New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1914, Page 8

BRESNAHAN MAKES WAR:ON ZIMMERMAN [oth: Banished—Matty Loses Sccond Consecntive Game—Braves Tie. Breoklyn, Aug. 12.—The war spirit rvaded the atmosphere yesterday at Ebbets field, and it grew so keen after \the fifth inning chat “Heinie" %Zimmerman and Roger RBresnahan resorted to arms to sdttle their dif- Yferences. They mauled each other on fthe Chicago bench until their follow Jayers interfered, and then Mr. el ason, chief umpire, acted as media- jtor and prevented more strife in pub- Mlic by ordering both players from the fficla. The Brooklyns won the game, 33 to 2, making it three straight gfrom the*Cubs, but their victory was nly angincidental feature to the im- nptuz bout staged by Zimmerman ndy Bresnahan. . Trouble was presaged in the fitth when Zimmermun made a udable effort to put through a dou- le play. The Dodgers, two runs be- hind, fllled the bases, with none out. Otto Miller hit to Zimmerman, Wwho made a force out at third, but his throw to Saler to retire the batter went wild and two Dodgers crossed \the plate. Bresnahan cou'd not let ithis error go unnoticed, so he mean- dered down to third base to ex- tpress his views to Zimmerman. Peace, thowever, prevailed until the side had ‘been retired and the Cubs had gone to the bench. There hostilities were quickly wopened. The two players grappled, and while a few of their teammates endeswored to separate them others stood before the dugout to shield the /belligerents from the gaze of the spec- gators. The bout was brief and meither man had an advantage when ithe players pried them apart. The score: i s 4 r. h. e }Chicago ...200000000—2 38 3 Brooklyn ...00021000°*—3 9 1 Batteries—Humphries, Vaughn and JArcher; Bresnahan, Ragan and Mill- lor. Giants Beaten By St. Douls. New' York, Aug. 12.—Christy Math- ewson and his fellow Giants went down to defeat at the Polo grounds yesterday, but it took more than the Cardinals to do the trick. The St, Louis team was aided and abetted in their nefarious work by a raging thunder storm, which arrived just in time to stop the game, while the visitors were leading by a 3 to 2 score. The rain was heralded by a cannonading of thunder over Coo- gan’s Plats which started in the third inning, but the deluge held off until the five innings had been completed, which made the contest an official game. Hard luck! The “Old Master” started off badly, but he seemed to be improving as he went along, and there was every in- dieation that the Giants would have overcome that one-run lead had the rain held off. But it didn’t. o The Giants were saved from a worse beating by a magnificent throw by Bob Bescher in the fifth inning, which cut off a rup at the plate and ended what looked like a Cardinal rally. In that inning the “Cards” got three men on bases with none out, but Mathewson tightened up and managed to retire the side with Bescher's aid without a run having been scored. With three on bases and one out Miller drove a long fly to Bescher, whose throw to the plate caught the fleet Huggins by a few inches. The =core: £ b St. Louis 01200—3 5 2 New York 01100—2 4 3 Battefles«!’)nnk Griner and Sny- der; Matty and Meyers. e. Not a Run in Thirteen Innings, Boston, -Aug. 12.—Lefty Tyler and Leon Ames indulged in a pitching duel for thirteen innings yesterday. . Neither team was able to score, Bos- ton because of Ames' fine pitching and Cincinnati because of Boston's fine fielding. Ames allowed only five hits, walked one man and hit an- other. Tyler was hit ten times and passed four. The scor Boston .0000000000000- Cincinnati .0000000000000—0 Batteries—Tyler and Gowdy; Ames and Clarke. Phillies Pound O’Toole. Philadelphia, 12.—Philadel- phia won vesterday's game from Pittsburgh by a score of 5 to 4. In the elghth inning the home team drove O'Toole off the rubber by mak- ing four singles before a man was put out. Conzelman took O'Toole’s place and R S R BASEBALL FASTERN ASSOCIATION TOMORROW $PRINGFIFLD AT NEW BRITAIN. ADMISSION 25¢, GRANDSTAND 25c. fickets at E, F. McEnroe’s Cigar Store, Church Street. | ailow him to finish | Pittsfield. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914, est and Most Accurate S a single by Luderus sent in Magee with the winning run. r. h. e 00000—4 10 O Philadelphia 0003x—5 12 1 Batteries—O'Toole, Conzelman and Giibson; Alexander and Killifer. 1030 Pittsburg 3 020 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Naps Are Shut Out Twice. Chicago, Aug. 12.—Cleveland failed to score a run in either game of the double header yesterday and Chicago naturally wonsboth. It triumphed by the same score-in both games, 2 to 0. ‘Wolfgang, a recruit, pitched the locals to victory in the first, with Mitchell the victim. Cicotte and Morton in- dulged in a pitching duel in the second, each allowing three hits, but the local twirler had the better sup- port and won for that reason. The scores: " r. h. e 000000000—0 6 4 00001010x—2 7 2 and O'Neill; Cleveland Chicago Batteries—Mitchell Wolfgang and Mayer. r h e Cleveland 000000000—0 3 2 Chicago 10001000x—2 3 0 Batteries—Morton, Crombe and Egan; Cicotte and Schalk. FEDERAL LEAGUE. Another Even Break. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 12.—The Brook- feds split even in a double-header with Chicago yesterday afternoon. “Tom” Seaton held Tinker’'s crew tu two hits in the first game and Brook- lyn won, 2 to 0. With A. Rankin Johnson pitching air-tight ball in the second game, Chicago won, 5 to 3. The opener proved to be a pitchers’ duel for seven innings, and honors wepe about even up until the eighth, each pitcher allowing two scattered hits. The second game introduced James Bluejacket. against Tinker's men, however, - for they sent him to the “cooler” in six rounds with ten base hits out of his system. The score: First Game. r. Brooklyn 000000011—2 <Chicago 000000000—0 2 Batteries—Seaton and Land; Hen- drix and Block. Second Game. h. e. 8 6 2 2 T. h.e. 000020010—3 5 2 00110300 —5 14 2 Houck and Johnson and Brooklyn Chicago Batteries—Bluejacket, Chappelle and Land; Block. "Hosiers Break Even. He did not show much | porting News of the Day. s e e —— George, Whitted is Smiling Because He is With Braves This is George Whitted of Durham, N. C., where the cigarettes come from. See his smile? You can’t miss it. Why does he smile? Well, he was traded to Boston by the St. Louis Cardinals in the deal that took Per- due to Miller Huggins’ team. Boston was then in last place, but within a month was in second place and giv- ing the New York Giants a scare. Of course Whitted is not responsible for this rapid rise in the standing of the but L. s had some- thing to do with it, The smile is largely due, however, to the fact that in the recent series between the Braves and the Cardinals Whitted was directly responsible for winning two of the games. His smile seemed to say to Huggins, “Now, you're sorry vou let me go, aren’t you?" Whittea usually cavorts around third base, but recently Johnny Evers has been laid up and George has been subbing at the second cushion. l Diamond Dust l Indianapolis, ‘Aug. 12. — Indian- apolis and Baltimore divided a dou- ble-header here yesterday, the home team winning the first game 7 to 3 and the visitors the second, 5 to 4. Kauff’s flelding was a feature of the first contest and timely hitting was responsible for both - victories. The score: First Game. r. h e 30100012x—7 11 1 101010000—3 12 4 Jacklitsch; Indianapolis Baltimore Batteries—Quinn and Kaiserling and Rariden. Second Game. r. h. e Baltimore 201010010—5 5 2 Indianapolis 200000020—4 9 4 Batteries—Connelly, Suggs and Russell; Billiard, McConnaughey and Warren. Schulz Holds Kanfeds. Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 12.—Schulz ‘was master of the situation at critical periods and Buffalo defeated Kansas City 5 to 2. - Score by innings: T. h. e. Buffalo 000201020—5 8 2 Kansas City 002000000—2 6 4 Batteries—Schulz and Blair, Allen; Adams, Stone and Brown. Miners Take Series. St. Louis, Aug. 12.—St. Louis took the game from Pittsburg by 4 to 2 and made it three out of four for the series. The score: r. h. e 0 100x—4 9 o 00110—2 2 1 and Berry; St. Louis Pittsburg 000 Batteries — Ba!’ger Brown and Simon. 0102 PITTSFIELDER IS SOLD. Roy Wolfe, right fielder on the Pittsfleld baseball club, has been sold to the Chicago American league club. Terms of the sale are not an- nounced, but Wolfe had orders to report to Chicago on the 18th, when the team starts its series with the Boston Americans at Boston. Ar- rangements were made, however, to the season with Fans are sorry to see Wolfe leave Pittsfield, but glad he is going higher, He is a hard hitter and fast on the bases. Last season he stole thirty-seven bases and has twen- ty-seven to his credit this year. S e GAMES THIS WEEK. Tuesday—New Britain at Water- bury, Hartford ot Soringfield, New Haven at New London, B Pittefield. Tidgeport at Wednesday—Springfield a¢ New Britain, New Haven at Hartford, Bridgeport at Pittsfleld, New Londor, at Waterbury. Thursday—New Britain at Spring. field, New London at Bridgeport, Pittsfleld at New Haven, Waterbury at Hartford. Friday—New Britain at Springfielq, Pittsfleld at New London, New Haven at Bridgeport, Waterbury at Hartford. Saturday—New Britain at Bridge- port, Hartford at New Haven, Water- bury at Springfleld, Pittsfleld at New London ( 2 games.) That was a hard one to lose yes- terday. But accidents will happen in the best of families. Now for R-r-r-r venge this afternoon. Woodward only walked four men yesterday. He is steadying down con- siderably and deserves to win. New Haven also lost on hard luck yesterday. New London scored the winning run on a wild throw by Mangus. Old man Hoey, of Hartford, ex- celled with the bat again yesterday, getting two timely doubles. He never used to pull off those stunts when he played with New Britain. Boston is in a state of ferment over the showing of the Braves, and a hundred rooters are coming down for this week’s series at the Polo Grounds. To-day’s game in Boston will be called at 3 o'clock so the players can catch a 5:30 train for New York. The idea is to get in a night of undisturbed slumber to be fit for Thursday’s fray. If rain pre- vents to-day’s game the team will leave at 1:30 o’clock. Matty has lost three games out of four since the Giants returned home. The Reds, Cubs and Cardinals have beaten him, and he’s pitched some pretty good ball while losing at that. He is shining as a batter, too, with one to two hits per game. Walter Johnson ‘“‘comes up smiling after each defeat.” He's done a lot of smiling this year. Speedy Foran, formerly with New Britain and recently released by Waterbury, has caught on with Northampton of the Twin-State league. Here is the ‘“riddle” man .once more: “If the New Britains die in last place will Waterbury the team?” Eight of the best known former Connecticut leaguers now playing ball on the coast in the Pacific Coast league seem to be getting along in fine shape. Rodgers, the old Water- bury infielder, is leading the league in stolen hases, with fifty-five to his credit, some 16 more than his nearest rival and owns a batting mark of .301. Maggert, 300. Page Metzger 237, Litschi .288. Zacher .286 Ar- bogast .255, and Guest .248, are the others. Flannery, canned by New Britain last week, has rejoined the Water- bury club. Benny Kauff, last year's senator, ranks third among the Federal league batters. He is hitting .368 for In- dianapolis. Tv Cobb has been paid about $200 a game for the games he has taken part in wifh the Tigers this season. He is getting $15,000 a year, and he has plaved in about half of the scheduled games thus far this year. Ginn, the young Waterbury out- fielder, is the property of the Cleve- land club. He was a college star in Georgia, and is related by marriage to Ty Cobb. Ginn is very fast. The humorists have been asking if Ginn's first name is- Rickey. Now just imagine what a nice thirsty combination it would make if pitcher Tincup, of the Phillies, was also the property of Cleveland. Rube Schauer, the Giants young southpaw, is the only Russian player in big league- ball. He was born Odessa, and never played ball until 1910, and hadn’t even seen a baseball in 1901. LEAGUERS PLAN TO TACKLE PIONEERS Farmington Team, of Valley League, Will Be Sunday Afternoon At- traction This Week. What is expected to be one of the fastest games of the vear will be staged at the Pioneer diamond Sun- day when the fast going Farmington~| team of the Valley league will make its This bunch of ball players are making a hard fight for first place ang it seems to be be- tween them and Collinsville. How- ever, the Pioneers expect to take them into camp and at the same time boost their standing about the state. Among the Farmington players will be seen Eddie Goeb, a former Pioneer and Eastern leaguer. He is the lead off man and plays left field. Rourke and Ross will cavort around second and third respectively and Barrett, who tried out with Hart- ford, will catch all flies to center. Elliott, one time Hartford High school phenom., is to hold down shortstop and Wilkie will play first. Right field will he protected by Bronson and the battery will be Daly and Goldberg. Many local High school rooters will remember Gold- berg’s pitching for Hartford against the wearers of the red and vellow. Ahern or Johnson will twirl the Pioneers and McKeon will be the receiving end. Umpire Larry Mangan will call the game at 3:15 o'clock. initial bow here. for on KOPF IN 'CONDITION. Local Wizard Is Ready to Step Into Infield at Moment's Notice. Latest reports from the camp of ‘World's Champion Athletics state that “Bill" Kopf, the New Britain boy, is in the pink of condition and is ready and eager to step into Barry's shoes at the first moment that vet- eran shows signs of weakening. At the present time Barry is going good and ' Connie Mack doesn’'t want to break up a winning combination. In a letter to this city Kopf states that his team is to play an exhibition game in Canada this week and he will probably get a chance to make the “Canuks” sit up and take notice, in, ‘SANDBERG ENTERED IN ELM CITY MEET, State Track and Field Champiop- | ships on August 220. | Entries are already pouring in for | the Connecticut track and field | | championships, which are to be held | under the auspices of the New Haven | | Amateur Athletes at Lighthouse | | Point, New Haven, on Saturday, Au- | gust 22. This contest will be under | the sanction of the Amateur Athletic | Union of the United States. | Any athletes desiring entry blanks | | may obtain them by applying to the sporting editor of the Herald. List of Big Events. Almost the same championship events, with the exception of the 220 vards and the javelin throw, which takes the place of the 220, are to be | held this vear as last year. The 100 yards has been substituted for 70 yards and 3 mile run for the 5 mile {run. The field of competitors is al- | ready very different from that of last | year. The managers expect that the | | four lap track, which has been re- | cently made at Lighthouse Point, will | prove to be a great improvement over the nine lap track at Hallock avenue a vear ago, and that the time in the track events and the distances in fleld events, which made the state record of 1913, will be better in almost ev- ery case in‘the championship meet ot August 22, The 880 yards was won a year ago | by Max L. Cohen of West Haven in | 2m., 15s. Evans, a young colored fiver from Warehouse Point, is looked to as the 1914 champion at this dis- tance. His friends claim he will make the time not far from 2 minutes. | In the running high jump, Cook | of Hartford, whose distance was 5 ft. 7 1-2 inches, has entered for this year, and it is said that the championship will probably lie be- tween him and Williams of Derby, who was his close competitor in | 1913, | New Britain Big Field of 440 Men. The time for the 440 last year made by M. F. O'Connor will not have a look-in with the time which is expected this year. O’Connor’s time was 1 min., 25 seconds. He is now making the quarter mile in 52 or 53 seconds. A big field of com- petitors have entered for this quar- ter mile, which will without doubt be made in the best time ever made by amateur athletes in the state. In the shot-put, Holmquest Hartford, the 1913 champion, and A. F. Shaw of Crescent Beach, are entered. Terry Gates of New Haven, who won the first place in 1913, was disqualified on account of a mix-up in his entry blank, but is expecting to straighten out matters and get his entry in for 1914. His distance last vear was 46 feet and 7 inches. Holm- quest was a close second in 44 feet, 2 inches. In the mile, time minutes, 58 seconds, time, there is a fine championship honors. Connecticut ! amateur athletes are weak at the | mile with the exception of three or four college cracks, who are compet- | ing for clubs outside the state, which bars them from competition in the state district championship games. | Sandberg Already Entered. The three mile distance, which has been substituted for five miles in the 1913 championship, will bring out some of the best middle distance run- ners in the state. The time for five miles in 1913 was 29 minutes und 4 seconds. The winner, Condon of New Haven, has since made four miles in a street run in less than 22 minutes. Among the entries in the three miles are Sandberg of New Britain, Condon of New Haven, Anderson of Bran- ford, F. E. Van Buren and Henry J. Lickteig of New Haven. Competitors are limited to regls- tered amateur athletes, residents | in Comnecticut for at least four months previous to the date of the meet. They can compete unattached. or as members of any Connecticut club, and such club need not neces- sarily be club members of the Ama- teur Athletic Union. In addition to Sandberg. who already entered in the three race, New Britain has a number speedy athletes, hoth among the jumpers and the sprinters. and could send a strong team to these events. of in 1913 unusually poor chance for in 5 is mile of | SMITH WRITES CORRIL “Gunboat” Smith, the American heavyweight, who lost his fight to Georges Carpentier in London on la foul, has set at rest the many ab- surd reports sent to America relative to the decision by writing the follow- ing letter to Eugene Corri, who of- ficiated as referee: “Royal Hotel, Hayling Island, July 22.—Mr. Corri, Dear Sir: T am writ- ing to tell vou how sorry I am that vou had to be humiliated as to the de- cision which as referee you gave in my fizht with Georges Carpentier. I feel as though it is only my duty to |let vou know that I fully understood vour position, and I know vou acted in the way which vou thought was honest and fair. | “If ever I have the occasion | fight in England again T shall to be ! Pittsburg have fight. highly honored and pleased to vou act as third man in the Yours in true sport, “Edward (Gunboat) Smith.” lEASTERN’AbeClATION Yesterday's Results, New London 4, innings). Hartford Waterbury 1, D Pittsfield-Bridgeport; New ringfiel Standing of C| Won .62 .54 .48 .47 .43 .41 .36 .21 New London | Waterbury Bridgeport Springfield | Hartford Pittefield .. New Haven Haven 3 (10 d 1. 'w Britain 0. rain. lubs, Lost 26 11 11 45 13 49 69 Games Today. New Haven New at Hartfy ord. London at Waterbury. Springfield at New Britain, Bridgeport at Pittsfield. NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday St. Louis 3, New Y called at end of fifth; Results, ork 2 rain). (Game Philadelphia 5. Pittshurg 4. 3, Rrooklyn Chicago 2 Boston 0, Cincinnati thirteenth; darkness). Standing of CI Wo BT b1 .53 .47 .47 .44 .43 Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnati Breoklyn 0 (Called ir lubs, n Lost Games Today. St. Louis at New York Chicago at Erooklyn. Cincinnati at Boston. Pittsburg at Philadel AMERICAN L phia EAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. 9 Chicago game). Chicagn 2 Clevelan | game). Other clubs not sche; Cleveland 0 (first d 0 (second duled Standing of Clubs, Won Philadelphia . Boston g Washington ! Detroit 8t. Louis . Chicago . New York .. Cleveland Lost 34 45 47 51 51 P.C, 863 563 .539 500 500 433 .305 Games Today. Cleveland at Chicago. EDERAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results, St. Louis 4, Pittsburg Baltimore 3 Indianapolis game). Baltimore 5, Indiana game). (first polis 4 (second Buffalo 5, Kansas City 2. 2 Brooklyn game). Chicago game). Chica, 5, Brookly: &0 (first n 3 (second Standing of Clubs. Won Chicago .59 Baltimore Brooklyn Indianapolis Buffalo St. Louis Pittsburg Kansas City Games Tod Buffalo at Indianapo! Baltimore at Kansas Lost 45 44 44 46 48 58 58 60 P.C. 587 556 537 535 510 442 434 423 ay. lis. City. PONY'S RIB CRACKED, It develops that the Pony outfielder, wil game for four or five Fred Wehrell, 1 be out of the days because of a cracked rih. In the double-head- er with Hartford in Springfield over a week ago the Pony with Mickey Kelther of cut team and thought until Sunday, to pain sician vesterday was injured i reveal the colli Trya ¢lm next time and you will quickly fielder eollidea the Connecti- no more of it when his side began An examination by a phy- ed that a sion. rib 510 | ———— | EGAN'S WERD THROW GIVES AWAY 1-0 GAME | Locas Die Hard i Brass Ciy; Paddy Green Sines. After Woodward had passed twe men in the second inning of yestef | day's game in Waterbury, Egan, the ! local catcher, wild to thirg vain effort to stop McKil. stole second and third. The later then romped home with the only score of the day. Woodward pitched a steady game, but the one run lead was enough to defeat him. On the merits of earned runs Waterbury djg not score a single tally, but the com- bination of two passes and a wild | throw brought in their needed tally. Seven of the local wallopers were retired on strikes by Joe Grey, a Wa- terbury recruit from Pennsylvania, and he allowed but four scattered bingles. Woodward, however, — wy but a little more generous and six hits were made off his del very. The score: threw hasge in a len, who New Britain. o ' Dawson, If. .. Tetreault, rf, | Jones, cf, Zeimer, ss Crooker, 1b. Noyes, 3b, Heath, 2b Esgan, ¢, . Woodward, p. B socosss0an meocoBooco® Waterbury, wel 9 e Robertson, se, Fohl, e, Smith, cf. .... Schlagel, 2b, Shields, 1b. . McKillen, 1f. Flannery, 3b. Grey, p. T e e e seadis n wloamssssssn | ume co= - o® New Britain Waterbury scalnssssuvanuy Slctbuesooonsp .0 0 - so oo sors e » Two-base hit, McKillen 2 Heath; stolen bases, 2, Robertson, Jones, Flan- nery; sacrifice hits, Woodward, Schlagel; bases on balls, off Wool ward 4; struck out, by Grey 7, by Woodward 3; hit by pitcher, by Grey (Zeimer) ; left on bases, Waterbury 6, New Britain $; bases on errors, New Britain 1; time, 1:10; umpire, Keenan, New Haven Fizzles, New London, Aug. 12.—If those athletes wearing New Haven uni- forms have any serious intention of finishing better than seventh, they will have to show more than they did at Plant field yesterday After carrying the Planters into overtime, the White Wings wilted away in the tenth inning like jce cream before a gas range Ag a result the league leaders continued their monopoly on victories by winning, 4 to 3. Stups playing by Mangus, followed by a wild | peg to home plate by the same per- #on, gave the localg the needed rum after two had been retired. Paddy Green Shines. The contest resolved itself inte & pitchers’ duel of bhig dimensions. Paddy Green and Johnny Lower wefd the servers and both pitched gilt- edged ball. An error hy MeCormack in the sixth unnerved Lower and set the Planters in a position to tie the score, Lower yielded eight hits, while Green held the opposition to gix, three of which were credited to Hack Angermeir, New Haven's slug- ging catcher. Green capped his brilliant performance by fanning ter™ men. Mangus, Reugg, Miller and Lower were sent back twice, (Continued on Ninth Page.) 314 appreciate why they are so popular. The Hubert Fischer Brewery, On tap at Charle: s F. Schmarr, Dehm, w. Hartford, Conn. Tiotel Beloin, Keevers, Herman J. McCarthy.