New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 13

Speakingg of Sports i{ One of the smallest crowds of spectators at the Industrial league this year, saw the greatest battle that has been staged this scason between the Landers and P. & F. Corbin teams last night. At no time during | the playing season has as fierce or as closely fought a basketball scrap veen seen as was last night whep these two teams got together. With Lander. hopping off to a 12 point lead in the beginning; Corbins | tying the score and going into a 10 | point '~ad in the second half and Billy Darrow tying the count agaia to end the game in a deadlock, the | fans had every thrill there is to| have in @ game. But that isn't all. In the five-minutc overtime period, first one team took the lead by one ! point, then the other, the score was tied until with only 30 seconds to ®o, Darrow again came through and made the winning basket for his team. This session was a hair rais- er and had the large crowd of last week been at the scene, it would have had more enjoyment last night than it has ev had before. A story is afloat that Johnny Saxe had left the employ of the Russell & Erwin Co.. and had gone to work at P. & F. Corbins thereby causing a serious loss to the Russwin team. Tnquiries at the factory this morn- ing tended to disprove this tale. It wasg said that Saxe had been tem-| porarily laid ofi, that he was still in | the employ of the company and would play basketball with the team. This settles a serious argument in many quarters as to the chances of the Russwin team to win the Indus- trial league pe; nant. With Saxe out of the lineup the team would be easy prey for a few of the other teams but with him in the game, the Russwins will put up as strong a front as ever. The P. & F. Corbin team now ®eems to be out of the running for the title though a number of up- sets may change the entire com- | plexion of the league. The Stanley TRule team is hanging right behind the leaders and a slip by either one of them will mean that the Elm street crew will step into either | second or first place. i the be- Sloman did not appear with Rulers last night in uniform cause he was sa Bristol Endec-National Guard game tonight. That clash that is due to take| place tonight in the new high school | in Bristol, is our idea of a perfect | game. The Bristol Endees started | off the season with a weakness in the guard positions. With the ac- quisition of Manning to the squad, {his hole has been plugged and the terrific pace at which the team has | heen going is evidence enough of | this. Tonight is the night on which the Guards are going to dispel forever that old bugaboo about not being able to win & game on an out-of- town floor. The Guards won one | game from Bristol in Bristol already and every player fecls the feat can be duplicated. Two slight changes have been made in the schedule of the Guards. T'here will be no game in Elmwood | tomorrow night, this contest having Leen cancelled. The Atlas will play here on February 12 instead of en 1ebruary 5. The Brooklyn A. C. 1eam will play here February 6 in- slcad of the Atlas. There will be a general exodus of | funs from this city over to Bristol tonight to watch the Guards in ac- tion against the Bristol team. Every- where someone is asking the other “Are you going to the game?” In- variably the answer is in the affirma- tive. Added to the many versatile ac- complishments of Frank Sheehan, shining luminary and leading quar-| collector for the New Britain Co. is the ability to wear with | tinctions a variegated basketball suit with grace and. ease, In the game with the R. & E. team at the ' club gym the other night, nk, because of the excess pound- | age he carries, couldn’t find a suit| to fit him. | the | It appears that Frank took “bull by the horns” and fashioned | himeelf a pair of trunks. A certain | portly gentleman afso in the employ of the Gas Co. had an old pair of Xnickers which had a leg circum- ference of about 30 inches gave them to Frank and he cut the legs of them |, short like basketball trunks. Jim LyncH told us that the fea- ture of the game was the spectacu- lar dribbling of Frankie Sheehan but he didn’t tell us that every time the ball bounded from the floor it “vent out of sight so wide was the irth of the legs on the trunks. Flappers who saw Frankie run-| ning down the floor during the game would hook up their galoshes and cease to flap because of the im- possibility of competing with a man who has enough cloth on each leg, flapping in the breeze, to make a|E palr of sails for a four masted schooner. We have been requested to make | & dietinction between John McCor- mick who plays forward on the Gas- co team and “John McCormack” Sheehan who plays “at” guard. Friends of the “boy tenor” do not wish to get the two mixed. It is suld that Frankic had a nice trip| to Middletown recently. ! The National Guards play All- Middletown here Saturday night and this should be a whale of a game. TThe Middletown team defeated the locals in Middletown last week and the Guards are out to even up the| count this weck. | DIES OF PNEUMONIA. Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 26 —Vice- | Chancellor John Griffin died toda of pneumonia in City hospital. He was 68 CASINO ALLEYS | WITH THE BOWLERS SPRING & BUCKLEY LEAGUE o alr O 58 60 78 84 9 Miss Hayden Miss Hatton Miss McGary Miss Bernler Andy ... ngel .. W. Hayden Qdin Andy Hickok Moo 402 NORTH & JUDD E. Huck v Jim Starkey Kiley Sulliva Kenney Carlson Nevorck Foley Doherty Malinay Gorman Kramer C, May Leupold C. Walker Needham T W Caswell Schaeffer Tyler Helnzman H. 3 Jenson . Nodine Dunker Ripple Dick 104 Orchestra .8 Denny Fearnley ving himself for the | 423 4 Old White Army Semnons . . 89 Durm Groat [ Dorau Jim 424 ROG! ALLEYS HART & COOLEY s Johnson . Corridan Basso . Dahiberg . Adamatis 56 5. Casswell Fredrlekson ahlberg. . Zabrensky Perkoski 106— 269 149 233 It 160 286 75— 11— 88— “ss0—1208 LEAGUE 93— 280 69— 337 114— 313 4581353 4421289 LEAGUE COMMERCIAL LEAGUS Parker & Buckley Andres 91 85 st ed e churman Peterson Fledl .. Crowley Hayes 4 Eddy Milk E. Peterson 108 Stedman 526 Lumber Co. Scotty . 0 B. Thompson Schick Shepard Richter Cook Gulger Perkins Burnham Thompson Paul rank Pete Gingras Kolber Maerz Wieky Miss Miss Miss Low Moore Thiede Hatch Score Mr. Mi: Miss Miss Martin Peterson Middleton Connelly Coconnut E. Winchets 5 L. Kilduft E. Schinler C. Brophy Hazelnat 8. Burkowsky S R. Kowalsky A. Crowley Low Kcore Peanut F. E. M G Reshenberg Diemand Bergren Welgand UNIVERSAL LEAGUE Wrenx Cote . Phil win MeDougall 289 | 304— 597 0— 6— 149 | 60— 119 283— 561 65— 137 80— 162 169 68— 134 & 09 | 80— 249 55 J. Bellmon, If . Fusari Bucher| Popoloski Dwyer | Mathews Patw. | .o Dyer Thomas Cardox Koch 340 303 483—1455 Stemple Recao Dzwill Odman [l Schmalts . 50T—=1394 01— 95— 80— 96— 86— 464—1333 Pellegrint Kennedy Kerin Ohlson Frank 283 268 261 298 273 84— 246 76— 262 nderson Lindberg 213 440 Eagles 4351300 *| DIXIES HOLD TWO GAME Trounce Panthers In One-Sided Battlc — Losers Fail to Make a Field Basket. Group B League | W L IDixien: . Kliis | Whippets |Panthers 5 Whirlwinds ...... 3 6 .333 The Dixies held to their two- ! lgame lead in the Boys' club Group |B Intermediate league last night by |trouncing the Panthers, 10-2, in a one-sided game. The losers did not make a single basket from the floor. |Kovelesky starred for the Dix |with Guards Paretta and Marholin ) |keeping their men covered. The sum- mary: Dixies | TH. Zembrowsky. rf Adams, If . | Wasnick, |Kovelesk: {Paretta, rg . | Marholin, lg > The Whippets and eWhirlwinds “[played a close contest, the former team finally taking the victery by I8-5. No player on either t cated the hoop more than onc summary: Whippets |Tervis, rf ... |Sartinsky, 1f 23 | Neverouskas, | Bochnert, rz Normant, lg 3 Whirlwinds | Fld. Block, rf .. = {Backus, ¢ .. Reo, g ... Pellegrini, Ig . wlosmen Lack of Work .1as Been Downfall of Every Title Holder, Declares Wil- liam Muldoon. New York, Jan. (P —Heavy- weight champions should fight at least four times a year if they ex- pect to defend successfully their 0| crowns against outstanding rivals, in 1 {the opinion of Willlam Muldoon, 81 year old member of the state ath- letic commission and former trainer of John L. Sullivan. “Lack of work 1ather than over- work has been the downfall of every 26 50 years,” said the veteran expert. “It looks to me as if Gene Tunney was ‘licking himselt the same as Jack Dempsey did—through Inactiv- ity. Tighting once a year for a :heav_ weight champion s not enough.” Muldoon expressed the view that the present crop of heavyweight challengers is the best in the history of the game. ;' SALESMAN $AM | LEAD IN CLUB LEAGUE| S am o heavyweight champion In the past | IN SPORTS Mollie. Mollie. say. by golly! What does your garden grow, Net triumphs plenty, a score more than twenty. And titles all in a row. (By NEA Service) Miami Beach, Fla., Jan. 26, I,\[nllm Mallory, here for the tennis {eeason, says she will defend her national title this year and expects to retain it. Molla’s winning the 1926 woman's champlonship was one of the biggest upsets of the ye COUNTY Y LEAGUE |Second Round of Senior Loop Will Start Tomorrow Night With So. Church vs. Kensington. | The second round of the Senior |County “Y" league will start tomor- Irow night when the South Church 'ana Kensington Boys' club meet”at the Boys' club here. The church won the first game between these teams by a 40-13 score and is confident of repeating, but Kensington feels it |has at last uncovered a satisfactory |forward combination and can give |the local quintet a good run. The |game will be preceded by one be- tween the reserve fives of both teams Ihas been postponed until next week because players on both teams are {husy with examinations just now. Nick Arena, star Trade school for ward, graduates this week, but it is not known what effect this will have |on the school quintet. The Wapping Community team is scheduled to {meet the Comets here, while |Wapping “Y" is booked to go to | Wapping. President Harry Anderson of the ssociation ruled favorably on le's claim for a forfeit from |the Comets but has now, on receint |of tuller information, asked Plain- Iville to consent to playing the game; |this may be done next week. Bare Fist Battles Of the Prize Ring CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE (Copyright, 1927, NEA Eervice, Inc.) One of the greatest fighters in the | | world had his career shortened and | | his heart broken by a man he had | . | legitimately whipped once and one | | he was always the superior of. T refer to Jack Dempsey and his | knockout at the hands, or rather T | should say the elbow, of George La | Blanche, the French Canadian marine. l‘!ilunchr’: in 13 rounds at Larchmont |in 1886. In 1889 La Blanche was in San Francisco training under Jim- {my Carroll, a British lightweight, 2| who was an instructor at the C. A C. Carroll, not La Blanche, as every one believes, invented the dllc “pivot punch. It was a punch used with a swing {starting from a left hand lead. The | body would be swung clear around as on the heel as a pivot with the right arm up and the elbow stuck | out shoulder high horizontal to the {body. It was the theory that if the elbow did not strike the opponent | on the jaw the fist was sure to land | with terrific force and momentum. | Carroll taught La Blanche the | punch and the fight was held Aug. 127, 1889, In the 32nd round Ta Blanche, who was getting an unmereiful beat- ing and staggering along the ropes rible smash. Dempsey fell flat on his face and broke his nose. | for my good friend Dempsey. I de- termined to go out fo San Francis- taught La Blanche the pivot punch. I started out for San Francisco with hardly a cent in my pocket and railroad tickets to Chicago. T met Jake Schaefer, the bliliard cham- pion, there and he lent me $1,000 to get to Frisco. IDERY IN THESE. SMALL TOWNS The Trade school-Pluinville game | Dempsey easily knocked out TLa | {suddenly went into the pivot whirled | and his ELBOW hit Demsey a ter- | | T was angry at the illegal tactics | used and determined to seek revenge | co and paste this guy Carroll who | WELL , WE RE. LEAUING~ CHESS DEVELOPS ANOTHER SCANDAL ]Eormer Champ Charges Crook- i ¢dness in Timing and Finances [ New York Jan. (P —With | peace barely re-established in major | {league baseball circles and with “dirty football” charges still an is-| sue, a new scandal today surrounds | the international game of chess. | | Complaints of brutality, crooked | i timing of moves, palming of gate re- | | ceipts, regulation of ventilation to | disturb an opponent—almost every- | thing except game sloughing and | { ring impressions on noses—are being | heard in the new upheaval. | Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Germany, | | | former world's chess champion, and {N. L. Lederer, secretary of commit- |tee in charge of the International | |Grand Masters’ Chess tournament next month, are the principals in the broke to with | publication in the Times of charges | by Dr. Lasker in a letter to the New ! | Amsterdam Telegraph, that in the {1924 tournament here he had been | clocked by a capricious timepiece that robbed him of 15 minutes and that his.share of the “gate” had not | been delivered to him. Because of | | these reasons, the German master | | has refected all overtures to enter | | the coming contest. He also | that arrangements for the 1924 and | coming competitions were designed | Ito prevent his participation. | Dr. Lasker was not formally in- | Ivited to enter the coming tourne; | Lederer states, because the commi tee felt that an invitation would on {lead to renewal of charges made | originally by the former titleholder | [in a letter to the Manhattan Che lclub. In his letter Dr. Lasker als complained that he did not receive | his share of the “surplus of the gate receipts” of the 1924 tournament. | Lederer declares all of the former | ‘vhnnmion's charges are false. Led- erer claims Dr. [ invited to the coming tournament informally but the invitation was not accepted within the prescribed limit. Rathe than a surplus in gate receipts, Led- erer maintains that the committee had to meet a $400 deficit from its own pocke! Dr. Lasker forgot to | stop his clock after one of his moves, the tournament secretary says, and the time was running against it | Counter charges that Dr. er | resorts to “anything to win" are made by Lederer. “Chess is not a game or a sport with him.' 'the sec. | retary states. “It is a battle as a part of the “battle,” Lede charges that Dr. Lasker smoks “long black five-cc and “in- dulges in virtual gas attacks of his, opponents.” At other times he said, Dr. Lasker smokes good Havanas. | Dr. Lasker denies the smoke cen allegation and also the charges that he disturbed opponcnts by shouting for ventilation. He adds that the 1924 committee has heen partial to Capablanca, the present | champion, and that “the leader of the tournament is only a tool in the | hands of Mr. Capablanca.’ * He sug- gests that a proper match would be {on between Capablanca and himself. | | BiG BASEBALL DEAL Trade Involving Four Players m-i tween Yankees and Browns Re- 1 ported by Newspapermen. New York, Jan. 26 (@} [tween the New York Yankces and {the St. Louis Browns involving xour[ lor more players, is reported under v by New York newspapermen on | |the way to New York with Colonel | Jacob Ruppert, Yankee president, | from the American League club own- | lers' meeting in Chicago Sunday. | The swap is said to involve pitch- | ers Sam Jones and Walter Beall, of | the Yankees, and Outfielder Cedric | Durst, and Pitcher Joe Giard, of the | Browns. A trade last December, in | |which the Yankees offered Jones, | Beall and a third pitcher for Durst, |Glard and either McManus or Ro- Ibertson, inficlders, fell through when !the Yanks failed to secure Pitcher Stewart, of the Toronto Internation- |als, to complete the deal, the writers |said, They disclosed that President Ball of the Browns yesterday refused a tra “e along this same line whereupon |the Yankees substituted a second | proposition which §t. Louis is now | constdering. A deal be- | | &L REPAIRING | M. C. 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