New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917. STON AND CHICAGO DIVIDE DOUBLE HEADER ———— ~—— e~ AGNER'S DOUBLE {WINS FOR PIRATES, I g Dutchman” Cracks Out' Hit in Tenth Frame Brooklyn. August 21.—Hans Wag- the Pittsburgh veteran demon- rated at Kbbets Field, Brooklyn, erday that he is far from the baseball scrap heap. ry one of the one thousand or so ; s present tness a long., drawn-out game he | lted one of Rube Marquard's offer- | to left field for double and | mpered across the plate a little | r with the run that gave the clan | ready | Just as | ¥ were settling down to a Hugo Bezdek its opening tilt with | ncle Wilbert Robinson’s Superbas 1 to 0. Pittsburgh's run tricked ross the plate in the tenth inning | & result of an almost inconceivably | 1d neave by the youngster O'Rourke, | jhich put an end to one of the best | tching duels seen on the Flatbush | yard this season. i Frank Miller was on the mound | nst Marquard, and neither twirler entitled to an edge the best of Honors until that fatal tenth me. Several times both tiwirlers und themselves in hot water, but | ppy: fielding, of which there was abundance, came in time to avert danger. The allotment of hits ®ach team was three up to the | session, and they were widely ered. ‘Wagner started that tenth frame fth his screaming double to the left den and he scurrled around the paths like the “Flying Dutch- " of old. On an attempted sac- by Jake Pitler, O'Rourke field- the ball and made his welrd toss in" ' general direction of Jake Dau- at first to get Pitler. The lat- seemed to beat the throw any- , but the ball, instead of nestling Daubert's glove, kept merrily on way to the grand stand wall, while ) veteran Honus raced home from jeond base. Before the sphere was irned Pitler was camping safely on keystone sack. He remained jere, however, for Schmidt lined to iubert, who quickly doubled Pit- Ain’t It a Grand 'and Glorious Feelin’ ? S8EEN YOUR GIRL FOR Two DAYS HEARD FROM HER DECWDE T CALL UP AND HEAR THE WORST { W 2 BASEBALL NEWS NATIONAD LEAGUE. at second. Then Cutshaw threw “h:m'z:.m. Results Yesterday. G SR 6 Pittsburgh 1, Brooklyn 0. B = 7. Boston & ittsburgh ...0000000001—1 5 4| St Louls 7. i rooklyn ©70000000000—0 5 +| Chicago 4, Philadelphia 2. Batterie Miller and Schmidt; arquard and Wheat. Stanaingiot 3’ Q“;" Brevel Dose. New York ........70 38 Boston, Aug. 20.—St. Louis took ;h‘l;:‘e‘li’:hm ;“ e first game of its last series here [ oo oo T 57 terday. 7 to 6. A double steal in | oM i he last of the ninth, Cruise scoring, [ gTio380 < o ve the visitors the winning run, | poo0 o &5 tter Cruise and Paulette had singled [ pR8 00 < o th two out. n men. Catcher Tragresser of Boston, left or Lafayette, Ind., last night to be xamined for’ the army. Club offi- als said he would base his exemp- on claim on the dependency of his idowed mother and sister. t The score: ° Boston used seven- r. h e Louls . ..003030001—7 14 3 oston . .400000020—6 11 3 Batteries: Meadows, Horstman, 2ackard, Doak and Gonzales; Allen, hf, Barnes and Tragresser and Dong Drives Feature. Philladelphia, Aug. 21.—Chicago on the opening game of the serles yesterday, 4 to 2. The visitors’ for extra bases played a big in their victory, all of them fig- uring in the scoring. 1 The score: r. h e Chicago ........ 110001010—4 8 1 [Philadelphia ....010000001—2 9 1 Batteries: Douglas and Wilson; Oeschger and Adams. AL MACK WINS 's Lassie Favorite in Feature Tvent Is Beaten—Murphy Wins ‘With Batt Hale in 2:12 Pace. Philadelphia, Aug. 21.—Favorites captured two of the three races on the inaugural day program of the Srand Circuit meeting held on the | Belmont club’'s mile track at Nar- berth, Penn., yesterday. This is the first of the big circuit meetings held in this vicinity in a quarter of a cen- tury, and a good sized crowd turned out. Busy's Lassie, winner of two $10,- 000 stake races this year, was picked to win the Bellevue-Stratford Stake of $3,000, the feature event, but afl- ter taking the first heat in 2:09 fin- lshed second to Al Mack, which made a'break in the first heat and finished pighth. In the second heat Bud Mur- ‘ray closed up on the leaders, after passing the half in 1:01, and beat Busy's Lassie in the final drive in 2:05 1-2, the fustest heat of the day. The effort tired the mare badly, and she was satisfied to finish seventh in the final heat, which Al Mack won handily from M. L. J. in 2:07 1-2 Harry J which set @ track rec- ord at Goshen lust week, made a de K perate attempt to take the final heat, " but after leadi to the three-quar- ! or post he weakened and could get no better than third Tommy Murphy won the 2:12 pace In straight heats with Butt Hale, out- stepping his fleld in all three heats with June Bug second each time. E. { Detroit Games Today. Cincinnati at New York. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Chicago at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston. AMERICAN LEAGUE, Yesterday’s Results. Detroit 3, New York 2. Chicago 7, Boston 0 (first game). Boston 3, Chicago 1, (second ,game). Cleveland 65, Philadelphia 4. St. Louis 4, Washington 1. Standing of Teams. P.C. Chicago 619 Boston . 605 Cleveland New York Washington 469 WMEN You HAVEN'T BECMUSE oF A QUARREL e~ AND You FINALLY /',,l 7~ X7 7 — NOR HER "Ye$ DEARIE" €TC ETC. ETC. €TC /’Jfif/; W B7eieyerand IN A NUTSHELL Standing of Teams. L. P.C. New Haven 30 665 Lawrence 39 667 New London 42 528 Bridgeport 44 494 Worcester 45 494 Springfield 19 .149 Portland a1 427 i Hartford . 54 .386 Games Today. Portland at New Haven (2). lLawrence at \Bridgeport (2). Soringfield at Hartford. Worcester at New London. EASTERN LEAGUE Riconda’s Bad Misplay Paves Way for Lawrenoce to Defeat League Leaders —Worcester Too Good for Hart- ford. New Haven, Aug. 2l.—Lawrence sliced another full game off New Ha- ven's wilting lead by capturing a 4-to- 3 verdict in yesterday’s sketch at the Rock. After holding an apparently safe lead for eight and two-thirds in- nings, the Murlins blew up at a time when it was a 25 to 1 shot that they would win. Before the agony subsided Lawrence had slipped over two tallies which proved sufficlent to win. Two hits, a pass and a juicy boot by Ri- conda of a fly ball, spilled the beans. 8t. Louls ... Philadelphia 385 .382 Games Today. New York at Detroit. Boston at Chicago. Washington at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Cleveland. INTERNATIONAD LEAGUE. Yestcrday’s Results. Toronto 3, Newark 0 (5 rain). Second grounds). Rochester 5, Richmond 2. Buffalo 6, Baltimore 5. Providence 5, Montreal 4. innings, (wet game postponed Standing of Teams. w. L. Toronto .72 48 Providence -.69 48 Newark .67 49 Bultimore .68 50 Rochester . .56 64 Buffalo .52 68 Richmond .46 71 Montreal ..... .45 76 Games Today. Newark at Toronto. Baltimore at Buffalo. .. Richmond at Rochester. Providence at Montreal. EASTERN LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. Lawrence 4, New Haven 3. Worcester 2, Hartford 0. New London 4, Springfleld 0, (first game). Springfield 5, New London 2 (sec. O. Mauger. a Philadelphia amateur won third money with Jay Patch. ond game). Lawrence's hollow victory places them seven and one-half games behind the leaders. The score: r. h. e Lawrence 000001102—4 11 1 New Haven 000021000—3 9 3 Batterles: Craig, Willlams and Gas- tan: Naylor and Flaherty. Hartford, Aug. 21.—Keifer although wild held the Senators away from the plate, Worcester winning, 2 to 0. Loose playing behind Kennedy gave the visi- tors their runs. The score: r. h. e ‘Worcester .000100100—2 4 2 Hartford . .000000000—0 2 4 Batteries: Keifer and Tyler; Ken- nedy and Carroll. Planters Break Even. New London, Aug. 21.—New Lon- don and Springfleld split a double- header here this afternoon, the home team taking the first game by the score of 4 to 0 and the Ponles the second, b to 2. In the first game Pad- team a hit although two men succeed- ed in reaching,first base on balls and Beatty's error. The scores: First Game. r. h e Springfleld ......000000000—0 0 4 .01000800x—4 6 1 [NPW London . Batteries: Gordonfer and Stephens; Martin and Russell. Second Game (Seven innings by agreement.) Springfleld ... 0020030—5 New London . ..2000000—3 Batteries: Sherman and O'Donmell; lC-rum and Trout. -IF sHe ANSWERS The ZPHONE WITH A dy Martin did not allow the Springfleld | ) 7 i ~AND You CAN PICTURE SOME OTHEE az Ceporighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribuse)s Cleveland, Aug. 21—Who is the leading shortstop in the big leagues' today? Last season be- tween Peckinpaugh, Fletcher, Maran- ville and Scott, and critics through- the crown rested out both circuits differed as to who | should be awarded first place. This year a youngster gets the laurels. His name s Chapman of Clevelana. Chapman is almost as good an in- flolder as any of these named above CHAPMAN, CLEVELAND YOUNGSTER, WEARS CROWN AS KING OF SHORTSTOPS, and has played a star gamg at the short field ever since the Indians got i away with a good start this season. Above all, however, Chapman is far lin front as a batsman, base runner and run getter. He is now batting over .300 and has scored more runs than any shortstop in the game this year. These are the statistics, and one may seize upon them and do his own figuring who will wear the crown of king of shortstops for the year 1917. . —_— MAMAUX OUT OF O. B. Pittsburgh, Aug. 21.—By pitching for an amateur team here Sunday Ma- maux, suspended pitcher of the Pitts- burgh National league club automat- jcally threw himself out of organized baseball, according to baseball men here. Mamaux was under suspension for an infraction of club rules. Rein- statement by the National Commission is declared to be his only means of re-entering professional ball. Baseball | LOCAL SPORT WINS $720. Several years ago, when local base- i ball fans were enjoying. factory league baseball at Electric field, a Park street resident was well known for his betting on various games, and his knack of picking winners. Of late he has been obscure, but this morning he walked into the Herald office and announced that the no-hit no-run game pitched by Paddy Mar- tin of New Londop vesterday against the Green Sox, had netted him a win- | ning ot $720. MITCHELL STILL A NEMESIS FOR YANKS — INDIANS DOWN MACK’S BLUDGEON WINS FOR PIRATES—DOUBLE STEAL CAUSE OF BRAVES’ DEFEAT—EXTRA BASE CLOUTS DOWNS PHILLIES—KUNZ CLUBS PROTECTED | IN PLAYERS DRAFT National Commission Meets and‘ Adopts Protection Ruling Cincinnati, Aug. 21.—The enroll- ment of ball players in the United States army and navy will have little | or no effect financially on those clubs desiring to purchase or obtain by draft the players in leagues of lower classification. The National Baseball Commission vesterday issued a notice to the effect that the status of all play- ers obtained by recall under optional ' agreements would remain the same no matter when the player was called | for military or naval duty. | With men drafted from the ranks of the minors the draft price shall not ' be paid over until the player actually . enters the service of the club which | purchased him. In case the drafted player enters the military or naval service of the club which purchased him. In case the drafted player en- ters the military or naval service be- | tween the time he is drafted and the time he is ordered to report to the club which would have obtained his services has the privilege of cancel- ling its draft. The clause relating to purchased players says: “A major or minor league club which purchases a payer will have no right to the return of the amount actually paid by it for his release if | the player joins it, even if he is sub- sequently drafted into the military or naval service, but in that event all | deferred payments shall be stayed until the player again reports to the purchasing club and it has had & reasonable opportunity to try him out and determine whether it desires re- tain him. If retained the deferred payments must be met; if he is not retained he shall report to the selling oclub.” The National Baseball issued its annual lists of ercised by major league clubs upon players with minor league clubs. The lists of the three local clubs follow: By New York American: From | Bridgeport, Ferguson; Newark, Mc- raw, Camp; Richmond, Bankston, Enright; Toledo, Piercy, Hamilton. commission options ex- ATHLETICS— HONUS WAGNER’S AND BROWN MATCHED CHISOX WIN ONE, RED SOX THE OTHE Faber Toys With Barryites in First Game of Important Series - Chicago, Aug. 21.—Chicago and Boston divided a double header yes- terday in the opening of the series, which will have a big bearing on the pennant race. Chicago shut out the visitors, 7 to 0, in the initial game, 8 to 1, in eight innings, when it was called on account of darkness. Chi- cago still retains the lead by a scant margin. In the first game Urban Faber al- lowed the world’s champions only four scattered hits, and only two Bos- ton men reached second base. Chi- cago, on the other hand, batted Fos-¢ ter and Bader freely. Faber was given perfect support. A one-hand catch by Jackson deprived Lewis of a possible triple, and a lightning double play by E. Collins, Risberg and Gandil cut off a Boston rally. The score: First Game. r. h. e. 000000000—0 4 0 00201112x—7 13 0 Boston Chicago Foster, Bader and Thomas; Faber and Schalk. Second Game. r. h e Boston 03000000—3 8 0 Chicago 00000001—1 4 O Mays, Ruth and Agnew; Clcotta and Schalk. Indians Win Close Game. Cleveland, Aug. 21.— Cleveland opened the series with Philadelphia | by winning, 5 to 4. Morton was ef- fective until the ninth, when Philadel- phia made four hits and three runs, tylng the score. Chapman greetefl Myers, triple. Roth and Smith were passed purposely. Harris popped out, but Chapman scored the winning run By Brooklyn Natlonal: From lanta, O'Mar: Denver, Kellehe Butte. Malone: Portland, Me., ing; Spokane, Fitzsimmons; more, Appleton, Snyder. 3y New York Nationals: Rochester, Young, Styker, Causey, Smith; New Orleans, Baker; Louis- ville, Middleton; Montreal, Hoyt. BAT AND CHICK MATCHED Elm City Boy in Bridgeport, September 14 in No-Decision Affair. New Haven, -Aug. Kunz of Norwalk, lightweight cham- pion of the state, and Chic Brown of this city, former titleholder, have been matched to box 20 rounds at Avon park, Stratford, on Friday night, September 14, before the Athletic club. Managers of the box- ers reached terms at a conference in Bridgeport vesterday. The bout will be a decisionless affair and will be refereed by Te Lee, who with Wil- lard Stuart, controls the Nutmeg club. Both hoxers will work on a percen- tage basis. Brown is scheduled to oppose John- nie Drummie of Waterbury in Meriden Thursday, Aug. 30. His articles of agreement for the Kunz bout specify that he must start in' training im- mediately after the Drummie bout. Balti- From Lightweight Champion to Face 21.—Battling YANKS SENT HOMIE, Donovan Takes Action Against Shaw- key and Love, et al. Detroit. Mich., Aug. 21 Shortly after the Yankees arrived in Detroit yesterday morning, Manager Dono- van reduced his squad from 28 to 18 players. He ordered Pitchers Shawkey. Love, Monroe and Russell and Catcher Alexander to continue on to New York. The arrival of Out- fielder Gilhooley here increased the squad to 18. The Yanks will con- tinue the trip with five pitchers, two catchers, seven inflelders and « four outfielders Monroe and Russell were sent home Dbecause they are of little use to the club just now. Russell's fingers con- tinue to bother him. Shawkey and Love are sent home as a disciplinary measure, as Dono- van is not exactly pleased with their recent actions. Alexander goes with instructions to put the four pitchers through daily workouts at the Polo Grounds until the Yanks return home late next week. NAYLOR IN DRAFT. New Haven, Aug. 21.—Rollie Nay- lor, one of the best pitchers that ever wore a New Haven uniform, has received word from his home town, Ardmore, Okla.,, that he has been caught in the military draft. He has been ordered to appear before the examining board there right away. Efforts have been made by Owner Jim Collins to have Nayldr examined in West Haven so as to save him the long trip expense and absence from the team. Naylor is the third mem- ber of the Murlins to be drafted. The otheérs are Miller and Nutter. Nay- lor will not claim exemption. on Wambsganss's high bounder to Witt. The score: r. h. e Philadelphia 010000003—4 10 0 Cleveland ...... 003000101—5 12 1 . Noyes, Seibold, Myers and Schang; Morton and O'Neil. % Mitchell Still a Jinx. Detroit, Aug. 21.—The only thing that could possibly stop, Detroit's mad toboggan career toward the second division happened yesterday. Tl:\) Yankees came to Jungle Land. The score was 3 to 2. Any time Hughie Jennings has anfy doubts about beating Donovan's slip- ping aggregation he plays safe by utilizing southpaw Willie Mitchell. This move always scares the Yankees' to death. Mitchell didn't seem able to pitgh up an alley. but still he held the Donovan tribe spellbound as usual. Ray Fisher, who opposed this peren- nial jinx, delivered one of his cus- tomary good games, though, as usual, he had little concrete encouragement. Nutmeg | The concrete ran in other channeli The score: r. s New York ..... 010000100—2 5 0 Datroft ........ 000000201—3 8 -1 Fisher and Nunamaker; Mitchell and Yelle and Spencer. Bad Pegs Costly. St. Louis, Aug. 21.—Timely hitting, with the help of two wild throws By Ainsmith in the first and second in- nings, enabled St. Louis to take the first of the serics from Washington yesterday. 1 1o 1. St. Louis increased its lead by adding two in the eighth on three singles off Gallia, who Te- placed Shaw. and a sacrifice fly. Koob kept Washington's hits scate tered, the one run coming in the se€. Lavan's er- cond on a walk; an out, ror and a single. The score: r. h.e Washington 010000000—1 6 2 St. Louis 11000002x—4 9 1 Shaw, Gallia and Ainsmith; Koob and Scvereid. == ¥ < POSTPONE FIGHT. New Orleans, Aug. 21.—The ten- round, no-decision fight between Pete Herman, claimant to the bantam- welght championship of the world, and Jack Douglas of San Francisco, set for last night in an open-air arena, was postponed until tonight qn account of rain. RED SOX SECRETARY R GNS. foston, Aug. 21.—John Lane, sec- retary of the Boston American League baseball team announced last night that his duties as chief yeoman in the United States naval reserve have compelled him to resign his position with the haseball club. His resigna- tion takes effect Monday. GREEK BOXER ACCEPTED, Chicago, Aug. 21.—George ‘‘Knock- Out” Brown, a Greek middleweight boxer. passed physical examination and was accepted for military service vesterday. Brown did not claim eXe emption. Buy an Indiana truck.—advt,