New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1927 B58L06086808600600000080087 FALCONS TO MEET BRISTOL ENDEES IN DOUBLE BILL MONDAY—PIRATES OPEN HOME SEASON AGAINST MERIDEN SUNDAY —_CORBIN RED SOX PLAY SOUTHINGTON IN FIRST GAME OF CENTRAL LEAGUE—WALTER JOHNSON READY FOR SENATORS P0000C0000000000000000P0I00IIPIPIIIIPIPOPPPEI 0TI PPN CSPIPVIIPVIT P LIV ETIVT VIO T 1 (FALCONS TO MEET ENDEES WALTER JOHNSON READY |(OBBNOTOUTTO | SLOW VETERANS HOLD MACKMEN BACK TO RETURN TO SENATORS| squAWK THIS YEAR IN TWIN BILL ON MONDAY = Play In Bristol In Morning and Home Ifi Afternoon— L ieve “Old B: » Will Give T Punch 5 i . Experts Believe “Old Barney” Will Give Team “Geargia Peach” Will “Play His Meet New Haven Hudsons Sunday Afternoon— to Bring It Back to First Division — Pittsburgh Pirates Pound Out 19 Hits to Trounce Cincinnati Reds — Robins Wallop Phillies — Detroit Tigers Blast Ambitions of Cleveland Indians. 1y the Assaciated Fres. Baseball stock of the Washington Senators started on the upgrade to- with the word that Walter Johnson, veteran pitcher of 20 sea- day sons, is almost recovered from an ankle injury received in training camp this spring and ready to re- turn to the slab. “0ld Barney" reappears on the horizon at a moment when the big Jeague sluggers are hitting them hard nd far and the worth of a good pitcher is appreciated as never be- fore. Down around the capital his turn is seen as the added ounce of that will carry the Senators into the first division after an unprecedented run of ly season injuries and general hard Tuclk. Barney tried out his avm in exhibition game against the Ba more Orioles of the Internatio league vesterday and showed his old form in the five innings he worked. althongh one enterprising Oriole did lay on one of his slants for a homer. When the veteran does start his regular turn on the mound, proba bly soon. he will be opening his 21st v league season, and pitching his 785th game and 5.817th inning all of them played in a Washing- ton uniforn. While this thr crages of Americ hitters was taking shape, ers of both leagues were pound other pitchers to far corners of the iof an t to the batt The Pittshurgh Pirates led in the slngging, as they are forming ti habit of doing, with a 18-hit 11 i vietory over the Cincinnati Reds. L.ce Meadows was one pitcher who had things all his own way and he held the Reds to just three safe hlows. As though to ke up for their weakness at the bat the Reds played errorless ball afield and made 1he first triple play of the season, Dressen spearing Lloyd liner, forcing Harris at third and tossing to Critz at second to catch Smith. In heavy hitting Robins were not ates as they sties for a 6 to A counter-off: Brooklyn far behind the walloped out 15 win over the the md say only other game the rain did not wash out saw the Detroit Tigers blast the Cleveland Indians’ hurling . George Uhle, clear out of the box in the fourth and win § to on the steady pitching of Stoner, a ng youngster who learned his | 1l down in Texas and OKla- “othergill, 1f . rf 1 . s Blue, Tavener, tnsslor, I fumma, Tamieson, Fonseca, it o ] hrodt, 7z . Totals Batted for J Batted for = rr in 8 iaute in Ot sive threat- | | CINCINNATI | AB. | Droasen | Walke | Pipp, 16 ot largrave, Pinelll, ss Losing mpires—Ptirman . P.O. A E 0 1 a v b} 15 PHILADELPHIA R H, P 28 3 Spaulding, 1f . 5 to| nar Thompao . [ witd gt i ‘ Doa or—Carlson. — Mo v and Mart. game Time of Waner's | ‘ BRASS CITY TOURNEY 1.\|nalt‘||r Boxing to Be Introduced at | | New | Roscland Evening, May 28. | Amateur hoxing v in Waterbury on a la | new Ros |ning, M inm ill be introduced v 25th. An out-doors stad- nearly completed which will |8 at 6,000, Contests will be conduct- ed along A. A. U. lines and great interest is reported in the card which will be presented at the park. Harry B. Wilder, who will be in full charge of the bouts, has an- nounced that two state champs will npear in action. Jackie Kelly at {160 pounds and Jackie Harmon at 1105 pounds, both champs of their | respective classes and members of the Waterbury Franco-American stable, will be headliners. Other | boxers who are scheduled to appear are, Fritz Adamson, New Haven: rtin, Thomaston, Vineent Haven; Bidello, Crock and Billy O'Day, of Meriden. Any amateur who desires to place h name on the list for consideration is |urged to communicate with Manager | Wilder at the Hotel Palace, Water- L\)HY}', Conn. hecome the meeca of the Naugatuck | valley boxing fans. The new stadium {is the result of the new management |that has taken over the park. The |owners are also proprictors of the | Bayonne park, Bayonne, New Jersey which ranked third tes during 1926 in cities of its size. Numerous improvements have jtaken place at the park, including |the addition of a lakeside swimming in the United *{pool with a pure white cement hot- Wright iranthan Meadows, Totals S - {tom, RECORD ENTRY LIST | Total of 200 More Golfers Than Open at Oakmont, N¢ Hast w York, May eating viar's total by exactly 200, the list for the sectional rounds of the national ip the entry ving golf champions Country club, Pitisburgh, June 14 and 16, numbers S04, the lars. |field that ever competed for golf- ing honors anywhere. Many of the most prominent contenders the national title | off today in the metropolitan ionship Wykagyl chub, New Rochelle, N. ¢l MacDo year's “Met” winner, i but the field zen, who lost play-off he previous three a Oakmont chan last s competing, in- 1 " year's times metropolitan nships now on at Rosly Miss Maureen Orentt, | Marion 1ollins, Miss Marie Jenne Miss Dorothy Clemons, t ling favorites, all eam vesterday ronnd FIGHTS LAST NI Los Ang Francisco, b 1T Dave Bert Colin tier, Cal., 10 Hoy Wally, of ankie Murray, R Sipgapore, de Philadelphia Madisor wolis. Wis, King ki ont 1 Fla Tut Tony Mir 10, Brooklyn. cksonville, rietta, Ohio, knockont over Lou Aug 1. Joe Slavar d judges decision over Eddie Burl, 8. oy Potter. technical Vida nstine socur Park Saturday | e scale at the | | land park bn Saturday eve- | New Roseland park is expected to | Last Year to Compete for National open | st | Miss | Com- | [on this subject. Head OF for Connie Mack” By the Assoclated Press. Raymond Cobb wants it set down that he isn't out there to “squawk” this year but exclusively for ths purpose of “playing his head off” for Connie Mack and helping the Athletics win the American league pennant. The great Georglan — admitted- Iy glad to “fan” a bit and “rest up the old legs" during a rainy day— was expounding a viewpoint con- trasting sharply with the days of his fiery aggressiveness, The old fire is still there — as well a the old batting eye and not a little of the old speed — but let Ty put it his own way “You know 1 started out this year with an entirely different idea —simply to play the game, have the very best year I could and work my head oft for Connie, one of the finest leaders this game haa ever had. “I made up my mind 1 wouldn't stir up any fuss or do anything that might arouse criticism. You see I've got a wife and five kids to think about, anyway. And the fans all had been so good to me that T felt it was up to me to make g0od, on thelr account, as well as my own. Then too, I was rid of any managing worries, free to put my mind down to just putting everything 1 had in the game. “That's why it made me so hot to be fined and suspended as a re- sult of that Boston rumpus when. as a matter of fact, I didn’t pro- test Ormsby’s decision on my bat- ted ball or dd®a thing to warrant being put out. No suspension was ever more unjust than the one I received for that. There was onc time in my life when I wasn't guilty of a thing. - After a swing around the circuit, Cobb still shares the somewhat gencral opinion that the main bat- tle will be between the Yankees and the Athletics. The White Sox. he thinks, is the only western club to be seriously reckoned with, be- cause of their fine young string of pitchers. “Pitching, of course, fs our chief concern,” Ty added. “Outside o Ehmke, the staff has been pretty rocky but we expect Grove, Rom- mel, Gray, Walberg and the others to be going strong soon. Psychiology, the camp believe, has been at the Connie Mack’s pitching followers root of troubles. | As one expert puts it: “They all came up from the south in flne shape, rarin’ to go. Then they hit bad weather and omo sctbacks. Some were a bit over-anxious. The result was a lot of discouragement but I don’t think the slump will last long. They may all' turn around and go like a house afire at once. Rogers Hornsby fled to speak with who 1s quali- me authority ‘The St. Loui received the the National expect more s, rds have probably best pitching seen in league and they can of the same all year.” Rogers won a_pennant with this particular brand of pitching last ar and this year was able to touch it only for a 50 batting mark when he looked it over for the first time. WHISKERY 10 RUN Hor<e Which Won Kentucky Derby 1o Try to Repeat Victory at Bel- mont Park Today. New Yorl 25 A — H. T Whitney's ¢! three-yea W v, will try to repeat Kentucky Derby victory in the his- {toric Withers mile at Belmont parlk {this afternoon. The race will net he winner close to $20,000, winning Derby combination Jockey “Pony” MeAtee and ¥ will be broken up today at McAtee is to ride another speedy Whitney horse, Valorons. Ellis will be up on Whiskery while Laverne | Pactor will ride Harry 1. Sinclair's r, unbeaten in four races this season. With Chance Rap, also entered the field is uniformly fast, The track and slow from protracted Sweeps thus | Shot, e Rip nalion all bu {is sloppy rain A notewol Belmont progr ester addition to the n for nest fall was ay by the Woest- ring association in a new stecplechase to be known grand national. Funds al- ady have been raised for the race ! which will be nearly as rich as the glish elassic, the Liverpool grand tional. The distance will be three miles and the race is set t. Iy for Futurity day or the elesing day of the autumn m PITCHER RECOVE Chicago, May ) ey Le Jones, star 1eft h pitcher of the mderwe operation moval of Il pices of rom the Lis pitching rapidiy ing the He expects to he able to take hig turn on hill in the near fu- « wiho for the nt an sm hor elhow o recov use the dia- f rain fid 1.000 286 256 W76 1 TRuth Speaker 11 0 New York, May 25 (® — Tyrus Rois De Rose ani | * UNCLE ¥ EDDIE COLLINS™ (BY NEA SERVICE) | Philadelphia, May 25.—Connie Mack's winter plans for winning the American league pennant in 1927 | are already pretty well shattered. | with the season less than two| months old. He figured to do it with veteran ‘stars. Apparently it | just can’t be done that way, | The Athleties with Eddie Collins’ and Ty Cobb in the lineup have plenty of oftensive power but must | be classed as the slowest club in their lcague, there being several | others on the team not noted speed. Each day slows Cobb Collins up perceptibly. Ty Cobb during the first month of play showed enough speed on the 1ses and in the field to got him by. |; Then he suffered a leg injury in an |} for| t and | slowed him up to a whisper, ticularly in the field. par- | ¢ great Cobh, pla¥ing on good leg, trying to cover only ground. right field that outs. | letics, should bhe the easicst of Naturally such breaks make great hit with the pitchers. territory can cover only a small portion of | the ground that once made him the or two that five years have been soft chances for him Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins still can hit the hall as well a They are two of the smarte: the game has ever produc fortunately the weakened Jegs not carry out the dictates of mind and the power of the arm The bases are clogged, to use a haseball exxpression, when these | two stars get on the hases, playe who 10 vears ago were ed as two of the greatest base runners in the business. i Once noted for stretching singles | into doubles and doubles into triples. I they are now taking only ene base on what would have been a double | }in the old days and being ;.&HNIJ | with a double on what should have | | been a triple. | | ever. Gn = Zach Wheat has disappointed 1ike { Cobb and Collins as to his logs. He { can hit as well as ever hut his un- | derpinnings fail him in the field and A too little | speed fells tha story of the failure | | of the Athletics to Keep close on the heels of the fast-stepping Yankees. | Connie Mack's plans to win the | pennant through sheer power with | a veteran lineup of great hitten vidently won't work out. No doubr | ‘onnie has come to that conclusion. Probahly Collins can continue in | the lineup for some time but Cobb, | | With his bad leg, that canses him | | to line up at cvery step, would he of | the bench ninch hitter, | | le | | ¢ | Three other thir it capped the Athletics, a hroken finger snfferad by Boley pected to star of Del Joe short; the Thighly ox the failure LEADING TENNIS STARS Fleven Men Are Named On Squad the | country | United States Lawn Tennis associa selected. exhibition game at Buffalo that has [ oyis White, Austin, Tex n c | | George K Tt is really pitiable to see the once | Hunter, New one | oeg, Santa Monica, Cal Holman, Balls are dropping safe in the Ath- ang R. Nor P Dot gintit storming greatest second sacker of all time.|pected to require Hits now escape Collins by a step raining on their return to the Unit ago would led States about July 15. | ciation has r hi players | fine form that made the little Cali fornian a forcmost will cup and national championships of the | past years. Pirates to Open Season at Willow Brook Park— Corbin Red Sox Start Play In Central League Against Southington Pextos—Plenty of Action. ATHLETES GATHER FOR COLLEGE MEET Track and Field Championships to Be Decided This Week Philadelphia, May 25 (#—College athletes started their invasion of Philadelphia today in quest of hon- ors at the intercollegiate track and field championships on Friday and Saturday. Heading the procession was University of California which arrived shortly after mid- night. Two other Pacific coast teams, the University of Southern California, defending titleholder, and Leland Stanford, were due the squad, ENTERS CENTRAL LEAGUE Has Been T0 DEFEND DAVIS CUP| | I South Manchester. | | Collinsville Team Sub- stituted in Circuit in Place of From Which United States Team il e ekt | The Collinsville bascball team has been substituted as a franchise hold- —Eleven of ent Bane: of the by the New York, May 25 leading tennis player were named today er in the Central Conn ball league in place of South Man- | chester, according to an announce- t by John Tobin, manager of the Red Sox, New Britain's en- ry in the league. The South Man- chester team first entered the leagu» but the future for baseball in that town didn't appear to be so bright llinsville has been anxious to > squad’ will be ion as a “Davis cup defer rom which the 1 team | me in The list is headed hy “Big Bill" ilden and “Little Bill” Johnston and neludes: Edward G. Chandler, Be keley, Cal.; George Lott, Chjcago; - {and C ringfield Mas: | enitery w York; Fri .| Bec Rochello, N. Y.; the schedule will be revised at a Cranston | mecting in the near future. Sun- Stanford university, Cal;i|qay dates will be changed around so Willidms, Bryn Mawr, | (hat all teams will have an Others may be named later. | pumper of home Squad members were asked 1o be='pan 1he South Manches aining at once and to enter at|was scheduled for Saturd three of the more important |ana the dates will hav ‘hapin, Jr., & 5 D :se of the change in teams, While Eddie Collins hasn't slowed | urt tournaments of July and early | enanged fo give Collinsville some up to the extent that Cobb has, he | yugust. | Sunday dates. barn- | The Corbin Red Sox will play the ar | Collinsville team in the first,league additional | game in this city on Sunday, June 5. The entire procecds of this gaine will be given to Walter Berz, Red Sox pitcher who suffered a breken ‘nkle during the game last Sunday. |The opening games Sunday will not be changed. They are as follows: Meriden at Middletown: Wallingford at Collinsville and New Britain at Southington. Old Songs Love’s Old Sweet Song WHERE'S THE szwsmpeas o 1 ! Tilden and Hunter, now Europe logether little The ass cived word that John- on on the Pacific coast is close to playing weight and in the same figure in T THEY DIDN T COME THuS MORNING =~ THERE'S A STRIKE AND No PAPZRS WERE PRINTE D | WONDER HOwW THE GoLE MATCH CAME OUT i DID You EVER SEE OUR S\DEBOARD? | WONDER wHO I'D LKe To WON THAT TENNIS MATCH - - day later in the day. Arrangements had been made for all three teams to work out on Franklin feld during the day. The Southern California includes only four men who scored points in last year's Cambridge which was won by the Trojans with 35 1-2 points. They are Clift Reynolds, who will be in the high hurdles and broad jump; Lee Barnes, pole vault; Joe Aleski, weights, and Henry Coggeshall, high jump. Leland Stanford has one of its strongest teams in years and is ex- | pected to make a strong bid for the championship. The Palo Alto ath- letes recently triumphed over the Trojans in a dual meet 75 to 56 and earlier in the spring they beat the University of California 90 2-3 to 40 1-3. In the Stanford and Southern California squads are 15 men each, while California will de- pend upon eight. Eastern teams, including vard, indoor champions, Yale, Princeton, Penn State, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Syracusa and Dartmouth, are not ready to concede another title to the Pacific coast and are marshalling their strength to turn back the invaders. No championship claims are made by Michigan state, one of the newcomers in the intercollegiate A. A. A. A., but the middle westerners figure on cutting heavily on some of the points in the title games. AFTER NURMI'S RECORD Wide, Har- Edvin Swedish Distance Star, to Make Determined At- tempt in Mile Run. Los Angeles, May 25 (P—A de- termined attempt to break IPaavo Nurmi's world record of four min- utes, 10 2-5 seconds for the mile run will be made here next Satur- when Edvin Wide, Swedish distance star, will race four laps against Henry Lunney and Nic Carter of the Los Angcles Athletic club. Wide has becn showing consid- crable speed in his daily workouts at Bovard fleld at the University of Southern California. Yesterday h» 1an two miles in 9 minutes, onds, considerably under the Pa cific coast record. How ThAT BIG 'FIGHT CAME \ WHO THE ™ TERRIBLE Db You EVER NOTICE OUR PRETTY NEW HNow squad | competition at | western | 30 sec- | WONDER The Falcon baseball team of this city will be host to the Bristol New Depdrture club in this city at St Mary's fleld Monday afternoon when the second game of a twin bill for Memorial Day will be played be- tween the two teams. The first game of the double header will be staged at Muzzy fleld, Bristol, in the | morning. In meeting the Bell Towners twice in the one day, the local club is take- ing on its toughest assignment of the year. The Bristol club has been recognized for several years as the leading semf-professional team of the state and although it got away to a late start this year, the team | has shown in its last few games that it is in nearly mid-season form and ready to tackle the best opposition available, The Falcons have yet to taste dee feat this year. Sweeping all oppo= sition aside, the team has been plays ing the best brand of bascball in the history of the club and present ine dications are that it will keep up the good work. The two games on Monday will make a trio of hard contests which | the lpcal players will be called on to play over the week-end. On Sunday afternoon at St. Mary's field, the alcons will meet the strong Hude son team of New Haven at St. Mary's fleld in the weekly game |staged there. The Hudsons, always |a nifty baseball , club, will have rmer” Bucholz on the mound land this means trouble for the local | outfit. Bucholz was “poison” to the | Falcons last year when he pitched |for the Kensington team in a victory {0\'ex~ the Falcons and in the first {game between the two this year, Bucholz was in good form though | beaten. The Pirates will open the 1927 baseball season Sunday afternoon |against the strong st. John's team “tu' Meriden. The game will be play- {ed at Willow Brook park. The Sil- |ver City combination is rated as one |of the strongest teams in that city and with Casey Nagel in the box. the Pirates are in for plenty of | trouble. | The team is made up for the most part of members of last year's Mo- 'hawk team which capture the semi-pro title of Meriden. The Pirates will have a strong lineup to | represent them. The probable bat- |tery of the locals for the opening game will find either “Huggy" Carl- son or Johnny Sheehan in the box |and O'Connell on the receiving end. The Pirates will practice Thurs- |day and Friday evenings at Willow !Brook park and all candidates hould be on hand because Coach | harlie Miller plans to pick the opening lineup from the squad. | Start Teague Play The Corbin Red Sox will play the opening game of the Central Cone necticut Baseball league against the ‘Soulhim:lnn Pextos in that town |Sunday afternoon. The town team ‘ill be a strong one because the the management is making a big i:lt(nmpl to stage a victory in its first |start. The game will be played at | the Sand Hill grounds in Kensington !and Buckland will probably serve them up for the locals because of the ankle injury which Berg suf- fered last Sunday JOSEPH HOWARD DIES Waterbury, May 25 (#) — Joseph |Howard, captain of the Waterbury | Brassies in the state soccer league for the past three years, died followe ing an operation for appendicitis to- Howard has been a member of Waterbury club for four years, By BRIGGS e | So HELPLESS' BUT NEVER You MIND, YOU HAVE ME To TALK To won BALL GooDBY DEAR ~ 1+ DD SO ENJOY OUR CONVERSATION AT THE TABLE - 7 | match rapon ing, and the err 1w hel | staff in the | Conni ved A M { alter his pla | America [ oties i_\nvvh wa Now | tant billiard Rudolph | Hu |for a formerly title. ton. hroiartist, has posted 3100 for forfeit thres-cushion Hoppe n leae v oonl York ith winn 4 0 special with Willie held [ r. to hit big les o he moer ol v and spee e showing of what | the best pitching | tontec 10 piten- considerably € fo win the the Ath TS MATCH WITH HOPPE May 2 ) Not con ~ world's pocket in from Erwin Tommy rk cur i N o, billiara Hueston | three cushion l \T WAS FoR JTHE CHAMPIONSHIP s ouT !! 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