New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 8

AMERICAN WINS $5, TWO OVER REDS PUTS N. Y. GIANTS 7 GAMES TO GOOD; BABE RUTH WINS FOR YANKS Bambino Crashes«Out Two Bagger With Bases Filled Just As Browns Were All Set to Celebrate Victory — Tygers Lose, So Do White Sox--Pirates Lose Third— Athletics Win At Last. v New York, Aug. 7.—Cincinnati’s hope of gaining the pennant was rudely shaken yesterday when the Giants, playing in Red- land Field, trimmed the Reds 4 to 0 and then again 5 to 4. The double victory gave the New Yorkers a seven game lead over the third place Reds. ; In New York the Browns were just preparing to celebrate a victory when Babe Ruth stepped to the plate, lined out a two bag- ger with the bases full, and won the game, 5 to 3. Shocker pitching for the Browns, threw a wonderful game, until he in- cautiously served a good one to the Home-Run King. Philadelphia made it two out of three in Pittsburgh by taking the How They Line up games with the Pirates 6 to 4. Pitts- in Four Leagues burgh errors counted largely for the victory, a pair of them by Carey and NATIONAL LEAGUE ° Yesterday's Results Maranville agcounting for four runs in the first inning. | In Chicago the Robins made it two | all by trimming the Cubs 5 to 1. The! Brooklyn 5, Chicago 1. Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 4. New York 4, Cincinnati 2. (1st). New York 5, Cincinnati 4. (2nd). Chicago batsmen turned out only six| hits in the game against Dutch Rue. ther.© Fournler hammered out a) homer. The Indians cleaned up on the Sen- ators in Washington winning 5 to 2. Speaker made a neat catch of Bush's fly in the ninth for the final out with two runs across and the bases filled for Washington. s | The Athletics ran away with Chica- go in Philadelphia and piled up 14 runs against the losers four. Chicago used four pitchers. The Red Sox beat the Tygers in Boston in a close pitcher's battle, 2 to 1. The Boston-St. Touis National game was called because of rain. AMERICAN LEAGU bs L. 35 40 42 49 50 b3 68 (b Standing of the Clul W. P.C. .660 600 592 524 505 490 327 297 New York .... Pittsburgh .... Cincinnati Chicago .. Brooklyn . St. Louis . Philadelphia Boston vees 68 vess 80 . 61 . b4 . 51 Games Today Boston at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Chicago. New York at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Boston 2, Detroit 1. New York 5, St. Louis 3. Cleveland 5, Washington 2. Philadelphit 14, Chicago 4. ‘ Standing of the Clubs w. L. New York .. . 68 82 Cleveland 56 47 St. Louis . bl 49 Detroit . . 47 48 Chicago : . 47 51 ‘Washington .. 45 53 Philadelphia Boston Yanks Win. New York, Aug. 7.—After holding the New York Americans to four hits | in seven innings, Shocker of St. Louis| weakened badly in the eighth, New York batting out a 5 to 3 victory.| Ruth drove in three runs with a two- base hit in this inning, but was out at the plate trying to score his 100th run of the season on Pipp's single. " St. Louls, Tobin, rf. . Gerber, ss. Williams, 1. Jacobson, If. McManus, 2b. eld, c. ell, 3b. iBchliebner, 1by Bhocker, p. . *Collins ... P.C. .680 544 510 496 480 459 439 388 R Tt 1 ‘@Hmuuo—a-:a; aloorroncounp wlooosoransas AR T Hocker in 9th, New York. T, 43 b5 . 38 60 *Batted for S| © Mmoo aawmn] witt, ef. .. Dugan, 3b. . Ruth, 1f. Bmith, rf. Games Today Detroit at Boston. St. Louis at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Washington. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Rochester 6, Newark 1. Syracuse 2, Jersey City 0. Buffalo 6, Teronto 3. (1st). Buffalo 9, Toronto 3. (2nd). Others not scheduled. PPN i 4 Bengough, c. Bush, p. .. xRan for Hofmann in §th. St. Louis .. New York Two base hit; | Sl roovocunonony e ol mocorocococcoo® 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 012 000 000—3 . 000 010 04x—5 Williams, Ruth 2, Jacob- son; stolen bases, Ezzell, Willlams, Ward, Hofmann; sacrifice, Jacobson; double play, Hofmann and Ward; left on bases, New York 6, St. Louis 8; base on balls, off Bush 5, off Shocker 1; struck out, by Bush 7. by Shocker 5; wild pitch, Bush; umpires, Evans, Hildebrand and Holmes; time, 2 Standing of the Clubs w. L. 66 39 45 52 64 56 65 65 65 P.C. 629 .595 532 514 600 420 420 308 Baltimore Rochester . Buffato .. Reading . Athletics 14, White Sox 4. Philadelphia, Aug. 7.—Pounding| out 22 hits the Philadelphia Ath- letics came out of their slump at the expense of Chicago yesterday win-| ning the game, 14 to 4. Hooper, rf, Mostil, cf. Elsh, cf. Coilins, 2b. McClellan, Sheely, Falk, If. Games foday Toronto at Readink. Rochester at Newark. Buffalo at Baltimore. Syracuse at Jersey City. EASTERN LEAGUE Yesterday’'s Results New Haven 10, Albany 5. Hartford 9, Worcester 1. Waterbury 10, Bridgeport 8. Pittsfield 13, Springfield 7. (1st). Springfield 14, Pittsfield 9. (2nd). comersoy cmsooos® PN (Continuea on Following Page). GRAND CIRCUIT TODAY. Windsor, Ont.,, Aug. 7.—Grand Cir- | cuit racing at Devonshire Park today! is featured by two paces and a trot event, all run on three heat plan. Standing of the Clubs w. L. . 83 62 54 . 47 46 41 43 41 P.C. YESTERYEARS IN SPORT 1922—Ken Williams, St. Louis Browns | Briggeport . ... hit two homers in the sixth inning | pipsfielq .. .. of game with Washington, equal- ing major league record made by| Bobby Lowe of Boston in 1894, 1921—Des Moines team of Western league set two world's records against the St. Joseph team. Des| Moines was credited with 33 as- sists in nine inning game and ac- cepted 60 chances. 1912—George Stovall made seven as- sists at first base for the St. Louls Américan Leaguers Not to Play Fri- Americans. 1902—America successfully defended the Davis trophy for the second time, defeating England, three Hartford .... New Haven . | Springfield | Worcester ... | Waterbury .535 475 451 440 434 .406 Games Today Pittsfield at Hartford. Waterbury at Bridgeport. 2 v Haven at Albanyq. (2). Springfield at Worcester. (2). JOHNSON CANCELS GAMES. day Out of Respect for Mr. Harding. Chicago, Aug. 7.—All American league baseball games will be post- matches to one, at Bay Ridge, p d on Friday, Aug. 10, out of re- L L spect for the late Presidént Harding, 1899—Washington failed to hit safely|it was announced by the office of Ban off the delivery of Willls, pitching | Johnson, president of the league yes- for Boston. terday. 1892—T. F. Kiely set new record of 36 feet, 1 inch, for throwing 56 NEW. INFIELDER FOR ROBINS. pound weight from unlimited run St. Petersburg, Fla., Aug. 7.—Red in meet held in Cloninel, Ireland.| Johnson, infielder for the St. Peters- 1888—American Assoclation met at burg baseball team, Florida State Philadelphia and the price of | league, was sold yesterday tc the general admissions was reduced | Brooklyn National league club, deliv- to 26 cents and the guarantee | ery to be made in the spring, it was plan was adopted. announced. 000 PRIZE FOR SWIMMIN SHORE — LUQUE TO OPPOSE GIANTS TODAY — KAPLAN FIGHT POSTPONED BAT OUT OF ORDER, | Walter Johnson Admits Slipping But Blames Legs Instead of Arm 636 620 | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEE ALD, .TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928, G ENGLISH CHANNEL — YAN "WHAT'S THE RULING Pittsburgh Offends in Recent Game--Anxigty Results Pittsburgh, Aug. 7. — Baseball abounds in unusual situations and often the majors produce freak (plays that it would seem could not possibly occur among the amateurs. Who should be called out? That's 4 mystery that still envel- opes a batting-out-of-order play that came up in a recent game in which Pittsburgh was the offending side. The Pirates’ batting order called tor Rawlings to be the first man up in a certain inning, Grimm followed him in the batting order and then came Gooch. Didn't See It Then. Instead of Rawlings going to bat first, Grimm stepped to the plate and singled. Grimm, of course, had batted out of order, but at the: time ro attention was paid to the fact. Then Rawlings, who should have batted first, stepped to the plate and singled, sending Grimm to. second. In other words, Grimm and Raw- lings simply reversed their positions in the batting order. Then Gooch stepped to the plate. Had a ball been' pitched to Gooch all would have been well, but before any pitch was made to Gooch the team in the field realizing a mistake had been made in the batting order appealed to the umpire for a ruling. ‘Who should be called out? The umpire in charge was called upon to render a ruling on a play that. has never before come up in the major leagues. There was no precedent for him to follow. Ump Worries, The rule says that if a player bat out of order the mistake must be discovered before a ball has been pitched to a succeeding batsman and an appeal is made to the umpire for a ruling. Grimm batted out of order, but no appeal was made, and the pitcher threw to Rawlings, who also singled. Then a decision was requested. The umpire, a trifle confused be- cause of the strangeness of the hap- pening, decided to call Rawlings out, permit Grimm to remain on first and allow Gooch to bat. On thinking it over that evening it was sald he decided that he had been in error, that the proper thing to have done was to simply disre- gard Rawlings, and Wwhen he hit safely after Grimm' had singled, that it would have been correct to have called out Gooch, who was the player / WALTER Washington, Aug. 7.—Is Walter Johnson going back? Walter admits it himself, so there can be no doubt about it. At times, Johnson looks as good as ever, but his pitching lacks the old est pitcher of his day. Johngon has been pitching in the American league since 1907. He has always been on a losing team, never with a great club. As a result in order to win, he invariably was forced to press his pitching to the limit. When a star pitcher begins to go back the blame in invariably laid to an ailing arm. Listen to what John- son has.to say on this point: ’ “Of course, I am not as good as I was 10 or 15 years ago. Age tells in baseball quicker than any other sport. consistency that made him the great- JOHRNSON | “I'm going back, and no one knows | it better than I do. It may surprise you, however, to know that I figure it is my legs not jray throwing arm that troubles me most. Unless a pitcher's legs are strong and able to stand up under the con- ! stant strain of striding on every ball ! pitched, he can't get his stuff on the ball. “My legs are far more troublesome | than my arm. Some days they seem ;too weak to suppo¥t my body after {1 have gone four or five innings at top | speed. “Umpires and batters tell me after | certain games that I had as much | stuff as ever. In those games my legs have always felt strong. It's a Umlr of weak legs rather than an ail- |ing arm that is robbing me of much | of my old-time speed.” Who should have, followed Grimm. Such a ruling would have elim- Inated Rawlings entirely, sent Grimm back to first and retired Gooch. Maybe Heydler Can Decide, Since then another angle has been raised. Some major league umpires con- tend that the succeeding batsman can only be the player called for in the lineup as given to the umpire, Other umpires contend that any bat- ter who steps into the box after an- other batter becomes the succeeding batsman. 4 The new angle to the play is that it would have been prbper to have simply called Rawlings out and made Grimm bat over. It seems that who should be called | out depends entirely on who §s re- | garded as the succeeding batsman. Three solutions have already been offered and major league umpires ar still arguing the point without being able to agree, A decision from President Heydler on the point would be interesting, since it would establish a precedent. Who is the succeeding batsman is the big issue. Who should be called out is even more important. GIANTS AT REDLAND This Afternoon Luque Will DEFORREST NOT ENGAGED Instead, Firpo Will Have Special Trainer Come Up From Argentine to Get Him Into Condition. Indianapolis, Aug. 7.—Jimmy De- forest will not train Luis Angel Firpo for his bout in New York September 14 with Jack Dempsey, according to G. Widmer, secretary of the challen- ger. Instead a traines from Buenos Aires is to have charge of the Firpo prep- arations. Widmer hastened to state, however, that there was no break with De- forest. He refused to give the name of the man coming from Buenos Aires to take charge of Firpo. NEW PITCHER FOR SENATOR! Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 7.—Fred Marberry, a pitcher of Little Rock club, of the Southern association, has been sold to the Washington Ameri- cans, it was announced yesterday. Marberry will report to the Senators at once. Oppose Giants in Last Game Between Two Until Sept. 24, Cincinnati, Aug. 7.—The appear- ance of the New York Giants at Red- land Field this afternoon will be their last until September 24 when they re- turn for a closing series of four games. On this trip the Giants have defeat- ed the Reds four times in a row, | thereby fattening their own average | and at the same time relegating the local club to third place. Adolfo Luque, will come back today in an effort to prevent the Giants making a clean sweep of the series. John Watson will pitch for the visi- tors. CITY LEAGUE STANDINGS w. Fafnirs ... Pirates | Falcons | St. Mary' | Berlin ¥.. Dragons .. | Rangers ... Independents . . Cardinals ... ;Vincent Richards Meets | King in Title Contest | soutmampton, Aug. 7.—Vineent Richards, Yonkers star, makes his first appearance today in the invita-| tion game at the Meadow club, in defense of his title, He meets Dr, George King, veteran New York player, in the second round. | | Eight pairs are now In the third | round. | | ] | | TO TAKE CHARGE OF SPORTS. | “Levanon, Pa., Aug. 7.—-Announce- | ment was made today of the engage- | ment of C. C. Myliny of Iowa State| College, to take charge of all sports at | Lebanon Valley College. " TAURIDA IS FEATURE Bay Mare Furnishes Upset in Racing | Circult Oval at | Dope at Grand | Winasor. Windsor, Ont., Aug..7.—After being | distanced in the first heat of the 2:08 trot last Friday, Taurida, a bay mare sired by Peter The Great, gave the talent one of the worst upsets of the :yem' on the Grand Circuit by winning |the D. and C. stake at Devonshire | track yesterday. { Pearl Benboe, Tommy Murphy's | mare, which has been beaten only | once this year, was a top heavy favor- | ite but she was never in the running. Bogalusa, the chestrfut horse that won over: Pearl Benboe at Columbus, was the one to give Taurida a fight, and won the second heat. | ~ Anna Bradford Girl won the Devon- | shire sweepstakes in straight heats ! without difficulty. In each heat the | winner paced to the front in %the | first 16th and never made a break. | Fair May ruled favorite in the 2:10 | trot but had to be content with sec- | ond money when Vic Fleming won the first and third heats with Trampabit. | day's racing card. KEE WOMAN, HAS TO QUIT WHEN ONLY TWO MILES FROM FRENCH ONE DAY — DOPE UPSET AT RACE TRACKS—OTHER SPORT EVENTS SULLIVAN FROM GOOD U. S. A. SWIMS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Bay State Man Lands at Calais, 56 Miles From Starting Point, In 27 Hrs., 25 Min.—His Seventh Attempt— Wins 1,000 Pounds Sterling. . By The Associated Press. Dover, Aug. 7.—Observers who were in the small boat that accompanied Henry Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., on his swim across the English Channél say that in the final stages of his great ef- fort the American athlete showed a magvelous degree of dogged determination. / + Sullivan had the misfortune to meet one strong tide setting from the French capes and the captain of the nwou‘tlllpanying mo- tor tugger estimated that but for this the swim would have been { accomplished in six hours less time. Sullivan performed the feat in twenty-seven hours twenty- five minutes. 1 The trouble was due to the flood tide running two hours be- hind normal schedule because of east winds. At eight o'clock Monday morning the pier at Calais was a little over three miles ahead, but for the next two hours the swim- mer's relative position to the land was unchanged. Then the tide set off the coast and Sullivan was forced to make a great fight. 34 Strokes to Min. At 11:16 o’clock the swimmer was two and one half miles from shore with the Calals lighthouse to the southeast. Heé was then making 34 strokes to the minute. By noon the tide began to carry him westward. In the following hours he was stroking 83 to the minute and edging slowly across the current. Still drifting west his posliton was rather depairéd of upgless it proved | that he could hold ou#for the return- | ing tide. At 5:17 he was still two miles off the coast and white capes were breaking. The accompanying party, to cheer him along sang: “For He's A Jolly Good Fellow."” | The change of tide at 6:15 allowed | better progress. o1 v e ‘Mrs. Carson Gives Up Two Miles From Coast i London, Aug. 7 (By the As- sociated Press)—A Dover dis- patch to the Evening Standard today reported that Mrs. Clem- ington Carson, the American woman who started from Dover Monday morning in an attempt to swim the English Channel abandoned her effort last mid- night when two miles from the French coast. At that time she had swum sixteen miles in four- teen and one-half hours, oo BEFUDDLE, 8 T0 1 SHOT, WINS $5,000 STAKE Makes Her Debut in the Schuylerville for 2-year-Old Fillics at Saratoga. Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 7.— The Idle Hour Stock Farm's bay filly Befuddle, by Black Toney-Vaila, at the good price of 8 to 1, captured the $5,000 Schuylerville Stakes for two- | year-old flllies, the feature on yester- Befuddle ran the five and a half furlongs in 1:05 4-5, one second and a fifth slower than the track record for the distance. Befuddle, with Lyle in the saddle, ran a fine race, coming from behind to beat W. 8. Kilmer's Sunny Sal by a length. The stake was worth $3,925 to the owner of the winner. It was the racing debut of Befuddle. Be- hind her finished such stars as Salu- bria Stable’s Fluvanna, G. W. Wide- ner's Parasol, H. P.. Whitney's In- itiate and H. C. Fisher's Nellie Morse.‘ opposite the lighthouse one mile out, was swhnming strongly. At 7:30 o'clock the athlete was con- fident his seventh attempt to swim the channel would be successful. At this time he was making 32 strokes to the minute. Staggers Ashore It was 8:06 when Sullivan first felt bottom. He attempted to stand but staggered as though intoxicated, and one of he crew jumped from the boat up to his walst in water. “I don’t want any help” cried Bul- van, “I'll finish this myselt,” He staggered ashore. A scene of wild enthusiasm follow- ‘ad. Every one wanted to help capry | to the Casino the first American ever to accomplish the.channel swim. In- cidentally, it was just as well they did not, as his body was covered with grease, Sullivan’'s first food when he reach- ed the Casino was a dish of ice cream. | He later took a little soup. | | | 1 (Continued on Following Page) YESTERDAY’S HOMERS, Miller, Athletics ... .. . Hooper, White Sox Fournier, Dodgers Home Run Leadexs. Williams, Phils Ruth, Yankees ,. Williams, Browns ... Fourniers, Dodgers .. Miller, Cubs i Heilmann, Tygers . Hornsby, Cards . McManus, Browns . Hauser, Athletics Tierney, Phils . Tobin, Browns Meusel, Giants Miller, Athlétics . Traynor, Pirates .. Mokan, Phils O'Farrell, Cubs Brower, Indians . Five Leading Batsmen In Each Major League American League, G. AB. R. H' PC. 90 3831 71 130 .393 100 340 99 133 .391 100 393 80 142 .362 89 297 ‘b1 105 .354 108 360 61 127 .353 National League G. AB. R. Hornsby, St L. 76 296 67 Wheat, Bklyn 73 275 66 Traynor, Pitts. 99 387 65 Frisch, N. Y, 103 428 84 Botto'ley, 8. L. 95 371 52 . 28 27 19 15 14 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 10 10 10 Heilmann, Dt. | Ruth, N. Y, S8peaker, Cl. Collins, Ch. Sewell, Cl. [ H. 119 106 143 156 134 P.C. 402 382 370 364 .361 Movie of a Modern Song Writer Concocting Another One 4 { An hour later the swimmer, exactly '