New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1928, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928. Speaking i of Sports el i) ‘Wojack, who was re- *“Chucky" eently released from Decatur in the Three I league, has been signed up by Elmira in the New York-Penn. circuit and is playing third base. Wajack has recovered from his injury to his fingers and is playing » good game around the hot corner. Last week Wojack took part in in the field without an error. He batted 34 times and connect- | ed safely eight time. One of the blows went for two bases. “Merwin" Jacogson, who was sold to Newark by Toronto in the Inter- national league, is playing left field | for the Skecte Jakie is finding plenty of trouble with the pitchers this son and was benched during the week be-| cause of his poor hitting. “Johnny™ Hayes, who batted over 400 for four years in a row at Le- high college, 1s playing right field for the well known New York A. C. | club of New York. ; Hayes received an offer from Connie Mack of the Athletics but| turned it down because he did not| desire to make his living playing | . | He Is still hitting the ball hard and is leading the New York aggre- gation in batting. i | Just what a good team can do | when something goes wrong with it | was demonstrated to a perfection | last night by the St. Matthew's Lutheran church team. After going through the first half of the Inter- Church league season without losing | a game, the St. Matts started out on the sccond half last evening by | receiving a terrible 14-7 beating| from the Everyman's Bible class. The Bible cl; hit hard, but that| was not the real reason for the big score, for the St. Matts, ordinarily by far the best fielders in the league, made 26 errors in six in- nings, not a single player being gutlty of less than two misplays. No | matter what they may be doing, the | 8t. Matls scem to do it in a big VANKEE PITCHERS | SHOW GO0D FORM (Critics Who Say Team Gets by With Hitting Only Are Wrong Chicago, July 21 (P —Statistics, the court of last resort to settle baseball arguments, so far prove the eritics who deride Yankee pitchers as weak but saved solely by heavy hitting, are all wrong. | . - For not only do the Yankee bats- | 13 men drive home more runs than any t in the American league, but | ~ the Hugmen are the hardest to score | h against. And this is true despite the ts fact the team is sixth in flelding. 5 Unofticial averages for the junior = eircuit up to and including games | e of Wednesday show the Yankees re 'have been scored against only c- 4.26 runs a game. During the sea- son, they have shoved over 6.05 runs each contest on an average. Phila- delphia, which has held the league | leadership for fewest opponent | acores, is second with 376 runs) scored against it in 86 games as gainst New York's 87. Five of the leading ten pitchers in the American league this far are [ Yankee: Alvin Crowder of the [Browns still leads the field of hurl- rs, however, stacking up two more victories during the week to hike his season's record to 11 won and one lost. Waite Hoyt of the Yanks s second with 12 won and two lost. While the leading batters slumped | onsiderably during the week, #Goose” Goslin of Washington still | led the fleld with an average of .394. he ten leading batsmen: Goslin, 'Washington, .394; Gehrig New York, .370; Simmons, Philadelphia, .369: | Lazzerl, New York, .: : Manush, St. | 1.outs, .343; L. Miller, Philadelph ,340; Morgan, Cleveland, .338 and | [Myer, Boston: Koenig, New York nd Foxx, Philadelphia, .331 eacl Johny Mostnil. the White Sox's flect outfielder, took the lead in | tolen bases during the week, pilfer- | ing two more and running his record | to 15. The Red Sox retained their lead n team flelding with an average of ; 974, Other leaders: Double play! leveland, 110:; indlvidual runs, [Ruth, New York, 93: doubles, Flag- | tead, Boston, 21 and triples, Barnes, Washington, 12. ‘ West, of Chicago, Named | Secretary of Interior Superior, Wis., July 21 UP—Pres- jdent Coolidge has selected Roy O. [West, of Chicago, regublican na- tional committeeman from Illinois, to be the new secretary of the in- erior. The resignation from the cabinet of Hubert Work, chair- man of the republican national ommittee, became effective upon resignation of his successor. Mr. West long has been a per- onal friend of Mr. Coolidge in lwhose campaign four years ago, Ihe figured prominently as secretary of the republican national commit- jee. While Secretary West probably ill continue his capacity as na- onal committeeman from Illinois, it was thought likely he would gn from two other offices he fholds within his part those of imember of the executive com- ittee and vice chairman of the na- jonal finance committee. Secretary West i3 60 years old. Illustrated signs. showing where | Ipedestrians may cross busy street nd motorists must give them right | ‘way, is one suggestion for “safety iAirst”’ being considered by the Paris [police. 0LD AMATEUR NINE Plainville baseball team which was perhaps the best amateur nine in Connecticut at the time and which met the seven games, accepting 20 chances|: followers of that great team Ly the showing of the undefeated 1928 town | {the regular umpire for MADE STATE GASP (Special to the llerald) | 6é—Unionville | 6—Holyoke . 14—Meriden . ¢ 4—Southington . \Plainville Team of 1889 Boasted Pitoher With CUTVES |avrr s o ohSu it o |0'Neil, later president of the Eastern |1eague, and was considered the crack team of New England, but it had to | 6—Meriden .... | 9—Bristol —Bristol $—Bristol . Won—17; lost—9. 1—Meriden . $—=Southington Plainville, July 21 — The famous pow to Plainville. of 188y, Hartford Atlantic league team, Yale university, and all the leading outfits in the state, has been recalled to the pla vers and death of ' the old played team and by the recent Frank Cox, who defeated timers in one of the best games. The 1889 team, like that of the present y was composed entire- of boys who lived in Plainville, and it was rated by all as one of the Lest amateur nines in the state, while many considered it as the very Lest, The fastest teams in Connecti- cut came to Plainville, and, while the locals did not always win, they lad the satisfaction of scoring at t one win over every one of their | strictly amateur opponents and fin- ishing the season with a record of | 17 games won and 9 lost. The! Plainville team was also a great a‘- | traction about the state, and on one occasion it played a double header in New Britain with the Yale Scien- ! tific school team. Prior Could Curve The team hud three pitcher Prior, Charles W. Hird, and “Eph” Day, all of whom were justly | tameus. Jay Prior was one of the first curve ball pitchers in the Unit- cd States, and he was among the players selected by the late A. G, Spalding for a trip to England in the '80's, On this trip, Prior helped to introduce baseball into the British Jsles. He is now Dr. James Prior of Boston. Hird is still alive and liv- | ing here, but Day is dead. Four catchers also fortified the team. They were Ed North, Elwood Kelden, Barrett, and “Jake” Day. Day and Belden are still alive. The right half of the infield pre- sented one of the greatest possible pogion contrasts. Cowles, at first base, stood ppjladelphia six fect, five inches in his stocking feet, while the late “Jimmy" Chest- nut, at second, was barely five feet | in height. Despite his small size, he handled everything that came his | way, being exceptionally agile and | able to make prodigious leaps for | wild throws. Other players includ- ed “Bob” Hird, “Tommy" Cafferty, Jerome Moody, “Bolivar” Harris, Os- car Belden, and George ‘Rocky” Goodrich. All of these except Good- | rich are still living. Plays Season Without Error Belden made a phenomenal record | which probably has never been equalled and can never be surpassed. Playing regularly in every game, he | went one entire season without com- Basebafl-s_tanding | ding s [ New York 23 Philadelphia . 35 St. Louis . 44 Chicago 45 Cleveland B0 Washington . 51 Boston . . a0 Detroit 53 8t. Louis . | Brooklyn mitting an error. “Bol” Tyler of New Britain was the home games, and the old timers declare that an umpire's job was no easier in those days than it is today, and possibly not so easy. The late Wil- llam J. Blakesley was officlal scorer for the Plainville team for a num- ber of years. The team traveled from one town | 10 another by bus, just as teams arc | likely to do today, but then the bus was horse drawn instead of motor driven. The bat boy was the luck- | est boy in town and was envied by ul the other youngsters in Plainville | when he entered the bus and drove | oft with the team on its road trips. | The rules were different than at present. For one thing, the pitcher was allowed seven balls before the batter could take his base. Again, & caught foul tip on any strike was| out, and many were the arguments over whether or not the ball had tipped the bat. Catchers played well behind the plate, and did not come up behind the batter until two strikes had been called. There was a very good reason for this, for until some years after this practice of moving up into the danger zone be- gan, catchers had whatever, not even a mask. The passing of Frank Cox has re- called to John E. Lamb a famous game played with New Britain, when the Hardware City team won out by no protection | 1-9 in the tenth inning. Cox scored | the winning run when Cafferty threw the ball over Cowles' head in the last frame. This is considered as the most renowned encounter .en- gaged in by the locals, with the pos- sible exception of one contest with the Mount Nebos of Manchester. Plainville also lost this game, and a great deal of Plainville money went | to Manchester that night. The other famous amateur teams in the state at that time were Ivory- town, the Mount Nebos of Manche ter, the Athletics of New Brit n, Waterbury. AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Philadelphia 4, 8t. Louis 0. Washington 7, Detroit 4. Cleveland-Boston, rain. (Other clubs not scheduled.) Games Today Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia. 2. Cleveland at Boston. Detroit at Washington. Games Tomorrow Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Cleveland. Detroit at Washington. (Other clubs not scheduled.) Yesterday's Results New York 4, Chicago 3. Brooklyn 8, Pittsburgh 7. Cincinnati 4, Boston 3. St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 4 The Standing w. New York ...... 4 Chicago 5 Cincinnati Pittsburgh . Games Today New York at Chicago. 2. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. 2. Philadelphia at 8t. Louls. Boston at Cincinnati. Games Tomorrow New York at Chicago. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. 2. Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Cincinnati. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Reading 8, Montreal 4. Others postponed, rain. The Standing w. L 39 Rochester . Toronto 41 Reading - 40 Montreal .. 41 Baltimore .. 47 46 Newark veseess 40 47 Buffalo 40 48 Jersey City . 33 [ad Games Today Jersey City at Buffalo. Newark at Rochester. Baltimore at Toronto. 2. Reading at Montreal. EASTERN LEAGU Yesterday's Results Bridgeport 1, New Haven 0. Other games postponed, rain. The Standing w. New Haven .. 8 30 Hartford . 46 41 Pittsfield 46 41 Providence 3 40 Springfield 42 42 Bridgeport 4" 46 Albany 41 48 Waterbury 2 36 Games Today Bridgeport at New Haven. Albany at Hartford. Providence at Pittstield. 2. Waterbury at Springfield. Games Tomorrow Springfield at New Haven. Hartford at Albany. Waterbury at Providence. Pittsfield at Bridgeport. The population of Greater Lon- |innings the game be the Rt. Matts making errors on every pulling al- of | class took [ full advantage of these and kept up |its consistent hammering, piling up don is always growing, in 1926 it 7,808,870, compared with 6,581 in 1901, stationary, about 4.500,000. Sub-stations are rapidly taking the Unionville, the Light Guards of New | place of local electric power houses | ; ; 5 flaven, the Charter Oaks of Hart-lin many small ting two hits in two tries and scor ford, Southington, and the Acmes of | hejng made in cities, The Wesleyan university nine used | transmission wires. to come to Plainville in the spring for a practice game, as did the Cu- ban Giants, a team of negro players whose fame spread all over the country and has lasted until today. With the Cuban Glants came Ju piter, their star pitcher, and Grant, considered by experts the best sec- ond baseman baseball has ever seen. Grant was admitted to be better than any second baseman in the major leagues, and at one time an attempt was made to sign him for & National league team, but he was kept from his rightful honor by the league rule which barred colored players. Results in 1889 The schedule and results for the 1889 season, compiled from a diary of Mr. Lamb, were as follows: 5—Yale university ....... snis BB 4—Hartford Atlantic Leaguers 17 17—Yale Sclentific 8chool . o T 11—Yale Scientific 8chool 2 15~—New Britain Athletics . 9 Yale Law £chool (rain.) 13—New Haven Light Guards .. 12 25—New Haven Light Guards .. 7 10—Manchester PR 17—Manchester 3—Unlonville 15—Unionville 6—Ivoryton 10—Ivoryton 19—Southington 9—southington . 9—Unionville .. | | The administrative county, on the other hand, remains nearly | electricity \jig four runs. | large super power 'gathered a pair of safe hits. | plants and shipped over high voltage West Ends Fearful of Rangers and Bur: 1. ¥ | West Ends . o 1.000 Pirates o 1.000 Cardinals . 1500 Tabs ..... 1 500 Rangers 2 000 Burritts 2 000 | Three good games are scheduled { this afternoon |league and one 1;‘1;1>->d in the Junior City cireunit at .| Walnut Hill park. Several changes may take place in the standing in the league if the results of the games | &0 as 1 are expected to. The West Ends have the toughest proposition on their hands of all the teams playing. Meeting the Tabs on s | Diamond No. 1 at 4 o'clock, the West Ends, tied with the Pirates for | first place, will have to be at top team is hitting on all six at present. The Pirates expect a rather easy | day of it against the Cardinals on | Diamond No. 2 at 2 o'clock. The i Cardinals threatened to make it hot for all teams in the circult but an automobile accident team of its battery and thus the | crew goes through the season in a weakened condition. The Rangers and the Burritts will stage a peculiar battle of their own today. position and each will be fighting to | keep Its head above water. Each team has its backers but hecause of the evenly matched battle that they should wage, guessing Is scarce on the outcome. nior City League The Laurels and the Burritts arc heduled to fight it out at 4 o'clock Diamond No. 2 in a regularly scheduled Junlor City league game. These two teams are evenly matched and they should furnish one of the features of the afternoon. E. B, C. WALLOPS DAZED ST, MATTS Win by Forfeit Inter-Church Standing | W L PC South Cong. ..... 4 S gy RIUEE Ansens. Pet. inity M. E. . 1 0 1.000 . The plane will be plloted by Bernt 562 pyrst Lutheran . ... o 1000 | Balchen, member of Commander - Everyman’s Bible [ Richard Byrd's transatlantic crew. D40} Clans . guyse 6 1.000 | Tunney expecis to land at Curtiss 534 gt Matthew's ... 1 T0go| Field at noon on the day of the <505 {ivirat Baptist ...... 1 ouo fight, two hours after the take off 495 gtanley Memorial .. 1 ‘000 | here. Swedish Bethany 1 .opo| Tunney refuses to belleve that he 3591 The Everyman's Bible Class took iterrible revenge last night when it |turned the tables on the St. Mat- |thew's German Lutherans. champ- {ions of the first half of the Inter- |Church bascball league season, and buried them under a 147 score, It was the first real walloping the 8t.| in their Matts have been handed three years of play, morale was blown to the savage attack unleashed by the !Bible class. Not only was |Preisser pounded for hard and |timely hits, but he and his alleged Pdé |support aided their foes’ cause with .65 and the team 529 nings. 2500 | two errors, and 489 [had five, A6L | .300 'on doubles on Billy Preisser Klopp, but Stromquist caught latter between sacks and then drew a pass to start a Bible class rally it | and Billy | the score in | Ithe third, but once more the Bible {class pounded Preisser and regained | | which before was stopped. Preisser hit netted three runs Neumann and tied its lead. Otto Sucss tried tossing for the |1osers tn the fourth, but after strili- | ing out one and walking two he was In the later ame a farce, ire placed by Preisser. was 40w Dit or thrown ball and nost every conceivable dumb” play. The Bible i sort |the score without merey. Frisk led the E. B. C. attack. get Oscar HIGH PRESSURE PETE THREE GOOD BATTLES O ' CITY LEAGUE SCHEDULE IChanges Liable to Take Place in Standing — Pirates Have Easy Road Ahead in Meeting Cardinals— ts to Struggle to Get Out of the Cellar—Laurels Play Burritts in Junior Circuit. in the Senior City | contest will be | form to win and retain their un-| Wroken string of victories. The Tabs got away to a slow start hut the deprived the ' Both are tied for the cellar | | Losers Make 26 Ervors—Swedes | atoms under Billy the worst fielding in church league 29 history, making 26 errors in six In- Not a single player on the .518 '1osing team escaped with. less than | Ernie Klopp at first The losers got a run in the first | and the Tarson also Louis | ‘eumann of the losers made three | Roganski; Tabs, Politis and Dona- |singles ana Billy Preisscr a pair of |hue. Game With Tabs’ Team— | doubles. Frederickson injured an ankle in running out a hit and had to retire early in the game. The box score: ! ST. MATTHEW'S AB R H PO A E Preisser. 2b ... 4 0 0 1 0 2 | W, Prefsser, p-3b .. 4 3z 1 0 3 | E. Klopp, 1b PR R I . Fink, ¢ 3~ 'l oau g ieE G.' Prelaser, AT R U O. Suess, 31 ST O, Steege, M-cf ... 3 1 1 3 1 3 | 1t Fink, ot-rt 1 1.0 3 1.. Neunman, rf-if 3 2 0 3 Totals 10018 8 26 i H PO A E | Stromquist, Q@ 4 % 0 | ialtin. 1b ‘ 0 & A4 8 |3 Swanson, 3b....3 3 1 3 2 1 ) D e S | Benke, ¢ . 31 1oa 4 el | Johnstone, 1t A4 L 1 8 0D Larson, 2b......4 1 2 1 0 0 Witze, of .ooccreee 6 0 1 2 0 0 Frederickeon, 1t ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 Lindbers, ©f .. s 2 9 0 el | 3016 8 ¥ 4 5 .10z 0— 3| 303 325 x—14 | | Two base hit Prelsser 2, E. | O. Steege. Three base hit—Henke, | Baptists Forfeit Game The First Lutherans won the easi- est victory of the season when the First Baptist failed to put a team on the field and forfeited. The Bap- tists have been having difficulty in getting their men around, and last night there was doubt cxpressed as to whether the team could continue | {in the league. Games Next Week | The First Lutherans will play | Rible class on Diamond No. 1 Mon day night in what promises to be the feature game of the weck, while the | Baptists are scheduled to meet the | £t. Matts on Diamond No. 2 on the same evening. On Friday the Stun- | lley Memortal team will play the | outh Congregationalists and the Crinity Methodists will face the! Swedish Bethany nine. | Klopp, | | | TUNNEY T0 MAKE TRIP BY AIRPLANE! [Rickard Will Try to Prevent; | Champion From Taking Risks Speculator, N. Y., July 21 P— Unless Tex Rickard's attorneys can outwit the champion’s legal advisers, Gene Tunney will make the trip to | New York July 26 for his bout with | Tom Heenecy by airplane, and by no will be running any risk by making the flight, and he rejected the sug- gestion of Rilly Gibson, his managet | to take out a half million dollar in- surance policy. | “What good would a half million be to mc if I was killed?” Gene countered when newspapermen queried him about the policy. "I think the proposition is silly.” Rain preveuted the champion | from working out yesterday. He wanted some action and was on the point of braving the storm when he | recalled that he suffered from lame- ness of the shoulders at 8troudsburg | when he worked out during a show- | ed before his first fight with Jack | Dempsey. For a boxer approaching fighting peak, Tunney is in an exceptionally happy frame of mind. Most fighters reaching the edge are ill-tempered and impatient but Gene has yet to lose his temper or poise. | Three more workouts and the champion will be in remarkable physical shape for his titular de- fense against the sturdy New Zea- land blacksmith. The titleholder was due to take the first of these workouts late today. He will work out tomorrow and close the prelim- inary campaign on Menday. TARS WIN GAME The Tabs' bascball team in the I'raternal Soft Ball league swamped the Royal Arcanums last night by ihe score of 12 to 3. One of the | features of the contest was a triple play from Welch to Egan. The Tahs | scored six runs in the second on a |spirited batting rally. These were cnough to win. The score: ceanum .. 0001000203 ‘ 062000135 x—1° NORTH AND JUDD team in the | making a sorry showing on the dia- | | fan. LOSES 0 FAFNIR | Girls’ Industrial League Teams Battle at Walnat Hill While the Fafnir men's bascball Industria is league mond, the girls' team last night won ita first victory when it defeated the by the score of 16 to 12, The Fafnir team hit consistently throughout the game while the Buckle Makers were unable to solve the slants of Roman until the latter innings. Roman allowed but three Lits until the sixth when her ef- fectiveness suddenly vanished. The N. & J. team then hit her hard but they were stopped in the seventh by a beautiful double play started by the Fafnir pitcher herself. Four girls were injured during the North & Judd misses in a slugfost Lowever. refused to quit playing. Gloria Dery of the Buckle Shop, led the field in hitting with four hits out of five trips. Miynarski featured with the stick for Fafnirs. Both | bingles were good for homers but n | her first trip around the sacks, she failed to touch first and she just managed to touch the bag again be- | | tore being called out. The fielling gem of the game | came in the seventh With Kow- ! alski on first, Miynarski hit hard to deep right center. Moshus and J. | Valconis went after the ball. Moshus | made a nice catch but started to As she was going down, she the ball to Julia who shot it to first to complete a deuble play The tossed summar; PO A 4 | 0 10 | 2 n | AB ¥ ro Der 5 8 -4 0 ‘the « $ 1% 2 3 @ 33z 310 00 4 1 23 o1 40 0 e 11 Btoskt, ¢ . 3 13 Facs Moskus, cf . +3 1.0 3 el J. Valcends, ¢f ... ¢ 3 8 3 1 @ A Mazur, p oo 11 0 3 Totals 1 1] North & Three ui Miynarski. Bams Off A, Mazur 5. Umpire—Kelly. Virginia Van Wie Is Chicago, third Van Wie, Again Golfing Champ July 21 UP—For the straight year. 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