New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1914, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1914. Latest, Best. and Most Accurate Sporting News of the Day. RAVES TIE GIANTS Ty STILL IN CIRCUIT IN NATIONAL LEAGUE BUT WITHOUT A HOME iy TatEndes Now Thrcaen New Eritain icianiiflnish Preg Crown of Three-Time Champs. | Forsthe first time since the National league .season was fairly under way a foreign foe this morning: disputes the lead with the champion Giants, . The sensational Boston Braves stepped into a tie with the three time Nationai league . winners as'a Tesult of New } York’s defeat yesterday at the hands jof the Cincinnati Reds. The Hub team was idle in Pittsburg. They 4 didn’t have to catch the Giants, the Polo grounders came back to them. ‘Whether or not Boston earns the i privilege of facing the Athletics in the ' world's series, the fact remains that Mo ball team of modern times has ac- omplished such a herculean task as his same force of George T. Stallings. In a little more than a month the Big Chief ran the gamut from last place to first—or what is practically the same thing, a tie for 1t. There was but one other such spurt during the | Tegime of the National Commission. "In 1906 Flelder Jones, by grace of STALLINGS RECRUIT BEATS McGRAW & CO. EASTERN ASSOCIATION. Yesterday's Results. Pittsfleld 3, New Haven 2. Bridgeport 3, New London 0. ‘Waterbury 4, Springfield 3. TEIMER IS TRAVELING | Magee Has Missed Chance to A LA TYRUS R. COBB Share World’s Series Money Turns in Twenty-cight Hits in Last Twenty ‘Gamss for .350. (Written for the' New Britain Herald by S. W. Challenger, Official Scorer of the Eastern Asociation.) Herb Moran, Who Has Joined Braves, Standing of the Clubs. Takes Farcewell Slam at Giants Won Lost 30 40 48 49 51 53 54 77 L and Wins for Reds. 687 .608 .529 610 .505 465 449 .238 ! New London Waterbury Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Pittsfleld ..... New Haven New Britain Aug is 24.—Just one trial the of the Yesterday they re- to break their by losing three beaten 3 to Z, for the local | Cincinnati, after another career Glants these days. newed thelr efforts stay in Cincinnati straight. They were and the winning tally coterie of gladiators was batted to the home rendezvous by Herb Moran There were two out when this hap- week, but dropped games by one run. { A pened. The score . The team has been shy of the winning New York ....010000010—2 6 2 punch and game after game has gone Cincinnati ...000002001—3 11 1 LoRthe oihes reliawE by (Hat one iin Batteries: Tesreau, Demaree, Meyers margin which looks so little but means N L e s0o much. The record for the week | was one victory in five games. Hartford was the best performer of At a meeting of the owners and reps resentatives the baseball teams of the Eastern association, which was | held in the Hotel Garde in New Haven, New Britain was wiped as far as professional league concerned in this city, although the New Britain aggre- gution will still hold out in the league until the end of the season. After a two hours and a half session, it decided by the team ownera to transter all games originally scheduled to be played in New Britain, #ome twelve in number, to the cities cf visiting teams, and the new idea will go into effect immediately. For this afternoon Springfield was sched- vled to meet New Britain in New Britain, but the game has been trans- ferred to Springfield. The plan was adopted without a dissenting vote, In addition to that, it was also des cided that the New Britain club should take one-half of the gross receipts for the rest of the season while playing of Games Today. New Britain at Springfield. Hartford at Waterbury. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. Cincinnati 3, New York 2. St, Louis 7, Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia-Chicago, wet grounds, Bridgeport, Aug. 24.—New Britain played some very good ball during the | last night, | e.| “off the map” baseball is Cards Keep On Climbing. St. Louis, Aug. 24.—Twenty thous and spectators saw the Cardinals| the week, with five victories out of trample on the crippled Brooklyns | and climb within hailing distance of | six games played. New London came : fivst place. The acors hers was 7 %0 along with its four wins out of five, . b 44 Z é 3. Brooklyn, minus the services of | just reversing New Britain's doings. £ ; Daubert, O'Mara and Dalton, who Only a stroke of lightning can halt batted once for the pitcher, proved the onward march of McCann and his easy picking for ”_“KF'";‘(" f:(“’:;’-’*"r" Uhlans to the championship capital. chasers. Schmutz was nocked o ‘Waterbury holds hard to second place, the slab by the St. Louis nluggerfm with four wins out of six games. Walton Cruise welcomed Schmutz's Bridgeport's fortifications at third successor, Enzman, by -clouting lh-; rank are seriously weakened. The ball for a homer, the longest drive ol was Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost .59 48 .59 48 .62 53 .58 53 .50 58 .50 58 .51 60 .49 60 2. C. .561 661 ¢ .539 ) 523 | .463 .483 .469 .450 Boston 5 New York St. Louis .. Chicago Pittsburg . Philadelphia Cincinnati Brooklyn . the season on Robinson Field. The nineteen straight victories with the White Sox, crowded from seventh po- | sition to the front., He did not climb {alone on nerve and luck, for after ! beating the fleld for the American \league championship Jones astonished the world through winning a world’s series from the Cubs. And the Cubs then were at the heyday of their pow- er. They had just established a rec- ;ord of 116 victories in a schedule or | 154 games that season. In 1906 everyonme looked for the White Sox to crack after they at- tained the lead. Optimists who live outside of the City of Culture have been predicting the same thing for Boston for more than two weeks. If Boston is due to break it has shown no evidence of the calamity to date. Invariably the team has come back strong after every defeat. Saturday's | double header was a fitting illustra- |tion, James, one of the main de- pendences of the Braves, was beaten |after twelve innings in the first game. In spite of having an early lead tied in {the second game the Braves turned |round and doubled the score of the Corsairs. Those who had regarded Boston as a false alarm two weeks ago are try- __ing now to hedge their bets.. Some very judicious purchases and trades by Stallings have enabled him to frame a cast of real merit. - Boston is out even with the Giants because Stallings’ team has been playing the !best ball in the league for more than a month. He has been accumulating i power rather than wasting his re- sources in a blind dash for the lead. Within the past couple of weeks Stallings has secured two players who should help him greatly through the furious drive the rest of the way. | Third Baseman Red Smith is one, Outflelder Herb Moran the other. Moran was secured Saturday from Cincinnati. He will report to Boston in Chicago. The little gardener was ichiefly instrumental in helping Red |Ames to yesterday’'s victory over the Giants, for by some strange turn of |fate the right to New York’s final hu- imiliation was reserved for the hard /luck pitcher castoff of McGraw. Boston may step into the front to- | day, but that does not mean the pen- 1 inant. Stallings is likely to encounter stiffer opposition from now until Octo- |ber than that which Fielder Jones met from American league rivals in 1906, The four first division teams of the National league are so closely | bunched that any one may have a dis- tinct advantage by the end of the week. Nor are the second division clubs to be despised. Brooklyn, in Jast place, is only eleven games be- hind the Giants and Braves. Every club in the league is capable of giv- ing another a fight to the finish. The American league of 1908 was not nearly so well balanced. RACQUET TOURNAMENT, National Lawn Tennis Championship - Contest Opens at Newport. Newport, R. I; Aug. 24.—More than 100 of the most expert racquet wield- ers of the country gathered at the Casino courts today for the opening of the 34th annual national lawn tennis championship tournament. Norman E, Brookes, the Australian internation- alist also was an entrant and as he and Maurice E. McLoughlin of = San Franeisco, national champion, were in opposite halves of the draw, it was the general expectation that they would come safely through the early rounds and meet in lhe‘flnals_ For the championship court today the committee choose the match be- tween C. M. Bull of Brooklyn: gf,d William M. Johnston of San Francis- co in the second round. The sky was clear, but the air was sultry and the usual sea breeze waAs missing early in the day. BARR FOR YANKEES? New Haven, Aug. 24.—A report was carrent last night that Hyder Barr, captain and left flelder of the New Haven baseball club, had. been sold to the New York Americans. Neither Manager Connell nor Owner Cameron could be reached at a late hour last night to confirm the reported sale, and developments will be awaited with in- terest. Barr is looked upon as one of the best ball players in the Ea.sternl Philadelphia .. Boston ‘Washington Detroit St. Louls Chicago .. New York Cleveland .. Indianapolis Chicago Baltimore .. Buffalo Brooklyn Kansas City St. Louis Pittsburg Games Today. Boston at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Pittsburg. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. No games scheduled, Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost T4 317 S .88 7 47, ..60 51 ..b66 57 ..b4 57 ..bb 60 b1 62 enild k BRrer €80 P.C. 667 678 541 .496 .486 .478 .451 .322 2 Games Today. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Detroit at Washington. FEDERAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’'s Results. St. Louis 4, Baltimore 3. Kansas City 13, Pittsburg 5, Buffalo-Chicago (rain). Standing of the Clubs. ‘Won Lost 49 Py - 51 52 53 53 61 PR 62 . . 63 P.C. .563 549 527 .509 505 470 .456 .423 Games Today. Brooklyn at Indianapolis. Pittsburg at Kansas iCty. Baltimore at St. Louis. Buffalo at Chicago. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Rochester 4, Providence 1. Montreal 2, Jersey City 0 (first game). Jersey City 2, Montreal 0 (second game.) Toronto 8, Newark 1. SATURDAY’S RESULTS. Eastern Association. Hartford 6-7, New Britain 4-6. New Haven 1, Springfield 0. Pittsfield 2-2, New London 0-4. Waterbury 9-10, Bridgeport 7-6. National League. Boston 2-4, Pittsburg 3-2. Philadelphia 3, Chicago 1. St, Louis 4, Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 9, New York 4. American League. St. Louis 4-1, Philadelphia 3-6. Boston 4, Cleveland 2. ‘Washington 8, Detroit 7. New York 5, Chicago 2. International Teague. Providence 5-5, Rochester 4-4. Buffalo 8-8, Baltimore 4-3. Toronto 5, Newark 2. Montreal 7, Jersey City 4. Federal League. Pittsburg 6, Kansas City 2. Indianapolis 5-12, Brooklyn 0-7. St. T.ouis 6, Baltimore 2. Buffalo 6, Chicago 2, PIONEERS CHALLENGED. The Brookside team of Bridgeport challenge the Pioneers for a game of baseball, game to be played in New Britain. We have played and defeat- ed the best teams in our class around here. We have the best fielding team. in the city, and stand second in bat- ting in the Park City league, a league composed of fast teams, = At the present time we are not in the lezgue, dropping out for reasons of our own. Our reputation in the city is to be beaten. If the Pioneers are booked up we are open for any fast team for Saturdays or Sundays. For information write to JOSEPH POW, Manager. lis mot in it with the New Haven cap- {ed among the spolls and a great ex- best the Bolts could do was to win two out of six games, Curiously enough these wins were from Spring- i fleld and Waterbury, while it dropped battles to New Haven and New Brit- ain. Springfield lost all five games. New Britain can get some satisfiac- tion in knowing that there was one team worse off than the Skis. New Haven has braced since Boss Cameron returned. It won four out of six games, Pittsfield took three out of seven, 5 Most of the New Britain players did good business in the batting line during the week. Zeimer has been a sterling performer of late. In his last twenty games he turned in twen- ty-eight safe hits at a batting clip of -850, That is like his last season's form. He has just reached the cen- tury mark in safe hits and was the first New Britain man to do'it. His gain for the last week was nine points. Heath made the biggest advance, put- ting on fifteen points. Hancock add- ed thirteen, Noyes six, Woodward four, Tetreault two, Wilson lost six- teen, Smith eleven, Egan eleven, Tol- and five, Jones three and Dawson one. Jones is still among the select .300, but he has had something of a slump now for two weeeks. Here are the figures; - Jones .301, Egan .272, Zeimer .268, Heath' .242, Tetreault .241, Noyes .229, Dawson .222, Hancock .192, Tol- and .169, Wilson .160, Smith .160, Woodward .140, Clark .100. Individual Batting. And now it is Barr of New Haven who turns in the most attractive look- ing batting spurt of the season. Ten games back he decfded to launch his array of bats against the allied hurlers and Germany’s raid through Belgium tain’s capture of safe hits. Twenty- one safe drivesata .512 clip are count- pansion of twenty-two points in aver- age. Now, that is some jump at the tail end of the season. The contribu- tion included four threes and three twos. It all but landed him in the .300 class. Fohl of Waterbury still leads, but he dropped off three more points. Donovan, a new Waterburian of brief experience, is second, while the departed Smith, whose place he takes is third. Barney of Hartford con- tinues to do good work and Quinn of New London since his return finds time to hit the ball hard. Smith had the most safe hits when he left for the west. His total was 120. Becker of New London, not even in the .280 ranks, is second with 113, and Hall- man of Bridgeport is third with 111. The century boys are numerous now. Springfield is the only team without a representative among the leaders. The records: Fohl, Waterbury ... .334 Donovan, Waterbury 4,383 Smith, Waterbury . .332 Barney, Hartford .308 Quinn, New London .308 Marhetka, New London 304 Phillips, Pittsfield .302 Angermier, New Haven .302 Jones, New Britain ... .301 Ahearn, New London .300 Barr, New Haven .296 Spencer, New London .295 Wolfe, Pittsfield .294 Hallman, Bridgeport .292 Team Batting. That big business by Barr at the bat boosted New Haven's team figure some, and as the others helped out, the White Wings netted a gain of six points, phenomenal doings at this stage of the .season. New Britain made the same gain. Hartford add- ed three and New London two. This latter event brought the McCann tribe up to an even rating with Wa- terbury, Fohl's men holding their own, Pittsfleld lost five points and Bridgeport three. Springfield did not change. Waterbury managed to pass New London in hit contributions, The figures: A. B. ..3284 R. 480 454 1B. P.C. 863 263 870 .263 837 .280 790 764 771 791 738 Wew London Waterbury ... Springfield .. Hartford Pittsfield New Haven Bridgeport New Rritain Team Fielding. Hartford put in its best week 0!1 el Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—Sherwood Magee of the Phillies thinks he the champion hard luck player of the game. Magee is one of the greatest natural day. Magee also figures that should have led the National league hitters six out of last eight years. “Back in 1907 Frank Chance tried to trade Schulte to the Phfllie‘a for me,” said Magee. “If the trade had gone through it would have been a big thing for Sherrie Magee. The Cubs hitters since Ed Delehanty’s!J. J. McGraw tried to he | Donlin for me. | tramed up. Billy Murray told me to won a string of pennants and figured js'in a bunch of world’s series battles. | Aside from the money involved, think of the incentive I would have had to knock the cover off the ball. Later trade Mike The deal was all pack my trunk and get ready to move. Then something happened, and the exchange was called off. The last turn of the wheel prevented me from sharing in all the world’s series money the Giants have collected.” flelding for the season, with a gain of three points. Springfield did well with a gain of two. New London and New Britain each gained a point. Bridgeport, Waterbury, New Haven and Pittsfield each dropped a point. The league average is .952. The rec- ords: P.O. .2669 .2712 .2744 .2573 .2684 2582 A. 1202 1393 1349 1328 1228 1806 E. 147 175 191 207 209 219 238, 235 P.C. .963 .960 .954 .950 .948 947 945 944 New London Bridgeport . Springfield Pittsfield ... New Britain New Haven Hartford .2698 1403 ‘Waterbury. ...2685 1235 Pitchers’ Records. The absolute supremacy of the New London hurlers is again forcibly dem- onstrated by the records given be- low. As a corps they have allowed on an average 2.40 runs to a game, which meant that the team had to average but two and a half tallies to score & safe margin of wins. Then they average high in strikeouts. In nineteen games they shut out the op- position and in eighteen more kept the score down to one run. Martin and Powers were particularly strong. Osborne of Waterbury leads in keep- ing runs down, Troy of Pittsfield leads in strikeouts with 202. Martin is second and More of Springfield third. Powers handed out the most passes, but Woodward and Smith of New Britain have higher averages to a game, McLean of Waterbury shows the best control, averaging one to a game., Tuckey of Bridgeport is next, averaging 1.06 to a game. The rec- ords: w. bb. so. r.tog. McCabe, B. « X 2 9 2.00 Osborne, .15 103 2.03 ..18 164 2,04 .15 107 2.38 .16 1 162 2.50 N. L. 2 11 2.50 Barberich, N. L. 6 22 2,57 Reiger, H. .15 Greenwall, N, Walsh, B. Geist, H. Tuckey. Blum, B. Troy, P. Jensen, N. Salmon, H. Justin, S. Lower, N. H. Smith, W. Gray, W. Daniels, S. White, N. Hovlik, W. .e Greene, N. L. .. Landi, N. H. ... Sherman, P. ... Burch, S. Frost, W, Gervais, B. Barrenkamp, McLean, W. Henry, H. Rettig, P. Hancock, N, Woodward, N. ‘Wilson, Smith, N. Burke, S. ..... Ramey, N. H... 3 .14 L14 .16 .10 .19 1T ..11 .14 B. P PN NDVRP R DD I ° | Nash, 1f. i Gilmartin, West; ’1' left on bas SILVER CITY OUTT BEATEN BY PIONEERS Ahcarn Fans Ten and Hoids Meri- den Boys to Five Swats. A batting rally in the eighth inning gave the Pioneers a victory over the Meriden Independents yesterday, 4 to 2. Ahearn worked for the Ploneers and gave up five hits. Quigley, on the mound for the Silver city team, allowed but half a dozen bingles. Ten of the Meriden sluggers wilted before Ahearr’s curves. The score: Ploneers. -4 2 Hinchliffe, rf. Campbell, ss, Blinn, cf. . McKeon, c. Conlin, 2b. Schade, 3b. Dudjak, If. Fitzpatrick, Ahearn, p. CoNOWD Lo m AmocoMmowep coomMroooa® Meriden Independents. Gilmartin, ss. Kane, 2b. Heaney, 3b. Lyons, cf. Hart, 1b. West, rf. . Rice, c. Quigley, p. ik neky cowmosomap cononmons] Ancoowinip slooctsconons Totals Pioneers 00000013%—¢ Meriden ........ 001010000—2 Two base hits, Hinchliffe, Fitz- petrick; hits, off Ahearn 5, off Quigley 6: stolen bases, Pioneers 4, Meriden 3; sacrifice hits, Hinchcliffe, Campbell, double plays, Kane 10 Gilmartin; bases on balls off Ahearn 3, off Quigley struck out, by Ahearn 10, by Quigley 5; hit by pitcher, Campbell, Rice; passed balls, Pioneers Pioneers 3, Meriden : bases on errors, Pioneers 2, Meri- den 1; time, 1:40; umpire, Mangan, Rangers 5, 0. U. A, M. 0. The Rangers shut out the fast O. U. A. M. team vesterday at Ranger field, to 0. Nelson allowed only two hits and was backed up in great stvle by his teammates. Coogan, with a record of twenty-two scoreless innings to his credit, was touched up for nine clean bingles, among which were three doubles and a triple. The game was fast and clean throughout and clearly showed the su- periority of the Rangers. Nelson struck out nine of the Mechanics while Coogan fanned seven of the Rangers, but hits when men were an) in other cities, and that the Eastern asgociation will pay the back salaries of the New Britain players. Owner Scingki, however, filed a bond, agree ing to pay the salaries of the playe: cf the New Britain team from thi date on, and reimburse the league for the unpaid salaries, Until the meeting last night, itdid not seem as though any way could be found for New Britain to stay in the league, after the hopes of Owner Scinski to raise money by popular sub« seription fell through. As a last Tes | sort Owner Scinski, it is said, doped Cardinals scored four runs off Schmutz and hammered Enzman for three more. The score: r. h p,l L.000000102—3 7 4 St. Louis ..20110120.—7 11 2 Batteries Schmutz, Enzman and McCarty, Fisher; Perritt and Wingo. Brooklyn Tyrus Cobb the Whole Show. Baltimore, Aug. 24.—The Detroit Tigers slipped over from Washington to play Jack Dunn’s Orioles and won by the score of 8 to 1. Ty Cobb was the whole show, the Detroit slugger making three hits, a single, a double and a triple. Cobb drove in six of the Tigers' runs. He tripled in the fourth with three on. Cobb tickled the 4,000 fans that saw the game by pitching the last inning, retiring the side in order. The score: r. h. e 102400100—8 15 8 Baltimore L001000000—1 41 Batteries—Williams, McKee, Cobb and Baker; Jarman and McAvoy. cut a plan whereby he thought he’ would be able to save the New Britain club from a disastrous wreck, and that plan he submitted to the other club owners and to President O’Rourke last night. Mr. Scinski proposed that he be al Jowed to transfer all of the rest of his home games, as he figured that with the assurance of one-half of the total receipts and the possibilities of a little extra at times in some of the cities where the attendance is always good, he would be able to meet all of his expenses for the rest of the season. 1t was learned that Owner Scinski inti- mated to several club owners his proposition, and that several gave him little, if any, encouragement on acs count of the fact that they themselves had hard sledding because of the small attendance. Before the meeting,’ Owner Scinski had but one hope, and that hope was the plan stated above which he doped out himself. He was by no means confident before the meeting that he could have the plan pull through, and after the session, where it was clearly shown that every baseball magnate in attendance was ready and willing tb give Scinski a* helping hand, which in some cases wae slightly detrimental to them, Owner Scinski was highly pleased with the developments. There is at present a matter of about $1,800 in back salary that Mr. Scinski still owes in addition to other bills amounting to about $200. It i believed that the league in paying the back salaries of the New Britain teant will be paid back next year, when in 81l probability a better team will bs put on the field, and renewed interest in the game built up. The meeting was held Haven because of the fact that most of the teams were playing in the vicinity of the Elm city. At the meet- ing were President O'Rourke, who, held the proxy of the New Haven club, William Murphy and Lee Fohl, of Waterbury, Eugene McCann, of New London; Daniel O'Neil of Hartford; William E. Carey, of Springfield, and ugh Reddy, of Bridgeport. Scinski was at the meeting in company with his two brothers, Luke and Anton. Detroit National Recruit Beats Browns. TUtica, Aug. 24.—Pitcher Brower, last spring a recruit with the St. Louis Nationals, kept the St. Louis Americans’ hits scattered in an ex- hibition game which Utica won, 5 to 3. Poor work behind Brower saved St. Louls from a shutout. The score: r. h. e St. Louis ....001002000—-3 9 2 Utica ..010020020—5 8 2 Batteries—Hoch and Hale: Brower and Ahles. Umpires—Leary and Simon. bases spelled defeat for the O, 17, M. The score: 0. U, A. M. i 2 sssss5253555, Bottomly, rf. H. Zwick, If. Schrodel, 3b, Andrews, ss. G. Zwick, 2b, Sandstrom, cf, . Tyler, 1b. Scharff, c. Coogan, p. 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