New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 8

FALCONS WIN SECOND CONSECUTIVE GAME—CORBIN RED SOX DROP SLUGGING MATCH TO NORWICH TEAM—HIGH SCHOOL NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927. B&s8328555050065205 55851, ‘*- TRACK AND BASEBALL TEAMS DEFEATED IN FIRST STARTS—OPENING TOURNAMENT AT SHUTTLE MEADOW RESULTS IN TIE NMMWM 'S00C VNS 9960000 CORBINREDSOX - 'PAWNEESRETAIN 17WO HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS Aaadl BABE RUTH AGAIN LEADS HOME RUN HITTINGLIST Bambino Gets Two Circuit Drives As Yankees Go Into Lead—Cards Swamp Reds—Rejuvenated Robins Lace Giants—Pirates Nose Out Chicago Cubs— Washington Blanks Red Sox—Detroit Tigers Shut Out Cleveland Indians 7 to 0. By the Assoclated Press. Out of the smoke of a home run cannonading on both batle fronts of | big league baseball Bath Ruth today | Russier, © . loomed in his rightful place at the | Whitehlll, p . head of the circuit hitters while his Yankees were sitting on top of their league after a vain assault hy the | Athletics. ‘ In a high powered game that meant league leadership, the Yankee | thunderer swung his home run hammer twice and brought his tot { for the yedr to six as the Yankees | downed the Mackmen, 7 to 3. That | brace ot '3 hty drives carried him ahead of M record year of 1021 when he sma ted out 54 for the sea- | son but only nade five by the first | of May. | Pressing him closely for the home | run lead, “Columbia Lou" Gehrig, a | strong young cannoneer on Ruth's own team, touched off his fifth round-tripper in the same affray at | the Yankee stadium. Big guns were blazing as furious- ly at St. Louis where the champfon Chardinals put the Reds to rout, 12 | 1o 4, with a slam-bang batting at- | J tack. With once fence buster each | Irisch and Bottomley of the Cardi- nals and Kelly and Ford of the Reds | hnlped keep their league ahead of | Binth's circuit in home run totals. ¢ ther resounding victory the ds drew up to half a game be- the Giants as those leaders of National league took a 4 to 3 lacing from the rejuvenated Robins who scemed to have tired of the cellar Before the hurling of Dazzy Vance! the Giant home run clubs were | silent and the entire team could collect but five Home runs by Wi falled to give the fast traveling Cubs a victory over the Pirates when | Charley Root took the balloon in the ninth, When he came down in the club house the count was 7 to 6 against the Cubs. Their companion club, the White Sox, kept on climb- ing by & 7 to 6 triumph over the Browns. Of two pitchers who turned in shutouts, one was starting his first major league game. In the box for ‘Washington, Lisenbee, a youngster, |« held the Red Sox to seven hits and | no score while Goose Goslin with a homer led his mates in hammering out six runs. The other hurler who blanked the enemy was Ilarl White- hill of Detroit. With the Indian sign on the Indians he hurled his team to a 7 to 0 victory. AMERICAN LEAGUE 1A H W M Warner, Totals Batted fof it P 15 2 n 7th. 000 015 r, McManus, x 0 Jacolsos Todt, o 0 0 6 1 WASHINGTON AB. R. 0 | | v | [onuamem~ 8l owm 0 0 |mwcomnrosussssmuy Totals Kamm, 3h i efiold o e gy | Thomas, Totals 33 x—Batted for Gerbes xx—Batted for Win, st. Chicagn Two base Schu pitch—Wingard. W as. 110 661—7 ne. ard. Wild ng pitcher—Thom- Z gllder, Umpi cen, Nallin and Van Gralan. | Tin NATIONAL LEAGUE CINCINNATL AB. PHILADEL! AB. 2 5 PH R [ ° [oormeriser Slionsmmsscscncsasiy E. Collins, Yamar, rf Cobb, rf Simmons, cf Simmon Hale, 3b ... Branom, 1b Fox, xx Poole, 1b . Perkins, ¢ Boley, s Quinn, p Willls, p kes, X cocoumolimen s H. P.0. 0 0 L O U U xxx lhooommuoommosnme Galloway, le wloscoornssszscasaall Totals 3 ORK NEW Y AB. 4 Ll EYPTOTOP - e, o Combs, cf Koenlg, a8 Ruth, ©f . Gebrig, 1b Meusel, 1 Lazzeri, 2b Dugan,’ 3n P. Collins, ¢ . Pennock, D «.... Hargrave, x lccsonuesonsssar Slonscomunvosusss Blonsonmrnunosma lororanomunocstos | Totals 9 Bl cuwcormmtuone] 2 | Douthit, et ... Southwarth, rf | abnune loscsrmunoom wlozsuomsasat =nt alessarubusy Totals x—Batted for W in Tth. xx--Patted for Branom in sth. axx--Batted for Walberg fn 8th, Philadelphia 010 200 New York 200 002 03x—7 . Meusel. Hom . Losing pitcher— 000—3 hune: Quinn, Ormeby, Time Ihuowssmnaman Slenrcpomsoncssy = alonssncscse GlovoroonntonuREe Totals 7 x—Batted for May 5 Summa, Spurgeon, Burns, 1b . Sewell, . Sewell, o mieso Losing ughiin, Karr, p Shaute, p . Nets, x . Miller, p . Totals Tavener, as Blue, 1b McManus, Fothergill, 1 on Following Page) r‘su Mary's field when it downed the | '{and long distance hitting that held s, | for the remainder of the game but ¢ lpace that had the i baffled. ) | Wojack at short and second was sen- s |Shechan, playing right field for the 20- | connected for two solid sma - | ties ea: sscsnoussssasl o | walks and an Basa o/ (FALGON CLUB WINS |GOLF TOURNAMENT HARD FOUGHT GAME| ENDS IN DEADLOCK Locals Beat Out Fast Waterville: Chambgriain-Dodd and Sweet Team at St. Mary’s ser-Gowles Tied in First Event The Falcon A. C. baseball team| The first tournament at the Shuttle scored its second consecutive victory Meadow Golf club held Saturday son yesterday afternoon at | with one of the largest lists of entries in recent years, resolved itself into a battle between age and beauty with neither side giving quarter. Thirty- four members, enthusiastic as the prospect of going through a bus season, signed on the dotted line for | {the partners, four ball, best ball, event and the course was fairly crowded all day. | | The team of Fred Chamberlain and | George Dodd, seniors in point of age, made the entire field step to keep up with their early seas form and it was only a pair of * sc and William Cowl Jle to do anything at a two veterans fh chec A bitter battle of drivers, mashies and putters was waged with no re- coguition of the old rule of etiquette that “age comes before beauty” and the result was that the two teams ended up with a tie net score of 66 for the 18 holes. 1 No play-off will be staged to settle the deadlock but a coin will be| tossed. Of course right there, Sweet- | ser and Cowles show their inexperi- | ence because Chamberlain, = being connected with the National® Bank, | has worked his points to have several | two-headed coins made and he will | call “heads” before anyone has a | chance to holler. | The older partners had a chance to cinch the tournament had either | been ble to even come ncar p.’ll" for the last hole. As it wrs, Cham- | berlain developed a beautiful slice | rong Waterville club of Waterbury an § to 6 score. The game was lled with sparkling flelding plays the large crowd's interest through the nine innings. Icons landed on the offer- Kendrick, the Waterville ! er, in the second inning for six! runs and this really put the game on ice. The visitors fought gamely they were unable to overcome the handicap. Bruno Kania, |game of the v 112 hits, but h starting his first , was touched for managed to keep the {bingles scattered. Incidentally, the locals were outhit by the visitors, {thé score in bingles peing 12 to 7 Condon, former Bristol New De- parture pitcher, relieved Kendrick {in the third and held the Falcons to jcne hit for the remainder of the (game. He showed a nice change of Falcon batters The work of “Chucky” and Willie isational. The two brothers Kkilled joff warm rallies by faultless fielding. Between them, they accepted 19 chances without an error. Frankie |locals, was the hitting star. He hes, one |of them going for two b; ¥ Collins and Zanglais found Kania to their liking, both getting three safe- that brought him into the rough, i while Dodd got his foot in the “The Waterville team went into the | “bucket” and couldn't get it out lead in the second when F. Collins and necither could shoot the hole in ngled in succession. | better than seven. In their hal?, the Falcons went wiid. | The youngsters started off on the | Stanley Budnick was safe on an er- | Wrong foot, both showing marked | |ror. ¥. Wojack sacrificed him to'Symptoms of stage fright and their |sccond. Sheehan hit for two bases best marks showed them six over |to right field and Budnick scored.'Par for the first four holes. They | Klatka was safe on an error. Ko- found their equilibrium however, and pec walked, Sheehan scoring on afinished the course one under par to passed ball. IKania was hit by a 'give them a tie with the Chamber- pitched ball and Willle Wojack hit laln-Dodd duo. Had the eider duet, |a double, scoring two runs. Kredar shot the 15th hole in par 5. they {grounded out but Si Budnick doubled Would have had their names em- to bring in two more runners. |blazoned on the club’s war memo- In the third, the Falcons pushed rial. ! across two more runs to clinch the| During the day when the strag- igame. Waterville played hard in the £ling parners were coming in with | following innings but was unable to their cards and members of the tour- take the lead away from the locals. nament committee were making fair The summary: {progress In gathering in the cards, several of the combinations were E.'found to be missing. Evidently the & [scores were well up in the air, be- 1 [cause the last seen of them, they 9| were flying over the hill bound for J|the city. Among the teams who | vanished into thi» air when it came {te checking up on thelr scores were Bob Parsons and Frank Wachter, |ted Hart and Ernfe Baldwin, Max !Hart and Bill Booth and several imore. Thix sextet, however, is re- ' ported to havt stopped for nolhlng.‘ |not even to change their golf clothes. | Saturday and Sunday were the best | week-cnd days at the club in several | cars. On the first day, tournament day, the course was crowded with men members and their wives and | with the day as fair as it was, the {scene was one of color with the mi ture of tints furnished by the co o |tumes of the women. Sunday morn- 0ling, the course was almost as fully populated with the sensational battle of the day being staged between P. ! B. Stanley and his daughter, Jean, | and Ernest Smith and Maurice Pease. | One of the attractions for the spectators at the club was the Stan- ley Works foursome staged on the | course The participants | were A, rlane, president of the A. MacFarlane Ltd. of Canada and Stanley Works representative in the Dominion; George P. Hart, | Clarence F. Bennett and E.‘A. Moore, all officfals at the home { plant in this city. The cards of the partners in the tournament on Saturday follow *hamberlain and Dodd—O ; In—536, 354, 557—4 83, 13 added handicap 17, nc k] 2 roll, of . Budnicl Lif . Thortensor &t. Budni F. Wojac heehan, Sepy l snomononercon Ul onmwsconsowmmn kd ° lcannvooornosswoy Blrurnosocuwossow ] lhosumuonpsanus Foomonorsa K Condon. & Umpires—Sautter. wild Time of | PHANTOMS LOSE SECOND GAMEE WALLINGFORD Local Baseball Club's Tnability to Hit in the Pinches Spells Defeat. Inability to hit w { bases cost the Pha h men on the | weetser - Cowles—Out-—647, a5 In 34, 344, 4444 | Gross 76, added handicap 10, n EAST ENDS WIN { Take Measure of Laurels In a Well 1 g, The local team scored in the first inning but the Pira to count five on o the visitor: 13 to 4. Phantoms started a desper- ind scored six runs. Tru- chas singl anti and ine doubled Hits hy C brought back two hi In the increased T frame, lead to The their Played Game Saturday By the | Score of 5 to 8. cd the Laurel Saturday in a the of & for I re form, getting lowing only three The Last s def . basebali team in a half Lt hefore the ide nd for Farg: the Pi Tuehas got o W nth in- . City League to Open Season Play June 18 i all league 1 June 18, ac- < of the public md a meet- near futuie amo ulation Leing trial league gue, These n made hy Naughton, m : Neld in the the cirenit e in effect ¢ the main re the one w ars Tnd 1 pl from the City I N nents have bee Commissioner James e BURRITTS AFTER GAMES The Burritt A. €. baseball team is | looking for games with any fast team about the state. Road games are preferred. Address all com- munications to Willlam Lasky, 178 | | | | LOSETONORWICH, LEAD IN LEAGUE Local Club Bested in Stugging Win Third Straight Game in Ailray on Saturday Boys’ Club Indoor Ball Circuit The Corbin Red Sox baseball team Indoor Baschall Standing in the first gamo of the scason, lost| \\;. L. out in a slugging match to the RIVer- faojoq 2 jew club of the State Hospital at Tigers .... Norwich Saturday by a 13 to 7 score, | Collcgians 3 .00 Both teams, disregarding the pitch-| The Pawnces won their third ! "straight same in the Boys' club in- ers entirely, hammered out & total qoor baseball game Saturday and re- of 26 hits for 31 bases. Itained their one-game lead, while The Norwich club bunched its the Eagles broke the second place hits and with a number of errors tie by winning from the Tigers; both and passes, the team scored more games were well played and hotly runs on the Red Sox than it has fought. The first game started as a scored in the past three years in pitchers’ battle, with Tutko and Mill- any single game. er in fine foria; the Tigers got to The weather was exceptionally Tutko in the third for a trio of runs cold in that end of the state Satur- but blew up in the second half of day and this coupled with the fact the frame and allowed five Iagle that the local club w: playing runs to cross the plate. A two-run initial game of the scason, proved Tally in the last inning fell short. to be much of a handicap. The Sox The score by innings howed flashes of old time form but Tigers D= S0 they were only flashes and could not B ] oifset the steady and consistent play-| L ller and L. ing of the Norwich team. L. Dugas with four hits out of five trips including a three bagger, a double and two singles, led his team's offensive. Moore, Mllls and Belair helped him out considerably with two bingles each. g o 4 Huband, batting from the left jort g je z‘;:"f !';:X“n‘;;“k‘_h‘:n”l‘l"' stde of the plate, led the local elub jegiang also-counted four times, and with three out of four while PAtrus just managed to tie things in the and Huber, with two bits each, belt- [final fifth. The sixth inning pass- ed the ball hard. Threg CTrors Were eq without either team being able chalked up against the local play-'to score. The Colleglans made a crs, Derg having two to his credit. big run in the seventh, but the Paw- The Red Sox will lay off a couple nees came back gamely and scored of weeks until the weather is more two, winning the game. Olewnik’ suitable for baseball and in that pitching in the final innings was bril- time, the team will attempt to iron liant. The score by innings: out all its weaknes The team Collegians 0 1 2 4 6 0 1—8 will make the trip again to Norwich Pawnees . 2 0 4 0 1 0 2—9 jater in the season. The summary: | Batteries: Gotowala and Rowin- Rive ski; Olewnik and Paluch. TRADERS LOSE FIRST Plainville High School Nine Downs Local Team Saturday b; 11 to 3 Pet. 1.000 [J 1 2 2— x—$§ Reo; | The cellar occupants, the Colle- glans, put up a terrific batfle against the Pawnecs and carried them into .extra innings before admitting de- The Pawnees got away to a lost it, got it back with a third, feat. lead, ormandin, oore, cof Mills, 1f s Helalr, ¢ Hamel, rf LeMugwell, x Score of (5 Corbin The State Trade school baschall team lost their first game of the sea- son to the Plainville High school team Saturday by a score of 11 to o ville, 11 Richtmeyer twirled a good game 3 for the Traders, having nine strike- 7 |outs, but Bachman of the Plainville team whiffed 12 of the New Britain batters. | Weak batting and costly by the Traders in the fifth ol proved to be their downfall. | At an election Saturday morning, CHURCH LEAGUE MEETING |scorse Richimyer. 3r. was - eiecied |captain and Donald Booth was nam- cd assistant captaln., The team fs Final Sesson Before Opening of meeting the LaSallette Seminary e o iny b\ Tl Place oo oE in Hartford this afternoon. night at 7:30 O'clock. The final mecting of the Inter,| Church baseball league board of! managers before the opening of the season will be held at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the Y. M. C. A. A «chedule will be presented for adop- tion and rules for the government of the league will be drawn up. This being the final mecting before 'h(" opening of the season next M’ond:\v. it is imperative that a!l teams which will enter be represented. The Center Congregational church has appointed Erncst Hoyle mana- ger, and Curtls Christ, last year's aptain, will azain fill that office. The team will hold its first workout at valnut Hill park tomorrow evening at 6:45 o'clock. The South Congre- gational church will be there at the | game time and a practice game has‘ wluwnussccmn Totals Riverview Red Sox hits—Patrus, Dugas (¢ lanker. errors 1R Moore. : inning 2), Umpires—Hart and MAINE FISHERMEN ATTENTION! Just received a complete Bulletin of information of Lake Trout and Salmon fish- ing and Lake conditions in Maine. IT IS YOURS been arranged. AN ~ i Gold street, New Britain, .333 ] e Col- | The game was played in Plain- | MEET DEFEAT SATURDAY Naugatuck Valley Proved to Be “Valley of Death” for Track and Basehall Squads—Field Athletes Make Good Fight Against Crosby—Baseball Nine is Swamped in Its Opening Game—Marion Zales! Shining Star in Defeat. 4 | | 667 Naugatuck valley was the alleypicked base runners off the bases at i of Death” for members of the New|times when none of the flelders i Britain High school baseball and|could stop a grounder or catch g {track teams when they rode gallant-|fly, Several times he ran down the .ly into battle on two buses and|sidelines and backed up wild throws, after a losing fight emerged on the! He was the only hero of the game. | short end of both scores. The base-| Hinchey who went In at short stop ball team ‘was on the lower end of &t fiil a gap left vacant by Begley's 111 to 3 beating from Naugatuck |ineligibility did well under the handi- | while the track team was taking it|eap, He started the team on its one from the Crosby High school ofiyyp jead when he hit a single Watepbury “by a 6751 30 46 2-3|ihrough the Inficld. Weston hit a score. | Texas leaguer to left and Hinchey, As has been the custom in the wh the track team showed consid-{ \'o) B4 stolen second Brorts | crable weakness in some of the field | -5 O S l:)‘;m - B:f‘ :r;" :a |events with the result that a slight o . MEke Tlent ana G le -ri lead collected in running events was | /T B €€ TEAL ki stoppe: overcome by the superior work of |t { Qs % arlow hit a sacrifice {the Crosby High school players inh}:r n“’b"'fl '_t fl"‘? Zaleski scored, i the fleld ever New Britain won | iromberg struck out and Partyka all the places in the 100 yard dash|PoPPed to right. when the Red and Gold athletes| The Naugatuck team tied the won tho two preliminary races. The |Score in its half of the inning when winners were Captain IFrank Mec-|Tomlinson hit a three-bagger to left. | Grath, Joe Szabo, Lines and Yahm.|O'Connor hit a single to center which |The places in this event will be de-|Scored Tomlinson. Patterson hit to | cided in a run-off during a practice|Charlow in left who dropped the session this week. ball and O'Connor scored. Patter- New Britain took all the places in[son pulled up at second. White hit {the high jump when John Reid, won |to left center and Patterson scored. first, Arnold Reckert took second |Score, 3 to 3. and Dick Gordon went over third.| Naugatuck made one in the sec- {'This is the second consecutive year|ond inning and four in the thifd that the New Britain team won all|inning when the New Britain team the high jump places from Crosby.|“blew up.” The Red and Gold team i These two are the only events injcame back strong in the latter part | whigh New Britain carried away all|of the game and during the last four {the honors. Crosh) Iso took alljinnings Naugatuck did not acore. the honors in two events when it|Working behind the pitching of Joe captured the broad jump and dis-|Massey for the first inning and be- cus throw. hind that of Stanley Partyka for the A total of the scores made In the|sixth, seventh and eighth innings it running events shows New Britain{looked more like a ball team. The had a 25 to 24 lead but when Cros- | summary: by tock all the places In two ficld | events the hopes of the New Britain team were blasted. New Britain | captured four first out of 12 events. | pagierson, cf Following is the cvents: 100 vard{White, 2b dash, tied, Szabo, Lin E\IcGrmhi-r'j:‘hnm:._lh’ and Yahm; time 10 2-5 seconds. 220 [ {7ensks: = vard dash, Szabo, (N. B.) 25 2-5 cconds; Danicls (C), and Culbert (C). 440 yard dash, Danlel (C), Rosa (C) and Schick (N. B.), time, scconds. §80 yard - run, Freni (), Zehrer (N. B) ond Vaill (C).| 2 min. 14 1-2 sec. Mile run, Freni | (©), Derrick (N. B.), Gilyard (0), {4 min. and 57 sec.” Broad jump, | Laskt (C), Duff (C) and Todd (C), | (ToheY distance, 19 feet 6 and.1-2 inches. |zajsski, Pole vault: Won by Sutton (CL}E!;WH-. 3 Brainero (N. B.) and third place |Charlow, was.a tle among Dietz (C), Sochin- | promers 1b sky and Reid (N. B.) Height 10 maviick, rf feet 8 inches. Massey, p . Shot put: Sutton (C), Reckert (N. |{hprvack ef B.) and Zehrer (N. B.) distance 41 | feet 4 inches. Discus throw: Sutton (C), Lasky! (C) and Dews (C) distance 96 feet | 5 inches. Javelin throw, Laski (C) Gordon (N. B.) Yahm (N. B.); distance 138 feet 1 inch. | Relay race: Won by New Britain {team; Lines, McGrath, Zehrer, and Szabo. Clerk of course, Leslie F. Coates, N. B. 8, tranck manager. Not So Good Overconfident after hitting out a three run lead in the first inning the baseball team showed little OF |¢on o Murphy p, Noonan 1b, Larson nothing during the rest of the game o, Apnunziata 3b, Powell 1f, Sapko and after an exhibition of poor base|cr' “ang Johnson rf. Old office, running and ragscd flelding it 105t | Bragit ¢, Henizman p, King 1b, Chile its season’s opener to Naugatuck, |cott 2b, Walters 3b, Grosse If, Older [vEan 1ito 3, score: shaw cf, and Donohue rf. The Marion Zaleski stood out as the|ceore: bright light in bleak darkness. He|{Qld Office was there when the team was Win- | New Oftice ning and things looked easy for New Eritain and he was also there when everything began to go wrong. He Naugatack AB. R. 9 o Tomllson, 3b O'Connor, ss " P | Witecox, 'n { smith, " rf Cignottt, Davis, ct sscc000wnntaan: loooooomuonuuwnnt Totals 33 New Britain Al 1t 3 [ ° Sloswounocoacsy aloccsmccsoormosny 5l Hinchey, Ll 4 el § oloormunronssungilcococummmonmmn Silisleisdaiarie glLihihuiid allesne seaat i 2 x—Urban batted Bromberg in 9th, 314 300 00x—11 . H. B 300 000 000— 3 Two base hits—Weston, White. Thres {base hit—Tomlison. Home ~run—White. Umplre—M€Donald. Time of game—3 p. m. Totals 3 for NEW OFFICE WINS ‘The baseball team representing jthe new office at the Stanley Works | defeated the aggregation from the old office by the count of 11 to 10 in la 13 inning battle at Walnut Hill park Friday night. 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