New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1925, Page 8

SUPERIOR TEAMWORK BY NATIONAL GUAR AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION — DELANEY AND FLOWERS FIGHT IT OUT TONIGHT —SOUTH CHURCH TEAM LOSES A CLOSE GAME IELANEY NATIONAL GUARDS GET EVEN WITH SPRINGFIELD Y. M. H. A. | Playing as a Unit, the Locals Defeat Rivals | Who Battered Them Badly Earlier in Month | —Final Score 43-31. The National Guards obtained eet wevenge last night when they | decisively defeated the fast Y. M. H. A from 43-31 at the armory, thus evening up things for the defeat they suftered at the hands of the same team earlier in the month, ] In last night's game it was a con- tost between a team composcd of in- dividual players and a team com- posed of five players working as a unit—and it was the Nats that worked as a wnit. As a result of ghelr good teamwork and effe passing, the Nats took the lead in the game and never again were headed, At half time the score gound Springfield trailing 24-11. The work of all the local players was of the highest order last night, | but the guarding of Captain Shee- han stood out as unusually good. At forward Mert Taylor seemed to have found himself again and he accou ed for 13 poin Restelll also had a fine night, He outjumped all of the Springfleld centers and his ey was almost unerring. It was Re- stelli who sunk the first fleld goal after a minute of play and it was he who took the lead again after Nad- Jer had tled it up. Then Reynolds, got a foul, putting New Britaln ahead and Taylor increased the ad-| vantage, followed by Kilduft and Re- | stelli and from then on the outcome was not in doubt. | h me Triday Night | Tomorrow night the Guards. jourhey to New Ha take on the Atlas on the latter's| home court and a battle royal expected. The Nats have one victo over the New Haveners this season | and expect to make it two tomorrow night. Saturday night the Bristol West provide the opposition. ! Summary of last night's gam | National Guards. | Fid. FL Tt 1 five Springfeld te 13 0 Kilduff, lg i 8 T 0 18 springficld. | Fid Ttls Danny Buski, 1 10 Walkow, ©f . Weinstein, ¢, Whalen, ¢ . Ziff, ¢ .. Nadler, T8 . Guber 0 0| 1 sl 1 teserves Win. In the preliminary game the Na- tional Guard Reserves defeated the| Merlden Eagles 36 to 23. Knapp and | Gerokowski were the scoring aces for | the locals. The summary: | | | Na-| Tagles. McGuire, 1€ . Hirst, If ... Curlyo, rf Tilipik, rf Wiech, ¢ Johnson, rg . rkowski, S ? inklestein, 1 Di 1 Huck, ¢ Gerokows CUBS ARE OFF §cventeen Players, Sports Writer and Guests Leave Windy City For Catalina Island. venteen play- gests, includ- Ve and here today camp at Cat exception of two uns the nou The play Bob Barret a alina Islan coast, the cl r was pro- Adams rs, Sparky Abe Bob O'Farrell, Ed Pittenger and Joe Wes! ight the Charley Grimm, Bill Dick ones, Charley Taylor At Kansas City tc party wiil be joined Denver Grigs Morgan, Percy and Art We Manager Bill Killefer alre the isldnd, With him are W Cooper, the veteran pitcher pre ffom the Pittsburgh Pirates winter; George Steuland, from Seattle; Charlie Root, who pitéhed last season with Los Angeles; Rabbit Maranville, former Pirate. and the yeteran Grover Cleveland Alexander. The opening workeut is planned | for next Monday. | by Jacobs, ro! s. | at longer distanc cuse NURMI ALONES SHFE ON THRONE As Champion, He Hardly Will Be Displaced Very Soon New York, Feb, 26.—Few cham- plons in sport have a secure hold upon their thrones but nothing-less | than an athletic miracle can dis- lodge Paavo Nurmi from his ‘:msp} upon the scepter of distance running At varying dl!mncns,‘ under all sorts of conditions and | against all classes of opposition, the phantom Finn goes racing on to uu»“ | this year. | glory of victory and world's records. | Athletic experts thought Nurmi had reached his greatest heights when he raced to four victories at the 1924 Olymplcs but his perform- ances indoors within the ,past two months have steadily added to his sensational record. In that time he has registered 23 world’s record feats in 22 races. Paavo himself, near- ing the age of 28, thinks he has yet to attain his hest form and hopes to blaze a record-wrecking trail at dis- tances of from 8§00 metres to the Marathon within the next five years. Qutdoors, he now holds practically all important records from one to seven miles and indoors, since Janu- ary 6, he has hung up nearly thirty | world's records in a score of races. | Spectators think of Nurmi miore | as a machine than a personality. | Rare _powers of concentration, | coupled® with a euperbly conditioned | body, uncanny judgment of pace and | faultless style, form the foundation of his remarkable succe Coffce is his chief stimulant and he often drinks several cups on the | day of a race, n apple between | aces helps tide him over a par-| ticularly strenuous evening's pro- gram. | Just now, Nurmi's most dangerous opponents indoors appear to be Lloyd Hahn, of.the DBoston A. A, | who has lowered the Finn's records for a mile and 1,500 metros, and Willie Ritola, sturdy countryman of | the invader, who is more at home | Either of this pair or Joie Iay or some star that bas not vet flashed to the front ma measure before is campuign, but the odds| against such an upset. Nurmi has not yet tetcd the limit of his d and stamir He | achieved what experts declared the | impossible when he raced two miles | in less than nine minutes, Likel he will perform many more ‘“im- possible” feats before he is through spec VANKEE RECRUIT HITS BALL HARD Bubrey However Uses His Head Instead of the Bat | w York, Feb, Martin Aut-| Yankee recruit who did some hing for Pittsficid, Mass., of the st summer, his | " in his ork- | ' new baseball and was ex- practice. cad in stopping a batte carried a badly | brujsed With Schwar Atlanta th Monroe only | former Waehington 1 Detroit left hander, was missing om the early Nick Cullop gain roll, d a bute from t ng to all batting. Huggins far as to say t from indications the pit r-outfielder will have a on with the Yankec er-in- | steady | s as a re- | f, Bill Ryan ott worked with ti ers at the Giants' o “Li' r take off abo and Jack recruit pite e session in Sar- is too big and | pounds while an can lost and &till be n. The National league cham- pions had a little of everything but not enough to tire them, Frank Frisch, capta baseman, is r- 1sota Arth mus some and second ported ready to sign it Manager Me- on the scene 9-2-A4 TEAM WIN Defeats 9-1-B in Bas) at the Elihu Bur to 4. The pass work oL thie rs was good thall Game School ¥ seh by a score of 3 ading scorer y McCarthy he | ¢ RUIT | Mafer, 1 |Goodrich, r.f, re l\\n]w, lg | derness, each HARTFORD EVENS WITH S0. CHURCH Takes Close Game, 23-21, in Last Minute of Play —_— The South Congregatlonal church of Hartford barely managed to turn the tables on the local Bouth church last night at the Boys' club by de- feating them in a fast and hard game, 23-21, A month ago the lo- cals triumphed, 49-48, and, curious- ly enough, both games were decided by field goals In the last minute of i The Hartford team was heavier than the locals, but there |was no more perceptible difference in the playing abilities of the two teams than the two small margins of victory would indicate. Both teams showed much improvement in defense last night and broke up their opponents’ passwork and dribbling with great consistency. Maier, former Hartford high man and star of the visitors, began the game by tearing under the basket and shooting a field goal, repeating the same act a few seconds later. Klelst put the locals in the game with a pretty long one, but Maler ‘again broke through to ring up & double decker. Wilks was fouled and made good one of his tries, and Adams followed this with a field goal. Parker grabbed a puss, dashed under the basket and flipped the ball in to put New Britain ahead at 7-6 os the whistle blew, ledlow put the visitors in the van at the start of the second period, and they continued there throughout the (whole quarter, leading by 13-9 at the half. Captain Johnson, who had missed his train, arrived in time to start the second half. Adams flipped in a field goal to make it 13-11, but Johnson got his only basket of the night to put his team's score at 15, Parker again ripped through for a quick shot. Maier sank a long shot, but Parker tossed in his third goal and Adams tied the scoreiat 17 all as the quarter ended, Maier again put the visitors ahead in the last quarter, and Bedlow brought it to 21-17, but Kleist brought New Britain within range nd then Adams tied the score with a spectacular shot with his guard draped ound his shoulders. The battle ged up and down the floor without successful shooting for some minutes, both teams playing frenz- iedly and pufting up magnificent defenses. Then Bartlett received the ball on a pass from out of bounds (and with Parker on his neck, tossed the lo- als were in good scoring position at the final whistle Maler was the individual star of the game, being fast and a good the winning goal, althougl dribbler and shooting from all angles, | Bartlett and Nordstrom put great defense, while Bedlow at cen- ter got the jump most of the time. I'or New Britain, Adams led the scoring with Parker right behind, both missed several casy ones. t made two nice long ones. Kil- duft and Wilks had their hands full with Maier, but covered him well. e locals were poor on fouls, naking only one out of nine tries. A third and deciding game be- tween these two teams may be pla; ed in Hartford soon, although it is not yet certain. The score: Hartfol Tield Foul m Pts. 14 0 0 Johson, Bedlov r.f.(capt.) . Nordstrom, g 10 New Britain Field Parker, r.f.(capt.) . 3 0 Toul 0 4 0 3 Klei; Kilduff, 0 1 1 21 Personal Kileist 3, Wilks 2, Adams, Maier 2, Goodrich, Nord- strom, Joh n . Score hy period New Britain Hartford £. 4—21 6—23 Scorer—E, Har- Rockwell —Aronson Timer: ONLY THREE SCRATCH re tu All Other Golfing Amateurs Are Given Handicaps In the St. An- drew’s Revised Listing. London, Feb. amateurs are rated as scratch golfers revised list of national handi by the royal and neient championship committee of St. Andrew's they are Cyril Tolley, Wethered and Sir Ernest Hol- of whom ha at one won the amateur 26 In the new aps issued time or another champior The har m scratet ship. licap list contains and only players with a are given 2 and hich to the aver- 3ritain’s ama- teur golfing 100k in'a somewhat poor $50 frc handicap of o ¢ he tightening-up of the handicap | means that the ultimate winer of Beckm Karlor Appel feree—Leard | Keorer—R. Segal Timer—"Shmuck” Huberg3™ the amateur champlonship will have to play his best in every round of the tournament as all competitors play from scratch and only player with a | | handicap of 4 or better are cligible Boys Sentenced to Be Spanked as Punishment Philadelphia, Feb. 26.—A spank- ing a day for 47 days was the sen tence imposed upon two boys ye terday in juvenile court, to reim- burse their fathers for $47 damages each parent had to pay as a result of the robbery of & hardware store by the boys —Only three | .| day afternoon 4 p. m. 1 American average 8. Yo Feb, "2 22 George Sisler led the league in batting with an of .420, He was awarded the trophy that goes with being voted the most valuable player in the organization. Eye trouble kept Sisler out of the game the entire scason of 1923, Last season he did a comeback to the extent of .305 at bat, a falling of 115 points. American league [that Sisler now has atting zones, The smart twirlers say that Sisler | murders a ball pitched shoulder | nigh. ~ They rate him a .375 bats- man on balls so pitched, At the walstline he is not so effective. He is figured just about a /300 hitter against that kind of hurling. The knce-high ball is considered a decided weakness. If properly pitched to at that point it |is argued he is no better than a batter, 8isler is perfectly aware that the American league pitchers have him 80 sized up but he scoffs at the ide “I batted better than .300 Jast sc son after being out of the game for a year,” suys Sisler, “that would make it seem that T am still pretty dangerous at the bat. “I expect to improve my batting enough this year so that I will finish around the .350 mark.” The peculiar feature of Sisler's present batting status is that it is directly opposite from the orjginal dope on him. When Sisler came to the American league he was a low-ball batter. 1t was almost suicide to pitclt him a ball between the knee and waist. A ball pitched shoulder high was regarded as his one weakness at the |bat. With two strikes on | pitchers always wasted a | pitehied shoulder high to variably he hit at it ar strikeout vietim. The theory is that th insist distinct pitchers three him, eye afflic- |an entire season makes it diffioul | pitched waist high or lower. The high ball, pitched more | his line of vision, is much easier follow and therefore hit Sisler’s showing this year will de- termine whether or not the pitchers ve the right dope and will defi- | nitely determine the extent of his | comback. on to SOGGOLE RUNS OFF 18 AND MOLDOWNEY 13 Former Wins 200 to 163 — Friday Night Scapelotti Plays the City Champion Soccoll won over Mul by whh score of 0 to 163 Rogers | [last night. A large audience watched this last half of their match {and they witnessed a very good game | by both players, Scccoli ran 1§ and Muldowney ran 14 for high runs, | Friday night Scapelatti plays Soc- colt the first half of the 200 to 180 | maten, | Class B games played last night: | Frisk defeated Traeceski 75 to 67. McNeil defeated Traeceski 75 to €1 Traeceski defeated Neri The cueists of the | Trust company tournament next Monday afternoon with the following schedule: Mon- day 4 p. m., Thomas vs. Lamphier, Nassford vs. Pease, Hawkins vs. Daley, Lammel vs, Walker. Thurs- Thomas vs. Lamphier vs. Walker, Dal 75 to 41 Commercial | Bassford, | Hawkins vs. Pease, mel. THE HERALD CrL BRING RESULTS tion that kept him out of the game | | for him to focus quickly on a |u“‘:‘ | l DEFEATS SPRINGFIELD RITOLA WILL APPEAR | by the registration committee of the officials here. ray Hulbert will order a telegraphic | action, Ritola may participate in the 5 | National A tola had planned to leave south this afternoon. [ most like {the Olympi |mi, who |, officlals a definite answer to Nurmi and his manager, Hugo Qui I have declined to take the journey {but the question has been reopened |at the carnes | officials, | South ! champion, | Dattic IFIED ADS ¢ vs. Lam- | Y.M. H. A — T0 PROTEST RULING Probably Telegraphic Poll of Ama- teur Athletic Officials Will Be Taken Feb, 26.—Willie Ri- American A, C. dis- runner, suspended last night tola, e ternational New England assoclation of the amateur athletic union, will appear immediately, according to national {field has not touch. As standing. He had a It is expected that President Mur- poll of the national registration com- mittee in order that, with favorable U, championghips at , Saturday night. Ri- for the Louisville, Ky to 143, 309 and 197 144 4-0. form, It Ritola goes to Louisville he will be accompanied by champion, Paavo Nur- 5 promised to give A defeat soliclation of national the meet. TO FIGHT TONIGHT Teb, 26.—Jim Maloney, Boston's 22-year old heavy- weight and Quintin Romero, Chilean are reported to be in good condition for their ten round here tonigh nigh Jake Schacfc land E |tleholde: Boston, bh Man! Oh Woman Yes! WHAT . SHALL WE See’ R How ABoOUT TAKING IN A GOOD SHOW ToNIGHT ¥ = SN 04 LISTEN To WHAT A | oH YEs! CRIT(C SAYS ABOLT “THE NICE AWFUL WoMAN WORD IN SMUT_AND NASTINESS.. SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED To RUN~ oH BoY~ tart an eight-man | Chicago, Feb. tournament wa of K. champlion, 400 to 12 champion had a run of 240 and an average of $0. Both high marks of The f both thelr star LET'S G&T TICKETS FOR SISLER HAS 3 BATTING ZONES HOPPE STILL KING Billilard Expert Shows That He Has Not Lost His Delicate Touch From Three Cushion Play. here, his he harmed usual, side bet with runs and an average Cochran showed flashes of but fell down on should have made. The most startling display of the Edouard Horemans' Suzuki, the Japanese The Belgian shots Cochran and Suzuki were sched- uled to play this afternoon and to- s match r, will bring former two NOW= Ut~ LET'S SEC -- M- M- "owD LACE™ A CLEAN SHOW FOR CLEAN PEOPLE - HOWS THAT= - NO 7 THEM A LoT OF MoONE Y~ on DEARY | DID WANT to SEE THAT .—Willie Hoppe, defending his world's championship at 18.2 balkline billlards in the in- tournament demonstrated to supporters that his recent advent into the thre has ‘cushion delicate heads the Welker Cochran in their match last night lana the Hollywood youth paid for a dinner and theater tickets after the veteran titieholder defeated him 400 Hoppe compiled together | champion, | p Hagenlacher, German ti- | have lost | while Schaefer and Hagenlacher have won single games and lost none. WILLIE. RITOLA SUSPENDED BY NEW ENGLAND NEW ENGLAND A, A SUSPENDS RITOLA | Famous Runuer Ont Until Ban Is Lilted Cambridge, Mass, Feb, 26.—The reglstration committee of the New Fngland assoclation of the amateur athletlc union met here last night and suspended Willle Ritola, I nish-American distance runner, for failing to run in the Legion mile, at the American Legion track meet in Boston Washnigton's birthday. The committee also decided to de- mapd an explanation of Lioyd Hahn, | B. A, A, miler, of his alleged poor showing In the same event. Ells- worth Haggerty, of Harvard and Clarence Archibald, of Bates, will be asked to appear at the committee | meeting next week and explain why they weren't on hand when the Leglon mile field was called for the sart. Ritola's suspension means he can- not take part in any A, A, U, meet in the United States until the ban on him is lifted. It is possible, it was said last night, that the na- tional reglstration committee of the A, A. U, may be asked to take a tolegraph vote regarding Ritola's status, so that, if he is cleared, he may compete in the national cham- pionships in Louisville, Ky, Satur- day night. Neitlfer Ritola or his manager, Hugo Quist appeared at last night's meeting to answer the charges brought by Charles F. Gorman, di- rector of athletics for the Massachu- setts department of the American | Legion, although they were notifed in time to be present. Gorman, who s a member of the registration committee did not attend the meet- ing as a member, but as the person who brought the charges against the runner. The committee talked over the tclephone with the New York head- ‘quarters of the A, A. U. for nearly four hours, Dan Ferris acting ad spokesman for Qujst, Tred Rubien, secretary of the A, A. also took part in the conversations from New York. .. Quist, it is said, admitted accept- ing $40.40 from Gorman, the sum being given him to cover his and Paava Nurmi's transportation from Boston to Buffalo, and being given with the understanding that a like amount was to be given to Ritola in | order that he might come to Bos- fon for the Legion mcet. Quist is| said to have assumed the full re- sponsibility for Ritola's non-appear- ance and to have expressed his ins tention of returning the money to explained that it Ritola desires to be reinstated he must ap- ply for a hearing. If he is unable to appear before the committee in person he has the privilege of sub- mitting an affidavit explaining his of | faflure to run in the Leglon meet. of Tigers’ First Player Is Off for the Southland Detroit, Teh. 26.—Detrolt’s first contribution to the southern base- ball migration began today when Jimmy Duggan, trainer of the Tygers, hoarded a southhdund train, Harry Hellmann changed his mind about going to Mot Springs, Arkansas, for a few days and will leave with several other members of the cluh who are scheduled to de- part from Detrolt for August: Gs Raturda; Others who will Saturday are Lu Blue, Bobby Jones, Tarry Woodall and Willlam C. Johnson, former Michigan Aggles piteher, he OH * No!! \T SOUNDS Too NICEY PAZ FOLKS = ENGLAN [ ) WHAT'S THAT!? ALL SOLD OUT For Six weexs TCAN'T You SELL ME STARDING ROOM oR SOMETHING ! AW PHSHAWY THE WAY RI1S-RAY I DoN'T DoESN'T juse Vincent Shields, | Browns prepared “NANTUCKET WHOLE SOME NEW. PATRONIZE THE NEET FLOWERS TONIGHT Brdgporter and Suterm Bat flér to Mingle in New York New York, Feb, 26.—Tiger Flow- ere, Atlanta negro middlewelght, who In the past has come back from knockouts to defeat his con- querors in return meetings, will have another attempt to prove his ability when he encounters Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn,, in Madison Square Garden tonight, Flowers went down for the count| in the sccond round of his meeting | with Delaney several weeks ago bus| since then has stopped six opponents while Delaney has lost on points to Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo. The | negro came Into prominence early in the winter by gaining a technical knockout over the former middle- weight champion, Johnny Wilson, in three rounds, He traveled the countyy and scored several more knockouts, but ran into & half up- percut in the right hand of Delaney. Delaney has been training at his home in Bridgeport and is reported very near the 163 pounds he carried when he last entered the ring, while Flowers has been conditioning him- self by participating in actual com- petition, Another 12-round bout has the two negro heavyweights, George Godfrey and Tut Jackson, ready for action, PICKING OUT PITCHERS Manager Rickey of the Cardinals is Looking Over His Hurlers to See Best Prospects, St. Louls, Mo., Feb, 26,.—Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Car- dinals is trying to reach some con- clusion as to the pitehers he will {send to the firing line in the initial games, following a practice session yestorday at Btockton, California, that centered on the hurlers. The youngsters tossed to the batters, while the older heads were kept out of the box, doing their stunt by running around the field. Sacramento’s team goes to Stock- ton Saturday for the first exhibition cngagement of thé Cardinals and the teams will meet again SBunday, Rickey sald he would probably Charles Rhem, Guilford Paulson, Clyde Day, Gay- lord Reppy and William Hallahan on the mound. These youngsters ap- pear in good condition and anxious! to start, he said. At Tarpon Springs, Ga., the| for their first workout. Nine players already had been on the scene, awaiting the ar-| rival of the party which left St.| Louis Tuesday. | Short Wave Radio Signals Are Heard Across Ocean| Hartford, Ieb. 26.—Short wave| amateur radio sigpals have crossed the Atlantic in daylight for the first| time the Amerfcan Radio Relay| lcague reported yesterday upon re-| celving a radiogram from an amateur operator. The signals were trans- mitted by John T. Reinarts of South Manchester, Conn,, the A. It. R. L. stated and received by F. A.| Mayer of Wickford, Essex, Hngland, at 10 a, m, eastern standard time, on a wave length of 21 meters. The use of extremely short waves now makes it possible for amateurs to cover extraordinary long distances ii| daylight. \ | NOTHING DOING -7 SounDds Too SWEETY SWEGT A GooD © ROMANEE" = How ABOVUT 9 17's TERRIBLE ARE GOING Too FAR -* 1 SHALL WRITE A LETTCR OF FoLwks SHows sSEE WHY THE L SToP, / Tw ITs DISGUSTING EsE SALACIOUS mPRoésucnws