New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1923, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928, PLAINVILLE VS. CORBINS TOMORROW AFTERNOON — BIG TRACK MEET AT FRANKLIN FIELD TODAY — CY CLOUTS HIS SEVENTEENTH HOMER— CONNIE MACK SLOWLY CLIMBING ON YANKS, BUT GIANTS SEEM TO HAVE WALKAWAY IN NATIONAL — T ATHLETICS COME BACK TO SPOTLIGHT AFTER ALMOST TEN YEARS OF OBSCURITY Sags Carp Proved Dempss}'s Captain of Silver City Record—N, B. H. 8' Athletes in Al Departments | y0 srocinnity. Zby Stop Yankees' Winning Streak hy Taking Game 1.0 and Will Seek to Repeat Firmer Grip on First Place—Washington Today—Giants Obtain Still Nosing Up Toward First Division, New York, May 25,—For the first time in nearly a decade the {nterest of the baseball world is concentrated today on Shibe Park Philadelphia. manding attention and yesterday All season Connie Mack's Athletics have been de- they got it personally from 20, 000 Philadelphians who filled the park to see them defeat the New | York Yanks 1 to 0, The Athletics’ victory was also beneficial to Cleveland which opened a series in St, Louis with an easy vietory, 6 to 1, and gained on Detroit which bowed before Chicago 6 to 1, The defeat jarred the Tigers from a third place tie with Cleve- land. By defeating Boston 7 to 1 edging into first division, While the Yanks were en Washington got in position for ding their winning streak of nine es the Giants were extending their hold on first place in the vational beating Philadelphia 8 to 2. Pittsburgh met St. Louis and won easily, 11 to 4. The other National league clubs did not pla AMERICAN LEAGUE | Philadelphia, May 25.—Philadel- phia took the opening game of the series from New York yesterday, 1 to 0, when the Mackmen staged a bril-| liant rally in the last half of the ninth that resulted in the scoring of the only run of the contest. More than 20,00 persons saw the game. B v i witt, cf, Dugan, b, Ruth, 1f. Pipp, 1b. .. Meusel, rf. 19 1 3 0 0 emnnoomuap x5 15 0 x—One out when was scored. | Phi 1focuommase 0, ol S Weich, Galloway, MeGowan, Dykes, 2b. Rommel, lesans 27 0 1 1 [ 1 5 5 060 000 001—1 Total . Philadeiphia Two base hit mel. Galloway, § Dykes to Hauser, Dugan to Ward; left basee. New York 11; Philadelphia on balls, off Bush 3, off Rommel out, by Bush, 3; hit by piteher, (Dykes); untpires, Dineen and time, 1:42. by Bush Owens; White Sox 6, Tygers 1. Detroit, May 25.—Detroit couldn't hit Charley Robertson's pitching yes- terday and lost the opening game of the Chicago series, 6 to 1. Cobb's| home run into the rightfield bleach- ers was responsible for the solitary Tyger run. Cnicago. ab. a. . p.o. Hooper, rf. . MeClellan, Collins, Mostil, ef. sossuas Robertson, p. . | olossszscsa? @l orronsnon Ttoal coveenrn.. 30 Detroit. ab. RBiue, 1b. Haney, ss. so520m00n ooo comrnLe Manush, (Continued on Tollowing VESTERYEARS |, IN SPORT | TEN YEARS AGO, on May 25, 1613, Jules Coux, Paul Zucarrelli, Albert Guyot and Theodore Pilette—all for- eigners—were entered in the Memo- rial Day races at Indianapoiis. Stanislans Zby sustained a frac- tured skull in a wrestling match in Montreal. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, on May 25, 1898, Pittshurg defeats Phil- adelphia, § to 3, on day President M Kinley calls for 75000 more volun- teers. | | §5/1COLLARS Will not wilt, sag or shrink, and are very easy to launder 35c each 3 for $1.00 Made by the Makers of ARROW Collarsg Y. How They Line up in Four Leagues National League \'N(ord‘ New York 8, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 11, St. Louis 4. (Only two games scheduled.) Standiag of the Clubs W L. 6 13 17 16 16 16 17 P.C 758 | 594 | New York Pittsburgh ... St. Louls ... Brooklyn Chicago Boston Cincinnati Philadelphia . 484 484 448 433 267 Games Today. Boston at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Chicago. St. Louis at Pittsburgh: Philadelphia at New York. | | | American League Yesterday's Results. Philadelphia 1, New York 0. | Cleveland 6, St. Louis 1. Washington 7, Boston 1. Chicago 6, Detroit 1. The Standing. w. P.C, New York 19 Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit Washington St. Louis Chicago Boston 600 51 448 448 Games Today Washington at Boston, New York at Philadelp! | Chicago at Detroit. | Cleveland at St. Louis. International League Yesterday's Games Buffalo 6-5, Toronto 2-9. Rochester 9, Syracuse 4. Baltimore Reading 8, Newark The Standing. w. | Rochester Baltimore Buffalo Toronto .. Reading Tersey C Newark Syracuse Games Today. Syracuse at Rochester. Raltimore at Jersey C'ity Newark at Reading. (Only three games scheduled.) Eastern League ‘ Yesterday's Games Albany 3, Waterbury 2. | New Haven 10, Springfleld 5. Bridgeport 5, Worcaster 0 Pittsfield 6, Hartford 3 The Standing. w. Hartford New Haven Springfield Worcester Waterbury Albany Bridgeport Pittafield Gamea Today Albany at Springfield. Bridgeport at Hartford New Haven at Worcester. Waterbury at Pittsfield. YESTERDAY'S HOMERS, bl Giants ..... . Bawell, Indlans .. Nrower, Indians Kamm, White Sox .. Cobb, Tygers Home Run L Williams, Phils Wiillams, Drowns Ruth, Yanks Mokan, Phila Mann, Cards Hartnett, Cubs . Traynor, Pirates itame, ynor, snyder, eaders, L5001 [Waiker, | O0'Connell, — = Defense Isn't Stonewell Noh Dorman to Havre, Mont,, May 28 anyone worrying about the fight for the heavyweight title at Khelby, it tainly not Tom (Ciib- v bons Tom train at fll theatr keep him sottlen he only the fact thres v Dick, a But Tom camp. “The wife |5 going to take care of the cooking and seo that I get the right Kkind of food, She knows what I need. And as cook—oh oy “'Besides, | like to have it quiet and pencaful when I train for a fght, With the wife and kids there, it will |\ » to get aAway from the bunch that alw hangs around a fighter's camp beforeia big match, ‘Not that 1 don't like to have the fellows around Jut very often the s of one's friends and well. are apt to be rimental to | the training routine Gibhons appears to be in the best of shape. If confidence is going to help, he certainly not lacking in that. i Great Northern his way to fule that will batore boarded 8t Paul ongAgements week I fow thi 1o Tom Jr., Jack and k with measles, a week,” eald me at the ungsters, home—all sl it only b “Then they'll a is Working for Speed. ‘I know T am going against the toughest fighter in the ring today,” | he says. “But I feel that I have a good chance, | “Dempsey can be hurt as well as any man if he is hit. I think my | string of knockouts shows I can hit | hard enough to hurt a man. (Gib- | bons has won 30 out of his last 34| | fights by knockouts,) “Carpentier be hit. 1 believe T can hit him. | “T shall devots most of my train-| ing to developing speed, for 1 feel the old kayo punch still is there.” { NATIONAL LEAGUE Phillies Lose. | New York, May 25.-—Hugh Me-| Quillan turned in fifth etraight | vietory by beating t Philadelphia | Nationals yesterday, by a score of 8 to 2. proved Dempsey can . p.o. Mokan, If. ) Band, 3b. Willlams, rf, Holke, 1b. Parkinson, Wrightstone, Heniine, Ring, ». Leach x Mitehell xx 1 4 1 1 = 1 1 1 0 0 Dotal. i eiis 3 24 x—Ratted for h xx—Batted fer e 1 1 meeSeceow] Bancr Groh, Snyder, McQuilian, Dol omen =21 lams, risch and left on bases hase on balls, 2; struck out, umplres, MmI Jackson an ork 4, Phialdelphi Pittsburgh, May pounded three pitche pt its home glate cle . Louig, 11 to 4 St Loms. ah. A ' 4 T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clemons xx 0 10 24 10 seventh, in seventh, Total x—-Batted for § Battea ! Maranville, ss. aray, cf Bigbee, 1f Rarnhart Tiaynor 15 2 002 A0 2 000 631 40x—11 lle, Echmidt, | Bighee rt 2, home Pigbes, Barn- | piays, Hornsby, | nvitle, Rawl- | 8t. Louts | off &har- | off Stu- i enlsssssss rart, P'relgan and Lutherans to Play in Middletown Tomorrow The Tirst Lutheran Church baseball | team will fourney to Middletown Sat- | to play a league game, All[ LI ested to meet at lhE‘L 1 o'cloc Berg son will | The tean ce at the s street grounds tonight at 6:30 o'clock. urday piay ren | ball teams at the New Britain High | almost daily in preparation for games | practices held in the past week and | i Capt. Baracavich, the Meriden pitch- —_—= = High Practicing—Track Men Saturday IBBONS CONFIDENT BARACAVICH, MERIDEN'S STAR School Nine Has Great Box Meet South Manchester CAPTAIN BARACAVICH. Not only the baseball and track teams, but also the tennis and foot- school are going through the paces scheduled any time from tomorrow to next fall. The bascball team will make an at- tempt to return to its winning stride when it will play their old rivals the Meriden High school in that town to- morrow afternoon. ‘The team has shown a great improvement in the| indlcations point to an unpleasant aft- ernoon for the Silver City ball tossers. er, is rated as one of the best ‘school boy hurlers in the east. The N, B. H. 8. baseball team this vear is one of the best balanced teams | that has represented the school in| several vears, Although it was beat- en by the Hlillhouse team last week, it is still in the race for the triangu- lar league championship. The stand- ing to date is as follows: Hartford, | | Somebody Is Always Taking The Joy Ou HA HA HA HA THiS FUNNY CRACIKKS IN /) / 7/ v TAAKKS DEAR =- THERE'S THE TELEPI4ONE = - TS PROG'LY ! | | won FELLOW DON MARKEE DoES GET OFF SoM&E COLUMN ~ HE'S GOOD New Britain, New Haven, New Britain won one and lost none; one and lost one; won one and lost two. still has two games with the Hartford High school, one of which will be played here a week from tomorrow. The second game will be pleyed at Hartford on June 9. Track Men in Form. The Red and Gold track team will be at its strongest tomorrow when it will go to South Manchester to play the South Manchester High school team. Every candidate on the squad will be eligible according to latest re- ports. Some of the men who will probably run who were not of use to the team hefore are Cowles, who fis considered one of the best 100 yard men on the squad; Bell, who starred in the first two meets and was eligi- ble for the third meet, and Phalon, a new comer to the squad who has heen a valuable man until an injury forced him out of the line up, With (Continued on Following Page). BOWLING MATCH TONIGHT FOR TITLE IF YOU USED TO BE PRETTY HE'LL KAYO CHAMP ~ WILL OPPOSE N. B. TOMORROW FAIR, DON'T DESPAIR, JUST READ OF TH Are But a Few of the ESE AND THRILL zko, Pop Geers, Lyon and Others Gray Beards” Who Are Showing the Young Bloods That They Are Not the , Only Pebbles on Sportin CORBIN WILL PLAY PLAINVILLE GLUB Game in Neighboring Hamlet To- morrow Alternoon After much diekering and intercity wrangling that bids fair to make the game one “for blood", arrangements have been made for the Corbin Red Sox to take a jaunt over to Plainville tomorrow afternoon to play the town team, The game will start at 3:30 p. m. und the Corbin boys will meet | at the Corbin clubhouse at 1 o'clock. The game will be played ut Rock- well fleld and Plainville will put her etrongest team In the fleld as a win |over the New Britaln boys not only | would increase her prestig: | would give the "home town" | great satisfaction. { Manager John Tobin of the Corbin ! taam announced today that his team will ine up as follows: | Corbin, captain, ¢. f.; Snyder, L f.; Al Blanchard, first base; Huber, r. | Wojak, third base: Barnett, s. | Jackson and Preisser, second base; | Clinton and Carazza, catch; and Hine land Grifin, pitch. Plainville’s prebable lineup is: Wadsworth and O'Brien, catch; Crean | Blanchard and Cunningham, pitch; i Wininger, first base; Budnick, (I) sec- | ond base; Fitzpatrick, s. s.; Budnick | (IT) third base; Landry, 1. f.; Ellfott, ]c. f.; and Schurr, 1. f. boys ;T\\'o Auto Drivers Are Insured for Big Race Indianapolls, Ind, May 25.—At | least two of the drivers in the 600- miie automobile race at the Indian- apolis motor speedway, Tommy Mil- ton and Howard (Howdy) Wilcox, | will e insured for §10,000 each wien they speed dround the track, it was announced today. Both will drive| | cars designed by Harry C. Stutz of| | Indianapolis who declared he had tak- !en ont the policies “merely as a mat- “Roohester ter of business and'not because he | feared for the lfves of either of his| pilots.” Wilcox won the race in 1919, | and Milton took first prize in 1921, JACK JOHNSON RETURNING | Leaves Havana Tomorrow for Mexico g Beach, New York, May 25.-—More man velous than the youngeters of compe~ titive sport are the gray feads whose achievements are llke a check rein on eArs, Joe McGinnity once the hero of w York baseball fans, at 62 pitehed a shutout game, 1 to 0, for | Dubuque against Marshalltewn, Towa, in the Mississippl Valley league, He | allowed but four hita | islaus Zbyszke, nearing the hal ntury mark, wrestied for 99 minutes hefore going down for a fall under the crushing headlock of Ed, Lewis, Zbyssjio had his opponent's shoulders within inches of the mat several times before his bald head slipped iInto the vise-like head hold. These are the principal achieves ments of the gray heads in 1923 sport history and the year is yet youns. And there are other aged wonders of sport whose seasons come later in the year. “Pop" Geers 73, has been driving harness horses for 43 aeasens, His ski!l in the sulky is second to no living driver. George B. Lyon of Toronto, Canae da's aged goifiing wonder, has won the senfor golf title of the dominion for five stralght years. He also has had marked success in the dominfon’s amateur and open evenis. Runs This Week National League £ w T New York 14 8t. Louls 4 Pittsburgh Chicago Cineinnati | Brooklyn | Boston | Phila. 3 r 8 Tt @3 © @ B e e e | American League MT WT F 8TtL New York 5 * 0 Phila. Cleveland Detroit St. Louls .. Washington | Chicago Boston .... International League MT WT F 8Tt 6 6 9 6 5 3 11 1 8 1 7 4 Baltimore 1 Toronto Buffalo ... Reading .. Jersey City Newark ... Syracuse .. Five Leading Batsmen City Via U, S, | Havana, Cubs, May 25.—Jack| | Johnson, accompanied by his secre- | tary, Ed Kreger, will leave Havana for the United States on Saturday, en| route for Mexico City, where he will| stage two fights. His opponents have | not yet been named, but probably will | be Andreas Balsa and Sam Lnngford,{ Johnson meets the Havana boxing | | commission today to state his case in| an attempt to recover payment of the | §500 he was fined for stalling In the| contest with Jack Thompson last| Sunday. Thompson was alse fined $500 on the same charge. In Each Major League National League. G. AB. Wheat, Brook ....20 108 21 Grimm, Pitts . .32 118 27 Gottomliey, St. 4 137 Frisch, N. Y. 3 140 Hornsby, St L . 100 American League. G, AP .4+ 28 100 el 62 .80 105 6 90 i §3 16 30 .361 H, PC. 45 41T R, 23 11 2 Heilmann, Det. 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