New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 11

1 Speaking | of Sports , YOOIy Somehow or other, the weather | has a pernicious habit of becoming ! mean over the woek-end. At th time of this writing, the rain is fail- Ing gently but at the same time enough of it is coming down to put | the baschall games for today on th- #helf and it gives us doubts abou tomorrow’s conte: We' do believe that the farmers and gardeners need the rain hut what we question is whether Satur- day and Sunday rains do more goo« than showers or any other the week. If we would come couple of fair 4 Saturday Sunday, we fecl certain that the vote of thanks would be unanimous, All this falk of keeping amateur mports “pure” strikes us as heing ex- ceedingly silly becanse we have to find any sport that is unsulli by the “flthy lure of filthy lucre." Probably the only place where amateur sport is as it should i sport for sport's sake, is in the col- leges and most of the athletes looking for opportunities to swell thefr bank accounts on the side. some uss Tet anyone tr team together in this city and it w soon be discovered that the question asked is “What ar gOing to got ont of #”" The one thought in athletics of all sorts fo- day is the return to he Liad on the rervices given. wi Tt seems to us that a sort of im- moral stigma is being placed on the atblete who sets a price on his ath- letic ability. Why this s so, is he- vond us. If a man accepts a joh somewhere or with some concern, he and his employer expect him te paid for services. 1f an athlete per- forms for a promoter and brings him in plenty of gelt, he rightfully should expect to receive a fair re- turn. But it’'s the masquerading hurts. The athletes who, rep senting themselves as angels of pure sports, still collect money, are the ones who have hurt the game. are ke these dry campaigners who drink everyt! in sigl main at all times “all w That brings us down azain to the status of the Connecticut A, A, U We believegas many others do, that 1t fs high time for Conneeticont fight promoters to call the binff of the National A. A. U, and conduet the sport as the fans want it TFieht fans are anvious to see more tonrna ments and if there is no way of con- Aucting them, the favorites should Te enlisted under the hanner of * State Athletic Commissioner Thomas . Donohue and the houts should he furnighed at the same popular prices a8 they have been all winter. The National hody has taken a high-hatted ana high-handed atti- tude towards Connecticut and al- though we have no holshevistic ten- Aencies, we suggest that Connecti- eut promoters just cast the rohe of unreality aside and come open. GRANTHAM AGAIN LEADING BATTERS Sherill Blake of Chicago Re- sumes Léad Among Pitchers New York, May 2 miliar figures of George Grantham and Bheriff Frederick Blake once more are marching in the van of their National league fellows, cording to averages made public to- day. The Zigures, including games of Wednesday, show Grantham at the top of the batting heap, still cling- ng to a .400 average after six weeks of play. The Chicago mounds- mian leads the hurlers with four vi tories and no defeats. Grantham'’s exact figure for thir- ty-four ganies is .402, compiled from thirty-four singles, ten doubles, two triples and three homers, Oft of New York and Callaghan of Cincin- natt are bunched in a tie two points | below the Pittshurgh pounder, sre the only other .400 hitters tie league. Other National League #iiths still moving above Grimes, Pittsburgh, Jioston, .368: Roetiger, .268; Douthit, 8t. Louis, Waner, Pittsburgh, Wright, Pittsburgh, .. Hack Wilson, the home run king of the league, tops his field with rine, but is closely pressed by Bia- tonette of Brooklyn and Bottomley of St. Louis, tied with seven each. Wilson is batting .346, Pittsburgh dropped to .305 in club batting last week, but remained well #licad of the second-place Cardinals, wiio showed an average of .285. Cleveland, which is winning many games by smart fielding, with tied with Chicago for top honora in the club fielding column an in swat- STUDENTS New, Haven WATCH STARS. A May 26 (UP)—Yale golf enthusiasts flocked out to the Universily’s golf course today to see Gene Sarazen, recent runner-up fn the British open, and Miss Maurine Orcutt, third-tire women's metro- politan champion, take on Johnny Farrell, southern golfer, and Miss Marth~ Parker, New Jersey cham- pion, in exhibition 18-hole four- some. TWO SPORTS EVENTS. Hartford, May 26 (CP)—Two £port events were on tap at Trinity | today. The trackmen were to meet Clark university and the baseball team Hamilton college. o PIRATES TO PRACTICE The Pirates’ bascball team practice Sunday moriing at 10 o'clock at Willow Brook park. All candidates for the team aro request- ed to he present at the appointed hour. will iher in and get a haseball | that | They | and re- ont in tha ac- | ' |eai Brown had s land the booster GETTIN ‘PITCHERS’ RARE OLD SPORT Heroes of Stage, Ring and Dia- mond in Cigarette Boxes one of the most popular pas- times of hovhood life a decade ago, but which has for years been wholly extinet with no signs of being re- vived, was the collecting of pietures of baseball players, flazs there being a specit L set, with several individual reproductions very difffficult to ob- fain. Cigarctte manufacturers spon- sored the scheme, and whether it | inerea the sale @f their product, it most certainly gave the youth of New Britain a game that every youngster played every minute they could find to give to it, the time and the season notwithstanding. Un- Adoubtedly there are trunks and oth- or receptacles in hundreds of attics in this city which shelter beneath {dust covered tops collections of [these pictures which all the money jon any strest in Connecticut could |not have hought when their owner: were gathering them. Today they are meaningless, having no value, verhaps, for the star ball players of |this generation arc pictured in ewspapers and on the movie creens so frequently that their pro- files and their every move are known to the junior fans far more | thoroughly than are the heroes of the World War, while the prized photographic reproductions of the | walrus, the bear, the lon. and the lother members of the animal family | {would not be a patch on the splen- | didly projected pictures® shown in news reels. Sharp Bargains Driven ! Wapping” pietures in the Ol [ Burritt school yard Xt Main and st Main streets, the old St. Mary's chool yard at Myrtle and Iligh strects, the “Grammar School” as the Central Junior High school was | |known, and clsewhere, well nizh a business in those days. The log of some country or other was rd to get,” and the hoy who was fortunate enough to own the picture had a fortunc. It was worth five of ome other coun s blems, or of the “easy” ones. To a hoy who needed only one more for a com- plite set, it was worth any eombi- ation he could spare, the dick- wring and bargaining that went on at recess and school was dis- Wime g hu e nnna) tion upon which the husiness acu- men of their later lives was built. A Lig grizly bear was one of the sy pictures of the and the the Ion, the chimpanzee, the the monkey, the elophant and any others in the same class. pictures were so mark- through frequent one owner to the! {next that they were hardly recog- nizable, but the “hard” ones were ! casily distinguishable for the reason that they we 80 &carce; the boys who had them were careful to guard them. In the set of flags, the | | Stars and Stripes, the flag of Treland, | {Unfon Jack and others were com- ymon and consequently cxperienced much passing around Settle Arguments With Fists | In those da George Wiltse, | IChristy Mathewson, Eddie Plank. Nap Rucker, Cy Young, Mordecai [Brown, Jimmy Archer, Johnny Kling, Roger Bresnahan, Fred Ten- {ney, “Will Bill” Donovan, Donle ! Bush, ans Wagner, Larry Lajoie and the heroes of the diamond | whose names now escape memory were before the public in the sprin and summer hecause of their play- ing, and in the winter hecause o [the mews from the “stove leagu and their pictures, in uniform and 'in various poses, were much in de- {mand. One of the most bitterly I fought e knuckle clashes a local school vard has ever witnessed was started through a dispute over the [ pictures of Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown. Two lads, who are probably still living in these parts, |came to blows at recess hecause one aid Brown was “harder” than | Mathewson. He had just come into | possession of a mew, clean, likeness {of the three fingered twirler who | made history while with the Chi- cago Cubs, and the other boy, prob- | ably thinking he could get it by be- littling its rating among the others n the sct, “pooh poohed™ it. An ex- i change of what would called razzing” today was followed hy the “first blow and while boys of all sizes from all corners \ the improvised ringside, hiers whaled away. The recess bell bronght about a tem- porary tion of hostilities, but up in “The Pit,” on Myrtle strect at [3:30 p. m., the supporter of Morde- his eyes blackened | for the immortal | several was was ’ set, la0y Some of the ed and soiled {handling from Mathewson accumnlate large humps before the gang | dispersed by a false alarm of “the cof:"holeh the pictures had no place in the course of fraining in any of the schools, the teachers en- | couraged the boys to make collec- tions and even took part in the ex- change about the school grounds. | The practice actually had a certain cducational value, inasmuch as flags and animals which were unknown to the average lad quickly became | familiar. Some boys, not having so | great an interest in the sets as to [concern themselves over scarce pic- tures, vied with one another in their efforts to gather the greatest I number. They had their male rela- {tives, friends and everyone else they could reach among the I‘Jq‘lrellfl smoking fraternity saving pictures for them, with the result tha* 200 or 300 in a collection was no. Gnusual. Auto Races AT CHARTER OAK MAY 30 Ira Vail and C. Gaunug | In Open Competition i 5 Events 3P. M ————————— well | | Om: Bfiardi;ig liouse 7 Newark at R Bascball Standing AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday New York 4-9, Philadelphia 2-2, Boston 5, Washingten 0. Chicago 1, Detroit o Cleveland §, §t. Louis 4. New Haven Hartford ...., Bridgeport Providence Pittsfield Springfield Waterbury Albany .. New York .. Philadelphia Cleveland . Boston St. Louis . Chicago ‘Washington . Games Today New York at Philadelphia. Washington at Boston. Detroit at Chicago. St Louis at Cleveland. New Haven at Games Tomorrow Pittsfield at New Haven. Hartford at Waterbury. Springfield at Bridgeport Providence at Albany. BRISTOL ENDEES LOSE e Games Tomorrow Philadelphia at Washington St. Louis at (leveland. Detroit at Chicago. (Other clubs not scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE [ Games Yesterday Chicago 10, Pittsburgh 3. v York 4. Philadelphia Cincinnati 2,. St. Louis 0 Brooklyn 4, Boston 1. Pischer in The the Conn Chicago &t. Louis New York Brooklyn Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia insult to injury the Bearing Mak solitary run, the The game was | Manchester lin the the Games Today Philadelphia at New Yori: Roston at Brooklyn. 2. Chicago at Pitisburgh Cincinnati at §t. Louis. Games Tomorrow Pittsburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at §t. Louis Boston at Brooklyn. Philadelphia at New York. 2 in the sixth got MANC INTERNATIONAL LEAGUF Games Yesterday Newark 7, Jersey City 3 Bufalo 8, Rochester 6. Toronto at Montreal, rain (Others not scheduled.) sStanding w. Toronto Rochester Montreal Ruftalo Newark T n, Yals new Teading Games Today Baltimor: at Jersey ('ity. itary college, wTHEY TELL ME UP AT, T OWL'S CLUB MATOR, “HAT You BE Goin’To TAKE I8 -TH’ CoNVENTIONS! war WISHT T CouLD Go ALONG ! ~ BACK IN'97 I WAS -0 A BUGGY- MAKER'S CONVEATWOKN (N CHICAGO ~o «ws WAS UP FOR -TWo NIGHTS STRAIGHT, AN' WIK $117, PLAYIA® HiGH-LowW-TACK IN-TH-GAME Ay LES TAKE IN TH' PIGHT , HANK— we m_‘g eg\'o NOTH ELSEL Games Today Providence at Hartford. Waterbury at Albany. Bridgepert at Pittsfield. Manchester Communitics With Russ Box Makers m League Game, hoster baseball club of cticut State League pinned @ defeat on the Bristol Endees last cvening in Manchester and, adding scoring a second inning. Silk Town crew to add two more to their total and proved to be superfluous. The summary:— May polo feam was to christen the T'hipps Memorial | with a game with Pennsy Rochester at Buffald, Toronto at Montreal, EASTERN LEAGUE Games Y New Haven 7, Springfield 6. Waterbury 9, Albany Providence 9, Hartford 8. Pittsfield 7, Bridgeport 1, Averages Tell Why New Yort Heads American League Chicago, May 326. UP—Baseball averages tell why and hew the ram. pant New York Yankees are lead- ing the American League parade to pennantville at the end of the aixth week's campaign. Five of the ten leading hitters are | Yankees. The leading pitcher, !Georle Pipgras, is a Yankee. The |leaders in team batting are the | Yankees. The best run getters are ithe Yankees, and, as usual, the most prolific fence buster is Babo Ruth. About the only major depart- ment, the Hugmen do not lead in is 1in fielding. but they are approach- ing the crest. *'Goose™ Goslin of Washington re- tains his leadership in the race for individual batting honors with an average of .415 or 7 points better than last week, unefficial averages for games up to and including those on Wednesday show. His teammate, Barnes, is second, 15 points behind. The ten leading hitters, including only those who have batted 45 times {or more, and their averages: Goslin, Washington, .415; Barnes, Washington, .400; Kress, St. Louls, .383; Durocher, New York, .37 Gehrig, New Yorl 371; Recves, Washington, .370; Fonseca, Clev land, .386: Ruth, New York, .36 Dugan, New York, .349; Lazzeri, New York, .340. Pipgras added another vistory to his string during the sixth week to increase his hurling leadership. He has won seven gamics and lost none, | pitching 70 innings and allowing 66 | hits, 21 runs and 23 bases on balls. | He has struck out 36. Pennock of the Yankeea and Walberg and | Grove of Philadelphia have won #ix | games and lost one each. Philadelphiy retained its leader- ship in fielding with a percentage of .980 although it dropped three points during the week. Boston was scond with ,979 and tho Yanks | third with .72 | With an av 01 York clung to i 0l ting, 22 points ah { Place Athleties | _Other leaders: double slay | Cleveland. 43: fowest opponents’ | runs. Philadelphia, 93; fewest er. rors, Philadelphia, 23; stolen bases, Barrett of Chicago and McNeely, St, Louis, 6 each; most runs, Ruth, v York, , oveland is the only team to turn triple play this scason. The y was made Wednesday in a contest with the White Sox L. 8 1 12 12 15 15 17 20 Springficld Blank Bearing Rusy Fischer let ers down without a score being 4 to 0. a tight battle with lone counter In the fifih came through another, all which HESTER AB R of New Iead in team bat- of the second 319 il {in a NEW FIELD. . 26 (UP)—-The eld today Greece plans to construct 1,000 vania mil- '1iiles of toll highways at a cost of AH YES, ANDY,«] AM LOOKED UPoM AS ONE OF THE OLD GUARD OF -THE NATIONAL COMVEKTIONS!. Np-e NSTTAKING. 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Bridgeport, May 26 (UP)—Wla- |dek Zbyszko saved Bs $4.000 gold jand dlamond belt last night by |throwing Dan Koloff, the *“Russian | Bear,” but it took 45 minutes of | - & Totals x—Batred for Fx—Batted for Sherdel in Sth Cinctnnati 100 St Louws 600 000 Two base hita: Picinich 2, ord. ker. Home run: Kellyy. Losing p. Sherdel. Umpircs: Wilson and Reardon | Time: 1:29, | jother match WESLE leyan faces Ry | here today AB R H Po Ao p|Wesleyan <40 17 0 othe Tigers. A\ B Thom; Richbrugh, r¢ BY strenuous wrestling to do it. In an- Renato Gardini tossed Demetrius Tofalos. N VS, PRINCETON. | Middletown May 26 Prinoeton : was (o pitch for | and Rakin or Parker for loans in strice privacy. | Call, Write or Phone 1-9-¢-3. BENEFICIAL LOAN SOCIETY 201 Raphael Bldg.. Second Floor 99 West Main St. Between Washington & High Sta. Open §:30 to §; Saturdaye $:30 to 1 | ienmd by the “State—Bonded to the ab (UP)—We at basebali | LYCOMING Now, Listen to $1595 Talk: I am not a miniature 8 of a large Six. 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