New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1926, Page 8

GIVEN CHAMPION TEAMS S[JPP[IRTlNfi CARD Washington and Pittsburgh Both Having Tlouble—AlI Preliminaries to Delaney Solo- Teams Are Showing Plenty of Strength—Phillies | Break Losing Streak—Cubs Swamp Cincinnati— | Browns Beat Chicago in 12 Innings—Tigers Lose to \ Indians—Senators Win From Athletics. (By the Assocoated Press). More than a week of major league seball as shown the stiff opposi- tion for champion teams predicted from the training camps in south. Both Washington and Pittsburgh are having trouble, the Sena - ing won six and lost four while t Pirates have reglstered victories in only three battles the two New York teams appear to have been strength- ened greatly the close of the 1425 schedule ilants especially nowing an early season power with straight conquest The Giants have been turned back but once, Brooklyn scoring against them in the opening game at the Polo Grounds, at the same time the Yankees have won six 1 lost thres during the present week have scored an average of almost cight runs per game. Cleveland in e Chicago in the National plenty of stren, estiona ble start, 1 Louis Cardi- nals are going along well in the tional. The Giants added to their string vesterday by downing Brooklyn 6 to with Burleigh Grimes their vietim. Four of their victories have been won from the Dodgers. Southworth had a perfect day at the bat with a double and two singles, Mueller's failure to catch nor's line drive in the first innin gave Traynor a home run and the es sufficient runs to defeat the ., 4 to 2 although Johnson . Louis allowed only six hits. arlson of the Phillies pitched an- other excellent games against the Boston Braves and broke Philadel- phia's losing only four h were made oft on. The Ch » Cubs slugged out 20 hits and scored 18 runs against onc tally for Cincinnati. Every man of the Cub team had at least one hingle and doubles were numerous. Mays Day and Meadows were the victim of the onslanght. In the American league St. Loui and Chicago fought through 12 in- nings, the Browns winning 2 to when Melillo single to score Mc- Manus, Lyons of the White Sox gave ix hits while his opponent, Gaston. pt cight safetics well seattered Detroit erred at and Uhle of Cleveland gained econd victory 5to 3 sove American and re showing while Tray- reak, twice yd Koenig smashed homr Yankees to defeat Bos- Rufting and Wiltse 14 the slugging staff of Huggins to Both teams played errorless ball. The scora to 1 Walter Johnson was hit often by 1he Athletics but Washington won, 9 18 & througl hitting. Joe Haugcr, whose g prevented him froni playing Athictics Jast & vegistered his first home run since 1924 AMERICAN LEAGUE he six hits, timely hroken f ith th eritical | the season over | i 1 M Manug mat | ] " ren wl L0610 100 t--Risler, 7 soored 001 Har Sheely, a ng run 000 000 000 008 Bacrifice— vu—Scott ta Colllng to to Kamu to Colline to §: MeManus ta Lamotte t amm to Colline ta Sheel r ta Lamotta to Hargras go 11, §t. Louls 7 ston 1 and Rowland, Left o Tiases o Struck out Uniptreg—Hile Time— . AL ¥ 1 1) n o game - | strides in the | i Jordan, 1! 00 sy 3 0 27 10 st in th, r in Sth, 010 610 0 00 peaker, Hellmann, Al 10- 0%~ ¥ Rourice, on hases Pases o Blue 1 -Detroit 11, 1 oft Hollawa Stru, Gibron 1, off Holloway & in 7, Gibson 0 by Hollow Burne), Losing pite! ~Holln went, Omaby and \TIO VAL LEAGUE ;) 0l ,_lm.mwnn Alox Rely | from Teru, ) 0 0l 0 ite-Fournier Rutls | togetlier ono of the leading welter- 0 wumnn 10| | planncd 0| such a match as it would undoubt- Bass- | el Rl Breslin is hnllr‘l as NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1926 SEESELEEIIEIIIsAtstEt sttt 0ttt ettt tatetttatsasattntItIItIcTILILIILIINL AN DELANEY—SOLOMON BOUT HAS EXCELLENT SERlES OF PRELIMINARIES —CHAMPION BASEBALL TEAMS HAVING THEIR TROUBLES - GEORGETOWN ATHLETES FIGHTING TO HOLD TRACK LAURELS———L[GHT HITTING FEATURES GAMES IN BOTH MAJOR LEAGUES MUCH STIFF OPPOSITION FIGHT HAS FINE Than Average Beneath Solomon the bout in the Ha Matchmaker ulligan of the ut supporting card of bet- | Hartford, | Jack for Monds Stata April Delaney-King | set y night ford Armory, Goorg Connec han av o qu , for instance, ity he semi-fin brings | weights In the country in Paul | Doyle, who will take on “Irish | Tommy” Jordan, who is blasting his | way to recognition among represent- I atives of this division. | Doyle is a fighter with | color. Mo has boen going | post for about twelve years, | truth to tell, scems to be | better than ever. world of to the and fighting LIGHT HITTING IS DUE T SLOW BALL Batting in Both Leagues No- where Near as Heavy as Before Chicago, April 24 (@) |league pennant races are with all the fervor of but not the hitting. Whether the light hitting is tem- | porary und due to the irregular {training of the spring cr the result {of a “slower” ball in use in the two [big time circuits, to be reflected throughout the year, will be shown only as the season prog The fact stands, borne out by cold figures, that the batting sor far cen enomenally light. Some few major leaguers have piled up unusually high carly-season aver- ages in their stick work but the | The major under way other ycars lor so of the won stake races on southern tri |vietor: teams, teams, are hitting pretty |well down in the column as averages | go for this stage of races | | Records of the fir k of the as Not so many weeks ago the [ veteran Italian carried off a decision wver Jack Zivie in Pittsburgh and | nis record sparkles with victorles | over others of the top filght. There is talk in New York of ‘ matching Doyle with Benny Leonard for the first bout in the come-back the retired lightweight Doyle would weleome by champlon. adly net him a neat financial re- turn and at the same time wouid afford him a chance to battle one | of the greatest fighters the ring has ever boasted, In Irish Tommy Jordan, Doyle | should encounter a worthy foe The RBrooklyn boy has been making rapid ring the last six months. His most luminous vic- tory within this period was that scored over Larry Estridge at | Albany. it must also be noted, The has | already met Doyle. two mixed {about a year ago at ke L P lin a no-decision bout, which most of the newspapermen called a draw, | 1f Jordan comes through with the «tuff his past performances would indicate he owns, Doyle is in for one | of the toughest bouts arranged for Nim in some time, Tn an eight-round tilt, Johnny | Breslin, stablemate of Jack Dr has drawn Ruby (Dark Clond) Rrad- ley of Holyoke for his opponent . comer as and don0 erviee) it he whips Bradiey L ~The myster | seems 1o point that w he will have taken the measure of a good [little serapper. It took the fans a long time bofore they come to re- gard Bradley the real stuff, now they all pronounce him pler Murmumlmr the pa Pipp from the Americ | finally been explained. | matter of finance. 1t is all | 3 | than t1 | cinnati club, | On m “u|n|ll\ul has | He is certa to that club and | price No valucd Pipp to the extent of $15,000, nd | made him nati Tho Reds, 15,000 for Pipp. mm. | Pip, Tt It is said clut refused to waive. will w asking waivers was duc | recelved Cleveland | have Pipp befor cared to pay 31 believed him worth that much of | gamble, Both mitted and includin Wedne: ames, d 1o how the leading the clubs | average of and the at the top of the American gtanding with a 328 pereent- cagon st Phillies with an 247 lea The Cincinnati comes third with The worll champion Pittsburgh ho tale that pipates trail them all with the cx-| member of the Cincin- [{ramely Jow team percentage of .187. the National lcaguc. In virtually a direct reversal of | badly in need of a irst |y eir final 1925 pennant standings oftercd the Yankees |pe (he American league clubs. Next The New York |1y the Yankees come the Cleveland particular for [ndians with a team average of rig had displaced [yng Boston stands third with , asked waive 6. hAtapian o Ameriean league e Jagt with a rating of ue WALLY ripep batting and | team cond Glants a club in the American league hereby hangs club of :man, having sinc no s ‘o | wa |was at the Philadelphia and Cleveland, | one of the few vet Both clubs Wert joqtors near the top of the i I to take a chance on Pipp at [y ganding at this time is Rogers | waiver price, which is much 1655 | jornghy of the St. Louis Cardinals, 5,000 offered by the Cin- |10 holds his old post at the top | of the National players with an av- | > of . Zuch Wheat | of the Brooklyn Robins with .417 made in six games, and Heatheot Chicago outfielder, is third with .391. | Bottomley, §t. L “ardinal, who | finished second among the hitters in | his league last scason, is down in | [thirty-second place. Strangers to their posts held the ranking places in the American in- | dividual standings afier the ' [week, Bennett of St. Louis had {rating of out of tive times and Flagstead of Boston one of as an active player. Dykes of delphia, being third 485, IRabe Ruth stands twelf at ihat well above others of t crang, Speaker of Cloveland, league baseball gentleman's the m nates. its reason for to the offer the Cincinnati club, or Philadelphia could Cineinnati if either , 000, Neither club y major there existg ement between York explained ters from a in addition to the big would demand. clubg withdrew desire a| at ary he their ad of tuking on Pipp and 1 1o Ko Cincinnati n to add much strength th twice the 600 | | ha 518 Phi to is wor | paid for him. Sim- | | good enough to give any of the top- i notehers an interesting session. | In one six-rounder Romeo Roche of Holyoke will battle Phil| | Richards of England while the other | { preliminary over the same route will | a heavywelght | ANaa ey Gt New ;\lnrh of Two Greatest Moundsmen e Pt .| of Baseban advance signs attendane: reeords N in New England. 'RECORDS OF HATHENSON | Haven s There } tiekets and all indoor 20 to & ale e Are Targets Yor are that | Present Twirlers will ‘ York, April cords ¢f two of baseball's greatest STRANGE GOLF GAREER |novroncr Eddie Plank, stand out as marks for the new pitching generation to shoot Lamprecht Has Entered In- at with the start of the 1926 major ue campaigns. ) stretehing over seventy-ye .‘frmie {he “old maste 24 (P ~Tred as a Fred surance Business and May Not Be | . e performanees of these *are all the more result of the passing of sinee the close of the 1925 pennant Here are the main facts: Able To Defend Title, New Orleans, April Lampreeht, national intercollegiate golf champlon, celehrated comple- tion of his course at Tulane univer- | Mathewson — Pitehed in 630 games, sity winning the 1€ States {winning 372 and losing 187 for a championship for the fourth time. |n of .665, all N He immediately entered business at Struck out 2,207 bats s, hecoming rhanager iowed 41828 hit an insurance company. Hurled The intercollegiate title holder af announced that he expected to de- : »nd his title at the national inter- colls ampionship and also en- ter 1t southern intercolleg However, an “if” enters into his cal- culatic “Pooley” Hubert foothall player, wor company 1 races. by York Giants. men, walked two mno-hit | Louts, July 0, and other of - 1901 galnst Chicago, June 13, 1005, winning by 1-0. Twirled {three shutouts against Athletics in {1905 world's serfes and one in 1913 and lost five games in ries competition, 1905 1912 and 1013, Pitehed ind losi of .627, inc with Athletic Browns 2 Tals. ruck batsmen and walked 1,081 {pated in five world's & two and losing of ate ¢ ate famed Alabama | s for the same | mprecht has | ‘hampion, whe Kr\'\rf‘v mpl o “‘; winning n Tular pereentag underwriting contest {0 e Hubert. 1f he wins that |0 ¥ ( \Uigt. Touls will seek m golf Lonis 1 conquer. in games, nai for a iek fonr- AVIATORS PLAY BASEBALL Jimmy and Ydward Murray Air Mail 1o five ga pionships nd 1014, SLUGGERS' PARADISE Rarifiel ™ Are Mainstays of Chey- enne Indians Nine Apri 72 Atmosphere of salt Lake AND PLANK WILL STAND N Hartford Joyes Mangum. 24 (A—The - THS Te md | Waterbury . .o 3 7 . Christy Mathewson and | McPhee vivid | both | Albany v 3 2 | Pittsfield Hin Providence Springficld A man of st mons of EASTERN LEAGUE e, 1l Philadelphia, Hellman and George Sisler of ng well down, The bat- worn Ty Cobh didn't figure. hav- ppeared only as a pinch hitter. So far there has been an evids ent, absence of ext ase hits and two cireuit clowts stood as the home 'irun record. Three National hitters made that many, Leach of Phila- |deIphia, Williams of the Phillies and [Bottomley of §t. Louls, while in the | {American Pat Collins and Mousel of | the Yankees tied with a pair each. | {Babe Ruth lifted one out of the | playing ficld during the week, I'lagstead of Boston collected 24 es withhis safeties in the Ameri- an to lead hoth leagues, Wilson of Chicago, topping the National with 22 to his credit. Ruth ran up [total of 11 runs in the Yankees' | games, Stand of Philadelphia faring | {est in the National games with 10 | iis eredit, a record equalled | Cor nd Gehrig — | nued On Following Page) | At New Haven i Haven and Berger; Lynch At Waterbur, i cport 10 1 nnon and Army; chanifel At Springficld Stelnhilber, and 1 H . a| and Smith; il Pittsficld O'Neil, and At H. E.|runs to oth of the d 5 Philliy and Elfott 17 Yankees. Kle | {executives of the German federation lordered | cans {oft for the Rivier | The ldue to a | golf clubs with BEST IN MILLION DOLLAR FIELD 10 RUN IN DERBY! Candidates Have Won $921,052 TIME FOR REST N BASKETBALL GAME Court Game Not as Strenuous i 20 - score [t Appears From the Side Lines fittest from a *million | dollar” field will start In the 6200 Kentucky Derby at Churehill Downe, | Saturday, May 15, The Derby candidates won 952 as juveniles. Since they vaneed to the three.year-old on January 1, several others As | Juveniles And Much More In Od. | er Classes, Louisville, April Lawrenee, Kane, April 24 (P-— cetball appears from the side- lines fo be a game that progresses fwith breathies speed, o groelling contest to we £ quickly even the aid class have | cli and at Tijuana, bringing the total to more than $1,000,000, Chief among the “big winners this year is Calaris, rom the | final gun, however, it has been found [there is as much time for rest as for activity for the team as a whole, | while for the individual player there is twice much time for rest as | for activity | These concluslons have been defer- I mined by Dr. James Naismith, fnven- |tor of the game, who has made de- Missourl Valley con- mes for the Dr. Naiemith has L member of the University of The $921.932 was won by 142 physical education facully Ten never started while the |for nearly thirty on the other twelve were \|u.‘ With stop w Jable isnith Two of the hopefuls are $160,000 | players & winners, Pompey, with $121,680 in |in the purses won as a two-year-old, and ‘lnm‘.\\s‘ Canter with $113,948, alone being in | the six figure class. Flight of Time next with $39,792 and Nurmi aptured § " one of the oth- ors the $25,000 mark last | yoar, Several of the “winners” I got into the moncy miller with one secon hottom wi ATHLETIC BUREAUGRATS Nelly money" whos in the Coffroth Handicap a Tijuana was worth approximatel $70,000. As a two-year-old, Calaris' winnings amounted to only $1,050, according 1o records here, He start- ed four times, winning one race, placing ono: and running out of the money twiee, years, in hand. Doctor has watehed individual nd teams as a whole, hoth university and high sehool and he is convineed that hall is not too strenuous, even or high school yonths, One of the most stronuous games 1 the Missouri Valley conference in rs was tho Kansas-Nebraska con- test of 1925, which decided the Val- 1oy basketball championship. 1rom that game, Mr. Naismith obtained these resulis: Time clapsed during the game, six- fv-nine minutes; time faken out, and other rests, five times for a total nine minutes, fifty-one sccond: laverage rest period, 1:58. There . were thirty-five rolaxation periods as Tennis | when o goal was made, a foul called, a held ball, or ball out of bounds. | These periods varied from four sec- onds to fifty seconds, the average being 17.7 seconds. On the other hand there were for- activity periods in which playing s oxcecdingly fast, these periods ving from four seconds to two | minutes and thirty-five seconds, the | e being fitty-one scconds. Tl total of team activity during the six- nine minutes was thirty-four min- utes; tha total of relaxation and » {thirty-five minutes, Thus the re tion was slightly more than per cent. Tn this particular I f | | passcd in two start: h $100, Lof Neppach, German Champion, Is Disqualified By Ger- man Tennis Federation, Berlin, April 24 (®—Nelly Nep- | pach, German tennis champion who s disqualiied by the German tennis federation for playing on French soil against Suzanne Leng- len and Helen Wills, is fighting ¢ battle against athletie hureaucracy The Neppach disqualification was based upon the alleged faet that the | her to decline Suzanne personal invitation be the intornational tennis fed- « ion, with headquarters at Paris, |tivity of individual players averaged has alonc of athletic federations not | yanty minutes, twelve seconds, seen fit to reseind the wartime rulo | out thirty per cent of the total of barring Germans from the (OUMA- | tiveomine minates. ments. Yet Frau Neppach started The longest period of activity for Kansas man observed by Docto . Naismith was that of Boby Mésby, a. {iuard in the Kansag-Drake game in all. Many were 1qs5 Noshy was on the go for two tone i Which | mjnutes, fhirty-five seconds: _rasted octiilva al ]""}""”“""”‘ Hwenty seconds and was again off Ei ”‘.;‘ ]‘, (‘.'m;vm boi ]‘ ‘fl POPU- | for two minutes, fiffesn second : s previous record, claiming i rinie gut for the full two minute that her German championship was S S then was called. SERVE DRINKS ALL DAY |5 Beson e cowe by Doctor Naismith showed {ndividu- Some 350 Golf Clubs With 100,000 Lenglen's me the ac- or I'rau Neppach knew of the order. Rut that was not offended at the rud the disqualification w denied that she s lal players are in action for ten to twelye mintues out of the sixty min- utes of playing time. Members Protest Against Restric- | G .9 F. h- ,? tions Made During War. 'uom snm . 24 (M—Some 350 100,000 members who work up a thirst while toiling round the course have sent a reso- | Intion to the cabinet through the Golf Clubs' Protection society pro- testing against the vestrictions im- posed on clubs and acking for a repeal of such warfime restrictions, which they declare constitute a breach of faith. The golfers desire alcoholic drinks served all day long. Tondon, April ickerel Seasom Opens NMay 1st. 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