New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1923, Page 8

LADIES' BOWLING LEAGUE GETS UNDER WAY TONIGHT — AT LAST RUTH GETS HIS HOME RUN EYE OPEN — NUTMEG CLUBS ARRANGE DANDY BOXING CARD — AMERICA’S CHANCES FOR RETAINING DAVIS CUP GOOD — PIRATES READY TO START BASEBALL: SEASON — OLD CHAMP DIES TRADE SCHOOL HAS Bl SQUAD 10 GHOOSE FROM SOUTHINGTON . . WILL STAGE BOUTS (Kid Kaplan Will Releres Matches in Village Friday Evening ‘The latest town to break into the Iimelight of the boxing world s Southington where an excellent card of amateur bouts will be staged nest Friday evening, April 18, in the town hall. The show will be staged under the auspices of the Southington A. C, and will consist of seven bouts, Judging from the merits of the va. rious performers who have been signs ed and matched by thé management and the Connecticut A. A, U, ¢ wil) be some fast milling. The classes range from bantams to the welters. The Preliminaries. The first bout will be between two bantamweights from Meriden, the home of “Kid" Kaplan. James Mastriani, the flywfight pride of Southington, will appear in the sec- | ond bout against Kid Kollock of Meri- den, These two boys are a pair of the fastest steppers in their class. The | third bout will be between two Meri~ | den featherweights, Sebastian Gulle and Kid FitzYoung. The fourth bout promises to be one of the best. John Pilkington, brother FANS ARE ANXIOUS TO GIVE BABESHOMERPUTS |Ladies League Opens . Tonight: | STAR R_OOKIES THEDOUBLE 0 Yanks Win, 14-1-Giants Lose, Bunched With N. B. in 2d Place *=’u= | H"Amletics Ta,ke Game Nearly 50 candidates answered the call for baseball practice at the State Trade schoo| Saturday morning, 'This orth Worth, Tesas, April Babe Ruth broke the course recorl was the first call for outdoor prac- tice and the squad worked out at Wal- | nut Hill park, Prospects for an ex- at the Fort Worth ball park yestar- |gue bowling contests open tonight at ceptionnlly good team this season aro | day afternoon, He hit a ball over|the Rogers alleys, More than ever very bright as practically all of last | the right field bleachers. Only n-ne‘\\'m the shrill, hysterical shrieks of year's team is remaining for this year. other batter in the history of local |the dear young things echo and re- This team won the champlonship of | baseball ever did it before. That|echo down the canyon of Church the northern section of the Vocation- | distinguished hero was a Fort Worth |street—and tomorrow, but why be a al School league of Connecticut, player. Hence the local pride over crepe hanger? The drug stores sell Miller and Herold are both veteran the achievement. Rut his homs yun |l sorts of liniment. Dackstona: &nd In addition Brooks and | was only & bunt compar:d to Ruth’s| The opening games this evening will Nalson are trying ont for the baokstop | Herculean effort. After ihe Babe had |Stert at 8 o'clock, with the following hit the ball it cleared the bicackers, |damsels lined up agalnst each other: winged along in full flight and finaily| Union Mfg. Oftice vs North & Judd positién. In the box there is left Killed a steer in a neighboring stock | Office, Alleys 1--3. Kulikowski and Witham from last| year's aggregation, while the new ma- | yard. South Ends vs Traut & Hine, Al- Just previous to the dsmdse of the |16vs 3—4. terial is exceptionally promising, | animal, the Yankees hal nfassac Dept. 30, Stanley Works vs Univer- namely Vetterollo, who was with West | Hartford High last year; Andeen, the Brooklyn Robins in u lop-sided 831 B Alleys 5—6. ball game. Ruth’'s homer ‘1ale the from Middletown High school, and also Kania, who was a star with New Britain High last year. In ad- score 14 to 0, and there it would have Ave,| dition to the above there is Bowen, stayed if an error by Senor Hafael 518/ Tolll and Bulmahn, all southpaws, Quintana of Havana had not let in 812 who expect to make themselves @ solitary Brooklyn tally in the ainth and changed the figures to 14-1, Giants Humbled 3 Bilnloy Rule vs East Ends, Alleys N. B. Machine vs P. & F. Corbin, Alleys 9~10, Close in State League The Northern Connecticut State lea- gue contest s developing into & hum-. dinger, with the jeading teams close- ly bunched so that a littie slip on the part of any one and there's. a big change due., Brietol leads with .776 average, with New Britain seeond at 722 and the Casinos of Hartford third with .667, Jerrold of Bristol has the high individual average with 110, with Anderson of New Britain second and only one point behind, Tonight New Britain will clash with the Casinos at Hartford and on Thurs- day evening the Capital City eontend- ers will play a return match here. The averages follow: Tonight the er—~plump ones start getting thinner and the er—not 8o ro- bust ones begin to acquire a little more muscle, for the Ladles' City lea- LA Pipfall 9337 0220 9125 9339 9057 9241 9089 Bristol New Britain Casino, Hartford South Manchester Bowlodrome, Meriden ..... Charter Oak, Hartford .. ' Travelers Insurance, Hartford heard. The only vacancy in the in- Memphis, Tenn., April 9—Celebrat- fleld is at first, and Witham, last | year's sub, and Bowen will have a ing twe anniversarics on successive days is asking too much of the battie royal for that position. At sec- Glants. After honoring the 50th | birthday of Manager John McGraw Saturday with a victory over the Memphis club, the world's champlons werpe asked to repeat yesterday after- noon in celebration of the 51st birth- day of Assistant Manager Hughey Jennings, but they were unable to turn the trick, and were beaten by a score of 6 to 3. Athletes Come Through. | Newark, N. J.,, April 9.—Though | outhit by 14 to 11, Connie Mack's| Philadelphia Athleties defeated the| Newark Bears in an exhibif#on game | here yesterday afternoon by a score | of 8 te 5. The Athletics also trailed | in extra base clouts, getting two, while the Bears got three, but the| Mackmen bunched their blows with | | | men_ on the bases, a trick that the Bears were unable to do. . Exhibition Games, '“At Nashville, Tenn.: r h e 1210 1 Columbus (A. A.) Nashville (5. A.) ... . 815 4] Batteries: Ambrose, Jacoby and Hartley; Pinto, Morgan and Haley. At Mobile, Ala.: r. h e Cleveland (A.) + 31 Mobile (8. A.) reas A o Batteries: Edwards, Metevier an O’Neill; Fuhr, James and Heving, 10 P d At Dallas, Tex.: > B8 Chicago (N.) .9 14 Dallas (T. L.) o 48 Batteries: Alexander, Cheeves and Hartnett; Bryan, Swartz, Davenport, Adams and Lingle. At Chattanooga, Tenn.: r. h. Casino, Meriden . Plainville ..... Willlams Memorial High single, Luby strings, P, Howard, Meriden, 383; Individual Averages. Jerrold, B., . Anderson, N. Ambach, Frisk, N Lofgren, Wilke, Man, Anderson, Man. . Harrls, I, Teller, Mer. . Kirschuoer, Cole, Man orelnt, H., Bartholom: Klitka, B., P. Howard, Mer, . Luby, Alex, Lee, Ladiah, Riley, Gaines, Malanty, ‘Waters, Franks, Stratton, Whalen, H Thompson, Lemeris, P. Meriden, 158; P H. M 498 47 480 ‘ 66 7202 high team single. Charter Oak, 601; high three high team three strings, Casino, Hartford, 1668. Sawyer, W. M., Bargent, Man,, Horkheimer, Prillwitz, Figher, Borts, Chall, Redican, Kennedy, Asch, Mer, B, Cowles, Manaware, w. M Brooks, Barhand, Cage, P, Pulien, Bibeaul tg H., H, Roundtre Rosner, Kalish, Barker, STOPPED IN HIS CAREER | New Bedtord Benrcat and Joe Currie Slated for 12 Rounds in New Haven Thursday. New Haven, April 9.—Al Shubert,| ‘|the New Bedford Bearcat, who fights Joe Currie 12 rounds as the star bout of the Nutmegs card at Music|® Hall this coming Thursday evening, has a splendid ring record. For near- man has been stacking up against the best talent in his class and in a BOGASH V. CLARKE TUES, | NIGHT IN HARTFORD BOUT | These Light Heavyweight Veterans | Seem Certain To Put On Good | { | l.ou Bogash, said to be one of the| light heavyweights who has the In- dian sign on McTigue, eonqueror of Siki, and Jackie Clark of Allentown, Pa., appear as the main attraction at the Star Athletic club bouts at the |1y 18 years this sturdy young gen“e_JHartrcrd auditorium tomorrow night. Bogash is a scrapper with a record, but no less a Kknuckle-pusher in |an {17 challenging nations, present indl- iond there remains Captain Anderson, | Eri¢ Anderson at short and Kulikow- | ski at third, all veterans from Jast year. There is“to be some contest for these positions, however, by Bag- shaw, Vettercllo, Fusari and Dani- | man. In the outfield there is Vance, | Znosko and Herold of last year's| team and also a wealth of new ma- | terial. Plans are being made for a | banner season, although the manage- | ment has had much difficulty in ar-| ranging games. There seems to be| impossibility to with High school teams. So far about twelve games, including the league | games, have been arranged and the | The team is captained this year by |ov Evald Anderson and Fred Bergeron | 1s the manager, | {7 NATIONS CHALLENGE | arrange games|Left to Right season opens with Middletown High awaiting the chance to playing in New Britain on April 26.|Kamm and Jimmy O'Connell the once ver, Not in years have two minor league | stars brpken into the big show with as much press agenting as preceded the Coast league phenoms, WILLIE KAMM Major league fans are anxiously give Willie In the above picture they wear the ¢ JIMMY O'CONNELy, uanorms of the major league teams they will represent, O'Connell the New York Giants, Kamm the Chicago White Sox. | Both were formerly teammates on (the San T'rancisco club. It is a rather istrange coincidence that the two should now be arrayed against each other as the Sox and Giants are at present engaged in a spring series. | Both have already shown enough stuff to be labeled real big leaguers. FOR DAVIS TENNIS CUP Indications, However, Are That Am- erica Will be Able to Defend Ownership. New York, April 9.—(By Associat- ed Press) — While 1923 competition for the Davis cup international team {tennis trophy promises to be keener| Fight—Other Bouts |than ever with a record entry list of | cations point to the successful defense of the historic emblem by the United States for the third straight year. The combination of William T. Ti!- den and William M. Johnston, Am- erica’s two top ranking stars who brought the cup back from Australia in 1920 may not be any stronger this year but critics are convinced that tarring unforescen developments they of boxing schedule Tuesday here, Winners of titles in the 1922 events have | vear, and but four men who advanced as far as the semi-finals will seek to better their standings. try of 150 has been received, repre- senting twenty-five states Canadian provinces. is expected to enter the ring o'clock tomorrow afternoon in order that a repetition of fighting until o'clock in the morning, may be avoided. Under the National A. A. U. rules the number of contest- 150 Boxers Due to Start In Boston Tourney Today Boston, April 9. for fi today and A new list of v tional amateur boxing champions will be compiled during the fifteen hours and at iled to enter this A record en- two The first team 5 5 as last year, Washington Americans and | - Boston Braves to Clash Washington, April 9—The Wash- lington Americans will meet the Bos- |ton Braves at Savannah, Ga., today in the first game of their homeward barnstorming tour which will take in four other cities and land them here Friday night. The Braves will be iplayed in each town. Donie Bush, |the Senators’ new pilot, was optimis- tic about the club’s chances for a first division berth when they broke |camp at Tampa yesterday. ‘ -(_Ial] Together | Nucleus of Their Team D {Pirates ‘ The Pirates will get started for the |scasgn by holding a meeting Wed- of ‘Charlle, one of the best fighters ever turned out by the Sitver City, will ] stack up against Jackie Googan of Wallingford. In t:e welterweight divisjon, Kid § Chaney of Meriden will swap punclies with Joe Bannack of Wallingford and these two battiers need no mtreduc tion to the followers of the sport. The sixth bout will see “Jiggy" Egidio of | | Southington facing *Bill” Cunning- | ham of Southington in a feather, weight milling. Both boys are fast and in good trim. | “Kid's” Brother Matched. ] The star bout of the night will be between Young Waplan of Meriden, | brother of the “Kid” himself, and | Palmieri of Southington. The back ers of both these boys are claimin the fight before the gong has even sounded and the Southington rooters | claim that their favorite will stop | Kaplan in short order. The Meriden hattler, however, has been tulnln. hard under the tutelage of hisj brother Louis, and if the dope is right, | Paimieri will have to step to win the | | bout. ] Kaplan to Referce. | The third wian in the ring will be |Louis “Ki¢” Waplap, the Meriden | {battier himself. The “Kid” wili es- ] say the role of referee in all the | bouts and his decisions wiil be final. “Red" Rorty of Hartford, the man |with the musical voice, will do thef |announcing act, and the stage will| be set for the biggest night South- ington has seen in many moons. 1 Tickets for the mill will go on sale | today and the proceeds of the boutj will be danated to the Southington || | Public Health association. QUELR DE The state boxing commission said | “naughty naughty” to Jack Lawlor} and Benny Valgar Saturday and or-| |Clarke, a veteran of eight years' of the hardest kind of milling. Among 'leSd“y DL AL [aRI0dle At the i be reduced to | Aotiinigach cleRsnius; {9 padune; |C. A.. The following players are re- L “"""‘"“:'“h" quested to be there to make arrange- | ments for the season: Hall, W, Mee- | han, Priesser, Huber, G. Schmidt, L. Schmidt, Weir, Conway, Wojack, J. Sheehan, F. Sheehan, and Morelll. Coach C. Miller and Chief Adviser Graham are also requested to be pres- ent. grand total of 200 battles has lost but 16 decisions. Considering the fact that Shubert fights anyone and anywhere, Others, Clarke has traded blows with this 18 & marvelous performance. '\ Loy SICh felner shamps ke n his long career, at no time has 47 g s * Shubert been stopped. He has fought (1;1:::“ '::'ec:;:; (“;::l;f “:'"!::e Amidz- three world’s champlons, namely Kid| g /7 t‘l’xe Toul ;cmr l?‘lfl finally took ‘Williams, Pete Herman and Johnny| L U4 "B, P title in Paris, Klibane, and battled Lew Tendler on| "y .’ \reiiminary bouts .should be g’:;e m‘emorfll)le occasions, The New|.,,nny little aftairs. Young Saxon of edfordite holds referee’s verdlcts|pujeaport steps 10 rounds with Mike over the following: Pal Moore, Kid| goanion of New York: Sammy Smith Wolfe, Jack Sharkey, Dick Loadman, | ¢ preeport, L. I, and Rocky Garey Willle Kohler, Frankie Britt, Bobby|or Marttord, will waitz through six Joseph, Johnny Murray, Earl Baird,|rounds and a half dozen rounds will Freddie Jacks, Joey Fox, Charley pe featured with Young Dempsey and Manty, Tommy Noble, Andy Chaney,| jim Blaney, the latter of Indian Or- Jimmy Cooney and Kid Kaplan. |chard, as the opponents. Therefore, it is only just to say,| Other bouts scheduled soon are: that Currie earn a win over Shubert, | johnny Corbett and Young Luby next the New Havener is entitled to greatThursday night at the Arena A. C.; credit and will be in line for some big| A1 Shubert and “Red Cap" Wilson the bouts here, following Tuesday night at Foot The eight-rounder Guard; the usual Thursday night Petite, of Bridgeport, and Frankie show at the Arena and “Kid" Lewls Victola, of this city, should be a'and either Young Montreal or “Mid- corker. Nick is coming along in a|get” Smith on April 24. hurry and so is Frankie. The elash e Dowle; Pruett, Root and Collins, Sy o Fe e { uld be enlightening. he other ed elght-rounder betwen Willle Connors Use of One Leg eciod, Mass. Boxing Board Is of Greenwich, and Young silverberg, 0’Dowd Has Spinal Troublei()ld Sam Langford_Wins On Floyd Johnson’s Trail |of Ansonia, is likewise of the T. N. T.| gr. paul, Minn. April 9.—Mike 5 sort, Henry Monguese appears in|ohawd. fo aieweignt cham-| BY Technical Knockout Boston, April 9.—The Massachu-|the opener. ‘U Dowd, former middleweigh' i petts boxing commission has written | pion boxer of the world is suffering to Charley Cook, manager of Floyd | | from a primary lateral sclerosis of ! cord, whieh affects the use Tatehad to mect Jees Wilard n New| GIIDION IR ‘L};Po:zh;;lh‘;:r;}‘g: it was learned here matched to l:leet Jess Willard .ln New | Harvard's infleld should Have noms| toaay wblkh tie Bt BAUL AEHeve: Pev York May 12, requesting an immedi- | jck this season. Captain Owen, of | turn from Rochester, Minn., where he ate explanation of ajlesed conflicling | foothail fame, has an all-football in-| consulted physicians at the Mayo Sontracts signed by b ":d s {fleld. George himself plays first,|clinic. O'Dowd, who announced his When it Bk ”l'f:“"lf‘ l‘t a]‘ JOhn- | Charlie Buell is on the dizzy corner, | retirement from the ring recently af- son would mect Fred Fulton here o0 | Jack Hammond is on second and Jen. | ter being knocked out by Jock Ma- April 16, almost qvmu._anr\nyus_‘ the | Kins is at short. All were varsity|line, will return to Rochester soon far same match was announced in Jer- e o000 men last fail . gey City for the same date To add ast fall. treatment. to the confusion the Armory A, C.| which promoted the bout letween| Johnson and Ray Thompson on March 20 which resulted ! 4 wia by a knockout in 20 seconds for Jn%i.- son, complained to the Massachusetts commission that that club had a con- tract signed by Cook to appeir ¢; ce more for the Armory A. C. hefore he boxed for hny other Host'n club. The Arena A. C. announced the John- son-Fulton fight scheduled for Ap:il 16 here. YESTERYEARS IN SPORT Ten years ago, on April 9, 1913, Dayid Fuitz, president of the Baseball Fraternity, petitioied the American and National leagues to g:"‘l::n & hearing before suspend- L ty-five years ago, on April 9, &, 5,000 persons watohed the open- o!QM new Memphis Joekey club op! meet. Keature was won by Balvable. . mw Leach Cross in - will be able to repel any foreign in- vader, Tilden, minus part of a finger on his racquet hand is likely to experience difficulty in reaching the ‘brilliant heights that have characterized his play for the past few seasons, but he is confident of his ability to surmount this handiecap. There hes heen in addition a re- currence of reports that Johnston would not attempt anofher season of international play but his friends be- lieve he will be on hand again when the cup defenders are rallied. In re- serve, America has Vincent Richards, who reccived his initial test against| the Australians last summer but oth- erwise the younger players have few outstanding stars at present. To date the Davis cup has been held by only three nations — the United States, Great Britpin and Australia, kut the rapid development of the game particularly in Japan and sev- eral continental nations ‘in Europe promises to see the supremacy of the English speaking representatives ser- lously threatened. dered them to box 15 rounds legiti-| mately before the Capital City A, () of Hartford before they can, collert the $900 due from their last dancing: exhibition. e. Detroit (A.) .. 1118 1 St. Louis (N). ..1118 2 Batteries: Johnson, Holloway and | Bassler; North and Clemons, Ain- smith. PLAN CHURCH TEAM. A meeting will be held in the chapel of the South Congregational | church tomorrow evening for the purpose of forming a baseball team. Practice will begin at once. When a Feller Needs a Friend [ airships, RBombay, | brought within three Journey of London. A 7 i BRIGGS My means of India, could b and a half da; At Tulsa, Okla.: e. [ Tulsa (W. L.) S8t. Paul (A. A). § n Batteries: Sherman, Tatum and Crosby; Hail, Sheehan and Gonzales, Allen. r. . b b At Kansas City, Mo.: i Pittsburgh (N.) .. l Kansas City (A. A) .. Batteries: Adams, Gooch; Zinn and Skiff. At New Orleans, La.: . 612 § Boehler and New Orleans (8. A.) between Nick 8t. Louis (A.) (Called in'the eighth game; rain). Batteries: Whittaker, Walker and 0 6 e. 1 0 Mexlco City, April 9.—Dropped for | the count of eight n the fifth round | of his fight with Andres Balsa, Span- ish heavywelght champion yesterday afternoon, Bam Langford, oldest of prize-fight veterans, fought back until the end of the round and two min- | utes later won by a technical knock- out. :\'w}b"< I LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMP OF 50 YEARS | KNOCKED OUT BY THE GRIM REAPER Chambers Won Title in 1870 After 56 Rounds of Bare Knuckle Fighting—Won in 136 Rounds From Clark. NN RN seven round bout with Arthur Weber, in which he won the decision. Six |years later he won the lightwelght . r Gl § \ ) |championship of Tngiand by deefat- x o \ 4 ing George Fletcher in a 56 round bare knuckle hout. He then came to this country and in September 1872, won the Ameriean title from Billy Fdwards at Whirlpool Island, Canada, Chambers, getting the decision in the 36th round on A foul. The bout between Chambers and Clark lasted two hours and 30 min- utes. It was under the old London rules when a knockdown ceunted as a round. At the end of 136 rounds, Clark’s seconds induced him to leave the ring. After his retirement from the ring Chambers conducted an athletic eos. tablishment in this eity. John L. Sul- iivan was one of the old charapion: who made his place a rendezvous. A A e AN N Philadelphia, Apr. 9.~Arthur Cham- \ ibers, worid’s champion lightweight \N pruglilist of nearly half a century ago and one of the famous old time hox- |ers, lost his first battie S8aturday night, death being the victor, As in the old |days he put up a valiant battle, but the infirmities of age were against him, Stricken with paralysis several weeks ago, he refused to give up and would not consent to go to a hospital until Jast week. In defeating Johnny Clark in March, 1879 for the lightweight title, Chambers fought 13¢ rounds, the longest bare knuckle battle in the history of the boxing ring. The fight was held at Chippewa Falls, Ont, in the open air and in bitter weather. He retired from the ring undefeated. Born in Manchester, Eng., Decem- bher 3, 1847, Chamhers entered the ring tore he was 17, Bis first fight being in October, 4,