New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1923, Page 8

ALTER JOHNSON FANS HIS 3000th BATSMAN — CORBIN TEAM £ WINS TWO GAMES __PIRATES BOW BEFORE B-L NINE— TWO MERIDEN TEAMS 'WHIP COUPLE OF LOCAL NINES — LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMP CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS TONIGHT — GRAND CIRCUIT RACES GO TO COLUMBUS TODAY .MAJOR LEAGUE FOLLOWERS KEEPING THEIR EYES ON CINCINNATI AND GIANTS These Two Teams Are Furnishing Great Race in National —Yanks Finish Tygers With Victory—Brooklyn and Boston Splits Double Header—Kamm’s Hitting Fac- tor in Cubs’ Win. New York, July 23.—Major league baseball followers have their eyes on Cincinnati today. For the Reds, runners up in the spanking National league race have begun a long home season, opening against St. Louis yesterday for what should be a torrid series. Chicago Thursday. The Reds yesterday slipped a bit lower in the peycentage column by losing to St. Louis 2 to 0. The Giants took advantage by de- feating the Phillies 5 to 4 at the Polo Grounds. Rain caused the calling off of the game in the home half of the fifth but the downpour was preceded bty a fflo of singles by Bentley, Pep Young and Heinie Groh which sent across the needed fifth run. In the American league the piung- ing New York Yankees closed their second invasion of the west by maul- ing Detroit to the tune of 7 to 4. It ‘was their third win out of four in the Tyger series and Waite Hoyt's fifth straight hurling victory. The Giants, less than four games ahead of the Reds, open away from home, playing Philadelphia on the Quakers’ lot to- day, after which they will rest two days and open a series in Saturday's games in the city league saw batting averages for many of the players boosted, while the flelding averages of a few suffered. The box scores follow: Fafnirs vs. St. Mary's Fafnirs, 34 ® Landry, 1f. B. 8mith, #s. . 1. Blanchard, r Schade, 2b, Lacroix, 3b. Shhramman louurnouonucon olocoroomummes los ° Grace, 2b, Preisser, H. Smith, ss, . Donaliue, 1b, Simons, If. MeCue, e. . Kelly, rf. . Daly, 3b. .. Steege, p. ... wooHMMNLoug comuonuror 5lomommoummons (TSI ST RROUS H lorworoorus PR How They Line up in Four Leagues National League Yesterday's Results St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 0. Fafnirs ....... 8t. Mary's .. Three base hits, tzpatrick, sacrifice, Landry; stolen bases, Fitzpatr! Schade, Dudack, Ferguson, Steege 2, Pre Smith; left on bases, Fafnirs 9, 8; struck out, by Charland 3, by e 1, by Blanchard 4; bases on balls, off Steege 4, off Blanchard 1; hit by pitched ball, Landry, Simons; wild pitches, Steege 3; hits, off Charland 8 in 6 Innings, um- pire, Artle Campbell. Cardinals vs. Dragons Cardinals, Cherpack, of. ¥ Bucher, rf. Gasparini, 3 alovrnosuronsss BATTING AVERAGES BOOSTED IN GAMES IN CITY CIRCUIT Sobeo, p. ", Clalr, ss. -3 olece alme =lee alwe 55 RUPS BN eEoL D { Werdelin, 3b, Dwyer, 88, Elliott, 1b, Eilton, If. Eiton, 1f. coof® » ECEET T BueHocLEeE cowmanmaon L T e Flood, cf. 30 *Cherpack out in 6th for Interference. |Dragons ....... .. 224 211—12 Cardinals .. 000 000— 0 Two base hits, Cherpack, Werdelin, Bjorklund, Flood; sacrifice hit, Ross; bases on balls, off Miller 4, off H. Anderson 1; struck out, by Miller 4, by H. Anderson §; stolen bases, Cherpack, Miller, Clair, Wer- delin, Ross, Elliott, Keehner 3, Bjorklund 3; double plays, Keehner to H. Anderson, B. Anderson to Mur passed balls, Cher- pack 2; umpire, Crean. Falcons vs. Independents Falcons, a.b. 4 B Budnick, 3b. Jervis, 1f, Kulls, 2b. Budnick, Makula, rf, *Benson xKania, p. . Summers, p. ey U svloococosorsrss, slocsconononnoy e e e slococornornocy m|oocccoanusca?® *Batted for Galda in the 8th. xBatted for Summers in the 8th. Taylor-Atkins A. C. ab. r. h. o A p.0. Mallory, 2b. Burke, 3b, Lavole, cf. . . | neither “Red” Campbell nor Young, THO GOOD, THO BAD Fainir-St. Mary’s and Falcon-In- dependent Games Are Corkers In Saturday's City league games, the Dragons won from the Cardinals 12 and 0, the Pirates defeated the Rangers 10 to 1, the Falcons trounced the Independents 9 to 8 in a close game, and the Fafnir nine trimmed St. Mary's & to 5. Fafnirs vs, St. Mary's Errors combined with hits brought down defeat upon the heads of the St. Mary's team. Steege pitched good ball and there were good plays by Steege and Kelly. Schade was the demon with the club, hitting a triple and two singles. McCue also hit well, getting three singles. Falcons vs. Independents r The Falcon-Independents game won | | by the former, 9 to 8, was featured by four home runs and three triples. Stanley Budnick as usual starred at bat and in the field. Renehan, Wil- llams, Kulis and Klatha also played a nice game. Cardinals Vs, Dragons The Cardinals-Dragons game should not properly come within the classi- flcation of baseball game, but lack- ing a better term that would be un- derstood and appreciated it can phss as that. In the first place, no regula- tion league umpire appeared on the scene. Umpire Artile Campbell was working on No. 1 Diamond, but the other two umps, appeared, Finally “Gerry" Crean, the - former Kacey Corbin, cf. Corrazzo, c. ‘T. Blanchard, p, 8. Dewey, If. . Jones, cf, Wy B. Dewey, rf.-2b. J. Barnett, 3b, . Legalr, rf. Petee, 2b, .... Case, OITY LEAGUE HAS | BOTH LEONARD AND TENDLER IN GREAT SHAPE FOR FIGHT BLANCHARD NEARLY HAS NO-HIT GAME Ong Bingle by Simsbury Spoils His Record--Corbin Wins Two Tommy Blanchard came within an ace of twirling a no-hit, no-run game against Simsbury yesterday when Corbin won 15 to 0. Dewey was the best Simsbury could do. fifth and sixth innings and with loose flelding to help them shoved over 13 One hit by B. Corbin hit Burkarth hard in the runs. The Corbin team scored heav- ly by featuring the bunting game. Preisser got a homer with one on. The score: Corbin Red Sox. a.b. r. h. p.o. |rsmaonanan = - e Sl memeanas 2 - Sl ocuocnwnunii lsswonussss elrconornonss 4 Simsbury. a.b. s - 9 v > Benny Has Held Light- weight Crown for Past Six Years—Champ Has Taken Part in 198 Fights of Which 63 Were Won by, Kayos. / LEONARD AND TENDLER A8 REVEALED BY TALE LEONARD TENDLER 27 24 136 135 69 i 70 b5 ft. 5% in. 5 ft. 7 in. €3 inches 6% inches 14 14 14% 15 36 37 88 39% 27 31 § in, 814in, 14 in. 16 in, 10% 11 Age ‘Weight Reach Height Wrist Biceps Neck Chest (normal) Chest (expanded) Waist Ankle Calf Forearm By The Associated Press. New York, July 23.—The fifth world championship battle of 1923 will be the magnet that is expected to attract a throng of nearly ¥0,000 tonight when Benny Leonard risks his lightweight title in a 15-round match with his hard-hitting Philadel- phia rival, Lew Tendler at the Yan- kee stadium. This season has been one of ad- versity for ring champions three out of four world's crowns having New York 5, Philadelphia 4. Boston 10, Brooklyn 0. (1st). Brooklyn 7, Boston 5. (2nd). Miller, c.-p. ... R. Anderson, 2b, Renehan, 1b. E. Anderson, oroons ¢The victory wasthe Yanks' 12th out of 18 games in the west on their sec- ond invasion. The second place Cleve- Bandesburgh, 1b. ... Dagon, If. twirler, was pressed into service and officiated for this game as well as the Pirates-Ranger game. Baranby, 1b, . Burkarth, p. . Jortianoies T o land Indians lost further ground by dropping the third game to the Sena- tors on their home field 3 to 1. Brooklyn and the negligible Boston Nationals split a double header at Brooklyn. Rube Marquard's ancient arm pitched Boston to victory in the first game 14 to 0, Brooklyn coming ck in the second, winning 7 to 5. ttsburgh and Chicago were idle. Chicago gave the Boston Red Sox & 9 to 2 drubbing at Chicago largely through the heavy hitting of Sheely and the expensive Willle Kamm. The Bt. Louis. Browns made another ad- wvance on third position, defeating the bemauled Philadelphia Athletics 0 to 4 at 8t. Louis. The Browns helped themselves to 16 hits from the service of three Athletic pitchers. AMERICAN LEAGUE Yanks Win Detroit, Mich,, July 23.—New York made it three out of four from De- troit yesterday, defeating the Tygers 7 to 4. Score: New York. r. > > witt, ef. Others not scheduled. Standing of the Clubs W. . b8 53 v B2 47 45 46 26 25 New York . Cincinnati . Pittsburgh ... Chicago .. Brooklyn . St. Louls . Philadelphia . Boston ...... Games Today Chicago at Pittsburgh. St. Louis at Cineinnatl. L. 31 33 34 43 43 44 61 63 . New York at Philadelphia. Others not scheduled. American League Yesterday's Results Chicago 9, Boston 2. New York 7, Detroit 4. St. Louls 9, Philadelphia Washington 3, Cleveland 1. Standing of the Clul W, New York ........ 69 Cleveland ........ 48 8t. Louls .... Chicago .. Philadelphia . Detroit ..... ‘Washington 4. bs. L. 28 42 42 43 45 44 49 coornmoso® Murphy, ss. (Continued on Following Page) e EAST SIDES OF MERIDEN DEFEAT LOCAL RANGERS New Britain Team Unable to Do Much But Opponents Hit the Ball Hard in Sunday Game, In a fast game yesterday afternoon at Indian field in Meriden the East Sides of that city city defeated the Rangers, 7 tg 2. With the exception of the first inning it was all the East Fnders' game for they were never headed off after the second. . Bradley went Into the box for Mer- man, walking another and allowing the third batter to smash out a single that brought in the only two runs the Rangers got during the entire contest. After that he was prac- tically untouchable and held the iden and started in poorly, hitting a B-L Team Clearly Demonstrates Superionity Over the Pirates Win Handily, 6 to 3—Reeves Allows But Four Hits and Fans Nine Buccaneers. In .the much advertised game be- {ween the Pirates of the City leagle and the Besse-Leland team yesterday, the B-L boys clearly demonstrated that they are the best team, although the Pirates measured up as a good club, too. The Leland pets won 6 to 3, before what is estimated as the |largest crowd of the season at St Mary's fleld. The Pirates appeared on the fleld sporting their new banner, presented to them by Monier Bros. From the very first, the B-L team had the upper hand in the game and the hitting feature was a healthy tri- ple, with two on, in the seventh by Johnny Schroeder. Nice plays in the fleld were made by Weir, Green, Mor- In the second place, the Cardinals did not have their regular team on hand and some of the substitutions were horrible examples of what base- ball playing should not be. A base- ball uniform was the exception rather than the rule, in this game, and the| 4 alleged contest was simply batting | practice for the Dragons, who collect- ed a dozen hits for 12 runs in the six innings played. Five hits off H. An- derson was the best the Cards could do, and these were not worth a run, the final tune having been 12 to noth- ing in favor of the Dragons. About the only feature of the game, and this | featured elther bad judgment or ig- norance, occurred in the last inning when Cherpack, who had reached third and stood a fair chance of scor- ing, got caught napping off the bag and then hegan the running him down bhetween catcher and third baseman. Instead of trying to beat it out, he leaped into the air, blockéd the ball and then said nothing when Umpire Crean promptly called him out. Pirates Vs. Rangers Inability of the Rangers to use judgment in the fleld was responsible in a large measure, for their defeat by the Pirates by the score of 10 to 1. The Pirates probably would have won, hut not by that score had the Rangers not gone wild in tossing the ball around the diamond and into the ad- Jjacent territory. Corbin Red Sox Simsbury A. “Blanchard, Snyder, Dewey, J. Barnef 5, Corbin 6; base on errors, Simsbury 4, Corbin pires, Eno and Daley; time, 1:55. Hornsby, St. L 62 Wheat, Brook 71 Barnhart, Pitt 56 Traynor, Pitts 84 Young, Hellman, Det 80 Ruth, N Y .. Jamieson, Clv 89 Speaker, Clfev 87 338 Bewell, Clev mlococccornoar alonornonssas 21 2 : 190900 50 83 bt i i 89 B B ‘oloccoccsccsn 3 > —15 + 000 000 000— 0 n; thres base hits, Huber; home run, Corrazzo, 8. Dewey, off Blanchard 1, off by Blanchard s es, Corbin, §. Simsbury pa! me In. Saturday's game against the Norwich State hospital, Corbin’s had sweet revenge for their early season (Conunued on Following Page) Five Leading Batsmen In Each Major League National League G. AB. R. H 239 53 96 278 b4 104 144 33 54 334 50 123 N Y 89 346 72 122 American League, G. AB. R. H. 292 66 117 298 86 112 365 76 134 66 123 66 110 P.C. 402 381 376 366 859 P.C, 401 876 867 364 356 87 90 310 NEWARK RACES POSTPONED Newark, N. J, July 23.—The bi- changed hands to date, but Leonard is not less confident on that account. The 135-pound king pronounced him- sefl today to be in the best condition of his career and declared he was certain of his ability to win de- cisively, Tendler also was in fine fettle, and ready for a slashing struggle. The rugged southpaw had the light- weight sceptre almost within his grasp a year ago when he had Leon- ard toppling momentarily in the eighth round of their 12-round en- counter at Boyle's 30 Acres. He is confident he will reach his long sought goal tonight. Each Posts $10,000. Both fighters will weigh in this afternoon at 2 o'clock. They have deposited forfeits of $10,000 each to guarantee that they will tip the beam inside the 185-pound limit. Their handlers predict each will scale around 134, Fans who are expected to jam the Yankees ball park to its capacity an- ticipate a battle between the: light- welght rivals fully the equal of the spectacular fight they staged in their first meeting last season. Both ars kard hitters and godd ring tacticians. Leonard has a more versatile style of attack and is a faster ring man but these may be offset by Tendler's puzzling southpaw attack and excel- lent defense. Physically they are ahout evenly | Boston ... 63 Rangers to four sickly singles. ‘Warner got a homer in the seventh with none on bases, His second hit | was a double. O'Nelll was the class of the flelders, contributing a diffi- cult one-handed catch of a line drive by Albanese. The East Siders’ in- field worked with lightning rapidity as well, going through with their teammates to an errorless contest. The Rangers fared poorly in this re- spect making errors when they were Baltimore 07 Betqing 4. contly, | Middietown got two of the Syracuse 6, Rochester 0. four hits for his team. " Jersey City 2, Newark 0. (1st). - Enast Sides. Jersey City 15, Newark 1. (2nd). ab, X elli, Conway, Jasper, Fitzpatrick and Reeves, Both “Slim” Politls and Reeves, the last named being the B-L new pitcher from Simsbury, were unsteady al- though both pitched a good game. Reeves allowed four hits and fanned nine, while he Issued free passes to flve. Slim was touched up for 10 bin- gles. He walked four, fanned one and hit one batter. The score: Besse-Leland' a.b. Captain Matty Hayes, catcher for the Rangers, was knocked out of the cycle races scheduled to be held at|matched. Tendler is 24, three years the Newark Velodrome yesterday |younger than the champion, and has were called off on account of rain. e They will be held Wednesday night. (Continuea on Following Page). e e Tyt e mlonocssssssa® Games Today Detroit at Chicago. Cleveland at St. Louls. Others not scheduled. ] RPN 4 alonoomorswn s s (Continued on Following Page) When a Feller Needs a Friend Detroit, a.b, - 4 Se-3 SRR ARG International League Yesterday's Results Buffalo 17, Toronto 2. Hellmann, rf. ... Fothergill, 1f. 's. cccococommmosn | conwurwnen lnornoucossaons ° Fitzpatrick, es. R. Begley, 1b. . Green, 3b. .. W. Dudack, rf. SBchroeder, ¢, Fortier, cf. .. N. Beglay, 2b, O'Brien, If. Resves, p. »locoronruwocar M8 . 001 120 300— 010 003 000. Two Imann, Manush; | i three base hits, Ruth, Hoyt; stole | f Veach; sacrifice, Pipp; double plays, ‘| Baltimore .... Ward and Pipp; Rigney and Blue; left on| Rochester .. bases, New York 8, on| Buffalo .. Balls, off Johnson 2, off Hoyt 1, off Cole T 2; hits, off Johnson 7 in 6 Innings, off Cole| LOTONtO . 8 In 3 Innings; wild pitch, Johnson; um-| Reading . res, Holmes and Connelly; losing pitcher, | Jersey City . | Newark .... Syracuse ... O'Nelll, If. . Norrle, 1b. Tambourine, Warner, 2b. Fellx, cf. . Bradley, p. . &hanahan, 3b. Shipke, rf. . Shott, c. .. Standing of the Clubs w. L. 61 34 58 oo 49 . 49 . 49 . 43 . 39 38 P.C. .642 611 516 510 495 .430 .402 .392 commont Detroit 3; bases lrmsoweamn | lsonrrons Slevanscwnuanl | nswrncwmuar | Paaie v e e olossscssss? H = alcomwmmume I Slovwennaneiis »? Fd le; time, 2:00. » comoommwosT 9 ° Sl hocwavannn] B Morelli, Albanese, 3B. ........ Rocco, 5 Middleton, 2b. Serflel, c. ... Satolino, 1b. Crane, cf. Cabelus, p. Yashaska, If. . Heslin, rf. .. Senators 8, Indians 1 Cleveland, O., July 23.—Washington made it three out of five from the Indians here yesterday, winning the 3 Politie, Dy Games Today Jnsper, Toronto at Buffalo. Baltimore at Reading. Newark at Jersey City. Rochester at Syracuse. s | Behmitt, ef. .. o T *Batted for Morelll in 9th. Besse-Leland's . 021 010 Pirates ......... .. 002 001 Two base hits, Fitzpatrick, Reeves; basa hit, Schre ; ¥ dack, Schmitt; stoien | bases, N. i left on bases, | Besse-Leland's 10, Plrates ruck out | S lseceoiusne (Continued on Following Page) 4 021 2 - cllcrrsieng 1ol ccoccooskn elocosmnomos?® H East Sides ......... RANgErs ov.inoiene 200 000 000 Two base hits, Shipke, Shanahan, War- Warner; sacrifice hits, East ; stolen bases, East Sides ase hits, -off Bradley 4 in 9 nge, off Cabelus 12 In 8 innings;hases New Have ittsfield 6 on balls, off Bradley 1, off Cabelus 2; struck ok Haven 14, Pittfield §. ia) out, by Bradiey 1, by Cabslus 2; 8truck out, | Reeves 9, hy Politis 1: b by Pittsfield 4, .\r‘.\\' Haven 2. (2nd). by Bradley 12, hy Cabelus 7; hit “by pitch-| Reeves 5, off Politis 4: hit pitched ball, Hartford 8, Bridgeport 0. (1st) er, Bradley; left on bases, East Sides |G ¢ pitch. Politls; umplre, Lynch Bridgeport 5, Hartford 4. (2nd). 12,| Rangers 3; umpire, Shuman; time, 1:40. Worcester 6, Waterbury 3. (1st). Worcester 9, Waterbury 4. (2nd). Standing of the Clubs w. L. Eastern League Yesterday's Resulta Albany 12, Springfield 9. (1st). Springfield 19, Albany 6. (2nd). YESTERYEARS IN SPORT 1922—Roger Conti, France, broke world's average run record at 18.2 balklin billiards in match against M. Gibelin, running 4000 points in 67 innings, an average of 59.7. Match was played at Paris. 3022—Lamot, Belgian, won longest bieycle road race on record, fin- ishing at Paris after a run of 3350 miles around France in 222 hours, | SPringfield 9 minutes and 54 seconds | Albany 1921—Edward O. Gourdin, Negro ath- | Worcester lete at Harvard University, estab- | Bridgeport ....... 3 4 lished a new world's Waterbury 416 the running broad jump by leap- Philadelphia . 483 ing 25 feet, 3 imches. Gourdin is eredited with 9 4-5 seconds for 100 yards, 22 1-> seconds for yards, 52 1-5 seconds for 440 | yards, 45 feet, 3 inches for running, hop, step and jump, feet, 9 inches for the high jump, | 140 feet for the javelin throw and 110 for the discus throw 1907—8ix 24-foot yachts started g race at Southampton, L. I three of them—the Endric, Su Su and Amtra finished in dead heat 1905—Robert Fitzsimmons, former world's heavyweight champior knocked out by Jack O'Brien in six rounds. 2887—Edward Hanlon defeated J Gaudair over Lake Calumet | course at Pullman, Iil, three miles with turn, for $3000 a side and the sculling championship of | America. Race was started at| $:68 p. m. and finished in dark. Naugatuck Golfer Wins In Bridgeport Tourney Bridgeport, July 23.—Willlam Bur- | kowski of Naugatuck defeated W. Parker Seeley, former state cham- pion, 2 up in the playoft for the guall- fying medal in the Brooklawn Coun-| try club invitation tournament here vesterday. They had tied with a score of 72 last Thursday. Roth golfers were apparently off form, after the three-day grind and their match was halted for a time by a thunderstorm. The greens were || | soggy, making it bad for putting | Burkowski went through in 76, Seeley in P.C. 644 .590 Hartford New Haven 483 record for Games Today games played yesterday, YESTERDAY'S HOMERS Tobin, Bro oo McMar Rice, Oxford-Cambrid; ;'zeb Now ! On Even Terms With U. S.| New York, July 3 The combined Oxford-Cambridge t k teams as a result of their narrow victory Satur- day over Harvard and Yale at Wem- | 7|tley stadium, England, are on even | 12iterms with their American collegiate 12 [rivals in the athletic classic that dates .. 12|back over nearly a quarter of a cen-| .. 12 tury. Oxford-Cambridge was victor-| .. 10 ious in the first meet in 1889 and| 10 |again in 1911. Harvard-Yale victor- | 10 |ies were scored in 1901, 1904 and| 10{i921. The next meet is scheduled in| . 10 this country in 1925, | Ser Tierney, Phils Griffith, Dodgers Home Run Leaders | Williams, Phils Ruth, Yankees Williams, Browns . Fougnier, Dodgers Heilmann, Tygers Hauser, Athletics . Tierney, Phils .... Hornsby, Cards . | Mokan, Phils Meusel, Giants .. Miller, Cubs | Tobin, Browns .... / FAMDUS ForQUALITY’