New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1925, Page 8

NATIONAL GUARDS, WITH NINE NEW BRITAIN DAI STRAIGHT VICTORIES, LY HERALD, MONDA Y, JANUARY 12, 1925, WILL TRY TO MAKE IT TEN TON BLIMTRNT 0 F IGHT WHEN THEY PLAY LYRICS IN HART- FORD — DRESSEL WINS STATE H ANDBALL TITLE — LOCKMAKERS LOSE FAST GAME IN SOUTHINGTON — VANCE NOT SIGNED YET" HEEIR RS S R R s e S R R R e RICKARD NAMES THE BEST MEN IN THE BOXING GAME Vancouver; lea,, N. Y 10 World’s sario y Impre- ham, Ut wy Lrown, E Box P LFeatherweights, Now Comes Out uis Kaplan, (champlon), CORNELL OPENS SEASON TONIGHT 'Plays Ponnsy--Yale Is Having| Tough Sledding on Cowrt w York, Jan, 12, — Cornell's With Own List of Whe's et Ilegliake L StAD: 3 Mike Dundee, 7 R Danny Kramer Who. 1 Lombardo, mp K Island, 11L.; 4 6—Dobby Garcla, Chapman wankee; 9 -Bud Rid- Junior Lightweights, | . (champion) New stein, Yonkers, i 8=—T 9—Johinny Leo a.; 10—="Pepper’ Netv York; Allentown, New York Lightweights, (champion) &, New York; ard, | Martin, » Chicago; 4=—| Detroit; 5—Johnny . 6—Lonis Vicen- ommy O'Brien, M O'Conn Galiane, New Walker, New Welterneights, y Walker, (champion), N. 1. Shade, Harmon, endler, Phila- Scranton,} Umaha, own, ton; Middieweights, (champion) Pitts. ‘ , Atlanta, ifalo; 4 port, Conn York: Butfalo; 7—Jock Bert Col- Allentown” llentown, and. ight Heavyweights., ~Jimmy k Delane Wilson, 2 86— 10—Ted Moore, L At 1ta, fw York npion) N Philadelphia; v York; C—Jeft aul Ber- v Mar- s—Tommy 3 10=Jimmy Heavyweights. (champion) i ry Wills, Ne —Tom Gibhone, t. Paul, harley Weinert, Newark, Quintin Romero, Chille; ault, Montreal; 7 1—Jack v Wills at ts and Terris loney, | Ita - KAELAN SIGNS T0 FIGHT “Irnrh-u World Champion Wil Be neri- Luis ol Demp-| Vinal Atteaction At Garden—Op- ponent Will Be Mascart, New York, J 2l contest th . 12.—An interna- t will definitely es- lish the successor to the title ted by Johnny Dundee is practi- 1 as the Al boxing dison 8 Garden. contest will t is (Kid) Kap featherwe rd M holder of the Lurope d title, The match is to b 5 rounds and will be set for e of next May. ready accepted term, the f with Tex Rickard a moter has excha s with Mascart Dundee, who is now was recent but the fi iare T of tournament, Y I 1 the midd Kaplan for nr nged s tour GRANGE IS CHOSEN Veteran Athletes of Phila, Select “Red” As Most Valuable Player of Past Season. | Robert Zuppke, nt at t} n suprefacy 0 University of Per as eastern champ summ Dolan’s fa\or John McG , | getting & basketball 1923%4 intercolleglate quintet, | champlons of the wit | by season, open its 19 scason Saturday necting Pennsylvania at Phila- At the samg time Dart- will entertain Columbia at | Hanover, N, H. ph phiu, The ¢ 10 ¢ up this year are not brilliant a8 Coach Howard Ortner lost most of his }924 team including his two stars, Capron and Wedell. He h a strong player in Molinet, a Cuban, Molinet played a stellar ne of football for Gil Dobie and tner hopes to make him as val- | uab player as was his brother, | who was u member of the famous [ Molinet-gidman combination when that pair was performing in the Cor- nell lineup. Dartmouth and Princeton are showing the way in the race to date, both having won their only starts. Columbia and Pennsylvania have broken even in two games while Yale has lost both games it has played, Joc Baldwin, Columbia forward, is | leading individual scorer with points in two games, five points ahead of Eddie Suisman of ale with Bill Kneass, Iennsylvania's aptain, third place with 10 . points, The standing of the league fol- | lows now in .. 0 Pe. 1.060 1.000 500 000 000 | Pennsyivania . Cornell | Yale .. LFAGUE GANE GO TOLECAL RESERVEY - Boys’ Club Team Stages Come- | back in Meriden Game | | State League Standing | Britain ... 1 | n Bristol The New s took ' club re- ze on the it rday eve City and wiped terrible Meriden ciub quint ning in the Siiver out their previous defeat by turning he tables in 26-16 fashion. The Britair pad hard work arted, but 3 themseive: they we never sor Teve accustomed nge floor and into the headed from wert started the 7 points in qu hrow bar, one fr« floor. Aronson then broi ugh for a shot which made and the q it yard fire home tean . Meriden way unable to score period, the R ining the } pot shots frov In the snd half t) nued their rush a ed and outscored thy ¢ {inal score b mii-court eserves o yed great Yakubo: made throee while Al ling a pelr of cach, thrice. Zap f a game at cer ing his Dave Lij P And Bigge, ce, ¥ sop b New Britan Reserves . ( 1pt.) t the Dix this s will play & y Tewis high sct thington. Danc ay. New 1 Big Five LEFTHANDERS HAVE EDGE nshy, pion Dbats- nal says he at cast 25 hits per season t tif he was a No doubt Nation ad 1 ym the right side beat ¢ viter. al of ces of the Ithaca quintet | 16§ Al ng ngs | From Bonehead Class to Strategist | Fred Merkle, Once Ridiculed For His Failure\to Touch Secdnd, Is Finally Fittingly Rewarded For His Courage and Brains (Dy Dilly Evans) tack in 1908 Tred Merkle fallo o touch second fn a game | Chicago. Had he done so it would have wort the game, instead it ended [in a tle, | The raco for that year also ended lin a tie. It was necessary to play over the game w York should have won. The Giants lost and with the defeat went the chance to ay in the series, was the situation in that game: Score tie, last of ninth, two out, runners of first and third | Merkle was on first. The bytsman singled, apparently scoring the winning run. Merkle, on first, went to within 10 feet of second and then raced for the Hants' clubhouse, vers, playing second for Chicago, finally got the ball and touched second hase. Since Merkle failed to do so, it simply made a force play at second, retiring the side and crasing the winning run, and no run can score on a force third out. | Merkle, a brainy ball player, merely overlooked & slight technical- |ity, failure to touch a hase. It happens scores of times every year |in _the majors. d of the pennant, and with it thou- sands of dollars, it has gone down in history as a collosal bone, | Merkle became an object of rid cule in the b 1 world, A -+les courageous plaver would have quit, | but Merkle lived it down, | Now the so-called “bone-head” | Merkle has been hired by no less a i person than Miller Huggins to be | his assistant at New York, a member of his board of‘strategy. tribute to his ability. * For years after the close of the season Merkle hics to Florida, where we have him in the role of a gentie- man farmer, 1ECKMAKERS LOSE IN PEXTO MATCH ‘Sensational Shooting Defeats Factory Outfit Jack Tobin took his C. C. L. fac- leaguers over to Southington | Suturday night to play the Pextos. The locals were defeated 36 and 46, but it was only phenominal shoot- ing by the home town boys that turned the trick. The Pexto boys shot from all angles and distances and made good on many of the seemingly impossible shots. Con- nors, their right forward, had a | wonderful night, getting eight from | the 1loor. Larson also showed that he is far from all in for from his guard position he dropped in clzht gouls and two fouls, being high man for the night, The sumnary Lockmalkers Gouls Fouls Ttl. Larson, ' Yankaskas, 1g ... 11 46 See Nurmi in ('hicazp icago, Jan. 12.—An: andicap 1 stribution ¢ herc s can attend the meet, mi's request which he will meet ce crack r Finn, v -fourths miles y for new indoor » and a hal Onl the f J and ill be sires to t for the n ters In ten 8BCONDS—without removing the blade from the razor you can sharpen Valet AutoStrop Razor blades. Valet AutoStrop Razor is the only ragzor that sharpens its own blades. { | Valet 3 Gotro | Razorp ~ Sharpens ltzelf I A fitting | with | i | Because his error caused the loss |* | HERR, G4 REGRUIT 1S ALLROUND MAN Has More Medals Than Marshal Foch, Friends Say Chicago, Jan, 12—When the Chi- ‘cago Nationals signed Mel Kerr, of Sakatoon, rccently they got more than a boll player. round nthlete, a rughy player, track man, tennis player, basketball star, wimmer and fancy diver. He has passed up golf, however. Tn ba ball he plays outfield or first base. In his home town has been a shining mark for the youths to emulate, six championship baskctball teams, grabbed off individual honors at wan track meet in , and has gathered to lie past half dozen years one hundred medals, and prizes for athletic rrowess. He held the Saskatchewan singles » years, overcoming of wielding a racquet So adept did Ne show v that Queen's Uni- versity at Kingston tried to induce Kerr is an all- | | | He has been a member of | | Merced Golf him to enroll. Kerr is 50 well known {n amateur cirel of his province that all Saskatchewan is pulling for him to make the grade fn the majors. Duncan an“d_Mitchell Both Win in California San Francisco, Jan. 12, — George Duncan and Abe Mitchell, famous British professionals, defeated Abe lispinosa and MacDonald Smith, California, six and four in a 36-hole exhibition golf match over the Lake and Country club course yesterday, The visitors displayed a steady brand of golf, while Smith, the Cali- fornia open champion, fell down on | his iron game and lacked confidence in putting. Espinosa experierced considerable trouble both on the greens and on the tee, FOOTBALL CIRCUIT PLANNED Cleveland, Jan. 12.—The Natlonal Football league may be enlagged next season, declared in a long dis- tance telephone conversation with the “Cleveland Plain Dealer” last night. Sixteen professional teams comprised the league last s2ason. Detroit, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati Atlantie City, Providence, Pottsville and other citles are sceking mem- bership, Mr. Carr said. Their appli- cation will be considered at a meet- ing of the league here Jan. 26 and NATS FACE HARD CONTEST TONIGHT Play Lyrics in Hartlord--Win 61-28 From Goldenrods Whether the National Guards, with nine straight victories and no defeats this season, will be able to make It an cven ten tonight in their | game in Hartford with the fast step« |ping Lyrics tonight ussumes more lmportance in the local sports world than docs their revenge obtained Saturday night when they soundly !trounced the Winsted Goldenrods 61 |to 23, thus wiping out their defeat |atL the hands of this team a year ago. A week ago the Nats defeated the Lwrics here 45 to 40 in a closely con- |tested game. Tonight the odds scem |to favor the Hartford boys for they 'nu} only are playlng on their own {floor in the Hopkins street gym, but |also they have strengthend thelr al- |ready formidable teamn by two new Iplayers. Gordon and Pite of course Wil play, the former at ghard and ithe latter at center, Feldman and Malcolm will play forwabds. Odds belng quoted here on tonight's game give the Hebs the edge bya 3 to 2 margin. IHowgyer, the Nats are golng up to win a#d it will take a fast stepping outfit to defeat them. But | win or lose tonight, they are deter- |mined to win Saturday night when |the West Sides of Hartford come |here. They have beaten the West Sides in Hartford and propose to turn the trick here as well. Last Saturday nights' game was not so much to write about. In the first half the Goldenrods played a fast guarding game and the score was 25 to 17 at half time. In the second half however, the locals®cut lose with everything they had and soon obtained an overwhelming lead. Dick Dillon, referee, evidentally had llchallense iwas dcceptenlby! & Mr not forgotten his treatment at the hands of Winsted last year, for he watched them with an cagle cye and as a result two of their players left the floor via the four foul route and the visitors finished the game with but four men playing. This should not mean that faults of the localy were overlooked, for Dick called sev- en personals on the Nats, |'rhe Goldenrods wera first to score, gelting a foul but Reynolds came through a minute later with a field goal and then Winsted took the lead ~4 and 2 when Carroll shot from the |side court near the center and made 'good. That was the only time they led and from then on it was a ques- tion of how big a score the locals would roll up. For the visitors Carroll and Shea were about the whole works. Once Carroll dribbled the ball through the whole New Britain team for a tally and he also shot two long fleld goals. Shea, with five field goals, earned each one. Twice he dribbled through the local's defense for a score. The locals were not in tip top form Saturday night and in the first halt their shooting was noticeably at fault. In the second half La Har went in {at ‘forward and the blackhaired voungster showed that he has got his shooting eye back for he looped fn ' four from the fleld and two fouls. Weir also dld equally well from the floor and made good in his only free try. Towsrd the end of the game Red Reynolds went in at center in place of Restelil and showed that he is a good substitute tap man as well as a forward for he played Shea to a standstill and got the times than he missed it. The summary:— | (Continued on Following Page.) R R A T The Days of Real Sport 57 tap more | IN TITLE HATCH Local Handball Star Captures State Honors Henry Dressel of the local Y. M, C. A. won the state champlonship in the singles handball tournament at New Haven Saturday. Soeveral of the assoclations from diferent parts of the state were entered, Bridgeport, Greenwieh, Meriden, Hartford, New Haven, New London and New Britain, Hartford was represented by the old basketball star,” “Yump” John- son and he was teamed up in the first mateh with Dr, Rungee of New Haven and was climinated in two stralght games 21.9, 21.11, Dresscl of New Britain drew as his opponent Weaver of New London whom he defeated in two straight games 216, 21.8, In the, finals Dressel met Rungee of New Haven for the champlonship. Rungee in the first game found the going rather strenuous and fast with Dressel’ out-guessing him and out.placing the ball; the game end- ing in New Britain's favor 21-8, The New Haven man came back strong in the secon® game, giving Dressel a real battte and forging ahead on some of New Britain man's mis- Judged returns. . Dressel however tightened up and finally won the match and the championship with the score 21-19, Dressel and Ed- ward Unterspan of the local ‘Y’ are going after the doubles champlon- ship next month. The games will be hgJd in New Haven. Thomas Crowe, Edward Unterspan and Joseph Hergstrom made the trip with Dressel to New Haven, While waiting for the tournament to start Tom Crowe, who prides himself on his checkeg abilities, challenged any- body in the New Haven ‘Y’. His Smith of New Tondon. In five moves Tom proved his right as ehampion of Grove Hill by cleaning up and preventing his opponent from even sceing the king row, ¢ WINTER PLAYXGROUND Norway is Making an Effort to Get ‘Winter Sports of Olympic Games. Christiania, Jan, 12.—Norway is making an effort to get the winter sports of the 1928 Olympic games, The International Olympic commit- tee had Switzerland in mind as the location for the winter sports, but Norway hopes to land the meet and thus advertise itself as an ideal winter sports land. T'rom January 1 Christiania is to be called Oslo, which was the origin- al Norweglan name of the capital. By attracting international gather- ings to Oslo the Norweglan govern- ment hopes to bring the new name before the world. Venezuela has finally consented to the use of radio receiving ects in that countrq. Ice Fishing TIP-UPS, BAIT PAILS AND LIVE BAIT HADFIELD' BRIGGS MY GIRL ON MY ‘SLED AND HER HAIR BLOWIN' RIGHT IN MY FACE..