New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1923, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEF ALD, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1028, THE WORM TURNS IN BIG LEAGUE CONTESTS AND TAILENDERS HUMBLE LEADERS — CITY LEAGUE ALMOST CERTAIN — HARTFORD HIGH HERE TOMORROW AFTERNOON — PRINCETON LEADS ALL EASTERN COLLEGE NINES — MITCHELL-LEONARD BOUT TONIGHT — OTHER SPORT NOTES Jim Chance For He’s Small and Ff’f, | Jeffries Thinks Gibbons Has Good |EIGHT TEAM CITY LEAGUE NOW SEEMS T0 BE CERTAIN They're off! A City Baseball league now is practically cer- because they were slow. He fghta tain, and instead of being a six team league, as was at first plan- pretiy open. Tommy Gibhons i Just ned, the idea was so enthusiastically received by the baseball fans the kind of bey to tak L] tage of | 9 E n-:' AL Trom whet i »fn.‘:"na: got | And players about the eity that an eight team league probably will the puneh that'll do the business if | be organized, he geta the chance, This Bhelby fight There was an enthusiastic meeting of baseball club managers e I o another round | A0d interested fans at city hall last night when the public amuse- i nine them into a | Ment commission outlined the plans for the proposed league and wagon, Then he lounged against| “Jimmy" Naughton, who is one of the most staunch supporters of the wheel, the breege whipping a | such a league, gave out the dope on the matter, From those pres- towel in his ““““"“""’- ““_":"" "‘"‘*ent last night, seven managers signified their intention of listing his leisurely movements, but bohind | @nother meeting at city hall, an eighth team will have been se- these tokens there was still a hint nl,cure o resilience and preserved power of the | Friday night's ‘'meeting will be with Playground Supervisor boi ker who turned farmer. | Brewster who will have charge of the league, which organization ‘I don't see many promising yOun&- | it gunnle haseballs, umpires, playing fields, ete. Games ave t sters coming up I the game. ' he e |be played at Walnut Hill park'pl'oi)ab‘lz\' on both diamonds gl‘l‘l’lllu flected, chewing an oat straw and ) ) ) ¥ ™ teinting into an answer of my ques- | day afternoons and at this next meeting a schedule will be drafted tlon 2 Iy"- other Ifkely contenders| and all arrangements made, The league algo avill offer a suitable "';',";‘:Ik_ '.'.'::M;.-mn. flabby, 1.m';roph,\' for the winners, So don't neglect, ,‘nu' managers and country is losing its physienl stam. | 1ans, to be at city hall Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. ina. Everyhody, kids and men, looks | The managers present last night who declared themselves |ing for a soft job. Growing up soft.{“in" were: March, Pirates; Richey, Berlin Construction; Abra- hamson, Rnngeru; Zeigler, Falcons; Blanchard, Fs/nirs; Knapp, Unable to stand the punch, Soft in body and soft in the head. As u bov| Ragabuds, and “Bosch” Smith, former Sprirsfield twirler, the In- 1 never liked to fight, but at 14 T could lick big men. T worked for my | dependents, | muscle and stamina. | This is the biggest baseball sports event that has occurred in “Lately T looked into the old shop | New Britain in years and now it is up to the fans to show their ;‘:‘”l(;m't “"rl;;' :‘Tl“r?.:k'm::fi:::; ',.",:: approval and get out and back up the boys who are going to pro- vide Saturday afternoon entertainment, How They Line up ; ' . A labor-saving devices, the output of 3 | YPMARMER" JEFFRIES the factory wasn't what it was in in Four Leagues THAT A BALL CLUB MAY BE | DOWN BUT NEVER OUT SEEN | WHEN DODGERS BEAT GIANTS High Stepping Athletics Bow 8-6 to Boston Red Sox While Brvoklyn Wins 87 From Champions and Lowly Quakers Take Both Games of Double Header From Braves. New York, May 20,—It was the under dog's day—a day of reversals—in the major leagues yesterday for the teams that layed, all the leaders except the New York Yanks receiving set- chkl and the Yanks and five other American league clubs did | not play, he high stepping Philadelphia Athletics were prey to the Boston Red Sox 8 to 6 and the lowly Philadelphia Quakers won a double header from the Boston Braves 6 to 4 and 11 to 2, Other reversals included that given by Chicago to Pittsburgh | B to 4 in 11 innings. St. Louis beat Cineinnati 5 to 4 in ten in- nings. ‘The hammer and tongs battle betweep Brooklyn and York which the Robins won 8 to 7, was also a topsy turvy affair, the Giants having shown practically the most nearly impregnable front in either league. It was the fourth defeat for Jack Bentley. e L i Red Sox Win, Philadelphia, May 20.—RBoston had two big Innings yesterday, while Philadelphia scored in only one frame and the Red Sox captured the first game of the series, 8 to 8, After Boston had battered Byron Harria| off the mound in the sixth the Athletics garnered six runa in the sex- enth only to have Rommel lose the game in the eighth when Shanks hit, a home run with two on base. | Bosten, ah, ipmncm_or? NINE IS YET 10 SUFFER FROM DEFEAT As — | — riguion ppos an ot f roks that j l{::.,"‘,‘1,..'.,"3;:',‘“'T:?"., T.’;.“.J::."%‘S.‘: 'MITCHELL SBEMS IN BEST needed pleking. ‘{t——everyone wanting to save labor, | SHAPE FOR LEONARD BOUT “I'm judging Gibbons' callber whol- -aftraid to sweat, getting flabby, And ly from what I've been told about the | the fighting game is beginning to This Will Be Champlon's First Battle | Tiger Team Looms Since September—Men Will Meet | | | | boy. You understand, I've nover seen | show it." | At Catchweights National League s him in action. Never saw Dempsey in| It's hard to keep Jeff's thoughts Outstandin, | the ring, either, for that matter. But focused on fighting. Amid his alfalfa b g | I'm not in any way belittling Jack|and roses, he's becom= a philosopher, 20,—"If | when I say that Gibbons will give him | From Dempsey and Gibbons, Willard Dempsey isn't in the best condition a fight, |and Firpo, under the spell of his re- possible on July 4 there's a good “Tommy is fust and clever. He has | cent Biblical an‘ historical research, ' , - Al ton (B chance that Gibhons will whip him. two hands. He can take 'em and give | the big fellow lubibers earnestly back | fc;“f‘f‘y"' ‘}f" "'““;',‘“i‘ :;:7’:’;‘:‘"” ZHe LA SRocNOd TR Coks: He'll know he's been in a fight, any- 'em. T know of no one else who can|to Paul, Moses and Pllate, citing the!g |9 hm' .’the w:rlp'-k‘lwn": “‘ New York, May 20.—With the in- way!” | stand up to Dempsey. | Bible much more than the Marquis of ox\n‘ f AIIPIOD AN fIRIH Melon® | ter-collegiate diamond season drawing Jim Joffries walloped out this stat “I00 be a far better fight, I'm sure, | Queensberry. of Milwaukee, title holder In thel,, "\ 0 “niincaton's powerful and ment without preliminary sparring|than the Dempsey-Carpentier scrap.| From the house came the gong of Junior weiterweight class will meet in undefeated nine looms as an outstand- when I had tracked him down in his| As I repeat, Dempsey will have to be | the dinner bell. It brought him back |® t&h round match tonight. ing contender for the 1923 oastern alfalfa field ot the Burbank ranch to!in the pink of condition to defend his| sharply from the Pyramids to Shelby. Chicago society women are sp"flflo"‘gmnngn crown. 300 get. his comment on the Shelby battie. | title. ' “Yes, it'll be a fight—and I expect ::’5 :;‘“t;:’:::;" "]“t“ ,:”‘;“‘AT“;::T’ :,',': Numbering two Harvard scaips it Hnflhnl Jr]sl finishi l.u \\orjl 0,“‘, ‘.‘.!”‘V, ack has toppled over the h?g"on‘.n[ to ,h nlvre" |gate receipts will total $85,000 to|@MONg its 19 straight victories so far . $100,000, the Tiger is a favorite to take Yale's “* ARDUY [S FASTEST | HARTFORD HIGH TO PROVIDE FEAST |\ e seommr oo s moti? B ! 514 MU&P II’Ilgl!EIlh:iAHS\IflSIES TOMORROW FOR NEW BRITAIN NINE s wozeves s ‘ {has fought himself into conditon. hu?:l;‘:h-::‘l‘i:d 3::‘:&0‘.?:‘::.'30.5?.]I;-f,: The men will meet at catchweights, | Speeds 104.5 Miles Per Hour Pre- paring for Tomorrow’s Races Yesterday's Games Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 4. Philadelphia 6-11, Boston 4.2, | Brooklyn 8, New York 7. | st Louis 5, Cincinnatt 4. By Jack Jungmeyer Contender For 1023 Eastern Burbank, Calif.,, May College Crown, -T s Mitchell Pieinieh Refchle f. Colline, rf, Burns, b, ... 7. Harris, of, 1f. Flagstead, rf., o Bhanke, 2b. MeMillan, 3b, Quinn, p. ... Ferguson, p. Standing of the Clubs w. ) Posawsalous ,.:New York .. 0] Pittsburgh . i Brooklyn . ,,:Chlcago « 18 17 —~ | 8t. Louis . « 19 19 1/ Boston .. cies 14 20 Cincinnati ceee 14 Philadelphia ... 10 25 Games Today. Brooklyn at New York. Philadelphia at Boston. Chicago at Pittsburgh. Cincinnati at 8t. Louis. ss3z50s .0 28 9 . 31 15 . 18 17 1 lessunnusssa, |l sssnrvnennsy Total 5 8 Philadelphin. - > aasmDueseT Matthews, cf. Hale. 3b. Riconds, 3 Perkins, . consecutive victories to 21 by defent- scale under 140 pounds at 3 .o'clock.|ing Vermont last Saturday will set- {Leonard says he will enter the ring|tle the question of supremacy with 'at 138 pounds and Mitchell will be | the Tigers when the two teams clash | within a pound of that weight. |at Princeton on June 7. Holy Cross, Mitchell will have five and a half |another formidable New Engiand en- inches in height and the same in|try has won 18 out of 19 starts, losing able to put across a victory over the |reach over Leonard. There {8 not the [its only game to Princeton 1 to 0 in New Haven Htllhouse High school | gjfference in their other measuremnt ton college which ran its strin, of largely on the breaks of the game. |a)though it is indicated both will y Record of Teams To date the N, B. H. 8. basebail team has played five games, winning |four and losing one. Hartford has played four games, winning three and | losing one. Both teams have been Van Orden, of Football Fame, Will Be Pitted Against Clever Gray, Red American League Yesterday's Results, Boston 8, Philadelphia 6. Helmach, xx Rommel, 'p . Bruggy xxx ab, VB 1 4 ‘4 3 ‘ 4 4 4 1 1 a 1 [ 1 oo RGNS a o | sssscnacnosnnnssy ~loszss5355-255-58 SR e 10 27 x—Batted f ris in sixth. xx—Batted for il In seventh. Total fh The Standing. LINEUP FOR TOMORROW H. P. H. 8, of International League Yesterday's Games Buffalo 10, Syracuse 0. Toronto 6, Rochester 3 Reading 10, Jersey City 5 Daltimore 9, Newark 1. ‘Wheat, Brook . Grimm, Pitts Frisch, N. Y. Dottomley, St. L. o u and Gold Pitching Ace, at xxx—Battad for Rommel in ninth A | ; Indianapolis, May 29.—Twenty-two a hectic struggle several weeks ago |team, although that aggregation 8uc- | Mitchell's excessive length would in- Two base hita. I Haris Flagstead, | 00086 i 100s | mobile race at the Indianapolis mo- | The Capital City team's only The fight tonight will be made a en Carroll pitching star who has fch; double plays, Riconda to Dykes to g t. Louls ... v 14 42¢] , folin v ; team by a lobsided score. 3 { oft B. Harris 1, oft ATL10 BErtoK. out. By itime today. Four other cars were|N. B. H. 8. 4 rested and the case taken to the state | Up an unusually brilliant record, scor- fagano, 2b. 3 o ¢ n to two hits, and the tford team t 0'in 1 oft Ferguson 1 in 32.3, off Rom- | The foreign contingent with the |Weir, It. FRafae o team 10 | injunction to restraln the boxers|vard both have been whitewashed by Baron, cf. brand, Morfarity and Rowland; time 1:38. e Ssa] [ hittt bility. The Hart to Cleveland at Chicago. | considering the cars as contenders for | Neipp, c. LR G A QU L 3 [its schedule including three with Parker, 1b. |ing, but by the slightest of margins. |Corbin Team Goes to |creations but they have given evidence |Gray, p. The Tigers play the University National Icague. | has pltched four games, and won | ¥ | | ford High and New DBritain High |boy of foothall and basketball fame, ".\’urwlch tomorrow to play the fast o'clock. The Red and Gold lads who To date 141 men have faced Gray, |the Girgmmar school at 10 a. m. The!|Terre Haute bantam, and Johnny Hornsby, have tried with indifferent success to [route. He has a two-hit and a one- |of the best left handers in the state. !ina of Louisville and Benny l.ee of Bost .. 000 004 040—8| New York . 5o 8h 9 i " Philadelphis . " 800 000 *""—“r’;:;‘l f‘l"”‘, ] cars having proved their right to St. Mary’s Field. at Tigertown. adeiphie o8 compete in the 1500 |ceeded In turning the tables in a re- | gjoqte Due to the -effectis firling Welch, Riconda; home runs, Hauser, Fiag. . b SEHIALAI0 = et [turn match with the Red and Gold A | clive twirling ot d, Shanks: sacrifices, J. Harrls, Plein-|D 4 500 e aoume pinye, Rico ke " isp::;:; ton }: i'&'; Lo FRERd A PO O AL AR omawas to the Buckles High school | Of the Iillnos anti-prize fight law. | Tecclved several fiattering offers from Hauger; lert on onser, Boston, i, Phitas & ¢ 437 torn down and rebuilt for the last Al Jim Mullen the promoter will be ar- big Irague clubs Holy Cross has hung elphia’ 5; base on balls, off Ferzuson h *hil ; 406 ¢ Pitcher Carr of the New Haven L T RO R e g g 325250 fi js;nsvhmlmmn to take their speed trials |Taylor, cf. team held the New Britaln team down | SUPreme court. Police will not inter-ing miore shutouts than any other ris 7 in 8, of Quinu 9 in 61 off (rNejt| ~O® 2 a5 late today. Grip, ss. Bennett, ss. | | fere with the contests, however and|castern college nine. Yale and Har- 3 Salad, If. o mel 4 In 2; winning pitcher, Ferguson; Games Toda | i ¢ ‘ 9 three, Conclusions drawn from this 3 B lear ROTRT Umoien. . de.| 8t Louls o Dbiratt v |exception of one machine has met |Beagle, 1b. would put the teams on even basis n | Will be obtained. | the Worcester collegians. 2 ' |e trial and the pre-race fans are |Kania, 2b, Welch. c. | . [ Princeton has eight more games on aw Vbk ? Madden, 3b, has it on the Hardware City in fleld- Five Leading Batsmen e Bl r‘,h"‘z‘d“:“r“’h“fi‘°"v |the leading positions. They have not |Hjerpe, 3b, : [ Yale the firet of which will be played ].n Each Major League‘ a. | displaced the speed of the American | Reynols, rf. (‘,?vunnzva;mm.)rf. The teams are especlally strong in the | i N |at New Haven next Saturday. ’ Jof sturdiness and endur Three it begyiiGiay, the dem Brltaln banbter| Norwich Memorial Day The much Jooked forward to game | Toronto a& Princeton on June 13, G. AB. R, H. PC. between the two ancient rivals, Hart- [three of them. Van Orden, the Janky | The Corbin Red Sox team goes to St — e schools will be played tomorrow aft- |has the same number of wins and | State Hospital nine there. The team | INDIANAPOLIS BOUT! lernoon at St. Mary's fleld at 2:30 |losses for Hartford. | will leave in autos from in frent of | Indianapoiis, May 29.-~Bud Taylor, are named above will be out there to |and he has.sent 51 of them back to [ Norwich team is relying greatly on|Shephard of Chicago, are scheduled to do tomorrow what the *old timers”’ |the bench by way of the strikeout [its pitcher, Wessologki, rated as one box ten rounds tonight. Joe Pagga- accomplish in the vears gone by. Last season he was with the Middle-/ Akron, featherweights are scheduled Their success or failure will depend town hospital team. to box ten rounds in the semi-windup, The Standing. w. 26 Hellmann, Det, - Reichle, BRoston (Continuea on Tollowing Page). Cobb, Detroit Miller, Phila . Collins, | Rochester . Baltimore Buffalo Reading . Toronto Jersey City wark Syracuse BRIGGS . How to Start The Evening Wron Detroit, May 20.—The fag end of | 5 a semi-disastrous home stand for the Detroit Tigers opened today with 8t} Touis starting a four game series here to be followed by three games with Cleveland. Out of 16 games played on the home grounds the Tigers have Jersey City at Reading. won but six. | Newark at Baltimore. ‘ Easterfiv -League YESTERYEARS Yesterday's Games IN SPORT Albany 14, New Haven 10 Pittsfield 5, Springfield 3, Bridgeport §, erbury Hartford 10, 1922—~Chicago White Sox purchas- | ed Third Bagseman Willie Kamm from | San Francisco club of the Pacific | gartford Coast icague for $100,000 and w0 | gpringfield players valued at $25,000 | New Haven . 1020—Earl J. Thompson, Dart- | warorhury mouth college, ran 120 yards high ly o aqar hurdles in 14 seconds, ‘a record. \ppane 1920—-Man O'War, aged three years, | Bridge + 4 ridgepor carrying 172 pounds, covered one mile oo g 10 on circular track at Belmont Park. N. Y., in 1 minute 35 4.5 seconds, an American record. The half was done in 45 4.5 seconds, and the record is the best ever done in a race in this country 1909—"Fighting Dick” Hylan stay- ed 23 rounds with Battling Nelson in a game effort to win the lightweight championship at Fresno, Cal teen years later the pair met the same ring in a friendly exhibition bout. 1893—Boston bunched 14 hits and gcored 16 runs in two innings, against s i OH WILLARD WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT LEADING MAR WHo TLAYED 1N % "SARAN FROM SYRACUSE WELL MILLICENT IT'S A FINE LITTLE NIGHT To BE. [ HOME ISN'T 1T, Nouws CozZY EVENING AT HOME - - A RAINY NIGHT LIKE TS : \ . AND A GooD £ RN, Booi< - oH 2 : Bov ! W\ . Games Taday. Syracuse at Buffalo. Toronto at Rochester, WHY THAT wASs SUH=H = THAT WAS JLET ME THINKS THAT WAS= = UK / German cars and four ¥French ma- |chines to date have qualified to start. Another French car hurtled over the bricks this afternoon in an effort to average Su miles an hour or better | for ten miles——the required speed for | participation. | The 122 cubie inch piston displace- ment engines showing surprising 4 ed in the practice spine. | s machines for the most part are «ingle seaters, The cars are the light- | eet in weight that have ever heen pre- pared for the iocal contest The usnal race crowd began rmn‘-‘ ing into the city y and last | night Jimmy JIMMY MURPHY The Standing. W 19 are 17 i 18 12 12 10 19 rday Games Today Albany at Waterbury. Pittsfield at Hartford. AND S0 THE EVENING WAS IRREPARABLY RUINED! \ WISH You WoOLDN'T ASK ME To REMEMBER NAMES=---| CAN'T N QRU\T TRYING To REMEMBER, . Ty CHARS NaME | CAN'T GET MIND ON My READING OH DEAR | WIsSH we CouLd THINK OF 1T Murphy, winner of last year's 500-mile automobile race, show- the greatest of fourteen ivivers who qualificd their cars terday to participate in the annual | event here, His time for ten miles 5:15:04, age of 104,05 | n hour. IT WAS SOME THING LIKE ‘LEe’ | KNow 1T AS WELL AS | Hnow | KNow IT AS WELL AS AnY= THING = - WHY \'ve GoT T [ RIGHT o0 THE : i END oF MY All Makes Car's [ ToGuE REPAIRED and . [ OVERHAULED speed HOMERS Veveeess G cor ANDERSON - HENDER S | was an O'Connell, Giants .... { mites Toporcer, Cards . Rawlings, Pirate Miller, Cubs Flagstead, Red Sox Hhanks, Red Sox .... Hauser, Athletics .. Hutchison of Chicago in game at Boston. Ten Years Ago On May 29, 1913, Jimmy Duffy won on foul over Jack Britton in sixth round at Buffalo. Twenty-Five Years Ago On May 20, 1898, Tim Hurst denied reports that he was about to be mar- | ried. He had trouble enough, he| said, trying to land pennant for St Louls. played . Home Run Leaders Williams, Phils Williams, Browns Ruth, Yanks . Mokan, Phils . Tierney, Phils Mann, Cards . Hartnett, Cub Miller, Cubs . Kelleher, Cubs . Traynor, Pirates . Hauser, Athletics Cadillacs a Specialty i AUTHORIZED NASH | SERVICE STATION | J. B. Moran| GARAGE 5 181313 CHURCH 9T. Tel. 1354