New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1927, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1927, PIRATES TO OPEN WESTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE SUNDAY AGAINST DERBY—NTERNA'I'IONAL AMATEUR BOUTS TO BE HELD IN HARTFORD TONIGHT—TO HOLD SPLASH WEEK CAMPAIGN AT Y. M. AND Y. W. POOLS—RESULTS AT ' OAKMONT—ITEMS CHICAGO CUBS ASCEND TO WITHIN GAME OF PIRATES Western Team Scores 10th Consecutive Win At Expense of New York Giants — Rain Washes Out Brooklyn- | Pittsburgh Game — All American League Contests | Cancelled — Reds Win Over Braves — Cardinals Down Phillies Once Again. nyder, “ | ional lea to- for drama if climbing Cubs game on T i The top of the day stage not melodrama as the 1scended to within a singl the | leading Pirates. Tn games won the Cubs tied the Pirates with a mark of the Giants vesterday, 4 to 3. ten of those victories have been won vithout a single loss and the last at expense of the Giants for a clean sweep of the series. Since the Cubs have played two more games than the Pirates and lost two more they still a few points behind them Rain wash Brooklyn game nosing out the Giants in 11 gave McCarthy and cof chance to gain. Luck 500d baseball was with them 3 Riem. Lost made one less hit and three mor errors and still won. The hit by Third Baseman Pick which drove in the winning run brought forth argu- foul but being over-ruled by thel wmp. Another telling wallop, undis- | puted by anybody. was a home run | clout by Hack Wilson who used to be A Giant, it scored two runs in the | o game s the et of Larrs | Gollers Find Going Tough in! First Day of National Tourney Benton, whom McGraw obtained | N set o was a PHILAL AB, rfour are w Pittsburgh- | g out th while the Cubs w i i St o ]"‘ “onn their | Shvd Winning Fergus Witson, sch Home r 18- but the star Boston pitcher was not invulnerable, giving place to Clark- son after Wilson's home run crack. Five hits in six innings were made off Benton. Western Oakmont, Pa., June 15 (B—Some | the best golfers of two countrics today renewed an attack on par fn the United States open golf cham- | {pionship play, groggy from an in-| |itial _effort but game for another; Par laughed at the players in the opening round yesterday, ama- sur and professional, Ammmn} land Britisher alike. Today was an- | other day with promise of better The world champions, in third|\eather to aid the golfers’ efforts. place, continued to stay very much imhe elements played on the side of in the running for the pennant by |par yesterday when rain overhead | sweeping clean a four game 8cries|ang yngerfoot hampered the efforts | With the Phillles, The fourth vie-loe"even the best shot makers. tory was won at 6 to 4 with all the 5 | Cardinal runs scored before the| Ieading the procession as the i it (second day's play started were a Four-hit pitching by Jakie May |professional and amateur in a helped the last place Reds to a 1 to|deadlock. Harry Hampton, of Mem- o decision over the Braves who are |Dhis, Tenn., a pro, and Harrison R not much better oft in the league!| (“Jimmy”) Johnston, St. Paul ama. ranking. With the tying run on|teur, were out in front with 73, one second base, Jakie struck out Mann lover par. Johnston might have had par if a final putt had behaved. and Parrell Bobby Jones, the champion, had teams made sweep of the day's gam were only three as rain in the east and cancelled all the \merican league games gs well the Pirates' scheduled tilt at Pitt burgh. In addition to Chicago the ! winners werc the Cardinals and Reds. general The day's layoft for tha Yankees incidentally deprived Babe Ruth of (15 putt like a machine to get a 76 the cliance to hit home runs andfLu was still the most feaved per. | put him behind his record for 1921, yornar in apite of the differency in |]‘\‘~J\'r-nr‘(;f Higblggest o 'strokes botween him and the lead- n June 14, 16 ers. Harry Cooper, golf's “gallop- #. He now has Tniniben OfSr o ehost e from Los Angeles games played, however, Bahe is still 0% Ehost.” ¢ : galsapiesen. hows (1o score a 74 and be a third of a |triple tie with Gene Sarazen of | Plushing, N. Y., and Dave Robert- |son of Dearborn, Mich., as the other wo-thirds, 7| Tarry Nabnont ajtive son of Penn o colors of his home town of Sharon: O Bill Mehlhorn, still like the little | o il with the curl who was very, [very zood when she was good and ilbad when she was horrid; and Em- o{met French of Southern | N, C. who mad: Youngstown, Ohio, mous in golf. were in a tie at To. | Back in the 76 class but in good ompany with Bobby Jones, the veteran Ted Ray. captain of the in- | vading British host, showing his | younger colleagues ho to shoot. The amateur contingent was rep- resented by Watt Gun of Atlan with 7S, adding support to .John- ston and Jones, but Chick Evans |was floundering in an abyss of SS, die Held needed $3 and Clarened Wolff took §. | Some | NATIONAL LEAGUE CHICAGO playing as a na- nia under the imm, Hartnett LA sriliheart » st wer: scorers. Joc Joe Kirkwoo Joe Tu unfamilig and Willi s of the game back among the higl Hutchinsson had | Johnny Farreil {were br a Ists and a1 w 1\"‘! Farlane took S0 and | wit | rous 82. The visiting British |Ted Ray accounted (| nOt S0 zood. Frod Robson withdrew | together and Aubr omer and | ‘I'V les © Whitcoml still with 83 and s4 not menacing Arthur Havers, dd and Archie me 1in the com glowing pr stars after | was for, were | ile Compston ind e but without score, 74, : nain: 3| e tion 141 lay pla had today days will partici- another 1§ Th he the hole —— — i REBUI AU BHOUS | ltimore, Junc 15 (A A new concrete and steel g | rebuilt paddock to cost approximately 2400 - b will repl thosg recently [stroved by fire at Bowie s O'Hara, general manag track announced today, structures will he complots in for the Nove o [Jame aln he said time, I 'FAMOUS For QUALITY | jBrooklyn navy yard {had to break the news. | preparation for its defense in Sep- itember. idelphia last fall have been packed {packs arenas. {did in his tiger-like felling of Jimmy !ten weeks ago and the dai imore than satisfied my most skepti Six of Greatest Motor-Paced low ! | | DEMPSEY T0 MEET | SHARKEY JULY 21 Tex Rickard Anmnounces That Jack Will Come East to Train York, June 15 (®) — Jack ey's dvive to do what no other heavyweight ever did—win back a championship title once lost—is to begin July 21 in a battle with Jack Sharkey at the Yankee stadium here. Tex Rickard has spoken. The secret was too good to keep. Rickard had not intended to make the announcement for a day or two, but when he and Sharkey together attended a hoxing show at the last night he W One of the most delighted tars present was Sharkey who learned to fight aboard a man o'war. He is sure he can lick Dempsey or Tunney for that matter. The winner of this Dempsey-Sharkey fray is to have the coveted chance to meet the cham- pion for the title, The “fighting marine” has started light training in Rickard added at once information that Dempsey will come east at once and take over his old training quar- ters at Saratoga, N. Y. word from the coast says Dempsey's ring togs in which he lost to Tunney at Phila- for days, awaiting the word which came in a wire from Tex last night. Dempsey is one of the voungest ex-champlons ever to attempt a come-back. He will be 32 June 24. His opponent, Sharkey. Is 25 and in the pink of his fighting prime. Both men have the knockout punch that makes ring heroes and Sharkey proved he Maloney, Dempsey, while he may never reach the physical perfection of 1919 when he knocked out Jess Willard at Toledo, has been giving a squad of sparring partners a batter- ing that attests to considerable dyna- mite still in the good right hand. A gate of a million is the goal of Rickard, the principals to receive 2 A 2 (BY BILLY EVANS) l each, Manager Bill Carrigan of the Bos- | | ton Red Sox believes he has a second | Lee Meadows in Danny MacFayden. | K| " MacFayden, by the way, is a be- | Dempscy today declared he was in | opoctacled high school pitcher the the best shape ot his career for thel S URILES W Faat seaso | bout with Jack Sharkey arranged by | 11¢ made his firet. bin league .smrz’ hape 1.os Angeles, June 15 (A—Jack Tex Rickard for July 21. | against the great Walter Johnson “I'm glad the suspcnsc s over.”||agt fall and turned in & most the former leavywelght champion | creditable performance, said, in referring to recent negotia- | gjll Carrigan is sincere when he tions through ‘which he hoped 10!says he believes MacFayden has a get a chance to regain the crown he | great chance. His style is not un- lost to Gene Tunney. [like that of J.ce Meadows, I started my comebac! ways the resemblance striking. | Until Lee Meadows convinced the | cal friends,” he continued. “When | baseball sharps that a pair of spec- 1 first started work, it was for a re- | tacles was no handicap to a diamon turn fight with Tunney. Since that | performer, major league managers time, Sharkey, through his decisive | laughed at the very idea of a be- defeat of Jim Maloney, has earned |spectacled player having a chance | the right to be considered a logical |in fast company. challenger for the heavyweight| Meadows made his major league crown, | debut in 1913 with the St. Louis Car- Make no mistake dinals, Tor a short time he was re- derestimating Shark garded more in the light of a curi- | tough boy—vastly more dangerous Osity than a big leaguer. However, | n Tunney—but he i3 going to|in a very short time he had im- t a tougher boy. 1'm not hoast- | Pressed the opposing batters quitc ing—I'm simply stating facts. T am|to the contrary. in the best shape of my career.” | In his very first year he won 13 Dempsey declared that he feels|and lost 11 games with only a s0-s0 | Detter than he has ever felt before, | €IUb. At the close of the season nd that he can assimllate great | e Was a much talked about and punishment, and in turn. can punch | PRotographed young man. I In many ! training is quite | progr -1 am not un- Jack is 1 Riders Compete at Velodrome June 15 — Six of the motor-paced stars in the - world toduy will compete in a championship race at the | velodronmie next hursday, furnishing the feature | bike mecting. is one of tie series will emerge the motor- of ' America for Hartfor st Hartford ir of the weekly This om which ehampion ow days. He will be accompanied | TSt 3even starts of the present | The success of Meadows made it visers, he said. |a% a member of the St. Louis Car- | | chance. This spring, a southpaw by ne to the majors with no profes- den first gained fame because of rac A more like fiction than reality. rier than Jever That was 13 years ago and Mead- The former cliampion plans o | W8 18 still going strong as a mem- leave for the cast within the next |Der of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hi by Tast Tavlor, his film actross | 0N resulted in victories, giving him | wife, Gus Wilson, major domo of his | 'N€ Premier position among the ma- fight camp, his trainer and several | JOF 16ague twirle personall friends. and!, businieas ad-| | S 8 Sen 5 HEEE9R : B {to get a trial, at least, ng z - | him came Ggorge Toporcer, an in- ! BIKE ’"T[E ls AT | flelder. who 'ts in his seventh year | dinals. Then came Carmen Hill, o | pitcher, and strangely e cnough, hr [also is ‘with Pittsburgh. Late lst | fall Danny MacFayden got his the name of Taber enrolled with the | Philadelphia Nationals, | Like George Uhle, pitching ace of | [ the Cleveland Indians, Maclayden | sional expericnce. The sandlots preared Uhle, while MacFayden is a product of the prep school fields, As a high school pitcher, Mac- his strikeont feats. Seldom did he | work a game in which he failed to | set down at least a dozen on strike Several of his performances now As a rale, these rookie stars are | picked up by some club other than their home city. Maclayden was the exeeption, for the Roston Red Victor Iopkins, the Jowa Plough- won championship nsational hurst of he was a late starter, in merely as a substitute for U rider, will compete. others will b George Chap- in hike circles as winner of the title years; Bobby Gres- French ehampion; Dan Pic ind Vineent Madonna of Italy | il Theodore Wynsdan of Belginm, | | hoy ridi i sional baseball. Maclayden is a right-hander or | ordinary size but well put up. He has a great fast ball. Tt Is this one asset that pleases Manager Carrigan most. He believes his speed will prove the foundation of a successful career, Under the 1 to play pro in n inj he man, Kknown Big Six” and Six conseentive sin resourcerul Rill Carri- gan, a great cateher in his day, Mac- | Fayden is bettering his curve and | learning a change of pace. He has| shown such rapid improvement thas 8 manager now has enough con- fidence in his akiility to start him, Hopk s brilliantly this season, next Thurs 1d that will | win n night will face surely test his 8 In addition to this motor-paced | o there will Le a fine supporting professional and amateur profes- me SEY SERIOUSLY INJURED Omaha, June 15 (B—lote | center ficlder for the Tulsa Western league team, was perhaps fatally in- | fured in the third inning of today's | Vit duy night | Tulsa-Omalia game when he was | et Jaeger | Struck in liecad by a ball pitch- Halians, | #0 bY J. McGrew ey was taken 110 a hospital with a fractured skull. - =~ = | ASSISTANT COAC N. Y.L June 15 (B—Vie Hanson, all-America end and cap- tain of foothall. haskethall and hase- at university, today 1 int event, ns 1o Le growing | in Hartford and morg than | o spect e saw i New Faker York Sergeant Sammy | Ace Hudkins, 10, Sid by Goldstein, 6. Billy Claveland Rilly Pe 1' | | Svracn Wallace, . | dominion i€ Sox carly tied him up in case he de- | BESPECTACLED ROOKIE SHOWS PROMISE seen in this state. The first bout will start promptly TO HOLD AMATEUR =%k TOURNEY TONIGHT Rain Washes Out]temational Bouts at Hartford Velodrome By the Associated | dianapolis, | Moran, dianapolis, 10. Raln washed out the International | amateur boxing tournament sched- x.w York, uled to be held at the Velodrome in Iiast Hartford last night but the assoit A. C. officials announced last night that the tournament would be held tonight. | | Ths respite of one day will re- dound to the benefit of the Cana- dians because their trainer felt that the boxers who will represent the needed an extra day of conditioning. All the visiting battlers are champions in their respective classes in Canada and they are p- scheduled to meet the top notchers ! in Connecticut simon pure circles. There will be a card of 12 bouts and one of the largest crowds of fans on record is slated to attend. The amateur fights have been drawing large numbers despite adverse weather and much enthusiasm s shown over the showing of the nadians here tonight. anada won the initial tourna- ment with Connecticut boxers dur- ing the winter at Foot Guard hall in Hartford and the fans who saw these boys in action at that time will be sure to he on hand tonight. There will be eight matches be- tween the Canadians and Nutmeg- gers and four inter-city houts that will go to make up one of the most colorful amateur fight cards ever i 1. dgeport, Angeles, 10, ista, Los the Assaciated Triples— tost 1. Batting M Runs Hits— Pitching—Ly lost 2. Aint It a Gra;& AFTER You SPEND THE FIRST N4GHT- OF YouR VACATION IN THE UPPER BERTH OF A HOT STUFFY SLEEPER oN THE wAY To THE LAKES AND THE 13T BACK iN THE SMALL Town HOTEL trolle, I'inlds, € lh‘apla n. appoin <sisiant coach of the nge foollall (eam for next sea Fargo, N 10 Jackie | lifern! Loms (Kid) , Meriden, Conn, 10, Indianapolis—Harry outpointed Midget Mike Pittsburgh, 10. | Chicago, defeated Los Angeles — Newsboy beat Bridgeport, Conn., defeated K. O. Brown, Doubles—Burns, Indians, Triples—Manush, Tigers. 8. Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 21. Stolen hases—Goslin, ns. White Sox, won ' past victims incinding Brooklyn and and Gloriou FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Press. Forbes, In- Paul Allen, Merle Alte, In- Brown, Johnny Vacea, . 10, Lou Bogash, Portland. Ore.—Young National- Angeales, Phoenix, Ariz, draw, 10, * MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS Benny Carter, Press. (Including games of June 14) National - Datting—Harris, Pirates, .441. Runs—Hornsby, Giants, ‘49, Hits—P. Waner, Pirates, S0. Doubles—Lindstrom, Giants, 16, Waner, ITomers—Wilson, Stolen bases—Cuyler, Pirat Pitching—Meadows, Pirates, 11. ubs, 13. s 18, Pirates, ‘won American iller, Ruth, Yankees, hrig, Yankees, 81. Browns, .404. 22. Senators. 10. s Feclin? AND THE SECoND IN ONE MGEHT THOSE -SMAL HOTEL BEDS N THE A HOLE CENTER AND THE UPPER BERTH AGAIN ON THE WAY PERSEAR AN 22 222557 5 v s e o Z [PIRATES OPEN LEAGUE PLAY VS. DERBY SUNDAY Local Baseball Team Meets Visiting Aggregation at Willow Brook Park — Coach Charlie Miller Has Strong Squad In Training — Corsairs Have 10 Games Scheduled In Circuit — Kensington Tabs Here a Week From Sunday—League Program. ! The Pirates baseball team of this | city will play the first game of the | Western Connecticut Baseball league |at Willow Brook park in this city H”mfl-N—s_lN Bfl”n,n Sunday afternoon with the Derby team as its opponent. The Pirates entered the league as the Plyer and Battler Became Ac- (uainted a Few- Years Ago sixth team last week and they are out to jump right in the race for the pennant. Fach team in the league will play two rounds or 10 games according to the schedule outlined by the league e managers. On Sundgy, July 26, the New York, June 15 P—Two young | St. Paul's team ot Kensington will men who hail from the middle west | Meet the Pirates at Willow Brook and whose blond hair shows 'nelrJnark in a local set to that should Norse ancestry, will attend the char- | 1ra¥ the interest of many fans. ity boxing bouts at the Polo Grounds| C0ach Charlie Miller of the Pi- tonight. One is Colonel Charles A, |T8es team has assembled a strong Lindbergh, who will Took on as the | 4TTaV of baseball talent to represent guost of Mayar Walleors Cans he|this city in the league. He has band- other Ace Hudkins, the welterweight | 0 {08°ther many of the best known Who 1s billed to | paStt | stars of the city and New Britain sensation, o ) Sergeant Sammy Baker. Baker too | It b® SLrongly represented in the has a claim to the interest of the| 2 | Coach Charlie Miller of the PI- colonel as he hails from Mineola, | N. Y., best known for its fWing field. | ates tram has assembled a strong A few years ago when the now |&rray of baseball talent to represent famous fiyer was learning to handle | this city in the league. He has band- an airplane “stick” In Lincoln, Neb, | ¢ together many of the best known he knew a tough and determined | Stars of th: city and New Britain voung novice fighter named Hudkins, | Wil be strongly represented in the When he learned the ace was to | ircuit. s battle on the card tonight, the ace| 1N teams playing in the league in. are besides the Pirates, the St of the air accepted at once the in- 4'® 5 : s p‘;e“m Stanislaus club of Meriden, Derby, St. Paul's of Kensington, Watervill For the benefit of the guest of % vy and Watertown, honor, who still has some cngage- | The Watertown team will play the ments to keep during his brief stay | Kensington Tabs in Kensington in a here, the Hudkins-Baker fight is to | regularly scheduled game — at the be moved forward on the card. Pro-| porcival avenue grounds in Kenme ceeds will go to ‘the Catholic Boys'|sington Saturday. These two cluby clubs. | have Dbeen showing equal strength Five good bouts are anticipated. and a hard battle is anticipated. Most of the combatants are light-| Five league games have already weights. Sid Terris and Ruby Gold- | been played. Derby has met Merie stein, because Goldstein is not yet!den, Kensington has played at Wa- 21, will go but six rounds. |tertown, Meriden has played at Ken- All the others are ten rounds ex-|sington, Waterville has played at cept the curtain raiser at four | Kensington and Kensington played rounds. |in Meriden last Sunday. The re. Completing the card are Billy |™Mainder of the schedule is as fol. Wallace, Cleveland, and Bill ”"“ trolle, Fargo, N. D.; Jackie California, and Louis (Kid) Kaplan, | Meriden, Conn.; and in the four- | rounder, Jackie Donohue and Jimmy |~ McNamara, both of New York. | CUBS HAVE 24 PLAYERS One Man Limit Despite Active Trading ol" Kes Watertown at Kensing- June 19, Derby at New Britain; feriden at Waterville, June 26, Waterville at Watertown; | Kensington at New Britain. July 2, Derby at Kensington. July 2, New Britain at Derby, Wae {tertown at Meriden. | July 10, New Britain at Waters {town: Meriden at Derby; Kensinge ton at Waterville, July 14, New Britain at Kensing- ton. (Twilight). July 17. Kensington at Derby. July 24, Derby at Watertown; len at New Britain. July 31, Waterville at Derby, New Britain at Meriden, August 7, Meriden at Watertown; ew Britain at Waterville. August 14, Watertown at Derby | Waterville at Meriden. August 21, Derby at Waterville; Chicago Team Under Mid-Season in Ivory. | Chicago, June 15 (A—The day on | {which the major league baseball | | clubs must trim their roosters to 25 ! | players finds the Chicago Cubs to- day with only 24, despite some of the most active trading of the mid- | season ivory market. Theic latest major league player | |swap, with the Phillies, finds the | Watertown at New Britain. {Cubs today facing the pla they | August Waterville {iust disposed of, in Philadelphia | Britain. | uniforms, Jim Cooney, shortstop and | September 4, Waterville at Watere [Tony Kaufman, pitcher. For thess town. | two and some cash, Manager Mc- | Carthy got Hal Carlson, who hum- I bled the ¢ he landed Iin Chicago. Walter Beall of the New York McCarthy now is experimenting Yankees was released today to th | with the fifth player at the third St. Paul club of the American asso- {base corner, since the opening of |ciation under an optional agreement. the season—Peck. | He came from Kansas City in ex: change for one of the unsatisfuctory third sackers. Whether or not Me- Carthy's trading tactics keeps the players hustling to hold their jobs, the Cubs are starting out today for | their eleventh straight victory, the at New BEALL 1S RF New York, June 15 (®—Pitcher D Cincinnati, June 15 (®—Harry Fl- more, center fielder of the Univers ity of Cincinnati baseball team ) been signed by the Detroit Amer league club. | New York for the entire series. -AND THE 3rD, 4TH, bTh, 6Th . TTH, BFn; Otn, 107w, HTH AND 12TH IN A HARD BUNK IN A POORLY VENTILATED SHACK on THE EDGE | OF A LAKE IN THE | WILDERNESS, LISTEN= ING To THE FROGS CROAKING AND MOSQuUITOS SINGING e, 7 oF L Towns WITH -AND THEN AT LAST WHEN You GET BACR HOME AND ROLL IN BETWEEN THE WHITE ICLEAN SHEETS OF YOUR OWN L COMFY LITTLE oLD BEDDO OH-H-n- Bov ! AN'T IT A GR-R-R-RAND AND GLOR: R-RIOUS FEELIN'? 14Th 1N THE HOoME o S iEe e a2 i e