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the Kensington field is open to play the game if there is any objection to NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, ) which came nearest to turning 1926. (10). iSpeaking of Sports Yvents of the'naxt few days will @scide the wtatus quo 97 the All- “New Britain footdall tsam, accord- lng to the hot dope being handed put by those in the know. Atlhough nothing definite is being anounced with regards 0 the formation of a teaui In this city, as we have re- Dpeatedly stated, there will be a pro- ‘fessionai footlall teawa in this city this year. N Eddie Barnikow has signed a con- to play with the Hartford | Biiies and he makes another of the | former New Britain players who has been taken over‘by Mulligan's rep- | resentatives. Ed Dalley has had a large num- ber of football players in to see him within the past couple of weeks ask- ing for places on the New Britain teaz:. Ed has deferred signing up | anybody until the return of “Doc” Waskowitz from his vacation. There are hundreds of good foot- ball players loose vet, according to the“stories going the rounds and New Britdin will have all the op- portunity. in the world to get to- gether a wonderful outfit this year. playing the ggame on the Falcons' fleld, St. Mary’s. Cleveland . | Philadelphia . Detroit ... | Washington Chicago st. Boston Baseball Standing AMERICAN LEAGUE t 1 Games Yesterday New York 38, Cleveland 2. Philadelphia 4, Chicago 1. Detroit 9, Boston 1. St. Louis 8, Washin_ton 4. The Standing ew York .. Louis . Games Today Cleveland at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. Debroit at Boston. St. Louis at Washington. NATIONAL LEAGUE Gafies Yesterday Brooklyn 7, Pittsburgh 8. Pittsburgh 10, Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 7, New York 6. (14 innings). (1st). (2nd). ford in the Connecticut League, won from Springtield oke and O'Leary caught for Hart- f\?rd in the Connecticut League? Bame for Hartford, got two singles and handled eight of ten chances in the fleld, against New London? caught for Springfield? New !\\nh three hits and won 8 to 0? for Hartford against New London, and he won his game 5 to 0? wich-Hartford game, Walsh, Fallon and Lord, who threat- ened fo assault him | Can You Think of the Good Old Days When— “Cy” Parkins, pitching for Hart- MOLLA MALLORY I§ AGAIN NET CHAMP Wins Out in Terriic Battle With Elizabeth Ryan Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 24 (#— 2 to 1, the first ime Hartford won from the Ponies n Springfield in two years? Stackpole was a pitcher for Holy- “Eddie” Justice, playing his first [national champion, again is {upon the highest pinnacle of Ameri- can women's tennis. Out of Valhalla of lawn tennis, the |33-year-old New York woman, na- |tive of Norw came yesterday to conquer Miss zabeth Ryan, of Santa Monica, in a dramatic |three-set battle thrilled the “Bill” Luby pitched and Robarge @ 4 E Cal, “Chappie” Ward, that pitching for London, let New Haven down {the West Side Tennis club. The crowning of a new national |champlon to occupy the throne left {vacant by the withdrawal of Hele: Wills, was accompanied by nerve- wracking see-saw struggle, that sev- |eral times saw match and game The “maze ball" the first time in League by “Cy” was used for the Connecticut Parkins pitching “Red” Rorty, umpiring fined Daly, l‘f”‘ players. The first set was an y vietory for Miss Ryan, 6-4. The second went to Mrs. Mallory, 6-4, as |{the Norse woman's surge gathered Mrs. Molla B. Mallory, seven times | back | |crowds packed about the courts of | 4 Nor. |Point hovering above the racquets of | things upside down was the game | between East Berlin and East Glas- | tonbury at the latter place. FEast Berlin went into the last of the | ninth with a 4-1 lead, but Willlams | weakened and the league leaders pounded out four hits for as many |runs, J. Comp's triple with L. |Comp on first ending the game. The | barely-won victory kept East Glas- tonbury in first place. Al Lawrence starred for East Berlin with four | hits out of five. Highland Park gave Plainville a scare in a see-saw affair and was |subdued in the ninth inning, 9-8, | when Plainville put over one run to |break a tie. The hitting of Nick | Tolli, who made two triples, featur- 'LOCAL POLICE T0 CLASH WITH SILVER CITY COPS | New Britain Team To Be Strength- ' ened In Right Ficld For Tomor- | row's Game. The New Britain police depart- ment baseball team will journey to Meriden tomorrow afternoon to play the “cops” of that city in the sec- (YCLE RACE CARD ‘l‘rol’(‘.\dolu.l “Golden Wheel” Event To Bring World's Greatest Riders Together. Alfred Goulet, manager of the |Hartford Cycledrome, has arranged an attractive card of events for Thursday night. In the event that rain upsets the program as it has |many times in the past, another |card will be staged the following | week. The first event on the pro- |gram is an Australian Pursult race |for amateurs. This will be follow- ed by a three-mile open for teurs. ama- One of the sensations on the card | will be the third event, a 3-5 mile race for the championship of New England, a professional event. This New England states pitted against | each other. The Miss and Out event for the professionals is another feature on the card. The big race of the evening w |be the “Golden Wheel” a one hour | motor paced event in which Mario Zuchetti, Reene Boogman, of | Holland; Sam Gastman, Newark, N. |3.; Voncent Madonna, Italy | Grassin, France and Vie Hopkin: 1 will find the best cycle riders in the | Chicago — Sammy Parls, Rock- ford, 11, beat Cozy Dolan, South Chicago (4). Des Moines, Ta, — Wally Demp- sey, St. Paul, and George Fredlin, Des Moines, fought a draw (8). Philagelphia — Tommy Herman, Philadelphia, knocked out Leo (Kid) Roy, Canada, (2). Yale Okum, New York, beat Matt Adgie, Philadelphia (10). Danny Kramer, Philadelphia, won a technical knockout over Bobby Garcia, Balti- more (1). Willie Davies Charleroi, Pa., beat Harry Hill, Canada (10). Minneapolis, Minn. — Joey Milwaukee, outpointed Minneapolis, (10). Johnny St. Paul, knocked out Minneapolis, ¢ (2). apolis, defeated 80 I Fleigel, O'Donnell, |Sammie Leon King Tut, Minn Stuart McLean, St. Paul (10). Halifax, N. S. — George Fifield, | Toronto, won a technical knockout over Joe Hartnett, Halifax, (2). | HAVE NEW PLAYERS Places on the Bos- Wil At Least Nine ton Bruins Hockey Team Have Different Men Boston, Aug. 24. (P—There will | Sword Given by Napoleon Is Stolen From Musem Milan, Italy, Aug. 24 @ K & sword given by Napoleon to the opera singer Gluditta Pasta and other precious relics have been stol- en from the Theatrica museum ad- Jjoining the Scala opera house which contains priceless obpects and docu- ments referring to ancient and mod- dramatic art. - The thief, who is believed to have hidden after the closing hour for visitors yesterday, took Napoleon's sword which was set with gems, & al which once belonged to the iebrated Italian dramatist, Count Vattorio Alfierl, a golden crown owned by the famous dancer Mar- chionninni and a historic collar and bracelet. Apparently after examin- ing other relics, includig a manu- script of Gerdi's Requiem Mass, the theif left them behind. | WEDNESDAY | be at least nine new faces in the | be entered clouted home runs in one inning in a game headway. The third was a terri battle for every point, with Mrs. Mallory finally edging out a 9-7 tri- umph and her eighth champlonship. So evenly matched were the two “Tom” Crook and “Bill” Luby between Springfield and New Haven, Springfield winning 10 ond of the home and home series of | N # i games between the two, Last week |on Do coport: 1a, will at Willow Brook park the tWwo teams | met with the result that New Brit-| ain took a closely played game from This will find some the stars in the world speed and skill against one and to those who of matching ave seen a motor- ton Bruins of Na- sague when the | \r Ross, manager | lineup of the tional Hockey season opens, A has announced. greatest their another SPECIALS Humphries, Donlon and Rogérs are still free agents and haven't signed to play with anybody yet. The Standing v St. Louis t Mulligan so far has “Red" O'Nell, Zehrer, Radzewich, Barnikow and several others. Of the crew that New Britain had last vear, this means four will not start with them this year. All these boys have signed a contract that gives theHartford manageemnt the right | to release them on six days' notice. | signed up el e el New | Brooklyn . | Boston Philadelphia mes Today New York at Cincinnati Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Boston at St. Louis Philadelphia at Chicago. Things in the football line will be | humming this week and those who | asr close to the ruling powers in the | protessional situation in“this city, are expecting that there will be feverish activity in this city the next few days. EASTERN LEAGUE i Hautford 0. Waterbury 0 Springfield 5, Bridgeport 0 i 8 S0 The Standing w Mike Healey, the premier football ng of Bridgeport, Is making plans | to have a Bridgeport pro team in the the field this vear. He is col- lecting players at “the present time and it is the fond hope of all that many more state teams wil be formed before the next month comes in. L Proyidence | New Haven | Bridgeport . | Springfield . Albany . Stamford will have™a team. ac- | partrord cording to the latest dope and sev- | \Waterbury . eral other down-state teams will be | piy(sield in the game, | I Games Today We understand mow, that the | Aipany at Hartford. proposition of the West Sides In | New Haven at Pittsfleld. Hartford has gone up the smoke nce at Bridgeport meaning that the club will not have | \vaterbury at Springfield a team this year. The West Sides | had planned to form a teamm and over Clarkin Iield as the home rounds. These plans have been understand. Games Tomorrow Albany at Haurtford. Providence at Bridgeport | New Haven at Pittstield | Waterbury at Springfield. andoned, we All eves in the state are turned | towards New Britaln to see if this INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE | City s to have a team. With the! | plans already upon to enter the N | tional league next vear, it would be thing to not have a team Games Yesterday ! Toronto 3, Jersey City 0. Buifalo ¥, Newark 5. (1st). Newark 6, Buffalo 3. (2nd). Laltimore 2, Rochester 1. (Ist). | (10 innings). | Baltimore 6, Rochester 4. (2nd). | (7 innings). | Only games scheduled). { aybina ot Willow| 0 eamcs gchediled) 1 a sorr; here. This wedk will be a busy one for| = he Industrial League Baseball | ms. Five postponed game | the schedule, Tonight, will play P. & Brook park with Sautter and Clinton impiring. This'game was postponed rom July 31. The Standing WV L ct | | Toronto . 882 | R 3. . g | Tomorrow night, the Union Work ’E“:\““‘;‘I‘“ : his will play Landers with Maher and | poi/v® * et ebadl Carrozza umpiring. This was post-| UR® - Gk i S| o : Rochester 2 489 | poned from Satu August 14.| FOCIE U0 | Thureday night, the New Bri Jersey City . Machine will play the Stanle acuse Works, a game postponed from Aug- | Keading . ust 14, also while on the same night the Stanley Rule team will play the Union Works. This game is sched- uled for Wext Saturday afternoon, but is being put ahead. All these will be played at Willow Brook park. Clinton and Carrozza will umpire | e the Machine-Stanley game and | Three French Planes Out \ér apd Sautter the Stanley Rule- T : 3 | Unlguiatorhs samd : To Win World Title Today . Paris, Aug. 4. UP—Three air- planes in scarch of new world non- the long postponed game between |siop records, took off at the Le the Union Works and R. & E. will | Bourget airdome today. Two - of be played of. game was post- [ them got safely away, but the third voned from July 17 and was at first | was forced down shortly after the | forfeited to the Union Works. The|start. forfeit was refused by th eUnion| Of the two remaining in the air, Works team and the game will be| that piloted by Pollen and Van | 1 Friday night. Sautter and|Gaudenberg headed for Bender | ¢ will be the umpires. Abbas, Porsia, while that' command- ed by Lieut. Charles and Captain Wetzer, is expected to land near Karachl, India. in | Game: Jersey City at Toronto, Newark at Buffalo. Itimore at Rochester. ading at Syracuse. I I'riday night at Walnut Hill park, This leaves our postponed games that arc yet to be played. The games are as follows: Stanley Rule Vs Landers, scheduled August 7; Faf- nirs vs. nley Rule, scheduled sugust 14; P. & T. Corbin vs. R. & E., scheduled August 14, and New Britain Machine vs. Stanfey Rule, scheduled August 21, Parisian Newspapers Tell About Valentino | Paris, Aug. 24, (P—Nearly every Parisian newspaper today prints prominently dispatches from New York chronicling the death of Ru- dolph Valentino, the moving picture artist, and also obituary notices of hinm. ¥ Many of the papers pay tribute to | to his work as an artist and his fatulty of bringing the flavor of ro- mance into the lives of the people. ing to schedule, the- Stanley e will play oft its game ag teara on Saturday, meet Landers 11. The other SALESMAN $AM GEE - BT THAT A PEAcH OF B DIVE ~THET FELLOW ( ST MADE OUT THERE. — WISH S0MEBODY'D TEAH ME THE RIGHT AND THE. WRON& WAL T Da (T ganie of the coming W end s the mecting belween the Ial- “ous and ‘he Kensington team at St. This will be the second zame netween the two teams, and backers - of the Kensington team astar the showing last Sunday, feel st 1he team is due to make a conzepa’k and take the measure of the New Britain crew Mary's feld, pat Buckley is going to give his crew a lecture on the high lights of vaseball before this game and he will sénd ihem in to win. The Fal- coas ure out to take tha second zeme, and trom ali appearances, this will be a real hot contest e ugaln wish to call the atten- iuterested that the togiont game for New Tritain b bal! tana s one beiween the Tal- «nd ihs Gorbin Red Sox. We et these two helieve tlor, of dvery ieatny toge! e bat 1t wouid haseball clasvia To show the §ptrit of Pat Ay no with other tha K‘wswa ciud lpfl?fi'ed un!‘ | against ! was | glanced over his shoul | styide and the race? 5 [ES to 07 “Speck” Coughlin of Wallingford - champion pool playe abs” of that horough showed his wares to advanta this city? “Bill” Sadd played a nice game in the shortfield for the Cerbin Serew Corporation team in the Fac- | tory League? “Berney” Skinner was a fast man in the 100 yard dash event? Teams playing the Fearless used to direct two men to try and hold “Al" Peterson, giant lineman, but even then he used to break through and spill the plays? “Jack” Fusari used to teach/box- ing in his barn on Spring street, and had quite a few pupils until the sparring got rough? Murray Parker, pitching for Springfield against New Britain in the State League, retired the side on strikes in four innings, yet he [ had a hard time winning, 5 to 32 “Danny” Cronin was a dodger at Rentschler’s Park and many of the sirong arm boys used to try out their whip with the “rocket” balls Danny's head? “Howie" Blinn, Pioneer outfielder, a spes ist at knocking out two base hits? Jesse Norton was the fastest man in local amateur baseball? All Gaudette and Cahrley Middle- ton were ranked with the best of the local backstops “Jimmy” Maher,_ pitcher for the Fast Ends, was said to have more stuff on the ball than any pitcher in the city? “Rube” Poilard, Glastonbury twirler, was the real “iron man” in state baseball circlés? “Paddy” O'Mara used to spend hours practicing on foul flics, and finally developed the art of hitting the ball straight into the air so high he had time to lay down the bat and don the glove before the ball started on its downward loop? “Red” Campbell was one of the figst ball players in New Britain to develop an accurate underhand throw ffom third to first? “Bite” Higing, running the yard dash at Rentschle 100 Park, lost his “Bill” Kopf, playing shortstop for the Fifth Ward team at Walnut Hill Park, handled twelve chances with- out a slip, three of them bringing | him over behind sccond base on the run for gloved hand pickups? HAJOR LEAGUB LEADERS Associated Prees, (Including games of August 23.). National League Batting—Hargrave, Reds, .3 Hits—Brown, Braves, 154 Runs—Cuyler, Pirates, 85. Doubles — Bottomley, Cardinals, Triples—Walker, Reds, 20. Homers—Wilson, Cubs, 18. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Pirate Pltching—Haines, Cardinals, 10, lost 2 American League Batting—Fothergill, Tygers. Hits—Burns, Indians, 134. Runs—Ruth and Gehrig, Yankees, 115, Doubles—Burns, Tndlan: Triples—Gehrig, Yankees, Homers—Ruth, Yankees, Stolen bases—Mostil and 26, won .385. Hunne- field, White Sox, 31. Pitching—Dauss, Tygers, won 9, lost 3. ¢ [Mallory. the Meriden nine by the score of 6| to 5. Tomorrow's lineup will be about the same as fhat of last week al- though the local pitching selection has not yet been made. It is ex- pected that McCuo will probably be selected to fill in a plaec at right field that has been a weak spot in New Britain defense. ommy Blanchard will probably be selected to pitch tomorrow's game in Meriden. His work in the closing sesslons of last week's game | showed that he has the number of | the Meriden men and he will pro- bably be the big gun in the blow- oft tomorrow. In the event that he does occupy the mound, “Slim” Po- llitis will go to center field with “Micky” Hober playing third base. This shift will give New Britain a strong defense and an added batting | power. |great rivals that Miss Ryan actually gained 112 points to 11t for Mrs, The ftirst set fore t an apparent- ly easy victory for the California s Vicious, low-bounding drives, hammered into Mrs. Mallory's back court for weak returns into the net. She appeared helpless against the driving attack of the westerner whose crisp stroking rapldly piled up a four to one lead in games. Smiling grimly, Mrs. Mallory fought back and gradually her back- hand game improved. She pulled three of the nest four games out of the fire but the clean drives and per- fect control of the Californian could not be denfed. | Returning confidence ¢ Mallory's game in {} With grim fierceness she forced Miss Ryan from her former secure posi tion in forecourt with bristling drives to the base lines. The games went with service to the seventh when Mrs. Mallory broke through for her first advantage. Although Miss Ryan promptly smashed the New Yorker's very to even accounts, Mrs. Mal- stood firm. Scorching drives to k court and along the side lines squared the match for her. | Miss Ryan opened the third with a rush t appeared to doom her opponent. Fighting aggressively she rushed through to win the first |four games with scarcely a fault on | the way, as Mrs. Mallory's returns K nd erratic. But the e courage of the former pion came back in the crisis. dazzling forcing shots again Miss Ryan from forecourt and {fought on to a remarkable victory. The last two games reached deuce | three times before Miss Ryan sent a | high flying drive out of court in at- | tempting to return the match point. Throughout the match the crowd ared its approval of Mrs. Mallory’s Iplay, the first time she has received such a tremendous ovation from New York enthusiasts in all her ap- pearance in championship tourna- ments here, Her victory marked her ‘first conquest of Miss Ryan, who had |defeated her on eight previous occa- sions. th ; Bro s game, Huber ] » the heavy stickers locals while Politis’ hit in h inning tied the score. team will probably Meriden will again send its ace flinger, Billy Kline to the mound. He lost a tough game last week to the New | Britain team but is out this week | to get revenge if such a thing is| Tomorrow's game will be struggle between the eigh The rest of the remain the same, set possible. a real gruelling the two teams. POLICE BEAT GASCOS fies Nosed Out in| Played at Wil- | Meter Readers Are Game With “Cops” Brook Paik The N low w Britain Police Depart- ment baseball team crashed through to another victory last night at | Willow Brook park in a with | the Gascos by a score to 4. | “‘Cops” were in excellent form | played a tight game all the way through. i McCormick and Kildruff formed | battery for the Meter Readers while Politis and McCue worked | for the police. The game went the full nine innings and was finished in an hour and 10 minutes. The police got the jump on the Gascos | nd held it until the end of the me. Johnny Sheehan's catch of line drive over the third base line, was the feature of the game, Upsets Barely Averted In County “Y” League The Hartford County “Y" league, now engaged in playing off its post- poned games, nearly saw two upsets during the past week. The one BUICK AGAIN WINS CHOICE OF SHOW SPACE For the ninth consecutive year the Buick Motor Company has won the most coveted honor in the automobile industry—first choice of display space at the national automobile shows for 1927 in New York and Chicago. This was made known through the an- nouncement of Alfred B. Reeves of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce. The N. A. C. C. award goes annually to the member company which does the greatest volume of business in dollars and cents during the fiscal year pre- ceding the annual auto shows. Buick first won the honor in 1919, and has held first place every year since. Every automobile company of size except the Ford Motor company belongs to the N.A.C.C. 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