New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1928, Page 26

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928, FALCONS TO BATTLE TORRINGTON TEAM IN STATE LEAGUE HERE SUNDAY—KENSINGTON FACES TWO HARD GAMES OVER WEEK-END—GREAT PITCHING OF JOE POTTS WASTED AS HIGH SCHOOL LOSES TO HARTFORD—MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS YANKEES AND ATHLETICS EVEN IN FIRST -BATTLES Leading American League Teams Split Double Header at Beginning of Important Series — Tigers Down White Sox — Browns Defeat Indians — Cardinals | Smother Cincinnati Reds — Petty Celebrates Re- turn to Robins by Blanking Giants — Cubs Suffer ' Fourth Defeat by Pirates. Py the Associated Prese The first two batties of the Amer- ican League's initial “crucial series” of the season tinds the New York Yankces and the Philadelphia Ath- letles no better and no worse thar they were before the opening shot was fired. Before 41,000 spectators inside and thousands of othcrs who occu- pled points of vantage outside Shibe park, the leaders yesterday split even In the first two games of a six-game 6eri The champlons pounded Robert Moses Grove, Connle Mack's star hard and often to take the opener, 9 to T but Ossle Orwoll held the Yankees to six hits in the second game and the Athlcetics raced intoa5to? victory. Babe Ruth’s fourteenth homer of the season and Tony Tazzeri's first represented the sum total of the Yankees scoring in the last game. Lazzeri pounded the first game. Despite the fact that Grove had an off-day the southpaw was permitted to remain in the game until the eighth inniny Powers and Ehmke finishing. in elx runs in George Pingras lost his first game |- the second game, | of the year in the Athletics bunching off him in the sixth and seventh to score all their runs. Speaker drove in thre of the rums with a double and : single. Bob Fothergill'a double with two men on base in the twelfth enabled the Detroit Tigers to score a 6 to 4 | win over the White Sox at Chicago. Johnny Mostil, great Six fly-chaser, was knocked unconsclious when thrown ball struck him in the face. | | Speatcer, The St. Louis Browns took poorly plaved game from the In- dlans at Cleveland, 12 to 9. Sam Gray went the route for the Browns despite the fact that he allowed 1§ hits. Twelve hits were turned into | as many runs by the Browns. Lou Blue got four of them. The S§t. Louis the National League lead by beat- ing the Cfhcinnati Reds, 7 to 1, for their fourth straight victory. Holm and Bottomley hit home runs while Douthit contented himself with a single, double and triple. Flint Rhem pitched a strong game for the winners, Jeas Petty, recently suspended, returned to the Brooklyn mound and shut out the New York Giants with three hits, 3 to 0. Leslic Mann who dotes on southpaws got two of the three safeties Petty granted. Fitzsimmons gave the Robins only six safeties hut poor support sent him down to defeat. The Pirates gave the Chicago Cubs their fourth straight setback at Pittsburgh, 6 to 2. Artie Neht lasted until the fifth despite a four- run rally by the Corsairs in the fourth. The Pirates played good ball behind Grimes and a patched up infield. Iiddie Mulligan shifted from sccond to third base when Pie Traynor was forced out by an at- tack of infiue Dick tell, a youngster, went to the keystone sack and handled nine without an error. chances National League Mar Holly, § Heatheow Totals Cardinals pushed | thelr way to within half a game of | Allen, Tireseen, Vord, Kalp afey, 1t H Loettger, x—DBatted xx—Ran Clucinnati Louta Two base Hottomley. pires: Reard D r Lucas i tor sth @00 103 Purdy, Douthf o bame hits: F Home runs Losing pitcher: Kolp, on and Wilson, Tinie 000 hits i Ameri;n—_l.eague Moore, Hoyt, Totals Bistop, Cobb, rt ot 1 o 113 z Hauser, Cochrane, French, Stmmons, Orwall, 1 1laas, 17 Powers, p Ehmke, p Miiler, 2222 Bush, xx Totals z-~Batted 22—Batted for Boley in 223—Batte: 2223—Batty Naw York Thiladelphia Two ase bhits: Combs sel. (FIRST NEW YO AB GAME) RK R 2 3 PHILADELP! 1 HIA R for French in B ] o5 e el />t 't e o = lo Sloocessnosnossosuaiu: alocssa~ T, Tth, 4 for Grove fn §th. ed for Ehmke in 9th. 002 001 000 111 Cobb 2, Bishop, Lazerrl. Losing. Graflan, 2:38., « Combs, ot Durocher, Ruth, Gehrig, Mousel, Lazzeri, Dugan, % R Paschal, X Piperas, n Koeulg, Xxx Totals Bishop, Hauser, 1b Cachrane, S Orwoll, p Totals base Haal e rune Graftan, Tin Manton. Gray, Harder, TUhie Burns, [ P ted Hudlin,_ Umpires: Tims piteher: ! Connolly and McGowan. gough, © res: SECOND_GAME) NEW YORK AB R o posuman T o umomoacy lunousasawan slozzszmooms 15> 0 0 1 1 5 A 1 PHILADELPHI AB It .4 At 3 4 Bengough Pipgras 1 hite: Speaker. 1a \ @ ] M unacvenwa>l | omcmmssas > e > 7 © P e I L ey coo2 5 for Hudiin in 6th for Bayne in 9th 0065 614 020 031 Kress 2, Hodapp, . L. Sewell Lind. Thr ord. Losing pithee alitn 003— Lan 1 0 1 a 0 0 0 E o 0 303—9 m- | ing the company of thos: 01012 9 Riue, Barry and Di- , | one out Weskey walked. He 222552005008 JOE POTTS GETS RAGGED SUPPORT Sensational Piching Fals {0 Win for High School Team Failure on the part of his team- | ,inates to support him as he was | pitching one of the best baseball games of his short career lost for | (Doe) Potts, Britain High school pitcher, yesterday. Potts al- lowed Hartford Public High school two hits Lut was defeated 8 to 2. | New Britain's eight errors explain the defeat. Hartford's three errors were big factors in preventing the Hartford pitcher, Andy Sayers, from | scoring a shut-out. ew Britain | made four hits. This is the second | defeat of the season for the locals | at the hands of Hartford High. The | scason's rocord so far is five defeats and no victorles. Wicked First Inning If it were not for the first inning, the Hardware City team might have accomplished something and perhaps put a victory on the scason's record. Hartford scored five runs on one hit, but New Britain'’s five errors and two passes did the damage. The | Capital City team batted around in this nning. Hayden went to first base on a Ik, Jordan tried to sacrifice, but | wunders errored and he made sec- {ond base while Hayden was scoring. | Shortell hit to Bogdanski who made | a wild throw in trying to catch the runner at first base, Jordon scored. | | Dixon went out. Hogan walked. Ker- | | win went out but Trench made first | base when Kraszewski juggled a hit | to short etop. Kelly, the eight man | to face Potts made the first hit of | |the inning and both men scored Sayers flied out. | New Britain made its two runs in |the second and fourth innings. With | ored |when Chadukowicz hit a single to | center field which rolled about while | Weskey was digging for home, In the ! fourth innings Potts made first base | when he landed safcly after Shorteil | had thrown low to get him. Once again “Waddy” Chadukowicz came through and the second run came across the plate. The season for the New Britain | High school will officially come to a close during the latter part of next week in a game with St. Thomas Seminary. The summary NEW BRITAIN H 1 X Maugan | Potre, p { Wesoly, ct | Chodukowirz, 21 | Hinchey, rf Kraszowski, Greco, 1t s» lemassse—- Totals 26 HARTFORD B R b 5] Hayden, Jordan, Shortell, Dixon, b Hogan, 1f Kerwin, 1b Tench, cf Kelly, 2b sayer, p L4 o somom ehmaa® wloonrrome lowao Totals 26 x—Ran for Potts in Now Rritain Hartford Two base hits: base hit: Jordan. ith Chod Umpire: Ebe i MORGAN IS LUCKY TORETAIN TITLE | Margin of Victory Over Eddie Martin Is Very Close N York, May )Suln‘ Seattle battler :{upon how narrowiy (Pr—~Tod Mo wused today escaped join- nown as tormer lightweight cham- ‘plonw While less than 6 on apathetically, Morg Iy defended lis pound crown | against the dogged, bull-like rushes of Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, ¢ | time king of the bantamweiz a 15 round hout at Mudison § Garden last night. Tod's margin of vietory, howeyer, was of the closest. The Associatcd Press score card gave Morgan seven rounds, Martin six with two ever Slow afoot and short of arm Martin staked his whole battle for the fitle on a hody attack. In he rushed, taking the champion jabs in order to get chance pound away at Morgan's body. For the first rounds Morgan had all the better of the milling, catehing the challenger coming in with sharp lett jabs and right up- percuts. Undaunted, Martin never stopped plunging in. After the first half of the battle, the pendulum swung to Martin as Morgan | under the challenger's charging tac- tics. More frequently did Martin's wild swings land cn the champion’s head and organ s forced to drop his sharp-shooting and shig away. On even ter opened, Mor a brilllant rally groggy as 1he milling. Thers but both were the end. an Junior fans looked n suceessful- 009 ts, in quare to as the 15th round m saved his crown by that had Martin final bell ended the were no knockdowns bleeding profusely at weighe is, th . ponc class limit. customers, surfeited of hoxing they've been n this week, paid $17.754 10 see iird championship bout in New York in four days N SEASON TODAY The White Hawks bascball t | will open the season today at W | Hill park. The following plavers ar the gan Gin nger Plorkowski Nowak and Kle- am Inut short | tired | AIMS AT Wilmer Rinchart, a chunky little cllow from College Corner, and a junior at the University Indiana, is looked upon now as one Ohio, | of vietory in the Olympic velin throw contest this summer at Am sterdam. Rinehart never saw a javelin spear until he went to col- lege. In his second year of varsity WORLD’S RECORD | | | FALCONS TO MEET [PITCHING DUEL ENDS IN TORRINGTON HERE State Leagne Game to Be Played at St. Mary's Field Sunday Torrington battling the Falcons in a Connecticut state league baseball game will be the dish handed up to the fans of this city Sunday when the diamond crew from the Pin City invade New Britain. This will be Torrington's first appearance in this city and, judging from the lineup, there will be plenty of excitement during the afternoon. The Falcons are scheduled to stage a hard workout at St. Mary's field tonight at 6 o'clock iu pre- paration for the game. The team was forced into idleness over the week-end just past but Coach Ray Begley expects to work out all the kinks and staleness in tonight's ses- sion. The infield will be attended to more than usually*tonight in an effort to get a smoothly working combination in order. The Torrington team, successor to the club that has always been near the top in semi-pro circles in this state, will have many of the vetcrans who made Torrington a real baseball city. The crew has played one game in the league and it showed enough strength at that time to make all the managers in the league pause when the crew is mentioned. The .battery selections of the Ialcons have not yet been an- nounced but * Bucholtz will PP PIPOIOOT [} VICTORY FOR BUTTMAKERS Jack Scott of Stanley Works Beats Ernie Anderson of | Newmatics—Sensational Baseball Features Battle 1 ~Universals Take Close Contest From American | Paper Goods Team — Kensington Crew Shows Great Promise in Game — Industrial Race Now Under Way. League Standing o o 0 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 000 000 000 000 P. & F. Landers Stanley Works Stanley Rule N. B. Machine Paper Goods .. | vafnir R. & E. ~000 The Works and Landers started off in the Industrial Baseball league last night with victories over the New Britain Machine and Amer- ican Paper Goods teams, The con- test between the Buttimakers and the Newmatics was a4 lattle of parts with the pitchers Qolding the center | of the stage. Landers and the Paper Goods staged a pretty contest in the ‘second game of the night., Wins Pitching Duel. “Jack” Scott of the Stanley | Works bascball team and “Ernie Anderson” of the Machine Company nine engaged in a beautiful pitching | battle last evening with the Work- ers managing to push out & 3 to 1 | vietory. Both pitchers had the bat- ters at their mercy, allowing but four hits each. 8cott sent 11 bat- Corbin 1 1 1 | probably draw down the assignment. | ters back to the bench by the strike competition he has won the event | the Southern relays, the Ohlo[ § e relays, the Pennsylvania car- | nival and the dual meet with North- | western, His best distance with the | new American collegiate record and me within three feet of the world's record. He's good in the | classroor 100, having made 17 hours of “A" work last semester, KEN Kensington faces two tough base- ball games over the week-end, one in the Connecticut State league and | the other against the Taftville team. | {Torrington is scheduled to meet the South Enders in Kensington tomor- row afternoon in a Saturday en- counter while the “Down East" crew appears at the Percival avenue grounds Sunday. Torrington is expected to mnke things hum in the state circuit this season and Kensington is bound to ave plenty 1o do if the team is to he successful in turning the crew | vack. The Pin City nine will battle the Falcons in New Britain Sund afternoon in its second appearance in the league in this section, Taftville should prove a tartar for the Kensington crew. The team composed of nearly the same line of | veterans as played all last year. In the past scason, Taftville was by Iy nosed out in a series with Norwich Riverview club fa state championship and tod tains the position of runner-up the state semi-pro titie, The team's reputation is based on long record of campaigns and the management is especially anxious to ensington this week-end. Pitching selections have vet e nnounced but it expoetod the strongest siab men on both te will be scen in action Bus scrvice will be tur ans who plan to attend Britain and vicinity Co. will run regular son's Corner to the b often as there malke the trip started about 3 RUNNERS NEARING END OF RAINBOW "Andrew Payne Appears Certain o Winning “Bunion Derby” is the the re- for no is ams ishied the rom New The Connecticut lines from Up- ball park as are enou < to Both games il bhe o'clock Suffern, N, ring the end of the rainbow, the cross-country bunionere today had their eyes gct on Passaic, N. J., next to the last control of the long trek across the continent from Los 'Angeles to New York. More: than 17 hours Andrew Payne, of Claremore, John Salo prepa behind Ok »d to do hie hest to t the pace for the ficld for the lup into Passs his home town. | That city was ready to do him all | honor. A half-holiday has been de- | clared for everyone but police and |firemen. The main strects of the (town were decorated with flags and | placards proclaiming a telcome. Yesterday's lap {rom Middletown to Suffern, 38 mile w Payne in- ¥ lead over Salo by four minutes despitc the fact that Oklahoman coasted info the 52nd control no hetter than 19th. Ealo was st. Payne's elapsed time 3634 miles 564 42:3 ] The Aav's laader, however was Seth Gonzales, of Denver, who cover creade SINGTON PLAYS PAR - | OF GAMES OVER WEEK-END Both Contests to Be Staged on Percival Avenue Dia- | mond—Torrington Scheduled to Appear Tomorrow | in Connecticut State League Game—Taftville, Run- ner-up for State Semi-Pro Title Last Season, Offer- ed for Sunday Attraction—Good Battles Expected. ‘ed the distance in 4:50:27 and es- | ‘ean the | | tablished himself in 15th place in | the etanding. | Today's grind was to start at 10:30 a. m., so0 as to bring the run- ners into Passaic at a time when they | draw the greatest throng of | spectators. | After spending the night in Pas- | safc the derbyists will head for New | York on Saturday, ending thelr long | jaunt with a 10 mile “sprint” in | Madison Square Garden. i YANKEE JUNIORS WIN | The Yankee Juniors bascball team | trounced the Orioles yesterday by the score of 16 to 6. Al Rinaldi and a stiff practice session last night n'lgunw in its half of the third inning | Luzietti starred at bat for the win- | s. The Yanks average 15 years of \ge, Games may be eecured through Captain John Durbas at' 1519 Cor- bin avenue or by telephone to Berto ! Luzietti at 4573, | The smallest French election pre- cinet is Ornes, Wwith three voters. Before the war residents, { 1 for Sunday. He showed plenty of stuff in his first start this year though Kensington pounded him when he relieved Fony West a few weeks ago. Two weeks' rest should have him in tip-top form for a great battle Sunday afternoon. The contest will start promptly at 3 o'clock and a large crowd of fans :or Uncle Sam’'s best prospects for a | spear, 215 feet 4 inches, made a |is sure to be on hand. HOORE OUT OF GAME Relief Star of Yankee Pitching Staff Being Treated in Rochester For Sore Arm. New York, May 25 (#-—The New York Yankees will have to get along as best they can without Wiley Moore, relfef star, for the next few days. Moore has been unable to get started this season. He appeared as a relief pitcher in the firat game {of the double-header with the Ath- letics at Philadelphia yesterday but was taken out when he complained of a sore arm. He left immediately for Rochester, N. Y., for treatment. Moore led the American league pitchers in earned run averages last season and turned in 19 victories against seven defeats despite the fact that his work consisted chiefly in rescuing his brother hurlers. PLAY IN PLAINVILLE Rangers Hold Snappy Practice Ses- sion in Preparation for Neighborly Battle Sunday. The Rangers baseball team will battle All-Plainville in Plainville Sunday afternoon. The team put in the Pioneer Diamond and the s ®ad is ready, according to Coach Andrew Zwick, for a real battle Sunday. The veteran battery of the club, Rill Chant in the box and Matty Hayes behind the bat, will be in ac- tion and this mean troitble for Plainville. Casey will be held in r-- serve. A number of new faces will it had 370 voting be scen in the Ranger lineup this|giiiiis .- season, out route while Anderson fanned | seven. Only o carned run was scored in the game but errors fig- jurea strongly in the | Neither team was able t@ put over a run after the third inning. | The game was intermixed with | good and bad bascball, sensational [ fielding atopping rallies time after | time. Al the errors by both teams were made in the early innings. { The Machinists blobbed four tim | in the second inning. This gave the | Workers a chance to take the lead and the Machinists were powerleas in their attempts o come back i and take the lead. In the third inning the Lake street aggregation filled the bases Adamowifz drove a to center field for | with one out. | terrific line base hit. Richtmeyer made a sen- sational catch of the hit and dou- bled Merline off first base. Parsens also made a peautiful catch when he went into right field and caught Richtmey?r's hid for a hit with one hand as he fell to the ground Both teams went out in order in the first inning. The Workers put over two eounters in the second inning on one hit and four errors. Guida struck out but made first by him. Merline laid down a bunt and reached tirst when the Machine infleld was caught flat-footed, Er- nie Anderson finally fielded the ball and threw it wild to third, Guida scoring. On the next play the pitcher threw over Cosgrove's head in an attempt to get Merline. Scott hit a liner to Patrus and Merline scored when Patrus let the ball go between his legs. The Machine nine scored their only run in the third inning. Mer- line erred on Haines' grounder and Patterson came through with a single to score Hainesa. The Stanley team scored the last run of the | when Greene walked, Schroeder sacrificed and Parsons singled. Both |teams had few opportunities to The summary:— STANLEY WORKS A R H Snyder, L] 0 { Charlow, Green, ny AE 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 i 1 | Parsons, 1 | Second Honeymoon GUESS WHO | SAW DoWN IN THE LOBBY JusT now ! | | | | LISTEN ' Do You THiINK FOR ONE (g GoING To BE SEEN WITH | SCE Now wHy \'o!u ;anl MINUTE HER 7 S0 CRAzZY HEW | | the | 5 Jus < Ever' ALL Rient! MAY FINKLE ;* AND SHE'S T AS PRETTY AS You REMEMRER SHE REMEMBERS AND I'M TELLING You RIGHT HER® AND NOwW - HAD NO IDEA THAT SHE WAS HERE~ NOW GET, o~ what appeared to be a sure two- | P | accounted for when Hainea let the third strike get | when he | gt to scoring. ! | liams { found the | trames when he became too gen- > Gulda, Merline, Abramow Scott, p i3 2b Totals t 2h 5 Anderson, Preinser, A(rus, Ern Halne wlormsosscnd alowme alucccosrmnn Totals Machine Worls base hit: Universal Victors, The Landers team won a well played game from the American Paper Goods team by a score of 7 to 4. The timely hitting of the winners and the splendid pitching of Nester were responsible for this victory. The winners got away to a fine {start in the opening frame when { they scored twice on three safe hits. With one out Charlow tripled to ht center and scored a moment er 'on Goeb's single. The later then got caught mnap- pin off first but managed to make second when Magruder hit him with a throw during a run down, | MeKier immediately brought Goeb home with a single. | There was no scoring by efther team from this time until the fifth | when the losers counted once on | singles by Jos McCormick and Wil- and two consecutive wild pitches by Nester. | " The winners tucked the gama | safely away in the next inning when | they scored five times on five hits, {a hit bastman and a tielder’s choice. In this frame Hillstrand, Goeb and McKiernan doubled while Rasl and Greene. 1t | | Nestor connccted with singlea. Triples by Maguder and Warren and a home run hy Jim MeCormick thres runs for the losers In the eighth. The triples were hit to deep center while Mc- Cormick’s drive was down the leff. field foul lina, The game was marked by fine pitching each twirler showing good form with the exception in a few places where they weakened and allowed some free hitting. Nestor did4 unusually well and only for his !two lapses, when he wild pitghed home from second, and allowed thres batters to him for long blows in the eighth, would have scored a shut out. The latter lapse was due fo the fact that his team had a sul- stantial lead at the time and he one run | was easing up. There was no ex- cure for the wild pitches, McCormick also pitched well and going bad in but two erous with grooved balls. The Paper Goods team was mak- | worthy of | number of | score during the remaining innings. | | ing its debut into the Industrial League and sthowed itself to be its membership. This 1 asset to the lecague its loss of the game respect of the large fans who braved the chilly weather to see it perform The summary team is a 1 and despita gained the Hilleerand, Charlow, Goeb, of MeXternan, (Continued on Following Page)