New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1927, Page 9

+ that of Sports The action of Louis (Kid) Kap- lan of Meriden, former feather- weight champion of the world, in taking only $6,000 of a guarantee of $7,500 from the Catholic Boys® club of New York for his fight the other night, has dumbfounded followers of the fistic game because of his action. he club suffered a deficit from the fight card but Kaplan's action will help greatly to make up the finan- cial loss. The action of the “Kid"” in mak- ing a return of $1,600 to the club ninder whose auspices the show was conducted, is one of the finest bits sportsmanship in the annals of present day boxing. With profes- sional fighters all “money hungry, it is a pleasure to find one who has been up to the top of one division and looks good to be at the top of another, being solicitous of the ex- chequer of the club which enabled him to make some money. From reports in New York, Kap- lun’s action is liable to act as a moral crow-bar in separating some cash from the pockets of the others who fought on the card. His voluntary action is only what could be expected of the former champion and it certainly won't hurt nim in the estimation of the fol- lowers of the game. Kaplan is generous, but not to a rault. His ready willingness to come to this city Monday night and appear in a sparring exhibition Wlt_h Eddie Lord at St. Joseph’s circus, is another item which will redound to his own Dbenefit. Kaplan is an unassuming chap. The hardest thing in the world is to get him to talk about himself, es- pecially if it is a newspaper corre- spondent who asks the questions 1d he docsn't seek glory except which is brought to him through his flying fists. The story about his integrity in the ring when he decided to retire from the featherweight crown and turned down an offer of $30.000 to frame a bout and hand his title over to another, is just one more item to his credit. the years to come. ighters as a general rule, are classed as the most selfish athlctes in all classes. They contract to fight for a certain amount of money and they want every farthing of it. No matter whether a promoter faces the poor house when a show goes flat, the fighters must get their money. That is why it is so re- freshing to hear that Kaplan re- turned $1,500 to the promoters of the boxing card in New York Wed- nesday night. PHILLY BATTLERS IN CAPITAL GITY Quakertown Amateurs Make Re- * turn Appearance Tuesday Hartford, June 18—The Philadel- | phta amateur boxing “team, which scored a victory over a picked team ot Connecticut amatcurs at the Hartford Velodrome some three weeks ago, will step into Hartford next Tuesday night for a return tournament with the Nutmeg staters. The team will include Jimmy Walk- cr, the flashy colored feathcrweight, who gave Battalino a few interesting moments though Bat, as usual, man- aged to dispose of him in the second | round. Walker weathered the first round against Battalino in good style which is more than most of Bat's opponents the past year were able to do. The fight was stopped in the second round and Battalino awarded it technical kayo whereat many of the fans set up a loud howl. Walk- «r showed fast (ootwork and a stur- | dy punch in his meeting with the national champion. : Other members of the team from «uakertown are Tom Conaghy, the t bantamweight who beat Vin- it LaBella of Middletown after a hard fight; Tom Gleason, the welter- weight who won over Vie Morley; Jimmy (Taran) Ray. who knocked out Ray Hall after a slashing af- : Tom Donoue, middle Atlantic champion, and Emery Schaffer, rat- wd the leading amatcur lightweight in_Pennsylvania. The indication is that many of the onnecticut boys who met these I’hiladelphians In the former tour- nament. will again face them Tues- v night, assuring the same rugged | craps that characterized the first meoting. In addition to these inter-state clashes, there will be some inter-city houts, bringing into action leading ‘onnecticut amateurs, the.indication heing two and one-half hours of nilling. The first bout i1s =et for &:15. ‘rankie Portelle and Jack Watson vill referee and “S{lk” O'Loughlin vill be the announcer. AFTER SWIM RECORD wo Sl.sll'l‘s Start at Albany for New York in an Effort to Break Record Sct Last Fall. New York, June 18.—(M—Bere- nice and Phylis Zitenfield, 13 year old twins, left tonight for Albany, | from where they will start on the 162 mile swim down the Hudson Sunday in an effort to lower the reecord of 68 hours and 14 minutes set by Mrs. Lottie Schoemell, last fall. The swimmers will finish at the Battery. When the twins enter the water one of them will wear a coat of grease one inch thick ever her silk bathing svit, while her sister will dispenze with the grease in an fort to test the merits of the oil coating as an aid to long distance ' swimming. TN May he meet success inf Hook, Line and Sinkr . The president and us are some fishermen. Of course, we haven't gotten the notoriety about our feats such as Mr. Coolidge has but just the same we are both good. Any-| body who can call a brook “fished out” and “too popular” and “worth- less” and the bunch of other things that we have called Patten Brook and then go over there on a Satur- day afternoon and take out ten trout is, in our own opinion, good. Don’t stop us. This is the first time this year that we have strained the buttons on our vest pushing out our chest and if our hat doesn’t fit for the next two weeks, that's all right, too. We think we deserve it. Tt was a hard earned victory. At times it was a toss-up as to whether the mosquitoes, the trout or us would come out ahead. The mos- quitoes got flercer along towards sun-down; the trout grew hungrier; our worms grew scarcer and alto- gether it was a hear-breaking ex- perience. We got ten fish, ran out of worms and surrendered to the mosquitoes all at the same time. If we ever, at any time, made the statement that Patten Brook was too easy to fish for good sport, call us up and say we were cuckoo. The deep mud, combined with the lack of current for carrying the bait, combined with the midges and mos- quitoes, combined with the fact that it was HOT, tested our fishing abil- ity to its breaking point. Tom Dolan—he's a policeman and not a fireman such as we labelled him last week—dropped up to the office Monday morning to see us. It seems that Tom had caught his usual 20 trout the day before and wanted to dispel all doubts about| the truth of his statements. We| didn’t happen to be in but he con- vinced the fellow who w: talking to him 8o we are passing it along. Item: Tom Dolan caught 20 trout Sunday. It's getting to be a habit to pound out those words every week. Stories are floating down from | Riverton to the effect that the state authorities are allowing all bass tak- en from the waters up there to be Kept, even if the calendar Is still pacing oft June, and July is some i distance away still. For some rea- son the powers that be want the | big-mouths cleancd out of there and they have been lenient with the trout fishermen who have snagged bronze-backs by mistake. Just why this course is being taken hasn't been explained, but the idea has lured several local nimrods to that section of the state. The latest report from that branch of the Farmington river comes from Fred Monier who was up there Wednesday. Two trout and four or five bass constituted his por- | tion of the swimming element of the place. They all ran fairly sizeable, | the trout touching eight inches and | !the bass measuring about the same. By the way, if you fellows enjoy | {good perch fishing,” we heard of a! |place that sounds pretty nice if| you'd care to take a chance on it.| All the directions we can give you, now are that the place is a quarry hole situated on the top of a hill on | the right side of the river road a little this side of Higganum. They say that they're running ten to fif- tcen inches long. But wait a minute istart packing up for the trip—| there's a catch to it. The last per-| son who was up there tells us that | he dangled worms in front of big! perches’ noses for three hours on end and they retused to take it as anything but a big joke. He's going | up there again soon armed with]| everything in the fisherman's cata- | logue and he hopes to reap a har- | xest. before you i That brings us to the question as! to whether or not perch are enthu-| siasts of any form of artificial bait. excepting jiggers through the ice, but somebody tells us that they will | take a fly if one sinks it far enough below the surface. We have noticed flies and bugs in perch crops during cleaning operations but we repeat, we have never scen a perch take a fly. Have any of you? i The quecrest home made lnre w [ have ever seen was probabiy th most successful artificlal bait w have witnessed in operation. Th fellow who used the bait held records for consistent bass catching | on a lake for a whole season—' weather didn't make the slight difference to him—he could always | bé depended upon to get his share. When the sccret was unveiled it was ! | found that he had used a red pom- pon from one of his wife's hats ani attached a small section of cork and a triple gang hook on a swivel trail- | ing it. FEvery wife on the lake the | next day was missing-hats with pom pons on them, The black fish are biting steadilv jalong the sound. several catches tbeing reported in this city. The! Jolly Roger club, minus Captain | Griswold, pulled out fifteen Sunday. | all pretty small but with plenty of | spunk. Al Schultz ia leading in the | cup race but he is threatened with being displaced any day now. ' Reports on pickersl have been disappointing £o0 far this year. Some- how we expected a fairly decent yvear but since the opening of the season we have heard of very few pickerel bejng caught. Down at Take Pocotopaug the pickerel fish- !ermen have constantly Leen running into bass, the big-mouths seeming to sense their immunity to chances of being kept and grabbing spinners, live bait and other lures before the pickerel have had a chance to get their mouths around the hook. We ran across a quecr duck Sat- urday afternoon. If he reads this , we hope his feelings won't be hurt because we caught all our fish afte: {it happened and we aren’t mad a bit. We were down in the brush, finding it pretty tough going, when lh]\ the braok came a fly fisherman, It was rather surprising to find =omebody working up the brook but | that was no affair of ours and we passed pleasantries on the bank for | awhile. He nudged in ahecad of us "on the pool we were working and metting no responseé there he changed his fiy to a hook, speared a NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. worm and rushed down the brook ahead of us again. What we said to ourselves was nobody's business but it was very explicit. Not satis- fled with fishing the part of the brook that we were waiting to fish, once, he threshed down back over the same ground to remove all doubt that he had missed one. It so hap- | pened that he had missed them all {but it was one of the crudest pieces of trout fishing ctiquette we ~have ever witnessed—and that goes if he happened to be the Prince of Wales. ILOCAL BALL CLUBS TO BE IN ACTION OVER WEEK-END Falcons Playing Riverview Nine of Norwich at St. Mary’s — Pirates to Battle Derby In Western League Game at Willow Brook Park—All-Kensing- ton Meeting Willimantic Team — Corbin Red Sox | Detroit ... | st. ! Boston .... | tournament. Sce you next week. WALT LEAGUE STANDING AMERIGAN LEAGUE Ll Several excellent bascball attrac- tions are carded for New Britain diamonds tomorrow and plenty of action is prcmised the fans who |plan to turn out to watch the | contests. The Falcons and Pirates will meet fast teams at St. Mary's field and Willow Brook park, the former meeting the Norwich Rive view club and the latter playing its | tirst game in the Western Baseball | League. The All-Kensington team makes the third New Britain club -691 | holding forth at home. The West 86 | Sides of Willimantic will furnish the -545 { opposition at the Percival avenue srounds. The Corbin Red Sox and the New Britain Blues are both scheduled to play in Meriden. | Falcons vs, Norwich. The TFalcons are scheduled to 5 & incet the toughest orposition of the % 5 year at St. Mary's field when the Dleveland af Boston: Riverview club of Norwich appears JcaEpia iEbIAdelphia against them tomorrow afternoon. Detroltiat Washington. | The Riverview club has yet to meet defeat this year and is at the pres- ent time far in the lead for the mythical state semi-professional baseball title. The visitors have, this season, turned back some of the leading | teams in New England and they con- fidently expect to add the Falcons) | to their list. With Normandin at | hort, A. Dugas at first, Libert at second, Sank at third and Mills, Moore and L. Dugas in the outfield, the team presents a strong defense against the hardest attack the Fal-| Pot, | CON8 can make. The battery with | s34 | Belair catching and West. ace of | ‘430 | the visitors' twirlers in the box, is) ‘85 | exceptionally strong and able to de- ‘500 | feat the best of hatters. ! 4351 The Talcons will use their regular | 417 lineup with either Schmidt or Buc- "3a0 | holz pitehing. The game will start 557 ‘ at 3 o'clock sharp with Herbie Saut- ‘!cr holding the indicator. | Games Yesterday New York 3, St. Louls 2. Philadelphia §, Chicago 3. Washington 3, Detroit 1. Cleveland 6-4, Boston 3-3. The Standing Ww. New York ...... 3 Chicago .. 34 Philadelphia 30 ‘Washington Cleveland St. Louls Games Tomorrow St. Louis at New York. Chicago at Cleveland. Detroit at Washington. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Philadelphia 12, Chicago 2 Boston 8, Pittsburgh 7. Brooklyn & Cincinnati 3. (Other clubs not scheduled). The Standing w. 34 34 30 27 27 Pittsburgh Chicago . Louis ew York Brooklyn . Philadelphia . i Cincinnati ...... 20 i | Pirates vs. Derby. { The Pirates baschall team will play the first game in the Western | Connecticut Teagne tomorrow after- noon at Willow Brook park meeting the Derby entry in the circuit. Derby has a team that is being fa- | vored to win the pennant in the | leagnue but the Pirates are consider- ed the hetter club by the fans in/ | this 1ocality. A battle roval i3 prom- T !jzed those who attend the game at EASTERN LEAGUE | the municipal diamond. This con- | test will also start at 3 o'clock with | Jim Havliek holding the indicator Play Willimantic. The All-Kensington managemen { kas secured an extraordinarily good attraction for the home game to- | morrow in the West Ends of Willi- mantic. The visiting club is th> Pet. | strongest aggregation outside of th2 .396 | Riverview nine in the Eastern sec- .551 ! tjon of the state. TKensington 521 | o revamped lineup with the 10 Fordham s A9L1 ged this week. Bruno Kania will probably draw | | the pitching assignment this week { although the choice may fall on Rig Jim” Scott. Bruno i in ex- cellent shape and is anxious to show | his stuff. He will have Sullick eatch- [ fng him. Zielkle will play first with Belser on second. Joe Kania at short and George Fields at third. McCasmick, Grip and McKeon will play the outfield. The visitors will lineup as follow Tew e, Smith, Farrell or Pospisil p. | Haggerty 1b, Rabinowitz 2b, Hart | a8, S Holler 3h, Kegler If, A. Heller {ef and M. Heller rf. | art promptly at 3 o'cock with | “Ripper” McKeon holding the indi- | cator. Games Today New York at St. Louls. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. | Boston at Pittsburgh. (Other clubs not scheduled). Games Tomorrow New York at St. Louis. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Boston at Brooklyn. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. Games Yesterday Providence 8, Albany Hartford 4, Waterbury 2 Dittsfield 10, Bridgeport 4. Springfield 6, New Haven 4 The Standing Albany Pittsfield New Haven .. Bridgeport ... Springfield Waterbury Providence . Hartford ........ has two ) Games Today Albany at Providence. Hartford at Waterbury. Bridgeport at Pittsfield. New Haven at Springficld. Games Tomorrow sSpringfield at Hartford. i Waterbury at New Haven. Pittsfield at Albany. Providence at Bridgeport. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Newark 5, Buffalo 2. Toronto 6, Jorsey City 1. Raltimore 5, Rochester 3. Syracuse 6, Reading 0. Red Sox In Merlden The Corbin Red Sox go to Meri- den tomorrow afternoon to mect |the Tnsilco club in a Central Con- necticut league contest. The Sox |trimmed the Tnsilcos in a pre-sea- |son game and they hope to dupli- |cate agatn tomorrow. The local fclub hroke into the win column n 240 | the circuit last Sunday by downinz 17| Wallingford ana Manazor John ‘200 Tobin hopes to have his club con- ‘424 |tinue, The game will be played at ‘143 | Hanover park in the Silver City 1and will start promptly at 3 o'clock. Rlues in Meriden The New Britain Blues will play the Shamrocks of Meriden at Olean fleld in the Silver City -tomorrow | fternoon. The local club will leave | rom the Ranger club rooms on! | Chureh strest at 1:30 ocloek sharp. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Chicago-—Johnny Hill, Philippines. The Standing W. Pet. 633 631 00 Ruffalo Syracuse ... Baltimore Toronto . Rochester ... ersey City . Reading Games Today Toronto at Jersey City. Ruffalo at Newark. Rochester at Baltimore. Syracuse at Reading. Delaney’s Cousin Wins 1 A o Amateur Championship | Worcester, ,Mass., June 18.—(#— Arthur Chapdelaine, Springfield, nl first cousin of Jack Delaney, light- | heavyweight champion of the world. ' |.feated Charley Goodman, Brook- revealed his fighting ability last | jvn, 10 rounds. Haakon Hansen night when he won the champion- | Norway, scored a teehnical kiock- ship in the 112 pound class in the | out over Johnny Murphy Worcester county amateur boxing ' ¢ rannds, Norman, Brown Chapdelaine eliminated | heat Tarry Coleman, St four other contenders winning Qhe“"nnnd, final bout on points from John Villa | Datroit of this city. | Boh Saze “hieagzo. Chie Panl. one Flowers, ontpointed 10 rounds. | Tiger Detroit \'M GICK O STUMBLIN' OVER THOSE BOWLING BALLS! WHEN YA GET & MINUTE. T SPARE, PUT 'EM IN TH' WIN- O0W — THEY MIGHT STRIKE. S0MEBODN | and New Britain Blues to { hibition with | Bodnic of this city will entertain | appeared in New Britain years ago. T s, Belser and Gri,. ad- | The game will| | the start of the match, that of Frisk was | HOW MUCH' LL Y& LoaN ME ON THIS WaTcH? Play In Meriden. BOXING EXHIBITION (Kid) Lord to Appear at St. TLouis Kaplan and Eddie Joseph's Circus on Monday. Louis (Kid) Kaplan, who, the other night, took a step higher on the ladder towards the lightweight championship of the world, will give a large number of New Brit- ain people their first opportunity to see him in action on Monday night when he appears in a sparring ex- Eddie Lord of Meri- den in the feature of the St. Jo-| seph's circus entertainment at the | Edson street grounds. Jimmy and Johnny Clinch will mix it up for the edification of the | followers of the fistic sport while ! three other good sparring set-tos have been planned. Del Pouliot of this city will spar with Vincent La- | Bella of Middletown; Eddie Lewis| of this city will canter around with | Joe Smith of Middletown and Frank | Sandow of Manchester and Phil for a short time. Kaplan, in his preliminary days, but since he won the world's feath- erweight crown and entered the ranks of the lightwelghts, this will be his first appearance in ring togs in this city. Because of his promi- nence in the ring, his exhibition with Eddie Lord, a promising jun- for lightweight, will be an ex- traordinary attraction. ST. MATTS WIN Church Team Defcats Fast Ends at Willow Brook — Billy Preisser Pitches Fine Ball. The St. Matthew’s German Luth- eran church team defeated the East nds at Willow Brook park last evening, 6-3, Billy Preisser holding | the losing team to four hits and Keeping it in check all the way. The winners scored early and were never in danger after they had regained he lead in the third frame, making five runs in that and the mext in- nings off Nyborg. Goody Prefsser ! and Ernst Klopp hit hard for the . Matts, while Lagerlof and Gro-| | of the Iast Ends got triples. ldie Surko played a good game at | third base. The box . Klopp, 1 .. Newman lrmczozsbssen alecossusrsns Elosduswuzam @ BT A. Foberg, Adamson, mon, o .. Foborg, rf . n, ommmsooms LOCAL TEAM WINS Anderson and Frisk Down Fisher | and O'Brien While Rolling lk‘st‘ Mateh of Season. Anderson and Frisk, the two-men | team from Rogers bowling alleys, last night took Iisher and O'Brien ihe Hartford duet, into camp last | night. The local howlers won the | match by the margin of 109 pins. At the New Britain team was trailing by 64 pins, but these were regained in the first game rolled. ¥risk and Anderson rolled the best two-man match ever rolled in Hart- ford. 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