New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1915, Page 8

Herald by Billy S. Garvie.) mous Pequot ball team thad ‘won the cham- necticut ‘in 1867, by out of three games from r Oak team of Hart- a8 if no club would nge them. Beir laurels long, for they ' challenge from the New i} elub, composed of young 8 place. It is not generaily i New Britain had an or-: team inh 1867, yet such Old-timers will recall ‘put New Britain on the during "the season of Rhodes ' was in the box, v was -behind the bat, A. 8 on-first, W. Bowers was “Kent watohed 'third, H. picked up the hot ones at ,tlfll in right fleld, I. fleld and Joe Bennett in 3 a'the’ long hits and y high files. Here was a " players that received no! t their skill, who leved the ts held the champion- _match game was played . The New Britain nt to Hartford the river and on the sound w‘fl at New London, ' [uot, club met them. and m to the ball fleld, A d was on hand, as they oud of the Pequots after n. the crack Charter championship, After b ‘the Pequots won a close b score standing 48 to 47. ‘had B Marsh as pitcher cher, The l‘{,l, Britain ;:;du, pitcher; E. A. party ‘was enter- ‘the same and had a fine Second Game. e crowd was on hand 18 before the enclosed ball Admission was free and it e of stand up or sit down on .. Some of the spectators ng chalrs along and view in comfort. Just think how feel today to watch a ball 1at lasted !ou) hours and forty- finutes; .as thia game did. The r put it all .over the hen the gdme was in had won by a score he flelders had some g the game, as they ly ball, which ac- big scores during that tand made by each Flies missed and caught, fouls . sd balls, left on bases and were recorded. New Britain, 87 R. 5 (] 7 They were not ! ABILL” WALSH. This 1s Bill Walsh. Take a good ‘look at him: He's the boy who bom- barded West Point- - Saturday and turned the Army bageball nine down p' to’the tune of 16 to 8. 'Walsh pitched for Fordham-college and accomplished what was donsidered an' impossible task, beating Neyland, the best col- lege twirler in years. ‘Neyland had won twenty-ofie straight games, the last defeat against- him being regia- tered by Walsh, 1 to 0. This was ths first defeat 'for the Army this season. ‘Walsh, held the Pointers to five hits while his aids were collecting twenty, A. Rhodes, 1b. I. Dewey, If, .. Total . | S ea | Sl an Soltedo, 1b. Roe, ¢ ... Kenney, ‘rf. O'Donnell, 2 RED MEN TAKE FIRST IN THE FRAT LEAGUE, Defeat Court Friendly, 12 to 6; Batter Kaocked Unconsc:ous. The lid was ripped off the Frater- nal league with a crash yesterday at Electric field, the Red Men scalping Court Friendly, F. of A., by the score of twelve scalps to six. As this was the first game of the season it was not as well played as what may be expected as the warm weather sneaks along. 'There ' were numerous. fielding errors, Court Friendly, contributing eight and the Red Men 4. Smith and Logan were found for numerous swats, showing that the Frat leaguers have their eye on the ball at any rate: Leupold stopped one of Smith's shoots with his ear in the eighth in- ning and was knocked unconscious. He resumed play in a few minutes, Score: Court Friendly, I". of A, ab. r, bh. po. Goodrich, 3b, ..... 4 , Gorman, 1. ... ..5 ‘Gruetzmacher, 1b.. O’'Brien; s&. .. Sheehan; 2b. . Petora, rf. ...... Bjorklund, rf. ;... Nystrom, cf. . Breen, ¢, ... Smith, p. .. O1 ou on 63 e B Ot Ot cCoHooO BB PBHHO O M amoboocesoo Brennecke, 2b. ... Abrahamson, cf, Fusari, ss., 8b. Leupold, rf, . J. Wright, c. ... Robertson, 1b.' , McMullen, ss: . Smith, ef. . Potter, 3b. P oi o - © Fly catches—New Britain 7, quots 9. Flies missed—New Britain 7, quots 5. Fouls struck—New Britain 36, quots 14. Passed balls—New Britain 10, quots 20, 5 Left on bases—New Britain 5, Smith of New Britain. Time of game—Four hours, forty- five minutes. Umpire—D, 8. Birdsell, club, Morrissinia, N. J. Scorers—C. 8. Landers for New Britain and Walter Lenard for Pequot. iPequots Win Championship. As each team had won a game the third ‘and deciding game was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on August 19, before a large crowd of fans from New Britain, Hartford, New London and other parts of the state, as even at that early time the national _game, although in.its infancy in Con- necticut, had a strong hold upon the people. Tt was the first time the New Britain team had played on Hamilton Park, while the Pequots had won the deciding championship gpme from the Charter Oaks on the same field. “'Both clubs put in their strongest teams. The batteries were E. Marsh, ‘pitcher; Hoskins, catcher, for the Pe- quots,, New Britain ‘had F. Rhode: pitcher, and E. A. King, catcher. Grum,-of the famous Eckford club of Brooklyn, N. ¥., was the umpire. The spectators saw, ' close &nd exeiting game ‘and when the last ™an was put out the Pequots had won the game by the close score of 18 to. 15. This is the gtory’of how New Britain's ancient nine fought for and lost the state championship in 1867, nearly Afty of Union | © The:Vine streets, juvenile baseball ‘champions of the city for the past three vears, opened the 1915 season Saturday with two. victorfes. - In' the morning the Lafayette streets fell vic- tims to the 'terrific clouting of ithe Vine streets and the Vine streets won, 31-7. ‘Sullivan and Hemlock formed the battery for the winners and 8. Sul- T. Wright, sa. Logan, P. v+t alowsocusws e roneroad 88 1210 27 Two-bage hits, Gruetzmacher, Rob- ertson; hit by pitcher, by Logan 2, by Smith 1; left on bases, Red Men' 2 Court Friendly 1: stolen bases, Gor- man, Gruetzmacher, Brenneke, Abru- hamson, Nystrom, Goodrich; bases on balls, off Logan 8, off Smith 4; struck out, by Logan 8, by Smith 6. Pioneers Go to Pleces. A. Blanchard, cf. . Holleran, 3b. . Eegley, 2b, . Gray, 1. .. Erayne, 1b, . Clinton, c. 5 T. Blanchard, p Snyder; cf. Huck Totals ........ Inter-City ..... 4nnex A. C. chard, McCabe; stolen bases, on balls, off Blanchard 6, off A. Mead i; struck out, by Blancnard 9, by A. Mead 11; hit by pitcher, Begley, Pat- rod; left on bases, Annex 4, City 9; umpire, Coyle., Easy for Pirates. The Pirates could have stopped playing after the first inning against the Glenwoods of Hartford on Hart's lct, In. the opening session the Pirates made six runs. The final sccre was 8 to 8. It was a warm battle after that fatal first. Score: Prizer, cf. ..vi... Paulson, 3b. J. Crowe, ss.-2b. . O’Brien, f.-c: . Kiniry, 8b. T, Crowe, ‘Welch, ss. Sullivan, cf. . Macks, c, Heintz, rf. Sehmidt, p. 1b. CuMHOAOHNO S ccocococomoocoal Totals < 27 8 Glenwoods. ab. 1. Kayser, cf. .. Jones, rf. . McCuster, 3b. Lurner, 1b. .. Johnson, 2b. Durners, If. Durly, e .... D Whalen, ss. I, Whalen, p. .. | donbnscne cwmononoop Totals ... Pirates . Glenwoods .. & - ® 60200000%—8 201000000—3 Stolen bases, Jones, Prizer 2, O’'Brien '8, Kiniry 3; sacrifice hit, Heintz; bases on balls, off Schmidt 4, off Whalen 6; struck out, by Schmidt 7, by Whalen 7; hit by ' pitcher, P. Crowe, Prizer; passed balls, Durly 3; Mack 1; left on bases, Pirates 4, Glen- wcods 1; umpire, Campbell. Anchors Better Finishers. Not until the tenth inning was the Putting up their worst exhibition of the season, the Pioneers succumbed before the Middletown Independents yestrday at th Bllis stret diamond by the score of 15 to 2. The Ploneers’ infield was shot to pleces and collect- ed a total of nine errors. The Inde- pendents used their sticks freely and piled up fifteen hits while the New Britain club made seven. The Inde- pendents put the game in the refriger- ator in the second by making nine runs, chiefly through errors. Score: Independents. a. 3 . bh. po. Hale, 2bi ..cco0.n 2 2 Camp, 8b. Pitt, s, Lund, ¢. . Spinney 1f. .. Magnano, cf. Schuster, 1b. . Anderson, rf. Kincaid, p. o R A 0 o b A RS woroowem wlroooooocu? Pioneers. ab. 1. 8 Clancey, 3b. .... Campbell, rf., ss. Blinn, cf., 1b, . Conlin, 2b. . McKeon, c. Norton, rf. . W. Fitzpatrick, ss. . J. Fitzpatrick, 1b. 05 © S0 19 19 Wn €3 4n €3 00 Dudack, i, . ... ‘Winkler, P, Johnson P «oofien e wlooosssccsonn | scomwocononsng = B SoomoomsmmnT | sccorcuacows ol noconcoowomu? 7 27 18 Ind. .... 090011202—15 :“::a‘::‘n o uaseses 000002000— 2 Two-bage hits, Clancey, Campbell; {hree-base hits, McKeon; hits, off Winkler 4 in 12-8 innings, off John- son 11 in 6 2-3 innings, none off Fitz- patrick in 2:3 innings stolen bases, Lund, Schuster, Clancey 2, Campbell, Blinn, Hale, Pitt 2; sacrifice . hits, Campbell, Conlin.Hale; bases on pllls, by Winkler 1, Fitzpatrick 1; struck out by Kincaid 1; < hit by pitcher, Clancey, by Kincaid; left on -bases, Middlefown 9, Ploneers 5; bases on livan, McAvay and Meatro worked for the losers. The Young Cubs lost to the Vine streets in the afternoon, 11-9. Gaffney and Paulson were the battery for the winners and Sheehan and Zucoski for the losers. The Vine streets have an' open date for Jun 12, which' can be filled by addregsing C, Sullivan, Myrtle street... y PR SATURDAY ON LOCAL DIAMONDS, Eagles ..... 1—13 1— 9 4 2 . L 2 Battéries: Piechert an Coogan and Griswold, . T. A/ B, ....:0 1617732020 623 Jr.O, U A M.00011 490318 Batteries; ~Hinchcliffe, M. Welsh 2 3 d 0 0 Downl errors, Middletown 6, Ploneers 1; time 1:55; umpire, Mangan, Annex A. C. Loses in Ninth. A run. in the ninth inning . when ithe score was 4-4 gave tne Inter-Cley club of Hartford a 5 to 4 victory over the Annex A. C. of this city yesterday on the Belden street grounds. The Annex were unable (o tle up the tally in their half of the ninth. Score: | . Inter-City. ! S s ab, 7. h. g $ [ dosco Malloy, 3b, McCabe, ' 2D, Patnod, 1b. - 0o same between the Tigers of this city end the Anchors of Meriden decided vesterday. In that period the Tigers scored one and their supporters began to go home. But the Anchors had something up their sleeves and came through with a couple of runs, which gave them the game, 3 to 2. Score: Tigers. -} e Reynolds, [1f. ..... Koplowitz, ss. b A. Nelson, ¢, ..... Peterson, p. ..... Cabelus, 1b. Horton, 2b. H. Rittner, cf. . .C. Nelson, rf. 13 ¥. Rittner, 3b. .... | e il 3 Fou |nocwcurran vl sccmoamonag lonowen Y e Totals .. . © © - ° ] o Shuman, ss. . Hobson, 1b. . Keller, cf. Thomas, €. .. Gilmartin, 8b, .. Taylor, 2b. Taten, 1f. ... Zimmerman, rf. Coombs, p. ik cconcooner s o O s e B | oo swassnnd Totals .... Tigers ... Anchors *Two "out when scored. Stolen -bases, Sherman: sacrifice hits, Cabellus; bases on balls, off Coombs 1, Peterson 2i struck out, by Coombs 6, Peterson 10; hit by pitcher, Horton! bases on errors, Tigers 2, Anchors 2; umpire, Kelly. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Restits, No games scheduled yesterday. 4 . 00001000012 .. 0001000002—3 winning run was Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost Philadelphia . 18 8 Chicago 15 Boston . Pittsburg Pittsburg .. Cincinnati .. St. Louls .. New York ... P.C. 887 BT 542 482 481 440 429 417 n 11 Games Today. Pittisburg at Boston. Cineinatti at Brooklyn, Chicago at' New York, St. Louis at Philadelphia. NO CLUB FOR THIS CITY. Officiale of the Federal league who were asked to use their influence to secure a club for New Britain in the Colonial league have written to local *“One out when winning run scored. . 0120100001—5 . 2002000000—4 Two base hits, Holleran 2, A. Blan- Inter- City 4, Annex 6; double plays, Malloy (unassisted); Breen to Patnod; bases Inter- ; wluorssooso? Sportography BY “GRAVY.” 182 to 1; 5 INNINGS—RECORD ONE-SIDED GAME, While the grand-old-dope of the di- amond contains records of many weird and one-sided contests, there are few that can compare with the game played by the Atlantics and Forest Citys forty-five years ago to- day, May 17, 1870. Nowadays when a team accumulates a dozen runs in the course of nine innings the defeat is considered something of a swatfest, but in the pastime referred to the Forest Citys defeated the Atlantics by the lop-sided score of 182 to 1, and that, too, in five innings. This was an average of over twenty-six runs to the inning for thé Forest Citys. Nor is it to be considered that the clubs en- gaged were ‘“bushers.”” The Forest City aggrogation of Rockford, Ill., had inits llre-up A. G. Spalding, ap' Anson and ‘Ross' Barnes, three of the most {Hustrious names in basebail. The Atlantics of Brooklyn ranked among the top-notchers of the dia- mond of that period, and had several famous players. Later in the same year the Atlantics were the first to shatter the reputation of the Cincin- nati Red Stockings. The Cincinnat{ club in 1869 traveled from Maine to California and to Canada and played fifty-seven games without being de- feated. The Red Stockings had their closest call in a game with the Rock- ford Forest Citys. Up to the ninth in- ning the Forest Citys held the lead, but in.the final chapter the Red Stockings got three runs across the plate and won the game by a score of 15 to 14. In 1870, the Atlantics, whot had made such a miserable showing against the Forest Citys, broke the winning streak of the Cincinnati clubs, winning by a score of 8 to 7 on ‘the Capitol grounds in-Brooklyn. The Rockford club was a charter member of the National assoclation, the first baseball league and parent body of the National league, which was launched in 1871. Baseball made strange bed-fellows in those days, for small cities as well as large were In- cluded in the circuit. Those who scoffed at the major league preten- sions' of the Federal léague because it included Indianapolis, Kansas City, Buffalo and Baltimore ought to - de- rive a lot of amusement from the list of towns in the first National circuit: New York Mutuals, Philadelphia Ath- letics, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Washington Olympics, Troy, N. Y., Haymakers Fort Wayne, Ind., Keki- onigas, and R@ckford, Forest Citys, Hartford, Conn., Worcester, Mass., Sy~ racuse, N. Y., Keokuk, Ia., and other comparatively small citles were at a later period reptesented in the oldest major league. In the years preceding the inaug- uration of prefessional baseball, and for some time thereafter large scores were the rule rather than exception. Contests usually commenced early in the afternoon—sometimes even in the morning—and continued until dark. In 1869, at Buffalo, the Niagaras de- feated the Columbias by a score of 209 to 10, which stands as a record for number of runs, although not quite so one-sided-as the Atlankic- Forest City contest. In 1875 the base- ball fans were startled by the report of a game in 8t. Louis in which Chica- 8o defeated the home club by an amaz- ing score of 1 to 0. At first fans dia not take kindly to that sort of a game, and hungered for more action. ‘With the authorization of overhana pitching In 1884 and the consequent improvement in twirling, the day of big scores passed, and baseball began to assume its present form. Baseball in a Nutshell FEDERAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. Pittsburg 4, Chicago 1. Kansas City 38, St Louis 2 innings). - ¥ Newark-Buffalo, rain. Only three games scheduled. Standirfg of the Clubs. Won 19 16 15 16 14 10 P.C, 6566 571 556 552 519 482 414 276 Pittsburg Newark .. Kansas City . Chicago . Brooklyn St. Louis Baltimore Buffalo .. Baltimore at Chicago. Newark at Pittsburg. Brooklyn at Kan City. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results, Toronto-Newark, rain Buffalo-Jersey City, rain Montreal 3, Providence 1. Standing of the Clubs, Lost R.C JProvidence 15 Montreal Richmond . Jersey City Rochester Buffalo ... Newark . Toronto Newark at Montreal. Jersey City at Rochester Providence at Buffalg . Richmond at Toronto, New York State League. No games yesterday--Rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. § . Boston 3, Cleveland 0 (14 inniogi St. Louls 2, Washington 1 (11} nings). Philadelphia 4. Chicage 2. New York 6, Detroit 2. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost New York . . 8 Detroit . 11 Boston o Chicago 12 Washington 1 Cleveland ..... 16 Philadelphia . 16 Bt, Louis ....v.0 18 Games Today. Boston at Cleveland. New York at Detroit, Philadelphia at Chio Washington at St. Lo‘u‘ PINCHES AND NOBLE TIE. C. W. Pinches and €. D, Noblg for first honors in a match play han icap against par at the New B Golf club links in Maple Hill day. 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New Britain will be kept in mind, however, and may have representation in the league at some future date. | ana _O'Bris Ellison, Larson and ' Sharft. lessvomano (BN ul‘ HEro®WOoCOSS D o [ o mommo et e r. h \I‘l +2440708%—20 13 | Highlapders .. ...00200200— ¢ 2 7 | Batteries: Flood and McMurray; Peters, Fleld and Stanford. 3 > e S Totals .... Ploneer Juni . L ] ° o= . o Hogan, ss.