New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1926, Page 8

NEW BR]TA]N DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1926, GUARDS WIN CITY CHAMPlONSHlP BY TAKING FINAL GAME FROM AMERICAN LEGlON TEAM——LOCAL Y. M. C A TEAM SWAMPS WINSTED QUINTET—INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE CHAMPlONSHlP GAME AT Y.M.C. A. TOMORROW NIGHT—BIG LEAGUERS HIT HEAVY CHANGES IN BASEBALL RULES ARE IMPORTANT BUT NOT VERY RADICAL GUARDS BE COME CHAMPS AS LEGION TEAM WIETS Gierochowski Makes Margin of Victory Safe By Fine Work in Second Half — Losers Hold Lead For Three-Quarters of the Game — Nationals Take | More Than 14 Minutes Before Caging First Field (oal—Reserves Have Revenge On Benton Tigers. me had been played. his side’s count 16 with I'wo minutes and 15 sec- layed when Kilduft to tie the score. r seore > try but Johnny ehan immediately tied the count | vith one of the same variety Then the Legion made {8 last t of the night Arburr scored a long shot and Luke putina fre I v again added a point complimentary stripe and Jasper got loose to cage a field unning the team's wu to 2 ¢ blow tho Leglon night. Shortly nother stror cglon machine was | o t e same route nd this caused » blight that limmed the sun of victory for the Legion team. Gerry was awarded two tries on Pelletier’s fourth fou 1 although missed the 1 sl dropped throy e hoop. Tavlor sncaked under his ard and dropped in a ficld goal. Gierochowski misse shot but ame right back to t T inona 1 from the b: (e T played when s from Kilduff | once to drop the hall | hoop. Gerry fl.,nml from the side and the ball t nly. 1 team picked up a 1it- 1 passed nicely to work Jas- he could get clear to leaving the score 2§ to | cored a free try. He | on the next play by ank a pretty fleld goal e with a free try. ade the boar tore on nd coming to op, arc J a1l through for another count. The ] PRCLSES ¥+ | Guards disdained to hold the ball for Firet Maif nal whistle but lept playir cond a shot. Nyborg got away for a t the backboard and he droppec e ball in rry followed him a pretty play and shot making al score of the game, The was 56 to 27 for the Guards, i ! ing them the champions of the nemory of 1‘” ty. The ary 1ser quickly National Guards 1other 1 free 10 American Legion Burng and M Peclimin National to Hartford fron GOLF TITLES ARE GHANGING HAN Bobby Cruichshank and Louise J Gruickshank and Lovise NEU \1\\ weight champlon, fights Ray Neu- {man and Bobby cla and Johnny ns and | Drew, leading contenders for “Kid” | Kaplan's crown, come fogether for first tim 16 sta ighways leading to | city will resemble a Yale-Har- foothall day when the migra tion Hartford starts about o'clock tonight. The doors of the PAUL BFRLEA B \fll armory will be open at 6 o'clock and the Atlas Athletic club, wWhich 15 |\)o appeared here Friday night, | | producing the show, expeets an al- | most steady stream of ticketholders from that time to $:30, the time for the first bout. Thirty-five policemen and 60 ush. (27 s have been hired for the bouts. | & N | They were at the armory yesterday q received their instructions &o | the guests of the club will b | ¥ vely guaranteed the seats fo n'w i their tickets entitle them. | Rerlenbach, Garela and Drew ar rived yesterday, all in pertect con- | dition. Berlenbach is expected to | weigh abont 182 pounds, his second ' ‘lrnuL as a heavyweight. arcla and drew will come in at 1 Neuman, [ will outweigh Berlenbach by close to 10 pounds. | other two bouts on the rd ack Catkisch vs. Sammy Coop- ew Haven boy, and Willie La Morte of New York and Pincus Sil- verberg of Ansonia, flyweight cham- | vion of the e The sale of tickets will continue this afternoon and tenight at the I main entrance to the armory. While the advance saje has been big, the wnh has made arrangements to take are of late comers and tickets will be available tonight. t Scioto this year. The play- will come from some 20 section 1 tournaments. And, | Jones, s Ouimet ford ar | the other gr tenurs are in line for honors WHIRLWINDS BEAT DIKIES | Bashethall Game Ts Torced Into | Iatra Perlod To End Up In a 12 To 11 Count, with The | OND NEW LEl\DER APPEARS IN BOWLING TOURNAMENT Another Pair Ties For First Place in the Two-Man Event in Ameri- can Congress Matches Toledo, O., April & (T'—One new {eader bobbed up in the American | bowling congress tournament on | Easter Sunday while another pair | | tied for first place in the two-men | event and half a dozen other sh- ed among the ten leaders as a result | of the terrific pin battering hy out of | | town bowlers. The Castany team of Chicago on tho late shift last night collected ;|“ total of 3063, which put them in first | place, ten ping ahead of the Recre- | ation Number 2, of Port Huron, | Mich., which had held the topmost | place for several wecks. The team | gathered games of 1( came back | with 937, and then followed with 1101, | During the afternoon Aston and | | Young, a pair of bowlers from Ak- | ron, Ohio, went into a tie for first Place with Gardella and Tocco of s | Detroit, with 1335, for their thres | followr um Whirlwinds Divies BOKING won Pare Mitt Ariists Begin Com sotition Tor National Titles in Boston Bouts, ! games. They started off with 460, | cameback with 464 and then wound 'H\) with 431, wag announced by tournament headquarters tie between these pairs rolled off Tuesday evening, the B. C., closing late fn tha afternoon | n the final singles and doubles e rolled The team event one the tirst shift beingz 14 Toledo teams, and 10 from Detroit, with Dayton, Adrian, Mich., and Roches- ter, N, Y., being represented. On the second shift. il be 20 Detroit teams. BEGIN TRACK SEASON Harvard's Candidates For Outdoor Ivents to Have First Workout Under Coach Today. Cambridge, Mass, April 3 BP—| Harvard's 1626 outdoor track season gets under today. A meeting | of candidates Coach Eddie rell will de first workout. With indoor champlonship ssion, Harvard son. There arc four intercollegiate champions or former champions on the team in- 1 Captain Til Red Hag- AL Miller | Guid cloge tonight, | | umpires. 1f a game Is started with | Ing classified with the 1lation Use of Resin Optional But | L‘,,‘.. e to Use Foreign Sub- stance on Ball Still II- legal—Pitcher Throwing tentional Pass. Although the changes made in the playing rules of bascball for 102 {are not revolutionary, neverthe | they will have considerable be {upon the outcome of many There has been no upheaval of piteh- | g rules have been made at vari- | ous times in the histery of the game. | Perhaps it would have been bette 1it there had been a little more free. | dom granted to the pitcher, but that is something that can await the turn Lof the tide Wherever a ehange has been mado in the rules in their publication in Spalding's Official Baseball Guide, it | has been noted in the marginal di- rectory. In the explanations of the rules which are o feature of the where, the changes have been com- | mented upon by the editor of the | Guide. There has been some misunder- | standing even this carly about the | | ehanges. This is due to the fact that criticism was made of the amend- | {hrowing to an unoccupied base has | ments without the crities awaiting | In Section 2, of Rule 2§, about substituting players, there has been no end of confusion among the youngsters as to what “any stage of the game” means when onc player ontest for another. | Prequently it has been ruled that a to Unoccupied Bag Does | Not Conflict With In-| | the run would count. Of course, that would result fu a farce, because player could break down between first. basc and second, and if another player tonched first base and cone tinued to run for the injured player, slow runners could pretend to break down at first base and faster rune ners could take their place The rinle has been g0 changed now that o substitution cannot be made while the ball is in play. The umpire ale way s “time” when a substitue tion 3 ' To Section 2 of Rule 30 there is ippended the rosin bag zraph which has become famous thus carly, The National league will use it and the American ue will have none of it The rule dees not say that the pitcher must dry his hands on the rosin be 1t says he m, There can e a legal rosin bag, and {f thero s a league that doesn't want to carry the bag, there is nothing to compel it to do so. Note one thing very carefully, and which are not. found else- | Not a word of this rule about tha use of a foreign substanco on the | ball has been changed. To dauh or maltreat all is as illegal as cver it was, Rules For Pitchers The rule in regard to the pitcher been changed so that it he does it the official. Although the changes | onee he is warned, and if he repeats were noted and carefully explained | | by the committee, wrong impressions have heen ereated by confusing ons ge with another. The coacher may no longer go farther back toward the outfield | than an extension of the base lin | from first to second and sccond to third bases into foul ground i definitely. The coacher's assistanco nust therefore bo confined to the in- | 19 and is not to be' used in effort to get the “signs” of the pitel er and the catcher. This modifi Rule 6. Where the words “the ball” occur now and then, a chango has been made to “an alternate ball.” This came bee: 2 50 many | basenalls must bear its legal signifi- cance to the game. | Use Old Balls A raph has been added to | | Seetion 5 of Rule 14 which is more > | for the benefit of the minor leagues «n it is for the majors, although in be used in succeeding games if they are accepted by the six new balls and they are lost, the wmpire may finich the zame with six Dballs that have been used previously, it they are delivered to him by the home elub and are satisfactory to amendment is largely one of econo- tmy The rule regarding that bat is| |it he is out of the game. This chango | has been roncously confounded in some way With the intentional pass, but has nothing whatever (o do with it. The change is very proper and a good one, as it prevents needlesy delay of the game, Various slight changes have been made in the balk rule, but none of them alter the balk or its penalty. 'he changes have mado the rule {mueh clearer, bling toward the outfield in an If & batsman stands at the plato nd, in the opinion of the umpire, {dodges into a slow ball so that he ispoils either a ball or a strike umpire may put a penalty of a ball |or a strike on the batsman. In tho | past it has often been ruled a deod | ball, and thus the batsman got away | with a play at the expense of the | pitcher. Of course, if the batsman \N hit aceidentally, the rule of hit by piteher applies as it always did. Intentional Pass The rule about the intentional pass | stands as it did. although the mem- both may profit by it. It provides | h have been used | bers of the rules committes were quite willing to admit that it is superfluous and unnecessary. How- ver, it had been incorporated into | the rules as sort of a precautionary | warning to the catcher, and so it | was permitted-to remain. The words “the intentional pass” were stricken from the rule. The leagues do not | recognize, or pretend longer to {him. He may throw them out if he | |is not satisfied with them. The recognize, that there is not such a |thing as an “intentfonal pass.” | Mind readers can not play baseball {in the capacity of umpires. The distanca of a home run is 250 rowritten. It is not changed in in- ‘fr-(. and yet the size of a ground | tent, but it is clear. In the original { form it was not. It asserted origin- ally that one end of the bat could be does not necessarily have a mini- mum limit of 250 feet. A ground may be 235 feet at its least measure- ‘wound,” but did not state specifical- | ment, but home runs will not be 1y which end. In Rule 16 it says that a plnm-‘ may act a8 captain. That means that | f a team does not want its captain on the field it can have him in the | coacher's box. It has become the custom to have the captain a player | other than one of the regulars. Donble Headers The double header rule, which |legal over that 235-foot wall. That point is flatly settled by increasing the distance of a home run to 250 feet. The umpire, by the change in the rule regarding suspension of play, may call the game at the end of thirty minutes if be wishes to do so. If, in his opinion, he can afford to {wait five minutes longer, he may; makes the first game of the after- | but on the other hand there is noth- noon the legal game for the day, has | been sot apart by itself instead of | (Continued On Following Page) By BRIGGS Now You JUST STOP BEHAVING LIKE THAT! YouU CAN'T Go AROUND LOOKKING LIKE A ROwWDY YoU'VE GOT To WEAR A DERBY AND LOOK LIKE A LITTLE GENTLEMAN =