New Britain herald., 1930-09-11
Although picking all sta

Although picking all star teams is simply 3 pastime Jsand means nothing at all to the majority of fans, it furnishes. an interesting sidelight to an interesting baseball campaign just finished. For That reason, the Herald sports depart ment has decided to name an all- star team picked from the combina- tions entered in the Industrial League.
 The Herald selections are as' fol- lows: Noonan, Stanley Rule & Level, catch; Spencer. Stanley Rule Jagloski, P. & F. ~Corbin and Lefty" Haber, Fafnir, pitch; Bates, Corbjns, first base; Lipka, Corbins, second base; Darrow, Stanley Rule, shortstop; "starhead" Budnick. New Britain Machine. third base; O'Brien, Fafnir. left, field; Charlow. Landers. center field and Mickey Huber. Corbins, right field.
 Now come the reasons for these selections and it might be we'll to say right here that we expect as many different opinions on these selections as there have been fans to watch the games.
 Noonan, as a catcher, we believe, is in a class by himself in this city. There are other good backsteps, other good catchers, but there is only one Noonan. In the first place, he can catch any pitcher, fast ball or slow ball. He knows how to work a pitcher and .instills a. world of confidence in his battery mate. He has a perfect throwing arm and stolen bases on him are scarcity while he is strong at bat, a consis- tent workers and he Has class.
 In the pitching department, we believe that Spencer, Stanley, Rule Ace, is at the head of the list. Starting late in the season. he made the Stanley Rule, q powerful team and brought it to the runner-up po- sition. He is a fast ball pitcher with a sharp curve and he has nice con- troL VI ..
 Jagloski, mainstay of the cham pion Corbin team, Is our second choice. He is consistently good. a fine curve ball pitcher and al- thought he met his bumps. he pull ed his team through a tough sea- son in excellent shape.
 Lefty" Haber would be our choice for the third member of the pitching staff. It is seldom that one man converts a poor team into a good one but Haber must be given credit in a great sense for the rapid rise of the Fafnir team to third place in the league.
 We have selected Bates as our first baseman because we consider him a very good fielder, a fairly good batter and an excellent direc- tor of q teams play. It was his strategy, his persistence during the past few years that finally brought the Corbin team home the cham pion.
 Joe Lipka of the Corbin team has been selected as the second base man. Although he wasn't go impress sive at the start of the year as he was during the closing days of the campaign, he proved to be invalua- ble in the race for the pennant He is a good all around fielder, has plenty of baseball brains and he was hitting the ball consistently towards the end of the season.
 Billy Darrow of the Stanley Rule team is our first choice for short stop. We believe that he outstrips all other shortstops in the league in baseball ability. He covers his posi- ton very we'll and Is a dangerous man for any pitcher while he is at bat He also has class.
 "Starhead' Budnick, in our opin- ion, leads the third basemen. He led