New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 8

EASTERN LEA e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1923, —— GUERS PREPARE FOR SEASON — JOE MOORE IS SKATING CHAMP — PIRATES READY ‘TO CLASH WITH MERIDEN — NEW BRITAIN BOWLERS LOSE TO BRISTOL AGAIN — HARTFORD BOXING MATCH DISAPPOINTING AFFAIR —NEW RULE ON YALE GRID TICKETS — BOWLING PITTSBURGH LOOKS CAPABL[TFEA OF CAUSING GIANTS TROUBLE Moral of Team Is Good and Players Themselves Seem to Be Snappy Outfit When on the Diamond. By Bil Hot Springs, Ar March 30,~ Mingling with the Pittsburgh Pirates takes you back to the good old col-, lege days, { Knough musical squipment to out- uzz orchestra is carried by the | Yirates., Scveral of the boys fin, a mean banjo and guitar, while there are enough good veices on the club)| to shame the highly touted | quartets that are playing big time. Manager Bill McKechnie is strong for music. Bill has a fine voice him-/| self, and is a much sought after in- dividual when the athletes get ready to put on some close harmony, Once upon a time, not so long 2go, there existed a rumor that the Ditts- burg club was honeycombed with cliques, that discipline was a lost art, and that training rules were made to be laughed at. Pirates One Happy Family. such a condition once ex- {sted, but no more. The Pirates are one happy family. On the training trip, with the day's grind over, mu- sic fo s the chief recreation of the athlet A dozen of the players, fauke an active part, and the music hath such charms that the others stick around to listen. The are no specific rules on the Pittsburg club. It doesn't seem as if any are required. McKechnie is the manager of the ball club. He is| a real manager. The players are| strong for him. In return McKechnie simply puts it up to the players to behave them- gelves, emphasizing the fact, how-| ¢ver, that the player who fails to do so will suffer, not only because| he has affected his own play but more so because his selfish tactics have injured the chances of his teammates, who are giving their best efforts. Kind Words for Schmidt. The Pittsburg club going to be; very much in the National Lnugur:i race during the coming season. 1it First, | because the Pittsburg team is a rea pennant contender. Second, because every man on the club will be giving his best efforts. Third, because the team is sure to get commonsense management. McKechnie is a who served his apprenticeship with the players, is able to get on a lével with them and still retain the so- called dignity of the manager. Tor several vears the sport sheets have featured Walter Schmidt in many a story. True, Schmidt has eften played the role of holdout. holdout, however, does not mean that a player is a bad actor. When a player refuses to sign and thereby becomes a holdout, it is merely a difference of opinion between club and player as to the value of te athlete. Yet Schmidt has often been painted as a disturber, a player who always took the opposite view to that held by the manager. I would say that such criticism was de- cidedly undeserved. Certainly no player on the Pittsburgh club seems stronger for McKechnie, no player| is working harder, and no player is accomplishing more. Schmidt is a finished catcher. It is impossible to eompute his value in developing young pitchers aside from his reg- ular work. No Change in Linecup. The Pittsburg club has close to 50 ball players at the Springs, yet it is doubtful if any of them will cause the Pirate manager to shift his line- up of last season. The catching will be looked after by Schmidt, Gooch and Jonnard, with two collegians, Warwick and Mattox, as great prospects. The infield will have Grim at first, Tierney at second, Maranville at short and Traynor at third. In the outfield will be Bigbee, Russell and Carey. Barnhardt will be ready for utility infield roles, while Cuyler is a great uotficld prospect. The pitching burden wil Ifall eon last year's staff. The only new re- eruit who looks as if he would be able to step right in and help out is Koontz, secured from the Sacra- mento club of the Coast ILeague. Owner Dreyfus had to bid high for Koontz, and Manager McKechnie says that present indications make it seem the money was well ex- pended. Traynor Real Star, I certainly was impressed work of Third Baseman by the Traynor. (Continued on Eleventh Page). SEMI-SOFT COLLARS 'Will not wilt, crease, curi ot fray. Appear stiff, are soft. Launder esily. 35¢ each, 3 for $1 Madebythemakersof ArrowCollars EADERS VANMUSH HARDYARE CITYITES Bristol Again Trounces New. Britain--Other Interesting Matches Any question about the supcrlnrnyf of RBristol in the state bowling league | was dispelled last night when the Bell City pinmen came over here and re- peated what they did earlier in the| week—took two out of three from the locals, sending them lower down | in the standing and fortifying their | own position as league leaders. New Britain took the first game easily, but | the visitors were only fooling and copped the next two with several pins | to spare, though the scores were| really quite close. In total pinfall the | locals had 1506 to the visitors' 1560. | Other Games | In the Rule Shop special league de- | partment 17 dropped three straight games. In the Corbin contests, the Barney Googles dropped a trio to the | sSpark Plugs and in a special fraternal match the Janders boys romped | away with three straight from the) Red Men of Wallingford who came up here looking for paleface scalps. In the Kensington game the married) men showed the effects of their wor- | ries and were unable to take a single gam from the single boys. At Frank MecDonough's Casino al-| leys a special Stanley Works match resulted in the fighting close match with but a few points separating any of the games. Last night's scores on both the Rogers and Casino alleys: STATE LEAGUE. | New Britain. | i RT. 108 04 116 83 Thompson 114— 304 M; . 84— 8 90~ .‘h’N; 112— 315 91— 305 4911506 | 301 309 | 295 13 96 112 106 122 Riley 104— Horkheimer Beach rschner . ir Jerrold Clark . alley .. Hinchliffe level-headed chap | AT 314 204 | Barney Googles. 68 66 A/ Mitchell | Dummy | Red Men, Wal |\, Woodke . 7 Heaton .. 9 | stongo .. ) 9 ! Scheister 231 | Vollhardt 58 | Chondler 186 451—1358 llingford. Crowley ... Vollhardt . Fagan . Seifel Jurgen LEAGUE. Single Men, Hughes Jok . 18 | Graham Hoffman | Clough Warner Seaburgh | Smith | Carnegi Pields McQueerie . Quay Cooney Alhquist Stanton Shean Anderson Rubels | Pinder | Larson Boardma \Templeton Will Not Sign Sunday Sports Measure Hartford, March Templeton, who has twice spoken | publicly as to his attitude toward |legalizing professional baseball and 1ootball on Sunday yvesterday made it clear to legislators his intention to veto the Sunday sports bill. In an address to the farmers' organization he said in part: “I don't believe Connecticut wants to legalize SBunday sports. We are| not ready. There is a great differ. | ence between allowing Sunday base- Lall, as we do in Waterbury, and legalizing Sunday baseball, Anyone can stop the game in Waterbury, but no one desires to do so. If baseball were legalized no one could stop the game, and it would be opening the door to legalize everything else, 17 that bill comes to me I shall exercise my veto power.” 30.—Governor 1 5, |i8 a crowd is not always true. »|to start fighting and at the end of the | ed the White Sox in winning a world's CLASH WITH MERIDEN COURT KINGS TOP ROW, LEFT . TO The Pirate basketball team which recently won the championship of the| local Y. M. C. A. league and is now scheduled to play the Meriden Y. M. C. of games, have won 11 games lost only one. The success of the team i 4 | A. league champions in a series | and | is due largely to the valuable coaching m’I only one the Pirates lost. | time periods were played before the Independents basket. ie Miller. Record of Teams Played. 1 Score 61—18 | 40—20 39—41 b1—24 30—22 Charl Senecas Vikings *Independents Senecas Vikings | called at 8:30 p. RIGHT: LA HAR, M 32—27 26—22 42—15 32—11 37—22 All Collegians Independents Senecas Vikings Independents Senecas 72—14 Vikings 651—20 *The Independent game was the Two over- scored the winning Game at 8:30 P. M. Saturday night's game wijll be m. Meriden will rely strongly on the two Warner | | EEHAN, WOJA CK,, WEIR, SMITH. FRONT ROW, CHARLIE MILLER, MORRELLI, SNOWSHOE SHEEHAN. | the Insilco team | two teams, as they will | other when the whistle blows, are: | | smaatit . Brothers who starred all season with of Meriden. The face each Pirates LaHar Meriden Collett Right forward . Schmitt, Miller Left forward L. Warner (c)...F. Sheehan, Wojack Center Scholtz Wiseleater, G. Warner .............Morelli (¢) Left guard. BOUT IS FIZZLE Refer¢e Stops Main Go-Prelims| Are Satisfactory That two is a company and three At least it wasn't at the Hartford audi- torium last night when Referee Joe | Flanagan stood as the third man, in the ring with Jack Lawlor, the Oma- ha Wildcat, and Benney Valger, the French Flash. Lawlor showed little of the fighting qualities of the well| known feline whose name he has tak- en, and the Frenchman didn't flash with anything like lightning activity.| Neither boys worked up much of a sweat and in the fifth round, with many leaving the hall, the referee stopped the bout. Tipping the beam at 1293 pounds, a half pound less than Valger, the Omaha scrapper started aggressively and whipped several left hooks to Valger's head in the first round. He carried the session. Again in the second Lawler took the offensive and about the halfway mark he crashed a right hand to the jaw that jarred Valger to his heels. Right there Ben- ny possibly decided it wasn't going to be a slugfest as far as he was con- cerned. He availed himself of his| vast ring experience to keep from be- | ing hit and refused to lead at any time. 2eferee Ilanagan called a halt in the third round and cautioned Valger round the referce made a visit to both corners with added warnings which he put into effect at the close of the fifth. In the prelims Eddie Corbett of Hartford, put a sleep producer under the jaw of Johnny Romaine of New York in the second stanza. Eddie Connors of Hartford lost a dccision after 8 rounds of tough mill- ing to his fellow townsman, Al Festa. Izzy Tanner lost a decision in ten| rounds of the hardest kind of scrap- ping to Irankie Quill. This was the best bout of the evening. LEFTY WILLIAMS CRITICAL — Famous Twirler For Chicago White Sox in Grave Condition With Pneumonia. Chicago, March 30.~-Claud (lefty) Williams, formerly pitcher for the White Sox was in a grave condition from pneumonia at a hospital here early today. [ The major Jeague career of Wil- liams, star left hander, ended when the 1919 world's series scandal be- came known. Before his banishment | from organized baseball Williams aid- | several champion- title and league ships. CALIFORNIA'S TRACK TEAM IS COMING EAST AGAIN Berkeley, Cal.,, March 30. — The University of California track team for the third c&mflcu(h'o season is to enter the Intbreollegiate Amateur Athletic association meet at Cam- bridge, May 26, it was announced. California won the two previous meets in which it participated. I ever expect to see. of Matty every time I see him wind | up. motion, DONAHUE 19 HAILED AS ANOTHER ‘MATTY Joe Tinker Praises Ability of Cincinnati’s College Star Orlando, Fla,, March replica to ‘Big Six’ He reminds me “The nearest *The remarkable thing about that There you have the opinion of Joe (Continued on Eleventh Page). SAT ARTHUR - How MUCH Do You THink I'M GETTING FoR \ Do AROUND HERE ONLY, THIRTY LELVE. PER ALL THE WORKK EDWARD DO You vidw I'M GETTING IN THIS coNnceRrN 1? gnLY JevenTy-FIVE Per weewr WHAT 30.—''The greatest pitcher that has broken into the National League since the days of Mathewson. here is ease and grace to every| hander, who pitched for Hastings in | the Nebraska State league last year. fellow is that he stepped right from! the first half of the pennant race, the college diamond to the big league, a finished pitcher.” Tinker, relative of Pete Donahue, star| and lose 11, for an average of .621, pitcher of the Cincinnati Reds. It was an unsolicited testimonial as Donahue | was busy pitching in batting practice. 1 ture of Wigington'’s work was his FANS 260 MEN IN BUT 204 INNINGS Gardinal Recruit Averages Better Than One a Frame Last Season Bradentown, Fla., March 30—"The experts in discussing my club are overlooking one of the best bets among my recruits, Pitcher Fred Wigington,” says Branch Rickey, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Wigington is a big husky right With a club that finished third in and manager and head coach. TES, Y. M. C. A. CHAMPIONS, WILL | No Smoking is Rule at the Big Cleveland Public Hall Cleveland, O, March 30,—An eve- ning of boxing in the public hall here presents a spectacle well worth going far to see, The boxing itself isn't of the cal- iber to become madly excited about; in fact, it 1s rather second-class. This is due, of course, 1o the municipal ruling which permits amateur bouts only, Bo that the boys who mix it are unknown outside of Cleveland. But aside from that—caramba! ! Public Hall is one of the biggest things of its kind, At one far corner is a magnificent stage, a really huge thing. Here a jazz band plays, The floor, with the ring in the center, is immense, and above its sides and rear rise in graceful loops a majestic bal- cony, 8o spacious that the corners way NEW SCHEDULE back are almost lost in shadows, The entire auditorlum is said to seat 16,000, ' No smoking Is permitted, and a liberal supply of bluecoats are on hand to enforce the ruling. Very little of the usual yelling, sd closely asso- clated with boxing matches in the past may be heard. Spectators vent thelr passions with mild hand-clapping. It is as easy to get your correct seat at one of these shows—and any prize fight fan will appreciate this—as it is at any legitimate theatrical pro- duction, In other words, Cleveland now has the best hall for boxing matches, and the best manner of handling them of any city in the country, those who have been there declare, AT YALE FOR ALLOTMENT OF GRID TICKETS Applicants in Future Will Be Required to Sign Agreement Binding Them to Use Personally at Least One Pasteboard Secured. New Haven, March 80. — A thor-| oughly revised schedule for the al- lotment of tickets for championship football games in which Yale partici- pates was made public last night by a special commission appointed last winter at Yale to investigate metho of distributing tickets on a satisiac- tory and equitable basis, Announcing the revised schedule, the committee says: “It has been fully realized that when the demanl «for tickets for the football games is so great, it is extremely difficult to sat- isfy all members of the university and of the alumni body. The committec kelieves, however, that the plan which is outlinel will adjust the demand to the supply also that the regula- tions provide the best :possible ar- rangements regarding location of seats. Must Sign Terms “Applicants for tickets in the fut will be requested to sign. a spec agreement binding them to use per- sonally at least one of the tickets:they secure or olss to return them fo ‘he athletic assoeiation in time for their resale. The new schedule c: for 12 groups, while in each groupi tickets will be distributed in orderito sen- tority.” Subscribers o the Yale Bow! fund are placed in the first class receiving eats in the center sections of the Bowl, These seats are considered the best and in each classification the committee has endeavored to place graduates and undergraduates within the goal lines. The Second Class The second class consists of the president of the university, the presi-| football captain They will receive 12 tickets each for the Princeton game and eight for the Harvard game, which will be played dent emeritus, the in Cambridge this year. and fourth classes take cach of The third in the players themselves, with an even .500 mark, and fifth in {whom is allotted between six and 10 the second half with a percentage of 377 Wigington managed to win 18 far in advance of his club's record. However, the most remarkable fea- & | (Continued on Page Eleven) . | There’s at Least One in Every Office setween three and six for the I Other Provisions The fifth division is a one new (Continued on Eleventh Page.) EASTERN LEAGUE IS READY FOR SEASON Only Six Clubs Represented at Preliminary Session Eastern league magnates, in a three hour session at Cooley hotel yesterday settled final business details prepara- tory to the opening of the 19238 play- ing scason and according to announce - ment by President Dan O'Neil the merger moguls will not meet again until- next fall, No Schedule Protests Discussion of program advertising, tickets, methods of handling tickets, and business relating to the conduct of the league occupied the whole three hours, according to announcement, It was definitely stated that the mag- nates did not talk over the baseball situation in Connccticut, where the Sunday baseball bill is now tabled in the state legislature, nor were any protests registered regarding the play- ing schedule. Only six clubs were represented at the session, Owner Jim Clarkin of the Hartford Senators, who is in Florida failed to@have his secretary, Jim Pyne, attend the meeting and neither Owner A. H. Powell of Worcester, on his secretary, Daggett Lee, was press ent: 3 President D. J. Haylon of Pittsfield, represented the Hillles; President M. J. Hawkins of Albany, handled the in- terests of his club; George M. Weiss, head of the New Haven champions, was on hand early and so was Presi- dent Herman Wejssman of the Drass- cos. Clark P. Lane, Jr., league treas- urer, represented Bridgeport and Owner Shean was on hand for Spring- field, Meeting Was Dead The meeting was as dead as the proverbial doornail, there being littla of the usual corridor color of players, ruanagers, would be managers, would be players and baseball scribblers on hand. Three of the eight managers were on hand. They were: Patsy Donovan, of Spjringfield; Paddy O'Connor of Hartford and Herman Bronkic of |tickets for the Princeton game and|\gaterhury, 1 vard game, a decrease over their for- nfer allotment. | T.ooks like Zach Wheat's big league ;da_\'n are over, Ebbets has refused |to come across with the $500 boost Zack wanted and Wheat told the manager where to get off. 5 A WEEK 1 -ONLY PULL AND Look AT | Do--ILL B PooresT PAI OF ANYBOOY LISTEN HUGO- I'M THE PooREST PAID OF ANYBODY IN TH(s OFACE - AND Do THE MOST WORK - - ONLY FerTY DOLLARS JUST To sHOwW Yeu THE INJUSTICE OF THE THING - HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEE DOWwWN. aNE \ EEK, ALL THE WORK ET \'M THe You WOULDN'T GUESS THAT ALL | GET HERE 15 FIFTY A week! ISN'T THAT THe NOW “You'Re GETTING NOTHING FROM HERE You TROUBLE MAKER- {00'RE Througu!