New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1928, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928, PITCHERS DRIVEN INTO } DUGOUTS BY BOMBARDMENT Thirty-one Hurlers are Pounded for 183 Hits and 108 Runs — Pirates Smother Phillies — Giants Crush | Reds—Cards Measure Braves — Dodgers Go Wild and Beat Cubs—Yanks Home-Run Way to Victory Over White Sox — Senators, Boston Red Sox and Tigers Also Win. the Assoclated Press. WASHINGTON Subjected to one of the hoavies‘; 3 AB R H B cannonadings of the current season, | . BT i yvesterday, major league moundsmen 2 i today cautiously peered from their i I hide-outs to see whether the bom- 0 0 bardment was over. B 3 ot Eight big league battles—and | 1 o most of them were just that—saw o 0 31 pitchers pounded for 183 hits on SR & which 108 runs were scored. Sixty N of the hits were for extra bases— 1”( H ',? 53 double, 11 triples and 16 home o ? runs, 5 ,, National league batsmen were the Lo " most active as the followings table 0 0 show s £ Games, runs, hits, doubles, triple i Al home run and pitchers, respectivel 0 0 0 & w National ..... 4 69 102 19 4 8 15 0 0 v American .... 4 30 81 14 7 8 15 Bk, . for Bayne Only six pitchers went the route, Wiz Kremer, Larry Benton, Jim El- liott, Ed Morris, Sad Sam Jones and Owen Carroll- The heaviest shelling of the day was in the Philadelphia sector of the National league. Here the Pittsburgh Pirates cracked out 25 hits to beat the Phils, 15 to 4. Kremer, a sad disappointment this season, returned to form and gave the Quakers only five safeties, two of them, however, home runs. Behind Benton's strong pitching. the New York Giants batted out 16 hits to crush the league leading Cin- cinnati Reds, 10 to 1. Allowing but six safeties, Benton registered his 10th victory in 12 games, all of them complete games. Horace F¥ord chalked up the Reds' 82nd double play of the season in the fifth in- ning and then made two errors o one play. His first miscue in games. He had handled 137 con- secutive chances without a miss. The St. Louis Cardinals moved to | Blzehold within one game of the Reds hy i/ taking over the Braves at Boston. % = yray, to 6, in a wild game that saw aafe hits made, 18 of them by winners: Jim Bottomley hit his 10th and 11th homers and Rogers Hornsby his 12th 8hut out for five innings by Char- ley Root, the Brooklyn Dodgers sud- denly came to life and battered out a 13 to 1 decision over the Chicago Cubs. Del Bissonette drove in five runs with his 12th home run of the year, two doubles and a single. El- 9th, 010 000 w1 Po Regan, Taitt terher. Heving, Morris, Totals vt 20 " MeNeely, Brannon Manugh, Schulte. Kress, =8 Blue, 1 Rettencourt Manion, © » P x alosmonnsmssu—y Totals x—Batted for Coftman Boston st Louls Two base hits: the in Sth. 201 011 000— 002 000 000— Flagstead, Rothrock. Regan. Home runs. Brannon, Rothrock Losng pitcher: Blaeholder Umpires McGowan, Connolly and Barr. Time: 1.55. National League NCINNATI liott held the Cubs to seven safeties. GINCENNATL 0 b T In the American league the|.. . .. S oy el Yankees home-runned their way 10 |Ppittenger ] :. (:: a 15 to 7 triumph over the Chicago [ “allagh A R White Sox. Babe Ruth hit his 23rd [ PR 1 aias e homer; Lou Gehrig his 14th and p, 4o ST 15th and there were contributions | ressn CRiRae of one each from Pat Collins and | Picinich. A TR Earle Combs. R enn Pitchers came into their own in 0o 0 0 0 the other three games. Ed Morris, 188 4 big Red Sox rookie right hander, |’ el Sngt beat the 8t. Louis Browns, 5 to 2, | s e allowing seven scattered hits. The 6 2 9 2 Washington Senators made it three s in & row over the Cleveland Indians, LY A 3 to 2, behind Jones' good pitching. | NP ) AR Jimmy Foxx' single in the eighth | nastrom S R acored Cochrane with the run that|ot, rf B ’\\ AR e enabled the Philadelphia Athletics ]'1!3"“"“"“ A ) to beat Detroit, 3 to 2. e 458 s Hogan, « NgoTe 30 10 15 ¥ a od for Bdwards in oth PHILADELPHIA e AB R HPO A & Sy Bishop, o 0 0 5 on, O'Doul, Cobb, rf 8.8 4 0 W lirce ni Cochrane, © A Doty 0E Simmons, bR I Kiem. e Simmon, 4 g = Foxx, 3b P PITTSBU Hauser, 1b 34 AB R H PO A E Miller, ¢t 0 St Boley, 8 1 3 13 0 Enmie. p 0 £ 6w 8 Quinn, p 0 st a Speaker, x 4 LN Totals a5 02 BT e DETRAIT o 1 8 0 AB R g a2 41 Sweeney. 1b = - = Rice, cf 1 2 8 Gehringer, b 2 Fothergill, 1t AB R H PO McManus, 35 i Imann, rf Woodall, Carroll, » Warner, Wingo, e et AN " v Totale x—Batted —2Batted 27—Ran 1 221—Batted Philadeiphia 000 Detroit ) Two hase hits %, Thres bas Home run Y her: [ te Etmke. |ty ¥ El YORK AB Sy H 7 | o] 3 34 i 0 e ® [ S . 2 % | E vO_ A B | Ridboux, : o o o g 0| o 0 e : . o | man deaia ARy Berg, gy ] Adkins, p et s ) A b 0D, Connally, e L 4 ki ey McCurdy, i y x—Batted M ! 2—Batted Batted ba Douthit, 3 ow York I Hiown Chicago ase hit m. 1 e Bot- Two base hits: Kamm. 2 Horns Winning Turst Three base hits 5 f i toher rig 3, Durucher Woue e s and Moran, Tk, Cambe, uitine nning | rime Pipgiae Losing picher Adiine 1 5 e pites: Ormsby, Guthrie and Hidewrand.| - i Time: 3.09. (Continued on Following Page) HERE ON FRIDAY Benefit for Armenian Church to| Be Given in Tabs’ Hall | Mike Mazarian, veteran wrestler of more than 102 matches in past two ycars and known as Armenian champion heavyweight matman, will appear against one of his most bitter riva Stanislaus Zaborski of Culitornia, at the Tabs' hall Friday night. This match will be the main bout on a wrestling card being given by the church commit- tec for the beneiit of the Armenian Apostolic church on Tremont street, Alberti Rizzo, noted Italian mat- mun of Boston, and Charles Manoo- | 0 heavyweights, | gian of this city, a will meet in the semi-final. The main bout will go to the best two out of three falls while the semi- final will be for one hour time Another match between two known local wrestlers is being at the present time and ment of the princi within a day or two. Mazarian has been wrestling among the top-notchers for the past three years, On May he met Ed (Strangler) Lewis, heavy- weight champion of the world, in | Union City, New Jersey. Lewis won the match. Mazarian has met all the leading heayweight matmen in limit. well made is expect d the country and he progressed far | enough to secure a match with | Lewis. His progress towards the | title was stopped only hy the chani- | pion of them all. His opponent, Zaborskl, a Polich ar, has been secking a bout with m for the past vear and a half. He challenged the Armenian star in Chicago and although Mazarian ac- cepted the challenge, he was signed Up 80 far in advance that he has heen unable to meet him until the | match was arranged in this city this | week. Zaborski is a former Con- necticut man hut he has been livin in California for several years. Re cently he refurned and is in excellent shape for a gruelling match east the | t i announce- | SIS BERLINGER |~ UgfPenn. i it | Olympic all-around champions, | pentathlon and decathlon, and their marks: | INDIANS MAY REGAIN GLORY SPRINGFIELD CLUB - TOPLAY FALCONS {Strong Milton Bradley Team Coming Here Sunday One of the best semi-pro baseball |clubs in the east will oppose the Ifalcons at St. Mary's Field Sunday |afternoon in the Milton Bradley Co. | team of Springfield, Mass. The ag- gregation from the City of Homes is composed of college and prep school stars and forms a classy combination Among the stars who will be seen in action 2 hea of Mass. Prep. | class of 19 a first baseman; Cook |of Springficld college, second base- {man; Davis, star shortstop of springficld college; D. Sullivan of | Mass. Prep; Kane and St. Pierre candidates for the Hartford Eastern league club; J. Sullivan, Springfield pro; Murphy or Bourice. These men will form the inner and outer works for the clul Four catchers and as many pitch- ers w ve the team plenty of bat. |tery material from which to choose. {The catchers are Bourice, Coffee, | Christophori | pitchers are nati > '\\‘ | nd Putnam, while the teere, with the Cincin- ionals in 1924; Regan of stfield, Dunbar and Murphy. The Falcons will probably use At- wood, who has been going along at great pace this year. The team will remain intact for the coming game after its successful showing against the Hudsons of New Haven [1ast Sunday . An idca of the strength of the visiting club may be gained from PLANSKY Boston ~ y = the fact that Lawless who played {and starved for the Falcons last sea- (cJefe | OINL: | on was & member of the club, He is attending college at the present Fqllowing in the foot-teps of Jim Thorpe, another Indian who | SR B8 88 8 B0 PIECT wore a standup collar, Fuit (Chief) - Elkins is ready to show athlctes | (50 00 08 P8 €40 ©F IE B00 in other countries how « in track and field stunts shonld be | Eastern league club. Thorpe was a sensation at the 1912 Olympics, winning (1 unday’s game should prove to be pentathlon and decathlon, Elkins holds the national decathlon title. ATNOAaON T : 2 a teal bluc-banner attraction for lo- He studics at the University of Nebraska. e All-Around Champlons [ Thiversity of Oklahoma; Ray Mon- cus, University of New Mexico; Ver- non Kennedy, Central Missouri State i FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Friday night. Teachers' College; Tony Plansky, St e The houts will he started at §:30 Pentathlon iienms s s moson: By tha: Assonlatea Press o'clock sharp and afrends a soed | 1206 Mellander. Sweden, 24 Doherty, Colloge of the City of De-| New York — Stanislaus Loayza, drsindiai e 1912—Rie. Norway, 16x oot c dofeated Joe Glick, New s e L 1920—Lehtonen, Finland, 14 ‘ Churchill, a newcomer, won the | (10). = ehtonen, lpw];m] 16 | Kansas rel decathlon with the| Newark , N. J. — Pierre Charles, fiR (Not on 1928 program)e | fine total of 7254 bt finished | Belginm, won from Bud Gorman, - i llwmh_lun [third a week later, with #585319 [Kenosha, Wis, (10). George Smith, 1923—W “’;“:;'j Sweden, | points at the Penn Relaye, where ! Newark, outpointed eGne McHugh, 5 5 Plansky was the victar in the mud Chicago (10) F"R BI]XIN[] HERE letisondand B oaten bod SRR vl e and Doherty | Montgomery, Ala. — William 1924— Bey 4 second with 7041 338 points. Con-|(Young) Stribling, Macon, Ga., F——— ::\{,:!KI,:Y"",‘;,;‘""’\L,:‘,‘,‘,:Ind‘:n::r"'l ditions i the Penn meet robbed the | knocked out Joe Packo, Cleveland, Mohawk A G Omcia]s A AN |98 et en ol soorlog systan) L ’{17': "ly"'a‘ffil e | e lis — Howard Bentz il pp 3%) The American, JimiDherps, | 020y TR CESTC B CEL i . 4 7’ ) Th ; 4 e Lawrence with 123414 points, | Milwaukee, won on a foul from Bemm TWO C"y Boams '_“a’j;‘”n"""”‘“" ”"h:‘”“";"":’"r_ and %] such other all-around 'stars as| Bobby Williams, Syracuse, N. Y., o e L G or, | Barney Terhnger, Pennsylvania | (3). Joe zink, Syracuse. knocked R 'h(: h;-'mv= afterward when | freshman and ll.mtyvm Norton of lont Jimmy Klump, Cincinpati, (4). Officials of the Mohawk A C. ap- |found gulty of professionaliem. | /h° Tlnew A €. unnor-up fe Ce | e m—— peared before the park board and - - [ e R I OUT FOR NEW RmoRD license committee of the common RY Al J. GOULD 1?,/].'“;‘,:? e council last night in the interests| (Agsociated Press Sports Editor) | yuic's 4. when four performers will | of the petition submitted by them| New York, June 13 (P —The In- | jo celected to go ove | Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig on the for the right to conduct professional | gian is on the Olympic warpath . o and amateur boxing bouts in this|again after an interval of 16 v Road to Hitting More Than 106 city and for the right to use Memo- rial ¥ield in Willow Brook park for the purpose. The license committee granted the club a one-year license to conduct the boxing shows here stipulating that it had the power only to desig- nate amateur bouts and referring the club to State Athletic Commissioner Thomas E. Donohue for the permit to conduct pro houts. The park board, after hearing the plans of the club expressed by Ed- ward J. Hurley, spokesman for th club, decided to look over the grounds before granting the privi- lege. Members of the board will try to figure out a way to rearrange the | bleachers there for better protection for the promoters. Mr. Hurley stated that the plans to stage a series of six cards during the summer season. Some may he amateur tournaments while St club others may be the new-talent cards Which have become so popula® throughout the state. A guarants of $100 each night is made to the hoard and with privilege of 10 per of all net gate reccipts over $1.000. The officials ed 1hat hey hope to arrange cent st will seat 3.500 spectator: i Loss of the amateur association membership in Connecticu giv- |en as the ason for the quest for permission to conduct professional houts. This vas a result of the re- cent investigation the charge of commercialism Connecticut. The local license has no into in committee | power over professional fights Club officials were notified that as long as there are no abuses of privilege, the license will be made more. or exelusive for the period of one year. NAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By the Associated Tress (Including games of June 12) National Batting—Callaghan, Reds, Runs—Bottomley, Cards, Runs batted in—I H Hits— Douthit, Doubles—171 Triples— Wi 431, 49. Robins, onette Home! Horns- by, Stolen 11 Pitching nts, won 10, lost 2 Battling 412 | Runs Runs batted in—Ruth, Yanks, 36. Hits—Manush, Browns, 7 Doubles—Speaker, Athletics, 19, Triples « nators, T Homors—Ruth. Yanks Stolen bases—Sweceney, T s, 10, Pitching—Pipgras, Yauwks, won 11, lo: TO PRACTICE The all team will practice tonight at .45 o'clock at| Willow Brook park. an arena which | the Pait (Chief) Elking, Nebraskan | of aborigine hlood, seems slated to | pick up the conquering implements in all-around athletic competition where his redskin predecessor, Jim Thorpe of Carlisle, left off in 191 Thorpe, perhaps the greatest around athlete ever developed, won the Olympic pentathlon and decath- lon championships in the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm in record- breaking style, but these victori do not stand on the hooks to the In- dian's eredit. oy were sum- marily wiped out and the great | ind Fox athlete stripped of his | nedals when it was discovered he had professionalized himself before | the Olympics by aceepting a few dollars for professional haseball play, an unfortunate offense against [the amateur code that Jim had committed in all innocence ! ‘) Elkins is out to regain some of | the lost Olympic glory of the red- skin as well as to add his name to | those of Thorpe, Lor Socka- | lexis, Tewanima and others of track and ficld fame. There is no pen- tathlon on this year's Olympic pro- gram, but El on the strength of his ent and perform- ances within the past vear, will be | the American favorite to win the | decathlon, stiff t vent it. | | With the possible exception of | Harold Osborn, the 1llinois school- Elkins hears the stamp of | all-around performer 1 greatest | produiced in the United States since Thorpe s in his prim Oshorn, Olympic decathlon winner four | years Will not defend Tis title | this year, however. preferring fo | concentrate on the high jump, his {other specialty. | | Tlkins won pionship last ve the national with cham- | 4.42 | points. In most recent decath- lon performance he surpassed Os- | born's world's record of 7710.775 | ny | was due here tods 1. [the Leiperville, T RISKO IN NEW YORK York. June 13 (U'P)—John- Cleveland heavyweight, fo finish training | heavyweight hout a week with George Godfrey, negro at Eb- plans to do hi J., and his Homers, Total Last Year. New York, June 13 (®—Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who hit 106 home runs hetween them last sea- son are well on their way to €n even higher total this year. Ruth has been ahead of his 1927 pace most of the year but Lou had lagged behind until he cracked out his 14th and 15th homers at Chi- cago yesterday while the Babe was | contenting himself with No. 23. Gehrig's blow put him five games ahead of his schedule last year when he hit 47. Ruth, on the other hand now is New Risko, for his from fonight bets field. Risko road work at Burona, N. hoxing at the St. Nicholas gym, New | York city. A Good Show and Merchants’ Gift Night Fri Night 10 games and ten days ahead of his day Nig 1927 pace when he hit 60. He did CAPITOL not get No. 23 last scason until June 22 in the Yankees' sixtieth game. Somebody Is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life WELL FRANKLIN GET MY PH, D, To- ME - SAY I'™m GoING & GO RIGNT To WORK LISTEN= \ GOT MY, PH.D,, BA., AAR.C, AND PQD. LAST ~ | veAR.. 'wWAS Goine To TELL THE WORLD WHERE, WHEN, | T AND WHAT AND M | points. made in the Olympics, { besides improving on his ewn na- {fional championship mark with = | total of 7512.97 points chief | tered this healthy fotal in = | ay test at the New York A, €. i“‘ k all by himself. With the spur | | of competition he might h done | even better. The only achievement on record | | better than Elking' high mark is | the total compiled fwo years ago by | [ the great Finlander, Iiavo Yrjola, who may furn out to he the man | ! Elkins must heat to win the m_\m.“ | pic crown. Yrjola scored 03 ! points, but this mark has not yet been officially passed on as a world's record | Kk is the most colorful, hut not the only outstanding American | contender for all-around ~ Olympie {herths, Closest aniof 1080 pross ing the Indian for leadership is Jim Stewart, Southern California star, [ who tallied 7709.93 points, less than a point away m the world" vecord, at Claremont, Cal., on May 12 ! ®ame of the outstanding decath lon performerz, on the hasis of work . this spring, include Tom Churchill, OH ANYTHING THAT wiLL BRINGY MopesT #10.000 THEY STARTED ME OFF AT JTWENTY, PER WEEK AND Now IT'S TWENTY FIVE AND 'M GLAD ® GET . IT-- O+ BovY- WHAT'S ComING To You=- CORBINS RALLY IN NINTH TO BEAT FAFNIR TEAM—FALCONS TO MEET SPRINGFIELD CLUB SUNDAY-—WRESTLERS APPEAR AT TABS' HALL FRIDAY NIGHT—GRANTED LICENSE TO CONDUCT BOXING BOUTS HERE—MAJOR LEAGUE NOTES—SPORTS WRESTLING BOUTS S oo, Ol ARNOLD RECKERT AWARD BURNS MEMORIAL TROPHY Peer of High School Athletes Formally Honored at the School Today—Congratulated by Rival, Fred Saun- ders — Presentation Made by Principal Louis P, Slade—Has Fine Record of Achievement at Frank- lin Square Institution — Attended St. Matthew’s School. ‘While an auditorium of several hundred upper classmen applauded of the thrce athletes whd scored four letters this year and onc of the for several minutes at the Senior |SIX 10 cccomplish the feat in the 4 i last decade. High school this morning during the opening period, Principal Louis P. Slade called Arnold Richard Reckert HoME RUN GLUB to the stage and presented him with the William F. Burns' memorial em- | By the United Press. $ blem, American League ’ While Reckert was receiving the | Ruth, Yanks . sees honor which is awarded semi-an- nually to the athlete in the grad- uating class who is outstanding in | achievement, studies, character and Gehrig, Yanks ... Hauser, Athletics Todt, Red SOX ........... National League popularity, his pal and also his near- | Bissonette, Robins 12 est rival for the honor, Fred W.|Hornshy, Braves 13 Saunders sat in the auditorium ap- | L. Wilson, 11 plauding with the rest. Bottoml 1L esterds Gehrig, Yanks ... Bottomley, Cards Ruth, Yankees .... Combs, Yankees ... McManus, Tigers ... Collins, Yankees Brannon, Browns Rothrock, Red Sox . Leach, Phillies ... Hornsby, Braves . Bissonette, Rohins , Roettger, Cards . Hurst, Phillies Lliott, Robins .... League Totals National League . American League Congratulated by Saunders When the exercises came to a | close and Reckert was besieged by his fellow students who tried to con- | gratulate him, Saunders stood in the background. Finally he pushed his way through the crowd and for the first time since one of them had met with success and the other disap- pointment, both friendly rivals faced vach other. “Congratulations, Arnold, if it had to be someone else, I'm glad it was vou,” Saunders said as he shook hands. Reckert's answer wa 'm sorry you had to be the lose It was a friendship which began when both athletes began to meet success during the hasketball season of 1 Reckert did not make a letter that season, but Saunders was successful and he was elected cap- tain the next year. Reckert took up track and led his team in scoring. As a reward he was made captain of the track team League totals wiveesss PUNISHMENT FOR FOULS Boxers in Montreal to Be Pald Pra this year. Saunders won a letfer in ; : baseball. In football last fall Reck-| Tata Only for Number of Rounde ert made a regular guard position.| Fought. while Saunders was the understudy to Captain John Ericson at tackle. Montreal. Que. June 13 (P Saunders as captain, was the star on | Boxers who commut fouls in Mon- the baskethall team and Reckert |treal will suffer in their pocket- was sixth man, being used in almost | books, all of the games. Under a new regulation of the Saunders again tried for the base- |athletic commission of Montreal hall team and made first base posi- tion. Reckert scored four first places in the shot-put event on the track team and was the second highest | scorer this year. Saunders was the fourth in the batting standing in baseball. Saunders aided Reckert's track team to success when he join- ed it in the last three meets and scored on each occasion in the high jump. Reckert From St. Matthew's School Reckert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Reckert of 33 Lyons street. He is a native of this city. He attend- ed the Bartlett school at first and then he enrolled at St. Matthew's parochial school where he stayed to complete his studies up to the junior high school grades. He entered the Central Junior High school and was graduated in 1925, During the first year and a half at Senior High school he did not try for athletics. He later made four athletic monograms in sports. He enjoys great popularity with his fellow students. He was elected president of his class and treasurer of the Senior club. He is a member of the Delta XI fraternity and will take a prominent part in the class banquet at which he will give a toast and the class night production at which he will give the address of welcome. Saunders is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Saunders of Chestnut street. He is a member of the Theta Sigma fraternity and was one boxers who foul, either accidentally or otherwise, will he paid pro rata only for the rounds in which they have engaged. Thus if a fighter contracts to hox ten rounds for $1,- 500 and fouls his opponent in the third he will be paid only $450. The rule is o be invoked also in e case of a fighter who claims a foul !and is found on medical examina- | tion to have been struck a fair blow Croquet Sets $2.00 to $7.00 D0 You THINK . | OUGHT To Ask | KIDDINGETILL .U CATCH MY « SOME 'INDWIDUAL 1S ETERNALLY DEPRIVING ONE OF THE BLESSINGS OF -EXISTENCE fl AV AN ® D B e