New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 9

] t ] ] 1 ] Speaking of Sports LLALATE LI The 1924 All-American football eleven pleked by Walter Camp— dean of gridiron authorities—is not- able chietly for the selection of no more than one star from any eleven in the country and his place on the first team any represen- tative of the “Big Three'—Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The east's famous triumvirate, an- clent strongholds of the game, is ig- nored on the first team for the firet time In the thirty-five years Camp's selections have been made and re- garded annually as the barometsr by which all other mythical combiwa- tions are judged. It marks, too, a climax in the widespread develop- ment of playing standards since 1889 and 1890, when Camp picked his first twp All-American teams entire- ly from the squads of the “Big Three,” then dominant in the game but now forced to yield their anclent | supremacy to other and ever-incréas. | ing rivals. LN A 2 pd st | Another surprising thing to some eastern fans is the failure'of Dooley of Dartmouth to be placed, Now that Camp's all important | All-American has been anneunced, grid fans may sit back and argue or | gloat, as the casc may be, until| somothing ¢lse of major importance | in the sports firmament takes their | attention. Tonight it is safe to say that the" All-American will be forgotten when the Industrial league and its backers t busy at the Y, Two good games are booked. Local skee-ball players will be pleased to learn that A, G. Kamm one of Connecticut's leading skee- | ball exponents and promoters will take over the management of the local alleys at the I\(nu alleys Tues- day, Dec. 30th. Meaning to be complimentary, M. Firpo tells Parisians Dempsey {8 a terrible fighter. Meaning to Lo truthtul we tell the world the same | of Mr. Firpo, Ban Johnson has be« yapping Judge Landie. Johnson doesn’t give him anyway, n told to quit | We suspect a rap about S begins has evidently subject. “And in th a turf writer, who chosen Epinard as his These extended which grect up annually on the sport pages | are indispensable volumes of en- lightenment and erudition. But for !y them how would we ever know that Willie Hoppe is the champlon bil- | liardist, Babe Ruth the sultan of swat, Helen Wills the queen of ten- nis and Bobhy Jones the stylist of golf? A critic writes that Abe Goldstein | lost the title because he {8 afraid of his shadow. In other words Abe cted his shadow boxing. Tt has been sald that three Scotchi- men reaching for the dinner cheek inspired the first slow motion pic- ture, neg A cBllege weight thrower has | heen signed by the Boston Braves, | 1t would be more a novelty if they would sign a ball player. | The New York boxing commission has ordered Gene Tunney to step out and do some fighting. There s something ironical about this when vou consider the fighting Tunney wont through in France, The basehall magnates have de- cided to do nothing about the O'Con- nell-Dolan scandal. Doing nothing is one of the hest things a baseball magnate_cver does, The papers are printing pictuges of Mp. Cannonball Martin, the new hampion, kissing his mother. Tt t be long before you see pictures im klssing the canvas, ter Stuart Nuthall of Lendon prominent in Engilsh tennis circles for years and for a time honorary gecretary of the Chiswick Park club, dled recently after an operation for tennis elbow.” Iis daughter, Bet- v, {8 the present girl champion of Great Britaln as the result of her father's instructior: Robert Zuppke, Tilinois coach, 1d one on Gil Dobie, Cornell's football mentor, at the Coaches’ dinner ‘in New ok that is worthy of mentien. | After the Cornell-Pennsylvania | game in Philadelphia 'rmnk-ghlnn Day. Zuppke met Dobie in a hotel lobby and with words of consolation, | | endcavored to soften the string of | the Pennsylvania vietory by soothing | wrds to the Cornell coach. | “Can’t understand it Gi.” said Zup, “your backfield is the fastest thing I have ever seen, It starts quick | and gets to the line of scrimmage | without any loes of time s,” replied Dobie, ust the trouble. They tacklers too fast “but that's get to the Although Rutgers is not on the Syracuse University football sched- | ule, “Chick” Meehan, Orange coach, | considers the New Brunswick, N. J., | team the greatest menace of the Orange eleven. | In 1923 “Pete” MacRae, Orange | captain, was kept oft Walter Camp's | All-American team by Homer Hazel, | a halfback, who was placed at end | by Camp. This year John McBride, | the great kicking halfback, was kept | ¥ off the All-American team by the same Homer Hazel, who was placed at fullback by Camp. | Major Johmn L. Griffith, "'(h“ commissioner of the Western Con- | ference, advanced a theory at the Football Coaches’ dinner which | caused some of the mentors to think deeply. He sggested the appoint- ment of a committee to rule out coachcs whe violate coaching ethies and indulge In tactics of unsports-| nilke character in their mad de- | sire to win games. tailure to ! | side, | cligibje for another | Enrope. 'rle” January 3, | Cincinnati; M Harold (Med) Grange, mighty halfback of Illinols, 18 well en the road to establishment of a pecord for appearance on Walter Camp's All-American teams. He has beén placed here for two years and has @ | #nother season at college, John B. Trescott, and Overland, Mor., sslcaman, fllod sult yesterday against the 8t, Louls American league baseball club for 10,000 for Injurles recelved when a foul ball struck him in the right eye during a game with Boston, July 26, last. Trescott sald he was seated in the grandstand and tried to’ dodge. In- Jurles to his eye and nose nocessitat- eJ large expenditures for doctor and hospital billa, Jimmy Cooney, St. Louls Cardi- nals' shortstop, set a new flelding J record last season with a percentage | of 069, | Joe | Tinker held the old mark, fielding .968 for Cincinnati in 1913, Coonsy handled cleanly 864 of his 582 chanees in 99 games, making 243 put outs and 822 asslsts. He par- ticipatad In 68 double plays. Discussing the wpeed on the bases of Hans Lobert,"Dave Bancroft, man- ager of the Boston Braves, at the Chicago baseball meeting, told how | Lobert on a barnstorming trip once taced a mustang around the bases, the pony being ridden on the out- Lobert, by making the turns faster, led when rounding third base, but the pony caught up, and, at the home plate, the judge of the rdce called “The pony wins by a nose." “How can that be, judge, look at mine,” Lobert demanded, pointing to that prominent feature for which he also was noted. Elbert Bloodgood, University of Nebraska quarterback, declarcd in- season’s play, will take up professional baseball uoxt spring. Bloodgood said he had | recelved offers from the New York Nationals, 8t. attle Pacific C clubs in the Western league. He is an outfielder and has played two years on the university team. “touring germ" has spre: aomng track and field ath- in outgrowth of the Olympic gumes. BEmerson Norton, |Georgetown and Kansas star is about {to complets a world tour on his way 'to New York from the Orfent, where he appeared with Jackson Scholt Olympic 200-meter champlon, in ex- hibitio (oing back over the trail this palr has left, Loren Murchison and Charley Paddock, sprint aces, ve soon for the Far East, from ence they will go to Africa and Paav Nurmi hase invaded this country in an attempt to add indoor laurels to his Olympic glor: | A fellow Finn, Jonni Myrra who won the @lympic javelin throw, also in the United States, Now comes word that Harold Abrahams and Erle Lid- dell, British flidra, may appecar at the Pennsylvania relay carnival, Lopis Amerlcans, Be- The Tiger IPlowers, negro conqueror of the former middjewelght champion, Johnny Wtlson, will have another test on New Year's aftsrnoon in Brooklyn when he meets Joe Loh- n of Toledo in a ten-round con- test. Boxing followers regard tha negro's draw with Frankie Schoell of | Buffalo T'riday night in a six-round bout as rather an \owing for a man who looms as a contender for the title, GASCO IS WINNER Defeats P. Industrial League By Score of 28 | to 23 at Boys’ Club, % Corbin Boys' club last night when they played the Gasco five. Dudak and Jasper were the scoring kings with five ficld goais each {Thé summary: (s, ak, rf McCormic W, Wojak, If F. Woak, c ... Restelli, re, ¢ .. 1. Sheehan, e . chan, Ig Jasper, Schultz, And | Hallin, Holst, ¢ Paris, r& | Wilson, 1g .. 11 ENTRIES CLOSE JAN. 8 | Those Wishing to Enter Horses For 1927 Futurities Stakes Wil Have to Act Shortly. New York, Dec the futurity stakes of 1927, 80.—Entries for ceed the 1520 recorded a year ago in |the classic which 13 estimated as be- | | ing worth more than $100,000, ac- |cording to Becretary Schaumburg of the Westcheater Racing assoclation, The race dates back to 1588 when it was won by Prector Knott in a Pruising finish with Sheepehead Bay. Among the new bresders sentad by one or A. Morrie Herkness, Fa! De Saint Phaile, New York; Hamilten Farm, Gladstone, New Jer. #ey; Marshall Field, New York; W, Hupp, Lesington, Ky; Mr. and Mrs, Baylor O. Hickman, Louisville, Ky; Mrs. Henry T. Halladay, Jr, Vir. ginla: Frederick M. Alger, Detroit; Goodstone Stable, Hartfor George H. Burwel, A. C. Bostwick, New York; Dr. A. C. Randolph emont, Va.: Horace N. Davis, Lexington, Ky.; Col. Dor- sey Cullen of Virginia; L. O. Rosen- berg, York: Richard Whitney, New York., Thomas I Baroons, Kansas Southo LI Bdmonton, Al more entries are: Philadelphia; City and T berta. st league team, and | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1924. Pennant Plays By COACH ED STEWART Texas, Southwestern Champions Dat off fo Guard 4 who either dribbles stralght tp floor for shot or passes to I"orward 2, who domes out of the corner fast and returns ball to Guard 4 for a shot or pass to ¥orward 1, who first broke into cor- ner and then along end line into basket, Guard 5 becomes basket guard. Center 3 breaks out to left and up center for a follow.up shot. This play good when behind and taking chances by batting to guard and leaving forwards 1 and 2 up feld. DY T0 APPEAL HIS CONVICTON Jury, Compromising, Finds Him Guilty of Manslaughier Los Angeles, Calif,, Dec. 39.—Kid ;McCoy, former star of the prize ring was found guilty of mansaugh- ter, which carried g penalty of from one to ten years in prison, by a Jjury of nine womeén and three men which reported yesterday after 79 houts ot consideration of the case in which he was charged with the murder of Mrs, Theresa Mors, “It was the best we could do,"” sald the jury foreman. “It was a compromise.” Tears came to McCoy's eyes when he heard the verdict. “I don't believe it was just,” he said. “If Tam not gullty as charged, {1 am not gullty at all.” Defenee attorneys. |view, announced notice of appeal would be filed next I'riday, when | McCoy will be santenced. Mrs. Mors was shot to death in tkh former | unimpressive and F. Corbin Team of | Five lost | Salvator at | repre- {apartment she shared with McCoy August 12, last. The former priz ring dandy maintaincd Mrs. Mors | kilied herself despita his efforts to prevent her. Shortly after M, Mors' death Me- \Coy appearcd at the Mors' antiqua shop, robbed four men and shot and wounded Mr, and Mra. Sam Schapp land Witliam G. It In explaining {that action McCoy asserted his | “lights went out” after Mre, Mors |died, and that he had nothing fur- [ther to liwe for. The state main- "tained Me'oy was motivated by a | deeire to Kill all who had sought to {bring about a reconciliation betwean | Mra. Mors and her divorced husband, | Albert Mors. | Tor the anttque shop afisir McCoy |next Monday will go to trial on four counts of pobhery and three of :s- lsault with a deadly weapona 'with ine tent to kill. The fury In the Mors afirder trial teok 21 ballots, their first repart to the court being a 6-6 divisian, Pe- fore it retired Sunday nigit 10-2 wag the standing. MYSTERIOUSLY DEAD Midle Aged Couple Found Among Apart- Thelr Christmas Gifts in ment in Hollywood. lollywood, Callt, Decc. 30.—The |1y, sald to have been well-to-do for- mer residents of New York, were found in their bungalow court apart- | ment here last night Iying in the | midst of Christmas decorations and !the presents, the cause of their deaths a myst | They apparently had been dead Isince Christmas night, when they last were seen by Theodore Covel, who told police he was a nephew of Helly, and that his uncle's only other relatives were two nieces in 'New York Covel scouted the theory that Hol ly and his wife had ended their llves with potson. Though a cursory axamination indicated they might |have died of poison. Police sald gas could not have kifled them, since n fire was burning in the gas grate | when the bodies were found, and the ventilation scemed satisfactory. Investigators differed in their theories as to how the middle-adged pair dled, but agreed that until an autopsy could be performed the af- falr would remain a mystery. 2 Tree Fnlls on Man Who Cut It Down Conn Dee. 86.—~Wil- was killed by the tree 1 felled yesterday after- |neon. He was on the Canterbury turnpike sécuring lumber and cu ting trees. The one he was at work on fell quicker than he had antici- pated and he falled to get out of its | Norwich, lfam Nolan which h which | are expected to ex- | \SALESMAN $AM in Basketball sharing his} bodies of Mr, and Mrs. Milton Hol- |; way. His skull was crushed. Mr. Nolan, son of Jolhn D. lived at 95 Merchant's Taftville, and leaves a wife one child. On the Alleys ROGERS ALLEYS Nolan, avenus, and SPECIAL MATCIL Dristol Five, Rortha D 2 ' Johnson . 7 i3 H. Landry ... Bee 201 Klah 7 Landry [ Bamhan's Stars, e 101 8 119 105 Rertini .. H. Rel 5 1 Johnson Foremen. Matopnt s0ut e 6L OBrien . 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Both teams uncovered fine pass- Ing and worked the ball up under the basket, from where the shots were made, so that there was litt of taking chances from mid. court. § locals presented a changed up, Captain Mike “Stockingles Luko returned to his position at ¢ ter, which he held down last y Kerelejza was sent in at forward in lis place, and Nibby Nyborg moved up from guard to take care of th other forward poeition, Gotowala stepping in in his place, The new arrangement went well a8 far as passivg, guarding, and { shooting from the floor, but a changs ot positions could not improve the | locals’ foul shooting, which was even poorer than it has been in the past couple of games The club shoote failed to taily a single point from tha free-throw mark, despite many at- tempts. Luke starred, with elght from the n sor, while his opponen 1l Left Guard Kerr, led Ma S scoring. The first hal? found the club leading by one point, 10 to o, but in the gecond they rapidly ir ieserveg in the Boys' Club. Kerelogea, rt Nyborg, It ... Luke, ¢ (capt.) 14 Crescent Reseryes House, rf Metlon, If b \| den, ¢ dy Nefer The p Nate Avery, liminary game fu thrills of the night, Boys' club Reserves being downed the Liberty A. C. of South Man chester, 23 to 20, after holding the lead until well into the third perfod. is game was chock full of what big game ked: long shots, throws over the head, and f £, but the Reserves were lite le better than their felldws on the team when it came to free throws. This fault cost the Reserves the game. Bigge missed pairs of tries again and again, but was the only local player to put one ing the ning. The Liberties wire lost at t lie Reserves piling up seven nd continuing to lead du half, mainly owing hots by Za and a pair of beautiful lengthy throws by Lipman and Parparian. In the third quar- ter, however, the visitors found themsecjves and rked all man- ner of fine playing, which complete- ly dazzled the locals. Burke heaved one in from far out on floor for a tle score, then Guskell cut in under basket and tossed one Tls head for the first time. Burke came right back' with another from the a - reaches, and the T t aut this down by one point. Zapatka, Arc Lipman played well for the lo- |eals, while Gaskell and. B feu- tured for the hoys from South Man- chester. The score Liberty the big whole eve start points over rves more sngon A. C Gaskell ¢ | Burke. Gleason, Ig Club Resemes Goals 4 Boys Tarparia Walthe Lipman, orowd ancing afte HERALD CLASSITIED and Sumatra. McCaftrey, | /H NI W | WHADVA TH' JUNKVILLE EXPRESS*HONWK £'D VA GET TH \CE WACIN ? ? FEED IT ? TOOT-TOOT-HERE COMES Deleats Crescent Reserves, But! the Crescent Reserves of South Man. | The game was| who dled here yesterday, a long illness, will be held at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the ty of the Ipstitution is 80 [San Diego Elks' hall. Grand Exe IM\ givls are on parole It s |ulted Ruler John G, Price who I8 10 ace ! ( |coming from Columbus, Ohlo, with taff, will deliver the eulogy, ives will be held Weds sduy afternoon. 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