New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1928, Page 8

BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928, KENSINGTON AND FALCONS MEET IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES TOMORROW—NUTMEG FOOTBALL- TEAM OPENS GRID SEASON AT WILLOW BROOK PARK—NEW BRITAIN SOCCER CREW MEETS HARTFORD IN STATE LEAGUE GAME—BIG LEAGUE NOTES YANKS AND ATHLETICS JUGGLING PENNANT BALLI WEEY FRgH TODAY Mackmen Slip Seriously In Battle With Detroit — Old Tom Zachary Pitches New York to Win Over the White Sox — Senators Take Two From Indians— Red Sox Score Victory Over Browns—Cubs Bow to Dodgers—Reds Divide With Boston Braves. By the Associated Press. , While fear-stricken thousands in | New York and Philadelphia watch in mute dismay, Professors Cornelius McGillicuddy and Miller James Hug- gins are taking turns in juggling the | big American league pennant ball, Both the exceedingly tall Connie and the surprisingly small Miller | have made a lot of slips in recent !, weeks, but so far they've escaped serious injury. It won't be long now, | though, when their next slip will be | fatal, That applies particularly to Mr. McGillicuddy. It was his turn to do the slipping yesterday, and he did so at Detroit while Miller's act went over at Chicago without mis- hap. | The net result was that the New | York Yankees, pride of Miller's heart, again are in a comparatively safe spot at the top of the American 1gague standing while Connie's Phil- adelphia Athletics languish two full games to the rear. The A's defeat at Detroit was all the more surprising because Connie sent his ace of aces to the mound— Robert Moses Grove. But Lefty, who has woven strange spclls over the swatsmiths of every team in the league but the Yankees this year, found the Tigers in a ferocious mood. They clouted him for two runs in the fourth inning and drove him out of the box in the next when Harry Rice hit a home run with the bases filled. Decidedly it was not Grove's day Ossie Orwoll, who pitches when he's not playing some | other position, relieved Lefty and ! suffered with Spartan fortitude, an- other punishing Tiger attack in the | eighth when Jonathan Stone, a rookle outfielder, smacked another home run with twe men on. With this savage hitting to brace him, Elam Van Gilder, Athletic jinx ex- traordinary, was in position to breeze 10 an easy Y to 4 victory. While Connie was being put to this humiliation, old Tom Zachary oiled up his aged left hand at the command of Mr. Huggins and sum- wmarily pitched the Yankees to a 5 to 2 triumph over Lena Blackburne’s | much-improved Chicago White S(?L i This victory gave Miller some satis- | faction for the affront the Sox put| on him Thursday, when they beat George Pipgras and Waite Hoyt in a 12 Inning game. Zachary gave the Sox etght scattered hits and drove in the last two Yaikee runs in the eighth with a home run with one on. Lazzeri and Ruth both were in- jured during the game and had to retire, ' The Washington Senators consoli- dated their hold on fourth place by taking the Cleveland Indians down the line in two games, the score be- ing 2 to 1 each time, Garland Brax- ton and “Sad Sam” Jones were the winning pitchers although Sam was given & great struggle by Moore, a Southern league recruit pitchers, in the nightcap. For that matter Brav- top had to be at his best to shade Underhill in the opener. 7 Charley Ruffing took things in his ewn hands at St. Louis, hitting a home run with two on in the seventh to give the Boston Red Sox a 5 to 3 Victory over the Browns. After the Browns had assaulted | ™ for four hits and three runs in (.o first in- ning, Ruffing set them d.\.n without trouble the rest of the way. While the 8t. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants were having an off day before resuming their crucial series at'the Polo Grounds, the Chi- cago Cubs took advantage of this idleness by bowing to Dazzy Vance and the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2 to 1, and thereby all but dropped out o{‘ the struggle for the National league pennant. Dazzy, who has made most of his best strikeout records against the Cubs, gave them only twoghits and fanned 11 men. Artie Nehf, one-time ace of the Giants, also was in great form, giving up only six hits Re | Ad | ci B Wi Vi P D out W Ri Jus Li ¥ M [t W, cl Wi Me Be b St { Kamm, | Redfern, Goslin, Crontn, Braxton, p Gerken, Underhill, W Myer, Taltt, Regan, Danning. Ogden, Rothrock. play: Rutling 4, Ogden 3b 2 | Huunefeld, ss org, © dkins, p smell, x Totals | x—Batted for Adkins in W York icago Two base slesssen Slourmunn= 35 9th. wuwlomcceo 010 020 020—5 010 000 hite: Kamw, Redfern, 100—3 Moa- Home run: Zachary. Struck out: By | Adkins 4. 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Rommel 1. o\ — (FIRST GAME) WASHINGTON AB R 1 = l e Sasuame Vbmiwsmmars 2 8 CLEVELAND > ® o Ui s 1 o wlosare levmmese lecowarmmond 9 2 000 010 010 000 to Cron Underhill Braxton k out: By SECOND GAME) 000 010 o010 000 BOSTON AB R 4 cevsumvoand [P = R ol wiosmissm & = lhocuseausnan? 1) lesvuonuwscecy w W PRS—— s smns elossummawnnn 35 for Danning in 9th, for Ogden fn 9th. 000 200 300 000 Taltt, Rutfing. Struck out: hite: Todt. and Todt. National League PITTSBURGH AB R 010— 03x—9 hit: Simmons, Home runs: Rice, Ktone. Struck csocecul mloconisoscosen 4 cowoel wlsuzossazom o= 0102 080—1 -m mlocscscmens 300—5 000—3 Schulte, Double By but gave the Robins the winning run in the sixth when he walked Dave Bancroft with the bases filled. struck out every Cub but v Maguire and made up for that by fanning Webb who batted for Ma- guire in the ninth. | The Cincinnati Reds established a | Eromer. b new major league record for double |, . plays at Boston where they divided | a double-header with the Braves, Boston took the first game, 5 to 3, but the Reds had the consolation of completing their 183rd double kill- ing, beating the old record of 1 set by Washington in 1923. They added two more to their string in the second game which they won, 3 to sossam it, rosky, Hurgreaves, « Wrigh s artell, lishsdannan v Totals 61 SLPHIA PHILADEL 5 R > scmsza2cul ols | sehuite The Pittsburgh Pirates made P two in a row from the Thilli 6| x to 5, it being the Phils’ ninth str: defeat, After the Pirates had scored four in the first inning, the I tied the ore in their half with the ) 1'd of home runs by Leach and \ Remy Kremer decided he nad had »nough and Jos Duwson re- lieved him and held the I'hils pretty well in hand the of the way Wright's home run with two on in the first was the ate batting fea- ture t | Sou 3 | Lerian Totals oy -G Pittsburgh Philadelphia \Twa D Wright, Leach 010 Home runs By Thompson rest . Btruck out: American League 20 Hengough BROOKLAN Zachary, 1 Reynolds, “tetzler, Biackerby, 4 | Stribling FOOTBALL STARTS Season Ofcially Opens With 175 Games Scheduled New York, Sept. 22 (UP)—The football season officially opens a week from today. One hundred and seventy-five games, including two double-headers, are scheduled next Saturday. Princeton, Harvard and Yale— once the mighty triumvirate of the east, but now just three other foot- ball teams—have three of the few elevens that do not swing into ac- tion next week. A. A. Stagg, one of the nation's oldest coaches, will send the Chi- cago Maroons against two foes, Ripon and South Carolina, a wee hence. Occidental on the Pacific coast also has two games for Satur- day a week, with Pasadena, Junior, and 8an Bernardino, Junio No castern team as yet; has summoned the courage to take on two teams {n one afternoon; One opponent at & time seems to be quite enough for the eastern group this season, and some of them are already worrying over how to dispose of that one. Picking the outstanding teams be- fore the football season is even harder than picking the pennant winners in baseball. It's usually a £00d -guess to ride last year's win- ners in baseball. Most of the time it doesn’t work in football. Graduation, injuries and scholas- tic ineligibility can wreck a cham- pionship football team. Year in and year out Knute Rockne, the wizard of Notre Dame, will turn out a win- ner, but even the shining dome of the old master loses its sparkle oc- casionally. The five best football teams in the east last year were Yale, Army, Princeton, Dartmouth and Pitts- burgh. Yale had perhaps the best record of the quintet, losing only to Georgia in an early scason game. Pittsburgh was a close second and Army, Princeton and Dartmouth were just a step behind Yale and Pittsburgh. All five ought to have good teams again this year, but the east's best team may not come from that group. Pennsylvania, Navy, Harvard, New York University and others have prospects equally as bright. After these many years, Hatvard may bound back with another win- ning team. The ever-patient Arnold Horween has laid a ftirm foundation at Harvard the last two vears and the Crimson may reap the benefit this season. The dynamic B Roper, presi- dent of the football coaches of America, has one of his best squads in recént years, at Princeton, in- cluding a rugged. veteran line, an all-round backfield in Phil Strubing, Jack Norman, Ed Wittmer and Mike Miles, rated by Roper as the best defensive back in the country last year. Roper cut the Princeton squad to 40 yesterday. Yale will hold its first scrimmage of the year at New Haven today un- der its new coach, Mal Stevens, who came out of the west from Kansas several years ago to star at haif- back for the Eli. Yale has lost both Tad Jones and Myron Fuller, head coach and line coach, respectively, to say nothing of the redoubtable Bruce Caldwell. BIiff Jones, Army coach, has a vet- eran teafn back but already h started to worry about his sccond game of the scason against the 8. M. L. eleven from Dallas, Tex., at West Point October 6. The Army has lost both its two wingmen, Born and Harbold, and Lighthorse Harry Wil- son, but they have Cagle, Murrell, Nave, Sprague and Perry. Dartmouth may blossom into the east’s best team this season, with Al Marters, who last year gained 1,934 vards against the opposition in his Hirst season. No team hLas cver stop- | ped Marsters. He gained 170% yards | against Harvard last year. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Billy Petrolle, Fargo, N. loayza, Kaplan, By the Detro D. knocked out Stanislaus Chile, (2). Louis (Kid) New York, stopped Bert Lamb, De- troit (7). lee Kirsch, New York outpointed Loger Bernard, 17lint Mich., (10). | New York—Sid defeated Ihil - McC foul, (6). | | | New York, | W, Detroit, Rantoul, l.—Les Marriner, Chi cago, stopped Oscar Daker fornia, (3). | Raltimore Battling Levinsky. | w York. outpointed Hern Weiner, Daltimore, (S) Mich.— Your Ga., outpointed | Roundup. Mont., | Grand Rapids, Macon Frankic \Wine, (10). Mass —Harry | Worcester. outpointed Tony | tello, Worcester, (10). Rorton—Jim M won over Jack De 1(10). Devine, San- Worcester, oston, York, Toledo, O.—Joey outpointed Andy (12). Ted Henry, Johnny O'K Columbus, (an)y. cago, Boston. | «o. Martin, Chic and | drew Milwan- Chid celles Grayjack Milwankee—Tonis New, and Paddy Waltier, (6). Mike M defeated Tony h kee 150, Cleve- Mil arew, land, waukee, HAS JOB AT FLOI Charles Bachman as torceed {to resign his jol ar Kansas Stat becanse of {11 health, i v 1§ hall coach at fhe Florida. hA who v iers than any t | starters to never spe | o'clock BATTERY BY HENRY L. FARRELL NEA $orvice Sports Writer | Compared to the difficulties that | are encountered in rating the riva players of the other positions, it is | a comparatively easy process to find the one team of the six aspirants that could preseat the best battery work in the world series. 4 The Philadelphia Athletics have | more high class pitchers and catch- | n with a chance to | The battery po- team are material in an get into the serics. sitions of Connic supplied with star abundanc Considering the pitching staft of | the six contending teams,4he class would seem to be as follow | Grove, QuinnN Rommel, | Walberg, Orwoll and Ear il Athletics, 1. | Nehf, Bush, Jones, Blake, Malone | and Root, Cubs, 2. | Sherdel, Haines, Alexander, Rhem | Johnson and Mitchell, Cards, 3. | Hoyt, Pipgras, Heimach, Pennock, | Johnson, Moore and Zachary, Yanks | 4. | Benton, Fitzsimmons, Genewich, | Faulkner and Hubbell, Glants, 5. | Grimes, Hill, Kremer, Brame, | Fussell and Dawson, Pirates, The catchers might be ranked as| follows: | Cochrane, Perkins and Foxx, Ath- letics, 1. | Wilson and Smith, Cardinals, 2. | Hartnett and Gonzales, Cubs, 3 Hogan and C‘uinm C ts, 4." Bengough, Grabowski and Collins, | Yanks, 5. Hargraves, Pittsburgh, 6. | The Athletics would have more | good pitchers to tirow at the oppo- sition than any other team that can be seen in th With Pen- nock out of s Yankecs are held down to two pitchers, Pipgras and Hoyt. The Giunts have cnly one pitcher, Larry Lenton, and Bt leigh Grimes speils the major part of the Pirate staf The Cubs, 1n late season, came around to gool pitching and were ! in the fortunate position where they aid not have to depend upon one 1l winning pitcher and the Giants had to. The Cardinals, it might be argued, | better equipped with pitchers than the cubs but this estimate was made upon the condition that the pitchers secm to by the time ap- proachies for th The Athletics have u great staff | headed by Lofty Grove and old dack Quinn 1f the A's get into it Connie Mac ill have the fort of knowing that Crove will not have to pitch asainst the Yankces, who beat him five times, and that Bis men will not have to bat against Henry Johnson, young Yanken who beat thm times, Mack cquipped with star chers, t hall stars and left .and- i i | ser the and curv ers and right hondors Thers can be little question about the class of R - Coch- rane is perhups the best cateher in major le: It he isn't he is than a tie with Jimmy Wilson, on t won's work with Cochra e Athleties Cy Perlins and young Foxx. ke unoa trio of 15 @ major league club ¢ the same time, Wilson 1ia ' nt in “Oi Smith, will t a4 chance @ the rchers, not ver ad at 1 mechanical but “0il" to work. mouth. And one of the best A substitute in io is considered by s as being as good Nzitles, all pliyer rtnett. The Giant arly, eatehers, Hogan Tl Yani-ees their catching and the s blame a weak- 58 behind the fat of the m's catest handica PAWNEES PRACTICE Pawnee football 1 practice fomorrow niorn at the st Urzent tequests re b i will 9:30 field. am g at sfroet STARS IN CLASS OF THEIRR OWN GARDS AND GIANTS PLAY AGAIN TODAY Leading National Teams Resume Mortal Combat in New York New York, Sept. 22 (®—The St. louis Cardinals and New York Giants meet in mortal National league combat again today but there will be no anti-climax like Thurs- duy's double-header which turned into something of a dub when each team won one game, leaving them precisely where they were before they started .Only a single game is on the cards today and so the test will be decisive, Bill McKechnie is ready to shoot Clarence Mitchell, only southpaw spit-baller in the big leagues, at the Giants and that is not good news for John McGraw. Mitchell has faced the Giants four times since he caught on with the Cardinals and has beaten them thrice. Against v Clarence will be pitted Freddy zsimmons, who, with Larry Ben- ton, has carried most of McGraw's pitching responsibilities this scason. The two clubs enter this crucial clash with the Cardinals holding a two-game lead. A defeat for the anis would just about remove them from the running, for the rest of the Cardinal schedule calls for seven games against Brooklyn and Boston and one, on S$:pt. 30, with the Giants. While the Cardinals arc meeting second division teams, the Giants are called upon to face the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati | Reds. On the other hand a victory for Ul of last vear's players and dates for places on the squad this vear be present, A 1e is sched- uled for the near future. the Giants would put them within a game of the top and might well hold oft final decision as to the 1928 champions until the final game of the season on Sept. 30. BRAE BURN CONQUERED Lmery Stratford Dreaks Recordon Course¢ Which Baffied Best Golfers in Country, Newton, Mass., Sept. 29 P—Brae Burn, the course that baffled the pick of America’s amateurs in last week's national championship play, has been solved by Emery Stratford with a record breaking 70. Stratford, a Brae Burn man, made 35 both ways for the eighteen hole annual medal play, and not only | broke the record but came in seven under the next two low men who, tied for 77s. His mark, however, probably will not ofticlally displace the 71 set jointly by George Voigt and Jimmy Johnston because the new tee at the 15th hole was not in play. The tee- ing ground used In yesterday's play was 30 yards ahead of the one from which the combatants for Bobby Jones' crown drove last week. BLUES TO PRACTICE The New Britain Blues football téam will practice tomorrow morn- ling at 9:30 o'clock at Willow Brook |park. All candidates for the team are asked to report in uniform and Coach Zwick promises a stiff work- out. Manager William Mays is form- ing a schedule. The team expects to play its first game on September 30. | POTTGEIGER COACHES GIANTS { A former Ursinus football star.| | Earl Pottgeiger, will coach the New | iYork Giants pro eleven this fall. ‘| hitters with 30, with Jim Bottomley NUTMEGS OPEN FOOTBALL SEASON HERE TOMORROW Newly Organized Team to Meet Stonewalls of Holyoke In First Contest of Year—Visitors Have Imposing Lineup—Locals Make Impressive Showing In Prac- tice Sessions — Veterans of Last Year’s Squad In Fine Shape for Game. LEADERS STIL NECK AND NEGK Horushy and Paal Waner Stag ing Tiriling Bating Bl ten more days of the season left, Rogers Hornsby and Paul Waner were still neck and neck for the batting championship of the Na. tional league last Wednesday night when the - current averages W compiled. The Boston manager led on that date by one point, having risen to .383 by a spurt as the Ptrate star fell t§ .382, according to sta- tistics issued today, ‘With hard campaigning ahead, the race may remain a toss-up as long as the stirring battle for the pennant hangs in doubt, or even longer. Hornsby had played in 128 games against 143 for Waner, Other leading batsme were: Kiein, Philadelphia, .3 Sisler, Boston, .353 Lindstrom, New York .353; Roettger 8t. Louis, .341; Her- man, Brooklyn, .340; Hafey, 8t Louis, .340; Richbourg, Boston, .338; Traynor Pittsburgh, .337; and Hu- gan, New York, .336. Although Hornsby regained the top by a shade over Paul Waner, the Pittsburgh Hlash retained many other individual coronets. He led in total hits with 218; in scoring runs, with 133; in doubles, with 51; and in triples with 19, Hack -Wilson of Chicago still topped the home run of St. Louis only one behind, Bot- tomley led in runs batted in with 121, and Cuyler of Chicago in stolen bases with 32, Larry Benton of the Giants re- mained on top in the pitching table with 24 victories and 7 defeats for .774, iollowed by his team-mate, Fred Fitzsimmons, with 20 and 8 for .714. Haines of St. Louis was next with 18 and 8 for .692, Carl Mays, now a Giant bench hand, nominally topped the league with a percentage of .800, but Carl earned it in only five decisions— four victories and one defeat while in the livery of the house of Hen- dricks at Cincinnati, Benton led the pitchers not only in percentage, but also in complete games, where he had a margin of 27 to £6 over Burlelgh Grimes of Pittsburgh. Benton and Grimes were tied in total victories, eatch with 24, but Grimes was bogged down to .649 and ninth place by 13 defeats. Tho Pirates, well out of the pen- nant fight, led in team batting ence more, this time with .311. New York was second with .296, and St. Louls third with .285, The Cubs were on top in team fielding with .975, one point more than could be siown by St. Louls| and Cincinnati, which were tied for | second, The Reds had 179 double | plays and needed only four more in 13 games to clip Washington's major league record of 183, SELLS BONDS IN NEW YORK | George Voigt, one of the most consistent amateur golfers in the country, sells bonds in New York. He moved there recently from | Washington. “First down and nine to go” will be the cry heard tomorrow aftere noon at Willew Brook park when the Nutmeg A. C. football team of this city takes the field against the Stonewall A. C. eleven of Holyoke, Mass, in the first gridiron contest of the year. Judging from the ine terest displayed in the team by fans throughout the past several weeks, A large opening day crowd will be on hand to watch the battle, The Stonewalls are coming here with an impressive squad of well- known players. The team, except for a few.stronger men, will be the same one that last year held the Hartford Blues to a scoreless tie, The team is rated among the lead- ing football combinations in Massa- chusetts. [ New Britain, except for Tom Leary, Zev Graham, and Jim Man. ning will have practically the same lineup as it had last season. The team has not been decided on by Coach Gratton O'Connell but he will probably use the .strongest men available for the start. In the tackle and guard positiona, New Britain should resent a verit. able stene wall on defense. With Werwais and Conklin in the tackles and Humphreys and “Jumbo” Gnas- dow at guard, both sides of the line are strong. Then there will be either “Red” O'Nelll or Joe Rogers at cente The wigzs are excellent with “Unk” Conley and Gratton O'Con- nell as mates. The backfield ia speedy, shifty and strong. Ralph Buckley, Meriden and Fordham University stas, Vic Radzevich, “Pig- eon” Conley, “Silent John" Davis, Griswold and & host of others who have been tryiag out, should fur- nish enough offensive strength to set the visiting elevsn back. The team will get together Sun- day morning for ¢ final workout be. 4 fore the gams, The contest wil ¥ start not later thaa 2:30 o'clock and local officials will Ve used. INTER-CITY MATCHES Monday niglit at Rogers billiard rooms, Grippo and Maron, two for. mer state league players represent. ing the Central Billlard Parlors of Middletown, will play igainst Grace and Kasprow of New Rritain: This will be the first inter-céy match of a series for a purse. The scheduls for the matches is as folows: Mon- day, September 24, at New Britain, Grippo vs. Kasprow and Maron va, Grace; September 27, Middletown, Kasprow vs. Maron, Grace vs. Grip- po; October 1, at New' Britain, Maron vs. Kasprow, Grippo va. Grace; Thursday, October 4 Middle. town, Kasprow vs. Grippo, Grace vs, Maron, READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS LEONARD BUILDIN 300 MAIN ST. Specializing in Puinless Tooth Extraction . er-Yip-1-A00Y gyv- YAY - EY- A Y\P- EYE -YALDY gY-YAY- CARE One of the Locker House Sap Spectacles WHY NO DEAR THERE ISN T . MUCH ROISE HERG -~ A FBW OF THE BOYS ARE MUMMING A SoWG ON ACCOUNT OF HE OPENING OF THE NEW LOCKER. HOUSE -- WE'RE ALL ABOLT READY TO LEAVE NOW-* NOT MUCH DOING — VERY DUkl 7 7 WELL T 7 Sounds VER-REE 71 SUSPICiovs | Down'T) WHAT BE = SoUND Lwe A DISCUSS THE . MAN \WHO “TRIES T ! ] =S To ALrB! HIMSELF AND GANG To mer L WIFE SO0 HE CAN STAY A WHILE LONGER AT THE LOCKER HHoUSE DEDICATION DA Tpung_tise. eSS e Vs > 7l 7 &