New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927, == —— —————— === 3 WWMW‘“MW NEWMATICS FURNISH UPSET IN DUSTY BY DEFEATING P. & F. CORBINS—JUNIOR CITY LEAGUE STARTS' PLAY — ROTARY BOYS' LEAGUE OPENS SEASON ON JULY 11—CORBIN RED SOX FACE A BUSY TIME OVER HOLIDAY—ITEMS OF INTEREST GREATEST BATSMAN'OF LAST 25 YEARS ATHLETICS FALL SHORT OF WINNING IN RALLY Score Eight Runs In One Inning But Lose to Yankees— Gehrig Hits 23rd Homer — Pirates Set Back Car- dinals—Veteran Steps In and Scores Victo Pinch Hit—Tigers Take Two From Browns—Sena- tors Blank Red Sox—Giants and Cubs Lose. By the Assoctated Press. | Records of the latest baseball | games read like fiction today as the | contesting big league teams hit a rapid pace for the dash past the! Fourth of July bandstand that marks roughly the middle of the | season. i One of those whirlwind ninth in- ning rallies which seldom occur ex- cept In books took place as the sec- ond-place Philadelphia Athletics sought to cut down a nine-run lead | g in a single frame in the last game | of their series with the league-lead- ing Yank:. The gallant attemp” fell just short of winning. It scored eight runs in the ninth, but the Yanks already had nine. An important figure in rolling up the early Yankee lead was Buster | ! Gehrig who tapped out his 23rd home run, a wallop that put him just one behind his teammate Ruth who is still out of the lineup with a! bad knee. By coincidence the leaders of the other league, the Pirates, repulsed their nearest rivals, the Cardinals, by the same score of 9 to 8. The game was marred by a wild pitch by Vie- tor Keen, Cardinal hurler, which uck Glenn Wright, Pittsburgh shortstop, in the head and knocked him out. Keen was so unnerved he left the game. Wright may be out of the Pirate lineup two or three days recovering. Another thrilling bit of baseball fiction that happened to come true was the return of Lena Blackburne, infield stay of the White Sox 12 years ago, for long enough to score the | tying hit and winning run in Chi- cago's 8 to 7 victory over the In- dians. When Manager Ray Schalk was put off the field for protesting an umpire’s decision, Blackburne promoted himself from the bench to & pinch-hitter's role and poled out a single which helped to save the dav. ‘Washington and Detroit were hit- ting a fast pace and threatening the three leaders in their league. Both ends of a double header with the Browns went to the Tigers hy 9 to 3 and 6 to 3 while the Senators! scored a clean sweep of a five game series with the Red Sox by beating the struggling Bostonians by 4 to 0. Crowder held the Sox to just two hits. Chieagd® -Cubs and New York Giants strong but erratic at present, went down in one-sided defeat. Tour of McGraw's weak hurlers were used in vain as the Phillies won by 7 to 3. The lowly Reds were on a ram- page against the Cubs and made 12 hits to their six in beating them by | 8to 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE PHILADELPHTA B. R. 9 o Bishop. 2b French, rt Perkins, x Hale, xx Lamar, It . Simmons, cf Cochranc, Dykes, 3b B cssup i Zlomscsszortuanaosuag wlosss5505mmsss000008 Totals Combs, cf Morehart, Paschal, Durst, 1t Gehrig, 10 Meusel, 1 Lazzeri, £s Dugan. b P. Colline, ¢ Shocker, D Moore, P ... Pennock, p .. Thomas, P . e wlcosasonesssus wloscsossssconatt Totals x—Batted for Fren xz—Ran for Perkins in 9th xxx—Batted for Johnson in 5th 7—Patted for Remmel in Sth, e in 9th, in ath ee..000 000 608—S New York ... 032 001 03x—9 Two base Fits—P: i. Meusel, Combs, Durat. ! haes hit—st run—Gelirlg. W Losing pitcher-—Walb Graflan, Connolly 2:13. WABHINGTO AB. T Hi D . Spenker, Tb . Goslin, 1t .. Washington Two I der. T —Gelsel, Schang. . Carroll, 11 hits—Hell Umpires—Ev Gowan. 2 ;'-I:u::uu—;m?-!u’:::—: losoriumnrme lovumir-on Th Losing pitcher—: Hildebrand Time of game—1:51. Second Game St. Touis Detroit CLEVELAND A Tamieson, 1f .... Tae Shante, Hudlln, P . [ Totals Metzler, of ...... Peck, s F Barrett, CHICA AB. alosssasssma G wleoossmussss R. swepd M and a0 100 001—3 0 035—6 o lowssuosasun lorosuouss53u20a5s alsssms=susoy lsoansnnssn? wlsos5mms0550 ° luoosau-nosssuasnl z—Hatted for Jacobs in 7tn. ~Batted for Crouse in Sth Cleveland Chicago Two Shaute, Neis, Peck. Winning piteher—Cole, Tmpt m re: —Batted for Cole in 9th, 10 21 Sewell, 200 600 000—7 203—8 Hodapp, 60 base hit— Losing Owens and NATIONAL LEAGUE PITTSBU] AB. o, p Totals Totala x—Batted for . xx—Ratted for & xyx—Batted for RisoTattas for urgh .. . Louis . q --73 |ioitobmia 5 ou 1 O'Fai elorssussamosann wloss33325-53m00n RGH n ortt art rrell in 101 033 Slocos~ Sloso= 1. P.O. A. 0 ommoma | omcliosnunnas lss alsessuonunssaasl “ 9o |l 2523552220255 nasy I 553335 wlososssssss225s20a \ i 9th, In 9th. 9th, 041 2009 100 001—3 Toparcer, Th Slsess With l ROTARY LEAGUETO | OPEN ON JULY 1 {Eight Teams Entered in Race for Pennant This Year The Rotary Club Baseball league will start the 1927 season on Mon- day, July 11, according to an an- nouncement by ' Rackliffe, chairman of the boys' work commit- tee. There will be eight teams in the league this year. All equipment has heen ordered, the servics of the umpires and scorers have been ar- rangad for and a schedule has been prepared. Games will be played at Walnut Hill park Monday and Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock. The teams entered in the race this year are as follows: Paradise Park, Boys' club, Willow Brook, Burritt, Washington, Smith, Y. M. C. A. and Nathan Hale, The rtules of the league will be the same this year as the been in the past will again be the league manager. Players 14 years and under will be eligible to play and each of the teams will he required to have the lists of players accompanied by birth | certificates in Mr. Skinner's hands by July 11. The schedule for the league is as follows: Schedule Monday, July 11—Paradise Park ' club; Willow Brook vs. Bur- July 13 — Washington Nathan v, July 18 — Y. M. C. A, vs. ington vs. Nathan Hale. v, July 20 — Willow vs. Boys club; Paradise Park vs. Burritts. Monad: July 25 — Paradis Burritts vs. e Park vs. Wil low Brook. Wednesday, July Hale vs. Smith; Y. Washington. Monday . August Park vs. Washington; W vs. Smith. Wednesday, August 3 — Y. M, C. A. vs. Boys' club; Nathan Hale v Burritts. Monday. Auzust Park vs. Y. M. C | Nathan Hale. Wednesday, — ’Nathan A Paradise low Brook i} Paradise Boys' club vs. Angust 10 — Willow ashington; Burritts vs. | Smith. Monday, August 15 Brook vs. Y. M. C. A Washington. Wednesday, August 17 club vs. Smith; Nathan Paradise Park. Monday, August 22 — Boys' -club vs. Washington; Paradise Park vs. Smith. Wednesday, August 24 — Nathan Hale vs. Willow Brook; Y. M. C. A. vs. Burritts. PEXTOS T0 PLAY THREE CONTESTS Southington Team Mests Wal- lingford and Gollinsville Clubs — Willow Burritts vs. Boy Hale vs. The Pexto baseball team of South- ington will give the baseball fans of the town who are planning to re- main home for the holidays. plenty of action over Sunday and Monda The team is leading the Central Connecticut league and will play three games over the holiday. On Sunday afternoon, the team | will entertain the strong Wallinzford Lenox nine while on Monday a dou- ble header will be staged with the Collinsville outfit as the Wrench Town feam’s opponent Wallingford which will meet the home club at the Sand Hill ground hoasts one of the strongest teams in the league and it should give the Pextos plenty of trouble during the | afternoon. The club has been play- | |ing tozether for several ns and | has always displayed t brand | | of baseball. The outfit has a strong | battery in “Dutch” Licdke and Dick | Miller, The Pextos have added strength in the acquisition of Rob Becker, a hard hitting and elas.y 1hind base- man from Waterbury. Becker has heen plaving a great game for the University of Pennsylvania this spring and fans in this section ex- pect to see him go into league ball | after another vear at school. With Tecker at third, Gihson at short, Zicglor at second and “Heinic Carrington at first, the Pexto team has a championship infiell with every man playing great ball. George who has rezation Por pow Snonthington a will he Ma o he- | misei for the will he 't n the | will am n His place Slromit e v { rific driving power of | his swing fana triple | fidenien in his superiority. DRAGGING THE BALL. (BY BILLY EVANS) The greatest batsman of the last 25 years, every phase of the game considered—my nomination is Tyrus | Raymond Cobb, generally considered the greatest ball player of all time. Babe Ruth gets more distance to his drives than Ty Cobb ecver did, but there alone has Ruth the edge on Cobb as a batter. Willie Keeler was a better bunter | than Cobb, perhaps a trifle more sclentific in his actions around the plate, but there alone did “Wee Willie” have the edge on Ty. Hornshy, Wagner, Lajoic and Jackson consistently got more power behind their drives than Cobb, but in that feature alone was their hit- ting superior to the Georgia Peach. Sisler, Speaker, Roush and Collins are much the same style batsmen as Cobib, but despite their greatness, Cobb must be rated as superior bats- man, all things considered. A left-handed batsman is supposed to have an advantage because of hitting from that side of the plate, therehy gaining perhaps a step in the run from the plate to first base. That one step often makes a hase hit for a left hander that would have been just an ous for a right hander. ! Cobb is a left-handed batter and | there was no faster man in the| game when he was in his prime. | His extraordinary speed won for him | many a base hit that slower men | wonld have lost. Cobb n extraordinary bunter | and for that reason had the oppos- ing infield constantly in doubt as to | his intention, which wa advantage. Tt was not unusual-for | Cobh to fake a bunt, missing the ball to draw the infield in and then come right back by hit- | ting the ball through At dragging the ball. a sort of a | push bunt, the intent bring to get the ball past the pitcher, thereby making it almost impossihla for any ! infielder to make a play on the ball, he alse starred. i While Cobb never was noted as a | homa run hitter and lacks the ter- Rabe Ruth, far from that of a| weakling and his batting records | contain a goodiy number of doubl True, his great speed | turned many a single into a double | and double into a triple, but some- how he got there. . ! A keen eye and a master mind | supplemented the remarkable bat- ti Sility possessed by Cobb which was topped off hy a sublime con- | Cobb al- ways conveyed the impression that every pitcher feared Cobb as a bats man more than Cobb feared him as a pitcher and such was invariably the case. Tn his entire career of 22 years as an American leaguer, only in one| game has any pitcher completely | dominated Cobb. T happened to be | calling balls and strikes in that| zame while “Doc” White, then a| stor southpaw with the Chicago White Sox. did the mystifying. tic it or not, Cobb struck out times in that ball game and member he didn't make so mu foul. In the ninth in- eddy Payne substifuted him, the during his ¢ " I ve thy becansc POLICE T0 STAGE MOTORGYCLE RACE {Five Contests, Two Amateur and Threg Pros, on Program One of the biggest motorcycle events ever seen in this section of the country will be staged at Char- ter Oak park in Hartford Saturday afternoon in connection with the second annual fleld day of the West Hartford police department, There will be five races, two of them amateur and two of them pro- fessional. The amateur races will be for five and 15 miles while the professional races will be held over the 10, 20 and 25 mile courses. The field day will open with a ix-mile handicap race from the t Hartford bridge to the park and it will close in the evening with an amateur boxing tournament of 10 bouts being arranged by Al Hu- band. Bicycle races and a jockey race between members of Troops B Cavalry will be other feature events on the program. The Foot Guard band will render a concert before and during the events. Some of the best and most daring a material | motorcyele racers in the east have next opponent, entered the meet Saturday. Chic entered the 25 mile event. He took first the events run off at Park on May 31, 1927, the 25 miles in 24:19. 10 mile race in 9:10. The full list of entries for the mo- torcycle races at the park Saturd: s as follows: Chic Remington, - cester; Dutch AWVeber, Hartford; Tony Cantanzaro, Waterbury; Chas. professional place in_all Charter Oak and covered He rode the I — AFTER You vE YEARS OF To GO INTO DEEP Your MA SAID You MIGHT GIT PROWNED SPewnT YouR Youmé LIFE BY THE WATERS EDGE nNOT DARWG | Hundington, Springfieia; Frenehic | DePollier, Brooklyn; Harry Messen- | ger, Simsbury; Horace Filmore, Bos- {ton; Charles Busch, Newark; James | Long, Providence; N. A. Van Hou- |ten, Lindehurdt, N. J.; Al Gustaf- son, Worcester. Fred Marsh, Hartford; Edwin F. Longley, Marlboro; Ed Jones, Wor- cester; Morse Donnelly, West Hart- Iford; John Doe, Springfield: Alrfed | Arnold, Haverhill; Joseph Pachasa, | Newark; Clark Anderson, Brook- | fleld Center, N. J.; Percy C. Schaef- | fer, Waterbury, and Ralph Bierce, | Winsted. | AMERICANS IN FINALS | Wimbledon Tennis Championships May Find Helen Wills and Helen Ryan in Last Match, Wimbledon, England, June 20 (P —AIll the followers of the Wimble- |don tennis championships were |agreed today that there was a splendid chance for an all-Ameri- |can match in the singles finals — |between the two California girls, Miss Helen Wills and Miss Helen {Ryan, who again - seored victories for the .American team yesterday. Miss Wills had little dificulty in |overcoming Mrs. Peacock of South {Africa, while Miss Ryan defeated | Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree. | Miss Ryan is favored over her Senorita De Al- verez, the Spanish star, while it is purposely | Remington of Worcester, Mass., has |regarded as certain that Miss Wills will win over her next opponent, {Miss Joan Fry of England. | As for the men's finals, the ex- |perts were certain it would be a |Franco-American duel. Francis T. |Hunter having been eliminated vesterday by Henrl Cochet, Big Bill Tilden is the sole remaining American. His encounter Thursday |with Cochet is oxpected to provide Ithe best tennis of the tournament. A FEwW Jus WINDA WATER CAUSE (s NEWMATICS FURNISH BIG UPSET BEATING CORBINS Weird Game Results In Defeat For League Leaders— Stanley Works Win Out In Pitching Duel With Stanley Rule — Landers Frary & Clark Team Swamps Union Works In Postponed Affair—Rulers Meet Russwins In Contest Toxight At Willow Brook Park. League Standing " P.C. 75 J14 W14 W14 500 429 P. & F. Corbin Fafnir ... Landers Stanley Works. N. B. Machine. . Stanley Rule. Russwins . 143 Union Works. . .000 One of the biggest upsets in the Industrial league took place last night at Walnut Hill park when the New Britain Machine Co. team tumbled the league leading P. & F. Corbin team in a weird spectacle. This brings the team down to only half a game lead. Two other games were played. ILanders hopped into second place with the Fafnir team by trouncing the Union Works while the Stanley Works also got in on the second place tie by trimming the Stanley Rule. The Machine Co. stands in third place now by its vic- tory over the Corbin team. Corbin Team Loses The P. & F. Corbin team, leading the league, had its advantage cut to half a game when the New Britain Machine nine smashed out a 17-14 victory in one of the weirdest games of the scason. First one team and then the other staged a rally to take the lead and then prayed for the rain which fell in a drizzle almost throughout the contest, to become a downpour and force the calling of tke game when it was ahead. Thirty-one runs, 30 hits including 14 doubles and a triple, 17 errors, three hit batsmen, three wild pitches, four passed balls, and even three balks found their way into the scorebook before the travesty was over and on top of that, the game was protested by the Corbin management. The reason given for the protest was that Jimmy Maher, who umpired, is em- ployed at the New Rritain Machine shop. His decisions were constantly questioned by the losers after the Newmaties got the lead and several times he had to stop the game to tell the Corbin players and fans to keep quiet. Argosy drove in Eric Anderson with a run in the first frame, but Corbhins came back with four runs on two bad errors, three hits and a sacrifice fly. Corbin had the advan- tage in the early innings, but in the fourth the Newmatics drove Buz- zydlo, the new P. & F. “find,” from the hill and scored five times before Carlson could take his place and re- tire the side. “Huggie” was not in form, either. le hit two men and was hit by two in the next frame. Corbin rallied desperately and went into a 12-11 lead in the sixth. Mat- teo doubled to the tennis courts and Swanson crashed into the wire fence in trying to catch the ball. Jasper walked, Eric Anderson fiumbled Pa- trus's grounder, Wright wag safe on Argosy's error, Huber singled, Swan- son slipped and dropped Cava- naugh's fiy, and Anastasio got a two- bagger. Cavanaugzh tried to score but was canght at the plate and Carlson whiffed, The Newmatics were undismayved and drove Carlson from the box with four stralzht hits, doubles by Eric Anderson and Argosy and singles by Smith and Pattison. Huber came in from the ficld and promptly sent Argosy home by balking. Pattison heat the throw to the plate on Swan- son's grounder. The decision on this play caused the protest. Ha@es was safe as Swanson was caught at third and scored when: Cavanaugh made a three-base error on Ernie Anderson's fly. Kraise ended the rally with a single. Cirbin got two runs in the ninth and was still three short of tying the ount. . Ernfe Anjerson pitched fine ball considering the supbort he received and the wet balls he was forced to throw. He finned ten batters. Hu. ber was the oly Corbin pltcher whe was effective. The hitting of Pa- trus, Argosy aid Eric Anderson was terrific. Kraus made two bad ers Tos but atoned yith a pair of beaue tiful pick-ups a\d throws from the grass back of firg base. Other fea~ tures were the work of Haines be« hind the plate am a twisting cateh by Mainelll. The lox score: NEW BRITAIY MACHIND Rrause, b R Smith, 1b ...000 Erl Anderson cf, ss Argosy, 3b .. Tattison, 1t Mainelli, st Cosgrove, sa . Swanson, cf . Ference, cf Haines, ¢ “ Ernlo Anderson, p ¢ 4 5 ImooroMawum. Sl oBusoroures ‘Totals 46 17 P. & F. CORBI! AB. R. 2,1 ceeniib 3 bl L] —~oolomuum 9 B et oseansi Elnkeesekuseny Matteo, Jaspe Patrus, Wright ¢ Huber, cf, 1f, Jockson, 1b Cavanaugh, 2! 3. Prelsser, rf Anastasio, f, cf, Buzzydlo, p . Carlson p, cf Totals 1 Newmatl 111 530 600. Corbin . 20 015 003—14 Two hase hits—Argosy 2, Ernie Ander- son, Pattison, Eric Anderson, Parus 3, Huber Jackson 3, Matteo 2, Anstasio. Three base hit—Erie Anderson, Umbire— Maker. Time—2:10. Stanley Works Win Jim Scott and Billy Schrnidt, pitching for the Stanley Works ind Stanley Rule teams in the game played on Diamond No. 1, hooked yp in a sweet pitching duel with te Stanley Works emerging the victr by the score of 8 to 3. A big sevent inning rally in which the Butt Mak ers pounded out six runs settled th issue. It was a great battle while it lasted. The two teams ares great rivals and each was anxious to win last night. It was the first family affalr between the two and althougl the Rulers got off to a flying start the Workers caught them and over. hauled them beforc the tape was reached. The pitchers held the limelight throughout the battle. Schmidt fan. ned nine Stanley Workers while Scott equalled the league strikeout record by fanning 15 Rulers. Scott had the edge through his great cone trol. In the pinches he was especial« ly effective. With men on the bases, time after time he turned back the batters and pravented much damage being done. On the other hand, the Stanley Works wrecking crew got to Schmidt at opportune times and left only a few runners on the base paths. The Starley Rule team had a total of nine men left on. The Rulers scored first in the third inning wherein they garnered their total for the day. Jervis singled and Hinchliffe's error put two on. Argosy shgled to center and Jervis scored. Sclaeffer doubled and brought in two more. The Workers pirked up one in the fourth and anotter in the sixth when Jimmy Green scored in each frame. Jimmy sta‘ted the fourth with a triple ant registered on Parson’s sacrifice fiy. 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Colbh must batsman or Ol master hitting i | the has h | strong | worlk | nad the cortin 1 | rain stopped th 2h the | with two revers erally shows the ton and the work hard team The home run, ehind Haclk National league lead, was | in four times up. ain made a double and | in four times at to keep on the rise suceesstul out a for Pate in was idle al- them gev Southin havr isiting | I verime Cablb | hitter, erack ha batted Ruth put- ting I Wilson | the | his only Nineville - | tor to will the to| Speak beat t pitehing selection for Mon- honie game in the mor not v@ decided but ft that Jerry Woodruff, Ami taln of a vear ago, will ba mound. Tt he works, a large crowd will be out to wateh him in action The Pextos will play in Collinsvillg in the afternoon. wag as a single the pinch when | ninth. s possible HR | 14 al 24 0 PCT 373 366 344 338 Hornsby Cobh Ruth Speaker