New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1915, Page 8

pbb Only .400 Hiitér Left in Either Big League---Brooklyn Edges Nea ver Phillies—. White Sax Above the Red---Hartford Holds Newark Feds to Tie While Baltimore is Beating Springfield jER BEANED, ES 0 HOSPITAL ps One of Scott’s Shoots With His Head. - , June 5.—Weasers of the psiery wererd to 0 winners in _contest here this season of S Those two runs were fumble and wild throw by jollowed by J. Collins’ dou- “hit near the right tem- ipitched ball in the first in- § Imocked flat. He played lon. in the second inning and #d from the game, going to for an examination. It is that the blow will cause Bcore: r. h. e .200000000—2 70 .000000000—0 4 2 Scott and Schalk; Shore, Cady, Carrigan. Steadies After Flight. Iphia, June 6.—The Athletics the Browns § to 3. The hit Bush Hard in the first in- after that they were held to 2 bingles. Oldring’s one on base accounted for 5 in the first inning. Three 'a ‘double; and: a sacrifice more 4in the fifth. Two a wild-throw by Leary -fifth run. S Mack announce at Car- m . and. Lekr of Villa- ors Get to Steen. n, June B8.—By hitting in the seventh inning the .scored enough runs to win ng game of the Cleveland to 1.-.But for-a wild pitch in. the visitors’ half of the with a man on;third Cleve- d have been shut out. Con- Senatore’ right flelder, af_ in ‘two. Funs with a base hig-ankle and will be ¢ for some days. Score: S r. h. e, 00000141*—6 8.0 een and O’Neill; Shaw "Loughlin Much on the Job. York, June 5:.—Slim Caldwell “his glove harder at the Pole de yesterday afternion that any | teammates hit the ball. As n't be thrown across the plate loves, ' and as the Yankees t bat any in and asjthe Detroits ¥t do anything to let the Yan- § bring in any, they, the Yankees, | make any. The Detroits did. ‘won, and the score was 3 to jwell flung his glove in the air "decisions by Umpire O’Loughlin. wasn’t looking the first time and 1 stayed where he was—out there | the apex pitching ball. The next e. Silk saw the glove as it was ing down from the sky. That in the ninth inning with two out d just after a steal home by Cobb hich Caldwell was certain wasn’t a home by Cobb. ‘Whtaever it , whether Silk was right or wrong. went the glove. Silk saw it and n did not continue out there on j& apex pitching ball. i tever may have been the merits affair between Slim and Silk, ‘to ejectment of Slim, the De- uld have won the game just & and practically just as de- . They had two runs before in a moment of restiveness and u vary the monotony of a string fof ciphers made a base hit, stole sec- ikept on to third on a bad throw d then stole home. Score: r. h, e. 0001—3 5 1 w York: 90 00—0 41 " Batteries—Dubuc and McKee; Cald- 1, Pieh and Sweeney, Nunamaker. ..20000 (] Baseball in a Nutshell ‘ COLONIAL LEAGUE. Yesterday'’s Re!ul 4 11 River 4, Brockton 1. w Bedford 2, Pawtucekt 1. P.C. .778 5838 .538 .538 417 .400 .400 .333 PR saaaaaanl The Fury Record. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’” ‘Well, how about the fan, benightey Jay, /‘Nho, with the bases full, observers some bloke Step up and poke into a double play? The Matty Status. “I'm very much interested,” post- cards L, G, “in the case of Christy Mathewson, the greatest of them all. Is he about through, or he is merely in a brief slump?” Matty; of course, i8 no longer the old Matty—or, rather the young Matty -—of other days. But is is hard to believed that he has slipped as badly 8s the record would indicate, if the record is to be used as the main testi- mony in the case. Matty’s slump began back in July cf the year before. From that point on he failed to win half nis games— in fact, hardly more than ithird of them—into October. That slump was partically excused by the collapse of his mates. This spring has been the most unkempt of many years. It has been a tough season on veteran pitch- ers, who need all the sunlight and warmth they can get to oil out the an- clent flipper. So it may be that a re- turn of summer weather the Giant vetéeran may return with a fair portion of his old stuff. About the only me- thod of obtaining a correct answer i to wait until the warm weather test arrives. Tip to Golf Ball Makers: Sir—I see where they are manu- facturing golf balls that one can drive 300 yards with only a fair wallop. This leaves me intensely cold. Why dosen't some concern manufacture a golf ball that you can putt 10 feet— into the cup? Here is a.chance for an inventor to be the greatest bene- factor the human race has even known. PLATO PETE. Rubaiyat of a Duffer. Sometimes I think that never looks * so small L The waiting cup as when I putt the ball; For though I putt and putt an _and putt, d putt 000010000—1'5 4 The bally pill will rarely ever fall. If Jimmy Coffey smashes his hands hitting Jim Flynn, what would hap- pen when Mr. Coffey swung his clinched talons upon the Gibraltaric dcme of Colonel Jess Willard—the ‘dome that even Jack Johnson couldn’t dent? Another Yank Jolt. Sir—I see where a number of writers are picking the Yanks to finish fourth—ahead of Washington and. St. Louis. I don’t know about Washington, but they will never beat out St. Louis Branch Rickey has had the toughest luck in eitner league, AMERICAN LEAGUE. has had more men injured and more raen sick, but his club is now coming around, and when it does he will have a machine on a par with the first three—Chicago, Detroit ana Boston. Watch and see. FROM MISSOURI. The Red Sox Uplift. .The Red Sox appear to have em- erged from their trance at last, and with several cripples back in shape Carrigan believes that by the last of June his club wil eltner be first or within a game or two of the top. The Red Sox will be at home for some time, and during this period of play they are confldent they can yank back both Tigers and White Sox and prove beyond doubt the winter dope which picked them to win was proper- ly arrayed. The stuff is ~certainly there to win a pennant if said stuff is properly parieyed and manoeuver- ed. Pronounced Raisel. There was a young player Maisel, Whose eyes were a beautiful hazel; Although not a Ty Cobb, At the base running job It was always a cinch he would raisel. F. L F. named If John Franklin Baker is out to bluff Connie Mack into launching a sole or trade he is liable to find Con- nie one of the grandest little callers 1lat ever sat in the game. Connie has the peculiar habit of announcing his say and then standing pat though the heavens fall and the seas run dry. Jack Coombs is additional proof that they can come back who have the heart to get started in the proper direction and go on to the finish. Jack almost stumbled over his own grave on the return journey, but the record shows today that only one or two in the game have pitched any hetter ball. Yale will make a desperate drive to even 'up in baseball and crew compe- tition for what Harvard handed her last fall in the presence of some 68,000 folks at New Haven. And this evening-up attempt should be fraught with all the necessary hip-hip, as both the Blue and Crimson have excep- tionally good material in both sports. It is difficult to recall a year where the two old rivals on the diamond and water were more evenly matched— and matched with material of excep- ional class. There have been any number of college stars developed this spring, but Colonel Yost says that Sisler, of Michigan, is the best coilege player he ever saw. Mike Donlin is willing to second this motion, which would indicate that Mr. Sisler must carry an abnormal share of merit. All he is good at is pitching, batting, outfield- ing and basé running. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. 18 Kansas City .24 Yesterday's Results, Chicago 2, Boston 0. Detroit 3; New York 0. Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 3. Washington 6, Cleveland 1. Standing of the Clubs. w. L. ..28 15 17 16 18 P.C. 651 614 .543 513 472 .436 415 .341 Chicago Detroit .... Boston New York ‘Washington Claveland St. Louis .. Philadelphia l y Games Today. . Chicago at Boston. Detroit at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Washington. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. Brooklyn 8, Pittsburg 2. St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 1. Only two games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W: -L. Sus .38 16 Mol 18 ..21 19 ..20 19 <21 21 #® ..18 21 ..186 21 416 20 Chicago . Philadelphia Brooklyn Boston St. Louis Pittsburg Oincinnati New York Games Today. Boston at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at Pittsburg, New York at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louis, FEDERAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. Buffalo 6, Brooklyn 3, River. on: at Falt -F 3 Bedford. on'at game.) St. Louig 8, Chicago 3. Kansas City 5, Pittsburg 3. .429 Brooklyn. 9, Buffalo 3 (first game) (second 18 17 17 20 20 24 29 Pittsburg + Newark { St. Louis Chicago Brooklyn Baltimore Buffalo i Games Today. Baltimore in Brooklyn. Buffalo in Newark, Pittsburg in Kansas City. St. Louis inChicago. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results, Providence 3, Newark 0. Jersey City 7, Richmond 3, (first game.) Richmond 9, Jersey City 5, ond game.) Montreal-Toronto—postponed. Buffalo-Rochester—postponed. (sec- 1 ubs. L. 9 13 15 14 15 17 Standing of the CI wW. P.C. .654 .581 545 1 517 | .500 451 414" .370 | Buffalo Richimond Montrqal . Rochester Providence “Toronto ..16 .18 A7 .15 .15 .14 .12 Newark . .10 17 Games Today. Newark in Jersey ‘City. Providence in Richmond. Buffalo in Rochester (two games) Montreal in Toronto (two games) NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE. &esterday’s Results. At Lewiston, Lewiston 6, Fitchburg Pl ' At Lawrence, Lawrence 9, Lowell 0. At Portland, Worcester 12, Port- ROMANCES OF THE SQUARED CIRCLE Jim Cofiey Has Had Rapid Rise to Fame Castlera, in County Roscommon, doesn’t loom very large on the map of Ireland. niorning from Castlera, you could visit before night many spots of historic in- terest. You could see the cottage which was oncé the home of the parents of James J. Corbett, the con- queror of Sullivan. You could feast vour eyes by gazing on the ancestral homes of Mike Gibbons and Johnny Rilbane and Packey McFarland and other celebrities who have won fame und fortune in the New World. Go on a little farther, and you could visit the early residence of the illus- trious Peter Maher and the birthplace | of the great Tom Sharkey. Here and there you could stop to wet your whistle at wayside taverns, and shake the hands of those who claim rela- tonship to these and other heroes of the past end present, and hear quaint tales of the early life of men whose names are now household words on both sides of the Atlantic. In Castlerea, if you let it be known that you hail from overseas, you will be interrogated extensively and inten- sively regarding one James Joseph Coffey, whom Castlerea now regards as its most distinguished native son. To admit that you do not know Coffey will be to argue yourself unknown. And if you so much as nint that this sume Coffey 'person is not the pre- aestined successor of Jess Willard, only a pair of good legs will have you from a painful demonstration of the rugilistic prowess of Roscommon’s Lrowny sons. Left Ireland Five Years Ago. It was about five years ago that James Joseph Coffey shook the dust 0? County Roscommon from his man- sized pedal extremities, and, with his { worldly belongings packed in a small and battered trunk, set out to win fertune in the paradise of Irishmen, america. The steamship which car- ried Jimmy to his goal set him ashore in Boston. The labor market of the New England metropolis seemed fully supplied at that time, and, after wearing out much valuable shoe leather in quest of the elusive! Job, Coffey left Boston to its fate and proceeded to Providence. In the Rhode island city our hero landed a job as a teamster. He de- veloped his already brawny muscles by loading and unloading trucks. After a time the atmosphere of Providence palled on James, and he took a steamboat to New York. There he got a job as motorman. To guide a ‘“tram” through busy streets v-as at that time the heignt of Coffey’s ambition. It seemed to him a lordly job, and the pay of eighteen dollars per week was a most munificent sum, Coffey might still be the chauffeur of a trolley car, unhonored and un- sung, except for one of those inci- dents which we like to refer to as ac- c!dents. It was a bitteriy cold night over three years ago. The wind shrieked- and howled through _the canons of upper Manhattan. The sleet cut the faces of belated pedes- trians like a knife, and all that sort of bally rot. In short, it was a bad night to be out. Jim Coffey, muffled to his ears, was 1iloting his almost empty car rattlety- tang along the streer, with no thought in his mind but to get to the end of his line and turn around and get back again. when his progress was ! stopped by a line of hose stretched across the track. The sireets in the vicinity were filled with fire appara- tus, and the firemen, engaged in fight- ing a three-alarm blaze in a big apart- ment house, were oblivious of the rights of trolley cars. Coftey hopped off the platform and tegan chasing up and down the street to keep warm. While thus engaged he bumped into a big policeman on gtationary post who was also running about so as to keep his blood circu- lating. They grinned at each other in friendly fashion, and the cop sug- gested that they do a bit of wrestling, as being productive of warmth. Wrestling With Thomas Shaw. The officer, Thomas Shaw by name, wag a wrestler of wide fame among the police, and he expected to have an easy time with the giant motorman. The cop brought all his science to bear on the problem of stretching iim out in the street, but there was nothing doing in that line. After a few minutes Coffey just picked Shaw up and dropped him on his back. About that time the summoned Jim back to tne car, but before he left the defeated officer he had promised to meet him again the following day at a gymnasium. Shaw ---now ‘an instructor of wrestling and boxing at New York police headquar- ters, was far from being discomfited : by the easy style in which Coffey had laid him low. Insteead, he was jubilant, for he believed ne nad found a successor to Frank Gotch as cham- pion heavyweight grappler of the world. land 3. At Lynn, Lynn 5, Manchester 1. —_— NEW YORK STATE LEAGUE. PO Yo Results. Wilkes-Barre 6, Syracuse 3. Utica 3, Scramton 2. Troy ‘6, Elmira 1. Albany 7, Binghampton 6. | | Coffey visited the “‘gym,” according to promise, and, when he told his friend that he had never wrestled in his_ life, Shaw was all the more en- couraged. If a ‘greeny” could do that to him, he reasoned, what could he do when he knew something of the OTHER SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE TWELVE. Yet if you set out some fine | conductor | gome? But accident again intervened to decide Coffey’s future. At the “gym’ several boxers, among them Carl Morris, were training, and after seéing them in action Coffey was all for taking up boxing Instead of wrestling. When Carl Morris condescended to put on the gloves with Cottey, Jim didn't hesitate a minute. At that yeriod Jim knew absolutely nothing of the fistic game, and all the differ- ent varieties of punches and hooks and jabs were as Greek to him. He was a willing pupil, and the Oklahoma glant had a chance to try out every variety of blow in his repertoire that day before Jim was satisfled with his tesson. Tom Shaw aiso had a bout with his protege, and, as = result, the policeman sustained a fractured rib. Shaw arranged the first real bout in which Coffey participated. It was 5 private affair, with oniy cops as spectators, and Jim's opponent was a big negro who had made a fair repu- fation as a fighter. For a time the black man showed up Jim'’s ignorance, | but Coffey needed only one punch, and when he landed it Massa Black Man went to sleep. Carl Morris was so muca impressed by the big Irishman that ne offered him a job as sparring partner, at a salary of twenty bones per. Coffey plcked up quite a bit of knowladge about the game while in the entourage of the Sapulpa giant, and decided to embark in the biff business on his own account. Since then he has taken part in two-score battles, and has won 51l but one of them. Soldier Kearns knocked Jim out in the first round, but Coffey afterward soundly whipped Kearns. Of his thirty-nine victories in the ring, the Roscommon glant won twenty-six, or just two-thirds, by ciean knockouts. In his recent bout with Carl Morris he made the Okla- toman look folish, and Carl never had 8 chance against the man who was once his sparring partner. By de- feating Morris and knocking out Al Reich the Rosecommon bog-trotter has won a place at the top of the heavyweight runners-up. He has cleaned up twenty or thirty thousand dollars in the ring, and has safely in- vested most of it. NO RESPECT FOR ITS BIG BROTHER Hartiord Refuses to Bow to Balti- more Federals Hartford, June 5.—Newark of the Federal league was unable toc do much against Hartford of the Col- onlal league yesterday at the Weth- ersfleld avenue stadium and the game ended 4-4 in the eleventh ining, the contest being called in order to per- mit the Newark players to catch a train. A y Newark apparently. had the game sewed up, having a lead of 4 to 3 mwhen the ninth inning draperies were being drawn. But Hartford was not quite ready to succumb. Two of the Senators were retired when Cannon shot one to right field for a single. Hogan lived up to his nationality’s reputation for furnishing stuff in the pinches and also singled. Then stepped up O’'Brien. One strike, the | umpire crowded. Another ball cut the corner. Strike two. Hartford! thought O'Brien was going to be a' second Casey at the bat. But not so. Mr. O'Brien just caught the next| one on the nose and then the ball‘ was returned he was ' perched on first and Cannon had sharpneled hls] way across the plate with the Lylngj run. Neither team was able to brepk the ice in the tenth or elev- enth. 1 Score: : r. h. e | 00001002100—4 10 Newark 00000220000—4 10 Batteries: Gaudette and Cannon; | Whitehouse and - Roberts, { i Hartford ] Baltimore 7, Springfield 2. Springfield, June 5.—Baltimore of the Federal league, which had been neatly trimmed by Hartford Thurs- day, scured its revenge on the league by taking Springfield into camp yes-| terday, 7 to 2. Baltimore did not; have to try very hard to win, i Score: i r. hoe! 002031001—7 10 3' Springfield 010000001—2 5 4 Batteries: Conley and Jacklitsch; Reynolds and Kilory. i Baltimore Fall River 4, Brockton 1. Brockton, Mass., June 5.—Re- markable flelding by Fall River’s in- ner and outer defense was largely responsible for Brockton's defeat. | Score: 1 £ h e Fall River 200000011—4 8 2 Brockton 010000000—1 5 4 Batteries: Golden and Kelley; Ben- | son and Dempsey. | Gleason Takes Honors. Pawtucket, R. I, June 6.—A duel of pitchers, in which hit and strike out honors were even, was decided in Gleason’s favor when New Bedford defeated Pawtucket. Score: r. 3 h. New Bedford .. 000010010-—2 8 Pawtucket . 010000000—1 Batteries: Gleason and Adams and McGinley. e. 0 L 5 Philllps; | Sportography BY “GRAVY.” ANNIVERSARY 5 MODERN BATTLE WITH FISTS. It will be. 188 years tomorrow since the first modern prize fight for the championship was fought. his his- toric fistic contest was staged at James Figg's amphitheater in Ox- ford road, London, and Figg, the first champion of England, had as his opponent Ned Sutton, a Gravesend pipemaker, who made a great repu- tation as a fighter with broad sword quarterstaff and fists. James Figg's profepsional card, designed by the great artist Hogarth, announced that he was “Master of Ye Noble Science of Defence.” For many years he had. been teaching boxing and fenc- ing to the young hloods of the nobil. ity. The Ear] of Peterborugh, famed as a soldier, was his patron and built for him an amphitheater capable of holding some 1,300 people. It was here that Figg’s celebrated with Sutton was staged. It was not alone a pugilistic battle, for fistic contests were just coming into vogue and were not yet popular. To begin with the combatants were to engage in back sword bouts until one or the other had demonstrated ‘his speriority. The fistic contest was to follow, and after that, if both were able, they were to engage in a bout with the cudgels. A representative crowd filled the amphithater on June 6, 1727. Among those present were Dean Swift and Pope, the great authors; Colly Cib- ber, Kity Clive, and other celebrities of the stage, and Horace Walpole the prime minister, with other eminent statesmen. There were almost as many ladies as men, and before the bout they amused themselves by tel- ling stories of a character that would pale at a stag party. The broadsword exercises between Figg and Suton lasted nearly hour befeore Figg slashed his oppon- battle | Detroit Swatsmith Falls OF & Average, But Still Leads batter: Daly, cago Chicago, Philadelphis or more games. s who Chicago, 1 with are: 8 and according e —ere® [COBB ALL ALONE ' IN'THE 400 CLASS - to Avan of the 16, .364; Thom 3; Foster, B 886 for nati, 28, .382; Good, Chicago, 27, .3 w. Zimmerman, Brooklyn, 14, The New York Giants have glim! to second place in club batting W .261, It with Cincinnati now be considered quite beyond the | g, o jeads in stol 93. however, leading with bases with n runs scored 32, and in total His long hits include an | qoubles, 8 triples and five home In homers, ent on the shoulder, and thus won | Cravath, Philadelphia, whe s the honors in the first event on the | ed with nine. Pitehers in the National program, After resting half an hour the men reappeared, and the boxing | as follow: bout commenced. There were rules to govern games in those days | 8t. Louis, 700 division, no | cago, won 5 and lost no , 4 and none and from th first it was a trial of | Chicago, 2 and none; Mayer, Phile brute strength, although Figg used | phia, 8 and 2; Coombs, Brookl, some science in evading the rushes of Sutton. After eight min- utes of sparring Sutton rushed in dodging a blow, and grasped about the walst, carrying him where the umpires ‘sat.” This roused the champlon's ire, and in a few min- utes he had retaliated by stretching Sutton on his back, using wrestling tactics. After a few minutes of fu- tile hitting. Figg again closed and threw Sutton. The latter soon turned the tables, to the champion’s face. knocked down, and, after resting fif- teen minutes, sume. In the interval the men swilled much port wine, After a few min- utes more Figg threw Sutton, and, when he got up, knocked him down with a blow to the chest. The cham- body of his foe, shouting, “Is it enough?” Sutton admitted that he had had a sufficiency, and the first fistic championship battles was at an end. Ned Sutton was badly bruised, and covered with blood, both men annonced their wilingness to proceed with the cudgelling match. For some little time they lambasted each other, when Figg landed a blow with his cudgel which broke one of Sut- | ton's legs at the knee. While this first prize fight was a bruta] affair, compared with modern ring battles, it was considered a mild sort of entertainment compared with the cudg:ling)and broadsword bouts which were then in vogue. Before condemning early pugilism, it should be kept in mind that the art of the bruiser, supplanted so-called sports driving blow after blow Figg was was permitted to re- wild | and 1. Manager Jack Dunn of R leads in the International league Figg | ters with to | Bames. .42 International which includé Tuesda)'s latest, place Buffalo at fhi hitting with .287, and Ri Gilhooley leads the stealers with 21 and the rini Fe! with 28, while slugging horors Richmond, bases number 52, with on seven triples and two home russ. Caw, of Buffalo, credited with victory and no defeats, and Andy of Richmond, with two and none, leading pitchers of the Internati with the Court Hoffman, “Tabs” | Eagles 1 Moose 271, 0, in acquired leagug T 1] whose do FRATERNAL LEAE(', . plon then sprang upon the prostrate | Court Friendly and Moose Play morrow at Elcctric Field. Red Men Mechanics Tabs” ... Friendly Court Friendly and the Mopose will meet tomorrow afternoon at tric field in the Fraternal league. ! Red Men and Junior Mechanicy and Eagles are baty | this afternoon at Walnut Hef p The league standing follows which were much to the combatants, its dubious infancy, was thus a, Boxing, mane triumph over the preva B brutal instincts. InEvery W;y and All Ways - ldeal Beverages. ‘Connecticut’s Leading Brews. Are you enjoying them in ( Cafe, Home and Club? BREWED IN HARTFORD, CONN. Hubert Fischer Brewery 214 On tap at Charles F. Dehm, Hotel Beloin, Keevers, W. J. McCarthy. Hermua tethm a8 in d t June 5.—Ty Cobb is U only “four hundred hittex' left in thi big leagues, prepared here today, which inglu have taken part in ten or more games up to Thursday lasi. The percentage of the Detroit star & away during the week from .427 .403, but he ran his stolen base tols up to 25 and his runs scored to 47 if 45 games, leading all rivals. The ® leading Thitters league, following Cohb, with the num ber of games they have played in, a 3, .357; Fournier, Chi cago, 38, .355; Jackson, Cleveland, .364; Russell, Chicago, 11, .348. Cobb also leads in total bases will 80, his long hits including six doubl five triples and one home run .263 and Cleveland- wil .260 are ahead in team hitting. American league pitche: won seventy per cent. of their ggm: Faber, Chicago, wo) 10 and Jost 1: Fisher, New York and 1; Benz, Chicago, 6 and 1 Detroit, and 2; Morton, Cleveland, 7 and §. Fred Luderus of Philadelphia tinues in front among the N league hatsmen with Then come “Clarke, ‘Cinels who b 364. he is behll America, N