New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 8

. Flagsterd, Wamby, 2b © Bhanks; stolen b L o Hauser; p NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1924 WILLIE SHUGRUE DEFEATED IN JERSEY — WASHINGTON GLEEFUL CHANCES FOR PENNANT BRIGHTEN — ROJAS FIGHTS IN BOSTON TONIGHT — STAN ASHLEY PITCHES GOOD BALL FOR KIWANIS CLUB ~— OTHER SPORTS BRIEFS BABE’S TWO HOMERS FAIL T0 WIN FOR THE YANKEES | Bambino Now Past His 1923 Mark—Detroit Idle But | " - - - - ] Gains—Red Sox Take ~Pittsburgh Slides a Bit—Cubs Beat Cards Twice. 20" Wa %-v York, Au The on Benators are on top at last ing thelr league a half game to | the fore of the Yanks who dropped ta second place, going down to t In the first game of the h the Harils outfit, 11.6 AVith the Yanks leading 6 to 8 at beginning of the eighth inning ory seemed assured for the - of Huggine." And then came ar"n‘nruo. Two Washington bats tage hit safely and Herb Pennock w8 called from the hill by the mid. g manager. Gaston was rush ta.the rescue but to no avall, Peck. fnpaugh, next man up, out to Bcott, and one Washington dp scored. Liebold batted for Rumell and walked, McNeely amacked one to right field fAlling the bases, Harrls slammed one to Du. #an, who fumbled and another run acored. With the bases still crowd- #4) and the tying run on third, Hug. gings replaced Gaston with Sam Jones, who made it two out when Lisbold was forced at the plate. At point it looked brighter for the 'anks but only for a moment, for Joe series lin, the next man up, lifted one | to Witt that Whitey lost In the sun, three runs scoring. Judge, Bluege, [Ruel and Peck all hit safely in order A three more Washington runners crossed the pan. The innig ended hen Mamaux, who had v this replaced Jones, retired Liebold for the final out. Macberry, who went in to pitch the last two in- for the Senators, turned back Yanks without a score. be Ruth hit two homers in the | geme and passed his 1923 home run when he hit his forty-second r of the season in the seventh | imnig. He is still six behind his rec. or# at this time in 1921 during h season he scored, in all, fifty- home runs. ‘%he Detroit club remained idle in place but gained a half game oh the Yanks in second place three | games away, @ Red Sox scored a double vie- m over the Athletics in Boston, winning the first game, 6-3 and the second 8-7. icago and Cleveland broke even insthels double-header, the Indians | whaning the first 7-0," but after ten fought innings losing the sec- Pittsburgh dropped another half | notth in the older when the Reds knocked Cooper out | of the box and won 534, The Pirates are now five games to the _rear of the Giants who were not scheduled to play yesterday. Brooklyn in' third place rested and gained a half game on the Pitts- Jburgh crew thereby, and are now two games behind the Pirates and | n gamet back of New Tork. Playing.on. their own ball field the Cubs fook f‘wo games from Cards, winning the opener, 6-2 the fibishér,” 8-3. Rogers Hornsby, leading batter of the majors, got four hits in seven tinmtes at bat, thereby increasing.his season's bat- ting averag: L The Phillies shoved ' the deeper into the cellar when they _annexéd ‘two gamés from the Bos- #on club,:1-0 and 9-3. AMERICAN LEAGUE BOSTON ATHLETICS 3.3, (FIRST GAME) r2re PHILADELPHIA A.B. - 3% P Hals, 3b . 0 0 o | Duncan, 0 0 o { Rohne, ‘Bishop, Totals xx llerton, p | Smwvoomammny % x—Batted for B. Harris In xx—Bated for rvr'\) in 7 & Two Pase Flagetead, a00 201 23 000 00x Simmons, Chapman three base hits ser, Clark, Piciuich doubla plays, Simmons to Hauser to- Chapman Wams bases, halls Wam Hifices, Warh: an to Divkes Wamby B 10 Shanks to J. Harris nlhflrnm» 8. Bosto o B. Harris Rouck i m 4: hits off Hein e bin 4 Gia brand and’ Connolly mach; time 1:45. (unassisted) Joft on losing pltcher, (SE ND GAME) Philadeiphia 0 ston LAND 7.6, CRICAGO 0.7, (FIRSET GAME) CHICAGO CLEY Barrett, 1t . Thurston, p Totals famtesnn, 1¢ .° 4 Blarke, #f 2 . Sewel, - ker, o ot grounded | organization | the | and | Braves | ] Two—Chisox-Indians Even | L » pletaral ensemble gives you excellent jdea + the strenuos. which marka the play of tennis in major Y ity | NATIONAL LEAGUE PIILLIES 15, BOSTON 0.3 | players = (FIRKT GAME) | ) the wonien players, AR GANE % Molla Mallory, many times na- PONTON ehampion, is shown sending AR thundering acroas the court 0| Note the whip-cord muscles in her | neck and steelelike sinews in her hands. °| " Firpo, bitting Dempsey with the | punch which capapulted the cham- o[ plon over the ropes and out of the 0| ring, never madq more complete use of his power than did Mrs, Mallory in fNighting for thia vital point, - DETROIT SCENE OF BIG REGATTA Thousands of Cralt Crowd River “For Races gtengel, rf Melnnis, 1 Cunningham, 7 mith, s Jenewich, Powell, X Totals x—Batted for PHILADELPHIA A owlch In Harper, Williams, Wrights Ford, fan Holke, Henline, Retts, lomuaums |_Totals | Roston Philade Tw Sosalns ‘Phiilndelphta 8 on ball wich 1; Betts 1k out, by enewich, (Henline); es, Klem and Wilson; Detroit,, Aug. ifriver between Ameriean mainland clogged with yachts, cruisers and smaller hoats grouped about the three mile triangular course around | with the junior gold eup will be 0l | raced as the headline attraction of | | Sy o|the opening day of the 1924 gold | T . 0leup regatta. Muell by H 01 Speedboat enthusiasts were out Torporcer, }onm to watch the start of the day's Jonzale: | first event. The first heat of the| Norheran, 0! Sallan trophy race for cabin cruisers Dyer, xxx | with a maximum speed of 17 miles Rell. » an hour. This race is the only one 2 o of the regatta that is not to be run | herdel, p ... % ‘:n\"r the three mile course, The { | Sallan entries will race up the river |and out into Lake St. Clair, finish- | " |ing at their starting point after cov- ering 28 statute miles. Two i A heats will be run today with the A e ‘B RHL PO A B final on Saturday's program. Stats, of Qualifications for the 150 mile in- Granthan | ternational sweepstakes, being run Nl for the second time this year, were started this morning. A speed of 40 miles is required. he junior cold cup, for Greening-Duff trophy, is being raced for the first time this year. competing craft are stock boats, and the race vies with the gold chal- lenge cup and the sweepstakes in |the interest of regafta - followers. The first of three heats, cach of which is 10 times around the threa mile course, m. which succeeding heats are 2:45 and 4:15 p. m. Seven boats are after the junior gold cup. Horace E. Dodge, De- troit Yacht club has four boats— | watercar I, II, 11T, and IV.—with | Aaron de Roy's Lady Helen and J. | W. Smith’s Ted as the other D. Y. . entries. J. S McCannell has en- tered the Straun IT. for the Teron- to motorboat club. Rules for the Belle Isle and the time today was U1s 2.3, CHICAGO F RST | ’ Amith ot el Myers, S » Tota | x—Clou | xt—Batted for Fowler In 7 xxx—Batted for wull i oth, CF Hartnett, o w..i....2 | Cott 1 Aldridge, Totals st Lowis Chicago Two base hit base hits, Muel sacrifice, Muglle | Grantham _to Cotter; Louis §; Chicago & a Fowler 13 off Aldridge 3; oft Cherdel 1: bits oft H. Rell 3 (none out in 18t): off Fowler 6; oft Sherdel 1 fn 2; hit by | pitcher, (Hartnett [ struck out Fowler 1; [ piteh” Atdrid Bl pires, Hart ..000 100 D0 100 oter, Neihergall; three stolan hases, Grigsby; double plays, Adams to laft on b s on wier Aldridge 4 lnsing pitcher, a0n 003 Daubert | Ry cup except that motors are limited to 335 cubic inches piston displace- [ ment. A speed of 50 miles an hour is predicted. This is the eighth gold cup re- gatta to be held in Detroit. De- troit hoats have won the gold chal- | lenge cup six times during that per- iod. | Rressie: Pinelll Hargrave Mays, p Guy Richard Winner in Readville Contest Readville, Mass, Aug. 20.—Guy Richard which recently changed hands for $30,000, won | year-old division of the horse breeder futurity ,the feature of yesterday's grand circuit program. | heat Wil Cozler up from apparent n the | brought the defeat to nip wire in 2:03%, world record for Guy Richard trotted of the gecond mile in 1:00 1-4 and the last quarter in 29 1-4 seconds. e Rrooke, driven by Murphy the $5,000 Massachusetts stake teht heats, Alleen Guy won tro vear ald futurity. Poppy, with Heavey up won the second heat 2:061 and set a new record for Hall won the 2:18 first colt Mr. thus equalling three year olds, the last half Pinelli, Bohne; Kre: the palla Outpoints Martin Rmk(‘ in Nm\ ersev (10 Patters N x minio Spa It Rurke ‘\lmn New inds, in the ‘ /INI champlonships— | 29. — The Detroit | minimum | the | Al | was to start at 1:20 p. | ce are the same as for the gold | the three- | i American | o MecElwyn at the | THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK SEX r\fll W ij g | Celestial Empire’s Fi {, Honolulu, T. H., Aug. 20.—Miss M. | Coutts of Shanghai, China, now vis- | | iting mainland United States, is both | iuaky and plucky. She took five old horses discarded y the management of the Shang- ‘ha| race track because they were, ‘sul-po.m dly, too old to run, recondi- | tioned them and, in a few months, | won more than $15,000. “1 took the horses mainly | cauee I love animals” s | Coutss. “I had a lot of fun training w‘l)wm 1 goon found that they had some ' ' left, so 1 dec | put them back on the tr The horses were entered at the | ghanghai and Kiang Wan tracks. | One of them, “Young Bill,”" won the Shanghai Derby, feature event of the eeason. Another of her horses | paid $125 for a $2 pari-mutue) tick- et.- All of them raced and won at | long odds. Usually she played them. Miss Coutss is the first woman | to own and run a string of horses | on the tracks in (‘hina Incidentally, Miss Coutss is also the woman's golf champion of China, and was runner-up in the recent | tennis championship. HARRY WILLS AND HIS WIFE HAVING VACATION . | Negro Heavyweight And be- ra Bride ol Nine Years Ago Still Are Honeymooning. { By The Associated Press. Southampton, N. Y.. Aug Harry Wills, negro heavyweight who will meet Luis Firpo September 11, lin an elimination hout to_provide I | By 29, =— the nest opponent for Champion enjoying a second s;amp on | Jack Dempsey, honeymoon at his quiet Peconic Ray. During the seven weeks of Wills' | training, the comley little woman of {his own race whom he married nine years ago and who has followed him | \Qhr(mph his career, has been the nstant companion of the negro ‘mzhm | Early in the morning, Mrs. Wills, “Champ"”, the bull pup of the | goes out on the road with v, after hroakfast she drives with him to Southampton for mail {and daily glimpse of civilization: in | the afternoon she attends his work- outs: in the evenings the pair roam | through the surrounding country or | [ listen in on the radio in the living room of their bungalow. Guided by long experience, Mrs, | Wills superintends the cooking, warns of “draughts” which might | canse destructive colds, and hovers over her charge with frank and motherly care, | The two sparring partners, only inhabftants of the household honey- other describe the nine year old mooners as “a couple of kids swspaperme Pt AT S MUST WIN KEEP IN CITY HARMON WINS Har WL TOMORROW TO TITLE COMPETITION got mon the Eli fight night {the t 1451 final | Pittsb i defeat the if nation race Besses in refore the Aecist Ward ve got to beth, N " en round at the Q1 . last Hatime ut te « chance to meet the rounds. Harmon weighed Ward 147 1-2. In the semi- Tommy ('Brie light- Milwa ed the ver De f 1 e MNOTTow they main in the «lin city title series, lerites will take th 14 with a pirit. At the same time n's pets wre not going to x‘ old game is on tap bout ah fan” for the Mary's fleld at | 3 pom. Hein and Bloom Red Sox and to draw the the Pirates, hind the bat In last Sunday me the Pirates 1ost 5 to 2. but showed that they are capable of winning games and to- morrow's should be a humdinger, will work for the Slim’ Politis is likely | hurling assignment for | Butsey Hall will be be- | rst Turfwoman Enjoys Great Success With String of Dlscdrds | Ashiay, | | Clark Races Horses in China 1 GASCO TAKES FIRST.OF | | Campbell were the battery ‘ROTARIANS GET . | MERIDEN SEEKS TO JUSTIFY ONLY ONE BINGLE. DZSPUTED BASEBALL RULING e Quotes Rule Book in Attempting to Prove That New And Kiwanis Club Takes Ball Game by 9-0 Scoro Ashley let the down with one lone hit yes. afternoon at Walnut Hill Kiwanis elub romped away with a 9 to 0 viotery, The | single it came in the last inning | when the Kiwanis fielders, after an afternoon of inaetivity, played in 100 close and McAuliffe hoisted a fiy over Hanken's head, It was one of three balis hit to the outfield by ¢ the Rotarians, Clark, who pitehed | for the losers, allowed anly six hits, but ragged fAedling offset his work He fanned 13 men and Ashley whiffed 12, Clark was the anly Ro- tarian who reached third base, after the first inning, and he was thrown | out stealing hon The features were the hitting and base running of Hawkins and a | three-base hit by Parker, Curran, Gaftney, Clark and Van | Duzer played well in the fleld, The score ROTARY lllll Stanton Rotary | elub terday park and the | | 0 1 1 ) 1 0 ) 1 1 Totals | Leatin Hawkin Parker, [ 0 Curran, Gaftney Skinner Hawker, 13 of Totals Kiwania Club ! Two base hit MeAuliffe; threo hase hit, Parker; stolen bases, Hawking 4, Ashley % Clark 2, Cu Skinner, ' Rogers. Shields; bases on bals, oft Ashley 4: off struck out, by Ashley 123 by Clark 13; passed balls, Van Duzer 2; um- pire Everett Willlams, Immedintely after the game the Rotar- ians challenged thelr conquierors to a golf mateh and were taken up. The date will ba decided upon late SERIES FROM RULE SHOP 7 to 3—Winner of Series to Win Dine At Expense of the Losing Team The New Britain Gas Light com- pany's bascball team took the first of a two out of three series for 'a dinner from the Rule Shop office niaw last night by the score of 7 to| Lawrence Hinchliffe and Artic | for the losers and Johnny McCormick and Leo Robinson worked for the win- ners ' Carl Restelli, in three times up, | walked once and hit twice, haviog a | perfect day at the bat. Artie Camp- bell and Schmidt also hit well, each gelting a couple of safeties and Johnny Sheehan hit for three b The pitching of McCormick ani a great running catch in centerfizld by Barnes, ending the game, also featured. JAPANESE RAILWAYS PROFIT Tokio, Aug. —The Imperial Government railways of Japan made a profit of $57,600,000 during the fis | cal year ended March 31, 1924, This was disclosed by official returns re- cently published. |entry, |.former won the first and third heats |and the race, but the latter set new Brllaln Pollce Are \\n PURSES OF $9000 ON TODAY' CARD Grand CIrcuIl Races Bring Out | game between ‘Brilliant Array 3 “chattering since Readville, Mass, Aug, —Three 000 stakes and one worth $3,000, which half-mile track trotters of 15 class onl yare eligible, com- | posed the grand cireuit progm [ which was sgheduled to take place | here today, More of the leading | two-year-old trotters of the season | tncluding Sam Williams, the Cox | and Sumatra, another speeds ster of Ben White's string, were to appear in the Sunny day, the first event on the program, Rose Scott 2:00% was withdrawn | from the Blue Hill for 2:05 trot- ters leaving ‘Tommy Murphy still | well represented by Clyde the Great. | | The Pilgrim for three year old pac- ers is the innovation on the day card. Five colt side-wheclers were scheduled to turn for the word. The George ¥, Leonard stake at- tracted 11 half-mile track trotters, the lartest fleld of the meeting thus far. iuy Richard, which Will Crozler yesterday drove to a world win race record for three year olds of 2:02% today was resting in his stall little the worse for the effort which en- abed him to pass Mr. McElwyn at! the wire in the first heat of the | American horse breeder futurity and annex the new figures, 1t was one of the fastest miles ever trotted in competition on the Readville track. Tillie Brooke, which many expected to turn in a record-breaking performance vester- day, lacked the competition for real speed and won the Massachusetts $5,000 stake without much effort. She went in 2:04 1-4 in the first | heat, the fastest time. | The two-year-old bramch of the | futurity was a walkaway for Alleen | Guy and Poppy, both owned by Frank H. Ellis of Philadelphia. The time for the event when she won the second heat in 2:06%. Norman Tallman drove Rubby Hallo to a straight-heat victory in the 2:18 trot. All three heats were timed in 2:071%. HUGRUE LOSES, Jersey City, N. J., Aug. Petey Mack, Italian lvan(’ln“\(‘lght of this city, defeated Willie Shugrue in 12 spirited rounds at the Open Air Oakland A. A. here last night {before a capacity crowd. Mack had the better of six rounds. One round was even while Shugrue had the upper hand in five of the round.s Mack’s sensational finish in the final round won for him the honors and the hout. The weights were Mack 124, Shugrue 12412, WILLTE HERE'S YOUR CHANCE All Baseball Gloves $3.50 All Swimming Sults, $4.75 Tennis Goods, all cut prices. | —At— “ART” PILZ’S | R. R ,LARCADE | Higgins ran from second | N center-felder Corkins, who ealled Higgins safe and hia ¢ | Record | other end put up the foilaw'ng quea- tion [ vance ns soon as ball i any fielder, the moment such fly the hands of a falder [ didate. ong in Their Protest Here's Meriden's claim, read | amd take it for what it's worth, 290.=When “Rabe to thire base in the seventh inning of the the Meriden and w Britain police teans while the Juggled the ball and held onto it, he started Meriden, Aug. hen finally a argument that has kept the fans ke magpipes” ever Some claim that Higgins was out for not waiting for the eut fiuider to hold onto the Lell. Others te that Higgina was ssfe. Fr umpired on wus protested, Corkins was right, or the rule hook was wrong, Last night the télephons at the buzzed and a voics at the for final decision: “'A' says runner on base cannot | advance until ball is properly held by the fielder, whether juggled or not OB’ says runner is entitied to ad touched | The rule book says: Rule 66, Sectinn 10.—"A hase runner who hold his base on a fiy- ball shall have the right to advance ball touches Whether or not the ball is caught or muffed, he can try for the next basy subject to the rule regarding advances on bases. t looks as if Corkiny, Hizeins, * and the rule book wera’ right on the mall!‘r WILLIAMS HEADY AMERIGAN TEAM \Captains Davis Cup Outfit— (Others to Be Named L New York, Aug. 20.—R. Norris Williams, 2nd, has been selected as non-playing captain of the American team which will defend the Davis cup, emblematic of {nternational team tennis supremacy in the chal- lenge round at Philadelphia begine ning September 11, it was announc- edtoday by the Uniter States Lawn Tennis association. Williams' appointment means his retiremetn as an active playing can- He has accepted the cap- aincy, which he also held last year on a non-playing basis, as he had withdrawn from further competition htls’ season on the advice of physi- cians, as a result of an injury he sustained to his ankle in the Olym- pics. It was reported the planned to call on William T. association Iden and Willam Johnston, already chos- en as singles entries, to form the doubles combination. The association will select two other players to round out the Davis cup team but, with the apparent cer- |tainty that the entire playing burden will be put upon “Big Bill" and “Little Bill," they will merely fill the roles of reserves. 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