The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-26
Brooks Eorn
 Second Round CityLoopTie

CityLoop Tie
 The scrappy and youthful Brook lyn A. c. today were certain of at least tie for second round honors in the City Amateur Baseball League yesterday afternoon by rout- ing the Sacred Hearts, to 2, while the Franco first round champions, were being upset by the North End Thomas Club, 3 to 2. In the other Sabbath contests the Washington Hills dropped a heart breaker to the Tribunes, to 2, and the Florio Post continued their los- ing ways by being humbled by the Avigs. to 4.
 By virtue of their victory yester- day the Tommies will now have the opportunity to meet the Washing ton Hills in twilight encounter Thursday afternoon at Hamilton Park at 5. Should the Tommies come through they will be then obliged to meet the Brooklyns next Sunday afternoon at 1:3O. Should they lose, the Frascos and Brook lyns will clash Sunday for the sec ond round bunting
 Hits Scarce
 The Tommies- Frances tussle yes terday was definitely a pitchers duel between Roy Johnson and Walt Bezrudczyk of the Frenchies and Dick Redmen of the North Enders Both teams garnered half dozen safeties.
 The Tommies scored their first run in the second on walk and a three base error in the outfield added another in the following frame on Joe Lowrey's single and Try BenSon's double Another in the sixth on successive singles by Joe Rossi, Pitcher Dick Redman and Johnny White ended the North End scoring.
 Meanwhile Redman was turning in one of his best efforts of the year and it wasn't until the ninth when he gave up any runs. In that frame a walk to Chuck St. Germain plus Bernie Shembriskas' triple pro- duced the initial tally and Shem- briskas trotted home on an infield out moments later.
 Hills Out of Race
 The Tribunes knocked the Wash ington Hills out of the second round race by virtue of their to 2 tri- umph. Billy Loos, although nicked for nine hits, three more than his mates collected off the offerings of Ralph Bradley was tight in the pinches.
 The Hills scored one in the first and another in the top of the fourth but the Tribes jumped on Ralph Bradley for three tallies in their half of the frame to give Loos the decision
 All three Tribune runs were un- earned. After Al Monti had opened the fourth with a double, Bradley retired Johnny DeVito on long fly and struck out Billy Moore. However, GreatoreX reached base on Quilter's error, Monti scoring. Billy Cavanaugh then tripled to right center to tie the score. Cavanaugh romped across with what proved to be the deciding marker a few sec onds later on Bill Doran's timely single.
 The Hills tagged Loos for a run in the first on Bob Sugrue's single, his steal of second and Bob Ban zlger's one-baser and added their other marker in the fourth on sin gles by Hank Gagain, George Salo- kas and Eddie Salvatore. Pat Quill ter'S charges threatened in the fifth when Sugrue and Gagain singled with one out but Loos forced Ban zlger to hit into double play to end the threat
 Brooks Start Early
 Scoring six runs in the initial frame was enough for the youthful Brooks to crush the Hearts, 8 to 2 A brief exchange Of fisticuffs in the opening frame was quickly quelled by Umpire Charley Gerace who separated the principals, Joe Alfone and George Day.
 Pitcher Lefty Wales retired the first two to face him in the open ing frame but before the inning was over, six runs had crossed the plate and the boys from across the bridge were well On their way to an easy decision.
 Three walks, an error, Benny Yoksa's double and triples by Jim Curley and Joe Alfone accounted for the heavy damage in the open ing frame.
 The Hearts recovered one Of the runs in the third when Wales trlpled and scored on an infield er- TOT but they never threatened again until the seventh as Jack Miller turned in another fine mound per formance
 Florio Post, cellar dwellers all sea- son long, continued to be pasted around by dropping a 6.4 encounter to the AYigS. The victory was the North Enders fourth straight.
 The North Enders took a 40 lead in the third but the Florio com blne came right back with the same number in the following frame tc knot the count. The Avigs then scored single tallies in the fourth and fifth to gain the decision.
 walk, a fielder's choice and singles by Joe Rinaldi, Gus Lauran- deau and Hal Decker accounted fol the four AVig runs in the third. The Bank Streeters then tied the count in the fourth on an error, walk singles by Yin Palo and Roy Dunn plus Marinelli' long triple.
 However, Ray Decker then bore down and blanked the Florios the rest of the way. A walk to Decker a sacrifice, an error and Rinaldi' long fly accounted for the deciding run in the fourth but the Avigs added another for good measure ir the fifth on Hal Decker's triple and Mike Haiday's neat sacrifice.
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