New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1923, Page 8

NEW BKITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE 19, 1028, YANKS AGAIN HALTED IN FINISH DASH FOR FLAG — GIANTS GAIN ADVANTAGE OVER REDS AND PIRATES — NO DUNDEE-LEONARD BATTLE — SHOP LEAGUE BOWLERS START ACTIVITIES — BABCOCK SHOULD BE STRONG ADDITION TO ALL-NEW BRITAINS — ARMY WINS POLO MATCH DAY IN CLINCHING HONORS; GIANTS STRENGTHEN STAND » By Winning 8 to 3 From Hugmen, Cleveland Indians Take | Season’s Series From New York Americans — | National League Champs Now Are Five Full Games | to the Good. Th Yanks were again put off a day from elinching the Am- | nnant when the Cleveland nine took the series | t. Louis and Washington The Red Sox bowed to the erican league yesterday by defeating them 8 to 3, divided a double-header 5-1 and 1-2, White Sox, 6-2 and the Tygers split with the Athletics 89 and | In the National league the Giants added to their firm grip Boston got but two 210, on first place by downing St. Louis 10 to 4. runs from Pittsburgh while the latter piled up a dozen, AMERICAN LEAGUE | Yanks Lose Again, New York, Sept, 18.—New York was delayed another day in clinching the American League pennant, when Cleveland won the, last game of the sories, 8 to 3. Cleveland won tne| season's series from the Yankees, 12 games to 10, | Cleveland, b, o ~sSusccuan Jamieson, ’I( | P P SE e ain it Totals el ccanunSman] witt, of . 0 | St Dugan, 3b Ruth, rf Pipp, Meusel, ) Hoffmann, x Pipgrass, p . MeNally, xx u“o_;_,"_, ety olosuonmouoonn:s les wlssssnncas 2 Totals b 8T x—Batted for Shawkey In seventh, xx—Batted for Plpgrass in ninth, L 000 120 2138 000 020 010~3 Stephenson 2, Speaker, Meusel 2, Jamieson, Sewell; three base amieson; home run, Meusel; Speaker; sacrifices, Brower 2, eft on bases, New York 8§ Cleveland ' 7; hase on hails, off Shawkey 4 oft Shaute 1; hits off off Pipgrass 3 in 2; Two base hits, ; hit by pi ; wild piteh, Pip- Shawkey; umpires, ; losing pltcher, Rowland; time, . ‘Hildebrand and ' Cl (Conuinued on Following Page) St. New York . Detroit . in Four NATIONAL Yesterday \|How They Line up Leagues LEAGUE Results Pittsburgh 12, Boston 2. New York 10, Bt. Louis 4. Cincinnati-Philadelphia rain,, Others not scheduled. Standing of the Clubs w. L. | New York .. — | Cineinnati .. Pittsburgh ... Chicago + Louis .... | Brooklyn .... Philadelphia . Boston ...... P.C b4 622 83 58 580 82 68 586 4 66 529 73 68 B8 67 70 489 45 91 831 46 93 881 Games Today Boston at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at Chica New York at St, 80. Louis. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. AMERICAN Yesterday's Chicago 6, Boston LEAGUE Results 2 Cleveland 8, New York 3. St. Louis 5, Washi ngton 1. (1st). ‘Washington 2, St. Louis 1. (2nd). Detroit 8, Philade}, phia 2. (1st). Philadelphia 10, Detroit 9. (2nd). Standing ol the Clubs w. L. eveland . Louis . . Washington . Chicago .. 2 48 8 62 . 68 68 67 67 71 o 67 74 . B9 75 | i LEFT, A8 A | GEORGE UHLE, AS AN IN- | SANDLOTTER AND DIAN. | pitching sandlot baseball in Cleveland. Today Geofge Uhle is the pitching !leads the American league twirlers in “nmvn won, The rise of George Uhle to sudden fame in baseball outdoes the diamond fiction of Frank Merriwell. This hero of many a baseball yarn became fa- mous because of § so-called double- twist. He did everything but make the ball talk. While George Uhle lays claim to no double twist In his pitching repertory, American League batters will tell you that he has something on every ball he pitches. His stock in trade consists of a puzzling fast ball, a sharp-breaking curve, a teas- ing slow ball and a deceptive change *|of pace. for any pitcher, the That is enough says the leading batsmen of American league. ; Began Career at 15. Uhle is 25 years of age. While he NAVY SQUAD HOLDS IT§ FIRST GRIDIRON WORK Tentative 11 to be Picked by Satur- day—Ambherst Will Have Light Team’ This Fall, Seven years ago George Uhle was| ace of the Cleveland Indians. He| has been playlng ball since a kid, he figures that his career really started at 15. He dopes it that way because it was the first time he wore a regu- lar uniform and played on a club in which every. athlete was arrayed in the same kind of a suit. Prior to that time his baseball outfit consisted of little more than a glove and usual- ly not a very good one at that, White the fact is not generally known. Uhle as a youngster aspired to be a catcher. He played that posi- tion as a kid. Not unti] nine years ago did he ever pitch a ball. The pos- sessor of a great arm, he was urged to pitch a game one day when ill- (Cor.tinued on Following Page) Yankee Polo Team Wins Over British Army Stars Westbury, N. Y., Sept. 19.—America added to her sporting supremacy yes- terday when four veteran khaki wear- ers, representing Uncle Sam's army, galloped to a 10 to 3 victory over four British army men in the deciding con- test for the three game international PLUGGING ALONG P. & F. Corbin and Machive Co. Bowlers Hitting the-Pins The New Britaln Machine company & ¥, Corbin Fore- league and the men's le e both got under way at the Rogers' alleys last night and for opening games there was no little ex- Riha ..., Quigley Shepard Hellborg Bpence Wenses! Andersen Kuper .. Caswell Jacksen .. Rempp . Dehm Kuper Kron Schaefer Granquist Broun ... Brusmmer Behnelder Car) Nedden Mitchel! Thomas Behmaldt Bhailer Zelgler Dolan . Knex ... Lumpp ... Trask .. McGrath Barnes ... Champagne Barhour Putney . Leavitt Teich .. Sundquist Kotlytko . Rush G. Leavitt A. Zeigler . Billings ,.. Rollingon M. C Gollon Stotts Rawlings citement as a glance at the following | reores will indicate. \ P. & ¥, CORPIN FOREMEN'S LEAGUE, panfe Boits. o 19 gentlemen— “'But 237 228 2 260 261 4121187 8w BT 102 79— 85 415 406 .9 4001252 72~ 220 72— 189 97— 234 78— 251 116— 284 T435—1178| Don't you 4351178 Knobs, all about . 56— 208 | “Smoky Joe” wore its colors? the town LEAGUE. and Allow ua to present Mose Solomen, until recently holding down the firat sack at Hutchinson,” Kas., Houthwestern leagua. He's now appearing here under the able direction of Mr, John McGraw, Mr, U!plre. call the game! here is Hutchinson —_—— e —— the MOSE SOLOMON. it back And Mose says he's going to keep in the keeps on going the rate he was When he| hang up FACTORY LEAGUES |REFEREE’S WORK WAS FAULTY, IS BOXING MEMBERS’ BELIEF; FIGHT RECEIPTS ARE $1,188,822 INTRODUCING GIANTS' $100,000 DRAWING CARD Southwestern Leaguer Has Made Great Record as Clean-up Hitter, New York, Sept, 19.-~Ladies New York, Sept, 10.~New York Blate Athletics commission took ne izance, officially of the Dem sey-Firpo heavyweight champion~ ship battle yesterday despite reports that it might act upon the eriticiam because of his neglect to compel Dempsey to follow instructions on several occasions during the fight, The commission discussed the mateh, but at the close of ifs regu« lar weekly meeting late in the after- neon lssued no formal statement of fta progeedings. It was understood liowever, that the boxing commis. alon felt that though there may have been some ground for finding fault with Gallagher's work, . Judgment in the ring, nevertheless final and could not be question« ed '"3' the bout, Get Many Complaints, The commission recelvad a num. ber of communications concerning the title fight, particularly from Firpo partisans,. who charged that Dempsey should have been disquali- fled weveral times before he knock- The specific accusations in one of these communications were that Dempsey dld not adhere to regula- tions, agreed upon before the fight in faillng to go to a neutral corner after each knock down: that he hit Firpo once before the Argéntine's knee had left the floor and that. he struck the South American several times after the bell had rung for the end of the first round. Officlal attendance and gate ree ceipts announced” revealed that the total pajd attendance of 92,228 estabs lished a new record for fistic attrac- tions anywhere, eclipsing both the Dempsey.Carpentier fight two years ago and the Firpo-Willard bout ¢last July. The total attendance at both of these contests was between 90,0000 and 100,000, according to Tex Rickard’s figures, [/paid attendance at each about 76,000, 5 Gate Was 31,188,822.80, The total Dempsey-Firpo atténd- ance was 87,000, while the gross re- ceipts amounted to §1,188,822.80, placing the match second in this re- spéct to the Dempsey-Carpentier, Which attracted a gate of $1,600,000, Deduction of federal tax of $180,- 074.80 and a tax of $57,197 left but the net yas only | e e o [ N6t _TeCEipts of $951,551. ask. Now that's a foolish question. remember you heard when turned hack Jawn's Giants? And don't you know Babe Adams, veteran Pirate pitcher, and Ivan Olson of the Dodgers once l)e;npsey left yesterday afternoon for Chicago, where he will spend sev- eral days before leaving for Salt Lake City to visit his parents. He then plans to. go on to his home' in’ Los Angeles, v sl | Firpo has postponied. his trip to Canada until next week. The Ar- gentine has definitely decided to his gloves. until next' year, taking a complete rest from the strenuous campaign Linnaban 91— 273 he packed his trunk and started for that led yp to directed at Referee Johnny Gallagher |’ Promoter AT CASINO ALLEYS Traut & Hine Factory beugu‘e Gets Philadelphia . Boston ...... his title fight before ginnz into train- ing again. His proposed match in the spring with Harry Wills is still hang- ing fire, though Promoter Rickard has hopes of closing it hefore the Argentine leaves New York. Firpo will return to the Argentine v, after his Canadian trip. . Babcocl;, on Local S:luad, I8 Brilliant Player Among candidates- who reported for the All-New Britain football team Sunday was Babcock, former Suffield and Syracuse star. Babcock is an open field runner extraordinary and punts 60 yards consistently. While nt Buffield he led the Connecticut valloy in scoring, and.one of his feats while a freshman atSyracuse was to re- ceive the ball on the kick off and run through the entire varsity team. Babcock is a member of the New York State Troopers. 253 | New York, he certainly will. His bid for big league honors lies in his hitting. He was batting .402, with 37 home runs, when Howe's lat- est statistics were promulgated. And since then, he banged out a couple more homers, Gossip has it that McGraw paid $100,000 for Mose, knowing he'd be Slen “; a good drawing card, Solomon’s home is in Columbus, O. Dundee-Leonard Battle Secor % Hopsia. . 164 Freeman . e 319 Lofgren .95 3 317 Cardell g 80 Annapolis, Md., Sept. 19.—Football [ series for the military polo champion- practice at the Naval Academy got|ship of the world. ‘under way yesterday afternoon. Some Beating Great Britain at hér own of the 40 veterans from last year's same and giving a final shove to the squad had been on the scene for Bev-|upset they started Wednesday in the eral days and others, who had been|first contest which they won 10 to 7, on a month's vacation, arrived yes-|the ¥ankece team took the champion- terday. ship yesterday by a score that left no The late comers will be put through [guestion of supremacy. The Ameri- a good deal of clementary tactics in|cans won clearly and cleanly, the su- order to catch up with the earlier ar- (periors of their opponents without a rivals, and Couch FKolwell hopes to|hedge. have a tentative varsity in shape by Saturday to engage in a scrimmage against the strong freshmen outfit, which has been at work for the last iwo weeks. Perhaps one of thé first problems which Iolwell and his assistants will tackle is that of filling the gap in the | backfield due to the graduation of e “Vin” Conroy last June. Conroy is el b 4 here as an assistant coach. The oth- Reading . B8 er regular backs are “Steve” Barchet Riaoung. e L of Maryland, “Shaggy” Cullen of AR e e R L Washington and Ira McKee, Miller ... Newark ......v0 102 McDonough .. B4 Games Today Chicago at Boston, St. Louis at Washington. Detroit at Philadelphia. (2). Others not scheduled. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Buffalo 8, Rochester 2. Reading 5, Jersey City 4. (12). Syracuse-Toronto, (rain). Others not scheduled. Under Way With Three Sets of Games. - IThree sets were played in the open- ing series of the Traut & Hine factory league at the Casino alleys last night. The scores: TRAUT & HINE LEAGUE. Hub Caps. . 85 469—1411 Production. Maher . A Webster Miller .. Boyle ... Stobba ... N . T3 an—ism LSRR 4 Tt o & Tool Room. PLAY FOR BILLIARD WITLE, | {ieack Lo 1 . g A i 170 . Kansas City, Sept. 19.—The second | Ao 269 Fll‘lfl"fls Called Off seriés of six games in the national|F. Sw 53| New York, Sept. 19.—The light :gl'l‘i:ml‘);isnl?:?lllb(‘)‘[!?rl“‘}leigatr:;;;":'}::}‘: ‘ 3 o 169 | weight chnmplonsl-‘l’lz ma}:c::’ bétween e gy er, d a match hetwéen the present cham- ?::::yl‘:?::;:m Whofl %Old‘; a(l;le ‘;“g;‘;r{“}‘""g;"‘:z’:“::' °;rs'”'h[:)°‘:y"’]',:;‘l? feather weight crown, scheduled at TRy X i the Yankee Stadium Sept. 28, has s L LR O been called oft because®of the late. night. "1 the NAK) sefies Cmmsud“; ness of the season, it was announced in 8t. Louis last night, Reiselt won toasyLy iy L JaRRstas ingtoh all three games played. |maker of the Cromwell A, C. — 238 84— 243 82— 249 78— 252 §3— 276 Wardner . Banders . Malony K. Anderson Walker 31 422 404—1287 S Polnters. Standing of ‘(7{'\8 Clubs 618 . y Baltimore .. . 106 Rochester .. .. 98 Buffalo ..... 81 469 440 4821381 Time Study. Howard 99 99— 284 King . ¥ 261 Valentine . ‘ — 147 Kelsey \ 159 Burkhardt ‘ 281 (Continued on Following Page) Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling? ¢ Amherst, Sept. 19.—Mass. Aggie| Vi Games Today football teams of late have been pret- Tri‘;llm“ 3 " Syracuse at Toronto. ty light and after looking over his Bobin s Newar ok Baltimore, charges yesterday Line Coach “Em" Jersey City at Reading. Grayson declared that this year's Rochester at Buffalo (2). team would be no exception to the S b rule. The line squad received five ad- | EASTERN LEAGUE ditions yesterday: Porges, former —_ member of the seconds; King and Yesterday's Results Lord, promising members of the sec- Waterbury 15, Albany 2. Hartford 12, Worcester 11. | ond team for last two seasons; Shum- | wayl, formerly of Monson academy, Springfield 6, Pittsfield 3. | and Doolittle of Northfield. New Haven 9. Bridgeport 4. Kicking received a good deal of at- | tention yesterday. There iz a dearth standing of the Clubs of even average kickers. A dozen W, % , | men will put in plenty of time, morn- « | Hartfora .. ik UK ing and afternoon, to try to offset this 5| New Haven . . 89 7| handicap, 8| Worcester: . Harry Nissen, fullback of the '14 “4085—1203 | Springfield Aggie team, was out on the fle{d yes- Bridgeport terday afternoon and worked with the | Albany . backfield men. Five Leading Batsmen ke O In Each Major League | waterbury National League. G. AB. R, H. P, Horneby, 8t. Louls 107 424 89 163 355 eat, Brooklyn .. 90 325 60 120 389 Bottomley, &t Louls. .122 60 7 Roush, Cincinnati 125 478 79 Fournier, Brooklyn 116 452 75 Ameriean League, Garter Bta . ‘Willoughthy . SHew US - A RECEIPT You Don'T TNk I'_D'LIE ABOLT IT Do Yeu T A LITTLE BILL LIKE TyaT!? BUT I'VE PAID THis BiLL oNCE I'M Post Tive | CAN REMEMBER PAYING THAT BiILL JusT AS WELL AS THO 1T WAS C. Gugel ... YE S TERDAY Whitney w. STERDAY'S HOMERS y, Senators Meusel, Yankees Hale, Athletics Hauser, Athletics Galloway, Athletics Frisch, Giants Cunningham, Gian : Home Ryn Leaders Williams, Phils . Ruth, Yankees Williams, Browns Fournier, Dodgers Mengel, Giants Hornsby, Cards Helimann, Tygers Hauser, Athletics Miller, Cubs Kelly, Giants . McManus, Browns .. Tierney, Phils Speaker, Indians Rrower, Indians J. Harris, Red Sox Tobin, Browns Traynor, Pirates Miller, Athletics Frisc’ Games Today. Springfield at Pittsfi Albany at Waterbury New HAven at Bridgeport Worcester at Hartford . O Boy! AN'T \T A GR-R~R-RAND AND GLORR-R-RI6US FEELIN''? ng a wide ocean from must of necessity lose ! AH , HERE'S THe CANCELLED CHECK | CAN FIND RECEIPTS FOR BUERY THING ELSE IN THE WORLD BUT- A fleet croés ite home base from a quarter to a third of its fight- | naval experts have claimed. | Hetlmann, Ruth,, New Yo i BpeaKer, Cleveland 2 72 Bewell, Cleveland 8 1 Collins, Chicago . ? 5 160 .360 | ing value i i | i | “RED” CHAPMAN WINS, | Boston, Sept. 19.—“Red” Chapman, Béston featherwelght, won the deci- m over Andy Chaney of Baltimore in & 10.round bout here last night. Ny Al