New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1928, Page 12

5558 55D FALCONS SWAMP NEW BRITAIN DAILY HIizRALD, v DAY, JUNE 4, 1928 BADLY DISORGANIZED KENSINGTON BASEBALL TEAM—HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEETS SCHEDULED TODAY AND TOMORROW—SIXTEEN PLAYERS QUALIFY FOR PRESIDENT'S CUP TOURNAMENT AT SHUTTLE MEADOW—LEAGUE -RESULTS PIRATES OPEN EASTERN INVASION WITH VICTORY Pittsburgh Team Making Desperate Efforts to Get Out of Cellar—Fans Shower Umps With Pop Bottles— Giants Batter Chicago Pitchers at Polo Grounds— Yankees Down Detroit Tigers in Detroit — White Sox Defeat Athletics—Red Sox Beat Cleveland. Making @ strenuous atiempt to rise from the depths of the sccond division, the Pittsburgh Pirates have opened their eastern invasion with & victory over Brooklyn, while irate Flatbush fans said it with pop bottles Pete Scott’s fifth hit of the gave the Corsairs over the Dodgers y after 14 innings of lurid bascball that had | 25,000 fans in an uproar most of th time-—so wrought up in fact that the ional league champions al- most won the game by forfeit. In the ninth inning with the score ticd, two out and two Pirates | on Lase, Pie Traynor sent up a short | fly. Jigg: tatz raced in, made a lunge at the ball and came up with The Robins had started for t beneh before they noticed that Um- | i pire Charlie Moran had ruled that| game o tory . National League 10AG Statz had “trapped” the ball. The two Pirate base runners scorcd and then pop bottles, directed at the um- pircs, descended in profusion. 2 bombardment of som (i) mir Umpire Reardon threaten- | i i to forfeit the game. This ended | u the barrage. There were no casual- | ¢ ¢ minutes later, the | Dodgers had rushed the tying runs | over in their half of the ninth. The final break came in the 14th when the Corsairs pounded Jdess Petty for two singles and a sacrifice 1o get mew on second and third. Scott's hit won the game. Burleigh Grimes | pitched the last nine innings for the | winners and allowed only three | hits, The three w New York Giants hicago pitchers for a 5 win at the Polo Grounds. I'orty thousand spectators, the largest crowd of the s son, saw the fray. Fred Fitzsimmons held the Cubs |y safe and got a double and a triple. | Terry, Recse and Hartnett hit home runs. | battered 10 20 |y parpe Pitzsimmons, b L 120— 5 00x—10 Tatron, artnett Fitzsimm F Thiee b Home runs: Hartn pitcher: Nehf, and Pfirman, y-cight thousand saw the New York Yankees widen their American league lcad by downing the Tigers at Detroit, 7 to 2. Gehrig hit his 11th four basc drive of the | year while the other half of first, Babe Ruth, left the game in | the fifth inning because of an in- jured ankle. A five run rally in the seventh decided the game. The White Sox beat the Athletics 6 to 6. Foxx's homer in the ninth with two on gave the Sox a scare, but Lyons, succeeding Thomas in the box, was equal to the occasion. Hudlin was casy for the Boston ted Sox and Cleveland fell, 4 to 3. Charlie Ruffing pitched good ball for the winners and was aided by air tight support from his inficld and outfield. Taitt's catch of a line drive off the right field wall was a fea- | ture. American League NEwW PITTSBURGH An L & i Totals o Jendric Horman, Carey, 1l Rresslor. Rissonett conda Bancroft Henline. Clark, 1ioal Partri Pett Besnnsnaay suus=s0n0a c32m2y » n 0 42 own YORK AB K $ 1 ¢ .0 |l conasaaa T Bancroft sth 102 s Ratted for Pittaburgh Rroaklyn Two Toat 010 in 140 000 r I 2 Waner, b it eHnline . dferm: run 1o Winning Potty Wilson Herman, Vmpires: Reardon, BURRITTS DEFEATED Basehall 1| Local Team ILoses Well Played Contest to Roger Williams Burrift A, ( well-played ne the Williams club of Poguonock The vietors form one the it teams entered in | Farmington Valley League also hold a franchise n cirenit. The first games Leehcdulod to he playea nest The Burritts will Willow thei grounds ry other lost | o | [ ve | | | Crew in Pogquonock. | 1o lay the The The Burritt Ay e hom: eve park f 1 play there and they st was an eahi Burritts led all until the last the Roger Willia thre The throagh The Ve ition affair gh with oupled with a wild heave by ireitts, hrought in two hom clut SAILS FOR EUROPE Anicrican Tennis Team, After Clean Sweep Over dapan, Leaves Satur- day for Further Conqu 1 After a 1 Anisrican Japan, the United ame w il sadl next cir final Davis cup t |3 will e Tilden composed 1, captaing . John Hen- and Wilbur They will T the t. of Chicag apolis nsas Ci [ member india K Francis of ton 4 Yoshiro Obta yes- 1 and in the had which no § alr of five rounds i Tamio Abre ates wdy had The von 5 [1ess pitchers sent up to haseball feam | of | Sun- two hits | enough | of MANCHESTER TEAM | SWAMPS FALCONS: | Weird Baseball Game Is Staged§ at St. Mary's Field riy-cight hits and 38 runs tell | the tale of the wild slugfest that | took place Saturday afternoon at | Mary's ficld between the Falcons | the Communiticis | “ Stat the of and Manchester in base final Manchester. the batters league all game heing It was a gala day for everything the count- the plate | being knocked to all corners of the 1o, Both teams trotted out four | s in a vain attempt to stem | heavy hitting tide. Exactly ! 1105 batters toed the plate during | {the game. although the official | | score shows only §S. 17 men took | first base on balls Manchester started oft in the first | inning to put the game on fter walking the first man, Kania @ llowed five hits in a row. He was | replaced by Rose, a former hurler | in the City League, and Manchester zreeted him with three solid bingles. { When the locals finally managed to | get the third out, nine Community players had crossed the pan. The | { 1’alcons came back in their half of tlie first and scored three runs on | two hits and twe walks. i The visitors sent another run over | the pan in the second inning. T} locals came back in the same fram to drive Edgar out of the box, send- ing four runs across the plate. Rose held the Manchester tribe scorcless in the third inning. Buck- | 1and took the mound for the visitors and proceeded to fill the bases on three straight walks. He yanked from the box and “Tommy Sipples took up the hurling duties. When the smoke cleared up the Lalcons had scored five runs and were in the lead, 12 to 10. Neither team was able to dent the plate in the fourth. Two hits in the ifth brought another run to the Falcons, In the sixth the Manchester fence busters started to hit again | and drove Rose out of the box with five consecutive bingies. Soule then took up the mound duties and was greeted by a triple and double. The inning finally ended after the Manchester team had scored six runs. The locals were | auict in their half of the inning. Manchester continued its heavy slugging in the seventh and Soule auickly went to the showers, Rose going back to the mound. Six more 1uns dented the plate. Buckland went backto the mound for the visi- tors and. although wild, managed to hold the Falcons scoreless in the | seventh and eighth innings. Rose ! | again tired out and Ross took the mound for the Faleons. He looked | | g00d for the brief fime that he was | 1in the box, enly three men facing | him in the ninth. Two hits in the last part of the ninth ve the Iocals another run, the final score being to 15, i Although the game was a wild slugfest there were many hrilliant fielding plays. Kredar made one of the longest throws ever seen in this city. Sipples hit what looked | like a home run. dashed after the ball in the gener: direction of St. Mary's When he recovered the his head could be seen from the bleachers, — Charlie let the hall fly and it landed gquarely in the hands of Riley at third base, who caught | Sipples standing up. Riley and lewis played strong games at third | and short respectively. Sipples was the fielding star of the winne pples led the batters of both ams with five hits. “Tommy Latted left hand in the final inning and barely missed connceting for |another, Stratton crashed out four {safetics as did Pelton, while Rren- nan, Kelly and Edgar connected fely three fimes, Klatka and Soule led the Talcons it the hat, getting three blows cach. Rtiley banged out two hits. The summary: MANCIT Al3 score -15 in favor pitehe cometery bhall only 0 ol loso—mumause lscoau a0 oo Mangan. Rile: Mo Laughlin Soule, Sinpies, Kelly! RACE SEASON OPENS | ton Park at the Beginning of 1 | Scason. | June 4 (UP)—Chicago’ on opens today at Arling- | rd of cight races, L000 premier han- i and- local the | Chicago, racing s ton Park with | factured by the dicap., The feature ing entry list, favorite, Chic American natiol v; Sir Marry and Crystal Pen- i, Coffroth handicap winners | Reigh Olga, Florence Mills and San- §i race had an outs including the winner of al ndicap last will he | Fi-mutuel hetting odds Vefore the start of race, an racing. |pound of fat Lin western New | knowled | port {the German soc leals displayed great strength in the | goals while New | | . seored the innovation in Awrnun| 9000004000100 000000006 Lo d BOUT TONIGHT ATTEMPT T0 RU " OFF TRACK NEETS Much Postponed High School Events Carded This Week Once more the New Britain High school track team will endeavor to run off its scheduled meets with Crosby High school of Waterbury and South Manchester High school ams. Both were 1o be in this city 1 month but rain postponed the Croshy meet four times and the South Manchester meet once, Crosby is slated to meet New Brit- 1in this afternoon after school and South Manchester will be on deck tomorrow afternoon after school. 1t was the opinion of followers of the team that if these two dual IN TITLE meets were run off before the trian- | gular meet the team cnough competitive experience carry it through for victory over Hartfo-d and New Haven Hillhouse High schools in the Memorial Day meet, As it was the team made the best showing in seven years. It took third place. New Britain will depend to a great extent on Lines, Yahn, Grzybowski in the and broad jump. Captain kert will be expected 1o win points in the shot put and probably the discus and javelin throws. Reid and Saunders will be the hest bets in thet high jump. Dick Gordon, who would an almost certain -3 = 5 Tt ‘pungMnr this event, is out ‘\\Hh injuries. Bogdanski and Zales- RANGERS SCORE WIN "5l be There i the pole vaut, 4 Pfersick will again be called e |1pon to score in the mile event. New Britain Team Pins 15 to 3 de- | S - me ot (ARDS DROP 13 INNING GAME TO BRISTOL TEAM Suffers First would have hes, relay FRANKIE O'BRIL be Hartford, June 4—Irankic O'Brien in le 156 and Al Mello will tip m at 155 New Engla championship at the Velodrome tonight. In the wake of 10 da the most intensive kind of training the rival southpaws vill finish their work in diffcrent local this afternoon whe invited without cha them in their final O’'Brien and Mell lent trim. Neither has an exces and both are at a weight where they should be speedy and accurate. They aave been bat-| by a score of 15 to 3. It wa :ring around many ng part-| nlar party for the nger ners and have tramed theie powerful collccted a total of 22 hits off three yorguy ap Willow Brook park to the left hands to hit the mark. The bat-| M pilchers e " | Bluejays of Bristol by the score of tle shapes up as one of the most ex-| € twirling his first game of | .\ "y went inni 2 - s 7. The game citing this city has wit- | the year for the 10 | Reed got off to a bad start in the nessed and the interest in is re-| only six hits and ell first inning when five runs we Gopded Shplillie Noay demundfion accLiey y lcored on three hits and two errors. pasteboards in every city and town The showcd o great deal on s Uhia AL jeiros st A and | o0 became lost in the sun. The lo- o P \"‘ it [ balk in their half and there will be no sub- 12 novaiop AR EOTING Tk e tin the of will he hetd oc 7 o'clock at| ® 1 4 AncrbeTocpa g | A wild peg over thisd gave the UL | visitors one in the sixth but the ® ellinilulosalvic | Cards tied the count again in their el d A half. Bristol again took the lead in in readiness for the opening outdoor :.h" e e e Nyossiens ot e L [“ards knotted the count right back pital City. A With an opportunity s L A atyle until the 12(h frame. Then an the event that the Irishman defe sl dntiluie dath (e ihen o Mello Connecticut fans are expected throw over second gave Bristol its fo turn out in large numhers to thippiforer lagtons sere Brislal is cheer on their lafest idol, who gain- T Sl od fame almost overnight with hi Gill through his mretly catchs sensational vietory over Harry Jibh- Al s s e Mello's record is a matter of gation. and O'Prien will have pillses hest to score a trinmph Ly 4 I wspa- | Braves ficld tonight Fhe largest gathering of newspa | permen 1o ever “cover” a fight here| ~Maloney trained dawn fo h,q‘ will attend, Boston, Holyoke, Spring- {lowest weight for the H‘”"“ his | feld. New Haven. Meriden, Bridge- first i »’,J‘-{“ vears i a Bo Mlv"r‘"m..l and ofher citie W fowns 1o —and no 5 | T His for- vo represented. Lowell will also ; a : 11” tion fans to hack | midable reputation the m Zuppino was in the hox for send a, delegs ar acl E s erop of Deavyweight championship | the winners and he fwirled a very Ml Ll attey " |aspirants as a dangerous hitter and | good game. The Speedboys have Slseolh ia seli * A clever ring general | won 14 games and lost one o Pending fights with Roberto Ro-|They followed np the first vietory berti, Jolnny Risko and Phil Scott, | by defeating the Rinky Dinks by a LOCAL GERMAN SOCCER |ror 305 ot o B 0 | when they clash | for the nd middlewcight here of feat on St Stan Meriden Yesterday. ymnasiums | the public is| In all the defeats suffered by New | 10 Witness pritain baseball DARCS: week-cnd, a victory teams the by the It the over Local Baseball Tcam are in exc ands Yesterday c smothered the nislaus | I club of Meriden in the Silver City | out. local | Defeat of Season fn Hard w St Tussle with Blucjays. The Cardinal A. C. Baseball team ¥ lost its first game of the scason ye local club, ever it were w These 1L Zot one of ment ove e Promot ¢ Fii nounces that stitutions and unfavorable we will be put over under the coachi v ck, the club winning team Wednesday night Willow Brook HALONEY VS. DelAVE I'aces Jop: Practice 1t event sl up ar south Boston Heay ywrizht Mickey in | IS at O'Brien Tough Opponent in Comeback Campaign Tonight. Boston, Jf 4 (I'P) ~Jim Malon Sonth Boston heavyweight, fmportant te ey ono of | s most hack Jack Do Mave in a seheduled 10-ron of | his come s to hets meets SO0 001 010 00] T 100 402 619 000 or i — DBOYS WIN ANOTHER Speedboys defeated the Union Streets by a 38 to T score yesterday tips the seales at opponent has earned among new of hout nt \ ver now made e st OPEN ROAD IN EUROPE Paris—Auto bhussesare running from Paris to Amsterdam and (o- | logne, cach carrying 20 passengers. ily for the bout, as defeat at the L.ands of the golden-haired De Mave - D ') wonld virtnally eliminate him from in Crew Comes Through Now Dilia championship cli With 1lying Colors to Continue L 'When a Feller Needs a Friend Winning Streak victorious march er team of this cit defeated the German team of New Hayven day at Willow Brook park by the score of 3 to 2. The lo- Continuing its e its three was able to at haif of New first haif, scoring all of en The score in favor only one time was 3 to 1 1 New Haven made a strong come back in the second frame and New Britain was extended to the hmit to win. The second sessions was rath- cr rough mt the locals managed (o hold the Elm City to another goal and cmerged the contest on to N erew from first h the post tes later 1ritz for the Tom am 1l Geschimsky followed with another while Frank Kullman third and deciding coun- sw Haven's sce- cond half. A 4 the proceed- anlkner refereed when for Hiven uer sent one ore. Ten m himsky o Saner scored ond shot in fhe small crowd wat ings. Wilson I The lincups New RBritain Thoma New Haven Kotnatz Haupt Schmitz right Bleckle .. ¥ . Schenk left back Geschimsky ........ O. halfback chimsky . : C. halfb; P, . Bauer F. G A. Steinle "k Lorch . Steinle L. halfback Wallace Adenau Schiffert Reckert Kullman Sauer Atkinson Langen THE KID WHO HAD PLANNED to| zabo, and | _land MeKiernan. ‘lwent to center KENSINGTON IS SWAMPED IN BATTLE WITH FALCONS | Poor Exhibition of Fielding Is Put Up by South Enders | —Contest Is Played Under Protest Because of Use of Atwood — Misplays Turn Possible Victory Into Stinging Defeat—Total of Nine Errors Committed by Paper Goods Town Crew—Score Is 13 to 5. Tn a very loosely played game . terday afternoon in Kensington, the | Falcons of this city smothered the | Kensington crew by a 13 to 5 score. | The contest was a listless affair due to the poor exhibition of fielding put up by the home club. The Kensing- ton inficld contributed nine crrors which were responsible for the de- |feat and the . large score. Both pitchers turned in good games but lthe poor play of the infield behind Rerg turned a possible victory into defeat. The game was played under pro- |test. The Kensington management ... claimed that Atwood, Falcon pitche | Reiny, er, is under contract with an F ern league ciub. This is contrary ‘lo the rules of the Connecticut State league. Patrus grounded out to start game, Scriminger taking the an ecasy putout. Reilly hit a fly which McCormick — misjudged. Tt |went for a two base hit. Soule walk- |ed but was retired at second when Lewis hit to Pitzpatric In try ing for a double play, Venturo he: cd wildly to first and Reilly score Lewis going to second. Hackbarth's single past third brought in Lewis and Hackbarth scored on Klatka's M one base ply to left. Klatka was out lattempting to steal. Pitzpatrick started Kensington off | [with a clean single to left. He was | forced at second when Synder hit to Atwood. Lewis mussed up Huber's grounder and all hands were In the ninth the Falcons went out in order. McKiernan flied out ta Berg: Ross struck out. Atwood hit an casy foul fly to Curry. Kensington staged a short rally in the last half of the ninth. Berg started off with a single to right. Po- litis doubled to left scoring Berg, Snyder went out, Lewis to Klatkae Huber flied out to Ross, Politis scora ing on the play. Scriminger singled to right but Huband grounded out, Reilly to Klatka, ending the game. The summar: FALCONZ ° o Tewis, Hackbarth, Kiatka, 1b MeKiernan, Kredar, cf the . : twod, i ol YR R, Soamoma (e mRe s aag Totals ” 5] # 2 i Z3l hoannanana 5 of uro, | Berg, 1 Politis, lemmacinaman Kensington Two base pites: Crowley hits: and Reilly, Politi Keon. Time: LOCAL TEAH WINS Club safe. | criminger flied out to Kredar. Hu- and walked, filling the bases but Blanchard ended the session by fly- ing out o Kredar. Neither side did any scoring in the second and third innings. Hackbarth was safe in the fourth lon Fitzpatrick's error. He stole s lond. K struck out. Blanchard {booted McKicrnan's grounder and | all hands W safe. McKiernan singled fo center scoring Hackbarth Patrus singled and | Rerg retired the si by fanning Reilly. | MeCormick again with | New Britain Boys Baschall Nine Defeats Silver City Crew by 6 to 1 Score, The New Britain Boys' club bases ball team proved to be too fast for the Meriden Boys’ club nine Saturs day afternoon in a game played at s the St. Stanislaus stadium in Meriden wrted Kensington single but he was out trying to steal. Venturo singled to vight but Berg hit into a double | pliy, Lewis to 1atrus and Klatka. In the sixth, McKiernan dropped a single over second. He stole lond. Kredar was safe when Blanch- ard dropped his infield fly. Curr replaced Blanchard at third. M. [ Kicrnan and Kredar wor dou- ble gteal Atwood hit to 'n who |eaught McKicrnan at the plate. Pa- trug it to Curry who threw home |to Kredar but Huland dropped [the ball. Reilly struck out. Souie Ihit to centerficld ring Atwood land Fatrug. 1 fo on Fitz- patrick’s error, Sonle scoring. Hacl- harth was safe when Venturo mns: ~d up his e voller and Lowis | ccored. Klatka singled scoring [ Hackharth, MeKiernan singled over leeond making his second it of the inning. Politis replaced Berg. Berg nd McCormick went o short. Klatka and McKiernan fscored on a wild pitch. Kredar went lout, Venturo to Seriminger. Kenginglon zot a couple runs hack lin its half of the inning. Politis v | Gar hit by a pitched ball. Snyder svvvn)u” to center and Huber followed with a | Totals hit in the same fo. Al thel s ! Serimminger hoisted a high | Two lase hits |y to Kredar scoring Politis. Hu- | Filipek. Time {hand singled fo left scoring Snyder. | — ———— leurry struek onf. MeCormick | . spikes and other pirces of {singled to right.scoring Huber. Ven- | iron are being removed from sona turo struck out | of our state highoways by powerful There was no scoring clectromagnates suspended undcre seventh and cighth innings. | neath trucks. By BRIGGS WELL ~HGE DoN'T LOOK VERY STRONG BUT IF You WANT To LET ME HAVE M FER ,SAY-Y- TWo'N HALF A WEEK | GUESS | CAn USE HIM , SWEEPIN' UP] THE PLACE AND | and the locals romped oft with a vietory by the score of 6 to 4. Despite the good work of Olschefe ski, Meriden twirler, in striking out nine New Britain batsmen, the Silver City hitters were unable 1o solve the offerings of the two local hurlers, The summary MERIDE A U S | Manre, ay Qlehiefekl Andrews MeMahon, | ocn, 1h Joack, rf soc- i » wis was 14 lavumsusox? alzcswsazuss Slsse Totals AB R REITAIN ‘ Sulsass NEW 1 1 o Nappi, 1t Paluchi, b Parparian. Garrn, 8 Rourkin, Wintere, Rochnut, 2h Repnl, 1f Caapgonti, p v T 0 1 S-2a-- 324 1 4 0 1 ' anlssusscsu=a 1 100 000 Umpire: 203 i 01 120 Bogatz. s Garro, o 07 in the [P JusT WANT HiM To || HAVE SomeETHING To Do I| THIS SUMMER, ANY~ L TiNG JUST So HE AIN'T FRITTERIN' AWAY HIS TIME AN' RUNNIN' WILD- Vit ! L A VACATION OF SWIMMING, FISHING ., 45 munutes. 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