New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 8

e AR it , APRIL 3, 1924, 558858 SHY. OP” MANOLEUM FIGHTS FERGUSON IN MERIDEN TONIGHT—GIANTS MAY RE-ARRANGE THEIR INFIELD—ANDERSON ‘WINS IN BOWLING MATCH — STEVENS WINS MITCHELL CUP AT YALE — BIG GAME SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY NIGHT BASEBALL BRIGHT WITH THE UNUSUAL No Other Game Olfers So Manyi Chances for Freak Plays (By Billy Evans) Bascball features the unusual. No sport offers so many opportuni- | gles for freak happenings. The uneertainty of the sport is what makes for its continued popularity with the fan ar 1 lea through n well nigh impossible. Many comes under my personal ob- servation, while the dope on scores of others is written in to me, requesting my opinion. a lot of things happenings o o & A majority of the freak happenings s reported from the amateurs and the minors, but the majors are not without their unusual stunts. In all probibility Eddic Gharrity, for a number of years Washington catcher, who has quit organized ball, figured in an episode that is without parallel in baseball. Washington w playing at Chicago. There was one runner on and two out when Gharrity came to the bat. The Washington catcher, always a hard hitter, took a heal swing and hit a long fly to left field. The runner, off with the crack of the bat, was midway between third and home when his brain quit work- ing. 1reak plays on the ball ficld are invariably created by “bones.” This one was no exception. s s e . Chicago fans, always fair, lovdly| cheered Gharrity’'s home run when the ball passcd into the left field bleachers. Hearing the applause, tho| o runner decided it must be for the ficlder who had made the cateh, . Uaboring under that delusion, the runner preceding Gharrity turned about and hastencd to his position at short which. he was playing for the Washington club, | Gharrity, the hitter, had been tear- ing ke mad around the bases in an effort to get as many bascs as possible on the hit in case it did not pass into | 5 the bleachers. | It so happened that Gharrity on his way from third to the plate passed | the other runner on his way back to Dis position in he lnfield, The rule covering the play statles that a bascrunner is automatically out the moment hig passes another runner on the base lifes, The umpires in charge held that Gharrity had technically passed the other runaer between third and home, and oven though he had hit the ball ont of playing territory for a home run he was out for so doing . Instead of two runs crossing the plate the slde was retired without af . run and Gharrity received credit for [ only a three-base hit b tr Washington st, but | 10! The ruling caused the elub to make a strenuous prote the umplres in charge refused el is one of Cana games, nival on April 25 schools on the list, than last year and breaks all previous he of the vepresented by the as and Baylor PP Canadian Star Sets Record I. E. ERANCIS 1. E. Francis of Toronto Universit a's most Mkely pros. for the pole vault in the Olympic He recently cleared the bar t 12 feet 2 inches, breaking the rec- rd of the Dominion universitics, ABOUT 500 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ARE ENTERED Ul Records Tor Numbers Broken in Tntries at Penn Relay Carnival, Philadelphia, April 3.—Team en- fes for the Pennsylvania Relay Car- and 26 closed yes- rday with a total of 500 colleges and This is 75 more cords, The college list totals 113 and is most repregentative in the history meet, An international flavor il be given by the presepce of ams from Cambridge University, ngland; Edinburgh University, Scot- nd; University of Havana, Cuba, nd several Canadian institutions, Jivery section of this country is in- nuded in the entry list, Texas being University of Tex; University, California PITE, YALE STAR, BOWS Wostington Velorans EDUIUSE| e o s Over Rookies' Work . A. Lineup in Mere This Season Although they appear here Satur- day night under the name of the Y. | M. H. A, of Hartford, the team that taces New Britain in this final game of the season will be virtually the much touted Atlas A. C. of New Ha- Tampa, Fla., April 3.—Here in the Washington camp the talk is of pitch- ers, as it is in every camp you hit. ven for every man on the outfit, ex- 1t is the talk of great young Dpiteh- | cont (ohen, a forward, is an Atlas jers and you hear it from the mouths | piaver ¢ {of (great old pitchers. First of all there is the famous Jack Chesbro, Clark Griffith, Nick |sammy Pite, brilllant Yale forward |¥ Altrock and Walter Johnson: these|ang jntercollegiate leader in scoring are the veteran gladiators who st |tnis season. Incidentally Sammy is | with you .point to this pitcher and grow warm | with prophetic praise, Chesbro, one of the greatest spit- ball pitchers of all time, now a Wash- ington coach, nods his silver head in the direction of . a well built right- hander warming up’with Ruel, “That's Fred Marberry, who came up from Little -Rock last year,” he | itells you. “That boy will be one of our big winners this year; he has plenty of Steam, a nice curve and is as nervy as a Ford driver,” Marberry Real Prospect You wateh Marberry and recall that he pitched a notable game against tha Yanks last year, ehutting them out with three or four hits, fanning the Babe twice. | Griffith, the old fox of a bygone day, cnthuses as his gaze rests on Dangerous Dan McGrew, a towering bean pole, who is up for his third trial jwith the Senators, McGrew has a sinuous windup and when he uncolls, the ball seems to come from nowhere [to 1 victory over Boston here last land is on the batter before he realizes | night places the western group lead- it ers within one game of the National | All McGrew mneeds,” comments | Amateur Hockey title, Griftith, * is a bit more physical co- | having won three and lost one, needs ordination, a closer union between his lonly tonight's game to clinch the Lody power and his arm movement, {championship, while Boston must win He will master that shortly and then [three straight to gain premier honors, he will be a mighty valuable man.” Boston, after caging one in the|? Altrock, the buffoon of today but [first period held Pittsburgh scoreless |? the master left-hander of 1906, invites | until the western winners tled it up your critical attention to a right- [in the final perlod and then won out hander from Omaha, by name Bryan |in the Jast minute ¢f play. Speece, Altrock likes his amazing - control. An underhand pitcher of the = Mays type, Speeec is deudly accurate, | BERL ACH 1O KEEP BUSY and appears able to put the ball f — wherever he wants it. “Mays didn’t look any better the first time I saw him work,” Nick de- clares, Cost Griffmen $25,000 Speece won 26 and lost 14 in the h down from Coach Joe Fogarty of the Yale quintet for not following his in- | structions. But all comment aside, | Pite is one sweet basketball player and is regarded as the péer of any in the intercollegiate world today. Botwinik, Suisman and Witkin will complete thé Hebs' lineup. The All-Ne¥ Britain Saturday’s battle will be the deciding | ¥ one in the series. I HOCKEY TITLE PLAY Pittsburgh’s Victory Over Boston |, Brings Them Within One Game of || Championship. a o Will Meet Fonr Men This Month in Come-Back Campaign New York, April 3,~Paul Berlen- bach, in his campaign to fight his way into a return match with Jack De- Western league last season and cost |'8ney, Bridgeport middiweight, who the Washington club $25,000, ‘rrcontly knocked Fim out, has been Johnson, the fire ball king, now on |Watched for four Lattles this month, | the threshold of his 18th season, and [ = Berlenbach has Leen signed to box perhaps his last, inslsts he never saw | JacKk Stone, ast Side veteran, in a 50 many good looking pitching pros- |tWelve round hou: ut Buffalo on Mon- pects on the club at one thme, He has [48Y night; Tex McEwan of Philadel- fiattering things to say of Wingfleld, |Phia, Aprile 14; Mike Burke, Green- u eurve ball pitcher from Memphis, | Wich Village ilght-heavywelght at the jand Joyce, a fast ball pitcher from | Rink Eporting club, Brookiyn, on |t New Haven, April 28, and Jaek Lynch, Arizona |f “Griff ought to get a whole staft |!IEht-heavyweight, at out of thix buneh,” he observes, Olrlaplo committe “And he'll need a whole staft if you ing show in Madison Square Garden quit,” is your conelusion. on April 20, COLGATE HONORS CAPTAIN | Award to Wasser- STRIBLING MATCHED Young Soutberner Deluged With |for the services of | Georgian's convineing | Mike MecTigue, world's | weight champion. yesterday when “Pa” Stribling, father- | manager of the Macon high {lad, announced some of the on the practice field and ltpo oy who took a good dremug"‘“s“"”“"“" he has accepted for his son from the offers which poured in since Stribling’s victory. |es and an exhibition engagement and has several other offers under con- sideration. | heavyweight is scheduled [ team h.s;cann.. tonight, and has been signed played the Y: M. H. A, twice this,t0 fight Joe Quinn in a ten-round | season and each has gonc a game, so | 20Ut at Appleton, Wis., on April 11. ollowing this mateh “Stribling plans | been booked for a bout at Norfolk, {Va, on April 25 and another at At- |lanta, Ga., on April 29, | &tribling will be a participant in the | stellar bout at the opening show of | Dreamland Park, Pittsburgh, | Stevens of halfback, has been awarded the Led- vard Mitchell cup for gencral excel- height, speed in getting away kicks backfield in his general avenages. Mitchell, who starred as Yale's drop | mates of 1904, the Cincinnati family which has giv- | is now vice-president of the Maxwell | | Motors company of Detroit, | |is awarded annually, Improvement Is Seen in proof of the steady improvement in the condition of Sisler's vision by the fact that he had a average of .285 in the seven exhi- bition games in which he has par- the American | manhiger has registered olght hits in 's professional box- | 28 trips to the plate in the practice games, Are Enterod change the eriginal ruling that Ghare rity was out, by Occidental Qollege, Oregon by the Oregon Aggics and Florida by the was technically | University of Flori s B A host of athletes will come from eorrect, it is wore than probable if| the Middlo West, New it ever comes up agaln in the Arfor. other Southern and While the ruling colleges in England and EXHIBITION GAMES Nestows Highest man of Baskethall Team Hamilton, N, Y., April l,-—Co!nlelr [today accorded Dick Wasserman of |tries from six schools for the annual Jersey City, captain of the baskethall |team, its highest basketball honors | Housatonic river, May 10, and expoct | [ when it awarded the Scalp and Blade | three more, making the Jargest num- ! Yale interscholastic regatta on Pitchers | That' Is Still Another Problem for Cobb in Quest for Pennant FOR THREE BATTLES Fight Propositions New York, April 3.~The demand Young Stribling has been increased as a result of the victory over| light-heavy- | This was apparent school boxing Stribling has accepted tiwee match- The, southern light- te engage an exhibition match at Hartford, o return to the south, where he has On June 2 Newark's outdoor rena, if present plans are successful, 'he Southern lad's rival in this mateh has not yet been selecte | Pittsburgh, April 3.—Pittsburgh’s 2 ‘St'e\'ens Is Winner of Mitchell Cup at Yale New Haven, April $.—Marvin Allcn Osborne, Kansas, Yale TOP TO BOTTOM: JOHNM COLLINS, DAUSS, PILLE Detroit finished in second place i the American league last scason, The chances of the club to do that well | this year depends entirely upon the showing of the pitchers. Cobb has a strong club In all departments except nd place punter in 1903, by his class- | pitching. Collins, Dauss, Pillette and He is member of | Johnson must all come through him in order to have a chance to beat out the New York Yankees, IVAN PARKE READY [ Pamous Jockey Will Ride Ransmute cnee in punting, including distance, nd handling the ball. He outkicKed 1l the versatile members of the Eli The cup was presented in honor of n Yale several brilllant athletes, lic The cup George Sisler’s Playing St. Louis, Mo., April 3—Conclusive in the Golden Jubilee of the Ken- Manager George tneky Derby Next Manth, is sald to be shown Louisville, Ky, April 3.~ Ivan batting ParRe, whose guccess in bringing his mounts in winners has attracted wide attention, was here today te L&l preparations for the golden duiphic running of the Kentucky Derby next {month, He is to pilot Tlusky or Ran- |smute, derby elegibles from the Harry | Pagne Whitney stable in the classic. Since Janumry 1 Parke has been {1eading all American jockeys, With { 364 mounts since the first of the year he has won 102 yaces, finished second in 37, third in 35 and was unplaced | 146 times, Recently he entered the ranks of | the professions ‘and consequently has | the | 105t the five pounds weight allowance | allowed an npprentiee, ieipated thus far, and by his per- ect fielding average. The Browns' SIX SCHOOLS WILL ROW in Yale's Interscholastic Regatta—Three More Expected New Haven, Conn.,, April 3.-~Yale owing authorities have receiwed en- | condition, while | chiefly on the | g00d and so does Ho | ginia league outfielder, and I into the Heinie Groh n for | KELLY MAY LOSEIN " CONTEST FOR FIRST jTerry May Be McGraw's Choice Tor Initial Sack N New York, April 3.—The possibility that Bill Terry, whose sensational play has been one of the few en- couraging spots so far t spring on |the surface of Giant hopes, may re- place the veteran, George Kelly at | first bdse Jooms in reports from the camp of the National league cham- pions. Terry, who came from Toledo, is characterized by Manager John M. |Graw, as “the sweetest-looking bat- ter I ever saw step up to the plaie” and, coupled with reports that Kelly is off form, observers see prospects of another switch in the club’s inner de- fense, McGraw frankly his admits that {team has not shown up well so far {in the south. HHugh McQuillan, he says, is the only pitcher in first class Frank A'risch and Ross Young also are hittihg far below their usual form. “Our showing this year depends pitehers, he says, “MeQuillan is the best now, but Jack Pentley, the big southpaw, has re- ported weighing 21 pounds less than he did a year ago and should do great. {Ryan has had a sore arm and Nehf is starting slowly. hopes for several youngsters, Maun, the Wichita, Kan., boy, looks very d Baldwin, But T have high who came from Newark.' McGraw's real finds, however, in his belief, are Terry, Wilson, a2 Vir- strom, who may step third base if condition to t-pro infielder, breach it is not in start, WOP MANOLEUM ALL SET " FOR FERGUSON TONIGHT Four High Class Bouts of 32 Rounds ! For Fans in Meriden onight, | rhe casine A, ., with Lionel | (hoe) Delesdernier holding the man- agerlal reins as promoter, makes its debut tonight at the Merlden audi- |torium, offering four bouts, consist- ling of 32 rounds, for the hungry locul fight fans, This is the first boxing card staged here sinee last October when Tracey Ferguson, of Northford and one of the principals tonight, wmet Young Leonard in the main 12- | rounder, Merguson eets Wop | Manoleum tonight in an ftended 12 {rounds as the featu the card. . DEARDORIAN IS OUT New Britain High School Athlete and | Likely Candidate For Track Team Injures Foot. Nechan Deardorian, prominent all- around athicte at the Senior high school is out of athletics for the rest of the school year necording to an an- jean league the umpires would allow E the runs jo score, " Such a ruling would call a common sense interpretation of the rule, which 18 often dangerous for the uu.pire |u‘” make, 1t conld be contended that the run-| Ser who started back 1o third, and in [ a sense did pass or be passed by the | batsman, had a perfeet right to make the distance to the plate that much Jonger, provided the bateman who hit | the ball did net touch the home plat in advance of him. Since there is no chance for on the man who hits the ball over o/ the fence, same entitling him to a home rum, it secmns rather unjust to fet so lightly a techalcality erasc the o homer. - 1t is just such plays, h make baseball the immensel game that it is NCTIGOE'S ARM BADLY HURT IN REGENT FIGHT Champions " 10 L play Light Heayyweight swollen As Result of Monday’s New York, Ay world's light he 18 suffering from and srm as a 1 Monday night Georgia came ke MeTh a pos«ibl cording to Ur examined t to I 3 i round « wae a Ve eould of tniu prior 10 R fought 1 the ha astern States, {ber of prep school erews to take part !Soft Drink Concession nouncement of the athictic authori- aculty Rutger<-Bucknel) Owing to the large number of high {schools entered dn the relays the man- agement has add®l several races to he program. '0Iumbiapa|~|;i : X;ie -A re Not to Play Off Tie New York, April 3.—Columbia and e intercollegiate water polo cham- plonship, hrought ahout last Saturday fhy Columbia’'s sensational victory over the Elis in the playofl of a game pro- sted by Yal This was decided when Columbia aithorities ruled that,. since o season already had been wnduly rolonged, another game would ot for the hest interests of the play- Fach team has won geven 1 lost @nc in the league competi on, which also involved Princeton, ity College of New York and I'enn- Ivania games, FRANKLIN VIELD SELECTED othall Game To e Played There Now, 22 Brunswick, N. J., ut Bucknell fon bt played ot Iphia. The ¥ by E of Pennsyi arrison, graduate 1nd Harry Me April 4. ball game the s which has ¢ Famous Barchand Catcher Of Early Bascballl Dies one of the most as Battories: ars and with both of 1 out of all resem GARAGE and SERVICE STATION all Make s Wrerking Servies NASH Vor Sal J. B. MORAN GARAGE brine Acanrinted with 5137, tMLROH sTRELY Cadillacs A Spociaiy Day and Night CARS e by A G Mawker EXHIBITION GAM Glants 5, White Soa 1. At Augusta, Ga. New York (N) Chicago (A) ..... . T Batterics: Bentle, Barnes Ainsmith, Snyder; Loverett, Lyons |Mates elected him captain for the season just closed, I and Schalk, Crouse. and Yale will not play off their tie for | - Cards 5, Milwaukee 4. | At Palmetto, Fla. 1 St Louwis (N) .. | Milwaukee (AA) . ' Batteries: Sherdell, Haines, 1. Bell, Sothoron and Lavan, Hoelm, | eidergall: Schalk, Keene, Lingrell | d Shinaut. | Red Sox 6, Vort Worth 2. | At Forth Worth, Texag | e h oo Roston (A) . seeas 613 ol | Fort Worth (TL) ...... 20 Batteries: Verguson, Fullerion and | O'Netll; Ryan, Cantrell, Reid and Bischioff. Cleveland 11, Atlanta 6. At Atlanta, Ga, r. h Cleveland (A) seveves 11 18 Atlanta (%) . . wes 6 & Batteries SEmith, Coveleskie and 1. Sowell, Myatt; Francis, Spates and Brock e 1 Detroit 11, Toronto 13 At Greenwoed, 8, ( roh e Toronto (1) . .13 14 Detroit (A) . 14 12 Batteries: Faubner, Thomas, Glas- er and Etanage, Vincent: Johnson, Ludolph and Woodall, Manio: Braves 4, Brooklyn 3. ersburg, Fla. Brookiyn (X) ............ 3 8 0 MeNamara “perber and Vapee, Henry nd DeBerry - Brown New Orleans 2. At New Orleans, La s (A) New Orleans (£A) Batteries Shocker, Prulit and Severeid Calders, Bent and | King 3 London, April S.—About $920.000,. | 400 was paid to shipping companies by dmiralty, war office and ministry | Augnst 1714 to) Marech. in respect of total losses | 204 insurance of vessels, owing 15 -,r' risk. Thess figures were ghien out re- cent by the board of trade. |trophy to him. in the annals of Colgate athlctics, | was not a first-string player until the o, |Chpsing two games of 1 |schedute, but in the final contest with | 3 'Syracuse at Eyracuse hie played such | - thall that his team- | Y bspsagprelhe s e [ New York and the Lynn (Mase.) Eng- lish high scheol. {in ceitral Java, is believed to . vequired more labor to build than the |is confident Uhat the crews ean be | lost year, The sam® stands rented in pyramids. Wasse:man's carcer has heon uitbqug |1 He | last I Fioro Budar, an old Buddhist shrine |t have |t [ Walllngford, which has won the re. ear's | Galla for the last thre y | pat Academy of Overbrook, Rehaol, #chool, De Witt Clinton high school of |two small stands at the Battery land- R 1he SVEIR, & WiS Rseet 90 | Rent Costs $30,000 tics at the school. Tie fractured o The echoois entered are Choate of New York, April 3.—~Thirly thous- |POne in his toot during a track prac years; Episco. |and dollars a year for the privilege of | Uee 1ast yeck, but it was hoped untii ; Kent |dlspensing frult, candy, Soft drinks | Yesterday that he would recover suf- la " OO s ity | fielently enough to take part in the igh |and tobaceo will be paid the eity for ? st s {track weeots seheduled for this year, Verieles | In losing *Ne Couch Depot will Nenakis: of Brooklgn, the successful | 1088 one of his I t workers, Pomfret school and Exeter are ex- | bidder at the anction of the conces- | 100K part in distance runs, an «coted 10 be reproscnted. May 10 §s | slons yesterday, took a three year [noted for his persistency while ron e date scheduled for the race be- |lease at an annval rental of § 0 | ning He played well at guard on the ween Pomfiret and Yseter, and Yale labove the sum reccived by the city 'f/lll and basketball teams this yéar, Me played guard on the foot - ball team for two years, New Rochelle (N, ing on the harhorsfront. rought here on that day. | 1920 for $100 2 monih, There’s No -1 To THESE CHEA MUSICAL SHOWS, PREFER THE SYMPHONY | ALWAYS CONCERTS, HAVE A SEASON ARE You FAMILIAR 3 ( WiTH Ti4E oLD mansters BY A CHAanNcE 7 at Least One in Every O!hce NEVER Go * BRIGGS No = ' NEVER SAaw pbown'T U JusT "TURN To THE RIGHT 0P ADOAH NIETZCHE SucH THEATRICAL TRASH: AND STRINDBEMG I WENT To,A MOST . ~ EXCELLENT PERFORAMANCT e o of PELLEAS ET MELESANDE /\"(’A,m_ L Lme LANST EVENING { Goob JAZZ P TRASHY Y Mucwk TieweT 4 P SAY = You STUCW-uP, Four- FLUSHING LITTLE HUSSY, You'ReE JUST AS Low BRrow A& ANY OF USs = |'LL BET You Go To BURLESQUE SHOWS AND READ WoveLS BY BERTHA CLAY- AND You've PROBLY GoT “ANARD oF PANSIES” ON 1 Don'T Wnow WHAT You MEAN BY “HARRIGAW AND MART s | BNLY UNDERSTANMD THE ot nrearraTive DAnNCIVG