New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1920, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN MACHINE COMPANY TRACK TO BE CONVERTED INTO NEW . BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAX,VMARCH.;ZD, 1920, OTORCYCLISTS WIN FROM MACHINISTS endee Indians of Springiield,% ass., Down Local Five, 31 to 28 | | | The New Britain Machine company | sketball guintet struck-a tartar last ghtal the state armory, in the quin- | i representing the Hendee company Springfield, Mass. When the smoke Lattle had cleared away the bovs | lom Governor Calvin Coolidge's do- inion were on the long end of a 31 score. The battle was filled ith exciting thrills throughout, and e large crowd gathered were well id for their attendance. Muir, the fnter of the visitors was a much in | idence playver, accounting for six | pals trom the field, and one from the ul ling. oJhnson and McDonald, the siting forwards, also aided greatly in e victory. For the losers, C. Res- Ili was the big noise. His ability to s« ‘em in from the foul line resulted seven single tally scores. and he | so dropped in three goals from the 1d. The New Britainites will jour- v to New ven tonight where they 1l stack up against the crack Atlas um of that citv. The Elm City five s met and defeated some of the real hnis in the state this season, includ- the local Y. M. C. A. five. he lineup and swhmary: ndee New Britain. hinson, )f. .. ....rg, Jones ‘Donald, .1g. Campbell iir e. . ...c. Lofgren benson, 1g......,.....rf. C. Restelli ev. re. ... Uf, E. Restelli, Keating ‘ore, Hendee 31, New Britain 28; als from fluor. Johnson 3, McDon- * 6, Swenson, Keating 2. E 'RUTH FINALLY HITS | and appeared | but N Restelli 3. T.ofgren, Camp- il. Jones 2: zoals from fouls, John- 2, Muir, Keating, (. Restelii 7: Slater: time. 20 minute pe- W..C the ) in the ‘he ew Britain Y. . glrls’ ketball team defeated n Y. W, C. A. team H ne last nizht, 14 to 13, Miss Bev- ige's work featured for the locals. | Gertrude Scharfl acted as cap- in place of Miss Loomis, resigned. lineuy: New Britain, roc Middletown. Cahili Robinson Right Guard reridge Petersor | Guard 14, Left jcore: New Britain Goals from field: ler 1. Beveridge pn 1, Varson 2 hize 6. Canill Middietown Petrocelli ! Cahill 1, oul gaals: i Neubauer Wrestling Team | 24 to 8. tate College, Pa., March 20—Penn | e added another to her string of | victories here last night, defeat- | the Princeton wrestlers, 24 to 8. | e won four falls and one decision | Princeton’s two dec hirk, Mills and Brown, making | r last appearances on the local s, each won their bouts in ime. Mills defeating Scraff minute. Garber, also seen here his final bout, lost to Jacobs. the ceton captain, in two extra pe- result of tonight's victory e's chances in the Intercollegiates t Saturday took a skyward leap. (hile all the bouts were exception- | well centested, the heavyweight | s proved the best. (‘arpenter of ton and Farley, a State find, t fifteen minutes before Carpen- | won. Detar brought the crowd ts feef by throwing Hutchinson 3. seconds. { WILLARD PINCHED Heavyweight Champion Does mc Fighticg Stunt With Negro Po- reman—Latter Refuses Challenge. lawrence, for the Kan,. March 20—A war- arrest of Jess Willard, ner heavyweight pugilistic cham- for disturbances of the peace, sworn out vesterday by Fred Lo- | negio policeman. L.ogan was ing _n wagon along a narrow road Willard aitempted to pass in a o, car, ogan charges Willard called e= for not giving up the roaa and lienged him to fight. l.ogan re- d the challenge, he said, and took | matter to & justice of the peace. him | Bordoorian ON AND FOWNES WINNERS. | inehurst, N. C., March 20.—The Ehurst old guard made its annual | rimage to the links of the South- | Pines Country club yesterday and part in the invitation medal id aud luncheon tendered to them i year by Tom Keliey of Southern | ks and J. E. Pusheée of Brae Burn. | prizes were contributed by James her of linglewood and were won ' onalé Parson ¢f Youngstown, at | nd . k. Fownss of Oakmont who ! ed in a A BOWLING. o Bowling Alieys OPEN DAILY 10 A. M. IES’ PATRONAGE SOLICITED | . Schilling ! Ryan { Danielson | teams of the ! the best | Grammar School | new American record of 16 2-5 sec- “HOME RUN STRIDE Yanks' Demon Slugger Clears Fence With 478 Foot Drive March 2y.—Babe one over the Jacksonville, Fla., Ruth finally has lifted fence. There was no me yvesterday afternoon, but the club was put through a stiff batting practice, with the pitchers putting all thev had on the balls. Ruth caught one of De Vi- tali’s shoots on the nose and knocked it over the center field fence. It was 428 feet from the heme plate to the fence, and it was estimated that the drive went over by about 50 feet, thus | measuring 478 feet. 1t is the first time a ball has ever been driven over the center field fence. Ruth figures the ball was the sec- ond hardest he ever hit. His banner wallop was made off Georse Smith. { the former Giant pitcher. in the Giant-Ned Sox series of last pr‘ing.) when be knocked 1he ball over a race traek fence in Tampa. The drive was measured afterward and was 550 feet. McGraw called it the longest home run of his experience. i Ruth made his homer off a fast ball. § De Vitalis was not lobbing them over, | to be in good form. | Babe just got hold of one and sent it for a ride. Tt was a low liner some- what similar to the home run in Tampa. That is, the ball never went any higher than 25 feet in the air, t kept on sailing. The Biz Babe seems to be on his way. { { 1 1 | ! . Anderson .... o WiHght oo 97 1} Anderson 5 5 ] 2 Huck i Prior Ktbner Barenborg Leupold 164 N. B. Machine. Nacum S S Burkhart Willametz Foote Vulcan Iron. 88 s8 89 86 S8 Valentine Gustafson Ohlsen Warner FAFNTR LEAGUE. Labor-Laboratory. Chamberlain as Beardsle) Hewitt Miller Ryan Olson Humason leynolds Knowles Stanley Aldrich BATYLE ] Grammar School and Boys' Club Quintet Have Hotly Contested Game. | i In a basketball contest that was a rip-snorter from start to finish, the New Britain Boys' club and the Grammar school. played a tie game last night, the contest ending With the results at 20 points each. | Charley Huber and John Grip fea- | tured for the students. while Harry Stromquist and Wallace Knapp. dxd‘ work for the club team. A | return game will be plaved at the Grammar school zymnasium Tuesday evening, March 20 Last night's score and summa Boys' Huber Stromquist Koslawy Tidmarsh Left forward Knapp Topa Belsor Norkie | from field, . Koslowy 1 Stromquist 3, Huber 3 Grip 4. ! Tidmarsh 1. Bel- { Knapp foul goals, Huber 4. Grip 2. Stromgquist 4 Knapp 2: referee, Cook: timer, Kin- ~rlin: scorver, Ostrowsl MEAGHER MAKES BIG PLUNGE. Chicago, March 20.-—J. Meagher of the University of Chicago was an- nounced vesterday as the holder of a | onds for the plunge in a sixty-foot tank. Swimming in the preliminaries of the tenth annual western confer. ence meet last night, Meagher clip- ped 1 5 seconds from the former record. f ous horses compected and , Picket. { ‘were seen in the ring. | were 'FAMOUS GRAVESEND RACE TRACK IS SOLD Building Lots Will Be Laid Out on Gourse New York, March —Another of the historic landmarks of racing is soon to pass olit of existence with the cutting up into building lots ‘of famous Gravesend cou decade or more ago, was one most popular race tracks on Island. Taking advantage of present boom in real estate, Brooklyn . Jockey club has sold Gravesend property for a price ported 1o be $6 ony of homes will soon flourish where turf records were once made. The Gravesend track. was built 3 vears ago by the Brookiyn Jocke: club, in which the Dwyer brother Philip J. and Michael F.—were the larzest stockholders. This is the last of the three courses in Kings counts which were closed when the ban was put on racing during the administra- tion of Governor Hughe: Th2 Brighton track already h turned into a real estate development and the Sheepshead Bay track, for several vears. has been used for motor car speedway, which now . i being torn down. The Gravesend {rack was the scenc of many thrilling race: some of the biggest stake events then run. Chief among these was the Brooklyn Handicap, and many made ords there. Among these were Tenny, Fitz Herbert, Trish Lad and The It was there also that Mike Dwyer became famous as one of the heaviest plunzers on the turf. That was in the days when odpen betting was legal and the big blackboard With turn of racing the Kings county tracks replaced by those which now comprise the Metropolitan circuit, though for vears Gravesend has been of Long the the the | used as a training track. RACING BILL FAVORED Maryland Commission Me#sure s Amended and Passed to Third Reading by 60 to 38. Annapolis, Md.. March 20.—The house of delegates ~vesterday acted favorably upon the original Burke bill, with the referendum eliminated. It was substituted for the Andrews anti- gambling bill. which had been report- ed unfavorably. The substitute bill was then passed to the third reading file with the following changes. The racing period in the state was reduced from 112 to 100 dayve each vear. Establishment of new tracks or re- vival of old ones is prohibited. All of the receipts from the taxes on the tracks are to be turned into the state treasury, except $3,000, which as hevetofore has been handed over annuall lico track. The next move will be to pass or de- feat the bill in its amended form. Its fate will be decided next week. The vote yesterday Burke bill was substituted for the An- drews bill. weuld indicate that the friends of the bill as it is now framed are sufficiently numerous to pass it. ELI GRIDDERS 0UT Bad Weather Prevents Candidates From Practicing Outdoors Yester- day—Veterans in Charge. New Haven, March 20.—Yale's foot- ball players who will be candidates for the team next fall, reported for work vesterday afternoon in the baseball cage and received some verbal in- structions on the fine points of their positions. Members of last vear's team handled the various squads yves- terday afternoon to the extent of giv- ing them short talks. Reinhardt took care of the ends. Dickens and Munger the tackles. Acosta and Galt the guards, Galvin TEAM BEATEN BY HENDEE INDIA the | which, a | the | re- | 5,000, and a new col- | been | and provided | fam- | rec- | the re- | from the receipts at the Pim- } ring. 60 to 33, by which the | i first round after | demonstrated | sent world’s champion, but it speedily | Britton was the winner on points. the centers, Kempton and Laroche the | quarterback halfbacks: There will be no out-of-door until the weather zets better. Yale field began to take on a normal appearance a heavy storm set in and the field is now under a blanket snow. s and Lay and Webb the LOOKING FOR Sporting Editor. Britain Dear Sir: Kindly TROUBLI Herald. issue a challenge valuable paper to K. O. your city on behalf of Mungavin of the Brass city. Sweeney has met Mickey Dance of this city twice. Mungavin several times. A Sweeney Mungavin lively aff. Mungavin is open to meet pound man in the state. Youps, in your Sweeney of bout hetween would be a any W. J. MUNGAVIN, Mgr INJURED HELPING THE BLIND. Macon, Ga., March 18. “hick Shorten. outfielder of the Detroit Am- ericans. is in a hospital here as the result of stepping on a rusty nail Shorferi was leading a blind baseball fan from Detrolt out of the ball park. Tt will be three weeks before he can play, doetors state, If me @asaplications sct In, work | Just as | of | | st Young J. has defeated Dance | .arfes paid to the heads ——— ——— The Golfer in Winter Time [T Novemeea- 1 CARE wWHO GETS cLuBs - %// AGAIN — | THRoOUGH FEBRUARY - Y EXCUSE ME Bovs 7DVDN' T My JUS TS 2 NEVUER SEE THEM 'm FoR \F | Down'T SEEM TOLITE -~ BUT 1 AEAR ABoOUT LOWNG AS DowrT WwWANT GOLF AGAIN T LIvE™ e =S e By Briggs DECEMBER ~ "DoN'T TaLk GOLF NOT JANUVARY ~ To L3 " NO No- Don'T - TaLk INTERESTED, ABoOUT- GOLF - M CURGED~ NEVGER AGAIN MARC H - NEXT “ NoPe! You canT INDUCE ME To Picix UP THAT GOLF GAME AGAIN! I HROW WHEN |'VE HAD A PLENTY — GooD NiaHT' MONT 4 - ANDMATED CARTOONS BY “BRIGGS” AT THE LYCEUM EVERY WEERK (FIRST PART) BRITTON WINS AGAIN Welterweight Champion Mecets For- | mer Amateur Champion Who Was Inclined to Fight, Then Had to. New York, March 20.—Eddie | | Dorsey, who claims the colored light- | weight championship of America. : { after agreeing to box Eddie Fitzsim- mons at the boxing carnival hed the 4th Regiment Armory in in Jersey | i City last night under the auspices of the North Hudson Federated Posts of the American Legion, evidently recon- sidered, for when the time came for | him to face the Morgan entry in ihe | he was conspicuous by his | absence. Little Danny Bright, for- | merly of England, however, had no fear of the much heralded Fitasim- and he gladly substituted for s courage and gameness were ! commendable but he proved no match for Fitzsimmons and Referee Erhart showed excellent judgment in 'stop- ping the bout toward the end Of the . Eddie had fully that Danny had no chance with him. Bobby - Gleason, former amateur welterweight champion, started a boxing match jwith Jack Britton, pre- developed into a battle. Bobby rambunctious, and Jack retaliated in kind so that when the final bell clanged they were at it hot and heavy and the house was in an uproar. Jack Tully, who was to have met Gene Tunney, was marooned some- where in Brooklyn by the storm, and that bout had to be called off. OTHER At XHIBITION GAMES. Miami, Fla. Cincinnati (N. L. Indianapolis (A. A. Batteries—Sallee. Lugue and Wir Crum; Adams and Henline. e Louis (N. L, 50! Philadelphia (A .6 8 1 Batteries—Reinhart. Doak and Dil- hoefer, Clemans: vlor, Perry and Perkips. ' oston (A. L.) Soau Batteries—Ponder, Adam and Clarke, Hoef(ner: ure and Devine Cooper Murphy, Leas- FOOTBALL PRICES. BOO! Western Counference Universities' Di- rectors Sec Nccessity of Action. Chicago, March 20.—Athletic di- rectors of the western conference uni- versities met vesterday to consider the advisabillty of ralsing prices of ad- mission to football games and all\oth- er athletic contests. The advance was necessary, they said, becanse of the Increased cost of athletic equipment and the high sal- »f athletle do- deferred, partments. Actlom was HE driving compartment in the Larch- mont four passenger model is a revela- tion to most people—a blessing to the man behind the wheel. It wasdesigned for luxuri- ous ease and that means there is arm room, -elbow room and leg room in abundance. Most cars, you know, are obliged to com- promise on seating space—but not the «Larchmont”. It was designed to make four People supremely comfortable, and a com- bination of long wheel base and closer coach work hasaccomplished just this result. PAIGEDETROIT MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT LASH MOTOR CO. West Main and Lincoln Sts. Phone 382 NS_“BABE” RUTH DRIVES OUT LONG HIT AT JACKSONVILLE. FLA—GRAVESEND BUILDING LOTS — ELI FOOTBALL CANDIDATES HOLD INDOOR PRACTICE--WILLARD AT LAST INCLINED TO FIGHT