New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1916, Page 8

Red Sox Make American League Racc Closer--Athletics Equal Record for Successive Losses--Browns Take Double Header From Seiiators--It Was the Same Ol1d Story With the Yanks ILLOW WIELDING \Crack Swimmers to Meet WINS FOR RED S0 Experts of Hawaiian Islands 0ston Advances a Peg Nearer Lead by Beating Chisox m crept one | top vesterday to 4. s the ame nearer hen it defeated Chic Pnly one-half of a game jwo leaders now. T pions won the contest imely hitting, accun i vhich routed F nd Cicotte from the mound The score go by 6 separat world’s cham- by heavy and | e ifteen ! Williams | Bt 091013100—6 15 000002101—4 7 and Cady; Faber, | Danforth and Mays Cicotte, Athletics Tied Record, l | | | 9.—DBy losing Detroit, 9 to 0, twentieth Je ting that they have taken tied the American lea established o Boland shut out witbout effort. Nabors was hit hard, b 1d the hits were well bunched. Cobb | né Veach did the feature wc H ing seven safeties between The sc vester- the de- consecutive the Ath- ue record, Boston in the Mackmen Hay's game eat beir nux was by 12000132x: 000000000 and B [Detroit [Philadelphia and Couple. nd Groom shington's | will, and | vesterday, and e second by by Foster in the “ second game, after | and stolen sec- game for Plank | ns Garner a Aug. 9—Plank ncible, while W: re hit almost at won both games 2 to 0 double St. Lo vere inv f-itchers *t. Lou: he f ¥ 9 to 1. A linth inning of the M]liams had walked lond, spoiled no-hit land sent over the run |y ing seven safeties hetween them. i First Game, The score ga Senators’ only 1 h. e & t 00010010x i o 000000000—0 4 0 | | Severeid; | C yom and t 1nd Henry econd Game 61200000% < 000000001 —Plank and Rumle: Ainsmith Yanks Tose Cleveland, Ohio, At and Love between them furnished | rathe .tive pitching for the} Yank terday and :‘uw\ \\'I\O]tj Y.nn- ‘ kee clan inferior batting, | fieldins nning. The con- | sequence delinquen- | cles was not u defeat, the Ind The score: rnished rase Il these ¢ and of 1040 001010002—4 s—Coleman, Gould and Wa 11 and Love SCHOONER WINS. I, Aug. 9.—Morton hooner E sloop cups for schoone tively, in the New regatta for the Jewport, R. L, 1 her neare more than Cleveland New York Batteric vesterds compe and sailed cour 4 hours and 19 vas strong, holding from 2 rt to 30 miles second at the st v to the De- | ms were ot | batted 5 in | L he has par- | | Bread terday the ath- 1 t only played the | v grounds, from the | result th vere Bartlett at dodge I e e 1 at was the first that the 1 suffered in two GOLF caretaker ers have vears COT at tt ARRANGIN Orrin Smith, tle Meadow Country c of about th cou rushed though i will be has 100 me | will bas Base- man N. Hall lub of the pPittsburgh e e e i SMOKE i OXMOOR | A MILD, PLEASANT S¢ CIGADR Owenshoro Kitty Ic e to report at P swimmers, cc nival now | on trovhies | The contract that | T New York, Aug. Herbert I. Cann of the "he three great Vollmer, Tedford New York Athletic lub and Ludy Langer, the Pacific champion, are now ready to eave for the long trip to Homnolulu o take part in the big water car- to he held there in September. ‘onsiderable interest attaches to the rip, becau it is practically a cer- ainty that they will gain measure rokes with the great Duke Kahan- moku in the coming meet. In fact, despite persistent efforts that the | ITawaiian wonder swimmer intends to | turn professional, it is confidently be- !lieved in aquatic retain his least until circles that he will amateur standing, at he has had a chance to again try conclusions Yorker: with the New The latter both took hi { measure conclusively in this. country a few weeks ago, and Duke will hard- 1y miss the opportunity to win back | his lost laurels, especially as in home | waters the advantage will be entirely on his side. Thus the prospective | clashes are looked forward to with | keen anticipation. Vollmer twice | lowered the 220 yard indoor world's | record last winter, and whether he | wins over the Hawaiian or not, there | is reason to think he will force the | pace to the point of breaking open | water standards, at least at the cen- | tury and furlong. Picture on lower | left shows Vollmer; other picture | cann. v “Well-well”’—the Judge said, gazing out Across the courtroom’s zone; lady, you want your release From this benighted bone; what grounds do you Jjump seek to signed ? ed quick opined— rou’'ve it the lady harshly she Chorus. counte “When this guy came to me he had a big league job; swore scribes had labelled hother us Cobb’; But a player he has one sign up to date, There ain’t nobody livin’ drive him from the p Judge: looked on the wretch With murder in his eye: “So ¥owre the old .300 From soup 0ss to This lady here gets her decree, And for a deeper hurt I sentence you six vears pudding for he said e him shown but that e blighted can, The id pie? to eat dessert.” fow About the East? Within the next two week the Bast hegins its drive to tr recover le: one wi West has wrenched away three main championships 1d tennis—the open and the championships in golf, the championship in tennis. -ce titles are all held in the title hy Johnston, a golf titles by eminent citizens or so and in ¢ 1e tennis Californian; the two Evans and Gardner, of Cook County, Il The first drive by Eastern troope | comes at Forest Hills, where the Cal- ifor contingent will be intrgnched to meet the charge of Norris Williams, Karl Belr, George Church and oth- er: And as the ave McLoughlin, Johnston, Mur- Griffin and aides in charge of main batteries, the East can ciate the task it has to regain ophy which Johnston wrested from Williams last year. Two Records. This has been a freak year in base- ball beyond all parallel, And the freakiest part, which doesn’t mean the flukiest, has been in the straight win record making. In the National league the rocord for consecutive wins, seventeen' in a championship | California contingent | Grantland Rice row, was made by a tail end club starting with a percentage of .143, where every game was won on alien | soa. In the American league the record was r ie by a club deeply imbedded in seventh place. The Giants and the Browns are the leading heroes mentioned in the most unusus episode baseball has known for over a decade When a club at the bottom and one in seventh place 1sh the sea- son’s mark for consecutive victories and extend this mark out to lengthy proportions the abnormal elasticity of the G lddope can be , fairly well appreciated. | can s ind Batting Fyes and Climate. The Batting Eye apparently reaches it test efficiency when produced and nurtured in warmer climate As this statement we the nar ker, of Robertsor Joe K So the only major How of- vroof of | fer Spe | son, of in the rolina \hout ner thern G nd nust have come any and Southern One company gion returned from the Foreign Le- from a with only twenty-six unwou men, but this is twenty more ounded than the Yanks returned Revised. | “Leaf by leaf the roses fall;" Hair by hair a guy turns gray But three by three beyond recall The wounded Yankees fade away. Ficlder Jones and the Browns. There may be nothing brililant or miraculous about the managerial dis- play of Fielder Jones, but for dogged determination and unfaltering ten- acity he has no superior in the an- nals of play. If ever a manager and a bail club had a right to be discouraged the combination was Jones and the Browns, a fairly well known family. You can imagine how the average manager and the average ball club would feel that expected to win a pennant and found themselves in soventh place in August. There would have been nothing to four | ave passed | | ringing wallop to center field in | very { and the game wa. | abode it except a peppery dis begin- ning *“Wait'll next year.” Jones had no idea of ge of the scramble, d his men result being a ral Eastern clu rvousness on the part Western contende the Browns out some ussion quitting and shock feeling several net weeks ago. Maxims of the Nineteenth Hole. He th plunketh hi: into a pond | say in his h is no heaven But he that ho heareth the on hi shot art ng ing from a pearly 1, Before bawling out an umpire, just how keenly would I job? you h PORTLARD BUMPED Hickey's Timely Bingle in Eighth In- ning Drives in Runs Which Sox Victory. Springfield, Aug. 9.—John Hickey latest second possible af of aft- cighth inning pulled the game out the fire at League park yesterday and the hit the plate the Green Sox won Sox had ernoon, as carried two men ov out, 5 to 4 The Green ready won the game once, llowed to wander ¢ in ning when Bill Powers w for three hits, which with Walter F error gave Po: Jand four runs and the lead. Powers steady bef anad especially after turbulent inning, the settings vere prepared for Hickey when he came to bat with two down anl the hases filled and two runs needed for the victo Portland by this ti was using its second pitcher of hout, but that did not bother Hicke: He waited for a nice ball to his likin, and with the count three balls an iwo strikes on him just larruped aw ure. The score: T 00102002x— 6 0004000—4 7 Daniels and Ojerholm; Durning and Sweatt. but it was the s.xth s cracked spacious mmona’s Springfield Portland . Batterie: Plitt, e 1 2 he | had counted | “There | bunker | Bring | the | the | al- | | Baseball News in a Nuishell NATIONAL LEAGUE. i ne) lay’s Results, All other atl 1, Clubs. rain). Standing of the other game, rain = ortland ew London Cincinnati Today's Games. Pittsburgh heade — INTERNATION AL LEAGUE. AMERICAN LEAGYE. ey Yester Results. el Boston 6, C Cleveland 9 Detr 9, New York 4 St I game). t. Louis 9, game) Yashiceton Standing of the Clubs. 1 (second Standing of : ] ’rovidence L : Montreal CIEETER v onbosatosal ; : Bo Clev N Detroit St. Louis b ington Philadelphia Itimore Coronto Rich Rochester Toda Gamcs. Boston at Chicago. New York at Cleveland Philadelphia at Detroi Washington at St. Louis. Roches Buffalo at Richmond. Toronto at SOX BUY Seatttle, Wash., Eldred, star center cal Northwest 1 sold to the White nounced toda close of the se e EASTERN LEAGUE. aE = gue club, Results. first Yesterda Springfield-Portland, game, COAST STAR. 9.—“Brick” flelder for the has Sox, It was He will repart at the lo- been an- * VINS FOR PHILLIE Tnnings of Timely Swatting Turn the Trick Rain stopped the eighth >} delph homee Knet- another hia two 2001002 00000 and K LEAGUE BLOWS UP. ! No Coin in Kitty Causes Kitty League to Disband 9. —With Hopkinsvilla hope of the eing to complete even as four-club or- has disappeared cision of the owners of the nchise to disband the night, Madi- cnville dropped out a week ago, and the sboro team was disbanded Pc tendance was given the cause. The Dawson Springs, Henderson and Clarksville clubs will be disbanded within a day or two, # expected Hopkinsville disbanding team here vester Kitty league Ky., A the all able 1g. the of ve ay, on nization, The d Hopkinsville fr team was announced last Ow SN TO PLAY. LINEM A Dbasebal staged S Mary's playg ; from Hartford and Waterbury il sh on the local diamond settle a long controversy relative to the, sue periority of each other. Hartford will send down a strong aggregation inclding George Brickley, brother of the famed Harvard star, Muldoon the former Eastern leaguer, Rex Isiiah and Babe Clark, well known in local | baseball circles. interest afternoon when lir will at S, emen be rou Whoopee Boy, Whoopee; box of MECCAS to help you while the hours away makes every day like Sunday on the farm.