New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1923, Page 8

. e —— NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEF ALD, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 10 RAINS STOP SOME SUNDAY GAMES — EDDIE COLLINS SPEEDS UP AND STEALS TWICE IN ON: GAME — HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS HARTFORD SAT- URDAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP — BROOKLYN TEAMGOING LIKE A HOUSE AFIRE—CITY LEAGUE OPENS SCHEDULE NEXT SATURDAY — OTHER ITEMS BROOKLYN’S SENSATIONAL COME-BACK 1 S BIG NOISE OF BASEBALL WORLD’S BEST Dodgers Now Are Within One Game of Second Place— Detroit Striving For Third Place in American League By Defeating Cleveland—Athletics Slip When Sena- tors Take Their Measu With Two Stolen Bases. New York, June 4,—Brookl of both major leagues, re--Eddie Collins Features n today continues the sensation In a driving rain storm vesterday with clouds so dense as to make it difficult to see the plavers from the Ebbets field stands, the Dodgers again downed the Boston Braves 7 to 6, registering their third win out of four games with the Bostonians and their fifteenth victory of their last 28 contests, The victory placed the Dodgers just one game behind Pitts- burgh in second place as the Pirates lost to St. Louis 4 to 8, Chi- cago broke the Cincinnati Reds winning streak of six games, 4 to 8. Philadelphia and New York were not scheduled, In the American, Detroit again| reached toward third place by de. feating the occupants of that position Cleveland, 8 to 7. A veteran figured in Chicago's vie- tory over Bt Louis 7 to 1. Eddie Collins, second sacker of the White| Box stols two bases, Willie Kamm $100,000 infielder from San Francis- €0 was the flaiding star. | The Philadelphia Athletics lost ground in its climb toward the Yank's stronghold in first place, los- ing to the slipping Washington Sena. tors 6 to The Yankee-Boston Red Box game was not played because of rain although a crowd of 80,000 awaited action for an hour and a halt. AMERICAN LEAGUE Athletics Lose ‘Washington, June 4—Washington outbatted Philadelphia two to one and took the final game yesterday, 6 to 2. Score: Philadelphia. ab, 1 Matthews, of. Riconda, b, Perkins, c. . Hauser, 10, Miller, ‘1. . Gatioway, ss. . Weleh, rf. . Bcheer, 2b, . Hasty, p. . Ogden, p. 0 1 0 [ 0 1 0 0 b 0 n. T, 1 [} 1 0 1 0 0 1 Rl ceawaasap o DO T e | 000—2 01x—6 Philadelphis ..... Washington % f Twn base hits, Galloway, Leibold, Ricon- @s, Harris, eacrifices, Peckinpaugh 2, Ri- conds, Bcheer, Lelhold, Welch; double plays, Harris tn Peckinpaugh to Judge; left on baces, Philadelphia 4, Washington §; base on balls, off H 2, off Hollin worth 1, off Ogden 1; struck out, by Hasty 8. by Ogden 2; hits, off Hasty & in 6 i nings, off Ogden 2 in 2 inninge; losl pitcher, Hasty; umpires, Owens and Din. meen; time, 1:40. ‘Tygers 8, Indians 7 Detroit, Mich., June 4.—A one hand | eatch by Speaker of Rigney's long fly to deep center fleld for the second out in the ninth inning, which per- | mitted Heilmann to score the win. ning run from third base was the only | feature of an 8 to 7 vietory by De. troit over Cleveland here yesterday, Cleveland. ab. o 0 0 [ 1 1 R — E P Metevier, p. 3Btephenson MCoBenwennnan 26 wae wlnocomcommmoiny 39 $Two out when winning run xBatted for Edwards in Sth. Detrolt. . p.o. (Conunued on Following Page) Cubs Are Now Out to Play All Contenders The Cubs are thirsting for blood ‘They now come forth with the chal- lenge that they have ‘“defeated all| New Britain teams played” and have lost but twice—to Berlin. The Cubs’ announce their tallies as| six victories and two defeats and are| especially anxious for games with the West Ends, Columbias, Echoes and in regards to the last announce that “we have gcecpted the challenge of the Echoea and are willing to meet them next Sunday.’ On Thursday night| the Cubs would like to play the Col- umbiae. The lineup of the Cubs: Misckow. ski, Levine, ¢; Salmon, p; Captain Baker, 1b; Huek, Ib; Harkins, se; Bianco, 3b; Messenger, 1f; Darrow, cf; | Manager Saunders and Dakorta, rf The record thus far is: Cubs 6, Boosters 5; Cubs 25, Boostars #; Cui 7, Columbias 4; Cubs 5 Tri 7 Cubs 13, All Baints 0; Cubs 17 Burritt 8, Cubs 7, Echoes 0; ¢ Triangles Manager Saunders may &t 522-5. Another game Xriangles 18 sought Elihu ubs 9, be reached with the YESTERDAY'S HOMERS, Wheat, Dodgers Summa, Indians Home Run Leaders, Williams, Phils Ruth, Yanks Wiiliams, Browns ese Hauser, Athictics . v 8 Mokan, Phils 6| ; Philadelphia ..... | How They Line up “in Four Leagues National League Yesterday's Results Chicago 4, Cincinnati 8. Brooklyn 7, Boston §. 8t. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 3, Only three games scheduled, Standing of the Clubs w. L. P.C. 11 141 18 19 22 2] 23 25 30 32 24 23 22 20 19 17 12 w York ......00 Pittsburgh Brookiyn .. 8t. Louis . Cincinnati Chicago .. Boston . 571 548 .500 488 460 (256 Games Today Boston at Philadelphia, Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. American League Yesterday's Results Chicago 7, St. Louis 1, Washington 6, Philadelphia 2. Detroft 8, Cleveland 7, 5 Boston-New York, rain, standing of the Clubs w. 29 23 28 548 19 475 St 485 . 15 417 16 400 15 .385 P.C. New York ........ Philadelphia Cleveland . §t. Louis Detroit Boston . Washingt, Chicago % Games Today New York at Washington, Cleveland at Boston. International League Yesterday's Results Newark 7, Reading 3. Jersey City 5, Baltimore 2. Other games, rain. Standing of the Clubs w. L. P.C 28 11 718 27 17 614 21 iy, 538 . 22 19 587 19 .500 26 405 23 305 30 286 Rochester .. Baltimore . Toronto Reading . Buffalo . Jersey City Newark 5 12 Games Today Rochester at Buffalo. Syracuse at Toronto. Reading at Newark, Jersey City at Baltimore. Eastern League Yesterday's Resuits Waterbury &, Springfield 4. Albany 7, Worcester Other games, rain standing of the Clubs Wi 24 10 20 19 17 18 o 15 11 11 Games Today P.C. .06 606 Hartford vew Haven Springfield Waterbury . Albany ... Worcester Bridgeport Pittsfield Hartford at New Huve Springfleld at Waterbury. Wercester at Albany. JPittsfield at Bridgeport r— YESTERYEARS IN SPORT Ten Years Ago On June ¢, 1913, Knight's Vey, pur- chased by Richard Croker, was scratched from English Derby list, leaving no American entry Twenty-five Years Ago On June 3, 1898, Manager Watkins of Pittsburgh beught Tom O'Brien, outfielder, and Frank B rman, cateher, from Baltimore Orio GAME n The Ranzers’ game with the Mary's of Msriden yesterday postponed until next Sunday. st was oe——————— KILBANE TAKES THE COUNT! The in th dramatic ring, moment ¢ as thousands looke s a right to the jaw that put the Cleveland champion to the floor, he w world’s championship hattle for fistic d on at the Polo Grounds, New York, . HARD, WING EASILY Walks Away Wit So. Manchester by 14-3 Score The New Britain High school base- ball team went on a batting rampage Baturday and defeated the BSouth Manchester High school at St. Mary's fleld by a lop-sided score, 14 to 3. While the Red and Gold team was MOHAWAS OF MERIDEN ARE DEFEATED BY THE FALCONS Pitcher Kania *Goes Far Toward Making New Britain Win Sure When He Fans 14 Batters, The Falcons of this city defeated the Meriden Mohawks yesterday 5 to 2 in a great game, The twirling of Kanfa for New Britain was & feature he fanning 14 Meriden batters and | allowing but eight hits. Zeigler, Cuba and Nagel socked the ball hard, ¥ach getting a doubl The score: | ¥ mauling the offerings of the Silk Town Ma slabster, Gray was holding the visitors safely. This is the second victory for Gray in a week, and the third conse- cutive victory to his credit. The Red and hot for inning thing he ty bases. n they hit almost every- sent over for a total of twe, Four runs were scored in the first inning, one In the second, one in the third and three in the fourth, He rucceeded in blanking the Hardware City flve in the fifth, but in the sixth they put two more over. They scored three in the eighth, The 8l1k Towrers got five hits off him, one The stars ‘or the New Britain team were Bengle and Grip. lrest, The bace running of Grip waa very good. Heu stole three bases dur- |ing the afternoon. the Hartford High school team at Hartford next Saturday. The game will decide the triangular champion- |ship. Hartford's victory over the New | Haven Hillhouse team places them in! & tie with the Hardware City team for | | honors in the 1ace, Hartford has won |2 and lost 1, New Britain has won 2 and lost 1, New Haven won 1 and lost 3. PIRATES, WITH POLITIS IN BOX, BEST PORTLAND New Britain Team Comes Back From River Town At Long Yind of 6 to 0 Siinday Score The Pirates have hit their stride! !Yesterday, in the neighboring village of Portland they handily trounced the | town team by the decisive score of 6-0. “Slim" Politis, mamber of the police department and in the fall a formidable foothall player, was on the mound for the Pirates nnd with uBt- gey Hall catching him was invincible. Nelson and Muldoon worked for Port- land. On Monday and I'rlday nighte the Pirates hold their regular praetice at Walnut Hill. The score of yester-| day's game Portland. | Pirates. 40 11 Eheehan, Beagle and Beagle; struck out, BOWLING GAME POSTPONED. The Dowlerdromes have called off with the New Dritains, set for tonight, and will play here tomorrow night and on Thursday night in Meriden. This series will determine the cham- the Connecticut state bowling riden their game originally plon in league. RAIN PREVENTS G Rain prevented the g Ma yesterday between the Leiar Mastomon, Johnson, 2b, of which way for an extra base, Lingner, rf. Beagle's |r;cone splendid hitting stood out above the Meriden | stolen sacrific Whits, Cabay. {on braes, The team announces itself as all set on balls, i with |Struck out, by Masterano 8, by for the fnal gume of the season with |[{th Pur I (RN orano 11 pltcher, 'Swedish Lutherans Defeat | ' from v 3 honors is June Criqui, ch w CORBINS SUNDAY EAME CALLED OFF Rain Prevents-Saturday’s Battle a Victory lor Red Sox Rain prevented the Corbin Red Sox playing the Quonos of North Guilford yesterday, but the game will d on the ) ¢ the Red § tucked with Eddie Hine twirling, another scalp ’\tnllfv’ their belte when they defeated Koy Zeigler by a score Gold team made it h visiting pitcher in the first ¢ 1 Mohawks. wlooctomwomnn . 300 000 0 020 000 “uba, Mohawks ..... oese hits, Zeigl Gajda, Masterano, Budnik, Dahlka; left New Britain 7, Meriden oft Kenia 4, off Mast Two nia 14; | winning | Kania; losing pitcher, lasterano. Hartford Church Leaguers The local Swedish Lutherans de-’ feated the Hartford Lutherans Satur-| day at Pope park in a loosely played game, score 14 to 10. Larson was ou| the mound for the locals and pitched | good ball after the fourth inning| when three hits aud three errors with | a base on balls gave Hartford five| runs. Larson's home run with a| man on featured as did Ahlgren's| fielding. Score by innings: | > * h, e New Britain .112 115 012—14 12 5 Hartford ...110 510 020—10 10 b Batteries: Larson and Nelson; An-| derson, Lindstrom and Johnson, The players will meet for practice| Tuesday on the Ellis Street grounds| at 6:40 p. m. | | { SRR | | WILL CHALLENGE CRIQUI Tremaine to Seek Bout For Featherweight Title Carl Cleveland, June 4.—Jimmy Dunn, menager of Carl Tremaine of Cleve-| land, aspirant for the bantam weight title, announced yesterday that he would challenge Eugene Crioui, on behalf of Tremaine, for the feather. weight championship. Dunn was for years manager of Johnny Kilbane, 1 the former champion. | edged | first, after two w | triple, double by Snyder in the second, aided | ¢ain Kauftman, Hile, Tice, Edgerton | the Standard Steel and B of 9 to ( Three men as far as second was the nearest the dard team came to scoring. In justice to Pitcher Roy of the Standard nine it must be sald that his support was wobbly. other hand, Corbin gave Hine support and hit hard Corbin scored three in out on four hits, a pass and a, passed ball, Hine's Blanchard's single and a glit- and timely. by Huber's sacrifice fly, brought in two more. Clinton’s single, in the third, coupled with two errors, scored another. The seventh inning hrought in another run. Jackson-singled and went to second on Barnett's sacrifice, | took third on Elliott's poor handling of Roy's peg and scored when he and Preisser worked the double (Continued on I'ollowing Page) osition at the count of five, but fell baek and togk t Rilbane, for years 1 v hero, moving toward his corner rweight champion as th 1 count of ten——his first defeat in years world, tat referee points him ou of the on Five Leading Batsmen In Each Major League American League Player and Club G. AB. R, H. Hellmann, Detroit § 135 30 Ruel, Washington .20 81 11 Reichie, Boston ...20 177 12 Cobb, Detroit .43 171 28 Myatt, Cleveiand ..26 81 14 2 National League Player and Ciub G. AB. Wkheat, Brookiyn ..40 151 Grimm, Pitts, .....40 1 Bottomley, 8 L. ..44 177 28 Young, New York .43 164 37 Mokan, Phila < 29 118 2 MANY TEAMS AFFECTED R. 30 28 H. 3 415 68 .384 62, 378 42 372 61 gs nine Penn State Loses a Number of Star & Athletes by Graduation of Senior Class Next Monday. State College, Pa., June 4.— With the graduation exercises at Penn On the | grate next Tuesday a number of star 8. Michaels, if. Thare is not a single college There s not a single sports career. careers. the team that goes unscathed in the loss. |Mansley, cf. From the football team of last fall Bentz, Hufford and Logue will be | gone. The track téam will lose Cap- and Kreiter. The haseball team is perhaps the worst hit, losing Captain Koehler, |Hare, Miller, Longhurst and Black. The basketball squad must figure lon replacing Captain Xoehler and Shair. | To replace these losses next year, steal. | the greatest bunch' of freshman ath-| |letic material in history is to be | available. | 4;~_- the neighboring town yesterday. PLAINVILLE BOYS DEFEAT ENOX . C. OF BRIDGEPORT Nine Goes Back Home With nd of 4-2 Score After Good Battie The Plainville town team inflicted a 4-2 defeat upon the Lenox A. C. of Bridgeport in a well plaved game in Hy- land, Plainville's slabman, held the visitors to eight hits while his team- mates did littie better with arrell, getting but 9. Each team had une error. The score; Plataville Town Team. o Wi Blan - D000 B s wlioscooman E ¢ Hylang, e R wlosorccscs *Ran for Hyland. Lenox A. C. of Dridgeport. ab. r b p.o. 3 Brazie, 88, ..... |Targan, c. . *Herd, '3b. Knowles, tf. . | Brewster, ! Michaels, Farrell, p. 1b. SRy, R e | ctanoons wlocosorccse *Herb batted Plainville ..., Bridgeport i Two base hits, Kilduf |mels; thres base hit, §. Dudnick; sacrifice hits, Kilduft; bases on balls, off Hyland 3 {la 9 innings, oft Farrell 4 In 0 innings; struek out, by Farrell § In 9 innings, by Hyland 9 in 9 Innings; stolen bases, Plain- |ville 3, Bridgeport ouble plays, Brew- |ster to Brazie; Fitzpatrick to Budaick; hits, of Hyland 8 n 8 inninga off Farrell § in 9 innings; umplres, Neff and Bonney; time, | 2:00, 0 100—4 500—3 Mich- W he.x; a Fell; Needs a Friend U4 BRIGGS NEXT THING UN OUR PRCGRAM THIS EBVENING PlANO MAST JOHNSON ... ,... HAS 15 A SELECTION BY ER RUPERT. HE TAKEN ONLY EIGHT LESSONS SO PLEASE MAKE ALLOWANCES ANY FOoR M{STAKES OCOF. - OMISSION OR commissioN " fi Coprright, 1923, 17, V. Teibwna foas