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New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
F0XX IS STILL
 LEADING HITTER
Star Of Athletics Drops Three
 Points in Average

Chicago, Aug. 10 P)-Jimmy slightly last week, but not enough to break his lease on the American League leadership. Figures releas- ed today and including Wednesdays ! game. give the Philadelphia first baseman a mark of .SS7, a loss of three points.
 A new threat to Foxx's reign ap- peared in the person of his team mate, Al Simmons. The Athletics ! outfielder added 16 points 10 his average 10 pass Heinie Manush of St Louis, with a mark of .37S, nine points behind the leader Manush dropped five points to .36S.
 The name of George Herman Ruth occupied a familiar position in the list of statstics-at the top of the home run column. The Babe cracked out four homers during the week to steal the lead from Lon Gehrig, with a total of 2S. Follow ing Foxx, Simmons and Manush were; Fonseca, Cleveland, .367; Lag zer, New York. .363; Combs, New | York, .3617; Heilmann, Detroit. .360. :. ! Ruth, New York, .354: Fothergill. l Detroit, .351; K. Williams, Boston, 350
 Bob Grove, the Athletics south- paw ace. had passed profitless week, cnga ging in three games with out winning or losing. He remained in the lead. however. with a record | Of r victories and two defeats | George Earnshaw, Connie Mack'S best righthander, won two games for q mark of 1S victories and five de- 1 feats. Rube Walberg's work for the week produced one defeat. leaving l his record at Is won and six lost | Tom Zachary of New York. won his only start and brought his string 10 seven straight triumphs.
 The Athletics continued 10 bat al .S07 clip, and regained the team 1 leadership, the Yankees sloughing one point to .3o6. Detroit picked up a point and remained third with an average of .S02.
 Philadelphia's fielding rate was 1 sufficient 10 keep the leadership | another week. The As lost one point ! 10 give them mark of .975. while i St. Louis and New York remained in second and third places. with | averages of .973, and .972, respec. ; lively.
 Other leaders were:
 Runs batted in-Simmons. phlla- delphia, 1l2.
 Runs-Gehringe Detroit, 9S.
 Triples-Fonseca Cleveland, and 1 Miller. Philadelphia. 12.
 Doubles-R. Johnson. Detroit. g. i Stolen hases-Gehringer, Detroit, r.
 Team runs-Phladelph 692.
 Opponents runs - Philadelphia, { 4SS
 Team home runs-New York. 101.
 Triple plays-Chicago New York, ! Detroit. 1 each.
 i Double plays-Clevelan 116.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

folks back home that they beat the country's first and second ranking stars.
 Eddie Jacobs of the University of Pittsburgh and Bruce Barnes of the University of Texas took set from the former national champs in the second round yesterday. while Brad shaw Harrison of the University of Oregon and Kenneth Appel of Princeton did even better in the third round. very nearly eliminating the veterans in the course of thrill ing five-set match.
 Now a third college outfit must be met and defeated if Tilden and Hunter are 10 celebrate their return from the European Davis cup bat ties with a tournament victory Whether the fnalists against them are to be Berkeley Bell of the Uni versity of Texas and Gregory Man gin of Georgetown or the Oxford Cambridge combination of Paul De Ricqu and Norman Farquharson was not determined yesterday, but which, ever pair survive the Semi-tinal has the ability to cause plenty of trouble for the veterans later in the day.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
BILL TILDEN NOT
 READY ID RETIRE
Youngsters Can Profit From
 Example Of Veteran

Southamp ton, N. Y. Aug. 10.--(P Big Bill Tilden is not yet ready to retire from an active life on the courts and give sage advice to the youth of the country, but the young sters may well profit by the example of dynamic athletic energy the vet eran has afforded them in his one day here
 Tn solid eight hours on the turf courts of the Meadow club. Tilden played total of four matches com prising no less than 12 sets and 139 games.
 Big Bill does not go so far as to recommend such a heavy program as this for every aspiring young ten his player in the land, but he thinks that 'the more tennis is played in this country, the sooner the United States is going to get back the Davis cup"
 Pinned down 10 personalities on the subject of the famous interna- tionaI trophy. Tilden declined to commit himself farther than to char acterize Johnny Van Ryn and Will mer Allison. winners of the doubles in the challenge round against the French ''Ono of the very good doubles team of this genera tion' and 10 announce that Junior Coen the Kansas City yoUngster. will he heard from in the national cham pionship before many more seasons.
 Tilden had no explanations nor alibis for the defeat of the American team by Cochet, Borotra and com panv.
 "The French are too strong for us just now" he said.
 How long their grip will last no one can predict accurately
 As for himself Big Bill made it clear that while he does not expect to engage in anymore Davis cup ten
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
FAVOR KAUFFMANN.
 ID REGAIN TITLE
Public Links Champion Expect
 cd to Repeat This Year

Forest Park. St. Louis, Aug. 10 SAP Milton Soncrant, who quit teach ing and playing golf to earn his liv- ing carrying mail in Toledo, today was the last obstacle between Carl kauffmann of Pittsburgh and his this successive national public links championship. The two, who tied for mcdalist honors in the S6 hole qualifying round and who have con- quered the largest field in the his tory of the tournament, faced each other here today in the final 56 hole round for the title.
 kautfmann, who during his seven years of competition in the cham- pionship event, was semi-tinalist twice, hralist once and champion twice, naturally was a one sided fav- orte. He has been playing the best golf of his career while Soncrant has been shooting both mediocre and brilliant golf.
 Soncrant's chance. however, lay ir his dogged fighting ability, From the start of the tournament, he had been bowling over favorite after fav- orite and when great shots were needed to win he has played them. A victory today may change his ca reer also as it would give him greater opportunity to join the pay ing professional ranks He was re- instated 10 amateur ranks hy the United States Golf association pre- Niously.
 Starting his victorious march to the finals Soncrant eliminated A. J Tardee of New Haven. Conn, : and and then polished off Joe Merola New York city, up; crushed Frank Connolly, Detroit municipal cham pion, and 8, and defeated Wesley Casper of Louisville, former Ken lucky amateur champion, one up on the Fist hole in yesterdays IS hole semi-tinal.
 kauffmann's path to the finals was easier. He successively defeated R. II. Albeck Of Chicago and 8; John Conway, Detrcit. 6 and 5; Johnny Boyd of Philadelphia 3 and ?, and John Hornsby, municipal champion of Wichita and 8 in the semi finals.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
ILLINOIS NAMES
 NEW COMMISSION
Athletic Heads Are We'll Known
 in Private Walks Of Life

Chicago. Aug. 10 tP-The admin istration-and the future-of boxing
 in Illinois is in the hands of three men whose collective recommenda- tions were success in military, legal, commercial and industrial fields.
 The new Illinois State Athletic commission, appointed yesterday by Gov. Louis l.. Emmerson, is con- posed Of General John V. Clinnin, soldier and sports enthusiast. chair man; George F. Getz, millionaire coal operator, big game hunter, who with the late Tex Rickard promoted the Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight championship fight at Soldier Field in 192I;. and Frederick Gardner. vice president of the Illinois Central Bank and Trust Company, all are Chicagoans.
 They replace Paul Prehn, Sam Luzzo and Al Mann. whose resgna tions were requested by Gov. Elm merson two weeks ago The new chairman, General Clin- min. has an insight into boxing at- fairs built upon participation. He formerly held the middleweight and heavyweight Central A. A. l.. boxing championships. and served as presi- dent Of the organization.
 He saw service in three wars He commanded the 1S0th infantry dur ing the World War, an organization which was active in France. In the last war General Clinnin was award ed the Distinguished Service medal, after twice being cited for bravery by General Pershing. He was at Santiago during the Spanish Ameri- can war, and was quick to offer his services during the last trouble with Mexico.
 MT. Getz has long been deeply in terested in boxing, his interest talk ! ing active form in his association | With Tex Rickard in the promotion of the Dempsey Tunney fight which receipts. He recently has been in charge of the annual police games here.
 The third member Mir. Gardner, 1 is an amateur sport enthusiast, ana golfer of considerable ability. He managed the national open golf ! tournament at Olympia Fields last year and was one of the organizers of the Chiscago Athletic Association, of which he has been a director for the past six years.
 "I had insisted" Governor Elm merson declares, that the commits sioners he well known business men, and l am sure we have them in our group. We are extremely fortunate 10 have secured this period. who will | bring new confidence for boxing in | Illinois"
 General Clinnin said:
 "In accepting the position o,
 chairman of the commission, I am determined to enforce every rule Tn , the book" he said. "Governor Elm merson has assured me that he will
 back the commission in everything We do. Every rule will he adhered 10 and there will be no elasticity in
 any clause
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

his largely for the reason that he thinks he probably would not be able to make the team" He has no thought. however. of giving up tennis for fun"
 This was the spirit in which he entered the doubles phase of the Meadow club invitation tournament here. Arriving on the next to the last day of the competition, Big Bill first played a couple of warm-up sets with Ed Feibleman of New York, then played three straight matches of doubles with Frank Hunter as his partner, one Of these going to five sets and lasting three hours, at the end of which time Big Bill apparently was the strongest player on the court.
 Even if Tilden no longer can lick the world in tennis quality, he still seems to be in a class by himself when it comes 10 quantity and love of the game.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

tack brought her so near to success. The final score was 6-1, 6-4 in favor Of Miss Wills but that result falls far short of telling the tale of the struggle. Mrs. Watson forced nine of the r games to deuce and made serious threats of victory in the sec ond set before Queen Helen finally, asserted her supremacy by winning five successive points,
 The high spot of the first days play came in the second singles match which brought a triumph to Helen Jacobs only after the bitterest Of struggles with England's youth ful star. Betty Nuthall. The little British Miss smashed her way into 8 Al lead at the very start. Then came the Calfornian's turn for a streak of unbeatable tennis and she reeled off six of the last seven games to take the set, 7-5.
 The second set reversed the order of the first Miss Jacobs continued her winning streak 10 lead at 5-2 be- fore she weakened. Her lapse was just what Miss Nuthall was looking for and her powerful forehand drives won her four games with the loss Of only five points. With the score 6-5 against her, Miss Jacobs rallied again to win three more. games and the match, taking the sec. ond set at Sc.
 Today's schedule of four matches brings promise of more thrills Starting at 2:S0. Miss Jacobs meets Mrs Watson in the third of the singles tussles Edith Cross. doubles partner of Miss Will and Mrs Mchell follow them on the courts. then the No. l players of the two teams Miss Wills and Miss Nuthall. wind up the singles encounter. The final doubles match of the series brings Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, captain of the American team and donor of the trophy, against Mrs. B. c. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd Barron
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Au-White Costumes
 Popular for Evening

Paris Aug. Pl-The all-white costume leads the field for evening at all smart summer resorts, dress makers mannequins report. back from the fashion parades which open the season at such places as Nichy, Dinard. Deauville, Le Toquet and Juan-les- Pins.
 With the white evening dress of chiffon or satin is worn a white coat usually without fur and Of hip length or loss. The short wraps recognize the tlared and long skirted evening dresses which now are worn to the exclusion of even hemmed frocks by the majority of smartly gowned women.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Brother Races Sister
 For Straight A Grades

Tulsa, Okla. Auf. 9 LP>-The Un.- versity of Tulsa is to be the scene of the final lap in brother and sister race for scholastic perfection.
 For six years Doris and Gordon Allen have been in the same classes. Both finished high school this year. their race a tie. Neither made a grade below "A" in any subject.
 Doris, IS, will attempt to continue her record with a university major in English. Gordon, two years her junior. aspires for a perfect aver-i age in course specializing in chemistry.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
BR|DGEP0RT TIES
 FOR STATE TITLE
Park City Legion Nine Wins Second Game From Hartford
Special to the Herald)

Bridgeport. Aug. 1O-The local Herald team. representing the Bridgeport American Legion post. came back last evening to even the championship series with the Hart ford post at Seaside Park here. The final score was 5 to l. O'Connor. l[artford's starting pitcher. was hit hard. Houlihan. on the mound for the locals although he held the Hartford club at bay, was shaky throughout and he was relieved by Clancy in the first half of the eight. The latter was unhittable.
 Tolcz. Hartfords right fielder. hit for the circuit in the sixth but failed to touch third base. Repass, Hartfords center fielder gave sen- sational exhibition in the outfeld and clouted out four of his teams five hits.
 Tho score by innings;
 Hartford ... Q 0 1 Q 0 Q Q o-1 Bridgeport .. 0 1 0 0 Q 0 3 x-5 O'Connor and Sassano.
 Play in New Haven Today
 The two clubs will battle in the deciding game of the series for the State Legion title at the Yale Varsity field in New Haven at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon A pitchers battle is expected between Tolcz, the Hartford twirler, and Clancy, Bridgeport's ace.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Pajamas for Day Wear
 Have Frilly Trimmings

Paris Aug Pp-The difference between daytime and nighttime pa- iamas is about 12 inches width in the trouser legs, according to pres-,, cnt style standards.
 Daytime suits, in majority of cases. have trousers that are almost as wide as skirts. Many of them are shirred from the waist. Others have fitted hips with the flare be- ginning above the knee.
 Some of the more frivolous day. time paiamas have narrow pleated ruffles in place of trousers cuffs, l he same pleating appears again on the bottom Of the jacket.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Wojack. Three base hits: Manka. Struck out: By Wojack 5, Cox 6, Heinzman g.
 Willow Brook s, Vance 3
 The Vance team made an auspi cious start against the Willow Brook Park club but faded fast in the mat ter of offensive. In the first frame four of the losers hit safely anl these blows accounted for three runs. During the remainder of the game they made but two hits off the offerings of Lyons who had seven strikeouts to his credit.
 The Willow Brook team started slowly but kept picking up runs through the entire game and after the fourth inning when they went into the lead were never in danger. The winners fielded much better than the losers and the chief differ ence in the teams was the support they offered their twirlers.
 In the first frame, the Vance team went to pieces after two men were out and no one on base. Two passes two errors and a bonehead play hy an infielder gave the winners pair of runs.
 In the last half of the frame the Vance club did some fine sticking Witham and Richards singled with one out and Wiezorek brought thcm home with a triple to right. An in field out scored WieZorek.
 Both teams went sCorCless in the next two frames and the winners went into the lead in the fourth. Three hits coupled with an error, X pass and a hit batsman gave them these counters.
 A couple of hits and passes and two infield outs produced two more runs for the winners in the fifth.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Play in the championship series is reaching whirlwind stride and with | tomorrow's games carded as critical ones, there is plenty of interest be- ing shown by the fans of the city
 question has been raised by ob- servers of the play Of MerWln Jacobson as to the correctness of the statement that he fills in as pltcher for Newark. All we can say is that we received information from a friend on a newspaper in Jersey City furnishing us with the data.
 We never heard of Jacobson as a pitcher but always as an outhelder. But. that doesn't mean to say that Merwin couldn't take turn Tn the box if he was so inclined.
 Important games are to be played in the Rotary league next Monday afternoon. Paradise battles Washing ton and Vance meets smith, The clash between Paradise and Wash jngton promises to be one of the hardest fought battles in the entire league and it may decide the cham pionship. Neither team has as yet been beaten in league play.
 The game between the Burrltts and Pirates in the City league this afternoon will also go long way to- wards settling the dispute over the championship in that circuit.
 Two important games are to be played in the Industrial league next week. On Tuesday, Landers and Fafnirs clash while on Thursday Stanley Works battles P. & F. Cor bin.
 The postponed game in the City league between the Burrltts ana Holy Cross teams will probably be played off some evening during the next week.
 The Golfers and Sequins will meet in the Junior City league Monday night The Phantoms and the Amerl- can Legion teams are scheduled to battle it out on Wednesday night. The Holy Cross Juniors and the Y. M. c. A. play next Saturday after noon.
 With the American Legion region al championship playoffs scheduled next Friday and Saturday. there IS plenty of exciting baseball on tap for the fans of this and surrounding cities.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
The Standing

Games Today Boston at Chicago. Washington at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. New York at Cleveland.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
The Standing
Games Today

Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Chicago at Boston.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

The real name of Jakie Fields, new welterweight champion, is Jackie Finkelstein.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Games IOmOrrnM

Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at New York. Chicago at Boston.
 (Other clubs not so heduled).
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Henry Iikstrom. golf captain at
 Dartmouth. is the new state anna teur champion of New Hampshire.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Hack Wilson famed six times in a TOW and then went on a batting rampage and broke up three ball games in as many days.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Spea king of Sports s

Today is the day for the posting of the $50 bonds ovted by the man. agers of the seven teams entered in the city championship playoff. AL most before breakfast, Jimmy Mur- phy assistant to Edward Moore, manager of the Kensington crew. brought in a check for the stipulat- ed amount giving kensington the honor of being the first to post the gelt which gives guarantee of good faith.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
The Standing

Games Today Hartford at Bridgeport. New Haven at Springfield. Albany at Allentown. Providence at Pittsfield.
 Games Tomorrow Springfield at Hartford. Pittsfield at Albany. Bridgeport at New Haven. 2.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Boollies at the metropolitan tracks are reported to have lost heavily this season
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
SPEED WITH AGE.

Dan O'Leary. pedestrian, is a0, but he crcled the bases six times in 4:5S at the baseball stadium in Buffalo. N. Y. tho other day.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Games Tomorrow

Boston at Chicago.
 Washington at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. New York at Cleveland.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
The Standing

Games Today Toronto at Jersey City. Rochester at Newark. Buffalo at Baltimore. Montreal at Reading.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
EASTERN LEAGUE
Games Yesterda ,

Games Yesterday Bridgeport 3. Hartford ,. Providence ', Pittsfeld $. New Haven 3, Springfield 1. (Other clubs not scheduled).
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Games Yesterday

Pittsburgh ', St. Louis $. New York ', Cincinnati 1. Chicago 12. Philadelphia 6. (Other clubs not scheduled).
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Brook, after a poor start, overca me Vance lead and won out by the score of to 3.
 Paradise Park 14, Nathan Hale
 Paradise Park batted itself out of a tight squeeze yesterday afternoon in the Rotary league and. subduing threat of the Nathan Hale crew, finally won by the score of IA to s. The Paradise crew got of to a good start by scoring five runs in the first inning but the Nathan Hale team battled all the way and several times were within reach of the lead of the winners.
 Booster" Cox, ebony-twirler. oc- cupied the mound for the losing combination but he was almost all alone in his efforts to keep tho Paradise Park team in subjection He had eight glaring errors behind him and almost all of them counted in the scoring of the Park crew.
 Wojack started as the Paradise Park pitcher but. after he forgot the To- cation of the plate, he left the mound in the sixth inning in favor of Heinzman, first baseman. Heinz man proved to be a revelation as a pitcher and he showed plenty Of possibilities.
 The Paradise Park team added another run to it's five in the third inning. Each team scored in the fourth> counting single tally. In the fifth, the Nathan Hale got three and Paradise scored twice. In the sixth, Nathan Hale got three more while Paradise got only one. In the eighth, Nathan Hale got one but Paradise came back to get four and this ended the scoring.
 Manka made some nice catches for Nathan Hale in center field. 'Lindy' Dobek starred for the los CTS at shortstop. Wojack. E. Coylo and DiFranzo were the heavy hit ters for the winners. The summary NATHAN HALE
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Dazzy Vance finds the Cubs about the easiest club In the circuit 10 beat.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Georgia Tech looks like one of the best football bets in the Southern con,,r.ace.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Games NeSterday

Games Yesterday Newark ,, Buffalo 4. Rochester 5. Jersey City ?. Reading S. Toronto :. Baltimore S, Montreal '.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
PARADISE PARK CAPTURES
 LEAD IN ROTARY LEAGUE

Defeats Nathan Hale in Tight Game By 14 to Score Losers Threaten Right Up to Final Innings-Vance Crew Makes Auspicous Start But Fades As Off, fensve Falters - Willow Brook Wins By to 3 Count-Slow and Consistent Play Counts
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Two hits, an out and an error gave them another in the ninth. The summary:
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Standing

Paradise Park went into sole pos session of first place in the Rotary Boys Baseball league yesterday afternoon when it defeated Nathan Hale by 14 to s score Willow a Vance lead and won out by the scora of z
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Baseball Standing
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Games Yesterday St. Louis g, Chicago 4. (Other clubs not scheduled).
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We never heard of Jacobson as pitcher but always as an outfielder. But, that doesn't mean to say that Merwin couldn't take turn Tn the box if he was so inclined.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Play in the championship series is reaching a whirlwind stride and with tomorrow's games carded as critical ones, there is plenty of interest be- ing shown by the fans of the city.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

The postponed game in the City league between the Burritts and Holy Cross teams will probably be played off some evening during the next week.