New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1914, Page 8

' NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1914, Latest; Best and Most Accurate Sporting News of the Day. BRAVES LURK SINGLE POINT BEHIND GIANTS )ancs Ushers Them Nearer Lead- ers in Chicage Dugl. Chicago, 111, Aug. 26.—Helpless be- fore ““tig Bill” James' sharpshooting, w'Day's Cubs: slipped back a noten yesterday, Stallings’ stalwart Braves winning by 4 to 1, and lifting them- selves W one point below & tie with ihe Giants for first place in the Na- tional flag scramble. ¥rom end to end the game was a battle of pitchers, with Jim Vaughn pitted against the Boston star. James clearly shaded the enemy, as he kept the Cubs’ swats well separated and showed excellent control, while Naughn not only proved ineffective in { ] \ | b L 1 pinches but twice uncorked costly wild heaves to the bases. The turning point in the came in the fifth round. The Cubs had scored once in the third, and, inspired by this tally, the Braves broke loose in the fourth and evened matters. The fifth was made a big | inning through work of Whitted, who ' pulled off a bit of heady base run- ' ning which perhaps entitles him to honorary mention along with the suc- ! cess of Jamea. ‘Whitted's stunt consisted of his j overrunning second base on a single |to center and then scooting to third |the instant he saw Tommy Leach ,make the return throw to second, te which bag he figured the ex-Cardinal .would return. Having Leach out- guessed in such fashion probably dis- concerted Vaughn, as two runnery crossed the pan only a few minutes later. The pair of tallies proved more than enough, but for safety’s sake another was picked up in the ninth. The Braves played steadily behind James, and it was this that made the big right hander doubly effective. Ma- . ranville’s lightning work around short, | Evers' aggressiveness, and even the shiftiness of Schmidt around first base i contributed to the ‘ Cubs’ downfall, whose play was just of a machine- like variety. The score: battle h. e 000120001—4 8 0 01000000—1 9 2 and Gowdy; o Boston ... Chicago .. Batteries—James Vaughn and Archsr. Pirates Plank Phillies. Pittsburg, Aug. 26.—Philadelphia ‘was shut out, 2 to 0 yesterday, in the last game at Pittsburg for the season between these teams. Mamaux and Alexander were both effective, only five hits being made by each side. The score: r. h. Pittsburg ...01001000°*—2 5 1 Philadelphia 000000000—0 5 1 Batteries—Mamaux and Gibson; Alexander, Oeschger and Dooin, Burns. e. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Champions Shut Out Browns Twice. Philadelphia, Aug. 26.—Philadel- phia shut out St. Louis in both games yesterday, the scores being 9 to 0 and 1:to 0. In the opening event Bressler held 8t. Louis to three hits and fanned ten batsmen, while the home team hit the deliveries of ILeverenz, Baich- ley and Mitchell hard. Pennock not only kept the visitors’ hits scattered, but he scored the only run of the second contest on his triple and Mur- phy’s single. The scores: First Game, r. h. Philadelphia 01032012*—9 15 St. Louis 000000000—0 3 4 Batteries—Bressler and Schang; l.everenz, Baichley, Mitchell and Ag- new, Hale. e. 2 Second Game. h. Philadelphia 00000100*—1 3 1 St. Louis ...000000000—0 7 1 Batteries—Pennock and Schang; ‘James and Agnew. T e. Hits Came When Needed. New York, Aug. 26.—Don’t imagine that because the Yankees won from the White Sox up on Coogan’s Flats yesterday by a score of 9 to 0 that the game was forfeited. Not much. The Yankees made all those runs on the level. They hit the ball when runners were cavorting on the base paths, and at last realized the advan- tage of peeling off their hits in bunches. Leonard Cole, strange as it seem, calling out the may life-saving brigade. Cole used to be called “King” in Chi- | but he has ! cago many moons ago, peen handed several other nicknames . since then. Other pitchers, wno did " not do as well as Cole, were Joe Benz, Wwho lasted almost a few minutes, and Big Ed Walsh, who consumed a few jnnings to show that, although he might be on his way to become a ‘#eome back,’ he has not vet com- pleted the journey. The score: i r. New York ..40104000*—9 Chicago 000000000—0 Batteries—Cole and Sweeney; Benz, Walsh, Lathrop and Schalk, Mayer. Naps Beat Red Sox Easily. Boston, Aug. 26.—Cleveland had little trouble winning a 3 to 1 victory from Boston yesterday. In the fourth inning Hoblitzel missed ~Chapman’s grounder and the error allowed two ‘==, Chapman scored on Jackson's pitched a whole game without | single. On the throw-in Jackson went to second. Lajoie’s sacrifice sent him to third. .Jay Kirke made a home- run drive, and the scoring ended. Bos- ton scored in the third on Hooper's single, a pass to Scott and two infield outs, The score: Cleveland ...000300000 Boston ..001000000—1 Batteries—Mitchell and O'Neill; Shore, Wood and Cady. ‘Walter Johnson Loses to Detroit. ‘Washington, Aug. 26—Detroit made the series with Washington 3 to 1 by | taking yesterday’s game 2 to 1. Rey- | nolds outpitched Johnson, and the i latter’s errors aided in his own down- fall. After the locals had scored a run in the first inning on a base on | balls, Foster's single and a sacrifice fly, Detroit won out in the third. | Stanage singled and Jonnson let Rey- | nold’s bunt get through him. With two out Cobb singled, scoring Rey- inolds and Bush scored the winning | rin when Johnson intercepted Moel- { ler's throw and threw wild to the plate. | The score: rh. Detroit 002000000—2 8 3 | Washington .100000000—1 4 3 | Batteries—Reynolds and Stanage; | Johnson and Afnsmith. i RACE IN NATIONAL LEAGUE NOT “FIXED” Braves and Giants Grimly Fightlng for Flag. e. The wonderful race now going on in the National league, which eclipses any race fought in the thirty-nine vears of the parent major league should prove a blessing during a lean baseball year. With four clubs in the fight for the pennant and only about ten games separating the leader from the trail- er enough interest has been felt in the different cities to get the fans to turn out again in droves. There has been some gossip among persons calling themselves fans to the effect that everything is not exactly on the level in the National league race this season, and that the race has been doctored up to prevent all the teams from losing money, which would have been the case if the Glants had made a runaway race of it, with the closest rival seventeen miles away. These same “fans” cannot under- stand why the American league did not get in the swim, except that they figured three races with a hundred points separating the first and last teams would make it look too raw. However, every person who is a fan knows how impossible it would be to “fix” any race. Why would they “fix 7 It was only necessary to look at the faces of the Boston and Giant players during their last series on the Polo Grounds to know that the battles were decided strictly on their merits. The happy, enthusiastic Boston faces, smiling and hand-shaking, spoke a stcry by themselves of the wonderful climb the Braves had made from the very bottom of the pit, Matched to these happy counten- ances were the grim, sullen, defiant faces of the Glants. There were no Giant smiles, no jokes cracked on the bench and no rough-house play. The Giants fought back hard, but they saw themselves yielding, yielding and vielding, and with each yield that nice little pot of world's series coin was moving farther away from them. And ball players are not permitting any one to “fix” any world’s series pots away from them. McGraw did not look as though he had been “fixed” when he was last seen on the Polo Grounds. If the Glants lose this pennant it will be a bard blow to the Gotham leader and will wreck his honorable ambition to league to win four pennants. Ordi- narily McGraw is no bad loser, and he took his three world's series defeats in a calm, sportsmanlike manner, but he is losing hard this season, and the defeats of his team are cutting him deep. DISAPPROVES PROPOSAL. McAdoo Appeals to Ootton and To- bacco Growers at Conference. Washington, Aug. 26.—Secretary McAdoo emphatically disapproved proposals for valorization of crops be- | cause of the European war at yester- | day’s conterence of cotton ad tobacco sTOWers. He appealed to the ference “to get down- to a tical basis.” con- prac- “Any issue of currency by state | banks is utterly unnecessary,” said Secretary McAdoo, “and it is a waste of time to talk about jt. Emough na- tional bank currency is authorized by { present law to !mndl.e the cotton and all the other crops in the country. There is authorization in jaw for enough currency to Wreck the whole country. The secretary of the treas- ury has wide discretion in the jssue of this currency. T intend to see thay all currency issued is safe because 1 tel| ycu, gentlemen, that you cannot do anything worse than to inflate the cur- rency to a point where you will wreck the credit of the country.” | Cineinnati. be the first manager in the National | | Jones, cf. Moran Began Working for Boston While in Cincinnati EASTERN ASSOCIATION. | Yesterday's Results. New Haven 7, New Britain 0, (first game); New Haven 4, New Britain 2, (second game.) Hartford 3. Pittsfield 0. Springfield Bridgeport 1. | New London 8, Waterbury 0. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 30 42 49 49 51 L) 4 80 New London Waterbury Bridgeport Hartford Springfield New Haven .. Pittsfield New Britain Games Today. New Britain at New Haven (: Waterbury at New London. Bridgeport at Springfield. e —— E=S i ! the New York Giants Moran came to bat with the score tied, a man on first and two out. Moran hit the ball for two bases, scoring the run needed to win the game and set the Giants back to a tie with Boston, and then he went to the club house and doffed his Cincinnati uniform. He took a train that night for Chicago, where { he joined the Braves and took part in e game the next day. Moran’s hitting is expected to aid Stallings’ tribe in its dash for the pennant. e Boston, Aug. 26.—Herbert Moran, the outfielder recently bought by the Boston Braves from Cincinnati, began working for Stallings before leaving But the work was all in the game and was part of his regu- lar activities as a baseball player. In the last half of the ninth inning of | the final game between Cincinnati and DOUBLE WALLOP IS HANDED THE SKIS Toland, c. Smith, p, Hancock, p. Totals New Haven 301000*—4 NOW BEUAID o o oo viove s 0020000—2 i Two base hits, Jones, Tetrault, To- land, Pendleton; hits off Smith, 1 in 1-3 inning, off Hancock, 2 in 6 2-3 innings; stolen bases, Tetrault; double plays, Pepe to McCormick to Miller, leath (unassisted); left on bases, New { Haven 6, New Britain 8: first base on balls, off Smith 3, off Lower 3, off Han- | cock 3; first base on errors, New Haven 1, New Britain 1; hit by | pitcher, Ruegg, by Hancock: struck out, by Lower, 3, by Hancock 4; wild pitch, Lower; time 1:20; umpire, Kelly. Wings Cimb nto Tic Witk Pitls- fizld for Sixth Place. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 26.—Jerry Connell’'s White Wings took a double barreled slam at the New Britain tailenders yesterday, grabbing off the first game of the twin sketch, 7 to 0 and romping away with the final frolic, 4 to 2. As a result of the two victories New Haven jumped into a tle with Pittsfield for sixth place, the Flectrics losing out to Hartford. Boeth games were listlessly played, the pitching of the home twirler con- tributing the lone feature of the bar- gain day attraction. The scores: First Game. Hartford 3, Pittsfield 0. Hartford, Aug. 26.—Jack Hoey | broke up a pitchers' battle between Rieger and James when in the first of the seventh he tripled and scored on McCabe's single, Hartford finally winning over Pittsfield, 3 to 0. James let the other two runs in with two wild pitches in succession. The score: r. h e Hartford ....... 00000030*—3 6 4 Pittsfield 000000000—0 3 1 Batteries — Rieger and Rapp; | James, Rettig and Bridges. ® coormocooo! Pendleton, rf. McCormitk, 2b. Barr, If. . Pepe, ss. Ruegg, cf. Miller, 1b. Sherwood, 3b. Angermeir, c. Lower, p. New London 8, Waterbury 0. New London, Aug. 26.—Greenwell itched air-tight ball yesterday and New London easily defeated Water- bury by a score of 8 to 0. In the early stages of the game Hovlik cvocommNool Totals Dawson, 1f, Tetrault, rf. Jones, cf. . Zeimer, ss, Noyes, 3b. Heath, 1b. Clark, 2b. Egan, c. Smith, p. Woodward, p. showed good form but after the fifth inning he was batted for six runs. The score: . r h. e Waterbury 000000000—0 6 3 New London 00200240*—8 10 0 Batteries—Hovlik and Fohl; Green- well and Ahearn. Springfield 3, Bridgeport 1. Springfield, Mass.,, Aug 26.—More held Bridgeport to four hits yester- Gay, Springfield winning, 3 to 1. The locals bunched their hits early. Score: r. h e Bridgeport 000000001—1 4 1 Springfield 21000000*—3 8 1 Batteries—Blum and Kerns; More and McDonald. Totals New Haven 50000020%—7 New Britain . 000000000—0 Two base hits, Jones, Fepe; hits, off Smith 0'in 1 inning, off Woodward 7 in 8 innings; sacrificé hits, Miller, Lower; stolen bases, Jones, Heath, epe, Ruegg: double plays, Zeimer to Clark to Heath; left on bases, New Haven 6, New Britain 7; first base on balls, off Smith 4, off Woodward 4, off Lower 1; first base on errors, New Haven 1, New Britain 1; struck out, by Woodward 4, by Lower 9; passed balls, Angermeir; wild pitches, Wood- ward; time 1:30; umpire, Kelly. PANIC IN FACTORY, Cry of “Fire” Causes Girls in Hartford Plant to Rush Madly for Street. Hartford, Aug. panic by the cry 26.—Throw of “fire,” 175 girls employed in the shirtwaist factory on Morgan street rushed madly three flights of stalrs yesterday after- noon, and the police consider it mira- culous that none was killed or fatally injured. Several Second Game, into a New Haven. ab. ] Pendleton, rf. McCormick, 2b. Barr, 1f. .. Pepe, ss. Ruegg, cf. Miller, 1b. Sherwood Argermeir, Lower, p. down | were thrown down and trampled upon, being cut and bruised, but there were no serious hurts. The narrow stairways were for a few minutes fairly choked with screaming women. The building is equipped with fire escapes, but in the panic not a girl attempted to escape by one. Smoke rising through cracks in the floor caused the cry of fire and pre- cipitated the panic. It was due to a burning motor and the blaze was ex- tinguished in a moment, ScrHocwowop o rireahe 4 Britain. ab. r. h. e 1 2 0 1 0 w|lrrcosccony Totals @ New ° Dawson, If. ... Tetrault, r Zeimer, se. Noyves, 3b. Heath, 1h, Clark, 2b, . 1 0 0 0 0 o 258 3 A 0 ‘ pitching and he is not at all baaq at Pittsfleld at Hartford. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. Boston 4, Chicago 1. Pittsfield Philadelphia 0. | Other games postponed—Rain. ! Standing of the Clubs. | Lost P.C. | 48 561 | 49 550 | 53 .539 54 58 60 59 61 New York . Roston St. Louis Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnatt ... Pittsburg Brooklyn 468 445 | Games Today. New York at St. Louls (2). Philadelphia at Cincinnati Brooklyn at Pittsburg. Boston at Chicago. AMERICAN LEAGUE. (2). Yesterday’s Results. New York 9, Chicago 0. Cleveland 3, Boston 0. Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 0, (first game): Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 0, (second game). Detroit 2, Washington 1. Standing of the Clubs. ‘Won Lost veeeesT8 37 ..64 48 ..60 54 .59 57 .56 61 .54 61 ..52 63 .39 81 P.C. 678 | 571 526 | .509 Philadelphia BOBtON ..ieeeeess ‘Washington . Detroit Chicago .. St. Louis New York Cleveland Games Today. St. Louis at New York. Detroit at Boston. Cleveland at Washington. Chicago at Philadelphia. | number on the old wooden FEDERAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Resuits. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. ‘Won Lost 49 51 52 53 55 61 62 63 P.C. 570 | .549 | 527 | 1509 495 470! 456 | Indianapolie Chicago - Baltimore . Buffalo Brooklyn Kansas City St. Louis Pittsburg Games Today. Buffalo at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at Brooklyn. Chicago at St. Louis. Indianapolis at Kansas City. GAMES IN OTHER LEAGUES. International League. Providence 5, Buffalo 1. Montreal 1, Newark 0. Toronto 4, Jersey City 0. Baltimore 3, Rochester 1. New England League, Lewiston 4, Manchester 3, (first game): Manchester 4, Lewiston 0, (second game). Worcester 4, Haverhill 2 SAM McLEAN IS THROUGH. “I Love Them Cigars and Chickens,” Is His Song to Lee Fohl, Sam Mclean will commute no longer. During his stay in Water- bury Sam would pitch a game, get into his glad rags and hurry off to his chicken and tobacco plantation at Glastonbury, spend the night and return to Waterbury in the morning | and repeat the process. Sam likes it, but he likes his chivkens more and so he asked Manager Lee Fohl for his papers. The papers were handed | , over and with a smile Sam said good | to his friends last night. It is likes and dislikes | bye not a question of ! with Sam, it is a question of plus and | minus. By remaining on his Glas- | tonbury plantation and watching the cigars and the eggs grow. he can | make more money than by hang- | ing around a baseball diamond for | the farm is more than ample. This year Sam pitched 19 games, winning 7 of them and losing 12 Hits numbering 189 were garnered | from his delivery for a total of 94 | runs. He struck out 97 batters. | passed 26 men. hit & batters and nev- er made a wild pitch. The old stove league in Glaston- bury will now hold summer sesslons for the first time in yvears. i | the games of the , be accommodated YALE HEADS TURN 0 FOOTBALL AGAIN Opening of AthbiicHScason Gny; hbout @ Week Awaj. Aug. 26.—The athletic season only about a New Haven ing of Yale's 1914-15 is now open- for week | off, and already the football men are getting back to town to be in readi- | ness for the preliminary practice sea- son, In addition the contractors for | Yale’s new stadium are being pushed that Yale this vear | to the limit, so can have the prestige of entertaining some 72,000 people when she plays Harvard as a finish to the season. It will be the largest crowd of people ever to witness a football game and | Yale's present plan is to play all of preliminary season on the old field, reserving the big Yale-Harvard fight for the opening of the stadium. Already there is talk of raising the price of seats this year and it seems to be generally understood that a slight advance will be made. Yale is still short of money to complete the bowl and lay out the new field. Mon- ey has been pledged to a large extent | by alumni, who have purchased bonds at $100 each which the Yale authori- ties issued for the construction work. The holders of these certificates have the privilege of buying two tickets at $2.50 each for 15 years for the big games played in the stadium. The work during the summer has | been hurried so that the huge struc- ture now begins to take definite form. Inside the enclosure the level of the playing surface has been placed and rolled and is now being hardened. The concrete circular wall that entirely en- closes the bowl is being poured through the molds and in another week practically will be completed. Those who complained:of the glare from the Harvard Stadium will find that the builders of the Bowl have colored the cement that will be poured in for seats, giving it a slate tone which, it is claimed, will be rest- ful to the eves. The coming week will see work started on the seats, but it will be well into October be- fore it is completed. Wooden seats, held in place by iron braces, will be attached to the concrete. All of the earth has been thrown in- to place and the height of the earth- en sidewalls is about forty feet above the ground level while the playing surface is about the same distance be- low the ground level. Standing Room For 12.000. The designers have arranged for the seating of 60,000 people, but they have allowed space for 12,000 standing room, which brings the number to up to the 72,000 mark. In former years Yale has been hard put to accommodate half that stands These latter, however, have been put in order already for the opening of the football season, which is scheduled to begin with the Maine game Saturday, Sept. 26. The old Yale Field has a new carpet, and from present plans the Brown-Yale game, which of late has come to be regarded as a near-championship con- | test, will be played on the old field. But that will wind up the use- fulness of the old gridiron, unless it is utilized aftérward for practice pur- poses. All sorts of antics in past seasons have been a feature of this Yale- Brown game, and this year, when the undergraduates find that it will proh- ably be the last game ever to be \,.z.\m n the old tield, they can be relied upon to put more ginger than ever into their show ! The Brown in scheduled for | Nov. 7 and plans to accommodate 17,- 000 have heen made. Between Nov. 7 and Nov. 21 date of the Yale- | Harvard e, the Yale players { Wil have a chance to drill on the new gridiron ax 1o become accustomed to the lizhts, shadows and air currems there. The contractors have agreed that it shall be ready for use hy Oct. 1st game the me he 5o Hinkey to Assume Charge. Head Coach Frank Hinkey will work will as- sume full charge and out about be- 30 of his men at ginning the first Hinkey Madison week in September, twice captain of a Yale 1893 and ex-Captain Hinkey has Yale teams off and on, but | has never assumed full responsibility for the team. During early Septem- ber Coach Hinkey will have his men under his eye at the local hotel there, He will give them the usual light pre- liminary practice, consisting in dariff twice daily in handling the ball. Af. ter two weeks of this he expects to have his men limbered up sufficiently to give them some harder work on Yale fleld when the real work of the season will begin The physical well being of the team this year will be looked after by { Dr. Bull, who the past year was se- lected as medical and surgical super- visor of the team. He will also rbs the backfield coach. For several years Yale hag considered the need of a man like Dr. Bull to assume this re- sponsibility and for the first time will have a permanent official. Dr, Bull will also Airect the medical supervi- slon of the other Yale teams. He will be on hand with Coach Hinkey when the preliminary season opens at Madison. wae ‘vars ity 1894 Since team at in then coached NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS, Adopted for Tourney for Youngsters Under 18, Newport, Aug. 26.—Plans for a ng- tional junior tennie championship, to which players under eighteen years of age will be eligible were adopted last night at a meeting of the execu- tive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis association. The meeting discussed plans for re- covering the Davis cup recently cap- tured by the team from Australia. Although no action was taken, it war the unanimous opinion that the United £lates should challenge next year, KNOCKS OUT COTTON. Boston, - Aug. 26.—Sam Langford, negro heavyweight, knocked out George Cotton of Pittsburg, also & negro, in the fourth round of o scheduled ten-round bout at the Atlas Athletic association last night, Lang- ford hammered his opponent constants 13 and was himself unscathed. RING FOR YANKEES. Lowell, Mass., Aug. 26.—The sale to the New York American league hasp- ball club of James Ring, one of the pitchers for the Lowell team of the New England league, i announced by James Gray, manager of the local club, A. E. Magnell, who ts handling the publicity end of the Berlin fair this fall, is arranging a series pf soccor games to be staged during the fair. He is looking for some fast teams and would be pleased to hear from cap- tains of elevens, He may be found at Room 505, National Bank bufld- ing. You will always be well served, whether in home, cafe or club, if you ASK FOR On sale almost everywhere in this vicinity; Because appreciated as Connecticut's leading brews. 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