New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1927, Page 8

S i i SH005600806058680822308588 588850005 888H50955508809L8LHHLL 290888898 458995LHE88880205555385850 000658 L858882,8,89.559.9,5,08, AMATEUR SENSATION TO BE SEEN IN ACTION AT STATE ARMORY TOMORROW NIGHT LEAGUE—NATIONAL GUARDS WILL PLAY PLAINFIELD SATURDAY 9000000080909 393PEPIVETIITVCIPPSPIIPIPIIIPPPIIIPIPPPITIPPRICRIGITVIGFITTIICTIPIITIIITITEITOTPIPIOPPITEPIICTTERTIRFEICIPITT RISBERG GIVEN THE LIE | BY FORMER BALL MATES Diamond Outcast Object of 26 Players — (alled a Sticks to His Story — Substantiate Swede’s Stor) the Stand For An Hour—Pool Was Raised. Chicago, Jan. 6 (P—Swede Ris- borg, and base- bal Landis’ Minnesota cowman out Commissioner crowded yos- terday and heard former playmates give him the lie. Tor hours he sat within arm'’s reach of men who used to sit bes him on the bench as members with him of the 1817-1920 White Sox; yet he heard 2o word of gree “Hello, 8wede,” nor rece nod of recognition. Once he was called a “pig”. than once h2 was denounced as a liar. But he stuck to his stc any More For one hour he sat on the wit- | ness stand, his gaze matching that of baseball's overlord, and recited his story of a four-game basel series which he said was bought and paid for to insure an American league pennant for Chicago. For four hours he stood lsaning against a statue of Abrah Lin- coln, walst deep {n the muddy back- water from the dam which 26 play- ers quickly constructed. Two ac- cused players spelled thelr dam with an “n”, so vigorous was their | denfal of the crookedness charged. Through it all—the denlals, shunning by former diamond pal Risberg was the lone wolf against Risberg the the pack; impassive, stoical, deter- | mined. Sticks to Story “They can call me a lia after it was all over, after Don! ‘Bush, now manager of the Pitts- burgh Pirates, had jumped from his chair and challenggd him to fight. | after Eddie Collins and the baseball hosts had vigorously scouted his story. “They can attack me as an outcast of baseball. But I know that T told the truth. I'll stock my story as long as they want to hear me.” Not even Buck Weaver, banished from baseball with Risberg. Arnold Gandil and the rest following the ex- pose of the “thrown” world serfes of 1919, gave Risberg's story sub- stantiation. “I don’t know anything about it, Judge,” said Weaver, when Commis- foner Landis asked 1919 series which T slonghed to Detroit in there to win.” Weaver said he was not team when the Labor Day 1917, series was played—th Risberg says was “bought” for 100, “Gandil and Risberg asked me to give $45 for the Detroit club” Weaver said. “and 1 refused. T told them I would give no money. Thirteen of those who told their atory to the commissioner yesterday acknowledged either contributing to or recefving part of the $1,100 which was raised among the White Sox for the Tigers. A fourteenth had knowl- edge of the pool. hut had no part in it. This fourteenth player was Weaver. abont 1} 1 was him erg 8 ‘T was with his Raised Money Pool While the 13 players or former players (including the present and two former managers of the White Sox) told to Landis that a pool had been raised, each said the money was not in payment for the Tigers to *lay down” but rather was a reward for the three-game beating the Tigers handed Boston. runners up in the 1917 pennant race Those who told L. tributed to, or had knowledg: pool, were: Eddie Collins, Schalk, Clarence Rowland, T ber, John Collins, Harry Licbold Benz, Reb Russell, Jourds and Tuck Weaver, Members of the Tiger team of 1017 who said they got a share of the ol Tauss, Osear S and George Cunningham The Sox who contributad to the pool sald it e the Dafroit players for heating ton. Dauss and ( inzham heat B t age. Bernie Roland Denfes Laying Down Sax-Detroft serice rned that ot 1) The raieine of a Sox and its alleged payment to the he said {50 much slugging Scathing Denunciations By | “Pig” and a “Liar” — Still| Other “Black 3ox” Fail t()? —Accuser is Held On| Tigers. The thett mes by berg thou, the Chicago base betng watched v The bellef by Risberg that De- | pitchers “didn’t have much on | ball.” | of 21 bases in four Sox. players, which Rwe was indication that runuers were not closely. ho caugh Detrot, eepishly bases in ind t nusual.” Had No Knowledge layers or former players, ed the had no knowled any money changing were Donie Bush, Howard Ehmke, Rennie Dyer, | Gleason, Harr Heilmann, | Murphy, Bobby Veach, George Har- | per, Fred Nicholson, Dave Danforth | |and George Burns. | | Ty Cobb said that he had played in nearly 3,000 major league ball games, not ona of which, to his| | knowledge was “fixed”. | Most of those who took part in| vesterday's ing wers asked to | return Friday when other witn | including, probably Bill James Chick Gandil, will testify. There no session today. ands in e series Ty Ce. was Rare Fis{ Battles | Of the Prize Ring | (B ht, hen followed excitir nights for me on the Bowery Jack Dempsey took nd got me imterested in a big amateur tournament at Madden's saloon. He entered me at my re- quest in the lightweight class T was so dumb I thought the ligh weight class was the lightest divi- sion in the tournament. I wrighed only 113 pound he My first opr ind there were so nent was Mike Leary eral prominent ith that open- thing, T Mitchel the He wag nnected fight. For one Charley nelish fown the | and just fighting great John L. Sullive quite a drawing c: Then Mike brought Charley Norton, 1l ler to the light- t crown, along ond. Norton and Dempsey renewed their feud and Dempsey took off h: 1 clothes and got into my corner and Norton was across the ring. The two seconds woe irling at each other and Dempsey said things to him that would make any man fight but Nor- ton was wise cnough not to get too he was | we s his Leary and T finally went o it hammer and tongs. At the end of the scheduled three rof Mitchell called it a draw and ordered an ex- tra round. And there I only | 118 pounds, having to go back and | fight an e - session with | a 140 pound opponent. Dempsey was | velling bloody murder at Mitchell for favoring Leary but I went the extra \ell’s decision My next opponent was J. J. Me- Ginty, who later became W York | policeman. This fight Mitchell again | called a draw and I had to go an ex- tra round. Madden finally <nterfered and said I was too light to be doing th the & and he gave us both a m At this time N the Pastime A . two o ur clubs in the city, got into a conduct of the dif- tournaments ir tournaments I d legitic 1 the boxers and t hooner of heer was the wa lows the (teur ission ing ad- 1 the war broke the was borr ASKS REINSTATEMENT Buek™ Weaver, Appearing In Latest Baseball Scandal, Declares His Innocense In 1919 rrent lisn't NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JA UARY 6, 1927. L58885L555988. TIVTIITEIINIOVITGITIIVVE SCIVIIPITIICOTT O PRI BOB O’FARRELL INHERITS A MIGHTY TOUGH J0B | BOB NEA SERVICE) Jan. 6. ntly appo Louis Horn: + toughest job in b nything for 0’1 at but the p with world Bot mar wcher inals 1o There to shoot win con- his champs or be HOPPE THREATENS 10 REGAIN TITLE Veteran Cue Artist Trailing by 64 Points in Special Match macy 540 “or four hours i incher d York pl 500 point block of a 1,500 point match for the world's 18.2 hal title. And only by a sen 4 Hagenlacher, champion, nos holder by ) to 43 cular runs achor ave early in a rout. I terly open tfable away to a comm ng up a ma the opening f holder had stopped at 19, erous advantage he held v tact until the cighth framc Hagenlacher certain start to billiards, ing lead by pil- n of 148 after the title This g icent 1 4 when d from an €1 off the two long hich put him out in front apped by bad Hoppe was forced to spend most of the Jate hours of the match in his chair while the champi 2 off the winning points, on of th indicater clusters Han¢ er manipu in the gam s that a stirring 1 rospect hefore they nal block tomo nlacher's stro his string, 511t RICKARD AFTER TUNNEY St. Lonis, Tex, In Hopes to S| Heavyweight Champion for First Fight. O'FARRELL > to sudden fame in ball world re like fiction. | years ago he was second o “Gabby” Hartnett, | Cubs in the! hero as well as Traded to St. Louis in he BILL McKECHNIE Was T thrived on p! ason he ¥ promine the winning of the world series by the ( was voted the most valunble in the National | honor cor d by tion. nt wdinals and Las in nd He ey PREISSER LEADING SCORER I CHURCH COURT LEAGUE Has By Nine Counters—Morey and Bell S ightly De- hind Second Place—Oscar Larson Heads League in ing Counters “Goody” P for- St Matthew's German scorers in From League Will Resume Play Saturday After Holidays, = o 1.arson Free Throw Trinity M. | o D. Hewett P. Braddon Jurch b gu ume t . M “Goody’ has a nine- Hewett, man, ¢ e has of any points Dem thodist fors position ourt md ma eld goa civer en pos > has man in shooting 1 only church Moy Qliffo Harold' 3 Hew yespeetiy points Paul Braddon, int behind th church is sixth, ng followed /¢ n of t Tir Luth- th chur Alden Hew Deming ) brother and forward m and Frank Arburr of the Blue Army Larson of the Swede fouls, eight, bu , more than any cente We. the most 1 16 chan, strip has Preisss from the free-t lone by arker, and Merwin The South church has rolled up | the highest point total, 43, and its 41 field zoals are the most made b m is the hest ba Tilly Johnstone. up een en called on Arnold Rec on Par committed only have the Matts and Methodists have fouls in three games a record of any 5 igue will reopen Saturday the two-week 13 t he holidays. T! ke it four on the South The )¢ to n while rmy will fight it | ight when er church, the lividual and team records | St. Matthew's Lutheran south Co 41 Army I Blue ] £oUTg) firown 1 B. Clark .. 1 1 1 Dohre S |Hallin * {Fresen {Nordgren Hewott Iengler has |y’ Braddon {einzmann Beers. mmens Center sradley ! Howe 1. are behind |y Derrick nwend 1 First Luthe (ch 0. La {Flodin {H. Carlson Larson ikson 1 1 1 And 5 1 1 St. Matthews' Lut 8, W, P 5 4, Klopp 2, 1 ' Stripe— *! 11 wve the benefit | experienced | Louis club McKechnie, who won pionship for Pittsburgh | s O'larreil’s assistant s sucecssor to the popu- | ™ Hornsby is fn his own | All he must do, s deliver. n veteran. the St signed D world ¢ { man in Congre Wessels ational . Bell 6, Morey 4 Barta DAi Army—Nelson 6 . R. Johnson mson Arnurr 5, } 1, Walther | e b ett Heinzmann 2, V, Braddon Center Howr own 1- First Luther: | Congregational—B. Clark | ulley 3, Dohrenwend | . Floodin 1. Carl- Ander 3, I °n 1—15. Points. Agst 82 s4 | as| 54| 38| 32 rinity SHER 76 47 34 16 thew's | First Lut Center Congregati‘al 1 Manazers’ Meeting Monday. A ‘meeting of the hoard of man- | zors has been called by President | orge H. Hamiin for 7:30 o'clock Monday night at the Y. M. C. This will be an important session, | & the first one since the bowling | nd basketball leagues swung into | ion. Two teams have not yet| paid their assessments for last sum. | nier's baseball, and this matter will | e up for discussion. All man- | gors ked to mak to be present HONORS icago put up a | aling honors FOR STEALIN "ashington and ( at battle for has¢ 6. The v solit swipe, getting als to Chicago's 121. | in the 165 pound class, Princeton’s great | was in but few games dur- | @ 1226 football season. Injuries | agle out of the lineup just | when he was expected to prove of | Viggest help to the Tigers. It was, (s last year on the team. | | supervision of the A. A. U, | The meeting of { Zotter's block | I ment in New York | ehampionship in | er good | Frank Broderick | division. Nats finished in front | LBELLADIHIBEBBLLLLLILEBLLLIELESLILHLELSLLLLL$SHEHSILLLHEHIHHLELLLLEDY “GOODY” PREISSER LEADS CHURCH “Y” WRESTLERS MEET HARTFORD TEAM SATURDAY TEEERD PEPTPITPIIIVITY 549 AMATEUR SENSATION TO FIGHT HERE ON FRIDAY | Ray Hogan “Terryville Terror” to Appear in Star Bout — Ray Hall to Meet Jimmy Moe His Conqueror Again—Barney Youseman and Joe Zotter in Re- turn Match-—Johnny Clinch to Swing Into Action Again This Week—Other Bouts On Star Card. and card s been fight| to the heavyweights looks to be the best that h. put on in this city The referee for all the bouts of the night will be Joe Wurst of New Haven, A. A. U. commissioner, e Tha sensation In amateur ranks about the state is at the pres-| ent time Ray Hogan, the “Terry- ville Terror” who only last weak put the well known bee on “Pinky Kaufman who holds the lightweight championship of the state of Con-‘ necticut. His services are in de- mand wherever an amateur fight tournament is to be staged, The Yofficials of A for the first tournament of 1927 which will be conducted at the state armory Friday night under the has se- | cured an entry from Hogan and he will be matched in pound class against either a Keter | or Frank Fortez of Haven. These two EIm City boys are among the leaders in their cl in the| state and either will give Hogan a| busy session Friday night. | To New Britain people, one of tha| preliminaries to the Hogan bout! which is the star bout of the night, | will probably contain more interest. Barney Youseman of Hartford and Joe Zotter of New| Britain promises to draw more fans to the state armory than anything clse. These two met on the last card condncted here and New Brit- | ain fans were in a frenzy because of | alleged dirty tactics used by Youse- the bout. The affair went into four rounds and so great be-| came the excitement that Chief| William C. Hart of the New Britain | police department, ordered the bout stopped. | Zotter had an edge on Youse-| man fn the first three rounds and| he hopes to make this decisive m»j morrow night. He has been traln- | ing hf at the Y. M. C. A.| an is in fine condition for a hard| go. Youseman sends down word from Hartford that he “will knock off.” This should be | the Mohawk a great bout. Ray Hall will attempt, in meeting| Jimmy Moe of New Haven, to wipe| out the defeat scored by the Elm| City colored hattler in a recent| fight in this city. Moe at that time| outboxed Hall for three rounds and succeeded in getting the verdiet. Only three weeks ago, Moe entered | o Metropolitan U. tourna- von the pound JOHNNY CLINCH canse of the censure whic ed on the head of I'rank Portell refereed the last 7 bout, the officia od to eng: the for the Portcll fighting for the division. s of Johnny Clinch will be seen in ac- tion against Jim Bernardo of Hart- ford in th> 136 pound e Anoth- state g0 will be the battle be-|title on January 11 tween Louis Dehm of this city and| The first bout of the cveni of I morrow night will he gtarted pre Southington. | 3 o 2 5 + Both of these boys will be [Sysatissoidlopiganl ithe ol for the ClOBBly gL oot seen | in action sccond time| fOllOW in their amateur careors and as| oW 15 bORUITIIAOR both are well liked for their work| ¢ fights. in the ring, there should be some| hot rooting as they go at each other. Joe Cote who, expected MAY USE TWO /TEAMS Coach Eddie McNichol of University of Pennsylvania, may be forced to use two basketball teams on account of their extensive sched- ule. the in his last fight here, showed a 100 per cent im- | provement over his first showing, | will be pitted against Adolph D'Oio- frio of Hartford in the 118 pound Jim Martin another Terry- | ville slugger will meet Mike Magelis | of Hartford in the 133 pound class. | Charles Morey of Hartford will | p punches with Walter Gorham | en in the 145 pound cla and Monte Lusa of New Haven will | battle George Walters of New Haven A second hevyweight encounter is on the slate for tomorrow night in the ap- pearance of Eddle Mahoney of | Hartford against Bl Willlams of | New Haven at'170 pounds, ! The weights of the hoxers enter- | ed for this feast of ewat range from 118 pounds to 170 from the bantams ————— Now is the time to have your car repaired. Don't wait until Spring. DO IT NOW! John B.Moran Garage Asso. 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