New Britain herald., 1930-07-29
SOUTH CHURCH IS DOUBLE C0NQUER0R
Bell Pitches Two Victories
 MethOdistS Take St. Johns
Inter-Chulrch League


 Trinity NJ. E. ..... II 3 .756 First Lutheran .. 2 , .b4@ Memorial Baptist ,o0o First Baptist .... 4 10 2S0 St. Johns Luth, .. II .267 St, Marks Epis. .. 3 2 .25O Swedish Bethany 12 l43
 A double victory over the First Raptlsts carried the South Congre- gational church team out into l half-game lead in the 1nter-Church baseball league last night the Wln- ners taking the first game with con- summate ease by an so score but being forced to the limit to earn 4-3 decision in the nightcap. Both games, which were staged at Willow Brook park, were played with snap and speed and were terminated well before darkness despite the cloudy weather. The two-fold triumph ran the South Church winning streak to six games.
 Again it was Clifford Bell vno proved the hero of the evening. Pitching both games, he shut out his foes with a mere three blngles in the first encounter and granted them only four safe blows in the secon1 one. And. after a hitless night, it was Bell who came up in the last inning of the final encounter and won the game with q wallop that
 r., bases but was limited to a single be- cause Bomza was resting on third with the winning run. Bell now has six wins and no losses and IS the leagues leading pitcher.
 The winners fell upon Carroll for four runs in the second inning Of the initial game and were never in danger. They collected a total Of 16 hits off the Baptist pitcher a11 profited further by four errors, Bomba. Merza, and Spring led lte attack with three hits each, Spring including a double and triple in his assortment. Barta, Stelma and Carlson had two apiece. Aided by perfect and. at times. sensational support. Bell held the losers rn check at all times, striking out scr- elal men in pinches. The line-uDs and score by innings;
 South gational-Bomba, r.; Parker, Of; Bell. p; Barta, h. Stel- ma, C; Jacobi, ob Spring, 3b; MerLa ss, G. Carlson. If H. Darrow, If.
 First Baptist-Folden. 1b; Bassett, 1b, kieffer, 2b; A. Anderson. c; Ca-- roll, D. Stevenson, If; Howe. Of; H. Carlson. ss; Foldan, If; Zottola, 3b. South Cong. ..O4O 0211-S IS C lst Bapt. .....00O 00o0-0 3 4
 second Game Hard Fought
 The Baptists came back and fought tenaciously in the second game. With two out in the first in- ming Anderson and Carroll hit safely and both men scored when Merza took Stevenson's grounder and threw it past Barta al tirst-the only South church error in the double header. Then Bell, with the assist ance of beautiful support, set the losers down for five more innings without further runs. Stelma' arm cut down man after man on the bases and wiped out the effects of Bells several passes, the work of Spring at third in tagging the run ncrs being little short Of phcnome- nal.
 But the South church threw away chance after chance by crazy tase running and had hard job in catching up. Barta opened the sec ond with 8 single and scored on Jacobi's triple, but Jake" tried 10 stretch his hit and was out at the plate. In his next time up Jacobi did hit a clean home run. but this time he failed 10 touch third base and was out. Bomba doubled in the fifth, however, and raced for third on Bells sacrifice fly. scoring when Howe S throw went into the crowd.
 Jacobi atoned for his mistakes by slngling ln the sixth, stealing second. and counting on Springs hit. It { looked like the end. but Howe open cd the Baptist seventh with a home run over Bomba's head, barely beat { ing the thro" 10 the plate in close decision, There the Baptist attack ended. however, and Bomba led off for the winners with his fifth hit of the night, pllfered second, and went 10 third on Parkers sacrifice. Bell ! then planted a long hit in right i center and it vas all over, The line ups and score by innings:
 First Baptist-Beasett 1b; kiefer, ! ?; A. Anderson, c; Carroll, 2b; Stew enson, If; Howe, of; H. Carlson. ss; 1 Folden. If Zottola. 3b.
 1 South Congrega gational-Bomba, If; Parker Of; Bell, p; Barta, h. Stel- ma c; Jacobi, 2b; Spring, 3b; Merza, l ss H. Darrow If
 First Baptist .. 900 900 1-3 1 South Cong. .. 01O Oil 1-4 12 l
 Methodists Maintain Pace
 The trinity Methodists won their seventh successive game, defeating the St. Johns German Lutherans by 10-6 in a free-hitting and rather loosely played game. Shepard teld- ed three runs in the first inning, but then the winners began a long range attack which brought them a vic tory. "Merky' Johnstone and Hor- ace Pinkerton contributed home runs 10 this assault, the former get ting two additional hits and PirN CT ton one. Taking the lead in the third the Methodists had to hang on for d few innings, but in the sixth a three run rally slowed the contest away | and brought them back into a tie ! for second place.
 R. and H. Ziegler and Schurman led the Lutheran attack with two | hits each. The losers collected as many hits as the winners but could