New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1924, Page 8

OLASLESAALL AARLAMALLLLSSLLSLEL02200000858 SOME _FAST GAMES BEING PLAYED IN THE CITY LEAGUE — BESSES IN EVEN BREAK — YANKEE ATHLETES COP LION'S NEW BRITAI ALASLLL80000008 DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1024, e L H SHARE OF THE OLYMPIC TROPHIES — LUIS FIRPO IS SCHEDULED TO FIGHT HARRY WILLS SEPTEMBER 11 IN JERSEY AAAA A LA AL THREE CORNERED TIE FOR FIRST PLACE SEEMS LIKELY — Washington Gains By Deleating Cley eland While Yanks | Waste Hits and Lose to Boston—Giants Beat Lose to Chisox — Tyger Mackmen—Sisler’s Team Beats St. Louis and Brooklyn and Reds Split Even, 5=A thi feudership within the next rew Jikely wbility Waushington, tor cond Dotroit’s Benators New York, July nerod tie for the American lvague days looms up today us New 200 Miller s oy s Mauser; Galluway o Lisen, Pliladelphia 5, s on balls off Meeker 7. Hurns struek out by Dnuss 3, Jolinson 1 olline & in 8 inuings, ol tn "N York and v deadlock attempt to reduce half-game advantuge, * The made good their threat to horn in on the Tiger-Yankee party by defeating |, 2 p b, Cleveland while both the pace muker g lost : i With the game and first place seem- |3 thiines, o note wom, Man louble plays, Bishop Hauser Dtian nnings, by ] i hit pitel Tosing and Dineen: became « tunli wil Movkor Ormshy Ingly on ice, Waite Hoyt Jess or weary in the ninth the New York-Chicago tiit and, aided by timely errors on the part of Ruth and Meusel, put the White Sox in & position to win subscquently from Gaston by 7 to 6 Thu the Windy City twirler, although removed when his club was three runs in ar- rears, got credit for the victory and thereby ran his string of consecutive serdicts to 10 | Victimized by their old wasting hits, the Tygers lost a 4 to 2 decision to Philadelphia. The Junga- leers left 13 of their teammautes marooned on the paths Holding Cleveland to six hits, Ogden pitched Washington to a 4 to 3 tri- umph and registered his eighth win in mine starts, The Senators took ad- vantage of Uhle’s poor control in the early innings to pile up an effective lead. George Sisler's home run with two g on in the sighth broke a tie score and R accounted for the Browns' 9 to 6 win | hington over Boston. Boone also hit for the | I\:-{!;m“,l“ . circuit. & | Rice, Summa; Seven games again the | rifices, Giants' superiority over the Cubs as plays, a a result of the 6 to 4 spanking admin- e istered to St. Louis. Southworth played #ight field for the McGraw men un.,n.\ in placé of Young, who,is in a local hospital with internal truubk. ‘ Dividing a twin bill with Cincin- nati, Brooklyn failed to gain on Pitts- burgh for third place honors but maintained its three and one -half | game advantage over th& Reds, Dazzy Vance fast-balled the RAbins to a o to 1 win in the opener but Ruether prover unworthy successor and lost the second by 9 to 1. Rixey added an- other stellar performance to his al- ready Imprebsht string in the final. AMERICAN AN LEAGUE CRICAGO 7, NEW YORK 6. pt ) pitehor time TON 1, CLEVELAND A 3 0. it I 1 ] Leib ' Harris 3 i Gonlin R Pt Jud " 1 " o aylor falling of | (gden, Total CLEVEL AW ki 1 ; 0 | Myntt, « es Buens, 1p | Btophenson, Lutzke, 3h {Uble, p {Jamieson, z fot 010 0004 s 001 010 1 Myatt; three base hits, lon bases, Goslin; sace Harris, J. Hewell; double Harris and Judge, Steplien- left ou bases, Washiugton d §: bases on balls, off Ogden struck out, Ogden Uhle lin and Connolly; time, ¢ measure Burns; . LOUIS 9, BOSYON 6. BOSTON . PO A B 0 " o " 0 ulierton, p 0 " ! 0 T e for Todt ed for Qu Witt, Dugan, Ruth, Meusel, rt Pipp. 1b Echang, Ward, Aeott, 30 i toss fu ninth, ST. LOUL A.B. E. 1 [ MeManus, 0 [ dacobson, @eston, Total = | Robertson, 3 [ MeMillan, ereid, | Gerber, 1 Archdeacon, nforth Hooper, rl Collins, 2h Sheely, 1b Falk, 1t Kamm, 3 McClellan, s halk, © Thurston, Crouse z Robertson, Mostil zz Total Roston Louis o iy . . 500 03x- e Nits, Tobin, cobson 2; Ha Todt, . Flagstend; three hase 0 {Danforth; home runs, Boone, Sisler; 0| rifi IFullerton, Veach, McManus, Jacoh- = |scn; left on bhases, Boston 12, Louls 14 3[9; bases on balls, off Fullerton 1 batted [forth 2, Grant 1, Pruett 2; struck out tun | Danforth 1, Murruy 1, Ross 1, Pruett 1; | hits, Fullerton 7 Im 3 {innings, none ’m.l In fourth; off Marray 3 In 2 Mnings, off Quinu none In 2 innings, off Ross 4 In Danforth 8 in 5 innings, none oif Vautifider 2 in 1 lnning, 3 n 12 inuings, oft Grant 1 innings: hit pieher, Mur- ”K (Hislery; winnin: cher, Gr los- ing piteher, o umpires, Rowland, Owens and Moriairty; time, ATION AL LEAGUE v Total x—MeClellan ball, and two scored, 2—Patted for Ratted for MWaw York ©hicago Two base @encon, o @ouble plays, en hases, N ik on halls, off Thurston n 1, Gaston ston 1, Rohert in 7 Innings, off Hoyt & fin in no innings; ninth, oft s pitch, Thuraton son; losing pl Fiolmes, Hildel game 2:10 hit when out hy out winning Thurston in seventh, Robertsen fn ninth o 012 012 (00 001 .m Scott, Hoy ral sacrifices, u to Ward to Pipp; 1o 11, Chicago 11 1 Avch- |oft Prue Hoyt, |in 1 3 l € Thurston in 2 innings; two men In tinings; wild | pltehier, Robert- umpires, time of o tia winning and Ev Vit | Hotm, | Hornany, Bottomles Yades, i 0 ATHLETICS f, DETROIT 2 PHILADELPITA AB R 0 H. PO A B | 1 3 Mueller Diver, el Flack Bishon Lamar Mijler, 1t Hauser, 1b simmans Tikes, *h Gullowa Perkins, Meeker, Burns, Wealch It " 0 Tota il Batted ¥ Ratted Holm out for Vrcigau Bell in it by in ninth nint Hornshy's NEW YORK AD | ‘ Scuthwortl, rf oTtal Mane Manush Cobh, Hellmann Blue, 1b Meuse! Aye, Coone Hornsl, (Continued on Following Page) and Bottomley ' |Bridgeport state 1; | 0l tie u‘r ¢ {derson, FALCONS LOSE 0UT | hits, Sad i il Wins Diving Contest “DOT” TAYLOR Dorothy Taylor, former local girl, won the girls’ diving contest at Capi- tol purk Saturday when the Capitol Park swimming team defeated the champions in an aquatic meet 43 to 37. Miss Taylor gave a remarkably fine exhibition of fancy diving. A summary of the meet: Janey diving, won by Dorothy Tay- |lor, Hartf Agnes Waters, Bridge- port, second; Vera Iisher, Hartford, [third. | Bh-yarc swim, won by Anna Baum, ‘Hrlllgflporl: Eleanor Coby, Hridge- port, eecond; Agnes Waters, Brhlgu-w port, third, #me: 33 2-b seconds. 100.yard swim, won by Grace Kem- w‘m« |“Nervo” Nelson Holds Saiats to Two Hits in Corking Good Game‘ Old Timer Also Gets Three! Hits Himself — Pirates | Nose Out Fafnirs and Rangers Lose to Mohawks in City League Contests. lson, who has been playing baseball off and on and plays ing at bascball for almost enough yeurs to be called one of the old timers, was the big nolsc at Walnut HUl park Suturday in the city league games when he held the SBaint Mary's team to two lucky hits and defeated them & to 2, On the same diamond | the Rangers, outclusscd but fghting every inch of the way, went down lo a 12.3 defeut at the hands of the Mo- hawks. In the other game the Faf. nir team lost a fast 4-3 game to the Pirates. joneers Versus Saints The Piencer-Saints game was one of the’ best o( llu‘ season and the work Nervo” Nelson both on the mound and at bat was a featu In fact it might be said that “Nervo" was the ““dobbs”, holding the Saints to two lucky hits and getting two three- | baggers and a single himself in three times up. “Nervo", it must be re- membered, was playing ball 12 or 15 y ago In the old Church league when, if memory serves aright, he and “Merkie” Jacobson werc at one time members of the South church team. At any rate Nelson was playing | ball y'ars and y'arg before the World war but the rigors 8f Chateau Thierry and the Argonne apparently did not dim his batting eye or weaken his throwing arm. Wojak, a brother of the “Chuckie”, and Simens w the only ones to dent Nelson's offerings, Ior the Saints, Conlon pitched a sufficient. ly good game to have had an cven | break on the victory end had his | team been able to hit behind him. Both Nelson and Conlon were wild, the former passing 8 and the latter 5, while Nelson fanned 7 Saints and Con- | lon 4 Pioneers. Steve Dudack, an- | famous | 0 ple, Bridgeport; Marion Bloomer, | | [Bridgeport, second; Elinor Coby; | | Bridgeport, third. Time 1 minute 18 ' rmmnd& |” Fancy diving, won hy Karl Michels, | Hartford; Johnny Andersen, Bridge- | port, second; Howard Steppe, Hart- | ford, third, | | Team relay race won by Haftford; m 1 minute 34 seconds. 50-yard backstroke, won by Hows Lm) Steppe, Hartford; Johnny Ander- " |son, Bridgeport, second; Zegger, Hart- Iford, third; time 7 minutes, 17} sec- londs. S 50-yard swim, won hy Johnny An- | Bridgeport; Karl Michaels, |Hartford, second; Howard Steppe, | |Hartford, third: time 27 1~'\ seconds. AFTER HARD FIGHT 1D eleated 10 to 9 hy State Asylum | f Baseball Team The Ialcons traveled down to| | Middlctown Saturday afternoon and lost a hard fought gamc to the Mid- dletown State Asylum team. The |score was 10 to 9, the locals being nosed out in the last of the ninth by the down river lads. J. Kania hit for | a circuit and a three bagger. He was |called out at home when he tried to | stretch it into a home run. ¥, Shee- | han also eollected a triple, | | New Britain went into the lead in lthe first frame when they dented the [platter once. The Middletown lads came back strong at their first time at bat and scored two runs. During the rest of the game the score see- | | sawed back and forth. In the ninth | | inning the locals came to bat one run to the bad, Bruno Kania, the first | | batter, singled, and was followed a | ‘mlnmt- later by his brother, Joe. The | inext two batters were easy ouls. | | Frank Shechan then came to the res- | | cue when he rapped out a lusty triple, | scoring two rung and putting the lo- | cals in the lead® @The ninth inning | vatly went for nad®ht, for the Middie- | [town lads in their last time at bat | scored two runs and thus gained the | verdict over the locals. l\ltn\~ Kania 2 11 m»rlr\l 1 1 1 hren home i, on 10 E v 117 LRI Ee base hite, runs, J. inta halle, Moore Kredar 3. 1 nels; double left on hases, 8 passed 14.n off KKania o' Hmr Hospital . s hits, Moore; Sheehan hits, n R bases hases Pengon, Waldnes Carthy to Morse tate Hospital oft Maore 11 Moore 2 ’hv niits, 2; umpire, witd pitch, of game These Professors! - 1 wonder if yon remember ago you asked me to | marry you. Abgent-Minded Professor—Ah, and did you?—Judge. yes | 8tmons, other old timer, showed too, that he ig far from all in when he filug;.'rul‘ cout a triplé in company with Jim McCormick, and also stole a base. Fielding was clean by both teams, features being a couple of pretty dou- ble plays, Wojak to McCarthy and ! Ericson to Restelli. EtoNBRIA Jas. McCormick Ludack, 1€ Tlelds, 85 . - SNy Restelli, 1b . | J. McCormick, Ericson, 2b Darnes, rf Bmithwielk, | Nelson, p Total Wanjak, Howard, McCarthy, Bimons, 1¢ Conlon, p Donahue Kelly ¢ Steege, Rivce, smith, &= 3b 1 v’ 2h L) Total i Pioneers 1 8t Mary's . 001 000 010 Tiires base iita, James ggecormick, Du- dack, Nelson 2; Lases on Walls, Nelson §, | Conlon §; struck out, by Nelson 7, by Con- | lon 4; stolen lbases, Dudack, = Restelli, | Kebly; double plays, to | MeCarthy, on to Restelll Con- lon; ump Bautter and R of game, 2:10. Wojak halk, time Rangers vs, Mohawks Except that they were willing, tried | | Firpo, ‘“nu) Wills, his negro opponent, | Boyle's Thirty Acre | Sa | T0-TT-—147, {Erought $100, {along all secto kees, and | Jacobson, |WILLS-FIRPO BATTLE IS SLATED FOR SEPTEMBER | Seats, Richard Ane noUnees heayyweight New®Yor) Angel round mateh at in Jersey City on | meet i their twelve Thursduy night, September 11, ing to an announcement made yestors day by Tex Rickard, promoter of the match, The date was finally cled ufter a prolonged conference with officlils of the United States 'olo ussociation | who had requested Rickard not to in- terfere with the fnternational matches (they broke scheduled on September 6 and 10, and u possible third game on Septem- ber 13, Rickard asked the polo asso- clation to extend un Invitation to the Prince of Wales, who will be in this country for the polo matches, to at- tend the heavyweight tight, Tickets for the tight will xell for prices ranging from $2 to $25 for ringside ts, plus the usual war tax, Iirpo has virtually decided itoga us a training ground, maker IMlourncy of Madison Garden has been to Earatoga, at request of Iirpo, to make arrange ments for ‘the camp. Firpo expects to go to rat some time during the coming week and remain there until the day before the fight. Wills is alveady established in hig training camp at Southampton, L. L HUTCHISON-EVANS WIN Walker and Cruikshank Go Down To Matceh- Duo at Chicago Links Chicago, July €8.—Jock Hutchison {and Chick lLvans, both formerly na- tional open golf champjons, yesterday defeated Cyril Walker of New present titleholder, and Bobby Cruik shank, of New York, runncr-up to Bobby Jones, in the national open last year, and 1, in a 36 hole match at Midlothian. Hutchison scored € Walke 78-70— 74—143, Evans Cruikshank, was for the benefit of the caddy [\lllv] driver mashie e was auctioned. , Evans' Crivikshiank's $50, Walker's putter, with which won the open crown at Detroit, oand Hutchison's favorite mashie, Circuit gluggers Hold player $40. Chicago, July 27. —— Quict reigned of the home run of- fensive, in the major leagues the past week, the leaders, Ruth of the Yan- IFournier, of the Dodgrs, holding their positions. The leade Any n Tiuth, New York, 30; Louis, 1 Hauser, Philadclphia, St. Louls, 13. National Brooklyn, ? Chicago, 15; Kelly, New Hornsby, St. Louis. 1 Philade'phia, 11, ANl jn the Family Kansas City—The wedding bells are clamoring noisily in the Neal family. Claud V. Neal, 40, and Mrs. Nancy A, Pi »¢, 40, got a marriage license Williams, St 1 Fournier, Hartnett, York \\Hhxullfl hard and were in the fight every minute, the Rangers did not measure | (Continued on Following Page) here v sently, Two weeks befo | Neal's =on, Joy, and Mrs. Plersee | daughter, Dora, were married. Will Be the Top Price Asked For und |Bristol " will [ Willimantic accords |New upon | | Machton i Defeat At Hands of Lxpert Golfing | (a circuit in lon. York, | and after the play one club of each | Begley, | Matchton, | Berg, Their Own in the Majors ‘\ Horkheimer, T | three FPIPCIICIGVIPIIIPICTIIIIIIIIIIET . 1 ETIVIIIPIPIIST RIS IIIPIIIITPIPI PP TP I Ioe |OLYMPICS END WITH AMERICA WINNING BY. A LARGE MARGIN S, Finishes With 94 'BESSES AR [ T e M LOSE flVER SUNDAY with 6s—pinns wicen | With 34, Drop Game at Home But Delea;' SR Bristol in Bell Gy . | "varin, Tuiy £8.—Tne United star | won the 1024 Olympie games by a Je clgive point margin, The figures, offi cially compiled last night at the ter- mination of allcompetition in connee tlon with the games, show that the | Americans made 94 points as against hi for I'rance, her nearest rival The United States carvied off wight chumplonships, including virtually sl the major erowns=—track and feld, 1owing, awimming, tennis, boxing, cateh-as-cateh-can wrestling, target shooting and rughy, Norway was the nearest rival of the United States as regards champlonships, having the unusual record of scoring in only five events but taking fiest place in four of these, namely, winter sports, hunting, marksmanship and yachting, France and Sweden cach titles . feneing and ling, and 8w the modern pentathlon and equestrian crowns, Other cham- plonships were won as follow 1in- land, Graeco-Roman wrestling: 'rn. | guay, soccer; Argentina, pelo: Italy, weight-lifting: Czechoslovakia i Ix. ored three runs in the first inning | gywityeriand divided premier I|Innnr:';|]> ‘\\'In n Scott dropped Green's fly I(-<g_‘,"“ stics, left field and Dunlap hit through | ™ phe final point tabulation is as fol- [second base, Harlow sacrificed them | o g [nlong and Zellke was walked filling | ipited the bases. lddie Goeb was struck | goq [out by Goodridge. Wegley then came | oy o4 to the remclo. w hen he hit one | 1q throngh short, scoring two runners, |,,. Wi e 473 [DMullen hit one to coniertield and tho ;flfmn',.’i“l;“:l RRLEAIAE v f”'”" I wantii s THo S Laotin ALCRE ochosiovakinecs: Esthonleet: one more run in the fourth when | Austria—5; Rumania— i .1ugonll\il; : 3: Portuga : Hayti—1; Egypi U, [ he Standings Manchestor Torrington | Britain Meriden Yosterday's Results Bristol 9, New Britain b, Willimantic 10, Manchester The Bos s still ave in neat [to 1ast pluce in the State league, but von in thelr week-end ontests with Bristol, They won in the Bell City Saturday afternoon, 7 to |4 In a game featured by a home run |by Harlow in the last inning; but they lost Sunday's engugement in this eity 9 to b, by hitting Scott when hits were ne ary for runs. Yesterda |defeat brought to a ‘close a fairly good {winning streak which the locals have heen experiencing. In yesterday's game the won two locals Irance-—64; Britain—411; 4! Switzer. 3%: Holland— and Scott got doubles 1in | pain—3i: Australia outh Afric Poland—1; More than 15,000 persons succession, | Biristol scored three runs fifth., In the seventh they |Scott plenty and scored two more ‘ b for the closing spectacle uns when Waters got on on an er- |, .\ yine (ho official conclusion of ror and Vorslund and Tamm knocked | Z01OEE LHE OGO ess for triples in succossion. Moore hit for [ F1 RS MECT AR B W PrO8 the elghth with no one | "y ishie e y i ikh - Ninety-eight of the #31 Olympie tristol brought theif total num- | .1 1e “awurded went to the United ber of runs to nine in the last in- Slatas Bizax svEre awarded for the ning when they got scveral hits and |y 00 places tn each event, al- the locals had several misplays. The | yot (PR PIETCS T CEE0, C¥PRL. S Lelands tried vainly to tie the score | gt TCotonel . Ravert M : . | point se in their last bats but only succceded || i . ¥ 4 I"ho s resic 4 & R e s hompson, president of the American A k Olympic committee, required aid in TR L carrying away the share of the Amer- icansg in’the trophies, wiich amounted to nearly one thirdsof the lo||f and | comprised prizes for 45 fir: for second places and (hln] places. Fifland with 37 firsts, IFrance with 36 and Great Britain with 31 were next on the list of (1 27 na- tions which received priz South America was represented on the hist by Argentina and Uruguay. Argentina had one first place to her credit, one second place and two third places. Uruguay had ond first place, Only handful of the heroes of the stirring athletic games was on hand when the Olympic vietory prizes were awarded and fully half of these were Americans, who were accorder an ovation. The official pronouncement of Bar- on De Coubertin closing the Olympic games was followed by a salvo of five guns and appropriate music by a band and a choir. Coming at the cenclu- sion of the picturesque equestrian Zeilke ; 4 Harke and | EPOTts, the closing ceremonies alt Britain 7, | were participated in by the competi- oft Berg | tors in these and a brilliantly uni- Bers 1, Tract | formed bugle corps of the republican 5 g guards. Less than half the nations which received awards for the per- | tormances of their athletes were per- scnally represented. ance acted on behalf of the absentees, among whom were the Argentines, whose represen- tatives departed homeward several days ago. The Amerlca in the got to were Greene. e | Muilin, =5 Total NEW D g New Britain New Departure Two runs, Tan Tifcen, Dunlon Goodridge left on bases, New base on halls, out, by Coughlin and Harlowe; umpires ime, 1:55. (Sunday’s Game). < MeCabe. 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