Newspaper Page Text
THE CONNECTICUT LABOR PBESS Boxing Baseball ' OO Bowling OO ri WALTER JOHNSON IS CREDIT TO BASEBALL Content With His Present Berth With Washington. Stove League Fans Make Many Trades and Among Others Shift Sensa tional Pitcher to v- Comlskey's White Sox. When the store league fans got In to full swing last winter, all kinds of trades and sales were made of all the leading players In both; major leagues and,, as usual, Walter John 5 son, sensational pitcher of the Wash ington Americans, was tagged for shipment to several of the teams In the Ban' Johnson circuit. ' - One report had it that Sir Walt In 1920 was to do the hurling act for the Chicago White Sox. The signlfl cant thing about this proposed deal, however, was that neither Manager "Clark Griffith or Johnson himself had , been consulted In the matter, -; ' Walter Johnson's contentment as a member of the trailing Capital City club seems to bother those daring fans . , Walter Johnson. . v who delight to shift the players of the majors about to suit their own Ideas. Johnson Is perfectly satisfied with his berth at Washington and as far as is known, Clark Griffith Is quite content to shoulder Johnson's big contract for at least another season. Although the fans may not general ly know it, Johnson had a chance to go to Clef eland a year ago, and he turned the offer down i because he did not want to leave Griffith. At that time; Magnate Dunn of the 'Cleveland team was m the quest of pitching ma terial to bolster an otherwise classy club. He made Griffith an offer for Johnson said to ; be , SSO.OOCy and Griffith took the matter up with his pitching ace. Griffith did not want to lose Johnson, but he felt that Walter had been such a faithf ul N worker-he did not care to stand In his way of getting a substantial boost In pay if the pitcher : really cared to make the change. - When Johnson was asked about It, he promptly replied that he was per fectly satisfied with his job and did not really care to make a move. It is said Johnson dislikes to change about He has come' to know Griffith and Washington fans, and as he puta it he Is content to continue pitching for that team, regardless of , the . fancy amounts' he could possibly obtain from other club owners. - LEFT-HANDED PLAYERS In baseball In all positions left-handers have held their own with the best of them. '"--' Ruth and Cobb, the two great- est batsmen In the American league, bat left-handed. Left-handed pitchers like Kerr of the White Sox and Sallee of the Cincinnati Reds, carried off leading honors in, the baseball blue ribbon of last year. In the olden days Waddell, Plank, Marquard and other left handed pitchers Jled all others' In baseball and held their own . near the top for years, Tyler of the Cubs and Wil liams and Kerr of the White Sor are only a few -of the left handers who are expected to do great things In the major leagues this year. While .Cobb and Ruth, both left handers, were leading bats men In the American league last year, in 1918 Wheat of Brook lyn, Roush and Southworth of - Cincinnati, all left handers, ' were the three top men In the National league list, xnat proves how - effective left-handed bats men are and shows the advan tage they have over right-handed players when it comes to reaching first base on a hit. Read The Labor Press Labor's, paper. Sp6 - n a ,. -HiiMiiftYi'itifinlir TtnimirntilnYi" Jib&s and Who's Who and Why in Sport .' 9 ' Shortstop Shay certainly fills the gap at short, and the team as a whole seems to have braced np since his coming. ' The way that the various recruits are coming and going looks like the locals were going to give New Haven fans a winner before the season, is well under way. - .""' Mique O'Dowd, the popular middle weight , boxer, who lost the title to Johnny Wilson, the Boston Italian, re cently, had held the title since early m 191 7, when he licked A1. McCoy. The fight went 12 rounds. O'Dowd was the aggressor throughout the contest but Wilson, . left handed boxer, scored re peatedly with his right. O'Dowd ex celled in infighting, but seemed unable to fathom Wilson's . style of boxing. Eight of the rounds went to Wilson, two to O'Dowd, and two were even." . . ' The popular Mike is booked to ap pear in NewHaven on the 21st, when he takes on-Jack . Curtiss for . six rounds at the Police Department bouts. ' , O'Dowd's defeat caused as much sur prise as when Terry McGovern lost his hrst ngnt witn xoung t-orDeir.in nan ford1. , vsV"-. ' V.- '.,', . "Peppery Jack" Ftynn and "Howling Dan" Howleyv are both having their early" season troubles, but both are Wders . of the first water and their teams will undoubtedly be up front when the Glorious Fourth rounds by. Pete Herman ' and Toe Lynch are matched for a 12 round decision bout at Lawrence, Mass.; on the 29th. The bantam title is at stake, but Herman feels pretty safe', as Lynch has not been going well lately. : . ; -'' The new nark is expected to be fin ished and ready for the approval, of New Haven fandom by June 1. , " . Herman Bronkie,. the -Manchester "boy," is back in the old haunts again, having signed with Hartford. Herman has covered the dizzy corner for sev eral of the big leagues since his last appearance m this section of the woods. Willie Jackson and Johnny Dundee are evidently after the record set by Jack - Britton vs. Ted Lewis and Sam McVey vs. Sam Langford. . ', ,'. Joe Dugan, the venus of the Dugan family, is in town resting up. He was holding his own with the leaders in the American league., when he ' tore a liga ment which forced him to. 4ay off. Jimmy Leach is back with 1 his Fair Haven friends after a short stay with Bridgeport Jimmy had his salary cut and like a good union man he quit after winning the only game he pitched. . v"" ... Johnny Evers, the former Cub sec ond sacker," has ' joined the Giants as head coach. McGraw has always recognized Evers as one of the brainiest players the game has produced. He is given the credit for the Giants defeat the .year .Fredr Fred Merkle failed to touch second, whereby a championship was lost : , , . Charlie Bergin is down to box Collie Pleines six rounds at the Policemen's bouts next Friday night, and the Tanlac Kid. will make Collie hustle, if appear ances count. - - v ' . This is" Ty Cobb's 15th season' as a big leaguer., Tyrus Raymond- has been slow in getting started, but - he finally got his eye on the bulb and is gradually going up where he belongs. ; . . . . ' : If the ' American Legion team' be comes a reality we will see Hen Falsey, Duke Rowley, Red Quinn, OssieKrall, Tom Newman, and a bunch of i other well-known stars in the line-up. . -' ;" Pitcher Coveleskie of the Qeveland Indiarjs has won his seventh straight game. The Shamokin boy is Speakers mainstay this season. :, With Steve 0"Neil,- who hails from the- little coaf mining town of Minooka, Pa., Qeve land has a real coal miners battery, and a good one, too. ' '- -.J, Lefty Davis, the locals southpaw, loeks like the goods. He is leading the New Haven slabmen and Bender has great confidence in him. Manager. Mike Mitchell of the Cubs put the damper on the laxity- display ed by several members of the team, when he fined Fred Merkle $25 and gave him an indefinite suspension, and Flacked was dealt a $25 fine also, but was not suspended. More power to ye, Mike. ' . , . - Patsy Wallace, the Italian. Quaker City flyweight, who floored - Jimmy Wilde recently, is hankering for another bout with the champion. Wallace's man ager has offered Wilde a guarantee of 5,00(1 for a six round bout in Philly and,Al Werbe of the Detroit National A. C. has" made Wilde an offer of $10,000 for Wilde's services for a 10 round no decision bout in his club.:. Pitcher Wayne Wright of the Lou isville club, has been completing; his college work af Ohio State, university, and has been late In reporting as a consequence. .' Yankee fans are hopeful that Fews ster will entirely recover from his In juries and that some time next sum mer he will be able to resume work on the ball field. Baseball has become one of the fea tures of Peoria. It has a club in the Three-I league. The other , day the city voted a bond Issue of $50,000 to build a baseball stadium. . Akron got Ray Morgan from Balti more for the International league waiver price," of $1,000. It paid the same sum for Billy PurtelL claimed on waivers from Toronto. :.. ..0.. 0, 0 . . i ; Ted Easterly, the old Cleveland catcher, and lefty Bill James,' who once toiled on the Cleveland slab, both are now members of the ' Beaumont team of the Texas league, . - O n poraim Jabs G0WDY IS BASKETBALL STAR Famous Catcher of Boston Braves Kept Himself In Condition Play Ina at Columbus. " Hank Gowdy, famous catcher of the Boston, Braves when that team won the world's championship and who was the first .baseball player to rally to fight the Germans, -played basket ball last winter with the Columbus Kenyons. :'. "' ,'J,- Hank Is a good court performer and was on the same team wfth such play- . Hank Gowdy. era as ."Shifty" Bolen, formerly y of Ohio State ; . Snooks, Run, Waite and Davis, who played - football with the Columbus Panhandles last fall. - Gowdy's team was one of the strong est in Ohio and made a fine record on the courts. . ' San Francisco' golf exponents are agitating a public course. ' v- Frank Moran of Pittsburgh won on points over Tom Cowler of England in a London ring, v . ' .. Jose R. Capablanca, the' Pan-American chess champion, has 'gone to his Havana, home for a rest -. .' . .. . ' The boxing game received a boost with the opening of the Olympic Ath letic club at Idaho Falls. -"-. ; '' " , . - . ' J . - . - -i- ' " . Cleveland's central Y. M. C. A. phy sical department attracted 14104 men In the eleven months previous , to March. , MOST UNIQUE STRIKE Red Faber made, perhaps'the mostun!que strike ever seen on the: bowling alleys of the Chi cago Elks' club. Faber rolls with terrific speed, which ac ' counted for the freak. He cut the ball loose and it hit a little to 'the left of the center, pin, leaving No. 8 standing. One of the pins ' flew clear to the pit hit the wall,, caromed, off the wooden side' of the alley and, got the , lone- pin ' standing. When the game finished the pin boy remarked : v "Tse sho' glad that big red-headed man is done finish, 'cause if he ain't I is." 9 MM ones- No big leaguer has shown better all around work this spring than Bobby Veactu. Rumor has It that "Stuffy" Mclnnls has been"j)laced on the market by the Red Sox. - ,, - Davy Bancroft, who had a mild case of flu,, has recovered and is once more guarding the shortstop spot . -; . ' 1 s - .. Fred Thomas Is a fine fielder, but hs weakness as a hitter may mean a new third baseman for the Athletics. y ". " Marsans, the Cuban player, has found It a tough job trying to regain his . oldt playing form after his' long layoff. 1 ; ;' . , , . v Rabbit Gharrity, with Galveston last year, Is playing with the Caspar, Wyo., team, managed by the Texas veteran, Arbogast Gene Robertson, Infielder, has been released by the St. Louis Americans to the Columbus club of the American association. Pitcher Gri&es expects to do a lot of work' for the Brooklyn team this season, having declared that he will pitch 36 games. . , A rather tough season is in store for Babe Ruth, If he tries to deliver all the wonderful stunts expected of him by Gotham fans. v x With Pitchers Joe Bush and Harry Harper lined up, Manager Barrow looks for a big Improvement in the Red Sox pastiming. AOThS mm REDLEG PITCHERS HAND IVY WINGO FINE BOOST FOR PATIENT WORK BEHIND PLATE J?sr?my ?fs7 Ivy Wino Ivy WIngo, Cincinnati catcher, masJ not be regarded generally as a staASiurler, and when, the hurler gets Into receiver, but since Cincinnati won the National league flag 'and then copped the world's championship from the White '"Sox, he Jias two boosters-who never pas" up an opportunity to sing his praises. The boosters are Walter Ruether and Jimmy Ring, members of the Cincinnati hurling group. Ring and Ruether, both declared Wingo has been cheated out of his share of publicity for his work behind the bat. They say Ivy does not court publicity, nor does lie expect any, and consequently he is overlooked by the scribes. ".:'; ' . . . '. Best Work Never Seen. According to Ring, ' Wingo's best work is never seen by the fans, be cause he Is most valuable as a help to pitchers. "A pitcher never worries or frets in a critical situation when Ivy la behind the bat" he said, "because Ivy knows how fo encourage a man and dwarf -the danger of the situation re gardless of what it may be." : It seems Wlngo is one of the pre-. ious few . big league catchers who OLD CY YOUNG IS ONLY MAN IN DIAMOND HISTORY TO WIN 500 BASEBALL CONTESTS ' Jf hi -ri "-" iiinn r ' IfV ' I - I v Oy YoUTg In all baseball history only one man ever won more .'than ; five . hundred games. ; And that star of stars was Cy Young, who garnered a total of, 508 victories in 1887 games during bis, 22 years as a big leaguer. His yearly average was 23 victories', against 15 defeats for a percentage of .606. . Dur ing aU the years of Young's career- his novice days, his prime and his wan ing power" he struck outran average tf three men per game and yielded oojy about 1 passes. ' - ' Math'ewson's Record. Christy Mathewson alone challenged the supremacy of Young but , the mighty "Big Six" fell far short of the record of the veteran of bygone days. Mathewson lasted only 17 years as ; a twirler, during which time he scored 872 victories. His yearly winning av erage was 22 victories against 11 de feats for a mart of .664. In all those 17 years Mathewson issued only 717 bases on balls in 625 games a show ing that eclipses anything ever exhib ited. . . Looking back over the records for the . three best consecutive seasons shows that Joe Wood Is the percentage leader and that Walter Johnson and Cy Young are tied In the matter of total- triumphs during such a period. Wood during 1912, 1913 and 1914 f itcner Uirge omningnam, wno refused to accept a transfer from De troit to Portland, has been sold by the Detroit club to Chattanooga. --.. Herb Moran's decision to manage a shop team In the Pittsburgh steel dis trict means the . Sioux City club must select some one else to manage the Sioux. . - - So well pleased Is the Louisville management with training conditions at Mobile that it already has arranged for the Colonels to return to the Gulf Cityext spring. They are calling the Brooklyn Dodg ers the "Bridegrooms" again. . Among the ,newly-weds are Rowdy Elliott, Sherrod Smith, Barney Neis, George Mohart and Joe Oonlan. - Pop Anson is not such an unregene rate that he can see no good in any thing modern. He says he doesn't know whether Rusie or Johnson had the more speed, but that Johnson does his work more easily. n Sports of All Kinds in Brief oo OO Jiever seem . to -lose patience with a a tight place Ivy tries to think of all the kind things he -can say, instead of yelling at the flfhger and otherwise exhibiting a full-grown peeve. ' Praise From Toney. Fred Toney of the Giants recently declared he never saw such a patient receiver as WIngo, and this confession was made before Ring or Ruether broke Into print with a good word for Ivy. In every assignment In the re cent . world's series WIngo acquitted himself with great credit, exhibiting a grand throwing arm', directing his pitchers with rare Judgment and re sponding with a wallop as often as such could be expected from the ordi nary receiver.- : . Umpired are all strong for WIngo be cause he never fusses about decisions. He .fights for everything he thinks is his, but he withdraws' from the battle when a verdict is rendered Pat Mo ran has a pmir of stars in Wirigo and Rariden, and a" genuine comer in Allen, who bad Utile chance to show his abil ity ' won 54 out of 67 "games for the re markable average of .806. His yearly showing was 18 victories against 4 de feats. Second place in the percentage ranking, belongs' to Chief Bender, who, from 1909 to 1911, inclusive, won 59 out of 77 games for a mark of .766. - The. three best years that Cy Young ever knew were 1891, .1892 and 1893. He won 97 and lost 49 games In that period. Walter Johnson tied Young In winning 97 clashes In 1912, 1913 and 1914. But the showing of Johnson surpasses that of Young because while Cy was losing 49 games Walter dropped only 36. Walter's average for the three years was .729. Young's was .664. i - - - - . , Won 90 Games. ' In addition to Young and Johnson only three Qther prtchers ever won 90 or more games for three straight sea sons. Those men are Mathewson, Al exander and Jack Chesbro, the famous Yankee pitcher of years ago. Chesbro, by winning 41 games In 1904, set the mark that no one has been able to fracture since that tine. Ed Walsh made a desperate1 effgrt to beat out Chesbro In 1908, but 40 vic tories was the best he could -do. Chris ty Mathewson, with 37 victories i 1908, made the best National league snowing since 1900. Joe Boehling, the left-hander, who was quite a pitcher with Washington, predicts that he will make a sensa tional comeback this season. ; (if . -' Tris Speaker says that the great est handicap nnder which the Indians are working is that all the writers are picking them to win the pennant. Pitcher Bill Ryan, formerly of Holy Cross, has made a brilliant showing with the Giants and will most likely win a permanent berth with McGraw's teas?. - Pat Moran says that he will make no changes in the lineup of the champion Reds this season. "The team Is -good enough as it stands," he declares. ' '. Horace Milan, brother of the veter an Washington outfielder, will be in the Western , league 8gain this year. He had a couple of trials with the Nationals. , I MR UNION Does the Tobacco You Use Bear the UNION LABEL? IPcsimnd Sgd(B(isuJ SMOKING AND CHEWING I ITCDUDSKlSdSdD is manufactured by Local Union No. 59 of the Tobacco Workers International Union. ; '. ' Be consistent UNION LABOR. not LOOK FOR PENN TOBACCO COFiIPANY X ; ; WILKESBARRE, PA. Belonging to We offer to the thrifty svery convenience for saving-, and every assurance of safety. . . , ' , A mutual savings bank all its assets belong to its deposit- :. ors. There is no division of profits among shareholders. -Whenyou put your surplus in this Bank at interest, you make it truly YOvTR bank. f ; iC Connecticut Savings Bank .... - . .... j . ' Established 1857 ' 47 Church Street, 4 .; ; c New Haven, Conn- Member New Haven Trades Council Co-Op Campaign ' 8 "Z 2' 'I S 5 S 5 'S S S' S ? 'I S S "2 4. J. b; I. u. of a. . Local No. 215 See that this card is in the T Barber Shop YOU patron- ize. It guarantees Sanitary 2 TnaTishin. " v ' -; - X' A i, ,f l I ! ! ! ! ! Tris Speaker Is raising an objection to the player limit. He Is the only playing manager In the majors and thinks that 'he should be exempt, thus giving the Indians one more athlete. Last season at least three clubs In the American league drew more than 50,000 people In the, home games. By way of comparison,- the Atlanta club led the Southern association with 195, 033 paid at home. " ' SANDL0TS FURNISH STARS Mordecal Brown, Former Cub Pitches Says College Boy Is at Big .Disadvantage. ,. The boy from the sandlots makes a better ball player than the college youth, according to Mordecal Brown, the one-time three-fingered pitching marvel of the Chicago Cubs. . "If I were to select one of two playr ers of equal ability one of them a boy off the sandlots and the other a college star I would take the sandlot youth every time," says Mordecal. "I' do not mean to deprecate the ability of college players. Some of the really big men of the game have been developed by the colleges. But It has been my observation, both while In the major league and since leaving it, that the college, player 13 at a dis advantage. "This, ' I believe. Is due to the fact that many of them have not been up against the' world.' They cannot give and take as the player who has had his start in semlpro baseball." IAN- selfish, in your support of THE LABEL ositors - m: costell & son : - . - Repair Shop Cutlery Sharpening, Hair i-Clip-' pers, Bazors, Shears, Lawn Mowers. Tire Vulcanizing, Automobile . " Accessories. Gas and Oils. ' Call and Delivery Service. Telephone Connection. 5 Our. Motto : Quality. 122 D1XWELL AVE. New Haven, Conn. , RICH, CREAMY MILK ' ' : AMD "" " - PURE CANE SUGAR am N E s XL-EISsj h2Sfl Save tte U&e!s for Va'catle Prcmlusis " Am C-l Bt " Tht MilH n" " ''-' ' , ' '.'';" - " : -"r ; " " . f ' NESTLE'S FOOD C0MPANT 130 William SU. Naw Yorii Phone Lib. 4451 Wholesale & Retail . We Specialise in Odd Size Tires ORANGE & ELM TIRE CO. "First in Quality and Last in Price" Popular Standard Makes r Auto Tires and Tubes . At Bargain Prices S3 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn. MILLER CORDS Fully Guaranteed Oep 1 CUWS 4SatSf