New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1923, Page 8

PIRATES AND INDEPENDENTS WIN BASKETBALL GAMES NEW-BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, AT Y. M. C. A, — AMERICA MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 102, N LEAGUE UMPIRE IS QUESTIONED REGARDING SHOOTING AFFRAY AT CLEVELAND — KAPLAN-TRAVERS BOUT AT MERIDEN TONIGHT - ASHLEY AND KALAN AWARDED THEIR LETTERS AT MIDDLEBURY IAGK KEARNS CONING 10 NEW YORK THIS WEEK mpses’s Manager Will Confer With COLUMIA PLAYER LEATS IN SCORING|,. Sam Strom Is Out i Front in Intercollegiate League With the first hashietha e Tex Richanl Boganding Another Bout With Jess Willard 16.~Whether a closed between heavyweight the man the New Yo return b will Jack Dempeey, world's shampion, and Jess Willard rom whom Dem won \imost four years known within a fortnight Tex Rickard, who is seeking titleholder's sorvices for one and possibly two bouts, last night an- ed receipt of telegram from Jack Kearns in wnieh the champion's Strom has had the ad-|manager declared his intention of game over such |leaving Los Angeles on Wedneaday or rivals as Tommy Cullen, the Dart. | Thursday for this city, Kearns is ex- mouth captain and forward, and Jim- | pected to arviver either next Sunday mie Luther, Cornell's leader and ceor r Monday end enter immediately on ter, he leads Art Loeb, the Princeton | -he business of “talking turkey." guard and foul shooter who last year| Whether Dempsey was the runner up to Bill Grave of | Kearns east is not certain, It is un. Pennsylvania, the highest individual] lerstood, however, that Dempsoy will scorer for 1922, Strom has ccllected | follow paecedent and remain at his 32 points, the result of six fleld goalg| 1ome in Los Angeles until advised by and 20 goals from the foul line, Inj|Kearns to come cast the Columbia-Princeton game on While Rickard is known to be de. Tuesday night at Princeton he made | Yrous of arranging another bout be- twelve points, one more than Loeh | Ween Demprey and Willard, nothing Baturday evening against Cornell in| lefinite will be done on this proposi- the Columbia gymnasium the Diue| 1on until Kearns arrives and person- and White candidate for the season’s | 3!!¥ expresses himself on the subject honors made twenty of his team's | °f @ return mateh between the eham- twenty-two points son and the former titleholder, Tommy Cullen of Dartmouth and] flekard said that he would adhere to Mel Dickenson, Princeton's foothall | 18 previously announced program of leader and substitute fer “Tiny' | Ening Dempsey to a blank contract Gaines at center, are tied for third | Wnder which the champlon would place with sixteen points, The Dart. | “Ere¢ to a match against any man an i e 15 R legiate New York, Jan week of the Iniere league over, Ram Mirom th bia forward, playing his first year on the varsity, is leading the individual scores and Hill Zahn's Princeton team is resting on the top of the team stanling. Although vantage of an extr Colum- |y moter the MANCHESTER WHIPS title | will accompany | T T T T — 1 Il Speaking NEW BRITAINTEAM | of Sports { BY CLERKIN © sommee i The Old T d ‘Ul ‘Sensational Goal Tossing Features) .1, ut Timers deteated the vu. , €, A, last Baturday night, s | scores 15-12, 15-11 d 126, T Glme u mw Armow I::““"‘I'mnu ropped (:: rmremun..lvl:. —— | 18:3, 15:14 and 15.5, basketball team night at| After watehing Drew, Darling The New Pritain | went down to delcat Saturday and basketball games in this eity, we are more set in our opinfon that Dick Dillon is the peer of them all, 49 to M, n & with sensa- heetie nonal All-Manchester team, Lattle that was replete {tional goal tossing, It was & game, and one of the best se local court in several seasons The local boxing fans are evineing | Btrengthened by the serviees of | Lienty of interest in the Kaplans | Johnny Bueeh the locals looked | Travers bout at Meriden tonight, Letter than at any other tme 1his| Many from this eity would like to notwithstanding the reverse suf=| yetend, but the sise of the hall will | not permit it, year fered The first few minutes of the game, the Silktown team played rings; | around the locals, having an advan- tage at one time of cight points, The| game had progressed only a few aees onds when Ballseiper registered the irst score of the evening on a ¥ shot from the center of the court, | Sheehan tied the count with a shot| 5 that brought rounds of applause,| The Fagles defeated the Tigers, 30 From then on, until ten points had [to 14, in a basketball game at the been scored by the visitors, things|State armory on Saturday night. were much a!l Manchester's way. The | home team got started and soon tied | | the score, and for a brief period was leading. Mowever, the great work of Fitzgerald put the visitors in the lead again, so that at intermission, Man- chester was ahead, 22 to 18, Contii Clip. The teams did not let up any in the Several men whe applied for the Job us referee of the Dingleberries. Humdingers basketball gume wepe | turned down flatly, when they admits {ted they understood the rules of the sport, The New Britain High scnool bas- ketball m met defeat last Satur. day afternoon at Hartfofd, when the 8t. Thomas Seminary quintet romped away with a 24 to 16 victory, Three members of the New Britain High school basketball team, LaHar, MAY OPPOSE SARAZEN'S TRIP 10" ENGLAND Brianclit Board Will Take A«:u- Whether 1ts Pro Instrctor Will Be Pormitted To Make the Trip MILLER HAS BG DAY AT SCORING (Charlie Drops fo 11 Field Goals New York, Jan, 16~Gene Sarazen, : > m Gm “ “'" natienal open and P, G, A, ehampion, : s S may not lead the invading foree of { American golfers_onto Hritish soll Pirates and the Independents, | next spring after all. On the heels of The the first place honors|he decision of the United Stnos Golf | rontehders po probably will . Pro- | the state arniory at the hands of the | Waters in the role of referee at the |in the Haturday Afternoon league at|association so .to arrange “s dates fthe Y. M., A, were both returned |that American pros could compete in |Victors in the games last Saturday |the British classle at Troon on June (afternoon, The Pirates smothered the (14.15, and their own open champlon. Senecas, 42 to 15, Charlie Miller ghip at Inwood on July 9-13, com turned in a spectacular exhibition of |news from Hriarcliff Lodge at Hria | goal tossing. The old timer with the [oljff.on-the-Hudson, that it may op- | aecurate left wing registored 11 goals|pose Sarazen's making the trip, It from the field, Chucky Wojack|will be remembered that Briarclift is Idrnmml thée ball through the dra-|the club where Sarazen signed a two- peries for six double counters and |year contract on Dee, 21 last, at what Morelll made the other elght points |was said to be the largest salary ever The game between the Vikings and [ paid a professional golfer in the Unit- the Independents was more closely|e) States, contested, the Independents winning| Sarazen is not scheduled to begin 24 to 18, Dudack and Howe were the hig Quties at Briareliff until April and chief point makers for the winners. |Chauncey Depew Steele, managing The lineup: director and chairman of the board at Pirates, Seneocas. | yriarcliff, is not at all sure that the BRUIBE /so s ias 0 sn s ++ Olson|poard will approve of an absence of Right Forward, three or four weeks on Sarazen's part coooooos Kallgren | so goon after he is installed af'his new Left Forward, Morelll ost. Grobstein | At any rate Steele has caused a meeting of the board to be called for teeeeeeaaiaoo. Abrahamson [(his afternoon to pass on the ques. Right Guard. tion, which may mean so much to Tancred ... Plude, Willlams | America’s chances in the British ev- Left Guard, ent. Tt is understood that Steele him- Score: Plrates 42, Senccas 15: fleld | a)f ig in favor of permitting Gene to goals, Miller 11, Morelli 4, Wojack 6,|maka the trip abroad, but the final Otaon 1, Kallgren 2, Grobstein 2,|gecigion rests with the board of di. Plude 1; foul goals, Kallgren 3, ref-| actors as a whole. It had not been Wojack Meehan UNPIRE HIXED UP IN SHOOTING AFFRAY Ollie Chill Is Questioned by Cleveland Police Cleveland, O, Jan, 15,~-0llie Chitl, American league umpire, is being ‘questioned by the pollee in connection with the death of Hdward J. Me, Gregor, 26, found shot to death Sat. urday night in an apartment house at clld avenue and East Fiftz-ninth street, Chill, according to the police, Wias one of three men found in the apart. ment when the officers broke In the door. The men declare they remem- ber hearing ' two shots fired but neither was ablo to say who did the shooting, A drunifen party, including several brawls and fist fights, preceded the shooting, according to a stutement gen to the pollco by Joseph I° Johnson, a taxicab driver who says he had taken McGragor and the fhrec men to the apartmogt. All were in- toxicated Johnson sald. ' Upon arrival at the apartment there was another argument as to who should serve the drinks, Johnson sald in hjs statement, and McGregor hit Chill and knocked him unconscious. Late Saturday njght, the police re- celved a report of shooting in the apartment. When they broke in the door, they say, they found Chill un- der a bed, his face beaten black and lue. The other two men were In separate rooms. McGregor was found 3 a 2 g Dre elected by Rickard, to be held some mouth captain, & former Poly Prep. | second half. The visitors went out Weir and Neipp, arce proteges of | eree, Hergstrom; timer, Conway. decided yesterday whether, today's|in n hallway dying from bullet . A ime between June 1 and June 3. It layer placed third in last year's race A . Hiis points come trom . tweice fou | ¥ Ukely If Kearns in agreeable that Rickard will sign Dempsey to con- de agains ince! Satur ::;"'m:":"]';m’f‘m',n' :;;":N 'l';"‘,m ”"):' wacts for two matches, one to be held Sbar. Dickinson, with "“:m goak | ™ June and the other in September. from scrimmage, gives promise > ad Scimees. Tust sear's teaams neid oo | SALIN AND ASHLEY AWARDED “M" FOR FOOTBALL WORK scorer, Jimmie Luther follows Dick- New Britain Gridiron Men Among 17 o enson and Cullen with 13 points. He appears to be the most likely four shooter in the league, Tigers Not So Strong The Alexander Trophy is resting on none too firm a pedestal at Pri ton. The Tigers have m their two games, defeating Columbia by a score of 33 to 21 on Tuesday and Dartmouth Eaturday in a close strug gle by a score of 25 to 24. DBut bot) victories brought out signs of weak- nesses. The team work and the pas sing were mediocre, and unless the Orange and Black takes a turn to the better by Saturday evening Pennsyl- vania may change the future of the league championship. The two rivais meet in Weighman Hall at the Uni versity of Pennsyivania in the biggest game of the early season campaier Dartmouth is not discouraged by its 1-point defeat. George Zahn has excellent material and an effective| 1in High school in the class of '1%, ofténsive, which may tell a different| jjeo having attended Phillips Exeter story in_the next Princeton game, !o‘ Academy He has made his letter be played at Hanover. sach of his four vears in college and Cornell, following its victory over ! has neen a member of the varsity Columbia, is lookingto the sky. Four!tennis team for three years. Ile was veterans—Luther, Weddell, Crabtree | chosen as all-Vermont halfback this and Catpron—full of fight and mould- | a1, ed into a good team with Stone, a new | He is a member of the Deita Kappa man thrown into the outfit, and Luth-| gpsilon fraternity er, the most promising foul shooter | et MeNichol of Penn, from the basis of | Who Win Sweaters at Middle- bury—Fourth for Ashley. Eddie 8. Kalin and Stanton E. Ash- ey have been rded sweaters with the varsity “M". Seventeen sweaters were awarded, the gift of the student bedy to the players of last season's football var- sity. Kalin is a graduate of the New Britain High school ‘18, This year he is president of the 'ndergraduate association. He is a nember of the Kappa Deita Rho fra- ternity and also of Delta Tau and ‘Waubanake honorary Soph and Sonior societies, respectively Achley is a graduate of New Brit- the Ithacan optimism. Howard Ortner’s men will put Yale in the hands of a new coach-—Joc Fogarty from Philadelphia — to tost this Friday night at New Ilaven. ‘eam Standing. w Fagles of New Britain Boys' Club to Play Colorzd Aggregation of Water- L d College. Princeton Cornell Dartmouth Columbia Pennsylvania Yale .... KAPLAN-TRAVERS BOUT WILL BE HELD TONIGHT Connecticut Boxing Commission De- Pet 1.000 1.000 000 000 .600 000 bury at Local Gym. The Beaver A. C. of Waterbury, a colored aggregation of hoop tossers, will play the Kagles of the New Brit- ain Boys' club on the Center street court at 8 o'clock this evening. Both | teame are playing fast bhasketball this season. The Brass City boys have lost only three games in four years. The locals will be strengthened with the acquisition of Sokolowski and Holst, The teams wiil lineup as follow: Eagles, Schultz, Swanson and Sok- olowski, forwards; Holst, center; Swanso, Grip and Anderson, guards. Beavers A. C.: J. Minnis, E. Minnis and Garner, forwards; Williams, cen- | ter; Wallace, Jackson and Summa, guards. 1 n 0 clines to Suspend New Haven Boy at Eleventh Hour. The Kid Kapian-Micky 7ravers #out at Meriden will be held tonight as scheduled, despite the action of the Massachusetts Boxing solons in sus- pending the little New Haven battie for alleged “running out” of ¢wol mills in that state. This wiil be cheerful news to hundreds of fans, who have purchased their seats for tonight's bout. Aecly Castle, of Wa- terbury, was apprised late Saturday of the suspension of Travers, but the Connecticut comuission, justice to| Promoter Dwyer, declined t{o inter-| fere at the eleventh hour. Poth boys are in top notch form for the fray, and from the training camps comes every evidence that both expect to win. It will be the sixth meeting of the pair. Up to present time Kaplan has been unable to put across a victory over the Elm City Italian. Three other bouts are carded. Just who will referes the bouts is matter of confecture. In rome circles it is the opinion that Jim Galvin will | be assigned to the task. BEOBBY BARRLTT I8 JLL rett, Clifton Heights lcightweight, has veen knocked out by rheumatism and today will leave for a quiet place in Virginia to recuperate. RBarrett is not able to walk, and Manager Jim. mp Dougherty has announced that several bouts that were virtually iinched in New York the latter part of the month have been called off. Rarrett will Virginia heaith resort aney, his trainer. by Cal. De- Mrs. Siki Heisman Twentieth Grid Coach at W. and J. | Washington, Pa., Jan. 15.—An ine | spection of football records at Wash- ington and Jefferson shows that John ‘W. Heisman, formerly of Pennsylva- nila; recently chosen head coach, is the twentieth to be engaged since the sport was inaugurated in 1890, Heis- man is the fourth Penn man to hold coaching reins here, the others ving been Frank A. ‘ka ki, rt C. Folwell and Sol tzger. 3 e records show that Washington #nd Jefferson has produced seven tball coaches, with several oslgrs advisory and secondary places. Here is the latest of the rare pho- ecomes next with five head |tographs of the white wife of Sikl, | then Penn with four while former heavyweight champion of College, Lafayette, rvard | France. The Senegalese boxer has West Virgi W have |been in difficulties ever since his vie- uted one tory over Georzes (arnentiss in the class of | Philadelphia, Jan. 15.—~Bobby Bar- | be accompanied to the | into & lead that looked comfortable, but the home team again started an attack on the baskets, that brought the score up to even terms. With the | sensational Ballseiper and Fitzgerald | going fast and with Madden caging | three goals nearly the length of the floor, the battle ended in favor of the | visitors, Restella and Kilduff worked {like beavers and Sheehan also did a | good night's work. Seigrist and Wal- thers played weil. | The line-up: | All-Manchest Arngeli ...... Charlie Miller, and their success on the court is due in a large mcasure to his coaching. Kid Wagner and Hughie Hutchi- son, both victims of Kid Kaplan, will meet in the star bout at Hartford, on January 81, according to reports. Dave Shade, the California welter- weight, warded the decision over | Jimmy Kelly of the Bronx, in a beut at New York on Saturday night. New Britain Kilduff. ‘orward, Sheehan, Restella Left Forward, Restella, Walthers Center. Walthers, Sheehan Right Guard, B The wonder team of the Passaic High school won 1ts 95th consecutive victory last Saturday night, defeating the Englewood High school quintet, 89 to 20, | Jitzgerald Ballseiper | | Benson Vincent “Pepper” Martin scored a knockout win over Joe Leonard, featherweight of the South, in the eleventh round of a bout held at Brooklyn last Saturday night. The Y. M. H. A, team of Hartford will play the Atlas 1%ive of New Ha- ven at Hartford tonight. Dominick Soccolly of this city will meet Louis Pelice, the state pocket billiard champion, in the champion- ship tourney that opens tonight at Bob Stone's pool parlors at Water- bury. | Madden . v.o.. Seigrist Left Guard. Score: All-Manchester 49, Britain 44; field goals, Angeli Fitzgerald §, Rallseiper 8, Madden 4, Kilduff 8, Restella Walthers 2, Sheehan 2; foul goals, Fitzgerald 3, Sheehan 6; referee Waters; timer, Jo- sephs. New 2 AMERICAN CURLERS LOSE Montreal, Jan. 15.—Twenty-two curling teams from the United St went down to defeat here Saturday in the British Empire match before a team made up of curlers from Scot- ‘anw, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Guebee. The DBritish Empire won fteen zames to the United States scven, the aggregate seore belng 251 to 204, COLLEGE WRESTLER HURT State College, Pa, Jan. 15,—Just when Coach Dave Detar of the Penn | State wrestling : y°2d was beginning to think that he | found a worthy successor to Tiny iahon for the heavyweight clags in the person of rank Emory the latter received an red shoulder in practice that will p him off the mat for at least ten days and may keep him out of the opening meeting of the season. Smory was taking a short workout yesterday and strained a ligament. fi FIRE New York 5.—Heven persons were slightl ten families | were made homeless and damage es- timated at $40,000 caused yesterday | | by fire of mysterious origin swept a| two-story block of frame which started in a grocery store and build- ings in Ridgewood, Queensboro, Girl Champ Adds New Crown Eleanor Coleman, Milwaukee, world’s champio’n 100-yard breast-stroke swimmer, added a new laurel when she won by »|Cnla'kingz 100 vards in 1:29 at the Ilinois Athletic club’s swim in | Chicago. | CIGAR AMOUS =or QUALITY Independents, Vikings. Dudack ........0000 .++. Nelson ' Right Forward. Howe ........ Nelson, 8chade ft Forward. Ginsberg ... * . ... Larson Schmidt Nelson, Swanson Left Guard, Score: Independents 24, Vikings 18; field goals, Dudack ¢, Howe 4, Gins- berg 1, Carozza 1, Nelson 1, Schade 1, Larson 3, Wilson 1; foul goals, Dudack 4, Larson 3; referee, Shee- han; timer, Conway. American Challenge Is Accepted by British London, Jan. 15.—The British- American cup committee decided to- Carozza ... day to accept the challenge of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht club of Oyster Bay, N. Y., for a series of six races for the Seawanhaka chal- lenge cup to be held in the Solent this year. The cup was captured from the Manchester Yacht club last sum- mer by the Cofla III sailing under the colors of the Royal Northern Yacht club, VIRGINIA LEAGUE COMPLETED Norfolk, Va. Jan. 15.—Organiza- tion of the Virginia league has heen completed with the award of a fran- chise to Petersburg, which will re-; place Newport News, and the election | of W. 8. Moye, Rocky Mount, N. C,, as president; C0" Moran Barry, Nor- folk, vice-president, and §. T. Potts, league statistician. The Richmond franchise has been purchased by H. P. Dawson, Portsmouth, Va., and the club will be piloted by Dave Robert- son, former New York Natoinal out- fielder, . When a Feller Needs a meeting would be held at the Algon- quin hotel or at Briarcliff lodge. COMETS QUINTET WINS GAME AT SOUTHINGTON Boys’ Club Team Plays Snappy Bas- ketball on Enemy’s Court, Cap- turing & 22 to 13 Contest. The Comets basketball quintet of the New Britain Boys' club defeated the Southintgon A, C. five in that town last Saturday night, 22 to 13, The Comets went into the lead in the first minute of play, and were never headed. Captain Bramhall of the Comets contributed several long shots that brought ' applause. The pass work of Knapp and'Baker was very good, while Kamnicky and Humphries turned in a fine exhibi- tion of defensive work. ' The lineup: Comets. Southington. Baker .. Angelo Right Forward. Knapp ....... veress. Egldes "Left Forward. p) Kamnicky .. ... Kavanaugh Center. Humphries Coleman Right Guard. ... Dejay, Anderson Left Guard. Comets 22, Southington A. Bramhall, . Score: C. 13; field goals, Baker 2, Knapp 4, | gam: Bramhall 3, Angelo 2, Egides 4; foul goals, Knapp 4, Egides 1; referee, ‘Williams. in the Christian founded in Tract societies originated Society for Promoting Knowledge, which was wounds in the heart and breast. No charge has been placed against Chill or his comparionz. Out of Amaicau League. Chicago, Jan. 15.—Ban Johnson, president of the American league, sald last night that he would make no investigation of the arrest of Ollfe Chill, Amgerican league umpire, for the last@®ew seasons, in connection with the shooting at Cleveland, “as we are no longer interested in Chil" “I had made up my mind to make a change and have already selected Chill's successor,”” Mr. Johnson sald. “The new umpire's name will be an- nounced in a few days when I give out the list of 1923 officials.” New Haven Pitchers Led Eastern League in 1922 Springfield, Mass,, Jan. 15—Johnny Cooney, the southpaw hurler of the New Haven club, 4s the Eastern league's leading pitcher and Sterling Stryker, his teammate, is in second place. Gary Fortune, the Pony Ace, is in third place. These statistics are based on pitchers who have 15 or more games, won or lost, to their credit, Carrigan of New !-hve{ who won six games, while he was taking part in 10, is the leader, according to the averages. Van Alystyne is in fourth place, winning nine apd losing four es. Bob Vines of Bridgeport allowed the least runs. Dominick Mulrennan of New Haven and Worcester was the league's “Wild Man," passing 152 bat- ters and hitting 22. Woodward of New Haven, was the strikeout king, whiffing 186. Fortune and Born- London in 1698. Friend Lot UL T T e hoeft each made ten wild pitches. BRIGGS