New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1923, Page 8

BABE RUTH LEADS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT_McGRAW CASTAWAY TURNS ON OLD TEAMMATES AND CINCINNATI WINS IN 11 INNINGS—NEW YORK PROMOTERS OFFER KAPLAN PLENTY OF WORK BUT LITTLE MONEY—MOLLA MEETS HELEN FOR THE AMATEUR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP GEORGE BURNS GETS HOMER IN 11th INNING ASSURING REDS OF WIN OVER GIANTS One of McGraw’s Castoffs Brings Game to Sensational Close—Cincinnati to Pit the Luck of Lugue Againstv New Innings. York Today — Other Contests Go to Extra New York, Aug. 18.—Babe Ruth hit his 31st home run of the season in St. Louis yesterday enabling Joe Bush to defeat the Browns 5 to 4. He made three hits out of his four times at the plate and again took the batting average lead from Harry Heil- mann who hit once out of two chances against the Athletics in Detroit. Ruth’s George Burns pu s aveygge is now 396 and Heilmann's 394. a thrilling finish on the Giants’ game with Cincinnati at the Polo Grounds when he hit out a homer in the t1th inning of a desperately fought game and the Reds won 5 0 4. Tme victory gave the Reds who are stepping on the Giants’ aeels an edge of three to one in the present series. Reds’ Cuban star, Adolfo Luque, will pitch. Today the The Tyger pitchers were wild in their game with the Athletics and the Philadelphia team won 7 to 6, two of the Detroit runs coming in the last in- ning. Heilmann hit his 15th home run in the sixth with Cobb on base. Iinsmith's double in the 12th inning in Brooklyn gave the Cardinals a bit- | terly contested game, 8 to 5 and balls, off Sherdél 5, ball, time 2:30. evened Vance 9; .avan); Debers Pittsburgh 11, Philadelphia, Aug. the secries with Philadelphia v; umpires, Vance 4; struck out, by hit wild pitch, by pitcher, by Sherdel; passed Hart and Moran; Philadelphia 6. 18.—Pittsburgh | game, | this same golfer got out—but HOW? | on the lie. BY ROY GROVE NEA Service Writer “We will assume the avérage golfer has been in a trap,” says Jack Smith, one of the greatest teachers of the “and we will also assume that “I'here are various ways of edging out of these irritable canyons. Some use mashies or niblics, some take all the sand and others may take it clean. Of course much will depend “There are numerous professionals and first-class amateurs who go so far as to take the putter and roll the ball out of the most dangerous places, But we'll call that luck be- cause the roll is not under control. “The most important thing to re- member in the trap is the sure foot- ing, and to keep these feet well planted. There is all the chance in the world to slip and slide with the force of the top swing or the down stroke, throwing yourself off bal- ance, *The mashie-niblic meets the ball and the sand at the same time, your left leg is straightened out and then comes the climax. Keep that left heel on the ground, otherwise the game will be like two-thirds of the outs, you'll top your pill, in the fear you will dig in." The above photograph of Smith in action illustrates the play very definitely. He shows exactly what one shouldn’t do to get the ball away. That lifting of the left heel, which throws the shoulders and raises the arms, topping the ball. | 1t is very amusing to wateh the Veteran ‘Pro’ Shows How to Squirm Out of Traps How They Line up in Fonr Leagues NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterdey's Results Chicago 6, Boston 2, St. Louls 8, Brooklyn 6 (12). Cincinnat! 6, New York 4 (11), Pittsburgh 11, Philadelphia 6. Standing of the Clubs . L. 41 46 47 52 . W13 .63 .65 81 5T .56 .38 .89 New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh . Chicago Brooklyn 8t. Louis Phila . Boston Games Today Chicago at Boston. , Cincinnati at New York. St. Louis at Bréoklyn (2). Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results New York 5, St. Louis 4. ladelphia 7, Detroit 6. Washington 6, Chicago 4 (11). Others not scheduled. Standing of t.he Clubs L. 7 51 New York ....... .12 KAPLAN ATTRACTING GOTHAM'S INTEREST Meriden Boxer Ofered Several Bouts Before New York Clubs Mériden, Aug. 18.—The path that & fighter walks toward his ‘uitimate Koal, the ¢hamplonship of his division, is not always a smooth one. Buch seems to be the case of Louis (Kid) Kaplan,; local battler who is rapidly ascending the ladder to fistic fame. ough the top rung has not been reached the local boy has gained & position that he ean stop and glanee down at the lesser lights as théy slow- ly plug along with less speed than the Nutmeg state boy is making. Ever sincé Kaplan spoiled a perfeet evening for Tommy Noble, English featherweight, he has been very much in demand in New York. 'Gotham promoters are always willing to pro- vide work for the newly proclaimed watellite ‘of the ring. ' But, and here is where trouble begins, they are not willing to pay the right money for a man of Kaplan's ability. It is a case of paying a participator in a star bout a price that a preliminary gets. The fight plenipotentiaries of Go- tham, including I.eo Flynn, Tex Rick- ard, Lou Raymond and Jimmy John- ston beside innumerable others, like Kaplan's style and would grant him a chance to show his wares again but when it comes-to naming the . e 81 .54 .51 Cleveland Detroit Louis broke Dazzy Vance's string ‘ of ten by defeating the Phillies, 11 to 6. The | successive victories. The Cards had | tied the score in the eighth inning | Firates found Ring easy and pounded with two runs, after being led all | Pim for 11 hits, driving him from the price they are busy talking of some- thing else. But that is the New York ° style of doing things. Paddy Mulling 52 53 57 spectacular Jock Hutchison at work in the sand traps. During the first day's qualifying rounds at Inwood JACK SMITH ILLUSTRATES HOW YOU SHOULDN'T GET OUT OF through the game. The Senators won in Chicago 6 to 4 when Blankenship faltered in the tenth inning. Johnson and Leverett were both retired early in the game. Chicago packed 8 hits into the first 6 innings of the game in Boston and drove Fillinghim out of the box win- ning 6 to 2 and taking the 156th out of 19 games played with Boston so far this year. Pittsburgh evened the Philadelphia winning 11 to 6. made a homer for the losers. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 5, New York 4. New York, Aug. 18.—Cincinnati waged an uphill fight and defeated New York in 11 innings, 5 to 4. Burns, formerly of the Giants, clinch- ed the game when he hit a home run with two out in the 11th. Donohue was stung for four runs in the first two innings, but pitched Dbrilliantly after that. His hitting also was re- sponsible for the game going into tra innings, as he hit a home run in the fifth with Caveney on base. Ryan who succeeded Bentley, did well un- il the 11th, when Burns hit for the eircuit. It was Ryan's second defeat of the year. Score; ¢ (‘Inclm:,-ll. series in Holke o ams=Gal o . 1b. . 2b, Rurn, Daubert, Bohne, Roush, of. . Duncan, if. Hargrave, c. . Pinelli, 3b. .. Caveney, se. . Donahue, p. . lewonnunmuns leanscoussp lenm wlonmocczsa0 alhnconnoons New Yofl(. ab, 1. 3 4 4 Young, rf. Baneroft, 2b. Frisch, 3b. Meugel, If. Btengel, cf. Kelly, 1b. Jackson, ss. Gewdy, c. Shinners, x Snyder, c. Bentley, p. ... Ryan, p. Groh, xx .. Maguire, xxx coouasy smao? csoconoanlusoua lessosose |l cmvunovsnanane lorcnmsssnurumsay wlcoccocconss 42 3—Ran for Gowdy in sikth. xx—Ran for Ryan in eleventh. xxx—Ran for Groh in eleventh. Cincinnati .... 022 000 New York .. 000 000 Two base hits, Daubert, Roush, Gro three base hit, Bentley; home runs, Don hue, Burns; sacrific Young, Cavenc Gowdy, Roush, Jackson; left on bases, York 11, Cincinnati 9; base on balls, off Bentley 2, off Rvan 1, off Donahue 2; struck out, by Bentley 3, by Ryan 1, by Donahue 3; hits, off Bentley 6 in 5, none out in sixth; oft Ryan, 4 in 6; hit by pitcher, by Dono- hue (Meusel); losing pitcher, Ryan; um- pires, O'Day and McCormick; time 2:15. 0 St. Louis 8, Brooklyn 5. Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 18.—The St. Louis Cardinals stopped the winning streak of Dazzy Vance but had to go 12 innings to beat Brooklyn, 8 to 5. The score was tied three times. Ain- #mith came up in the 12th with the bases full and cleared them with a double to the center field wall. Mueller | drove a home run to center in the| 11th, Neis misjudging a long fly.| Sherdel pitched a steady game, fan- ning seven batters. Vance had nine strikeouts. Score St. a Louis, Flack, rf . Smith, 1. Hornsby, Pottomley Stock. 3b. Ainsmith Mueller, cf 1b. Thporcer. Bherdel, p _I,>~44A7>_:;>.- x—Ran for MeCurdy in n Brooklyn. Nl Jsinsten .2b. B. Griffith, rf. French Olson, ss. Fournier, 1b. ... Bailey, If. Deberry, c. High, 3h, Berg, ss. Taylor. Griffith Vauce, | Grimes, . [ ‘ 2—Batted for Rerg in ninth. 22—Batted for Vance in twelfth 8t. Louis 00 100 021 Brooklyn 010 001 - Two base hits, Flack, Bottomley 2, Ain- || emith, Foyrnier; three base hit, Berg: home | yun, Muellgr: stolen bases. Flack, Smith 2: | ¥ sacrifices, Neis, Ba double plays. Bot tomley and ¥tock and McCurdy; left @9 bases, St)\Louis 5, Brooklyn 6; base on| 01 010 played short scored | triple, Bigbee, Carey, Rawlings Grimg, schmMit Steinade Hamilton, sand, Williams, ef. Wrightstone, 3b. . Tierney, ¥ Walker, Lee, Holke, 1 Wilson, Ring, Betta, Mokan, Behan, p. Pittshurgh 7, off Steinader 2, by Steinader 2, Steinader 3 piteh, Statz, Adams, 1 Grentham, 2b. . O'Farrell, Friverg, Miller, Heathcote, | Grimes, 1h. . Keene, p. . Felix, Nixon, Tiea Grimes to Grime ton 7 their scored by 318t scoring Dugan | mound in the seveath inning. Spencer Adams, a rookie -infielder, for t four If. 15 40 11 Philadelphia. a.h. 88, 2b. A rf. 5 n . x a3 Ratted for Betts in x Pittshurgh .... Philadelphia Two base hits, Ring 4 Hamilto in 4, winning pitcher Ring; umplres, i time 1:51, runs after two wulks and on a fielder's choice, Pittsburgh. b, i 5 3 4 ‘ he Pirates and getting one reaching first Score: T o > lechurmuiim~ loraanarnnn mlosssssnssae T oz AP, ) weasl somaun 2oo222=292529 Slessumsssacaop wles 22loscssmomunas 30 1—11 Holle, home ru; ce, Lee; hiladeinhia 65 Holke; stolen left on hases, base on balls, Behan 1; struek out n 2, Ring 1; hits off Ring 11 in 6 1-3 Hamilton 6 in 5, Betts 1 in 1 2-3, Behan 1 in 1; Behan; balk, Ring; passed ball, Wil- wild Hamilton; losing Quigley, Finneran, Chicago 6, Boston P Boston, Aug. 18.—Chicago bunched hits off Fillingham and made five runs before he was compelled to leave the game in the seventh. feated Boston, 6 to 2, and have won 15 out of 19 games played with Bos- ton so far this year. Southworth and Miller were features. Score: The visitors de- Catches by cmun. Bf.0 ss. 2b. . If. of, R. &mith, ss. O'Nell, ¢, Fillingim, p. . McNamara, E. Smith Cooney, 2z Barnes, Gibson, 72z . z z—Batted for MeN Batted for E. 72z—Batted for Barn Chicago .. 10 Boston ... S Smith Two base hit, heote: stolen bage double playsl left on R. Barnes 1 Barnes 1 in 7thy struck out M ; losing pitche nd Wilson tim base on balls, off Keane 4 hits off Fill ? 2 A e L =% 222522f cummonuo? ol cmmomuwmnes scosooommxn s2255 es in ninth, 103 001 three base hit, Heatheote Adams to Grantham ses. Chicago #; Bos illingim Keene 1, Fillingim ingim, & in 6, (none 0 in 1, Barnes, 1 in i umpires, Klem 00 s, Statz St. Louis 4, 8t. Louis, Loui hits and the In the first inning, home run of 18.—New Yeork needed tally was Pipp on Scott’s sacrifice. Ruth clouted his the season, Seore: New York. ab. . Louls. anGilder ke (Continued on Following made it two out of three hy defeating | 5 to 4. The visitors bunched also | | | week with 35 he seemed immyne to the fairway, | every shot was to the traps. On reaching the ball, the famous Jock would immediately start to dig himself, into the sand, and he wouldn’t stop squirming until he had reached the bottom of something or other and the sand was well over the tops of his shoes. He was well planted. Ouimet, Jones and Hagen all meet the ball and the sand at the same time, producing what is known as an cxplosion shot, where everything BABE RUTH IS HING IN LAND OF cLOUT Leads Baseballdom in All Depart- ments of Hitting and Scoring By The Associated Press. Chicago, Aug. 18.—Babe Ruth is now the real king of swat having at last established his supremacy over all major league players in all depart- ments of batting statistics. Rogers Hornsby leads him by ten points but the St. Louis slugger has played in 25 fewer games. Ruth now holds the crown for home runs, total runs, bases on balls, extra base hits, and is with- in the select 10 in stolen bases. All this despite the pitchers' apparent fear of his war club as shown by the 125 bases on balls issued to Ruth up to August 12, one of the unique fea- tures of his batting record. Ruth has taken the batting lead from Harry Heilmann of Detroit with 3945 to Heilmann's .3939, according to averages including games of last Wednesday. He added four home runs this week, leading “Cy" Williams of the Philadelphia Nationals by two cir- cuit clouts, 31 to 29. Ruth has play- ed 107 games and averaged one run per game. His tota! base record of 278 is far in the lead, his 144 hits in- cluding 28 doubles and eight triples besides his home runs. Tris Speaker in Third Tris Speaker, veteran pilot of the Cleveland Indians, scored the greatest gain this week in points for his bat- ting average, adding six points and taking third place from Jamieson, Cleveland. Ty Cobb is out of the select 10 for the first time in a great many years, the Detroit manager be- ing tied for 11th place with Witt of New York, at .338, just two points be- low tenth position. Eddie Collins, the Chicago veteran, added four morc stolen bases this ing more than double tender. Collins also lead in sacrifice hits the nearest cl is far in the with 33. Other teading batters: Jamieson, Cleveland, well, Cleveland, .355; Williams, St. Louis, .340; Collins, Chicago, .346; Manush, Detroit, .343; Burns, Boston, .342; J. Harris, Boston, .340. Rogers Hornsby continues well in the lead of National league hitters, adding one point last week to make his average #05. Zack Wheat of Brooklyn, who has been out of the game with an injured leg, still holds second place with .382. Barnhart of | Pittsburgh made the greatest gain of the past week adding ten points which just brought him within the leading 10. Roush, Cincinnati, drop- ped to eighth place, losing six points. Young of New York took the lead in runs scored away from his team-) mate Frank Frisch adding seven runs) to make his total 97 to 30 for Frisch. The latter still is holding his lead for, total hits with 167 and total bases with 240. The ‘ordham FI out 167 hits collected triples and ten homer: Williams Halts at 29 Homers. “Cy" Willlams, Philadelphia fielder, who has been giving Ruth a merry chase for the home run honors, failed to add to his 29 circuit drives. However, the Phila- delphia veterait.is far in front of the home run clouters in his éwn eircuit, his closest rivals being Jack Fournier of Brooklyn and Hack Miller of Chi- cago, tied with 16. George Grantham of the L'hu'ago‘ .361; J. Se- sh by pounding; 5 doubles, nine out- Bahe TRAP. DON'T RAISE THAT LEFT A 17 ; St. HEEL OFF THE GROUND. THE IN- | SERT SHOWS HIM PLAYING THE SHOT PROPERLY. is perfect and the ball may be con- trolled with plenty of back spin for clean shot. seems to blow up with the out, ex- cept on rare occasions where the lie It was the topping of just such lays as these which cost even the professionals at Inwood many strokes owing to a footing which fooled them. Cubs is rated as a ten second man but is being given a close race by the veteran fly chaser Max Carey of the Pittsburgh Pirates for stolen base honors. Max jumped into the lead for a day or two, but has been able to steal only three bases in the past week while the Chicago flash grabbed off half a dozen and ran his string up to 33, Carey has stolen 31. “Stuffy” McInnis of Boston by making one sacrifice during the week tied Pat Duncan of Cincinnati for sacrifice hit honors at 23 each. Other leading batters: Bottomley, St. Louis, ,368; Fournier, Brooklyn, .267; Frisch, New York, .365; Young, New York, .355; Traynor, Pittsburgh, .853; Roush, Cincinnati, .350; South- worth, Boston, .341; Barnhart, Pitts- burgh, .340; Grimm, Pittsburgh, .33 Hargrave, Cincinnati, .339; Tierney, Philadelphia, .326; Duncan, Cin- cinnati, .325 MOLLA V§. HELEN Mrs. Mallory and Miss Wills, Aged 17, in Battle for Tennis Champion- dhip at Forest Hills, 8y The Aspociated Prens, Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 18.—The brilliant versatility of youth will 'he’ matched against veteran power and experience today when Miss Helen Wills, 17 year-old Berkeley, Cal, girl meets Mrs. Molla Mallory of New York, the title holder, in the final round of the national women's singles tennis championship at the West Side| tennis club. ; | st. Runs This Week National League. A MT WT P New York 2. x 8 8 7 ¢ Pittsburgh 10° 4 8.11 Cincinnati XRL6 Chicago abl 6 Brookl 2 3 | 8t. Louis Phila Boston 8 TtL 8 2 X x .16 5 o Dok e American League. SMT WT C) 11 6 b 5 New York | Cleveland Louis Detroit Chicago ‘Wash Phila Boston R A ¥ International League. 8 MT WT F Baltimore " CEEIRT R e Rochester 0 710 18 Buffalo b 13 0 Reading d 1 4 { Toronto 3 15 5 | Jersey City Syracuse | Newark 8 TtL 1 9 4 4 x 4 4 Paddy Green, a tormer New Britain pitcher, has assumed the management of the Quebec club in the Eastern Canada league. He was recently re- leased by the Three Rivers club and one of his first acts was to go into the box for Quebec and beat his former | charges. ‘Washington Chicago Fhiladelphia Boston .. 58 62 62 .51 47 .43 Games Today + Boston at Detroit. New York at “hicago. Washington at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Cleveland. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Toronto 5, Newark 4. Jersey City 4, Buffalo 0. Rochester 18, Reading 4. Other games, rain. Standing of the Clubs L. 43 49 64 61 61 89 72 73 P.O .836 602 508 508 504 439 415 302 Baltimore Rochester Buffalo . Toronto Reading ... Syracuse Jérsey City Newark ... Games Today %oronts at Newark. Buffalo at Jersey City. Syracuse at Baltimore. Roéchester at at Reading (2). ’ EASTERN LEAGUE Yesterday’s Reeults Pittsfield 9, Albany 8. New Haven 4, Hartford 1. Springfield 7, Waterbury 6. Bridgeport at Wocrester. Standing of the Clubs w. L. 40 41 55 56 59 65 687 69 New Haven . Hartford ‘Worcester Springfield Bridgeport .. Albany Waterbury Pittsfield Games Today Albany at Pittsfield. New Haven at Hartford. Waterbury at Springfield. Brdigeport at Woreéstér, Oh, Man! CONGRATULATE ME TorMmy — — | BROKE A HUNDRED!- MADE WHATTYA KNoOw RAY! | HMAD A CHANCE To BREAK |- CONGRATULATE ME CHARLIE:! JUST SHOT A 97 BILL- | NEVER IN SUCH ROTTEN LUCK, 18TH For AN yrP To THE ATTA KI1D! \ ED-- 06! PLAYED BILL and his charge, Harry Wills, the colored heavyweight challenger, will testify to that. The local boy had a chance to land on the New York velodreme card Wednesday night with Harry (Kid Brown of Philadelphia for an ex: change of fisticuffs. He didn't get him though for Brown is wise to the point that carefulness has been made his watchword. TInstead of meeting the local battler he has been signed up with Archie Walker, a good boy but not capable of giving Brown the battle that Kaplan would. ‘A bout with Pal Moran, the New Orleans lightweight, was also offered for a Queensboro, A. C. card but Moran is too heavy for Kaplan and a bout with him would bé out of the question. Lou Raymond, matchmakér of the Queensboro and the Pioneer A. C., a new club opened on “Twenty Thoid” street, is after Kaplan also and made Kaplan several offers through his manager, Dennis McMahon. But Lou, good fellow as he may be, must talk business and Kaplan and his manager. Just the reason for Brown duck- ing a bout with Kaplan is only too obvious. Brown is being mentién- ed as the next contender for the junior lightweight title on wlfich he is feast- ing his eyes. Eventually Kaplan will have to be considered as the leading contender for Bernstein's title-~~f he still has it after meeting Browr. New York fight authorities liked the local boy in his lagt appearance thare and said that they wanted to see him again. To de- feat Tommy Noble is, in their opinion a feat worthy of deep'thought. As the local battler mads a thorough job of it he is at last being seen in the true light-—a real contender for Bernstein. McMahen cannot be blamed for standing by his side of the argument. If there was sgme doubt about Kap- lan's ability tlfere might be some loophole for an argument but with Meriden's star flashing acnoss the fistic skyline, now i cerlainly not the time to spend in :fmall talk. Give him the chance he dserves and he'll make good—thére ‘is no uncertainty about that. Sam Hyinan workéd for New Haven vesterday -and allowed Hartford only two hits. New Haven won, 4 to 1. CONER!\YU LATE "me | SHOT A BRIG:S TATTA Boy ! | MAY AS WELL QUIT, 1 ® ey *ITRIBAE. me