New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1916, Page 12

NEW, BRJTAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916. Frers Wants to Quit Braves--Merkle’s Four Ply Clout Beats Cubs--Yanks and Athletics Lose, but t Doesn’t-Cause Surprise--W hite Sox Loaf and Take League Lead--Factory League Games Tomorrow SCENDING YANKS HUMBLED AGAIN Time It Is the Tigers That Do the Trick troit, Mich., Aug. 4.—The bes the Yankees are dotng these hot 18 to play a close game with their jnents. They played one with B yesterday, and, as was the case their six immediately preceding Bsts, it was a losing game. Thc lrs won by 2 to 1, but unti] their jpd run had spread itself all jhome plate they were not one bit perior team to the Yankees. fere was a man on third for De- in the ninth, with one out who had a speedy, baffling saliva | and showed fine pitching by sus ng the Yankees in their warfare just struck out a man, with br on third, and Young, a w , was at the plate. oung cut a grounder ta Gedeon e to Gedeon on a true hop, and Veach—it he who was on third—was plung- clutched it eagerly. to the plate. a yard, and Walters. Walters had ked off and put the ball an him, ‘Walters Is a small man and Veach g one. Veach slid lght and momentum he had pact jarred the ball from Walter's b, and O'Loughlin, who had called ch out, had to call him safe. Gedeon’s throw 3 5 000000101—2 by York .. 000100000—1 4 2 ~Cavaleskie, Boland and sell and Walters. roit Take the First. eveland, Aug. 4.—Cleveland ovening game of the series iladelphia yesterday by 3 to 1. Bag- being more effective with men on kes than Bush. Bagby also aided in own victory by making a triple and bring. Cleveland’s = first run. pr- Indians won with .00200001x—-3 000000001—1 gby and Daly; Bveland iladelphia [Batteries; d Ha Be Browns Get Thirteen. St. Louis, Av 4.—St. Louis made thirteen straight by taking the first e of the series from Boston here sterday by 3 to 2. In the second in- Ing Walker hit into the left fleld achers for a home run. St. Louis bri in the tenth. Tobin singled, S f'doubled, Pratt was passed pPUrpos Hcott threw out Marsans, but To- h scored on the play. The score: r. h.e . Louls 000000101—3 8 0 Joston .. .......0100010000—2 6 3 Batteries: Koob and Severeid; Leon- d, Mays and Thomas. WILL TINKER 60? eports State That Weeghman is Dis- of Cubs— satisfied Over Showing “Butting In” Is His Latest Stunt. Aug. 4—Rumors of biction between ~ Owner Ch Jveeghman and Manager Joe Tinker [+ the Chicago Cubs have been in cir- lulation for some time and when the eam arrived in New York, prepared o begin a serdes with the Giants, these eports were partially confirmed. [ rpears that Weeghman, who had risions of the National league pennant [.nd much wealth when he turned his eck on the Feds and purchased the ubs last~winter, has been greatly dis- b ppointed by the poor showing of the eam, and is trying to run things lwithout Tinker's assistance, Accord- ing to the gossips, Weeghman, with- out consulting Tinker, traded Schulte and Fischer to the Pirates far Wilson—a deal that made James J. Callahan chuckle with glee. ) It Weeghman ignored the Cubs manager in pullmg off this trade it <would seem that there can be only one yesult. Tin will be succeeded as the Cubs leader at the end of th present season.” When Weeghman in- énced Tinker the Brooklyn elub's offer in Fe 1914, Jatter signed a three vears’ contract with the Chicaga Fec 1ary $12,000. Ti Whales won the Fed pennant 1z ar but Weeghman made no mone When the consol dation with t Cubs took place Mirker assured Weeghman that the nized comprising the ng members of the Chifeds, would a ague pemnant with fuse »ruary, ker's sty team, consum JASE ADAMS. Pittsburgh, Penn., Aug. 4.—Adams pitcher for the Pittsburgh National Yieague baseball club, was today his unconditional relea v sere asked on him several days a but none of the clubs the Jengues signed him. PITRATE! give major SMOKE A MILD, PLEASANT Sc CIGAR Rus- the beat | a r weas caught cleanly Veach in with all the | The Charles | | It Art | the | of | Flanagan to Oppose Stanley Tomor- row—Joe Fitzpatrick in Role of | Pitcher—Tio Will be Broken. At Walnut Hill park tomorrow, the Fafnir team, league leaders, will clash with the Stanley Works. The Stanley works is the only team that has beat- en the Fafnir bearing this season, and they look forward to another victory for Manager Hutching’ hustlers. Hen- ry Flanagan, the only pitcher that has defeated Stanley this year, will be called on to twirl again. With these | two twirlers opposing each other, it will undoubtedly be one of the hard- est fought battles of the year. The fans of the city are interested in Fac- tory league baseball, as shown by their large following at previous games. Larry Mangan will umpire and a large attendance is anticipated. St. Mary's playgrounds will be the sceno of a great battle for second place, between the New Britain Ma- chine company and North & Judd Manufacturing company. Both teams have won and lost the same number of games. Joe Fitzpatrick, who has | recently acquired fame as a pitcher, | ana who tried out with Hartford in | the BEastern league will twirl, and “Jim” Clinton will be on the recelving end. Dudack, the husky high school boy, will be on the mound for the jine shop boys, and Mike Noonan, pion fame, will be behind the The North & Judd has a bunch oyal rooters” at their games and cord br ng attendance ex- pected. Mike Haugh will umpire this game. The standing is t mac of bat of Fafnir B. North & Judd Stanley Wor B FACTORY LEAGUE GAMES |Cincinnati Says Chase is Peer of First Sackers FIFTYFIFTY 1§ THE BRAVES-REDS SHARE Pinch Hitter Makes Good in Tnitial Contest Boston, A t game yesterds the second by Cincinnati won the by 3 to 1 and 5 to 3. In the ining of the first contest Mitchell, batting for Schudtz, hit for Cincinnati, Au id they member of the Reds the other day after Prince Hal pulled off a sensational play. “Just think it was only last year that a number of critics thought that Chase had about seen his last days as a first sacker,” continued the speaker. never come back?” yelled | two es with the sacks fillled and scored three runs. Ded Smith made the second game secure for Boston in the first inning by driving to deep center for a home run with the bases full. The scores (First game). r. h.e. +e....000000003—3 8 1 Boston 000001000—1 8 4 Batterie Toney, Schulz, Moseley and Wingo; Barnes and Blackburn, (Second game). Cincinnati W0 G 40100000x-— 8 0 Cincinnati e....100110000—3 10 0 Batteries: Allen and Blackburn; Moseley and Clarke. Boston Dodgers Trim Pirates. Brooklyn, Aug. 4.—The Dodgers gave an example of “keeping up with the Jon: " on Ebbets field yester- day. McGraw men had manhandled the Pirates for a whole series, and by the way the Brooklynites started out | in the initial fray the Buccanecers are likely to fare no better on the other | side of the big bridge. The score in favor of Brooklyn was 7 to 2, and the | home team had the satisfaction of | driving one pitcher from the hill, only treat hi successor even Imore | roughly. The scvre: § Y h Brooklyn 00000043x—7 10 Pittsburgh .+2.000000020—2 7 Batteries: Cheney and Miller; Mil- 1tdehner and Fischer. | to e. 2 1 | Some Drive. New York, Aug. 4.—WV drive into the bleacher field for a home run, Fred Merkle, the elongated New York first base man, repulsed the invasion of tha Polo Grounds by Joe Tinker's frivo- lous Cubs yesterday afternoon, and gave the Giants a victory over the Windy City team, 1 to 0. The score: r. h. e 00000001x—1 3 2 000000000—0 7T 1 and Rariden; th a terrifie seats in left New York . Chicago Batteries Vaughn and Wi Phillics Busy With Bats. lelphia, Aug. 4.—Philadelphia hit the deliverfes of Doak and Wat- | son hard yesterday and defeated St. Louis by 10 to 4. Luderus led in the attack with a home run and two | singles, while Beck and Wilson also acked out three hits each. The score: Ph r. h.e. ...00013303x—10 14 1 St. Louis ..000200020— 4 9 2 Batteries: Bender and Burns; Doak, Watson and Gonzales. Philadelphia DODGERS GET SHORTSTOP. The Dodgers have a new shortstop, but he will not be available until aft- er the close of the Western League season in September. His name is Kelleher and he is 22 years old and now playing with the Denver club, Kelleher is hitting the ball at a .339 clip. He leads the Western League in runs scored, and is sald to be a fast baso traveler. Kelleher bats and throws right handed, welght 165 pounds, and is § feet 9% inches tall. President Ebbets wanted his services at once, but the Denver club would not let him go. PIONEERS VERSUS WOPS. Hyphenated Team to Mingle With To- cal Semi-Pro. What will Sunday. no doubt be one of the games of the will be at the Ellis grounds afternoon, crack best, season, NATIONAL LEAGUE. played Sunday Italian Street, the team in New Yesterday's Results, New York 1, Chicago 0. Brooklyn 7, Pittsburgh 2. when American baseball will make their first appearance Britain against the Pioneers. This team which is composed mostly of American born Italians, outside of the Bostan Cincinnati game. Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 4. 5, battery, has a reputation of being ohe of the best state. semi-pro teams in the They have a record of beating some of the best teams in the state, such as the Humphries, Cedar Hills, Colored Giants, West Ends, Branford and Newfields of Bridgeport. They have also beaten the Southington team of the Valley league twice this year and they expect to add the Pioneers to their lis The Pioneers have shown a wonder- ful improvement in the last five or six games and they will surely make the boys from New Haven go to heat them. Manager Conlin has hooked | the €olored Giants of New Haven to appear here soon and the fans will no doubt remember the series they plaved Owing to Southing- ton dropping out of the Valley leagus, the Pioneers will not play Saturday. “Fish” Ahearn will work for the Pio- neers Sunday with Noonan catching. | Gilmore and Waters will comprise the | battery for the Ttalian American team. | “Mike” Haugh will call the game at 3 o’clock. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost Brooklyn ... aoe G 34 Philadelphia b2 39 Boston 38 New York 47 44 Chicago 45 52 Pittsburgh 40 gt. Louis 44 Cincinnati 51 56 39 60 Games Today. Chicago at New York Pittsburgh at Broookly Cincinnati at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. AMERICAN 1/ Yesterday's Results, Detroit 2, New York 1. St. Louis 3, Boston Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 1 Washington a called end of first inning; Rain, Standing of the Clubs, Tost 42 41 44 45 49 47 49 Banned Three Day Remark to | Chicago Boston Cieveland New York Detroit Washington St. Louis | Philadelphia Umpire—Braves Prote: Boston, Aug. 4.—George manager of the Boston Nation- als yesterday received notification of | his suspension for three days by Pres- ident the Umpire ings, Tener of league, for | addressed Rigler Wednesda game. The Braves' leader left the bench during the first game of a double-header with Cin- cinnati, Fred Mitchell succeeding him in charge The series members of words to after | g Games Today. New York at Detroit. Boston at St. Louis. Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cleveland. of altercations between the Braves' team and le: ue umpires during the last two months, 2nd more especially Umpire Rigler's attitude and decisions in Wednesday's game, were the subject ! of a protest made to the league presi- dent in New York yesterday by Presi- lent Haughton of the Boston team. “but now he has fooled them. Since ke joined the Reds Chase has put up a wonderful game, in fact as geed as | he ever did. Not alone has he plaved a grand fielding game, but his batting has been heavy too. 1 don't tirere is a first baseman who compares with Chase,” concluded the Redles. . Photo shows Chase at bat EASTERN LEAGUE, Yesterday’s Results, Portland 3, Hartford 1. New Haven 4, Springfield 1. ew London 9, Lawrence 3. Bridgeport 7, Lynn 5 Worcester 11, Lowell believe -] [ ] ] " | B B [ | | [ | | B B [ | [ | | = L] [ = L Cincinnati 3, Boston 1.—First game. 3.—Second 10 innings, Chicago-—Game ' Baseball News In a Nutshell Standing of the Clubs. Won I Portland 8 6 New London Worcester Springfield | Lynn Lawrence | New Haven Bridgeport | Lowell Hartford Games Today Portland at Hartford—2 Springfield at Bridgeport New Haven at Worcester. New London at Lawell Lynn at Lawrence. SRNATIONAL LEAGUE, Yesterday's Re Rochester 7. Montreal Toronto 6, Buffalo 5 Richmond 3, Baltimore 1 Only three games scheduled Poughkeepsie 1 Providence 2 Exhibition game. P.C.| 626 71 | 68 516 | 464 | 440 440 .394 ults, Standing of the Clubs, Won Lost Buffalo 50 Providence ...... 50 Montreal 47 Baltimore 49 Toronto 46 Richmond 44 Newark 39 | Rochester 37 e Games Today. Buffalo at Toronto, Montreal at Rochester Baltimore at Richmond ewark at Providence, GNS DOOLAN. Negotiations were completed es. terday between Manager Christy Mathewson of the Cincinnati Reds and Manager McGraw of the Giant i for the transfer of Infielder Mike | Doolan, the Philadelphia veteran the Cincinnati club, Doolan will 1 used as a utility infielder MATTY ED. SPEN TO TIGERS Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 4 i Spencer, catcher of the Vernon of the Pacific Coast league, said 5 | terday he had accepted an offer from the Detrolt American League clut | ana probably would leave next to join the team My boy, it can’t be done —it can’t be done—no one could deliver more for three times the price. MECCA Sl EEECEEEEERSEEEEEEEREEHERR llnlllllllvg'