New Britain herald., 1924-09-20
Spe King of Sports


 Washington again took a one game lead over New York ip the American ,eague race yesterday. by winning from St. Louis as the De- troit beat the Yankees. The Giants, by beating Chicago, increased their advantage to one and one-half games over Brooklyn, which lost to Pitts burgh. The Pirates are nov one game back of che Robins and two and one-half games behind New York. tr
 The Senators smothered six Brown pitchers for R t5 to 9'victory. The Yankees led the Tygers 5 to 3, until the ninth when Jones was batted from the box. Dugan's wild throw led to the -Nipnlng run of a 6 to , count in the ninth. The Giants easily defeated Chica- go, 10 10 1. Yhe held the Robins safe while the Pirates batted ,Ehrhardt from the boz for a to 2 decision in the first game of the important series.
 The GiantsT victory yesterday may prove costly for Heinie Groh, the stellar third ,hacker, had his leg badly injured and may be kept out Of the game flor the rest of the sea- son.
 Trinity orkns her football season Oct. 4 at home, Worcester Tech be- ing the opposing eleven. The season fcloses at Hartford Nov. IS with MddleburyN
 Jack Zivic who kayoed Archie Walker a few nights ago, has been suspended by the New York com- mission for three months as penalty for having Sbeen overweight in this fight.
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 Lefty Palmer will pitch for Will limantic against Manchester tomor- row. Lefty feels so certain he can turn the trScll that he has agreed to work tree t,f charge if his team loses, and to collect thirty-fiye iron men if he wins. f" Romeo Roche has been suspended in Mass. ftnd as a result has been scratched from Hartford's card Tuesday might. Matchmaker Hughie Rorty is rounding up another boy to battle Terry Parker.
 "Unk" Conley, formerly end with All-New Britain. will try out at cen- ter against Adams tomorrow.
 The NJ ohawks will scrimmage to- morrow morning at g o'clock at tho old Pioneer grounds. Maybe the time will come when experts will forget about Johnson and start calling rookie pitchers "a second 1oazzy Vance.Y 1 - Kid Mccoy is going to write a novel about himself. This is con-7l vincing proof that the man hasn't 8 heart. Carping critics complain Paddock has too many theories. Opponents complain he has too many feet. Ducks have begun to go south, but long, billed geese. that infest six day bike races and wrestling matches continue to hang around Broadway.
 We shall never be satisfied that all the bugs are in asylums until baseball fans quite standing in line 1 all night for world series seats.
 Newspaper boys are getting more original. None of the 'round-the- world flyers was quoted as asking | How many homers did Ruth get while we were gone?" The putting touch is important In golf. And knowing when to put the | touch on is very important in pam handling. Paavo Nurmi refused $2,500 to run a race in this country. Evidently the Finnish amateur comes much higher than the American product. The golfer who would have made hole in one if the flag had been re- moved now gives way to the bowler who would have a perfect score If | the nine-pin had toppled. BERLENBACH TURNS IN ANOTHER KAY0 Knocks Reddick SpraElin6 in
 Eighth Round l New York. Sept, 20. - Paul Ber- lenbach, New York's sensational light heavyweight, knocked out Jack