New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1919, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILT HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1916 I ALEXANDER LOSES IN HIS FIRST START AGAINST GIANTS THIS " ROOKIEPROVESEASY FOR BROWNS' BATSMEN BROWNS PUMMEL | RODKIE'S OFFERINGS Robertsor's First Start With, White Sox Is Disastrons | Louis batted ruit, hard in the ! yesterday and won : the final game of the series, 2 to 1 Kerr succceded Roberson and shut out the Browns the rest of the w Chicago’s_lone run was awarded by TUmpire Chill on Austin's interference | with Jackson after muffing a throw to stop a double st The score Chicago, Robersor first two innings St. Louis Chicago 001000000—1 Davenport and Mayer: Roberson, Kerr and Schalk. Indians Beat Tigers. | Detroit, Mich., May 14 —Timely hitting by Cleveland batters and the ; unsteadiness of Detroit pitchers gave . the visitors their second victory in the postponed series vesterday, 8 to 5. The score: { r. hoel 022002200—8 11 0 | 010013000—5 11 1 Coveleskie and O'Neil; ! and Ainsmith. | Cleveland .... Detroit ... Coumbe, Dauss, Cunningham BIG FIGHT ARENA Tast Row Will Be 300 Ring in | | Chicago .. Feet From ! Which Willard Will Meet Dempsey. 14.—The arena where | fight will be Toledo, May the Willard-Dempsey held here July 4, work on which will be started this week, will be four times as large as the one built at Reno for the Jeffries-Johnson cham- pionship fight. The seats in the arena | will have a maximum height of 34 feet, while the arena itself will be an eight sided affair 600 feet across. This means that those sitting on the | last rows will be 300 feet from the ring, which will be the regulation | championship size, 24 feet square. The arena will be 200 feet in diamo- | ter. The advance sales of seats, will range in price from $10 will open May 24. Jack Demp: challenger ayyweight title, and his manager, “k Kearns, are expected to arrive ! Thursday. Willard is expected arrived by May 20 Tickets were delivered in Toledo today is means that sale of coats will be under way much sooner than expected OPENING OF EASTERN Fight Teams Start Race for Pennant | which | to 360, for the | | three runs on seven | Boston yesterda) | tally for the Cardinals resulted from | ! three errors. in President Dan O'Neil's Cireuit— New Managers and Player. The opening of the FEastern league | today is attracting the interest of | baseball fans in the eight cities of | the circuit. The league has jumped ! a notch higher in organized ball and | three franchises have changed hands. | Most of the clubs are starting out| with new players and new managers. Barring inclement weather, the four opening contests should draw con- | siderable crowds. The program for | today follows: Springfield at Pittsfield Hartford at Worcester. New Haven at Bridgeport. Providence at Waterbury Dan O'Neil has predicted a big sea son for his league and from present | indications he was a fair prophet. | “Kitty” Bransficld will hold the indi- | cator at the Springfield-Pittsficld | game. Other umpires are Brown at Bridgeport, Devlin at Waterbury and Coffey at Worcester. TILDEN BEATS MURRAY. Philadelphia Tenmis Player Gets Re- venge for Defeat Last Year. Philadelphia, Pa., May 14.—Using ® varied attack, William T. Tilden | 2d defeated R. Lindley Murray in an ! xhibition match at the Germantown ! ‘ricket .club yesterday. The score —6. It was the first meeting of the two players since their match at Forest Hills last Sep- tember, when Murray triumphed in | the nationai singles final. Tilden abandoned his usual rushing style, and Instead of going to the net | whenever possible played the back court and mid-court. They drove, | smashed, lobbed. killed and caressed i the ball, never using the same style for lor M 3 oW in 2etting warmed | me. and before the spec- realized it Tilden had won the set. Both plavers were going fast pace when the second set and frequent rallies brought inds of applause from those ng the clay court ill he a series of at the in which Wright. Tilden, and \ matches Germantown Kumagace Mervill Hall, Bidc lace Johnson compete IMSON ATHLETE INJURED. mbridge. May 14-—Harvard lost ammer throw for the meet th Yale when Ames Stcvens, for- merly acting eaptain, injured his leg last night, making necessary three | DODGERS SIGN COLL ooklyn, Ma i 1AN. | 14.—Brooklyn has | eman Allen of the, Pitcher John Miljus 1S heen d from the army and reported today | | i i not quite i lost 110000000 | Alec for { they i of their ! doing the flinging ! vasion. ! big war { hooked up | scttled the [ home happy over a 4-to { bump to right | Cincinnati . ! principally i the left-f | form Odom, Midgely i not i this event | were SEASON—DODGERS __NATIONAL LEAGUE INCREASES ALEXANDER BEATEN IN SECOND START Giants Take Kindly (0 Soldier Pitcher’s Ofierings New York, May 14.-—Grover Cleve- xander, who recently returned walking trip in land Al from a Germany { pitched the opening game in the East against the G vester ants at the Polo Girounds Alec pitched as if he had made up all of the sieccp he ints hit during the war. The nine hits in six innings and ». making all soldier won the game. 3 to tallies while the was A big week-day crowd turned out to see the start of the Western in- Alexander got a warm greet- ing from the 15,000 fans when he made his appearance. The Giants can | consider themselves fortunate in win- | ning the game, not because they didn't | hit the ball often enough to win, but | because ther made mistakes which ' would ordina spell defeat. John | Calhoun Benton used his left arm to good effect in the New York cause and after the second inning no Cub shadow crossed the home dish. The | score: e EL 110 000 000 6 New York ....000 003 00x—3 10 Alexander, Martin and Benton and MeCarty. saves the Day. Brooklyn, May 14.—Ed Konetchy's club saved the day for; Brooklyn yesterday, when the Robins with Pat Moran’s Cincin- nati Redlegs in the openins game o a four-game series. Jake ™aubert’s successor twice poked out hits which issue and sent 5,000 fans 3 vietory after 11 tense innings. Konetchy’s first hit | of the day came in the ninth inning: when the invaders leading by 3 to 2. The bhig first baseman rapped ! out a single to left which sent Zach | Wheat home with the tyinz run. In the 11th another single bounced off | the bludgeon of Konetchy which pre- pared the way for the winning run Konetchy’s blow sent Hy Myers to third from first, and Hy raced home with the winning run on Lew Malone's The score: Koney were R 000 110 001 01—4 10 002 000 010 00 and Wheat; Brooklyn Pteffer Wingo Braves .Again Defeated. Boston, May 14.—St. Louis scored hits oft Nehf in ! innings and defeated 4 to 2. The fourth the first threc Boston’s runs came in | the third on Goodwin's pass to Maran- | ville, Herzog'’s triple and Powell’s pop ' single. The score: | R. H. E 000—4 10 000 000- 9 St. Louis .. Boston . 102 002 4 { Goodwin and Clemons; Nehf. Fil- | lingim and Wingo. l | 010 Phillies Beat Pirates, Philadelphia, May 14.—Philadelphia defeated Pitisburgh erday, 3 to 2, because of the effective- | ness of Jacobs. Cutshaw’s drive into | 1d seats and a tally handed ; tes by Jacobs’ in the seventh was all of their scoring. Great outfielding by Bigbee and Meusel saved hoth pitchers. The score: to the P Philadelphia ..011 100 00x—3 ai Pittsburgh 010 000 100—2 3 0! Jacobs and Adams: Hamilton and R.H.E. | | Schmidt and Sweeney. FORMER JOCKEYS IN RAC and Others Mounts at Pimlico. Baltimore, Md., May 14.—The Old Timers’ meeting yesterday morning was a real sporting event, and to s it more than 3,000 racegoers were at Pimlico track. It was for ponies to be ridden by former jockeys who had had a mount in ten year The first race was won by C. dreth’s Bill Pinkerton, George Odom. Have | Hil- ridden by G. R. Bryson's Ready Money, with Max Hirsch in the sad- | dle, was _second, and W. H. Kar rick’s Rowdy, ridden by Willie Midge- | Iy, third. Other veteran riders in were: James Fitzsimmons, | A. Burlen and Mott Brady. The second e went to Frank | Herold's Teddy Polo, guided by Jerr: Carroll. Teddy Won by the prover bial whisker from Max Hirsch's Cul- lens Court. with Michael Daly in the saddle J. Pryce, on his third. Capt. on I, he did jiockey these own Texan, Joseph T Devers was Davis had a Sand Boy and when he was a noted two events Fitzsim- | nd Ben Pope met in a mateh and 1itz on I, . Frisbie Blackie Daw won. Al the riders | presented with handsome and valuable souvenirs : race AETNA BOWLIN ALLEYS. Church Street. | | OPEN ALLEYS AT ALL TIMES. | ! | abolished by the conditions in the | which already | Tehernigov and 25 PLAYER LIMIT IN NATIONAL RESTORED Leagte Votes 10 Add Four Men to Present Allowance | The unpopu- vesterday New York player May 14 limit was National league in a held at Jeague when the parent league Voi- jar 21 special session head- quarters cd to revert to the old limit of & men, which w in vogue in the N tional league up to the season of 19 The new morrow At the time limit will g into effect to- that John Heydler, president of the National league, an- nounced that the National league would return to player limit, he | said that the American league would adopt similar legislation in the imme- date future. The American league continued der a 25 limit even during tne thai the National operated unde: player limits of 21 and 22 players However, last winter the leagues at a joint meeting adopted a uniform play- er limit of 21. This limit never went into effect in either lcague. though ! managers were prepared to cut down | by next Thursday. While the resolution increasing the Naticnal league limit to seys the action is duc to the unsettled | minor leagues, the baseball men largely were actuated b, the prospects of a real pre-war sea- ( con. The resolution adopted by the tional league follows: | “Resolved, That in view of the pres- | ent unsatisfactory condition prevail- ing with the minor leagues and the difficulty of placing players out orm op- tional agreements the National league favors returning to the 23 player lmit as provided by the National agrce- ment.” | Rules, I ng the player league allotted | un- vears Allot Sunday In addition to inc limit the National i Sunday dates on the Polo zrounds and | Thbets field The Philadelphia club, | has had one profitable Sunday on the Polo grounds, seems fo | have made out the best. It zets a. P- tember date en the Palo -=rounds and | four Sundays on Ebbets field The Sunday dates scheduled for the New York parks are as follows: At Polo Grounds. May 18 Cincinnati May 25—St. Lonis June 1 Boston. July Pittsbursh. July 20—Chicago. Tuly Aug. Aug. C'hicago. —Pitisburgh. -Roston. $—Philadelphia At Ebbets Field, —Chicago. Pittsburgh. Philadelp Philadelphia. : §—RBoston. 13—$t. Louis v 20—Cincinnaii —Philadelphia. 10— Pittsburgh 1 7—Cincinnati Louis. . 31—New York. Philadelphia BOWLING NEWS lapse from | y Fallon Willametz | Mahr Aldrich S G. Scotton”. .. A. Scotton. .. Freeman | Meehan MeCarthy Hulburt Hancock Swanson Logan Cadoret Foster | Dummy Carlson Lantone fiE3 3T Foote 110 a3 100 101 Cage.. 86 144 98 Kahms 99 S8 REDS ian For Drive Under Bolshevists Peasant ders Back. 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