New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 8

8 B$OLLLELLH2885L 0890258555 56858 . * DIXIES ROMP OFF WITH NEW BRITAIN Take Rubber in Inter-City Series, hy 48-34 Score There was nothing to it at the arm- Swturday night, after the tirst minutes of play, but the green jerseyed Dinie Speed Boys and they smply romped away with all New | Britain, i winning the game 43/ Ny this gives the Dix- | Britain series, three to game was their 30th] win of the s n, giving them a good { right to challenge the the | Atlas for state honors. Restelli N New Britain, Lestelli shining light and without would have bheen beat en much worse, Mert iylor was away off form in the first half, but came back bit stronger in the scc- ond, The rest of the team showed up in mediocre s arson, Pelletier and Wojak playing what at times was an amateurish brand of shall. Per- haps they should he cirticized too | severely however, for the Dixics cer- tainly showed wonderful speed, re- markable shoot and a passing game that was rost irresistable So fast were the Dixies on floor work nd in pai that at times New DBritain’s entire team stood dumb- found and completely lost, The game started as though it was going to be a walkover for New Brit- After a few scconds of pl elli tossed in a double decker then added three more points on foul shots, Then Larson came through, with a field goal and the score stood 7 10 0 in favor of New Dritain, Then thing changed. Hoffarth dropped in a double decker and from then on Hartford was never he ed, although the score was tied a couple of times, | At half time the Dixies led 20.18, Although their favorites were de- feated, the crowd at the armory gave the Dixie boys a great hand, and well they deserved it, for seldom has a team been seen in action here that possessed the youthful pep and en- thusiasm, coupled with real ability, that these youngsters exhibited., The score: 3 Inetde ics the New two, and the cli s, For Carlo was the Tim the loe WAVEAND sarasota, Fla., March 24.--Speaking {of the uts and their chances to y | make history of a sort hy winning the National league champlonship for the fourth straight time, John MeGraw, | the master mind, says: “It's all a question With the exception fl the Giants inch of ‘om, “If one of my throngh it will give the team a pen- [nant punch. 16 two of them happen | lto deliver, count us in at the finish.” | Wayland bean, Jate of Louisville of Ithe American Association, aure {bot to stiek, e looks the big leaguer., Owing to the tion of the an early chanee Diries, | Dean has made a great impression LG Lon MeGraw, Jennings and the Giants' The big fellow hag & mul- Mtehing Wl Uble, ot pitching. the twirlin ampions ever « are c} star _pciuits comes is part of a condi- get rather shaky Glants' staff he to start, | regulars, tiple delivery, combining t1 I motions of Alcaander, Mays ¢ Barnes Wins erth Another pitehing hope of the ne Virgil Barnes of Clrelevitle, K W big right hander with a world of staff, | Viregil 1s a brother 1 with the Braves, M Glants a number of yeo MRk C. v L 111U was Jesee who pr Pelletier, v : o | the heavy Laron, ' U veung Virgil, 5 : y 517 Jesse probably did this more to help kid along than anything clse the records show no o Jesse should be cager to do Me- reat Jos but ypportunity to show hia stuil Murphy, T, Torrant, R, Hoffarth, . Waterman, Hafuer, 1. is t Josre, now a8 with the i you rocall mded MeGraw ight, 1o sign o Tasteli, hivud Taylor, T carcbral | the [ #ur | why |Graw a limited {as n Ghant cgse apent the golden youtl Philadelphia Nationals Start OF To- ‘..n" ,,’i“x’,f“,',f i et day On What Will Be a Hectic the P'olo Grounds' Dleachors throwing Week of Playing, ‘l.alls into a bored cateher's mitt, Yes, [come to think of it, he did &et a chanee in the 1921 1 series but |SPRED BOYS SPEED AWAY FRON ALL STAR QUINTET A, Basgethall Guthit favor, we got 1 his Philadeiphia, March 24— Five exhi- hition games with teatss from three leagues face the Philag wphia Nation- als this week at their training camp in Lecsburg, ¥la, and nearby towns, By the end of the week Manager | Fisteher said he expected to arrive at | some conclusion regarding his pitch. | Ing staff. T'leteher has 13 pitchers at | the camp, at least five of whom will be released before the opening of the | season. The Phillies are scheduled to mert the 8t. Louis Cardinals at Leesburgh today. Other contests during the ;) b e e g jown te defeat at the armory Tuesday, Cleveland Americans at |08y night before the sustained assault lakeland: Thursday, Chicago White |of the Hardware City Specd Boys, the Sox at Widter Haven; Saturday, |final count having been 39 to 19 lumbus American association at Although but a preliminary gam 1ando. and &1l the players were elose personal The Philadelphia Americans yester. | friends, this game developed into a day met their first defeat of the train. |teal fast and rough stru 18 e Ing season. The Baltimore Interna. |first half 1 Speed Boys simply tionals defeating them 3 to 2, | specded atway from the rivals ar d the ended with the 19 w0 4 Firpo Wants to Come to ||l A, 00 Sones LU whion U. S. But as a Movie Star | who had fcorca the 1 bl Buenos Aires, Mareh 24.—Luis 1ir- | his team in the first, came thro po, the Argentine heavyweight, who | with three more double deckers recently announced that he would re- | For the winhers, the work of Knapp tire from the ring after his forthcom- out promincs WS yout ing bout with Al Reich, is willing to who falled to xcore a Wiffgl return to the United States to become - & movie actor, Luis has cabled a Los Angeles company asking if the $210,- | when he tossed in cight baske 606 offer made to him while he was|the field, four in ¢ . in the United States to appear on the | played his usual steady ggme. screen still was open. 1f it is, his mes. |two in the first hail and #age sald, he was willing to aceopt it. | second. The summary Otherwise, he declared, he intended tp ANl Stars il for Europe ncst month. ¥irpo @ 1esterday received a cablegram f(rom t - Juan Homs who formerly represented ! Tex Riekard in Buenos Aires, Homs sailed from New York day with “interesting propositions from Rickard” and requesting Firpo | not te enter into engagements un tii Homs arrived in Buenos Aires Firps, hewever, refterated that %as throygh with boxing. 111 Golfers Enlevr;dflin . North and South Tourney |y Pinehurst, N. C., March 24 Yundred and fourteen golfers were en- | tered for the annual united north and south wemen's championship tou " | v . ment. which began here todsy, ‘;2;,.An¢;:-s«t>nnandkfl-h§‘t ot:dm eet Brooklyn Miss Glenna Collett, of the Rhode Ts- | fddie Anderson and BDud Fisher land Country club, defending the title. | Among her opponents are Mrs. Ron- | o ald Barlow of Philadelphia, and Miss | from Hartford are to bowl the Spin Loulse Fordyee of Youngstown, Ohlo. | ¢lla brothers from Brooklyn,on Tu e day night at Casino alleys on Asy- CAPTAINS {1um street, Haftford. This is one of March | the blggest bowling matches ever ar- have on | ranged. It will be home and home VLeouard | series for a purse of $600. Andy and was | Fisher roil in Brookiyn Sunday wight Storrs | March 36th 1 we e MG at Y. 40 to 19 in Jast Game at the Armory went Satur- A, A ‘o Or- stood | point in any of his games ir Uity \eague, showed that he can ts from Jasper getting Tarells Johnston, *f Sikora, ¢, Iz Yankaska# ¢ e ying tur- Tancred Tota Knapp, f& Swanson, rf, . Sheehan, 1§ . rolli, rE = One) Totals . FLECTS THRE Schenectady, N. Y., Three captains of sports elected at Unjon college Staniey captaity chosen 1o e Union five: i captain 1 James «imm present footha lead 11 rubaker NEW BRITAI {next three DIAN tnot until the Yanks had won the first two games and the Giant vegulars had | curled up like 100m paper suits in a steam Kid Brother Gets Chance MeGraw, and pretty much of Somchow or sther whoe is set in his way an autoerat, conldn’t see Jesse, a§ the saying is, Maybe if had tg do it over he'd act differently—and mayle he wouldn't, At any rate, young Vig el is to the chance that was denied his older hrother, the one who trought him to the big gues, MeGraw fells you young Virgll is to sgular from the start this year more, MeGraw flgures him \d of every ofher pitcher on his staff, and that goes for Bentley, Nehf, Iyan, Watson, Dean, all the others, Yonng Virgil is u curve ball piteher, with neat control and an agile bean get Ocschger, They toll me here in camp ghat al mutinous players lust cling exis amolig the yeor v becayse MeGraw wouhin't t the younger Barnes, Metiray used m in 22 games last vear, but always as a finisher or relief man., Barnes didn’t pitch a full game all scaron Baldwin Palls To Impress Two other right handers Master Mind's Baldwin, the iron man from M another juvenile ¢ been ceenpying the atten tion here, Newark, and Maun, from Wichita, K Paldwin, highly touted piteher in the International " lesgue, hos not heen Impressive in his work %o far, MeGraw frankly admits he's much disappointed. as the Lest DAILY HERALD, MO} | | | | i { { | Mann is one of those birds whe are | embariaaeed with riches “He's got stuff than pitcher hin Hank Gowdy to the writer, Monun, however, his control is ver, any lacks neertain, CLANTS PLAY TODAY Clash With Indianapolis Team While confided | Musie hall tonight has | poned due to Spark { and | Newark, N, J s [ With tonsilities and will it M | World Champion Player At Tast Cap- | [ played today, \DAY, MARCH annnnmmflt«flvmv«"vwvmwcnvvnw«n«cvvccwa0"nutvcvvtnwwmmwmvnmwnwnwnwnn"«-rvwvwvnnwnvmtm': CTAN, GIANT RECRUIT, IS SLATED TO BE A REGULAR | [ | EXHIBITION New York New Orlear Galtimore (1.) Phiiladelphia (A.) ... Datterie ckson, and Cobb; Hasty, Waiberg, Perkins, | Beaumont (T.) $ 12 McGraw, | sailey, | Minneapolis (. ) e Batteries Mangum, Lynch and Grabowski, Mayor; Hill, Jacobs, . Louis (A obite ( ceese Batteries—Dar is, ereid, Rego: Acosta, and DPevormer, Lor Boston (A San Aotonio (T.) s.ovvennnn Batterivs— Ehmke, Quinn, ton and Picinich; Blethen, Rodriguez and Warwick. Fulle Marshall, Pittshurgh (N.) San Irancisco (P, ) latter Steimer, May and Schmidt; Schorr, Williams and Yelle. | i CAPABLANCA WINS International | tu Contest In Tournament Under Way, York, March 24.-- Manca, of Cuba, world's chumpion, | won his first victory of the interna tlonal chess masters’ tournament by a | convincing finish in the 51st move of his mateh with Dr, Tartakower yes. terday and pulled the Austrian from the lead which is now held jointly by | Bogoljubow of Latvina and Alckhine of Russiu, The former drew a hye, Alekhine won from Janowski of France fn 40 moves, eti of Czechoslova Yates of LEngland in Lasker, Chic lin, adjourn oczy, Hungary, and York, adjourned after These two games, with another ad- Journed contest between Dr, Lasker and Janowski, will be the only games The seventh round will lay afternoon New ose Capa- in won moves, . Lasker, Ber- moves, Mar New moves, r Legin Tae BOUTS ARE POSTPONED New Haven Card Put Over Until Thursday Night When Russell i Reported T, March 24,=The scheduled by Tony the Nutmeg A, . been post- lub Russell, of being unable 16 op Russell s contined 1o his bed not be able o box for a week or two, Another opponent, the popular| matchmaker stated, will be obtained tor Kid Lewis, of Hartford, and the show will be staged Thursday night. | The rest of the card remains int New Haven, box. ing program Paolillo for at The Brooklsn Dodgers Meet Mile |Steve Smith and Johnny Mason, both wankve's Nine, The Indianap March 24 N with New York K Giants clash today at Plant City, Ala., in the first of six exhibition games final week of their Florida trip north, with the oempantons, o serie during ti training. White Sox as traveling “The {will begin nest Sunday. Brooklyn merts Milwaukee at Pal. metto, fnaugurating a five-game exhi. hitlon series during the week Sl and Mo Berg, with a did not make the trip to the camp of the hrewers, Manager Itobinson aiso remained at with most of his regular pitchers who will face the Braves, Cardinals and Indians in e home jays. ir fifth peli- 1 The Yankees gorged 1) at New Orleans « of the world's playing full games and pproaching their playing form. nice Thompson, Georgia Tech young- ster, made another good impression in the box against the Pelicans. He 1 but one hit in eight innings The Giants rested yes can mral cham- plons are now Bow Iini Congress Leaders All Retain Their Places March 24 <Leaders in the ing Co unchanged today scagions yesterday tonight will nee of Jimmy Emith with the Milwaukes, Wis, Arcades, who are expected to make a strong bid for firet honors in the five mop events Chicago. American css tournas after The big the are fu st raction pe me ine ver ve ap- ROYAL ARCANUM WINS T New Britain Royal bowiers ook two out of three games from the Meriden lodge in the Silver y night, as follows: - Duplin Spurney Luebeck Wilcox lotter Hag Brand i | Harry | wan, suffering with a lame arm, | n infeeted foot, | | feld Arcanum | of Dridgsport, are 1o meet in the | semi-final bout of eight rounds at 127 pounds, The other bouts are: Tony Travers, of New Haven, and Tommy Punn, of 1lolyoke, 131 pounds for six rounds, Silent Moran, ofo New H ven, former state amateur champion, and Babe Slattery, also of New Ila- \en at 1 pounds in four rounds, EY TO BOX New York Battler To Mix It Up With Elkins Tonight in Gotham Pitteficld, March 24.—Pete Hartley | of New York and Charley Elkins of Worcéster will meet in the main bout 10 rounds before the Pittsfield A «, in the new Winter Garden tonight. 1t will be the first appearance in Pittsficld of Elkins, who is substitu- | ting for Charley It of Worcester, The semi-final will bring together Kid | Jershing of North Adams and Young | 1agess of Adams, Jeff Smith of Pitts. will mect a Worrester the preliminary. Indications are a big erowd. boy in | for | | | less during the third quavier. | keenly interested in the practice | self as close of the fi | both teams assumed 24, 1924, $HSIEHHSLHSLLBHLLLLBLLOHSS 5880858855 588558855556H8LLHHHLHHLHLLLHSSLIBLSLLLHLHIMEHLE85880955858 55838 558859585855588%. HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS GIVE GOOD ACCOUNT OF THEMSELVES — DIXIES TAKE INTER-CITY SERIES FROM ALL NEW i BRITAIN —PANTHERS WIN IN BRISTOL -- SPEED BOYS VS. ALL STARS PROVIDE SCRAPPY GAME—OTHER SPORT NOTES PEVIVEPPICGIPIVECITIPPRIEVITICRPIGTITITITIV HIGH SCHOOL LOSE, HOLDS THIRD PERIOD OF FAST GAME core is 25 to 13—Belser Succeeds in Preventing Wonder Team’s Captain From Scoring Single Point. oy i e oo - pUNTHERS TAKE MEASURE OF BRISTOL QUINTET Boys' Club Basketball 'I'(‘l’! mated at 3,000 peopl High school New Jersey, that institution chalked up its 144th | consecutive victor ) to 13, after a ! Defeat hard fought battle with the New Brit- | ain high school tean: of New Britain, | Connecticut. The Red and Gold team | . pulled off a distinet surpMse when | Bell City. they foreed the p during the sirst | e panther five traveled to Bristol halt and due to th spl - !gaturday night and threw a big sur- tense held the “wonder t |prise in that fair city by defeating !their tavorite junior team, the Bristol Boys' club by the score of 46 to 29. "| Dristol broke the ice with a double {decker by Given, followed by another from Penda. Aronson ‘started New Dritain with a twin pointer and the quarter ended with Bristo! leading 9-4. In the sce- Passaic | Passaic, i basketball team of | in the at gympasiui the By Scorg of 16 to 29 in team 1ook the a tremendous ova- | As the New Britam floor they received tion from the lurge crowd who we: sion of the team of whom they had | heard considerable. Coach I3ood the Passale team took a rfew moments to teil the crowd of the record of the Mo lk“)‘-“?l-":al;“ ";:,:]a.:n‘.-"'f"fl.}.llmf::s"‘ he New Dritain boys rolled up a quintet would have to travel at top | 'ar&e score and the half ended 26-14, speed in order to come through with | The second half had the home boys & nin. [trying to stop the visitors' attack, but Tho first quarter started fast with |thelr efforts were useless. Tho game both teams passing and dribbling at (cnded with a field goal by Luke tast clip. Passaic scorcd fivst but Gotowalla played a great game at th the count was yuick! evened | np |Buard position. For Dristol Givens, when the loeal aggregation found the (Starred. “Nate" Avery of this city hoop for a floor basket. The first quar. jreferred. ter closed with the score b-4 in favor| The line-up:-- of Passaic. | Tanthers, With the start of the second yuare ter Passaic showed clearly why they ., Bigse, . are known ns the wonder team and|A. Aronson, started to play at a pace which fai Luke, C. . ly bewildered New Britain, and a1 the [17, Arbuer, Capt. it half they led by a |8 Gotowalla, It score of 14 v With the start of the third quarter 1% the defensive | with New DBritain proving to have the better defense, Throughout the entire third perlod the local boys held 1he Passaic machine without a score from the floor, their only score during period being a foul shot by Rohrbach During this period the erowd was ., kept at a high piteh of excitement as they were being treated to a novel sight in sccing the pride of New Joer- soy being held powerless The tourth period started ciously tor New Britain with and Beiser bringing Britain to SR fonr Satat it itie winners Chicago Teams Have Day when they toseed in floor baskets, At} TN 5 | O Over the Week-End (Contmucd on Foliowing Page) | Chicago, March hopefuls in the Americun and Na- tional leagne pennent chases, were T TN . & Ile yesterday, the one because Sun. Baseabau Sults {day prohibited practicc in Florida, ° end the other beeause bad weather and Supphes \' placed a bLlack mark against the Special Prices to Clubs owner Comiskey the matter of releas ing a few youngsters who have fai IMDFIELD'; 238 Bristol Boys' Club, Tt | Given, 1 16 Pend Rao, €. Montella, 1] 'y, Yale University; scorer, Yahm, New Britain: AU\ hitman, 10 minuie quarters, Neipp 24, = Chicago’s ton Nationals at Winter Haven, and the Cubs facing the Portland, Pacific Const leaguers, at Stockton. Harry Grabiner, ox scerefary, is Both will be in action today, hew. en route north to ‘talk over with 21 MYRTLE ST, ever, the White Sox ainst the llos- “Just Around the Corner” When a Feller Needs a Friend ond quarter the Panthers opened up. | 817 “How many ball players wonld timer, | HHLLHALEELLLLEHSH 8 STV (GOLLEGE PLAYING i PASSAIC SCORELESS DURING VERSUS BIG LEAGUE (Professional and Collegiate Men | Have Diflerent Styles (By Billy Lvans) The protessional athlete isn't | strong for the college stuf This particularly of baschall | Once upon idea college ball player breaking intv the majors and making good was a mat- ter for laughter. The “rah-r uth- |lete however has lived that down, | The professional athlete lives in | world of his own, none moge so than | the big league ball player. He gots an entirely dilfferent slant on the | sport game than the collegiun, and | rather resents the high-brow stuff. i soe o very is of @ a As a result, college reforms offered as an improvement on the big league | style of play scldom get very far, PR Rtecently a famous college track ‘convh expressed the opinion that big !league players and manakers were ! overlooking an “important feature of | offensive strategy. | Tt is the opinion of the track coach in question that hig league pluyers in scoring from third on a caught fly ball and not getting away to a proper start, The suggestion of the coach that the ruaner on third should started from a sprint position by the sonch at that he Instead of turning out of position, in order to watch the course of the hall and the catch, the runner would pay no attention to the batted ball simply wait for the word to go. The reform suggested scemed Lo b based on sound logic, since it is ap parent that tin 5 lost in getting away from third on a caught fly ball . oe e was be [ Tecently the advisability of trying scheme was put to "y Cobb, While ad- in theory, {out. the { greatest of all bull player { mitting that it sounded fin: | he simply remarked: I "willing to adopt the crouch style? “How many do you think would gt down, place one foot against the [ bag, get both hands on the grouatd nd wait for the signal from the coacher 1g go? “I' wager 80 per cent of leaguers would vidicule the “ft ®ounds good in theory, | ting 11 r I8 another thing, would reguire an intensive campuig of education.” the idea. but put 1t big | .. | Theee the sourcetnl Cobb, the over more new fdeas in busehill thao | any player in the history of the game | 1n no sport has precedents a firma | hold than in ehall, | | The moon is the most important o | the secondary planets, © 7 BRI 4 ot L5 I . ’! Trout Fishing Tackle of the Better Kind 1ONIER BROS. A8-12 MAIN ST, opinion of ree Wan who has put N\ a i, Y WrEEs \_ !I