New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 13

of Sports There will be only one game play- Baseball Standing AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 2. Chicago 6, Boston 4. (Other clubs not scheduled.) NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928, THREE VETERANS N TENNIS PLAY Trio of Former Stars Win doubles were made offff their deliv- eries. George Hallin singles in five led this wal- a double and three times at bat. Nilsen topped the losers with a double and two singles. Three weird innings left the teams deadlocked at 6-6, but then Strom- auist began to go a little better. Tae loping with AMERIGANS SURE OF NEDAL HONGRS Bible class continued to POOCH DONOYAN DIES | AT HOME EARLY TODAY[ Internationally Known Sports Au- thority and Harvard Athletic |committee ix that of prohibition. At ithe utset the committee was made {avare of the fuct that « large body ' ISSUF IN STATE of democrats would like the state L Platform to declare for modification of the Volstead act. Prof. Nicholas Moseley, son-in-law, of Arthur T. Hadley. president-emeritus of Yale, was made chairtan of the commite tec. In his public addresses Mr, [Youthful Golfer Heads Delenders, in 0pem'_ng Day’s Piay Bob o'Link Club, Chicago, Aug | 21 P—Aamerica’s youth has deliver- {ed again and medalist honors at least today appeared safe from the | British Walker Cup feam’s inva- |sion of the western golf hampionship. Heading this od tonight at Walnut Hill park in the Industrial baseball league. P. & F. Lorbins will meet R. & E. on Diamond No. 1 at 5:30 o'clock. The second game of the evening between Stanley Rule and Landers has been postponed until August 30 because both factories are closed this week. pile up runs in every inning and it held off the late inning rallies of the Beth- any hitters. Church turned in a fine catch of a liner in the last funing. The line-ups an dscore by innings: They may talk about Jack Britton| Swedish Bethany — Westergren, in boxing and ¢ld Jack Quinn in|c: W. Nelson, p; D. Johnson, 1b; P. baseball but tennis has produced not [Nelson, 3b; A. Boberg, 2b; Church, {one but three who have them back- Olson, If; Nilson, ef; Abrahams ed well off the boards for stamina |son. If. ithat defies the years. The strangest Everyman's Bible Cl i part of it is that they are of the|Darrow. ss; Hallin, 1b; Stromquist, supposedly weaker sex. : R. Swanson, 3b; Lenke, c; John- If it were not for the presence of | S i Witzke, rf; Sundell, cf; Helen Wills which makes the result | I'rederickson, 2D, of the present women's national |Swed Beth championship tennis tournament al- most a foregone conclusion, Mrs. ) | May Sutton Bundy, Mrs. Molla | Bjurstedt Mallory and M Hazel | | Hotchkiss Wightman would be among the favorites for the title. Yet it is 25 years since Mrs. Bundy won this same title, while Mrs. Wightman first gained the cham- pionship back in 1909 and Mrs Mallory rose to the heights in 1915, All three won their first round | matches yesterday in straight sets, |although opposed by some of the leading young players of the coun- try. Not content with playing singles two of them have teamed up in doubles. | Mrs. Wightman, who was instru- . |mental in developing Miss Wills into a world’s champion, will team with her. They head the doubles seeded 4 llist and if they come through Miss o | Wills may gain the distinction which { was hers only once before—in 1924 | —that of holding the championship in both singles and doubles. She is| 1! n a prohibitive favorite for the singles | Tavlor's decision was announced crown. In 1924 her companion in | 1°re in a lutter to Jess McMahon Moseley has declared himself in favor of a repeal of the 18th amend- ment, it is uLderstood, and in a talk before a local political club last night he was quoted as saying that the 1Sth amendment was “a rotten spot” in the constitution and should cither be taken out or modified to a workable degres Matches in First Round Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 21 (P— Standing w. 80 74 62 55 54 53 Nantick, Mass., Aug. 21 | Trainer, pases Away. | DEINOCIALS Find They Must Face v‘\\'m. P. “Pooch™ Donovan, l;lllel::::‘ n’_n P]afiom | tionally known sports authority and | |for more than 20 years athletic| New Haven, Aug. 21 (®—The spe- trainer ot Harvard nnivers clal committee selected by Sta at his home here carly today. Chairman J. J. Walsh of the demo- Donovan, who was 62 years old, Cratic state committee to malke | was stricken with heart disease tentative draft of a platform for the | while with the American Olympic tesolutions committee of the forth- | team in Amsterdam last month. COmINg stafe convention went over Early reports that his condition |the entire field of party issues at its of de.|was critical was denied when he re. TSt Wceting yesterday but did not e e mdibon o e e |definitely linger on any one. 1t was g round came 1oday an 15.| Several days ago, however, h!‘stailt;d that in an exchange of views ar-old south from Tertland, Ore, | (20K 4 turn for the wor. Hope for o7 (1" Walters which may b termed Don Moe, who gave fhe 7.045 yard [ NS recovery was abandoned fast| SU® ISSOeST there s championship 10b O'Link course | MiEht and death came at 3:50 a. m. haz on,, those svhishiare and 250 golfers a trimming yester. | 10day. day with a record breuking card of | DOnovan was a native of Natick. | |As a youth he was lone of the country’s greatest pro- | fessional sprinters. His brother, | "Piper” once held the world's rec- | L. 38 43 58 64 64 66 1 65 43 7 New York Philadelphia . St. Louis . Cleveland . Chicago . Washington Detroit . . Boston The New Britain police depart- ment baseball team will meet the Meriden department team in Meri- den tomorrow afternoon in the sec- ond game of the annual home and heme series of games. New Britain took a pasting at the hands of the Silver City contingent in the meeting at Willow Brook park on August 8. The locals are confident of turning the tables this time. The Industrial baseball league schedule ends this week but post- poned games will be played next week. The Rotary Bo: league comes to an end on Friday of this week. There are also some post- poned games in this circuit. Half the government peclamation ge is planted in ailfalfa. | i Yhiudt VEINS | NOW MUCH BETTER | “I tried everything, but got no results uatil 1sed RABA . Now I am much better, ln‘{ vk for eight,” saya Mra, C. Ln Kel- m: Tass. If you suffer, use 502 £7d $1.50 at droe-igte, amateur Games Tolay St. Louis at New York. Chicago at Washington. Detroit at Boston. Cleveland at Philadelphia. contingent 2 issue was mors Games Tomorrcw Chicago at Washington. St. Louis at New York. Detroit at Boston. Cleveland at Philadelphia. On Friday night the South Con | sregutionalists will play the First | 143 Lutherans on Diamond No 1, while | 8% or three under par [the Swedish Tethany and First| It was gelf like Moe's and like | Baptist teams will fight it out Yar\?”‘,“lk :“’"‘:"‘:”"]"'l"‘”"r ten et e e league schedule | Portland, and Chick Evans of Chi- }]‘an:v‘llv’:?;(:nr-\?h\\r : bat m:: pf:::'. cago, who were ticd behind Mos |OFd for the 100-yard dash. | S ain to be playeds With 71 strokes apiece, that raised | About 21 years ago, Donovan Y47 \merica’s hopes of winning medal | became coach of the Harvard track honors and the title, gohich is now |Sauad. Later he became trainer of held by Bob Stein, golfer [ the football and bascball teams i Seatis | Besides his wife, Julia, he leaves While the Britons were sirung @ daughter, Dorothy Marion Dono s sheet from a 73 |'an. and two sons, William F., Jr, scored by Dr. William Tweddell, | @04 John I. Donovan. captain of the British Walker Cup | = e s o s In Title Tennis Play ed to be well in the qualifying ¢ of 31, who will struggle for the| Entries for the tennis tournament title in match play starting Wed- | for the championship of the city are nesday. Indications were that 153 N0t coming 1n as rapidly as the vould be good enough to qualify. | committee would like. Possibly this Tweddell's tied with Phillips | is due to a misunderstanding. The Findlay, a Harvard sophomore; | first and second round matches will | | Kenneth Hisert. former Western be held from August 24th to Sept. | d atchmalker at Madison Square Gar. | COnference title holder, and Gus | 4th allowing plenty of leeway for | doubles wriumph was Mrs. W |gh(-!1]::: '::‘('"'” ’":‘ “r:“’;" m'q"?:gr(r ‘M‘ymm, once a University of 1i- | those who are planning to be away | man. e Hant ‘,;‘,‘H,‘m i | nois star, for fifth place in yester- | over Labor Day. The entire mem- | Mrs. Bundy and her partner, N PR R "\m-““.‘”* round | bership of the tennis club has en- Helen Jacobs. both of whom hail [ A4S 4 matier of faf his crown| Alex Carrick. the only Canadian |tered but the tournament is for the from California, are seeded second P e M,".,,,”,: He | entrant and Lrother of the to)mvr“ purpose of sfimulating interest in | in the doubles draw and Ior'\m as the | hamed o {hadtinone by the N.|Dominion champion, took an 83, |tennis among the general publie. leading rivals of the Wightman- aftar Oharloy (Bhi1) ‘:"N‘;v.‘“;,m‘ all but officially put him out | There niust be a large number of Willsieambine SAttecuthemdioTdaneesr e B ot S et 1 el S aiationien e o quali- | players patronizing the public park | ‘nrv“.sml"d» Tavior's right to head the |fied at the end of today's play for|courts whose skill would enable Mr: | One issue which came cdiate- recognized as ), 0N, 12 came immedi - front and which is expe to be foremost in the work of the | NATIONAL LEAGUVE Games Yesterday New York 5, Cincinnati 1. St. Louis 2, Brooklyn 1. Philadelphia 11, Chicago 6. Boston 14, Pittsburgh 11. games ren RESIGHS TITLE { Bud Taylor of Terre Haute Decides The Falcons and the Rangers have darpar finally agreed to play each other. Articles were signed vesterday after. noon and the two clubs will come to grips at St. Mary's field next Sun- day afternoon. This will be a test of the claim of the I'alcons that they are the king pins in the baseball world in this cit It a championship of New Britain 15 to be decided. why not give the winners of the City league and the Industrial league an opportunity to play for the title. So much argn- ment has been expended on this Question in past seasons that we would really like to see every team that figures it has a chance to win the title given an opportunity of playing for it. Then there would he no question of the real champion of the city being decided, score Standing w. 67 - T4 . 67 64 62 56 35 L. 43 46 | New York . St. Louis .. Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Brookly ... Roston Philadelphia to Start Campaigning In Icather- a2 weight Ranks. 52 61 71 N York, Aug. 1 (#—Bud Tay- or of Terre Haute has given up his National Boxing association cham pronship and will campaign in the | future among the featherweights, GREAT CHALLENGE SALE ENDS TONIGHT! We dow't know how all the people that need tires are going tc be able to get served today, but we are going to do our best and take care of anybody that comes in or phones us for new tires. We will take prompt care of all mail orders. We h-ve done a big busines: during this Challenge Sale and we want everybody to profit by these wondertully low prices. Never before have we been able to offer h Jow prices ou such high quality tires as Firestone Gum-Dipped Halloons—-the tires that hold all records for speed, safety, endur- wmee and cconomy. And don't forget every tire Is guaranteed for the life of the tire against any and all defects, Games Today New York at Cincinnati Brooklyn at St. Louis. Boston at Pittsburgh Philadelphia at Chicago. Games Tomorrow Boston at Pittsburgh New York at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at Lou The interest of baseball fans in weight the game Sunday is increasing every day. On all sides we are being ask- ed “Who do you think will win?" Our answer is invariably the same as it has been ever since that rabid INTERNATIO! Games Yesterday Buffalo #, Newark 7 Jersey City 4, Toronto 1. AL LEAGUE fight fan wanted to kill us hecause he lost half a buck on a fighter that we picked. We say the best team. Rochester 6, Reading 3. Standing w. Pet We never let the secret out before [Toronto ...... 535 but we nearly were listed among the | Baltimore . missing after a certain fight not so|Reading long ago. Then we predicted that|Montreal .- we believed a certain fighter was go- | Rochester ..., ing to win. As is natural when such | Buffalo a sclection is made ,the fighter lost. | Newark The next day we were called every- | Jersey City thing over the phone and were told that our prediction was the cause of the fellow on the other end of the wire losing plenty of money, Games Today Newark at Buffalo Jersey City at Toronto, Baltimore at Montreal. We found out afterwards that it| Weading at Rochester. was just a silver half dollar that wagered and believe us, if the fe! low who lost it didn't get more than a half dollar'’s worth out of us be- fore he got through, he knows not the value of money, EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday New Have 18, Waterbury 0. Bridgeport 6, Bridgeport 0. (Other clubs not scheduled.) Just for the sake of caution, we Standing refuse to predict beforchand the out- come of anything any more. LOCAL SWIMMERS ENTERED IN RACE Emily Ciescynski and Steve Sinskie in New Haven Event Pet New Haven .... 648 Pittsfield .. Providence Bridgeport Hartford . Albany Springfield Waterbury Games Today Hartford at New Haven. Springfield at Pittsfield. Albany at Waterbury. Bridgeport at Providence. rrow Springfield at Pittsfield. Hartford at New Haven. Albany at Waterbury. Bridgeport at Providence. GERMAN IS LEADING world ZLghth Miss Emily ynski and Stephen | Binskie of this city are entered in the men's and women's annual har- Lor swim from Savin Rock to Light- house Point tomorrow afternoon. Both are strong contenders for first honors in the event. Miss Cieszynski has won the event for the past two years and this year faces a strong field in defense of her title. She holds the record for the course which measures three and a half miles, for women. Her time is 1 hour and 10 minutes. She also holds the women's records for the 200, 400 and $50 yard free style swims. Against her tomorrow afternoon will be memvers of New York and Boston swimming clubs besides muny other leading entrants from this state and others nearby. She has been training for more than a month at Momauguin and is in fine form tor a gruelling attempt to beat her record. She is casily the peat her victorics of the years, She will be piloted in the swim by Captain Barnes of New Haven who has acted in this capa city for the winner of the event every year since it has been started. Sinskie is a lineman in this city and this will be his first attempt in competition. He weighs 210 pounds and has been training all summer for this event. He is not expected to finish among the first because of his inexperience but he confidently expects to give the tield a good run before the event is finished. He is entered in an cspecially strong field of swimmers which in- cludes the winner of the event last year. Alex, who holds the course rec- ord of 59 minutes and 32 seconds. There are about 20 entered in all. Sinskie wili be piloted,on his swim by George Lawson of the New Brit- ain Herald. The event will start at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. A cup is being offered for the event by Captain Wightman of New Hayen. Bogoljubow Tops List in Chess Tournament After Round . Bad Kissingen, Germany, Aug. P—The cighth round of the inter- national chess masters tournament was completed yesterday. Bogolju- bow, of Germany, was again a win- ner and maintained his place at the head of the list. Capablanca and Rubinstein were the otehr two win- ners. Three games were drawn. Capablanca and Dr. Euwe of Hol land are tied in second place, Mar- shall, United States champion, drew with Reti of (‘zechoslovakia. The summaries: Marshall, Uaited States, with Reti, (zechoslovakia, queen’s gambit declined after moves, Rubinstein, Nimozowitsch, queen's pawn moves. Dr. Tarrasch, Bogoljubow, Germany, Lopez after 47 moves. Capablanca, Cuba, defeated Yates England, in a Sicilian defense after 37 moves. Spielmann, Austria, drew with Dr. we, Holland, in a Sicilian defense 31 moves. Mieces, Germany, drew with Tar- takower, France, in a Caro-Kann defense after 30 moves. Older the-Eggs the More Valuable They Are Los Angeles, Aug. 21 UP—It was a lucky thing for the trucking com- pany that the Chinese eggs it was hauling for Fu Wat-S8ien were only five years old. As that was the case, they were worth only $25 a dozen. Had they been seven years old they would have been worth $50 a dozen. Such were the representations made by the Chinese merchant in municipal court yesterday when he asked and received a julgment of $720 ogainst the trucking company for breakage of the eggs in a crash. favorite to re- past two drew in a “ Poland. defeated Denmark, in a opening after ‘4 Germany, lost to Must Select Town I\_ieeting Of Governor Smith’s Talk Saugus, Mass., Aug. 21 (UP) — Baugus citizens may attend tomor- row night's town mieeting or listen to Governor Smith's acceptance speech over the radio—but they can’t do both. After a conference which lasted most of the night, the hoard of se- lectmen early today rejected the peti- tion of Daniel B. Murphy, that the meeting he postponed so voters ®ould listen in on the Smith address. The average date for the first killing frost in the vicinity of New Orleans is December 16, Charlotte H. Chapin, Spring- 1ss., and Miss Penelope An- Richmond, V. Miss Edith Cross, San Francisco, and Mrs. L. A. Harper, lLos An- geles; Mrs. John D. Corbierre and Mrs. Willlam Indicott, both of | Boston; Miss Clara Zinke and Ruth Oexman, both of Cincinnati; Miss| | Alice I'rancis, Orange, N. J., and| Marjorie Morrill, Dedhaxy ’ Mrs. B. I Stenz and | Hester, New York. | ¢ contining her activ- ities to the singles where she is| | seeded second and Miss Wills with a | to mect fair Helen in the | final as of old, saved herself as| much as possible in winning from Burritt, Toronto, 6-0, | Wightman did like- | disposing of Miss Mayme New York, 6-2, 6-1, but | Mrs. Bundy, winner of the eastern championship last week, ,was all over the court like the light footed May Sutton of more than two | decades ago in downing Miss Char- lotte Miller of New York in love | | sets. | On form it is likely fo be Mrs. [ Bundy who will battle Miss Wills |in the semi-finals in the upper half |of the draw. The champion, starting | play today against Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor of New York, is expected to have little more than a workout. {She took on another male opponent Iyesterday for practice, hesting the skillful Australiah, John B. Hawkes, 6-3, in one set played. CHURCH STANDING SUFFERS SHAKEUP (Continued from Preceding Page) | tield, derson, e in MacDonald rest of the game but saving their faces with four runs of their own. Ted Thorstense led the winners' attack with a home run, double, and singles. The homer was his eighth of the scason. Paul Thors- tenson grahbed some hot line drives at short. The line-ups and scores b inning | First Baptist — McDonald, ¢; Carroll, p; Parker, 1b; M. Luke, 2b; Logan, ss; W. May, 3b; Rector, | If; Ba Anderson, rf. i Stanley Memordal — Hamlin, 1f; | P. Thorstenson, ss; J. Thorsten | W. Stohl, 2b: Kramer, ¢ X c; Andrews, rf; D, Stohl, | Stohl 3b. st Bapt Stan Mem 000 0211— 4 542 000x—11 1. B. C. Wins Slugfest The Everyman's Bible class and wedish Bethany church engaged in | a hammer-and-tongs slugfest, with |the decision going to the former team by 14-9 after seven innings of wild baseball which culminated in | semi-darkness. 10 Neither Stromquist [nor “Bearcat” Nelson was effective, |and. all told. singles and six “THIS Loox | York and the N 15 TH' LIFE '— NOTHING To Do BuUT FolRo TROUBLE division never was recognized in New B. A diself several months ago agreed that Taylor had | forteited his right to the fitle through failure to defend it, At that time the N. B. A, said that there was a well-founded belief that Taylor no longer could make 118 pounds. He been fighting for monihs at 121 pounds or mor Taylor's decision leaves the han- tamweights without a ruler but steps are to be taken in the eastern sctor to remedy this condition. An elimination serics is planned with Bushy Braham, of Utica, N. Y., Kid Lrancis of Italy and Al Brown, the Panama negro ,as the chief contend- | ant trails often are chosen 1s rights-of-way for roads through the African jungles, places were open as Bon | fending champion, is’ qualified by his title for the match play match play starting tomorrow. Scores of 77 were plentiful in yes- ¥'s round, an indication that a fotal of 154 would needed to place among the Only 31 in, de- qnalitiers, The 32 qualifiers will play two 18 hole rounds tomorrow. reducing the | Graw today field to eight, who will continue the |chase by the Giants of the veteran | imination process the next three days at 36 holes. MONCADO 1S OPPOSED Managua, Nicaragua, Aug 21 A written protest from a conserva- | Denve tive member of the national board of of Senor for pre the hoard. His ohjccfions are based on elections against the candid: Moncado, libe nominee dent, has heen received by constitutional grounds. [them to make a good showing and the competition would give them a | standard to measure their improve- ment by, | | Jack Scott Is Recalled | To Help Out New Yorkers | Cincinnati, Aug. 21 (®—John Me. | nounced the repur- right-hander, Jack Scoft, from the "I’u]u}o club of the American associ- ation for Bill Walker and an unan- | nounced cash consideration, Walker is a young southpaw recruited from ast fall. Scott always was a good “money pitcher,” and MeGraw | desired his experience as an aid to the Giants in their stretch drive, ‘ READ B ALD ¢ ANST FOR B . FIED ADS | RESULT! 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