New Britain herald., 1915-10-02

Aggies; West Virginia and Washing | ton and Jefferson; Army and Holy | Cross; Navy and Georgetown. In the l middlewest Minnesota meets North Dakota; Illinois and the Haskell In dian team will grapple; Wisconsin lines up against Lawrence; Purdue and Wabash clash: and Indians and De Pauw will battle.
 On the Pacific coast and far west fields Southern California will play the Los Angeles A. C.; Oregon Aggies meet Willamatte; Colorado faces Wyoming; Idaho tackles Montana; while in the south the principal games include Louisiana State vs. Jefferson; Kentucky vs Butler; Alabama vs. Howard; Mississippi vs. Arkansas Az gies; Virginia Poly vs Randolph Macon; and Washington and Lee vs. West Virginia Wesleyan.
 A Freak Play.
 An unusual freak baseball play oc- cured in a recent game between the Athletics and the Cleveland club at Philadelphia. Tn the second inning with two out, Lajoie on third and Healy at bat with two strikes and two balls called, pitcher Garrett made a wild hurl which struck in front of the plate. Healy struck at the bound ing ball which hit Catcher O'NeilPs mask and rolled back onto ths = mond, while Healy ran for first. N--4r- rett ran in from the box and picking up the ball touched out Lajoie who was trying to score from third, retir- ing the side. The net result of the play was that Garrett saved his record from a wild pitch and secured a put out; Healy was safe at first on missed third strike and the side was retired, all on one play.
 Big Auto Race Today.
 The new two-mile speedway at Sheepshead Bay, New York city, will be opened this afternoon with a $50 mile auto race in which the leading drivers and the most powerful cars of the country will compete. Prelim- mary practice spins have resulted in new records and the prediction that the race today will demonstrate that the board track is the fastest in the world. The drivers express the be- lief that, given the proper weather and track conditions they can show an average of better than 100 miles per hour for the full distance. A new sporting event attendance record is also considered possible for ar rnagements have been made to &C., commodate more than 150,000 spec tators.
 AustraIasian Tennis Results.
 The Australasian lawn tennis cham pionships for 1915 were decided at a tournament held at Brisbane late in August with the following results:
 F. Gordon Lowe of England defeat ed Horace Rice of New South Wales for the Australasian singles cham pionship 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 Hor- ace Rice and C.. Todd, the latter of New South Wales, defeated F. Gordon !. Lowe of England and H. St. John of Queensland for the Australasian doubles championship at s-6, 6-4, "a, 6-3.
 The tournament was otherwise an interstate one between New South Wales and Queensland The dislo- eating effect of the war upon tennis, as upon all other sports in the Anti podes, is shown by the fact that A. O'Hara Wood of Victoria, who won the singles championship of the Aus tralasia last season, is at the front with the Australian troops and did not compete. The doubles winners of last season, A. Campbell and c. Pat terson, also did not compete for a similar reason.
 The "Sphinx" Talks.
 Connie Mack, manager of the Phila- delphia Athletics, six time winners of American league pennants and three times worlds champions, stung by criticisms relative to his deliberate breaking up of the famous baseball machine, has made a sweeping dec- laration regarding his plans for 1916. Mack said recently:
 We are losing ball games every day and probably will finish the poor est of any team in either league in years, but I have made considerable progress along the lines of reconstruc- tion. If the fans will look back to the 1908 season they will realize that my progress was slow then until the combination was complete, and then the team came like lightning My progress must be slow because the only part that have now that I am banking on for my new machine are pitchers, and they don't know any thing yet and cannot be expected to show until next season.
 T will have almost an entirely new team in the field in two weeks time and then the fans will be able to get a line on my future championship team. To date I have not a single youngster, barring one, who will be part of the new machine. My best