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New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
HARTFORD COUNTY TRACK ''t.** <.
 MEET AT WILLOW BROOK
Junior and Intermediate Events are Started at 10 O'Clock This Morning Seniors to Compete at Me- morial Field This Afternoon-Iist of Officials h. sued - Thirteen Teams Totalling 200 Entries Rs. ceived for Games - Handsome Trophies Being Offered.

With thirteen teams and total of 20 entries received, the annual track and field meet of the Hart. ford County Y. M. c. A. opens this morning at Memorial Field in Will. low Brook park. Athletes repre-. senting almost every club in the county kept pouring into the city from an early hour today until time for the events to start.
 The meet :s in reality a triple meet combined in one. For this reason 1t was found necessary to- -ec. cupy the entire day in running Of the events as they have been listed. The junior and intermediate class events were scheduled to get under way at 10 o'clock with the senior events taking place this afternoon starting at 2:so o'clock. ~a Handsome trophies are being of. fered the winners of the events in each class. The New Britain Herald has donated beautiful silver lov. ing cup as the senior team trophy while lesser cups and medals will be awarded the winners in the other classes and the individual winners of the events.
 Events for' the junior class in. ciude the 75 yard dash, baseball throw, running broad jump. e2O yard relay and running high jump. Those in the intermediate class are the 100 yard dash, eight pound shot put, running broad jump. 40 yard relay, 220 yard dash. running high jump, SS0 yard run and discus throw. The senior class events are tho 100 yard dash. IF pound shot put, mile run, running broad jump, S8O yard relay. running high jump, 22s yard dash. SS0 yard run. 75 yard high hurdles, 12o yard low hurdles, 40 yard dash, discus throw, ham. mer throw. pole vault and javelin throw. The list of officials selected for the meet is as follows: Referee in morning. T. K. Carleton; referee in afternoon, Harry N. Anderson; starter. Leonard Black. Springfield; clerk of course. w. N. stakeley, suf- field: head judge, D. l.. sisson; as- sistant judges. Heines and Swift: head timer, L.. Main; assistant timers. Leonard R. Nixon. Ham and Dick Anderson; judge of weights, Brewster: assistants, McCourt and w. A. Bailey; judge of jumps, Chat. lin; scorer. Ames: assistant scorer, Howard: weights. Whitbeck; jumps. Tillingham and head inspector, John Mccarthy.
 i The teams entered in the meet are as follows: New Departure of Elm. wood, HaIardville Y, Highland Park Community Club, Manchester Hi-Y, New Britain High, New Britain Cen. tral Junior High, Plainville High, simsbury Hign. Lewis High of southington. southington Y. sunteid
 Preparatory school. Mapping Y and Auburn A. C. Of West Hartford.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
 
HIGH SCHOOL TO
 MEET ST. THOMAS
Baseball Rivals ClashinS This
 Afternoon in Hartford

A third attempt will be made to reach the winning column this after noon by the New Britain high school baseball team when it plays the St. Thomas seminary nine in Hartford. The contest which will start at 2:30 o'clock will be played at the Elisa. beth park grounds. :,
 The game will be one which will feature two teams that have yet to score a victory this season. St. Thom- as lost both of its starts by one sided scores and the New Britain high team has been defeated twice.
 The Red and Gold team showed it was weak in practically every de- partment of the game when 1t lost to Naugatuck by 10 to o score. It failed to gather hit or run and 1t made ten errors. On the other hand the Naugatuck team made 10 hits off the three New Britain pitch CTS who toed the slab.
 Hurley, who succeeded in defeat ing New Britain last year will prob ably be called upon to try to dupli- cate but he may not be the same obstacle that twice blocked New Britain's chances last year. In two starts this year he has been knock ed out of the box.
 Schmarr or Potts will start for New Britain with the former as the likely choice. Potts hitting ability will be used to advantage. He will start at first base if schmarr pitches. Partyka. short stop, will be used as . relief hurler.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

"In keep on pitching until the
 batters start thinking again." says
 old Otis Crandall, granddaddy of all the pitchers, who after more than 8 quarter of . century on tho
 mound, is still carry on for Sacra-
 mento. in the Pacific Coast league. Twenty years back, Otis CrandaIl
 on the New York Giants pitching staff.
 With such baseball ancients as
 Christy Mathewson, Rube Mar
 quard, Chief Myers, Art Devlin and
 Larry Doyle. Otey daily rubbed
 shoulders and was one of the best
 hurlcrs in the league.
 The nickname Doc" was affixed to Crandall because of his ability to
 doctor sick ball games with his
 brainy relief pitching and timely pinch hitting. When John McGraw needed a pinch hitter for one of his faltering pitchers. Doc himself would pick out 8 stick and set himself at the plate. And usually he would deliver a timely blow after which he would
 proceed to finish the ball game on the mound.
 Having won his first three starts for Sacramento this season, Crandall | is well on his way to another suc- cessful season. The age of the Wa dena, Ind. wonder is hard to figure.
 Record books are not very accurate
 in this detail and Crandall has never come out with the exact figure. When he drifted from the major
 leagues in 1916. they said he was 37. Our guess is that they should put 51 candles on his next birthday cake.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
FALCONS TO CLASH WITH
 SUBMARINE BASE COMBINE
Sailor Baseball Team Appears Here for the First Time Tomorrow Afternoon - Falcon Lineup to Be De cided at Practice Session Today-Nchols Probably Will Draw Pitching Assignment for Game-Large Crowd of Fans Expected to Watch Teams in Action

With fair weather promised for to- morrow, the Falcon baseball team is all set to repulse an attack by the submarine division of the United States navy tomorrow when the sail- DTS from the New London Sub Base will appear at St. Mary's field in an effort to inliict the first defeat of the year on the local team.
 Although g final practice session this afternoon will determine the ex- act lineup to start tonorrow's game, the Falcons will probably use Nich- ols, Easthampton pitching ace, in the box and Mickey Noonan behind the bat. Johnny Klatka will probably cover first base with "Starhead" Budnick at second. Joe Walicki will probably be assigned to the short station with "Chucky" Wojack at third.
 It is expected that the outfield of Payne in left. Lefty" Haber in cen- ter and Joe Luty in right, will be sent in again tomorrow. This is the combination that started last Sunday against the Bristol West Ends and it displayed plenty of power in the first game.
 The sailors are reported to have one of the strongest teams among
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
TIGERS BEAT WHITE S0X
 IN ONLY CONTEST PLAYED
George Uhle, Cleveland Exile Does Net Job on Chicago Team-Detroit Comes Out on Long End of to Score-Pirates Defeat Yankees in Exhibition Game at Pittsburgh-An Games in National League are Washed Out by Rain-Cards at Polo Grounds.

By the Associated Press.
 George Uhie. the Cleveland exile. had the biz league spotlight all to himself yesterday as cold weather and reluctant csstomers caused fur thor devastation in .he baseball schedule. The veteran right handler pitched the Detroit Tigers to . neat and decisive victory over the White sox by . score of 6 to 1. The game was put on in the cold reaches of Comiskey park with only a handful of the very faithful as witnesses.
 Cold weather and rain swept the National league schedule clean yes- terday, and prevented the one other championship engagement planned in tho American. The Yankees went through with their exhibition at Pittsburgh, . Pirate victory by to :. being the net result.
 The widely heralded sweep of the western National league teams through the east will not strike sea- board cities until this afternoon, The defendefy, even the Giants. are in poor condition to curb the vandal- istic intents of the burly contenders from the west. where the weather man has been . little less atrocious than in the east.
 The growing favor in which the Cardinals are being : held by Ma tional league critics will focus att <>~AS>- ~S th> .AAIo%s on tho pn1n Grounds where Billy Southworth will parade his veteran pitching corps before the heavy maule1 of the clan NcGyaw for the next few days. Only slightly less interesting will be the effort of the Cubs to shake on their Philly jinx at Baker Bowl.
 The first stand of the American league clubs on the western front will find the Athletics besiesinK Sportsman's park in the first cru- cial series, real or suspected. of the young season. as the Macks. slam- ming the ball at an approved Yam kee clip, will come face to face with Messrs. Gray, Crowder and Ogden, who have done much since April Is to discourage such tactics in the American league.
 The victory of uhle over the White Sox yesterday. revealed the veteran right handler at his former best. He gave the Box just i've hits. and never seemed in any danger after his mates tied the score for him in the second. The Chicago troops pushed one run across the plate in the first on single and a pair of errors by Heinie 6chuble.
 The triumph was Uhle's fourth of the season. It was helped along by Charlie Gehringer's home run.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
FAVORABLE WEATHER FOR
 BALLOON RACE STARTING
Detroit Club Entry to Go Aloft as F1rst of Long Line at
 : O'CIoCk Today.

Pittsburgh, Pa, May 1 N - Ob- servers ct the University of Pitts burgh stadium reported early this morning . light northwest wind was blowing and that favorable flying weather was in prospect for the start of the national balloon race.
 Weather Forecaster w. s. Brotz- man announced, however. the winds probably would vary later in the day with velocity of from 20 miles an hour at . height of 1000 feet to 90 miles an hour at 5000 feet.
 The race is scheduled to start at o'clock this afternoon. eastern daylight time. with the Detroit Bal loon club entry going aloft in charge of w. A. klioff. Detroit, and Thor vald Larsen. Dearborn, Mich. as his aide. The remaining il balloons will leave the ground at five minute intervals.
 Amelia Earhart, transatlantic aviatrix. and other air tables de- layed coming to Pittsburgh yester- day as storms continued to sweep the western Pennsylvania district.
 The winners of today's race. to be determined by distance covered. will represent the United States in the Gordon Bennett international race which will start from St. Louis.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
JAMESON STILL HOLDS AN EDGE
Veteran Leads American Lea6ue
 Eaters Despite Big Drop

Chicago. May F - Charlie Jamieson's batting average dropped |S7 points within one week, but he still kept an edge over the field in the race for American league club bing honors, unofficial averages in- cluding Wednesdays games reveal.
 The Cleveland outfielder's mark at the end of the second week of the campaign is .437 as compared to .524 a week ago, but his chief rivals also slumped. Lou Blue of St. Louis. who clung to second place. dropped from .500 to .435 in seven games.
 Several hitters made great gains, especially Marty McManus of De- troit, who lifted his average from .c24 to .410 to go into fourth place. Bud Clancy of the White sox gained nine to take third with a .426 aver. age. Other leaders were: Foxx, Philadelphia, 40s; Goslin. Washing ton, .4o5; Simmons. Philadelphia, 400; Judge. Washington. 1882: Hale. Philadelphia, 1881 and Metzler, Chi cago, .3S0.
 Sammy Gray. sturdy right handler of the St. Louis Browns. hung up two more victories during the week and went into the lead in the pitch. ing race with four straight tri- umphs. in 37 innings. Gray has al- lowed nine runs. Uhle of Detroit, and Hoyt Of New York had three victories each.
 Feeding upon Boston pitchers, the Philadelphia Athletics jumped to the top of the heap in team batting with an average of .326. Detroit was second with .317. while the Yankees were in eighth place with .255. Washington chung to the top in fielding with percentage of 1885.
 Philadelphia led in runs with 95 in 1e games and the White Sox were the hardest to score on as only fl have been tallied against them in 12 games.
 Other Leaders
 Home runs, Philadelphia. II.
 Double plays. Cleveland, IS.
 Triple play, Chicago. l.
 Runs, Blue. St. Louis, 19.
 Runs batted in, Alexander, De- troit.
 Stolen bases. Fonseca. Cleveland and Averill. Cleveland. 1 each.
 Strike outs, Gray. St. Louis, 16.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
bUN|ON DERBY ID
 TRAVEL 70 MILES
Marathoners Face One of Longest
 Treks Of Entire Run

Chelsea. Okla, May { R-Offi- cials of C. c. Pyle's. cross country race expected some of the bunion doys to drop out today on the TO- mile tramp to Muskogee. The run is one of the longest of the derby.
 Ed Gardner. Seattle negro, third in elapsed time before yesterdays lap of 54.7 miles from Miami, ap- parently had given up. The negro who has been handicapped by . shin splint, had not reported here on the trek from Miami.
 Gieusto Umek, Trieste, Italy. fin- ished yesterdays lap first and went into third place in elapsed time. He ran the distance in S:o3:l5. Johnny salo. Passaic. N. J., policeman. sec- ond in elapsed time. finished second. and Pete Gavuzzi, first in elapsed time. was third.
 The leaders. exclusive of Gardner:
 Pete Gavuzzi. England. 217:12:o2.
 John Salo, Fassaic, N. J., 219:59:- 3e.
 Giusto Umek. Italy. 233.54:31.
 Paul simpson. Burlington. N. C., 242:05:23.
 Sam Richman, New York. 243:- e5:55.
 Philip Granville, Hamilton, Ont, o4S:46:3o.
 M. B. McNamara. Australia, 267:- 10:27.
 Harry Abramowitz, New York. 219:29:12 Herbert Hedeman, New York, 2S2:5S:45. Mike Joyce. Cleveland. 303:11:54.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
ISSUES ANOTHER
 YACHT CHALLENGE
Sir Thomas lpton Throws Down
 Gauntlet to America

London, May { R>-Sir Thomas Lipton. noted Irish sportsman. again has challenged for the Americas cup. historic yachting trophy, &C., cording to an Exchange telegraph dispatch from Dublin. The challenge filed on Sir Thomas behalf by the Royal Ulster Yacht club, has been sent to the New York Yacht club and suggests September of 1880 for the challenge series.
 Officials of the New York Yacht club said they had received no off. cial word of Sir Thomas challenge. Under cup rules. the challenger ii required to give 10 months notice in writing, together with the name of the owner of the challenging boat and the principal dimensions of the craft. Dates. courses. number of trials, rulee and regulations may be arranged by mutual agreement be- tween the challenging and defending clubs.
 The original race for the cup. then a Royal Yacht club squadron trophy. was sailed in 1851 around the Isle of Wight. The schooner yacht Amer ica had sailed across the ocean and decided to compete and won by | wide margin. The cup has been held in this country ever since.
 There have been 13 challenges, the Lipton Shamrocks having com peted in the last four. The first Shamrock sailed in 1899. the second in 1901. the third in 1903 and the fourth in 1920. the last time the cup has been in competition. In the 1920 race, the defending yacht. the Reso- lute, was sailed by Charles Francis Adams. now secretary of the navy. Belfast, North Ireland. May @ The new yacht which Sir Thomas Lipton will build in an attempt to regain the Americas clup will be named Shamrock V.
 Will be about 17 feet long at the waterline. this measurement bring ing it into the p meter class. It will be designed by Charles E. Nicholson. who designed other yachts for the famous sportsman.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
STEPHENSON IS
 LEADING BATTER
Chicago 0utfelder Moves Into
 First Place in National Loop

New York, May { CF-J. Riggs |Stephenson. the Chicago outfielder, moved into the leadership of Na- tional league batters for the period ending with Wednesdays games. ac- cording to averages revealed today. and Perce Lee Malone, also of the Cubs took the top perch among the pitchers. Stephenson boasted an average of .442 for IS games, and Malone showed three victories and no defeats for a percentage of 1000.
 Stephenson had the greatest num- Der of hits in his league, 33, and was tied with his teammate. Hack Will son. and Hughie Critz of Cincin- nati for the lead in scoring. Each showed total of 13 runs. Frank Frisch's six doubles put the St. Louis star ahead by 1, but the thpee base leadership remained in dispute. Rogers Hornsby and Kiki Cuyler of Chicago. 'Delphage Bissonette of Brooklyn, Lloyd Waner of Pitts burgh and Curt Walker of Cincin- nati each had two.
 Hack Wilson and George Harper finished the week in tie for home run honors, each having four. Will son led by himself in batting runs across the plate with a total of IT,. Flowers of Brooklyn showed the way in base stealing with five thefts. Regulars following Stephenson in the batting table were: Gilbert. Brooklyn. 1855: High, St. Louis. .433; O'Doul, Philadelphia, .425; Harper. Boston, and Jackson, New York, 400; Fdisch. St. Louis. 1888: Her man, Brooklyn, .3S6; Dresser, Cin- cinnati, 1885 and Hogan, New York, 1875. This list includes only players who have appeared in six games or more.
 Following Malone in the pitching table were five men with two vic tories and no defeats: Carl Hubbell of New York. Burleigh Grimes of Pittsburgh. Guy Bush of Chicago, Bob Smith of Boston and Jesse Haines of St. Louis. Six others had a single victory apiece. without . reverse.
 The team batting table displayed Fthe Cubs out in front somewhat alone with a handsome mark of .31O. The Reds were second with .2s3. The Braves led in team field ing with .9s3. and the Cubs were second with .972.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
YALE TO DEFEND
 ROWING PRESTIGE
Crew Meets Columbia and Pom.
 sylYania on HousatoniC

Derby, Conn.,, May { LF-Unde- feated for six years in | Blackwell Cup regatta. the sturdy sweep 'swingers of Yale today faced their sternest opening test in recent years from the pupils of young Dick Glen- don at Columbia and Coach Rusty Callow's determined band of eight oarsmen from Pennsylvania. When the crews paddle to position to be sent away on . two mile pull up the Housatonic river late this afternoon the New York entry will go to the post a slight favorite.
 This classic, which opens the Yale rowing season. has been annual con- cern to Columbia and Penn crews. but just when their optimistic ideas seemed to blossom. gloom was step ahead around the bend. Notwith- standing the Ellis reign of supremacy and its desire to keep its winning streak intact. the representatives from Morningside Heights appear again more formidable than ever and twice a. anxious for victory.
 Scanning Columbia's chances no one can doubt that Coach Glendon has a worthy array. With five vet erans tried and true from q crew which a year ago scaled rowing heights at Poughkeepsie and with & first place won against Navy last week. The Columbians appear ready.
 The unexpected change in stroke oars by Coach Ed Leader of the Ellis appears on the surface to give him a stronger combination. Palmer. the new stroke oar. has been tested in competition on the junior varsity boat and his move to replace "Woodie" Happen is regarded as the driving power which has been missed in the Yale boat.
 Pennsylvania. like Yale, has not faced an opponent this year but Coach Callow, who Is handling the Quaker varsity oarsmen for his sec- ond year, may be expected to have his charges in the thick of the fight to wrest victory from Yale and the Blue and White. Much inn provement has been shown by Penn since their opening workout of the season on the Schuylkill. Ed Taeff- ner. is regarded as a veteran stroke who may uncork a surprise victory if he can raise his comrades to a high stroke when the dash for the finish mark is in sight.
 Three other races will give the crowd expected to line the banks and fill the observation train a chance to cheer before the big race. The 150 pound varsity crews will brush over the Henley distance for one mile and five-sixteenths. The other races by the freshman and junior varsity crews extend 10 two miles.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

the navy service stations. A nun per of former league players who have entered the service. are eligible for the nlne and it is expected that the Falcons will have plenty of trouble in winning tomorrow's game.
 Another large crowd is expected The game will start promptly at 3 o'clock,
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
BORG BREAKS RECORD

Los Angeles, May 4.@S-Arne Borg, distance swimmer. broke his own worlds record for the 1.000- yard swim last night His time was II minutes. 1T seconds. The previous mark, IF minutes 16 4-5 seconds, was set in 1924. In establishing the new record Borg was paced by a team of { swimmers.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
COLBY BEATS AGGlES

Storrs. Conn.,, May 1 (UP)-Colby defeated Connecticut Aggie. 3 to 6 in a loosely played baseball game here yesterday. Hooper. Asgie cap- tain. hit three triples and . single in four times at bat
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
BREAKS COURSE RECORD

New Haven. May (UP)-Alex Knapp, Baltimore. Md. golfer has broken the record for the difficult Yale golf course by two strokes, GOV. ering the IS holes in 68.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
PLANS COMEBACK IN TRACK

Bill Cox. Penn State runner. who has held the intercollegiate mile and cross country titles in recent years, hopes 10 regain the mile champion ship this season.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
ENDS SPRING PRACTICE

New Haven, May f UP)-Head Coach May Stevens concluded spring football practice at Yale yesterday and dismissed his squad of 60 with statement that the early drill had been 'satisfactory."
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

Dick Cox, former Brooklyn player who also was fighter once, is now playing with Shreveport in the Tex. as league.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

Cuban orchestras must play a na- tive selection for every jazz piece on their dance programs, under . re- cent ruling.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
ALWAYS WITH SAME GLIB

Ted Lyons. White Sox pitcher. never has played with sny profes- eional team other than his present orc.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
. Totals Detroit
 <xR-a

Two base hits: Alexander. Kerr, Metz Ter. Fothergill. Three base hits: McMan- us, Gehrineer. Home run: GehrinKer. struck out: By Thomas l. by Uhle ..
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
THEY LEAD IN HOME Ruys

Four National league players have 100 or more home runs to their credit-cy Williams. 2ls: Rogers Hornsby, 240; George Kelly, 1s1, and Jimmy Bottomley, 116.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

It is estimated that 2 motor esr travels two endsa half million miles for every fatal accident
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
HERE'S THE FIRST ONE

HERE'S THE FIRST ONE
 Pacific Coast experts are singing the praises of Frank Crosetti, young infielder with San Francisco, and say he Is sure to go to the majors this year.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
SCOTT WORKS IN MOVIES

SCOTT WORKS IN MOVIES
 Jim Scott, former major league pitcher and now an umpire in the Southern league, spends his winter months working in Hollywood studio as a carpenter.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

The White sox took one run lead in the first inning and Detroit tied the count in the second. The winning run came in the sixth. fol- lowed by another in the seventh. In the ninth. with one man on base. Gehringer hit home run the 101st of the 1929 major league season.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
HOME RUN CLUB

By the United PrsIs.
 Leaders FoXx, Athletics, {. Simmons, Athletics, 4. Wilson, Cubs, 1. Harper, Braves. {. Blue, Browns, 1.
 Yesterdays HOmcrs Gehringer, Tigers, 1.
 Totals National league, 52. American league, 49. Total-101. Frank O'Rourke, with the St Louis Browns. has been playing pro fe ssional baseball since 1912. He only 35 years old.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04

The game was the only regularly scheduled contest in either league. rain. wet grounds and cold weather forcing the cancellation of all oth- CTS.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-04
WATCHING THE SCOREBQARD

By tho Tnited Preas.
 Yesterdays hero-George Chle, Detroit pitcher. who held the Chi cago White Sox to i've hits and snap ped four game winning streak, at Chicago, 6 to 1.