New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1930, Page 13

Speaking of Sports The sudden ending of the Sammy Mandell-Al Singer lightweight cham- pionship fight in New York last night wherein Singer knocked ont Mandell in the first round, was a repetition, though in a sharter act, of the Battalino-Fernandez bout ‘n Last Hartford Tuesday night. In this case last night, the title changed hapds but on Tuesday it didn't. However Mandell was so weaken- ed from making the weight that e vas dome after the first punch. Fernandez found himself in the same fix when he faced Battalino Tuesday night. The first two body punches in the first round finished him al- though he wasn't knocked out un:il | the fifth round These champions and fighters w1o represent themselves as belonging ‘o | a certain weight class apd then be- | cause they want the hollow glory of retaining a title without defendinz | {2 fool only themselves when they censistently fight over the weight limit, find when it comes time to pare down to the required poundaze that the extra weight has grown on them. Then their trouble starts. A fighting champion, is a credit to the game a pleasure to the fans and | 2 justification of himself by himsait. The = announcement that N:w Haven and Providence are to with- draw from the Eastern Baseball League again brings up the question of the formation of a more compact league in a slower class of baseball A prominent sportsman in the in talking about the situation today, stated that he believed New Britain would be ripe for a proposition of this ‘kind. He favors the formation of a Class | B league with such entries as New Eritain, Hartford, Meriden, Bristol. New Haven, Bridgeport. and even Springfield and Holyoke. Playver salaries could be limited to $200 a month and fans here and hereabouts would be getting plenty of baseball. He proposes to get ubout 30 men | in the city to chip in about $310 each. This would give the local cl'nh a treasury of $9.000 to start with. Should the league prove unsuccess- ful or the proposition wouldn't pay. then no one person weuld be losing a amount of money. The question of a baseball park would be an casy one to solve be- cause there are at least two spots convenient to the center of the city, that could probably be converted to thie use Certainly, when there are between 2,000 and 3,000 fans present at In-| dustrial League games on Tuesday and Thursdays at Walnut Hill park and probably more than this attend- | ing the City League games Satur- days, there is enough interest in the national pastime in this city 1o make a league team of the sort spoken of abov pay. A league of this sort would then be no closed proposition like Fastern has as far as local players are concerned. New Britain boys could be members of the team as well as outsiders. This would in- crease the interest in the league be- cause other cities would adopt the game procedure, A league, such as the Eastern, with the teams widely spread about the country, is bound to force the fans to lose interest. The games become a series of exhibition match- es. There is no rivalry Put New Britain in a league with | Meriden, Bridgeport, New Haven, and, especially Hartford, and we will | bet our shirt—even our best one— that there would be a crowd rabid fans for every team. Anyone can easily imagine a revival of the old days at Electric Field when Hartford and New Britain would be at each other's throats. old days" more. would then be here once There are several players in this | eity whom we believe could have made the Eastern league grade they had been given an opportunity. They surely could play the class of ball we mention. Other fans know them as well as we do. The proposition needs an organiz- er of no mean ability. Some one with a knowledge of the league pro- portions. of the many details con- nected with the formation of a cir- cuit of this kind, should investigate it As far as we are concerned, would welcome the start of plans for an affair of this kind and we would be glad to do anything within our power to further the plan along. We know that the fans here would get real enjoyment out of a league team and New Britain would hold up its end in baseball the same as it has in every other sport. It is a com- mon saying now that New Britain will always be in if the other cities and towns can hold their end of the bargains up we At a meeting of the City League | managers held last night in city hall, Massey and Rice were placed on the | Seneca roster in place of McAloon | and L. Argosy. The Burritts and Pirates will play | off their tie game on a date to be decided by the managers. The rule ordering tie or postponed games to be played within two weeks | was abolished. ‘It was agreed to have all games played on a date to be decided by the two managers in- volved and the league president. The protest of the West Ends over A game that was terminated b it was finished, was thrown out with the consent of the manager of the team because of the change in the rule that allows first games to be finished. FOR BEST RESULTS be one that | tremendous’| the | of | The “good | if | AMERICAN LEAGUE Games \'w«cnfiy Philadelphia 12, Chicago 8. Cleveland 4, Washington 3. New York 16, St. Louis 7. Boston Detroit Standing W. 60 Pet. 674 640 593 Philadelphia ... .. Washington New York | Cleveland . Detroit .. Chicago Boston St. Louis .5 456 3 Games Today Washington at Cleveland Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit. « Games Tomorrow Washington at Cleveland Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit. NATIONAL L Games Yesterday Chicago 6, Brooklyn 3. (13 innings). | New York 12, St. Louis 9. | Pittsburgh 6, Boston 2 Cincinnati 14, Philadelphia 9. | Standing | w. Brooklyn Chicago | New York St. Louis . Boston | Pittsburgh Cincinnati Philadelphia . | | Games Today Chicago at Brooklyn. St. Louis at New York. Pittsburgh at Boston Cincinnati at Philadelphia Games Tomorrow Pittsburgh at Boston. hicago at Brooklyn t. Louis at New York. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Toronto 4, Newark 2. Rochester §, Baltimore . Reading 4, Montreal 2 No results received on last night's Buffalo-Jersey City game. Standing w. Rochester .. Baltimore .. Montreal Toronto Buffalo Jersey City . Newark Reading Games Today, Newark at Buffalo. Jersey City at Rochester. Reading at Toronto. Baltimore at Montreal EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday New Haven 11, Providence 10, (10 innings). Albany 8, Bridgeport 6 Allentown 14. Springfield 5. Standing W, 11 .10 Pet. Bridgeport 3 Springfield .. New Haven .. Allentown Albany Providence . 9 .56 (£ ik 7 3 5 1 Games Today Springfield at Allentown. Bridgeport at Albany Providence at New Haven. YESTERDAY'S STARS the Associated P Webb, Red Sox By Collected three Tigers. Cuyler and English. Cubs—Their hits in the 13th broke up battie with Robins. Combs and Lazzeri, Yankees — Split eight hits between them and accounted for eight runs against Browns. Hudlin, Indians—Held Senators to seven hits and beat them. 4-3. Comorosky, Pirates — Aided in Braves' defeat with single, double and triple, FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Pross New York—Al Singer. New York. knocked out Sammy Mandell, world lightweight champion, (1), cham- pionship; Justo Suarez, Argentin-, outpointed Joe Glic Brooklyn, (10): Midget Wolgast, Philadelptd:, outpointed Ernie Peters, Chicago, (8). Omaha, Neb.—Primo Carnera, Italy, knocked out Bearcat Wright, Omaha, (4). Charley Berry, new catcher for the Boston Red Sox, formerly was an end on the Lafayette football team. singles, double and home run against | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930. Baseball Standing RIOLES STRUGGLE TOKEEP INRACE ‘Baltimore Faces Task of Staying Out of Fourth Place {By the Asgociated Press. | "Beaten back in four successive | jousts with the Rochester Redwings |and stripped of their league leader- | <hip, the Baltimore Orioles faced a | fight today to keep themselves from .368 ‘ ternational league standings. On the top of the heap five days ago, the Orioles withdrew from Rochester three games behind the flying Redwings, virtually tied with | third place Toronto and only | game ahead of fourth place Mon- |treal. The Orioles' margin over | Toronto was two percentage points | although a virtual tie existed in | games won and lost between the two clubs. Rochester's fourth straight win |over the Orioles yesterday was iar-)nb\'ed by a score of 8 to 5. The | Redwings jumped on Luther Roy | for six hits and as many runs in | | the first three innings and by the |time Henry Wertz entered the game, Rochester had clinched the victory. | Joe Hauser hit his 33d homer of the year in the seventh to make the score that much closer. Rip Col- lins, getting two hits in three tries vesterday,” boosted his average to 833 for the four-game series, Sam Gibson outpitched Leo Man- gum as Toronto made it three in a row from Newark, 4 to 2, pitchers were somewhat shaky at the start and Toronto was leading 3 to 2 by the end of three innings. “rom there on, Gibson Bears only two hits while Mangum pitched hitless ball until the eighth. | In this frame the Leafs filled the bases and managed to score one run. Joe Rabbitt led the Toronto offen- sive with three hits. Effective pitching by Herrmann enabled Reading to turn back Mont- real, 4 to 2. Herrmann allowed eight hits which he kept well scat- tered. Elam Van Gilder went the |route for the Royals and gave up nine hits which Reading bunched to g0od advantage. Rabbit Whitman, | a Montreal castoff, drove in three of | Reading’s runs and made two sen- | | sational catches in the outfield that |saved Herrmann from considerable !embarrassthent. An odd feature of the game was the fact that Davis, at first base for Reading, had only one putout, a line drive off Nieber- gall's bat in the eighth. Whitman had seven chances in center field and he made good on them all. The Buffalo Bisons made good use of 12 hits off Mjner to beat Jersey City, 7 to 4. Dave Danforth was touched for an even dozen hits be- fore he gave way with two out in the ninth inning to Fussell who re- tired the Skeeters without a score. Buffalo won the game with a three run rally in the seventh. Max West | was a thorn in the side of Dan- | forth all night. He cracked out two home runs, a double single. GASC0S DEFEAT " LANDERS IN GANE (Continued from Preceding Page.) | from Park street. They slammed Lim for 11 hits and 12 runs. Jaglowski was sent in by the Cor- | bin team. The leaders were taking no chances on the worm turning. Jaglowski was in excellent shape and he let the losers down with a total of four hits. Salak ved the Stanley Works | from a sautout when he beiisd a high hit over the center field barrier for a circuit trip. Bill Mangan. doughty little catch- er of the Corbin team, led the pa- | rade with the big stick. He beltad | out four hits in five trips, two of l:em being doubles. Lipka got three out of five including two while Bates slapped out three sin- gles in five trips to the plate. Preis- er got two out of five, including a triple made by dint of hard runninz. As usual the Stanley Works de- fense wcrk was slipshod. They chalked up six had errors behind their two pitchers. | Salak’'s work at the bat with two hits out of three trips and his work in the field was the shining light of | the losing team. Bates starred n first by picking several throws oat ot the dirt. The summary: P. & F. CORBIN R H PO lowawonromms cos0955 sssam 2| gave the| doublos | olossszasss0am Parsons, 1b | Gaida, 1t Salak, 3b Ad b Grail, rf Schuster, p Plenkowskl, p’ loowwwms lossuuwca lmocuwor | Totas | P. & F. Corbin | Stanley Works 010 0— 1 Two base hits: Mangan 2. Lipka 32, Jasper. Three base hit: Preisser. Homie | run: Salak. Bases on balls: Off Jaglowsk | 1, Schuster 4, Pienkowski 4. Struck out: | By Jaglowwkl 6, scnuster 2. Plenawski | | 3. Double play: Salak to Chario™. Um- | | pire: Lynch. | VITAL ENGAGEMENT vlessoros 213 ‘St Matts and South Church (lash This Evening The championship of the Inter- |Church baseball league may be de- |cided at Willow Brook park this evening when the St. Matthew's German Lutheran and South Con- gregational church nines meet on Diamond No. 2 in a renewal of their friendly but bitter rivalry. The St.| fatts, title winners for the past| |two years; are ugain in front this| year, and, with one victory over the | | South Church to their credit al- |ready, they have a two-game lead on their opponents of the evening. A second win at the expense of the | Congregationalists, who are clinging [to second place, will virtually give |the Germans another champlonship | | games remain on their schedule, the | other teams are almost too far back | to be considered really dangerous. A South Church win, howeve will haul the St. Matts back to a |point where the Congregational team, by playing off and winning 1ts two postponed games, can tie for |fArst place and have an easler |schedule ahead. of it than the Ger- |mans will have. The previous loss to the Germans was by a 7-5 score and came only after a hard fought| {and well played game, and the South |Church, its confidence strengthened | by knowledge of its old jinx over | |the Lutherans, will battle for re-| | venge. The teams are evenly match- ed and have no weakness in_any | | position. Billy Preisser is expected | |to pitch for the St. Matts and Wii- | |ton Morey for the South church. | The game is set for 6:45 o'clock. | | The other games will bring two |of the other four contenders wup| against tail-end teams. The St | Mark's Episcopal outfit, which final- ly climbed out of the cellar on Mon- day night. will attempt to stop the | Trinity Methodists in a game on {Diamond No. 1 and. with the im-| provement it fas been showing of |late, may furnigh an upset. | | The St. John's German Luther- ans, successors to the St. Marks in |the pit, will meet the First Luther- lans on the “grass diamond.” Tha| St. Johns have a better team than their standing in the league indi-| and a |cates and may furnish trouble, but| manifesting {the fourth place Swedes expect !move along to another win this ev | ning. | Mickey Walker, middleweight champion, is ambitious to take the |light heavyweight crown, and equal the record of Bob Fitzsimmons, who ‘held titles in three divisions. LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE BACK IN NEW YORK Al Singer Scores Sensational Knockout Over Mandell New York, July 18 (#—The crown of the lightweights today adorns ‘he thick black thatch of dynamic 21- year-old Al Singer, whose sensation- al one-round knockout of Samuy Mandell in Yankee Stadium last night brought back the 135 pound championship to New York for the first time since Benny Leonard re- tired The boy from the Bronx and pro- tege of Leonard crushed Mandell, one-time sheik of Rockford, Iil., and champion for the past four years, in exactly one minute and 46 sec- onds, Singer. with a ripping. slashing rush that swept the slim, dark Ital- ian before him, floored Mandell four times for successive counts of two, seven, four and ten. The champisn, after absorbing a terrific batterin with blood dripping from his mouth and nose, a glassy stare in his eyes, toppled over at the finish and took the final count flat on his back. Mandell did not land a solid punch nor more than two or three light left jabs, he was punched into | | a state of helplessness before he had time to make even a gesture and | before the crowd of some 25.010 | fans had time to catch their collec- both | for, though at least two other hari|tive breath. It was the shortest lightweight title fight in histor quickest knockouts shp fight since Terry ned over Pedlar Palmer to win in something like a half minate some thirty years ago. Singer's spectacular victory came as a shock even to the experts who had established the New York vouth | a favorite though it may not hav been surprising to the gentleman with the *“wise money” who w | reported just before the fight to be wagering 3 to 1 on the ehallenger. Although his rise has been rapid and impressive. Singer never before had manifested so complete punch- ing mastery over a boxer of Man- dell's acknowledged skill and re- sourcefulness. It was by far che greatest exhibition Singer ever hai given in the ring. The crown.ng climax to little more than three years of professional fighting ‘ot this scowling, thick-shouldered youngster All that Mandell appeared to have left, after ruling his division since 1926, was superlative gameness. They fidgeted, sparred and clinch- ed as Referee Arthur Donovan seut them into action. Then, with mne more than 25 or 30 seconds elaps=1, Singer slung a left hook that snap- ped back Mandell's hcad and seat the champion down for the first time. Up at the count of two without smartness enough to stay down for nine and give his |head a chance to clear, Mandcll stepped into.a volley of wallops o | the head. Backing slowly, trying in | vain to check the barrage, the cham- pion took a heavy battering before | going down again. He half-sprawled over the lower strand of rope. sh. ing his head. Blood streamed from and one of the| in any champion- | McGovern | his mouth. Staring, he slowly sta gered to his feet, leaning on ti rcpes. Singer, who had been dash- | ing around the ring like a caged lion cub, leaped at his foe with anothor two-fisted drive. Down went ire | champion for the third time. Again he failed to take full advantage of of the count and clambered up | the knock down mallet hit the can- | vas four times. Singer by this time | was becoming arm-weary, but Man- dell was so far gone that he could scarcély raise his own arms for pro- tection. As he rolled back into the | ropes, a solid right hand smash to the jaw put him down and out. He fell with a thud and it was all over. | Mandell won the lightweight title | from Rocky Kaneas in 1926 after a |two-vear period of scrambling in division following Leonard's reti | ment 'HARVARD YOUTHS WILL | BATILE TENKIS FIELD fror Two Crimson Undergraduates Meet the Challenge of New York | | | and the South. | Brookline, Mass, July 18 (#— | Two Harvard undergraduates meet | the challenge of New York and the south today in the semi-final round of the 38th annyal Longwood Bowl tennis singlee. Richard Murphy of Utica, N. Y., who will be a sophomore next fall, | gained the semi-final by crushing { young Jack Tidball of Los Angeles, 6-3, 6-4, 6-0. Today he plays Sid- ney Wood of New York. who went | four sets to dispose of Keith Gled- hill, Santa Barbara, Cal, 7-5, 8-6, 3, -0, Another Wood, Barry Wood, four sport star, Tulane university, intercollegiate champion. He entered the naj round through the default of Eddie Jacobs, Baltimore. Sutter won in straight sets from Teddy well, Charlotte, N. C., 6-4, 6-3, st-west semi-final matches will also be played in the women's e Mrs. L. A. Harper, Oak- . Cal, meets Virginia Hilleary, | Philadelphia, and Marjorie Morrill, | Dedham, opposes Dorothy Weisel, of Sacramento, Cal. | The first three seeded teams in | the men's doubles moved into the semi-final round and the remaining bracket was taken by Sutter and | Maurice Bayon of w Orleans | Eastern teams meet western team in both of the semi-finals of the | women’s doubles. SENATORS HAVING NO LUCK IN WEST (Continued from Preceding Page) Berger, 1¢ 1 » Maguire, antwell, Neun, 2 Brandt D 2z faces Clifford Sutter of | 72— Batted Pittsburgh Boston Two base hits isley. Chatham, base hits Sisler. Bases on bal) well 5. Struck out 1. 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