New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 13

'S"p'ea kin 8 of Sports Film! Mantelll of South Manchester ‘who:is generally accused in this city. of being the prime mover in the barring of the high sclicol basketball players ‘for violation' of the head- masters’ rule which states that no' high school player cantbe a mem.ber‘ of any other organized ‘team, writes into the “Herald" today to deny the charges against bim. His' letur is as foum “Dear Sir: .In regard to an item in your sporting section recently re- ferring to me as the “Dutch Leon- ard” of basketball in connection with the barring of New Britain high school players, I would appreciate the publicauon of this letter.” “I was in no way responsible tor the Information ‘which was' given Principal Clarence P. Quimby of the South Manchester high' achool re- | sulting in the “Hoping this‘briet statement will clear . up. the mh\mflemmdm‘ 1 rematn, “Respectfully yours - . “ELMO MANTELLL" “Appended .to theletter is'a note | trom-Clarence P. Quimby, principal of the Sotith Manchester high' echool as ifollows: “The-above. statement by'| Mr. Mantelll is correct. He had noth. | ing to do with any, information, ¢on- | cetning New Britain . high ‘schiool | bnkonnll players.” The ‘action of the 'Bristol Endees | in offering the. services of their en-\ tire club for the , bepefit: to be staged for Tim Cronin:in this city.on Wadnesday evening, February 16, is one of the “whitest” moves we have heard of i1 mmq time. | Jlmmy Ma.lcolm made the ' offer through the “Herald” this. morning. | In explanation of this, it might: be sald ‘that the Bristol players were in | no way approached-in’the matter, and this makes ‘their offer- all the more admirabla, Following the conference between Manager Clarence Lanpher of the National Guards and Manager Jack Curry of the Meriden Endees, a game between their teams has been | arranged for February 16 -in this city. Arrangements will be . made | immediately to have tickets printed and-distributed about the state. Regarding Cronin’s <ondition, it is | <ald that his case s hopeless al- though ‘he ‘may rally from the pres- | ent attack. He is reported at the Hartford hospital to be in bad shape | and the action of Manager Clarence | Lanpher in staging the benefit for him can’be ¢lassed as nothing short of “agmirable”. | With the Bristl Endees stacked Olmstead Sagler val Keough . | Knowles Ritter . Weed Heyes | Hinchue Valentine ° Wolt { Linonsk! Johngeon Dell Stotts | Argosy Henry | Stntr’ Connors Campbell Ruzd Plurin willls Moftett | Mayers LEAGUE 93— 311 101— 282 30— 251 T4— U3 83— 263 481—1382 97— 288 Té— 334 87— 251 63— 255 — 265 4131273 97— 450—1289 91— 268 95— 277 95— 297 92— 92 34— 374 — 174 4871371 =16 $1— 357 ~100— 201 113— 300 | 82— 184 93— 2821 95— 201 105— 291 498—1421 FRATERNITY ALLEYS 1. 0. 0. F. LEAGUE Danberg Susge chols Linn C. Schutz C. Nvack F..Gllbey E. Nrack Swanson |B. Barks D against probably the Meriden In- A: ¢ilcos, a double featurs ‘will be pre- sented for the evening. | : i The ' Middletown ' Atlas,’ ~whick | barely lost to the Boys' club last | night, brought up with it the big- gest center seen in New Britain this | vear.” He is six feet six Inches tall and weighs 225 pounds. ' This, play- er, named Kelsey, proved very agile | for his size and nearly defeated the local quintet. 'He was 86 big that when & New Britain player: picked | the ball off the backboard and held! it over his head, Kelsey would come up from behind and- shoot for the basket right out of-tha 16c¢al play- er's upstretched ‘hands. ‘He made | “Lighthouse Long John"” Kley look | like a dwarf and a himan skeleton | when they faced each other in the central circle. \ There is considerablo rivalty ex- isting between the Boys’ eclub end the Burritts and the latter team, | which attends the gares at the club regularly, never misses’ an oppor- | tunity to. belittle the East Main street team’s victories. It the club wins by a couple of points it ix said to be lucky, it ‘its margin 15 about | 5 8ix points the referee.favored it, and it the club runs away .it picked a | set-up. And the club players have i the same kindly remarks for the hoys.trom the. armory. | | The Center church basketball has | a system which {8 causing laughter in the Inter-Church league. Sever- | al of the players are old-timers who have not playéd for a number of years and are therefore, although | long on' experlence, short of wind. | They therefore take turns at' play- ing, one playing some seven-or eight minutes and then gasping for time out; he retires in favor of another | and returns when the substitute has ! run himselt ragged. - This arrange-'| nient of shifts is' as regular as the | relief of the guard at'an army camp, and. the. timer can almost predfct just when each player will cave in. : The National Guards will battle the, Bristol Endees'in Bristol tomor- row. night in what should be:one .ot the flercest .games of ' the = season. The Bristol team has:lost twice .to New: Britain and one more loss to the Jocal team il eliminate the zrmol team from the mu title run- ng. Bristol Wfll :bs £ghting to ward oft this danger while the Guards will be doing their very best to beat. Bris- tol three straight games.. An. extra large. crowd from th!s clty will l;- tend the game. Peterson Loses -Fixst( Single Handball Match Geodrga® Péterson who has ‘heen away from the “Y” gym nearly 's year'attempted a ‘comeback st hand- bail at'the exXpense of.ths physictal * director. | Jos Hergstrom accepted his .ohallenge ;and ' they firet.: Péte lasted :through . tha :two ' gamee, showlng rare.form’ at ~times, en- abling him' to'secure 14 points’ In the two games played. Bddie' Mag apd Sammy Mag are out gunhing for the P.'D. but. will have to walt un- t11' Charlle Hawkins has - had . his turn 1o the nedr future.’ RAalo broadcast’ lh.uoru keep on ¢ grotwing in numbér, 'The last ‘com- « pllation, showed approximately 650 in-the United. dmu. Katlenmin Dahlstrom Schroéder . A Anderson V. Andefson Leopold. W. Anderson Crocker Strester Squires Siim 94— 53— 39— 99— Tia—nm 101— 389 STANLEY WORKS LEAGUE Salak .. Skowronski | Adoms | Budnic Quenk H. Johnson 1. Bertint N. Eertini W. Johnaon A Swanson Q'Brien Helnman Rawlings: Politle Cdrtls McConn | Gacex Molyneux. Luebeck Merwin Cabhy Elljott Wikox Michaels Powell Olson Romano Ankuda Valent! Gratl Oldorshaw - Ecovill Pattison Walters 1indquist Skar Bordonero Kaninsky Fazsine A, Stingle . & Walegra A A" MeAloon AL Contind Farmers 119 59 — 317 4991426 120— 311 7 S04—1485 2 1 323 274 7— 287 “as-1a6 x..ubvz 90~ 105 428— 222 72! bills-in’ 1t, my end of 321 ter MeAuliffe tells 'how LaBlanche R. F. A G. Low Score Hark! Hark! The dogs do dark, The grapplers are_back _om, the mat. o There's hownd “to be ~ fun when Stecher and Nunm Try p(-n(w' Eds shoulder blades flat | Lol bg ] 35— 163 56— 118 86— 149 368~ 131 avomx Holmauist Helm . Tencred Doyle Negr! CPETTS . Ostromkt Ostronki Tottls Johnson Lester BPRAR 383— 753 79— 159 73— 158 69— 150 8— 142 65— 150 | 376— 757 F. Messenger A. Hornkohl D. Gunterman J. Golden F. Briing LEAGUE 33— 268 73— 257 109— 316 81— 226 35—1067 245 266 230 285 P. & ¥. CORBIN Layout | otashew 31— | Beazte Barbout Jenak (By NEA Service) Chicago, Jan. 25.—A match be- tween Joe Stecher and Ed gler” Lewis for the heavyweight wrestling title is hanging fire. The press agents of both lay claim to the champlonship, so let's hope they get together and settle it. UBBARD STANDS BEHIND CHARGES President Lowell Regrets Article, on “Dirty Foothall" 258 251 250 | 266 | 3321025 | 83— 242 | 91— 228 93— 244 100— 263 Fist Battles Of the Prize ng I was acared silly and hurt i badly I was nearly in a frenzy when! 1 broke my right arm in the elghtn‘ round of my famous fight with Billy | Myers, the Streator Cyclone, at NorthJudson,” Ind. ‘goat” for the sake of the game he I figured I was in for it, as hejjoves, Wynant D. Hubbard today had a punch that could knock mY | stood firmly entrenched behind his | ears off. | charges that Princeton played | I continued cautiously with my left and waving my right. He was still dizzy from the knock-| down I had scored. on’ until the Oth round. | Then two. strangers, nice-looking announcement at Cambridge that | tellows, came around to my corner | President A. Lawrence Lowell, of and asked me how T felt. | the university, in a letter to Presi- recent campaigns. front. \plored" the fact that Hubbard's ar- “Can you go another 10 rounds?"” ticle containing the charges was to | | they asked. | be published in “Liberty” magazin~. ! “I* can go 50 more” T says, and| Publication of President Lowell's | they thanked me kindly, walked letters showed that he wrote to {away and I forgot all about them.| Hubbard December 13 requesting | One-half hour later the fight still that the article be withdrawn, when { was: on, and they came to my cor-|informed that the former Crimson ner again and asked me for my; | tackle was preparing an article de- Chicago address. | rogatory to Princeton. This Hub- In the meantime Myers and 1 had | bard deciined to do. The same | been’ putting up- a fight not half {month the Harvard head addressed | savage enough to please the fans a similar request to the “Saturday and they began to give us the Bronx | Evening Post,” “Colliers” and “Lib- | cheer. rty,” but recefved no reply from | Dawn broke and many of the “Liberty.” President Lowell then miners wanted to get out and go to|informed Dr. Hibben of the course That| “hardly need tell you bow much I was about the 5Sth round. Finally | deplore such an.article.” | the referee anmounced he would| In the midst of the volley of cri- stop the fight in six more rounds ifticism from Harvard graduates and we. were-both on our feet.. I tried |former football players, lightened hard to put Myers down with my|only by the statement of “Tack” left but wae fust too weak from the; Hardwick, .former Harvard pain of my:fractured right. At the| American end, that Hubbard's arti- 64th round we were still fighting)cle was “courageous” and “there is weakly. He called it a draw. | mui®h fire behind the smoke,” The Cyclone and'I walked down-|bard told the Assoclated Press yes- stairs. us. In the middle of the floor was!growth of a gathering of Harvard the safe and scattered all over the|men after the Yale-Harvard game room were papers. -There wasn't a last year. cent ‘o our side bet anywhere and| “I will not say where my infor- it, togethér with all the benors'imauun came from.” Hubbard con- money, Wwas gone. tinued. “But I will say this: I have The miners wanted to- raise mur-‘spent three years hunting in Africa der and clean up the town, but it and two years in Quebec since my availed- them nothing. I had my|graduation in 1921. - You can judge arm set and returned to Chicago. \for yourself where my facts came' At the saloon’ where I made my,from. headquarters the ‘bartender sald: Gathered Yacts “I have an, envelope for you.” “I started last December to gath- I opened it. There was $2300 in | er such facts as I could in the firm the purse. |belief that our dirty linen should, The two strangers who visited me be washed in public. The public has| during the fight had not taken my | misunderstood the situation. I not| address in vain. | only gathered material on Harvard-| | Later I learned the names of ths!Princeton games, but on Princeton| | two safecrackers who pulled * (holg;mes with other colleges. I was | job. They were experts. One’ of |convinced -that ths facts them cracked a big Canadian bank accumulated warranted the afterwards and got 'so-much money!which has been printed.” he-had to'leave $100,000 behind: be-{* Hubbard said he was hurt by ac- cause he couldn’t carry it | cusations that he *“did this thing” . |tor commerclal publicity yseeker. He declared he was not {nfluenced by the monetary return. and nobody allowed to leave. story Editor's Note—In the next chap-! used the *“‘pivot punch” and knock- ed out Jack Dempsey with his el- bow. talking about. I have one game leg % trom a Princeton football game that I'll probably carry with me through| lite.” The body of Harvard graduates| are split on the question of critcism of the article, Hubbard satd, with one faction standing for “peace at any cost,” and the other “taking the Half of the money obtained by | taxation ‘in Greece is éxpended on the army, navy and police, 83 per cent on interest on leans, 12 per cent on pensions and five per cent on all other objects, the minister of Justice. reports. SALFSMAN $AM 50 LONG — so— 108 | si— 1) “Stran- | stabbing | “dirty football” against Harvard in | At the same time, however, new So things Went | support was given the chorus of re-! | gret from Harvard sources by the | “Fine,” 1 says, putting up a bald| dent Hibben, of Princeton, had “de- | i work, but the doors were locked|he had taken and the hope that he, All-| Hub- | There a strange sight met | terday that his article was the out-| which I purposes or as a| “I feel that I know what I am| attitude I have taken.” Publication of President Lowell's letters were accompanied by the short explanation that “the attitude of Harvard university toward this and any other &uch article is ade- uately and completely exhibited in President Lowell's letters above quoted.” 5 Deeply Regret Action The first ldtter, that to Hubbard, sald: “Of course I have no right to ask you to refrain from publishing anything, but I think it proper to say that all the n‘;hormu of Har- vard university would deeply regret the publication of anything deroga- tory to Princeton or {ts football team and’ that we should be grateful it you saw fit to withdraw the arti- cle in question.” Similar letters to the “Saturday Evening Post,” “Collier’s” and “Lib- erty” brought a reply from the first that {t ‘had not planned and would not consider such an. article” and from the second the statement that such an article had been of- fered its editors by a former Har- vard player and declined by them. ‘The lstters showed no reply from “Liberty.” Princeton authorities yesterday relterated their -belief that the statements of three prominent foot- ball officials who acted in'the con- tests reterred to in the Hubbard ar- ticle answered the charges com- pletely. - The officlals, W.' E.-Okeson of Lehigh, F. W. Murphy ot Brown and W. G. Crowell of Swarthmore, have declared the contests “played by gentlemen coached by gentle- men.” Can You Think of the Good Old Days When— e | John Fagan, twirling for the Ken- eington' Stars, let the Friendly club jof Meriden down with two hits, striking out 12 and winning his | | game, 7 to 1? ! 3. M. Finnegan bought “Flosste” | the winner of the Plainville races? | The American Sporting assocla- (tion ran handicaps at Rentschler's | Park, with entrants from practically | every place in the state? A New Britain team, consisting of Mead, p; Barrett, 3b; Fitz, 1b; Cox, 2b; Egan, ss; Smith, rf; Connors, If; | Glashten, cf Lawson, ¢, trimmed the fast Unionville team on the latter's | grounds before one of the largest crowds ever to attend a game in that | town up to that time? { | Lawn balloon was the rage among | the women folks at outdoor parties? | George Riecker was the star third | baseman for the Herald baseball team when games with the Meriden | Journal at the "Pit” on Myrtle street | were the center of interest? | | The 0. U. A. M. band. with| Charles Eger, cornet sololst, drew large crowds to the concerts summer | evenings at Central park? The Tavorite Soclal club staged | big outings at Rentschler's park. | one of the leading events of this kind being the occasion of the base- ball game between the Britain Maroons and the Unionville team, | “which the former won, 11 to 97 Catferty, Plainville third baseman was one of the’best lead off men in | the game, and a hard man to stop on the bases? | Ufionville had two Lamberts and | two Kinnearnys on the team, the quartet being numbered among the most versatile players of their time? A baseball game between the Ele- phants and the Spiders at “The. Pit,” drew a large crowd, the lineups and | welghts of the players being an- nounced as follows: L. M. Cowles, ¢, 220; J. P. Conroy, p, T. B. Shee- han, ss, 205; Edward Fahey, 1b, 210; J. E. Curran, 2b, 220; J. O'Brien, 3b, 218; J. P. Begley, ct, 237; J. O'Donnell, rf, 225; M. Maloney, ¢ 9 W. Nelligan, p, 107; P. C. 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WILLIAMS New England Passenger Representathn 294 Washingeon Street, Boston {PERSHING (R R LR LT Baltimore & @hm 27—100 YEARS OF SERVICE—1927 {OUR BOARDING HOUSE € EGAD, «- NEVER KNEW OF % oucH NERVE ! w COME IKTO My HOUGE A2 A GUEST, Aun “HeN -TRV -0 BELITILE ME AND MY HONORABLE OFFICE Ao JUGTICE OF THE PEACE !« HMF w0 MAKE MATTERZ WORGE, SUCH SLANDER SHOLLD COME FRoM AN INGIGRTFICANT DEPUTY SHERIFF v BAH 1! s, 126; P. Burns, 1b, 140; William Gorman, 2b, 135; P. Kennedy, 3b, 100; J. P. Sullivan, rf, 142; J. M. Finnegan, If, 99; E. W. Byrne, cf, 100? ROYS’ CLUB TEAM WINS BY A NOSE ! (Continued from preceding p2ge) 1 Boys’ Club Reserte; | Kerelejza, rt. . Karpinski, If. |Pac. c. .. | Zujwo, e. Benjamin, rg. . o e 85 1 3 5 | Personal fouls: Gunthers 3, Ros- jenblatt 3, Bower 2, Rome 4—11; | Karpinski 2, Pac, Zujko 2, Benjamin |6. Free tries: Rosenblatt, Bower 4, Miller 2, Rome—8; Kerelejza 2, Karpinekl, Pac 2, Zujko 3, Ben- jamin, Compagnone—10. Referee, Aronson. 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