The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-10
Bradtz RecopS
 Win 12-9 At St. Louis Outing


 baseball games in Boston and Brooklyn or St. Louis will, of course, be something to see for the limited number of fans able to secure the all-important pasteboards; but will hardly be more exciting to the male employees of St. Louis Service than their annual outing held last Sun- day on the spacious Goshen estate of Joe Flavin, one of the 220 or more men employed by Waterbury's we'll known sportsman and baseball fan, Larry St. Houis, sponsor of the Tribune A. C. in the City Amateur league for the 1945-46 seasons; chairman of the 1945 On to Har- risburg" financial campaign and director of the Waterbury Democrat completed 10 weeks of play this Summer for an original entry of 76 teams and 1,041 Waterbury boys between the ages of 10 through 19 years.
 Softball a potato race, 100 yard dash and quoit pitching was the order of the day at the St. Louis Service annual outing at Flavin's Lake, Goshen; with the Bud Braatz Recappers edging the Pete Rozum Servicemen in 1929 softball game; | featured by Charley Wilkenbach's game winning home run.
 Only one window of the Flavin homestead was broken by line drive from none other than the owner of the home, Joe (DiMaggio It lDy yTi11 xryI1o af no errant ball reached the glass, rather than the safe ground of the out field; causing the chagrined home owner and batsman to VOW that all windows on his estate will be board ed up, Winter style, when the game gets under way next September. Umpire Chief Larry (Klem) St. Louis, interviewed by i1lnumer- able insurance agents before he took up his precarious position be- hind the pitcher to umpire the game, feels that he may have been a little off on 50 or 60 balls and strikes during the game, but a good time was had by all, which was the main objective of the outing for his employees; the only casualty being y Tom (Henrich) Phillips who was attempting shoestring catch of a hard-hit infield ball off the bat of Dick (MerriwelD Gruber, flashy frst-sacker of the Rozum Service men. Score:
 Braatz Recappers: P runs, 26 hits, g errors.
 Rozum Servicemen: runs, hits, II errors.
 Potato Race
 | Some of the mental sting for his broken window was taken from Joe Flavin, when the Goshen Flash won the potato race; who was awarded all the winning potatoes which will come in handy this win ter, if Joe can round up some corned beef and cabbage to go with the Litchfield county spuds; which are now his prized possession.
 Pete Rozum's speed in winning the 100 yard dash in 6 minutes, 12 and 3-5 seconds was another sports feature of the program; Pete re- ceiving sterling silver tire guage, with Firestone whistle attached, that sounds of when the air pres sure gets to 60 pounds. In life saving demonstra tion, Dick (Merri- welD Gruber rescued Lou Schaller from the water of Flavin's Lake; his prize consisting of a personally autographed pair of nylon water wings, awarded by Larry St. Louis; while the victim received a book also autographed, and titled: How to Swim in 95 Easy Lessons"
 Bud Braatz and Charley Wilken- bach were winners of the quoits competition; which brought them a prize of & set of duralan1um horse-shoes, guaranteed for 10 ringers" per game, if the stakes are no further than five yards apart.
 Players of the winning softball combination; Braatz Recappers, in cluded: Captain Bud Braatz, Red" St. Louis, Fred Castonguay, Char lev Wilkenbach. Tom Phillips, Joe Flavin, Joe Orlando, Henry Leach and Lou Gancher.
 With the Rozum Servicemen were: Captain Pete (ReiseD Ro- gum, Jack Castonguay, Dick Cru Der, Lou Schaller, Art Laporte, Henry Davoe, Armand Guertln, Ar mand Dupres and Sonny Flavin.