New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1925, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAYy SEPTEMBER 8 1925 %kl W. J. SWEENEY IS AWARDED SEASON'S TROPHY FOR GOLF PLAYING ' OVER 100 ATHLETES ALREADY ENTERED FOR lNDUSTRlAL TRACK MEET —WASHINGTON TAKES SECOND CONSECUTIVE VlCTORY FROM ATHLETICS — BABE RUTH IS HUMBLED — OTHER NEWS Eoaiiniata st SRR B R s R s e WASHINGTON GAINS TWO VICTORIES OVER MACKMEN Athletics Are Humbled For Second Successive Time— Yankees Turn Out Victory Over Red Sox—Giants and Phillies Split—Braves Beat Robins—Pirates Chalk Up Eighth Victory in Row Trimming Reds. for New TYork stralght over Philadelphia sce ) — Two victorles to muake m it and Pitts- burgh will play in the world ser! certain that Washington The 8enators are snugly the pinnacle by a margin of f games and the eight atraight, The veteran spitballer, Coveleskie, started for who won & to 5, the Athletics start- ed to pound Covey in the seventh and elghth nnings and forced him to retire in favor of Zachary in the last frame, The Mackmen will have a recess for the next two da and on Satur- day they are due at the nke stadlum, ‘While Babe Ruth continued to wear sack cloth the Yankees turn- ed out a 4 to 2 victory over the Red Box. Bob Meusel contributed lodged at nerican league halt lost of the / e and one letics have Stanley ¥ his 27th home run of the year with | Ruth will | aturday. But one one. It is likely t be in the lineup on his $5,000 fine stands. The Giants came to Iife after dropping the first game of a double header to the Phillies 6 to 3 and romped away with the concluding number by 24 to 9. In the second game there were five Philadelphia pitchers and 30 safe blows by the Giants, including three home runs. The Phillles also hung up lhrw homers. 5 The Boston Braves tightened thelr grasp on sixth place by coming out on the long end of a 4 to 2 score with the Robins. Pittsburgh is making the National league race a runaway afair, The Pirates chalked up their eighth vic- | tory In a row by trimming the Reds 8 to 2 and now lead the pack by eight and one half games, NATIONAL LEAGUE 1. of. i 1h. Pinelli, Tough . Bria America Reduced in price because bigger sales have low- ered manufactur- ing costs— Bigger sales be- cause of Tuxedo’s quality— Properly aged, perfectly blended Every dealer’s uppl* specifies Idst day it can be sold— Guaranteeing you RESH Tuxedo, when- ever you buy it— Un\'ur\'ing ex- cellence. That'’s the secret! @ TOBACCO ) ©/) Ousramtesd vy FRESH Washington | i" fght the Benators PITTBBURGH | Jinw lor [ l'm ihart m = Jranth | Gooeh « Morrison, 2l ow 15 Grantham Rawlings base It Two bare hits—I Pinolll, Niehaus Roush, Wright. Threo | tham,” Sacrifices—Pinei Bato on balls—oft Morrison 2, oft Brady 1. Dotohue 1, by ~ Morrison Danolue—9, off Brady 4, igley, Moran and McLaughlin, [ 140, —Gran- Barnhart, Mor- ohue 4, off ruck out—by Hitu—ofl Umplres — Time rison (First Game) NEW YORK AB. R. Southworth, cf, | 1'riseh, \lumll. i3 | Lindstrom, Tackson, Farrell, Snyder, c. Greenfleld, p. | xBent) | Dean, xxDavl Wisner, xxxGroh | sssmossuosmumannsad ssueI>3 3z {uber, “riherg, noeassT 0. Th Batted for Greenfield in fth xx—Batted for Dean in Tth. Wisner in fth, I Leach, off Greenfield 1 | 8truck out—by oft Wisner 0 Klem, Time—1 « Hawlke, off Dean 2, Greenfield Umpires—MeCormick econd Game) NEW YORK A.B. R |Southworty, ef..... & h, 2h, 5 Mousel, 5 Torry, 1h, ... Kelly, 1f. . Koehler, 1. Lindstrom, Tackson, Farrell, Devine sosasy | cesu=s A.B. htatone, rf.... ms, 1ur, Vitzsimmon: Terry, Lindstrom, Meusel arlson. Base an balls | off Decatur 1, off Betts Fltzsimmona 5, hy De- Hits—off Dacatur | 5. off Knight 10, ~Klom and M runs Willilams, Mo off Witzpatrlol Struek out—} tur 1, by Carlpon off Betts 4, off P, Carlion | country | tied { Haviland, i ca, | holes, | holes, SWEENEY AWARDED [ONLY NINE “SPITBALLERS” IN LEAGUE FAI]T[IRY ATHLETES GOLFERS’ TROPHY Paul Haviland Wins Right to Have Name Inscribed on Plate Haviland of the Brooklawn club, Dridgeport, was the winner in the Jlast all-day golt tournament. of the season of the Connecticut Golt assoclation which was played off yesterday at the Shuttle Meadow club links, He won through by consistent playing in the afternoon round of 18 holes and will have his name inscribed on the assoclation trophy for his work of yesterday, The trophy will, however, be awarded to W. J. 8weeney of Shut- tle Meadow because of a vote passed by the committee in charge of the events some time ago that the trophy would be awarded to the man hav- ing his name on the trophy the most times, providing that he had it there three times, Sweeney won the event at Racebrook and again at Water- bury and In Hartford recently, he tied with K. Reld of Farming- ton and J. Sill of Wethersfleld for the event and this entitied him to have his name on it for the third time, Sweeney started out on the morn- ing round like a winner, He played his usual round of golf, thought it is known that he does not play as well on the Shuttle Meadow links as on others, and came through with a gross score of 73 for the first 18 holes. The par for the course at Shuttle Meadow is 71 so Sweeney's shooting in the morning was close to being perfect. Meets Reverses In the afternoon, however, he met with reverses on three holes playing them three over par and the out- come of the flrst nine holes was that Sweeney went out in 42, He came fn in 39 making a wonderful play on the 18th hole for a four, but his score for the afternoon was 78 which put him out of the running for first ]’V"H"’ His sinking of a putt that over 20 feet in the morning on Hw‘ 15th holn. was the feature play of the entire day. Haviland shot a 74 In the morn- Paul [Ing round of 18 holes and repeated In the afternoon for another 74 glv- ing hini the low gross for 26 holes with a total score of 148, With his handicap of 16, this also gave him first pl. in the low net for 36 holes, whale he placed second in the low gross for 1S holes and forth for low net 18 holes. K. Reid, Sweeney's most hitter rival tied him for low gross for 1§ holes with a mark of 73 and also him for second place in o0ss for 36 holes with mark of 1. low Winners of Prizes offored Three for low three for low nel 36 for low gross 18 holes and two net 18 holes, No one man | allowed to win more than one fonrnament so that came in through elim- divided 0ss A6 0 Ten prizes as follows holes: were holes, two for low was prize in the prize winners ination of the leaders in more one event, G. W. Manning, another memher of the Shuttle Meadow club was prize winner taking in low gross for 18 holes surprise of the day was registored by Dr, M. A. Kinsella who took first prize for low net for 18 hales The prizes were awarde lows: Iirst, holes, rooklawn, 145; M, A 176 gross, vd, low Shuttle nington, scor fourth, net 18 holes, AS L, Sullivan, Goodwin I'ark, gross, 15 handicap, 63 net; tifth, low holes, W, tied, 151 Green, handicap low gross hol Shuttle Me 18 holes 84, handic gross 4 154; tent] Gorman, gro second low gross, low net Shuttl Kinsella, 42 handi- gross 18| Mea- holes, Meadow, W, dow and K now Reid, A Rross 167, £rons low net Me : sixth, Shuttle N doy seventh, Manning th Calluy nir mari 18 jow D. S 3 p oIS cig low net BrOSS low 1 holes, R artford, A s 166 handicap in the events was a The standing | | 148-16-1 ntinued On Following Page) hole Sweer nart 154, A Low [ 148 follows gross, 4 Haviland W v K. Reid i 156, J Rrain D. Dodgs Paul Hay Kinsella M. A Green Low et 34 A Gormar thi Smart 154-14-140 18 holee: W, J. Swee P. Havi T4 smart 76, J ML D. De A Haviland 7 11-66, W Hum rrell 87 19-68 numl lick the ment entered irnament sinee days one tourns was DEFEAT The CAUSES SURPRISE defeat of the 1 pair La and T e mnational tennis dout nd Thalheimer, Te occasioned quite forelgner foreigne grea ste yrotra Jles by xas hattle conldn’t of the ok the i onslaughts American collegians fhan | al the | while the | i as fol-| Iaul | second, | 78 | Sweency and | " | efteetive woapon is proved LEONARD THE SPHERE R ER" EXTINC SPITBALL (BY BILLY EVANS) A plan to revive the spitball has apparently fallen flat, Due to the supremacy of the bat- ters, it has been urged in varioua quarters that the spitball be again | legalized. | President Johngon has come out | strongly against such a suggestion. | He regards the spithall as not only a trick delivery but an unsanitary one | L that is disgusting to most spectators. L understand that President Heyd- ler of the National league takes a similar stand on the question. With the two major league heads opposed to legalizing the spithall [ there is no chance for the moist da- livery to live, It would be foolish for the minor leagues to put the O. K. on the | spithall, since their market is the | majors, which would have the.dé- [tivery hanned. | In all probability the spifbgll will be taboo in ahout five vears, By the fime the major league twirlers { permiited to employ it will have | passed the peak of their nsefulness Nine Still in Majors | At present there are nine major | leagne twirlers still dabbling with | spithall; {1 in the National | and six in the American, All of thom might he classed as| veterans, pitehers who have been | using the spithall for 10 years or {moré. So It fs no rash assertion to say that in about five years the | moist delivery will bhe merely a| | me mory | In the Grimes, o ree National leagu B igh | Allan Sothoron and “Lefty" | Mitchell are the last of the spitters. | | The American I¢ as Coveleskir and Ruseell of Washington, Shocker of New York, of Chicago, | { Quinn of the Athletics and Leonard | | ot Detroit, Spithall Still Effective the spitball is still a mighty by the nine piteh- FFaber That | success attained by theee | ers up to date, Stanley Coveleskle ington clnb has he American lea 2 straight victorles ing rorformance (o of the Wash- °n the sensation race. His| st piten- of the year in the the b ma Burleigh Grim ho leading piteh Allan Louia I one of | 5 of the National | 1 is dofng well and Mitehedl, one of the using the spithall, is it With the Philijes. classy It fow southp, having a big v With the him Jack Quinn, is h Faher anid Rus f pitchers in t Lonz Years of The ) Afhistics behind | secured from Bos. Iping the Mackmen, | w right ton, N 1rs of service rendered in th ups t long that t pithall spithall majors | accepted | is hard on i ra have her he Sixt « member een years of the ago Jack Quinn, as New York Ameri. | ended on the spitball for v ted” Faber has been | Ising it for 12 years as a big leaguer wd Grimes and Shocker have put In 10 years in the majors tossing up one. Stanley Coveleskie majors in-1912 with the | and the spitter was then, his best stock in trade. The final passing of the spitbally will be welcome to major league | batsmen. Even the lively ball loesn't offsct the difficulty in soly- ing the ‘spitter.” wet ined the Athleti 1S now, [ GETS OUT OF SLUMP | Charlie Jamieson of the Cleveland | Indians has been hifting at his old | gait during the past weeks. | Present averages show him above i 200 fizure, a jump of close to se the middie of July A disastrous start put the Speakere ! jte far below his normal stride, few MITCHELL 18 ON THE ROAD TO OBLIVION. SMAIN IN THE BIG LEAGUES. | of the coming foothall | most | which | capacity. | when SHOCKER ONLY NINE SEASON HURLELI A FEW MORE WILL BIG GRID GAMES | One of Biggest Days of (omlnz‘ All in day in t from all Football Season Wil Be saturday. | Giants is | place of | He's doir October 10. New York, Sept. Service)—One of 3 (P—(By NEA the biggest days| season will | S60mS 10 be that of Saturday, October 51, | D& fello On that afternoon some of the | “°U0N1 0 important "tilts of the entire | Mandles campaign will be staged. Several of | 1O1Y them are interscctional affai always create more (han ordinary infer I St Pennsylvania will be entering a | o of 1 Big Ten eleven—TIinois—with (he | wqpece sreat “Red” Grange standing out as| qown wit the star. Tt “will he the famous| oy o backfielder's initial appearance in | con’ opn the elite east and the Quaker|Nare gaf stronghold is certain to he flled (0| gisth inn ington 1 | Athietics B Georgla Tech is down to Notre Dame in a clash that has be- come a yearly stunt of recent ’\"'I—‘ sons. A good battle always resuls | the Atlanta and South Bend | aggregations get together, | He Michigan will play host to the | tie: Navy at Ann Arbor. This should he | a a great attraction, sort of a social | Braves affair too. Other games bring Minnosota and | Wisconsin, two arch-rivals together at Minneapolis, Yale and the Army, ' meet | SPE Boston, c Neis was who was 18 USING PLAYING versatile ONE OF collision | vesterday, from the RUSSELL THIS FIND THIS FFAM Syracuse and Penn State, and so on. stacks up as a big all it he gridiron angles. sport RIGHT George K now pli the injured ng nicely at the make no differe w whether he rin the pastire the position in a s e job, manner. BEST G/ 1sh of the he he when Browns games of h he h but a single 1 enough, Walter hurler, ners getting a double e point the it th laly osing ing. nt in ahead standing: RAINS T Sept. IFord, of sprained with outfielder, forcing Itord to game in the fifth sent in to run for badly shaken up. T ANKL 3 P the Brookl his left ar Francis * second Sh at TIEL] MES ous viewed D of the field in | Young. | too. It pitehed | is Ionr.m 1ot Washington [A10nd champion for field and track e other | John- | ed the in the | defeat left Wash- | ficials will be selected, of the | |s 1 07 |« ortstop vn Nu-| Wkle in! Wilson, | base rotire inning. | \\H:mni | make the affair a hig event. | the | starting of the dashes, while Physl {inclnding the {in some years, ENTER TRACK MEET Over 100 Entries Have Already Been Received for September 12 e | | A total of 100 athletes represent- | ing the various factories in New| Britain havo entered for the events| in the Hardware City’s first Indus- trlal Track meet which will be held at Memorlal Field, Willow Trook park, Saturday afternoon, Septem. ber 12, The following factorics have submitted lists of entries who will try for the various cups for the| events offercd In the meet: Landers, | Frary & Clark, The Stanley Works, P. & I\ Corbin, the New Britain Ma- chine Co., Fafnir Bearing and &kin- | ner Chuck Co. All of the plants anticipate com- plete entrics in every event. There has been some doubt expressed that | stars In the track und field world would be entered, but thls cannot| be except that the entry is a hona | fide employe of some factory in the distriet from which ‘entries will be| accepted. It is known that the en- tries already reccived from the lous factories is of about equal cali- ber 80 that practically all entries will have the same chance to win, Some of the factlorics have posted | an open lctter throughout the var-| lous departments urging those men | who have athletic . to get out| and participate for their plant. The | following men are representing their Works, G i Jrary & Clark, | %, Corbin, C. J. | Coon; Machine Co., | Jimmy Maher; Skinner Chuck Co., Iliiot Burr, and Fafnir Bearing Co., Mr. ) Tvery night at Memorial Field, a largo number of the entries have| been working out, and on Friday of this week, the men from the Britain Machine and Landers p will be doing their stuit. Perm has been granted by the Park Board for the usc of the fleld for practice | and, all those wishing to work out| may do so with complete a that they can &tay all night if they | vish, A 12-pound shot will be at the | fleld Friday night to aid those who | plan to enter this event. The park board has entered en- thusiastically into the plan for the| event and special care is being taken | of the field. Workmen are fast put- ting the grounds into shape and the running track will be raked and rolled in readincas for the meet, Bleachers will be crected so that those who wish to view the meet in comfort may do so. The jumping pit is also being put into shape and nothing is bheing left undone to Rawlings; 1 Jack Hartnc | Burt"” collector, Loomis, at present city tax but in past years one of best all around athletes in this cf will handle the gun for the cal Divector Joseph Hergetfom of the Y. M. C and Al Bottomley will do the clocking. Art Pilz, former New England all- ovents, and one of the hest boosters for sports in this city, will be the announcer. Tor the other positions as field judges, city and !'utmy of- All entrants for {he open events, city championships | B hould enter at the Y. M. C. A. where blanks may be obtained, Ed- | - Delaney, one of the fastest men cn the track this city has turned out will attempt to carry off the Tonors in the dash while Diiss (lark, champion of the inte scholastic shot putting events, wml work in the shot put. Tf the meet on September 12 1s a on | for the I’M result ew |that scored Veley Hendrickson ...+ SILVER CITY GOPS NOSE UT LOGALS Gabelus Caught O Third in Ninth Inning--Was Tying Run After nine hectic innings of base- hall on 8t, Mary's field yesterday afte crnoon, the Meviden police baseball team emerged a victor over the lo- al 1l .coats by an 11 to 10 score, sccuring revenge for their defeat of week and evening up the an- nual two game scries between the two teams. The local coppers made @ valiant effort in the final frame {to grab the game out of the fire and une withink a run of tying the score, but Meriden pulled themselves together and squelched the locals hopes. Up until the last inning, the local batters could do nothing with the of- ferings of Kline, the little Meridcn | twirler who kept the hits well scat- | tered | and tightened pinches so that had when they last half of the in the hits weren't to be were needed. The ninth was different, locals succeeded in eollects ing four bingles and three runs b fore heing retired, Politis, first up up in the inning, ‘\\ullop-fl the ball into deep center for a double and scored a minute later when Nhlur‘h\‘fiv clouted a double to right, Cabelus, was safe en an error and went to ”HI\] when Veley singled to left, Blanchette oring. Veley took second on the lay. Paddy O'Mara was then sent m 1o pinch hit for ¢ 1. Cabelus cvidently became over anzious on third base, for in spite of the fact that there were nonc onf, he insist- od on running down the haseline with Kline's piteh to O'Mara with that MeGrath snapped the hall to Kurcon who tagged Cabelus a mile off the bag. A second later 0" Ma walloped a single to right and w¢ Id have scored Cabelus with the tying run {if hie hadn't been canght napping. Both teams scored three runs in the opening frame. Meriden took the Jead in the third when Kline scored, Another run was added to their lead in the fifth and in the sixth they scored two. The last half of the sixth saw New Dritain tieing the score, four men crossing the plate, Blan- chette started the fireworks with a three bagger, &coring on a single by Cabelus. Veley then hit and after Carroll struck out, Palmer drew a base on balls. Tfeeney was safe on an error’ and Huber ended the hitting for the frame with a single. The eighth inning saw Meriden taking a three run lead, and the ninth increasing it to ~four, which proved to be enough to win. Annual Batquet, The,annual banquet of the depart- ment was held after the game in the Elks club, and it proved to be one of the most successful ever held by the local police. Entertainment was provided by vaudeville artists from the Capitol. Chief William C. Hart of the police department, Mayor Paonecesa, Senator Edward Hall, Mayor King of Meriden, Chief of Po- lice Landrigan of Meriden were the speakers called upon by the toast- master, David L. Dunn, chairman of the board ‘of police commissioners. The score! MERIDEN ro, Baer, rf Boldt, sa, MeGrath, Wollschlager, Keely, 1h, Tighe, ef. i ol osrurureana® homssnyo e elosmomsuassal 43 NEW nr A.B. [ ~F1:'5:;)<:>6~.:4)l)‘ 2 o el -3 Feeney, If. ... 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