New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 8

RS AN S o LR A AN 0 Bt NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927. HARTFORD HIGH WINS FIRST BASEBALL GAME AT EXPENSE OF NEW BRITAIN—GAMES ARE FINALLY PLAYED IN CHURCH LEAGUE—NEW BRITAIN BASEBALL TEAMS SET FOR BUSY WEEK-END—BURRITTS MEET HARTFORD CRIMSONS AT ST. MARY’S PIRATES RUN UP STRING OF NINE STRAIGHT WINS Pittsburgh Knocks Off Cards, 8 to 7 In 10 Innings— Brooklyn Robins Defeat Giants Two Games—Cubs Down Reds—Phillies Drop Two to Braves—White Sox Take Another From Tigers—Yanks and Sen- ators Split Even—Indians Score Win Over Browns. By _the Amoclated Press. Treating the world champion &t Louis Cardinals as disrespectfully as they did the New York Giants a few days ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates to- day had rolled up a winning streak of nine games and a good-sized lead in the National league. crown threatened to make a clean sweep of thelr series with the Cards as they dld with the Giants, by knocking off the champs by 8 to 7| in a ten inning set-to yesterday. ‘When world champlons get to- gether good ball games result and this latest meeting between the teams that won the crown in 1925 | and 1926 respectively was unusually | close and well-played. In hitting the Pirates had the edge, 15 to 13, and each team had to send three pitchers to the mound before it was over. The | winning hit, a single, was made by | Joe Bush, the last of "the three Pirate hurlers, who won his own ball | game, 8 to 7, by scoring Harris in the tenth. | Meanwhile the Giants were taking 4 one-two on the chin from Brook- Iyn in the shape of a double defeat, 5 to 3 and 5 to 1. In both games Wilbert Robinson had the kind of pitching he has been signing for. Dazzy Vance pitched the first and | Jess Petty the second. Off the silver | fox the Giant sluggers could get but six safeties, while the only ones to hit Vance consistently were Horns- by, who made a homer, and Travis Jackson, now back at shortstop for McGraw after a long lay-off follow-, ing an appendicitis operation. | The Chicago Cubs, who share the first division with the Pirates, | Giants and Cards, clung to the her of the Buccaneers with a 3 to 2 v tory over Cincinnati in the eleventh. Agaln a relief pitcher won lis own | ball game, Charley Root driving out the double that tallied the winning | run. | Like the Robins, the Boston | Braves took two from .a team con- | siderably higher above them in the | league. The Phillies received the double licking on their home| grounds, 8 to 1 and 13 to 5. l In the American league the Chi- cago White Sox won their fitth suc- | cessive victory by beating the Tlg!‘rs] 3 to 1, and thereby creeping up on | Yankees. Only 54 points now sep- | arate them from the league leaders | and the gap has grown smaller day by day. The Yankees bettered thelr standing not at all when they drop- ped first game, 7 to 2. Lisenbee of the Senators had the better of the duel, holding the Yanks to 4 hits./ Hoyt's three hit game In the second | T half of the bill gave the Yanks a 5 to 0 win and the Senators their first shutout of the year. Gehrig' brought his home run total to 11, equalling Babe Ruth, his “home run twin.” ! Cleveland went a step ahead in the standing at the expense of the St. Louls Browns by scoring a 7 to 3 victory on faulty pitching and inficld errors. NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game)., NEW YORK AB, R, Harper, Hornsby, b\ Torry, Tarrell, 3 Mueller, X . Hamby Tten; BROOKLY AR, x—Battad for Cummings fn & xx—Battad for Henry in fth. New York G Brooklyn 9 Two base hits Carey. Three bas 1un—Horasby, Un and Moran, ey 000—1 Oix—5 Rlades | Hoim, risch, 2b Hottomley, H hem, Littl . Waner, Harris, 1b Walier, Pipp, 1b Bresgler, Pl Lucas, b Pinelll, »s = Shan | Whison, May, p ... Stephenson, 1h Koo, Totals e out when Batted for Bush In 7th. .000 000 Lano 010 Stephenson, Threo ning pitcher—Root. Umpires O'Day and Reardon. Time »l ocooroaconasll acore: d. (First Game.) Il troau, 2b bourg, rf . ssoaall maannoonad ] ot e esnal RS oloco 7 PHILADELPHI, R. 1 A sosmm Hosome eooorubuwlore coomrascocsosld Decatur, p . looommn “lecomsuonsnsassay Tl Totals o 1 6 Batted for Willoughby in 7th. s 00 022 3 : 5 ~100 000 000 Two_bass hits—Gautreau, Brown, Ho- . Threa base hits—Moore, Richbours. Losing pitcher—Scott. Umplres—Klem, Wiison and McLaughlin, Time—1:53. i (Second Game.) 101 082 200 000 AMERICAN LEAGUE (First Game.) 013 ol 00 Philadelphia ashington New 300 100 000— i 000—: (Second WASHI} AB. 9 cosmualarund o> Tucker, rt Ha 2 loz2000002008 | howarnsrmosw ° ) 2 NEW YORK AB. FINNEGAN AND CHAPMAN FIGHT FOR FEATHER TITLE (BY JIMMY POWERS) New York, May 28.—Pulling on a palr of hip boots and wading through thg tears spilled by sobby boxing brethren bewailing the many and dirty deals given their particu- lar “uncrowned champeens,” we run smack into Red Chapman. Red Chapman has been to boxing what Bobby Cruickshank has heen to golf—except that Bobby this year came into his own. Maybe 1927 will be as kind to Mr. Chapman. It seems that this Chapman fellow has been pasting contenders right and left for lo these many years but never eame within a whisper of LOGAL BASEBALL TEANS IN ACTIGN Plenty of Attractions for Fans Tomorrow and Monday “Plenty of action” will be the by- word for New Britain baseball teams tomorrow and Monday and all the New Britain nines swing info ' | action against clever and fast oppo- 5th, 010 Home usel, CHICAGO AR R 4 Barrott McCurdy, s ‘ 1 " g 5 3 0 Al i n 1 ) 1 elosuvense e in sth Bassler Ia § avener in 119 000 010 000 olen bages— sition. Among the teams which will take the ficld during the two days are the Falcons, Corbin Red Sox, All-Kensington, New Dritain Blues, Talcons vs. Endees Starting tomorrow afternoon, the Talcons will take on three games which will be the most severe tests of the entire season for the local club, Tomorrow afternoon at St. CLYDE WATER 14 at 3 o'clock the team first fall local club this year and . P.0, A. E. | and Ge More: than one-fourth of the cot- ton raised in the United States comes | from Texas ng has in- creased 30 per cent thers in the last ten years, ine to one that will mount the on and if he of trouble for I slab for the o doc other in ¢ ing ti o'elock en the two citics thall geason Jast will be the signal for a gen- turnout of baseball fans. The Faleons haven't been rated as hizgh- Iy as the Bristal team in years past but the backers of the club have falt all along that the local team in the same class as the Bell Royal hattles are e 10 galies, s both clubs are To: expected e, wearing the featherweight crown he | | a battle royal as the town team has | gathcred together a strong | Southington. |so ardently sighed and slung mitts | for. { His biggest disappointment came {last year when he was @nally {matched with the curgent king, | Louis “Kid” Kaplan. Red trained {and trained for the blg shot of his |life. And then what did Mr. Kaplan |the Kid do? He resigned right in | his face. Said he could no longer make the feather weight and was | going up the scale a noteh, leaving | the very crimson Mr. Chapman posi- tively pink with chagrin. Dut this is another year and !spring comes and finds Signor Um- | berto J. Fugazy aflixing signatures to two contracts, one for “Honey anxious to score two victories. Pirates at Home The Pirates will open the home |scason tomorrow afternoon at Wil- |low Brook park at 3 o'clock when | they stack up against the fast St. | John's team of Meriden. The Pirates are playing their first game after a reorganization this year but Coach Charlie Miller has a strong squad of candidates from which to select a lineup and followers of the team confidently expect the crew to come through with a win. Open League Play ‘The Corbin Red Sox will open the schedule of the Central Connecticut { Bageball League in Southington to- { morrow afternoon against the Pex- [to team of that town. This will be | lineup that will give the Sox plenty of trouble. Manager John Tobin s anxious to score a win in the first league tilt and he will wuse the Buckland will toss them up while efther “Duteh” Leonard or Russ Pisher will do the work for Kensington vs. Landers The All-Kensington team will on the Landers, Frary & Clark | team, champions of the New Brit- {ain Industrial league at the Percival avenue grounds in Kensington to- | morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The | LLanders team will meet a reorgan- ized crew in Kensington, one that Manager Dan Malarney states wiill take the measure of the Universals. The Landers nine will take the field | with the strongest men possible at | every station as a win means the | making of the team as a contender | for semi-pro honors in the city. | Blues Play Threo The New Britain DBlues, fresh | from their victory over a Meriden | team last Sunday, will step out to- ! morrow and Monday in a three game drive to set the season off rightly. Coach Andrew Zwick has drilied the team hard during the | past few weeks and the Blues feel | ready to step into real fast come pany. 3 Torgorrow afternoon at Willow Brook park, the local club will stack up agains: the fast Triangles of Hartford. The Capital City club is one of the strongest teams there and the Blues will have plenty of in scoring a win. v morning the Blues will the Rockville club at 10:30 o'clock at Willow Brook park and in the afternoon the team will trav- ¢l to Rockville to play the same team there in the second game of a home and heme series. The Blues re out to win these three games and to that end, every player will be on his toes over the week-end. ARNOYS TAKE FIVE New Haven Bowler Takes Measure | | | | of Pat Rooncy of Casino Alleys In State Match, Hal Arnoys of New Haven stepped into New Britain 1 night long enough to take sure of Pat Rooncy, representative of the Casino Bowling alleys in the state individ- ual duckpin bowling tournament, in a state league match, Arno: won five games 1o four for Rooney. Rooney started ofi good but fell down 1n soveral games while his op- ponent. although not ghooting ex- traordinary scores, bowled Arnoys—106, 108, 48, 89, 107, 118, 132, 106 $1—931. a3, a7, o2 . 111, i against school baseball tea game played at E ging Hartford team and New Britain went down to an inglorious 13 to 4| defeat. scored by Hartford this year, Britain returning the compliment for a similar favor last week. Hartford team back last week was sent in to repeat his feat but ho was given a cool reception, the southpaw member of Coach Cas- sidy’s pitehing squad was also given a hard task and Wilton Morey who * HONEY BOY™. FINNEGAN Boy” Finnegan and the other, Red Chapman. They will fight it out June 8 at Ebbets fleld over 12 rounds, un- officially, for the long untenanted feather throne. The spe€d with which hoth Finne- gan and Chapman agreed to fight it out is commendable. Both have a clalm to recognition as outstanding challengers and each has shown a willingness to do what he can to strengthen his claim to the 126- ound title. It is a il of 2 “natural. Under the condifions it is a safe wager that whoever comes through will be accepted by the public as the HARTFORD SWAMES LOCAL HIGH TEAN Capital City Team Wins First (ame at New Britains Expense Three pitchers tossed into the fray the Hartford Public High | yesterday in a abeth park in Hartford, falled to stop the slug- first New | The victory was the Marion Zaleski who turned the Joe Massey finished the game managed to be the only pitcher to hold Hartford high school scoreless for an inning. “Gay" Bromberg, continued show the steady play which characterized his work all season and Garro also showed up well at the bat. Between them they col- to | unofficial champion of the eclass. The public is funny that way—it is always for the fighters who have the confidence in themselves to take a chance. Chajrman James A. Farley of the Boxing Commission has announced that the New York board will not crown the victor new champion of the world. Should Chapman win, title lineage will be kept in the same name. There are three fighting Kaplans, to wit: Louis “Kid" Kaplan, former holder of the scepter; K. O. “Phil” Kaplan and Morris Kaplan. Morrl,](aplan's nom de guerre is Red Chapman, lected five of New Britain's six hits. Zaleski got the other. TFor the first time this year the New Britain nine failed to make an error. Morrissey, Cunningham and Dixon | were the hard hitters for Hartford. The summary: H P AB. 5 s. losomanmoesn Slrronrennn 2 wlucozoonuay wlecososon comenerire p B Cherpack, x crosnom e 1 N 3 1 Totals o4 —Cherpack batted for 1 i Weston h, 14 20x—13 LhoL 030 6np— 1 rro (2), Morriswey Losing pitche Between 1922 and 1925 one air- plane pilot was killed for every 789, 110 miles kown by the air mail service. Six times as many were killed during the preceding three years. IFOU R ATHLETES ELIGIBLE FOR THE BURNS MEMORIAL Captains of Three Teams Among Those Favored— Marion Zaleski, John Matulis, Frank McGrath and Gabriel Bromberg Named As Leading Candidates— Award to Be Made On June 15—Winner Must Be Nearest In Form to Lad For Whom Trophy Was Named. Three athlctes who have captain- ed teams at the New Britain High school this year will be among the four who are eligible for the annu- al Willlam F. Burns award for ex- | cellence in athletics, studies, and character, according to informa- tion received at the school. Captain Marion Zaleski of the basketball team; Captain John Ma- tulis of the baseball team; Captain® Frank McGrath of the track team and Gabriel Bromberg, all three let- termen are being looked upon. .as the leading candidates for the honor. Within a short time Princapal Louis P. Slade and Physical Direc- tor George M. Cassidy coach of: the school’s football, basketball, and baseball teams, will meet and Coach Cassidy will present the name of the athlete in the senior class who ap- proaches the late William F. Burns in all-around ability, - The award will be made before an assembly of upper classmen in the school audi- torium on Wednesday, June 15th. This plan of choosing an athlete who comes the nearest to Burns in abllity began after the death of Burns in 1920. He had won honors in football, basketball, baseball, and track and as he was nearing the completion of his high school edu- cation he was offered several ath- letle scholarships in college. Those who reccived the honors previously were John Bunney, 1920; Touis Appell, 1921;Mavid Mahoney 1922; James Reynold, 1923; Harold Beagle, 1924; Ernest Neipp, 1925, and Ienry Bray, 1926. Star fn Basketball rank McGrath has won most of his honrs in basketball. When he first enrolled at the school he went out for basketball and was a mem- ber of the junior varsity team which was just beginning its long streak of victories which has extended over yet been broken. He played basket- ball for”the next three years and was acting captain of the team when it won the state championship last year, succeeding Roger Scully i when the latter was graduated at mid-year. He has been a guard, for- ward and center on the team and was its steadylng influence, He was substitute center in foot- ball in 1925 and regular center last fall. His work as 100 and 220 yard man in track won him the captaincy of the tcam this year. the students and facult being president of the senfor class and the senior club, Matulis Hero Type John (Ited) Matulis is the typica school hero type of an athlet football the younger students and some who have not vet reached high school age can sec nobody on the team but the popular sorrel-topped husky. He first came into the limelight a year ago last fall when he sub- stituted in fooball. A streak on his feet, he soon won recognition by his work in the scrimmages. He did not make the regular team that year but when the basketball season rolled around, “Red” was put in at guard during his first day out for practice and he stayed there for two vears. He was acting captain of the team this year when th thorities ruled ‘several play for participation in outside games. He made third base in basehall and was the leading batter on the team for most of the season. M I\vnrk won him recognitlon and he Movie of A Man Trying to See A Big Match Game. S ABLE B JusT PARTICIPANTS DR\ OFE FIRIT TeR HASTENS To GooD VANTAGE POINT To SEE NEXT DRINE sex, VE WATCHE S FLIGHT OF "BALLS | PLAYERS HAVE ' ALREADY DRIVEN OFFF AND ARE WALKS WiTH CROWD Dow @ Courge EXPECTING To GET GooD ViEw FINALLY DECIDES To BEAT J GREEN To BE SURE oOFf ADVANCING LP FAIR- a period of four vears and has not | He enjoys unusual popularity with | When he walks out on the field in | basketball team. He ran the football | team from a half back position this | year and he proved to be a real leader. He punted and drop kicked | for the team. His all-around ability | won him notize and he will enter | Exeter next year. He is the only éalhleto at the school who has won four letters this year. He. also | made many points in track. He ajso accomplished this feat last year. He is treasurer ot the senior class. Greatest Court Star Marlon Zaleski is probably the greatest basketball plager who ever entered the New Britain High school with the possible exception of Merritt Taylor. He will probably be considered for the all-time hon- ors. This wa: the sport in which Zaleski came iito the limelight. Last year he went sut for the team and before he won the recognition of Coach Cassidy le was unknown. He made a forward position, remained there for two yeurs, and was unanie mously elected aptain in his sece ond year. He led the team in scors ing during both yoars. Although the atcher’s position was new to him he made the place in baseball and prived to be a | hustler. He went ot for the back- ficld in foothall ard although he had never played the game before he won a halt back position and distinguished himself by his brok- en field running. This year he tried the pitcher's slab when he wasn't atching and succeeded in beating the Hartford Public High school tean last week. Bromberg the Sciolar The best schelar of all four is Gabriel Bromberg who atcording to unofficial reports stands at the head of his class in studies, a wonderful and unusual mark for an athlete. He and Matulis made their first public appearaace in the football game with Hartford in 1925, New ‘TKNmin was #0 badly beaten that Coach Cassldy sent in Bromberg to try to strengthen up the line. He did nobly and by his work he was figured upon as a regular for last fall's team. Hy was.substitute guard in basketball and made first base in baseball. Tt was Bronberg who turned the [t1de of battlc in the Hartford-New Pritain game fall when he pick- ed up a fumie and scored two touchdowns. Heblocked a punt Iatar |and the team swored another touch dogvn in the ply. He wouli have made a regular position in basket- hall if he did nd an injury | to his shoulder. { steadiest man onthe hasehali teamn | and although almost all of his team- ‘mn(#s have comuitted orrors Tha | has had a perfec mark for the season. ]wnu elected captain of this year's BASEBAIL'SBIG FOUR (United 2ress) Hornsby hit his éghth home run of the season, a trifle and a single |as the Giants lost ith games of a | double-header to thy Roblns He was at bat six times, Ruth could get Wit a dingle in |seven tries in the twh» games be- tween the Yankees andthe Senators, Speaker made two siigles in elght times at bat. Cobb way idle. Averages | pe Cobb 2 Hornsby Ruth Speaker 40 39 By BRIGGS SEES APPRoACH SHOTS AND PUTTING BETWEEN LEGS. OF * SPECTATORS ' PLANTS HIMSELF ON \_OVER TO LAST| ToP OF BUNKER AND WALTS PLAYER S ARRIVE. 1S THEN ASKED To REMOVE HIMSELF FROM BUNKER. AS HE 15 N LINE OF PLAY AN HOUR ERE HE