New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1926, Page 17

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1926. FODTBALL SEASON XEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, T temnsemstenesnenssterterssssrsrsersenstss | lan in predicting Dempsey will win About 80,000 people paid nearly # by a knockout. $1,200,000 to witness t of ney In the wild disorder {is not appr: | Ormiston, t radio ope ended by evange ator is believe hat time. think I would be an ass and throw s former |it all over, do you?” but a rsaw to be near| The evangelist and her mother man # 8| Going avout the city, "Patsy Brid- $ | gett thinks Dempsey will win. In general, the favorite opinion is that Tunney isn't a match for the cham- plon. In our prediction about the fight, we think Dempsey will win, Tonight is the night of the big though sometimes we would like to bout in Philadelphia and all over |see Tunney come through. the world, people will be awaiting | the fight returns. Here in New Brit- ain, hundreds will listen in over the radio while other hundreds will gather before the “Herald” office to hear the blow by blow account of | the battle. | g | This doesn’t mean a thing to any- one but it just shows how many will be surprised if Tunney happens to land the finishing blow. The New Britaln High school |football team will open the 19 | The main bout which is the one |Son with a practice game ain between Jack Dempsey, heavywelght |the Suffield team | champion, and Gene Tunney, chal-[afternoon in that lenger, will take place between 9:30 ;George Cassidy has been put and 9:45 p. m. First report had |Squad through stiff practice s the big bout going on at 10 o'clock, [and he feels that the team 1s ready but the official anouncement is to NOW t0 R LU the effect that the main go will be |COmPetition. He believes th started about 9:30 o'clock. has the makings of a good t The “Herald” will directly by wire to the ringside and , < 23 the blows land, they wili be tele- |Hish school Sfidizon standing | graphed to New Britain. In that| o way, only a short time will elapse d between the time of the fight and | Bflsebfll[ Slan ing | the beginning of the returns. | i For the accommodation of the | tans who will congregate along | Church street, the announcer Wwill| cyicazg's New York 1 try to make the announcements a8 | (.coiana s, Boston 1 r as possible. If the crowd is| ppijadelphia 8, Detroit 2 e enough the megaphone will be | yrocpineton 6. St. Louis pointed ona way and then the fiabida er so that all will hear the re- turns as good as will be possible. be connected |! ritain High {will be among the leaders in AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday The Standing W L 89 The preliminary bouts will promptly at § o'clock and from then on, news of the big fight will be clattering over the wire. The hour set for the big bout is between 2:30 | and 9:45 o'clock, not 10 as was an- nounced before and fans shonld coms early and get the best seats. New York . eveland Philadelphia Washington . a Detroit Louis Boston start A concensus of opinion about the city seems to be that Dempsey will | win easily from Tunney tonight. Of | se, there are those who support | & ex-marine, but the majority are | of the opinion that the champlon will | Games Yesterday | +ill be champion after the fight to-| St Louls 15, Brooklyn 7 ! t Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 9, Philadelphia Games Today (No games scheduled—open daté). NATIONAL LEAGUE Indicativa of the way fn which the | city is judging the fight is the an- swers of some of the “Herald"” force | on the battle. James J. Butler, for- | assistant manager of “Silent Mike,” predicts Dempsey by a knock out, thres to five rounds. Harold Jones says his 35,000 on Dempsey-is | New York . A. E. McEvoy thinks Demp- | prooiien sey will win. | Boston Philadelphia The Standing W 83 85 $3 81 1 St. Lonis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago mer s, in speaking of Yi’*a; I don't think there'll be | George Hahn, editor- | ial writer extraordinary, says Demp- will have an easy time of it. n, petite telephone op- erator, declares: “Red is awfully be- coming if worn with a good con- trast.” Game | Louis at New York | Chicago at Brooklyn Pittsburgh at Boston Cincinnati at Philadelphia helby was when Jack Demp; | bons fou in boom town, July 4 Shelby wa sent down for the full count fin cially. The show failed to pay ex- | penses and before it was over de- | veloped one of the most exciting ex- | hibitions of frenzied finance on | record. | Dempsey won on points and got al the money there was, which was not enough to complete the con- | tracted payments of $310,000. | The bout was in until fight time. The question what the promoter should use money to pay Der v, throug ’ Manager Kearns was | on finally wher | take a chance on the in the missing dollars. It didn't Kearns appointed himself m of finance and the Shelby story wa returned to the sports page afte had been for several days in the financial section of the newspaper: ! The program cost approximate $100,000 more to put on than was realized. There was 7,202 paid ad- | | missions. | The Blackfeet Tndians who fu ished the Wild West scenery were paid. St 3ob Vance picks Dempsey and Jack seems to string along with the | crowd. Joe Roche thinks Dempsey will beat Tunney but he doesn’t pre- dict how many rounds it John Butler and Don Trace working in the sticks, predict Dempsey victory. knocked y and Tom Gi little Montan Only ou In the composing room, we find the sentiment in favor of Tunney but only a few fail to predict that Demp- sey will beat him. Billy Ring and | Frank Eckert both have placed bets on Tunney at odds, but most of the | others think Dempsey will win. George Lawson and his Meriden co-workers, Murphy and Geor Riley, string along with “Kid’ Kap- Capitol Park Wethersfield Ave. Hartford INTERCITY CONTESTS Friday Night Sept. 24 ‘ Amateur Boxing (Auspices A. A. U.) Bodine - Cunningham Battalino - Kaufman 8 Bouts - All Star Card Admission 25 The last battle for the heavy- | weight title, between Jack Dempsey | | and Luis Firpo at the Polo Grounds | on September 14, 1 , was one fthe shortest and most ctacular | on record. |- It lasted for le: utes of actual fighting least half that time, other of the gladiators was down for a count. Dempscy won by a| | knockout in the second round after | flooring Firpo ten times altogether. | Ithough hé battered the *“Wild of the Pampas all over the [ring in the first’ round, .Dempsey | came within two seconds of losing his title, rpo caught him on |ln~; jaw with a right hander up a the ropes and the champlon toppled out of the ring into the laps of news | papermen, He was shoved back { barely in time to hearing “ten” counted. His tumble ruined | one typewriter and a telegraph in- | strument. DEMPSEY WINS OR LOSES than five min- nd during at | one or the| Saturday Night, FIRE WORKS Sept. 25th DISPLAY Sunday, Sept. 26th RIZZA'S ROYAL ITALIAN BAND Concert Afternoon and Night Fifty Musicians Thousand Free Seats Tor Concert escape One Come down to the Automotive Sales—the Ford dealers on Elm street, and get the returns direct from the ringside. Plenty of room for parking, which includes cars. See you later. AUTOMOTIVE SALES & SERVICE CORP. 248 Elm Street al | over the about ringside everyone ed to his , cutting off the view of thou- sands on the sloping ground be- hind them. . Far from being downcast by d teat, Firpo joined a party of fricnds in festive spirit, doing tango until daylight in a Greenwich Vil- lage cabarct. CARDS ARE ALMOST SURE OF PENNANT (Continued From Preced AGO CHI( AB J ™ 1 £ STARS ARE CARDED IS ANATEURBOUTS teur in tournaments Gheiotiihe real action Bodine and pair boxers of the state one of the ial invitation bouts former Ohio Har 'y Anderson 143-pound be at least to be b of New the class. e will the first More than 2 he oytdoor season {s fast wa ing and the is that the will not be more than two or three more shows at Capito for this event. pro ark, MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS the As a Press. (Including games of Sept National T —Cuyler, Doubles — Bottomley, ¢ Homers Ison, Cubs, 21 Stol Pirates, 34 Pitchir , lost 5 Bating Hits Ru Doubles—RBurns, Indians, Triples—Gehrig, Yanke Homers—It Yankees, 4 olen bases—>Mostil, Whit Pitc lost 10, Uhle, Indians, won ISSUE CHALI The Hardware City 1 team with a vietory Jerome Tuesday by a 9 to 0 team fn the cit d averaging idiron battl, cured by Burattl at Woodruff co scor any | phonir There are 4,000,000 {lliterates in | the United States, educational aus thorities estiniate, | SALESMAN $AM UNCER MY LINDOW BLL LAST NIGHT— S0 | BOOGHT A Fistd O THROW T HM T KEEP HIM QUIET ToneHT, IFHE STARTS IN 10 OPEN SATURDAY High School to Meet Suffeld Prep in Practice Game The New Britain High school foot- ball team will open up the 1925 sea- son against the Suffield team in that town Saturday The con- test s being called a T fternoon. because T squad is fully t and, in the opinion able to go thro e game 3 is veloped as v of the coa a real cor The local shap 1l team last ked himself into a feld be- prac- full of y ex- at halfback this year quarterback and combine Zaleski, this pair s through the season in 2 for the And N en ma r \ ar. For this re: ve a hard hand and will form several t In this manner he will ha 1 word coming from the school the shows pro: of being a pow eleven this year. 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