New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1929, Page 9

Speaking of Sports ¢ We had the pleasure last night of sitting in on one of the greatest and fastest fights we have seen in some time when we watched Bat Battalino defeat Al Brown of Panama, recog- nized in New York state as the bantamweight champion of the world. | T'rom the first bell until the last there was action every second and the man who took his eyes away from the ring, lost some action. Roth boys were at each other like tigers, Battalino, being the more vicious. The Hartford boy, however, could afford to take no chances against his opponent because, with- out an exception. Brown is the smartest fighter Battalino has ever met, It was Battalino’s first appearance against a big-time fighter. He proved | himself capable of meeting the best | and, if a suggestion isn't out of plaee, Kid Chocolate should be his next opponent. That the fight was appreciated in full by the fans was attested to b)‘l the fact {hat Bulkeley Stadium in Hartford contained about 9,000 cash customers last night. Battalino's friends were oue in force but there were many there who were waiting to see Battalino get beat. Referee Billy Conway's decisions in some of the preliminaries, were not to the liking of the crowd, but there wasn't any question about the decision 1n the final. Battalino was too strong for Brown. Bat was credited by ringside veterans with | winning five rounds, two were | thought to be even while Brown was given three Baseball—s_tanding AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday New York 9, St. Louis 0. Philadelphia 3, Chicago 1. Detroit 4, Boston 1. Cleveland 4, Washington The Standing W. 69 56 Philadelphia New York St. Louis Cleveland Detroit .. .. Washington Chicago . Boston Games Today St. Louis at New York Chicago at Philadelphia Detroit at Boston Cleveland at Washington. ames Tomorrow St. Louis at New York Cleveland at Washingion Detroit at Boston. (Other clubs not scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday St. Louis 4, New York Chicago 13, Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati 4, Brooklyn 1. Pittsburgh 9. Boston 8. The Standing Chicago Pittsburgh New York St. Louis . Brooklyn Boston .... Philadelphia Cincinnati Today burgh Games Boston at Pitt Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. Referece Conway gave Battalino cight of the 10 rounds. He gave him the first four and the fifth was even. | He got the next four and the last | was even. We didn't think that Dat- | talino won the fight by this margin and we believe that the fight was | much closer. Al Brown was perfectly satisfied and had no alibis. He did state that | he thought the rest that Battalino got after Thursday night's postpone- ment, had done him a world of | zood. Brown stated that he thought Battalino had the better of him dur- ing the night. | During the fight, Dave Lumiansky | several times turned to Brown's trainer and said “Gosh, hasn't that Battalino got a terrific sock.” | e | Battalino wants to win the New | England featherweight crown and Games Tomorrow New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. (Other clubs not scheduled) INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Jersey City 3, Newark 2. Rochester 5. Toronto 0. Montreal 6, Buffalo 0. Baltimore 7-7, Reading 3 The Standing W, Rochester Toronto Montreal Baltimore Newark Reading Buffalo Jersey City Games Today Jersey City at Newark FOXX RECAPTURES HIS BATTING LEAD (First Baseman of Athletics Re- gains Peak in American League Chicago, July 27 (P —Jimmy | Foxx, the Philadelphia Athletics’ vouthful first baseman, has regained | the peak in the American | batting race, after yielding the top | position to Heinie Manush of the St. Louis Browns, last week. Connie Mack’s all around man dropped two points from his mark of a week ago, unofticial figures including Wednes- day’s games reveal but of .358 left him five points in front of the Brown slugger. The pitching last week again was a little better than the batting in the junior major circuit, only two play- lers in the first ten improving their | | marks. Bing Miller, Philadelphia outfielder, added points to his average and Harry Heilmann of De- troit picked up three points. Follow- ing Foxx and Manush were: Sim- mons. Philadelphia, .362; Fothergill | Detroit. .360; Lazzeri, New. York, 357; Miller, Philadelphia, Fon- | seca. Cleveland, .353; Heilmann, De- | troit, .383; Cochrane, Philadelphia, .345: K. Williams, Boston, .347. Home run leaders of the league failed to improve notably during the week. Lou Gehrig of the Yanks. added one to remain in the lead with 23 circuit smashes, but was dogged by Baba Ruth who in spite of in- juries had collected 22 mons who also had ed his total to 20 The collective batting efforts of the Dctroit Tigers slipped by three |points. and the Athletics climbed linto a tie for first position at .305. | The Yankees picked up one point and were second with .303. The Ath- eltics displaced Detroit as the | league's leading scoring organization with a total of 582 runs. and had | held all opposition to 558 success- ful assaults on its plate Philadelphia also maintained its ficding pace. handling the ball for a mark of .976 since the beginning of the scason. St. Louis was sccond | with .973 and the Yankees third one point behind the Browns. Cleveland, | fielding in sixth position. was the first team to cross the 100 mark in double plays, having completed double killings. I7oxx boost- Pitching supremacy was largely a | | Philadelphia affair. Bob Grove won |one game during the week to lead the pitchers working in turn with a record of 16 victories and two de- feats. George Larnshaw, another Mack hirling, turned in the best mark of the weck, three bringing his record to 15 triumphs and four defeats. Rube won a pair and had a mark of 14 victories and five losses. Old Tom chary of New York, remained as the only undefeated hurler, his rec- ord being five straight triumphs. Other leaders: Runs batted in— league | and Al Sim- | victories | Walberg | improves, naturally, without much conscious effort to better it. There are several such players at Shuttle | Msadow who give promise of de- i\empmg into fine golfers. | The other class includes older | golfers who are not so well grounded in the fundamentals and who have to struggle to improve their scoring | ability. More often than not they | have to work out their own golf sal- | | vation. | | After they have satisfied them- | | selves that they cannot master the | use of certain clubs. or the orthodox | | swing or stance, they are in position | | to perfect the style of game best | | suited to their ability. When they | | quit trying to do. what for them is | | the impossible. they are on the road | |to =olf that will be more enjoyable for them. his average | The best golf hint that T ever re- | ceived, suggested the use of such | clubs as I had confidence in, the use of my own style of playing and th | caution not to be envious of the golfers who can use every iron in a | matched set. Hosp ITAL 13T CRIPPLES PIRATES (Continued from Preceding Page.) Taylor, o Nehf, p Jonnard, Carlson, Cyengros, | Bush, p » » [ Jonnard, Klein, Whitney. Three Home runs: Stephenson, Klein. Struck out: By Jonnard 1 son 2. Dailey 3. Winning pitcher: Losing pitvher: McGraw, BROOKLYN AB 4 Southern, hit: Klein. Carl- Bancroft, Picinich McWeen 107 | b | swanson Dressen, | Walker Kelly, 1b [ Anen, cr | Pittenger, s | Fora, 21 | Gooch, May, b D 4 8 27 Weeny in &th, 000 000 03 010 inich 2, MeWeeny Weeny, | Totals x—Batted for | Brooklyn Cincinnati | Two base May. Struck Losing pil Me 001—1 (10x—4 Walker, 2, May hits: out her Piy Ry M base | ith but one defeat for an average of leigh Grimes of Pittsburgh held second place with a mark of .889, gained from 16 victor- |ie. and two defeats. . Henry Me\nO‘ | of Pittsburgh lost his nominal lead | 'DOUL LEADING Displaces Babe Herman ol ,.™, o reespd {neir Brooklyn by One Point last week mierely by holding nhnu—} | aggregate average at the .300 mark. | | Their rivals, the Pirates and the | Giants slipped to .305 and .300. The New York, July 27 (P)—Frank |gip cost the Giants third place on O'Doul of Philadelphia has moved | (ne list as the Cubs lost less ground up to head the Natjonal league bat-|ang remained at .302. The Giants ters, displacing the former leader.|;re on top in team fielding with .974, {Babe Herman of Brooklyn by the | ity the Cubs one point below them margin of a single percentage POInt. {ang the Reds another point back. O'Doul has a bating mark of .397 in the averages issued today and in- cuding gimes o st weanesasy. | OIVES REGATTA CUP while Herman is hitting at a .396 | clip. | Melvin Ott. the young Giants, Mrs, Florence Brooks-Aten Presents | wears the only double crown, head- | ling the scorers with §5 runs and| leading in runs batted in with 96. | Bill Terry, his teammate, has col- | lected 143 hits to lead the league In | Now York, July ‘7 (P—A new | | that department. Johnny u ) | e _Frederick | challenge cup to be rowed for an- | of Brooklyn is on top in hitting|nuajy ai the Henley regatta In| |doubles with 30 while Lloyd Waner | pnejang has been donated by Mrs, | ‘Of Pittsburgh has the most triples, Florence Brook: ten who financed | |14 1 the European trip of the Browne | the Philadelphla | ;ng Nichols eight-oared crew this | in the home run:s“mmor_ | base clouts. His| ppe Browne and Nichols school who has hit for | ., ptyred the Thames cup at the last Henley, but the new trophy will es- Following the two leaders in the |tablish a new event in the famous Datting averages are these regulars: | Enlish rowing classic, an eight oat- | Ter 70; Klein. Phila- |ed race for school crews, delphia, 369 Hornsby, Chicago.| Under present arrangements, e .36 Traynor. Pittsburgh. .360: | outstanding schoolboy crew in this Hafey, St. Louis, .356: I. Waner, [country will be sent to England an- Pittsburgh, .354: Hendrick. Brook- |nually to compete for the ney lyn, .345 and Dressler, Brooklyn, |trophy. 544, | Hack Wilson compiled the longest | hitting streak of the year hefore he | DIFFERENT BALL? was stopped by Dazzy Va ce in the | During a recent game between the Brooklyn-Chicago game last Monday. | Robins and Cardinals the players |The Cub slugger hit safely in said the ball was different from the games. |one that they had been using. The | Guy Bush of Chicago held his|covers were not glossy and when hit | lead in the National league pitching |the ball did not seem to travel as| | staffs by adding one more victory to | swiftly as the other balls nsed this | his list last week. He has won 13 |season Trophy to- Be Rowed For Every Year at Henley, Chuck Klein slugger, is ahead race with 29 four nearest rival is Ott | the circuit 26 times. DIEGEL MAY MAKE IT FOUR TITLES Mexican Pro I5 a Stroke in Front of Field in Canada Kanawaki, Que.. July P11 | Leo Diegel can finish a golf t |as he started it he will find fame in | plenty awaiting him. The defend |ing champion. who has won th | Canadian open crown three tinies, can make it four by a snappy finisn in the final 36 holes today. Starting the crucial third | the lone pro from Mexico stroke in front of the field count of for the ftirst There were 79 others play final day but only a score round, was a with & 6 holes ng the or <o | were conceded a chance to overhaul the flying Lco. Tommy Armour. the Black Scot with 188 stood by to pick up stra strokes and Bill Mehlhorn was oni: two back with 140. Jim Barnes who set the early shpped in the second round vas close enough to he dangerous with count of 141 as was Billy Burk credited with 142, Not =0 close but in position 16 come with a fast drive should the lcaders falter were two Canadian pros, Ernie Walkelam and Harry Towlson. an da flock of stars fromi the United States including Horlon Smith, Joe Kirkwood. Wiffy Emmett I'rench. Walter Hager John Golden, Ch Al Watrous. Craig Wood. Kerrigan and Macdonald pace. but Jack Torrestor, lic Lac Tommy Smith Under the system of permitting all within 20 strokes of the leader to continue the competition the affi- cials faced task in hand'ng the ficld of §0 for 36 holes foday horn open Bill M metropolitan 258 the card ot won with a | day as the .| York state athletic commission’s ac- Coz, | SCHMELING'S LICENSE REYOKED IN NEW YORE German Fighter Must Fight Outside, Mcet Phil Seott or Retire from the Ring. New York July 27.—A—Max Schmeling, German heavyweight, was faced with three alternatives to- outgrowth of the New tion in revoking his license as a fighter. Herr Max now can decide to box entirely outside New York state; or swallow his pride and meet Phil Scott as the commissior demands; or not fight at all. The commission, not only revokee Schmeling’s license hut the man- ager's licenses of Joe Jacobs anc Billy McCarney, the Teuton's pre ferred advis as well Not unti Schmeling consents to meet Scott for Humbert J. I'ugazy. a hout arrange¢ and signed for hy Arthur Buelow the manager Schmeling refuses tc recognize. will the commission con sent to be mollified commission's action apparent has blocked Madison Squar« Garden's hopes of staging Schmeling-Jack Sharkey bout this all. The state boxing solons warne¢ Garden officials on Tuesday that they faced indefinite suspension if they made any effort to go through wit} the Sharkey-Schmeling match befor: Schmeling fulfilled his contract # meet Scott, SCHAEFER ONLY 34 Though he has won the 18.2 balk line billiards championship fiv. times, Young Jake Schaefer is onl: 34 vears old. He has been cueing them around since he was 21. ALLEN DEGREE Ethal Allen, Cincinnati Reds out. fielder. recently received a degree of Bachelor of Arts in physical educa. tion at the University of Cincinnati He played with the Reds while studying for his degree. By. a Manhattanite: The Story of Two “Duffers” 1 pay ten bucks a year or else a dollar every time I play on one of our municipal courses. Ihave to get up in the middle of the night (4:30 A. M.), ride an hour on the subway, and then I find 100 or so ahead of me. But with a wink ' WOMEN ATHLETES WILL MEET ON TRACK TODAY he would like to meet Andy Martin | of Boston. If arrangements can be made, the bout will probably go on | next month, Reading at Baltimore. Toronto at Rochester. Montreal at Buffalo. | simmons. Philadelphia, 93: triples, | Miller] Philadelphia, doubles Gehringer, Detroit, stolen bases, | Fonseca, Cleveland; Gehringer, De- EASLERN LEAGUE | troit and Cissell, Chicago, 14 each: | Battalino received a cut over his left eye in the bout last night hu(‘ Brown appeared without any marks | whatever. WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD By the United Press. Yesterday's hero—Ed Wells, New York pitcher, who held St. Louis to cight scattered hits and won a shut- ut victory, 9 to 0. He was aided. | offensively, by Bill Dickey, his hat- tery mate, who clouted two home runs, he victory failed to improve New York's standing in the league race. however, for the Philadelphia Ath- lotics took « 3 to 1 decision from the, Chicago White Sox {o maintain | their 1013 game lead. Howard Ehmke and Ted Lyons waged a pitching duel, the former allowing faur hits and the latter seven, Cleveland took an early lead and | won from Washington, 4 to 2. Miller held the losers to seven hits. De- troit checked Boston, 3 to 1, Carroll lolding he Red Sox scorcless for| eight innings. The Chicago Cubs seven-run lead to delphia_Phillies, 13 cago. Philadelphia scored three| runs in the first and four in the| second inning but Chicago countered with five in the third and sis in the fourth, coasting home to #n casy vietory. Chuck Klein hit his 30th homer of the scason for the Phils. | overcame | beat the Phila- to 10, at Chi- Piltsburgh staged a three run ral-| in the ninth to heat Boston, 4 to| With the score tied at two-all, | Grantham hit a home run for Pitts- | burgh in the seventh with the b | full. Boston scored three in each | the cighth and ninth innings, how- | ever, and the Pirate rally was neces- sary. Jake May held Brooklyn to six | hits and Cincinnati beat Brooklyn, 4 10 1. The winners made only eight hits off McWeeney and Moore, but unched them 1n the third for three runs. Brooklyn didn't score un‘il ihe ninth, New York lost its fourth straight Games Yesterday Albany 5, Hartford 2. Allentown 4, Springfield 3. Pittsfield 11, New Haven 4 Bridgeport 5 Providence 2 The Standing w. 60 59 58 . 46 16 38 Albany Bridgeport Providence Pittsfield Hartford New Haven .. Springfield Allentown . -38) Games Today Hartford at Albany. 2. New Haven at Pittsfield Bridgeport Providenc Springfield at Allentown. Games Tomorrow Pittsfield at Bridgeport. Albany at Hartford Allentown at Springfield. Providence at New Haven, COLLIERS SWAMP SEQUINS IN GAME (Continued from Preceding Page.) Mlynarski, Flood, rf Zembroski, Linnehan, Totals Hayes, of Squillacote, Meligonis, E. Matis, ¢ Recano, 3b Hultherg, 33 Berlin, Ma of 21 tale on M. C. A Two hase Linnehan 1 11 10x— 100~ out 000 120 Struck Leg Y hit Hayes. Fit 3 STAGING GOMBBACK triple plays, New York, Chicago and Detroit, one each: strike outs, Grove, | Philadelphia. 120; team home runs. | York, §4. {__ CHIP sHOTS N JIGGER ne is ofiering prizes | for interesting letters on 3 |the subject, “The Best Golf Hint 1 Sver Received.” Such contests al- ways bring many replies. With several magazines devoted cntirely to the royal game and half | of the newspapers in the country running a column on how to play olf. it would seem as though all the secrets of golf were open to every | player who desired to improve his same. Never hefore has the public inter- | est been so keen for golf news and golf instruction. Few players are so satisfied with their game that they scorn to read the advice of golf ex- perts | Enough golf instruction is publish- | ed every year to make us all low handicap play it we could in- corporate into game the fine points of golf. d for our benc- fie - 1T The rub comes adopting the suggestions and making them a working part of our own play. Few golfers successfully put into practice the printed lessons. But your fairly good golfer, whose game improves a our printe in little cach season, is learning from | some source. Among such players are the younger golfers who started right and have no golf fears. They have the ability to imitate the hest players | that they see in action. Their game | —_— | Team Championship for 1929 and National Titles Are at Stake | in Chicago. () — National the team today weare Chicago, July vitles in 11 events and championship for 1929 the goals of the greatest field of women athletes assembled in the | United States, in the women's track #nd field championships at field. In the dash events, Betty Rohinson of Chicaco, winner of the 100 meters in the 1928 Olympic games, was en | tered with such stars as Olive Kru- Chattanooga, Tenn., Mary Washburn, New York; Olive Hasen- fus of Boston; Delores Henders, of Eureka, Cal, and Eleanore | Paterson, N. as her opposition. | In the high jump, Jean Shiley of | I'hiladelphia, world record holder, | vas favored over a strong field n- cluding Dee Beockmann of St. Louis. The field events promised 1o develop in a duel between Rena McDonald of former national shotput ¢hampion, and Gloria Russell. Eu- | reka, Cal. who finished second in the | Savelin throw in last year's cham- pionship mect. Ten of the 5 «<ntrants were members of the last Olympic team. Besides Betiy Robinson, Dee Beock- | mann, Ohve Hasenfus, Rene McDon- id, Mary Washburn, and Jean Shi- ley, other former Olympic stars were | Jessie Cress. eNw York; Florence MceDonald, Boston: Catherine Me- Guire. Si. Louis; Lorretta McNeil New York ¥ T ISTS The record for the fewest assists in a big league ball game is held by |the New York Yankees. In a game |in 1921 the Yanks made only five | assists. Boston, | Rt A, = ABANDON BASEBALL 1 The University of rittsburgh and | Carnegie Tech are among the larger | schools that abandoned haseball this s SALESMAN SAM Soldier | TREASURER NAME New Britaix Municipar Gorr Course Funp ¢/0 Chamber of Commerce New Britain, Connecticut Just to show you I mean business. here is my check for or a push here and there I get in ahead of a few of the mob. Then it takes me five hours to play 18 holes. But I like it! By a New Britainite: WE haven't a municipal course now, but I'm going to con- tribute to the cause and if you fellows trump me we'll have a corking good course this year that everybody can reach in 15 minutes—out at Stanley Quarter. With a reasonable green charge, it will pay expenses and give a lot of poor cusses like myself a chance to play the game. What do I say? “I'm putting it there” Four hundred cittes, each with less population than New Britain, have municipal golf courses! __bucks toward the Municipal Golf Course. ADDRESS. THE NEW BRITAIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE g e of the wester: E Louis, " P " 1 Urip at St. Louis, | jockey (arl Meyer Convinces Race- I 1o 3. The Giants held a 3 to 1| lead in the fifth but St. Louis tiec | it up in the sixth and scored what proved to be the winning run in the seventh PRAISES U. S. ATHLETE Europcan athletes are inferiors to American because of physical struc- ture and American athletes thercfore are more efficient, according to Dr. Otto Lewald, German athletics offi- | cial. | MOVES FOR AM! URISM A trenuous effort to prevent | hockey plaverd from turning profes. | sionals unti' they are 21 years old has becn starte by the Canada Amateur Hockey sociation, 'HI: LADIES STEP | world's fastest girls' relay team represenis (he Pasadena. Calif.. Athletic and Country club. They recently ran the 880 yard re- lay in 1:58:2-5. The old record was ? said to be 2:6 The Goers That He Knows How Boot Horses Home, Chicago, July 27 (UP)- Carl Meyer, the New Orlean who came to the Arlington track two weeks ago. intent on staging u comeback, appears destined (o achicve his aim. Until yesterday. Meyer had shown some cvidence of his old riding abil- ity but he really convinced the r: goers during the afternoon that He began the day with a victory on Toltec, a 1 shot, and then came back to’ victories on lLawley in the feature race of the day, and on Devon in a later race, Always a great stretch rider. Mey- | er demonstrated he still knows how to keep them going at the end when | he came from behind on both Law- ley and Devon and literally outrode | other riders in the last eighth of a mile. 0] Jockey | rider | he | still knows how to boot them homie. | | GSTTA GET |N EARLY To OAY! GU22 1S PUTTIN' ON A KITCHEN UTENSILS SALE AN’ [ WANNA SHOW HIM | KNOW EAH, YOURE EARLY \ ALL RIGHT: Well, Here | am,eunal BRIGHT AND EARLY — WATCHES ¥ 5 WIT WeRKS THEYRE NOT Pans! THeY'Re. coLanDeRs! CAME FROM OSHKosH ! THesE ARE EUNNY LOOKIN' OANS — WHERE TH' HeEck OIDTA GET &M? THEY O(D? MIGOSH THOUGHT YA GOT ‘&M (N CHIcAGO — [Hex're aLL Ri0OLED WITH BULLETS !