The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-21
LANDS MAY AID LOOP TO
 SETTLE PROTEST
Information Unavailable ill Boston; Exhibition
 ss Game Tomorrow
BY JOHN A. cLUNEY

not a little disilluSi0ned near the end of a herculean effort to secure something that may not exist, Man. ager Ray Tram of the Sacred Hearts plans to take the Al Jarlett case to the supreme court of base. ball. All else failing, he will appeal personally to Judge Kenesaw M. LaI1- dis in final effort to secure evi- dence and information from Boston Red Sox front office which he be- lieves is in existence and which, to date, cannot be secured despite eff, forts, expense and persistence that would long ago have discouraged the average baseball team manager.
 Big Question
 In the name of baseball, and "for. the good of the game" Tram plans to appeal to the games high com missioner to find out the exact status of Pitcher Al Jarlett on June 24, 1897, by asking Landis to. ruie on the question, "Was Al Jarlett a pro- fessional baseball player on June "A (the day he pitched against the Sacred Hearts in the City Amateur League) and if so, what evidence can be had to back up protest of the use of the player, which has already been filed?"
 Run.ArOund? ,
 Numerous telephonr calls, a per- l, sonal trip to Boston and contact with a Bostonian reputedly able to secure the real facts in the case have failed to produce desired re-s suits, Tram having been given the, All-American run n-around" by Red Sox officials, who apparently con- sider the matter too unimportant to bother with. Jarlett, himself, his father and officials of tine North End Thomas Club insist that the former Holy Cross pitcher signed nothing unti The reached Rocky Mount, North Carolina on July 26til, two days after his performance ,n Waterbury. and the letter he did sign is nothing more than that and could not be considered a contract in any legal sense until he had actu- ally pitched for the Rocky Mount team which he did in the week fol- lowing his arrival in the southern town.
 With time getting shorter, and the Thomas club three games up. the Sacred Hearts are now confront ed with the situation that they must win the protest to get forfeited game, and then beat the Tommies on Angus l to secure a TIE for the. league leadership and then take the Washington Hills on August 18th, while the Thomas club are taking care of the TribuneS, Recreations. and Brooklyns in that order. And, on present form, that looks like too, tugh a tasko. On the thex hand, the Tommies seem to be "in" right now, while the denial of the Hearis. protest, if and when it comes will clinch the verdict and the cham pionship for the club that has lost but one game in II starts.
 Melvin Got Even ,'
 Discussing the Jarlet matter and his golf game, Manager Harry Melvin claimed he knew full well, whata he was doing when Jarlett was secured and time seems to be proving that he did. Inci-, dentally he feels that he more than "got even" with the Hearts since the early scramble over Pitcher Johnny Jablonowski, who has since quit the Hearts and the league, by se- curing Dick Tuckey, on opening day. after the Naugatuck first baseman had even tried on a Sacred Heart uniform the night before and agreed to play with the defending champs. Tuckey, incidentally got 4 for } last Sunday against the Washing ton Hills and is h! !.ting at tne' healthy clip of .348. sn
 If Tram does not receive any en- couragement from Boston within the next "A hours he will try to contact Landis as soon as possible, and at the same time go to work on the National Baseball Federation which, has headquarters in Cleveland.
 Hawaiians Coming
 Tn the meantime, City Amateur League interest is centered upon the visit of Buck Lai's Hawaiians' tomorrow night to play top-notch Thomas Club team at Hamilton Park under the lights in ball game that given good weather, figures to draw at least $500 paying custon- CTS, despite the fact that the Hawaiians lost games in Torring- ton and Bristol, the latter by one run on squeeze play" last night. With a lighting system that is sec-I ond to none, taking nine trucks to- lug around, and team that win or lose, is reputed to be the most col-, orful outfit seen in these parts inl many season as the squad includes a group of Chinese and JapaneSe,, players-hula-h hula dancers and last but not least Jackie Mitchell. girl baseball pitcher who has a strike out of Babe Ruth in her favor. (The Babe was always a good guy).
 Asked about the exhibition game, President Ed Fitzpatrick said: ''The Hawaiian -Tommies game is shap- ing up as the niftiest bit of base ball entertainment we have had around here in quite few seasons. All we need is a break in the weath-. CT and if we get that there will be- at least 5000 customers seated when the game gets under way at 9 p. m" z VI