New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1925, Page 8

NURMI RUSHES AHEAD ON HIS PATH OF VICTORY — A. L. A, BOYS FACE 0 TOUGH GAMES THIS WEEK-STRIBLING VICTOR AFTER GE'I'I'ING TWO STIFF PUNCHES IN TUMMY GARCIA PUTS PARKER TO SLEEP IN HARTFORD BOUT—SOUTH CHURCHWINS SIX SPOR T CHAMPS EXTRAORDINAR Y Heppe, Cobb, Kilbane, Evans, Dobie, Tilden--All Long Time Aces SOUTH CHURGH RALLES 10 WIN Downs Tigers in Crushing Fourth Period Comeback RIGHT FIELD IS DODGERY’ TROUBLE That and New Pitcher Needed | by Robinson Held to 11 points in the first three quarters and apparently set for a bad beating, the South Church quin- tet staged an avalanche-like rally in the final quarter and burled the Tigers under a 28-13 tally. The game, which was played at the Boys' club, was slow for the first three periods, neither team being able to do much in the way of shooting, but in the final quarter the South church opened up and Clearwater camp, his principal ef- |dropped in 7 field goals and 3 fouls. forts being directed toward bolster- | » The Tigers started fast, Jacobl ing up h condary defense, which | Betting clear to sink a sucker shot. was woefully st season, Nelson followed with another THok Loftus now 16 the >n-ungust“1°“l”° pointer, and then Adams put ar Tommy Griffith's mb"lw- South church {into the scoring Sinle Robbie was forced fo | ¥ith @ neat shot. Arena dropped | i anded |0 & floor shot and Suess followed with a foul. Adams and Parker also made good from the 15-foot line, and the scorc was 7 to 4 at the quarter. In the second period the Congregationallsts were held to three fouls, two by Parker and one by Kilduff, while Arena, Nelson and uess, brought the Tigers' score | 0 13. The church lads showed fmprove- | ment in the third quarter and held the Tigers to a foul basket, but they were unable to overtake the orange- |Jerseyed crew and were still be- hind, 14 to 11, as the last quarter 2 | began. Suddenly the rattled Con- MuEger abta s CEOLL BDand, O e e eatioRATalB B aceds th el naRsinE does not measure up o wequire-|o o.olos ona their shols found the ments, Manager Robinson may send |,y "4 4o me brought them within the veteran Jimmy Johnston to the | o TS EORRCE ReTh WIThH outheld. Johnston pestormed in B¢ | Parker sent them ahead with an- Wurer marks Lefore o maniasling 10 ey S yiainter, Bies) wiaal waik the infiold to plug up a sieve.! l.l'\">fl'l.7|"l"l the game on personals, and inner defense and helped win WO | po South church plled up the score, pennant Kilduff coming through the Tiger Uncle Robbie has re defense to score almost at will, while (Duteh) Henry from New Orleana in |00 6 0 peore PREck 8t il Wite the belief that the erratlc southpaW g, ;o epged with the church boys has developed sufficiently to improve | ypnning away from their opponents. somewhat on Ruether's 1024 record. | g,y and Arena made the most Ruether won only § out of 21 games | points for their respective teams, a mark that the verlest| ypile Wilks put up his usual great expeeted to shoot at|pgitle at guard. An unusual fea- ture was that there was not a long to the Southern|gyot made in the entire contest. y in the deal by| pe score: gsworth, which John Ho a right g e hander, was securcd. Henry pro- | South “I"“:r“!-‘;:l cceded to win 10 out of 12 games in ety the south, a record that insures him | $rtleacts another trial. i }J 0 Six other southpaws will be put through the paces at Clearwater. | “Dewey” Hinkel and Nelson Greene, two six footers, and Danny McPhee, @ roly-poly bit of portside pitching machinery, have been recalled from the sticks after a year “on the farm” to battle for regular berths with Leon Williams, Jackson, Miss.; | Gopher Wilson, Des Moines, and Charles Schwartz, Great Falls, Mo tana. Wilson appears to be the be of the new recruits, as he was up | with the Yankees .once before. Schwartz semi-pro who pitched brilliantly ainst the Brooklyn barnstormers in northwest last | fall and was immedi recom- mended to Robbiz by Van and Grimes, While Milton Assoclated Press. Néw York, J —Barring a bit | of tinkering with the right field posi- | tion, the riveting of an otherwise | strong pit lepartment with a | southpaw 1o re pm_ Dutch” Rueth- er and a possible effort to bolster up third base, Manager Wilbert Rob- | inson will stand pat with his second place Brooklyn National league team for 1 Uncle Robbie I ered together a hosts of more or raw material for mobilization ling the fleld. Griffith agalnst left g last season, due to th tained by only substitute right The result was that took a blg shunp .and the team’s offense suffered in consequence. Tommy never was strong against southpaw twirling and there is chance he may figure in the | waiv list shor It Loftus lands the regular berth, he will alternate with Neis, ing to the brand of opposing pitch- ing. As a last resort, 1f Loftus fails to deliver or Dick Cox, powerful Griffith's 1 v accord- led Frank | and surpa Henry was sent league club in Jul Tigers Field Foul Jacohi, Arena, e 3 s . Jacobi e 1, Kleist both i th Church 28 Tigers Referce— Stock the started {and ran | trequently. ‘BELVIDERE ALL-STARS WIN FROM TROOP 4 B Stanley Quarter Crew Runs Up E: arly Lead and Manages To Maintain It Despite Scouts' Rally Troop 4 went down before the Belvidere All-Stars, 31- rough game at the Boys' night, although the Scouls showed much improvement in sheoting and passing. The first quarter was one of close guarding, the score at its end being 4 all. In the second per- iod Jacobi and Aronson opened fire the score to 16-10. The Scouts braced in the last two qua ters and held the Belviders tcam even, but could not overcome its lead. Aronson played game in every way, sinking some pretty baskets and missing many from nea he whole length of the tioor which would have been much prettier it they had been successful Jacobi and -Deming Hewitt scorcd 1ss Clark, lofty center of Troop 4, got away to a bad start, but recovered himself and sank six Laskets and a foul. Clint L. Cupid Ericson and Lockwood also played well for the losers. The score: Belvidere All-Stars Goals Iouls [ in a spectacular son, Tt Jacohi, rt 10 D. Hewitt, Aronso! A. Hewitt, Swanson, et 0 0 climb toward the pennant last ing, his finish was not so inspiring and there are indi- cations that a switch at the hot co ner is contemp Should Loftus, Nels or Cox make the de in yight field, the logical successor to k would be versat Johnston.. Joh tour positions time ing runnis Moc | 1 can Assoc while Je Charlotte one of infield prosp again rest on t “Dazzy” Var Bill Doak, who mad season I¥n's Cleg He he 15 report t three-ye Uncle eyes host serve. lingswort Robins on their el the covered all at one stor Ghtr it hit been Princeton star, the Ameri- trial, from r on another valuable. L you Nap Eu will lers of on I of Cantrell of Ok in as recruits manager wi ars, scven of spring c: new Jack t seco “ahort arc to their with depe regular in centertfie {8t of regulars, along Witk ster- Ying pitching of Vance, Grimes and Poak was chielly responsible for Brookiyn's brilliant showing in 1924 Last season, the Robins came out B of the ruck and staged a whirlwind B finish that came upsetting "the Gjants. This year, Uncle Robby | figures his club to be a contender | B from the start, wit Giants and Pirates as his most dangerous § position. "South Dakota Rejected Child Labor Amendment Pierre, 8. D., Jan. 22.—The B hakota senate yesterday defeated 85 %0 6 a joint resolution ratifying the ¥ ehild labor amendmernt to t fed- eral constitution. o op- South Score ENTERTAIN POLO PLAYERS Hurlingham Club Has Invited Rep- resentatives of American Army to be Guests During the Games. London, Jan. am Polo Club h —The Hurling- Invited repre- American army s of theclub during their in England next year, says Polo Monthly. “It is expected,” zine, “that the to ays the maga- American army team will arrive in England in May, at interest will attach to ®eir matches against the British my whom the eated 80 unexpectedly in the United States last year, It is at least ce n that Sir Harold e will spare no effort, with the of Lieutenant Colonel -Duff, to give the Ame a very agrecable tin vigit to this country. The ir matche at Hurling] to the most Xt season’s polo,” vew Baseball Stadium For Toronto Planned Toron Ont,, Jan. 22 dium for the Toronto International League baseball team on the 41hvw| commission’s property was practic ssured yesterday wh was passed and in sol- heir my promise be feature of 1 —A new sta- ¥ or at Ottawa handling over eight acres of land®for purpose. The present ball grounds are located Hanlan's Point and have o be reached from by ferry. This inconven- fence has been suggested as the re son for small crowds at the game T grounds are on the edge of the harbor near the center of the | city and belong to the federal gov- rnment. th on city new Given Eight to Ten Years for Killin~) Salem, Mass, Jan —ioro Maio of Lynn was allowed to plead guiity to a charge of manslaugier and accepted a sentence of from cight to ten years from Judge Mec- Leod in the superior court here yes- | terday. He had been indicted for murder in the second degree of his father-in-law. James Carrulll, who killed on October 13, 1924, in drunken braw! at a christening in Maio himself received & o ous stab wound in the back. wa a which €. Lawson, La Personal Hewtt C. Lawson 1. Belvid Troop Ref His wson 1 fouls, . Lawso Seore ere . 1 4 4 eree—Bradl ek 12 TFouls 0 1 Aronson n ) Ly perioc 7 10 Parker, 2 6 FIRPO IS MISSING Argentine Boxer Has Not Been At urday. Par is, Jan, Tt is Haunts Since Last sat- ~—Friends of Luis Angel Firpo here are a bit anxious today haunts in appea where from England, Firy jonal Sperting club waitir erning I ng Montmar the co red at from who his tre and Hotel irpo reg his arid has gular not he registered upon his return bo left Paris automobile, rn N n in P turday saying he spend Sur fonday. He arls sinee for the last five days driving wa iay has how- zrams sent him in care leadineg hotels in Rheims r grams, « fvvl’ letters oo garding and d fight with Tommy Gibbons, g his att entior Firpo 1s reported to t ¢ with his ne w f his friends fear he may with 1y unc Fir tor ca | Rheini Mon shown an accident, cing missing 1 haun friends to e countryside by tclephon hing at had set out v to he f po r Satu sayin and n signs of he for s i make inqu for him. this atterr Fontaineb! in his new spend § would act that e he mania with the aew machine ca fears that he migh a mishap. Fir am quirers that his car was ul chaudfeur. a caref po gave Indic at being posted as missing t have met ations of an irles was mo- nday at turn developing a spe used with noy- enough to take care of my ad tated region snapped been auto over the mobiling i nd assured drive ph the N by GIL DOBIE v L IAM I-IOPDE . IPIONS | Sport Nas Bi]!a_rds Willie (101 | | | Baseball ..... Football "I’ennis S . Tyrus R Gil D a| | club IN’ It's one thing to be a champion. | But to hold onto the laurels is| ‘sumdhix‘g else again. Many sportive celebrities have as- cended (o the topmost pinnacle after | la gallant uphill ciimb; have vaulted | the final barrier to success, [barring a few exceptions they have | |failed to retain their lofty positions for anything more than a limited spa | " Down the old sport trail, however, | [we find a handful or so who have lthwl to fame—and have stayed [\ithin the caleium glare for lengthy stretches; yea, have held the throne |for sensational periods. Some of |them have since passed from the championship class; others are sull They represent six of the major sports, | Hoppe Leads ‘Em Al | Heading the list of so-called spor- tive immortals is Willic Hoppe, ex- ponent de luxe of the billiard cue and the green table. Hoppe, once termed the ‘boy wonder,” has been outclicking opponents at the 18.2 valkline gime for clofe to two decades started on his merltorious r back in 1906. And he has clung tenaciously to the old | wreath ever since with the exception year when his most dan- gerous contemporary, Jake Schaefer, Jr. ruled the roost. n we have the great Ty Cobb. His supcrlative deeds on the major lcague ball fields are too well known to need much comment. From 1907 |up to and including the 1919 cam- paign, the Georgian topped the American league hitters every sea son but one—1916, when v momentarily halted Cobbian bombardment. | Uncqualled in Baseball Annals | Cobb's stellar batting areh Knows no 1el in all base his- Itory. Moreover, it isn't likely to be approached, efther. Back in 1912 a new srved as crowned. The perso referred to was Johnny Kilbane, a nd youth., Kilbane came in- title whipping the crafty of a si the Clevel to the L ight years Jo e chevrons packed away French , came along markable relgn was had perched one longer hefore or s an old in golf to that a mpion seldom But not to Chick Lvans, wizard vans, T ning as many togathers as any pastimer ir boasts record of havi grahbed the westerr amateur event times running. - He was t on his fifth attempt la Nine Years Without Defeat To Gil Dobie, now Cornell, goes the cha up the longest ing footbail Dobie, while cams at o University of W ton years went seasons withon that record over. atop the than any ince But pig big time golfing 1sto a4 aching at king streak in ashin tasting it you nsecutive at. Spot And then tt Bill Tilden, the I has played in the national singles past five seasons, enough to_ continu though it is rumor, pion plans to retirc Hoppe, Cobb, Dobie and Tilden jure with in the field names that will live in ums for all time, ds, baseball, boxing, g ball and tenni Champions all! « cham- this year Kilbane, Ivans, all names to con- of athietics; the sportive especially in , foot- AIC TRIMS RIDGEWOOD fe, N. J, Jan — P nool won its nsecus basketball vicio ting Ridgewood, to 17, ng tive EXTRAORDINARY! .. Johnny Kilbane ..... +«+v. Chick Evans . W.T. Tilden, J ij laurel | i me Reign cionsen, NEW YORK COMMISSION uses-227 - pENALIZRS TWO BOXERS 1912-1923 1920-1923 G (1907-1915 |Lew Tendler and Jack® Zivie Placed 11917-1919 1908-1916 1920- HOCKEY PLAYERS WAR Hoppeti v e oris . Cobb . obie . in “Durance Vile" for Six Months, New York, Jan. 22.—The penalty {for boxing Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champlon- who is in {disfavor with the New York state lathletic commission, will be six |month’s suspension in this state, the mmission determined yesterday. his measure will go Into cffect im- |mediately and will be retroactive, e Under the new ruling Bobby Bar- Dostoa, Jan. 22.—A campaign be- |1y, of Philadelphia, and Jock Ma- gun by the Boston Athletic associa- |lonc, of St. Paul, Minn., 'Who have tion to ban “homicidal hockey” was |been under the ban in this state for given new impetus today while a |C¢PRaging ih a mateh with Walker, b e |will be reinstated together with their |member ol the B. A. A. team, the |,y nap0rs, and Lew Tendler, of {third within a week to be placed on ‘Ivh.lu.y)pmg, and Jack Zivie, of the hospital list, was under care of |Pittsburgh, will be placed under the physicians. TIrving Small, veteran |ban. |detense man, was severely injured | Walk Milier, man |in last night's gamé against tne FloWe i \nnl) er Case of Unnecessary Rough- ness At Boston Drings Down Wrath of Officials. Berlin, N H., team here when “Bill |Was knocked out by Jack Delaney | harpe, Beriin defense man, struck |t Madison Square Garden last Fri- {nim ucross the face with his stick |day, complained to the commission Small was carried from the fee and Of @ torcign substence tn Delancy's jafter treatment at the City hospital, Blove which he alleged “brought et about the knockout.” Commissioner | Ofticlals sald the attack was un- [Brower said Miller conferred with [provoked. Small, they said, hooked Mim on Monday but that the evi- [Sharpe’s stick, an action for which 2 minor penalty Is usually imposed. The Berlin player refaliated by a blow which stretched the Boston Iplayer unconscious on the ice. Sharpe was sent off for the remain- |der of the game, and today B. A. A G Tcl3\s a1 o ot tan oty charges. wer told Miller could furnish proof of his tions. NURMI'S AMBITION Having erased the majority of indoor recor dence failed to substangiate Miller's | that | | athletic officials that he desired to Oy D vould 2 ta prompt action would be “k“"fl‘;‘":‘f‘}nmnm at Creighton until his pres- | FINISH FLASHN THOMORE RECORDS Lowers World Mark in Matches t Newark Games By The Assoclated Press, Newark, N. J, Jan, 22.—Paavo Nurmi, Finnlsh runner, shattered (wo more world's records In the two and three quarters mile special, the foature, of the St. Joseph's Catholic club games in the Newark armory last njght, Nurmi ran ghe full dis- tance in 13:08, LreaKlng Hannes Kolehmainen's record of 13:03 §-5 made 12 years ago. Nurm! also broke Kolehmainen's mark of 10:42 1.5 at 2 1-4 miles by 1-4 of a second. One of the times made hy lhc sensatiohal ¥inn's noted predecessor, however, remained intact when Nur- mi was four-fifths of a second slow in reaching the 2% mile line, Koleh- malnen established the three marks in a race in the Thirteenth Regiment armory in New York on February 12, 113, v Nurmi was not pressed at any time during the race despite the fact that his three opponents were given |handicaps of 150 yards. He caught the field at the mile and a half point and then lapped all three runners twice. He ran easily and apparent- Iy without effort. He appearod rest- ed from his strenuous week-end and during the last two laps gave the |crowded armory a thrill by coming thome in a dazzling sprint, As @ result of his two new records last night, Nurmi now holds ten in- door running marks, nine of which he bpoke &nd owe he established during his American campaign, A. L. A HAS GAMES Local Team Plays in Hartford To- | night and Tomorrow Night Goes to Middletown. 8 The A. L. A. basketball team with a bunch of rooters is echeduled to | appear at the Hartford high school gym tonight to show their wares against the Judeans. Players and rooters will leave club rooms at 6:45 eharp. Tomorrow night a large delega- tion of members will help cheer the A. L. A five in the Middletown armory, where the team will play the undefeated National Guards of that city. Both games are preliminary games to the fast Lyrics of Hartford and will start at 8 o'clock. | Wynne “Will ) Not ( Qult to | Go to Univ. of Nebraska | Omaha, Jan. —Chet Wynne, foothall coach at Creighton unive sity, today denied rumors that he | would become head football coach | at the University of Nebraska, He announced he had notified Nebraska | ent contract expires two years hence, Wynee's announcement came at a time when Nebraska authorities ad- mitted that the former Notre Dame fullback was regarded for the posi- SHOCKER CALLED GREATEST HURLER This Is What Ruppert Sags of Latest Acquisition New York, Jan, 22—LUrban Shock- er s the greatest pitchgg in bascball in the opinion of Colon® Jacog Rup« pert, owner of the New York Yankees, who_recently tzaded Joe Bush to the St. Louls Browns for the étar of the Mound City staff, Ruppert, in his first statement for publication since one of the most important of the winter deals was closed, admitted that he had. re- ceived numerous letters of protest at the departure of Bugh. “Don't forget that Shocker s somewhat of a hitter,” he sald. "Re- member, besides, that it takes a lot of ‘stuff’ in a man to work for sevey scagons in the lot weather of St. Louls and stiil pitch winning base- ball. Remember, also, that Shocker started pitching in the big leagues— he broke in with us in 1917—wlhen Bush was a veteran, ‘Bush pitched and won a world series game from the Giants for the Athletics in 1913. The four years' wear and tear on & pitcher make Shocker look the bet- ter from our viewpoint."” LITILE IS SELECTED Michigan’s Football Coach Succeeds Jones as Athletic Director at Uni- versity, Madison, Wis., Jan. ~—Georgo Ltitle, field coach of th, ‘niversity of Michigan football team, has been named to succeed T. E, Jones as ath- letic director at the University of Wisconsin, He will assume his du- ties here in the summer. Announcement of the selection W made after nearly two days of deliberations and debates, during which the name of Dr. Walter k. Meanwell,- University of Wisconsin basketball coach, was consid.red. In the closing session the athletic coun- cil deadlocked and the problem was turned over o the regents, Little, years old, was graduat ed from Ohio Wesleyan in 1912 went to Ohio State as assistunt toot- ball coach and has been virtually head football coach at Miehigan for the past two years., Organization of the coaching personnel will be left to him and the athletic council when he takes charg Jones, who resigned shortly after the 'football season, will devote his time to coaching the track team and other duties. STRIBLING IS WINNER icts Two Puuches in Stomach Then Comes Back and Outfights Jimmy Delaney of St. Paul. Grand Rapids, To dan, coung Stribbling, Georgla, following «Wo punches to the stomach in the sixth round, piled up points agains! him disqualified permanent |country and Canad The club recently withdraw from the Hockey assoclation ¥ suffered by cd in Pittsburgh las the Fort Pitt club of The serpent lLas heen worshiped as a god in almost | miles. cvery country in the Leo Hughes and | rd Van Gerbig fn a game pl s credited to Jole Ray of Chicago and made appreciable in- roads on the honors of Kolehmainen, Nurmi next will scek to topple the | fieures established by the marvel- lous runner of the early century, Al |Shrubb of England. At the Morn- ingside A. C. games on January 30, the modern Mercury will endeaver to better 10 minutes, 57 seconds for the 4,000 yards, a little over 2 1-4 Shrubb accomplished this {time fn 1904. in this tion; TO RACE New York, Jan, | Rochester, N. who was a member threatened to U. s ateur wse in- of t week agains that city. at some clal ra featuring the games February 7. time excellent indoor & form world, Wilco event. It Happens in the Best Regulated Theater ring | ( FOR GOODNESS SAKE IMARGE Don'T SToP (. To POWDER - - WE'RE THe AD SAYS THE CURTAIN GOES UP EIGHT THIRTY PRCMPT 0 JEVE PrRoBABLY \, MISSED 7‘-'E> / Wi It I /Ily////_\,/—\ [ 11 /’// ' 1y y ////” ”’/"/L’//r’// - o et ™ NU. . —William Cox, Olympic team, will be pitted against | Paavo Nurmi in the 3000 meter spe- | Cox has shown t his best at the distance of the Jimmy Delaney ot St* Paul, in a 10- round match here last night until he | gained a newspaper decision. De- laney was floored by the punches for a count of three, but clever blocking enabled him to last out the round | Both men are light heavyweights. RMI of the ]9"4 YALE MERMEN W New Haven, Jan. 22—Thc Yale Swimming team defeated a team from Wesleyan, 49 to 13, in a ser- 1ies of water events here last night. BRIGGS Wilco A. A. recently and NOow FOR MERCY SAKE CALM YOURSEL WwWiLL WE Re GOING FAST ‘/\\ AS LONG AS WE'VE BEEN GOING To THE THEATRE - You STiLL BELIEVE THE CURTAWN WILL RISE AT EIGHT *rmnrv n