New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1928, Page 24

AMERICA TO HAVE THREE DISTANCE STARS IN OLYMPIC MARATHON—NEW BRITAIN BASEBALL CLUBS TO STAGE PRACTICE SESSIONS OVER THE WEEK-END—SHUTTLE MEADOW FORMAL OPENING APRIL 28—GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION AT “Y"—SPORTS BASEBALL CLUBS |AMERICANS HOPE TO WIN FIFTEEN HOME RUNS HIT IN MAJOR LEAGUE cAMEs} Babe Ruth Figures in List of Yesterday’s Circuit Clout- l ers—Cards Force Pirates to Walk the Plank—Chi- cago Cubs Defeat Reds—Braves Swing Through to | Win From Giants—Robins Lose to Phillies—Cleve- | land Takes Another From White Sox—Results. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRKIL 20, 1928. HARTFORD COUNTY Y ANNUAL MEET Events to Be Staged in South Manchester on May 12 Harry N. Anderson of Hartford, | president of the athletic association By the Associated Press An outburst of terrific hitting eropped out in the major leagues. Fifteen home runs, including on. by the mighty labe Ruth, figured in the batting orgy. of yesterday. Opening the home scason at Pitts- Burgh, the Cardinals forced the Pi. rates to walk their own plank by the count of 13 to 10, before a crowd of $0.000. The National leagne cham- | pions called on 21 players, seven of | whom were pitchers. St. Louis gath- ered 17 hits against 14 made by th Corsairs off three Cards' twirler: The sparkling pitching feat of the day was by Sheriff Blake of the | Cubs who put the manacles on the Reds by allowing two measly taps. singles by Turdy and Ford. Not Redleg reached first base while Chi cago blazed out with the higeest | hitting carnival thus far in the cam paign by thumping th opposing | hurlers for 21 hits for a 13 to 0 de- | cjsion. “Hack Wilson, | Home r Casterling, pit Un Sturdy. ran “Time o 1 s G nd Melowar CHICAGO AL R A 4 0 4 ' I Cox, Goddell, | CLEVELAN AB It 1 . R i {iuiin star outgelder who M réturncd fo the game after a briet | absence due to an injury, led the| bs' attack with two home runs, double and a sinzle for a perfect d at bat. Acting Manager Rogers Hornsby of the Braves piloted his warriors through to a 9 to 8 victory in a 1 inning thriller with the Glants. Hornsby crossed the plate with the tying run in the ninth and in the tenth slashed a single with a man on third and two out to save the day for Boston. The Braves ham- | mered Cantwell and Faulkner for|y 16 hits against nine credited to the McGrawmen off the combined efforts ‘of Genewich and Brandt. The Robins ripped out with three heme runs, one each for Liliott, Hressler and Herman, but they took the small end of a 9 to 5 score against the Phillles. The Quakers| :put the game away in the sixth in- ‘ning when Jumbo Elliott was chased to the showers during a seven run rally. Leach, whose triple in the| first scored a Philly, cracked a|poyen {homer in the seventh with one on | O'Doul base. B Ruth entertained Boston fans by |y propelling honier No. 1 of 1928 into | Jacison, the right field bleachers in the fifth | Harper inning of the Yankees' second game | 7L with the Red Sox. The Ihmhlnol had gone hitless in a morning con- test which the Hose won by 7 to fi‘ altheugh outhatted by the Hugmen, | 16 to 10. It was the first defeat for the world's champions this year. But the New Yorkers went after the afternoon fray, winning by 7 to 2 in six innings, the game being abbre- viated on account of rain, Cleveland riddled three hurlers with 15 safeties to capture the fourth straight from the White Sox by 9 to 2. As the Yankees dropped an engagement in the Hub, the In- .dians assumed the American league leadership with seven games won and one lost to five won and one lost for the New Yorkers. Hudlin went the route for the tribe. iighteen bases on ball were di d in four and one half innings American league tilt at St. Louis, cleven of them by Detroit pitchers. The Tigers won by 9 to 8, Easterling, the new Bengal sen- | (- sation, hoisting for the circuit for | " the sccond time in as many days. The Athletics and Senators werc not scheduled. Ve o lu'i*llnhmv Mostil, National League | i i BOST A 1 o & 2on% Smith, | Rurrus, Tayln Genewlel Brandt, 1 Cooney, x Gautreau, m loamomone e ax Zolosassomuay alosmswounan Totals ~ew'! voI ! R ot 3 b . 1 s . i Cantwell, Sreme oo MOnS Buwsssnekoss wlosososcemousd wmlcssoome xx z—-Batted for Mnrpcr in 10th. 110 110 401 005 003 000 0 . Cohen, Brown Jackson. Home runs—Rees | Farrell. Winning pitcher—Brandt. ing pitehor—Faulkner. Umpires Rigler and Hart. Time of game— 1-9 0—s | Hornshy, CINCINNATI AB 9 [ e Smnibms ese oy, Critz, 1 B 4 bl otacasssntbesms el =cscsassevemehoon S50 esnmiissnman Sliosesesssewevanr o 9 9o Glensosssuay English, American | League smuDunane (Aftarnoon Game.) NEW v AB B erueaank s erandiie Sl Siscocecn il tted for Ashe in Sth, an for Ford in Sth hita—Butler, Wilson Home runs—Wilso, Losing pitcher—Luque Clem. MeCormick and Magee, Tm- Timo | Lovts AL T | =0, | Meusel, Roth- { | | | | i | " ol o o 0 o ) 0 0 s3550mcsmessu=5a Holloy Totals + Dawson r Tascher n 8, O Rourke e ot 1t by nttiam, Larris. Hom ruu-(‘vnnvimm ¢ piteher—Littieiohn. Losing v nan, Starke [ winl ¢ Istart training for his bout with (Continued on Following Page) | and le . charg. [ vilie paizn, TIL, "nipeg, te i nisey, of the Hartford County Y. innounces that the M. C. A annual outdcor | Geld and track meet of the associa- {tion will be held at the West Side Recreation center, South Manches- on Saturday afternoon, May 12, be part of the one dredth anniversary week-end festivi- ties ot the Hartford County Y. M. A Lewis Lloyd, recreational director South Manchester, will have of the meet locally, and Or- mmons of Springfield college will be in eharge of the gencral | promotion of the m will hun- m There will be three classes of en- | b May pounds; under 18 years| and weighing intermediate, tries ot age under uniors, up to 110 | boys also under 15 but weighing 110 pounds or over; seniors, all other boys or men The following e¢vents have been ar- ranged: Running broad jump and vanning high jump for all classes. In addition, for juniors 75-yard dash, baseball throw, and 220-yard rel for intermodiates, 100-yard dash, 220.yard dash, 8Si-yard run, pound shot put and 440-yard relay; for seniors, 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 12 pound shot put, mile run and §s0-yard relay. The meet is open to all County Y. M. C. A. groups and high schools and other boy organizations that have applied for recognition to the Hartford County Y. M. C. A. Athle- tic weon‘\!mn - YBRIEN MAY GET BOUT WITH BROWN | Hartford Southpaw Must Beat Ebbets in Holyoke Monday A bout with Bobby Brown awaits Frankie O'Brien, Hartford's durable southpaw, if he can defeat Harry Ebbets, I'reeport’s “Blonde Thunder- ,bolt,” at the Valley Arena in Holyoke Monday night according to an- nouncement made today by Match- maker Arthur Greaney. Who Greaney will match Ebbets with in !the event that Harry wins he did not care to say but it is known that a well advertised middleweight will be brought to the Arcna to oppose him. | With the Brown bout as an ob- | jective O'Brien will give all he p sesses to defeat Ebbcts. Down at Casino gym in Merlden O'Brien is working like a beaver under Denny McMahon's instructions. McMahon reports that he will be well under the stipulated poundage of 168 and will arrive in Holyoke early Mon- { day morning, journeying from Hart- ford where he will spend the night | before. The Lowell boy is a great favorite here and o bout with O'Brien would ! prove a great attraction, providing of course that Frankie can beat Ebbets. Brown will be a ringside spectator | Monday night and in all likelihood introduced from the ring. O'Brien has his many admirers who think and firmly believe he will pin Ebbets to the canvas. They point out with pride that Ebbets continual- ly requested postponements for this fight in which they contend was only a polite way of trying to ease h way out of the match. Ebbets, how- cver, refutes this claim by saying | that his hand was injured in the last | fight and he wanted ample time for it to heal. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Chicago—Earl Mastro, Ch { outpointed Johnny Rosen, New York 3). Marry Dublingky, Chicago, knocked out Jimmy Maloney, Scran- ton, P (1). Tony nders, Ch - Al Conway, Philadelphia (5). Forth Thomas. K. Tambright, Cincinnati, o4 Planchard, St. Paul, Vincent won over 10). 1 . Danville, TIL—Happy Atherton, Indianapolis, shaded Jimmy Savers, Lafayette, Ind.. (10). Jackie Purv Tndianapolis, draw (S). Winnipeg—Charlie Belanger, Win- hnically knocked out Harry Winnipeg (10) for Canadian Dillon, | 11ght heavyweight title, Kansas City —Spider sas City, defeated Dave Cook, Scran- ton, Pa., (10); Imey Garfinkle, Salt Lake City, knocked out Jack Den- Canada. (7). Joe Trabon, Kan- #as City, knocked out Joe Gred, New York, (S). Kelly, Kan- Californin ankie (10). Joe Gardina, Hazlewood, Pa. Tommy Armour Decides To Enter Tournament w York, April 20 (® — Gene I‘nv\n.y will 1 Miami tonight and rrive in N York Sunday morn- ing, according to word received by P'romoter Tex Rickard., After spend- ing a few days in New York at- tending to busine £ 1o Specy or; N, Y. to Tom Heensy in July. The champion has kept zood condition during the win 5| | has dealt kindly and Kid Yokun, Cham- | matters, Tunney | himself | L] 7@ OLYMPIC /oo METER. RIGHT CHARLEY PADDOCK Won it in 19201 wn peat in 1928? a-r Archie Hahn in 1906 won the time, accomplishing the unique feat cate, Hahn is now assistant track team. 100-Meter Champions Olympic 100-meter champions and | their times: 1896—Burke, 1. 1900—Jarvis, U 1904—Hahn, U. S. 1906—Hahn, U. 8. :11 1.5 190S—Walker, S. Africa 1912—Craig. 1. 1920—Paddock, 1924—Abrahams, (x) Equals Olympic in 1912 in preliminar Lippincott, America, 110 2.5, by Paddock. (BY ALAN J. GOULD) (Associated Press Sports Editor) New York, April 20 (A—Charley Paddock will attempt this year to accomplish a feat only one other athlete has ever achieved—win the i classic Olympic 100-mcter dash for the second time. More than a score of years ago Archie Hahn, ecrack Amcrican sprinter and no rclation to the pres- ent distance running Lloyd Hahn, registered a dual triumph but only two years separated his victories at St. Louis in 1904 and Athens in 1906, It was cight years ago that Pad- dock leaped into the tape first at Antwerp, a foot ahead of his fellow Californian, Morris Kirksey. I“our years latter the stocky blond flier ran no better than fifth in the meters at Paris but he came v an eyelash of beating Jackson Scholz for the 200-meter champlonship in a hair-raising duel on the Colombes track. Now Paddock s getting in for his third Olympic venture, along with his old rival Scholz. The life of most sprint aces is short hut age ith these veterans, both counted upon heavily in plans designed to bring back to the United States the 100-meter laurels that now belong to England. Sprinting supremacy is one of the ! things Uncle® Sam has most when it comes competition. It was a shock, there- fore, to Yankee pride when the rangy Harold Abrahams, Cambridg: | University star, galloped in ahead of Scholz, Bowman, Paddock and Mur- chison at Paris four years ago. | Now out of competition, Abra- hams will be at Amsterdam only in i1 110 4.8 1 110 3-5 x record, heat by ‘World | | | ithin | trim o tion to Lioyd Hahn, distance running acc of the present United States made. | 100 | cherished | to Olympie | DASH LEFT ARCHIE» HAHN Only Man Everto Win it 'Twice.. OUT FOR PRACTICE Falcons, Red Sox and Kensington To Stage Workouts New Britain baseball clubs will begin carnest work for the coming season tomorrow and Sunday after- | noons. Tho Falcons and the Corbin Red Sox will be out tomorrow in {full force to get going for & busy and hard year while All-Kensing: |ton will stage its second workout at the Percival Avenue grounds Sunday afternoon. Managers of the three teams have issued invitations to all baseball | players in and around this city to attend the workouts and show their wares. Facing a hard campaigr through the coming summer months, they have all expressed the | determination to pick the best ma- terial available. For this reason, they all insist that every place on their teams is open to all candidat 2nd those who show the best stuff will be picked for the berths on the | | nines. | The Falcons will do thelr stuff at | St. Mary's feld Saturday and Sun- | day afternoons. Coach Ray Begley {will direct the work on the field while Manager John Cabay will | watch the performers from the | | sidelines. Manager Cabay is busily | engaged on a schedule for the com- | |ing year and with his team almost | |certain to ba entered in the Con- | nectieut State league, the elub faces | a strenuous season. The Red Sox will occupy Diamond (No. 1 at Willow Brook park Sun- day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Manager John Tobin expects to have some- thing definite to report on his plans i for the coming scason during the |early part of next week. All-Kensington will work out | Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Percival Avenue grounds. A large squad of candidates is expected out and Manager FEddie Moore will have an opportunity to watch the futuroe members of his team go through | their paces. The weather isn't very propitious for bascball practice but hopes are being expressed that it will warm up before Sunday. If the coolness prevails, very little active work will |be Indulged in but if a warm day develops more than one prospective I player will get his real first sweat {ot the season. “Olympic Hundred" Paddock this ye ach at Princeton. for the second hopes to dupli- He is no rela- | { PLAY FOR TITLE Francis T. Hunter and George Lott, | Jr., Continue Play in Mason and Dixon Towrney. | White Sulphur Springs, April 20 (P+—Francis T. Hunter, and | George Lott, jr., yesterday continued on in fthe semi-finals of the eighth |oamat ason. st Bucon wieet | PAYNE STILL LEADS tournament and meet today for the | championship. | | Loti defeated John Doeg of Cali- Oklahoma Youth Again Tops Heap fornia, 6-4. 6-1, 6-4. Hunter bested | Frank Shiclds, national junior champion, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1, §-7, 6-1. Mrs. Bernard F. ‘Stenz of New | York and Miss Alice Francis of | Joplin, Mo, South Orange won ‘the women's| After a day doubles champlonship, vanquishing ' d Mrs. Stokes Weaver and Mrs. De- | from favorites, Andrew Forest Candee of New York, 3-6,|OKlahoma youth, again led the Pyle d In the semi-final singles cross-country runners foday as they d. thése same two players left Joplin for Miller, 35 miles east. zathered in the honors, and will| Payne, although finishing in a meet fomorrow i the final. Mra. | tie for seventh place yesterday, sub- Candee, 6-1, |stantially increased his s bested Mrs. fover Peter Cavuzzi of Southampton, { Fng., who came in 21st. — | The lap was won by John Gober, SPEEDBOYS PRACTICE { Moherly, Mo., who covered the 40 | Speedboy eball team | miles from Miami, Okla., in will practice Saturday afternoon at| The five leaders and their clapsed 2 o'clock. The coach of the squad |time: will be on hand this week 5o all | Andrew Payne, Clarcmore, candidates are asked to report. | 204:16:18, Lvery position on the team s open Peter Gavuzad, !and anyon: wishing to try out is in- | England, 40, vited to aftend the workout. ¥or| John Salo, Passaic, N. J.. §26:30:- zames address D, Lynch, 72 Black |3 Rock avenue, | W. Vag of Contestants in Cross-Country Bunion Derhy. April 20 upsets, ey of in which Okla., Southampton, d Gardner, Scattle, 833:67:29. two | last seven y | race most. distance running history. not a shouting youngster, not an or- dinary onlooker critic throng lining the course that failed | to feel a tingling thrill as Joic jogged down the long trail to the finish. } £ MARATHON AT AMSTERDAN Twenty Years Have Passed Since Runners From This Country Have Taken Olympic Event — DeMar. Henigan and Ray Cause Chance of Victory to Flare Up — Boston Veteran Outdistances Greatest Field Ever Assembled Against Him—Joie Optimistic. Boston, April 20 (®—The. Kana- kee flier, one-time king of the mil- ers, has passed on and today it's Jogging Joie Ray, the marathoner, nd latest hope of America for the greatest of all Olympic distance run- ning honors. It has been 20 years since the laurel wreath that goes with Olym- pic marathon victory has been perc h ed on the brow of an Today there are three Yankee sia firmament, where only one secure place previously, and hopes of conquest this summer at Amster- dam are flaring up. There has never heen much doubt about the cor ence H. Den thon runne ‘ver question existed s wiped out by his record- smashing victory yesterday in the 31st annual classic of tI Joston Athletic association. Beat Great Field Spread-ca®ling his field, the great- est ever embled for the historic event, Lemar clipped more than thr minutes from his own course record. scored his sixth trinmph since 1911, gained the national championship along with it, and clinched his place on the Olympic team for 1925 heyond the palest shadow of a doubt. But somehow or other this was ex- peeted of Demar. The lean, bright- eyed little typesetter of Melrose has won this gruelling jaunt from Hop- kinton to Boston five times in the rs. He has done about that could be asked of this course except turn a few handsprings, These hills and dales are his precincts and his pounding feet scem to subdue them with miraculous as well as ridicu- lous ease. So it was that the surprise of the was smiling Jimmy Henigan of Dorchester who galloped up to sccond place with a whirlwind fin- ish, and the sensation was gallant little Joie Ray, terrific handicap of blistered, torn and bleeding feet to place third in the first marathon of his long career. Exciting Finish Ray's finish will rank among the pulse-quickening and vivid of There was ou held a everything Jum on nor a hardened in that vast, densely packed Here was an athlete of 32 after {18 years of competition at compar- anding | n the distance running | | who overcame the | | There are others, su:] I did it today, I will do better the next time and I'm there to stick, | “Glve me another month of train- ing and I tan break the reeord that mar made today. I was less than five minutes behind him today. I'll {Tun next month in the Long Beach | marathon from New York and I'l be over there running in the Olym- | pics. Masbo T'll win and maybe I won't but I'll give 'em a race. This was the old chesty Jole, con- fident and himself again, cven §f a bit drawn and haggard. Krom an athlete wio had just accomplished one of tle most amazing feats of endurance on record it didn’t sound boastful. 1t is as if Jole has found luimself again, and come back with a Lew ambidon. That ambition is to wind up lis career with an Olympic victory. “You krow," he said, “I have gone over therc twice and failed. I have won a lot of races but never an Olympic championship. That's tho onc thing I want to do. I think [ can do it. It he car harden his feet to this road-racing game after some 1S years on tie cinder paths and the boards, Joiz may come through at Amsterdam. His effortless stride is ideal for the marathon gait though no more cff:ctive perhaps than the choppy strices of Demar, the *old master.”” 1In his first race over this historic Boson course, Ray cam»s within about a minute and & halt of Demar's dd record. Demar set the new marc at 2:37:07 4.5, Hen- igan finished in 3: ‘1 and Ray in 2:41:06 4.5 Olynpic lrflln Ray and Denar, as well as Hen- igan, now seem virtually assured of Olympic berths as a result of their great performaices hera but all are anxious for mon competition. Joie and Clarence bot are booked in the Long Beach, N. Y., marathon Mav 19. It may be a dfferent story thers for the route out »n Long Island will be over a flat ceurse that will be | better suited to Fay's style than the Lills and dales hire. Demar says he may retire aftcr this year's campiigning and the Olympics and not compets in tha 1329 Boston marsghon but thos: Wwho know the veteran 4o not think he will quit as lorg s he feels ho can stay up with tye pack. Tor the time-belig, at least, Dc- mar tops the list aid composes a new big three with Eenigan and Ra:. as J. K. Mul- lan and Willlam Wikon, both of th: Meadowbrook club, Philadelph horses took lap honors away Payne, standing atively short distances, the eight- | newcomers to the tor fiight who fin- times American mile champion, | ished fourth and seventh, yesterdsy, tackling the most difficult test of |sandwiching the two veterans Hai- his carcer. Here was a forlorn, al- [vey Frick of New York and Carl most tottering little bundle of run-|Linder of Quincy, an old campaig:- ning machinery, moving ahcad on‘er But the main hopes appear fo sheer nerve and erit. His eyes half|Test with the old muater, smiling closed, lips tightly pressed and his|Jimmy and Chesty Joe. feet burning from those last few tor-| Demar has been joggng these hill4 turing miles. His ears were deaf to | for about a quarter.céitury, Heui- the clamor that grected him. He gan, not heretofore at his best Lr- lunged slightly at the tape and then!yond 15 miles, has beex running 1 collapsed. | vears while Ray, the youngster o Had he tackled téo much? Had | the trio, has been on the tracks sin: Ihe done the seeming impossible but (1910, over-taxed that great little running | { machine? Not if you ask Jole and | it was not more than an hour after | Winnipeg, Man., Ajril 20 (P his desperate finish that he was Charlie Belanger of Wirnipeg won {ready to tell the world he was just the light heavyweight champlonshin ‘bn;!mmmz to run. of Canada last night when ho “Too much for me? T should say |stopped Harry Dillon of Winnipeg in | rot. My feet are sore, but that's to the tenth round of a ten reund bout, be expected. They haven't been con- ' The referes halted the bout te sava ditioned for this kind of stuff. But Dillon from further purishment. WINS CANADIAN TITLE. How To Start the Day Wrong SORRY MR, LWING § Tor ONLY Ten i i GSTONE ) eLoors < -l Do | the role of “non-playing” captain of | | the British track team bnt America will do well to he epared for some unexpected threat. ! Tt seems, as the pages | ple history are reviewed, pprinting meteor hae usually come rom nowhere to harass the con- centrated speed of Uncle Sam's hoy American sprinters have alway outnumbered their f but not ways outrun them. Snch was the case' in 1908 when Walker, South African flash, upset the Yankes favorites in the 100-meter final at London, among them great Jimmy Rector and mell, intercollegiate champion. “Walker beat the gun,”” Lawson Roberteon, Olympic head coach, re- calls, “but he ran a great race and ved to win anyway. his jump at the start he was caught halfway by Rector, our big star, but Jimmy was unable to keep it up and Walker fought his way to the | final heat. Abrahams, the British won the “100” éfour vears such sensational fashion, benefit of a perfect start finalheat. “He was as nervous as a kitten and just about to k" when the gun barked”” Robertson “Another fraction of he would have made a but as it was he of Olym- ace ago got in who in the the cond and false s | PRESIDENT 20 4 3 Jonn | was re-clected | National Hors at its anx November 8 the fime show this vear. intee Bowman president of the Show association meeting yesterday. 14 was chosen | association’s horse the | the | te Cart- | In spite of | recalls, | that some | al- | [REACHING Thm |EIGHTH LANDING 1 to for the ! AsBour 'rus THIRD FLOOR By BRIGGS THE LANGUACE USED 1n mv e WAS SIMPLY DREADFUL | SHAL MOT STAY HiERE ANOHER MINUTE ! 'm USED p wWoRKING FOR ANP WITH GENTLEMEN'