New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 14

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1926. 1222220 E2pnsesenatppearanas: LTIEIIIIITIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIL trwrss 2 = g i e n st i s e FLOWERS DEFENDS TITLE AGAINST GREB TONIGHT—EDDY-GLOVER POST TEAM SWAMPS BERLIN IN LEGION LEAGUE DEMPSEY- TUNNEY FIGHT TO BE HELD IN PHILADELPHIA-——NEW BRITAIN POLICE TEAM TAKES TIGHT GAME FROM MERIDEN’S BLUECOATS $3e0es2retaiadadereresasasatato i aiTRatra s CAREY MAY BE MANAGER OF DODGERS NEXT YEAR ~HAVE Bl BATTLE Deposed Pirate Captain Joins High-Salaried S Staff— Pittsburgh Breaks Even With Boston—Cards Turn Back Brooklyn—Jakie May Gives Cincinnati Shut- out Over Philadelphia—Reds Within § triking Dis- tance—Boston Beats Browns. By the Max C terficlder tain of th become 1 Dodgers 1 In no other claim of the expensive gardener, rda 1y boasts and Zach Wheat, lowed by explained. Dazzy Vance Assoc ted university recently deposed e Pittsburgh Pira nanager of the n 1927 way Press. can the Pirates yest The club alre high salaried performers. Manage! Dodgers, the club, thebench r Wilbe who also tried for is executive he placed Wheat in charge team. A great slugger and flelder, Wheat failed to satisfy the followers stdering as manager. Care: the circumstance bred cap- , may , be anc Brooklyn Brooklyn's al- two t Robinson of the president of a year ago to leave duties of the team's con- un- (SECOND GAME) o1 doubtedly will make up his mind to | report to Brooklyn. The Pirates went into action yes- since terday fo Carey, eran Babe Adams were punishe a reported effort to oust Fred C through pltching, and losing the second, to 3. T the first time Ray Kremer's Carson Bighee and the vet- d for rke, assistant manager, from the bench They managed an even break wit Boston, winning the first, 4 to 1, excellent 4 The St. Louls Cardinals remained & half game behind in the standing by turning back Brooklyn, 6 to supporting Reinhart's hurling with opportune batting. Bob O'Farrell registered a homer and Jim Bottom- ley hit safely in his three appear- ances, two of his blows being dou- bles. Billy Southworth produced a double an d single. Jakie May gave Cincinnati 0 victory ing mine hits well scattered. within exhibition over Philadelphi kept the Reds 1 3 to keep- | This ' strinking distance of the leader: Boston from St. can leagu Ruffing permitted onl park in t! took its Louis in the only e game played, 4 he first inning. five fourth str A to hits. Bill Jacobson hit the ball out of the AMERICAN LEAGUE Rice, of Stster, 1b Willlams, Mitler, rf Mcdanus Schang, Roberteon, Gerber, s3 Davis, p Bennett, x Totals Tobin, Rigney, rt 8 )| % 2 Jacebson, cf . Rosenthal, Regan, 2b Todt, 1b it Haney, 3b . Gamon, c . Ruffing, p Totals x—Batted for Davls in 8t. Louls Boston Two ba »on. Secrifices—Regan on bases—Bt. ath. 001 ZMiiler. Home Louts 9, on balls—oft D X g 6. ameed ball ut—by Da Schang. McGowan. owland, Connolly 001 Tobin. Hoston 4. Lef Bases Struck NATIONAL LEAGUE Frisch, Tyson, 2 of NEW YORK H Jackson, ss . Lindstrom, G. Kelly, 1b Meusel, Musiler, rf Medullen, Terry, x Johnston, x: Florence, . i7 x Barnes, p ... Totals Adams, b Heatheote, Stephenson, Wilson, cf Grimm, Freigau, 3 Cooney, es J. Kelly, Gonzale Tolson, z: Root, p Beott, 22z Totals zales. . Moran. Tin i Smith Velsh, rf Moore, Rrown Burru x 20 i 1 T Mogridge, p . Totals x—-Batted Traynor, Graatham, Krémer, Stoley base—Cuyler. 'in July, for R PIT SBUR 1 27 h.000 000 \120 001 hits—Burrus, Moore, J. 13 1001 't and P.0. A, E 00x—4 Smith, Totals x—Batted x—Batted for Brooklyn St. Louls Two base Iy Bottomley Stolen Bo worth, ~Brooklyn 7 —oft MeGraw —by McGraw and McCorn n in w in 9th 000 012 100 Cmpirce—Ri Time- ; | elsewhere th. L 000 00x- . Bressler, Mokan. Left on bases tl 6. Bases on May 2. Struck out—by Losing pltcher—Pierc Klem and McLaughlin NATIONAL AWATELR GOLF PLANS READY l ‘152 Ranking Players Are fo Take Part New York, truly a » — game selection of the first Aug. 19 Golf is national as wit- va‘ss»d b; ten amateurs in the country announced by the tion. United An and States Golf of middle associa- corners the United States the are repre- first ranking list in golf to light with the announce- ment that 152 players would com- pete in the national amateur championship at the Baltusrol oo A Bt i next month. The leading players will e as in tennis, pre- venting climination from the atch play of such stars as Fran- cis Ouimet of Boston, which eoc- curred at Oakmont, Pa., last yea Bobby Jones Atlanta, Britlsh and American champion and for the lass years amateur titleholder in ted S course is place No. 1 second man Sweet New Yorl the amateur this year, Geor, Elm, brilliant player Ar third position and Ouimet is pla fourth. A of the vet- eran, also from Boston. Sixth Chick who came seeded open two the 1 d is who at Jess won British crown Von from Los eles, tep in front Jesse Guilford place ivans, has been awarded to Chicago campaigner, won both the American and open championships; venth to Watts unn, youthful Atlantan who played Jones in the a year ago; eighth to Ro- land Mack o of Washington, D. C., medalist at Oakmont and mem- ber of the Walker cup team; ninth an Bob Gardner of tenth the newly stern amateur king, Portland. has ur and we g0, to ned Frank Dolp, of Arne Borg Creates : World’s Swim Record Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 19 (3% Arn of Sweden, in the nee iral Horthy, regent Hungary, and 4,000 spectators, terday made what world’s record st heat the 15 mete; at. the European championship wimming meet. Borg's time was 0 Nyinutes 4 1-8 seconds. A. harl- ton (\“\ istralia, previously had the b me for this distance having covered it in 20 minutes 6 6-10 sec- onds at\the Olympic games in Parls ]pu. pres- of when he of 00 ves- | is clalmed to be | won the | s race | ST rr s, IIIIIIISIIIIIINNINIINILL e TR s St T smamnnun PHILADELPHIA T0 ' AMERICAN MOTOR PACED CHAMP FIDY-GLOVER TEAM | ZOCAL POLICE WIN TIGHT Dempsey-Wills Bout at Sesqui" 0n September 23 York, Aug. 19 (®—Philadel- | hia apparently has failed to gain a | world's series for it i but it New sesquicentennial clebratior has obtained the avyweight bout between Tunney. Thereby New championship Jack Dempsey boxing and Gene y York joins Chic as supporter of lost causes, Promoter Tex Rickard made on last night after encountering rebuff in both cities. In Chicago threatened court actions caused him to step out and in New York his re- to summon the state mittee into court brought chunge of front. Dempsey and Tunney, pccording to the latest announcement, will meet ten-round contest 1o a judge’s decision at the sesquicenten- nial stadium on Thursday, Septem ber 23 and the seating capacity vrill | be in the vicinity of 150,000 with prices ranging from $5.00 to $30.00. This time it would seem that Rickard is about to meet with suc- cess in his efforts for the battle has | teceived the approval of the Penn- sylvania boxing commission, Gover- nor Pinchot and Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia. Checks to the amount of $100,000 have been deposited hy Rickard with the Pennsylvania commission and the uicentennial authorities to guarantee good faith. 1 did not want to have the New York state athletic commission sub- | jected to legal attack in connection with the issuance license to Dempsey,” Rickard said Boxing | been good to me and 1 wanted to do nothing that might injure the sport in this state “I don’t believe the New officials will inte s the com-| mission had accepted the bout and two members of the body, George E. Brower and William L. Muldoon, did everything they could to the contest in New York.” Immedi; ter announcing the new site the promoter ordered both boxers to desert their present trai ing quarters and found them willing. “I am ready to move anytime,” Dempsey sald, “and from now until the time 1 lose the title T will f than in New York state.” Dempsey and Tunney to ch sites withi Philadec hia. The c move immediately s to select g0 for his de- license about in a of a York | have Both expected miles of pion will ‘Tunney within 05¢ while camp expect a 19. (®—an X Rickard, New with Jules ht promoter, would | stage the Dempsey-Tunney cham- pionship fight in this city, instead of New York, and whether he would be successiul, were topics of discussion among fight fans here today. In addition to Philadelphia sport dom being given a decided surprise, rd’s announcement immediate- ly brought to light the fact that h may encounter some difficulty fore Dempsey and Tunney meet in the Municipal stadium on September Opposition to Rickard's the Dempsey-Tunney match came from two sources. One was from (‘harles F. White, negro member of the Pennsylvania hoxing commission | while the other was from the box- ing firm of Taylor and Gunnis. White believes that Tunney not the logical opponent for Demp- sey and that the champion should first meet Harry Wills. He said that the boxing commission has not oticially acted on the subject and before he would agree to Rick- ard's proposal, he would insist on some arrangement being made whereby Wills would have a chan at the heavyweight title, Robert Gunnis, who claimed Ta lor and Gunnis hold an exclusive contract o handle all boxing shows | in the stadium in connection with the sesqui-centennial exposition, said ‘ he was unable to reconeile Rick- | ard's announcement with his under- nding of the situation as it ex- | ists h He did not state what action he might take if the plans | | to hold the fight were carried out | but indicated he would seek to pro- | tect his rights. Rickard’s plan has the approval of Mayor Kendrick and Governor Pinchot announced at Harrisburg that he would “stand by" the de- cision of the state boxing commis- sion. 100 FAST FOR AMATEURS Philadelphia nouncement that 'l | York, in Aronson, 1o staging is 10 yet Rockingham Motor .\p-‘wl\\n_\ Deemed Fit Only TFor Profession- | als After Races. (A—The is too am H.. Aug. 19 motor edway amateur motoreyelis been declded by E. C. and representative of American Motoreycle associa- who saw Joe Petrall, of Fresno do 116.7 miles an hour on the Petrali’s record, while not was timed by Smith and was the fastest a motoreycle n driven drivers did better hour to qualify sionship Tace New Eng- mpionship was to have been an- other feature of the program, was cancelled by Mr, Smith's decision. | SEoisba | DATE FOR ANNUAL GAME | Philadelphia, Aug. 19 P — Two | widely known negro colleges, Tus- Kegee and Lincoln university, will [ play their annual football game here October 29, 1t was announced by the Salem, ockit st for h, referee the tion, cal., bhoards. officlal, sai to be has ever bee | Several other | than 110 miles an for the national chan here next Saturday. land club vent amateur ch which | links owned GEORGE. CHAPMAN OF Walk- atest bike riders, will Hartford Veledrome sprint take rank a of the sum- ick over east. tord, Aug 1 Arthur world's gr ride the tonight in a whic promises the outstanding event mer at the fast t They will ride in this racc Bobby Walthour, jr., favorite and a capab! This event will be s, the winner belng heats. This may into four he well matehec who 19 spec race to with sprint rider. off in milc d throw v hea on to win the riders a Wallker kno bike racing has its whether In this country ¥ champion four defeated, at one time all the noted sprint riders and is rated the premier handicap rider of the world. Spencer is equally famed. He has three times won the American sprint championship and is unex- celled as a match rider, This sprint race will vie with the “Diamond Mateh” race for popular interest at the Thursday night two event since s n wherever devotees abroad, | meeting. The motor- Robert ( champion Victor Davenport, Towa, Chapman of Newark, ican champion, competing, ach heat will be of ten miles, the winner to win two heats, and, as with the sprint speclal, 80 to four heats. This new form of competition will strike se fans who h ard the as rather long. There also will professional and Mateh” will be a in heats with nce, world's Hopkins of and George N. J., Amer- diamond event sin of I ced mi motor-paced the fancy of been inclined motor-paced races be amateur some other races. SEMI-FINALS IN JUNIOR TOURNEY Scions of Two Wealthy Familics | to Battle in Rhode Islend | Fast Providence, ) — Scions of two wealthy families, | i ailer, jr., and C. R. .~'um\(]~n. are matched today in the semi-finals of the Rhode Island junior golf championship against two working caddies, Mike Bobel and Slip Guimelli, the Wanna- moisett Country club links here. | Rhode Island golfers, who yes- terday saw 48 boys “pushed out” of the competition, are promising | themselves a treat in the contest Tommy Tailer, gets his golf ing practice on private Ocean | by his father in ex- | clusive Newport, and young Snow den, who is a junior summer mem- ber of the Point Judith Country | club, have displayed rtlingly good golf thus far in the tourna- ment. And their rivals, who tote the bags of club members for fees and play sterling golf for fun when they can have the cours have made the adults turn green with envy. None of the than 18 years of them have played been beyond r 3obel, medali R. 1, Aug. 19 | at who the competitors is more But most of golf that has sroach. i up to yesterday | with a score of 78, came (nro\)gh\ yesterday with a 73 for 18 holes The youthful stars, some of them without an ounce more than 90 | pounds of weight with which to | lean on a drive of 170 yards or farther, have produced one hole- | in-one during the tournament, which ace was recorded by Stan- | ton Wilbur on Tuesday. He was athletic, council of the University of | gliminated by Tommy Taller in the Pennsylvania, The game will be played on Franklin fleld. . play of yesterday morning. It is real golf that the young- ment are is prec Good and class prime local | _hyrch League to Try To Break Jinx Tonight Inter-( held up for will make and The d. Th r more only onc but ice; play n be abl on the and now The game Memorial churches the three re now deadlocked with the Methodists for second place, and the winner of the game will hold that tlone, The St dangerous caliber recently by hold- ing the St. the Swedes have not played in three weeks and may ried them runner-up position. will bring together the White Armies in both have been playving well of late and a closely waged struggle lis expected. teams place fourth. which place; NEWARK, lisplaying. being ision 10 boyish be expecte sportsmanship A more tonig! Kensin, forward to pinning iil-enders and sure of the championship. are ove whelming Kensington to even put its r field, determinted to ma end the extended to ten games. i KEEPS ON WINNING| GAME FROM MERIDEN COPS Swamng Berlin Ent ry il Game McMurray Brings in Winning Run On Pass Ball in { Ninth Inning—Huber and Blanchard Hitting Stars Played There Last nghl of the Game—Wilcox Gets Three Out of Four— i Blanchard Saves Game Through Great Pitching— Leglon, Kline in Wonderful Form—Feeney Shines in Field. on its vhen it Eddy-Glover b post, American ball team, champions of | First District League, kept | path of victory last night swamped the Berlin entry | ore of 14 to 0, e game desultory affair with New ain sending out hit after hit r a tolal of 16 while Morey, crack mound ace of the local team, al- lowed the Brick-Makers oyly two safe bingles in the seven innings. The game started cff like a tight affair with both s failing to score. Then New Britain crashed through for two runs in the second They added another in third and in the fifth, a blow up and cession of base hits brought Adding o this came in and New Brituin's HacMurray back to third. Veley was batting and with two strikes on him the next ball went by the catcher and MacMurray came in with the winning counter, Tommy Blanchard saved the game with his masterly exhibition of twirling after relieving Politis. “Tommy” Feeney who was cheered vociferously at his every appearance at the bat, scintillated in left field sharing honors equally with *M THober in puiling down files. Iline gave a neai exhibition of twirling and his fielding of infield balls was marvelo McGrath snapped out 4 number of runners by his neat throws to second and bis all eround work was the “dobs.” Wilcox was the “Hitting Kid” for Meriden witl three out of three. Huber and Blanchard with three out of four cach, were the big busters for the locals and it was their work in great measure t helped win th Finest” staged the finest baseball exhibition in the ath- letic history of the Hardware City Police Department yeste y when, after being the under dog for seven long and tedious innings, the locals ticd the score and then won out in the ninth by a 6 to 5 count. It was the best game seen in years be tween the two departments in the first game of the annual hom home series between Merid New Britafn, Meriden pr: rain at several stages of the gamc s0 that its team could slip out un- der & wet cover with an abbre viated Vietory, but the traffic squad kepl ihe clouds moving and only an oc- casional sprinkle came down to dampen the brows of the erstwhile biuecoats. a sue- in five in the a brace sixth, for counte fifth four more of runs were scored in the 11 these mak it a runaway New Britain team. an, snappy Ctatcher a his team with four of four trips to the scored four runs mak- all around. He also had four putouts, and no vka followed him with of four, two of them be- and he scored {wo Tuns. and Griffin collected the only twe hils Berlin got and a row of ciphers presents itself in the scor 2 column for the Brick Makers. In the frist inning, Sapkowski artled the fans with a bare handed ateh of a fly ball away over the foul side of the foul flag in Ie field. Another feature was furnished Dy Partyka when Potts on first base, opped a line drive and Partyka for the Mayor Gardner V eld of this city shot over a perfect strike for the first ball of the game twhile Meri- den’s mayor, Il. Wales de Lines de Lussy, sat on the New Britain bench and judged it a “rotten” throw, Th betting between the two first citi- zens of the two cities was heay Juring the game, each betting the other on almost eve inning. ew Britain gave Billy Kilne the of his life in the first in- nins when after Feeney had struck out and Politls drove ohe to center eld which Iliggins gathered in, | Micky” Huber crashed one between center and right for three bases. | Then Tommy Blanchard came vanght the ball as it bounced off through with a stnging single to hd Huber crossed the plate. the glove. Potts an assist on |center & the play and P: the putout “SHim” Politis mect his Waterloo be- e ne the fourth when Meriden, lieving in doing things in bunches, slapped oul enough hits to count ath singled along out te and b a perfect day no assists Banquet At Llks' Club After the baseball game the teams adjourned to Elks' hall where a nquet was served to the players nd several hundred guestse. Th attendance was the largest in year: nearly every seat in the hall being picd. The dinner was successful in respect. A tasty menu, pre- pared by Policeman Thomas C. Do- lan and a number of assistants, was prepared and the diners did full jus- ytiee to it At the post prandial exercises. Chief Hart presided as toastmaster. introducing Mayor Gardner C. Weld of this ¢ vor Wales Lines De of Meriden, Chairman ¥d- Hall of the board of financ. atlon, Chairman Peter Pa of the police commission surprise ocen got in The tour off with speed and without any of & bbling that might he juniors. is the four tim Mc the left field line. Kline sent him 3 to second with another single over second, Wilcox then got his second hit of the game, a single to short right and McGrath und Kline rode home Baer followed with another slap to short right and Wilcox | came in then after Kurcon went out | at first, Slater crashed a double in- to center over Huber's head and Baer scored. Meriden got another in the fifth, Politis walked McGrath and XKline, nd Wilcox got his third si e into ht center and McGrath came home. run of 0 0 [ 5 rgeant Herma) rule : e Meriden police fore: raction. 0 Schuerer of t and others, inging was enjoyed with Con ble Frank Clynes tantalizing th pianoforte onal vaudevills acts from the Palace theater wers 1so part of the program, bouquets he presented to the young wo man performers by Chief Hart The score: MBRIDEN rally | yigine, & Huber doubled over | £ into r and and Blanchard | Meorath, ¢ follow nother two-bagger n\"\;“‘“,,\ ‘ center on which duber scored. | pa O'Mara hit to short but his throw |W wide and Blanchard scored on | {UTo™ pretty slide. Singles by Huber |y, and Blanchard in the sixth brougnt | New Britain to within one of tie- | g the score and the locals almost | did the trick except that Blanchard | was caught out at home. Blanchard went into pitch in the |H sixth and Meriden's bats were all |2 excess baggage after that. Tommy | yracatur !struck three out one ter the other belus, cighth after fanning lhrco‘} Ierat sventh and he held the | 3umm, r team hitless and runless for the re- | mainder of the game. “Slim” Po- | litis caught one of Kline's fast ones into deep ce liggins stumbled | and fell and “Slim” kept on to third. Wilcox got a relay and shot the ball to third, but the throw was wild and | “Slim’- 'tied the score. Then the| fatal ninth dawned. MacMurray | slammed one for two bases into center. Cabelus lined out on on the | right field line for a single and Mac-| The Berlenbach-Francols battle Murray scored. The crowd blocked |will be held at Ebbets Field on Fri- the 1 and Umpire Sautter ruled iday night owing to a postponement olf the [ hurch baseball 1 a full week by t s three games s t. Matthew's Luthe n a week have nceded to clinch the iined out acheduleditoil CRERE RS ol are 100KINE Siruck out—by Myers 1 defeat on the 1 1—Johnson. Wild making absolutely | Umpire—Lynch. Time of gam s WAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS vorites, | 18) ague, rainy try to- hed- ns Pratkowsky, rf 1 o (2 in win been t they are ton ar Britain Two hasc ain staged another ourth. t cen in the Morey chlage I . 3n 1 s probably will not gular team the suburbanites | » a stand treak which has but (Including Games of Aug. National Leagu Batting — Hargrave, Hits —Brown, Runs — Blades, ‘nyler, Pirat 81 Doubles — Heathcote, Cubs Triples — Walker, Reds. 18. Homers — Wilson, Cubs, 18. Stolen bases — Cuyler, Pirates, Pitching Haines, Cardina won 9; lost American League Batting — Fothergill, Tigers Hits — Burns, Indians, 170 Runs — Ruth, Yankees, 114. Doubles — Burns, Indians, 56. riples — Gehrig, Yankees, 18. Homers — Ruth, Yankees, 3 Stolen bases Rice, Senators, and Hunefield. White Sox, 20. Pitching — Dauss, Tigers, won §; {lost 3. L losing Reds. 151. el i o Cardinals, d First Lutheran pes up as the best of offered tonight. These and n 1 L.000 410 000—5 100 201 0116 ater, MacMurrey, Hu- ber, Blanchard. Three base hits—Huber, Bas:s on balls—off Politis 8, 3, Kiine 2, Struck out— Blanchard 7, Kline 10. Doub! to Kelly to McGrath. Left feriden 8, New Brftain 3. Par: hall—O'Mara (2), MeGrath. Umpire Sautter and Zieger. 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