New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1923, Page 8

BKITAIN DAILY HERALD, SA FOOTBALL SQUAD AT HIGH SCHOOL RALLIES TO CASSIDY'S DEFENSE — HEILMANN AND HORNSBY CONTINUE AS LEADING BATTERS — COLLEGE FOOTBALL OPENS TODAY — GIANTS SHATTER PIRATES' HOPES FOR PENNANT — BAMBINO IS SEASON'S MOST REMARKABLE PLAYER — NOTES PIRATES SLIP BACKWARDS Grantham of Cubs Makes Good in COLLEGE FOOTBALL Ruth Voted Most Valuable . AS GIANTS SPEED UP AND STARTS OFF TODAY| Player of Year, In Hall of Fame M_Majon on His Very First Chance ! ¢ Sl el b Harvard Squad Cut I_EAIIINE__M'[RIE AN“ mous Choice of Commit- GAMES TODAY tee, Who Ranks Him in Dutler ve. H‘unmer at Indian. “." 0' F me W|tll slll‘l' Hornsby Likewise Holds Place as National Batsman ' apolis, « and Others, By The Associated Press Colgate vs. Alfred at Hamiiton, Davidson ve. Elon at Davidsen, Hamilton vs, Bt. Stephen's at Clinton, Hobart 'vs, Rochester Optical at Guneva, Kansas City, U, Chicago, Bept. 22, — Harry Hell. Kaneas City. mann of Detroit centinues to lead the Maine ve. Khode batters in the American leagué but Orono. his margin over Babe Ruth is con- 8 W. la, siderably leas than last week for Ruth Latayette. maintained his average of 385 while | Texas A. and M. va, Sam Hous- | goiiman dropped from 395 to 391 ac tor, at Coll, Rtation. cording to averages for games Union vs, Clarkson at Schenec: |y oueh jast Wednesday released to- day. Speaker and Sewell of Cleve- land ‘rand third and fourth with 872 and 360, Jamieson, who rested in Afth place Iast week, has been supplanted by Ed- die Collins of Chicago who jumped tady, Ursinus vs, Willlamson at Col- legeville, Va., Mil, Lexingt West Mary vs, Waynesboro at Westminster, 11 points the week to 360, Ruth and Collins Ruth and Collins seem to have bagged all the other individual hon- ors for Babe leads in home runs with 37; 1s ahead in total b with 853 and his scored the most runs with 133, Collins leads In stolen bases with 43 and has the leading sacrifice hits with 36, Other leading batters are: Willlams, 8t. Louls, 352; Jamieson, Cleveland, 348; Manush, Detroit, 344; Cobb, Detroit, 334; Burns and J. Har- ris, Boston, 383. Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louls, Nationals, continues first with 384, Wheat of Brooklyn pulled into sec- ond place with 375, Jimmy Bottom. Nationals Draw Nearer to Gonfalon — Reds Trounce Brooklyn Handily—Red Sox and Tygers Break Even, New York, Sept. 22,—The Giants took a double fall out of the Pirates in Pittsburgh yesterday, winning 8 to 4 and 8 to 1, and now need only 4 of the 8 remaining games to clinch the National & nnant and insure the playing of the entire world series ew York. Cincinnati beat Brooklyn 4 to 8 in an 11 inning battle. The winning run came when Hargrave walked with two out and scored n a tnple:? Pinelli. | The Red Sox broke even with the Tygers winning the first game 4 to 8 and loaing the second 15 to 6 Fed oy AMERICAN LEAGUE \LITTLE HEADWAY BEING MADE ON SECOND BOUT Boston, Sept. 22.—~Boston defeated Not be Chicago, Bept. 22 —George Herman “Babe” Ruth of t w York Amers feans, pennant winners of the Amers fean league for 1923 has been declared to be the most valuable pMyer to his team and was awarded the America League trophy for the season, having received the highest possible number of polnts, and setting a record that can be tried but never beaten, * Ruth was the unanimous cholce of the committee appointed to select the American League ayer who has | been of greatést service to his team | during thé championship season, reg istering first place on every ballot— one from each of the eight cities in the cireuit—for a total of 64 counts, Announcemeént of the award was made by President Ban Johnson of the league, How complete was the comeback staged by the Yankee slugger this year can be seen from the fact that in the 1922 trophy contest, which was won by George Sisler of the St. Louls Browns, with 69 points, Ruth was not mentioned among the eight best play. ers, vs, Haskell at Island at ve, Centenary at Detroit, 4 to 3, In the first game yes- terday and the visitors won the second | o et tich Ak game of the double-héader, 15 to 6, Insf Firpo asd Dempsey Wil Matched Until Next * Year 4 4 4 coconrBesuosols Helping Jones At Yale Boston, Sept, 22.—George 8. Con- nors, track coach and trainer at Phil. lips Exeter Academy for 22 years yesterday accepted an invitation to serve as first assistant to Coach Jones of the Yale football team, This be- ecame known here when Jones passed through the city on his way back to New Haven after a conference at Exeter, N, H. Connors will retain his position on the Exeter faculty, being granted a year's furlough to'go to Yale. It is understood that in addition to train- ing the foothball men he may coach the track team. Connors | New York, Sept. 22.—Though a re- |turn match between Jacy Dempsey and his Argentine rival, Luils Angel Firpo, is regarded by ring followers | as inevitable, details of their second clash for the heavywelight title may! not be arranged for some time, prob- | ably not until next year, when the battle is most likely to take place. Tex Rickard, promoter’of the historic | battle at the Polo Grounds a*week ago | has made little headway in negotia- tions this week with Firpo and Jack Kearns, the champlon’s manager, mn". . Bassler, c. . Woodall, ¢, Plllette, p. . bb X ... Collins 14 Second Eddie Collins of the Chicago White Sox, stood second to Ruth in year's contest with 37 points Fotherglll xx Total lorcuonaucocswss leocnumen wlosscssscoruscan 2lssssssscss022ar = Bost - L4 Mitchell, es. . e . Pleinich, rf. J. Collins, rf. . B b. Cuesnarweal McMillan, Ferguson, lornnnurncunny alcocssconcorucnal lormmsalonnst P AR S ey SRR T s 10 27 seventh, for Francis in ninth. . 000 000 120—3 013 000 00x—4 Mitchell; three Pratt; douhle left on bases, ‘otal Batte xx—Batt Detroit . Boston . Two base hits, Manush, base hit, Bonne; sacrifices, lays, Burns (unassisted): etroit 9, Boston 6; bases on balls, off Ferguson 4; struck out, by Pllleite 2, by Francls 1, Ferguson 2; hits, off Pillette 10 in 6 innings, off Francis 0 in 2 innings; hit by pitcher, by Pillette (Plcinich); by Ferguson (Rigney); wild pitch, Fergison; fesing pitcher, Pillef umpires, Nallin, Hligebrand and Rowland; time, 1:39. Becond Game. Detrolt. b, g ] 1b, 3b, 1. ‘Blye, Jonu th)l. ef. . Manush, Héllmann, rf. lecrvswnnwens r 1 1 5 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 lrrsorowamna wlmonsussonons rlroccocosccssa? E E ' 2 - 9 Mitchell, Pleinich, J. Collins, Burns, 1b. O'Deul ,rf. . Harris, Menosky, 88, 5 aloonorncorononns | a:—-:n-uu.—ooo—u? OO s lorswmuossoomccan alosscssrnoccswmos 9 27 11 205 202 301—15 010 100 013— § h bb, Heilmann 2 Haney, Pleinich, Reichie 2; three base hi Mitchell, Harrls; sacrifices, Rigney 2, Ols Hellmann, Picinich, ~Pittenger; left on bases, Detroit 10, Boston 6; bases on balls, off Olsen 4, Fullerton 4, Blethen 2; struck out, by Olsen 1; hits, off Fullerton 4 in 21-3 innings, off Blethen 12 in 6 2.3 in- nt hit by pitcher, by Fullerton (Man- wild pitch, Fullerton; balk, Ble- then; losing pitcher, Fullerton; umpires, :V:l'lln. Hildebrand and Rowland; time, NATIONAL LEAGUE Reds 4, Dodgers 3 Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 22.—With two men out in the last half of the 11th inning yesterday, Smith walked Har- grave, who scored a moment later on Pinelli's long triple to left center, giv- ing Cincinnati the first game of Brooklyn series, 4 to 2. Brooklyn, ah, .6 .5 . po. a Bailey, cf. Johnstén, Nels, If, Fournler Griffith Bith, p. Total wlosscws Elosoccamommue 4 Cineinnati, Daubert, Kimmiek, Roush, cf, Duncan 40 10 x—Batted for Decatur 2—Two out when winning run scored Brookiyn 50 101 209 09 Cincinnati 201 800 000 01 Two base Roush Olson; three base hits, Duncan stolen bases, Johnston, Nels, flces, Olson; left on bases Cincinnati off Decatur Rixey 6, by In 10, off & piteher, Smith; and Finneran bits, Burns ump time Giants Take Two Pittsburgh, Sept. 22 York Giants strengthened their on first place by taking both gam of a double-header from the yesterday, 8 to 4 and 5 to 1 The Ne Bancroft (Continued on Following Page) |knocked the | despite the willingness of both fighters | to enter the ring again. Firpo, however, is averse to being involved in another long term con- tract such as he had with Rickard this year. He is willing to fight Harry ‘Wills, negro contender, in addition to Dempsey, but not until next year, Kearns, on the other hand, has sev. eral tempting theatrical, motion pic- ture and exhibition offers for Dempsey, but declared tonight that he would give none of them serious consldera- tion for some time. The champion’s manager has gon- ferred in some detail with Rickard re- garding a return match® with Firpo but, like the Argentine, is inclined to let negotiations drop for a while. Firpo has not yet completed plans for his proposed Canadian teip, be- ginning next week, but his tentative schedule so far calls for his first ap- pearance in Montreal Sept. 26, with Elzear Rioux, French-Canadian giant, as an opponent in an exhibition con- test. Rioux was a member of Jack Dempsey’s sparring staff at Saratoga Springs for a time. FACTORY BOWLING Universal And Corbin Screw Leagues Have Matches At The .Rogers Recreation Alleys There were a number of games rolled at the Rogers' alleys last night. The Universa} league led with four games and there were three battles in¥ the Screw Corp. league, In the Universal league Main No. 1 took two games from the Hardware team, the latter taking the third game by 14 pins. Main No. 2 lost two out of three to the Flatware. H. and B. won two out of three from the High streets and the Trade Shop No. 1 took only one out of three games in their match with Trade Shop No. In the Corbin league the Set Screws made it three straight from the Ma- chine Screws. The Coach division won the first game by a single pin and dropped the other two to the Screws. The Cap Secrews also 'won their first game from the Drive Screws'by a single pin, then dropped ‘thfl other two. The highest single score in the leagues last night was made by Crow- ley of the Universal league., He pins for 116 in his sec- ond game, Wood | | Teammates Join in Denying the Bailey, Pinelli; Pirates (By Billy Evans) . A second Johnny Evers with a little more experience. An Eddie Collins in the rough, who needs only a few years of big league poligh to rival the brilliant second sacker of the White Sox. Those are just a few of the nice things they are saying about George Grantham, playing his first year at second base for the Chicago Cubs, Gratham is one of the most talked about players on the much talked about club. Just at present the Chi- cago Cubs are the sepsation of the Na- tional League. No player has done more to keep the Cubs in the lime- light than Grantham. If T am not mistaken Grantham was dug up by Jack Doyle, who saw him performing for Omaha in the Western league. Grantham came to the majors as a third sacker. Started Carcer at Third Grantham, as a third sacker in the Western League, made more errors than any other player at that position in the organization. Fifty-seven varie- ties of bobbles were charged against him. This didn’t have the slightest ef- fect on Doyle. Jack figured Grantham would hit in the majors, Iiked his speed, and when the error question was brought up, Doyle argued that it was a recomgendation. “He goes™after everything. That is why he makes a lot of boots,” ex- plained Doyle to Manager Bill Kille- fer. That was enough for Manager Bill. Grantham was bought. That McCue Did Not Get Fair Deal—Charges of Favoritism Also Branded as False in Signed State- ment. There are two sides to every ques- 'FAYORITES HAVE T0UGH | ' GOING ON COLUMBUS TRACK ] 0 0 1] ;: Rose Scott, Piloted by Murphy, is Only | ¢ ol o H 0 0| Columbus, O. Sept. 22.—Favorites = | found the going rather rough yester- day afternoon when Grand Circuit o.| racing was resumed on a heavy track 0lafter a three lay-oft because of §| rain ol Tommy Murphy 0| the first two events, b favorite o| Caplal City First Choice to Com¢ Through | When Program is Resumed | day drove winpers in but only éne was favored in the $3000 stake for: 2 0| trotfers, easily showed her suprema ;o and w & she pleased in straight heats. Taurida was made the favorite in the M. and M., $5000 stake for 2.14 1| trotters, but the best she could do was to finish second in each of the last while Mrs. Yerkes of the was a straight heat o Rose Scott tahle i he 2.04 s eat Logan Hedgewood the two wood wor the third to Ktawah | Cue refu I'.u. choices first tweo 1 second the went Log while w | to Peter Etawah 1| The furnished anothe Anne, the tro; T as trotted in the stretch by Zaquille each heat ourth race fo 5 trotters, Mary out | in REANTULT K Omaha, Neb nault of New Tiny” Herman in the se O's. HERMAN ocked Re. out Sept York k Omaha heavyweight rourd of a scheduled | ten round bout here last night. | enth | McCue h#® resigned, claiming favor- tion and now comes the side of Coach George Cassidy of the High school football team. PBreviously Captain itism. Then “Pat” O'Brien quit and o, also, have McGuire and Deodorian. Charges of favoritism ware the basis for these retirements from the squad. Although Mr, Cassidy himself has not been heard from, he evidently not caring t6 rush into explanations but being satisfied with doing his work as he sees fit, others have:come forth with statements which tend to throw a bit different light on the situation. One prominent alumni, who elaims to have witnessed the episode at the park which resulted in McCue's re- | signing, claims that Coach Cassidy did | not slight McCue During tackling practice, he says, the coach com-| mended McCue several times for his| fine work and even held him up as a model for the others to follow MceCue Steps Ont. | On the line-up, however, this spee- | tator saye, Cassidy named a team, explaining it was purely tentative, and | put three men in the backline wiHo regarded as fast men. He then MeCue to go in at end. Me-| to do this, asked that an- | sent in, and himself | sidelines. Later his de- ign was made to some views, the pres- d men, without going into comments on the favoritism | very fleet and fast and | 1 to places as first string | backs say that they are su-| perior to Capt. MeCue as backfield | at, however, is merely a opinion expressed and 18 a fact. However, | alumnus, with are asked man be to the o re other went cision Accor ent back any charg ar are Wit gom men. T matter of (Continued on Following Page) GEORGE GRANTHAM Recently while in St. Louls T bump- ed into Bobby Wallace, famols short- stop of other days, now scout for the Chicago Cubs, Sometimes it is hard for one scout to see good in the play- ers picked up by another baseball Sherlock Holmes, but not Bobby Wal- lace. “What about this fellow Grantham of the Cubs?" I asked Bobby. “There's a real ball player, Bill,” he replied. “He is one of the best pros- pegts that has broken into the majors in the last 10 years. He has a world of ability, is always eager to learn, and best of all, he likes to play ball. 1 really think he likes to play double headers better than a single game. Grangham in a couple of years should be a real star.” Is Enjoying Big Year It is an interesting fact that Grant- ham is making good at second base rather than third, the position he played in the minors. Second bage seems to be his spot. It is also a coin- cidence that Eddie Collins, premier second baseman, came to the majors as.a shortstop and was tried at short, third and the outfleld before he found himself at second. Few players in the history of the game every had a better first year than Grantham is enjoying. He is going big in every department, and seems destined to wrest from Mar Carey the honor of being .the pre- mier base runner in the National League, that has been Carey's for years. 20 HIGH SCHOOL 'BOYS RALLY TO DEFENSE OF COACH GEO. CASSIDY SHEVLIN LOSES Boston, Sept. 22.—George Ward of Elizabeth, N, J,, welterweight, won the decision over Eddie Shevlin of Boston in a 10-round bout here last night. sisted Jones when the latter was head coach at Exeter 10 years ago. ley of St. Louis is in third place with 367, board session was held in the drill and commission were pointed out and First Cut in Harvard Squad Cambridge, Sept. 22.—The first cut in the Harvard varsity football squad. anrounced yesterday, left 66 men to the first team roster. R. Keith Kane, 1921 captain, arrived day te take charge of the 10 tacKles retained. Secret practice will begin Monday with the first scrimmage probably coming at the end of the week. Of the 11 quarterbacks on the first squad, nine weighed less than 150 pounds. Eeight guards were held for further trial, seven of whom weigh more than 190, four of them tipping the scales at more than 220. sh W ho! bu Bri 34 M. A. C. Team " Amherste, Sept. 22.—The M. A. C. coaching staff felt ratther dissatisfled with the showing the team made yes- terday against the Springfield col- lege aggregation and a long black- hall this morning. Errors/qf omission plays were carefully gone through. This afternoon's practice took the form of work on fundamentals. In fact, little more than this will be given for another week. No new plays or anything bordering on the intricate will be in order, owing to the ragged work of yesterday. Shumway was shifted from guard to the center squad. % Oc Punters Needed Hanover, N. H, Sept. 22 mouth’'s football squad was handi- capped for the second time in its workout here yesterday. With the fleld wet and slippery, Coach Hawley took no chances on injuring any of the men and signal practice and a kicking drill featured. The Green is lacking punters this year but Capt. Aschenbach and Hatch, veteran tack- lers, showed unusual promise today. The return of Golder, former half- —Dart- (Cortinued on Following Page) total bases with 293 and Pep Young heading the run getters with 117, Cy Villlams of Philadelphia lcads Babe Ruth with 37. division, Other leading batters: grave, Cinecinnati, 341: 'York. 339; Barnhart, Pittsburgh, 338. Troy, N. Y., coach for basketball freshman Donald, formerly coach at Tufts col- lege, on his arrival this week took up the task of rounding the freshman squad eleven will fall the opportunity to be the first instifute athletic meet the keeness rivals from Union college since athletic relations restored, when they play in this city, Coach Donald will succeed “Chick" Evi basketball and baseball Rensselaer Tech, Frisch and Young Two New York players also are aring big honors, Frisch leading in the me run hitters and is tied up with Carey of Ditts- rgh stole 45 bases and leads in that 353; Pournier, Frisch, New York, Pittsburgh, 343; Har- Young, New Roush, Cincinnati, ooklyn, 853; 5; Traynor, NEW R. P. 1. COACH Sept. 22.—The new and track and football, Edmund W, BABE RUTH was named as the best player on the Chicago team by all eight of the com- mitteémen. Last season Colling was fifth with 18 points. Harry Heilmann of Detroit is rated third and Gerber of St. Louis is tied with Joe Sewell of Cleveland for fourth, each having 20 points. Ruth's name will be into shape. To the frosh team to were tober 18, ans in thé training of the varsity inscribed on squads at (Conunued on Following Page) On Every Occasion SMOKE 2 for 25¢ 2 for 25¢ MULLERS MOZART — MARK TWAIN — PONY MOZART oo m— RED Movie of a Man Who Has Lost His Drive and Recovers It SEES AMATEUR $EES OLD '[‘ | LADY DRIVE |/, 175 YARDS | - DETERMINES To GIVE 1T ANOTHER TRY AND DONS RECOVERS DRIVE /6m6 O wv T, dow gk WWAGVL