New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1923, Page 8

CITY TRACK PREPARING FOR _WALTER JOHNSON HANGS UP ANOTHER BIG LEAGUE RECORD — RICKARD TO SEEK ~ REDS CLAMBER SECOND PLAC BACK INTO E BY DEFEAT OF PHILADELPHIA PLAYERS Pittsburgh Splits Double Header With Giants While Cincy Manages to Take Two—Yanks Win, But Cleveland Takes Two and Gains a Bit—Walter Johnson Turns Trick Against Detroit Tygers. New York, July 31.-’i‘he Reds playing on their own lot climbed back to second position by defeating Philadelphia in a split a twin tussle with Pittsburgh. Cincinnati just managed to |, come out on top 7 to 5 and 5 to 4. The Giants in Pittsburgh, won the second 17 to 2. in the National league yesterday double-header, while the Giants lost their first game 5 to 4, but The American league leaders also took a step backward. " Al- though the Yankees won from Chicago 5 to 3, Cleveland took a double-header from Boston 5 to In Philadelphia McManus the Browns and St. Louis won ond 4 to 2. 4 and 2 to 0. tpounded out two home runs for he first game 5 to 2 and the sec- The Robins downed the Cardinals in St. Louis 6 to 5. The Braves squeezed out ahead of the Cubs in Chicago 6 to 5. In the Nation’s capital the Senatorial team made one run in the first inning. It turned out to be enough, as Detroit failed to score at all. The second game of a scheduled double-header was called because of rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE Indians Take Two Boston July 31.—Cleveland observ- ed Bhriners’ Day by defeating Boston twice yesterday afternoon, 5 to 4 and 2 to 0. Speaker, Gardner, Sewell, Burns, Shanks and McMillan, bers of the order, were given silver cigarette cases, while all the players were presented with sllver letter open- ers. First Game, r. 131 000 000—5 L.. 001 000 003—4 13 Batterles—Uhle and O'Nefll; Quinn, Mur. ray and Pleinich. Cleveland z 1 Second Game, Cleveiana. P E locuwevennd v ° Jamieson, If. Summa, rf. Bpeaker, c J. Bewell, Stepherson, 20, Lutzke, 3b. Brower, 1b. O'Nell, ‘c. Coveleskie, p. wloscocomonsy Slurosuaccop wlocooorocs 2o EL T T OS¢ I3 3 Fewster, 2b. . Devormer, c. Flagstead, rf. Burns, 1b. .... Reichle, cf. Harris, If. . Shanks, 3b. MeMillan, ss. Fullerton, p. . *Menosky .. Murray, p. ... Shemap locorune h. 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 7 h, 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 7 sleccssscccsa Sl ocourvennwa? cloosccocccccas 8! *Batted for Fullerton in 8th. Cleveland . 200 000 000—2 Boston . 000 000 000—0 Two bal , Sp ; sacrifices, Lutzke, Bumma; double plays, Stephenson to Sewell to Brower; Lutzke to Stephenson to Brow- Coveleskie to Sewell to Brower; McMil- lan to Fewster to Burns; left on base, Cleve- land 4, Boston 6; base on balls, off Fuller- ton 1; struck out, by Fullerton 2, by Cov- (Continued on Following Page) OFFERS DEMPSEY $400,000. Coffroth Enters Bid for Firpo Match in Tijuana. San Francisco, July 31.—James W. Coffroth, racing promoter of Tijuana, Mexico, has offered Jack Dempsey $400,000 and Luis Angel Firpo $150,- 000 for a championship bout in Ti- juana on some date before the open- mem- | P TR T How They Line up in Four Leagues NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday’s Results Pittsburgh 5, New York 4. (1st). New York 17, Pitisburgh 2. (2nd). Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 5. Boston 6, Chicago b. Cincinnati 7, Philadelphia 5. (1st). Cincinnati 5, Philadelphia 4. (2nd). Standing of the Clubs w. L. . 62 34 59 36 58 36 50 46 48 45 48 49 . 29 65 5 26 69 P.C. 646 621 617 521 516 495 309 274 New York . Cincinnati . Pittsburgh .. Chicago ... Brooklyn .... St. Louis .. Philadelphia . Boston ...... Games Today Bostofi at Chicago . Brooklyn at St. Louis. New York at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Cincinnati (2). AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results New York 5, Chicago 3. Washington 1, Detroit 0. Cleveland 5, Boston 4. (1st). Cleveland 2, Boston 0. (2nd). St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 2. (1st). 8t. Louis 4, Philadelphia 2. (2nd). Standing of the Clubs w. L. 30 45 44 46 48 52 51 57 P.C. 684 536 527 489 484 453 446 874 62 49 44 45 . 438 St. Louis . Detroit .. Chicago . Philadelphia . ‘Washington Boston Games Today Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Detroit at Washington. WILLS ARGUES HARD FOR DEMPSEY FIGHT To Make Formal Protest Today Against Firpo Contest New York, July 81—Paddy Mullins, Harry Wills' manager, goes before the State Boxing Comrpission today to demand that his negro protege get a chance at Jack Dempsey for the world's champlonship before Luls Angel Firpo. About the time Mullins appears be- fore the commisslon, Tex Rickard i8 due to make his application for a li- cense for the Dempsey-Firpo battle. Reports from the west are that at Firpo would just as soon wait a year before meeting the champion. He stated, however, that he would not insist on a postponement. Jack Kearns, the champlon’s man- ager, said he had been waiting for an opportunity to sign up with Wills too long, and had taken the chance of a match with Firpo when it came. He said he had heard that Jim Coffroth was willing to give $400,000 to Dempsey and $150,000 for Firpo, for a match at Tiajuana. “We can't fight. Firpo there,” he said, “‘because we are going to fight him here, but we will take any one else Coffroth may choose.” It was reported yesterday that Fir- po had cut free from Jimmy Deforest, his veteran trainer, and had taken up with Charley Schoenman, whom he met oh shipboard when he came up from the Argentine. LOU BOGASH WILL MEET JACK MALONE IN BOSTON Bridgeport Fighter to Get $3,000 for Tilt—Will Be Their Second. . Bridgeport, July 31.—Lou Bogash and Jock Malone will meet in a twelve round bout at Boston on Aug- ust 8, according to Joe Smith, who closed negotiations for the bout with Col. Bob McCurdy Saturday night. It will be the second meeting of the two, | Malone winning in a close decision in their last session in the Hub, Bogash is collecting a pretty rake- off for the bout, three times as large as he would receive in the Park City, According to the contracts Bo- gash wlil receive $3,000 or a privilege of 27 per cent of the gate receipts. According to Smith it is likely that he will take the privilege for the bout is bound to attract record crowd. Malone is the only boxer who stands in Bogash's way to the mid- dleweight title. Bogash defeated every member of the 160-pound division of any prominence with the exception of Johnny Wilson and Ma- lone. Loughran, Reed, Clark, Rob- son, McTigue, McCarron, Billard, Fitzsimmons and a host of others have fallen before the local boy and if he wins form Malone it {s certain that the New York commission will recognize his claim to the middle- welght honors and force the winner of the Greb-Wilson bout to meet him. FOREIGNERS ELIMINATED Seabright Matches Today Finds Ox- ford-Cambridge and Australian Teams Out of Running in Tennis, Seabright, N. J., July 31.—The sec- ond day of play in the annual invita- tion tournament of the Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket club finds all the members of the Oxford-Cam- bridge and Australian teams eliminat- ed. AIll the American favorites, with a [ v— Champion weight champion, ttaining for his title TATE MEETS — TED LEWIS OUTPOINTED IN ENGLAND — COKBI PERMIT FOR DE __PAGE PONCE DelEON!— ) ) ) ) () ) ) () T ) ) > ) " M A AR IR A AR I T No wonder they call him He e e et WALTER JOHNSON PITCHES HIS 100TH SHUTOUT GAME Washington, July 81.—Wal- ter Johnson, Washington's vet- eran pitcher established an- other major league record yes- terday when in trouncing the Detroit Tygers 1 to 0 he at- tained the 100th shutout of his hi~ lepene career. Johnson al- lowed six hits. e e WILSON STARTS TRAINING. Establishes Quarters at Summit, N. J., for Greb Bout. Johnny Wilson, werld's middle- yesterday started bout against Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, which will be held at the Polo Grounds on Aug. 81, The titleholder has established quarters at Johnny Collins’ health farm at Summit, N. J., where he has at his disposal an outdoor and an in- door ring. Wilson is at present near MECmnrTy “Iron Man.,” Joe McGinnity of New York Giants’ fame still takes his regular turn on the mound with the Dubuque (Ia.) team in the Mississippi Valley league. What if he is 54 years old! Joe is managing the outfit. He expects to keep on playing ball for years and years yet. % knows how to fan ’em, all right. 'RATKER IS VICTOR ON POINTS OVER TED LEWIS | American Fighter Is Victor of 20- | Round Bout Which Is Held In London, | London, July 31.~—Augie Ratner of | New York last night defeated Ted | “K1a” Lewis, former middleweight champion, on points, in a 20-round bout. The first 10 rounds were uninter- esting; there was considerable infight- ing and Lewis was warned frequently for hittling low. In the 12th, Ratner forced the fighting, punishing Lewis severely about the head. | Lewis hooked Ratner in the 14th, and the blood flowed from the corner eye where the blow landed. After some holding In the 17th, Lewis tried for a knockout, with flerce rights, but they fell short of the jaw. | Ratner countered with a hard straight | right, which staggered his opponent. | Ratner showed to greater advantage of the N HAS GOOD MPSEY-FIRPO MATCH TODAY — NOTES CORD AS NEW GOLF STAR W. H. Gardner of Buffalo, N. Y., won the right to meet Chick Evans for the western amateur golf cham- .pionship when he defeated Joseph Wells of East lLiverpool, O., in the semi-finals at the Mayfleld Country club in Cleveland. CORBIN'S 600D RECORD Captain of Red Sox Makes Valuable Lead-Off Man—Gets 12 Hits in 17 Lead-Offs This Season. In speaking of local baseball play- ers it is mighty difficult to point to any one man as the best, but there are a number who can honestly be said to be the peer of any playing in this section. Take “Baldy” Corbin, captain of the Corbin Red Sox for in- stance. i As a lead-off batsman it is hard to| find a more rellable sticker than he| is. He has taken part in 17 games with the Red Sox this season and as lead-off hitter has gotten to first base 12 of the 17 times he has lead the as- | sault. Not at all a bad record. In -the outfield, Corbin- shows plenty of speed this season and is be- coming known as a sure, safe fielder. Tunny-O’Dowd Battle for Title on This Evening New York, July 3i.—Gene Tunney, American light-heavyweight cham- pion, will defend his title tonight in a twelve-round bou t against Dan | O'Dowd of Boston at the Queensboro | A. C, Long Island City. The con-| test, the first in which Tunney has en- gaged in a local ring since beating Harry Greb for the title last winter, is expected to fit the American cham- pion for an intensive campaign, his manager, Billy Gibson, coatemplates. If Tunney beats O'Dowd in de- cisive fashion Gibson plans today to discuss with Promoter Tex Rickard LEAD.OFF HITTER NEW CROP OF TRACK MEN TO CARRY NEW BRITAIN BANNER Revival of A.'A. U. Events at Hand—Special ‘Serv: icemen’s Marathon’ Ma With South Mancheste: Planned—Contest in Wa: terbury August 11, New Britain is again beginning t: take her place in the world of ath letics through the medium of th Conn. A. A. U, and her represen tives are out for a busy season thi year and next in competition with thd best that the amateur ranks of th state can offer. A new crop of tracl men has sprung up and within \{vh past few weeks, the runners havy demonstrated that they can competd with the best of them. Most important among the comin events which will possibly be arrange for within the next week or so wili b a match race between the Mancheste] marathon relay team and the tean from New Britain which was beater by the Manchester aggregation in th( Hartford relay on July 4. Arrange ments are going forward for thi event and the New Britain athlete are expecting to take first honors fron their rivals. This evdnt will tak place according to tentative plans neg in the works on August 25 in connec tion with an A. A. U. feld meet iy Manchester. . In the Tourth of July race, Jamel Sullivan, last man on the New Britai team, was beaten to the finish by Cap} tain Shields of Manchester. After th race was over, Sullivan, not wishin to offer any poor alibis for his faflur, to come through, was reluctant t state the cause of his defeat. It cam’ out, however, that Sullivan had ker| in his mind that the finishing point o the race would be the new city hall 13 Hartrord instead of the state hous and for that purpose he spent himsel making a dash to finish at the muni cipal building. Of course, it was a: easy matter for Shields, carrying th] colors of the Manchester team, to wi the race. In the police games in New Have: the other day, both Sullivan of Nev Britain and Shields of Mancheste were matched among many others, 1 a distance run, and Sullivan demon| strated decisively that he was Shields master in a distance run. The anj nouncement that the match run is t§ ibe held will be awalted with interes (Contlnued on Following Page) McTIGUE IS CO. DENT. Champion Says He is Certain to Di feat Loughran Thursday. New York, July 31.—Mjke MaTigu world’s light-heavyweight champion] will make his bout against Tomm Loughran of Philadelphia, at t West New York Baseball park, Wei New York, N. J,, Thursday night, th occasslon of his last ring appearan here before sailing abroad for a turn match with Battiing Siki, Sene galese boxer. McTigue is schedule] to engage Siki tn Dublin on Sept. 2(] McTigue is confident he will defea Loughran, despite the fact that th Fhiladelphian received the majorit of newspaper decisions following thei recent clash in Philadelphia. Lough ran is certain he will champion. The contest is a no-dec! sion bout of twelve rounds, so Mc Tigue can lose his title only if he § knockad out, fouls, or fails, throug injury, to go the full distance. Jo Lynch, world's bantamweight cham defeat th/ Cleveland 4 L veland at Boston, plans for a match between Tunney and Mike McTigue for the world's light-heavyweight title. plon, and Knockout 30e O'Donnell ¢ Philadelphia are slated for anothe twelve-round bout on the card BRIG Now THERE'S A TemPTING MORSEL-A WORM ! "I'D LIKE VERY MUCH To HAVE T, EXCEPT ITS OM A Hook AND | MIGHT GET CAUGHT -- A FRIEND OF MINE GOT FootED TRAT WAY AND | HAVEW'T SEEN HIM SINCE'c <S> O the exception of Clarence J. (Peck) Griffin of, San Francisco, who was put out by Hugh Kelleher yesterday, re- nained in the running. This morning, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory meets Miss Edith Sigourney of Boston, and Miss Helen Wills of Eerkeley, Calif.,, plays the winner of the match between Mrs. Sheppard Baron of England and Mrs. H. Hansell, Jr., of the local club. The feature match of the men's singles this afternoon brings togeth- | er R. Norris Willlams 2nd, of Boston, and Carl Fischer of Philadelphia, B. I. C. Norton, South African star, and the winner of the match between | James Davies of Leland Stanford iversity, - and W. N. Ecklund of Hawaii play Francis T. Hunter and Kelleher. ing of the racing season in November, according to a telegram recelved from ©Qofforth yesterday by Thomas Mul- wvey, secretary of the superior courts here. Cofforth was engaged in fight pro- motlon here before going to Tijuana as president of the Lower California Jockey club, and staged many cham- plonship battlas. O’Hara Lowers Mark of Baltimore Quimet at Bretton Woods | rochester . . Bretton Woods, N. H., July 31— | Toronto . Peter O'Hara yesterday broke Fran- | Buffalo @ls Ouimet's record of 68 strokes for | Reading . the Bretton Woods golf course when | Jersey City . he went around in 66. O'Hara, pro |S¥yracuse ... at the Mount Washington club, was | Newark .... playing in a best bal Scotch sixsome over eighteen holes when<he set the new mark. His*work i5 considered | especially brilliant since the course| Toronto at Syracuse. ‘was soggy from the recent rains and| Reading at Newark. the weather yesterday was anything| Jersey City at Baltimore. kut ideal. Lo EASTERN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results YESTERYEARS e e e e IN SPORT Sunday) 2—Harold G. Lentz cast a four- ounce lead 461 feet, 10 inches Ocean City, N. J, a world's cast- the required 160 pounds and expects | in the 18th, landing a number of hard to procead carefully with his prepar-'smashes, but the last two rounds were atory work. | light, with honors in Ratner's favor. Wonder What a' Muskellunge Thinks About INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results tochester 17, Buffalo 1. Syracuse 5, Toronto 4. Baltimore-Jersey City (rain). (Other teams not scheduled). { WONDER WiHAT THAT THING 1S FOR-- - IT KHEEPS SPINNING AROUND HERE ALL DAY BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN A THING N MY YounNG LIFE THERE GOoES ANOTHER FUNNY LOOKING CONTRWANCE - GosH THEY'RE. A SCREAM - | WONDER. IF ITS JUST To AMUSE ME-- (T'S A PRETTY TtiNG Standing of the Clubs W S . 61 558 541 | . 62 . 44 . 44 iz .423 415 | 412 Games Today Rochester at Buffalo. JRDAY’S HOMERS McManus, Browns ........ Ward, Yankees .t | Mostil, White Sox .. | Kamm, White Sox . Stephenson, Indians . Ford, Braves ... Severeid, Browns Hale, Athletics . | Hornsby, Cards T. Griffith, Dodgers Home Run Leaders Williams, Phils g Ruth, Yankees ... Williams, Browns Heilmann, Tygers Miller, Cubs McManus, Browns .. YE 8. played Standing of the Clubs w. L. 59 33 44 GUES s NAP CAN You BEAT 1T 2JUST TAKe A LOOK AT THAT !! ARUBBER FRCG AND TRYING To PAN 1T OFF oN ME FOR THE REAL OH TAKE IT AWAY- YouRE ONLY WASTING YoUR Time Don'T TRY To PULL | AN OLD Hartford .. Il TAKE A LITTLE New Haven . ~ | Springfield 2 19 . b8 49 ing record. His average was 434 | feet, 11% inches for five ca also a world's record 1919—Babe Ruth for the second time in his major league career, made ! four hits in one game, singling twice and doubling twice against | Ayers of Detroit. | 1012—Second 19-inning game played | in National League, Pirates \\m-l ning from Braves, 7 to 6. 1891—Amos Rusie gave Brooklyn no hits and Giants scored a shutout 1888—Joe Acton, catch-as-catch-can wrestler, won two of three falls from J. Faulkner for $2500 purse at San Francisco. Action was one of the cleverest of the early grap- plers in this country. 1885—Gus Wehling pitched no-hit game for Athletics against Kansas City. i . 43 43 41 Worcester . Albany Bridgeport Waterbury Pittsfieid 43 30 49 Games Today Hartford at Springfield. Pittsfield at Worcester. Waterbury at Albany. New Haven at Bridgeport. Sarazen to (f(;i;lpét: in Canadian Open Tourney Toronto, July 31—Gene Sarazen, former U. 8. open golf champlon, s here to compete in the Canadian open golf tournament over the Lakeview course Friday and Saturday. Jock Hutchison, of Chicago, former British open champion, was expectsZ #~day. Fournier, Dodgers Hauser, Athletics .... | Tierney, Phil Tobin, Browns Meusel, Giants .. Hornsby, Cards .. Traynor, Pirate: Mokan, Phils | Miller, Athletics | O'Fagrell, Cubs .. AMATEUR TO HELP FIRPO Buenos Aires, July 31.—Horatio La | valle, an amateur boxer and sports- | man, will sail Thursday on the Ameri- can Legion for New York to help Luls Jack Dempsey. La Valle holds the title of amateur and middleweight champlon of Latin Argerica, which he won at the Latin America Ofympics at Rio Jan=i-¢ in 1922. Angel Firpo train for his match with | ONE LIWE THAT oy I'VvE BEEN AROUND HERE Too LONG T BE CAUGHT Wi THAT! me - . T | Tamwe | DISGUSTING ! | HOPE WHOEVER'S DOING IT 15 HAWVING A GooD TIme