New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1916. s Braves With Rudolph Up Trim Robins--Giants Don’t Look That Way in Philly--Smoketown Outfit Finds Cards Easy--Johnson Sent Down to Defeat by Red Sox--Home Runs Feature Yanks-Macks Contes i | | | 1 LOBINS ARENIGKED Zee Fohl Says Indians ~ OPORT st e JOHNSON IS BEATEN \GANBYERAVES Will Make Strong Finish =% LIGHT [ | INPITCHERS DUEL udolph’s Efiective Twirling | g s ey ; e b e wen o | DaDE” Ruth Gain Decision Over-- m g Wy Grantland Rice |5 Mo, 0w "ae | “Cannonball” After 13 Innings Prime Factor in T Western club has yet shown any great ability along this linc The Exile's Revery. between .800 and 1,000 would be When it comes to hand-to-hand Boston, Aug, 15.—Babe Ruth was & “Songs of the Off-Trail.”) startled to observe their mark was | fighting, with the, flag at stake, this! the victor in a thirteen inning pitch- orded in baseball annals and in the . " g | When I come home again about .217 Which isn’'t knocking | Boston club in the last two years has | ing duel with Walter Johnson yester- ther archives of the diamond ! o 4 | When I come back {o scenes from | Mr. FHughes. It goes for most of [ proved to be one of the great ma-| day, the Red Sox defeating Washing- 1at the last contest in which Ry . 8 : : boyhood's day them. chines of the decadc ton in the latter's final appearance at ¥n Dodgers participated be- | ;é}“ 3 p k When I have seen old faces there, and T | Fenway Pork this season, 1 to 0. final western trip of the | g § % i : e | Tor example, in these dispatches, if s a deplorable affair. The : eature of yvesterday 1fter- Cheer-up Stuff: For twelve innings Johnson held the | f . I've journeyed down {he well re-!|We could make one hit out of every o ! Red Sox to four widely scattered hits, | : " : > 1 ; membered ways— three starts for a modest mark of SULIELER Dot 0 O The thirteenth session was his undo- ok e el : £ : (iheipat i ey iEo e il venfand ihiciiane | 98 ale nldReonsld or ounliave e 1B R HO T gty HONDS the champlions getting three hi ume to the Boston Braves 4 ot S e I ViE L Ly i e R \““,i:nmm\u enough. It would not be up ‘\\‘l alse lere): ‘”””,}”' Ang ges = this inning and netting the game's of 4 to 1, to the chagrin | ; » ; » it to Mr. Hughes standard, nor Ty hat Jones did with the Browns nthusiasts who turned } i o G 3 g 5 “obhh's y Tris Speake 3 1 enimelints whe (o d B \ . |Ana echoed with the mockingbird's | COPb's, nor Tris Speaker’s. But it — jid bon voyage to their depart- ey would leave us beyond Benny Kauff < rement was that the Rob- off in the thirteenth with an the East Make It? | a drive which caromed off Johnson's kg The thrush's call—the hum of drift- | Jack Barry, Johnny Ev and Stuffy The East triumphed over the West | hand when he attempted to stop ‘it The Superbas reached the delivery ¢ = 5 McInnis, Which is something. P Rudolph for as many hits as i 1o e Ing ibees tidily enough in the recent lawn ten- | And Went for a hit. Lewis struck out 3 g 3 I wonder if the sun will seem as gold ‘ ) neice +nd Hoblitzel flied to Milan: Walker Sre 1 the years gone | One alert scribe has hit upon an s 2 St e e A 1\1 nce knew it in the vears gone | ey o ‘m s But can the East dethrone the West | Singled to center, Barry making third I wonder if the paths I knew of old | Dire troubles. Let the manager and e I , and | the club owner umpire all home 3 o ot . Rind hencath destgiang games, Nobhody \mvx“v kick then .‘ The West has held the leading title | to center, and Barry scored the players from Bean- blue a sky e e b As it 1o avery 1IN two of the last three years. And | Three fast double plays by Boston it vas rtireldiriers 3 : : ; § | As I once loved before 1 went away? | SePL{he VISING club. As M 16 Vel | whjle the Bast recently outplayed the | in the I four innings prevented batsman managed to get " : . | Or if the songs of hirds will seem < &y Al h West, there still 2 question as to | ashington from scoring. The score: it b ] : % i B s et continue whether the umpiring is| (s (ICE sy 3 i s R . . : The catbird’s call—the bluebird's | 8004, bad or merely medium ARoHien i llame R ShuEch e e 0000000000001—1 7 -4 him further on his trav- e 5 3 3 h & 5 @ t ebird’s . can beat back Johnston, McLoughlin | 1*oston ) — e necessary for the Robins | % - : : . B roundelay— ; A = and Murray. With six candidates of | Washington 0000000000000—0 8 1 eight hits before tallying | . » ¢ As when I wandered down the old The Siege Incarnate. such high order and several others Batteries: Ruth and Thomas; John- n, althought in every in- o R = e G | home Deat? the fifth there were Broo 5 : & the elongated ube Mar 1, but, unfortunately, : in the coming championship, now | €n the hit. Gardner connected for he Brooklyn athletes had a penchant 2 only ten days away? the third hit of the day, a single drive br ‘remaining on the bases because : i : : ; g e < were not forth- ; . | : : : will Starting today, four hostile army | OPlY a notch or two away, this next | son and Ainsmith £ | S . S corps in turn will be thrown against | championship 2 bn runners as far as third base, : & . . o : And when the purple shadows drood | Red Sox ramparts, where Bill Cap. | Pest America has ever known Yanks Win On Homers. one frame, the second, they : and fall e Ly = i w York, Aug. 16.—Solid resound- Y ey : T e sed tne | FIEAM'S club will be called upon to £ . ¢ home runs enabled the Yank fioeicorn et ; - ust as the moon has crossed the | stand one of the toughest sieges of | We stand corrected. Gus Schemlz ome runs enabled the Yankees The score: 4 : twilight il the pame was not the only big league manager | to club out a 6 to 2 victory over tha SR T X ar) i , 3 Out by xvh: gate 1er oses climb the All four Western clubs in the | Who ever wore a brush There was 1 Athlet s ’, (h\ r‘ .h mzmd{ oston 5 . 010100110—4 1¢ 7 < wall Harry Wright, who had one of the | Yesterday. Walter Pipp and Roge¥ rooklyn ... 160010000—1 10 0 | g I wonder if I'll find YOU waiting best trapped frontispieces in the | Peckinpaugh favored with circult udolph and Blackburn; 3 still, e drives, and on each occasion there was arquard and Meyers. 3 Remembering me the weary seasons Here's a fine chance for a parody | one or more runne aboard the through on Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel- | bases With eves aglow just as you waited phia, beginning “Three ball clubs Pipp's smash was a long drive te then? ent sailing out into the West, out, the flower bed in deep center fleld ih A from eighteen assaults. It took a Gh |Gt s 5t | I wonder if tI yawillEbelvounsittoo | esain o z 190 good | into the Yest where the dope goes | the third inning. Magee and Peckin- au hing a game of exceptional : 2 5 e zame line-up to accomplish this task, | : cete v £ ot oo e | , 5 When I come home again? | i ;i down’——You finish it. paugh were on the bases at the time Ferit, nked the Phillies in av ‘ i o S out the job will no be thoroughly and they scored in front of the gal : st yesterday, but— | k. ¥ ? % ¢ 2 completed until Sox ca E - = s S 2 . ning ¢ terday, but s £ until the Red Sox can | loping Pipp. Shawkey was on base “T was a 100 per cent. judge,” says k : rake a winning defence 3 v Mr. Hughes. And yet Ty Cobb and f_'{,,’l i e ence ot il onn TIGERS BUY A JOE WOOD. the seventh, when Peckinpaugh drove J(’]*‘-‘ 5 '“ r are neither .400 per Tl isino! casyl ta sl o facol Ghicas o) Norfolk, Va., Aug. 16.—Joe Wood, | I H"” intotiett fleld bieacher: cent. batsmen. should he one of the i American league figures they are still the race, and all four figure that Boston is the club to be beaten back. The resourceful Red Sox went into enemy’'s country through the West and hammered out twelve victories Not Giants Any More, Philadelr Aug. 16.—Jeff Tes. Ind the ut a big one—Al Dem- | kree also pitched a game of unqualified fccellenc and shut out the Giants. iy E Cihe : he receding ' Giants, therefore, Dbit | . St. Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland in |a pitcher for the Portsmouth Virginfa e du n. They've bitten it four 3 . order, for there can be no let-up, | league club, has been sold to the De- mes in Pl ynia since they came | 2 . If there were exact percentages | whereas the four hesiegers have soft | troit Americans. Wood is not the York Saturday fresh | = i figured for every 1 n's achievement spots in which to recuperate and ob- | pitcher by that name who is a ‘hold- om a successful repulse of the west- quite a few who believe they stand | tain impetus for the dash Neither is “ out on the Boston Red Sox. n teams The score was 1 to 0. It was the | ‘(-\fl(," continued Fohl. “We expect to bcond whitewash of the series, with | joveland, Aug. 1 ‘Watch Cleve- | make a whirlwind finish, and I am fo.. Giantsfreceivers [0 that ieonly willing to wager that Indians will son,” concinded the Cleveland l(‘wll)l'.\ —— Lo T New York ......00301020x—6 Philadelphia ....000001001—2 Batteries Shawkey and maker; Willlams anr Haley. land from now on,” says Lee Fohl, the casion of the series on which Dem- | leader of the Indians. “We have had ee had pitched the Phillies to victory | our slump and are now out of it. We | Last year FFohl was considered a lucky e ex-Giant faces his former mates b1 he needs to paralyze their efforts | a ball, a glove, and a fresh stick of | pitchers are going fine, while our splendid managerial ability He has | developed a fine team and one which has been in the thickest of the fray from the beginning. Picture shows Manager IFohl batting. we get an even break in luck. Our hewing zum club is batting and fielding as well The score: . e |as any other in Ban Johnsom’s cir- r. h Miladelphia . 10000000x—1 2 0 ereau snd Koeher. ” Baseball News In a Nutshell “ d the Giants to defeat. Any time | . .. o club in the league as long :u-J;.nm. but this season he has shown | i Right, Son; Right; You sure get one barrel of comfort out of a nickel’s worth of MECCAS. To have to fill in between-times pirates Bag a Couple. St. Louis, Aug. 16.—Good pitching v Flarmon and Cooper enabled Pitts- urgh to win both games from St ouls vesterday, the first by 1 to 0 and | second by 2 to 1. Harmon held | e }‘;mznly‘n\ to six hits in the first | Philadelphia 1, New York 0. :‘1‘:\\-;;“1-'1 na Cooper allowed only three in the Boston 4, Brooklyn 1. artfor cond Pittsburgh 1, St. Louls 0, (first Pittsburgh won the first game in | game). he first inning on two bases on balls Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1, (second | Hartford at Lynn. feadow’s error and Hinchman's sin- | g 5 Sl el R io. In' the s=scond gamie jtha Visliors | Chicago-CincinnatijgameRpostponed Lawrence at Worcester. on in the ninth. After two were out | on account of fain. Lowell at New Haven. single, a wild throw and a single 4 Bridgeport at Portland. abled Baird to bring in the winning oY O s Sy un. ) n w. i, TERNATIONAL LEAGUE. First Game Srooklyn .. 63 The score e |Boston ............59 Yesterday's Results. NATIONAL LEAGUE, jlawrence .........3 43 pER E aven SO CUTE e Yesterday's Results. Bridgeport ... Today’s Games. with any other smoke makes you feel like you got thirty days. 100000000 S| '\"“"“\‘"“’“‘" S oaclis 4 . Buffalo 5, Newark 4 (12 innings). 000000000 60 e WL oDl de e = . Providence 6, Toronto 2. * Fiarmon | andl ISchmidtey[FEICtSDUrER Lt . Rochester 5, Richmond 3. Chicago Baltimore 10, Richmond 9, (first me). Montreal 4, Baltimore 1, (second r. h game). 000001001—2 10 0 000000010—1 3 4 nd Fischer Louis AL L] | Chicago ncinnati Standing of the Clubs, ‘ T ) W { AMERICAN LEAGUE. Providence “ £ i Buffalo | Yesterday's Results. Eeltimo | New York 6, Philadelphia 2. Montreal Boston 1, Washington 0, (13 in- | Toronto nings). Richmond . .. | No other games werc scheduled. Rochester .. n Two | S Newark ... A 3 a4 yes- Standing of the Clubs. orites for their it GRAND CIRCUIT EVENTS. ommy Murphy's Steppers “Bring Home the Bacon.” s it ; Today's Games. SR R e 1 Buffalo at Newark e eaasi AR Toronto at Providence. muelelid o Montreal at Baltimore. Detrolt S 53 Rochester at Richmond New Yor 5 .523 - — Washington b 5 5 BREWER MANAGER RESIGNS. Philadelphia S ing stake middle heat. | win- | | Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 16.—Harry Clark, third baseman and manager of the Milwaukee American association “leveland at New York | baseball team for the last four years, rom sweeping t programme. Allie Chicago at Boston | vesterday resigned beeause he thought e i i St. Louis at Philadelphia the club would be benefited thereby the Tennessee gelding. A Detroit at Washington. | Under Clark’'s management the team e captured two pennants, but last year card’'s other | | | Tt honte | Today’s Games. | | \ doing 0 T t choice tending was done by Allie | vhich made a break at the | EASTERN LEAGUE finished in the sccond division, and heat, but which | this season has occupied last place | of the last Seserdny s Bosnits in the percentage column Etissan L i Flar M ‘ Hartford 7, Lowell o thampion pacers, will start today to New London 8-6, Worcester 6-3. WALSH QUITS HUSTLERS. s itecordslof 1 £ Springfield 6, Lawrence 2 \ |. New Haven 2, Lynn 1, (10 " Portland 20, Bridgeport 1 | | lower their Bridgeport, Aug. 16—Martin Walsh | pitcher for the Bridzeport team of the Eastern league, announced here last night that he had quit the club | i ause b as fined $10 1c Standing of the Clubs Decause e jwas fincd RrjRoke > companying the club on its present | el 3 S W L. trip. Walsh, who is a brother of Ed q SR gaonotonnali] Walsh of the Chicago White Sox, as- New London . 5ol serts that he asked the management ‘Srjrmgqi«m o ..50 for two days off on account of the PLEASANT S¢ CIGAB Worcester .........45 illness of his wife and his request was W Gacance iy refused,