New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1930, Page 11

» Py " players is not only taking away the NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930. ‘11 Speaking AMERICAN LEAGUE of Sports Games Yesterday New York 10, Washington 7. Philadelphia 11, Boston 4. (Other clubs not scheduled). The Kensington baseball team will play the St. Stanislaus team of Meri- Gen in the Silver ity next, Sunday Standing Polo Playing Stock afternoon. Every player on the team 5 om o will be expected to be on hand as | Philadelphia 90 45 867 the game will be played on the 60- | Washington . §2 50 .821 BY ALAN GOULD 40 plan with the winning taking 60 |New York 75 56 578 i (Associated Press Sports Editor) PEF centy Cleveland . 7268 .530| New York, Sept. ¢ P—A flock of etroit .... 64 70 g | Red O'Hearn, who pitched for the ’S)t Tou st ::g | ups and downs failed this season to| Sacred Heart tcam last Sunday, will | Chicago . 50 339 |keep vouthtul Earle A. S. Hopping | serve them up for Meriden. | Boston ... 86 338 | from the battle for the The Pawnee A. C. football team will hold a practice session tonight at Willow Brook park at 7 o'clock. All members of the team and neg candidates are urged to be on hand | as important business is to be trans- acted. Games Today Washington at New York. Cleveland at Chicago Boston at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Detroit. Games Tomorrow St. Louis at Detroit. Cleveland at Chicago. Washington at New York. Boston at Philadelphia. The Triangles A. C. football team | will hold a practice session Thurs- day night at 7 o'clock at the South | street field. Another workout will | be held Sunday morning at 10| o'clock. All members are asked to | Teport in uniform on Sunday. Teams Games Yesterday wanting games should telephone| New York 5.7, Boston 3-11. 1661 or write to Rico D'Amato, 42| Ppittsburgh 9, Chicago 6. Oak street. (Other clubs not scheduled). NATIONAL LEAGUE With the second round of the Standing city baseball series about to open up | w. L with the Sacred Hearts meeting the | Chicago 78 54 Burritts next Sunday atternoon at |New York Y Willow Prook park, the three man- |St: Louls . 78S & agers of the teams involved, the |Brooklyn 78 60 Burritts, Sacred Hearts and Holy (Pittsburgh 69 63 Cross, should get together and agree |Boston .. 61 72 on lists of players who will be eligi- |Cincinnati ... 95 74 ble to take part in the games. | Philadelphia 43 83 To us and to many others, the | Games Today game last Sunday between the so-| New York at Boston. called Sacred Hearts and the so-| Chicago at Pittsburgh. called Holy Crossdeams, was a joke | Clncinnati at St. Louts because of the fact that numbers of | (Other clubs not scheduled). “ringers” were on the teams and | they formed only the skeleton of the | original baseball clubs. Games Tomorrow New York at Boston. Chicago at Pittsburgh. Cincinnati at St. Louis. (Other clubs not scheduled). If the three managers should get together and arrange for eligibility | rules in the series, then the real | championship of the city could be | decided. As it is, ringing in outside | ! Games Yesterday | Newark 5, Jersey City 4 Rochester 3-6, Toronto 2-1. Montreal 5-9, Buffalo 3-2. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE interest in the series itself, but it is also robbing the teams of what little money they might have after the | playoff is all over. | Standing The managers should arrange a | w. L. meeting on this matter because, after | Rochester .. L0257 all, it is for their own good and the | Baltimore . . 86 62 good of their team players. We feel | Montreal . 8T 63 that if we were a member of any of | TOTONto .. . 82 €8 these teams during the season and |Buffalo ... 68 s1 then were dumped in the playofr |[Newark . o 83 serfes for some other more-adver- |Jersey City . . 58 89 tised star, we should quit the team |Reading ... . 87 90 for good and all. However, this fsn't | being done, apparently. | Games Today Newark at Reading. Jersey City at Baltimore. Buffalo at Toronto. Rochester at Montreal. Corbins and Landers will wind up | tho Industrial baseball league sched- ule tonight when they meet at Wal- nut Hill park in a game that has been postponed since July 24. TEAMS AWAIT CALL EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Bridgeport 5, Springfield 3. Allentown 11, Albany 2. Baseba]_léanding EARL HOPPING PUPIL OF FATHER | Probable “Big For” No. 2 of Y N tion on America’'s “Big Four” polo. | After the second of two bad falls, |in the first of which he suffered a | | slight concussion. the 22 year old polo star appeared to ve jeopar- dized his chances of making the Yankee team. He was slow to recover his con- |fidence and hitting form. Yet he| |came back, after the two Texai | Smith and Williams. had been tri {out at his position, and again made | |the team, completed by Pedley, Hitchcock and Guest, which looks | like the most formidable American combination | Hopping comes of polo playing |stock. His father, Earle W. Hop. | | ping. was a substitute on the In- ternational teams of 1921 and 1924. Although the son prematurely - [bald and bigger, they are knowa as | “Little Earle” and “Big Earle.” hey are inseparable and ‘Big Earle” has concentrated with rar: devotion upon the task of making who may don m n include Gene Performers Texas League sea s>cond baseman sourt, Wichita Falls. By GAYLE TALBOT. JR. . | (Associated Press Sports Writer) allas, Sept. 4 (P'—When the flag roes down on the Texas league race leptember 7, some choice young material will be available for duty the big show It is considered a certainty that at least a half dozen of the circuit's rightest stars will see the majors before the year is out. Several should stic The St. Lo the Wichita b the inside track on several of the best prospects. They include the burly Larry Bet- tencourt. Jim Levey, a shortstop. Irving Burns, t baseman, and Jack Kloza, outfielder. Bettencourt, former All-America football center at St. Mary's, played |a vital part with his big bat in driv- ing the Spudders to the first-halt title, | He has led the loop in home runs, been among the leaders in run | scored and batted in, and has played | | his son an internationalist on the practically every position including| |cup team, where he failed himself backstop. He failed to stick with the to gain a regular post. | Browns last year, but his chances United States and Great Britain Between chukkers of a test m are good if given another chance. G St: g s : X | T Pet, |1 had difficulty taking “Big Earle The Fort Worth Cats have set a Ready for First of Polo Clashes | griggaport o n;’ " |mind oft the play long enough *o price of $20.000 on Leslie Mallon, i ort ... 28 e artrom ot ihe boyis rookie second sacker. Scouts of a on Saturday. g ol bt dozen o ave looked the Young- g | Albany ... 2 3 47 2 2 1 8 cor he Yanks are expect- New York, Sept. 7 .= Springfle i | I always wanted to make ster over and the s v TUnited States an?tGr:at Bn;r::; i S [& Polopctariont otgilns e Lenarne Polo teams today had only to await the call that will send them into ac- tion Saturday at Meadowbrook in the first of the series of three in- ternational matches. I the two captains adhere to the lineups selected for yesterday’s final test matches, then Eric Pedley, | Earle A. S. Hopping, Capt. Tommy | Games Today Bridgeport at Springfield. Albany at Allentown. TOMMY FREEMAN ABLE T0 Cambridge, but deci leading sluggers d has a great released by Cinci H:i!chcm‘k and \Vulss(nn Guest wm‘me_ - to work and into the auto throwing arm. The Indians were A ;1P;is nIn mL:c'Amerdcan‘d tc;m‘dund[ velander es at 145 Pounds | pusiness at Detroit for a while. . reported to have reiected a $30,000 National League and g . y, Gera alding, | That's the stuff. Well hit, | offer for him to break : as Match With Jac! = 05 Dreal Capt. C. T. I (Pat) Roark and = oy Earle boy! A Waco offers Gene Rye, a squat lit- | C Lieut. Humphrey Guinness making son Looms Tonight. | “His first tournament? In Eng- up the English quartet land, about five years ago. Dgvel- Cleveland, Sept. SOCCER TEAM QUITS River | tomorrow night to bid for the wel- terweight championship newly ac- Enronean Tone sad] Pas ey (0| auired by Young Jack Thompson, |the California Negro. Return home. | Freeman's followers had been {anxious about his weight, but the Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 4 (— | Clevelander scaled vesterday at 145 The Fall River, Mass., soccer team |pounds, two under the limit, and which has been tourning Europe is | vas pronounced on fighting edge. now in Paris awaiting a steamer 0| As for Thompson, who will defend America. The Hungarian club which | his title for the first time since he sponsored their tour is considering a lawsait alleging that Fall River sent a reserve team. | Rome Surprised Rome, Sept. 4 (P—Considerable surprise exists in sporting circles at a telegram from Fall River, Mass., soccer team which. is touring Europe that they will be unable to play in it. Among their dates was an in- gagement to play with the home club September 14. Fall Combination Cancels Detroit, “There's nothing to worry about. It's just a fight, and I've been in a lot of ‘em.” The champion, however, will be out to avenge himself for the trim- ming he took at Freeman’s hands at Detroit a year ago. The odds that | he'll get revenge are 6 to 5 as far | as the experts are concerned. The bout, over the distance of 15 The telegram assigned as rcasons-rf:“;ds' LS dRe i Leatiie the number of men put out of ac-| . 2Tk tion in stiff contests i entral R n central T Europe and the fallure of necessary substitutes to arrive. The Fall River team has been replaced tentatively in the Rome club schedule for the opening of the International game season by the strong Hungarian New London, Sept. 4 (P)—Al Weill, matchmaker of the Queensboro | stadium, Long Island City, and Dick | Gray, promoter of amateur boxing in New Haven and Hartford, today S signed a four year lease on the Thames Arena, owned by Louis Lub- S chansky of this city. The arena PLAY NIGHT FOOTBALL |vuitding was used as & brass ractory during the war time period. The ~ |lessees intend to stage amateur and Temple University Eleven May En- | professional boxing shows here in alternate weeks. gage in Four Contests Under- neath Are Lights. «It is rumored that Adolph Luque, who was once a soldler in the Cuban army, undershirt, TIN FOIL for the Ocean City, N. J., Sept. 4 (UP)— Temple university may play four night football games this season, it was learned here today. One game with Miamli university is set for | Nov. 8 at the Conventien Hall, At- lantic City. Negotiations are under way which may lead to the playing of three other night games at the Sesqui stadium, Philadelphia. These are | witk Thiel, St. Thomas and Buckv‘ nell on successive Friday nights, be- ginning with Sept. 28. The Temple football squad work- ed out here yesterday. Shriners’ Hospital At Springfield, Mass., Can Be Left at, Jennings’ Smoke Shop 51 Church Street Jack Calve, who had one of the greatest throwing arms ever seen in the Texas league, now is a captain of harbor police at Havana, Cuba. MAKE WEIGHT FOR BOUT 4 (P—Tommy |oped fast when we came back. . Freeman has brushed aside any doubt about his ability to make the | ago and he's eig weight when he climbs into the ring | his mark in the last game of that wears brass buttons on his | | Earle, hit it! . He got his first e his first year in Cla lessons at the game on a bicycl fielded brilliantly and allon has hit around | Played on the .320. Tommy Hitchco In Joe Moore the S: onio club |- - . Ride him Earle, go on has w! sident Alvin Gardner of We lived nine years in En, the Texas league regards as the Earle got his schoolin captained the ru r team at Sut- ton-Courtney. greatest outfield prospect since Tris Speaker went up, Moore has been one of the loop's ervice in | STARS MAY JOIN MAJORS d of the Y t slie Mallon, | Fort Worth; Gene Moore, outfielder, and Larry Betten- tle outfielder, who has been around .360 c equalied or brok game against Beaumont cracked out three ho! inning and dr Rye ei eight records in a when runs in one ve in eight runs. hitting er he They're calling Babe Ruth “The Hack Wilson of the American league” in Chicago. v Back In Big Time Associated Press Photo Long George Kelly, baseman nati Reds to Min- neapolis, has bounded back into the o world's icago C | Rated ornly five goals three yea 1t now. . Made | series with Argentine in 1925 . . | Played a wonderful game. . . . You | missed that one, Earle; take your | time with the stick | “Little Earle” is over six feet in height and weighs about 205. He lis an erratic er but a daring, | courageous rider. Youngest of the | principal candidates, !mu«*h expert and expe- | rience as any except Hitchcock him- | Dattled it away from Jackie Frelds | %10 at I WILE JOIN INDIAN Cleveland, Sept. 4 (P—Joe Vos- | mick, Terre Haute right fielder who {leads the Three-Eye league in bat- | ting with an average of .398, will join the Cleveland Indians here on Tuesday, according to Billy Evans, general manager of the Tribe. ! $O | HAS PARTY ON BIRTHDAY | Barbara Reindel of Chapman | | street was the guest today of her | sister-in-law, Mrs. George Reindel |at Cedar lake. Little Miss Reindes |is today celebrating her sixth birth- day anniversary and a party was given in her honor. | | 'SALESMAN SAM | | | '™ GOIN' OUT Ta LeaRN TA PLAY ) JUST A SECOND GOLE, SAM - MY FIRST ATTEMPT=/AN' \'LL FIX YA UP- {WaNNA BUY AN QUTEIT — ' 7 = 7, | SHTEXETEY M EARTEN N E. MAG & sons Boys’ Depariment 95 EVERY SUIT WITH TWO TROUSERS We have all the necessary accessories Shirts—Ties—Underwear—Caps—Hose School opens Monday—and our store is filled with all your boy’s clothes needs. Special for Today SRR TR ST C. Executive Acts SIX DAY WALKING MATCH = (CofC Exeautivedcs FEATURE OF OLDEN DAYS Event Was Run Off by Billy Hanna at Hanna’s Armory | On East Main Street — Entrants Plodded Along Three Hours a Day in Go-as-You-Please Style — Big Crowds Attended — New York Professionals Took Part — Grind Was Won by Carthwright in 152-2—Details. Forty-one vears ago Billy Hanna, local sports promoter, staged a six | day walking match at Hanna's roll- er skating rink. It was three hours jured, was an outfielder for tkg Springfield team. The season closed Monday. and Gray and Wells were cn route to their homes in Chatta- nooga, Tenn. a day go-as-vou-please stvle, start- o ing Jun 1580, There was great ST interest and big crowds nded v S S The following professionals start- TILDEN GIVES VIEW |ed for $500 in prizes—Hertz, Carth- ——— wright, Golden. Connor, Hegleman. rannic ver ; from New York. Jack Burke, Frank | |ci8 Veteran Believes Davis Cup Kane, Carl: local sprinte ., C. Kane and Davis, Team Should be Sent to Europe Herty, for Two Months' Stay. Carthwight, Gorden Second day—Herty, 54—16 wright, 54—14: Golden day—Cathwright, 8§4—0; Herty, §3— Golden 77—9. Fourth day—Cath- wright, 11 Herty, 11—4: Golden, | 101—s. Fifth day found § left with Herty, 135—11; Cathwright, 132—5: Gold- 125—9. Final day June 16— 160 miles, 14 laps: $400 first prize. Cathwright, : Golden, | 148—17: Connors, | man, 36—10: “rank Kane, 1 It would seem today to |see the old-time six peds pounding the broad trail lap after Philadelphia, Sept. 4 (UP)—Wil- liam T. Tilden II, believes it would be good policy to sent the American Davis Cup challenge team France next year at least months before the matches. In a radio interview over station WLIT last night, Tilden declared that lack of acclimitization had much to do with the failure of the Americans in the challenge round in France this year. “Send America's tennis players for the challenge round to France at least two months before the next match for the Davis cup,” Tilden said, “And permit a second team, for which I will gladly volunteer, to 152— 145—1 Burke, lapcilt madie hacoiening, play the American zone matches here. and I think our chances of YALE MEN INELIGIBLE 356 e "oy %" 0ld Silent Films Have ; Popular Run in Spain Madrid, Sept. 4 (®—OId silem films, made and shown in the| United States ten years ago and in| some cases more, are having quite a run in Spain this summer. The programs of most At Least Eight Ell Football Candi- dates Will Not be With the Team This Season. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 4 (UP) —Injury and scholastic difficultly have s ight Yale have rendered at least eig ale ot football candidates ineligible for the team, it appeared today. movie theaters here just now are The Yale Athletic hssociation an-|Mmade up of reels that Hollywood nounced that F. H. Weicker, tackle; §round out long before the talkic era. This is to fill the gap until a sufficient supply of Spanish-lan- guage talkies can be producted whether in the United States or in Spain itself, to give a seady run or talkie programs to the Spanish theaters equipped for them. A. B. Strange, center; and J. H. In. gram, C. B. Jones. W. G. Mec. Laughlin and H. Stevens, backs, were barred for scholastic reasons. | Tommy Taylor, bagk, was shot ac- | cidentally Tuesday at Sault Sainte Marie and Ed Rotan, tackle, noti- |fled the coaches from his home in | Houston, Tex., that a wrestling in- | jury suffered last winter probably | would prevent his playing football | this fall Seven regulars of. the Wichita Falls club of the Texas league have been hitting above the .318 mark this season. | IDENTIFIED AS PITCHER New Madrid, Mo., Sept. 4 @ — T'rancis D. Gray, 22, killed near here vesterday when a motor car in which he was riding was struck by a cot- ton belt train, today was identified as “Dick” Gray, star pitcher for the Springfield, Mo., Western Assocla- | tion baseball team. W. S. Wells, driv- |er of the car, who was seriously in- REDUCED RATES 12 WA [{INGTON STREET 24 HOUR Hartford, Sept. 4. — Charles B. Whittelsey, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, acting in the role of mediator, conferred with A. D. Smith, president of the Hartford Musicians’ Union yesterday. It is understood Smith repeated the union demand of at least 28 weeks’ guaranteed work and half-a-week’s pay weekly when the theater is closed. Even though an agreement be- tween the union and Schubert’s may be reached later it is almost certain that the opening of the theater will be delayed. “Stepdaughters of War,” which was to have its pre-Broadway showing here will be opened in Washington, D. C., instead Blasts Level Electric Light Poles in Village Providence, Ky.. Sept. 4 (P—Elec- tric light poles at Coiltown, two miles from here, were blasted last night, crippling the Providence light- ing system for more than an hour. The dynamitings were the latest of a series belleved arising from labor troubles in the Webster county coal fields. Linemen for the Kentucky Utili- ties company restrung the wires. No one was injured by the blasts. Wallace Wade., Alabama football coach, believes hard work in the summer is bad for college football players. At Third Again Associated Press Photo Lester Bell, Chicago Cub infielder. who has been out of game most of season with a sore arm, has been placed back at third as Cubs enter final stretch of pennant race. WITHIN CITY LIMITS 50¢ AUBURN TAXI TELL SERVICE ' OUT OUR WAY wWe TREAT | —= OUR GOLF CUSToMERS IN & FAIRWAY (AOW ABOUT SOME GOLE saLLs? ©OH, | WOULDON' T BUN 'EM UNTIL YA GET O8N TO = By SMALL