New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1924, Page 8

[ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1924. DED | GLEEFUL FANS EXPECT TO REAP HARVEST OF BARGAIN DAYS IN AMERICAN LEAGUE — DIPLOMA TO BE AWARDED MOST USEFUL PLAYER AT END OF SEASON—NEW LONDON AND SHUTTLE MEADOW CLUB TIED FOR STATE HONORS G'A Wfit T e e T e e T e e £es e ae s aassstrnon B e e t2e e tilas ittt sy MR, JOHNSON, 10WA, GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP WINS BY KNOCKOUT COURSE UNDECIDED Disposes of Mr. Jack Douglas of Tie Vot of Shenecossett and Rivals Prove New York in Round Shuttle Headow Lins Easy Picking MERICAN CIRCUIT T0 AWARD DIPLOMA Gertilicate for Player Whose Work Is Most Valuable Boston, Feb. 6.—A diploma will be presented each season to the play- WON WORLD TITLE AT’ SIXTEEN | Shows Best ; Hoppe is a real champion. He it. For yecars he has met all com s jooks the part and in actdon provesers, and with the exception of a short time in 1921, when Jake Schacfer wrested from him the In the Plnc}' championship honors, he has reigned supreme. Hoppe is 36 years old. At 16, known then as the “boy won- der,” he journeyed to France and. won the world’s championship ¥ o 8! from Maurice Vignaux. Since that time he bhas been the outstanding Yuring: the past four months g Hoppe's ability has been put to the much Sel- If a golf champion repeats, Doug: " kno ictory the t Sid wobbly ped in al times and stagar right on ing surprisin era glad to weights were: T Mike Carrier Young tory o 1he Yoik Girl Breaks Swim Record at Miami aide ard champio irap Miss Sybil 1h of two of Chicage fa e her s tac fiear the mark Girs association other events on the Rigein won a swim in 4:11 45, ¢ of Miss Virginiq Whitenba Mise Doris O'Mara ! MeGary dangerousiy der. Miss Helen 48 yard handicap Helen Wainwright actual time of Geraghty , swam an yards, breast stroke, of the swept 20 CENTS Charles E. Hadfield MY flTl E ST. -~Ju-1 Mvwmcl the Comer” s take the batt] nt atenr The Sher vot € Lon 1 Meadow country club were cast with Shuttls A4 two fallin Dus but few there Shuttle to ted by talked ar B who wit from other ipetition that scem to the vote w that case is the s ked Gaio itatioy July, year's cham Tune o an i econd week tonr- this the voted to recomm for th the Ri cither « exception o Brookiawi invitations ime Meadow,| dom championship Wi feath regar gilistic most his 1 |ado is made do golf stars hold than Kilbane 1en erwe ded cire of ong by picl part in n K Fuge bane lost Johy for t by wi I ague It most yane W ne by il ny an the of the performance. m Join ore ight title for a national one held 10 years il was year. the an epochal event in pu- e, ime 1 camphor striking contr: was Crigui, While contenders for was soft at ¢ who spots. ast to the 1 ol " knockout, ip or Duanded In baschall if fir major Kilbfe met his title, possible goodly away made A title was ign of successor, from Kil- Holder of the months, he time out to his few league elub hrec years proves its superiority nd rikes unust illie ing then s, it me, ial Hoppe, nnant takin however TO RIGHT CHAMPION WILLIE champion biliiard in the regarded its own world as a that in all king. the sport ROGER HOPPI CON'TI, figure in the billiard world. Never in the history of his carcer has Hoppe been put to sterner opposition than at present. has repulsed the efforts of the three crack European For three years, with one exception, he champions, Horemans of Belgium, Conti of France, and Hagenlacher of Germany to win his title. In addition, he has ountdistanced his two American competitors, Jake Schaefer and Welker Cochran, WELKER COCHRAN, ERICH HAG LACHER, JAKE SCHAEFER, greatest Bt acid test. In the international tour- ney he finished in a tie with Welker In that event Cochran sur- y defeating Cochran. prised the billiard world b both Hoppe and Schaefer, the two fayorites. Had it net been for an unexpected defeat by Hagenlacher of Germany he would have had a clean slate to the world title, In the playoff, Hoppe retained his championship by beating Cochran, 1500 to 1161. This match was played at Chicago. In a challenge round, the rules entitling Cochran to a re- turn mateh, the two met at Boston, and once again Cochran was de- ely defeated. Schaefer, exercising his right to an- other meeting, chalienged Hoppe and was overwhelmed, 1500 to 1196, In his last three championship matches, with his two leading con- tenders. Schgefer and Cochran, Hoppe has beaten them practically % to 2, It takes a veal a trick like that. Meet Willie Hoppe. champion to turn ARD HOREMANS, (IN CIRCLE) Kld Kaplan l RUNYON HARVONY A. A. CHANPS Takes Title in * Cluh By Defen i Past Ganw Army Stadium to Scat 22000 I« Going Up DAMON AMERICAN A ren NAT Ton AND ron AMT MAG Fhinks Dunder savs NI NEY EVE RICA AZINY » im ar 't Rate N Kapt ING IWMAN YORK Kapla NEW Too smart, NEW YonRx vould probalb mds with Teclsto that Du v bt 1l chance Wonld Win or LAWRENCE, Kap Wounkd Have FLETSCHER YORK MATL AND PUBLISHER R FOREMORT Think NEW YORY nak Tough Time K SO0 | TELEGRAM AND KD THE RING, | BOXING slan 0 '8 very mue beat him Kapl RINNOTT MORNING him Prandec sy Kaplan's ¥ Twas ot CIGAR FAMOUS FOR A syl o N u TELE Koow ledge JALITY BARGAIN BASEBALL FOR FRANTIC FANS American Promises Many Double Bills Lav rare schedu midw Bostor April 1 tween that Al appa hardly a b and he pleas to perforn “hile the bargain five The Nosto s their plum in the Yankes day at 1 Yankes open Pler probably the 8 a runaway win Stadinm muldr": a th The Stadium day tha this n (N} e SBaturdays, y the e et Sunday date The holiday Yank Yank League Schedule Gives nerican nagnatcs ently s the seed 1« of doubleheaders cague he season ope ams 154 games b 1 Sept There's games lay. Th 5 and lats reat) haif wough the i onths o 1 players w ¢ It xhibitio, um on 8 it Was pleaged fans may s clr baseba ited Sox . tan Jo lates, However without it and 1 as thetr m o1 ® of the Yankee Apri for the It N agie ne on plums America | P that t in their attempt v WARRIED FIFTEEN A WD weLL cRY T*aNG CHEAPER THAT - " AT MU | REMEMBEE woRwWinG N A PRINTING HOUSE FOR Twe POLLARS A wWEEK ~ AND | HAD T SET TYPE AnD EVERY THING -~ THATS STARTED. ' T THAT ®RicH * How § drive National les 1 Sox o in the about turnont o n Sunday stadium and La CONStruc 1 as thelr opponents A's double Fourth ot first ingo of the gl ed in the st @ of 192 m They dr fund w or Day, “They wil Phitudelphia the season, of new ulso draw 1 vhile the Red July ri elubx of the A this vear world's mrth pen on W iting « yefore the b THAT off nked in th h ook nost S AR Lt f Ten THiric OFf AGET T In { HALE A OR J& 70,000 turned m;‘ & ED 1N Two DINKY ROOMS DOLLARS Yankee 1he mats hollday games thirtes Memorial e Ath v firs April which champions not rih now stated T T AE TTLE 7 | BORE 9 WHY | STAMD AROUND AnD | WASTE my TIME LISTEMING T THE PATTER OF TuaT 15 moRrE Than s WIFE AND | "ans and the Detroit Tigers follow in cach elub for a four-game ser- ies, Mitler Huggins will have a line on the oppesition by Memorial Day, and so will the New York fans, The only one eonflicting d with National league, both the White and the Cubs playing at home in Chicago on Sunday, Sept, 28 is the Sox DODGERS MIDSACKER SIGNS, New Jo ho ht Kiugman, the Feb, that of York, 6 is new has soason. The broadcast w innouness baseman Dodg second th sy signed the coming Brooklyn club yeste the news Klugman hit for a modest \ 16 with Des Moincs last year, g & 220 hits, of which we Joe came to the Dodger: in a trade for Ca and Piteher Clarence The new Flathush inficider is old, bats and right inds only ene inch short of scales at 175 Is. a trial with the Chicago was gent 1o Atlanta 18d and then 10 from which metgopolis 1 to Des Moines, ¥rom all accounts Klugman is quite « ball player. Your Uncle Ttobble counts on sending him to second base off the bhat, \\\Ir Johnny Jones, of Portland, Ord, at ahort and very likely Jimmy Johnston at third. High to pass down into the International cague for , ot and Kingman had Cubs In 1922 & He was Wichita he prococd pon; sent late weLL HARD A MONTH WAT! | wAaSs JELWE AND A Ew AND SAVED HA A KA WENT . A ico = right ; | SIR BB FOoR WEEK WHEN | To worwx | ThowGwuT | BovauT mY oww BoAarD - er in the American league who is named as the most valuable for his season’s work, it was decided at the adjourned annual meeting of the American lcague here. The diploma will take the place of the champion- ship button previously awarded. The meecting, which was attended by President Ban Johnson and seven members of the league, was the so- called schedule session held each year and was the first of its kind ever held in this eity by either league. Aside from adopting the playing schedule for 1924, which was relgased for publication February 6, the mag- nates devoted their time and atten- tion to informal discussions of what best for the league. No deals made public, The Chicago club represented owing to the : growing out of the Joe Ja: kson incident. The call for the meeting was for Boston this year as a tribuie to the new owner of the Red Sox, “Bobbic™ Quinn. It marked the continuan of a policy previously adopted 1o have the American league magnates visit each of the cities in the organi- zation in turn The suggestion regarding the diplo- ma for the most valuable player emanated from Babe Ruth, Ruth, of many championship proposed a diploma setting forth the work of the player, and signed either by DPresident Johnson or the chairman of the trophy mitiee, The proposal was adopted unanimonsly and in a few weeks Ruth will have something to hang on the walis of his Sudbury homne s ting forth his prowess in the on. Risler, who was selected as the valuable league, also diploma. The members of that more time clubs in their batting practice, 5 was decided that the visitors should be given 30 minutes of such practie® froni the opening of the scason untdl June, and 20 minutes from June 1 1o the close of the season, The question of ball in play was not matter having been 1oit Yo President Johmson who will fnstruct his pires, President Johnson is in favor of fewer balls being put into the games and is cxpected to \ h wnipires to be less e the digtribution of new bails during th 1924 contests, The members attending sions were: New York, oloncl J Ruppert; Philadeiphia, Mac Washingion, Clark iMith: Bos Robert Ouinn: 8t Louls, Viee Pre dent ritach; Cleve q, B Dar« nard; Detroit, ¥Fra Clark Grifith after the announced that he would his manager uatl a later dented th he was consideriy Barry, Bary ihe ing and it was said that he wonld r main as coach at Holy « It W reported that Jack Cheshro mer Yankee ph g0 Washington as coach of pitchers was were was not coni- most will 1 the leagus voted be given the control of th discussed, this nerous in Connle 8, meeting not nuiine date Jue was not at meet ross. . wonid her to CHANLY TO MEET MK Baltimore, 1o, Andy Baltimore fratherweight, and Jacks Fngland meet here in the main bout of t Pioncer Athle- tie clubs initial program, Febroary 8, J. W. Dewey, matchmaker annouoecd his club had granted a i by the state commis 6 aney, i'reddy "y boxing WORKED DoLLARS FIRST AND WAS LuCkY CLOTHE A e —— THANK HEAVER Tuame 'S Ne LAW To ComMPEL ME To STAND. AND LISTEN ;T5 HIM ARY LONGER.. A TerrRIBLE BoRe -~ wm-. HE'S J