New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1923, Page 8

¢ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY e PHILADELPHIA AMERICANS AND NEW YORKERS NOW GOING AT TOP SPEED — GIANTS ENJO” SUNDAY SWATFEST — PIONEERS OFF TO BAD ! * START — CORBIN WINS EASILY FROM PORTLAND — SPALLA WINS EUROPEAN HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP — OTHER SPORT NOTES \-==:...—_—.‘:—".—.=====— ATHLETICS SENSATION OF AMERICAN LEAGUE, HAVE Today Will Try to Make It Seven Straight By Defeating Tygers Again—Yanks Ring Up Their Seventh Con- secutive, Winning Over Chicago—Browns At Last Take Game—Coveleskie Wins Own Game With Single —Record Crowd Sees Giants Trounce Cards 14-4, PH -l New York, May Philadelphia's rejuvenated Athletics continue to be the sensation of the American league, Connie Mack's men have a tight hold on second place. Having won six in a row they will try to make it seven in their contest with De- troit today. The Athletics overwhelmed Detroit yesterday, 8 to 1, The Yankees rang up their seventh consecutive victory in a closely played game with Chicago, 8 to 2, The St. Louis Browns interrupted their losing streak of four (ames by taking the long end of a ten inning 9-8 battle with Washington, Coveleskie, the Cleveland star twirler, disproved the theory that pitchers can't hit by singling In the fifth and driving in the only run of an eight inning game with Boston Playing before a record National league crowd the New York Giants overwhelmed the Louls Cards who | = a1 How They Line up in Four Leagues _ National League Yesterday's Games New York 14, 8t. Louis 4. Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 3, Indians trall in second place. The score was 14 to 4. In the other National league game Brooklyn defeated Cineinnatl 5 to 3. Leo Dickerman, rookie pitcher, turned in his fourth straight victory The other teams were not uled. sched- | AN AMERICAN LEAGUE } Standing of the Clubs R | w. L. .C. . 32 8 17 14 15 13 14 15 13 15 . 13 16 12 15 8 Games Today. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. Chicago at Boston. St. Louis at New York. Total 5 5 ITERT 0 . American League Yesterday's Results, New York 3, Chicago 2. ! Cleveland 1 Boston 0. Philadelphia 8, Detroit 1. | St. Louls 9, Washington 8 (10 in- Al nings). | Chicago, May 21.—8am Jones of | New York ..... the Yankees had the edge on “Red” |St. Louls ... Faber, the White Sox veteran yester- | Pittsburgh day and New York won the first game | Chicago . of the series 3 to 2, Cincinnati .. New York, Brooklyn . Boston Philadelphia e Witt, «© Dugan, Ruth, Fipp, 1 Meusel, r Schang, «. Ward, 2h. Scott, sa, Jones, p. . 0 0 rf. 88, 1h, Hooper Johnson, Bkeely, Collins, Mostil, cf. Falk, M. Kamm, 3b, Bchalk, Faber, Btrunk, 14 tnth inning. 000 010 020 000 100 001—2 Sheely, Mistyl, 2, Philadelphia ome run, Schang; stolen [ Cleveland base, Ruth; rifice, Witt; double plays, | Datroft ..... Mostil to Johnson; Faber to Johnson to St. Louis Bheely; Dugan to Ward to S TR ot A ; Chicago base on| Washington ... struck out, by Faber 7,| Chicago ... Ormsby, Owens and Cos time, 1:43, : (KROAERnEE o Athletics 8, Tygers 1 Detroit Mich, May 21.—The Phila- delphia Athletics yesterday continued their rampage through the wos!nrni clubs, winning their sixth consecutive | .game by overwhelming Detroit, 8 to 1. ab, | The Standing. w. .2 17 o 18 1k v 12 S ol i) 8 Total P.C. 124 830 533 500 A28 423 385 216 3| New York Pipp, Kamm; Games Today | Washington at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. New York at Chicago. Boston at Cleveland, International League Yesterday's Games ' Toronto 9, Syracuse 6. Baltimore 7, Neark 6, (1st). Baltimore 4 Newark 0, (2nd). Reading 5, Jersey City 8, (1st), Jersey City 4, Reading 2, (2nd). Other game, rain. Matthews, cf. Hale, 3b, Perkins, Hauser, 1b, Miller, 1f, Galloway, Weleh, rf, Dykes, 2b, Naylor, p. e wamoa cmmn Wl o The Standing. w. L. [} 10 11 P.C. .69 855 542 10 o 19 . 18 Rochester 0| Baltimore o | Toronto heidls Hellmann, By Billy Evans. Fhen Kitty Branfield faded, Bar ney Dreyfuss started on a journey be. fore he found a competent first base: man for his Pittaburg Pirates He expended a fortune, but with, out repults until he found a star for 2,500 Charles J. Grimm, who received a majer league trial at the age of 13 represents Direyfuss’ latest first base man investment From the days of Rranfleld until the arrl of Grimm, the awner of the Pirates spent slose to $100,000 for first b material, The investments inelude lon from the Pacific coast, Jack Flynn, Bill Abstein, Pred Hunt. or, EA Koney, Victor Baier, JFred Mollwitz and others Grimm was with the Pirates be. fore he became a senior. He was born at R Louis, Mo, Aug. 25, 1009, and reported to the Pirates in the spring of 1919 An inside slant on Grimm's first basing and his general all-round ahil. ity presented by Jim Baghy recently Baghy, an Ameriean Leaguer for saw the brilliant George Rislar He is with the Plrates this a nd he has watched Grimm dal may open an argument,’” re. marked Baghy recently, “but Sisler RUFPASSGS Grimm only In base run. ning and a bit In his hitting. In fielding Grimm (s the equal of Risler in doing everything else and is con-. stantly improving. “I have never seen a firat baseman throw with such accuracy while flying In the air as Grimm He reaches grounders going to his right and with A sort of a hurdie tosses the ball down to Maranville, walst high to ferce runners, “He is one of the few first base. men to go over to the third base aide of the plate, fleld a bunt on an intend- e sacrifice and catch the runner go- ing to third, | On long Hitting Streak. | “This kid is one of those ball play- ers you don’t read much about, but who Is a star in his profession.” Grimm started the season with a remarkable batting spurt, hitting safe- Iy In his first 25 games. Sixteen more and he would have equaled the mod- ern safety record, The nearest approach to his achievements tl\nl) vear were those of {Harry Hellmand of Detroit, with a safe hitting mark for 21 games. Bill McKechnie has Grimm {n sev- CRITICS COMPARE GRIMM Nt i : i CHARLEY GRIMM. enth place in the batting order, not because he is a weak hitter but because, as he puts it, "I llke to have a good hitter down there and Charley is the best I know of."” Grimm had but two years of pro- fessional experience hefore he re- ceived his diploma. He performed on the seml-pro lots in 8t. Louis when be was recommended to Connie Mack. The Athletics' manager carried him around for a month, but with Stuffy e ——— pEsss WITH SISLER CORBIN TEAM ONLY LOCAL OUTFIT T0 WIN ITS GAME; PIONEERS EASILY BEATEN Quilty Holds New Britain Batters Helpless While His Team Wins 9 to 3—In Portland Game, Wojak of Cor- bin Team Gets Homer, Triple, Double and Single in Four Times At Bat—Plainville Town Team Romps Away With Torrington—Pirates Drop Match With Noiseless Typos, Two local teams went down to defgat yesterday while one New Britain aggregation was winning and a near-local team was likewise bringing home the bacon, The Corbin Red Sox, keeping u? their fu!'f'lu. trounced the Portland team handily by a score (of 17 to 6, Plainville's town team took the Annex A, C, of Tor- rington inte camp by the tune of 13 to 8, The home game, how- ever, was a Tailure from the box score point of view. The Pion- eers were no match for the Federals of Hartford when Quilty, a 15 year old pitching marvel, had the boys standing on their heads collecting a measly three runs while his teammates collected a rand total of nine off Jackowitz, Schmidt and Smith, Down in Middletown the Noiseless Typos, who bowed to the Corbjns a - week ago, nicked the Pirates for 16 runs, giving the New Brit- | ainites only five, | P — | Corllins Going Fine . The Corbin Red Sox tribe hit the [old apple all over the lot and the I'ortiand outfielders had to go out in rowboats in the Connecticut river to retrieve long hits yesterday afternoon The Red Sox won handily, to 6, | The Corbin boys collected a total of 119 hits with Wajok leading the as- sauit with four hits—a homer, a tri ple, a double and a single. Synder | und Huber also were in fine form, as, in fact, was the whole teamsand the | Portland fans were treated to a nice | hatting bee, Griffin pltehed a good game for New ‘Britain, after getting away to a decidedly wobbly start. While he had McInnis on the bag naturally did not have an opening for him. | Grimm lined up with the Cardinals fn 1919, but playing in 50 games was transferred to Little Rock in the Southern League. He finished with lots of trouble in locating the platter the Travelers and improved to such Nis curves broke fast and when hits an extent in 1910 that he was pur-|Wwere needed for runs he was unhit- chased by the Pirates, Grimm bats/able. 1In the ninth inning, with his left handed, throws with the south-|leammates leading safely, he let down, paw, weighs 175 pounds and meas- hut tightened up when the bases were ures 5 feet 11 inchés, . filled, foreing Boggy Muldoon to whiff DONT SCORE POINT High Scholo Track Team Outclassed | At New Haven Mect—Hartford Lit- | gle Tally, The New Britain High school track team failed to register a single point |in the 21st interscholastic track meet at Yale field last Saturday. Hartford scored but one point. There were 25 teams entered and they finished as follows: | The Flushing High school of Long Island won the trophy with 18 poln!l.‘ Bridgeport High school was second with 15, New Haven High third with |9, while the others scored as follow Stuyvesant High, ‘New York city, Bristol, 41 ; Bloomfield, 3; Boys' High | school, Brooklyn, 2; Bouth Manches-| ter, 114; Batting High of Eljizabeth, | New Jersey, 113, Hartford 1. | ! The following players represented‘, |the school: Quigley, qnarter mile; | Kiniry, 100-yard and high jump;| Deardorian, one mile run; LaHar,| 220.yard dash; O'Brien, broad and| high jump; Naples, one-half mile run. | Some satisfaction from a local| standpoint can be gotten out of the fact that Peplow, a former high school | star and now a prominent athlete at| Choate, finigshed first in the discus throw and third in the 100.yard dash. His team finished second in the prep- | aratory school meet with 12! points. | He scored 7 of his team’s points. The| winner of the 100.yard dash did it in 9 4/5 seconds, aninterscholastic rec- tle Better With But e Cutshaw, 2b. . Pratt, 2b, Bassler, . Rurke, b, . Colling, p W Olsen, p. . 0 Johnson ¥ 0 Fothorg. 0 Manush, xx n Woodall, xxx 520 A4 402 400 13 12 12 12 15 18 15 21 o | Buffalo Reading Jersey City | Newark ... .10 Syracuse .. . 7 250 Games Today. Toronto at Syracuse, Buffalo at Rochester. Baltimore at Newark. Others not scheduled. 11 ted for Of inning xx-Ratted for Cutshaw in eighth xx-—Ratted for Johnson {n ninth inning Pifliadelnhia 100 300 220 Detfoit 000 100 0001 Two base Perking 2, Dykes Uobh Gallown Total 0 x—Bat sevent] Eastern League Yesterday's Games Hartford § Albany 1. Waterbury 9, Pittsfield nings) New Haven 10, Worcester 6 Bridgeport Springfield 2 Hale hase Hane on 3, Olsen Johnson 8 (10 in- . (Continued on Following Page). L The Standing. Hartford Springfield Worcester . New Haven Waterbury Albany Bridgeport Pittsfiald Games Today. Hartford at Albany. Springfield at Bridgaport Worcester at New Haven Pittefield at Waterbury. | ord. i ’ {Five College Crews to ‘ Row on Schuylkill Sat.| | Philadelphia, May 21.-—Harvard, | Yale, Princeton, Navy and Pennsyl-| !vania are among the entries received | for the American Henley regatta to | be rowed on the Schuykill river next| Saturday. A number of club oars-| men ' among them the Union Boat club of Boston and scholastic crews| also will compete, Culver Milltary | academy has entered for the first time and will row in the interscholas- tic eight-oared shell race againat| Episcopal academy of this city and| | others. | Paul Costello and Jack 1\'01]3-,1 Olympie doubles champions, are! among the entries in the first double sculls event. Spalla Is New Holder of | Europe Heavyweight Title By Tha Asserinted Pr Milan, May 21.-—~Ermino Spalla of Ttaly is the new holder of the Euro- pean heavyweight boxing totle. He de- | feated Vanderveer, the Hollander, on pointh in a 206 round bout here yes-| terday. Vandeveer iised effectively his weight advantage of 36 pounds during the first seven rounds, but Spalla’s speed throughout the mainder of the fight stood him in good stead. Forty theousand persons saw the bout. It was the largest © crowd ever drawn by a fight on the — YVESTERYEARS IN SPORT Ten Years Ago May 21, 1913, Oberiin Collega announced the selection- of C. L=Har- vey, frack high jumper, as an entry in the next Olymple meet Twenty-Five Years Ago On May 21 1898, Charley Train, Reds third sacker, forced out of game lm lame back. . . continent, Eligibility of U. of P. [ Athletes to Be Fixed Philadelphia, May 21.—The right! to determine the scholastic eligibility | of a student for any of the University of Pennsylvanja athletic teams has| been transferred from the university | council on athletics to a committee | to be known as the board of dea Provost Penniman announced. “DRIVEN"’| resf " GUBS, CONTINUE WINNING Salmon Pitches Air Tight Ball and Allows Only Two Hits to Echoes in Sunday Game, 1 The Cubs made it six out of seven| when they white washed the FEchoes, | 7 to 0 yesterday.. Salmon had the| Echoes baffled .and struck out nihe| men. He repeated his act of last! week by striking out 3 in one inning. Houck and Darrow played a sensa-| tional flelding game while Harkins | and Carson were the heavy hitters of | the day. The Fchoes are the only| team to beat the Triangles of Berlin, | and having blanked the Echoes 7 to| 0, the Cubs are all ready to obtain| sweet revenge on the Berlin team on | Memorial Day. Berlin is the only team credited with a win against the| Cubs. Next Sunday the Cubs will| elash with the West Ends. The Cubs' lineup is: Levine, Mieckowki, catch: Salmon, pitch; Capt. Baker, 1b; Huck | 2h; Bianco, 3b; Harkins, s.s.; Darrow, 1t.; Casey, Green, cf.; Man, Saunders and Dakote, rf. The Cubs would like {to arrange some twilight games this week. Please call Tel. 522-5. The manager, K. Saunders, is arranging games with out of town teams. r. h ,001 004 101—T7 11 Cubs .000 000 000—0 2 Fchoes kd z g z |~ 3 3 8t. Louis Chicago | they could cbllect but one in the extra Irlnh\\'il!fi boys. The score: New York Phil. Cincinnati Brooklyn Boston Pittsburgh BImH K aeag S ox M oIM gy American League w T New York 9 Detroit ] Washington Phil. Cleveland Chicago 8t Louis Boston N L k| P EES B . International League SMT W N v 13 6 310 13 6 12 X x Rochester Reading Baltimore Syracuse Jer. City Newark Toronto Buffalo Yale Crew Is Winner in Great Race at LakeCayuga Ithaca, N. Y. May 21.—Tn a smash- ing drive down the last half mile into the gathering shadows—and Dbrilliant victory-—went the Yale crew Satur- day evening. Those who saw it tri-| umph in a sensational finish in the annual triangular regatta with Cornell and Princeton called it a wonder crew—the Yale combination. Cornell favored though it feared Yale, was forced to fall behind in the white heat of that last half mile while the Blue won by a length and a half.| Princeton finished third. x x 3 x x X 0 x B | saammwoomes 1 L] 8 6 ROWLERS PLAY TONIGHT The New Britaln bowling team in| the state league will roll their last out of town game tonight when they/ g0 to Hartford to bowl the fast Char- ter Oaks. l n K ® The score: Corbin Red S | ab. Corbin, cf, | Snyder. If. Plainville Lady of Mercy Team De- | pianehard, % Huber, 1f. feats Rongers in Fast Game—Hit- Mojak, Barnett, son ser RALLY IN 0TH WINS | ' » o o1 coacmmunama? ting of Derazio Featured the Contest "‘7; | Carro | Citnton, ameanannn The Rangers from New Britain stacked up against the Plainville Lady of Mercy team yesterday and came out second best losing in the tenth in- | ning when the Plainville boys staged a rally and,put across two runs while louorsumnan lsnocnsnnssss b R | pa x-—Batted for Prelsser in Portland, ab. " HCAPY CORBIN four errors, but the 'New Britain bat- Prelsslr; double plars, Huber to Jackson, Wojak to Blanchard; left on bases, Corbin 10, Portland 0; passed ball, Carrozzo 1; flret base on errors, Corbin 4, Portland 3; wild piteh, Geiffin; umplire, Corkins; time, 2:20, f. 1 Olson, Bowen, Farrell, If. | Brainerd, Calrk, Lynch, Ahearn, Muldoon, Noelson, frame. The score was 8 to 7. Derazio, the Plainville cateher, got four hits in five times up and Yackobellis fanned an even dozen New Britain batters. This was the first game that Manager Peter Dufy had arranged for the B 2h. o The Pirates’ Game 3 " The Pirates, who have yet to win a 12 4| game this season, were tried and 11117 | tound wanting again yesterday when 010 000 104— 6| the Nolseless Typewriter team con- Muldoon, Wojak, | verted 14 hits and five errors into 16 r‘;(’dllxl;: :":::’i:’ runs. The Typos themselves made Nelson 2; struck bases, Snyder .'t.| (Continued on IFollowing Page) b o e ey S e Sl SR = E 5 R H Tady of Mercy 1111010102—8 12 Rangers . . 0010006321—7 7 Batteries:—Plainville, Yackobellis and Derazio; Rangers, Poglitsch, Si- fels and Argosy. Corbin Red Portland i Two base hits, Huber 2 Jackson; threa base hit. home runs, Wofak; sacr bases on balls Griffin 8, out by Griffin 5; stolen When a Feller Needs a Friend AP SAY GRACE - LISTEN - UH: | WANTED To ASK You SOME- THING BEFORE You GO IN = WOULD ‘You Do ME A FAVOR- ? 1T 1SN'T MuCH-" UR-H | MEAN IT'S ASKING A LOT = BUT-I GUESS You'lL THINK I'M AWFUL NERVY T \ L WHY RUSSELL of CouRSE (LL BE GLAD To Do You A FAVOR IF TS SOoMETHING | CAN Do~ CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT IS - WHAT 1§ 1T ¢ o