New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1923, Page 8

" defeated Detroit 6 to 5 but St. Louis i | DEMPSEY-FIRPO BOUT ON LABOR DAY ICAGO CUBS UP IN FIRST ‘Yanks’ Victory is Featured By Bambino’s 20th Homer— Cleveland Shuts Out Athletics By Score of 11 to 0— Tygers Drop 6-5 Game to Boston Red Sox. ; New York, July 18.—The west scored decisively in the Na- tional league contests yesterday while in the American, by split- " ting even, western teams playing at home held their own. The ' Chicago Cubs blanked the Robins for the second consecutive time . and moved into the first division and Cincinnati made yet a bit . more sure their hold on second place by shutting out the trailing Pennsylvania team, 2 to 0. The only setback of the western in- wvaders in the National league was . recelved from the hands of the Giants who were forced to divide a double header with Pittsburgh losing the first game, 5 to 3, and taking the second 4 to 2. The other National | league west victor was St. Louis who | took its fourth straight game from | the Braves. | The Yanks won another game in| their swing through the western cir- cuit. It was featured by Babe Ruth's 20th home run for the season. The Yank 10 to 6 triumph over Chicago was offset by Cleveland's shut-out of Philadelphia 11 to 0. The Red Sox How They Line up in Four Leagues Easiern League Yesterday's Results Bridgeport 12, Springfield 11. Hartford 6, Albany 0. Worcester 11, Waterbury 4. > New Haven 6, Pittsfield 2. i walked away with their game with . the Senators 8 to 5 and evened in the inter-sectional score NATIONAL LEAGUE Split Double Header. New York, July 13.—The New| \waterhury York Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates | worcester . split a double header vesterday, the |y jggeport Plrates taking the first, 5 to 3, while : the Glants won the second, 4 to 2. First Game Standing of the Clubs L. P.C. 23 ' 28 36 37 44 42 41 43 Hartford W51 New Haven Albany | Springfield 1603 514 1500 429 425 424 of 419 Games Today . n e| Hartford at Springfield (2). Plethvurgh . . 032000 000—5 11 3| Pittsfleld at Worcester. New York 200 010 000—3 6 ’2 Waterbury at New Haven. —Met ws and Schmidt; McQuil- St 5 e o anyanm ats MeQuil-| . Bridgeport at.Albany. Sacona Game. Pittsburgh. ab. American League Yesterday's Results Boston 6, Detroit 5. New York 10, Chicago 6. Cleveland 11, Philadéiphia 0. St. Louis §, Washington 5. Standing of the Clubs L. 23 36 39 39 38 44 43 ° > -~ YOI oroocon coso~osooaa® [ R | coome | New York Cleveland Philadelphia S8t. Louis Chicazo | Washington il’oalon Sl ecanvencoounp wl ol connouuoncns Fulocoown Games Today Washington at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Cleveland. Boston at Detroit, New York at Chicago. h. 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 e oo o e *Batted for Gooch in §th, xBatted for Adams in th, Pittsburgh Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 5, New York 3 (1st), New York 4, Pittsburgh 2 (2nd). Chicago 2, Brooklyn 0. St. Louis 9, Boston 6. Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 0. Standing of the Clubs L. 26 29 ¢ 20 .600 37 532 36 20 41 JART 11} .289 b5 286 3 Bigbe 8, Jackson; double pla 1y; Gooch and Rawling: Grimm; left on bases, New York 3, Pitts- burgh 7; base on balls, off Scott 1; struck (Continuea on Following Page). BROWN GETS DECISION P.C .658 613 New York | Cincinnati | Pittsburgh | Chicago Erooklyn St. Louls .. | Ts0ston Gives Him Verdict Over ’, Wallingford Sheik in New Haven Battle Last Night. “Chic” Brown of New Haven re- | adelphia ©elved the referce's decision over |l 2d¢iphia Young Leonard, “The Sheik’ of Wal-| lingford, in 12 rounds of milling at| the show staged by the Nutmeg A, C. | of New Haven last night. The deci- | #10n of Referee Conway was received | With loud protests by some of the | - erowd. In the preliminary, Georgie " Day recgived the decision over Tony | Travers, brother of Mickey Travers. It | * was Tommy's first professional fight, Henry Monguese defeated Younf Mar- angicein, the second preliminary, by & referee's decision. | Baltimore 10, Buffalo 3. In the fight between Eddie Corbett| Toronto 7, Reading 2 1st.) ©f Hartfor® and Collle Clienes, the| Reading 1, Toronto 5 (2nd). ony thing Clienes dispalyed was' plen- *= ty of gameness. Corbett dropped him Standing of the Clubs, three times before the count, in the L. fifth, Baltimora 30 In the big bout, Brown took the, Rochester ..... 41 first three rounds in whirlwind style, | Reading i1 but after that “The Sheik' outpoint- | Toronto 42 @d him In every round. In the last | I'uffalo 42 found, "“The Sheik” dropped Brown |Jersey City . 48 With a left to the jaw, which took the | Newark 43 fight out of the idol of New Haven's| Syracuse 52 Ttallans. ' The worst Conway ecould 2 have possibly given “The Sheik” was Games Today & draw, as he easily took seven of the Newark at Buffalo. twelve rounds. | g at Syracuse Jersey City at Toronto. Baltimore’at Rochester Games Today St. Louis at Boston. Chicago at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. Pittsburgh at New York. International League Yesterday's Results y City 11, Rochester 5. acuse 10, Newark 3. Je P.C 695 610 518 500 475 442 414 388 YESTERYEARS | Five Leading Batsmen IN SPORT 1913—Red Fred Thompson Princeton athlete, world’ around championship. 1900—Cainman, four years ol earrying 128 pounds, ran one mile Lingfield, Eng., in 1 minute, 33 1-5 seconds, the English record 1897—Ed Delehanty made safe hits, including a triple in nine times at bat in two games at Loui ville, Ky. Delehanty was a ©Of the Philadelphia team 1896—Ed Delehanty tied 1 2 B ocort s ca e |.1\:\“l l\l‘:‘i\\l!”l.\l n ln‘{‘ S.I"mmm Phillies and Cubs Delehanty got and Lew 7 P o E four home runs and a single in five i #imes at bat. All of the homers were made inside the grounds at Chicago 1894—O1d-time siuggers used to hit @8 much as do the present day ath- Pletes. On this day Boston made 29 Bits for a total of 44 bases and sarned 17 of the runs scored in ‘Zame with Cincinegli at Cincinnati. National League G. AB. R former 201 won nine member Lowe's Leo 1 for A first lesson in English by means of wireless was®recently g at the | French post office high school. e e e P ey re T Oy T aEe oL I et e Is 8o senrsseasat eseerrtess s gntsss Tt LT sttt ater | snappy ball and hit well, too. 680 | the third strike on Fields, threw wild | | mile. | over Joe Mc in the slowest time of the | day, 2:21 [ in the third. | third In Each Major League| POSSIBLE — BERLIN LETS CARDS DOWN WITH 3 HIT Wins City League Game by Score, of 17 to 2 Outclasged entirely, the Cardinals in the City league went down to a 17 to 2 defeat at the hands of the fast Berlin Construction company | team at Walnut Hill park last eve- ning. Veley, who started %or the Cardinals, lasted 4 innings during which time six hits, five free passes| and some wobbly flelding brought in 14 runs. Nelson held them to three runs on four hits. For the Cardinals, a three bagger by Anderson was a feature. Under ordinary conditions this would have been good for a home run, but Me- Cormick made a speedy chase of the ball and by perfect flelding and an almost perfect throw to the infleld held the runner at third. The Berlin team certainly played Doran, second string first baseman with the Yale varsity this spring, got two hits, one of them a triple, and a sacrifice hit. McCormick got three hits in five trips to the plate and Hoffman connected for two safeties. Lawrence held the Cards helpless, the only others beside Anderson who connected safely having been the two pitchers, each getting a pretty single. In the third inning Werdelin, who had made a bad error, retrieved him- self by, making a sensational running catch fh right field. In the fifth in- ning, with two down, Knapp dropped to first and a rally resulted. In the seventh inning Rucker, after having made one error on a fly, made a great’ catch in right. The game also had its amusing features. In the fourth inning Me- Cormick came home with what looked like a run, but beat a hasty retreat back to third when he dis- covered that he had not tagged that| bag. He never would have known it, however, had not Catcher Knapp of the Cardinals tipped him off in glee. As it turned out, the ball was not brought back in time to get the shifty Mac before he got back safely. In the seventh, however, Knapp evened up things when MecCormick came tearing home with what looked like another run. He had taken his place on the bénch when Knapp dis- covered that he had not touched home plate, so Knapp touched him and Umpire Young shouted “You're|a out.” The score: © = emsocnBont Werdelin, 2 Venturo, 2b Doran, 1b, Hosuocoomp Hooocomoon® Page). CLYDE THE GREAT OFF WITH WIN FOR MURPHY Takes 2:08 Trot at Toledo Track; Czar Worthy Second in 2:03 Trot. Toledo, July 13.—Peter The Brew- er, son of Peter The Great, and driv- en by Nat Ray, won the 2:08 trot, feature of yesterday's card of the Crand Circuit meeting at Ft. Miami track, in straight heats, stepping the| second mile in 2:04%. Czar Worthy was second in the first heat, but Great Britton placed in the second. The third was trotted by Peter The Brewer In 2.05%. The track was fast after the start was delayed 30 minutes to give more time for dry- ing out after the rains of the last two days. The 2:08 trot with 11 starters went to Clyde The Great, purchased Mon- day by the veteran Tommy Murphy| from Clyde lammlein of Louisville tor $25,000, Murphy's horse took the sccond and third heats after finishing second to Fayette National in the first mile. Three heat winners forced the three-year-old trot to the fourth It was won by Etta Axworthy Ethelinda, after win- was distanced 1-4, ning the second mile, The 2:07 pace was won by Peter Etawah In straight heats, who went he second mile in 2:05 1-4. Maybelle | Direct was second and Dick Sanders Peter Sulllvan took the 2:15 pace by winning all three heats. Now for Dem}%éstirpo; Injured Hand, Says Jess Firpo said “Willard gave me hell. I expected a tough fight, but I didn't think he would last as long as he did. I knew it was only a question of rounds when I would knock Willard out. I could feel him weakening from the second | round He shook me up with af upper cuts, but he never hurt me Now I want a chance at Dempsey. I am just as sure that I him as I was I could beat couple of can beat Willard." Willard I injured my left hand three days had two doctors attend But T felt certain 1 vonld be able to stop Firpo in spite the injury My hand pained me frightfully whenever 1 hit Firpo with it. T eould not it effectively I do not wish te appear as if T am but T feel sure I could have 1 Firpo had my hand been all Firpo is a great fighter.” sald: | | 180 and have ing me ever since use ST. MARY'S PLAY SUNDAY. The St. Mary's of this city will meet the St. Mary's of Meriden Sun- day afternoon at Anchor fleld 1in Meriden at 3 o'clock. characteristic rush, his right and jabbed with a Firpo landed a light blow to the body. He drove his right again to Willard's ribs. land cufted the big fellow about the Lead trickled from a cut o Whliard's left ear, of the head as the bell sounded. Willard jabbed Firpo head at close quarters. tinean forced Willard back corner with a body attack. long left stopped Firpo short as he tried to bore in. content to employ defensive tactics, | blocking Firpo's They were sparring as ended. Artie Lawrence come-back after having been off the pitcher’s mound for ten years. Pitch- ing for the Berlin Construction team | against the Cardinals in league, Artle showed much of his old time skill and with old Rip McKeon behind the bat keep him going he was unbeatable. the old boy and his old friends other days gave him a good hand as he turned the trick. ——eeeeeeee———— LT e e g e n g en st s arsg st gsssssgissog ratosisttarisatassasanazssseatisisarsasniiizaaaay FIRPO’S FEROCIOUS ATTACK PUTS WILLARD AWAY IN 8th Ringside Jersey City, July 12.—Luis #irpo of the Argentine, Round One, Firpo came from his corner with a Willard blocked left. Firpo forced Jess to the ropes; at close quarters. Blood Jess drove a right to the slde‘ Round Two Jess carried the fight to Firpo bu missed a landed one in the ribs but was short with a right. blocked Firpo’s attempts to attack his|blocked in his attempts to reach Wil- body. splotches of red from his opponent's punches. the jaw but Willard stepped out of| the way of another wallop aimed at| the same spot as the gong sounded. right uppercut. The big Kansan| Willard's left slde showed Firpo shot a hard right to| Round Three about the The Argen-| into a| Willard's | ‘Willard seemed rights. | round | powerful the Round Four. Willard jarred Firpo with a left to| the head. they went into a clinch but inflicted | Firpo swung both fists :ml F‘lrp” knocked out Jess Willard, former heavyweight champion in the eighth round of a 12 round match last night. Kansan down for the count of ten with a terrific attack to the jaw,dthe end coming after one minute and 55 seconds of the round, : He sent the big ro damage. ‘Willard cauvght Firpo with an uppercut coming in. Firpo bounded from the ropes, landing a right to the stomach. He pummelled Willard about the head at close quar- ters but Jess only smiled, Willard was wild with a right and absorbed | further punishment about the head. | Firpo rushed in with hoth fists land- ing heavily. Jess rallied and drove Firpo to a corner as the bell rang. Round Five Willard sent Firpo's head back with a straight left. He hooked a hard | right to the jaw as they clinched. Firpo was short with his right. They | clinched repeatedly as Firpo was lard's body. The crowd, whose sym- pathies obviously were with the big American, chorused “hurrah Jess" as| the bell rang. Round Six. Firpo shot in his right to the neck. Willard covered up as he was short with his left. They jabbed lightly at long range as I'irpo circled his op- ponent in search of an opening. Firpo drove rights and lefts to the; jaw but failed to shake big Jess. Willard's left stopped Firpo short. The Argentinean's aim was bad with his left but he shot in a right to the body as the gong ended the round. Round sceven. I Willard shot in a hard right that| sent Firpo to the ropes. He em- (Continued on Following Page) \ARTIE LAWRENCE COMES BACK AFTER TEN YEARS East Berlin Pitcher, Off Mound Dec- ade, Holds Cardinals to Three Hits in City League. While speaking of the come-backs and near come-backs, such as Firpo, Babe Adams, Kensington and others, not forgetting Pete Fusari, don't forget that dougty little athlete from Kast Berlin who ten years ago was quite the dobs as| “Lefty” O'Connell of pitcher. ! Last evening at Walnut Hill park| staged a perfect the that he City had to Lawrence was never in danger and passed but three men. But three hits were made oq his delivery, them a triple by Anderson. other two hits were by Veley and Nelson, both opposing pitchers. None of the hits came in the same ning. good control, passing but three men. Also he had many of his old hooks and twisters working in good shape. During the game only 85 balls to the plate. one of The in- In addition, Lawrence had Lawrence threw All In all, it was a great night for of LOW PRICES FOR JULY Baseballs, Shoes and Gloves Everything Cut At —PILZ’S — Scores Daily EVERYBODY AwWAY- DECIDES To MAKE THE_EFFORT DISTANCE To WATER SEEMS GREATER THAN SUSPECTED 'ed Watson 8. TOPPING WINS TITLE N STATE IN GREAT MATCH Greenwich Man Defeats Burkowskd, 20 Years Old Opponent, in Final by One Up. Groton, July 13—Henry J. Topping of Greenwich won the Connecticut state golf championship on the Shenecossett Country club course | here yesterday afternoon when he, defeated William Burkowski, the 20 years old golfer of Naugatuck by 1 up in the 36-hole final. Burkowski was the favorite of the | gallery, espec after he staged a | comeback which carried the mateh to the 18th hole in the afternoon. At the 13th Topping had the Naugatuck iron-molder 5 up, but Burkowski won | four of the next flve holes. At the end of 18 holes Topping and Burkowski were all even. On the 18th both were on the green in two. Topping half stymied Burkowski who then made an heroic attempt to sink his long approach shot, but failed. They halved the hole in four, giving the match to Topping, 1 up. The cards: Morning Round. Out— Burkowski Topping In— Burkowski Topping | 5356554 444-—39-—76 445543 4443776, Afternoon Round. Out— Burkowski b Topping In— Burkowski 445543 4443776 Topping 434654 454-—39—T4 Robinson Cook of Hartford defeat- ed M. J. McCarthy of Woodway in the finals of the second flight, 3 up and 2 to play. | In the consolation division finals H. | Arnold Jackson of Greenwich defeat- | most desired award of the day, Woodruff, Jr.,, of Race| Brook, one up in 37 holes. Movie of a Man Making His First Dive CLAMBERS ON FLOAT ABOUT Tp MAKE LEAP FROM A TERRIFIC HEIGHTH THINKS GUER PAST LIFE BERLIN DEFEATS CARDS IN CITY LEAGUE GAME —TRADE SCHOOL TEAM WIRS STATE TITLE | —CHICK BROWN GETS VERDICT OVER LEONARD — BABE RUTH SOCKS OUT ANOTHER HOME RUN — TOPPING CAPTURES STATE GOLF TITLE CRITICS FAVOR DEMPSEY IF PROPOSED FIRPO FIGHT ON LABOR DAY IS PULLED OFF SALESHEN SET BACK INS. . GOLF MATCH Home Office Players Take Al Prizes at Shuttle Meadow The home office folks of the Stan- ley Works plant proved too much for the saléesmen of the Stanley Works and the Stanley Rule & Level com- panies in a golf tourney at the Shut- tle Meadow club yesterday afternoon, walking off with all three prizes of- fered for low gross, low net and kick. ers’ handicap. G. P. Hart, former chairman of the board of directors of the parent concern, captured the the prize for low gross for 18 holes. Mr. Hart was out to show the bunch who sell Stanley products the way to go 'round and he did, most eonvincingly. Salesmen from all over the country, all of them, have been in the city during the week talking over prices, policy and practice in the sales end of the game. Yesterday the affair wound up with a dinner at the club and the tournament for which prizes were given by the concern. There were numerous entries in the affair, every golfer and aspirer able to wield a mashie and putter placed his name upon the list, making a presentable entry number. But even by sheer force of number and the employment of the law of chance the visitors were unable to overcome the handicap of familiarity with the links and the New Britain force won every event hands down. Mr. Hart, through playing sterling golf, not because of his position in the concern, proved to hold both the low gross and low net score at the end ot the day. Ownership of two prizes was not allewed, however, and R. W. Poteet, trafic manager, who had the second low net won the prize in the handicap division, Mr. Hart taking the low gross award. In the Kkickers’ handicap affair R. C. Germond was lucky enough to pick the exact num- ber which, subtracted from his gross score, matched the unknown number in the envelope. It happened to be 76. Therefore he was awarded first in the kickers’ handicap. Mr. Hart played a very good game in his round, making an 82 gross. His card was: Out .. 365 8—41 446 5—41—82 card was as follows: 645466 4—47 536456 6—45—92 Handicap 23, net 69, Mr. Germond chose as a handicap in the kickers’ event 24 strokes. He finished in an even 100 with a 53 and 47, making his net score 76. This was the number between 75 and 85 previously drawn. YESTERDAY'S HOMERS, Traynor, Pirates Meusel, Giants ... Harris, Red Sox Flagstead, Red Sox Hargrave, Reds . Ruth, Yanks Brower, Indians Leibold, Senators Schliebner, Browns . Home Run Leaders, Willlams, Phils Ruth, Yanks Williams, Browns Fournier, Dodgers Heilmann, Tygers . Hornsby, Cards ... Tierney, Phils Mokan, Phils LooKsS CAUTIoUsLY AROUND To BE SURE OF NO ONLOOKERS THE FRIGHTFUL DASH THROUGH SPAce -~ G Giant Argentine Fighter Hurls Defi at Jack and Signs Agreement to Fight Him if Bout Can Be Arranged Those Who Have Seen Both However, Think Champ’s Strength and Skill Too Great for New Comer. By The Assoclated Presa. New York, July 13.—Luis Firpo from Argentine last night knoeked out Jess Willard of Kansas before the greatest crowd ever massed at a ring- side and today he was shaking his fist in the face of Champion Jack Dempsey and challenging his right to the heavyweight crown: of the world. The knockout came in the elghth round, one minute and 55 seconds be- fore the gong. The South Ameri- can rushed his heavier opponent to the ropes with an attack as furious 4s ever has been seen in the ring. A right cross to the jaw sent the giant Kansan to his knees In his own cor- ner and before he had risen the fatal count of ten had been given. Today the sporting world focussed its attention on the dark browed young giant, who, coming north from the pampas about 15 months ago, battered his way to the fore ranks of heavyweights with the tremendous ;Ie‘dge-hammer blows of his right st. Firpo Signs Agreement. I"irpo this morning looked fondly at the contract which he had signed with Promoter Tex Rickard, agreeing to fight the champfon. Last night he had fought before an estimated crowd of 100,000 and today he was looking forward to the throng he would face when he stepped into the ring in an attempt to teir the lzurels from the head of Dempsey. Dempsey, victorious dver Tom Glbbons by a decision only after his opponent had gone the full 15 rounds at Shelby, was not at the ringside last night. He was on the Pacific coast resting after his only combat in two years. Ready for Fight. But his manager, Jack Kearns, was present and he told newspapérmen his protege was ready for Firpo,any time. “Labor Day?'"' someone cried. “Any time.” And so the world of sport now looks for negotiations which again will match North and South America in the ring. Critics who have seen both Demp- seéy- and Firpo in action indlecated to- day that, should a match be arranged this summer their choice would be the champion. Dempsey Looks Good Dempsey with his years in the ring ig a master of fisticuffs. He has an arsenal of blows, as varied as they are powerful. He is still in his prime, Firpo on the other hand is still green, His most powerful blow is still his right swing. His much touted left, said to have been de- veloped by his veteran trainer, Jimmy Delvorrest, hardly whipped out once last.night and then it had no sting. He still rushes to the attack leaving \ulnerable spots unguarded. (Conunued on Following Page) BRIGGS WALKS WARILY ouT ON _DIWWING BOARD LANDED oN STOMACH KWNOCKING BREATH FROM BoDY, CHOKING GASPING, STRANGLING ETC._E&TC. e 73