New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 9

Are The Great Indoor Amusements 'NEW B ITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY §, 19%. —AT THE— ROGERS RECREATION BLDG. Bowling is a fascinating exercise for men and women. It will help tokeepone fit,youthful andslender . BOWLING fosters a social friendliness Come in at any time or phone for reservations Rogers Recreation Co. S $SSHSSHL 5998 59582 g Speaking i of Sports CATVIPICIVFLCPV LG LN” ECPIVEGE Saturday night's game at the| armory wag as exciting as the fans could wish, Gordon, the Hartford star, also i a Harvard star. Jle was a three let. ter athiete at the university, having captained the basketball team and played both footbull and baseball, | He is a neat basketball player and gave the fans a treat by the masterly way he handled hin That the crowd realized his ability was early cvident for he seldom touched the Lall but what the rabid fans would shoyt “Don’t Jet him shoot. The crowd was too partisan when they booed Gordon after he had | crashed Weir in the second half. 1t | was a hard, fast play and both men | tricd hard for the ball. Gordon be- | ing the heaviest naturally came out hest, but it was not Intentionally that he hurt the youngster. At that Weir hax nothing to apologize for,” for he certainly guarded Gordon in fine style and hield him to two field goals. Had it not been for the wonderful shooting | of Sammy Pite, Havtford would not have had a look In. | off their | Reynolds and Taylor paired nicely again, each getting quota of tries. Neit Saturday rods of Winsted are the re. Golden- he Nats appeared in their natty jersevs, with the orange and | black lettering Saturday night. Things are mow a'most back to | normal in the bieachers for Steve| Dudack was back on the benches Satyrday night, | —— | Jim Lynch's Gasco team plays the | Stanley Works of the Dusty league | at the Boys' club tonight. | While admitting the 4" Grange of Nlinols ¢ the east to wee how posgibly be an improvement Mahan of Harvard. A former eastern college grid star, | who has lived for two years in Chi- ently returned to Boston as | place of business. During his stay in the west he had seen Grange in action a half dozen times. When asked to make a com- | parison between Grange and Mahan, | be did thusly: tness of it is hard he could | over cago, T Roth are triple-threat players but as yet Grange has not glven any great proof of his ability as & Kicks er. 1 understand this will be part of his werk next season. “Malan was a great punter and arop-kicker and has the edge in that | dep nge i faster than Mahan and 1¢ a great it arm. However, Mr y ran highcr and was harder to Mahan was 3 at line-smashet and in that respect way superior 1o Gr who is seldom | used through the line, | r his typ Ange silver putter ange I8 a wonder but no bet. ter, if as good, Mahan. “ . A draw declslon would be an ex- cellent way to stop all arguments as | to the superiority of these two great players, Mr. Coolidge is pictured wearing skis on the White House grass. * * * This shows what will happened to |a man who cats ple for breakfagh. Dempscy's new nose will stand a heavy blaww, * % And we find our. solves wondering exactly what he means, Walter Hagen will putter next season. * But even a can leok like thirty cents when the short ones run off the line, Apropos of the controversy as to who wrote the funnjest story of the vear, we wish to say we enjoyed Mr. Camp's All-America team best. Ty Cobb led the American league nine straight years in batting and almost as rhany straight years in spiking. uge a silver Mickey Walker says Benny Leon- ard is a rotten actor, *** It is evi- dent Mickey never saw Benny in one of the ten.round go-alongs on the tank circuit, Temmy Griffith, who journeyed to the Brooklyn Dodgers from the old New England league, |s heset by an enemy in the person of the giant Dick Cox from Portland of the Pa- cific Coast league. With Eddie Brown and Zack Wheat doing well in the widg open spaces of Ebbets’ field, the newcomer will find only one vulnerable. spot—where Griffith is or was wont to wander. If the irgument hecomes torrid, Cox Ix a favorite, as he was a boxing instrues tor in the army Jim Johnstone, former umpire in the National league, brings from Europe the informatioift that the Glants and White Sox might have found for respect for baseball in Germany than' in Englapd, Ireland and France. According to John- stone, the boys across the Rhine have | taken up the American game. They say it in plenty @ few years ago when the lines of olive drab were stretched along the famous river ‘from Salzig to Bonn, and over into Montabaur. That was a real baseball invasion. for every outfit had its team. and | every soldier enjoyed the ludigrous attempts of the German to catch a ball youth Steve Donoghue, English jockey who came to America and rode Papyrys to defoat by Zev, under Farle Sande, finished third in victors ies on the British tracks this season. . G. Elliott was the leader among the little fellows. Archibald, the American who has been riding Euro- pean horses for several yeaps, 1s | tenth in the lst for 1024, Tha releass gf Pitcher Arthur De- catur to the Portiand club ef the Pacific Coast league is said to fore- Il the coming to the Brooklyn Dodgers of First Baseman Jim oole, the “Babe T of the coast, Second Baseman Emmett Me- Cann. Tt 18 understood that John Hollinsworth. a pitcher, will be sent to Portland in the deal, Papyrus, vaded America in 1923, four events on home turf during the past year and failed to win a race, Bd (Heck) ass. former football Notre Dame, appears professional pu York toni facing Ben th, who claims the heavyweight cham pionship of New Jersey, presence of Charley W lineman in his thirg ilistic contest fn New | Davidson, Hartford . at Paavo Nyrmi, Finland's great dis, tance man, apparently s of & sus- | piclous nature. While training at one of the armories recently, Nurmi no- ticed a sprinter dashing at high epeed around the short turns and marvelled at the sight. 1t was Loren Murchlson, one of America's best dash men, When Murchison finish- ed his run, Nurmi approached him and asked for a glance at the Amer- fean's shocs, He was much surprised to find them (dentical with his own. LOCAL BOYS WIN Y. M. C. A, Athletes Plle Up Good Tecad Qver Their Rivals From (he * Capital Cfty, In a series of athletic events con- ducted at the, Y. M, C. A. Saturday | yankaskas, rz morning the New Britain boys were successful in carrying of the h ors. The Hartford boys arrived at 9:30 dnd as soon as they were peady the aetion st The first event was i Rubicon” and New Britain won aflter six minutes of tugging. The second event “knight on horse” was won by Hart- ford which made things even, next event a track relay was won by New Britaln who almost lapped the Hartford boys. In a basketball re- lay Hartford made it even again but New Britain came through and won the two basketball games, the first a junior game was won by the score | ¢ : |is even safer than Babe Ruth's §9 | nome runs. the senfors won In the tank New af 18 to 2, and theirs 16 to 9. ALESMAN SAM 7NOW FOLKS - WEUE. 'GOT despite the | 5 inert, con- A Los Angeles surgeon insists| aueror of Luls Angel Firpo. | on- | The | Parker 10 SHAT T NEW ] WEM AIGHT- (1) GIUING U EACH %5 KA A WEEK AND EXPECT YOU 10 WEL? ME. MAKE. THY OUR BANNER MERR Geo. C. Rogers Pres. Britain length and diving Hartford won first place by the narrowest of margins, the places in the fancy diving. Points Malinowski, Hartford ...,...... 38 | Klolber, New Britain , .. 37 o 36 Colllns, Wartford G b fucke, New Britain ACES AND STARS WIN GONTESTS (Continued from Preceding Fage.) middla of the floor. The lineup: All Stars Goals Touls Tt Parker, rf 2 2 6 Cabelus, 1t i) 3 9 | W, Nelson, 1f .3.. & 0 3 1. Nelson, ¢ ..... § 0 10 D. Swanson, P 1 3 Lewitte, 1g 0 0 14 6 34 Apaches Goals Fouls Tu. | Hibbard, rf 0 3 2 Williams, 1€ 0 0 o Bucherrj, 1f o)) 2 ] Kimenieky, ¢ ... 1 1 3 i) 0 2 Loomiy, 1g . A ) 0 8 s 3 31 The twelve feading scorers in the turday Afternoon league: W. Nelson 66, H. Nelson 3 Lllison 48, D. Lienhard 43, T, Ca- belus 38, A. Kalgren 84, J, Kaminicky 28, B 23, G. Williams Loomis 19, JOHNSON STRIKEOUT RLCORD Walter Johnson has brought his | strikeout record to the amazing total of 3216 for the 18 years of his er. In all probabiiity that record Bowling can be enjoyed singly or in groups, and at any time from 10 a. m.to 12 p. m. BILLIARDS is a fine form of relaxation 50 Church St. NURMI SAYS HE NOW IS READY FOR BIG TEST 94 Pinnish Flier Declares Himself ¥it TS WIN CLOSE ONE FROM LYRICS (Continued from Preceding F'age.) Under the present rules, more op- _— portunities arise for the use of “eut- ous and although Dilloa cafied it |of-bounds” plays than for tip-off Gordon's feurth personal and the |piays at eenter, Consequently eoaches | crowd hissed and booed the Hart |arc stressing more and more the | ford man, it was evident that it was | use of definite “‘out-of-bounds” plays. | not intentional. When he had re-| Ope method of putting the ball | cavered, Weir made good one of his |inte play from put-of-boun to | free tries avd Barton went into the [Lave the nearest man get to the ball | game for Gordon, taking Pite's place | quickly and then pass to a team-. | while Sammy went to forward, Re-|mate “in bounds” before the oppo- sorting to backecourt passing and |ments have “covered up. helding onto the ball all they could, ‘ This method, however, is generally the locals played hard for time, Jed” for another plan; Pennant Plays By COACH H. Gi. OLSON —\Will Be Chief Attraction Ohio State University Tomorrow Night New YorkK, Jan, 5.—Paavo Nurmi, Finnish flier, who will be the chief tiractior. 4t the annual track and ficid mect of the Iinish-American Athletic club in Madison Square Garden tomorrow pight, faces dou- Lle duty and has declared himsci. ready for the test, Nurmi's first start In America wiil b2 in the mile, schedyled for ¥ o'clock, Two hogrs later he will ap- pear in the 5,000-metres event, Two being d ] i “Red" Reynolds got his two poiner, [namely, having the four men in racey in one day are anything but Taylor got one on a foul and the |hougls take cortain definite posi- new to this marvel of Europe who has wop two victories in an after- noon at the Olymple games and has acecmplished the feat many times final count was Weir's basket from |tiens on the floor and carry out a the 15 ft, mark, Just as the whistle | definite play from these “sct” posi- | bletv Reynolds threw another fine | tions, i fleld goal, but it did not count. The | Just as No. 1, who is out of bounds, | {n 01A hameland FbuL hol MY O g gets his hands on the ball, No. 2| counter tr(mhlr‘.l[ his n[\|)on¢|}‘w re- wat, Guards RN Ny Ve toN tward (o ard fe | sort to specialties in an effort to r. T overcome the invader. . 1-‘\m<.< and then cut back toward the ! Willie Ritola, countryman of | Reynolds. 0 ‘“‘1.‘ Ket : Taylor, If. At the same time No. 2 and D rmi, has eonfined his training to Restelltic: 12 {start, No. i cuts dlagonally the longer distance, ing the de- 5 i 3 ehan, rg 0 6 | ahead of No hen back on de- cislon In the mile to Joi¢ Ray, Blond |Sheehan. ¥ e 4 O s hesisn tde Plodder from the middle west. Such \‘\] o Sl M R X é ";‘ ‘;"\_‘\ an arrangement undoubtedly would | Weir 1€ SORE S e Wroe kel T S force Nurmi into super feats to win G o rh el ted iine iagroritl both contests. DBut Ray will not be | P A : No. 1, as 3 ‘ ) dia § . alone in the mile. There wil] he[ Tersonal fouls ~*r‘_“ Oftentimes this play opens up a Lioyd Hahn, Walter Higgtns, Jim- | % Sheehan 1 Riontt Ithaid mciv ot ibeaelononnt ; my Connolly and Leo Larrives, a| 2 o bk cu w:'l S in : i Sarazen Again Makes AU AT ON R e o Y T O e e b F Record Over Course erican boards. ,4 3 G Lg gl G By his own admission, Nurmj is |Calcolm, if 4 2, No. & and No. 1 “fol- | Hellyweed, Florida, Jan. 5.=Gene not enthusiastic about indoer racing, | Eite: € rf 14 shot, Sarazen again lowered the record for i Cohen, 0 1 others of a similar | the eighteen hole course here yes- although he has fought valiantly to condition himself for the supreme |Daron. 15 B very effective car- | terday afternoon when he sank a test, gnd at lategt reports had at- | Barton. ¢ ried out W peed and precision lr’vm; putt on Vvhr: last hole for a 67, tafned his speed and endurance with o A \H 3 li with Le u’ DIc:el.fana_d(: an excellent knowledge of accom- Porys ey & Malcolm CELTICS WIN : “(" BEISAARII 0. & m\l’ th. plishing the turns which appear so sreonsl fonlas Sorees o | New York, Jan. 5.—The original | Tommy Armour and Bill Mehlhorn. often in indoor competition His Pota' s, Coh habaronel Celtics de d the Kingston five by A Sarazen and Diegel won one up after {railing two down at the end of the g round of nine holes. n first shattered the course at Madison ¢ | mor Referee, Dillon ankles, it is said, are hardened to a style new to him Square Gar B | Ciassified ads are Lrimfu the fastest s seen st th S READ THE HFERALD CLASSIFTED | portunities for those W ho are structu t casily mas with a two un- ADS 'OR YOUR WANTS petent and energetic numbered \ \ | Starting the New Year Right BY SWAN WM hmns NOW WA, 7OU AND HONARD WILL WANDLE. 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