New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1928, Page 8

55088 558600808085808093 NEW BR ITAID DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1928 $235554. LID IS OFF IN CITY LEAGUE AS OPENING GAMES ARE PLAYED TODAY—LOCAL BASEBALL TEAMS FACE TOUGH GAMES OVER WEEKEND—POLICE DEPARTMNET TO HOLD FIELD DAY AT _WlLLOW BROOK PARK ON AUGUST 8—SPORTS ITEMS VO0000C 0000000000000 00000E S 0ITE PPV TETTETIIPLTCI T IOS & ' TWO GOOD PITCHING ARMS KEEPING CARDS IN RACE Grover Cleveland Alexander and Clarence Mitchell are! Bulwarks of Strength — St. Louis Team Defeats | Pirates—Cincinnati Reds Wallop Chicago Cubs — Athletics Take New York Yankees Into Camp— Cleveland Indians Nose Out Chicago White Sox. | wit ms—one | Marany N Two good right and the other much to keep the nals a very long jump ahead of th National field. The orthodox P pitehi left—are doing st Louls Cardi- o0 . Mar . hit Lost Phir 05 CHICAGO aB I ol P, Umpi Harp to helongs Clar- 150 run ! Home Waner Kremer. Alex cient Grover Cleviland Mitehell, spitballer, owns the other turned back the s th times In eight Yesterday Clarence pitched | the Cards to an easy “ to 4 triumpl over the Pittshurgh Pirates at St | Jouls. The Corsairs hit him often not when hits meant runs. As a matter of fact the Pirates could not score at all until the ninth when Paul Waner hit @ home run with the bases filled Cards touched Remy Krener Joe Dawson for 11 hits, six of t for extra bases Charley Root might as well maks der, ence ar southpaw gley. T one, recently The ind up his mind he can't beat the Cin- | it “7 e ey cinnati Reds. They walloped Char- | ieiiy, 1 q sl ley and the Cubs yesterday 4 to 2 ;;‘ ssen, 4. 0 and bounced back into fourth place i-‘\ ‘li';\“r“- A in the standing. Lugue gave thel (i ", AN C'ubs their seven hits where they did | vord, ss a0 the least dama | Luque, B 7‘ : The Athletics retrieved some of [ . o0 e the ground they had heen losing for | " jilicq a week in the American league race | xx—Batted moan by taking the New York Yankees in- icago Tyl e to camp at Philadclphia, 6 to 4. It st ey T was the Athletics’ sec victory hits: Wilson, Dresmen over the champions in the 13 games ing Root. Umpires: McCor- ln Kk and Time the clubs have played at Shibe p this year. Howard Ehmke was hat- ted out of the box in the minth in- ning when Combs' single. Koenig's home run and a pass to Babe Ruth made the situation slightly delicate from Connie Mack's point of view. | INIUNSLERDIN Sl B e e HBUBL_E__K“-”NES | Lefty Grove to take Lhmke's m.;t; | h d. Lefty did so with | . , n meatncas ani awpuen. ‘it Tooned “Gose” Goslin Still - Retains| Gehri, d then retirgd the side by . 5 .Jnfn‘.'.”.'m Kr.;mn 1{1'1' Meusel All]el‘lcal] Bamng Honol\s had reached first on a fumble, the Chicago, June 30 (P-~Peck's "bad Yanks' lead was cut to 11 games by their defeat. The only other maj league con- ; ; boys” may establish & new Ameri- | fict that raln permitted saw Cleve- | can league record for double and e Tits v s helnto” witq | triple play michievousness this sea- | son if nothing else. throw by uu‘;e:;(gzn)'e - ‘h”“ “":::j‘ Pivoted about the flash and speed e T e e Kaoctag | Of 3. Sewell and Carl Lind, Manager s rcorBe Lrant was Enott’C | Roger Peckinpaugh's Cleveland In- out of the box in the Sox half of the | % gl | ninth but received credit for his | 12ns 80 far have tirned o two B otk wioaive . viabay | triple and 88 double killings and the scason is not half over. The triple FRANCE LEADS IN TENNIS TOURNEY Only Two Americans Have! Lasted to Quarter Finals Wimbledon, Eng. June 30 (P—1t appears that the quarter finals of the men's singles of the British ten- is championships will have a strong- Iy Freneh flavor, with just enough American ingredicnts to add splec. four and per- cight to two for will men two rest of the John ! polis sta quarter fin v in the and one world lanky Indiana- has reached thy Big Bill Tilden | nightfall if Landry, of last or the Hennessey roady s and to be there » could zet hy France. Eng W. Austin, by Piern 1's only hope was IL was duc Cambridge university congqueror of Wilbur Coen of the American Davis Cup team Of the 128 contestants in the men's singles, France had but ton, | vet seven of them have reached the | Jast sixtecn. Hennessey gets his big test, probably on Monc when he enguges the defending mpion. Henri Cochet, Tilden likely will meet the winner of the Jean Borotra and Pat Crawford match the same lay. Borotra reached the finals las year, bowing to his French com- | patriot, Cochet, in the match that | decided the championship. Frenchmen may dominate men's | play but no woman seems capable of even threatening Helen Wills' position of supremacy among the | women stars | “There's nothing fresh to about whirlwind Helen Wills, she just too good,” wrete one morning newspaper critic despairingly, com- menting on her defeat of Mrs, E. H. Harvey, of England, yesterday. Mrs. Harvey's courngeous stand against the champion sympa- thetically praised *Mrs. Harvey took ev legs could reach but it playing against a lLrick another comimentator, While no one expects to see Miss | Wills' suceessfully challenged, o expert suggests that she may find the veteran California player, ¥ beth Ryan, her most dangerous ri- val. Miss Byan has been plaving at top form in the tournament thus | far and appears headed for the fin- | als £ was | ery ball her was ke | wall,” said | | APLAN CONFIDENT OF WINNING BOUT Meriden Battler Ready for Quin- AMERICA LEADS IN CERTAIN EVENTS 5 S.J.M. ATRINSON W X - cr—C———— Jown SABIN.CARR Kuck, ““Lee DARNES Uncle Sam many repeat his 1924 performance of winning the Olympic track and field events but if he does it probably will be because of stellar work by his field troupe. Yankee field men are virtually conceded victories in the high jump, pole vault and discus numbers, Harold Osborn and Bud Houser, 1921 champions _in the high jump and discus, respectivel will be back and there is a flock of classy pole vaulters, including Lee Barnes and Sabin Carr. Big John Kuck, lowa strong man, is one of four shot putters expected to be heard from at Amsterdam. By ALAN ] GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor) New York—{P—If as is generally cted, the United States again 0. the feld features than the Ameri-| Houser, the discus champion, and can team bonsted four years ago.|Hartrantt, the world's record holder, e 1hbs the egro | 4 los iolt this! Qlsunplo tiack and ‘”‘m‘l"“:[ ':\,"!\»h,‘:’.i :;-mnfin 'Fm"':fl‘;mm~||l be hard to beat, if they return field championship at Amsterdam (o PO B G hasnt | to old form. So will Eric Krenz, this summer it will be due principal- 005 00y about with another | the new Stanford star, but again Iy to th the sons of Uncle Sam who jump, vault and toss various implements around. In other words, the deciding fac- DERTLSS AL 25-foot broad jumper, 14 Hamm of | to leap in. weak ankle, however, may keep him out of the hop, step Germany puts forward a threat in Hoffmelster, credited with beating Hartranft's world mark recently tor Will be strengtli in the field and | p 5y again, an event he would | With & throw of 159 feet, ¢ 1.4 not on the track. The same method | gy (WP S8 T SECT Liention, of concentrating on brawn that has | American high Jumpers and pole | vaulters appear to outclass all rivals. If Oshorn isn’t successful in defend- | Hammer throwing, a neglected art abroad until recently, now has de- veloped potential champions in ing his title, it may go to Bob King|Skold 6f Sweden, Erickson of Fin- enabled California colleges to clean up eastern championships will he cmployed by the American team in ke | . its efforts to clean up the Olympies. | 0" gbe 0 5 e g 3 Ame"m Leaglle | oo Deswil mads the mark. 1t as | SR Luli-metive dals or some oMhee Hask |ygn in the pale vault will -o6iis |fensts Watk by the Atietloan vet. duplicated by the Red Sox in 1924. > feature, but it produces no more | pom hig countryman, Sabin Carr, i€ |erans, MoGrath and Mecchant. | er In double plays ,the league record, | New Haven, Conn., June 30.—Kid | points than a victory in the shotpu 'm prevails, but thore also may be | by sof uch nowcomers as Wright NEW YORK established by Washington fn 1913, | Kuplan, here from Meriden to look |or discus, where the competitors (oIl ywnry Bamonds or B reemney e | DY some SR st AB R B PO & Bl g2 {over the scene of his encounter with | with few if any plandits. o e ol 4 &1 and Black, college :”nf e S ‘ Unofficial averages for games in- | Manucl Quinteroo on Monday night, | Four years ago, while Nittle Win- | '®iE¥OR BUR 0 com- .‘pt(‘:x’;".(l;‘;s\:;l(‘)‘rl; lnm;xrxlxcvar:?::a;: <3 1 1 b g olcluding last Wednesdays', show the | July 2, was morc than confident that |land was busy romping off with all| o qie 0D FEEREE L O Amer- | the nine field events on this year's tehrig. 1 § 4 5% 4 {|lndian infield has made 23 double | he would be the victor when the ten |the running laurels o sieht from | O]t I pressed 1o hold their |Olymple program, but falrly sure of i R R A Y ipla in two weeks alone, Last{rounds of milling was over. The |1.500 meto up to the Marathon, | gwn with stars developed in Sweden !n.roa others, with at lcast a good RabsRen, ab 3 @ 1 0 4 ofweek, they made 12 and were but|fights is scheduled for the White City |the American huskies went out and oo o and as well as | chance to break through in any one Colline, ¢ T 0 0 1 0 Oithree behind the Cincinnati Reds|stadium Savin Itock clinched tho Olympic title, capturing | Gormany. TUncle Sam has four shot [ or the remaining three. 1t should ‘I;::::::k! e i 9 w a2 |who seem headed for a National| Kaplin, never given to boasting stven of the 10 field events. The!,utters in Kuck, Krenz, Rothert and | be a rough and rugged battle of Aot Sl ey a0 ie record. | turned his back when someone men- | 0nly '“‘13‘”‘ 1l American vietory on | gehwartze who have beaten 50 feet skill and brawn from the first toss Durst, xx T s 4 0 ui Pitchers generally had the Indian | tioned the possibility of a knockout |'he track was in the 200 meters by | troquently and 51 feet o sionally, | to the last jump. Paschal, xxx 0 U lsien on the leading batsmen of the |over the Spaniard from Florida, but son but in the less spec-|put Germany hae Karl Herschfield, | —— e = o 15 2| American league during the 11th|he did mention that he never felt|tacular field cvents Bud Houser won | who 1osseq the 16-pound fron ball | START OCEAN RAC! PHILADELPHIA unofficial averages disclose. | better in his life and he would prove | the discus and shotput, Barold Os- |y, » pew world's record distance of k, June 30.—(UP)— AL it A * Goslin, Washington out- | decisively that he was the better |Porn took the high jump and de-| gy foot, 91 inches this spring. |Four little yachts start today on an A imMpeAEE Maset aad e avhn cathlon, Hubbard won the broad| Aguin in the javelin America has | ofean race of 3,000 miles to San- (15 ia 165A 1 Kive it inic cane Denny McMahon never has any M.\‘mlr._l. : Barnes the pole \f-\{"_nwl the best spear-tossing talent ever de- (tander, Spain. They will leave I g i drapfied only!ohs meraer - an alibi and nelther have | F'red Tootell the hammer throw to| veigped I a quartet able to do | Ambrose Light at noon, and are ex- ¥ oint. HReves of Washington suf- an said, “but it seems the |BIe UP “"1““"" margin for Uncle | around 215 fect consistently, but pected to he three weeks on their ol tered the most, his average declining 1l opinion that Quinteroo was "“_L""",“ e U strongtn | Lweden has Guinar Landstrom, the perilous voyage across the Atlantic. ¢ (123 points and dropping him from | ated by me in New Work,, Bup{, = F e E o e "‘l““; . World's record holder, and Finland a | The Queen of Spain i offering a ) |sixth to 12th place. Th ers; | Whatever 18 thought (lle Judgedgave | o LS a0 BET AR keener oppo. ¥ ace in Pentila, who has broken cup to the winner. One woman will Goslin, Washington Gehrix, | i the decislon and there It stands. | 00" (un hefore, especially from | ooy 0TI’ record, besides Jonni (make the trip, Mrs, Willlam Roos, 5 z ey o L Bub Do AE Shiak dlzntaninstwin SLoniEY Al B e Myyra, the veteran who las won wife of the owner and skipper of Tasieii strike twice in the same place and |oiac ™ orn " oonyas® iyt Aptime | 1% 188t two Olympic titles, {the smallest of the entries. f cw York, 343 g e golng Lo he heaton ew edistvely |y vl shotgut and discus. throw. e R, 1 \I.;mph '1““”:'“;“ "“';I‘ "‘“"] can't be any 4 4t {s powerful cnough to beat . ig w York, Goubt about the vordict any other nation's iy of : Dotroif, i Kaplan docs 1ook to be in shape. | jumpers and woight-tosse KEHM e Oh, Man! ¥ | aetons | His recent slight attack of grip has | whole | Grorge Grant. rookie right hander | 4iS2Ppeared long ago and that| Al of the American champions in ' . who came to Cleveland from the ‘lm‘w rsome hoil on the right leg tlthe ficld events will be back except Southern association, went into the | ?POVe the knee is nothing but a s Tootel in the hammer throw, and e cal leading for. pitching hon. | "OW. e started traintng at Shver | his place may turn out 4o be oo of BiLL - | OWE You AN ¥ & in o more ictories | i3 “‘I' ‘}" ilio “';;le’ the ‘H“" the hardgst to Gl Tn addition, | LOGY .. IF ‘T HADN'T weck, e has won six b eriden and Houser and Oshorn. double winners i s 1 I Alvin vuflwl:’,’»‘ o | 1At Where hie will finish up. M | in 1. expect to defend only one BEEN FoR TV IeHRBLE ) S ond with seven won | 4% been in the Silver City for more | of their crowns, Houser in the dis. DRIVING WE COULD HAVE 1 e thin o) cus and Oshorn i the high jump. | WON THE MATCH EASILY. ; conseded the lender | ) ”\‘v’n’r”? njr(d - d r“.m,’n of :w will |f-ln he so .nvu.\w ’w)r\n\-: | Im SORRY OLD MAN FOR e A ol . 25 1005t of his train- | to p pi. America sel- = p Now ¥kt deonped H,’ eaesorgs Millers camp in the Catskills, { dom has had a better collection of "‘Ro""""", . ! by A the tend iy | 1018 006 10 finish up in New Haven | shot-putters than at present, to pick You Down ’ "% : y Cloveland ang wen | (6Morrow, however up where Houser 166t off fn that | 0" ¢ i i syt itoth ers are due 1o come un- | event, while “Chief” Kikins, the Tn- | , i E i A | der the wire at 126 pounds at dian decathlon star, leads a formid- | ; o toelock on Monday and there Yen't | able group of all-around performers, | i B " the slightest doubt hut what they | wre are good replacements fn | v -t : Wil thalce (s walait [other events also; in fact, better | I Ry One important feature in connee- | balaneed strength, even though no | Matedr i ; o on with the fizht is that #t will e | MOre outstanding stars in most of une ) Tt d e postponed in the cvent of bhad I S et ather. Tn case of rain or threa | s [ enir ther the entire card will : FIGH = !‘y H0 he AR DON'T MISS THE : TS LAST NIGHT | , Z = g = s ms | SAGE PARK | MY Rar - ' 107 11 Cieseland . { —_— | WELL MARGE - WE LOST OUR linocked ¢ M Miriam Burns Horn Meets Mr | MATCH AND ALL ON ACCOYNT I 1 10 Malo o "or mT | I Linson, San | Diego, ( 1 y Sisan | N, D 1 Dor & 1 TINAL SWIM IRYOU TS | (T L R b N . o | —(LF [ b 8l todan oL L i itva. ksl ooten 14 0 o from among 130 contestants ’ O. S HIL Today in Final Mateh | of Tourney Minneapoli Jimne ) AUP) riam 1 Horn, nation- cham 1, defends her ppi golf i toduy 0. S Hill, another player snal champion into by M of ans, 1 v ! from Patricia 14 Minneapoli | COLLETT VS PAYSON Buffalo. N. Y. June 30 —(UP) Gienna Colleft, former national | ampien, meets Miss Helen Paveon | of Portland, Me, here tadav in the finals of the eighth annual invita tion golf tournament oF BILLS TERRIBLE GAME-- I wAs Inv AN RRM THDAY BUT BILL WAS WAY ofF RACES Where the Best Horse Wins WINDSOR, CONN, LY 3-4-5-6-1928 Races Each Day—3 250,000 IN 1 JULY 4—New A Derby 2:12 Pace—s$2 JULY 5—Sage Park Trot 2:12 0.000 Best Horses in United States and Canada are F red—Concert by Foot Guard ‘ach Day— park. Half-mile Track in the Country. B Fastest Sage Races Start Promptly at 3 p. m Daylight Saving Time i THE LOCKER ROOM AFTER THE FOURSOME. AND THE SAME PAIR AT HOME den Endees at Percival ing to Poquonock for Game. 400000000 LOCAL TEAMS FACE TOUGH CONTESTS OVER WEEK-END Falcons Carded to Meet Strong Lenox A. (. Team of Wallingford — All-Kensington Clashes With Meri- Avenue Grounds—Rangers to Hook Up With Collinsville Team—Burritts Go- Farmington Valley Loop POLIGE T0 HOLD FIELD DAY HERE { Athletic Events to Be Run Off August 8 at Willow Brook An innovation in the field of sports will be offered 1o the city and its surrounding neighbors on August § at Willow Brook park by the New Britain police depart- ment when the bluccoats will hold their annual fleld day. Athletic events of all sorts, sanctioned hy the A. A. U, will be run off in connve- tion with the program and in the | evening a series of boxing houts will be offered. One of the features of the day will be a baseball game between teams representing the Meriden and New Britain police dcpartments, This is an annual affair between the two nines and the proceeds will be turned into the police penston fund. ¥The athletic cvents will start promptly at 1 o'clock daylight time. They will consist of a 100-yard dash, 300-yard dash, 1,000-yvard run, 12 pound shot put, running broad jump, running high jump and one-mile re- lay. These will all be Tandicap events open to any regiatered athlete. Yivents closed to memhers of th nolice department are as follow: 100-yard dash (open), half mile re. lay (open) four-man team and 100- vard dash. ¢ One of the mast interesting events planned for the meet will be a fiv mile marathoa race, The cours will start at the State Normal school and will proceed through Stanley street to Hartford avenue to East Main &treet to Franklin square to South Main street to Willow Brook park and six times around the track at Memorial Field. One event will be clos: sters from- the play, ‘?\'IH be a 440-yarq relay. Any pupil in the public or parochial schools of Har:"ord county is eligible to enter, Valuable prizes will be awarded to the winners ot first, second ana | third in each event. Individual cups Wil be given to the winning teams in the relay races, Entry blanks for the meet may be secured from any member of the New Britain police department or at headquarters at ¢ (‘,mm:m;rlal street. Entries win ponitively close at he !Auzunt 2, 1928, e Besides the athletic events base- 1hn|1 %ame and the hoxing program in the evening, there will be other | entertainments including a band concert. The members of the com mittee from the police department Wwho are arranging for the affair, are planning to make the field day the biggest in the history of the city. Already several well known athletes have signified their intentions of en- tering the meet, ed to young- grounds. That TAYLOR WIN SBOUT San Francisco, June 30 (#—Bud Taylor of Torre Haute, Ind., was awarded a hairline decision over | Santiago Zorrilla of Panama, in a {ten round hout here last night. | Taylor welghed 12435 pounds and Zorrflla 12515 wAS SORY rms. public of this JiM - You've GoT 1T WRD_uG! IT's APOLDGY. THAT'S ALL JANE, IF JIM HAD PLAYED ANY Plenty of baseball action over | Sunday is in store for local diamand fans with three local teams playing at home. The I"alcons, All-Kensing- ton and Rangers will strut their stufe Lefore the home crowds while the Burritts are in Poquenock plaving the team there in a Farmington V ley league gume. | Faleons are toughest opposition "reason in the Lenox A. €. team of Wallingford. The visiting aggrega- tion has, for the past decade, been one of the best teams in the state, The combination ussembled together this season is no exception to fthis rule, The Falcons are making a great hid to keep up a winning streak starvted “several weeks ago. I‘or thia reason, the fans are hound to see a prefty pitchers’ battle when the home club tosses “Lefty” Atwood into the box against the veteran from Wallingford, “Dutch” Liedke. The game will be played at §t, Mary's field and will start about 8 o'clock Kensington vs. Meriden All-Kensington will meet. the Mer- iden Endees in a regularly scheduled Connecticyt State Bascball league game. The contest will be staged in Kensington at the Percival avenue rounds, The two teams have grown to be itter diamond rivals and cach side is very anxious to win. Kensington met its bumps in the first part of the season bus the team has about rounded into good shape at the pres- ent time and plenty of action is in ! store for the fans who attend. Walter Berg, mainstay of the pitching staft of the Kensington team will probably be on the mound. | Meriden's pitching selection has not. yet been named. Bus service will be furnished from ‘pson’s Corner to the baseball field. 'he contest s scheduled to start at (about 3 o'clock. Rangers.Collinsville | The Rangers are furnishing a baseball treat for local fans at Wil- | low Brook park tomorrow afternoon, r’l‘hc Collinsville team, known for scveral years as one of the mest | consistent dlamond aggregations in this section, is as strong as ever this year and the Rangers will have to be in tip-top shape to come through with a win, Backers of the local team are con- fident that the crew will keep up its heavy hitting against the visiting (crew and this spells victory. The game tomorrow is scheduled to get ! under way abo#® 8 o'clock. Burritts-Poaquonock The Burritts will be in Poquenock tomorrow playing a scheduled con. |test in the Farmington Valley lea« gue. The locals handed the opposi- tion a trimming a few weeks ago and they have high hopes of turntng | the trick again this Sunday. (FIREWORKS . BIG BANG OANNONS ELL CANNONS IRE CRACKERS NIGHT WORKS Most Compicte Line tn the Oity. | ECONOM 18 MAIN || Jpen Evenings and the present meeting of the l Fourth of July By BRIGGS wro owe You ANT WHY MY PUTTING. WAS WAY OFF. CoULD HAVE PITIFUL- ¢ WE oF A GAME WE CouLD WON OUR MATCH EASILY- WAS GOING FINE BUT HE WAS BLOWING PUTTS| TUAT LONG - HE LOST \T FOR US AND HE WNows T L