New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1914, Page 7

HO HUM, A DULL DAY IN THE MOUNTAINS " Pittsild Wins in Game That Makes Spectators Yawn and Stretch. Pettefleld, Mass, August 1.—Pitts- fleld took a dull game from New Brit- #in yesterday, 7 to 2. Smith was wild and hit hard. Rettig started poorly for Pittsfleld and New Britain tled the score in the third inning. Sherman, who followed, did fine work. Seore: { Pittsfleld. 3 il apsssnasscnd Someriot, 2b.. Raftis, 8b. Crooke, 1b.... Phillips, 16 Cronin, cf. Bridges, c. Uhrig, c.. Rettig, p. Sherman, p. a Zlicoronnnune o - Sloconnntonro? lovowoorvano - @ New Britain. a.b. r. .8 L] £ ] >l Cadwmaron op mloonosssscsas Dawson, If...... Tetreault, rf.. Jones, cf..... Zeimer, &s Miller, 2b. Flannery, - 3b. Smith, p. ulO»-noaoeoo"‘ el o ad o 21 - TR NDO RO 29 The score by innings: Pittafield 02011021* New Britain . .002000000—2 Sasérifice hits, Cronin, Zeimer; stolen bases, Somerlot Wolfe, Raftis, Jones; hits off ‘Rettig 3 in 3 Innings, off Sherman 3 in 6 innings; two-base hits, Wolfe, Pry- sock, Raftis, Crooke, Phillips; first Basé on balls, off Rettig 1, off Smith 3; left on bases, Pittsfleld 8, New Britain 5; struck out, by Rettig 1, by Sherman 2, by Smith 3; hit by pitcher, Ry Rettig 2, (Egan, . Dawson), by Smith 4 (Crooke, Bridges 2, Cronin); double plays, Prysock, Somerlot and Crooke, Raftis, Crooke and Prysock; wild pitches, Smith; time 1:52; um- pire, Kelly. S Sherman, a Bridgeport 4, New London 3. New London, August 1.—A two- “pase hit by Boultes in the eleventh inning, followed by an error by War- ner, who let Marhefka’s thrown ball on Ens’ sacrifice get by, lost the game for the locals, Bridgeport winning by a score of 4 to 3. Score: r. h e —4 13 1 52 and Bridgeport 10001100001 N. London0011000100 0—3 Batteries—Powers, Barberick Fildebrand; Walsh and Lavery. Waterbury 4, New Haven 2. New Haven, August 1.—Once again it is the duty of baseball scribes to chronicle the defeat of the mal- treated White Wings. Dynamite has been thrown into them with more frequency this season than ever and there seems to be no relief in sight. Welsh Makes (Written for the New Britain Herald.) New York, Aug. 1.—Willie Ritchie, minus the title of world’'s lightweight champion, isback home again. Willie left us flat six or seven weeks ago con- fident that he would be victorious in the match with Freddy Welsh. Al- though the loser, according to the Judgment of Referee BEugene Corri, the American champion is not by any means discouraged nor for that mat- ter disgraced in the eyes or estima- tion of his countrymen. Ritchic fought the best he could, which all anyone can do, and that he put up a great battle is patent by the tes. timony of many experts, both Amer- fcan and foreign, who were present at the ringside and who contena that the San Francisco boy should not have been given any worse than a draw. . However, Mr. Corri decided that ‘Welsh was the winner on points and that’s an end of it. All the argu- ments in the world will not vring the title back to the former holder. The only way he can get it is to win it fairly and squarely in the ring and there is little prospect of that event taking place in the very near future if the ultimatum handed out by Freddy's manager is to be taken seriously. It looks as if Welsh doesn’t want any more of Ritchie’s game for the time being, if at all. According to the terms for a return match given out in London Ritchie would have to dig into his own pocket for about $10,000 to make up enough to cover Freddy's demand—which is $25,000 is per cent. of the gate. Where in the world are these boys to draw a hou:e where there would be that much left after the promoter got his? Not in this country whére Welsh has never been a drawing card. And there 18 no chance of Ritchle fighting again in London, and if there was there is no promoter thére who would assume the responsibility of guaranteeing such an amount. Thosé back of the London venture had to dig to pays Ritchie’s guarantee; they could hard- ly be expected to try it again in the face of what happened the first time. In this country San Francisco, Los Angeles, and possibly New Orleans, are the only places where the bout could be staged. I doubt if there is a promoter in any of these cities who would undertake to pay Fréddy $25,- 000 for his end. Even if Ritchie were willing to to have done in England, it hardly make any difference. $15,000 with the percentage privilege would be the maximum offer for the match—unless the promoters sudden- ly go daffy, which s extremely doubtful. would Yesterday the Waterbury pennant chasers dealt the blow that caused further mental anguish in the local camp, final figures registering Water- bury 4, New Haven 2. The score: r. h e Waterbury ....100003000—4 8 2 Véw Haven ..000010010—2 6 0 Batteries—Lower and Angermeir; Smith and Fohl Hartford 6, Springfield 4. Hartford, August 1.—Timely hit- ting, combined with fast work on the Ppaths built up a 6 to 4 score for Hart- ford against ‘Springfield. The work of the visitors was of the best but the exceptional fielding of the home team kept the base runners from the home plate with one exception until the ninth when Salmon weakened and al- lowed three runs. The score: r. h. e Hartford ....02030100*—6 8 4 Springfield ...000000103—4 12 1 Batteries—Salmon and Muldoon; Burch, Burke and McDonald, Pratt. SMITH CANNED. New Haven, Aug. 1.—Manager Con- nell of the New Haven team last night announced the release of Pitch- er George Smith, formerly known as “Bugs,” to the Trenton club of the Tri-State league. Smith has proven of no value to the local club all sea- son and his departure will be met with favor by the fans. Pop Foster, the former New Haven captain, is playing first base for the Trenton club. “BUGS" ASEBALL EASTERN ASSOCIATION. MONDAY, AUG. 3. NEW BRITAIN AT HARTFORD. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5, HARTFORD AT NEW BRITAIN. (Two games.) SATURDAY, AUGUST 8. NEW LONDON AT NEW BRITAIN. (Two games.) :\BWSSION 25¢. GRANDSTAND 25¢ Then Welsh’s demand that Ritchie bet $25,000 on the result is silly, Evaa if he is sincere about that part of it the laws in the states permitting box- ing matches would not tolerate side bets. No one should know this pet- ter than Welsh who has spent many years on this side; in faet, this s where he made his reputation as a boxer. Harry Pollock, Freddy's astute manager, called Ritchie a coward and other things when Willie withdrew irom the Vancouver match with Welsh a year ago. 1t will be interest- ing to note what defense Harry will l"!'five to offer if he attempts to dodge Ritchie’'s demand for a return bout when the champion returns to this country, . Still American Champion, And in tne meanuime au those young men who aie engageu in cnai- lenging Welsh shouid not Lorget that Ritchie is still the American cham- pion, and that betore Welsn will con- sider them at all they will have (o lie. Anyway if reports from the other side are to be relied on Fred will ve very busy with his vaudeville engage- ments for the next six months. Af- ter that, 1 presuanc hraes id hand at the theatrical game on side. I read recently where Packey Mc- Farland, the erstwhile star light or welterweight (no one but Packey knows which) and at present en- gaged, profitably 1 hope, in brewing the stuff which makes cities famous, had challenged Freddy Welsh to box for the world's lightweight title. Packey in the defi agreed to make the same weight—136 at 2 o’clock—that prevailed in the Ritchie-Welsh bout. That is one match I would like to see arranged. But there is even less chance of its being consummated than there is of a return bout between the champion and Ritchie.. Packey is one young man Freddy has a great deal of respect for. It was Packey Wwho trimmed him to the king's taste in London several years ago, and al- though Welsh was given a draw it was the opinion of all experts that the referee pulled a “hone.” Ac- this Tickets at E, F. McEnroe's Oigar Stove, Church Stovet, cording to the London scribes McFar- tand won all the way. McFarland s, 1 understand, on his Imposes Conditions That Cannot Be Thinks Britton Could Make Things Interesting for Willie—What Will Gunboat Smith Do? guaranteed, with the privilege of 50! fight for nothing, as Welsh is alleged | About | prove they are better men than -Wij-. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD Return Bout With Ritchie Impossible Met — Corbett honeymoon. There will be no need of his cutting it short to condition him- self for a match with Welsh. 1 doubt | if twice the amount he asks for & | match with Ritchie would be enougit | to obtain Fred's consent to anc bout with the wonderfully cle Chicagoan. Britton Might Make It Interesting. Ritchie may consent to box in New York before he leaves for the coast There is only one boy in the light- weight division around here at pres- | ent who could make it interesting for the champion, and that is Jack Brit- ton. Britton, by the way, has been taking it easy for several months and would probably want some little time to get into shape. A match between Dan Morgan's star and the Americar title holder would appeal to New Yorkers who have had a surfeit of matches between third raters this summer. Billy Gibson told me the other day that he has hopes of landing Ritchie and that Britton would likely he the man selected to give the champion a tryout if everyone is agreeable. If 3 not Britton, Leach Cross may be se- cured. Leach has bheen having a hard time keeping busy on the coast and it would not take much to bring him back here. Certainly the chance of boxing Ritchie again ought to ap- peal to one of Leachie's well known money-making propensities. The Ritchie-Cross encounter last fall wus a hummer and local sports would gladly pay liberal prices to see them go it over again, If put to a vote the rather see Ritchie fight Croes than any other lightweight in the gar Britton's style is more on the Wels order; if not.quite so scientific in de- fense, In offense it is about the same. On the other hand both Cross and litchie are earnest scrappers and with Ritchie'’s aggressiveness ' and Leach’s foxXiness and punching pow- ers it should make an exceeding!y interesting affair. The opinion was unanimous that Ritchie and Cross | fought the best ten round bout New Yorkers have seen since the Frawley law has been in operation. © Wolgast’'s Hammer Busy. Ad Wolgast has become a regular knocker. He is following in the footsteps of the illustrious Battling Nelson, who never could forgive Wol- gast for licking him. Bat's favotite appellation for Ad while the latter was the titleholder was ‘‘cheese cham- pion.” Now comes Wolgast with similar expressions of deep regard for Ritchie. Wolgast is quoted as saying that | the only thing that surprised him was | that Welsh did not win more decisive- ly. Which is kind of a left-hand=d | boost for his own ring prowess, a v[ | fans would way one figures it, inasmuch as it is | the popular opinion, backed up by the records, that Ritchie can trim Wol- gast over any old distance. Regarding the Gunboat, Gunboat Smith, another young gentleman who went abroad to clean | up, has also returned. The Gunner | was welcomed by a few friends when | he trotted down the gang plank, but he didn’t get anywhere near the re- | ception Georges Carpentier was ex- tended when that favored son of France got back to Paris. They say | ! that Georges was smothered with | kisses by his enthusiastic admirers. | But the Gunner is welcome just the | same. Maybe now that he is back | safe and sound, he may consent Lo | REDS TOPPLE GIANTS IN SECOND MEETING Heavy Swatting the Ru'e With Beg- | 10n Tight in (he Pinghes. New York, Aug. 1.—Cincinnati made it two straight from New York yesterday, winning an uphill game 4 to 3. The visitors tied the score the seventh. in the eighth on Niehoff's double. an infield out, and Moran's single. The score: r. h. e Cincinnati 000010210—4 12 1 New York 210000000—3 13 2 Batteries—Benton and Clarke: Mar- quard, Fromme and Meyers. Just Two Hits OfF Rudolph. Boston. Aug. 1.-—Dick Rudolph was invincible yesterday. allowing only two hits, and the Braves defeated St. Louis by a score of 2 to 0. Schmidt scored Boston's first run on a triple and Mann's single. Mann hit safely in the fourth, stole sécond and went tc third when Snyder threw to center. He scored on Gowdy's sacrifice fly. The score: ) 8. Louis . 000000000—0 2 Foston ... 01010000*—2 6 3 Batteries—Perdue and Snyder; Ru- dolph and Gowdy. Tincup Beats the Cub: Philadelphia, Aug. the Cherckee Indian, safe all the way yesterday Phillies won with ease by 8 to 1. batting Larry Cheney from the hill in three rounds and finding Charley Smith an even easier proposition. Both Paskert and Becker hit for the cireuit with a man on base. Archer went behind the bat in the sixth inning, relieving Bresnahan, this being Jimmy's first appearance in a league game since June 6. The score: Tl e 100000000—1 6 1 I hiladelphia, 2202200%—8 9 1 Batteries—Cheney, Smith, Stack and Bresnahan, Archer; Tincup and Burns, held the Cubs and the Chicago Dodgers Even Up, Brooklyn, Aug. 1.—Pat Ragan's nicotine delivery proved too much for the Pirates at Ebbets Field yesterday and Fred Clarke's forces were halted abruptly by a count of 9 to 5. The victory for the Dodgers squared the count in this second series. The score: s O N Pittsburg 000101100—3 5 Brooklyn ...... 10003311%*—9 13 Batteries—Harmon, Mamoux and Gibson, Coleman; Ragan and Me- Carthy. & AMERICAN LFAGUE. Browns Drop Third Straight. St. Louis, Aug. 1.— The Browns lost a third straight game yesterday to the ; Athletics, 9 to 7, in ten innings. Clar- ence Walker hit a home run high into | the left field bleachers, scoring Pratt ; ahead of him, in the thied inning. Home Run Baker shortly afterward slugged the ball into right field | bicachers, scoring Collins ahead of | him. Plank twirled good ball for the Athletics after he went in the box with the score 6-6. The score: F. hoe | Philadelphia, 2001210008—9 11 1 St Louis 0130200001—7 14 0 Batteries—Shawkey, Wyckoff, Plank and Schang; Leverenz, Hamilton and | Crossin, Agnew. Red Sox Win Once More. Chicago, Aug. 1.—The Red Sox ook talk business with his most danger- | ous rival, Jess Willard. The folks | about here have long entertained the | opinion that Willard will trim Smit | if they ever get in the ring again. While Gunboat was not heaten by | Carpentier, he lost on a disqualifica- | tion, and the records show the | Frenchman the victor. It is all well | enough to say that Smith's reputa- | tion will not suffer by the declsion. | but just the same he will have to start all over again and rebuild what- ever “rep” he had. Had he licked Carpentier decisively he might have zot by with the statement that he would not consider challenges from lanyone else until he had met Jack Johnson for the title, but he has lost | whatever chance he ever had for a bout with Johnson. At least until he licks a few more lesser lights. | The Gunboat will find Carl Morris j and Jess Willard ready to talk turkey. The Gunner ought to give Morris an- other chance, He won over Carl the | same way Carpentier won over him. | And there was considerable dount | about the genuineness of the foul, too, {in the Morris case. Many thought { that Smith, who had been getting | mussed up badly, quit cold. RANGERS VS, BRASS CTTYS. The largest crowd of the season expected Ranger field when .the Brass Citys of Waterbury ; stack up against the Rangers. Both teams will enter the game with last vear's ten inning tie In mind strive to settle the matter of premacy. A win for the Rangers will probably mean a journey to Wa- terbury to play a game on their own grounds. Bloom will he behind the bat, as usual, for the Rangers, while Nelson, Descola or Gerlander will do the twirling, Game called at 3 o'clock. tomorrow at | Chicago | from the Tig Jiae i score: | team bombarded young Mr. Coumue the third straight game from the White Sox, score 5 to 1. Faber wus the victim. The Red Sox fell on hin for four runs in the third and he was | chased. Lathrop followed and did much better. Leonard held the White Sox all the way, allowing only four hits. Sensational catches by Speak-r helped him. Tris made two that robbed hitters of extra base clouts. The score: = r. h 004001000—5 9 .000000100—1 14 Batteries— Leonard and Carrizan; Scott, Faber, Lathrop and Kuhn. Boston Ayers Too Much for Detroit, Aug. 1.—The Senators took the third game of the s by a score of I The visitors made ten hits. Tigers' only run off Ayers resulted in the seventh frame from two hits. The igers. . h Washington 20100—3 10 Detroit 00100—1 Batteries—Ayers and Williams; Dauss, Cavet and Stanage. 0000 Yanks Keep It Up. Cleveland, Aug. 1.—Frank Chanc:'s the fifth straight game of the series from the Naps, score 7 (o | 2. Coumbe was hammered at ‘re- quent intervals and his support was anything but perfect, three Naps er- rors figuring in the scoring. The score: and won h o 12 0 s 4 Nuna- = 00001201—7 Cleveland 02000000 0—2 Batteries—Caldwell and maker; Coumbe and Egan. New York FEDERAL LEAGUE, Present. in | The winning run came | 1.—Ben Tincup, | Jimmy | | Easterly, | litsch, opponents of the Indianapolis F were shut out. The Tip Tops mad only two hits off thé elongated for- mer Nap and were beaten by a scure lof 4 to 0 in the game at Washingion park. The score: r. h Indianapolis 000001201—14 1 Brooklyn ...000000000—0 3 0 201 Batteries—Falkenberg and Warc=n; Lafitte, Houck and Owens. AL Buffalo. St. Louis 00 2 Batteries—Keiupper, Herbert Simon; Schultz, Moore and Blair. At Pittsburg. T e, L.0100000000—1 7 0 L0000000101—2 9 0 Chicago Pittsburg Batteries—Watson and Wilson; Barger, Le Clair and Berry. At Baltimore. Kansas City 0 Baltimore ..2 Batteries—Johnson, Harris and Quinn, Wilhelm and Jack- ¢ REPLY FROM ANNEX. Assistant Manager Huck Thinks Man- ager Hanna Unfair. July 31, Sporting Editor, Herald, Dear Sir:—In reply to the commun- ication, signed A. C. Hanna, Mgr. Rangers, which was published in Thursday night's Herald I wish say that Mr. Hanna is very unfair in his criticisms of the Annex B. B. club. He states the Rangers have this sea- son defeated the Annex In a very meagre way this is true. When the club was just forming, and in a very crude state, they defeated us hy the small score of 4-1. But sir then the team has been greatly strengthened. Mr. Hanna ironically asks what fast teams we have defeated this season and he contemptuously er we were badly beaten by the Larkspu In answer to this question and this statement. 1 want to say that we have defeated such teams as the Kensing- ton Independents that have caused the Rangers to haul down their col- ors. We have also beaten the Tigers of liockville, a team that has met de- feat but three times this season. And as for our severe thrashing at hands of the Larkspurs, T can only say that we lay no claim to supremacy. We admit that all teams, like all players, have their *off-d and we raal that we are no exception to the gen- eral rule, We do not claim to team than the Range We merely resent Mr. Hanna's personal seloction of the teams that are to play for the championship of this city. We think it no more than fair, in view of M. Hanna's pirations for his team, that we be given a chance to prove that we are no deeper in the bush than any other team in the Hardware City, Respectfully yours, 1914. to nine. be a better Falkenberg Was 1.—C Brooklyn, Aug. 'y was at his best, which m Falkenborg wns that the JOSEPH HUCUK, Assistant Mgr. Annex B, B. C ub. Players Started Down and Outers on Upward Climb The Boston Braves and New York Yankees were for a time the mysterizs of their leagues. Both had lots of ability en paper and yet were floun- dering around in the second division. Something was missing, and both Stallings and Chance were busy try ing to find out what it was. Fin- ally Chance bought Cree from Balti- more and Stallings got Devore from the Phillies. Immediately both clubs started to play winning ball and the Braves are now gracing the first di- vision. Chance’s crew are still very much in the lower order of things, but have high hopes of entering the select circle before the season ends. PIONEI'RS VS, MIDDLETOWN, Weslexan-Asylum Combination Com- ing Here Leoking for Trouble, There will he some ball game at the Tilis street grounds Sunday when the Fioneers meet the fast Middletown. 7his | posed of the fastest ball players in the “nut” city and the Pioneers will have to 0 w.e limit to come out on the long end of the score. Among the players on this team, there are three Wesleyan with the Independents of bunch is com- players and the rest play Asylum team, Ahearn and MecKeon will be the bat- teries for the Pioneers, and Manager Conroy of he Independents will work | some unknown twirler, He will | divulge his name and intends to keep |Fim as a dark horse. Corkins who [ layed ugainst the Pioneers last Sun- i @ay when they defeated the Poli team 1 will do the catching, as he plays with not | SCRIBES ROUTED BY MANGAN'S PETS Bat It Took Dr. ek 10 Stem 1he Tide for Professione Sayings of great men: “We have met the enemy gnd we are theirs,”—= Scribes, In a contest which after the fourth inning assumed the aspect of a regular haseball game the team representing the lawyers, doctors, etc won a vietory over the team repr: senting the reporters by the one sided score of 13 to 4. Judge “Bill” Man~# gan captained the professionals ané “Gene” Clerkin was at the helm for the scribes, Up to the fourth inning the Pro- feseionals ran wild on the bases and hit the ball with impunity but theres after the game tightened up and was quite evenly matched. Dr. Dunn, who pitched six innings for the pi fessionalg, was knocked out of the box and was replaced by Dr. Zwick, the former University of Vermont twirler, who held his opponents safe, Clerkin, the scribes’ pitcher, was res lieved by Hoberg in the seventh. The scribes’ tallies came in thy second, third and fifth innings. ~In the second Pouzzner led off with & hit and scored on a hit by Hogan. In the third inning Jones hit for thres bases and was followed with a short single to center by Roche. Roche stole second and Jones scored on sacrifice fly. Roche also scored in this inning. Malley also tallied for the scribes after hitting safely and being sent around on hits by Clerkin and Jackson, ¥or the professional men the hits ting of Attorney M. D. Saxe and the all around work of Dr. Zwick wess the features while Roche starred for the losers, his long fly to left field in the last of the ninth being a hearie breaker and would have been gosd for a home run had not MeCarthy been playing deep for it. The umpir- ing of Officer “Butsey” Lyons was acceptable. The score: Scribes. ab, r. 3 Malley, ¢ Clerkin, p . Jackson, 1b .. Jones, 2b Pouzzner, Vande, 8 RRoche, ss . Wallen, If. Hogan, cf., If McEvoy, rf Hoberg, p ssemosmoal pPommwsooma® s '/ r e Totals 4 Professionals. ab, < | Toomey, ¢ | Dunn, p 2b .. Mangan, 1h., gs Zwick, 2b., p . Naughton, 3h | =l ersereaas memmoes’® Totals Scribes | the Hospital team. Mr. Mangan will umpire. This zame will be called promptly at 3 o'clock, Next Saturday the Pioneers journey to Hartford, where they will meet the I'oli team at Trinity field. v ill be hotly contested by the Poli team 5 1 who are out for revenge for the defeat the Pioneers administered last Sunday. EAST ENDS VS A game that i usual of played at East creating an interest will End field the fast amount be the tomor- when up afternoon, Ends stack row sast against the Mt. Pleasants have been cleaning un some fast teams around the state. in- cluding the Ben Hurs of and Independents and Columbias Hartford, but the F End boys feet confident of putting a stop to the'r winning streak. Either Dudjack | Oberg or Peterson will pitch with | Schroeder on the receiving end. Gam» | called at 8 p. m., with Robertsc \l‘ holding the indicator. The Hubert Fischer Brewery, Scamarr, W. This game | ! Bridgeport at un- | goinz | strong Mt. Pleasants of this city. The | Hartford | of | On tap at Charles . Dehm, Fotel Beloin, Keevers, Herman - * - s« GAMES NEXT WEEK. Monday—Pittsfield at Bridgeport, Springfield at New Haven, New Lone don at Waterbury, New Britain at Hartford Tuesday—Hartford at New Waterbury, | ain at Pittsfield, New Springfield. Wednesday—Waterbury port, Hartford at New New London at v Haven at Pittsfield Thursday—Hartford at Bridgeport, springfield at Waterbury, New Britain at New Londbn, New Haven at Pittse field, Friday—Bridgeport ew Haven at Springfield, New Brit= ain at New London, Waterbury at Pittsfield, Saturday—New Haven at Bridge- port, New London at New Britain (two games), Springfield at Hartford, Waterbury at Pittsfield Haven, New Brite London at at Bridges Britain (twe Springfiela, At Hartford, b .0 LAGERS Try a glass next time and you will quickly *'* appreciate why they are so popular. Hartford, Conn. J. McCarthy.