New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 9

Speaking of Sports While the lull in sport is on in this city, the weather being just too warm for Indoor attractions and just too chilly for outdoor fun, the young- sters of the town are losing no flmnl in getting into recal form baseball season. i W Duily junior teams for arc staging '® Wworld championship games hetwedn Detroit streets are Chicago d the |Boston . ] 333 t | Philage each team. The Ump meeting the Blah streets tormer is winning through the gr hitting of some youngster whose an- cestors were stalwarts in the nations | &ll over the globe i Wliich reminds us that there has | Leen a wail for a long time from the | thickly populattd centers where the | major baseball league teams have | tielr homes, that there is a scarcity | of sand lot baseball players, | Whether it is because the men s ‘my dircct the destinies of the aajor | leagues cannot sec bevond their | noses or not, is more than we cunl tell but the fact is that there is cer- | tainly no scarcity of sandlotters in | this city, } Take any warm day and walk through any one of the local parks which boast baseball diamonds. Take a stroll or a rid¢ on the outskirts where there is an available lot for a baseball diamond and the future greats of the baseball world can. be seen doing their stuff with all the serionsness of major lcague players making a final drive for the pennant. One question that remains un- answered, for us anyway, is “Where do these youngsters go to when they start to grow up.” Many boys who have showed wonderful promise around the ages of 12 to 14 years, entirely disappear from the field of aport as they start to reach the age | of maturity. i St 'ci Pl In this city, the work of the Ro- tary clubs, the city playgrounds, the Amerlcan Legion, the public amuse- nent commission and several othcr agencles, has kept baseball not only alive but to the forefront and ,.aany 800d players have beea developed in | the intervening year: i But except for one or two isolated | ca these boys pass on and are | heard from no more. Whether it is beeanse they he ambition to become hasat ers or wheth- er it is because v cannot get a ' chanee in faster company as they £row older, is the dilemma that con- |- fronts all those who are interested |y, in the sport. Wo have eften wondered w. With all the facilities for basci that this city offers to its youtbs, that there arc so few who in life become league players. A’ 'Re person can count on his fingers al- most all of the men who have gone out of thic city in recent years into league basehall. Other places don't pay much at- | tention to the development of dia- | wond performers and yet they have | turned oul men who have, in later ! Years, become mome of the forcmost | stars of the game. ! New Britain leads in all lincs of | sport in which the youth of the eity | are inlerestcd but none of them | seem to get so very far along the | paths that lead to fame. ! One good reason for the lack of players beyend a certain age is the high finance of baschall now. Pub- licity given to the highly paid stars of the game has imbued hoys with the fdea that their service is worth | something if they are to play. 1 avs gone by the game w Pplayed for sport's sake, In the pres ent, one doesn’t throw a baseball without expecting & monetary return for the effort expended. Players | cannot be secured on baschall teams now on the basis of splitting evenly | at the end of the year. Therefore, there are very few semi-pro teams or professional teams in this city, | The same holds true almost every. where in this section of the country. Not 50 many years ago several teams were in existence whose players re ceived nothing hut the joy of th game, for playing. Until there s & whole hearted return to this. there will never be much sport in any. thing anymore. | | it M WITH THE BOWLERS Conn. Light & Power Co. Hogan 81 Clark McElho; £trout er, Meriden 93— German Soccer Team Will Play Tomorrow The Germania soccer team of this city will play its first league game .this year at Willow Brook park to- morrow afternoon and the opposi- tion will be furnished by the Cheney Brothers tecam from South Manches- ter. This will be the Silk Town team's first appearance against New Britain on the latter's home grounds. The Chenecy team will appear with its strongest lineup for it realizes it is playing a team which is well up among the leaders in the league. The Kickoff will be at 2:30. Wil- son Faulkner of Hartford will be the referee. 8ince this will be the first opportunity New Britain fans will | have to sce a soccer game this year, a good crowd is expected at the M |G the 'Cleveland {New York . New Brooklyn . “hicago i Boston . | Pittsburgh I Rochester 1 ewark ‘;)Ynlllrnzl! 5ot ! Toronto " | Buffalo ... ol ter on ]gh'! {Hartford IBridgeport +ovn. Springtield Providence By the United Press, {Goslin, Benatol Easterling, Tigers ! Grantham, i !Ken Williams, Ked Sox . {¥risch, Cards . | Wi "Gv National League | American Leagus i 5 ko it Here’s How Home Run By the O'Donl, - | Webb, | Friech, K. Williams, Red So: Goslin, Senators . Easterling, Tigers 5 Goslin, | Easterling, Tigers National League American League Record of What Stars AMERICAN LEAGUER 2. New York 1. Chicago 11, Cleveland 1. Boston ¢ Detroit 3 hington 714 | . Louis ., Games Today Philadelphia at New York. Chicago at Cleveland. Boston at Washington. Detroit at St. Louis, Games Tomorrow Philadelphia at New York Cleveland at St. Louis, Chicago at Detroft. Boston at Washington. AL LEAGUL cs Yestenday St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 6, Chicago 0. Brooklyn §, I'hiladelphia 6, (Other cluls not scheduled), Standing W York " . Louis . 5 pet. | 68T 625 ncinnati . iladelphia . Games Today New York at Boston. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at Chicago. St. Louis at Pittshurgh. Games Tomorrow | St Louls at Cincinnati. Pittsburgh at Chicago. New York at Brooklyn. (Other clubs not scheduled). INTERNATIONAL LEAG Games Yesterday Newark 15, Toronto Montreal 10, Roading 2. Baltimore 9, Buffalo o. Jersey Rochester, (cold), Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 alimors ading rsey City ny ..rookBl (Hfl..60 Games Today ! Rochester at Jersey City | Teronto Newark. i Buffalo at Baltimore, Montreal at Reading. LEAGUE Games Vesterday New Haven 5, Pittsfield 2. Hartford 20, Waterbu 6 Albany 7. Priovidence 5. Bridgeport 12, Springfield 2 i Standing W w Haven tsficht .. 000 Games Today 1 at Waterbury. Alb Providenc Bridzeport at Springfleld. New Haven at Pittefield. Hartfo Games Tomorrow Pittsfield at Hartford. Springfield at Albany. Providence at Bridzeport. New Haven at Waterbury. Home Run Club Homers Yesterday Tigers Pirates ... The 1eade cManus, ebh, Cubs Srn sterling, Tigers .. in, Scnators League Totals Leaders Line Up Today United Pross. Cubs Cardinals .. Yesterday's Homers Kenators ... . cManus, Tigers .. Pirates rantham, . League Totals Total . Did in Friday’s Games By the United Press. Babe Ruth, Yankees—Went hit- less in four times at bat. Lou Gehrig, Yankees—Singled once in four times up. Trir 8peaker, Athletics—His single { the | Few NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928 Baseball Standing RESERVOIR ONCE PIGNIC GRODNDS Shuttle Meadow Had Its Day as Amusement Center Years ago Shuttle Meadow reser- | voir and the outlying territory was onc of the most popular picnic and amusement plades In this part of the state. It was mostly visited by the Bunday school classes, each church taking its turn in holding picnics there, The amuscment center of the rescrvoir was situated on the east side Of the lake and was owned by Robert Dunham. The place wus known as “Lake House and there were two large pavilions. One of the pavilions was mainly for dancing while the other contained a dining room, bowling alleys and pool tables. There was also a large menagerie of animals such as bears, monkeys, parrots and “poisonous” snakes. Be- sides the animals the amusements for the children consisted of flying horses and various types of swings. During the early fall months the pavilions were often used by young men for roller skating und roller polo. It is said that many a blood battle in polo was fought at Wie rink, As s in ta tilled groves e case district of with ne now the ferritory In the tables thick r the woo reservoir | were crected under and around the i trecs, A stunt practiced by many was to walk wround the reservoir a number of times, Strange to say th reservoir was not guarded as strict- Iy then as is the case at the present day. A thing unheard of now, that of fishing and also boating, was al- towed at the lake and hundreds took advantage of the opportunities offer ¢d them as the fishing in the lake was excellent. Doating was also very popular with the older boys and men and the lake was usually crowded. Another feature of the place was a large wooden tower which people climbed to get a clear view of the sur- rounding country. This tower was built when the place was firet open- ed but after about ten years it was ssary to close it to the public ause the stairs became worn and dangerous. Another feature of the place the exciting horseshoe coutests t were held there. Most of the important herseshoe titles (tled at the lake, > House was visited al- entircly by Sunday school from this city. Although number of young men used to visit the the activitics of the Sunday school classes occupicd raost of the schedule, During the week, especial- Iy Wednesday, a Sunday school class most clases a would gather early in the morning ! at its church. Large wooden car- riages, built somewhat along the line of modern motor Luses, were hired to take the children out to the reservolr. These carriages held about 20 and took about 2 1 hours to drive out to the lake. The 10ads were hilly and the hors, were hard put to draw the cumber. | some wagons over the dirt roads. Young couples delighted in hiring buggics and taking a spin to the lake but very seldom took part in the amusemeuts. The couples rode around the reservoir a number of times and then returned home. The Lake House was always considered the children’s paradise and except for its popularity with the childre it would have been a failure, The lake Loomed for about §0 years and then gradually died” out. The opening of Compounce and White Oak were the deciding factors that spelt fts end. A queer thing eoncerning the ervoir was the dangerous conditions in the nearby woods. The woods were literally infested with snakes | and were only a few 100 yards from the amusement houses, Often when the wagons and buggies approached rescrvoir the horses would Jeap in terror as a snake crossed the path people, even recklcss young men, dared to wander fn the nearby woods because of the abundance of snakes. At that time a canal ran from the lake and its sides were lit- erally covered with flowers but it [aleo proved te be thick with snakes. A few adventurous youths used to invade the district of the canal with large clubs to beat off the attacks of the #naiies while picking flowers, However although the snakes were | elos> to the reservoir there was not a single casc of a child being bitten. Many of the younger people of to- day will be surprised to hear that Shuttle Meadow reservoir was once the scene of an amuscment center hecause the place is so strictly guarded at present, Fishing is fore bidden and no one is allowed to throw even a stone into the lake. Traces of the amusement houses have loug since disappeared but many of the city residents will re- member the days they spent at the Teservoir. HIGH PRESSURE G A SN TowN the reservoir was | reservoir. DAYIS GUP STARS 10 TAKE CHINA IN MAY American Playcrs Will Tackle Those From Orient on May : 23, 26 and 37 ! New York, April 21 UP—The members of the Davis cup team that represented the United States in the first round matches In Mexico City will have to prove again their fitness {to carry the banner against China in jthe second round at Kansas City, May 25, 26 and 27. The United States lawn Tennis| assoclation yesterday decreed a new set of trials, to be held at the Triple A club, Bt. Louis, from May 17 to 20. The squad 15 expected to re- vort about May 14 for preliminary practice. Although the invitations will not be sent out until next week, it is probable that the same play- ers who were invited to take part in the first scries of tests are again on the list, and that at least two| of those who were unable to com- | [pete at Augusta will be present at 1 8t, Louis. Francis T. Hunter, doubles part- ner of Captain William T. Tilden, is virtually assured of displacing Wil- mer’ Allison as a member of the | {team it Do decides to take part in| |the second trials. It is unlikely that | Hunter will decline, since these w {be the last«ests held and the quali- | fiers will play in the later rounds igainst Japan and in Europe if they are victorious against China. Another almost certain entrant is Wray Brown of 8t. Louis. John Van Ryn, who was nnable to he at Au- gusta because of his work at Prince- ton and who will be in the midst of his final examinations at the end of May, is the only one of the players who were invited to the Augusta trials who is likely to be missing from the second meries of tests. EASTERLING TOPS ALL IN BATTING| Leads American Leaguers for First Week Chicago, April 21 (P—A 22 year old Detroit rookie, Paul Easterling, is far afront the field in the race for individual batting honors in the American league. 1 Unofficlal statistics, Inclnding Wedneaday's games, show Kastere iling, who is filling Helnie Manush's shoes in the Tiger outfield, in 11 times at bat has made seven hits for 10 bases and an average of 63§, which is 107 percentage pointa! ahove Bob Meusel of the Yankees, who is second. “Columbia 1.0u” Gehrig of the Yankees was third with an average of .470. Other leaders in order of their standings: Joe Bewell, Cleve- | land, .467; Harry McCurdy, Chicago, A4 Rice, Washington, RErH |Bluege, Washington; K. Willlams, Boston; Miller, Philadelphia and Barrett, Chicago, 417 each; Ty “obb, Philadelphia, .412; Langford, Gleveland and Rollings, Boston, .400 cach. Bib Falk of the White Sox was at Bat 12 times but was the only player in the leagne to go hitless. The Yankees resumed their tradi- jtional perch at first place in the jteam batting avcrages with a rec. |ord of .3265, others followed: Phila- | delphia, .275; Chicago, Cleve- land, .273: Washington, .271; De. troit, .260; Boston, .250 and St. Louis .228, In team flelding the Yankees were last. Cleveland was first with an average of -87%. The other teams' averages: Boston, .474; Washington, .473; Chicage and Philadelphia. 96 St. Louis, .959; Detroit, .948 and New York, -947. George Uhle of the Indians had the best pitching record of the first week, winning two games in two | starts and allowing 1% hits, 6 runs, 1 base on balls and holding his op- ponents scoreless for seven innings out of the 18 he hurled. Other pitchers, in the order of their stand- inge, who won their first two starts, were: Shaute, Cleveland; Gray, St. Louis; Marberry and Zachary of Washington. Marberry hasn't al- lowed a base on balls. | It | " . Team Titles at Stake | In College Track Meet Chicago, April 21 P—For the first time in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic association track and field champlonships, a team champion will be determined when the best college athletes of the coun- try compete at Boldier Field June {8 and 9 in the annual mect. In other years, only individual nation- al collegiate champions were named. ‘Winners of the various cvents will automatically qualify for the final Olympic tryouts at Doston late in June. T'OR BEST RESULTS 1 PETE W™ NEw Yo Y RYTHING = O&B‘“‘ e awie. TROLLEY MENAGED BY BUS SERVICE Interurban Cars May Evenmally| Reach Museam Niche I5 the trolley car passing into ob- bLut a number of thos ally to he replaced by routes, change in common with the rest of the state, ve th is doomed, When it first camé trolley ear was hailed as the word in urban passenger transport. | Berlin was faster than more sati car, and safer than the third-rail | tion of the rails, but car, Lines were opened thronghout | company did not f. the state by many small companies, | would be enough busin while posed bt never materi ually about as the small companies fail-1 | satistactorily. A second ubor or were purchased, the Connecticut | posal was that made in 1y0i Co. absorbing many and building up | line what remains as by far the largest | through the “Cat Hol:" pass. system in Connecticut. READ HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS = SO MNE lvion? Will it soon join its imme- | diate ancestor, the cable car, and its grandiather, the horsccar, Jjects suitable only for d museums alongside of other extinet specimens as th great auk, and the bustle There has been a ma in methods of city and inter-urban transportation in C‘onnecticut within | as ob- splay in such lodo, the d change ot only have Leen built, previously in ion have been abandoned, usu- wotor bus New DBritain has seen the nd there are many who or wonder if the trolley the final into use the horse car, ctory than the cable numerous others were pro- lized. Grad- centralization was brought Farmington-Platnville Line vl in those days there were failures. One was the line which ran from Plainville to FFarmington some 80 10 35 ycars ago, There was much business between staid old Farming- ton and the growing little industrics tof Plainville, hoth towns used th same court, and the ride wis pleasant that many took it for pleasure in the summer. So for | while the lin: prospered. Iut evil | days came, business les 1. and inally the rout: was ndon Numereus att mpts wore reopen the line, hut noue was fruit- tul and finally the route, whic then long been known as * of way and two passed definitely when the rails were One of the old never came true was an of this lioe throush New Hartf It was plann the tracks into New rita Connecticut o, | them through Myril the northern «ni somewhat the saune {used by the Hartford bhuss, 7 plication for a charter general assembly. Last Berlin Disappo | Another unrealized schome, 1 jone which had for a time a brig j er outlook, was the plun 1o extend the Connecticut 1y's line to 18 far as Berdin, Rest | dents of the T community peti- | tioned and fought for - made to streaks of the torn up, dre into liniho ums whict extension Britain 4 1o bring rails @ rant such an ling that the * i rom Bor. {lin to Middletown handled traffic Ve pro- for from Kensington to Berlin More recently there commended 80 where bu: of residents and to reach out aleng Shuttle |an actual contraction of the terri- i tory served by trolley. One of the | first lines in this section to pass into | oblivion was that summer's delight, the single-track stretch from Lazy Lane 1o Lake Compounce. At best, this had been a rather poorly oper- ated line, for it was run only dur- ing the warm months and the wire cars barely cnough power to ¢ a loaded car up the grades. But it Was i ostreteh of truck which brought many happy moments to thase bound for the lake, and it still lives vividly in memory. The more lvel route of the Bristol & Plain- ville Eleciric Co. throngh East Bristol finally showed itsilf so much more cconomical that the Lazy Lane line was discontinu ter the Motor Bus The advent of 1he motor hus oe- curred at about this time, and the trolley is still tighting what o be a losing battle type of v During after ty World war the na tover 1 every rails bad never dared te erawl in spite of numerous plans for sion in that direction, 4 The Connecticut Co. itself finally Fecame convinced of the supe: of the bus under certain conditions: and gradually supplanted the Beriim; trolleys with buses. When an al- ternative route to Hartford th Jelvidere was considered, it was the bus and not the trolley car which | was chosen as the medium, and the Isame was true when it was decided! to open a second line to Meriden | through Berlin. The greater flexi- bility of buses, the ease with which they can he rerouted, the eost of inying and maintaining rails, and the greater economy of buses on lines where traffic is not heavy PPears | hav 1 factors in this slowly this | progressing change from one type of | justlvchicle to the other. Half-covered wide strips of metal in many places are e only remnants of once successe ul trolley lines, and the sight of ‘}n‘ noas they lie {n their enforced ain route | Liding leads to the question if thefr e €truck New | still used fellows are to suffer the flivvers and big buses |same fate and pass into rust before all di NS from | the coning of the rubber-tired, in street |mv;x’-mcn:w—dr‘l\‘vn motor coach. nd the |Girl Basketball Star ‘ Scores Point a Minute | Rapidan, Minn, April 21 W— With a scason’s record of 463 points in 418 minutes ®f play, Miss Alleen Just of the Rapidan high seheol girls’ basketball tcam has establish- herself well among the leaders Main street huses but Jid |in scoring for high school girls. terfere with lines operatin Playing on a team that ascored sfreets not served by the trol- |624 points to 224 for its opponents Even in trolley-covered terri- lin the season Just ended, Mins Just tory the buses scored one victory, for [ran up a total of 50 peints in a the Connecticut Co. withdrew its [single game, which her team won cars the Arch street line, [69 to 32. 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