New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928 JOHNNY KLATKA’S NINTH INNING HOMER SPOILS P. & F.CORBINS' CHANCES OF COPPING INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE PENNANT— KENSINGTON TO INVADE SOUTH MANCHESTER TONIGHT—LARGE FIELD TO ENTER POLICE FIELD DAY EVENTS — SPORTS ATHLETICS STEADILY CUT DOWN LEAD OF YANKEES Only Four and a Half Games Separate the Two Teams— Connie Mack’s Outfit Beats Out Indians—Browns Trim New Yorkers—Tigers Again Defeat Senators —White Sox Score Easy Win Over Boston—Cards Down Tigers—Reds Nosed Out By Giants—Other Games. (Associated Press Sports Writer) It's a funny game—baseball. A month ago, everyone, including Con- nie Mack, conceded the 1928 Ameri- can League pennant to the New York Yankees and fans turned to the National League to watch what seemed certain to be a ding-dong | battle until the final bell, Today the St. Louis Cardinals lead the older eircuit by six and a half gamea. The Yankees, on the other hand, have seen a thirteen-game lead crumble away day by day until the galloping White Elephants of Philadelphia, led by none otheg than the tall Connie Mack, are bt four and a half games to the rear of the champions, With Simmons, Orwoll, Foxx, Cochrane, Haas, et al, showing a crushing power on the oifensive, and Grove, Walberg, Quinn, FEhmke, Rommel and Earnshaw giving bats- men few hits, and fewer runs, that | A’a have run up a ten game winning | streak, won 17 of their last 18 starts and 26 of the 31 they've played since July 8. Over the same period the Yauks have won 19 of 34, a clear gain for Connie’s boys of eight and a half games. George Earnshaw was a puzzle 0 the Clevelfind Inlians yesterday and the A’'s had no difficult registering their tenth straight win, 6 to 0. Earnshaw allowed six hits, halt of them going to to Carl Lind. George Uhle was hit hard by the Mackmen. After pitching great ball for 14 innings, Herb Pennock weakened in the 15th and the St. Louis Browns trimmed the Yanks, 4 to 3, St t's single with the bases filled and none out in the 15th sent the champions down to defeat. Stewart had re- lieved Ogden in the ninth and al- lowed only six hits thereaftcr, strik- ing eut Babe Ruth twice. The Babe in faet, failed to get the ball out of the infield all day. Taking Washington down the line Falk, Kamm, Lyons, p Totals | mowmoen lransom | wanzne Batted for Hofma; Two base Hoffmann, til Losing s: McGowa Time: 1:45. hits: Three pitcher 010 o 101 300 01 Metzler, Kamm, C base hits Mac n, Dineen WASHINGTON A | West, 1t Judge, Bluege, Cronin, Harriy, Ruel, ¢ Hadley, p Marberry, Totals van Shea, 2 ..., “otherglll, 1£ Totals 27— Batted Washington Detroit Two base mann, Mc for | Judge, W hits cncomccuney Wa in 100 100 00y 001 Barnes, i Thiree run PHILADE A Bishop, b Haas, cf 000—1 Barnes, piteh- . Owens PLENTY OF PEP IN ITY LEAGUE Exciting Battles Scheduled to Be Played Tomorrow Alternoon League Standing w. West Ends Pirates Rangers Burritts Cardinals 2 Tabs ... 0 Plenty of excitement is in store for the fans who plan to watch the games in the City league at Walnut Hill park tomorrow afternoon. Three contests, each of which is full of po- tentialities, are scheduled to be played in the regular week-end baseball program. As the intersst of the majority of the fans lies in the feats of the vet- eran West End combination which, at the present time, is leading the league, it is expected that tomorrow on Diazmond No. 1 at 2 o'clock, & {large crowd will watch the league leaders in their battle with the Bur- | ritts. The West Ends have yet to suffer a defeat in the league and every {player on the team is anxious to keep up this unbeaten record. On Diamond No. 2 at the same hour, the Rangers will hook up in a battle with the Cardinals. Thia will be a bitter fight. The Cardi- 0inals have received permission to | strengthen their lineup and it is ex- pected ‘that they ‘will have . ik rate team in action. On Diamond No. 1 at 4 o'clock, the second place Pirates are due to imeet the rcjuvenated Tabs. This will also be a spirited battle with the Tabs presenting a revised lineup, Junior League The Y. M. C. A. and Phantom teams will meet at 4 o'clock on Dia- mond No. 2 in a Junior City league tilt. LOUGHRAN FILES CLAIM FOR TITLE 5 HARD TEST FOR WOMEN Above - Cascapes Course Circle Insert ~ 172 nore E LENNA © o1 py—s A beautiful course, onc of the sportiest qnes in America, wi the scene of the 1928 National Woman's Golf tournament. held on the Cascades Course, Warm Bluc Ridge Mountains, in September. by Mrs, Mirlam Burns Horn, Gle Collet, twice 0 be It will be springs, Va., in the heart of the tional champion, is a favorite in the coming competition for the crown worn FALCONS READY FORNEW HAVEN {Local Team Meets Strong Aggre- gation Here on Sunday With a winning streak of eight straight games to defend, the Fal- |cons baseball team stands ready to |defend its laurels against the High- wood Italian American club of New Haven Sunday. The invading team is one of the toughest to cross bats with the Falcons this season and a Ipretty fight is anticipated. | The Falcons will take the field with theif regular lineup which has brought them through to 10 victor- ies out of 13 games played. “Lefty” Atwood will be on the mound and it will be interesting to see if his good luck star will follow him along. |He hasn't been beaten yet since joining the Falcon squad. The New Haven aggregation is one that is made up of former col- lcge, prep school and Industrial {league stars. The team captured the championship of New Haven last year in a league in which were en- tered the Hudsons, All-Branfords and other teams of like caliber. Knowing that the Falcons have an eight game streak to defend, the Elm City crew is coming here with |one object in view and that is to break this string of wins, The team |has two pitchers, Graves and Rich- |ards. who will be depended on to give the Falcons plenty of trouble. The local erew will line up with Noonan in the catching berth, At- wood on mound, Johnny Klatka at first, “Yiggs" Patrus at second, “Duffy” Lewis at short and Riley at third. McKernan, Kredar and Soule will roam in the outfield. The contest will start promptly at 3 o'clock. IMPORTANT GAME First Lutherans, Only Undefeated BY HORACE C. RENEGAR (Associated Press Sports Writer) Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3 (P—American | women golfers searching for new thrills in golf should find at least temporary satisfaction at the com- ing women's national tournament at Warm Springs, Va. Bri States Germany 27 California cr, eight oared crews Harvard barely beaten by Germany in four oared event. Finland 48; from Great | den 31; Canada 28; w won first race for | Belgium. ! Team in Church League,, Battles St. Matts Tonight. The Frst Lutheran ter-Church league t n the second half of the year, face a foe of major importance this eve- , the only In- m undefeated | fly. KLATKA’S HOMER KNOCKS CORBINS OUT OF RACE Fafnir First Baseman Finishes Game Like a Story Out of a Book—P. & F. Team Gets Two Run Lead In First of Ninth, Only to Be Beaten At the Finish— Stanley Rule and Russwins Stage Thrilling Battle In Second Game of the Evening—Notes, League Standing W. L Stanley Works . 10 Corbins Landers R.&EE. .. Faper Goods Fafnirs . N. B. Machine . Stanley Rule Johnny Klatka's home run in the last half of the ninth inning with two out and a man on base, defeat- ed the P, & I". Corbin team last night at Walnut Hill park and practical- ly knocked the Lockmakers out of the running for the pennant for the second time this year. Reading like a tale in a story book, the Corbin team with the score tied at 4-all, scored two runs in the first of the ninth, only to have the Fafnir crew come back to score three in the last framer and take the game by the count of 6 te 5. At the same time, the Stanley Rule and Russwin teams were staging a thriller on Diamond No. 2 which resulted in a victory for the Russwins by a 5 to 2 score. Fafnir 7, P. & F. Corbin 6 The Corbin-Fafnir game was in- teresting and well-played from the beginning to end and the winner was in doubt at all times. Zembko and Gray were about even in their pitching efforts while the hits and misplays o. each team were also very evenly divided. The Corbin team scored fi being in the second inning. mann opened the frame by getting a one base blow. He was advanced a base when Bates executed a sacri- fice and stored on Wright's double. The losers added two to their t tal in the third. With one out Mills singled to left but was forced at second by Huber. The latter stole second and scored on a hit by Pat- rus who stole second and scored when Krause dropped Heinzmann's The winners got their first score | | | Tasper, the spectators as to whether O'Brien could have caught Jasper's hit as he went against a rope on the first base line of diamond No. 2 as he reached for the ball. Following Jasper's hit Lipka beat out a hit to Walicki and Zembko | was‘replaced on the mound by Jim | Havlick. The latter forced Mills to pop a fly to Klatka and made Huber ground out te Walicki to closs the inning. Venturo worked Gray for a pass to open the last half of the inning, He stole second and went to third when Wright threw to center fleld, O'Brien sent a pop fly to Patrus, Ferguson scratched a hit between Mills and Jasper and Venture scored. Jasper made a fine hid to field this hit but was only able to knock it down. Ferguson stole sccond, Great things were expegted of Matteo but he was out on an easy grounder to Bates. (Klatka however, came through with his line drive home run to right which gave the Dragons their victory. The game was marked by splendid ficlding in all quarters. Kania had a field day at third for the winners and accepted 10 chances without an error. Mills playing the same posi= tion for the losers handled eight out of nine chances cleanly. The summary: CORBIN 58 Linka, Mills, Huber, Patrus, Totals Veuture, Ferguson, cf Krause, rf vt Zoonen Ken first ra My Philadelphia, won in single sculls, from Henry De Kok of South Africa. John Schmitt and Paul McDowfell de- feated Belgian pair 5 to 4 in 12 innings, the Detroit Tigers chalked up their ninth win in 11 games and moved past the Senators into sixth plac The Cascade course where the meet will be held in September is| laid out in the Warm Springs Val-| ley country, and it will offer noth- ning when they play the St. Mat. thew's German Lutherans on Dia- mond No. 1 at Willow Brook park. The Swedes have taken two games in the fifth when Walicki drove a|X 3p home run to deep left with no one on base. A three run rally in the following inning put Corbins one Matter Will Be Taken Up by the Walickl, &8 BN in| Ted Lyons shook the jinx that has pursued him for two weeks and pitched the Chicago White Sox to an easy 6 to 3 win over Boston. It was the White Sox's sixth straight; victory. While the Cards continued their winning ways at the expense «f the Boston Braves, 6 to 1, the rest of the National League standing suffered a shakeup. the New York Giants taking second place and the Pitts- burgh Pirates moving up to fifth place, a step ahead of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Flint Rhem held #seven hits at Boston and was aided by snappy infield support. Delaney was a victim of bunched hits in the first and eighth innings. Cincinnati's Reds dropped to third place when they were nosed out by the Glants, 7 to 5, in a free-hitting game. Joe Genewich was hit hard, but he was good enough to outpiteh four Red pitchers Red Lucas was charged with the defeat, Hal Carlson, making his fiwt of the season, pitched the (hicago Cubs to a close decision over the Dedgers, 3 to 2. Doug McWeeny and Rube Ehrhardt allowed th Cubs only five hit but Jake Flow- ers’ two errors in the sixth gave the invaders two runs and, as it event- ually proved, the game. The Pirates pounded out twenty hits to sink the Phillies, 18 to 4. Wright and Grantham hit homers, each when t(wo men were on the bases. American League the Braves to NEW YORK AB It Bengough, Pennock, p Dugan, 3b Paschial, x Lazzerl, xx Totals h, Echulte, « Kress, Gerber s MacFayvden, p Rothrock, Williame, vxx Totals 3 SHICAGO AB R Metzler, rf Hodapp, Summa, 1 Harvel, of L. Sewell, Uble, 1 Totals Philadelphia Cleveland Two base hits base hit: Orwol Connolly and Campbell o 1m0 201 000 000 Boley, Cochrane. Tl 1L Umpires Time: 1:49, National League c 3ite, 2h . Zitzmann, 1€ Walker, rf Pipp, 1b Stripp, 3b Allen, of Hargrave, ¢ Piciich, ¢ . | Fora, s Kolp, D over Jablonowski, b Lucas, p 2 Mays, p Purdy, shen, Hogan, Genewich, p Totals x-—Batted for Cincinnati New York Two base Zitzmann, nowski. Losing Magee piteher and Rea | iend Herm Bressier Ihissonnet Harper, Wilso 1 Maranville, s (Continued ' INCINNATI A - 5} et SR R 3 . s Slia somauus 15 Mays 020 Kson Jabl- s itzmann Moran, o Umpire rdon. Time: 1:4L CHICAGO H PO A 10 100 Harris, Ho toher: M and on Following Page) 001—6 0000 Van Graflan, Jor- National Boxing Miaflon New London, Conn., Aug. 3 (UP) 1 —Pommy Loughran, light-heavy- weight champion, has filed claim to !the title vacated by Gene Tunney and his appeal will be considered by the National Boxing assaciation, sident Thomas E, Donahue of B. A. said today. to see me"” Donahue said, “and laid claim to the heavyweight title on the grounds he was light-heavy- weight champion and had chal- lenged Tunney before the heavy- weight champion stepped down. Donahue said Loughran's claim would be given consideration and & report ou ita merits filed. | Recognition of Loughran’s claim secmed unlikely on the basis of a istatement issued by Donahue after the conference with the Philadel- phian endorsing the Tunney-Mul- doon proposal of a series of elim- ination bouts to chose the new il champion. s The statement read in part as fol- lows: “The National Boxing association hereby announces its hearty en- dorsement and approval of the plan proposed by and accredited to Wil- liam Muldoon and Gene Tunney. “No one survivor of a single elim- ination tournament, the association believes, will be a worthy successor to Gene Tunney unless he has de- feated the finalists in any other tournament that may be staged. “The association, therefore, is most willing and ready to extend'to promotors, matchmakers, managers and boxers, whatever cooperation is » | possible in the ultimate selection of >-|a man able to wear the heavyweight championship crown as worthily as Gene Tunney.” .| FIGHTS LAST NIGHT 3 By the Assoclated Pr Detroit — Jimmy McLarnin, Los Angeles, knocked out Stanistaus Lo- ayza, Chile (4). Johnny Datto, Cleveland, won from Patsy Ruffalo, Detroit (5). Soldier Dombrowski, Detroit, defeated Johnny Franks, Markedtree, Ark., (6). Chicago — Chuck Wiggins, In- dianapolis, won from Les Marriner, icago (10). Martie Gallagher, Washington, ~technically knocked out Tom Somonich, Clevelund (3). o|Jimmy Bean, Tulsa, knocked out Jimmy Darrah, Los Angeles (3). Buzz Grifiith, Sioux City, la., and Marshall Leach, Gary, Ind.,, drew (5). Owen Phelps, Phoenix, Ariz. won from K. O. White, New Orleans, ). Ft| Thomas, Ky. — Jimmy Mc- Dermott, Terre Haute, Ind., defeat- ed Kid Lencho, Indianapolis (10) Danny Budd, Terre Haute, knocked lout Jocy Lawrence, Dayton (4). Buddy Lee, Nashville, knoeked out Jim ¥ Dayton (3). Clyde Johns, Louisville, defeated George Liddy, Cincinnati (4). Calvin Duker, Aurs ora, Ind., defcated Toughy Berry, Dayton, O. (4). Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 3 P—An or- ganization opposed to Gov. Smith was formed here last night by a group of Wake county democrats. The mueting was attended by the Rev. C. A. Upchurch, state superin- tendent of the Amti-Saloon league :nd by the Rev. J. Powell Tucker, D., pastor of the Iirst Baptist church of Raleigh, who delivered an attack on the Catholic church and on newspaper editors who criticize the clergy for political activity. “Loughran came here last night! ing short of a super-prohlem | putting fineness and finished tee shots, if you believe those who have | often’ played the course While a few of the nationally | known stars have ever traversed the course the best any woman has carded 8o far was a 79. Miss Edith | Cummings of Chicago turned this| trick, Others have found the 6,388 yard layout too difficult to even lower 80. 1Its terrain, half of it over the rolling valley land and the remain- ing portion bounding the stream called Cascade, holds lurking bunk- ers all along the narrow fairways. | This, added to the fact that deep ests stand sentinel to both left and right, means the next national women's champion will in all prob- ability have to get true drives and long ones. The principal r to get distance on_they'll have | found in the fact that the fairways are well watered, giving the ball little roll. The greens are kecn and mostly | rolling, offering opportunity fine putting. On this pleturesque course situ- ated three miles from Hot Springs will be held what should be one of | the most colorful and interesting of | in&ton national tournaments for wemen. The “defending champlon, Mra, Miriam Burns Horn of Kansas City, will face a strong list of contenders. Much of the attention at the meet will be centered about the two French stars, Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume and Mlle. Le Blane, it they come over for the meet. Leading the American contenders | will be Glenna Collett of Providence, twice national champion, and Vir- ginia Van Wie of Chicago, who played on even terms with Miss Col- lett in the South, defeating her at Pinehurst for the North and South Women's Open champlonship, but later losing to the Easttern star in Florida, This marks the first time the women's tournament has ever come %0 far south. OLYMPIC RESUME GIVEN IN DETAIL List of Events Scheduled on Amsterdqm Program Today Today's program: 400 meter run—semi-finaly final, 5,000 meter rum—final. Decathlon—100 meter flat, broad jump, high jump, shot put and 400 r flat, Vesterday's features: rry Larva, Finland, broke Nurmi's Olympic record in winning 1.500 mcter run, time 3:53 1-5. Ray Conger, only Ameriean, finished tenth. Second Olymplc record broken by . H. Lundquist, Sweden, in javelin with throw of 218 feet, 6 1-8 inches. No Americans placed. Mikio Oda, Japan, won hop, step and jump with Levi Casey, United Statcs, second. Ray Barbuti and Herman Phillips, United Staftes, qualified for semi- finals in 400 meter pun. Six women heat old world’s record for §00 meters with Lina Radke of and | Germany winning in 2:16 4-8. Flor- ence MacDonald, United Btates, took sixth place. Leading point scores: Dnited tenth team Helene Mayer, gave in Links Tourney. McAler, was in pair oared without coxswain event, Gandin of France won individual foils fencing championship. Levis, only American place, many, won women's foils No Ameri Joseph finalist, took Ger- feneing. ans had reached final. Point total of 17 champlonship United States finished fourth with § points. ENTERS THIRD ROUND Carl Kunfmann, Defending Cham- ' Finland wrestling. pion, Playing Good Golf in Public Philadelphia, Aug. 3 (M—Just go- ing along minding his own business| and playing good golf, Carl mann, defending champien of Pitts- burgh, had Kauf- | Wash- | who disposed of Mike' Surmiak, Philadelphia, and Sam Graham, Pittsburgh, polim-‘ lieutenant, 7 and 6. Graham carried | pursuing federal off the qualifying medal in the pres- |surgents were captured near Ciudad ent tourney and McAler { medalist in the 1924 championship. |tialed and executed. 1 and gained the edge for the second half, but the Germans appear to have recovered from their slump and are out to repeat their previous victory over their rivals. On Diamond No. 2 the Every- man's Bible class will play the First Baptists, The Bible class 18 in sec- on place, right behind the leaders, while the Baptists are at the tail of the circuit. | The South church will play the E. B. C. on Monday night, when the Swedish Bethany nine will engage the 8t. Matts D Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 3.—P— King Boris was burned on the fore- head apd hands when fighting the 'flames in a series of forest fires |which have been ravaging the | Tshamkorye district. The King's sis. er, Princess Eudoxia, has likewise been fighting the fires. The king's injuries are not regard. today advanced to the ed as serious. for |third match round of the National | Public Links championship at Cobb's |age but no lives have b Creck, In the third round today, Kauf- mann meets Earl southpaw, The fires have caused great dam. lost. 17 INSURGENTS KILLED Mexico, City, Aug. 3.—(—Dis- patches from Guadalajara today up|said that 17, insurgents had been | xilled in various parts of Jalisco by troops, three in- the | Guzman and summarily courtmar. Six Months From Now—Just Imagine! | O'Brien’ run ahead. Ferguson singled to right and made second when Heinzmann fum- bled the ball. Matteo laced a hot single to center, Ferguson reaching third. No play was made on Mat- teo as he went to second. Both runners scored when Klatka got a double down the left field line. Klat- ka then counted on Kenure's single. Corbins tied the count in the fol- lowing inning when Joe Jasper matched his speed against the arm of Jim O'Brien and got the decision. | Joe walked to open the inning and moved to second on Lipka's sacri- fice. Mills shot a single to left and Jasper started for third. The bail reached O'Brien a moment before the runner started to make the last turn. Joe started for home and O'Brien made a beautiful throw omly to have Jasper beat it by inches and then only because of a splendid slide past Jenure. Neither team scored in the eighth but after the first half of the ninth it looked as though last year's cham- pions had won the game. Wright opened the final inning with a line drive triple down the right centef alley. Gray was out on a groungder to the box, Wright holding third. Jasper then slammed a long clout left which went over Jim head and allowed Wright to score and Jasper to circle the bases. There was some question by to 27 012 000 000 013 Klatka, Totals 1 Corbin Fafnir Two base hits Three base hits aJsper, wloss3225-20mE alomsucsmocasm Wright. Wright 1 Walicki, Lynch, Russwin—Stanley Rule In a game packed with thrills, sparkling plays, few hits and preat pitching on hoth sides, the Russell & Erwin recuperated from its folly of Wednesday night and stopped the winning streak of the lowly Stanley Rule team by a § to 2 score last night. With Walfe and Al Rlanch- ard pitching airtight ball, each ale lowing only five hits, it was anye body's game. A rally by the Russ. wins in the eighth inning wherein a walk, two triples and a double gave the team three runs, decided the contest for the R. & E. team though it was a narrow squeak for either to win, It was an even-Steven contest all through. Wolfe’'s fine form was slightly marred by his wildness in walking four men because two of these passes were turned into runs. The first score of the game came in the second when “Star- head” Budnick reached second after Simon tossed his roller far over Argosy’'s head. He went to third on an infleld eut and came honie om Scheidler's sacrifice fly. The Russ. wins made it twe te nething in the (Continued on Following Page) S —— I'ee PuT THIS HoT FLATIRON AT YouR FEET ROSCOE- TS AN AWFULLY CoLD o5, 155 e LS i e o i By BRIGGS THE HOT il Ny TESome e