New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1923, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN HIGH BRISTOL BOWLER SHOW UP WELL HERE Engage in Sensational Battle With the Landers Team The All-Bristel bowling team and the Landers, Frary & Clark team of the New Britain Industrial league, staged an interesting duel at the Rog- ers recreation alleys last night, The Pell City five won the advantage in games, and the locals came out on top in total pinfall, Thempson, was “big works” of the night, the ted anchor man of the Landers team spilling the pins for a total of 338, which was high for the mateh “Tommy" also Hit the high single with 138, bowled in the final game of the night. turned in some good scores, was the best bet with the team. The scores of the mateh and those of other games rolled last night at Rogers and Casino lanes follow: SPECIAL MATCR Zigman, visiting 04 Wright 4 Anderson ¥risk Thompsen . 07 338 Il 5431528 Bristol, Xlitka .. T 20. Zigman . Landry . * Riley .. Jerrold Johnson Prango Wright . Meehan Bingemer . MeGuire Moore . McAulifr 1571400 James . §1— 268 Bwanson Wigner . Edwards Handsome CONN ELEC. LT. & POWER ( Couch . ) Coyle Jourdan . 0. LEAGUF. Typeson . O'Brien Dummy . Smith Lynch . 5 283 2 Parizo . Hannon C. Lynch Burns . MacNamara ..... Olson Green .. T. Lynch CORBIN ‘S( 251 232 256 261 Round Heads. Jackson oot LAY Kisselbrack Erickson 1 89— 534—157 91— 1= Ryberg J. Cerr uires Rebillard Rosénsweig 235 246 248 Atendt . 89— 4041214 241 240 246 86— 261 D 285 Curlick . Mentanno 1091272 Zillott . Johnson Carleon .. Brayne . Facey Wilsen .. L) | 83— B9 104~ 9 97 ‘rudel .. “Kid" Frisk and Wright n!-o\ 3 ] league, | 7 | Middletown (‘ot'leghm 4701519 3 announced " 255 23 4661294 COMETS BASKETBALL TEAM DEFEATS SILKTOWN FIVE | Past Battle s Waged At Boys' Club | Gymnasium—sensational Goal Tossing Features Game The Comets baskethall team of the New Britain Beys' elub defeated the Heights A, €, five of South Man- chester, at the Center street court last night, seore 33 to 24, The contest | was featured by some sensational bas- ket tossing, Knapp counting several times with leng tosses. Humphreys |and Bramhall did excellent work on {the defensive for the winners. John. son and Kwash played the best game for the Bilktown team The summary COMETS | Baker . ++ Johnson Right forward | Knapp AR AT R Hassett Left forward Kaminicky ssossenes UMD Center Humphreys ‘ E. Johnson | Right guard | Bramhall .......... Geevini, Larson | Loft guard | Seore: Comets 33, Heights A, C, 24; | field goals, Knapp Baker 4, Kam- |inisky 8, Bramhall 1, Humphreys 1, |Johnson 6, Hassett 1, Kwash 2, Gee- {vini 1; foul goals, Knapp 1, Geevini 4; | referee, Pelletier; timer, Carthers. 'BABE ADAMS WANTS T0 " QUIT PITTSBURGH PIRATES | Veteran Hurler Seeks His Release from Dreyfus to Accept a Place With Independent Team. Bethany, Mo, Jan, 27.—Charles B. (Babe) Adams, veteran pitcher of the Pittsburgh club in the National has announced at his home | here that he expects to retire from organized baseball. % Adams will not appear in a Pitts- burgh uniform this season if he is successful in obtaining his release, but will enter independent baseball at Kenosha, Wis,, where he has been oftered a three-year contract at a fancy figure. He has written the Pittsburgh club asking for his release, and if this is granted he will at once sign the contract with the Kenosha club. Under the terms of the contract offered he would pitch only one game a week during a six-month playing season. WESLEYAN WINS Swamp Am- herst Five 47 to 25—Losers Use Second String Players. Amherst, Jan. 27.—Wesleyan com- | pletely outplayed Amherst here last | night and defeated the local collegians | 47 to 25. Spectacular shooting by ;lhv visiting forwards featured the | contest. Coach McLaughry of Amherst start- e his second team and kept th: five sub players in the game for the first 1% minutes. The regular finished out the half, started the second hut were 4 pulled out in favor of the seconds five | minutes after the half startel. lobison and Moore «tarred for Wiesleyan, both shooting spectacular tashets. Fauver played best for Am- DUNDEE AND RICHE :’Hul_mkc Boy Agrees to Meet Junior Lightweight Champion At Meriden Early in February. Holyoke, Jan. 27.—Homer Rainault, manager of Romeo Roche, last night that he had accepted terms from George Dwyer, Meériden promoter, for a Holyoke battler to meet Johnny Dundee early month. Dundee has not accepted his terms but is expected to sign articles scon, The bout will take the place of the proposed Kid Kaplan-Dundee batile. Keplan insisted on battling for (he junior lightweight title, which 1s in Dundee’s possession but the wily Ital- fan refused to allow his title to be the stake for the Kaplan match. SAND LOTTERS IN SESSION Pittsburgh, Jan. 27.—8andlot base- ball activities today held the attention of delegates attending the National baseball federation convention her Representatives from the east an ; |middle west, were' present for the opening session whch was given over to the reports of officers. The afternoon pregram called for an open meeting for discussion of sandlot baseball conditions, 301 270 210 Stantey . Perg Hadden Ttay Searles 45 427 1508 5 opamman SPANISH WAR VETS. . 230 Fagan 4 248 W. Barnes ... Samuelson . 249 Reed . 278 3311003 238 201 204 Kinderlan Morey . Hoffman — 080 80— 263 82— 250 88— 254 — 280 85 26 Massey MecCarthy Jules . Griswold . —1047 Strickland HEIGHTS A, C. | next | NEW=BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928, CHECK WINNING DILLONTO WHISTLE " AT ARMORY BATTLE \Popular Releree WIll Olliclate at| New Britaio-Y, M, H. A, Game New Nritain Hartford Tondell ... Hurwits | Right Forward . Botwinik IR o | Left Forward s 43 Gubersky . Baron Walthers ) Conter Testella . tesseanaree Right Guard |Polletier ... .. o000 Pun Left Guard | Richard J. Dilion, the best little |veferea in this neck ‘o woods, will | handle the reins tonight at the State Armory when the New Rritain quin- fot tacklos the Hartford Y, M, H, A team. Any time that Dick Dillen refereeing a hasketball game, the fans see the game played as it should be, His return to a local conurt meets with the approval of New Jiritainites, Visitors Are Very Good | The opponent that Manager Lan pher has picked out for his New Britain team, Is one that will force the locals to top speed to keep in the running, not to say anything about winning. It is the same lincup that gave the Insilicos of Meriden a hard tussie on Thursday night, losing out| by ope pointl when one of the stars| | was forced out of the game on ac-| count of the personal foul ruling. The Hartford team was forced to fin- ish the game with only four men, |quite a handicap to any club. Bot- | winik, the Atlas star, and Gubersky. who has heen setting things on fire| | all over Connecticut, will be with the ;rlsl(ors tonight, | Want a Victory Tonight The New Britaln team is about “all sct” to sthge a comeback, having lost |the last two home games. The boys {are practicing faithfully, and are thus | becoming better acquainted, and the | | fans see a much improved brpand of | team work and goal tossing In to- night's contest. Tyndell and Kilduff are doing nicely at forward and with | Pelletier back in the game regularly, the defense should be greatly strengthened, " INVESTIGATING FRES { Western Conference Is Going to De- | termine What Officials Should Charge for Services. Chicago, Jan. 27 (By Associated Press)—How much should a baseball :umpin- get for breakfast, and can an | athletic director live on less than a | basketball referec? These and similar questions, have| the western conference by the ears| and threaten to separate several ath-| Itic officials from the $15 fees they| receive for presiding at the confer- | ence basketball games. | | The storm broke today when a resolution adopted by the directors of | athletics of the conference, branding expense accouns of many officials as | exorbitant, became public. The | directors voted to report the officials ’char;ing unreasonable expense to Major John L. Griffith, the commis- sioner of athletics, with recommen-| | dations that they never again be em- | ployed to officiate in any sport. The directors cited the expense ac-| count of one official who went from Chicago to Champaign, Ill., to umpire a baseball game. He started out| with a $3 taxicab bill from his home | to the station, a $1.25 breakfast, a $1.75 dinner and a $2 supper. But| what riled the directors were two | charges of 25 cents each for a taxi| on the two-bolck trip from the depot | |to a Champaign hotel, and a $4.50 | bill for hotel room. They found the | offender reached Champaign at noon and left at 6:25 p. m. and as he um- pired the baseball game in between the directors still are trying to figure out what he used the hotel room for. He spen $28.08 to earn his $15 fee. gGreenlez_u? Is Willing | To Play Frank Taberski New York, Jan. 27.—Ralph Green- |leaf, the professional pocket billiard |champion, yesterday announced his willingness to engage Irank Taberski iwho retired from championship com- petition four years ago as the unde- |teated title holder, in a match for }thn world’s championship. Green- leaf was communicated with over the | long distance telephone in Detroit and | ;deelared that he was willing to meet | Taberski under any réasonable condi- |tions Taberski may insist upon. This {is the result of an offer made by Charles Kline of the Strand Billiard academy, guaranteeing the players 82,000 with the privilege of 75 per !ecent of the gross gate receipts for a match to be played in this city prior! to April 1. { |Professional Boxing Is ‘ Barred in Akron, Ohio | Akron, Ohio, Jan. —~Decause they are ‘“gelting worse and worse" there will be no more boxing bouts | permitted in Akron after Feb. 7, City Manager M. I. Tucker announced last | night. His ruling was ctioned by | | the city boxing commission, which | |may continue to issue permits for tamateur shows. Mr. Tucker eaid that professional bouts scheduled for Jan. {80 and Feb. 7, may be held, but after | |that the lid will be clamped dewn |tight for an indefinite time. His rul-| ing, he said, resulted from complaints | |of fans that there is so little interest | ‘in the professional game that promot- ers have been unable to obtain first class boxers, and that the prices fail- led to decline as rapidly as the qual- |ity of the exhibitions. | — |COLGATE FIVE CHANGES Ll)\'El’l‘i | Hamiiton, N. Y. Jan. 27.—There will be two shifts in the Colgate bas- ketball lineup for the game with the Army at West Point teday. Rudy Cashion the versatile youngster fro Little Falls, N. Y., will be at guare as a running mate 1o Captain A, B. Hermann, and Murphy will replace Layland as a forward. The team left lust night for West Point. | When the fray had ended the | by engaging in a bowling duel STREAK OF COLLEGIATE PREP TEAM OF NEW HAVEN — ALL-BRISTOL AND LAN. DERS BOWLERS HAVE HARD FOUGHT BATTLE ON LANES HERE — DICK DILLON TO REFEREE BASKETBALL GAME AT STATE 'ARMORY TONIGHT DONDVAN HONORED BY BASEBALL NEN !Jndge Landis and 425 Fans Attend Testimonial Banquet Meriden is to have plenty of box- P s 3 ing next month, Johnny Dundee and| New Haven, Jan, 27.-~Commission- Romeo Roche will clash on February| er Landis As guest of honor and 426 6 and a few days later Kaplan will | baseball fans attended a banquet at meet’ Tommy Nobile, the English the Hotel Taft here last night to cole- featherweight, brate the winning of the Eastern lea- gue champlenship by New Haven and the team's vietory in“the post season serles with the Daltimore Internation- al league champlons, Honors were paid to Wild Bill Donovan, former manager of the Phillies and Yankees, who led the New Haven club last pes #on, Landis, who was the final speak- er on the program, was not reached until nearly midnight, Hs address dealt with the relations between the major and minor leagues, Acting Mayor John \5; Murphy voiced the greetings of the city to the baseball celebrities, to the New Ha- ven players and to Donovan, He in troduced Thomas L. Rellly, sheriff of !New Haven county, discoverer of Moolic and Flynn for the Chicagos of 1886, and later manager of the Jer- sey City club, Alvin M. Owsley, na- tional commander of the American legion, told of the leve of service men | for recreational sport and the value of basebnll in the reconstruction per- |i0d, Speaking of Sports BY CLERKIN e A good time wids had by all at the testimonial dinner to William Dene- van, manager of the New Haven team, last night, Harry Frazee has entered the. lime- light, in a different role than dispos. ing of real ball players, He is now djekering for the proposed bout be- tween Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills, Hartford High school basketball team defeated New Haven High school team 20 to 18, in a hard fought battle at Hartford last night. Ahearn and Healey, veterans of the Hartford High school track team, have been declared ineligible to competé in any sports at the school until next September, Van Orden and Tremonti have also been declared ineligible to play with the basketball team until next fall, The Princeton swimming team de- feated the Wesleyan fank men at Middletown last night, 33 to 20, Danny Lee of Harlem defcated Danny Edwards of California in a 10 round bout at New York last night. O'Neil Praises Douovan, Dan O'Neil, president of the East- ern league, reviewed the season, eulogized Donovan, and presénted ev- ery member of the New Haven team with a gold medal. Among those who were introduced to the fans were Babe Ruth, John Conway Toole, president of the Inter- national league; George Washington Grant, owner of the Boston Braves; Frank Frisch of the Giants, Joe Du- gan of*the Yankees, Secretary Tierney lof the Giants, and Mike Eddy, Yale | baseball captain. Colonel Tillinghast Huston of the New York Yankees sat next to Ruth fand responded to an informal toast. He praised Donovan and said that The Harvard hockey team defpated |such leagues as the Eastern were the the M. I. T. septet, 10 to 0, and the|backbone of the national game. Boston college team won from Bos- | o oo mn g ton university, 3 to 2, in an overtime game at the Boston arena last night. Pal Moore of Memphis, outweighed by five pounds, easily defeated Tommy Murray of Philadelphia in a 10 round bout at Chicago last night. Walter Thorne of Boston won the Western Massachusetts skating cham- plonship at Pittsfield, Mass., yester- day. He finished first in four events, The Cleveland hockey team defeat- ed the Duluth Reds in the first of a two game series, 3 to 0, at Cleveland last night. Westminster Club Is Barred From League Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 27.—The exe- cutive committee of the United States Amateur Hockey association, voting by telegraph, decided to expel the Westminster club of New Haven from the league, Roy D. Schooley, secre- tary, announced here last night. Ac- tion was taken against the New Ha- ven club when it failed to appear for a scheduled game with the Boston A. A. this week. e e Waterbury on Thursday night, losing to Charlie Hammel of Waterbury, 100 to 54. Joie Ray, the crack Illinois distance runner, performing for the first time since his suspension was lifted, Jast night won the one mile {nvitation event at Chicago. He covered the dis- tance in 4:24 2-5, The swimming teams of Yale and Princeton will meet in' the Carnegie tank at Néew Haven tonight, The Atlas.Five of New Haven ex- perienced little difficulty in defeating the Sensational Wanderers of Canada at Music Hall, New Haven, last night. Elm | City tea mwas on the long end of a 54 to 21 score. Botwinik, who plays/ here tonight with the Hartford Y. M. H. A. team, accounted for 16 points for the victors, tossing eight fleld baskets. Joe Cosgrove, the Brasscos outfield- er, evidently think§ well of Jim Clark- in. In a recent statement, Joe said he would not play in Hartfofd for $600 Babe Ruth used up some of his|az month. spare time at New Haven yesterday | with | Neal Ball, former captain of the Cleveland American league club. Ball won the match with four victories in seven games rolled, The Naugatuck High school will in-| vade Passaic, N. J., on next Wednes- day, meeting the wonder team of that town. ¢ | The Commercial High school bas- Speaking of basketball teams, that e ah aggregation at the Jocal High school ketball team of New Haven defeated | il Meriden High scheol five, 33 to 23, in |18 going along pretty smool hly u] a game at the Elm City last night. ‘3"“0"~ 1 Dominick Soccoli, the local cue wiz-| Eddie Shevlin, the Dartmouth pro- ard, went down to defeat in the|fessor, will meet Dave Bhade of Cali- |AMERICAN LEAGUE T0 |New York 2 and 1. MEET AT PHILADELPHIA Question of Adopting or Nejecting Plan To Lessen Freak Home Runs, Will Be Discussed Chicago, Jan, 27.—~The wspring schedule meeting of the American league will be held in Philadelphia Feb, 19, President Johnson announé- ed last night, The decision to held the meeting in Philadelphia instead of here was reached because the annual hanquet of the Philadelphia baseball writers will be held on that date, and Presi- dent Johnsen, tegether with Ty Cobb and George Sisler, will be the guests of honer. More than 1,000 will at- tend, The principal question to be gonsid- ered at the meeting will be the adoption or rejection of the plan to lessen freakish home runs, Clark Grifrith, president of the Washington club, brought the suggestion to the attention of the elub owners at their December meeting and was regarded with sentiment favorable to the pro- position. The National league, how- ever, opposed It, and Commissioner Landis has since stated that he does not favor it, and that it will not be adopted by both major leagues, It is possible, however, -that the American league will act independent. ly. The plan is to restrict home run territory to anything beyond 315 feet from the home plate, While the plan may appear (o be radical, President Johnson said it would not be a handi- cap on the real home run hitters, such as Ken Willlams and Babe Ruth. |Intercollegiate Champions Beaten by Cornell Quintette Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. 27.—Cornell de- feated Princeton in an intercollegiate league basketball game here last night by a score of 26 to 18. Cornell's quintet led the Princeton five nearly all the way. Princeton's setback at the hands of the Cornell five was the Tigers' first defeat in the Intercollegi- ate Basketball league race this season after having previously won its first three games. As a result of the de- feat Princeton is now in second place, with the Yale quintet leading the lea- gue with two victories and no defeats. Cornell is still in third place, but now hag two victories and one defeat for *|a percentage of .667. The Ithacans' only defeat came at the hands of the Yale five, “Rosie” Ryan, Giants’ Pitcher, Demands Increase Worcester, Mass., Jan. 27.—Wilfred (Rosie) Ryan, youthful pitcher of the New York Giants, has refused to sign the contract tendered him for this year, it became known today. Ryan returned the proffered contract with a request for more money. He said that while he would make every effort to get the advance that he felt he should have, he was not a holdout to the extent that he had refused to join the club unless his terms were met. In any event, he said, he would go to the early spring training camp at Marlin, Texas, and there take up; his demands, if the matter were not adjusted meantime. ; AGED GOLFER WINS, Ormond Beach, Fla., Jan. 27--Win- ning his way to the finals of the To- moko sweepstakes to be played today on the Ormond Beach golf links, Dr. Darcy Wright of St. Paul, Minn,, de. fles the theory that golf is only aj young man's game. At 55 he learned to play and now at 70 he has won within the last three weeks two tour- | naments. In the semi-finals yester. day he defeated D, E. Raymond o of Nashville, who defeated Paul Mc- Keel of Pittsburgh 3 up, will be his state pocket billlards tourney at/fornia, at Boston, on February 3. Some of The Things a Golfer Does } PATRONIZ®S HIS | OPPONENT WHO S ABouT Six Down WELL SIR;JAMES | Know JUST How You FeeL - I vseD To Do THE SAME THINGS You ARE DOING: You'LL PROBABLY OVER- Come YOoUR FAULTS! BUT (T TAKES HEWLR! 1S TS GR. opponent today. ‘When He First Breaks 100. MR. SMITH | WANT] T CONGRATULATE ANTLAND RICE ? ? ? MR, RICE WHAT 1S THE| DATE OF THE NEXT AMATEUR GOLF TOURNAMENT = YEM - WHERE IS IT To BE INVITES EVERYRODY IN THE CLWBHOUSE To HAVE. A SMOKe -(OR SOMETHING BLSE / ?) BoYs Twis 1S The Eam of NO HARD FEGLINGS - HAVE A CleAR WHAT'S UP - VEW KID IN Tme FAMILY ; Conright. 1905, M. ¥ Tobuse tne AT Twe, FLORISTS BUYING Praved T WELL= How'D You ALL LiKE To TAKE IN A MOVIE Teus EVENING, FOLKS C. B. Whitworth | FLOWERS (GOLLEGIATE DUMPED 9B \.B.1.. New Haven School Toam Loses Its First Game of Season Chalk up vietory No. § for the N. B, H, 8, team, This time at the expense of the fast Cellegiate Preparatory schoel team of New Haven at the New Brit. ain High school gymnasium, yester- day afternoon, score 356 to 19, The Collegiate team, which up to this time had scored six vietories without a de- feat, found the going hard from the beginning, The visitors with a five man de- fense that was almost impossible to break through, After several un- successful attempts “Duke” MeCabe finally succeeded In getting®a field goal from under the basket, LaHar followed this up with a pair of feul goals, With the score 4 to 0 against them, the Elm City team got going and eame within a point of the home tearn when what might be considered the turning point of the game hap. pendd. Weir rocelved a pass from Neipp down near the visitors (ree. throw line. Just as he recelved ‘the ball two of his opponents bounded for him, He shot. The result was one of the most sensational fleld goals made on the local fleor. The ball went through the netting without touching the hoop, McCabe soon followed this up with another fleld goal from the middle ot the floor, but that wasn't all. Botn LaHar and Reynolds also made long shots. These shots gave the Hard- ware City quintet the jump and they held the lead until the end of the period. The score at this time of the game was 17 to 6. The New Haven quintet came back strong in the second half creeping up within five points of the locals, Things began to look rather had for the home team which was having no luck at breaking through the defense of the Elm City team. At this stage of the game Acting Captain Reynolds called time out. When the team started playing again it showed bet- ter team work than in any other part of the game up to this time. For the first time the home team battérem down the defense of the visitors. On one of the best plays of the game, Reynolds to Neipp to McCabe to Rey- nolds the latter scored a ficld goal that started New Britain on a great af- tacks on the defense of the visitors that put the game on ice. The work of Reynolds and Weir tor New Brit- ain and Dinion for the Collegiate team featured. The summary: S COLLEGIATE PREP, Thompson, Chroffee forward Right Reynolds . McCabe L + Levine Center Neipp .... Davin t guard Righ : Weir i Dinion: Left guard The score, N. B. H. 8. 35, Collegiate Prep, 19; Field Goals, Reynolds 6, Mc- Cabe 5, Dinion 4, Weir 3, LaHar 1, Chadys 1, Levine 1, Davin 1; foul goals, Reynolds 2, LaHar 3, Chadys 5, SAFELY RELIEVES CATARRH OF THE BLADDE s EN'S : PLANTENS BLACK CAPSULES 'uNo cusss BY MAIL 804 . BROOKLYN, N.Y. F _IMITATIONS » WELL MY LAD ARE You SAUING YouR — '51'3'.7; THATSA Boy ) ) | DON'T CARE WHAT THEY COST « | wAnT Tue BEST vnoER- STAND t THE 3_5_51'.'