New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1916, Page 8

8 With Pennants Only Five Weeks Away, American and National Leagues Start Polite NEW, BRITAIN DAILY YIERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916. Scrambie to Be! On Top When Taps Is Blown---And Now Cometh a Busher to Pui Yank in Yankees---Other Sports ANKEES BEATEN "Em Feeding from His Hand Cleveland, Aug. ck 28.—Having grown their batting averages and puny through lack f nourishment the Indians suddenly rose in their might in the sixth ing of yesterday’'s game, smote the fferings of Allen Russell with reck- ss abandon and continued the at- fiek through the seventh, eventually efeating the Yankees, 5 to 1. Until the sixth the contest was a itchers’ duel between Russell and tis Lambeth, late of Topeka, for the jndians. The men of Fohl collected nly two hits off Russell in the first ve innings, and that wasn’t all. Their atting efforts were so weak one of Russell's teammates preced to extend himself for any of he chances offered. Following close- of seeing owing weak in- upon their futile efforts to get a | ngle blow off Bullet Joe Bush at | hiladelphia Saturday the home crew ! aturally was somewhat peeved. But | ey suddenly flew into a batting ary. Before Bill Donovan was convinced ! t Russell’s inability to stem the tide | Boston f the onslaught, ve runs in the ix hits had netted | sixth and seventh. | Lambeth, on the other hand, rival- | New York | st. ie | Clevelana e finish. The Yanks drew only four | Washington pd Russell in effectiveness at the start nd continued his effectiveness on to lows off Lambeth, two of which ar- ved in the ninth, accounting for the | lly which deprived Lambeth of a | jout out. The score: r. h 00000410x—5 8 000000001—1 4 umbeth and O'Nelll; nd Alexander. leveland ew York Batteries ussell, Love e. 0 0 Chicago 5, Boston 1. Chicago, Aug. 28.—Kirk Carter itched in fine form yesterday, while | hicago batted Barnes and Ragan op- | ortunely and won the final game of | e series from Boston, 5 to 1. The visitors were saved from a shut- | jut when Konetchy's double, follow- l g Snodgra single, scored a run in il o ot occivedinnol| apport, Knabe and Wortmann mak- | g several great plays. Just before the Boston club hicago it was announced that Lm\\" happelle, the outflelder, whom Pres- flent Comiskey of the Chicago White ox bought from Milwaukee severs lears ago for $18,000 and who was pnt back to the minors, had been pur- ased by the Braves from the mbus club of the American ation. Chappelle will report to Stal- ngs in Pittsburgh tomorrow. Manager Callahan of the Pittsburgh ationals was a spectator at the game ut said he did not come to consider trade for Zimmerman. The score: r. h. e 000000001—1 5 1 0 Boston hicago 00120020x—5 11 Batteries ‘H:nn( Ragan, Reul- ach and Blackburn, Trage: Car- er and Elliott. w5 Cincinnati 1. 28.—Fred Merkle played his first ame in a Brooklyn bniform and the Robins slaughtered lhe Reds at Redland Field here. The presence of an experienced first | an worked a complete rejuven- in the Robins, and it was no the half-dispirited team that imped off the ficld yesterday than day s like night. There were a drive and forceful assertiveness in every move hat have been lacking since Dau- forced out of action, and the right direction | arn in it would seem. The | Brooklyn 1 Cincinnat Au pasers tion nore to aret at Redland field. rass band na boosters, a > thot over the third team. The sing. | fans W thumb on d to cheer | wn that | was back in | BY RAW REGRU!T ez ambert, Cleveland Rookie, Has | 1 | | | | | | | | Philadelphia .. | = | the Giants’ | following singles by Miller and Prince, | gave Canton NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. Chicago 5, Boston 1. Brooklyn 13, Cincinnati 6. Philadelphia-St. Louis, rain. No other game scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. L. 43 43 48 57 60 65 66 76 IENE 521 602 Brooklyn | Boston ... | Philadelphia New York Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati 487 464 454 445 372 Today’s Games. Boston at Pittsburgh header). New York at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Chicago. (double- AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. eveland 5, New York 1 5, No other games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. w. T .70 .67 .66 Detroit Chicago .65 Louis ..66 .66 + BT .26 Today’s Games. St. Louis at Boston. Detroit at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Washington. Baseball News In a Nutshell EASTERN LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. New London 8, Bridgeport 1. Other clubs not scheduled. Standing of the | Portland New London Springfield | Worcester | Lynn Lawrence New Haven Bridgeport Hartford Lowell Today’s Games. Lawrence at New Haven. New London at Bridgepo Lynn at Hartford. Lowell at Portland. ‘Worcester at Springfield. NATIONATL LEAGU Resnlts. | Providence-Montreal game poned; rain. INTER! Standing of the Clubs. Buffalo Providence Baltimore, Toronto Montreal Richmond Rochester Newark Today’s Games. Newark at Buffalo. Richmond at Toronto. Baltimore at Montreal Providence at Rochester. first run. Doyle's error, its solitary tally. The } scor Canton | New York . ¢ " DASH FOR PENNANT { ended the could he Brooklyn and did here ON GAM With Colonials. 28 —The Colon- mi-professional team, Ty Cobb, of the De- New Haven, an exhibition Cobb New Hay Hals, Btrengthened b, roit Americ of the Fs game, ** Cobb, two error: and a en, Aug lo i , in 5 to 4. st a who pla base, but secured The score: 001101002- 000112000—4 and Waters; Smith Colon New Batteries Woodward e. 4 e Pumpelly and Devine, Kauff ¥ Canton, O., Aug. ~Kauff’s home pun in the fourth ing produced what proved to be the winning mark for 28 Giants. er in an exhibifion game between th ! New York Giants and the Bakos, local emi-professional club. York won 2 to 1. Singles by Kauff and Lobert scored New | fort l | weakening during the week. | their pitcher: 000010000—1 7 8 01010000x—2 9 11 Smith, Kocher and Rari- and Miller. Batteries: den; Prince ENDS INFIVE WEEKS Boston Sox Increase Lead as Brooklyn Grows Shaky New York, Aug. 28.—With slightly more than five weeks of the playing season remaining, the teams of the American and National leagues en- ter upon the 1916 home stretch in probably the most closely contested races of the last decade. The pace is fast in both organizations, and no team yet has gained a commanding lead. Boston, most doubled the last week, tional league week ahead of Boston. In the American, the Red Sox ap- parently have obtained a lead which may again bring the championship. Five other teams, however, are still in the race and ready to go to the top should Boston falter. At the end of play on Friday, Detroit, St. Louis, New York, Chicago and Cleveland were bunched so closely that only four points separated the Tigers and the Indians, in second and sixth places, respectively. Only twelve points separted the two teams after aturday’s games, The Red Sox displayed few leader in the American, al- its advantage during while Brooklyn, Na- leader, fell back and only ten points signs of By tak- ing three games straight from Cleve- land and one from Detroit, the Red Sox ran their string of victories up to flve. defeat before Dauss of the Tigers, on Friday, and lost again Saturday to J)Ctrmt The Red Sox, although not hitting heavily, are making each smash count. They are fielding well, and especially Ruth and Mays, appear in good form for the hard work ahead. New York is making a gallant ef- to regain the lead, and up to Thursday the Yankees had won cight of their preceding nine games. The Yankees met St. Louis Thursday | and Friday and lost two of the three | Although made | Tecovered from two-bagger | i | = f f | | games played. They beat the Browns | Saturday and moved into third place. ill without the services of the Yankees appear to have their recent slump. They are hitting the ball hard, and, during the last week, won several Bakes, games by batting rallies in the clos- | ing innings. The other teams, Detroit, Cleve- land, St. Louis and Chicago, did not do so well as New York and Baston, SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 5c CIGAP | three They went down to a 2 to 1| but they are still in the race fighting hard for every game. The Braves played the best ball in the National circuit during the week, taking six straight games. They were 45 points behind Brooklyn' at the be- ginning of the week, but and he end of the week. The Robins are not doing sc well on their western trip, winning only of the seven games during the Captain Daubert is still miss from the RBrooklyn line-up and Outfielder Jimmy Johnston put out by a broken mnose. Both Brooklyn and Baston most of their remaining games at home, so the closing weeks of the season hold no apparent advantage in that respect for either team. Philadelphia lost four out of five games to Pittsburgh, and went into third place. The champions are not vet out of the race, however, and may surprise Brooklyn and Boston. In contrast to its first western trip, New York has won only two games on its present incursion, and the grip on fourth place is loosening. The Giants scored only one run in their first four games of the week against St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Intersectional results for the week ational, East 12, West 14; American, East 15, West 12. week n was play OARING. Four New Marks Set Up and Onc Tied—Joe Loomis Stars. Chicago, Aug. 28 in four events at the annual outdoor meet University of Chicago Saturday. An- other was tied when Andy Ward of the Chicago Athletic association won the 100-yard dash from Joe Loomis in 9 4-5 seconds, hut there was a wind at the sprinter's back and the mark probably will not be allowed. Loom who carried the colors of the Chicago A. €, was the individual star, win- ning first place in the high jump and the 220-vard hurdles and taking sec- ond in the century. Arlie Mucke of Wisconsin raised his A. A. U. shotput record two inches, to 46 feet 8 1-8 inches. Boyer of the Mystic A. C, won the three-mile walk in new record time, 22:50, and Sherman Landis, the Aregon High school lad, set a new mark in the pole vault of 13 feet. The old pole vault record was 12 feet 5 7-8 inches. { In the half-mile, Earl Lhe\ of the won in 1:54 3-5, bedting the made by Campbell of the University of Chicago last year, Campbell finished third Saturday, —Records fell ntral A. A, U. at Stagg Field, MERKLE LEAV Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. | Merkle of the Giants, first basemen in the National league, was traded Saturday to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Catcher Lew McCarthy. | Merkle played his last game with the Giants Saturday and drove out a sin- gle, which tied the score for Graw's team Giants will swap Mec “arthy | Cubs for Archer or Safer. GIANTS 28.—Fred Mec- to the The Dod- gers want Merkle to play first base, while Daubert is laid up with an i jury. ANKS SIGN COLLEGE STAR. New York, Aug. York American league club announ Saturday that Pitcher Robert Graw, a promising voung boxman from the University of Colorado, had | signed with the Yankees. It was said | that several clubs -had been negotia- | ting for this player, who is a ne | comer to the professional ranks. Pitchers may narrowed | Brooklyn's lead to only 10 points by | | | one of the best | It is rumored that the | Me- | For p 1jut whether whether When it com Oor Who Alexander come or Ve a pitchers way like that; whether whether to one rule go; itche st or thin o dov his slow, fat, alane above holds the throng, Step For 3 Pitchers m. As pitchers Or wt Still held as rulers of the fr But when it comes to romping v Step out, The out, thr old ne, 1 belong. boy, and grab the flash or pitchers fade, do along the way, hether born or whether made, through from tawn to town, and get your due, ival field old dog, You own the crown. Weste league t Yanks as a succulent said to in the region. Johns Kumagae—there are many but aene from cnes, American looking upon the dish are ingrowing pain the abdominal rn clubs in the hat were have large, vicinity of At Forest Hills, ton, Williams, McLoughlin, other good this quartet is pretty sure to be on top when the last match is finished and another can cha lished. Ameri- mpionship has been estab- There was disappointment cxpressed some time ago that a ternational flavor | eway | we coul Ir: strife, But t] been ad from a tys, Wil our way their sk gae is n as any the against had been om aur championships where d have nothing left but civil his international flavor has ded in a startling way, and startling source. The Doher- ding and Brookes have come and proved their valor and ill, but the shadow of Kuma- ow as heavy across the courts invading shadow has been in past. The Jap star, being alone, is terrific odds. up now | But when al ORT [ LIGHT |- Grantland Rice | rean is playing soon wiped aut summer that young nce to beat ms and uccession? Maxims He that f mashic upon 19th econd of the Hole, the ot into a a W hi hefore. the heaten ar 1 know far of life. n¢ ords s ar s more of : . | ana joy is fine tennis, are ! Who thought last Johnston had any | rl Behr, Norris Wil- Mauric McLoughlin in odds = Th por Red Sox Cha least the i lea Ahl In rc to yout the Americ eems better tt IN cs st que chance in only { anythir the Red tember four wise the journe h. dope s The Greatest, An argument was started { two aga as to the the test ! American fawn ar. Larned, { Wrenn, Whitman, Loughlin, Wil- I liams or Johnston. There is no wa query with f Doherty while t in his opinicn an was the greatest ever known—"greater,” he said, “than | him to be who has never in competition when he was best.” mu st in od all v or ! Other- to the res to the name o ving will tennis Mec! is On h tave that last Western trip Bost W cut of cighteen nn club can be expec to v leading rivals on hostile the Red Sox in Brow ve games the inability of the other s to | win on the roa \ Yank tianal Athletics have | «ll played poorly in the W th eason. They may do auite a bit het- | ter, but this improvement will hardly Le sufficient to h Boston if she forced to face her last long trip onl a game or two to the good. [, Here is an example, relayed n round | but the playing here Malcolm Whit- V the game had | to up vou this | - cts, e Yot th field found throug stern clut ed this drive knows him his any met, n Which recalls the fact that Harvard Las come fairly close to ruling the| lawn tennis field, with such entries as Wrenn, Whitman, Wright, Clothier, | Ward and Willi wha have held at | | least half the championships in the | last twenty years, | A pennant race, or two 12ces, that has or have been as re- ! plete with upsets and sharp changes as 10| 55 the 1916 campaign has shown is be- go or St. Louis yvond any earthly dope, that | would bound coyly away with the ‘("VD(: which w! 1y picks penpant Nwhat 7 little opening is{ joaders until some one else left for Detroit to operate one of those | 11,6 top. September finishes and upset the en- - tire pail of dope! The best tip in Detroit’s favor is that no one has picked Jennings to win, pennant | After all this discussion vhether Boston, Ch ir the arrives at | John Franklin Baker's 1ibs may keep him out of for the first time in so paigns. The Trappe Thunderbolt still | has a chance to hammer his w cross the great divide, but are is long und time is fleeting, as one of our leading baseball writers once put it suceinetly. the /300 o = veral cam- “It Can Never Happen Again’— A golfer had a two foot putt With which to win a hole; | And when he missed he just said— “Tut— How very droll.” ANNEX AND PAWN TIED. As the result of the to 2 administered by the Rangers to being | What September gives pramise of quite a month—as months go. with the finish in the two major leagues, the finish of the tennis| champlonship and the golf champion- | defeat the 5 urday afternoon, a tie for the pen- The chronic cigarette- boner never says ‘““Sorry friend —sorry’’; when he goes south with your last MECCA. Why should he? He’s sure got his’n. | overtu [ en | was killed, shattered | Wins From Hardware the An- finay staged these king play- The iner te Eleven Autos Pile Up in Race at l\'xll-“ amazoo—Mechanician Decapitated and Driver Injured, Aug. 28.—Twa others probahly, Mich., and mazoo eight them 14 automobiles turn during the reation park Marion Ar- {an ] Pearock injure of fatally, when 11 of piled the 100-m ace The cago first at R dead are mechanic nd James driver. occurred leading in the struck fence at s overturned and the track rttendants could signal 10 of the machines, goiniz at plowed through the Five of them were demolished. The car driv- Burt, whose mechanician s the first to strike that T k's ca when " ded turn the ir thrown Befors other the squarel dri compl w! of Peacock Yesterday's accident the worst at has occurred at Recreation park’ 1911, when Lee Oldfield’s racing plowed through the fence and is since car two | killed eight persons i NEW LONDON TIES DUFFERS, | Bridgeport in Sabbatly_ 8 to 1. ew London 8 Swatting Game, Aug. downed Bridgeport yesterday, by hitting. The work Weiser at the bat was a feature. New London and Portland are now tied for Bridgeport, 28 to 4, timely of | first place in the Eastern league race. | The score: Annex team at Walnut Hill Park Sat- | .000110015—8 10 & Bridgeport 000000100—1 6 7 Batteries: Fortune and Russell; House and Flaherty. e. New London EREEEDERL Iy ZEGEREEEEN