New Britain herald., 1930-05-20
OUTBREAKS CLIMB
 BY ENDING SLUMP
Defeat South Church; St. Mats
 Win, MethodiStS Forfeit
Intcr-ChurCh standing

The First Lutherans snapped out ot their slump last night al Willow Brook park and scored their first victory of the Inter-Cnurch basel ball league season by overcoming the south Congrc gationahsts, lp-5, in d see-saw but loosely played game The slippery condition ot the field made clean fielding virtually lmpos- sible and each side kicked in with seven mjsplays which made the pitchers lives miserable Bu Fres- CT. Lutheran hurler houcver. veathtred the storm by his own tight pitching and through the strengthening Of his support III the plnchcs. while Parker finally went down under a battery ot hts n the final frame.
 A general plague of errors in the early innings gave the winners d 1 bare 5-4 lead, but the South church tied the count in the sixth when Bomba hit safely, stole second anu third, and scored on Walker 5 binglc The Lutherans, however. came right back and took the game. 1 StromQuist's TcXas leaguer being mishandled and going for thrcs bases as a starter. Then came q succession Of hits which brought ln five runs before Bell stopped the rally. Mercy tripled in the last half Of the inning but was left.
 The feature Of the game was an amazing enchanted catch by Bom- ba, who also contributed q second stab only slightly less spectacular. Elmer Johnson Of the Swedes turn cd in a pair Of beautiful catches. too. and Ahlgren ended the game with a freak one after over-running q hy ball Stromquist, Foberg and . Fresen garnered three hits apiece. The lincups and score by innings
 First Lutheran--E. Johnson r. Brisk es. Stromqust Q. 4. ToberC ih. 1 Nelson 3h, Ldman -b. AhlErcn ct. Fresen ?. 4 Johnson rf
 south Congregational - Mercy ss, Parker, p-lb; Bell @b-p; Marta . 1h-3b; S.elma. C; Bomba cf; Hat tinss. rf; Walker, If, Peterson, 2bi , Wallace f,
 . First puth. ...1eI eo0 5-Io 15 : south Cong. ..Go3 ooi b. : st. Mats Pile Up Score
 The championship St Matthew Y German Lutherans turned in thcu !; second victory of the season nncr . they ran up fl runs in four inning, , and defeated the Sr. Marks EplscO- palians by -4-3 IT a massacre which . fifth inning had been played. The , winners drove at least five run! r across the plato in every inning. 2 Eddie Preisser, St. Matt backstop
 made his second home run Of th, - year. while Arnold Reckert battet 9 for Billy Preisser in the fourth in - ring and hit for the circuit. Eddi l Preisser. Richard Fink, and Osca - Steegc collected four safe hits each 2 while Carl Linn. Walter Neumanr
 Otto Suess. and Surko made thre s 4Uaoe. Suess held the St. Mark n helpless even though he eased U 1 near the end. The lneups and SCOT T by innings.
 St. Marks piscopal-sorrou. c
 vairath, T. Krom, ?; W. Sleatl
 2b; Johnston. So; Taylor, ss; May
 3h; Weare, If; k. Larson, cf; I
 Sleath. If
 ! St. Nattheu's-E. Preissor. C; Neumarn, r. Linn, tb; W. Preissc
 ss; Eockert ss; W. Neumann, 3b; |, Prcisscr, $b; 0. Suess. ?; R. IIni
 -b; Surko cf; c. Steege. rf. o st. Marks -....-...n0- l0-3 S 1 ' St Mats ........E57 5x-o4 27
 Mcthcdt>t~ Forfeit
 The Trinity Ia-hodists. who Ia
 started inc -caaon so well with
 pair ot victories. saw their strca a como 10 disappointing end la, n night when they were unable 1 ,e muster the requisite number ( n players and were forced 70 forfe il 10 tho Memorial Baptists. This gay g. Inc latter team it's second victory
 Games Friday
 l. The St. Mats and Memorial EaI .. tIsts Nil settle the league leade sin ship on Friday nigh when they clas -, On Diamond No. ]. The St. Mar Is and St. Johns will meet on Dit . mond No. and 'he First Bap'i
 and Swedish Bethany teams on Il