New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1923, Page 8

Coach Joe Wood of Yale Tells Why He Looks For Big Season Pitchers Only Need of Eli Nine to Turn Out First Class Baseball Aggrega- tion, Macon, Ga.,, April 3.—Joe Wood, famous American league pitcher, who will coach Yale's baseball can- didates, feels certain that he will de- velop a winner his first year in charge. The Yale squad is doing spring train- ing here, | For several years Yale has been | slipping in an athletic way, particu- larly with reference to its showing | against Princeton and Harvard, Wood hopes to win back some of tae lost! , baseball prestige. He has a great op- | portunity and fairly good materiul to work with. | “I understand,” said Wood, “in dis- | cussing Yale's chances, “that pitching plays the big part in college basepall, | that hitting on the whole 1s rather | weak. “What is true of college ball is equally true of the major leagues, pitching is most essential. A big ‘league club that is weak In the Lox| 'has little chance of winning a pen- nant, regardless of how strong it may !be in other departments of the gamo, | “I feel that the fact that I speat ‘the greater part of my major )cague jcareer as 2 pitcher will be of much ‘value to me as a college coach. Nat- | jurally I will be in a position, because | of my pitching experience, 1o get the best possible out of my twirling can- | didates. “If I am able to develop a few good : pitehers I will have no fear as to the 'outcome of the college season, it will ‘be successful. “In addition to my pitching experi- ence I have played the »utfield, and ibeen a regular in the lineup, which has enabled me a grasp the possibili- ties of the other end of the game. “The fact that I have playvd under two such great managers as Bill Car- ,rigan and Tris Speaker will also work /i¥o my advantage, since 1 have had the "benefit of their instruction and ad- vice.” | | FORFEIT NATIONAL TITLE | 4 Scullin Soccer Club Unable to Place to | | Good Team Against Patterson Replay ' Tie. New York, April 3.—Unable to put ‘forward a capable team for a play-off | (game next Sunday with the Patterson, ‘N. J. Football Club, the Scullin Seel Football club of St. Louis has forfeit- ed its claim to the national soccer championship and gave up the trophy that had been in its possession for a year. The two teams played a draw at Harrison, N. J, last Sunday. Four of the Scullin team are base- . ball players and have left to join Sclubs with which they are under con- tract, it was explained. BREAK TRAINING CAMPS |FIRST NO HIT GAME OF I!O the U. 8. Military Academy JOE WOOD SEASON AT NEWPORT NEWS, Amberst Held Hitless and Runless By W. and M.—Thompson | Fans 11 of 26, Newport News, Va., April 3.—Curtis Thompson, for Willlam and Mary, held the Amherst college hatsmen hit- less and runless in an eight-inning game here yesterday, William and Mary winning by 10 to 0. Only 26 men faced the star southpaw, 14 of these being retired on strikes. Thomp- | son also featured on the attack. He made three hits, scored two runs and drove in two more runs. While Thompson was puzzling Am- herst Coach Driver’'s men took kindly | to the offerings of Perry and Wood- | ruff, counting ten hits and five runs off Perry in five innings and eight hits and five runs off Woodruff's de- livery during his three innings on the mound. Hicks, with four hits one a double, in as many times up, and Lowe, with a single and a home run in four times | at bat, featured the William and Mary attack. | The score by innings: William and Mary .. 230 002 30—10 Amherst . . 000 000 00— 0} Batteries — William and Mary: | Thompson and Chaulkley. Amherst Perry, Woodruff and Warner, |Pittsburgh’s Big Fullback | May Play With West Point | Pittsburgh, April 8.—Orville (tiny) Jewitt, star fullback of the University of Pittsburgh who will graduate in | June has been offcred an appointment and will be eligible to play with the arnly1 eleven next fall. His friends said to- day they expected him to accept the appointment. VICTORY FOR Tl STATE. Black Strikes Out Fourteen and Vir-| ! K. of P. league take three from St NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESPAY, APRIL 8, 1923. VOLLEYING NEEDED DEGLARES RICHARDS Famous Tennis Star Gives Some ers--Loigren High Man Fine Points of the Game The New Britain team in the state By VINCENT RICHARDS | bowling league hopped back into| (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inec.) winning form last night and proved The art of volleying s nothing superior to the Travelers from Hart- | more than taking the ball in mid- ford, taking three straight games,|court or up closer to the net, while The locals’' total pinfall was 1684 as it is in the air, and returning it to against 1478 for the vigitors. An- your opponent's court, derson of New Britain was second to | Johnston Is Greatest, Lofgren for high honors, getting but| The greatest volleyer in the world 335 while the latter knocked down a |today is “Little Bill" Johnston, the| coal 340, MHartford's best bet was| California wonder. Johnston is the| Ambach who spilled 314, | greatest natural volleyer that I hgve Other Games, over seen, He is a marvel on what Other games at the Rogers' alleys|is called shoulder-high ‘volleys." To| last night saw the Esquires in the|f¢ed the ball to him at that helght means a sure point for the little coast marvel. | Tt is doubtful if a man could win the national single championship {the way the game is played today, | | without acquiring the art of volley- ing. The back-court game is fine, NEW BRITAINHOPS ' INTO WINNING FORM Take Three Straight From Travel Klmo and in the Stanley Works Ship- ping league the Latches took two out of three from the Butts; the Hinges made it three struight from the Brackets and the Corner Irons made away with two from the Bolts. Last night's scores: STATE LEAGUE. Thompson Lofgren Frisk ... Anderson .. 1 5 Travelers Ins., Hartford. Ambach cor 94108 Whalen Gildea Wilson Ladish . Bryant Mehle . 3 J A i Wilkin .. Hickie ..... | Finkenstein 7 i 4 | Boyington . : % ke 24 M. Koteh .. STANLEY SHIPPING. Latches. i3 B 2 - i Templete 5 9 X ! Rurns s k 3 ; Senk . 8 4 " | Merwin Frank .. Spino Dirk Wilcox Stanley ... Weyman Duplin Low Man . “BILL" JOBNSTON but one must be able to go into the net position to finish off your point or the ‘other ma» will, I volley with & ‘all sweep®of the racquet, Many .er players em- ploy only what is known as the block | volley, Men who possess only this shot generally are without speed on | their volleys. The full sweep of the | 306— 965 Jennle ... Hyland . Curran Lueback Meskill . AMHERST VICTIM OF NO-HIT GAME — CITY BOWLERS TROUNCE TRAVELERS — YALE OARSMEN CHANGE HEADQUARTERS—GEORGETOWN LOSES FIRST GAME IN TWO YEARS — FIRPO SIGNS FOR CHARITY BOUTS — YANKS FINALLY BEAT DODGERS—RICHARDS GIVES LOW-DOWN ON TENNIS ELI CREWS SHIFTED ONTO HOUSATONIC| No Recruits Get Regular Berth A Three Varsity Eights Report at | New Headquarters Derby, Conn, April 3,~~Yale's row- ing headquarters were transferred yesterday afternoon from New Haven Harbor to the Housatonic River, Coach Fd Leader and President John- ny Houch of the university navy su- perintended the change, ' The three varsity eights reported at tha new boathouse here for their initial workout, following a short Eas- ter vacation, The freshman squad will report to Coach George Murphy tomorrow and the 16-pound varsity eight to Coach Lynn Moore on Thurs- day. Floating ice, high winds and rough water limited this afternoon's work to brief trials under the lea of the high hills which line the north side of the course, Leader paild special attention to blade technicalities and to the adjust- ment of the new shell made of Span- ish cedar by R. J. Pocock, the former University of Washington boatbuilder, who was brought here with Leader to develop an American rowing system at Yale. Rigging New Shell The new shell is high rigged and logically adapted to the heavjer Eli | oarsmen who are being used by Lead- er in the first and second eights. Leader said tonight. that it has no revolutionary lines and embodies no new theories, but that it was almost a replica of the boat in which the University of Washington secured such gobd results at Poughkeepsie last year, and which also was built by Pocock. Leader made a single, although im- portant change in cach of the first and second crews. He assigned Ken- neth Ives to the stroke seat of the first shell. Ives, who lives in Dobbs Ferry, rowed in promising form for the freshmen two seasons ago, but was ineligible last season. He dis- placed Jack Freeman today. Freeman, who stroked the varsity in its winning four-mile race with Harvard two years ago, has becn tried in the same seat the ‘last fortnight. He was relegated to the stroke-oar place in the second shell today. Leader has tried at stroke the last three weeks Freeman, Ives, Ewing freshman stroke last year, and James Rockefeller, No. 6 of the varsity shell. ENGLISH TEAM WINS Britishers Have Easy Time Defeating Sand Hill Blues at Polo—Return Home Saturday. Pinehurst, N. C,, April 3.—Piaving in their last game before sziling for home, the English polo play:'rs, with F. W. Egan, its captain and star play- er, back in the lineup, conceded live goals handicap to the Sand INn! *Ines here and defeated them by 19 goals to 8. John W. Tuckerman of Boston scored two of the three earned goals chalked up to the credit of the Sand Yanks Will Present Same Lineup; EDDIE FOSTER, THIRD BASE ONLY OPEN PLACE ON BROWNS' TEAN Eddie Foster. Old Timer That He is, Still Fighting Gamely For This Berth The length of a major league career is not decided by the age of the in- dividual. Vor while gray hairs may grow around the ears and the ankles squeak there remains something up there in the top story which carries them on Here i die Foster, born I'eb, 13, 1888, who was a member of the Phil. adelphia Athletics back in 1007, re- garded by Lee J7ohl as a candidate for the third cushion in the Browns’ lineup this spring. When I'ohl was asked to map out his plans on the 1923 team he placed Sddie IPoster in the competition with Frank Ellerbe and the recruits, “And why not Foster?” says Iohl. ““Of course he is 35 years of age, but he's younger than Cobb, Speaker, Col- lins and other players. “Foster played a prominent part in landing us a game away from the Yankees last season, Kllerbe was a cripple with a bad knee, Austin could not stand the strain more than three days and the youngsters were not ex- perienced enough. “Foster had a batting average on the season of .265, but I believe he hit at least .350 while he was with the Browns. “Come through in the pinch? Sel- dom misses. Still the best in the league on the hit-and-run play and you never have to shout from the bench to tell him what to do with the ball.” With Sisler for first, McManus for second, Gerber for short and Wil- liams, Jacobson and Tobin in the outfield, third base is the only posi- tion where there will be any coth- petition with the Browns this spring. ARD CREWS R Experienced Football Eight First Brush of Season. Cambridge, Mass., April 3.—The Wins| !N. Y. Americans Have Good, Pitching Staff But Team Is Badly in Need of Good Substitutes. By Billy Evans New Orleans, La.,, April 3.~There will be no new faces in the lineup of the New York Americans when that club takes the fleld in the opening game of the American league race. ‘Wally Schang will be back of the bat. The infleld will be Pipp, Ward, Scott and Dugan. In the outfield, Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth and Whitey Witt will do the fly chasing. In the box will be one of the five veterans on the pitching staff, Bush, Shawkey, Hoyt, Mays and Pennock. Rumor has it that Miller Huggins would shift his infield slightly, send- ing Ward to third and Dugan to sec- ongl. Ward, originally a third base- man, would much prefer to play his old position, but it so happens that Dugan has no desire to play second. Will Make No Change “Ward is a mighty fine secona baseman,” sald Huggins in discussing the suggestion, “while Dugan has only played a half dozen games at that position and has no desire to move over. “Shifting Ward and Dugan would break up two positions with no ob- jective to be gained. There isn't a chance of any shift in the Yankee in- fleld. It will start the season as it finished last year.” That settles all that talk. As a matter of fact, the Yankees' secondary defense is nond too strong. Huggins frankly admits that he needs another utility infielder to help out Mike McNally, who is really the only capable infleld substitute the Yankees have, Of the Infield recruits John Wight looms up as the best pro}gect. The veterans of the squad have already dubbed him “Broadway Joknny" be- cause at present his one lsmbition in life is to stick with the \Yankees long enough to at least see\the big street of the metropolis, H{ has a pretty good chance of lookin: the bright lights. The Yankees have picked up some excellent outfield material in \Hen- dricks, Tucker .and Haines. dricks and Tucker are left at the hat. As to fielding them room for improvement. “Hinky'" Haines is the former State football and baseball Haines is a right-handed hitter. 'l collegian, "Who was with the Y last spring. is a wonderful outfiel very fast and a finished base runnqr. If Haines it able to hit big lea pitching he has a great future aheay. Of the young pitchers in the cam) Oscar Roetteger made by far the be. impression on me. Roetteger is a bi right hander, who stands out fai more than his record of 16 wins with an equal number of defeats would in- dicate. He was with Sioux City in the Western League last year. Roetteger has an easy delivery and gets a snap to the wrist on his curve that bodes ill for the batters. All the veteran Yankee pitchers like Roette- il I b/ A 5‘ arm imparts the needed speed to Hill team and W. V. Slocock of Dub- your volley, which is so necessary|lin tallied the third, at the end of the when you are at the net position. | most spectacular play of the day. Slo- Tilden's Style, | cock picked up the ball at one end of William T. Tilden, world's great- the field in the second period and car- est tennis player, is not a natural|ried is straight down and through the volleyer by any means. It is only, English goal posts. the last year or two that a critic] Captain Kenneth McMullin, F. W. could ciass Tilden's volleying as first| Egan and Capt. L. I. Walford scored class. “ in quick succession at the very open- Always remember to volley with| ing of the game and Captain McMul- a stff w Be sure to delay your|lin amassed five individual goals be- et/ fore the end of the seventh and final| (Continued On Following Page). Iperlod. first Harvard practice crew race of the year was held here yesterday! lamong the freshman eights. Coach | Bert Haines started six crews. Four A. C. M. eights, representing autumn crew men, and two football oarsmen (held the lead most of the way and finished first with a margin’ of two |lengths over A. C. M. No. 1, which in turn led A, C. M. No. 4 by two |lenzths. Adie, Harvard freshman center last year, was stroke of winning crew. ——— e ——— —— — _Philadelphia, April 3.—The Phila- delphia National and American league teams have left their southern train- ing camps and are due here Saturday to begin their post-season series of three games. The . athletics broke camp at Montgomery, Ala, yesterday and the Phillies left Leesburg, Fla, today. ginia Js Beaten, 9-1. Charlottesville, Va,, April 8.— Black’s pitching yesterday baffled the Virginia batsmen, 1a of whom were | retired on strikes, and Penn State| won by 9 to 1. The big right-hander was given excellent support and| yielded but four hits, one a scratch. | Penn State pounded two Virginia | twirlers for sixteen Jits, including a| 4 home run by Palm. Five singles in —President | the third inning netted three runs. | suceeeded Holland ger's style, which makes it seem as if he had a fine chance to stick around. Yankees Have Punch 1 also like the looks of Catcher Beagough, with Buffalo in the Inter- national league last vear. He is short but built along husky lines, and is { the most active player on the fleld. He seems to like to play baseball and fairly exudes the old “pepper.” Ben- gough is certain to be retained as a (Continued on Following Page). BRIGGS \ 3 Exhibition Baseball At Shreveport, La.: THOMAS NOT A YANKEE. New Orleans, April & A. H. Heinmann of the New Orieans | Bronaugh, who Southern association club last night | after the sixth, hit freely in the denied a report that Pitcher Carl|geventh and ninth. Running catches Thomas, who is regarded the “find”|by Kinley and Foster of Virginia were | of the spring season, had been sold|the fielding features, to the New York Americans. It was The score: gald Thomas was sold for $10,000 to | Penn State the American leaguers. E\'irginia CAN BABE RUTH COME BACK? exalted position he once held in the eyes of tandom. He feels keenly his failure of last season. As to Ruth's condition T am per- fectly satisfied the big fellow never St. Louis (A) . Shreveport (TL) Batterie Vangilder and Severeid; Burns, Brewer and J. Burns, Torres, football the The Chairman of The Hquse Committee At Birmingham, Ala.: bk Seeaw Fort Worth, Tex.~—~White Sox-New York Giants game postponed, bad Weather. ..103 100 202—9 | ..000 010 000—1 | | HAIRMAN of THE HOUSE commitree! o Houw) PERFECTLY SPLENDID Birmingham (SL) Cincinnati (N) s o A | Batteries: Morrison, Whitehill and Robeytson; Couch, Abrams and San- berg. WELL 'M N BLeaTen? UNANIMQU S _Too! - THEY'LL Yes ' w H HIS IS € RUN Yw Yes - I'M - Tue Eoa CHAIRMAN OF PRESIDEN THE HOUSE COMMITTEE /e Tue CLUA ™E At Meridian, Miss.: THING BY BILLY EVANS. New York (A).... Brooklyn (N) Batteries: Jones, Pipgrass, | Splain and Schang; Decatur, Smith,! Grimes and DeBerry, Taylor. April 3.—Can At nrl’sc‘nt‘ the question New Orleans, La., Babe Ruth come back? the demon swatter is mark of baseball. was in better shape. What are the chances of Ruth to| Ag to his ability to come back, well regain the home run crown that is tpat is another question. ‘? now the property of Rogers Hornsby [ gm of the opinion that Ruth's| of the St. Louis Cardinals 4 comeback depends on something more For several days I have been giVing|than mere condition.. Psychology 1s i the “Sultan of Swat" the once over,|gging to play an even greater part. At Macon: | the up and down, trying to decide yf Ruth gets away to a good start, r h that very question. |it will mran everything to him in an A8 If the hitting of home runs merely | afrort to win back popular favor. | Yale ..... . 0 5 depends upen condition, Ruth has a Must Regain Confidence. Batteries: ~Webb, Sheridan great chance to win back the fame| Mob psychology is going to enter| Ci1030n: Hickey and Dann. and glory that was his for three Years. into the affair to a great oxtent. In I had heard much about RUtN'S g sense, Ruth has lost confidence 1N | Gesogetpe, condition prior to hitting this bur, | himself. Once that was his greatest| Ccor8cO™P but was skeptical as to the reports.|sgqet, # Ruth Weighs 201 Pounds. Ruth, When he was breaking home- | How much had Ruth actually lost|run records, feared no pitcher, they | partmouth .. during the winter on the farm and all leoked alike to him. Every T‘“"h‘\Pennsyl\'anla 3 P the preliminary work at Hot Springs,|er had a wholesome respect for Ruth. | patteries: Williams, Sout Ark.? 1 wanted to get the informa- He was the big threat. Mahar; Steinhelber, Lyon and Heep. tion first-hand and had the big fel-! That condition has been changed. low step on the scales. He tipped|Ruth’s failure of last year has caused | the beam at exactly 201 pounds. |the pitchers to lose much of the| Last season Ruth weighed 235 respect they once had for Babe's bat- pounds. Draw on your imagination|ting prowess. Ruth looks no differ- and it is an easy matter to picture ent than the other good hitters. No| the change that has taken place. The|longer is he looked on as a super- walstline has been reduced at least batsman. That makes a difference. six inches, and the bay-window th-t’ Ruth is well aware that fandom fis | once announced the approach of the|fickle. A good start means he will| be is now conspicuously missing. |win back the cheers instead of jeers. | Ruth is lighter and in better shape |Cheers make for confidence. Failure | than I have ever seen him|[to hit at the start will unquestion- Ung his entire connection with| ably discourage the big fellow and| ‘the \American league. When he was|probably kill off some of his worth- the ding southpaw of the John-|while resolutions. #onlan'\ Organization, Ruth weighed In‘ Ruth has won back condition. Now the neigthborhood of 210. if he can get the fans with him, the Ruth 1§ In fine shape. 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