New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1927, Page 8

NATIONAL GUARDS BATTLE ALL-MIDDLETOWN TONIGHT—JOHNNY CLINCH TROUNCES RAY HALL IN BOXING TOURNAMENT —MIKE MCTIGUE KAYOES PAUL BERLENBACH IN FOUR ROUNDS—TWO GAMES TO BE STAGED IN CHURCH LEAGUE—ITEMS JOHNNY CLINCH TROUNCES RAY HALL KNOCKOUT KING Nine Bouts Filled With Action Feature Mohawk Ama- teur Tournament—Joe Kody Puts Up Good Battle Against Bantamweight Champion — Anderson of New Haven Wins Close Fight From -Pellisier of Holyoke—Tournament Continued Next Friday. Y TEAW BATTLES NEW LONDON FIVE Locals Confident of Scoring Second Win Over Whalers New London's two basketball teams will take the floor against the local “Y” team at 7:30 'o'clock tonight. The New Britain team is rated as one of the strongest in the state “Y” champlonship tournament. By eliminating New London tonight the local team will be a step nearer Johnny Clhinch, leading amateur fighter of this city, bounded up the ladder of pugilistic fame last night | at the amateur tournament conduct- ed by the Mohawk A. C. at the state armory in this city, when he hand- ed Ray Hall of Hartford, knockout king, a sclentific lacing in the three | rounds of fighting. In every round the local boy showed marked boxing | superlority and easily ducked all of Hall's man-killing punches. | Clinch weaved in and out, left| jabbed and right crossed his way to | a victory with a big margin®n all three rounds, Hall was helpless be- fore the shifty New Britain boy and most of his swings went wild. Clinch danced around the Hartford boy, al- | ways mixing it but never standing still enough to allow Hall to get set | for one of his sleep producers. In the last round, solid right hooks to | to the state title. the jaw had Hall almost out on his| The “Y” team is composed of feet. Johnny entered the ring in the | young men residents of the city 140 pound class. who are playing the game for the Ray Strong of Hartford, hantam- | sport that is in it and not for fi- weight champion of the state, met | nancial gain. To date the team has Joe Kody of this city in the opening | won scven games and lost one. Most hout of the night and although he | of its victories were gained on their scored a win, Kody gave him a tough | opponents’ floor. Johnny Saxe who battle. is captain of the team has whipped Del Pouliot of this city scored an | together & smooth working com- easy victory over Joe Natrillo of New | bination, the best the “Y" has Haven in three rounds. Pouliot used | produced in years. Nyborg, Micky a wide left swing and a right cross | Luke and Hilding Bengston as for- to great advantage. He had his op- | wards are coming across with nec- ponent groggy in the third round. |essary points in every game. Joe The best fight of the night was |Luke and Howard Demarest hold- staged between Charles Anderson of ing down the pivot position are ver- New Haven and Louls Pellissicr of | satile players of ability. Holyoke. Anderson was awarded the | Saxe, Irank Arbour and “Yump" declsion In four rounds of fighting, | Yankaska “Y” guards have shown but it was ashair-splitting battle. The | their worth as players in the In- boys were all even at the end of the | dustrial league and they prove to third round and went into the!be hard men to get past in a game. fourth. Anderson had a shade on the | The lineups: Massachusetts boy. The pair put up N. B. Y. M. C. A, N.L. Y. M. C. A. a pretty scrap for three rounds, both | M. Luke, rf rf, Foote, Brewer using sclence and hitting hard. An- | Nyborg, Bengston, 1f derson was shifty but the Holyoke| It, Curtiss, Mortensen boy found the mark a number of | J. Luke, Demarest ¢ Hewiit, Higgins times. Both went into a clinch in|Arbour, rg .... rg Kirchoff, Kaplin the third round and as they wrestled | Saxe, Yankaska, lg Ralph, King around the ring, they both fell| Whaples, Storrs’ college, Will ref- through the ropes and landed on the | erce the game, floor. Neither was hurt. | oy lans o, e FALCONS WIN MATCH heavyweight from Hartford won a decision in three rounds over Walter Rangers Lost to Bitter Rivals Krass of Holyoke. Tony, with a shorter reach and stature, fought back at his biger opponent and got | in many more and cleaner blows in the fight. The results of the bouts as they | were conducted in their divisions last night, were as follows: 118 pounds, Ray Strong, Hartford won from Joe Kody, New Britain in three rounds. 112 pounds, Tim 0'Connor, New Haven scored a three round win over Burt Nadeau of Holyoke in three slashing rounds. 107 pounds, Del Pouliot of New Brit- ain scored a victory in three rounds over Joe Natrillo, New Haven. in Battle of the Lanes at the Peerless Alleys. The Falcon bowling team last night at the Peerless alleys on Broad | street, scored a victory over the Ranger team by a margin of 34 pins. The Rangers came through the first game getting a lead of 32 pins only run, the Falcons beat the Rangers by 37 pins thereby getting a lead of five pins. The Rangers fell down in the third and dropped the match by a total of 34 pins. Johnny | to lose it in the second game. In this | 165 ponnds, John Beasley, colored, New Haven, scored a technical knockout over Rudolph Fedus of Granby in the second round. 11 A return match between the two will be rolled at the Casino alleys on Church street Friday night, Febru- pounds, Charles Anderson, New ary 4. The score: ven, won from Louis Pellisier of Holyoke in four rounds. 163 pounds, Tony Balesamo, Hartford, got the decisfon over Walter Krass, Holyoke, in three rounds. 165 pounds, John Beasley, colored, | Fair Haven, scored a victory over John Andrews, New Haven, in three rounds. 140 pounds, Johnny Clnch, 1 New Britain, scored an easy victory ‘T::\;‘a over Ray Hall of Hartford in three rounds. 175 pounds, Ed Provost of Holyoke, won in three rounds from Ed Skinner, colored of New Haven. The Mohawk A. C. will continue | the tournament at the state armory BREAKS RECORDS the officlals of the club hope to se- | SiAttering of Two World’s Records cure the New York state boxing | team to come to this city. 1 HANDBALL MATCHES New Eritain Players Have Edge On 89— 91— 74 290 291 261 309 Hayes by Lela Brooks-Potter Features Skating Meet. (A—The shatter- ling of two world's records by Lela | Brooks-Potter of Toronto, world's woman speed skating champion, and keen competition provided by skaters from Buffalo, N. Y., Ottawa and the maritime provinces, featured the first {day of the Canadian speed skating association’s championship meet here. M former record f terday by 4 ed the distance in 22 seconds flat. In the 880 yard senior ladies' open the champion clipped one and fifths seconds off the former re- ishing in 1:30 1.5. 1 skaters from Buffalo two seconds and two wlifying heats MADE RAPID RISE of St Toronto, Jan. ‘Waterburians in Contests on Y | Courts, In the singles matches hetwee; New Britain and Waterbur Y. M. C. A., teams heer last night, Tom | Walsh defeated Bert Loomis in close games, 9-21, 21-17, 21-19; Howard Stearns defeated Kleinmann 21-16, 21-9; Hergstrom defeated Velte 22-15, and Mag was defeatir terbury man when the n terminated becaus the of the hours. Dressel i posed of Finney of Wa In the doubles match and Unterspan wted Wall, 21- brother: Waterbur lowered her 20 yards Brooks-Potter or the also won 1n do s sccond 1 INDOOR TRACK MEET Hartford County { Taylor Douthit, Ontficlder Louis Cardinals, Became Star Tn | Three Seasons. " to Stage An- | | st highly Louis, nual Events at New Britain Y. M. C. A. Today. all phen- Outficlder Lot ptior peaker” of 0 when they youngster over in s He Is coming migt up to that reputation Douthit was secured by the Car. dinals in the spring of 1924 from the Universify of California. Two years in the minors for seasoning and he returned ready to win a regular He at o displaced Heinie he Cards' center flelder. ajors. Douthit of the St is Taylor dinals “A The annual indoor t meet of the Harttord County “Y" Amateur Athletic association, will be held 2 o'clock this.afternoon at the Britain Y. M. C. A. There will be competition in three es, junior, intermediate, and senior, with run- | ning broad jump, running high jump, | 20-yard dash, and fou an relay race in each class and an open half- | mile run. The South church will be | the only New Britain organization | with entries in the meet, but the | Kensington Boys' club and the East | Mueller, Berlin Community club will ba rep- His judgment akeresque in resented, as will various groups from ' every phase of his play. He gets his all over the county. ball on a perfectly-timed journey, is what Douthit two looked the rth is Sp: ° | Britain, the only nation which has | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927, WTIGUE BOUNDS INTO TOURNAMENT Fighting Irishman Scores Kayo + Over Berlenach in Fourth New York, Jan. 29 (P—Mike Mc- Tigue, of Ircland, today with re- juvenated fists on the portals that lead to Tex Rickard's heavyweight elimination tournament. In a thrilling four round victory, as colorful as the flaming red trunks he wore, the former King of the light | heavyweights brigade, last night ! belted into submission Paul Berlen- bach, the man who once stripped him of the title. McTigue was credit- ed with a technical knockout when the referee waved him away from the bleeding and helpless “Astoria Assassin” after two minutes and 43 seconds of fighting in the session. Throwing caution to the four corners of Madison Square Garden, | McTigue, heretofore a cautious fight- jer, although superlative boxer, ripped into Berlenbach from the tap of the opening gong. Long overhand rights and tearing uppercuts smash- ed against Berlenbach’s chin as the 36 year old veteran craftily blocked every attempt of his opponent to score with his terrific left hook. Berlenbach, one of the most feared ! fighters in any division, plainly show- | ed the effects of his six-month lay- off from the ring as McTigue smoth- ered him at close range and whipped that slashing right hand to the head at every opening. Berlenbach wilt- | ing steadily under that fire, could neither time his punches nor sum- mon back the footwork he showed as champion. The crowd of 18,000, viewing for the first time the real fighting man in McTigue, shouted encouragement as he hammered “Oom Paul” in the first and second rounds, roared in approval when Berlenbach went down for the first time in the third round, and turned the garden into | bedlam with their frantic cheering as the Dublin slasher whipped him | mercilessly from that point until the end. Berlenbach, down three times in the final session, was out on his | | feet, his face streaming blood, when Referee McPartland choked off Me- | Tigue's fire. “I guess that puts me in Rickard's tournament,” the victor said as he | climbed from the ring. The result | eliminated Berlenbach from con- sideration among the heavyweights and while shoving McTigue into the limelight in that class, also placed him in the front rank of contenders, with Temmy Loughren, of Philadel- | phia, for Jack Delaney's light heavy- | weight title. The only black mark now remain- |ing on McTigue's record, with the stain of his title loss to Berlenbach in 1925, removed last night, s a four | round knockout scored by Jack De- laney. Berlenbach, who has lost only | four fights in his professional career | has been knocked out twice. He also felt Delaney's finishing punch in | four rounds. | Although weighing but 169 pounds | McTigue announced that he would seck honors in the heavyweight class | if he were successful last night. The | result may give him an opportunity to wipe out the Delaney stain while battling at the same °time for the chance to meet Gene Tunney next | September. FILES CHALLENGE Great Britain is the Only Nation to | Compete in Every Davis Cup Tournament. New York, Jan. 29 (P)—Great | | competed in every tournament for | the Davis Cup since it was put into competition in 1900, has filed her ' twenty-second challenge, the United | States Lawn Tennis Association an- nounced today. America dropped out of one | tournament, that of 1919, because of post-war conditions in other coun- tries but the British resumed where | they left off at the beginning of the | { World War and reached the chal- lenge round against Australia. In the 21 competitions for the international tennis trophy, the Brit- | ish have been five times triumphant { heavyweight boxing champions have | | been overpaid in the past?” | ney was asked. | fighting or boxing? | some cases not mf | blame entirely for this condition. DON'T BLAME TUNNEY FOR BIG PURSES \SNT FAI so“:v ?nefmeu%éows AND GENE AGREES Wil THEM, BUT— — DON'T BLAME ME FOR. TAKING THE DOUGH— Minneapolis, Jan. 29.—"Is thcre‘!——— no justice in the world?” wail the high brows as they read that Gene Tunney is to receive close to a mil- lion dollars the next time he de-| fends his heavyweight title. | Noted scientists, college educators, | LUBS BIDDING 0N in & misety pictanco comparea 5| WaSHNgton and St. Louis Seek- ing Speaker and Ty Cobb | mand. | The question, thoroughly discussed | from the viewpoint of educators and | . others, recently was put to Gene| Chicago, Jan. 29 (P)—Washington | Tunney, one of the persons most| and St. Louls appear today to have vitally concerned. | the lead in the contest for the serv- “Don't you feel that you and other ices of Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb. Clark Griffith of the Scnator de- | clared at Tampa that Speaker | | promised him to give first considera- | tion to a Washington contract, while | St. Louis so far has made the most “It doesn’t seem right, but don't energetic attempt to land Ty Cobb. know that I or any other heavy-| The provisions of the waiver rule, | welght champion can rightly be ag far as American league clubs blamed.” | priorities is concerned, have been | “To what do you attribute the un- | 13iq aside to permit these two stars | usual condition where a heavyweight ‘1o sjgn wherever they wish, William | champion can get almost a million garrigge, secretary to Ban Johnson dollars for from 10 to 15 rounds'of anq acting guardian of the league | exceutive offices s : | There is no chs r, that any National league club will be al- lowed to sign them, so long as any American leaguers desire their sery. ices. With no price tags attached to their contracts by their original club owners, the two slugging out- flelders are expected to conclude | profitable terms for themselves. Griffith declined to reveal the lamount of his offer to Speaker, but greatest pathologists in the country, after a telephone conversation with ] the latter at Philadelphia, he an- v orvices kind cannot . E:i‘c"c}f“,;‘c;”:fl"fimflxfl g Aot | nounced that the former Cleveland who has an annual salary of $3,500, | Manager had promised to writ him "I know professors in mathe. |CONCErning his proposal and that he matics and other sciences in some the figures Gene Tunney can de-| | Tun- “Possibly €0,” came Boxer-Philo- sopher Tunney's surprise answer. Tunney deliberated for some time | on that one. Then, very slowly, as if picking hi¢ words, he replied: “It's a reflection on our civiliza- tion and on economic conditions. “It doesn't seem fair that some of our greatest intellects, Who have given so much in the way of service and knowledge, should be pald In e than $5,000 per year for their talents. “I personally know of one of the would have an announcement to ake upon receipt of the letter. Speaker was in conference yester- day at Philadelphia with Manager Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics, and both emerged smiling, but declined to discuss the visit other than to say it was a soclal call Mack, however, said he would like to have Speaker on his team. “T am going to play baseball again this summer,” Speaker said. “I will consider all the offers and then I wil! accept the one which I belleve to be most favorable.” Speaker said his first thought at present was to get down to Hubbard, Texas, to see his 81 year old mother. JUST MISS HONORS Six Batters in American League "Failed to Enter .300 Class by Just One Point. Chicago, Jan. 20—Being regarded as a .300 batsman is perhaps the very best compliment a big league regular can enjoy. It is considered the sclect circle of hitters. One of the biggest disappoint- ments in baseball is to fail to reach one's goal by the slightest of mar- gins. It hurts far more to miss one's objective by a point rather than being 25 away. The American league averages of 1926 reveal the interesting and un- usual fact that six American league regulars failed to reach the coveted mark by a single point. They were Sheely of Chicago, Flagstead and Jacobson of Boston, Ruel of Wash- ington, Combs of New York and| > 3 § : NATIONAL GUARDS BATTLE ALL-MIDDLETOWN TONIGHT Visitors Scored a One-Point Victory Over Locals on Home Floor—New Britain Team is Out to Even Up Score — Down-River Combination is a Strong One—Ray Holst to Play Center For Opposition — Burritts Play South Manchester Team. YOUNGSTER SIGNED BY CHICAGD CUBS Purchase of Elwood English Rounds Out Snappy Infield Chicago, Jan. 29 (P—One of the outstanding purchases of the winter by a major league baseball team ‘was the acquisition of Elwood Eng- lish, of the Toledo American Asso- clation club by the Chicago Cubs to round out thelr infleld for the 1927 pennant chase. English, only 20 years old, com- | pletes a roster of youngsters for the Chicago National leaguers, only two of the 32 athletes of thc squad being over 30 years old. Two players and $50,000 was the price of the star shortstop. Another promising youngster, ex- pected to raise the outfleld batting average, was obtained from the Louisville Association club, Earl Debb. Dike Babe Ruth, Webb used to do a bit of pitching so his throw- ing arm is considered one of his great assets, In addition he hits from the wrong side of the plate. “We are just about 100 per cent| better than we were last year,” Mec- Carthy said today, “and remember we finished fourth last year, so you know I feel like we will be crowd- ing the leaders this season.” McCarthy has just arrived in Chicago from his home in Buffalo, to begin his own spring conditioning three weeks ahead of the rest of the club. A month hence the players will join him at Catalina Island. Among the 32 players on the Cub roster, are six old and eight new pitchers, The other infield positions will be filled by last scason's regulars, Sparky Adams at third, Jim Cooney at second, and Captain Charlcy Grimm at first, with Howard Freigau and Clyde Beck in reservi Webb, Hack Wilson and Clyde Heathcote probably will be the out- fleld regulars, with three others to! give Webb a battle for the leftfield post. Hartnett and Gonzales are the first string receivers. The untired pitchers have six bat- tle scarred veterans to contend with, Bush, Blake, Jones, Kaufmann, Root and Osborne. Among the prospects is a Chicago sandlotter, Roy Hanson, the first native son to receive a try- out in a long time. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Middletown GUerra 4.......... right forward McCabe .............. Rubensteln left forward National Guards Sloman Carlson w.,..... \ right guara ‘Waterman «+eo Kilduft Sheehan left guard The National Guard basketball tea.n will meet the All-Middletown team in a return game tonight at the state armory on Arch street in an attempt to even up the count in games. Middletown on January 21, in Middletown, took the measure of the Guards by a one-point margin. The score in that game was 24 to 23 and fans who saw the game con- sider Middletown very lucky to have come out of the contest a winner. The Middletown team has a fast pair of forwards in Guerra and Mc- Cabe. These two men are good floor workers and good shots. It was Guerra more than anyone else who put the bee on the Guards in the first game and the local boys who do the guarding work, will be after him tonight. A great amount of interest is be- ing shown by many fans here in the appearance of Ray Holst, lanky pivot man of the P, & F. Corbin team in the Industrial league, with Middletown. Holst is the regular center for the down-river team and has been playing a great game there. Paired against the local centers, it should be a pretty battle to watch. Middletown has two strong guards in Carlson and Waterman. Carlson =1! the veteran of the team and has been going at a great pace this | year. Waterman is a former mem= ;her of the Dixies of Hartford and | rates as one of the best guards in tha state. Manager Lanpher, following the | Guards' loss of the game to Bristol |last Wednesday night, hasn’t decid« | ed on his starting lineup yet. It is certain that Taylor will have an K&)[\\')(zu‘tuh]ly of getting into the | greater part of the gamo tonight | while Reynolds will alternate with | Restelll in center. “Butsy” Sturm, {last year a member of the Middles town team, will also be seen fn ace tion battling his former mates, i Preliminary Game | 'The Burritt A. C. team will play |the Crimsons of South Manchester {in the preliminary game. The visit- {ors have been setting a hot pace | this season and hold victorles -over ;many of the leading junior teams of the state. The Burritts have had a week’s layoff but they expect to | continue their winning streak to- ‘nlght. As there are many former { South Manchester high school play- ers in the Crimson's lincup, a hot battle can well be expected. The probable lincups of the teams are 125 follows: By the Assoclated Press. New York—DMike McTigue scored a technical knockout over Paul Ber- Burritts Yacobowicz |New York (one). | York, | Angeles, drew, (10). lenbach (four). Joe Woods, Los Angeles, beat Harry Fay, Louisville (eight). James Braddock, Jersey City, knocked out George La Rocco, Yale Okun, New and Eddie Huffman, Los ‘Waterbury, Conn.—Bobby Garcia, Baltimore, won a technical knockout over George McKenzie, featherweight | champlon of Great Britain (four). Spokane, Wash. — Jimmy Sacco, Boston, beat George McCormick, Jamieson of Cleveland. of our leading universities who do not receive more than year. “Yet for my next engagement in | defense of my title I may draw down as much as $500,000. “Champion boxers are to I belleve that if I can attract a two million dollar gate I have earned my share, whatever it may be, not as compared with six victories for | Australia and then for the United States. A challenge from Cuba the first in the American zone, was received by the U. S. L. T. A. simultancously | with the one from England. It brings | tha list of challengers up to eight so far with the closing of entries fixed | for March 15. QUTSTANDING BATTERS | Two Right-Handed Batters | | | | | Stand Out Among Batting Champions in National League. | | New York, Jan. —In the more than 50 years that the National league has been doing business at | the old stand, two right-handed bat- | ters stand out among the list of bat- | ting champions. ‘ is almost unnecessary to two gentlemen are Rogers by, recently traded by St. Louis ew York and Hans Wagner, who those Horr to played his last game for the Pitts- | burgh Pirate | Until the coming of Rogers Horns- | by, Wagner was supreme not only among the right-handers but those who hit from the, left side of the plate as well ght batting championships are crcdited to Wagner, four of them in succession, while his best average during his career was .380, which was made the first year he led the | teague. 1t Rogers Hornsby, after winning six | successive crowns, was stopped last ! season, | up from ev Since the public s willing to pay and pay, I would be foolish not to accept. “But why pick on the champion fighters to prove there is no justice in the world? “Take the actors and actresses appearing in the movies today. I understand it is not unusual for a Charley Chaplin or a Harold Lloyd to receive as much as a miilion dol- lars in salary and royalties from a film that is a big hit. “Many of those stars have no bet- ter foundation in an intellectual way than most of the fighters who are drawing down fat purses. When a boxer g big money, protests go y quarter. “Don’t blame the champions en- tirely for this frenzied finance in sport. Look into our economic con- ditions for the answer.” HEALTH IS IHPORTANT Condition of Johnny Butler Will be a Big Factor In Work of Brooklyn Robins, The health of Johnny Butler will be an important part of the Brook- Iyn baseball equation is ason, The shortstop cost Manager Wilbert Robinson a whole team for he gave Minncapolis nine players for him, only to have him spend a consider- able part of last season in a hospital. H reported suffering from influenza ind later developed stomach trou- ble. If he Is in shape this year he ill take his place among the league’s outstanding inflelders thinks Uncle Wilbert.” o0 s That Guiltiest Feeling (six), Going LINKS - HOLE ' AND EVERYTHIN _SUNDAY. right forward Peters left forward Jones center W. Xerr - right guard . E. Zaleskt May Gennette left guard Only 11% minutes of the average night's sleep is taken up in ab- | solute rest, according to a profes- | sor in the Mellon Institute, Muscu- |lar or mental actfon occurs during lthe rest of the time. ‘To TAE GOLF THE NINETEENTH G ON: MORNMNG: