New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1930, Page 8

PETER NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930. PERAKOS SUGGESTS THATI‘ HANDBALL ARGUMENTS BE SETTLED THROUGH SINGLES TOURNAMENT AT THE Y—OLD TIME HANDICAP FANS CAN RECALL GREAT RACE THAT FRANK KANE LOST-—BROOKLYN AND CARDINALS TO MEET AGAIN CARDINALS ARE BY A SHADE IN NATlONAL}f SEPA Louis Wins From Brooklyn, 1 to 0 in 10-Inning Battle—Robins’ Winning Streak of 11 Games Is Brought to An End—Giants Score 7 to 0 Victory | Over Chicago Cubs—Phillies Down Pirates—Ath- | . | American—Other Games. g =8¢, letics Keep Winning in By the Associated Press St. Louis was a shade ahead in the National league race today. With Dazzy Vance and Bill Hallahan on| ‘“the mound, St. Louis and Brooklyn battled for supremacy for 10 innings vesterday and the Cards finally won | out, 1 to 0, to take first place in the | standing by the margin of a single point. Regaining a game lost over the past week-end, St. Louis went | into the second game practically on | even terms with their rival Robins. | The league's four contenders today | stand this way Clubs St. Louis . Brooklyn . ' Chicago . New York Games t Brooklyn 9 10. Despite the efforts of the “old mas- ter,” Vance, Brooklyn's winning streak of 11 games came to the end in perhaps the most thrilling game of the season. Dazzy Vance ned 11 Cards and gave them only seven hits but a double by Pinch Hitter | Andy High and a single by Taylor Douthit came in the 10th with Halla- han's sacr e in between and pro- | duced the only run of the game. The St. Louis youngster belied his nick- name of Wild Bill by giving only two walks and not ng a Robin to reach first base until the seventh | inning. He allowed only five hits Carl Hubbell, Giant hpaw, combined the virtues of both of th duelists to give D 7to 0| Pct. G. B. | 530 569 549 Louis 11, New York, w. 188 84 83 79 play — St. Chicago 10 v York a 7 victory over the Chicago Cubs in a less important but still “‘cruci series opener. Hubbell yielded only | three hits and fanned 10 to keep the Giants more or in the race and prevent a Cub nce. Jess Petty | gave him a fine duel for eight in- nings, but after he was removed for a pinch batter the Giants found Os- born and Nelson ecasy, scoring five runs in the eighth on a ngle to fasten down the victory. Two teams with very little in store for the future but a few chances to cause trouble for the leaders sharp- ened their batting cyes against each other in the other National Is clash and after 10 long innings of slugging Philadclphia defeated Pitts- burgh, 15 to 14. A triple play. Chuck Klein's 34th home run and the nine run 10th inning stood out from the mass of hits. In the American league, adelphia Athletics continue pennantward by taking header from the Chicago White while their only rivals, the Washin ton Senators were kept idle at Cleveland. With Mose turning in his 27th victor season, the A's won the first game 6 to 4, then they bunched their hits in two'big innings behind Bill Shore to take the second by a 10 to 2 count. The Athletics now need but two victories to reach the total of 100, which is the highest Washington possible can attain The New York Yanke Louis started out after mark made by the Phil burgh and after nearly 2 1-2 of slugging, the Yankees came the long end of a 19 to 10 New York made all its runs an of its 23 hits in the first five innings. With big Dale Alexander heading the attack, the Detroit Tige: ored early against Milton Gaston and « feated the Boston Red Sox, 7. to in the day's remaining ander drove in four of 11 the and hours out on soore Bishop, Dykes, Cochrane, Simmons, Foxx, Miller, Haas, cf Boley, ss Grove, p 20 rt Totals Cissell, 2 Watwood, Lazzer| Westling. ulte, elilln, Ferrell O'Rourke Hassler, Blaohold hit | Go LEADING SCANT POINT NOW RATES CLUBS| \Gardinals and Robins Face Each! (ther Again Today York, (UP)—One ant point separated the St. Louis ardinals and the Brooklyn Robins as they faced the second game ot heir vital 3-game series at Ebbets Field today By winning a titanic struggle vesterday, 1-0, the Card- | inals snapped the Robins 11-game winning streak and forged ahead by a nose in the turbulent National League pennant derby. There may have been better ball games played than the one the Cardinals wrested from the Robins vesterday, but you -could never| make any of the 25,000 fans who jammed every inch of space in the park believe it | For sheer thrills that combat, | with Dazzy Vance and “Wild Bill” Hallahan, locked in what seemed to be a never ending duel, surpassed anything in the memory of Gabby Street or Uncle Wilbert Robinson, | who between them have been in baseball for more than 50 vears, “I never saw so many things hap- pen in one game in all my baseball days,” said Street. “I don't think anything else could have happened TG That hard-won victory has paved SR 2 the way for us to win the pennant | Another game from the Robins and we'll never be headed.” A mighty tough one to lose” said “Uncle Wilbert.” “Between the | heat and the game I almost passed | out. We can't win ‘em all. Today we'll start @ new streak and get back into first place Hallahan had a no-hit game al-| most in his grasp yesterday when | Harvey Hendrick hit one of his pitches with one out in the eighth. All told the Robins made only five Vance was nicked for seven but fanned 11, two under his scason's record made last W againt the Cubs. | For today, another pitching battle was in prospect with Adolfo Luque, |the canny Cuban, and Burleigh I'|Grimes, one of baseball's best o | money pitchers, slated to work. 1(“Uncle Wilbert” had definitely de- 0| cided on Luque, while Gabby Street, 1| had just about made up his mind | 0|to use Grimes instead of Flint 1| Rhem, whose turn it was. | o1 With a righthander on the mound. | 0| Brooklyn, with its best hitters all | 0 | left-handers, Moore, Herman, Bis- sonette and Hendrick, is likely to show more power than in the first g|game when Hallahan's southpaw 0 | slants had them baffled. Herman, 1| Moore and Bissonette all went hit- | less in the opener. | From the manner in which both teams fought tooth and nail® for every igeh of ground yesterday, it is casy to see that neither is going to | give up the pennant struggle with- | out a long, hard fight which is quitc | likely to extend down to the laet | game of the season. 'PREDICTS THAT CARDS WILL COP THE PENNANT of St. Sept. 17 Badgro, e 10-inning x—Batted w York Louis Two base hits Ferrell, Chapn Combs, Lary, Lazz n 2, Cooke. Home runs. es on balls: Off Blae- | Holshauser 1, Stiles | Struck By | Winning Wells 1 pitcher: Blaehol- Hol pitcher der. BOSTON ol 100 Miller Bases o Russe Durst alis National League 0 514 PHILADELPHI AB It o Sieim. — ] Totals x—One run scored, ager Louis Team Confi- dent That His Charges Will Come Through St. Louis trect tod icting the Sept. 17 (P—Gabby went on record as pre- Cardinals would win this ar's hectic National league rac contingent on the hope that no further injuries or unforseen bad 9 Ik cur path: 1 3 g cason, of two weeks to run Rard struggle o | have had all CHICAGO AB R M PO has a still have cours and we head of us a season, but T believe the Cardinals strongly enough | fortitied at all angles to win their third pennant in five years,” Street wrote in today's Globe-Democrat. “The Cardinale, as a team, have all the essentiz he said. “We have one of the best pitching staifs in baseball, with five men available for first-string duty, Hallahan, Rhem, Grimes, Haines and John- son, and almost as many more cap- able of fine reliet work. The t has punch up and down the line Defensively, the team is very sound, | behind the plate, on the field and in the dens.” “Man for man better Howe factor reason predict 1 0 Al o man," the Cardinal “T believe we have a n Brooklyn a decisivi nd for that positively to this terrific I do we not will wish win FINAL APPEARANCE Primo Carnera to Meet Jack Gross Tn Last Bent Before Returning to Italian Army. gh a dium Gross, a 6 dve nd 1 1 hout with Philadelphia at foot 4 inch 214-pound- Jewish s 10 be is hampior prof ability pped n record con- to at C: imerous din stopper Wilbert Robinson. 1 Dodgers, ordered seme effort to | when MACK’S ENTRANCE INTO THE BIG TIME No. 3—Big Time Stuff Connie Mack wa years old when he broke into major league baseball as a catcher in 1886 with the Washington team, then a mem- ber of the National league. The pre-war ington being peace and Pirst in war, last in the American league” was as applicable a half century ago as it was in later years Washington finished last in the N; tional leaguc race of 1§86, in spite of the arrival of the recruit who to occupy so conspicuous a role in baseball history. The year that the youthful Mack broke in was noteworthy in a num- ber of respects. As a backstop he was introduced to the new-fangled chest protectors, an article which be- whiskered, bellowing old-timers would have scorned. At the same time the size of the pitcher’s box was fixed as seven feet by four feet. Reg- ularly appointed league umpires also were an addition to the game. Pop Anson's famous Chicago team was at the end of its reign in win- ning the pennant in 1886, The equivalent of the world series that vear was played with the St. Louis club of the American Association, managed by Charles A. Comiskey, | famous later as the Old Roman and owner of Sox the into being: St to 2, with a team featuring such famous figures as Comiskey at first base, Latham, Gleason, Welch, Foutz and Hudson. Anson's Chicago array included, besides himself at firs Pfeffer, Williamson, Dalrymple, the famous Michael J. (King) Kelly be- the Chicago White American league hind the bat and John Clarkson. the | pitcher, | National league's foreomst doing most of the box duty. The same year established Matt Kilroy of the Baltimore club as strikeout king, with 505 victims of his fast ball. Harry Stovey of the original Athletics stole 96 hases and was the leader in this specialty. King Kelly, or tor of the famo “Kelly slide,” was the batting champion of 1856, But the recor. show no home run monarch worthy of the name, although it was an age of much heavy hitting. Mack. purchased late in the sum- mer with four other players from Hartford. played his first game Sep- tember 16, 1886. It was also the debut for Gilmore, pitcher who went to the capital in the same deal. Known as the “Shadow battery” be- cause of their slim build. Gilmore and Mack celebrated their debut by helping the Nationals to hold the strong New York team to a 1-1 tie in cight innings got one of the five hits made famous Tim Keefe, New York He staried the only double 3 the game, being credited with nine putouts and two assists. Mack caught 10 games altogether before the close of the season. One of the pitchers he worked with was Hank O'Day, later a great umpire. For the next three years he did more than half the backstopping for Washington, working in an average of about 40 games cach season and stinguishing himself more by his lert work than by any spec- hitti He s a timely ous in a pinch, but 292 for ler. pl of W ack batted his career for 11 years, only twic fe time ma later, in a speech, February . Mack recalled the first southern training trip he took with the Washington club of 1888 and drew the marked contrast between conditions then and nearly a half s a famous char- 1id Mack. “He world. On the us down in that is, day 14 members of on the ze of took team being drun “Sullivan called Ten were ards. put up in what we at §1 a day. Ameri- can plan. It was difficult to get in- to first class hotels. At Charleston, Ll e Sullivan made arrar ments for us to stop at a third class hotel On the last day the expected to get their real tip, Sulli- us sh when waiters slogan about Wash- | first in | s| came Louis won the series, 4 games van, as we sat down, reached into his pocket, pulled out a silver dollar and laid it significantly beside his plate. The food had not been any too good and he said, ‘Go ahead and feed the boys up.’ | “That night we had a real dinner. | Afterward, Mr. Sullivan reached | down, picked up the silver dollar and put it back in his pocket. | “And we moved on to Washing- ton “The game was far different 1n‘ those days from what it ir today. The | boys, as I say. dissipated, had no idea of taking care of themselves and received small salaries. Year after year, however, the game was getting better. | “Today if a player drinks at all the club immediately looks for a man to take his place. The boys who are playing today are real busi- ness men. They are drawing big! salaries, saving their money and, good hotels now look for our patron- age. | “Baseball has improved 100 per cent over the old days. Of the mem- bers of a teams of 25 players now maybe half of them will take a glass of heer; probably two-thirds will not smoke. College boys have had a great deal to do with this change and advancement.” (Copyright, 1930, the Associated Press). | | s | Tomorrow—The Rise to Leader- | ship. | THINKS BOBBY JONES HARDEST MAN T0 BEAT | Johnny Goodman, Youthful Omaha | “ Star, Figures Georgian As i i Greatest Obstacle | Philadelphia, Sept. 17 (A—Bobby | Win a pennant and Rhem is a first-| Kokomo, Ind., outpointed Billy Ros: | Jones will in | | | the field be the hardest beat man to i amateur golf championship starts at the which | Merion Cricket club | | next week, in the opinion of little | | Johnny Goodman, youthful Omaha | star. | Goodman, who startled the golf | | world by eliminating the great | Jones in the first round of the title | | tournament last year at Pebble | Beach, Calif., was among yesterday's | | arrivals for this year's battle of the | link | Bobby's chance will be as good as evel Goodman said after his first practice round over the Merion course. “That means he will be the hardest man in the field to heat.” Other entrants already here for the tournament included William Lawson Little, Jr., of San Francisco, who defeated Goodman in the sec- ond round last year; Chick Evans and John B. Ryerson, Chicago; T. A. Bourne, Scotland; E. R. Tipple, London, England; Maurice Mec- Carthy, former intercollegiate cham- pion; George McWilliams, Prince- ton universit Ross Somerville, Canadian champion, and . John B. h, also of Canada POLO SEMI-FINALS | | Winston Guest's Anglo-American Templeton Teams to Clash With | i Sands Point Four. New York, Sept. 17 (UP)—Wes- ton Guest's Anglo-American Tem- pleton team will clash with the | £ ds Foint four on International | field today in the first semi-finals matcir of the national open polo | championship .addie Sunford’s champion hurr- who entered the semi-final bracket yesterday by a 10 to 9 vie- tory over Lioslyn, will meet Tommy Hitcheock's Greentree squad Thurs day in the cther semi-finals engage- ment. ‘ Captain C. T. I Roark. Britain's veteran internationalist, drove home the winning goa! for Hurricane after fivs minutes of play in the sudden- death ninth chukker. FLINT RHEM GETS OFF WATER WAGON (Says Armed Men Forced Him| to Drink Hard Liguor St Rhem played an important part in the St. Louis, Sept. 17 (A—Flint whose sturdy right arm has | Louis Cardinals’ drive pennantward, | has fallen from the water wagon, but he told Manager Gabby Street the fall was forced upon him by “two armed men." Rhem, today's Globe-Democrat says in a story from a staff corres pondent, returned to the Cardinal | hotel in New York late last night, | after being missing for 24 hours, and reported to Street two armed men forced him to accompany them to a roadhouse poured liquor down him all that night and yesterday. Releasing him near the Cardinal's hotel last night, he said, the men warned him not to pitch against Brooklyn. “Street listened a father,” the story says, “but it was evident the Cardinal manager placed no faith in it." Rhem, who has won his last si starts on the mound, was to have kindly | pitched against Brooklyn at Brook- Iyn today, but Street announced he had switched to the big Swede Sylvester Johnson, and that he would follow Thursday with Bur- leigh Grimes. After ordering Rhem to some sleep,” the story says, “get Street |told the Globe-Democrat correspon- | Cincinnati, no action m trying to dent he would tak against the pitcher. class pitcher,” Strcet said. “He ha been hewing to the line all sum- games."” Monday and then | BETTORS LOST ITHACA FORTUNES RISING STEADILY Veferans and Newcomers Give Promise at Cornell Ithaca, N. Y. Sept. 17 (#—The fortunes of the Big Red team of Cornell, clouded for years by lack of players and interest, are rising steadily as fine incoming material brings ions of the days when Kaw and Pfann and Cassidy | ruled the football roost It still is too early to challenge the familiar pessimism of Gilmour Dobie, rampant even in the defe less era of 1921-23, but the start Cornell gained last season whipping Princeton and Columbia and. losing in the final seconds to Dartmouth seems certain to carry farther this fall. By graduation the Ithacans lost half a backfield and an All- America tackle, Sam Wakeman, but veterans left and newcomers from the sophomore ranks promise to offset the absentees. Dobie rarely has trouble fashion- ing a huskly line and prospects this |fall are better than usual a sensa- tional sophomore, sAbe George of Ithaca will try to fill Wakeman's shoes. Chris Martinez is back in the other tackle berth, four veteran ends are on hand, and a pair of | hold-over centers, G. O. Wallace of Bedford, O.. and H. J. Reikert, of Richmond Hill, N. Y., will be avail- able. Captain Hunt was one of the best guards in the east last season and Dobie has a choice of several vet- erans for the other guard post. For every position in the line there are | eager sophomores who starred on | the fine freshman eleven of last fall. | Heaviest hit by graduation in fl\f" backfield Dobie finds some of his strongest newcomers there. He has | a brilliant young sophomore in Bart Viviano to take over the fullback berth left vacant by Norman Scott |and Joe Kanich. Eddie Smith of Ithaca, W. C. Beall from Chicago, |R. H. Beyer and E. Lipinsky, both |of Buffalo and L. H. Nieman of | Brooklyn, all sophomores, | tenders for Howard Johnson's back- field post. TFlashy Bob Stevens last season's triple-threat, Les Handle- man, G. H. Cornish and Mauritz Johnson are dependable veterans. | As in the past the Cornell season | consists of four big games. Open- |ing with Clarkson September 27, | then Niagara October 4 and Hamp- | den-Sydney October 11, the Big Red squad tackles Princeton at Prince- |ton October 18; Columbia at New York, November 1; Dartmouth, November 15, and Pennsylvania No- [ vember 27 with Hobart as a sort of breather on November 8 | ' FIGHTS LAST NIGHT | By the Associated Press. Cincinnati, 0.—Freddie outpointed Cecil | Louisville, (10). | Indianapolis, Ind.—Jackie Purvis, back v Miller, Payne, | (10). | Portland. Me.—Art Grioux, Mon- in the national | mer and I believe he can win more treal, and Johnny McCoy, Cleveland, | Hdrew, (10). [ nim in"the pools that day. are con- | ROLLS AS FRANK KANE WAS BEATEN 0ld Timers Recall One of Greatest Handicap Races of Ancient Times—Local Sprinter ' as One of Fastest Men On Track in This Section—S. Wagner of New York, Winner, Branded as a Ringer—Other New Britain Runners Won Their Heats. | Forty-eight years ago on August 29, 1882, one of the greatest handi- |cap races held in New Britain took place. Many old timers will recall the great excitement that day, when Frank Kane, a local sprinter and one of the fastest in this part of the country, was beaten in the final heat. Eight local runners won trial heats. S. Wagner of New York, the win- ner with 14 1-2 yards start, was claimed after the race to be a “ring- er,” a fast sprinter who got in on a long mark. Kane was a big favorite in ths betting on the final heat and it cost local sports plenty as they backed Every= one bet on the heats at the handi- caps. There was a large attendance as New Britain had no pro ball games. O'Donnell, Finnegan, Dunn and Foley held the 135-yard handicap at Traut's park, a picnic ground of the 50's, offering $150 for first, $35 for second and $15 for third. There was a big thrill to see 75 or 100 sprinters from -all 'parts of the state and outside, running in the heats. Admilsion to the grounds was 25 cents. The trial heats: First, won by M. Burke, New Britain, 22 yards; sec- ond, J. Mascot, Meriden, 15 1-2 vards; third, J. Smith, New Britain, 19 yards; fourth, S. Wagner, New York, 14 1-2 yards; fifth, J. Rene- han, New Britain, 18 yards; sixti, Marty Welch, New Britain, 19 yards: seventh, Frank Kane, New Britain, 10 1-2 yards; eighth heat, M. Rob- inson, New Britain, 19 yards; ninth, R. Middlemass, New Britain, 20 vards; tenth, J. Shaw, Philadelphia, 14 1-2 yards; cleventh, W. Kelly, Kensington, 19 yards; twelfth, D. Berger, Paterson, 15 yards; thir- teenth, Billy Hannah, New Britain, 19 yards The second trial heats furnished great sprinting. A lot of bets wero made. The first heat was won by S. Wagner, Frank Kane won tho second, M. Robinson the third, and J. Renehan the fourth. Three lo- cal sprinters won their heats. The final heat was a thrill and big rolls of money were bet by local sports on Frank Kane. Strangers took all bets against Kane, getting big odds and they cashed in that | day. A greater race in a local handicap was never scen, as Wagner with 4 {vards handicap on Kane, was off |like a decr at the pistol shot. Kane was after him, gaining fast near the finish. Wagner won by a vard, tima 12 1-2 seconds. Robinson was third, 3 yards back with Renchan fourta, 1 yard behind. It was a great fin- ish. Kane ran races all over the country. He is working in a local factory and lives in New Britain. YESTERDAY'S STARS the Associated Press, Douthit, Cardinals—Singled in jtenth to drive in run that beat Rob- ins, 1-0. Hubbell, Giants—Let with three hits, struck out ten, and blanked them, 7-0. Klein, Phillies—Drove in four runs against Pirates with two singles and 34th home run Grove and Shores, Athlefics— Pitched champions to double vic- |tory over White So Alexander, Tizers—Pair of singles Jdrove in r_our runs against Red Sox. By Cubs down OUR BOARDING HOUSE BAD NEWS MATOR 2w <~ THEY'RE GaoNMA TEAR DowM —TH? OWL™S CLUB BUILDING NEXT MoNTH w~ WE'LL HAVE -To HUKT up A BY AHERN A ADDING INSULT ° INTURY, AS TH’ POET SAYS wnr o) =~ NTKMoW WHAT IN (75 PLACE 2 ~ A “TRADE scHooL ~~ForR LEARMIN TRADES I NEW RoasT! “THEY'RE GONMA BUILD) HAVE T FIMD A NEW LocATIoN FOoR OUR BELAQVED || CLUB !« A'PLACE WIMHouT -THE BURDEN OF RENT ’ H