New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1928, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928, FALCON AND KENSINGTON BASEBALL TEAMS TO CLASH IN LEAGUE GAME TOMORROW—INFERIORITY COMPLEX IS BUGABOO OF EVERY GOLFER—CINCINNATI REDS CONFOUNDING EXPERTS—NEW BRITAIN HIGH IN NORWICH—MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS 'EXPERTS ARE CONFOUNDED BY CINCINNATI SHOWING Reds Easily Within Striking Distance of Lead—Braves Latest Victims of Team — Cards Again Defeat Phillies — Cubs Down Robins — Yankees Nose Out Cleveland — Athletics Crush St. Louis Browns— Tigers Lose to Senators—Red Sox Win. iy the Assaclated Pre Given scant consideration In pre- season forecasts, the Cincinnati Reds are confounding the experts by gliding along within easy strik- ing distance of the Natlonal league | lead. Good pitching, sensational fleld- ing, particularly by Hughle Critz, and timely batting have marked the Reds' fine showing in the race thus far. Today they rested only a game hehind the New York Giants, who hold the top rung. Red Lucas won his sixth game n seven starts at Cincinnati yester- day when the Reds beat the Boston Braves, 8 to 0. Lucas allowed only six hits and batted out a triple and scored a run. Bunched hits off Bob Smith in the third and fourth fn- nings gave Cincinnati all its rung Two more double plays sent the Reds' season total to 40. Grover Cleveland Alexander struck out nine men at St. Louls as the Cardinals defeated the Phillies again, 3 to 2. Jimmy Wilson caught for the Phils until the second inning when he was sold to the Cardinals for several players. Jimmy immedi- ately left the game, changed his| uniform and is to catch for his new | club today. Wilson replaces Bob O'Farre)l, traded to the Giants for George Harper, veteran outfielder. Art Nehf outpltcheé Dazzy Vance and the Cubs ran thelr winning streak to six games at the expense of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 3 to 0. The Robins got only five singles off Nehf and he never was in danger. Vance pitched well but he hooked up with Nehf when Art was as good as he was with the Giants a few years ago. Hack Wilson hit his fourth hom- cr of the year. Rain forced postponement of the Glants-Pittsburgh Pirates games at Forbes fleld. ! An error by Aaron Ward permit- ted the New York Yankees to tie the | K score in the ninth and win in the 10th from Cleveland, 7 to 7, at New York. Gehrig’s fourth home run of the season came in the sixth inning with the bases full but home runs by Luke Sewell and Langford in the seventh and eighth gave the Indians 2 6 to 5 lead. A bad error by Ward, however, permitted the champions to tie it up in the ninth. Meusel's double with Ruth on basc ended the battle in the next frame. Continuing their savage batting, the Athletics crushed the St. Louis Browns, 11 to 5 at Philadelphia. Sam Gray was rudely treated by his former teammates in the first three innings and his two successors, Stre- | lecki and Crowder, also suffercd. | Cochrane, Bishop, Kress and| Schulte hit home runs. 8ad 8am Jones pitched the Wash- ington Senators to a 9 to 5 victory | over the Tigers at Washington. Three Detroit pitchers were found E for 15 hits by the Scnators, Billings ind Holloway being particularly 15y marks. The Boston Red Sox and Chicago | White Sox continucd their battle for last place with Carrigan's crew | temporarily holding the advantage | through a 4 to 3 win at the Hub. | Todt's homer: with Ruffing on bas was the decisive blow that s 1op. WASHINGTON AB et 8 Judge, Harnes, Bluege, 3 Tate, ¢ o Jones, p . Totals Tavener, ss MM Billings, p . Holloway, p Sorrell, p . Neun, x . Warner, 3% largrave, 3xx . Totals Washington Detroft . loconaauan 2% <} Llommrncouasannncn® ® locouuw=wan oHe mloecocomoroonmm x—Batted for Billings ) tted for Holloway in bth. xxx--Batted for Serrell in 9th, Two buse hits—Helimann, Bluege, Tav- ener, Fotherglll, Tate. Three base hits— S. Rico, H. Rice, Bluege. Winning pitcher —Jone: i Flagetead, cf Todt, 1b . Myer, 3b K. Wiiame, 12,50 Regan, 2b a = »5 Totals toat o —Batted for Clancy i 2l wcuesnnan lhwnvasvnaua w> lhrococomm a HoeonuOa 4 wloess~on Gllesdnbassnindrngalisnanenn 2loscosoucunmrnnd 2 munenaiuny e e me runs—Cochrane, Mchulte, Loving pitcher—Gray. Kress, Umptres fldebrand, Ormsby and Guthrie. Time . Losing pltcher—Billings. allin, Dineen and Barry. » o lussamsnsnmy loomtuann o lioisshenwasnd Do s e o 7l 090 030 Two base hita—Barrett, Home Tlagatead, Umpires— grafian, Rufty Time— owan, ng. 000 012 n 9th. Swcuomroy [ |l cecoo00s3mc0col ~loomococcon e R B S Um- Time— o~oll wlossocornscen locoooss 103~ 000—3 Falk, Clancy, run —Todt, Connolly and Vau- National League 5T. LOUIS AB R Douthit, f High, 3b Frisch, 2b . Bottomley, Hae Thevenow, a8 . Alexander, p . 3 2l avuvwnnes veeu3t E= > aloscmumconmm 2 Q lontonSomu lsacosmmasy wlonmsooncad HAGEN ACCLATHED FOR GREAT GAME British Press Lavish in Praise ol American Goller London, May 13 UP) — Walter Hagen, who has been criticlzed ad-. versely in the past by the British press, was acclaimed today for his dramatic comeback in capturing the British open golf championship after his defeat by Archie Comp- ston in a special match. Having watched Hagen win the open for the third time the British experts were wondering today ‘whether another American, Glenna Collett, would have the British women's golf championship in her possession at the end of next week. Hagen's capture of the British open made the seventh American victory in nine years, and there were regrets and heart searchings over the British fallure. But no ex- cuses were offered, and Hagen's superiority was universally ae- knowledged. Commenting on Hagen's recover- ing after being beaten by Compston 18 down, the Times admiringly sald: “Any other man would have been at least temporarily crushed by that fearful beating, but to Ha- gen it acted only as a spur. Of tho big men he has incontestably proved himsel? the biggest.” “No finer display of sheer deter- mination to overcome difficuities ever was witnessed,” Sporting Life said. Referring to the Hagen-Comp- ston match, the paper declared that Hagen's performance at Sand- wich was “the most dramatic come- back in the history of the game.” Sentence after sentence in this vein was written by golt experts and editorial_writers on Hagen's play. Aside Yrom his immediate re- cuperation from the adverss influ- ence expected to result from his de- feat by Compston, Hagen was pald tribute for possessing a marvelous ability to fight through desperate situations with indominitable will and spirit. “It is true,” one expert “that Hagen makes more falso shots than any other first class golfer, but nobody has his mastery in recovering.” Since 1920, when the open com- petition was resumed after tha war, | the winners have been: George | Duncan, British, 1920; Jock Hutch- ison, American, 1921; Walter Ha- gen, American, 1922; A. G. Havers, British, 1923; Hagen, 1924; Jim Barnes American, 1926, and Bobby Jones, American, in 1926 and 1927, Hagen's string of golf victories also includes two American open titles, three American western open titles and five champlonships of the American Golfers’ association. 8ome writers had long faces over ithe DBritish defeat and asked what [was the amtter with British golf. The Daily News offered the ex- planation that it “seems to be suf- fering from & severe form of in- feriority complex.” In all the comment, however, there was a notable absence of any carping at the prolonged series of American victories. “It would be nice,” the expert of the Post wrote, *if some British golfer should stem the flood of American victories, but it is pleas- ant to know that up to now they have been well and gentlemanly won." Sympathy was offered to the di- wrote, U.S. BEATEN ONLY ONCE IN HIGH HURDLES Weems Baskin, Southern (o) cin date IC. this year in the Olympic high hurdl 1920, set the world's and Olym fered in the event in eight Olympic High Hurdle Champlons | Olympic high hurdling champions, | over the 110-mefer route, and their ! times: | 1896—Curtis, U. i 1900—Kracnzlein, . ; | 1904—Schulte, U. 1906—Leavitt, U. 1908—Smithson, U. 1912—Kelly, U. §. :15 1-10 | —Thomson, Canada :14 4-5 (x) 2 . B. :15 (x)World's Olympic record. BY ALAN J. GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor) New York, May 12.—Olympic high | hurdling supremacy has passed from Amerifcan hands only once in eight of the big international meets. That exception did not carry much sting for Earl Thomson's triumph in Canada’s colors in 1920 was also a victory for American coaching. Thomson, perhaps the greatest high hurdler ever developed,” was a product of the tutclage of Harry L. Hillman, Dartmouth’s famous coach and himself a former Olympic | champion. The rangy Canadian was | developed at Hanover and turned in | his greatest performances on Ameri- can tracks. He {8 now coaching at the United Stateg Naval Academy after serving some time at Yale., | | west, have JOHNSON KAYOES | Veteran Negro Fighter Addresses corn hefore an audience of church- | Ear! Thomson, | Dartmouth Canadian { now coachin, Navy-world’s record holder gf’c : ‘ We}nernat)on.‘?; ‘d;limplon H Olympic High Hurdles.—. It Earl Thomson were still in competition the United States would not be so hopeful ling cvent. record and handed the United States the only defeat Monty Wells, another Dartmouth product of Harry Hill- man’'s skillful coaching, Chick Werner and Weems Baskin are leading candidates for this year's team. The Sonth African, Atkinson, who reached the final in the 1924 games, is again & foreign threat, .. . starts. inson, rican, veteran of victory Thomson, Dartmouth athlete running for Canada in it has suf- Kerner of the Illinois A. C, and Leistner of the Olympic Club, San Francisco. These four, representing the south, east, mjd-west and for been consistently good. There are others, however, to be reckoned with, such as Collier of Brown, Nichols of Stanford and Guthrie of the Illinois A. C. Kin- scy, the 1924 champion, will not de- fend his title. He has taken up the decathlon. JOHN BARLEYCORN Methodist Prohibitionists | Kansas City, May 12 (#-—A tech- nical knockout over John Barly- men has been added to Jack John- son’s long list of triumphs. Appearing before a worldwide the soul. deprave the mind and soul. son of Washington, D. C., Methodist dry leader, who announced Johnson as an impromptu prohibition speak- er “I want you to know," said John- son, “that I Am absolutely against whiskey, beer and all intoxicating liquor, because I do not belleve Ii- quor helps the human body at all.” After extensive applause, Johnson said he felt as well at 50 as he did when he was 18 years old and that le believed his good health was due to abstinence from liquer and get- ting his rest regularly. “To serve God,” he continued, ou must train the mind as well as Liquor and other things, 1 wish you success in your battle to drive liguor out of America.” Johnson then retired to a gym- nasium where he is training for a bout with “Big Bill” Hartwell, local | negro, in Kansas City, Kansas, on Tuesday next. The former heavy- weight titleholder recently was knocked out at Topeka, Kans., by Bearcat Wright of Oraaha. VETERANS FILE ENTRIES New York, May 12 (P—Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, veteran Brit- KENSINGTON- AND FALCONS TO MEET HERE TOMORROW Baseball Teams to Revive ers Have Opening Day GRANTHAN STILL LEADS SWATTERS Pittsbargh Pirates Retain Edge in Team Hitting New York, May 12 OP—Even though the Pirates had a poor week [mgainst the Giants, neither the club nor the {ndividual swat-smiths suf- fered in the averages, according to figures made publie by National league officials today. George Grantham continues to lead the reg- ulars in batting with a handsome mark of .455, while the Pirates as a club are hitting for an even . 3¢ points more than the sec place Cardinals. The averages clude games of Wednesday. The Pittsburgh flock, however, ranks well down in the club flelding table, which is topped by the Cubs with .973 and the Reds with .870, but boasts of the three National league pitchers yet undefeated— Carmen Hill. The bespectacled right hander has won two and lost none, as has Ilint Rhem of St. Louls, but both of these hoxmen concede a point to Sheriff Fred Blake, the carniverous Cub who has won three games and lost none, Grantham's batting average 1s made up 6f 22 singlcs, eight dou- “Mes. two triples and three home | runs. Taylor Doughit of 8t. Louis | leads in hits with 40, but ranks 11th \:\’T_m\{; the regular batsmen with 267, | Del Bissonette of Brooklyn still is "flho\'»'lllg the way to the National {league in home runs with six, but Hack Wilson of the Cubs, co-cham- piun} with Cy Willlams last year at 130, is creeping up. Hack has four lowed by seven players tied at three |each; Harper and Frisch of gt Louis; O'Doul and Lindstrom of New York; Hendrick of Brooklyn, Webb of Chicago and Grantham of Pittsburgh, The next 10 batters following Grantham In the individual aver- ages, 10 or more games are: Kelly, Chicago, .435; Richbourg, Boston, .390; Terry, Now York, .380; Paul Waner, Pittsburgh, .376; Her. man, Brooklyn, .375; High, S8t Louls, .373; Roettger, 8t. Louts, -373; Ott, New York, -372; Bottom- ley, 8t. Louts, .368, ana Douthit, 8t. Louts, .367. Frank Frisch, the famous Ford. ham flash, leads In stolen bases With elght, in runs scored with 23 and in runs batted in with 34. Hal ‘Traynor receives whatever honor ac- crues from having made the great- o5t number of doubles—11—while his team-mate, Lioyd Waner, s the king of three-base hitters, with five triples. — SOCCER TEAMS MEET The German soccer team of this | circult taps to his credit, and is fol- | Diamond Enmity of Two Years Ago—Both Have Crack Lineups and Plenty of Pitching Material—Contest to Start Promptly at 3 o’Clock—Herbie Sautter to Umpire—South End- Today. Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Falcons and All-Kensington baseball teams will renew their dia- mond rivalry when .both mecet for the first time this season as meme bers of the Connecticut State league, Both teams are evenly matched and on their rosters arc absolutely the iclass of baseball players in this sece tion of the state. | The Falcons and All-Kensington jare bitter rivals ever since two vears ago when each walloped the other |in a series of game for the chama pionship of the city and before the final contest could be staged, the | weather made it impossible and im= {practicable to finish the argument, | The teams did not play each other |last year except at the beginning of |the scason but this was before the Kensington team was really organiz- ed. | This year, with star battery men |available for use by both teams, a battle as bitter as any fought out 1in mid-season is likely to take place. | Kensington has Brooks, Harry Mills jand Berg for slabmen. Brooks is & | former Bristol New Departure star. Mills was one of the mainstays of |the Norwich State Hospital nine last |season and Berg was the ace of the |Corbin Red Sox staff. The Falcons bave Tomnry West, last year with {Norwich, Bucholtz, West Haven Ifarmer, Jack Scotf and Rose. | With this battalion of crack pitche {ers, the batters on both teams are | Boing to experience a lot of fun in itrying to hit the ball. Neither team !appears to have the edge on the other. The game will start promptly at 8 o'clock with Herbie Sauter doing | the umpiring. Kensington Opens Today 1l-Kensington starts the bascball on this afternoon mceting the Bristol Endees in the first Connecti~ jcut league game of the year. A gala {opening day program had been pre- | pared for the day and plenty of ex. |citement was in store for the fans |who planned to attend. | The game ia scheduled for 5:30 |o'clock with Crowley and McKeon as umpires. Homg Run Club, By the United Press. Al | | Al Ruth, Yankees, 7. Hauser, Athletics, §. Gehrig, Yankees, 4. National League Blasonette, Robins, 6. Wilson, Cubs, Yesterday's Homers Todt, Red Sox, 1. Cochrane, Athletics, 1. Schulte, Browns, 1. Gehrig, Yankees, 1. Kress, Browns, 1. L. Sewell, Indians, 1. Langford, Indians, 1. Bishop, Athletics, 1. ‘Wilson, Cubs, 1. League Totals National league American league Total 160 prohibition meceting at the gencral| “Everything broke right for me| FIE WS conferonss At the Methodlst Kpises: | minutive Argentine, Jose Jurado, in hat day,” Thomson told this writer | his falling off in the last round, ’ city will pi MATCHED FOR BOUT White Sox down to defiat, ish golfing stars, have filed their play the Portuguese crew 2D .. Totals e4 for Benge In hits—Douthit, ) base Ty i Herman, Fressior Titwnon: i 1 N Kelly. Loatng pitel Starke wlomcosmoums SuwomeEa ooy o Lostses musass sullonsanie =t Q 2loucsonunan Sloconunsarsossms lozsssmassscoses weet- and leusscooa, 3! soo0000m0onsod nloscenoscaxr D T SeBenvse e since his earlier play had won k. admiration and at one time it was expected that he might be the » { champion, Monday will see one of the two principal foreign contenders for the British women’s title out of the Hunstanton Glenna Collett matched with Mlle, fimone De La Chaume, a ¥rench woman, who is defending her title, ANNUAL REGATTA FOR GHILD'S CUP Columbia, Peon and Princeton Crews Meet This Alternoon Princefon, N. I, May 12 UP) — The varsity crews of Columbia, Pennaylvania: and Princeton take to the waters of Carnegie lake hers late this afternoon in the climax event of the 23rd annual Childs cup regatta. Princeton and Columbia are fav- jored 10 lead the way in the tri- angular struggle. Pean fs rated s the weakest entrant in the second ;[ oldest Towing spectacle in America. With seven of the eight men of last year's elght at their posts, the Tigers are expected to fight hard to retain the cup. Columbla’s veteran | intercollegiate chumplonship efght terms with the Tigers, Penn has won the classic nine times, but it seems improbable the Red and Blue can make it ten this year. Princeton and Columbla each has won the event five times. Cornell, compcting as an invited guest, has carried off the trophy twice, and the Naval academy, another guest crew, has won on Three freshman races will start at four o'clock when the mecond {tunning for in the first round et | is | of last year in rated on almost even | t in recalling his Olympic victory | cight years ago, at Antwerp. “The| weather and track were good, T felt Just right and T was pushed all the | way by Harold Barron, the Penn State star, and Fred Murray of| Stanford.” | Thomson set the Olympic record ! in that race, 14 4-5 seconds, but his greatest performance was turned in | that same year, a few montha he- forc the Olympics at ‘Franklin | Fleld, Philadelphia. The Canadfan {ace won the intercollegiate cham- | pionship thera and set the world's |Tecord of 14 2.5 seconds. | “I felt right and Meured T had a | good chance to break the old record of 15 seconds, held by Forrest Smithson® ‘he recalls. “The beat T had hoped for, however, wzs 14 4-3. When 1 came running back, after breaking the tape, one of the timers showed me his watch, stopped at 14 25, and the amazement on his face was as great as mine.” Smithson, the old Pacific Coast star, met the world’s record of 15 seconds flat when he won the Olym- pic champlonship in 190S. He did it on grass and over hurdles that were made of fron, except for the top bar of wood. “Emithson was n wonder, as good ¥ of our present day hurdlers.” Lawson Robertson, Olympic head coach, awserts, The peak of Americh's monopoly was reached in the 1 games when nine Yankees enter the 110-meter high hurd) They won seven of the cleven preliminary "heats, all of the semi-fimals and !finished 1.2-3-4-6 In the final heat, with Fred ielly leading Jim Wen. I by a thin margin. Powell, the Englishman, was the only forcign contender. Three of the six finalists Americans in both 1920 and | Four years ago, however, Dan Kin- | sey, University of Illineis star, | chased to the tape by two Sv and a South African, Atkinson, in the finals. It was a closc call at | Parls, and it may be closer this | summer at Amsterdam. Germany, Sweden, England and South Africa all have developed ca- pable hurdlers. Lord Burghiey, the Olympic were 1924, pal church here yesterday, the for- mer heavyweight champion was ap- | plauded by bishops and ministers when he attributed his physical con- | dition to “not drinking, not carous- | ing and getting a good night's rest.” ‘The veteran negro fighter was in- troduced by Dr. Clarence True Wil- entries for the 1928 United States open championship. Four other Britons—Archle Camp- ston, George Duncan, Aubrey Boom- er and Abe Mitchell—are expected to enter and seek revenge for Wal- ter Hagen's victory in the British open at’ Sandwich yesterday. That Guiltest Feeling WELL WE'RE Coné To HAVE A GREAT Season oF LAUGHTER. Bt %«g\ 61?& THE e be To P =l o g A ,/.)} TRYING To BE NONCHALANT ON Tue 'S GOING THRow ME WAY OFF MY ;M Hartford at Willow Brook park tomorrow. The Capital City team will be playing its first game and fs bringing a strong lineup to this city. | The German team is anxious to win and a large crowd is expected out | to see the game. The contest starts at 2 o'clock. Louisville, Ky., May 12 (UP) — | Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia, light heavyweight champlon, and Joe 8ckyra of Dayton, O., will meot in a 10-round bout here on the ev of the Kentucky derby next Friday. Loughran’s title will not be at stake. By BRIGGS freshman eights of Princeton and Penn leave the mark, The 150- pound freshmen and first freshman crews follow at half hour intervals. The junfor varsities are scheduled {kinson will be a threat once more. 10 start at 5:30 and at six o'clock | American hopes probably will be the varsity shells will ba sen: away. | pinned chiefly on such stars as All of the racex are over a mile Weema Baskin. the Alabama ace; iand three-quarters course. Monty Wells of Dartmouth, Chick| FIRST Tee oFf TME CLUS You HAVE JUST JOINED:«ea You HAVE on Jus? ABouT T LOUDEST GoLr ToGe's THAT COULD B& PURCHASED..., You ARE'ALSO A STRANGER AND YoU:ARE' WONDERING JUST How To PROCEED ~ FROM HERE ON. titled DBritish star, has shown Americans how well he can per- form, but “Davy” is better over the low sticke than the high ones. At- s tad for Baneroft in 9t tted for lioberry in #th ~Batted for Vance tn #th. Clicago . .. 020 001 Three has o0v—3 | Home and | 17 vou don't vou'il . like Herald Classified Ads