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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27
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By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Stan CorrespOndent)

New York, Aug 27-(UP)-Con- nie Mack and his Philadelphia Athletics have placed the other seven clubs of the American league in a most embarrassing situation, indeed.
 With the As so far out in front they might just as well be playing in another league, Washington, New York, Cleveland, etc, must ad- init one or two things: CD that they are 8 pretty sorry bunch of ball players and incapable of off, fering first class opposition. or CD that the Athletics are one of, if not the best team, baseball has seen in 8 long, long while.
 In Q Class by Themselves
 Personally, we believe item No. 2 comes nearer to being the truth. If ability to rise above all manner of handicaps is any criterion of greatness, then the 1881 Athletics certainly are one of the finest teams of all time. You will have to pore over the record books un- til you are weary before finding a club that suffered more misfor- tune than have the Mackmen of '31, And by misfortune we mean injuries of all sorts, and sickness.
 The Macks, unless our statisti- cal department is up to some mis- chief. haven't been able to put their full strength on the field for more than one-fourth of their games. Yet no matter the com bination Manager Mack sends out on the field, his team continues to tA rn0llla rttv
 This ability to win with one, two, three, and sometimes four regulars out of the line-up, cannot be at tributed solely to the magnlhcent pitching of Grove and his boy friends. For no pitcher, no mat ter how great. is going to win 1T his mates play shoddily aneld and refuse to score runs.
 On the Sick List
 Jimmy Foxx, slugging first base man, was the first player 10 drop out of the lineup. That was pack in April Soon after that Mickey Cochrane was injured. Then came Jimmy Dkyes. And after Dykes the deiuge. The little third baseman was followed by McNair and Wil- Hams, utility infielders, Cramer, utility outfielder, Mule Haas, Joe Boley and Al Simmons.
 Yet, despite all these injuries, the Athletics beat off strong y,id. season challenge '''ing- ton and kept moving "ont. O,,tt. a hail club. gc. rite a ball club.
 It Happened in
 Public notice: Wi nose persons who really bt.--.e Ben Chapman, running in baseball uniform and over 8 grassy course, covered 100 yards in 10.2 please communicate with this bureau at once. We have some of the lovli- est gold bricks for sale. Also will accept bids on Brooklyn bridge.
 The timers who caught Ben in 1O.2 might have been using cuckoo clocks or stop watches that really stopped. You never can tell though. Ben may be another fast est human" The country hasn't had a fastest human in three months now. and it's about time for one to pop up.
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shut you out and fan 12 of you"
 When the game was over, we had won to 0 and I gave 'em three hits. No one reached second and I famed II. As passed the Wichita Falls players after the game I shouted:
 "Now maybe you little country boys will keep your traps shut"
 It was just breeze from then on. My next two games were shut outs. Then & win one more hands down. We breeze into Dallas and I'm set to pitch the Sunday game. It's just q breeze until the 9th.
 You've probably read about me and Ali Todd having a fight rather he had the scrap, since I never had a chance to do any fight ing. That row has been explained in lot of ways, but here is my version of 1t and I guess I ought to know. I'm the one who got socked on the jaw.
 Dizzy Gets Revenge-and How
 The score Is 7-1, favor Houston, in the ninth. No one was on base
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JUST HERE
 AND THERE

Tony Paolillo, who still enjoys the title of New Haven's best fight matchmaker, despite his absence from things fistic in the Elm City for several years, has once again hung up his coat and cap in the matchmakers office at the New busying himself on his first show since his Elm City comeback. .. Tony tells us that he is working on a show for the second or third week in September. Just at present there seems to be a dearth of promising and available mate rial in the Elm City for Paolillo to work with, but we'll hazard 8 guess that before many months pass the quiet hammered match maker will have his club operat- ing on the sam eeven keel that his former New Haven ships of slug sailed on. ....
 John Willis, of New Britain, the latest addition to Commissioner Donohue's third-man staff, is one of the oldest referees in the state .. His activities as @ ring official date back to the time when Deputy State Boxing Commissioner Joe Lawlor was acting as fight referee In his home town and among the older bosing fans he is known as Honest John" Willis. Until amateur boxing was taken over by the state commission few years ago, Honest John" used to keep his hand in" handling simon-pure bouts in New Britain.
 The first intimation that the out door boxing season is drawing to a close came to-day in the unoffi- cial announcement that there would be no more amateur boxing shows at the White City stadium this summer. .. Wrestling also, IS all through as far as the outdoor season Is concerned in New Haven The next mat show will be held in the Arena on September 15. Promoter Jim Downing Is working on an all-star, and we mean allLstar, show, the proceeds to go Io the New Haven Register Fresh Air, Fund. ....
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and two were out. Todd, Dallas catcher, was at bat. He had got one hit previously and had been raging me all during the game. Here was my chance to make him like 1t, since we were away out in front, no one on and two out.
 I didn't try to bean him as some scribes said. I did try to dust him off, however. I pitched two close ones at him. After the second ball he came dashing out of the batter's box chattering at me. I figured he was coming out to argue and laughed at him. think told him to go on in there and not be afraid, or something.
 Suddenly he let fly a punch that caught me on the side of the face. went down. The blow didn't hurt; it just caught me off balance. When I got up he hit me again. And then the cops came.
 TOMORROW: A brand new ha. bility, Mrs Dean.
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Runs Batted In.
IIits.
NORFOLK PLAY NEW
 HAVEN TEAM TONIGHT

New Haven, Aug 27.-The Nor folk Tars move into town tonight for a series with the Bulldogs. and the visitors will be battling for just about the same thing as Gene Martins men-second place in the Eastern league race. The game will get under way at 8:30 o'clock, and with the "gals" being admitted free, there will be another fine crowd on hand. Last night close to two thousand fans were down to the Rock for the finale with Springfield, as this night baseball is making big hit here in New Haven.
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hopes of getting in there. but

hopes of getting in there. but didn't.
 The Card pitchers were noticing in the papers as how the Houston pitching staff was webbing. They were all kidding back and forth about who would go down there, but no one mentioned me.
 One day Gabby, who seldom spoke to me at that time, said for me to report to the office. fig- ured it was just another fine or a lecture or sermon or something which was used to by that time. I got there and MT Hickey was there. He hands me telegram. It reads:
 "Mr Fred Ankenman, Houston Baseball Club. CPaid) Dizzy Dean will join your club immediately"
 It took me a couple of minutes to get this. was sure stunned. Another setback, and I knew 1t was all unfair because I knew I was 8 great pitcher.
 That mean I go back to Hous- ton?" I asked.
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Senators H Lead Mccarthy Creu n Race For Second Place
RING GOSSIP
LEoNARD's COMEBACK
By BILL HIGGINS

LEONARD'S COMEBACK Interesting indeed is the an- nouncement that Benny Leonard, former lightweight champion, will return to the wars in a bout with Tommy Freeman, erstwhile weler- weight leader, at the New York Garden on September IT. Ring followers will be pulling for Benny, who was one of the greatest light weight champions. He'll need it., despite his clean living and once miraculous fighting form. The feat he has now set for himself has never been performed before.
 Leonard quit fighting six years ago. He is now 35 and has led a life of comparative ease in re- tirement. Rust inevitably gathers on the finest fighting armour long discarded.
 Jeffries, by interesting coincident, was exactly Benny's age and re- tired the same number of years when the lure of gold brought him back to fight Jack Johnson. You know the sad result.
 A youthful champion, Jack Dempsey, idled three years and then met Gene Tunney. You know that one, too.
 The incomparable Jimmy Wilde waited two years at 31. He found himself worse than a fistic cipher before Pancho Villa.
 Those are a few. There are more such doleful epitaphs in Fistiana's Comeback Graveyard. It's not a happy hunting ground and we'd hate to read of Leonard there.
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By JEROME IT. fDIzzY, DEAN
BY JEROME H. DIZZY) DEAN

By JEROME H. (DIZZY) DEAN Copyright 1881 NEA Service, Incl
 In an exhibition game during the spring training period beat Cin- cfnnati 5-4 when I relieved another pitcher in the fifth inning. The big leaguers looked easy. Then beat the Phillies just as easy. After these wins I was sure of sticking.
 We worked our way up north and played the Browns in the city series. pitched one of these games and got beat. The change from the balmy Florida climate to the severe St Louis weather affected my control. Besides, Adams made a couple of errors.
 Misses Opening Day Shot
 Then came the opening of the season. I figured I should get the opening day shot but Street called on Flint Rhem. Rhem won hands down. After that, every day I had
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here to-day. will arrive Sunday morning. Pitch me Sunday after noon and it's a cinch I'll win. Dizzy Dean." .
 That went over big with the Houston sports scribes. They plas- tered it all over the papers and when step off the train I see headlines about Dizzy Dean prom ising a victory and all that. This made me forget St Louis. Anyway. the Texas league Is just as fast as the big league.
 Pitches ShutOut in Opener
 That Sunday I went into the box. Wichita Falls, a hard-hitting bunch, were our opponents. They tried to razz me about getting sent back to the minors. I walked over to the bench and declared myself to 'em.
 ''Lissen, you birds! Just for that you get only three hits. I'm gonna
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JIMMY M'LARNIN
 ALWAYS AIDED BY SHREWD MATCHING
BY DIXON STEWART

Onltc0 Press stan Correspondent
 Although boxing fans in general accept Jimmy McLarnin as the best of the present day welter- weights and one of the best men of his weight in ring history, mem- bers of the ring fraternity--fight- CTS, managers and boxing writers are not convinced of the Van couver boys right to high rank ing.
 A Keen Manager.
 Undoubtedly the baby-faced Jimmy is an excellent boxer and q deadly hitter, but study of his record proves that he has been aided greatly by the matchmaking ability of his shrewd old manager, Pop" Foster.
 Foster has seen to 1t that Jimmy has had the best of 1t in practi- cally all of his fights and has the reputation of being the hardest man in boxing with whom to do business. Either Foster insists upon selecting the opponent, or he will dictate the weights, purses or distance of the contest.
 Here's the Story.
 Peculiarly enough, McLarnin has fought few outstanding stars on even terms and he has not been especially successful in such con- tests. When he met Sammy Man. dell for the lightweight title, with no weight advantage in his favor, Jimmy took an artistic 1acing. He later defeated Mandell twice. but in each bout had a wide pull in the weights. He barely outscram- bled Jack Thompson, present well terweight title-holder, when they met at even weights Q year ago, and many spectators believed Thompson was entitled to the de- cision.
 In his bouts with Bud Taylor, Jackie Fields, Fidel LaBarba and Al Singer. McLarnin alyso either had the advantage in weight, or forced his opponents to come in at weights which sapped their stamina.
 A Recent Example.
 A recent example of the Foster McLarnin insistence of having the advantage over rivals was pro- vidcd by Jimmy's bouts with Billy PetrolIe. When the men first met. Petrolle handed McLarnin sound drubbing. When return match was preached, McLarnin not only demanded the Hons share of gate receipts but insisted upon being allowed to come in at catch- weights.
 With McIIarnin winning the second match, a rubber" contest over . longer route became | na- tural. Petrolle was willing and &C., ceptsd terms without dispute. Fos- ter, however. refused to entertain suggestions of 16-roupd bout on the. plea that Jimmy was 'just a boy" and again demanded the biggest share of gate recepits and . weight advantage.
 The bout was staged. " he 1le-pound McIarnin SCOT : cisive victory over the l PetroIle, but until Jimn ; ranking contenders of L.. ,wn weight, and when fighting them on even terms, boxing men will refuse to accept him as worthy of rating with the super stars of the game.
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Yep" said Mir Richey.
 That was all there was said.
 Dizzy Chooses the Hard Way
 I walk out of the office. I'm mad, but when I get mad its dif- ferent from other guys. I know I'm good. know, too, that all the setbacks they give me will not keep mo out of the big league. It's just a question of the time and I'm just ending up my 18th year. l started to think.
 There were just two things to do. Either I go down there and pitch ball or quit baseball and leave the Cards flat. Then 1t dawned on me. If I quit I'm beating myself out of & lot of dough, which doesn't amount to much. I am also cheat ing myself out of the chance to do what I know I can do-become great big league pitcher.
 I went down to the telegraph office and wrote out a telegram which reads: ;.
 Erred Ankenman, President or the Houston Bluffs. I'm leaving
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PORECTA VS HUNT

Boston, Aug 27-UP)-Seeking his 18th successive victory, Stanley Poreda, 200-pound Jersey City heavyweight was to clash with Babe Hunt of Ponca City, Okla, in 10-round bout at Boston Arena tonight.
 Porcda has defeated Johnny Risko, Walter Cobb, Ted Sand wina, Al Friedman, George Hoff- man and several lesser lights, and ruled a slight favorite over the westerner. Hunt once boasted a savage attack but has not made especially strong showings in re- cent starts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27
FULLER NETMEN
 WIN TITLE GAME FROM DIVISIONERS
Bill Synott's Charges Win Interplayground Title in PlayOff, P to 20

Before one of the largest and most enthusiastic crowds to wit ness an interplayground volley ball game this year, Bill Synott's Fuller street netman defeated Herb Col by's Division streeters, 22 to 20 in an extra game last night at Lake, wood Park, annexing the 1881 playground title.
 Always Close.
 AS the score indicates it was one of the most bitterly fought contests seen in many moon. Fuller won the toss, elected to serve and be- fore losing that serve, annexed three points. Division on its hrst serve tied the score and then forg- ed ahead on the same serve to lead, 6 to 3.
 From here on the score sec sawed back and forth until the two aggregations tied at 10-all. Fuller player careful from here on and managed to be on the long end of a 16-15 score when they opened up. Before their assault was checked they were leading 20 to 16. They failed to Nake the necessary point as Division took the serve and tied at 20-all.
 Two Serves Does It.
 Fuller scored & point on its next serve, but Division didn't. On the serve Fuller scored again as the ball game was over, 22 to 20.
 The members of the champion ship team included: Jack Keefes Mo rty Euap Eddie DiinlaD Win Murphy, Tom Daly and Tony The losers were repre- sented by George Mulligan. Ralph Joe Nash, Lefty" Leece, Bill and Gene Sweeney.
 George Curtis of Washington Park referred the title game while Bill Synott of Fuller, Frank Mo- Grath of Division, Joe Daly of Full ton and Jack Tangney of Mill were the linesmen.
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ZI=THETA=PI SWAMP
 EMANON CLUB, 3O-2

The Zi-Theta-Pi club had no difficulty defeating the Emanons last ngiht in a "Y" Twilight League tilt at Brassco Park, 30 to 9. The winners pounded Red" Moran for ten runs in the opening inning and the sorrell-topped lad gave way to Freddy Smith who was pounded equally as hard. Howie Kraft pitched for the winners and was never in danger.
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POPULAR MANAGER

Memphis, (UP)-Larry Gilbert, manager of the New Orleans Peli- cans of the Southern Association, is one of the best liked managers who comes to Memphis. He Is serving his 18th year with the Louisiana club and has never had a contract. Gilbert serves in the role of acting president as well as manager of the Pelicans, Charles Somers, owner of the club, having turned over all the business to his manager.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
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Games Yesterday. St Louis 6, Boston (1st). St Louis 6, Boston 4 (2nd). Chicago 4, New York 3 (1st). Chicago 2, New York End, 12 innings).
 Philadelphia 8 Cincinnati 4 (1st) Philadelphia z Cincinnati 6 (2nd) (Only games scheduled).
 Games Today. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. Chicago at Pittsburg @ games). (Only games scheduled).
 Games Tomorrow. Pittsburg at St Louis. (Only game scheduled).
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CUPBOARD RACES SUN.
 AT LAKE POCOTOPAUG

East Hampton, Aug 27-Out- board motor boat drivers of Con- necticut and other states will com pete on Lake PocotopauS here Sum day in a regatta planned by the Lake Pocotopaug Regatta Associa- ton. Samuel s. Mates of Middle town Is chairman of the regatta
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SINGER ENDS TRAINING FOR
 ROuJT

New York. Aug 27-AI Singer. former worlds lightweight cham pion. yesterday concluded training for the ten-round bout in which he is to tackle Eddie (CannonbalD Martin, former bantamweight title- holder, at the Copey Island Sta-
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New York, Aug 27-The fight between Tony Canzoneri Of New York and Herman Perlick Of kaia- mazoo, scheduled for Bayonne. N. J.. last night, was put over until ;to- night because Of threatening weather.
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GRID PRACTICE

The initial practice session of the Walnut Hills football team will be held tonight at 6:30 o'clock at Division street playground. All new candidates and members of last years combination will be well come this evening.
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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
 Games Yesterday.

Newark 1, Bunal0 0.
 Reading 6, Montreal (1st). Montreal 8, Reading I (2nd). Toronto 9, Baltimore (1st>. Toronto 4, Baltimore { (14, in- ,ings, 2nd).
 Rochester 2. Jersey cSty 2 (znd).
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roorRALL COACH TO TEACH

St Paul. Minn. Aug 27-(UP)- Heartley (Hunk) Anderson. s. nior football coach at Notre Dame. will be on the stan at the St Thomas coaching school, Joe Bo- land, St Thomas athletic director. |announced.
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EASTERN LEAGUE.

Games Yesterday. Hartford 6, Bridgeport 5. Springfield 3, New Haven 2. (Only games scheduled).
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MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS
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Following averages compiled by the United Press include games played Wednesday Augusa 26th:
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dium tomorrow night. Singer de- clared himself in excellent condi- ton and confident of victory over his rugged foe.
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Games Today.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Games Yesterday. St Louis g., Philadelphia 5. Detroit 5, Washington 1, Chicago 8, New York 5. Boston at Cleveland (rain).
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Games Today. Hartford at Allentown. Norfolk at New Haven. Bridgeport at Springfield. Richmond at New Haven.
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Games Tomorrow

Washington at Boston. New York at Philadelphia. St Louis at Cleveland.
 (Only games scheduled).
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Games Tomorrow. Bridgeport at Springfield. Richmond at Albany. Hartford at Allentown. Norfolk at New Haven.
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Games Today. Chicago at Detroit. St Louis at Cleveland. (Only games scheduled).
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THOMASTON HIGH MEETS
 COLLNSVILLE TONIGHT

Thomaston. February 1s = The Thomaston High School basketball team will play Collinsville here to- night. The Thomaston team has been practicing daily this week and expects to be in topnotch form.
 The Thomaston High School girls team will meet the Collinsville girle squad in the preliminary game which is scheduled for 7:45 D, m.
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