New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1924, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1924. FIGHT PROMOTERS WANT WILLS-FIRPO BOUT IN STAMFORD—WOJAK SHOOTS TEN GOALS FROM FIELD IN GAME WITH MEMORIAL FIVE — HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS IN NEW HAVEN SATURDAY — PANTHERS WIN OVER MANCHESTER BOYS' WILLS-FIRPD BOUT CAUSES MUCH TALK Stamford Mentioned But State Commission May Not Agree lup..\n is likely culty i 1o promo! board Moses K J. Murpl r Dav wns is cer- nt trouble d comin in lohnso luring Aeric 1 that Danfo 108 1 1o kecp up th Failing docte a crusade ob, their in pitching ipulating infit man the that cial pitehing illegally, suspension 10 days went with the the gam ouis ould be the belief that ball him of no use ot them cague umpires were he was doc- Tulsa T H pennant PANTHERS CLAW 10 ff';';,:‘-; VICTORY OVER CENTERS 2. Goes th Huv. his fault a Louis brought i rial int American lea an d 1 that | pitehing § org Phis vurning hitm 1 b t puss muster buck for South Manchesier Aggrezation Wig anothoer Ones was Moriarty Down to Defeat at Local Gym of 66 wEalt to Tune last sum Dar from the Dase. ovie th Danforth doete ns much trouble LOUVISVILLE LOOKS 00D ¢ Racing Enthusiasts Have Reason Purnish - Winner Think City May for the Kentucky Derby WANTS T0 BUY HORSE Morvieh's owner Noy Madd Tut tin Hor « ook otiating for ace n's ramon DENIES BIG TRADE Lowis Browns Deny as Rumor That Prwett or Bayne to Los Angides SPORTING GCOODS; 21 MYRTLY ST st Around the Cormer are good exercise after- >4 M " noons for business men who appreciate exercise and the - thrill of healthy pleasure. You are invited to make use of our splendid equipment. ROGERS RECREATION CO. it is said they | | that Are . . DANFORTH, MYSTERY PITCHER, ACCUSED BY | V"'EY ALL LIKE 10 RIVALS OF DOCTORING THE OLD BASEBALL | e e~ M Alts Oered at Plate Than SOCK THE OLD PILL Anywhere Else no one feature of play is the player as touchy as on his The old base hit has a musi athlete that cau On hasehall batting. cal ring to the him to throw out his chest with pride, | Kyvea the piteher likes to hit ‘em safe. Every fan can recall the smile that comes over the countenance of a weak Iifting pitcher when he conncets for a singly 0° extra hase wallop. The batsman is mighty jealous of his ability. When he fails hie seldom gives the pitcher much credit, he has an alibi t removes the odium of his failure without slipping th- pitcher any praise, with the pitehers re- it has been u usual for some crack batter to strike out without reaucsting the umpire to look at ihe ball. If the pitcher has a » cheating it is iot un- batsman to offer ob- ball any time s and misses. Very often a de- fective ball is responsible for the | sharp Dbreak it takes, but | often the imagination the | creates the situation In lat. ! sorting to tri of batter out on only to | 1 have seen batters strike a fast ball that break an inch, have them insist the ball | foot. The average batte | to strike out, particularly in a pinch oS | Unguestionably more alibis are of- { fered at the old home plate than any other base. Let a good hitter pop up or ground weakly to the infield and, while he raves at his failure to hit, h accepts the situation as a break of the | D or, let the same batte strike out and he immadiately seeks to offer a reason for his failure to hit. Objecting to the ball is always a w out after a missed strike, 17 it game Ho FORMER YALE CAPT, -+ RETURNS T0 GAME Five-Gasco Wins 36-29 former Ya into harness cthall last s right for. Dan baxk captah night ward on wa Dunn, e it back on he apy 1 the Memori by 1) ) Pive 36 to owed that he still o his old time skill when double deckers from Wojal crushed Guse re. th Chuckie us the big noise of the game lterally ran wild on Cabelus, played y it Chuch 1 g in thres and he who tup man g and six from foul The Ga Dudack summary o Memortal 1ive MeCormick Dunn t Forward Wojalk Cabellug ‘enter Ginsbe R. Robinson Left Guard " Ja " t Guard rom fook: ' Dudack M. 2, Wojak 10, Restelli 1, Dunn Kildufr Cabielins Conley 1 from 1 Wo Kitdufr GREB T0 FIGHT McTIGUE Middieweight Champ mes Conle Reste Announces Vire Dave Dunn Plays. With Memorial Iive team that | nowever, Amateur Cue Artists to Kilduft | plonship at Pittsburgh, ctly um- called third strike it is per proper and fitting to question the pire’s eyesight OMTVEDT RECOVERING Hurt at-Olym- | In a certain American league Jast season something like 65 new balls were used to play a game. The pitcher working the game had a rep- utation for cheating, and the umpire in order to climinate any chanee for protest threw out every ball that be- " | came slightly soiled. the p game American Ski Jumper, ples. Will Be Able to Start Home Within a Short T T Mich., injured sports ris, Feb, 12 Ountvedt, nd ch, who was of the Americ ghior Olympie winter during Yor yo common practice among the umpires, Desiring to protect themselves, any ball tly discolorcd or roughen- ed has been thrown out of play, This system also’ offered protection for a | piteher with a reputation for cheat- ing, since the umpire seldom permite ted the use of a ball that offered pos- sibilities for the piteher to restort to trickery. While the sheme worked ont, it a lot of money to do it The nagnates are about convinced that it would be wiser to let the bat- ters offer an alibi for their failure, sinee keeping them from doing so has proved a rather costly experi- ment competition has been transferred from Chamonix American Neuilly. His knee is still in a plaster cast and s mending slowly, but the doctors expect he will he able to sail for home within 10 or 12 days, to the hospital at Meet in Pittsburgh Play New York, I'eb, 12.—~Entries closed today with seven amateur cue stars listed to compete for the national | A 182 balkline bithard cham- heginning next announcement ation of Ama- class RUTH HAS YVINE DOG, Feb, 12.—While Babe is eonditfoning at Mot Springs, A a bull terrier which he bought re Iy will be on exhibition at the ern Dog Show hoere next we home run king has become in dogs and as a start toward Hing a keanel he Wt Clo Dot, a prize terrier from the land kennels of Woodstock, Vi was sired by Champion Coolidg or Blighty and her mother Champion Cloudiand Ser 1 by W. 1B Emmo months old and ippear in the Monday, according to by the National Assoc tewr Hard Players, . Track Meet in Philly to Raise Olympic Finances| Ruth rk., ents Kast- The iterested velop- dland oud Doston, hou Peb, 12 carnival prominent ® part, March Penneyivania Ath- Is wiil be given rmpic’ fund An indoor in which wthictes winl e under Philadeiphia, track and field more than 700 are expected to ta I here Saturduy cos Of the club, The proc 1o United Statos O Grit was er, dog | 8 tic first £how e ring. he | more | ars this has not heen an une MURCHISON EQUALS THE WORLD RECOR RECORD OF 1908 Newark A, C. 16-Year-Old Record in 65 Yard Dash. CRUCIAL GAME FOR HIGH SCHOOL $AT. Will Play Hillhouse Five on New Haven's Gourt Runner Catches Up to i New York, Feb. 12.—Loren "Mur- chison, of the Newark A. C., equaled the world’s record of seven seconds, | | for the 65 yard dash, made by Law- | g son Robertson of the University of | _-After having two weeks of rest, the Pennsylvania in 1908, in a track meet | N. B. H. 8. busketball team will hop into action again when they will play at the Tist Regiment armory last| St the New Havéi Hillhouse high school Abel Wilco A. €., middle; team in the second of the triangular distance won the three-quarter | lcague. The game will be played in i ——— | the Hillhouse gymmnasium at New Haven Saturday afternoon. The first game of the league race | resuited in_fl. victory sfor the Red and 1 Gold quintét. The New Haven team played at the state armory, a strange floor, put up a creditable game, and when the final whistle blew they were {in the rear only by a 30 to 29 &core. The game will be most important since it wil! mesn more to the wine ning team than §any other on the slate. New Haven, with one victory over Hartford aad one defeat from New Britain, will have to win to keep +lin the running. 4 win will put them in a tie for first pace with New Brit- lain. The New Birkain team wants the game becauss it will put one team out of the running and make the championship nearer a certainty. A win Saturday will mean that the {worst New Dritain will get in the ——— | championship is a ti& with Hartford. ydney That team will have \o win both cone . plac- | tests with New Drimin to do this, however., The New Britain teym has always had difficuity in defesing New Ha- quarter mile invitation event, Wwin-|yven on its own court. !n the last de- ning from Andrew Craw, second, | cade the best the New Britain team nd Fred Wachsmuth, Glenco A. C. heould do was to win ldst year's con- stars, by nearly 150 yards. test. The championshly tcam’ of Alec Maack, Knights of St. An-| 1919-1920 went througy the entire thony, won the two-mile handicap season without a defeat, but lost to race, Joscph Wallace, New York A.|New Haven on its own ceurt. placing second, and Fred Yater,| The Elm City team wil, play with New York lml\lralu third, | a slightly changed lineup, They will MICH]GAN STAR HUPES 10 T e e BE i BREAK BROAD JUMP MARK| game as a substitute, He will g guard in place of Wennick. The rest Hubbard, Famous Colored Athlete, in| 70 game will start at 3 veloek, | and dancing will follow, Kiviat, star, LOREN MURCHISON mile race, Jack llers and Leslie, of the New York A. ing second and third, Jole W, Ray, Illinois A. C., almost lapped the field in the one and one- |of the team will lincup as follows | Stevens, centor; MePartland and Ei- Training For Coming ik S R -2 (Billy Shade Loses Bout In Fight With Schoell Buffalo, N. Y., Feb, Although outweighed, 'rankie | welterweight — champion, de- Track Meets . | Ann Arbor, Feb, 12.~De Hart Hub- | bard, Michigan's colored track and field star, hopes to hang up a new | greatly mark in the running broad jump this! loeal |¥ And many there arc who be.| cisively defeated Billy Shade, lght lieve the Cincinnati boy will turn the [ heavyweight champlon of Australa, trick, too. in a six-round bout here last nigit, Last scason, his inital one wth the| Schoell's fasp left jab worricd Shade Wolverines, Hubbard came ‘within an | Whije e rocked the big fellow now inch and a half of equaling the record | and” then with — stif right erosses of 25 feet three inches made by Ned |Schoell won every vound, Schoe! Gourdin of Harvard u few seasons| floored Shade in the first vound, but ago. Tnability to hit the take.off|the latter didn't take a count. Schoell properly is Hubbard’s chiet fault, Ir| Weighed 162% and Shade 170 he can overcome this failing he s Pounds almost cortain 10 Put OVEr A NEW | m—— record for this event. On one occasion HAVE YUUR CAR | Hubbard was credited with leaping | ~=NOW-— some 25 feet 5 1.2 inches, only to h.n: the jump disallowed because he stepped the ing hoard, Don't Wailt till Spring CADILLACS A SPECIALTY Wrecking Service—Day Night Oddly cnough, the three greatest broand jumpers Amer colleges Vor Sale by J. B. Moran Garage been colored boys. Besides Hubbard, A woen there were Gourdin and Sol Butler, In competition Hubbard has beatén both of the other two, Uh\lf)ll"]\ Hubbard looms as Ameriea’s -hest Olymple bet in the broad jump. He should be heard from in a =record- breaking way, too. YALE BASKETBALL New Haven, Feb, 12--Coach Jou Fogarty of the Yale basketball team will 1ty two or three difttrent guard combinations this week in the games neduled with Columbia in New York city tonight and at Cambridge in the match with Harvard Friday {evening. \-~O|IAINI with G, Hawker el Apresement to Battte Workd's Am’t It a Grand and Glonous Feeling? Light Heavyweight Champiow, \ Hart boxer gotia hi i Francis | middieweigh chan that T pion od McTig yweight chan Yor matel ould have 1o ap- would vin th ould hav vight tak JOCKEYS 0 PROTECTS hentucky Torfman Buy Anse tratian skull Caps for Wis Wear in Races i tucks agair ent Ke circuit meagure ain in e in a these caps placed or e wedghed but four i E nt the o ounces . 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