Newtown Wins

Sunday’s Game

With Roxbury

Stepney Comes Here Sunday for

Important Game at Taylor Field

In Sunday’s baseball game, played at Roxbury, between the Newtown Bees and the Roxbury club, Manager “Jack” Leavy’s players scored a decisive 9-2 victory. Burr Morgan started on the mound for Newtown and was relieved in the fifth by Brown. Both pitchers turned in good performances. Thompson pitched for Roxbury until the ninth inning, when Neil Conway, who has been bother recently by a sore arm, took over for the rest of the game.

Newtown went scoreless in the first four innings, but made three runs in the fifth, two in the sixth, two in the seventh and one each in the eighth and ninth. Roxbury’s only score was in the second inning when two runs crossed the plate. “Ken” Casey not only performed well at bat, but patrolled left field very effectively, making several difficult catches.

The line-ups were as follows: Newtown Bees – Casey, lf; Ed Shulick, 3b; Kearns, ss; Cavanaugh, rf; Pete Shulick, 1b; Trojanowski, c; Al Shulick, cf; Hunnicutt, 2b; Morgan, p; Brown, p. Roxbury – Zealor, 1b; Booth, cf; N. Conway, ss; D. Conway, c; Wilton, lf; Dickinson, 3b; Gillette, rf; Wheeler, 2b; Thompson, p; Cummings, 3b; Nelson, ss.

The score by innings:

Newt. Bees  0  0  0  0   3  2   2   1   1 - 9

Roxbury        0  2  0  0   0  0   0   0   0 - 2

The present league standing is as follows:

                                       Won       Lost

Stepney                               5              0

Bethany                              4              2

Newtown Bees                  3              2

Southbury                          3              2

Thomaston                         2              3

Oxford                                 2              3

Roxbury                              2              4

Bethlehem                         1              4

On this coming Sunday, July 6, Stepney, which so far is undefeated in this year’s League play, will come to Newtown to meet the Newtown Bees at Taylor Field at three o’clock. “Buddy” Luckner, who has been pitching very effectively for five straight wins and no losses, will be looking for another win, with “Jack” Leavy mustering his forces in an effort to send the Stepney team down to its first defeat, so that a real contest is in store. Local baseball fans will do well to attend Sunday afternoon’s game. The other league teams will be playing as follows: Oxford at Bethlehem, Thomaston at Southbury, and Roxbury at Bethany.

In the July 11, 1947 issue of The Newtown Bee it was reported that the Newtown Bees defeated Stepney, 7-3.

Friday, July 2, 1937

“Bill” Leahy Sets Course Record

Shoots A 30 At Newtown

Country Club, 4 Under Par

Sunday morning found “Bill” Leahy, pro at the Newtown Country Club, in top form, despite the rain. Playing with “Joe” Ringers, “Jim” Wargo and his young brother, “Bob,” “Bill” scored a 30 on the second round, to beat par by four strokes, and establish a new course record. Shooting a 38 on the first round, he carded a par 68 for the entire 18 holes

The scores for the second round, when “Bill” hung up his record, follow. It will be noted that he shot five pars and four birdies.

Par                  3  4  4   4  3  4  3  4  5 - 34

“Bill” Leahy   3  4  3   3  3  4  2  4  4 - 30

Wargo             4  4  4   5  4  6  4  5  5 -41

Ringers           3  4  4   4  5  3  4  4  5 -36

R. Leahy         4  4  3   4  4  5  3  6  4 -37

 

Bridgeports Lost

4 to 6 In Sunday’s

Softball Contest

The Newtown Country Club Softball squad down Earle Smith’s Bridgeport aggregation with Francis Hubbell and the Leahy Brothers combined, Sunday afternoon on the Club’s field by a score of 6-4.

The highlights of the game included good-natured arguments over and of Umpire “Bob” Camp’s decisions and the hitting of “Och” Alison, who batted 1000 for the home team. Alison in five times at bat found Bridgeport’s star ringer (Pitcher Sharik) for two triples, two doubles and a single, enabling Newtown to take, what looked to be, the more efficient team into camp. “Doc” Desmond, the home team’s ace tosser upper, backed by good support, showed up well against the more experienced Bridgeport pitcher, by allowing 14 hits against his opponents 16 and struck out five of the Smith outfit, while Sharik was able to fan only four of the Newtown men.

The first double play in the home team’s short career was pulled off in the last half of the third inning from Desmond to Lawson to P. Smith, when a short grounder to Pitcher Desmond caught a Bridgeport man on both first and second.

A large audience turned out, in spite of the lack of sunshine, to most politely root for the home team and threw nary a pop bottle at the umpire.

The line up for Bridgeport include: Randolph, 3b; Sharik, p; Minty, ss; Liptok, c; B. Leahy, 1b; J. Wade, 2b; Leiss, rf; Hubbell, cf; Barker, lf; E. Smith, sf. For Newtown: Alison, 3b; Lawson, ss; P. Smith, 1b; Comstock, lf; Desmond, p; Hillhouse, c; J. Boyle; sf; G. Stuart, 2b; F. Howard, cf; C. Glover, rf.

Score by innings:

                                                        R. H. E.

Bridgep’t  0  1  1 0  1  0  1  0  0 - 4 14  1

Newtown  3  1  0 1  0  0  1  0  x - 6 16  3