New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1924, Page 8

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, JR3ssistiatitaiisieatsassiisisintans SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1924, ALUMNI TEAM DEFEATS HIGH SCHOOL BY ONE POINT IN OVERTIME GAME—SHUGRUE KNOCKED ouT STANDlNG UP IN FIFTH ROUND OF FIGHT WITH MORAN—ATLAS A.C. AT ARMORY TON!GHT—YANKS TO CURTAIL SPRING TRAINING TRIP America Banks on His i Spc—:ed in Skate Events!| l BASKETBALL GAMES AT ARMORY TONIGHT Atlas Visiting TeamiEagles [ Falcons in City League ALL NEW BRITAIN Babeock. LaHar rizht forward ATLAS Taylor Botwinick left forward Wojak Gubersky center Pelletier Greenberg right guard Kilduff left Referee—Dick Dillc Basketball fans wi at the armory tonight New Britains entertain Atlas A. C. from New Haven, last o v 8 | s undefeated champions. Added E 5 ; 8 intercst in the game is occasioned by the fact that the All New Britains S i | defeated the Atlas by two point A 2 | margin several weeks ago, which de- X 3 y o 7 i feat startea the New Haven boys on a R N L glump from which they ha only P | Just recovere The Atl how the peak of their Larson, Witkin rd a real treat the All famous ot when the a s are again at » " form and will flash ¥ something tonight unless the locals > ; guard consistently and the forw shoot with an unerring aim. Taylor, LaHar and Babcock will lead the Vault, while Wojak will again play at enter, with Captain Pelletier and jef Larson guards. Preliminary Game e big game, which starts prompt- VALENTINE BIALAS | America pmx much of its hopes to the steel-shod strides of Valentine Bialas in the coming Olympic tests. Bialas is the speed | king of the Lake Placid regions and is expected to star in the in- 1y & 9 o'clock, will be preceded by ternational contests at Chamounix, France, the latter part of‘ & cly jeague contest in which the January. Eaglh will with the Mo-| % ‘ el R 0L YANKEES WILL LIMIT |SOUTH CHURCH QUINTED THER TRAINING TRIP will Blo\at § p. m. for this game 24 as- clash Season's Schedule, The i\ gmateur league has been dypicted for th of the s¢d;, 3549 the games he dates, follow Aos vs. Mohawks . Falcons | Mohawks. | Jagles [ | | schedule remainder to be Rookies to Report Marcl Nose Out 25 1o Victory Over Methodist Church Outfit From | ! | JEES the Bell City, lars Week Later at New Orleans Vs, of g of over-| church held | Bristol to a| Jan, 5. —The New have a shorter tr at their camp fr Huggl mite world's champions announcing the most exciti the churel New Yo S York| no Yankees wil | ining games Now Methodist mai 24 victory revea starring witl Aronsor training South church work Mohawks, Routh ngers. lagies. s vs, Rangers. \~ Eagles. Rangers, Mohawks, s—Taic Moh n o Feb, sual siege than Orle Miller ager the ed today ir | schedule Huggins players h 3 and to 1 seven baskets combined with Luke, almost visitors were nof to shooting | and Merrill ent lay slack when it came baskets, Da Whit During the latter nd half the game ame sting, switching the | 1 to the other, that who 2March £-- March 1 ¢ u‘ as issued orders Burns-W flmh‘ \al Is Denied by “leveland Cleveland, J Wiliam Wambsganss ha to the Boston R 8 Taseman Georg last night by dent of the ( Mr. Barnard decla involving “"Wamby is pending with to report at New the regular is, Mure rt March 1RO iM B¢ duys The reh \pnrn that | tha e fo f lay tour ; n traded | Rochester elub of the Internati b people Yor First | league, Beginy it Mol Alo Y udience known to % Vo denjed [ winding up at Savannah o checr were on their feet yelling and | Apri ‘ ng their of shape, | The ¥ 1p: the Yar South Chureh, - Aron togett games of ith games 1t and a Carlson are | Merrill veral er squad W the see-| with t from n one were never ng I« Ga hats out Nationals Atlanta Apri 1y n oseries Bristol, Daker, or s o Right Forward __— o L Brook Davis | Left Forward PICK & National Leagur Jack Bentley will o great left hallder 2ling gpeed mukes little use a team jority of right-handed hitters ley is the type pitcher who must b his spots picked for hin ager can do that little t} that Jawn McGraw of the s R | ESTERN CONFERENGE Point Makers STARTS OFF TONIGHT Basketball ¥ BY ERNEST A. BLOOD 'u1~ ron Ill \Il\ players insi\, . never be rak" His lack o him a pite with i1 White not be to incl Wa Bush repor Davis 4, White [ Foul shots son T, louke Pask 4, Me Luke and no 1 ing bettd Giant wo weeks 'BIG LEAGUE CLUBS 10 CUT DOWN ROOKIE SQUADS ™ spring Training Trip Costs Too Much, Contests in Middle West They Say—Chicago Will W put Baskethall Seacom Welt 7 Have Under Way “hicago, Jan. b.—The mounting cost of sending recruit players through the spring training trips has re- club - | | | | \ @ s on ma jor 1o take titior eague smaller squads south ing grind preliminary 4 season of a training trip, msy officials said last night has b reasingly important itemn maller receipts from ex milftated againet rec owners o8 have excess number of play ing a This spring recruit re an at Wir camp abiner, A squa Har White y Cha Gr said P port Frank ON OLYMPIC STAFF William Howard, 20 Years Tr‘t'll Cesssened Coach at U, of Oregon, Accepts P JAKE MAY SOLD \Rgps More sition as American Team Coach, Than S30.000 and Ore wi e Ja jam 1 rd mor LAl ART conch a r \ Playere Reprrted y s Comsiderafy Famous Vernon Player 18 wecepted member United coaching stafl 4 Olympic te CODE bllecccans Posilion sesssnns —— ANDERSON TO « .m” SE ] Bost6 PLAY YNO. 2 e 1t Signal No. 1 Center to left forward. Just before the tipoff the left forward (1) feints and returns to position tipofl, center (5) for the basket. (1) the ball B and shoots. If the center fails on the off the right forward (3) eomplete the play A 1o B This is a good play wher guards try to beat the forwards { the forward tipoff. NUNAIAKER WEDS TODAY | Now | srmer Big League Catcher, X \.-mm« at Chilcago. forme tancoga Manager, Becomes games bail ' ' pior ; meets | the . et ago, Jan. 5—Lestic Nunamaker big teague catcher and wr of the Chattanooga club bt hern Association, is te be mar- today to Mrx, Frances Peck The ceremony wi New r now long tip to at . rmed tior A L For Insance, Laok at Burms | vear brings out unusual things in the i garded as having failed at the closé | of one season may be the hero at the | him as a valuable ball play 50 inter-{a in the |« | payment | of | why ) s < ) B-R-R-R! An Icy I;lung Into a Pool of Refriger- ated Water HIGH SCHOOL VETS WININ OVERTIME Alumi Quintet Defeats Regulars by Score of 20 to 19 After being outplayed and out- scored until the last part of the| game with the N. 13, H. 8., the H. 8, Alumni team yesterday made a final {spurt, tied the score the regulation Some | period, and won the overtime period player who a year back was sold or|by a close score 20 to 19. Both teams traded, may 12 months later be eag-|played w_ defensive game which ace erly sought by the club that put him [counted r the low score. The game on the market. Handling ball players, | was played before & large crowd a: in other words, managing a big league | the school gymnasium, TEAR MAKES GREAT - DIFFERENGE IN MAN Ward or Meusel / Very often the short space of a baseball world. A player who is re- finish of ghe next campaign. ball club, is a precarious occupation| If the school team had shown as for that rcason. Often players are much form in the second half as they cut loose just at the time when they did in the opening stanza, the re- are about to arrive and prove their|sult would have been far different. real worth. IFrom the opening gong they played a hard game. It was several minutes before the ice was broken. sonal was called on one of ti men, and ipp dropped in both | shots. The Red and Gold team at | this stage of the game were playing 4 | rings around their rivals. Time and | win they bombarded the :nlumnl; but only one of them was cesstul in locating the hoop. again distigrzuished himself by getting a basket. he score at the ond of | the first quarters was High School 4, Alumni 3. The brand ball in the second | half was superior to that played of sold he isy Cleveland Now | Several | George Burr being eagerly sought by the same; club. A year ago the New York Yankees offered Whrd and Meusel in a trade with Chicago, Today these two players arc not on the market, years ago to Boston. Perhaps no manager in bascball has taken more players whom he had | previously refeased than the famous John MecGraw of the New York Ginats. When McGraw sent Heine Groh to Cincinnati he knew Groh was the makings of a great ball player.|ine first. The best the older team The Cincinnati club at the time had |uould do was to get three points, a | several players who MCGraw believed | el goal by Reynolds and a foul by would win the pennint for him. Since | Mocab The high school team ran he was well fortified at third base|tno score up to 11 before the haif | he felt that he could dispose of the|ended, | | promising Groh. When Groh became [ e [the star third sacker of the National | gpurt .cague McGraw bought him back. | The career of MeGraw reveals per- h.ms a dozen similar cases. There- fore it is no particular blemish on a| manager's record to sell a player and then buy him back. | of third quarter began with by the alumui. In this qu | ter they outplayed the Red and Gold {but the latter team kept fighting ang | the half ended with the score 15 all. | The last quurter was the most ex- | eiting of all. The alumni team, whieh | was really the championship team of [last year hit the stride which gained | them great success when they. were | on the school team. They * passed, | but be- | dribbled and shot like their former | MelInnis {elves. In the meantime, however, eland elub [the Red and Gold tewm was not be- the win- | | hind the bush. They also played | well, but expericnee was starting to| |tell on them, With less than a min- | |ute to go, “Bennie” LaHar tied lllr‘ Always a great fielder, Speaker N0 | geore with a pretty field goal and the | dotibt figured that the brilllance °‘\rr1.'ulanrm period ended with the McInnis wounld tend to greatly settle |goope 17 all. | his infield and would work to the de- | no overtime period was full of | oK advantage of Sewell and |npins, Kach team fought hard, and | Wambsganss. Melnnis gol away 10|j this excitement one of the alumni flying start. During the first month | ey was detceted by Referce Dick | of play his work featurcd that of the | ijjon, and a foul was called on him. leveland team. He won gmany &Gorman put in the mueh needed foul, | game by some great ficlding plays|ang #t looked like the winning pont, | and did some timely hitung. Ehen | hue Harold Welr made things ook | the team stlumped and with it MEInn- | ajferent with o pretty goal from the | Is, 8o that Speaker's bellef that Mc- |gjge of the court. With the alumni | Innis would make possible anotics {ypead by one point "Bennie” made pennant fatled to materialize. MeIn- | jjs fourth personal foul, and was put | niss has since passed out of the! American League and Cleveland secks to regain one of the players given in for him, George Burns. Tris Speaker traded Bugns to Bos- | ton, not beacuse he didn't regard cause he believed “Stuffy would round out the Cle and probably make possible ning of another pennant. They tell you a cold bath in the morning is good for you. George W, Martin, director winter sports at the University Wisconsin, evidently thinks so. You s the fey a eold Dec Everybody “Maggie, of of ers of Lake mber morning. to his own taste, say turn on the hot water,” ollowing Pagce) (Coutinued on GAMES ON SOCIETY PAGE Rockne Predicts that in 1910 Football | schools. A year ngo Second Baseman, Wi i the Yankees was on the market. Regular Price New York wanted Bddie Collins and was willing to give Ward as part payment. Ward arrived last scasos, Will be Taken Off Sporting Pages 15 now rated close to Cojlins, and is | I not on the market. A year makes a | Into social Columns, big differcnce. That is one rdason ! the job of manager is far from | Rockfowd, 111, a soft o games will be re Jan. 5.—Footbal! | ported on society pages instead sporting pages by, 1940, Knute K. Roekne, Notre Dame football coach told the 8t Louis High school squad at a banquet herc last night, unless “college cake eate re converted into “he-men.” Football is not too rough for high school or col- $1.00 OFF ON AN Remember—1 Week of RIXEY BEST SOUTHPAW Kddie Roush of the Cincinnati Reds picks Eppa Rixey as the best south- aw in the National League. Rixey a protege of a former National leaguc wmpire, who developed him | lege, Rockne said, when he was coaching the University | “We need the game as it is played | Virginia candidates in baseball. | today,” he added, “if we o retain Rixey at the thme being the star of | the red blood we inherited from our the club. I‘ forefathers,” | » Tel, 125-2 The Real Martin here plunging into | Mendota on | ATTENTION! School Children, Parents We offer for 1 week, endin SPECIAL PRICE ON GYMNASIUM OUTFITS requ PAL HORAN BATTERS SHUGRUE HELPLESS Bout Stopped in Fifth-Willie Wins His Fight New York, Jan. 6.—Pal Moran, the New Orleans lightweight, defeated |Johnny Shugrue of Waterbury last. night, when the referee stopped their |bout in the fifth round to save Shu- |grue from further punishment. Shu- |grue could no longer see through | bloody eyes but was still on his feet |when the referee intervened, Shugrue showed good forim énly in the opening two rounds when with la swinging attack he had Moran swaying to the ropes for safety. sev- eral times. Moran's blows, however, in the second round slowed Shugrue {and he was handicapped by the blood that flowed from many cuts about his |face. He was seconded by his'broth- |er, Joe Shugrue, old time bLoxing fav- |orite. His younger brother, Willie, (won a decision over Charley Kohler lof New York in a six-round prelim- linary. | A delegation of about !bury boxing fans rooted for the | grue tamily. | Eddie (Kid) Wagner, of Philadel- | phia, knocked out Sids Terris, one of {New York's leading junior light- weights in the sixth round of a 10- ! round maten. Terris went down from a right to the stomach. He fell to the floor from a light blow in the fivst | few seconds of the round and told the {referee he had been fouled. The ref- eree raled otherwise, however, and Trris arose to continuc the fight, They were at close quarters when [the knockout was delivered, Terrig |again claimed foul and again it was ['deciared a fair blow, The Mlows seem- ed falr to all those at the ringside land Wagner was given a great shout of mlm|ru(mn when he left the ring. ON CHAMPIONS a tough year after another has Kilbane, Her- Siki and Crigui Watee- Shu- TO! This has | champions. One {tumbled. 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