Reading Times from Reading, Pennsylvania • Page 14

Participants ia the Pyle baaioa arby est tlroash Texas wtoett a fatality. It would ba a grtat record if the race could bo finished without a WiJV single oua being ahot. CAC Charley Gelbert and Dick Porter Are Failures After Hitting At Murderous Clip Minor Circuit; Dale Alexander Is Exception By SHANDY HILL IVE the kid a chance? There's no VJ rookies today are learning the game Is a tough one lor a youngster coming up from a minor league. At least the champion batsmen of the International league, accustomed to feasting on the pitching of this minor organization, have been finding the amerenc. Witness the case of Charley Gelbert, the Lebanon Valley college star, who batted .340 with Rochester in the International league last season, and who was rated by experts to be a great major league prospect.

Gelbert was grabbed by the St. Louis Cardinals. Billy Southworth, Card manager, ysaid he'd use him regularly at the shortfield position. Gelbert failed almost from the word "go." He fielded well, but failed to hit, and just last week was benched in favor of Eddie Delker, a young coal region shortstop. Gelbert batted .340 for Rochester last season.

Experts said he could hit anything. Major league pitchers found his reputation exaggerated. They have held his batting mark to .219, rather anemic for a heralded hard hitter. Several other International leaguers have failed to' startle the baseball including Dick Porter and Tony Kaufmann, the pitcher who has been converted from a pitcher into an outfielder. Porter's case is a surprise, for he has been one of the hardest hitters in the league for years and every one who has watched him has predicted a successful major league career.

True, his unorthodox stance at the plate has been against him, yet Int league pitchers couldn't get him out, so it followed that he'd hit as hard in the majors Today finds Porter benched. He hit .214 and then was assigned to polishing the bench. And to think that he hit .350 last season! Tony Kaufmann, who was drafted from Rochester by the New York Giants, was believed to be a hitter rather than a linger because he compiled a batting mark of .402 with the Wings. John McGraw gave him a chance in his outfield. Kaufmann responded by compiling the robust stick figure of .160.

A noble tryl Several International league graduates, however, are making good, not to mention former Reading players. Socks Seibold and Dutch Legett, both of whom are with the Boston Braves. Boston is wild about the pair, and both will stick, according to reports. Sonny Home, Johnny Moore and Eddie Lauteribacher, with the Cubs, are to stay under the big tent. Johnny Prudhomme, with Detroit, and Herman Bell, with the Cardinals, also are regarded as stickers.

And then, there are Eddie Phillips, who is hitting hard and catching well with Detroit, and Bobby Barrett, with the Bostons, both of whom are scheduled to Alexander One Rookie Making Good WILL he stick? Will, he be able to hit major league pitching? Do you think he can field well enough to stay up there? Those and other questions were asked by International league fans when Dale Alexander, hard hitting Toronto first baseman, was acquired by Detroit. Alexander, who hit .380 to take the batting crown for 1928, was admitted to be a great sticksmith, but fans declared he'd never field well enough to remain with Bucky Harris. The daily box scores of the Detroit club answer all questions. Alexander may not be the best fielding first baseman in the league, but he, certainly is holding down the initial sack to the satisfaction of his manager. Maybe he isn't fielding so well, but he's hitting 'em high, wide and handsome, and Alexander, the latest averages show, Is pounding the pill at a .341 gait.

What's more, he's hitting in the pinches, for he has driven in 28 runs to date. Numbered among his hits are ten doubles, three triples and three home runs. Alexander, it seems, has made the major league grade. Unless he suddenly goes into a tail spin, the former gangling youngster who stumbled all over himself at first base for Toronto, will be a fixture with the Detroit Tigers. Rather Nasty, Don't You Know? ED HOLLY, the manager of the Montreal Royals, who isn't so popular with the Reading club, added to his unpopularity last week.

Keystone players, riled because they declared Holly insisted on his team using such tactics as throwing "bean balls" and riding with cleats high, became hotter under the collar when the Montreal manager ruined a no hit, no run game by injecting a pinch batter into a fray. Edgar Holley, Reading's leading pitcher, who is no relative of the Montreal manager, was trying to earn himself a niche In the baseball hall of fame. Holley had pitched superb ball up to the eighth, when, with two out, Eddie Conley, a busher from the Cumberland club of the Mid Atlantic league, was ordered to carry the bat of Pitcher Asa Ilargrove to the plate. Conley singled, driving in a runner, who had walked, and Holley's no hit, no run aspirations were shattered. It was the only hit Montreal got that day.

Reading players insist the Montreal manager pulled a dirty trick when ha sent in a pinch hitter for his pitcher with the score 3 to 0 against the home club. Though a home run by Conley might have tied the score, Keystone players insist any team that far behind should have permitted a young pitcher to have a no hit game. It Is an unwritten rule when a pitcher is going after a no hit game that no one on the bench mention a word about it. The Keys said their bench was silent while Holley was pitching his shut out ball, but that when Conley got the lone hit, the Montreal players let out a whoopee of delight. Reading didn't think this very clubby of their opponents, but it may be all right If you look at it from the Montreal angle.

Some teams go to any extreme to win ball games. Players say Montreal will stop at nothing but murder toin and that's probably why the Royal club is despised throughout the circuit. uuess tie Ain't commissioner of baseball, because ne naa emancipated many players who up," were heard in baseball circles last magnate, was said to have been a ring If Griffith was the prime mover In I of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high nu eiHuuaiusiu piuuuuiy nas oeen reaouDiea since ne noticed now one of his players, who was freed by Abraham Lincoln Landis. has been nerformins. Guy Cantrell, Toronto pitcher, Is the ointment in the fly, or words to that effect, of Griffith.

Sheared from Senatorial strings this spring, Cantrell has won four games while losing one with the Toronto Leafs, with whom he signed aiter receiving a oonus or $7,500. in his last time out, Guy blanked Jersey City with two hits just to rub it in on Griffith. Landis charged Griffith with "covering up" a 125,000 deal for Cantrell, and, as a result, declared the pitcher a free agent. Another "freed" tosser was Ralph Judd, who hurled for the Keys several vara back. Judd sold himself to tha New VnrV ntmntm hut bt viMiw mmv asmae tj avctt startling the world with his pitching.

Still, some of the emancipated players have lived up to their reputations, especially Catcher Dick Ferrell, who was signed by the Browns, i SCHUYLKILL T0SSERS FACE URSMUS THIS AFTERNOON CchuylkUl'i baseball Lions will clash with Urslnua this afternoon on their Nnae grounds at Twelfth and Exeter. The Orange and Black la anxious to rat tack on the winning aide of the kd er after dropping a heart breaker to Valley last Thursday, 0 to ft. 2e tilt It carded tor o'clock. Ira Thorn, toout for the Fhlla "a Athletlca, will be in the to lock over Yount, the Eaara' i entrar woo oon tii ft pttt proepect. rrrrn rrtcira Tr 4 Ends wU 'play the "i 1 la a city a it i i nl nurcay after i Lzzt Lnfis win i tcaorrow nlct 7 3.

l. A. c. will hold a Valy Country i DIFFERENT such sentiment In baseball, and more hurling in the major leagues just a bij; aurmn' Lp! maw vs4 vt vi au uciuiuik 1 were alleged to have been "covered week. Clark Griffith, Washington leader in the movement.

this insurrection against authority, ROMAN LAP WINNER IN PYLE'S BUNION DERBY ALBANY, Texaa, May 14 (ff) The 46th lap of the Pyle. cross country derby waa won today by Sam Rich man, of New York. Richman com pleted the 34.7 miles from Brecken ridge to Albany In 3 hours, 57 minutes ana 40 seconds. Only nine minutes behind tha win, ner came Herbert Hedeman, New York Australian, the oldest man in the race, whose time waa Kedeman, who la Ave years beyond the half century mark has "wu miming wung igr oars. COLLECZ HU.

TO XLI CLl'3 CAT3TA CLAT.A, CiL It LTV Clurlci Tlx, yourj tizzl'Jl tt cf CinU Clzra university, wa I'zaed frtay for tve Tcl tj Lt that he rli te jrazl oxt tJ I tils cf the Ccrrt lr i cr To i cf iTt: 1 l.r 1 fjjtcrtl! Iwlavai a aaa SHANDY HILL, Spoilt any sure. Fourteen TIMES PEONS 6101 WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 192 9 XZa 3 laawICat CwX BULLY MyLiLEh nr.ni ri INT LEAGUE ROOKIES FIND MAJOR HURLING JUST BIT BROVII THIRD SACKED HIT .357 FOR LEAFS DURING 1926 SEASOI Hinchman Dissatisfied with Wight, Scott; Jurges' Friends To Make Presentation By SHANDY HILL Billy Mullen, former St. Louis Brown infielder, but better known as a Toronto third baseman of several seasons ago, was signed by the Reading Keystones yesterday, ac cording to announcement made by Secretary Walter J. Ludwig. Mullen was signed to play third base, Ludwig said.

The acquisition the infielder was the only bit of news emanating from storm swept Buffalo, where the clubs were idle because of rain. The signing of Mullen indicates tnat wnmcracKer Harry Hincnman is not satisfied with the third basing suDDlied bv JohnnV Wleht and the veteran Everett Scott. Whether Hinchman plans to ship either of his two present third basemen or retain both for utility duty was not made known by Ludwig in nis telegram to rne rimes. Hinchman Not Satisfied Wight, purchased from the Eastern league, has been slow in rounding into form after being forced to tne sidelines on account of illness. The rookie infielder has been sluggish in field ing, although he has been hitting well.

Scott filled in at third base while Wight was. ill. Scott has not been hitting as well as expected, but neiaed nis position wen. Mullen is no youngster, having been kicking around organized baseball since 1920, when he was signed by the St. Louis Americans.

He was with Mobile, in the southern league, for several seasons and then given a trial by Brooklyn. He failed to make good, was iarmed out to tne eastern league, and then purchased by De troit. Failing to make the grade on nis tmrd trial, Mullen was snipped to Toronto in 1928, where Dan Howley was managing the club. Howley liked him and took him to St. Lcuis.

There Mullen injured a leg and hasn't been neard oi since 1BZ7. To Honor Jurges Mullen, while with Toronto, compiled the fat batting average of .357 He fielded for .934, playing in 134 games for the Leafs. This spring vMullen was signed by nuiiaio, out was recently released, in mne games for tne. Bisons this sea' son, Mullen batted .238. Prom Jersey City comes word that Brooklyn friends of Bill Jurges, young shortstop, plan to honor him when the Keys oppose the Skeeters Saturday.

Jurges' nals. who hail from the WUliamsburgh Savings bank, in which, ne worked during the winter months, have reserved several boxes for the occasion. When he comes, to bat for the first time, they will present him witn a gut. HOW THEY STAND Yeilerday's Result INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Baltimore, Montreal, 1. Others postponed, rain.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Athletics, 10; Detroit, 8. Washington, St. Louis, 7. Chicago, Boston, 2. Other postponed, rain.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston, Chicago, 5 (12 innings). Others postponed, rain. Standing of the Clubs INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet Rochester ...........14 6 .700 Baltimore 14 9 .609 Toronto 11 10 .524 Montreal 12 11 .522 READING 9 10 .474 Newark 8 10 .444 Buffalo 7 10 .412 Jersey City 6 15 J6 AMERICAN LEAGUE W.

L. Pet Athletics ..14 7 .667 New York IS 7 .650 St Louis 13 10 .565 Detroit 15 12 .556 Cleveland 11 12 .478 Washington 8 12 .400 Chicago 9 15 .376 Boston 7 IS .318 NATIONAL LEAGUE 7 W. L. Pet Chicago 14 8 .636 St Louis ..14 8 .636 Boston 11 9 .650 Pittsburgh 10 9 .528 Phillies 9 10 .474 New York 7 10 .412 Cincinnati 8 12 .400 Brooklyn 15 .286 Today Schedule INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Reading at Buffalo. Baltimore at Montreal Jersey City at Toronto.

Newark at Rochester. AMERICAN LEAGUE Athletics at Detroit New York at Cleveland. Washington at St Louis. Boston at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis at PhUadelflula.

Chicago at tton. Pittsburgh at Prooklyn. Cincinnati at New York. lacs 1Z Reading Ce Cutted Cty, 13 to 8. J.

ojs stlckwoik OAmINALB OL8T 1 1 8 0 0 4 0 0 1 i i i i a li'k A I lb o. 4 lb I cf I 11 r' a. A' OS II 10 ef I i I I 4 4 I 0 i I I I 0 0 a i i 10 010 0 0 I I 1 i 0 Curt'aart Totals T' 16 It 41 Hagen Leads Yank A ttack On British $5,000 Prize Open Champ Turns In Card of 69 to Top Thousand Guineas Golf Fiejd MOORTOWN. England. May 14 a') A foreign legion of American professional golfers today launched a spirited attack on the thousand Guineas ($5,000) tournament and finished the first Qualifying round a distinct tnreat against one of Great Britain's greatest profes sional competitions.

as was ntting). tne assault was led by Walter Hagen who last week recrowned himself king of British goir. tne loss oi tne Rvder cup on the Moortown course a fortnight ago, Hagen bore down with relentless skill, and power to day. He scored a brilliant 69 to lead tne great neid or tne world's nnest professionals. Not far benind came five comnatriots and Jose Jurado.

a sixtn comrade from across tne At lantic, to make the day play one of hlgn American nonors. Americans riace men Al Watrous turned in a score of 70 to win undisputed second place and "Leo Diesel, with renewed con trol over his putter, compiled 71 to eauai tne best Britisn scores or tne day, furnished by Archie Comptson and Abe Mitcneu. Bert Hobson took the next place ror Great Britain with 72 put Ed Dudle 73, Jurado 74, Horton Smith and Joe Turnesa 75, formed a sec ond line attack and found new native sons to challenge them. only John Golden failed to striice a blow for the stars and stripes. So erratic were the Jersey pros tee shots, two going expensively out of bounds, he surrendered at the ninth by picking up his ball.

Tne men standard or American golf today was all the more impressive under trying weather conditions. The visitors nave been nomng ior tne best but expecting the worst and today the wind blew with varying violence almost at regular intervals, h.avy clouds "sed a damp deluge upon the players and dauntless or spectators. Plays With Nerves of Steel Tasen fullv Justified today the name he has won in Britain as a golfer with nerves of steeL His skill in playing a low ball to cheat the gale stood him in good stead. Although he was not hitting a long ball, his approaches and putting kept him under fours. Not infreauentlv he visited bunkers but always he confirmed the audible comments of the gallery, "what of it?" several times ne came irom the sand dead to the pin for birdies.

Never did he take' three putts. Haeen's 69 today added to nis four rounds in the British open gave him a score one over 4s ior nis last 80 holes of medal competition. The second qualifying round of is noies will De played tomorrow, PLAY AT TEMPLE PrmrcwtrV mill nlnv s.t. Tpmnlfi on Sunday. Jimmy Beard will be on the mound for Brunswick.

HERE'S UNUSUAL SCORING Earl Emerick. playing with a Newark (N. grammar school team, 1 scored nine runs in two games but wasn't at bat officially once. SWANEY, EX KEY HURLER, IS STAR OF NY LOOP CHARLES "MOOSE" SWANEY pudgy portsider who toiled for the Reading Keystones a few years back, Is the sensation of the New York Pennsylvania league. Pitching for Binghamton, Swaney has turned in six of the Triplets' nine victories.

In 13 days he has pitched 38 innings, holding his opponents to 34 hUs. He won four as a relief pitcher, but has hurled two complete tilts. V' No Hard Guy, Just Case of Bad Dogs BRICK OWENS, an American league umpire, has a strut on the ball field that gives him the appearance of being a very hard guy. He has the largest dogs in the league and the toes of his shoes turn up in front He has a way of calling runners out and strutting away with squared shoulders that makes the ball players mad whenever he does it In one games last season when Owens was working the bases he had a close decision at second base. Ken Williams was on first and the batter hit a long single, sending Williams to third.

The hitter tried to stretch it and went into second in a slide. Owens waved him out and, turning his back, strutted over toward first base. Williams thought it was a terrible decision cupping his hands, he shouted at the umpire: "Hey, Brick, you're not hard. It's your bad dogs that make you walk that way." WHITEHILL, MILLER TWO WHO WORRY GOOSE G0SLIN CHICAGO. Mav 14.

There are two pitchers in the American League whose departure for other places would be particularly welcome to fielder, who led the league in batting last season, rney are waiter Miner, with Cleveland, and Earl Whitehill, with Detroit, both left handers. "All pitchers are hard to hit under stand, but those two fellows are particularly hard for me," he says. "I got a 4 0 0 against Miller at Cleveland on the first western trip and Whitehill did the same to me at De troit. And mv nast averaue against these two guys isn't anything to brag about. They are just poison to me." WAS OFFICER IN DANISH ARMY Emil Iverson, Minnesota hockey coach, was an officer in the Danish army and served a period In Slam before he came to the United States.

WIND NO GREAT TROUBLE Bobby 'Jones says the wind has astonishingly small effect on golf shots if the ball is hit correctly. Fast driving costs unless 0 0 ou use the the right oil Haven't you noticed that the faster you drive, the more oil you use? Fast driving shows up the red quality of an oil. Thousands of miles of tats have proved that the New Mobiloil stands up better and lasts longer at high speeds than other oils actually increasing oil mileage cs much as 20. VACUUM OIL COMPANY v7o CczcC i .0 COLLET! OFF mi, OUT RALLIES TO Vm III BRITISH TOURhEY American a I Takes Final Three) Holes to Cop by 3 and Miss Hollins Victor 6T. ANDREWS, May 14 (IP) Tne best or goners, men and women, expect one weak round during a tournament and Glenna Collett had hers today.

She defeated Maude Bryant, 3 up and 2 to play, in the second round of the British women's championship, a comfortable enough margin, but until the last three holes of tr .3 match when she struck her stride and won them one after another the American girl never seemed saie. j' Under the ever changing conditions which make the St. Andrew links unique among the golf courses of the world, the American champion's put' ter failed her comoletely. At green after green she failed to get her ball up to tne cup. au last mgnt rain fell and today Instead of the fast greens of yesterday they displayed a varying pace requiring perfection in judgment and toucn.

miss iwuen took three puts on five greens. Other Americans Win Miss Bryant was able to hold her own until the 14th where the visitor began to display the boldness on the greens she displayed with her wooden ciubs. Miss Marion Hollins, former cham pion of the United States, won her second round matcn irom miss p. Ramsay, 4 and 3. and Miss Gertrude Boothby, Rochester, defeated Mrs.

J. A. D. Bell, 6 and S. Her Performance eaualled that of Miss Joyce Wethered, former champion of British women, who won today from Mrs.

D. G. Madill, 8 and 7. The little Minnesotan is thrown by the luck of the draw against the sturdy Marion Hollins tomorrow morning in the third round of play. Miss Hollins' nlay yesterday and to day has not been up to the standard she has shown in the past.

Her judg ment or tne strength oi tne greens was consistently weak today. She hit some great irons against the wind coming home but these were in a measure nullified by lapses on the greens. rracuce uainea out Miss Collett started with a missed putt at the first hole and she was to see several others stay out of the cup before she finished her round. Late this afternoon the American took her putter and went out to practice but sheets of rain soon tumbled out of dark clouds and drove her back to her hotel. Tomorrow morning Miss Collett meete Miss Beryl Brown of Forby, with the winner playing tne winner or the match between Mrs.

F. J. Mul aueen of Toronto, and Mrs. B. Walker of Walton Heath, to de termlne the quarter finalists.

BELL IMPROVED PHILADELPHIA, May 14 (if). Herman Bell, St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher, who was stricken with hem orrhages in the stomach yesterday, was reported better tooay. Doctors said Beirs condition was not serious and that he probably would be aoie to nitcn again after several weeics. money RUNS FOR THE WEEK INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE TL 6 6 3 2 2 1 0 Buffalo Montreal Baltimore Toronto READING Newark Rochester Jersey City 6 5 1 1 5 3 2 2 1 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE 3 10 .4 TL 13 13 9 7 7 4 4 3 i Tl.

12 11 10 10 9 7 4 0 Athletics Detroit Washington St. Louis Chicago 8 9 Cleveland Boston New York NATIONAL LEAGUE If 8 Pittsburgh Chicago Phillies 12 10 4 5 Boston 6 St. Louis 9 7 4 0 Cincinnati Brooklyn New York EILEEN BENNETT, BRITISH NET ACE, QUITS TOURNEY LONDON. May 14 UP) Miss Eileen Bennett will not be available for the British Wightman Cup tennis team which will defend the trophy against the Americans at Forest Hills in Au gust, it was learned today. Eileen's mother, who constantly accompanies her daughter when she plays at home or abroad, is unable to make the trip this year.

The pretty little English girl was runner up to Helen, Wills for the French championship last year and in the Wightman Cup contest won a match in singles and one in doubles, losing omy to miss wins. DUKES MEET The Dukes will meet Thursday night at Coleman's. "The Live Store' Suits of Quality With Two BLUE lACXSFDRli COP KEIIMY DZDY Bradley, Master of Idle Hour Farms, Corners Every Wager On May 18 Classic LOUISVILLE, Ky May 14; More than one half million dollars of his owner's money will be riding on Blue Larkspur in the Kentucky Derby, according to a story heard in betting circles. Perhaps it would be more ac curate to put it that if the heavily backed favorite for the classic comes in first his owner, Colonel E. Bradley, the master of Idle Hour' will win more than a half million dolars in bets.

Chicago bookmakers say Bradley stands to win $100,000 from Tom Shaw, New York operator, and another $100,000 from the winter books. In addition he is said to have made individual bets of from $25,000 to $100,000. During the early spring there came reports almost daily of huge bets that Bradley had made on his horse with clients at his gambling establishment in Palm Beach and the reports came from turfmen who are not Interested in spreading fancy tales. (Continued Oil Page Fifteen) MINEOLAS COP TWO 1 The Mineola All Stars walloped the Robinson Juniors 21 to 10, and nosed out the Robin Juniors, 4 to 3. Rain halted the second tilt in the sixth inning.

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