New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 8

FRIDAY WAS GREAT DAY OF OLD TYRUS COBB—WALTER JOHNSON RECOVERING FROM ILLNESS—CONN. A. A. U. MAY BE SUSPENDED BY NATIONAL BODY—AMERICAN DAVIS CUP PLAYERS TO MEET CHINESE NEXT—OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST TY COBB HERO OF DAY WHEN HE HIMSELF BEATS YANKEES Veteran Qutfielder of Athletics Hits Twice and Knocks in Two Runs, Defeating Champs, 2-1 — Cincinnati Trims Cubs—Red Sox Win From Senators—Other Games in the Big Show Friday. iy the United Press ST. LOUIS Yesterday’s hero: Ty Cobb, the x AB R voteran outfielder, who displayed to : the champion New York Yankees i that he was far from through as one of tw game's great figures, He hit saicly twice and both times the hits figured in the two runs that gave the Philadelphia Athletics a 2 to 1 victory over the Yankees, the! A’s first victory of the scason, Cobb igled In the sixth. His triple in| o 2 n“:’lh w“‘»‘ followed h", 1"“1 x—Batted for Prnnnhx{ in 8th, Speaker's sacrifice that enabled| ((_paved for Ogden in 8th. Cobb to score. | T 000 While Earl Whitehill held the Louis Browns to four ts his team mates batted out a 3 to 0 victory. Easterling got his third home run in as many days. McMan so hit a home run. The §t. Louis Cardinals mads seven consecutive base hits after fwo were out in the seventh inning and piled up five runs, enabling | o them to defeat the Pittsburgh Pi- rates, 6 to 2. Grimes was in the box U when the Cardinals started thei hitting rampage. Exceliont, relief pitching by Ru Ehrhardt enabled the Brookly Dodgers to win from Philadelphia, S to 6. Eppa Jeppa Rixey held the hard hitting Chicago Cubs to four hits and Cincinnati won, & to 0. Hack | ufer ™) Wilson and Kikl Cuyler, the heavy | Wilson, ct hitting member of the Cubs outficld, | Stephenson, 1t was held hitless. | Hariaete, Although Washington touched | I'utler, 3b Danny MacFayden for four runs in one inning and Goose Goslin got his third home run of the season the RBoston Red Sox won, 6-5. Al Thomas held the Cleveland In- 9 o mosasemmey ales loss Totals 31 : runa- g Losing pitcher cGownn, Van Grafl National League CINCINNATI AB S al ocnunouann® {ih s s ] (e o S sl ecscscosessny ;]@fi=3ufl-’-u—|a“3 Uleow Bl s e aloo ted for Root in Tth. o |Compagnone ... 1 [ o [perintendent Dwight 3 'the size eof the score made it look NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928 BOYS' CLUBOPENS | JERSEY IN VOLLEY BALL PLAY Andersons and Compagnones Take Initial League Games - Volley Ball Standing Won Lost Anderson ...... 1 0 PC. 1.000 1.000 G o D 1 2000 Skinner ........ 0 1 2000 Teams captained by Ray Anderson and “Red” Compagnone won hard- fought matches in the opening night of play in the “Boys’ club senior volley ball league, taking two out of three wins from the teams of Su- Skinner and { Nick Gill, respectively. The Skin- | ners managed to skin the physical | director's crew in the first game and las if they would continue, but then ! Anderson led his men In a comeback which took the next two games and | the match. The lincups and scores: Andersons—Ray Anderson, capt; M. Paluch, A Andrews, R. Nappi, A. | Kobela., E. Koveleski. Skinners=<D. Skinner, Grusha, A. Nebala, A. Sartinsky, M. Markavich. Anderson .........- ¢ 15 16 capt; W. RUNNING FOR TITLE BOLUT, S56:500000800002 3 o BASEBALL CLUBS PLAN TO START SERIOUS PRACTICE Falcons to Work Qut at St. Mary’s Ficld Today and To- morrow—Corbin Red Sox Go Through Paces Sun- day Afternoon at Willow Brook Park — Large Squad of Candidates Expected at Percival Avenue @rounds in Kensington—Warm Weather Promised. Serlous work will be undertaken today and tomorrow by local base- [iRANT'aAM IlE DS ball clubs in preparation for the “ | coming season. The Falcons, Corbin I\AL F | i1¢d Sox and Kensington teams ar: \ | preparing to put squads of candi- S | dates through their paces cither to- g . day and tomorrow and {if warhm Pirate Steps o Fiont in Bat- weather prevails, real hard work iy ‘in store for the players who are anoy ting Honors sceking to make the teams. } All three clubs have tentative plans made to start their campaign cither the last week in April or the first woek in May and because of th little time left, st drills must be the order of the day for the remain- » ing practice scssions. The managers an AVCrARC of (i, clubs aro determined to get Eare ot l..',:f-"“l) "l‘l’i:;oun the best material available and vl i ots thpe | for that reason, ecvery man who y makes any ono of the teams will have to fight hard to make the New York, April 21 (P —The tirst eight days Ay the Nutional baseball leas 3 it ham of the I’ of the battin, of .579 for five Urban of b figure, but ¢a list - average ar. Grantham's average piled through making is sscecss02200m mlonsssoss : Skinner ..... .15 8 9| easy win over the Compagnone-led team in the first game, but here again a reversal of form was re- sponsible for the carly loser taking the match. Gill's men offered stubborn resistance, but the Com- pagnones edged them out in the second and third contests. The line-ups and scores: Compagnones — J. Compagnone, | pt; J. Kiey, A. Garro, & Zembrow- i ski, 8. Capodice, J. Winters. Gills—N. Gill, capt: A. Benjamin, J. Boukus, 8. Markowitz, J. Parpar- ian, H. Schmarr, L. Olewntk. Compagnone ......... 8 Gill : 15 10 10 Next week Compagnone will play Anderson and Gill will meet Skin- Gill and his gang scored quite an | 18 15! ew York state, perhaps to a much New Jersey. That famous scenc with Rickard at he wowld have no chance of wii:ning. New York, April 21 (Ml'“l‘l Tunney h: 't fought in his native state of Nkw York since he ""‘;’"""‘“) Rickard never had let himself be out Tom Gibbons in 12 rounds in j forced into a losing deal and unless than fire.* ¢ of the | JAPANZSE HINE'S T0UR ¢ in northern Inset left is Tunney w York Athletic Controversy Involving this “etegnal triangle” may result in sending the next heavyweight flight ont of bigger 1928 edition of DBoyle’s Thirty Acres somew of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight is shown above, Izht, while below appears Willlam Muldoon, 81-year-old Commission, which has declared Demn:ey will not be allowed to fight Tunney in New York state because 1 three doubles in nincteen ofic Pirate intleld Frankic shares honors with Grantham. nal inficider not only led in runs batted in, with eight, but tied for the lead in home runs and steals.| Andrew Cohen, the widely advertis- | ed Jewish second hoscman of the| | Giants, w close second in serd-| ing runners across the plate. His total was seven. | Veteran pitchers are not supposed | to strike their best gait until long after preliminary gestures are over | in the championship season but Grover Cleveland Alexander, start ing his elghteenth National league icampaign, took the play away from | offensive The Cardi- | ters throug stiff maneouvers, It is expected that this week-end will see ths cream of baseball talent out in this . The Falcons start off this afternoon and Coach Ray Begley is prepared to put the play- Tho Corbins Red Sox start tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock on Diamnd No. 1 at Willow Brook park. The All-Kensington team also is sched- uled to work out tomorrow after. noon at 2 ‘clock at the Percival ave. |nue grounds fn Kensington. All three teams have home play- ing surfaces this year. The Falcons, as they have for several years, will use St. Mary's field; the Red Sox | will most probably be given permti- sion to use Willow Brook park, while Kensington has its own lot dians helpless while the Chicago White Sox were hitling three In- dian pitchers hard and the Sox won 11 to 1. - Cleveland was unable to score until the ninth inning. American League atted for Kelly in 8th. 00 il 0 021 003—6 down by the Paper Goods Co, plan'. Definite information on the cours: to be taken by the teams with re. his nineticth major le: shut-out |gard to cntrance into leagues or lin his firs ed the Cubs [opening games and other contests For Serics of Games With Ameri- {to o ten inning shad ; scheduled, will probably be forth- g 2, in his second. coming early next week. Until somo can College Teams. Larry Benton line can be had on the makeup o oy P St A of o T v Vance |the clubs, the managements are un- “:l;\‘"k,‘;‘.’[y ;‘n‘;’l’m,""pu‘:‘. rhe Kelo | ot the Tobins for the lead in |able to start booking games, {games won and lost with two victer- | the Japanese championship last fai], |Sames won an | 5 4 P | and no defeats. Twelve| ; ; g e : e enieg |ies each - Out of Rock—WHll Tie Second To, 125 S31ed (o8 ACricn IO & Mos |other National Ieagie hoxmen cach |Soccer T‘,’?ms to Meet At Willow Brook Park lof the United States. f.cnrw!‘nnn: \I‘Nm'y without a loss. 1% The team will go direct to San|In the matter of home runs, the! Cheney Bros. soccer team of Sout's West Point, N. Y., April 21— prancisco from Japan and will | National league showed Manchester will oppose the Ger West Point, near to Storm King. [play Pacific coast universities first. |(9mporarily at least, to mania secoer tolub i AL Lithis (N L Scar Mountain and other solld Tock Dper sames are fontatively ar | TiSch. rank O'Doul of the Giants | willow Brook park Sunday _aficr- eminences, is being shaken by the|rangeq as follows: {#nd Tarl Webh of the Cubs tied for ingon at 2:30 o'clock with Wilson blast of dynamite and out of its| May 8, University of Tlinols; 13, |!h2 1°ad. each with threo clreuit | Faulkner of Hartford a the roi- rock is being carved a polo field Akron College; 14, Georgetown eree. . i A 2 that, will be second to none. | University; 20, Brunswick College: | AlTS2 ! o This will mark the first appear- :l‘-’wxm‘\:li:‘\r;ly! ':y. ::?":)::‘:rl«:;:'l” 10" | stubborn—and probably will be this| “rcive tons of dynamite are be- 5 arvar l‘ng'crs\n)“l 24 New IS0 fiod with Frisch in base stealing |ance of the Silk Town team raie tempts to “clean up its own dirty | UM Jgay INE used n tearing out the field for | York University; 28, Yale Unver- Wi fW0 steals each first of the league games. Entered it 921 {ha wuse of cadets of the United giy: 31, Fordham Universi s |the circutt are the Hartford Srandi. | 1 54 | The refuge of Rickard {n nen. it naroie (PN JOtSeY g ates Afier o meoting of Connectlcut | NA8 "Across the piver” in Jersty gates military academy. Top &oil | june' 3, Buffalo Univers A. C., British American team, Celtirs June of 1925 ht‘{orv“ he won 'heyDt-mpnoy loeat oome back bria biE IIICLUDES EAST AHD ‘VEST heavyweight championshtp. Indi- | prrcBiey Tome SOTC BAEE 6 nt the catlons now are tHat some. other! o icioiore may have to wait sgate-—perhaps New JerseV—will somo time to hear who In going to Kelo University Baseball Team Sails 24t the champion's next big bout. {petie e 8 BT O where, The reason is the latest outbreak of a year-in-year-out cenflict be- e tween Tex Rickard, who has aj GET NEW Po[;o FIELD monopoly of Tunney's scrvices, and ot York state. athlotlc com- | mission, in which the S1.year-old Playing Surface Is Being Blasted IS FAVORING SUSPENSION | winiam atvsaoon o o movine mirk. | th rest of the ficld young and old. Alex got cven break i his first two but he pite ner. The first round will be con- | cluded on May 3, when Gl and Anderson will play and Skinner | {will oppose Coffipagnone. This is the third year of volley ball at the club, and it looks as if the succe of previous seasons will be equalled. | Walker, Purdy. —Root. i Magee o 3 , Red PHILADELPHIA AB R Rottomley, 1b Hafoy, rf o Farrell, oette Theveno! | Halnes, p! Blshop, th Cobb, 1t i Speaker, of ... Haueer, 1b ... b Muldoon version of how the business of prize | fighting should be run and the pro- | motional theortes of Mr. Rickard which place all the stress on cold cash, simply don’t mix, and the re- sultant clash has thrown at least avyweight. title bouts to The commission: has 3 [P ) lowmes s352002237 None. alosoommmnm Not Satisfied | Totals 4 With st National Body “AB Results of Boxing In- t G n 0 0 0 0 1 1 ss5:22001 3 o 4 Sl cse bar X cm~ow®Eaw Gle 3 N (emecesct vestigation Totals NEW YOIK AB ik | New Haven, Conn., April 21 (UP) | —The Connecticut A. A. U. faced S inantasr st mlalh S Senees Comba, cf Koenlg, es Ruth, rf ... Gehrlg, 1b Rarnhart, n and Max Carey of Brook- Goorh, € ... Grimen, p . Rrame, b . s Bl hunsamansy wloecs Rlommsnesuow locwss Totals St. Louts . Fitrshureh Twn hase hit—Grantham. iam. Losing pitcher—Grimes. U Starke, Quigley and Pfirman, Time corcuoomonax los0m S losuuansssnsy > sttt _ [ City and he may cross the Hudson amateur officlals which 1astcd wmey | AFn In 1928 to bulld another sta- B e . e o ere Bresidont | Alum porhaps more permanent than the wooden one erected for the will be transported by ‘ruck a dis- University of Chicago. tance of seven miles. “use of government equipment the|of Texas, and will return to | The Keio team also will play the It is estimated that without the ypiversity of Ohio and University the of Manchester, Swedish A. C. of New Britain, Cheney Bros., and Ge.: - manta club of this city. Both team: to meet Sunday are well up in th: KEEPS STAGG FIT Dally Tennis or Running Helps Vet- Murray Hulbert, declared he would | demand the Conneeticut amateur ; | sports body be suspended until a re- lorganization can take place, “I have no doubt Hulbert will| act” Ferris sald, “as T have incon- | [trovertible cvidence that there is { commerctalism in Connecticut's am ateur boxing. Before the evening was half over, I'd made up my mind that the Connecticut A. A. houl1 be suspended.” BESING ROZKNE SYSTEM 3—Batted for Pipgra Fhitadelphia 5 New York . Two hase hits—Turocher base hit—Colb. Losing pit Tmplres— Owerns, o Time—1:50. Carpentier fight of July, nd since torn down. Word out alrecady that northern y is being combed for such a site, and some Jersey swamp owner bofore long may find he has “struck oil." Ricka previonsly planned to use a New York ball park. A recent bouts legal ored that state to Ric possible alternative site years in which Penn cost of the ficld would probably eran Grid Coach To Stay Physi- |standing. GOIN’ FISHIN"? WE HAVE THE TACKLE COME IN TODAY. ECONON X west by the middle of June to fin- have run to $200,000, twice as much jgn the schedule with the Univer-| a8 the actual estimate. So far the ity of California, Southern Cali- stumps of the recent forest, 60“'”"- fornta, Stanford and several Jap-| ing have been blown out and lev-|qyoco 'teams, ey S @ P2MS, |70 Stags, r-old gridiron mas- | cling of the’ first rock ledge 15 10| 7o visitors will leave San Fran- | {o. ay ‘;’)‘;' i | DIOBICES, lcisco by the end of June and Will' go i physically fit at an age when | |stop over at Hawaii for a month. ;o susn prew 6i and sither; Be- | returning to Yokohama August S. icause he belicves in keeping in strict | = | physical trim, | HITS 'EM AT 82 {86 pany mico: Leominster, Mass., April 21 @ — | 1. vear, he pl Although Lucius M. Cook s 82 runp years old, he recently returned to, an BROOK! ¥ 1001 AR Thre Ler—Moore. cally in Trim. Chicago, April 21 (P—Amos Alon- | ] 1 5 4 0 3 1 3 Flagstead, cf . Rogell, 83 3 . : K. Whillams, 1¢ . Regan, 2h Taltt, Rothi deeision | ersey has rd as a ter several :}Hd Rochester, N. Y., April 21 () — Vic Keen, a product of the Univer- | sity of Maryland and now with the ! Rochester Red Wings, shows his clation over winning ball games | Ehrhardt, p oo loscesusunonzg eight months of | sk game of , o :cwuma:unu—g Ziruonmsocamay Z el comsunonmong 1 3 five blocks | sc00cos0mmamaD 1 ot Miller in or Willoughhy in Sth 030 0a—§ 3 any Tisson- pitcher Gallagher. stopped Wil Mat- Baltimore, (4). on—-Sergeant Sammy Baker York, defeated Clyds Hull, | gonth Dakota, (10) Drenver Webster, Billings. knocked out (1). Tony knocked out (3). Dave deteated irlle Long, Rock Tsland, Los Angeles, Tnd, won, land, Popp, Terre Haute, Pal Shoaf (6). Hollywood—Bert Colima. Whit- fer, Cal. won by technical kno over Lew Chester, Pennsylvan Phalen, Omaha. from Erwin Bige, Omaha. Jimmy Ryan, Des Moines, d¢ Mickey Durane, Omaha, (8) Francisco—*Miget" Mik. Columbus, Ohio, defrated Willie Gordon, Portland «ny tar ids, Towa—Trish Ken Paul, defe Joe Rivers, tapids, (10). Joe Thomas Doug McGee, Chicago, nedy. St. won over () Sin Diego-—Raymond Montoy San Diego, and Flash Hastings, N braska, drew, (10). Tumpa—Joe Dundee, welter ceight champion, knocked out Jim Moran, (9). Rufino Al ish light heavyweight nocked out Adrian Van Bolen (2) Savannah—Mike Mar Ro- Lucas, Detroif. Yaqui Gold- -y Urquidi. out Phil Cleveland, (%) Illinois instead got the 'more than any other pitcher in the the Frequently he runs wl 3335023320 {Notre Dame Mentor's Style of Coaching Has Been Adopted By St. Louls U. Leaders. £t. Louis, April 21 (®—The Rock- ne system of foothall coaching and play has spread to new fields with the Hartley (“Hunk") assistant, Charles | hi Walsh, former {Dame end, to handle the football | destin . Louis university. Enroll : Dame in 1918, Anderson . am at guard |his first year and was graduated !from thw Trish Coach Rockne made tant in 2 served as an aid to the mentor until aceepting signing of and his s of is ney © GOCH NEVER STARRED Henry schulte, Selected As Mem- | ber of Olympic Team Mentors, Never Performed on Track, Lincoln, Neb., April 21 (B—Track Coach Henry . (“Indian™) Schulte of the University of Nebraska, we. lected as one of the mentors of the 1925 U. S Olympic team, never per- ormed on the cinder path. To his coaching credit, however, ire many past Olympic performers 8. There was the great Robert Simp- son, who revolutionized hurdling t world marks which only re- have bheen bettered. Jack- <on Schol than a decad a still among the learned the art of sprinting - Schulte’s Girection. And now Roland Locke, holder of world's furlong record of 20.5 conds, and Fait Elkins, American 1 lon champlon and rccord holder. ! PRODUCES CARDS A Monrog, La. April 21 (B — The little city of Madison, Ind, is good hunting Bround for the St Louis Cardinals and its various farms Tommy Thevenow was the first to come from there. hen Bob row, catcher. And now Clements Hassfurder, Rochester Herbert | D ADS Notre | »d marvel for more | Mor- | pitcher with | In 1921 when Ricltard was bring- ing Dempsey and to- gether the trouble with the commis- sion a matter of “tops.” The commission \insisted $2 should bhe the highest price charged for al seat. Rickard held he v a $50 top. game. With the Cards, after throw- ing the last ball of & winning game, he made a practice of hugging Lob O'Farrell right before the fans, | {then standing for a pri | with his $1,600.000 re { “hattle of the centu Again in 1926 the commission and | Ric i clashed, the august body | holding that Tunney was too light| and not a fit opponent for the cham- | { pion, and refusing Dempsey li- cenge on the gronnds he shonld meet | Harry Wills first. The fight went | to Philadelphia. . | More recently in 1927, the matter | | of tops switched the Dempsey-Tun- { ney return fray fo Chicago. Rick- | lard had been allowed to hold the! | Sherkey-Dempscy battle in New | { York and get a 32730 top with the | understanding he shonld go no! higher for the title bout here. Ricik- | ard found he couldn't make ends| meet at that and pulled up stakes for Soldier Ficld. | Now, tn 1928, commission has {ruled that Thunne Dempse | shall not meet in New York state | jon the ground that Dempsey s not !a fit opponent for Tunney. This is the exact reverse of its position two | years ago when Dempsey held the crown. | | Yet many fecl that Dempsey s | |2 whole lot fitter as a contender | than the Heencys, Riskos, and Shar- | | and many a Dempseyite would | | b glad to take the commission up lat appropriate odds if that body's | | declaration means it believes an-| other Tunney-Dempsey fight would | be a aure thing for Tunney. The; {point out that the ol4 “man mauler has knocked out Sharkey who holds Ithe top place in the commission’s | !contender list and that Jack Had | the champion In serious trouble in that seventh round at Chicago. Even if Rickard is not consider- |ing Lringing Dempsey back for this next “big snot”"—and the wise ones cling to the view that he is—the commission is laving ohstacles in the way of the match in New York state Ly threatening Tunney with sus- pension unless he immediately picks an opponent from the motley group | of contenders. Meanwhilo Rickard, serene in the | [ memory of his victories fn most of | | his other clashes with the commis- | <on, i% &0 little worried as to label | 5 latest action “a lot more smoke fight gate ipts for th NOW WiLL - Year - BUTY OCCASIONALLY To get it he went to Boyle's B ak' H To | Thirty Acros and broke all records DFERAKING ome 1i1es REMEMBER ONCE IN A WHILE THAT You HAVE A HOME = CALL US WP {77/ bowling alleys and rolled a three string tota) 361. Al 82.year-old bowlers | motice. 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