New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1925, Page 18

YALE TEAM LOSES TO GEORGETOWN ON SQUTHERN T RIP — GREATER NEW YORK FANS SURE OF SEEING THREE NEW STARS IN THEIR LINEUPS — WESTERN FIGHTER CLAIMS BENNY LEONARD'S CROWN — NATIONAL GUARDS HAD GREAT SEASON — BRIEFS GUARDS WON 22 OUT OF 32 GAMES DURING FAST SEASON BASEBAIT GAMES BEFOPF STARTERS Dodgers Lose to Yanks-New Yorkers Have New Players Mert Taylor Was Leading% Scorer and Foul Shooteri —Sheehan, Reynolds and | Restelli Only Ones to Play in Every Game. The Natlonal Guards, which con last may consider that eluded their season night, Ketball efforts placed Saturday their bas-|py The Assoclated Press. New York, April 10.—Two capa- ble major league infleld performers were produced in the season of 1924—Glenn Wright of the Pitts- | burgh Pirates and Travis Jackson of the New York Giants. The pros- pect 1s that outfleld stars will be | developed. Juckson had been with the Glants a year before obtaining a regular them near the top, it not on the top rung of the basketball very ladder in Con- necticut They took on all comers, hard sched- 1n- played a very 1 ule composed cluded among t y de- teated were the Tixies, the 1 , Mid and Atlas, Ea ms, also de- feated th but it 18 obvious that the standing was not one-sided. position through the departure: of | Dave Bancroft to accept the lead- ership of the Boston Braves, but SEES REAL CHANCE F OR DODGERS BABE RUTH SHo In Hospital But Far From Dead, Friends Say New York, April 10.—Babe Ruth, Giant batterer of baseballs, lies pow- erlesserless today in 8t Vincent's hospital—far from dead, yet far from the condition he must main- tain to continue his reputation in the national game. Ruth left New York many weeks ago for Hot Springs confident that he would arrive at a physical fit- ness which would guarantes his supremacy among the American league batters the*® coming year. With the opening of the season omly five days away, he came back to New York yesterday—on a stretcher. Twice the great one has collapsed. The first time it was in the railroad statlon in Greenville, C., Tuesday, and his teammates, Steve O'Neil and S“ME mj[!ifl_VEMENT “Ducky” Pond, Twinkler in THIK AND FAST Two Are Carded Within One Week in June New York, April 10.—Harry Wills, New York negro, and Tommy Gib- bons, 8t, Paul heavywelght, will ap- pear in New York outdoor rings this summer, but not, as had been # gested in view of their challen the champlon, against each other. Gibbops' opponent, already an- nounced, will be the American light ‘| heavyweight king, Gene Tunney, and the battle will take place at the Polo rounds June 12. A week later Wills will climb into the same ring to encounter Charley Welnert of. Newark, N. J. Both Wills and Welnert have con- quered the erstwhile prominent South Aemrican heavywelght, Luls Angel Firpo, by newspaper declsions and the victories came but a few Baseball as Well as Joe Dugan, carried him into hotel. his Yesterday he fainted in the weeks apart. Wills conducted the lesson. over at Boyle's Thirty Acres and for 12 rounds pummeled the “Wild Bull,” who had become & {amb in his hands, Many critics de- clared that the negro could have knocked out his man at any time after the second, when Firpo, at the end of a short right, plunged to the floor. - Weinert continued persecution of the Argentine whea the two met in a Newark ring early in the winter. Employing similar tactics to those used by Wills in Jersey City, Weinert gained a 12 round newspaper Ver- dlet. The laws of New Jersey bar washroom of a Pullman train only half an hdur before he arrived home. After a day of worry on the part of relatives and baseball fans, Mrs. Ruth came from the hospital last |night to report that “Babe feels fine |and is much better.” He had fallen |asleep, she said. Around the head, |in which concussions and abrasions | Wright gained his honors in a sin- ponents 1,016, | gle season, after having been ob- The season opened early in the | tained from Kansas City of the fall, the first game having been | American assoclation. played at the armory against the| Greater New York is expected to Pextos of Southington on November | have thres new faces in its out- 20 The bovs played at least one | flelds, one for each of its clues. Fame every successiva week, and Frank Walker, who sold himself to sometimes two and three games. |the Giants while he was manager i G |had been reported, was only & night The High Scorers |ot the Rocky Mount club, and % ‘ 5 4 |cap, Mrs. Ruth declared, indicating “Red" Reynolds, Captain Sheeh!nfpocketed the profits, has been play- y E . |that the Injuries had been far from and Car] Restelll were the only | in® In center fleld, durlng the pre- severe, take part in every game, | Schedule games, giving McGraw Dr. Edward King, physician of the rizd t ;"3 .;:ymr“mpe that at last he has found a New York American league baseball SLATED FOR Y, M, G, A,‘v missed but one gams each. Tayler regular performer for that position. club, believes that he can fit Ruth o ‘The bouts featuring Gibbons and was the individual scoring ace of Center fleld at the Polo Grounds tovr the season opening against | wills will come “w‘do“ together oth in number of nam““ the last few years has been oc- ‘Washington at the Yankee stadium |Open Matches For All Comers | | | They scors 1,233 points to thelr op- “DUCKY” POND One of the best athletes at Yalv university is “Ducky” Pond, captain and leading pitcher on this sea- son's baseball team. He's expected to pilot the Blue to a winning cam- paign. On the football fleld, Pond stars in the backfleld, BOWLING TOURNAMENT ABOVE LAYOUT SHOWS DAZ INSETS, LEFT, ABOVE, ZACK WH BELOW, BURLEIGH GRIMES, HU (BL BILLY EVANS) “sure! My club has a great chance to win the pennant. New York only heat us 113 games last year and had all the breaks. | That is the way the genial Wilbert Robinson summed up the National| league pennant situation as far as| the Brooklyn club is concerned. Robinson, one of the finest charac- ters that has ever graced baseball, had an extra inning battle with Death last winter. The Great Um- | pire was on the verge of waving him out several times, but the willed to live and won Despite a four-months' siege of {ll- ness in which he underwent several | delicate operations and suffered | great paln, “Uncle Robble as base- bLall best knows him, 8 still an op- timist, can still smile. Robbie Outlines His Reasons “Why shouldn’t I hope to win the pennant? I have a great pitching| staff, led by Dazzy Vance, the w—“ mier of the mall, a destructive | off=nse and a fairly good defense.” 1 pressed him for more definite ZY VAN OF PITCHING EAT; BELOW, JACQUES FOURNIER; RIGHT, RLING BALL. SWIMMING CONTESTS Fastern and Western Stars Will DELIVERY, | ABOVE, ED BROWN; |but not close enoush to satisfy the 4 S - 1or | cupled by Benny Kauft, successor to on Tuesday, but Manager Miller | 3 goals scor If‘“ ffvh 118 s“hnh Taslo; Fred Snodgrass, Casey Stengel, Bill Huggins has stated that the outfield- Scheduled to Start Satur- ‘ihnxinx tollowers who demanded that e in 124 from the floor 80%| oy nningham, Billy Southworth, er will be allowed to play only When the chariiplon's.mogt persistent chals 105 f; om ths free 1 “uv\l vlynn or- &‘Hack Witson and s Glnle he attains proper health. day, April 11 !lengers “fight it out.”” Their signing ot 2bs polnta. Reynolds wan| S0E8, IEl B e, Georee Baseball writers and followers of| An open t e taben | makes certain of one factor in the <t competitor in each branch | o T T pave been others the game attribute Ruth's collapse n open tournament for boWlers pygiligtic situation—Jack Dempaey and Restelll was third, :“"r»‘b R; A g to his haste to doff winter weight. gets its start at the Y, M. C. A, Sat- |will not box before Labor Day. Record of Season SO BN osiise o |There will b for b urday, April 11th, The checker |There will be no opponent for him. He has been playing in the major |1eagues for many years and at his|tournament which was recently com- R SR |ee fllw conddlllog:nx process is us: Dleted has aroused the interest of | FOWnes Fights His Way ually long and tedious. Many of the {the howlers and a request for the | 3 <] . Fi veterans of baseball reach their|howling tournament }?u resulted in Into (’o!f Semi-Finals proper condition only after several!an arrangement of tournament elim- Einshurat, N. C., Aprll 10-=W. C. |eeks of the schedule have been|ination play for the city champion Fownes, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa, for- plaed and the warm months arrive. | pag heen made, | mer national champlion, had won his The home run champion is said to |way to a semi-final pair in the united north and south amateur golf tournament today with Frank C. Newton of Boston, by eliminating P. have eaten a hearty breakfast in ‘Washington yesterday and to have| |reported himself as much improved | when The train on which e “’a-"‘?::s e ‘;‘:;‘;}9;”1““;"‘;';‘:"‘%“‘1:% :T. W. Whittemors of Boston, medalist, {traveling reached Manhattan Trans- 1 |in the feature match yesterday. The e ot e INew bl iy 1| LU sjcnamplon Tas beendectded. 50H inge pair ttoaay i braught Acthr |+vas ‘at this point that Ruth arose il be plavedon Sat- G P S (0o Sork and went to the washroom to pre- nings it possible. ANl en- | ol Oy o Tricey, Prineeton, pare to mest his friends at the must be in not later than |\Coyvirginia, i Pennsylvania station. Thers, several [S3Urdey the 10 0 the | Townes showed hia best form in minutes later, oW erms il 1z || de v i T T o tne anian | chamipion who 1s not eliminated s | dsfesting Whitiono: & 2 oo ey Soach) Dasll i tetien noahed o ihla | olio manietting theichicsu slbE 1o o5,y SR o T s e e o) string. Among those aiready en-| G 8 T APLE U ’n}z ;’h Ay ‘At the station an ambulance await- | Folled are Charles Miller, A, Morelll, ineeafof NIBEUSADIRC AR TRES L. Hunter, J. Hergstrom, W, Nelson, ‘Y"a;‘;w P P ST " f8e) . Bcheidler, o e Al S e e eiman, and |ton. § and 2, while Rixey, a brather . ) of the Cinclnnati National league ed him but physicians found it necessary to work over the ball play- W, Marden. I | player, provided the surprise of the | day by eliminating P. 8. P. Ran- | hed i1 PLAY GIANTS AGAIN Though Defeated Yesterday, the This regular post until he went to Cin- cinnati. Jimmy O'Connell and Ralph Shinnérs tried it. It has been a shaky spot in the McGraw structure. Splash Tonight in Tank Meet Washington Team Fxpects to Show Their Stuff Today. The following is a record of the team the first scors being that of the Nats, followed by the name and gcore of the opponentd Record of Team Pextos of Southington Terryville Legion ns of Waterbury All-Stars Collegians of Waterbury West Sides of Hartford Tyrics of Hartford Goldenrods of Winsted At Chicago Chicago, April 10. — Collegiate swimming stars of the east and west meet in the preliminaries of the| national championships at north- western university tonight. Seventy- representing schools are registered, Northwestern, defending its na- tional title, leads in the number of | entries with 17, being closely fol-| lowed by the navy, runners-up in the | eastorn meet last week and regarded | as the strongest contonder for the national crown, with 11. Princeton§ and Columbia also represent the east, while Illinois, Minnesota, Chi- cago and lowa carry the western conference colors and Washington University of St. Louis represents | the Missouri valley conferenct, Faricy of Mjnnesota, holder of the national 220-yard breast stroke record and for three years confer-| ence champlon, heads the list of | participants among the champions. Breyer and Howell of Northwestern are the maln stays of the titlists, | Breyer holding the national collegi- | ate marks in the 40 and 100-yard | events and Howell the national 220- yard mark and 440-yard conference champlonship. Other record holders are: Rule, v, eastern titlist in the 50-vard rd back stroke; Wyckoft, and 220-yard champlon, and Hawkins, Princeton, 440-yard| record holder. TRACK MEET SATURDAY Berkeley, Washington, April 10, — Bucky Harris was ready to show the na- tlonal capital today just what kind of haseball its champlonship team is capable of when it lined up again Today an- | other day, in the Harrls philosophy, and yesterday was an off day, so the Glants did about as they pleased, gathering 11 runs to 3 for the Sena- tors, to make their first home show- ing sincd winning the world cham- plonship not exactly what the set- ting called for. The Giants combed three Wash- ington pitchers for 14 hits, but got half of these during the two in- ning performance of Curley Ogden. The Senators’ three hits were not enough to make the game interesting at any stage despite the assistance of six Giant errors, four being con- tributed by Frank Frisch at third base, The last world series contenders, with their spring series now stand- ing six to four in favor of the Giants, move on to New York after today's game to put on two more ex- hibitions thers befors the 1925 schedules open. FAMOUS HALFBACK ILL South Bend, I, April 10.— James Crowley, famous halfback on the 1924 Notre Dame football team, ia in the hospital again. He is suf- fering from stomach trouble, it was Jearned today. His present iliness, it is announced at the university, is in no way connected with the nervous attack he suffered after the Teland Stanford game at Pasadena New Year's day. Dodgers Tose New York, April 10.—Four thou- | sand interested residents of Char- | lotte, North Carolina, were driven to baseball frenzy when the New York Yankees unieashed a rally in the ninth inning yesterday that con- | quered the Brooklyn Dodgers, 9 to | Tyries of Hartford 218, and assured the Manhattanites of | Atlas of Manchester 25 lan even break in the exhibition| West Sides of Hartford series with three games to play. Atlas of New Haven | Wililams, & youthful Atlantan, Terryvilla Legion went to the mound for Brooklyn in | Co. G of adinch | the eighth with a lead of four runs. | y. M. H. A. of | A moment later it was only three, AllMiddletown | for Wally Pipp had shot a sizzling Cresconts of Manchester 31 |home run to the far regions. Jump- | L ton : Dixies of Hartford 41 |ing Joseph Dugan dedicated th aifESRSOns, for his very positive pennant ndees of Meriden 21 |ninth inning with another homer, | OP]nions. lees of Meriden 16| Benny Panchal potnded a feiploinga( - 1nere are five Togical arguments et A, of Springfleld 3L |center and Meusel repeated the |On Which I base my pennant hopes, Atlas of New Haven 24g drive. Pipp singled to put a”o"m,",:‘.,fl{ them are oflnmsl\n’. two de- | vest Sides of Bristol 29 the tying run, went to third on | *®US¥E ;‘-:ffi:lié Meriden 23| Ward's doubls and won the game | 3% °f§"‘:;“‘}_“'“fl;:?‘! are Zach All-Middletown 40 | when little Wenninger punched a | At 5 ournier hafld Ed | Dixies of Hartford 44| it through the groove at first base. | Drown: Hoseihres bani have a| Jues of Tartlord en 42| Everett Scott, Yankee “iron man,” geal merh a vn‘p bat, the power to| Tyrics ot Hartford 33 |suffered an injury fo his right leg | AreR UP BN palligame iynith il Lrsicaiet Heritor < fimalempae s Deatsie "“d‘ “Defensively, T have two of the 53 2 S v | most effective pitchers in the Na- Dixies of Hartford E‘ek‘ New Player. ohal e iy v ancelasdtEnz | Lyries of Hartford Philadelphia, April 10.—Connie | leigh Grimes. Mack said today he was negotlating| “The rest of the . 1018 |¢or a first bascmen to take the place | {of Joo Hauser who is in the hos- | Pts. |pital with a broken kneecap, and 3 that he expected to have him in the {lineup when the season opens Tues- | Mack declined to say who the Meriden Each man will meet one opponent & entries, ine for the best two out of three strings; on entries, nine then the losers will be eliminated {against the fants, is ter pringfield Nebraska Boxer Lays (Claim to Boxing Title Los Angeles, Calif, April 10.— Ace Hudkins, Nebraska lightwelght boxer, today laid claim to the world's crown last worn by Benny Leonard, by fssuing a challenge to any 135-pounder in the ring. i Hudkins, at Vernon Tuesday de-| cisively defeated Jos Benjamin, the only Pacific coast representative in the lightweight tournament now being conducted to fill the cham- pionship vacated by Leonard. Hud- kins is rated by the Califorsia box- ing commission as a logical Iight- weight for both the world's title and | the Pacific coast championship. Since his arrival in Californla five months ago, the Nebraska boxer has won five consecutive ‘bouts, the car on a stretcher. On the jour- ney to the hospital Ruth is sald to have becoms violent several times and he was carried into the hospital only after a struggle. ‘While he was being attended in| the station, the Boston Braves ar- rived on another train. Rube Mar- quard, old friend of the great hit- ter, was named by the players to convey thelr gorrow to the stricken Ruth. er for nearly an hour before he| could be moved through a window of | dolph, Jr., Point Judith, Rhode 1s- land, 3 to 2. ————— This Is Bicycle Time Tver Johnson, Indlan and Excel- slor Bicycles. Special Guaranteed Tire | $195 HADFIELD' SPORTING GOQPS team contribute enually important factors to the team's success, but the foundation of my hopes is based on the.offen- sive and defensive powers of the five players T have named.” As you watch the Brooklyn club player was or whether he was a|in action, one ls not impressed by major or minor leaguer. any one particular thing, unless it is | Another baseball casualty was re-|that most {mportant asset, consist- ‘pnnéd last night_ when X-.ray pie-|ency. fures revealed that Russell Wright-| Vance, Grimes, Real Threats | 7 |stone, untility intielder of the Phila-| The fire, the dash and the speed |gelphia Nationals, had a broken|of the Glants is lacking, but the —— |finger. Physicians sald he would be | timely base hit invarlably looms up 9 12~3i|,nab1, to play for two weeks |and the threat carried by Vance and | Wrightstone hurt his finger in an Grimes is always imminent |exhibition game in Florida more| Robble is confident that “Rube” than a wesk ago, but it did not give | Ebrhardt will win & lot of ball| him mueh trouble until Wednesday, |Eames this year. Ehrhardt is the | |young man who fumped from the | Fiorida State leagus to the big show | and proved to be a sensation by win- | ning six straight ball games. . Totals .... Records of Players Games Gls. Fls 105 Teller Noses Out Fred Thompson on the Alleys Teller of Meriden defeated Thomp- | son of Rogers five games to four lagt night in a state match. The scores: Thompson: 110, 83, 89, 85, 89, 121, 99, 93, 102—870. { Teller: 109, 82, 182, 138, 114, 89 105, 97, 91—957. ‘ " Raynolds, tf Restelll, c., Eheehan, TE. Kilduff, 1g. T.aHar, f. Weir, £ Wojack Wondford Holst, e Interesting Oontest at 15 MAIN ST, B And Then He Took Up Golf e Calif., Tomorrow When Wisconsin 4‘; and California Do Thetr Stuff, Tota Yale Basketball Team Had an Awful Season York, April 9.—The Yale basketball quintet had he worst seasons in its his- the racent campaign. d to win a single encounter reolleglate chase, Janding in the cellar berth with 10 straight defeats. But a total of 154 pointa was secured by the Blue in the league race against 244 chalked up by the opponents Luman and Suisman stood out as the twe hest players on the team, the latter ranking well up the list s with 49 tal- Chicago, April 10.—One of the most interesting track and field meets of the early outdoor season will no doubt be that between Wis- consin and California, and a picked team ot Pacific Coast collegians which will be staged tomorrow at Berkeley. Wisconsin this season has one of the best aggregations in vears, and with such stars as Schwarze, glant welght man, McAndrews, sprinter, and Captain Vallely in the middle distanee runs, around which to { mold a nucleus, Coach T. E. Jones hopes to cut quite a swath In the setto with the wester California, of more aens sons, has turned out some first-class track teams. And, according to re- ports, this vear is no exception. All of which means that keen competition ghould result when the Badgers come to town THa DIN OF HIS FAC TORY CALMED | HUIS . SOUL . Tue DiN AT HOME NEVER SEEMED To ANNOYEHIM- THE Din OF A JAZ h DRUMMER WAS SWELT tor It cersit Tigers Start Home Detroit, April 10.—Detroft Tige! fwill turn north from Nashville, | hardt has | at pretty good stuff | Tenn., tonight to play their last|ang a most pecullar delivery. The| two games of the Spring season in | phall is on the batter quickly. He| | Loutsville and then to jump home !seems to cut loose With it before he | [to prepare for the opening of the | yag actually completed his swing. | |season here. Loutsville, an Ameri- | The unusal featurs of his pitching |can Association team, 18 expected | zqdg much ti his effectiveness, 5 ca the team the best opposi- J o give the team th st opnosl-| O the recruits, Outfielder Cox, se- ‘llr\nxj' 1,.,; i l] with the €X- | cured from Portland, is being banked {ception © in H.v‘a—v- |on as a garden reserve, Cox can | hit and field, looks the part of a big | 1eagues and should help Brookiyn. | I The club will be very much the ‘!amfl, as last season. As I said be- | fore, its play doesn't impress Iike the G but it wins ball games that's the way pemnants are 1r recent Indians Play Today Cleveland, April 10.—The Cleve- land Indians were at Tuscaloosa, Ala., today for a game with the Uni- versity of Alabama, their last in the south. The Indians final workout at New Orleans yesterday consisted of ) alight batting and flelding practice. | They play thelr final exhibition Eame | nan Toct e ang o Bltchine e tomorrow and Sunday at Cincinnati. | ya55 " savs Robinson 5};'-.‘ m:‘n‘ )‘r: £ . He . and his players feel the . Pirates Play ariin e (el b sy Pittsburgh, April 10.—Getting in- | to action for the first time since | they started their trip east from the Pacific coast, the Pirates yesterday | engaged with Jack Holland's Okla- | | homa City Indians at Oklahoma City, and scalped the Oklahomans, | ten to five. | It was a fast game and gave the Buccos ample opportunity to ex-| haust plenty of the energy they had | | stored up on their 1500 mile train | |ride. Emil Yda pitched six innings | { for the Corsairs and then gave way | to Babe Adams. Buckshot May was | | the Indian moupdsman | Pte Traynor, and Kikl Cuyler put | some zest into the game with an | exhibjtion qf long distance hitting. | The two cleanup men hit to the | fence several times and had the In- | | dian outfielders grogey. Razor | some Strop Your Blade | ol Just as a barber does. Geta super-keen edge. Don't be content with dull blades. There is only one razor that | can strop its own blades— the Valet AutoStrop Razor. 4 Tie DIN OF Tne “AND THEN HE ' STREST DISTUREED | Toow UP GOLF: HIM NoT ’ Fargo Wins Verdict Over Dick Conlon Willlamsport, Pa., April 10.—Rus- sie Leroy rgo, North Dakota, won the judg decision over Dick Con- on of Altoona in a fast ten round bout here yast night, In the ten round semi-final Alex Tovereski of New York won the referee’s decision over Andy Cazlton of West Virginia. _ Lew Caputo of New York stopped Carmen Cook of Bridgeport, in the third round. HEY! CUT OUT ThaT NOKSE ¢ uowsr:“, POS & A FELLOW, CAN SHOOT WiTH ALL THAT 1S A SMART, COMFORTABLE JONES TRAINING Atlanta, Ga., April 10.—Robert T. Jones, Jr, amateur golf champion of the United States and former open champion, is doing much of his spring training for the two big tournaments this year on the mili tary target range at Fort McPher- son, mear Atlanta. TG Cubs Take Games Chicago, April 10.—Vic Keen, one (Cestinued on Following Page).