New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1927, Page 21

Spéaking of Sports Jack Dempsey is the mystery man of the fight world at the present time. The question about him sim- mers down to whether he is a total wreck or not. Evidently Dempsey has something left or else the experts wouldn't be using up 80 much time in talking about how good he looks both as to physical shape and his ring work. He has started his ferocious attacks on his sparring partners and has hnocked two of them clean out al- ready while he has two fechnical sions over others. With Sharkey in New York todny' to start his training for the bout, comparisons will start flowing in as tust as Niagara goes over the rocks. | Sharkey has the favor of the fans because of his youth and his un- questioned ability in the ring. Dempsey is being doubted be- cause he was a “bust” in the fight against Gene Tunney last year. Had he beaten Tunney and retained his championship then, there isn't any doubt about it but that he would be the favorite to beat Sharkey when they meet. There seems to be something' phoney about the conflicting reports, emanating from the Dempsey camp at Saratoga. One has it that he is in poor shape, another is agreeably surprised at his showing. One has his sparring partners all ‘“‘easy marks"” while the others have them as real good men. { To the interested fan and anyone who is interested at all in fighting, is interested in the Dempsey-Shark- ey go, there is nothing left but to wait mntil the night of the bout to _see just how good Dempsey is. Maloney has warned Dempsey to watch out for Sharkey’'s left hand. Dempsey seemingly has adopted a campaign of body pdnching that he will probably carry with him into! the ring. This is borne out by the story that Sharkey cannot stand the “gaff” "when the punches.are directed at his mid-rift and give Dempsey only a little of the punching power he ey in the stomach and if Sharkey ey in the stomach and 1. onarkey can't take it there, he is beaten. If Councilman Sammy Sablotsky is successful in his campaign to get tennis courts built at the North End park, it won't be nicessary for Jack Putterman and Ekor Rosenberg to trek all the way up to Walnut Hill park to indulge in the ‘*game of love.” \ It will also be possible for this! pair to get their games started be- fore noon because they won't have to walk so far. All those in favor of the courts in the North End park say “Ave The prediction is made that soon New Britain will have a large num- ber of new baseball diamonds buiit Lv the city. There is need for a number of diamonds at the present time. Every night the diamonds at Wal- nut Hill park are taken by devotees of the great American game and little time is left to teams ouside of the league to get in practice sessions or games. Willow Brook park won't bhe a popular sports center for a long time to come. Despite the efforts | to make the South End park a place where fans will flock, hardly anyone goes there now to watch any line of sports. Walnut Hill park is the mecca for Jovers of baseball and it will remain s0 for a long time to come. A park in the eastern section of the town would he ideal and would probably serve the purpose for which Willow Brook park was intended. The North end has its park, the West end has a park and the south end has a park. Why not a park in the east somewhere beyond East * street? 'WEEKLY EVENT AT SHUTTLE HEADOW -Best Selected Nine in Eighteen to Be Played Tomorrow A best selected nine In eighteen with a full handicap allowed will be the feafure at the weekly tourna- ment4t Shuttle Meadow club tomor- row. This event is sure to bring out all the golfers at the club and a large entry list is expected tonight. Tomorrow also opens up the twi- light medal championship of 72 loles with a 3-4 handicap allowed. ‘This will, it is expected, bring every | member of the club into play in an offort to win a prize. The tournament has many intri- cate rules governing it but is a sim- | ple matter when it is explained. | izach entry in the eyent will be al- | | | | {owed to play for four weeks. No matehes can bhe staged before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, thereby <iving the tournament its sobriguet of “twilight.” The beat 18 holes played during the week will be selected for each of four wecks and then, added together, tho best 72 aoles for the four weeks will be seclcted as the winning card. Pl can hand in as many cards | during the week as they wnat to and | the best 18 will be selected but one strict requisite of the tournament is that the cards be handed in. Each player will be given until Friday night of each week to shoot the best 18 for the preceding week that is, each week will end on a Friday. The competition in this event will be the most severe of the year it is thought, because a player who has an 'off-day” on Tuesday, can come back to make his good marks the next day. LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Detroit 9, 8t. Louis 6. (Other clubs not scheduled). ‘The Standing . Pet. New York 54 720 Washirfgton ..... 40 556 Chicago 42 545 Detroit ..... 39 33 542 ' Philadelphia 40 36 526 | Cleveland .. . 34 40 459 St. Louis . . 30 43 411 Boston .. e 17 56 233 | Games Today New York at Detroit. (2). Washington at Cleveland. (2). Philadelphia at St. Louls. Boston at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday ] Chicago 2, Pittsburgh 1. (8 innings, rain). Brooklyn 3, New York 2. St. Louis 12, Boston 1. Cincinnati 11, Philadelphia 4. The Standing W LNl Chicago . 46 21 2630 Pittsburgh .. 4“4 2 ! St. Louis 31 . New York .. 39 36 520 Brooklyn ... .36 \3S Philadelphia 30 43 Boston 28 41 Cincinnat okl 45 3604 Games Today Chicago at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at New York. ! St. Louis at Boston. | Cincinnati at Philadelphia. EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Albany 5, Hartford 4. i Providence 8, Waterbury 1 | New Haven 3, Bridgeport Springfield 0, Pittsfleld 0. (8 innings, rain). The Standing w. : L. Albany 42 51 Pittsburgh . 38 31 Hartford ........ 34 33 | Bridgeport .. 35 New Haven . 36 Springfleld - . 33 Providence 39 | Waterbury 34 11 | Games Today Albany at Springfield. Hartford at Pittsfield. | Waterbury at New Haven, Providence at Bridgeport. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Reading 8, Toronto 4. ! All others rain. The Standing w. i strokes in Jack's game. | ern middiweight and fight critic, re- | |room to be engraved and become | L. Pet. Syracuse . 30 647 Buffalo .. . 47 31 603 Baltimore ks L4 32 Newark . . 44 40 Toronto ceres 42 41 Rochester 530 39 500 Jersey City . 36 45 444 Reading . 16 63 190 Games Today Jersey City at Syracuse. Newark at Rochester, Reading at Toronto. Baltimore at Buffalo. Gilda Gray to Have Theater of Her Own New York, July 8—(@—Gilda Gray is planning a theater of her own. The Bagdad Theater corporation, of which the noted dancer and movie actress is president, has leas- ed two four story buildings in East 5Sth street to be made into a theater accommodating 7 patrons. SENT TO PRISON Man Who Robbed Churches Gets 3 to 15 Years., Columbus, Ohio, July 8 (#—Ray Marsden, confessed pillager of nearly 7,000 churches in the United States and Canada, sterday en- tered Ohio penitentiary to serve 8 to 15 years for theft of sacred ob- jects from the shrine at Carey, Ohio, several months ago. Marsden was sentenced today at Upper San- dusky. Member of a gang of five men, who, Marsden said, committed nearly 15,000 robberies on churches, [mostly Catholic, In the past few years, Marsden was arrested two months ago in connection with the Carey robbery. His alleged accom- plices were arrested at Covington, Ky. HELD AS RACE FRAUD HEAD. Thomas Beech Accused of Attempt to Fleece Wealthy Clevelander., Cleveland July 8 (A—Thomas Beech, accused of heading a gang of race horse swindlers that robbed wealthy persons vacatio=ing in Flor- ida a few years ago, was :n jail here today following his plea ct guilty of using the mails to defraud. With him in jail on the same charge was A. W. Duff, while a third alleged member of the gang still at large is Jack French. The trio is accused Jf attempting to swindle Albert Scurin, iormer res- ident here, now livin, St. Peters- burg, ¥la. Federal officials said Seurin enticed into the gambling scheme and was about to lose $15,- 000 when he became suspicious. vr SEARCH GIVEN Army Flicrs Fail to Find Body of Lieut. Williams. Honolulu, July 8 (P—The army late yesterday gave up the h for the body of Licutenant Cha se NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY §, 1927. AS GOLFER JACK 1S 600D FIGHTER Dempsey and Flynn Pair Up in Gamp Championship Tourney White Sulphur Springs, Saratoga Lake, N. Y., July 8 (®—Jack Demp- sey plays golf just as aggressively as he fights but with a lot less ac- curacy. And just as his manager, Leo P. Flynn, coaches every move Jack| makes in the training ring, so does the new guide of the former cham- pion regulate Dempsey’s play on the link: The manner in which Leo clip- ped ten strokes from Jack's normal gait of 108 for 18 holes yesterday in the camp tournament for the prized Saratoga cup was good for only one of scveral arguments still raging in camp today as Dempsey | resumed training for the fight with Jack Sharkey after a day of fun on the McGregor course. The California team that won the tourgament, Dave Shade and Bob| dgren, were too polite to say that | lynn merely failed to count ten The west- spectively, were cwtent with a mar- gin of two up at the end of the play. Edgren won individual honors with | an 84, Flynn shot an 85, Shade 90, and Jack a much disputed 95. | Despite Leo's efforts to keep Dempsey toward the rear of the foursome—it was hinted that he! wanted to get in a lick himself at Jack’s ball when the lie was diffi- cult—the former title-holder could not control his nervous energy and | desire to plough right through to a| quick finish, Jack drove first from every tee re- gardless of the advantage and went | right on clouting the ball until it rested in the cup. Then he shadow boxed, ran, and sometimes did arm exercises to the next hole and was all teed up for more action by the time the last man dropped his putt.| Flynn was certain that Jack lost their chance of winning the trophy which only a few days ago was snatched from Tom Luther's dining overnight the most exalted bit of crockery in camp. On the seven- ¥eentli hole, after a smashing 270 vard drive, Dempsey pitched wi!hin’ 20 feet of the pin but he needed five putts to go down. Joe Benjamin, former lightweight | star and a close friend of the ex-| ¢hampion, teamed wifh Jerry Luv dis, Jack's trainer, to win thirc place. In a bitter personal struggle they scored well over 110 apiece but | low enough to distance the best of | the newspapermen. | Jerry's wailing “Whatsa matta”; sounded all afternoon from the depths of every trap on the course. Joe estimated that the gnarled lit-| bed “Sex Appeal,” was only on & fairway twice during the entire round. Benjamin created an up- roar by accusing Jerry of shouting “fore,”” throwing up a handful of sand, and passing his ball out of trouble in a deep trap after failing to get out with a mashie in ten shots. Two new sparring partners were primed to test Dempsey in the re- sumption of the regular private workouts today. They were the Herman boys, Tillie Kid, a middle- welght, and Italian Jack, a heavy- weight. They-are not related. CHURCH LEAGUE GAMES - Stanley Mcmorial and St. Matts to Meet Tonight In Onc of Important Games of Season. The St.nley Memorial and St. Matthew's German Lutheran church teams will meet tonight in one of the most important games on the Inter-Church baseball league sched- ule. The St. Matts are only half a game out of first place and can tie the First Lutherans by winhing to- night, while the Stanmors are one game to the rear of the runners-up and can go into a deadlock with them if they take this evening's con- test. The Stanmor sluggers will have a chance to see what they can do with Billy Preisser's pitching, while the St. Matt batters, craftier but not so pounding, will look over the shoots of either Dave or Ed Stohl. The game will be played on the “grass diamond” at Willow Brook park at 6: o'clock, and a large crowd is expected . The other two games will mean much to the teams involved. The Everyman’s Bible class, trying to work its way up from the rear, will face the South Congregational church, which is in the ruck because it cannot come near playing up to what it dopes out on paper. A South church win will carry that from seventh to fifth position, while the Bible class can hop from eighth to fifth by a victory over its oppon- ents, who are just ahead of it in the standing. Diamond No. 2 will be the scene of battle. The Kensington and Center Con- gregational churches will fight it out for last place—or rather to escape last place. A Kensington victory will carry the suburbanites out of last place for the first time this sea- son, and this is not an unlikely eventuality, playing well in defeat and would win games if it could develop some hit- ting powcr. TLe Center ciurch has been shifting its line-up considerably in recent games and thinks it has now found the combination which will stop s opponents. This game will be playcd on Diamond No. 1. These three games will close the first round of the league schedule and bhring the church loop to the halt way mark, although five post- poned games remaln to be played of! During the International fair at Budapest there wera 30,000 visitors tle trainer, whom Dempsey has dub-!from other countries. OUR BOARDING 'WEGAD LADS,« IMAGINE -THE MADAM,THRLO HER BROTHER, GETTING ME A J0B AS AN ELEVATOR INTHE €Y HALL Yer HMF o FANCY THATw T, A MAN OF LETTERS, ART AND SCIENCE, AN ELEVATOR STA! . FAUGH!! vnx COME, nr WE MEN MUST STAND TOGETHER, wa WHAT WoULD Nou suGGeST g/ \J(\&TED ' ByINESS Linton Williains, who tell into the ocean near here Wednesday while his airplanc with others was escort- ing the transpacific fliers, Maitland and Hegenberger as they departed for San Francisco, on the steamer 2. The navy tug Sunnadin also andoned the search. It was determined that the plane sank in 40 fathoms of water, making eiforts to recov it useless. Memorial services for Williams will be over the spot tomorrow, planes' of Williams's comrades of the army ara to drop garlands of flowers in farcwell, OW BOY '— NICK L. NURSER _ - 049 € HE (AN GET ' RIGHT ICE, HEY WILLING To SELL OUT H9 LUMBER BUIINESDS - HE SAYS5 V'JE GOT A FINE HERD FO HERE HOUSE = 1L suwsp N STARTER/ SALESMEN —To AN TLL TAKE NOURS, As A GTARTER FOR INDOOR AVIATORS ! RTER != team | for the team has been | e CONTRARY FEET- SHARKEY IS READY FOR COMING BOUT Boston Boy’s Arrival in New York Increases Ticket Sale New York, July 8 (®—Arrival of Jack Sharkey from Boston for his battle with Jack Dempsey here & week from Thursday added impetus today to a ticket sale which already has passed the half million dollar mark. The tinkle of gold falling into Tex Rickard’'s coffers increased in vol- ume as the Boston heavyweight pre- | pared to start intensive training to- day in his special quarters atop the | promoter’s Madison Square Garden. As an appetiser, the fistic public will be allowed to ch Sharkey in his training for a slight admission fee. The boxer's manager and | trainer have rounded up a flock of | heavyweights and light heavies to stop the Boston sailor's punches. “I feel fit and ready to fight right | now,” declared Sharkey as he ar- rived here last night by automobile | from Boston accompanied by Mrs. ¥. - put in quite a spell of train- ing in Kelly's gym in Boston, so I | haven’t been idle. 1 weigh 195 ‘pound-. I won't weigh much under | that when I face Dempsey in the ring. “And of course T'll win,” he grin- ined as though trying to live up to is reputation for braggadocio. The long drive through indifterent weather was made against the ad- vice of Sharkey's manager? Tex Rickard also was a bit worrled when the boxer failed to arrive until the middle of the evening. Sharkey | made his headquarters in the upper Broadway hotel where he stayed while here for the Jimmy Maloney fight. CITY LEAGUE GAMES | Pirates to Meet Speedboys, West Ends Battle Rangers and Burritts and Tabs Clash. | League Standing VAR Pt | Burritts 2 0 1.000 | Pirates 0 1.000 <peedboys I ER 0 ) {West Ends 1 1 500 {Tabs S 0SS0 01 | Rangers 0 2 000 | The Pirates, tied for first place |in the City league, have a tough |game facing them tomorrow after- noon when they meet the Speed- 1ill park at 2 o'clock. The Pirates inve won hoth of their games, «hile the Spe dhovs took their first encounter and gzave the Bur- {rifts a hard battle last week. On viond No ut By Ahern P> WHY NoT BEND AN EVE 00T OF PLUMB 2w Nou cAN YAKE A BUM GALE; AR 1N THAT WAY GEND UP EMPTY ELEVATORS, AN' LOAD PEOPLE IN -Til' REVOLVING » DOORS ' = o \ MR. STUPE,.. N WHAT WAR WAS GRAPE-SHOT USED ? |, ey ] = p7 R_\T — HE COMES NOW HELLO MR, NURSER — DONT FORGEY OUR APRDINTMENT | S0RRN, TO TALK OVER THAT BUSINESS PROPOSITION Msal BUT | WONT Bt 8BLE To SEE. NOU TONIGHTY the same hour | PETE — the West Ends, who have shown terrific hitting power, will face the | Rangers, who are weak with the stick but fast in the field. The champion Burritts, the other tcam in the first-place tie, will tackle the Tabs at 4 o'clock on Diamond No. 2. This should be an easy game for the Burritts, but the Tabs have been building up and hope to give the title-holders a battle. Women Derive Income From Home Industries Youngstown, N. Y., July 8 (#— The Abigail Iillmore chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion will turnish the new entrance hall of the 20( year old Fort Niag- ara, now being restored. The fur- niture will be of the Colonial period. Other patriotic organizations are expected to restore the other rooms. Congress has appropriated $15,000 for exterior repairs to be made hy the War Department cooperating with the present authorities of Fort Niagar: i L COUNTIES BANKLESS Denver, July 8 (P—The spectre of frozen assets and bank failures does not frighten the less than 2,000 resi- dents of Dolores, Hinsd: and Mine:-' countie for there are no ban counties. In Custer, Gilpin, Pitkin, San Juan and Summit coun- ties there is one bank each. WIN FORFEITE The Speedboy A. C. baseball team claim a forfeited victory from the Tremont Streets. The Speedbhoys will play the Hartford Avenues urday at 2 o'clock at Donahue's lot ME READ AERA!D CLASSIFIED :\DSi | wounded cadets asked INJURED GADETS PLEAD FOR DEATH Horrors of Chilean Wreck Re- vealed by Survivors Buenos Aires, Argentina, July §.—, (P—Survivors of wreck at Alpatacal, in the Argentine province ‘of Mendoza, in which a number of cadets of the Chilean military academy were killed or in- jured, say that the boilers of the locomotives exploded from the im- pact and that fire broke out imme- diately burning nine cars. yesterday's train On arriving at Mendoza, the capi- tal of the province, the survivors told of the hor llowed the collision with a regufar train of the special train on which 200 Chilcan cadets were traveling to Buenos Aires for the ninth of July Inde- pendence celebration, The collision cccurred at 4 o'clock in the morn- nd the fact that nearly every- one was sleeping made the confusion even greater. Co-ordinated efforts for the relief of the victims did not begin until an hour and a half after the disaster, Survivors said that several of the to be shot to be spared further suffering; that others covered their faces with their hands either to protect them from the flames, or to blot out the sight of the burning cars and the misery of fellow passengers. Dispatches from Mendoza describe 42nd SUITS moving scenes among the public gathered at the station when the speclal train arrived from the scene of the wreck with dead and wound- ed. ‘Wreaths of flowers were placed on the temporary coffins. The Pacific Rallway company, on whose lines the wreck occurred, says that five of the Chilean cadets and 19 trainmen were Kkilled, ten per- sons were seriously injured and 29 slightly injured. The company states the collision was due to fog, which prevented the engineer of the cadet train from seeing the danger signals, The Argentine government institut- ed an investigation to fix responsi- bility for the disaster. Tpon learning of the death and injury of the cadets, President De Al of Argentina, paid a person- al visit to the Chilean embassy to present his condolences. He also sent 4 message of sympathy to the pres- ident of Chile. IMPROVE RADIO KISS San Francisco, July 8 (A—Unro- mantic imitations of a Kiss rave been discarded for the real thing by KGO, in presenting a radio drama here. The suggestive smack on the back of the band in lieu of the real kiss is unsatisfactory, thinks Wilda Vilson Church, play director. 5 El Since 1915~ Standard for all sets | SEMI-ANNUAL CLOTHING | SALE hovs on Diamond No. 1 at Walnut | STRAW HATS 15 PRICE YA SEE— LAST NIGHT | TooxK MY MOTHER-IN-LRAW To TH' MOVIES TO SEE. 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