New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 23

! Speaking PSS LN, E L The latest report on the baseball scandal {s that Judge Landis is planning to investigate just why it was that “Casey struck out” in that | famous diamond battle in Mudville. Someone has suggested that Jim Bonney be called on to help him|® out because Jim has told of the af- fair so often. Merwin Jacobson the New Britain boy has signed his contract with|J, Brooklyn. last season but he wasn't in the bust of health. Manager Wilbert Robinson has great faith in “Jake" | H. and believes that he has a lot of baseball left in him. | le. The New Britain High school casualties within the past two weeks 'L than the Mexican rebel army, is like a chicken without its head. After building up a crackerjack team, Coach Cassidy finds all his work for| naught. Two more members of the basket- ball squad went yesterday, making 15 boys in all who have been bar- red from playing basketball with | the High school because of a silly rule. cipal Louis P. Slade in saying that| athletics are considered too import- ant in a High school, eNpecially when those athletics are administer- ed under a despotism which savors more of ancient Russia than the ! United States of America. It scems strange that a probation- ary system is in vogue in the High school. While attending the classes during the day, the students are un- der the direct eye of professors and teachers but at home nights, they| are on probation. Such, at any rate, seems to be|y the case With the basketball tean These boys are required, If the wish to play basketball with the! High school team, not to play with| any other organized team. It seems| strange ‘that the High school thorities should assume sb much power over the athletes who atten the local institution and it wouldn't|} be a bad idea for the school board| to investigate the reason’ for thisl absolutely superfluous regulation. The National Guards have two hard games ahead of them, one to- night and the other tomorrow night. | Tonight the team plays in Middle- | town against the All-Middletown | five and tomorrow night, the local quintet battles the of Hebrews from Greenpoint, L. Of the two games, the one tomor- | row night is by far the toughest on | the program. The Greenpoint team | is the classiest gregation in th East and after having beaten the!r Atlas of New Haven twice in New By Haven, jt looms as a serious oppon- ent for'the local combine. The Fittons took another beating in Meriden last night at the hands of the Insilcos. Referee Frank Barnikow officiated at the game and chased Martin, visiting center, for talking back to him. the pro- night | that ion while game was in ss in this city Wednesday 1o tell the Boston scorckeeper he would meet some poor refe about the state. This was in swer to a line of criticism aimed at; Diek Dillon. We inferred that if hei| found fault with Dillon, he wouldn't | iy be able to stand the referccing of some of the others about the state. at th state armory Arch street, local amateur fans are due to sce one of the card of fights put on in this city. e interest of the fans is in heavier classes, tonight's promises a lot of enjoyment those who attend We had rds-Fitton oc Gu an- on fight | best Tonight the T show | for | No less than 14 entries from bo: of the 140 pound or over classes have been received by Matchmaker ! J. J. Whaler. ange into the 170 pounds and plenty of ex- citement will be ished at the armory ring. Paul Terzo who startled the cash customers at the amateur tourna- ments by his sensational knockouts ot various fighters until he himself wag pasted by Ray Hall, will swing into action again tonight. Paul has lost nothing of his punching power and his one aim now is to get back! into the ring with Ray Hall. [ by i Noth Begley, although not a bow-| is like Jim Lynch of the Gas-| cos, a great promoter. Nom took!p his Spring. and ‘Buckley maple bust ers over'to Plainville last night to|I: meet the office force of the Bristol| Brass. No, we don't mean that the S. & B. team had to play the en- tire office for just two teams playi another. Begley's team lost. Nom was disheartened this morning, so much so that all -he could eat for breakfast at Charlie Grill was a hot muftin and one cup of coffee. It was against one Ne y tell us that the reason that the Spring & Buckley crew lost w because Bill Hayden didn't play his| W. game. Bill is looking for a contrac from one of the members of Bristol team and he afraid that | H if he beat him, the contract would go to someonc else. night, the| hat, with After the game last fellow Bill rolled told him regard to the contract, dian't| think he would have his house wir- .1 at all.” Poor Bill! | that he had Nom told us today w in training for | t started his ¢ th spring and campaign. The it-s are among the Spring & Buckley- leaders in: the of Sports }{, He failed to scintillate il- M. M basketball team which has had more | Hultgren ti g Peterson the ‘thvuxfiz WITH THE BOWLERS SPECIAL LADI Ni Berard Linn Bulman 413 \mrllxhls Delasio ROGERS ALLEYS " MATCH ew DBritain (Rogers) 467 (Meriden) a1 H. & H. LADIES' New Britain 424 Hausman J. Stiplinick J. Petras Wagnet McGuire Fenn Waterbury Sivan 98 Sullivan .70 Moore Kelsey Callahan Blair Stanley | Hines | Kosak | sgrot Al ‘Hrunmn Fores 1 Milko Wolom, aggregation of ¢ “avil Ivain Murp) Tu risl Cosgrove Dixon O'Leary Smith N. W & H LEAGUE Freight Office 52 51 Freight Maitenance Yrd Clorks LS5 100 Freight Office Men FRATERNI' Carlson CHURCH Ker Woodford riffet Carlson Kellor 1son nson Carlson rlson o KENIL’ nrist orton Morrison Thornton mis indoor baseball class and the play-|o'eli re preparing to be in first class shape for the Conmnacticut Elcctric| Light & Power Co. nines when these two traditional enemies come to grips at Walnut Hill Park. uiro Red Army Blue Army TRt 85 94 rinity First Wilite Army forfeit) CASINO ALLEYS WOR Galloping_Ghosts 88 87 BARDERS' [NION Sobbed Hair Artists i) 1 MATCH, 9| Tomorrow afternoon | following games will L[ New London GRANTS' mcrr LEAGLE Miss Mies | Miss. Miss Miss Miss Kemp Warner Marsh Francint Baber Ostertag 91— §9— S6— 20— 2 94— 2 250 hriner | Whotaie LOGALS WILL PLAY NEW LONDON FIVE, \State Y. M. C. A. Title Tourna- - ment Gets Under Way Tomorrow the Y. M. C. A. basketball team will jounrney to {New London to play the Coast Guard Cadet team which represents the New London ‘Y’ in the state title tournament. In various parts of the state the be played in | the semi-finals; Stamford vs. Green- | wich, Ansonia vs. Westport and | Waterbury vs. Naugatuck. The win- [ner of the Waterbury-Naugatuck game will play the winner of the ew Britain contest. games starts all the Tomorrow's i|teams in the state title tournament so it is tmportant that the local 'Y’ New London team has won the state title for the past two years and are out to repeat. The local team in the past weeks has been preparing for this tournament by engaging several as- sociations resulting in six wins and one defeat. The results of the games ayed are as follow 40 New London 38 Middletown Naugatuck wgatuck Rubber ington Torrington New Britain | . 234 The following New Britain play- ers will make the trip:—John Saxe | Joe Luke, Elmer Nyborg, T cheski, H. kas Arbur- a and H PHANTOMS WIN ward Demar : | Basketball Five Swamps Internation- als Who Substituted for Hartford | Quintet. The Phantoms won their 15th aight game last night by trimming \\hv Internationals at the Elihu Bur: ritt gym by the score of 66 to 23. A game scheduled with Hastford, called off yesterday afternoon u1se of the inability of the Hart- ford m gement (o get its players together. The Phantoms got aw to a good ng 17 points before the ats registered at all They led at the end of the first half hy the score of 28 to 3. The Interna- tionals spurted in the second half but they could not stop the Phan- toms. Cohen and Berkowitz for the winners and Peters for the losers. Cohen, rf . | Berkowitz, Lipman, 1f Yankowitz Carr, 1, 1t Internationals Fld. " | Gwiskis, s/ Bare Fist Battles Of the P117e Ring What can you do to beat a 3wllo\\ streak ? T have seen lots of fighters, T have | fought lots of fighters and T know something about this thing, coward- ice. I helieve t Lut the control of fear. sre is @ certain that is inherent. subdue 1 fear in he cowards are subdued by the at bravery In every amount of The brave e found that among fighters ? [ic, that takes the fight clear out of >. | he visited this country because he five come through with a win. The | six | 19| | Right | 2 *lthe Bengston, William Yan- s nothing are forced, against will, perhaps, to call cowardice. There is that quality | which makes a boy timid when he is ' subjected to punishment and there is more serious feeling, & pan- others, Timid fighters can be cured be- cause it is more often lack of confi- dence in themseltes that makes them timid. When they get to be better boxers they become less tim- |id. But the real coward never can be cured and has no place in the ring. 1 care across a typical case one time in St. Louis when I obtained permission to interview a prisoner in the death house who was to be executed in two days. I wanted to talk to a man who was about to die and get some ideas on his philoso- phy. The result of the interview did me more harm than good as I felt T had all the symptoms of cow- ardice I saw in him—a bold front, a | surface indication of bravery, and a ‘ faitering heart underneath. | Tt took me years to get out of it ibefore 1 found myself. | John L. Sullivan and the original Jack Dempsey were afraid of noth- ing and there are some fighters to- day of the same winning fearless disposition. There are others whose gameness, downright gameness, un- derstand, we all question. About this time several fights were arranged for me in Williams- burg and I had a chance to meet the | | famous Jake Hyams, an Englishman who created a great splurge when | had beaten Jem Carney and claimed | not-only the title of Great Britain | but also the world—until we fought. $0, MANGHESTER T0, PLAY NEW BRITAIN Makeghilt Lineup fo Represent Local High School in Game for high afternoon | school | at 3 Probable up battle tomorrow | o'clock: IN. B. H. S, i Right A. Zaleski South Manchest orward Holland | Left Forward Landino Gorman | Center ! wrer McCann | Guard | Sowka A. Baggini Left Guard | | Matulis . Baggini | By a trick of fate the New Britain | | High school will be represented on basketball court tomorrow by | | five guards who.have been shiftec i the other three position ancies brought about rring of the two forwards | brother of the Marion Zaleski, will | take over his brother's position at ight forward. He with Landino and hrer have been playing regularly | with the junior reserves all scason | On the sidelines will be the first su | stitute, George Cherp: who is also |2 guard and when Gabriel Bromberg |is taken off the sick list he will be | | another guard who will be depended | {upon to fill a position, | | The New Britain team with Me- Grath at center, Marion Zaleski and | Havlick at forwards and Matulis and |Sowka guards gave the South Man- chester school team a terrible | trouncing in a game played in the carly part of the season. It was after that game that Manchester started the trouble 1sed suspension of 16 members of juad including the center and f !ward combination on the first and sccond team and their captains, Zaleski and “Huggy” Carlson. QUARRY WORKER KILLED Rockland, Me., Jan. 21 (P —Ite- ning to work W minutes bLe- sre the whistle ended the lunch hour, cost Floyd Willi Camden, his life in the nt Company quarry 3 | . A few minutes after Wil- liams had descended into the quarry, © block of ice dropping 150 | feet from the top, struck him on the head, killing him instantly. noon L Boxing] | inter-city tilt promi Amateurs | F@ N SPORTS Jack met Gene in Philly town, Beneath the murky skies. He promptly took his title down, And closed up both his eyes. And when Jack saw his crown was gone; With all his might and main He then resumed his training Just to win it back again. (By NEA Service) Angeles, Jan. 21. Dempsey is confident that he will b the fighter, to meet Champion Gene Tunney. "The former title- holder says he has been assured of that fact. Dempsey has more than an outside chance to reversc the verdiet, Exhibition Contest Between Corbin Serew and - Hartford Rubber Works To Be Scen. The Inter-Church I thet Xo MG AL will“be started at 8:30 instead of 7:30 o'clock, an exhibition game between the Corbin Screw shop and the Hartford Machine Screw having been arranged to precede them. T to be a fast op is lcading ague games at tomorrow night one, as the screw the local industrial league and the Rubber Works is well up in the sponding circuit in the Capitol Difficulty in obtaining a suit- was met with by the but President George . Hamlin of the Church league granted them permission to play be- |fore the regular church games, The t church contest will bring tog e St. Matthews Lutherans and First Luther: Center and Co churches will clash FIGHTS LAST NIGHT d Press Chicago—T Petrolle, N D, d Spug Meyer: oca | Idaho, drew, (10). Mille cago, heat Eddie Chi (10). My Sullivan, ed Hy Gottfrid, Chic Grogan, Omaha, and ago, Cuba, drew, (8). 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