New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERA LSS SSSSBLS. LD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927. SELHLLEILIILLELELSESSESSSISSHISSISSL POLICE BASEBALL TEAM TO MEET MERIDEN IN SECOND GAME HERE TOMORROW—MURDOCH AND LEINHARD WIN FIRST MATCH IN TENNIS DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT—NEW YORK GIANTS DEFEAT CHICAGO IN DOUBLE HEADER — SPORT NOTES Aaakald CHICAGO LEAD CUT AS GIANTS WIN TWO GAMES New York Team Upsets Pace Setters In Twin Bill— Cards Get Even Break With Robins—Braves Lose Double Header to Cincinnati—Yankees Again De- feat Browns—Athletics Beat Detroit Tigers—Red Sox Swamp Cleveland Indians In Contest. the Associated Press. One of the most eventful days the National league has experienced this season today pointed the wa for the possible dethronement of the | fzmi Chicago Cubs. Today the Cubs had | ! a lead of only two and one half | games in the national pennant race over their closest competitors. The Cubs were balked twice terday by the Giants, New York batting Hal Carlson out of the hox | in the first game during a furious | rally that brought McGraw's feam an 8-7 win, and taking the nightcap. 4-2, with a seventh inning splurg, at the expense of Charlie 0ot. After seven successive days of fdleness th: Giants snapped right | Dback int otheir winning gait, which has extended to six consecutive vie- | tories. The team also has won 21 out of its games for the best late season showing in the older cir- | cui Heinie Mueller, formerly with the St. Louis Cardinals, was the big bat- ting star in both contests, his home run and two singles accounting for five runs. The key to the situation in the first game, however, was an | error by Elwood English, Cub short- | stop, who fumbled a grounder with a double play in sight. The Giants then went on their third inning rampage, during which they scored seven runs. | The world's champion Cardinals | got an even break in their twin bill | with Brooklyn. Jess Petty stopped them in the opener, 2-1, but J Haines led the Mound City entry to | a victory by the same score in the second cont The result put the St. Louis team in a tie for second place with Pittsburgh as the Bucs| played a 2-2 tie with Philadelphia, the game being called on account of | . rain. Only three and one-half game: separated the Cubs from the Giants today to mark the first division span. | The Boston Braves, after whip-| ping first division teams with much | regularity in recent games, bowed |3 twice to the Cincinnati R ho won by scores of 4-2 and § he | Reds made 26 hits in two games. | Art Nehf, who received credit for| Cincinnati’'s victory in t second game, received notice of his uncon- itional release. There was l¢ By ¥ CHICAC AB. 1 R. 1 s 0 imm, NEW vol AB. L. Vormer, enton, p stals x—Hatted for W York ..... 01 100 sunt 0 s excitement yeste dry in the American league. Y.ukees slapped the Browns i St. Louis, this time by S 7 New York has won all its Ames with Howley's outfit this sea- Son. Lou Gehrig belted his 41st! homer of the year and trails Ruth | Ly one, the Bambino failing to hit | safely. Washington failed to get out of its 13 game losing slump. Manager | Bucky Harris had his players draw for places in the game with Chicago, the result being that Harris, Speak- er, Ruel and Bluege sat on the bench. Rain halted the game in the last half of the second inning with the Nats leading the Philadelphia scored over Detroit with Jack Quinn allow- ing three safe hits. It was the.sixth defeat in a row for the Slim Harriss let the Cleveland Indians down with two hits and the Boston Red Sox won by a 10 cound. Flagstead's error prevented Harriss from getting a shutout. he 1in ore of | 18 . Hargreave Tetty 1 000 000 100 1 Time . Toporcer pires 1 Pfirman —1:40. Quigley, Wil 90 RURGH AR, AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK Combs, cf . Koenig, ss Ruth, 1f . hrig, 1b . Meusel, rf . Lazzeri, 2b . Dugan, 3b Bengough, : Pennock, p ..... Totals O'Rourke, Rice, rf .. Slsler, 1h Adams, 3b ... Williams, If ... E. Mlller, cf 3n, . Miller, 88 ... Chowder, p Gaston. b Schang, x Totals New York Whitehill, 1 Smith, p Wingn. 3 Totals tted Inhin for White Mt 1 BAKER BEATS ADAMS ) Adams, of San for his 131h eonscentive it Californian last dcrision over was a ten 1o night when he wor ronn Tadt. 1 Hofmann, ven favorite to win o{ship of the Inte i times, A Ly team’s > ! Rittner, ' | Congregati " have ary SOCVTS VLIV VT VIV T C VTS VIVT TV TIVITITC TIPS PEVIPI T CTIS TTT I CES TPV TIPETITITTETTTITOPEC I POV AGP QOO FIRST LUTHERANS CAPTURE PENNANT Clinch Inter-Church Baseball League Championship League Standing W, L. 16 1 14 3 First Lutheran Matthew's BB € 5 Trinity M South Cong Stan Memorial Swedish Beth.. . Baptist eater Cong, Kensing'n Cong. 18 000, he First Lutheran chureh b team clinched the champion- | urch league last night by administering an §-2 drub- bing to the Swedish Bethany church team. With a two-game lead and only one game left to play, the Swedes would have a margin of a full game even if they lost that maining contest and the St. Matts captured their lone game left. Tt i€ the second baseball title which the Rirst Lutherans have won in three years. They captured the pen- nant in 1925 but howed last year to the St Matts, returning to this vear after the closest the league histo, Last night's between Bill Fre .with the former was in control at all nson had one bad inning, | or perhaps it wonld be more correet | {to say that the Lutherans had one | big inning, as they customarily win their games with one grand run- producing rally. This time it came in the fourth inning and netted zev- en runs, enough to put the victory awa Holst and Fresen led the winn offense with two hits apiece, H. Carlson made two of thos: jered by the Bethany tlincups and score b First Lutherans—Nelson sen . Bengston Johnson rf, Holst Foberg of Swedish Bethany—Dahlman D. Swanson p., D. Johnson 1b, Hjerpe 2b. Lagerlof 3b, Carlson ss, Olson If, Strom ef. Nilsen r Ist Lutherans 0 0 0 7 0 1 Swed. Beth. 0010 1 S Matts 6, Stanmors The excellent pitching <u and a pair of die Surko and W St. Matthew's German Luthe jans a 6-3 decision over the Stanley m. Suess held the slu, ! Stanmors to three scattered [ Eits and struck out six men. Carl | Rittner, who worked for the losers, d two but was found for 13 fetics. The St Matis bounded into lead in the sccond inning and | stayed there in spite of Stuninor ral- ylies which brought the losers up to in the sixth fr: Eddie Surko, in addition 1o his homer, mad while: Goody “ Preisser came through with two hit ! Smyrk made two-thirds of his team's hit total but he for both of | enough, Eddie two n {with a rinnin {foul. The Jinc innings: Stanley 10 10 10 1 First I g all power race in hattle Dave | winning & a e 1 Swanson, h Sw Ny ric- son 1b, | Frisk s (BY BILLY EVANS) Will a left hook to the [the Pittsburgh Pirates the tional league pennant? |11 cither the Chi ! Louis Cardinals or York G Inosc out the Buccaneers, it only fitting and proper that th cessiul manager of the club extend a vole of tha | Cateher “0il" Smith for is pu [tic activities on the diamond {1t will be recalled that late ! June there occur Forbes I {in Pittsburgh, a one-round a between the P [ Manager Dave | ton Braves. | The bout cost a 1927 Na- 4 0—s 8§ St nt o Cubs, W of Otto runs by ter Linn gave a home eld | nent hackstop Baneroit of the 13os | was A oneesided affair, {the lighter Dancroft provin |mateh for Smith, who won [ pleased, a left hook to the fol- lowing a ser punche i !stomach. sending Bancroft down for I the count. That impromptu ri e his | resulted in a Pirate triumph, Fentured | SYeNUANlY cost Pittsburgh the nant a the r to share [vien spoils of a world s There are (wo str uch belief, | Wirst, President eydler of I National league handed down a sus {pension that deprived Pittshurzh o Cateher Smith for mith m there s et that teher., no | as hej i | LW, s of > its urko alxo pliys. Fink one-hund cateh of a cups and by 50 was responsible errors. Sirang may pen- in the score : e ons for 1t; H. Thor- I'. Thor- Iverson, 3b; M Haml I, Rittner, ss; Williams, Smyrk, of; P Matthew's German ! stenson, istenson, 1h; of; Ritiner, St {the serviees of While have his no he 1d Tatheran Klopp. W imann, e surko, M. Preisse 20y; Iink W. Surk 1) a Pi- long - n I ni Snels i 0. Suess, rf. em tha Had sser, b 1 1ot number tmes that were Lmight have been different More important 1o the chanee however, has been the topedd between Boston and hoax a result of the fight Smith Bancroft ently sticred ap an ill-fo the ves for Pitt hothat threw a mon™ ey wrench o the smooth working Pirate ma- of scors ults B. C. 11, South Co ivervinan's ay to victory over the South W church on a diamond which was so covered with water and mud that Play wi Ble., The wis 14 i been smaller all around had it the behind short- er hit feil into this body v ng, e cluss slop- < of ) Pittshur impos- hetween would |, amo Iy fast sceore g A Roston not been Lk Hit of wats or stop. sliding reach excaping th roliing out outh Church scored in {innings and hold the E. B despite three hits in the nza, but in the third the {broke loose. A steady ion of hits and errors g » them 12 runs in inninge. Parker took Hur Durrow's in the sixth and | counters, threat ne “Got it . Pheen e Roston ers and of Pittsburehi™ scems to spirational slogan of the Braves ever sinee the day Smith o ignominiously knocked out their ma Dave Bancroft Since the Pir the Iy s clashed in Fames results have been six Boston and two In more or enth ghts have opening = winners B | e suc that time. ; wes ha el hres nd t aac p for ories o less spirit club 1l < found two South Chureh v in this hind scoring three for mor allivd of reveng rose to the I cight Cutting Dlace and dofe sy zames ont it down a ramg 1 was et times. was 100 dizzy {s! 2 | i strong game, | Arburr | third and two 1 Stromauist pitched on his speecd, good game at pulled oft Barti a difficult Freddy 1 of the games t Pirates a the and Liling mainly n I | elub to drop since that by abont cateh | p atter of for cinsed first pla has heen t of tered in e series between th ke 8 of line vach mads 1ot field lake four hits, w time and the margin wan- | lerick- two o i Giant, W ves in ho trade to the Larry ing role in red to the Greenfield in Doston beat the hit Benton, the i Pirates played the { back adminis On July 21 five-game serics Pittsin open £ ag Pirates, With n- Tan and he th wing G burgh e, 3 Joh istificd the tory i Boston won thre nee by 3 vie- Sont o h Con of 2 games, Chureh Wins ional o} Cente invaded against memory, I de- two days started him, | had only ! n | 5 to he w G Boston removed 2 wich cven rained-ont Al winning for to and two replayed played sts to b pro- ne Two days later, B and used ¢ | cont neroft played a nfield again smiled on him huneh Daine (Continued on following page.) Fortune once Uhy Smith hiad been avenzed. I be | suc- | victorious | O Imakes it T delivered by Carl in ng affair, which | Tt i | ht | two o THE AVENGER_ KENT e———o ARTISTS CONCEPTION of Fre. SMITH - BANCROFT KNOCK-OUT i Imore with a | of Revy 5-2 victory. The God-|have won the match. The Fletch-! la for the sixth time |cr-King combination took the first in cight games had been kind to the | set 6 to 3 and brought the third to pllot of the Braves. His ockout | fou to have the winners SWINMING STARS BANCROFT’S KNOCKOUT MAY BEAT PIRATES [POLICE NINE TO TACKLE MERIDEN AGAIN TOMORROW Hardware City Bluecoats to Make Desperate Fight to Win Second Game of Series—Silver City Coppers Took First Contest—Billy Kline to Again Occupy the Mound—Locals to Have Final Practice Toda, —Battle to Be Staged At Willow Brook. ; The New Britain Police Depart- ment baseball will meet the team representing the Meriden de- partment at Willow Brook park to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in the second game of a home and home series of contests staged an- nually between the two armies of peace guardians. The Meriden team in the first game last week, drew first blood by defeating the local team. It was a closely fought battle and only a stirring rally by the Meriden blue- coats in the sixth inning coupled with a few out and out gifts by the New Britain players enable the Sil- ver City aggregation to walk away with a victory. This centest was | staged at Hanover Park in Meriden. Tomorrow. Manager Tom Dolan's w will be on its toes every min- {ute. Meriden has already promised its home fans to take both games but New Britain rooters are just as keen that New Britain at .cast bring home one strip of bacon to'the Hardware City e New Britainites will again face Billy Kline. ace of the Silver City hurling staff. Billy last week, after a stormy six innings, suddenly started in like the veteran that he is and when New Britain needed a {lone run to tie the score ,he was in- vincible. “Slim” Politis or Tommy Blanch- ard, the former a southpaw and the latter a husky right hander, will re- ceive the pitching assignment to- morrow. It was ‘this combination, one relieving the other, last year that came through with a win in the second game after Meriden had taken the laurels in the first con- test. The New Britain team will be out in full force this afternoon for its final practice session before the game. “Paddy” O'Mara will put the squad through a stiff drill in an ef- fort to correct the weaknesses that cropped up last week. Batting drill will also be given the team against curves such as Kline throws and if the determination of the players team ENTER MARATHON Approximately 400\Comestams Start This Morning Toronto, Ont., Aug. (P—The sport axiom that ‘“they never come will put to a test when approximatel. off at 6:30 > swimming mara- back™ he stern here tomorrow 400 cont m., on the stants take 21-mi s for the ,000, thon in Lake Ontario, p winners in which total Virtually every well-known long wimmer in the world is en- tered in the Canadian Iibition's sport attraction. Miss Ger- | trude erle and Mrs. Ilie Gade (lorson are exceptions, but the latter is in England preparing for another swim and Miss Iderle is in vaude- ville, Henry Sullivan, Ernst Vierkoetter, Lotty Moor Sehocmmel, Clarabelle rett, Bthel Hertle, George Young and Edward ting among the swimming ables who will try to repeat pre- vious triumphs, The history of marathon swimming, is that a win- ner never repea Sullivan and Toth, although they swam the Eng- lish chann failed to last the grind in the Catalina swim, which was won by Young, a Canadian lad of rs. There are numerous other instances of like nature on record. More than 300,000 persons are ex- pected to crowd the exhibition grounds overlooking the starting point. It is expected to he the larg- est sporting gathering in the do- minlon's history, Although 90 per cent of the en- trants are from the United States, national ex- Charles Toth, 1l only take the next two gam Murdock showed lack of practice penmani- | duvinz the play. He has been trying | National will [to play baschall with the Stanley | Which | Rule & Level team as well as golf | and hi me has suffered as | Smith and resting @ consequence. Leinhard also was | the jaw of Bancrort | below his usual form, but the pair may prove a costly knockout to the | €Xpeets to pick up as the matches go | towards the 1 he cou i Tt margin winning team 1e than i salmost a certainty tl the | of victory by the in 1 four scem 4 if that left hook { tennis als. were unusnally slow |owing to the «quent and hard rain | but this apparently did not bother ! | IFleteher and King as they repeated- AT!’V' Iy exeruted brilliant and unexpected 3 § 45 ! | Moral: th fight, ball field is no place to f (N FIRoT I shots to ace their opponents. | Additionnl matches scheduled for | | and Steinmen at 5 p.m CUBS BUY PITCHER | | | | an il Haveg Sale of Phil Weinert, Husky South- @ {Murdoch and Leiai Liuck; on Their § it | | the | | streak | througi {of the first rou ionship doul i paw from Pacific Coast League, Is | with a cane | match cham- 1ent. but Murdoch and of luck as victors in the 1 city tennis four teher and Kiy was only afte of the h st firrhts on record in the doubles play the city title. It the remainder of the matehes com to equalling this match sment this year will b 1 faa the losin m b a4 of a little more experience, Leinhard, " Announced, An: Aug. W husky southps with the Mission club of the Coast Baseball Jeague to the | 0 Cubs, was announced today | by Howard Lorenz scere of the san Franciseo ageregation, Weinert will repost immedi to the Cubs. | (€ s who will be de- livered by the National league club ! to the Missions next spring were in- | volved in the deal, Lorenz sail. Los 30 of Phil piicher i Chi i hey downed IF] one for mywhere near the tourna- a whiz N pos- T I today are Vogel and Christensen vs. | jjirs. ~Q_ d | Hanny and Fare at 4 p. m. and ]|}y, I LU Li { Meyer and Anderson vs. Schupack | !there is no telling but what it would counts for anything, the New Brit. m will come through with a tomorrow. expected that Mayor Gard- Weld will be on hand to throw out the first ball. The mayor has been secretly practicing for the past two weeks and he is able to get a lot of smoke on the ball now. The game will be staged at Wi low Brook park and Park Superin- tendent Ralph Wainwright will have a force of men out today and tomor- row, getting the diamond im shape for the epic struggle. The contest will start promptly at 3 o’clock and it is expected that several hundreds »id fans will be on hand. Following the game, a banquet will be served to the iting guests at the Elks hall club on Washington street. Here the victors will be toasted and the razzberries will be handed out to the losers. 12 forcign nations are represented. It probably will require 13 hours or more for the winner to cover; Vic the triangular course and the fini is expected shortly after 7:30 o'clock tomorrow ni MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS Assoriated P 3 (Including games of Aug. National Pirate. ates, 108, rates, 191, ner, Pirates, 36. . ner, Pirates, 17, Homers—William Phillies, Wilson, Cubs Stolen Base Pitching—1 lost 4. By 29.) 387, 23; ch, Cardinals, 35. ‘nton, Gianst, won 13,| FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Asso. ed New York — Jack Britton out- pointed George Levine, Brooklyn, 10. Roberto Roberti, Italy, won by technical knockout from Arthur Smith, Wyoming, 1. Tulsa — W. L. (Young) Stribling, Georgia, knocked out Ed Smith, Neo- desha, Ka American Batting—Simmons, Athletics, Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, <127, Hits—Gehrig, Yanke Triples—Gehrig, Yan Doubles—Burns, Ind: Yankees, 46. Home Ruth, ¥ Stolen Bases—Sisle Pitehing—Hoyt, Y lost 5. 393. By the os, 18, ns, 46; Gehrig nkees, 42, ankees, won 18§, MINALS PRACTICE The rdinal A. C. baseball team will practice tonight at §:30 o’clock At Walnut Hill pa All players are requested to attend. cA “ights Tonight Chicago — Eddie Shea vs. Johnny Hill, 10, Portland. Ore, — Joey Sangor va. 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