New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1925, Page 9

Ll ] . o L O o st | “Bowdoin has the call this year as the popular opening college nine of Speaking the east. After starting off Colum- of Sports!| i | bla on J'uesday and Princeton yes- ague basketball season ls terday, the Bowdoin team today will be the opposing club in Fordham's initlal diaménd effort at Fordham fleld, showing declded signs of life coln- cldent with the announcement that the Lyries play here Saturday night. The National Guards In spite of the faet that he t yet parted company with reat eal of the excess poundage willed to him during his winter vacation in has Brief Sketches of Famous Stars EDD J. ROUSH | Cinclanati Reds Outticlder Born—Oakland City, Ind., May 8, ‘practice last night and are of eonditlon. If they play on Baturday as they J1d last week the Lyrics will be un- ihle ty stop them~but on the doubt of thelr playing that way rests the thcertginity and hence the interest. ubizshoct The fans will se one of the hest nalr of forwards in the game when ‘lulcolm and Feldman take the floor or the Lyries, These boys, playing ‘ogether alhice childhood, know each other's game perfectly and thelr ex- “ibition always is of the classiest, lite will jump center for the visl- lors. Three local haseball organizations with more than local interest al- ready are actively engaged in “talk- ing it up” for the comipg season— The Corbin Red Sox, the Pirates and the Faleons. All three expect to put strong teams on the dlamond. According to pre-season dope, there will be a Iittlé stealing of players among these teams, at least two of them clalming players that Just season played with the rival or- ganizations. While nothing definite has been done as yet, it is very likely that the city baseball league again will be organized for Saturday afternoon games at the park. There also is some talk in certain quarters about organizing an Industrial league simi- had & good in pink Sudbury, Mass, Babe Ruth is claim- his best year in the tralning camp. The Yankee slugger thus far has hit four homers and compiled a gen- eral average of .480, Can you imagine a scoreless bas- ketball game golng seven extra per- foda? That s what hgppened in a girls’ contest in the Middle West the other day, and the strangest part of the game was that, at the end of the eleventh period, both teams were still where they had been at the start, for neither had been able to score a single point, It was a cham- 8o frightened by the wearled appoar- ance of the playérs that he tossed a coin to declde the winner. Which beats the Hartford-New Britain high school game of a few years ago, when New Britaln led Ly 2-1 at the end of the first half. _ EARTH DROPS AWAY Brookhaven, Miss,, Has Cracks That Are “Bottomless’—Falling Away At Rate of ¥oot a Day. Brookhaven, Miss, April Thousands of persons aré visiting the vicinity of Union ehurch, a vil- lage west of here, where the earth is cracking and sinking in an arca a quarter of a mile long and about s ©d by baseball experts to be having pionship game, but thé referee was 40 feet wide, Some of the cracks were described as ‘“bottomless,” while parts of the atrip have sunk from one to 15 feet, The dropping of the earth continues at an esti- mated rate of a foot a day. One theory is that hundreds of years ago aborigines inhabiting the country dug underground cham- | bers beneath the hills, the entrances lar to the Industrial Basketball Icague, Coach Cassidy of the high school expects to have his baseball candi- dates engaged in active workouts within the pext few weeks, From the material at hand the school ought to have a first class aggrega- L subsequently being filled and the v ) carth only now caving in. Arrow- It wis boause-Keank Felsch and |, . o ‘ona broken bits of pottery Fred Lindstrom played “gentlemanly baseball” that they are temporari- Iy lost to the Giants as the result of strains guffered on almost identical plays, the veteran Hugh Jennings said yesterday. Had they raised » ‘ their spikes high in the air sliaing| Killed by Fumes of Gas into second base—even at the ex-| New York, April 2.—Three 75- pense of the baseman’s legs—as old- |year-old men, companions for sever- timers did, they would have been || years in the Gorman Evangelical spared their injuries, Hugh assert- | ome for the aged in Chauncey ol G |street, Brooklyn, were found as- b |phyxiated today in their room. Gas Although the path to the indoor [escaping from a heater, the flame of singles championhip is considered by | which had been extinguished, caused tennis critics as offering few hurdles |their deaths. Thirty other aged men for Jean Borotra, his fight for the |in an adjoining raom escaped injury, doubles title is not expected to prove although the gas seeped throughout s0 easy. Two strong teams still con- [the building. front the French star and his part- | The dead men were Adam Meuser, A. W. Asthalter—Dr. George | Michael Hemrich and Julius Heng- have been found in large quantities in the territory. {Three 75 Year Old— Men ner, Ring and Fred Anderson in the [stler. The three had been compan- lower half and Watson M, Washburn [ions ever since they entered the and E, T. Hermdon in the upper {home and they slept in the same half. . room, THE MEN’S STORE of New Britain [haps they never 1803, Major League Career-—~Joined New York Glants in 1916 through sale by the Newark club of the Federal League, Traded to Cincinnati in middle of same scason with Mathew- #on and McKechnie for Herzog and Wade Killefer. (Had short trial with Chicago White, Sox back in 1913.) Outstanding Feats—Led league fn batting In 1917 and 1919, (Noted for houldout proelivities.) On the Alleys ROGERS' BOWLING ALLEYS P. & F, CORBIN FT)R!MH.\"H LEAGUE Bul Shepard Bentley Porks A. Zeiglor . Putney Rollinsoy Forrow Terry Tiehm Telch Sehmaldt Kuper Riba Rtipeck Thomas 4081184 Denlan Barbour Clock. Kyritko Trask 04 35 Leavitt Rruemmer Kron Spence Allen Wessels JTackson Rrown Morton Rawlings iy 66 st 369 408—1170 TRACKS BLOGKED Derailed Freight Train At West- field, N, Y., Holds Up All Traftic On Main Lines, Westfleld, N, Y., April 2.—A | de- railed frelght train opposite the pas- senger station here blocked all four New York Central tracks this morn- Ing. All trains, both east and west- bound, were being detoured over the Nickel Plate tracks this fore- noon: A broken wheel sent the freight into the ditch, buckling part of the cars at right angles across the four track right of way, No one was hurt, Wreck trains from Buffalo and Erie were sent to the scene im- mediately and officials expected to have all tracks open within a few hours. Indian Athletes Trying | To Defeat Finnish Star | 3 |aster sufferers. |ceived since, continue to NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MORE HELP ASKED Rehabilitation Purposes Requests for rellef for the suffers ers in the tornado in the west con- tinue ta come In to the New Britain chapter of the American Red Cross and Chairman Curtls L. Sheldon s being importuned to have New Brit. ain do its share towards relieving the situation. Mr, Bheldon already has recelved about $200 towards the relief of suf- ferers and he expects considerably more in a short tine, He has not made much of an, ef- fort to raise any funds nor has he made his correspondence publie prior to today because of the United Community corporation drive which closed yesterday. The first notification that help was desired from New Britaln eame in a telegram which was published in the Herald a few days after the storm. Since the recelpt of the telegram Mr. Sheldon has had at least three letters, In the letter from John Barton 3 |Payne, chairman of the tornado re- liet department, the following state- ments are made: “The American Na- tional Red Cross has been engaged in administering relief to disaster sufferers throughout the entire area aftected by the recent tornado al- most from the moment of its occur- ence. Your chapter is authorized to accept in behalf of the American Red Cross for transmittal to national headquarters at Washington all con- tributions for the reliet of the dis- Individual contribu- tions will be restricted by the Red Cross to any particular area when so designated by the donors.” Other letters which have been re- stress the point that funds are necded. They say there are.adequate suppliés of clothing and food, but that funds are needed and will be needed for a long time for rehabilitation pur- poses, CLEAN-UP CANPAIGN Commander of Disabled Veterans Says He Wants (o Get Certain Washington Officials Out, Seattle, Wash,, April 2.—Frank J. Irwin of New York, national com- mander of the Disabled Veterans of the World War, said in an address before the Seattle Post of the or- der last night -that a campaign is being waged “to clean out a ring in the central office at Washington.” “Wa do nod believe that Colonel Forbes alone was rosponsible for conditions found in the bureau,” said Irwin. “‘Some of the men who served under him are serving under Brigadier General FFrank Hines, The opinion throughout the ecast is that these men should go. “Conditions in Veterans’' hospitals have shown marked improvement, Thera has been some improvement in the bureau but not as much as we should like.” Father of Ellingson Girl Takes the Stand Today Los Angeles, April 2.—A little squad of Indian long distance run ners of the Sherman Indian school near Riverside are training with an intensity and enthusiasm that pe have equalled be- fore. They have a stiff assignment— the defeat of Paavo Nurmi—and if they do not accomplish their goal it will not be because of lack of prepa- ration. Charles Paddock and Loren Mur- chison, star sprinters, prior to their | departure on a trip around the world | ' spent much time training the Indi- | ans. The Redskins hope Nurmi will | consent to run about five miles. The race will be held here April 25 e 3. New Fangled Receiver For Deaf in Audience New York, April 2.—Officers and directors of the New ‘York league | for the hard of hearing will cast | aside their ear trumpets tonight, when they attend the fifth anniver- sary dinner of “Better Times,” New York's Welfare Magazine, to be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, ' telephone receiv- er that fits into the outer ear will Do. part of the equipment provided | each of the guests, to enable him to enjoy the proceedings. ! | The receiver,. part of a new type of apparatus for the hard of hear- | ing, is exceedingly small, with a almost: magnetic in its If his =mlid or fellow man, ), 18 of fine woolens in colorings te, his success in both social o is made more easily and more maker In this country whose suits and top coats stand ulders above them all — that's (el pours Bo wear Baster. weight of only six-tenths of an | ounce with its connection cord, but | is said to give a sound out of all proportion to its size. This is madr‘ possible; it is said, through the n.tr\* of a newly discovered “permalloy.” SALESMAN SAM |had swooned day’s proceedings and later was visit- | orders. T San Francisco, April 2.—Joscph | Ellingson, father of Dorothy Elling- [son, 17, is expected to take the stand today to tell might indicate his daughter was in- | sane when she shot and killed her | |mother, Anna Ellingson, last Janu- | what he knows that ife and environment. The young (defendant was removed to her ccll n the county Jail Jast night after she at the close of the d by several cxperts on mental dis- | | ROLLER SKATING EVERY EVENING Also Saturday Afternoous, Arch st Jester's Hall FOR STORM AREA Victims Ask Red Cross Aid for | Witnesses for the defense are ex- | pected to testify as to the girl's early THURSDAY, APRIL 2 FOLEY LEAVES HIS ALL T0 MARIA” McKAIGNEY Former Tammany Leader Remem- bers Daughter pr His Boyhood Marriage, New York, April 2—A daughter of the late Thomas F, Foley, Tam- many leader, by a boyhood marriage of which the general publlc was un- aware, was bequeathed his estate, estimated at only $15,000 in his will filed in surrogates court yesterday. The will, executed April 24, 1923, left nothing to the widow, his sec. ond wife, who died only a few weeks after the death of her husband. Mr, Foley explained that his wife already had between $40,000 and $50,000, The will named his daughter a “Marfa McKalgney, daughter of Mary Connors, who resldéd at th time of her death in Brookly: Michael A. Delagi, former secretary to Mr. ¥oley, sald Mrs, McKaigney attended Mr, Foley's funeral and was known to Mrs, Foley, Mrs, McKaig- ney’s present address could not be learned. A sister-in-law, Mrs, Peter Me- Kalgney, said Mr. Foley married Mary Connors when lie was only 19 of 20 vears old, and that she died at the birth of'the daughter to whom he left his estate, An earlier will, which "was signed by Mr. Foley in 1919 it was learned, | made no reference to the daughter, | But Two Badies Are [ Recovered in Germany Veltheim on the Weser, Germany, Aprl 2.—The bodies of only two of | the 79 Infantry troopers drowned, in | the capsizing of pontoons while crossing the Weser river near here Tuesday have thus far been recov- ered, In addition to army ploneers and technical auxiliary corps, merous volunteer squads composed of fisherfolk from along the Weser are dragging the river for a distance of 20 miles. One of the sunken pon- toons, in which it is believed many of the victims were trapped, is being raised today. General Von Seeckt, the chief of staff, has arrived to su- pervise the work of recovering the bodies, nu- [nephew, 1925, SCHOOL BOYS $AY THEY TOOK JEWELS New York Youngsters Conless $3,835 Robbery New York, April 2.—Three school- boys, arrested last night, are said to have confessed to taking jewelry worth $3,835 from the apartment of Mrs. Sadle Small where they had gone to obtain two books, “The Rov. cr Boys” and “Tom Swift,” a $1,500 lice from a schoolgirl in Astotia, T.. withofit knowfhg its value, ¢d with burglary, his companions, William Holmes, 13, and John Con. nelly, 14, were turned over to off cers of the Children's society, char; ed with_ juvenile delinquenc The boys told the police they en- tered the apartment Sunday night by climbing a fire escape to the third floor in order to get the hooks recommended by Mrs. Swall's They arc said to have con- fessed later to the theft of the jew- elry. Robert Darrabrant fold the po- |Mee of giving the schoolgirl the dia- mond and platinum bracelet, which e said he did not think valuable, He also said he had left another bracelet, valued at $2,000, with a pawnbroker to “keep” for him. He was uncertain as to the pawnbrok- er's address, and had no pawn ticket., AUTO CROSSING FATALITY ence, 8. C., April 2—Dr. oTHidtejome .nailoma- etaoinshrdl Plummer Alford of Mullins, a brother-in-law of Governor Thomas G. MoLeod, and daughter, were killed yesterday when their automobile was struck by a Seaboard Air Line train near Dar- lington, Mrs. Alford was injured but is expected to recover. The three were returning to their home after attending the funeral of Mrs.Alford’s mother, | TOURNAMENT STATEMENT of fact whichweask you to test at our risk. Buy an Ever- Ready Razor with the same understanding that you get your money back if you aren't 100% enthusiastic, Ever-Ready Sterilized Shaving Brushes Bristles gripped forever in hard rubber bracelet was recovered by the po- | L, Who had recelved it as a present | Robert Darrabrani, 16, was charg- | his two year old | SEARCH FOR PHELAN Hunt For Missing Attorney Takes on | | International Aspect—$21.28 of $1,000,000 Fund Left, New York, April 2 While police undertook an international hunt {Ol"‘ John J, Phelan, missing since drawn, Detectives leaned to a bellef that Phelan might have committed sul« clde, Nevertheless the hunt was pressed, particularly along Broad- way where Phelan frequently had been seen with movie actresses. He was known there as “the man with the brown derby."” Second British Sea Lord, Culme-Seymour, Is Dead March 9, and under Indictment for London, April 2,~Vice Admiral grand larceny, counsel for his bro- | 8ir Michael Culme-Seymour, second thers and sisters reported that the | sea lord and chief of naval person- 81,000,000 estate of their father, of | ne I, died today, He was born August Which the missing man was sole exe- | 29, 1867, the son of the third baro- |cutor had dwindled to $24.48, | net, Sir M. Culme-S8eymour, Sir | Meager data found in Phelan's law | Michael served as a rear admiral in |office by investigators howed only | the battle of Jutland eommanded visible assets were contained in three | the Black Sea and Casplan squadron small ®bank accounts. 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