New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1916. ew Haven Eastern Leaguers Get Severe Drubbing---Local League Bowlers Have Strenuous Week 4 head---Chase’s Hit Wins For Reds---Jennings Uses Many Tigers Trying to Win---Phils Look Strong OME TEAM SPURTS | NTO FOURTH PLACE na Alley Stars Win Four Out of Six Games Last Week /ith a record of four wins out of | games, the New Britain bowler he Inter-City league, finished the week in fourth place, and w es bubbling with enthusiasm he close of the present week er standing in the circuit will | y the boys for their fine spurt. bmorrow evening at the local , Bristol will be the guest of evening. The boys from the | City have a strong team and hld prove to be a formidable op- nt for Rogers’ & company. Fri- evening the locals will travel to den where the Starlights will be | ed to some of the ability of the Iware City lads on the lanes. The City Boy are now in the lead he championshp, but after the get through with them it will look so T A delegation of | Church street “noise producers” | accompany the team. to assist in rating the contemplated victory. | Wednesday evening the final | s in the Adkins league will De | and the ladies will also enjoy er of their pleasant evenings on hetna Alleys. nager Rogers has offered a wallet for the high daily prize g the week. e fine exhibitions featured the ng for the high total for iive last week, the prize being a | buckle. The following were the | k- [ son 135 128 126 120 118 | Jtin . 144 143 111 110 114 121 122 129 119 ADKINS LEAGU Inding and averages eague are as follows: Y .. 34 8 osing 18 24 room 18 24 oo .s 14 28 h single—Clancy, 128. h three—Clancy,322. h team string—Binders h team total—Bindery, Averages. in the .809 429 429 .333 876, lancy 92 < p'Connell 88 lengston .e . 88 osenberg . . Vs ¢ ude .. 86 ockwell rean .. olfelder honessa epard ... iddleton 2 hpe t 81 81 81 80 79 T THE G. F. LEAGUE. Yankee second of the Josephus has done around second base { his batting ha several of recent {ovan says that In fact, American league than Joe Gedeon. He has from time to time, to be sure. Gedeon of the Yrafirwzlks Is Sensation at Second Base > have, in the New York, May 1—Joe Gedeon, the | his miscues on defense main, been of little consequence in the final outcome, while h prow on offense has been a mighty facto in whatever success the club has achi For that matter Gedeon | he a mighty sweet fielder, bar. ring one or two unfortunate ip well as a puissant poker. He is daily making plays that few other second basemen would even reach. getting in | front of drives that most keystone | guardians would make no attempt to field. Gedeon is the mightiest smiter { on the New York club for the present | and mightiest when the need for a hit is most pressing. baseman, is the hero \merican league fans here. remarkable work since the open- ved. In addition to this had much to do with the New York Americans’ victories. Manager Bill Don- Gedeon is the sens of the season at second base. at this writing there is no more valuable second baseman in the ng of the season. 5 been ion bobbled a few fielding chances But Goodfellowship league statis- date are as follows : w. 36 26 25 23 21 e Ny single—W. Jurgen, 520 500 460 420 .380 Schroedel, five strings, Lemeris. 538. h team single, Ponies, 322. | h team five strings, Ponies, 1460 | Averages. | Jurgen P S meris lindish roedel Anderson egory ittt . udette lom pson rr RISTOL WAS EASY ty Nine Added to the Season’s | of Victims of Local High Ag- | tion. ! snappy contest in which hoth but up a classy article of ball, ritain High won over Bristol | t Walnut Hill park Saturday o, the home crowd annexing a whitewash for the visitors. daclk, who pitched for Captain s in fine form and the [vn club went hitless until the And they did not get a man d until the +Tinal round, but; uld not bring him home. Ai- AS the only Bristol plaver wha it Dudack, the e one of Hng- £ an infleld slow rap. fildition to the pitching of Du- batting of Byett and Kopf the clouts being timely, the getting two doubles and the ree safe ones. The game was in one hour and twenty-eight b being the fastest played game | cal diamond in many seasons, ! New London .01010101x—4 10 3 ..000000000—0 3 4 ries—Dudack and Connolly; and Matthews. 4§MOKE XMOOR LD, PLEASANT 5c¢ CIGAR h i | 4 | Pittsburgh Yesterday's Results. Cincinnati 8, Pittsburgh Louis-Chicago, rain. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 7 3 Portland Lawrence New Lynn Lowell nings.) 4, 4, London 5, i Hartford New Haven 3. 8 Worcester 3. Springfield 5, Bridgeport il O (Gl Philadelphia Brooklyn Chicago Boston National League, Brooklyn New York { i ! 4, | nings.) I | | i (12 Philadelphia 5. Boston 3. Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 1. St. Louis 8, Chicago 4 Amer League. Cleveland 4 Cincinnati St. Louis New York 2 an N | Detroit Amic nings.) Eorme Ry Washington 4, Boston 0. Philadelphia at Boston. 2 = Chicago 3, St. Louis 1. Brooklyn at New York. New York 4, Philadelphia 2. St. Louis at Chicago. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. (11 College Games. Trinity 4, Lafayette 3. Amherst 8, Pennsylvania 8, Yale 7. Harvard 10, Vermont 1. Cornell 1, Princeton 0. Dartmouth Brown 4. Holy Cross 2, Williams 1. Union 15, Hobart 0 Maine 4, Bowdoin 3 Tufts 9, Springfield AMERICAN LEAGUE. Wesleyan 3 Yesterday’s Results. Cleveland 12, Detroit 6. Chicago 6, St. Louis 2. Standing of the Clubs, ‘Won Lost 6 (10 Wos I innings.) caAT Detroit 6. Boston) ..... New York ... Washington Chicago St. Louis Cleveland Philadelphia Army 4, Lehigh 1. Y. U. 6, Swarthmore Hamilton 6, Stevens 4. Columbia 7, Fordham 1 Penn State 8. West Virginia 1. Syract 2, Rensselaer P. L. 0. Navy 13, No. Carolina 2. Georgia 3, Virginia 1 CHASE STARTS SOMETHING Hitter 5. Gomes Today. Chicago at St. Louis. Cleveland at Detroit New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Washington. Prince Hal in Pinch Roho IN LEAGUE. Starts Rally That Brings Victory to | Yesterday's Results. Regleg Mates. Lowell 19, New Haven 0. Bridgeport 3, Portland 0. Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1.—Chase pinch hitting for Schneider in ninth, singled, thereby starting a rally that netted runs for the loca and helped them to 7. Callahan Herzog used three. plays, four by th the Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost two P.C. 1.000 1.000 667 667 500 500 .333 .600 .000 .000 beat Pittsburgh, $ | used five pitchers. Seven double Reds and three by Pittsburgh, featured the fielding. Hinchman hit one over the left field fence. It was the first time this feat | was ever accomplished, but it went foul by a foot. The score: | Bridgeport Lowell Portland Lawrence ew pringfield Worceste; Hartford s 11 .000410002 | Cincinnati ..000123002—8 12 Batteries—Kantlener, Cooper, Har- | { mon, Miller, Jacobs and Schmidt. { Moseley, McKenry, Schneider and | Clarke. Pittsburgh Games Todey : Worcester at Springfield Lynn at Hartford Lawrence at New London | command much attention. | from ri i | spreadeagle | weeks, onl the | the National League champion cle | games played | Boston and Brooklyn | got within | the | | won | game: | ahout w { of the race one year ago. | a serio | too, | gener: i them { the conceded ! clubs outmeasures that of the cham- { pions. i about | Crowe, | with PHILS NO LONGER - GONSIDERED A JOKE {When They Led League Just One Year Ago No One Worried Philacelphia, M 1.—One year the Phillies led the National I.ea race much as they do today, but didn't Pat Mo- ran was an experiment as a manasger. H club w; considered more or less misfit agszre tion of castoffs team: The wise ones were ined to laugh at the spurt of the They had seen other Phil- National League clubs the field the first few to drop back in the ruck by the first of Jul But there are seven club managers of the N onal League who are not grinning this morning at the standing of the Phillies All of Moran's jeai- ous rivals sce a growing menace in continued winning consistency of B as outgrown its joke days. pennant in 1915 by gett the jump on the field in the first t Afier that time both won as great o percentage of victories as did P adelphia But neither was able whittle down the lead. Both in tura game or two of the pace- makers, but neither was able to "-ad leaders. Philadelphia absolutely refused to crack under the strain The Philadelphia club of 1916 is performing much after the fashion of its predecessor. Supposedly strength of Tener's circuit lies in ast Philadelphia has played en games with Eastern rivals and has ‘en times. Tt has beaten New York four out of five, Boston three straight and has lost the only two played with Brooklyn. Philadelphia, therefore, stands ere it did at 5 a 1 Quakers. adelphia n } the ju the same stage The Phil- in better condition to repel challenge than they were on~ The club has been welded lies are ear ago. x | | the | ! to be written as 1916 failures. | start with into one harmonious whole by one full | summer of pennant Moran has been to supplement success. able since the Then. las fall 1 speed of his ensemble—de- partments in which he was somewhat shy a twelvemonth ago. Wilbur Good and Claude hoth exceptionally fast afield and on the paths and hitters of at least aver | age ability, are in reserve to plug any- vacancy that may crop up in the picket line. Either would be at hom: in a Gavvy Cravath's territory. Ga a man, has not hit up to nis reputation so far. He has to hit above .300 to be of real service to Fis slow infield, lined up as in 191 Iv improved. Milton Stock ancroft (the latter last season's ation the inflelders) have had the experience necessary to develop to their b worth. Niehoff, a medioere secona eman in under of rather Cincinnati, developed Moran last season steadily. Lmnderus, derous fellow, he ba auickly He is somewhat pou- nevertheless, a a i | plugger and a slugger and a mighty as a first the whole, baseman. the infield valuable asset Wherefore, on { and outfield of the champion Phillies must be considered Improved misht- jly. It remains to be seen whether improvement of rival Bill Killifer, mainstay behind the hat in the pennant fight of the Quakers, is reported to be recovering fast from a shoulder injury that in- pacitated him just prior to the last world’s series. This unfortunate ac- cident to Killifer discovered another crackajack catcher in the Moran | camp. Eddie Burns, who has done all the heavy work behind the bat since Killifer was hurt, has shown | sterling worth in all his games this vear. Killifer is perhaps a better hit- ter and a faster man. But so long S | Burns is able to appear regularly Bill absence will not prove of vital conse- quence. If he comes round all Killifer will add a new note to Phil- adelphia’s tone of confidence. But he is not indispensable, as he was this time last year. Alexander the Great has shown that he to be reckoned with as much as in 1915. The best pitcher in the National League was overworked through the drive of last summer. He seems to have recovered from the strain. It is not likely that Moran will have to call upon his big ace so frequently this vear. A] Demaree, George McQuillan, Chalmers and Rixey are all veterans capable of tak- ing a regular turn. Then there is Chief Bender to be counted upon later. is PIRATES READY TO START. The Pirates of this city wil open the season with the Outing A. C. of Hartford at Hart's Field in this city next Saturday. The Outings are in the City league in, Hartford |and are said to be a speedy bunch. wanted with other team the state. Address Thom No. 134 Curtis street, New Conn. Games are Eritain, HIT WITH PITCHED BALL. Fred Smith, a voungster who re- des on Bast Main street, was hit a pitched ball while playing at Walnut Hill Park Saturday after noon and for a time it was feared he was badly hurt. The ball Smith near the temple knocking him nseless. Dr. Bray, who was at the attended him and he was later able to go to“his home. right | struck | secondary | | strength of his Quakers and add to the Cooper, | improving | | | | | | caually Ballade of the Always There. Where within the spotlight's glow Comets come and comets go: Big fights flash and fade away; In the center of the show Ivery canine has his day; That the Mundane ever may Draw its daily thrill and throb, Only one thing sticks for aye Teddy's always on the job. In the current’s ebb and flow, One by one they make their play; T'hen the curtain falls—and lo There is nothing left to say: Soon to vanish from the fray Wagner, Matty, Baker, Cobb Only one holds Fate at bay Teddy's always on the jub, In the giddy game we knew Jeff and Johnson—where are they? Teddy's always on the job, Flash the stars of yesterda; Kings at dawn—and then, belay— Dubs amid the common mob; One alone shall never stray— Teddy's always on the job, how the Giants feel about icaving the cellar,” writes Pickwick, Jr. “I dldn’t like my apartment cither but T have decided to stay for another year.” I know John McGraw has bumped into one of the oldest laws of the game—that when you're up things come your way in a rush: and when you're down the same things point in an- other direction. Just as there is “nothing that succeeds like success so is there nothing that fails like faflure. Not that the Giants are vet There is still good material working under one of the game's greatest leaders. But 1916 is a poor year for a s0o many strong clubs to overhaul and few weak spots to use for a stampede. The Cub Return. Sir Joseph Tinker is to gratulated upon the way iast revived his and wheeled them right direction. be con- he has at the around in For a few weeks there were strong gns of an utter Cub collapse, but in place of growing Tinker only battled on and McConnell, aughn, Hendrix, Seaton and Lavender in shape he has a staff at last that will more than hold its own. And no ball ¢lub is going to finish very far away from the top that has five first class pitchers tak- ing a pot shot at opposing forces day by day. Tinker at the start had the toughest job in the circuit, but the great white light of hope is begin- ning to break for him at last. now The return of Fred Herreshoff to tournament play is one of the cheer- ing signs of the young season. There are a few better golfers than Herre- shoff, but no better sportsmen. Which is also something. The Advance. Here comes the Wanderer over the plain, The vagabond Spring: With a song in the sunlight—a smile through the rain, Where the dim echoes ring: Where the red of the rose on the green of his coat: With a necklace of violets crowning his throat, And the flelds leap to light first thrilling note Which his soft breezes bring. at the Music and the Game. D. K. H—So far as we know there 2re no star musicians playing ball. The two pastimes dont’ m Bark- ing at the umpire hurts the throat »d toying with the fast grounder doesn't help the fingers. The best all-around musician we ever knew in the game was Harry Bay, the old Cleveland outfielder. Harry was gentle and well broken on the cornet, the piano and the fife. He was good enough to play a win- ter circuit between seasons, being as fast on his feet with the cornet as he was with the spiked shoes. The Shoc The duffer stood upon the tee, I saw his bright eves shine; And then heturned and said to me-— “Gee whiz—but 1 feel fine."” “I never slept so well before: I'm ready for my part’ Whereat we gave a louder And woke up with a start. snore With Dick Rudolph and George Tyler back in 1914 form aided and abetted by considerable talent on the side, the possibility in developing right along that Owner Haughton will not be able to devote much time to faotball until after the world | series is over. One: Reason, Sir: Why is it that Eddie Plank, who is four years older than Christy Mathewson, is still pitching good ball with Matty about through? JUST A BUG, We don’t know unless it is that in the same periad of servitude Matty has pitched something like 15 more games than Plank, having been bad | | from Missouri once gasping Cubs | discouraged | with | | | i | | the bric | seconds, LIGHT Grantland Kice called upon oftener for relief duty. Matty, most of the time, was the Giants’ only star pitcher, where Plank fairly well most of the way, first by addell and then by Coombs, Bender and Bender and Plank and Waddell together were the strongest set of left-handers that any ball club ever owned. The two best right-handers on one club were | probably Mathewson and McGinity. The greatest pitching’ staff that ever worked on one club was the Pitts Lurg delegation of Leever, Philipe, Tannehill and dell. something for some of these young ball players who work about 90 or 100 games a season to think about—Hans Wagner, forty- one years old last season, played in 156 games. As the pastime develops -brac seems to &row mc fragile each year. NERS FIX RECORD. Two-Mile Record of I. A. Team Equalled in Penn. Games. Philadelphia, May 1—Three world's records were equalled and one col giate record was shattered on Frank lin field Saturday in the annual relay race carnival of the University of Pennsylvania. In winning the two-mile college relay championship of America, Yale equalled the record of 7 minutes, 53 made by an Irish-American athletic club team in 1910. Corneli equalled the record of 17 minutes, 51 5 seconds, in winning the four-mile college relay championship of Amer- ica. Simpson, the Here is YALE RU western university, the world's record of 15 seconds for the 120-yards hurdles. Simpson has equalled the world's record before on a cinder patch, but his performance Saturday was remarkable because it was made on grass. F. C. Smithson of the Pacific Northwest, a member of the Ameri- can Olympic team, made a record of 15 seconds on grass on July 25, 1903, in Great Britain. The college record broken was for the discus, Mucks of Wisconsin, the American champion discus thrower, iising the figures from 140 feet, 2 3-8 inches, to 145 feet, 11 1-2 inches. Another feature event of the day | was the winning of the mile relay championship by Harvard in a haxd finish. Pennsylvania won the fresh- man one-mile relay championship St. Albans, Washington, D. C. cap- tured the preparatory relay cham- pionship at a mile, and the North- i east High school, Philadelphia, won the high school natinal relay one-mile champion equalled BOYS’ CLUB MEET Slavish Juniors and Polish Seniors Ex- cel in Closing Events of Boys’ Club Season. " club held an interesting athletic meet Saturday afternoon at Walnut Hill Park. The Slavish team won the championship of the ~lub b: scoring thirty-seven points. The meet was watched by a large and in- terested crowd and the mariks made were commendable. The events and winners were as follows h-—Won man, Slavish: Joseph ish, second; time, 10 100-yard Dash—Won by Frank Gill, Polish, and Frank Sullick, Lithuanian, 11 5 seconds. Running High Springboar —Won by John Gernski, Frank Wack, Polish, second. winner scaled the bar at 5 feet, inches. Senior High Jump—Won Gill, Polish; John Sullick, nian, second. The height 2 inches. Standing The Bo; by Peter Gernsk Gus Slav- Jump Slavish; The by Frank Lithu- was 6 feet, Broad Jump—Won hy the Slavish team with a distance of 34 feet, 1 incl the Irish, Polish and Jewish teams finished in order named Throwing the baseball by the senior members resulted as follows William Wackman, 207 feet; Stanjey Churnut, second. The juniors threw seph Brunski, 182 second, Running Broad Jump—Wo John Sullick: Frank Gill, Distance, 10 feet, 6 inches The result of the events as follows: Slavish team, 37 points; ish team, 13; Polish, 7; Lithuanian, Jewish team, as follows feet; J Jo- Brodish, by econd was PIONEERS VS. LARKSPURS, he Pioneers will open their on Sunday, May 7, at the Elli grounds and Manager Conlin cured the strong Larkspur team Hartford for the opening game. street of The and they shouid for the opener. Blanchard will be on the Pioneers in the opening game, as the local boy who tried out with Hartford has returned to his home here and will likely make It is in Hartford a good set-to probable that the mound for be in seen with the Pioneers this son most of their games. surrounded | 1901—Chesbro, | Wad- | season | Larkspurs are one of the fastest clubs | LOWELL SLUGGERS - SMOTHER MURLING | Bay Slatererinrl Elm City Hurlers Easy Picking New May 1.—Slamming three New pitchers for a tota] of fourteen hits and taking advantage, of the locals’ misplaye: Harry Lord anad his Lowell team carted away @ 19 to 0 victory from Savin Rock yes« terday fternoon. New Haven's hopes for a run were bright in the fifth when Corcoran drew a pass and Kennefic singled after - Brazel had to Torphy and Woodward safely over second base but | McSherry and Nutter were whiffed good fashion by Green and the opportunity of the game was The score: Haven, Haven | poppea rapped | in | only | tost. r. h. e Lowell 070644110—19 14 2 New Haven 000000000— 0 -6 8 Batteries—Warden; Gilmore, Wood- ward; Green, King and Greenhalge. Bridgeport, May 1.—Timely hitting | enabled Bridgeport to shut out Port- lend yesterday 3 to 0. - Only. one Portland player got past second base | Robinson, who was caught at the plate by Ball's fine throw. Score r. h. e g & 8 000000000—0 6 1 and Smith; | | Portland Shut Out. | Pridgeport 00000102*- Portland ... Batteries—Martin Tuckey and Sweatt BROWNS AND SOX WIN Browns Kick Ball Like Around the Lot Bush Leaguers—Everybody Worked But Batboy. Scott pitched an the irouble trim- St. Louis, May excellent game yesterday White Sox had little ming the locals, 6 to 2. The Browns made errors. The FErowns starte ed their booting in the first inning. A fumble by Johnston at short let in 2 run. A bobbla hy Tobin iet another in in the second. Two ore . were added In the fwmta for the thisd tally and a run in the fifth was earned on hits. Then in the seventh twvo more wild heaves gave tha Sox two more run. St Louis scored in the first on two singl and a base on and in the fourth a trple sacrifice fly. The score: r. h Chicago 110110200—6 10 St. Louis ...100100000. 4 Batteries—Scott and S-nal Park and Severeld. 1. and sic Dt and . 0. a 0 6 ; Groom, 1'etroit, May 1.—Jenu'n six yitchers in a vain effc off cdefeat at the hanls dians here yesterday afternoon, and when it was over, the scora was 1 to 6 wiih the visitors on the heavy ead Tweuty-five thousand persous, lar crowd of the seas i so far, saw the Tigers humbled. ) rh Cleveland ..151112001—12 10 2 Detroit .010001301— 6 13 3 i Batteries—Bagby, Mitchell and O'Neil; James, Boland, McTigue, Boehler, Erickson, C'unningham and Stanage s used up to ktave the Ins of [ 2 ANOTHER RECORD SMASHED. Los Angeles, May 1—Frederick W. Kelley, international champion high hurdler, broke the world's record for the 220-yard low hurdles on a curved track Saturday, making it in 24 2.5 seconds in a sanctioned exhi- bition race. The previous record was 24 4-5 seconds, established in 1909 and equalled last year by Kelley. JOINS § Chicago, May hard-hitting first baseman by the White Sox from Oakland Coast league club, and recently sold to Baltimore, has declined to join the Orioles. He has signed with a semi- professional team here for Sunday games. MI-PROS. l.—Jack Ness, the procured ST. JOES LOOK GOOD, Candidates for the baseball nime to represent St. Joseph's Athletic as- sociation the coming season, give promise of developing into one of the fastest teams in the state. The team has been greatly strengthened by the acquisition of Jimmy Noonan and Bill Fitzpatrick former stars of the Ploneers and Hinchliffe who pitched gilt edged ball for the Tabs team last season. TIP TOPS WANT GAMES. Joseph Marholin of 105 Hartford avenue, has been elected manager of |the Tip Top baseball team for the I coming son. Candidates for the {team should notify the management at once. The Tip Top Issue a chal- |lenge to any team in the city average ling 16-17 years of age. | i KNETZER GOES TO REDS. Boston, May 1.—Manager Stallings of the Braves has completed the cut- ting of his squad to the 21 player limit by releasing pitcher Elmer Knet- zer to Cincinnati. Knetzer was pur- chased from the Pittsburgh Fedreals along with pitcher Allen and first | baseman Konetchy.