New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST . 24, 1927- RAIN STOPS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN THIRD INNING—ALL-KENSINGTON AND FALCONS TO START FIVE-GAME SERIES SUNDAY —NEW BRITAIN LOST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 60 YEARS AGO—WASHINGTON PLAYGROUND WINS TENNIS TOURNEY—ITEMS CARDS EMPHASIZE FACT THEY ARE STILL IN RACE Four Home Runs Are Made Red Birds Now Within Three Games of First Place —Three Circuit Drives Louis to Get Real Test Against Giants Next Week Windups. | —Teams to Have Stiff By the Associated Press. | Four home runs in one game by the St Louis Cardinals have em- phasized that the world's champions are still in the race for the National | league championship | By pounding out a 13-3 victory | over Philadelphia yesterday, Bob O'Farrell's Redbirds moved to with- in three games of the leading Chi- cago Cubs. It was the only game played in the major leagues. Two other contests on the sched- ule were rained out. | Blades. Hafey, rdel and E'hu-; bel hit for the circuit and three of these drives came in the fifth in- ning. Two men were on paths when Hafev and Sch nected. St. Louis put over eight runs in the fifth fra driving Jack Scott off the mound and continuing the attack on Decatur, his succes- | sor. | The National league situation can be altered only slightly today, as the only contest scheduled -is that be- tween the Pirates and the Braves. | Should Boston continue fts success- ful run against first division teams| and beat Pittsburgh today. the Cardinals would step up into a tle for second place. St. Louis will get a real test when the team starts fits next serles he Giants in New York. club, five games out of must carry the series| lost ground | The Giants | 25 I frst place, it it is to retrieve earlier in the season have won 19 out of their last games While the remainder of the schedule would appear to favor St. Louis, Chicago and_Pittsburgh over | the Giants, since New York leaves the. Polo Grounds September 6 for a long road trip, it may work to the disadvantage of McGraw's club, Pittsburgh has fewer games with first division teams, with only 11 scheduled against Chicago St. Louis and New York. Chicago, winding up | at home, must face first division | teams 21 times, while the Giants meet ‘their strongest competitors 18 | times. St. Louis has 21 games with second division clubs and 18 with those of first division. St. Louis must play the Giants seven times, and they have two more with Pitts- | burgh and nine more with the Cubs. | NATIONAL LEAGUE | ~; ] o 5 g | Hafey, 1t Blades, 1¢ O'Farrell, Schulte, ¢ Schudle, ss Sho.del, p R 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 0 2 2 wlovsoscsooa 13 Totals 1 LPHI. R PRl nvwownmrown o PHILAD! Al 2] L] o loonuroomosua, wlowomononnay Sand, s | Thompeon, 7b i Williams, ¢ | Mokan, 1t Wrightstone, 1b | Nixon, cf | Jonnard, < | O'Connel |l ormomwomsnmmon, wloonooossocoot Slosormmunmernun Totals Tl z—Batted for Decatur Lou 01 o 200—1 Losing pite Wilson and P Battlers Bout New York and Detroit to Meet in 10-Round Ebbets Field New York, Aug Terris, recognized 28 the uncrowned king of the lig] weights, and Phil McGraw of De-| troit, meet tonight in scheduled 10-round bout at Ebbets Field Victory for Terris may mean bout for m with Sammy Mandel weight champion. Mandell had battle in winning a close de on over McGraw recently fought Mandell be latter became champion, but Katz Terri ager, that the Rockford boy -vaded a title match with Terris 2 twice make every bring about a match between Man- McGraw, Mandell SWIMMING RECORD last | Lockmakers | their way to a victory and the league | pennant when a downpour prevented | first inning on a walk to Jaspe | America's atch | In Victory Over Phillies— Come In Fifth Inning—St. TITLE CONTEST IS | STOPPED IN THIRD P. & F. Corbin Leading 6 to 2 When Rain Interferes Rain came last night as a benevo- fairy godmother to the Stanley Works baseball team but as a witch of mistortune to the P. & F. Corbin team when the championship game between the two teams was halted in the last of the third inning with the Corbin team leading 8 to 2. The WASHINGTON WINS TENNIS TOURNEYS Takes Honors in AL Three Events in 12-44 Year Class Despite the threatening weather, the inter-playground paddle tennis tournament in the 12 to 14 years old class was run oft on schedule at the Burritt grounds yesterday. The Washington plavground ran off with the championship in the three events staged, the singles for the In the opering preliminary match the Burritt jumped to an early lead winning the first two games before her opponent from Paradise park— Sophie Truhan, found her stride. Chalking up her first win in the third game, Miss Truhan got start- ed and won the balance of the games of their set. All games but the last were closely contested. Miss Cianci |weakened in the final game, and her opponent chalked up her only love Noziec, Nathan Hale, found Helen Ruscik of Washington {to be a second Miss Helen Wills, Miss Ruscik winning every game of were apparently on any possibility of staging the con- test under fair conditions and makes another start imperative. The game will be staged at Walnut Hill par! Thursday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Had the weathehr been fine and clear, it might have been a differen: game. Scott was getting his bum: right and left but he would prob- ably have been sailing serenely along had the balls been dry and the day one of sunshine. It was the Stanley Works—atter Corbins had scored one run in a Parson almost and Johnny home—that stolen base wild throw to broke up the game. the | In their half | {their match by a safe margin. Rep- resentatives from Smith and Wiilow |Brook failing to put in an appear- ance for the girls' singles, Miss Rus- |cik and Miss Truhan met in the finals for the championship. Both r best, every game going to deuce befors being Ruscik had the punch showed his superiority by defeating Stephen |Nichesti (Burritt). Albert Andrini (ot Nathan Hale defeated Jack Cul- of Smalley pa by the same core. Teddy Schubert of Willow and Joseph Matulis of Smith, of the first inning, Paul Snvder, first | man up for the Buttmakers, slapped | a triple to left fleld and Grail fol- lowed him with a single tying the score. Green bunted beautifully past Carlson and Schroeder singled to right filling the bases. At this point, the Corbin executed a beautiful double play Parsons drove one at Carlson, he shot it home to put out Grail and | Johnny Wright snapped it to first doubling Parsons there. Budnick however, lined a single over short and Green scored putting the Stan- | ley Works in the lead. This was shortlived, however, be- cause Huber and Patrus both singled. both men advanced on a double steal, Bates then hit a high fly be- hind second and Grail made a won- derful catch of it only to throw wildly home allowing Huber and Patrus to score. Corbins added three in the third. Jasper walked again. Preisser singled, so did Matteo and Wright. Huber was safe as Matteox out a sacrifice fiy to right field, scor- ing Wright. Grail went out, Carlson to Batets but as Green batted, a light rain that had been falling during the previous session, turned into a down- pour and as Green walked, the zame called. A half passed and there was no let up and it was then decided to call the game oft definitely for the night and re- was | play it Thursday night HITCHCOCK IS ILL, Chances at Poln Have Snffered a Severc Setback | Star’s Sickness. New York, the - Aug. 24 (A—D reassembling of 2 big four of polo, ances in the internation ca's rude of No. jol Tommy Hit 2 player, it s are can developed those team) itchcock h il vatin S S since BASEBALL'S B Averazes AD 453 H e { team was | thrown out at home but Patrus sent |\ hour | matched, Matulis finally win- 1 t after an up-hill fight. semi-finals found Matulis of Smith against Curlo of Washington Aldrini of Nathan Hale being ad- o finals on drawing for Curlo and Matulis put every- |thing they had into their game, and kept the spectators on their toes— |encouraging their favorite. Curlo had an edge on his oppon- ¥ After enjoyving ile the mixed doubles peing plaved, Curlo then met | Andrini of Nathan Hale in the finals Ifor the boys' singles championship. it Andrini for Curlo to employ 4 Jackson struck out but|_ioieigna art of the game before |the Giants passed over 25,000 simo- | 8¢ down to defeat by a 6 to | With but four grounds represent- {ed in the mixed doubles—the Burritt team (Margaret Baron and Thomas Nevedowske) eliminated the Smalley | park combination (Sophie Epstein land Victor Egata). Helen Humason Sam Capodice (Washington) Vathan Hale team (Nellie ‘melowicz) into After a short rest while the singles |were in action, .these two winners, | Washington and Burritt, faced each other to decide the mixed doubles championship. Winning the opening games, Washington looked ke a sure winner. However, the Burritt team threw a scare | the | Washington camp when they took the third and fourth games—tying the count. Coming back strong, the Washingtonians captured the rest of 1 games, winning the set and the championship for the mixed doubles by a 6 to 2 score. CARDINALS NOT an Excellent Chance 24 (P—The St not out of the nant race—not L b How do T ferl? Why and ready to step in | time.”" boys and girls and mixed doubles. | of the afternoon, Josephine Cianci of | | s | 2 |leons for his services. (0T OF RUNNING " lxander Thinks His Team Has he box any CANTWELL MAY SHOW UP IVORY HUNTERS witL TS BOY, LIKE WILLY Moore,SHOW P THE (NORY P OReRs e2? (BY BILLY EVANS) | The New York Giants recently| | purchased Pitcher Ben Cantwell o!‘ | the Jacksonville, Fla., club of the | Southeastern league. It is rumored Thereby hangs an interesting tale ' |that involves Pitcher Wiley Moore |of the New York Yankees. In many respects, Moore has been {the hurling sensation of the Ameri- | can league. Last season he won 30 | games while losing only four in the ! South Atlantic league, vet not one | major league scout who looked the big fellow over recommended his purchase. | No doubt the fact that Moore was {30 years old and had been in the | two | minors for a number of years caused | g5 rq first |the scouts to fight shy of him. Business Manager Ed Barrows of the | Yankees bought Moore, simply be- | cause he believed any pitcher able |to win 30 ball games in any old |league must have a pretty good as- |sortment of stuff. | It was a fortunate purchase for | New York. The big rookie has been | | the balance wheel of the Yankee!| |pitching staff. His remarkable |ability as a relfet pitcher has en- | abled Manager Huggins to rotate his| |regulars in turn and Keep them on| ledge This year as the wires carried | | many stories relative to the pitching | of Ben Cantwell, I made it a point| [to inquire of a number ot scouts as |to their opinion of the big right-| Not one of them liked his| to make the grade in the| i st & good bush league | o hasn't enough stuff to er in the big show,” was the consensus of perhaps a dozen famous 1 whom T talked alling the career of Wiley 1 began to look up the dope on Cantwell. I found that he had 1 the leading pitcher of the 12 State league in 1926, win- ning 24 games while losing only five pitching enabled Sanford to nat in both halves of 1e that such a per. n't causs some big b to look him over at f not ready, to send him 24 ord the to Jacksonville Jacksonville Cantevell ed where he had left off as of the Sanford club e campaign -with 11 his record when the nts decided to gamble wins in 26 starts. T am told that the report of the antwell was the t of Moore. s younger than Wiley is a right-hander six feet tall and weig! 0 pounds. He first gained s 2 college pitcher in southern His professional experience limited to three yvears. ¢ Cantwell makes good as did >, it will be another blow to ; expe scouting sys- most clubs employ. Inciden- if Cantwell proves as good a | pitcher as Moore, he will be worth | tvice what the Giants paid for gardless of the figure “Adam and Evil” begins Sunday at Strand, with augmented Jazz Orch —advt | singles finals, |23 wiNs T oF 26 GAMES, I | ROSENBLOSM FAGES | SLATTERY NONDAY N\ | i THE GIANTS GRABBET | b HIM, oy Boxers Meet in Hartlord for, Light Heavyweight Title | Hartford, Aug. 24—Maxie Rosen- | {bloom of New York and Jimmy| Slattery of Buffalo, who are to bat- {tle in the Hartford velodrome next Monday night, are now in the final| stages of training for the bout which has been sanctioned for the! light heavyweight championship of the world Rosenbloom is working out at! | Hartford. Mornings find the New| Yorker out on the road and after- noons see him working out with | his sparring partners at a Yocal| gymnasium. ! The Gotham light-heavy in his| initial indoor workout yesterday | showed lots of speed, good boxing |talent and a stiff punch. Rosen- | bloom expects to defeat the But- falo boy and thus earn the desig- nation of the world’s light heavy-| weight champion. | Slattery is putting the finishing {touches on his training up at Hol- | |voke, where he has a number of | |friends. Jimmy, after a sensational | career in ring circles, slumped some ! time ago and almost entirely disap- | peared from the boxing horizon, | Now he is back in superb physical | | shape, boxing as well as ever and! deteAmined to fight his way back to ! the topnotch position that he boasted a couple of years ago. | Slattery says he will defend the |title gainst all comers if he suc- ceeds in winning over Rosenbloom in the big Fast Hartford arena next Monday night. | RAIN POSTPONES PLAY I TOCRNEY March of Helen Wils o Cham- pionship Halted Two Days New York, Aug. 24—(P—The march of Helen Wills toward the national women’s tennis champion- ship has been halted two days. The originally scheduled for Saturday, will be carried over until next Monday. The thirty-two survivors of Mon- round waited several hours for leaden skies to clear yes. terday at the Forest Hills stadium but a steady drizzle continued throughout the afternoon, forcing a postponement of all matches. | The schedule arranged for yester- | day will be carried out today, weath- | er permitting, and the first round of the championship doubles was in order. i A program of 16 singles matches | today was not expected to afford any upsets. Miss Wills will oppose Mrs. Lillian Hester, Miss Kea Bouman, the minute Hollander, was to face Miss Mayme McDonald, Miss Helen Jacobs had Miss Elizabeth Hugus for an opponent while, Mrs. Molla [ i | | | | Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree and Miss | proximately halt | gate. New York will not recognize the winner of next Monday's battle as the champion of the world, but the National ~ Federation of | which has nearly 30 states in its membership, ‘has sanctioned the bout as for the title which the New York body recently handed over bodily to Mike McTigue. | Matchmaker Art Greaney is now busily at work assembling the sup- | porting card. He has announced a ten-round semi-final in which Homer Robert- | negro middleweight, will tal n Vic McLaughlin of Brooklyn. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Prese. Wilkes Barre, Pa. — Pete Latzo, |Scranton, won on a foul from Joey Gans, Allentown, 8. Utica. N. Y. — Trankie Genaro, | New York, knocked out Pal Graham, Utica, 2. Minneapolis — “Big Boy” Peter- son, Mississippl, defeated Otto Von | Porat, Norway, 10. Mike Mandell, | St. Paul, knocked out Jack Hayes, Mallory, defending champion, was to meet Mrs. William Endicott No. 10, in the national ranking. Among the doubles combinations are Mrs. A. H. Chapin and Miss Goss; Miss Fry and Miss Nuthall; Ermyntrude Harvey; Miss Bennett and Miss Jacobs; Mrs. Mallory and Miss Bouman and Miss Hutchings and Miss Beryl Robinson BIG TICKET SALE Rickard States that Dempsey-Tun- ney Battle Has Already Drawn 3§ Gate of $1,500,000. Chicago, Aug. 24 (P—The ticket le for the Soldier field battle of nney and Dempsey, September is now around $1,500,000, Tex Rickard said today. This is ap- the anticipated Only two fights in history have drawn in excess of a million and a | Chicago, 5 5. halt dollars—the Dempsey-Carpen- | I s anscles — Fidel L / tier and Dempsey-Tunney battles. i STaEarna 0y weight champion, wo! Joh; Within a fortnight, Rickard be- : Y Aoy, ‘}Vacca Bridgeport, 10. Britt Gor- lieves, the return match of Demp-!man, Minpeapolis, defeated Alfredo sey and Tunney will have passed|Imperial, dan Francisco, 6. both these in advance sale, three| Fights Tonight weeks before the night of the fight.| Clevelana Mickey The Dempsey-Tunney battle of the [middleweight charapion vs Sesqui drew more than $1.700.000,|Yarbo, 12—non-title. and the Carpentier fight about| New York — Sid Terris vs. Phil $100,000 less McGraw, 10 Walker. | Wilson | It Happens in the Best Regulated Families R A HNOW WHAT N SRS = ‘!_E\\\\\ HeERe's A STIMULANT ! | REEoes Senr ITS BEAUTIFUL {appeared with a Boxing, | v KENSINGTON AND FALCONS START SERIES ON SUNDAY Teams to Play Best Three Out of Five—Kania Brothers to Oppose Former Teammates—Paper Goods Team to Present Strong Lineup — Bucholtz May Occupy Box For Falcons—Was Ace of South End Club’s Pitching Staff Last Season. The All-Kensington baseball team will meet the Falcons in the first game of a five-game series to ba staged between .the two teams to determine superiority. The series was arranged between Manager John Cabay and. Manager Dan Malarney to go to the best three out of five. The Falcons have two victories over the Kensington team already this season, but these are entirely discounted because of ths fact that the south end team was entirely different from the present one. The rivalry between the two clubs is all the more intense because of the fact that last season ended be. fore the two were able to settls definitely the winner of the vcity championship series. This year will mark the playoff that was supposed to have taken place last year, and there is no need of saying that the rivalry between the two clubs is in- ense. The teams compare favorably as far as defensive gpd offensive strength is concerned. Fans will have the pleasure of seeing former Falcons playing with the Kensing- ton team, while the order will be re- versed if Buckholtz pitches for the Falcons. Joe and Bruno Kania, two of the mainstays of the Falcon team in former vears, are two big numbers | With the Kensington team this year. Joe is playing shortstop for the Paper Goods crew, while his brother is one of the mainstays of the twirling staff. Buckholtz was really the hero of Kensington's victories over the Corbin Red Sox and Fal- con teams last year. He will prob- ably draw the assignment in' the first game Sunday. Joey Fitzpatrick will be a big number with Kensington. The south- paw first baseman is considered the best at that station in the city and it has been many years since he has team contending for a_ ehampionship. : Although series between the two teams is not regarded by the man. agers as a city champlonship affair, because of the fact that the Cor- ibin Red Sox are also carded to meet Kensington in a series, backers of teams are satistied that the ques- tion of supremacy will be worked out this year the same as it always has been. Sunday's game will draw out a crowd as large as was in attendance last Sunday at the Falcon-Red Sox zame. The contest will start prompt- ly at 3 o'clock with Herble Sautter and “Ripper” McKeon doing ths umpiring. MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS Batting—P. Waner, Runs—L. Waner, Pirates, 105, Hits—P. Waner, Pirates, 153 Doubles—P. Waner, Pirates, 33. Triples—P. Waner, Pirates, 17. Homers—Willlams, Phillies, 23, Stolen bases—Frisch, Cardinals, 34. Pitching—Meadows, Pira 16, lost 5. American Batting—Simmons, Athletics, Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 121. Hits—Gehrig, Yankees, 172. Doubles—Burns, Indians, 45. Triples—Manush, Tigers, Combs, Yankees, 15. ~ Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 40. Stolen bases—Sisler, 8. Pitching—Hoyt, Yankees, 17, lost 393, 15; wen OH- HoY WHAT A PLACE L i (%u s6 S OME - @Ju ) —_— Vo