New Britain herald., 1930-08-28
League Standing

W. L. Pct Sokols s.'''.''tt'. .o 'ovO Pirates ...,.....,..I TOO Burrltts ..,.,.,....b SOD West Ends .......,5 , 800 Holy Cross .,,,.,.4 s 400 Senecas ..........0 10 900
 Catching Brooks. pitching maln- stay of the Pirates baseball team away off form. the Burritts last night put the Corsalrs out of the running and gave the Sokols the champion ship of the senier City Baseball league when they took advantage of Pirate mlsplays and shaken conf dence to win by the score of Il to s. The game vas a playoff of q tie game played during the regular sea- son. A win for the Pirates would have put them in a tie with the Sokols for the league lead and the cham mpionship but their defeat ends the league race with the Sokols as the pennant winners.
 Although Brooks was touched up for only five hits, he walked SIX men, most Of whom scored and he hit i've batsmen. Some of his pitches were so bad that Lipman was hard put to It to get the ball while base runners got around further towards home plate Besides this, hIs de- fense crumpled in the seventh and ninth innings and the Pirates liter ally booted away every chance they had
 Bruno Kama veteran Burrltt moundsman. vas touched up for Il hits but he kept these scattered in the late innings He hlt one bats man and walked none. Ills support was marvellous at critical times
 The contest started off as a see saw affair with the Pirates seeming to have q big edge. The Burritts got one run in the first frame when Wesoly drove q home run into left center field
 Right of the reel, Sokolosh. first man up for the Pirates, tied the score when he belted home run along the third base line. Begley was hit by q pitched ball Beagle fen out to center but Fink singled sending Begley 10 third Fink stole second and he and Besley scored when Schmarr ro,3ed single 10 left , field
 The Pirates added another in the , second when Yankaslsas laced 2 ; home run to left field
 The Burrltts went scorelezs unti1 the fourth when they scored two. , Zaleskl walked 10 start the inning and he scored when Havhck hit 2 drive to center held Fink tried 10 trap the ball but he didn't even touch t and Havllck got 2 triple. Kama hit a high fly to the outfeld, Begley made 8 wonderful catch on 5 the play but Havllck s,-..ed ] The Burritts tied the count ln the : fifth when Hesoly walked. went to : second on wild pitch and scored , 2s Eegley threw wildly to first Tn an attempt to complete 3 double play. l The Pirates, however. broke the ice [ again in the lass half Of the frame when Beagle laced a home nun into deep left field
 The seventh proved to be the Waterloo of the Pirate team In this , frame. the lnfeld went absolutely to pieces and the game was lost, Ga , domski singled to right to start 7 things and stole secont Wesoly | singled to right and Gadomshl SCOT i ed Wesoly went 10 second on a wild pitch, Budqick was hlt by q pitched ball Lufv sacrificed both r0,l I,t, to, T along the first base line cn squeeze play but E;chmarr booted the ball W-esoly scored and BuGnich got 10 third
 Zaleski hit a high fly to center field and Fink missed the ball. Bud nick and Dalkowski scored and Za- leski pulled up at third on the play. Begley booted zembkos roller and Zaleski scored This left the count nine to four in favor of the Burritts.
 The Pirates made a great bid at I comeback in the eighth. Begley started with a single He "cored when Be1Ele's hit went through l Wesoly for three bases. Begley . scored Fink famed and Sehmarr ileW CI1 70 snort. Llpili-N GIoFF d l single to left and Beagle ;cored while Gadomski let the ball get : through him and Llpman went all 5 the way home Linnshan struck out , to end the rally
 , The BurrItrs made sure Of the = game in the first of the ninth by scoring two more counters. Luty = tripled to left center. Dalkowski [ walked and stole second Luty scored . as Zaleski was being thrown out at first Zembko rolled 10 Beagle and he made to throw home, saw he was too late and turned, of balance, and [ fred in the general direction of 1 first base. The throw was wild and l Zembko went to second. The two = runs were all the Burrtts got. how r ever, as Walicki flew out to left and hania rolled out to short
 The Pirates got 2 life when, with ' one out, Zembko dropped Brooks l fly in right field WalIckl then jump cd to catch a short drive by Soko-