New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 9

Speaking of Sports All baseball games over the week- end in this city were forcibly can- celled because of rain and wet grounds. The Senior and Junior City League games were called off Sat- urday afternoon and the clash be- tween the Falcons and All-Kensing- ton was postponed yesterday after- noon. The present season has been one of the worst in ‘the knowledge of men connected with basebail. Almost every week-end, rain has come to either threaten or cause postpone- ment of games and especially now as the season wanes, there will be a cluttered schedule of postponed games to be played off. The Mohawk A. C. will the amatéur fight tournaments in this city on or about September 16, according to an announcenient by J. J. Whaler. The tournaments will most probably be conducted this year as last in the Y. M. T. A. & B. society hall on Main street. Any amateur fighter in thisecity or youths who have aspirations to- be- come fighters, break into the game, may register and have their names on file by sending the data in to the sports ed- itor of the “Herald.” A fighter's true name is required in the amateur ranks. His age and the weight at which he fights. This information will be forwarded to the officials of the Mohawk A. C. and all will he given a chance to show their wares during the coming sea- son, L It might be well when writing in | for these candidates for places on the pugllistic horizon, to give a com- plete account of any experience in boxing that they might have be- cause in the amateur fight ranks,! pairings are made by draw and it wouldn't be well for a beginner to be matched with a near-champion. The amateur fight game will go blgger in this city this year than ever before, it is expected. All around this city, the sport has been attracting customers by the hun- dreds and by the thousands. Reports from Bristol and Meri- den state that tournaments conduct- ed in both cities have been meeting with unprecedented success. These two citics are the latest to introduce amateur fighting to their fight fans. Hartford, New Haven and Bridge- port have been having fights all this summer and the the shéws has been very big. Hart- ford and New Haven have had two clubs running on the same night. but both places have been patronized liberally. same condition exists in New Haven. but both clubs report® very successiul season. Last year in this city, the amateur sport was intro- duced for the first time in a number of y big list of amateur fight fans. The All-New Britain football team will hold the first meeting of the vear Thursday night in the Hotel Stanley. Candidates for places on the team will meet and discuss the proposition offered to them by the promoters of the local team. Since the management of the local team has decided to pay no high| salaries this year, several football players have termed them as a “cheap combination” and other names which are anything byt com- plimentary. ‘We are not interested in any way i in the financial end of the ain team but it always has 1oolish to us for promoters to at- tempt to run a team for profit while paying out sometimes exorbitant sal- ! aries. Some players have received as | high as §75 and $100 for a game and in many instances they were far from worth that much money. The club has devised a scheme whereby a player will receive $25 a game and split on 40 per cent of the net earnings at the end of the year. This gives the club a “break” and gives the players a sure salary of 5 a week anyway. From the an: received Manager E her of letters sent out by him, it appears that there are a great num- ber of players who are satisfied to play under the conditions as out- lined. vers by State Athletic Commissioner Thomas E. Donohue is out to get the New York State Athletic commission as far as boxing is concerned. He las called a mecting of representa- tives of the National Boxing asso- ciation from every state in the union and from foreign countries at To- ledo, 0., on October 14. He proposes to have the associa- tion name a boxing commission sim- ilar to that which controls baseball and he furthermore intends to take a shot at the New York body by requesting all members of the Na- tional Boxing commission who have working agreements with the New York body, to break with them until the New York commission becomes affiliated with the National associa- tion. Whether or not this will go through is a question that will be decided at the meeting. then it will be a movement towards breaking the iron hold which the New York state commission has as- cumed over boxing throughout the country. New York is passing as the center of boxing activity and nothing has caused the change so much as the weird rulings of the New York com- | mission. The time has come for the other states to assert their right to regulate boxing as they sce fit and not according to the dictates of the triumvirate in New York. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS resume ; who would like to attendance at all | and the city developed a! ard J. Dailey to a num- i It it does, | MOORE LEADS ALL RELIEF HURLERS Yanks FPortiied This Year Against Any Closing Slnmp New York, Aug. 29 (P—The Yan- kees seem to have fortified them- selves this year against any such closing slump as they had in 1926 by “hiring Wilcy Moore, 29-year-old Oklahoman whose aim in life seems to be to salvage derelict ball games. | Whenever the American -league ehampions show any signs of slip- | ping, need anybody to pull an emer- | gency car or administer first aid to | the pitching staff, a- hurry call is sent to the bull-pen for Moore. His rescue acts have done as much, if not more than anything else to keep the Yankees speeding along, un- checked. Moore has pulled at least a half dozen games out of the fire in the last two weeks alone, holding off the enemy after a regular boxman has weakened while his team-mates ap- plied the old battering ram. Wiley has succeeded Fred (Firpo) Marberry of the Washington Sena- tors as the foremost exponent of re- lief pitching in the majors. Like his rival, Moore doesn't feel at home nor perform at his best unless he is called into action with the bases full, none out and the game .at stake. Wilcy was knocked out of the box | in the only game he started. Moore’s “sinker ball” has become as famous as Charley Root’s “wrinkle ball.” If the Cubs fur- nish the world's series opposition for New York, it will be interesting to compare the merits of these two artists, even though Wilcy works on the “night shift.” | At the pace they have been travel- {ing most of the past few America’s two youthful and domi- nant athletic figures—21-year-old | Helen Wills and 25-year-old Bobby Jones—seem likely to set reccids for consistency that will de difficult to beat for at least another generation. Both scaled title heights the same year, 1923, and hoth, with brilliant triumphs at home and abroad to their credit, appear certain to stay at the top for some time to come. Miss Wills has won Wimbledon, Olympic and American titles while Jones has carrled off every major prize but the British amateur crown over a five-year period. In capturing his third Ameircan | amateur golf title, on top of two triumphs each in the British and American open tournaments, Bobby has put himself in a class apart, a symphony of winning form in a game that has its full share of dis- cords. The wonder now is just how or why Jones happened to get suf- ficiently “off key” to finish only { eleventh this year in the American open at Oakmont, in view of his re- markable form before and since, Barring the biggest sort of an up- set, Miss Will Will climb back to the | tennis throne at Forest Hills tomor- row to wear the crown for the fourth time, although she has yet to cast her first vote. The power of a game almost masculine in its severity seems likely to keep her at the top indetinitely, although she faces the challenges of several up and coming rivals. Among them can be counted Betty Nuthall, the 16-year-old Eng- lish girl, showing as mugh if not more promise than Miss Wills did at that age. Little Sarah Palfrey, 14-year-old Boston girl who holds the national ! girl's indoor title, also is of cham- | pionship calibre, in the opinion of | her friend and coach, Mrs. Hazel ciss Wightman, who helped Miss Wills on the road to fame sev- eral years ago. Sarah “has every- | thing’ in the way of strokes mow, | Mra. Wightman believes, and will be | heard from in a year or two at the most. | RENDERS OPINION (Continued from Preceding Page) ing to third and this action of the runner in my opinion constituted an interference and as a consequence ! my decision was rendered. “I trust that this letter will be re- \garded simply, as an expression of | my opinion with no intent to injure but only as a vindication of my | | stand in the matter. -Believe me to be, Yours very sincerely, E. J. CROWLEY. CHURCH LEAGUE GAMES Regular Schedule of Contests to be Concluded Tonight {f Weather Permits. The Inter-Church baseball league will conclude its regular schedule this evening if the weather permits, three games being on the cards to be played at Willow Brook park. On Diamond No. 1 the South Congrega- tional church will meet the Every- man's Bible Class. The Bible Class, though defeated Friday, has plenty of strength and is fighting to keep third position, while the South church has been badly weakened by vacations and will be in rather wobbly shape. Diamond No. 2 will e the scene of action between the St. Matthew's ‘man Lutherans and the Stanley Memorial team. A last ditch battle to secure a tie for first place is being waged by the St. Matts, who are determined to win this game from the slipping Stan- mors, but the latter are not to be counted easy victims by any means. The First Lutherans will have an opportunity to clinch the champion- ship when they oppose the Swedish | Bethany team on the “grass dia- mond.” Having taken 12 straight games, the Lutherans are confidence of another win, but the Bethany ar- ray has proved a stumbling block for more than one team in the league. The Center Congregational church will take a forfeit from Ken- years, | | Bridgeport 'New Haven [ Newark ! Jersey City sington, the result being that Ken- sington, although it withdrew from the league months ago, will be the first team to “complete” its sched- LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday’'s Results New York 10, St. Louis 6. Philadelphia 9, Detroit 5. Chicago 4, Washingtdn 0. Boston 6, Cleveland 5. (11 innings). The Standing w. New York Philadelphia . Detroit .. ‘Washington . Chicago Cleveland St. Louis Boston Games Today New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at Chicago. Boston at Cleveland. NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results All games scheduled postponed, rain. The Standing w. Chicago 73 St. Louis . Pittsburgh .. ... New York ...... Cincinnat} Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia, Games Today Chicago at New York. 2. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Boston. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. EASTERN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results 2 Providence 9-2, Bridgeport 4-0. Other games postponed, rain. The Standing W. 71 67 68 64 + 81 . 60 .49 Games Today Pittsfield at Hartford Springfield at Albany New Haven at Waterbury 2. Bridgeport at Providence. Pet. .550 545 544 516 500 496 473 380 Albany Pittsfield Springfield .. Hartford Waterbury Providence 2 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Rochester 5-2, Jersey City 3-0. Newark 5-1, Syracuse {- Buffalo 8-4, Réading 2-6. Other clubs not scheduled. The Standing w. . o4 . 88 76 4 71 58 . 82 Games Today Jersey City at Buffalo. Newark at Toronto. Reading at Rochester. Other clubs not scheduled. ARMY OF TENNIS STARS GATHER AT BROOKLINE Matches in National Doubles Tour- L. 48 53 65 67 62 Buffalo Syracuse . Toronto Baltimore Rochester Reading . 109 nament May Be Delayed Be- causc of Rain Brookline, Mass., May 28 (P—An army of tennis stars converged on | the Longwood Cricket club today for the opening of the national doubles tournament, but a forecast of con- tinued rain held the possibility at least, that the matches might be de- layed in getting under way. Big Bill Tilden and his victorious artner Hunter came fresh from victory at the Newport, R. L, invi- | tation meet and with them were George Lott and John Doeg, the young westerners whom they had bested to win. Little Bill Johnston was another arrival. He rushed from San Fran- cisco to here in response to the Davis Cup committee's wishes that he participate in the play which will go far toward determining the com- position of the cup team. Johnston was paired with R. Norris Williams while Tilden will play with Hunter. France was rep- resented by two of its leading com- binations, Cochet and Brugnon and Lacoste and Borotra. TO CAPTAIN TWO TEAMS Gibby Welch will captain both the foothball and track teams at Pittsburgh next year. TENNIS BEGOMING HEADLINE SPORT Sports Writers Doting on “Our - Helen” and “Big Bill” BY MARY K. BROWNE United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1927 by United Press) New_York, Aug. 29.—"Tennis is certainly becoming a headline said one of the inmates of the Vander- bilt hotel, the hang out of the ten- nis squad and “squabi.” The state- ment is full of amazing truth. Why! Our best sportswriters scarcefy let a day pass without a few words about “our Helen or our big and little Bills.” One of the distinguished sportswriters took time oft, from the cultivation of cauli- floker, and devoted most of his column to the bills of our Big Bill. What financial recuperation should be coming to Bill for the amount of time and talent devoted to the up- lift of tennis. Just a little “Chris- tian endeavor.” Why! The pictures in the Sunday i sports edition of our Davis cup ten- nis team were larger than the big four of polo. The men, horses and all. T am forced to admit that six plc- tures of Bobby Jones, took the first prize, for importance. Six pictures of basehall players took second place. Tennis, the game that jvas once called sissy, was third, e display of the big four of the inter- national polo team in fourth place. Why has tennis become popular? Because it is an exciting, attractive, !fairly obvious game to watch, with |comfort. It is an incxpensive game Ito play. The contests are interna- |tional in aspect and that catches the imagination of the public. The out- icome of the matches is more of a |raystery. The players are becoming | more skillful. The women are doing their bit in promoting the popular- ity of the game. Tennis is becom- ing more strenuous. “Second wind” is something fair- {ly new in women's tennis. Mrs. | Chapin got her second’wind in both |her match with Joan Fry and again in her match with Mrs. Mallory. Ap- | parently no one gets it unless they are competing to the limit of their strength and not until tennis devel- |oped into a battle royal have we | thought much about second wind. 1 have had it and I know the won- derful sensation of revivifying it brings. Why it happens is a physical mystery to me. I have heard foot- ball men talk of it casually. T first experfenced it in a game of field hockey, after running like mad up and down the field as a forward, I thought that I could not go on. I had a pain in my side;and I was hopelessly winded. T actually felt as though I might drop dead. Sudden- ly I felt the fresh air fill my lungs. The pain left my side. I was a new person, completely refreshed. My second wind lasted all through the game. On my four months' with Suzanne Lenglen there were two occasions when I was conscious of getting my second wind. Mrs. Chapin described her sensa- 7 |tions to me just as I had found them $ | \When Chariotte Chapin had exerted | herself to the limit In gaining a lead jof 5-2 in the deciding set against [Mrs. Mallory, and Molla started to {climB back, Charlotte said she was {so exhausted she could not go on. | But she knew she must. She played lon her nerve until she thought she would drop. Then suddenly came her second wind at a moment when she needed it. A gift from the gods, | A refreshed Charlotte went on to the greatest victory of her career. JONES HAS LITTLE LEFT 70 CONQUER Bobby May Equal All Records Set Up by Golf Stars Minneapolis, Aug. 29 (#—The In- | comparable Bobby Jones today may | gaze upon the world of golf and view | but little left for him te conquer. Having won his third national amateur title at Minikahda Satur- | day, Jones has only one major title {to acquire—the British amateur— | and three major American golfing records to equal. Bobby has yet to win one more United Statessamateur title to tie the | Jerome Travers' mark; and he must | capture the American amateur and | open championships in the same | year to equal Chick Evans’ achieve- | ment. In addition, Evans holds an- other golfing mark which Jones has vet to' tie—a low of 286 to win the | national open. | It was on Minikahda’s famous | links that Evans in record pace won | the national open in 1916 with 286 'MIGH PRESSURE % 7% % = & (i Yy « X (M LATE FoR PETE tour | strokes, and for 11 years the course had been content with the golf it had produced. But along came the young man who at 25 years of age i§ generally acclaimed the premier golfer of the world, having just won the British open with a record score of 255. This sturdy southerner displayed such scintillating golf that he not only set a course record of 67 in the second medal round over the 6,669 vards of rugged golfing ground, but he eliminated by golt almost if not quite so good by wide margins such veferan stars as Jimmie Johnston of Minikahda, Francis Ouimet of Bost- ton and Chick Evans, himself, in the final round Saturday 8 and 7. In defeating Evans, the reinstated champion duplicated his record of 31-36—67 for Minikahda while par is 35-27—72. He was not so fast in the second round. But, / having gained a lead of 6 up in the first circuit, was able to increase that ad- vantage to 7 up at the 27th hole, al- though Evans, displaying for a time the golf of 1926, cut the lead to 4 up with a birdie on the 23rd hole. And Minikahda was soon to rest from the whack of the driver and the click of the iron; for, after halv- ing the 25th in 5 with 3 putts each, Evans accidentally moved his ball in laddressing it on the 29th hole. So, |instead of halving to make Jones dormie 7, Chick took 4 and lost the | hole and the match. Jones' 67 was preceded on Friday by a 69 in his 11 and 10 victory over |Ouimet, who sprang into fame |around the golfing world in 1913 by turning back a British invasion and |\vinmnz the national open from Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. And the Georgian had chalked up a splendid 68 the day before that in his conquest of Johnston, Who only recently had outplayed Jones in the national open at Oakmont, leading the field for the first two rounds. In truth Jones scored 4 rounds, although not consecutively, in 271 strokes on & championship course, and was 10 under par for all the holes he played during the title |joust, although by the vagaries of golt he had a severe sinking spell in the first match round and narrowly escaped defeat that overtook the 1926 champion, George Von Elm in the second match round. That misadventure prevented Minikahda from a chance to be the Wz ’\///////\\///\\ R //‘////// AL P PURSUING THEM ST / HE WALKS ‘MAJESTICALLY OVER THE SAND HOUSES THAT | CHAIR WHEN You LEAVE THE CHILD RENIHAVE BUILT AND SCARES ALL THE' CHILDREN WITH HIS COUGHING So THAT THEY THINK A TERRIBLE SEA MONSTER IS - e scene of the third successive finals between Jones and Von Elm, but doubtless, had the Californian reached the ultimate tilt this year, he would have gone the way of all golfing flesh before the onrush of Bobby. For it scemed impossible even to halve the game of a man who by a OUR BOARDING \‘\g (s Lo O‘f * EVERVBODY !« HELLO 1! wee HeLLo!= OM-M-~ R T 57 P HE'S THE W | 4 \( 7 I T SAw HELLO!w AND GRABS YOUR BEACH IT. FOR VUST.A. MOMENT | eVER SAW./ SUCH MANNERS Anp SUCH BARKING! frallty round of Wednesdsy when-he was unmachinelike enough to siip to 78 strokes t!r 18 holes. . 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