The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-11
Frats And Pontes Clash Saturday In Itam Contest

Plenty of action is expected to- morrow afternoon when the second week of play in 'the Italian Amer ican leagues round robin tourna- ment gets underway.
 Last weeks games saw the Civilta Progresso topple the Fratellanza and the Aviglianese victorious over the Pontes.
 At 1.30 at Fulton Park the Fratel- lanza and the Pontes fight it out to see which team will remain in the tournament. Both teams have lost one game and tomorrow's losers will be eliminated from further play. The oPntes, a team that has good material and plenty of good hitters but just don't seem to click when playing game, should come out on top in this encounter. The Frats defeated the oPntes the last time they played and feel pretty confident that they can do it again. Joe Mazzaferro, Pontes coach, stated last night that he would have his star left-hander, Joe Parolpoiano, ready to start in to- morrow's clash. Joe has been out of action for over two months due to sore arm. Bill Bellotti, who has been doing the pitching right along, will also be ready for mound duty. Joe Rinaldi will do the catching. Johnny DiLeo will pitch Lefty" Latino with Gambno doing the catcihg.
 The feature game of the after noon will show the Aviglionese against the Civilta Progresso. This game will start at 400 o'clock and will also be played at Fulton park. Last week both teams came out on top in thierg macs and the winner of to-day's game will have stranglehold on the round robin championship. The Civilta and Aviglianese are evenly matched and good game can be expected when these two teams clash. The Civilta has hitters like Guiliano, Palo, Pruscino and De Santis to depend upon. They will be matched by such hitters as Verno, Jimmy Reno, LoRusso and Gambogi. Both teams have fine coaches in Johnny Assetta of the Civilta Progresso and Lenny GenoveSe and Connie" Nedo of the Aviglianese. Much credit is due to Genovese and Nedo who have brought up the Aviglianese to a top notch ball team. You will remem- Der three years back when the Avig- lianese first entered their team in , the league, they finished in last place but did not give up their fighting spirit. The following year, which was last year the boys went out and won the championship in 8 tough struggle which was no lazy task for 8 team who had finished in last place the previous year. This year they are right in the thick of the pennant scramble. This goes to show what a willing ball team can do under the fine coaching of Lenny Genoese and Connie" Nedo. Henry Cipriano is expected to pitch for the Aviglianese with Dom Coviello catching. Place and De Santis will form the battery for the Civlta.
 George Greece and Charles Grace will umpire both games with Peter Polletto doing the scoring. The probable hneups of the feature game:
 Aviglianese Civilta Progresso Coviello Maranelli, 2b F. Martineli, 3b Palo, ss J. Reno, ss Guiliano, ID Lo Russo, If Pruscino, 3h Gambogi, If De Santis, C Coatta, of Festa, cf B. Martinelli, 1b D. Maranelli, If aSntora, 2b Ferla, fl Cipriano, p Place, P
 Last week the writer picked both both games right and will try again this week.
 | Probable winners
 |Pones-Fratellanza.