New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1927, Page 26

S0 56555585080 856087056004 $S5HSHHLLL5505555895888 8. 0880858884550 55588828. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 8§ 1921. NATL. GUARDS WIN STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP BY DEFEATING BRISTOL ENDEES 21 TO 19— ERWIN BIGE MAKES HALL—BURRITTS MAKE IT 18 STRAIGHT BY DEFEATING SOUTH MANCHESTER SHORT WORK OF BILLY MITCHELL AT TABS’ STATE BASKETBALL TITLE BURRITIS NAKEIT | FIGHTEEN STRAIGHT WON BY NATIONAL GUARDS {Locals Beat Sonth Manchester New Britain Takes Final Game From Bristol Endees By 21 to 19 Score—Sensational Battle Staged by Two Teams—Sturm Ties Score and Sheehan Shoots ][l[lepElldel]fS b}' 36 to 28 Score Winning Points—Hardware City Five Leads at e Half Time 7 to 5—Fans Pack Meriden Armory. the n-r(xé »1(.‘ thall teams tn the te, the Bur A, ecam annex- d its 1Sth straight ‘.\'m‘a;‘:\in!l: l:e outh Manchester High school In- ts by a 36 to 23 score in minary to the National -Bristol Endee game at the riden state armory last evening. The New Britain team did not ch the height of its form until the game al- upper hand in to 14 score. ight against mx“.mnmem.‘; 5 t 17 to 12 court champior New Britain la: s : the im - got the ball | { rds broke the zewski copped into a score Rristo ¢ year, by the scor L k the players t honors in b o sl v high school boys to 115 noth: S lre L anothe the Silk Towners could be staged Jn 5100d 17| ¢.on throughout the contest. Hav- lick and Zaleski, High school for- who were barred from play- with the school because of tak- part in outside games, played hard throughout the contest be- cause it a Manchester official who caused the trouble, but the real star of the game was “Hammy" Darrow who was graduated this year from the mediocre class to one ory owd of te m 12 the ng back Xol 1 Sloman on the How did you like 'xt tap-off, Slo- enter and moving tossed the ball just iing was parts ir at was the ough the hoop fOr|of the best of the v ; | o bes 1 younge 8 B 4 he returned, tap-|ena ety LIERT ghacaE 1 e et on the back and ask-1"" 4 jotormined rally was started by iike that one?” rapid fire com- :d all through basket came at you the South Manchester quintet in the closing minute of the third quarter with the acore 26 to 25. Al Havlick iand Marlon Zaleski began to Bristol had a Ie tho team started it keep the ball o k ut the local plavers broke 1:45 mark and made the ¢ount|nam in the last quarter and . ehoh the bal t s ough and got the ball to 1 favor of Bristol. game ended with New Britain out long until Sturm's specta d battle ensued as each | o¢ ganger. The summar. rom over his head, tied t for the ball. Bristol| . : South Manchester followed Fld. FL. Tt Johnny Shechan in with a two-point but the other, just as sensation Guards were desper-| o oo ~ New Britain team the necessary |ate and were fighting for the ball :{l\lliljz\rfi’r'l;f ‘ 1 1 3 o points for victory and then New ias they have never fought before. | ‘o i b > Britain put up an impregnable de-| Finally at the 16:30 mark, a pass| i O 1 § s 4 to hold the score until the m Sturm in the knee and the bail|yp oy 00t 0 o " 4 whistle blew. ent into a scuf irm was aft-|gono B § g 9 “The first half was an exhibition of Lot got his hands on it and bri Bl oo it 0 2 almost perfect basketball but it w g the ball up behind his hea o : o devoid of many thrills because both | he let fly for the basket. The ball e 2 teams were strictly on the defense. | dropped cleanly through the Ting| pryiok pe p o The second frame, however, had and the score was tied at 10 all |y conolics ' o il rything crammed into it that | Il.wv e been hr‘vm rumn:tfir.;fi M. Zaleski, 1f . ; i could be possible in a basketball | On a basketball court beforo and} ;. ] ; - g contest, Sensational shot Aing | there will be many more m’ 1h Whitman, o a7 g 5 pass work, spectacular dribbling and )’ i H\f: '"‘mm l\"VI‘I,I x:v v: rl:»]nrl-tlvn:”l: tennette, rg . 0 o w fercs stiligele all camblned G0}t those fivo Al fast night In the| A2MS TE 9 of a hair most | make the state title game raiser and a thriller of the thrilling sort. It would be unfair to name any Darrow, g E. Zaleski, 1g last three and a half minutes. Finally, at the 18 minute mark, Johnny Shechan got just beyond the ol onsss 16 36 {welcomes 11 | las strengthened prospects of pow: I(rml pennant drives by the Ya —|and Giants. TS Left to right—Taylor, Restelli, Sloman, Manager Lampher, Sturm, Rubenstein, Sheehan. NEW YORK TEAMS RETURN TOMORROW Gotham Clubs to Be Welcomed Home by Basehall Fans New York, April 8 (A—Gotham home three thumping raetropolitan teams tomorrow after 4 hectie training campaign which e 2¥1 foul line and popped for the hoop. 6] First of the northward bound outstanding player on either team. | J30 (HE “‘n“,‘ "h'm”nh o m‘r‘t Score at hmr Hme: BUTIs AT, [ b o eich New Fonc whi e No one man stood out but every one | (i o WL Iy 10 Y| tndepenaents, 14, {hs anke =5 piled stakes in of the 10 engaged in the EAMe, | i\ \i0 400 o shot but missed by | Nashville, Tenn., last night, atter played his heart out in the effort to |, (o1 ™ ‘ein© Sheehan again | holding the Cardinals even in a win. Nothing but admiration can| his try was thrown off | | spring renewal of their world series be expressed for the Bristol team | . Sloman was sent flying into| | struggle. They are due here today which went down with flying colors| ) = qwq Slo- And tomorrow fandom will have it was injured. ned and Bristol The Guards in defeat and were it not for thel ., "y " which came to New Brit-| counqn'e got a shot «in, the score might have just as| for the basket all the time v around | trying to h | A 3 D o s World's Championship. Hockey | o 2 5 Series Must Go Four Conests oot with a h whistle brot inyway one wants to look at the 1t minute to go. The fins | matter., ; TFirst Half, sht the game to a close The teams battled fierce both on the defensa for five minutes with-| ana tr v Brit- out a score being made. Finally at | ain, Doston, April 8 (P—A the 5:20 mark, Sloman was fouled National Guards championship hockey series that and he made st polnt of the id. ¥l 141, | must go at le four games to a de- game. New Britaln's lead, however, | pup 1 1 3 | cision was decrecd today in the face was short lived because “Kisky” | gior 1 5|0f last night's 80 minute fast but Yeldman hopped in a pretty basket | zay cwski, 1 0 2| cautious scorcless tie play between at the 5:45 mark, giving Bristol a | g . 1 4 5|the Boston Bruins, American divi- one point edge. The see-saw Was|Gouim Je ... 0 6 | sion victors, and the Ottawa Se continued when Sturm caromed | - tors, Canadian leaders in the around and with a beautitul one- B tional Hockey leagu hand toss, landed one through the hoop at the €:15 mark, making it § to 2 for New Britain. Again Sloman was fouled and he Ten thousand persons jammed arena to sce a contest marked | servatism than rugged encounter Bristol Endees Feldman, rt. | Matcoim 1 7]t more | lianc made his try, giving New Dritain | 8 4| between the hard-fighting Bruins, | ¢ 0/ t the m 1 | y 1 6 Senators had been | made his try good. The scores were "; mous Stanley Cup. coming few and far between, neithe Seors b hatheths avitain | me the closest to| team being able to penetrate the al Bristol. & iy um. | An actual score but a from | n rfect defense thrown up.| & TG E 2 Nighbor that Denneny shot through | 1 mg we ing th T e O T N Winkler from close in was ruled out play and few shots were being made as offside. With that exception there af either basket. | AFTER STATE '"TLE were few thrills as both teams ap- { parently contented themselves with | ling out the other. Both outfits held close to a tight cfensive formation and that, to- other with a fear of weakened i South Church Quintet Meets Mid- | i into | dictown Swedes “in Semi-Final om the | orces, kept penalties to a bare haif wain | Round of Play-oOf, i o Jireh baskethall team | Yk game was called a draw by| s the quest for | President Frank - Calder of the atives of both | that because of league atter ernoon, | lams had % Clons repres agroee dusper to ! oot the | the condition of the ice it was the work 0f players thro New | ¢ {ddietown in | 1Y (easible thing to do. Jirita . W i Moriden | The second of the five game scries vain 1 nat | Will be piayed b Saturday and » st. | the next succeeding two in Ottawa. i i The fifth will e played on ice yet [ to be sclected with the probability | strong that Montreal wiil get the| ume, althongh it was said Boston | ght have a claim on it. In a statement after last night's ) ¥ contest, President Cadler d | Pat McCarthy of Doston in a ten ehur the tic would not mean an | round match May 9 for a children's First Prosbstor ime in case of deadlock or If one | camp fand. It will be his first con- | 1 et | team is unable to win three en- t since his stubbornly fought me- i 3 siat 1 nters, | lee with Jack Sharkey in the M If neither elub shall have won | den ring several | dre e 1t completion of | Other houts on the making 1 5 it then the club which| Monte Munn against Pat Lestor, minu At t record of games wonjthur Dekuh against Jose Domin- g g z v ared the winner,” hel quéz of Spain, and Jack Demave | 1 | against Earl Blue | the flual game. | “I¢, on the other hand, it shall| Vou DRAKONE CARD sristol wa | n en impossible to reach a d Bt \ 20 ,luru. ha ("\r{’)% BFM‘ YA[ KS J then the money in the play- | [f——————————————— OF COURSE THINKING doug UARDY DL ool shall be divided equally | You MIGHT AT LEAST —e two clubs, n the . Champions Take Last Game OF Pre-Scason Series from New 1 8.—(m B —Pete Aug 50 the ol Conn,, defea Re Bristol a il o Just having ort, Miss., 10. | He Jou ) the Cardir Jor Woods, California, work ail nig in a subducd Brockton, 10, Cuddy De t merrlly today. They nd to win th Wipped a ba ' S heix s wit cd Joey | trom a dist i 4 i\ N erday ! [ Iy had Lees plased b to 8, I ¥ri a two | “Young man fouled Shechian and Jui b s and | sir out Jack added er i . Fiuth t cirenit elo Melros | unt 13 to " 1 Home Satur- | H tol. A3 the it 5 s with the| Minneapoli va. | from 1in the b exhibi- | F ils Ameri- Har 1 ak0 Henry Lenard \‘s‘ s angle ankis Monros, 10, | accounted for six {abled the world's champions to string, world's| ot tin bril-| Graw, 7 first glimpse of the 1927 Amer: league skirmish with the Brooklyn IRobin at Ebbets fiield. A pair of home runs by Frankic Frisch, erstwhile Glant, whose bat ardinal runs, en. n contenders in a metropolitan ry off the eighth game of 10 to 8. Irank added a pair | bingles to his br round trip clouts and the Cardin ped a threatening Yankee bar- of blows with an cven series k, 4 games to 4. The Giants at the same time stove in the Senator's defense once more with a high gearcd hitting attack 19 to 9. Twenty-three safe smash rode into the ant scenery of Washington park, clinching the ser- ies honors for Manager John Me- games to 2. On the occa- | sion of his 54th birthday anniver- Three battles remain to engage the clubs, one today at Washington ! and the remaining two at the Polo|day of having won a baseball cham- | 138 104 105 Grounds on Saturday and Sunday. In spite of ragged flelding Robins recovered the winning habit yesterday in Atlanta at the expense of the Cracke 11 to 10. Cluster- d hits netting three runs saved the game for the National league club in the ninth. McTIGUE VS. McCARTHY Veteran Irishman to Meet Doston Battler Tn rden Before Out- door Scason Starts. New York, April § P—Mike Me- Tigue, whose con exploits furnished frequent and unexpected fistic thrills during the current in- | door season, is to fight once more in Madison Square Garden befora Tex Rickard pulls down his roped arena for the summer ¢ The former lig} champion, has be paign. wyweight q to fight We REPAIR RETIRE Children’s Wheel Goods of all kinds. ELL “|department of agriculture states, rh.»‘ TPTEEIIINETETIIIIET Sitting in front—Captain Kilduf | CONNECTICUT SPORTSMEN | PAY $38,687 10 STATE ed to 34,688 Resident l Licenses Is: ' and 309 Non-Resident Hunters | | During 1926, RGE H. MAN) Bureau of the N, B. ington, D. C., April 8 Sportsmen pald $35,678 into the | Connecticut state treasury for hunt- ing licenses last season. Licenses were issucd to 34,688 res- ident hunters during the season and to 399 non-resident hunters, a re port from the state treasury to the NG | Herald) | | More than 5,150,000 hunting M- | censes were taken out durlng the {season 1925:26 by sportsmen |throughout the United States. Re- turns to state treasuries from (h licenses amounted to $6,800.000, thoush these figures do not show re- | turns from four states, for which fig- ures are not available, they surpass | all previous records. | | In the 1923.24 season, the lcense numbered 4.395,038 and the fees | patd were £5,594,982. One yoar later 4,904,740 hunters paid for their li- censcs a total of §6,190,863.04. | Pennsylvania with 525,045 licenses | and fees of $646,467.25 headed the [list both in licenses and returns to {the state treasury. Ohio was sec- ond with 361,080 leenses and fees of $362,050, ] In the amount of fees paid for li- censes the state of New York ranked | next to Pennsylvania. ATHLETICS CHAHPS ‘\lml\nwn Clinch Municipal Title of ‘ Philadelphia by Victory Over the | Phillies. | Philadelphia, April § () — The Athletics claimed the distinction to- | pionship, although the major league opening is gtill in the offing. They <!om’md the Phillies, 2 to 1, vester- | day, clinching the municipal title, |three games to one. The final in |the five game series will be plnyo«li | GAME AND You TIEL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS OF CONNECTICUT _ |the strength of the club at present Something is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life. You ARE PLAYING A NICE LiITTLE DOLLAR LAMIT DEUCE, THREE, FIWWE OF HEARTS FILL A PLAIN EVERY DAY Flugu- -~ eut HOPING - a * TP TOWEL SAVES MITCHELL FROM PUNCHES OF BIGE | Sig Keppen Refuses to Meet Nebraska “Cowboy” Be- cause of Weight Difference — Providence Water- man, (High Diver), Poor Excuse as Fighter — Referee McCarthy Gives Unpopular Decisions— Promoter Bridgett Offers to Refund Money. Two decisions that displeased the {to be. fans, a poor substitution for one of | Rige slashed a few through Mitch- the principals in the main bout, and | ¢ll's guard and the Providence nce of a mere handful of | “battler” snorted & few times and marred the second at- !dropped. He protested: between tempt of the Hardware City A. C. s when his seconds threw in the last nigint to re prot towel. sional boxing In the calendar of New Dritain sports. Had it not been 3 i 8 en for the sports- ‘START P[A manship of Promoter Patsy Bridgett | there would have been no show last | night. When Sig Keppen of New York refused to go on with Irwin Jige who had a five and a half pound weight advantage Bridgett was foreed to look about for a sub- titute e signed Billy Mitchell of | The clean, sharp-shooting (cean Liner Has Been Chartered B Alliing the possibilly or ditans for Use of Athletes pointment, Bridgett had Announcer Art Pilz inform the fans after the first bout that their money would | New York, be had at the box office if they |solved its transportation and hous were not interested in watching the |ing problems at one stroke by de revised card run off. None appeared |ciding to charter an ocean liner. for anxious to cash in and the show |the entire trip of America’s athletes went on. to the 1928 Olymples in Holland, the When a fat, flabhy, bald-headed | American Olympic committee under gent took his place in a corner op- | the leadership of William C. Prout, site Bige the crowd guessed right, | of Boston, today launched a program for Mitchell lasted less than a round | designed to marshal the most for- before his secconds tossed in the |midable array of tallent it has ever towel. Bridgett agaln had it an- [sent after athletic conquests. nounced that money would be re-| With the exception of tennis, turned to any ¢ atisfled fans. To |which has been withdrawn from the the credit of New Dritain’s bpxing | Olympic program as an outgrowth April 8 UP—Having 8 tomorrow. Walberg held the Phillies to six and t > Mackmen garnered the me number from the combined pitching of Scott and Taber. enthusia. who appreciated the | of unsati factory conditions at Paris Secking a stronger batting com-| difficulties under which the elublin 1924, the machinery has been set natlon, Connie Mack vyesterday [ labored to make a satisfactors |in motion to form the strongest and |shifted Eddie Collins to lead off po- | showing, it can be said that not @ | most representative teams possible in sition, the first time the veteran has headed a batting rost He falled | to get a h Baseball scribes argu that the Athletics' batting power there, but still dormant, and that singl lddie Zieg | tund. ron called on Secretary |all branches of competition. Be ler of the club for a re- {3060 and 350 hie will he s¢ abroad at a cost of from $300,000 to Curtain Raiser. 350,000, Kid McCoy of Providence, was| Jspecially keen competition for substituted for Stanley Rogers 0f|he track and field team, major unit Meriden in the curtain raiser. Helot the American contingent, is ex- lost to Tony De Palma of New Ha- | pected by the committee in framing ven in a clumsy bout. The two 1 plans for nation-wide tryouts r scen a team in better shap went into the final ronnd on e ding up to final tests in th e said, “nor have I ever heard of a| terms but De Palma slugged his w JsEimEior fo. the ‘apantire jotlthe |club better fortificd with substitutes|to a win. When Refer athletes, now slatea for'between July {or having such a wealth of talent| \McCarthy raised the $and 8 1928 23 we have this season.” boy's hand he awarded the only| Although no coaching selections SE e eSS verdict that won approval during|y,ve yet been made it is considered WITH THE BOWLERS the night. likely that Lawson Robertson of the ween in the Mack, pitching corps. in baseball since 1887, is nthusiastic over the outlook. “I've Jirr;my ]Bones' of “'I'MEEI‘O"LX"' University of Pennsylvania again ceived a classy trouncing from Lew | Lo cooon o8 oo B a alded b ROGERS ALLEYS 10ldbe [ i B # Goldberg of Brooklyn, but he also | sy "o boion e mentors, Robert received McCarthy's decision and was declared the winner amid roar- ing boos. The diminutive Hebrew cantor toved with Bones when he felt so inclined and pummeled him whenever the Spirit moved him, |- b Olympic committee members re- Iis body punching was superb and | ;4" 1 ogpocts also as particulard s defense was rl'mu‘rl(:\hly-. )Nmf.kl\ bright in such spor 2s row his usi hard-working exiiibi- ; swimming, boxing and wrestling, of which will be held during the two weeks' period of main activity at Amsterdam, starting June 28, STATE GIRLS' LEAGUE son has had a large hand in the s Ree. Girls, ! shaping of preliminary plans and al- ready has heen given considerabla responsibility in the organization and housing work. tion., Frenchman Is Favorite, Jiggers McCarthy failed to see it the way of the crowd in the semi- The development of such young gt final, at least that was the conclu T Aars ot Gebrga iolne AT, SPECIAL MATCH sion one would reach from the re- | * AL § c ar-old New York school boy, to- AlL Nuts ception given him when he declare e > 2 ; ‘ther with the rise of a new group S rankie Mack of Hartford, the win- | . " | 5 > of mermaids to replace Gertrude | ner over Jean Borde, former light- y = g s B e | Ederle, Aileen Riggin and Helen welght champlon of Prance. Bondo| w08 S35 FEES AR BT { showed the kind of fighting that | 00 ]’;‘ i a8 Bl Won'ifor im fHe tifle; emh afFceinhi & T AR I TR -dog.” His bouncing tactics and ISkt Builgog His bouneiny 1024 Olympic title, is expected to solid punching, together with Lis amusing ring tactics made him a worite. Mack landed solidly at | times and fought a good, clean, cool fight all the way through. Bige was announced as welghing 147 pounds, and Mitchell who looked a good 20 pounds heavier was said to be 148, Mitchell remained in his corner until . moment hefore the bell with a on his head, and when he tossed it into the corner A century ago there was not a sIn- | he revealed a shiny bald dome. gle horse in New Zealand. Now the| Folds of excessive fat at the waist- leading sport of the island is horse|line told the story of an *ex.”” and racing. that was just what Mitchell proved enter its varsity erew in the tryouts again, along with the Naval Acad- | emy and possibly the University of Washington, whose crews have di- vided domination of the Poughkee; sie regatta for six years in a row. Colleges and clubs throughout the country, as well a5 the numerous sports governing bodies, will atd in raising the fund of $300,000 or mor: needed to defray cxpenses, which figure at a rate of $1,000 per ath- lete. This work will be directed by, the new treasurer of the committce, John Raskob, who is treasurer of the General Motors Corporatipn. By BRIGGS 106 446 Ave. 110.4. Wins 4. THE PoT 1S OPENED AND RAISED SEVERAL TIMES AND You STAY AND LOOW AS WISE AS POSSIBLE UNDER THE ClréCumsTANCES A COUPLE OF PLAYERS ARE STANDING PAT - L STRUGGLE ALONG ON HoLD The FOUR AND Ly PLAY TAESE - AL 'EM To TA% You SLIP THE ONE CARD AMONG THE OTHER FOUR AND HOLD YouR BREATH AND SLO-0-0—-0-OWLY SQUE-E-E-E-EZE THEM OPEN — - AND~