New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 8

f .F i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928, L GEORGE UHLE STILL TO MEET DEFEAT THIS YEAR Scores Third Victory in Box With Browns as His Vic- Seores First Yictory in Two tims — Poor Pitching Causes Senators to Lose to Boston Red Sox by 8 to 5 Score—White Sox Batter Detroit Tigers Into Submission — Pirates Go Into Cellar After Losing to Chicago Cubs. By the Assoclated Press ! George Uhle, great right hander| of the Cleveland Americans, appar- ently has returned to the form that enabled the Indians to give the New York Yankees a n but futile chase for the American league pen- | nant in 1926, | R With the major leagus AB R 1 than two weeks old, Uhle i1 o has turned in his third victory 3 has yet to meet defe 1 Tn 1926 Uhle won 2 2 losing 11 and nearly pitche. 1 to the pennant. The Y H i piled up early in the season o 0 just too n advanta e el = overcome. o h AB R The scason of another story and showed only elght victo: against | 1y nine defeats. He pitched only 10 (i1 5 complete games as comparcd with MeMenus 3 32 the previous year Uhle's third straight triump the present campaign v to 1, over the Brow vesterday. He gave up only si O'Rourke’s double in the cighth giv ing the Browns their one tally. T: ing advantage of all the breaks, the TIndians, leading the league and hop- ing to continue to do so, scored single runs In the fourth and eighth al- though they got only four safeties| g off Blacholder, one of Dan Howley's (hic recruits. Langford, playing the een- | PGS0 iiiice (), Basteriing torfield position graced by Tris| W Sl i Speaker for many years, roamed far Umplres—MoGownn, - Connclly and wide to haul in seven flie. . Ineftective pitching sent the Wash- ington Senators down ‘o defeat, § to 5, at the hands of Boston in the na- tional capital. Tho Senators gave Irving Hadley a three run lead to) ringer, 2b »h of Datted for S Batted for Sorrell in 9th. National League PITTSBURGH { X work on In the first inning but it B O e Ay Marsler. o (G was not enongh. The Red Sox bom- |1 ner, ot ...t )" 0 0|Jacger, 1. 1. 2 3 barded Hadley for five hits and as| 1oz 1M Newity, S many runs in the second inning and | 54 s g NS 0 8 then kept up the offensive a st | 4 2 0lF. Newcity, 1. g. 1 7 his three successors, Van Alystyne, ¢ 1 0 Limberg, 1 g o 0 Burke and “Sad Sam" Jones. Roth- |/ Lo B 80 Bl s rock connected for four singles. Hot- | 11 e T | mann drove in three r(!x;;s 1“"]1‘1 rl 0 % | Personal fouls—Ericson 3, Brad- 5 double and two singles: Charlay Rut-| G ley—4; Marsh, H. Newcity 3—4. fing went the route for the Red Sox CHICAGO 5 |Free tries—Brown, Haigis, Ericson and held the Senators safe after the ¢ ARER J "° A Fl4—6: Marsh, Jaeger 6, H. Newcity, first inning. Max West, fleet Wash- [Tagieh, o3 ... o 2 2 1| Newaty Referee—Aronson. ington fly chaser, hit a home run in- | Masnr IS i 0 ¢l Timer—Parker. Scorer—Brainerd. One player, you often hgard it side the park in the fourth. The Chicago White Sox found| their batting eyes and battered the | [ Detroit Tigers into submission at Wilson P ol 10 13 Detroit, 9 to 3. After two errors by 01 20 Marvin Shea, Tiger catcher, had (0 i given the Sox three runs in the first P B0 S S T B ) inning, “Josh” Billings, Detroit hurl- | Totars . tted for Grantham In 9th. r Gonzales in 8th. 190 100 er, gave them four more, being 100 liberal with his hits in the third. The Pittsburgh Pirates took un- disputed possession of the cellar of the National league, when the howed to the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 2, in the first game of the series at Chicago. Fifty thousand persons, the largest crowd that ever saw s ball game in the Windy City was on hand. The pitching of Percy Jones and the hitting of Riggs Stephenson gave the Cubs the verdict. Jones allowed Dbut five hits. Stephenson! poiains 36 Minute dge Over smashed but three hits and scored | the winning tally in the eighth when | Peter GaVpzzl. i he tripled and came home on & sacriiice fly by Butler. The Pirates | protested that under the ground rules Riggs' hit should have been good for only two bases. Johnny |I'cter Gav of Southampton, | Miljus started and finished for theikng., today as the Pyle cross-coun. Corsairs. He struck out seven men |try runners left here for V but two more than that got hits. ville, Mo, 30 miles away. William Veeck, Cub president, be-| Payne and Gavuzzi finished in a gan a campaign on ticket scalpers. |dead heat for sixth place yesterday HOLDS NARRQY LEAD ! Andrew Payne of Oklahoma Still Conway, Mo, April 23 (UP)— Andrew Payne, Claremore, Okla, still | Id his narrow Z6-minute lead over riod gave the Center Congregational | church basketball team its first vie- ,!tory in two years Saturday night, T1 when it defeated the Bristol Con- grezational church Junior Brother- |in this city. The locals had lost 21 "‘iaz S-S during the first quarter, they lprofited by Halgis' shooting and o went into a 20-16 lead at the half. o Bristol rallicd sharply i the third |which carried New Britain to the yfore again. In the final quarter 9| Bristol managed to get a 35-30 lead o |but this time Ericson came through 0| with the needed points to tle the o |time period barely beat the whistle. |with Marsh and Wiley leading the [Bell City a ed the cffect of long lay-offs, while a slippery floor proved a further handicap. The summary: Center Cong. Church Fld. FL TH. Brown, r. 1. PReEal iy iy lade, T. f. o 0 0 HalEisy 10055, aarhri®y 0 T Lockwood, ¢., L g ... 6 o 0f Ericson, r. g 3 4 10 |Bradley, r. B ..iias 40 OO0 |Brainerd, 1. & .....0 0 o hE /TRACK STARS IN WINNER IN GAME Years on Chalked Court A field goal by Russ Halgis in the t four scconds of an overtime pe- in a closely ontested game at the state armory ames in a row but Saturday, main- through the work of Haigis, they roke their jinx last. Held even d and went to the front at but Bradley led an attack core. Haigis' basket in the over- The work of Haigis, Bradley and cson featured for New Britain, k. Both teams show- RBristol Cong. Church Fld. FL Tt one star ball player with a lot of spirit can do a lot of good for a ball club. | i | said, does not make a ball club, but | | the game, went to the Doston Draves in 1914 and they won a National Gigantic Struggle on or 90! Seosers Tormeny made o pomnant Pl R s mu T wlzu;‘rd otl‘ lh\(: Sl,ybn\ll;‘lfifl:’dl?atlx and led the New York Glants into 4065 00 NEPIESEDIAUTE TEAM (<02 12, 3 o W om M Graw was disabled. He now is with New York, April 23 (—There |the samo Boston Brav have been a few squawks here and| Baseball in 1928 will have no there as the Olympic campaign has gathered headway, but most of them | O1¢—Will another star sccond base- will b2 obscured from now on by |Man make the Braves? the main struggle of the talent, es- It may be sald, of course, that pecially for the 90 places on the | Rudolph, Jaymnes and Tyler did more teacic and Teld Aesim. for the Braves than Evers did i@ When the all-round class of per-|1914 and that Hornshy will have formers in college and club ranks RO such trio of star pitchers to help from coast to const is considered it |him pull the Braves up the ladder. o1 how brisk the con-| But it was pep, spirit, inspiration There are at least ten stars in every specialty out to battle ¢ on the team that| gocs to Amsterdam. The specd and brawn of the mid- dle west will concentrate on Kriday Johnny Evers, onc of the greatest || championship tournament and fi- of all sccond basemen and a hus- tler second to no other player in and Horns he, like Evers, hi Ten were arrested and then reloased [in the 43.1 mile run from Spring- | "o B CHREREE L O he | MaKing playcrs associated with him with a warninz. N | cta., ) s while o picked assort. | D1y ball eve _Rain forcad postponement of the| Running through a heavy rain, | C0% L E T E G PO SO o | the game. National league set-tos between Giusto Umck, Trieste, Italy, won in 5:12:5. John Salo, Pas-| J.. was second in 6:52:2, Seattle, third in Brooklyn and New York, and St Loufs and Cincinnati as well as the game between the Yanlke and Philadelphia in the junior circuit. American League | Claremore, OKI 3avuzzi, Southamp- 16:07:40; John Salo. | B48:22:0 Phillip | Hamilton, Ontario, o 1. Gardner, | i WON'T USE FLAG | DN L, 4 . Gene Tunney Has Conscientions Ob- | jections to Wearing National ('ul-K R ors Around Waist. Now York, April 23 (®—The | 1 vyweight champion of the world has 1 ionus scruples gainst | o rins the national colors around warst. | vpresentatives of the Tough club o ocial presented 1 o of T il blue o Gene tor v ey n he arrived here from y i 1 1 oh, Bla, but the cham- : pron turned it back with the request wo j i that seme other color scheme be i 5 | “You can deck the bhier of a ge r ith the colors of the American | . but they should not be used to ind the portly stomach of Webh, Cubs o Frisch, Cards . ' Doul. | the champlon comment- | | | = " Wilson, Cubs ... et | | | from points as far ou the Pacific prospects of a big share of the tal- ent. At Pennsylvania the official scrutinizers will be especially busy sprint entry list while decathlon can- didates will compete in the formal Baseba d s d s Baseball and Track Squads Start coast, will rally at nklin cld for the Pennsylvania relay carnival. These two meets may scttle the for Charley Paddock heads the | The most sensational development | of the whole Olympic program so was the sudden rise at Boston of Joie Ray as a full-fledged mara- | Official opening of the New Brit- | thon runner. He convinced ma ain High school baseball and track | competent ohservers that he will be |seasons will take place Saturday mong the greatest of them all when | afternoon of this week. The track he has 1ad the advantage of more |tham will open with a meet against training and experience, Crosby High school of Waterbury More than one close student of | While the baseball team is compet- | marathon form is willing to wager |ing against its old rival, St. Thomas® that Ray will lead the pack the next | Seminary in Hartford. time out, in the New York to Long| Th eoutlook for the acason is not Beach marathon next month, | very bright for either team although whether Clarence DeMar, the Boston | there seems to be more hope for winner, is entered or not. the track team. A member of the As a matter of fact Joie was the |track team for the second consecu- only one who wasn't altogether sat- | tive season, but this time its cap- isfied after the historic Doston race |tain, Arnold Reckert, is being which 1 finished on tortured feet | groomed as its big t in ‘the and sheer nerve, field events. He i cially good You can gat no better picture of |at the shot put, discus and javelin this {ndomit: old chesty one himself, than by the the haschall team, Edward Hinchey, way he propped himself up in bed, | appears to be its best bet. i hour after collapsing, to breath | the fact that he is not very heavy deflance to the course, the record ! he leaned on the pill for several and the marathon running world in | solid whacks last year. & Joie was like fighter who had ! est squad which has ever turned out Ulid 3 returning the mift. taken his beating, heard the birdics | for a track team at the school. Ex- | e e (| sing and then encrged from the factly 117 candidates are trying for 1 H l’) | knockout trance with fists still ready | plac He has a sprinkling of good | 1 A ome Run C]u to was punch-drunk from ' veteran material and if he cap un- 1 0 By the Cuiod Pross. the punishment he had en in ! cover enough “dark horses” he may | ) g National Leaguc |that 26.mnile grind over hills and [turn out a winning team. M . dales but still game, In the 100 yard dash he has two “1 knov what this game's vers who did remarkably well ahout now. 1 can beat the recor: st year, their first season on the and win that Olyvmipic ma " (team. They are Chester Yahn who There you have the spirit of Joie | not only did well in this race, but tay also made a name for himself in the Sy 0 d and relay races, and Lines, | pl LATZO AT LIGHT HEAVY { who will be called upon to do his New York, April 23 (UP)—Pete best work In the 100 yard dash. former welterw eight m-| Several of the bhaseball players makes bis New York debut as|will be used in mects which do not heavyweight tonight when hie [conflict with the haschall games. s Tony Marullo of Sonia who onght to do well are Ed- a ten round hout at the die Hinchey, FAdle Sowka, Fr St Nicholas arena. unders aud Louis Landino. Kow Or- j i | | | | more interesting question than the ! Ama nal Olymple tryouts. at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the first | pair of the 183 Dboxers entered was due to start and the last pair was expected to finish about dawn. Three of the 1927 national cham-| | plons have entered, two of them to| !defend titles, and the other 180 boys have elther won district titles In 14 cities or honors in a dozen colleges. The semi-final and final bouts will | be held tomorrow winners In the cight classes, whic! range from the 112 pounds to thc heavywelights, will members of the American Olympic | hoxing team which will be sent to Amsterdam next summer, Tommy Lown and both of New York, who won 147 pounds and 160 pounds have returned to sle little runner, the throws. Incidentally the captain of | ral, Coach Leonel Depot has the larg- | here a and fight chiefly that the scrappy |defend their crowns. Evers took to the Braves, and man, another New Yorker and hold- Hornsby has that same spirit, [er of the 175 pound title. has taken Evers wasn’t a popular ball plawr on too much weight and has been is not popular. Dut|forced to baitle with the knack of | weights. The other members of the New minute they are in|York team are almos |ble and upon them rests the {The Days of Real Sport RING 15 SET FOR OLYMPIC TRYOUTS fear Boxers_-Sq—uare 0f To- day for National Titles 23 (M—The ring | was sct here today for the greatest | spectacle in the history of American | | amateur boxing, the A. A. U. nation- Before dusk, EVERS HELPED BRAVES TO 1914 PENNANT |TOURN i sponsibility of halting the Invasion of California boxers who threcten| to clean up the tournament. The New England boxers appear less formidable than in former years. San Franclsco and Los Angeles have ont strong delegations and seve other faraway cities are ably repre- sented. An impressive array of college boxers have entered, including men {from the U. 8 military and naval tacademi | Yale, University of lorida, Ring champions from sity of North Carolina, Pennsylvania military academy, University of N braska, Denver university, Unive sity of California, Stanford unive sity and the University of Georgia have also entered. B This outpouring of colleglate ent is due to the Qlympic tinge |year. Several of the college hoke |have almost national reputations night and the Joo Hanlon.!mom McNeeley, Cambridge 1 | pounder, retired in favor of John George Hoff- equally capa- which the natlonals took on this and it would not be surprising if a good share of the Olympic team | were students. Training injurles have caused ichanges in the lineup of boxers who will represent New England. Harry | Devine of Worcester, the New Eng- {land featherweight champion, has replaced Tony Sallesa of Boston. | Leslie Baker, Watertown welter- | welght, was lost to the team when he injured his back and James Fee- ney of Portland, Me., took his place. Silva, his fellow townsman, when ne {injured his hand in a training bout. MAKES SUBWAY TOUR New York, April 23 (UP)—1It took | August Lecteus, 85, two days to ride fon ever: subway and elevated line in the city. His wife, daughter and son went Klcepless for 48 hours | searching for him while he was on | |this date, three-fourths hondicap. | {nament Woodway | select own handicap, 71 TOURNAMENT EVENTS AT SHUTTLE MEADOW CLUB ANNOUNCED—HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND BASEBALL TEAMS TO OPEN SEASONS SATURDAY—CENTER CHURCH BASKETBALL TEAM BREAKS TWO YEAR JINX—MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS—SPORTS COO00000L00000000000000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000 00 GENTER CHURCH 1§ | SHUTTLE Curvres | AMENT EVERTS AT MEADOW CLUB Committee Announces Program for the Season—Open- ing Day to Be Observed Next Saturday — Varied Schedule Promises Interbsting Competition—Mem- bers Eager for Initial Play—Busiest Year in His- tory of Organization Promised This Summer. Announcement of the program of tournaments to be played during the coming season at the Shuttle Mea-| dow Golf club, promise the mem- bers one of the busiest and most varied golfing years in the history of the club. The tournament commit- tee consisting of Clesson W. (Keck) Parker, chairman 1 V. Higbee | and Robert T. Frishic, after wecks of arduous work, has compiled a list of cvents that includes every con- ceivable kind of tournament play for | those who will be entered. | Golf has become such a popular game in recent ycars and the mem- bership of the Shuttle Meadow club has grown to such proportions, that with the coming of spring each sca- son, cagerness is always shown by | the players in the plans of the tournament committee. From the numbers anxious to get started and the variety of the program, onc of | the best golfing scasons on record is Opening day will be observed next Saturday, April 23 with a four ball best ball tdurnament a one-half added handicap being allowed. This will introduce the scason officlally and will start hordes of golfers off on a campaign that is expected to bring joy and happiness to both champions and duffers. The course, Val Flood states, will be in excellent condition for the opening ceremonies and’by Saturday, | all details will be completed. The list of events as made publlc today, Is as follows: April 28, four ball best hall, one- half added handicap May 5, match play against par, full handicap. | May 12, bljnd bogey tournament, select own handicap, 74-52. | May 19, four hall best ball, one- | half added handicap. | May 26, best selected nine in 18, | May 30, a. m., four ball best ball, onc-halt added handicap. I’ M., flag tournament, full handicap, Tutt- ing and approaching contest. | June 2 and 3, quelifying round for president’s cup. 1 June 7, first round mateh play for | president’s cup to he completed be- | in handicap. June §, mixed foursome (Scotel men and women, alternate shots and arives. | June §, sweepstakes, class A nnl[ m | June 11, second round for presi- | dent’s cup to he completed before June 14. third round for presi- dent’ cup to be completed beforc this date, three-fourths handicap. June 16, donation tournament, | full handicap. i June 17, final round for Presi- dent’s Cup to he completed, 36 holes. | -June 20, Fresh Air Camp tourna- | ment. | June 21, mixed foursome (Scotch) | men and women, alternate shots and | |drives, | June 23, four ball Lest ball, 1.2 added June 2 26, 27 and 28, State Tour- | V. | June 30, blind bogey tournament, 78 July 4, A. AL, 18 hole meanl (mxr.‘ [nament, ‘full handicap. T. M., driv-| ling, (men and women). | July 7, best selected nine holes, full handicap. Twilight tour nament, 72 holes starts today, P must be after 4 p. m, pass in best | card of week only. | 1 | his tour. July 21, swecpstakes, Class A TuaT 3 14RS. SEEMS TME - 7 Be ' Found w7 FRONTA MY L<E 1| GoT A [ LIKELY CLAIM »(// To «T~- AN SEEmS TME /o I AH- M- H SHuUT UPS t GUESS | KNow A | HE Knows 17| DanpY PLACE | MORE '~y ) To SPEnD ) Xou Do A1 / IT ART= it % 7:‘? Yep- 1 wAs Jus WALKIN® ALONG = ‘N THERE T'wasS RIGHT THERE - ¢ Gee ! Gom’ To Svenn T HUW? ~—— A HERO FOR A DAY-- Twe DAY You FOUND N A WHOLE QUARTER RIGHT SMACK ON THE SIDEWALK and B, July 28, alibi tournament, 10 alibis. August 4, four ball match, 1.4 added handicap. August 11, tombstonc tournament. August 18, best sclected nine in 18, full handicap. August 25, match play against par, full handicap. September 1, kickers' tournament, select own handicap, 72-80, September 3, A. M., Wets vs, Drys match play, 3-4 handicap, losers pay for lunch. P. M., 18 hole medal tournament, full handicap. Driving, approaching and putting contests, September 15, Eighteen hole quale ifying round for club championship, September 19, one day state tour- nament at Shuttle Meadow elub. September 20, first round club championship before this date. September 22, donation tourna- ment, full hardicap. September 24, second round club championship before this date, September 27, third round clih championship before this date, September 29 or 30, finals, 36 holes, club championship. October 6, two-ball foursome selected drive, 1-2 added handicap. October 13, cighteen hole medal tournament, full handicap. Full particulars regarding these tournaments will be posted on the balletin board, TUNNEY IN NEW YORK Heavywelght Champion Arrives in Mctropolis After Visiting His Mother At Riverdale. New York, April 23 (UP)—Heav- {ier than at any time during his ea- recr, Gens Tunney, heavyweight champion, came to town today from Riverdale, where he had visited his mother upon his return from Miami Beach. Tunney will spend several days in New York-and then go to Specula- Univer-| for this date, three-fourths difference [tor to start training for his fight th Tom Heeney in July. The champion announced he had no intention of marrying as long as he retains the title, explaining: “Wouldn't I be a mug to give up a business bringing me in threa quarters of a million dollarsa year" How Baseball Stars Performed Yesterday By the United Press. Jabe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Rogers Horns- »y were idle Sunday when rain and old caused postponement of major lcague games in the east. Paul Waner, most valuable player in the Natlonal league in 1927, doubled once in four times at bat and scored a run. Harry Heilmann, American league andicap, {batting leader last season, failed to get a hit in four official trips to the plate, and now has an average of .200 for the current season Kiki Culver, whose trade to the Cubs provided one of the sensations of the hot stove league season, like- wise failed to hit safely in four 1es up, aithough his teammates ad little trouble with Johnny Mil- Jus’ deliver) READ HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS By BRIGGS her t glass collisi