New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1926, Page 9

( o CRITITISININLENSTANILNILANNLILALALILALAIN | Manc] ster well worth secing, S ea k i n During the past week, there has P & [t gooa skating on' the ponds about New Britain and those who o f s or t s are devotces of the fee sport, have p fi been taking advantage of the cold SRR, | 1D to Indulge in their favorite pastime. A number of fee hock teams are being formed in the city and although there isn't much in- tackles the | terest in this sport, as far as state school team | competition is concerned, still there in the Silk Town, The team is as{are some good games staged among #ct an unproved quantity on the | pickup teams when they get together court and despite the gloomy pre-|on the ice. dictions made about it, close fol- lowers of the quintet bank on it to| Tho coming year looms as the big- at least split even in fts games this | gest yoar in sports this city will ever ason. Lave known. There are a greater | e number of baskethall teams in ac- ny veason ut all Why | tion about the city and hundred the New DBritain High school could- | of coming basket players are de- | n't turn out as good basketball|veloping in the Y. M. C. A, and teams In the present years as it has| Boys' club leagucs. Bad in past years. There fsn't any radical change in the stock of youths Britain will be well repre attending the Franklin Square in-|sented on tho basketball courts for stitution this year and, unless it's|yoars to come if the present line of the mental attitude assumed by the [ players develops as it should, boys Who are playing on the team fare many, youngsters, howeve t they are no good, no matter|show promise in their e g their ability 1s, there should|but something happens after a while | be a winning combination some- | to make them drop out of the pic-| where if it can be found. 1“”“' Watching “Toots” Pplitis, and| Tvery so often there is one of Scully working out with the Na-|those players who appears on the tional Guard Reserves and Zaliski ho seems to be g0 good that playing with the Burritts no one else will ever equal him. It teams of as strong if not stronger | will he an interesting thing to see if power than the scholastic teams 1o any of thosc re in the makin, be met on the courts this yvear, it|among the junior classes now dls- seems strange that when this saine| porting on the courts. trio gets on the court under the| colors of the Red and Gold that| Tt has been sald about town that | don't play the same g do Satur. s at the|ed to have a great deal of interest | State Armory. in the playing of the games every | Tuesday night at the Y, M, C. A. and it is said that|This appears to be true, but at the they pl tly on the High| same time, the Industrial league is school team than they do on another | giving some would be players a team, then thele me ttitude 18| chance that they wounld not get oth. wrong. There appears to be a lack of [ erwise and even in the comparative- the fighting spirit which in a team, ||y short time the league has been in even in defeat, makes it glorious and | operation, some of the boys have until that Is developed, that “l-l‘\“ahm\n remarkable improvement, meat” idea, the team is licked be- | - fore it takes the floor. A good sporting town is generally a happy town. Some may contend Two games lave already been|that sports hurt rather than help cd by the High school toam ngsters growing up, but we ainst Weaver High of Hartford | think that there are many who will d the otl inst the alumnl. e with us that for the building The first was lost and the second | up of character and manliness, The High school basketball ¢ will resume play next Friday a a long layotf when it South Manchester Hig courts If the was won even though the alumni|nothing is better than good clean team led by a sccming mar- | sport. It is much better for a boy gin in t peviod. The team to spend his time evenings on & makes its second b vinst a High eiball court in good, clean, ol team next Friday and if ti 1 exercise than it is for him to e're not afing around strect corners and celing, the team should | absorbing knowledge that will not st make the battle with South | do him any good. | So Now Hubby Does the Waltz 1 chin (ber of newcomers who will |ing out of the plcture of most of | 1 as| (he Industrial league is too one-sid- | MAKE GOOD COACHES RICKARD PREDICTS Su Tex Sags Dempsey Will Defend| cv vorie san. = pltchers are getting popula star wil New York Giants, ha i ; - {been in charge at Dartmouth, H ew York, Jan, 2 1" x ke | o York, dan. 2 UP—Tex Rick- |y mot with grent muccess and 1y d predicts that Amcriean pugil- | yory popular among the students. | Ism In 1930 will bring forth four| e Vool who. tiado his repu- | new worlds — champlons and two la(ion in the American Leagnuo will heavywelght battles in which |4 Boston Rted Sox, is in char Jack Dempsey will face Harry Wills | Yo 11 and i ene Tunney, in an article to- | day, in the Evening World u has been very suceessful since taking over the coaching ol nder lije Blue baseball candidutes. | LA Jack Coombs, who wehicved fume | The ttlelolders to lose their |wit the Athletics, Is assistant at | crowns, Rickurd forecasts, will be |pyinecton and no doubt will | Greb, middleweight, Itocky hosen as Bill Clarke's suec 0 Kansas, lightweight, Louls (Kid) [when the vetteran cateher of ye Kaplan, featherweight, and Charley |ago steps out | Rosenberg, bantamwelght. | Hapvard must get in the running Ihe first two, he explained, “must {{f it hopes to cope with Yal @ way to youth, while the feather- | princeton. Using the graduate coach | welght and bantam champions must yystem last year, the famous Fiddic combat the handicap of welght [Mahan met with poor succe making.” i Rickard continued: ‘champions, the most important fea- | tures of the year, to my way of thinking, will be the unnsual num- | All-Amrican Fullback To - Captain | good in New York, also the pai | | Jacksonville Stars Against “Red” | the all too numerous outdoor fistic arenas, Outdoor boxing, with its uncertainty as o saflsfactory | Jncksonville, Fla, Jan. weather conditions, also the deartl | inie Nevers, blonde Leland A e wry [ford university all-American {o outdoor mautchmiking, will find [Pack. today will make his debut as |itselt under o handicap, now that 2 Drofessional football player. the new Madison Squu den 5| Nevers, as captain, will lead the a realized fact with all-year-round |Jicksonville All- [boxing a featur tlon boasting many st of foot- | “My new 2, with a 50:“”1‘:" 11, including Red Barron, a tor- Lempaslty) of close to 30,000 Jiss & Georgla Tech, back. ; |capacity greater than that of any| The tcam today will play its ini- of the open air boxing centers, tial game, opposing the Chicago {from (he Yankes Stadium, Polo Brars: led by “Red” Grange. | Grange's Chicago Bears, “L know of only four pos | matehes rigiht now that would ex- ceed the capacity of Madison Synarc Garden. The matches in question | (o0 Gonotsky of Brooklyn 1s are the return meeting of Paul Ber- | llenbach and Jack Delaney, Faul | Matched With Herbert Morrall Berlenbach vs, Gene ‘Tunney, and Dempsey in bouts with Tunnc and Harry Wills, “I am positive that Dempsey will I defend his hea@yweight crown twleo | this year and will take on both Tun- | ney and Wills. T expect to promote | the matehes in which Dempsey will { make his reentry in the ring. As 1| have not predicted a change in t heavyweight division, 1 mnst admi |that i figure Jack will succestully | defend his laurels.” Rickard cxpressed the opinion that the light heavyweight crown, | [ held by Pauil Berlenbach, “is even | I'or Final Honors of Country. Bo: nio tod ton, Jan. 2 (A—Checker cham- om all parts of the country vill see Samuel Gonotsk v old Brooklyn, N. Y., champion of the United States matehed against Herbert Morrall for the final hon- The annual New Year's tour- toof the Wells Memorfal ay. Al be wecker club opened yesier {feature of tonight's play wil Gonotsky's simultancous g ainst fitty opponents, and blind- folded aguinst ten other: more firmly set than is Dempsey's. = i Berlenbach's only serious threat Is | nw AINS POSITION Jack Delaney, while Dempsey must | New York has regained a lead- combat his long period of idleness position fn developing juvenile from the ring. 1 am inclined to rate | tennis stars, with new junior and Rerlenbach as a far greater fighter | Loys' national indoor champions in than he is gencrally given eredit for [ Julius Seligson and VFrank Shiclls, being.” respeetively tormer, a product - > 4 \ \ k] Ty o s AMrs. Wilhelmina Fagnani, 17, of San Francisco, couldn’t dance the Charleston. And, when her husband got an- other woman to leach him how, she took poison. 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Shiclds de Jlizabeth, N. we [ nave ( worthy challengers opportunitics to | jift the title, mentioning Tomuy Mil- ligan, the Luropean titleholder, and | Willic Harmon of New York as con- tenders that must be reckoned with i Strong opposition from Kansas, | WANTS FOUR BATTLES he declared, conld be expeeted fror A h o pugilistic critics con- | Phil McGraw, Sid Terrd lor Harry Greb the most active | Mandell, Jack Bernstein and Jimmy | champion in the ring, the Pitts- Goodrich, among ofhers hurgh veteran says lie will require Tt was Rickard’s opinfon {hat | four preliminary battles to fune up Kaplan will make a worthy con- | for defense of his fleweight lightweight | crown inst Tiger Flowers at| fa, Ga, in New York mnext! gave r Thomas, San tender for the junior | honors, recently won by Tod Morgan. | At | “Kaplan is a champion at heart and ! month. |at 130 pounds will be even mon P tireless than he is ut the feather \v“ .‘\..m limit,” was the promoter's e M Rickard forecast that Ildel Ta | ‘orchestra” pagsed with tratls 3arba, new fyweight champion, |0 of Litchers lund Dean and would strengthen his hold on the | Jick Dentle Philljes. tle. “My one view of this youngster A ukulele L guitar, by mu- ugh to convince me that [ sic ot wl oy Ryan and * great little fighter, one who ~Hugh MeQuillan once broke forth LAST OF ORCHESTRA will be cven or within another in song for the entertainment of <ix months,” he asserteds {eam nates, went wi twirling ] musicians, Ryvan is no wit Bos- | ton and McQuillan is under suspen- | on, | SWIMS IN OCEAN Irene Henstnius Starts New Year By | Waters Near Winthrop, MAKES MEN aron ’Qet Up Night_sm,. | | | Taking 2 “like a nable the swimmer to get into th | MOST OF THEM | Howard Shanks, veteran American | umazing efficier league player has played virtually cvery position on the diamond but on 1 ABSOLUTELY FRE 4 packing a ¥ re- | ou will get t trial L a AL e T trer oa READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | OR RESULTS A The Palmo Co.. 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