New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1923, Page 9

Ry Speaking of Sports It nfay sound funny but it's true, Ed Walsh of Meriden in his day one of the greatest pitchers that ever stépped on the rubber, would like to do a comeback. Walsh, now acting as an assistant to Kid Gleason at Chica- cago, feels that he could be of con- siderable use ‘to Gleason, particularly as a relief pitcher. So persistent has been Walsh that Gleason has had him do considerable pitching to the batters, While Ed’s arm isn't 1ike it was back in 1906, he still has more stuff than a lot of.re- cruits who are breaking in as pitch- ers with promise. Gleason wi 80 impressed with Walsh's desire for another chance, likewise with the stuff he showed while In action, that he took the mat- ter up with the powers that be, Walsh won his fame as a spitball pitcher. When that delivery was. made taboo, il was agreed that pitchers using that ' style would be permitted to remain in the league and use the spitball until they became passe. y Walsh was really through-as a spit- ball pitcher before the edict barring the delivery went into effect. If Walsh was to do a comeback it was neces- sary that he be allowed to use the moist delivery, It was held that since hé had passed out of the ‘majors, re- garded as through, it would be un- fair to allow him'to return as a spit- ball pitcher. That, of course, ended Walsh's dream to do a comeback as a relief pitcher for the White Sox. “Pitching of today is far inferior to the brand of ten to fifteen years ago,” says Walsh. “In thoge 'days every club had four or five good pitchers, capable of giving the opposition a hattle any time they stepped on the rubber, It's different now. Managers of most clubs have only ‘one ace, a pitcher in whom the manager feels he has an edge. The lively ball is the trouble maker. Perhaps the old-time pitchers wonld have been as ineffec- tive had they been forced to pitch the ‘rabbit ball' now used."” There is much logic in what Walsh says about the lively ball. *Control has always been one of the greatest assets a pitcher could have. 1t strikes me that control is more es- sential thun ever,” continued Walsh. “When 1 speak of control, I don't mean throwing the ball through the| heart of the plate, rather I have reference to control that enables the pitcher to skim the cornérs and keep the ball at the knee. I still think the low ball is the most effective de- livery, since there is always the chance that the batter will top the ball and roll weakly to the infield. I am sorry they won't let me use the spitler. A couple of years' rest has done my arm a lot of good. I really think I could help the Sox win a lot of ball games. That isn't any bunk.” Walsh is unquestionably the great- est spitball pitcher of all time, length | of service and effectiveness considered. The possessor of remarkable control, he could breuk the moist delivery at the knee all day long. The; spitball is imost effective pitched knee high. Walsh started a ball game with a spitter and’ finished with one. There were never any cripples with “Big Ed" doing the pitching. He fairly reveled in being dropped into a tough spot, A great pitcher was Ed Walsh. The New York Giants improved slightly last’ week on their perforn- ance of the week before, winning four games of the seven played. Cincinnati, however, continued to creep up in an alarming manner, winning.all six of the week's games. Pittsburgh also had a perfect percentage, taking all five played. Yesterday the Giants and the Pittsburgh team both won, while the Reds took a rest. Boston slumped lower and lower, losing four of the six pames played. Philadelphia lost five out of six. In the Yankees lost American league, the a slight portion of their lcad, dropping four of the six games | played, during the week, and also losing yesterday's game to the Cleve- land team which won three of the five week-day games. Boston added to its SoEZ nsure the correct fit and hang of your gowns and waists by using thissnap fastener that willnot cutthe thread er wear loose. Easiest to sew on and easiest to open. Yetitholds fast. ' 10c for a dozen,” ,at all notion counters. THE AUTOYRE CO. OAKVILLE, CONN, ““It Stays Sewed!’’ . NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1923. carefully. Luis Firpo, Dempsey’s next opponent, mixes in with one of ring his sparring partners at his Atlantic City training camp, while | Horatio Lavalle (right), his milliongire trainer, watches him 'GETTING IN TRIM FOR-THEIR BIG BOUTS title. Harry Greb takes a hard punch on the jaw from a fair train- partner in the ring at Manhasset, Long Island, where he is |preparing for his fight with Johnny Wilson for the middleweight Miss Mary Braun, daughter of Greb’s cook, comes from Pittsburgh and swings a wicked left. lead for last place by losing six out of seven last week, but ‘won yesterday | from Chicago, . * < | Wade Lefier of Worcester continues | to lead the Eastern League hitters, according to the latest official aver- ages compiled through Wednesday's games. His stick work in 84 games| has netted him an average of .376, sec- | ond only to Bill Bagwell, former Braves' star now with Worcester, who has appeared in but 15 games and not entitled to the lead. Elmer Bowman is sticking close to Lefier's heels, having a .368 ayerage to crow about, atthough Elmer doesn't do much crowing. George Fisher, a New Haven teammate of Bowman's whom the Washington Senators paid $20,000 for to the St. Joseph's club of the Western league and then sent him with an optional agreement tag to| the Nutmeg city, is third in ranking | with .366. Wally Simpson, Spring- ficld’s home run king of the circuit, 1s| u close tourth with .358. It was a homer by Bentley, sent in as a pinch hitter, that gave the Giants a 4-3 victory over the Cubs, yesterday. It was more sensational since it came | Huber, rf | Carpenter, rf after two were oyf in the ninth. Wally Shang made a wild throw iu“ the ninth yesterday, making the In-| dians a present of the game, 4-3. p‘ to then the Yankces were ahead.| Babe Ruth got two singles in three trips to the platter. | Harry Heilmann, Ty Cobb and Gos- | lin all hit homers yesterday. Brooklyn dropped its ninth straight | game yesterday when the Pirates got away with a 9-2 victory on the oc- casion of their last v Babe Ad- ams pitched masterly ball—as usual. won their the same his 25t The Browns yesterday sixth straight gam In game Ken Williams . hit homer, | Williams and Babe now are tied for [ home ryn honors and the leading four | base sluggers ncw are: American | League: Ruth, New York, 32; Wil-| | liams, St. Louis, 25; Heilman, Detroit, | 16; Hauser, Philadeiphia, 14; Brower, | | Cleveland ‘14; McManus, St. Louis, 14; Tobin, St. Louis, 12; Speaker, Cleve- {land 12; J. Harris, Boston, 11; Miller, | Philadelphia, 11, National lLecague: | delphia, 32; Fournier, | Miller, Chicago, 16 | York, 26; Hornshy, & Louis, 14; Traynor, Pittsburgh, 12; Tierney, | Pniladelphia, 11; Frisch, New York, | 11 Friberg, Chicago, 11. NEW DEPARTURE IS EASILY THE WINNER Lot | Phila- 175 Williams, Brookiyn, Meusel, New (Continued From Preceding Page) T. Blanchard, p Morrison, p . Bergs D ooooo Horkheimer . Lanning . Tamm~. .. Reilly Goodridg Lynch Waters Coughlin Condon .. | cwa Corbin . 3 amm, Goodridge; Corbin; sfcrifice hits, Car- bases on balls off Blanchard n 2; struck eut by Berg 4, by stolen baser, Tamm, Carozzo; double Blanchard, Barnett and Blanchard; on errors, New Departure 3, Cor: mpires Lon gand Monahon. | BESSE MINE TAKES INITIAL CONTEST (Continued From Preceding Page) by this stame player and T'he did hit:iy 4 » Corbin, of .. snyder, It Wojak, 3b . Barpett, Blanch Preior, Clinton, ¢ Berg, 1 Blanchazd, PROUUORROR | ergocuasce 3 3 Besse-Lealnd T Fitzpatrick, Landry R. Beg Dudack, Schroeder, ¢ Budnick, 3b N. gley, 2 fovancsonsy Corbin ..... Besse-Leland Two base hits, Fitzpatrick, Barnett; thrée base hits, Landry, R. Begley, Budnick, bases on balls Blanchard 1, Palmer 3; struck out Blanchard 1, Berg 1, Palmer 6; stolen bases, Huber, Snyder, Fitzpatriek, R. Beg- ley; left on ba Corbin 10, Besse 6; first base on criors Corbin 2, Besse 2; hits off Berg 4, Blancliard 6; wild pitch Blanchard; umpires Campbell and Lynch. AR R T FALCONS FOOTBALL CALL The Falcons are putting a foot- ball team in the race, and would Iike ¢ sound a call for candidates, meeting at Faicon A. C. on Sexton street, Tuesday at 7:30 o'clock, Aug. 28. AMERICAN LEAGUE (Continued From Preceding Page) Connolly, zx 3 4 13 z—Ran for O'Neill in eighth. zz—Batted for Brower in ninth. New York L I 0R1N0) Cléveland L0000 000 Two base hits, Meusél, Jamieson, Speak-| er; sacrifices, Pipp; stolen base, Lutz basés on balls, off Bush 7, Pennock 1, 2; struck out by Bush 1, Uhle 3; left on bases, New York 7, Cleveland 13; losing pitcher Bush; double palys Uhle and Brow- er; Plpp (unassisted); Ward and Pipp; Stephenson and Brower; hits oft Bush 12 in I Pennock 0 in 1-3; umpires, Connolly, | Holmes and Ormsby; time 2:10. Red Sox 3, White Sox 4. €hicago, Aug. 27.—Boston took the second game of the series from the ‘White Sox, 5 to 4. The Whife Sox hit Jack Quinn hard in the first two in- nings, but after that he hurled ef- fectively. | 00 10 2 Mitchell, {4, Collin | Retcn | Burns, Harris, Shanks, Pittenger, Devormer, ¢ Quinn, p ... 881 s, rt et . 1 . | 1t | e PO | WA ron e S lhrwamn lws mlrszoccossr et s > Hooper, rf | MeClellan, Strunk, z . E. Collins, 2b Sheely, 1b Barrett, If Moatil, of , Kamm, 3b | Crouge, © Leverette, TR A e s atio P slmmocooomooms e i 3 5 = z—Batted for M Roston by Chicago .. th, 1 013 o . 130 00 100--5 0 00 0—4 |in the fifth Hale, | | Walker, xx . & Gerber, . Collins, Quinn, Mitchell; ett; sacrifices McClellan; double Shanks, Pittenger to Burns; left on bases, Boston 8, Chicago §; hases on balls, Leverette 5, Quinn 2; hits off Lever- ette 8 in 7; hit by pitcher, by Quinn (Mos- til); struck out by Leverette 2, Quinn 2; loging pitcher Leverette; umplres Evans and Hildebrand; time 1:48. Two bas stolen bas Brown 4, Athleticsi, St. Louis, Aug. 27.—Brilliant pitch- ing by Shocker enabled St. Louis to defeat Philadelphia, 4 to 1, yesterday. Shocker held the Athletics to three singles while his teammates pounded Heimach. Kenneth Willlams knocked out his th home run of the season inning with no one on base. It was the Browns' sixth straight victory. Score: Philadelphia, ab, r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 McGowan, cf Galloway, s8 3h7 .3 corcorconoDd e e e 1 3 =8 batted ball, in ninth, x—8hocker out, hit xx—Batted for Heim: St. Lan | vemsscacud e Tohin, rf . Williams, If, Jucobson, ¢f McManus, 2b Shocker, p .. lremestener lovacuscons 1 00 0 00 T 0 N6 Schleibner; home run, Wil- ltams; sacrifices, McManus; left on base, Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 6; struck out by Heimach 4, Shocker 3; umpires Rowland, Nallin and Owens; time 1 Philadelphia St. Louis ... Two base Tygers 5. Senators 4. Detroit, Aug. 27.—Detroit went 13 This photo, taken in San Francisco just prior to the take-off of the first plane in the new assistant postmaster con- [coast-to-coast air mail service, was received in Cleveland in plate form 28 hours after it was niailed. Burr H. Winslow is the aviator who made the first relay out of San Francisco. bases, New Departure 6, Corbin 1:/him are Frank MecStocker, superintendent of mails, western division (left), and William Burke, With colocsccoccas | {Adams, | night. ton 6 to 4. Zachary, who pitched the entire game for the Senators, was hit freely, but worked brilliantly in the pinches, Helllmanh, Cobb and Goslin hit home runs. Score: 4 .;% SMiecantas: 3.4 Leibold, ef, Peckinpaugh, Goslin, If. . Rice, rf. Judge, 1b, Ruel o . Harris, 2, Biuege, 3b. lorrrmuunmos Reras loecarnoconsy | cwma slocscsccsar sl Sluvansana ) 3 " 53 t 4 ccsomuoabhanuss Francis z Pratt, 2z . D s ¢ o TR e 50 5 20 39 21 x—None out when winning run scored. an for Bassler in fifth, Batted for Coel in seventh, 000 001 300 000 0—4 100 011 100 000 1—5 hits, Haney, Cole, Cobb; three Jones; home runs, Cobb, Heil- lin; stolen base, Harris; sacrifices, Zachary 2, Meilmann, Fothes Jones; double plays, Peckingpaugh, rig and ; left on bases, Washington 8, Detroit ase on balls off Cole 2, Pillette 1, Zaehary 5; struck out, by Zachary 2, Pil- lette 2; hits off Cole 7 in 7, Pillette 3 in 6; winning pitcher, Pillette; umpires, Dineen and Moriarity; time 3:20, NATIO Giants Win. New York, Aug. 27.—A ninth in- ning heme run attack snatched vic- tory from the jaws of defeat here yes- terday when the New York Nationals defeated Chicago in the first game of the series by a score of 4 to 3. lonsscsccammoun lconnosocvonuue mlossscsrcsczna? base hit mann, G a. 0 .0 Statz, of . Adams, ss Grantham, 2b . O'Farrell, ¢ Friberg, 3b Miller, 1t Heathcote, Grimes, 1b Aldridge, p FE ]l coruronsey | covumuamny leccomman wlonwoccnoses n 2 ® Baneroft, Frisch, 2b Young, rf Meusel, If . O'Connell, cf Kelly, 1 Jackson, 3 (T Gowdy, x Shinners, z Ryan, p alosonnornoroccon? wlcommmonciocnaT leccoocarnmuncna il ecorcunrcconar nlocccscscsosona? 27 x—Two out when winning run was scored. xx—Batted for Snyder in ninth, xxx-—-Batted for Scott in eighth, z—Ran for. Gowdy In eighth. Chicago ....... 020 010 00 0—3 New York . 001 000 00 3—4 Home runs, O'Connell, Bentley; stolen base, Heathcote; double plays, Grantham, Adams and Grimes; Kelly and Bancroft; antham and Grimes; left on bases New York 5, Chicago 1; base on balls, off Bcott 1, off Aldridge 2; struck out by Scott 4, by Aldridge 2, hits off Scott 7 in 8, off Ryan 0 in 1; winning pitcher, Ryan; um- pires, Ffirmann and Quigley; time 1:50, Pirates 9, Dodgers 2. Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 27.—Pitts- burgh evened the series with Brooklyn to date at nine games each by win- ning yesterday's game 9 to 2. ' Pittsburgh. ab. P 4 Bigbee, 1f. . Carey, ef . Rawlings, 2b ... Traynor, 3h Barnhart, rf , Maranville, ss Grimm, 1b Schmidt, ¢ . Adams, p .. lecnsnnans ol reocruumun | roonvsunnnyr |ecanwursan ~lconcocccal 3 Neis, cf ... Johnaton, 2b . Bailey, 1f . Fournier, 1b T. Griffth, rf . Deberry, ¢ .. High, 3b French, ss Reuther, p . Dickerman, p Wheat, x . Smith, p B. Gritth, e e - BEPRRS wlcsconronunrorne Sleccocrrnvocann? wloscoonumoccscsap ! x—Batted for Dickerman in seventh. xx—Ratted for Smith in ninth. Pittsburgh .. 204 012 0009 Brooklyn 010 100 000—2 Two base hits, Rawlings, Barnhart, Mar- anville, Adams, Deberry, French; sacrifice, Maranville; double plays, French, Johnston and Fournier; Deberry and High; Rawlings, Maranville and Grimm; High, Johnston ahd Fournier; left on bases, Pittsburgh 8, Brook- lyn 7; bases on Dalls, off Reuther 2, Dick- erman 2, Adams 1; struck out by Reuther 2, Dickerman 1; hits off Ruether 9 in 4, (none out in fifth), off Dickerman 3 in 2, 8mith 2 in 2; wild pitch, Dickerman 2; los- ing pitcher, Ruether; umpires, Klem and Wilson; time 1:34, Joe Lynch Wiil Fight With | Harold Smith Friday Night Chicago, Aug. 27.—Joe Lynch, world’s champion bantamweight, will meet Harold Smith, stockyards idol, in the main bout of a boxing show being prepared by Promoter Jim Mul- fen, to be staged at Aurora, Fiday Pancho Villa, holder of the world’s flyweight titl, has been matched to meet Bud Taylor of Terre Haute, at Hawthorne track, the after- noon of Sept. 8 - . LOSE IN 11 INNINGS 9 « Plainville Nine Goes Down to Defeat . At Hands of Milldale The Milldale nine defeated Plain- ville 8 to 7 in 11 innings yesterday. Dick Hyland twirled a nice game but poor support in the early innings contributed to his dewnfall. Lind- strom pitched a nice game for the winners. Cafferty, Hoglund and Wadsworth caught for the Plainville bays. The Plainville nine had censider- abl trouble with the umpire and loud were the protests that they were not getting a square deal, especially on balls and strikes. 1906 WORLD SERIES GOES N0 HISTORY, Last of Participants in Cub-Sox Series Quits Baseball Chicago, Aug. 27.—With Frank Schulte dropping out of the pmopv sional baseball ranks this season, tl’ last of the two great Chicago teams that battled for the world's champions ship in 1906 has quit active participas - tion in the game. True, Frank Change, of “Peerless lLeader” fame and Pat Moran, of the Reds, are very much in the spotlight of the sport today yet neither cavort on the diamond in ac- tual play. Up to the time that Schulte resigned from the Oakland club of the Coast league, seven of the former stars of the two 1906 teams still had some- thing to do with baseball. Schuite was the only one actually’ playing, how- ever. The others were: Cubs: Chance and Moran, who are managers and John Evers who was with the White Sox last year. Sox: Nick Altrock, now with Washington but who is on the coaching line and never plays: Frank Isbell, owner and manager of the Wichita club of the Western leagué and Ed Walsh, who is now scout and pitchers’ coach for the White Sox. Intimat® details of the series re- mains in the minds of the baseball public even to this day, judging by the many reminiscences heard at any gathering of baseball fans. It was re- markable in one respect at le The underdog had his day. The Cubs came up to the big event hailed as worl beaters in every sense of the Wwor while the White Sox had triumphed ia the American league by a scant margin and were known at the “Hit- less Wonders.,” Few, outside of rabid and partisan fans, believed the Sox had a chance to win. But win they did in a most impressive manner. The series was then a five game affair, three wins out of five games deciding the victor. The Sox won the first, lost the sea~ ond, won the third, lost the fourth and annexed the world’s championship by winning the fifth, and final game. The players on the team consisted of Fielder Jones, managing and playing right field; Jigg Donahue on first; Frank Isbell on second; George Rohe at third; Lee Tannehill playing short, having been switched over from third when Geogge Davis, the regular short. stop was ¥njured late in the regular season; Pat Dougherty in center and Eddie Hahn in right with Billy Sulli- van behind, the bat and Doc White, Ed Walsh, Frank Owens and Nick Al- trock on the firing line. The Cubs were made up of Chanee at first: Evers at second; Tinker at short; making that great relay team of “Tinker, to Evers and Chance.” Harry Steinfeldt was at third; Jimmy Sheckard in center. Artie Hofman in left and Frank Schulte in right; with Johnny Kling behind the bat, assisted by Pat Moran; Mordecai ,("’l‘hr!o Fingered”) Brewn, Eddie Reulbach, Jack Pfeister and big Orval Averall doing the twirling. Of the other White Sox, Fielder Jones retired from the game only to come back and manager the St. Louis Federals for a time and then go back to his lumber brokerage business in the northwest. Isbell is the owner and manager of the Wichita club of the Western league. Rohe is in charge of the phonograph department of a large drug firm in Cincinnati; Tannehill lives at South Bend, Ind., and is a salesman for a Chicago packing house; George Davis lives in Bt. Louis and is employed in the assem- bling plant of an automobile manus facturer; Pat Daugherty is living Bolivar, N. Y., and was only 4 a member of the police forte there; Eddie Hahn is in the cigar business at Des Moines; Billy Sullivan put his money into fruit and is now reported to own one of the best apple orchards in Oregon; Doc White, who is a den- tist, is athletic director and baseball coach at Central High, Washingten, D. C.; Frank Owen is in the automo- bile business in Detroit; Ed Walsh {8 scouting and coaching for the White Sox and Nick Altrock is coaching for the Washington Americans and doing vaudeville stunts for the fans befors each game, Of the Cubs, Chance has made & comeback as manager of the Bostonm Americans; Evers, who has the dis- tinction of being the last of all of them to play in major league circles, was with the White Sox last year and is now at his home in Troy, N. Y. Joe Tinker tried his hand at managing but has finally landed at Orlande, Fla., where he is in the real estate business and is reported to be doing nicely; Jimmy Sheckard was in the tobacco business in Columbus, Pa., last winter; Art Hofman makes Chi« cago his home and is a traveling salesman. Schulte played baseball in the Coast league up to last Februarys Johnny Kling invested his money in real estate and owns and manages & billiard hall in Kansas City; Pat Moran is trying for a pennant with the Reds; Mordecai Brown, according to recent reports, was managing a pi fessicnal baseball team; Jack Pfeister is a highway inspector and works oug fn Loveland, Ohio; Eddie Heulbach is in the piano business in New York, and Orval Overall owns an orange grove at Viealia, Ci —_— LUTHERANS TO PRACTICE. All members of the Swedish Lu- theran baseball team are requested to report for practice Tuésday and Fri- day nights on the Ellis Stroet grounds at 6 o'clock. 35 LAST WEEK OF JESTER’S FIFTH ANNUAL - USED CAR SALE “This Is A Studebaker Year” 193 ARCH ST.