New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1917, Page 8

L e " PIONEERS HAVE EASY TIME WITH SILVER CITY TEAM—PHILLIES AND CUBS SKIDDING BADLY—WHITE SOX JUMP TO LEAD IN THE AMERICAN ¢ LEAGUE—SQUEEZE PLAY WINS FOR PARK CITY CLUB—KILBANE TO PROVIDE FOR MANAGER DUNN ON RETIREMENT—OUIMET BACK IN GOLF g D S0X-CROWDED FROM FIRST PLACE M Bagby Adds Another Victim to His Shut Out List Cleveland, July 8.—Cleveland de- lated Boston yesterday, 1 to 0, mak- g it two straight. . Bagby allowed only four hits and jued no passes, only thirty batters ing him. Three of the hits off him ere for extra bases, with only one 1t, but he steadied in each instance 31d prevented a score. The Indians scored their only run i Wambsganss's double, Chapman’s wrifice and Roth’s single. It was agby's sixth shut-out of the season. Be score. ] ol h L4 .. 000000000— 0 .. 00000001x—1 0 Batteries—Leonard and Agnew and Bomas; Bagby and O'Neil. Yauks Still Slipping. 8t. Louls, July 8.—Three big in- two at the expense of George ogridge and one charged against Ed. oe, carried the Browns to an ly victory over Bill Donovan's fast Ipping Yankees here yesterday Sernoon and dropped the New York ub from thrid place to the foot of e first division, with only a light mndation holding them from toppl- & into the second set. E‘?u fielding, poor pitching and in- ty of the Yankees to come wough when opportunity beckoned, 1 combined to bring about their de- at. The score was 8 to 2. T & Louis ... 02503000x—8 10 0 pov York . 000002000—2 8 5 Batteries—Mogridge, Russell, Mon- % and Alexander; Rogers, Plank 3d Bevereid. e. Athletics Field Poorly. Chicago, July 9.—The White Sox ent into first place yesterday through eir defeat of the Philadelphia Ath- #lcs. The score was 8 to 4. The sitors hit Clcotte at will, but erratic slding behind Schauer, who pitched a2e ball, with the exception of three nings, lost the game for them. The tore: r. h e fladelphia 003001000—4 10 4 icago 00010403*—8 9 2 "\ Batteries—Schauer and Schang: Ci- btte and Schalk. ¥ Cobb Bangs Ball. Detroit, July 9—Washington pound- 1 four Detrait pitchers for seventeen its vesterday and won, 10 to 5. De- it was unable to do much against 7alter Johnson until the eighth, hen, with a safe lead, he eased up d the home team scored four of its ns. Four double plays were made the game, three of them by Wash- [hgton. Ty Cobb, whose string of mes in which he hit safely was opped at thirty-five Friday, got hree hits in four times at bat. The pore: riih-te, ington 022110022—10 17 it 100000040— 5 9 Batteries—Johnson and Ainsmith; ioland, Cunningham, ' Mitchell and EASTERN LEAGUE mith's Grand Pitching, Coupled With Squeese Plays Permits Americans to Bridgeport, July 9.—Dug Smith's g together with a squeeze play leated New London for Bridgeport erday in the presence of more han 3,800 fans at Newfield park by he score of 1 to 0. It was a pitcher’s ttle between Smith and Crumm. cellent flelding was a pleasing re of the game. The score: ort ... 00001000x—1 3 0 “:‘;‘:mdon . 000000000—0 2 0 Batteries—Smith and Egan; Crumm Fish. Vas 2 2 WELSH'S PAL KILLED. P_-“' Former Partner Champion Falls in War Battle. ‘Lendon, July 9.—Dal Roberts, the pamous Welsh welterweight boxer, been killed in action by a shell n France. One of his best perform- lhrces was to beat Willie Farrell at lfhe National Sporting club in April, 918, although Farrel turned the | bles twelve months later in a twen- y-round hout. | | Others Roheris defeated were Billy | Willlam, Tom Tees, Young Nipper | and Sid Stagg., but at Liverpool he was beaten In six rounds by Johnny Basham, the champion. Roberts as- sisted Freddie Welsh as sparring partner when the latter was training tor his contest with Willie Ritchie at the Olympia three vears ago, Wwhich gave Welsh the lightweight ' championship of the world. WATROUS A LIEUTENANT. Taymond Watrous, former Yula nitcher, has been named a lieutenant in the regular army. Watrous is now stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kun- , and expects to see service in rance fn the near future SMOKE of Late | - e R NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1017. ’ When a Feller Needs a Friend - - - GOING GET A LICKIN' /6/;7’“, IN To 2l 7 BASEBALL NEWS IN A NUTSHELL NATIONAL LEAGUE, Results Yesterday. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs, W 44 38 40 40 41 31 28 23 New York Philadelphia . St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Brooklyn Boston . Pittsburgh Games Tod: St. Louis at New York. Chicago at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Boston. AMERIC. Louis 8, New York 2 Cleveland 1, Boston 0. w. 48 46 41 36 36 30 30 25 Chicago Boston .. Cleveland .. New York . Detroit ..... ‘Washington St. Louis .. Philadelphia Games Today. New York at St. Louis. Boston at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Chicago. Washington at Detroit. Newark 3, Richmond 1. Newark 10, Richmond 5. Providence 8, Baltimore EW: 46 44 42 42 a6 31 29 25 Newark .. Baltimore Toronto Providence Rochester Buffalo Richmond Montreal . Games Today. Righmond at Newark. Daltimore at Providence. Toronto at Buffalo. Montreal at Rochester. EASTERN Standing of the Ch New Haven ... New London .. OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 8¢ CIGGLEB Lawrence .. Bridgeport Worcester Portland . L. 23 30 34 38 39 36 38 47 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. N LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Chicago 8, Philadelphia 4. ‘Washington 10, Detroit 5. Standing of the Clubs, L. 27 27 37 34 36 40 46 45 Results Yesterday. Standing of the Clubs, T. 27 28 32 32 39 46 45 46 LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Lridgeport 1, New Lomiou\o. No other games scheduled. nbs, L. 14 19 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. P.C. .630 .611 .568 .568 .480 .403 .392 .352 18 27 Springfield 5 14 Hartford Games Today. Hartford at Worcester. New London at Springfield. Bridgeport at Lawrence WESTERN TOURNEY DRAWS GOLF STARS Ouimet Returns to Competitive Goll, Playing in Title Event Undismayved by a denial of rein- statement to amateur standing in the U. 8. G. A, Francis Ouimet of the Woodland Golf club is prepared to start in his first tourney in more than a year at the Western amateur cham- pionship at Midlothian today. Ouimet is playing in the Western affair as an amateur and is recognized as such un- der the rules promulgated by that body a few months ago. The likable young Boston boy who gained international fame by defeat- ing Harry Vardon and Edward Ray for the national open championship at Brookline in 1913 will be welcomed with a mighty shout, since his friends are legion, and most golfers feel that Ouimet is an amateur in spirit, if not in fact. Few followers of the royal and an- cient sport will forget Ouimet’s ster- ling victory over two of England's golfing peers. After 72 holes in that Brooklin affair Ouimet was tied for first place at 304 strokes with Vardon and Ray, two foremost exponents of the game. All American professionals had been outdistanced and Ouimet was the only amateur left in the run- 7 ey | Comyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribuoa)s COONEY'S STONT Omaha Infielder Emulates Neal Ball's Stunt of Performing a Triple Play Unassisted—First in League. Phil Cooney, second baseman with the Omaha club, is the first western leaguer to execute a triple play un- aided, according to records avilable there. Cooney gained the honor in a game with Denver, played in that city, when he took a line drive in the sixth in- ning, tagged a base runner and then hopped onto the second bag before another runner could return from the trip he had started for third. Records show it to be the first in- dividual triple play in five years in organized baseball, and the ninth time it had been made in a period of thirty-nine years. Neal Ball, then with Cleveland, made the last big league triple play unassisted. Ball is now with New Haven of the Eastern league. PLAYGROUND ATHLETICS. Opening Events Prove Close and Ex- citing at St. Mary’s Grounds. The first of the athletic competitive contests at St. Mary's playgrounds was held Saturday, the program bringing out a large crowd. Director Pilz handled the various events, which were closely contested. The results were as follows: In the minor class, running the bases, W. Revnolds won first plac in 16 4-5 seconds; Homan wz second in 17 seconds; and J. Nemro was third with 17 1-5 seconds. In the same event, junior class, Me: singer, 14 3-5 seconds, was first; Jordan, second, in' 151-3, and Whitney third, in 15 3-5 seconds. 3-5 Crayne won in the senior class in 14 2-5 seconds; T. Glynn was sec- ond, 14 3-5, and Norman Starrod, | third, in 16 1-5 seconds. In the running broad jump, minor ning. The youth of 21 vears was hardly considered on the playoff, but his golf was still faultless and he carried the final test with a five stroke margin, finishing with 72 to 77 for Vardon and 7S for Ray. The following vear Ouimet proved his open victory not a fluke by winning the amateur cham- pionship and defeating Jerome D. Travers in the final match at Ekwan- ok by a margin of 6 and 5. This same Ouimet, barred because of selling golf goods in his Boston store from participating with U. S. G. A. amateurs, is going to be accepted as an equal in fellowship by the West and will be given a chance to prove he still has the skill which made his game feared by every amateur and professional in the world. Ouimet comes back to tournament play at the solicitation of the devotees of the game. 3 BACKSLIDES, .Buck Crouse, who gained notorlety some months ago by contessing that a bout he boxed in Sydney was not on class, J. Nemro was first, 10 feet. 5! inches; A. Peterson was second, with 10 feet, 3 inches, and W. Reynolds, third, with 10 feet, 1 inch. J. Mon- ski won in the junior class, with 13 feet, 8 inches; A. Schelleck was sec- | ond. with 13 feet. 5 inches, and B.| Gordon, third with 13 feet, 1 inch.| G. Scheyd won in the senior class | with 15 feet, 83 inches: K. Brouff was second, with 15 feet, 2 inches, and J. O'Brien, in 15 feet, was third A volley ball zame between teams of Captain Revnolds and Captain Baker resulted in victory for the for- mer, 15 to 12. DPOUGLAS INJURES HAND. New York, July 9.—Phil Douglas, i teen ! thousand persons, a pitcher for the Chicago team of the National league, will be out of the game for some time as a result of an | odd accident in a subway train Sat- | turday on the trip to Ebbets' field. Douglas stood up in the train and stretched his arms for a prolonged vawn. His right hand came in con- tact with an electric fan and it was its merits, does not seem to have made any progress since that tiwe. In & contest with Harry Greb at Pitts- burg a few days ago, Crouse quit at the end of the sixth round, refusing tu get out of his corner for the sev- enth session and his seconds. tossed in w sponge. Paty Brannigan, who was one of Crouse’s seconds was so disgusted he threw his towel on the badly cut. He appeayed in uniform with his hand bandaged JOE WAGNER RELEASED. Kansas City, July for 9.—Joe Waugner, intielder Kunsas City, was given his unconditional release last night, according to announcement of club officials. - Wagner was not taken with floor and left the ring. It is said that aslde from a cut lip Crouse was un- hurt. the team on its present trip. He joined | the club this spring, coming from the New York Natlonals. ; tion { uf glory. DUNN IN RIGHT Champion Kilbane Announces .That Faithful Friend Will be Cared for ‘When Retirement Comes. In the general severance of rela- tions between boxers and their man- agers, with Willard in the van in the matter, it is refreshing to find one who at to his business associates. Kilbane de- clares that he will never give manager, Jimmy Dunn, reason to re- ter'to him as “‘ingrate,” which is the term that discarded managers inva- riably apply to a boxer who notifies his manager that he will be unable to further avail himself of his services. Kilbane announces - that when he gets ready to retire from the ring he | will start a billiard room in Cleveland and that Dunn will be his partner. Thus he will return the watchfulness and care that his manager has exer- cised all the years he has been fight- ing. TIES MARQUARD’S RECORD. Conley, Dallas Star Hurler, Turns in Nineteenth Consecutive Win. Dallas, Tex., July 9.—In the first game of a double header with the Waco Texas League club, champjons of 1916, Snipe Conley, pitcher of the Dallas club, yesterday tied the major league record of Rube Marquard, made in 1912, with nine- consecutive vVictories. Fifteen the largest crowd that ever jammed a Texas ball park, saw Conley beat Waco by 5 to 4 in ten innin The day whs set aside as Conley day, Conley came to Dallas from the Baltimore Federals in 1916. He is only 19 vears old. winning UTICA OUT OF LEAGUE. Binghamton, N. Y., July 9.—At the State league meeting in this city Sat- urday morning it was announced that TUtica had definitely decided to drop out of the league and the . circuit would be continued with the six clubs, The present season will end end July 10 with Wilkesbarre the probable winner. The second series will open on July 12 and the games for the first three days are Syracuse at Binghamton, Scranton at Elmira, Wilkesbarre at Reading, SPENCER CROWNED KING. New Cycle Champion Tendered Ovation by Newark Fans. July Arthur Spencer, the Toronto whirlwind, was crowned national champion for the season of 1917 at the Velodrome in Newark vesterday. A crowd of 10,- 000 fans gave him a rousing recep- as he rode around the track draped ih the American flag, which Frank L. Cramer has carried to vie- tory all over the world. Although Spencer won the cham- plonship he failed to finish on a blaze In the flve-mile race, the last of the champlonship series, he only managed to get fourth place Alfred Goullet won, with Willle Spen- cer, Arthur's brother, finishing sec- ond, and Frank Kramer third, In the last race of the day Kramer showed a remarkable bit of riding, winning from the hest eight riders on the track in a special one-mile i vitation affair. is Newark, N. " least promises to be faithful | his | MERIDEN GHAMPS OUTCLASSED HERE| Pioneers Turn Back M B. Schenk | Team, Score 7 to 2—0ther Games One of the largest crowds of the season, witnessed the downfall of the M. B. Schenk team, champions of the Industrial league of Meriden at the hands of the Pioncers yesterday af- ternoon on the Ellis street sward, score 7 to 2. It had been announced that Bill Dudack, a local boy, would be on the iiring line for the visitors, and this fact helped to swell the at- tendance, but the visiting management started an alleged twirler, with Bill covering the first sack. Pike was on the mound for the lo- cals and he twirled a heady game, al- lowing eight hits, of which Dudack collected four, including three singles and a double. Houlihan started the hurl for the Schenks but was der- ricked in the second inning when the Pioneers had collected seven hits for | five runs. Reynolds who succeeded him was practically unhittable. Clan- cy, captain of the Pioneers plaved stellar ball at the dizzy corner, ac- cepting eight chances without an ror, and contributing a two-sack wal- lop. Begley and Schroeder garnered two hits apiece. The score: Ploneers 23000002y N. B. Schenk 000110000—2 Pike and Schroeder; Houlihan, Rey nolds and Commerford. In First Place. The Pioneers are now in possession of first place in the City league, hav- ing disposed of the Kamels at St. | Mary's playgrounds Saturday, score 1 ito 0, afterione of the swellest battles | seen on a local diamond in years. | Goeb and) Johnsqn had a hot pitchers | { battle, with honors slightly in favor j of the former. Eddie allowed the losers but four hits, all coming at in- opportune times, while Warner was knicked for six hits. The fielding of { Norfeldt for the losers was classy, i while Fusari, whose record will soon ‘equal that of “Rea” Campbel! for ap- pearance in the game, turned in a | catch that merited aprlause. { Ploneers ..... . 000100000—1 Goeb and Schroeder; Johnson .and Noonan. Pirates in the Cellar. The second game while somewhat | cne-sided, was not without thrills. . The Annex and the Pirates were the contenders, and as a result the “Nig- ger Hill” boys are now reposing in the ! 9 5 4 | cellar, the east end players smearing , em with a 5 to 2 defeat. The visitors ! i piled up all their tallies in the fourth ! frame, when Hinchliffe was batted | freely, Jimmy Hogan pitched master- ; Iy ball for the winners up to the i(-lghth inning when illness forced him i to retire, and Blanchard took his i place. The losers did no score until the final chapter, when two runners ; dented the pan, and with three men on hases, a golden opportunity pre- sented itself, but Rlanchard tightened , and the losers were sent down without | any damage occurring. The score: Annex . 00650000x—5 7 { Piraies 000000062—2 2 Hogan, Blanchard and Hinchliffe and Mack. Ramblers Win Opener. The opening game in the Hardware City league was played Saturday af- ternoon at Walnut Hill Park, the Ramblers easily defeating the Rangers score 8§ to 4. The victors had no diffi- culty in solving the slants of the de- feated team’s near hurler. Jackson, pitching for the victors held his op- ponents safe at all times. The score by innings: 3 Clinton; h. 8 5 2 Ramblers £200212001—8 Rangers . 000200110—4 5 Batteries—Ramblers: Jackson and Chalmers; Rangers: Claughessy and Chernak; umpire, Rourke. Hooray For the Cubs. Baseball fans of Manchester treated to an event terday when the fast Cubs (so referred to by the manager) trimmed the White Sox of Silktown, score 6 to 5. Home runs by Valen- tine and Sheehan and the pitching of Wells were the features. e. 2 were of note ves- and speedy i Advertised Letters. | The following list of letters remain uncalled for at New Britain Pos/ Office, July 9, 1917: William Bunte. Miss Mary Brennan. Miss Carrie L. Camp. ! D. Crowe. ! Boleslaw Chmislewski. i Sebastiano Morello. i Miss Estelle Crawford. | Miss G. M. Campbell. Paul Canning. Geo. F. Doty. | G. S. French. Johan Flsher. Willlam H. Hapgood. Mrs. Ella Harris. R. H. Hartz. Miss Cora E. Hall. Jose Fonle. A. W. Lamont, Miss Augusta Olsson. i Miss M Powers. | Charles Peterson. Howard Rogers, Frank Ryan Ventortno Rizz i James Smith, Main St . . Sulllvan, Miss Syma Toroslan Mrs. Sophie Willlams i Ask for advertised letters and men- | tion date of list. | W. F. DELANEY. Fostmaster. | , Hawalian fc { PHILLIES AND CUBS - SKIDDING BADLY Giants Advancer Steadily Pennant- New York, July 9.—Playing almost unbeatable baseball while Philadel- phia and Chicago were doing poorly, the New York team increased its lead in the National League the last week by 60 points and today the Giants are virtually 100 points ahead of the Phillies. McGraw's men won six out of seven games, losing on Thursday to Brooklyn by a 6 to 3 score. The Giants hit the ball hard and opportunely throughout the games against Boston, Brooklyn and St. Louis. The pitching staff also is work- ing well. St. Louls, which had not lost a game the last week until it came %o New York Friday, dropped three games in a row to New York. Philadelphia played poorly and won only one out of seven games, the morning game on July 4, when it de- feated Boston, 5 to 3. The batting of the Phillies was poor and the pitching was weak. Cubs Slipping Fast. The Chicago team apparently has weakened, and Mitchell's men los six out of seven games. The Cubs fell, into’ fourth place on Monday, and arq § now tied with Cincinnati. Cincinnat and St. Louis played well in the West'§ early in the week, and the Reds led hoth leagues in batting, averaging better than ten hits to the game for the week. . In the American League “Chicagd | found the going hard the last of thcfl% week, and Boston regained the lead:! on Friday. Saturday both teams lost games of the intersection< = Today Clicizo 1egained they & lead by defeating Philadelphia whiles Boston was losing to Cleveland. . When Chicago could not do bette than break even in eight games, Bo&- ton won five, lost two and tied one; The Red Sox made their best gain at, the expense of Philudelphia, the two!| teams playing six games in three day of which Boston won all but one. Chi cago broke even in two games with Cleveland, won three out of five from: | Detroit and lost to Philadelphia om & Saturday, 4 to 2. y Indians Tmproving. Cleveland went back into the first division again during the week Q¥ winning six out of nine, while Detroit was breaking even in eight games. New York is playing badly and has won only one of its last eleven games. ‘The Yankees are hitting well enough but not at the right time, apparently. | Ty Cobb’s eifort to equal or bettgr his major league record of hitting safely in forty consecutive games fell short when thz Detroit slugger failed to hit the delivery of Faber and Scott, ped by the White Sox twirlers. Of the five days of the week up to Friday: Coblb made twelve hits cut of twem ty-seven times af bat for an average of .444, and was the first major leagu.:?‘ A er to make 100 hits # TR 5 BASEBALL GAME FOR SOLDIERS. Fort Sheridan, I¥ July 9.—The | Philadelphia Athletico (second team)f outhit the Chicago Americans (second’ team) two to one here yesterday, antf won an exhibition game played fo the benefit of officers and men at the & officers’ reserve.corps training camp, The score was 5 to 1. \ THEY'RE THERE, Extends Cordial Welcome 10 B. P. O. Elks. - Boston, July 9.—This city was gi\'z\%v Boston over today to the thousands of dele=t: gates and visitors to the annual con:i. vention of the B, P. O. E. Prepara. tions iong under way for their enter- tainment had been completed andf buildings in many sections wen elaborately decorated in their honor, ‘& The first feature of the program washt a steamer trip about Boston harbonil this afternoon. The grand lodge’ sessian will be formally opened to-=# night with James R. Nicholson, pastf grand exalted ruler, presiding. The political side of the conventiom was greatly in evidence today. Chiet interest lay in the contest for th® | office of grand exalted ruler between Fred Harper of Lynchburg, Va., and John W. Stevenson of Fulton, N. Y}{ The election will be held tamorrow. HAWAITANS WANT TO FIGHT. Three Thousand Anxious for Service 1 France. < Washington, July 9.— to be sent to. France to Jjoin the American forces are being made b: 3,000 Hawailan militiamen, according to J. Kuhio Kalaninac, the Hawalian delegate in congress wha is urging favorable action by the war depart- ment. The question of food supply, it is id, enters into the problem aft disposition is to he made of the' e for Hawali is loaked to furnish much of the United Sinta sSugar and rice neea A gent pleas 251 ASK ELKS TO URGE RECRUITTN e Bostou, July 9.-—Recruiting' oticers) for the various branches of the il d tary and naval service are anxious t advantage of the presence ofi imuny thousand good members of the Order of Elks here this week, by se- curing their aid in stimulating eniVsts ments. Well known orators attending the sessions of the order will he asked to make brief spseches in front of the recruiting tents on the common. tuke