New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1927, Page 9

VEBLPELEEISLIS0E00 000D Speaking of Sports The Herald was deluged with calls all” day vesterday and last night from excited fight fans inquir- ing if it was true that Jack Sharkey’ the man whom Jack Dempsey knocked out last Thur.day night in | New York, was dead. Reports were circulated rapidly about the city yesterday that the| Boston man had died and the na- tural inference was that Ite had suc- | cumbed to the effects of the body thrashing he had suffered at thg hands of the former heavyweight champion. 1 Sharkey {sn't dead but he has| suffered slight hemorrhages of the stomach or intestines. These have been a direct result of Dempsey's punches. He is not in a serious condition according to all advices but those who know fightérs and thelr condition after a knockout, say that it will be a long, long time before the Boston man will be any good to fight another. Dempsey was widely acclaimed ' when he arrived home in Los An- geles. The California city added its voice to the clamor of cities for the | bout between Dempsey and Tunney | for the heavyweight championship | bout. Many are wondering why it is that Tunney is such an unpopular cham- pion. After winning the title from Dempsey in Philadelphia, both fight- ers appeared in the ring in New York and Dempsey received a rous- ing ovation while Tunney, a native New Yorker, was booed and other- wise shown disfavor. He i3 really & fine fighter and one of the best sportsmen in the game today. He and Dempsey are ring enemies but personally warm friends. However, this doesn't take away from the fact that he does not enjoy the popularity of the fans as he should. Dempsey is really the outstanding hero of the day as far as followers | of the pugilistic game are concerned. His successful first step towards making a comeback, his courage and gameness, all have added to make him as popular now as he was un- popular while he was the heavy- weight champion of the world. The far cry comes from Chicago about the slacker charges against Dempsey. One of the members of the Chicago city council is quoted as saying that it would be a disgrace to allow Dempsey to fight for the title on Soldier's fleld. It was always a source of wonder to us, who had a part in the big scrap of 10 years ago, that those who have raised this hue and cry against Dempsey, never raised thelr voices against Babe Ruth or some of the other outstanding stars in the sport world. There are many base- ball players, golt-stars, tennis aces and track and fleld men who were very eligible to shoulder a gun, but none of them has received the rak- ing over that Dempsey received. Personally we view this attitude as silly because we know that, proud as are all the men who served in the army, navy or marine corps, during the war of their services, there fsn’t any of them who was un- der fire, who wouldnt have wel- comed the chance to get out of the mess after they once got in. No one likes to be shot at every minute of the day and night for days upon days and sometimes weeks upon weeks, but the patrio- tlsm instilled into the youngsters brought them into the country's service upon a wave of glorious feelings that excite men when the country is in danger. Sober realization afterwards that there is no glory in war but noth- ing but desolation and probably death awaiting, takes all the glamor | from war and any man who has been in the thick of it, doesn’t be- ) grude any other of the fact that he wasn't forced to suffer the same fate, 3 Thus it {s with Dempsey. “Slacker"” i3 an ugly word to pin onto one single, solitary man when there were thousands who could rightly be called the same thing and in all fairness to the former heavyweight | champion of the world, we say that | he isn't getting a square deal unless all the others are to be included in the category of shirkers of their duty. JUNIOR CITY LEAGUE American Legion and Phantoms To Engage Tonight in Epic Struggle At Walnut Hill. One of the best games to be play- ed so far this season in the Junior City league is expected to take place tonight at 6 o'clock at Walnut Hill park when the Phantoms and the Amerlcan Legion baseball teams clash. Both are bitter diamond ri- vals and each outfit is anxious to score a victory tonight. The Legion team has suffered one setback so far in the play in the league while the Phantoms are sail- ing along in great style. The Le- glonnaires, flushed after their victory in the state Legion league, confi- dently expect to be on top tonight. ! On the other hand, the Phantoms are just as confident that they will take measure . of the Legionnaires tonight and with both teams feeling this way, a great battle is an- ticipated. BASEBALL CHALLENGE The East Berlin Boys' club base- ball team has issued a challenge to the Cardinal A. C., of this city for a return game to be played on the East Berlin field. The Cardinal manager i{s asked to get in touch with Manager John Demore at 242. Mail address, East Berlin P, O, i St. Louis | Pittsfield .. LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Cleveland 7, Boston 2. Detroit 10-2, Philadelphia 4-5. New' Yorl. 15-12, St. Louis 1-3. Washington 6-6, Chicago 1-5. Pet. 7268 591 549 532 495 421 413 .269 New York .. Washington . Detroit ... Philadelphia . Chicago Cleveland . Boston .. St. Louis at New York. Cleveland at Boston. Chicago at Washington. Detroit at Philadelphia. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Cincinnati 11, St. Louis 10. Pittsburgh 6, Brooklyn 5. Other clubs not scheduled. The Standing w. . B5 . 65 52 50 41 41 37 34 L. 36 35 40 45 51 | 52 51 53 Chicago . ... Pittsburgh St. Louis .... New York .. Brooklyn Cincinnati .. Philadelphia . Boston . Games Today Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. New York at Chicago. _— EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Waterbury 11, Springfield Bridgeport 5, Pittsfield 2. Albany 4, Providence 3. Hartford 6, New Haven 1. The Standing Ww. 53 46 47 43 . 45 . 45 . 46 .3 L. 41 42 43 42 45 46 40 55 Albany ...... Bridgeport ... Hartford . New Haven . Springfleld ‘Waterbury Providence Games Today Springfield at Hartford. Pittsfleld at New Haven. Albapy at Providence. Bridgeport at Waterbury. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Newark 3, Jersey City 1. Buffalo 6, Toronto 1. Svracuse 10, Rochester 8. isalimore 6, Reading 5. The Standing w. . 66 . 64 . 58 55 53 . 49 45 22 Buffalo .. Syracuse Baltimore . Newark Toronto Rochester . Jersey City Reading . Games Today Newark at Jersey City Reading at Baltimore. Buffalo at Toronto. Syracuse at Rochester. REOPEN PROBE OF TEACHER'S DEATH Sister of Seattle Yachting Party | Victim Gains Point Seattle, Wash,, July 27 (® — In- vestigation of the death of Miss Vio- let Maude Payne, music and dancing teacher, who supposedly drowned on Wednesday last after a liquor party aboard the yacht of F. Creigh Nel- son, wealthy broker and clubman, was renewed today upon the insis- tence of the dead woman's sister that “only half the truth is known.” Although a coroner's jury found that Miss Payne's death was by ac- cidental drowning, the ter, Mrs. Mabelle Fielder, expressed her deter- mination to employ private crimin- ologists in the case. In their 'second investigation, de- puty -coroners halted cremation of the body to turn over the music teacher's vital organs to pathologists and chemists for examination and analysis. A prellminary autopsy dis- | closed no water in the woman's lungs. While not held criminally lable, Nelson and two other men were de- clared to be ‘“cowards and morally | responsible” for Miss Payne's death, by a coroner's jury. Testimony showed that the three men stood by and did little to save the woman when she fell fronf the yacht and that they conspired to conceal the facts of her death. As a result of the tragedy, mem- bers of the Seattle Yacht club were {stage his come-back EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1927. LANDERS WIN, " FAFNIR LOSES {Continued from Preceding Page) This was a little too much of a handicap for the Bearing Makers to overcome. The Fafnir crew came closets to tying the count in the third inning when they scored three runs on two hits, two walks and an error. Fafnir lost & chance to tie the score in the fifth with one man on and two out. Kenure sent a long drive into left fleld and raced around to third only to be called out for faflure to touch the first sack as he hurried by. Argosy's hitting for the Rulers was a feature of the game. The flelding gem was turned in by Sim- oms when he made a splendid one- hand stop of a hard grounder hit by Kenure and threw him out at first. This took place i the eighth inning and saved the Rule pitcher some embarrassmeént. The summary: FAFNIR AB, Slamrounongg ol cuansosiung = b o E. Corbin cf & Paulson 2b Kiatka ¢ Ferguson p ... Kenure 3b . Elton 3b . O'Brien rf Lipetz 1b Wallcki 83 Kechner x cusomop 5 5 3 3 4 ‘ Huooommu lont | own i sl ks a Totals 3i STANLEY RULE A » 5l oc o losvousoary Bt Jervis 1¢ . Hinchliffe, zb Schmidt, ss Argosy, 1b . Corazza, ¢ . Camphell, rf . Simon, 3b .. horstenson, Rittner, p .... lmmmommomns lcoonma wlossossuwsol Totals 35 x—Batted for Lipetz i Fafnir .. % Stanley Rul Two base hit—Paulson. Three base hit— O'Brien. 5o Fl Umplre—Sauter. . \WANT FIGHT HELD IN 105 ANGELES bIWild Reception Given Jack Dempsey on Arrival Home Los Angeles, July 27 (A — Jack‘ Dempsey’s home town today fol- lowed its unprecedented welcoming fete to the conqueror of Jack Shar- key yesterday with a demand that the former heavyweight champiol battle with Gene Tunney here. Dempsey hardly had fought his way through a milling throng of £0,000 persons which 300 police- men were unable to control, before . |a group of business men headed by} Richard Ferris, proposed that he fight Tunney in oLs Angeles. Ferris sald that although Tex Rickard was understood to “have the bout sewed up,” he did not be- {lieve Dempsey had actually signed la contract to fight Tunney, Ferris told Dempsey the Los Angeles group would pay $100,000 more than Rickard was willing to pay. Dempsey promised Ferris he would see him and his committee today. Dempsey's home-coming climax: ed a trans-continental trip in which he was met at many cities by crowds with a demand for “a speech.” He responded at most places with a promise to “nail Tunney next time.” He appeared greatly pleased with the interest displayed by fans in his come-back campaign. “I believe that the people of this country are anxious to see me come back,” he declared. “It's worth a great deal to me to know that I ecan draw a million dollar gate even though I haven't got the title—but it's worth more to know that the people want me to Jvin. “Would you believe that 90 per cent of the fans at the Sharkey fight were with me?” he asked. Dempsey hastened from a recep- tion at a hotel to his home where his wife, Estelle Taylor, is ill. She was unable to meet him at the train because of a warning from her physiclan that she must rest and that any excitement would de- | lay her recovery. SHIFTS IN POLICE SERGEANTS The quarterly shift in the detail of police sergeants will be effective August 1, Chief Hart sald tod: Sergeants Feeney and Stadler will be assigned to the detective bureau and Sergeants McAvay and Flynn to night street duty. The hours of the detective bureau sergeants will be fixed later this week, the chief safd. Nine days constituted the retgn of one English queen. Ehe was Lady Jane Gray. grandnicce of Henry VIIIL and was executed on a scaffold In the Tower of London in 1554. HOLDS TWO RECORDS Babe Ruth Is Highest in Home Run Wallops and Has Also Received Most Passes. Babe Ruth holds two batting rec- ords that are decidedly opposite, yet great proficiency in one was directly responsible for the other. Ruth with 59 home runs tops the major leagues in the matter of cir- cuit 170 pa player has rear. As a rule, bases on balls are the reswt of a discriminating eye on the part of the batsman. However. Ruth's record in receiving franks to first base during the 1923 season was forced upon him, often most unwillingly. | Let me explain: Ruth, in 1920, had made 54 home runs, almost doubling the former record of 29, | made the year previous by himself. |In 1921, he reached his peak with |59, the all-time record, while in {1922 he dropped to 35. A total of 167 home runs over a period of four years caused rival | managers to declde it was the bet- drives for a season, s to first is the most any | ever received in one ¥ |ter part of valor to pass Ruth to| |first when" danger threatened. | During the 1923 season, Ruth |became the “big parade” of the | majors with 170 passes. Despite the |unwillingness of the pitchers to |take any chances with him, he came through with 41 circuit trips. T0 RELEASE CALLOW Crew Coach of University of Wash- ington to Take Position at Penn- | sylvania. } Seattle, July 27 (A) — Russell 8. Callow, crew coach of the Unive sity of Washington, will be given [his release Thursday, Charles F. fay, chairman of the faculty ath- |letic committee, said today. | The university board of control | will meet August 5 to name a suc- |cessor to Callow, who will become {crew coach at the University of Pennsylvania. Among the applicants for Cal- low's position are Al Ulbrickson, assistant coach at Washington; Mike Murphy, former Washington stroke and now Yale freshman | coach: Bob Butler, one time as- sistant to Callow and former navy | coach: and Don Grant, coach of the | 150-pounders at Yale. Of these, Ul- | brickson, who was recommended by | callow, s regarded as having an | “inside track” in the race for the position. | Dreyfus Will Come to 1 U. S. to Aid Sacco-Vanzetti Parls, July 27 (P—Major Alfred | Dreyfus, who was the central figure |in one of the world's most famous |criminal prosecutions in the early |90°s, serving four years in the French penal colony of Devil's Is- |land only to Be exonerated later of the charge of treason, for which he was convicted, has accepted an in- fon to he a member of a com- | mittee to go to America to plead the |cause of Nicola Sacco and Barto- lomeo Vanzetti, under sentence of death for murder in Massachusetts. The committee being organized by |the newspaper L'Oeuvre, is to be made up of eminent personalities, like Countess de Noailles, poetess; | George Lecomte, noted academician; | Professor Langevin, Loufs Loucheur. and Louis Malvey, former cabinet ministers, and M. Campinchi, fam- ous French advocate, HIGH PRESSURE PETE quoted as saying that steps will be taken to demand the resignations from the club of two of the three men. The two club members in- volved are Nelson and E. E. Bar- rington, who was assistant secretary of the organization. The third man cn the party was Captain A. F. Bell, who is employed by Nelson as skip- per of the hoat Two Are Killed When Their Airplane Falls Armonk, N. Y., July 27 (A—Ken- neth Payton, 28, of Armonk, mar- rled and the father of two children, and Alfred E. Treadwell, also 28, of White Plains, were crushed to death between the gasoline tank and the engine when their Waco biplane crashed into a marsh here last night. The plane, owned by David Pea- body, of Greenwich, Conn,, was one of several left in charge of Payton and Treadwell, who operated an aviation field for private owners here. It was not learned what caused the crash, but it was believed that the right wing of the plane crumpled. EXTRA ! 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Nichols publicly asked Mrs. Mec- Pherson and her mother, Mrs. Min- nie Kennedy, to ‘“make a clean breast of the whole affair for the good of their souls and the peace of their consciences.” To which Mrs. McPherson replied: “I am not surprised. Rev. Nichols and his church need the advertising. Very clever but uncharitable. After all these months of silence, it seems strange that Nichols should take such a sudden concern in my con- science. Isn't is revealing that this urge came at the moment when my name is in the headlines every day? “I have no confession to make whatever. I told the truth and walked in the light.” Nichols declared representatives of Angelus temple had made peace overtures to him and his flock, but that they never would return to the mother church. Meantime the dove of peace today hovered over the temple, which has been torn inwardly by a dispute over management. Mrs. Kennedy, dismissed as business manager of the temple, has returned to her daughter's residence. Mrs, McPher- son announced Mrs, Kennedy would iremain as the evangelist's spiritual |adviser but would have no connec- tion with the business end of the temple. BASEBALL'S BIG FIVE By the United Press. Babe Ruth hit his thirty-second land thirty-third home runs of the year, taking the lead in the home | run derby, and made five singles out | of eight chances for his best day of | the season. Gehrig tried hard, but could find parking space in the bleachers for |but one drive. In addition, Lou | singled three time sout of eight at- tempts, ' Cobb was in the game briefly and walked his only time up. 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