New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1916, Page 8

Red Sox Win First Game of Crucial Series With Tigers-- X NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916. m—— Yanks and Browns in 15-Inning Battle--- Robins Trim Reds by Wheat’s Homer---fi'raves Gain on Phils---Mabel Trask Wins at Columbus ALLOPING WHEAT HAMMERS THE BALL Four Ply Gl&lt Scores “Forgetful Fred” White—Fans Shiver Sept. 20.— baseball of the set Brooklyn, bout 1,500 jnajority of them hrough nine innings of b erday afternoon at Ebbets Brooklyn to watch the Dodger sty Mathewson’s Cincinnati Red- egs S-to 1 in the final appear- nce of the latter team on the Flat- push battlefield. Omne of the few occasions when . the fpectators did get a chance to warm p and send the blood circulat hrough their veins with boisterous ntics came in the sixth inning when he redoubtable Zach Wheat pounded he ball over the right-field fence for home run, sending IFred erkle across he rubber ahead of him. There were bther moments when spe ar lays on the field sent the spectato nto ecstacles, but only momentarily, hnd none came near approaching this ig feat of Wheat. The scove: A enthusiasts, crowd shivering, ehall ves- field Jown in 00010200x— 000000010 Pfeffer and and Huhn. Brooklyn incinnat Batteries seley Can’t Stop Giants. New York, Sept. 20.—The jubilant aunt of the joyous Giants bounds hlong on its hysterical way. The Pltte- urgh posse falled to even make them esitate in a twin bill at the Polo rounds yesterday, to say nothing of topping them. By swamping the Pi- tes twice more McGraw and his rry men have won fourteen straight fotories. Although the New Yorks annot hope to intrude into the harmed circle at the head .of the N jonal league parade, they are kicking hp jusct as big a fuss as if they were @t in front. f'he Giants nailed the prologue with y ease by a score of 9 to 2 and then fraltzed away with the aftermath by he mathemathical outcome of 5 to 1. Prdinarily a club would be dizzy un- er this galloping gait, but it seems hat the more Little ac’s troupe win he better they keep heir feet. If Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel- bhia would all be stricken with rheu- atism or something and drop about alf of their remaining games, and urther provided the jocular Giants von everything in sight, maybe Mec- raw would have a chance. But just ow it is like trying to catch up to t Black Diamond Express in a fivver. First Game. The score: . h . 30032010x—9 10 000200000—2 5 New York . ittsburgh Batteries—Anderson, Benton JRariden; Jacobs and Fischer. Second Game The score: h. bl i 00202100x—5 000100000—1 0 [Pittsburzh 3 Batteries—Tesreau and [Evans and Wagner. McCarty; Phillies Bow to Bruins. 20.—Stolen 8 errors, with some hits, wz he combination which gave Chicago la. victory over Philadelphia yesterda 2 to 0. In the second inning Saler, lwho singled, was forcey by Williams, fwho stole second base and scored on [Cravath’s muff of Yerkes' fly. In the eighth inning Jacobson singled, stole second, went to third on Killifer's wild throw, and scored on Saier's sec- ond single. ,Vaughn held the home team down to three scattered hits. The score: Sept. h. 8 3 r. 010000010—2 000000000—0 Chicago Philadelphia 2 Batteries—Vaughn and Wilson; Alexander and Killifer. raves Busy With Bats. Boston, pt. 20.—Boston defeated St. Louis, 6 to 3, in the final game of the series yesterday by hard and timely hitting. led the attack ith two doubles triple in four at bat, and nville made a run with two men on bases. Fieldir atures were furnished by Maranv s and J. Smit The an ind a Boston 000x St. Lo 30007 W Lotz X VE BUSIER THAN EVER BOWLING AETNA POCHET BIiLLIARDS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 20.—Wom- en are invading every field, including the sport world, and making good too. For the first time in h fs coaching a football team. She is Mrs. Earl Brannon, formerly prom- inent in athletics at the University of tory a woman | Woman Football Coach e o crsron# Nebraska. When the Jonesboro col- lege of Arkansas advertised for a foot- ball coach for its second team Mrs. Brannon applied and was accepted. According to reports, Mrs. Brannon is success and the Jonesboro aggies are Zoing to make a good showing on the Arkansas gridiron this scason. ‘Wanderers Bowlers on Their Mettle Set Up Some New City League Rec- ords—Annex Beaten Twice. The Wanderers bowling quintet were a busy set of young men last evening at the Aetna Alleys, accom- plishing several feats which are likely to stand as records for some time. Feat number one was the defeat of the Harpoons in three straight games. The second thing of distinction con- tributed by the quintet was the setting of a new team score placing the figure at 1523. Two members of the team also contributed scores that will force other members of the league to “‘trav- el some” if they intend to take the honors away. Larson knocked the pins right and left in the three strings accumulating a score of 346 for his total. Brennecke with 135 for a string set a new mark for the City League. Rogers of the losers was in fine form, turning in three scor of over the century mark for his eve- ning’s efforts. The Annex five had a surprise pack- ake handed them last evening when they encountered the Live Oaks who piled up two victorles to their op- ponent’s one. The Annex started off as if they were to clean up, but the L. O. put a nice little piece de re- sistance and nosed out the 1915 champions with plenty of room to spare in the two following strings. Richter with 319 and Thompson with 311 were the high men for the victors while Hoffman lead the losers with a total of 301 for the match. The Wanderers. 84 79— 245 93— 291 81— 319 122—*346 519 *537 Harpoons, 106 110 85 83 94 83 91 90 87 89 463 455 Annex. 98 84 Rogers W. Erickson Geers . C. Erickson Pleucker 102— 3 76— 2 96— 111— 80— 81 88 91 92 261 261 301 299 McBriarty Young Hoffman ... Huck Foote 430 Oalks. 92 94 90 26 466 Live 96 91 110 82 120 502 Lantone | Thompson Bertini Richter .. 111— ¢ 111— 102— 528-—1489 1 { vear- WITH THE PIN SMASHERS| MABEL TRASK A WINNER Cox’s Horse Trots Two Heats in 2:05 1-2 in Feature Event at Columbus Grand Circuit Mecet. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. Trask, second to Peter Scott last year in the Hoster-Columbus stake for $10,000 cvent, the richest feature of the Columbus Grand Circuit meeting and did so without effort, though each of the last two heats was stepped in 2:05 1-2. The Cox mare was a 10 to 4 choice over the field, being the hope of those who wagered against Mabel Trask. The Horse Review’s Futurity for 3- Id trotters went to Volga, tie favorite. The Cleveland filly raced impressively, taking a new mark of 2:07 1-4 in keeping clear of Harrod' Creek in the second heat. The Louis ville colt carried Volga to the half in 1:02 3-4, and stood a whipping through the stretch when Bingen Silk | challenged him for the place. Fred Russell was the third winning favorite of the afternoof but, unlike abel Trask and Volga, he did not take his race in straight heats. The first two went to Beth Clark, Fred Russell being nosed out the first time and making a break going away in the second mile. The gelding, driven by Snow, won the third heat in 4 1-4. ch of the next two was cap- tured easily. Humfast, Brescia, and Sister Ella were most in favor for the 2:15 trot, but the winner turned up in Ridge- mark, owned at Youngstown, Ohio. Flumfast, three times second, was lead- ing near the finish of the middle heat, but was beaten when Ridgemark, after a short break, came on with mendous burst of speed. CANCEL DRAFTS ON MINORS. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. cancellations of the drafts made here by major league clubs on last Friday reached ary John E. Bruce the National Commission toda The New York Yankees canceled on Raw- lings of Toledo, and the choice from also canceled their second choice on Minneapo and, owing to the fact that the Philadelphia Americans can- celed first choice vesterday, the Boston Nationals have next option. After ‘Washington had canceled first choice on St. Paul yesterday, the Chicago N tionals named Cruise of that te selection from St. Paul fal Brooklyn, third choice. g to CONCEDES HONORS TO SPEAKER. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 20.—Tyru Cobb, for nine years the leading bats man of the American league, conceded that Tris Speaker of the Cleveland club would be the 1916 champion. Cobb said it is impossible for him to try to cut down Speake in team play. i bers last year. | get Arkansas College Boasts of YALE VARSITY IS HUSTLED BY SCRUBS First Down Is Registered Several Times by Second String Team New Haven, Sept. 20.—Reinforced by the addition of Re the backfield of the eleven yesterday registered first downs against the Hutchinson weighs nearly 200 pounds, and his interference was a factor in allowing Joe Neville and Effle Waite ! to break away for Lwo pretty end runs, netting between 10 and 15 vards. The second team’s games were not | consistent, however, and the 'Varsity | goal line was not threatened. Although the regulars were unable to get away for any long gains, their backfield gained its distance with regularity. Half Back Bob Bingam took the ball across the scrub line for a touchdown from about the three- vard mark. Captain Black up for the first tims ter being placed at left guard, while J. Smith was used at center. Both these players were third eleven mem- Comerford, the fresh- again Hutchinson, | Yale second | several regulars. was out of the line- this season, Car- man captain of last season, wa; at quarter back. John only addition to the staff of vis! coaches. The lineup: Left end, Gates; left tackle, left guard, Carter; center, J. Smit right guard, Zenner; right tackle, Baldridge; right end, Comerford; | auarter back, E. Smith; left half back, Legore; right half baclk, Bingham; full back, Jacque Scrimmage For Tigers. Lake Minnewaska, N. Y., Sept. 20. —A cold snap that struck Lake Min- | Taft; newaska yesterday encouraged Coach ; 5 | could have enj Rush of the Princeton football players a little taste of scrimmage work. He selected two elevens from the candidates, with Haas as quarterback of one and Eddy the pilot of the other, and let them Speed squad to give hi batter each other for fifteen minutes. In this time Haas team scored a touchdown on a forward pass after having carried the ball thirty yards to within striking distance of the goal posts. In the back ficld of the cleven besides Haas were Moore, Driggs and Mathiasen. Driggs showed up well as a defen- sive full back, breaking up a num- her of plays aimed at the center and sides of the line. It is probable th serimmage work will be the the day from now on although Coach Rush will continue to drill the funda- mentals of the game. Highly, an end, arrived at the camp in time for | the day’s work, but was not allowed to into the scrimmage. Most of the practice was given over to kicking. Coach Rush is anxious to 20.—Mabel | idrop kicking for the eleven when trotters, yesterday afternoon won this | Donna Clay , | touchdown by a tre- | 20.—More | of | this team reverts to Cleveland. They | m, the | today | | squad, lead and at the same time co-operate develop a few drop and place Kkick- ers of ability. Tibbitt will do the he s in condition, but the.probability is that he will be out of the first games, because of an injury received this summer. George, of last year's freshman team, showed some ability in drop kicking yesterday and will probably be taken hand by coaches. in Real Stuff For Harvard. Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 20.—Har- vard’s football session in the Stadium was the real thing yesterday. After handling their men carefully for near- Iy two weeks the coaches started things moving and in earnest. The serub team was brought over from the freshmen field, and for more than an hour there was some regular foot- ball. The center 'Varsity squad was used, and few shifts were made on the second team. The 'Varsity managed to keep the ball most of the time, but was able to produce only two scores. One was a Hddie Casey, the old Exeter star. The other score was by a field goal, Murray of last year's sec- ond team driving the 'Varsity to with- in scoring distance, but finally being obliged to try for a field goal, his effort from the twenty-vard line and at a difficult angle being successful. Taylor and Harte the 'Varsity men | Who returned yesterday, were not al- lowed to play, but both will be ready for Thursday’'s scrimmage. Wallie Trumbull spent a lot of time with the linemen yesterday. Reggie Brown took the backfield in hand, and many forward passes were tried. Y. U; Gets New York, Sept. authorities of New announced last night obtained Dick Rustis, formerly of Wesleyan to coach the football team during the coming season Tom Rail- ley, coach for the past two years, is on the Mexican border as a lieutenant of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, and he notified the N, Y. U. officials last week that it would be impossible for him 20 —The York University that they had athletic | to fulfill the terms of his contract, as there was little possibiilty of leaving the border for some time. Weslevan graduate, was v on its foothall team for playing fullback and end ability. He has coached Wesleyan football team for the two y and cxpected to much success with the Violet in view of the fact that the entire team, with two exceptions, will be composed of last vear's players Slmer T, Eustis, a brother of the new ach, has heen on : coach of the N. his with equa the past have U. team. | Chase. | ! rauscular control first | order of | | date will be close enaugh to a world ! Saia Old Tad Jjones to Speedy Rush, few | | “But not without some busted bones,” the | | either | series will assistant | ¢ | White-Welsh arena on September 4. [ oy New Plays You Should See. Nind s Chances~~By Hughey nings, : The Man Who Came Back—By Hal Jen- Beating Beaters—By John J.| McGraw. Fair and Warmer—By Chick Evans, The Great Shoter—By Harry | LeGore. The Age Limit. The debate, “Is galf an old man's game or a kid’s game?” is still raging | in all its fury. On the one hook we have Walter | J Travis winning championships when he was around fifty. On the other we have Bobby Jones beating veteran stars at fourteen, Commodore Bryan Heard was runner- up in the Southern championship at | sixty-two. Perry Adair was runner- | up in the same championship three vears ago at fifteen. Judging from | this list the debate will move along | until Doomsday or thereafter without | Teing settled, for golf happens to be a game where age has nathing fo do | with it. It is merely a matter of so much strength plus nerve and | plus practice. ( age for golf is between Take your The ideal fourteen and seventy-two. ck. Big Mistake. Joe Jackson made a sad clerical | error. In place of staying in the | American league to grapple with Speaker and Cobb, to run a lank third, Joe should have moved over into the National league, where he d a 25 point lead without exerting himself. If Jackson had come to the Na- tional in place of the American he would have been a league leader at least six years, doubly advertised by success, which takes no great stock of the runner-up. The Big Shift. Last year the Tigers won 100 games in the American league and finished second. That same margin for 1916 rould toss them out in front by a dozen games, For there is now only a bare chance that two clubs in the American league will win over 90 games. The club that n show 91 victories by the closing series to inhale the fragrant odor of about $60,000, split twenty-three ways. In the meanwhile Yale hopes to put on two dramatic successes this, fall— The Blue Pavadise and Turn to the Right. . That Repartee Again. “We'll drive the Tiger from the brush.” said Speedy Rush to Old Tad Jones. It has been flve years now since Yale or Princeton beat Har- vard, whereas Cornell has only to zlance backward a brief span to recall the glary of a Crimson defeat. “Yale,” suggested Colonel Heywood Broun, ‘has abolished tackling.” ‘Whereas three years ago after a Har- vard game Yost wanted to know when the rule was passed against catching punts. ‘When we think of where the world probably be, we alsa re- mmember that it might have called for a jump between Boston and St. Iouls and then cheer up. WHAT STAGG THINGS. Chicago Coach Says Yale Will Have | Better Eleven This Year. Chicago, Sept. 20.—A. A. Stags, athletic director of the University of Chicago, is home after a two weeks’ | visit to New Haven, where he helped | in the pre-season football practice at Yale by lending his advice to Walter Grantfand Rice The Brown Uprising, ‘While the now esteemed Browns will hardly attach any pennant this | fall, Fielder Jones has at least yanked St. Louis back upon the baseball map, | and from now an the Browns will no | longer be the human doormats of the icague. Jones has the nucleus for a | great club, and by next spring this| team will be listed as favorites with | the Yanks. | i We wish Connie Mack all the suc- cess there is. But if he is to finish fourth next yeear, as same critic® sug- gest, which faur clubs is he to beat— Detroit, St. Louis, Boston, New York, | or Cleveland, Washington, Boston and | Chicago? As the American league race is now balanced the Mackmen | need a more rapid growth than they ghow signs of to finish any better than eighth again, The Duffer's Chat. I stood on the tee at midday, As the clock was striking the hour, And I thumped the ball to the water With all of my well known power. And, splashing into the water, I wished, as I saw it fall, That T was the one that was sinking, In place of the lucky ball. How can ane tackle a world serles and the opening of the football season | at the same time? pens a peevish | ccribe, Easy enough. Ever try the overlapping grip? | SOME BATTLE PREDICTED. “Tex” McCrann Signs Fasane to Meet Williams in Semi-Final Sept, 29. New Haven, Sept. 20.—Everything is shaping up nicely for the series of | boxing bouts to be held at the Arena on the night of September 29, under | the direction of the National Athletic club. Matchmaker “Tex” McCrann vesterday completed the make-up of the card by signing Harry Willi and Jimmy Fasane for the semi- windup. The boxers have agreed weigh in at 135 pounds at on the afternoon of tha hout. \ Young McAuliffe and Buddy Faulkes, who are to appear in the bout of 15 rounds, have already start. ed to train. This bout has exocited much interest throughout the state. Both boys are everlastingly clever and boast of victories over gome of the hQSE boys at their weight in the state. e T e Afe gy lingtown and few boxers have had the benefit of as much first class coaching as he has been favored with from Henry Ruden, Izzle Winters and Jack Fishman, All three are men who have had plenty of experience in athletic competition and all are fair boxers. MEREDITH TO STAY ABROAD. Will Represent American Firm England After Swedish Games. PhLiladelphia, Sept, 2.—While the University of Pennsylvania football | squad was indulging in its first serim- mage on Franklin Field yesterday af- ternoon a counter attraction was af- | forded by the presence of Ted Mere- dith, who was warming up on the | track. Meredith will leave for Stock- | holm on Sept. 28 to compete in Swe- den and Norway as a member of the American team. Ted does not intend to return to this country immediately, but will, after the conclusion of the games in Stock- holm, represent an American firm in England. Meredith has suffered late- ly from a crop of boils, but expects to | be in condition when the time for the games arrives. in SIGNS FOR THREE YEARS. Boston, Sept. 20.—Fred Titchell, for the past few sc a Manager Stallings of the Boston tional league baseball team, signed a contract with the club for three year: Last Spring Mitchell was Camp and other Yale coaches. “I think that Yale will have a bet- ter team this year than it had last,” sald Stagg. “The material looks promising and it is plentiful. There were seventy men out when I left, and Mr. Camp expected thirty or forty more. The men are big and are | working hard.” WINS IN CENTRAL LEAGUE Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 20.—Dayton clinched the 1916 championship in the Central league by winning the sixth game of the post-season series here yesterday. It was a pitchers’ battle between Clark and Lakaff, the result being 2 to 0. The score by in- | nings: ) i S 00001001x—2 4 1 000000000—0 4 0| and Dunn; Lakaff e. Dayton . ... Springfield Batterie and Jacok Clark FIGHT FANS A DAMAG Colorado Springs, Sept. 20.— nal injurice ap- laims for damages for pers proximating $150,000 in 25 suits were filed yesterday in the trict court against the Colorado Springs Athletic club as a result of the collapse of two tions of the grand stand at the | i coach of the successful Harvard nine, but the new contract bars him from star | ms | to | Boston o'clock | patrojt | | | | further work of directing college teams. | won from Detroit yesterda: YANKS WIN AFTER A LENGTHY BATTLE Mound City Fans Treated to Fil- teen Innings of Fast Play St. Louis, Mo., Sept 20.—It took the Browns fifteen innings to lose yester- day's ball game by one run. The Yanks were the beneficiaries. The score was 4 to 3 ~ A two-base hit by Lee Magee and & wild throw by Jim Austin put together the run that defeated the Browns. It all happened after two were out. Lee smacked a double to center. Hendryx, Donovan’s new outfielder, contributed a puny roller to Austin. Jim straight= ened up, took aim at first base, and cut loose. The throw was low. Sisler tried to snare it on the first hop, but the leather bounced out of his mitt Magee, spurred by the double impulés of winning the ball game and getting to dinner, tore for the plate. Sisler recovered the ball with convenient peed and pegged to Hartley just a fraction of a second too late to nab Magee. Peckinpaugh singled and Bauman, batting for Pipp, drew four balls, fill- ing the bases. That brought J. Frank- lin Baker to the plate. J. Frank sailed one into the right field seats in the ninth, but the best he could produce in the fifteenth was a fly to Marsans. It wouldn’'t have been right for J. Frank to put another into the bleachers be- cause that would have given the .Yanks four more runs and made it imperative for the Browns to get three more tallies in order to lose by their customary one run. The score: . r h e New York 000001101000001—4 12 1 St. Louis 100000002000000—3 11 4 Batteries: Cullop, Shawkey and Walters; Davenport, Koob and Hart- | ley. Red Sox Take Firmer Grip. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 20.—Bos#en 3tol in the first game of the series which expected to go far toward deciding the American league championship. De- troit was unable to hit Mays when men were waiting to score. Dauss, use ually effective against Boston, walked five men, three in the first inning. The score: N r h 8 ..100000110—3 11* 0 = ..000010000—1 9 2 Batteries: Mays and Thomas; Dauss, James, Boland and Stanage and Baker. Gallia Tames Indians. Sept. 20.—Poor pitch- Clevgland, | ing gave Washington a 9 to 6 victory over Cleveland here yesterday. Bagby was ineffective in the first, while rag« ged work by Morton and Beebe in the seventh added six runs to the visitors’ score. Gallia was very effective ex=~ cept in the fifth and ninth innings. He strutk out eight batters. The score: r h e ...800000600—9 11 '8 ...000020013—6 12 § Bafteries: Gallia and Willlags; Bagby, Morton, Gould, Beebe an@ Deberry and O'Neill. Washington Cleveland Pinch Hitters Aid Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 20.—A corps of pinch hitters, mustered into the game in the ninth inning by Manager Rowland, en- abled Chicago to pull out a 5 to 4 vie= tory over Philadelphia in the fiwst game of the series. Yesterday's vies tory leaves Chicago still one and ones half games behind the world's cham- pions and half a game behind Detroit. Murphy started the local ninth with a single when he batted for Ness. Fournier batted for Terry and singled, Schalk batted for Lynn, and advanced both runn on a sacrifice. Felsch batted for Danforth and ked. Has- brook ran for him. J. Collins flled ta Schang, and Murphy scored after the catch. Weaver walked. Eddie Colling doubled to left, scoring Fournier and Hasbrook Weaver's fielding was a feature. The score: T 000002003—5 000001030—4 Danforth, Benz Sheehan and [ 2 9.2 ana Haley. Chi T hiladelphia Batteries: Lynn; Nabo SCOTT BACK WITH CHICAGO, Chicago, Sept. 20.—James Scott, pitcher of the Chicago Americans who was suspended by Manager Row- land six weeks ago, was restored to the active roster vesterday to agaist in the club’s fight for the pennant Every time you see a man smoking a Fatima, you know he is getting « all the comfort that is possible in a cigarette. The original Turkish blend 207 159" FATIMA. 4 Sensible Cigarette