New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 8

o R . STANDINGS IN DUSTY LOOP WILL BE CHANGED SOON Tuesday Night Bring Together Fafnir and Cabinet Lock Teams, Neither Defeated as Yet —Rule Shop and R, & E. Also Meet. Games Penn’s Captain morrow league encount bring t Level co and Erw 15 betw pany f two-tim Ths I'af should pre ot the 1 Kkeyed to BILL Pennsylvania, championships KNEASS winner in eastern of ith the bal no losses. the same ( contests and 1 under the direction of Cap | Kncass. The 1y promising and Peun to dethrone Cornall, present holder, ust doubt game intact, razza as fc center and doing the The Fafnir outfit will he but will have Weir of th Guard outfit in the | Taloin and Ne wards, 1. Aaro ter and the Paulson ar I Walther and Car- iminicky at - CROWLEY BREAKS National son will 1 " Stukldreher May Coach San Frauclseo, Jan. 5.~Jim C ley, one of the “Four Horsemen” o the famous Notre Dame foothal row: COLLEGE SCORER DAME MANAGER OBJECTS MUCH ACTION TOMORROW NIGHT many circles, hopes (o do a comeback this material is hopes title UNDER HARD PLAY Notre Dame Star Collapses~ 0. of P. Captain Defeats Yale Team by Play By The Asc New York ‘tain of Iniversity of I N vania basketball team, leads the seorers of the Fastern Intercollesiate league, in which only one been played, with 10 paints, egainst Yale at Philade day night. ¥ Yale Yost 2@ to 17, ke ated Press, Jan. n ontest has scored Kneas: obhtai and two s missed however. scored two floo ehots, miasing t = |been no net three times ¢ missed once from Suisman, Yert shots, was 80 c Goldk one poin Three 1r Yale fai Simmen one ot man tha to'roll up Pe t New York at Hanov ACCEPT RLSIGNATION use, Yy ldan Athletic all co resignati tee and cided to a team, was in the St. Franeis hospital (here today recovering from a nerv- collapse which he suffered on the train bringin jsquad from Pasadena, Cali {the Indiana men defeated Stanford, 27 to 10, New Year's da | Crowley got through tho game | lapparently in good shape. He was | jtaken from the train to the hospital, | where it was said today that his ndition, though improved, prob- ly would not permit him to ha\ci South Bend with the team to- morrow. His breakdown was a tributed to overstrain. | Harry tuhldreher another of the | “horsemen,” and Walter Camp's | All-American qnarterk arrived with his st, | to accomp: tour of enter for today. A bone in hi | T birs 1 early in the game, | but spartan-like, he played until the figal gun, Asked about the report that e had been invited to coach for New York university Stubldreher ad-| mi on the th where | | for but was squad on the but had | biect, said thers 1 gotiations yet, He in |dicated that he would not be ad. verse to coaching after his gradua- tion in the spring. | ERsE | Preliminary Game At Armory Gives New Britain Boys Victory Over Hartford Evening School, he Reserves ford Even feat. This 1 Hartford 17 to 15 f game started w Britain, G tting b antly for floor At pt near but the Reserves wer 1 from start to finis) Fvening High | | Oy 2 )| | FUBR LACKS CONFIDENCE | | southpaw “Lefy” Fuhr, a sensa-| " the minors, always fails to| grade when given a chance | Players say he has ks confidence in ng him to up Despite this, o7is 1o get another tryeut with the Boson Red Sox his spring. H |sidestep, dodze i got. RESERVES WIN GAME NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY, 5, 1025, NATS WIN CLOSE ONE FROM LYRIGS Hartford Team Gives Locals Hot Game at Armory Agaln the Natlonal Guapds have come through with a whiriwind vie. |tory and again |t was “Red” Rey, |1olds whe was the man ef the hour; !for in the defeat of the Hartford Lyrics at the Armory Saturday night |1t was the flashy “Red” who gave |New Britain a thrce point lead |When ¢ had made the score 38 to 59 In the locals' favor, I'oul shots by Weir and Taylor added two |points, making the closing score 45 to 40, | The Lyrics gave the Nats the |closest contest of any team that has |played here this year and until the very final whistls it was anybody's game and while New Britain led at [almost every instant, neverthgless {their advantage sometimes was but (a single point and thelr rivals ever |were threatening. Al of the locals iplayed a fine game and the shooting |of the two forwards and center was | notiee: vy good. Kilduff guarded the husky Gordon in fine style and when relieved by Weir, the latter stuck to his man llke the paper on {the wall and broke up play after play which, if ecompleted, would ave glven the dangerous IMarvard wan a chance to score, Sammy Pite, Yule star, also played a fine game for the visitors, The loe won the game in the first half when they piled up a com. manding lead in the first few min- utes. At half time the score was 32 to 23 in faver of the Nats. The game opencd with an upusually fast dis. {vlay of basketball. On the tap-off, |Lioynolds got the ball but misscd try for goal. From scrimmage “Red” ed another but on his third try, after less than a minute of play, he dropped it in for the first tally. A minute later Restelll dropped in a double dpcker from scrimmage and Reynolds again followed suit. Then Taylor uncorked one of his long |shots, swishing the net from mid- floor, |but Gordon was fouled here made good on both free tries. play was presumed Gordon away and hooped in another. _|fore the half was ended 1 |ebowed himselt to be one of the ) |most accomplished and dangerous basketball players to visit here in a long time: Time and again hie would and squirm about and generally he was good for a basket, Tefore the halftime whiss tle blew he had tossed in foun from the floor and one each had been registered hy Pite, Baron and Cohen, with two for Jimmy Malcoim. In the meantime, Reynolds had swished in four, Taylor five, Restelli four and Sheehan one. On resumption of play Weir placed Kilduft at guard, *Tedde a called personals by time and the wisdom of removin, kim was show later when Weir injured and forced ont of the g permitting Kilduff to return for { 1cial cl five minutes. cond ha 1 and When broke Gordon belng more ciosely guarded, On the other hand, for about ten minutes tha Nats seemed to lose themselves Lyrics ran wild, Gordon for two field goals and sammy Pite hegan to show his stuff. Once, twice and then three more for ed that he had been approached |a total of 10 points from the field |tion of four horscinen Pite rang the hell. Baron ton, camc through for another firld goal. Pite's final ecore made the tally 3%-39, with the Nats but epe point ahead. Here the play becams very fast and New Dritain recovered its old time form. TNreaking up the offense, Tavior got the ball, it to Reynolds whe nefted it On the tap-eff both Gordon and Weir raced hard far tha ball and visiting neatly, in the ard man crasked the 1t lighter Weir to undeubtedly was wun- roughness Page.) | The score was then § and 0, but not mmlici- | 4 NELTER HANP THO WHOLESTES But -Feels Sure He Can Deleat MoTigne Wednesday New York, Jam 5.-=Mickey Walke er, of Ellzabeth, N, J,, world's wel. terweight champion, and Mike Mey Tigue, of Ireland wgrld’s light heavywelght champion Will furnish the excitement in the main event of the coming week's pusilistic pro« gram when they meet In a Newark, N. J, ring op Wednesday in a 12 round no-degision match, This mateh will be ynique in box- ing history as it is the first time that a champlon has stepped up two classes to meet another champlon. Although Walker will enter the ring lighter thap McTigue there wili not he any great difference in their welght, 160 mark while McTigue will likely welgh between 160 and 165, Boxing history reveals that Stans ley Ketchel, when he was the teeror of the world’s middleweights, fought Jack Johnson, when the Negro was world's heavyweight champlon, and welterweight several hei Joe Choynski. Two Other Bouts Several other good matches are programmed for the coming week, Johnny lLeonard, of Allentown, Pa., will meet Frankie Ritchie, of New York here on Monday night. In Prooklyn en Monday night three ten rounders will head a program of matches invelving Joey Silvers of {New York, and Cuddy DeMareo, of Pittshurgh, and George Lavigne, of champion, velghts, fought among them burgh. | Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, of I Brooklyn, who recently ascended to the world's bantamweight threne by |outpointing Abe Goldstein, former |ehampion, will risk his title in a six fround match in Brooklyn Wednes- |day night when he meels Augie | Pisane, a local bantam. Lightweights will mect at Madi. son Bquare Garden Iriday night | when Tommy O'Brien, of Milwaukee, faces Jack Dernstein, of Yonkers, {N. Y., former world's junior light. weight champion, in a ten round mateh, The amatenrs will tuke at popular attention this the New York State amateyr hoxing |ohampionships at Madison Squars Garden on Wednesday and Thursday nights. OBJECTS 0 NANE | Manager of Notre Dame Team Docs a swing week in Not Like to Have Backfield Calleq “Four Horsemen.” San I'rancisco, Jan. §.—The prac. tice of defining the hackfield of the otre Dame football team as “The four Horsemen,” today drew con. | tion from Leo Sutliffe, man- In a statement to a newspaper said: i “If you wént to do something for us and for Notre Dame that we ate more than anything forget about this in- ‘Four Horsemen' business. > all gick and tired of |it. { Notre Dame is a team, not a collecs and seven Wo i f muless | Four Horsemen Will Be On Basketball Outfit | | Dubuque, Ia. Jan. 5. — A Notre | Dame basketball team composed of | Harry Stuhdreher, Elmer den, |Don Mijler and Jim Crowley, the famous “Four Horsemen” of the fast playing the husky Marv- [Notre Dame football team and Cap- | . Gotewala, r tain Adam Walsh, will play the Co- lumbia Collega quintet here Febru- 7in a game dedicating the jocal $ 000 gymnastum. Tt tentatively announced yesterday. ool's That Last Five Minutes! After thirty-five minutes of gruel g play at top speed, when it'sanybody’s game, when the fansare yelling crazy and the boys are fighting demons for the deciding basket—that's the time a light weight shoe is appreciated. “Extra ounces” become pounds which sap energies and slow up play just when the final punch is most needed. Weight counts! And practically every championship team and individual star in the country picks Converse Basket- ball footwear season after season. They know from actual comparison that Converse buildsthe lightest shoes that still provide the other essentials— gloce fi, perfect traction, comfort and maximum amiue.(#-/ *Converse *“ Varsity’’ Inner Sockwith its double-thick heel & and toe prevents callouses and blisters, A frec copy of the 1924 Converse Basketball ear Beok to every coach or manager on reques: to dealer or our nearest office. 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Service Branches: Bowton — 175 Purchase Street New York = 142 Duane Street Chicepo Syrecuse Philedelobia Lon Avgeles Walker wil] scals over tha Joe Walcott, when he was world's' | Brooklyn and Paddy Ryan, of Pllls-‘ LACKING HARMONY (Lose Sixth Straight; Panthers (Cling to League Lead Intermediate Leaguo Standing Panthera L] 833 Crescents . 687 Pawnes . 600 Beavers ', 600 Pelicans .. 500 Harmonles ..., L000 The Panthers still lead the Boys' club Intermediate league, hut thejr one game margin {s still insufficlent to allow them to think they have a strangle hold on the American Le- glon cup offered to the winning team fn the bircult, Saturday afters neon's gamos were fast and close, with guarding being, as usual, more in evidenca than sheoting. Harmonies Still Losing The Harmonijes, for the sixth time in & row, lost after having put up_e good fight and having led at the of the first half. This team always sets out doterminedly, but weakens in the third quarter and continues its unbroken run of losses. At any rute, it is the most consistent team in the leagye, The game Satyrday wag a wow, In the first half the Harmonies held the Crescents to 3 points while gathering 6 for thems- selves, but in the second half the Crescent machine got under way and the score waa soon tied, The game became yough and Ref- eres Aronson had to call fouls with great frequency, With two minutes to go the count deadlocked, Staniey Renock fouled Kramer, and the lat- ter made goqd both (ries from the foul line, Gordon then hacked at young Tony Kerelejza, and Tony evened the scors sgain by sinking both tries. Kramer sent his team ahead with another onespointer af« ter having been fouled by Lipman, At the last instant Gorden was again detected fouling Kerelejza, but the strain proved too much and the lat- ter failed in both essays from the free-throw strip, The Harmonies Lmissed 15 out of 18 foul shots, The score; 4 ) 3 0 Crescents Goals I'euls Tt Gordon, 1t Appell, ¢ o J. Was, rg . Normant, Ig . N. Lipman, A. Kerelejza, vf .. 1 Henoek, ¢ .0 Harholin, rg . Mercure, 18 . Referee, A. Aronson. Panthers Hold Tead | The Panthers maintained their hold on first place by downing the | Beavers, 12 to 7. The winners took the Jead at the start and held it all the way, although they were never | out of danger. Theoddest feature of the game was that the reteree left |the floor op personal fouls. Bill | rosen started as arbiter, but several of his decisjons brought forth great | quantities of razzing frewm (he erowd, g0 he left the floor and was suc- ceeded by Andy Yakubowlez, who | finished tn good order. The score: Panthers | 3. sadle, vt |Garro, i . IS Was, ¢ . Yankowitz, rg . Abdalla, 15 .. | | Beavers, [ €. Gotowala, Tf. «ov.e | Bianchy, 1. .. ! Leiner, e | Cianci, 1g. . | terees—Tresen, Yakubowlics. Pelicans Veast. | The Palicans stored another game away in their commodious beaks by | trouncing the Pawnees to the tune | of 11 to 4. M. Grip was the indi-| | vidual star of the game, runnlng up four shets from the floor and two trom tha 15 foot line. Iha score: Pelicans, G, & Goursen, | M. Grip, € .. Laring, rg. | Rakutas, 1g. . | | | Pawnces, | i. Baviock, rf. ihan, If. \". Bayleck, rg. Najarian, 1g ‘Willson Is Elected [ Pennsylvania Leader| Philadelphmia, dan, 5.~—Joseph P. Willson, of Corning, N. Y., was elected captain of the 1925 Univers | ity of Perinsylvania féetball team late Saturday night just before the Red gnd Bius squad reached Al-| | buquerque, N. M., on its homeward | journey from the Pacific coast. He | succeeds Rae McGraw, who gradu- ates in June. Willson, who has been nursing a broken ankle ow the trans-con- tinental trip, is 22 years old and a junior, He plays at right tackle and until his injury a few days be- for the team left for Berkeley to | play the University of California, was one of the hardest tacklers on the | squad. ‘ READ THE Htl(a D CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS ' NAME “FOUR HORSEMEN” BEING APPLIED TO BACKFIELD STARS—DUSTY LEAGUE PROMISES | —NATS HAVE TO TRAVEL FAST TO DEFEAT HARTFORD LYRI CS—WILLSON CAPTAINS U. QF P. MATTY WANTS 10 | ACES AND ALL-STARS WIN SIGNRED GRANGE| 7 A TURDAY ¥ CONTESTS Would Give Him Chaocé il o Gan Pl Basebal By The Apseglated Pross, New York, Jan. 6. «= Christy Mathewson, president of the Lioston Traves, would like to slgn: “Red” Grange, gridiren wonder of the Uni. vergity of Illinels, it the football star “can pley baseball.” During the veeont minor league conclave at Hartfor asked gevoral mid-Western magnates it Grange coyld play the game, “I'd like to take a typp of an athlete like Grange and teach him professional baseball,” Matty sald. “One of the game's greatesi pinch- hitters was literally ‘made' into a baseball star on his football reputa tion. I refer to Harry (Moogse) Me. fJormick, former Giant player, who was a gridiron star at Bucknell’when 1 matriculated there, Ie never played baseball untll they needed a hitting outficlder and then Mec- Cormick was drafted and taught the game while perfornming in right fleld for his college team, He de- veloped into a dangerous hitter and gradually learned to rove the out fleld, although he never becams a flelding wonder.” McCormick was one of. the first major fague players to speclalize in ‘pinch-hitting,' the art ef driving out the hit that means victory. He was with the Glants ten years ago Ynd on rare occasions appeared in right fleld. Many college football players, such as Frank Y'risch, Eddie Collins and Les Mann, have earned reputatiens in the diamond , sport, but others among them Jim Thorpe, Hinkey Hines and Glenn Killinger, have falled to qualify. John Levi, an Indian, who has gained note through.. his gridiren ability, will be tried in the Yanks outficld this spring. Lenglen-Ryan Combination Is Yet to Be Defeated Cannes, France, Jan. b.—Suzanne Lenglen and her partner, Elizabeth Tyan came through the Christmas- New Year's tournament here without the loss of a single set winning the finals in the women's doubles yester- day dfrom Mys. Satterthwaite and Mrs. Nevil Smith of England 6.0, 6-2. She intends to eontinue playing o | doubles for another month and to , | resume singles play in February, gradually getting into form te com- pets in the ¥rench championships and also at Wimbledon. BIG BOOST FOR RISKO The victory of Romero Rojas over Jack Renault at Boston was rather unexpected. the stock of John Risko, Cleveland heavyweight, not long out of the amateur class, Just prior to_the Renault bout, Risko lost a hair-line decision to the Chilean, UMP 1S DOG FPANCIER Dick Nailin, American league um- pire, is one of the best authorities on pedigreed degs in the country, He is the owner of geveral champlons, great | Tneldentally, it boosted ! Ngw Champion the former Glant pitcher' EDDIE MARTIN Yistic Moners came ‘quickly to Bddie “Cannonball" Martin, new bantam champion. Martin has been fighting only a little over two.years as a profes- sional. He lost his first two bouts but has been a consistent winner ever since. * As a youngster he had two ame bitions, one was to emulate Terry McGovern, the other to bocome a famous ‘big leagues like Rabbit Maranville. He succeeded in the first, Martin is an aggressive fighter, says he intends to defend his title and should be a pepular champion, SI[YER MEDALS GIVEN BASEBALL DIRECTORS McGraw, Jennings and Comiskey Honored By ¥Yrench Basc- ball Federation Paris, Jan. b, — John McGray, Charles Comiskey and Yughey Jen- nings have been awarded silvor med- als by the I'rench baseball federas tion, while each member of the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox who visited Paris last November is to receive a bronze medal as a souvenir of the trip. The diploma accompanying this tribute to the American ball players, which will be taken to New York by “Sparrow" Robertson, the federa- tlon’s special courier, salling of the Havole, January 10, contains an allegorical reference to the big loa- guers “sowing seed from which th_ great game of baseball is expected to spring in Europe.” Tiohertson also bears letter from the federation's president, Frantz Relehel, extending an invitation for MeGraw and Comiskey to visit ¥France again this autumn, when the federation undertakes to make all the preliminary arrangements to in- sure the success of the games, The elassifieds have been the step- ping stones for many who have at- tained success, When a Feller Nééds a Fr}end 1 Review of Games Thus Far Shows W. Nelson Lead- ing Scorer With H. Nel- _son Second and Dave Ellison Coming in Third. 1 Two speedy gamea of basketball were seen at the Y. M. gym last Sat- urday when the Aces took the Red, Wings into camp and the All slurlg won from the Apaches, The first! gama was between the Aces and the Red Wings and brought out some fine playing. Kllison and Kalgpen had & big day, Dilison scoring 18 roints and Kalgren 12, their com- bined score of 30 polnts being suffi- cient to beat the Red Wipgs. John- athan Tuttles of the Red Wings played a good defensive game and sccured 9 points. The lineup: ‘ Aces P Tt 12 15 0 H 8 85 Goaly Fouls Ralgren, rt ....,. 6 . Elljson, 1f ......, 8 E. Johnson, C. Johngon, rg, M. Johnston, g Red Wings Goals Fouls Tt1. 4 0 [ o 0 1 0 0 Lijenhard, rf . Peterson, rf . LPnru. .., Tuttles, ¢ . Connelly, rg . Luke, rg .. Feldmay, g . Peterson, Ig . “ Second Game The second game of the afternoon furnished some of the most specta- cular playing of the league. The Apaches made a valiant effort to topple the All Stars from their posi- tion and were leading 11 to 10 at the half. In the second hulf M, Nelson en- tered the fray and his presence was felt immedjately, His passing en- abled his teammates to collect 12 points while he ad®fed 10 to the col- lection, Walter Nelson, leader of the league in scoring was held down to three baskets by Yankaskas, who played a whale of 4 game, Robert Loomis; captain of the Apaches, was a speed demon and made four baskets, three being of the stellar variety made from the (Continuud on Iollowing Page.) Ice Fishing TIP-UPS, BAIT PAILS AND LIVE BAIT MOST CERTAINLY DO AND PLENTY oF