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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927. SHLHHSLLHSHSH2 5525 DISSLDPEBLLISDLLLLLELLEDL LS HHIHLL$HHSHLLHESLLHHE599SLL S0 GUARDS TROUNCE PLAINFIELD AND GET TROUNCED BY BR _——_—wflg 558535300006 SSH0OH 858 HHSSLHSS 2. > OOKLYN A. C—“Y” WRESTLING TEAM DEFEATS HARTFORD — LEADERS IN CHURCH LEAGUE RETAIN THEIR STANDING—BUSY PROGRAM OF ATHLETICS SCHEDULED AT “Y”'GYMNASIUM PEPPMFFTETITPPITITITIVIPOVOPPPIOTIITIFIIIP GUARDS BEAT PLAINFIELD 'EIREUIT STANDING LEAGUE LEADERS BUT LOSE TO WATERBURY | [DOES NOT EHANHE, WIN THEIR GAMES Aaaasa LANDIS NON-COMMITTAL ON RISBERG’S CHARGES One Fact Was Brought Out at the Hearing That Pool PPETFIPVOVIVICPPPCPECOITPPEIVPITEIP 'RICKARD WANTS TO CRUICKSHANK WINS SIGN UP DELANEY| BIG GOLF CLASSIC Take Saturday Night’'s Game By Overwhelming Scone’ of 48 to 24—Drop Contest to Brooklyn A. C. on; Sunday the Count Being 42 to 24—Laocals at Top of | Form Against Team From Over East—Brass City | Quintet Shows Superiority in Every Department.‘h | ¢ Guards started the woek-end Benson, 5 off in impressive fashion by handing Madden, Plainfield town t the state armory in this city day night by the score of 48 to 24 Only for the first few minutes w both teams put up an almost pregnable defense, did the Plain team show any signs at all of 1 able to keep pace with the Gu Plainfield had, on December 1, on the Guards in Plainfield and Sa urday's victor this team even. The Guards started off with man and Rubinstein at forwards a after seeing them work togeth the game, the fans here are con- vinced that they are about as sweet a pair of floor workers as has bec in this city in some T lor got into the game in the secor half and his work left him little to choose between the three forwards who will carry the welght of the of- fense for the C of the season. ing against the la lated at center, whils Ki in and Sturm, especia ball star, worked wond: backfield, keeping Plainfield’s threats well guarded throughout the Plainfield was the first to enson shot a foul within th ten seconds. The game went minutes before I count with a throw throw line, Norris into the lead at five minutes with a other complimentary shot, Sheeha minute later again tied the hen at 7:15, Kilduff whized a ihe court to cage a field goal son tied the score at 9:15 v pretty shot Reynolds broke tl Madden tied it at ute mark, Sloman w free tries at the 10:30 mark made them both good. Kilduff add- ¢d another point at 10:45 and fro then on the Guards drew way. man caked a field goal binstein followed him. dribbled the entire length of to ¢ din got 7 corner into the g brate 2, Ru‘)m din, Des- Madden Rubinstein Shee- im- eld | !»rumn Dillon; even the Kosky's Hartford of team weakened in nd w ccond s 1 the seaso Lack ot the lo { tent passwork on the wccounted to a gre 3! Coach ted “Hammy lana Peters into the lineup vals but the Capital City too strong and held the lead during or part of the game. 2 of the features of tha contr the excellent foul part of at ex- row 1t inter- st Ha made s. His total for points includin . Yacahowicz featy Burritts with thr two out of two from th six out of ¢ four | the th co r0 T ice at 9:45, b il at the 10 min- s awarded two A C. steadt 1d Rt 19 m nd sent ollowed and at loman flew down the floor 2 ther through the hoop, 1 score at the end of 13 to 10 in favor of the Guarc Second Half. 1 half sa . Dilion, Brooklyn (.n.r:l« Sealeriay! soheny The seco th ttaclk tarn Wl to a rout. I niield sent in its re- serves but to no avail t the two-m te mark She fild goal. Slom followed 10 seconds later and I lowed him at the three-n Rubinstein caged anotlicr on a play and Sturm foll 1 him, the count at 29 to 10. It w: minutes before Plainfield cou and then Dessinger pulled ular play to get a g teams went on the ged from one burst of art of the min ot on t the 1 ave 12 pretty avin t Brookl points, time the of half In 10 for Wat mark. 0 mar 10-minute at the 1 t inta the mediatel Tame Mer nt wild, on trick nt into the side to take stein an: 1son teveloped Aterbury ‘sucker to an eas victory for Wi getting two ropped in many Joe Jasper and came s from n the creepted a game nd Sturm 1 in th men hrol T n score Waterhury Plainficld ed | 4 Marion | team was | shooting of | 3 | Truhan, Jack Will Be Given Chance fo Enter Heavyweight Tourney New York, Jan. 10 (P—Tex Rickard today bent to the task of ironing out dotalls of his elaborate heavyweight program, seeking to | definitely fix Jack Dempsey and Jack Delaney in the scheme of his climination program. A conference with Delanoy was expected to decide whether the light heavyweight champion is to be in- cluded in the race with Jack Shar- | key, Jimmy Maloney, Paolini Uzcu- dum and Paul Berienbach for the chance to battle Gene Tunney next | September. Pete Reilly, Delaney's | manager, thus far has declined to fizht the “rank and file” of conten- ders, holding out for bouts against Dempsey and Tunney. With the heavyweight champlon's contract already in his pocket, | Rickard today was prepared to de- an ultimatum to Delaney. “If ney clects to ignore the other 'Bays’ Club Court League Leaders St. Matts. and South Church Win Schedued Games | Trumph Decisively | Group Church League Standin; ~ w armonies f‘,\cl«mps L 0 1 A League, : w. Pet, 1.000 ‘429 | Trinity M. 143 | Center Con; .143 | First Lutheran | ‘ 000 | o in the stand- | The Inter-Church league If'.udvri‘ ing of th Doys' club Intermediata | CONUPUCA thelr winning stride Satur- day night by winning their games A league resulted from the |at the Y. M. C. A., the St. Matthew played Satur erman Lutherans winning their| fourth by swamping the Center | chureh and the South church coming from behind to win from the Blue Army. This left them still one game part and with little prospect of chanzing this until they meet again | on February 1 Si. Matts 37, Center Cong. 11 The St. Matts, with “Goody 'l liver Preisser dropping the ball through | De the hoop every other minute, ran | way from the Center Congregation- | has been al church to win by 37-11. The Jos | his fun made a gallant early stand but could | Rickard also has wired Dempsey not stop Preisser. Goody made a pair | asking information on the date of single-pointers at the very be r;\n,1 he former heavyweight titleholder ning; Derrick tied it up with a field | return here. Ha expects Dempsey to goal, but then Goody began to drop | accept at least one match before |in shots from every angle, his| 1\Mng to wrest back his lost lau- brother Billy fc wing ex rels, b '3:,"!_, o Food | Rickard's present plans call for only other score made | Major fights in "! "”“""“"l“:: ol o o du ¢ (VKJQ well as the championsh 2 . ol fl;,‘,l,ril;] :f\.n,';‘fig',‘hcszr’f |t0 be staged at Yankee Staduim, but t the rest perlod found the | he has indicated he may accept an- | winners ahead by 16. | other site for the title struggle. e The Conter church fove! f"‘"“”“‘.’, batyroc little hetter effect in the second half, | mote the battfe i ) but Proisser put on even more speed | Stadium, which seats . and Marholin led the Harmony | s % 2 | 1 5,000 or at Soldic g tad e than b and kept his team well 2 with Boukus doing well for | 0, scene of the A - s In front. Brown scored for the losers The summary: : St Watt | ball sam Pirates. pertod, Mews (e end the Bl MBIt 1S g sohils, sestern ria. subs had thelr first chance of the | (Tl0h onad over a serles of wel- 0 vear. Iddie Preloser made a much-| 4 .oipnt contlicts in the east this 5 |applanded basket, while Reckert, | \CoNEELCSUL S fon | hard-working regular guard, came | i T Madison Square up to score on a pair of neat 10ng | cnrden het shots, ! timore and Eddie Roberts of Ta- Goody Prejsser lifted himself far | oo wash. Roberts knocked Dun- out in front of the individual scoring | yue out in the first round of a Paci- | race by making seven baskets and eral weeks ago. five fouls; he shot cvery time he had | 1 the same night, Pete Latzo, the ball, and a good proportion of 147-pound champlon, his fosses went through the hoop. 1o hox his long-deferred ! Therest of the St. Matts had li Wilkes-Barre, Pa., against chance at the ball, but Litke broke gammy Raker of New York linto the scoring 1l times and — Reckert and Billy Preisser kept the mothered. Gene Brown ack, with B g g Jack Smith Longest Hitter in Fng- lang Is T Favored to Win playin The summary Back Link HonOrs St. Matthew's Luthel rld. Jack Smith, Great Britain's leng- o | est hitter of the golf ball, has de- ! veloped from a slipper into one of he hopes of that country for covering its golfing honors from | America. In professional Hindhead Smith set record of 68, knockin from the previous low medal m lield by Rex Hartley, the Cambridg: university golfe Smith's terrific tee shots the feature ef his round. At the 247- yard 13th hole his drive rested five feet from the cup. other departme marks him as a ture. No mate Group games afternoon, the three teams of the first divisio: taking their contests from those in the lower half and continuing with the Harmonies one game in front, The Cyclones had a close call, nosing ont the Celtles b 11, Tkowitz and Grusha f¢ The summary: atur Celtics, od of them, then it is K * said the promoter. Tarmonies were the Pi given gh battle by s before ¢ won out by rro, Tru- with a at the Baltimore pproximately s Field in Chi- rmy-Navy foot- At Raldisari, d Kobela, Toukus, Harmonies. fic Coast bout Fld. Garro, 3 ihe ateh at geant | Snyder, ¢ ran away from 1no scoring 1o its and Ande Ferony losers' at on also ire carrying The an 1 T, 19 Ferony, iif‘f"fl' Gourson, Drid Caby Gotov « competition at al a4 Dnew Course “hadwick. 1 Center ot Derric . Clark, Anderson, Congr Comets. Fla vere 8 wlowski, rf i erson, g 3o 0 ¢ s of the g ralk yer of the n Wiel Ig g . 44 [¢X SOON KNOW SALARY Babe Ruth will soon much he will receive for hi services in 1927. It is a safe bet that the Bambino will not receive $150,000; if he is signed up for halt that much he will still retain title of the highest paid ball play -acts for the Yankees will inager Huggins £oon of the year. Colonel owner of the ter Preis Preisse 1 fouls, Klopp, W. ) Derrick, Clark 3. Ander- Howe—11. Techni- Klopp, Anderson. r Klopp, Drown 2,1 Clark 2—9. Timer, Carls v, ! Brown son 3, cal fouls, Lith ree tries. G. Junior League. Wildeats continued their iiz- pace fn the Junior league by tak- ir seventh straight victory, un in from the Aces. The their first game of th tting out Eagle Junic The N victory over Blue h triur Army 17 phed over ! er a b the fir ith Cong. "ha South chur Blue Ar uphill Jacob Ruppert, ces will name battle during | neavyweights who have done all that ' 1 offers to pro- | tic circles | round bout | 1 Joe Dundee of Bal- | od | el four strokes | Smith’s advance , fu- e Yank- |t New Yorker Takes Rich Coast Stake With Card of 282 Van Nuys, Cal, Jan. 10 P— Bobby Cruickshank of the Progress club, New York, today was richer by $3,500, a diamond studded medal and the praise of golfdom through his brilliant victory in the second annual Los Angeles $10,000 open tournament. He won the Pacific ast classic yesterday with a card M’ 282 for the 72 holes of play. Harry Cooper of Los Angeles, last year's winner, fell behind the ter prize winners, He found the scventeenth and eighteenth fairways| so closcly massed with spectators th he lost his usual ccontrol and fell far below par. He turned in a card of 206. Cruickshank met with simitar dif- | ficulties. He said he would have | turned in a card two strokes lower had it not been for the interference ! berg's remark in Rochester, Minn., { newspapers straight into the offices Was Collected and Paid to Detroit Pitchers—Start- ed in a Pool Room in Rochester, Minn.—Two Score Baseball Pldyers Testifi ed—Expenses of Hearing Will Total More Than $20,000. Chicago, Jan. 10 (M—Swede Ris- billiard room, caroming from the| of Kenesaw Mountain Landis here, has left the table in the most chaot- ic shape baseball’s high commis- sfoner has seen it in the six years he has held office. The balls had all been racked neaty after the annual meeting of | the major league magnates and the | re-election for seven years of Com- | missioner Landis at a salary of $65,000. Then the commissioner raised his cue, and Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker rolled from the American league. The other halls remained nicely bunched in the center of the table until Swede Risberg, a figure in | of motion picture cameramen on| the ecighth green during the morn-| ing eighteen hole round. Cruick- card for the 72 holes was | Charles Guest of Hollywood, one| of the youngest professionals in the | tournament, took a 288 to share| { second e honors with Bd Dud- lev of Oklahoma City. They divided the $1,600 second and $1,000 third ! iace prizes. | Another tie resulted when Alj { Watrous of Grand meul and John el of N. Y., cach turned in car They split 50 fourth fifth priz MacDonald Smith of G Neck, | N. Y, John Black of Wichita,| Kans., and Eddle Loos of Glencoe, | 1L, cach turned the 72 holes in 293.| As a result of the triple tie, the $350 th and $ ach seventh and | cighth prizes were split onz| m. i hen came York with a nth piace. Wash., tenth The the three and Leo Diegel of New card of 2904 to t: (r\; John H. Jones of Kol- | with one stroke more, | sisteen low professio tournament will be in al day tourncy at the Los An- s country club beginning T of this week, for the California | professional team title and prizes| fotaling $2,500. The professionals will select thefr partners for the| cam ovent. Many of the other v sionals will “remain | california for some time to {in mateh play nd wents before leaving for the { open. seen ing pro Southern appear tournament Te: in SPORT BRIEFS Hoppe. must I Pross. new-old billiard| defend within balkline Willie pion ¥§ the e first in the line of challengers, | - his opponcnt. of fleet British it in recent ye conntry a decided Great Britain in the forth-| imational polo serics, ob They contend t § holds a corner on the world's festest polo ponls. 2 Ar-| rs ha advan-| me ™o wn i n ey now Wilbert Robinson is rapidly 00d his “house-clean rooklyn baseball fans, With ing of Jack Fournier an t. only Pitcher Burleigh | | Grimes remains to remind Ttohby of | pennant he won in 19 nd | Geimes is on the market | mak- proni- | | baseball | nothing,” Risberg remarked. Lc s o."“ | phatic denial | berg-Gandil charges as he | ders includes the charges of Gandil | pitehe | nial by the accused players of any baseball’s biggest blow-off when he and seven others were driven from on crookedness charge, walked into the Rochestef billiard room and heard heated discussion of the Cobb-Speaker affair “What Cobb and Speaker did was “They wero square shooters. If the com- | missioner wants to hear some real | andal, T can give it to him.” A newspapermarr; convalescing at ‘a Rochester hospital, heard of Ris- | berg's statement. e talked with mang and the story was broad- “If you know wrong with baseball, tell it,” Commissioner Rishers. Risberg came, telling a story of game throwing in 1917 that impres- sed Landis so that he summoned 38 players, past and present, to appear here ana tell what they knew of the | sloughing of the two 1917 Labor| Day week doubleheaders which Ris- berg said Detroit handed to Chicago. | Echoes of the story reached Chick Gandil, - outlawed from baseball with Risberg in 1920, and he added his testimony in substantiation and boration of Risber The ac- cused players also responded, almost {o the man, and chorused their em- of the crookedn charged against them. In two days of hearing last week more than two score baseball figures told their version of baseball as it was played 10 years ago. Accident- ally th run up a for the commissioner of appros 52 000, in expenses incurred in ing at the hearing. The commissioner communicative concerning the Ris- has been about the bomb “Dutch” Leonard n-.pxmm shrapnel from which k Ty Cobb and Tris qm\'\knm anything that’ come on and Landis wired | has been un- | Attorney: have sought offici their clients from the commis and it is possible that his decision morning may include | some statement on the status of thesc The evidence which Tandis pon- and Risherg that a pool was collect- among the 1917 White Sox and distributed among Tiger in return for “sloughing” ames to Chicago, and the de- | ed four g2 wrong doing. The oné established fact from which the commissioner may work is that a pool actually was collected and paid to Detroit pitchers. Whether, as Gandil and Risberg charge, it was for throwing gam or, as the accused pla contend to reward the Detroit pitchers for bLeating Doston in a later series that meant much to Chicago, is the ques- by close wcular shooting. way to an Slmer Johnson on a toss-up and N away twice t jatt South marked 5 Tie Dlucbirds got nals when Junior: THAT‘ D Go AG and throw of om the a compliment flooy dman | Bell | on made | court. 1 Opporent Herd Ay m t} Jolir NINNY [HAMMER ' HE S GONE DIpPPY OVER THAT HORSELESS INGUS T() 7T AN - ! ToE aALL HEH-HE WhY THE GoL DANGED oL D CONTRAPTION AIN'T BUDGED { FOR AN HOUR AS S IT- H-HEH - but Mor -foot from i the the his | my foot behind m | to flop | get him the fight. | to tion the commissioner must decide. Risberg, back at his farm near Rochester, Minn. expressed the hope that the “whole affair might be white-washed,” and that none of the men he named be expelled from baseball. “I have nothing agalnst thoso fel- lows,” he said. “I wouldn't Like to see them kicked out because I know what it i to try to make a living in the bushes. That's more than they said for me when I was let out."” The former player intimated that he had some further revelations up his sleeve, but declined to be speci- fie. Bare Fist Battles Of the Prize Ring Iron pipes wielded from back of wing, a Dblack jacks smacked gainst a man’s skull when he was backed up against a curtain—those are some of the tricks Madden and ryisolr had to use to get out of tight places whan we were touring the country agreeing to score a knockout over any comer or forfeit $50. Many a time I had to resort to tho back-heel” punch in order to get my man down and save the $50. I usel to step in fast and stick out opponent’s leg. over a light= It never failed many times he the force of the a Immediately 1'd slip ning left or right. a man and stayed down from fall. When our fights were theaters we'd have an and behind the curtain with club or length of pipe and if man was too big or too tough a lit- tle outside whacking always came in handy. T had to watch out my- self, too, and kecp away from tho wings and backdrops when I was in enemy territory. Madden taught me a lot of the tricks of the ring and he was pretty clever with his dukes himself. He always insisted on courage in his boxers and used to detlight in telling how he got John L. Sullivan his fist fight under his direction with a rough and tumble artist named John Flood, who was a kilier in the ring. Sullivan said he wanted to meet Flood and told Madden to go Madden tried to sign them up for Queensbury or London rules but Flood wa gruff and hardboiled and trying to frighten Madden, said, “IU's going to be catch-as-catch-can and ey thing goes!"” Madden hesitated, finally agrecd, and went over on the lower castside rouso Sullivan out of a deep slumber and tell him of the danger- ous foe he had matched him with and under what conditions they would fight. Sullivan sat up in bed, bit and stared at Madden story was finished. “I don't give damn—T'1l bs ready tomorrow, llivan voared and promptly went back to sleep. Sulllvan knocked Flood out in cight rounds in a one-sided fight on a barge. staged a big my blinked a until his “ditor's Note—In the next chap- ter McAuliffe tells of what 1 danger he faced in his fights when ringsiders crashed a chair over his head after a knockout he scored_in Philly and he scoffs at Dempséy alibi that cowboy guns had an thing to do with the modepn Dempe Gibbons fight. / (Copyright, 1 By BRIGGS HE'S A PCQ~ SISTENT CuUsS | MUST SAY- Service, Ine.) cldman broy itutes ainst the Leland down with inter 1d coming Jine for the gm Blue Army tollowing page) il Yl it )}} 101