New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 8

I W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923, HARRY HEILMAN MAKING GREAT RECORD WITH WILLOW — BLANDES GETS HIS FOURTH HOME RUN — GIBBONS-DEMPSEY BOUT ASSURED—BIG LEAGUERS CLOSELY BUNCHED — DISSATISFACTION WITH DECISION IN HARTFORD BOXING MATCHES — TRADE SCHOOL PLAYS MIDDLETOWN Mww LAST THREE PLACES IN NAT. AND 2 INAMERICANLEAGUE | EMPTY, SHOWS CLOSE RACE Giants Retain Two Game Lead and Cleveland Still is S ly Ahead of Yanks—17 afe- Hits Equal 17 Runs With Washington, While 13 Bingoes Provide 13 Tallies in Boston Battle—Williams, , Hartnett and Blades Now Have Four Homers Each, New York, May 1.—Sixth, seventh and eighth places in !ho‘ National league standing and seventh and eighth laces in the American league were unoccupied today indicating that hard and | close fights are being made in bo Race Is Cl The New York Giants had a tional over Chicago and Cincinnati just a notch above Boston and Philadelphia, crowded by th circuits, ose One, clear two game lead in the Na- who were tied for second place, itts- urgh and S.. w.ouis who were knotted in fourth place. Brooklyn with only three victories and nine elevated cellar fifth place. defeats had a clear hold on the In the American, Cleveland by trimming the stubborn Detroit Tigers yesterday, 4 to 2, kept a safe distance ahead of the New York Yanks who climbed back into second place while the Tigers bowed before the Indians, The Athletics were a step behind the Cobbites, beating Boston in the 1 1th inning, 4 to 2. By vanquishing Chicago 7 to 3, St Louis ascended into a triple tie n'llh‘ the Benators and Red Sox and put the | White Sox deeper into the cellar, | 17 Hits Equal 17 Runs The Yankees made the day memor- able by cracking the Washington pitchers for 17 hits which they con- verted into 17 runs to the Senators' 4. After dropping three straight the Glants imposed upon Brooklyn, win- ning 4 to 3 while the Cubs went into second place with Cincinnati by fall- ing before the Reds 6 to 4. Boston trounced a trio of Quaker pitchers, getting 13 hits and counting | 13 times to the Phillles’ 3. Gets His Fourth Homer Ray Blades, Cardinal leftficlder went Into a triple tie with Ken, Wil- liams of the Browns and Hartnett of the Cubs with his fourth homer of the season helping his team to a 7 to victory over Pittshurgh. NATIONAL LEAGUE Glants Win at Last. New York, May 1.—After three straight games, the New York Giants dafeated Brooklyn in a fast played game yesterday, 4 to 3. Brnokl'?'n. ah. . | | | losing Olson .. Johnston, i T. Griftith, rf. . Wheat, If. . Barber, cf, Schliebner, High, 3h. *Neis . Deberry Ruether, 1hi.% P *Ran for High in 9th, New York. ab, Bancroft, es, . Groh, 3b. . Frisch, 2b. . Meusel, If. Shinners, 1f, Young, . Kelly, 1b. Cunningham, ¢ Gaston, c. McQuillan, ol 0| of 1 0} ol 0} 0l 1 P 27 12 001 000, . 010 00x— Two base hits, Ruether, i throe vase hit, Kelly; home run, Wheat; sac fice, Cunningham; double piays, Olgon, Joh ston and Schilebner; High, Oleon & Schiiebner; Frisch and Kelly; left on basc New York 8, Brooklyn 5; base on balls, ¢ McQuillan 2, oft Ruether 3; struck out, by MeQuillan 1, by Ruether 1; wild pitches, MeQuillan, Ruether; umpires, Klem and Hart; time, 1:23. Cards 7, Pirates 5. St. Louis, May 1.—8t. Louis made it four In a row by defeating Pitts- burgh yesterday, 7 to 5. Pittsburgh. 1 Brooklyn New York | | | ! Chicago How They Line up in Four Leagues National League Yesterday's Games New York 4, Brooklyn 3. Cincinnati 6, Chlcago 3. Boston 13, Philadelphia 3. St. Louis 7, Pittshurgh 9. The Standing. W, vey 10 L. New York 4 Chicago ... Cincinnati . Boston . ... Philadelphia Pittsburgh ... St. Louis ... Brooklyn 714 538 Games Today Boston at Philadelphia. Brooklyn at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Louls. Chicago at Cincinnati. American League Yesterday's Results, Philadelphia 4, Boston 2. Cleveland 4, Detroit 2. Washington 4, New York 17. St. Louis 7, Chicago 3. The Standing. § P.C Cleveland T New York .. Detroit Philadelphia Washington St. Louis .. Boston ... 615 .600 182 Games Today. St. Louis at Chicago. Cleveland at Detroit. Philadelphia at Boston. New York at Washington. International League Yesterday's Games Buffalo-Jersey City (No game, high | fering from winds). Syracuse-Newark, (Wet grounds). Rochester Baltimore 10, Toronto 12, Reading 9. | | White, Albany bantamweight, by Ref |eree P.C. hout of | Rh | championship by |is the first American to win the title in 39 years, defeating F. J. ng partner to Mi JPORTED GEOR( FOR BOUT ACCEPTI CHALLFE R Paris, May 1.—Battiing Siki has accepted Georges Car- pentier's recent challenge for a return bout says L'Auto, KID LEWIS GETS DECISION IN HARTFORD ISTIC ML Verdict, However, Was Not Popular, | Mzany Thinking White Was Just As Good Kid Lewis of Hartford, was award- ed a 12-round decision over Jabe: the star | C. hoxing | Glennon in National A. Frankie the |card staged at the Church street nutl!-\ [torium at Hartford last night, “Mike" | team they can arrange games by | fusely tics throughout, but was met by stiff | jabs from the Albany scrapper, which |battered Lewis' facé considerably. The | Capital city lad never stopped trying, | Hartford | England. No knockouts occurred dur- | |ing the ten rounds the battiers trav-| | eled. | West 15915 pounds. 03 | Delaney was sponsor for 500 [1he decision was far from satisfacto 500 | many 462 | misjudged the merits of the fight in 462 [ giving the favorable end of the ver-|cchool and the N. B, H. School teams, 250 | dict to Lewis. o of Hartford scored a technical 667 |Over Eddie Blankard |round. 364 ‘ bouts. 364 o 351 Houston Roller Skater | ing record .ot | here, the card had | believing that Glennon Both fighters bled pro- | during the bout from cuts over the eyes. Lewis maintained | his rushing tac- however, and appeared the fresher at the final bell. Lewis' weight 119% and White 118% pounds. In the semi-final Mike Morley lost 1o Georgie West | of | of | Morley weighed 157% and| In the preliminary bout Leo White kayo sixth in the A small-sized crowd witnessed the Keeps It Up Forty Hours Houston, Tex., May 1.—Leo Har- | mon of Houston holds the roller skat- | the world, it is said He skated for 50 hours, stop-| Frank | ping at 10:40 Sunday night. | | Paladino went off the floor at 2:40 | Sunday morning leaving Harman as | the lone skater. | two pairs of skates and was not suf- Harman used only hey blistered feet when | stopped. Gibbons Scores Technical | advice, | infield and was knocking them around | April ‘;April | April April April April |April | April |April |April |April 2 April [Cobb was not satisfied with the Edward P, Eagen, former Yale student and now an American odes scholar at Oxford, England, won the British heavyweight | Hulks in three rounds, Eagen He trained in ke McTigue, light heavy champ. BOYS' CLUB ORGANIZES Baseball Team Starts for Scason and Manager Knapp is Anxious to Book Up Some Fast Opponents, They say there is no thing like get. ting in a lot of practice and the hoys from East Main street are sure there on the diamond. About twenty players were out for the Boys' Club team last night when they put in a lick at the | 1 old ball, getting doubles and walloping the pill around a bit and limbering up the wings. They sure are starting at a wild clip and should clean up plenty of fast teams about the state. Stevie Dudack was up there giving the boys He had them line up in the a bit. All in all it looks like a very successful son and already the boys are talking about home runs and triples. In another week or so the manage- ment will be booking games and the geason will be on. If any local team desires games with the Boys' Club | phoning the club and getting Manager Knapp on the wire. The club desires to p A. C., Pirates A. C. The Local Trade hoping they will communicate as soon as possible. verett Scott has but two more games to go before he will have played in 1,000 consecutive games. ALL OF AWERICA' GOLFERS ENTERED Will Compete fn St. George's Challenge Cup Competition By The Associathd Press \ Sandwich, Eng, May 1~—All the members of the American golfing ex- | pedition have entered the i, George's {challenge cup competition on the Roya! St, George's course tomorrow and Thursday The entry list of braces names renowned among the British amateurs and the Dritishers will be spurred to their best efforts in a desire to retain the trophy which has never bheen won by a forelgn | goifer sinee the competion was insti- tuted in 1888, Hard Hitting Tolley The hard hitting Cyril Tolley will be there together with E, W, E. Holder. ness, British amateur champlon, Rog- er Wethered, James Braid and others. Recnuse of the large number of competitors medal play for the his- torie gold cup will be confined to holes, 15 tomorrow and 18 on Thurs- day. A tie for low score is not at fall unlikely in which event the lenders | will engage in a 18§ hole playoff, Neville First (o Start John ¥ » of San Francisco, | California amateur champion will be the first American to tee off. | 16921 players em- | Scott of Royal St. George's. Scott last year won the French amateur champlonship. The other Americans are scattered through the st each being paired with an Eng- lishmun. George V. Rotan of Hous- ton will be the next Yankee to start after Neville and the others will get under way at intervals in the follow- ing order. Robert A, Gardner, 8. Davison Her- ron, Harrison R. Johnston, Dr. O. | Willing, Fred Wright, Jr., Maxwell R, Marston, Francis Ouimet, Jess Swee ser and Reginald M. Lewis Great Foreign Drive Never before has such a powerful effort to carry off the lionored St George's cup been made by allens. British golfers are frankly afraid that the trophy is about to be taken where their open championship has disap- ¢ the St. Mary's team, Rangers| peared in the last two years and per-|eran, haps their amateur championship | title along with it. Golf writers in the British Isles are preparing the public for such a shock. They are liberal in their praise of | sweetser and Ouimet at Rye last (Continued on Foliowing Page) 'IN FIRST 13 GAMES OF SEASON HEILMAN HIT SAFELY IN EACH April I 0 0 f oo e 3 49 11 Batting average, .531. Extra base hits, doubles, 6; tripies, home runs, 2. Before the American league season opened it was said that Manager Ty way Harry Heilmann had been hitting and that the husky right flelder might be benched. 1; To prove that these stories were not stified and that there {s nothing rong with his batting orbs all Heil- mann has done since the opening day of the season is to hit safely in every one of the games the team has played, |13 in all, for the remarkable average |of .581: In the 13 games Heilmann has |swung his bat at the opposing pitch- lers 49 times and bas ground out a total of 26 hits, |doubles, one triple and two home runs. In 1921, Heilmann led the American league hitters, nosing out Ty Cobb by the way he has started off this season, the Detroit slugger is going to make a strong bid to regain the batting hon- |ors which last season were captured |by George Sisler. Hellmann's sensa- [tional batting mark now places him |at the top of the American lcague hatsmen, He has drawn to start with Michael | The output of safeties includes six | a hair-line margin, and judging from |y 'DEMPSEY WILL DEFEND CROWN IN JULY 4 GO WITH GIBBONS St, Paul Heavyweight Selected As Champ's Opponent For 15-Round Decision Bout At Shelby, Montana Chicago, May 1,—Jack Dempsey world's champion heavy- weight boxer will grant Tom Gibbons of St, Paul, his long sought championship bout next July 4 at Shelby, Mont, Toy Molumby Montana state commander of the American Legion, announe last night, The battle will be 156 rounds to a decision, Molumby said that all that remained to be done is to sign articles and select ‘a referee, Molumby did not announce the agreement under which Dem, sey will box but it was learned a §100,000 certified check would be given him when he signs and it was intimated Kearns assented |to a plan permitting Dempsey either a straight guarantee or a percentage of the gate receipts, LADY BOWLERS IN CLEAN-UP CONTESTS South Enders and T. & H. Girls Each Win Three Straight YESTERDAY'S Mades, Cayds Russell, Pirates ., Wheat, Dodgers . Sand, Phillies . Powell, Braves Harrls, Red Sox ., Meusel, Yanks Home ¥ Hartnett, Cubs Blades, Cards ... Williams, Browns Grimm, Pirates .., Willilams, Phillles HOMERS, Amidst a crescendo of giggles and dJ | titters, punctuated by a screach here land there, the South Enders in the Ladies' City Bowling took three straight games from the Universal GAME lN MIDLETOWN Five; Traut and Hine took three from the Machine company girls, and Cor- Ibin took two out of three from the Baseball Ilast Enders at Rogers alleys last night. Nine Will Play Second of Series sh | New Britain Trade School | | Other Games, In the Stanley Works shipping lea- gue the Butts lost three to the Boits, The local trade school will invade |the Brackets took two from the Middletown tomorrow afternoon with | Latches and the Hinges did the same |'the idea of bringing back their sec-|thing to the Corner Irons. In a spe- lond victory of the scason. In the |clal.match the D. A. V. got but one first game of the season the hoyn"‘"l of three from the V. F. W. and ahiowed ehough form to_ proplivéy - a | Bl Kimo got but one from the RivAlk: |team fast enough for any school team The in the state, | Miller is rapidly developing into one jo fthe best catchers who ever wore | the black and orange, while Capt. An- |’ | derson plays the first bag like a vet- M. Second base has been a weak |1 \spot since changing Capt. Anderson to | first, but it is expected Eric Anderson |a veteran from last lear will close the | F | gap successtullyd FFusari has displayed | | good form at short and in addition | wiclds a wicked bat. In Kulikowski | the local traders have a third base- * man the equal of any school boy in |the state. A clean flelder and pos- | | sessing a good throwing arm, he is g ’,\,“;:l",“ P lalso a dependable man with the wil- |E. Anderson llow and extra fast on bases. The M. Crowley outer defepse composed of Herold, | R 1¥neh | Vance and Vettorello finds three fast | men each having a fine arm and being good judges of fly balls. Kania who p* oOgren . |has a high local reputation will toe L. Koerber . the rubber for the locals while An- k. Linn deen who held Middletown to three |7 PEEert - hits last week will be in reserve. Middletown is determined to even | % up the series but the locals are out|L “\":‘m""; [to keep their slate clean this season |y, g so a fast game is sure to result. With High School. i CITY LEAGUE, Universal _Five M. PR i & harft VR 404 429 ’l%“ Fnst Fnds, 5 105 | Five Le;ding Batsmen In Each Major League National TLeague. G. AB. [c. raporte Becker .. 1A, Quin M. Blankenburg 8. Skarzynski Wheat, Brooklyn P Traynos, Plttsburgh STANLEY ! Butts, . 78 ] 82 82 American League. G. AB. R “Sl\or(dnn Heilmann, Detrolt | Fox Colling, Chicago | Hurley 09 p 4q | Schrodel 360 (Continued on Following Page) BRIGGS | Kayo Over Chuck Wiggins There’s at Least One in Every Office | New Orleans, May 1.—Tommy Gib- | | bons scored a technical knockout in| 3| the tenth round of a scheduled | round bout here last night with “Chuck” Wiggings. Just after Wig- gins had staggered up from his third knoekdown of the tenth round a towel | was thrown from his corner and the 308 referee stopped the bout. Wiggins| :sunpmn a broken rib in the fifth| | ab, The Standing. Maranville, ss. w. Carey, cf. Bighee, | Russell, r Tierney Traynor, Grimm, Gooch, Roehler, p. . Carlson, 1. « *Barphart .. P.C. | | Rochester . Baltimore ... Toronto .... | Buffalo s | Jersey City . | Newark . Syracuse . Reading SAY GRACE | DANCED Tl THREE P.X. AND I'M ABOUT DEAD -1 DON'T SEE HoW M GoING To LAST, THE DAY ouT ,» 3 HERE'S A HOT ONE GRACIE - = CHARLIE AND ME SURE DID HIT (T OFF LAS'NIGHT - = WERE THINKING OF GOIN' IN O BREAW THE e MARATHON | ‘n @4 Y | SURE CAN SHIMMY- GILDA GRAY HAS NOTHING ON ME~ HOWS THIS~ HUH TA YWDDY UM YUDDY UM = = ~ B — . ~— 3 round, | |Manhattan College to Have Football Once More New York, May 1.—A call for can- didates for a football team will be is- | sued by Manhattan College for its new quarters, 242d street, west of Broad- | way, when that institution opens its| doors in the early fall. This announce- ment wag made yesterday by the Ath- letic Association of the college. Tt is| understood that a freshman team will| be the only eleven to sport the Green and White this year. This will be the first football team to represent the| Christian Brothers college in elevn Rlades, Flack, Buffalo at Jersey Cit Toronto at Reading. Rochester at Baltimore. Syracuse at N rf. ) Eastern League Yesterday's Games Worcester 10, Waterbury 3. *Batted for (Other games postponed, rain). standing of the Clubs (Cmmrn‘-! on Following Page). L. P.C 1.000 600 *| New Haven | Waterbury | Worcester Rridgeport Pittsticld Hartford Al Kpringficld LISTEN You! You'Re NoT WORTH A LEAD NickEL To THIS CONCERN-=- GO ON AND ENTER THE MARATHON AND GET IT OVUT OF TouR SYSTEM - You'RE NO GooD FoR ANY THING, T ELSE OH BoY |'M ALL IN-- TS GoING > BE A Tovat DAy | FOoR POOR LITTLE ME - WE'RE GOING OUT AGAIN ToRIGHT~ HOT DoG ! ALLEN TO LEAD CRIMSON CUBS Cambridge, Mass., May 1.-—Robert G. Allen of Andover was elected freshman track captain at Harvard after practice yesterday. He was a member of the Andover track team for three years, being captain twice. — SIS All Makes Cars REPAIRED and OVERHAULED Cadillacs a Specialty AUTHORIZED NASH SERVICE STATION J. B. Moran| GARAGE ‘Slfl!fi CHURCH ST. Tel. 1354 e st - Games Today. Hartford at Dridgeport. Springfield at Albany. Worcester at Waterbury. Pittsfield at w Haven, — YESTERYEARS IN SPORT ago, on May 1, 1913, Tinker of Cincinnati John Kling as catcher. Ten years Manager Joe Reds signed Twenty-five years ago, on May 1, 1898, sport fans were pleased to hear that Alex Greggains had agreed to teferee the Sharkey-Jefiries fight to J be held in few days. FOR SPRING ~ A LOW ROLLED FRONT COLLAR Clueu Peabody &-Co.Inc.Troy Y. i |