New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 8

WIN FOR GIANTS OVER PIRATES IMPROVES CUBS’ STANDING—FALCONS AND RED SOX TO CLASH — UNION NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927, 3 WORKS CLAIM CELLAR POSITION IN INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE—LEGION TEAM TO PLAY IN DANBURY—DEMPSEY IS FIRST ON BATTLE GROUND FALCONS AND RED SOX TO CLASH IN FIRST BATTLE Local Teams to Play Initial Game In City Title Series At St. Mary’s Field Sunday Afternoon — Both Squads Ready For Fierce Diamond Battle—Pitch- ing Staffs Are the Best Available—Managers Pre- dicting Victories—Much Interest. GIANTS’ WIN OVER PIRATES IMPROVES CUBS’ STANDING Chicago Now Six Full Games In Lead In the National League—Hornsby Hits Out His 20th Homer—De- troit Wins Sixth Victory In a Row, Toppling Red Sox—Ruth Hits One of Longest Home Runs In His Career. Although the Giants routed the Neun. 1b Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game | {eriVlercs of their series at the Polo Grounds! . ' the Chicago Cubs profited by this| result of the runners-up and today|! had a lead of six full games in first place in the National league race. Charlie Root's ““winkle ball” baf- fled the Brooklyn Dodgers and the | ¢ Cubs left Ebbets Field with a 3-0| decision. Joe McCarthy's club played heads-up baseball and took advan- tage of every oportunity. The result furnishes interesting statistics. It was Root’s twenty-second victory of | the season and put him still further ahead of all other pitchers in both | major circuits, The s have won 14 out of 16 games played with Brooklyn. | Toat, 1b ... Rogers Hornsby’s twentieth home | Holmann, run of the season, inserted with two | JaTtles: men on bases in the seventh. en-| epayden, 1bled the Giants to come from be- | Tobin, x . hind and drub the Pirates, $-4. The Giants did gain a full game on the Pirates but the St. Louis Cardinals were trimming the Boston Braves and thus moved to within one game |, 3770 of second place. It was the Giant’s| Boston ............. 15th victory out of their last 19| Two base hite—Todt, sames. and the team now is only i two games out of second place. The St. Louis victory over the Braves came in the eleventh inning. Frankie Frisch’s all-around play stood out in the play of the world's champions. Philadelphia opened with the Cincinnati Reds with a 5-3| victory, Lester Sweetland outpitch- g ing three Cincinnati hurlers. Tresco | foatheate, rf ia 3 Thompson, Phillies’ second baseman, 0 stole three base: [ The last invasion of the west by the Yankees got under way at Chi- cago and the American League lead- | K ers ambled in winners by an -1 count. Babe Ruth hit his thirty- seventh home run into the upper| deck of the grandstand in right | field, one of the longest hits of the bambino's career. | Heer The Philadelphia Athletics opened | . their western trip with double- | header victory over the Cleveland | Indians, winning the first 6-3 and | the second 8-0. The nightcap was| fairly close until the ninth, ¥hen the | Mackmen put over five runs. Detroit won its sixth consscutive| victory by beating the Boston Red | . Sox, 10-7. Fred Hoffman, Boston | catcher, was carried off the field | unconscious after a collision with | * Johnny Nuen of Detroit in the sixth. Hoffman suffered a broken nose. Washington and the St. Louis Browns were rained out AMERICAN LEAGUE 222 2b . © o4 o 00 04 00 8 1 10 1 T 5 ° [ Totals x—Bat ner, Rothrock, Home runs—Gehringer, He . Unipir debrand and McGowan, ATIONAL LEAGUE CHICAGO AB. R Al a ] S locnsononmonn | Recormer, NEW YORK Barnes, p ... Al 5 o Combe, ot Koentg, ‘85 Ruth, it Gehrig, 1b Meusel, rf .. 1 2 £ loosmumn wlocscansacssl e D aa e 4] locsonssnwossat Dugan Collin: . Pannock. p lovmonmumn Totals palia e S commmon skamper, Kamm, 3b Metzler, cf . Earrett, rf alocas | nonornronrmmm T ..00: PG ORI [omsassosyvs Al @ locoonooccooilul omocomuunn ol usnrwosssmmn Home run—Hornshy. Losing_pticher—Aldridge Wilson and P 200" 01 ..000 000 1 Teusel, Gehrig, Berg 2 Three bass hit— Losing p . Rowland and | | Holm Toporcer. New York Chicago ... Two base hi Ward, Combs, Combs. Home run. Thomas. Umpires—Orm Connelly. Time—2:0. ST. LotIs AB. R 3b adelphin eland Second Game o | the Sundays so CELLAR POSITION | UNION WORKS OWN {Russell & Erwin Out of Contest for Basement Position The Union Works won undisputed claim to last place in the Industrial league last night when they were defeated by the Russell & Erwin team at Willow Brook park in a postponed game, § to 2. Both teams were tied for last place at the end of the league's regular season. Al Blanchard was on the mound for the winners and after the second inning was invincible. :ven of the losers were turned back on strikes g0 effective were his shoots. From e fourth inning until one man was ninth, not one loser reach- The losers scored one run in the first on a hit by Williams, his steal of second, and a one base blow by Casey. In the second the Worlkers pushed over their final run on a eingle by Zack and a double by Mc- Knight. In the same inning the winners went into the lead when they scored four times. Groman singled but was forced a moment later by Cosgrove. Link followed with a double putting Cosgrove on rd. Suess walked, filling the bases. Bucholtz grounded to Zack who threw Cosgrove out at the plate, Bucholtz reaching first and the other | two runners advancing a base. Mor- clli singled, scoring two runners and | Hennessey doubled, scoring two more. Groman was hit by a pitched ball in the third and Lucas ran for him. The latter stole second and scored on a single by Link. In the fifth Gro- man opened with a single, stole sec- ond and scored on Cosgrove's one base blow. Two errors, a single and a double gave the winners two more runs in the sixth of 2 o H o o SPUT ONUSEOF PARK PLAY FIELD Rangers and All-New Britains| 0 Divide Privilege | A plan by which both the Ran-| gers and the All-New Britain foot- | | ball teams may be seen in Sunday | games next scason was worked out last night by the board of park com- | missioners. Each team was an applicant for a lease insuring it of a playing field | and the managers were called be- fore the board last night to discuss| proposals. It was made plain at the | outset that the city's financial in- | terest this year is a great one since an invest t is being made in chers and it is desired that the rate. A. Zwick, coach of the Ran- d the idea of dividing | that both teams | would be on fairly even basis. lie | called attention to the fact that the Dr. gers advan | during |are still in the | series, UNASSISTED TRIPLE PLAYS ARE SCARCE ” catcues i INER; BY BILLY EVANS A triple play unassisted is unques- | aseball's rarest - fielding | Despite the fact that the Nation- al League has been in operation over rs, being formed in 1876, and the American League has been in business since 1900, a mere mat- ter of 28 vears, oply seven unassis- ted triple plays by infielders have been made in the majors, Neal Ball, shortstop for the Cleveland club, made the first un- assisted triple play in 1909, It -‘as the 10th season of the American League. During its 3 years of existence prior to that time, no National League infielder had ever retired all three men un- assisted on the same play, Once Neal Ball started the vogue, it hecame popular and now seven players are entitled to a rating in major league's Hall of Fame be- have made triple plays sted. a very interesting fact that en players who have perform- 4 such an extraordinary feat are still connected with baseball. Five majors. two of Burns and Padgett, are on the same club, Cleveland, Neun is with Detroit, Wright wih Fittsburgh and Cooney with Philadelphia. The other two triple play heroes v to the minors. Bill , the only player ever a them, | to have turned the trick in a world is now with Kansas City. This happened in the 1920 clash be- tween Cleveland and Brooklyn, Wamby playing second base for the former. Neal Ball recently resigned as ager of an Eastern League team. No third baseman in the majors made a triple play. It has thrice been performed by shortstops and twice by first and second base- men b In 1923, rns 2nd Ernie Padgett irough with only a short ce of time between the two plays. s year but a few days separated plays by Cooney, n with the Chicago Cubs, and Neun of De- troit. For an infielder to make a triple play unassisted it is almost neces- t the hit and run sign be h | be staged Thursday afternoon. | players will leave by bus from the [ccnlf;sl with the Providence from Rhode Island but the laxity of o DADGETT TSOCHES ROUNNERS LEGION TEAM T0 PLAY IN DANBURY Eddy-Glover Post Favored to Bgain Take State Title The Eddy-Gloved post baseball | team will be off for Danbury tomor- row to tackle the Taftville team of the American Legion's Baseball League in the first semi-final game to the state championship battle to The Eddy-Glover post rooms at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning and the game in Danbury will be started at 10 o'clock. The local team has been organ- ized and coached by Larry Mangan. astute baseball mentor. Last y under his direction, the team went through the gauntlet of state and district teams to win the laurels in the state league. beaten later fn an inter- 1 team the enforcement of the rules that time brought a team much bigger and apparently much older to meet the local squad. New Britain is a favorite to again cop the state championship. Most of the members of the team played fo- gether last season and they are s soned veterans. Thosp places which had to be filled this Sear becanse of some last year's plavers passing the age limit, have been plugged with the best material available. At the same time tomorrow morn- ing, the New Haven team will play Watertown. This will be semi-final game and the winners of the morning contests will meet in afternoon in the final game which will decide the championship. another | RUTH BREAKS DISTANCE RECORDS IN CHICAGO | | Gehrig Now Has But One Run Lead In Race For Home Run Honors, (By United Press) Babe Ruth’s 37th home run of the season was the longest driver ever made at Comiskey park. Ruth also | made a double in his three trips to the plate. The first blood in the battle for the semi-pro baseball championship of the city of New Brtiain, will be drawn next Sunday afternoon when the Falcons and the Corbin Red Sox baseball teams meet in the first game of a five-game series. The contest will be started prompt- ly at 8 o'clock. % This will be the first time 1in two years that these two teams have met in a series. Last year the Fal- | cons refused to entetrain the idea of meeting the Red Sox on an equal basis because of the fact that the Red Sox did not have a home field. This season, the Red Sox have been playing at Willow Brook park and there was no difficuity in arranging the series. The Falcons have been winning consistently all year long. The - only teams that have been able to down them have been the Riverviews of | Norwich and the Bristel New De- partures. The Corbin Red Sox have had their rough times this season | but recently the team has been set- ting a hot pace and has been clean- ing up all opposition in its path. The series will not only be a bat- | | tle between two teams that are bit- | ter diamond rivals, but it will also ! be a clash between two lively man- | agers, John Tobin of the Red Sox |and John Cabay of the Falcons. Both have boasted openly that there will be nothing to it when the teams clash. Both outfits are fortified with an excellent pitching staff. The Falcons have Bucholtz, the farmer from New Haven who proved to be a nemesis for the Red Sox last vear when the locals played Kensington. They have Bergeron who has been oing some sweet work for the Hardware City crew in recent games and in reserve there will be Russ Fischer of Hartford. Johnny Tobin has a trlo of hurl- ers tgat would grace any club in the semi-pro ranks of the state. Leading them all is Walter Berg, husky right hander who is in per- fect form and will be at his hest for the series. “Porky" Flynn, elongated right-handed is another of | the team’s mainstays who will prob- Rogers Hornsby's 20th homer of the year was his only safety in three | {times up, | Lon ¢ afety attempts was a doul Ty Cobb made but one in nine times up | Spealker was idle | Averages i a h 165 142 141 143 125 in four | a triple hr | Genrig | Speaker |Ruth Hornsby Cobb {Champions Paired in | Lake Geneva Matches | Lake Geneva, Wis., Aug. 17 (P— Five women who have held the| western golf championship including | the present titieholder, Dor-thy | Page, were among the sixteen con- testants in the second round of the champlonship tourney today at Lakc Geneva Country club. In only one case were they array ed against one another, and in that| match, Miss Page had as om"oncnt.i Mrs. Elaine Rosenthal Reinhart of Dallas. | Mrs. Melvin Jones of Chicago. vet- | eran of the former champion coterie, | s opposed by Mrs. J. W. Taylor| of Chicago, who showed c'mmmon-‘ {ship form in eliminating Mrs. Curtis 1 Sohl of Cclumbus yesterday. Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of. Life e | con club last year. T. ably draw an assignment in one of the games. Then there s “Lefty” Buckland who is a thorn in the side at all times for teams opposing him. That there will be a sweet battle when the two clash this coming Saturday is made more certain by the fact that most of the players on the Red Sox team were pretty well peeved at the action of the Fal- ey will be out, not only to win but to get revenge for the treatment accorded them. The Falcons on the other hand, consider the Red Sox “soft pick- ing.” Manager Cabay points out that Pucholz needs only to wave his glove at the Sox batters and they will be all done. Then he feels con- fident that Bergeron will easily d pose of tha red-hosed stickers proper ordor. The fecli=n hetween the two clubs is intense 0 this has been passed on to the followers of the team. The ckers of the Falcons will place irts on the outcome of Sun- | game and they are going deep that the team will win the ceries. Since arrangements for th series have been completed by managers, he enfire city is buzzing with the possibilities of both clubs in the zames. Herbie Sautter and Eddie Crowley will aiternate in the umpiring posi- tions during the games. The Falcons will be the home club thi the | day with the Sox taking the field | the following game. The contest will start promptly at 3 o'clock. PADDLE TENNS TITLE AT STAKE Playgronnd Net Stars Swing Into Action Tomorrow —_— / Tomorrow afternoon the paddls tennis tournament for the champ- ionship of the playgrounds of the city will get under way at the Bur- ritt ground at 2:15 o'clock. Singles matches for both boys and girls and matches bringing together mixed teams of boys and girls will be run off. Tomorrow’s tournament will be | for the class that' has not yet reachs ed 12 years of age. Friday afternoon, the same tour- nament will be played for the boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 114 vears. Four entries will be allowed in ths | competition from each playground in the city. This will allow one boy jand one girl to battle in the singles and a boy and a girl forming a team to play for the doubles. No boy or girl who enters in the singles play will be allowed to be- come a member of a doubles team. The rivalry between the play- |8grounds in this game is intense and |some fierce battles are anticipated ‘hy the directors of the teams. Those | Who have been following the game played all season on the | grounds, have watched | develop into stars and there are {m:\ny clever players eager and an- | xlous to get going to fight for the titles involved. Prizes will be awarded to the w ners. Miss Margaret Hart will of- ficiate on Court No. 1 and Roger | Scully will officiate on Diamond No, |Burritts and West Ends To Play Double Header | Arrangements have been complet- City league president, Ken , for a double header to ba aturday afternoon between | the Burritts and the West Ends. Ona |is a regular scheduled game while |the other is a postponed affair. The |first game will start at two o'clock |and the second at four. They will {be played on diamond No. 2. Tha !Junior City league game scheduled for the diamond at four has been changed to a different date. Thesa two games will have a very impor- tant effect on the league standing. Work is being done in an effort to play other postponed games. The Rangers and Tabs will probably play |a double header on the 28th.’ | e |Green Will Manage N. Y. Americans Hockey Team Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 17 (A—Wilfred “Short Green will be at the helm of the New York Americans when |the National Hockey Legue opens ts 1927-1928 schedule, Walter C. Anderson of Bridgeport, Conn., who ! controls the club, announced hers today. | 1t was also announced Thomas F, Gorman, among the most prominent | mentors of Canada’s national winter | sport, has renewed his contract a3 | secretary and busi manager of ‘the New York club. 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Brooks of the park Lourd| League was founded as far | who remarked that the Ranger tvpe | s 1876, The hit and run play of foothall is that intended for Wil- | i more or less modern strategy, low Brook park t doesn't date back much farth- After some further discus than DAVIS CUP ASPIRANTS { -New Bri club His Work At Forest Hills Encourag- ?| Rang o | that LY losossasnnm b 'S IMMEN SE T Quinn, p e et wlososscmuasll Totals 5 AN CLEVEL. AB - re lates | { October 9 and November cepted as two of the four ¢ d the remainder of the scheduie on represent- mest at a later conmoko ingz—Final Trilas Produce Good Contests N. Y., Aug 17 (P— order here to- or the American presented the selection commis Hunter, doubles T. Tilden in the was selected to Doeg of Santa Cal, in a singles match. George M. Lott, Jr., of Chicago was paired with Richard N. Willlams in les against apolis s adeiphia wo Lase its ¥ You WAX ENTHUSIASTIC 1S A BULLY YARN -~ WONDER HOW TS GOING To TURN OUT, CONTINUED Page You ARRIVE AT THE CRUX oF THE WHOLE THING — SOMEBODY 15 ALWAYS T THE JoY OUT OF LIFE WER Cohens to Murphys, Kelleys to Callahans | 7 the I Callahans, they'll ollowing the DETROIT AB. R. € 0 partner of William NCLUDED European contest oppose Johnny \ WEVER KNEW 1T 0 FAIL Moniea, | Murphys, The Isretitias tne nd Doeg Tilliams Hunter scores was a| teams matched that ored through second and mmodate the Call tuted. The Murphys have 1 and Plerogi the Callah with were one break was the so evenl | only The play of Doeg and Lott was| comforting to those who are looking formard to America's prospects next Doeg’s service was supremely ALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS