New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1018. CIDES FORTUNES OF NATIONAL LEAG UE—_OWNER OF BOSTON RED SOX OBJECTS TO PLAYING FIRST THREE GAMES OF SERIES INGLES CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS BATTLE BEGINS TODAY—MABEL TRASK AND ST.FRISCO AT CHARTER OAK TRACK PENNANT BASEBALL 16 o urshitd, FAMOUS STEPPERS | NEW HAVEN'S FIRSTVBOTYSV’ FIELD DAY EXHIBITION - NATIONAL LEAGUR Boston §-0, Cincinnati 7-2 New York-st, Louis, rain T | = e IOm Brooklyn, v e e soneaniea ‘Mabel Trask and St Frisco in ¢ flinch Flag G Lahor Day Free For All hicago New York .. Pittsburgh . ... J . Mabel Trask and § Cincinnati .. e most evenly matched of trotters ookl . that were cver seen on the turf. Both fhnt by Lreaking | ppiladelphia . ax | of them carry race records of 2:01 3-4 Bhile New York, Sror g and while the number of victories arc : i ; Lo ; in favor of the mare, it now looks i 4 : as though Geers' horse has the best o aining 3 the argunient and is very apt to step heat in two minutes or bette rin the Brooklyn at Chicago free-for-all at Hartford on Labor day New York at t. PL.oui In order to bring these tratters togeth- | als, who are Philadelphia at Pittsburel er again at Charter Oak park. the Con- Bs in front Boston at Cincinnati necticut Ifair association offered a § game, 5 to - B 500 purse and while Miss Bertha Dil- ic playing by | on declined the battle, Cox came for- second, 1 to 2, | AMERICAN LEAGUER ward with a second Ttichmond in Lu | iehed hits in the | ——— Princeton, the stout battler that won % Results Yesterday in 2:02 1-4 and 2:02 3-4 at North Ran- B8 inside the dia-! yushington 6-5, Chicago 0-3 dall. These three great trotters pre er was punctured Only one game scheduled sent a peculiar study for those who | B itors, and two 3 s are interested in the whims of stars | Blirea against Jake | Standing of the Clubs from prima donnas fo'game chickens fpAnd Mac Wheat | 5 e . St. Frisco is a plain every-day hody in B hsiped the Cubs | s 5 the horse world. His hump of curi B Brrorless playving | 10 eiand o 4 ;:‘m is well developed, but as soon a Bame a closer and | yoo pii o i battle. New York ! achuv\\m] .un;h ;h‘—';‘.h“,“m SR - . ;;mr:&i\n. \ wl‘\‘fln'»l\‘:nl‘lr;; [RSLRLou S ; way of hay, oats and a few carrots. | el »"“”"‘ L OTPS | held at Yale Field under the auspices Copyright, Underwood & Under= B - nning business and | Detroit 3 Lu Princeton s so lazy that he will | Sharpshooters firing a volley in stand- | of the Boy Scouts M. C. A. and the | wood B o moniste nt hat to fve | Philadelphia .. (;m Bl out of his tracks ||Tvvlv'\\ or- i . e S dered and sometimes persuaded to do S e — = = Sl B Detroit at Boston. 3 test and never breaks away flving un- | I ive them two runs and| Chicago at Washi til ne is satisfied that overyone is I ictory. The score: Cleveland at Philadelphia ¢ ready for business. 1In the stable his iy \ G000 b0 T only worry is a constant fear that the e e 5 5 man with the feed box will fail to B ey Marquardlana Wiheat: INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE come early and often. If he was not Vi owned by a rich man, he would eat Helly oy him out of house and home. . e e On the other hand, Mabel Trask is e ) sk (e B demure and polite as the horse i UsEUgE : ind can be and while as wilful as a | 3r00Klyn ...... 000200000—2 spoiled child, those in control of her . day and | Chicago 000010000—1 5 e _ make it a point to see that she is not ¥ datesy k is a big| Batteries: Smith and Miller; T Standing of the Clubs crossed in anything o lang as it does mistake. The seriesPeWOMId so be.ar- | and O'Farrell 5 5 not interfere with her racing. When | ranged that each club shall have an T, (Toronto B 81 § being jogged if she stops to look | equal chance to win The expense ST SLe Binghamton ..... B 658 round a minute or two, no one dis- | of an extra trip between two cities | Boston 8, 0: Cincinnati 7, 2, | Baltimore . e 4 | turbs her until she is ready to move | xhould not be considered at all. There | Cincinnati. Aug. —Boston and | Rochester ...... < 3 on Is absoliitely no reason for curtailing | Cincinnati broke even in a double | Newark ...... 5 she The Chicago clinched the 7 Games Today Tts guine left nes Today O — heaule, they s familiarizes himself with his sur roundings he never shows a disposition to make a rough hause so long as he gets what is coming to him in the < position at the shooting exhibit Winchester Junior Rifle Corps Walker and Killifer. i ! S Second Game Buffalo 19-7, Hamilton 2 | Newark 3-2, Rochester 2-0 Also when being trained or raced is treated differently from other el the serfes | header yesterday, Boston winning the | Buffalo .......... 48 | horse Instead of being tied both | “Secretary of War Baker has given | first game § to 7, in ten innings and | Hamilton ........ 24 5 ways or walked she is turned loose in | his official sanction to the affair and | Cincinnati taking the second 2 to 0.| Jersey City ....... 28 | the box stall as soon as she comes in | the clubs will have until September | The score! from the track and allowed to eat all | 15 in which to play the regulation | RIRST GAME. ———— the hay she wants or to take a drink | number of games. | Boston ... 0001011041— if she feels so disposed. Her groom | the other plans outlined by Mr. John- | patteries: Ryan, Crandall, Northrup sical wants as she moves about in | o el BREIE e (e SECOND GAME | Turns Back Naval Basc Team 4 to 0! [over instead of having an empty stom- | n oy Boston 0000000—0 i ach, she is ready to have a snooze as | 0010010—2 | —Snappy Ficlding of Pioncers Daz- | soon as she has cooled out | =—— the stall and when the race or work is o 3 | ner Ring and Archer. 5 CITY | - It would have required the joint ! Defeats Al Plainville Nine 6 to 5 in efforts of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Tris | Creseents ke First Honors With | AMERICAN LEAGUE, 3 : . i T B T Ry T e PR i e SR R Speaker and a salaxy of other heavy | 3 Dy hitters to have defeated the Pioneers ! The Walnut Hill City baseball league | Two Tied For Second. ERITY With Willow Shaw and Johnson each L ! Hill Gheh de ol hiietodas ana W of this city yesterday. As it was, they | at Walnut Hill Park closed a very The Rockwall SDrmkd bolitt successful season last Saturady after- | Tom Blanchard in the box defanied |er, 6 to 0 and 5 to 3. Lavan e \ c ) ey e X ooboiodll oy 3 New London base, 4 to 0, in wl 'as | cents and the Company M team. With | ainville in the first game of the | hits in as many times at bat ; | L agreed by all to be the snappiest game | the exception of the fifth inning when | m with | ton won both games of a double head- | shut out the naval team from the ; 3 noon with a game between the Cres threeigame series 6 to 5 in ten in- | second gam scores s ¢ 3 . L 2 nings. Tt was the most exciting e FIRST GAME seen on the south end diamond this | the Company M te am scored six runs | ever staged at Plainville 7 it was a nip and tuck game but with these runs tucked away safely the | was the principal { company M. team finished ahead of | COmaTEaX, Russell and Schalk reason for the defeat of the sailors. |the Crescents 9 to 2. After the game | inich Only 29 men faced the local rapid fire | supervisor of Playsrounds Warren S roncar tilieitind the ecta In fhall barcoRtnoling SECOND GAMI _jartist and the extras were turned | Slater presented cach member of the Trthe tenth wilh Lssh o imditee e 01L0002000==4 ck by double plays before they {Champion Crescent team with a | S 0 outs | Washington 00040001x—5 3 | could reach the plate. Only one sall- | handsome gold medal. With the ex- inche ame across with a Batiorle Shellenback and Schalk; | or seriously threatened to score and | ception of the Company M team the Johnson and Picinich | he was nipped by Schroeder on a bul- | Crescents defeated each of the other | let throw by Dudack from left field. | teams twice [l (e LSO SR (e chances, Goorze Campbell The visitors found it almost imvos- | Company M boys they were defeated featured o % 2 Ak sible to get the ball past the infield Sompans e l o 14 i} continued to with the willow, g x 3 p ! twice he Company M team finished e Allic t willow, getting three hits TENNIS SINGLES OPEN ! which gave an exhibition equally as Kania. the | Ghicheo L. 0000000000 year. #peed king artist, worked. on the hill | Washington 32100000x—6 Pitcher Lynch for the All Plainville team. With ihe Batteite gcore 5 to 3 in the eighth All Pluin Rl sl ville tied the score in their sharp single to left center winning. i | There were many features in the ame, Durham at short getting eleven ha the French took | British on the Somme flank and of ths {wo smaller areas, German gains of | French on the Oise and Ailette will this year still held by the foe are| force Ludendorff to fall back to h‘l shown in solid black. Military experts | defensive positions of last winter on belleve that the steady advance of the | the Hindenburg line the scason in a tie for second place | adqvance on hoth flanks of the great with the North Ends. The two teams are anxious to dissolve this tie exist- ing between them and no doubt a |Wrested from the enemy (he largest 0od as that produced in the palniy | days of the Philadelphia Americans battle line, The British in the north fling List of Entrants Precludes 8- when the famous stonewall intield { broke the hearts of all rival batsmen. . \ P r nex 35 e Reirce 1 lection of Probable National Cham- | < tgame will be arrnged for next Sat- ! ; National Cham- | yohh40n, the Pioneers’ keystone man, Durham > urday afternoon at Walnut [ill Park | Palaon 0—85 Signed for Batile, had a circus day with 11 clean | 5 determine the ownership of the | nd B chances. ach club made three dou- odell, c : i, Aug. 26.—At 1:30 o'clock | ble plays. Eemfon ISLl 0 lthis afternoon play in the thirty-| Lovejoy of the New London men H. Campbell, 1 1| seventh national championship tennis pitched zood ball until the sixtk Srover, 1h : 0 | singles tournament started on the turf | when the Pioneers found his deliver G. Campbell, 3b- ] et o (G Sl e o 3 easy picking and scored three runs T Blunchand o 0 1at Farest Hills. 1In spite of the war| The fourth was made in the following the entry is a thoroughly representi- tive one, and possessc bhoth the quali- All Plainville ty and the quantity which would e | ab. 1 . expected in the average peace-time Rucker, ¢ 3 0 @0 year No man can be established KRAMER'S SPRINT WINS, Americans defeated the Detroit Amer- | ing in the field and at bat. The score: cans, & to an exhibition game | r. h. e. second place position. William Bot- | = . UHiER. 0 Ut bl CORiile Gl . 000100z o o ticelli officiated as umpire In all of | Exeiting Finish to 25 Mile Race At |here Sunday for the benefit of the |, 7 " ..010000000—1 9 0 the games and handled every one of | Newarle Velodrome. Clark Griffiith bat and ball fund. The them very efficiently The league game was featured hy Ty Cobb’s play- g New York, Aug. 26 Frank Kram- | | Jones and Yelle Batteries—Wright and Severéidy closed most opportunately as quite a number of the players listed in the | feams were called to the solors today. | inning. The final standing of the teams in the S Tha scorc league is as follows middle distance bicycle championship Pionecrs. W, L, Pc | er nipped Francisco Verri in the home stretch and won the 25 mile at the Velodrome in Newark yester- | 3 Crescents Soios 12 667 2 3 was one of the greatest vie a ! Jonnson, 2n 5 : B s 5 Eo8 | day. It was one of Ealas 2 2 DT oxts White, ss '\””.;\w‘\~ 4 200 | tories scored by Kramer in recent B ‘ : ®imaer, b : Ane g lngud s R B BITRR peneh b ¢ Sty - 133 | years and the sensational manner in 4 e T : which arc included those of William | croan. 15 e : i : i : shed it won for g KVells, 3b o T. Tilden 2d, winner of the South-| gy loqer o ; g = o = - \“lm-u he accomplished i r‘\n Caspldy, 1f . : |ampton tournament; Walter Hayes, | giniee. an .. ; GEERS DAY IN READVILLE. | him a thunderous ovation. Following f H ford : Mitchell, ss .. ; the Chicazo flash who eliminated Ich- | kiniys &0 20 : s | Kramer over the tape were Verrl, Alf | | 0 artior Kania, p el 0 fiva Kumagae from the competition at| \ropermott 4 Grand Circuit Horsemen to Honor | ) A = Valintine, rf ... 0 0 |the Mendow club: Kumngac himself, . ] Has made a business of training young people Rindino, cf . 0 o |intent on cnging his defeat R Bedell and Fred Hill ;] f " % i i i S Lindley Murray, winner of the nation ; S | Readville, Mass, Aug. 26.—Horse- | mwo laps from home Kramer did or office work for fifteen years. 16 3 !al taurnament last year, when it car men from all sections of the countr, Grenda, Reggie McNamara, Menus Pk 1 Great Driver Wednesday. New London Na not appear to have a chance. Jake Rockwell-Dralke 0026030001—¢ | ried no championship; Fred Alexan . have arrived here for the opening el e S . 5 = All Plainville L 0101010020—5 | der, Beal hi, one-time title hold= | i of the five ws Grand Circult | Magin had obtained a big lead an ) Two-base hite, Wells, Rucker, Cro- | €t Craig Biddle, S Howard meeting. It has heen six vears since |looked like the winner. Verri near the 4 ver; struck out by Kania 5, by Blan- i Voshell rold Throckmorton, T i 5 e 0 Pasietity jioie ang pagery :“"“ pive chice andisvineine BioRde ENTEI{ hard base on balls, by Kanin 4, hy Pell, Walter rill Hall, Raiph B Yol gLl el i o o i have met @ is fauous old trotting | ‘ L last lap Verri was well up on Magin Elanchard stolen bases, Roclwell- | dick of Chic W Conrad B Drake 4, A1l Ploinwile 4 o || Thre e tuenty o Wit e srit s o @ et | 408 oo psea v ceamen vin§ OUR NEW BRITAIN SCHOOL SEPT. 3 ¥ n of Grand Ciren serformers |a lap to go, was next Reimer 5 train of ! reuit performers |a lap to 2 strongl Pilden is called sy 5 {rom PPoughkeepsie the entry list was | spectators considered him as beaten Paul (tibho fellosy . z comploted with 293 entries for the | guqqeniy a streak ‘of white shot And we will do as well by you. Call any after- Rockwell-Drake 20 W > hile Wil meet e e e ; af IKumaisa - S e e ronSilie i tenzof FEhagnacl i B e noon and talk it over, or we will meet you by ap- sy e ning 1ron ., North | is 1 t d M 2 features of the circui 1 hout went up, “There goes Kramer ? s of New Britain, 12-4, in the first | mects . ¢ rockmorton S0=be \ S ! : It surely was Kramer and he was on i @ pointment in the evening. me at Rockwell's field vesterday. | and Harold - hould put up a | Smullen; do L ARel 0 1 honor of Bdward F. \is way, One by one he passed ho ! T 1 Sehroede 10 ohnson. Te notf £ I swell was at his best and held the |fine mat Schy ; Johnson. ~McDetrn The purses for th cisttors at his mercy. Stuly Fludd | The tournament this year is heing | Johnson and Gioeb, White to Johnson | S $40,000 big field, still it did not seemy pos- | THE pitched for the North Tnds and s (held for the benefit of the war and | to Goeh, Lovejoy and Kelly. Smullen sible that he could catch Verri. Kra- | ) hit hard. M. Cane on first for wrtments commission’ on | and Kelly, Dowd to Lindstrom; bazes mer did, though, swinging around the | AR [A ’ winners, starred \ining camfip activities fund. Dr. Jo- | on balls, Lynch 1: struck VCROSS PARIS SWi, B i e S e e e 1] . | seph Rayeroft e e ATavana| Lenchls b Dovelov A= tleft on 2 I \ug. 26.—T) levent el e iae | He eave his fanici R FI'RNER RELEASED BY INDIANS. | gayvs matcehes Geslal S R e bl o Eichon, |imal kick n the st ! nipped Verr I Cleveland, Aug. 26.—Ter Turner, | tournament will | military | 1:20: umpire, Ravher Fleurix was second and Nivet finished |8 Rossherg Building 163 Main Street, utility infielder of the Cleveland Amer- | flavor befitting a war-time champion | thivd, The winner SWam the distanes = i jean league club, has been ziven his|ship, for more than twenty of the] Pratt & Whitney defeated the Pio- |in twp hours and fiffv-nine minutes. | i A Call or write for |} Phone 605-3 wnconditional relesse. Turner played | elzhiv-seven entries come from men | nesrs Saturday, 3 fo 2. in 11 NMNgS [More than half a_million people linad N COo : k Pn the local team for 15 vears in the army and navy in the first of a series of three EAMEeS. = the hanks of the Seine to see the race. ' Hartford, Aug. 26.—The St Sunday 1