New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1923, Page 8

MYEWLSBRITAIN DAILY HERALN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1023, NEW BRITAIN HIGH SCHOOL QUINTET PROVE NO MATCH FOR THE CROSBY HIGH TEAM — SPEEDY BROOKLYN A.C. HOOPSTERS OF WATERBURY - TO PLAY AT ARMORY TONIGHT — GASCO FIVE ROUTS TELEPHONE EMPLOYES ON BOYS' CLUB COURT — TUNNEY REGAINS TITLE — BOWLING L e CROSBY T00 STRONG FORN.B. 5. TEAM Waterbury School Spurts to; 36-19 Victory on Home Floor Before a erowd of about 700 spees tators the fighting N. I, H, B bas. ketball team fell before the smooth working attack of the Croshy High school team of Waterbury last night in the Brass Oity, The Red and Gold held the last year's state cham- plons even through the first half and until about the middle of the see- ond, Then the Taylor-coached ma- chine got going and ran up a 36 to 15 score. The second team also lost in a rough and tdmble contest, 81 to 16, New Dritain got off to a flier through Reynolds field goal and foul Charley Weinert of Newark, to take |0 fve of Waterbury, at th? the place March 24, two weeks after the |, toss. White of Crosby made score, 4 to 3, with two sensational [ the fatly refused the offer, indieating that | siaNamara the invading elub has two Reynolds came to rescue with another field goal ting his team in the lead ‘White's foul goal tied the score, other Waterbury player cume into the score column at this. time, Scho- field went through the Red and Gold team's defense for the fleld goal that broke the tie. Both teams were playing fine basketball at this stage of the game, Reynolds again tied the score with a field goal from the mid- dle of the floor. White's foul and Schofield’'s two field goals put the Brass City team In the lead of a 12 to 7 score. | The New Britain fighting spirit was again in evidence at the opening | of the second half. They put the| fans on edge when LaHar and Reyn- olds made field goals that brought the score to 12 to 11 in Crosby's fa- | vor. Reynolds' foul goal tied the| score again. James, a forward, was sent into the game. His contribution | was two field goals. This started the Brass City team going. Point after point they rung up while the best the Hardware city team could get was a field goal by McCabe and a foul goal by Reynolds. There was no stopping Crosby. Summary: Croshy ‘White field goals. put- again. An- New Britain " Reynolds | Left forward James, Magner Center | Dunilap cesees . Weir | Right guard | Dillon, Schofield Neitt Left guard. Fleld goals, White 6, James 2, Magner 1, Becker 1, Schofield 1,| Reynolds 4, LeHar 1, McCabe 1; goals from fouls, White 8§, Roy'nolds 3. .McCabe | Becker, 9 WEISS SIGNS HURLER. New Haven, Feb, 24.—Stanley Baumgartner, southpaw pitcher for the Philadelphia Nationals for the past four years has been sold outright to the New Haven club of the East- ern ieague, George M. Weiss, pres dent ot the club announced last night. FIRPO DECLINES OFFER —————— South American Heavyweight Twms Down a $10,000 Bid 1o Meet Weinert at Nowark, N, 4, ) h rom Arg 18 program — Luis Angel ght title contender has bhegun a str Madison 1 16-round Feh, 34 New Firpo, W ork wina, i of training at Garden for the Bill Nrennan \ieago, whieh he will championship bout Hquare nateh wit} on Mareh pave the way for a with Jaek Demy Though eonly My off plant South American sho of his thee untry and impressed a ery of more than 1000 fans with hadow boxing, bag punehing, rope kipping and a fast two.round go with ight heavyweight sparring part- los Beaglia, Mirpo was approached by J Bila warl, N, J., omoter, with n offer of $10,000 for a mateh with 1 shipboard, 1 but voy Hrennan fight, The South American he had an agreement with Tex Rick- ird covering future ring engagements while in this country, HACK WANTS McINNIS Manager of Athletes Opens Up Ne- gotiations With uffy” to Return to Philadelphia Again, 24.—Manager T"eb, Philadelphia, Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Am- | erlean league baseball club announced last night that he was negotiating with John H. (Stuffy) Melnnis, re- cently unconditionally released by Cleveland, and that he hoped to ob- tain the services of his once famous first baseman. Mack #aid that he had made McInnis a liberal offer and that he expected to hear from him within a few days. McInnis, who was a member of the Athletes’ famous “Hundred Thousano | Dollar infield, was sold by the local ciub to the Boston Red Sox and later went to Cleveland in a trade. BAKER IS THROUGH LeHar | Former Home Run King Will Ask l‘m-i His Release From YaMkees in a Few Days. Easton, Md,, Feb, 24—J. Frank Eaker has officially announced that he is through with baseball as far as the New York Yankees are concerned. He says he has no grievance with the club, but has decided to stay at home. During the last few days a |number of letters have been received {from Miller Huggins asking him to re- port at Hot Springs. A contract has also been received by Baker, but this, he says, will remain unsigned. Baker said that he will soon ask for his release from the Yankees. It is known that Cambridge and other Maryiand clubs have made overtures, —BOWLING RESULTS— CORBIN SCREW CORP, Oval Heads. | ov 88 | 1901497 Kiely 512 43! 6161567 Fillister Heads. Cerr ... e 75 05 78— 248 Ryberg - ratt rom . Bertz ..... Rebillard .. 100 83 81 . 85 88 512 98 546 8% 109 85 82 93 267 288 245 246 261 95 ¥. Baldwin Carlson English Vile Bald 84 84 W, P. & F. CORBIN SPECIAL. 521—1582 Capt. Long's. PG 634 Capt. Trewhella's. . 82 98 277 289 270 342 Hotehkiss . Trewhella .. Caldar Swanson Alford E. 8wanson . 91— 83— 79— 99— Valentine . Root Kahms Hoffman Seranton Ted Lynch Coyle .. Couch . Jones Mose | Hannon Parizo T181— 511 SPECIAL MATCH. Wallace Barnes of B [Lovejoy . 96 | Basso .. Holcombd . Hynds {Lyneh . Norton ristol. [T} 92 109— 312 8 i 88— 1 455—1418 93— 115— 290 108— 303 101— 311 100— 204 Carlson .. 243 | Culley . Facey . {Dwyer Howard 517—1441 Infantry. | Andrews . o5 Frost .. Kinderlan Morey .. | Massey . | Jules ", MeCarthy . Griswold .. 238 Fagan ... 237 Samuelson 4271358 Dynamite 104— 274 239 262 W. Barnes 325— 976 - R.G.S CIGAR FAMOUS#QUALITY Prank | ¢lin the Yale basketball schedule were SRODKLYN A, C. FIVE | ATARMORY TONIGHT , Speedy Quintet From Water m Battle Lanpber's Worthies | Tonight's Lineup; | New Britain Hrooklyn A, | Kildum vend . O, Y Btack right forward lotlt 'lor'llnl !'l')'ndell Ginsberg . | center [ Pelletier ,,..... right guard left guard Another fast basketball hattie s |looked for tonight when the New | Liritain team tackles the Drooklyn A Sta Chick Hayes of Ilartford, In Mulhall and Freedman liestella | Denisavage | armory, !will be the referee, men who were on the Waterbury | Kaceys team when that organization swept the state a few years ago, cop- ping the championship title, Solomon Rafferty I‘recdman Is one of the most versatile athletes fa Wa-. terbury and 1s sald to be right in his |element at basketball. Of Stack and | Denisavage, the reputation preceding |this pair from Waterbury is compli- |mentary, Want Victory Badly. The New Britain team is out to win tonight. The reverse suffered last |Saturday night at the hands of the |New Haven Kaceys. in an overtime, f\vuu “tough turkey” for Manager |Lanpher's charges, Jack Pelletier is {in good shape, having recovered from !(he injury to his eye. The big contest will be preceded by la preliminary game. Word from Wa- |terbury is to the effect that a ®ig crowd of Brooklyn A. C. rooters will accompany the team. Following the | main contest dancing will be enjoyed. | RECORDS ARE SMASHED Two New Marks Are Sct in Yale-Rut- gers Tank Affair Haven, ¥eb, 24.—Two inter- collegiate swimming records were troken and one was cqualled here last night in a dual swimming meet lin which Yale defeated Rutgers, 45 to 26. lLeo Giebel of Rutgers was the individual star. In the 440 yard swim Giebel broke his own record 25 yard pool made February 3rd, by 4 1-5 seconds. His |time tonight was 5 minutes 30 sec- | New | onds, while the former record was 5 {minutes 34 1-5 seconds. In the 200 yard breast stroke, Eddy Bench of Yale, broke the record made by his swimming mate, M. M. Veeder, Febru- ary 17. Bench broke the record by 3 2-5 seconds, swimming the distance in 2 minutes 58 1-5 seconds. 'The old record was 3 minutes 1 3-5 sec- onds. In the 150 yard back stroke Giebel equalled his own record made last night at Providence swimming the distance in 1 minute 55 1-5 seconds. | WHITE SOX RELEASE TWO. Chicago, Feb. 24 —Harold Bubser and Roy Ostergard will not make the trip with the Chicago American league baseball club to its spring training lcamp next Monday, Harry Grabiner, secretary of the club, announced yes- terday. Bubser was reieased to the | Kalamazoo, Mich., club, and Oster- gard to the Nashville, Tenn,, club of the Southern league. 18-HOLE COURSE FOR YALE New Haven, Feb, 24.—Reports that one of the uses to be made of the Greist .woodland tract given to Yale university recently by an anonymous | friend would be for an 18.hole golf course were cpnfirmed at one of the gatherings incident to alumni univer- sity day at Yale, when John T. Blos- som, director of athletics, said that plans for the golf course already were; under way. CHANGES IN YALE CARD New Haven, Feb. 24.—~Two changes announced here last night. The in- TUNNEY 15 AWARDED DECISION OVER GRED Judges’ Verdict Causes a Surprise | -Battio a Stormy One | | New York, Fob, 24-~Cene Tunney, idel of Greenwich Village, regained the - American light heavyweight championship last night when he re. ceived the judge's decision over Hars ry Greb of Pittsburgh, the titleholder, in & 16-round contest at Madison Square Garden, Decision s Speaking of Sports UY CLERKIN f Members of the Fafnlr Bowling league will hold a banquet tonight at 6:45 o'clock, to celebrate the success- ful season just ended, The affair will be held in Odd Fellows' hall, O« ficlals of the concern will be guests of the league, The boxing fans will have some-| thing te "mull” over the next few| days on the deeision in the Tunney: Greb bout at New York last night, The New Britaln High school bas- :clhlll_rlhum is skidding badly these ays. ree times since the splendid o fet W ngled Victory over the Hartford High fiv lbaI:‘- I::c::;?uu:‘o‘. l“"pl"u; T’:I‘:HIUYI the Franklin Square hoopsters have|popularity among the great majority tasted defeat, of fans, and came as a surprise to those ut the ringside who had given Greb a wide margin on points in most of the rounds, Tunney was baffled by Greb's whirl- wind style of attack throughout the early part of the bout. He finished the last two rounds, howover, witn the only effective aggressivencss he had shown, dazing the champlon once with a hard right smash to the jaw, This closing rally of the challenger, plus consideration probably given to alleged foul holding tuctics employea by Greb in several rounds, was be- lleved to have swayed the judges’ ver- | diet, however unsatisfactory it was to a larger portion of the crowd, Greb is Warnod While Greb landed at least three blows to one for his rival, few or them did much damege. Tunney's | body attack, especially in the 14tn round, at times checked Greb's rush- es, but the Pittshurgher blocked most The Brooklyn A. C. team of Water-|0f the New Yorker's blows. Tactics bury lost a hard fought contest to the |Used by Greb which his opponent's Middletown Y, M. C. A. five last night, | handlers clalined were unfalr at Middletown. The score was 24 to|Subject of a lengthy parley at the start 23, the winning tally being scored in|of the hout. Refcree Patsy Haley was an overtime period. | vigorous in warning Greb for holding |in several rounds, going to the Pitts- | burger's corner at the end of the 12th round to emphasize his warning. The only round which Tunney earned decisively, in the opinion of ringside critics, was the 14th. He showed aggressiveness tn ehe fourth, tenth and 15th, but except in these and two or three rounds in the early part of the bout, which were classed as even, Greb's forcing tactics gave him a substantial 1aargin on pomtg, in | the remaining rounds, | Tunney's victory restored to him the crown he lost to Greb in a 15- round bout at the Garden last May. What Haley Said Referee Patsy Haley declared that| Greb's . ul tacties, including bhoiding and buo.og influenced his verdict which he and the judges gave to Tun- ney, despite the Pittsburgner’'s ap- parent margin on points, “I warned Greb repeatedly after the Bill Chesky of Hartford, well known to sporting men in this section, will soon don the boxing promoting togs, He plans to stage a bout at the Auditorium at Hartford, on March 2», lzzy Tanner and Young Marcel, of Holyoke, Mass., will probably be the! star bout performers, Johnny Sheehan of this city s scheduled to play with the Hartfore Kaceys against the Atias Five of New Haven at the Hopkins street gymnas- lum tonight, The swimming teams of Whsleyan and Willlams will compete this eve- ning in the tank at Middletown. The 8t. Thomas' Seminary team or Hartford met the Wilby High schoor five of Waterbury, at the Hopkins street court this afternvon, The Hartford High school track team defeated the Alumni team yes- terday b4 to 23. Romeo Roche of Holyoke, Mass., ana Al. Shubert of New Iedford, Mass., will meet in a 10-round pout at Hol- voke next Monday night. BOUT FOR VILLA IMyweight Champion Is Matched With Frankie Genaro, For 15-Round Mill Next Thursday Night. New York, Feb. 24.—Pancho Villa, Filipino holder of the American fly- weight championship, will defend his title next Thursday against Frankie Genaro of New York, in a 15-round |south as & member of the were ! | bout at Madison Square Garden. first round,” declared- Haley, “and | Announcement of the match was made last night after it became known that the New Jersey boxing commission had lifted its ban on Genaro, in which the New York State Athletic commission eoncurred, for the boxer's alleged failure to fulfill a prior engagement with Villa in Jersey City. AMHERST VIC.OR IN TANK. threatened to disyualify him .. the| 12th round after he had ignored my repeated admonitions.” “Greb's blow did not hurt me at| any time and I think I proved my ability to stop his style of attack," the new champion said in his dressing room. “Greb’s holding handicapped | me some but he didn’t gasn much by his tactics. I was forced to complain | to Referee Haley frequently but hls! warning seemed to have litile effect.” Greb Criticises Decision H Downcast by his defeat, Greb was) vehement in his criticism of the de- cision and declared that he did not | feel that he had been given fair treat- | ment. He denied that he fouled his opponent and asserted that Tunney appeared more anxious to hold and clinch than he did. In the 12-round semi-final contest Clonie Tait, Canadian lightweight, was awarded the decision over Ray Mit- chell of ‘Philadelphie. Defeats Williams, 42-26—New Eng- land Breast-Stroke Mark Falls, Ambherst, Mass., Feb. 24.—Amherst defeated Williams yesterday in swim- ming by a score of 42 to 26. Williams took the lead by winning the first two events, but was unable to hoid it. In the 100-yard breast stroke Olm- stead of Williams lowered the New England intercollegiate record from 1:20 to 1:15. In the back-stroke War- ner of Amherst lowered the tank record to 33 1-5 seconds. Good roads were carried to a high state of perfection by the Romans, Bluefields, Nicaragua, is a shipping center for bananas to this country. | tercollegiate game with Columbia set |for March 16 will be played March 17 while the game with Harvard origin- ally set for the 17th will be played instead on the 22nd. At Miami —~ tl | Your RIGHT P Afi.\ FooT :Mscu | A HALE 1IN I ' DOWN! [ ol wmat pip |y You DRoPPED YouR RIGHT SHOULDER TELL You \'IQ ABouT Yg WHILE- THIS FELLOW NEVER HEARD A NICKEL'S WORTH OF ADVICE IN HIS LIFE - BUT OH How HE Can WiT THE BALL!! Little Annie Baker Cox, daughter of the former Democratic candidate for the presidency, is shown here en- jeying herse!f in the balmy sunshine of Florida's famous winter resort {to coach the Washington and Jeffer- BRAVES GET CONLON | I Commissioner Landis Awards Former | Harvasd Caplain and Shortstop w the National League Club, Hoston, Peb, 24.—~Arthur J, Conlen, captain and shortstop of the Harvard baseball team of last year, will gu Hoston Braves, The elaim of Rochester In- ternational league, club to Conlons services was denied and the Braves' contract with him econfirmed in a de. cislon by Judge Landis, commissioner of baseball, recoived by Recretary Ed. win L, Riley of the Doston elub, Conlon is believed to be the only Harvard player to enter major league baseball since Walter Clarkson, crack piteher, joined the New York Yanks ees more than o decade ago, He signed a contract with the Braves on Jan, 18, Rochester claimed it had a prior acceptance from him, Conlon sald he had made an offer to the Rochester club, which, instead of accepting it made a counter-pro- pos-1, It was after Conlon signed with Praves, Conlon eald and the Braves contended, that Rochester acceptea the shortstop's original terms, Judge Landis in his ruiing said that “as there I8 no legal basis for hold. |ing that a valld contract existed be- tween Rochester and tne player, Rochester's claim must be denled.” DUGAN SIGNS CONTRACT New Haven Boy Tells Ed. Barrow That He Will Be Glad to Play Sec- ond Base, New York, Feb., 24.—-Joe Dugan, star third baseman of the Yankees, who was obtained from fhe Boston Red Sox in a trade at the height of the pennant race last season, visited the offices of the local American League club yesterday and, after a | conference with Business Manager | Bd Barrow, announced that he had accepted terms for the coming cam- paign. Dugan also declared that he would be glad to play second base this year in the event that Manager Miiler Huggins desires to make the change in the infleld which put Aaron | Ward back at his old post at third, The announcement by Dugan that he would have no objections to being | moved over to the keystone position | was highly pleasing to the Yankees' officlals. Huggins has been contem- | plating a shift in his infield this year whereby Ward and Dugan would ex- change positions. but it was thought | that Dugan would not relish the change, as he has on several occa- | slons in the past objected to being placed at second base. | | | |BUREAU OF COACHFES FORMED. New York, Feb. 24.—John W. Hels- man, former Georgia Tech and Uni- versity of Pennsylvania football coach who has signed a three-year contract son gridiron team, beginning next fall has organized a bureau of coaches, which will be put into opui. ion in the near future. The object of the venture is to supply a clearing house for coaches and schools. It is Mr. Heisman's idea to list all of the schools and colleges and all coaches and instructors so that should any institution be in need of a coach he will be able to supply whatever in- formation is necessary. At the pres- ent time no such medium exists in the east. Associated with him in the venture is Alex Taylor. Brooklyn A. C. All-New BASKETBALL AND DANCE TONIGHT THO MILLIONGOLF SWINGS ARE NEEDED Evans Complotes Some Very In- (eresting Data on Popular Sport Chicago, Feb, 24,~The physical ef- fort required to become a par golfer has at last been computed, and the tablation shows that to rise from & dub to a golfer who shoots par or Lotter all the time one must swing a golf elub upward of 2,000,000 times and tramp half way around the world over golf links, AL least those figures represent the | effort expended by Chick Evans in 15 | years of golfing, during which time he won the hational open title once, the national amateur twice and the west- ern amateur elght times, Sume other golfers like Jesse Swoetser, present amateur ehampion and Gene Barazen open title holder, have had more rapld rises, but neither one s yet as steady In pounding out par golf as Evans, ¢ Evans' .Mathematics The mathematics In the case of Evans follow: Practice strokes: 260 an hour, two hours daily, 210 days & year for 15 years, 1,675,000, Playing strokes, 100 to each 18 holes (including practice swings), 240 rounds a year for 15 years, 360,000, Exhibition strokes for photographers, friends and others, 65,000; a total of 2,000,000, The mileage was piled up on a ba- sis of only five miles for 18 holes and an average of 20 rounds a month for seven months annually, making 10,5600 miles for the 15 years. The average player would not go so straight along the fairways and would likely aver- age seven miles to the round, count- ing the walk between holes and back, and forth on the putting greens. GASCO BOYS WIN Jimmy Lynch's Champions Play Rings Around the Telephone Co. Quintet —McCormick and Dudack Star. The basketball team representing the New Britain Gas Light Co. ex- perienced little difficulty in downing the Southern New England Telephone Co. five, 41'to b, at the New Britain Boys’ club gymnasium last night. The work of McCormick and Dudack fea- tured for the Gasco team while Res- tella did the best work for the de- feated team, The lineup: Gasco Helloboys McCormick oo right forward Dudack, Barnes ......... left forward Barnes, Erickson center .+ Restella Brennan Dudack, Hodge vev... Josephs right guard R. Robinson .%........ left guard Score: Gasco 41, Telephone 5; fleld geals, McCormick 8, Barnes 1, Erick- son 1, Dudack 7, Restella 2; foul goals, Dudack 7, Restclla 1; referee, Cleveland. JOCK AND GENE WIN. Ban Antonio, Tex., Feb. 24.—Gene Sarazen, national open champion, and Jock Hutchison, former British opens title holder, defeated Clarence Mang- ham, municipal course pro, and Tom Lally, San Antoniq County club pro, 1 up in their 36-hole match here yes- terday, of Waterbury — V8, — Britain State Armory, Arch St.—At 8:30—Adm. 50c, including tax {I's Just The Cace of Some Do and Some Don’t BRIGGS || Tuis Poor LoB | GETS A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ADVICE AND THEN BEWAVES LiKe TS