New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1914, Page 16

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X YOUTHFOL OUTRIT | { gation in- the Eastern association. e i i into condition and the infleld will be 7] & i engaged for opening day by Owner ~sharpen up his winsg. " map under him does his best he asks | __Hotel in_ Tottenville, Station Island, 1t 1s the Syt and Vgor Nev ssary for a Fast Comb nation U LUBY 1S BEEN RELEASED | * Meriden Player Declared Free Agent —Browne Will Insist on Strict Dis- cipline and Will Have ' List of Rules and Regulations., “BilI” Scinski’'s New Britain team L win probably be the youngest aggre- . Scinski has figured up the ages and find they will average in the vicinity ©of twenty years. Harry Noyes, the veteran third sacker, 1s over that— | -3 ‘| been disbanded. ditional release by Owner Scinski. Luby and the club owner could not come to terms and the player de- clined to work. He was placed on the suspended list. A few days ago he wired Owner Scinski to learn if his services would be required. As the New Britain team is well equipped | at present, Scinski wired him his re- | lease and informed him he was at liberty to play any place he could catch on. Although Scinski was not pleased withi the treatment given him by Luby, he-did not want to prevent him from earning a lving and de- clared him afree agent. o he e PIONEERS MEET MT. PLEASANTS. The Pioneers and Mt. Pleasants will have their first baseball duel of the "season Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Pioneers’ grounds. The Mt. Pleasants have in their line-up many of the players of the old New Britain Independents, which have Manager Rosia of the Pioneers expects his men to take their natural enemies from the north into camp. TIGERS INVADE SOUTHINGTON. The Tigers will hold practice tomor- row afternoon at 2 o’'clock at the Eaat End diamond and all players are urged to be present. The Tigers will try to use their claws on the South- { ington team of the Valley league in Southington Sunday afternoon. AMERICAN LEAGUE: Yesterday’s Results. Boston 5, Washington 0. New York 5, Philadelphia 3. Cleveland 4, Chicago 1. Detroit 3, St. Louis 1. Standing of Clubs, Won :Lost P.C. "OWNBR WILLIAM J. SCINSKI. ¥es, honest, but most of the players ‘are in the full bloom of youth and .intend to give some of the old timers in the circuit-the sprint of their lives. Besides having the virility of youth .they have the confidence of youth and even now are ready to stack up against any combination the league tes trot out in uniform, By next Monday Electric field will ' Be in the pink of condition. William {Waldorf Hanna, who holds the lease | ‘on the grounds, is having the dia- 1ond massaged and otherwise mauled as fast as it' was when professional ball flourished here once before. After the players get used to. the in- fleld they expect to make 'Connie Mack’s $100,000 outfit look like also | rans. The grounds at Tottenville, L. 1,, are said to be sandy and slow, but @espite that handicap the players have been pulling off some. thrilling short fleld work. . The Philharmonic band has been " Becinski and plenty of vim and kick | will be given the occasion. The uni- | Chicago | Washington | St. Louis .. Philadelphia L778 .750 667 571 429 .376 .333 111 Detroit . New York Boston Cleveland ... : Games Today. Detroit at St. Louis. Chicago at Cleveland. Boston at Washington. New York at Philadelphia, . NATIONAL LEAGUE: Yesterday’s Results, Boston 9, Brooklyn 1. New York 12, Philadelphia ‘4. Chicago 2, Cincinnati 1. Pittsburg 5, St. Louis 1. Standing of Clubs, Won Lost P.C 7 .875 867 600 429 400 .383 .333 .286 Pittsburg . Philadelphia Brooklyn Chicago New York .. St. Louis .. Boston Cineinnati Games Today. Brooklyn at Boston. Philadelphia at New York. St. Louis at Pittsburg. Cincinnati at Chicago} T have been made 'and will be t out to the boys on Monday. One now on exhibition in the window the Besse-Leland store. It has a ft white . background ~with dark ©On, the left breast of the e monogramy N. B. in a ‘sweaters are red with a on the ‘left side. . When ts dressed up in all its, ‘will form.a combination of fed, White and blye. 51t 1s sald ‘that the teal reason for ayor Quigley’s visit to - Whigville erday was to limber up his arm pitch the first ball.’ It was given _out that his honor went to Whigville to inspect the reservoir and dam, but the gports believe he went over to The return of baseball to New Britain is welcome news to fandom Beinski is doing his most conscien ' elous work to give the city a fast team and this fact should be appreciated. It is up to the fans to show ‘him that they mean business. As has been re- marked before in these columns, no baseball magnate is in the game for his health. Money talks every time and the louder it shouts in baseball the better team is obtainable. Owner Scinski will insist on strict discipline among the players, All will be required to lead abstemious lives and to conduct themselves in public as gentlemen. They will be required to retire for the night at gbout 10 o'clock and any Infringe- ment on this rule will result in a fine being imposed. Field Manager Browne, the former New York Giant, §s a stickler for discipline, although | . Is mot a “crab” by any means. If a no mo if the best is up to his standard. Browne has bee: a on the boys n keeping close in the Atlantic where they have been quartered dur- Ing the training season. Lights out ag: 10 o'clock- has heen the rule and owne has ' been doing some noc- rnal snooping to see that the regu- . lation was lived up to. Bill Luby has been given his uncon. | Buffalo Yesterday's Results. Chicago 9, Kansas City 1. St. Louis 3, Indianapolis 0. Baltimore 4, Buffalo 3. Pittsburg 6, Brookiyn 5. Standing of Clubs, Won Lost P.C. e 7 .875 667 .600 .400 .375 .375 .286 .250 St. Louis Baltimore rooklyn ... Chicago Indienapolis Kansas City Pittsburg Brooklyn at Pittsburg. Buffalo at Paltimore. GAMES IN OTHER LEAGUES. Pacific Coast League. Oakland 3, San Francisco 0. Los Angeles 9, Sacramento 4. Venice 7, Portland 4. South Atlantic League. Albany 8. Macon 2. Jacksonville 5, Columbus 0. Columbia 4, Augusta 1. Savannah 7, Charleston 2 Virginia League. Petersburg 5, Norfolk 4. Roanoke 11, Portsmouth 10. Richmond 4, Newport News 3. . Southern Ueague, Nashville 1, Memphis 0. Chattanooga 3, Atlanta 1. Birmingham 7, Montgomery 2. New Orleans 2, Mobile 2 (twelve in- nings, darkness). Carolina League. Charlotte 8, Asheville 0. Greensboro 4, Winston-Salem 1. Raleigh 3, Dunham 2 (ten .nnings). American Association. Cleveland 3, Columbus 2. Louisville 3, Indianapolis 0. St. Paul 6, Milwaukee 5. Kansas City 6, Minneapolis 5. Bowling Alleys - 83 Church’. Street Texas League. Houston 8, Galveston 1. Forth Worth 2, Dallas innings). Waco-Austin, rain. San Antonio-Beaumont, rain, 1 (twelve DAYS DE SWFE O\ STOK-W A LANSIG TMICH . OFFERED ™E BEGWNING OF W CAREER FIRST AS A MEWBER OF ME PROFESHIONAMY —= ¢ e TELL IT TO SWEENEY, HE WONT BELIEVE IT Chance’s Catcher Doesi’t 1 Athictics are Real Champs. Philadelphia, April 24.—The open= ing game of the American ledgue championship season at Shibe park- yesterday, which was won by Chance’s New Yorks, 5 to 3, was saved from being a tiresome exhibition by a bat- ting rally on the part of the visitors in the eighth inning. In that session they changed the score of 3 to 1 against them to 5 to 2 in their favor. They accomplished the feat on a base on balls and four hits, notable among which was a three base swipe by Sweeney that drove in three of the four runs scored. The score: i | h. e 9 0 6 2 3 Philadelphia 12000000 0—3 New York ..001000040—5 Batteries—Bush and Schang; Schulz and Sweeney. Cleveland 4, Chicago 1. Cleveland, O., April 24.—Cleveland, Jeff Tesreau A Jeft Tesreau, the big twirler of the New York Nationals, is out to win from Ed Walsh the honor of being the leading spitball exponent in the l VACAXTAGT GANG - THEN WRER, | after 1osing ' eight straight | finally.won one, when Mitchell Cole, : S © - W WE ADAMS KEWS.SER. games, held | Chicago to six scattered hits and Cleveland found Cicotte for ten safe drives, some of them for extra bases. The score was 4 to 1. Outside of Mitchell's pitching, the playing of Wood, a recruit in right field for |.Cleveland, . was the feature of the : game. His single. and .triple both i counted in the run-getting and he made_several fine catches. Chicago | got its ‘lone run in the eighth in- | ning. The. score: e r. h e Chicago ....000000010—1 6 2 Cleveland ..01010020%—4 10 0 Batteries—Cicotte and Schalk; Mitchell and Carisch. Boston 5, Washington 0, ‘Washington, April 24.—Washington was shut out in its first home game of the peason with Boston yesterday, A. Johnson, a Red Sox recruit pitcher, holding ‘the Senators to gix scattered hits and outpitched his namesake. The visitors bunched hits in the last i three innings, scoring five runs. The ‘acore: § r. h. Boston ...000000131—5 9 1 Washington 000000000—0 6 2 Batteries—A. Johnson and Cady; lw. Johnson and Ainsmith. Detroit 3, St. Louis 1. Louis, April 24.—Cobb’s sacri- spires to Lead As Greatest Spithall Pitcher major Jeagues. Tesreau is one of the few pitcherg daring to use the spit- ball continuously. His unusual phy- sical strength enables him to do this .without. harming him, g | 1 > AS AN BASEMAN SAER 15 CONMIDERED WHE CLASS OF CHANE , AND TO MANY CRICH \$ ONE DOER OF ME BEST MEX To HAMNG OF AND TS V5 TAE WAN TME. WINTE:! MONTHS PASS BY WITH HiM _.K PRETTY SOFT? YEAR, PRETTY B0FT. lflce fly in the third inning scoring Kavanaugh, whose double had scored Bush, gave Detroit enough runs to | beat St, Louis, but the visitors added | one more run in this inning and made ithe score 3 to 1 in their favor. St. Louis was unable to get a run after .the second inning, when Willilams !drove a double to center and went to ‘third on Crawford’s fumble, count- ing on C, Walker's sacrifice fly to Veach. Bush, at short for the De- troit’s, was the fielding sensation of the day. The score: h. e. Detrojt .....003000000—3 65 1 St. Louis ...010000000—1 7 1 Batteries—Main and Stanage; Weil- man, Taylor and Crossin. ' 3 | ANNEX VS, LARKSPURS. The annex team of this city will leave on the 1:22 tomorrow to meect the fast Larkspurs in Hartford. Coo- gan and Holleran will be on the fir- ing line, for the locals. Blanchard and Cabelus will also make the trip to be present in case of emergency. Francis McCann has been elected captain’ and Fred Anderson 'has been elected manager of the Annex for the season of 1914. RANGERS VS. KENSINGTONS. The Rangers and Kensington Inde- pendents will stage a battle Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Rangers’ field. The Rangers have been strengthened this year and expect to defeat the Kensington boys, who know something about baseball too. Boyle will umpire. R AENGUE BKCE T cos® — i | | 1 | GIANTS SURPRISE PA KNICKERBOCKER Cut Up Something Scandalous When Philics Come to Town. New York, April 24.—The first at heme of the Giants was held at lhe‘ Polo Grounds yesterday and was sirewn with flowers, music, speeches, | presentations, a song here and there and lots of hits and runs. The lots of hits and Tuns fell to the Giants, who, whatever may have been their re- ;| Tuissness at openings in provincial | towns, began their home season with . a hurrah and a one-sided. victory. | They beat the Phillies 12 to 4. They played a strong game and the Phillies played a weak one. The Phillles had | been going along well, shot to pleces ' though they were by Federal inroads, ! but they were u shaky team:in this™ game. The Giants shot them to pieces | and ‘they helped in the shooting with | ragged flelding. The score: i r. h. e. Philadelphia 100001020— 4 7 5 New York .... 20112600*—12 11 2 Batteries—Mayer, Jacobs and Killi- fer; Tesreau, Schupp and McLean. Braves Beat Brooklyn, Boston, April 24.—The trounced the Dodgers 9 to 1 Braves in the opening National leaguee game. Six- teen Brooklyn players were left on base. Tyler of the Braves gaveé eleven ‘bases on balls but his mates did brilliant fielding and also hit the ball on the nose when it was timely. Ragan yielded four hits and four runs in Boston’s third inning, the only session when he was hit safely. He was taken out to make way for a pinch hitter in the sixth. Wagner gave two passes during the seventf and as these were followed by a triple both were productive of runs. Pfeffer twirled the final inning and was found for three singles and a double. The score: r. h e Brooklyn 100000000—1 7 3 Boston . 00400023%—9 9 § Batteries—Ragan, Wagner, Pfeffer | and McCarthy; Tyler and Gowdy, Adams Steady All the Way. Pittsburg, April 24.—The Pirates opened their home season yesterday (Continued on Eighteenth Page.) 'BOWLING!| Aetna Team Beats Brunswick. The Aetna team defeated the Brunswick (Hartford) team in the in- ter alley league series last night on the local alleys, taking three out of five strings. The score: New Britain. 89 94 80 101 103— 46 92 108 101 104 80— 485 . 93 93 95 106 107— 493 —————e 274 2956 276 310 290—1445 Brunswick No. 2. ¢ .. 90 98 112 99 105— 499 92 94 99 86 90— 461 . 97 96 109 91 83— 478 . Peterson . Semple Rogers Caruth Campbell Lathrop 279 288 320 276 278—143¢ Two-Man Tournament Games The following were the scores in the two-man handicap tournament: * Prior 81 103 99 90 83— 456 Semple 91 89 92 126 103-— 500 172 192 181 215 186— 966 77 83 76 87 85— 408 85 107 97 103 91— 483 162 190 173 190 176— Shaefer .. Foote Handicap, eight pins. Holtman 103 89 96 88 89— Anderson 90 104 95 108 100— 193 - 29 . 82 193 191 196 189— 80 85 79 103— \74 76 83 80— 395 159 154 161 162 183— Il! Handicap, sixteen pins, 89 102 92 106 89— 477 84 88 70 109 429 167 186 180 175 198— 9506 Handicap, one pin. Earnest . 99 81 88 T. Wright 84 83 79 Burns .. Peterson Stingle Fitzpatrick 78 82 92 83— 432, 17— 415 183 164 167 174 159— 847 \ (Green LaseL) EXPORT . hat jl ame-= rew at satis\ies Ninn ingd | i Imported Hops are used exclusively in Harvard Export [Green Label] Beer. | If your dealer cannot say the same about the other beers he sells—you are getting a better qmlitybeetwbenyouotder“flamtdl‘.‘xport(‘-mwel- DIRTRIBUTOR: M. T. WHITE . reldhi, 2 olesa'e, 2 Railroad /1c2ee,

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