New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1923, Page 8

W GILBERT HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM TO PLAY AT NEW BRITAIN GYM ON FRIDAY NI ¥y T T R SR A o T e sy W 10w A TR B U il Mt RSO B Sl i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1928, — EXCELLENT BOWLING FEATURES THE INDUS TRIAL LEAGUE GAMES HERE LAST NIGHT — NEW JERSEY HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR A ONE-MAN BOXING COM. — EASTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE LOCKMAKERS LOSE TO LEAGUE LEADERS Some Clever Bowling Turned in During Dusty Circuit Games | i The New Britain Machine Co.| bowling team strengthened its grasp on first place in the Industrial league | last night at RRogers Recreation alleys, | defeating the Russell & Erwin Mg, | Co., quintet two out of three, It was| through no fauit of Scheidler that the Lockmakers were sent feat. This player had a night on the strips, getting a total| score of 342, His best effort was| made in the first game with 123, and he followed with 117 wad 102, The match was an interesang one, the teams being deadlocked at the close of the second game. Bill Lofgren and Joe Foote did some good pin top- pling for the Machinists, The scores of the games in the Industrial league and of those rolled at the Casino alleys, follow: splendid A. Anderson Carison ... Scheldler . E. Hine Wells 96— 97— 804 186—1465 | N. B. Machine, Cusack .. 90 87 Swanson . RPN 7 e 1 5 Sattler . 99 98 96 293 Lofgren 1M1 103 110— 324 Foote ... L1010 112 lil— 324 486 489 494—1469 Corbin Screw. ve s BY 94— 266 104—"271 92— 208 108— 251 84— 276 482—1392 Carlson .. Driscoll Ericson Corr Wacker Howard Trudell Facey Culley Dwyer 505 453 495—1453 e P. & F. Corbins. Happeney 110 Derby 100 Zucker . 98 Newton i 83 100— 303 389 391 North & Judd. Kenney 8 8 Calazia 94 83 Gene 106 86 8tedman . 108 98 393 358 Skinner Chuck. 50 364—1112 109— 322 97— 86— Heffman Kahms . Trevethan Valentine . 100 374 402 Stanley Works, L 110 100 ' 385—1161 Elliott . Duplin Molyneux Fredrickson Landers, 93 Thompson Wright . 106— 307 down to de= pace, ANOTHER NEW RECORD . Johnny Weismuller Clips 11 Seconds ON Mark for 440-yard Swim, Cov~ ering the Distance in 4:57, Haven, March 7.~Johnny muller world's c¢champion swim- mer, of the Illinols Athletic club, last night elipped 11 seconds off the world's record for tue 440 yards in a 7T6-foot pool. Splashing alone over the 440 yards in the Carnegle pool, he covered the distance in 4:57, breaking own record of 5:08, Offi- clal representatives of the A, A, U, held the watches, Welsmuller swam with ease, exert- ing himself only at che close of the The new record i¢ the 47th captured by Weismuller, Harold Kruger of the Illinois club failed to break the record of 0:30 3-5 for the 50.yard back stroke swim, making the distance m 0:311-5, BANCROFT IN LINE and Star Infielder An Increased Giants Captain Signs Contract au Salary—He Expects to Earn It. Sioux City, Iowa, March 7.—Dave Bancroft, star shoristop and captain of the world champlon New York Giants, has signed a contract for the coming season and has left for the Giants' training camp at San Antonio. Bancroft, who has been classed as a holdout while awasting an answer to a request for changes in the con- tract first sent him, yesterday re- ceived a new contraet, the terms of which he declared were most satis- factory. While refusing to say what his salary would be this season, Ban- croft admitted that he was receiving an increase over last year and said he expected to earn it by playing the best ball of his career. GLENNA WINS AGAIN National Woman's Champion Cap- First Game in Belleair Heights, Fla., Tourney. Belleair Heights, Fla., March 7 (By Associated Press).—By the elimina- tion of Miss Anita Lihme of Chicago, four and three here yesterday, Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, R. I, women’s champion, won h first match round in the woman's” cham- pionship golf tournament. Mrs. Caleb Fox of Hunting Valley| who defeated Miss Collett in a recent match won a close victory over Mrs. J. B. Rose of Sewickley, Pa. Miss Bernice Wall of Oshkosh, was elim- inated by 5 and 3 by Mrs. Dorothy tures -| Campbell Hurd of the Marion Cricket club. Mrs. Alex Smith of Shenecossett also a semi-finalist, ‘defeated Miss 98— 306 102— 275 109— 311} prigeilla Maxwell 454 Traut & Hine, ¥ LT Delfaro Miller ... T. Walker 4331360 527 517—1498 | over Mrs. M, T. Eschwege of Engle- 3 | wood, in the second flight, 3 |Some thosition Is Shown Myers .. Maler 8totts Kildufr . #Campbell Kinshafl 86— 85— 105— 95— 310 261 302 281 325 Bchroeder W. John Wilcox . Patrus ... SPECIAL MATCH. Dunbar, of Bristol. K. Les ... 66 75 G. Grant . J. Smith . B. Snyder ¥. Decker 378 3 Fatnir Girls, ®. Landgren ........ 90 8 A, Anderson . Agnes Carlson K. Landgren . A, Carlson .. SP] D 271 quarters 7| Elliott 1 Marjorie Lake of Connecticut, 5 and 4, After playing four extra holes, Miss of Hartford won To the McTigue-Siki Bout Dublin, March 7.—A few anon- ymous letters have appeared in the newspapers opposing the fight be- tween Battling Siki and Mike Me- Tigue on St. Patrick’s Day, a Catho- lic holiday, but no responsible opposi- tion to the bout has yet manifested itself. London, March 7.—A dispatch to Theé Central News from Dublin says Battling Siki, the Senegalese fighter, is being closely guarded at his head- in the Claremont Howth, where he jis awaiting his | forthcoming fight with Mike McTigue. | The hotel was surrounded this morn- ing by a number of civil guards, who | examined all persons entering or leav- ing the building. his precaution is said to have been taken #h consequence of | certain information which has reach- ed the authorities, Fafnir Five. Ellason ... 1100 | Johnson . Paulson Carlson Hopkins OQutpointed and outboxed during the course of their bout in| uare Garden, New York, Pancho Villa was forced to erican flyweight championship to Frankie Genaro. enaro (left) peppering Villa with his left in thexi Madison ld his shows 4121286 N.B.H. S, WILL TAKEON | WINSTED HIGH QUINTET Gilbert Five Has Alrcady Bowed Once This Season Before Prowess of Red and Gold Court Performers On Friday afternoon the team of the Gillbert High school of Winsted will come here to play the N. B, H, 8, team at the Franklin S8quare gymna- slum, On the previous meeting this scason the Red and Gold team defeat- ed the Winsted team without very much trouble. With all the players eligible and in good physical condi- tion, New Britain's chances of repeat- ing are bright, Visitors Are Good The Winsted team is one of the made some of the larger schools ex- tend themselves to come out on the long end of the score. Wilby High school of Waterbury had to fight every inch of the way to down the High school team of the town from which the funny stories come, Reports from Winsted have it that the team reorganized about a month ago when four members were forced from the game because of illness or other reasons, The team has since gained four victortes without a de- feat and now claim the Litchfield county championship. The Red and Gold can also claim the Hartford county championship, so the game will take on the aspect of a battle be- tween champions. KIRKWOOD FAR AHEAD. Australian Golfer Leads Ficld-in Pro Open Tourney at St. Augustine. | St. Augustine, Fla., March 7.— Flayers leading the field after the first day's matches in the annual pro- fessional open golf tournament at the St. Augustine links were Joe Kirkwood, Australian champion, whose aggregate for the first 36 of the 72 holes play was 140; Walter Hagen of New York, British open champion, second with 146, and Leéo Diegel of Washington third with 147 strokes. . Kirkwood increased his lead when he cut four strokes off his morning score of 72 with a brilliant 68 in the afternoon. BOSTON COLLEGE DEFEATED Loses First Hockey Game of Season to Duluth, 2 to 1 Boston, March 7.—Boston College lost its first game of the year here last night to the Duluth Hockey Club 2 to 1. Boston College was the only undefeated team in the FEast, having won twelve straight games, including the Victorias of Boston, B. A. A, St. Nick’s and West Point. The line-up. Duluth 2 DULUTH (2) Anderson .. Boston C 1 BOSTON C (1) .. Fitzgerald Right Wing p, +++. Culhane «+.. Hughes Seaborn ..... «+e. Curry Speaking of Sports BY CLERKIN s The Elihu Burritt Juniors defeated Hamord Ge[s Home Gam on the Pheasants of the Boys' club, 16 to 8, yesterday afternoon, of Peterson, of the winners was the outstanding feature The work The All-Stars downed the Jugglers A. C, 24 to 11, last night at Turner James J. Jeftries, former world’s|magnates heavyweight champlon, has informed |dates set at the annual meeting of the friends at Los Angeles that his credi- tors will be paid dollar for dollar, Jim [ment on April 25 Springfield will open recently filed a petition in bankrupt- fastest in its section of the state. It|e¥. Manager Tris Speaker of the Cleve- land Indians has issued an order to|fi¢ his pitchers, to use nothing but a|cester, New Haven at Waterbury and straight ball in the training camp for|Aibany at Bridgeport. the remainder of the week. While no definite information has been given by Commissioner Landis in the status of “Rube" pitcher, the Cineinnati club intends to send him to the training camp Orlando, Fla. queror, The University of Chicago track team defeated the Northwestern uni- versity team, 45 1-3 points to 35 2-3 points, last night at Chicago. “Chief Bender will assist an old teammate, Andy Coakley, coach the Columbia baseball few weeks this spring. Whether it is for poses or not, Jake Schaefer, Jr, is putting up a strenuous kick over the " KRming Of Lovik o vafhsed the hoi: the magnates and what went on be- ing title match with Willie Hoppe. out one Lawlor might be Lawlor. Canadian feather- weight, scored a technical knockout|ing room to appease the demands of over Charlie Beecher of New York last night, at New York when Beech- er's second harled a towel into ring in the fifth round. the Tommy Robson of Malden, Mass., was awarded the verdict over McLaughlin of end of a 10 round bout at New York last night. “Dapper Dan” McKetrick, manager California EASTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE ADOPTED Opening Day, April 25 Springfleld, March 7. — Eastern league magnates, at a five;hour ses- slon In the Cooley hotel, adopted their 1923 playing schedule yesterday, The rearranged the opening league and under the new arrange- Bridgeport at New Haven and Water- bury at Albany, The other half of the openings, on April 27, will bring Ditts- fleld to Springfleld, Hartford at Wor- The entire schedule will be announced later. Hartford Not Represented Hartford was the only club not rep- resented. President James H, Clarkin 21is in Cuba and Secrotary Jim Pyne was unable to attend. A. J. Shean at represented his Springfield club; Clark P. Lane, Jr, the Bridgeport team; George M. Welss, New Haven; Joie Ray will meet his recent con-|ferman Weissma Waterb e Willie Ritola, al man, Waterbury; D. 6,000 metre race at New York. & Haylon, Pittsfield; A. H. Powell, Worcester and M. J. Hawkins, Albany. The magnates lost no time in get- ting under way. As soon as a quo- rum was present the moguls went into conference with copies of three sched- ules, The original offered, one mail- ed them last week and one which was an eleventh hour composition. Hawkins and Haylon were the late comers from the west, while Lane's train from Bridgeport brought him to the session about an hour after the of a publicity pur-igihers had begun their studies, Schedule deliberations belong to hind closed doors is not known defi- nitely, but it is said that the eleventh hour schedule had the most advocates Frankie Genaro, American flyweight champlon, (through the generosity of | " fnc Meeting and was adopted. New York Frankie Williams of Syracuse, N. Y., in the third round of a ten round bout last night at Harrisburg, Pa. But the list of dates did not meet with approval from all and soon the merger men were busy tinkering with these dates, switching one club here and another there; eliminating a long railroad jump, preventing the possi- o::;’:::; ‘:“‘o‘:e;l“ I;‘!az“;(b;‘l”";’;d 'i‘ bility of clubs meeting too often and e hncage Ty hiladel- | joning out the hundred and one lit- phia, eduled last night at Boston, |¢ie gifficulties which always appear in was called off, when Lawlor declined |, haseball schedule. to box on account of Tiplitz being ' Hereafter “Shylock” Leave Off For Dinner Such tinkering takes time and after the magnates had battled with the dates until well into the early part of the night they adjourned to the din- the inner man. Djnner finished the moguls went back to their schedule making again. Lobbying was a favorite pastime for the managers, players and scribes who were unfortunate enough to be fore- Vic|€d to spend five or six hours waiting the | for the news from the conference room. Enough gossip and baseball rumor spread through the lobby to last for a season or two but all the magnates and managers refused to let out a peek of real information, O'Connell ... Left Defense Clark ....... Right Defense Goals—Seaborn, . Garrity . L. Morrissey Clark and Cul- of *“Babe” Herman, lightweight, sends word from New York that his boy will surely lick “Kid"” Kaplan tomorrow night at Meriden., It is easy enough to say 80, but to do it, well that is another thing. hand. leader, appeared with his club presi- dent, O’'Connor was the only representative of the Hartford club while Gene Mec- Four of the eight managers were on Herman Bronkie, new Brassco Paddy Herman Weissman. 4 |be talken by the commission on the hane. Referees—Gaffney and McGrath. ime—Three 15-minute periods. MAY ARRANGE BIG SERIES Boston, March 7.—A spring big league series in Florida with four National League and four American League teams participating is under consideration, according to word reaching here today. Manager Fred Mitchell of the Braves and President Clark Griffith of the Washington club, whose men are now training in Flor- Hotel, | ida, were quoted as approving of the plan, which has the backing of Al Lang, president of the Florida State League. Charles Hammill of Waterbury is Connecticut, by virtue of his winning the state tourney just closed at Bob Stone’s parlors at Waterbury., Dom- inic Soccolli, a New Britain entry in the tourney, finished in fifth place, with three victories and four defeats. Chairman Willlam Muldoon of the New York state boxing commission said last night that no action would claims that Hargy Greb paid certain sporting writers $3,000 to boom a lbout with Jack Dempsey. When Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory returned last fall after her unsuccess- ful attempt to defeat Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star, she expressed herself in an uncompli- mentary manner of the American sport writers, A few more defeats |for Molla and the sport writers will| be able to let her out of the picture, |with but very littie notice. PAR THE STYLE THAT IS FAVORED BY THE BEST DRESSED MEN ARROW COLLARS CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. INC, The Cornell basketball quintet suf- fered another defeat in the Intercol- lcgiate race last night, when Colum- bia put across a 28 to 26 Ithaca, N. Y. Cann soclally represented Bridgeport, while Lane labored with the dates Patsy Donovan, of the Ponies, was the other leader present. Snooks Dowd, with Albany for a time last season; Billy Gleason ' of Holyoke, former big leaguer and this year with Memphis in the Southern at bout at Waterbury, on March 22. the University of Penn at Philadel- phia tonight. Elino Flores, the Filipino light- weight, who recently lost a close de- cision to Johnny Shugrue at New York, will meet Mickey Travers in the semi-final to the Villa-Murray The Yale basketball team will play 3y T oH FANNY, witL You HELP PUT THESE STUDS I MY SHIRT - - I'M AFRAID defeated Cornell, | tercollegiate basketball test here last night. league and Johnny Tillman, the vet- eran Pittsfield right were the ball tossers on hand. hand pitcher, CORNELL LOSES AGAIN. i at Hartford, Worcester at Plttsfield, | and many long shots were resorted Ithaca, N. Y., March 74—Columhlal 26, in an in- league con- 28 to the new pocket billiard champion of lt Happem ln The Best Regulated Families e SoIL 1T~ - HERE'S Th'STUDS SToP ' TICKLING . |'VE SEEN ALL KINDS OF HELPLESS= NESS BUT You HAVE IT IN Tue tosT MAL IGNANT FORM | EVER DID SEE IR, FRs TR ENP I BRI A2 IS GBI N P AR 3 A YR R OF ALL HELPLESS MEN IN The WORLD You ARE ABSOLU'GLY THe MOST HELPLESS TIGERS WIN ON GOURT Intercollegiate Basketball Champlons of 1922, Defeat Crescents of Brook- Iyn in a Fast Battle, Princeton, N, J, March 7. Princeton’s basketball team defeated the Crescent Athletic club of Brook- lyn here last night by a score of 41 to 30, The Tigers exhibited a return to form last night and their brand of play considerably encouraged Nas- sau rooters, Art Loeb, crack guard of the Tiger quintet, proved the indi- vidual star of the evening. He suc- cessfully caged six field goals and tossed in 12 foul shots out of 13 chances. Team play was loose on both sides to. The playing was fast and spec- tacular in spots. The Orange and Dlack five jumped into a big lead in the initial period, scoring four fleld goals before the visitors could tally, The line-up: Princeton Crescent Klaess ..... «v+. Parmele Jeffries .... +++v. Barker Right forward Gaines Mozier Center Loeb .. . . Sim Left Bergen ...ovu00 Right guard Goals from field—Loeb 6, Bergen 8, Jeffries 1 out of 2, Parmele 14 out of 24, Substitutions—Hynson for Klaess, Foster for Loeb, Klaess for Hynson, Barkeley for Jones, C. Stewart for Barker. . Referee—C. A, Reed. Times of halves—20 minutes. AMERICAN LEGION PROTESTS Worcester Post Asks Commissioner | Landis to Organized Baseball Stop Playing on Memorial Day Morning. Worcester, Mass,, March Worcester Post of the American Le- gion, through its commander, Archie F. Murray sent a telegram today to Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball, to have organized baseball refrain from playing games during the forenoon of Memorial Day. The message reads: ‘“‘Appreciating your generous spirit and keen interest in the living members of the legion, Worcester Post, No. 5, solicits your great influence in keeping secred the | memory of our soldier dead by re- questing that organized baseball re- frain from playing on Memorial Day morning.” guard «+. Jones Cardinals to Be Numbered While Playing Home Games St. Louis, March 7.—The St. Louis Nationals will wear numerals six inches high on their sleeves while | playing at home, so the patrons can | distinguish the players more easily, Manager Rickey anwounced at Bra-| dentown, Fla., today, where the, Cardinals are training, according to| word received here. Vou Tickie STAND STILL AND SHUT uP NEW JERSEY HOUSE VOTES FOR CHANGE Action Would Create Single Headed Boxing Commission Trenton, N. J., March 7.—(By the Assoclated Press)—The House late yesterday passed the amended Stevens . Senate Boxing “Ripper” making State Comptroller Newton A. K. Bugbee the single-headed Boxing Commissloner. The bill, which now goes to the Gov-’ ernoy, who it is understood will vele it, ousts the State Athletic Commis- slon, comprising three Democrats. Prior to the pasage of the bill Minority Leader Gearge and Majority Leader Corio engaged in debate, the former declaring the measure was & partisan one and that the republicans had failed to make good on ‘“rocking the state by exposure of fraud and graft” in connection with the present commission’s activities. He declared thé Commissioners were entitled to a fair hearing it there were irregularities in the conduct of | the commission, Corfo replied that the Republicans “did not have to throw out mud” and that the people of the state, through the majority in the Legislature, “are not satisfled with the conduct of the Athletic Commission” and “their dis- satisfaction is expressed” by the pas- sage of the “Ripper” bill. H. C. BEATS B. C. Purple Loopsters Down Eagles in a Speedy Contest Last Night, 33-26 at ‘Worcester, Mass. Worcester, March 7.—Holy Cross turned the tables on Boston College at the Casino last night defeating its old time rival from' the Hub by a 33-26 score. The game was fast throughout, hard playing on the part of both teams resulting in the calling of many fouls by Referee Maginnis who watched the play with an eagle eye. Voorhees displayed fine form from the foul line and also led the Purple in field goals. Bunny Hanafin and Pesalano were in the Holy Cross lineup and the latter caged two pretty baskets in the final 15 minutes of play. Mooney and Murphy excelled for B. C. The Maroon and Gold tallied only once from the floor in the first half but Murphy’'s accurate foul shooting kept the visitors in the running. They closed the gap in the second period, but with Pesalano and Vogrhees counting -when points were needed, they were unable to even the count. PERRY WITH SEMIPROS. Hornell, N, Y., March 7.—Scott Perry, plitcher, who jumped the Ath- letics in 1921 and joined the inde- pendent team here, left last night | for Massillon, O., where he has signed for the season with another independent club. [CIGAR AMOUS#QUALITY I'LL BACK You AGAINST ANY OTHER HELPLESS FOR THE 'HELPLESS CHAMPIONSHIP,