New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 12

ATHLETICS CONTINUE TO BLAST AWAY AT YANKEES BY FRANK KRAMER Victory of Mackmen Over White Sox Yesterday Cuts Champions’ Lead to Two and a Half Games—] Browns Make It Four Straight Over Rad Sox—In- Again Knock Giants dian Down Tigers—Braves for a Row of Ash Cans—Pirates Are Blanked By Phillies. By the Associated Press ; The Athletics persist at their task || of blasting away the remnants of ) #hat Yankee lead, once so handsomq ‘but National league contenders are “coming upon rocky paths. After overpowering the White vy 6 to 2 at Shibe park yesterday, the ram- pant Mackmen found themsclves only two and a half games behind the idle Yankees, while the nals, rained out in Chicago, heard tidings of defeat for two of their 1 challengers—the Pirates and the 1 Giants. The men of McKechie led by a neat five and one half games over | Chicago as they moved into Pitts- burgh today for the start of a cru- 1 clal series—of which the league will see many in the coming fortnight if not the next four we The Pirate threat at this moment is the most serious the Cardinals face, They must put it down by at least the odd game in seven to be played in the next two weeks, or face the threat of disaster. | As the National league tuation works its way toward a possible so- lution in games involving the west- ¢ ern contenders against one another, |/ the Yanks and the A's set sail || through soft schedules leading up *to their big series asainst cach other on the banks of the Harlem just be- fore mid-September. The challeng- ers enjoy some edge in this duel in sy that they are involved eight times| against the Red Sox and only thr times against Washington. Th pert rifies face exactly the opposite | ( schedule—eight games with Wash- 1 ington and only three with Boston, The cast assembled by Bucky Har- ris, is no great shares of a ball team. But the Senators nevertheless are | leading the fight for that odd first division berth not already sewed up, | and are some better than the Red #ex, one must admit. The fortune of tha schedule should bring the M, men to the Yankee Stadium for that | great Sabbath double header on Sep tember 9 very close to the cham pions, if not even with them. All then should depend upon those four | games in Harlem—and th w of | averages” certainly is duc to N M ¥ it i M I M a little help to Connie Mack, who has won only five games in 15 |1 against the Hugmen to date. I The Athletics defeated the White ™ Sox yesterday by slamming Ted |y Lyons hard in every crisis. The were more methodical than spec- |1t tacular in making the most of prac- tleally every opening. George Wal- || berg seemed unsteady at the start permitting the White Sox to score | two runs on five hits, including Hun- | nefleld’s homer, in the first four rounds. Connie took the Rube out to let Cobb bat in the fourth, and W Eddie Rommel held Chicago hitless g Huzn over the rest of the route, : Lyons took this game as an ex- ample to prove it is possible to b 1 thrown out at home in an attempt to | score from third on a single—cven | with two out and no force play at | the plate. Al Simmons f¢ d Hun- | nefield’s sccond hit to Cochrane in time to retire Mr. Lyons on a close play, Lena Blackburne and Cabinet way dissented and Lena talked his to an afternoon off. In other American leagne er ments, the Browns made it straight over the Red winning X, by 4 to 3, and the Indians slanuned the ambitious rs 9 to h. George Burns got two homers and Marty McManus one. The Cardinalg and the made every effort to play the A game of the e afternoon « but a torrent. ne son Wrig ley fleld made this impossible. I'lans |« are under way to play this one off in Al Chicago on September 5 when both | teams have an open date, 7 Ben Cantwell, traded to Boston in the Genewich deal, came hack to the | Polo Grounds to lead other Glants in making it thr over the home boys, § to McGraw won home run circuit drives by Lt Jackeon, but was in the 1 decision at no time round, which witr el a sault upon Vic Aldrid ind Fred Fitzsimmons for five The defeat was t venth straight for the Gi ninth in their ped them a fra hind the Cubs who move second place by | 2 & out playing. The Clan Mc( in in a virtual tie with the tr The Clar trom 1 3 h shut-out by the | les by 4 to 0 at Plittsbur da the Pirates are only half game behind the Giant 1 1 one full contest worse than th and s one half to the rear « the ( If the seven t Pittsburgh-St. Louis portant to the Card 1o the Buce: four out of clean up aln National T.nd, Totals R uny I Hauser, ons 1 American League " 1 Struck out CHICAGO AB R s 1 3 5o 1 0 1 9 DETROIT AB R ey ST 1.0 Aol Gl a0 P &N g ted for Stomer in for Holloway Dismmm s = th. in 040 016 Home « 2 plays o Walberg 1 9th, 13 01— r Lina to National League BOSTON NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928 - |PATTISON BEATEN | Bast Berlin Netman Takes Stili Match in County Tourney Coun'y Y. M. C. A, last evening The tennis tournament continued at Walnut Hill park, the feature match of the evening being that |between Frank Kramer of East Berlin and J. M. Pattison ot Sims- Lury. Kramer finally wore his op- ponent down and won a three-set duel by 2-6, 6 623. Pattison had things all his own way in the first showing a great variety of Istrokes which, coupled with speed and accuracy, enabled him to run the kast Berlin youth off his feet and bring an easy victory. The sec- ond set was another matter. The Simsbury pla 3 uracy began ‘1o slip, while Kramer found mcans lof combating his opponent’s speed nd put in many placements for points. The decisive tilt was hard | fought, but Kramer again proved !the stronger man and took the !lmatch. He thereby advanced into |the semi-finals, as he draws a bye in the s:cond round. | Edmund Sicgrist, the other Fast | Berlin player in the singles, was {put out of competition last night |after he had pulled one match out of the fire. Stegrist and Alden Hew- ett of New Britain had been forced to postpone their match on Tues- |day night when darkness intervened after the players had split the first |two sets and Hewett was leading by |4-1 in the third. Last night Hewett ) | graciously consented to play the o third set over but his playing was |not equal to his sportsmanship. He |banged his way to a 4-0 lead, then, 3| thinking he had the match, he eased lup a bit and gave Siegrist a game on three double-faults. This gave [the East Berlin player renewed confidence and he proceeded to run off the next five games to win the match at 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. His con- |sistent accuracy stood him in good [stead in the final games and gave s |him a victory when Hewett lost |heart and began to wilt. Sicgrist, who was the smallest player in the tournament, was put [out shortly afterward when, follow- {|ing a rest, he met Bob Farr of 1— une Mo Plainville in the first match of the econd round. Farr was too fast for the youngste his drives running | Stezrist into the ground and giving |nim a win at 6-2, 6-4 in spite of a gallant stand by the East Berlin youth in the final set. | Kramer and Bruno Miglioll of East Berlin met R. W. Hurlburt and ‘4\ Stainton of Southington in the |opening set-to of the doubles play and captured the first set by 6-4. Darkness prevented the match from | going further and it will be finished tonight. It will get unde way at 6 o'clock. New Britain and Simsbury are also scheduled to meet in tonight. |match was postponed last night and s | will be played this evening. JOHNNY CLINCH | WILL HEAD CARD - New Britain Boters to Featur o' Amateur Mitt Program g There ‘\\ll;lw ten bouts on the L"un-l at Capitol Park tonight in the o gular Thursday night amateur ow and out of the ten bouts, five New Dritain boys will tackle some the best fighters in this state and 1chuseits, | The feature bout of the evening o |expected to bring together Rollo Ro- ' land of Waterbury, state 145 Ib. {ehampion and Johnny Clinch, pride of New Britain. Johnny has ap- peared on several of the, cards at | Capitol Park this summer and has as yet to lose a decision. In takin jon the state champion he will have |to step some to keep his record | elean. | Other New Britain boys appearing lon the card are, Joc Burns, 145 Ibe V¢ lJoe Dolin, 128 Ibs; Joe Friscalli, 2 Ibs, and Joe Ber 140 1bs. O These boys will tackle the pick of w [the Springtficld, Waterbury and Hart- o |ford teams represented tonight. An- :*‘um- r state champion to appear to. | night will be Bob Morrison of W who will meet Tony Juliano rd in the 118 1b, clies, Louts will match up Jack Sharkey of Waterbury and Joe Ci- ¥ {lento of Martford in the 118 Ib. | class, Jack Paoli also of Waterbury | and Johnny Pinkum of Hartford mn o |the 138 Ib | be necessary as knockouts are ¢ - in cach setto. dles as y | usual are admitted free to ringsid. + | scats when accompanied by escor Next week on account of Monday be- Labor Day the amateur fights ill be held on 71 instead ot 0| Monday, with th Thursday | show later in the week. P A T oe Dundee, Welterwelght Cham- o, B Democrats Plan Fight pion, and Young Jack Thompson, L e A for District Nominee | yieer in chicago Kress, 3 f Aug. 30 (A A real con- Melilio, 2b L.l 2 1% 3 demoeratic nomination | Chicago, Aug. 30 (®—Barring an- Wl kY man from the First Con- | other deluge, Joe Dundee, the wel- et et Ty fistrict to oppose Con- |terweight champion, and Young Biaeholder, p o 0 0 LI Hart Fenn in November | Jack Thompson, San Francisco Ne- Bisns ’? s gro, will battle 10 rounds to a de- torney Ufa E. Gut of Hart- cision at the White Sox park to- #H pPo A g|ford and ) . Moore of I"arming- | meght Rogell, »s 1 1 O ton are ¢ < for the democra Dundee’s title will not be endan- :."_'r’, oo R WL |ucinonnn r ressman and | gered Thompson has agreed to Taitt, of ‘% o0 0 & @ o|bropose to carry the fight inte the (enter the ring over the welter- Rothrock, cf, 3b . 4 0 1 0 o|congressional convention. weight Jimit. ) \ doubles | The Giana-Hanny singles | - | through in keeping with expectation. Other bouts may | . | manded of Sherdel SHERDEL _HAS ONE OF THE MOST TANTALIZING FLOATERS, vour|N THE GAME o1 FINAL GAMES ARE PLAYED IN ROTARY BOYS' LEAGUE—HOME RUN IN FINAL INNING WINS FOR LAURELS OVER:AMERICAN LEGION—PLAY CONTINUES IN HARTFORD COUNTY Y’ TENNIS TOURNAMENT—ATHLETICS HAMMER AWAY AT YANKS' LEAD . SHERDEL A GREAT HELP TO CARDINALS BY HENRY L. FARRE NEA Service 8ports Writer Down south last winter Bill Me- Kechnie gave vivising scribes some of the reasons which encouraged Cardinals would not only be up there but would be the club that would have to be beaten by the pennant winner. “Our pitching,” he said, “looks as good to me as any in the league and pitching is going to be the big fac- tor this coming season. Haines won 24 games last year. He's compara- tively young and he is a strong fel- low. He ought to do as well or bet- ter this year. “Alexander won 21 games last season. We all know that he's old but we know too that he is a great pitcher. He throws with his head land he'll be in there this season | with just as many games. “Rhem won only 10 games last vear and pitched only nine complete |games. He had private troubles which handicapped him, but they have been~adjusted and he's satl fied now. He ought to be a big win- ner this year.” “And then there's Bill,” he added, after a pause, pointing to Sherdel. “He'll be a handy fellow to have around. McKechnie probably didn't know how right he was going to be when | E4MeS ‘ Ihe handed Wee Willie the left-hand-| M failure of the Yani cd compliment of being a handy|'P o thelr previous record was man. | mainly responsible. The Yanks won On his 1927 record. however, | there was nothing to warrant ecsta- | sles from any manager, nothing to rate him up with the mainstays of the pitching staff. The review in the annual baseball guide said that Sherdel in 1927 “had an average season.” He pltched only 15 complete games, won 17 and lost 12. He lost three out of seven |to the Giants, lost two games and won none from the Pirates, lost three out of five to the Cubs and won his three games from the Reds. He murdered the Braves and the Phils but those games don't count <0 much. It is in the role of McKechnie’s | handy man that Sherdel has scintil- lated this year, however, and rates as the lcading pitcher on the club. If Haines, Alex and Rhem had come son. They deserve some hands. And there is Wee Wil Sherdel—give him a little hand, too.” Brilliant Home Stand of Pittsburgh Pirates and Downfall of Yankees are Foatures New York, Aug. 30 (M—The bril- liant home stand of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the downfall of the Yankees in their own territory pro- vided the highlights of the 1ifth general intersectional series in the major leagues, which ended yester- day. Winning 13 games and losing only 5, the Pirates led the western clubs to an overwhelming triumph over the castern invaders. The western- ors scored 37 victories while the castern clubs won but 20 games o Cardinals, and the worst record of the home clubs, while not one ot®the invaders won as many games us they lost. In the American league, the east- ern clubs, playing on their home grounds, outscored the westerners by the narrow margin of three games, winning 31 and losing 28. {QUESTION - To HICKSVILLE | Wee Willie might have stuck to the | job of being handy, but when they Iblew up he handied himself right into the role of the saviour of the team. Without Sherdel the Cardinals | would be almost as lost as the Giants would be without Larry Benton. | Perhaps more so bebcapse McGraw | banked on Benton coming through nd he did. Nothing much was de- but he came | through with everything. | As the Giants and the Cardinals | turned the three-quarter pole for the | final desperate sprint, Sherdel had |won 15 out of 21 games; Alex had won 13 out ef 19; Rhem had won 110 out of 15 and Haines had won 11 out of 18, In giving some kind of a little {hand to Sherdel for his valiant work |as the handy man the historic speech of Colonel Ruppert might be used as a form. After the Yankees had won thelr | first pennant, the colonel was call- ed upon at a celebration dinner for a speech and he said, briefly and | with great difficulty “There is the Babe. He gets credit. There is Miller Huggins—give him some credit. And there is Bob Meu- sel, he gets some credit, too. | Applied to the St. Louls case, { mi~ht be said “Give Jim Pottomley a great bif hand. And Frisch and Jimmy Wil- QUESTION - FOUR FIVE DAYLIGHT SAVING S Time 1t Winning six games| losing the same number, had| 8 to live | " WHAT TIME DOES THE NEXT TRAIN GO Ten FORTY EASTERN STANDARD TimE - “ WHAT Time wWould THAT BE DAYLIGHT saviNGS Time?” 7 games and dropped six at the sta dium. In two previous home stands, the New Yorkers had won 24 games and lost 7. Among the invaders, the 8t. Louis Browns had the best re ord, winning 9 and losing 5. Tk Athletics again made the Dbest showing among the eastern clubs, with 11 victories and 5 defeats. Vogel Defeats Covell in City Title Tourney The city championship tennis championship tournament sponsored by the New Britain Tennis club, is slowly coming to life. In a very ex- citing match yesterday L. W. Vogel advanced to the second round at the expense of H. 8. Covell by the scores of 6-3, 6 Fred Steinman defeated W. Meyer 6-4, 2-2, retired. Davidson and Balch won from Ed- ward and Henry Christ 6-1, 6-4. A very good match is scheduled for | tonight when Willard Booth pla: Henry Schupak. matches are Bergen vs. Giana and | Baleh vs. Wolskl. On Saturday the ! following Aoubles matches will be | played Cianel and Booth vs. David- |gon and Balch; Vogel and Christen- sen vs. Covell and Bergin. WEST ENDS PRACTICE The West Ends baseball team ~ill | practice at the North End park dia mond Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present, iNhy Information Clerks Go Mad QUESTION - DAYLIGHT SAVING 2 TIME or-7 " FORTY DAYLIGHT SAvINGS TIME QUESTION - WouLD TH4AaT BE Tomorrow's | “DOES THAT MEAN NOo MAM -ELEVEN YWELL IF \ ARRIVE THERE THREER FIVE - Two FIVE STANDAR! FINAL GAMES STAGED IN ROTARY BOYS’ LEAGUE Willow Brook Hands Trouncing to Weakened Paradise Park Outfit — Losers In First Game Return to Swamp Smith Crew — Smith Also Splits Even By Taking Fall Out of Burritts—Vance Fails to Put In Appearance and Game Is Forfeited to Nathan Hale. Final Standing Ww. L. singles and Lipman three one base hits. The flelding feature ~was a one-handed stab ‘in center field by Jack O'Brien, who made a fine grab after having misjudged a long fly. The summary: ; 3 PARADISE AB ‘Washington Willow Brook. . Paradise Park.. Nathan Hale. Burritt Y. M. C Smith Vance 1.000 14 714 JT14 s e PARK A » H S 000 The Willow Brook team brought its scason to a close in an auspicious manner by trouncing a sadly weak- ened Paradise Park team.. This was one of the closing games of the| schedule that was completed later in the afternoan. The game called by agreement in the first halt of the ninth. “Lefty” Folden in the last ap- pearance in the box for his tcam this year pitched excellent bascball and limited the Paradise Park team to four solitary bingles. But 29 men | faced him during the afternoon and only one of the batters reached home, Kelly scoring on Block's dou- ble in the fifth. | The winners showed plenty of | punch at the bat and they cracked out 16 safe bingles, seven for extra bases. Kulas led the hitting attack with four safe wallops including a double and a triple. Lynch crashed three hits out of five attempts. Sy was the only man on the losing out- | fit that was able to get more than one safe hit. Baylock and English featured with pretty stops. The win- ners played a strong defcnsive game. Paradise Park's protest of the Washington game Monday was not | allowed by the league offictals as it | was found out that Quenk and Zisk, the players who the Park tcam were protesting as being nver age were both under the age limit. The second and what was to have been the last game played this sea- son on diamond No. 1 scheduled be- tween the Vance and Nathan Hale outfits was forfeited to the latter when Vance failed to put in an ap-| pearance, Vance did not win a game - Brofr, |uring the season. The score: It WILLOW BROOK Aoy, o, H Hanna, 1 Marino, o Carpens, rf Capodice, rf | | Olewnik, 3 : G. Bavlock, p .. mleswurwons olonnonwonsy ol humunuwsi, Heinzman, rf T ulounnruaid was French, fote, Capodice, 2b Marino, ef ncko, 3b Lynch, 3b Rroff, rf Folden, p Norklel, 1t Thomey, 1f Argosy? p, mesmoom ) TP o [PPSO o lwcoms alossosnnszuned mlunssssec® B i tea iy sl sessesesnn leeonr 4 4—11 0— 3 010 000 Buchas Totals aradise Park Smith Two base hits: Slysz, Olewnik, 300 Truhan, Thomey. 5 Smith 17, Burritts 3 e Smith dcfeated Burritt in a game which was one-sided after the first inning and finally ended with the score 17-3. The losers made their three runs in the first inning, but Smith came back to take a 4-3 lead and hold it. French was not scored on after that frame and, altogether, held the Burritt batters to thres singles. The game was singularly devoid of features. French led his own team’s attack with two hits, while Squillaciote scored four runs, one on every trip to the plate, in spite of the fact that he wseat hit- less. Little Jimmy Meligonis caught a good game. The summary: BMITH AB ] [ e b T N Sl Sl PO A E a0 I 0| 1 0 Kogelman, ef 3h 5 Merza, | | Kulas, ¢ Lipsky, It Lynch, 2b George, 1h Thomey, rf Folden, p Totals Paluch, O'Brien, 2h it Totals Del'ranzo, Poehnert, Cronin, B ] English, I Kelly, Block, | erio, | Pestritlo, Donkowski, et ecasmory T oomn oo losscausoanl wleussomuonu® alamsossusussd 0 0 0 3 Two base hit Indians "M/amonetr When Police Seize Truck Lowell, Mass., Aug. 30 (A—Nine Indians of the amaquoddy tribe at the Pleasant Point reservation near Eastport, Me., were stranded here last night when police seized a motor truM® in which they were making their way to a state fair at Hartford, Conn. The authorities al- lege the visitors had no Massachu- setts license as required by state law. As a result the Indians, among whom were three women, were de- prived of their wigwams and their food and were forced to seek in- door lodgings. By BRIGGS 034 021 a0 010 Thon 03—13 00— 1 ¥y, Kulas, hite: Ku Folden 10, Lyneh, Three be ck out: By | 104 3 3 ark 11, Smith 3 ‘ Smith had the tables almost exact- | |1y turned on it in the second game. for Paradise Park walloped it by 11-3 after Smith had scored all its runs in the opening stanza. After that George Baylock was supreme, not allowing another hit until the last inning. The winners hit Argosy and Folden savagely, getting 14 hits for 19 bases. Buckas led the attack | | with two doubles and a single, while |Truhan made a double and two i QUESTION - “\WHAT TiME DOES LT ARRIVE IN HICKS- VILLE THREE FIVE QUESTION "You Don'T meEAN DAYLIGHT_ SAVINGS Time- T EASTERN STANDARD TiMmE Rk NO MAM- JusT EASTERN STAN-DARD) Time ¢ Ten FORTY DAYLIGHT SAVINGS Time ?