New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1919, Page 8

~ BRITISH BOXING FANS SCORE BECKETT NEW e FO POT SHOT AT CONNIE MACK—UPSETS IN POOL TCURNEY AT == S —— R LOS: OF BOUT TO CAR BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY PENTIER— EXPLOSIONS CA PHILADELPHIA—FISHER SELECT —— JUSTON COMES BACK: AT CONNIE ACK hletics’ Manager Is Target for Criticism of Yankees' Owner New York, panager Dee. 6.—~Connie Mack, and hait-owner of thletics, put hig foot into the Amer- \gue feud last Thursday, and Colonel Huston, of the Yar did not hop on it yesterday. In a Philadelphia interview, Connio alleged to have said that he would ot cave a'rap if the Yankees would >t out of the Amerlcan league and hat it would be a good thing for useball if they got out. He spoke t the Yunks in a deprecatory manner ! 5 a club without a homec. ; Huston bhack some hot shot at | € e Philadelphia owner. He says that @ 2 aseball conditions have become bominable in Philadelphia, that in! e game the Yankees were pald only 4.11 for a game in thai city, and that is only a question of time befor he league will take up the questlon | f a change of owners in the Athletic le charges the Athletics with setting e precedent for taking baseball dis utes into court when the Athletics gged the National commission into ourt after it awarded Scott Perry to ho Boston clul | Huston's statement follows: ! Colonel “Out of pity for poor old Connie ack, we would rather not notice his | arks to the effect that | t would be a good thing for baseball | f the New York Yankees would gei ! but of it. But the idea of Connin! feading anybody out of anything © humorous that we just can't resl he temptation to that the Yan- | ees have been traveling to Philadel- | hia during the five years that we | have owned the club and on few trips | \ave we ever received enough, as the virning club’s re of the receipts, o pay hotel bills and carfare. | “A local humorist is authority for | sent Huston’s Statement. humorous re say he statement that Connie Mack has | California at he only ball park in the world whero | Lhe turnstiles register fractions. One iay the total receipts were doubtless | bhre lowest amount ever taken in Ly v major league club, We were pall ‘or 21 people, grand total of Jonnie has run last onsistently- 1 nost dropped out of the league with- | sut any other club to read him out. “It is only a question of time whe yur league will raise e propriety of a share of ownership | n the Athletics. That club, for = ong term of years, has not mmxm.“ yuted to the prosperity of the league n proportion to the population of : *hiladelphia. Philadelphia has shown tself in the past to be one of the be: Jaseball cities in America, and the poor management in the last few ears has made it the worst. Fires Away at Connic. have made genius. opinion of his own broke up the greatest history, thinking, ! build another at oed somehow it didn't | small boy with the couldn't get it to- And now Connie iy rying to read us out. He says we wave a ball club, but no ball park. All right! HHe has a ball park and | 10 ball club, making it fifty-Afty. Wo | ‘an stand criticlsm from man | vhose ball club lost 504 games in five | ye “Too much ‘onnie think himself a great grew his ibility that he all club in sourse, he praise must could noments But Like the apart, he work vateh rether again. Connie viom the this regard tympathy JTohnson Mack Is a nice old man | procession has passed. In there is a strong bond of between himself and Bar They are both in the good | )id boat Has Been, floating down the iver of time into oblivion. “Yes, of all men in baseball, it secomes Connie Mack to criti sther club in the American league o | 0 question its desirability as a | nember. “Fans will remember this the first man in sebail uling of the National com- and drag the sport into the "or 15 vears this commission \ad regulated baseball and everything | was running smoothly. Suddenly the mpreme the game made a Mack in tho case He refused to abide | and rushed for a couct | That' w the precedent succeeding injunction ame old onnie was o bolt a nission ourts. court of ‘uling against Connie 3cott Perry by the rulin injunction ‘or CHALLEN FROM CANADAL Hockey Club Would Match Carpentier With Broussean, Montreal, Hockey lenge to Dec. 6 club yesterday Carpentie ger in the French boxer | to meet Brousseau, Dominjon | middleweight champion, in a boxing | exhibition here on July 1 (Dominion Day) at one of the racetracks Brousseau has red from a slight attack of paralys which fol- lo\\'m‘ his bout with Chip in Portland. ; The Canadian cabled a chal- | Georg mana- London for Eugene recov i JCTED CAPTAIN. Pa., Dec. 6 At a football letter men vesterday afternoon, “Pard” Larkiu, of Chester, Pa., the clever tackle, » LARKIN RE-F swarthmore, meeting of the much to vantage with It wa star eran, the town, N. p AN | last Columbia, holder, by a score of 120 to | four | Fisher, * | auarte son; backs, Casey | ween. R. | wick, Church and Nelson. exception of the question 9f | (qypen against | cals | eleven would not play, as the s | scored u _z | UPSETS IN TOURNEY Bennie Allen Overcomes Concannon’s Big Lead and Wins (25 to (19— Layton Beaten By Kreuter. Dee. 6. -Overconiiig insurmountable —od Bennic Allen, the billinrd star, Who | high run record izht, nosed out New York in here yester was 125 Philadelphia, the seemingly of 72 bulls to 1, Kansas City pocket set up the world's of 81 straight last Joseph Concannon of the jonal tournament day afternoon. The score to 119, Allen's fask when Concannon run of forty in his at the the leading, 72 (o 101 to 61 and the ging Concannoin - resorted entiry ety play in the closing in- iings, which enabled Allen to pick 1p on him, and finally the New York- 2+ broke the balls and fell down on an e corner Allen took ad- | of the misplay and went out an unfinished run of twelve. s Allen’s third victory in four He had fthree high runs of hopeless with a third innin and sixth inning was Odds of 92 to 28, 3 to 78 did not worry Ho just kept plug- looked almost ol wway ond of Kan too shot. 27, Keogh, the Rochester third straight tournament when he thead of + 1. Ralph of the opening vet- game in finished Hights- match, Jerome won his 126 to 96. Another sensational upset night's early match reuter, the 20 year humbled John M. Mo., former marked ! when Louis old New Layton of national title- 117, Iy K Yorker, | ratulated FISHER SELECTS TEAN i1 24 Players Are Named to Make to Pasadena, Cal, to Repres Harvar Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 6.—Twenty- Bob Harvard football team, to take the trip to | meeting of the squad last night. Fisher gave out the | makeup of the squad follow Ends, Desmond, Steele, Phinney, Ryan; tackles, Sedgwick, Kano, Hub- bard, Faxon: guards, Clark, Woo Brown; centers, Havemeyer, Philbin: Murray, Felton, John- Humphrey, A. Hor- Horween, Burnham, Grat- | ‘With the Johnson, Faxon and | the men selected played Yale last month. | Fisher will be accompanied West | | players were selected by head coach of the by Kddie Mahan, Derrie Parmentier, Dick Wigglesworth and probably Sam elton of hils staff NUTHEGS ARB THROUGH Success- | ful Season—To Wind Up Ihhivl\'p\‘ even Clos Affairs Tomorrow, A meeting of the Nutmegs tootball | team will be held tororrow morning, the will be finished. A captain and won will be elect- | when business affairs of the past | season manuger for next s ed. The 1919 season has been one of the most successful in the history | of the Nutmegs on the gridiron. The biz game of the year with the Bris tol West Ind C., which resulted in a victory for the most notable achievement, had been scheduled to All-Meriden eleven in that city to- morrow afternoon. Manager Was- kowlitz this morning stated thai his ason | the dashing full- will play with play the Nelson, Blanchard, was over. back and | the Tigers of IHartford tomor LOCALS ARE DEE | | 5 l | All-New Britain Baskctball Quintet Downed By Emeralds of Willimantic, The All-New Hrituin quintet went down to defeat last night at Willlmantic when the Bmeralds of that town took a close victory, 30 to 29. The game was one of the fastest ever played in the Thread City, In the st half the locals ran away from the IZmeralds and led at the close, 22 to 10. Aided by somae very clever pass- ing and accurate basket tossing, the Kmeralds were within a point of vie- fory. Murphy mude it sure when he double counter just as the whistle sounded. Larson and Ellison were the chief point getters for thoe locals, while Murphy and Higgins ex- celled for the Emeralds. The score: Bmeralds. Normandin basketball All-Stars. opa Elllson Right forward Higgins ey s aenann Restella lLeft forward Myrphy Pickup Kiernans ... Right guard Larson Pickett .. cese Jacobson Left guard Score—Emeralds 30, All-Stars 20, gouls from floor, Larson 6, Higgins o. Murphy 5, Ellison 4, Pickup 4, Nor- mandin 2, Klernans 1, Pickett; goals from fouls, Higgins 2, Larson 1; foul: N. B. 10, W. 5; referec, Kelley; tim er, Haggerty; scorer, Smith. re-elected captain of the Swarthmore college eleven for next season. He is | a Junjor now and has won seven | major letters at Swarthmore. He has | played football, baseball and basket- | ball since his freshman year. | PANTHERS ELECT STE Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 6.——Herbort Steln was elected captain of the 1920 Pitt football team last® night. He plays at center. | which Llookers, the ! the 1 | dent, | day | Dempsey for 'BRITISH EXPERTS | SCOLD-JOE BECKETT Deieated Heavyweigfil Is Accused of “Sheer Stupidity” London menting on Deee. b~ lixperts, in com- Thursday night's tight, in Georses Carpentior of 1 knocked out Joe Boeckott of England in the flrst vound, concur in saying that victory went to the best man and | that Carpentier won by his speed an cleverness. Beckett's manager says O “brought off a million to one but this is not the view of Daily M nee arpentict hance Xpert on- Us eritic accus- ing Beckett of “sheer stupldity.” “Beckett had by long wiy of the handicap,” the Daily expert writes, “He was su- verior in height, weight and r Ho Is o great fellow physically, but sald about his judgment the Letter. Perhaps he was overconfi- but anyway he gave his oppon ent a chance which no novice would have offered. The blow with wi Carpentier won was (oo simple words. It could have been Leh, avolded, and t(he counter to it would have been an oxtremely dangerous blow vet Beckett walked right into the dunger zone. What he did was sim ple and stupid, and there is no excuse for him." \lter around cordially Carpentier the ring the Prince of shook his hand and him. The Prince Becket's hand, saying, next time,"” had been carried Wales con- 1so hook tter luck Pavis Overjoyed. Paris, Dec. 5. Paris yesterday was overjoyed by victory of George Carpenter ove Bockett in the boxing contest held in London Thurs evening. EFrom the comment everywhere heard it seemed that Paris desired to stage w battle be- tween Jack Dempsey, the American, and Carpentier for the world's heavy- weight championship. Mr. Decoin, manager of derlund Sporting tho Assoctated he had sent asking terms for o fight with Carpentie tional holiday, July dal and Henr, Tate, moem ol Purliament, representing (he athletc of Trance, suid they would secure the great Pershing Stadium battl between {he the Frenchman “A fight Detween the champion of the world I'rench champion of take place cither in Paris o United State il M would be a sad refloction on sporting splrit of I and that of Ameries lowad to ta the Joe the club of Paris, Press telegram o Won- told that Dempsey twenty-round Franc Gaston Vi- | vestorday his for \merican and American the must in the Vidal. i thy and in the wiy in Americ: ily be arrvange: ere anc ing Lo 'make a bid ror ti 5 M. Deooin, who is backed by Murat and other men aid Prince prominent yesterday he had graphed Jimmy Bronson of Joplin, Mo., who organized the American Expeditionary bouts, o ask terms, and declavod that he was determined to make a bid for a fight betwoeen Carpentier in Paris, sports tele- strong Dempsey and Jack and Georges. london, Dee. 6. . B promoter of the announced Carpentiey ement fo fAght Cocluane, Carpentier-Becketl vesterday that has slgned an Jack Dempsey, the npion, commeur, 1918, ¥ THE AL KAYS G | immediately | enough | Although | the Wilsuns I — purse will be tuke 60 por cent. loser 40 ‘The tight, ¢ Demy will take place on June U have just received a cable Jack man: 2 of Champion suid. “He a oficr to him would and 1 feel that the deal is virtually closed The fight will e held next June T at the Olympia. 1 am ¥tarting for America and am taking with me money to induce Dempsey to make the trip to Tondon for the fight. Kearns sald he would rath the fight in America, he ex his willingness to come over WILDE-SHARKEY - B vear. The winner to next the aceents from Kearns, Dempsey,” Cochrane - sured me that my be considered first hiave English Flyweight (‘lulmpym to Make Debut in American Ring Against New York Bantam. Wis., Dec. 6.—Jimmy Wilde, flyweight champion of Fng Jand, and Juack Sharkey, New York bantamweight, have finished training for their ten round no decision con- test at Milwaukee auditorium tonight. Wilde announced he is in the best of condition and is confident he will win. Not since Willie Ritehie and Ad Wol- st met in Milwaukee soveral years interest in the rin Under the terms of the | ement Sharkey is to weigh not | tlan 116 pounds at 7 o'clock hours prior to entering the ring. | Britisher expects to enter thy | 106 pounc noted followe of ‘cted to occupy ringside soat These inciude Tex Rickard, Jess Wil- | lard, former heavyweight champion, nd Matt Hinkle. The betting up to | criday night favored the Englishman. Milwaukee, Sr T sport been more threc The ving at Many are exy pugilis | BRAVES TO PLAY TIGERS. Boston and Detroit Will Make Spring FECESS IN SIX-DAY BIKE RACE — HUSTON TAKES | RVARD TEAM FOR NEW YEAR'S GAME IN PASADENA Friendi ‘ Exhibition Trip Together. | Joston, Dec. 6.—The Boston Na- | {ionals and the Detroit Amerlcans will | »ring exhibition trip together | in connection with their training for the next haseball season. Walter E. Hupzood, business manager of the announced that the | oston will olumbu Ga., again, The team will go there: about March | and start the i with the Ti at Columbug aQn | March 24. The interclub series will | consist of make has cluie train at series 16 games. ! NSON NAMED AS COACH. OF Columbia Five This ¥ sain of 1912 Team (o Be M Phe position of basket hall (W Columbin, which was left by the sudden rvesignation of ten days < illled terday by the appointment of captain of the 1912 | the hest stars developed | ! Benson will take | beginning Monday, and - will have | cral other mer | ator Wred | Dawson wis Vos- Claus D. Benson tean, and one of by Tlarey churge ) probabl practices VOoN o Wil v Dée, hat forn.er NEHLETEL Word i ©hilip Wil- wwarded | Great Bri- Prince of ent ¢ dec ed as | hig achievement while | temporarily attached to the British | Air service late in the war when he | stablished @ new non-stop fight for | Z.{ype machiney remaining in | the air for thirty hours Barnes is ! an cox-member of the class of 1919 | at Williams and was u backfield | choicé on the Varsity at the time he left coll to Join the colors carly in the war recelved Nerd Chicago, vs foothall player, the Naval Aiv Cross of tain, personally, by the Wales during the latter's o Washington. He wi the result of Bunes of was visit | It’s rather an inter- esting process that is used in thesw: Super- seam gloves. If a thread hecomes brok- en the seam doesn't ravel, but stops short. They are stitched this way. X Ordinary Ravel § Gloves cost no more than the ordinary sort, We have them in New Britain. Seinarseam | i WILLIAMS that TO Will Have Place on After Lapse of Six Yemrs, Williams 1 ror vpl vears. two olevens will bo staged ne: Harvard :chedule LITTLE BOYS— WRAT \WOouULD You. LIKE To HANE SANTA CLAUS BRING YoUu Mo3T OF ARY THING Gee! | WONDER IF SHE WANTS TA MAKE ME A PRESENT - OR 'S SHE JUST ASKIN' A "o QUESTION ... Coprioht M Y Tribame lna BRYAN SCORES ENOCKOUT, Johnson' Clty, *N. Y, De 6 Willie Ryan, the New Brunswick welterweight o New Jersey, knocked out Jimmie MeCabe of Philadelphla here last night in round of a scheduled ten round cncountgr. 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