The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-14

E. r. A. combine for first place al
though they have been hard pressed |
to do so in two of their games. Two
weeks ago they won over Waterbury
Tool in the last inning by 3 to 2
score on a home run by Theresa
Ficeto. Last week against Roger |
Connors' charges from the Water
bury Mfg. Co., they again were for
tunate to win by one run margin
in the last inning on home run by
Rose Signore. The Benrus girls
seem to thrive on home runs. Be-
side those already mentioned, Joe
Koslowsky has hit a home run in
each of the four games her team
has played thus far.
The Scovill lassies, in comparison,
have had very little difficulty chalk
ing up their four wins. The closest
anyone has come to them as in the
second inning of last weeks game
when their smaller sisters from the
Oakville Div. tied the score at 7 all.
At that point Coach Nelson Squires
called to the mound Mary Coffin,
outstanding star for the past two
seasons with Scovills who has seen
very little action to date due to a
mid-winter Illness. Mary proceeded
to pitch shut out ball for the final
four frames while her mates went
on to score Is more runs. She also
starred at bat with two doubles and
home run. We wonder what this
girl will do when she is. feeling ply
Sically fit again. The Scovill team as
whole continues to show outstand-
ing ability at the plate, lead by Cap
tain Ellen MacLelland, and Flo
Hedegns.
Hard Luck
American Metal Hose entered the
win column for the first time last
week with victory over luckless
U. S. Rubber who lost their third
game by a one run margin. Captain
Adeline Goudreault is turning out
to be as good a pitcher this year as
she was catcher last year.
Against Rubber, with the tying
and winning run on base with only
one out, she calmly proceeded to
strike out the next two batters fac
ing her, thereby putting the game
on ice for Hose.
Coach Bill Brennan has been
sending his Chase office charges
through some real stiff practice ses-
Sions the past two weeks after drop
ping two straight games. The re-
suits were shown last week when
they handed U. S. Time Corporation
their first defeat Of the season in
a well-played game. The losers were
let down with three hits by Ruth
Herman who shows improvement,
each week, this being her first sea-
son on the mound.
Somewhat of a record last week
was made when Farrell Foundry
posted a win over Waterbury But
ton. This marked for the first time
in two seasons of league play that
Farrell has won a game and re-
linquished the cellar position in the
standing to someone else. Lucy Kar-
inauskas, ex-Scovill star, and Mary
David, have finally inspired their
mates to provide some effective aid
to them on what had been a two
man team. The girls deserve a lot
of credit, however, for just keeping
on trying. They have expressed
a determination to stay in the win
column from here on in.
U.S.T. VS. S.E.R.A.
The feature game for tomorrow
night will find U. S. Time Corp.
endeavoring to get back into the win
column at the expense Of unde-
feated Scovill on Diamond No. /.
Waterville. II Scovill wins they will
have sole claim on first position in
the standing since Benrus draws a
bye this week.
Also at Waterville Park, American
Metal Hose will stack up against
Waterbury Mfg. Co. in what is ex-
pected to be another holly contested
game.
Ed. McGrath. league director, an
nounces the complete schedule for
tomorrow nights games starting at
6:l5 p. m. as follows:
Waterville. No. /, Scovill ERA.
VS.. U. s. Time Corp. (Stanco)
Waterville, No. 2, American Metal
Hose VS. Waterbury Mfg. Co. (MontiD
Fulton. Waterbury Button Co. VS.
Chase Office (Jones)
Hopeville. u. s. Rubber VS. Water
bury Tool Co. natanzio)