New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1917, Page 12

IONEERS LOSE FIRST GAME OF SE RIES TO POLI TEAM IN HARD FOU GER%AND BROWNS DIVIDE TWIN BILL—REDS DROP TWO GAMES TO CARDINALS—CUBS WIN CLOSE ONE FROM PIRATES—CADETS PRACTICE NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, lor7. GHT BATTLE—W INEERS BEATEN ST OF SERIES G Bad Breaks and Poor Umpiring Also Costly 1J¥"* Dudack, the star moundsman the Pioneers went down to defeat rd4y afternoon in East Hartford, n the crack Poli’s team augmented " some Ilastern league stars, took Pe first game of the series, score 2 /0. As the score would indicate, the le was a warm one and was lost gr the home lad only after . the Bughest kind of breaks. For seven ngs the big fellow turned back his jonents in one, two and there fash- only two of the Poli team reach- third hase, but in the eighth after ‘was retired, trouble piled k and fast. Manager Gillette of §8 Harttord crowd, was evidently set winning the opener for he sécured ] Potteiger, the crack outflelder ' the Worcester team for pasturc Y and with Goodridge of the Hart- ord team and Fred Reigeer of Ne gndon and Jimmy Burns a former e gfield and Northampton infielder f the job, the winners presented a P#midable array, when his umps Rea “play ball” o i e banner crowd of the season was #hand to witness the game, , the : heers brihging along a big delega- of rooters, who made their pres- & known at every opportunity. The me was marked by the hot duel be- ween Dudack and “Squiz’ Pillion, Ind although the Capital city slab- jan emerged from the fray victorious, 5 does not in any way indicate that had the better of the battle. The fetors securediall the breaks in the [8iie. The infield which is of a g6hac sod, made the ball difficult ghe locals to field, severat easy hit. s being fumbled. Mo Umpire ,Fagan, the Polis may Py thanks for victory, the arbiter ng them o decision that directly nsible for the first run. After jtittng oft several balls, Burns hit to fght fleld and Eddie Goeb made a j#gtty throw to first, it appearing that ins was beaten by at least two feet, gan could not see it that way. ottelger was next up. Ellsworth, & toward second base to prevent a and the batter drove a single gh the place vacated by KElls- th, Burns taking third, scoring a pent later on a hit to center by | dridge. On a hit Yo Dudack, Pot- | was caught at the plate for the nd: out. Sontoro, the Holy Cross ge buster, fanned, but the third te got away from Schroeder, who {bbing the ball near the backstop, the runner out, but Umpire yuled that the ball was blocked allow Goodridge to tally. 'he disastrous inning by Ppdack. In the locals ith, hope arose in the local rooters, when dni Hit a single and Dudack was safe bniCleary’s boot. Dudack was thrown bt a' moment later trying to steal. ferg.poor coaching prevented a runm, &ficking to-the dizzy corner t play, was being made for er whiffed and fray on a fly to Is- 1 kL » b bo on both teams had iittle to.do, Blin being the only ocal pasture gyardian to have put- ageumuiating four, while Islieb, Potteiger, and” Goodridge bagged one fach. ¢Beflliant™ catches'. by Blinn, podrillge and Eynch, with the pitch- Bt Dudack and the fine work of Bchroeder, were the features. The oneers used Gaudette and Gilhooley b place of Clancy and Begley but the o acquisitions failed to make an mpression. Many of the local fans pressed 'themselves as favoring the rk of Clancy and Begley over that ¢ the . out-of-town players. The ?oni Dudack, If . lnn, ef ... . jW. Dudack, p 4‘ hroedér, ¢ . JEynch, 10 fGaudette, 3b . Dllsworth, ss . Ploneers. ab. | coccocccoy ol e om ik wE | voonmwnmood lllem et oo A P > Clark, 1b .. Burns, 2b Potteiger, cf Goodridge, rf a Friend s e - ByBfig_g;] {1When a Feller Needs up 4 { gy Oopyrishted 1917 45 The_Tribune Asec. (New York Tribuns). BASEBALL NEWS < NATIONAL LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Chicago 1, Pittsburgh 0. St.- Louis 6, Cincinnati 2.—First game. St. game. Louis 3, Cincinnati 0.—Second Standing of Clubs. W. 82 72 73 68 68 60 56 43 L. P.C. 46 .641 56 .562 540 .600 500 476 .448 .380 New YOrk cecee-es Philadelphia St. Louis .. Cincinnati « Chicaga . ‘Brooklyn Boston .. Pittsburgh Games Today. Brooklyn at New York. Philadelphia at Boston. Cincinnati at Chicago. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. AMERICAN DEAGUE Results Yesterday. Chicago 9, Cleveland 0. Detroit 7, St. Louis 0.—First game. St. Louis 6, Detroit 2—Second game. Standing of Clubs. L. 47 50 62 67 69 69 87 81 P.C. .660 .616 .540 504 .469 .466 374 .367 Chicaga . Boston . Cleveland Detroit . New York . ‘Washington . St. Louis .. Philadelphia ... Games Today. New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Washington. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Muldoon, ¢ .... Sontoro, 3b Cleary, ss - Islieb, If ... Pillion, D coooommEOn HoocownLHOT O Lt cowoocooof? 3 .00000002*—2 | Pioneers .% k.. ...000000000—0 " Two-base hits, Muldoon, W. Du- Aack; stolen bases, Muldoon 2, W. Du- dack. Sontoro; sacrifice hit, Lynch; “pases- on: balls;off Dudack 2; struck out, bysiDudack 8, Pillion passed ball, Schroeder; left on bases Pioncers 8, Poli's 8, umpire, Fagan, time 1:50. JIM PDANT BEATEN. New: York, Sept. 10.—Edward Gar- vey and Jim Plant engaged in a bitter duel for the honors in the two-mile handicap race at the Brotherhood Tiremen gaftes, held at Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, N. J., ' Vesterday. Both,, ried from scratch, and, cate! i it, handicap men five yardé’ e, fought it out to the finish. / 'Gdrver was the stronger, winning by twell iasds Yesterday’s FKesults. Baltimore 8, Newark 3.—First game. Newark 4, Baltimore 3.—Second game. Providence 8, game. B Richmond 7, Providence 5.—Second game. The Montreal-Toronto games were postponed on account of rain. Richmond, 3.-—First Standing of Clubs. W. 85 83 82 82 68 61 54 51 L. Toronto ... 59 Baltiniore ... Providence Newark Rochester . Buffalo ....e. Montreal .. Richmond . Games Today. Newark at Richmond—Two. Rachester at Buffalo.—Two. Providence at Baltimore.—Two. Toronto at Montreal. IN A NUTSHELL Final Standing. w. P.C. .653 587 .505 490 | 481 468 457 1359 66 64 563 50 51 51 48 37 New Haven .... Lawrence ... New London .. Bridgeport .. Worcester . Portland . Springfleld . Hartford GARLAND BEATS VOSHELL. Scores in Straight Sets in Ambulance Fund Tennis Match. Philadelphia, Sept. 10.—The star tennig players who are glving exhi-! bitions in various parts of the coun- try for the benefit of the National Tennis association Ambulance fund played at the Huntingdon Valley Country club yesterday. In a singles match C. R. Garland of Pittsburgh defeated S. H. Voshell of Brooklyn, 6-1, 6-2. Miss Mary Browne, California, and H. B. Throckmorton, Elizabeth, N. J., beat Miss Molla Bjurstedt, Norway and J. R. Strachan, California, 3-6, 10-8, 6-4. In the third match of the day Wal- lace Johnson, Philadelphia, and Vos- hell, defeated F. B. Alexander and K. H. Behr, New York, 1-6, 8-6, 6-3. ROBINS DOSE TO AMERICANS. “Dug” Smith Pitches Effectively Against National Leaghe Champions. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 10.—The Bridgeport club of the Eastern league yesterday afternoon defeated the Brocklyn National :league team by the score of 2 to 1 In one of the most Interesting games of the local season. {Dugie” Smith, the local hurler, although touched for ten hits, kept them scattered and tight- ened in the pinches. Russell pitched well but the erratic support given him made his efforts resultless. The score: ‘r. h.e. Brooklyn ...... 000001000—1 10 4 Bridgeport . . 00001001x—2 7 O Russell and Wheat, Snyder; Smith and Connolly. Umpire, Bowden. EASY FOR MURLINS. Naylor Allows Colonials One Lone Hit —Whitewash Brush Applied. New ‘Haven, Sept. 10.—The Eastern League champions, the local team, defeated the semi-professional cham- plons of New Haven, the Colonials, here yesterday afternon, 3 to 0. Nay- lor allowed but one hit and in seven of the nine innings put his opporents out ‘in one, two, three order. - The sumiuary: r. h. e. New Haven .... 000010200—3 38 1 Colonials .. 000000000—0 1 4 Batteries—Naylor and Devine; Day and Waters; umpires, Rorty and Fos- ter; time, 1:20, CARDINALS FIND REDS EASY PICKING Mound City Grabs Both Ends of Twin Bill Cincinnati, Sept. 10.—St. Louis won both games of a double header here yesterday from Cincinnati, taking the first contest, 6 to 3 and the second, 2 to 0. The scores: First Game. St. Louis ... .1010C101 2—r6 Cincinnati . .010000002—3 9 3 Batteries—Watson and Snyder; Bchneider, Regan and Wingo, Second Game. h. e. .1 h. St, Louis ........001100000—2 8 Cincinnati ......000000000—0 7 2 Batteries—Meadows and Gonzales; Toney, Schneider and Wingo. T e. Cooper and Douglas in Duel. Chicago, Sept 10.—Chicago shut out Pittsburgh, 1 to 0, yesterday. The game was a pitching duel between Douglas and Cooper, with the latter on the short end. The score: r. h. e Pittsburgh ......000000000—0 4" 0 Chicago 00000001*—1 8 0 Batteries—Cooper and Schmidt; Douglas and Wilson. CADETS' PRACTICE STARTS 150 Football Candidates Respond Call of Coach Keyes—Plebe Class Furnishes Some Very Promising Material. to West Point, N. Y., Sept. 10.—Fac- ing the hardest problem a West Point football man has encountered in a decade, Captain Jeff Keyes, head coach of the Army eleven, marshalled his gridiroh warriors for their initial tryout Saturday afternoon. Although the squad is smaller than it has been for some years. 150 men turned out for the game. More will come out this week. The new plebe class furnished a good line array of talent. Among the recruits were Bull Van Degraf, the former University of Alamaba star; Dominey, former Holy Cross end, and Post, a Harvard freshman quar- terback of a year ago. A Oliphant, - captain = of ' the “Army eleventh; Shrader and Knight were among ' the varsity men who were busy yesterday assisting Captain Keyes in the redimentary coaching work, which consisted chiefly of pass- ing and booting the ball for the backs and ends and position drills and fall- ing on the ball for the heavy lineman. ot St. Louls, Sept. 10—When the Amer- ican league season opened there was the livellest speculation as to wheth- er Cobb or Speaker would win the premier batting honors. It was thought that the race was between GIANTS PREPARE FOR WORLD'S SERIES iLeague Leaders Start Final Home Series With Robins New TYork, Sept. 10.—After a strenuous week in which the Giants practically eliminated the Phillles as pennant factors John McGraw's world’s series entrants started their final series on the Polo Grounds to- day prior to the one which will de-~ cide the world's baseball champion- ship next October. The Giants' op- ponents in the last home drive - will bé the Dodgers, National league champions, who will make a three- day stand at the Harlem grounds, into which time six games will be crowd- ed. Although it is unlikely, judging by the work of the Dodgers last week, that Uncle Robbie’s boys will come anywhere near making a clean sweep over the coming champions, local fans are assured of' six games that will be replete with -sensational playing,. as the rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers is just as keen now as it ever was. Today will be Army Athletic Day at the Polo Grounds. Clark Griffith, manager of the Baseball and Bat fund, will present full equipment to the Twelfth, Seventy-first and Twen- ty-third regiments. The regiments will attend the double-header in a body. The Fourteenth was invited. but was undble to accept. Now for the World’s Serles. Interest in the major league races has subsided somewhat because both the Giants and the White Sox have practically clinched the pennant in their respective leagues, even though the mathematical clinching of the flags still is a few laps ahead. Base- ball interest now deals largely with the question of how the Giants will fare agaifst the Chicago White Sox in the world’s series, but this topic will be held up for later discussion. The only chance the Phillies had to win the flag was to clean up the Giants six stralght games last week, but that was a man's size job and the Phillies were unequal to the task. It was redlly amusing, however, how nervous the Glants appeared in that first game with Philadelphia, before Kauff ended Bender with an eighth inning home run. Despite the fact that the Giants started the series éight games ahead they appeared as fidgety as though they were playing the first game of a world's series. Herzog in Limelight. Taking all in all the Giants did not better their pace of the past few weeks in their last week. New York played nine games, of which Giants won four. That is about the same pace maintained since returning from their last Western trip. During their last home stretch, including a few games in Brooklyn, the Giants have won seventeen and’ lost fourteen HITE SOX WIN FROM INDIANS BY THE SISLER, ST. LOUIS STAR, CROWDS s TY COBB FOR BATTING HONORS this pair. Dopesters forzot to reck- on with George Sisler, first baseman of the St. Louis Browns. Sisldr is now ahead of Tris Speaker and is gradually cutting down the lead of Cobb. —— . games, which is not dashing showing. There were, however, some pleasing {features in the work of the team during the past week which loom up strong with the world’s series only a few weeks ahead. Herzog came back in great style after his recent rest of a few days. He played through- out the three double-headers with the Phillies with all of his former fire and snap. Perritt, who pitched two a particularly ~——— FORFEIT ROUTE— NDIAN'S FORFEIT . GAME TO WHITE 50X Players Frown on Owen’s Deci- sions and Use Dilatory Tactics « Chicago, Sept. 10.—With the scowg 'tied at 3 to 3, Umpire Owens fore feited yesterday's game to Chicago, 9. to 0, in the tenth inning because of the dilatory tactics of the Clevelandw players. As a result Chicago is now seven games ahead of Boston in the pennant race. The Cleveland players protested Owen’s ruling in the tenth when, with two men on base and no one out. he called Graney out in a close ! play at third base. The game was delayed for ten finutes because of ar- guments. When the Cleveland play- ers finally resumed they hurled their| gloves in the air, and two or three of them rolled into the dirt to express their displeasure. 4 After Pitcher Danforth, the first man up in Chicago’s half of the tenth, struck out, Catcher O'Neill of Cleve- land deliberately threw the ball into the center fleld, whereupon Owens forfeited the game. The contest was played in a chilling rain, which kept | down the attendance. The score: . hye. 1000020000—3 9* Ty Chicago 2000010000—3 6 -3 Coveleskie, Coumbe and O’Neil; Russell, Faber, Danforth and Schalk. Cleveland Browns and Tigers Divide. . St. Louis, Sept. 10.—Mitchell held St. Louis to five hits in the first game vesterday - and Detroit shut out the locals, 7 to 0. St. Louis turned the tables on Defroit in the second gamo, winning 6 to 2 As St. Louis went to bat in the ninth of the first game the players were called to the plate and Captain Horace S. Rumsey of A Battery, N. G. M., presented the men with the $500 check offered by the American league to the club winning the army drill competition: . First Game L4 r. h e 025000000—7 12 .0 St. Louis ....... 000000000—0 &5 1 Mitchell an: Stanage; Sothoron, Koob, Wright and Severeid. Second Game. Detroit T h e 1010000002 7 2 St. Louls ... 00500010x—6 10 1 Ehmke, Jafes, Cunningham ant Stanage; Davenport and Severeid. Detroit "~ AFTER FULTO Minnesota Pugilist is Accused of Not . - Being Game When Under Paddy Ryan Was Another. From the days of Tom Hyer, the first American heavyweight champlon, down to Jess Willard, the present {7 to 0 shutouts during the week, ap- | pears to be in better form just now jthan at any time this season. And it will be absolutely necessary for the ‘Giants to have one steady right hander to jam against Chicago. The Philadelphia club really de- serves great credit for its effort to make the National league appear to have the semblance of a race. It was a rather feeble effort, it is true, but it caused a little ripple of excitement and drew about 50,000 persons to the Polo Grounds for the three-day double-header carnival. Brooklyn kicked away its chance for a first division berth last week by losing five out of xix games. The only victory the Dodgers obtained was at the expense of old Ed Walsh, who tried to prove to Stallings that he still is a big league pitcher. The Dodgers will play three straight headers on the Polo Grounds begin- ning with today. ‘White Sox’s Great Showing. ‘While the Giants are just doing a little better than .500 in the Nation- al league the White Sox have been bowling everything in front of them in the American. Including last Sat- urday’s game, they tore off sixteen out of seventeen games. Such a pace made the Red Sox dizzy and was = big blow to the Boston team’s sup. porters. This is the time of the year the White Sox were expected to skid, but the skidding has been on the other Sox. The Red Sox met their body blow during the Labor Day series in Boston, when the feeble Yankees stopped long enough in their flight to the south pole to trim the Bostons three games out of four. On the whole the Yankees must be congratulated on their showing last week, as it was the best they have made in a couple of months. They made the same showing as the Giants, winning five out of nine games. Af- ter watching his team win three out of twenty-one, five victories and four defeats must have sounded like heaven to Bill Donovan. GOWDY IN CAMP. Former Braves Backstop Arrives at i Mineola Training Camp. Camp ills, Mineola, N. Y., Sept. 10. | —With the arrival of the 166th Ohio infantry, the 150th heavy field artil- lery from Indiana and two battalions of the 151st field artillery from Min- nesota at the camp today. all the units of the 42d division are either here or on the way. “Hank” Gowdy, until a few weeks ago star catcher for the Boston Na- wearer of the crown, only one holder of title in that class has been accused of lack of courage in the ring. Paddy Ryan, who won the title from Joe Goss in 1880, and lost it to John ¥. Sullivan in 1882, was charged with showing the white feather in several contests. The other bare knuckle fighters, like Yankee Sullivan, John Morrissey, John C. Heenan, Joe Co- burn, Jimmy Dunn, Mike McCool, Tom Allen and Joe Goss, n&ver | fiinched, no matter if the battle went | against them. « Sullivan, the first Queensberry champion, received a terrific beating from Corbett before h® was knocked out. Corbett received one knockout from Fitzsimmons and two from Jef- fries without a whimper. Ena | Fitz was twice knocked out by | Jeftries and his only complaint ias that his own knuckles were brittle. Jeffries took a knockout from Johnson and so did Tommy Burns. * Johnson was stopped by Willard. The latter has not up to date been | under fire. The leading challenger for Willard's| ! crown is Fred Fulton, unquestionably ! the most skilful boxer in the heavy- weight class and also a forceful hit- ter. - - But Fulton's actions in his-battles with ‘Carl Morris furnish ground for the belief that the Minnesota glant suffers from the same failing that marred the record of Paddy Ryvan. Fulton has three times been an opponent of Morris, a strong, ‘skilled fighter, who lacks regard for the rules of the ring, and each time the former has conducted himself in a manner to create the belief that he would retr * under fire. HAGEN AND BARNES WIN. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 10.—Walter C. Hagen, of this city, the present Western open champion, paired Wwith Jim Barnes of Whitemarsh, defeated Gil Nicholls of Great Neck, and Alex Smith, of Wykagyl, in a four cornered Red Cross golf match, played on the Oak Hill Country Club links here yes- terday, by 2 up. Nicholls established a new course record of 69 in the aft- ernoon. 5 JACK ROURKE LEAVES. John F. Rourke of Stanley stregt, left today for Hamilton, N. Y. to re- sume his duties as trainer of the Col~ gate college football squad. Since be- coming identified with Colgate ath- letics, Rourke has met with phenoms enal suce and his legion of friends wish a continuation in the season of 1917-18 RAMBLERS BEATE 2 The Ramblers of his city, weht down to a 3 to 0 defeat in Cheshirs tional league baseball team, is a col- or sergeant of the 166th Ohio. He came here today with his regiment. l Saturday afternoon at the hands of the Reformatory team. Norfeldt was on the mound for the locals and was