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

CHAMPIONSHIP OF Y AT STAKE TOMORROW Spark Plugs and Wild Cats to Settle Momentous Question rday tive teams Fvening le first ugs, cl g chai tem i clLampions ti-e place Wild € Both with the + Night matc ip. San Toys, hoth tied for second in the it it out wi 1in t second stanz COLLEGE SPORTS New Haven wpplications Ha rd hoc m informa m Hundrs th are th Ya team eds of Yale- played bein d which it -~ ] - SISLER ROUGHS IT TO REGAIN HEALTH - o O o o . FLYWEIGHT HONORS "Meets Georgie Marks in 15 Round Bont at Garden New York, Feb, 8—Another world’s championship will be at stake in the Madison Square Garden ring tonight when Pancho Villa defends his fly- weight title against Georgie Marks of California in a 15 round bout to a de- cision. In view of the fact that this will mark Villa's first appearance in a New Yeork match since he won the championship crown from Jimmy Wilde of England at the P’olo Grounds last summer, and that in Marks the little Filipino will méet his most for- midable rival next to Frankie Genaro, ~~7VILLA WILL DEFEND. {GODD BASE RUNNERS FAST DISAPPEARING “Hit 'Em Out” I5 Slogan of Base- ball as Played Today (By Billy Evans.) The art of base running is fast be- eoming passc. This is the era of swat in bascball. The theft of a base, mak- ing possible a run, is no longer con- sidered a logical “system, for a club to follow if it wants to win a pennant. The chanee jsn’t worth while, is the prevalling opinion, If the runner is thrown out it kills a possible ehance of getting a cluster of tallies, Modern managers work on the theory that to pennants you must get your runs in bunches. The thought is that a ma- third game will be bhetwes runners-up ;tho Ameriean champion, interest injjority of ball games are dcecided by ague, and the match is running unusually high|ene big inning. ) The line-ups and indications are that the Garden . T 1 | § will see another capacity erowd. In-| “The faet that base running is los SPARK PLUGS WILD CATS ! ? J af ot X3 - terest in the contest is still further | uch of its importance was forcibl Kaminicky Delano heightened by the announcement from | hrought to my attention, during my | Villa, that, should he emerge vic-|tour of the major league training torious over Marks tonight, he will beg camps last spring. In not a single ready to come to terms for a cham-{camp did I see any of the players be- pionship match with Frankie Genaro, | ing tutored in making preper use of | who has been Villa's most persistent | {hejr speed. challenger since the Filipino gained & the title, ; N ot luld that McGraw used the Despite the fact that Villa 8 eX-f 1 gng pit tor siiding purposes, and [ pected to enter the ring favorite in [ ¢ S b A0 O rouEh & the betting, Marks is not without his course of sprouls in base running, If Marks has an envia g d, T e i He has engaged In 148 ring batties| MYy arival. The art pfswatling the > = old pill was the all important feature and has yet to suffer a knockout de- in every training camp. This was in feat. Only once has he been forced | 4,0 contrast to a trip 1 made to accept an adverse decision, that|,. ... the training camps about ten o 1‘\"’:;:"“5 at the hands of Abe Gold- | ogy ook, A thdt time 1 found the 3| Lase running featurs heing given it In Villa, however, Marks will bl mnm:‘-mnun big evary man- sthing | confronted by one of the most active SaeT, ' SACh R T deFtaln e WED [1ittie ringman ever to reach the top. | (b aside to 'w":v‘l‘( the players in the While Villa is not reputed to be the |25 ™ s ey i art of getting a good lead, so as to be Bear Cats, the game o feated Williams here ore Sl SISLER AND JIMMY AUSTI READY FOR A HIKE “Only a may who has been in per-| opening of the season, fect condition ®ll his life and then is| his condition when he had to quit, and kept from his work as I have been, | when the arrivekl at thes California will appreciate what I have been through. apparent st summer w from eye trouble, which kept him most distressful period of my life, cumstance en of the gloomiest na- the field last year, is the most por- “1 am to manage the Browns this | ture, doesn't daunt him, He set out tentous pre-season news in the base- | season, although I hacv not signed my | with a «determination that his eyes however, ball world contract yet, Phil De €, Ball, presi- must come right again, and with pro- played and the | 1t ingicates the dent of the club, will be out shortly | fessional guidance and his own splen- | management of the and 1 am to have a talk with him | did physique and rigorous routine he at the opening of the them. has apparently achieved his fondest ind with his energy “Austin, hope. make that team a last year, and Cravath have ckoned with in the wonderful to m With thesq | ship. Jimmy Austin and “Gavvy” Cravath, | guna | The former Salt Take and Philadelphia | lias to [ler himself, of the great figures National league manager, Sisler has| very exeiting here, Artists painting the of the dlamond, wintering in this na- ! bheen palling around at the beach r brilliant colors and inter ng cone tionally known retreat of artists and|sort, some 60 miles below Los An-!tours of a secluded beach, Occasional | posscssor of a knockout wallop, away with the pitch. Any player who winter lair of ball players, gel intrusion of hardy bathers during the | there nevertheless Is plenty of snap| G070 neual speed was carefully Rated in 1922 the foremost player! I am in pe winter. The indelent life of sea fowl{behind his blows and it is his ability| 0L = in the American League, and first 10 and 1 believe the wonderful winter and scuttling crabs, ¥4 tle | to drive these blows with startling have his name inscribed on the Amers | weather here has helped my eyes | huddle of quaint houses, The sole mvu""""““ that makes him so hard to nument to baseball | greatly,” he adde beat of surf on jagged reefs, A piace |beat. Tt was his ' rapid-fire blows orge Bisler didn't| Browns Ne remote form bustie and sharp dis- |2nd bewildering ‘style that enabled game during 1923 because of | “T intend to leave tractions, the little Filipino to lay Jimmy Wilde contracted from fiu, For|the latter part of I° for Mo- Among low in their titular bout last summer v time his fricnds feared he would be blle, where the club will do its spring| Who have cent | Tdke Marks, Villa ha# trained premancntty disabled, His iliness was | training. | years are Sisler and Ken Williams of | faithfully for this bout as he realizes regarded as the greatest baseball | “Reserve® strongth,” he injected | 8t. Louis; Bobby , Detroit third | that in the Calfornlan he will moet [tragedy of the year. But the pillar|thinking of his team, *is the crying |sucker, “Gavvy” vath, former| &% ODBORONL.WhO eannot be takon f the Browns was not disheartened, [need of the Browns,” home-r of the big time, now | 1Ehtly. Although he has not app . »d In 4 New York ring since winni Hopes to Play Aga As a result of illness, s right [ a prosper 1 estater of the vi-| ", < - Sveingon ) > ngaged § [ carly days of his carecr, yes, even not see doubie now,” he ex-|eye would not focus, Standing at the |cinity; Jimmy Austin, who recently|the title, he has cngaged tn & nugber ’ vith his fighting griv x| plate this phenomenal batsman constructed o beautitul ‘vesidence|°f DOULS in various moctiona of “he]after he became a MNP hio spent much 1 get i or turn too]|every ball huried in doubl ',w“_ 1t here: Dol and Ivan Howard of the | €0Untry, and while none of these op l;m- pr\fl‘:-u:u: hinl\wlmk lvl||‘(||r- As0s. g d o 00 | every ed In double ag yere; Del ane an Howard f the o . ’ ose ongaec. | One stunt that Cobb used to ad quickly. I've been getting better|not only confused him, but he risked | Oakland Pacific Coust league clubg | PONCNtS extended him, these ongage- | B8 B o b Aon | ments ne heles Ve o pe tage was having some flelder stand at pight along, and I am confident my | his life time he stepped to bat | Bob and Irish Meusel, Pcte Schnelder ;:;,,'.‘ :.\ ‘v.:.:.;‘:‘rlnln;" entigntth g the base with the ball in his posscs- will be in good sbape for the|against speedy pitchers, Such and “Chicken” Hawkes, - 4 |ONE BY ONE FAVORITES BAGLES ARE GASSED v i it kot e e, they will not weigh above the stipu-|ne Mack, in an cffort to perf his DROP FROM TIGER TEAM i Wojack later 112-pound limit of the flyweight | pitehers in holding the runners close, division, but neither is believed to he | Would p one of his fast men on in danger of losing his forseit. Villa, | !he bases, instruct him to take a big Succumb To Fatal Fumies From Harry | to whom the welght comes natural, x| 10&d and then have the pitcher try to S ) o L ecrtain to be well within the tmit, 1n [ pick him off, Bobbie V Ate Sloper's Basketball Squad At Boys 36 Club, 38-31, Robinson AR JACK SON FI JUNGM ny by wceski minute decide Sylvester finally er it the visitors. Wil work snappy p ually takin The home t shooting Vly penalties \ us Wallin 5 ive the contest, goals by Titus and in favor of Ginsberg ... rros NEA Service Writer eb. § recov Beach, sler's floden ung Calif., Flod A b 'r has extraordinary stam- naturally buoyant. Cir- Swanson-Nelso ms display 1 am f the * orge s the longest and | ina. Yankaska Patsch-Olson il ' : e, | i"urple contin- n-the rink in goal guard second Game RAMBLEL Williams SAN TOYS Torrello he will assume ' . Louis Browns training season, and generalship contender to e 1924 champion- Left forward rou McArthur-Kron forward Recanno . ot Amher Stephenson Purple o scoring when Titus With oniy and for the Browns been | two, | The did the who managed the Johnson Popular With Players pleasant environment of Beach appealed to Sisler other ball players, N yest work Th was third Corrazo-Stan N " ",“,_ ", fams. Two oxtra five tulled to break the d en decided to play Ingraham “ Nelson riod, two minutes Pressprich tied for Wil minute periods adlock, Jt was two and announcement comes from Sis. one mor La UL ct physical condition, stunt art of od to the o of th€ pitehers, It heiped perfect A good move to first base, The manager who failed to take up this feature of play was courting a serious handicap. " i T Y Cobb tells me that during the of tutoring getting a decided Fogelson Incidentally, the the runpers in the d, wlso wor ¢ n e '8 me Larson .. R +» Loom i ¢ ¥ lin We ington, Reserves play a slnus major and minor wintered here in Ken o trouh them Dornart-Vid ohnstons | 8 a draw CLEVELANDERS PLAY 5 BALL WITH BOSTON One Triple Play Hero and Steve 0'Neil Figure in Swap Cornell's wrestler Jo. reol com Cr Springtield MacWilliam veterans, t time for them two Corne Sisler nd Ayan, th won handily, cac The 1 I e Y securin, s W exeite most breaking a pertlous & . oy every rom several was | | left forward [ MeCormack Knapp { right forward Holst e Anderson fact it is known that the champion { cun scale down s low as 110 ponndy and still be strong. Maurks was sald have had o) camp or duringtihe work a trifle harder to make tie|be regretted, becanse buse woeight, but his manager, Charley of the. big thrills of the Cook, stated yesterday that he had - oo no fewr his boxer wouid be over| TEN ORIOLES SIC weight, Cook said Marks scaled Baltimore, Md., 1131 pounds yosterday and that alpunn, rager of night of drying out would bring hm | Orioles, has recejve safely inside the 11Z.pound lmit. | temcts for this season, They Cook further stated that Marks toally | rrom Marey Frank, Tommy Thomas, neountered no dificulty in making | Jack Og den, Joe Vaber, Rube [Parn » wolght and that bo was confident | Lam, Lefty Groves, Joe Boley, ave rks would enter Garden ring f!n ] Abbey, Clifford Jackson and Dick Porter, the best shape ho had ever attained The cighteround scmi final tonight Skates Sharpened 20 ¢ " Hadfield 150 18 expected 1o produce an jnter- | t Around the Cleve Departure of guard feature in a $ of play training senson, It is to ronning is ¥port No longer do thes one take up much time Feb another and the passing Sohuits Bteve O'Nell, the last s ber of the Clevelt Boston Americ Diobby Ve wag the larg: dopadgpctifla Cleveland bas el oo b Speaker came 1o i S and strangely « made betweer trading « maki play ol Lateher tention 1o Loss of Many Stars vight guard baskets, Wojack Dudack 2 | lub I the | 6 the | toul, Swansor 14, Knapp to McCormack itz 2: goals from wek, MeCormack, Andergon the Doys' « ated by In a fast game at the 1 Hwunso Andersen 2, 8 Schuaitz 2, Dud Knapp and ust night Gas-cos def one nber of Dos exit ¢ more | score o nherited from! At the took | €08 jumped never base. | Passing gar +ling in A sens ners led assing of the one city 3830 sturt of the gumi nto the I¢ Displayin | Bagles, league team N CONTRACTS 1eb, Jack the Ralimore ten signed cagu the Gas and were “moc > 1 mings hen he Tygers in 1021 plays no sentiment in by e the old-timers who spang during the til AY there 1 with the Gearge Dauss, Bobly ry Woods nelude or Jon signed with the Bay club inthe Metropolitan) istrict at a faney rigure, alter wih- [ the o title ¢ Washington of th hall {pee years ago is no connect- gradually Rereased their | oq with that club, Barncs hasn't sigs point margin ., goar yot BARNES OU7 Barnes, who head Con- Cobh Jim Pelham ationa ok the first half ng a O at t1 has got rid o wore the Navi Jennings regime, | €lose of the but Wit the tour the Gas-cox 1 and led by a seven at the close of the game Wojack, who accounted for nse - o kets from the floor, was the individ of the game while both Du The 1 McCormack played a tween Cle victory in for ti ity one The e ganss, distinction of sisted triple game, for George man, who puled he game against Cleveland came as no surprise been “in the air” sinc fall. Incidentally figured in the Tris Speaker t time Boston an inflelder, p P t o L kept him on the b . e B Thoma furd Boston is ) the bait failed to mained the st remain star second longer four years Hetlmann, and lar. elub Harry Jones d for nest wame « . A HOCKEY POPULAR champlonship series be- eland and 8t. Paul hoekey the former city played to crowds. Al seats were sold wivance, and the ated o posddble 1,560 at Pete Barmiento, Two six-round ]\rr'—l liminarics will precede the semi sinal. | In the one Jack Sayder will meet Buck Josephs, while the other will bring together Eddie Mack and Jack MANREE: | Rosen. 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