New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY; AUGUST 29, 1927, JOHN B. FOSTER RENDERS DECISION ON QUESTIONED PLAY IN CORBIN RED SOX-FALCON BASEBALL GAME — RAIN WASHES OUT § - . BASEBALL GAMES OVER WEEK-END—FINAL CONTESTS IN CHURCH LEAGUE TONIGHT — YANKS AGAIN BEAT ST. LOUIS BROWNS ROBERTI IS NEW FISTIC SENSATION 'YANKEES KEEP UP JINX - OVER §T. LOUIS BROWNS Hugmen Take Off the Heavy Side of 10 to 6 Score—New York’s 17th Victory Over Team—Ruth Makes 42nd Home Run—Cleveland Indians Bow to Boston Red Sox In 11 Innings—Athletics Drop Detroit Tigers Again By the Count of 9 to 5. : By the Assoclated Press. The “hoodoo,” held by the Yankees over the hapless St. Louis | Browns seems to be one of the most effective on record. The Yanks and Browns have played 17 games this | vear and the St. Louis team has| failed to break into the victory col- | umn once. The Hugman took off the heavy side of a 10 at Sportsman's park yesterday. It was a free-swinging game and Babe Ruth lashed out his 42nd home run | of the season to become two up on | Lou Gehrig. The Bambino parked | the ball out of the lot in the first inning with Koenig on base. It was| Ruth's second homer in successive | days. Ruether and Wingard were | ‘ineffective and were replaced with Shocker and Van Gilder, respective- ly. Washington continued in the slump that has jolted the team from second to fourth place. The Senators tell before the Chicago White Sox, 4.0, for their thirteenth defeat in succession. .Walter Johnson, Tom Zachary and Burke worked on the mound for the Harrismen. Cleveland Indians bowed before the Cleveland Indias bowed before the Boston Red Sox, 6-5, the contest go- ing 11 irmings. Connie Mack's strengthened their hold on Philadelphians, ping, Detroit again, 9-5.0wen Car- roll was wild and ineffective and was removed after seven innings. Walberg replaced Lefty Grove at the same time. 4 The aNtional league attractions were rained out. The New York Giants were idle for the seventh day in succession, a major league record for August of any year. Mc- Graw's team was scheduled to meet St. Louis in a douhleheader but will} have.to, make up the contests in doubleheaders at St. Louis. AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK A i Combs, cf Koeniz, o on s B [ Rengough, © Ruether, p .. Shocker, p Bl e rn G| [ R e o O'Rourke, 3b Rice, rt sisler, 1b Williams, rt E. Miller, cf . Melillo, 2b ... Adams, 2> Miller, s8 Wingard, p . Vangilder. p Bennett, x . Bchang, xx . o\ o. Sy, ey lsssomnvowsnnressd g stat e o u st (LR e i mlsoccosounosooom wlosssssmnool aloomonousommomoy x—Batted for Melillo in xx—Batted for Dixon In w York .. 2311 0 Louis .........0041100 | Two-base hits—Vangilder (2), E. Miller, Bengough. Three-base hit— Bengough. Home runs—Ruth, Williams, Koenig. Winning pltcher—Shocker. Los- ing pitcher—Wingard., Umpires—Ormsby, Geisel and Rowland. Time: & A’S 9, TIGERS 8 PHILADELPHIA AB, H. 3 Soo st. ] o > [ EYN 1 ¥ Bishop . 2b Hale 5 Irench, rf . Cobb, ct ... Cochrane. ¢ Dykes, 1b Wheat, 1t Roley, 5 . firove, p Tacobson, Walb BT |l oso=a wloscorscozssal HE Ll i 9 S commnEHe > smcunmanauasall Warner. Manual Fothergill, Heilmann, AeManus, Gehringer, Neun, 1b 1t t 8 2b e T 5205550500 0nl Philadelphia Detrs Tw 6 game score | | Rothrock, ss | Summa,’ rf c second | position, the American league drop- | |singles division, with lin the doubles. |Gwynneth Sterry Kamm. Blankenship, p 1ol momos Ylordues o x—Ran for Judge in xx—Batted for Zachary fcago ... 0000 Two base hits—Falk, F Hunnefield, Goslin. T Losing pitcher—Zac RED SOX 6, INDIANS 5 £l 2 Myer, 3b Flagstead Regan, b . Tobin, rf Shaner, 1t Todt, 1 b Hofmann, MacFayden, | oomommsinm |t s e nog Sl osn sl wlocrssssomalt Jamteson Fonseca, 10y 20 Burns, T L. 1b Sevwell, Sewell, ss . hoomony o ccwsssssssnamomacy Burkett, xxx x—Batted for Eir xx—Batted for Cleveland Two ba Flagsteas son, Lu Summa., ing pl Evans and hits—Shaner, Todt, Mver, J. Sewell (2), Jamie- Summa. Three-base hit inning pitcher—Ruffing. Los- —Thle. Umpifes—Hildebrand, MeGowan, Time—2:1 STARS BATTLE IN TENNIS TOURNEY |S¢mi-Finalists Hope fo Break| Standstill in Championships Forest Hills, Y., Aug. 20 (A— emifinalists in the national women'’s tennis championships hoped today to break the standstill that has pre- vailed here for the last two days. Two star attractions were set for the Mrs. A, Chapin, Jr., of Springfield, posing Miss Betty Nutha land, and Miss Helen Wills drawn against her fellow Californian, Miss Helen Jacobs. Few were daring enough to predict the outcome of the Nuthall-Chapin encounter, although the English girl. despite her lack of tournament ex- perience, has perhaps the better re- cord for the season. Mrs. Chapin while somewhat erratic earlier in the year, has come into full com- man dof her game, She was elim- inated early in the Seabright tour- S {nament but started quickly in the national championship and provided its biggest upset in the elimination of Mrs. Molla Mallory, eight-times champion and defending titleholder. The only weakness to show in the game of Miss Nuthall has been her underhand service, but her forehand and backhand driving and her abil- ity to anticipate her opponents strat- egy has won her a large following. The California Helens have met frequently since Miss Jacobs came into prominence four years ago, but “Little Poker Face” has yet to lose a match to her friendly rival. With ame there appears to be little likeli- hood of an upset in the semi-finals. four contenders in the singles that nation will hafe seven competitors Miss Eileen Bennett ry oppose Miss and Mrs. , in the fourth and Miss ntrude Harvey fiss Kifty ane Godfree with the winner of the Jacobs- and Mrs. Chapin-M Hill, also of Migs Bennett and Miss Mrs. Chapin and Miss atches, third the tourn o | Slattery (10 aloscsuscssscnsccsl 5 is confident of beating Slattery, but _iback in old-time form, in the form Miss Wills playing at the top of her | While England has only one of the | John || MEET FOR TITLE i NHARTFORD BOUT Slattery and Rosenbloom Are| Both Ready for Battle Hartford Card Tonight (Star Bout for Title) Maxie Rosenbloom vs. rounds). (Semi-final) Homer Robertson vs Laughlin (10 rounds) (Other Bouts) Tommy Dunn vs. Sammy | man (8 rounds) Joe Sclocker vs, (3 rounds). Al Schooner vs (4 rounds). Jimmy Vic Me- Otfer- Freddy Ullman Irish Dan Cronin ~Maxie Rosen- and Jimmy clash at the tonight in a Hartford, Aus. bloom of New Yor Slattery of Buffalo Hartford Velodrome { bout on which turns the light hea | weight championship of the world. New York will not recogniza the | winner as the world’s champion, having already designated Mike Mec- | Tigue a successor to Jack Delaney, but practically every ther state in the union will as the National Box- ling Federation, which embraces more than twenty-five gtates, has sanctioned the bout as a champion- ship affair. Both Slattery and Rosenbloom are on the battle ground and in fine shape for the bout. Rosenbloom has been working out | |in Hartford all week at the Charter | Oak gym while Slattery arrived here | vesterday from Holyoke where he | has been training for several days. | Both boys are a few pounds under | the lig vy limit and are sure of being at the right weight when they weigh in before State Athletic | Commissioner Thomas E. Donohue this afternoon. Rosenbloom, with victories over Shade, Tiger Flowers, George Courtney and many other good boys | i Jimmy points to two previous wins over Rosenbloom an adds that he is |that he was when he scored vic- |tories over Jack Delaney and many other ring notables The advapce sale indicates a big | gallery for this bout which bids fair | to be the only championship bout in New nd Yhis summer. Hol- | voke and ingfield, both strong Slattery towns, will send big delega- tions' to root for the Buffalo boy. The semi-final of ten rounds Yinds Homer Robertson, negro middle- weight and persistent challenger of | Tiger Flowers, meeting Vic Me- Laughlin’ of Brooklyn. There are two eight-rounders on | the card: Tommy Dunn of Holyoke vs. Sammy Offerman, winner over | e Smith and several other good | vs; and Joe Schlocker, Pacific | Coast welter vs. Freddy Ullman of | the Rosenbloom stables. The opener of four rounds is apt to be rugged and exciting, if not too c. In this bout, Al Schooner | of East Hampton will battle “Irish Dan” Cronin of Boston. They are heavyweights. The first bout is set for §:15. ESTELLE WATCHES JACK INTRAINING, Bonavently Enjoys Spectacle Until Men Get Rough | Crete, TIL, Aug. s of prepar 20 (UP)—The pro- | Jack Dempsey fo per Gene Tun widely advertise egotism on 22 was ful er way today with all comers Wwho possess 10 en- | titled to witness a dout ion. | They could not only see nan | who may prove 1o be the t ) boxer in the world go through his | paces, but they could obgerve his | looking on, apparenily enjoying performance until the men in ring got extraordinarily rough. elle T the actress, other- Mrs. Jack Dempsey, sat on the top of the grand stand at Lincoln | vesterday _ and ni go through of relatively hard box- 1 2 3 wa Iy recently re- ch kept 1 weeks and and hard to WANTS TO STEAL HOMT WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT HARTIORD VELODROME, AUG MAXIE ROSENBLOOM JIMMY SLATTERY Four Other Good Louts on Card Admission §1.50—Best Seats $5.50 For Seats Call Hartford, Laurel { pound { his native Luca in | the easy ROBERTO RCBERTI (BY JIMMY POWERS) ’ New York, Aug. 29.—This Roberto | Roberti, who up to a few weeks ago crushed stone daily In some small hamlet in Italy, seems to have the ear-smashing fraternify in Gotham evincing an unusual amount of in- terest in him. Paulino Uzcudum was the heavy- weight sensation last season, and, s | one of those things must be had to | feed the gullible public every sea- son, Roberti has been imported this vear. Perhaps to do as Paulino did ork himself into big dough. This season’s new heavyweight ation is not the common garden | ariety of canlifiower. He is the| biggest and fastest palooka yet im- ported. His name Is Roberto Robert is 22 years old and weighs in first-class fighting He measures 6 feet 4 inches in | height and his reach is 72 inches There's quite a colorful back- ground to this Italian youth who stalks about Humbert Fugazy's| office with all the lithe grace of a | Nubian leopard | Back in the sunny stone quarry of far off Italy. berti perspired earning his daily hread and vino shot breaking huge chunks of marble. An aged priest| and friend of the Roberti family. | Father Del Ficorentino, watched | the voung giant use a crowbar for a | toothpick or something one noén hour while resting in the shade of | the spaghetti trees. Suddenly the big idea struck him. Why not ship this consignment of biceps or medulla oblongato on the hoot direct to Madison Square Gar- den, N. Y., and horn in on some of | dough lesser mastodons were picking up? At first the good padre thought of shipping his beef collect, but then visions of Tex Rickard refusing the voung freight car arose and a hasty collection was taken. Roberti arrived and immediately the sports writers went daffy over him. They say he is the best pros- pect since the day Luis Angel Firpo shoved his bushy black head over the horizon. Roberto is training Lakes, N. J., for a se engagements. He was fed one Jonl- dis, Greek champion, for his first setup and smashed him to the can- va jig time. like manner he disposed of one named O'Connell a bit later it those w preliminary vic- tories. No cne yet knows why they called Jonidis the Greek heavyweight champion—it was all Greek to him. And where did O'Connell hail from? v Roberto Roberti is on the tongue of every ravioli merchant lin this and neighboring states. Drop | into vour local barber shop or vil- |lage shine emporium and find out | for vourself. His countrymen are | soing to give him plenty of time. ey believe he has a sweet chance ctting somewhere and the funny part of this story is—so do a lot of | unselfish promoters, At least, they argue, the publicity won't hurt nobody nohow 700 WET 70 BOX He | trim. | at Pompton es of winter Mere Than 1,500 Persons Wait in | I Rain to See Champion Gene Tun- Work Ont, ney Speculator. | While more ns waited in N. T. A 0P than 1,500 persons per- the rain for Gene me his sparring ses- E 10untain y ad of box- out for the open been set He plans to board with his guests and at Utica head of my program Tunney, “and there ity for speeding of train- Last year I didn't until the middle of been up here in May 31. With of training :tion now and g to tuns up train n stage glove I ha two months the thin FIGHTS TONIGHT vs. Johnny ¢ |this year is not—"'Who will win?"” HELEN HAS EDGE ON ALL RIVALS Miss Wills Seems Destined to Win Championship West Side Tennis Club, Forest| Hills, N. Y., Aug. 29 (UP)—With Helen Wills dominating internation- al tennis by a number of generous miles, the question offered by the national championship tournament | But—"How long Miss Wills lose: As far as speculation fs concern- ed, the concluding rounds of the| championship which were to be re- sumed here today after a second postponement were like several of those track features this season in which only one horse started. i There always are possibilities Miss Wills might lose her semi- | final round match today to Helen | Jacobs and she might be defeated in the final match by either little Betty Nuthall, the English miss, or Irs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin, an- other of the distinguished California school. But those possibilities aren't worth a.dime. It isn't customary for appendicitis to pay a second visit and it was only an appendix operation that kept Miss Wills from | retaining her national championship | last year. The results of the big tourna- mnets this year prove the margin of class that Miss Wills has on the entire field. Mrs. Mallory, one of the most re- liable of the old reliables, apparent- ly is through. an annual requiem but the fact and the figures remain that the seven- will it be before a serious rival of the young Cali- fornia girl. Mrs. Mallory still may be able to beat a lot of them but she has passed beyond the cham- pionship class. Miss Wills has beaten Mrs. Kath- leen McKane Godfree, the British champion; norita De Alvarez, the Span champion and Miss Kea Bouman, the Dutch champion and that completes the list of interna- time national champion is no longer | peak of her game and her game at its best is not as good as the Ameri- can girl's. The Sparish champion and the Dutch champion haven't improved much in recent years while Miss Wills has consistently developed her game. There remain as two bright pros- pects for the future, the little Eng- lish miss, Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs, of Berkeley. Miss Nuthall never will get any place as long as she sticks to her underhand service and apparently she is going to stick to it. Members of the American teams that visited England last year ‘advised her to cultivate an overhand service and it is understood that she has been tak- ing lessons to develop it but the | results haven't shown in her game. It is a good guess that Helen Jacobs, for a number of years at least, will not be a serious rival of Miss Wills because she has too much respect for the game of the champion and she is not old enough to shake off the inferiority complex. The first match of the semi-final round today is scheduled for two o'clocks between Miss Nuthall and Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin and the second match at three o'clock between Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs. BASEBALL'S BIG FIVE the United Press. Babe Ruth made it two up on Lou Gehrig in the home run handicap by hitting his forty-second four-base blow. He was at bat four times. Gehrig made a brace of singles in the same number of tries. Ty Cobb kept his average on the increase with two one-base hits out of three attempts. Speaker failed to hit safely in four chances. Hornsby continued idle. ab h 180 152 148 155 156 hr Gehrig 40 { Ruth | Cohb Hornsby Speaker 426 a7 444 1359 449 347 GAMES CALLED OFF Rain Saturday which lasted | through the entire morning, wet the ground so at Walnut Hill park that the City league baseball games | scheduled for the afternoon had to be called off at noon. The three con- tests which were scheduled will be | played oft this coming Saturday. No arrangements have yet been made tional leaders. Mrs. Godfree has The Days of Real reached the SWEET CorRN' HAN Don AN HA WA -GosH USE ONLY OnE for playing off the rained-out games of July 23 Spor —_— MOTHER D - - You STENEED Two To HoLD EAR GF CORN 12 \JOHN B. FOSTER GIVES HIS OPINION OF PLAY John B. Foster, expert on the in- terpretation of baseball rules has rendered a decision on the play wheh took place in the Corbin Red Sox-Falcon baseball serles games a week ago Sunday. He expresses the decision that the runner at home plate who caused the interference, should have been called out by the umpire-in-chief. The query to Mr. Foster was di- rected by Umpire E. J. Crowley who at the same time gives his version of the play in the following group of letters. The difference of opin- ion as expressed by Mr. Foster and Billy Evans tends to prove the con- tention that the umpire on the spot was the one to use his discretion in the matter. The correspondence on the matter follows: August 29, 1927 Sporting Editor, New Britain Herald. Dear Siri— I am forwarding you two letters requesting that you publish same in your sporting column. The letters have to do with a decision rendered by me in last Sunday’s game be- tween the Falcons afid Corbin Red | Sox. The one is my'letter to Mr. John | B. Foster (mouthpiece of baseball |in my opinion) requesting his opin- in my letter. to my letter. and the {will be given these letters thanking you in advance for courtesy let me remain, Yours sincerely, E. J. CROWLEY Umpire Crowley's letter to | Foster explaining the play. | follows: Mr. is as August 21, 1927, Mr. John B. Foster, 45 Rose St., ew York, N. Y. | Dear Siri— I am writing you this letter to |ask that you render an opinion re- | garding a decisipn made by me in |a game played this afternoon as the between two local teams. The play in question occurred as | follows: I am working as the base | umpire; two men are out in the last i half of the fifth inning. A runner is on first and third. The runner on first attempts to steal second, the catcher throwing to that base to get him. The runner at third starts for | home; the second baseman ignores |the runner going to second and re- turns the throw to the catcher to get the man attempting to score. | The runner slides in and is ruled safe by the umpire-in-chief when the catcher drops the throw. At this point the ball is lying about six Inches forward of the run- ner who had slid into home and ap- parently out of vision of the umpire in chief and the fielding catcher. ! The runner seeing the ball put out his left hand, seized the ball and hrust it under is body. At the same |time he motioned with his right |hand to the runner at second to advance to third. Seeing the action on the part of the runner at home T immediately ruled the runner out who was advancing to third deeming the action of the runner as an in- terference. 5 T trust that you may be able to render a decision on the case as T have stated it. The play caused | much dissension and T will await | vour plea Tn the meantime be- lieve me to be, Yours sincerely. E. J. CROWLEY. Take Your ELBows OFF THE TABLE- l merey! | THERE S ~NO LAW AGAINST STOPPING OCCASIOMALLY FOR BREATH ion on the play as explained by me|, The other is his reply|, Trusting that the required space| first game of a championship series| Baseball Expert Declares That Runner Who Interfered At Home Plate Should Have Been Called Out—Um- pire E. J. Crowley Directs Query—Different De- cision From That of Billy Evans — Man Scoring Should Have Been Punished For Illegal Play. Mr. Foster's reply is as follows: August 24, 1927 My Dear Sir:— The situation is complicated. As the play took place it seems to me that it would have been advisable had you informed the umpire-in- chief of all the particulars, in fact were bound to do so when you felt compelled to make a decision upon the runner who had gone from sec- ond to third, Then if the umpire-in-chief were satisfied that the.catcher had not held the ball long enough to con- stitute an out and that the runner had interfered he might have called | the latter out. There 4s no doubt that the umpire should have pun- ished this runner for an unsports- manlike and illegal play. There seems to have been no in- terferefice regarding the following play. The runner would not have gone to third had he not becn urged to do so. He should have been sent back,to second. Most of all the runner who seems to have scored should have been called out as you describe the play, Sincerely, JOHN B. FOSTER Umpire Crowley's version of ths play is as follows: w Britain Herald, ew Britain, Conn. “Dear Sir:—This is a request to you that you afford me further space in your sporting column that I may be given an opportunity to ex press fny personal opinion as re- gards the play in question, and rela- tive to which we have read the opinions of Billy Evans and John B, Foster. It seems to me that be- cause of the difference of thought expressed in the two opinions of men so creditably associated with base- ball that another opinion on the same matter will not detract any- |thing from their knowledge of the game if it does not add to mine. “Following is my quotation of the play as I actually saw it, with my ruling on it, and the thought that gave father to my action: Two men are out in the last half of the fifth inning of the game in question. Run- ners are situated on first and third ba The runner on first attempts to steal second and a throw from the catcher is returned by the second baseman to catch the runner on third who in the meantime has tried to score. No play was made on the man advancing to second. The run- ner was declared safe at home after to the plate, The ball was resting the catcher had dropped the throw six inches forward of the body of the runner, apparently out of vision of the umpire-in-chiet and tha catcher. The runner at this stage put out his left hand, seized the ball and thrust it under his body, waving to the runner at second with his right hand to advance to third. At this point T ruled the runner out who was advancing from second to third base. My reasons for this de- cision are as follows: The play at home was completed. By the action of the runner in handling the ball and waving the runner to adyance a play that was apparently not possi- ble was started. Because the ball was hidden by the runner a prob- able out or at least a play was made imgossible. In my opinion the flelding team was denied a fair chance to play on the man advanc- (Continued on following page.) = AND ALWAYS BREAK THE EAR IV Two MY GOODNESS WHAT A NOISE YoU MAWE, AND YOUR FACE 1S GREASY FROM EAR To GAR - GO AND WASH \T QuicK s { ¢ " 3|