New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1927, Page 9

WM Speaking of Sports Raaaaaaaaaaas oot ) ) The amateur fight tournament whick was conducted by the Mohawk A. C. at the state armory on Arch street last night, was, in the opin- jon of the majority of the fans who attended, the best that has been held here since the revival of the sport here. Every bout on the card was ex- citing and many were close. Three Kknockouts featured the tournament, and good milling was seen in every fight. The Franco-American club of Waterbury which is fast coming to the fore as an organization for the development of amateur fighters, sent a number of fighters to this city last night who made the tour- nament the real success that it was. Although they did not win all of their fights, the Waterbury boys all gave good accounts of themselves fspecially - Lucien Larrivier, who knocked out Jack Davis, the colored boy. trom New Haven. Davis came to town with a splen- aid fight reputation especially after his showing in his first fight here a few weeks ago. The New Haven contingers looked upon him as an, ..casy winner. Davis started oft slow- lv but after Larrivier connected ith him a few times, he started to move with unexpected rapidity. Frank Polo of New Haven, who faced Paul Terzo in the ring, fought a cautlous fight and gave the “Oom Paul” very little opportunity to get in any damaging socks. Terzo con- {inually sought an opening _but * couldn't stop Polo long enough to send in a solid punch. Terzo won his fight ecasily on points. To New Britain fans, Johnny " Clinch has become one of the best entertainers to be seen in the ring. _Not only can he fight, but he com- bined all the grace of a lithe panther *in his motions about the ring. John- v is a pocket edition of that most | Yraceful of all fighters, Jack De- * laney. g Pancho Villa last night v in his cor- with his brother Jimmy : Der, was like taking upon his should ers a feud started by his brother sev. oral years ago. Jimmy Clinch an Villa fought all of elght times when Jimmy was in the simon-pure ranks and each scored victorles over thej other. ! ccistve victory Johnny made it a dec for the Clinch family by thorough- \v beating Villa. The Hartford boy refused to go down although he re- ceived hard punishment and despite the fact that he was grogsy from solid hody punches. Meetin, 1f the local boy keep:n np“'i:o W has started, he will certain- \“0\‘""‘(;112 ]:lam:\rk for himself in the fight world. He has grit. good form and plenty of sock in efther !mnd: e has won all of his fights recently and stands near the top of his class at the present time. The Natlonal Guards are an enig- | ma to the fans of this city. At| home, the team is practically in- vincible but on the road, the team cannot win a game. Starting the WITH THE BOWLERS CASINO ALLEYS SPECIAL MATCH Avery Sinto Puppel Edman Hayes 511—1433 155 251 191 187 § 293 Jimmie Johnia Brainard Jos . Tommy Bl 24— 476—1385 Tisattu . 182 B. Turner Tony .. J. Turner AL Collora 89— 51 456—1412 Washingtons 8 82 98— 266 107— 290 109— 296 Norbanski Knowles Westman Pelligrin Recor 483—1408 HART & COOLEY SPECIAL Harts 18 2 5 71— 91— U— 103— 255 237 268 310 234 107 80 Williams Migalz Hines Lefty McGrath 264 hn o 244 Clarksor Lee TJullen Ponte 80— 84— §0— 100— 93 9 87 65 451 a1 PALACE ALLEYS CORBIN SCREW FOREMEN'S LEAGUE Head Rydberg. Kiely Daly Squires B. Carr Jackson Pratt . J. Corr Miller Rebrecard Holt Bradbury Kisselback Baldwin Berg Penney Bertz Johnson Vile Scheyd D. Cooney Podemont Bighanittl Nello J. Cooney 0 252 292 309 473—1419 $3— 292 29 Shick Smith Myers Warnar Gilmotta, Graham 74 301 36 93— 182 451—1432 191 Sculptors .98 490 R. Matson Seaburg all Maguda Woodford 4421357 | | — 156 a5— 231 86— 91— 233 90— 238 93— 83 McCormick Goodell Turner Kylander Niederlln Ferguson Tiso—1319 season with a win over Bristol in Bristol, the Guards have lost every | game they have played out of town. | True it is that in only one instance | have they taken a bad beating, and that at the hands of the Brooklyn A. | C. of Waterbury two weeks ago, but | m. carison the team has lost every game played away from home with only one ex- ception. They were beaten in Meriden by the Endees by a 19 to 17 score. They were beaten by the New Haven | Aflas by a 22 to 20 score and last| night the team lost to Middletown | by a 24 to 23 score. | { These same teams that take (hc“ measure of the Guards on their, home floors, appear to be no matches | at all for the Guards when they play in this city. Tho Brooklyn A. C. team played here and the Guards swamped them. The Meriden En- dees played here and the Guards| heat them by a fairly good measure. | Plainfleld played here and the| Guards ran away with them. The Atlas and Middletown have still to play here, but in view of the way the Guards play at home, it is safe | 1o say that the local team will win | these games. Just what keeps the local team from winning away from home is a mystery. In action here, the team looks like a championship outfit. Yet, mediocre teams can beat them one after the other when they are away from home, 1t probably is no fault of the Guards. It is a poor thing for a| tearn to be giving the same alibl every time it gets beat. We our- selves viewed he game in Meriden and we figured that poor officiating gave Meriden a victory. We haven't seen the Guards play elsewhere but fans who have, all report that poor officiating held the locals helpless. Tn Middletown last night, the same story originated. But despite this. the Guards have such a margin of proficiency in basketball over all these teams when they play in this city, makes one unable to under- stand just why the local team takes a set back every time it plays out of town. Tonight the Guards will meect the toughest team of the year when it battles the Greenpoint Hebrews of Long Island. The Hebrews have taken the measure of the New Ha- ven Atlas on two occasions on the home floor of the New Haven team and in 15 starts, the Greenpoint tcam has been returned the winner, The Gilards are out to break this winning streak tonight and for that reason, the team has been groomed well all wee . Tonight's game will bhe a.sensation of the season and a record growd Is expected to turn out Yo watch the two teams go at it. [ Tultquist Cozy Tiger Mo! { Hart Lewis Haddock | Carlson S8 248 Colby Roardman Giana Goodrich Freeman Rasmussen Cozy Matson | Kalen 4501365 ©. Mazzall Johnson Rindle . Bighanatti Veronise 435 437 All Kensingto) o Connell L] Horn Duplin Fagan Johuson Transen McMahon Campbell Makoweki B. Lindbers Fus Bucher! Popolosk! Davls Mathews 2 | Conneily | found the stamina to keep coming | old and the father of four children. | | smothered the invader with punches 11— 201 | { ged the Scotchman's knees. | Clark In | Three times in the third round the j dragging in the resin. Pravost Liss Skinge: Teske Tino Dix Perry Poterson Schmelter Goodrow Chavelier Washy Kaelin Paterson Godlewski 410 FAFNIR GIRLS' LEAGUE Cheat! > Martin .. Middleton L. Gingras E. Koerber AL Maerz 226 LA BARBA WINS IN ONE SIDED MATCH Elky Glark, Scotchman, Battered for 42 Rounds of Bont New York, Jan. 22 (A—FElky Clark must go back to Scotland and the continent where ho rules the flyweight division without even the satistaction of having ruffied the curly hair of Fidel Labarba of Cali- fornia, who today is the undisputed king of the 112-pounders. The stoop-shoulder invader frum the land of the heather, who sought to take back to Great Britain the world champlonship Jimmy Wilde relinquished to Pancho Villa in 1923 was battered from gong to gong of 12 merciless rounds by the dapepr westerner in Madison Square Gar- den last night. The bout, strikingly similar to the stand of Britain’s “Mighty Atom” against Villa in defense of England’s last world title, was one of the most one-sided in recent ring history. Five times the ripping punches of the clean-cut Californian tumbled Clark, weak and dizzy, to the can- vas. Throughout the entire match | LaBarba hammered his challenger about the ring while 16,000 fans awalted the finishing blow. But unlike his predecessor, Wilde, who fell before Villa's crushing | punches in seven rounds at the Polo Grounds, Clark, from somewhere, | back, round after round, into the hail of jabs, hooks and smashes. The bristly-haired Scotchman, blink- | ing undor the powerful ring lights | and rubbing continuously at his slowly closing right eye, cven staged rallies in the final round that brought cheers for his gameness hut | little change in the aspect of the | fight. The outcome clearly estab- lished LaBarba's right to the world | title, disputed since the death of | Villa, the champion in 1925. The vividness and color of the 21| year old Los Angeles youth formed | a marked contrast to the bent figure | of the little Scotchman—29 years Clark shambled forward in a crouching, weaving style that La- Barba at times found difficult to penetrate, he met that storm of blows in each round almost.lefore he left his corner. The Scotchman's timid left leads to the head and body were mostly feclers. His right hand rarely found its mark. In the 12 rounds Clark failed to land a single damaging blow. In contrast the champion literally ripping solid left hand punches to the head and body at will. Occas- ionally Labarba crossed a crunch- g right to Clark’s head that sag- | The fight was scarcely under way when a ripping left hook floored the center of the ring. rail of punches took their toll and the challenger tumbled to the floor. Clark was stretched on his back on the canvas when the bell ended the third frame, and Referee Patsy Haley was forced to carry the dazed Scotchman to his corner, his feet Again in the cighth round when Clark appeared to be weathering the storm a eft hook to the head dumped him' 1o the floor. The judges' decision in favor of LaBarba was a formality at | the end of the 12 rounds. Two ten round supporting bouts , brought the fastest action of thg| night. Dave Montrose, of Sioux City, Ja., who formerly fought as New: Brown, thrust himself to the as LaBarba's chief rival by de- | cisively outpunching Frankie Genaro of New York, former American | champion, in a rousing encounter. Billy Kelly of Scranton, Pa., gained an unpopular decision over Trip Limbaco ,of the Philippines in the other ten rounder, FEMININE Burt: Some girls close thelr eyes when they kiss you.” Christy: Yes, and some close their eves when they you.—Lite, - givls | shoot i | jother junior basebalt |up the game in the Hickory, dickory, dock! O Hornsby sure cam sock; He hits the ball, It dents the wall. Hickory, dickory, dock. (By NEA Service) New York, Jan. 22.—This city now boasts the two highest-salaried stars in baseball. Rogers Hornsby has just signed a two-year contract call- ing for $40,000 per annum. Babe Ruth, who received $52,000 last sea- son, is demanding a fat increase. Can You Think of the Good Old Days When— ——— ) The Kensington Marines were one of the leading baseball teams in the state? An enterprising business man in- stalled a set of “flying horses” In a vacant lot on Church street and cleaned up $20 the first night? 8. “Ripley,” owned by L. Cooley and later sold to W. T. Holbrook of the Park Hotel stables, was one of the classiest driving horses in the city? Lilly Clay's Galety company drew capacity audiences at Hanna's Opera, House on Main street? Jim Meade pitched for the King ton baseball team part of the son, he and Connors returning to their homes here after the team manager ran away with the club money? The Nationals, the Athletics, and the Maroons were the leading base- ball teams in this city? Michael J. Cosgrove of the Hibernian Rifle: best drilied organizations kind in the state? was president one of the of its The New Britain Gun club weekly shoots Tuesday afternoons at the Black Rock grounds, with a membership of fifteen? Frank Slater was president of the New Britain Wheel club, and one of its most enthusiastic members? B. A. Johnson made a record with a rifle when he broke feventeen glass balls in succession, and scored 22 out of a possible 252 The Franklin street Stars had the teams of the city guessing after cleaning up the Black Rocks, 32 to 137 Billy Porter and Jack Lawson were the battery for the New Britain Maroons in the game with Plain- ville, when the umpire made a deci- sion on a batted ball which broke | held ninth inning, | | with the Maroons leading, 4 to 3? Bassett's lot on South Main street was New Britain's circus grounds? | HAFEY HAS ALIBI | [ Suffered from Severe Sinus Afection ! That Caused Him to Play Poorly | During the Series. St. Louis, Jan. ¥2.—1f the st. Louis Cardinals had been defeated by the New York Yankees in the 1926 world series, “Chick” Hafey would have been the goat. His play throughout the series the field and at bat was very erratic. He misjudged three easy fly balls n | | “CICK” HAFEY that went as two-ba%e hits instead of outs and struck out more times than any other player in the series. As soon as the serles was over, Hafey went to an eye specialist for a thorough examination. It showed |that he was suffering from a severe immediately ordered. already started limbering up. He says the Cardinal fans will sce a new player in him next summer and promises to wage a bitter fight for the left ficld berth champions. |Pigeons Come for Meal Milwaukee, Wis,, Jan, —Thomas Koeferl, an a: | the city building inspector’'s depart- ment, is certain that pigeons think | Tor a year he has been feeding ithe birds that hover about | building, perched at times, on the window ledge. He has noticed that | the birds start coming to the win- { dow just before the clock in St. Mary’s church, a block away from ! his office strikes the noon hour. They seem to know, he says, that | has | noon is time to eat and he i a | found the pigeons as good as | watch in marking the noon hour. Koeferl was curious to sce wheth- er or not the birds came around on | Sundays, and made two trips to the office o1 not appear either time. TOUGH CA JOB There is one basketball guard here jaying collegiate ball who has a (zon load of trouble on his sched- His name is Teddy Meisel and he Is called by Nat Holman, famous Celtic pro, the best college basket- ball guard he 1 | opponents bear such names as Alton of Rutgers, Captain Neil Cohalan of Manhattan and the famous Johnny White, Fordham phantom. Middletown plays a return game hiere a week from tonight and the | Atlas are here the week following. {DRIVE YOURSELF— | NEW CARS TO RENT i 25c an hour——10c. & mile. Special eates for long tripa. | U-DRIVE AUTO RENTING 0O. Cor Seymour and Elm | Phone 3081-2 | Day and Night Service HAVE YOU SEEN IT? 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He is the favorite in the Casey mile but his opponents will ipclude | Red Haggerty of Harvard, intercol. legiate mile champion and F. A. Tay- lor of Maine, New England inter- collegiate cross country champion, | Hussey of Boston College will star |in the dash while Harold M. Os- | born will compete in the high jump. Bare Fist Battles Of the Prize Ring CHAPTER TWENTY (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service Inc.) Jake Hymans, an Englishman, came over to the United States and a big hullabaloo was raised | about him. He was a rugged, hard- punching fighter and had just beat- | en the vaunted Jem Carney to cop the championship of Great Britain. In view of my 74-round no-de- cision battle with Carney, my meet- | ing with Hymans was declared a ‘natural.” | We met at a skating rink at Wil- !liamsburg, admission was charged and for the first time in history, I | believe, the fighters were battling for a cut of the gate. There was $1000 side bet up and the winner was to get ali the gate receipts. Hymans was big and strong as a bull. He was the best head dodger I had ever seen in the ring. He gave me a great fight. It was 50 exciting | part of the stands collapsed and three men were killed. I stopped him with a left and right to the jaw in the ninth round. Hymans was a good sport. | He went back to England and said { nobody in the world could beat me land that settled a lot of argument Watches for Graduation A Wrist Watch for the girl, and a fino Pocket Watch for the hoy, make ideal graduation gifts which will bé appreciated. | Gh's Wrist Watch Special $12 | Boy’s Flgin Watch Special $12 | Other Watches up to §75 | i ‘M. C. LE WITT Jeweler and Diamond Dealer Up 1 Flight 209 Main St. | A1 Miller of Harvard and Frank | '0VR in Streator, that arose over my fight with Car- ney, who claimed he could have whipped me if the fight hadn't been | stopped. At this time I met Dick Roche, wealthy New York gambler. He agreed to back me and he sure was a square guy. I met him in the bar at the St. James hotel in New York. Then Roche arranged for a match between me and the “Streator Cyclone.” I had never heard of the | “Streator Cyclone” and knew very little about him, so I agreed to mect him. A side bet of $2500 was posted and I began to train. At this time pugilists “out west” around Chicago were beginning to develop rapidly. 1 did not know it but this cyclone person was Billy Myers, a murderous puncher, He had been fighting around his home Illinofs, and he‘ was making a great name. Th(‘x‘cl Now more than h TOURING . COACH COUPE SEDAN LANDAU | later delivered ROADSTER (4-Pass.) was most bitter feeling between the east and west at the time and when- ever gangs from Chicago and New York clashed there was blood. Gun fighters were coming into vogue. When Myers stoppea Harry Gils more, Canadian champion, with & punch, he became hero of the west. 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