New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926. E 3 » PSS HLH8458808 2088808858083 5538595955F685958555685006508600855044 NATIONAL GUARDS TO MEET ELMWOOD ENDEES AT STATE ARMORY TOMORROW NIGHT — BURRITTS BATTLE MILLER CLUB OF $3LLLLHL5855LD$H2L55L65550 55 L5558 58065500 988682 SILVER CITY — SOUTH CHURCH AND TRADE SCHOOL QUINTETS WIN — COBB AND SPEAKER WANT EXONERATION IN SCANDAL TPV PPV EPEE PP PPPPCPITTPINTPIVIINIFVIVEVEPITVICOTFPTVIVEE PO S0P ST VNP PE S0 S0. CHURCH WINS BITTER [HAS FORTY-FIVE GAME FROM PLAINVILLE| PLAYS FOR GAME Two Overtime Periods Required—Both Teams Gain! . i and Lose Lead in Last Minute—Defensive Play and;coacn Warter }:ms (0 Bewilder Long Shots Feature—Trade School Defeats Comets | Alabama’s Defense and Ties Church For County League Lead~Phan-]; Tt toms Win in Junior League. i e 08B ANDSPEAKER | stitions about ( rsity, Calif, Dee. One of the two popular super- cobey “Pop” been quashed Year's Day ] o0t proved just a superstition when | . 1.‘ l | Horde in the Rose Bowl, New Y actearca e AOCUSEA Baseball Players Aski s S Chance to Face Leonard | Warr | by the s or already heduled New Wapping and Tlainville N. B. Come Manc »ama in dena, the Crimson Tide meets the Big Red Kensin s South inville Y. ed 1y It has been said Warner never . in B | loses to a team he has Vscouted. | Proof of t mytn was furnished | ib last v 1l | when “Pop” watched the University | decision after two outhern California play Wash- had been played. ton State and then licked the too well play vjans 13 to 12 of pra »ad n ally periods was 10 i o showing lack nd New Britain having it was fierce nd the cl overtime ic The companion picce to the scout- story is that Warner neither diagrams nor takes notes on the team he is scouting. It is re-| corded he took no notebooks With him o Los Angeles when he watch- | 1 the Trojans early this season. Reporters for Atlanta port pages | Within tw claim the Stanford coach filled two | Lreddy Mille ne | pat . sreatest players or three composition hooks with st kin | diagrams of plays used by the Crim- | son Tide in its game with Georgl | on Thanksgiving Day in Birming- T ham. Perhaps so, if it is true, is| ot t a forerunner to another Ala-! | bama victory in the Rose Bowl? Warner returned to Stanford Dec. after having visited Birmingham, ago for the Army-Navy nd Los Angeles for the S. C. contest. el immediately took over supervision of the work of his gridders for the | conflict with Alabama that will de- | A At o) arly as it can be decided, sy | the football champlonship of the , Cal. “When thfih. fted Si "5 »° | United states. The “vencrable mentor” went | work on defensive tactics to be 1. against Coach Wallace W home in | o Tuscaloosa, The entire weck league | devoted to defensive work. Of- With | ronsive plays were polished up b 2 be- | ny new ones added. It is known 000 to keep the | granfora 45 plays for use his story from leaking| against U, 8. C. ‘The board of reference is fo the price gtrategy that gave the play o have been paid Leonard le in the Trojan conte sn by Cobb and Wood | apout half of the plays they asis of the charges | oon armed with but Stanford won Ly the margin of a placement ki in the try-at-point after touchdown. sel Several of those 45 plays still are | d | new, They were not used against records | Washington nor the University of litornia in the closing games of o season. They may be tried inst the Crimson Tide. De-| Warner s apparently vith his play equipmont. Deception is the of the Stanford at- for removal as manager of | tack this season. It is derived from the end of the 1 plays worked with the simple re- was cheeke how- | verse as a b: Passes, line-bucks, off-tackle plays and end runs all evolve from the mystification gen- “Biff” Hoffman, full- the ball from cen- nd cither hands it to one of he backs swerving past him, div through the line himself, or re- treats to hurl a long pass. But, Warner does not fear the power of the Crimson Tide. He ha seen with Dis own eyes the power- ¢ th e | ful Alabama forwards outcharge ires of the game who ; | Georgia, He has witnessed the not nd it was at this event that | Bl el reaenten Cobb it o cheek | {00 Dowerful backs make vardag T o e e x| on a fake end run that cuts througl b e mtis N | tackle and on an end run formation | e Ptlon 10| that is bulwarked by a fake at a asedd | pass, He knows what Stanford will ! need to offset the power of a team > has said “Has not a singl: akness.” ly foug 1 g0 out. ss of the scor consta and blaze e ration | tors ams show r they want | chance to face the m fire—H. B. (Dy ront by 6-4 a & e recipient d Joe Wood, once a non- harges of Cobb a nd styl ore point Jo between Cle ember 25, 1919, churd ed for Detroit | last g d W jumpe scorn - S authorities do | into at 1 bhut ead aga d, with ranch time comes, s flip. th first rtime period teams fought desperately, elos s the following of t that neither team had ev shot at the bask After t s¢ extra session was half over, W scored from the court, but Smith took the next tap and tossed in a long shot for the score of. the Plainville forwards and for a tie count again. Only 40 geconds were left again when Morey dropped in the score which it Smith was fouled and had two shots as the whistl: but h missed them South church won Bell, Morsy winners' scorin below par and from awkward although badly bat ness of the play ive holdin orw ik ils of The ported <. side hich form the on which Cobb and Speaker are ed with the questioned gam Departure of Cobh from under a 22 yea which he established han or player has revealed | € r ago Cobb of th o made s a on nt and satisfied slated he Tigers it now revealed, was passin o they ) shoot angles. imonia Cobb in recogni- | erated when hack, receives civie ed work, is to although h part he pla name of Detroit t The Mayor John W. Smith, sented to Cobb as a gift 10 hall clock. Navin, Pres- Johnson of the American | d Connie Mack, manager Philadelphia Athletics, were 5 vy and It > ll-around stars for I 1l shots sensatio and showing oor work. The summary sritain: South Church Fld FI T New 1 8 8 whic ognition of Col cess of obh, now that integrity has | 4 ioned, charged that i was not a gift, but act- part of his salary 1 cial success of the De- | narked dur- | as president and | r. Navin in past | By The : understood that| Paolino Uz uch of the popularity | than two months in a fruitiess at- of baseball in Detroit to Ty Cobb and | tempt to coax Firpo into an ex- t Cobb, 1 stay on | change of padded wallops at Bueno: r payroll as long as he wish- | Aires, has had no better luck thus | | far in Cuba. Promoters are trying to » Antolin Fierro, 1t champion against the Basque Plzinville ¥, SPORT BRIEFS Associated Press udun, who spent more Martin, rf en ears as play »fore, cou e Cuban take a wood- in Cobh 1 to come from | heavywei ong ti latest was | chance Philadel- | chopper. ion. zens went ns to bhecomir Friscl obsery ike a good adon face the former His agree- w York tting aml Frankie looks manager. at “St. Lo spot.” Presid the necessity Giant Wins nt Trade School hool k hy 1sma sterda Sam Br aw cont with the in an mak cool for Key yers and warm th 8 ta Garden 1 i employed at the oid St of New York, which s partition to confin he FINE ROUGH PLAYERS -7 o ed by t comfor tors, nt Nicholas rink spectators’ sectior t the r the tempera be at 4 e Officials Decide o Take Steps to Prevent Injuries in Games * coul thi term as a sport, . whos, er State Trade School FIGHTS LAST NIGHT lenles | S0 it | or Philadelphia. | wills FIPPELITIIPEEPVEFIIPITIPIITIFTNTICOICTTOIIPIIW TRAINING FOR NEXT FIGHT 1S HOW JACK DEMPS S MAP WITH A NEW tE THE OLD “TURN TO THE NG FORM OF FIVE before will re- That's 1t ultimatum, “1 will never fight again unless T| v mind that I am' “It will tak E maybe more, | of intensive training before I will | begin to know whether T am my old » to do any light “hristmas. hefore T nt on workouts befor will be early spring a decision. I don't my to lese their money me thy to at any ition 1w : York, and I ting traightened out. And now Christmas shonping, which keep me busy for a while.” ht after Christmas, Jack turn his entire attention to in fighting tri His grounds will be € h a_ few miles from his home, at will able main at home with his telle Taylor Dempse “If T do fight again it w Tex Rickard,” Dempsey s promoted all 1 1 am going to etick as long as T am fighti 1 will name my opponent, t0o. y be Tunne Rickard favors a re-m h for early next summer, Vo, T don’t think the fight will be in New York—probably in Jersey And T won things my hotel n thin hen T ret y m am just them I have will will him to re- after _the around New York pleture now, anyway statement eliminates ty of a bout for him in ana, Mexico, or Los Angel where promoters have been trying to sign him. He aiso spikes the re port that he again will go info the | mov At present, his his hotel. distinet sucee his He has tras country, stopping and thus learning how be do Wh Dempsey his sha two gus t t of the chief interest Is In a boniface, he i a In this respec Dempsey took thr At Ll and 1 was m rooms alv a or the mo cupie 1 profit $36,000 BOXING COMPLAINTS ay Protests Recelved By Authorities Azainst Allowing Young in Long Bouts. Lo} Dec. 24 ( in upor Wi vithorities pro- and permits ke part in pour ling th al boxing in s of 15 and 1¢ conte A report of t! association point, g of your ated in amateur circ govern junior co “In no case mu In of our Boxing 1} ers is not to over- - unior t halt contr mor 1ot ) and a sional hoxers are owed to f ) or 15 rounds this has bee custom of man BUYS THREE JUMPERS wmarket Another ecom Ne in ¥ v paid off, and the | Tighters | LOOKED IN 1921 B NO 1PACY SYNTH ME FIGHTI RING UNLE RS AGO. TIC G DETROIT FANS DEMAND OPIKION FROM LANDIS | | | | | | plainly revealed the scarcity of good| p) E HE WHII HE SA S HE CAN REGAIN They Say Commissioner Conducted Investigation Should Know and Decision Public Detroit, Dec. 24 (A —The reported of hose failure to Commissioner ms ke a ruling Landis, in > present baseball case was said to duc neadsd Cobh, 8 ont of ng n troit 1 smuch or D sl fter an impr of Cobb m w sioner inent m failure to mak citi t Lan evidenc with 1919 ion as time ther he aker inno ssage concluds You condneted public nion. 1 m and the is ¢ your o proof th are guilty please 1ot the r by ter ideas that were tained, then who Lall and tl in have given tell people please th of Real Folks at Home—San_ta Cl?.us to the opinion ti the princi Wood chall, 1s ganiz 2 chord among sponsive I hant knov you have Ty Cobb and orld are of the opinion that Teonar revenge, reading i their the 1 men guilty, or them to be innocent of the charge nd ph ticizing t none is | pals, N his views. dis had thrown Landis hin sa g guilty this investi ntitled suf kno sold out not the to all in the to all America, do you he ice told Cobb Spe &pent in connee- ation to know ent ker then 1t you! in his Tet- con- men fans Ar lieve L } |ranks are thinned out annually, it COVIPCIEFVEICOPPVITEEITEIEIT: SCARCITY OF GOOD | GUARDS TO CLASH WITH MINOR PROSPECTS| ELMWOOD ENDEE QUINTET | Ex-Big League]‘s Kre C[l][tel'inngisiiors to Ha itis in Lineup Tomorrow Night— Up the Smaller Leagues | e G Locals to ie Without Services of Sloman — New. Britain Team Anxious to Get Back in Winning rzo. Moviarty Column — Rubinstein and Taylor to Be Seen At N. C., Dec. 24 — The various fanning bees at Asheville i WALONEY T0 HAVE [Riokand Picks Berlenbach and Many of the smailer clubs depend | § 5 upon the service of the big league | |9+ Barton® ... . athletes who have slowed up, and 1 o e e i aown | HANSED 88 Possible Opponents | | The National 1. These old timers, as they go 3 : a4 b through the minor league team will meet the Elmwood En- channels, furnish a minimum .::;: ;";"I“;”“::’ '“"““ op e Ol amount of ability mixed with broad | Rickard has given his heavyweight | M3 ght atlraction at the state e i armory on Arch stregt. The vis experience, plus the “tricks of the |fistic deck another shuffle, bring- | AT How ey landiiby! filonal Virfieaid thall aeetie i e aee Lt ERRR SV U TaNG i balRiREa D N 2 X x % i he Knu ansen - 1 ame a i ingsters are taught the essentials | > gt [IBDy Tt S Bane andy willt prescn i Wis, and Paul Berlenbach, b ront tha i e a of the game as they progress to- 1;1:,; ‘”‘l‘r“'l;‘c‘llhbm-:i Srglr(fltnfl?! any ward the higher classifications. ght champion, bals ha his year, for Jimmy The local team will be Bob Quinn, the Boston Red Sox | e et &]‘;::Jd;\i “‘Ilhout magnate, is living an entirely new ! e Bunl Al omorrow night, as the star forward will l\wt'w Wt e succeed 1] :n congucror of | SPend the holidays at“his home in placinz the destinies of his club in | | Hudson, N. Y. In his place at right the hands of Bill Carrigan. Mr. [ Harry P contract fOF | ¢orward will be Rubinstein, the :;‘u: Guinn is being congratulated on all |ihree fights, Rickard announced that |of Sam Pite's Collegians, Rubine ‘”“Lu:‘r“'* s ’r;i‘(xi;-i:::‘flv;vt wen [either Hansen or Berlenbach would |stein entered the lineup in the gama S e e~ [be the next to sample the padded |against the Meriden Endecs in Mor- s 2 A _Ithumps of the the Hub contender. |iden Wednesday night, and although fluential people in Massachusetts | ) D unused to th vle ki T e | Berlenbach’s chances hinge on the A ) .!v‘ style of play the | to the game as pilot of his old love, | 0utcome of hig fight against Mi e played a neat game - Red Sox. DBut all to no avail, |M¢Tigue next month. T THE s el e L e, In the offing there looms a subse- | The Elmwood team will have n the situation seemed more | I th 5 i | Giraitis at right forward. He has s than over, Joo Conway, |auent fight for Maloney with the Giraiti : Githe sz taly > ¢ |winner of a battle between |€en attending school, and during on's celebrated sportsman and the holidays will hook i England league magnate, | Jack Sharkey and Paolina Uzcudun, 1he holidas sl s e boarded a rattler . for Carrigan's | the Dasque woodchopper. The Span- |1-unwood teani. His presence in the : A T arrigan's | the 1 2 o [lincup in tomorrow night's game | home; whispered some magic words |ish contender, only remaining Buro- | op“sive the Endees a real unch into Bill's ears, and lo, the next day, | pean entry in the tournament, Willl,yg jhages the team a n;um? Drie: the former backstop walked into Mr. his Boston foe earl next Year.|propornone played with the Dixies Quinn’s office gnd parked his signa- declsive triumph' over |y, 4. on'"several oceasions performed | ture to the important document in on has impressed the Madison | v Britain, i : | Y | L e ton 11 ik o in New Britain. He is ono of the | five minutes. sarden pr - “Ld Ke 10 yo5¢ forwards seen in this city, and | Mr. Conway is in i aloney and Dempsey have it g now in tip top form. has not yet divulged what he said |out,” Rickard said. “Maloney is the | yollowing the defeat of the N fo Mr. Cagrigan. The baseball [ type that is very apt to make things | tional Guards by the Meriden Fn s concur in the opinion that |interesting for Gene Tunney.” dees Wednesday night, the Elmwood i needs only a few breaks in‘ While Rickard has been moving |plant is anxious to he the second iving some good material to | his heavyweight pawns with onc|feam to pin a defeat on the locals, gain be an imposing figure in|hand, he has been lining up welter- | and the first to beat them on Umv American league circles. | weight and featherweight entries local floor. For this reaSon, the Jack Zeller is one of with the other. His next show on!team will bring its strongost afile | brities at the meeting. Vew Year's night Wil mark the lcry to this ety and a good Vattle ppraises ball - players —after the |gemi-final stage of an eliminatios | should result. fashion of h{"flr{nv, experts Who | featherweight series, Dbringing to-| The local feam is in good shapa look for flaws in diamonds and oth- | gether Red Chapman of Boston and | despite the fact that it had a rough [P Gt | Benny Tsess of Philadelphiain the [time in Meriden Wednésday night, 1e minor cirenits form ono Vast | main’ ten-round battle. |and the fans hgre will look forward pattern in the recesses of Mr. Zeller's | to seeing the quintet back In its thinking apparatus, 1 he had winning stride. prom ball payers who do their | tte athletic ~commi inntng: «m‘]" T R T R e Babe Herman, Californiia product, | 11 fans. Whe visitors wilt have a CHineHRTOE TImA TG e Fwill fight Al Winkler of Philadelphia m‘fl‘f H"\v‘p jnvll will give the lo- IR e R in tho”somi-tinal ten, while a thira | %41 toam a hard batile. Shhe e The imperfections’ that _ ofhier {njflr)\ cher thie - mame distance Wil PIAErR. fo, 1o seai in action wiih crs are nnable to “detect, | PTINg together A E I'rankie Wink. ) ; [fain Atwood. formerly with the En- s pisin ¢ tri-colored ad on dee S e ifiges o [ PStE s Shatanmater, T 1 Hackbarth, Rese and Butler Mahon, also tentatively' Jan the National Guards; Alchler of . : sl Wallingford, and some former star for a return welterweight baitle high school players. Dick Dillon tween Joe Dundee of Baltimorn will referae hoth games, the first of | Eddie Roberts of Tacoma. Rober 8 3 |scored a quick knockout in their which is seheduled to tart prompt- i Iy at § o'elock. first clash recently on the Pacific coast. * By Asheville, | Elmwood | Giraitis Nat. Guards ball players in the minor leagues | Rubinstein throughout the countr: Tnasmuch as the minor Mantelli Taylor league I Barton . Reynolds hehooves the go-getters of the small- Larson Sheehan Kilduft Guard basketball New York, Dec. 24 —P— Tex cine, former light heavyw as prospective opponents Maloney of Boston. After signing the sson to a i al i Ashgvitle, buf cele- Mr. Zeller the | The winner is to meet Honey Boy Finnegan of Boston, with rec York the Miller ol ion awaiting in Im gniztion of Ar. Y Al X\ Dunn, the Baltimore 1 into extravy mag nt praise Joe Bole e shortstop ho was the key to thes Baltimore in- field seven years, and will make hi major league debut with —Connie Mack in 1927. “What type of hall play asked, “Boley's sty COACH more of ‘ew Yor than any other &hort- | hrother coa stop T have ever seen,” replied the | of ‘em good. Oriole hoss. “He is a wonder on | Dutch Connor, former All-Easter those half hops and difficult bounds. | halfback, has been named coach of | I saw many a ball shoot past a third | the newly formed hockey team at baseman’s left side that looked like | New York Universit biggest | a hit, but Boley always sprouted | star will be “Smiling Jack” Connor, | up right behind him, and came up | captain-elect of the N. Y. U. foot- with the hardest smashes, i ball team, All-Eastern quarterback “He is a great double play artist, | and ope of the best hockey players | nd will prove it this coming year | developed in New England. with Bishop as a partner, The forming of a hockey team “Last, but not least, he will prove | marks another step in the era of,ex that he is a good hitter for (‘onnie | pansion into big time athletics at Mack.” New York University, 3 nate for burst an The probable lineups are as fole lows | Burritts @ennetto OWN BROTHERS Dec. 24, —It will be ng brother—and hoth | ¥ Morlden : Atwood of Ha Rose Hackbarth Rutler Aichler TO DEFEND TITIE Pete Latzo's six months’ period ince he won his welterweight title just about up and Willie Harmon has the first bid in for the title | bout. By BRIGGS Al upP BIG o AST AD Now NIGHT You WELL- IVE GoT\ | A PRETTY Goc | LINE OF STUFF | To HAND ouT THIS YEAR F AY (T Hi~Ho- HACHM ! HERE 1T 1S TImME To Go To WORK AGAIN NO REST FoR THe WEARY - A OH ANNIG! 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