New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1927, Page 9

“MWW“ 3 Speaking of Sports "he team s National Guard basketball nds even now with all the teams that have defeated it this sea- son. Last night, the locals took the Meriden Endees into camp by a 39 to 24 score hurdling the last bar to an even score for the team. The Guards have lost this year to Plainfield, the Meriden Endees and the Brooklyn A. C. of Waterbu The team has defeated each of these outfits once also making them even all around so far this season. Friday night the team pla gainst the Atlas quintet. | one of the toughest ur on the schedule for the Guards especially when the contest | is to be staged on the Atlas’ home | floor. y Haven This will be Saturday night, the Guards have another tough team coming here | when they meet the St. Joseph T. A. B. five of Waterbury. This team | has such men on it as Dumschott, | Carrigan and Sheehy and the Guards will be extended to the limit to win, | Last night's game was a rough- | house for the most part though in intensity, it did not ¢qual the battle staged in M 1t looks as if the basketball rivalry has switched from | Hartford to Meriden. I | Some of the fans in this city were | of the opinion that the Meriden | Endees had dictated to the local | management on the choice of a referee for last night's game. Such | was not the case. Dick Dillon, who referees the games here regularly, had another engagement for | night which he could not put off for that reason, Clyde \aters Bristol substituted. of | TRe game got away from Waters als0 last night in the minds of many | of the fans and he failed to call many fouls which were committed | on both side 1 Carl Restelli got a great hand | upon entering the game and “Hope” | appeared to be right at home with | the Guards.. With him as alternate | center, the Guards n expect to| meet the best in the state on even | terms. | “Butsy” m has g for | himself the reputation of being an absolutely dependable player on an kind of a team. He certainly fits into the picture on a basketball floor and can play with the best of them To our minds, “Butsy” is a past master in getting the ball off his own backboard. 4 Sloman played a whale of a game lasc iight. Rubenstein never was bet- ter and all the men on the team without on exeeption were at the top of their form. What s look- ing forward to now is the third game between all these teams which are tied with New Britain of New Britain to go to New Guards play the A large number fans planning Haven to see the TFadeproof MIDDISHADE @® Blue Serge Suits | pulling for him Anytime - Anywhere | N the office has closed and play hours follow -business hours—a Middishade Blue Serge Suit will “still feel “at home.” The quiet dignity of Blue Se¢rge makes it appropriate for almost any occasion. In Middi- shade and Middistripe Blue Serge Suits, style and tailoring are all you co:.ld demand, at a sur- prisingly low price. They’re guaranteed for satisfactory wear, to be fadeproof, to retain their shape. A wide choice of distinctive models. All sizes in both Middishade ~—asolid blue—or Middi- stripe—the same serge with a neat stripe. Come in—and try one onl TOMIXOWSKI and DAWSON 361 Main N‘t. Opp. Myrtle Atlas Friday night. New Britain waits to have the guards win this game so that it won't mean a string of defeats on foréign floors this season. Larry Golon, one of the shining legal lights of the city, is an even -I)vller bowler than he is a lawyer. The other afternoon at the Casino alleys on Church street, Larry shot a game for a score of 156. He blew two one pin spares which would have | given him a score of 170 for the al- ley ’N‘Or(l. A He is a leader among the profes- sional pin topplers which Bill Mangan, Tommy Cabelus, Morrissey and others. It is a battle royal when these knights of the and professions _get spinning the balls down the 4lley. - We have received a challenge to Eddie Anderson, former state cham- pion, for a special match from Nick Tronosky, 16 year old assistant man- ger of the Casino alle: Tronosk its to roll for money, marbles or fun. Soccoli, New Britain ace of cue artists, starts out on the second round of the state league tournament at the Elmore Billiard Parlors to- night when he meets Grippo of Mid- { dletown, Grippo is a strong con- snder for honors in the league but Soccoli, after a four-week feels keen to get going again. His large following of rooters will be to come through with a win. WITH THE BOWLERS ROGERS ALLE AFNIR DRAGON LEAGUE Turnlug will o MeCull Mason Robertson Murphy Han Patrus Carlson Facey Sehe Low Jaconi Montana, n Handicap n wndicap Grinding 105 8 6 90 ¥ 105 109 S04 4 Washers 9 s 120 Outers Owen Nelson Lipwtz Do Colvin Warner Joe Hang Pechont Holbraok Graham Chataneaf Caselln Burnham Flevrant Handleap Anderson Linn 450 §1 85 52 13 95 158 435—1340 Jim Jeffries Wins Legal Fight Over Poodle Dog Glendale, Cal, Jan, 13 (®—Jim Jeftries, former world’s heavy- weight ring champlion, won the de- cision in justice court here today in a title bout with Mrs, Jessie C. Swift over possession of a white poodle dog. Jeffries and Mrs, Swift live over in the neighboring community of Burbank. Twenty-one witnesses, most all the news reporters in town and a flock of photographers had ring- side seats. “I raised him from a puppy,” Jeffries declared to the tune of ex- ploding flashlight powder. “I know my dog when T see him. T know him by his color, by his sneeze well, how does anyone know a horse?” READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANT. include | Doc ' bar | layoft, | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, COMPLETE SELLOUT New Madison Square Garden Will Be-Filled For First Time at the | Dundee-Roberts Go. New York, Jan. 13 (P—A com- plete sell out of reserved seat tickets | for the first time in the history of new Madison Square Garden has | forecast a $65,000 “gate” for tomor- row night's 10-round welterweight fight between Joo Dundee of Balti- more and Eddie Roberts of Tacoma, Wash. / i Robert’s sensational one-round knockout over Dundee after the lat- ter apparently had fought his w to | the top of the challenging ranks has [not affected Dundee's high rating Lere. He I8 quoted a favorite at odds {ranging from §-5 to 3-1. | This surprising confidence in Dun- dee's abllity to come back has fail- | «d to shake the confidence of Rob- erts, however. “I did it once and can do it aguin” he observes. e 'Bare Fist Battles Of the Prize Ring | CHAPTER TWELV ; BY JACK McAULIFFE (CopyrighT, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) | Fighters were treated like dogs | in those day: I was matched to fight Jack Hop- ver, the man who hit me a terrible | blow above my cheek bone in our | first fight and paralyzed my mind so | I could not remember a single thing that happened for four rounds. We | were to meet in back of the Cedar- | hurst Country club. ary 27 (I believe) | night. | My, how the cold, raw wind blew! | ! Our teeth were chattering, our faces | were blue. Twenty of New York's biggest swells, all great men from Wall street, were in the clubhouse | eating and drinking before a warm fire when we reached the building. We tried to get in the clubhouse | to get warm. “No fighters in here bull at the ‘door. *Stay | .freeze for all I care. An get nothing to eat eithe We went over to the grandstand in the darkness and huddled to- gether until one by one, taking their | sweet time, the swells came out to | sce us. We stripped our clothes off and | it's a wonder we didn’t catch pneu- | monia! A thin layer of ice coated | the water bucket held by my broth- er Con, Hopper and I started off at a fast pace to keep warm. Every time we drew a quick deep breath it seemed like a million necdles were piercing | our lungs. T thought Hopper would be easy but he was sure tough. The | swells sat in their seats and, pro- | tected by heavy blankets, watched us maul each other while the wind cut to the bone. Hopper and I .u(-h“ | put up a $250 side bet and all fights | then were on a winner-take-all busis. I can rememebr one of the swells yelling 100 Hopper doesn't t threc more rounds.” I gritted my tecth, angered at the whole affair. Angered at the | | terrible treatment given us when we | applied for food and warmth early | in the night and angered at the fop- pish swells whom we were amusing. I purposely laig back for three rounds and the swell lost his he | There was a well-known sclon of a wealthy and prominent New York : there. He was born without | and two servants set him on top of a barrel and hetween rounds they'd carry him over near a fire and then hack again. Finally in the 17 round T knocked out Hopper, Then after that gruelling pace and | all the hardships we had just put ir clothes on and were sitting down | nalf famished, to eat when the cry of “Police!” cchoed across air! It was Febru- | in 1886, late at | said the | out and you don't . EDITOR'S NOTE—In the next | chapter MeAuliffe tells of his excit- ing expericnees in Boston and how an opponent gave him $5 so he would't run out on a match and how he spent the whole $5 on steak to keep from starving to death. HAHN AFTER RECORD Boston Runner to Shoot at 23 Year | | 0ld Record For the Half Mile in | Tordham Meet. New York, Jan. 13 (P)—A twenty three year old indoor record for the half mile will be the target of Lloyd | Hz star of the Boston start this year at | {athletic games of Fordham unive sity on Saturday night. Competing against o which will include Charley Judge of , Notre Dame, Francis McCloskey of | | Boston college, George Marsters of the New York A. C., and Alan Helf- | frich, former Penn State flyer. Hahn | will attempt to lower the time of 1:54 3-5 made by E. B. Parson of ale on March 19, 1904, at Buffalo, Y. Jack Ryder, Hahn's coach, an- nounced that the Hub runner, who | won the national mile championship on a muddy track last summer in 4:16, already has reached peak con- dition and has discontinued dally | workouts to prevent “staleness.” SALESMAN $AM fast field, N. WHERE'S THAT Bl i West Side Tennis club. | Boys' Club Hoopsters Tast on Court, lclub basketball team along with the |Inagurate a dancing | flowers who have no partner NEW YORK OPPONENTS | sored | Cuvillier, democr: { prohibition, lize | marshal the | states |Two Coast Guardsmen THAT DOGGONE CAT AINT WORTH & DARN WHEN, \T COMES To CATCHING RATS = TH OFFICE 15 OVER RUN WITH 'EM ~ SPORT BRIEFS By the Associated Press. Glenna Collett, former national women's champion, heads u golf in- vasion of the Bahamas today. Among others sailing with her to compete in the Nassau championship tourn ment are Marie Jenny, former m tropolitan champion, and Helen Pay- son of Portland, Me, The next bombardment by Tex Rickard's heavyweight fleet has been fixed for February 7. The mancu- vering dreadnaughts will be Paolino Uzcudun, the Spanish entry, and Knute Hansen, mid-west candidate who conquered Monte Munn. An appeal has been made to the United States Lawn Tennis associa- tion to raise the plane of doubles competition “to the high level of i proficiency attained in singles.”” The truly great doubles teams “can be counted on the fingers of one hs says Sceretary Herbert Chase of the They called him “Cough lie.” He seemed to hay whooping-cough. For he ore “‘hack: Renorted negotiations for the sale | iR i cf the Brooklyn Nationals to John K. Tener, former governor of Penn- éylvania and one-time president of the National league, are denied at the office of the Robins. “It's all news to me,” said Hanlon, of the club. PLAYERS MUST DANGE But Slow .at Courting — To be Taught Dancing. The fine art of dancing will shortly be taught to members of the Boy. more usual passing, shooting. Their fz game draws a large crowd of men nd boys each week, but very few girls are attracted to the club by their dancing. The boys seem to lose their speed when the game ends and are very slow indeed to ask the girls to dance, the result being that |many girls are left without partners fand do not come again. To change this situation Superin- tendent Dwight Skinner is about to class in the composed of dribbling, and t work in the happened! His irritate quieted down like dog obeying his master. barked no more. An entirely new blend. No throatir- ritation. No morn- ing-after cough. enior club, which is he oldest club memb: including 11 the basketball players. When they have learned to step about the floor with a partner as well as they do with a basketball they will be | able to eliminate the line of wall- The girls come for the dancing, and the club i3 determined to sce that they enjoy it. And the lessons may help the players to skip and pivet through an opp: and gracefull 'KIDNAPPING CHARGED OF DRY LAW FIGHTING i i Blazing the Thomson, Ga., High School Girl WAy oridons itution: Admits Leaving Home Be- Convention to Modify the cause She Abhorred School. \ ghteenth. Albany, T r JAn ponents of prohibition York legislature are for a constitutional modify or repeal amendment. Two proposals predicted on active Jan. 13 (A—W claiming to be for a Ne who, under the Thombon, Ga., 13 (®)—Op- ren P. in the New blazing the way | convention 1o the eighteenth Sprague, an advertising solicitor w York newspaper, yname of J. H. Gilbride, disappear- ed with Georgia Lowe, 17 year old Ischool girl, here December 29, was Dyshiatinas ¢ states are spon. |returned last night with the girl it New YOrk r\mr‘r‘hurgml with kidnapping and pa wets, One would [INE Wworthless ch to give the | Miss Lowe went power to draft their own en- | N¢r aunt. X orcement laws and define intoxlcat-| Both denied previous rtions ing beverages. The other would ask (hat they had been marricd, Sher- congress to summon a constitutional [1ff R. L. Norris said, and Sprague convention to repeal the amendment, |admitted that he has a wife and dy, according to Assembly- |five children in New York. villier United es Sena-| The girl told newspaper men tors Bruce of Maryland, Walsh of that she met Sprague December chusetts, Edwards of New J. 29, that he proposed to her that and Gerry night and that she assented be- e cause he abhorred school. They of Rhode Island ar: left that night in his automobile, up in favo rof the proposals and will seek support in their legis- | she on the prefext of going to the theater together. latures, while W. H. Stayton, head of She then related a story of go- the national association opposed 1o stands ready to !IlOMl-\‘ i active lobbies in the states and ing to Macon, “where the enormity wet forc of my adventure dawned upon me” Hope for a constitutional conwen- [0f a hu_Hv.- th for a marriage tion rests upon the fact that 28 license in several counties on a already have petitioned con- [trip that carried them through s to call the convention for con- {lower Georgia and parts of Florida, deration of other propo: and of her efforts to communicate With the legislature with her family, which, she al- until Monday night, republican l leged, were Ir!och.m[ by Spragne. ers plan to map out a plan of ac Officer aid Sprague protested on the various wet proposals alrea lis love for the girl en route here dvanced. Some are scheduled rom Woodbine and declared he action Monday night. was not afraid to pay the pen- R T Aty SN RESIGNS AT WESLETAN Sam Hill, Football Coach at Middle- tagoni the of memorialize cong to the home B adjourned ad- on | dy for Get Year in Prison Washington, h. 13 (P) — Coast guard headquarte said yester- day that ¥. B. McIntyre and J. H. | McEnroe, two guardsmen a gned to the Boston district, had been \('n» tenced by court martial to one a imprisonment in the naval 'ncuu»-n- tiary and that the sentence has been approved. town TUniversity, Plans to Join | Larger stam. Middletown, Conn., Jan. 13 (Pi— | Sam Hill, football coach at Wesleyan The charges against the men arose | UBiversity for the past year and a from their conduct in the coast|half, has resigned and will leave guard's offensive against rum run- | Weslevan in June it was announced | ners but the headquarters refused to | today by H. L. Connelly, ary 2dd any details of the evidence gath- | Of the alumni council. Hill plans to ered by the court martial against |%¢rve Next year, the announcement {says, as assistant coach at “one of them. | sect (NOW WELL SEE N Th' MORNING— | WHO'LL (ATCH T FiRST RaT— TH' CAT | OR TH' TRAP— I'VE GOT A BIG PECE. G RaT TRaP ! OF CHeESE. (N \T CIGARETTES perpetual than the town livery. When the cool and creamy smoke struck hisabused tonsils, something *d throat a faithful watch THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1927, HE ALWAYS BOUGHT COUGH DROPS WITH HIS UNTIL HE DISCOVERED OLD GOLDS Cough drop manuf: S & star cu rded him ¢ for whenever he garettes, he | Cough Drops. ing Char- > let out cs. Tor tice Good for 20 ~ Charlie jolt to throat or IT’S THE Today when Charlie he et with every pac wund trips to Ciga- rette Satisfaction, without a jar or It never occurred to him that his, “hrand of cigarettes might cause the. whooping and wheezing . . . until one day a friend invited him to try a package of OLp GoLps. cturers re- omer ... a pack of a box of bought :U\l"hl smokes, he a smileage ge of O. G. gets Product of ¥ ¢ LORILLARD) co. Est. 1760 tongue. SMOOTH ES@ CIGARETTE YOU CAN SMOKRE THEM AMORNING NOON and NIGHZ the larger universities where he c: be in touch with one of the recogniz- cd leaders of football coache university where he will conti work was not named “Wesle; during his year and a half on the campus he has become unusually popu with the student. ulty and alumni,” the announcement adds. “His team have been cha terized by a fighting spirit and ability to flash strong in last qu attacks, via the air route, turni victories over Williams, Trin ue his an rter g in 1 regrets Hill's going for | Rochester and Middlebury.” Hill came here from the University of Tllinois where he played on d 1922 teams as fuHback Portland City Council Aids Radio Enthusiasts Portland, Ore.,, Jan, 13 (P — At guard the request of radio fans, the city 5 council passed an ordinance PIRE providing that no violet ray, X-ray 13 (P—One |OF Other electric devices causing 2 ©high oscillations may be operated girl was burned to death and ten|between 7 and 11 p. m. within the others were injured by jumping city. The ban includes regenerative from windows of the Black Prince |radio receiving sets. Overall Company’s plant which, with 'he ordinance is as an experi- six other building destroyed | to reduce interference with | yesterday by reception, GIRL DIES IN Roanoke, Va., Jan ent dio OUR BOARDING HOUSE WELL w WHERES ' NEW U 7w Nou HIGH-NOZED AROUND WERE FoRTWo WEEKS N T we ALY NowW \oURE BACK IN NoUR RARE 0OLD VOLUME OF WRINKLEG ! By AHERN SHE QAP { HE Puto T ourT ol Now, HE'LL LOOK LIKE A CONTORTIONIG 1IN -TH MIDDLE oF Hig SMRS. HOOPLE ) A HE GOT L CAUGHT IQ TH’ RAIN WiTH 1T LAoT NIGHT AN v FOLDED LP ON HIM LIKE Al ACCORDIAN ! WMEw You ARE VERN 0BGERVING ¢ WELL, F Nou MugT Kow, - T HAVE PuT MY IMPORTED QUIT AWAY, ONLY-T0 WEAR ON 9PECIAL 0CCASIONG 1« VT 12 TUTILE T0 DRESS UP For T HOUZE AND 1o INMATES ! sunoass WaEV- DAYS reusSsud amna e/