New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 8

CITY LEAGUE GAMES AT WALNUT HILL PARK TOMORROW — BESSE-LELAND PLAYS AT ST. MARY'S FIELD IN THE MORNING — SENATORS SPRINTER AHEAD IN AMERICAN LEAGUE RACE — OPPOSITION TO STRIBLING — GREB FIGHT WASHINGTON SPEEDING ON DOZEN VETERANS AT TOP OF THE AMERICAN STILL PITCHING Yanks Have Oldest Stall in Shut Out Red Sox 5-0—Yanks Split Double-Header With Athletics — Tygers Trim Chisox — Browns Defenl! Cleveland—Cubs Gain On Giants As Dodgers Beat | 1n te major leagues this season, [there are just about an even dogzen Latter — Phils Win Over Braves — Pirates Defeat pitchers who have been 1 the main Cards, New York, July 3. Washington @dash in‘the American league has de veloped a speed which may rival that of Boston in 1914 when the Hraves leaped from last place in mid-season CLEVELAND AR N, b oA 1 . Freplionsnn Murns, 1h to a National league pennant and a | wérld's champlonship, The Senators have won 17 of their last 19 games. During this season many clubs have launched which soon faltered but that of the Benators has picked up speed. Thire teen contests have been won and two lost In tho last 11 days. The biggest improvement has hoen among the pitchers, as ordinary hurl- ers of other ycars have become stars overnight, Zahnizer, veteran of many mediocre scasons, shut out HBoston yesterday 5 to v, allowing only two hits. In previous games of the serivs, Ogden held the Rted Sox to three hits Marberry to five and Zachary to seven, Johnson and Mogridge have been pitching the same clugs of ball, With the Henators three games ahead, the next six clubs continue In & jumping-jack pertorman from gecond place to seventh. The Yan- kees split a double-header with the Athletics by scores of § to § and 10 to 1 and fell four points behind De troit which heat Chicago 2 to 1 in an old fashioned pitchers battle, decided in favor of Whitehill over Connally, although the latter allowed only five hits and the Tiger was touched for seven, Rommell was a better relief pitcher than Hoyt after Bush and Harris had been knocked out in the first game of the Yankee double-header, The world's champions smothered their cpponents in the second game. Scott hit & homer with two on. Metevier could not hold a three run lead and was driven from the bhox by the Browns who defeated Cleveland 6 to 4 and climbed from seventh place to one point behind the Indians in fourth, Sisler hit a homer. Boston slid to seventh and Chicago to sixth. Only one game separates the four teams. Jamieson of the Indians and Horns- by of the Cards reached the 100 hit total for the scason. masterful ball against the Cardinals, however, winning 3 to 2 and Pitts- burgh continued its threat of a march on Brooklyn and Chicago. The Cubs gained on the Giants by winning from Cincinnati 7 to 5 as Dazzy Vance broke the New York spell and pitched Brooklyn to a 4 to 1 vietory—the fourth in 17 games between the teams this season. The Cubs drove Rixey from the box in the first inning. Xeen permitted 11 hits but retained his lead. Carlson held the Braves to five hits and the Phillies moved into sixth place in the National by winning a 3 to 1 victory. Jess Barncs was touch- ed for 12, Boston fell to seventh. _ AMERICAN LEAGUE &Y $ SENATORS 5. RED SOX 0. BOSTON R 1 3 . J. Harris, 1h . Veach, 1f .. Collins, cf Todt, rf Pivinich, ¢ . Lee s ... Ferguson, ®hanks, x Murray, p Totals 3 x—Batted for Ferguson i : WASHINGT! Rice, rf Matthews B. Harris, 2 Goslin, by v Peckinpaugh, s Bluegs, 3h Zahniser, p Tatals Washington Two base Bits, Matthews; Zahniser; laft nn ington 8, base on Zahniser 4 stiuck Ferguson §; Murt 8 in 75 oft Murra Ferguson; umpires, time 1:50, TIGERS 2. WHITE SOX 1, CHICAGO AB. R I Moatil, f Elsh, rf Colling Kamm Barrett Wirts, Connoll ‘ " ‘ ‘ ‘ 1 DETROIT AB. R Totals P.O. A E. Burke, b .. 2 0 Cobb, ot Manush Heilmann Blue. 1b Rigney, s Jones, b Bassler Whitehill, it ot P Tarals Chicago Detroit Stolen Dares Lish tifices, Jones; dou Burke, Rigney 1o Rluc ¥ A: Detrait 5; bases on halls 3; Whitehill 2: strue Whitehill 3; it (Burke); umpires, time 2:01 E. 1oft ¢ snnail out nell it Connol Hildehra Connol BROWNS 6, INDIANS 1 §T. LOULs Tobin, MeMillan ler, 1 1iiams, obson, " of o Gerber, s Danforth, Totaln booms | Cooper pitched | \ | Narper, n Checies in Sth a0 run, Risler Willla Tahin, Murns MeMilinn o left o on truck oy Tt [Metevier: |Owens; time loige Danforth vier ores 4 in 8 Rowland, Wit Dugan, 4 Ruth Meuse] Pipp, | #enar Ward, *h . Krott, a8 lgnawkey, Jinsen {Rush, p Hoyt, p Totals Bishop, °h Lamar, 1f | weten, re | Hauser, 1h Simmons, of Riconda, 3h {Chapman, s Perkins, « Harris, p . Heimach, z . Rommell, p . olooccnuronuuel Totals 13 x xx—Batted for 7—Ratted for Ha New York Philadelphia Two base hits, Meusel, 8 Kking, Lamar, Ricon | sacrifices, Dugan is in 8th 001 (2), Welel, Seott to Ward to Pipp: left on York 6; Philadelphia 9: ; Harrls 4: Rommell ¢ 7'in 7: oft Bush 4 in 20 1; off Harris 8 in &; 1; hit by piteher, by {balls, Schang (2) insing pitcher | Dineen; time (SECOND GAME) T LL001 [ | |New York 0 Philadelphia DBROOKIAN 4. GIANTS BROOKLYN A High, 2h Tohnaton | Wheat, Fournier Rrown, ok, 3b . {crifritn, vt "o [eherry, « vance, p 8 oy 1b Totals Young, f ! | Friseh O | Lindstror Wilson, Kelly Meusel, . 51 atted for Gowdy In Ratted for Watson in Sth | Rrooklyn L 000 N York 000 | home run | Deberr Wilenn play | 'risch und Kelly | 1Celiy; 1aft on hy Nebf 1: by Vance b Nehf 1 in 1; losi Moran and Rigl piteh PHILLIES 3, BOSTON PHILADELPHIA e 1 Williams, of Schultz, It Wrightatone Holke, 1h Ford, 2h | Henine AR T 32 1 hti by 010 P, Smi Harper out in Sth, Philadsiphia Boston Two hase hits thres hase hits hultz; sacrifice Titrnes Wrizhtstone Carisen, Wil to Tiernes Philadeiphia 7 Rarnes 2; Iy and Wi CAr time CUns 3, REDS CINCINNATI AR R [ 8 Batted fo ath (Continued on Following s 5 and Louls &; Claveland 9; Danforth 4| of the oldest hurlers in the game in Nits off Metevier Piteher stolen base, [ York 3; bases on halls, off Watson 1; struck out hits, ff Watson 8 in r, Watson; ; time 1 ] 15 20 000 000 o0 AR . Two base hits, Spenker; three base hits sacrifices. | Jamie canopy 132 years or more, | Btrange to relate, three of them are {on the same club, Reference is made | to Pennock, Bush and Shawkey of the Yankees, Lach got his start with the Athletics back around 1012, o | < But despite their long service in blg o time, two of them—Bush and Pen- nock=led the American league gun- oiners as jate as 1022 and 1923, In 111922, Bush, by virtue of a sensational 0| comebuck, showed the way to the rest ol of the fleld, while Pennock, a team- mate, turned the trick last season, A pair of noteworthy records indeed! | "T'he work of each played a big part in ] { those years, Not only do the Yanks boast three point of service, but in 8am Jones they and | have another who only lacks a season PHILA, #, YANKS 8, Two out when winning run scored, wkey in §th, base, base on balls, hits off off Hoyt off Rommell 2 in Harris (Scott): passed winning pitcher, Rommeal Hoyt; umpires, Moriarty and 1} 1 00 00 a3n 000 — ATIONAL LEAGUE 1. 100 000 s Four 111 1:26, . B batted 000 02 000 001 h liams; to Melnn Boatan 1eon 4 187, Page) lor 8o of being up as lengthy a time |as 8hawkey, Bush and Pennock. Jones, ;Hkruflr. had a pretty good year in 11023, ::‘ pitching staff in baseball is a well- " known fact. They're veterans in every o | sense of the word. For a dozen seasons | 1lor more in the majors is quite a| stretch for a pitcher, True, Cy Young, | Matty and some of the other ol | timers leaped far heyond that mark, | but they were exceptions in more than | | one respect. 3 o The present Huggins staff may keep o | hurling winning ball for some to come. Welch; Simmons, double playe, Chapman to Bishop to Hauser New off -1 0011 Jackson Lindetrom and ! Rrooklyn | 4 ball, jx‘ | Warhop 1. MeInnis ctalen bases dnu. wlosszscansass And then again it may not. It's problematical of course. oo One thing is certain, however, and that is that Shawkey, Bush and Pen- nock et al. can not go on indefinitely. They are bound to hit the shoots soon- er or later. Obviously, it behooves the Gotham management to corral a bit of young pitching material for future use. Ior outside of Waite Hoyt, who came up in 1919, the Yankees have none but veterans among their regu- lar pitching corps. . v As ouflined at present, Huggins’ sta’f faces ruin, should the pitchers falter simultaneously from the wear and tear of loeng service. 0 | the success of the Huggins ‘entourage That the Yankees have the oldest | . | America will be nobly repr Olympiad.. One of her many wi 100 and 200 meters. PIVETVITNGI PPN NP ITOIIINNOIee. ' ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST BETS esented in the sprints at the nged-foot stars is Loren Murchi- son, the Newark youth, who is always close to record time in the CORBIN TEAM GOING ON TRIP OVER HOLIDAYS Red Sox Will Play The Norwich Hos- pital Nine, Mystic And Taftville Teams, The Corbin Red Sox, under the chaperonage of their talkative man- ager, J, Edward Tobin, will haul out from New Britain early tomorrow morning, or as ncar early as it will be possible to get the boys together, en route for Norwich. At Norwich the Red Sox will stack up against the State Hospital nine for the holiday afternoon game. Tobin is planning to work Billy Wolfe on the mound against the internes and or- derlies. On Saturday afternoon the Red Sox hop over to Taftville for a game in which the Taftville A, A. will have a chance to look over Tommy Blan- chard's benders. Completing the week-end, the Red stockinged boys will go to Mystic conclusions with the Hardware City 1 Baker Gets Four Hits, All Different J. Franklin Baker made merry with his bat on the afternoon of July 3, 1911, at the expense of Jack Warhop. | Four times Baker came to hat, four times he hit safely, and every time he hit for a different distance, his day's work including’ a single, a double, & {riple and a four-bagger. Harry Krause pitched for the Athletics, but you would never know it from the summary, for he struck out nobody, walked nobody, made no wild heave and punctured no batter's anatomy. Ira Thomas handled no chances be-| hind the bat. The score: Athleties abh, P o 0 Lord, rf. . Oldring, cf. Strunk, cf. . Hartsel, 1f, Baker, 3h, McInnie, 1b, . Barry, &8 | Derrick, 2b, . Thomas, ¢ Krause, p. 1 Total " Daniels, cf Wolter, rf. Hartzell, If. Knight, ss. Chase, 1b, Priest, 2V Williams, c. | Warhop, p 0! Cree, 0 0 . 4 2 Athleties . 020100002 New York .... 000 001 000 0—1 ° First on errors—New York 1, Ath- 1 |letics 1. Two-base hits—Baker, Der- 0 | rick, Barry, McInnis, Hartsel. Three- = KKnight, Baker., Home run Jaker Sacrifice hits — MecInnis, Derrick. Left on bases—New York . Athletics 9. First on balls — Off 1 Total 0 1 Warhop 1 Umpira— Time— 8. Hit Wil O'Laughlin 1:42, Tomorrow's score: Ten runs in the ninth put pep into a Fourth of July ball game. by pitcher—By pitch - Warhop. and Connolly | STRIBLING | New York, Jul ~If William L. (Young) Stribling, Georgia’s sensa- tional schoolboy boxer, meets Harry o | Greb, world's middleweight champion, I [in the proposed match at Michigan o | City, Ind., on July 4, he will o | matically suspend himself in 0| York state, the state athletic " | mission has decreed WARNED com- Because of adverse business condi- {tions in Brazil, merchants have re- fused to withdraw merchandise from the port warehouses, and ships are Struck out—By Warhop outfit, It will be velvet makers against lock makers, Expecting a tough break in at least one of these three games, the wiley Tobin is taking five pitchers along with him—Huber, Scheidler, Hein, Wolfe and Blanchard. The players will leave at 9 a. m,, meeting at their usual trysting place, BIGGEST GOLF TOURNEY Chicago Making Plans ‘or Great Lvent to be Held Next Year Chicago, July 3.—Plans to hold the world's largest open golf tournament some time next year with the leading rlayers of the world competing are under consideration by Olympic fieMs, the largest golf club in the world. The tournament, it is proposed, would be under the auspices of the Uunited State Golf association and carry a cash prize list of $10,000. All of the four championship courses of | Olympia fields would be played over in a 72-hole event. where the Rossie Velvet A, C. will try | THREE GAMES IN CITY LEAGUE FOR THE FOURTH | Three More Will Be Played at Walnut SHill Park On Saturday i | Afternoon, The City league gets under full headway tomorrow and Saturday after the preliminary workouts of the six teams last Saturday. Three games tomorrow afternoon bring together the Pirates and Saints at 2 o'clock on diamond No. 1 and the |Mohawks and IFafnirs on No. 2 dia- |mond, The 4 o'clock game on dia- {mond No. 1 will be between the Plo- \neers and Rangers, aturday afternoon's games bring hout another alignment, with Faf- |nirs and Pioneers meeting at 2 o'clock |en diamond No. 2 and on diamond No. {1 the Rangers and Saints, The 4 o'clock game will he hetween the Pirates and Mohawks, autter and Ross will umpire fo- m ow at diamond No. 1 and at dia- mond No. 2, Campbell and Chicke will work. PLAY DOUBLE HEADER | | Pirate Juniors and Ploneers of Plain- ville Booked for Two Games Tomor- row—First in Morning at the Park. The Pirate Juniors will play a dou- ble header on the Fourth, At 9:30 a. m. they will cross bats with the Pio- neers of Plainville at Walnut Hill Park. In the afternoon they will play {a return game with the same team. Both clubs have been playing fast ball and two interesting games are as- su The locals will line up as fol- lows: Kane, c.; Hinchelifte, cf.; Dar- row, 8b.; Charlo, #s.; Boyle If.; Hinchey, 1h.; Conway, 2h.; Zapatka, rf.; Reed or Litzgerald, p. New employes of the London Un- derground Railway are shown a fllm lentitled “Courtesy Always Pays.” - TELEPHCONES FRIEND How HOT, IT IS READS \WEATHER unable to find a discharging place for | their freight. l FORECAST, " WARMER" Movie of a Woman On a Hot Day WONDERS WHAT To WEAR AT BRIDGE PARTY This P, M, STRUCK WiTH, GRAND IDEA EDDIE GOER T G0 BACK 10 PITCHING Tomorrow Morning Plenty of dash and pep was exhibit. |ed by the Besse-Leland nine in their practice last night and they are con- fident that they will take the meas. |vre of the Willimantic team, the state league leaders with Bristol, tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at 8t, Mary's { fleld, The Willimantic outfit comes down with the well known Prauske broth. ers, Eddie and Bunny, at short . and | second respectively, with Babe Adams lon first and Kamyk on third, This looke like & mighty sweet infield, The outfield Is equally good with Freddie &m th, Joe Hammil and Bud Sharpe chasing the flies, Mike Flaherty, formerly with Ware jand now sought by the Hariford | Eactern league team, will be behind the Lat for the visitors and Pete Wood, a brother of the famous | “8mokey Joe" of former big league | fame, will serve them up, | The Besses' lineup is unchanged ex- cept that Woodke of Meriden will dafvide up behind the bat with Jimmy | Clinton. The team will lineup with Green at third, Dunlop, second; Har- low, leftfield; Zielke, first; Goeb, centerfield; Begley, rightfield; Mullin, Shortstop, Scott and Palmer pitch, Aiso, It is expected that Captain Fddie Geeb will return to the box this week and will take his regular turn pitching, playing in the outfield when not, tossing them up to the bat- ters, He will replace Hyland who | has gone to Maine, The Bristol team, which plays here Saturday, lines up: Kirkheimer s &, Torslund 2b, Tamm 3b., Riley f., Goodridge 1b,, Moore, 1. f, McCabe r. f, Waters c., Lanning and Goodrich p. NOT T0 FIGHT IN CONN. Dundee’s Manager Objects to Holding Kaplan Bout in Waterbury Or New Haven Rings New York, July 3.—Articles for a world's featherweight championship bout between Champion Johnny Dun- dee and Louis (IKid) Kaplan, Meri- den, Conn., challenger, will be signed today, according to present plans, at a meeting which will be attended by Charley Johnston, acting as manager for Dundee, and Dennis McMahon and Jo: Beasley, managers of Kaplan. Johnston yesterday announced he had arranged the meeting for the purpose of signing articles for the bout, which has been ordered signed by the state athletic commission before the board's meeting next Tuesday. Johnston gave no indication of the probable site for this battle beyond expressing a preference for a decision contest here, rather than a bout to a declsion in Waterbury or New Haven, where Connecticut promoters are seeking tlre match. It was announced that following the signing of articles the best offer advanced by a promo- ter seeking the contest will be ac- GLEN A, C. WINS THIRD In a fast played game the Glen A. C. defeated the Tiger A. A. for the third straight time. The third inning spelled defeat for the Tigers, as the Glen A. C. scored teg runs on hits and errors, The score: Glen A, C. 1010 600 40217 | Tiger A 00 00000000 Batteries Steege, Spaycek and | Clark. Suess, Gagner and Colby. MOHAWKS TO PRACTICE | The Mohawks will practice tonight cepted, i OLYMPIC GAMES T0 " BE CUT GREATLY \Will Hurl for* Besses-Big Game | Unimportant Events to Be Elii- nated Herealter By The Assaciated ¥ I'he councll of the International Amateur Athlstic fed- eration and the Internationa! Olym. ple committee reed at a session y terday on the general outline of plans signed to reduce in the future the length of the Qlympie program, According to Frederick W, Rubien, Ameriean member of the council, the gorerning organizations have deolded on drastic cuts In nearly all branehos of competition, eliminating evenis of lesser importance and confining the Rames to a compact sghedule of not lovger than three wodis, instead of the complicated and Jdrawn-out ar- rangement prevailing this year, The final decision, however, wora not made at the meering, the result ot which was recommenations te the International organizitions governing various sports, such as track and field, wrestling and boxing, to draft pro- grams eliminating nonessentials - and reducing the expenses wilch are now moking the Olymplc games & serious burden to many nutions, These bodies will file reports which will he acted upon finally at next year's meeting of the International Olympic committee, Mr, Rubien de- ciared, The federation couneil which gove erns the track and fleld events has practically decided to cut three events from the athletic program, but it nas not finally determined which events wili be dropped. Apparently those which are most likely: to be discarded will be the cross-country,walk, which weuld eliminate all walking. events frem the Olympic schedule. Several nations desire that the hop, step'and fump, the steeplechase run and the 3.000-meter team race also be élim- iruted, "The rugby competition, in which the Americans were victorious im 1920 and this year, has also been marked for removal as it attracts limited in- terest ‘and entries, The' Americans have also made known that they faver the limitdtion ~of Graeco:Roman wrestling from the calendar, CUBS WIN ANOTHER. The Cubs won again yesterday, this time defeating the Orioles 4 and 3 at Walnut Hill Park.” The Cubs won after two were down in the eighth, when Grail tripled and scored on Dal- kowski's single. ‘Zembko and Zaleskl worked for the winners and Brown and Lever for the losers. 'Stanley Drenzek, S4 Booth street, is mafager of the Cubs and wants {o seeurs games. Age, average 15 to 17 yeara. McQUILLAN SUSPENDED. New York, July 3.—Hugh MeQuil- lan, regular pitcher on the Giants staff,” has been fined afd indefinitely suspended by Manager John McGraw for "alleged failure to keep in con- dition and violation of training rules. McQuillan has not pitched since June 21, when he defeated Boston, The fife is said to be $100. BARAGE and SERVICE STATION Repairing All Makes—Cadillacs a / Wrecking Service, Day and Night NASH -CARS FOR SALE BY J. B. MORAN GARAGE Associated with A, G. Hawker 313! CHURCH ST. Tel. 2842-3 lat 6:30 o’clock at Walnut Hill park. ENJoYS A H PHONES FRIEND BRIGGS GAIN ABOUT TuE UmMIDITY READY FOR BRIDGE PARTY ”