New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 8

“OFFICIALS NAMED FOR TRACK MEET AT WILLOW BROOK PARK—FALCONS SET TO BATTLE NAVY . TEAM AT ST. MARY'S™ ' FIELD TOMORROW—HIGH SCHOOL TEAM CLASHES WITH: ST. THOMAS IN HARTFORD—ONLY ONE GAME IN.MAJOR LEAGUES® TIGERS BEAT WHITE SOX IN ONLY CONTEST PLAYED|" WEET ST. THOMAS George Uhle, Cleveland Exile, Does Net Job on Chicago Team—Detroit Comes Out on Long End of 6 to 1 Score—Pirates Defeat Yankees in Exhibition Game at Pittsburgh—All Games in National League are Washed Out by Rain—Cards at Polo Grounds. By the Associsted Press. George Uhle, the Cleveland exile, had the big league spotlight all to Nimself yesterday as cold weather and reluctant cystomers caused fur- ther devastation: in ‘the baseball schedule. The veteran right hander pitched the Detreit Tigers to a neat and decisive victory over the White Sox by a score of 6 te 1. The game was put on in the cold reaches of Comiskey park with only a handful of the very faithful as witnesses. Cold weather and rain swept the National league schedule clean yes- terday, and prevented the one other champlonship engagement planned in the American. The Yankees went through with their exhibition at Pittsburgh, a Pirate victory by 8 to 2, being the net resuit. The widely heralded sweep of the western National league teams through the ¢ast will not strike sea- board citiés until this afternoon, The defenders, even the Giants, are in poor condition to curb the vandal. istic intents ot the burly contenders from the west, where the weather man has been a little less atrocious than in the east. The growing fayor in which the Cardinals are being “held by Na- tional league critics will focus at- tention of the addicts on the Polo Grounds where Billy Southworth will parade his veteran pitching corps Dbefore the héavy maulers of the clan McGraw for the next few days. Only slightly less interesting will be the effort of the Cubs to shake off their Philly jinx at Baker Bowl. The first stand of ‘the American league clubs on the western front will find the Athletics besieging Sportsman's park in the first cru- cial series, real or suspected, of the young season, as the Macks, slam- ming the ball at an approved Yan- kee clip, will come face to face with Meas: Gray, Crowder and Ogden, who have done much since April 16 to discourage such tactics in the American league. The victory of Uhle over the White Sox yesterday, revealed the veteran right-hander at his former best. He gave the 8ax just five hits, and never seemed in any danger after his mates tied the score for him in the second. treops pushed one run across the plate in the first on a single and a pair of errors by Heinle 8chuble. The triumph was Uhle's fourth of the season. It was heiped along Ly Charlie Gebringer's home run. Phillips, ¢ Schuble, s sxC e wleecesoecns lecucocnun, Blmumascuces B Ak ransn i & Vason Mowiwg =1 .-»uu-nu.-'g 1] e—-»«-——.g g 3 010 001 103—8 icage 100 080 000—1 Two base hits: Alexander, Kerr, Metu- ler, Fothergill. Three base hits: McMan- us, Gehringer. Home run: Gehringer. Struck out: By Thomas 1, Uhle 5. FAYORABLE WEATHER FOR BALLOON RACE STARTING Detroit Club Eatry to Go Aloft as First of Long Line at & O’Clock Today. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 4 U — Ob- servers at the University of Pitts- burgh stadium reported early this morning a light northwest wind was blowing and that favorable flying weather was in prospect for the start of the national balloon race. ‘Weather Forecaster W. 8. Brotz- man announced, however, the winds probably would vary later in the day with velocity of from 20 miles an hour at a height of 1,000 feet to 30 miles an hour at 5,000 feet. The race is scheduled to start at 5 o'clock this afternoon, eastern daylight time, with the Detroit Bal- loon club entry going aloft in charge of W. A. Klioft, Detroit, and Thor- vald Larsen, Dearborn, Mich., as his aide. The remaining 11 balloons will leave the ground at five minute intervals. Amelia Earhart, transatlantic aviatrix, and other air notables de- layed coming to Pittsburgh yester- | day as storms continued to sweep the western Pennsylvania district. The winners of today’s race, to be determined by distance covered, will represent the United States in the Gordon Bennett international rac: which will start from 8t. Louis. BORG BREAKS RECORD Los Angeles, May 4. —UP—Arne Borg, distance swimmer, broke his own world's record for the 1.000- yard swim last night. His time was 11 minutes, 47 seconds. The previ mark, 12 minutes 16 4-5 seconds, was set in 1924. In establishing the new record Borg was paced by a team of 7 swimmers. Tt is estimatel that n motor car travels two snd®a half million miles for every fatal accident, The Chicago | 1l couccecoco® uleuncccocecan ISSUES ANOTHER VACHT CHALLENGE §ir Thomas Lipton Throws Down Gauntlet to America London, May ¢ (®—Sir Thomas Lipton, noted Irish sportsman, again has challenged for the America’s cup, historic yachting trophy, ac- cording to an Exchange telegraph dispatch from Dublin. The challenge filed on Sir Thomas’' behalf by the Royal Ulster Yacht club, has been sent to the New York Yacht club and suggests September of 1930 for the challenge series. Officials of the New York Yacht club said they had received no offis cial word of Sir Thomas' challenge. Under cup rules, the challenger is required to give 10 months notice in writing, together with the name of the owner of the challenging boat &nd the principal dimensions of the craft. Dates, courses, number of trials, rulee and regulations may be arranged by mutual agreement be- tween the challenging and defending clubs. . The original race for the cup, then a Royal Yacht club squadron trophy, was sailed in 1851 around the Isle of Wight. The schooner yacht Amer- ica had sailed across the ocean and decided to compete and won by & wide margin. The cup has been held in this country ever since. There have been 13 challenges, the Lipton S8hamrocks having com- peted in the last four. The firat Shamrock sailed in 1899, the second in 1901, the third in 1903 and the fourth in 1920, the last time the cup has been in competition. In the 1920 race, the defending yacht, the Reso- lute, was salled by Charles Francis Adams, now secretary of the navy. Belfgst, North Ireland. May 4 (P —The new yacht which Sir Thomas Lipton will build in an attempt to vegain the America's clup will be named Shamrock V. Will be about 77 feet long at the waterline, this measurement bring- ing it into the 23 meter class. It will be designed by Charles E. Nicholson, who designed other yachts for the famous sportsman. YALE TO DEFEND ROWING PRESTIGE sylvania on Housatonic Derby, Conn., May ¢ (P—Unde- feated for six years in a Blackwell LCup regatta, the sturdy sweep swingers of Yale today faced their sternest opening test in recent years from the pupils of young Dick Glen- don at Columbia and Coach Rusty Callow's determined band of eight oarsmen from Pennsylvania. When the crews paddle to position to be sent away on a two mile pull up the Housatonic river late this afternoon the New York entry will go to the post a slight favorite. This classic, which opens the Yale rowing season, has been annual con- |cern to Columbia and Penn crews, but just when their optimistic ideas seemed to blossom. gloom was a step ahead around the bend. Notwith- standing the Elis reign of supremacy and its desire to keep its winning streak intact, the representatives from Morningside Heights appear again more formidable than ever and twice as anxious for victory. Scanning Columbii chances no one can doubt that Coach Glendon has a worthy array. With five vet- erans tried and true from a crew which a year ago scaled rowing heights at Poughkeepsie and with a first place won against Navy last week. The Columbians appear ready. The unexpected change in stroke oars by Coach Ed Leader of tht Elis appears on the surface to give him a stronger combination. Palmer, the new stroke oar, has been tested in competition on the junior varsity |boat and his move to replace “Woodie”” Tappen is regarded as the ldriving power which has been ! missed in the Yale boat. Pennsylvania, like Yale, has not faced an opponent this year but Coach Callow, who Is handling the Quaker varsity oarsmen for his sec- ond year, may be expected to have his charges in the thick of the fight to wrest victory from Yale and the Blue and White. Much im- | provement has been shown by Penn {since their opening workout of the season on the Schuylkill. Ed Taeff- ner, is regarded as a veteran stroke “who may uncork a surprise victory if he can raise his comrades to a the | high stroke when the dash for finish mark is in sight. Three other races will give the {crowd expected to line the banks and fill the observation train a chance to cheer before the big race. The 180 |pound varsity crews will brush over he Henley distance for one mile and |five-sixteenths. The other races by |the freshman and junior varsity crews extend to two miles, Cuban orchestras must play a na- tive selection for every jazz piece on their dance pregrams, under & re- cent ruling. Crew Moot Columbia i P NEW BRITAIN DAILY HE HIGH SCHOOL TO Baseball Rials Clashing This Alternoon in Hartford A third attempt will be madeto reach'the winning column this aftér- noon by the New Britain high scheol baseball team when it plays the St. Thomas seminary nine in Hartferd. The contest which will start at 3:30 o'clock ‘will be played at the Eliza- beth park grounds. ] The game will be one’ which will feature two teams that have yet to score a victory this season. 8t. Thom- as' lost both of its starts by ene- sided scores and the New Britain high team has been defeated twice. The Red and Gold team showed it was weak in practically every de- partment of the game when it lost to Naugatuck by a 10 to 0 score, It failed to gather a hit or a run and it made ten errors. On the other hand the Naugatuck team made 10 hits off the three New Britain pitch- ers who toed the slab. Hurley, who succeeded in defeat- ing New Britain last year will prob- ahly be called upon to try to dupli- cate but he may not be the same obatacle that twice blocked New Britain's chances last year. In two starts this year he has been knock- ed out of the box. Schmarr or Potts will start for New Britain with the former as the likely choice, Potts’ hitting ability will be used to advantage. He will start at first base it Schmarr pitches. Partyka, short stop, will be used asa reliet hurler, JAMIESON STILL HOLDS AN EDGE Yeteran Leads American League Batters Despite Big Drop Chicago. May ¢ (A — Charlie Jamieson's batting average dropped 87 points within one week, but he still kept an edge over the field in the race for American league club- bing honors, unofficial averages in- cluding Wednesday's games reveal. The Cleveland outfielder's mark at the end of the second week of the campaign is 437 as compared to .624 a week ago, but his chief rivals also slumped. Lou Blue of Bt Louis, who clung to second place, dropped from .500 to .435 in seven sames. Beveral hitters made great gains, especially Marty McManus of De- troit, who lifted his average from .224 to .410 to go into fourth place. Bud Clancy of the White Sox gained nine to take third with a .426 aver. age. Other leaders were: Foxx, Philadelphia, 409; Goslin, Washing- iton, .405; Simmons, Philadelphia, .400; Judge, Washington, .382: Hale, Philadelphia, .381 and Metsler, Chi- cago, .380. Sammy Gray. sturdy right hander of the 8t. Louis Browns, hung up two more victories during the week and went into the lead in the pitch- 1ing race with four straight tri- umphs, in 37 innings, Gray has al- lowed nine runs. Uhle of Detroit, and Hoyt of New Ygrk had three victories each. Feeding upon Boston pitchers, the Philadelphia Athletics jumped to the top of the heap in team batting with an average of .326. Detroit was second with .317. while the Yankees were in eighth place with .255. Washington clung to the top in fielding with a percentage of .985. Philadeiphia led in runs with 95 in 12 games and the White Sox were the hardest to score on as only 41 have been tallied against them in {12 games. Other Leaders Home runs, Philadelphia. 14. Double plays, Cleveland, 18. Triple play, Chicago, 1. Runs, Blue, St. Louis, 19. Runs batted in, Alexander, troit. Stolen bases, Tonseca, Cleveland and Averill, Cleveland. 4 each. 8trike outs, Gray, St. Louis, 16. WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD By_the Tnited Press. Yesterday's hero—George Uhle, Detroit pitcher, who held the Chi- cago White Sox to five hits and snap- ped a four game winning streak, at Chicago, 6 to 1. De- The game was the only regularly |scheduled contest in either league, rain, wet grounds and cold weather KVow‘lng the cancellation of all oth- jers. The White Sox took a one run lead in the first inning and Detroit tied the count in the second. The winning run came in the sixth, fol- lowed by another in the seventh. In the ninth, with one man on base. Gehringer hit a home run the 101st of the 1929 major league season. Although frowning on chamfion- ship competition generally, the weather man permitted the New York Yankees to lose an exhibition at Pittsburgh by an 8 to 2 count. iGordon Rhodes started for the Yanks and allowed Pittsburgh six runs before he was replaced by Johnson in the fifth. Meadows and | Fussell held the Yankees to eight j hits, COLBY BEATS AGGIES Storrs, Conn., May 4 (UP)—Colby defeated Connecticut Aggie, 9 to 6 in a loorely played baseball game ‘here yesterday. Hooper. Aggie cap- Jtain. hit three triples and a singlc in four times at bat, RALD, SATURDA OTIS CRANDALL STILL DOING HIS STUFF “@ P AT T e i *(LL KEED N PREHI “I'll keep on pitching until the batters start thinking again,” says old Otis Crandall, granddaddy of all the pitchers, who after more than & quarter of & century on the mound, is still carry on for Bacra- mento, in the Pacific Coast league. Twenty years back, Otis Crandail was regarded as a‘seasoned veteran on the New York Giants' pitching staff, With such baseball ancients as Christy Mathewson, Rube Mar- quard, Chief Myers, Art Devlin and Larry Doyle, Otey daily rubbed shoulders and was onec of the best hurlers in the league. The nickname “Doc” was affixed to Crandall because of his ability to doctor sick ball games with brainy relief pitching and timely pinch hitting. When John McGraw needed a pinch hitter for one of his faltering pitchers, Doc himself would pick out a stick and set himself at the plate. And usually he would deliver a timely blow after which he would proceed to finish the ball game on the mound. Having won his first three starts ifor Bacramento this season, Crandall is well on his way to another suc- cessful season. The age of the Wa- dena, Ind., wonder is hard to figure. Record books are not very accurate in this detail and Crandall has never come out with the exact figure. When he drifted from the major leagues in 1916, they said he was 37. Our guess is that they should put 51 candles on his next birthday cake. BUNION DERBY T TRAVEL 70 MILES Marathoners Face One of Longest Treks of Entire Run Chelsea, Okl May ¢ P—Ofi- cials of C. C. Pyle's. cross couniry race expected some of the bunion doys to drop out today on the 70- mile tramp to Muskogee. The run is one of the longest of the derby. Ed Gardner, Seattle negro, third in elapsed time before yesterday's lap of 54.7 miles from Miami, ap- parently had given up. The negro who has been handicapped by a =hin splint, had not reported here on the trek from Miami. Gieusto Umek, Trieste, Italy. fin- ished yesterday's lap first and went into third place in elapsed time, He ran the distance in 8:03:45. Johnny Balo, Passaic, N. J., policeman, scc- ond in elapsed time, finished second, |and Pete Gavuzzi, first in elapsed i time, was third. The leaders, exclusive of Gardner: Pete Gavuzzi, England, 217:12:02. John Salo, Fassaic, N. J., 219 Giusto Umek, Italy, 233.54:31 Paul Simpson, Burlington, N. C., 42:05:23. Sam Richman, New York, 5:58 Philip Granville, 248:46:30 M. B. McNamara, Australia, 10:27, Harry 279:29:12. Herbert Hamilton, Abramowitz, New Hedeman, New {og Mike Joyce l'lfl\rlzn}l. 303:11:54. PLANS COMEBACK IN TRACK | Bill Cox, Penn State runner. who {has held the intercollegiate mile and cross-country ‘titles in_racent years, hopes to regain the mile champlon- ship this season. ALWAYS WITH SAME CLUB Ted Lyons, White Sox pitcher. never has played with #ny profes- sionzl team other than his present ore, his | 'FALCONS TO CLASH WITH SUBMARINE BASE COMBINE Sailor Baseball Team Appears Here for the First Time Tomorrow Afternoon — Falcon Lineup to Be De- cided at Practice Session Today—Nichols Probably Will Draw Pitching Assignment for Game—Large Crowd of Fans Expected to Watch Teams in Action. With falr weather promised for to- morrow, the Falcon baseball team is all set to repulse an attack by the tubmarine division of the United Statcs navy tomorrow when the sail- ors from the New London Sub Base will appear at St. Mary's field in an effort to inflict the first defeat of the year on the local team. Although a final practice session this afternoon will determine the ex- act lineup to start tomorrow's game, | the Falcons will probably use Nich- ols, Easthampton pitching ace, in the box and Mickey Noonan behind the bat. Johnny Klatka will probably cover first base with “Starhead” Budnick at second. Joe Walicki wil probably be assigned to the short station with *“Chucky” Wojack at third. It is expected that the outfield of Payne in left, “Lefty” Haber in cen- ter and Joe Luty in right, will be sent in again tomorrow. This is the combination that started last S8unday against the Bristol West Ends and it displayed plenty of power in the first game. ' The seilors are reported to have one of the strongest teams among the navy service stations. A num ber of former league players who have entered the service, are eligible for the nine and it is expected that the Falcons will have plenty of trouble in winning tomorrow's game. Another large crowd is expected out to watch the battle tomorrow. The game will start promptly at 3 o'clock, NDS SPRING PRACTICE Haven, May 4 (UP)—Head Coach May Stevens concluded spring football practice at Yale yesterday and dismissed his squad of 60 with a statement that the early drill had been “satisfactory.” HERI THE FIRST ONE Pacific Coast experts are singing the praises of Frank Crosetti, young infielder with S8an Francisco, and say he is sure to go to the majors this year. Dick Cox, former Brooklyn player who also was a fighter once, is now playing with Shreveport in the Tex- as league, HARTFORD COUNTY TRACK “*" MEET AT WILLOW BROOK Juniot and Intermediate Events are Started at 10 e 0'Clock This Morning—Seniors to Compete at-Mo» morial Field This Afternoon—List of Officials Is sued — Thirteen Teams Totalling 200 Entries Re ceived for Games — Handsome Trophies Being : Offered. STEPHENSON IS LEADING BATTER Chicago Ontfielder Moves Into First Place in National Loop New York, May ¢ (P—J. Riggs Stephenson, the Chicago outfielder, moved into the leadership of Na- tional league batters for the period ending with Wednesday's games, ac- cording to averages revealed today, and Perce Lee Malone, also of the Cubs took the top perch among the pitchers. Stephenson boasted an average of .442 for 13 games, and Malone showed three victories and no defeats for a percentage of 1.000. Stephenson had the greatest num- ber of hits in his league, 33, and was tied with his teammate, Hack Wil- son, and Hughle Critz of Cincin- nati for the lead in scoring. Each showed a total of 13 runs. Frank Frisch's six doubles put the 8t. Louis star ahead by 4, bit the three base leadership remained in dispute. Rogers Hornshy and Kiki Cuyler of Chicago, ‘Delphage Bissonette of Brooklyn, Lloyd Waner of Pitts- burgh and Curt Walker of Cincin- nati each had two. Hack Wilson and George Harper finished the week in a tie for home run honors, each having four. Wil- son led by himself in batting runs across the plate with a total of 17. Flowers of Brooklyn showed the way in base stealing with five thefts. Regulars following Stephenson in the batting table were: Gilbert, Brooklyn, .435: High, 8t. Louis, .433; 0O’Doul, Philadelphia, .425; Harper, Boston, and Jackson, New York, .400; ¥disch, 8t. Louis, .388; Her- man, Brooklyn, .386; Dressen, Cin- cinnati, .385 and Hogan, New York, .375. This list includes only players who have appeared in six games or more. Following Malone in the pitching table were five men with two vic- tories and no defeats: Carl Hubbell ef New York, Burleigh Grimes of Pittsburgh, Guy Bush of Chicago, Bob S8mith of Boston and Jesse Haines of 8t. Louis. Six others had a single victory apiece, without a reverse, The team batting table displayed he Cubs out in front somewhat alone with a handsome mark of .310. The Reds were second with .293. The Braves led in team field- ing with .983, and the Cubs were second with .972. HOME RON CLUB @y the United Preas. Leaders Foxx, Athletics, 4. Simmons, Athletics, 4. ‘Wilson, Cubs, 4. Harper, Braves, 4. Blue, Browns, 4. Yesterday's Homers Gehringer, Tigers, 1. Totals National league, 52. American league, 49. Total—101. Frank O'Rourke, with the 8t Louis Browns, has been playing pro- fessional baseball since 1912. He is only 35 years old. The Nice People You'll Meet Again This Year IM You OUGHT) (HAVE | GOT To e LISTEN To THAT SQUA! Too ONE ouT OH PLEASE NONETTE DoN'T START THAT AGAIN THIS YEAR- ROARING PIRATE - LISTEN- | ONLY OF THE TRAP AND SATAN - YoU AR AARR g OH-1 DoN'T BE-Y LEVE | CAN @0 THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR LISTENING To THAT With thirteen teams and a tofal of 20 entries received, the ‘annual’’ track and field meet of the Harte ford County Y. M. C. A. opens thig morning at Memorial Field in Wil low Brook park. Athletes = repre. senting almost every club in fhe county kept pouring into the éity from an early hour today until time for the events to start. . The meet !s in reality a triple meet combined in one. For.this reason it was found necessary tQ-oc. - cypy the entireday in running. of the events as they have been ligted. The junior and intermediate class events were scheduled to get uader way at 10 o'clock with the semior - events taking place this afternoon - starting at 2:30 o’clock. Handsome trophies are being-of- fered the winners of the events in each class. The New Britain Herald has donated a heautiful silver lov. ing cup as the senior team trophy Wwhile lesser cups and medals will be awarded the winners in the other classes and the individual winners of the events. Events for*the junior class in- clude the 75 yard dash, baseball throw, running broad jump, 220 yard relay and running high jump. Those in the intermediate class are the 100 vard dash, eight pound shot put, running broad jump, 440 yard relay, 220 yard dash, running high jump, 880 yard run and discus throw. The senior class events are the 100 yard dash, 12 pound shot put, mile run, running broad jump, 880 yard relay, running high jump, yard dash, 880 yard run, 75 yard high hurdles, 120 yard low hurdles, 440 yard dash, discus throw, ham. mer throw, polc vault and javelin throw. The list of officials selected for the meet is as follows: Referee in morning, T. K. Carleton; referee in afternoon, Harry N. Anderson: 228 starter, Leonard Black, Springfield; clerk of course, W. N. Stakeley, Buf. field; head judge, D! L. Bisson; as- sistant judges, Heines and Switt: head timer, L. Main; assistant timers, Leonard R. Nixon, Ham and Dick Anderson; judge of weights, Brewster; assistants, McCourt and W. A. Bailey; judge of jumps, Chat. ° scorer, Ames; assistant scorer, oward; weights, Whitbeck; jumps, Tillingham and head inspector, John ° McCarthy. The teams entered in the meet are as follows: New Departure of Pim.: wood, Hazardville Y, Highland Park Commuuity Club, Manchester Hi-Y, New Britain High, New Britain Cen. tral Junior High, Plainville High, Simsbury Hign, Lewis High of Southington, Bauthington Y, Suffjeld Preparatory school, Wapping Y and Auburn A. C. of West Hartford. THEY LEAD IN HOME RGNS Four National league players have ' 100 or more home credit—Cy Williams, 246; . Roges Hornsby, 240; George Kelly, 181, and Jimmy Bottomley, 116. runs to their BREAKS COURSE RECORD New Haven, May 4 (UP)—Alex Knapp, Baltimore, Md., golfer, has broken the record for the difficult Yale golf course by two strokes, covs . ering the 18 holes in 68. SCOTT WORKS IN MOVIES Jim Scott, former major league pitcher and now an umpire in the Bouthern league, spends his winter months warking in a Hollywood studio as a carpenter. BY BRIGGS HAVE WE GOT To LISTEN To THAT ALIBI AGAN_ 7 TS YeaR P, TeLL HER I'M STILL ouT oN THE COURSE WON'T, [AS ALEX SMTR SAYS , ALWAYS TRED UP IN THE ROUGH AND NEVER LOST GOLF BALL