New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1926, Page 9

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n IS | | L » Speaking of Sports ettt Tt IR TSI TS The real eensation of the week- ond takes place tomorrow when the Corbin Red Sox and the All-Ken- sington baseball teams clash in the firet of & five game serles. The two teams are all set for a gruelling bat- tle and the fans will flock to the Baseball Standing AMERICAN LEAGUE ] Games Yesterday New York 10, St. Louis 4. Chicago 5, Boston 1. Detroit 4, Philadelphia 2. (1st). Detroit 5, Philadelphia 4. (2nd). Cleveland at Washington, rain. The Standing w south end park to watch them go|New York 18 10 it. Cleveland . 85 Philadelphia 65 Detroit ... Despite the fact that the Kensing-| Washington ton team went to pleces in last|Chicago Sunday's battle there isn't a reason|St. Louis . in the world to think that the|Boston u........ 42 team Will duplicate the performance [ tomorrow. It is rather a good bet Ghino Taday that the team will reverse its form| St Louis at New York. completely and the Red Sox will| Cleveland at Washington have to travel at top speed to come| Chicago at Boston. in the first winne Detroit at Philadelphia. et (Two games). Both managers have been reluc- {ant to name thelr batteries, but this much we dld get out of John Tebln, There is a strong possibil- ity that Buckland will twirl for the Red Sox in the game. This isn't definite but we wouldn't be surprised 10 see the husky lefty sailing them cross for the Redhosed tribe. Games Tomorrow | St. Louls at New York. Cleveland at Washington. (Other clubs not schedyled) 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday i St. Louls 6, New York 2 | Brooklyn 3, Chicago 1. nnings, rain). ‘ Charlie Yale, who even theugh he was playing almost ail alone last unday, will probably draw tomor- row's assignment for Kensington. | We look for a real pitchers’ battle| during the game. | The Standing | (Five Cincinnati 5, Boston 2. Philadelphia at Pitsburgh, rain. Pittsburgh St. Louls Cincinnati Chicago ... New York Brooklyn Boston Philadelphla Managers Buckley and Tobin are both agreed that the game will be started promptly at 3 o'clock. For this reason they have mapped out| a sehedule which will bring the Sox on the fleld tomorrow at 2:30 for 20, minutes’ batting practice. After that| the teams will have their | | \ | 47 43 Games Today fielding practice and the game will be on. Eddie Crowley and “Rip” McKeon ave drawn the umpiring jobs for| tomorrow. Crowley will probably be behind the plate with McKeon on New York at St. Louis Brooklyn at Chicago. Boston at Cincinnati Philadelphia Pittsburgh at (Two games) Rivalling this game in interest is Games Tomorrow the clash between the Orioles and — New York at St. Louls. the Rangers for the city junior| Brooklyn at Chicago. championship. These teams willl Boston at Cincinnati play two out of three, the first game | to start at 3 o'clock tomorrow. (Other clubs not scheduled) EASTERN LEAGUE Both teams have large followings £ and it wouldn't surprise at all 1f the Games Yeaterday Pioneer field on Ellis stregt Was| Ifartford 4, Pitisfield packed with fans for the game. SUSS e —_— Albany 4, Waterbury 0. The Falcons have a real aftrac-| Springfield 5, Bridgoport 4 tion slated for the fans who will re A main home tomorrow. The K. of C. The Standing team of West Springfleld, with a| WL lineup of former college stars 18| providence 5 coming to try to lower the colors of | Now H 0 the local team. Joe Kania will probably be back in the lineup to- morrow with B. Kania on the firing line. Bridgepos Springfield Albany Hartford o Waterbury Pittsfield Yiggs® Patrus, it Is expected will be back with Kensington tomorrow after being out for a couple of weeks with a spike wound in his leg. His pregance in the lineup will make the Kensington team a different crew. Games Today Hartford at Pittsfield. Bridgeport at Springfield Albany at Waterbury. Providence at New Haven Games Tomorrow Jackowitz who 1s catehing for the Orloles in the Junior champjonship series, is a resident of Hudson, N, Y., and when he was back there for several weeks recently, he caught ur games for the home town club.| players there think eo well of him that they wanted him to remain there as a permanent backstop. There is too mueh of an attraction | in this city however, and the result Pittsfield New Waterbury at at Bri Haven at Albany. Providence Games Monday Springfield at Bridgeport Pittstield at Hartford. New Haven at Albany. Waterbury at Proy is that Juckowitz will be with the oo OriolesitomorroW,, INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE The New Britain American Le- i . gion baseball team, champions of| . Games Yesterday the First District league, will oppose QIS NALY & Raltimore 3 Reading, cold ubs not scheduled) vracuse 6, Rochester (Other the Bristol team at the sociation meeting in this afternoon. New County Wethersfield Britain has clinched the pernant and will play| - in the semi ‘m:x)s in New Have The Standing rext Thursday afternoon. e w L i Toronto 19 We are banking on the local team | Baltimore 49 to win fhie stata tite and we figure NoRark t 5 that our bet is a pretty good one, |BUfAI0 . -.ovuer. T3 o ¢ he team won't lack for rooters| [Rochester 8 64 it is certain because New Brit- | Jersey City LR L ain will be out strong to see ifs team >YTACHSE a n Ading 1 Games Today The Washington team played the; Toronto at Newark poorest game of the season yester-1 Bufalo at Jersoy City. (2). Syracuse at Baltimore Rochester at Reading, INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE agalnst the Paradise Park team | consequently lost the decision Without Iipka, the star| and 11 to 16, twirler of the team, the Washingtons are not the feared crew that they were. i Three Games To Be Played This Paradise Park now stands the only team in the league with a| Afternoon At W illow Brook Park | chance to tie the Washington crew. Providing that the team wins its game with Smith next Tuesday, the Paradise Parks stand only one behind the Washinglon crew now. On Two Dimmonds. Today will be the second last day n the schedule of the New Britain Industrial league, but it will not end |the play of the teams Washington plays the Boys' Club!loop because of the numerous post- nest Friday afternoon and if the Poned games in the works. This team loses, it means that Paradise afternoon at’ Willow Brook park. Park will tie them. The Boys' Club|there will be three games plaved. will do its utmost to cut the Wash-|The Stanley Rule & Level and New ington pennant down and there is|Britain Machine game will not be a strong possibility again this ¥ arl!"“)‘(‘fl owing to the fact that a that the two teams which ended the | {number of the Newmatlcs are go season last year in a tle, will have|inE away over the weekend. No to fight it out again this year. e for this game has been set. This was o have been played on amond No. 2 at 2 o'clock. Lack of good pitching has set the|Diamond No. 2 at 2 o : Ak v gond § g | The three games which will be Washington team away back. Lipka| 71! . Btanley W, o American Legion team |Plaved are as follows: Stanley Works and will not pitch for Washington |#88inst Fafnir on Diamond No. 1 > lat 2 o'clock; P . & K. Corbin on again. This leaves the team with IAES 5 pifk MR OTR B b Bleckowskl i the|Diamiond Noi 4 at 3 oiglock —and ¥ 7 Landers against R. & E. on Diamond 1ox and as “Stubby” habitually walks |\ ; five out of every six men, he Won't |N0: 1 at 4 o'elock |" The feature game of the afternoon last Jong against the Boys' Club, E4 ‘ |and the Russwin crew. The R. & E. {team confidently the Universals, but this is going to be a hard job. The Universals all titter when they hear this proud |boast of the Lock Makers but also remember an upset by a dark MT. PLEAS WIN The Mt. Pleasant Juniors took a hard fought game from the Drap- at St. Mary's fleld last evening. | The game went seven innings. The Jast inning saw the victors pull the me out of the fire. Two runs were scored on Vitale's hit. . The lineup of the winners was as fol- lows: Raragli Gerent p and Ib, Belas 1b 1. Andein) ss Decout 3b, A.. Andrini ! If, I. Gerent cf, Szfranoski rf, and & Murray p. The score: pers 121 000 0—4 Pleagants 021 000 2—5 {colors, the R. & that happened jin the Indystrial Basketball |1ast winter. For {his reason. ill be no fooling on either s ay. | American people goods on credit at the 000,600,000 a year. are Crook, the Bridgeport first sacker, “Tom, you're a Crook by name and | & crook by nature.” with the “Sing dwindled down to 65 fans? Springfield Ponies were leading New | Britain 6 to 1 in the ¢ighth inning paper men who had b him? laround the outfleld | grace of an elephant trying to do |the Charleston? jan umpire? (No, we anyone else. | fights down on Arch street? | white {over as they came down the strects? Lee's Block on Lafayette street and a shave cost cut a dime? off the pigs at Christmas time? | long distance runners in the cit Lot | Vineent Kiernan, {low could break in the cupola ove [the shop. |appeal to Officer Kinkade to ered in the | |will be the clash between Landers expects o dump they horse sailing along under the same league there to- huying rate of $6,- Can You Think of the Good Old Days When— Henry O'Keefe shouted at Tom The New Britain team showed up ing" haircuts? The attendance at Electric Field The game {n which Jack Zeller's | n ‘“razzing” “Steamer” Flanagan used to race with all the Carl (Pop) Foster spoke back to I, neither does “Tippy” Fay promoted the prize Church street had no daily line of ated barbers looking them Sam Harria ran the barbershop in | five cents and a hair Local saloonkeepers used to raffle Fred Brady was one of the best ndge Bill Maj rs on the n was one of the St. Thomas' Seminary | baseball team? o | Attorney FElias Ringrose the niftiest catchers donned a mask for the Catholic Uni- was one who ever versity? When the gang used to assemble and train at Landers playground? Among them were Jimmy Murphy and bis brother Donald, Tommy and “Webb" and n, Tommy and McDonald, “Cannon-head” Step” Stephanian, Tommy an, Jimmie Walsh and Marty Walsh mund Ke dusk used to windows a fel- The great sport be to see how man at moulding room in Landers to be great skating where Stone yard now stands Tt use Meehan! Landers playground was a b hollow with a brook flowing through it and at last they st ] to dump 1 cinders and other things in i to fill it up? Somebody got a “black-hand” let- ter demanding that he plac um of money in the "Big Woods” on McClintock d and wi the unday, on which the money was be placed, came sround, almost the entire population of New Britain there? Danny Commane had one of the irst automobiles in the city and nill able to make Main street 1bout once in every nine attem bought one of machines and had a Eddle Kilbourne those one-wheeze almost everybody in town ride? great sport used to be a trop to Savin Rock and there get t family's photo taken on a ton-type. (It you could only see some of them now). Umpire Muldoon felt obli press some of the New Dritain root- including Philip Corbin, at a basketball game at Hanna's rink? ed ame at Han- excitement? causing great Tarry Wilson, one of the players in the game, was T best amateur cateher in t | when he was with the Co Hartford player. trip- itain and Loom New I game in Hartford captain. the local captain had a foul called lon him by Umpire Otte for taking two steps to avold stepping on Kal- in koht? Loomis ¢ Britain Y. M. letic games ng the high Oscar Smitl represented the N C. A. at the Columbia at in Hartford, Smith ent jump Loomis s pole vaulting events? F. G. Platt, the late Philip Cor- bin and Willlam H, Hart were en- thusiastic followers of New RBritain's thall team world champion bask Two teams from the Stanley Works played at Hanna's rink one e NEW DLiLALN throw to score Britain baske ed unconscious by K of Wallingford, who deliberately Former slugged him? Later he went to first base. ain baskethall team cancelled nego- beaten one of the leaders tiations for a game with the Milvill Pa., jand impartial basketball offieial? | Britain basketball team, fresh from | His right | his football conquests with the High |4 {over the 23d streets of New York, to the spot night, under rules that required the | SALESMAN $AM DAILY HERALD, ' BERLENBACH AND DUNDEE. | a player into & wide net 4 ) 2nt? Captain “Bert” Loomis of the A\"‘n“'i‘ GONQUER Two FRENCHMEN\\ 1 team was knock- | O’Brien of Co.| Featherweight Champion | ‘ Wins Battle After Breaking Arm After starting out as a catcher,| In Third. “Ray” Begley turned out to be the | ionl)' left-handed shortstop in the| New York, Aug. 21 (P—Two . playing with the Maple Leafs? | French champions, claimants of Eu- |ropean boxing titles, have fallen be- [tore Americans of their weight but Manager Barrett of the New Brit- (a third, Little Andre Routis, has on this side, Eddie Anderson of Wyoming. Johnny Dundee, hero of more than team on earning that the la n ter's players used football uniforms, | 400 o ‘ ey B rital ) battles within the ropes, last 5“;'0 sc“ Britain beat them out |including noseguards, in their night conquered the man who games? med to have forced him to leave 2 France, Fred Bretonnel. The little mf::lr’cis ;:;E:lnedn?o vmy e ,mml 4" Loomis of this city had a Italian, former featherweight cham- s at up the news- | national reputation as an efficient pion of the world, won a ten-round decision over the Frenchman at Eb- bets fleld and he virtually did with one hand. hand useless after the hird round, Dundee battled on with- victory oyt retreating and earned the ver- ldict with his left and a head school- “Pete” O'Donnell joined the New starred the ool, and in 14 to 42 ed by his long experience. \lia e Paul Berlenbach made short work AViliam s ClEapt ) Splishiolls) oin \e 1ight heavywelght champion jone of New Britain's leading sports|oe myrope, Francis Charles, knock- is, after putting in many years as jng him out in the first round basketball guard |Charles received three Berlenbach blows and was in such a sorry con- “Barney” Dolerty was a great box the referee stopped the office attraction when roller 90lo pnyt. Berlenbach lost the world lrew capacity crowds at Ianna's tjjjp to Jack Delaney last month Armory? Andre Rowtis, however, was dif- — ferent from the others. He lashed e New Britain tea n in the Con- gyt at the start and kept up his of- necticut League held the league rec- | fensive to win the 10-round 1 for winning double headers, |gion over Anderson. | when " Lynch was at the helm? “Kid" Duggan and “Jack” Mercer, | rival rush had many a hot e Hanna's Armory? William Hunter of New Haven e milo run fn 4 minutes, 58 | seconds, with C. W. Bissell of New Haven second, and W. H Peck of New Britain third at a Con- necticut Y A. meet? | T. B. Shechan, Percy L. Smith Thomas J. Toohey, B. C. Johnson, | and W. H. Horsfall were good bas- | ketball players in Y. M. C .A. cir-| cles? | GORBETT NOW SEEN | STANDING IN PATH Former Champ Claims Rights to Sesqui- Fight Aug. 2t B — A| iar to boxing fans of a | ago—James D. Corbett, | a former world’s heavyweight cham- delphia fami neration pion—has sen injected into threat- 1 court tions and other diffi- culties that have beset the Jack Dempscy-Geno Tunney champlon- ship fight rgements for the battle were started several weeks 0. | Driven from New York to (‘!\lr:go" and back ain and then to Phila~ deiphia because of various legal and other entanglements, Tex Rickard, promoter of the fight, believed he 4 finally “seen the light of day.” en, at about the same time ane nouncement was made that tickets for the tight would be placed on sale neat week, it was le »d that John H. McDevitt, counsel for Cors bett would advise the latter to seek an injunction to prevent the battle on the ground that Corbett had priority over all claims for such a contest, McDevitt asserted that Corbett had made plans to promote five in+ ternatios bouts in the sesquicen- tennial exposition stadium, one of vhich would be a Demysey-Wills match, Corbett had the champion’s ) al for this contest, McDevitt said, adding that the plans also had the approval of two officlals of the m‘ cxposition who have since resigned. Another report obstacle to Rickard's arcangements further pre- 15 sented itself yesterday when an at- 88 pe - torney for Taylor and Gunnis, local Loxing promoters conferred with k in connection with or Kendr an alleged contract or agreement which that firm claims it has with exposition officials glving it the ex- clusive right to stage boxng bouts Landau $ in the exposition stadium It is understood, however, that }-Ton Truck § Taylor and Gunnis do not contem- Chassia Only 375 Jlate any legal action to prevent the 1-Ton Truek § il : Tatt, ‘495 Dempsey-Tunney match, but t they feel they should be compensat- ed for certain expenses said to have been incurred in seeking to promote 2 Dempsey-Wills bout he) No organized ministerial opposi- tion to the fight has been made vet, though several individual protests have been reported. That the reli- gious organizations would “express themselves strongl in the matter." the prediction made by {he Rev. George P. Pence, president of Preshyterlan Ministers' associa- of Philadelphia, Allprigesf.o. b. Flint, Mich. ve the tion | One of the greatest waterfalls in {the world is the Sutherland Falls, | New Zealand, where the water drops 1,904 feet. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, -1926. In an elght round contest Jimmy ‘Goodr‘.ch of Buffalo, former welght champion, outpointed Russie stole home soon after | Frazzetta, £t . it- |sliding into the plate in neat fash- | LeRoy, a welterweight from Fargo, | ' The pitchers were doing yeoman | Wilow Brook work on the rubber until the sixth | the Boys' Club scored | Buznowskl to Hutlbers. Left om Chester beat out an infleld hit along the line, and went to second when Jer- | vis walked. He was trapped between | thrown out. single to cen- Two base hit—Ferony, Willow Brook 2, Boye' Club & Buzowski (2), Struck outeby Bases on balls—el WASHINGTON LOSES ONE T0 PARAISE. (Continued From Preceding Page) zetta, Schamrr. by Schmarr 6, ‘mpire—Lynch. GAME 1S GROWING |So-Called “World's Fastest Jal-alai Being Introduced To the Boehnart sent terfield and Neverauskie's | nother tally come in. | rounder saw mound and their slants had the ters puzzled all were punched out during the Willow Brooks hit a spurt in | and one run was added | o thelr total when Ferony doubled | would win any ball game two teams hitting was thrown international when he tried to steal second, while |With frontons in Spain, Cubas, ves singled soon after but got no |the United States, for the playing further when the next batter fan- [the so-called “world's fastest gam being devoleped here South Florida Amusement compapy. Five years ago jai-alal was intro- duced at F'ronton Hialeah, a special- Iy constructed court at Hialeah, @ amusement - residential community near Miami. Jai-alai is played with curved bats which appear somewhat like tenpis ) [racquets, across a net, the object of the players being to catch and throw 2 forth witheut dropping it to the ground. 2 Urrestarazu, 2|general of the organization, is on & tour of Spain and Cuba to recruit & number of young Jjal-alai efre nd in the score wh Boys' Club but four hit marr was touched for six blows so far between that |no damage was done. es and Chester hough little men on the bases the twirl- at their best but the support of their m. the second frame nd an error pl Zembrowski | took second on the play .and s0o on a wild peg players tor the of frontons. 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