New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 23

SLHESELOVPSEDOL LD $6DS Speaking of Sports Louis (Kid) Kaplan, retired featherweight champlon of the world, has a busy schedule cut out for him in his campaign for a shot at the lightweight title now held by the elusive and backward Sam- my Mandell. Kaplan, by beating Lou Paluso in Cleveland recently, retrieved a great deal of the prestige he lost when he suffered a knockout at the hands of Billy Wallace in veland a short time ago, but he 11 has to meet several other con- tenders for the ightwelght title be- fore Mandell will be forced to come out of his hiding place and step into the ring with the Meri- den battler. Cleveland went wild over Kaplan even when Wallace knocked him out. Newspaper clippings of the bout show him to have been win- ning easily in the first four rounds and then in the fifth, Wallace got across the punch that put him to ep. To show the Kid's gameness, he went back to Cleveland to meet Lou Paluso, the only man who beat Wallace. Wallace wouldn't give Kaplan a return bout right away so the mext best thing was to have “Kap” meet the only man who beat Wallace. Kaplan won decisigely from Paluso and Wallace will have to give him that return bout soon. The Meriden boy has two impor- tant battles on the cards and after these have been fought, he is go- ing right after Wallace, If he wins all three, he will be knocking right at Mandell's door. The destinies of a prize fighter | are sometimes hard to dope out. | heart”. the “early bird will get the worm” | the bird being the fight fan and the worm being the seat. The Mohawk officials have secured 2,000 seats for | the tournament and these will be di- stributed in the best manner possi- ble about the armory floor. Of served, the early arrival will be able | to get the seats nearest the ring. New York and Massachussetts will battle Connecticut tonight making the tournament a real inter-state af- fair, Champions from one common- wealth will meet title holders of the | | other. Who could want for anything better in the line of amateur fight- ing. An announcement that must have rocked the very foundations of the sporting world was hurled forth last night by Harry Shahanian, who when he isn't busy bringing the audiences to their feet with his “high ¢'s,”” thumbs a mean checker- board. Harry tells us he has inveigied Sam Sablotsky, the John Barrymore of the common council, into an agreement to play him at checkers. Harry and Sam are both willing to | risk the “long green” on thelr ability to handle the wood blocks over the | checked surface. With Sam and Harry both recog- nized as vocalists, rather than as checker players, our suggestion would be to stand them on Central park and let them determine the | question of supremacy in a contest singing: “Let Me Call You Sweet- PROTEST UPHELD Junior County “Y” League President | Awards Game to Tarmington Grammar Schoot. The protest of the Farmington Grammar school in the Junior County “Y" league has been upheld Here was Kaplan, a fighter of the highest ability, a boy who gave; his best every time he stepped into | the ring, and vet his home state | folks never appreciated him. 1 He appears in Cleveland, O., and is knocked out and the fans go wild over him. He returns and wins his next fight and if they could have him, the Cleveland pro- moters would send Kaplan in to | fight an opponent every week in/ Cleveland. | Kaplan is tentatively matched to Aght in New Haven soon. This will | be his first appearance in this| state since he stepped into the| lightweight ranks. Without a| doubt, Kaplan will be on his toes| in every fight and the man who beats him will have to travel every step of the way to do it Kaplan wants to win the light- | weight title and he isn't going to| do any fooling in his climb to the| top. [Every man who climbs into the ring with him in the very near future will have to fight his head oft or elsc get out of the ring. Jimmy Clinch remained a long| time without getting a chance to show his wares as a professional pugllist. Last week, he stepped into | the ring in Meriden's first fight card | in several years and he made such | 4 good impression, that he has been signed to appear on the next card| which will be conducted in Meriden ‘Thursday night.of next week. Johnny Clinch, brother to Jimmy, without any doubt, the leading amateur boxer of the city. He weighs | in the neighborhood of 139 pounds. The state amateur championships will be fought in Hartford this| month and Johnny will be entered | in the 135 pound class for the light-| weight title of the state. His back- ers in this city, the strongest of | whom is “Pa” Clinch, think that Johnny, fighting the way he does| now, is a strong contender for the| state title and New Britain fans will flock to sce him in the tournaments. Johnny is scheduled to appear in the Mohawk A. C. tournament at the state armory on Arch street to- night, fighting in the 140 pound class. We had occasion to look up the amateur rule governing classes and found that the Amateur Athletic Union allows fighters to meet op- ponents who are not more than three pounds in weight elther over or un- | der. We have been told that the limit of difference was two pounds. It a boxer weighs 140 pounds, he can fight an opponent who is 143 or 137 pounds in weight. Anything beyond this difference is not al- lowed by the amateur unfon offi- cials. Many were in doubt as to the correctness of Ray Hall's weight. Hall has been billed as being in the | associates of the C. by President Harry N. Anderson, and | the game won from that team by the local Phantoms has been forfeited to | Farmington, 2-0. The Phantoms used an ineligible player in the contest This deciston does not standing of the leagu the Phantoms’ lead from two games to one and leaves them in first place They will shortly meet the B d | Brook Grammar school team, which cleaned up the league cast of the| river, for the county right to enter the state elimination tournament. FAVORED FOR TITLE New Britain Y. M. C. A. Basketball Team Going Strong in State Tnle'\ Play. Last week the New Britain Y C. A. basketball New London in two games playec Stamford eliminated Ansonia sreenwich downed Westport Last night in Waterbury, M team eliminated twice. Middle- town and Waterbury fought for the second time to see which wo meet New Britain in the semi-final Tomorrow Stamford and Greenwic will battle to see which will enter the finals New Britain was scheduled to meet Middletown tomorrow night on the local gym floor. The results of last night's game not being recor: in the morning news the local is in a quandary as to which tc it will meet tomorrow night. SUZANNE IS ILL, S0 WILL NOT APPEAR Has Tonsilitis and Cannot Make Her Appearance in Hartford Till Next Week. | Hartford, Feb. 4.—(®— Suzanne Lenglen, who was scheduled to ap- | 1’ pear at the state armory here to- night in exhibition matches with her . Pyle troupe, | is ill at the Vanderbilt hotel, in| New York city and it has been ne- cessary to postpone her Hartford pearance until next Wednesday ning. D. C. B. Murray, house phy- sician at the Vande the French tennis star has to with some fever and that he ) ordered her to stay in bed for a day | | or_two. This is the first time on her cur- rent transcontinental tour that Mlle. | Lenglen has been forced to postpone | or cancel a date. She was to | been guest at a dinner here last | ning, but word of her illness came shortly before the hour s for the | event, to which prominent local ten- nis enthusiasts had been invited. Vincent Richards, who has been sick several days will rejoin the | Pyle group in a day or two and will | play at Hartford when Mlle Lenglen isits here next Wednesday. INDICTM AND. course, without any seats being re- . | Schultz title and the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927. from Salt Lake City yesterday he brought with him Arthur McGovern of New York, his physical trainer, who vetoed Ruth’s plans for hand- ball as training and decreed the most strenuous road grind. McGovern will claim the first two hours of Ruth's working day during the three weeks the home run cham- pion is in Hollywood for motion pic- ture work. He will wind up each morning workout by making his charge, swathed in woolens, trot from his Hollywood hotel to Bur- bank, a distance of more than five miles. ‘lhlt ‘we are constrained to say that! ‘VITH THE BO“’LERS | When Ruth returned to Holly\voad!fllfi UPHEAVAL IN ROGERS ALLEYS STANLEY BUSH LEAGUE Hudson 78 9 151 Chryslers 88 ‘105 78 52 Packards L. 8 110 PR Tuinkle twinkle little star What o golfin iz you are When' you drive O who! o cyr’ Scarcely any need to putt Johnson Bruno Flis Faticont New York, by winni ip, the only ende to partici already in ¢ NEW HAVEN TEAM - LOSE AT HANDBAL New Britain Shooters Too Much for Elm City Artists Nassau cham- winter event she ate in, proved mpionship fc Enficlds L1006 New Haven handba have in the past three weeks defeat- ed the best four-walled artists in the state, ran into a snag last night when the New Britain teams trim- med them four m out of five at the Y. M. C. e New Brit- ain t ns won three singles ma es and one doubles to New Haven's one single match. Stone of New Haven d as his name to beat. Unterspan e him the stiffest kin of opposition but lost the match by ree points. Stone after the match was ov was throu for the eve- ning and failed to compete in the doubles. All in all its was a spec- tacular gruelling match with little choice as to the winner. L. 1te . N. R & T Frelght Offic e pro that the up well s tonrnam Saturds sle in meeting O'Connor led much and won 1 mmy Mag dra ni ponent. bested him in games. Eddie Mag drew a “Tartar in Ahearn and was forced to T three games In order to win Dressel-Mag team easily disposed of {the O'Connor-Dinan team in doubles matches. The summary: Stone, New ven, defeated Unterspan, N will finish state t Malntenance s % Ha- defeated Dinan, New Rr defents 21-14, 21-18. Dress %, New Britain. do; n \ le. feated O'Connor-T ALLEYS GIRLS' LEAGUE PALACE GRANTS DEPT. terbury handball nla 2 special trip to New Rr th matehes and incidentally iine on the Elm Citv plaver have heen cleaning up all the arennd the state. “Bert” Toomls. ehairman {handball committee. supervised |tournament and alsa served lun the visitors at the of match. | Enthusiasm for handball is stead- ily inereasing. Approximately 100 ‘V"f'mhf‘\'! are ke v interested In the game locally. There time in the historv of the loc sociation. when all nlayers could he cou fands. Todav tournaments hotw ars mads n to se Wai Mars! was Bahe Ruth Starts His Training for Season Hollywood, Cal, Feb. 4 (P AMERICAN LEAGUE tJohmson’s Retirement Climax fo Downiall of Managers cago, Feb. 4 P—The greatest upheaval in the 27 years existence of the American league swept through | the organization this winter. Ban | Johnson, the patriarch of the league, | was placed “on leave” to recover his | health, and the executive authority | turned over to Frank Navin, league | vice-presid owner of the 1])4\"'0!( N | Jonnson's climax to th sion of ch ed in major league history. Five | pilots will be at the s year, the ; holdov | perenniai Connie Mack of t letics, Pucky Harris with Washipg- !'ton and Huggins with Yanke i Torn by stories of scandals all | winter, the club owners finally man. jaged to end the discord and then| turned to bid against each other for | | the services of Ty Cobb and Tns{ aker, the storm centers of one of | sutes of the Stove | Speaker finally chose | shington, after con- sidering and rejecting offers from | New York and Philadelphia. Cobb | is still d'ckering, with the St. Louis | Browns apparently having the in-| side t The places they vacated as man- agers at Detroit and Cleveland were filled by George Moriarty and Jack | MeAllister. Dan Howley succeeded | George Sisler as manager of the St.| “ans Browns. Bill Carrigan, who | {led the Boston Red Sox to their| eries of successes 10 years ago, was to come back get the cellar. e Col- | ment of | ox to return to his first | and Ray| of the retirement was the all of a p s unprecedent- | oces- on | M ler the | | s Sp i | them out o lins gave the White backstop named man- x deal, ces completed the Detroit and another important and st | s made In their first trade in many American league cars the White Sox obtained Aaron Ward to fill the sec- ond base vacanecy, and Detroit got Marty MeManus Browns short- stop. The White Sox also paid one of the top prices of winter to the Toledo association club, $50.000 and two players for Shortstop El- wood E Out for their ex and St. Lc two likely pitching 1t flelder, W southpaw an his pro- mn. OUR king either of the two . He nounc up a club of youn, or of the St. Louis bidder for told his y but one s to vindicate ruth in th broom s ¢ broom WINS BOXING TITLE wi Charles Anderson. San Francisco Olympic Club, Amateur Cham- | pion, at 117 Pounds. Los Angel rso 1 ship for le in unatta in Paul Dre ion. weight crow ity to Manuel For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Advts [UCKY STRIKES are smooth and mellow— the finest cigarettes you ever smoked. They are kind to your throat. Why? 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