New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1928, Page 8

NEW 'BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928 UMPIRE MIKE LYNCH FORFEITS LANDERS—STANLEY WORKS GAME TO STANLEY WORKS ON CHARGES OF STALLING BY UNIVERSALS—CITY LEAGUE GAMES SCHEDULED THIS AFTERNOON—LOCAL TEAMS TO MEET TOUGH OPPOSITION—SPORTS LEADERS GETTING READY . FOR FINAL PENNANT DASH! Cardinals and Yankees Are Back in Winning Form Again—St. Louis Snaps Pittsburgh’s Winning Streak—Giants Take Over Phils—Dodgers Sink Braves—New York Team Defeats Red Sox—Ath- letics Wallop Washington—Detroit Beats Indians. Cadaaaas . ] FALCONS AND KENSINGTON SET FOR HARD CONTESTS Local Team to Meet Wallingford Lenox—Taftville In- vades Paper Goods Town Plenty of Rivalry Exists Between the Various Teams—Burritts Slated to Clash With East Glastonbury in Farmington Valley League—Game Will Dedicate Washington Grounds GOSLIN'S HITTING LEAD THREATENED Al Simmons Pressing Veteran Senator in American Race the Associated Press Back in winning form again, the it Cardinals and the Yankees ure Y. 1 1 tightening their belts for the final % and decisive dash down the stretch that will see fulfillment or collapse of their hopes of pennant victory. With seven weeks yet to go, the Yankees lead Connie Mack's ambi- tious Athletics by four and a half game: The Cardinals’ margin over the second place New York Giants in the National league is an even ; e four games. Barring unexpected de- CLEVEI axD velopments, the chase for the two R pennants appears to lie among these four. The Cardi snapped Pitts- hurgh's eight game winning streak vesterday 2 to 1, in a thrilling 12 inning pitchers’ battle between the veteran, Clarence Mitchell, and the youngster, Fred Fussell Fussell granted only five hits un- til the 12th when Hafey doubled and scored the winning run on Jimmy Wilson's single. The Pirates would have won by 1 to 0 in regulation time had not Fussell fumbled Dout- hit’s bunt in the first inning. Dout- hit scored later with the aid of a single by Frankie Frisch. The Pi- rates tied it up in the second on Grantham's single and Brickell's triple, and so the game stood Until ati Tire sase e the 12th when Fussell weakened. Winning pither The Giants kept pace with the Dith Hudlin, jeaders by taking over the Phils § to Guthrie, Ormsby 4. The Giants contined their scor- ing activities to two innings. scoring three in the first when Freddie Lind- strom hit his 11th homer with two on, and five in the seventh when Lindstrom hit a single with the bases full and Bill Terry followed with his 11th circuit smash of the season. Don Hurst, slugging first baseman of the Phils, got his 19th hemer in the fifth. With Dazzy Vance in Brooklyn Dodgers had no trouble sinking the Boston Braves, 5 to 1. Vance fanned seven men and allow- o4 ony five hits. De Bissonette got his 19th homer of the year in the fourth. The Yanks and the Athletics both won in the American league race. George Pipgras was -trong in the pinches at Boston and the cham- pions dewned the Red Sox, 5 to I Lo Gehrig drove in four runs with single and his 20th four smash, Jack Quinn pitched his 15th vie- sy DETROIT Tough opposition will be tl der of things for local the week-end when three home games will be played by the Fale cong, All-Kensington and the Bure ritts. The Falcons will meet the Wallingford Lenox at St. Mary's Ficld, Kensington plays Taftville at the Percival Avenue grounds while the Burritts face Fast Glas- tenbury at the new Washington | School diamond, Falcons-Lenox A real ot battle is being an- ticipated at St. Mary's Field. Unly a few weeks ago the Wallingford team invaded New Britain and played the Falcons on cven terms, Since then, the visitors have been ereatly strengthened and they will throw the full force of a reors ing the past week of play with his Sanized team into the works tomore usually dependable bat, Simmons | 1O%. . {got 13 hits in 24 chances, hiking his| The Falcons will show the same | atting average to .357 or one point | lincup that has won its last few |1es than Goslin's unofficial averages £ames. “Kid” Begley will perform including Wednesday's game reveal, | at shortstop. He has developed inte Simmons, whose ficlding and bat- | o1t of the rcal stars of the team, ting have been largely responsible | He is flashy and fast and is a sure for the success of the Athletics, has | Nitter. Noonan will cateh with Klate | been among the leading batsmen in | Kit on first. Patrus on second, Iiegs the junior circuit for the past four |1°¥ at short, Riley at third, Mce S Castiseor. b b ok 2| Kernan in left, Kredar in center clip but was beaten for first place @01 Soule in right Miaciras N | ) | by Harry Heitman of Detroit. [l ety Atwood ooy osng | 1 . 4 ¢ : | “The leading batters and inouna o Sihp e . \ |aviciges “Dutch” Liedke Goilia, Washington, Lenox. This prom to develop sisnn,. Eblisidhis . 'Gehrig, |10 4 real pitchers' battle, Ate v York, .359; Lazzeri, New York, | Wood has yet to lose a game cince Manush, St. Louis, .336; Foxy, 19ining the Falcon ranks. The game Philadelphia, .343; E. Miler, Phila-|Will start at 3 o'clock. delphia, .337; Bettencourt, St. Louis, | Kensington-Taftyille 338; Meyer, Boston, 333, and Luth, Kensington has a war all its own New York, (831, on its hands in meeting the Tuft- | Statistics give further light as to ‘ille team. This will not be a t‘on. | why the Athletics are pushing the | hecticut State League game as Taft- | Yankees for the American League |Vill® announced lust Wednesday { pennant. ANl season, until now, the |that it had withdrawn from the cir- | | Yankces have been far in front in | Cuit. However, being scheduled to FORFEITS G AME WHEN ‘ JUDGES AT BOUTS |team hatting. Today, they are but|Play in Kensington Sunday, the [2 |one point ahead of the Athletics in | LANDERS’ PLAYERS STALL‘ ey that department while Connie | manager assured Kensington that his tcam would be on hand for the International Federation Decides to | Mack’s men are two points better in | team fielding. ganie. | Taftville is regarded as one of Old Stanley Coveleskie of the | | Yanks took the mathematical lead the strongest teams in the state and . it is making a strong bid for the | cannat carry ‘on, St-nley Works Team Assured of Industrial League |in the race for pitching honors dur. | tate semi-pro ehampionghip. Ken- This is one of the oldest axioms i . . " . - | Amsterdam, Aug. 11 P—The In-|ing the week although he didn't win | of athletics and the most proved| Championship Through Action—Buttmalkers Were :.rnutional amateur Boxing Federa- |a game. His record is five won and | sington forms one of the higgest ob- stacles in the path of the ambitions one but it ever is a fresh topic of | 3 i & 2 = N tion has voted, 14 to 10, to have two|one lost. Waite Hoyt, a teammate, | discussion for there are always new Leading 3 to 0 in Fourth When Arbiter Lynch ' jidges on opposite sides of the ring, | dropped one contest during the Takes Drastic Step—Issued Warning That Delay- or- teams over ammw® v -3 1 1 1 s:53020® "r.l[n\\‘ | Van Gilder S | Chicage. Aug. 11 (®—"Goose" | | Goslin, yeteran Washington out- | fielder who has been leading Ameri- | can League batsmen for thre | months, today found his leadership | seriously threatened by 25 year old | Al Sitnmons of Philadelphia. While the “Goose” slumped dur- 22553 Hudlin Ulile Miljus, 333353-330unnsy aloesuszszzon 16 i . % § -Batted for Hudlin in Sth o i 4 I 72—Ratted for Miljus in $th 1 j 7z2—Ran for Langford in 9th, 2227 ~Batted for Harvel in 8th. Detrot 111 Cleveland 100 000 Two base lits: McoManu, Langford, Sweeney 2, Tavener, wer. Fothergill. Hodapp. neng 105~ 9 Heilmann . v )\ > : | Gehrin- Holloway, My Hargrave Warner. he will ascend home club performing tor the the their with e Sim- Mo Neely, rf Rrannon, °h nush, 1f hlte, of Kress, Rlue, 1h O Rour Sehan DEMPSEY Rettontourt 1 oomonnmwssass form. the Totale wlossmsa3an BY HENRY 1. FARRELL i | (NEA Service Sports Writer) ' Tl When the legs the athlete UMP :‘[oes with them. When the body o|has a pair of sound limbs to re-| 0|spond to the command of the fight-! " ing spirit, the race or the game can !be won. When the legs are gone. | the gamest fighting heart that beats o 38 CHICAG Mostil, of &80 Hunnefleld Metzler, Rlackharhy Falk, 1f Kamm 2330332 Place Referce Inside Ropes Dur- Clasell, ws Rerg, Riankenship, 1 Lyons, i | ing Contests, el 33sumassonsy Totals base x—Batted for xx—Barted for McNeely in $th + Touis 000 110 ) 00 a0 2 of the team members and Taftville art in 9th examples to quote and sad songs to | T e S will be out to win tomorrow. The game will start promptly at exmupics 15 auete 410 4 sones do [vopes, in future international con-|with a record of 13 won and 3 lost. 3 o'clock. 0253 tory of the scason as the A’s wallop- +d Washington, § to 0. Quinn held thy Senators to four hits while the M-ekmen pounded Gaston and Za ary for 14. So effective was the vet- eran Quinn that Bucky Harris, who tripled in the ninth, was the only senator to pass first base. Detroit took advantage of this Washington defeat to climb into sixth place in the standing by vir- tue of an 8 to 7 defeat of the Cleve- land Indians. Cleveland rallicd for five runs in the ninth but Van Gild- er checked the drive in the nick of time. Ten of Detroit's 12 hits were for extra bases. Defeating St. Louis, 5 to 3. the Chicage White Sox took undisputed possession of fourth place, a game ahead of the Indians, with whom they were tied on Thursday. A four hit. two run rally in the cighth gave the Sox the victory. Blankenship was driven from the box in ninth but Ted Lyons fanned Betten- court and Manush to check the Iy before any damage was done. American League W YORK AB I H PO i i [ ambs, Gazella, Ruth, Gehrig. Meuse) Koenig. o Durncher Bengon; vsras. it i ‘ Satl 1 o4 rt i 4 Totals BOETON AB R Rothrock, 1 Meer. 3h Plagsread K. Williame Regan. 2b Taitt rf Hotmann, « Sumner, 7 Gerber. e Ruffing. 1 Reire. 7 Harris, Heving. 2% 0 PHILADLLTMIA AB'R H 3 2 83 0 1 vl 1 1 Miller rt v 1 Arwoll, 15 1 Rolay, <8 Quinn, P Totulm Rotied sehington T hiladelphia Pame hits 12x -8 Harris Gas Time Two Hans ) Three base hits: Foxx e run: Miller. Losing pitclier Umpires: Dineen and Nallin Tiol Hion h- | the | o | Hatey Twa Schulte, Umpirea Lase Claney it he hits ing wan, O Reurke, Blankenship. | Owens and Geisel. Natioral League PHILADELPHIA AR H 5 3 Santiiern. o Thempaos, #h Huret, 1N Friberg, x Kelin. re Teach, 1 Whitney, 3h sand, s erian Sle Si etk S Suea s lsss Totals NEW YORK Welsh, «f Reese, 1t nn. rf Wrightstone, 2z Genewich, 1 Vindstroni, b Terry, 1h Iackson, w5 Colien, 2h Iezan, O Doul o Farrell n for Hurst in Sy Batted for MeGraw - Patted for Mann in 72—1ian for Hogan In Philadelphin New Yark Two lame Th hase hite Lindstrom. Tiurst oimmons mpires: th n & 7th. 7th 300 Terry Hoy hite: Kiein. Rand. Terry. Loxing MeCormick BOSTON AR R 0 " a Rrandt Prowi cosssmmsmamy ' Totals BROOKLYN AR Hendriek wleasansssssam 29 Brandt in Sth Hendrick in 7 000 0 a0 1 tted Rattad on aoklyn Two base hits: Flowers. Home pitcher: Rrandt gley. Time Smith, run: Umpires 2:18, s Louls AR K Douthit, ot -5 Holm, 31 Frisch, 2b Rottomley, i Blades, f Martin, x Harper, f Wilean, Maran<iile. Aitehell, p High, xx Slerdel. p Totale . PITT3AURGH AB It Adums 20 50 L. Waner, ef o0 losassam=us inn 3 3 4 = > th. me th 00 a0 Bissanette, 2 o ing. 030 010 00n—4 | 000 50x— Hogan. runs: Winning piteh- piteher and Klem. Me 100— x5 Tiree hase hita Tosing | 1Pfirman and . 1 (Contirued on Following Page) “lossss=ssszzas wl 55535333528 stars, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker heen going for a number of years. |Now they are definitely gone be- cause their legs will carry them no farther, They are quitting baseball at the end of the current season. & | Cobb can catch a ball when he gets to it and he can throw with old- time skill. So, can Speaker. Cobb can hit the ball as often as he {could in his best days and so can Speaker, but they can't get the extra step that means a safe hit or the winning run so many times. Jack Dempsey can punch just as hard as he could way back in 1919 when he reduced the face of the mammouth Jess Willard to a pulp and won the world's heavyweight | champtonship. But his legs are {gone and he can’t hit a target that he can't reach. Dempsey's great- | est asset as a fighting man was his | His legs | great speed of hand and foot. |arms are still quick but his |cannot respond to the motor. Bill Tilden has been slipping for | several years but fighting on with the hppe that he could adjust his lost speed. Tilden is today the greatest three-set player in the world but his legs refuse to carry him through a hard five-set match and his career as the world's great- est tennis player is definitely at an end. Three of America's greatest run- ners cracked up almost on the same day in the Olympic games at Am- sterdam. When their legs gave way under them under the scvere test Charley Paddock, Jeie Ray and Lloyd Hahn announced they were through. | Paddock and Ray had put their ‘I(‘g! through as severe a test as a {#et of human running apparatus ever was submitted. For a number of years the warning was sounded with sore muscles and pulled ten- dons and the crack finally came when they put the extra call on their tired limbs in the big test. Al Simmons, the brilliant fielder of the Philadelphia Ath- letics, is threatened right in the prime of his career with bad legs. He was out of the game for month or more this season and it was only because he was 50 urgently needed on the team that he was able to bear the suffering of daily play |en a pair of revolting legs. Tommy Thevenow, brilliant short- step of the St. Louis Cardinals sev- cral years ago, was cut down at the start of a most promising career by |a breken leg. Accidents, of course, cannot be controlled bhut they prove that once the legs start going from any cause they take their burden [ with them in the same direction. There always have te be excep- out- 23-525525323 1 g60d exceptions in baseball. Ram Rice and Max Carey, two of the real veterans of the major leagues. For veara Rice and Carey were the fastest men in baseball and although ¢ have slowed up a sttep or two | they are still two of the most feared | base runners in baseball. They have no fancy theories to | explain the wnusual life of their 1 limbs in & business that usually g | Kllls them off quickly. “We just s | took care of them.” they say. . | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS have al | League Standing W, stanley 11 {Corbins Landers R &E . Fafuirs . Paper Goods N. B. Machine Stanley Rule 9 The cffort of Billy Preisser to de-| lay the Landers-Stanley Works In- dustrial league buscball game at Walnut Hill park last night ro that it would be necessary to call th |game because of rain wefore the lo- gal minimum of innings had been played, caused Umpire Michacl Lynch to forfeit the game to the| Stanley Works, The umpire made| | his decision after one man was out in the last half for the fourth with the Stanley Works at bat and lvad-| ing at the time by a score of 3 to (. The Workers scored two runs in |the opening inning by virtue of a Works game to overcome the handicap of Single by Gaida which was followed ¢ | Ly Green's triple to deep left. When | Nester intercepted the throw from | the outficld he threw wildly to Os- |tertag in an efiort to catch Green lat the plate as he was trying to stretch the hit into a home run. | | The winners scored another run in the second on a single by Wen droski, a sacrifice by Abramowic and a double to left by Scott. Th latter hit caused considerable discus. sion as Goeb made a great effort to| make a running backhanded cau‘l\.‘ |1t appeared to the writer as though Ihe did make a legal catch although | he dropped the ball as he brought | his hand down. Umpire Lynch ruI~I cd that there was no catch. On | Wendroski's hit Goeb made a great | | running onc handed stop and held the blow to a single when at the | start it looked good for at least| three bases. { Neither team scorcd in the third | inning which was interrupted for several minates by a heavy rainfall. | | Landers failed to score in their half | !of the fourth and the rain started | to fall once more i | When the Workers went to bat! in their half of this inning the rain| was falling quite hard. Merline was the first batter and appeared to be| making no effort te hit the ball. nnl the first two pitches which were far | outside he swung and missed. On the third pitch which was in the | zroove he lined to Hillstrand who | dropped the hall but recovered in‘ time to get the runner at first, Mer- line did not run as fast as he could on this play. Before the third pitch Joe Fitzpatrick wal&ed to the box to give Nester instructions. | Wendroski after swinging at a| bad pitch hit an easy fly to Preisser | who deliberately dropped it. At this | point Umpire lynch forfeited the| game stating that the Landers team was trying to stall. i The purpose of the slow playing | | was to wait for the rain to fall so | hard that the game would have to| be called before five innings had heen completed and consequently give the Landers' team a chance to| get a better start in the next game At the time Fitzpatrick walked to the box to give Nester instrue- [tions Umpire Lynch warned the ing the Game Would Not Be Tolerated—Briefs. Landers me., The based YA for the rule h by amc FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Chicago California, Dempsey, Des Des Moines, san Long Beach, uthon, Ch plaz upon decision re iated Pre Young knocked Philadelphia Moines, d ard, Des Moines, biego, tests, It was understood that cision was reached because of cri- the |ticism of decisions given in the p rs not delay the der present ent Olympic boxing competition. Un- rules the judges anl | referee are outside the ring. which the umpire follows: in favor of the club of South America. In the last | American Juck Thompson out 4. shipped abroad | P Ta.—Tony ated Elmer (). Legouri, | $100 300 Tgon- | 22801498, merce reports | products eight planes at Mitchell, | gentina bought Ralph Cal.—Andy knocked out go, (1). | 037, three years countries ru led with imports | $465,871, including 15 planes worth |# hoot this season, thinks a winter the department of imported | worth $278, cluding 32 planes valued at The United States favored the new ruling to which Gr d game shall be declared |44, qnd South Africa were opposed. umpire not at fault—if a team rmploys tac- tics palpubly designed lo delay the| at Britain, Can- South American Nations | Big Airplane Customers 1 Washington, Aug. 11 (®—Almost | a third of the United States exports aeronantical products go to valued at com- Chile 18, including $215,500, and Ar- 6,000 worth, in- $215, The Silliest Looking Man in the World THIS 1S WHEN You Do THE WHIFFING ACT, | | South | have bought |hen to play full this year. $1.204,585 worth, or 32 per cent of 1ddic | the $3.715,000 in aviation products Burritts to Play The Burritts will dedicate the new Washington school diamond, a product of the New Britain park board which has just been finished, They will play the East Glgstonbury team of the Farmington Valley League and a stiff fight is being anticipated. The Burritts recently hung a defeat on the invaders of tomorrow and East Glastonbury is out for revenge, St. louis took the leadership in team fielding with an average of .97 Other leaders: Runs, 6 fewest opponets’ runs, Phila- | delphia, 446; most individpla runs Ruth, New York, 117; doubie plays, Cleveland, 137; stolen bases, Mostil, Chicago, 20; two base hits, Meusel, | New York, three base hits, | Barnes, Washington, 14, and home runs, Ruth, New York, 43. THE: COHENS HAVE IT | New York University has had a| member of the same Cohen family playing fullback for four vears in succession and expects another Co- ESTABLISHING, GREAT RECORD Out of the first 23 games he pitche ed this season, veteran Dutch Reuth. er completed 21 of them for the San Francisco club. His record during that time was 19 victories and feur losses. HAS HOPES FOR ARM Goose Goslin, the Washington out- ficlder whose arm hasn't been worth | WON'T COME UP IN 1999 Gordon Rhodes, the sensatienal young hurler with Hollyweod whe is slated to join the Yankees eventu. ally, won't reach the big leagues un. GIEBEL TURNS PROFESSIONAL ! til after the 1929 season, his owners After ten years of service as an | say. amateur swimmer, Henry Giebel of | the New York A. C. recently turned pro. of rest will get it back in shape. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED APS FOR BEST RESULTS