New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1916, Page 8

WEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916. Lavender Says Hoodoo Follows No-Hit Game--Honus and Nap Establish Fine Records--Tigers Tie Pennsy for Basketball Honors--Baseball Fraternity to TGHING NO HIT IMES AROUSES JINX al’s the Way Jim;ny Lavender Fegls About Achievement . March 4—THave you ever a no-hit, no-run game Ihg a hoo-doo to a pitcher? ¥, not, but Jimmy Lavender, frler, contends the une he mst the New York Giants August on the Polo grounds was a jinx for He was highly elated at his re rkable achievement, more especial- §0 because it was against the nts, but before the season closed Prob- | Cub | pitched | etted he had succeeded in carving | upon the wall of fame. He | because he thought he was | ssible I pame & sorry ged and found it almost impo: Win o game afterward. | fhuse who are not inclined to be | @rstitious may laugh at this, but | ender and other ball players do They are sincere in their belief £ the no-hit game is a jinx. Rube Pquard, now with Brooklyn, be- [es no-hit games are a jinx. Ho | ed the season last year with the | W York Giants and on April 15 shut | the Trolley Dodgers without a He wwas unable to win after tha fwo months later was sold to the @oklyn club Will Have to Be Shown would have difficulty in con- ing Lavender that the no-hit con- was not a hoodoo for him. Be- | fe he faced the Giants on April 31, | managed to win a few games and ! # sure he would finish the year ¥ a percenta above the .500 | #k. The shut out game against | Giants ve him &n even avi | e or 500, r that he fell and | jE until he down to .385, when | ‘schedule t nated. This was a | to. bavender, for he was in per- | PEisttape after the middle of the | 8 and looked for a siccessful sea- | ¥ But he could not win after his | jord performance, for he pitched | féight games and won only one for | average of .125 { vender’s exhibition against the | nts was one of the best seen in the tional league all season despite over Alexander's three one-hit fmes. Bill Klem umpired the game @ after, it was over said: “Laven- r showéd me the sharpest breaking itter 1 have ever seen. He made B work to call them right, too. He | d the Giants missing by one and | 6 feet”” . This, coming from the | pire, proves that Lavender, when is at his best, can pitch with any them. Jimmy Archer Helped. In that game against the Giants mmy Archer was behind the plate d he caught smartly in that he out- | essed the Giants continually and | hd Lavender pitching low and over | e corners. i first. In the second isher fumbled a One but | inning Bob grounder off Fred | erkle’s bat and in the eighth Mer- | e drew a base on balls. On the | he got to third and Chief Mey- | was sent in to bat for Pitcher | s hauer, but hit in front of the plate | pennsylvania | Princeton d was thrown out ny Archer. Nearly Spoiled Record, effective Lavender was brought out by the fact that two balls went out of the eld and on one of them Cy ams was compelled to make a sen- ptional catch. If he had not made Lavender would not have scored is no-hit game. In the seventh in- ig Larry Doyle caught one on the ose and it looked like a sure extra jase hit in right center, but W fams with his long stride raced back | Ihd made the catch- Doyle was mbfounded when the ball stuck in e outfielder’s glove. That was the iy hard hit ball of the day. Right i the Giants were struck out by Lay- fader. Vic Saier made a play on the Dave Robertson in the seventh ing and Lavender assisted him by overing first. Robertson pulled a harp bounder toward right center. ier hustled over and stabbed the I} with his gloved hand, lost his palance, but recovered in time to hrow to first and get the runner by less than a step. Williams, in addition to making it vssible for Lavender to score his no- jhit game by making his catch, also lid his share to win the battle. He inade a double his first time up and [followed it with a home drive into the right fleld stand How is 1y i Wil- | fast in- run [SYRACUSE DEFEATS PENN FIVE. Syracuse, N. Y., March 4.—The racuse University basketball team a{teated the University of Pennsylva- five by a 19 to 15 here night. score of 6% SMOKE OXMOOR MILD, PLEASANT CIGAR ow Is the Time to Start Spring Leagues AETNA BOWLING ALLEYS Alleys Reserved for Mixed Parties. o vore, outficlder, is the original Finni- 'gan of the National league. Probably ¥ | as this present member of the Phil- | a member of the Giants several years PRINCETON TIES PENN Only two runners reach- | Tigers Defeat Yale in Intercollegiate | that = Yale | | Philadelphia, March 3.—Josh De- no player in the major leagues has yeen traded from one club to another adelphia Nationals. Devore original- v started his major league career as IN BASKETBALL RACE | i Championship Game, 24 to 19 —Davies and Haas Star. Devore, Finnegan of The National League In 1913 he played with three York, Cincinnati ana Philadelpaia. He was a member of the world’s champion Braves in 1914, und last season aind this year's find im again in Philadelphia. He still has hopes of completing the cir- cuit of the eight clubs before he is through with baseball. FACTORY LEAGUE BOWLING RESULTS ago. clubs — New Berlin Construction Five Drop One Game to Cellar Champs—Stanley The Berlin Construction bowlers Standing of the Teams. Won Lost P.C. | 178 778 444 .200 aitilal Cornell Dartmouth Columbia R ] Princeton, N. J., March 4.—Play ing well above the speed limit throughout every second of a thrill- ing intercollegiate basketball game here last night, the Princeton five de- feated the Yale team by a score of 24 to 19, and tied for first position in the league race. Charley Taft's team was fighting hard and playing in championship form, but every time they spurted the Tigers merely put on more speed and retained the early lead they had gained. Young Lefty Davies, playing right guard for Princeton, proved the hero of the game. His particular duty was to guard Kinney closely, but he man- aged to cage five goals to his op- bonent's four. Haas also outpointed Kinney at shooting fouls. The Yale man caged only three out of six, while Haas got cight out of ten. Weiner and Taft were stars for the visitors. The Tigers led at the end of the first half by a score of 13 to 6. the intermission Yale began to play better and reduced the lead. The Tigers held a conference and Davies ihen caged two succession. After that the game was never in doubt. The summary: Princeton Wallon Right Guard Substitutions, Yale, Clark for Gar- field; Princeton, Glick for Davies, Paulson for Feree; goals from field. Yale, Kinney 4, Weiner 2, Taft, Wail- lon; Princeton, Davies 5, Haas, Feree, McTigue; goals from fouls, Haas 8 out of 10, Kinney, 3 out of 6; time of halves, twenty minutes; referee, Tom Thorp; umpire, Ed Thorp. “Rabbit” Maranville left vesterday Jew York, where he joined the advance guard of the Braves moving l south, After | field goals in quick | fell back slightly in the race for the championship in the Factory Bowling league last evening, when they dropped one game to the North & Judd five. While the boys from the | neighboring town succeeded in cap- | turing the long end of the match, i every game lost at this time counts heavily against them, for the reason | that the Union Works five who have a fair lead, are putting up a stellar brand of bowling. The Stanley Works quintet which is battling hard for second place in the { league, failed to gain on the Con- | | the Buttmakers by the narrow margin of three pins. But six men on both teams reached the century mark, Thompson of the | Cutlers leading with 106. | of the Berlin team was second high with 105. Thompson secured the | high total honors of the night with an even 300 score. Berlin Construction. F. Hickey 78 86 1056— C. Hickey 84 89 99— Trevethan 97 81 99— : McQueeney 99 86 93— 340 396—1096 Judd. 97 b 38 358 North & 94 86 7 Selander Whitely | Bauer i Dummy | carey 9620 79— 3 93— 35656>-1033 Stanley Works. P 89 «0¢101 i . 83 v 108 91 i | Lantone Dickman Morse ... Scharff Bertini 104— 286 89— 26 88— 27 e 102 99 261 471 449—1371 Landers No. Fie D& ..106 8 95 87 — 652 300 1 280 270 160 Mitchell Thompson Penniman Huck Anderson Billion 418 438 The signed contract of Charles H Shorten, outfielder in recent years of the Providence International and Worcester New England league team, was received by the management of the Boston Americans today. 460—1312 i | struction five, as the lowly Landers | No. 2 five snatched one game from i‘ he F. Hickey | 286 | § son. go. « | play played on ball team join the Hartford team of the ern is through C. vice-president opportunity Federal nie will do thing Pittsburgh National officially National declare Outficlder free agent. upon what he ment on the part of President Drey- fuss the Indianapolis tion club by The commission case, been reported had signed with an Eastern club. the Kansas City Chicago soon will tween Tulsa., contract was reported that the former Kan: { City manager had settled his claims against the league. the Buffalo Bisons, the One Hundred and Seventy-third ! ponents, {to st. Aid Player--With the Factory Bowlers BASEBALL BRIEL Harry Sinclair, the big gun of the Federal league, today has arranged with President Weeghman of tn Cubs to send four of the players lefi cn his hands to Tampa with the men of Tinker. They are not to go as members of the Cub team, but Sinclair will send them that they may have the bene- fit of the training camp. He expscts he will find it ecasier to sell them if they are in playing condition. Tha men are Pitcher Bedient. First B: men Chase and Stovall and Sho: stop Rawlirgs. The pl are the only oncs whom Sinclair has failed to dispo of, and he wants them in condition should he sueccced in sel them before the opening of the Stovall announced he will 50 net Henry Miiller of We the Ifathe for seve tfield, whe has Mathew seasons, base- al to league. Miller was given a tr out with the Boston Nationals and it M. Goodnow, who was of the Boston Nation- that Miller is to get with Hartford. Paddy O'Conno ex-member of the Pittsburgh F declares Bennie Kauff the best hitter who over stoorl on two feet. Paddy thinks he will prove sensation in the National league this season. He had plenty of to size up Kauff in the league and is confident Ben- this yecar. als last season his chance Tom Seaton, the pitcher last with the Brooklyn Federals and cently tionalfs, yesterday to Ch 4| Join the training has according to has not yet agreed to terms. bought Dy telegiaphed the Chicago Na from New York cago that he would amp at Tampa. He been considered a holdout and President. Weeghman Dreyfus league yesterday ion had refused to James Kelly a based his claim was unfair treav- of the club was that the President Barney notified commi Kelly said in not honoring his tranfer to American associs the Pittsburgh Federuls. ruled he had no and dismissed his claim. Jack Ferry, for several season pitcher with the Columbus Amer! association club, unconditional release, officials of the senators came to gave Pittsburgh has been given announced today Ferr; Columbus in the deal that George McQuillan. The Chicago seeking a new received that purchased tional league team catcher, word having Harvey Russell, the other day, George Stovall, former manager of Federals, will leave for Californio, and retire from baseball. After in Chicago Thursda Stovall and Harry Sinclair Ohio., who assumed Stovall's with the Federal league, it conference Ty Tyson, the youthful pitcher of has enlisted in Batalllon, Canadian Volunteers, and is now on his way to the front. Ty- son had two years, solicitation of Manager July, he was with the Carter-Crumes Niagara Falls, where he attracted the attention of Manager Clymer. While beén with the ining the team at Clymer Previous to that Bisons for the in 1914. time With the semi-pro team at the Falls pitched four exhibition gam against Federal league teams, defeat- ing each of them, and received a tempting offer from Joe Tinker of the Chifeds, after the manager of the Whales saw Tyson mow down his heavy hitters one Sunday afternoon. Tyson did not get off to a very good start last season, but was a big factor in the winning of the pennant by the Bisons in the closing gam of the season. He was called upon to twirl against Providence In two of the crucial games, holding his.op- safe enough to let the Bi- sons win. Seven memers of the Philadelphix National leaguc baseball team lef* here yesterday on a steamer for Jack- sonville, Fla., Included in the party were Chief Bender, the former Amer- jcan league pitcher; George McQuil- lian, Erskine Mayer, outfielders, Pas- | kert and Devore and catchers Adams, O’Connor and Fish, and George Chal- mers. Other members of the team will go directly from their hom Petersburg, where the ear! training will be held. Manager Mo- ran is already on the ground prepar- ing for the arrival of his piayers President Baker expects to make the journey by rail. MAKES RUN OF PETRIE 26. Chicagoan Beats Chapman at Billiards Tournc; Chicago, March 4—Frank Taberski of Schenectady, defeated James Ma- turo of Denver, 100 to 28, in the tional Pocket Billiards Tournament vesterd Taberski went out in thirty-three innings. 1In the ccond game Mike Petrie of Chicago, with high run of twenty-six, won from J. L. Chapman of Chicago. Petrie scored his 100 points in twenty in- nings, while Chapman was accumu- lating forty-three. Pocket of | g once man- | Sir Frederick Tenney, [ qurin of first basemen, was talking. And when Frederick mentions base- ball you can always know that truth, wisdom and logic are on the way “You hear a lot nowadays,” said Fred, “about speed in covering ;round. Sy has its place, but it isn’t all specd, as I can show d “‘Instinet,” continued more important old infield Tenney, speed. Take Herman Long. man was no red streak of light- ning. But he could cover more ground than any shortstop I ever saw. Jow? By simply beir t the place the ball was hit. We used to say that the batsman would tell Long Iwhere to nd ‘Sure,” Herman would reply, 'I make him show me.’ By this he mecant watching every tail—the posiiion at bat, the brand of hall that was com up, fast or curve, and a few other things. ‘But fter all T inet than anything else was hit by second there ready for it. If the next hit a fast one just out of the baseman’s reach, there w again. For zomec reason or cther he had shifted over to the 1ight place. They never crossed him. And in this way he made the play so czsy that few gave him credit for his vonderful work.” | } Tnstinct. i than mate, ng guess i pall If a fast base. Long an ~d T.ong ! Then Specalker. E “Tris Speaker is another,” said |Fred. “He is fast and can naturally cover a lot of ground. But he covers more ground by instinct than by speed. He has that inside knowledge that tells him where to go. On one play vou will see him in right center; on the next batsman in left center. Put nine times out of ten he is in the right place. | “Part of this is due 'jedge of batsmen—that whether they are right field or left field hit- | ters. But a good big part is instinct— | something that only a few have.” | Making for Speed. The discussion here shifted speed. Wherein Clarence Rowland, White Sox field marshal, had this ob- ;_:cl\utinn to make | “Most infielders lose their speed by |the way they stand. Nine out of ten while waiting for the batsman swing and bent over with their hands on their knees and their feet wide apart. This makes for a slow start. {The best way for a quick start is to |stand fairly upright with your feet fairly close together.” { “I should think,” said a ball player standing near by, “that you could get raore speed the other way, braced with vour feet apart.” “Nothing to it,” =aid Rowland. “Take the case of Hal Chase, one of the fastest starters that ever played. Hal was nearly always standing erect with his feet fairly close as the ball was hit. Then he was off like a flash. The same is true of Eddie Collin You never see him bent way over, braced, as the pitcher shoots one cover. Eddie is crect and ready for a dash either way." Then Again. What Rowland says only covers part of the ground. Hans Wagner stands with his feet wide apart. Hans couldn’t stand any other way, even though his knees are further apart | than his feet. Another fast starter from a squat- ting position is Maranville. The Brave inflelder waits with both hands o his kneccaps, fect wide apart, and vet no man gets away quicker in a plunge for the ball. to is, his know- Starting Types. Most football backs start from a bent over, braced position. Yet ahan, Driggs and others, running aight up from a fake kick forma- tion, get away like flashes—almost at top speed. Which at lcast shows that the bending over, braced position for the start is not necessary for speed. y In the Ring. The boxer who crouches with his feet braced is rarely a fast worker, But &« man like Jack Johnson McFarland, standing erect, feet fairl close together, carries out Rowland’s theory This latter type is the fast type of the ring. They seem to be far shif- tier than the othe: probably because they lack the rigidity which develops from the braced position for the start. The sprinter starts from the bent cver, braced position. But that's a different affair. The sprinter can go (nly one way, whereas the ball player. footballist or fighter must be prepared to go either way without shifting hi feet. Golf Positions, The best golfers play their shots fairly crect. You rarely see a first class golfer bent over appreciably on any shot—or one who plays his shot with his feet wide apart, braced for the effort. For this method tends to rigidity and destroys relaxation and natural- ness. Whereas among the most pain- Tul dubs, thetendency is to get braced and rigid before aiming e it was more | PORT | | isn't | FRATERNITY B de- | [ | LIGH Grantland Rice A man's natural position is at least fairly straight. Bending well over or bracing renders the muscular ut and destroys smoothness 1vthm, | | | | | | | | | Naturalness, | effective position sume is always the uncultivated onc | —that the natural one | To become cramped, rigid, braced- natural. It is merely a matter overeagerness, overintentness, ner- ness. More often it i lack of confidence If more people on hitting the ball thousand things they ine ball, their games finitely better off. The most is to is, vou a would concentrate ather than on a should do to hit would be in- ACKS PLAYER JOHNSTON | Brookiyn Mixed up in Contract Tangle Over Federal Leaguce Outficlder— Case Gocs to Commission, According to members of the base- ball playvers’ fraternity the attention of the National commission will soon be called to the involved status of the contract held by James H. Johnston, formerly of the Oakland club of tae Pacific Coast lcague. Johnston, who is an outficlder, jumped to the Fed- eral league club of Newark last fall. Later in the season Charles H, Eb- bets, president of the Brooklyn 2 tionals, announced he had signed the player for the Superbas, upon which ensued a series of contractual tangles which, it is sald, gave .rise to the statement by James A. Gilmore, pres- ident of the defunct Federal leaguc, that the players were countemplating another strike Johnston was signed by George Stovall for the Newark Federals at a salary of 34,000 a year for two years, with the 10-days release clause elim to | This can also be proven in the ring. | or Packy i inated from the contract, and $1.000 advance money paid to nim. The | player later had several conferences { with Tbbets, who offered him a con- { tract with the Brookiyn club at | siailer salary and containing the 10- | a clause. Johnston claims he did | not agree to these terms, but t0 | Brooklyn club mailed contracts to his request- | home at Chattanooga, Tenn., ing him to sign and return the executive offic After the peace agreement hetween the Federal league and organized base- ball, Ebbetts bought the Johnston con- tract from Harry Sinclair who repre- sented the Newark Federals paying { $1.244 to Sinclair as a return for the $1,000 advanced Joanston and Sto- vall's expenses in signing the Oak- Jland club player. Johnston now con- tends that Ebbets by buying his Fed- eral league contract is obligated by its terms, whereas the Brooklyn club holds that the alleged verbal agree- ment made with Johnston warrants it in insisting that the player cign a contract calling for a salary of $3,400 a year with the 10-days’ release clause included The oflicers of the players’ frater- nity, who are investigating the base- ball centract tangle, claim that even if this contention is correct, certain private financial propositions made in the correspondence with Johnston are violations of the Cincinnati agreement between the fraternity and organized baseball. ; Under this interpretation the club would be subjected to a fine and Johnston declared a free agent. Johnston is determined to hold eith- or the Federal league or the Broolk- them to !1yn club to the letter of his $4,000 con- tract which covers 1916 and 1817, The players' fraternity will lay the en- tire correspondence and contracts be- fore the National commission within a few days. Members of the organi- zation state that there will be no strike over the matter, hut that it is likely to be carried to the courts un less Johnson's rights are acknowl- edged by the contracting parties in- volved. (‘OLI".\I?BI A IS SWAMPED. Cornell Basketball Tecam Administers 11 to 13 Defeat. Tthaca, N. Y. March Cornell defeated Columbia 44 to 13 in an In- tercollegiate Basketball League match here last night The score was the largest run up against the New York team this season. The contest opened with a sensational field basket by Cap- tain Brown of Cornell. The score threatened Lo aggregate more than fifty, but Dr. Sharpe sent | the scrub team into the game in the | middle of the second half. Leonard | played best for Columbia, scoring seven out of eight attempts at foul goals. Sutterby, Shelton and Brown were Corn best players. MISTAKE LEAVES GAME Hanover, N. H., March 4.—Dart- mouth freshmen and Pennsylvania freshmen played a tic game of basket- ball here last night, the score being 21 to 21. Owing to a misunderstand- ing, the players left the floor suppos- ing that the score was 21 to 18 in Penn's favor, and the error was not discovered in time to call them back 4 I A TIE. ihe futile for an overtime period to play oft the iie. | otu | rates | that al the ! nesday, vesterday wi HONUS OR LARRY TAKE YOUR PICK Grand 0ld Mén 6[ gaseball Whe of the most noted statisticians baseball world recently figured Honus” Wagner of the Pi- was the only man in baseball who had batted for .300 or better in cventeen seasons But in looking over the records and figures there appeares one more player who has achieved this notable record He is Napoleon Lajole and if Hans Wagners gets any super-normal amount of advertising out of the fact he is forty-two years of age and has hit .300 on seventeen different oc- casions, the good citizens of Woon- socket, R. I., are going to begin writ- ing letters to the editor. The Grand Old Man of the Amer- ican league was born in Woonsocket in fact, he may have inHerited that awful swatting tendency from the penult and antepenult of that fajr hamlet, which is beyond the mark, and neither here nor there, as it were. Couple of Blanks. Lajoie, too has hit cnteen different One in the th .300 during sev- seasons. To be more accurate, he hit .300 on fifteen djffer- ent years and above .400 twice, ' & seems that, while breaking the glass balls, or the glass arms in the Amer- ican league there were.a couple of blank cartridges inadvertently secret- ed in the cylinders of Mr. Lajoie's lethal weapon, for during the seasons of 1907 and 1908 he fell all the way down to .299 and ,289, respectively. Otherwise Larruping Larry would hold the record which is at present in the archives of the Carnegie Mu- um in Pittsburgh and credited yto the said Mr. Wagner. The Frenchman was so embarrassed over that 1907-'08 debacle that he promptly came back and hit .324 in 1909 and then hoosted it to a mere 84 in 1910. Everywhere, _that vear, they were dragging the rivers for the bodies of those experts who predicted that after .289 in 1908 that Lajole was indeed going back, never again to be the slugger of the godd old days. Some Great That there were days left in the old out of the tertiary period.of baseball was indicated by the fact that from 1910 on he hit .365. .368 and B~in succession. The following vear, or in 1914, Larry's legs were going back on him. The old eye and the swing were there, but the venerable gentle- 1man could have been carried to first base in a jinrikisha faster than he got there afoot. That he hit only .258, but he couldn’t make the pitchers believe he was going to hit that. especially in a pinch, and they continued to pass him intentionally in a crisis. There always existed the danger that Larruping Larry would take a notion to hit the ball over the state boundary line. Then he was traded to the Phila- delphia Athletic last vear, and he hit .280 on those hits which he ran out The same batting would have given a average to a faster runner, Tn his twenty-one years of slugling T.ajoie has a grand batting average of as against .332 for Wagner. He hit over .400 and the Fly- ing Dutchman never did that Inasmuch as the square-shouldered Frenchman is only forty vears of age and will not De forty-one wntil next Saptember. he probably has a sreat future ahead of him, and by the time he is as old as the esteemed Mr. Wagner his record may be even more brilliant Another Good One. Although it has been five years since “Wee Willie” Keeler was shorn of his major league uniform, the five feet-six batting star of the Ori- oles, Superbas and Yankees is ,pot forgotten. The dopesters have lately been collecting statistics In an ate tempt to prove that Kecler was great- er than Cobb, and there appears to.be ne basis for the claim. Keeler wag born in Brooklyn forty-four years ago, come tomorrow, and in 1804 joined the Baltimore Orioles, then in the National League. He returned to Brooklyn in 1899, and went ,qver to the American League with New York in 1903. For fourteen years thj little super-Cobb batted over the . mark, and one season swatted .43, exceeding Cobb's best record. Cobblg batting average of .366 for the eleven vears he has been in the majors come pares with Willie's average of .37g for his first eleven Years in the ig show. In every department except base running Keeler secems to have the shade on Tyrus. .300%s tew zood . old hoy who came season twice LEWIS TO BOX BRITT New Orleans, March 4.—Ted Lewls of England, who' claims the worid's welterweight championship because of his decision over Harry Stone Wed- s matched to box Jack Britton here for the title. The bout will be for twenty rounds and probably will be staged April 17 or 24, FOOTBALL PAYS AT MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich., March 4.—Prof- its from football receipts of the Uni- versity of Michigun last autumn, which ounted to more than $15,« 000, were sufficiently large to cdVer deficits which each of the remaining athletic reports showed, it was ane nounced here today.