New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1929, Page 24

FAFNIR BASEBALL TEAM HANDS LANDERS ITS FIRST DEFEAT OF YEAR—FALCONS READY FOR TAFTVILLE TEAM—JOHNNY CLINCH IN GREAT SHAPE FOR BOUT WITH YOUNG OLIVER TONIGHT—MAX SCHMELING BEATS PAULINO UZCUDUN—ITEMS FAFNIRS HALT DASH OF ~LANDERS IN DUSTY LOOP Universals Suffer First Defeat of the Season at Hands of Bearing Makers — Superb Pitching of “Lefty” Huber and Timely Hits Result in Victory — Win Throws Two Teams Into First Place Tie — Final Score Is 4 to 2—Snappy Fielding Features. BEGINNING OF THE END IN SIGHT IN AMERICAN Athletics Increase Their Lead Over Yankees by Trim- ming Hugmen 6 to 3—Browns Hold Their Ground by Beating White Sox—Red Sox Defeat Washing- ton — Detroit Wins From Cleveland — Pirates De- feat Cincinnati—Chicago Cubs Shade Cardinals. By the Associated Press. The beginning of the end is ap- | Watwood iparent in the American Leaguc, but [ pei iJohn Heydler's contenders seem just | yery 2y 5 10 have begun the fight. The Ath- Jetics increased their lead over the|Themas p champion Yankees to eleven and one-half engagements by defeatin the Hugmen, 6 to 3, in the opencr of a three-game series at Philadel- phia yesterday, but the Browns heid their ground ten and one-half games from the front and moved into sec- ond place by nipping the White Sox, 4 to 1. While all of this was going on in the Barnard League, the Pirates were winning from Cincinnati, 5 to 3, and the Cubs were shading the Cardinals, 5 to 4. Safe from the reach of the Robins, the Giants haa a pleasant afternoon against their cousins, the Phillies, whom they de- feated by 9 to 3 for the eleventh time in twelve starts. If the rest of the second division only would ‘pay the Giants the same respect the Fhillles pay, John McGraw's trou- bles would end. Broad hints have been made; by tox officials no doubt, that the cur- rent engagement of the Yankees and the Athletics is something to be con- sidered crucial. At the current writ- ing, however, the most crucial cir- cumstances in Shibe Park is the pitching plight of Miller Huggins. Waite Hoyt was used up in the los- ing game yesterday, George Pip- gras can hardly be expected to turn in two consecutive performances of the calibre of last Saturday's effort, and the rast of the Yankee hoxmen seem unable to make the Athletics even hesitate. George Walberg once more wove the southpaw spell about Yankee Dbats yesterday to win his tenth vic- tory of the season and his third straight from the champions. Every time an Athletic or two landed on the paths, Max Bishop seemed to hit for two bases, making Walberg's task casier. Bing Miller hit in his twenty-eighth straight game, ex- fending his own season’s record. One ¥t his drives was a triple which did Master Hoyt no good. All of the Yankee scores were the result of home runs. Tony Lazer: picked up his eighth after Gehrig had singled in the fourth, and Lou himself crashod through with his twenty-first in the sixth to tie Mel- Nn Ott of the Giants for the inter- league lead. Sammy Gray resigned in favor of & pinch batsman just 100 soon to get bredit for the Browns' garrison fin- Iah against Al Thomas in Chicago: Deorge Blaeholder got the benefit of home runs by Manush and Melillo In the ninth. The 'Red Sox defeated Washing- fon, 4 to 1, and Detroit won from Cleveland, 6 to 2, in the remaining American League fixtures. Rogers Hornsby continued the Cub streak against the Cardinals by rapping Clarence Mitchell for & heme run in the eighth with the wcore tied at 4 to 4. The Rajah Went on something of a spree with Yhree out of four, driving in two Funs. Guy Bush manned the guns for Joe McCarthy. The victory continued the Cubs in sacond place, one tmall game behind the Pirates, and dropped the Car- dinals into a tie with the Giants, three contests from the lead. Young Henry Meine, considered a daring $xperiment ten days ago, turned in another winning game for Pitts- burgh. Home runs by Leach of the Giants and Southern of the Phils and a fmeasure of loose Philadelphia pitch- ng featured the John McGraw's Victory at the Polo Grounds. All of the New York runs were scored with two out. Bill Walker was in good form at all times except in the fif() when the Phils got their three. Brooklyn rallied to nose out the Braves by 8 to 5, with Win Ballon doing some fine relief pitching. ~ American League | | | | Philadeiphia ‘fiwunx.‘n‘ 0 Shires, 1 1 mm, 1 1 Berg, ¢ .. 1 [ Totals x—Batted Louis Chicago Two base hit: Schulte. Home runs: lo. Struck out: By 2. Winning pitcher st 000 oy for st 000 100 00y Watwood. Three Manush, Melil Thomas 3, by Gray Blaeholder. Lit: o 1 3 Jamieson J. Sewell, Averill, of Fonseca, 1b Falk, rf Myatt, ¢ Porter, 2b B ot i 2h Tt 3n 1 Johnson Fothergill, Gehringer, Heilmann, McManus, Alexander Shea. ¢ i Westling. s Carroll, b | @ e Totals 32 e x—Batted for Ferrell in 5th. xx—Batted for Burnett in 9th. Sxx—Batted for Grant in Sth. Cleveland 000 101 000—2 Detrolt 051 000 00x—8 Two Averill, Alexander, Three hase hit: Por- Struck out: By Ferrell base hits Heilmann, e run: Johnson. Grant 1. Losiug pitc WASHINGTON R o | mates, Stewart, x Spencer, ¢ Liska, Barnes, Burke, 1 Flagstead, XXX 1 Totals BOSTON n Reev ] Rhyne, 55 . Williams, cf Scarrit, 1 Heving, Gerber Mot ris, 12w Totals Liska in 7th xxx—Batted for Burke in 9th. Washington 000 001 Boston 101 .. Two Willinms, Loting National L League PHILADELPHI AB R 000—1 hase pitcher: hits: Liska A e Southern, cf O'Doul, It Thompson, 21 Hurst, 1b . Klein, rf Friberg, s Davis, ¢ . P Peel, x . Eliiott, p Totals NEW Roush, «f Leach, 1t Lindstrom, ott, rt Terry, Cohen, Jackson, Hog: Walk Jh’ 1h 2 20 9 12 Stir intng YT 110 Southers. Ho runs out Waike i Roy Total 27 x—Ra in New York Two hit truck pitcher By Roy. Dreesen, b Walker, if | Zembroski, ss | Onrsteom. AMERICAN LEGION OPENS WITH WIN Fddy-Glover Post Baseball Team Beats West Hartford Crew Eddy-Glover post, American Le- gion bascball team got off to a fly- ing start in the district Legion league last evening when it downed the Hayes-Velhage post nine of West Hartford in the latter town by a score of 13 to 5. The game was hard fought throughout. A scnsational rally by the West Hartford aggregation in the third inning kept it on the heels of the locals and held the interest of the fans who witnessed the battlc at a high pitch. Thrills were numerous throughont the nine sessions, the local tear supplying most of them. In the first canto, a ponderous home run drive by Schmarr with two team- mates on base accounted for throe Hardware City tallies. 1In the third inning, a circuit smash by Miller local centerflelder, resulted in two more New Britain runs. The hero of the battle was Her- | mie Schmarr, who gave a fine exhi- bition of relief pitching. With the score 6 to 2 in favor of the Mangarn- men, the West Hartford tossers fill- ed the bases in the last half of the third inning with no outs. Lennihan was lifted in favor of Schmarr at this point and the West Hartford team went on a batting spree. Before the side was retired. it had scored five times and hal taken a one run lead. From the fourth inning on, how- ever, Schmarr showed his real worth. During the Ist six innings but two hits and one run were reg- istered off his delivery. He pitch:1 carefully and his opponents found extreme difficulty in locating his shoots. His control was faultless and not a man reached first hase. Thirteen of the West Hartford stick- ers were set back on strikes by him. Chris Revelli, the opposing pitch- e [er, hurled a fine game and although he was touched for 10 safeties, e deserved a better fate. His team- however, gave him raggel support and seven errors were com- mitted. His dclivery was peculiar at times and 13 of the local stickers fanned, A fine catch by Mlynarski brought the game to a close in the ninth in- ning. The New Britain right field- er caught the ball near the foul lina after a_hard run, The fielding of Russ Sperry and Zembroski and the batting of Miller were the features of the game. After its impressive win in the opening game of the district league, the Eddy-Glover post nine will en- tertain the Bolton-Kasica post of Berlin in the Hardware City's first home game tomorrow afternoon. The contest will be staged at Wal- nut Hill park and will get underway at 8 o'clock. Bacon, star twirler for the Berlin outfit is expected to oppose Coach Mangan's charges. Lennihan or Capodice will probably get the call for mound duty on the local team. The summary: EDDY GLOVER R’ O'Brien, 3h Capodice, 2| Schinarr, 1D, Miynarski, rf Miller, «f Tennihan, Curyle, 21 » lmzssumanns wlesumusssuand 4113 HAYES-VELHAGE A RH 1 Totals b1 El Penfield, e on, i Toccaline, «f, ¢ ... 3 Ruse Sperry, 1f i) Stepnik, =2 Roger Spe Ellsworti, rf SHE Lo o Totale Glove 00— 100 Ellsworth 13 | on Diamond No. 1—Pir: Standing Won P.C. 1.000 | Lost 0 0 Pirates Burritts West Ends =....... 1 Holy Cross . S ) Cardinals .. 0 Senecas . ... . sy ) Plenty of action is promised in the City Baseball league tomorrow afternoon when three good games| are scheduled to take place. All| of the battles will have an impor- | tant bearing on the league standings and fast baseball should be the re- sult. At 2 o'clock on Diamond No. the West Ends will clash with the | fast traveling Burritts. The Polish aggregation is making a strong bid for title honors this year and is anxious to beat last year's cham- plons. The West Ends got off to a bad start at the beginning of the | season when they were beaten by the Pirates but they expect to make up for lost ground at the expense of | the Burritts, “Bruno” Kania and | “Tommy" Blanchard will probably be the opposing pitchers. The other game at 2 o'clock will be played be- | tween the Cardinals and the Senecas | on Diamond No. 1. Both teams have yet to win a game in the leaguc. Pirates-Holy Cross Another important game will take | place at 4 o'clock on Diamond No. 1 when the Pirates and the Holy Cross nines clash. The Corsairs ot off to a good start in the league race by downing the champion West ds and hope to add the Holy {Cross nine to their list of victims. he Polish team was badly beaten by the Burritts in their opening | the league and expect to comeback against the | 1 1 1 2 Pirates. Junior City League | The Sequins and the Y. M. C. A. | | Zapatka, THREE GOOD GAMES ARE CARDED IN CITY LEAGUE Contests Tomorrow Afternoon Have Important Bear- ing on Standing of Teams — West Ends Slated to Clash With Burritts—Cardinals to Battle Senecas ates Will Meet Holy Cross Aggregation—Sequins and “Y” Play Junior Game. outs. The summary: BTANLE YRULE RO Darrow Ay Simons, ey gOSY, ccscoc~ook e lazesa s et s ale = olo zE Sl ot . PECK, S8TOW > [ meamsssm udd, 2h elson, 1t King, rf Baghy, m .. J. Fontana, 11 L. Fontana, 3b J. Stanish, cf ... Bowers, If Trapp, ¢ Adams, p Hackbarth, scemozoy P x wloszo ol comoow Totals [ Staniey Rula 102 Peck, Btow & Wilcox 000 Two base hits: Schaefer, Bowers, Bag: hy. Bases on balls: O Casey 3, Adam: 3. Btruck out: Casey 5, Adame 6. Stolen bases: Jarvis, Casey, Stanish. HUDKINS FIGHTS TONIGHT San Francisco, June 28 (M=-Ace Hudkins, the Nebraska ‘“Wildcat,” who is pointing for a bout with Mickey Walker for the world's mid- dleweight title, will make his first 8an Francisco appearance tonight when he faces Charles Belanger, French-Canadian light heavyweight, in a 10 round bout. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS FALGONS READY FOR TAFTVILLE Hardware City Team fo Moet Strong Opposition Tomorrow After a stiff practice seasion at St. Mary's field tonight, the Falcon baseball team will be ready to mest the Taftville A. C. team Sunday aft- ernoon. The visitors, it is expected will give the Falcons the toughest opposition of the entire season and for this reason, Manager Joe S8mul- ski will put the locals through a stift practice workout tonight. *“Lefty" Atwood will probably do the twir:. ing for the home club while tha Taftville crew will put the strong- est lineup possible in the field, Kensington.Giants Kensington is slated to meet the Elm City Colored Giants in Ken- sington Sunday afternoon. The visit- ing delegation is noted for its base- ball ability and also for its comedy. ‘Cannonball’ Smith, known through- out the state for his pitching strength, will do the honors for New Haven. Holy Cross-Winsted The Holy Cross nine will cross bats with the Gilbert Clock team of Winsted 8unday afternoon at the Washington school diamond. The Winsted crew is out to pin a defeat on the locals in revenge for a loss sustained here earlier in the season. Senecas-Wallingford The Senecas will hook up with the strong All-Wallingford combina- tion for a home game at Willow Brook park Sunday. Several of the stars of last year's Lenox A. C. team will grace the visiting roster and the Senecas are in for a lively ses- sion. Milo and Jack Argosy will be back with the locals this Sunday and Maguder of Kensington will be with the team. The game will start promptly at 3 o'clock. Sacred Hearts-Hartford The Sacred Heart nine will also be at home playing the 8t. Cyril team of Hartford at Willow Brook park Sunday afternoon. The contest will start promptly at 3 o'clock. Burritts-East Hartford ‘The Burritts are scheduled to play in East Hartford Sunday after- noon. The team will practice to- night at 6 o'clock at St. Mary's fleld. Red Sox-Taftville ‘The Corbin Red 8Sox, after a prac- tice mession tonight, will be ready for the J. B. Martin team of Taft- ville Sunday. The locals will make the trip as one of the annual clashes on its schedule. UZCUDUN WAS WEAK Paolino Refuses to Take Any Credit Away From Schmeling for Defeat of Last Night, New York, June 28 (UP)—Paolino Uzcundun refused to take any credit {from Max Bchmeling's victory over him last night, but told the United Preas today that he partially attrib- uted his defeat to loms of weight be- fore entering the ring. weighed 19214 when 1 weighed in,” he said through an interpreter, “but lost several pounds before e¢n- tering the ring. I only weighed 186 pounds after the fight, the lightest 1 ever weighed. I'm sure something was wrong with my condition, but last night Herr Schmeling was the better man. He deserved to win. In two months I want to meet him again, and T believe it will be a dif- ferent story then. RENAULT GOES BACK Jack Renault, a few years ago one of the foremost heavyweighty, has slipped during the last vear |and is now fighting for the smaller clubs around Manhattan, There’s At Least One In Every Office Pect. 500 .800 600 600 400 .200 18T Landers ... Stanley Works Corbins . % Fatnrs Paper Goods Stanley Rule . N. B. Machine Superb pitching by “Lefty” Huber, combined with timely hits off the ofterings of Preisser, sent the Lan- ders baseball team down to defeat by a score of 4 to ¢ at the hands of the Fafnir nine last evening at ‘Walnut Hill park. It was the first defeat of the season for the Univer- sal crew and threw them into a tie for first place with the Stanley Works nine. Preisser started on the mound for the league winners but the Dragons found his offerings to their liking and crashed out five hits in the firat two innings for a total of three runs including a long circuit drive by Huber. Nestor took up the reins in the third inning and engaged in a beautiful pitching battle with Huber but the early advantage scored by Fafnirs proved too much for the Landers team to overcome. Hubher got off to a shaky start and was touched up for five hits in the first two Innings. He then proceeded to take the game into his own hands and for the next seven innings held the Universal men without a single solitary hit. He gave a beautiful exhibition of twirling and seldom was in darger. Ferguson opened the game by crashing a single out to center fleld. O'Brien and Matteo were easy outs and it appeared that Preisser would retire the side without a score. ‘With the count one and one, Hu- ber caught hold of one of Preisser's shoots and belted it out to deep center. The ball took a mean hop as Goeb attempted to field it and Huber romped around the bags for an easy home run, Ferguson count- ing ahead of him. Landers started to work at Huber in the last half of the inning when Goeb and Vincent singled after one out. Nestor skied to Ferguson and Hillstrarid grounded out, taking Huber out of danger. “Captain” Walick! opened the second session by smashing a solid bingle to center. Krause sacrificed him to second and he went to third as Kenure was be- ing tossed out at first. Ferguson came through with his second hit of the game, Walickl denting the platter. The Universal nine made a great bid for runs in its half of the in- ning but was only able to score once on three hits, including a double. The veteran “Ray” Begley lined a single into right. He went to second when Fitzpatrick connccted safely. Ostertag popped out but Lindgren came through with a double that struck the flag in left. Begley scored on the hit. Preisser hit a short fly to left and when Fitz- patrick attempted to score, Matteo doubled him up at the plate, The last score of the game came in the fourth when Bucheri tripled to center and crossed the plate on Vincent's error. Landers scored a run on an error and a long sacrifice fly. From then on hoth pitchers were the masters and held the bat- ters at their mercy. Neither team threatened to score until the ninth when the Landers nine made a big bid for the game but Huber came to the fore and killed the rally by wonderful twirling. Up until the ninth, both teams had been flelding in wonderful style but the Fafnir nine cracked tempdrarily in the last half of the ninth. After Hillstrand had fiied out, Begley made first when Kania threw high to first on his hard smash to third. Fitzpatrick was safe when Huber juggled a throw at first. Here Huber tightened up and displayed his wares. Burning fast balls across the platter he struck Ostertag and Lindgren out in succession to bring the battle to & close. ! The game was one of the best played in the circuit this season and was filled with snappy fielding, The first two innings produced the real hitting thrills of the game and then the large crowd was treated to a pitcherg’ battle, a rare thing with these days of lively balls. The feature of the game was a sensa- tional stop by Preisser of a line drive off the bat of Matteo in the third inning. Matteo beited the ball square on the nose but Billy went out onto the grass to make a great stop and toss Matteo out at first. “Ray” Begley in center fleld l‘oalur(‘({ the play of the losers with many nice running catches of short fiies. Vincent also fielded well. The summary: Ferguson, O'Brien, It Matteo, rt Huber, p Kania, 3b Bucheri, v Walicki, 2b Krause, 1b Kenure, c of ansop so0@ mmnosnnng loomwmuw Totals e e co35mumaay 5 Preisser, Goeb, If Vincent, =g Nestor, 2b, Hilimt Regley, cf . Fitzpatrick, 1b Ostertag, ¢ Lindgren, rf n. S [} cmmoemmox nl@e33333m398 alomesun Totals Fafnirs Landers Two hit out 210 100 100 100 base hit: Lindgren. Three base Bucheri. Home run: Huber. Struck By Huber 1, Nestor HOME RUN CLUB the United Press. LEADERS Ott, GRS +xissids s st mgsnenis Gehrig, Yankees ... Hafey, Cardinals , Klein, Phillies . Simmons, Athletics Wilson, Cubs . feee YESTERDAY’S HOMERS Southern, Phillies, 1. Picinich, Dodgers, 1. Leach, Giants, 1. Frisch, Cardinals, 1. Douthit, Cardinals, 1. Hornsby, Cubs, 1. Lazzeri, Yankees, 1. Gehrig, Yankees, 1. Johnson, Tigers, 1. Manush, Browns, 1. Meliolle, Browns, 1. TOTALS National League . . . American League By . 363 264 628 Muller's Mozart Twenty years a favorite and still the leader of all, for quality BY BRIGGS League totals WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD By the United Press Yesterday's hero—Rube Walberg. teams wiil « mond No. 2 City league contest. 4 o'clock 1 SOUTHINGTON TEAM BOWS h tomorrow on Dia- | n a Junicr " WHERE | UVE - IT'S So CooL NIGHTS | HAUVE 7o HAVE COVERS OVER ME, IN FACT \T'S ALMOST Tgo CHILLY - {M ON THE RooF WHERE ( GET A GREAT " | DoN'T BELIEVE IN THESE ELECTRIC FANS...ONE IS APT To TAKE A TERRIFIC COLD... VVE HEARD OF SUCH THINGS.. PERSNLY | WOULDN'T DRINK ICE WATER IF | WERE You, ITS BAD FOR THE MBART.. MANY A MAN HAS KGELED OVER AFTER DRINKING ” M AGAINST T "~ T0 STANLEY RULE CREW Local Baseball Nine Takes a Nine A LOT OF ICE WATER" Kelly, 10 Critz, Allen, Ford, Zitzmann Gooch, May. » | Purdy, x | Asn, Gt BREEZE " whose masterful pitching cnabled the Philadelphia Athletics to beat the New York Yankees, 6 to 3, at | Philadelphia. Rube allowed 10 hits. |two of them home runs, but kept {them much too well scattered to be effective. The defeat lowered the 2| Yanks to third place in the Ameri- can league NEW YORK AB Combe, cf bertson, ry, 3b Behrig, 1b Ruth, 1f Lazzeri, © Meusel, 17 Bengough, « Dickey, Duroctier Joyt 2R 13 Ax o to Two Decision From Pexto 2 Combination - | team night ley Rule baseball ourncyed to Southington after holding a)nd played n'!W?llkh[ game with the the S8t. Louis Browns to four hits| L pT'O e S hs Rl rel ned e 0 in® olght tainms at Chicamn biew| toFious, having collected twelve hits o : | for nine runs in the cight innings o{up in the ninth, allowed four men| ;. "woro plaved, while Casey hetd 010 score and the White Sox e e ik ad (o | m o it tos to six hits and two runs, beaten, 4 to 1. The Browns ad-|;.0 runs being scored in the last vanced to second place in thelinning. The game was featured hy | {league standing the splendid pitching of Casey, the clockwork play of the inficld and & running catch in the outfisld by Gill, while at the bat the work of Darrow and Schaefer was exceptionally good. | For the Pexto team the work of Juad at second was very good while | the hitting of Bagby featured. He got three out of four. The Rulers started the scoring tn the first inning when Darrow was gafe on a bad throw by Trapp, went to sccond on Simons’ hit and scored on Corrazzo's hit to left. Two runs were scored in the third on hits by Darrow d Zapatka and an error by L. ‘ontana. The Rulers counted four times in the fourth on hits by Darrow. Argosy and Schaefer and two inficld errors and they finished their scoring in the seventh when | they counted two more runs on a | double by Schaefer and sinzles by is and Gill Pextos scored their only runs in the eighth inning on singles by Bag- by and J. Fontana and two infieid 4 4l Alphonse Thomas Bishop, %0 Haas, 2 Cociirane inmone. Yosx, 1b Bier, Dyke Holey Wa, were Ed Morriss held ington Senators to five ton and the R 0th victory of the OUT The window’’ You MUsT. GO - x—Patted for ¥ xx—Ran for Fo Cincinnati “ You NEVER SEE ME USE A FAMN.... | THINK You FEEL THE HEAT MORE THAN EVER WHEN You STOP FANNING " J the Wash- Bos- their hits at Sox scored year. Totals x—Batted for As—Batted for xxx—Batted for New York Philadelphia Two_base Yits: Bishop, seri, Gehrix Ty Walberg Rovert Beni i Tive runs fn the second inning paved the way for Detroit's 6 to ISL 1Y victory over Cleveland at Detroit. Miller Hornsby clouted a home the cighth inning at d lifted the Chi- cago (‘ubs out of a tie into a tory. & to 4. over the Cardinals Tiogers {run in | = =% SSSSS = vie- After spotting Boston a three run lead at Brooklyn. the Rohins lied late to win. 8 to I ez — ral- Meine held Cincinnati to nine hits {at Pittsburgh and the Pirates maintained league leadership 1| with a 5 to 2 victory over the Re J Jilaeholder, ; MeGowan, 1 i i 33 4 CHICAGO AB R READ HERALD CTASSIF FOR BEST RESULTS Lieynolds, it * » ADS P 4