New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1927, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927. P. & F. CORBIN TEAM DEFEATS STANLEY WORKS FOR INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE PENNANT—ALL-KENSINGTON AND FALCONS READY TO START SERIES—DOUBLES PAIRINGS FOR TENNIS TOURNAMENT—VAL FLOOD TO MEET WITH EXPERTS—ITEMS FIRST DIVISION TEAMS ALL BUNCHED TIGHTER Cubs Defy Critics Who Said They Were Cracking by Trimming Phillies—Cards Are Idle as Pirates Split Double Header With Braves—Vance Pitches Rob- ins to Win Over Cincinnati—Yanks Again Down Tigers—Red Sox Victors Over Chicago. By the Associated Press. First divislon teams in the Na- tional league were bunched tighter than ever today, although the Chi- |\({m" cago Cubs again have defled the McFayden ritics who said they were cracking. The St. Louis Cardinals were idle vesterday but they gained a half | game on Pittsburgh, Who broke | Flaskamper. oven in a double header with Bos- ;\\‘ mm, ton. 2 Kent Greenfleld pitched the [Lore!® Braves to a 5-1 verdict over the |\Ward, b Cubs in the first game. He allowed |Neis, x only three hits and had a m\uzout‘,”l“",“’;;""“;. until the ninth inning. Ray Krem- | or assumed the pitching burden in the second contest and the Pirates spotted him a lead in the first in- ning that was enough to win. The final scoré was 8-1, the Waner brothers getting in their deadly work with seven hits between them. This double header, coupled with the Cubs’ 8-0 triumph over the tail- end Phillies, put St. Louls only three and one-half games away from first place. The Giants, who were idle again, remained five and |} one-half games from first place. With Charlie Root in superb form, Chicago had no trouble at all with the Phils. Root's “wrinkle ball” was away too much for Stuffy MeInnis's thumpers. - It was Root's | 23rd win of the season. Dazzy Vance finally received something approaching good sup- port and he pitched Brooklyn to a 2.1 win over Cincinnati. Once again the mauling Yankees set back the Detroit Tigers, this Jamieson, time by an 8-2 score. Lou Gehrig |Fonscca, hit his 40th home run of the year |Summa, and tied Babe Ruth. McManus hu"‘"gj*\ a homer with one man on. McFayden pitched and batted the |1 Boston Red Sox to a 6-4 win over Chicago. He stepped into the box | in the cighth and cut down an am- bitious White Sox ralley and then singled home the winning runs in the ninth, Cleveland ran its winning streak to five games by handing Washing- ton a 7-5 trimming. Tom Zachary | lasted five Innings on the mound and was followed by Marberry and | Burke. Hudlin was batted out in the third but Buckeye did effective relet work. Ty Cobb collected five singles in | as many times at bat and led I')\II-: adelphia to a 6-1 victory o the St Louis Browns. The Mackmen pound- ed Ballou hard and he was relicved : 0 by Elam VanGilder in the sixth . | § 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE 0 0 0 RK R, Slroruon leoswn lsaos Totals z el osecreoontalicanace v o Blummooormorury Showwsmn Crouse, © Connally, p lumossurrow 1 $th. 002 000 001 010 hits—Hofmann, hit—Flags MoFaydon Totals x—Batted for Ward | 5 [oraioe iy | Ruel, ¢ memoswoy | Marberry, p | Stewart, xxx Totals 1t 2 reit i 11, 88 sewell, ¢ chradt, of [ustxs. Ssb n p ,u,mu, Totals x—Batted for xx-—Batted for xxx—Ran for Washington and Two base Aith in Sth, sth, Zuchary Marber Johnson in 003 001 | | | | ichrodt, Winnirg b\ ATIOVAL LEAGUE (Flrst Game) i 1 0 v YO AB. 1] . Combe, Koenig, Tuth, 1t ehrig, Muesel, Lazzeri, 2h Lugan, 3 Rengouch, Pennock, 1 b ot o P DETROIT AB. . o 0 alvsssoszousy r.o. 5 0 Meadows in 8th, 00 000 001 201 w—Welsh, High Gibson. Umpires MeCormick and McLaughlin 01x Manusi, Fothergl McManu Shen Whitehill, 1 sm Wingo, 2 Hankins, Neun, 7z Passler, o 7z W, Colling, p arroll, zzzz (Second Game) 300 010 041 000 000 » I Po. A Totals X—Batted for B tted for ‘lnmlv in Colling in ¢ hits—Dugan, Penn 7 Threo base Home runs—Gehrl Nallin and Dine ochrane, I'ykes, Wheat, Roley, Rommel, p Totals o Rourke Umpires Time inued on following page.) . Win- —Ow- s 1005 | plon team, 001—1 —5 [ning a Three Time 060—1 The pride of the wearer- the envy of others Lamson-Hubbard #~g HATS SOLD BY ASHLEY- BABCOCK (0. TEAMS ARE READY |JOHNSTON GREAT NET STAR FOR HARD BATTLE Falons and All-Kensington Gome to Grips on Sunday Both the Falcons and the All- Kensington baseball teams are ready for the first battie in their five- game series next Sunday. The game will be staged at Bt. Mary's.fleld in this city at 3 o'clock. Th two teams have had stiff workouts this week and every play- er is primed to give battle to the opposition. The managers have laid thelr plans for the game and noth- ing s left now but a fair day for the game. The lineups of the clubs show that there is little to choose between the individual players elther in defensive or offensive work. Where one team is a little stronger in one position, its | weakness in another balances the | scales in favor of the other crew. The pitching staff of each club fs as strong as it is possible to get. The Falcons have Buckholtz, Bergeron {and Fisher while Kensington has Bruno Kania, Charlle Yale and Doughan. The last named is a Bran- ford twirler of wide experience. Just what the selection for Sunday's | game will await the decision of the | respective managers. nsington 1s an entirely different {team from the one that lost two | games to the FFalcons earler in the year. The weaknesses of the squad have been eradicated and the team | has been presenting a punch that I bodes il for opposing twirlers. The Falcons, determined to recoup their standing after losing to the Corbin | Red Sox last Sunday, will be desper- ately fighting. The Kensington team is out to | take both the Falcons and the Red | Sox into camp in their respective | series. Both teams formed a com- | bination to play for the champlon- | | ship of New Britain this year and | | Kensington was left out in the cold. | | oloeccces nloornsscsccssl By trimming the two teams, the south end crew wil establish itself as the superior to both and will de- mand recognition as the city cham- | i Herbie Sautter and “Ripper” Me- | ! Keon will do the umpiring honors | on Sunday afternoon, A record | breaking crowd is coming to the game from Kensington while the | L'alcon backers will be out in force. CHURCH LEAGUE Three Games Scheduled Tonight as Circuit Goes Into Last Week of Action. League Standing o [ 0 0 0 0 0 [ 0 Pirst Lutheran Matthew's v'man's Bible Class. South Cong. Stanley Memorial .. Trinity’ M. 1 Swedish Bethany . First Baptist C‘enter Cong. Kensington Cong. .. Three games are carded in t1 ter-Church baseball Jeague this eve- that organi the last week of the regular jule. The feature game will bring to- | gether the Firet Lutherans and the Everyman’s Bible class on Dia- mond No. 2. The Lutherans, by win- Ining tonight's game, can assure themselves of at least a tie for the championship, for they have a lead of a game and a half over the St. Matts and have only three: game: left to play. The Bible class still h mathematical chance of tying the edes for first place, but will be out of the running if it loses to the {leaders this evening. For that rea o|son the game will be hard fought, o [while further rivalry is contributed the protested game played be tween the teams. Bill Fresen will | try to turn in his 15th victory of the season for the Swedes. Walter Nel- on is the probable pitcher for the Bible class. amond No. 1, fourth place s | 0 at/stake in the battle hetween the & Methodists and the South 1| Congregationalists. The Methodists 9w ious engagement aftér o |a bitter struggle, but the South | chureh now leads its opponents by half a game, so the result i6 a toss- up. Shepard or Jackson will pitch for the Methodists, but the South church choice, with Morey out of ! towns, is still problematical. The | Methodists won from the Baptists | Monday by § The First Daptists clotoscna=aal s by 0 will play the Memorial team on the amond.” The Daptists have wving good ball in defeat, and | | the Stanmors appear to have re- ! rained their early season slugging orm, £0 the game should be a siz- | ler. As it grows dark early mow, | players on all teams are asked to be | {on hand ready to start the games | promptly at 6:45 o'clock. e last games of the regular will be played on Monday, ifter which the postponed gam vill be yed off. seh UNNEY RACE 6 (B A Dempsey- nney handicap for the day of the avywelght champlonship fight was innounced today by officials of the | Waehington Park track, which will | fall meeting S 10 stukes will be three weeks meet m dur- ing the WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT IARTFORD VELODROME, AUG. MANIE ROSENBLOOM V. SLLA 2 JIINY Four Other |5 the most interesting of the worl [ sport. (BY BILLY EVANS) Little Bill Johnston in many tennis stars. Over a period of 14 cars he has been outstanding. Juring that time many a star has flashed over the tennis horizon, only to burn himself out after a few years of stiff competition. Yet Johnston remains one of the ranking players, and a mighty popular one. To look at Johnston, one would inever pick him as one of the great- est players In the history of the| He is slight of physique and looks anything but the athlete. However, he has the heart and the skill plus a keen mind. Were | Johnston stronger physically, he would have been almost unbeatable. Tast year in conversation with | Johnston at the T.ongwood courts just outside of Roston, T asked him | how he happened to go in for tennis | so strongly. “It required a catastrophe to make a tennis player out of me,” he re- plied. “My tennis dates back to the San Francisco fire of 20 years ago. You folks in the east no doubt r call that happening as the earth quake, but to us native sons it s the fire not the quake that caused all the trouble. “The schools were closed tion of six months head. To Kill the time began wlaying tennis in the parks. By the time the schools reopencd in the fall T could beat an yone my age in San Francisco. “That was 20 vears ago I realized my ambition of winning | the national championship. Since hen Bill Tilden has kept me from winning a lot more titles". By many experts Johnston is con- sidered the bell all-around tennis | player in the game. He is a great shotmaker, a wonder at volleying, brilliant with his ground strok: There is no better forchand an vhere and he has the ideal dispos tion, for nothing ruffles him. ROSENBLOOM HARD AT WORK FOR BOUT Neets Jimmy Slattery Monday Night for World’s Title Hartford, Aug. 26—Maxle Rosen- bloom, New York light heavywelght, who meets Jimmy Slattery of Buf- falo in a ten-round bout for the light heavyweight championship of the world at the Hartford Velodrome fonday night, 1s going through speedy dally workouts at the Char- ter Oak gymnasium here. Maxie is in the pink of condition, is boxing well and showing a real punch in workouts with his three sparring partners. Rosenbloom s confident that he will take Slattery {nto camp Slatte ing hard at the camp he ha blished at Holyoke. Jimmy has a big entourage, no less an four sparring partners going hrough the workout bouts with tne Buffalo boy. Jimmy regards next Monday night’s bout as his golden opportun- ity and intends to make the most of it. He realizes that the chances he away two ye ago were lost and na v loomed 1 Tn 19 | In one, ! pionship 1 |ada /|4YEARS N THE TENNIS LIF’!ELDGHT dleweight, Homer Robertson, will fight Vie McLaughlin of Brooklyn. There are two eight-round bouts. Tommy Dunn of Holyoke will take on Sammy Offerman of New York. lightweight who outboxed Ste Smith at a Velodrome show some weeks ago. In the Frankie othér eight Ullman will Schlocker. These by are® welter- weights, Schlocker is in Slattery's camp while Ullman is a Californian recently imported from the coast by ank Bachman, Rosenbloom's man- rounder, | fight Joe | ger. The opening hout, which will be of four rounds, will find Al Schon former Connecticut amateur h - weight, pitted against Irish Dan| Cronin of Boston. FRANCE LEADS JAPAN Needs Only to Win the Doubles Match to Clinch Inter-zone Cham- pionship, Mass., 26 (P France today needed to win only the donubles match, after two singles vie- torfes over Japan yesterday, to clinch the Davis cup interzone cham- d the right to meet the s in the challenge roll at Philadelphia week after next. While Rene Lacoste and Henrl | Cochet rested on their laurels, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon were scheduled to take the court for | Prance at the Longwood Cricket club this afternoon against the for- midable team of the Takcochl Har- and Teizo Toba of Japan. Harada, in losing yesterday to La- coste, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2, dropped 11 serv- ice games and made 31 more errors than his opponent. Cochet also won in etraight sets {over the comparafively inexperienc- cd Yoshiro Ohta. Should Jajan take the doubles mateh tod singles play will be resumed tomorrow. Brookline, Aug. United St | Dempsey has been ordered back to Ofterman is the clever| [ tried out his attack, employing his |left most of the time. Once when |the occupation of | hox office men sald, and as soon as jout, a check will F0 WEAVE AGAIN Manager Flynn Coaches Fiéhter Throngh Three Rounds Chlelio, Aug. 26. — P — Jack the bobbing, weaving attack which carried him to victory through many heavywelght battles, with the flat footed stance from which the dead- ly hooks are launched: Manager Leo P. Flynn coached Jack through three sparring sessions yesterday on rolling his head from left hand leads and it was especially noticeable that Jack worked fl footed most of the time. He got up on his toes with sparring mates, but when the devastating punch was to be launched, Jack settled back on his heels for the swing. The daily program Flynn sald, will depend upon Jack's appetite for work after he has finished his road jaunt of three to five miles. He did five miles up hill and down yester- day, and after late breakfast went out for another walk. This determin- ed Flynn on giving the former champion a session with the gloves, and the same situation will control all the early boxing sessions, until late next week when heavy work be- gins. y in Condition . Y., Aug. 26.—(P— More than 1,000 persons who watch- ed Gene Tunney box six rounds with bis: sparring partners have come to the conclusion that the Tunney who dethroned Jack Dempsey at Phila- delphia last year couldn’t have been in better physical condition than he is today. Tunney yesterday travelled six fast rounds, three each against Billy Vidabeck and Frank Muskie, and ended up by breathing effortlessly, although he got a stiff workout from each man. Vidabeck gave the champion just the kind of workout he desired. Billy kept coming in and Gene, retreat- ing steadily, poked his left to the face to prevent his opponent from setting himself. By moving his head just the fraction of an inch, Tunney often evaded Vidabeck's left hook. then retallated with a barrage of body blows. Against Muskie the champion Muskie tore in he was met with a vicious right cross that sent him top- pling. Gene used his entire punch- ing repertoire, but short uppercuts and hooks at close range stood out clearly. TICKETS GOING FAST Pastchoards for Tunney-Dempsey Bout Moving Out of Box Office at Rapid Rate. Chicago, Aug. 26.—(P—Tickets for the Dempsey-Tunney fight are moving out of the box office at the rate of $100,000 a day and undoubt- edly. Tex Rickard's clerical staff said today, large blocks of them are go- ing into the hands of speculators. ‘With 161,000 tickets to hand out before September 22, Rickard feels that he has no time to inquire into the thousands lined up before the Palmer House wickets, laying down their dollars for groups of 10, 20 or more seats. The advance sale is probably well past the $1,500,000 mark now, the the lines of purchasers begin to thin be made to see just how near the sale is to the $3,000,000 gate Rickard ex- ALWAYS m.) A IN THe ply because he didn’t keep in and he is preparing faithfully at the top of his form physi- ot’" at Rosenbloom. | W e and Monday as the may land rest now battle Hartford n whic the pinnacle. New York will not winner Monday as the pion, having awarded heavyweight title to Mike but practically all t b of the the ep in a cam- pat him back on states of des vietor aney. ¥ will aily Rosenbloom to e er Ar reg has the under card, which forty rounds of hoxing thirty-cight originally union Slatter: sucee Matchma completed will furnish instend of the planned. The title ten rounds ignate as Jack bout 1s on the slate for and so Is the semi-final at| in which the hard-hitting negro mid- pects, NOT A cARE WORLD LEAGUE DEMPSEY ORDERED |CORBIN TEAM WINS DUSTY BASEBALL TITLE Defeats Stanley Works 8 to 5 in Playoff for Pennant— Buttmakers Toss Away Game Through Errors— Losers Outhit Winners 10 to 6—Brilliant Plays Executed During Contest—Champions Score Seven Runs in Second Inning—Story of Battle. The P. & F. Corbin baseball team is the new champion of the New Britain Industrial Baseball league. Crowned kings of the diamond for the season of 1927, the Lockmakers possess their first title in the factory circuit and all the honors that come to champions, will be accorded the Park street aggregation. The trick was turned lats night at Walnut Hill park at the expense 9f the Stanley Works team. It was a fitting finish to a hectic season and | the winning team was decided only after a hard and bitter diamond struggle. The score of the game was | 8 to 5. The game was won entirely in the second inning when Salak, the Stan- ley Works hurler who was selected to turn the hard hitting champions back, blew up before the Corbin spasm was over, seven runs had clattered across the plate. Scott, big right hander, was called in from center fleld, but before he could get properly warmed up, two runs had been scored on him. From then on, the Stanley Works team staged a hard uphill fight while the Corbin team was kept pretty well subdued in the remain- ng innings. Had it not been for the disaster in the second, the Stanley Works would probably have won the game and the pennant. It appeared that the change from Salak to Scott came too late because when Scott got going, he was nearly invincible. Had he started the game, the entire result might have been different. The Stanley Works team scored one in the second, one in the third, and two in the fifth for its total for the game while P, & I. got a lone run in the fifth to make its total elght. However, a combination of wild- ness and poor support gave Salak the shower bath of runs that drove him from the mound in the winners’ big frame. Wright and Huber walked to start things off and then the fun started. Wright scored when Salak erred on Patrus’ grounder. Huber scored on Jackson's single. In a steal of second, the ball was thrown to Jack Pelletier who threw wildly to second and Patrus scored. Bates walked and went to second. Carlson singled, clearing the bases. Then Jasper tripled into left and Scott came in to pitch. Preisser walked and took second. Matteo slapped a single into left and both men scored. The total number of runs scored was seven, all made on four hits. After that frame, Scott allowed just two hits and one run but the damage was complete. Corbin’s other run came in the fifth on a double by Patrus and a single by Jackson. The Stanley Works got their first run in the second when Scott was saf: on Jasper's error. Parsons' single sent him to third. Carlson shot the ball to Bates catching Par- sons off the bag and in the run down, Parsons was touched out but Huber winged the ball high and wide to bring in Scott. Carlson’s er- vor on Snyder's roller, a pass ball putting him on second and succes- sive infield outs gave the losers an- other in the third. Singles by Parsons, Abramowicz and Salak gave them another in the fourth. Grail's double, Schroeder’s single and Johnny Parsons’ third single of the game, brought in two in the fifth, their last runs of the game. There was good baseball and dumb plays in the game. There were spectacular catches and good stops. Grail turned in the feature with a one-handed stop of a grass- cutter between second and first to get his man. How to Start the Day Wrong BILL ALWAYS HAS A GooD WORD FOR EVERYBODY ISN'T WONDERFUL et DISPOSITION - AND DAY COMPLETELY AND utTT tacular one-handed stop over sec- ond and threw h’: man out while on the dead run. It was one of the most hair-raising incidents in the game. The Stanley Works turned in a scintillating performance on a dou- ble play :n the first frame. Preisser {and Matteo had got on through er- rors, the former being on third and the latter on first. Conway ran for Matteo and he started to steal. Schroeder threw to second but the throw was bad. Jimmy Green scooped the ball on the bound, touched Conway as he slid in to sec- ond and then shot the pellet home to Schroeder who caught Preisser by a mile at the plate. Corbins turned in a double killing in the third, Huber taking a grounder and shooting it to Patrus who threw to first, Johnny Parsons was the individ- ual batting star of the game with four timely singles out of four trips. It was his single over first in the fifth that brought in his team’'s two runs in the fifth. Grail got two bingles, a double and a single while ckson was the only man on the Horhln team to get more than one it Was it not for the rattled exhibi- tion given by the Stanley Works in. fleld and Salak's poor control, the cutcome of the game might have been different. Ac it {s, the P. &. F. Corbin team holds the pennant and the other teams in the league will have to await another season for an- other chance at the flag. The sum- mary: STANLEY WORKS Bnyder, 1t Grall, 2b Green, sy Schroeder, Seott, cf-p Larsons, 1b Pellletier, 3b Abraméwiez, Budnick, rf Salak p-ef Gaida, cf c woomone 3 z2a 1 Rlusuccmsnnun olessuosmbuns aleoms Eo alrounscnenZ3lcnnmsasncns Mi Wiight, iluber, Patrus, Jackson, Bates, 1b Carlson, p 2 8 e 1 =l ormn o alumssmosaw Bl uBonannen Bluscwnsecon Totals .011 120 .070 010 rall, Patrus, 0005 00x—8 Three hit—Grail, Carlson 1 5. Btole %, Corbin Two base hi base hit—Jasper. Bacrifice { Rase on balls—Salak 3, Scott 2, Struck out by Scott 3, Carlso hoses—Preisser, Jackaon. Double pla Scroeder to Green to Schroeder, Huler to Patrus to Bates. Passed hall—Wright, pitcher—By Scott Mattea, Un ch and Mangan. Time—1:40, SCIENTISTS LOSE Authority on Speed of I4ght Not So Good At Judging Speed of Tennis Balls. Chicago, Aug. 26 (A—Prof. Albert A.*Michelson, world famous author- ity on the speed of light and the motion of heavenly bodles, proved not so good at judging the speed of felt-covered sphere on a tennis court. The 74-year-old scientist, paired with Fred Pearson, his research as- sistant for the past 24 years, was defeated in the finals of the Univer- sity of Chicago physics department tournament 4—6, 7—5, 6—3. The winning team was Arthur H. Comp- ton, professor of physics, and Fen- ton Stearns, graduate laboratory Green pulled a spec- student. oneE OF OUR BUSIEST MenN- BUT TAKES Time To MAKE OTHERS HAPPY THe GIRLS- (N TS OFFICE COMPLAIN THAT You vs& IMPROPER AND ABUSIVE LANGUAGE = [T So Tus N ERLY RUINED! 12y NY.TRIBIR AN