New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 17

S88306000665000H0 260680 ‘Speaking of Sports V0000000000000 0000000000 The All-Kensington baseball team will practice tonight at 6 o'clock at the Percival Avenue grounds in IKensingtgn. to meet the Crescents of Hartford Sunday afternoon and Manager Dan Malarney wants to smooth off all rough edges before the game time. The Corbin Red Sox will practice Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Diamond No. 1 at Willow Brook park., The team meets the Meriden Insilcos in Meriden Sunday after- voon. Both of these outfits have ntered in the Central Connecticut Baseball League but Sunday's con- | iest will not be a league game. Manager John Tobin of the Cor- Lin Red Sox has been named & nember of the schedule committee of the newly formed circuit. He will work with Tom Brown of Wall- ingford and Carl Herman of Mid- dletown on a program of games. The committee will meet next Tu Jday night. Manager Tobin stated today that the practice of the team on Sunday will be followed by an important business meeting and it is urgent that all the players on the team | and candidates report. The officers of the league are as foliows: Dr. J. E. Stoddard of Meriden, president; James Riley of Wallingford, treasurer and J. L. Jenny of the Cheney Brothers club of Manchester, secretary. Manager Tobin named Ed Crow- ley and Mike Lynch of this city as umpires for his club The teams entered in the Jleague assure the fans of a fast circuit. They are: Manchester, Wallingford, Meriden, Middletown, Pextos of Southington and the Sox. The Cheney Brothers will repre- sent Manchester, the Lenox A, €. will represent Wallingford, the In- silcos, will be in the fight for Me den, 'The Recreations for Midd town and the Pextos and Red Sox for Southington and New Britain, respectively. The Red Sox will play their hom« games at Willow Brook park, per- mission for baseball there on Sun- day afternoons having been given by the park board at a recent meet- ing. The Red Sox will split the us: | of the field with the Pirates and the Managers John Tobin and Ken | Saunders will get together on the dates to be used. This will give PBritain fans two home games each Sunday, onc at St. Mary's field where the Fal- cons hold forth and the other at Willow Brook park the Pirates or the Red Sox will he playing. these gamos contests of the All-Kensington team and there to be the prospect of plenty of baseball this season. Add to the home scems, Johnny Clinch of this city enter the knockout class last night at the first open air amateur tournament at the Velodrome in fast Hartford, Hs put Ray O'Brien of Lowell, Mass,, 1o gleep in two minutes of fighting in | the first round. Ad4 a kayo punch ta ability and he will be a champion before many mMoons are up. ! Johnny's Joe Kody of this city won the de- | cision over Stan Girady of Hartford in three rounds. The fight was slow | and uninteresting. | The Hartford tournament featnred Bat Battalino who scored a tech- nical knockout over Paul Ventura of in the second round Ventura had been knocked down by Battalino and he failed to take advantage of the count. He arose to his fect before he thought of the ehance to rest and then promptly dropped down again without being hit. . Referee Frankie Portell disquali- fied him. He would probably have Leen put away though for the dura- tion of the fight, Battaline met the stiftest opposition he has encountered in a long time. These two hoys will probably be matched again in the near future and they should furnish the feature for followers of the amateur fight game, BLUES TO PRACTICE The New Britain Blues baseball team will practice tomorrow night at Willow Brook park at 6 o'cloc Coach Zwick will work on the weak points that cropped out in last Sunday's game and all members of the team are asked to be on d. ~ Foil wrapped to retain original freshness and fragrance cw Haven —Dist. Corbin Red | where either | LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday New York 4, St. Louls 2. Philadelphia 8, Detroit 1. Chicago 4, Washington 1. Boston-Cleveland, rain. The team is scheduled j Chicago | Philadelphia ... Detroit .. | Washington . ‘(‘lc\'oland . St. Louis . Boston ..... . Games Today New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. Boston at Cleveland. Washington at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday New York 10, St. Louis 1. Brooklyn 7, Cincinnati 5. Philadelphia 5, Chicago 2 Pittsburgh 4, Boston 4. (8 innings, rain). The Standing W |New York . St. Louis | Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Chicago Boston | Brooklyn Cincinnati . 15 13 10 10 11 Games Today St. Louis at New York. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Boston. Chicago at Philadelphia. EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Springfield 3, Hartford 1. Providence 3, Albany 2. Bridgeport 5, Waterbury 2 (7 innings, rain). Pittsfield-New Haven, rain. The Standing New Haven . Albany Pittsfield . | Providence Springfield | Waterbury | Bridgeport .. |Harttord .. | Games Today | Hartford at Springfield. | Providence at Albany. | Bridgeport at Waterbury. New Haven at Pittsfield. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Teronto 2, Raltimore 1. (13 innings). PRaltmore 9, Toronto 5. (2nd). racuse 4, Reading 0. (1st). Syracuse 7, Reading 4. (2nd). uffalo, rain. Rochester, rain The Standing w 19 5l .15 G i . 14 (1st) L. 10 i< 8 Rochester . Raltimore | Syracuse s 3 Newark Reading Games Today Newark at Buffalo. (2) Jorsey City at Rochester. Ialtimore Keading at PLAY 1S IHPROVED Students of Tennis See Effects of Steady Practice in Showing by Helen Wills, New TYork, May 12.—(P—Stu- dents of temnis who watched Miss 1 Helen Wills in workouts in prepar- latlon for her departure tomorrow Ifor the English championships at | Wimbledon obscrved in her play the improving effects of conscientious practice since her last appearance here in August, 19 In two vigorous sets at the West Rfide club of Forest Hills, N. Y., the ional successive seasons ! holder of the women!' title for three prior to I | varied at t year showed a more | ck and increased strength |on the backhand. Matched with | Elmer Gritfin, a fellow Californian, Miss Wills won the first set at 6-2 and relaxed to make the honors even as Griffin took the second at 6-3. Before one other tuning up match with a male opponent is | scheduled Miss Wills embarks for the scene of the British tournament. There will be workouts on the ship’s deck and a month of practice in England before the championships. | Miss Wills was visibly in better |health than last year when she felt {the wes ng effects of an oper- |ation for appendicitis. A ‘warm sun { beamed down upon the courts and | 3iss Wills wore her characteristic i ade as she sent her returns jangling sharply over the net. In her | game there was a hint of experi- | mentation as though the erstwhile | champion were coolly making sure of her proficiency in every depari- ment on the eve of her return 10 international competition. TROUBLE FOR GOLFERS Pittsburgh, Pa., May 12.—(P— There will be “trouble, trouble” { enough to “hoil and bubble” for na- [tional open golf championship con- tenders at the Qakmont Country Cclub hierc nest month. A steady cross wind over u course brokén by 180 traps and hunkers were the lazards before club oflicials decid- ed to furiher improve the green, re- cently new fifteenth and sixteenth | holes. WATCH THIS BARBER ' Phil Barber, former California | track captain, showed the Nebraska 1 k team that its star runner, | Roland Locke, was not so terribly | hot. After California's track team I defeated the Nehraskans in a meet here, Barber trimmed Locke, also an alumnus, in two special spring events, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927. COBB SHOWED LACK Levying $200 Fine showed “lack of intelligence,” in (game of last week, |clared in assessing a $200 fine against the Georgia peach. penalty on Cobb's teammate, Al Simmons_of the Philadelphia Ath- letics, calling him “a young out- fielder plainly lacking in knowledge of the American league's established and at the same time he | placed responsibility for the baseball |outburst on the shoulders of Man- | ager Connie Mack. Johnson maintained that the Philadelphia management displayed “lack of fairness, intelligence and true sportsmanship,” in the affair, which resulted in the suspension of . |Cobb and Simmons and their later 2 | reinstatement, permitting Cobb to play in the “home coming game” at Detroit Tuesday. | Ormsby, on the other hamd, was i praised by Johnson as being “of the | highest | Eighty thousand fans who were at the Philadelphia patk when the umpire ruled Cobb's wallop a foul | poured onto the fleld and what |Johnson termed “murderous pop | bottles” were thrown. Ormsby was Igiven a police escort from the field, latter he hLad ejected Cobb and Sim- mons, and it was necessary to call | additional police when the force at {the park was unable to handle the throng. Johnson, in his ordered Cobb and Simmons to pay Itheir fines “by personal checks” within 48 hours under penalty of another suspension. This was taken as a warning that the fines must come out of the players’ pockets ISALESMAN $AM NePoLeON, { THOUGHT | TOLD Y& T SWeeP UP W' sTORE!! OF INTELLIGENCE Ban Jomson Gives Reasons for| “bumping” Umpire Red Ormsby in | |the tumultuous Philadelphia-Boston jon the Johnson statement and sug- | 3 type of manhood and of | ; {unimpeachable integrity.” ruling last night, | |rather than be paid by the elub, ; Cobb maintained that the “bump- |ing” was accidental, and he apolo- igized to the umpire but President | Johnson said that “the point had been conveyed to the crowd of his displeasure over the umpire's decl- sion,” and that “the mischief had | been done.” A third of Johnson's statement ! was given over to praising Ormsby, | Whose war record as a marine in the Argonne and at Chateau Thierry !resulted in his “being honored for Chicago, May 12.—(P—Ty Cobb distinguished and courageous serv- | | ices.” case.” | *“However,” Mack added, “Mr. The league prexy tacked a similar J9hDEon is president of the league | and there is no question but that he is empowered to make such a ruling. | There is nothing left to do but to |obey it, and the matter will Dbe re- |garded as a closed affair so far as the Philadelphia club is concerned.” RETURNS T0 GAME George Dauss Has Been Out of ‘ Baseball All Season Due to Ill- ness—Rejoins Detroit. Detroit, May 12 (P Dauss, veteran Detroit returning to a Tiger uniform after ‘being out of the game all season due to illness, Dauss arrived here last night from his home in Indianapolis, and was to take his first workout today. It was thought he would be able to resume — George his place in the lineup within a few wecks, The addition of the star rellef pitcher to the Tiger staff, it is be- lieved, would strengthen the hurling department considerably. Dauss was one of the leading pitchers of the league last year in point of games won and lost. ZUPPKE TALKS FOOTBALL “Heavy, slow, but willing,” 18 the manner Bob Zuppke, Illinois grid coach, speaks of his 1927 football squad, which ended spring practice a few days ago. His most promi- nent candidates are all natives of Tilinofs. 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