New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1923, Page 8

- “game of the series 7 to 4. KAPLAN RANKS WITH DUNDEE AND KILBANE NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, IN KNOCKING OUT FRUSH — HOLY CROSS FRIDAY, MAY 15, 14, STAR CHOOSES PRIESTHOOD IN PREFERENCE TO TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR CONTRACT — HEILMANN AND GRIMM STOPPED IN THEIR SLUGGING TIRADE—DICK RUDOLPH IN SENSATIONAL COMEBACK ST. LOUIS CARDINALS LOOM AS MOST DANGEROUS RIVAL THAT GIANTS MUST DEFEAT Cards Displace Pirates in Second Place—Cubs Pound Phillies 7-4—Yanks and Athletics Continue Their Breath-Taking Pace—White Sox Lose to Senators in Ten Innings—Ruth Gets His Fifth Home Run, New York, May 17.—Branch Rickey's St. Louis Cards having won edges over both the Philadelphia and Boston elubs thereby displacing the Pirates in second place in the National league, ap- ar today as the strongest team the New York Giants will have face in the forepart of the season, Rogers Hornsby, the big Bertha of the Cards, laid off yester- day to prepare for an attack on the Giants next week and St, Louis never missed him, battering Burleigh Grimes off the slab in the seventh inning, winning from Brooklyn 6 to 8, Ward to Predict Having taken but one game from the Reds which they did yesterday, | 13 to 6, it Is too early to foretell how | the Glants are going to fare against Cincinnatl, Dut considering that the Giant batteries bombarded Pete| Donohue, last year's leading league | pitcher out of the box in five innings, it appears that the McGrawites willl not be greatly hampered. The Glants | take on the Cardinals after the Reds| leave, Pittsburgh kept on the to- boggan assuming the palsy when Dick Rudolph came out of retirement and pitched the Poston Mrgves to a sen- sational ten inning victory In a pitch- ing duel, 1 to 0. His prowess lifted the Braves to a tie with the Reds for | second division leadership and to within one point of fourth place. If the Giants and Boston both win again today the Braves wil] be on the hn-lnlgl"}"""l of the Cardinals tonight. [New Haven Other Games. Worcester The battered Cubs battered Bpringfleld helpless Phillies 7 to 4. Watarhiry Both New York and Philadelphia | Albany continued their - breathtaking per- | Pittsfleld formances. The Yanks slammed |Bridgeport Urban Shocker of St. Louis 9 to 2 and Athlet) howing contempt for n :!‘:Ie\?fol‘f:\:lnml‘ » 2 Albany at Worcester. winning 4 to 2. Bria R i Eabe Ruth got his fifth home run. Iridgeport at Pittsfieid. Detrolt took a crack at the week-[ New Haven at Springfield, kneed Boston Red Sox 6 to 2. Wash- | Waterbury at Hartford. fngton pounced on the Chicago White e Sox in ten innings, 3 to 2. How They Line up in Four Leagues Eastern League Yesterday's Games Hartford 11, New Haven 1, Albany 9, Worcester 5. Springfield 1, Waterbury 0, Only three games played, The Standing, f | the American League Yesterday's Results. New York 9, 8t. Louls 5. Cleveland 2, Philadeiphia 4. ‘Washington 3, Chicago 2. Detroit 6, Boston 2. The Standing. w. NATIONAL LEAGUE Rudolph Wins Roston, May 18.—Rudolph pitched Roston to a 1 to 0 10-inning victory over Pittsburgh yesterday. It was his first start of the year and his first full game in four years, Score: Pittsburgh. ab. . 5 New York Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit St. Louls .. Washington Chicago Boston £l S~ SOOI Maranville, & Carey, cf. Bighee, 1f. . Ruseell, rf. Traynor, 3b. 8. Adame, 2b. Grimm. 1h. Echmidt, c. Cooper, p. D B Bl Ak S Games Today Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cleveland. New York at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit. *One out when wi =P Nixon, cf. Bouthworth, Roeckel, b, 1b, swo2332355® National League Yesterday's Games Boston 1, Pittsburgh 0. New York 13, Cincinnati 0, St. Louis 6, Brooklyn 3. Chicago 7, Philadelphia 4. Standiag of the Clubs w. L. O et Rudolph, p. Slansos 30 Pittsburgh . Boston ... Two hase stolen base, Adams to Maranville to Grimm; Ford to Kopf to McInnis; left on hases, Pittsburgh 10, Boston 12; bhase on balls, off Cooper 3, off NRudolph struck out, by Coeper 2, by Rudolph 1; Lit by pitcher, by Rudolph (Bchmidt); wild pitch, Cooper 1; umpires, Moran, Finneran and Derr; time, 1:46. | New York ... | st. | Pittsburgh | Chicago Cinclnnati Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia | Cubs 7, Phils 4. Philadelphia, May 18 “hicago en- joyed one big inning yesterday and de- fedted Philadelphia in the q(lp(‘n\ng Score: Chicago. o | Games Today. Pittsburgh at Roston. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia h. po. Statz, of. Hollocher, Grantham, Hartnett, Friberg. 3b. . Milter, 1f. . Callaghan, f. Heathcote, rf. Kelleher, 1h. Alexander, p. . SWeois . ......000e Kaufmann, p. ... International League Yesterday's Games No games played. Rain. ‘th. The Standing. w. 5355355555553 ®Batted for Alexander in Philadelphia. | % | Rochester o' Baltimore ' Mokan, 1f. . ! 0 0 0| Buffalo 1 ] 0 n Band, 3b. *Lee Willlam Walker. rf, . Holke, 1h. Parkinson, 2h Wrightstone Henline, Meadows, p. . Behan, p. ... sMitchell ... | Toronto Jersey City i Newark Reading . Syracuse ... 0 Games Today. Buffalo at Rochester. *Ratted for 8and h - Toronto at Syracuse, xBatted for Behan in 5t Reading at Jer Chicagn . Baltimore at Fhiladelphia . Two baka hits Meadows, Grantham Williams: sa doubie piays, Wright Holke; Sand to Parkin #tone to Holke, Meade Holke; Meadows to Parkinson to Holka chtstons, | Har! Haollo Kelleher to Parkin to Holke; W & to Parkinsoy Holke; n to feht VESTERYEARS IN SPORT Ten Years Ago, on May 18, 1913, Long Pob Ewing, former Red star, be- gan pi £ for Wapakoneta, O. Twenty-five Years Ago, on May 18, 1598, Thornton, for Chicago, hit three $t. Louis batsmen in a row, St. Louls winning, 11 to 4. (Continned on Following Page) Prefers Life of Priest To $10,000 a Year Star Owen Carroll, Pittsburgh, May 18 ! Holy Cross pitcher, has turned down an offer of $10,000 a year from the Pittsburgh Nationals to continue his, studies for the priesthood, it was an-} = 5 nounced today offer was made | o , by James Johnstone, scout for the NeW Haven Club Sells Pirates, at New Haven, who is an in-} s timate fricnd of the Holy Cross pitch- | Fried to Alhany Team er and who has several times tempted to secure his name to a con- en, May 18.—The New Ha- leagnue club today an- Fried, pitch- tract. “It's very nice of Pitts- burgh club to put such a value on my gervices,” Carroll zaid, “but I'm met er, to the Albany ciub of the Eastern lrague. Fried was formerly i Toledo in the American association. | New ven F nounced the sale of the stern thinking of professional ball. - 1 want to become a priest.” COME-BACKS STIR 5iand Zwick, §2.4. WORLD OF SPORTS Both Boxing and Baseball Prove That Old Man Time Is Failing | New York, May 18 —Within a week a new era has arrived In the sports ing world, The law that a man goes down and out after 50 many years of trying has been tested and found wanung, The new age began last when Jess Willard, gasping a for air and lifting his feet like two weights of lead, lifted up his vight! arm and tapped the 23 year old Floyd | Johnson on the chin for the count of | ten, Jess's exact age I8 a matter of dispute, but is somewhere around 4 | The culmination came yesterda when “Diek” Rudolph glimbed out of dugout of the Boston Braves after four yedrs of retirement and shut out the hard hitting Pirates, 1 to 0, In A ten inning contest Rudelph, hero of the world’s champlon team of “"Miracle Man" Stalling, tried n comeback last year and flivvered Most of the last three years he has devoted to coaching recrults and yes- terday's was the first game he started that he finished in four years, Previously this week Babe Adams, who celebrated his 40th birthday to- day, humbled the New York Giants, It 18 his 15th season in uniform. Ty Cobb, who has come to be a perennial o!'d man, battered one hit out of sheer elation of old age in two trips to the plate yesterda Cobb is around Rudolph's age. Sam Langford, sald to he the only man that Jack Johnson feared when he was world’'s champion heavy- weight, has challenged the world, {n Mexico City, and has donned a suit of Mexican velvet and a silver bro- caded sombrero to caper about in, He recently disposed of some never- heard-of. Jack Johnson, himself having won at Havana on a foul from Farmer | Lodge, the man who broke the jaw of the champion of Germany, {8 prepar- ing to issue his old style challenge to “Mistah anybuddy.” Baturday little a to 2] fa fir o TR e ne SOUTH END STANDING C. May Leads District Bowlers in In- dividual Averages While His Team Also Heads Their Little League, The final standing in South End Bowling league shows C. May's three man team leading with 39 wins and 33 defeats. Then come H. May's, 37} and 35; Walthers, 36 and 36, and Rawlings' 32 and 40. Individual averages follow: C. May, 9 C. Walker, 95; Wal- thers, 91.6; Seuhold, 91; Rawling! 00.4; Needham, 90.4; Jurgen, £9.8; H. May, 89.6; Pierchert, §5.4; Rock- well, § Casewell, 86.7; Tyler, §5, as High single, C. May, 145; high three string, C. May, 346; high team single, C. May's, 331, and high team 3 strings, C. May's, 884. Griffin and Carrazza to Be Battery on Sunday Manager Tobin of the Corbin Red Sox has about decided to use Griffin| - and Carazza as the battery men in Sunday's game against Portland in the river village. The team will prac- tice tomorrow afternoon at the park in preparation and Captain Corbin is anxious that all players be present, as he is most desirous of presenting a| stonewall defense and irresistible of-| fense against his former teammates Sunday. So! wii on So. Tr il RDA HOMERS, Williams, Philadelphia T. Griffith, Dodgers .. Ruth, Yankees . Meusel, Giants Kelly, Giants Roush, Reds . McManus, Browns Home Run Leaders. Philadelphia Browns . Y Williams, Willia Ruth, Hartnett, | Hornsby, Cardinals . Blades, Cardinals | Grimm, Pirates Miller, Cubs Mokan, Philadelphia Meusel, Giants ‘ubs COLLEGFE BASEBALL. Columbia 7, Dartmouth 0. Boston Coillege 22, Lafayette 9. Syracuse 9, St. Lawrence § (11 in- nings). Colby 5, Amherst 3. Wesleyan 8, Springfield Western State Normal 2 5, Minne- | y of Pittsburgh 3, West A low; roll front ARROW Jors pushed his way into slabdom fame along with Addie Young and Charlie Robertson. last yvear Ranney pitched two no-hit contests. fected his work. have regained his former strength and | effectiveness. minor league player in the national pastime’s annals, likin university, coaches baseball there now, spending his league duties permit. STANLEY WORKERS Have Yet to Win Game in Ladies’ In t Name of Team Universal Five . N. B. Machine . East Ends North & Judd . | Stanley Works 12738 This shows the strong Princton erew which finished third in the Penn-Columbia-Princeton race for the Childs' cup, and which will compete tomorrow at Lake Cayuga for the Carnegie cup. Their opponents in this three-cornered regatta will be Yale and Cornell, Captain J, T, Pirie is shown at the left and below, TIGER CREW WHICH RACES TOMORROW | Minor League Lad Pitches Way To Hall of Fame Bloomington, Iil, May 15—~The ma-. have no monopoly on no-hit mes, | A minor leaguer——hardly more than | rookie—has risen to tell ‘em where | get off, Ranney Young, star hurler of the oomington Three-1 league club, has hall of Joss, Cy| He recently twirled a perfect game against the Rockford team, at Rock- ford, 11, None of the 27 batters who | ced him in the nine frames reached st base, | And that's not all! After he signed with the Bloomers other | Then i1l health af- But he appears to performance any Young's remarkable ver has been duplicated by Ranney came here from James ‘\m-: Decatur, Ill. He much time with the collegians as CELLAR CHANPIONS Bowling League \e Ladies’ Bowling league, the uth snders continue as the leaders, th the Stanley Workers vet to win| e, The standing, scores, etc, fol-| low: | Standing. W. L. 13 13 Pet 888 722 Jq22 533 .388 333 .250 . 000 High Single—I.. Campbell, 108, High three strings—M. Meyen, A . Ends ... aut & Hine . 379 366 | 379 | 352 & F. Corbin . 73. Individual Averages. G. Scharff .. v 8 x | (Continued on Following Page). ve| 415 | Wheat, Brook 403 |Grimm, Pitts, 402 | Hornsby, St. L. 380 | Bottomley, 8. L. Frisch, N Y | Heilmann, 283. | Rice, Wash. High team single—So. Ends, 440. |Jamieson, Cleve, High team three strings—So. Ends,‘\f\llller. Phila. 2 | Cobb, Det. RANNEY YOUNG. Five Leading Batsmen In Each Major League National League, G. 24 89 17 26 92 24 22 80 26 28 114 25 27 118 27 37 32 American League G. AB. R. 22 79 18 70 14 2 101 20 87 77 156 28 105 15 38 Det. 20 26 2n in AB. R. H. 38, 427 H. PC. 402 45 . 44 37 PC. 4014 367 366 364 362 McQuillan, pitcher, has collected $14,000 for injuries received auto accident last fall. an KID KAPLAN KAY0§ FRUSH INSIXTH SET ‘Meriden Battler Is Plainly Su- perfor to British Boxer Breaking through the fistic hase which has clouded his ability in fore mer metrapolitan batties, Louls (Kid) Kaplan, Meriden's ring idol, | 1ast night demonsirated to some four | thousand fans at the Queenshoro stas | dlum of Long Island City that he s | o al championship caliber when he | sent his famous left hook crashing to the jaw of Danny Frush, crack Eng- liah fightér, and kneeked him out after one minute and 40 seconds had elapsed of the sixth round of the scheduled 12.round wind-up contest, Frush was unconscious for over five — e | MINULEE and had to be carried to his ‘drenm' room by his handlers, ;T“I—O HOME GAMES IN THO |, & osmders. “wih " enors DAYS FOR BASEBALL FANS Frush was a favorite to beat the | Lutherans Play Tomorrow While on ollowing Page). Meriden battler, Only on two oe- casions previously had TFrush tasted defeat by the knockout route, both times in champlonship battles. Both Sunday the Ploncers Play the Ly ety o ! plon, and Johnny undeo, unior Federals of Hartford, iightwelght king, knocked out Frush, Two home games in two days, to. Put Kaplan turned the trick last night morrow and Sunday, are all fixed up) |A shorter order than either of the [atternoon at the Ellis street dlamond | Frush Is Dissy. the Lutherans of this city will open Frush was knocked down for a the Luther league season against the :~oun5 of seven shortly before the Bristol-Forestville nine and Sunday, | knockout. He arose In a dizzy state | . [ neers will stack up against the Fed- farthest corner of the ring following [erals of Matrford, the visitors' team | the Knockdown, walked over und being composed of former High | 00!y measured the Englishman be- | school and present Insurance league | fOr® sending over a stinging left to In preparation for Sunday's game, | _Right to the Jaw, . the Pioneers will practice tonight at, A8 Frush staggered under the im- 6:15 o'clock at St. Mary's fleld and | Pact Kaplan followed it up with a ! only those who respond to practice crashing right to the jaw and brought Iment warns, Although the team has | Other terrific left to the jaw, which considerable good material, the man- | toPpled Krush to the canvas com- agement is anxious for morc and as- | Pletely knocked out. | sures a fair tryout for all candidates,| Jimmy Kelly, who until recently | Campbell are the catchers; Wolfe, | Martin, and who now manages Frush, | Jackowitz and Schmidt the twirlers, | WA8 In the English fighter's corner, |and the inflelders are Al Schade, for- | 4Cting as a second, along with Frush's | brothers, Fields, Fitzpatrick and Mul- | becticut fans, who numbered about len. In the outer garden there are|five hundred at the ringside, the Dudack, Benny Smith, Ferguson and | flght was practically decided in the Restelli. first three rounds. for a game a week from Sunday to Although Frush was & favorite in be played at the neighboring town of | the betting, the opinion was para- Plainville against the Plainville town| mount with Nutmeg state fans that nine. Gerry Crean, former Kacey|if Kaplan could beat Frush in the | against the New Britainites. (Continued on I Philadelphia, May 18. league batters are wondering wh“‘lhe teams after leaving their southern " o _lcamps has again been experienced kind of a ball will be in use the com {this vear;, It was an excellent ides ‘lng season. o start the season a week late in 1923. ing some thought to the same ques-|would have been piled up during the tion. first week of play. It has been mumored that the ball' The first month or so of the season !would be toned down a bit this year.|invariably serves as a barometer of |ever manufactured. The mzn"r(nls‘uhow high in the home run feature ‘usml in making it were the best and of the game another season of swat always uniform, so that a superior may be looked for. |ball was always in use. The firm that manufactures the ma- lin the spring. The pitchers round into|The heads refuse to make any com- |shape slower than the batsmen, Bad|ment on the ball, other than saying weather in theearly spring seems to|it is the best possible ball that can affect the arms of the pitchers more he produced. They leave the rest to Johnny Kilbane, featherweight cham- for New Britain fans.. Tomorrow |champlons. |at St. Mary's playground, the Pjo-|8nd Kaplan, who had retired to the ! stars, | the body. will be given positions, the manage.| Matters to a close by driving an- | At present Schroeder and Artie| ¥as manager of Vincent (Pepper) mer A. E. F. player; the Begley| brother. As expected by many Con- The Pioreers also have arranged Frush Was Favorite, | pitcher, is a likely choice for twirler — — Major| The usual bad weather that strikes Major league pitchers are also giv-|Otherwise many a postponed game |The 1922 brand was the livellest ball'what is to follow. If April and May | Ags a rule the batters have the edge jor league baseball is located here. than the eyes of the batters. 'your imagination. 2 AH? wmeef \T 1S welL " Y] SHALL Houb T THUS UNTIL | QUENCH MY RAGING TaiRST= FoR PURE wATeR " " DEAR DEAR ME- NICE PURE WATE! HOw WON DERFUL ] R i 195N ¥ Tribune tac. BRIGGS P ! " BLEssep FounT,. AMe 1T 15 EAIY To REGULATIE | S€ % MERCY! 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