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New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

in q thrce-way tie with Hack Wilson O. Chicago and Wally Berger of Bos- ten for home tun leadership with A four baggers. Cuyler tops with h, as added honors, Klein is second 10 Cuyler with 74 runs and the Chica- goan reyerses the roles in batting in runs, having driven so home.
 The only slugging column left open to their rivals. the two base hits, has Frankie Trisch's name at the top once more, The Cardinal second basem1n has made 26 dou- bles, one more than O'DouI; other second places go to Bobe Herman os Brooklyn and Bill Terry of New York with 117 hits apiece; to Her man for stealing 12 bases. and 10 Adam Comorosky of Pittsburgh and Fred Leach of New York with ten triples apiece.
 O'Doul has a batting average Of .4c3 to top the list of regulars, but George Fisher of St Louis, who Iosss out because he shares his position with other player too often to come under the regular classification, has piled up a .426 average.
 Klein is second with a 1899 mark and Herman third with .397. Behin1 then come Stephenson, Chicago, .3@2: P. Waner, Pittsburgh, .3S5: Terry, New York, 3S0; Hogan, New York. .3Go; Heilmann. Cincinnati, .35S: Flowers, Brooklyn, .358; Guy Ter, Chicago, .357; and Frisch, St Louis, .357
 The Phillies have frightened th str grip on team batting leadership, bringing their mark up to 1928, four teen points ahead of Brooklyn. Cin- cinnatIs fielding slipped trife last week 10 .975 but the Reds still lead New York by q point
 Bob Osborn. young Chicagoa1, heads the pitching list for another week with an .S33 average gainea l from five victories and one defedt but Phil Collins of Philadelphia has won eight and lost two and Tom Zachary of Boston has won four and lost one for 800 marks.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
FEATURE AT HARTFORD
Handicap Race for Trotters Planned to be Staged at This Years Grand
  Circuit Meeting.

The series of handicap events for trotters along the Grand Circuit and elsewhere this season is providing :, new feature to the racing public Handicap races for trotters have been tried out at various times, but never before have there been enough of these events raced 10 test thor oughly their popularity with the public.
 At this years Grand Circuit meet ing at Hartford the week of August 1922. there will be a handicap race for trotters, also for pacers. In the trottonG event, r of the fastest trot- ters in training have been named and the race promises to be one of the chief attractions at the meeting.
 One of the most formidable candi- dates in the fast field is the bay stall lion, Gaylworthy, 2:0294. owned by the tobacco magnate. w. H. Rev holds. Wilston- Salem, N. C.. one of the staunch supporters of the trot-5 holds, Winslow- Salem, N. C., one of the outstanding stake trotters last season. demonstrating that he was both fast and game under any con- ditions. and again should show his worth this year against the best op- position.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
AL SIMMONS IS
 AGAIN LEADING
Mickey Cochrane Drops to
 Fourth Place in American

Chicago, July 12 LR,-Al Simmons, of the team of Simmons and Coch- rane of Philadelphia, which has shared the task of keeping the American league individual batting leadership away from all challengers for the past three weeks, again was in power according to unofficial averages which included Wednes- days games.
 Averages fell off all along the line during the 12th week of the cam- paign. and Simmons mark of 3Ss, was five points under last weeks average. Mickey Cochrane, who led the parade a week ago, found the pitching much more difficult to hit and lost 25 points which dropped him to fourth place among the reg ulars. Sam Rice, Washington's vet eran outfelder, lost six points but found himself in second place five points behind Simmons Lou Gehrig Yankee first baseman was third with 1882.
 Other leading regulars were: Ruth, New York. .373; Hodapp, Cleveland .3e4; Combs, New York, .356; Man ush, St. Louis Washington. 1852; McManus. Detroit. .SsS; Jolley. Chi cago, .337.
 Babe Ruth, injured finger and suspension notwithstanding, retain ed his lead in three departments As usual he led in home runs with 32. had scored s4 times and had a col lection of total bases amounting to 211. Gehrig continued to lead in driving in runs with s7, while Rice of Washington continued to top the base stealers with 1s. Johnny Ho dapp of Cleveland, had 114 hits; Earl Combs of the Yankees, had col lected l2 triples and Marty McManus of Detroit, led in two base hits with 27.
 Consistent with the general let down, the Yankees lost eight points from the team batting average of a week ago, but continued to lead with mark Of .3l3. Washington sagsed two points but remained second at .So2, while Cleveland gained a single point to move into third place at 3ol
 Philadelphia held on as the lead ing field club, although its average Of .973 was a point less than last week. Washington improved two points and jumped into second posi- ton at .s72. Boston turned in eight double plays to bring its total to s5, but was only two ahead of Detroit which made an even dozen during the week.
 Sad Sam Jones of the onrushing Washington Senators, became the pitching leader by gaining credit for two victories, to make his record eight games won and two lost. Bob Grove, the Athletics southpaw fre- baller, still had mark of II vic tories and three defeats, although he got into two games. Grove also re- tained control Of the strikeout situ- ation. with 105, but was only four ahead of his right-handed team mate, George Earnshaw.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

round he got back to form and took an so. But the war correspondents do not love John H. Junor, to this day.
 Now, of course, I do not know what fate is in store for MT. Lacey. He may go ahead and win this championship. However 1 am fore el to state that he is not destined U any immediate popularity wl.h the newspaper profession, He caus- ed too many carefully designed leads t1 be scrapped and rewritten.
 One more feature of this second days play may deserve a trifle of comment - Bobby Jones famous shot at the long ninth hole across Mirror lake, which bids fair to take rank with Columbus first crossing of the Atlantic, Washington's cross ing of the Delaware, and Hugo Eckeners little journey by Zeppelin around the world.
 Bobby had showed his drive over bit too far and found himself with what he considered to be q light spoon shot to the ninth green. he idea being to fade it in from the left with the aid Of convenient breeze which was then operating from that quarter.
 Bobby had some trouble with the enthusiastic spectators who took turns scampering across the fairway and took his stance for the third time before he could get the shot away, which lie did very badly in deed. He smacked the ball about the belt line, in fair territory, you might say, and it came out with duckng trajectory and super abundance of overspin. striking thc water about three-fourths of the wly across, bounding, striking again. onto the bank. He pitched a ya"d from the pin and holed birdie {.
 At that Bobby lost a stroke 10 his great professional rival there. as Horton Smith. playing just ahead oi him, spanked full spoon shot onto the green and holed 20-foot putt for an eagle 3.
 One spectator insisted the Jones ball struck liypad. Another said it was bullfrog. Walter Hagen took Bobbys side Of the debate.
 Anybody who can hit ball with that much topskin deserves to run it across a pond" said Sir Walter, who has wrought a number of miracles himself, in his day
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
YOUNG ENGLISH
 PRO TIES JONES
UpsetS Calculations About Forty
 Minutes Before Sunset
By O. B. KELLER


 Minneapolis. July 12 P-Histocy repeated itself about forty minutes before sunset at the Interlachan Country club yesterday, when Charles Lacey, youthful English pro fessional from that extraordinary Valley, kicked in with a card of 70, two better than par, went into a lie with Bobby Jones and Harry Cooper, ir second place. and caused about sixty high priced war correspondents to rewrite the same number of leads for the palladiums Of today.
 Nobody. you see. had heard Of Charles Lacey, except that he was playing in the tournament. True, he had done "A on Thursday, but quite a number of competitors had done that. And he was playing very late in the afternoon and Horton Smith with a 70 had gone ahead of Bobby Jones, who in turn had pulled ahead of Tommy Armour and Macdonald Smith. leaders in the first round, and Lighthouse Harry Cooper had come up with another par 72 in tie with Bobby, and everybody WIS quite too much agog to bother about this mysterious MT. Lacey
 The press house was warm and the wires were hotter. and everybo ly was getting his story out at top speed and then came MT. Lacey, with a par four left at the last hole for a 69, the course record, a clear title to second place by himself, and all sorts of famine, pestilence and earthquake for the correspondents who had already got their leads on the wire.
 Well. it turned out not quite 90 bad as all that, he hooked his drive and his second shot and got into bunker and worked out hard five for a 70.
 Ard history repeated itself-th?t is to say, the history of John H Junor. in 1926, at Scioto.
 This is what the Hon. Junor did, four years ago.
 Wild Bill Mehlhorn had turned in a 6S to lead the field in the open championship and Bobby Jones WIS second, with 70. And all the bows and girls were pouring in to the telegraph operators, filing their night leads and their overnight stories, with nobody out on the course that anybody had ever hea d of And all of q sudden, just at sun- set, a popeyed courier game gallop- ing up from the front with the re- port that one John H. Junor O. Portland Oregon. stood on the 18th tee with par five left for q 70, 10 tie Jones and bust all the stories
 I shall never forget the scene that followed. Forty widowed members ot the fourth estate lined up along the balcony of the clubhouse and chanted in unison;
 Hope he takes 10 . Hope he takes a 10,
 Did John H, Junor take 10? He die not. He took a par and got his TO- and all the stories had to be recalled and rewritten, and next
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

Hartford, July 12 - Both Bat Battalino, the worlds featherweight champion, and Ignacio Fernandez of the Philippines who hopes to be just that, will wind up their intensive training today.
 With the end ofthe training grind in view and the battle hour but AS hours distant. champion and chal- lenger expressed confidence in vic- tory.
 Battalino had this to say of the outcome of Monday nights cham pionship battle;
 T have never worked harder and am in great shape. I feel sure I can beat Fernandez again. but I know from experience that he is a tough customer. This time I'll be keeping an eye on that right hand of his all the time.
 "Of course, I'd like to win on a knockout, but no one has ever been able to send Fernandez down for the fuil count. The stomach is the place to beat him and I'll be working for there all the time"
 Fernandez. declaring he is in great shape and certainly looking all of that. says he expects to score a knockout. The challenger's English is scant and he talked through the kind services of his manager, Jesus Cortes. This is the gist of the brown skinned challenger's view of things:
 T am not afraid of being knock ed out, l have fought boys who hit just as hard as Battalino but they could not do it. Last time, you re- member, I had Battalino on the floor for eight; this time I do it for good
 T am very glad it is IS rounds. l have fought 20 several times and I like the long fights. I feel sure l will win and get the title"
 Promoter Ed Hurley is satisfied that Fernandez will make the weight without any difficulty and has no concern on that score, but he is do- ing little worrying about the champion.
 Yesterday Hurley asked the Fili- pino to get on the scales; he readily assented and tipped the beam at F, which means he has but half q pound 10 shed.
 Battalino refused the promoters request and Hurley said he would appeal to State Athletic Commits sioner Donohue, who is due home from Atlantic City today. Hurley maintains he has a right to know just what progress the champion is making in getting down to 126.
 Both Fernandez and Battalino have been doing some real hard hit ting in their daily workouts. Fer nandez boasts Of the greatest right hands in the business. the impression Of those who have watched the pair this week being that he hits harder than the champion.
 Promoter Hurley has arranged an attractive undercard with Ralph Lenny, clever Union City. N. J.. boy battling Jack Brusso of Philadeluhia in the eight-round semi-final.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
COLLEGE PLAYER
 PERFECT FIELDER
Dartmouth Captain Accepted 66
 Chances. Without Error

New York, July 12 R-Fieldins averages generally are taken to mean little in either amateur or professional baseball, but the official defensive records of the Eastern h. tercollegiate Baseball league, an nounced here today, reveal two out standing athletes who by their strong play in the field contributed much to the championship won by their team, Dartmouth. They are Captain Bart J. McDonough, Jeff Tesreau's catcher, and Captain Elect Robert A. Wolfe, foremost among league shorthelders and peer of many in more experienced circles
 One of 1s league players with per- feet fielding records. Capt McDon- ough handled more chances than any other two men who came under the wire with 1000 on the defense, and in addition, directed the strategy Of the Big Green nine in most of the league games under Dr. Charles W. Kennedys 'coachiess basebalr' plan. McDonoush handled 6s helding chances without 8 slip his only of- fenss against defensive form being three passed balls.
 At shortstop, Rolfe failed to top Lester M, 'Handleman, the Cornell flash, who finished with .s72 10 lead the field, but the Dartmouth red head put all his rivals far to the rear in chances accepted by handling cleanly "A Of the 7s opportunities cf- fered him for mark of .o4s. In his final game Of the season against Cornell, Rolfe set league record by sobbling up II assists, many of them difficult, in the first nine innings of a 10-round game which Dartmouth won by to 0. .
 The league pitching, also an nounced today, again was dominated by the two Dartmouth right handlers -Gunnar E. Hollstrom, '51, and Lauri E. Myllykangas, '31. These two men exchanged places this year, however. Hollstrom topping the field in the earned run average with mark of just 2.45 earned markers against him in each nine-inning game, and Myllykangas setting the pace in percentage with 1000, earn ed through four straight victories.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

New York The New York Yankees parted with s75,000 for the contract of Meryl Hoag, Sacramento outfielder, despite the fact that he has pair of the smallest feet in organized baseball.
 Hoag's feet were examined before the deal went through, and though they were found so small that the player has to buy his shoes special made. and that one is smaller than the other, it was concluded they were sufficiently sturdy for big time competition.
 Speed has been Hoag's chief asset, both in fielding and in compiling a batting this season in the Pacific Coast league lowering around the .SS0 mark.
 Last year. Hoag hit only .2S0 in the league. He is to be delivered to the Yankees in 1881.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
YANKEE YS. WEETAMOE
Secretary of Navy Battles Son-in- Law of J. B. Morgan off Newport in Today's Race.

Newport, July 12 OF) - Charles F. Adams, secretary of the navy, takes Yankee out today to race George Nichols, son -in-law of J. P. Morgan, and the Weetamoe. A de- cade ago, Adams sailed Resolute to victory over Nichols and vanitie and then went out and whipped Sir Thomas Lirton's Shamrock ", for the Americas cup.
 The course is triangular having three ten-mile legs. Wectamoe goes to the starting line with four straight victories to her credit.
 Sailed by Harold $. Vanderbilt, Enterprise and Whirlwind with Langdon K. Thorne aboard, were again paired today. Enterprise beat Whirlwind when they last met
 After today races, the sixth day of the series, the selection committee will arrange the schedule for next week. Today's were the sixth con- tests for the Yankee and Whirlwind but the fifth for the enterprise and Weetamoe, the race between the lat ter pair yesterday having been halt ed by a mishap to the Weetamoe. The head beard at the top of the Weetamoe's sail pulled out ending the contest.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
KLEIN AND CUTLER STARRING AT BAT
Frank 0'DOul Continues to Lead
 StiCkerS in National

New York, July 12 LPl-Although they are forced to yield the batting leadership to their rivals, Kiki Guy Ter of Chicago and Chuck Klein or Philadelphia have taken nearly every other batting honor the Ma tional League has to offer and are holding them against all corners. In the semi-official list issued today, which includes Wednesdays games, each holds three first places of the seven outside the actual batting averages.
 Klein, second only to his tearl- mate, Frank O'Doul, in batting, was collected the greatect hit total. 1lS blows, has driven in S9 runs and is
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
ORIOLES REMAIN
 AT HEAD OF CLASS
International Teams Making It Tough for Baltimore

By the Associated Press.
 The International league field is making it as tough as possible for the Baltimore Orioles ss first one and then another club challenges the leaders, but the boys can't seem to topple the Orioles from the head of the class.
 Rochester and Toronto both have been in threatening positions for some time and after Rochester had won it's afternoon game yesterday from Reading, the Orioles were con- fronted with the necessity of beating Buffalo in a night game at Buffalo to retain their advantage.
 This they accomplished without undue difficulty, 10 to 5, and thus maintained their half game lead over Rochester with Toronto only another game to the bad.
 The Orioles slugged out IS hits to batter Leo Mangum and the Bisons into submission. The Orioles went to the front in the first inning and never rehnquished their lead al though it took a three run rally in the eighth to decide the issue be- yond a doubt.
 Great pitching by Paul DerrAger enabled Rochester to turn back Reading in the second game of the series, 80, Derringer allowed eight hits but kept them SO widely scatter cd that the Keys could not cross the plate. Nelson Greene gave only four hits before he was relieved for pinch hitter in the eighth but Rochester punched two of these. a single and a triple. with two sacri- fees to score two runs in the last half of the seventh, The RedUings' other run was scored on Martins home run off Welch in the eighth.
 The third place Toronto Maple Leafs kept pace with the Redwings by beating Jersey City again. II to 1. Hopkins started for Jersey City but was lifted with two out in the first inning after he had walked three men. Liebhardt came to the rescue. got out Of the hole without being scored on and then hurled two more scoreless innings. In the fourth, however, the Leafs got busy and bat tered Liobhardt for four runs. Two more came across in the fifth, three in the sixth and the final pair in the eighth. Johnny Prudhomme allow cd 12 hits but was very effective in the pinches, keesey driving Walker over the plate with the Skeeters only run in the eighth. Joe Harris, old time major league star, got four of ,Toronto's , hits, two of his blows being doubles.
 Newark's battle with Montreal was postponed on account of rain.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

Following. Hollstrom in effective ness were Walter T. Masters, Penn sylvania, '31, 2.52; Roswell H. Rudd Yale, 80. 2.s0, and Myllykangas, 3.o5. Masters and Rudd were tied for second place in the percentage ranking, each with four victories and one defeat for 800.
 James N. Peterson led with s5 strikeouts and Robert W. Lewis. Cornell. 80. was second With 2S Lewis also topped the field with six complete games, 53 2-5 innings pitched and FPS batsmen faced Pe- terson also set a mark in control by passing only eight men.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
LETTERS SWIM RECORD

Victoria. B. C.. July l2 P-Miss Elnor Holm of the New York Womens Swimming association bet tered the worlds 150-yard back stroke record for women here last night swimming the distance in t:56s. The record of 1:5S.2 was es tablished in 1924 at Chicago by the late Sybil Bauer.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
QUITS TRACK FOR CHURCH

Sydney. Australia, July 12 CP - James Carlton, Australias champion sprinter. has renounced track for religion and will become a Marist brother. At 22, Carlton was thought by many experts to have a good chance of becoming the worlds greatest runner,
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
COACH BARS HEAVY WORK

Philadelphia, July 12 tP-Mem- bers of the Temple university team who go in for hard manual labor in the vacation months do so against the wishes of Coach Heinie Miller, who claims that a real vacation re- suits in the best conditioning for the fall play.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
DEkUH MEETS GODFREY

New York, July 1o UP)-Arthur Dekuh. Brooklyn Italian. has been matched with George Godfrey, a 10-round bout at the Newark, N. J. Nelodrome July 21, Cassiano, De- kuh's manager, announced today,
 Dekuh will meet K. O. Christncr at Garfield, N. J., in another To- round bout. July IS, Cassiano said
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
EASTERN LEAGUE
Games Yestcrda,

Games Yesterday Albany 10, New Haven 9. (12 innings). Bridgeport 1, Allentown 3. Springfield $, Providence 4. (ll inningD.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

Baseball fans in attendance at local games are sometimes puzzled over whether player who hits ball into the outfeld gets credit for extra bases or not when a field CT allows the ball to go through his legs.
 In the American Legion-Man- chester game last night at Walnut Hill park, Zembrowski, in the ninth inning, hit a ball to the outfield. This would ordinarily have been q single but the Manchester player and Zembrowski made the circuit. Many gave zembrowski credit for a home run but he hit on'& a single and the error was good for three bases.
 The same thing happened twice in the Gasco-Fafnir contest at Wal nut Hill park Thursday night. Lefty" Haber whaled a ball on line into right field. Barnes got his hands on the ball. It wasn't a diff ficult play. The ball went by him. Haber made the circuit, but it was an error and not a home run.
 Later in the game. Francis Shee- han hit a single to right field. Wink" Venture. probably nervous because his house in Kensington had been struck by lightning the night before, let the ball get away from him and Sheehan made third base. The hit was single, not l triple.
 These techicalties in the scoring Of games, take some of the glory away from the players who hit these synthetic home runs and triples but the real baseball players don't care to get their hits in this manner.
 Soccer football will be played in Willow Brook park between the S. A. A. C. of this city and the Frija club of Hartford. The game will start at o'clock.
 The Republican A. C. baseball team will have an ambitious pro- gram to face tomorrow afternoon. The crew is playing a double head CT at Washington Park diamond, one game at o'clock and the othc. at 3;So.
 The Sacret Hearts and Kensng- ton will play the second game of their series tomorrow afternoon at Willow Brook park. Plenty of in terest is being shown in this battle.
 Crowds still continue to jam Hart's Tourist camp on the Berlin Hartford turnpike to watch Ignacio Fernandez in training for his bat tie with Bat Battalino Monday night for the featherweight cham pionship of the world. A large number of New Britainites have been interested spectators at the camp this past week.
 Battalino has no fear of making the featherweight limit of 1o6 pounds for the battle Monday night The two fighters are scheduled to weight in Monday afternoon at 2
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Yesterday Pittsburgh 6, St. Lotus 2. Cincinnati 5, Philadelphia 3. (Other clubs not scheduled) :.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Yesterday Toronto II, Jersey City 1. Rochester 3, Reading 0. Newark at Montreal. rain. No results received on last nights Baltimore-Buttal game.