New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927. 556585522 L30533320088880 2598555025 55555550. JOE STURINO AND JOE HOWARD TO FEATURE AMATEUR TOURNAMENT FRIDAY—STANLEY RULE & LEVEL TO MEET CORBIN SCREW TEAM—FOUR LEADING BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT CRONIN BENEFIT-—FOUL SHOOTING WINS FOR BOYS FTIFPTIPPIPIIEPPEPE006 LEADING TEAMS TO PLAY IN BENEFIT FOR CRONIN Two Games to Be Staged Tomorrow Night at State“ Armory—DBristol Endees Meet Meriden Insilcos in| First and National Guards Battle Meriden Endees in Second—Hartford and New Britain Entertain- ers to Perform—Big Cm\\d to \ttend STURING T0 MEET JOE HOWARD AGAIN Palr Who Furnished Sensation, 10 Battle Again Friday of the leading basketball | ams in the state will appear at| the state armory in this city tomor- | row night in a basketball mrm\nH which will be staged for the benel Tim Cronin, state basketball \'\r‘ o lies desperately ill in the Hart- ford hospital. The teams which will | gage in two games are the Bristol End Meride silcos, Me m n Endees and the Britain tional Guards. This, besides being a benefit ext will be the blu tball night of the se Four N New 2 middle- “Iron Horse" Howar urino, 1Jo ampion of Connecticut, Friday night in the s amateur boxing tour: given by the Mohawk' state armory in this ished the most seen in last Friday of | will trio of | Hartford Britain a ined 2 crowd ¢ ors dur. Ser nissions. the will be ross of wranco of Sa monies. Mr. wn musician of this city, principals in the con- will be in at- yers of Tim Cronin’s s of th for the vocal nur daneing which will game, will be eve 1 on ever city a week ago Howard, r heing all but t. got in a punch ead of Sturino and knocked w Yorker out. The largest crowd of the season this battle and now that has been matched in a re- for this IFriday nigh will trek to the ¢ two “killers’ Giross, | will | rof core on his fi N Musical 1 for the the sccond ished by the Par: donated for Dobson. pr in West | witnessed | the pair l? irn go |swarms of = | mory Y to s se William X f the Sturino h to on had only a few train for Hoy : tournament and he bl i knockout on this. He has asked . | Matehmaker J. J. Whaler of the W A . to bring him back to Connecticut champion be of reversing| at their next! indication that he < of his form,| urino, Monday night in New York | 1t Nat Dunn, state middleweight mpion of New York, in a sizzling round bhou i urino and Howard arc hoth ! punc and in their first| ng two weeks ago, each punch v, Cook. Bisscl, Waddell, Ling- | meant a knockdown. Their hout Haofner while the Guards | was the sensation of the son and | lineup in | every csent came ‘ormick of Hart- | ay: had scen the the first game and second. the! his | in mes al \1; one for the fans who 1h(r' ill be dancing until 1 o'clock in the morning. The sta all the t in action. Bristol Jimmy Maleolm, “Kisky" Feldman, “Jiggs” Donoghue, Marchine 1 Manning. The Meriden Insilcos will ans and Mandell, Druehl, Melneker and others. The | Meriden Endees will h Silverman, As an ms will he ched 1t seen will bring four ford will Teferc Disk Dillon the The state fight in h ides these two, Frank LaPera| ADBEALEH HIENe NG RAR S RSy gain appear in the tournament against Fritz Adamson, state weltér- umpion of Ne Haven. | cing mad bring city to meet LaPera, has not submitted en »w Britain t to the basketball carniva fans are warned to of the Groups of scene hour. | 1 istol, er pl this cit The proc fund to take dren. Thers st heing Another New Yor seen in action in the tourney Friday Jack Brophy, 128 pounder. vl linikat Teatiia i Tora o vyl adis Nall. bury. In the various houts, eral of the boys of the Franco-| | American club of Waterbury will be | seen. The card will be made up ot 110 bouts this weck, e having { cording to the entries in the va is follows: 168 pounds. Howard, Martford. and Jor Sturino, New York: 147 pounds, ank LaPera, New York, and Fritz | Adamson, New Haven: 12§ pounds, | { Jack Brophy, New York, and Fra | Moore, Waterbury; 165 pounds, Teb. (P)—The “ceil- i avintor e | Kelloy, Waterbury, and Bd. Skinner. it Haven, t at 13 feet was just a matte ture today after the es Epodnia new world indoor m 9 1-4 inches by Sabin ( k boy will be| three of them, the young: ar cight and the sev- Yale Athiete Tops Bar at 19 Feet | so. 9 {-4 Inches in Mest 15808, 1s New Yorlk, of pole Lucien Tarrivier, Wa- iry and Geo Beasley, New 140 pound Waterbury and Britain: 133 n Charley 1 flopped during his Ame winter, th gn jumper ra t 8 1-4 inches, s acle of indoor vault marks. American vaulters failed on most sions to even force Hoff to dis trousers and befors Hoff, brilliant a Mhn'n Pounc and poun and Jos pounds and last | ion nees of th s high as helieved tain, 133 rhury, Haven, received are: Haver Romane, Vineant Victor Morley Tim heho t last n 1 Athle ecord of t and failed only by s of his ey to cle; antdoor \r inch in olds DS, mark indoor f¢ tour were U. becaus eligibility status. ( form, Notrs of Pr plete a Tarrington, rly and Stepl adle vaulted 13 fect to cor indoor perfor equalled. Dartmouth, share the night with ( seconds, tie from the ey hurdls son, w Han world ma last w 1 son, flier, and Harl or n sen es to kick the r M: are Garder Gibson took the measurs Helffrich, former half mile ¢ and world record holder for yards, in the classic bucrmeyer while Wildermuth showed his 10 such dash stars as Al Millor Harvard: I'rank Hussey of colle MeAllister 1 Ja Seholz, ¢ in IPordham retown sity itional pe wrs Lioyd W in the mission Baxter | the foul line. { thing on the longest shot tried at the | Coffey on the shot and the Meriden | ‘no S04 900EOETETIIIO! FOUL SHOOTING IS | CAUSE OF VICTORY Bogs' Club Noses Out Meriden| Telephone Team 21 to 20 Accuracy from the foul line gave he Boys' club a bare 21-20 victory aver the Connecticut Telephone & Slectric Co., team of Merl last night here and cnabled the loc quintet to score its 15th consecutive: | win; it has won all 13 games played | this season. The game was one of the most thrilling of the year, al- though it was marred by constant roughness, particularly on the part of the visitors. IFrom beginning to | end the teams battled within a few points of each other, with the num erous personal fouls and the send- ing of man after man to the showers adding to the excitement. Meriden | brought along a large delegation of | rooters, and the followers of the club were out in unusual numbers, 50 that the gymnasium vibrated with ofr cheers and shricks and the feree had a hard time making his histle heard. Held to a minimum from the floor lose guarding of the visitors, lub profited by the result- ing fouls to score enough points to bring vietory. The first half featured by a fine demonstration | from the free throw line, Nick Gill | making six out of the seven tries warded him. During the entire half only basket scored by the club was one by Kley, but free shots gave ew Britain a 10-9 lead at the rest | period Johnson opened the second period with a long shot and sent Meriden ahead, Humpage adding a point from | Gill then risked every- was club this year; he flung it from prac- tically the far foul-line and it went| in without touching the rim, tying the score. Then Humpage put th Meriden team in the lead again with L field goal, but Kr i made a one-pointer and Kley spun a shot which gave New Britain the upper | hand at 15-14, He was fouled by ci player was ont on pers Kley £ one of the two tries. Pete Sliva | dropped in a goal from well up the floor and Gill gave the club a 19-14 lead with another free toss. McCarthy scored on a like cffort | ih, and Humpage came through to! make it 19-17. | fouls and Gill made yet another one- | pointer. Kley followed Drier to the | of showers, and there were still cight |, minutes of the last quarter left | of when Zapatka went in. Gill ended | ge New Britain's scoring with his ninth |z, foul’ basket. Hu added for Meriden and Cady popped a long | one. For the last two minutes the | teams battled back and forth bt t} tries for goal all went in and out| again and the whistle stopped the ven exhausted men with W Britain still a point to the good. Gill's work from the free-throw ripe featured the game, his per- | rmnnn.f being the more r > in that he was knocked out in first half when two Meriden players ¢ hed 1 at the same! instant. Kley played a fine game, while Sliva put up a great defen- sive game. The club without the services of Joe Goffa, whose le were b bruised in Meriden Jast | week and had not healed sufficiently | of to allow him to play. Johnson and | {fumpage re best for Meriden, | The summar | in He th |in n e [ Br N Ir co cu | th th ¥s' Club. Fid. 1 {in Conn. Tel. & Ele [ [ g ' Kopt ! imber of es Also Win, b R Hartford feat hy H 5 <p win e and riford ammary Boys' Cluh Resery ond baseman in th Good Will Club, Har the novice ing golfers who has mem one werd Drier went out on | {inks. hols | my lated eighth hole | that my ball w. the struck | green 1 1 moved -r-l_fl Can You Think of the Good Old Days Tor HBLHSHHLHHLHH9,9 0 FEIVPIPEPIVVIEITVIIIIIVFPIITTIEIIVIIITP JUST MISSED TWO ACES A HOLE IN ONEX ON THE EIGHTH AT ST ANDREWS N BP.TISH THe VERY NEXT SHOT EANOED THREE INCHES FROM THE PIN wHo NEARLY, MACE Two 'ACES” o CULESHINE mzwes LABARBA B RECEIVES ' TERRIFIC BEATING l \Johony Vacca ol Brighton, ‘Springs Another Fistic Surprise! 15 (P—TFidel La- | Barba, fiyweight champlon of the { world, was recovering today from |one of the worst beatings of ‘um er, and local boxing followers !“ma trying to explain the latest sen- sation of the ring, Johnny Vacca of | Brighton, who last night ripped his | way to a 10 round victory over the | titleholder. | It LaBarba's crown had been at ce there might have been a new but the men were catchweights. Vacca beam at 115 1-2 pounds rba tipped it at 11 'nt champion who never been knocked off his |fect played with the local boy { through the first round but befor the second had gone more than seconds he took a left hook to the jaw that resounded through the house and sent LaBarba to the floor for the count of nine. He staggered to his feet and was |downed by a right hand smash that | kept him on the canvas for a count of five and ha h | cauilibrium when anot | returned him to the re: | while the crowd went wild. Vacca uncorked of which his friend who have ‘\\Hrlu d him campaign as a lesser action for the past three yea [ had not believed him capable. Only the champion’s ring generalship | saved him time and time again as the local b ‘HH” punche | Boston. Feb. his sta wearer to fighting at scaled the while Lak A conf | before had | {1 | i | A hole In one ig the big thrill in life of every golfer. It is the no-hit gams« run for the length of uchdown of football ue, luck is more or less the ling factor, but the drive must iight for the pin to turn th A hole in one no! signify class. Many a has performed the f . on is one of the qualific -one of mmvm the ficld f does ad- for club, Jock Hute iip in the hole > has two to his eredit It is an interesting coinci at both of Hutchinson's holes in made on the St Andrews st turned the trick oh links just outside the other hole the Brit Andrey most repea told the story H e St Andrews New York, while one was made in 1921 on the otland He re is how Jock one | e, i onc am. “Tn . the itish open, 1 in It is drive was str agine my surprise when [ vered I had holed ont. “The ninth hole at St trifle Dbetter at my sue in one, at the ball and t 1 knew mus pin. short hol ight for the Andrews i KENDALL ndall A. Mills of ti the Vi brought fistic exper the Yale club club last T tion which a {rial for th on in the near futu in the houts w 5 pounds, Jon pound ¢ s king i K I took a hes y ager Zot off a he can have carried wad of to t St t ven tl “Reaching the g 1 discover s within t The ball with erring accuracy and rebounded o few 0S¢ nding und the it hay pped a one pin been en, 1 exhi of Prince who met 1o ma 2 Hamilton; Prince; inches rried the pin pin to it hes. wou had the for re- I have always Making two succs in the Dritish open en the boys something sive loles would and 1o | Veith Mr. Mills wi nd Mrs. H. of the Yal Besides being ing team, Yale Glee club Theta Pi fratern pou goer and of When— SR e university A. MILLS is city. ma boxing New * mee Dibl and G member . MANAGES YALE BOXERS The fourth round saw | pion on the floor again for the count of nine but in the fifth he started | a comeback that allowed him to car- ry a shade in that and the next two rounds. The ninth went to Vacea | but th tely for a haymaker. acea’s showing was all the more kable because he was without hope of financial compensation. When @ heavy snow storm had made | prospects of good nox office showing dim he volunteered to go through for nothing and his offer was ac e crowd which saw the hout was from a capacity hous 6ASGOS BEAT LANDERS ~m Meter Readers Nose Quintet By the 23 to 20, Dritain | nosed out Industri iascos basket- the Lan 1 League at the a torrid and ers um of the club |1 recly foug 20, iascos got to ind ended the fi score. Darrow ring for Lan- i point AWy nd It ders echan wer the € hig for Ia- hoxers st was in the meetin Tl I". Wojuck Dudack, If w- and itchic 1l Lsser, f Mr. a a nd nd I Tucheri, 3 Darrow, 6 Kaminski, o Aronson Recano, I'r r, 20 fed in 1910 in Ruth Referce—Leo Robinson, I { Industrial QM!NOOQMJ HHHLHHSLHLEHHLSLLISBISSHSLHSLLHSHISS$SHLL S L LS CLUB FETEESLPTEPETT 4T seeeevs STANLEY RULE BATTLES CORBIN SCREW TONIGHT Bitter Court Battle Expected in First Game of Indus- trial League Play—Both Have Chance to Fight For Leading Position—P. & F. Corbin Quintet to Meet Stanley Works in Second Game — Record Crowd Will Turn Out to See Games. DELANEY IS DOWN 10 CLASS WEIGHT He and Maloney to Finish Train-| League Standing w 5 .9 Corbin Screw Stanley Rule P. & F. Corbin Stanley Works Landers L300 N. B. Machine 000 Fans who have \m(‘n fn]lov\m" the Basketball league? will | flock to the Y. M. C. A. in droves |tonight {o watch the Corbin Screw team battle the Stanley Rule & Level ing for Bont Friday Night “th(m for two final da d recovered his | er left hook | n for nine | | deputy comm a brand of speed | York bod ¢ rocked him with ter- | the cham- | t saw both striving desper- ‘ pted. | Out Landers Narrow Margin of | painfully through the workout with score was t half ; a 3. 31 Cleveland-— quintet in what should be the most critical game of the windup for both ew York Boxing com- | teams. Let cither one win and it iy Delaney and Jimmy |lmost out of the picture as far Maloney today summoned bruised |the league championship is concer and aching sparring partners about |ed- ¢ of battering, | These two teams are scheduled to { Thursday the principals in Tex R battle it out in the first game whila lard’s belting ~ festival at Madison | the second contest of the night will Square Garden will taper their toil [find the = Stan Works pitted into' o wait for the opening gong on | gainst the P. & F. Corbin squad R The feature game of the n St ! brings together two quintets wl are just around the corner from first Iplace. Let the Stanley Rule team win and the Corbin Screw team falls into a tie with it for second pl Let the Corbin Serew team win it goes into a tie with Russell Erwin again for first place. Tt will he a real battle for both teams tonight. The Corbin Screw five will be desperate and will try its best |to come through with a win against its feared rivals from Elm street. On the other hand, the Stanley Rule team will work hard to defeat them, ecing in the offing a chanc take | crack at the Russell & Erwin team if that outfit loses one game. The second contest will see the re- juvenated P. & F. Corbin team which a few weeks ago upset the Corbin Serew quintet, battling the doughty Stanley Workers. This will he a good syindup for the first game which §s expected to be a whizzer. The first game of the night will take place promptly at § o'clock and led with a right hand smash of suf- | {he second will follow right after ficlent intensity to remove @ portion | (he first. Dancing will follow both of his cyebrow in Saturday’s work- | §ames. Dick Dillon will referee, TIED FOR HONORS | The negro was helple Charles Gorman and Harry Nelson Teb. 15.—P— Tree of intervention on the | New York, { from threat ‘m:r of the mission, illing, was a report to the box- {ing fathers indicating that Delaney champion of the light he s, will not weigh over the 175 pound limit of his when he climbs through the ropes to meet Boston's “strong boy.” A rule of th that requires that a boxer make | the weight limit of his own division cven when fighting men of a heavier !:-‘ 5 Skilling put Delaney on the scales Aining camp in Bridgeport, erd after the French- | had completed his work- he beam balanced at 1743 any fear of weight difficultics {with the boxing body disappeaved. With one sparring partner out of action for necessary repairs, Jack | Warren, negro heavyweight, felt the {brunt of Delaney's fierce attack in the short s on. Ray Neuman, who hitherto had absorbed half the | punishment meted out daily, collid- & lass latest I at his t Conn., y Canadian against the of a brilliant and he hobbled )amplon in the fac | and versatile attac! hand attack in his heavily | right v a devastating drumming constan padded head. ! " Not content with proving himself | la qualified marksman in the ving, {Delaney yesterday visited the shoot- ing g rv at police h rters for an hour of pistal practice. He had little trouble bouncing lead into the bull's-eye of a t s he usual- | ;1 does in finding jaw of an op- « : Honbnt: | pionship. Each has €0 points. After three spurring partners had | Racing in events which complete | worked with Maloney at his quarters | e program originally scheduled for R s BrananLay he trio an. | Detroit, Gorman added 30 points to o san o e mbled news. | Bis total by winning the 40 yard dash | papermen that sy would not [ world’s record time and finishing last ten rounds against the Boston |Stcond in the mile at e Hlaks ! slugger on Friday night. All three, |¥esterday. Nelson gathered 2 tt, George Smith and | POints by placing third in the 440 aimed 1o have opposed |And third in the mile. Gorman had ¥ at one time or another, |10 points won at Detroit and Nelson Miuioney weighed 208 pounds fol- | 5% ©o six round session, but “‘i Gorman time in the three pounds in rugged | Vettered his old wor |of 1 and tomorrow. I me in a Deadlock For Speed Skating Honors. Lake Placid, | With apps | made to break the deadlock, Charles | Gorman of St. John, N. B., Canadian champion, and Harry Nelson of Chi cago, today are in a tie for the na tional outdoor speed skating cham- Y., Feb. 15 (Pr— ments the De on 140, which ord mar onds. The for- record wa 5 seconds. Valentine Bialis of Lake Placid, former international champion, won the mile race, outstripping Gorman in the stretch. 1 point summary: Bialis 70, Sea Irving Jaff Paul TForsman, farrell, Ch veland, John, 2 | 10 losc 1 workouts today | i ias | Fights "l‘nnlg,hl Billy Wallace Cleve- Mitchell, Philadey. | land, Ray Gorman hapolis Bud Taylor Smith, Vs, first savings bank was found- | vell Village, Scot John Duncan, The Hland, hy the Rev. playing forw wsketball team sze‘“miv WHAT ¢ successive pa Hartford hlew ther wd shioof filled at Kopi's minutes later a ards D points me in one AR er sta rd the tryon appoint with power was ot to run saw fit? ¥ Wright Pioneers, was Takmtr The Joy Out of By BRIGGS HAH MY \ FROLT { PGS KNUCKLES AND ] SA\/&hl\l /\t‘l ' Tnm‘s me' [ AL ckey We had a ¥ conld hit wh but the 1 two out of shoot Pioncers s \Al/U AL - THA Johnny Burns, New Cor Cow . had a ceful way of = You ground balls ar v v | AN popular Connect was thrown out 1 to steal in a THE WORST INATION = e uT STOMACH p | Yw LL RUN MACH l —AND Gcma TZ> HAVE SoME HEESE — AND- muc } REGRET T 1037 1y T e WouLDN'T TRRVATIE: | Awake ALl NIGHT AL" DoN'T EAT TRAT TERRIBLE MESS ~ You'LL U THINK VLl START OFF WITH A LOBSTER ColKTAIL T - no No AL | Dom'T EAT | Tuat TRUCK- | You 'LL NEVER| Olideonr T i 7 BERMUDA ONton S SLicED— | Wow . 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