The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Federated, Alleys and 4. -
 First M. E. vs Second Congrega- tional, Alleys and 6.
 Alley Collections
 Mill Plain lost the rst anne to an inspired South Federated church team but came through in the last two games to take the honors from theIr opponents. At rst it looked as if the Kneen team was going to shellack the Mill Plain boys but the old fighting spirit of the Harvel men fared up and they romped off with two out of three games. Gal lagher was the big gun of the Mill Plain team rolling 347 for his three games, while Jack Northrup of So. Fed. took high single honors for the week with 147 and hit 352 for his three games which was better than Gallagher's.
 Second Congregational smeared the St Paups Episcopal boys from iWatervil1e by taking three games in one of the most spectacular matches of the season so far. l The first game was close all the way through with Second Congre- gational finally taking it by pins. In the second game Klobedanz, Beardslee and Backman went crazy all hitting over 115 in their games and taking the game by 51 pins. In the third game they all went goofy rolling a high team record of the year of 622 a mark that will stand for quite some time. The lowest score of three games rolled by the Second Congregational men was SIS while the highest was 368 hit by Stacy who pinned exceedingly well all evening. Another record in team high was hit by this team getting 1704 but losing out to M D for honors.
 What happened to the St Paul's Episcopal boys we do not know. Whether they were uneasy or just had an off night will be left to. some one else to figure out. Keith who can usually be depended upon to roll 800 and over was way off form and did not hit even 290. The rest of the team were in there all rolling over BIO but not getting scores quite high enough to take over the lead from the Second Con- gos.
 First M. E. pulled a surprise in upsetting Bunker Hill for three games and jumping into the league for first place honors at the end of the first round. Both teams were in there fighting from the time the first ball was rolled down the alleys but the First M. D. men seemed to be getting the breaks most of the time. The first game went to M. E. by 26 pins and at the end of the game they breathed a sigh of relief but then went to bat again With a determination to take the rest of the games. And how they did. Ev- cry one of the men hitting well over 300, the lowest man having SIP while lanky Harold Wright took high three honors for the week with his fine 374.
 For Bunker Hill we find only three men over 300 with Messenger rolling 346. He was the man who put a scare into M. D. by finishing up his last for boxes with marks and rolling a swell game of 13S. Poulson forgot to bring his shoes with rubber heels on and could not find a secure footing and did not roll his usual fine games but did come through with a 301. As some of the fellows say, "It was just one of those times when no matter how hard you try it doesn't bring the desired results"
 st Paurs M. F. put the skids to St Johns Lutheran for two games and would have taken three but for Hans Ruegg who pulled an almost impossible spare in his last box ana needing five to win gets eight to put it on the ice.
 Joe Degnan seemed to be able to lead the cheering section and also have enough energy left over to roll for he hit S42 for three games.
 Magel was the only star on St Johns to get over 315 this week but l.. Kleinschmidt came through this week and rolled 306 a nice score after many weeks of not be- ing able. to find the pins.
 Korngiebel, H. Curtiss and Hal lenborg rolled three nice games for St Paul's M. D. and the whole team did we'll to get two games for the odds were on St Johns who have a nice club this year.
 The cellar teams rolled off match this week with the revamp- ed First Cong. team taking over the First Baptists for two games. Manherz and Snow stood out high for the St Johns boys, Nanny get ting 357 for his three strings with Snow hitting S19. This team had been rather discouraged up until three weeks ago but with the