New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1924, Page 8

SENATORS STUMBLE OVER BEANEATERS . FOOTBALL GAME SUNDAY — CORBIN RED SOX TO CLOSE UP SEASON TOMORROW — EPINARD RACES THIS AFTERNOON — COLLEGE ELEVENS KICK OFF FOR 1924 SEASON TODAY — OTHER BRIEF SPORTING NEWS i? WASHINGTON TRIPS OVER EW BIG THRI'S | RICKEY-MAY SOON RETIRE |TV COBB, AFTER 19 YEARS, STAL )S . BOSTON, YANKEES GAINING | INSECOND GAMES, {| AS BASEBALL’S STAR RECORD MAN | o w13 Opening Contests Have Been o e, Sehiand b b i WATERBURY WINS VARSITY FEVENS OVER RICHNONDS| START OFF SEASON Closer Than Take Game 5 to 1-Homer Is{Yale-Harvard-Princeton Only Review of His Career and This Year’s Figures In- teresting—Collins Best Base Stealer This Year— Ruth Has Great Mark— Ever — || Playing high tension, no doubt, explains the fact that 13 opening world series games have been decided by the breaks. It is baseball history that after Giants and Robins Re-" sume Their Battles To-f” day. etting the first game out of their tem, the strain is off and the play- Idle Teams Today Hornsby Tops National. settle down to routine play. This holds good for all other games of the series, even the decld- Pennock, Dugan; sacil- | jng contests,. None offers nearly so double plays, Ward, Scott and A th (e hLE i hrd and Pipp: Jefe on |Many breaks as the opening battle, New York delphia 4; base Of the second world series games, ls, off Gray 3 Hasty 1; struck out, [ only four have been featured by the i “‘d :m'“ 4 unexpected, None of them provided any great thrill, the breaks being rather commonplace. New York, Sept. official and otherwise, day following a social affair not ex- actly on the program welcome for returning baseball Boston tea party with the Led Sox |j acting as hosts to the Senators. —Washington, 000 00 000 001 is upset to- ot herocs — a ¥ Pennock oft in 11-3; oif Hast losing pitche Southerners’ Ouly Tally - Richmong, V Sept. play was in sight and a fly, gave.the 27,—~Three hits and two bases on balls coupled with an error when an easy double crifice Waterbury Eastern league champions four runs in the first inning of yesterday's game with Richinond, Virginia league pennant —_— . New York, Sept. 27.—The bulging barrier which has been keeping in- tercollegiate and interscholastic foot- ball into the background for the past month will be sprung today. More than 300 teams representing virtually every college and univer- By The Associuted Press, Chicago, Sept, 2T.—Tyrus Ray- mond Cobb, brilliant leader of the ,Detroit Tigers, ending his ninteenth year as a major‘league star, today stands ot as the greate ] st record {breaker in basehall, winners. Another tally in the eighth enabled the New Englanders to win, 5 to 1. The Colts only run came in the seventh when ‘Manager Onslow hit the ball over the left field fence. Rush had the locals at his mercy at all times, The scor WATERBURY AB. ‘ Nallin, Holmes and Dineen; time Hospltality was forced upon the blushing debutantes of the baseball 1:43. season to such an extent that even Walter Johnson, dowager mentor of the parvenu rs of the Ameri- can league, staggered o fithe fifld after being hit on the elbow with a [0}, " high ball served by Pitcher Fergu- |Wingo. son of the Red Sox. 1t was John- |!f son's first defeat after winning 13 | straight games. The Senators politely responded by presenting the game to their hosts, 2 to 1. The Yankees thoughtiully defeated Philadelphia, 7 to 1, and k heightened the complexion of Miss i o E‘ Pennant Race of the American s ool league to a point where the Senators o 1912—Tenth Inning: Catcher Wil- now lead New York by only one |Ftik I ol 0 game, son of New York Giants muffed a e e : L 0| perfect throw to get Speaker of Bos- The leaders were further handi- capped by the injury fo Johnson, Morel, ceen | tor Americans trying to stretch a e triple into a home run. It permitted who may not be able to take his Speaker to tie up the game, spoiling | turn again in the box in any of the | a Giant victory. The game ended in e three games remaining to be played. | a 6 to 6 tie, 11 innings. | st As a result, Manager Harris has | placed a ban on further social af- 1914—Ninth inning: With one out, |in the sfrunk of the Athletics misjudged a |incly fairs and issued orders to his men to apply themselves to the serious pires, The toughest break of the four was was in the 1914 clash between the Boston Braves and the Philadel- phia Athletics. A misjudged fly ball, followed by a bad throw, enabled the Braves to score the only run of the game, Frank Baker's home run at the expense of Rube Marquard of the ;iants was the biggest thrill-maker, Here are the second game breaks. Second Game 1911—S§ixth inning: Baker of Athletics hit a home run with on, scoring two runs, enabling Philadelphia Americans to beat New York Giants 3 to 1. sily from coast to coach and Canada il § ach to Mexico, will swing into action with few exceptions. These exceptions include the uro-‘ verbial “Big Three,” Yale, Harvard. and Princeton, which will defer their inaugural games for a week. Most of the other leading teams in the east, south and west will open their seasons with traditional first game }including games of Wednesday, is rivals. The leading teams in the|-337. A year ago he finished a- western conference have also elect- runner up to George Sisler with .401, ed to lay off for one more week be- When the veteran Hans Wagner fore starting but the rank and file | Passed out of the National league in of college teams in all sections of | 1913 he left a record of haying bat- r,‘, country are scheduled to pry off |ted .300 or better for seventeen . never n hit- 191 play- linish- s player {n major league history wn my: bat- ted above .300 for eighteen %onsecu- tive years, Cobb's average today How important are the mana- gerial duties? Especially when compared with those of the magnate —the man who assembles the pldy- Iers and organizes the club? Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals is pondering over that question and his decision may be— That the man who assembles the players and organizes the club is miore important than the manager on the bench |struggle for the American open polo Anyway, Rickey has hinted that championship today on international will resign as manager of Ihe |fi¢jd between the Midwicks, 8¢ Cali- rdinals during the winter and de- | fornia, and the Wanderers, features vate his entire time as discoverer of iy goubleheader in which the Monty | material with which to develop his |Wwaterbury cup tournament also will | National Jeague baschall machine. |open with the Hurricanes and Mid- Remarkable Character |dle Neck Farm four crossing mal- Rickey is one of themost remark- |jets, alle characters in Daseball. He| - The lineups for the title match, in { » s a minor league cateher |ypich the spectacular far western |Onsiow, e . Texas league and his careed | gutfit, winner of the junior cham. |Briitheart, » football coach, col- | pionship, will oppose a picked com- |A**" X = business man- | hination of {nternational stars, fol- vice-president |jow: | Midwicks DETROIT 8, CHICAGO 2, DE i ) POLO PLAY TODAY Jenes. Manush, fves bull us American Open Championship s Schmehl, 2b Title For Which Teams Are Com- -:"‘m"' olomon. Yordy, 1f Graham, Long, 3b Rurke, of . Schauffel, ¢ . Rush, p .. coay ., P.O. A E. | “ . b . t Snwow peting at Westbury. TR the one the e | e |, Westbury, N, Ya Sept, 27. — The Slravormusmse Sleacezuas mwlocosmccssos lommnm lomonssame alowosssoam Totals the lid today. years, Cornell, considered by many to be Another record now held by Cobls, on a par with Yale in 1923, will open Previously shared with Willie Keel- ~ with Its usual game with St. Bona. €T 15 that of making 200 or more venture, which team it defeated last ‘it Cobb has passed the 200 hit season, 41 to 0. Syracuse will emu- ;™Mark again this season, making it lute its 1923 opening against Ho. DS ninth. Keeler got 200 or more bart again this year, while Penn. ! Cl&ht seasons, sylvania will oppose Ursinus and| COPb also has scored 100 or more C@lumbia will.meet Haverford. jruns a year for ten years, giving him Dartmouth will entertain Norwich & M€\ record. _|at Harover, Penn Staté" will play | Cobb also holds the record Lebanon Valley at State College ang "0 8cored and safe hits. » ° T e AL mlosmssss0sspZalssssarusnp Klein, rf Aragon, 8 Hicks, If | Stack, 3b . Sras losmue les colleg baseball president, AR IO e e wlossscsmoral® coach, Totals 3 x—Batted for Brillb TRichmond | fiy ball batted by Deal of the Boston | e8¢ 101 ap. Nationals, Catcher Schang attemnt- | 2800 and” mana B0 000—2 , Woodall; two for In addi- club sccond; the Position ‘Wanderers test. {5 |ed to catch Deal off A e | throw was bad, enabling him to 2o | 3 leas te third. He scored on Whitted's | product, Ricke: \\.Nnusl.m] as man- single, the Nationals winning 1 to 0. |ager of the St. Louis )n{‘l-\»\nfi fol- | 1819—Tourth inning: Three bases [lOWing the close of the 1915 season ‘lon balls followed by Kopf's triple ‘\j hen his rvl‘ul: was purchased by the enabled Cincinnati to score four runs St. Louls Iederal interes X |and beat the Chicago Americans 4| Flelder.Jones became jithe ~man- to 2, although the Reds made only [28€r during the merger and Rickey, four hits to 10 for the White Sox. irbl‘!m: an unexpired contract, be- American league won two games, (4\1:'] I‘H:;nfl . r’n(.‘\‘xluiug;::,r“nm s INi 4 , as result of ien the §t. Louis Cardinals w | National same number, as result Byhar ihelty Eoulaicantionioners A B, | AN | breaks, ane 1917, Rickey was snared from the American league for his high-up job |snatching Huggins for the New : % it | I\ ‘l"!:’”:* place club drifted ** New Haven Hilltops Have Classy 1 ‘ : S Looking Outit tail-ender during the —_— business of winning the three re maining games in order to clinch the pennant. The Giants and TRobins yesterday but will resume their bat- | tles today. New York, by winning two of three from the Phillies, can | reach their goal even though Brook- | Iyn wins its remaining two from | Boston. | Pittsburgh awoke savagely from its insomnia at the Polo Grounds | and took two games from the Cubs by scores of 9 to 3 and 10 to 6. No [ other games were played in the Na- | tional league. . Barrett 1 8 to'f! L ¢ 0 nann, Burke; stolen base left on base, Detroit e on balls, off Faber 1; Lyons 1; Collins 1 Lyons 4 in 4; wpires, Hildebrand, " 'NATIONAL LEAGUE PITISBURGH 9-10, CHICAGO 3-6. | | an American league (FIRST GAME) CHICAGO A.B. R. 1 Detroit beat the White Sox, ; 2, in the other American lcague con- | Veach made the first significant move in the Boston tea party by |p singling in the fourth with one out | and went to third when Boone sin- gled to center. Joe Harris drove in | the first run with a single to center and Lee sent the winning run home with another single after Ezzell forced Harris. | Trayno. Washington made its effort | M Rus W to Totals Iveign and he was fired Dl Manager Six Years {owa club and he put on the man- | egerial spangles in 1918 chr All-New Britain Hilltops Rerving Miller voveeeen Pedley . . Perkins Thiladelphia, And Cleveland Meet at Last Nam- ed City Today And Sunday. Cleveland, Sept. 27.—Philadelphia, New York, a | meet here today in the semi-finals Hendricks | o¢ the United States intercity doubles ’!cnmn Rickey then decid®d to pilot his |Will be played tomorrow. The Philadelphia combination of | William T. Tilden, and Neil Sullivan | nanager for six yedrs, /[meet Henry Wick, Ji Boston College will meet Providence in the other day's headliners. The Willlams-Hamilton gridiron feud of many years, will be, contin- ued as an opening attraction at Clin- ton while Rutgers meets Villanova at New Brunswick and Holy Cross en- counters Catholic University, Tn the west the most important game on the horizon appears to be the Wabash-Purdue contest, while in the south Georgla Tech's Onslow, H rifices, Schauffel Graham; double plays, Kleln to Weater; Brillheart to Lacy to Weafer; Lacy to Aragon to W' it by pitcher, RBrillheart bury §; Prillheart §; off Rush 2; struck out, by | Billheart 1; by Rush &; umplires, Wester- |velt and Johnson; time 1:45. g FORTONE IN PURSES An Added Feature At Latonia Js’ The $10,000 Double State Offering —Fast Track Assured. Latonia, Ky., Sept. 27.—A double state offering at Latonia today, the 1$10,000 added Latonia cup handicap, two miles and a quarter grind, and !the Fort Thomas handicap, for two |year olds at six furlongs, brought out the smallest and largest fields, respectively, of the day's program. For the cup event, five tried and proved distance horses were charted to go, while 22 accepted over night for the Fort Thomas, which carries «even. Stoddard home run, .. Hitchcock | . Henry Lacey ++eu.. Boeseke TENNIS MATCHES thorpe. Many other contests are scheduled for today which will bring together anclent opening game rivals, BIG RACE ON TODAY Epinard And Contenders Will Face Barrier At 3:30 O'clock, Daylight Saving Time, New York, Chicago Chicago and Cleveland championship. The finals New York, Sept .27.—8ix of the and Harold leading thoroughbreds in America, Golden | Tornado will hook up -with Ogle- ! tion, he has rc-estaplished the high- est individual lifetime batting aver- age of major league, the record of the most games played in the league, the most years leading ma- Jor league in batting—twelv the most singles, the most triples; the | most extra base hits: the most ex- tra bases on ball. and the highet ‘total of bases. 5 Babe Ruth is thirteen homers be, hind his record of 59. The Bam- ibino is the best in the majors for four bagger honors, however. He also leads as a run getter, having registered. 142 times. In making 198 hits up to the time the latest averages were compiled, he had collected a total of 387 bases. Hiw hits, besides his four baggers, in« cluded 37 doubles and seven triples. Base Stealing Champ Eddie Collins, of the Chicago Iwhite Sox, is the base stealing I champion with 42 thefts. Ruth, the champion batter of the |1eague, has an average of .3 Charley Jamieson, of Cleveland, has displaced Falk of Chicago for the honors of runner up, having .357 to Rickey has hinted that he may ap- |Bartel, Cleveland, in the first match. sor and hereafter de- George Lott, Jr., national junior his time to scouting collegiate |champion and Walter Hayes, former fields and minor leagues, |clay courts title-holder, representing He realizes that he must rebuild |Chicago, play the New York team of his organization which in 1921 and [Sam Hardy, former Davis cup cap- 2 the Giants stiff competi- |taln, and Walter L. Pate, who is tion for the pennant. This vear it |playing in the place of Dean Mathey, $5,000 added money. Chief interest centered in the cup race, in which the Lexington sta- ble's My Play was given top impost, 128 pounds, and was expected to rule fuvorite, with C. B. Heads' Al- tawood and Idle Hour Farm's Bob Tafl, Raceland derby winner, coming against Ferguson In the eighth. Ruel singled past short, but was forced By Leibold, batting for Johnson. |Ki Wade Lefer, batting for McKNelly, doubled®to left center, scoring Lei- | bold with the only run. Manager Harris and Rice were infleld outs. Rice failed to hit safely for the first Talk'y 351, Other leading batters: E. Collins. Chicago, .349; Bassler | Detroit, .347; Speaker, (leveland {.346; Goslin, Washington, .343: Miller. Philadelphia. .339; Rice | Washington, .338; Cobb, Detroit |.337; Heilmann, Detroit; .337. " Conley, (Capt.) O'Hara 0 Left End Warner. . Left Tackle will match strides with Pierre Wen- theimer's Epindrd at Aqueduct track | today in the secoud of a series of three international races in which the French champion will compete in this counfry. point a sncces . Landers, ¥ A Mancini 2 H Left Guard Barrett, Kremer Restella, Sherman . Hartigan (Capt.) Adams, Grimm Adams stolen B Pennock. p '} Cars to Rent Without Drivers | Center Smithwick «...... J Right Guard time after establishing a season’s eonsecutive hitting record 31t games, The Yankees, with Pennock hold- ing the Athletics to eight hits, made 10 hits off four pitchers and scored an easy victory. AMERICAN LEAGUE BOSTON 2. WASHINGTON 1. WASHINGTON AR R 5 raynor; s e Kanney of : been in the second division all sea- | son. Bill Sherdel, Eddie Dyer, John Stuart, Jim RBottomlcy, Clarenc | Mueller, Ray Blades, Howard Frei- gau, Chic Hafey, Roscoe Holm and Flint Rhem are present members of the Cardinals who were found corner lats hy Rickey and developed oy his own hands, Johnsofi? oi B;di)i'i Politis, ! s ight. Tackle and Miskic o Talbot, Tully Gibbons, Kelly Quarterback ; MacSherry Left Halfback , Dill . ... .Enright ight Halfback Brad 1 0 NI GAME AN on e ) J. Landers MMeNeel Letier, xx Marderry, p 8. Harris, 2h Kennedy, Kenney Kick 3 o'clock at Memorial dropped out of sight early and has [who was unable to come, New York and Chicago got into {the semi-finals vesterday, neither resentatives, nor A. H. Chapin, Sr., |who with his son was to represent Springfield, appeared, Cincinnati was eliminated in the lonly Tilden and Sullivan defeated T.ouis |Kuhler and Ted Stacey, 6—1, 6—2, T—>5. Epinard will go to the post bur- dened under the top weight of 126 pounds, together with Zev, My Own, Itialto and Littie Chief, with Fred- erick A. Burton’s Wise Counsellor, winner of the first international spe- cial at Belmont park on Labor Day, and August Belmont's Ladkin car- r¥ing 119 pounds, in for generous support. Wild Life and Victoire wére regarded as out- standers, The entrants, in the order of post positions, with weights and jockeys, follow: Wild Life, 109, M. Garner; Bob | |Tail, 109, E. Blind;: My Play, 128, | A. E. Schuttinger; Victoire, 108, H. Stutts; Altawood, 111, L. MeDermott Today's race of one mile has an Wild Lite and Altawood were added money valie of $25,000. The coupled, as the Rosemont C. B. event, the fourth on an all-star pro- Head entry. Fair weather and a fast gram, is scheduled for 3:50 o'cloek, track were predicted ;flnn'rn daylight time, when Tndianapolis Mass, defaulted | Jack Hennessy Jack McKay, Tndianapolis rép- Springfield. game played yesterday when Rogers Hornsby of St. Louls, re- peating as 1924 batting champion of the Natlonal league, settled down |to a steadier pace in hitting, hov- ering around the .420 mark, which he hopes to beat before the close of the season, thus' setting a new high record for modern baseball The high mark of 420 fs jointly | held hy Ty Cobb and George Sisler | Hornsby's latest average, including games of Wednesday, is .421. Zack "Wheat, Brooklyn vetera: | p | (Continued on Following Page) Hurt When He Is Hit | ), Sept. 27.—No serious in- | Walter John- | ashington pitching | 5 he was hit on the left ¢lbow by a pitched ball in the fifth , the All-New inning of yesterday's game with the gement in securing the Hilltops of | lied Sox. Johnson withdrew from Haven, believe that a better [the game later and it was feared he \tion is coming here | Would be made unable to take than a slipshod |{her part in the ge of the| Manager Stanley } Jimmie Wilson |Senators, announced last night that | of the Hilltops 1 promised to |the accident to his great pitcher | Iring to New Britain on Sunday, one * no gerious results, ms that has ever hall ¢ Walter on the | club. While som¢ Ol W call the players are un- | DOMe said. “Naturally it is said that At that time was excruciatir v T was ne lasting injury inflicte ever and doctor said will be all right an, Even last night his Rice, rf Goslin, 1t Judge. Bl 1sson Parker, Head | Bost eleve r to in t or the the season at Memo- field f e " llinesman, Dave Forced at the mak secon jury e staff, when a chang Johmwen, 1 Liebold, x, cf 1 game of vial f ritain man- Totals New iialanced organ from the Eim € outfit picked up ¢ moment. Manag Willlame, « i the spur ris, of the of the strongest te Fi camniea e elbow, of the known to the writer he 1 in names of | re | cy measure how- | the l d out right manager Washington Boston Two base puys, 3. Har on hases, on halls strack o by Fe off Marberr the Johnson as good as ¢ arm par- | calibre of players usually turn- the city famed for its Captain Jimmy Hartigan and | =00 ° ) | used by Ed. Cooney, |Uicularly uncomf ble | the All-Hartfords last AN-New Britains, Ferguson (Jol 1 and t wved stellar football #on; umpires, Conn 1 Owens u 3lake 1 i Clarkin field . {ner 105 Sherry will be remembered b backfield ms with M ver. is not oft ey £hit; hom . I were of ; Hoppe Continues {o Keep | His Lead Over Greenleaf | New Yorl seas0 he is duo T e at Mac- some n who ax Coden’s New alor of Peterson All-New Britains, The are rated among the best of the pro gridiron in New Haver Manager Wilson has secur- ed the sprvices of Kelly, formerly of Fordham, and Gibbons, formerly the Williams 4. C. for the quarter L position. O'Keefe and Swift tackles are a highly touted pair, flanked on both sides by J. Kenney at the guard the g Sept Willie Hoppe | rld's 18.2 balkline champion is | ,leading Ralph Greenleaf, world's | pocket-hiltard titleholder to | 69 at end of the tenth block in their 600 match three cushion billiards. Hoppe the afternoon match today 50 to 28 in 40 inaings, having | a high r ! of C 1 as the edy NEW YORK 1 e g with Kénney PHITADELPAIA 1 e g the SOCCOLT LOSES TO GALLUP At Rogers Recreati ilding night, Gallup defe Soccoli e« a poin SriiRats point at won comers, 80 to 68 play Zehler 7:30 o'clock. The wing good audiences. 1 of T to Greenleaf's run | he evening Hoppé broke while Greenleaf was ollecting 38 in 38 innings. The high | rins were for the night | The final 100 point block will be played tomorrow night a rule reti = expressed Monday games the 100 tape | Totals the same Al as for the afternoon are Nancini a stations. Coach Dave Dunn, regarding his tcam himselt as well pleased witl B [the All:New Britalp team shaped up |on last Sunday. and again on Wed | nesday night, during the practice The local football fans i@ general |spoke in complimentary tames after the showing of last Snnday U-Drive Auto Renting Co. of Conn. § 0. 30 EAST MAIN STREET—Rear TEL. 474 The ¢ | cameras | — | Acrobat Hurt Mich. After perform- ing one of the most thrilling acts | the vaudeville for two | years, Mrs. Luecille Fondows, dropped from the 12-foot height a\‘[ which she was being suspended by | st | her husband and was seriously in- | the 1 at a 1ocal theater. The act Is for Mrs. Fondows to hang sus- sended by a l@ather belt while Fon- the “strong man." hangs to trapeze with his head down, | the way Detroit U-HIRE AND U-DRIVE 1924 7 and 5-passenger Scdans and Touring Cars for Rent by the Hour, Day or Week. You have a License, we have the Car—24-hour Service. er nese are buying 1ows, every year What Golf: Does to Some ;_Us THE HORRIBLE S(CE ON THE EIGHTH THe HAPPY START BRIGGS BROOK ON ELEVENTH - N THE THRER PUTTS On THE EIGHTEENTH Four To GET OUT OF TRAP on THe FIFTEENTH® 7~ /.’/,//',// /716‘; Lwyragr- Y2