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NEW, BRITAZN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1918 r—r— orsairs Helpless Before Anderscii’s Slants---Speaker Aids in Former Mates Downfall---Chisox Again. rim Kilties---EHome Runs Feature Cub-Braves Game---Local Bowlers Win Twi ce From Casino Five Y STATE TEAMS WIN IN OPENERS icipal Officials and Fnthusi- astic Crowds on-Hand rtiand, Me., May d the Eastern league season yes: with a 16 to 2 victory over Salmon 'was easy for the batters, who hit him almost at while the visitors could do noth- vith Martin. The score: e I .42101008x—186 land 5 2 ord 010060001— 2 5 3 teries—Martin and Sweatt; n and SKkift, Lynn 7, Springfield Mass., May 11.—Lypn won rst game of the season here by ting Springfield, 7 to 2. Tuero the hits well scattered, Spring- ° n, inning by a single, a three-base y Booe and a sacrifice fly by rond. The score: oo H Se ..... 000002000—2 5 3| sesesnven 20100400x—7 7 O teries—Daniels and Stephens; and Carroll. TLowell 7, Bridgeport 1. ell, Mass.. May 11.—Pitcher lacked control yesterday and 1 obtained five runs in the sirst . after which the game was in doubt, Lowell winning, 7 to 1. , who succeeded Walsh, pitch- pod ball, as did Lohman, the 1 pitcher. Mayor O'Donnell d the first ball, this being the g game of the home season. ore: ....31000010x—7 9 23 ....000000010—1 4 1 Lohman and Kilhullen; , Gearin and Crook. Murling Swamped, rence, Mass, May 11.—New lost the opening game to Law- here vesterday, 12 to 0. Law- started its scoring in the third [Chappelle issued two passes, hit ell and Mahoney, and deliv- wild pitch. This course of dure coupled with thrce Tits jhe local team six runs. Wood- was substituted for . Chappelle pne out in this inning and fin- he game for New Haven. The T. 00650001x—12 flaven 000000000— 0 leries—Pearson and Harels; lle, Woodward and Murphy. ce reester New London 2. cester, Mass.,, May 11.—Wor- defeated New London., & to 2, ay afternoon by bunching hits Herring hases, re- the he visitors’ errors. ffective with men on the visitors socreless in after thev had filled the L2 | ee hits with no one out. The | Bote ondon ....000110000— s 3 kter 10001120x—3 7 6 pries—Reiger and Fish: r d Tyler. ARMY s Pound Ball Hard Timely Fashion. t Paint, N. Y., May it the ball hard vesterday and | om University of Pittshurg, 10 Sarcka, the Army southpaw cher, allowed Pitt three scat- fingles. in and 11.—The 11.—Portland | only runs being made in the | r. h. e | Y | I've trailed their spoors from FPor land, Me., ‘ta Nashville, Tenn. T've beat the bush from old | Wayne across to Kankakee; | Let T. R. trail the Amazon i Rainey haunt the Nile, | But the tusks I'll get from the Michi- v gan league will have theirs trimmed a mile. | Ft. ' and | | Two hundred black men dance and cheer as the old safari swings: | They've got their camels and their | dogs and ninety other things; | I trail alone from tank to tank | wherever a game is played, the tusks T'll get from thé old Three-Eve are over the Congo grade. | But | I've never seen a veldt or kop—not even from a train; I've yet to lamp an eclephant upon his native plain; | No swarthy bearer of a gun stands waiting at my- call And yet I gather in the bone that makes the billiard ball. I've trailed their spoors from old 1 Kaintuck to Brockton by the sea; | I've hunted them alone and bunched and trapped them with a fee; T. R. haunt Somaliland and Rainey trek theé Nile But the ivory from old Vermant has got theirs skinned a mile, Let 0 A Tip to Uncle Sam. If we don’t intend to go in for preparedness; if we have no particu- | lar idea of building up an army or a ravy, then we suggest that the 100,000,000 citizens of this cauntry Ese(‘ure Jack Moakley for a trainer, | on the theory that the next best art of self-defense is 100 yards in ten seconds, or a mile in four minutes flat. Ted Lewis, weighing 138, is to meet Mike Gibbons, weighing 152, so the weights are given us. Willard out- weighed Frank Maran 58 pounds. Isn’t some enterprising promoter cverlooking a bet? No one has yet tried to match Johnny Coulon with Mike Graelish, the seven-foat Irish- man, who only weighs 310. We can understand Frank Moran's feeling about meeting Jack Dillon. If Moran wins—well, why shouldn’t he have beaten a little guy 30 pounds lighter? If he doesn’t win—‘whad- CHISOX AGAIN CHASTISE YANKS \Errors and Russell’s Pitching Too Much for Donovan Clan New York, May 11.—The difference between a team being quick to take putting forth a spirited game, and a team playing listlessly and find no mistakes of the other side to take ad- vantage of, was clearly set before the spectators at the Polo Grounds yes- visitors’ trio of runs in the ame without a semblance of 's support went bad ptarily. After that the Army ayed well in the field and ran 1 the bases, Sarca alsa hit hard | nely, his double in the first | two runners. Mitchell's hit- hd his sensational catch off s bat in the ecighth were s. The score h. e Pittsburg 003000000— 3 4 ¥ . 30302200*—10 13 3 ries—Hart and Matson; and McNe! JFTRE IN BALL PARK. k Players Lose Uniforms Dur- ing Flames’' Fury. rk, J.. May 11.—Fire yes- destroyed the clubhouse at the 1 grounds of the Newark In- al league team. With the se went the bats and uniforms fne personal belongings of the 2t once started to be ready for to- | was just the opposite to Sheehan and Batteries—Thompson and Doug- loss is about $800, | Nabor Eighteen passes were issued | lass; Young and Powell. Ty = | vesterday, making forty-eight in two | == T HOOL LEAGUE OPENS. | games and breaking all records for | LID GOES ON. basebal e s O»‘maccuram' Bochler passed seven New Haven, May 11—According to In St Joseph's parochial |and hit one, while Sheehan handed ' the edict issued by Prosecutor Smith opened yesterday afternoon, | seven tickets to various Tigers and | of West Haven, the Sunday baseball rth grade winr from the | Nabors four. Strunk’s hitting fea- | is through for the season at Savin heore 15 to 1 he batterics | tured an otherwise listless game. He | Rock. Owner Coliins who is away eNa Divinzo and Butle,; | made two triples and a double. The | with the club, and nothing definite and a Dhellnee: leairs: | covla be a ed whether or not the | n ju eague of t | r. h. e }team would pitch its tents at Light- resulted a victory for the | Detroit ...... .023010030—9 11 1 {house Point for Sunday games. pver the Spartans, score, § to 0. | Philadelphia 100101000—3 5 5 — mmmma B : . | Patteries: Boehler and Stanage; CLTON TO COACH PREP BOY! Sheehan, Nabors and Schang. Ithaca, N. Y., May 11.—Murray SMOKE | e Shelton, far several years end on the | 1 GOOD pAY FOR SPEAKER. | Cornell foothall team and last fall the Boston, Mass, May 11.—Yesterday | selection for a wing post on Walter was really Tris Speaker's day, his bat- | Camp’s all-American team, has ac- ting and fielding neing largely the | cepted the position as general ath- cause of Cleveland thumping the Red | letic director at the Joliet High , PLEASANT 5c CIGAR terday. The team with the virtues, which was the White Sox, won by a score of 5 to 2. Since their success- ful descent on Boston the Yanks have back-slid. Yesterday's drubbing was their second by the Chisox. Another lefthander was sent against the Yanks. This time it was Russell and he did tight, high class work | against them. Much of their supine- | ness was because they could do little with him. They were his meat. | mixture of curve ball and fast ball |and slow ball, all nicely controlled, ! scarcely allowed the Yanks to get go- ing. The score: S hile .202010000—5 7 1 New York ..000020000— 5 23 | _Batteries: Russell and Schalk; | Keating and Alexander. STRUNK'S SLUGGING FUTILE. Philadelphia, May 11.—Detroit won |another weird game from the Ath- | letics yesterday. 9 to 3. All three | pitchers used were wild, but Boehler | managed to hold down the Mackmen | | when men were on the bases. which Sox to the tune of 6 to 2 Song of the American Ivory Hunter. | advantage of opponents’ mistakes and | Tris scored Grantland Rice dya think of the big bum that couldn’t beat little Dillon.” The toughest fight in the world is the on for which vou get no great credit you win, and all the panning there if you lose. Overlooked B “I had a chance,” a fellow | day or two ago, “to buy Steel early in 1915; but I didn't.” Which is nothing. We had a chance early in April before the season opened to bet that Cleveland would win eight straight games from Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis, the first month. But we neve thought about it. ~ Which is just : well. For if we had offered to mak the wager the authorities would probably have shot ys then and there before we became more lent. As a show the “Phillies of 1915 Nothing at all. “But, gentlemen, the hour is late and there are other speakers.” cold Franklin Puissant Adams con- cluded one of his verses. If he ever tries to recite this line in Cleveland, Ohio, he will very likely be lynched. Maybe There Isn't. When asked by your alert corres- pondent if his club intended to Crack Under the Strain, Manager Lee Fahl replied about as follows “Crack Under What Strain? didn't know there was one.” That Rebuttal Stuff Again. Said Tristam Speaker to Tyrus Cobb, “Smoke up, kid, or I'll cop your job;” “October will find you a darnsite meeker, start Morton, Coumbe or Klepfer in the first game of the world series. It will depend largely upon whether or not Manager Robinson starts Wheezer Dell, Larry Cheney or Jeff Preffer. | However, T can say even now, with fair certainty, tha play center field.” Tris Speaker will three runs, made two hits and cap- | tured five flies. Knowing the field and | Ruth’s ability to drive them out, he | planted himself deep in center when ! the latter came up during the sev- | enth inning with two men on and got | in a rousing smash close to the bleach- | ers’ fence. Morton held the Sox to six scattered hits. The work of both shortstops | was high class and O'Neill delivered had nothing on the “Fohlies of 1916.” | “No, I haven't decided whether I will | said a | Bethlshem | and | be leading the league by the end of So | — SEma R D ! that GREEN BEATS, ELUT s The sco | e : 0002000 . Baseball News In a Nutshell || Darimoutn ... 0000700005 ¢ § | Wiltiams Allows Only Two 1Hits and DO 52 8 == Dartmouth Wins, 3-to-0—Yale Out- NATIONAT LEAGUIH NN R classed All Through Contest. NAVY BEATS CATHOLIC NIN. Yesterday’s Results, Yesterday's Result:, New Haven. May 11.—Dartmouth e nan Rodgers Doesn't Gt : o irst Baseman Rodgers = 3 St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 4. Lawrence 1 ew Haven 0 | basevall m defeated Yaie by a Sl Brookiyn 4, Cincinnati 0. Lynn 7, Springfield 2. | score of to 0 yesterday in a ¥ .:'nv.,\ ¢ 2 o New York 7, Pittsburgh 1. Worcester 5, New London 2. i e b Annapol Md., May 11.—Not & Poston 11, Chicago 10. Lowell 7, Bridgeport 1. A Ay L el chance fell to the lot of First SEe Portland 16, Hartford 2. | Elis from start to finish. | eman Rodgers while the mi ..'h“llh anding of the Clubs, — | Williams, who pitched for Dart-|men were winning from Catholls w L. BrandincRoiithafCIuD S | mouth, allowed the Yale hatsmen oiiy ity 1 AU C g i > ’ ifternoon lodge str Brooklyn ol 4 w. T P.C. | {wo hits, struck out four men and Laasse ot 3 3 New Londo 8 2 800 | f the visitors, while m L‘nswn il 1; I::; ;or; on ... s : "s00 | accepted five chances without an er- rs flied out to in or out- icago, .12 SOWLEnG o 600 | ror. Only twenty-nine Yale hatsmen lders, a othe reaching first Louis i 10 Portland 6 1 s00}{ior; 1 ¢ lqeis B oo e innati 1 % 00 | fac i arfield, who was in the | cnded tb Gl o R s Cincinnati .11 12 Lynn 0 2 [isacedgni SgCarisld 15 1™ P1® ! houn's single and Fisher's homer in Philadelphia 8 Lowell ... 8 5 245 | box for Yale, aid well. He had only | PR G, B0 B Py oos only hits Pittshursh 9 Spginsield > 2 200 I one bad inning. He allowel e their only runs. New York 4 3 Haven 4 5 400 sl El | Bridgeport 4 7 ‘364 | hits but never save mo e Games Today. | Hartford 3 6 .533 |in an inning, except in the fifth. 5 i s e et - i | Worcester 2 7 222 In that ir he walked zoline | Catholic Univ. 0 1 1 3 2 ATorigec Elttsbureh. i ind Dahanel reached m a field- | N 00200000*—2 2 2 Do | Ga Today. | er's choice when Iskeline was caught ries—Fahey and Rodgers; Philadelphia at St. Louis. Aot i e G Sl pecuing and Connohy. Boston at Chicago. New Haven at Lawrence | at second, Garfield to Snell. Perk 1S . By | spr 1d at Lynn singled and Williams duplicated his STy C AMERICAN LEAGU Hartford at Portland w“] hLan w]" ¥ \ ‘1"1”’,“ ! 1”"_ b il e — ridgeport at Lowell ened then and passed Osborn, forcing | — ) Yesterday’s Result Eol\:m,m.“{of‘ i e Bl threw nigh to | Ouimet to Be Granted Hearing n :hc p"‘ S : i ’ Munson, who missed the ball, and | New York Tomorrow. Cleveland 6, Boston 2 Loy 2 . ; R = = . 9 TERN AN v A T Perkins scored. Re the Dart Boston, May 11 The United “lfl»‘h"‘g‘fi“\}v 5‘\,74‘1"“; 0. INEEENATIONATLES GUE. | S i S e AT e States Golf ociation yesterddy Chicago 5, New ork 2. A T i "illia 8 T P el xr - o i Fosterda e fashion and Williams ran across the | notified the Woodland Golf club that Detroit 9, Philadelphia 2. “‘"“';"‘; Hesuite plate for the third and final Dart- d atureed tiF 5 heartiy o e Baltimore 2, Rochester 1. . 2 a Lt S g mouth run, York on Friday night on the Standing of the Clubs, Richmond 3, Toronto 1. i e half of the nfth the wes of Francis Ouimet, Baul Tewks- w. L. : S Elis had an excellent .chance to score, | |yry ang J. H, Sullivan, Jr., who have Cleveland Lo 8 Standing of the Clubs. but poor base running robbed them Jieen declared ineligible to compete as Washington .12 9 L. P.C. | the opportunity. Bush doubled 10 ' ymateurs New Yorlk S11 10 Newark 1 900 | center and Holden reached first on The executive committee of the as- Detroit .13 11 Providence .. 3 700 | Paine’s error before the chance < | gociation and officers of the Wood- Chicago 12 3 Baltimore 5 43 | snuffed. Holden attempted to land club, of which the players are Boston L1 12 Richmond 5 | scccond and Murphy threw to second | members, will be present. The club | St. Louis . 3 12 Montreal 7 ,in an effort to catch him. Holden | although three meetings have been Philadelphi {0 14 Rochester 8 was tagged neatly and Bush 1d to consider the matter, has not = Buffalo s stirred from his post at th vet accepted the association's ruling. Games Today. | Toronto 10 Said Tyrus Cobb to Tristam Speaker.” ‘“There are twenty points of effi- ciency in a back field,” says Col. Mel Webb. But against Yale last fall there were forty-one points of efficiency in the Crimson backfield. i Sy : When interviewed again by these | | dispatches, Manager Fohl remarke: ! son’'s league leading Brooklyns' Cleveland at Boston. St. Louis at Washington. Chicago at New York, Detroit at Philadelphia. ANDERSON ALLOWS PIRATES FEW HITS Hans and Smoketown Crew Help- less Before Spithall Delivery | | | i i | i 10.—The sleeping | giant at last has been aroused by the stings of the gadflies infesting John Pittsburgh, May K. Tener's preserves and where ho ' suffered welts is handing back swats with full measure. For the second time in two days at Forbes Field, yes- | terday afternoon Jimmy Callahan's | long suffering Buccaneers were forced to stand the brunt of old time Giant | fury. For the second time in two days the legion of McGraw swept through and over and round about the Corsairs. | driving them back to inglorious defeat. The score today was 7 to 1 {in | mark, while Anderson hit % : in New Yo favor, if you please. The score: i L New York .. 300310000—7 13 I Pittsburgh 000010000—1 86 Batteries—Anderson and Dooin and Pariden; Adams, Cooper, Jacobs and Schmidt. Rebins Beat Reds. Cincinnati, May 11.—Wilbert Robin- | con- ! querors of everything in sight, cele- | brated their initial 1916 appearance in | two doubles. The score: | TS hie? | Cleveland 11000020—6 10 1 | Boston .........101000000—2 § 3 | Batteries: Morton and O'Neill; | | Ruth, Thomas and Cady. | BOEHLING OUTLUCKS PLANK. Washington, D. C. May 11.— | Joe Boehling had the better of the veteran Eddie Plank in a pitcher: the Senato Louis Browns battle here yesterday, winning from the St. by 1 to 0. Plank allowed only three hits, but one of them came in the sixth inning after Milan and stolen second, so it produced the | only run of the game. The score: rhite St. Louis .. .000000000—0 5 0 | Washington .00000100%—1 3 2 Batteries: Plank, Fincher and Hart- | | ley; Boehling and Henry. | e WILLIAMS VANQUISHED, Massachusetts Boys Put Up a Ragged Game, Princeton, N. J.,, May 1i.—Prince- ton had an easy time with Williams vesterday afternoon, coupling nine kits with six misplays by the visitors for a total of seven runs. The score was to 1. The visitors played ragged ball and were not up to their form of a few weeks ago, when the Tigers just nosed them aut with a 1 to 0 victory. The score follows: | ren e Princeton 20020111%—7 8 Williams 000100000—1 5 schoal in Illinotis, had walked | | | | i | | | | | nals slammed Demaree | to Redland yesterday afternoon by treat- ing Buck Herzog's Reds to a white- wash, score 4 to 0. The select crew from Brooklyn lost no time in getting into action. The Dodgers found the shoots of Schulz, former Federal league southpaw, just to their liking and pounded his offer- ings to all corners of the lot. The score: r. h. e. Brooklyn . . . 110001001—4 13 0 Cincinnati . . 000000000—0 6§ 2 Batteries—Pfeffer and Miller; | Schulz, Dale and Clark and Wingo. Two Homers in the Ninth. Chicago, May 11.—The Boston Braves won a long drawn out game from Cubs yesterday, 11 to 10, With the score tied in the ninth, Seaton took Vaughn's place on the mound and was | hit for a double by Evers, a single by Collins and a homer by Wilhoit, three | runs resulting. In the Cubs’ half Wil- llams hit a homer with Flack on base | but the side was retired without fur- | ther scoring. The score: o hoe Boston 204000203—11 14 1| Chicago . . 013130002—10 12 3 Batteries—Nehf, Hughes and Gow- | dy; Vaughn, Seaton and Archer. Cardinals Slam the Ball. St. Louis, Mo., M y 11.—~The Cardi- | and Bender | hard yesterday and buried the Phila- delphiar 9 to 4. Meadows relieved Doak after the Phillies had gathered four runs in the second and held them three hits in the final seven in- nings. A single, a on balls and doubles by Corhan and Hornsby tied base t for the Cardinals in the third and in the seventh they reached Bender for four runs. Long,, Corhan and Snyder singled, Hornsby was hit and Meadows poled a triple to center. The score T h. e Philadelphia .... 040000000—4 6 6 st. Louis .. 10300140x—9 14 1 Batteries—Demaree, Bender, Rixey and Killifer and Burns; Doak, Mead- ows and Snyder. | with ! put up a good game. | high single for the Casinos’ team. The scores: Casino. Brooks 111 96 Daley 92 121 Savage 90 87 Kennedy Zumm 85 Connors 97 87 Ray 112 475 503 506—14S4 New Britain. Rogers 114 95 127— 336 Prior 77 86 111— 274 Lantone 97 84 114— 295 Jurgen 115 121 98— 33« Anderson 104 115 Candy Makes Improvement. | Games Today. Ruffalo in Newark. Montreal in Providence. Toronto in Richmond. Rochester in Baltimore. TWO OUT OF THREE Brilliant Work by Rogers, Jurgen and Anderson Proves Too Much for | Meriden Casino Quintet. A margin of two prevented the local from administering defeat to the Casinos of Meriden in | that “burg” last evening. the home | team losing the second string by the | above number of Displaying pins is all thar league bowlers a three-straight pins rare form the Hardware City quin- tet put up a brilliant brand of lane work. Rogers, ‘ Jurgen and Anderson | turning in some fine scores for the | night's play. Rogers with a total of 336 and high score of 127 was the star performer of the match. Pressing him closely however was Jurgen with 334 for total and 121 for his high single. An- derson was not far behind, his steady | aim securing for him a total of 328, | high single of 115. Rogers and Jurgen each failed on one occasion the match to reach the century the three | figures score in al sirings Tor the losers Brooks dis the hest form, while Kennedy who entered the game in the last frame Daley's 121 layed | i | Miss Klampf and Miss Sullivan went fifty-fifty on a box of candy for high single score at the Aetna Alleys last evening, when the Corbin Screw Coporation girls rolled. The scor made during the play are as follow Corbin Screw Office Girls. - K. Klar 72 53 66— 191 C. Klampf . 66 67 *78— 21i M. Cavanaugh .59 74 60— 193 B.-Klar ....... 57 51— 160 J. Sullivan 61 *78— 205 HE. Morrin ..... 68 76— 214 What t Siders Did. The East Side Bowling club took another fall out of the pins la evening, with the following results. | East Side Bowling Club. M. Cusack oo (ol 8 6 H. Lundgren 55— J. Lundgren 71 Susan Routh 64 M. Cusack HEAVY HITTI? G BY HARVARD. Crimson Nine Shut Out Brown by | 6 to 0 Score. Cambridge, Mass.,, May 11.—Har- vard batsmen hit heavily yesterday, and this, with Brown's errars, gave | the Crimson victory G to 0. The | score: : r. h e | Harvard 02010120*—6 9 3 Rrown 000000000—0 5 5| Batteries—Garritt and Harte; Fealy and Fineberg. i 135 T AERRRRR] (T I am a movie star. My life is fuli of thrilis. Ijump off elifis. I rescue despairing maidens. [ sfop runaways. Bui there’s one thrill that beats ‘em all—the thrill of delight every iime I sinoke a “Helmar” Turkish Cigareiie. Seems as if each “Helmar’? is betier than the Iz The milides areites 's Tuwkisk. | The Best {obacceo for cigareties is Turidsh. ¥’s cigaretie until Dot pay fon conts for ; :ating, elevating, you have tried “FHeimar] gentleman’s S.GKa. g Malcrs of the Highest Grade Tarkish C3 and Ligyptien Cigarettes in the World 4 o