New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1918, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1918. YANKEES BUNCH HITS AND DEFEAT TIGERS—SPURT OF CUBS THE SURPRISE OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUF— 827" RUTH DROPS FROM FIRST - | TO SIXTH PLACE—MANY SHUTGUTS IN EASTERN LEAGUE GAMES ON SABBATH—PIONEERS Wil FROM COLOPED GiiNTS—OTHER SPORT NOTES v UNCHED HITS BY [BIG LEAGUES MAY [Whewo Felle oo Friond — = = = — — — By Bl U000 10 1 SUSHLL ORK OF CHICAGO 1 YANKS BEATT!fiERS? MERGE FOR SEASON s = i e | SEASON'S SURPRISE, ogridgs Replaces Caldwell and | Enforcement of July { Drali May S , : f - rc | Windy City Team Is Bowling Saves the Day Mean One Circuit % S % ‘ S 11 5 v Over Opponents With Frequency | Boston ——— hil [Detroit, Mich., June 17—The Tigers York, June 17.--The major N g [ // : L oB & 4261 Having defeated Jim Vaughn and re helpless in all but one inning at | leag are marking time awaiting a SRR / [ . B T B - I'red Toney, generally recognized as hvin Field vesterday afternoon, | definite announcement from the Pro- A N > i . / rooklyn ..... E - the two leading pitchers of the Na- hile the Yankees bunched their hits | vost Marshal's office on his interpre- 4 i i / | = tional League, in their last two games advantage in three chapters and |tation of the fight or work order : i QL% Ay. the Giants are now convinced that bk the third game of the series | Which is to go into effcct on July 1. | i 4 | incinnati i rork. their slump is over. Both victorles th the Jennings troupe by a score | The order as it was originally framed | i ! ~ 3 were most impressive. Vaughn 5 to included all men of draft age partici- | Y / | vittshu lade : shot up for five runs in the first In the fifth the Tigers bunched | pating in professional sports and ex- | / il i . Josien (2 games ning and defeated 7 to 0, while T iwa ehasedl| emptediactora Profostional lasebuil = 7 b : — Toney was unable to hold a si ldwell to the showers and for considers that its calling is also a i MCAN LEAGUE. Jead and was defeated 8 to ief period they threatened the big | public entertuinment, and that they , cinnati errors aided the Giants con- ha which the Yankees had piled up. | should be considcred in the same 5 Results Yesterday siderably last Saturday, but teen en the Jennings boys became tame | class actors. / | New York, 5; Detroit, @ runs in two games a nst VaQghn fore George Mogridge and the New merons haseball players in the / st e B i and Toney indicate that the Gianta brkers breezed along to an casy vie- jor leagues, wio arve within the o \ Clevelanc o8 are getting their punch bac fry. The score: draft : but who have been placed . .,.,,.:pf/w‘ffl[ | // | Chicago, 3; i > . Admitting that the Giants have ) h. e. | in deferred classes because of depend- | 4 Wi played some slovenly ball since they 001220000 ents, will not know where they : 7 St ; returned home, perhaps the way that L. 000020000—2 until rurther notice is received from | Ly Z / ! \l { the Cubs have been bowling through Mogridge and Wi ;| Washington. Such a notice has been | Tarece 7 ' i S e the east has made the New York team 1d and Y promized some time this week. In the | / / | | LA B ) i lookk worse than it really is. So far = meantime, unless the ball players are : { leve et e 2 _ the St. Louis series is the only,gna \irock Fails This Dime. { exempt, the major leagues will a | 3 | . e 9 542 | Which was lost on the present homa (Ghicaco, June 17.—Chicago deofeant- b difficult task on their hanc rear- y | i R .oui kB » aind ainst the four western Wasl § to 0 in a | Yanging their forces to enable them to 5 Vas eton Sued 5 teams 1the Giants have won seve me marked with frequ avgu- | Play out the season § ¢ Philac T Cooee : | sames and lost five. In the last fért lonts between Umpire O'Loughlin If the original order stands as it h y V | 1 3 t . Fo s 3 3 ht the Giants have defeated Coop- A players of hoth teams. Manager | Was first announced, both the Nation- 4 | i - twice, Tyler, Vaughn and Tone National lea star, wland was put off the field in the | 81 and Americ sues will he so th inning for disputing O’Loughlin’s | badly disorganized that a readjust- 2 | | < i Cubs have been able to take Eht to take a “shine ball” away | Ment of both circuits may be neces- | e Wi St. e the lead by reason of the fact that m Cicottc y. The club owners have heen | / g / Philadelphic svelan re finding the eastern teams ¢k Altrock pitched his second ¢ making plans, and in case there G ; 1/, DA | | Washin in Chics just as flabby as did the Giants when fc in'his comaback Nick al- | re no exemptions from the order, it i S ’ ) A i v ran up a record of eighteen vic- ced six hits in seven inni Al- | likely that the haseball season w | =7 T \ \ o tories in the first nineteen games. bck was removed for a pinch hit- | finished with only one league playing. " N \ LR So far Chicago ha™ won ten out of after the seventh. The score: It is believed by many club own- | 4 - \ | > nies in the east, both of S ers that the fight or work order would g Y \ t ) ) lo, 4 heir defeats being sustained on the ashington .... 000000000—0 & mean that both leagues would have to 7 a \ e e ey Polo Grounds. iea ... ... 00002100x—3 § pool their players into one eight-club 2 ¢ | \ Sl e e, e Rl e e e S Foam ot e hie hoaald 4 ‘ N\ i\v(lf,“‘i\’. ; Rochestc t” 4("\& T.\m,\, I More Stars to Be Lost. tte and Schalk. where cach league is represented hy & 2 ¢ AN \ sl aloen s enm e vnile | o a club, the players left over would 2 & o L SonEL oS Gl Game) { have to be formed into one club. < D % " N \ A\ game) e 5 N little doubt that the team is playing Minortloae.elplavers mndertand foser 5 = 7 N ; A i Jersey S AREEAEE { above its normal form. It is not res\ T \ A\ e | sonable to expect Merkle and Mann to - the draft age and veteran major nning by Johnson gave St Louis ; | | ¥ I . league plavers who have retired from 5 74 R S Y = i v of (he Clul e G i | g of the Clubs. higher than their normal gait. Mer- 2 to 1 victory over Boston yester- the game would have to be called up- kle has hit .300 only once in his elev= With the score tied in the ninth, | o1 to fill out the ranks. The outlook 4 : iy 7 3 SR vears in the National league, whila s t promising. — pndryx singled and was forced at ['° ° 2 = R S 5 B v Toine whe batied tor ’Ih(l onditions in the minor league 1 Ay AT |ocheslenl s ! ) i ;‘: el ks ason, ith, Johnson ran for Johns. Aft- | 21¢ already serious, :'nm the Southern > n \\( Torento . 2 g 511 By a peculiar coincidence both ¥Sdbon \hadlined M ont, Yo hnson || 4==0C A 0L FOTSROLR (1 SR oS DToSDers . A : 18 e r R ! ALy e aence Fted to steal | second. Schang's | Ous of the minors, has already decid- 1 PO A m“ Wi wt“‘ i i Wt Cibeland GlantaG i startmen ol B ol chte i b an 7 o1 | ed tolclosaRite at the end of this d Sy Mt 5 l,fl//fi 4 4 . h m 1e, thus balancing ench = other's loss. Kauff will report to‘the e = ionth. The Texas league, another 0 ) 5 S o i o In, coached by Burke, tore in for | ™00 CHEMS Q. . S N = : g 7 2l prosperous bush league in the past, s { 8 S . e / - : j S o G Ak 2 gl SO G He . Sl . ' | CUGPER ]| AN \ i %32 i the Cubs made a stréng im- St. Louis, Junc 17.—Daring basc e plate. reached it just as ; L i STy R L eccivedltohretin ihron | mavialsolidec]deRtoshuti pEShoD T 5 | July 1. Valuable as Benny has been B “[is doubtrul, also, if the two largest Games Today. {to the Giants, Killefer's loss may ba it minor leagues—the New International Toronto in Baltimore. still more of a blow to Chicago, as it and the American association-—will g o : : Buffalo in Binghamion. {will leave a kid, O'Farrell, and a me- be able to see the season through. Copyright, 1918, by The Tribune Asscciation (New' York Tribune) ter in Newa diocre player, Daly, to look after the Thus far c jor g sea in Jersey ( . Cub catching s s Thus far the major leagues season b catehin R : has been surprisingly successful. e Tho Cincinnati team has turped . That there is a demand for profes- EASTERN LEAGUE. out to he a disappointment, especial4 et R e onal baseball is shown by the large EASTERN LEAGUE PIONEERS WIN RUTH FALLS DOWN ! i er e ) :\hmcn\xm\t\h:r‘,‘;‘1‘\2\:;1‘“\;]v;- friends in pston ... . 000000100—1 r. ,h. e. Louis . .. 010000001—2 7 1 1 d : g 3 attendance throughout both circuits. Cleveland, June 17. — Cleveland | pere in New York there has been no Bridgeport, 6: Worcester, 0. | structed a real aonlomlefr »i]n Redland. st New a 1 Springfield, 0. Pittshurgh also has failen apart,| ade it three straight from Phila- | qirerence from other seasons and the 1 Sox Clouter D 1 13 e stonas i : > Seasonsts : o . Pt siants Forc ted S “louter Drops I'rom Iphia yesterday, winning + to 2.| .00 Saturday and holiday gather- | Murling Defeat Green Sox by Smgl(‘l Im City Colored Giants Force the LOROX 2 s L New Lor ) Waterbury, 0. | and as has been frequently remarked, inting was responsible for Cleve- Place to Sixth in One Weck—Burns Only three game; heduled. s e it S ok s W it e i oo to turn a miracle this year, or, for Sl e i day Game at Ellis Strect Diamond. { and Merkle Are Leaders. S T ae e s s b e e . v i DY 40 | Giants or Cubs. Brooklyn, with: a et St o | stronger lineup, has shown signs ot mprovement, as have Philadelphia and St. Louis. ings at the Polo Grounds would indi- | ife that, as far as the public is con- cerned, there is a desire for the game | Bridgeport Cops Another. to continue. The baseball club owners realize New Haven, June 17.— that the Government can make no |ent, one-time idol of New Haven | diamond Ak i iy i e el S e special discrimination in ot of|| Baseball fans and later big league |looked ast it another’ New Haven:or smstes, anc tie B0 Sci S8l mariiond aseball players, and they star, returned to his first love as |team was to triumph over the Pio- [took A ple Sown Ehelamen s irnvoniii! 3 1 g Going e, iled to get along as best they can if | manager of the Springfield club |neers, when in the fourth inning, the jican league batung = S8igs —AUH I providence S et B e the players within the draft age are | terday and led a furious but nev Colored_Glants piled up four fallies tumbled all the way from first place ngfield «....... : T SO T ) SORR compelled to take up some other | theless futile drive upon the New Ha- | after solving McCormack's benders in | to sixth, after M'I\fun "l‘)" e e worcEsre T ! Sz 6| Iweclygandycietn ““”.(‘;“”2" ‘:"O fl‘r(;; kind of work, The jump in raliroad | ven stronghold in Sunday's feature | timely fashion At this Hme fthe jseason. Geotes B/FAS 11 =/ L0 iywaterbury . ..oeoes 8 sjjolie @ B awn TV R Mnddioit fares has already proved a great ad- | attraction at Lighthouse Point. Par. | scoreboard showed the colored fel- flrst baseman, is mow = the 0 cHess e Lemans U;m e o ) E E . > - T e, el vith werage ¢ i3 i abbling ever s ey e am Cleveland, June 17.—The purchase | ditional burden on the baseball clubs, | ent and his hirelings offered staunch | 10WS, in the lead five to one. How- [league | Lot Mg = et Games Today. pebbling e Bcot“on, S First Baseman Wheeler (Doc) |and aithough the Government will be | resistance and it was with the great- | ever, the Pioneers staged two good |.362. Sislev of fhe VFOWES '8 7 Providence in Hartford. D e I O n hnston from the Milwaukee Amer. | asked to exempt the ball clubs and | est of effort that the locals managed | rallies in the sixth and eighth inning ' ond, with .358, and s Only one g cheduled A LR e ey e oo o seball olab was | theatrical companies from the new |to push over a tally and gain a vie- | giving them enough to produce a 6 | kees third, with .345. | vemain a 1gerous contender. i Gt 5 victory. The sc | Frea Merkle, of the Cubs, and for- Thormaklen has suffered a reaction nounced by the Clevel: club vates, there is no indication as vet | tory by the narrowest marg Jlo | to 5 victory. The score: e e | gunced by g WA (bl 3 © BOmOUEHE TN I mer Giant, continues to lead the Na Record of Past Week. I e R hTs e rentl s trotohof siiconak Wik Lccan lidsie (The tern e nel SR e R SR O Inbnseball AR o0, Billenighnivening §Shioncere LT L D8 S tional league resul h an aver- The we sco ague of | the Polo Grounds, while Russell alsa t made public He will report The majority of the club owners | coupled with sharp fielding by both | Colored Giants . ... 100400000—5 | 9 £ 387, far above anythin this v layed, wor 1 lost, with runs, ' remains unreliable. By carefully favor the continuance of the game | teams, kept the 1,600 or more fans in | AreCormack and Schroeder; Smith | 288 OF B8t T 00 it | e h left on bases and |jockeying his pitching staff Hugsina Johnston leads the American asso- [even under conditions where the |a frenzy of excitement until the | nn Jones s il D B e b S e e e htian batsmen. He played on the | standard of play would be far below | curtain dropped. It was one of the | i h"n!mnn" Larry ; < “- : ,“. ,' ; 1 Y IpDe u[ Gt ng s ng results, depend 1.\n. on tha al team for three seasons previous | what the hascball fans have been ac- | best played games of the year, and ants, continues to be the nominal | th nes « wday, June 15, is ack to bring in enough runs sta 1914, when he was with the Pitts- | customed to. The large amount of | required but 90 minutes to decide. leader of the league, with .426, while | follow ) cover omissions of the twirling (e< rgh Nationals, from which team he | capital invested and the binding con- | The score: Allen, the Cineinnat * clubs _second snal League | partment. ~ Irrom western reports 15,,‘ hs purchased by Birmingham of the [ tractual oblications which the clubs r. h. e catcher, also nead of Merkle with - ! dient, the former Red Sox star, has Run in Fast Game at Rock— Locals to Top Speed to Grab Sun- few Bridgeport reddy Par-| For a time at the East Ellis street | Babe Ruth's mighty ash had New Lecndon .. yesterday afternoon it | hits in it last week, cither home runs eveland ..... 01210000x—4 9 1 Gresg and McAvoy: Morton and Neill INDIANS ck Ameri aguer in uthern association. Milwaukee ob- | have assumed Yrave been put forward | New Haven .... 00001000x—1 3 1. . : ; A Sl et - Lo nothingigand 1‘{ e fea Jonneton from the Birming- | ss remsons why exempilon shonld be | Sprinsfield ..... 00p000000—0 2 o |1APexty Bells of Hartford Are Beaten,| —The Glants conllnge fo Show f Chicag: Loz i 17 | tionable whether he will be of any m club. made for the players who are outsids | \Watson and Pjura; Gre R g a ,| o crowd of .300 men, including Doyle, | New York 5 3 : 7 20 assistance to the club. . ey of Class 1A in the araft. Wheat £ UL, S EOS T O ¢ While Acorns of Berlin Are Locals’ |y oppe, Kauff, Young and Burns, but Cincinnati 8 2 g Barrow has been forced to do a lot BROWN AFTER KUNZ, ¥ i i y Conguerors. Chicago has taken quite a jump on | Toston .. 208 45 140 cxperimenting with his Bostons, e o 5 e 2 e Witerhar e ey m in team hitting. The Cubs are | *Phi 20 5 but is keeping them in front. He re- SO avan Aun cul o smUbicBrow PAYOR NDAY BALL. eye ! it Umaiitcilin The Crescents baseball team s- | hitting .283, horder than any team ix | Pittsburgh 6 " | contly has found another useful # bw Haven’s sensational welter- Gsaie ! defeated in a fast game by the : S| e e nd siiT s 1 g ; 1 % 7 8 1 5 | tained the first defeat of the sez , | either league. The Giants are seconc Loui pitching acquisition in Sam Jones, ight and now a member of .Uncle | New York Aldermen Will Consider anters, of New London, by « score m's navy, would like nothing bet- & : St 9 to 0. Ireddic Reiger and his | ; 0 : . 2 5 R e e o 1'””."’“\"\(111!"*' Flos op Mext Moeting, S IS, e itn W ey [ baseball grounds when the Acorns ULl W baerdlaihesonivaiianEecs it o hen the Speaker deal was made in o s 5 . o . L : the tune of 6 to 3. Thelthe .200 cl but Pipp, and 916. but always had been a bench nz, his Sonth Norwalk rival. So| New York. June 17.—Sunday base- | boots by his opponents, were largely ! it over to the S | y B LISt R vesterday afternoon, at the with .2 Brooklyn : 1 who was tossed over to the Red Sox 3 ] oo ntal Lavell arnangcd retuin | Gilhooley are in t 2 - R. | hane itch Leonar s pitching ger is Chic to mingle with the [ ball as a war measure. 25 per cent | responsible for the defeat of Hinch- | (reSCents have arvapsed @ SCiui) ;m:;]:l e S e : 20 63 el Lo :I Pt wn-state battler that he has vol- | of the gross receipts to be shared | man’s clan. The score: e Y - s v 2 Sk oo i e Bl e Yot o : a p Sed i any Al " Jun ] A 1 i ' : y b , wing los itehers e E teered to box him gratis in onc of | amonz the Red Cross and kindred or- | - . e oo e B X L s ; . R e e several houts which are to fea- | sanizations, will be considered by [ New London ... 100201500-—9 11 : 3 s | , ) . ! 5 cumbed to a 9-to-3 walloping, Satu ers are hitting .250 as a clu J their most powerful hitter, the White re the big patriotic show to be [the local board of aldermen at its | Waterbury ... 000000000—9 5 4 < : f e o st 7 [ 5 s ducted at ti a next Satur- | ne X 3 day afternoon, at Walnut Hill park.|fourth in the National | : $ 0 Sox are beginning to flounder. They ducted at the Arena next Satur- [ next meetins. Reiger and Wendell: Woodburn, | tamm was on the firing line for the N ien 7l i 1 B e i e y night. “I still think [ can de- A proposed amendment 1o the code | Minor and Ellioft and Gagain Sl Ll e e e : : = S i , 3713 54 3 B O e Bt Kunz" declared Brown last|of eity ordinances to that cffect has | ) 5 e | HARTFORD WINS TIVLI Honen ; 3 Col Zing, : o zame, allowing the IHartfora boys but : | tnrn of Third Baseman Fvans, is try« ght, “and all he has to do is come | heen introduced by Alderman John J. | Ryidzeport. June 17—Aleck Fergu- | bx seatterod hits. The Hartford Higl school haseball ie gar Y R O S e e t of his shell and accept my defi. | Ryan of the Coney Island district and | son won his ninth straight game of team played the Bridgeport High nin s el s Ank is 1s a worthy cause, and if Kunz |is assured of warm support by lovers | fhe season here yesterday blanking = = T on Yale ficld, New Haven, Satur BLUE RIDGE BLOWS UP. |Saly e B s T A a patriot, let hH:' come forward | of sport among the city father . > Worcester boosters, 6 to 0 e BLUE DEVILS RIDE IN RACE., morning for the intc 'ut'.vw cham i o Atihe 7 Not only are Jennings' pitchers going hd help swell the fund The amenduient provides that Sun- n pitched airtight ball, the visi y pionship of Connect The Bridac £ el O - —— day baseball will be allowed for the | tors making but onc hit, a single over | Ry ;| bort hoys did not have a chance’ as | 55 16 Rid league S| of the hardest hitting clubs in base- WOODWARD QUITS TEAM. duration of the present war with | short in the third inning by Meber. | Famous French Fighters Compete in | New Haven, June 17.Frank | Germany, provided that one quarter | mott. The score: Bicycle Event at Newark. Capital city team, will inc Boaward, one of the mainstays ot | Of the 8ross receipts ls given in equal T hilen | N b 17— For the|no time during the contes 1 e New Haven pitching staff, has {l‘r";[f;‘r";:; \‘,” o h A ”J‘{”U,”‘C ux‘\il | Briageport . 00050001x—6 6 1|first time since they have been in| Prove dangcrous I»v‘:v“l : R g R [ the club, aceording to an en-| o 00 ° o T S 2 rcester . .... 000000000- I G N 0 e T i et _L;lm \“\'“(“,“".”"”‘ atte | P : uncement last night by Business ] and Skiff and Krichell; | peted in a sporting event when they |21l the time. i ac or c ul gnager Dan Daniels. Woodward S Keifer and Redman. rode a half-mile bicycle race before i fis 2 b cently enlisted in the Naval Re- SCHIMANDT DRAFTED. 10,000 fans at the Velodrome here in MISKE MEETS NORFOLK i s ; f¥s and expects to be called at any —— - - Ne Saturday afterno The | poston, June 17.—Billy Miske and | & 2 ‘ T erltcrs ne. The locals are now in a bad | grooklyn Second Baseman Will Leave s crowd cheered them madly and their | 1054 Norfolk will box 12 i . py for pitchers as they have only b 4t T or Weel, : e race wus just ood as the nrofes=|ine Grmory A A Tiere s . atson, Tyler and Amsel. Watson Steve Refuses to Forsake Position for | sional events as Gilbert ENCAW| (etoher the hig nesro i decision A 2 : Of A“ MakeS bt into five nes last week and Brooklyn, June 17.—Charley Ebbets, the Ditmond. just nipped Georges Copearux at the! oo '\ricke at the same club. e | 5 pother yesterday He will soon be | president of the Brooklyn Basebail tape. h O i brked in regular turn should Man- | club, vesterday said Ray Schmandt, [ Philadelphia, June 17.—Juck Hen-| Copearux jumped to the front, but ) ; ; - er Murphy have any success this | his youthful second bascman, will play | dricks, manager of the St. Louis Car- | rode himself out before the finish s ANNEX BioATEN. 4 i 3 old, Re’}ted and bek in landing a pitcher or two. with the club only onc week mor F has at last given up all hope | reached, with the vesule that Cas f \ 1 | b Repalred. — Sehmandt has been ordered to report | of having Steve Yerkes report to him. | neau who reserved his speed, won. | cnag <t “rnooy K- | b s s e . ATITER DAVE ROBERTSON. Ut board in St. Louis, June | Yerkes conferred with Hendricks heve | Albert Greisser finished third and | villc, when they cneount ol E | B lypewrlter New York, June 17.—Manager Mc- [ 24, for induction into the Nationa!|last week Andrew Lamenchic was fourth. There | Tigers of that town. \When the : & aw is now seeking to have Dave | Army. teve says he will remain at Steel- | v a spill in the race, hut the French| of the batile had cleared, hxchange obertson return to the Giants to| To flll the gap, Manager Robinson |ton,” savs Hendricks. “He likes his|war heroes got up laughing. were on the short end of | place Benny Kauff, who has been | will be compelled to rely on the vet-|job, and can play ball once a week,| After Casagneau won the hike race| score. This evens the series vee X Teleph 612 dered to report for military duty | eran Mike Donlan, who, while a fairly | which he says is hetter than taking | he rode around the track waving his| the teams and the third game will X ) elephone . Sune 24, steady fielder, was unreliable at bat. la chance with the major leagues.” blue velvei ham I played in this eity, July 7, 2 e score of 6 to 0 favor 4 ;s v | the score of 6 t , in fay - 1 is running last in bingling. i