New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1923, Page 8

SIKI HAS NOT LOST TITLE, FRENCH COMMISSION HOLDS — BABE RUTH ! ‘ : ALL-NEW' BRITAINS WIN UPHILL FIGHT IN BRISTOL — ELI HOOP TOSSERS WIN TITLE — GIANTS FORSAKE TEXAS AS TRAINING GR ) Gali s A%‘im“ L, AR A i =—=—___==—.__——==——-—= PP’S SINGLE IN THE EIGHTH GIVES VICTORY TO HUGMEN 'fhomas, New Orleans Star, ¢ Shines as Brilliant Pitch- " ing Porsibility—Giants to Forsake Texas for Cali- fornia Next Year. New Orleans, La,, March 19.-—~The man who won the pennant for the| Yankees last season, none other than Wally Pipp. The Pickler,” came through with a slashing hit in. the eighth inning at Heineman Park Sun- day afternoon that helped the Hug- ‘ men defeat the New Orleans Pelicans in the third game of the series by a score of 4 to 2, “Dixie” Walker had passed Ruth and as there were two out at the time he calculated that his chances of preventing the Yankees YALE BASKETBALL TEAM BRINGS HOME THE TROPHY Wins Seven Out of Ten Games—Cor- nell-Princeton Tie For Second Place—ILuther's Great Record, New York, March 19.—The Alexan- der trophy moveg today from Prince- ton to New Haven, the property of the Yale basketball five, who won first honors in the intercollegiate basket- ball league's 1923 series despite thelr loss of two games last week. They won seven and lost three games. Princeton and Cornell tied for sec- ond, having won six games and four lost. Columbia split the season, 5 and 5, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania shared the cellar on an equal basis with seven ‘losses and three victories. James H. Luther, Cornell center from scoring were more in his favor with Pipp at the bat than the famous Bambino. But Mr. Walker|s calculations were far from right. Apparently he had not read of Pipp's great slugging last September when the Yankees were battling with the Browns for the lead. 80 when Walker passed Ruth in the elghth and brought down the wrath of the bleacherites on his head, Huggins knew that Wally would not fail in the ch. wAnd the “Pickler” didn't. The first baseman waited for Walker to pitch Bim a good ball and then rammed a single into right eentre field, Joe Bush and “Old Dan"” Tucker cross- ing the plate, and Ruth reaching third. Then Bob Meusel slammed a hit into left ficld that chased Babe over the plate with a smile. The Yankees scored another run in the ninth inning and won a ball game _ that seemed lost until the eighth. Until the eighth inning the Yan- kees were lamentably weak against the offerings of Carl Thomas and | , Walker, and it appeared as though the American League champions were 3: for another bucket of whitewash. omas, who pitched the first five innings against the American League champions last Sunday and allowed oply two hits, was even more effec- tive yesterday, for during his occu- pancy on the mound he yielded only one safe blow, a single by Meusel in the fourth. | Pretty Good Pitcher. ‘“Pretty good pitcher,” casually re- miarked Joe Kelly, scout of the Yan- kees, to Heinemann, as Thomas re- tired from the game in the fifth in- ning. “Greatest pitching prospect I ever had on my club,” said the own- er of the Pelicans. "“The Yankees can have him for $10,000,” where- upon Mr. Kelley fell into a faint. At that, Thomas looks and acts like a real pitcher right now. When Be is sold he will bring a neat price on the market. He is a big young- ster fronf Alabama with a good fast ball and a fair sort of a curve. He struck out Ruth in the first inning with a fast ball that Babe missed by & wide margin. Only two balls were hit out of the outfield on him, Meu- sel's single and Witt's fly to Larry Gilberte in the fifth inning. Speaking about pitching, Carl Mays and Joe Bush exhibited some real curves against the New Orleans bat- ters. Carl got off to a bad start, the Pelicans jumping merrily on his sub- marfne ball in the first inning for and captain, was the highest individ- ual scorer of the lvigue with 140 points. He made 100 of these in shooting fouls. Arthur Loeb 128 Princeton, was second, with 123 points, and Eddie Buisman, Yale, a close third with 121, PLAYING MANAGERS SCARCE Cobb, Speaker and Bush Are Thesc, Though First Two Are Steadiest Players. thing of the past in the American league, unless some star athlete s shortly appointed leader of one of the eight clubs. At the present time five clubs have bench managers, Mack at Philadelphia, Fohl at Louis, Gleason at Chicago and Hug- gings at New York. Three of the clubs still have play- ing managers, Ty Cobb at Detroit, Tris Speaker at Cleveland and Donie Bush at Washington. Really only Cobb ana Speaker can be rated as playing man- agers as Bush has announced that he will merely essay utility roles. Cobb and Speaker cannot go on forever. Speaker had much trouble with his legs last season and is not going to be any better this year. Cobb is also beginning to feel the ravages of time. Only recently Cobb announced that he intended to carry five outfielders, all capable of playing regularly. That means that he intends to be fortified should his legs give him trouble. ‘With the exception of Mack, all the American league managers will sport uniforms and appear on the coaching lines. DOES GOLF HURT BASEBALL PLAYERS, EXPERTS WONDER Sure Though That 18 Holes in the Moming Takes All the Pep From a Diamond Star. 1f golf a good thing for major league ball players? The leading golf professionals of This Day In Sports 1921—Richard T, Remer in winnng A, A, U, one-mile walk at New York made a new rec- ord of 6 minutes 29 seconds, in- doors. The former record was 6 minutes 39 4-5 seconds and Remer's feat was one second slower than the world's outdoor’ record set by George H, Gould- ing of Toronto, Ont. 1920—Eleanor Smith, Morn- ingside A, C, of New York broke world's breast-stroke swimming record for women for 100 yards, doing the distance at Pittsburgh in 1 minute 27 1-10 seconds. The former mark of 1 minute 28 seconds was made by her sis- ter, Ruth Smith. On this same night at Detroit, Charlotte Boyle, New York Swimming as- sociation made a distance plunge of 66 feet, bettering her own former record of 64 feet. 1914—Jean Chassagne, driv- ing a Sunbeam car, traveled one mile at the Brookland (Eng.) track in 29.02 seconds, 1913—Willle Hoppe won the 18.2 balkline billiard title from Ora Morningstar and held it continuously until 1922, when he lost it to Jake Schaefer. | NEW BRITAIN WINS FIRST What Firpo Did Bill Brennan, Chicago boxer, is shown here on his hospital cot in New York recovering from the severe beating inflicted by Luls Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight, during their recent bout in Madison Square garden. MUCH IS EXPECTED IN SERIES WITH BRISTOL FROM YALE'S CREW IN AMERIGAN LEAGUE Lanpher's Quintet Defeats West Ends Hope Ed; Leade]‘ wm Re[ll]'l] l[ 34 to 27—Tyndell Accounts For 18 Points For Home Team. In the first of a series of ory in this city. The score was 34 27. From whistle to whistle the game Ih the opening half, Bris- was fast. tol showed to good advantage a Chance at Boston, (when the rest period was called the St.|Bell Ringers were in the lead 16 to Spurred on by the home fans, New Britain passed the visitors soon and 14. after the second half opened maintained sufficient lead to win. the 15-foot line. Out of 18 tries, duff and Sheehan likewise put up star brand of work. vaders. The summary: New Britain Kilduff I Right Forward Tyndall .. ....... ! Left Forward Ginsberg, Restella ....... , Center Pelletier, Ginsberg . Right Guar Restella, Sheehan ......... Left Guard Score—All-New Britainh 34, mid 1, goals—Tyndall, 16 out of McDermid 9 out of 17 tries. ~—"Chick” Hayes. Sheehey 1, Carlson 1. 18 FITCHBURG WINS TITLE ball Honors For This Season “Red” Tyndall's eye was bright on scored 16 points. He also found the hole for one goal from the floor, Kil- McDermid, Sheehey and Carlson shone for the in- Bristol McDermid Lazarusky, Green . Rogalsky Sheehey . Carlson West Ends 27; field goals—Kilduff 3, Shee- han 3, Tyndall 1, Restella 1, Pelletier 1, Tazarowsky 3, Rogalsky 3, McDer- Foul tries; Referee Romps In With New England Basket- | Medford, Mass, March 19.—Fitch- burg' high school won the New Eng- land interscholastic basketball cham- fo Supremacy three games, the All-New Britain basketball team defeated the West Ends of Bris- The playing manager w1t soon be a|tol Saturday night at the State arm- New Haven, March 19,—The Yale crews that take the water this spring under the direction of Coach Ed Leader will be more like the famous Bob Cook crews of a quarter of a century ago than any at Yale since the Cook stroke was abandoned in 1908. This is the belief of the men who have been following rowing at‘Yale for more than 30 years, who have seen Cook crews row to many a brilliant victory, who have watched coaches at Yale come and go with an infinite variety of strokes and theories, who have seen Yale vainly trying to “settle down” with a defi- nite rowing policy, and who row be- lieve that they have in Coach Leader a man who more closely approaches the methods of Cook than any one who has taught at Yale in recent years. * Hope for Return of Power. Whether a return to the Cook stroke means a return to the era of Yale supremacy on the water is a question that is arousing keen inter- est and many hopes in the Blue boat- house this year. Just what significance’ a return to the methods of Cook can have at Yale would be hard to realize were it not for an understanding of what his name represents in the rowing his- tory of the Blue. To all Yale men Bob Cook is a tradition, His age was the “Golden Age” of rowing at Yale, when the Blue crews took the water year after year with a confidence that was un- beatable, That age has long since passed, but the Bulldog ever looks forward with grim hope to a renais- sance. Whether this year will bring even the beginning of stability to Yale rowing is something that is be- ing eagerly watched. Stroke Like That of Cook. The stroke that is being taught at to nd he a GETS HIS FIRST HOMER CARL MAYS GIVES HIS POOR SHOWING LAST “Fifteen pounds too much weight s what handicapped me last year,"” is the way Carl Mays explains his poor pltching in 1922, “I am going to show a lot of big league managers the coming season that I am far from through as a big leaguer, I will win 20 games for the Yankees," There you have the ultimatum from a pitcher on whom 15 of the 16 major league clubs walved. The solution offered by Mays for his poor showing last year is logical, The success of Mays' pecullar un- derhand delivery depends on how low he is able to get with the ball, A waistline that was four or five inch- o8 too big last’summer seriously ha: Speaking of Sports Biki's manager's been reading the dictionary. Psychology, he says, lost for his man in Dublin, 1. e. the sight of that yowling mob of fighting Jrish- nien caused the inferiority complex. Which is another way of saying he thought he'd be licked whichever way the decision went, But which some take to be only the old alibl. s The ease with which old McTigue fox trotted to victory makes the black boy, who ‘trains on wine and wild women, look like a false alarm. Nice of Lenglen to say nice things about Miss Ryan. Wonder if it was that she loved Miss Ryan the more, or Molla the less. The whys and wherefores of a fe- male mind are hard to folow. Maybe this fulsome praise of the California girl is a short jab to the pride for Molla. Billy Tingle, Australian, ‘won the flyweight championship of the ¥Far Kast at Manila yesterday by defeating Blasco Concepcion, Filipino. Tingle received the referee's decision at the end of a 16-round bout. Jack Dunn, Jr., 27 years of age, son of Jack Dunpn, owner and manager of the Baltimore International league club, died at Baltimore early yester- day morning of lobar pneumonia. Young Dunn has been secretary of the Orioles for several years. A statement from the Coast credits Manager Bill Killifer of the CCubs with declaring that Bernie Friberg will be one of the fastest and noisiest infield- ers in the National league this sum- mer. Guarding against the possibility of Jose Rodriguez not joining the Bridgeport team, Gene McCann has purchased Sam Post from Brooklyn. Post was farmed out to Reading last season where he hit for .339 and field- ed for .989. Bill Skiff, former Bridgeport catch- er, is far from satisfied with the con- tract Kansas City has offered him and thus far has refused to report to Lake Charles for spring work. Skiff wired Manager Good the other day that he would report but wanted permission ALE LOOKS TO GOOD YEAR ON WA HIS ALIBI FOR SEASON | dicapped Mays in starting the ball low. Mays has two distinct dellveries. An underhand curve thrown ~ with falr speed that rises and breaks out as it nears the batter. His fast ball, de- Ilivered in much the same way, but with greater ' speed, breaks down much Iike a spitball, As a result, the bataman was con- !stantly at sea as to what to expect. Early last season it was apparent that Mays' fast ball was missing. That en- {abled the batters to set for the un- derhand curve, and hit Mays to ad- vantage. Mays promises to be faster' than ever this year, If so, he will be bad news to batting averages. HARD LUCK TRAILS OLD WALTER JOHNSON IN SPRING In Previous Ycars Jinx Has Kept His Back-Sickness At Home Again This Year Walter Johnson, famous pitcher of the Washington American, has had more than his share of tough luck during the last four or five years. It has so happened that tough luck hits Walter in the spring of each year, thereby getting him away to a bad start. A bat start for Johnson means .the loss of much money to the Washington club. Twice fillness in his family has kept Johnson from the training camp until almost to the opening of the season. On two other occasions {ll- ness to himself has greatly handi-- capped his spring training. In one other year Johnson, because the rest of the Washington staff was in poor shape, was overworked and suffered an injury to his arm which remained with him throughout the year, playing havoc with his showing. Johnson is no longer a youngster from a baseball standpoint and needs more spring conditioning than he once did. Illness of his young son is keeping Johnson at home this year. to go south by way of Kansas City so he could stop off and have a confer- ence with Owner George Meuhlebach. He was given permission but Meuhle- bach says the conference will do Bkiff no good® as he will not raise the fig- ures in the contract. The indoor record for 70 yards was equalled Saturday night in Hartford when *“Bob"” McAllister, a New York policeman, bounced against the tape in 7 1-6 seconds. Why not give him a pair of water wings and let him \patrol the three-mile limit off the New Jersey coast? Passaic High school took the Jer- sey basketball title Saturday by trouncing Ashbury Park, 64-29. Manager Tobin of the' P. & F. Cor- bin basketball team has called a meeting of his men for tomorrow night at the Corbin clubhouse to dis- cuss the prospects for the season of 1923, If Tobin’s plans materialize, the P. & F. Corbin plant will be rep- resented by a speedy diamond aggre- gation. This is only a fet together meeting, but may have an important effect on New Britatn baseball his- tory. R SIKI HAS NOT LOST HIS CHANPIONSHP $0 Declares French Boring Gom- mlglm—flamm_ia_(m Yiews 8517 . Parls, March 19, (By Assoclated. Press)—No world’s champlonship wasy involved in the Biki-McTigue fight at Dublin last Saturday night according to Albert Bourdariat, vice-president ot the French boxing federation, in a statement to L'Auto. In the first place the official said the rules require that the adversary of a champion must challenge formally, which McTigue never did. Secondly, the referee must be appointed by the international boxing union. This con- dition was also unfllled, M. Bour- dariat concluded that Siki may have been .beaten by McTigue but that he cannot lose his title of light heavy- weight champion . because the fight was not for the title, ) Patls, March 19—Instead of being cheered by the defeat of Battling Siki in Dublin and 8iki's loss of his titles to Mike McTigue, Georges Carpentier is rather inclined to lament the deci- sion because he doesn't think McTigue really won, “I suppose,” he shid, “that I should be elated by the decision, But I am not. As a sportsmian I am unable to comprehend the decision.” Georges' sportsmanship recently as- serted itself when he evaded an agree- ment to fight Siki for charity, which fact is recalled with regret by his friends wjio now believe that he could have given Siki a terrific ‘beat- ing in a return bout. 4 The press comments here on the Dublin fight are largely pro-Carpen- tier or anti-Carpentier, almost ignor- ing McTigue. L'Intransigeant intimates that Car- pentier is still the best light heavy- weight although he has lost his titles, saying: “Siki was an unworthy holder of the title and his performance was mediocre. . We. cannot say whether McTigue did or did not merit the de- cision.” L’Auto, the sports paper, says the officials of the bout obviously robbed 8iki and Figaro comments that Siki's defeat by a second class fighter 5&. how lucky was Siki to defeat - PRAISES MISS RYAN Suzanne Lenglen Tells California Star She Deserved to Win—Two Are Good Friends. Nice, France, March 19.—Unselfish in defeat, Suzanne Lienglen threw her arms about Miss Elizabeth Ityan when Lenglen, paired with Coutit: Soumaro- kov-Elstons lost the final in the mixgd . doubles’ fennile-Championship. to Miss Ryan and Randolph Lycett, 6-—, T—-5. “You deserved to win,* exclaimed the French girl.- “You plyyed mag- nificently. One must lose some time, and’1 prefer losing'to you rather than to anyone in this world.” “I realize that I am very short »f my best playing form and am entire- Iy responsible for our defeat,” gallant- 1y broke in Count Soumarokov-Eiston to Mile. Lenglen, Lenglen and Miss Ryan are the best of friends. They play together in the women's doubles and have only lost one set in two years, this to Miss Kathleen McKane and Mrs. Lambert Chambers. In the women's singles Mile. Lenglen has met Miss Ryan 23 times and never lost a set to the American girl. \ |pionship Saturday night by defeating Northampton high in the finals of the two day tournament at Tufts’ college. the country are undecided about it. Some day they don’t think a cer- tain amount of golf during the sea- son will hurt a player’s batting. They do admit that it is possible for a ball player to overgolf. Others are inclined to believe that | golfing has a tendency to throw a | batter off his stride, particularly if he plays very much during the season. The swing in golf and baseball is in striking contrast. An entirely differ- ent set of muscles is brought into play. So different is the swing that {a ball player often finds trouble in hite | developing accuracy as a golfer. On one thing the professionals are whistled, |® Unit, and that is, that 18 holes of golf on a hot summer morning is found to take some of the “pep” out of the player for the afternoon ball Yale today is essentially the same stroke that Cook brought back from The score was 21 to 20. England after his now historic trip Northampton, the favorite, showed |there in 1873. It may differ in some signs of the strain of the two earlier !Slight details, as in the finish, but games both of which the team won by | fundamentally it has the same char- a single point margin. In the semi- |acteristics. It is the same adaptation finals Fitchburg defeated Wilby high [Of the English stroke that Cook de- of Waterbury, Conn., and Northamp- | veloped, and which was later dropped ton eliminated Naugatuek, Conn. when Yale's succession of English coaches introduced the genuine Eng- lish stroke that in some way never quite seemed to fit American oars- men. One of the first steps that Leader has taken at Yale is to restore the old indoor rowing tank that for sev- eral years had been floored over for the use of the wrestling team. Then he sat the oarsmen in a straight line over the keel as Cook had done, in- stead of seating them in the zig-zag English fashlon, He reqested swivel oarlocks instead of the English thole- pin model, though the thole-pin is highly rated by the English because its click at the end of each stroke is a mechanical aid to precision, ,He has brought his own boat bulld- er with him, discarding the type of shell imported by the English coaches. His model seats the oarsmen higher above the water, All these features of his mechanical equipment were characteristic of Cook’'s era. But the parallel does not end here. In his demands on the oarsmen them- selves, Leader has followed Cook. He urges the necessity of a greater per- fection of inboard work, and preci- sion of the bodies throughout the stroke, a distinct difference from the English coaches who paid more at- tention to watermanship. three hits and a pair of runs, but thereafter the Pelicans were tame birds before Mays and Bush. The New Orleans club made only two more hits after the first inning, both off “Bullet Joe.” When a Feller Needs a Friend Through With Texas. 8Ban Antonio, Te March 19.—A roaring, blustering “Norther" from the far reaches of upper Texas blew all of the baseball out of San An- io yesterday and practically blew the Giants out of this city of sun- | #hine for 1924, wAt noon the game with the W Sox was called off. %The wind roared and 're was a biting coldness in the air| aad traces of snow. Ice formed in| the puddles. It was a day for the| mm#e league, not for ain. | ame. . Apring-tratice | SO0 6 which males-1t seem, tHat (golf has some advantages and as many disadvantages relative to the | major league star. HEADS DARTMOUTH TEAM Goldstein Is Choice of Green For Basketball Captain Next Year Hanover, N. H., March 1$—Allen V. Goldstein of . Philadelphia was unanimously elected Captain of Dart- mouth’s 1924 basketball team. Gold- stein has played two years as a regu- lar on the varsity, at center and for- ward and a year with the Freshman five. He is also a member of the varsity football team, having won his letter twice at tackle. Goldstein is the only junior on this year's team, as Captain Cullen, Miller, Moore and Heep will all be graduated in June, {and Sauer is a sophomore, > wAlthough it is the first practice g8me the Giants have had to post- | pone since coming here, and is only . the second day that practice could | Mot be obtained, it was reported | 1dst evening that the Giants have de- " ‘elded to go to California next spring. € moment this decision was made | rey Grabiner and Kid Gleason, here with the Sox immediately took an option on‘the park here for the 24 training season from the iocal jogul in baseball, Harry Benson. BRENNAN § UP. AN HOUR. | Attending Physiclan Says “His Con- dition is Very Good.” New York, March 19.—Bill Bren- | nan, the veteran heavyweight, who was removed to Jewish Memorial hos- pital suffering from concussion of the | brain following his defeat by Luis ! Firpo in Madison Square Garden, was permjtted to sit up for the first time vesterday. He was \nocked out last { Monday night and was taken to the TO MEET BRITISH TEAM Pinchurst Club Will Play Visitors in fi‘vln Match Today. Pinehurst, N. C,, March 19.—The | English international polo team, which has arrived Here and unani- mously expressed approval of all |three of Pinehurst's playing fields, hospital on Wednesday. Ercnnnn'n]wm play the Sandhills Blues tomor- s i A {row. The British players will be ';;‘L"‘,’f.(af"p,hr'fiif&,;":?llx:m.f;o‘r":r that o unted ofi*strange ponles and will ant 3 hour, ' Dr, Bdward L. Spitser, who|b® furthor handicapped because F'. W, has been attending Brennan, an.| Fan has a toich of lumbago. nounced yesterday that he would let| the boxer sit up for about three hours' today. “His condition is very good,” sald Dr. Spitzer, SIKI BOOM OVER Paris Sporting Men Sce His Finish As H Contender For Honors Paris, March 19—Battiing Siki's de- feat by Mike McTigue in Dublin Sat- 4 ay night caused much rejoicing 7 ong the enemies of the Senegalese ter in Paris, and was received with % keenest of disappointment by his irers, jorn of all discussion as to wheth- @ or not the referee's decision was l, boxing experts in Paris to- _expressed the opinion that Siki, the advantage of weight and ¢h, should have disposed of Me- inside of the twenty-round limit. defeat of Siki, sporting men de- , will end the Siki boom which, " followers of boxing in France ‘has been “smoked up” with an y totally unwarranted by "tHe negro’s fistic ability. J@r The Brooklyn Robins in camp at Saturday’'s defeat of the Yale bas- Clearwater, Fla., will open a busy|ketball team, 13 to 10, by Columbia |week today with a game with the|was the second the New Yorkers Senators. have given the Ell boys this season. mm ki LA MU A R HEADSTROM WINS AT ORMOND Ormond Beach, Fla, March 10.—A, E. Headstrom of Buffalo, N. Y., won the title of champion of Velusia on the Ormond Beach golf links hers yesterday. He defeated W. C. Hart- man of New York in a 36 hole final match, which was all square at the finish of the first 18, A sudden rain- storm made playing rather difficult in the afternoon, but Headstrom seemed to be unmindful of it, winning in the | 17th green 2 and 1. golf match is reported from at Wellington, England, in h rt May, using golf clubs & ball, contended against an 1?; Mackinlay who made casts a 2% The Brandford team will exhibit its wares Saturday night against All- New Britain at the State Armory. ounce t. The golfer|New Britain will play its second game a score of 87 against the|of the series against Bristol in Bris. 02, ' tol on Baturday, March 31. “THERE SHE SAT, ONLY YESTERDAY - ToDAY PERHAPS To CROAK AND | WON'1 SEE MY LITTLE GLADYS EVER AGAIN," ",