New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1927, Page 20

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927 FAFNIR TEAM BARELY NOSES OUT UNION WORKS IN DUSTY LEAGUE—LEGION BASEBALL TEAM MEETS BRISTOL TOMORROW —~CORBIN RED SOX TO BATTLE SO. MANCHESTER AT WILLOW BROOK PARK—FALCONS PLAYING TWO GAMES — BRIEFS CHICAGO CUBS GO INTO NATIONAL LEAGUE LEAD Score 2 to 1 Victory Over P Place By Single Point — New York Giants—Car —Cincinnati Reds Swamp Phillies—Detroit Tigers Have Edge Over St. Louis Browns. By the Assoclated Press. Leading the National leagug by a | single percentage point, the Chicago | Cubs today faced the tough task of | holding out against the Pirates they dethroned. Thelr 2 to 1 victory over the Buc- caneers which gave them the lead yesterday was a pitchers' battle well worthy the two top teams it brought | together. ! Wher. a shower interrupt the game in the ninth the Pira were in the midst of a rally that threat- ened the Chicago lead and Cub sup- portere were not sorry when the score reverted to the eighth innin Pittsburgh has two more chances to end the Cubs’ winning which has run to cight games and | to win back the lead. In the last three game series between the two the Pittsourgh club came off on top and repulsed the challengers for a time. In another hard fought battle be- | | tween keen rivals, the Brooklyn Robins defeated the New York | Glants by a 3 to 2 threatening to | push them out of fourth place. End- | in ga four game Giant winning | streak Robins made most of Dazzy | Vance's steadiness fn the pinches to | win «1though outhit § to 4 Two intersection duels which | marked the day's play went to the western clubs by wide margins. Hard hitting gave the St. Louis Cardinals a 12 to 1 decision over Boston and | the Cincinnati Reds an 11 to 4 vie- tory over the Phillies. The Cards previously had lost six games in a row. More hard walloping appeared in the Detroit-St. Louis ganie, the only contest carded in the Amecrican league. Fourteen Tiger hits to 12 for St. Louis gave Detroit the edge and the game by 9 to 6 . The Yankees who lead the Ameri- can league by something over a mile were felled by the Toronto Leafs of the International league by 11 to 7 in an exhibition game. “Better to get that loss out of our system when it doesn’t count,” was the philoso- phical attitude of Huggins and com- pany. NATIONAL LEAGUE DETROIT AB. R. | ] Warner, 3b ... Gehringer, 2b . Manush, of Fotherglll, 1f . Ruble, 1f Hellmann, Neun, 1b Tavener, Woodall, Colilns, Holloway Tt s l okions Elonmummosonny wlos Totals Melillo, 2b . Bennett, b o mwnwn A ELreS Wingard, p Williams, x mlossscsssanl Totals 01 000—9 000 01— Two baso hity—Sisler, Gehringer, I erglll, Tavener, Be: —Collins, and Ormsby. AMERICAN LEAGUE CHICAGO AB. R ) ) lomcmas ,.;_; L. Waner, cf Rhyne, &s . Greh, 3b . P. Waner, rf Traynor, b, sa Grantham, 2b Barnhart,’ it Harrs, 1b , och, ¢ . Dawson, ¢ . Cuyler, x .. 1 Totals x—Batted for Da; Chieago Pittsbury « weon in 8t ...000 eh Statz, of Partridg Carey, rf Herman Felix, It ... Barrett, Thomns, p . . Thomas, xxxx xxxx—Batted Brooklyn New York . Three base hits—Herman, T run—Pareridgs. Losing pitelor Umpires—Wilson, Pfirman ar Time—2:05, for o ST. LOUIS AB. R H. Holm, 1t 5 Toparcer, Frisch o Bortamley. 1b uoum:mn‘ ¢ SiFarrell, o . I DBouthit, of ....... | Sherdel, streak | - FALCONS TO PLAY |tonight at the g | sank, 3b; Liberty, ittsburgh Pirates—In First Brooklyn Robins Defeat ds Smother Boston Braves — | Totals Two bise hits— Three b O'Day and M o o smop =af [Eoon=s A il oosszsnwn | oo s olsssssssass res—Xlem, MeCormick and M- me—1:18. TWO FAST CLUBS Go fo Norwich Tomorrow and Megt Westlield Here Sunday The two hard gam will finish up Falaon b 11 team with es over th» wrek-end, preliminary training | at 5:30 o'clock at Riverview club of the si.te hos temorrow and then mests the West- field Athletics at St. ry's field, Sunday. The Norwich team is cne of the strongest semi-pro clubs in the state and it bids fair to mak: a strong drive for the state mythical cham- pionship. The team has a strong lineup and a heavy artilliry of hit- he Riverview club will lineup follow: Normandin, ss; Moore, Mills, L. Dugas. rf and p; 2b ickle, 1b; ¢, and West or Jones, p. er John Cabay will use either “Lefty” Haber armer” choltz in the box agal “he Nor- h team tomorrow, while the rest of the lineup will be the same as has been carrying the team through the present season. The Westfield team which appears bere on Sunday afternoor is consid- cred to be one of the fastest base- ball clubs in the Bav . The ceptional'y fine ord for this season and last year will be remembered as the club which handed the localt a 15 to 7 trimming, The team will carry th> roster fo New in: ¥ ol in B eam has an ¢ ng J. Sadowski, MeGov- ein, 1b; Tutth Szynanczyk, p. cons will leav club rooms for Norwicn at 11 o'clock. The s, ¢; and from the | tomorrow on Sunday FINNEGAN VS, SMITH {Mystery Abounds Over Status of lon this city for a special RED SOX TO PLAY MANCHESTER HERE Locals to Stack Up Against Two Fast Teams Over Week-End The Corbin Red Sox baseball team faces a tough schedule over the week-end when it plays the Cheney Brothers team of South Manchester on urday and then the Walling- ford Lenox in Wallingford in a’Cen- tral league game on Sunday. The Sox will meet the South Man- ster crew In this city tomorrow ernoon at 3 o'clock® ot Willow Brook park. This will be an espe- cially good attraction as the visitors have a strong lineup that will make the home club travel. The Cheney Brothers are the lead- t i in the Silk Towa and their record thi: ar shows them to be one of the leading semi-pro clubs in the state. The team will line up as follow Zwick or Boggini, ¢; Me- Donald, 1 Plitt, 2b; Hunt, ss; Hanna, 3b; R. Boyce, 1f; Edgar, cf; White, rf, and Georgetti, E. Boyce or Wiley, p. Billy Schmidt will probably draw the pitching assignment against the visiting team tomorrow ly, com- ing out of obscurity th.s year, is proving the sensation in the Indus- trial league with his twirling. The local club will have its regular line- up in the field. Sunday afternoon the local team will make an attempt to gain back some of the ground.lost ta the Cen- tral Connecticut league by dumping the Wallingford Lenox. The team down the line is one that is making the pace a hot one in the circuit and the Sox have no easy task confront- ing them. Berg, who last Moniay lost two tough games in his first start in the tox since his recent ansle injury, will probably draw the work of erv- ing them up to the Lenox on Sun- Manager Tobin has {nstructed his team to win the game Sunday. and he left no doubt as io his mean- ing when he served up lis orders. The locals will guard against drop- ping another encounter like last Monday morning's debacle. STORM SURROUNDS LEAGE MEETIN Ban Johnson ew York, July 8 (P—With President Ban Johnson and Ameri- can league club owners converging meeting today, the storm signal was flying again at the mast head of the league. Whether Johnson is to be asked to rhtire or to be allowed to con- tinue in office until expiration of his term in 1935 at $40,000 a year, no one would say. A cloud of secrecy surrounding the entire affair added credibility to the prophesy of an ap- proaching storm. Coming east from Chicago as fast as the Twentieth Century could car- ry him, the man who has dominated the American league throughout its 27 years of life was uncommunica- tiv “I will explain everything at the mecting tomorrow,” he said last night at Cleveland. Will Harridge, his secretary, ar- rived on an earlier train. Every club owner was here or on the way including Phil Ball of the St. Louis Browns, who is understood to favor Johnson's retention as president. Col. Jacob Ruppert of the Yan- kees admitted a possibility of John- son’s continuance in the active presi- dency after being relieved of the du- ties of the office after a controversy with Judge Kenesaw M. Landis last nter, might come up at the meet- But he scoffed at a report that ward Barrow, business munager of the Yankees, was being consid- ered as a guccessor to Johnson, to- gether with ¥ Barnard, president of the Cleveland Indian: Johnson's promise to ‘“explain thing” was seen in some quar- s as an indication he might yield to the Insistent demands of il health which has caused him to spend five of the last 12 montus in hospitals and voluntarily relinquish active uty. Hold Meeting to Plan Industrial Track Meet | Boston “Honeyboy” Meets Bridge- port Boxer in American Legion the Show At West Springficld Tonight. July $- hitter Smiit ) v in the ring L ten round bout un- | the A1 ican | Haven ¢ ol BASEBALUS BIG FIVE rnsby, the only member of the five to sce action, made a in four tin Hornsby Cobh The managers of the TIndustrial rack teams in the city will meet at Y. M. C. A, next Wednesday July h, to discuss plans ling the annual Industrial < and ficld meet at Willow Brook ptember, Indications are New Britain Machine, L tfnirs, Stanley National Harrig, P! — Hornsby, Wan risch, Cardinals, idows, Plrates, 50, 117 Indians, 30 M Tigers, 11 Vankees Jurns, | Georg | field will find McCormick, Grip and | Pospisit p, 1 UMPIRE INVEN GEORGE HIWLOEBRAND AMERICAN LEAGUE UMPIRE WHO INVENTED THE *SPITTER” AND ELMER SYRICKLETT WHO PUT IT OVER. | SUCCESSFULLY. (BY BILLY EVANS) One of the most difficult deliveries for an umpire to properly judge is a deceptive spitball. While it fsn’t generally known, & major league umpire, George Hilde- brand, is the man responsible for the “spitter,” which, since its intro- duction into the game, has been the source of much woe to umpires everywhere. Quite by accident, Hildebrand dis covered that if the ball was moist: ened at a certain spot, thereby eliminating friction as it slides off the fingers in being delivered to the batsman, it would break down. When a ball s0 thrown by him struck the catcher on the chest, | missing his hands by several inches, | it caused much wonderment. The | stunt was repeated, the ball again | taking a peculiar break. | Hildebrand took Pitcher Frank | Corriden into his confidence, who perfected the delivery, after having | great difficulty in acquiring control. | However, Elmer Stricklett was the | first pitcher to putdt over big. | Getting the sccret from Corriden, | he came back to the majors with | Brooklyn, after a lame arm had sent | him to the minors and was a big| winner. Other early ploneers in developing | the spitball delivery were Ed Walsh | and Jack Chesbro. Having been legislated against, it will soon be| passe, as only seven major league | pitchers still use it. KENSINGTONPLAYS THREAD ITY GLUB South End Team I Primed for a | Hard Battle Sunday Alternoon | The All-Kensington baseball team will meet an extraordinarily good team in the feature game at the Percival avenue grounds Sunday aft- ernoon when the West Ends of Wil- limantic cross bats with the South End club. The visiting team Is rated, outside of the Riverview club of Norwich, as the fastest team in the eastern part of the state and with Kensing- ton presenting a lineup of wallop- | ing stars, a battle royal is in pros- pect. Besides Grip and Belser, the Kensington team has “Hooks” Fitz- patrick on first base and he is the one balancing power that has made the club a fast one, Charlie Yale who started for the first time last Sunday, will probably draw the pitching assignment Sun- day, according to Manager Dan Ma- arney. Yale injured his arm last season and was under the carc of a phy n for a long time. His work last week shows that he has lost none of his cleverness. Sullick will be behind the bat with Jouy Fitzpatrick at first. Belser will be at second, Joe Kania at short and FFiclds at third. The out- McKeon chasing flics and hits, TED SPITBALL PEXTOS PLAY THO CLUBS THIS WEEK Southington Team to Battle ainyille and Middletown Teams The Pexto A. C. baseball team of Southington is slated to play two games over the week-end meeting All-Plainville tomorrow and Middle- town on Sunday. The Plainville team will battle the Central league leaders on Saturday afternoon in Southington, while the Pextos will invade Middletown for a league clash on Sunday. The Plainvllle crew, headed by the veteran Eddie Goeb, will essay to tumble the Pextos from their high pinnacle. The team boasts the class of baseball talent in the neighboring in the game portends the revival of the Intense rivalry that used to exist between the towns. . Southington will meet a different team Sunday in Middletown than it has met in previous league encoun- ters. The Recreations have signed Les Manning as the twirling main- stay and several other positions on the team have been bolstered up. Lindstrom will probably pitch for Southington against Plainville while the veteran “Dutch” Leonard will take the mound against Middletown. Leonard ani Lanning should hook up in a nice pitching duel that will make the contest a real one. Southington at prcsent leads the Central league and it is the ambition and aim of the other teams in the league to tumble the team. A loss for the Pextos Sunday and a win for the Meriden Insilicos would put the Meriden team in first place. TiNG WRONG The Willimantic team has an ex- ceptionally strong team. It lines up as follows: Tew ¢, Smith, Farrell or ggerty 1b, Rabinowitz Hart . Heller 3b, Kegler If, Heller cf and H. Heller rf. The three Heller boys are former Brown University stars and lettermen in baseball The game will 3 o'clock with umpiring. art promptly at “Ripper” McKeon MEET IS POSTPONED. scheduled triangnlar track wean Hartford ‘Waterbury Britain Y. M. C. A. track scheduled for tunorrow at 2nd New team Homers — Gelriz, Yankees, 28 Stolen bases — Sisler, Browns, 15. Pitching Ruether, Yankees, won 8, lost 1, .389, ' Willow Brook park, has been post- poned. The local team is practicing for a meet with the Hartford crew on July 23. {trict |the state champlonship, fmorrow !like a Who's Who of the turf, |Stockings, LEGION TEAM 10 BATTLE BRISTOL First Game of District League to Be Staged Tomorrow The New Britain American Le- glon baseball team will meet Bris- tol tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Bristol High school diamond, in the first game of the First Dia- league schedule. The teams will be battling in the initial con- test of the battle to see which one | will play in the eliminations for the | state title. The local team has been groomed for weeks under the tutelage of | Larry Mangan, the coach who last year brought the squad through to and right now presents a strong lineup that looks good as a contender for the state title. The Bristol team promises to be a formidable foe for the New Brit- ain team this year and tomorrow's game will be a flerce battle be- | tween these two. Following the play of last season, the rivalry be- | tween the two outfits is intense. The players on the local club will meet at the Legion rooms to- afternoon and will leave for Bristol at 1:45 o'clock. Back- ers of the New Britain club will accompany the team to Bristol to watch the game. LINCOLN. HANDICAP Thundering Hoofs of Nation's Best | Thoroughbreds to Tear up Turf | Next Saturday. Chicago, July 8 (#) — The thun- dering hoofs of the nation's best thoroughbreds are to tear up the turf at Lincoln fields Saturday when | the $25,000 Lincoln handicap, fea- ture race of the summer meeting, is run. From the east and south horses have come to face the best in the | west, .with the country’s premier | jockeys ready for leg up on the| cream of the thoroughbreds. The handicap entry list reads in- cluding such names as Hydromel, Kentucky Cardinal, Jock, Chance | Play, Princess Doreen, Rolled | Boo, Rhinock, Display and a score of others. The jockeys include Earl Sande, Johnny Maiben and other notables of the turf. HELEN COMING HOME ‘Wills Expected Residence at Forest Hills to Re- Miss to Take up gnin National Title. New York, July 8 (A — Mis Helen Wills is expected to arrive | |hére one week from today, sailing town and the interest being shown ! from England with her mother to- morrow on the Berengaria. Returning with the Wimbledon singles tennis champlonship and share of the doubles title, M ably at Forest Hills, N. Y.. and at- tempt to regain her national cham- plonship there the week of August THE REFEREE Who was the first player in the majors to get 100 hits this season ?— W. H. T. i Paul Warner of club. What was Gertrude Edcrle's time for crossingsthe English channel last year?—B. XL S. She swam across in 14 hours, 42 the Pittsburgh “WHEN You Go Down To | BREAKFAST AND ASK THE CLERK FOR YOUR MAIL AND THE EG&S ‘ARE Too S6F T, THE RoLLS AREN'T WARM ENOUGH , EVERY= minutes. Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling = AND WHHE NEARLY To THE PILE - lable to solve ‘and they just pulled through with a Wills will take up residence nrob-l \"AND You GET ABoUT A 'DozEN LETTERS BUT T ISN.T THERE HIDDEN BETWEERN Two LARGE ENVELOPES . You— WORKS IN 0 Tie. League Standing w. . Corbin Stanley Work: Fafnir veer . Machine .... Stanley Rule Russwins Union Works The Fafnir baseball team defeat- ed the Union Works yesterday 9 to in the only game played in the cw Britain Industrial Baseball League. The Cellar Champs threw a scare into the camp of the Bearing Makers by rallies in the late innings, but these fell short of tying the score. The Stanley Works-Landers game scheduled to be played on Dia- mond No. 2, was postponed because played tonight. Hard Hitting Game The Union Works hitters got to Jim Havlick, the veteran twirler on the Fafnir roster in the seventh in- ning and threatenad to tie the score. Several misplays helped them along but the rally was shut off without any material damage being done. It was a free hitting contest with Fafnirs getting in their Licks in the carly innings. Towards ths end of the me, the Bearing Makers were un- the slants ¢f Williams win by the skin of their teeth. How- ever, when they did hit them, the hit them hard and in the first tw irnings the batting order went around completely. Both teams scored in the first frame. Fafni ted on a single by Lipetz and another lony drive by K1 For the Union Works, Mc- Knight doubled and came in on Moore's single to center. Fafnirs jumped ahead in second in a slam bang party. Five runs were scored on four hits. Elton walked and scored on O'Brien's triple to center. Kroll ‘ripled and O'Brien crossed the plate. Havlick [went to first on a fielder's choice and |two runs came in wh2a Keehner |doubled, Williams relievel Casey in [the box and Klatka greeted him with a single, scoring the last run. nirs scored two more in the third and another in the fifth. After that, Williams tightened up and it became the Union Works' turn to |score. The seventh was tieir big in- ning. Schubert was safe ou an error. Chotkowski walked and Willlams singled, filling the bases. Zack {singled through the box and two runs came in. Casey singled bring- ing in two more. In the foliowing in- nings the Worl threataned, but their rallies were killed, Klatka and O'Brien carrfed off the hitting honors for the Izfnir team heavy stickers for the Union The summ the W orks. H. P.O. Keehner, I Ipetz ieinzeman, Lagerlof, 1b . Schubetr, rf, 3b . momoasony Finvd YouRrR N YoU GET THE BoTTom ©F AND THERE | O'Brien, Kroll. of wet grounds. It will probably be| the | | while Moore and Heinzem:ann were | . | da AND BREAKFAST AND START To READ THEM SUCH, A3 THEY ARE OHH-13-BoY ! IT'A GR-R-R-RAND GLOR-R:Rioys FEELIN FAFNIRS NOSE OUT UNION CLOSE CONTEST Cellar Champs Throw Scare Into Camp of Bearing Makers—Stanley Works-Landers Game Postponed On Account of Wet Grounds—Church Street Ag- gregation Shows Surprising Strength Against pponents—Rally In Late Innings Falls Short of Chotkowskt, 1f . 0 Williams, 3b, p 0 10 3 0009 00— , Keehner, Elton, Three base hits— Umpire—Maher, Play Game Tonight v The Landers-Stanley Works game postponed last night on account of wet grounds, will be played tonight at Walnut Hill park on Diamond No. 1 at 5:30 o’clock. TENNIS SCHEDULE STARTS TOORROW Torrington Team to Oppose New Britain on Local Courts The New Britain Tennis club team *lll start the season play tomorrow, on the Lincoln courts when the Tor« rington club will come to this city, in the first tournament.of the state competition. The local club is hook« ed up for nine tournaments for the season and &n interesting campaign is promised the fans. The tournament season, opening tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock will be |continued through until the last [tourney in September. Besides these | meetings with outside clubs, several | attractive tournaments have been ;plflnn*d for the members in this city with equally attractive prizes | being offered to the winners. | The schedule as outlined by the committee is as follows: July 9—Torrington at New Brit- July 16—Hartford at New Britain, aln. July 23—East Berlin at New Brit« ain. July 30—Doubles tournament for New Britain Tennis club membery only. Prizes will be tennis supplies. August 13—New Britain at Beaver Hills. August 27—Beaver Hills at New Britain. September Hartford. Open—New Britain at Torrington. Open—New Britaln at Meriden Y. M. C. A. MORE PLAYERS HURT Pittsburgh Pirates Suffer Two Ad- Oasualties Totals Fafnirs ... Union Works Two base b Haylick, McKnight 10—New Britain at ditional in Game Against Chicago Cubs. Pittsburgh, Pa.,, July 8 (® — The Pittsburgh Pirates, who held the |National league leadership for 45 despite injuries to several players, suffered two more casual- ties as they dropped the leadership to the Cubs here yesterday. Hal Rhyn, shortstop, injured his leg as he 'slid into second, while Johnny Morrison, of the pitching staff, is temporarily out of the line- up with’a bruised hand, suffered in a fall at his home. Kremer, Cuyler, Wright, Traynor, Harrls and Aldridge have been among the casualties of the present season, while Earl Simth, catcher, is still under suspension for a re- cent tiff with Manager Bancroft of the Boston Braves. By BRIGGS You Go INTo. A LETTER FRom SwseTla—'- AIN'T