him as he went beyond,
 The South church ran it's total 10 l q with a pair Of runs in the sev- enth and then set out 10 stem the last desperate attack Of the unfal- terlng Methodists, Patterson was disposed Of, but Kraut lashed a home run along the left field foul line. Johnstone fouled out. Coleman Plnkerton was safe when Barta dropped Bells throw and kept on to second but he was nailed trying to go to third while Barta held the ball.
 Both inflelds played heads-up ball and many a. runner was cut down after reaching base. Spring again proved an impossible barrier at third and tagged many too-daring running. while Ray Pinkerton, play I ing aC the same position for the losers, featured with double play unassisted after one-handed catch of q line drive with the bases loaded.
 Clifford Bell, playing with the South church for the last time smashed a triple and three singles in four times at bat, while Mercy got two doubles, a like number of singles and Barta three singles and a double. Charley kraut's homer, triple. and single made him the Methodist batting hero. The line-ups and score by innings:
 South Congreg egational-Morey ?; Parker. Cf; Bell. ss; Barta, lb; Bom- ba. If: Stelma, C; Jacobi, rf-2b; , Spring. 3b; Merza, 2b-rf
 Trinity Vi E.-C. Krau1, rt; John stone, Of; C. Pinkerton, c; H Pink erton, If; Shepard p; Hall, ss; R. l Plnkerton, 3b; Jackson. 1b; P. Pat terson, 2b; W. Patterson, pinch 1 hitter
 South Cong ..,.43Q1oo1-1O 20 1 Trinity NJ. E. ..Ooll201-5 2
 St. Matts Exc Out Win
 Richard Fink. goat" of the St Matt defeat by the South church, 1 came back and became the hero as | his team nosed out the First Luth- erans by a 2-1 count and stayed in 1 the race. The game was pretty 1 hurling duel between Billy Preisser ! and Bill Fresen. with the former al- 1 lowing more hits but getting better 1 support and proving stronger in the few pinches that developed.
 The junior Fink made the first run all by himself. clouting one of | Fresen's pitches for the circuit In the second inning This one looked gcod enough to win until the fifth frame. while Erickson duplicated 1 Fink's wallop and evened the tally i Neither team could score in sixth and they went into the last inning still deadlocked at II.
 Walter Neumann hit safely in this inning, however, and young Fink again strode to the plate. Again he came through cracking a long hit over the outfield to bring Neumann home and win the game, for the Swedes failed to score in their turn at bat. The game was exceptionally fast, being played in about half ar hour. The line-ups and score by innings;
 St. Matthew's German Lutheran F.. Preisser, 2b; L. Neumann, If; G Freisser, If: ". Preisser. D. W, Neu. mann, 3b; F. Fink. cf; Linn, 1b; M Steege, ss; W. Fink. c.
 First Lutheran-Hultberg, Of I I fSh' -''iSOIi, oD- AGti oiIl'IuIoNf A. Fooerg. lb; H. Carlson, If; Beng. ston, 2b; Erickson, If; Fresen, ?. S. Matts ....010 5000 1-2 5 st Luth. ....000 010 0-1 6
 St. Marks Take Forfeit
 The St. Marks Episcopalians once more proved that it is possible tc win some games merely walking on to the field. for the Swedish Bethany nine did not put in an appearance and the West Main street outfit ad vanced to the top of the second di vision. It was the third forfeiture the Episcopalians had taken thi' year.
 Games Monday
 On Monday evening the final weel or the league will open with th' First Baptists playing the St. Matt lin the lots" the Swedish Bethan! and Trinity Methodist teams meet