New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1916, Page 12

1z and Phillies Lose Ground b~ .EW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1916. MAKE FINE CARR eek of Track Joy in Store Jor Patrons The race program at the Danbury lair (Oct. 2 pole events T) will start with motor- on Monday afternoon, e opening day, and continue ‘with jorse races each afternoon for the bmainder “of the week. Purses fmounting ‘to $6,000 are hung up for e horses to race for. This large m, which. is considerably in excess the usual amount, is expected to tract the fastest horses now on the pstern half-mile tracks, as one horse bill be allowed to enter in two classes lpon payment of one entrance fee, and orses with mile track records will @ allowed four seconds. WO or more orses under the same ownership or bntrol or trained in the same s ay start in any race. The coit rac bcond on the card for Wednesday, i [cpected to be one bf the best race £ the week, and tho 2:08 pace Thu lay will permit owners to race the stest pacers in their stables. In pre- ious years there have been fast per- brmers in a number of the different ables on the grounds that were de- larred from competing hbecause of eir low records. The 2:15 trot the me day will be open to horses with fle-track records of 2:11 and should levelop one of the best conte of jhe week. The 2:19 trot Friday will raw together a fast class of horses 2 8 the four seconds allowance will jermit trotters with records of 2:1 n mile tracks to enter. There will e two races for running horses, one ‘uesday, the other Saturda The full race program for the week as follows: Monday, Oct. Motoreycle races, 1 to Tuesday, Oct. 2. 5 p. m. 5 :27 Trot . . Purse $400 £24 Pace .............. Purse $400 unning Race, 1-2 mile heats, best 2 in 3 ...... Purse $150 Wednesday, Oct. 4. :21 Trot . Purse $500 Lyear-old Trot, Purse $500 ce $500 . Purse $500 Purse $500 Purse $§400 Purse $500 . Purse $500 . Purse $400 Purse $500 27 Pace ... ..:ccinsin.Eurse $400 JRunning Race, one-mile i o . .34 Purse $150 Entries close with Secretary G. M. JRundle, at midnight, Tuesday, Sept. Records made that day do not The Danbury Agricultural unusually liberal with the [horsemen, furnishing stableg, hay and straw free of charge. CITY LEAGUE BOWLING Annex and Rangers Have Soft Time in Winning Three Games JTast L Evening—Ever Hear of Pastimes? The Annex bowlers, champions of the City league last season, got away fo an auspicious start last evening nvhen the Wanderers were treated to » three time beating. The victors sere mever threatened and Wwon in easy fashion. Hoffman was the star pin smasher, hitting the ducks for gcores well over the century mark in eaen “game, “totaling for the entire yaatch a score of 325. McBriarty and Soung also showed up strongly and gcores of 300 and 301 were their re- spective totals. For the losers Lar- ron was the maost consfstent performer with a high score of 115 and a fotal of 312. A new aggregation made its ap- searance in the league, the Pastimes, composed of members of the Kenil- worth club, but the exhibition given by the team last evening would indi- cate that nothing of a startling na- ture will be produced by that team, particularly with the quintet selected Jast eveming. | The Rangers were the Jucky team ta,draw down the Pa times with the result that three vic- tories are now indicated in the league granding. The scores: Annex, 93 100 107— 300 93 102 106— 301 90 91 280 2 .101 325 99 90 100— 289 4197 484 514—1495 Wanderers A. Anderson 70 94 7 70 Windish 8 78 Cusack 97 80— 269 Larson 99 98— 312 * Brenncke ...... 83 89 100—:272 456 478 467—1401 Rangers, flaney ...... A 3T g a3 Kahms 84 98 94— 276 Bloom .. 78 87 90— 255 Hogan . 95 703" 579 Haugh . 82 105 86— 273 419 449 454—1322 Pastimes. Bchuey 778 80 87— 243 Jackson = 80 95 94— 269 H. Timbrell 94 82 8 259 C. Timbrell 87 95 82— 264 416 429 431—1276 ble | Madison, Wis, Sept. 15.—Athletic experts are of the opinion that Arlie Mucks, the giant athlete of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, is in a class by himself as a discus thrower and in putting the shot. Mucks easily recent- ly won the sixteen pound shot putting event at the A. A. U. championships in Newark with 47 feet 2 1-8 inches. Alma Richards was second with 43 ACES AT DANBURY | A#lie Mucks of Wisconsin in Class by Himself as Discus T hrower and Shot Putter ! I feet 11 inches. e also captured the discus throw from Emil Muller of the N. Y. A. C. by a heave of 145 feet 4 1-2 inches. The experts pre- dict in another year or so he will es- tablish some world’s records in these two branches of athletics. Mucks, who is a glant of six feet three and a half inches and who scales in the neigh- borhood of 60 pounds, began his ath- letic career in 1909, when he tipped the beam at a trifle more than 200 | pound In the Stockholm Olympics | he v an also ran in the various weight events in which he participated, but since that time he has been ‘‘com- ing” like a house afire, to the end that that he is the tip to beat any shot and discus thrower in the United States. Photo shows Mucks putting the shot at the A. A. U. championships at Newark. AMERICAN DEAGUE. Results Yesterday, New York 4, Detroit 2. Cleveland 9, Philadelphia 1. St. Louis 6, Boston 1. Chicago 7, Washington 5. Standing of the Clubs. w. L. Boston . .78 58 Detroit . ..80 60 Chicago ... =79 New York 72 St. Louis 3 Cleveland ... ..T1 TWashington ... w68 Thiladelphia . 30 Games Today, New York at Detroit. Philadelphia at Cleveland, Washington at. Chicago. Boston at St. Louis, NATIONAL IEAGUE, Results Yesterday. New Yark 3, Cincinnatl 1. Brooklyn 3, Pittsburgh 2. Chicago 2, Boston 0. St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 3. Standing of the Clubs, L. W. 79 rooklyn Philadelph Boston New York Pittsburgh Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Games Today, Cincinnatl at New York. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, Chicago at Boston, St. Louis at Philadelphia. FEASTERN LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. New L.ondon 14, Worcester 2. Hartford 3, Lynn 2 (first game.) Lynn 18, Hartford 7 (second game.) Standing of the Clubs, W L P.C. New London . 86 723 Portland ... 80 684 Baseball News In a Nutshell Springfield Lynn ‘Worcester New Haven Bridgeport Hartford Games Today. New Haven at Bridgeport. New - Londan at Portland games.) Worcester at Springfield.. (two RNATIONAL 1 INTI AGUE, Results Yesterday. Montreal 4, Buffalo 3 (first' game.) Montreal 6, Buffalo 5 (second game.) Baltimore 7, Richmond 4. Rochester 8, Toronto 2 (first game.) Rachester 8, Toronto 1 (second game.) Standing of the Clubs, L. Ruffalo sccee. BT Providence .... 62 Baltimore Montreal ... 64 Toronto . 65 Richmond .. T4 Rochester .. 75 Newark ..... 84 Games Today. Newark at Providence. Baltimore at Richmond, Buffalo at Toronto. Rochester at Montreal. BUSIER THAN EVER BOWLING AETNA POCKET BILLIARDS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD A MILD, PLEASANT Sc CIGAB S § abllity, CHAMP CLAIMS DISPUTED. Rovers Baseball Team Hot on Trail of Annex Team Without Success. ag this city there was I known as the Hard- Recently in baseball league ware City league, which contested Saturday afternoons at Walnut Hill park. The league was of mediocre but the winner of the league having been adjudged cham- pion, evidently_feel that to hold this title all they have got to do is to sit back and do nothing. The Rovers baseball club, and a good one at that, have issued several challenges to the management of the Annex team, known as the champions of the city, | (but not claimedq where the Pioneer players can hear it) only to receive a silent rebuff, One of the players of the Rovers team talked with the writer last even- ing, to whom he spoke of the efforts | of his team to arrange a match with the Annex aggregation for next Sat- urday afternoon at St. Mary’s play-| grounds or at Walnut Hill park. Dur- ing the discussion the Rover player | gave his opinion of the Annex ‘“cham- | rions” as follows: “The Annex team in my opinion is a false alarm, and until they can show the Rovers that they have it on them, the title of champion holds unclaimed. Cham- pions of what? Why the only place that bunch shows championship abil- ity is in some photographer’s gallery posing for their pictur They know that the Rovers have got something on them and for that reason refuse to | grant us a game. Part of the swelled | Gome carried by this alleged bunch of ball players was reduced last Sunday by the Pioneers who handed the ‘champs’ a trimming that they should remember, and if the Rovers can in- duce the Annex to give them a game, repetition of this will be the out- come.” honor: SOUTHINGTON HERE SUNDAY. Manager Conlin of the Pioneers has arranged game with the strong Southington team for next Sunday af- ternoon at the Elli The have teams that ever represented town, and should force the locals to their utmost to sccure a victory. Ar- rangements are under way to secure “Lippy” Goldberg or Pillion of Hart- ford to occupy the mound. a treet diamond. of visitors one the best : that | Let each man sa; | Maybe we'll come ta a dream that's Half " Cheney Produces Hit That Wins for Robins---Shocker Defeats Tigers in His Home Town---Braves Defeats---Directum [ Steps Mile in Record Time. | I | e, 34 ¥From the Field, This is my game; ve entered—so I'll malke my stand; | Jt may be that I'll come to fame; 1t may be that I'll never land: It may be I shall reach the height, Or stumble onward through the rout, | But after all, a fight’s a fight— 1 I'll play it out.” New Strikes. being the order of the fes- we suggest these addi- Strikes tive occasion, tions: 1. That golfers strike for courses without bunkers or traps, and twelve- | inch ocups planted in the hollow of | cach green. That boxers strike for a univer-; sal adoption of the Freddie Welsh sys- tem, where each man can take his own referec along. 3. That ball players strike for a ve-inning game and the right to bite | ny umpire under the left ear at any | given moment, The Survivors. That five clubs out of the original sixteen should survive the pennant controver: through the middle of September is by no means a record, ! Tut it is at least a big improvement vpon the past few vears. As a big! average since 1908, the last year of | the Big Smear, we have only had two ! or three contenders at this section of | waning race. Today therq are three | survivors left in the American, with | Poston, Detroit and Chicago in the | hunt i Countless injuries crippled the Braves, leaving the edge to Brooklyn ' and Philadelphia, Attempting to pick a winner under the conditions that exlst is foolish, | 1ainly for the reason that out of the | eld no one club has shown any con- | stent all year strength. pick out any one machine and call it | a great one. Unl Boston can crush Detroit and Chicago the Red Sox have no great chance, despite their game- ness. | | | Brooklyn vs.. Philadelphia. As for Brooklyn and Philadelphia, the finishing schedule permits of too many shifting possibilities to offer any tip. Brooklyn's ainst Phil last seven delphia and games New York. Philadelphia’s iast seven games are against Brooklyn and Boston. As the! situation stands today Brooklyn has | Princeton’s Chance. If Speedy Rush back to direct Tiger destinies this fall Princeton has tHe chance of a lifetime to overwhelm all rivals. Yale, despite her start in the right direction, Will be rebuilding from the bottom. Harvard has lost Mahan, the most dangerous single factor of the modern game. And to face this situation Rush has first class material, but first class material is of no great use with- out a directing general at quarter to shoot it along. Given a good quarterback Princeton should win both games. But good qnarterbacks are nat to be lifted by the scruff of the neck from the crowded highway and dropped Into position on the field. Which reminds us that Pennsylva- nia’s day around the bottom is about cver. Penn at last has the man ta lead her out of the wilderness, provided she is to be led at all. Songs of the Off-Trail. Whether it's ghosts from forgotten Autumns, ‘Whether it's dreams of the great Might Be, I’ hard to stay in the crowded places ‘When the winds are whispering “Fol- low me.” “Follow me through starlight, Follow me through dew; And who can say when the journey’s over? the dusk and the dawn and irue.” “How does Heinie, the Great Zim,” queries a Cub fan, “look in a Glant uniform?”’ Generally in the direction of the umpires if there is any one in sight. Umpire Lord Byron, the Singing Judge, has arranged a new song for the peevish athletes. It is entitled, “Please go way and die.” When asked to ‘dash off something after the manner of his less illustrious predecesor, the first Lord Byron, the poetic ump, responded as follow: Manhattan Isle, Manhattan Isle, Where Jawn McGraw now plays the game, These peevish players make me smile, rn tao toss 'em from the frame; 'n to see their boiling wrath, | chase 'em to the shower bath.” Then L. J. H—TIt has been seven years | ce Cobb, was in a world series. As recall the details his average for we the seven games was around .300, We have a hunch now developing that the next world series is going to PORT | | pect is an ent i | Shocker, . Yankee flelders having are | can find a quarter- | LIGHT Grantland Rice be between two towns over 1,900 miles apart, that it will be featured by four days of rain and three days of cold, raw winds. Otherwise the pros- ing one, TIGERS ARE BEATEN BY NATIVE SON shocker Returns to His Home- town and Pitches Yanks to Win Detroit, Mich., Sept. 15.—A diabol- ical plot, hatched by Hughey Jen- nings, to defeat the Yankees was, thwarted yesterday afternoon in reg- ular Frank Merriwell style by Urban who made a mphant re- turn to his home town as a member of a big league baseball club and threw the hooks into the Tigers by a score of 4 to 2 With deviiish cunning, Hughey in- sinuated to Bill Donovan what a grand thing it wouid be to permit Shocker to take the mound against the Tigers so the home folks could see for themsclves what a great little pitcher U n had become since he cavorted around the sandlots of old Detroit. To show his love and esteem for his old pal, Jennings said he would vite all the semi-pro and i amateur ball players to Navin Field | nd call it “a Shocker day.” Deeply touched by this exhibition of feeling from his old manager, poor unsophis ticated Bill Donovan easily fell into that the afternoon be turned into a | holiday. { He held the slugging Tigers to five | hits and made most of them look like cripples tied to a post. He wavered a | bit in the ninth, but, with the tying and winning runs on the saclks, settled down and caused McKee, a pinch hit- ter, to foul to Mullen. Detroit made only one hit up to the seventh, the a soft time | with weak infleld taps and sickly flies. | Cobb, In particular, was absolutely helpless, not being able to get the semblance of a bingle for the second time in two days. The score | | the harder finish, but the decisive s ‘ r. h. 9»1, zica i.\”prou.xlf suss to come when the|xew York . 010000210—4 § 1| ‘,h:‘n.l!:):‘_:’;1"‘;(‘::;‘\1«" outposts along | petrott .. .. 000000101—2 5 0! e i sty . Batteries: Shocker and Walters; Mitchell, Boland and Baker. White Sox Gain a Bit. Chicago, Sept. 15.—Chicago gained a game on the American league lead- ers yesterday by defeating Washing- ton, 7 to 5, while Detroit and Boston lost. Jackson’s timely single in the | sixth inning, which scored two men, | coupled with Foster's wild throw of | Weaver's single, when the bases were | filled, gave the White Sox the game. | The score: [ r. h. e Chicago 00020500x—7 13 1 Washington 000000311—5 {0 1 Batteries: Faber and Lapp; Gallia, Ayers, Thomas and Henry. Red Sox Errors Costly. | St. Louis, Sept. 15.—Costly errors by Boston, of which St. Louls took will hold the indicator, CHENEY WINS OWN - GAME FOR DODGERS Larry Crashes Onut Hit in Ninth That Dissolves Tie Brooklyn, Sept. 15.—Just about the time that it was flashed to Ebbets Field yesterday that St. Louls had beaten. Philadelphia and the Cubs had outgamed Boston, Larry Cheney made up his mind that it was necessary t& cut short the battle between the Pi- rates and the Dodiers which threat- ened to go into innings. He took the opportunity offered a large vacant area in left fleld and lifted a high one so far out that it hit the fence on the first bounce. By this determined action the pitcher performed that formidable and seldom accomplished feat of winning his own game. The score was 3 to 2. This by | victory placed Brooklyn one game and a half ahead of the Phillies in the chase for the National League pen- nant. The score: rih. el Brooklyn 000002001—3 10 0 Pittsburgh .000000200—2 53 Batteries: Cheney and _ Miller; Grimes and Wagner. { Still Beating Reds. New York, Sept. 15.—The Giants made it nine straight yesterday, trim- ming the Cincinnati Reds, by way of habit, by the score of 3 to 1. There was no great outpouring of the popu- lace to see the argument, but those who did go enjoyed the afternoona The Giants were thrifty and started to score in the first inning. Burns, the first citizen up, flled to Eddie Roush. Herzog was tossed out at first by Louden. Davey Robinson singled to left and then stole sec- ond. The great Zim singled to cen- ter and Davey registered. Zim went No man can | the snare prepared for him and agreed | to third on a wild pitch, but that was as far as he got. The score: ¢ N e New York ..10010010x— 8 0 Cincinnati ..000000010— ¥ 8 Batteries: Tesreau and McCarty; Moseley and Huhn. Bruins Win in Eleventh, Boston, Sept. 15.—Chicago and Bog- ton battled for ten innings without a score today, but in the eleventh Wort- man broke up the game by singling with the bases full, two runs coming it. The Bostons were able to tally in their half. Saler led Chicago's rally by getting a single and stealing second hase. Willlams drew a base on balls and Ragan passed Knabe pur- posely to take a chance with Wort- man, who upset Boston's strategy with a clean hit. The score: r. h. e Chicago .00000000002— 8 i Boston £00000000000—0 8 0 Batteries: Perry and Wilson and Elliott; Ragan and Gowdy. Bescher’s Home Run Wins. Philadelphia, Sept. 15.—Bescher's home run drive with the bases filled in the fifth inning gave St. Louls & 5 to 3 victory over Philadelphia here yesterday. The visitors hit Mayer's delivery so hard that he was taken {out in the sixth inning. Bender pre- venting further scoring. The home team had many opportunities to -pile up runs but Watson was too much for them at critical moments. Three advantage, combined with timely hit- times Philadelphia had three men on ting, enabled the Browns to win ves- | the ba terday’s game by 6 to 1. Plank al-| The score: lowed only four hits. Three of these, | kg a double by Walker and singles by |St. Louls ....... 100040000—5 11 4 Gainer and Lewis, netted Boston its ' Philadelphia 1011000001—3 10 1 lone run. The score: | Batteries: Watson and Gonzales; r. h. e. ' Mayer, Bender and Killifer St. Louis 10003020x—6 5 0| bl Boston i 100000000—1 4 4| atterics: piank ama wumier; | PLANTERS ARE CHAMPS Shore, Jones and Cady. 5 Indians Have Easy Time. McCann’s Team Defeats Boosters In Cleveland, Sept. 15.—Cleveland 5 . gained another easy victory over Phil- | Game That Clinches Rag—Refregh- adelphia yesterday, winrg@g by 9 to| ng to Record » Hartford Victory. 1. Gould was very effec#ve, and was not scored upon until the eighth, | Worcester, M Sept. 15.—New. when Witt's triple prevented a shut- | London defeated Worcester, 14 to 2, out. Three scratch hits, three passes | yesterday afternoon and won the and three errors of ommission en-|championship of the Eastern League. abled Cleveland to score siX runs in | The game was broken up in the sev- the second inning. The score: enth when McGinley was hammered r. h. e |out of the box, the visitors securing Cleeveland .. ... 06001011x—9 11 1 |six hits for as many runs in the in- Philadelphia 000000010—1 8 ning. Cooney was spiked in the tHird Batteries: Gould and Deberr. - | inning. bors, Sheehan and Picinich. ieincora: e Z7] r.. B TER-CITY BATTLE. New London .030000620—14 18 Em——— Worcester 000000110— 2 13 2 Factory Pennant Winners in Hartford | terie Manning and = Russelly and This City to Clash, | McGinley, Hanson and Tyler and What should be one of the most in- | Freitag. “ teresting baseball battles of the sea- | %"Wl Mass.,, Sept. 15.—Hartford, son is scheduled for tomorrow after-| {olfHe first game of a double-hcader noon at 3 o’clock when the fnir | vestéfday by a score of 3 to 2, and Pearing company nine, which showed | I.ynn won the second, 13 to 7 The its superiority over the best in this| batting of Brickley and Porter and city, will stack up against the Pratt & | the fielding of Grieve and Gleason Whitne: of Hartford, which | Were the features. TkLese were the tcok similar honors in the Capitol list games in Lynn this season., City. The visitors have the reputation [ The scores: of having one of the most evenly bal- (First game) wnced teams in factory circles in the h. el state and should force the local lads| Hartford 003000000, 10 1 to top speed. | Lynn 011000000—2 7 1 The game will also afford local fans | Batteries Trautman and Murphy; an opportunity of watching Stanley, | Jewett, Tuero and Carroll, the reputed phenom, in action for the | s lust time this season. Stanley went | (Second gan-e) through the local factory league like ¥ | 2 house afire, but in facing the P. & | Hartford ..000003 1 W. team he is likely to confront a Lynn 183100 0 stronger opposition Larry Mangan | Batteries: Tress and Murphy; | Teuro and Masterman.