New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1917, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1017, o~ RAVES WIN TWO GAMES FROM PIRATES_GIANTS FIND CUBS EASY PICKING— ALEXANDER DOWNS REDS—INDIANS WIN ON YANKS' MIS. F PLAYS—DAVENPORT ALLOWS SOX TWO HITS—BAKER ACCUSED OF TAMPERING WITH PLAYER — GRAND CIRCUIT RACES OPEN AT CLEVELAND ~ By Brigss || BEZDEK'S CHARGES |VANKEES BEATEN - DROP TWO GAMES| THROUGH ERRORS e e A A — JOME RUN' BAKER - FACES CHARGES ‘ Somebody Is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life - - - - - - - —— ~AND You GeT 'CALLED” BY THE CoP ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS For NOT HANING AFTER YOU HAVE WORRIED THROUGH SEVERAL YEARS WITH THE . UNDERWEAR CAR - AND YOUR GARAGE BILLS ForR GAS, OIL, AND RE-— PAIRING KNOCKS You OuUT inks' Infielder Is Accused of Tampering With Player Chicago, July 17.—Charges that J. anklin Baker, third baseman of the nkees, had attempted to induce len Sothoron, the voung pitching sation of the Browns, and other mbers of that club to jump to the laware County league, an independ- t organization in Pennsylvania, ive been lodged with Ban Johnson, #sident of the American league. Ihat fact became known vesterday en Johnson wired to Baker In Bveland giving him twenty-four rs to answer the charges. John: had asked Baker for an explana- n once before, but according to '® leggue head the New York play- i had ignored the request, jLast night Johnson got a telegram lom Bill Donovan, manager of the inkees, stating that Baker had sent lhnson a letter explaining the mat- ‘Charges emanating from St. Louls ive it that Baker and emissaries of ‘e Pennsylvania league have talked th Sothoron, George Sisler and oth- leading players of the Rrowns 'out jumping to the independents. will be remembered that when wker quit the Athletics he jumped fthe Upland club of the Delaware nty league, with which he played ] he was sold to the Yanke A rtain Philadelphian of wealth is in- asely interested in that league and ‘& warm friend of Baker. Late indications were that Baker mself did not intend to jump to the Ylaws. He is drawing a fat salary @ possesses a contract to run ugh the season of 1918. The ntract has no ten day clause in it. ‘that is so, it would hardly be pos- dle for Baker to jump now, as he uld be enjoined from playing with ¥y other club than New York. Denial by Baker. Cleveland, July 17.—Frank Baker st night characterized as ridiculous /e charge that he had tried to induce llen Sothoron of the Browns to mp to the Delaware County league. developed that the owner of the pland club of the Delaware County jague wired him in regard to Soth- on, who evidently had been dicker- & with the independents. Phil Ball rd about it and notified Ban hnson. Johnson wired Baker for explanation, and he ignored the essage on the score that the charge s ridiculous. Then came another {essage from Johnson that unless an planation was received within enty-four hours there would be fouble. [| Baker insists that he advised Soth- 'on to stick to organized baseball. | lihis is substantiated by Paddy Bau- ann, who was with Baker when the bject came up. Affidavits to that lect will be forwarded to Johnson. | PLAYGROUND ACTIVITIES lothers’ Day to Be Observed at St. ‘Mary’s Grounds Tomorrow—Varied Program of Events Arranged. P Tomorrow at St. Mary's play- frounds will be known as “Mothers’ v’ and a big crowd is expected to tend the games arranged by Di- etor Pilz. Should the weather be rmy the program will be carried jut. the next fair day. As Wednesday | St. Louis ... ! Chicago , Pittsburgh ‘half holiday for clerks in the stores, hany friends of the girls and boys are ed to be present The program 1 open at 2 o'clock with baseball nes between the Nutmegs and the | t Ends, and the Giants against the oung Pioneers. In the athletic con- ! psts the following events comprise he program: Standing broad jump, | ree classes of boys; 50, 60 and 75 ard dash, boys, three classes; 200 ards bicycle race, flying start, boys, hree classes; Japanese race, three lasses. In the girls events the following syrogram will be conducted: Folk jancing and singing games; obstacle fice relay, three classes; chariot race. Special attention is being devoted »y Director Pilz to tennis games, and juring the week a tournament will be neld every day. Yesterday's results | vere as follows: Lloyd Smith defeated [Robert Leghorn, 0, 6-4, 7-5 and “Tumphrey Muldowney won from Be hard Clark, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. In the bo. slass, and Margaret Curran went jown to defeat at the hands of Helen Dery, 6-2, 6-4, 6-1. The schedule for the church base- ball league is as follows: July 21—St. Mary's vs Sacred Heart, 3t. John's vs St. Andrew’s. | ‘July 28—St. Ma vs St. John's, St. Andrew’s vs Sacred Heart. { | St. Andrew's vs St. Mary's, 11—St. ) vs Sacred . John’s vs St. Andrew’s. 18—St. Mary's vs St. John's, St. Andrew’s vs Sacred Heart ‘Aug 25—-St. John's vs Secred Heart, Jst. Mary's vs St. Andrew’s NO MORE EXHIBITION GAM New tlaven, July 17.--Rather than lake chances and thereby jeopardize jts leading position in the [astern) league, {he New Haven team will play no more exhibition games hefore the end of the schedule, according to an announcement by James Collins, the § owner, 1 nighr. Several players; have received slight injuries in recent exnibition games. | i t RIEIY ~AND YouR TIRES, BLowW OUT AND EVER THING BEVERY =2) = WHEN ALL OF EXRPENSE BASEBALL NEWS IN A NUTSHELL ‘ l | | | NATIONAL LEAGUE, Results Yesterday. New York 4, Chicago 2. St. Louis 3, Brooklyn 1. Philadelphia 1, Cincinnati Boston 8, Pittsburgh 7, game). Boston game). 0. (first Pittsburgh (second standing of the Clubs. L. 26 New York Philadelphia 37 42 AL 39 43 53 Cincinnati Brooklyn Boston Games Today. Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Boston. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Cleveland 3, New York 2. St. Louis 2, Boston 0. Other games postponed; rain. Standing of the Clubs. L. 31 31 40 38 39 Chicago Boston ... Cleveland New York Detroit Washington | Philadelphia | St. Louis Games Today. New York at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Newark b5, Rochester 3. Buffalo 9, Richmond 8. Providence 10, Toronto 4. Montreal 10, Baltimore game). Montreal game). 9 (first 5 3, Baltimore (second Standing of the Clubs. Newark Providence Toronto Baltimore Rochester Buffalo Richmond Montreal Games Today. Newark Rochester. Richmond at Buffalo. Providence at Toronto. Baltimors at Montreal. STERN LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Haven 3, Springfield 0. London 6, Portland 1, (14 in- New New nings). Worcester 10, Bridgeport 8. lawrence 5, Hartford 4, nings). Standing of the Clubs. W, L. frges | | 16 30 22 New Haven .. New ILandon ..... 2 . Weaver Downs Green Sox While Big Lawrence ... Bridgeport . Worcester Portland Springfield Hartford ..31 e .53 ..28 .24 ..20 ..18 Games Today. New Haven at Worcester. New London at Lawrence. Bridgeport at Springfield. Hartford at Portland EASTERN LEAGUE i League Scouts Look On—Senators Lose Overtime Battle in anrellcc.t Springfleld, Mass., July 17.— liant pitching by Harry Weaver | enabled New Haven to make further progress in the Kastern league race | ! by scoring ‘a shut-out victory over ! Springfleld at League park yesterday. Weaver pitched one of his best games of the season allowing but three widely scattered hits and fanning five. One of these hits was a triple by King but Gooch and Hammond, who bear the reputation of being heavy hitters, were unable to send the local left fielder home. When the wound- ed were carried from the flield of battle the locals were on the short !end of a 3 to 0 score, The score: r h ....110010000—3 9 1 Springfield ....000000000—0 3 3 Batteries: Weaver and Devine; Powers, Mangan and Stephens. e New Haven Lawrence, Mass., July 17.—A single by Flynn, - following a double by Daley, in the twelfth inning of yester- MR. SINSABAUGH INVITES You ON A THREE DAY MOTOR TRiP W BUFFALO ROCHESTER AND SYRACUSE _WITHQUT day's game, gained the decision for Lawrence over Hartford, 5 to 4. Flynn figured heavily in the scoring in the third inning when he hit a home run, sending Daley in ahead of him. The score: rah ..003000001061—5 16 3 Hartford .100001101000—4 10 1 Batteries: Craig, Williams and Gas- ton; Trautman and Carroll. e Lawrence ‘Worcester, Mass.,, July 17.—Wor- cester won yesterday by free hitting After batting Gingras from the mound the Boosters slammed Sher- man. McQuillan was wild and gave way to McGinley in the last two in- nings. Plays by Gardella,, Potteiger and Conway featured. Score: S r h -..010004201— 8 12 Worcester ....10310050x-—10 15 Batteries: Gingras, Sherman an Egan; McQuillan, Keifer and Tyler. e Bridgeport 4 3 d Portland, Me., July 17.—New Lon- don defeated Portland in a fifteen inning game, 6 to 1, today, the visi- tors scoring five runs in the fifteenth after chances had been offered to re- tire the side. Durning had a little the better of Crum in the pitching, not one of New London's runs being carned. The score: r h e N. London 001000000000005—¢ 10 1 Portland 100000000000000—1 13 § Batterfes: Crum and Fish; Durning and Dempsey. Cleveland, Ohio, July 17.—An- nouncement was made by the Cleve- land American League club yesterday that Catcher Tom Daly had been re- leased under an optional agreement to the Buffalo club of the Interna- tional Leagus. A SUDDEN AWN'T A KLAXON OPERATOR'S WHEEL BASE - OH-n-w; LICENSE OR AN LICENSE OR A LICENSE OR A= A GR-R- 4 RAND 1T AnD GLOR — Yus Coprighted 1317 by The Trilune Assoc. (New York Tribune)y HUGO BEZDEK, NEW PIRATES, ONCE Pittsburgh, July 17.—Though fairly well known in the middle west, Where he played college football ten vears ago and later established himself as | an athletic coach on the Pacific coast, Hugo Bezdek, .new manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is a stranger to eastern baseball fans. Probably one in a thousand had ever heard of | Bezdek before Barney Dreyfuss sur- | prised the baseball world by i not nouncing him as Jimmy Callahan's successor. Dreyfuss summoned Bezdek from Portland, Ore., and he arrived in Pittsburgh just in time to accompany | the Pirates to Philadelphia. He was | a total stranger to nearly every Pitts- burgh player. According to Bezdek’'s own state- | ment, his appointment as manager is only temporary, though he may be | induced to remaln another season if he registers any success with the de- moralized Pirates this season. At ‘present it is his intention to return league baseball, | semi-pro teams in Chicago and aft- MANAGER OF STAR ON GRIDIRON to his coaching Xuties at the Univer- sity of Oregon next fall. For the last eight years Bezdek has been Pittsburgh's baseball scout in the west and in Canada, and his in- telligent efforts in this line caused Dreyfuss to turn te him in the pres- ent emergency. He has never played but appeared with erward combined, with considerable success, the duties of football and baseball coach of college teams. He first met Dreyfuss nine years ago at Hot Springs, Ark, The Pirates were training there and Bezdek was coach- ing the University of Arkansas base- ball team, which played an exhibi- tion with the Pirates at Little Rock. Bezdek’s team put up such a good game on that occasion that they were congratulated for their knowledge of inside baseball by Fred Clarke, then manager of the Pirates. There were several players on the Arkansas team that Clark wanted to sign when col- lege closed, and Dreytuss, on the spot, engaged Bezdek as a scout. He has been at it ever since. LEVINSKY WINS. Park City Battler Puts It All Over Al Benedict. New York, July 17.—Battling Le- vinsky of Connecticut scored an easy victory over Al. Benedict of Hoboken, in a ten round bout at the Military ] A. C. last night. Benedict was sub- Jjected to a terrific beating from the start of the milling to the finish and was in dire distress when the final! bell rang. In the sixth round Levinsky sent his opponent to the floor after raining upon him a shower of blows. Levin- sky weighed 178 pounds and Benedict 196. OUTFIELDER FOR YANKS. Butte, Mon., July 17—Elmer Lelfir, outflelder and pitcher of the Butte, Northwestern League club, has been sold to the New York Americans. He will report in the spring. i supply Smoky City Crew Make Strong Bid for Opening Encounter Boston, July 16.—Boston started its. second home series with Pitts- burgh yesterday by taking two games, | the first in eleven innings by 8 to 7| and the secand by 7 to 2. The scores: | First Game. h e ! 16 3 16 1 and Tyler r. .30021010000—7 .20001121001—8 Grimes Nent, Pittsburgh Boston ... Batteries—Cooper, Sohmidt; Allen, Ragan, and Tragresser. Second Game. T Pittsburg 000010100—2 Boston ...14000020*—7 Batteries—Jacobs, Grimes Schmidt; Barnes and Tragresser, e. and | 1 1 d Cubs Soft Picking. Looking rather, frayed around the edges, the Cubs made their second call of the year at the Polo grounds yesterday. They knew no new tricks, and did their old ones badly. The Giants were taxed ony once to down a Chicago uprising and won by 4 to 2. It is difficult to recognize the July Cubs as the same bruins which called here in May, fresh from triumphs in Boston and Brooklyn, where they had compiled a winning ~streak of ten games long. Fred Mitchell must be for playing out his string. He sent in five pinch hitters, all his available of extra help. The question was, “Whom ‘would Mitchell have played had he tied up the score in | the ninth?” He already had Merkle in center and Zeider on first, had used up Wolter but sent in pinch hitters to bat for his shortstop and right fielder. The mystery will re- main unsolved until doomsday, as the | Cubs didn’t tie it up. | Lord Byron made his first appear- | ance in the Harlem orchard since his | interesting Cincinnati adventures with John McGraw which led to the fa- ! mous serial “The Repudiation of the | Repudiation,” which now is running ' in weekly instalments at National | given credit | league headquarters.” The score: | r. h.ooe. ..000000200—2 6 2 w York ..12100000*—4 10 1 Batteries—Vaughn, Douglas and Dilhoefer; Tesrau, Benton and Rari- den. hicago N Alexander Beats Reds, Philadelphia, July 17.—Wonderful fielding, especially by Bancroft, fea- tured the game in which Philadelphia defeated Cincinnati yesterday by 1 to 0. Alexander and Regan had a twir- ling duel, which was finished in the remarkably fast time of one hour and ten minutes. The lone tally was scored inh the seventh inning. Whitted led off with a double and took third when Roush muffed Cravath’s fly. Regan threw Stock out and Whitted was caught at the plate when Paskert hit to Mec- Kechnie. Luderus’ single scored Cravath. Johnny Evers made his debut with the Phillies. The score: r. h. e .....000000000—0 6 1 ....00000010*—1 5 O tegan and Wingo;Alex- ifer. Cincinnati . Philadelphia Batteries- ander and K Robins Lose to Cards. Brooklyn, July 17:—The Superbas | were seized with an attack of the blind staggers in the eighth inning at Ebbets’ field yesterday and a neck and neck race soon was changed into a 3 to 1 victory for St. Louis. The Cardinals got away to a one run lead in the first and the Dodgers tied things up in the third. The dead- lock remained unbroken until the eighth, when, after the Dodgers got through throwing the ball around it was found that two Cardinal counts were across the pan a keen pitchers’ duel between Pfeffer and Meadows was shattered. The score: r. h. St. Louis ..100000020-—3 9 0 Brooklyn +..001000000—1 3 4 Batteries—Meadows and Snyder; Pfeffer and Meyers. e. UPHOLDS WILLARD. Jack Curley Loses His Suit to Enforce Contract. New York, July 17.—Application of Jack Curley for an injunction to restrain Jess Willard, heavyweight champion of the world, from appear- ing in connection with the Wild West show was denied in supreme court here yesterday by Justice Peter A. Hendrick. Curley contended that a contract entered into by Willard and himself preceding the fight in Havana with Jack Johnson at which Willard won the championship, restrained ‘Willard from blic appearance, ex- )\' erday. cept under Curley’s management un- til September next. Justice Hendrick in his decision says that if the contract to promote a fight between Willard and Johuson, and othr fistic encounters, en- forcible, of which he expresses no opinion, &n Injunction restraining Willard from performing with his show would infliet '‘great harm on ‘Willard and secure no lawful vantage for Curley.” is ad- ROGGE GOES DOWN, Indianapolis, Ind.. July 17,.—Clint Rogge a pitcher with the Tndianapolis American Association club was sent to Lincoln of the Western League yes- Indians in Front by Narrow Mar- gin—Baghy’s Record Broken Cleveland, July 17.—The knowledge that Ban Johnson was camping on his trail, evidently did not help Frank Baker’s game any today. mauler practically handed the game to the Indians. Frank made two er=- rors and they let in all of Cleveland's runs. The Yankees lost, 3 to 2. Perhaps no one felt the loss keener ‘than Baker, as his chum and former fellow on the Athletics, Bob Shawkey, looked after Donovan’'s pitching. Bob pitched the best ball he has shown in some time, allowing only seven hits. He deserved a shutout. The Yankees stopped the great rup of scoreless innings pitched by Sergt. Jim Bagby, who has developed into the star of the Indians. Bagby had pitched forty-one scoreless conecu- tive innings before the Yankees put: over a pair of runs on him in the fourth round. Smart flelding was an ald to Bagby, as both Roth and Graney threw out New York players trying to score The Trappe * with pegs which came in like shots. * Another fine Yankee opportunity was lost in the first inning ,when Peck- inpaugh, second batter up, but was caught Malisel failed to connect on an at- tempted squeeze play. The score: New York 000200000—2 9 Cleveland 00001200x—3 7 Batteries—Shawkey and Nunamak er; Bagby and O'Neil. Two Hits Off Davenport. St. Louis, July 17.—Davenport held Boston to two hits yesterday and St. Louis shut out the world’s champions, 2 to 0. N Davenport did not give a hit un#l the sixth, when Hooper doubled. He was the only visitor to reach second, "'and was left there when Davenport fanned Hoblitzel for the third out. St. Louis got a run in the fourth round when Pratt singled and scored on a single by Jacobson. In the sixth| Sisler singled, stole second and went; to third when Barry failed to cove the base for Thomas's perfect throw:: He scored on Severeid’s single. The score: s Boston 000000000—0 St. Louis . 00010100x—2 Btteries—Foster, Jones Thomas; Davenport and Severeid. BUTLER'S BALLAD 2 2 5 0 and BALLAD WINS'. - Threc-Year-Old Chestnut Colt, Romps Home a Winner Over Wilson’s !‘l-: vorite Straight Forward. 3 New York, July 17—James Butler's three-year-old chestnut colt, Ballad, proved himself a real race horse &t Empire City track yesterday after- noon, when he won the Tarrytown Stakes of $1,500. This, race, was the feature on the card, and measure of R. T. Wilson’s highly re- garded Straight Forward. The Tar-g rytown was a selling event. Such ag fine impression was made by the wins" ner that after the race Harry bid up Ballad to $3,200. The stabl protected its property with the ecussi tomary $5 advance. 4 Thomas J. Healey, trainer for M Wilson, was the most disappointed man at the track when the white and cherry silks of the Butler stable came home in front of the old gold and green. Unwilling to detract from the fine performancze of Ballad, which hag shown wonderful and consistent ims+ provement, Mr. Healey nevertheles§ felt piqued that the Wilson entry had not bheen handled according to stablé instructions. GRAND GIRGUIT RESOLTS Inclement Weather Makes Track Very Slow, and It Is a Bad Day For Favorites. Cleveland, July 17.—Half-mile cam- paigners stepped into the limelight at the opening of the Grand Circuit rac- ing season at the North Randall track vesterday afternoon, and followers of the trotters and pacers who supported, the favorites were a crest-fallen lot.|, A heavy rain soaked the track and! held up proceedings for more than an hour ,making it late before the lagh heat of the fourth event was raced. As a result of the weather conditipn the track was slow and the going was. bad, particularly for the pacers. i The Edwards, 2:10, $3,000 racing; stake, the feature event of the card, went to Colonel Armstrong, a half- miler and an outsider, who was given @ hard tight by A Game of Chance. The two tinished neck and neck in the finul heat, the judges’ decision beirfg necessary to distinguish the winner. Loyal W, the ravorite, failed to finish in the money k The Forest City Sweepstakes foRa two-year-old trotters, was a walks away for Arrow Rock, piloted by Mes: Mahon, while Miram Guy took secy ond money of the $2,500. The be time, 2:131%, was fast when the const dition of the track is considered. s The Woodman , another two-lap star, took the 2:10 trot in straight heats, while Box R. who also has been campaigning in the twice-arounds, took the 2:06 pace after a hard bate tite with Knight of Strathmore. Toung Todd, the favorite got fourfh money. the fourth '&t to win Ballad had to take the; tripled, * standing up when | ¥ Fink' . )