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THE CONNECTICUT LABOR PRESS x Connecticut's Recreation Spot for the Workers Attractions and Business Concerns which Co-Operate with Organized Labor and Desire the Patronage of the Wage-Earner and His FamilyPatronize Them. ' Beach Restaurant White City Pastry Shop Grove Lunch : , White City Lunch , A " Park Lunch ' WHEN AT SAVIN ROCK ' " VISIT THOMAS' Grove Photo Studio RAILROAD GROVE Boxing Baseball OO Bowling ' OO Sport .. .. A A - ' MMjMjMjMjjjnjMSMjMj - KANSAS CITY SECURES AMES Old-Time National League. Twlrler Likes Baseball Too WeKtb Quit 1 t ; Signg With Blues. Leon ; Ames likes to play -ball " too well to quit, even at his age, and after getting his release from the St. Louts Cardinals he signed with the. Kansas City club. He "will find-some old as sociates in the A. A. who won't be bluffed by his reputation for good serv ice In the National; " - , NEW RULE CAUSING TROUBLE Difficult ' for : Umpire 'to Determine Whether Batter Tried to Dodge. . a Wild Pitch. '. The new rule making the ball dead If it hits the bat when a batter is dodg ing a bad pitch is already causing trouble. The umpire's judgment as to whether the batter; tried. toVdodge de cides and of course that judgment is disputed, according to the advantage gained by the teams playing. Every time some batters hit a foul now or an easy grounder to the Infield they claim they were trying to ,dodge a wild pitch... . V ;'" :-- ANNUAL REGATTA POSTPONED Races of Canadian Amateur Assocfa- tlon. Deferred to . Avoid Con , flict With National. So as not to conflict with the na tional rowing races at Worcester. July 24 and 25, the Canadian Association of Amateur Oarsmen has put back its annual regatta until July 80 and . 31. All "Intermediate races will be elim inated straightway. The regatta Is usually held oyer the St, Catharines course. ROOKIE LOSES BIG DIAMOND ' a Brooklyn : Club Farms Player Who Struck Out Babe Ruth In Spring :: Exhibition. Game. " Joe Conlan, rookie recruit with the Dodgers, fanned Babe Ruth this spring. They farmed him to Reading. Fie learned to play at the Chicago stock yards. If he had stuck with Brooklyn until they ; played In Chicago, ,. his friends had, planned to. present, him with a big diamond.. ' ' 'v 'V I: . ' . I i" y'Af"- -, I ' - -I; A " ? fji ? - J t - . . . . Leon Ames. DiA.SH D EDEL- OO RESTAURANTS 'I v " REGULAR DINNERS SERVED Jibes and j. y T JT C Upper ALTR0CK SAYS OLD AGE IS FLIRTING WITH HIM . Uncle Nick Altrock, the bird who Is making the fans laugh : around the American- league cir cuit, says old age Is pitching him some hard curves, but that .he'll never quit the game. Nick's left wing went bad. Next his "dogs" began to bother, and , now his lamps are flickering. Nick vows . he may appear on the coaching line-one of these days behind a pair of cheaters. ;. "Except in daylight I. r can't readv any more without having the lines run together. Guess 1 must be getting old 'after all. Old age Is flirting-with me, but -ril never quit the diamond." QUIGLEY IS BUSY OFFICIAL National League Umpire Gives' De cisions in Some Kind of Sport 265 Days Each Year. Life is just ne game after another for Ernest C. Quigley, National league umpire. From April -to October he Is a baseball arbiter.- During October and November he is, a college football official. The -winter months find him busy running basket ball games. ." There are 154 games In the usual National league season. Quigley fre quently works in pre-season and post- Ernest C. Quigley. season affairs, such as the world series contests In '1919. Iis usual total of baseball contests each year Is close to 170. During the short term of foot ball Mr. Quigley crowds in 20 or more gridiron games, frequently working three or four times a week. He does most of this officiating In Kansas, Ne braska, Oklahoma, Iowa and Texas. Puny batting has been the Giants' biggest handicap. . ' ' Joe Kelley says that Willie Keeler was the best bunter in baseball. It Is not very difficult for an umpire to find an excuse for doing what he wishes. 0?5 o s o irw o cfl I ii L , ". jt t l trw-"" -5 Itmo SAVIN ROCK West Haven, Conn, O 'orae 'Jabs BOB MEUSEL 1 PROMISING . i Pacific Coast Star Is Holding Down Baker's Job at Far Corner for , ' New. York Yanks. .The photograph shows Bob Meusel, former PacifiV Coast league star, who has been holding down "Home Run! Bnl:fr's 1ob at third base for the New Bob. Meusel. Vork Yankees. He is perhaps the most promising minor league recruit in the American league. Meusel is a fast fielder, a hard hitter and possesses a fine throwing arm. . . ; Jack Quinn of the Yanks says he'll be as effective without the spltter as with it. - . .. . CHANCE OPEN FOR BREEDERS Sufficient Promise In Interesting Branch of Raising Stock to . Attract New Men. ' When a breeder of trotting horses can realize $1,0S3 around for his en tire crop of foals sold by auction with. in 12 months after tiiey were -born, as the owners of Walnut flail farm did recently, there "should be' suflTcient promise In this interesting. branch of stock breeding to bring a . lot of new men ', Into it, but just now they ,are fewer than at any other time In fifty years. . BUILDING HALF-MILE TRACKS Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., Getting Ready for-Fall Trot--' ting Meets. " Two new half-mile, tracks are being built at Savannah, Ga., and Jackson ville, Fla., for .trotting meetings to be held next November. James Flem ing, formerly Identified with the Ohio state fair at Columbus, is to be man ager of the Savannah track. ; TEN "SPITBALLERS" Only ten American league l, pitchers are eligible to use the ; "spit ball" during the 1920 sea- son. Cleveland has nominated t Coveleskie and Caldwell; - Chi- cago, Cicotte and Faber; De- troit, Leonard and Ayers ; St. Louis. Shocker and. Gallia; New York, Qufnn; and Boston. Rus- sell, ' t . 1 'II m v - , f Vi 1 h 1 111 Wilcox's Pier Restaurant Famous For Its SHORE DINNERS ' WILCOX'S MERRY-GO-ROUND Longest Ride and Newest Music. WILCOX'S SKEE BALL and . BRIDGE BALL Most Popular Bowling Games. Wilcox's Aiito Supply Station Best Gasolene and Oil Station at 4 Rock. Something New CREAMY ROOT BEER ZOLLER & SCHNEIDER Near Car Station GEORGE KELLY IS TALLEST FIRST SACKER y six'1 :-:?::::::: :;:-::::-:-:-:--:::::-. A. George Kelly,. Giants' first baseman, can thank, nature . for his unusual height. Kelly la.6feet 4 inches, and the tallest first sacker in either, 'of, the big leagues.- He can graB a ball 9 feet in the air without taking his feet off the ground. 'His long reach also comes in handy for spearing grounders and wild throws." , ' ' ." . ' " GREEDY PLAYERS ARE WEAKENING BASEBALL Avarice, Strikes, and .Gambling Scandals Hurt Game. Big League Club Owners May Decide to Abolish World's Series or DU - , vide Net Receipts Among . , Themselves In Future. So muci trouble in baseball has been caused by the playing of the- world's series that the big league club owners may decide either to abolish the games altogether or to divide the net receipts among themselves, says a well known baseball veteran, In Evening Sun. The players are responsible for the hostile attitude of some of the mag nates, ,who say that the squabbles over world's series shares are commercializ ing baseball to such -a "degree ; that sportsmanship soon may be of no lnvr. porta nee. . - Greed for gold is creating much 111 feeling in the camp of the Yankees. Although the players received hand-' some salaries last year, with about $5QO-each extra for winning third po sition, under the new world's series rules, they " grumbled '- because , the groundkeeper, the trainer and two as sistant secretaries were Included in the melon cutting. In spite of. heavy financial burdens, which the owners of the Yankees have shouldered the players threatened t call a strike unless their demands were granted. They were prepared to deprive their " employers of gate re ceipts from exhibition games, which hardly pay the expenses of the south ern training trip, . ; Avarice on the part of ball players Is slowly but surely discouraging and disgusting the public. When the Cubs and Red Sox, during the 1918 world's series In Boston, struck - for more money than they were entitled To, un der the rules adopted by the national commission, they dealt the game a body blow. Last year certain players openly ex pressed a desire to be traded to teams that appeared to have chances to par ticipate In the world's series. Sev eral stars have repudiated contracts for the purpose of getting more money elsewhere. i With charges of collusion between a few players and professional gamblers, shaking the confidence of the fans, it csnnot be denied that baseball needs a tremendous shakeup. M E THE NEW $40,000 GIANT COASTER ' " The New Witching Waves New Attractions :: Better Than Ever :: Other New Amnsement Devises :: All the Old Favorite Amusements ! '. . , ,,. M . , , --- . . -J ...... 1, , .1 ; . . . . OPERATORS OF - ' THE WHIP and OAPTIVE AEROPLALE White Gify Sports of All Kinds in Brief OO OO YOUNG BALL PLAYERS DECREASE IN MINORS Few Good Performers Coming Up From; Bush LeaguesC . Recent War Killed Off Many of Small er Circuits, Thus Lessening Crop , of Promising Recruits Good Thing for Veterans. ' , ; One of the serious results of the war from a baseball standpoint Is shown In the lack of young ball players coming up trom the minoTeagues. Of all the recruits taken south by the different major league teams but very few are to be seen on the, team now that the championship season is under full sway. The scarcity of young ball play ers Is a good thing' for the veterans, for it will-,, keep them in - service long er, but It means that It will grow more and more .difficult to recruit the big league teams unless there Is a greatly increased Interest In minor league ball as played in the smaller cities.. The war killed off most of the small-' er leagues, thus lessening the crop ot young ball players to be purchased and drafted. For two years the minors were either not operating at all or do ing so on a very small scale and with inferior players. Most of the boys who would have been starting out on a baseball eareer were in the army In those days and many of them will nev er go back to baseball. The supply ot baseball talent was almost entirely cut off for at least two years and the re sult is that most of the major .league clubs are shy of recruits and are going ahead with their veteran players. . The present condition among the minors Is' much improved so far, es pecially as the larger leagues go, but It is not at all like It was before the war. The reason for this Is that sal aries and wages in other positions are so vastly Increased that a lad of any real skill or ambition can do much bet ter by sticking to his job than he can by playing in a minor league of lesser classification. It used, tb be that a bjr off the lots looked upon a salary; "of $150 a month as pretty good nwiney for starting out with a bail team. TCow he can earn much more than that by staying at home and, playing on Sun days and holidays with some IndepenV dent team. It is hard to- get smart youngsters; to start at -tthe bottom of the baseball ladder. The rewards of the star play-, era vnv above are ampler "rT" '"fv.",::T3 xy;:;:., I .- Pkf M 0 IT E SY M0MAU(S1LJIN Shore " Dinners Planked Steaks Broiled Iobsters" Meals a la Carte ; ' v Dancing , '. Eveningsfrom 8till 12 o'clock. Fine Bathing : seBeach Plans for a Class B Central league are abandoned. ; .. . ''".;" :.-V,'; - Hugh High has been ''doing some fancy fielding for Vernon. ' Early averages of the Coast league show Portland leading 'as a team in hitting. . ' , . ' : . v -; -- '. ' ' Johnny Evers is doing some, work as a scribe on the Albany : Knicker bocker Press. ' . George Gibson, ca tcher-managerj is another" to show; that catchers make good managers. . , . ' - . . The National ,. Board has awarded rights ! to Outfielder George Orme to the Brantford club. ' Werito Acosta, the Cuban with Louisville, won a $10,000 prize In a Havana lottery the past winter -. ' . . ' Jack Nellis. a catcher who halls from one of - the Boston high 'schools, has been signed by the Boston Ameri- - . s ; V v- , Uncle Wllbert Robinson Is a good' picker. Bernle Nels was his first rookie to come across with a big time stride. ' - ; t. ' .-" Physicians have told John McClos key, the veteran Memphis manager, that the sight of .his left eye prob ably is cone. . m m m : Pat Moran, after the Reds had tak en their . lickings ..from the Pirates,' bepke out Into eulogies of George Gib son and his team. - Bill James one of the stars In the sensational spurt of the Boston Braves in 1914, bellevesr that he can' stage a successful comeback. Another Brazil in baseball this year ts John Brazill, who halls from Scran ton and has signed with the" PIttsfield Eastern League, team. -.-.' LIppett of the University of Georgia. pitched a .no-hlt game against, the University of Pitts burgh., Georgia winning 6 to 0. "Umpire Rigler Is taking singing les- 'sons. Since the lamented' Bill Byron went West some one must vocalize for the amusement of the fish. -Otto Koepping, second baseman of the Mollne Three-I league team, has quit organized ball and joined an in dependent crew in Sterling, Neb. - The strong Holy Cross team has sus tained a severe loss In the Injury of Captain Barb Daly. The Purple lead er Is out for the season with a broken ankle. x - P C I T V Savin Raa: E Theodore P. Swift Proprietor. : (BIr. Swift's Ninth Season:) . Phone ,j Liberty : 8351 Connie Mack has sent one of his rcatching prospects Styles, back to the Atlanta club. ' . v , . ' ' : - ' Bert Kinney of. the Athletics is de- v veloplng lqto one of the best pitchers in the business. ; ' - i ' " " Manager John J. McGraw of the ! Giants has been active In ba'seball thirty-one years. . , Reuther, lucky last year, seems to f have become heir of the jinx that tor mented Jltomy Ring. .. Johnny Dobbs declares he is serious In his announcement that this will be ' his" last year in basebalL j - ; , . ' .:. : The Brantford Mint league club has sold Catcher Phil Carroll to Sloux City of the Western league. . Jack Wisner, a lengthy youth, ha3 a r. world of speed. He's just wild enough to make the hitters stand back. -. :, ' :, : Players come and players go, but Johnny Austin keeps on holding down . .third for the St. " Louis Browns. - . ' ; Dowd,, formerly on Connie Mack's , payroll, : seems to hare cinched the middle sack on the Bison infield. Some' of the star hurlers were un ktodly" treated in the opening games, . but their revenge will come later. i .- v. ' Arthur 'Devlin, coaching Fordham , college, is said to have a wonderful young pitcher in a lad named Cullo-' ton. - .. , m , , Xl 'Schacht starred as a shutout twirler last season at Jersey City and he Is showing the same form In the majors." - , ' - Casey Stengel is showing as much vim in a Philadelphia uniform as he displayed when with the Robins or Pirates. . - "DAoccnnT inc vcrov - $ CAREFUL OF THE BALL When Joe Jackson was play ing with a team down South Carolina way many years" . ago. he didn't wear $10 baseball . shoes. . " ' - For financial . reasons , Joe wore nothing on his' feet. He. roamed all over the briars, stub ble and other litter In the out field, which Included numerous broken bottles, without it both ering him. . At the end of the fifth inning of a certain game Jackson came in to the bench and expostulated with the manager. "You'd better get that glass out of center field, he said, "It's -cutting the ball all to pieces. f A