New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 14

Rt oty 1IRE8II0S0RAN0TEY SIRLITIEESEEEIILANIILIIINAIANIII. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAL l) JREDAY, APR IL 1 926. LTI TN ISR SRSRILAIBAIILATANIINNLLL 2eney §i32sstepadterastaiizieetitiotetty SOUTH CHURCH BASKETBALL TEAM SCORING RECORDS —CARPENTIER MATCHED TO FIGHT EDDIE HUFFMAN—BIG INTEREST IS i BEING SHOWN IN MEETING ON INDUSTRIAL BASEBALL LEAGUE -— CHANGES IN BATTING ORDERS OF BIG LEAGUES LOOKED .FOR SOUTH CHURCH QUINTETS BATTING ORDERS ‘MANY TITLES TURN OVER DURING WINTER HAVE SUCCESSFUL YEAR Reserves, Sensation of Year, Claim City Title in Their Class — Teams Runners-up For Three Titles — “Lanky” Adams and “John” Morey Lead in Scoring —Squad of 18 Develops Much Material For An- other Year. Although they lost three titles by |of strength at a halr, the South church basketball |ways on the teama have just concluded their el best season in recent years. The|'m motion. first team won 1% games out of 23 [that k for an average of 666 and t Re- [times; werves battered all opposition asi to win 14 out of 17 contests for an average of .824, giv a combined percentag f A 7 wins and 13 losses, Af he w closing of thelr regular seas two teams engaged each otk final match and the Reser a coup by taking the struggls elr heavier fellows, The Regunlars The first team started with a full quota of veterans from the previ- vus year and, after being nosed out v the National Guard Reserves, on six in & row and appeared et tor a record-breaking year, At this Captain Adams, Havlick, and Kilduft were forced to leave tho cam because they were members of high schoo 1. cral new sccured, but the advan- intensive practl was never the high to return for center; tireless n iative, and alway he was the mainspri golng all his oppon the team at a he outjumped ents and made up for rather shaky shooting by making his ba the spectacular varfety and at t they counted most Howard May at guard was a to got mau for his Iron bal away from, th forw o8 8P fro and rdup rally found i opposing was rather weak on the ack Wilks at the other ositfon proved adept z up pasees and came or frequent mukm cell, Oshorne, ed in on the Rese |intervals and acquitted themselve with honor. Carlton Washburn played a hard and tenacious game at guard, while Joe Potts, youn member of the squad, substituted the regulars to good effect in later stages of most contests, There much material on which to build winter The co-ordinat Vorey-V fell of hewildering pa The to which it developed dur- car was shown by the w it defeated the cam in the post-season statistics: offen lafensive | ki frequent or were age of t vas lost ¢ same, 1001 M few games Entered in t Inter-Church , th Sonth church finished in W place with wins ats, beipg nosed out ,y the champion Lutherans, the end of the high school s he t ined il g nd en county Y. M. C. imination tournament, This forced t to play five games in one i it won {he first four, but again yomed to runner-up posi- the title to Wapping games which went over- strenuons week burned and it went stale, teamwork and no in it remaining 1en earl i team when success of the team lay in i teams before its sweeping at five tuek s, twlee | extent ith 1500 m reg; its game, was tion and lost poor fighting spirit mes, Kilduft 4 Washburn polnts | oty mak- | 1300p1 With | ok scored T41 5 opponents, red 18 Personal !mfl‘ 19, Wilks 16. May 11, Potts T, uff 3 Jacobi 2, Peck 1 HAS HEAVY WEEK The te opponents’ 60 out of 201, Yy e asket only 131 per- made against am played ve nd committed 184 were Washbn hile Oshorne 5. Rockwell Adams wi poir ooting from e points Al Hay- 5 scorer mates in s nd -thre in of al compe Tow wor of the ing titor ver, Mceets White of Lddie Anderson New Haven Tonight and Joc Foote Tomorrow Night. Andersc bhowl Anderson N the s '8 been top of the Whit customers gain and bis battle is an important on night, the wowling mateh Britain ching si . will ta Joe 100t local 1e ned to his 1 The two ar entin o There Brtwe bly he rolled o8 1 gT INTEREST H\ LLAGUE Reserves Claim Title Vans Of City Speculating On Py bilinn ©f Industrial Baseball Toop ing Formed ford "Haro of forwa ats and points, 1 or aps the 1 yed a mor ‘wa Jed Wessels faltering | | Yankee lineup for M MAY_B_E_E_HANGEI]] Virtually Every Team to Shilt| Lineup for Opening Games New York, April § (P—Tatting | order clhianges have been decided 1pon by virtually every club in the major leagues for the opening games next Tuesday, if lincups in effect during the lust of exhibition play may be accepted as the final Judgment of team managers, A generous sprinkling of expensive minor league purchases will be on digplay in both circuits, while sever- | al of the te parently are pré- pared to reveal radlcal shakeups which have altered butting orders | fom top to hottom Roston's entries have \ upheavals, partly as a result of win- | ter trades and partly due to im- pressive play by recruits, Harry | Riconda, once with the Athleties, ap- | pears to have definitely won his big | league spurs as the Braves' third sacker and has been hitting fifth, a position filled scason by Gus | iPelix, Another shift mo Muna- | Bancroft from sccond place to seventh. week ams ap experiene ger Cleanup Hitter Johnston, obtained by the Brooklyn in a trade, | cleanup hitter | Jimmy Braves from has been installed as in place of Burrus, while iddie | Brown has succeeded Welsh as No. 3 Hitter, the latter moving up to the | position formerly filled by his chief. | With the exception of Todt as No, 4 and Lee at No, 7, tho Red Sox show new batting order. Elton | Langford, an Ider obtained from Des tpparently has been sele loff man, Hane third sacker with Detroit last yes follows at No. nd §i Rosenthal formerly in the Fastern and Texas leagnes at No. 3. Places are found it LACOSTE PRESENTING SOMF LEAPED TO FAME A COMPETITION, outti OF THE rs, D GLORY F (BY ART CARLSON) number of startling surprises | shed during Some revamped | Any Koenig and ins' high former re the ere wi Tony Lazerri, Miller Hy priced new comers, placing Earl Combs as leadofi hitter and the latter bringing up at No. 8 will be 6. Combs heen dropped to No. A while Babe Ruth, who hit No. 3 last ), year, has been given the cleanup Post, with Lou Gehrig in the niche formerly occupied by the home run king. Bob Meusel to bat fifth this year, ad of fourth as heretofore. Baiting in No. 2 srett Scott, veteran shortstop, takes Davis’ placo as No. 2 batter in the Chicago White Sox array, while Sam Rice has been installed as open- ing gunner in the Washington at- tack, a position he filled during the | latter part of last season after Jos Haris had coeded Barly Me- in the outficld The Athleties' Hnenp has | tered sinee the close of the 14 by inclusion of Iritz French, former West Toint athlete as No, 8 and Joe Hau first with fnjuries last Halo at third ba Jimmy Dykes, as I Off nian been op and Indians | minor shifts. o Leadoft Man i outficld find, | oo No. 6 post in | g order, while |y ol strom will lead | sually fell last | oo\ thworth, Califo Pittsburgh list them urc‘ And doubt- | sport season, of still heing talked about for an indefinite period. few titles changed hands while bombardment was in progress; | several comparatively unknowns leaped into the twinkling cl quite a bunch of new marks hung up. In track the nimble commanded inste and Nors most ntion. only shattered all records fér indoor vaulting, the measure of Oshorne and Norton in the round test at Madison Sq Garden. Hoff was the Nurini of the 1 on. Schwarze Breaks Record the national A. A. 1 er at Chic Her Wiscongin tossed t Charley of course, Hoft not provious o L et bie Sch- or a More inche vlished | S shot 50 fect inches world's s effort was o outdoor Ralph compet Badger hiage indoor 1 at 15 given former 1 the line assigned hitter i just ¢ man out Ve Rost 1 unatt oligibili Corn y to wh position 1 app definitely to Max The urs to have ionthe intercolegiat pion, | new world's record in the by runnin he form and was held joint Wefers, Hahn, D) a i mes yards k | by and con annual A, A, U les, Lee Rarnes v star and Olympie prinee, hung up ¢ mark by clearing 5 1-4 inches. Erich Hage rather upset t by whipping 18.2 tit second relays at Southern pole honor to Bi Doubt as tha o Ithongh Hal an son shrond, ult o Paul W Riiyr e outiielder, g ntielder obtained and Yot SGorman) sent fraternity | Hagenl foreign cucis: honor in 1 Bei jast N attic on will with Toe Wilson wrksn to ek gain Horema 1 Schaef- No. hree 1 n, having ovember g Mar: shortstop, > Jak ille " return win the crown bac match On has char its front for Wally Pipp, while | Y toff, wiil ffensive with Mar. at No. 2 and Marriott Cincinnati to find a place W Witt, ville the fame steppe land h aker bhoy trimmed Voo Johnny A 1m. onetime | you v mkee C AWy wei and itting Risko know hark the ap ey, forme man and illies, or Other ek r only t missed repeat y knockout act wit irst | itter for the Pt s shortstop d last and h b a vear SHOOTS ROBBER Pulle Gun lerly on from mn Quiney Watchman from Cash Register and Shoots—One Randit i« Wounded Archie Compston Sails l“m Home After Winter v York, April & & Are *I ‘L_.J TITLES CHANGE * CARPENTIER IS MATCHED FOR BOUT WITH HUFFMAN but took | | | for lis rather - # OUTSTANDING 3Y SELLAR ACHIE 1} AND RLCORDS BOROTRA TARS OF THE WIN VEME PASSE] HAGENLACHER ‘R SPOR DURING A PERIOD SON. THEY O UNUSUAL D THROUGH THEIR EFFOR! Three Colorful Heay national Figures, Again Enter Amerlcan New orful York, April 8 yweights, Arena (Pr-~TY Inter- ee col- heavyweights, men who have the Jr., conqueror for Georgs T. Dunlap out of the race, Dun s eliminated, 2 up, terday, by Robert MacDougal, Chi: nother junior, TAKES CHANCE, WINS New York Jeweler Saves $75.000 in medal honor, of New York yes- Gems When Visited by Three been mixed in international fistic af- fairs i t the American ntier, of Fran Firpo and Miguel 1 gentina Carpentier rena . has as an opponent, ten rounds’ dura Square Garden, May the Frenchman's firs Am an ring the hands of ( Tommy ( Vietory bhons last over Huff Carpeatier among t the world lig crown which was kn ad in Paris by the Siki MeT to The Siki turned § o in Dublin Berlenbach i of Iir indefinite, who handled Firpo i heavyweight title, vi ard yesterday and the returni it T st, again have the ation en Georges nd Luis “erraro of Leon bout. at It w aran de t appe ince h Tu year. man will chulle hea Jed fron late Baf t over to N0 and McTigue lost Angel awarded ISailor Iiddie Huffman of California to be of Mad iy and terca | Young Holdup Men. Car-| New York. Renner took of his daughter yesterday and of jewelr April 8 (T1--Tsidor chance wjth the life Tillie, 17 yvears old ed §75 from hold-up men. Ar- Three e d asked to see a wrist watch in the ”' """‘ | window. When Renner turncd to 5 [ get it, the men produced revolvers EE of them scized one ofeats | o threatened to shoot moved. Withont he .. | stant, Renner drove place | S ngers | Uhe $400 plate Tillie and her if Renner itating an in- his fist through | glass window of his shop, which crashed with a noise that was heard for blocks. bandits took to their heels and es- caped in an automobile they had left waiting at the curb, ght m his ttl Mik sumimer, po and I Tait Juan 1 n d Tex e notice two Argentinians were hent upon l)unlap_l Eliminated F rom Golf Tournament cond round match play in the 1 olf tou amateur thur W, in the running. | the hut April 8 of championship 1orth anc ament found Ar- fender, his you his bid for the BASEBALL PRACTICE he Epecdboys will practice Satur, day afternoon at 2 p. at St Mary's field and the management re- quests that all players and candi- dates report at the baseball grounds. Toms m Rick- that e : : Taxi i, Service T-PASSENG CLOSLD CARS Cars for Funerals, Wed gs, ete. A. M. Parsell, Cook’s Gare ge Telephone: Days 111, Nights 282 (3 south still nthful Jr., of | 100 worth | young men entered his jewelry shop | The | RAIN FAILS TO DAMPEN SPIRIT OF MAJOR l./EAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS dolng some hard work. Ied Faber, yoteran Chicago White [Nox slabsman, is expected to go the 10 |full route today agalnst Evansvil {Ind. Weather permitting, the Chi- Most Promising Season cuso Cubs will optn a four-game lsories at Kansas City today, Mane in Years—McGraw (lele- jtger McCarthy announced Cooney would be at short stop instead of brates 53rd Birthday An- |8hannon ond that the batting order niversary—Predicts The | fwould be changed Giants and Senators Will POLO CHAMPIONSHIP Win. and Member Forward |Club Owner Looking Yale And Pennsylvania Military Intercollegiate College To Settle | Title Tonight. By the Awsoclated Pross. Rain has scored one more victory lover many ot the homeward bound ! big league bascball teams but the {most recent unscttled weather not dampened the spirits of | players. | The W York, Penneylvania tonight polo having defeated April 8 ®—Yale and Milltary college mect for the intercolleglate champlonghip, Penn Harvard here indoor | Military last week Yale won the champtonghlp in 10 1924 and 19 while Princee ptured the honors in 1922, the (irst year of the competition. Princ not enter an indoor team Tonigh's lineups: Penn Military A Burt A, Jones E. Putt the club owners and members are looking forward to the most prom- ising in years and thetr {enthusiasm was expressed yesterday | [by baseball's min John MeGraw, 1 v York seasons “master ton did Ithis year, Yale Rarrett . Guest Muir . anager of the ted the |would be played 1926 world series hy bLis team and | {the Washin, who de- feated the Giants ir 1024 ¢ | Tn predicting suceess for the > the, junior cireuit this year, Mc {did not overlook the Philadelphia {Athletics whom he classed as not quit ‘smart” as the Washington |elub. The New York K. the . u Despite Opposition to Sport in District of Columbia, Promoters N boss forecast an | {era of basehall prosperity which will | soon bring stadia ti at least 100,000 fans.in every major league city. Plan Huge Stadium. hington, April 8 (P -TDespite opposition to a movee ment to legalize professional boxe |ing in the District of Columbia, & i group of promoters has closed a deal for a site for a proposed Capital Square rden,” tentative Iplans call for a huge athlctia |stadium and auditorlum__with & ting capacity of more than 10.« | 000, The property was obtained in an. tlelpation of passage of a bill now pending in congress to legalize professional boxing here, where ft |has been under ban for years and - |a subject of much controversy. in- [ Afeyer Davis, Allen MacCullen, for a two-{g.orge Marshall and Morrls St OUt- | mon, Washington men, are the {ficlder who has been i1l ill J0in | principals in the transaction. the squad Saturday. The St. Louts vl i e 5 e | STRIBLING VS, CARPENTIER action yes when they beat | Georgia Nashville, start a series with Mem- Matched For RBout Jennings' Birthday Today is the hirth annive | Hughie Jennings, for man ‘pyun inent figure in baseball. now ill at Asheville, N, C., New York Yankees and Dodgers, unable to play there ye forday bec: of rain, paid him a visit. McGraw will call on Jennings today. The Giants out yesterday resume their lant Detroit's feated Birming’ vaded Nashville today |game stand. Harry Heilmann, and th Rrook rained | . will At- and Senators, at Augnsta, series today at rday phis toda Williams, heavy hitting | | Brown, pounded out a homer yester- day. Schoolboy And Frenchman Protest Title Claim, Tn Georgla The T lelphia Nationals have taken exception to the Athletics’ claim of the city championship, as- serting g.mes won in Florida have no hearing. Threatening weathe aused a postponement of yesterday's but the series will be resum- {ed today Either In June Or July. Macon, Ga. April 8 (F-W. L. [(Young) Stribling will mect Geerges arpenticr, the French hoxer, in a ten round bout elther here or in |Atlanta, “Pa” Stribling, the Georgia wuth's father-manager, announced | Boston's two teams meet each iy nighe. The bout will he held other today Boston, Ehmke and |, =y 0 o‘r Ty i Zahniser are 1o hurl for the Red Sox | .ip Slrlb\&r;pl: N contar Ewith and Genewich for the Braves. Ac-|,pe.jean Leglon officlals here to- auisition of Shortstop Rigney from |q 0ot HeOr B8 S and place L L LS DN B LSS R 5 A elraet s S Ol o 10 VLY ~V|~\n. hen the junior leaguers. ICirenting thaakarreaalito tiie! Hoit R ":‘”‘”""" ’I’,‘.“fi"‘ 110 land had been guaranteed $20,000 for ShILMEACHNS oG aler LR ‘Y;;;npphl’mce §ith Young Strib Dol s e M";""’J"””{’" The bout will be a decision one. L Whoe in Teady for fhe rate. |Conditions are that the fighters train AT probably get the|o "ie vielpity of Macon for two mound call for the Cincinnati Reds' |I% o e iy Iwekks before the battle, Hodapp Laid Up | o T fohnny Hodayn. injurea Cleve: | o CATOORS, D0 S i iredini ,,,‘?'(‘:‘FA,,T;OJT::‘hom its first practice Saturday afte i ramed that he |ernoon and all candidates are re- His | Quested to report at St. Mary's field. iu practics | Manager Joseph Venislki predicts & busy season for the team this year and has started already to work on |2 schedute. cont the city also has €0 Shaute, Buckeye, Speece Hnd W 4‘ldfl|\ | « There’s at least one in every ofhce 't NOR oF R APPRE HUMO LN BE EMm ALL HAS HE CIATION EAL THIS FALSE MOUS TACHE = GooD Mo WILL SET MR LAUGHING - ~ —te Wik SoN RNING i Jj HE ALSO HASN'T A B\T OF HUMOR { How DYA DO '&R(YURNER 2 J I 3 ( BONG SWAM | ( MESSEER \_ MAR TANG DEVDID oF HUMOR / THE BoSS - ABSOLVUTELY WHAT' S \ LOST HIS THE /) SENSE OF 1DeA T S HUMOR Tow \