New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1916, Page 8

NEW. BRFTAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEKR 19, 1916. Red Sox Regain Lead in American League -Lowly Athletics Upset Tigers From First Place---Robins | Get Even Break With /Matiy’s Reds---Giants Continue Great Spurt---Crimson to Praciice in Secret ECRET DRILL FOR %i CAMBRIDGE SQUD iblic to See Little of Crimson Practice—Yale Works Hard ambridgh, Mass.,, Sept. 19.—Har- d 'Varsity coaches took their play- behind the secret practice fance the first time yesterday afternoon, A henceforth the public will see le of the eleven except in the es. There was no serimmage but men were drilled on plays for two rs. 'Wo of last year's regulars were on d yesterday. -Moseley Taylor, who ved guard against Princeton last . was used at right tackle on the t team. Ho is In fine trim, welgh- about 190 pounds. Dick Harte, end who scored Harvard's first chdown against Yale last year, jne over from Philadelphia and frked in his old place om the right he. Harte is down pretty fine, but er he gets.used to a little foot~ 1 he will be allowed to rest until urday’s opening game. Caner one last year's substitutes and Harte's n tennis partner, also reportedy is fifteen pounds under weight and Il be handled carefully. he coaches put the linemen ough thelr paces yesterday, the aking-through drfll being brisk. pre was a lot. of kicking and Char- Brickley took the drop-Wickers dn pd again. The lineup, with %11 ee of the veterans on the team for hal drill was: Hartley and Harte, s; Batchelder and Taylor, tackles; Hmun and Clark, guards; Harris, ter; Gardner, quarter and Bond, 'ween and Flower, backs. This ing the coaches tried out the new jting system in the stadium but a sfactory reflecting system has not Jn found. St. on No a Ames, back. Eii Has Stiff Practice, fder few Haven, Conn., Sept. 19.—Head ch Tad Jones of the Yale eleven erday afternoon praised the squad the atmosphere at the practice. the close of the hardest after- 0’8 drill since the candidates re- ffed, he said: [The _spirit of the fellows is fine they are willing and are working d. If we can only get the candi- s for the team who are enrolled in artillery battery soon it will be eat help.” s there are fully two complete gns who are members of the Yale tery which has been sent from vhanna, Penn., to Niantic, but not disbanded, the coaches are great- oncerned. The present squad was fted to le than fifty candidates. [esterday’s morning and afternoon 1, followed by more than half an hours rudimentary morning ing of New York 2, Pittsburgh 0, game). : New York 1, Pittsburgh 0, (seqond 1 game). Brooklyn game). Cincinnati 2, Brooklyn 1, game). Philadelphia 6, Chicago 1. Boston way Eberstadt, another quarter back can- didate, ance at the camp, and it Is not known whether he will play this fall. sion here last Fri according to an vesterday by John E. Bruce, secretary of the The Athletics withdrew their drafts | on Infielder Johns of Columbus, fielder McGafligan of Vernon, Short- stop Jennings of Minneapolis, Outfield- er Bratchi of Muskegon, and Catcher | Bassler of Los Angeles. NATIONAL L Yesterday’'s Results, AGUE. (first 4, Cincinnati 1, (first ‘S(‘(‘ond ) St. Louis 0; Standing of the Clubs, Brgoklyn ... Philadelphia Boston New York .. Pittsburgh Chicago Tiomist AL dl Cincinnati «...... Today’s Games, Pittsburgh at New York. cinnati at Brooklyn. Chicago at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston. is planning to use his punter Driggs a great fact that the abbreviated field at Lake newaska handicaps the kickers to e extent, Driggs has been hoisting the ball from fifty-five to sixty yards all his kicks. found Jack Eddy, a candidate for backfield position. deal this fall. Despite the The coaches have another kicker of abllity in shoulder pads have arrived at the Tiger camp as vet, so Coach Rush put off the scrimmage that he planned to hold yesterday until tomorrow. The regular drill in the fundamentals and signal the morning and afternoon despitd a thundershower practice were held in both in the afternoon. Haas and Eddy appear to be the most likely candidates for quarter A keen contest is already un- among these three men. has not put In an appear- CLUBS WITHDRAW DRAFTS. Yanks Get Option on Minneapolis ‘When Athletics Cancel Right. Cincinnati, Sept. 19.—Drafts on five of the twelve players the phia Americans obtained at the meet- Philadel- the National Baseball Commis- re cancelled announcement late commission. In- These with- k keeping them occupied for half | Arawals give the New York Americans t period and punting and signal 1, folowed by more thah half an r of serimmaging in the afternoon, | Cleveland has named first choice on Minneapolis and Cleve- land first pick of the Vernon team. Catcher Mec- Baseball News In a Nutshell I 1 | Yesterday's Results, Philadelphia 2, Detroit 0. Washington 1, St. Louis 0. ! Boston 4, Chicago 3. New York-Cleveland, no game. Standing of the Clubs, Boston ., Detroit Chicago ... New York . St. Louis Cleveland - Washington Philadelphia Today's Games, Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Leuis. Boston at Detroit. RED SOX GAINLEAD ON CHISOX ERRORS Windy Gty Team Loses Fine Op- portunity to Make Race Closer Chicago, Sept. 19.—Chicago forced Boston back into first place today when they tossed away the final game of the series with the world’s cham- pions, while Philadelphia won from Detroit. The score here was 4 to 3. Boston «scored its first run in the sec- ond. Lewls singled after one was out, and went to third when Leibold jug- gled Gardner’s single. On an at- tempted' double steal, Lewis counted when Collins threw wild to the plate. Terry’s fumble of Walker’s grounder | after Janvrin had walked and Lewis’ double netted two more for the cham- plons. Chicago’s runs were made in the fourth, seventh, and ninth innings. The local team had numerous chances to get runs, but did not avail them- selves of the opportunity. The score: TSI, I . 010021000—4 10 000100101—3 6 E hore and Cady; Cicotte, Boston .. Chicago . Batteries Williams, sell. Mackmen Humble Tigers. Detroit, Sept. 19.—Philadelphia de- feated Detroit yesterday by 2 to 0, scoring both runs without a hit. In and came home when Stanage threw ;| field. | bucketsful in the ninth and shut down Russell and Lynn and Rus- | ! sume activities the first Witt walked, started to steal, | EVEN BREAK BEST DODGERS CAN GET Getaway Contest—Chase a Hero Brooklyn, 12,000 yesterday Sept. 19.—Hal to Thase caused Ebbets field grief-stricken faces When he crossed the plate n the tenth inning of the second | the double-header, spoiling a tie just when darkness was enveloping the This gave Cincinnati a victor 2 to 1, to offset the first enconnte i which resulted in favor of the league | leaders by 4 to 1. | | In the curtain-raiser Cheney had no | trouble in keeping the visitors in check, his opponent in the box being | Schneider, who was touched up for | ten hits to the seven accumulated by | the Reds. The struggle, though pro- ductive of some brilliant fielding “éa | in spots, was tame in comparison with | | tho bitterly-fought contest that closed the afternoon’s sport. Marquard was chosen to defend the home citadel against the onslaught of the former Federal leaguer, Knetzer in the second, and until Prince Hal made up his mind to break up the party in the tenth the battle v waged with little advantage to sither. It was punctuated with scintillating flelding that helped to head off desperate attempt to score after opposing nines had once hit stride. fans leave with game of by First Game. The score: T 10000102x—4 9 Cincinnati 000100000—1 7 Batteri “heney and Miller; Schnelder and Wingo. | Second Game. [ Brooklyn 9 The score: . Cincinnatj . . . 010000001—2 8 0| Brooklyn ....... 010000000—1 6 0 Batteries—Knetzer and Huhn; Mar- quard and Meyers Giants Still Winning. | New York, Sept. 19.—The emotion- | al winning streak of the Giants has | not been halted, by any means. No, Siree! Romping ahead as if the fu- ture welfare of the universe were at stake, McGraw’s latest edition of ball players hung up their twelfth straight | Victory in the first game of a double- header with Pittsburgh yesterday in a shutout spasm, by a score of 2 to 0. In the second installment of the aft- ernoon the count was sewed up at 1 to 1 when the rain came down in it e. a game which gave promise of ing in a barrel of fun and another rel of excitement. The Pirates and the Giants will re- on the Harlem front today with yet another double-header. If the Giants can bridge over that Johan thirteenth gameé they have a fine chance of equaling the seven- on Cheney Pitches Winning Ball in| | l1eague; then they were the best; then PORT Muddle. of empire The Pennant rd the way,” rd the Tigers and the White Sox play But in the East, fan raves, on the Braves, star takes where still the wild Reel Robins, Phillies and “Who'll win—who'll win?'—by day and night I hear This self-same query ear But being cagey in the off 1 mention all surrounded by hurtled at my de whiff, an IF. Oft have I picked this club or that to praise; ave I lamped the error of ways; when at one would fling, The detonation was an Awful Thing. ot my For large * bouquets I And so today I watch them fall rise, how the prise; when I'm nicked dubs, answer is—The Standing of Clubs. or Nor semblance of faint sur- And by over-eager | My the “The Off Again Champs. For what F. P. A. has termed the Finnegin Club, the Out Agin, In Agin. | The On Again, the Giants, are bership for life. They started the season, judging by results, as the worst club in the Gone Agin Champs, entitled to full mem- they were the worst again—and then, | down the last stretch of the race what more natural than they should once more be the best? As a result of this lop-sided en- deavor the National League is in the freak position of having the strongest | machine in the circuit dangling in fourth place. i As the situation now stands, with the addition of one or two good yvoung | pitchers the Giants should romp | | home next year. But why attempt to| teenth straight they won on their first | Western trip. LIGHT Grantland Rrce the 1916 n the finish, for any use? dope a 1917 finish when affair, anly two weeks fr is entirely too complex Maybe: Sir: Is it Also Perhaps, your honest conviction that if Jack Barry had not been in- jured and Maranville had not been hurt the Brav nd Red Sox would have the two sewed up?—Back Bay. flags In the Game. But there is no way to figure such incidents, accidents being a iural adjunct of the feverish pastime. The 1ks are not so far from the top. Where would.they be if Bill in na- Donovan had only five stars crippled | burgh yesterday that place of eight? And the Mackmen might have lost only 101 Schang had wisely reframed from jamming his bean against the stands. in D. L. H—Hans Wagner has batted 0 a greater number of years t ny other big league ball player. s now rounding out his three hundred s n. The Annual Squawk. there will the wail From Princeton, Yale; While Mickigan, 0Old Minne. squawk to beat the band— O< lines too weak to start a cheer, Of Backfields that are out of gear, Of new material so punk It could not win from old Podunk. The same old squawk since Hink day, Since Butterworth came out to play; And yet, with autumn woods aflame, We tumble for it just the same. Soon, come same Harvard and from Chicago and | | | | will at last games to this point if Wally |a | Hans | eighteenth | | old | ing his te | | | | | | | | on hand the the ball opposite left ? Leander Nearer the left foot, according to systems of Walter J. Travis and D. Travers, who have come close to sinking their of the right foot or the erome irly putts, share Yale and Princeton would just as soon see the s finish first this fall. Not t ton nave anythi 3 inst Philadelphia or but theye v ould just as soon have Percy Haugh- ton involved in other art from the football field as as pos- sible duties long If the lesing record the Mackmen beat Washington's of 113 games for one Nine of Least Resistance be discovered beyond any ™ further debate. VIOX QUITS BASEBALL. Pittsburgh, Sept. 19.—"Jir Viox nflelder of the Pittsburgh a- tional league baseball club, who wa# rcleased last week to the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast league, ane nounced upon his arrival in Pitts- he would quit baseball before he would accept the e arrangement. He recently purchased farm near Lexington, Ky. DON'T CRY go, Sept. 19 JOE. oseph J. Lan- dent of the Boston American late yesterday confirmed stories that he planned to give up his part of the club if his team did not win the championship this year. Mr, Lannin said he was convinced the um- " pires in the American league were giv- m the worst of it and that his players were discouraged because they thought the same. Chie nin, pr league ,club, FOOTBALL AT WESLEYAN. Middletown, Sept. 19.—Football work at Wesleyan University begangs vesterday. The advance guard of the squad is here and Coach Dau C. Kenan, '15, opened football quarters erweather gymnasium y afterncon and handed out and equipment to the men who were Track and fle'd work also began today. What a tough year it would be for | Cobb if he should beat out Speaker, cstablish his ten-year reign and then get in his fourth world series! It is hard to see how Ty could stand up under such overwhelming auversity. Who Should Know. Sir: In putting, is it best to play DINNER IN HONOR OF EVANS. ¢ Chicago, Sept. 19.—The Indiana So- ciety of Chicago last night 1eted Chick 18, national open and amateur golf champion, at a banquet set on a fable »quipped as a miniature golf course. { George Ade, president of the society, was toastmaster. You Long Cut Users, Get This! You get more rattling good smokes and more naing out vy the am, day’s exceptionally | AVOY as their choice from Baltimore. { The draft of the Chicago Americans on ! Kopf from Buffalo has been set aside the ball beyond Cobb in center field. Crawford muffed Haley's fly in the Manager Jimmy Callahan of the Pi- prog rates hasn’t piloted his club in the kept the 'Varsity hammering ht line plunges in the after- | they scored three scrub defense, pelling their at sev- without heing checked. touch- ! on by the commission, as the player has { been purchased by the Boston Ameri- third, and the batter reached second. He took third on a sacrifice, and scored when Mitchell threw to second to force Meyers, although there was an casy play at the plate. The score: r. h. | present series, but is sick at his hotel. The very thought of his men going against the fast-traveling Giants may | have been the cause of his indlsposi- tien. TFirst Game. tasty chews out of a package of LIBERTY than out of the big- | Long Cut= 2 00010001x—2 na' C;ij llkefl.’lls/'r e 000000000—0 3 —-Schupp and McCarthy; Wagner. Second Game. The score: K | cans. in | wns were registered, the | GRAND CIRCUIT RACING each, and | ’ . | After Three Yeal Whid Has beert at) il adie s - three days, plowing over for Jacques work was ex- and, although he is iter than Rex Hutch- commonly rezarded for the berth, he Philadelphia .... 101000000—2 Detroit . . . 000000000—0 Battert and Haley ell, James a anage. The score: 3 T. Mitch: s ger-looking packages. 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Columbus, O., Sept. 19.—Three of the four favorites in yesterday after- S s | noon’s opening races of the Columbus v .“',m"ff e Ene | Erand circuit meeting were from the material advance, iy puank, OF 0 SUL from midfield to the | NOUnced one, The Real Lady, was sic- vard Tine. where fy | CeSful. She took the Horse Review S litted & pone full| Futurity for two-year-old trotters 1n crom bt for the o | straight heats, getting no real opposi- L st | tion from even Emma Magowan, thut season against the regu- | was twice second. Don MacDonald, the Indianapolis driver, had in charge wvas at left tackle aft- | the horses that defeated the other ence of five days. Vorls was | Murphy first cholces. Miss Harris M., Callahan, who began the | won the King Stake for pacers. She son there, being out with a slight { was a strong second horse to Roan brui | Hal, that was four times second. The captain of the | first heat was won away from him t fall, was in- | by Sayde Densmore, fresh from the lled at right end, where Rosener | Great Western circuit. been since the opening of the| Miss Harris M., after finishing fifth son. Smith of the third eleven | in the first heat, stepped away better vear was tried at quarter back, | in the next one and won it in 2 king the fifth ndidate placed | 3-4, the fastest time of the race. re since the on Ex- | this finish both Roan Hal and Sayde tain Brink e only | Densmore were close up, as they were Vi | at the ends of the next two heats. McCloskey, victor in the 2:11 trot, | has been racing for three full seasons | on the Grand Circuit without being a winner until yesterday. He has been behind the money but few times, how- cver, and last year at San Francisco won two races. Yesterday afternoon he had a little more strength than Virginia Barnett and Empress of Rus- In the third heat, Pittsburgh was n by only a neck. Little Frank D. a recent addition to the Valentine stable, took the 2:14 pace. The fiela was the largest Lhiis 3 | BOWLING { | | vear on the Grand Circuit. The first A I: T N A | heat went to Queen Hal, a Canadian CCHET BILLIARDS | mare, with Little Frank D. finishing OR YOUR OWN GOOD | (Nc/fth. In each of the next three in:ilos Little Frank D. won with case. r. h. e. 00000001°—1 8 0 .. 00001000—1 5 0 Grimes and Fischer; Per- Rariden. | Pittsburgh New York Batteries: round ritt and the ball ity thirt Joe over t of for Phillics Fave Easy Philadeiphia, Sept. 19. while McConell was pitching bad work hy Carter and Clemons, C cago’s battery, in the eighth inning gave Philadelphia an e victory vesterday, 6 to 1. Catcher O'Farrell, who reported to Manager Tinker y terday, had 2 finger on his right hand split by a -l tip in the first inning. He was thc hourth catcher of the Chi- cago team t0 be hurt on the club’ present eastern trip, the others being Archer, Wilson ana Elliott. 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Champion Planters Receive 020000000 000000000—0 3 0 and Blackburn; nd Gon Boston St. Lou Batter Meadow: ler at Banquet For Owner. Willlams HARLEY AGAIN COACH. State College, Pa., Sept 19.—Dict Harley, the former big leaguer, from Philadelphia, who for the last two vears has developed the best bascbeall teams that ever represented Penn State, has again been engazed to in- struct the State College ball (ossor Graduate Manager R. H. Smith has announced Harley cceptance of the | place for the 1917 season. I New London, Sept. 19.—Manager . gene McCann and players of the New London baseball club, pennant winners of the Eastern league, were presented each with a check for $50 from the owner of the club, Commno- dore Morton F. Plant at a banquet here last night. The occasion was, a banquet given to the members of the baseball team by the fans of this city, and at wh Mr. Plant was the guest of honor. CAN'T GET ROURKE. 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