New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY.9, 1927. STANLEY WORKS IN FIRST PLACE IN DUSTY LEAGUE AFTER BEATING LANDERS—NEW BRITAIN BASEBALL TEAMS TO SEE PLENTY OF ACTION—CITY LEAGUE GAMES—ST. MATTS AND SWEDES TIED FOR LEAD IN CHURCH LEAGUE — SPORT ITEMS CUBS BEST PIRATES IN " SPECTACULAR MOUND DUEL| py STANLEY WORKS Charlie Root, Ace of Chicago Staff, Allows Pittsburgh One Hit — Larry Benton Completes First Game When Giants Beat Robins—Braves Defeat Cards— " (LANDERS SWAMPED | SIX SPITBALL PITCHERS REMAIN IN MAJORS Butt Makers Play Faultlessly Behind Scott’s Great Pitching Reds Down Phillies — Yanks Split With Tigers— Senators Score Double Victory Over Indians —Other Games. s the Associated Press A pitching battle reminiscent baseball's earlier days marked the fight of the Chicago Cubs to keep | thefr lead in the National lcague against the Pittsburgh Pirates yes- | terday. Charlie Root, ace of the Cub staff, held the Pirates to one hit and beat them, 1-0. It was the ninth stralght victory for Chicago and Root's fifteenth victory of the sea- son. Root had pitched hitless ball | up to the eighth when, with two out, | Gooch singled into left field. Joe Me- Carthy’s team collected cight hits off Lee Meadows but the bespectacled | Pirate hurler clamped down four times with runners on third. With Chicago on top by one and one-half games the Pirates will try | to cut down the margin in the third game of the series today. Larry Renton, Boston's contribu- tion to the Giants' pitching staff, completed his first full g for | New York when he beat Brooklyn, | §-2. Benton was touched for mine | hits but he scattered them while the Giants were stopping Bill Doak's string of five straight wins, Kent Greenfield, who went to Bos- ton from the G in the Bentor trade, pitched th s to a 3-2 victory over ihe world's champion St. Louis Cardinals. Jess Haines | failed to come through in the pinches, Bancroft, High and Gibson hitting when hits meant runs. The Cincinnati Reds won their second straight from Philadelphia, but they had to go 11 innings to get an 8- verdict. Hughey Critz’s single with the bases loaded and two out turned the trick. The Yankees opened their west- ern invasion by breaking even in a double header at Detroit, losing the first, 11-8 and taking the other, 10-8, Babe Ruth hit his 27th home run of the season and is only one behind his teammate, Lou Gehrig. Tony Lazzeri whacked out his 13th homer of the year with Gehrig on in the seventh inning of the first game. Ruth’s circuit smash came .in the nightcap with two men on bases. Tris Speaker's batting was in- strumental in Washington's two vic- tories over Cleveland, 7-4 and 4-3. Goslin and Cullop hit homers and George Burns got his 31st and 32nd ! ]‘ doubles, one in each game. The Boston Red Sox knocked Ray Schalk's Chicagoans ouf of third | place by beating them 11-5. “Lefty” Grove ran his total of| strikeouts to 105 by fanning eight St. Louls batters. Grove allowed the Browns eight hits and beat them, 7.5, A double by Ty Cobb drove in | two runs in the seventh. Sam Jones | was pounded hard. AMERICAN LEAGUE Combs, cf ... Morchart, 2b . Ruth, 1£ ... Gehrlg, 10 Meusel, Lazzeri, Dugan, Grabowskl, Ruether, p . Thomas, p Heilmann. rf . Neun,( 1b Tavenbr, : Woodall, Stoner, p .. Ruble, x 1t . Totals x—Bitted for x—Ran for New York . Detroft Two Dugan, a1, War Homa TRuethor Time— base Th, . Woodall, hrig, Wood- Manush Second Now York ... PHIA R. PHILAD} AB. H Tamlesan, 0 Euras, 1b ol cne e p . Nelc, ‘ef . Totals pitcher— , Van Graf- atted for Blankenship in Russell ing Gelsel, Winning pite er—Harrl plteher—Blankenship, Nallin and Dine Umplres— Time—2:21, 010— Burn NATIONAL LEAGUE CHICAGO AB, R o Wilson, Stey Grimm, Hartnett, ¥ Chicago Two base hit—CGrinmm. —Webb, Wilson. and Hart. Time—1 n for Gooch in sth. 2010 ST. LOUIS Bell, § Sehubel O'Farrel] Doutlit, ss L Umpir Laughlin, Time—2.25, R. [} e T | ISP SO A ) lussan 00 Three base hit Umpires—Rigler, Jorda asy alieendnl lnsssucase 000— - =lecss5c20m0050 olzsczss5m52220 wlessuossas League Standing s W. IP. & F. Corbin | Stanley Work I Landers o Fafnir N. B. Machine . i | Stanley Rule . o | Russwin Union Works o1 s 2 ts ko ©» The Stanley Works baseball team swamped the Landers, Y¥rary & Clark outfit last night in a post- poned game played in the Indus- | trial League. This victory puts the Stanley Works into a tie again for first place with the P. & F. Corbin team. The score was 10 to 1, Stan- ley works losing a shutout only by Charlow getting on through an er- Tor. Landers used four pitchers in a frenzied attempt to stem the tide of hits sent out by the Butt Mak- ers. A total of 16 safe hits was garnercd by the wining team off the combined offerings of Chant, Nester, i rick and Goeb. Jim Scott, pitching for the Stan- ley Works, was in rare form and turned in his best performance in the Industriai League this year. He allowed but eighit scattered hits, only one of which drove in a run. He walked none and struck out five. Faultless support by his team mates helped him greatly in the victory. The Stanley Works hitting com- bination greeted Chant with a bar- rage in the first inning that drove him to cover before one man was retired. Snyder started with a dou- ble. Gaida singled. Green walked. Parsons singled. Schrocder singled and Chant retired to right field. Nester relieved him and after re- tiring Budnick, Chant dropped an easy fly in right field off Pelletier. Grail flew out and Parsons was thrown out at home on a pretty throw from Goeb. Four runs were scored in this frame. Nester gave way to Joe Fitzpat- rick when Scott, the first man up in the second inning, pasted a home run clear across Diamond No. 2. Fitzle allowed two hits and walked a man but no runs, were scored off him. Eddie Goeb started in the box in the third inning and lasted until the fifth. Que run was scored off him in the Tourth and four more were counted in the fifth, Chant returned to the slab in the sixth and held the Stanley Works team scoreless for the remainder of the game, Landers got its sole run in the eighth inning. Charlow, with two out, popped an easy fly on the first base line. Scoft covered the ball and was waiting for it to come down. As Charlow ran by, he bumped Scott slightly just as the ball was coming down. It was enough to dis- concert the pitcher and he dropped the ball. Umpire Mike Lynch saw no interference and Charlow wa safe. He went to second on a low pitched ball. Vincent then crashed a long single to center scoring Char- low with the only run of the game for the Landers team. Jim Scott was almost the whole works for the Stanley Works team. Besides pitching a nice game. he fielded his position perfectly except for the one error on a fly ball which could not be blamed on him. He had four putouts on fly balls and five assists, throwing each run- ner out at first base. At the bat, he got three hits out of five trips, cne a home run and scored two runs. “Ty Cobb” Gaida was the heavy hitter for the winning team. He crashed out four slashing singles, one of them coming when the bases were loaded. Besides his work at the bat, he pulled down a nice cateh in left field. Mickey Bucheri turned in the ficlding gem of the game, spearing a line drive off Snyder's bat with a high leap into the air. The Stanley Works team fielded perfectly and hit like champions. The summary: NI 1 1 -8 wlesosns ) rwowonuean] 0 10140 Fitzpatrick, mplre—>Mike ‘l'-inxlnnvlfl Wightman Cup Tennis Team of Women Players To Meet Canadian Cousins. York, July 9 (P—England’s Wightman cup team of woman ten- nis players will play seve warm- ng up matches a inst their Cana- dian cousins before meeting an American team for tha trophy at 1 t Hills, August 13 and 13 ailing from nd toda invading team will land in C for matches in Quebee, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto before coming to New York, July 30. the W RECORD recently won 19 in the Southern new league rec- N Birmingham straight games league, sotting ord, anada | COVELESKIE? (BY BILLY EVANS) The spitball will soon be but memory in the major leagues. Five years more will probably spell the death knell of the moist delivery. ‘When I broke into the majors back in 1906, the spitball was at the | very height of its popularity. Two years prior to my debut, the veteran Jack Chesbro of the New York Americans, with ‘the spitball as his one best bet, had won 41 games. By going to the spitball Chesbro kept his star shining bright- ly at a time when it seemed he was about to slip. Ed Walsh of’ the Chicago White Sox blossomed out about the same time as a spitball star and in 1906 helped win a pennant for Chicago through his effectiveness, due large- Iy to the almost exclusive use of the “spitter.” For seven or eight years Walsh and his spithall delivery were the sensation of the majors. The pgs- sessor of uncanny control, Walsh was able to pitch nine out of every ten halls at the knee, the height where the spitter is hardest to hit. The success of Chesbro and Walsh, in particular, and perhaps a dozen other pitchers in general caused the spithall germ to spread. It almost became a pest. Twenty years ago 70 per cent of the pitchers in the major leagues in- cluded the spitball in their reper- toire. The other 30 per cent faked it. That is, they went through all the motions of placing saliva on the hall for the psychological effect it would have on the batter. There is a waste of time on the part of most pitchers who use the spitball delivery. When you recall that practically every pitcher a score of years back went through the preliminary motions whether using it or not, it is easy to figure how it slowed up the action. T believe I am conservative when T say that it lengthened the ordi- nary game 20 minutes. It was this delay that was the inspiration for one of the many baseball classics pulled by the late Tim Hurst, one of the greatest of umpires. President Johnson of the Amerl- ague, annoyed at the way the | had slowed up the game, wrote the members of his umpire staff for suggestions as to how the evil might be lessened. Hurst, in replying, after placing all the blame on the excessive use of the spitball as well as the faking of the delivery, added a postscript which read: “If you are really in earnest about shortening the games Ban, why not try seven innings!” Only six spitball pitchers rematn in the major leagues. The oldest is Jack Quinn, 42: the youngest, Bur- leigh Grimes, 34, Few pitchers are able to stand the pace in the ma- jors at the 40 mark, so it is fairly to say that in flve years the | spitball delivery will be but a memory. | Three of the fading six are are American leaguers—TFaber of Chi- cago. Quinn of the Athletics and Shocker of New York. The three National leaguers are Burleigh Grimes of Giants, Clarence Mitch- ell of Philadelphia and Bill Doak of the Brooklyn team Stanley Coveleskie, one of the most famous of the spithall pitchers, was recently given his unconditional rele by Washington. In 1920 Coveleskie won three world series games for Cleveland. THE REFEREE Who Is the regular sccond base- of the Cleveland Indians, ca or Spurgeon?—S. K. G. Fonscea seems to have that honor at the present time. Where did Nolan Richardson, now | playing with Fort Worth in the Tex- as league, go to college?—D. J. B. | Fia n o He attended the University of Georgia, at the Hartford night Velodrome and among when HOWARD TO MEET BARD IN TOURNEY Massassoit A, C. Changes Ama- teur Fights to Mo Hartford, July 9—The Massasoit A. C. which has changed the night of its weekly amateur boxing shows from Tuesday to Monday night, will offer a feature bout of keenest interest for its first Monday night card next week Monday. In this bout, Joe Howard and Joe Bard, two Hartford amateurs who are great rivals, will come together. Hard and Howard have been go- ing at a great clip of late. at the last Tuesday night show, fur- nished a great surprise knocked out the state middeleweight champion, Jack Kelly of Waterbury. Kelly had been picked to win, but almost from the opening bell it was scen that the Brass City boy was in for a rough night. Howard, down to fine fighting condition, boxed clever- Iy and displayed a great right hand. He dazed Kelly with a hard smash to the jaw in the first round and in the second round caught the state titleholder with a right to the jaw that sent Kelly to slumberland. There will be a dozen bouts next Monday will be a clash between Eddie Reed of Hartford and Art Chapdelaine of Springfield and one in which Pancho Villa of Hartford will take on Tony Pagonl of Springfield. There will be two marked inno- nday Night Howard them he [ o W7 vations: Tasillo's Band will give a concert and there will be free admit- tance to ladies accompanied by es- LINCOLN HANDICAP Fast Horses and a Fast Track Await- ed the Running of the Famous $25,000 Race Today. Chicago, July 9 (A)—TFast horses and a fast track awaited the run- ning at the Lincoln fields track to- day of the $25,000 Lincoln handicap, feature event of the day race meet over the Crete, 11, race cours The field of probably 18 starters was regarded as the best to face the barrier on an American track this year, Chance Play, carrying top weight of 122 pounds and with Earl Sande up, was the early favorite, but Display, Rhinock, Hydromel and Moonraker were also backed. Among other scheduled starters who were given respectful consider- ation from the railbirds were Jock and War gle, coupled under the colors of Edward B. McLean, the Cincinnati and Washington publish- er; Boon Companion, coupled with the French distance galloper, Cot- logomor, winner of the New Or- leans handicap last winter, andg Rothermel, running with Hydromel under the silks of former Senator Camden of Kentucky. The race is over the mile and a quarter distance, and is for three year olds and up. 37 COACH GETS LETTER Track Coach Kanaly at Maine was awarded a letter this year for giving that school a track cham- pionship. Advice From Counsel il Ve W \‘\ It 1) M\M\l v ’f*‘) i) NEW BRITAIN TEAMS TO SEE PLENTY OF ACTION Falcons to Battle Westfield At St. Mary’s Tomorrow— Corbin Red Sox Playing League Contest In Wall- ingford — Pirates Clash With Watertown — Kene sington Meeting Willimantic West Ends — Other Games Scheduled This Afternoon. THREE GAMES IN CITY BALLLEAGUE One Contest Scheduled Also To- day in Junior Municipal Gircnit _ Three games in the City league and one in the Junior City league will be played at Walnut Hill park this afterncon, and, while none of the main contenders are playing each other, plenty of action and ex- citement is promised. At 2 o'clock on Diamond No. 1 the Pirates will do battle with the Speedboys. The Pirates have won both of their pre- vious starts and are considered one of the strongest teams in the league. They have a wealth of young ma- terial, several good pltchers, and hitting power to spare. Al Havlick will probably pitch, but Sheehan or Williams may be the selection. The Speedboys have yet to show much in the way of batting, but they have a nice fielding aggregation and play heady baschall. Morse Richtmyer will pitch for them. The Rangers will tackle the West Ends on Diamond No. 2 at the same hour. The Rangers arc another team which is stronger defensively than | on the attack, having made but ten hits in its two games thus far. Al Anderson will probably start on the mound. The West Ends, old-timers all, are a collection of stars of past and present ,all of whom still have many a good game left in their sys- tems. They have been making up for slightly wobbly fielding by mur- derous hitting ability and will be heard from before the title is de- cided. Bill Cormier or Tommy Blanchard will be the pitching choice. At 4 o'flock on Diamond No. 1 the Burritts will oppose the Tabs. Despite the loss of half a dozen of last year's men to the factory league, the Burritts have put together an- other and younger combination which is developing rapidly and acts as if it would stay at or near the top all the way. Marion Za- leski will occupy the mound, with Johnny Rose in reserve if anything goes wrong with “Monjue.” The Tabs have yet to show anything, but they are hoping to spring a sur- prise and are gradually strengthen- ing their team. ¥'s pitcher will be Reed or, possibly, Massey. Junior Teague Game The Burritts will battle the Phan- toms at 4 o'clock on Diamond No. 2 in a Junior City league contest. The two teams have just got off to a start in the league by playing one game. ‘After this week, the race for the championship will tighten FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Assoclated Pross 3ayonne, N. J.—Billy Algers, Phocnix, Ariz, defeated Harry Mar- tone, Jersey City; 10. Miwalters Romano, Harrison, whipped Fri Bautista, Philippines, 10. Des Moines—Kenneth Hunt, Des Moines, ard, Russell, 3. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS: FOR BEST RESULTS NOW WHAT CLUB WouLD You ADVISE ME TO USE 7 WHAT , IN “YOUR OPINION | 1S° THE DISTANCE To THE GREEN FROMm HeRe T Wyl AN (7S Nl it sl ) o {*\‘\‘\w%l,.\ 1" j il i A, 1TV (14 .,‘,\\\’,bn\\m\ n | Central Connectiut league | worked to perfection. knocked out Frank Down- | New Britain baseball teams face a busy week-end starting this after. noon with all the major teams swinging into action either today or tomorrow. The Corbin Red Scx will furnish the features with a home game today and the Falcons will hold forth tomorrosy for the home. stayers at St. Mary's fleld. South Manchester Here The Corbin Red Sox are scheduled {to meet the Cheney Bros. baseball club of South Manchester at Willow Brook park at 3 o'clock this after- noon. The visiors form the leading diamond aggregation in South Mana chester and they are bringing an ex- ceptionally strong team to this city to oppose the locals. Billy Schmidt will probably draw the pitching asdgnment today. He has been showing great stuff on the mound this seasoa and will probably be a regular memter of the Red Sox pitching staff for ‘he remainder of the season. Tomorrow aftenoon, the Corbin Red (Sox will go o Wallingford to meet the Lenox if that city in a game, The Sox have hal their ups and downs in the circit since the league opened play but Mnager Tobin feels confident that hiscrew is out to start a winning steak with tomor- row’s game. Falcons Fay Two The Falcon hasehll team is play- ing the Norwich Rierview club this afternoon in Norwia and it was ex- pected that this wold be the hard- est game of the yea for the local ‘With 13 wins and ne loss on the slate, a win over tb Riverviewers would be the crisis téa good season. Tomorrow at 3 o'clock at St. Mary’s fleld. the Falcqs take on the Athletics of Westfleld one of the best diamond colbinations in Massachusetts. The By State team last year walloped thelocals to the tune of 16 to 7 and the¢ confidently hope to repeat tomorroy Bucholz or “Lefty” faber will draw the assignments sr the two days. Meets Willimanp The All-Kensington bathall team has an extraordinarily gad attrac- tion for the Percival avenu grounds in the West Ends of Wijmantic. The visting club ranks setd only to the Riverview team of Jorwich in the castern part of the ste, The Kensington team will prest the lineup that won its last twogames and Manager Dan Marlarney feels confident that his rough gog jg over for the rest of the secasi Charlie Yale, husky portger, will probably be selected to opise the Willimantic team tomorrow. o went four innings last Sunday an He feels tha he is in perfect shape for a good game tomorrow. Pirates in League The Pirates baschall team will face one of the toughest teams in the Western Connecticlit league to- morrow afternoon when it crosses batgwith the fast Watertown aggre- gation in that place. The Pirates honped off in the league in good style last week and Coach Charlie Miller hopes to sce his crew do some wrecking tomorrow. ‘Watertown will probably have Maxwell, formerly of the Waterbury lastern league team, on the mound while Williams or “Huggie” Carlson will serve them up for the locals. TRAVELS BY PLANE Washington, July 9 (# — The baseball team of Bolling field, the army aviation field here, makes fts trips by airplane. The nine today flew to Martinsburg, West Virginia, to play a game there.