New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1916, Page 12

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1916. Red Sox and Robins Practically Clinch Chance to Meet in World’s Series---Joe Bush Applies White- wash Brush to Contenders--- Pirates Spoil Phillies’ Hopes---Local Diamond Stars to Clash Sunday ROBINS MAKE Bt GAIN FOR PENNANT Phils and Braves Lose While Dodgers Lace Cardinals Brooklyn, Sept. 22.—ILarry Cheney, who is camping right on the heels of [Grover Cleveland Alexander for ef- jiciency honors in the National'league, lwon his twentieth game of the seas- n at Ebbets Field yesterday after- noon. The Bartlesville Blade came into the box in the second inning of the | | [game against the St. Louis Cardinals, = | | i replacing Jack Coombs. When Cheney entered the Robins were on the short end of a 3 to 1 score, but Larry proceeded to mow his rivals down, and the one run they Scored off him in the ninth as the result of a muff by Ivan OL- | son. The final score was 6 to 3. Brooklyn smashed its way to vie- [tory in the fifth inning, scoring five Tuns on a half dozen hif The wal- lops were clean and true, and in- cluded doubles by Casey Stengel and Buck Wheat, along with a triple to the left field fence by Ivan Olson. The score: T ho 200000001—3 9 1005000x—6 10 Currie and Gon- zales and Brottem; Coombs, Cheney and Miller. St. Louis .. Brooklyn Giants Make It Sixteen. New York, Sept. 22.—It’s sixteen in @ row for the Giants now. Poll Per- ritt shut out the Cubs by a score of 4 to 0 at the Polo Grounds yesterday ternoon, the closing game of the Beason with McGraw’s ancient and | Honorable rival. Victory for New | ¥ork today will tie the earlier record that the Polo Grounders established on their first long road trip of the Beason. Chicago’s farewell for the moment overshadows the clever triumph ' of yesterday. If the home team can get by in this one the long standing rec~ ord of the old Providence champions | will be in real jeopardy. St. Louis, which comes tomorrow for a double- header, does not figure to present the front of efther the Cubs or the Pi- rates. But sufficient unto the day— big Jim Vaughn has been groomed by Joe Tinker with the special idea of halting the Giants’ spurt. The score: r. h. e. Chicago ........ 000000000—0 6 1 New York ...... 11010100x—4 9 0 Batteries; Hendrix and Wilson; Per- ritt and McCarty and Rariden. Phils Look Out of It. Philadelphia, Sept. 22.—Pittsburgh knocked Rixey off the rubber in five innings yesterday and easily defeated Philadelphia, 8 to 3. The victory of the Pirates practieally put Philadel- phia out of the running for the Na- tional league flag. Carey scored four of the visitors® runs and stole three bases. Grimes was very effective, only two hits be- ing made off him in the first six in- nings. The score: . h. 301010102—8 11 Philadelphia 000010101—3 7 4 Batteries: rimes and Warner; Rixey, Oeschger, Bender and Killifer. e, Pittsburgh 1 Braves Get Bumped. Boston, Sept. 22—The Braves suf- fered another reverse here yesterday, falling before the lowly Cincinnati team. Heavy, consistent and timely hitting resulted in a victory for the Reds, b to 4. Grifiith led at the bat with a triple and three singles in five times up. He drove in three of the five runs. Hal Chase, who now is’leading the league in batting, got two more hits yester- day. The score: r h. e Cincinnati . . 200020100—5 14 1 Boston 000108000—4 8 1 Batteries: Schmeldcr and Huhn; Ty- jer and Gowdy. Gpenro s R S GETS BIG AWARD. Former Chairman of State Athletic Oommission Gets Back Salary. Albany, Sept. 22.—The Court of Claims yesterday awarded $1,080.64 to Frank S. O'Neil of Binghamton, for services rendered as chairman of the former State Athletic | Commission from Msay 22, 1915, the date of the enactment of the present boxing law, until October 8 1915, when his suc- cessor. was appointed. The Frawley boxing .law, under which O'Neil was appointed, provided that the cemmissioners should serve without compensation. It was super- seded by the Malone law, which au- thorizdd” the reorganization of the commissién and awarded salaries of $3,000 to the commissioner: The Court of <Claims sustained O'Neil’s contention that, although no compensation was authorized In the law under which he originally was named, salary was due him for the duties he performed under the new law. WILLIAMS LOSES CAPTAIN, Hal Wright,” Football Deader, De- clared Ineligible. ‘Willlamastown, Mass., Sept. 22—An- nouncement was made yesterday that Hal Wright, captain of the Williams varsity fooftball team, had been de- clared ineligible to play this season. An opportunity’ will be given him to make wup- ecollege deficiencies at the midyear examination. The Williams team is rapidly round- Ing into condition. The players en- gaged in a lively scrimmage yester- e. il 1 inning | Pittsburgh, Sept. 21.—Al Mamaux ranks as the greatest pitcher wun- covered since Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander answered the call of the majors. Some folks, pointing to the relative merits of the trio, as- sert that the record of the youthful Tiger phenom {s better than that of any gent that ever flipped a fin on a field. In 1915, his first real year under the big canvas, Mamaux won twenty-one out of twenty-nine com- bats, for an average of .724. He ac- complished this remarkable feat de- spite the fact that he was ill with ap- pendicitis and frequently worked when he should have been on a hospital cot. The most amazi feature of Ma- maux’s performance is that he ac- complished it with a second rate team behind him, a club that finished with an average of .474. And now in 1916, with a team behind no better than that of 1915, this twenty-one-year-old wonder is pitching beyond his great work of a year ago. He won fourteen out of. his first seventeen starts this season, and with each game he seems to improve. He has a firm hold on the hurling leadership in the league, and, barring accidents, it seems cer- tain that he will sweep on into the stretch an easy winner. If Mamaux can pitch for a .724 average in his first year with a punk club behind him, and then pitch around the .800 mark during the first part of the next season with an unimproved team to support him, what could Mamaux do if he was laboring for a hard hitting, all around club like the Red Sox, the Tigers, the White Sox, Dodgers or one or two other of the pennant chasers? MURPHY WINS TWICE St. Frisco Fasily Wins Capitol City Stake Defeating Classy Field—Na- poleon Direct Travels in 2:00 1-4. Columbus, Sept. 22.—Napoleon Di- rect and St. Frisco, with “Tommy" Murphy driving in place of the dis- abled Edward Geers, yesterday aft- ernoon scored straight heat victories in the grand circuit races for which they were favorites. Napoleon Di- rect paced in front in each heat of the free-for-all pace, the first being slow, but the second was in 2:00 1-4, in spite of a cool wind which the horses had to face through the third- quarter. The first half was done in one minute flat. St. Frisco was not forced to beat 2:06 1-4 during the Capital City stake trot, . the real contest in this event being for the place which Miss Per- feotion took away from Becelli and Harry J. S. Diumeter, winner of the 2:10 pace, was outbrushed . through the stretch in the first heat. In the second heat, Peter G. was fourth. The judges unseated W. L. Snow and put C. Valentine in charge of Peter G. for the third heat. Snow was allowed to drive again in the fourth heat. Diumeter was the first choice. With Zomrect, Lon MsDonald of Indianapolis scored his third victory of the week by winning the 2:19 trot. Judge Jones of the Geers stable, Bar- bara King and Channing were more in favor than the winner. Channing was distanced in the first heat, while neither Judge Jones nor Barbara King showed in any heat. Royal Mc, Ohio owned, won the first heat and led for most of the second mile. Zomrect took 1it, pulled:up, in 2:081-4, and captured the next two easily in slow time. SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 5c CIGAR Mamaux Has Weak Backers He Turns in Fancy Averages Remarkable Record; With TENTATIVE PLANS MADE FOR SERIES | ETNA ALLEYS' ACTIVITIES Six Clubs Receive Notice to Get Tickets Printed The three leading clubs in both Na- tional and American leagues were yesterday notified by Chairman August Herrmann of the National baseball commission that they are privileged to have teserved seat tickets.for the next world’s series printed at once, if they desire to do so. Owing to the possibility of a close race in both gues, which might continue until within a day or two of the final game | in either league, it was thought best by the commission to allow the print- ing of the reserved seats in order to avoid delay that was almost certain to be caused by waiting for these tickets to be printed at the last mo- ment. The clubs notified yesterday are Boston, Chicago and Detroit in the American league, and Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Boston in the Nat tional league. ‘World series games in Boston, if the Boston Americans again win the right to represent their league in the postseason tests, probably will be played at Braves field, the Boston home of the National league, with seat prices the same as those of last vear. Business Manager T. W. Lan- nin made this announcement yester- day after the victory of the Red Sox over Detroit had increased the prob- ability of Boston’s'retaining the Amer- ican league championship. The fact that final determination of the pennant race probably would not be made until a few days before the season closes might result in some | change in the plans for ticket distri bution, he said. As now planned tick- ets will be on sale at the club’s offices a few days before the series opens. Mail orders, Manager Lannin said, would have no standing. Prices for the series were fixed t the National commission yesterday in | a telegram authorizing the Boston club to proceed with arrangements for printing tickets. Box seat prices were set at $6 each; grandstand seats at $3 and pavilion seats at $2. All these will be reserved and are to be sold only for the entire series in each city. General admissions will be §1 and will be available only on the day of the game. Should both Boston teams win in I i | | { Haugh | Hogan ... - Hornkohl | T. Wright { cading the Ten eYar Road has carried |Jjoie at his best. ! for in the six months test there has i doubt. | ball. PORT i Beating out Ty Cobb and barri- Speaker to the greatest height he has ever known. To check Cobb’s wild rush was one thing. But the most impressive part of Speaker’s showing has been the rare consistency with which he built up a season’s play. The alert Texan started the year batting around .390. Since the first two weeks he has set an even pace beyond anything we have ever seen— been only the slightest variation. Speaker’s Rare Consistency. If you will examine the records! trom May through the closing weeks of September you will find that Tris | has rumbled steadily on between .380 and .395. He has never reached .400 nor broken below .380. For week after week his mark| vould be between .383 and .387. There was no wild spurts nor sudden slumps. Tris merely went forth and collect- ed about eight hits a week for the alloted period of play. The average has been a trifle over eight a week, but the range has been steadily be- tween seven and nine. ‘With the early jump he had it on Cobb. Ty had only one chance to overhaul this lead and this was to bat over .400. Tris refused to come back half way and he had too far to go at the finish. Speaker deserves great credit for making another forward dash after Ty had almost caught him, proved his nerve here beyond any After all, Speaker has been enough in his career to deserve at least on year at the top, even though it had to be above the spectacular Georgian. And it is no soft assignment to lead a league that has Cobb, Collins and Jackson swinging daily on the Speaker at Bat. Speaker in his all around work is the greatest combination of grace and effectiveness in the game. As an outfielder he is unequalled. If any one man is the greatest flelder baseball has ever known the claim be- longs to Hubbard City’s favorite son. It is something more than a treat to watch Speaker retrieve a long or short fly, for he is one bird that can fly equally well in any direction. their respective leagues. Manager Lannin said the games might alternate between the two parks. The National league grounds will seat ap- | proximately 42,000 persons, while 33 000 is the capacity of Fenway park, he American league quarters. Rangers and Tigers Put Up Stellar Brand of Bowling In City Leaguo Last Evening—Sh’h Pastimes Lose. Bowlers in the City league held forth last evening at the Aetna allevs with some fine work on the isnes te- ing featured. After taking two straight zames from the Tigers, the Rangers dropped the final game of ihe match, the boys from the eastern part of the city displaying excellent form. Al- though the losers in two frames, the defeated team had a higher pin fall than the victors. Mike Haugh of um- pire fame was the honor man of the match with a total pinfall of 297. Tommy Wright of the losers garnered second honors with 294. Peterson with 116 was high single score howler. The South Ends experienced little difficulty in taking the measure of the Pastimes, winning all three games in rather easy fashion. The boys from the Sovereign’s block were outclassed and at no time were they in the run- ning. It’s a shame for other teams to pick on this organization in the man- ner in which they do. The scores: Rangers. Bloom Kahms 79 86 $2— 250 285 297 252 286 147—1370 96 464 459 Tigers. 5 80 82 93 96 100 Peterson Berlin Osgle . Earnest i16— 291 101— 263 91— 2 95— 5 80 79 100 93 447 South Ends. 98 Freeman 96— 2 Quay Schroedel el W. Wright ... Jurgen . Carey 108 90 100 107 94 489 Pastimes. g4 == Business for he | great [ e pitching staff, has a margin upon LIGHT Grantland Rice grace and effectiveness of Larry La- Speaker, Lajoie and Schulte are the most graceful hitters in the span of the game and Speaker doesn't run back of either Larry or Frank. He has greater grace at bat than Ty, part of which is due to a greater composure. For Ty is of the nervous, high strung type while Speaker works with far greater repose. He has a way of stepping into the ball that seems to forecast success in advance. Red Sox Gameness. When the Red Sox started west without Jack Barry and with only a | game lead over the Tigers and White Sox, we figured their chance had been blown to a finish. It was simple enough to recall the game fight the Red Sox made last season upon alien soil. But then they had Speaker and Barry i They made another such rally in De- troit and Chicago around midsummer when they won seven out of nine games from their two leading rivals. But then they had Barry. i Now minus Barry and Speaker they go back and once more their two lead- ing rivals find the Carrigan machine ; fighting with its old gameness, with | a club that shows no great strength on paper except in the box. To the Last Series. Ty Cobb figures the American league : race this season is going to the last geries. It begins to look that way. | But if the Red Sox can return east in the lead, or right at the top, they | have all the, best'of it. Nothing but | trouble in Cleveland and St. Louis can | hold them back, for an aggressive | club of this type, carried along by a even stronger clubs in other ways that lack the pitching. When the big show down comes the pitching is usually the decisive feature, the thing that counts. A woman tennis player was recent- 1y disqualified because she was a pro- fessional skater. But we know of two professional football coaches who can play all the amateur tennls and gold they want to play. This amateur smear is growing more complex each day. The Glants could win all the games they wanted to win in May and Sep- tember, where their total is something I like thirty-five out - of thirty-seven. But unfortunately for them, the rest of the league insisted upon counting Speaker at bat looks to have all the Baseball News In a Nutshell ‘ NATIONAL LEAGUE, Yesterday’s Results. New York 4, Chicago 0. Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 3. Pittsburgh 8, Philadelphia Cincinnati Boston 4. 5, Standing of the Clubs. L. Brooklyn 55 Philadelphia Boston New York Pittsburgh Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati 57 ‘57 62 79 81 84 89 Today’s Games, Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at Boston. AMERICAN LEAGUE, most of those games played in June, July and August. Yesterday’s Results. New York 5, St. Louis 4. Boston 10, Detroit 2 H Cleveland 3, Washington 2, (13 in- | nings). Philadelphia 8, Chicago 0. Standing of the Clubs. L. 59 63 63 68 i1 72 71 P.C. .587} 571 .569 .525 514 .510 .‘\00 >‘>l Boston Chicago Detroit .. New York . Cleveland St. Louis ‘Washington Philadelphia Today's Games, New York at Chicago. | Boston at Cleveland. i Philadelphia at St. Louis. Washington at Detroit. Jackson . Ericson Nearing . 85 84 86 468 FAST GAME ARRANGED All-Stars and Pirates To Battle Sun- 414 456—-1330 day in Game That Will Decide T.o- cal Championship. A baseball game that is creating considerable interest about the city, has been arranged for next Sunday af- ternoon at 3 o'clock at Hart’s field, when the Pirates who are finishing one of the most successful seasons since organizing will stack up 2gainst the All-Stars. That the game will be a hummer is the consensus of op'n- ion of the followers of both teams, and a mammoeth ‘crowd will no doubt be on hand ‘Wwhe “Play Ball” is called by the umpire. Repeated challenges from the All- Stars to the Pioneers for a series have been ignored by the South End team. Manager lggert's aggregation is com- posed of some of the best that the city produces in the national pastime. C. Timbrell . Alpress . Schuey' ..... H. Timbrell .. 101 111 86 i) Such favorites as Jimmy Clinton Billy Fitzpatrick, Joe Fitzpatrick, Bernie Coyle, Begley and other stars of the ‘ baseball firmament are members 0(. Joe Fitz who nearly in- jured his baseball reputation by play- | ing with the Hartford team of the Eastern league during the past sea- son, will strive to show his friends, that despite playing with Clarkin” team his ability is still intact. will occupy the mound with Clinton catching. Little need be said of the prowess of the Pirates. For several years this aggregation has been cleaning up every opponent that faced them and hope to all All-Stars to the long lst Supday. Schmidt will do the hurling for Mangan’s pets with Mack or Con- ley on the receiving end. the team. TORRINGTON HERE SUNDAY, Manager Conlin of the Pioneers has | completed arrangements for the first | appeagance of the fast Torrington team in this city Sunday afternoon at the Ellis street diamond The | game will be called at 3 o’clock. BOWLING BUSIER THAN EVER AETNA POCHET BILLIARD®| | tically DETROIT CONGEDES 'PENNANTT0 RED S0X Alter Three Successive Beatings Tigers Admit Boston Is Best Team Detfoit, Sept. 22.—All Detroit ad- mitted late yesterday afternoon that there is only one team in the Amer- ican League pennant chase and that team does not represent the Michigan metropolis. The few who still argued, the point were convinced shortly after 5 o'clock, when Detroit finally man- aged to put out the twenty-seventh Boston Red Sox warrior and brought to a close a game that must have found welcome only in Boston. Need- less to say, the score was 10 to 2 and Boston was the possessor of the tem runs, while Detroit withered under the inglorious two. Having made a clean sweep of the three game series just closed, Bostof left for Cleveland last night prac- assured of the league cham- pionship. At least Detroit is willing to concede the honors to the athletes from the Hub. Never has a team been so outplayed and outfought by another as have the Tigers in the last three days. Boston played rings around the home guard, winning almost as they pleased. - The score: r. h. e 211300210—10 13 2 ke | Boston Detroit £000200000— 2 7T Batteries: Ruth and Thomas; Cov- eleskie, Boland, Cunningham, Dubuc and Stanage. Yanks Beat Browns. St. Louls, Sept. 22.—The Yankeos rid themselves of several detracting influences in their final visit to St Louis this season, which they ended vesterday by snatching a game out of the fire in the ninth inning by the score of 5 to 4. In the first place the Yanks corralled a fifteen inning game and in the second place they won two out of three for the serles, not only winning their only games-of the year here but also taking the only series, - All this was done with Ban Johnson looking on. The score: .010200002— o .000202000—4 12 1 Shocker, Shawkey and Weilman, Davenport and New York St. Louis Batteries: Walters; Hartley. 7z Sox Handed Surprise. Chicago, Sept. 22.—Chicago failed to keep pace with the world's cham- pions yesterday and dropped the final game of the season with the Phil- adelphia club, 8 to 0. Joe Bush was in fine form. Ably supported by his teammates, he hofd Chicago to five scattered hits, | The score: r. h. 100030004—8 16 Chicago . 000000000—0 5 O Batteries: R\Nh and Haley; Faber, Willlams and Lynn and Lapp. Philadelphia Tris Gets Four Hits. Cleveland, Sept. 22.—Although| Cleveland made fifteen hits including three triples off Walter Johnson, the latter was very effective with men onf bases and the thirteenth inning wag Teached before Cleveland won, 3 to 2 Sensational throwing by Grane: caught two men at the plate and on at the plate and one at second base, prevented Washington from winninfg. Tris Speaker, league batting king made four hits in six times at bat. The score: r, i .0101000000000—2 15 Cleveland ..0100100000001— 3 8 Batteries Smith, Gould and .De berry and O'Neil; Johnson and Ghar| rity. o Washington EASY FOR TIGER VARSITY. First Team Scores Several Times Scrimmage With Scrubs. Lake Minnewaska, N. Y., Sept. 22.. Princeton’s first eleven didn’t encount er a great deal of difficulty in its tu sle with the second team yesterday The varsity scored several touchdown in a short time. Because of an i jury received in a scrimmage yester] day Trainer Fitzpatrick would no allow Eddie Driggs to get into hj uniform yesterday afternoon. Georg] fullback on last year’s freshman tea was sent in to take Driggs’ place. took advantage of the opportuni and played a fine game. In fact was Georgi who did most of“¢ ground gaining for the first team. Haas and Ames alternated at qua terback on the first eleven, while Maf] hiasen and Moore played in the othef backfleld positions. Ebberstadt, a other quarterback candidate, put i an appearance at the camp and joine in the practice. Ebberstadt was a Suk stitute quarterback on the Tiger eleve the year before last He did not plal last year because of parental objed tion. i THREE TOUC HDOWNS AT YALH Varsity Outclasses Scrubs in Scrimmage—Legore Stars, New Haven, Sept. 22.—Yale serut unable to hold the varsity and during the short the regulars made three touch and kicked a goal from thd Sho; were terday mage downs field Legore, Bingham and Jacques scored the touchdowns and Legore kicked goal from field standing on his 30 vard line. The scarcity of good substitute ma, terial is bothering the Yale cogehe there being few line men of merit ou FOR YOUR OWN GOOD side the varsity ranks.