New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1918, Page 8

REDS CHECK JESS BARNES' WINNING STREAK—JACK BARRY REFUSES TO LET HIS TEAM PLAY IN NEW HAVEN IF COLLECTI FOR RED CROSS—RACE IN AWERICAN LEAGUE PROMISES TO BE EXCITING—PRINCETON IS FAVORED TO WIN TRIANGUL ON IS TAKEN UP AR MEET NEXT SATURPAY 14 OHNSON'S CIRCUIT 15 WELL BALANCED Very Close Pennant Race I Looked for This Season ¢ ican league one of the ces in the league's history fought this season. Baseball critics do not recall a field which ap- balanced as the closest ra will be peared eight teams league in 1918. The war realiy has turned a blessing in disguise to the junior circuit, The Boston Red Sox have been strong enough to lead the league, with the exception of fvo days, all spring. If big Lrnie Shore dded to Barrow's crack pitching taff, Duffy Lewis in left field and Barry, McNally, Janvrin and Gainor ajlable for the infield, Boston today as evenly vould be a few miles ahead of any of | its competitors. The loss of Joe big loss to the White Sox, weaken {t sufficlently to keep it from getting away to any kind of a lead. Manager Rowland has had a lot of tough luck this spring, as Eddie Col- lins, Felsch, Gandil and Weaver have been absent from his lineup for long spells. Cicotte hasn't won a game vet, but in his last contest he was defeated 1 to 0. in Washington. That would indicate that he again is get- ting into form. White Sox-Yankées Series. The series between the Yankees and White Sox, which opens tqday, should ove very interesting, inas- much it will be the first visit of the White ince winning the world's champion- ship from the Giants last fall. Jackson will be a and will The Yankeces continue to go pretty | four ‘out of seven | well. games They won played with the Tigers and Browns. Had a few things broken differently the Yankees might have made a clean sweep of the 'Brown zame. Thormahlen game against both pitched a beautiful St. Louis, as did Rus- sell, pitchers holding down Jones’ men to four hits. As Thor- mahlen has not been scored on for eighteen successive innings he seems to deserve more regular work. Cald- well's work continues disappointing, though h 'm is better now than it was a fow weeks ago. But he doesn’t seem to have the stamina to go through a nine inning game. The Athletic and Washingtons 1ave been playing great ball recently Clarence Waiker - and George obtained by Mack in his mid- deals, are doing some terrific hitting for Connie. Cleveland con- tinues to go well with a patched up team The Browns are a rather proposition to figure out. to latest figures they lead the Ameri- can league in hitting, but do not ap- to have any real hitters on the As Sisler is playing a greater than any other player in base- ball the Browns hould remain around the .500 mark for the rest of the season. Detroit so far has been the big dis- appointment of the league. winning their first game in the ¥ from the Yank the Tis lost straight games With men like Heilman, Veach, Bush, Young and Vitt the club should be able to do better. Distressing Week for Giants. The Giants put week in the o hard pear team me si Cobh, just in a West and all cord of the games, is for the moment side-tracked. Their big lead will prop them up for a while, but by another fortnight it is possi- ble that they will be pressed hard by both Cincinnati and Chicago. If the Reds are permitted to play Toney all year they will be dangerous nents, as they have just as hard hitting team as the Giants, especi with Lee Magee playing in deral league form. he absence of Doyle no doubt greatly responsible for the decline of the Giants, as Larry had been th big gun of the G attacks. Hov ever, the Giants won their last four mes in the Fast, including a full series with Philadelphia, with Rod- riguez at second ba The operation performed on Doyle at a most distressing time, as in his joy on being retur d Giants playing the game of his life and ting harder than at any tir career Niehoff, who for the Giants ot a world will welcome him with open nis, enough to play r team in Philadelphia which won championship and did not finish d place in three years. ture of the interse the Braves and helpless befor real well in th Cubs a the B off was nt ame Arry to th hit- his will pla until fur beater, but sccond base notie the G is ints He was good m a selow seco A freak 2l rfare Phillies, who w the Gi West trouble, nvasion straight y stronger Phe Cubs with the also beat started Chica ays again. Brooklyns were run over the t going Reds last week, but they i their own with the improved tes. If Zack Wheat were hitting { form Brooklyn would be able 2 at least half its games, as the fe: ion- 80 g d the Lefore Chic h run victories over the opposition in had divide - o twic 3oth causce and ju 1stein g0 We game Phillie the four The before Vaughn on ihe winning m back un by pitching veterans arc slowly | tain that Thomas Shanley of around. composing the American | were | Sox to the Polo Grounds | According | After | most | oppo- | was | zularly | lot of | nine | | | HAIR CuT %3»?75"'74/@‘ o Copyright, 1918, by The Tribune Associstior (New York Tribune) — BARRY BARS RED | CROSS COLLECTION Threatens to Take Team From Field If One Is Attempted What may be a severe blow to Sun- day baseball in this city was the con- duct of *Jack” Barry, mana- ger of the Boston Red Sox and now {leader of the Boston Navy Yard team in refusing to allow a Red Cross col- lection at the game at Point yesterday with the Brooklyn Navy Yard team. Barry was obdu ate and insisted if a collection was attempted he would order his team from the field. His action was su prising and unfortunate in the minds of all the fans, and the only excuse he would offer was that he was under jorders not to play at any Sunday | Rame where a collection was taken. i It is belleved that the Hon. Mr. Ba 1y, in the importance of his new pogi- tign of chief yeoman's mate, has at- tempted to read a new spirit of triotism into the orders of the navy department. Many remarked that it was a strange proceeding when collec- tions for the Red Cross could be tal en in the churches and not at a base- ball game over which Mr. Barry the presiding monarch Prominent Flks As The men who went down to the me are all local members of the ks and are headed in their work by Judge Samuel E. Hoyt. They include calted Ttuler Jam A. Degnan, John J. O'Donnell, Captain Arthur Smith, Attorney Coeller, Walter Mace and Richard Murray. They belong to the same team which went out to the performances of the circus Saturday ind collected in about $350. They aro working te help out the hig drive in this city this week so that New Haven may furnish its quota to add the comfort and health of our brothers who are facing death on the side for the safety of this re- former Lighthouse | { was Collectors. | other public 4 Be Moved. O'Donnell way that Could Mot | Committeeman {to Barey in every but the yeoman | ppealed he could. ntinued obdurate. game if any col- nd that w the | end of it rge Weiss, the young local man who brought the teams here, was appealed to and threw up | his hands saving he could do nothing The Lighthouse Point manage- ment must be completely ahsolved of | any responsibility, for it is very & There would be lection was no cer- New here York and his local managers would not have allowed the game to be booked for their fleld if they had dreamed such a proceeding as Barry's possible. At Mr. Shanley's place in New York during the recent Liberty Loan campaign over $350,000 was subscribed and he told this to one or two friends here with excusable grat- ification. He certainly would stand for anything like yesterday's affair. ARS BEAT STARS. Barnes and Hobens Too Good Travers and Kirkby, New Yor ¥ 20.—An exception- ally fine exhibition of golf was wit- nessed yesterday at the Inglewood Country club for the henefit of the Red Cross. The comipetito were Jim Barnes and Jack Hobens, two well known professionals, who de- feated two equally well known ama- teurs, Jerome D. Travers and Oswald Kirkby. The amateurs played their best golf in the morning, and they held the professionals down to the closest kind of figures. In fact, it almost required par to win a hole. The par of the course is 71 and the best ball was 69 and 70, the professionals only out by a single stroke, lead- up at the end of the morn- g round for ir uth Manchestey Team Plays Like Quaker City Namesakes—FEverybody Pounds Sipples’ Offerings. Pounding the offerings of Sipples to all corners of Ellis eet grounds yesterday afternoon, the Pioneers won an easy victory from the Athleties of South Manchester, score 12 to 8. Every member of the local team con- nected with the apple, and Goeb, with three hits, led his mates. Johnson, the new twirler for the homesters, was in good form and the eight hits of the visiting aggregation were widely tered. “Pop” FEdgar hit a four- clout The score by innings a sack Pioneers s, 000 Manchester 011 dohnson, Lynch pples and Crackett 0 and Schroeder, ANNEX TRIM STAMEORD. A Sunday ductive of a Annex team went 12 2to1l trip to Stamford was pro- baseball victory for the vesterday. The battle innings and the score was The work of Blanchard and Begley was the feature of the conte The Annex team will meet Tuesd and Thursday evenings for practice. The team will play in Rockville next sunday. Clubs desiring games with the Annex should communicate with Harold Campbell, 128 Dwight strect. not | | The BASEBALL IN LONDON Army Team Defeats Navy in Opening Game of Anglo-American League— Natives Enjoy the Sport. Loondon, May —An 11 game marked the opening of the An- glo-Amerlcan baseball seasom yester- day. The score was: Army Navy i .o . Admiral ms threw out t General Biddle. The umpira was Arlie Latham, former New York Giant star. It was the first baseball game ever played at the Arsenal foot- ball grounds, Highbury. The spectators included Admiral Palmer of the British navy, Captain Willfam Archer Redmond, son of the late John Redmond, and many Lon- done for the first time. »’Tl'.a American rooters were so ex- cited in the ninth inning with the score a tie, that three airplanes sailed over the fleld almost unnoticed, The grandstand was colorful with the women’'s dresses, the American and British Ikhaki ang the various shades of the hlue worn by the American baseball weather, and many fans and British sallors. It was ideal weath- er and many fans were out their coats for the first time this spring. When the Americans ‘stretched’ after the seventh inning, the police, attracted by the unusual szene, started an investigation. The rooters called the navy the “Depth Bomb Shooters” known as the * The Londoners by the American base- r 7 6 he ball to team nd the renade slang. A league has been organized three army the dian an 7,000 with and one navy teams from American forces and four teams from the London ers. The attendance was about TITLE CHANGES HANDS, Harrison, N. J., May 20.—The title of ,soccer foothall champions of United States reverted back to the powerful kicking machine represent- the Bethlehem Steel company in the replay of the final of the national challenge cup competition yesterday at the Harrison, N baseball park. match developed what could no doubt of the supremacy of the Pennsylvanians over the Fall River Rovers, who earned the cham- pionship for the first time in their long history in a sensational victory over the Bethlehem combination a vear ago. ing leave VALE WI? New Haven, May brilliant pitching featured Yale's 2 to 0 victory over Princeton at Yale's field on Saturday. 20.—Talcott’s inning | who saw the American game | with- | wera | Cana- | head- | the | GIANTS PLAY LIKE ~ LOT OF SCHOOLBOYS (Jess Bamnes Tastes Deleat Ior | First Time This Season Cincinnatl, Ohio, May 20.—Ragged flelding, ineffective pitching and ina- billty to bunch their hits cost the Giants the final game of the series with the Reds yesterday, 5 to 1. It league leaders this season, | Matty's men had to expend but | little effort to capture the game. | Jess Barnes, who suffered his first | defeat of the season yesterda; | in poor form and was subjected jan added handlcap in the form | poor support. Jess retired from fray at the close of the fourth in- ning, in which frame the Reds made enough runs to win the game. He was succeeded by Jeff Tesreau, Cecil Causey and Al Demaree in turn. The Giants made ten hits from the offerings of Hod Eller, and had men on the sacks in every inning except the first and third, but the frame, in thich they dispiaved and very was a sixth. In that inning they hung up their lone run on Benny Kauff's triple to the fence in left center and Burns' single to left. The score: TSt -1 10 e New York 000001000 4 | Cincinnati 00041000x—5 6 Barnes, Tesreau, Causey, Demaree and McCarty; Eller and Wingo. Hearn Blanks Cardinals. Louis, May 20.—Hearn held St. to four hits yesterday, and St Louis visito: bunched hits off Packard | score: two of their in the second. The r. h. 0100000001 000000000—0 Wilson; Packard e { Boston . 8t. Louiss Hearn and Gonzales. i 4 3 and 0dd_Game for Cubs. Chicago. May 20. ‘hicago the odd game of the series Philadelphia vesterday - when Cubs shut out the sitors, to The game was a pitching duel be- tween Tyler and Hogg, with the for- mer having the shade. The score: s 000000000—0 6 0 10000011x-—3 6 1 Tyler and Killi- won from 3 0 Philadelphia Chicago Hogg and Burns; fer. Pirates Down Robins. Canton, Ohip, Mav 20.—Playing most of the exhibition game in rain, the Pittshurgh National leaguers de- feated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6 to 5, here yvesterday. The Pirates over- came a three run lead and sent the winning run over in the cighth. j on the weather to sec the first of the | proposed string of games Pittsburgh i intends playing here on idle Sun- days. The score: r. h. 1000002306 12 004001000—5 11 Blackwell; e. 1 1 Pittsburgh Brooklyn | Steele and {'Grimos and Wheat. | | OWNERS ARE CONFIDENT Eastern That Crowned With Success. The League Magnates Coming Season Will Be confidence which the club of the Eastern league have in baseball, and the sportsmanship which they have displayed at all times since this circuit came into ex istence during the winter of 1916, | never has been so well displayed as it has these past months, and only the broadest kind of praise is due to the men who are making it possible for the Eastern league season to opened next Wednesday afternoon, May 22. Not even when there was | great doubt as to the success of the merger league during the early ter of 1016, did the baseball mag- nates face as many obstacles as they tackled and overcame during the past six months, and despite the setbacks and mishaps, they are going to start the 1918 season next Wednesday with a very creditable circuit and give the baseball fans of New Epgland the same superior brand of bhaseball that the Eastern league has put out since its inception The proximity of the war and the big effect of the draft has played upon baseball players in general, v the big handicap that the Bastern has had in front of it ever since the 1917 season was brought to a close However, there were numerous other | smaller setbacks from time to time that might well have made less dar ing baseball promoters hesitate be- ! fore stepping to the front and tack- ling such a hard proposition, just as they never weakened when things were darkest in their offo to form the merger league throughout the past winter always looked forward with optimism to the start of the race, and this spirit of theirs is serving of much praise and good tronage: by the basehall public New Engiand hey have 1918 pa of BOWLING STARS TO MEET. New Haven, May 20.—Andy Me- Carthy. recent challenger of Joe Por- to, will meet Jimmy Ardolino, for- merly of this city, in_a duckpin match in Hartford on Tuesday and Thursday nights of this week. Ten strings will be rolled on each night for a purse of $200. Ardolino com- peted in the A. B. C. big pin tourncy at Grand Rapids last year. was the worst exhibition given by the | to | of | the | only tendency to bunch their hits was the | all | Boston shut out St. Louis, 1 to 0. The ! seven | the | About 3,500 spectators took a chance | Marquard, | Satisfied | be | win- | keen | BASEBALL IN A NUTSHELL ! VIAGUIEL Results Yesterday, New York, 1, Louis, 0 Philadelphia, 0. scheduled. NATIONAL | | | | t | Cincinnati, Boston, 1: Chicago, No other 1 5 | s game Standing of the Clubs. Won. 20 Lost. New York Chicago 17 Cincinnati . 16 Pittsburg s 10 Thiladelphia 11 Brooklyn a Boston St. Louis 0 10 9 Games Today, New York in St. Louis. Brooklyn *hicago. Philadelphia in Pittsbur Boston in Cincinnati. AMERICAN LEAGU Results Yesterday. hington, 1; Cleveland, (twelve innings.) No other games scheduled 0. Standing of the Clubs. Won. Lost. 18 10 12 sl 13 14 13 P. Boston | New York Chicago | Cleveland | Washington St. Louis .. Philadelphia Detroit 15 15 Chicago in New York, Cleveland in Boston. , St. Louis in Washington. Detroit in Philadelphia INTERNATIONAL 1 Results Yesterday. iy games Syracu 6 Newark, 5 played. No other Standing of the Clubs. ! Won. Lost P.C. | Binghamton ...... 9 00 | Newark | Baltimore Rochester | Jersey City | Buftalo | Toronto | 8 i | chse . 10 Games Taoday, in Buffalo Toronto Syracus Binghamton | Baltimore in Jersey City in Newark in Rochester. | won and lost, runs, hits, errors, men left on bases | and runs scored by opponents, in- | cluding the games of Saturday, May 18, is as follows: games plaved, NATIONAL LI PW.LR 5oL A ) E LBOR 32015 43 19 39 13 39 26 New York Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburg ... § *Philadelphia 6 Brooklyn L) *St. Louis [ Boston Sy *Tie game, Mon a1 9 0 16 day, AMERICAN LFEAGUE. PW.LR H B 0 33 56 11 2 17 41 19 39 17 Boston 5 ew York | Cleveland 3 | Chicago 3 [ Washington . 3 | St. Louis | Philadelohia | Detroit '~ SUNDAY BALL A SUCCESS First 3 31 Over 15.000 Fans Out to See League Game Ever Played in Na- tional Capital. {Washington, May 20.—8unday baseball in the national capital was inaugurated yesterday with a twelve- | inning game in which Washington de | feated Cleveland, 1 to 0, before one o | the largest crowds that ever gathered lat the local park. More than { persons attended. Tach tfeam [ six er with seven of the | divided four and three Shortstops | made ors, | between | man. | Yesterday's was inning contest in which Washington had participated in five ds the total innings played in five games being sixty-three. The score: n and Chap the fourth Cleveland 000600000000 | Washington .000000000001—1 7 and O'Neil; Avers 1 Coveleskie and Ainsmith. KRAMER BEATEN, N. J, May 20.—Arthur Toronto, national defeated Frank title holde of a fans, but | Newark, Spencer of 1 champion, the former | straight heats before 12,000 | of the season, at this afternoon. cycling Kramer, in ,two match race st crowd | mile the lar the Velodrome here The match was | starfed two weeks ago, but had to be | called off when Kramer fell and in- jured his shoulder. Today marked Kramer's first appes tition then and to bother he rode however race ince in his injury him, judging Youth had to and Spencer J too fast for him. He won | first heat by a little more than | tengtn and in the second heat rode around Kramer and beat him less than six inches. 0 compe- aid by since e by | vale | letics, 818 | The weels's record in each league of | with | 15,000 | i ie ! hoen TIGERS ARE CHOIGE T0 WIN BIG ME Nassau Trackmen Seem to H Best Chance Next Saturday New Haven, May 20.—For the time since their agreement three ithletics, was my worlk togethe Princeton, Harvard years ago to will hold formal contests Saturday, when a triangular meet will be conducted. This ig of the effects of the war upon for it had been decided th was impossible to hold the usual g track games among the three unf sities, in separate meets, when, at long series of conferences which athletic of the three holding a triangular meet was cussed. The event was scheduled for § city because it is midway between other two and the meet can place here at the smallest expe! The standard of the meet will much lower than the usual d games because of the dearth of cran athletes. ¥ In another respect the' meet form a decided intercollegiate mo ty. Princeton has won but one m| from either Yale or Harvard, buf is a warm favorite in early reck ings. Iorecasts of the meet m; here at Yale give the Tigers somg| points, to about 35 for Yale and ab for Harvard, which has the few formidable track athletes in her tory in college and the most France. Harvard Has Lone Star. all-around star has bi on the Harvard team, E. | Gourdin, who is formidable in by jumps and the sprints. Duggan, { the distance runs, Captain Costigan the middle distances and Sherman| the hurdles are looked upon as Hj vard's most likely point winnd | Burnham Lewlis, captain of the te left college recently to go into &nj ficers’ training camp, and Steven Lucas and Williams also are likel, | be counted out hecause of deparis for military service before the m next weel. ! Th best performances of the mj are likely to b those of Erdmany Princeton hurdler. His showing winning the Penn relay timber eye and in the dual meet with Colmi stamps him as perhaps the best hu ler of the vear. Princeton has cellent reserve hurdlers in B nd Trowhridge. Princeton has a remarkable dle distance runner in Captain J. Barrett. He is reasonably sure of t40-yard dash and of the furlong race, in case he is started in event. He may, however, also be tered in the half mile. Princeton possesses another stas Sinclair, in the weight events. Hi capable of better than 45 feet in | shot put, and Richard Cleveland, of the former President of the I States, is a certain point winner | both events, on form he has cons | ently shown in practice. { ! Tigers Strong Distances. Raymond, Princeton's best mi: | has a mark of 4 minutes 31 secon and has the cvent at his merey, may be decided however, that he be started in simply the two.m| race. | Captain Barrett is a 51-second m) in the quarter mile. Erdman ha { mark of 15 3-5 seconds in thé¢ hl and 25 4-5 in the low hurdles. | The possibility that Sinclair Raymond will be lost to the Prind | ton team faces Coach Kenne Fitzp | rick, to whose handling of the tral material the improvement in Prin | ton’s teams is largely dye. Both thd | men are awaiting a cafl to joing ol | cers' training camps. | The highest standard of Yale trd men is in the pole vault, in whi | Gerald Sweeney, son of Mike Swee] | ev, the former world’s champion hi | jumper, has done 12 feet 4 inch and D. F. Ford 12 feet 3 inches tif spring. In the two-mile run E. F. Fish{ steady and displaying flashes of br | liant running, is Yale's mainataye | W. Waterman in the mile is cap of 4 minutes 35 seconds, but he m be lost to the team through call military service. : Yale has a couple of fair sprinte in Balliett and Thompson, and Frank Heftelfinger a quarter mil { Who can clip 52 seconds. Ford, in jumps, also a sure point winag Shevlin, in the hammer throw, shoW| score a second place. heads a A Only entered one | | | 1! in | 1 is DANIELS’ NEW BERTH. May 20.—Dan D one of the hest-known bageb men in the East, who was assoclal with the Portland club last year, appointed business manager the New Haven club, according to announcement made yvesterday Owner Edward J. Dugan. Dug afiiliation with a Hartford hrewet will make it impossible to give &l the time necessary to his bas interests here, so he has § complete charge. Dgfle here this afternoon. _ ©& New Haven, hall e Daniels rived CHET THOMAS FOR INDIANS Cleveland, Ohio, May —h Cleveland American league club terday announced the release of players. Infielder Gus Getz gox the Pittsburgh Nationals by ‘$h| waiver route and Pitcher Roy W kinson goes to Salt Lake City ynd optional agreement. The Clevelal club also announces the purchase Catcher Chet Thomas from the Phil adelphia Americans.