Milli] M3 m-
3913 Wflllilfl
Doubleheader: in Miler'
leagues Filings Up in
Alarming M a '11 no r —-
Teams May. Not Catch Up?
With Their Schedules
I .
SKEW YORK. {lay 9.—Fbr the third
lime'iu as many years the major
ileague baseball clubs have. encounter-
c—J inclement weather conditions dur-
jug the early days of the pennant
races. Postponed games due to rain,
mid, wet grounds and even snow
have been piling up ill an alarming
manner this spring with the result
I
that a number of double'hoadcrs must :
he played before the1-
' 1111! be able to catch up with
:41 nodules.
During the 19' “days between the
opening of the 1917 season and the
first of May there were but two on
which the complete number of con-
- lusts were. played. The number of
‘ualstponed pain-es per day ranged!
f'onl one to as high as five Out of
right with the result that on the first
41.111 of this month the National
dengue had 16 games to play and the
American 15, making :1 total of 31.
81111191111111 similar conditions pre-
11 died lastApril for during the first
1: days of the 1916 season there were
:1; games postponed of which 16 were
in the National Lcagu'e'nnd eight in
the American Going back still an-
other year the 1ecmds Show that the
first weeks of the- '1915- season were
satisfactory from the baseball weath-
crustandpolnt .but; etit‘ly in‘Mdy the
major and lninorleaguos run into 8.:
long rainyspell with the result that
various clubs
their
firs-1.1111190 Iwocks of that month.
. The. growing demand among the
llLdilethPS for u later opening of the
yearly pennant. races appears to be
bztsed upon the, experience with on-
1-1. itnlllo baseball weather during the
111st 11113'01- or foul seasons
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v ' 13115 STANDiNGS.1
National League.
\V. L.» PC
New York ........... 10 5 .667
1‘1. Louis ............12 7 .632
.t hicngo .1.:' ...... ‘....ll_ 9 .009
1' llllililrll'llllfl ......... S 8 .500
- :oston .., ............ 7 8 .467
1'lllclllllilll ........... 11 13 .453:
l looklyll -. .......... 5 9 .357
.l‘ ittsbululr ........ 1, .. 7 15 .318
American League. “
. L. P.C
l‘oslon ............ , . . .11 4‘ .733
51111 I o l; ........ ". . .10 7 , .588
1 1110. ago ., ......... . . . . .13 :10 .565
.St Louis .......... 11 ‘10 .524
1. 1m cloud ............ 11 10 524
Philadelphia ......... 6 11 . .353
"ll'Oll. ., ............. G 11 .3113
‘."nslll!1:.lon .'. 6 11.353
international League.
, ' \V 1. RC.
Newn 11k .............. 11 (l 1.786
, Faltlnlore ............ 13 5 .722
Rochester .. . . . .. . 7 .5
Frovidencc .. 8 .529
'i‘oronio . ............. 9 .500
Richmond ............ 7 11
l-iontreal ............. 6 11.353
Buffalo .............. 3 13
American League.
, W.
1 1111311 lilolis ....... . .18 5
' Kansas City .. ........ 10 8
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1 clulubus ............ 10 10 ..
1. 'ltiilwaukee 1142;
V blinnennolis' , 9 .35
3'5. Paul ............. 6 11
I, fl‘oledo 5 13
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‘ YESTERDAY’S RESULTS;
National Lcouu'e.
New York. 5; Philadelphia, 1.
‘Boston, 2'; Broklyn'Ll.
St. Louis- -Pittshurgh', ruin.
_‘ (Only three games scheduled).
'1 American League.
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Opinions and Gossip
1
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Pretty decent weather today!
Wargo, pf the Walnut baseball te ml of the Park City, which is going
.m clash with the Tigers at Amusement Park, is the crackerlsck catcher
I whom the Industrial league of that city tried to sign up.
l
AlL sort-1 of fireworks, including verbal ones, were displayed
night‘s council meeting.
it has been suggested that reading prohibition stuff makes one dry.
How ’bout it?
Watch out for some big surprises in both the. National and American
BY {RISE
.9...
.9.
.9.
1‘0“.
League teams! Keep your eye on the western teams.
' Euright and Ferguson, both of the Yankees, have been released. This
.9.
team is now shaved down to the limit of 25 players.
Frank Cilhooley, outfielder,
collar bone Monday. Oil.
is due. for a long lay off.
“Wheat hits highest figure}! says headline.
should look up the records.
c—v-v— ’
of the, Yanks,
.9.
Brooklyn _ga11dine11.~-\l'at£rbury Republican.
was unfortunate to break a
slipped While trying to make a difficult catch and
Then- are scum-111 of big-timers
The writer or that line
ahead of the
at 13181
11111111, saying he would fall far short , to Stay.
, of his duty if he did not urge aboll- all?“ “5 “‘9 “S“perb” “”3 111.1113 ,
tion of professional bouts, in the in- ' ' April 14—411 the game
«.1.-
servcs only
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Baseball has been charged with he
The Tigers Will clash~ bats With the'
Walnut B. ll. team of Bridgeport, Sim
, day afternoon at 3 o’clock. Vat Amuse-
4'" games were postponed during the merit Park The Tiger team recently ‘
leased the park for the summer and log 99 per cent business and one. pmals continued upon our statute books,
has planned to play every Sunday ul‘- cent. 13th 1191111111; 11 little unjustly. the responsibility rests with the lie-I
tornoon and on hollduvs.
The Tiger team is a strong one 11nd' there “been so many 11111on
has been défeuted but once‘ this sub tssins whose owners do not have to
it has met the Noroton 11.13 depend 1911 profits for then livelihood,
dean and mowed them over to a‘disutn' Write's Ed “hay in the 81.1.0115; Fou- W in llllt'u'. state. 111111111111 With:
liOllS defeat by the score of 9 to 8.
has clashed huts Willi the Rod Oaks 01"
Greenwich and won by the score. of
(ii to 8. The only time the Tigers were.
defeated was when they met the Bruce.
Park tcam of Greenwich and bowed to
's'on.
defeat by the score. of 3 to?
inning game.
The lineup of the Tigers follows:
(Donnelly, McMahon, pitchers;
‘v'nn, catcher: Railway, 111.: Silk, 211: F.
Connolly. 3b; Lynch, if; Snow Keene,
cantor; Holinesny' rf.
The Walnut baseball team of Bridge
port. poems to be one of the best num-
tour teams 111,010 state.
been doefutedgts yet and the lineup is
us fallow: 11er and Judd, "pitchora;
Wargo,’cutchcr; McCarthy, 1b: Hay
ca. 211; ohm-110111. 115; Moore, 3b; 'O'Nell
There is no doubt but
what the game will be wcll worth sco-
lf: Lat-kin, ,rl“.
i g
..
.389 A. A. LEAGUE WILL
1 NOT AHORTEN CHART
13" CHICAGO. May fir—Although declin-
1;. PC lug to admit that players in the-
;733 American Association Would the naked
.625 to acéept a reduction in salaries.
10 1565 President Hickey. other a conference
' here‘ with half 1 dozen club managers,
said the situation confronting
.353 club owners would be placed before
.278 the players and owners alike. ‘
Rickey denied that a part of the
- schedule would be cancelled. The
11. Dispatch.
in a ten
Sulli-
League
it has not
.forth.
the
project, he said, had ,not been con-
templated. although the league had
lost $10, 000
’ mental-Within tbs 111319113111 days.
New York, 4; Philadelphia, 2.1 I
Chicago, 4-9; St. Louis, 3-7. ~ ' . ,1 '7‘”
(Second ‘1
l
3 1 games.
Cleveland, 5: Detroit, 2. '
game postponed, rain.)
Washington-Boston,
' 1111111.
both
lntcrnstibnal League. ‘
’1‘.-.l‘olo:uto. Protldonccwl .
(Only one 'galuo scheduled?“ .
American Association. .
' Columbus,“ .1; Milwaukee,” ... '
, indizlnapohs, 5; Minneapolis, 1.
8111111114; lotto, 4. , '
Kansas City. :‘Louisvillc, 4'
1 Southern' Association.
, Nashville, 8-;1 Atlanta 3-3.
, f Bilmiughunl 21.111911111111111, 1.
"1,,Mohile,1: Little Book. ii.
n.
Al's THE HATTEQ,
'16 you Loog 141N134
£311ng ’
because of
postpone-
from being
pointed out
the incomes
sport first.
could have been said ten years ago triumphs.
person -(Charlcs
club
that has been emancipated
from the necessity of returning prof
its to its owners is the Cardinals.
Garry Hermann,
Reds. although not the major owner
of the Cincinnati
game purely for sport.
In the American league 11 can be Once Premier Jockey Vtoflm of Auto
that Navln of Detroit.
Ball of St. Louis, Dunn of Cleveland, !
Ruppert of New York and perhaps all!) WM America's ”PM” lWFF'lL; Santa, c'h J Acquino if.
the Washington owners ale Absolutely died in Coney Island Hospital yester-I
independent or 1111! baseball mammoth following injuries suffered in Mt
while Comiskey is wealthy enough Inuto'moliile crash last Friday night at
not to worry about anything, honcc- 'Tw’enty-sccond avenue and SixtytecJ lelLHOOLEY WILL SE
of Philadelphingond street Brooklyn
and Frazee of Boston may or may not? was seriously injured at the some time
Ben‘ 811le
be disinterested.
Guy Axworthy
This condition 1's brought-to mind
by the transformed Cuba, ti club. that -1
the purely commercial
venture of an entirely commercial
Webb Murphy) has
become- the plaything of two captalnam
of industry, Messrs. Wrigley, of chlclo
fame. and Wecghulan. who is 1311111 to
own a whole bushel of potatoes and
a chain of restaurants along with
other properties.
Another
in the
president of the
stock,
three-year -old
Henry Titer at South Weymmlth.
therein.
opportunity
eluded. -
league
1- . conditions.
York is not
National
the Senutc.
is in the '
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special message to the legislature la».
terests of “public decency.
The governor,
Roosevelt and former Gov. Hughes 88
having opposed professional pugilism,
V declares that. its manner of conduct‘
3 in this state has been "a public dis-
grace." He adds:
"There seems to be an inclination
on We part of some members of
legl: laturo 1.0 ahlrk their responsibili-
ly upon this question, and to protect
and keep in existence a statute which
is the cause of
few who exploit pl‘ite fighting and
prize fighters, for the money return,
which in by no means small. It is
urged that it is a manly sporland on-
l‘y men of good red blood can indulge
There is anllbundunce of
blood who are anxious to 11311le grat-
ify (but? desire in a flood condo."
Gov. Whitman.
recent killing in the ring of a pro-
fessional boxer.
evil effects" of tho Frawley law con
“if the law permitting this atrocity
publloun 1111101111. in the legislature
"I urge the legislature to hike up
this sublect pad to repeal the FnWIoY
.law. livery bonnet. and rtg‘hl' 1111111111111
malorlty in the legislature
mom of this low.
“The party is responslbls if it per
mite this law to remain in force and
protects prize fighting in thiaismle. It
is an evil and abominable thing. and‘
I propose that
clear to the public that the Governor
of Néw York is against it. lust as
hard as he know how to be."
The Boxing Law Repeal bill has
twice failedof passage in“ use Assent -
bly and is buried in general orders in
REDFERN DIES 0F lN'JUHIES. ‘
Arthur Redfem. who fifteen years
When he retired
I.«(lnopbey avenue. ‘,
who quotes Colonel
double headel.
I ,_ . .
we‘at bat yesterday.
The cubs used
this disgrace and
to satisfy the greed of a ent story this yea
1 Georgetown wll
season Sunday
Broaden
walk, as tho
now for men of-good red gregauon.
"Blues" will
who refers to the
”here, us"‘one of the
dents utll lune
home the bacon.’
street groundS.
must I believe, Edemand season. 1 1
in New
responsible for the enact- day afternoon at
or two years.
it shall be entirely
5 m. The luttery
of 18 to 22 years.
tau—....
mobile Crash.
third: (Redford rnI
‘rlgllt fielder of the Yankees, who Was
afternoon
Luce Works team, of Nor—
attraction.
‘Whollo will pitch for the Norwaik ag-
llaVo :1
Wm
' ”BOW WOW”
Court and Toocllar.
The Dodgers seem to be hitting the
The Giants are winning games lust
, - -O~—
Tim Chicago White Sox. name out
of their slump with a rush yesterday.
and walloped the peppery Browns 11
...-
Rairdcn of_tlle Giants,
three safe binglcs out of three times
llolke got three
hits out of four times at the plate.
" -O-
to be easy for
1‘.
...—
1 open its baseball
the
with
......
Corporal Conrad of the New. lllll‘cn
clock catcher
from New listen to support him Sun-
day afternoon wllon llle"Blucs" tack-
le the No'rwalk independents at
Ward strc'et ground'3.
to travel to
......
A big crowd ought
Sunday afternoon to witness the In-
dependent-"Blues" game at the ’Ward
The game will an,
doubtedly be one of the best of the
.....l
The lineup is as follows:
Court and Toockar, p; ‘1. Letizia,
c: S Ban. 1 b; Wm. 81mm 2 11:3 fasted the Cleveland Indians “0 2111
Nardi. a s; F. Faxa. 3 b; C. T111100 r f; a game in which the st, Louis pimp.
ars walked ten batsmen, but were 0!-
wllh men on him. This gains“
also marked Tris Speakerd’ banish-l
111101“ by an umpire for the first. time
Islnce he joined 1110 1:1.
OUT F07! ONE MONTH ago
PHILADELPHIA, May 9~The grlml April alt-«Walinuing the Muckmen,6
Iand is now in the Galley lslnndllos’pt- hand M fate has ”no.“ upon Frank to 3' Babe Ruth the Red Sox beaver,
Half the major league clubs of 10-} 1111. She has not been told of her bngdllhooley again
day are in the hands of independent 'band's death. .
fortune, captains of business to whom i From the time be was 17 until he pluclml from service last season by 1111 Pittsburgh pastim'or. sustained a
is secondary and thus was well along in tho twenties died- the lime that has mm“ the club fractured rib while indulging in aplay-
Th‘u ‘5 m" m0” "1"“ 'W '1 turf career W“ a ““95““ “’1 ever since Bill Donovan assumed com fol wraptllng match with several or his
'1 will round will be unable to play for the. team mates. '
W3“! 8 fortune el'um'htefr‘ a". $250110“) next month or more owing to 3'
For games apply to Frank Baxu, .Ifeclive
manager, South Norwalk.
The float footed chalked up his fifth victory in a row.
April Bib-Frank Schulte, the Veter-
collected
the
Dodgers. but maybe it will be a differ-
“Danny"
the
The indoor-.11 ,
“bring 1,
to be on hand
Sunday. at 3 p
Bates,
leg sliding into
contest,
pitcher with the
hold Cleveland
Aplil
the Braves.
be. played over.
April
league champions
game of the season,
Giants 4 to 3. The Robina had dropped
four straight beforcland‘lnga game in
the won column.
I milder.
April 211—ch
' Cubs
April till—Capt.
the month or Aunt.
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Stunts That Have Interest 'Former New ark Interstate
ed the tans From Day
a: 1 . toboggan'ln fine shape just at the pre- . to Day Since
ALBANY. May S—Maklng a last sent time. Neither the pitchers nor Opened ____ Giants _
stand in behalf of the bills to repeallthe batters can seem to get started - 4’) ,
he Frawlcy law legalizing motes-this season. inst P43?" mtoughmlt’”?
slonal boxing, Gov. Whitman sent a w.— R ey
' There Again, Determined,
Washington and the Athletics, Ray
of the Machined,
triples, a double and a single in five
times up, and sent in six. runs.
April ll—Eddle Cicotto, the White
" Sox hurler, pitched first 110- hlt glmc
of the season, the .St. Louis Browns
being on the short end, 11 to 0.
April lit—Vic Shier,
sackcl- of the Chicago Cubs. broke his
the home plate in a
game against‘the 1St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cubs lost the game by a score of
5 to 3 after using eighteen men in the
April—17 Allan 'Sothoron, a recruit
Louis Brown.
to one hit and white-
washed tilt~ indium. 4 to 0. Only 29
bastmell gave him the once over.
17—~..'tiunuger
Sf.
18—1’l‘he Brooklyn National
April 20~4Wbtte the 1aneu,wero
trimming the Giants 4 to 2 in a 14-1
Inning battle at New York, the nth
.letids trounced the Senators 6 to 4 in
"m“ ”‘99“ The party “0V1" }“ "‘"E V'l‘hpllrvlnw. C. Nash Engineering 9. lainnlng contest at Washington.
Company game scheduled for Satut- April 24—Pltcbor George Morgridge
the \Vm‘d «trust at the New Yolk and won his game
grounds promises to be a sort of 118- against the world's champions by a
union for the Irving ball loaders, 'l‘boIscorc of 2 to 1.11 “as the first no-
men have not played togetherl‘or ov-sblt game ever pitched by‘ a Yunkcéi
Merklo‘. for years a
lmember of the New York Giants am
The fast- organized Strawberry Hill later‘wlth the Brooklyntcam was re-
Bulldog bubbl“ team “1101)"! their loosed by Brooklyn to the Chicago
season with the C. P; 81 Co. team on
their home ground-d Chat-icy Herzog of
in undecided um. ' the Giants fell in the Pennsylvania
,Probably the battsry will be between station in New York and suffered n
We will chal- serious injury to his spine.
lense any team between the averageI . April 28—1319 Boston Red 8011 pass-
ed the Chicago White Sox and named
the lead in theAmerlcau League race
April ail—Tile St. Louis Browns do
11111-11 sou-mu New York loans suc-
3' F YOlmR OLQHIHCY has” sent M9 H0 lull! the 810313? M or "1‘9 5M 0‘ broken collar bone sustained in the needed in holding first place in the
to late had been oonduttllhs :1 amaze in 3mm inning of blondsy's game with National mm standing throughout
the Athletic-3.1
1Munager O‘Hara yesterday,
Moran of the
lPlllllies protested 1111-~ game won by
claiming
Bransfleld erred in calling Lavender
out. President Toner upheld Moran's
contention and ordered the game to
defeating the
Hammond, second baseman:- I
first attracted attention as a p}:
‘ of the New York State new
31’0an ing uensational baseball at shores
,away to his home in Fall River .
lions! League Player'M
ports-Battod . 281 lit-m1
Games in Class AA 6115-.
cult Last Year
BRIDGEPOR‘I‘. May Sir—Additional
strength for the Ponies regional? til
the our
rival of five players bringing:
total practically to what it was; 1 j
bended at the outset. Most cmm' '
on: among the latest to show n91
Arthur (Doc) Borgin, a new
baseman whom the club but
chased from the Newark MW
211 League club. Duran cum _
rather unexpectedly. The club not?”
the purchase last week. but 111m
announcement until waivers had Dem;
secured from all of the 111th
League clubs it was expected '
would take more time than Wis
case and consequently Darla. 13%
into town unannounced. How”
he is here and the lilanagemon‘t ..
thankful. in fact he arrived m1 m
to get into the seven-inning praCt
game which O'Hara. gave the aim
yesterday. and his showing around i
initial bag for the lcgulars gives
son to assume that Bennett Gilbe' .
a first baseman whom the Phil: 1111,1115
sent here, will have more opposltl
than expected. The job lies beta-mi
these two at present.
Four Report
The other four to rcportV w
Jigger Ojerholm, catcher; Wol'
Hickey, outfielder. and Pitcher
Relllg. Hickey got in during"
morning and was also ensued Ill
practice game. Oje'rholul, H’ 1 _
and Rattlg armed at early night”
will be on the field this hf-
when the Ponies meet the $11.6
college in on exhibition guula' a
o'clock.
The acquisition of Duran.
cntly has renewed the managerial: qt
its worries over theft"! W ' '
With Gilbert and “Durgi’n to if
out for the position,.tho club 1 1-
es two fat-ll men. Just. which one»:
remain'CiWI. bo decided. arm:
have been seen in action. i
as a member of th Brown U ,
baseball team. Pittsburgh ‘pl
him up and then. sent him to
he played for two years. ,Ilost
son. he was witllfiNewnrk and 9
games hit for ..281 and fickle
.987. The year previous with
he hit for .300 in 122 mules. Ho
loft-handed and_ throws right-1V
cd.
'roanv CALLED ‘HQME' '
Walter Ll‘orphy, who has been '
for the New Haven club. was
ly yestelday upon receipt or a
gram that his sister is 111mm
ill. .Tdrphy’s place in yest'l!
game was taken care of‘by‘Wlfft ,r ‘ '
former 01110 State leaguer. Owns!
lil'l'd expects that Torphy will in"
by Thursday, so as to get mo-
opeulug game with 3111de do
in Rock.
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