The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
ONLY 4 TEAMS
 LEFT IN OHIO ' SANDLOT MEET
Brooklyn A. C. in Semi. Finals Today Meeting
 Birmingham, Champs
(BY JOHN A. CLUNY)

Youngstown, O., Sept. 12-All that is necessary for the Brooklyn A. c. baseball entry in the National Anna teur Tournament to get into the finals for the 1941 championship is victory over Birrningham's de- lending champions this afternoon, to be followed by a win for Dear born, Michigan over Youngstown's Scher Tailors tonight. If such re- suits take place, Waterbury will contend for the National Amateur baseball championship for the first time in its national tournament his- tory and, oddly enough, will com- pete for the title with the only team able to defeat it in five games of competition since last Saturday.
 However, there remains two very tough hurdles for the Brooklyns, but, for team that has scored 58 runs in five games, an average of nearly 12 runs per game, and one which knocked over the New York three time industrial league cham pions, 21 to 6 in the B. A. opening effort, such hurdles which, a few days ago looked like mountains now take on the shape and general ap- pearance of molehills. In brief, with splendid pitching and consistent slugging, especially when hits mean runs, the Brooklyn boys really feel that they are as good as anything In the meet, and there are but four teams left including the Water ,burians with such supposedly strong teams as Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Memphis and Chicago all out like the mornings milk and back home at work by this time. The baseball battle for the national champions right down to bed rock at this writing and the worst that can happen for Waterbury is the somewhat dubious honor of being eliminated by the 1940 national champions, whereas, If the Brook lyns can get over that hurdle, noth- ing remains but Dearborn or Youngstown, the latter to play in a night game if it gets by the hard- hitting Dearborn Scenics which stopped Waterbury ' to 2, and has the distinction of being the only team able to keep the B. A. c. on the wrong end of the score.
 Home Clubs Favored
 Youngstown has been given the privilege of playing all its games under lights, on a field with @ light ing system that one of the major league scouts described as the worst he has seen in five years of travel ing all over the country and seeing scores of games after dark. The big idea in these national tournaments is that the home team always "gets the breaks" for the NABF prefers to arrange the schedule for the home team in such a manner that the most money will be realized. It's just lone of those things" and nothing can be done about 1t as the same situation came up at Dayton in 1887.
 Thursdays IA to game was an- other run-scoring exhibition by the Brooklyns, who spotted the Dayton Old Reliable Coffees two runs in the third inning but then made an old man out of Dayton's starting pitch- CT, Young, by denting the plate five times, aided by infied miscues and a little trouble in the outfield. Wa terbury's starting moundsman, Emil Drotter, struck out the first man to face him in the first and second innings, but Morgin hit long triple to center field which was followed by another triple by Swiesler which scored run, after which Swiesler scored on an infeld out play, when McHugh dropped Yoksa's throw to first base for the third out. Water bury was up and at 'em" in the fifth, got the run back that went to Dayton unearned and then knocked Young out of the box, greeted his successor crews, none the less gently and teed of on Sor1e"",
 CT for four runs in the eighth and ninth innings. Tn the sixth, Water bury scored four runs, two ol v44..A with two out and on fly ball to center by pitcher Drotter which was dropped by the red-haired Day. ton centerfielder Morgin, whose tri- pie was the first hit of the game of Drotter, who gave but seven hits, while Dayton made eight errors dur ing the IA run nightmare, during which Joe Kruchalla, City League batting champ and home run hitter with the bases loaded got A for G." Casaly three hits, Mack three. Kob- rin and Mylnarski two each during the IS hit attack, that with eight Dayton errors produced IA runs and a semi-final spot in the tournament for the strongest team of hitters and pitchers ever to represent Waterbury in l6 years of national tournament play, the first team of which, in 1925 was also from the Brooklyn Athletic Club.