New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1917, Page 8

tants and W hite éox Set Pace in Major Leagues--flzlly Kopf s Bar ]‘Iuch in Evidence- NEW BRITAIN DMLY HERALD. MONDAY APRIL 23, 1917, Browns Lose hen Groom Weakens---Starlight Bowlers at Aetna Alleys Tomarrow---onneers Win From Kamels SETTING VERY FAST PAGE graw’s Men Living Up to Pre- (dictions So Far ,‘,am full week of the 1917 jeball season ended with New York Bicago in the American. = The ties jr. league leadership were broken the week, and although both York and Chicago were defeated, managed to keep thelr averages, those of their opponents. ‘Giants suffered their first defeat season in Brooklyn Wednesday of the veteran Jack bs and lost the opening game at lo Grounds on Friday after a n battle with Boston. } for these two setbacks, Mc- s team had a clean record. Pitchers in Fair Shape. The New York pitchers appear to {18 fair shap, Anderson twirling a it game against Boston Saturday. - batting also is good, - averaging 'onw defeat was at the hands of m-nianinuum to Chicago. lyn, league champlons, lnd 2y s out of the game with a broken and Fred Merkle iras been pur- sed to Aill: the brésch. - - : ‘the American, Chica¥o has taken w&munh §00d ‘work in the box timely: ‘hitting, although Row- men averaged ‘less than seven & game last week. The White ‘Won three stratght from Detroit, Be victory being a two-hit game by b and then captured ‘two out of from St. Louis. ~ ' Red Sox in Trim. oston and New York also came ugh the week with one defeat, but fewer games than Chicago. world’s champlons took three from Philadelphia and -‘then s defeated by the Athletics in gelve Innings Thursday. The series 'ween New York which took three |- from Washington. and Boston lited in a victory for Boston in the - game played, . Cleveland, after a good start, fell the last week and won only two it of six games played. Washington Detroit, as well as Cleveland, ningly are suffering from erratic Iching and flelding. Detroit and 3 uMnmn bracéd at the end of the ek and closed it with victories. , 8t. Louis improved somewhat, but ipparently still feels the lack of time- itting. Sothoron, a St. Louis re- | Positive announcement is made from Eruit, pitched a one-hit game against | Fhiladelphia that Morton I. Plant, Cleveland Tuesday, but was defeated | owner of the New London team which | Chlcaxo on his second appearance | won the pennant in the Eastern league Friday. The Philadelphia = batsmen ! last seison, has become a stockholder imre hitting hard, but wasted their hits | in the Philadelphia Nationals of which nti] the latter part of the week, when | Pat Moran is manager. The an- they were more timely. nouncement also states that Plant will retain his New London club and Eu- ELM CITY BOUTS gene McCann to manage it, in spite of ‘Shubert Training Hard For Scrap With Tommy: Shea in New Haven Next'Friday Night. ‘snme time those in close touch with Fastern league affairs have believed | Mr. Plant had secured an interest in ' the Phillles and now Ll confirma- tion of the rumor. Danny Goodman sends weekly letter in behalf of Battling Reddy. Goodman now avers that Reddy can beat Young McAuliffe in fifteen rounds and also_stop Tommy Shea in ten rounds. There must be from his home training camp that he something in the water which Danny 4s working hard for his coming 12- : drinks. Tound decision bout with Tommy | ik d L Bhea of this city, and that he expects | ‘Eastern league meetings, because of 'to stop Shea. The boys meet in the their length, remind one of a mara- thon run, it never occurs to any of the imain, bout before the Newhallville 2 hel E.A. C. at the Arena in New Haven on magnates to get through their business v = anywhere near the time the runners Fridey night and they are down 10 | make over the lon course—Boston Shubert seems much pleased over | & °°% ‘being able to give away so' few pounds, as in many of his bozu he hra been | Billy Sunday says boxing makes a ' obliged to meet tough hoys at 126 and : fellow courageous, but in some cases even 130 pounds. While he can make | it seems only to make him fast on his 118 pounds, ringside, and on a pinch | feet- even do a lower weight, he has to get out and give away many pounds in or- der to get bouts and keep working. He l Al Shubert, the New Bedford ban- tamweight, who is one of the first di- sion boys of the countty, sends word If all the “coming Ty Cobbs” could be induced to enlist in Uncle Sammy’s army, that first half million would be 48 good as raised. tackled Young McAuliffe of Bridge. port here recently at 126 pounds at the ringside, and it showed in that bout that it was Mack’s weight that enabled him to get a draw with Xhe bantam from New Bedford. Since Charlie Pitts bpat Bobby | ‘Reimer, some of the fans pick him to Peat Eddie O’Brien in the- ten-round semi-final bout on Friday night. Pitts 4s a clever boxer and a tough boy. He hits hard and has had more ring ex- Qalonco than O’Brien. Eddie's as- is his speed and cleverness. He _boxes something on the style of Tom- my Shea and it takes a good man to in close enough to score on O’'Brien. They meet at 138 pounds at 8 o’clock in the afternoon. W. A. Flinn won the championship in the finals of the trap shooting tour- nament at the Field club, Greenwich, yesterday afternoon. His score was 95 out of 100. The cup offered in com- petition for second prize went to A. L. Ferguson. Other gunners who par- ticipated in the tournament were J. T. Souter, Fritz W. Hoeninghaus, J. R. Coffin, Calvin Truesdale and Robert C. Crocker. Chic Brown, who executed a phe- nomenal comeback in his bout with Johnnie Drummie at the New Haven Arena last week, is keeping in shape in the event of being called upon to swap punches with Battling Kunz. Tentative arrangements, it is under- stood, are already under way for a return meeting between the two and indications are that this bcut will be staged as a fitting climax to one of the most successful boxing seasons New Haven has yet enjoyed. Kuns has al- ready consented to. -&: title. Brown ‘while' the/ has We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin M on Hand B e A B \When a I’eller his new interests in Philadelphia. For | along his | Needs a Million Friends » mccs] - Copyrighted 1917 by The Tridune Asecs. (New York Tribunt). | SPORTDOM SPARKLERS | ! often expressed a desire to get the Norwulk lad.into the ring. Benjamin Leiner of Harlem, who in the ring is known as Benny Leonard, | is now entitled to order new business { cards reading: “HBenny Leonard, | “Lightweight Champion of America.” This addition to his cards became his right immediately after he had . stopped Ritchie. Mitchell, who was | Leonard’s formidable rival for the honors of the class. The American lightwelight title, which has been held by Willie Ritchie, was abandoned by him, and the sompetition between the | other Americans in the class narrowed { down to Mitchell and Leonard. Mitchell some months ago laid claim to the honors and posted $1,000 with | Tom Andrews as a guarantee that he | would defend the title. by a knockout there is no question as to the New Yorker holding the cham- plonship of America. H. C. Fownes of Pittsburgh, won the president’s trophy in the mid-April ‘golf tournament at Pinehurst yester- day by defeating Thomas Morrison, also of Pittsburgh, 4 to 3. The bicycle season opened at the Velodrome yesterday afternoon before a crowd of about 12,000. Alfred i (Continued on Ninth Page.) BASEBALL NUTSHELL NATIONAL LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 1. Cincinnati 7, Chicago 4. i Philadelphia Brooklyn Pittsburgh . LT TTY Games Today. 'Boston at New York. Bfooklyn at Philadelphia, Chicago at Cincinnati. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. cun:o ‘. “‘ Louls 2, Leonard ac- | cepted thé proposal, and as he won ! SIS Cleveland 4, Detroit 3. Standing of Teams. Lost g = Chicago .. Boston ... New York . Cleveland St. Louis ‘Washington . Philadelphia Detroit PRTRO ] Games Today. New York at Beston. Philadelphia at Washington. St, Louis at Detroit. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results, Newark 10, Montreal 5. Buffalo 9, Providence 8. Baltimore 15, Rochester 10, Standing of Teams, Lost i Newark . Providence Rochester Montreal . Richmond Toronto .. Buffalo ... Games Today. Montreal at Newark. { Buffala at Providence. Rochester at Baltimore. Toronto at Richmond, RESULTS SATURDAY. National League. Brooklyn 4, Philadelphia 1. New York 2, Boston 0. St. Louis 3, Cincinnati Chicago 2 Pittsburgh 1. 2 American League. Boston 6, New York 4. Washingtan 11, Philadelphia 6. Detroit 5 Cleveland 4. Chicago 2, St. Louis 0. Intcrnational League, Toronto 6-2, Richmond 4-4. Montreal 3, Newark 0. { Providence-Buffalo—Wet grounds, Baltimore 6-4 Rochester 5-1. HiGH SCHOOL WINS N. B. H. S. Wins Game Where Free Hitting Is a’ Feature—Connolly and Crowe Swing Like Big Leaguers. ‘ New Britain High school baseball team won a free hitting game from Chicopee High in that town Saturday Walter Johnson Greatest of Kalsomining Experts | ‘Washington, Qprfl 23.—Here two of the latest snapshots of greatest whitewash expert in American league, as well as its most successful opening day pitcher, Wal- ter Johnson. In the last seven years Johnson has won six opening games for Washington and lost only one. In these seven games he held opposing teams to seven runs and thirty-one hits for the anaemic batting average of 1.38. When Johnson shut out the Pop Athletics on the openlng day of the baseball season he did his sixty-sixth kalsomining job and so leads the American league. Eddie Plank comes next with sixty-two, third with fifty-eight runless games to his credit. Johnson has shut ont opposing teams as _follows: New York Yankees, 16; Boston. Red Sox, 11; Philadelphia Athleties,” 10; Detroit Tigers, 9; Cleveland Indians, 7; St. Leuis Browns, 7, and Chicago White Sox’ 6. Time Has No Teirors For This Marathon Boston, April 23.—They are stiil talking in this city of the wonderful performance of Willlam J. Kennedy of the Morningside Athletic club of New York. Although Kennedy is thirty-seven years old and his hair is streaked with gray, he won the twenty-first annual marathon, under the auspices of the Boston association. A veritable machine which ran with perfect precision and regularity was | this bricklayer, who a few days before had won a ten-mile contest in this city. He set out to lower no records. Athletic | \ KOPF CONTINUES T0 WALLOP BALL Local Boy's Work Featuring Reds’ Spart in National League Cincinnati, April 23.—By bunching six hits insthe seventh inning here : : yesterday Cincinnati defeated Chicago in the first game of the series. The score was 7 to 4. Fred Merkle made his bow with the Cubs moet impressive by rapping out two hits, one a double, in his three trips to the plate, X The local team forced Douglass’ re- tirement after the seventh inning.: Schneider pitched good ball, but was wild. Wortman was spiked by Groh in the fourth inning, and Roush was hurt while sliding into second in the sixth. Both players were carried from the field. Billy Kopf's batting was a feature, the New Britain boy pounding out two hits, which included a triple and | his flelding was also very clever. Manager Mathewson has moved K up to second place in the batting ore der, The score: & r b 8 .100002010—4¢ 7 % Cincinnati .00000250x—7 12 '8 Douglass, Packard and Wilson; Chicago . and Ed Walsh | Schneider and Wingo. P ’ St. Louis, April 23.—St. Louls bunched hits in the first and third yesterday, and, alded by two misplays, took the opening game from Pitts- burgh. The score was 4 to 1. In the first Betzel walked and took third> when Warner missed Long’s’ grounder, Long going to second. Roth 3 scored on Hornsby's single. In the third Miller was safe ' on‘ Ward's wild throw. Hornsby sacri= | ficed and Cruise scored Miller wif a single. Cruise stole second and counted on F. Smith’s hit. ‘The score: r.h & 000000001—1 7 3 § £t. Louls .......20200000x—4¢ 7 9 | Battébied: Mamaux cnd !‘lnl&' Doak ‘and ‘Snyder. STARLIIiIflS IIEIIE Pittsburgh . l The Starlights of Meride: i 4-5 seconds over Sidney H. Hatch of Chicago. Kennedy ran the twenty-five miles ‘rom Ashland Center to the Boston A, A. in 2 hours, 28 minutes and 37 1-5 seconds. han seven minutes behind Mike Ryan f the Irish American A. C. of New 7ork in 1912, However, only seven ‘imes in the twenty previous races has the time recorded by Kennedy. It was a triumph of veterans, after Kennedy and Hatch, of fifty marathons,” came Clarence H. De Mar of this city, who in 1911 won the race for the North Dorchester A. A. in 2 hours, 21 minutes and 39 3-6 seconds, De Mar was timed in 2 hours, 31 minutes and one-fifth of a second. Fourth honors went to the great Hannes Kolehmainen, the Finn from New York, who made his first trial at the marathon distance in this country. Kolehnrainen was caught in 2 hours 31 minutes and 58 3-5 sec- onds. i In for “the man the, illustration Kennedy is shown as he finished his great run and All he wanted was to win, and that | smiling for photographers after the he did by a margin of 1 minute and race. — afternoon, accumulating fourteen hits ‘Innll)"s work behind the bat was of while the Bay Staters hammered the lccal hurler's delivery for ten bingles. ‘Two of the local players hit for ex- tracks, Connolly and Kopf, who connected with the horsehde for two base clouts. The fielding of the Hardware city outfit was also very good, but one misplay being charged | against the team. Ward, who was on the mound for the Gold and Yellow wearers, pitched . g0od ball, and gives promise of de- veloping into a first class hurler. Con- a stellar order, his throwing to second teing with a true aim and few of the Chicopee players took a chance in pilfering the midway station. Cap- tain Crowe hit in timely fashion garn- ering three singles.| The score by in- rings was as follows: r. h e 5011021—11 14 1 000000111— 3 10 4 New Britain Chicopee . Batteries: Ward and Connolly; ‘Wilde and Hooper. This time was more | winner done better than the ; the feature attraction in the bowling world this week, when will clash with Manager Rogers’ at the Aetna alleys tomorrew P ning. First place in the Intm 2ee Bowling league hinges on the A and both teams are contenders for the position. The Silver City : will be accompanied by a del of rooters. The complete schedule for week is as follows: Monday—Landers vs. R. & E,| Union vs. Stanley R. and L. Tuesday -— Inter-city, Starligh Stanley Works vs. New Britain chine. Wednesday—Two Man league; son and Anderson va. Jurgen Rogers; Nelson and Johnson Thompson and Cage. Thursday—Two Man league; and Young vs. Hines and Be: Brennecke and Kahms vs. Haugh Anderson. J Friday—Fatnir vs. Skinners: Br- lin vs. Paper Goods. i Landers Still Leading. ¢ % | Cdmplete stafistics of ,the Factery league, are as follows: the l P.C. Byt .692 615 L. 9 12 15 17 Landers 'R. & E. . Stanley Works Union Mfg. . Paper Goods Berlin Construc’'n N. B. Machine Skinners Fafniy ... . Hogan, 133; Blancharad, ders, 527; Landers, 1527. Huck ‘Wright . Freeman . Thompson ‘Anderson . Bertini . Johnson Cusack . Stotts . Hoffman W. Myers . Kahms . Erickson . Hogan .... Blanchard ‘Werdelin . 0XMOOF A MILD, PLEASANT S¢ CROGN