New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 8

GREB AND FLOWERS FIGHT CREATES INTEREST IN OHIO — NATIO FINAL ROUND — DODGERS AFTER GIANTS — POLO TEAM FORMED — GRAND SPPPRREIIRI VS NK ARTIST DODGERS HOT ON GIANTS' TRAIL Uncle Robby Riding Team From Over (he Bridge Hard New York, Aug. 21.—~Lounding the Jast turn for the wire, the Brookiyn Dodgers, hard-vidden by Uncle Itobs bie, are making a desperate bid to overhaul the leagucleading Gilants and the Pirates, in second place The Dodgers took the last game of ries from the 8moky City ag " yesterday, after eleven hard fought innings, for their third successive \ictory, and went Into third place in the league standing, passing the Cubs, who dropped Loth ends of @ double-header to the tullend Boston club, 2-0, 5.0, The Brooklyn club has gone through in 12 of its last " starts, has taken six of the last seven games on the road, and Is now only #ix and one-half games behind the Glants, who remained idle yesterday. The Cardinals took a new lease on fife at the expense of the Dhillies, beating the Fletcher crew in both the curtain-raiser and the nightcap, 3-1 and 13-10, but are so far in the ruck that only a miracle can bring them into the money. Only one game was played in the younger league, Boston nosing out Cleveland in a well-played contest, b-4. Tlagstaff, hero of the game, made four hits, a scnsatfonal running catch and was instrumental in scor- ing three runs. The one other game scheduled, the St. Louis-Philadeiphin argument, was postponed because of rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE BROOKLYN 3, PITTSBURGH 2. BROOKLYN AR R, H. PO A e TR Y = High, b .. Mitchell, 18 . Wheat, !t Feurnier, Brown, Btock, 1b 'W BRITAIN DAI SRR L) n a = Ratted Smith in Cleveland v Boston e ™ Har J, Bewell s VSt 18 | nh | 100t | Mo s ¥l " buse hit sacrifive three wpeaker wd; stalen ma double e Lutake 1o Hurne; Myait te Pewster ta Burus: Wamby to Harts wan o Wambg ta Harrie; left on bases, | Clevetand 11 Roston 6; bise en balle off it Ehmle sruck out, by Ehimke 11 1y ler, by Smith I and Hildeband | Py, Bmitk Gey s nmpires | | | POLO PLAYERS INFIRST PRACTICE American Team Is Now Formed for International Match New York, Aug. 21.—The frst offi- | elal practice the American poio| team, defenders of the international challenge cup, takes place today at Westbury, 1. 1, when Hitchecock, 1Jr, No. 2; Malcolm Stevenson, No. 3; and Devereux Milburn, back, take the field aga a strong combination of Itobert Strawbridge, J., Eric Ped- ley, Harry st and F. H. Prince, Jr, Strawbridge and Pedley with FEarl W. Hopping were on the cup defenders, Strawbridge and Hopping are both eight goal men, with Pedley rated officially at six| soals, Milburn, a member of the last five cup team, and Hitchcock, a star of the 1921 series, are both 10 goal men. | Webb, a left hander, rated at nine| zoals, played at No. 3 on the last in- ternational team, but has been moved up to No. 1: replacing Louis Stoddard, of named as substitutes | MR. FIRPO NO BU Ry New York this sood Benor Firpe, ne does not deal JOE Aug 10 WILLIAMS | 21.==There is at| least much be said fer the lavishly in the fragrant bunk The Bouth American is back in this vountry to fight Harry Wills, A year ago he was battered to fragments by Dempsey, His crudities were elear to anyone who knew a hoxing glove from an Indian leve sonnet “Kirpo will never do until he learns to eover up and to use his left hand,' the erudite experts wrote. 1t is the custom in ballyheoing prizefights to point out that a battier Leaten in a previous fight, has overs come all his old faults and is now an amazingly improved article You will recall a eampaign of this nature was pushed energetically by ntiemen interested finaneially in the eturn of Carpentier to this country some months age, & campaign to which Mons, Georges lent enthusiastic verbal assistance, Against Dempsey Carpentier had shown nothing but a right hand and | w glaving weakness in the clinches. | The new Carpentier, the fana were usked to believe, had perfected all| these deficiencies and was, in truth, a | completely refurbished fighting ma- chine, That there might be no doubt what- | ever as to the authenticity of the tiansformation Mons. Georges himself personally assured reporters that he| was, indeed, a changed man. | It subsequently developed that the only difference between the Carpentier who quit to Dempsey and the dashing I*renchman now collecting rare specl- raens of greenbacks in our midst was | the manner in which he parted his ha w the good Senor KFirpo is not at | all like this, He does not ask you to cept him as a new model with all the lutest conveniences, Me s in cvery respect the same guileless | irpo that our smart promoters had on dis- play a year ago—and frankly admits it. All he knows about covering up is that it is a genteel operation relating in some manner to the business of going to bed. And if he is using his left hand any Letter it is because knives in Ameri- LY HERALD, THURSD :\‘ D AY, AUGUST 21, 1924, N /1] t He Is Too Crude to Win Title | st—"“That’s All I Need,” He Says SIKT QUITS I FIGHT ITENNIS VETERANS PLAY PREREERIRIRTIY FREMONT AWAITS - FIGHT TONIGHT 'Tow Filed Wit Faas on Eve ol No Decision Battle ——— Fremont, Ohio, Aug, 21.~—Fremont was filled with fight fans teday, wait- ing for the gong to eall Harry Greb, | world's ehampion middieweight boxer, and Tiger Flowers, Atlanta, Ga, ne- |gro to the center of the ring tonight | for their seheduled ten round no- | decision bout, the most Important |sperting event cver attempted here, | Ta order to galn the title the south« | erper must win by a knockout or be fouled, Poth men are in the pink of con- |ditien and cach expresses confidence | that he will be the victor, Greb com« pleted his training at the county fair [ greunds, where he had worked out since his arrival Bunday, Flowers Jdid | his finishing touches at Toledo, from | where he arrived this morning. Despite efforts by the Fremont | Ministerial assoclation and other church organizations to stop the | match, originally set for August 14, Promoter Ray Bronson reported seat | sales of more than $22,000 early to- day, and predicted a sell out, Sale of i,—:« neral admission tickets Is expected ‘lu increase the receipts by at least | 810,000, Many boxing fans were here from Chicago, New York and other cities, | Private families have volunteered to care for those unable to obtain ac- commodations ini the hotels, | b has been guaranteed $6,000, la certified check for which has been | posted with the 1"'remont boxing com- | mission. If the receipts go above $40,000 lie has the privilege of accept- |ing 50 per cent. Klowers is expected |to collect 35 per cent of the receipts |over $15,000, GRAND CIRCUIT Six Events on Program at North Ran- dall—Yesterday's Races Postponed L5388580 NAL DOUBLES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE SEMI. CIRCUIT PROGRAM AT NORTH RANDALL AUSTRALIANS MEET AMERICANS TODAY \Patterson and Wood Face Job- ston and Griliin e Brookline, Mass,, Aug, Australia, 1=The men of Patterson and Pat O'Hara Weood, whe have stroked their way to the semi-final round eof the mational lawn tennis doubles championship tournament at the Longwood Cricket elub today found |a& team that has held the title three times opposing their progress to the final round W, M, nston and Clarence Griffin of n Francisce, winners in 1915, 1916 and 1920, and | candidates this year for the honors of Lavis Cyp defense in doubles, had ad- vanced by stralght sets in every mateh, while the Australians took five | wets to defeat the veterans R, Norris Williams, 2nd, and Watson Washburn yesterday, The other semi-final had the Olym- ple and Wimbledon champions, \in- cent Richards and Francis 7, Hunter of New York, opposed by Robert G, Kinsey and Howard O, Kinsey of Ban Francisco in their effort to add the third of the world's premier doubles titles to their season's record, This match promised team play of a high order, Gerald National Doubles Although still in the second and third rounds, the nations doubles champlonship competition had the in- terest of the crowd, With Miss Helen Wills of Berkeley, Cal, the girl who is woman singles champion, y ing with Richards in an effort to capture from Mrs, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, former champlon, and W, Iden, 2nd, the title that they are playing through to defend, the crowd has shown a disposition to leave the.grand sland seats and stand along the side lines of back courts to watch their play. It will be Saturday before they can*come together in the final, and meantime the champions hard a hard contest in prospect with Mrs, B. E. Cole, 2nd., of North Andover, and R. E. Schlesinger of the Australian team today, while Miss Wills and Richards were drawn against Miss Ldith Sig- IN OWN CHAMPIONSHIP | West Side Club Will Hold Tournament AGAINST MIKE CONROY Sencgalese Makes Comedy of Bout and can beaneries fit more gracefully into the fingers than the native Argentin- ean cutlery, Mr. Tex Rickard and others inter- ceted in prolonging the box office ca- reer of the good senor tried to im- press upon him the necessity of en- listing the services of Jimmy De For- est, noted tr “De Korest can teach you the fine points of the game,” persisted Rick- ard. 1ftith, (5 who has withdrawn from interna- tional competition. Stevenson is also rated at nine goals. Thesc handicaps, however, will not figure in the inter- national competition, as the interna- tional matches are played on the The first public practice match of the British team is scheduled for Fri- day when the invaders line up against an American team composed of Elmer Boeseke, Jr, Morgan and Raymond ourney of Boston, and Jacques Brug= non of the French Davis cup team. Because of Rain Storm. Cleveland, Aug. 21.—Three stakes, including the championship stallion for three-year-old trotters, with a value of § , were among the six cvents on the Grand Circuit program jat North Randall today. Two, the | Emery for 2:15 trotters, and the Cen- tury, for 2:09 trotters, carried purses of $3,000. The championship stallion, with loumsmon lewos—wss Women's instinctive dread of rats or mice is said to be due to the fact that they knew that rat fleas were the chief carriers of plague. With Senatcrs slosas for Old Timers Starting Next Then Decides He Would Cry Griffith in 8th, PITTSBURGH ) . AB R, Enough in Lorain Show. N York, Aug. in the veterans' national singles tennis championships, with 41 entries, starts on the courts of the West Side Tennis The Lorain, Ohio, Aug. 21.—The sched- uled 10-round hout between Battling| Siki, the Senegalese boxer who con- quered Georges Carpentier, and Mike Carey, et Barnhart, Bigbee, z .. Curler, 1t Wright, 2 . 0 good Traynor. 3b Maranville, Grimm, 1b Geoch, Kremer, 4 5 P Totals 3 z—Ran fer Barnhar Rrooklyn Pittsburgh 200 000 000 2 Two base hit, Brown; three base hit, Brown; home run Fournier; sacrifices Mit- ehell 2, Stock; double plays, Griftith and Taylor; Wright, Maranville and Grimm, Doak, Mitchell and Fournier; left on bascs Brooklyn 9; Pittsburgh 4; bases on balls, off Deak 1; off Kremer 2; struck eut, by Doal 1; by Kremer 4; umpires, Klem and Wilson; time 1:50. alszzasnmon in 11th, 010 000 DOSTON 2.5, CHICAGO 0-0, (FIRST GAME) BOSTON A.B. . P.O. Wilson, I 3 Padgett, Stongel, rf ... McInnis, 1b Cunningham, (t Tierney, 2b Gibsen, « R. Smith, ss Genewich, p . oy 1 wleszsssason Slowana lasswssas Totals i ° Btatz, cf Heatheote, Hellocher, Fiiberg, Miller, 1t Grantham, O'Tarrell, Catter, 1b Vogel, 1, Wheeler, Adams, z Brsh, p . 33wzt 2 Y lrssuumasmes Totals 20 z—Batted for Wheeler Boston serses Two hase hit ficen, Stengel: Finfth to Mclnnis; double pla Tierne Mcinnis O'Farrell to Hollocher; Bush to Cotter to Hellacher; left on bases, Boston 7; t'hicago 4; bases on balls, off Wheeler 1; off Cene- wich struck out, hy Bush 2; wich hits offt Wheeler 7 in 6; 4 In 3; losing pitcher, Wheeler; Rigler and Moran: time 1:41, off Bush | umpires, : | Boston 000 000 0505 | Hall, o | erguson, 3b . ST. LOUIS 3-13, PHIL (FIRS GAME) PHILADELPHIA AR I Band, 0 o ) 3 Harper, rf won 1 Willlams, ef . 1 n Wrightstone, 3b 0 o Mokan, 1f ... 0 o Holke, 15 3 ) Ford, 2b Fetp: 1] Henline, ¢ . 3 Carlas, Elazner, Mitchell, 1S 1-10, " r " [ b x 1) Totals : 1 Emith, rt Holm, cf Horneby. Bettamls Blader, 1t Catney, o8 . Gonzales, ¢ Teparcer. 3h Dickerman, p 1 n 13 190—1 00x—3 Totals Philadelphia 109 Bt Louis . 200 Two base hits, Wrightstone home rum, Willlume: eacrifices, Hornshy; double plays, Sand, Ford and Holke: Dickerman, H and Rottomle Bottomley, unassisted (2); Holke Sand s Hike; Carleon, and and Holke Philadelphia 3; St. Louis 4; oft Carlson 1: struck out, Dickerman 1; hits off Carison 10 in 7, ner 1 in 1; losing piteher, Carlson O'Day, Quigley and Sweeney: AMERICAN LEAGUE , CLEVELAND 4. CLEVELAND A 00 010 Horneby 2 Dickerman BOSTON H. PO A E Jamiessn, 1¢ 3 ) Bumma, 11 Epeaker, of o @s33=3=0u a 1 . o 0 ° ! [roley, 1b . . ; Morrill, | Houck, rf . | Bond, p hy Gene- | Sutton, ss . h o Troy 1; first on errors, Belmont and J. C. Cowdin. ishers will line up with Major Kirk- wood at No. 1; Major Ph by, No. Major Hurndall, Luis 1 y back. AUGUST 21, 1879 DAN BROUTHERS FA PITCHER The Troy National lacked a pitcher on Aug. whereup big Dan Brouthers, man, was called upon to ball to the Bostons. Dan Boston handed it back. S 0 Incidentally, Boston ab Jones, If O'Rourk: Burdoc! 3b Snyder, rf kins, ¢ . Srouthers, p # | Nelgon, ss . Taylor, If . ivans, cf Hawkes, 2b ... Bradley, 1b ... 20 H 060 Boston Boston Troy . Earned runs, hits, Morrill, Houck: O'Rourke; first on balls, 6; 1: struck out. Boston ble plays, Troy 2 2; passed der 1, Caskine 8; wild pite time, 2:40; umpire, Daniels Tomorrow's score: Walt walks six times in one gaimne. . England is indi and John Wheatle minister of health, social conventions small houge with no servant. GARAGE and SERVICE Repairing Al Makes—(: Specialty Wrecking Service, Day and Night NASH CARS FOR SALE BY J. B. MORAN GARAGE| Associated with A. G. 513 CHURCH ST. league Caskins had || passed balls and Troy many errors. | Here are the statistical facts: Sleennoensas three base hit, Boston 6, Troy , Troy 4; dou- “FFine points!” exploded the senor in a rich homeland dialect, “what do I need with fine points when 1've got this?” And he held aloft a big, shagay, right fist-—the same fist that catapult- led our Mr. Dempsey clear out of the Ting at the Polo Grounds on the night | of Sept. 14, 102 B. L. VS. WILLINANTIC | in State League The Brit- ipps Horn- No. 3, and | | | New Pritain Entry Has Opportunity To Jump Into second Place in Standing With the Besse-Leland team of the | state league now in third place and with a chance to hop into second place over the week-end it is expected that a large crowd of fans will be at St. Mary’s Saturday to watch the team cross bats with the Willimantic team which is in second place. 1f the local team can defeat the Willimantic team in both games scheduled to be played over the week-end they will be tied for second honors with the thread malkers. The game on ILS AS team 21, 1879, , first base- hand the did. And core 16 to eight Saturday will be at st. Mary's field 1 will get under way at 3 o'clock. 'The game Sunday will be played at Recreation Park in Willimantic, The B-L's are out to win both games but realize they have a hard nut to crack. Lither Pete Wood or Rube Richards, both of Iisk Red Top fame, will ascend the mound to shoot tiiem at the Besse team. The lecal management has mnot decided who to start against the Willimantic team. The game Saturday will be the last home game with the exception | {of a game to be played with Torring- ton on Labor Day morning. Ritchie Loses Decision In Slow Four Round Bout Oakland Calif., Aug. 21.—Willie Ritchie, former world's lightweight | ¢hampion, failed in an attempted fis- tic comeback here last night and drop- ped a decision in a four round bout to | Joe Simonich, Butte welterweight. The bout was Slow and featureless. Throughout the fight Ritchie was on the defensive and the few times that | he opened up were of short duration. 2] e loanvcomrons - S =o» P = | w > DEMPSEY TO SEE FIGHT T.os Angeles, Aug. 21.—lack Demp- cey plans to leave here next Monday for New York to be on hand for the | | Firpo-Wills fight, September 11, in | Jersey City, and the Leonarf-w contest at the Yankee Stadium, Sep- tember 22 tno Boston 4, balls, Sny- her, Brou- SMOKERS! No More Stained Teeth spotty, dark or tobacco stained teeth ¢ be made flashing white, lustrous, This is through a new dis- covery. nodent-Combination, Consists | | of a mid, safe Haquid which softens unsight- |1y surface stains and a special paste which by twe dentists No effect much you your tecth at results of to stained er Wilmot ‘s present | ferent to | lives in a Dull STATION adillacs & Perfected Safe to use on enamel. matter how no matter how yelio , you will be an st application. Say good-hye cetht Get Bleachodent Combination today at all good dealers such as Fair Dept. Store, lark & PBrainerd Co., Crowell Drug Co | Dickinsan Drug Co., and Liggett's. removes them. AVOID IMITATIONS TNS{ST ON BLEACHODENT Hazher | Tei, 2812-2 | Conroy, Rochester, N, Y., came to a sudden ending last night when Siki refused to go on with the bout after the eizhth round. | When the gong sounded for the ninth round, Siki walked to the mid- dle of the ring and exclaimed: “I'm getting nothing for this; aujt:"” It was the main bout of a show for| the henefit of the Lorain relict fund. Referee Tommy McGinty, of Cleve-| land, then awarded the contest to| Conroy, who had been the master of | the situation throughout, Siki making: a comedy of the bout from the start.| Conroy took four of the rounds by a wide margin, closing Siki's left eye in the sixth, | iki weighed in at 173 and Conroy 2l The 10-round semi-final went 10 rounds to a draw between Jose Lom- Lardo, claimant of the featherweight championship of Panama, and Chuck Jeldman, Cleveland, who substituted for Al Corbett, when the latter failed to show up. PIRATES PRACIICE TONIGHT The Pirates baseball team will prac- tice tonight at 6 o'clock at Walnut Hill in preparation for its week-end ;('!vlh at Forrest Hills on Tuesd ! round. draw, made yesterday, reveals that four players have been “seeded.” Philip B. Hawk, champion in 1921, 1922 and 1923, was the first player seeded. The others include Craig Bid- dle, A. Wallis Meyers and Walter L. Pate, Dr. Haw defending champion, meets Edw . Torrey in the first Craig Biddle drey a bye in the first round and meets Clarence A. Sparks in the second round. Meyers and Pate also drew first round byes, the former meeting A. D. Smoker and the latter Tom 8. Kingman in the sec- ond round, U. S. Teams Win Match Against Canadian Poloists Winnipeg, Man, Aug. 2l.—United States teams recorded a double vic- tory against Canadian representatives in the international polo tournament today. I'ast play dominated the two games and while the Americans won, they were forced all the way. In the first game, the twin cities squad de- feated ‘the St. Charles “Canaries” 5 |to 4, while in the second match, the | Tort Snelling “Buffs” were victorious against the Lord Strathcona's horse team, 4 to 3. schedule. | was postponed because of rain. | pace. four scheduled starters; the kmery, with six; the 2:14 pace, in which five were named to start, and the 2:09 pace, in which there were six named, were on yesterday's program, which Seven, including Tillie Brooke, which virtually equalled Hamburg Ielle’'s record Kriday, are nominated in the Century and four in the 2:11 Arizona Qarsmen Are ow Inter-Fleet Champs Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21.—In a tense two-mile race marked by the disqual- ifying of the U. S. S. Mississippi's crew at the finish, the U. 8. 8. Arizona sweepsters won the navy champion- ship inter-fleet regatta on Lake Wash- ington here Wednesday for the second consecutive time. The time of the winner's was 15 minutes 54 seconds, | The Mississippi sweepsters, although | finishing first were disqualified for crossing In front of the Arizona, the Jjudges announced. The other competing crewd, finish- {ing in the following order were the Arizona, Tennessee, California, New Mexico, Maryland, Nevada, Seattle, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. Manager Harris of the Senators thinks he has picked up an outfield find in Earl McNeeley, recently ac- quired from the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast league in exchange for Wid Matthews and a bundle of fresh-mown coin. McNeeley is a hard hitter and a sure, swift fielder. Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life O+ BoY BUT 1M ToP HOLE THIS Tue PRINCE 18 COMING MISS LOFLUS ! DICTATION PLEASE' FEELING MORNING J AT THAT- Do | GET LUNCH o 'S NOT SUCH A TouGH OLD WORLD B'T&e OF How ABOULUT A BREAKFAST N o~ BRIGGS The PRINCE COMING ) @ Tue Prince 1S COMING Jomesooy 15 ALWAYS TAKING THE Joy ov oF LIFE T