New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1928, Page 9

B 3 aseball Standing AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yestenlay Cleveland 3-2, New York 2.10. Detroit 9, Washington 6. (Other clybs not scheduled.) Standing Ww. 80 4 61 85 Speaking H of Sports} _Baseball fans in general in this €ity rejoice with Johnny Klatka in the honor bestowed upon him yes- terday by members of the Falcon A, C. It is a rare thing to have any €lub publicly henor its hard workers and vesterday’s ceremony wherein Rlatka was presented with a gold watch and a gold fountain pen, wus & pretty one, L. Pet. New York .. Philadelphia .. Bt. Louis . Cleveland . Chicago .. Washington Detroit Boston The comittee in charge waited un- til Klatka came up to the bat for the first time. Then. with both teams lined up on the diamond, the Presentations were made. As a col- orful aside to the picture, a little &irl, dressed in the native Folish cos- tyme, presented Johnny with a bouquet of flowers. 43 Games Tolay Chicago at Boeston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. (Other clubs not scheduled. Games Tomorrow Chicago at Washington. St. Louis at New Yeork. Detroit at Boston. Cleveland at Philadelphia Needless to say, Johnny received all with 4 solemn and bashful mien, although onlookers state that he bore up weil under the embarrass- ment. The reaction, however, was quite natural because, for the second time this season, Johnny failed to eome through with a sufe hit. NATIONAL LEAGUE Gawmes Yesterday New York 3, 8t. Louis . Chicago 3, Brooklyn Cincinnati 4, Boston 3. Through some unexplained slip up today, the Herald has mnot recei the results of the two games pl over the week-end by ihe Kensing- ton baseball team. Usually with a promptness that has not been ex- celled, the Kensington management Bives the newspapers the informa- tion sought. Stauding d w. |New York St. Louis {Chicago . |Cincinnati . Pittsburgh Brooklyn | Boston | Phila 66 Kensington plays Windsor Locks Wednesday evening in Windsor locks. Saturday the team goes to faftville. Sunday, Kensington has & game scheduled with Bristol for next Sunday but this may be changed before the week is very old. | Iphia New York at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Boston at Pittshurgh Philadelphia at Chicago. The Sokol baschall team uphcld the honor of New Britain yesterday. While the Falcons werc bowing to | Taftville and the Burritts were being beaten by Holyoke, the Sokols bat- tled 1o victory in 11 innings over Collinsville, This happens to have been the only New Britain diamond victory over the week-end. Games Tomorrqw Boston at Pittsburgh. New York at Cincinnati, Philadelph at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis. INTER IONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Rochuster 11-0, Jersey City Montreal 6-3, Newark 3 Buffalo 12-2, Reading 6-1. Baltimore 7-1, Torento 6-1. (8econd game called in 7th.) Standing w. + 68 1 ceeae. B . 02 . 64 10 1t begins to look very much like a deadlock in the New Britain City League with the Pirates and th v out the tie, ay the Pirates, despite glaring defeated the veteran crew | and remains only a few points be- hind first place. The Pirates have played one game less than the West Ends and that is the reason why the teams are not tied. oronto Baltinore: Reading Mont i . Rochester Newark Buffalo Jer The game in the Girls' Industrial | Teaguc tonight between Stanley Works and Fafnir has been post- | poned. Tomorrow night, Fafnirs | and North & Judds will play an im- Gy Tolwk portant game. A win for the Nor!hl Newark at Buffalo, & Judd crew will put them in a te| o cor Gity at Toronto. for first place with the m.mn.':: Baltimore at Montc Make licading at Rochester. The men's league Btanley Rule & Landers vlayed August 30. Thursda Yotween Stanley Works and Wl he played Augusi Wek sees the end of the schajule in the Industrial Leagee, game between | will be | ‘s game | Fatnirs, | 25, This regular | Bascball es Yesterday New Haven $-11. Waterbury Pittsficld 2-4, Hartford .7 Bridgeport 12-4, Providene Springticld 6-4, Albany | Weir, Pirte captain, cheated him- 1 Standing Sclf out of a home run Saturday [\ WA afternoon in the heciic City league i'.‘|;\~1 ‘i:x\.“ Zame With the West Ends and ;.rn-;l,m;vl'v;,”.,. vented himiself from being the abso- | LToVde lute and undisputed hero of the | pridkePo Eame. Before pley started he made | (010 an agreement that a ball hit into s‘“_}“émm the crowd In left field would be \PriPEN I kood for only two tases. hut he re- ' v gretted that before the game was over. Weir was the tirst batter in the last of the 11th inning, and he lined the first ball squarely into the Jeft| ficld erowd, where it rolled across the second diumond. “Lefty” Huber tripped over the ropes in chasing it L i and took a comic-strip sprawl, and mpire i COLLINSYILLE COMBINE vasy hotac run, but Umpire Mangan | held Weir at second becausc of the latter's own rule. SRS It really mattercd little, for Pete itka scored his captain with a | timely hit to center, although there was a great mis-up at the plate. Emithwick blocked oft but Weir hit him with & gurgantuan siide. Both ball and runner caromed off Smith- wick, and the, two scrambled over and under h other. one after the ball and the other floundering for the plate. But Weir won the wild frecfor-all and his team took the me. 1t was what you would call | “weird” tinish? | Springticld at Pittsticld. Hartford at New Haven. Albany at Waterbury. Bridgeport at Providence. Loval Baschall Team Evens Series With Rivals In Overtime Game At Willow Brook. Muking gcod their boast of the past week, the Sokols yesterday de- feated the Collinsville buseball team | at Willow Brook purk. The t went to 11 innings before a lon wa ched. Collinsville led 5 (o 0 until the when u New Britain rally tied the score, - The Sokols were badly crippled [througli the absence of Joe Kania |and three other regulars. It was a pitchers’ battle between MeCormick and Sith, Smith weakened in the v ninth nd Haines started things P \ith a double with the bases loaded. Important | He also battcd in the winning run lin the 11th The features of the the work of Two and possibly threc games | ope-handed will be played in the lmnr.:‘l\ur.-h\ bascball league this cvening at Wil- | Jow' Brook park. By far the most | mportant will be that on 0 CHURCH LEAGUE GAMES Trinity Methodists Will Stack Agninst St Matts in Battle Tonight anie included Haines at the bat, a ch by Jervis in the seventh to stop a Collinsville rally and MeCormick’s pitching. He held Collinsville io six hits. The Curry Diamond ' brothcrs starved for Collinsville, The ¥o. 2. where the Trinity Mecthodists | summar Vil stack up aguinst the St. ,\lm»l tigw's German Lutheran The | Methodists are in first place by a sant half game, but the St. Matts ar pounding along right behind ant can take the lead by a victory tonght. On the other hand. a Meth- odis victory will carry the team past the severest test it will & callet upon to mect, On the first diamond the Stanley Memodul nine will oppose the Firs Baptisk. The Stunmors are right up in the wmce, but the Baptists are again it the cellar. Arrangements are being made to have the Swedish Bethany and Everyman's Bible | class teamy play off the game post- | p, i voned from I'riday cvening. If play- | Rautter, it this conest will place on | Smith, the grass dianond. | totats s | Sokols RABBIT INCING POPULAR el Rouen, Aug. (UPy—Rabiit { LI¥o Vase T i racing has sprite into sudden pop- | Troneky to Hines. ularity 4 8Pyt in Normandy. — = Where, because of the little cxpense | A Berlin chemist has discovered a of installation of ti “lapinodrome” | solution which, when poured on a SUKOLS Ventu o Jetls, g Giza, 1b Tronsky, Strko. rf Hayes. 3b Grip, 2b Hires, v MecCormick, akula, » of 36 COLLINSVILLE Sleaaas Totals 5 Kubza [essaanwuy 10 3 000 000 003 01--1 002 01y 000 00—3 | Hines, Btruck out: By Double plays: . PIRATES IN RACE, last of the ninth, | ‘" ICTORIOLS IN SLUGGING BEE 'Laurels Lose by 130 in Junior City League Game ling L. league Stand w. Pet. 1.000 T4 867 .33% 6 Colliers avs 7 Burritt Reserves ....5 Phantoms ........4 American Legion ...2 Y. M. C. A. . 2 Laurels P ) 000 The Y. M. C. A. won its second victory of the year and the Laurcls lost what will prebably be the last chance to win a game when the “Y" took a 13-10 slugfest in the Junior City baseball league at Walnut Hill park Saturday afternoon. Both sides |1t hard and both made errors in | plentitude, but the “Y" ran up its |score faster after a late start and kept clear of the cellar by holding Its Jead, Each team sgcored twice in the first on wierd collections of passés, |errors, missed Infield flies, and onc | hit apiece, Then the Laurels slipped ahead to 4-2 and 5-5, but a hit bats- man, Squillaciate’s single, a pair of crrors, und another crazy play gave the “Y” a tle in the fourth when, with the bases full, Hayes got a gift single. He hit to Pawelezk, who | wanted to play to first, but the first | sacker thought the play should be |at the plate and didn't cover his {bag. Pawelezyk had to hold the {ball, therefore, and cveryone s | safe. IFour solid blows in the sixth ave the winners a lcad which they ! | never Jost. They could have scored {inore than they did had they been able to conie through in the pinches better, for they had 14 men left on | base, In the last inning, with two out | and the score 13-8, the Laurels stag- ed a dying rally. Osipwolcz doubicd and three singl followed, but V. | Matus caught Kalkoski's fly and (ended the game. | Matus and Squillaciote led the attack of the winners with three hits epiece, while Haber of the Laurcls slammed out four hits in five tries. | The fielding genmi wus turned in by | Ziezulew Laurel right ticlder, when he made a twisting one-handed v in the sixth. The Hayes, Rerlin, 1h e e Rardeck. o1 Ostpowinz, Chofnieki, of Haber, 11 [ Cliojnick Matus, in the opening inning after Gill had | \ives of the stars and stripes won 14 | the | first places to four for Canada and | was responsible for first score. The Burritis tied | in their half of the in-| ning on a pair of singles and sac [ficcs. The Northenders took the [lead in the last half of the third |When they pushed across three run: {on three consecutive singles. Ther !was no further scoring until th |fifth inning. With the Rurritts bat-! ting, two singles and two doubles| {were good for three more runs, The | winners scored their last run in the [seventh on a trio of singles, The | Cards scored their final tallies in the [following innink on two safe hits jand an crror. The losers made a bid | |for the game in the ninth inning, {but with two men on Erickson for: ed Osborne for the third out. The score: CARDINALS AB I Psingled Cards' the count e i Gin, e |¥ 1 Omborne, ih, rf RURRITTS AB R Gadumeki Bucheri, Luty Si Budnick, 0| HIGH PRESSURE 2 and the low cost ohracing animzls, | flat surface, solidifics into a kind of many rabbit race corses are being | ice which can be used for kating | laid out, rinks, | ing five first places. I westerner took {ent | mers” ; NEW BEI3AIN DM! HERALD. f’l'l,lfvuA‘i. AUy T le wlouwee looasm Totals Cardinalg Buiritts 120030 105—7 Two base hits: Stan Hydnick By: cherl. Mhree Lave lit: Seling. Btruck out By Reld 1, P. Rose 1. ngees 15, Tabs & Brilliant relief pitching by Harold Casey, who relieved the faltering Anderson in the fourth inning after the Tabs had tied the score, saved the day for the Ranger team in an encounter that officially opened the new baseball dlamond in the North End park. Clyde’ Ellingwoed, super- Intendent of parks, threw out the first ball in' place of Mayor Angclo M. Paonessa, who was unable to be present at the opening ceremonies. However, the superintendent exhib- |ited seme skill as a pitcher for he {had Herdlein. Tab lead-off |swinging wildly at one of his *“hooks.” The final score of the game 1 100 00p bW ispurnoil man | uds W, ivs. WESTERN AMATELR |2 TOURNEY STARTS British Walker Cup Team Play- en,En!erod in _cluslc Bob O'Link Club, Chicage. Aug. 20 M—Lifted from sectienal to in- ternatienal prominence by the inva #lon of the British Walker Cyp tcam players, the twenty minth annual western umateur golf championship was to bo setiled on the hazardo Bob O'Link Golf clyb course stai ing today. 8o difficult was the 7,045 yard course, one of the longest courscs |ever used for a championship, that it was generally believed a total of fatrnay, Aad that was all there was to it, us far as could be learned Fear Expressed Over Condition of Pennock New York, Aug. 20 (B eapressed here toduy regurding the condition of Herbert I'ennock, star was 15 to 1. The game looked like a close af- faiv in the opening inning. each team scoring & tally in the first stan. {72 on a pair of hits. The Rangers |took the lead in the next inning and then piled up what looked to be,a wide margin in the third by pound- |ing out five safe blows. When the |inning was over the Rangers held a comfortable 7 to 1 lead, The Tabs | were far from beaten, however, for [they came buck in the next sessicn |and smashed out six hits to knot |the count and send Anderson, Ran- |ger hurler, to the show Casey |took up the pitching burden with two out and fanned the next bat- ter, | The winners kept up a steady hit- ting game and went far into the lead lin the next few inning. Hinchey re- |lieved Meehan and retired the Ran gers after four more runs had cross- ed the plate. He had the honor of | holding the winners scoreless in the last half of the eight Inning. The game was featured by hard hitting of the winners, who pounded out tweniy safe blows, three of which went for extra bases. Preisser, covering the shortficld for the winners, put up a fine exhibi- tion, handling seven chances without 'a slip. The Tabs' attack was featured Ly the hitting of Jimmy Kane, The score: the ierdlein, Merline, Hinehoy, MeCabe T Donahue. Kane, rf Maltz, Meehan, 1 o [ " Totals (3 0 Preigser P 1 1 1 0 1 0 ¢ 1day, but took a 40 going out o 800 000 [EERRTIC] T. Argosy 100 15 Tote: Merling hit: D Ana rmon 3. Uasey o, Hinchey 1 Maves 1, Moo han 6, " UNITED STATES ATHLETES ' | TAKE TAILTEANN HONORS Battling Against Irish and Canadian Competition, Americans Take 14 First Piaces, ! | DOWN WEST ENDS (Continued frown Preceding Page) twice, Buckeri and Kopee piaye great fielding game for the winne a | while Savage shonc in this depari-| {ment for the losers, | ! Selina’s long triple into right fictd Publin, Treland, Aug. 20 (®— Roll- up an impressive total of first 2. United States athletes have romped away with team honors in the Tailteann games, the “Olympics of the Irish,” just concluded. Baitling aguainst Irish and Can. adian opposition, the representa- ing 1 three for Ireland. Harold Osborn, Nlinois A. star and Olympic decathlon and hu,'h} jump champlon in 1924, was the outs standing individual performer, tak- The middle the running and standing high jumps, the standing broad fump, the hop, step and jump and the three standing jumps. Just 1o make Uncle Bam’s triminph in the Jumping events a thorough one, Al Batcs, of Penn State, took the run- ning broad jump. Leo Lermond of the Boston A, A., won the 5,000 meters and the four mile runs, the only other American nt 1o take as many as two first Other American victories were gistered by Lloyd Hahn in the 1500 meters; Joie Ray in the marathon: Johnny Gibson in the hurdler; Walter Gegan in the 3 meter steeplechase; Edmund B in the 56 pound weight throw, and Charley McGinnis in the pole vault. | | pla Mrs. William Reld, wife of the head of a Belfust shipping firm, who died recently. claimed to be the most | travelled woman In the world. She | sailed 1,100,000 miles in “windjam- with her husband. went around the world 17 times and crossed the equator 108 times. PETE tting Struck ot | [ hole | single 186 strokes or higher for the two 15 | hole qualifying rounda today and {tomorrow would be lov enough to | gain admission to match play for the | title, which is being defcnded by Bon | Stein of Seattle. The low 81 and | Stein, who automatically qualifies. Wednesday | will start mateh play | Two 18 hole match rounds will be |played then, cutting the field to cight. The remaining three rounds lare 36 holes each on Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday. ! Some three hundred American |amateurs were entered, from vetes ans to tyros and from onc boundary | {of the country to another, although |the playing committee weeded out Imore than 50 applicants, whose abii- | ity as golfers seemed too indifferent The British invaders have not shown as good golf in the numerous | practice rounds as the native wield- | {ers of the driver, niblick and putter. The best round turned in was that ot Fay Coleman of Los Angeles, who holds the Southern Californta champ- | fonship. Coleman broke the conrse record day with a 70 or two bet- ter than par. | But in color. not one of the |Americans even upproaches thc | Britons—Dr. William T'weddell, the 11927 Writish champion, a big fel- {low who can slap nine out of ten drives 275 vards straight down the falrw P. Perkins, present Brit- {ish champion, who is another long {driver; Major C. O, Hazlet, with his | wide stance and lack of pivot but powerful swipe of his arms; John B | Beck, one of England’s best up- proaching artists, and ustace torey, who always draws the larg- | est gallery with his “Charleston put- stance Al wear long [trousers and most of them labor |their backs with heavy sweaters or |floppy coats regardless of high | temperature. | | Although Dr. Twaddell par 72 yesterday in one of several practice rounds, Storey has shown |the most consistent golf of the in- [vaders, Dr. A, R. MacCallum, an- | other Briton, scored a brilliant 34 or fwo under par coming home yester- | 629, f. 0. b. Detroit. carded a | Another American entrant of promise, Johnny Lehman of Gary. | Ind., § Big Ten champion, has ored some xood rounds on Bob O'Link, but his best was yesterday. | He went out in 32 or four better than ar was | Pive chassis—sixes and eights— ranging from $860 to Car illustrated is Model ve-passenger Sedars with 4-speed transmission (standird gear shifc), $1985. All prices left handcr of the Yankees. pitcher has a case of newritis, it reported, and while It was said would be ready to pitch tomorrow some observers asserted that none | could say just how The | fatled: to appoer on : was now is suid that he WHf open 49 8L, Louts tomerny The annual require of the long Pennock [raflways of Groat would remain inctive, He was (016,008,000 tens of cegl, 17,000, have worked in one of the gaes|cubic feet of timber and 63.900 vgainst Clevcland yesterday, vut |of eil 3 } 3 istinguished Performance Come in and drive the Graham-Paige 629. For only personal experience can convey to you an adequate ap- preciation of its beauty, smoothness, swiftness--and the distinguished performance of its four-speed trans- mission (standard gear shift —two high speeds). & Hadanw % & fatom HOWARD W. WHITMORE 319 EAST MAIN STREET. NEAR ELM STREET GRARAM-BAIGE « | [ par and then bugged a 39 coming home for a total of T1-—one¢ under porfect figures. Among American entrants, dition to Stein and Lehman, are Dr. | 0. F. Willing. Johnny Daweon. [Frank Dolp, 1928 champion, Keefs |Carter, former titleholder, and Rus- |81l Martin, Former ehampion and tunner-up in 1925, Chuck Evans of Chicago, who has held the title eight times. was the only member of the | American Walker cup team entered The other team members, led by Captain Bobby Jones of Atlanta. |were practicing over the Chicago 'Golf Club course where the Walker |cup matches are to be played next | [ week. in ad- (f ‘m ' BETTING ON 6OLF COUNTY ‘TAIL , FOR Members of Rritish Walker Cup | Chicago. Aug. 20 (M—Members of | | the British Walker cup team, who are entored in the western amatenr | ehampionship at the Bob o' Link lelub this week, have contracted the American fever of betting on golf. During yesterday's practice round, | two American opponents suggesteqd that the twe Britons play them for five doliars on each nine holes and other five dollars for the 18, T | Englishmen were astonished and ex- | Team Have Contracted Amcrican = Fever of Wagering. 7 V that's more than a pound sterling. Their return proposal w for a dollar for the entire 1§ round. with no bets on the nines, but later they caneht the fevir and were betting a dollar a liole on the practice green. I But no money changed hands, Mujor . O. Hazlet shouted to T. Perking as the latter went to the | first tee to play a round: “By Jove. lerky, old top, ‘ou scven dollars “Quite so. quite so. but let it zo." | replied the British champien as he drive 270 yards down the | Officer No. 13 s they| 1 one mote a OH BoV'~-A JoB AT u\s'r“;o " OEFICER . 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