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CHURCHES MAKING PLANS TO HAVE BOWLING AND BASKETBALL LEAGUES —DONLON AND BARNIKOW ARE SIGNED BY ALL-NEW BRITAIN MANAGEMENT—ST. LOUIS BASEBALL MAD OVER GAME TODAY—NEW BRITAIN-MERIDEN BOWLING TEAMS MEET GOACHES DISAGREE ST. LOUIS IS BASEBALL MAD FOR TODAY'S GAME Thousands of Fans Impatient For Umpire to Call “Play Ball”’—First Ticket Seeker Gets in Line 24 Hours | Before Contest Begins—Hornsby is Presented With An Expensive Au(omoblle—(‘elebratmn (“ontmues SHARKEY ANOTHER | MAN OF DESTINY § (F — Baseball | trom cheering its be- 4 Cardinals, and with a weari- ness of limb that only a seat in a world serfes will satisfy, St. Louls today awaited game time with im- | patience. Mentally the city is in the | pink of condition for the third game | of the serfes with confidence 0ozing from every pore. Physically there is something lacking for many of Harry Wills' Opponent Next o snipusiass. 5 Tuesday Consistent Winner much of the evening was given over | e i | to the singing of a baseball paean| New York, Oct. 5.—Jack Shark by a choir of thousands of voic ational Boston heavyweight who making up in volume anything 1 will battle Harry Wills in a fifteen | ing in harmony. Unfortunately | round bout at Ebbets Field, Brook- many who cheered will not see the |yn on October 12, like Gens Tunney game today is a man of distiny. He keeps win- Many of St. Louls fans belicved dless of how heavy the| that they also serve who only stand | oads against him may appear. and wait, and while their fellows| This is why thousands of New were cheering Hornsby and his vic land dollars will be bet on Shar- torious crew, several hundred were to defeat Wills. forming a thin but determined lne | n " cponcer gupnorters believe before the ticket window at Sports-| .y have g decided sdge in the | man’s Park. Number one in thiS| w5 mateh as far as physical con- | line, John M. lr\'r*x:r,on. took abso-| ;i 0 4o concerned v is only lutely no chance of being late for |, ..o tour years of age, the young- he was ready 1y his ticket at est of the outs ding heav ights. 1:45 yesterday rnoon, almost 24 | 1 vitality [ hours before Hildebrand SmDEEY 18 Aix et was ready to ball.” Down S e town, 100, & .| when in razor edge condition. Wt on buving Al n yweight is one of standing . i i £ : s Than 40,000, nexeqr the fastest heavyweights since the crowded into Spo days of Jim Corbet. William Maul- | doon of the New York boxing com- srapd 1d 5 r xin sold in short order. The sale of th cd that Sharkey | 7,500 bleacher seats and 3,500 stand- ing room space will be followed by the S. R. Q. sign. hese places have net been sold because they are not on sale until the day of the game. | The enthusiasm of nearly two seore seagons stored up in the years of waiting for a pennant win- ner boiled over last night when the Cardinals came into their own Rogers Hornshy brought the first championship team to St. Loui: since 1858 and the citizens let him kmow that they appreciate it. The champions won their title on the road and went from this triumph into a world series, whose first two games gave them an even break ‘Winning a National league cham- pionship and standing off the Ameri- can titleholders, all since they went away, save St. Louis fans, who take their baseball as scriously as any people in the world, an oppor- tunity to show how they felt about it. Manager with an with & W York admirers and all the will get presents when the mulated che E I3 ense mass of tribute to the athletes by, in self defen sent the players to th quiet Long after demonssration pieture for bration conts Automobiles street dragging Oct. ning v the privilege | Th | nd one of th 1s ever seen. It keeps popping e rapidity that bullcts sputter mouth of a machine gun. sy can hook and jab with ; well. He is also ng, rib buster right which wrecked George God- | frey, Jack Renault. Jack DeMave, | Floyd Johnson, Eddie Huffman, Jim Mal g Solomon and other fistic | Unlike on Shark from tk har! his lef lessed with luminaries. Wills, thers is no ring rust | 1 he started box- | onal three years | 1cd that the best way to | heavyweight champion of was by defeating all s fast as matches could be 1 be the comers arra When offered a bout with Wills, Sharkey accepted without mo- ment’s hesitation. “The quick way to get a hout | with Tunney for the championship by knocking off Wills” said arkey. ther Dempscy nor cro. T shall t Wills is hom T cz ghting for bell in the just Hor nsive sby antomob yrove or er Just anc get out of my all I am worth from the first round. ns can out of sund to it nity paid atil Horns- d a halt and r homes and won't be beaten That is why I +n to defeat at who en jodfrey tough- ration of the 1 out of the oment, the cele trouble ot Wills will » any I don't to stop m ey will fir victory drive. $ h his tr g in New He feels so certain he can win that he wishes the fans to line on his condition so that can > a littla bet on him he goes to the post more you see and read of ey and his colorful career the g 3 belief becomes that Wills is in for a very busy evening when he shapes off with the you hom Bostonians refer to ped through th wash tubs and buckets behind, bumping against the concrete, T furnished a nois making dev ond to no though sirens, bells and even volver shots offered the st of competition. There was a as to whether last night's uproar mads a record. Some die-hs stood out for a draw for the Arl tice day celebration, but n that historic demonstration a cl cut decision. The last great politi- cal convention held in St. Louis was rated a bad third as an o loud and prolonged shou With the stage set for last nig curtain raiser today’'s baseball con- test mu bu more than a & will be a ceremony. The yet for s s ton of fans v night, they sal ing is to come after the Cardinals win their first world serics game at home. Should lose, the sor rowing can be heard for miles last aight's jollification taken as an indication, baseball crowd plu depths of despair will mak noise than any other like over victory. e meantime, the blase York Yankoes, who claim th can take their pennants them alone, asked what cheering was about that as tho opposition versation, they must not looked. The St. Louis faus ing the Invaders to be ta by the home guar field. Manager Miller Huggl he took no part in t} celebration would be St Louis. H same Cardinals championship proport fans had ishe got 2 th se 3 re- ¥ The Shari vision of o is now Boston ha was born in ". Y: and his pa h It happened t hip was In Boston d from the navy 1rs ago and he located there TH) L NEME N LEFT till reside Drastic Shakeup Is Announced By Head Coach Arnold Horwcen In i1s game remained A squad today. three of them vet- 1s in a dras- am by Head 1 Horween. Bayard Kil- ran right guard and Carl vho been the regul n care of moments of has lost squad its op H VE A DRINI\ SHOTGUNS RIFLES “Everything for the hunter” ECONOMY SPORT SHOP Suecessors to HADFIE. LD 15 Main | | — SHELLS a rah, DAY, itarrow Co., Elm St. "The Cutawa: Biggaaum, Ch [Poll of Ea | of eastern football coaches on the | question of scouting opponents for | etpit | Rop | agreem | ad Lween, | scouting | others ‘He a © | proteges | may clash in 1928 ON SCOUTING PLAN stern Mentors Reveals Grounds for Many Arguments New York, Oct. 5 (M — A poll the blg games of the season, pre- ed when Tad Jones and Bill of Princeton signed an to put an end to the practice, finds a majority of the athletle mentors so far queried in | favor of abolishing scouts. A few qualified their approval | of non-scouting by declaring their | rence depends on how well the plan works in actual practice while others {nsist that the gridiron sport would be ruined by forbid- ding scouting. Another group takes a mid-way stand, preferring to| await the outcome of the Yal Princeton pact before committ themselves. Included in this class are the Harvard authorities, who vould not join their Big Three thren in the agreement this vear but might consider the plan lat: Coaches low: Jess Ha Hanover, N Boston unive: Coaches Yale, New Conn Roper, Princeton, Princeton, Hugo Bezdek, Penn State col- Pa Cleo O'Donnell, Holy Cross, Worcester; Charles Crowley, Columbt: York; Henry White, Amhe Amherst, Mass.; Tuss McLa Bre Providence, R. L; Frank G Fordham, New York; G. H. McCracken, Lafayette, laston, Pa.; Percy Wendell, Le- high, South Bethlehem, Pa. Eastern coll conference (comprising 11 colleges) forbids couting of each other before mes. Those undecided: Arnold Hor- Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.; Willilam Reid, athletic mana ger Colgate, Hamilton, N. Y. William Bingham, director of athletics at Harvard, favors the plan personally, but believes that nothing conld be done contrary to the opinion of Horween, the new Crimson coach. In expressing his opinlon should not be aboli Jess Hawley, coach of the powerf Dartmouth elcven, declared the present system is harmless and | at Clarkin Field Sunday afternoon. creates good-will between the col-| in action in a recent game leges. He belteves that a non = soitine Waerenm et u‘ Cleveland. He is about and hard to control, as alumni or| interested in theic teams, | Sunday afternoon. favoring scouting fol- Dartmouth, Brown, Tad Jones, HAROLD (RED) Here we have t | that ul | he great “Red” to be ta professional football suit of the New York Yankees. galloping ghost, red rover, erimson crack or whatever else you that | Want to call him, is all set to give New Britain a tough battle against the Cleveland Panthers R GRANGE Grange as he looks in the The i The inset cho“\ Grange at ckled after a short dash. Grange will pair up with Eddie Tryon against All-New Britain r’mvv would | - DREADS BUSY TIHE - rivals, This, Hawley i l' | + States That She Hasn’t Time ¢ -| Follow Up Numerous Tourneys B football cnough now,” Reggie I iiversity is a new id cated n of | op- “It the al hat pin will 0 prita non-scouting rule, football adversely, ootball Is co n.nc-md new. Proper balance ba- veen offense and defense is nee: ary if the game is to have an sporting interest, and eliminat scouting would tend to this balance. There are so r possible offensive comt that it is impossible to tr team to stop them at all." “Scouting is overdono McLaughry said at value is over-rated. greement will b 1 not think f an agree this season. Henry Whife at Amherst Lelleves that “scouting eliminates the clo- surprise and destroyed the | Valley Country club, ve the players.” He hopes |they wont expect me t enough L 1‘r\(»p [prom Philadelphia, Oct. 5 (P—America’s | Will Brita well have them etson, dreads the : i " |able calls that inumer- national v. Not her gam Ing duties ot 18 and | come to " Coach | champions for tournament pl Brown. “Its No-scoutin that she has any fear of bu. because of the pr Brown would try o nent with rivals | ffect “Oh, dear, The y was one of the 1 stants for the Berthellyn the tournament at the ctson, who ing con- cup in Huntingdon do hope | o of th a mnmr topplers. to lower the colors of fered the toughest oppesition of the Yanks have whipped the Macks but five tim have b ch street sports eing run b The locals wi he name and M ed toge should turn emporium Bill Bren- le un- creation Brenne has a strong quintet Joe” Foote be anchor man on the New in five and with him will be Stedman and | ch will be started | 0 o'clock. ey pily at s: Thursday night, the Meriden Girh Q I invade this city in an attempt the > 8 the This will ng and ng that will spur in girls. rateh worth see a big ba on to win. Connje Mack’s Athletics have of- | Lock Co. pace-setting Yankees the | season. in 15 starts. The Red the casiest, losing 15 heir 19 clashes with Huggins' team, locals | REGORD GROWD 10 SEE HEAVY BOUT Harry Wills and Jack Sharkey to Meet at Ebbets Field Tuesday New York, Oct. § (A—Promoter Humbert J. Fugary announced last night that the main office for the Harry Wills-Jack Sharkey fifteen round heavyweight carnival at Eb. bets field Columbus Day would be located in the ElDorado building, 1599 Broadway. This shift in head- quarters was made to accommodate the fans, many of whom are certain to find the new offices in the heart of the theatrical district more con- venient than the offices on the 44th |floor of the Woolworth building. It | was also announced that tickets {would be sold in Promoter Fugazy's Woolworth building offices, Schumm |and Snyders, 295 Fulton street, | Brooklyn, Ebbets field, and the Ful- ton Chop House, Flatbush avenue and Nevins street, Brooklyn. tickets, as well as Spaldings Sport- ing Goods house. Incidentally Pro- mater Fugazy made it known that the new ticket headquarters will supply the demand for all games to | |be played by his Horseman in the | American Football league at Com- merefal fleld, Brooklyn. That the Wills-Sharkey battle wil | be almost as big as the Tunney- scrap in point of interest | ident today when the var- | lous agencies reported an advance |sale even bigger than at this for the Delaney-Berlenbach {hea eight championship that s |out Ebbets field. ever has Promoter Fugazy ever had so many requests for ringside reservations. Newspapers from all | over the country have already filed requests for press reservations, and it is estimated that the battle will be more widely covered than any bout New York has had since the | Dempsey-Firpo fuss. Dave Driscoll, business-director at Ebbets field, {8 preparing to handle the biggest crowd the Flatbush ball | park ever held. Driscoll believes that there will be as many fans out- | side of the park trying to get In as | there will be inside the walls. | DUSTY BOWLING LEAGUE Ten Teams Again Entered as Was | | the Case Last Scason—Opening | Date Uncertain. | committee of the| Industrial Athle last evening in th | Y. M. €. A. and aithough the date| | for the opening of the league was| |not definitely fixed because of the| uncertainty of one team joinin this ¥ the committee had as- surance that the league would be made up of 10 teams again this| ar the same as it was last. The games in the league probably be tolled on Tuesday nights. Those entered in the league |are as follows: Landers, Frary & Clark, Corbin Screw, North & Judd, ‘T’ & F. Corbin, Stanley Works, ¢ Britain Machine, Stanley Rule evel and Corbin Cabinet Lock. ‘xhe American Paper Goods was | represented but uncertain whether |it would enter or not though the celing is that the Kensington fac- tory will have a team in’the league. Hart & Cooley dropped out but the place was fllled by Corbin Cabinet The bowling |New Britain | Council met will | The basketball committee, which is arranging a schedule for the In- dustrial league, will meet at the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday to talk over fur- | ther details of organization this yeaf. The schedule committee is expected | All the regular agencies will carry | | be from fullback. land T [as great as Grange but without the Ihe was placed on the All-American DONLON AND BARNIKOW SIGNED BY NEW BRITAIN Meriden and New Haven Stars to Be Seen in Action Against “Red” Grange Sunday Afternoon in Hart- ford—Manager Dailey Making Effort to Have Hunt in Backfield For Yankee Game — Tickets Selling Fast For Classic Gridiron Spectacle, Eddle Barnikow of Meriden,| The cosch ef the team s Ralph slashing fullback of the Hartford V. Scott, a former University ef Blues this season and mainstay of Michigan and All.American tackle. the All-New Britain team last year,|H® also plays in the line. Harold and John Donlon, husky tackle of W. Griffen formerly of Towa is the ] | center and guard on the team and New Haven, have been signed a5|\.isns 230 pounds. members of the All.New Britain| | Some of the other players who football team, Manager Edward J.! Wil b seen Su { nd. & Dailey announced today. ay are: Larry, 2 Both men | aarys, Indiana University, a half- will practice with the team this| y,ai: Roy Baker, formerly of the week and will take part in the game University of Santa Clara and a against the New York Yankees |jnmemper of the Los Angeles Tigers starring Harold (Red) Grange and|joe’ vear: Pooley Huberl, quarters Eddie Tryon, two of the foremostiyaei formerly of the University of football characters in the “Orl”u,\mamq voted most valuable play- | Sunday afternoon at Glarkin Field,|ar to his team in 19 | Hartford. | Paul Minick is one of the k guards, The acquisition of these two Will|gormerly ot Jowa University. | be received with joy by the fans| sygust Michalske who played full- who have becn following the for-|yack and guard for Penn Stats is a | tunes of the All-New Britain hf‘m terror to opposing linesmen and he this year and will give the New |\ pave to be walched with great | Britain team additional strensth in|oare suna. Franald It Keatner the line and a wonderful punch in|yr lcft tackle, is @ former captain the backfield. |of Cornell University and played Without a doubt, Barnikow Will|\arsity football there three years. R. be placed at halfback in line with | ya)) js 5 tackle who made & rap- |the team as picked by the “Herald” | ytation while a member of the Univ yesterday, to pair up with “BUtsy” | iersity of Illinois eleven, . Lowell Sturm and: “Sllent John" Davis.|oite is an end whose spesd f§ a “Barney” can play any place in the parvel of the foothall world. He backfield and his plunges will be Just | ;1aveq on the Towa State University as good from haltback as they Will \icam and was picked for All-Wesi- The fans Who at- | ern in 1924, tend the game in Hartford Sunday, Wesley Fr: will see the Meriden lineplunger, | pioked from t. going through the pack With 8ix OF | tcam of last Gerald S. Ma- seven hanging on him and Rl |joney a right end on last year's rying them all along. | Dartmouth team is ons of the stars Donlon will be placed at his old|of tho Yankeos. George S. Pease, position in tacie. The “Big Boy.” | tormerly quarterback on Columbia, cut clean from Hartford, i8 COMINg |will he seen in action. Steve to New Britain tickled pink at lhr | Schimetiaeh, center, is another Co- thought that he will be given lumbia star and weighs 190 pounds. chance to play. He has warmed “‘L | with this agaregation of former col- bench in Hartford almost all the|jozn stars, New Britain Wil have to {time since he signed with the team, g0 f’1< ery second to pull out with but he will bo assured of plenty of |, yistory and the eleven will have | work with the local team. The NewW | yo <ok 'hard to even hold the op- ) | Britain eleven will look somewhat | ogiton natural with Barnikow and Donlon\ Sunday's game is attracting fans back in the gam {from all over the state and fans in Manager Dailey, in order to assure | Ny Britain who plan to see the is another fullback University of Towa the locals of a fast ba_cknflld 8| tamons lloping ghost” in actie: making plans to try to sign up Bd.|g0u1q Jose no time in securing th: Huat of Norwalk who quit the team | joyets The demand from Ne last week without giving any reason. ! e Hunt played quarterback here, but| (continued on Following Page) his rightful place is at halfback and he will be here Sunday, he will flash at that position. The New York Yankees will be he most powerful combination that the locals will meet this year. Grange | on will form the two threats hat will keep the New DBritain cam on their toes all during the| contest. The “galloping ghost” will probably have plenty of opportunity to demonstrate his famous running in the open field while Tryon, fully When You Need It! The best equipped Ford Re- pair Shop in the County! The biggest and most com- plete stock of Genuine Ford Parts in the State. Prompt and Courteous Service Rutomotive Sales & Service Co. Ford Dealers New Britain 248 Elm St. Tel. 2701 glamour attached to the Wheaton, 111, flash, will show the goods that made him famous fn the Colgate backfleld. The other members of the team are all stars of the first magnitude and one that will be watched with interest is Paul C. Goebel who played with the Chicago Bears and “Red” Grange in the tour of the south and west last year. He was a star at end for the Unliversity of Michigan and was picked as an All-American | player by 214 coaches. He is the class when it comes to gathering in forward passes. He has played pro- fessional football for the past twe years on the Columbus Tigers and professional eleven byPresident Carr to report at this meeting. of the National league. for a similar agreement among the |lot of tournaments Little Three — Amherst, Wil I've won haven't time.” champion revealed that | s been able to enter national event because in the fall and that is her daughters, Eliz st be gotten off nd you have onal. b iams | cause the simply coaches conld spend more | The new in trains and the result would | sh ba more ing and more ay ung said at Pen “An ideal agreem O'Donnell's opinion open 1. at th to no Cleon Cross. The od THoly 2 boardin agreament is a | idea what that mea ch,| Asked if she had g | o | golt much this summer, Mrs. Stetson no-seouting o P Charles Crowley, beli s that colle, the letter of the law. “It's the best thing that can happen to foothall, tated Coach Jim McCarthy no! T took Eliza- to a camp in Maine were most of the is no golf cou y in one or two urnaments The rest of the time I play e the chance—whi Elizabeth and | summe there. at ‘ 2dek, that he neiple, only p! a yea golf when I i so very off . Ann don't play. At least they the foolish ldea they are not enough to play with me, though | sometimes I get them oht. Eliza- beth is a debutante winter, that will keep mo busy.” son played in a statement, do- ad long favored but thought that ction of the plan would be lificult. At Lehigh, Perey Wendell sald: “Non-scouting has a tendency to make players think for them. il bit more. T never put ortance in scouting.” In the fashion, Frank Fordham coach, supported reame saying: “When ara soouted they are play more on their own A practical worki can be establish n at La '\\"'/‘ registering his approval. nia- Wilson, who put the Provid- HOT T0 PLAY HARVARD Notre Dame Football Team May Be | of the title event, turned in a card | On Crimson’s 1928, | of 91 Rogers Recreation Five To Break great j much same ne of th ng c v the qual. 1lyn tour- 18 holes Gargan a teams not nent Ma , and five strokes be arest ol or. Mis dethroned last week as na- took a 93 over the while Miss Vir- said Collett, tional champlon, ow coursa, the quarter Schedule In 5 on schedule te Roc ]H eleven Cambridge, Masa, Oct Notre Dame will not be vard's 1927 football there is a possibi and th up,_{ Out Against KFred Teller's Silver An official statement from (hv-! Harvard Athlstic association ds clar- ad Notre Dame had been offered a| One of the best matches of the 200 On next year's but the | current bowling ssason is scheduled ot- | to take place tonight at Rogers Ree- South Ben ine n re nily r‘fl“pv“' t to reation alleys at 8:30 o'clo Fred Teller lcads his Mer! tern trips 5 1 Jrransad." |against the gream of bowlers at the City Topplers. had b 1ecline already use ! 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