New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1916, Page 8

' Phillies Rest But Gain First Place---Dodgers Win One From Giants But Lose One A Reach 100 Defeat Mark---Ty Cobb Runs NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916. Wild on PBases and Deats \ G [ SRy ¢ Iso——-Athletics Browns---Other Sports IANTS AND ROBINS GET AN EVEN SPLIT Benton Fails in His Attempt to Gain Iron Man Honors New York, Sept./7.—The Giants and he Dodgers played a couple of games up at the Polo Grounds yesterday which were chock full of red pepper and scrap, and if they go a few steps further it will be almost time to call out the militia. McGraw's newly re- [paired club won the first game, 6 to » and thereby shoved Brooklyn from jfirst place. The Phillies and the Bos- ton Braves didn’t play, so although [Brooklyn carried off the second serious quarrel by a score of 2 to 1, it wasn't enough to hoist them out of second place. The second half of the two-ply bill found the players of both clubs so anxious to win that they got as mad as hornests at each other and at the umpires. Casey Stengel was caught mapping off second in the third inning and felt so badly about it that he al- most cried. He fumed.- and fussed 80 much that Lord Byron had to banish him from the game. Rube Benton showed more disposi- tion to indulge in manual labor than any Giant player has exhibited for years. Rube pitched both games yes- terday, but his ambition to get the inickname of ‘“Iron Man” failed be- jcause his teammates couldn’t hit Rube {Marquard, who was against him in a hair-raising pitching duel in the later battle. The scores: First Game. r. h. e. 04100001x—6 8 o .. 000010000—1 4 1 Benton and MecCarty; Cheney, Dell, Mails and Miller. Second Game. r. h. ! 101000000—2 10 1 ‘New York ... 010000000—1 7 1 Batteries: Marquard and Meyers; Benton and Rariden. A e. Brooklyn . Pirates Take a Couple. Pittsburgh, Sept. 7.—Pittsburgh svon a double-header from St. Louis here yesterday, the score in the first .game being 3 to 2 and in the sedond, 8 to 3. With the bases full and the | Score a tie in the ninth inning of the | | first contest, Warner singled, scoring McCarthy wiith the winning run. Ames was hit hard in the second same, doubles by Casey and Bigbee, Johnston’s triple, and Farmer’s single scoring three runs in the third inning. Lotz, who relieved Ames, was also hit hard, but Harmon kept the visitors’ hits scattered. The scores: First Game. Tah: . 000010011—3 9 st. Louis . 000200000—2 10 Batteries: Jacobs, Kantlehner and Schmidt; Watson and Gonzales. 1 Second Game. | r. h. | Pittsburgh .. 10301001x—6 10 1 St. Louls . 000000021—3 11 0 Batter Harmon and Fischer; Ames, Lotz, Williams and Gonzales. HUNDRED BEATINGS FOR CONNIE'S TEAM Athletics Attain Century Mark for Losses at Hands of Champs e. 3 2 Pittsburgh . e. Philadelphia, Sept. 7.—When Bos- ton wan yesterday game here by 5 to 2, Philadelphia reached the cen- tury mark in the number of defeats this season. The visitors hit Shee- han's delivery hard in two innings, while the Philadelphia pitcher's wild- ness was responsible for a run in the eighth inning. Manager Carrigan of Boston was notified by President Johnsan of the American league yes- terday that he had been suspended for three days for his trouble with Um- pire O’Loughlin Tuesday. The score: r. h. e. 003000011—5 8 O 010000010—2 7 0 and Thomas; Boston Pbhiladelphia Batteries—Leonard Sheehan and Picinich. Indians Rally in Vain. Chicago, Sept. 7.—Chicago defeated Cleveland by 4 to 3 after staving off a determined ninth-inning rally by the Indians. For arguing too strenu- ously, Schalk and Fournier of the White Sox were expelled by Umpire Dineen, and Robert Hasbrook, a Muscatine contribution ta the big leagues, took the latter’s place on first and made a favorable impression. The score: e, Chicago 10000102%—4 9§ 1 Cleveland 000100002—3 11 1 Batteries—Russell and Schalk and PUBLIC NOTICE SLATER’S New York, Boston, Provi- dence, Hartford, Springfield. ‘Will Open the Largest Shoe Store in Connecticut at 843-845 Main Street, Hartford. OUR OPENING SALE SATURDAY, SEPT. 9TH. Means You Will Szve $2.00 to $3.00 on Every Pair of Shoes You Buy New Store. New Styles New Goods Morning We 5vill Place on Sale of Men’s, Women's and Chi dren’s new Fall and Winter Shoes. You can buy New High Grade Footwear &t less than you ever saw it marked before, Prices that will scarcely be more than the Gost of the leather. We will sell 1,000 pairs of $3.00 and $3.50 nd growing girls' high and low shoes Saturday 50,000 Pair: We will sell 1,000 pairs of men’s and boys’ $3.00 and $3.50 shoes at $2.00. We will sell ladies’ extra High Cut Black Hand Scwed $5.00 boots at $3.00. 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Detroit, Mich., Sept. 7.—Tyrus Cobb, matching his speed against the throwing arms of Lavan, Hartley, Marsans, and Sisler, in the tenth in- ning yesterday, scored the run which gave Detroit a 4 to 3 victory over the St. Louis Browns. With one out, Cobb beat out a hit to the shortstop. He stole second, Hartley's low throw beunded into Marsans’ hand, but Cobb continued to third and beat the tof Veach grounded sharply to Sisler, who forced Cobb to return to j third, but as Sisler was touching first Ty tore for home and beat the throw by an eyelash. The score: r. h. e. 0000101011—4 8 0000021000—3 9 1 Batteries—Coveleskie, Dubuc and Stanage and Baker; Wielman and Hartley. “CHICK” EVANS DEAD, Former Connecticut Leaguer of No- hit, No-run Fame Passes Away., Hartford, Sept. 7.—Charles (Chick) Fvans, former Connecticut league ‘pitcher, is at his home in Schenectady, N. Y. Evans, will be re- called, while pitching for the Hart- ford club several years ago, held Bridgeport hitless and runless. Not a Bridgeport player reached first base and not a ball was batted to the out- field. Evans’ feat was the most re- markable ever hung up by a Connec- ticut league pitcher. Evans later went to the Boston Nationals, where he remained for two seasons, a lameness in his arm bring- ing ‘about his release, In 1913 he Joined the - Pittsfleld club of the Eastern association but only remained a short time. In a game at Savin Rock early that season he hit Pop Tester, the former New Haven right fielder, with a pitched ball. Foster was badly hurt and was laid up for several weeks. FEvans brooded over the injury to Foster. Right there and ilien he lost confidence in himself and never pitched in another league game. dead CADETS START PRACTICE, ‘West Point, Y., Sept. 7.—Lieu- tenant Charles D. Daly, former Har- vard and Army football star, who has coached the Army eleven for the last three seasons, arrived here yesterday to take up his duties as head coach for the Cadets. Daly had the Army squad out for a two-hour drill in the afternoon. The squad was divided into hai® a dozen units, and the coaches worked the men hamd, in spite of the summer heat, BRITTON OUTPOINTS WELLING. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 7.—Jack Brit- ton, the welterweight champion, out- hoxed Joe Welling of Chicago, from beginning to end of a 10-round bout here last night. Britton, who won irapressively, had a big pull in the weights, 147 to Welling’s 134 1-2, il I } Boston AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterda; Results, Boston 5, Philadelphia 2. Detroit 4, St. Louis 3. Chicago 4, Cleveland 3. New York-Washington—Rain, Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 75 556 75 57 73 58 69 63 68 62 68 64 65 63 29 100 Detroit Chicago St. Louis New York Cleveland ‘Washington Philadelphia Games Today. New York at Washington. Boston at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Chicago. St. Louis at Detroit. NATIONAL LEAGUE, Yesterday’s Results. New York 6, Brooklyn same, Brooklyn game. Pittsburgh same. Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 3—Second game. Boston-Philadelphia—Rain, 1—First 2, New York 1—Second 3, St. Louis 2—First Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 74 49 73 49 {1 49 59 62 60 67 59 71 56 15 51 80 P 602 .599 .592 .488 473 454 .434 .389 Brooklyn Philadelphia .. Poston 5 New York Pittsburgh Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Games Today. Braooklyn at New York—Two games. Philadelphia ‘at Boston—Two games. Chicago at Pittsburgh, EASTERN L GU | Yesterday’s Results. | New Haven-Lynn—Rain, | New London 7, Wortester 0—First | same, New London fecond game. Portland 2, innings. 1, Worcester 0— Springfield 1—Thirteen Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 81 30 7 35 64 48 59 51 59 53 51 60 39 76 36 T4 el a J100 0 New London Portland Springfield Worcester Lynn New Haven Bridgeport Hartford Y W o 5 & o 1o Nooaamon 0 @ Games Today. New Haven at Lynn—Two games. Worcester at Bridgeport. Springfleld at New London. Portland at Hartford. INTERNATION/ L LEAGUE, Yesterday’s Results. Richmond 8, Newark 0. Montreal 10, Buffalo 6. Providence 7, Baltimore 1. Rochester 5, Toronto 1—First game, 15 innings. ! Toronto 3, Rochester 3—Second, called at the end of the seventh in- ning on account of darkness. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 74 53 68 56 69 58 64 59 87 62 58 69 55 69 49 8 Buffalo Toronto Providence Montreal Baltimore Richmond Rochester Newark Games Today. Richmond at Newark. Baltimore at Providence. Montreal at Toronto. Rochester at Buffalo. LIGHT WORK FOR VALE Eli’s First Gridiron Exercises of Sea- son Begin With Tad Jones at Helm —Forty Players on Hand. New Haven, Sept. 7.—With Field Marshal Tad Jones in command and with Clarence Alcott, Dr. Bull and Michael . Sweeney of Yale's executive staff present, Yale's football work for this season was inaugurated yesterday afternoon. A squad of ex- actly forty players reported. The heaviest of this number, Galt, weighed in at pounds, and the lightest Levingsley, at 129 They met Captain Clinton Black at noon for registration, and in the aft- ernoon went through the first grid- iron exercises of the season. The work consisted of the lightest kind of pass- ing, falling on the ball, punting and starting, which was carried on for an hour, on historic Old Yale field, now dismantled of nearly all of its stands, but still available for daily practice. Among the veterans were Hary Le- gore, whose eligibility through tech- nicalities last year resulted in a new amateur athletic rule; Howard Bal- ridge, tackle; Charley Taft, son of the former president; Joe Neville, Ef- fle Waite, Howell Van Nostrand, quar- terback, and Art Gates. Kirkpatrick, former freshman tackle, who, it was announced, had left college, reported, but may not be available for play this fall. Callahan, star, joined the squad. Brides and Billy Marting, the only missing members of the resident coaching squad, sent word that they will be here for the close of the week. Announcement was made last night that Lenny Stagg, coach at Chicago university, will be here next week to assist the staff. He has not coached in twenty-five years, but this season, because of a new western rule, he will not join the Chicago university squad unti] September 20. Stagg played end on the Yale 1888 and 1889 elevens and established the first eleven at the Springfield training school in 1890, going to Chicago the next year. Fead Coach Jones said last evening that the Yale work would be extreme- ly light for two weeks The present hot wave will curtail it for the pres- ent, aside from Jones’ determination to drill only conservatively. No line4 up, even for signal rchearsals, is ex- pected before next week. Jones will have general direction of the coach- ing, Bull of the backs, Alcott of the ends and passing, and Brides and Marting will be in charge of the lne. The list of candidates yesterday in- cluded the following: Legore, Hallo- well, Baldridge, Galt, Rosener, Men- zies, Gaines, Levingsley, Vorys, Taft, Stewart, Jacques, Hulchinson, Bridge, Garland, Neville, Jones, -Edwards, Waite, Winter, M. Smith, Sperry, Con- way, Sounders, Oviatt, Gates, Van Nostrand, Corbin, Potter, Theobold, Kirkpatrick, Callahan, Osmund, Rob- inson, Carson, Woods, Zenner, Met- calf, Thomas and Backus. The schedule for the season is as follows: Séptember 30, Carnegie Insti- tute; October 7, University of Vir- ginia; October 14, Lehigh; October 20, Virginia Polytechnic Insti- pounds. the former Holy Cross Dr. Arthur November 4, Colgate; November 11, Brown; November 18, Princeton; and November 25, Harvard. All sames at the Yale field except Princeton. William T. | October 28, Washington aind Jefferson | ‘POP’ GEERS WINS FEATURE EVENT ‘Grand 0ld Man’ With Napoleon (By John J. Neenan). Four thousand people attended the Connecticut fair and Grand Circuit races at Charter Oak park yesterday. The 2:00 pace, the feature event, was won by Napoleon Direct. Geers took Single G. Hal, the other starters in the race down to the half in 1:04%%, then he let Napoleon Direct step home in 1:00 making the time of the mile 2:04%. Direct was returned a winner the second heat in 2:05%. Cox with Sin- gle G. and Murphy with Roan Hal Wwere making such a vigorous drive for second money that Pop Geers, in or- der to keep Napoleon Direct to the front had to step him the last half in 59% seconds in :281 seconds, a 1:54 clip. In the third heat Geers made a spectacular finish with Na- poleon in 2:05%, Roan Hal getting the place from Single G. When Geers made his appearance for the race With Napoleon Direct, the horse that he drove to a record of 1 % in a winning race at Columbus, Ohio, Au- gust 16 last, he' was greeted with tfihutndorous applause. It was also his rst appearance i S season_m a race at Charter After losing the first heat in the 2:12 pace to Princess Wilkes in 2:09 Young Todd from the Cox stable took the next three heats in 2:071, 2:1014 jand 2:123%. This was an easy race for Young Todd, he paced to a rec- or last week of 2:05% in which he won, Brownie Watts, a handsome daugh- ter of Gen. Watts defeated five other three-year-old trotters in the 2:20 trot. Her most dangerous rival being Binworth who made her trot the two heats in 2:14% and 2:12%. 2:12 pace, purse $1,000. Young Todd, b. g., by Director Todd (Cox) Princes Wilke zler) . . The Problem, blk h. phy) & Spring Maid, ch. m. (Horan). Majqr A, b. g. (Crossman) Sir Anthony Carter, br. (Geers) Time—2:09%, 2:07 2:20 trot, $2,000. | Brownie Watts, br. c., by General Watte (Rodney) & | Binworth, h. c¢. (Crozier)... Oscar Watts, b. (Hyde) . Maple Tree, h. g. (Murphy) Libya b. f. (Corwin) o Balmacaan, b. f. (Tallman).... Time—2:14%, 2:121. 2:00 pace (3 heats, $500 a heat) Napoleon Direct, ch. s, by Walter Direct (Geers).......1 Roan Hall, ro. g. (Murphy) | Single G, b. Time—2: and Roan a race o m | 4 2 o 55 5ro 2:12%. purse 2:10%, three-year-old %, | Direct a Straight Heat Winner | Napoleon | [ | | | i | I I i cntered in any such ranking: | to pick one man abave the field over i games where he golfer, tells of a new fault discovered lir a certain player. | PORT : 2y v Parker, They sched- Bow 30, Brackett and (Yesson be with the will enter s folloy ma squad this fall htis fall. The September Middlebury; September t Amherst; October springfleld; Stevens In te of Tecnnolo | Hoboken, N. J.; October 21, 1 Peachers’ college at Middlebury; R. P. I, at Middlebury; ember 4, Norwich at Middleburs ovember 11, N. H. State at Durhant November 18, Vermont at Burlington. coliege is a s 3, doin z Amher a Springfield October LIGHT Grantfand Rice State October at “Alexander,” writes a bystander, innocent or otherwise, . “has already pitched fourteen shut-outs. Before ihe season is over he will undoubtedly £dd two more, smashing all shut-out records by four games. Shouldn’t this be listed as the greatest pitching fcat ever established in any one year?” As wonderful an achieventent as his is, we doubt that any one man be given credit for outranking all cthers for a single year's work, Here, for example, are four cases within the last fifteen vears to be 1. Chesbro in 1904 won 43 games. Compare that record with star pitchers today winning from 20 to or 30 at the most. 2. Mathewson in 1905 won 36 games and then pitched three world's series shut-outs. Considerable achieve- ment. 3. Bd Walsh in 1908 pitched in 65 | games. He won 40 and saved at | least 10 more. 4. Joe Wood in 1912 won 33 games | out of 38 starts, Ta pitch sixteen shut-outs in one year is super-brilliant work. But the above incidents show how hard it is | 2 twenty-year span—figuring only one season’s work. L The Shut-Out King. In one way Alexander's mark tops the fleld. A pitcher may win many hag pitched poorly cr with only fair ability., He may | win games by scores such as 7 to 6 | er 9 to 8. But when a man deliveres a shut- out there is no question as to the earned increment. By pitching so many shut-outs Alexander has proved an ability be- yond any present competition. There is na question now but that he is the greatest pitcher in the game today. ‘Where the George W. Trouble Was. Adair, the Atlanta He had been having trouble with his game for some time. Finally he called over a veteran golfer, a well | knaw physician, to see where the fault The older golfer made the patient | take several swings. He made him | ots with each club, After watching for any phypical fault several minutes, the veteran merely said: “Take off your hat.” The hat was removed. “I thought s0,” sald the physician. “Your swing iz all right. The trouble with you is in the shape of your head.” Work and Play, Last fall we were playing a round of golf with George Church, the tennis star. “Golf,” he said, “Is a lot of fun. Tennis is great, but it's hard work.” After a golf championship Francis Ouimet played tennis far a while, “I like golf.” he said, “but a champion- ship wears you out. Now, tennis is merely fun.” The other fellow’s game and the other fellow’s job are always the easiest. There is very little real fun in any game where you are fighting | tc lead the fleld. Among Themselves. | Boston, Brooklyn and Philadelphia will settle this pennant among them- selves. Which is to say, the games | they still have left with each other will be the conclusive test. This has been the factor that yenked Brooklyn back at such speed. In the pinch the depressed Robins | found themselves unable to stand up | party following player gregation: R liffe, Clancy, Blinn, Willie Fitzpat McMur: judge w and it {day’s contest, be held, selected to represent his | - Noonan, E. Hinch- | EASTERN LEAGUE Moving Along Toward Jimm ick, | Larry Hinchliffe and Hen- | n. Once upon a time the s considered a crack plaver, | has been hoped that he could vailed upon to get into Satur- | but he avows that there Planters Still ry Flans on Pennant—Wo! ster a Two-Tinte be Victim Yesterday. doin Elowever, thelsuss || NewiLondon ifept, T mNaw tandhp Trised by the | asily defeated Worcestér in the s mot select. | double-header yesterday, 7 to 0, and ed his nine men as which conveys |1 t9 0. The Daftis Bnd Base FRUNE el arrerlon et v il [Of e tser an iRl sRo LB SR A : 2 features of the game. The scores: a place for himself on the team. i R What should be one of the most : comical exhibitions of the national pastime will be played Saturday when two teams of aged and decrgpit | democrats will essay to go through nine innings of baseball. One of the | clauses that govern the play that all members of the teams must have voted for Grover Cleveland on the | occasion of his first try at the presi- BatterlerMartin dency. This “team” from the south ! Ginley and Tyler end will be under the guiding hand | of Sam Hinchliffe and besides himself the following players have been lected to date: Charles Pritchard ‘ang i George E. Bunny. Sam claims that | there are other residents in the city | eligtble to play and he is hot on their trail. nothin plcions of s fact that Man r B! n 3 & 000000000—0 10303000%—7 Batteries—Herring and Tyler Ireitag; Fortune and Russell. Second Game. Worcester h. 8 New London 8 8 0 and it r. h. e. 0000000—0 100000*—1 Fish; Mo~ Worcester .... v London . and Springfield, M Sept. 7.—Kilhul- len's timely le won for Portland yesterday to 1, in a thirteen inning game over Springfield. Gero kept the hits well scattered while both Pen- field and Durning were puzzles to the locals. The teams were te have played a double header, but the sccond game was called off on accousrt of the lateness of the hour. The score: WORK FOR CAPT, LANG’S BOYS. The Middlebt college football schedule for the season of 1916 just been issued and is of interest to New Britain people because a New Britain boy, Fred P. Lang, is cap- tain and also because two other local S has r. h.e. 0000001000001—2 13 2 0000010000000 Durning and Stephens. Portland Springfield Batteries—Penfield, Kilhullen; Gero and before Boston and Philadelphia, clubs with which they still have eight! games. Which makes it seem that Boston and Piladelphia afe to settle | the ultimate crown in their remain- | ing s. For all three Eastern | clubs, on and W®hiladelphia es- | pecially, are likely to win about the same number of games from the four TWestern teams. Pace Setting. “Is pace setting in baseball,” asks a reader, “anything like pace setting | in a horse race?’ Very much. Pace setting in one sport is about the same as pace set- ting in any other sport. Whatever the contest, the front runner carries the handicap of knowing his rival is pounding along in easy reach, where a slip means disaster, And the entry coming from behind knows about | what he has to do, while the front| Tunner is guessing., working with a | | broken concentration. | Boston and Philadelphia. Boston and Philadelphia are world’s series twins. They have been repre- sented in championship contests, one | or the other, for six of the last seven vears, They have had seven rennant winners between them since 1909, And now for 1916 they have no| pennant contenders left except the Phillies, the Braves and the Red sox. Tough luck. DEMOCRATS PREPARING. “Bill” Mangan Sclects Team to Rep- resent South d. Judge William F man of the democratic town commit- | tec and manager of the south end | baseball team that will clash with the north end democrats next Saturday a* Collier's Field when the outing of the Mangan, chair- WORNBERFULLY GREAT CIGARETTES Don’t think of the price of ZIRA. It isn’t the price only that makes a cigarette good. It's the tobacco that goes into the cigarette, plus the “knowing how.” You will like ZIRA better than many higher-priced cigarettes. You will know that you are getting in ZIRA honest, heaped-up value. Can you ask for anything better? The MILDEST Cigarette.