Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 20, 1917, Page 3

Have you full coverage on your live stock against FIRE and LIGHTNING? If not, call or write During the Past Week New York Drops a Trifle While White J. L. LATHROP & SONS 28 Shetucket Street Norwich, Conn. Sox and Boston Change Places—Giants Have Poor Week Winning Only Five Out of Ten Games—Amer- ican League Contest Center of Interest. New York, Aug. 19.—The pennant race in the National and American Leagues continued with little change the past week. In the National, New York slipped back slightly while Phil- adelphia, in second place, gained some- What. In the American the week ended with Chicago and Boston in the same po- sitions as at tthe beflnflinflf‘:‘dfil‘f’:tt:;:l having won four games % : Insure Through An Agency |Today the White Sox increased their lead by defeating Philadelphia, 14 to that is competent to give EXPERT | while the Red Sox lost to Cleveland, i SERVICE and SOUND PROTECTION. |7 E\?e;’ ik bartthe ymcreRt week i You can obtain such service here. e I e o AA ONES S e u1e bt he best | they heavy schedule e e S could do was to break even in ten insurance and Real Estate Agent | games. el i rds’ il The play of the icago Ame: Sra st 1 Main St | | broved over the . provious . week. Rowland’s men hit harder and their scoring power was improved. They BURGLARY INSURANCE Non three out of four from Cleveland o £nd then broke even in the first two —_—IN—- games of the Philadelphia series. The White Sox held on to first place until The Travelers Insurance Co.|Dice™: ‘when ‘they lost to Philadsl- .| phia in twelve innings, Boston taking, Snthias Rrst place. Saturday the White Sox 5 came back to the lead by beali‘r'\g P}(l’lnl- adelphia while Boston was reaking B. P. LEARNED & CO. aven In a double header wtih Cleve- land. A CLOSE RACE FOR ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW ‘AMERICAN PENNANT Agency Established May, 1846. : = Statistics for Past Five Years Show Erown & Perkins, Hitmeys-al-laW | ~11o¢ “Boston - Has Finished Ahead Over Thames Nat. Bank, Shetucket St.| of White Sox. Entrance stairway near to Thames Natioral Bank. Telephone 38-3 | The closeness of the struggle for leadership in the American league be- tween the Chicago and Boston club SAERSINL TIspLE has focused the attention of the base- e ball fans upon the struggle for pen- nant honors in the junior major league. While there is a wide divergence of opinion regarding the ultimate win- S ner of the flag with its attendant e e b participation in the world's series, it = B¢ SEEEL **lis conceded that the battle for first place will be fought out by the White American League, Nationai League. 2 (First geme.) Second L CHANGE IN PENNANT RACES| Sox and the Red Sox. At the present time the margin of advantage between the two. teams is #o slight that the loss of a game or two while the other club is winning Is likely to cause a shifting of places and the resultant strain will surely be felt by both combinations if the race continues with so siizht a leeway for another few weeks. Under the circumstanees it is not unexpected that the adherents of the rival teams should predict that the other will be the one to break under the intensity of the daily effort to hold the pace. The situation is being considered from every angle by the volunteer boards of strategy with constant ref- erence to the skill and ability of ‘pitch- AFTER.THE BATTLE. ing staffs, hitting, outfields and all Picture Tells Soda Water and Bottling E. WRIGHT 8 Cove St. FERGUSON'S Franklin Sauare Niamonds, Cut Glass and the other forms of argumentative am- munition used in baseball fanning. 4Aug- 15—Chicago, 4, .522; With due allowance for accidents and -#91. 2 other untoward possibilities, it would 5509!"‘1- 1—Chicago, 4 ,.508; appear that the two clubs are com- paratively evenly matched and that| SePt. 15—Boston, 4, .522; Chicago, the answer regarding the winner must [-31%. be sought in the finai days of the race. | . O¢t. 1—Boston, 4, .531; As the general characteristics of a |17 basebail club cling through several| Fnd_Season—Boston, 4, years, despite changes in the person- [ 380, 5, .513. nel, a comparison of the standinz cf 1914, the Chicago and Boston teams in the | ,AUS. 1—Boston, 2, .573; Chicago, closing weeks of the seison for the | #90- % past five years develops some interes:- | Als. 15—Boston; 2, . ing data upon which to base forecasts, s The following tabulations show the | S€Pt. 1—Boston, position of each club in the league |-*83. race with its percentage, every two weeks from August 1 until the close of the season since 1912: 1912. | Ena _Season Aug. 1—Boston, 1, .684: Chicago, 4, |cago, 6, .433. .516. . 1915, Aug. 15—Boston, 1, .691; Chicago, 4, o i 5w .495. G s Sept. 1—Boston, 1, .703; Chicago, 4, 504, Sept. 15—Boston, 1, .71 493. Oct. 1—Boston, 1, .691: Chicago, 493, End Season—Boston, 1, .691; C cago, 4, .506. 1 hicago, 4, —TPoston, 1, —=Hoston, 1, .67 1—Boston. 1 1913. Aug. 1—Chicago, 4, .500; Boston, 3, 484, Season—Boston, 1, , 604, 1916. 1—Boston, 1, International League. ; SATURDAY’S MARKET It Was the Slowest Session of the Summer Season. - New York, Aug. 18.—Business on GAMES SCHIDULID fODAY the stock exchanse today fell to the liowest ebb of the summer season, the turnover in the two hour session o carcely amounting to 100,000 shares. Price movements were in keeping with these stagnant conditjons, although Leagus. frecessions outnumbered gairs. | Rails refiected additional moderate d pressure on further rumors of forth- & coeming governmental regulatign. Del- o aware and Hudson registered the new Ao xseaiionat. Leagwe {low recerd of 102 1-2 before it rallied to 105. St. Paul was fairly steady in - connection with reports of new and Montreal more enerzetic manazement. U. S. Steel forfeited only a slight fraction after an early advance, but Dethlehem and lackawanna Steels made cxtreme declines of 1 to 1 1-2 points, with motor subsidiaries, Te: s company, American Woolen and U. £ S. Rubber. United Fruit lost 3 at its worst despite the strength within the narrowest limits. The outstanding feature of the bank ment was the extraordinary shown in average and actual Ezeieen League. New E National League. 5. New York American Leagus. stat, Washingion 1 {conditions. Under the average syste: Eastern League. | loans increased almost $35,000,000 an d 8, Bridgeport 0. eserves decreased about $61.000,000. nal Leagae ! "in the actual table loans decreased by over $51,000,000 and reserves gain- €d $4,421,000. This indicates a very 2 low | extensive readjustment of loans in the latter dayvs of the week, following pay- ment of a 30 per cent. installment on the Liberty loan. 3onds were slightly lower in spec- ulative issues. Liberty 3 1-2's ranged from 99.80 to 99.86. - Total bond sales (par value) $1,425,000, U. S. registered 2’s rose 1-2 per cent. and registéred 4 .1-4's on call during the week. Panama coupon 3's declining 5 per cert. LIVESTOCK MARKETS. National League Chicago, Aug. 17.—Hog receipts 7,000 head. Market strong and 25 to 35 cents higher.® Mixed and butchers $17.10@ 1855, good and heavy $16.80@17.15, light' $17@18.50, pigs $12@15.60, bulk $17.70@18.45. Cattle—Receipts 4,000 head. Market ow and 10 to 15 cents lower. Beeves .15@10.90, cows and heifers $4.50@ 72.60, stockers and feeders $6.10@9.25, | calves $10@14.75. Sheep.—Receipts 10,000 head. Market weak and 10 to 20 cents lower. Native and western $7.75@11.10, lambs $10.25@ 76.40. Firt game. American Leagua Pittsburgh, Aug. 17.—Cattle supply light. Market steady. Choice $12.25@ 12.75, prime $12@12.25, good $11.50@12, tidy butchers $11@11.75, fair $9@89.50, common 6.50@7.50; common to good fat bulls, $6.00@9.50; common to good fat cows, $7.50@9.00; heifers, $8.00@ 10.00; fresh cows and springers, $50.00 @90.00; veal calves, $16.00; heavy and thin calves, $7.00@11.00. Sheep and lambs—Supply _light. . Market active and higher. Prime was a puzzle to h 1 | wethers, $10.50@11.00; zood rmaixed, Din bases and the visitors lost their[$9.75@10.25; fair mixed, $8.75@9.75; final game of the series here to St.|culls and common, $5.00@6.50; spring Eastern St. Louis St. Louis, Mo Louis today, 4 to 1. Score lambs, $11.50@16.25. New York (A) | St. Louis (&) Hogs—Receipts 5 double _decks. it S5 575 3 Hlemoenae 5 1Y2 § §|Market active and 25 cents higher. et 31 33 Ofaemendt 4128 0lPrime heavy hogs, $10.45@1850; npiaghes 2 0 1 3 1|Suderid 3 1 7 o o|heavy mixed $18.45@18.50; mediums, 1125 0P 5 0 4 2 0|1845@18.50; heavy yorkers, $18.25@ $ S|Slongt . 4 2 3 0 011850; light yorkers, 316.25@16.75; pigs, O Tacobeonict § 3 3 o o] $15.26@15175; roughs $13.00G16.25; Laanss 3 2 0 2 1|stags, $13.00@16.25. Sothoronp 3 0 0 & 0 : motsts 30303 5 1|, Buffalo, Aug. 17—Cattle receipts 600 head. Market active. Prime steers, in st 31825@14; butcher grades, $6@ 12.25. e o Calves.—Receipts 600 head. Market 5 oy o bt tive. Cull to choice, $5@17.25. Two base hiis Baker, Pipp and High. Sheep and lambs.—Recelpts 400 head. Market active. Choice lambs, $16.50@ ition Game, |17 cull to fair $11.@16.25; vearlings, 511@13.50; sheep, $5@11. Tiogs —Receipts, 1,000 head. Market active. Yorkers, $17@18.50; pigs, $15@ 16: mixed $18.50@18.75; heavy, 18.70@ 2.80; roughs, $16@16.50; stags, $13.50@14. Cardinals Win Ex Conn., Aug. 19.—The St. tionals defeated the Collegi- ional) here today by re of 4 to 3. Errors were the use of the Collegians' defeat. 2001001004 0010000203 May, Watson and Brocl STOCKS. Hign sat ; Scott ana| Sfoo 200 s o 100 Giants Sign Snyder. 300 > ~w York, Aug. 19.—The New York| 2400 Am National club announced tonight the| 1o A% purchase of Catcher Jack Snyder 400 Am from the Brooklyn Nationals. Acci-| 1% am 10 dents to Catchers McCarty and Gibson o= left Manager McGraw with only one| o Am D& T -84 available catcher, Rariden. 100 Am zine pr e 14 . FINANGIAL AND COMMERCIAL per, 4 3-4@5. day bills, 475 commercial §0 day bilis on banks, 4.71: commercial 60 day bills, 471 3-5; demand, 4.75 9-16; ca- bles, 476 7-16. Francs, demand, 5.78: NS 15—Boston, 1, .383; 548, Sept. 1—Boston, 1, 348, ¥ icp\. 15—Boston, 1 1—Boston, 1, .59 1700 Anaconda 200 Atehlson A Season—Boston, 1, 200 AU G & W I 1200 Beld. Locomo : 1917. 200 Balt & Ohto ...111] 1—Boston, 1, .625; 200 Ratopolis Min 100 Bethichem Steel .. 4800 Bethichem Steel B 40) Cal Packing ... 100 Cal Petroioum br ....... 200 Cent. Foundry 100 Cent Leather 400 Ches & Oblo . 100 Chie Gt W 200C, M & St P L 100 Chic &N W .. 1200 C. R T & P eifs S 100 C. RIL & PG opet ..l 5 100 ¢ ¢ C & st Lpr Chite’ Copper ... Col Fuel & Iron Col Gas & Hlec Cont. Can Comn Products Com Prod_pr Crucibie Steet 1 Cuba Canc Sugar Del Hudson Dist " Sccurities Frle e Ere 1t pr : 0 F M & 8 pr ... aston Wms. £ General Motor Comp .. 0 Motor pr ... Northern pr ... N Ore Subs ireche € Cop . Tiinofs Central Interboro Com . 3400 Int Mer Mar 3500 Int M Mar pr . 100 Int Paper 200 Tnt Nickei 100 Kells S Tire ... 200 Lack _Stecl 2 200 Lce Rub & Tire . 00 Iig & Mel ris Leuis & Nash Maxwell M 1 pr Maxwell M 2 pr Il Mex Petrol £ Mlami Copper Mo, Kan & T . Missourl Pac 300 Mo. Pacific pr . 200 Nat Cond & C 100 Nat Enam & S WILLIMANTIC TEAM and Sunday. | i, Willimantic. Aug. 19, ham los: to Willimanti | tory for Willimantic with cause only outh W [ errors. jgoing up- there _illimant: second run was the result knocked a fly over the Nora Seotia Steel 100 Ohlo Fucl 1300 Ohlo Cities Gas 170 Ontario Silver 400 Peon R R L "R knocked off Goeld. e C kBt L 100 Pitts Conl etrs 100 Pitts C pr new 500 Pitts € pr cfs 200 Pitts & W Va 200 Pond Cr Coal 190 Ry Steel Sp ... 500 Ray Con Cop ... 1860 Reading = 100 Readtug 24 pr 200 Rep 1 & Steel 100 Roval Dutch . L &S F pr Scars Roebuck 1co Shattuck A € 300 Sincialr_of . South Win Willimantic feated goguzugl 200 South l;;‘rm: "S[x Ninth attended the game in Y { body, marching across the Stclcbaker | fore ‘the game. A ball autographed by Stutz Motor Tenn C_Chem Texas o, Tobaceo Prod Unon Pacige Unfon Pacific new President Wi to_James Butler for 3500 s great pitching Scare: Dot Cincinnatt, %) New York (W) Unt Drug 2d pr .. 3 1% 2 olpumere U Drewd pe’ 5136 ofHersorop 4 Tnited Fruft 3220 olKaumer 4 Trited Ry Tor 111210 i tn Ry Toe pr R i R i 5 U. 8 I Aleohol 0 14 3 C . | Wingo.c 4110 2 | Toners 2010 1 | = 2 aWihor, 1 Tows 3 3 1f Andereerp 0 | xxLobert 1 Wi E ! B 200 Wabesh pr B a 100 Weet Md » 700 Welinghouse | 700 Wilsen' & Co_C: | Fere o 490 Wheel & L E Cincir.natl x o 400 Willys Orertand New Yorl 00 Total sales S0512 shares. T Two Base hit, MONEY. Chicago 14, Athletics 6. New York, Aug. 18.—Mercantile pa- Boston lost to Cleveland cables, 5.77. Guilders, demand, 41 3-4: | Jamiewnrt "5 23 0 v'v!:e\wm cables, 41 '15-16. Lires, demand, Grover3b . 4 1 3 2 0 MMullngn 5-8; cables, 20 7-8. Bar silver, .36 3-4. | Boiel 5 4 3 ¢ oE.Colinaz, Mexican dollars 67 3-S. Government | baci | b 5 o o bonds steady. Railroad bonds easy. | Mclnicis 4 412 1 0 = Schang.c ~ 1 0.1 0 0 Risberg.sy coTToN, RS R i # Dugan, ss 4 0 1 4 2Russellp \New York, Aug. 18.—Cotton futures m:‘..,.’ 0 0o 0 opantoring closed steady. - October, 24.65: Decem. | Andersnp 1 0 s ber, 24.42; January, 24.41 1-2, March | jieeed 1§ § 0 5 Toule 24.55; May, 24.70. 'Spot quiet; mid- 13 Eakaet Aling, 25.65. Totals 38 12 24 14 2| (x) Batted for Andersen in 3rd CHICAGN GRAIN MARKETY. Seore by innings warar— O, “"Rign " Taw G | Piisdoodis” o0 0 0 0 8 0 0 s X2 e Two base i, ‘Leiboid. . Collns 112 112% 108% 10s% BAis 51K A% Hobiiteel1b 1 TN 0 v itocpcr. 15—Boston, 1, .650: 8 Chieago, 3, ., .683; Chicago, 3,1€rs’ iled out. ver, said ®at away for a play did_not operate. zer Griffith, of Washington has pro- tested' the game. Score ) N o rule 15—Chicago, 1, .616: TAKES TWO GAMES. | Defeated South Windham on Saturday the, (Special to The Bulletin.) South Wind- n: Saturday and Sunday. The first game was played =t Recredtion park and resulied in a vic- in the game afternoon. 13 to 0, the game being a farce be- s four of South Windham's ; | rezular players were present. Z | ndham playver, Curry, made a | { hit, while the combined team made 10 | The second game, cn Sunday at Hol- brook field, was witnessed by a large crowd and was worth th> exertion of | batiery.” Van Dyke, formerly | Worcester State league, pitched and truck out 10 and passed one. | eighth there wege three men |and none down. but he struck out two | of the following batters and held the | other down to a weak flv which was | zobbled up by Big Chief Hamel. Souta Windham scored their first run through an error, a sacrifice and a hit and their | of a single ;| and a twn base hit. Willimantic scored i@ run in every inning except the second |and fifth. In the seventh fence for a i three bagger. Noonan was man for hits, making two singles and |a double, while he and Hamel were | tied for ‘the number of runs scored. | both havinz four. In all, eight singles, | four doubles and three triples Eddie Roush League Hitters With verage of .348. is doubtful if any | joved such effective left handed pitch- ing as that shown so far by | Benton and couple of years Ferdie Schupp has been the monarch of National He will Schupp. regarded as 3| league southpaws. travel at his very best the rest of the the title, for both Slim Sallee and Rube Benton top him percentage of games won and him closelv in the matter of victories. Schupo has won 15 zames. Benton has won 11 and Sallee has wor lost but four. Furthermore, Benton and Sallee of late have pitched mora consistently who showed his best in the season before the reterans thawed out.” last 10 victories consecutivel Benton has nine in a row tc his credit. Kauff After Roush. Benny Kauff is traveling the pace the sobriquet of “Ty Ancther month Cincinnati Defeated Giants. s ¢ New York, Aug. 19.—Cincinnati de- ew York here today, 5 to 0, in the first National League game ever plaved in Manhattan borough on Sun- day. The game was preceded by patriotic band concert, the £0ing to a fund for dependents of the Sixty Ninth New York Regiment. has lost six. has dropped but two. orm early on was auctioned that earned hin: Cobb of the Federals.” it the pace he has traveled since mid- | would pretty hampionship to the runaway Rauff has bocsted his average to .323 | | and stands second onlv to his old Fed- | 1 leazue rival, Eddie Roush, of the The latter sets the pace at .34S. Following are the averages of those slavers who have hit 200 or {5 or more games up to and including hose of Thursday lasi e Batting. = eres Chicago, Auz. 19.—Chicago strength- Sterling exchange, €0 |ened its hold on first place today by defeating Philadelphia, 14 to 6, hia (A Chicago o awaAUs Fhase, Cincinnatl Philadelphia alemormmosuasn Jackeon 2, He s R Cleveland 7, Red Sox 2. 5% 53% 52% Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 19— broke even on the series with Bos- ton by winning today's game 7 to The locals drove Jones, from the box | in the fourth inning. | game started by Jones for Bosten this Year. Score: o 0| Roth ot of smuchrr Erans.3b 0" NetiL.c Totals §2613 1 Jones in 5th, Ran for Hoblitzel i Sth. Batted for Pennock In. Sih. Score by tnntng: Washington Lost to Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 19.—Detroit de- shington, 2 to 1, in battle between Ehmke and Avers| Cobb, coaching at third, touch- he was rounding the base and Washington demanded that runner be c: brand, how s Totals 5 4 ubctaweet Nore out when winning run’ 000 1000 ¢ 0100000 base hit, Foster. Portland Shut Out Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 1 ear.3b Grimes. 16 Martin ss Egan.c Frrgison.p ,,,,, I Givsrassp 2| xGooen Totals Batted for Ferguson in Sth. Renre by innings NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING. St; for the National that the right handed pitchers of the Giants are not so reliable as the three southpaws. York would have the pennant won by AB 00 283 New York Cincinnatt . Clncinnat! tesburgh 239 Main Street Willard Storage It was the first| everything Cievelan av Things Electrical !ter P. Moran Shetucket St. Telephone canes.f 0/ Chapman, ss Tards.1b Wamby.2b Klepter.p Slonemmums Sl oaumommms Elrrescocmesn oleccens descriptions CHAPPELL CO. 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