New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 24

MWMMWW : ALCONS TO CLASH IN SECOND GAME OF CITY TITLE SERIES SUNDAY—NUTMEGS PRACTICING HARD FOR FOR BOUT TUESDAY NIGHT—NOTES ON WORLD SERIB§ KENSINGTON AND F. ALL-TORRINGTON TEAM—CLINCH AND ZOTTER GETTING IN SHAPE CARDINALS ARE NOW IN SAME POSITION AS 1926\ BACKS T0 WALL Will Adopt Same Tactics as They Did Two Years Ago— Grover Cleveland Alexal Today—Huggins May Use Tom Zachary — New York Team Gets Off to Up Despite Bad Ankle—Notes of Game. New York, Oct. § (®—The St.! Louis Cardinals today found them- gelves just where they were at this stage of the world series two ycurs" ago, and although the Red Birds| Dave a new manager now, the tactics | adopted will be the same as in 6. | @Grizzled old Grover Cleveland Alex- | ander has been summoned to do something about it—if it doesn't| rain. | With the Cardinals standing a game behind in 1928, as they were in | 1926, the McKechnie mind worked | in the same way the Hornsby base- | ball brain functioned—send old Pete in there to wave his magic wand of i perfect control at the hard hitting Yanke off to a one game lead in the, series. The nomination of the ancient Alexander was made by Manager McKechnie after he had seen his National league champions turned back in the first test, and it was subject to revision only in e a weather bureau forecast of cloudy, followed by showers, should pan out. It the day is dark with poor \vis bility from the home plate Haines was ready to display hi t ball with a hop and a knuckle ball, hard to see on a clear day, leaving Alex to open at St. Louis Sunday, rain or shine. Manager Huggins threatened to croas the advance calculations which named George Pipgras as his choice for the second game by sending Tom Zachary, the rejuvenated left hand- ! er, who can throw slow balis as slow us the slowest. The Yank-es found themselves oft to a good start in the series because Waite Hoyt pitched unbeatable ball and the Yankee cripples threw aside their crutches long enough to manufacture runs from extra base hits. Wee Willie Sherdel allowed the American leaguers only four safeties in his seven innings of duty but three of them were doubles and the other a home run, accounting for | three runs. Three singles came along | later at the expense of Sylvester Johnson to make the Yankee total four, but Wee Willie had left the scene then. Sherdel's motto seemed to be that if he must allow hits they would be good ones. The Cardinals’ best was three hits and only one run. Jim Bottomley personally carrying the lone card | counter round by virtue of a lusty | home run. Waite Hoyt will not know until November 1 if he passed an examin- | ation he stood last weck to become a qualified mortician in New York state but 50 far as the Cardinals are concerned he is elected right now. The Brooklyn undertaker buried the team that beat him in the cl ir; game of the 1926 world serics and showed that this is another day by permitting only Bottomley to gct past first. The Cardinals could make no impression on the sturdy Hoyt and his 4-1 victory was a just verdict. Only six Cardinals wers able to boast of a speaking acquaint- ance with Lou Gehrig at first base. Three hits, including Bottomiey's terrific amash, and three sses | opened the door tfo the first base but for all but Bottomley it was imme- diately closed. The big Cardinals first sacker scored his team's only run, made two-thirds of its hits and drew one- third of the passes Hoyt issucd. The limping decrepit Babe Ruth was the big gun of the Yankee at- tack. He was able assisted by Lou | Gehrig and Bob ~“cusel. Meusel was | the only thor.ughly ‘ablebodicd member of the trio in the game, so he was ablé to drive one of Sherdel’s curves out of the playing fleld with Ruth on base. With a bad leg, Ruth's best was to hit two doubles and & single, score two runs and place another run in position to score. Gehrig's swollen lip slowed him up 80 that he could hit in only | two of the Yankees' four runs. Ruth, whom the most pessimistic expected to see in a wheel chair be- fore the game was over, moved through under his own power and limped only when he was scoring ahend of Meusel on a hit into the far-away bleachers. Hoyt showed a fast ball that grew | faster as the game went along, and | zlthough his control was a bit shaky | in the eighth, when he issued his | third pass, he got Douthit in a hole and struck him out when the out- fielder hclped him by being so far from the plate on the third strike that he could not have reached it had he been o inclined, With Hoyt's great pitching and the ability of the Yunkees to hit for extra bases in the pinches consid- ered, the first game of the world series was not an artistic exhibition Three fielding plays stood out, two by the winners and one by the ers. A catch of a ‘oul from Douthit's bat by Benny Bengough, tie Yankee catcher, as he hurdled the bats in tront of the Cardinal hench, P sensational stop and throw ! Mark Koefiiz of a ball that lett the bat of Frank Iorisch labelled base hit were the outstanding defen efforts of the Yankees, Rabbit Maranville, the classic after an years, contributed the most iing bit of business for the Card- inals. He dashed to the stands to grab a foul from Hoyt with on hand. | With the pitching selections for the second game narrowed to four it was certain that pitchers for both sides will be men who know their way about in world seri play Three of the four possible selections have never lost a game in the big test. George Pipgras won the only | game he pitched for the Yankees Jast year and Tom Zachary turned in two victories for Washington over appearing in of 14 spark- sened ling f IW. & J. a {do not appt nder Will Try to Stem Tide a Good Start—Ruth Keeps the Giants in 1926. Grover Alexander won two games from the Yankees in 1926, the sume record compiled in the series by Jess Haines, with an assist from Alex- ander in one. That was not Alex's first world series experience, how- ever, for he pitched for the Phillies in 1915, winning one and losing one. GRID RIVALS TO BATILE TONORROM Dopesters Give Five Eastern NEW BRITAIN'DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928, CARDS NOW HAVE Yankees to Face McKechnie's Tramp Card, Alexander, Today New York, Oct. 5 (UP)—The bus- iness of having one's back to the wall in a beaehall contest seems to have quite a stimulating effect, New York's Yankees did so well under the circumstances that 8t. Louls' Cardinals will try it today. By one of those sudden, startling reversals of form which give the national pastime its tremendous ap- peal, the Yankees are on the crest of the wave while the Cards are down among the periwinkles. Beating their crutches into base- ball bats, the American league champions knocked the dope into a cocked hat and won the opening game, ¢ to 1. As a result, they, and not the Cardinals, are now 7 to & favorites to win the world’s cham- pionship. Since the Yankees unexpectedly took the first trick, Bill McKech- nie is playing his trump card today Teams Outside Chance to Win New York, Oct. T (P—Incurable optimists among the football writ- aternity have looked over their form charts and tomorrow's s | collegiate schedule and figured it out in all solemnity that only five of the cast's major elevens have even an outside chance of mecting aster. y's supporters are awaiting the Boston College game with some- thing approaching trepidation, not so much because of the invaders’ reputation as because of the Mid- iipmen's disappointing 'showing against Davis-Elkins, Perhaps “Navy Bill" Ingram has cured the faults that contributed to the academy's defeat last week. 1f so his pessi- mistic backers may pleasantly surprised. Although “Biff” Jones is known to have a great team at West Point observers are loath to establish the s overwhelming favorites against the Southern Methodists' ag- gregation. Little is known in this! on of the country as to the ac-! tual strength of the Texans, but it is enough for the Army to know! that Ray Morrison has wrned out great teams at Dallas before and probably has another one this sea- son. On the basis of its rather weak showing against Hobart, Syracuse is accorded little more than cven chance to turn back William and Mary. The southerners have a veteran crew and may give the Orange all kinds of trouble. West Virginia, another of Davis- Elking' victims this year, may be Diting off more than it can chew in tackling the Haskéll Indians, and w York university, apparently weaker than last year, can expect strenuous opposition from West Virginia Wesleyan, - although the latter fell before West Virginia U. last week, The rest of the program, in gen- eral, seems to provide little material for upsets, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Brown. All open their sched- ules against opponents of a calibre somewhat below their own—Ver- mont, Springfield, Maine and Wor- cester Poly, Pennsylvania tackles I, and M. Columbia meets Union and Cornell a Niagara team that I'te11, 20-0, before N. Y. U. last week. Hobart, which gave Syracuse & bit of a scare, meets a high-power- ed Dartmouth machine Pitt anti- cipates little more than some addi- tional practice against Bethany as does Carnegie against Ashland and ainst Waynesburg, Penn State may find Gettyshurg a hard nut to crack and Penn Mili- tary figures to give Lehigh some uneasy moments if nothing else. La- fayett's high-scoring machine should more or less romp through Muhlen- berg which was beaten by Drexel last week. Holy Cross and George- town, facing St. John's of New York and Susquehanna respectively, r unduly al WAITR HOYT AFTER MARK IN WORLD SERIES GAMES New York Pitcher Has Won Five Contests and Has Lost Only Three of Then New York, Oct. 5 (#) — The boy ! wonder of Flatbush is maturing into a right handed pitcher who secms o have designs upon the world se- vies pitching records of such mas- ters Mathewson, Bender d Pennock. In turning back the St Louis Cardinals with three safe hif and one carned run in the 1928 opener, te Charies Hoyt in- sis-year stiing to five three defeats. The Yankee ace thus matched in victories Pennock, who has lost none, and the immortal Matty, who divided ten, H only one trinmph vqual the record of Chict Bender, who won six and lost four in « long and hon- orable career through w his and only vietories now needs more to figure trom 1 ¢ one-time Brooklyn school- has d-rundaver- innings of sames over a in so many games save 1.02, has a better Pennock crowds Hoyt with 1.90 in-seven en- gagements, one of which hurl 14 years ago for the Athictics, Hoyt pitched five games, given 19 ind allowed 63 13 enrned boy™ now of just 1 pitehi v yan an earne g in nine No pitcher Matty ned-rin with mark. has complete tanned 38 hits and runs, The Zeppelin Count Von Zeppelin, it its name from who invented got an | Jin baseball that Babe Ruth and his -—Grover Cleveland Alexander. If #0ld Pete” does his stuff, the con- tenders will depart for St. Louls to- night with the series tied up tighter than a top hat after an all-night party. Miller Huggins went to bed with a string tied around his finger to re- mind him to decide in the morning who should pitch for the Yanks to- day. The diminutive pilot was of two minds; he might gamble on Tom Zachary, his veteran south- paw, or he might let the National leaguers have the second barrel, fir- ing George Pipgras at them. The St. Louis Cardinals are far from a beaten ball club. Their sit- uation ¥ vastly different from that of the Pittsburgh Pirates a year ago. They still possess more intrinsic baseball strength and reserve ma- terial than their rivals. Willie Sher- del pitched a great ball game and deserved a better fate. The Yankees made only four hits off him. The only trouble was that they were bunched like bananas. Before the series opened, It was| rumored that one reason Miller | Huggins had Waite Hoyt around was because the American league cham- plons were so completely crippled, bed-ridden and prostrate that the young man's services in his capacity as Brooklyn's leading mortician might come in handy at any mo- | ment, As it turned out, Hoyt wore. & baseball glove instead of his black cotton ones, and turned in one of the niftiest and most timely pitching ef- Iforts of any world serles within memory. Three hits, two of them useless, were all the Cardinals gar- nered in the sunny vineyard of | Yankee Stadium yesterday after- noon. Big Jim Bottomley. who ha | an eye on the “'most valuable player” | award for 1928, collected two of the | 8t. Louls hits, one a prodigious | homer. | It is typical of the modern trend | fellow Yankees showed less conc about that homer of Jim Bottem- ley's than Connie Mack has about the next American league pennant raising ceremonies. With the crack of the bat, it was apparent to the well-tuned ear that the ball was not going to remain very long in the | be'l park. The Yankees know the sound of a homer when they hear it. Not a face blanched. Babe Ruth | dldn’t even straighten up nor did he | glance around. i “Come on, kid, that one's gone. Let's get the next guy,” he seemed to | say. There are time when the Babe is expressive without saying a word. | Ruth will be out there this afte i noon, swinging for a homer of his | own. He is particularly anxious to hit one off Alexander, whom he rec- ognizes as & foe-man worthy of his ash. Moreover, Alex let the Babe down without a hit in the 1926 series when the Yanks and Cardinals met. Provided Pipgras is the pitching choice, Watty Holm will get his | | | | turnisk | International League Champions in Fans went wild at Yankee stadium when Bob Meusel clouted out a home run In the fourth Inning bringing Babe Ruth home ahcad of him In the first gam 8t. Louis. Picture shows Ruth and Meusel sooring. RESUME PLAY IN CITY TITLE Falcon and Kensington Teams to Clash In Paper Goods? Town—Rivals Ready and Anxious to Get On Withi SERIES SUNDAY Struggle — Woodman and Atwood Will Probably Oppose Each Other In Box—Contest Scheduled to Start at 3 o’Clock Sharp—Large Crowd Expected. New Britain's baseball title scries between the Faicons and the All- Kensington teams, will be resumed next Sunday afternoon when the (\\-o‘ clubs clash in the sccond game at the Percival avenue grounds in Ken- sington. Prevented from playing last Sunday becayse of rain, the players on both clubs are anxious to get go- | ing again and a real battle should develop when they meet. Kensington has the edge in games because of its victory by a 1 to 0 score In the first contest played. The Falcons take heart because they be- BOXERS TRAINING HARD FOR FIGHT Clinch and Zotter to Be in Ex- cellent Shape Tuesday Night Both Jimmy Clinch and Joe Zot- lleve that Kensington got the one ter, local bovers who will meet in “preak” in the game which gave it|a six-round bout next Tuesday night the chance to score, Another pitching duel s in pros pect because of the fact that non- | officially, Woodman has been named | as the Kensington hurler while At- wood will probably work for the Falcons. Woodman and Nichols op- posed cach other in the first game and their work was pretty to watch. | Both pitched good enough bnflvlmlllfin_(ltr fans, this wame case should | thing. to win and the hold good this coming Sunday. The two teams will lineup practi- cally the same on Sunday for the opening battle of the playot so that each side will have relative- 1y the same strength as before. teams are confident of winning the | ccond tilt. Should Kensington win, it will be two games fo the good | while a victory for the Falcons will even up the count. The contest is scheduled to start promptly at 3 o'clock. Bus scrvice to and from the playing f from Pratt’s Corners. INDIANAPOLIS DRAWS AWAY FROM ROCHESTER, Desperate Straights in Little World's Serics chance in right field in place of George Washington Harper. This is the only prospective change in the St. Louis line-up. Miller Huggins | may send Gene Robertson to third in pluce of Joe Dugan against center fleld. The very presence of “Pete’ Alex- i ander In the box will be most inspi ing to the Cardinals. They have im- plicit faith in the old man, who beat {hese same New York Yankees twice in the 1926 series and saved the final and all important game when Jess Haines wobbled. Incidentally, this sume Haines is very much on the job this year. ready to go, remind- | Tul of two victorics of his own over | the American league champions two | years ago. Lots of baseball managers e been in tighter places than Bill | McKechnie. ! The proba st Louls Douthit., | High, 3b i e line-up ef Meusel, Lazzerl, 21 Dugan. 3b Bengough. € Pipgras, D At the plate, . McGowan: s third Hatey, If Holm, rf Wilson, ¢ ranville, nder, Umpires first 3 prirman ond base, | Reichswehr Membei-s Can’t Toast Kaiser Berlin, Oct. 5 M—All members of the Reichswehr have been or- dered to leave any function at whic h tie former Kaiser or any of the { princes of the former ruling house lure toasted. A d¢ issued by Dr. Wilhelm Groener, minister of defense, also orders the Reichs. wehr members to leave if any func- tion should develop into a demon- rex stration against the German repub- | lic. N | drive for Alexander. Cedric Durst will be in | oy Rigler; | India task of awpolis, Ind., Oct. b (B —The stopping Indianapolis in i the Class AA basebail championship against the Rochester | club apparently rested today upon | the powerful right arm of Herman The Tnternational League pennant | winners were near the desperate stage owing to the pounding three pitchers have heen given by the Hoosicrs in the five games played 1o date in the post season serics, The | American Association champions boosted their lead in the nine game serics to three to one yesterday by a 12 to 5 victory her i | Steve Swetonie, the star mounds- | man for the Indianapolis club was ger to pitch against Bell if the lat- ter proved to he Manager Billy | Sonthworth's che The Hoosier | youngster outnitched Bell at Toches- [fer last Sunday. Tt was his second | victory of the ies. I il and | algo were ready to go for In- | polis ager Southworth was not cer- he would be bhack at his old position in left ficid. He | stayed out of yesterday's fray be- cause of an injured knee. Eighteen solid smacks, with base stealin enabled combined and wild pitches Indianapolis to run away from Rochester yesterday after spot- i ting the visiting team to a four run lead in the fir Neither | Danny Boone or - Jim MeCracken, the starting pitchers lasted two full | innings. Wine Crop in France | Very Small This Year IParis, Oct. 5 R—Wine bottles marked “1928" will he jealously | guarded in the cellars of connoisseurs in the years to come. Franee has just | passed through ‘he st. hottest summer sinee 1911, The wine crop. Both | ¢ | matches in yea t the Stanley Arena for the cham- plonship of Hartford county at 135 pounds, are hard at work getting in hape for what both consider is the | niost important bout in their careers. | Clinch, because of his expe his work in the ring, is being given nce and an edge over his rival but to the doesn’'t mean a They bank on Zotter's longer I reach and clever boxing ability to ‘a5 they did | stave off the rushes of Clinch, the t, | mauler. out_consistently Jimmy has been working at the Kaplan trainlng camp and he has adopted world’s feather- Zotier many of the forme weight champion's tactics. has improved with amazing rapidity 4 lis long string of successes ound an ominous note in the Clinch camp. These two boys are holding the feld will be | center of intercst in the first indoor hoxing card of the Hardware A. . However, two other headliner bouts e on thc program. One that ands out as one of the best is that between BABY GIRL- 74 e o N S (et . it is predicted §il be short in | quantity and excellent in quality. the world's series between New York and GO ON 'N SWEET? HEART- THATA sweeT BABY QROP 1IN FOR - NUTMEGS ARE READY FOR - ALL-TORRINGTON SUNDAY Local Football Team to Work Out Tomorrow Alterncon —Visiting Team Considered.to Be a Strong Grid Combination—Ed (Bull) Keenan to Start In Game —Belonki and Quinn Expected to Play With New Britain—Coach 0’Connell Concentrgtes On Signals. , _ WALTER HAGEN IS 0UT OF TOURNEY Leo Diegel Deleats Delending Champion Two and One Baltimore, Oct. 5 UP—Four men today remained I. the running for the National Professionai Golf as- sociation championship and they did not include Walter Hagen, five times champion and the holder of the title for the last four years. The peculiar efficiency of Leo Die- gel, sent the defending champion out of the tournament in the quarter finals yesterday Z and 1. Starting poorly yesterday with & run of missed putts and hooked droves that brought him to the turn in 40, five over par, Hagen found himself five down and this margin proved too great for even his sur- passing match play genius to over- come. It was a long stern chase and it was Diegel's unusual pendulum style of putting that eventually putted Hagen right out of the tour- nament at the 35th green. Gene Barazen scored just three over par in winning from Fred Dud- ley of Los Angeles, 7 and 6. Partly because of this Sarazen becamie a | slight favorite to win his scheduled slashing | al round match with Diegel should | Ray Hogan, Terryville Terror, and | ¥rankic Portell, clever boxer of | Hartford. Fans here figure that Portell’s ability will enable him to defeat Hogan but there are many who figure that Hogan will probably be too strong for the Capital City scrapper. Tho third stav bout brings Morley of Hartiord and k man of Waterbury together. two are heavy hitters and scrappers and their clash ve to be a feature. “The three star bouts will be over the six round route. Kive other matches are scheduled and Match- maker J. J. Whaler has announced the pairings for the quintet of four- vounders. Ray Sanborn of Hartford will battle Jack Slattery of New Ha- ven in the light heavyweight div s of New Bri 1k of Hartford will mingle in a slugging match. Ray Taylor of Terryvillc, making his first appearance as an amateur, w in battle Frank Kane of Waterbury. Johnny Barra of this city is sched- uled to meet Art Chapdelaine of Springfield while Jack Sharkey of | Waterbury, will swap punches with Harry Osit of Springficld. The card has all the earmarks of Leing a real sensation in the line of fistic endeavor. Many who were anxious to have fights here during |the outdoor season, have heen awaiting the opening of the fall scason and the attendance should be good. The first bout will start' at 185:15 o'clock. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT -w York, Oct. 5 (—Political | speakers on the radio tonight in-| clude: Republican: Louis Marshall at 8:30 p. m., east- ern time, over WOR and 20 stations of the Columbia broadcasting sys- tem. | Democratic: Assemblyman Maurice Bloch, New York, at T p. m., castern time, over WJZ network. Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland at 9 p. m., eastern time, over WMCA. Gilbert M. Hitchcock at 10:30 p. m., eastern time, over WJZ chain. Vie All Espinosa, victor over Jock Hutchison, a former champion, by a score of b to 4 was favored to win from young Horton Smith of Joplin, Mo., who downed Perry Del Vecchio, Greensburg, Pa., young- ster, 2 up in the quarter finals. Now that Hagen and Hutchison are out of the rypning -as well as Jim Barnes who was climjnated on Wednesday, Sarazen stands out as the only ex-champion still in the tournament. WORLD SERIES THRILL PERMEATES{ K&l JAPAN Situation in China and Emperor's Departure for Military Mancuvers Relegated Temporarily Tokyo, Oct. 5 (P —The situation in China and even the emperor's departure for the north to take pe sonal command of the annual mili- tary maneuvers took second place in the Japanese press today while the nation read dispatches from the Yankee stadium. Japan, for many years an ardent admirer of the American sport, 18 ovineing an unprecedented interest in the world series and the after- noon editions of Tokyo and Osaka papers have been devoting half of their main news pages to it. Ban- ner headlines were used to tell the | Japanese “Yankees Win First” and cen provincial papers took play by play accounts while the metropoli- tan dailies printed several columns including full box scores and ple- {tures of Hoyt, Bottomley, Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig. Even the radio was pressed into service and the |contest was broadcast. | The Lip of the Cup DON'T You RoLL IN THAT CuP You I 2 e il OH S Although baseball holds the cen. ter of the stage at the present time because of the world series play in New York, there is increasing inter- eat in the clash between thy Nutmeg A. C. and All-Torzington® football teams scheduled to take place Sun- day afternoon at 2:15 e'clock at Memorial Field in Willow Brook park. 7 . New Britain's team is rounding out into a powerful combination and it is being" given the edge over the visiting combination. However, with the imposing lineug being brought here from Terrington 8un- day,” New Britain's chances do not look any too rosy. Playera of the caliber of Ed (Bull) Keenan, 8yl- vester, Kovack, Huggar, Dillon and Savoy besides the other lesser lighta, ‘would grace-any team both on the offensive and defensive sides, They will be here Sunday, anxious to win from New Britain and it can easily be seen that the locals are in for a very hot session. Coach Gratton O'Connell has been driving his squad for all they are worth. He has been concentrating on sig- nals and passing 86 that there will be no slipup in the plays which will be used. The team will practice tomorrow afternoon and a stiff session is out- lined. Buckley will probably get the assignment of punting with Da- vis or Belonki to alternate with him in this department. Belonki and Quinn, the two new backs, are ex- pected to be in a New Britain uni- form Sunday and they will round out a speedy and powerful backfield. The line will be the same, The game is scheduled to atart promptly at 2:15 e'clock. NEW SHIFT IN UNITED STATES POLO COMBINE Earl Hopping Takes Place of Vet- eran Star, Malcolm Steven- son, on Team. New York, Oct. 5 P — A few shift in the United States interna- tional polo team today found 31- year;oid Earl Hopping on the squad at tho expense of the veteran star, Malcolm Stevenson, Forced to drastic measures after the crack Argentine four took the second game and evened the series for the championship of the Amer- icas, the defense committes of the United States Polo association has dropped Stevenson, a veteran of two international series, from the team, shifted Captain Tommy Hitchcock from his accustomed position at No. 2 to Stevenson's place at No, 3, and inserted Hopping into the lineup at the No. 2 position. W. Averell Har- riman will remain at No. 1 and ‘Winston Guest again will be at back when the third and deciding mateh of the series with the Argentines is played tomorrow. The change, expected to be an- nounced officially today, has been made, it was learned, to give the United States aggregation the strongest possible offensive combina- tion. Hopping essentially is an at- tacker, where Stevenson's play in the first two gumes has been prin- cipally defensive The Simplon tunnel, running through the Alps, is 12% miles lon By BRIG! Keep QUT oOF THAT” You Low DowN 13} so Aup S0 ALD ) Anp SO! WHIAYL =