New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 9

Speaking of Sports Bat Battalino, national amateur featherweight champion, made his farewell appearance in the simon pure clasy last night at the velo- drome in East Hartford by scoring a technical kayo over Jimmy Walk- er, colored, of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania state amateur champion. Battalino had knocked Walker down five times when Referee Frank Portell, using his usual good judg- ment which as usual didn’t set pop- ularly with the crowd, stepped in in the second round and stopped the bout with Walker on the floor help- less. Walker gave Bat a hard fight un- til he opened an ugly gash over the champion’s left eve. Then Bat- talino went wild and throwing all caution to the winds, he chased Walker all but out of the ring. Evi- dently, Batthlino wanted to score a last knockout in his last amateur fight. Batt had Walker out in the first round on a second knockdown but the bell saved the Philadelphian. In the second, Batt came like a flying demon out of his corner and it was only a matter of secands before Walker was to hear the birdies sing. Whiker went down and got up. He | \went down again this time sitting on the ropes. He got up again and swayed across the ring where Batt hit him with a sizzling right and the colored boy went down hard. At this point, Referee Portell stepped in and stopped the encounter. ed its displeasure figuring that a “man may be down hut he's never out.” Sober crities around the ring applauded the ac- tion of the referee in saving Walker from further punishment. The ctowd h Johnny Clinch lost & close decision in four rounds from Herb Brandow . of Philadelphia in the prettiest bat- {le of the night. The local boy Jnoclked the Philadelphian down for the count of nine in the first round but the Quaker City battler showed protty boxing skill, enough to carn the cdge in four rounds. 1 The sensation of the night came in | the final bout of the tournament when Ray Hall and Jimmy Ray of Philadelphia. Hall had Ray help-; joss on the ropes and was slugging, him with everything unabic to knock | him down when suddenly Ray came fo and the fables were quickly re- versed. Hall went down for a short count and then got ta his feet. Ray }it him once and Hall went down flat on his nose. He was out for | mora than 15 minutes. It was one | of the coldest kayoes we have ever | seen. | | Despite the wintry weather. a fair | sized crowd attended the show at| the velodrome. Next Tuesday night, a novelty in amateur boxing will be : staged when the Massasolt ASC.| stages an all-heavyweight tourna- ment. There are over 30 entries al- ready for the event with no boxer's | application being received under the | middleweight limit of 160 pounds. “Rutsy” Hall, formerly star of the | Pirate A. C. bascball team and of | the New Britain High school. s starring this season witls Pratt’s col- lege. Hall. in 12 games, has hit for & mark of .425. Included among his hits are five circuit smashes. Tn the Pratt-Upsala rafe. the big zame of the year for Pratt, Hall put {he first ball over the left ficld fence for a home-run. “Butsy” slammed out three hits in the contest. ~ o H Hall ta a great favorite with his! feammates and with the “kids” but he is poison to opposing pitchers. The Cardinal A. C. will play the/ Pirates of Wallingford tomorrow ternoon in Wallingford. ANl play- ers on the local team are asked to meet at the center at 12:15 o'clock sharp. Liyder Golf Crow Arrives Without Its Captain, Abe Mitchell, Who Ts 11 With Appendicitis. New York, May 28 (P—Arriving in New York without their captain, Abe Mitchell, who is ill with appen- | dicitls, the British Ryder cup golf team still is hopeful of winning the vd2r cup in the annual matches vith an American team of profes- sionals June 3 and 4 at Worcester, Mass. “We are aware of the present day | standard of American pro golf, but we are not dismayed by it.”" sald G. A. Philpot, team manager. We | think that, given ordinary good for- tune, we have a good chance of win- ning the Ryder cup and the cham- pionship.” Ted Ray has been chosen unanimously to act as cap- t. n, Manager Philpot added. The squad includes: Ray, George Duncan, G. A. Whitcombe, Archie Compston, Audrey Boomer, Arthur Havers, Fred Robson, P. Grove and H. C. Jolly. Jolly is now on his way from Eng- | land on another ship to join the team. On their arrival yesterday the “nglish players were welcomed at inner by theeir American rivals cap- (ained by Walter Hagen. FIGHTS LAST NIGAT By the Associated Prees. Cumberland, Md.—Young Ze¢ Pa., defcated Young Rudy, i, Pa., 10. Piger Flowers, Sailor Eddie Huffman, 10. Long Branch, N. J.—Joe Allano, Cuba, shaded Johnny Brennan, Trenton, N. 10. Cleveland, Ohio: idel La Barba, fiyweight champion won a technical knockout over Willie Lamorte, Cleveland, 10. Detroit — Phil M . Detroit, defeated Clicky Clark, Holyoke, Mass, 10. Tony Tékis, New York, won on a foul from Clarence Rosen, defeated Detrolt, 4. Haute, Ind., Detroit, 6. Dayton, Ohio—"Happy” Atherton, Indianapolis, and Louls Carpentero, Toledo, drew, 10. outpointed Joe Lucas, 1. In making a play on a battcd ball by an infielder, who has the right of way, man making the play 43y and Wednesday you could have or runner? 2. When a man bats out of order and the mistake is properly dis- covered by the team in the field, who is called out? Who is next batter. 8. Can baserunners advance on | any act of an improper batsman, whose mistake in batting out of order is properly distovered? 4. Play is started with only eight men in the field, there being no right fielder. Batsman singles, Wwhen the error is discovered. What about it? 5. What is regarded as the of- ficial batting order? IS TELLS IT 1. The infielder always has the right of way. The must avoid him or be called out for interference. 2. The proper batsman is al- ways called out. Man who follows proper batsman in official lineup. 3. Base runners cannot advance on any act of an improper bats- man that is discovered and an ap- peal is made to the umpire. The runners return to their original bases. 4. There must be nine players in the field to make play legal. The batter who hit safely must bat over again. : The one umpire prior that is given to the to the start of the game by the managers or cwhins' of the rival teams. LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Washington 7-0, New York 2-5. Chicago 3, Detroit 1. Cleveland 7, St. Louis 3. Philadelphia at Boston, 2 postponed, rain. games, The Standing w Pet. . 23 657 . 24 E 15 Philadelphia . 18 14 ‘Washington . 16 2300 Cleveland 18 St. Louis . 17 Detroit . 15 Boston . 10 Games Today Philadelphia at Boston. 2. Washington at New York. Cleveland at S§t. Loufs. Chicago at Detroit. Games Tomorrow Boston at New York. Philadelphia at Washington. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louts. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Brooklyn 5-5, New York 3- Boston $-13, Philadelphia Pittsburgh 8, St. Louls 7. (10 innings). = Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2. (11 innings). The Standing w Pittsburgh | Chicago New, York .. &t. Louis . Philadelphia Brooklyn Boston Cincinnati .. Games Today New York at Brooklyn Boston at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at Chicago, Games Tomorrow New York at Brooklyn. St. Louis at Pittsburgh. Cincinnati at Chicago. EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Waterbury 3, New Haven 0. Springfield 7, New Haven 6. Bridgeport 9, Providence b. Hartford-Pittsfield, rain The Standing w L. Pittafield Springfield Bridgeport Providence ... Hartford Games Today Albany at Springficld. Hartford at Pittseld. Waterbury at New Haven. Providence at Bridgeport. Games Tomorrow Springficld at Providence. Pittsfield at Waterbury. Hartford at New Haven. Bridgeport at Albany. INTERNATIONAU LEAGUE Games Yesterday Newark 13-9, Reading 4-8. Jersey City 6, Baltimore 5. Syracuse 9, Buffalo 4. Toronto 7, Rochester 6. The Standing WL 3 14 Buffalo 2 15 Toronto . 17 Rochester 8 718 23 Reading ... 37 Baltimore Reading at Newa Syracuse at Buffalo. Rochester at Toronto. Ward Sparks, Terre base runner | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927. ‘We suppose that we are alone in our opinion but we have decided ‘hat we are almost sick of the rains | that we have been having this past !week. Not that we mind rain—the nice muggy rain that makes trout | vearn for the sight of a worm—but | this cold chilly drizzle or the heavy ' downpour that only succoeds in making soup of the prook and run- ning down one's spin: doesn’t make i us happy at all. |~ This past week has been very | quiet, probably because the weather has kept most of the sporting fra- jternity at their offices. Sunday brought out a fairly good sized | crowd of them but on Monday, Tues. paid ten dollars to every man who | went fishing and still have the orig- inal bankroll. Bob Smith, -one of the Smith boys of Shuttle Meadow lake (the good looking one, somebody rises to say) has just returned from a nice fish- ing trip up in New Hampshire. left Wednesday evening and returned to New Britain on Bunday. He re- ports four large trout, two land locked salmon and plenty of perch and pickerel. He said that the perch were 80 hungry that they would line up beside the wharf in front of the cottage and open their mouths like fledgling birds. Commissioner Titcomb, the oblig- ing gentleman who has endeared himself to the sporting portion of the city by his recent opening of | Nuffiber 4 Reservoir, has reported | ! that the present season has been the best in years, speaking of trout. Far Ibe it from us to contradict a man | who probably knows more about | trout and other kinds of fish than we i ever will know, but as far as we have been able to find 2ut, geod fish- ing has meant plenty of small trout j—the result of the promiscuous | activities of the commission and the i various Fish and Game Associations, | The majerity of fish _caught this | spring have been between six afd |elght inches long, aside from the thousanda of three and four inch itrout which have necessarily had to lbe returned. | Personally, we can see no benefits to be derived from extensive stock- |ing of streams throughout the state {and ‘then, later in the year..pulling them out again after they have ob- tained their necessary lawful length la.nrl not much more. | Of course big fish have been caught—the Blackberry river has ‘vielded a few wonderful trout—but the average run of trout in this state has been small, very small. | Streams are annually fllooded with small trout; the brooks become con- gested with fingerlings: the fish do Inot have the right feeding possibili- 'ties and never attain a very great size; the early spring filshermen come along and wipe them out: the state stocks therh again with finger- lings—and so it goes. | This sounds pretty pessimistic and it might all be just one of the ef- fects of the recent heavy rainy, We admit, and freely too, that eonditions are considerably better than they were, say, five years ago, but we !also claim that there is plenty of room for improvement. One theory which has been advaneed concerns the prohibition of fishing on cefain stteams for a full season, and the more careful and less gencrous stocking of streams. | of the state fish and game commis- Islon has it. “Not more trout, but ilarnr trout.” | We heard a sad tale recentl Some young New Britalnite, a be- ginner at the game of angling, was ! fishing on Lake Pocotapaug the other day. ame a savage strike; came a stirring battle and the young nimrod was gazing on a four pound black hass, Now close your oyes and imagine what you would have thought and sald under the same circumstances. The month is May and the little blue book in your ' pocket says something about July 1 and black bass w)ich is not casy to | forget. The young man threw him {hack of course, but last reports say that he will never be quite the same. Mike Fitzgerald of thix city. goes on record as bringing in the largest trout of the season &o far. Mike \I\rought in a string of trout running from 13 inches to 17 1-4 inches in length. His second largest was a 16 1-4 baby and the rest of the !string ran down to the 13 inch !voungster. Mike won't say where he caught them and we don’t know as we blame him but it surely made our heart ache to look them over. Fate has been unkind to us this year and we freely admit that the sight of a 17 1-4 inch trout is capable of | sending little shivvers up and down ur spine, . The Brainard. Monler and Rose expedition to New York state fared nicely according to reports of [trlo who have returned to this city after several days of good fishing. They say that they had plenty of rain. plenty of water and plenty of |trout. While they caught no ex- ceedingly large fish, they had plenty of table trout on hand when the /trip ended. Thg one day | planned to fish for lake trout it ISALESMAN $AM Hook, Line and Sinker %"y "1 Bob | As the motto | Bethany the | they | poured, So the big fellows are still v went 1o a small iplace named Hopmeister, some 50 wiles south of Utlca. | will remember that we had planncd {that we hadn’t seen in five years. {We didn't get out Saturday—some- thing about a Mister Lindbergh and an aeroplane—but Sunday morning tfound us out searching for the little |brook. We were a little hazy as | to direction but we finally located it. | You'll remember that | used to get nice trout out of that | ittle streary. Times have changed. Giving that up, we went over to look at Patton Brook. We had for- | F, Rittner, ss; T. Thorstenson, cf; gotten that there was so much mud ! connected with |and lost our temper. Every time we got into a pool after having tried for twenty minutes to get our bait | past a tangle of brush we found that twe were fishing on the heels of the | boots of the fellow in front of us. | All we needed was a drum corps and |a flag to lead the parade. | Frankly, we're getting tired of giv- ing you readers excuses. We Know | the Everyman's Biblo class by 8- that we are capable of hooking and | afier a hard struggle, The winners |landing a brook trout. We know that | | we have had a tough streak of hard {luck to deal with this season. Now | frame, got to Shepard, and threat- boys call around | oned to tie the score; it was turned invite us to o |jack three short of the needed total. | lall you big hearted boy iat the office and |fishing with you where vou know there are some trout. Please do that, fellow sufferers, before we go out { behind the barn and bite our finger- | nails. Sec you next week. ST, MATTS APPLY ;swnmors Also Score Shutout and Methodists Win League Standing 1.000 1.000 1.000 First Lutheran .... Stanley Memorial Trinity M. E. ...... St. Matthew's . Swedish Bethany .. | Kensington Cong. .. | First Baptist .... South Cong. .. |B. B.C. ..., Center Cong. The St. Matthew’s |erans started their quest of a second [MACCUSM\'Q chamgpionships in the In- ter-Church baseball league by win- ning a 5-0 decision from the Swedish | Bethany nine at Willow Brook park | ’lul evening. Otto Sucss pitched a ifine game for the winners, allow- {ing only three hits and fanning 11 |batters; he was in danger only once, | when men reached second and third | with two out, and the next man was retired on an easy grounder. Dave Swanson did nice work in the hox| for the Bethany outfit, but the St {Matts concentrated their attack in |the fourth inning when they scored Ithey werc as weak as the losing team. |they were as weak asthe losing team. , Linn, Neumann, E. Surko, Eues and Goody Preisser all reached base {on hits or errors in the big fourth {and worked around for runs on dar- |ing base running which upset the infleld and resulted in er- Irors. The St. Matts showed the same | dash which characterized their play |last year. | The game was featured by thc | worlk of the Surko brothers and ‘arl- ison. Goody Preisser contrilmted Iplenty of comedy and turned in a | for the {whale of a catch by running in from center field to take a Texas leaguer | Abramowicz 3b, Walicki 2b, | which two infielders missed. lineups and score by innings: The The boys with the good memory ;while Goodrich's wildnesg and had |to fish a small strcam last Saturday | players romp around the bases we sald we another long hit and Patton Brook. We |Stohl, p; |got three bites. didn’t hook a fish »; ston, $b; Stromquist, p-1b; Frederickson, 5 Pet. | Stanmors Run Away The Stanley Memorial team crush- ed the Kensington Congregational | outfit by 12-0. Dave Stohl had little rouble with the Kensington batters, errors in the field let the Stanmor most at will. They gradually work- ed up to a climax, scoring six runs in the final inning. Jack Thorstenson smashed out his second home run of the season, crossing the plate before the ball had been flelded. He also drove out continued around the bases when the return to the infield was muffed. The line- {ups and score by innings: Stanley Memorial—E. Stohl, 2b; J | i | Thorstenson, 1b; Iverson, 3b; D. Unwin, ¢; Schaeffer, If; C. Rittner, rf. Kensington Congilegational—Good- rich, p; Griffith, c; Woodford, 1b; | Strople, 2b: K. Stevens, 3b; Chot- | kowski, ss; Isaacson rf; Guggerty, If; Harding, cf. N |Stan. Mem. .. 201 021 6—12 & 1] Kens. Cong. .. 000 060 0— 0 5 6 | Umpjre, Sautter. { Methodists Win The Trinity Methodists downed got away to early lead, but the | Bible class came back ‘in the last Bearcat Nelson was knocked out of | the box by the Methodists, but Ol- son was hit as hard as his prede- | cessor. Blauvelt starred with two wonder- ful catches in the.trees in the out- | fleld, while Tyler's work at second | | was good. The line-ups and score | by innings: Everyman’s Bible class—Olson, 1b- Judd, ss; Yankaskas, 1f; John- W. Nelson. | Sundell, rf; Kellerman, cf. Trinity M. E. — Sundstrom, cf; A. Morton, c; Blauvelt, If; H. Pink- erton, ss; Thomas, 1b; R. Pinkerton, 3b; Tyler, 2b; Smith, rf; Shepard, 000 200 3—5 8 4 221 102 x—8 12 2 Games Next Week No games will be played Monday, | Memorial day. On Friday Kensing-| ton will play the Swedish Bethany team, the Trinity Methodists will meet the First Lutherans, and the South Congregationalists will face ithe First Baptists. Arrangements have been made for playing off the three postponed games in which the South church figures. The fgame with Kensington will be played on | June 6, that with the St. Matts on June 13, and the one with the Stan- lay Memorial nine on June 20. BURRITTS PLAY MONDAY T.ocal Bascball Club Takes on Tough Contender Pecoration Day Momn- ing at St. Mary's Field. The Burritt A. C. baschall team will stack up against the Crimson | A. C. of Hartford Monday morning at 10:30 oclock at St. Mary's field. | The Capital City team holds vic- ttories over some of the fastest |teams in the state and the Burritts| |will have to travel at top speed to| {register a victory. This will be the lopening game of the home scason| for the local club. The Burritts will | hold forth in this city Saturday | afternoons. | In preparation for ‘Monday's| same, the Burritts practiced last| night and Coach “Starhcad” Bud- |nick feels that the team is all set Ifor a battle. The probable lineup | game is as follows: Guidu icf. Jarnot If, “Stub” Budnick ss. Bud- | nick 1b, Luty or J. Budnick xf, J. | Klatka or Zeiko ¢, and J. Rose or St. Matthew's German Lutheran— |J. Salak, p. | F. Preisser, 2b; W. | Litke, 1 Preisser, Surko, If; Fink, ¢; W. Linn, 1h; Neumann ss, Surko, 3b; O. Sucss, p; G. Preisser, rf-cf. Swedish Bethany — Dahlman, c; |D. Swanson. p; D. Johnson, 1b: {Hjerpe, 1b; O. Strom. 2b: Lagerlof. |3b; A. Carlson, ss; Olson, If; . |8trom, ef; Ii. Johnson, ef; Person, |rt. |St. Matts ..... 000 300 0—5 9 3 |Swed, Beth. .. 000 000 0—0 8 4 | Umpire, Parker. 1129 Stanley Street ofi | Make Money! ' Buy— GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS §. & F. MORTOR SALES CORP. GIRLS AFTER SCALP The Terrors handed the Mohawka a team of boye between 10 and 12, an 11 to 5 setback vesterday in the | | first game of a three-game series. The Terrors are a team composed of girls botween 10 ano 13 years of age and they challenge any girls am in the city averaging the ahove ages. 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