New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1923, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1028, = e L CARP WINS FRENCH HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BY KNOCKOUT — GIANTS AND YANKS CLING TO FIRST PLACE —CORBINS OPEN SEASON WITH A WIN, WHILE PIRATES START OFF WITH DEFEAT — WILLIAMS FAMILY PROVING CAPABLE SLUGGERS — CUBS DEFEAT COLUMBIAS — OTHER EVENTS = S S EACH OF THE BIG LEAGUES | KNUCKLE BALL LATEST BOUND FAD | ATHLETES FROM U. S. HOLD HAVING CLOSE CONTESTIN _ ~ EDGE OVER WORLD RIVALS FIGHT FOR PREMIER HONOR v | ‘, IN INTERNATIONAL GAMES Only Four Places in American Circnit Wi y § S ; : y’l‘od:y._Dn’l:lle M'::rloa:\lhle‘:l::.‘;’::l‘s:' ;’“:::;;;; ' . B P ' o G[B"E‘mfilffl‘ylfiss I;ilklm lnum:iuon;l Spt:‘;'t:hc;ll.- \ & wmn.. petition, In W his First—Grimm Hits Safely in His 19th Consecutive| \ " Game—Hornsby Gets Two Homers, I 77N 4 e ; AR, 4 ; : B Country Leldl, stlfll Y K. bl Opea Season With 100 6 Victory| [ Earmest Abroad This & New \;orkb.oz\‘la,\' 7.'—-,\'au'i1'|n"!he finish of three weeks of pln.\'i : B o ) e races in both major baseball leagues have disclosed keener A : v . ¢ "Mi 0856r's competition all down the line than in most seasons, There were| S v ) b Ll . om' Mludflle Bl.u T week 3nl,\' ": places 1? t'l‘ne American league when play started today, \ oy A - . [ ne team was in first, two in second, one in third and four tied R N 3 ¥ | After Jerry Griffen wi 4 for fourth and three were tied for third in the National, 4/ /s 3 g ‘ from the mound, and with ‘azux‘la:' n»\.:»: '&'ifl"i? ey / . dale team leading the Corbin nine 5§ |m‘.rnnlonlll .p%.";.:m'flm“«:: Yanks Still n First — | to 2, Tommy Blanc! went 0 Though they lost to the Philadel. oy y ! g N piteh and eut downhllmlhor"nlor:'li:l r:a'a"em?"mnl" e e ren phia Athletica—the sensation team of | : : ) s in the opening game of the Corbin's |, oo o orelgn soll, will start on un the season——5 to 1 before 55,000 peo.| ” . ¥ B R 3 . season yesterday, which the locals €nsl \:mullr this week with Amerfs ple the New York Yanks managed to ow mey L”‘e ap § won 10 to b, y cans seeking titles in Loth tho British start a road trip in first place as both | | y a4 3 ,’ Hard, consistent and extra base hit- :m;:'“' and women's goH champion~ Detroit and Cleveland lost, By de. . Y ting accounted for New Britain's win, * . 2 5 feating Roston 4-1 Washington be- n FOH" leaguea ; ' 4 ! Captain Corbin, Budnick, Wojak, | o (.0',"' Womaa Eutrant, came level with the Red Sox and en- { : Barnett and T. Blanchard all hit well, [ The Cniled States s - formidaoly abled Chicago which won its third \ Linstrom, the Milldale pitcher, | iEBYeacuted In the men's tournament stralght from Detroit 4 to 3 and St Nati . twirled a nice game untll he was hit comp:“:"‘_ h.u! ‘l’:"‘l‘h;."v“’_:";:':":l'l"":: Louis which won a ninth inning R 5 A by a pitehed ball in the sixth after Ve ational League Here are four exponents of four various styles of delivery. Left to right, Wplter Johnson, |which ho ~weakened. ~However, he &8 Hilth Cutmmings s the solo par- vater, thriller from Cleveland b-4 to go into h hief ¢ i ed and plenty of it; Christy Math hile in th t 4 i a four cornered tie for fourth place. Yosterday's Games whose chief asset 1s 8 and plenty of 1t; risty Mathewson, while in the game, was the great-|fanned nine, Encouraged by an excellent show est curve baller; Ed Walsh excelled as a spit ball artist, and Ed Rommel sems to best exemplify |, Tommy Bianchard's critles, 'who |, e s(, George's challange cup tours by nament last week, the amateur brls Chicago and Pittsburgh both lost Cincinnati 8, Pittsburgh 7. ground in the Natlonal while New Brooklyn 7, Phil 9 J York and Boston were idle, Through 8t. l.m‘x’ll 16, hch:::::m: < the knuckle ball hurler. through .-hnnm h‘n\'t- seen h"l’a‘j ""“’rk gade which also is abroad to defend ita victory over the Cubs 16 to 4, St. — By Billy Evans. weapon against the batter. Only| liveries made for more hitting. yesterday. He was up to old M€y \woiier cup hopes to land the blue Louis went into a tie for third place | The Standing. Sitohi ey (fe real veterans stuck to the fast| Already the lively ball has rovolu- |TOr™: The Seare: o b sox ribbon classic of British golf at 1 with Pittsburgh which lost to Cin- w. Pkl SYOMRE PO IR Symen. ball, high and inside, as their big tionized the art of pitching. A twirl- / N r W po. a e|It has been nearly a scorc of years cinnati 8 to 7. DBrooklyn made a|New York . 787 When 1 joined the American 1€ague threat, Cy Young held to it to the er who depends almost exclusively on [Corbin, cf. .\ 5 ] |since Walter J. Travis hung up Ame motion toward getting out of the cel-| Boston .. ‘pag! 18 years ago, the fast ball, pitched very end, although late in his career speed, hasn't a chance in the majors | Snyder 1. < |erica’s only triumph in the British lar by downing Philadelphia 7 to 4, |Chlcago . ‘o6 | Meh, was the thing. Cy developed a pretty fair curve today. A change of pace is most es- [{y; Risnehiard, 18, amateur title event. Pitchers llke Cy Young who had|that he used to advantage by cross-|sential. Wojn Tennis Stars Too The Walker cup matches next week mwmacoan Seomowias l e isussos | escuruuose 1o lscsuuumssns ~losssnssssns -4 = Seoumom Linetrom, p. . luccsscn | conuruvonns los wloocomosuasan wlocooamwmmoy = ARl Maranville, ss. Carey, cf. . Bagby, p. - Russell, rf. Tierney, 2b. . Fraynor, 3b. Grimm, 1b. Schmidt, c Carlson, p. xBarnhart Hamllton, p. Horshy Gets Two Homers Pittsburgh .. 10 626 ¢ Rogers Hornsby made two circuit |St. Louls ... .10 526 | plenty of zip on their fast one, which|ing the boys up. Now It's the Knuckle Ball, Barnett, swats bringing his total to four and Cincinnati . § .421 | they kept shoulder high, were the suc-| The spit ball was the forerunner In order to cope with the batsman, Vul‘“:d‘:‘l"'l'( [to be held at St. Andrews, Scotland, Charlie Grimm, Pirate first sacker, hit | Philadelphia . 376 | cessful twirlers, of an era of freak deliverles. In an pitchers have found it necessary to|carrazzo, c. jand then the British open champion- safely keeping his consecutive record Brooklyn ..... 6 .333 The fast ball, kept high, had‘ been | effort to r_fllnln supremacy over the be able to slow up. There can be no |Grifith, p, ship at Troon, June 11-15, will add for the season clear. He now hae in vogue some time before I joined batsman, pitchers began to doctor steady diet of any particular style, |T- Biwnch to the interest in internationat golf, hit in the 19 games played this sea- Games Today the majors. It had a run of perhaps the Im.ll to get an unusual break. | the pitcher must resort to every stock 40 1 while the tennis invasion of Jurope son. Brooklyn at Boston, 10 yeurs. | Vogue of Freak Deliveries, {in trade. Milldale, by William M. Johnston and Viucent New York at Philadelphia. Then came the era of the spit ball.| One of the discoveries made by| The present season is destined tof = == A | Richards, No. 2 and No. 3 runking NATIONAL LEAGUE 8t. Louls at Pittsburgh. Few deliveries have nllr‘red up nn'lhe ever alert pitchers was that by|see a majority of pitchers using the | coqet, b, American stars, is likely to result in gl mllxtc)l: I:;gllu!lon pro and con as lh(“ :nu,:l‘:t]-(nhg t::”h’:‘l:] it \l\'a:\‘:ro;slh:‘r ‘klr:)lck’lo h.:l!ll. Th]t; knuckle hmll m;ln- ;.”:,) 2b, i ld:l(l-l’).llll co&rtlltnullelll for America. spit ball. 0 e the or break down, | livered with ordinary speed, -just|La Fluer, 1f. t Troon, Walter Hagen will defend A er' 8pit ball pitchers early discovered according to where the purchase was enough to throw the batter off his|Bmedick, ef. the titie he won last year, while Gene C|nclnnlm‘n‘; ;.’gfr‘;:dl(ed- broke m L Leugue (h;xll blt”\\'ula ‘;:"m;(smry‘ lul pk':-(;y“ ';‘{Le‘ {vlucnzi(.oll)|lhr* :’u”t: bh;mlkt l?:‘“;‘::‘;:a u!rl\dt;d:\fto; looking .1|l a 'fnsl one, e | Sarazen, Jim Barnes and other “pro™ thein losing streakc of fve straleht| . Neverisys Results e el acon st tn. Dasenell|fust balk. Mgh aag Tnsisn sRHoUFS| dsblred chaaks of pace the Kbueklp SEehe buk T Ite krore g::): ;::;::2“:1:”7?’6‘::;‘1;‘; !P’::::: St. LO\H: B.u CllevJ.:mY:_'k 4 that a spit ball broken above l]lal‘lhe low ball was used as much if not| ball fairly shimumies up to the plate 10 Jock Hutchison, Chicago star, who . clght, having hit safely in every one| Washington 4, Boston 1. Coming of Spit Ball. deliverics give the pitchers that they| In all the games I have worked Budniok 3, Sme- Sther Outstanding Events. of the 19 championship games played i Sl Spit ball pitehing proved so effec- | were legislated out of haseball, fnelud- | 5o far this year T have seen only two | haca i base i o Coft “Linstrom 1, off| Other outstanding events nbroad to date. o Gtanding, tive that a majority of the pitchers|ing the spitter. It was the belief that pitchers who failed to at least exper- |Griffin 1, oft Blanchard 1; struck out, by during the coming few months in The score: went to the delivery. Others who | miore hitting was desired, and that iment with the knuckle ball, Linstrom 9, by Griffin 4, by Blanchard 6 |\which the Americans will seek honors Pittsvargh. 8111 4iin't really use it faked the deliv-|elimination of freak deliveries would In baseball it's a survival of the |fioleh bises Snyder 3, Hainewt 2 Jett fmlinclude the court tennis invasion of ab. Ehvamad ery for the psychological effect. | bring it about. X | fittest with the pitcher and batsman | Carosza 2; first base on errors, Mildale 1.|l’rance and England by Jay Gould and Philadelphia . The spit ball changed entirely the Likewise in the desire to supply | constantly fighting for supremacy. Corbin 4; hits, oft Griffin 8, oft Blanchard |y, W, Wear, national doubles cham- N style of pitching from the high to more hitting thé ball wns made more | At present the batsmen have the | i, Vi bitch, Otlilin L umpire, DEMBSY: plons; the combined Harvard-Yale Washington .. . the low ball, as the most effective|lively. A lively ball and no freak de-| edge. strom 2, v track teams tilt with Oxford-tamn- Bt. Louls . S o] g e bridge in July and the American 4 0 1 i fencing team's defense of the Rohert Chicago .. ; . l'l s h l B s Wil'l An d LOSC 109 Home Rl_ms ]..[ave Been |Five Leadlngnlgzgtters_ B e iR A P CNoo. 0y ! y Clouted in Big Leagues Inmt“l;fimajoriglrcmts i3 team in London aiso in Jul. i - lm" 00V udaed, o ':t“afiz‘;}f’“d' D T k SOHRE b i ‘h:g“gmhn‘"::;;‘i “’l‘); Player and Club G.AB.R. H.P.C.| Walter Hoover is scheduled to de- ; op ame, Drop lTrack IVeet |iiun: 1., toior ey eimenn, Deirai .15 86 13 2800 cond s iamona seul tite en_the this. racord includt L5ARY! 8! Cobb, Detroit ......19 72 12 28 .389 Thames while in August, Yankee six ng today's eireuit| g, 1o Boston .....17 57 B 26 .3§8|metre yachts will oppose British eraft coumwnumu. SocBHBacHo. 31 *26 14 B mloocssscscsnas SN xBatted for Caflson in, Oth. Cinetnnatl. L o International League v e Sleuin g;‘zh;sm:llxn;‘r:ter_,mzyn\ national | goon ver Cleveland .18 60 10 26 .377|in both individqal and team matches. } n PR v d ome runs " 5 Dayv! u; limination contests i \ogp Yesterdars Games Waterbury Boys Prove Speedier and Take Contests 49 10| yniie 26 American Tcague piayers | 1€ Eillky s SDIL 10Tl DA ipy I RRCOR R ochester 9, Baltimore 1. . . 3 connected for 36. A i 2 brin v . A.B. X g the respective winners to this Jersey City 0, Syracuse 0. 27 While Red and Gold Diamond Men The two Williams, Kenneth of st, | Fiayer and Cub G AB B M BL) Oy in August for the final maten Buffalo 12, Newark 1, 2 't Hi Louis Browns, and Cy of the Phillles, uornsl;y St. Louis .19 71 25 80.:424 to determine the nation which will ) Trounce Gilbert High 3-2, tn the National, were leading the re- | g i Wl Tl (g 6g 18 28 w4a4|Play the Unitod States in the chal- P spective leagues, the latter having! i ; { W. et I'risch, New York ..19 81 21 33 .407 BucHortar. .« : New Britain High school athletes|just finished a battle with his stud-|S/Eht homers and the formee foven. gygme . Phila. ...17 17 15°30 .890 Baltimore : both won and lost Saturday after-|ies during the week out.pitched MERRIRG Sy Jersey City ....... noon, the track team bowing to the)Beach of the Gilbert team. F “ N d o BR @ Toronto .. g 500 | Waterbury speeders, but the baseball Rally in Ninth Wh l(‘& Bah for Wings in 8th Buffalo ..... A A nine humbling Gilbert High of Win-| The two teams battled on even en a reller Iveeds a Fnend Wl xBatted for Luque in Sth. Newark ...... 7 Y sted, terms until the sixth inning when the zBatted for Donohue in 9th. = Reading ... . > s Red and Gold boys scored two runs. A o 400 100 Qe F Mymouse o0l The New Britain High school base- | With two runs under their belts, it 5 oush, Traynor; sacri- | ball team continued on the the win-|looked as if the game was sewed up, Duncan, Carey; double plays, Grimm Games Today. ning path Saturday when it defeated]and another run in their half of the :&y“{:,’glr‘l"m";‘_"Ifl?-":"-“;n:’:“»“gn:s“‘zr";z';' Rochester 9, Baltimore 1. the Gilbert High school in Winsted | ninth inning made it look certain. In Cineinnati 6; bases ,,"" balls, off LWL 5. Jersey City 9, Syracuse 0, by a score of 3 to 2. The game was|the last half of the ninth however, off Donohtie 3, offt Bagby 3, offt Hamiiton Buffalo 12, Newark 1. exciting throughout, and it was not the Winsted tecam started to belt the 3; struck out, by Luque 4, by Bagby 1, by ——— until there were three out in the !nat[bfll, something they had not been half of the ninth that the winner doing throughout the game. They Carlson 1, by Hamilton 1; hits, off Luque| 3 in § innings, off Donohue 2 In 1 Inning, | o 7 EBSteln League was a settled thing Gray, who had scored two runs before they went out. 9 cooosnwmEnLaaT wmanaal Burns, 1f. .. Daubert, 1b. ... Duncan, 1f. . Roush, of. .. Hohne, 2b. . Pinelli, 3b Caveney, Wingo, €. *Fowler .. Hargrave, Luque, p. xHarper . cmorwLLmmT (Continued on Following Page) Donohue, p. sFonseca .. leoss lo <locoroswun 2 mlesessmssmoncnun off Baghy § in 7 innings( none out in Sth), | off Carlson 3 in 1 Inning, off Hamilton 2| 5 in 2-3 inning; winhing pitcher, Donohue; Yesterday's Games = | losing pitcher, Hamilton; umpires, Finner-| Hartford 4, New Hav an and Moran; time, 2:00. Birga) St SOUTHINGTON A, C, PLANS |, The feature of the game was the noa———“_' Springfleld 4, Waterbury 3 v Vo | pitchers' duel hel‘wren Gray of New gers Win ] : | Dritain and Beacfyof Winsted. Gray N .| Bridgeport 2, Pittsfield 1. Brooklyn, May J.—Andy High's Anmf‘yp“ wo,ce:,:;"‘a’ ANOTHER BOX]NG SHOW sent no less than 12 would-be hit- elean up double with the bases full| '. i ters back to the bench by way of drove Weinert out of the box yes- stand 5 | [this route, while Beach the Gilbert RRIXREK g of the Clubs Gitlitz, Yale Star, Will be in One of |giaber made 15 Red and Gold men ',{::';.;.;.:fg',:.;z’,‘,‘i\ W Y 5 RR3 " /l/';,‘,w"/,z XL I % X SRR 27 Batters Fan 0 'Zgz’/v' KX K W 0 v KX terday and aided materially in Brook- A i il bite at his third strike. SRS 700 | : ke. ORI 70| The Bouts to be Held This (et ired ",_4'({(;;,:??&\. 30 545 Friday FEvening. | r h e N 500 | New Britain .. 000 002 001—3 4 1 .;'yflfl The Southington A. C, has arrang-|Gilbert ... . 000 000 002—2 3 2 '“.}ml one of the best amateur boxing| Jatteries: Gray and Neipp, Beach '4;,;‘_ | shows that has been held in this sec- | and Silvernail. : tion of the state in some time, R 2 X lyn's victory over Philadelphia by T|gartr0rq to 4. Cadore pitched his first game | now Haven of the season and was steady until| waparhury the ninth when he gave three bases| gniingfield on balls. | Bridgeport The score: ; Worcester . Brooklyn. any 14 o | Albany 9 | Pittsfield ........ . 1200 , ; i X 8 ]Thse lo}:x‘mnmentt will take place in | (Continucd on Following Page). N &;“3‘ 0 the Southington town hail on Friday 3 3 Games Today. ? % 8 e RN, ERFHOPA &t How Maven, :v‘;"i»;q'l»r\x[;;ya 111}1('-‘“&11‘«:‘\:“5”? it 5’-‘@.'“’{":' Springfleld at Waterbury. [ Sitnar i B Worcester at Albany, Lot Pittsfield at Brid 2 | John Turner, amateur feather- l,.__,i geport. | weight champion will fight “Bill" iy ! Cunningham of Southington. These lioys have fought two hattles, the first GUBS DEE:EAT GOLUMBIAS |being a draw while the second bout o s @ l. o 0\ \s AN % !';:’&*nfi OO - B o ) RO Olson, 2h. Johnston, ss. [ryeoves 4 Fournier High, 3b. Taylor, ¢. . Cadore, p. ....00 cuoms Philadeiphin, | resulted in the judges awarding the e | decision to Turner. | Score in Annual Contest is 7 (0 {— Gitiitz, Yale star athlete and cham- ' "‘ £ " pion of the light heavyweight class ; ; 3 {: \ e Winners Play in Berlin This Week il box Joe Kiltonic of Southington. ; / i o | :,:‘ P gt ‘>‘, X —Are Out For More Games | This promises to be a bout full of ac.| X B i ¢ \ ,\\ N\ tion » \ \\\X\ AN The Cubs and Columbias clashed, John Pilkington, brother of Charlie, | Saturday afternoon, the former win-,of Meriden, will fight Kid Vincent of | ning 7 to 4. Kacey twirled well for | New Haven. Both these boys are well | ;rhp Cubs, allowing but five bingles |up In, their class and will give a good | while his teammates collected 15 from |account of themsclves. Noah Kaplan, brother of the Kid,| of Meriden, will go three rounds with Rapp, Ih. Holke, 1b. ... Wililams, of. Walker, rf. Dennehy, 1f. ST Wiison, ¢ Weinert, p. Winters, p. Mitchell, p. o] 15 Philadelphia ....coo.000 101 000 011— Brookiyn ...... eereens 024 100 00x—7 (Continued on Followlng Page) Smmomssmongy losssussssaas Cohen and Politis, ‘though they were fairly well scattered. Gordon and De- cora shut off rallies with shoestring | “Tommie” Mc¢Keon of New Haven. | catches in the field, Levine got a| Jimmie Mastriani of Southington, couple of three baggers. This was|Who has yet to meet deféat in the 10 pound class, will fight Winifred Prat the annual clash between the {wo ITSTER}TARS teams. lof Bristol. Puddy Rodney of New| The Cubs are to meet the Berlin|Haven, a lightweight, will ficht Kid | SEES z o ’ IN SPORT 'A. C. In Berlin next Saturday. :Ior&rln ;t’ F.!rl.:n‘-k dT:u\'y" ;:y 4 f; \ i FREDERICK FORTES ’ ‘The Cubs, averages 15-17 years, are | Southington is booked to figl Kid | ESCUE FI anxlous for gamee with teams in the |Chaney of Meriden fn the welter- 9 ‘ HIS FATHER THAT SCHOOLNLTéEAGH:;;aBgHAa DECIDED TO INFORM game class, (Games after supper or | weight class and Jigey Bdido of / T £ND come IN- € ERABLE, Ten Years Ago Sundays may be arranged by calling |Southington will fight Scbastian Gullo | 6.5 HAT HE INTENDS LEAVING IT_FORTHWITH AND ENTERING AT ONCE of Meriden. 2 ! UPON A BUSINESS CAREER, TMAT HE WILL BE MASTER OF HIS OWN DESTINY HENCE FORTH...i.v, FRED |8 ASSUMING A On May 7, 1913, Mathewson hum- [the manager at telephone 622-5. “Honest John" Willis of New Brit- | CIGAR FIERCELY DETERMINED EXPRESSION IN ORDER To CONVINGE bled the Cincinnati Reds, 6 to 4 at The score of Saturday's game New York. |(‘olumh|u AO0610120—453|ain will act as third man in the ring| HIS FATHER THAT HE MEANS BUSINESS !! THAT NOTHING CAN 2606001800 x—7151|and arrangements are being made to | Twenty-five Years Ago Cubs .. TY Cn May 7, 1898, Cleveland, with Batteries: Kacey and Levine; Co- | present two bouts among the Bay s FOR + Toung up, beat Louisville, 9 to 7. hen, Politis and Molsowski. ) Scouta, | FAMD US QUAL' ALTER HIS PURPOSE. Coppitei, 1923, K. Y. Tribure fes. « 25 @ uin i .