New Britain herald., 1926-10-14
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 We hear the New York boxing commission has decided that Monte Mum must not fight any more set ups. This automatically bars him from a match with Dempsey.
 If St. Louis was mad about base ball before the series started, 1t would have been more mad after If the Cardinals had lost.
 Just heard the White Sox messed the Cubs around in their annual series. They have been doing this more or less regularly since 1906. It is hard to overcome an ancient habit. The papers announce that Sisler will not lead the Browns this sea- son. There Is nothing new in that. He did not lead them last year.
 The Gammas with their first vic tory in sight was defeated by the rain of yesterday afternoon in the game with the Wizards. The game was just a quarter old when the rain came. It must have been old Jupe weeping at the poor imitation of playing put up by the Gammas. The score at the time was to 0.
 Two of the four horsemen are playing together for the Brooklyn Four Horsemen team. They are Harry Stuhldreher and Elmer Lay den.
 Goldls. Adams and Andrews were given the gate last night. This leaves New Britain with the following backfeld: Hunt, Thompson, Sturm Barnikow, Griswold and Stuedtner. Students at the high school are awaiting the weekly announcement from the principals office relative to the list of football players eligible in their studies for the Commerce high school team,
 Yankee and Pirate players took down quite few individual honors during the 1926 major league sea son; more so, perhaps, than usually fall to the lot of single clubs.
 Babe Ruth, for instance, led in home run hitting with 47 wallops. The Bamb had a tremendous lead on Al Simmons. his nearest rival. Simmons poled out but 19. Ruth's 47 was 12 shy of his big league mark Of 59 established in 1921.
 The Bamb also topped the John sonian circuit in scoring runs. Ruth brought in 139 tallies in 152 frays, slightly less than one to the game. Gehrig. teammate, ranked second to Ruth with 135 in 155 tits. Earl Combs, another. came in fourth with 113. Thus the Yankees boasted three of the four run scoring lead CTS, a feat quite out of the ordinary.
 Gehrig added another honor to the Yankee list by showing the way in three-hase hits. He crashed out 20. Gehrig. along with Tony Lazzeri, Higgins second baseman, played in every one of the teams 155 games. They were two of a handful of play CTS not missing a game all season.
 Hazen Cuyler and Paul Waner, Pittsburgh's youthful stars, dupli- cated the Ruth-Gehrig feat in the National league. Cuyler, as was the case in 1925, led the run-scoring crowd with 112 in 157 games. Waner was second with 101 in IA.
 Cuyler also took down Max Carey's old base-stealing honors. Cuyler sviped 35 cushions during the chase leading Spark" Adams of the Cubs by seven. Adams played in three fewer games than did the Pirate.
 Waner hit 335 and really entitled to the old league batting crown, hay ing played considerably more games than Bressler, Hargrave, Williams and some of the others who topped his in the averages. Waner was at bat 535 times Bressler 29S. liar grave 326 and Williams 336.
 Waner's all-round showing, by the way, was one of the high spots of tn; season. It was the young stars fret in, h certainly made good with ven geance.
 Cuyler played in 157 games. not being out of the Pittsburgh lineup for an entire contest all season. More than that, he took part in more battles than any player in either league.
 The Tanks and Pirates also pro- duced stars in the pitching depart ment of the pastime.
 The Tanks had the second highest hurler in the American in Herb Pen mock, frail, southpaw. Pennock turn ed in 22 triumphs. He ranked next to George Uhle of Cleveland in victories. Uhle reached the quite re- markable figure of 27-remarkable nowadays, at least. Urban Shocker, another Yankee. came in third with 19.
 In the National league. Ray kre- mer and Lee Meadows of the Pi- rates were two of the best. Each won 20 games, the largest number dished up by any gunner in the Heydler organization.
 Kremer topped them all in the percentage column, losing but six. Meadows dropped nine, finishing fourth in the averages.