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$S55000000. Speaking of Sports Announcement is made through the Associated Press today that | “Dutch” Connor has been named as coach of the New York University Hockey team. He is a former star of New Hampshire state jn the hockey line and his work with the New York team will be watched | with great interest in these parts. i PESETSSRP This i8 an accomplishment af Connor's that few in this city were He is known as a foot- 1l star of the first magnitude and has played in New, Britain for sev- cral seasons, doing great work in every game in which he played. He has been coaching the Farm- ngdale Agricultural college teams in Farmingdale; L. I, handling foot- ball, baseball, basketball and other lines of sport there. His success i the New Yorkers was up to it standard, but the players were away off on shooting. quintet hits New Britain, it should |be in fine form. of south on a tour of Connecticut dur- ing the Christmas holidays, games scheduled in Meriden and Bristol and Manager Clarence Lanpher |team for an appearance in this city, | probably on Christmas night. ketball team will |against | Hartford Saturday afternoon. |locals have chosen a tough quintet to buck up against for the opening | game, |in Waterbury at the Friday night of this week. The lignt | heavywelght champion will have {tough battle on his hands as he is {pitted against the negro champlon NEW BRITATN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1926. high KENSINGTON CLUB WINS SWIM MEET Hartford Comny “Y” Event Captured by South-Enders The Kensington Boys' club won [the Hartford County Y. M. C. A. swimming meet at Manchester Sat- |urday, earning its victory after a |hard fight with the Suffield Acad- |emy natators and those from the | Manchester Hi-Y club. The Ken- {sington club_did tank until last winter, when some of the boys placed in the county meet, and their rise to the top Sat- urday was no less astonishing than !mrwd. The victory would have een even more decisive had it not been for the fact that all entrants in the breast stroke events were disqualified for improper stroke; Kensington suffered heaviest from By the tine this Ernic Neipp will bring a squad basketball players from the He has New Haven, has signed the The New Britain high school bas- open the season Seminary in The St.. Thomas' Jack Delancy meets Jamaica Kid state armory a n the light heavy division. He has nothing in the | ! | ‘In the evening he static-was of ‘Hw Fourth of July variety, very heavy and very sharp. There wasn't | 20 much of ft, but when it DID come, it knocked things helter-skelter. We heard “Hello, Aloha” at WTAM, *during the past week-end, 1o kid_“(}lc\-eland. and a vocal chorus to the ding. The cold, crsp atmosphere | number also came through, ‘but the made for better volume and clarity, [static, my friends, the static! although there was plenty of static| - Egae last night. Saturday night was not so | WJZ WPCH, WBBM and a few noticeably statical, if yowll pardon |others came in, but we didn’t find the colned word. Our activities on | anything.to interest us sufficientty to Saturday were cut short because of Make Dbraving the static worth the fact that our battery needed |While. Things were still tough at 10 | charging right in the middle of the |o'clock, although it was by no means evening and it came near dying on | difficult to bring in stations. The its feet, the battery, not the evening. | heavy charges of static just sort of v e dislocated our nervous system. They | saturday. Wo made a hasty trip |Came suddenly and heavy. around the dials due to the fact that, as we mentioned before, the battery | was taking a nap. We stopped at | WTIC where we heard one number | bury. This number was “John Peel, that well known English hunting ol .~ OFFICER IS SHOT | Through the Static We had lots of fun at the radio ,That's all for today, thanks!, —P. E. L. song, and it was presented in manner well balanced. P Don Vorhees (or Voorhees) and | %&S‘ ¢ 1mpirovements are Yfiww There are two gener-l classes of motor car improvements. Those made primarily for their effect on the public—and those made( primarily for their effect upon the car. You will perceive at once that Dodge Brothers new five-bearing crankshaft, two- unit starting and lighting system, air cleaner fant N [ } Iso been signed to meet Bud' Gor- + 1 - e 41 [ e M 1 Foraiy on Bieahuhar 30, and other recent improvements, are the sort that represent genuine value. his orchestra from the Earl Cargoll | theater, New Yorlk, offered a \'aricdiL“{ber program from WJZ, This program | Bishop, Oklahoma e componed ot 8 misturs of i o Doy, Digs Fighting presented the former much more ‘ | satistactorily than the latter, to our |\way of thinking, although the or- chestra is primarily a dance organi- Gangsters of the modern crime i | zation. Of course, “Hugs and Kisses,” school have killed Luther Bishop, dgninstithel Insiljos lot AMTEridpn fak | Junior Division {the hit from “The Vanities” was oue of Oklahoma's “two gun ofti- ihe state armory Saturday night, 1o~ | Tne Tndustrial Basketball 1eague| 150 vard reme o poneld, ret: | Well done. < | cers, trained in the day when quick turned to the game in the sedond | " riov acnin tomorrow night at Gm“b‘} e 3 3 i | shooting often played a major part | SR i ... i o halt and made short work of tying |y, 3 31, 0 A; gymnasium with the | CTaRl, SO0nd o ok, Ty entoramant: with the smaller teams put him j the limelight for a better position and it may be that he will be signed permanently as athletic coaoh under “Chick” Meehan at New York uni- versity. this, losing 13 points. The total of points scored was as follows: Kensington Boys' club 42, Sufffeld Academy 32, Manches- [ter HI-Y club 30, Enfleld 20, Gran- | by 8, Windsor 4. McKay and Mark- ley of Manchester were high men, scoring three firsts each for all of their organizations' points. The summary of events: },.f“’\ & o The amateur fight cards at the |state armory jn this city will be re- sumed Friday night with an all-star card of houts. After a layoff of two weeks, the fans of this clty are nxious to view the hoys in action again this week. ‘They are sound and substantial betterments, producing definite and marked results, and as such they are typical of Dodge Brothers methods and product. The National Guards, after sho . OKla, Dec. 6.8 | ing the poorest form of the pre: on in the first half of the game Touring Car ........ $ 885 Coupe 935 Special Sedan . Delivered | WQAM, Miami, sign oft at about 7, | o'clock, after it had engaged in a| i el mixup With another station. Others g Markley, Manehester: |wa brought in before 9 o'clock, the tini, Granby. third; Bozak, Enfiela, |time we had tp shut down and put e : » Enfeld | o the charger, were WBZ, WNYC, B Tniemeainia Dlvition WNAC, WLS, WGBS, KDKA and Relay — Kensington (Hart, Ma- |V & e Dixies [lone, Isaacson, Chotkowskf), first. | \... I Nagles, 80 vard® frec style — McKay, fired several times at short range, For the last several years Bishop had been an operative of the state bureau of identification. He had also assisted the government in the inyestigation of the Osage Indian country “reign of terror,” in which nearly a score of persons were slain four years ago. Many of the victims were Indians made wealthy by oil third. the Season. Boys' Club (Denoting | Gill the e a ging in e lead. ! 4 The usual run of dance selections | | 1a score and forging into the lead ngeting ThE) o TEIL ek erole. et Fouglhit Till the End | to stay at the top in the fight for Ii\'\g something different. We heard ed b second; B. Clark, Kensington, ad grappled with a gunman who[ Mert Taylor returned With a| Jocals in Second Home Game of M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m visiting guard, held the local boy to [New Britain Machine was offered by an orchestra at| . The Guards cannot afford to lose | COTPIN Screw feam and Russell &|go0ond; D. Lewls, Kensington.|WIOD, Miaml. The station came| Bishop was shot to death in his| © teamwork in any of the games | ErVins batting Landera” Frary &|inira, bedroomr here shortly before .dawn | the state basketball title. The ‘ team is capable of taking into camp | bound to the dizzy heights he has occupied for a number of years on two field baskets, Taylor went wild | and from every angle and with ail | Clark, through loud enough, as did WGY, | Crark. 7% S g P e vester He died fighting, but y BOYS’ CLUB PLAYS any of the combinations in the state | — the basketball court Saturday night. | corts of contortions, he slipped in | at the armory this year if they are Sohenestady, Just for tha kalke Of saT- . He died g Manchester, first; Bielitz, Enfield, IS HNEL s ndedtonasthe e Droviding it plays its regular game. |y oo gl g e o oo Opia After a first half in which Hurwitz, | ficld baskets, making his total 10 in Right Forward | Manchester, first; Wright, Kensin Krascewski . Poscher ton, second; Daly, Enfield, thir | smiley, Windsor, fourth. C. Nagles| 80 yard back stroke — McKay, | Manchester, first; Grifith, Kensing- charger charging). DRI | development. Yesterday the bloopers were ac-i Foe of Bandits tive, as usual, although we didn't! Following the conviction this year notice as many on the air during the ' of W. K. Hale, wealthy rancher, and morning as we did the The S & F MOTOR SALES Corp. Sunday john Ramsey, cowboy farmer, on a morning before. We have & sus-|charge of killing Henry Roan, an picion that several of them were out | Osage, Bishop had been active in the in the garage trying to get the car progecution of a bank robbery case. started. All ‘well and good. We'll | His activity in breaking up bandit have to think of something to keep gangs gave him a wide knowledge of 31, |'em busy next Sunday, too. | eriminals operating In the southwest ALY jand often he was called into con- Things came through very «well!gujtation by state and federal ofti- | yesterday. Everything within reach dashed in with pep, life and what- ever elge chagacterizes vivacfous radio’ waves. WPG, Atlantic City, presented Walter Reed, baritone, in P Curry | ton, second; Chotlkowsk!, Kensing- | : Stoman got two double-counters ton, third. ) | Taylor| Diving — McKay, Manchester, the first half and failed to reg- a : % ister a single goal In the second half. | Left Guar | first; Smiley, Windsor, second. Senfor Division His work on the floor, however, and | Zapatka, Levin, in passing the ball, was a big fac- | Pavparian subs Garris| 160 yard relay — Suffield, first; tor in the New Britain chances for | Callahan, Brennan | Kensington (Wright, Griffith, scoring, % | The Boys' club will play its second | Clark, Guggerty), second. home game of the current season| 100 yard free style — Stevens, Sloman scems to be of the mind | this evening with the Dixies of L. st Sumcw, first; H. Clark, Kensington, that points for the team count a | Hartford as opponents. The club |secon®. il . great deal more than points for him- | Won its opening encounter last week | 40 yard free style — Zwerdling, | sclf. Rather than taka a shot that | Without difficulty, although !lts rival | Suffield, first; Fiske, Suffield, sec- might be missed while a pass to a | was a speedy team, and another win |ond; H. Clark, Kensington, third; s b | x mate mizht mean a sure basket, |is looked for tonight. The Dixies|Guggerty, Kensington, fourth. y‘l;_a‘t bwlm"i\: D:}dfl‘f‘sgfn;n;;;"";“;gé Sloman will alw s the ball. (have not been going uny too well| 100 yard back stroke—Gusgerty, | ‘"ed’d‘ S e o S The other members of the Guards |this year, and the club holds & psy- |KKensington, ' first; Fiske, Suffield, It sound deeply in ‘l‘h;’ Sl might take him as an example to cholog advantage by reason of a |gecond, panied by an organ, the numb follow in this respect. mashing victory last winter, but the | Diving—zwerdling, Suffield, frst; & 82T e = t Hartford team ls determined | mgpanoza, Suffield, segond. The locals will inaugurate Sunday fo come back tonight and has let the | rThe winners will be entered in hasketball in Waterbury when they | locals know the game will not be 2 tne state Y. M. C. A. meet at Tor- the Brooklyn A. C. five in the snap. Irington this Saturday. Eight men s City. This will be an fnnova- | The club will use its regular Mne- \from Kensington placed and will up, the same one which started a|maye the trip. fion in the state but predictions are | 1 that it will prove highly popular fn | week ago. The visitors will bring| W hury. ketball fans | with them approximately the same (Continued from preceding page) | 1129 Stanley St. We Also Sell Dependable Used Cars cers. | He retired to his home Saturday after escorting convict witnesses to the robbery trial. Saturday night he was called to his telephone only to hear a receiver click as he answered. Police believe the call was from gangsters wishing to ascertain it he was at home. Awakened by Shot Early vesterday morning Mrs. | Bishop, asleep in a bed near her hus- band's was awakened by a shot. She fled downstairs to awaken her father |and her son as the gunman kept up |a rapld fire. Bishop’s body was ‘ w5 For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Adots squelching a mosquito. But be that which he had attempted to reach. & Donce BROTHERS MOTOR CARS We ran into a lynching party down at WICCO, DBridgeport. It seems there was a blooper. And this bloop- er was like all the rest of the bloopers. He liked to annoy people, | vou know, just like a mosquito, al- | though there's a very final way of will watch the outcome with great array which came before, the com int ation being greatly strengthened through a yeat of playing together. A bowling match that is drawing The preliminary game, startipg at great deal of interest in the Fifth | 7:30 o'clock, will be between the rd, will take place tomorrow | Boys' Club Reserves and the Fed- night when the Commercial Five | cr: These teams appear evenly will roll {he Peerless Tive at the|matched, both having forced the Peerless alleys on Broad street. | South Church Reserves to overtime These two teams include some of the | last week. Dancing will follow the best bowlers in that section of the | bng game, the Imperial Club orches- city and both have lrge followings | tra providing music. i SPORT BRIEFS By AHERN HAD AN EAR FOR MUGIKC LIKE W9 UNCLE !~ COULDRT S CARRY AN AR \F HE ' oL' PROF HAG BEEN “TRVING 10 * A -TEACH HIM “THAT PIECE FOR A NEAR', w1 TOOK ALVIN “THREE VEARY LEARNING HOW 10 PLAN TAG ! = Evidently there will fi‘ no second game between the All-New Britain and Hartford Blues football teams. ‘By The snow of yesterday closed a late| “yaoi Delaney, light heavyweight season up for good. Th: Blues .p,mpion, has been matched by travelled to Providence yesterday to prympert Fugazy to meet Bud Gor- play ‘the scheduled game With the y.0 "o Wwisconsin, in & ten-round Steam Rollers there but the minia- .4y in Jersey Clty for the New ture blizzard howled and the team yoo s rnomionn “onristmas fund, Dee. came right home again. |20, Delaney's title will not* be at| 3y stake except in event of a knockout, | The Bristol Endees had an easy g iio'tothe New Jersey law against supple, If time of it in trimming the Plainfield | ;. cistons, Nagle, 1t team in Brissol Saturday night. The Garron ot - Plainfield team is primarily a team ' gpqy athletes.at West Point have Hellyar, ¢ that plays professional rules and!, poo cinter ahead. The cadet Phillips, rg . when they're in a city where ama- ;015 team meets Harvard, Yale and Lowery, Ig .. teur rules govern the game the gaieral service squads; the fencing team is the same as any amateur (.o has Harvard, Yale and the rule team that attempts to play the | {rjversity of Toronto on the sched- professional game. The two meth-| s for five match and the bas- Saunders; scorer, Butler. | the name of some of the famous ods of playing are widely diffcrent. | yatban team meets Fordham, Mass., | foretgn composers and give the | egen and o sernens. Bew Yok LRAD IN BIKE RAGE |, bwsmiten o3l University has : hoxlifg iopponents. | English, Verdl's name is Joseph Toams of McBeath-Grimm and | Green. “Now, wouldn't that look The snow-laden blizzard that | fine,” he said, “to see on a billboard | the name of some famous selection wept New York yesterday was too| Petri-Landstwo Two Full Laps u much for Willie Reinbold, world | "r‘ompoaed by Joe Green'?” He also champion professional walker, in his Abcad of Rest of the Fleld |16t & member of the audience choose New York, Dec. § (P——The feams |three notes from the' scalp and he attempt to set a new world's record " for 35 _miles around Manhattan Ts- of McBeath-Grimm and Petri-Lands cOmposed a waltz from them, just to land. Reinbold, when his rivals|were two full laps ahead of the field |Show how easy it is to write some types of music. We listened to his failed to appear at acheduled time, (early today in the six-day bieycle |t walked two and a halt miles against race at Madison Square Garden. (talk for about half an hour. ithe wind and snow before collapsing| McBeath and Grimm gained a lap | Lhoa e |\vith hoth tect and hands frozen. He 'during a jam just before 3 a. m. and | Massenet’s “Elegy” was furnished suffered extreme paln but no per-|Petri and Lands caught up with |as a violin solo at WE , New York, [them a few minutes later. | but we arrived just two steps ahead | worst football campaigns in many el | The two teams gained their first|of a blooper and we fled to WJZ, |seasons. The Golden Bears won but After losing his final three-cush- 1ap shortly after 1 o'clock in the |where the closing exercises of the|three of their nine games. They | | ioned billlard match to Gus Copulos New York's 41st six-day bicycle race, |afternoon vespers at St George's counted 106 points to 167 for the Sl of Detroit, 600 to 552, Willic Hoppe, [Which began last night at 9 o'clock. |church were being broadcast. foe. former balkline champlon, today - SALESMAN $AM Foul Havlick, If | the Assoclated P! All that took place in the after- {noon. ‘We went over to WNAC, Bos- Total | ton, where an interesting talk was 4 peard on “Repeats in Music.” The 0 lecturer told of the necessity of re- 4 | peating certain notes over and over | again in musical numbers. Tis talk 11 was exceedingly humorous, although 7| he gave out some excellent dope. His — |audience entered into the spirit of 20 | th thing and proved to very appre- Referee Dick Dillon; timer, Petey | ciative. One of his stunts was to take RS N St. Michael | nevertheless, this blooper got on|An open window indicated the slayer | sitting on the wave and they gald, grapple with his assailant. His two | | ; be |been convicted largely on evidence Burritt A. | other ®loopers. “No, I'm going to ey on : VUN w -TW0w Z UM, wa VUN Yaconowlez, rf . 11 0 ‘judgh’\g by the sound, several of Rewards Offered | Field Foul were posted yesterday, including | PLAY -TH' GOBLIN | WICC's wave and stayed there, had crawled over a porch roof near sending fofth a heartrending squawk | the house shortly after the shooting. continuously. It wasn't funny at all. | Probably Shot in Bed | | Finally, several other bloopers came Police believe Bishop was first | = éf “aa M ALFDN Y aen ) “Come along with us.” And Distols, always kept near his bed, ?‘ COME COME, ALFL \ {er; “Huggy" Carlson and Alex Zal. |blooper who was seated on th wave, | wero missing. Neighbors said nine HIMMEL, VOT DUMB PLAVING e! Vi M. Zal- |or the fence, as you like, said, * shots were fired. He had taken par- | B :,;;: é?,:::,rd et Lounk ks ;l'\'e got to annoys people.” “Well, | ticulat care to protect himselt dur- | ~~ VUNCE AGAIN ALREADV, Field Total |all alone,” said the blooper on the ho securcd. He was with the posse 5 | fonce. And then they said, “You, in- | that trailed and killed Al Spencer, | surgent, you!” And they all rushed notorfous ghnman and robber who | “TWOSZUM —~x ACH, wr @'TOP! torrorized the southwest several wv PLAN DER NOTEG, e BOLYS e iaive St 7 Gennette, tg . 10 | them swere killed, and poor WICC = T ¥ Zaleski, 1g, ¢ . 2| dldn't stand a chance, It just stood . Although police made several ar- 5 NOT DER FLY GPECKLEY, hitian I6 . 4 there and took all that punishment. | rests last night, little information | oN JER MQOTZI\K | Ad) Pt was obtained. Mrs. Bishop was un- AW PROFESSOR, able to give a detailed account of the | $500 ofered by Governor Trapp. | o Dishop was born et Avers Crocl DANCE, WHERE 1 North Carolina, in 1585. He came to | ) Oklahoma more than 25 years ago PLUNK- PLUK\I(A’(P‘V STRINGS WITH M FINGER' NI NN W\ along and they saw their comrade shot as he slept, but was able to S oA | then, let us up with you” sald the ing recent years as many men had PLAY v OFER ! = NOW, Vetrano, If ....... ol ! up and made a horrible noise and, years ago, : GHEET! winz shooting. Rewards totalling $1,000 GEE,»~1D RATHER and settled on a ranch. He was ap- | & pointéd a deputy sherift of his | county a short time later when many | scttlers were coming to this sec- | tion. JUST ONE TOUCHDOWN Little Hiram college scored but one touchdown all season. It was made against Otterbein. Not a game did Hiram win, although a couple were close battles. | The Meriden Endoes aiso made hort work of the City College club GET SAME NUMBER Babe Ruth and Harry Heilman cach poled out the same number of safeties in the 1026 chase—184. Hell- mann, however, was at bat seven times more than Ruth, though play- ing in 11 less games. WORST IN SEASONS California experienced one of the | THE GI FOR ) opened a drive to regain his balkline lonors in a 3,600-point match with Kinrey Matsuyama, national junior champion, in New York. Hoppe is scheduled to greet Erle Hagenlacher, German titleholder fn a 1,500-point mateh in New York in January. Hoppe announced that he would r again compete in a three- cushien match after the halze cov- ers of the in use in the Copulos match were slashed last | Yoy HAUENY PRID Yool WHER Roor) WENT For & W WHoLE. WEEK ¢ GET OvT! DAWGONIT L'~ LIHAT A 'M AL -IN- GUESS DAY = ALL I'VE ~ADE 15 15¢ VLL 60 To BED, AND FORGET 1Y TROUBLES TILL TomMoeRROW tahles & 5 New Ties A man never has too many ties. Buy them for gifts and plenty for yourself at $1.25 HO) Pres. 357 MAIN STREET. YOURSELF. NO .300 HITTER Lee Fohl's Red Sox team didn't have one .300 clubebr last season. Flagstead and Jacobson topped the Beantown biffers, being tied at | Boston had a team average of TIITS Tulane had a tough football sea® {son. The Green Wave was little more | than a ripple in 1926, winning just | three games, It was defeated five | | times and held to a tie another. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS

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