New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 12

> Cobb Bats Tigers Into Tie for First Place--Foster Pitches No Hit Game--Harvard Takes Series From Yale--High School Managers Chosen--Heinie Zim Breaks Collarbone--Legore to Lead Blue Nine NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1916. QSTER PITCHES NO HIT SHuTOUT) ly Three Yanks Reach First Via | Free Pass Route : poston, June 22.—Neither run nor | was made by the Yankees yester- | afternoon in conflict with the | i Sox, who won the ball game by a | of 2 to 0. George Foster was | man who compelled the Yankees be victims of no hit pitching, and | b stocky chap, who won laurels for self in the world’s series last year, | he second Boston pitcher this sea- to pitch a no hit game. His fel- townsman Tom Hughes of the | ves pitched the other onme. This | only last week so not only docs ! ton monopolize the big league no | honors of the present campaign | produces them close together. Vith his ¢urves Foster had speed a change of pace which the Yan- batters couldn’t fime. It pulled out of positfony and Foster so wdly jumbled his different flings he outgues his opponents con- | v. Robert Shawkey pitched a | me for the Yanks, giving no whereas Foster ed three, awkey's first class performance useless against the invulnerable | gs of Foster. hose three passes given by Fos- were New York’s only avenue to first junction. Only by being headed could they get there, and > of them reached second. High, ee and Nunamaker were the ones had the rare experience of get- on base. High tried a steal and cut down. Nunamaker got to sec- in the sixth on a sacrifice by key and he came nearer scoring any other Yankee, e score: | | i [ | issu S < S . 000000000—0 0 O R .. 10000100x—! 8 0 teries—Shawkey and Nunamak- | froster and Carrigan. York . Cobb Beats Indians, llich., June 22.—Hughey ing’s Tigers defeated erday afternoon and tied the etroit, Cleveland n- The e was 3 to 0. Coveleskie was on bnound for Detroit and three scat- hits were all he allowed yrus Raymond Cobb was promin- in Detroit'’s victory. He made a le and a triple in three times up also accounted for two of his 's three runs. Veach came home the other tally. e.only .ehance Cleveland had of ing was nipped by a double play, to Burns. p2by twirled for Cleveland. He fred eight hits in as many innings. Billings went to bat for him. ale finished the game. © score: s for the league leadership. h. 3 8 T 000000000—0 oit ., . . 00000201x—3 ptteries—Bagby, McHale pil; Coveleskie and Stanage. eland il and | E— | Browns Twice Trounce Sox. . Louis, Mo., June 22.—The White were unable to do anything with southpaw pitchers sent against yesterday by the Browns and lost both ends of a double head- The scores were 1 to 1 and 2 to pspectively. In the opener three pitchers were hit effectivly, while visitors were held to six hits by iman. The afterpiece was a tight r, but the Sox were unable to do h with Koob’s pitching. he score: First Game e score: r. h. ago 000000010—1 6 ouis : 00033203x—11 14 0 tteries—Danforth, Cicotte, Benz Schalk and Lynn; Weilman and proid. e. 2 Second Game h. e o, ... 000100000—1 5 O 01010000x—2 7 1 htteries—Scott, Russell and Schalk; b and Hartley. MANAGERS CHOSEN s' ém to Manage Football n'n--l;ckwood to Handle Bas- thail and Peterson Football. he final meeting of the season ot High School Athletic council was the Y- M. C A, matters connected with the past kon in the various sports were dis- Pd of. The management of the all, basel and _ basketball | 1t the meeting, 1 no doubt meet of the schol- ch of the boys chosen en- larit the school, all will rally ng the con fi last evening in s were given the Hon o 1 the hearty hody. wid ; it is expec heir support in max son' in the Sy sful In every respect Fhe selections of t e ows: Football. John Bacpuy, ketball, Maurice Lock > I, Merwin Peterson nagers chosen has had ience during” the. past year, nagerial line, and with this to m, g-fme schedule is anticipateq ouf, P Appro in t Two Views of Big Ed Pfeffer, Who Aims to Eclipse Record of Alexander Brooklyn, June 22.—Big Ed-Pfeffer cf the Dodgers is trying to duplicate the feat of Grover C. Alexander. Last year Alex the Great pitched the Philadelphia club into a pennant. Preffer is actively engaged in an en- deavor to accomplish the same thing for Brooklyn this year. B Ed s leading the Natio league hurlers now. He is out beyond Alexander, Mamaux, Anderson and all the rest. He has won nine games and lost two. ‘Wilburt Robinson, manager of the Dodgers, believ that Pfeffer is as great a pitcher as there is in baseball. He does not concede that Alexander TIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. Boston 5, New York 4, nings). Cincinnati . game). Cincinnati game). St. Louis-Pittsburgh, rain. Philadelphia-Brooklyn, rain, {10 in- 4, Chicago 3, (first 3, Chicago (second Standing of the Clubs. L. Brooklyn ... 19 Philadelphia New York Boston Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louls 23 24 28 29 28 32 Today's Games. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Boston at New York (2). Cincinnati at Chicago, St. Louis at Pittsburgh. MERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. Detroit 3 ,Cleveland 0. Boston 2, New York 0. St. Louis 11, Chicago game). St. Louis game). 1, (first 2 2, Chicago (secomnd Standing of the Clubs. L. 24 24 23 Cleveland Detroit ‘Washington New York Boston Chicago St. Louis Philadelphia . Today’s Games. Chicago at St. Louis. Ceveland at Detroit. New York at Boston, Washington at Philadelphia TLEAGUE. EASTE! erday's Results. 2 Y Lowell 5, New Haven Springfleld 13, Lynn. 7. Hartford 4; Lawrence 2, nings). Bridgeport-Worcester, rain. (@ m- all teams. 1 New London-Portland, rain. | nineteen games and i allowed or even Walter Johnson has any- thing on the Brooklyn right hander | this year. Pfeffer has been a good pitcher ever since he broke into the National league. Only Alexander, | maraux and Toney were ranked head of him last year. He won lost fourteen and of .209 runs per game. The Dodger star had a better record in 1914, his first season in Erooklyn. That year he won twenty- Hzrf,e and lost twelve and only allowed -197 runs per game. Pfeffer stands s1x feet three inches high and weighs 210 pounds. He is twenty-seven years an average old and was born in Champaign, IIl. New London Springfield Portland ‘Worcester Lawrence Lynn Lowell . Hartford .... New Haven Bridgeport Today’s Games. New Haven at Lowell. Lawrence at Hartford. Lynn at Springfield. Portland at Bridgeport ‘Worcester at New London, INTERNATIONAL LEAGU Yesterday’s Results, Toronto 8, Newark 0. Providence 3, Montreal (first | game). ! Montreal 2, Providence 0, game). Baltimore-Rochester, rain. Richmond-Buffalo, rain. | (second Standing of the Clubs. ) Providence Buffalo Baltimore Richmond Toronto | Montreal . Newark .. Rochester | | 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 = Today’s Games. Montreal at Newark. Toronto at Providence. Buffalo at Baltimore. Rochester at Richmond. SHIRTS SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 5c CIGAR 1 | Or is there any answer?—Buchon. UMP FORCES TEAMS | ship. The Golfer’s Alphabet, A is for Alibi, poured from the soul, For the putts that continued to slip by the hole. B is for Bunker—regardless of clime, Where nine-tenths of us spend the bulk of our time. C is for Cup—Wwhere the flag shows the line— Sometimes for a 3 3 and again for a 9. D is for Divot—and also for Dub Who could sink his short puttg if the cup was a tub. E’s for Explaining—which most of us do— Why we got 96 and mnot 72, F' is for Flub—which is easily made By hoisting the bean as the mashie | is played. G is for Green—laid rolling plots, That is easily Teached enough shots. on smooth, if you use H is for Hazard where niblick blades flash, Where the air reeks with sulphur as scores go to smash. | from 1 is for Iron that gets the ball up - | And quite often drops it a mile from the cup. J is for Jock which the same is the name Of many a Scot who is there at the game. K is for something or other, I vow, But just what it is I.can’'t think of Tight now, | | | L is for Lie, either cuppy or worse, The kind that you play with a sob | and a curse. i M is for Mashie, to hold the shot true, | Tt you play it just right, which about seven do. (To be continued.) We are told that Alexander isn't as good as he was last year. Possibly not. But at this writing he has won i3 games and dropped 3. Which is fair enough for an off-year. Who Can Answer Him? Sir—Please break this news to me as gently as possible. What doth it profit one to get a 250 yard drive on a 267 yard hole and then proceed to bhash your 17 yard approach, take | ihree putts and wind up with a 3?2 When your opponent as mine did ves- terda hooks his drive, ices his iron, tops his mashie but rolls it dead to the pin for an unusualy simple 47? | 10 PLAY IN RAIN Braves Take Anothef Game from Giants in Ten Innings New York, June 22.—Whaever the shortcomings of the Braves no man can accuse them of poor waterman- At the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon they swam through several innings that would have drowned a duck to a 5 to 4 victory over the clan of McGraw, scoring the winning run in the tenth and in a cloudburst that almost washed away the pitching kopje. The score T hite 0002002001—5 11 0 1010000200—4 9 1 Allen, Hughes and Gow- on, Perritt and Rariden Boston New York Batteries Mathew and Kocher. a Reds Down Cubs Twice. Chicago, June 22.—Cincinnati took both ends of a double-header from the Cubs yesterday, 4 to 3 and 3 to 2. Toney pitched excellent ball for the visitors In the first game. In the second game the visitors scored the winning tally in the fifth, when Ar- cher tried to catch a runner off third and the throw went wild. The scores: First Game. T 030001000—4 010000020— v and Clark; and Archer e. 0 5 2 Pack- h. Cincinnati 7 Chicago Batterie; ard, Prendergast Fischer. Second Game 110010000—3 101000000—2 Mitchell, Moseley and lavender, Prendergasi, Archer and Fischer. Cincinnati Chicago Batteries Wingo; 3rown and ABBOTT TO LEAD HARVARD. Cambridge, Mass, June 22 B. Abbott, of Andover, was last night elected captain of the Harvard ball team for 1917. He pl second base. Georze | base- | sidewheeler. | any club that could beat him yet and | been inclined ! bination of John McGraw and Connie , higher than third or fourth? | Said ORT LIGHT Grantlend Rice One Fed Several of the Fed stars may have slipped after reaching the National or ! American leagues, but it is just as well not to overlook the case of Nicholas Cullop, the Chilhow in the Casc. Nick had a fine year with the Feds, but it was suggested that he meet a different Teception when he faced major league batting. He may later | on. But so far Nick hasn’t found | July is only a step or two away. As averages g0, 1,000 does well enough. Smiling Bill Donovan. Any one inclined to criticize Bill Donovan, the Yank Mandarin might peer a moment into this situation: Suppose any one had suggested at the start of the season that after mid-June— 1. Frank Baker would be batting | under .260. 2. That Lee Magee would be be- | low .230. 3. That have won only starts. 4. That Fritz Maisel would crippled and out for two month. 5. That Joe Gedeon would .315 to .227 from May June 15. Knowing this would any one have to wager that a com- Ray 9 Caldwell games out would of 10 be drop | 10 to Mack would have the Yankees any Exposing the Miscreant, “Who was it?” writes Jerry “that wrote this last season”— J. { i “It isn’t raining rain to me,” little Johnny Vedder “It isn’t raining rain to me— It's raining double headers.” (The scribe who penned this roundelay was not Shakespeare—but R A, there was another Joe Jackson had and W no As we recall it, rumor abroad that witnessed his best days longer the clean, free swatsman of cld. Yet in the last six weeks Jacka son has bubbled from .270 to .350 and As SENATORS WIN WHEN RAIN COMES Clarkin’s Pets Overcome Lead and Are in Front in Sixth Hartford, off just long enough Hartford to sixth and beat Lawrence, June 22.—The rain held | for | the | Law- | yesterday score two runs in 6 to 4. rence scored once in the first half the seventh, when the game was call- | ed. This was the first game of a | scheduled double-header, and two | games are called for tomorrow. The | score: | r. | 020002—4 200000—2 Hartford Lawrence Gero and O'Connor; Gil and Lavigne. Lowell 5, New Haven 2. Lowell, Mass. feated New Haven game which was closely contested up to the eighth inning, when Wood- ward’s wildness brought Lowe™Zhree | runs for a 5-to-2 victory. Zeiser erratic in the early stages. but got his bearings and finished strong. Stimp- son’s batting was a feature. The score: h. e. g 00100103x 10 2 New Haven 010000010- 6 4 Batteries: Zeiser and Kilhuikn; Woodward and Devine. June 22.—Lowell de- yesterday in a | was | | | TLowell ) i | l Green Sox Win. Springfield, Mass., June 22—Spring- Jfield defeated Lynn here in the rmnl vesterday, 13 to Rain fell all dur- | ing the game, which dragged for two = hours and forty-two minutes. Spring- field batted hard and timely, Booe starring with four singles in four times up. Lynn could not touch La | Roy, but the latter had to be vanked | hecause of wildness. Manager Pieper, | of Liynn, was put off the field for ob- jecting to a decision. The score: i r. h | 101023000— 7 6 10303204x—13 16 73 e | Lynn 3| Springfield 4 Willilams, Hewitt and Daniels and Steph- | Batteries: Carroll; La Rov, ens. ZIMMERMAN INJURED- is now only a half breath back of Tris Speaker. Jackson absorbed 9 straight Lits in one lump and then had an- other fit that yielded 7 out of 8 times up. We are informed that the Moran- Dillon match was to be a 10 round affair. But after reading what the | two contenders have to say about it the scrap will have to be stopped at the end of 10 or 15 seconds, as neither will have a head left and cnly a very little of anything else. LEGORE CHO: N CAPTAIN. Yale Baseball Nine Elects Star Short- stop As Leader. —The Yale at a meeting Boston, June 22 base- ball night, elected Harry LeGore as cap tain. ILeGore, although declared In- eligible to play this year can play next season under the new eligibility agree- ment between Harvard, Yale and Princeton. HARVARD AGAIN New Haven Collegians Score in Fifth, team here last But Crimson Piles Up Lead in Next Inning. Cambridge, Mass., June 22.—By de- feating Yale, 4 to 1 yesterday, Har- vard clinched the series with that university, having won the first game at New Haven yesterday, 5 to 2- A crowd estimated at 15,000 the contest, which had the usual com- saw, mencement game side features in- cluding a parade of the various classes in uniform, the singing of class songs and a peanut battle between classes in the grandstand- Yale got the basses full in the fifth and Earley’s long fly gave Shepley an opportunity to score. It looked as if the Blue would pile serval runs but Watrous was caught napping at first and the side was retired. Harvard hit hard in the next Abbott. Score: ..10001200*— Yale +.000010000—1 Batterie: Harrison and Watrous and Munson Harvard Har CLARY i‘UKNI‘IIJA CAPTA No¥. Clary, '17, of Seneca Fal Tthaca June 2 J. , N. Y., was | elected captain of the Cornell baseball | team for next season at a meeting yes- | terday. lle succeeds Arthur Mellen, | also a junior and eligible next year. Clary is a member of Alpha Tau Ome- | and has been first string catcher | two years. L Frank ga for inning, a long | drive by Beal scoring Coolidge and | Chicago, Jure 22.—Heinie Zimmer- man, third baseman and captain of the Cubs, broke his right shoulder | blade in falling down the steps at his home yesterday. The injury will keep him out of the game several weeks. That Zimmerman's absence will be felt was indicated today, when | the Cubs lost a double header to Cin- cinnati. Heinie heads the list of tho | club in batting, with a percentage of .323. Rollie Zeider will take Zimmer- nian’s place at third TOO YOUNG TO GO TO WAR, THEY WORK | 10,000 Boys In England Do Their | Share By Making Muni- tions, Woolwich, Eng., June Ten thousand boys too young to fight are doing what they consider the next hest service for their country—turn: munitions in the government here. In ordinary times many would have become office boys, clerks or ! telegraph messengers, but tod majority come from points miles from the factory and help the older men make the shells and guns neaded by the men at the front. The pay is attractive can earn $7.50 a week, or if he has a good machine keep steadily at work for as long as 12 hours a day. Parents who have to choose between putting their bovs to learn a trade at $2 or §2.50 a week and allowing them to go into the ar- senal at the higher remuneration are naturally inclined to decide on the work which not only brings in the quickest return, but seems to in the national interests as well. Social workers who have the hoys’ welfare at heart are inclined to lament that so many should be entering what may not perhaps prove a permanent occupation. They say that their fu- | ture is not unlikely to become a proh- i lem after the war and that the coun- try might well remember then that | | the great army of boy munition work- | ers played no small part in the d cult time. The daily A smarst hoy | even $10 | and can : be life of these boys shows what sacrifices they are Thousands live an hour's | from the factory, and some have to leave home as early as 6:30 in the morning and cannot get back till 9:30 in the evening. All work twelve hour: 1 day, starting at 8 sh- ing They take the night shift to, for twelve hours, and a boy may he seen asleep from exhaustion on his way home in car or train. Fvery effort is made by the of munitions to safeguard the heaith of the youngsters, but the problem a difficult one. ight hour shifts being urged and efforts are made to improve the transportaftiom | facilities to and from the arsenol. | One of the latest suggestions and the ma ! jonrney and tia at 8 also ofien sheer traim minister aied] ‘ : 5 likely is of to ont > ar- vhise one t5 build mile senal wher engaged in shell-making Ain’t It The Truth? most | You used to shed tears because your mother wouldn’t let you play with those bad Jimp- son boys: N Your idea of a bath was to splash around in a muddy ““Swimmin’”’ But now you’re so fas- tidious that you’ll only smoke one brand of cigarettes: Nothing but MECCA! Air’t It The A poor tobacco- cropyearin Turkey cannot affect MEC- CA Quality. Hun- dreds of thousands of pounds of choice | Turkish leaf are always kept ia reserve—growing 5¢ 20:%10¢ THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY in the handy slide box in the oval foil package e e