New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1928, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATUKVAY, AUGUSL -4, 192, Y. M. C. A. AND WILLOW BROOK TEAMS WIN IN ROTARY LEAGUE—KENSINGTON AND FALCONS READY FOR HARD BATTLES TOMORROW —DETAILS COMPLETED FOR POLICE FIELD DAY AT WILLOW BROOK PARK WEDNESDAY —BIG LEAGUE NOTES- NEW YORK GIANTS STILL IN RUNNING FOR PENNANT McGraw’s Fighting Clan Takes Measure of Cincinnati Reds—C(ubs Take Over Brooklyn Dodgers—Pirates Crush Phillies—Cards Down Braves—Yanks and Philadelphia Athletics Both Lose—Tigers Bow to Washington Senators — Red Sox Stop White Sox Streak. Associated Press sports Writer John McGraw's teams in the Na- tional leaguc long have been not for their bulldog courage, and t Glants of 1928 arc no exception, Some critics have rated all four western clubs as potentially stronger than the Clan McGraw. The stand- ing. however, shows the Giants in 8 second place and still within striking | ;17" distance of the St. Louis Cardinals. ! The Cards, it is true, hold a com- manding lead of six and a half | games, but notwithstanding the | great ball they've played for iwo months they have been unable |()‘ R shake off the Giants completely. |, Ly Most ot the Cardinals’ margin over 1. ez New York is on the winning side of Sowell, d Hodapp, the ledger. In losing gam the | \organ, Giants trail only by four contests. |summa, 1 Mauy have been the games Mc- Graw’s players have pulled out of the fire this season and yesterday tkey did the same thing 7 to b at the oxpense of the Cincinnati Reds, led by 4 to 1 in the ecighth inning the Giants took a one-run lead by scor- ing four runs, Frank Ho homer being the decisive blow. Nothing daunted the Reds tied it up in the fiest half of the ninth only to sec Freddie Lindstrom crash out anoth- er four base blow with two out and |5 yre, Losing pitcher: Walberg. Umplres: Ott on base in the last half. Hughie | Campuell, Connolly and Van Graflan, Critz, Reds’ second sacker, hit safe- | Time: 1:53. ly in his 21st consecutive game, a league record for the season The Chicago Cubs moved into third plate by taking over the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 to 5, a seven 1un rally in the third settling the issue. The Robins kept pecking away at three Cub pitchers, but it did no ®0od. Del Bissonctte cracked out two triples, two singles and drew a pass in five trips to the plate, The Pittsburgh Pirates tightened their hold on fifth place by again crushing the Phillies this time 14 to 6. Ple Traynor got three singles and a pair of doubles in six chances. The .Cards lost no ground for Sherdel held the Doston Braves to j Lo five hits and beat them, 5 to 1. A ¢ o temperature of 95 degrecs was too paidie much for Cirgil Barnes, Braves' |, pitcher, and he retired from the game in & state of semi-collaps: a3 after five innings. Twenty-three | i ‘"vnj,l,;"lll,‘"n‘:f' Ul balls were caught by the @utfielders, “ne George Harper snaring seven of 0 them. The American league race remain-, “d in status quo as the New York Yunkees and Philadelphia Athletics both lost. The Yunks were shut out by Sam Gray and the St. Louis Browns, ¥ to Gray held the champions to five hita, The Cleveland a3 10 CLEVELAND [l 1 1 1 Hudlin, b ke messsns i Totals 9 x—Batted for Orwoll in 4th. xx—Ratted for Boley in 7th. x—Batted for Rommel in 9th ix—Batted for Hawsler in 9th. —Batted for Bush in $th, Philadelphia 1 100 000—5 | Cleveland 5 000 10x—9 Two | Bishop, Summa. L. Sewell, ute, J. Sewell, Foxx. Three 1 t: Simmons. Winning pitheer: 1 hits: BOETON Sunin Hofmann, Gerber, €5 Morri A5 28, CHICAGO R | Hunne 2 % " ler Falk, KKamm, " 1 o 1 1 9 0 " " ) 000 409 Three lame Nallin, Di- 1:31, Natioral League lits Claney Berg Umipires: Tine: CINCINNATI AB B 1 1 Indians snapped the A's winning streak of ten straight games by pounding Ruly Walberg into submission, 9 to 5. The Athletics used 15 players, including three pitchers. Cleveland got 11 hits. Bilings and Vangilder walked five | men in succession in the seventh in- | ning at Detroit and the Tigers bowed to the Washington Senators 9 to 8. Bilinga walked three men after two were out in the seventh and then handed over the burden to Van Gilder who walked two more and allowed three singles before the side. was retired. Six runs was the next result for the Scnators. The Chicago White Sox six gam winning streak foundered on the | iiog . « rock of Ed Morris' pitching prowess, | Renton. the Boston Red Sox scoring a 3 to 1 | howwl: 2 triumph over Al Thomas, Fitzsimmons, American League NEW YORK AB It o, rf Lindstrom, ey, 1h Jackeon, Colen, = 2 » Totals x--Two out when winning run Batted for luque in 9t Ratted for Welsh in 9th Batted, for O'Doul in $th tted for Benton in Tth 200 000 oo 000 Nits: Hogan, Kelly, Picinich, 1. tome runs: Hogan, Lindstrom. Winning _pitcher: Fitzsimmons. piteher: May. Umpires: Reardon, and Magre. Time: 1 4 ro Combe, Koenig. Ruth Gehrig, Meypet, rf . Robertson, 3 Durocher, 2 Gratowski, . Collins, Hoyt, p Coveieniie. Thomas, Durst, x 2 2 Cincinnati New York 0 0 1 it 1 » Totals 3 " = sr. Lous e M Neely Rrannon, Manusti, 10 ite. of Kiesh » Blue, 1n O Rourke Hehang Gray. Totals PITTSBUR AB i oK RO AlS G118 PHILADELITOA ABC I h ani PHILADLLY ap A " l | Heeney did e AR el With Jimmy Foxy, a Athletics are still carrying on i ihe Yanks Quinn has won 13 and lost four. Al BY JAY R. VESSELS New York, Aug. 4. P— What started out in the American League ! as just another Yankec year may | yet tura out to be the year for the Philadelphia Athletics that Connic | Mack has waited 14 years for. When the Hugmen's pitching collapsed temporarily, permitting an eleven and onc-half gume lead to dwindle 1o fiwe and onc-half games within a week’s time, the baseball world hegan to wonder if after all the A's were going to| come through. The A's, the Hard Rocks from Down Under of the American League, have taken more punish- ment from the Yaunks than Tom from Gene Tunney. reteree saved Heency from further abuse, Wil it be a case of just prolonged suffering for'thc courageous Mackmen? When ‘hampion Gene found the range of Tom's chin and opcned up | target practice, it didn't phase the | Anzac's boring in tactic§ one bit. | The only parallel in this ycar's| major sports is the case of the A's.| The Yanks have defcated the Ath-| letics in 13 of the 18 games play- | ed, but after each collision the | Hard Rocks of bascball blinked | their eyes and squared off to| trounce their next opponents. On | July 86 they had won 23 out of | their last 29 games. 8o now they have more than a mere mathes matical chance of overtaking e world's champions. While the New York club ually has been slipping, the Phil-| adelphia nine has been slowly im- | proving. and it has a good enough rating 10 lead any league. Just a few days ago Connic Mack’s ng- grogtion was three per cent ahead of the St. Louls Cardinals, which are rated as somewhat of a ball team in the National League. Daschall men believe that the month of August will tell the story. If thc Athletics can whittle down that once scemingly infurmount- able lead of the Hugmen they will have a first-hand oppertunity to wipe it out altogether in Septeme ber, for the two clubs have a four- game series booked for the Yankee | Stadium. Showing amazing comeback pow ers after taking repeated lickin from the Yankees, the A's have played good ball throughout the season. They rank second to the Yanks in baiting and are third in fielding. The playing of American ys parallels in the National The grad- Philadelphia in gue in several | that of 8t. Louis | For one thing two of the oldest active pitchers in ma- jor league bascball have contrib- uted to the success of hoth clubs, Just as Grever Cleveland Alex- | ander has helped the Red Birds so has Johu Picus Quinn aided tne ! Athletics. Quinn .who is 43 years | old, has outdone Alex. who is 41. Quinn’s record on July 3u stood 13 games won and four lost, whila € id Alex on the same date had won 11 and lost five, Should the t A's nanage to over- take the Yanks there probahly wonld L the world's series spec ¢le of these two old timers fan gling in one of the early games of the cont:st for world baseball su- prema-y. While the aged ones have been boosting the Mack aggregation along. youth has not neglected its part, especially in the offensive 4 partment of pl One of the best young players on the Philadelphia roster is Jimmy Foxx. all-around man who, after playing first and catching. finally has wound up as a regular at third base. Jimmy i on: of the five leading batsmen in | the junior wheel and has been hit- | ting better than 356 since he be- | came a regular. Foxx'a brilliant playing has in- spired Manazer Mack fo use other youngsters. He s trying Piteher Orwoll at first base and Jor Hassler shortstop. Ossie s hif- ting 366 and lo: 383. Doth ar ficlding vl Should thie newiy ting punch held hat an- | ont and the catcher. playing thind. and Ossie Orwoll, a nitcher, covering first, the Phil Th remarkable pitching of 13-year-old Job Y TEAM WING IN 'Willow Brook Smothers Vance! 18even innings hecause of the inten: | support | hitting star of | He made 4 a3 *LEFTY GROVE AL SIMMONS delphia nistered by nn has been a big facior i the A's showing. Stmmons with an average of 374 i Philadelphia’s bet hitte Amectican Leaguc despite the crushing defeats ad cient arms of John Quinn and How- | more than enough for the Willow ard Ehn stand up, American | Lroak team and they cmerged on League fans may yet have some- (top handing the Vance nine an 18 thing to gt excited aboul. {to 1 trouncing in a Rotary leaguc B game played at Walnut Hill park yesterday afternoon. The game was called in the last half of the sev- enth by agreement. The winners startod their on- slaught in the opening when they chased six runners across the plate before the side was retired. They got but two lone hits in this ses- sion. The Vancers scored their only tally of the game in the last half of the first inning when Mahoney | singled, took second on a balk, went to third on a fielder's choice and scored on a passed ball. From then on the Willow Brook pitcher was linvincible and he blanked the losers for the remainder of the matinee. "]'nc winners enjoyed unother big {inning in the fifth when they tallied | eight times on seven hits, Goo | befty Folden pitched another sweet game for the Willow Brooks. He allowed but four safe hits and DRt “uoo (had the game well ‘n hand at all The Y. M. 0. A, team scorcd its |times. He was ably backed up by first carned vietory in the Rotary his"brother behind the plate. leazue yesterday afternoon when it | The losers used two pitchers in a dofeated the Smith team by a 20 to | dusperate effort to stop the slugging 11 score. The game was ended at | Willow Brooks. Ifink was sent to (he seventh inning hocause of the |the showers in the fitth and Davin- intense heat. The Willow Brook Son who relieved him was also in- team smothered the Vance team by |effective. SRR e The losing team nade the o first Y. M. C. A—NMITH triple play of the scason in fhe fifth Showing a wonderful defenge and |INNINg When with runners on firs! a curprising offensive attack, the Y, and second, @llahan took a line A. ball players in the midgeg|drive over second base, touched the smothered ghe Smith team 20 [hag and threw the ball to first to in a game which was cut to|complete the triple Killing. Merza first mam up in the seventh inning hit one to the second dia- mond for a circuit clout. Lynch, Argosy to s liking and pounded | Willow Brook second baseman made out run after run. Misplays by theia pretty cateh of Ritter's short hit older Smith team helped greatly in|into right field. - victory. Murray, pitching for the team, held the Smith baiters to four hits, none of them better than a single. and this gave the “Y" its chance to come through for ite first carned victory this season. Murray's | not only wavered but it hadly and mistaken judge- plays almost gave the Smith team a chance to tie the £core. Smith scored eight runs in the sixth inning, but only four hits » registered. igh an early in the game cut to seven innings. Smith pro- tested this move when the inning ached but Umpire Paul held the team to the letter of its pact. Eugene Covie was the ficlding and the winning feam, a gensational catch of a fly in left ficld after u hard run in which he held the ball despite the fact that he made a somersault after the catch. He slapped out a home run and a double for his share of hard hitting. Dominie Cartelli showed that his main suit is not only marble shooting hecause he made come nice stops at third and also garnered three hits out of six times up Before the zame, the “Y” captain, Covle. protested the use of Da- gata hy Smith The summary ROTARY LEAGUE a in Second Game of Day League standing w. 1. PC; 1.000 1.000 000 Paradise Park Warhington Willow Lrook Y. M. C A Nathan Hale Smith Burritt Vance o to 11 heat. Starting in the first inning, e team found the offerings o: (Continued on Following Page) wobbled ment on — reement made the contest was gL el 3. Coy Pegle E. Coyle, Lanel, 1h tecano, ws i, 3h Lyons, of Murray " lusss 1 . Home Paul Time: 1:20. k-Vance T E. Coyle. Umpire Willow Bros big inning: runs Two SOUABBLE ARISES AMONG OFFICIALS Murray Hurlburt and Frederick Rubien Argue Over Satbacks Amsterdam, Eam'’s relative Auz. 4, P—Uncle i y poor showing in the | Olympic track competition is bearing fruit in the nature of discord and | disagreement in the ranks of officials |eharged with responsibility for thu |conditioning of the athletes, Barring Ray Barbutl's sensational victory in the 460 meter final yester- day, American found themscives consistently outspeeded by forcign rivals, particularly the Finns and representatives of Brit- jain’s f: flung empire. Explanations for the humiliating defeat of Uncle Sam’s favorites have been as contradictory as they have been numerous. Murray Hulbert, president of the Amateur Athletic. Union, and Ired- crick W. Rubien, fogmer secretary- treasurer of the A. A. U, and now secretary of the American Olympic | committee, are the chief principals {in the latest squabble Strictly speak- |ing. the dispute has little to do di- |rectly with the setbacks the Ameri- | cans have sutfered on the track. but | there appears to be little doubt it | has dcveloped from the discord now gencral in the official family. Virtually removed as a' field offi- runners have clal at the Olymple stadium, Rubien | precipitated an open break with Hulbert by charging that his disbar- |ment had been instigated by the A | A, U. head, displeased because Ru- bien hid failed 1o pursue before the Intgrnational Amateur Athletic fed- | eration certain recommendations of the A. A. U. convention. Hulbert freely admitted he was | dissatisticd with Kubfen's actions b | fore the 1. A, A, K., adding he had jdccided not to reappoint the former | national secretury-treasurer “to rep- | resent us in any proceedings.” Hul- tert added that he had had nothing to do with Rubien's removal as a field official. Rubien charged Hulbert glected the interests of had ne- American athletes, citing as proof the fact that | | Hulbert had not joined in the pro- | test over the elimination of the American sprinter, Henry Cumming. from the 200 meter semi-final, Hul- bert answered this by pointing out that he is a member of the I A. A. 1, council and the track and field Jury and 18 bound, as such, to tuke no active hand in the duct "Any suggestion t been dercli ridiculous and Ru- bien knoy the A A. U. head de- clared, The atmosphere among officials nd coaches for the last few days sas been one of general urrest The coaches have disagreed over tactics nd training and h argued the generally admitted fact that the Amcrican athletes have “eaten them- selves out of Olympic honors.” More attention to the men's diet has been aid in the last not helped in forgetting the ser- fes of reverses the Stars and Stripes sutfered on the field, Barbuti's victory came as more or s of a tonic to the whole squad Had the big ex-Syracuse football star Leen beaten America would have | had virtually no hope of winning any | of the running events. The Finns | generally are regarded as having a | strangle hold on the 3,000 meter steeplechase championship and Americs has only an outside chance of scoring in the marathon on Sun- aay. In the relays. of course, the Amecricans figure to be strong but fter their defeats in the 100 and 200 meter runs, in which they placed ! no better than fourth, no expert is Wiener ' played & confident enough to helieve that the {lower Michigan. | team races alrcady are in the victory | column, ‘, ?he Lonesomest l?;eling in the World team'’s con- | 1 have | few days but that CPPPPVP 4T VITT TEO FALCONS AND KENSINGTON FACING TOUGH OPPONENTS Hardware City Club Crosses Bats With Fast Highwood Italian Americans of New Haven — Paper Goods Town Crew Playing Second Game of Home and Home Series With Manchester — Plenty of Sunday Baseball On Tap for Army of Fans—Locals Have 8 Game Streak. FIVE TIED FOR BATTING HONORS Quintet of City League Plagers v Are Hitting for 500 |2 ome ana some sericn [ nome and home serics LRIy i lcons-New Haven | In the Highwood Italian tied [ican team. the Falcons will mect with aver- |an cgation that was good of the sec- |€nOUEH m\]‘.r.’:ll{o nicast ijl t . [teams in New Haven de qound of play approaches. Of |8 0 I mptonshin of : five, Mickey Buckeri, Burritt (. city. Having conguered wherye |shortstop, und Surko, Cardinal ficld- | thing in their class in the Elm City, «r, have achivved this figure over the [the Italian Americans have turned greatest distance and 1ust theretore [ their atiention to the state teams [be considered the rightrul o and they have luunched a successe Buckerl has made 11 hits in ful attack %o far in their attempts at bat. a truly remarkable feat, and |to top the state semi-pro clubs. Surko has hit sufely in ties | Composed as it is of an Ager: gu- out of 14. Bruno Kunia. Burritt |tion of former college and prep eher, with four hits in cight times | genool stars, the visiting team, 1;4‘: also deserves conside knowing of the cight-game winaing e :l‘l'f*x‘\f..‘"f.,',,"jfi'\,'{"'J;.;[’\‘ jptFas of the Falcons, s ansions 1o |10 man, “Buggy” Fitzpatrick, has | 11 "i";'t__"l"fid‘x;;.‘:“r:'m“';’ ot 8 | iayed In only one Bume and has|iou, the strongest combination Mo Capt. | POsSIDE: will e put in the field and th cons will have to be at top son of the Pirates, is right -behind the leaders with 467, with iy Conte At etol BBR R NInL Rl RS D Lindgren of the Rangers and Harolg | Mt straight Weir of the Pirates giving him | Atwood chase. Buckeri's 11 hits are the |most likely most made by any player in the (the Fulcons. league thus far, the lead in run. |game while piloting the good ship |making has been seized by Francis (Falcon and his mates have a | Regley, the diminutive shortstop of |World of confidence that he will set Ithe Pirate® There a 6 men pow | the New Haveners back tonior~wy. Latting .300 or better. They are the | The game will start promptly at 3 following: o'clock. Buckeri, Kensington-Manchester | Cardinals, A bitter battle in the Connecticut will ve fought out on Avenue grounds in Kensington tomorrow afternoon | when Kensington again takes on | Machester. this time on its own | home greunds. The teamns hooked ap last night in a batde in - Man- shester, an account of whieh will found in another column, and {each is anxious to win tomorrow. Konsington has found itself in ita recent games and it now presents one of the most formidable obsti- cles in 1he path of the teams who seeking the pennant in the league. West will probably for the Sonth Endirs while remainder of the team will ha same as i recent games. The contest will start promptly at 3 o (v%‘k and bus service will be furnish®d tor fans from Upson's Corner to the haseball park MAY BE A CRIPPLE Edward B McLean's Speedy the All- face home The and the teams in their afternoon. | | Both Falcons {Kensington baseball |tough Alnes opponents iomorrow | Falcons ave slated to cross buts with " Highwood Italian Americans of Haven while will meetng the Coms of Kensington Manchester Anicra ty pla for first honors in battir League rs are ages of 500 as the start | the: seven husky portsid will occupy the mound for He has yet to los: a Burritts, .500; 00: Kania. Bure ey, Rangers, .500; I patrick, Tabs, .500; Carlson, Pirates, .467; Lindgren, Kangers. .444: Weir, Pirates, .41 Anderson. Rangy 400, Sheehan, West Ends, 400 Smithwick, West Ends Rose, Burritts, . Surio, 2 I . Bur Mc- abs, i M, Basil. West Pirate Ha BLurritts, Seife Pirates angers, 333 rankaskas dinal . Kopec ik Charlow, Pirates, n Rangers, . 1 At the othe end of the list are Wolfe of the Rangers and Milewski of the Cards, who have made one hit {in 15 tries and have < s of _067, while Kreeder of the Burritts i |batting exactly nothing in 11 tries The Pirates leading in te batting with follows: A ate Burritts, Inds, Rangers, ; Cardinals, 1.197; Tabs. .156 The Burritts are { the top in fielding, having an of 914, being followed by abs with 912, Rangers with Pirates with 000, Cardinals %68, and West Ends with .S66. as Toro, Bay Colt. Will be Out of Racing vers the 011, with for Good, it seems. Ed- bay colt, race as a Chicago, Aug. ward B. McLe ¢ have run his e-year-old. The winner of the Latonia and American derbies pulled up limping at the end of a six furlong gallop at the Hawthorne race track yesterday and his condition was such that trainers and rail birds agreed he would be a cripple at least for tha remainder of his three-year-old period. dy last Detroit in Throes . Of Scorching Wave Detroit, Aug. 4 (®—Another scorching heat wave followed yes- terday in the wake of a series of terrific thunder storms Thursday night and early today throughout Two heat fatalties | were reported, one at Detroit and the second at Monrce. By BRIGGS WHEN, IN A FOURSOME You MISS A Two FooT PUTT THAT WowlD NOT ONLY HAVE WON THE GAME BuT PAID THE CADDY FEES, THE DINNER CHECIT AND E!ENYTNUJG