New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1923, Page 8

BOTH HEYDLER AND JOHNSON LOOK FOR GREAT YEAR IN BIG LEAGUES — THIS WEEK IS BUSY ONE FOR BOXING FANS—YALE STARTS FOOT- BALL TRAINING — MASS MEETING TONIGHT AT CASINO FOR BASEBALL ENTHUSIASTS — DEMPSEY’S MANAGER DENIES OFFER FOR JULY 4 BOUT 40 EL FOOTRALL ‘ HEN REPORT TODAY Coach Jones Galls Spring Practice, ~Ooaches Not Named | New Haven, April 16.-—Head Coach | Tad Jores has orde Yale spring football practice to begin today on| Pratt field, The drills will continue | for three weeks, About 40 candidates reported. There are 22 football play-| €rs now with the baseball squad, 14 on the track team and seven with the crew, Dr. Billy Bull will assist Jones in coaching during the spring prac- tice, Jones said that the spring work would be light but would inleude all the candidates for every position who are not playing some spring sport, The spring practice will continue a! trifie longer than formerly because of | the Princeton, Harvard, Yale agree- ment not to order the gridiron squads out until the last week in September, Heretofore they have reported about three weeks earlier, Captain Bill Mal- lory of the football eleven is playing with the baseball nine, but it is not believed that it will be necessary for an acting captain to be appointed. Mallory has not yet announced his coaches for next season, but it is cer- tain that Tull will again direct the second eleven, and Myron Fuller will coach the rush line. The end and backfleld coaches may be announced next week, and it has been rumored that an efficlency coach, who will co- ordinate the work of the coaching squad, may be announced. KAPLAN-BRIGHT BOUT STARTS OFF BIG WEEK Meriden Boy to Show His Wares To- | | | night—Hartford and Waterbury | Have Good Cards. This week is to be a busy one for the boxing enthusiasts hereabout. Tonight the program stars off with a bang when Kid Xapian, the pride of Meriden, will swap punches with Harvey Bright of Brooklyn, a young medical student who is paying for his education by fighting—and he is some fighter. This promises to be a great battle as both boys are in the pink of condition and Bright is said tg0 know what the Kid don't like— that is, he will fight at close range whereas the Kid likes to paste them from a distance. The bout will be| at the Meriden Auditorium, where the doors open at 6:30 and the fight starts at 8:15. The preliminaries are ! w e A g A g A A O L — NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923, Davey Jones Great Name For Swimming Champ DAVEY JONES Brown University, always to the Eastern experts regard Jones as front in athletics, is mighty proud of | the leading swimmer in the east, and Davey Jones, captain of Brown's great | look for him as well as the Brown swimming team. teamn to smash aquatic records. NATIONAL LEAGUE PRESIDENT PREDICTS WONDERFUL SEASON New York, April league baseball teams 16. never National[of a pleasant character to baseball were|in general. I am sure no more in better condition to start the|welcome news was heard during diamond race than this vear, John|the winter than that ‘Matty’ was A. Heydler, president of the senior|ba®k in the game at the head of the circuit declared to the Associated|Boston club and the appointment of Press in commenting up on the start| Arthur Fletcher, as manager of the of the season on Tuesdays All indica-| Philadelphia club, was a recognition tions point to one of the%eague's most| of a sincere and straigatforward successful seasons, he added. player who always has stood high in Race Starts Tuesday the favor of the fans. This year, too, “The National league on Tuesday|will inaugurate the control of Me- next begins its 48th season of con- tinuous existence” he said. “Through the two-time world's series victories of the Giants our orgaunization has re- Kechnie, manager of Pittsburgh, from | the start of the struggle, as he did not take up the position of manager in 1922 until the season was well on. GIANTS AND YANKS WIN THEIR FINALS Chisox Bow 11 to 6 and Dodgers 908 New York, April 16.—A walk, a homer, three singles and a triple by the Glants In the last half of the sev- enth inning scored five runs and gave them a victory, 11 to 6, in the last of thelr pre-season-exhibitions yesterday | with the Chlcago White Sox It was a bitter day for a ball game and the feicles on the eaves scared away the people by hundreds, The *7,000 who did attend the show were shivering leven in their great coats and they seemed ball park, Hugh McQuillan, Art Nehf, Rosy Ryan and Jack Scott pitched for the | Giants, giving 11 hits. Leverette and Stubby Mack of the Sox permitted the same number, The sox are now off to Cleveland for the opening game of the Ameri- can League season and the Giants are leaping along to Boston to open Tuesday against the Braves The game was called after eight in- nings. Score: r. h. Sx—11 11 11 e. 0 3 Giants ....... White Sox 004 200 000 003 30— 6 11 Inning Game, The Yankees took a final, farewell fall out of the disconsolate Brooklyn Dodgers, winning yesterday’'s exhibi- |tion game in Brooklyn, 9 to 8, in 11 innings. The Yanks, first at bat, scored four runs in their half of the inning and the Dodgers tried hard to even the score in the last spasm. They scored three runs, Babe Ruth got one hit and seoreds three of the Yankees' runs. . The Yanks used Carl Mays, Joe| Bush, Fred Spates and Oscar Roett- ger, the latter two being recruits, in | the pitching box. Dickerman and Dec- {atur pitched for Brooklyn. The game was slow and loose and a chilly entertainment for the cus- tomers. The score: r. h. 1 Yankees .. 202 000 601 04—9 13 lost in the Glants' enlarged] 'BAN JOHNSON EXPECTS THIS Ed Walsh Leads League in ~ Batting Fungoes ED WALSH HITTING FUNGOES Ed Walsh, former White Sox pitch- as first assistant to Manager Kid Glea- ing star, tried umpiring last year in| son of the White Sox. the American League but failed to| Last year Walsh a number of times, make the grade. They do say that| : Walsh s(mrfiy CotaniE ym'rg" that ne| While attired in umpire garb, would was once a player, which very na-l spend much of his time before the turally interfered with his chances, | game hitting fungoes to the ball play- Next to pitching, Walsh likes to hit| ers. It is needless to say that Presi- fungoes. He holds the record for|dent Johnson hardly thought that in long-distance fly ball hitting. That| keeping with the duties of the um- will be one of his duties this summer | pire. Dodgers 120 002 000 03—8 17 bition Baseball At Kansas.City, Mo.: Kansas City (A, A) .. Chicago (National) Zinn and Scott; Stueland and O'Far- | rell. ) At Memphis, Tenn.: Columbus (A. A)) . Memphis (8. A) .%....... 4 Sanders, Weaver and Elliott; Zah- niser, Bird, Mitchell, Wills and Tate. At Toledo, New York Naticnals (second team) vs. Toledo A called, rain. ~ WILL BE BANNER BALL YEAR teams that trained in the more north- ern states Race Should Sizzle “There has been sufficient develop- Chicago, April 16 (By The Associat- ed Press)—Five clubs in the American league have pennant possibilities, in| the opinion of President Ban Johnson, said who, in a preseason statement that evidence throughout the circuit of interest in the 1923 race assures the league one of the best years in | ment, however, to warrant assurance to the public that the American | league championship race will furnish a contest of unusual merit and inter- RICKARD NOVING TO GET DEMPSEY BOUT Hopes to Get Opponent From Heavyweight Show Next Mooth New York, April 16.—~Jack Demp~ sey will positively display his heavy- welght champlonship wares before the public this summer. There Is 10 question about it. The only doubt at this writing is the identity of Jack's opponent, In fact Rickard admitted tha big heavyweight show at the Yankee sta- dlum in New York on May 12 Ia staged with the hope that out of it will come a suitable opponent for Dempsey. Seeks Public Sentiment, Rickard said that in his nlectloa of fighters for matches he is guided entirely by the public sentiment for the scrap. ‘He personally might want to see So-and-So fight So-and-So, but unless the public wants it; as ex- pressed through the sport pages cf the dailies, the fight is not put on. “As things stand now,” Rickard said, “we are hopeful that one of four certain fighters will next mecet Dempsey. These four are Tiny Her- man, Luis Firpo, Floyd Johnson and McAulifte. “Tiny Herman is a big 200 pound- er. He is young and is entirely too green as yet to fight the champion. Firpo looks the best of the lot at this time.” Didn't Mention Willard. It will be noticed that Tex did not mention Jess Willard among the bat- tlers he has hopes of stacking against the champ. Nor did he mention Gib- bons. The fight on May 12 will attract 70,000 fight fans, Rickard believes, He said, at least, he has provided this number of seats in the big, huge bail field. “I can get 20,000 more seats in it,” he said, “and will do so for a cham- pionship match. That would be 90,000 in all, righ® in the heart of New York city.” Tex Is Optimistic, Tex is optimistic about the heavy- weight situation. “Do you know,” he said, “that we have I think, a better collection of heavyweights at this time than at any time in the history of the ring. We have a whole raft of real battlers. Usually we are lucky to have two good ones at a time.” CUBS W 6 TO 5. Coogan Pitches Fine Game for Win- ners in Early Season Contest, The Cubs under the management of Kenneth Saunders, opened their sea- son in an auspicious manner Satur- day downing their rivals, the Boost- ers, 6 to 5. The winning runs were scored in the seventh inning. Bianco and Levine starred for the winners land Berkowitz was the loser's bright istar. The Cub’s lineup is as follows: Coogan, pitch; Levine, catch; Baker, first base; Makowski, second base; Young Silverburg of Ansonia vs. Bud | its” history. % Dempsey of New York, 10 rounds at 120, pounds; Chick Brown of New Haven vs. Battling Brooks of Hart- ford, 6 rounds at 147 pounds; Young| Maverick of Meriden vs. Johnny Nel-| ‘Changes have been made son of Stamford, 4 rounds at 112]|c¢ontrol (?r Sliog AL £ pounds. }IQague circuit which brought Then next. in Hartford, is the| Shubert-Wilson and Sammy Waltz- Frankie Mack engagements at the jest. It is my firm conviction there Teams Beffer Equipped are, at least, five clubs with actual President Johnson sald Detroit, | Pénnant possibilities. In accepting Cleveland and Chicago will enter the the verdicts of gxpert sharp shooters race far better equipped than a year at aou{hr-rn training camps the De- |ago, while New York, because of its ".0“' levelahd \and . Gilieagoingliths 1pilc||1ng staff, must he regarded as a wlll_ enter the campaign far better dangerous contender. The illness of equipped thyn they were & year ago:*! George Sisler, may keep the Browns | T g e out of the race at the start, President | Big Season Indicated “Everywhere I have been this spring, I have found great interest in baseball and in sports in general, in thejand all indications point to one of National| our most interesting and successful cries| championship seasons.” gained much in playing prestige and keen interest will center in the fight| the 'seven other clubs will take to dis- lodge the champions. At Indianapoli Pittshurgh Indianapolis (A. A.) Cooper, Bagby, azner Schmidt; Burwell, Fitzsimmons, and Dixon, At Waterbury, Conn.: Waterbury (Eastern) Toronto (I.) : Fuller, Thompson and and Hil .4 B 115 McDonald; NEWARK RACES OFF AGAIN Foot Guard hall. Hugh Rorty is| promoting tomorrow night's frolic. On Thursday night Eddie Corbett and Joe Hall will meet in the fea- ture of the weekly mills at the Grand | gym, while on Friday night in Water- bury Elino Flores of the Philippines will stack up against Johnny Darcey. Tennis Becomes Major Sport With Colleges New York, April 16.—Tennis is to be one of the major college sports this summer. Pacific coast college tennis teams plan to invade eastern courts seeking honors. Oxford and Cambridge will send over a picked team late in the season to compete against leading American and Cana- dian teams. More than 100 team matches between leading eastern col- lege teams have been scheduled for the season ending July 1. | Win,” Declares Landis Logansport, Ind., April 16—*I guess . I am the only man in the United States who can venture no opinion on what team will win the 1923 big league races,” declared Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball, as he boarded a train here for New York. Commissioner Landis will be present | at the opening of the season in New York on Wednesday. | Judge Landis stopped here on his| way from Southern training camps.| He began his life here as a reporter | for a morning newspaper | | ROPER SEEKS OPPONENTS. | New York, April 16.—Bob Roper, former A. E. F. boxer, has arrived in| New York, accompanied by his broth- er Tom and his trainer, Ben Smith. _ Roper expects to make his headquar- ters here now, and his brother, who weighs 190 pounds, will also compete " in the local boxing clubs. Roper came here from his home in Roanoke, Va, and according to a recent letter, is wiiling to meet any boxer in the heavyweight division. YESTERYEARS | IN SPORT | Ten Years Ago ! On April 16, 1913, the Spokane | 11 team made a triple steal in a fe with Portland, in Northwestern . x s Twenty-I'ive Years Ago On April 16, 1898, Wallace, pitching the Naps, beat the Cincinnati ' 8 to 1 at Cincinnati. "A sthall size riot broke out at New during the New York-Boston e at the Polo Grounds when disputed an umpire’s deci- Former Canadian Leaguer Makes Good Impression With Corbin’s Fields is Snappy Infielder and Good Hitter—Patrus, Keystone Sacker, to Play With Montreal This Sea- son, . The Corbin team had a gingery workout at Walnut Hill park Satur- day afternoon and, incidentally, un- covered a new playver who gives every promise of being a tower of strength to the team. He is an inflelder named Fields, formerly in the Eastern Can- adian league and who hails from Rath, Me. In Saturday's workout he swung a mean hickory and did some pretty fielding. Patrus, last son's standby at second b has signed a contract to play with Montreal this season and probably will leave within the two weeks. While his teammates hate to see him go, they arc all pull- ing for his success in sthe Canadian outfit. Among others who turned out Sat. urday for limbering up were Wojack, ILlanchard, Huber, Corbin, Carrazo and Budnick. Tomerrow night at 6 o'clock the squad will repair to the | Boys' club gym for an indoor prac-| | College Association Will Discuss For- tice, a weekly stunt arranged by Man- ager John Tobin. Quimby, ex-Yale coach, was unable to be with the boys Saturday as he had to be in Bridgeport closing a con- tract for supplies for the 12-team in- dustrial league there has assured Tobin that he will be next | {KEARNS DENIES DEMPSEY HAS OFFER FROM LEGION |say5‘.\l’ontm American Legion Has Made No Proposal for July 4 Championship Bout Oakland, April 16.—Denial that Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, had received offers from jany representative of the Montana |American Legion for a championship bout to be held at Shelby, Mont, on July 4, was made by Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager, upon his arrival from the east here last night. Kearns said the statement iesued by {the exccutive committee of the Mon- [tana department of the American lLe- |as a means to obtain cheap publicity which would reflect upon Jack Demp- |sey. Kearns sajd that negotiations | between Mike Collins, St. Paul pro- | moter and himself had been under | way for some time but Colling' only represented certain business and oil men of Shelby who hoped to have the fight staged in Montana. Kearns also said Dempsey would fight some- |'one this summer, as several offers had |been made but no action had been | taken as yet. iN TO MEET RIFLEM! mation of Leagues | New Haven, April 16.—The forma-| |tion of sectiona! intercollegiate rifle | leagues will be discussed at the an- socjation of Affiliated Rifle clubs |gion yesterday impresged him merely | Thomas, Jones »nd Hill. At Washingt Washington Ameri- cans-Boston Nat als game called off, wet grounds. At Bridgeport, Conn.: Buffalo Inter- national-Bridgeport (Eastern) game called, cold and rain. At New Haven, Conn., Boston Amer- (Continued On Following Page). Hagen Is Presented With Auto By His Admirers New York, April 16,—~The weather man did his level best to upset the program arranged at the Westchester Biltmore Country club yesterday in honor of Walter Hagen, British open champion, but failed dismally. In recognition of his services in behalf of | American golf at Sandwich, England, | last year, Hugen was presented with {a spanking new automobile, pur- chased with funds subscribed by fel- | low members of the Westchester Bilt- | | more club, the presentation speech | being made by John McE. Bowman, Y SPRINGFIELD WINS | Jersey City, April 16.—Bunching | hits in three innings, behind fine | | pitching by Henry Wiley and Frankie | }Lonus, Patsy Donovan’'s Springfield | Ponies pranced to an 8 to 4 victory lover the Jersey City International T.eague club here yesterday afternoon. The game was played in near freezing | ‘w:-atlwr. Saturday Toronto | the Ponies 7 to | 1 defeated | However, he |nual meeting of the Intercollegiate as- | | here at some other date to aid the|which will be held in New York on| Corbins. The manager says that games are now coming in good and several high |grade opponents have been signed fof | meeting. the season. Yale Pl:;;s—Mass Meeting To Welcome Back Mack Colleges interested jn the | proposal have been invited to send | from one to three delegates to the The program for matches |and tournaments for next season will |also be drawn. Saturday. SING SING NINE WINS, \(‘)ll'n! Season by Defeating Port New Haven, April 16.—After an| Chester L. 0. 0. M., 8 to 4. absence of three months in Bermuda, | Ossining, N. Y., April 16.—With the John $iack, Yale's track coach and| prison band playing, Sing Sing prison foothall trainer, arrived here yestor- formally opened its baseball season day. He landed in Florida last week, | yesterday with the Mutual Welfare but has since been the guest there of | jeague nine playing the team of the John Acosta, former Yale weight yoyal Order of Moose, which went to thrower and football guard. Mack|the prison from Port Chester with a said that he was fully recovered from | crowd of rooters. The prison team his indisposition and will direct the|won 8 to 4. Yale team in its preparation for the| Although it was quite Penn relay games, the dual mects|{here was a strong wind, sweeping with Harvard, Princeton and Notre|across the Lawes's field inside the Dame and the intercollegiates. The|prison enclosure, the bleachers were Yale undergraduates are planning a|filled with prison baseball fans. War- mass meeting for the veteran coach den Lewis E. Lawes and several pris- during the coming week. on officials saw the game. cold and Johnson figures. “This spring I have studied with unusual care, reports from training camps of the American league clubs,” President Johnson said. “The weather in all sections, save Florida, has been exceedinglg unfavorable for the early preparatory work. This will orove something of a handicap to the | Newark, N. I, April 16—The bi- cycle races at the Newark Velodrome vesterday were postponed on account lof the cold weather. This is the third {time that the opening meet has been pestponed. The first Sunday it was too cold, last Sunday it rained, and yesterday it was too cold again. When a Feller Needs a Friend Wi Y L ,-.m':// } " //;/ s A\ b ,fic\i,“:’\c.yx 4 I .’/l" i : AR —~ap ’ 22\ i/ n 74 ~ o, A ) Ve ~ i E AR o AR B > N, V. Tribues | Copyright, 1923, N. V. 23 —“ N /I\ Harkins, third base; Bianco, short- stop; Messenger, left field, Bolic, cen- ter field; Saunders, right field. Games are wanted with teams aver« aging 15 to 16 years of age. A game is desired for next Sunday. Address K. Saunders, 108 Franklin street or call 522-5. BRIGGS \ AN e n (0 )’ ‘ S, )}\%\\} 2@:{{'\\‘%7’