New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 9

gSpeaking jof Sports Manager Edward J. Dailey of the All-New Britain football team, after spending a pleasant vacation in Maine, set to work yesterday to work out the problem of the coming season. % In the first place, according to bim, there will be an All-New Brit- ein team this year. Manager Daliley finds that the action of the park board in giving the Ranger A. C.| four Sundays at Memorial Field in ‘Willow Brook park this coming sea- son will not seriously interfere with the tentative plans already laid out for the senior team. He is busily engaged in organizing & team and at the present time he appears to have things prétty well lined up for a successful season. Several new faces will be seen with the local team this coming season, while many of the veterans of for- mer years will return to the fold. Vic Radzewich of Torrington, who | left the New Britam camp last year to go with the Hartford Blues, | had already signified his willingness | of coming to New Britain to play this year, but he suffered a bad ac- cident Sunday while playing base- ball that might keep him out of the ! game. He misjudged a fly ball and recelved a broken jaw. Tom Humphries, Bridgeport guard, is ready to start any time. The electrocution he received last winter hasn’t left any ill effects and he writes that he is ready to report at the first call. | | Conklin, tackle, will also be with New Britain. Tator, last year with the Hartford Blues, will be a can- didate for a berth on the team. The local contingent-will include “Jumbo,” who might be a center this year, “Hap” Griswold, “Zip” Zehrer, Carl Brink, “Unk” Connelly end possibly “Red” O'Neil. “Dutch” Connor is out of the pie- ture this year, and so is Thompson, Pennsylvania star. “Dutch” is as- sistant coach at New York univer- sity and {s done with pro football. Thompson will play around his home quarters this season although he stands ready to come to this city on any special occasion. This, Manager Dailey explains, is only a nucleus of the team this is to perform. Jim Zakzewski, former star of the Fordham university eleven, is willing to play in this city and several others also have signified their willingness to be out for the team. The “Butsy” Sturm-“Hiker” Holz- heimer combination will also be back in trim this season, both hav- ing signified thelr eagerness to get going. In fact, Holzheimer, upon receiving his letter, came to New Britain and left four or five ad- dresses and telephone numbers so Manager Dailey could reach him. 1 The Rangers will get started Fri- ! day night on football when a meet- ing will be held in the club’ rooms on Church street. Dr. Frank Zwick will talk to the players and’ can- didates for places on the team, and anyone interested is invited to at- tend. The Faleon baseball team will practice Friday night at 6:30 o'clock in preparation for the game with Kensington Sunday afternoon. | “Micky” Noonan, star catcher, will be with the Falcons from now until the end of the season. “Micky” has been with Middletown this year but he was eligible to play with the Fal- cons in the series. His presence in the lineup will be additional strength for the Falcons | The All'Kensington team will practice tomorrow night at 6 o'clock at the Percival avenue grounds in Kensington. All members of the| team are asked to be on hand. NICARAGUA QUIET Rear Admiral Sellers Says Condi- tions Much Better, Despite Activi- ties of Bandits in the Interior. Washington, August 24 —(P—Al- though American marines have | sgain been ambushed caraguan v bandits, Rear Admiral Sellers in | charge of naval forces in a report | to the navy department declared conditions in Nicaragua are steadily improving. General Sandino, military leader whose forces were defeated last month by marines at Ocotal, the admiral added, is ®eliev- ed to be still in hiding in Nicaragua with a small band of men. In the mountans of Segovia in northern | Nicaragua General Moncada during an airplane survey recently discover- ed several small bands, the report gaid. The ambush occurred on August 16 and two of the bandits were kill- ed, the marines suffering no casual- ties. Thirty bandits participated in the attack. The marines consisted of a small detachment under command of First Sergeant Bruce and were accompanied by an American mine- owner named Alexander and a unit of the native constabulary traveling between Jicaro and Murra. The bandits reported by Moncada are said to be composed and led by criminals. According to the report, these bands refused to surrender but can be subdued by forces of suffi- clent strength. “Adam and hegins Sunday at Strand, with augmented Jazz Orch. —advt. former liberal BIG NEWS l DUE THURSDAY WATCH! NEW YORK SAMPLE SHOP | stripes jthe courts. MARY BROWNE ON |NEW BRITAIN TEAM LOST - STATE TITLE IN 1867 City’s Pioneer Nine Dropped Rubber Game to Pequots of New London—Contest Was Staged At Hamilton Park, New Haven On August 20—Score Was 18 to | 15—About 2,000 Loyal Rooters Viewed the Battle— | Ungque Box Score Kept Then. CHANGE OF STYLE Tells of Tournament Play in the 01d Days Gone By —— BY MARY K. BROWNE (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Aug. 24 (Copyright 1927, by United Press)—How cham- pions and championships have changed! Fifteen years ago when I won my first national championship I played three finals in one after- noon, singles, ladies’ doubles and mixed doubles. I was tired but a healthy physical tired from which I completely recovered with one night's good rest, and was keen for more tennis. Today our championships are di- vided with singles and ladies’ doubles one week and mixed doubles during the men's national doubles the following week. The players in the singles championship are called upen for only one singles match the first day and one singles and a doubles match the following days. It rain intercedes, as it did yes- terday, the tournament is carried on into the following week, there is no doubling up of matches. Besides this cut in the amount of play Helen Wills has further cut down her play by entering in only the singles which means that she will appear once a day and in her present form most of her matches will probably take her about 30 minutes. Helen told me yesterday that she did not feel keem for two events, that her tennis abroad had tired her physically and mentally. This seems to bear out Rene LaCoste’s conten- tion that it is a greater strain to win than to lose. Helen's lack of keenness for tour- nament competition is regrettable in that the champion sets the standard of play in tennis. In golf one al- ways has par as the perfect oppo- nent. If Helen does not play in the tournaments the younger players do not have an ‘opportunity to play against her and improve their games accordingly. If Helen continues to cut down and cut out tournament competition she will acquire a “cot- ton battin' reputation. It is different with Willlam Tilden and Molla Mallory. They simply love tennis and are never so happy as when they are competing. Per- sonally, I love their enthusiasm and unselfishness. Both Tilden and Mol- la are willing to pair with weaker partners to insure a contest, rather than select the best player in the tournament as a partner to be sure of a win. Yesterday, “Pour-vius,” the god of fain, was holding the center of the stage and the players were relegated to the bridge tables on the veranda. I interfered with several bridge games to glean a details for my column. Eileen Bennett, the beautiful young girl from England. has a car- load of tennis costumes, rivaling the | eat Suzanne Lenglen's famous ten- s wardrobe. that Eileen has 30 tennis dresses. I figure she should have costumes “to let.” They are one plece sleeveless dresses with plaited skirts, beauti- fully tailored. Miss Benntet is a picture of loveliness on the court. Even the tennis racquets are get- ting dressy. You can see all kinds of fancy colored strings and various around the frames and handles. Eileen Bennett has E. B. monogramed in gold upon her rac- quet. +No player of the first mag- nitude walks into the stadium with less than three racquets. The English girls wear skirts than the Americans, just to their knees. They wear long, ves, very long, almost theatrical in length white lisle stockings with short white wool socks which turn down just below the ankle. Their dresses and those of the majority of Americans are the one piece sleeve- less dress. Helen Wills still sticks to her middy blouse and the plaited skirt. She likes the two piece cos- tume because her blouse instead of shorter her skirt hikes when she takes her | strokes. I should like to see Helen in one of Eileen Bennett's dresses. Helen would look stunning. Women are not allowed to wear spikes, regardless of the condition of The men insist upon them. Shall I say the women are lighter on their feet, less prone to 1ip and let them feel complitnented rather than slighted? The Mailman Nothing halts the U.S. Mail. That'swhy we mailmen like to see Champions installed in our delivery cars — we know they're dependable—always. Champion (s the beir vk plug because of its Potie vibbed silima. nite cm;;'i‘l l':fl"fl«t ruction axdiics ol anatoats loctrodzs. Champion X= for Fords hampion— rs other than Fords 75¢ y CHAMPION Spark Plugs TOLEDO, OHIO For your protection be sure the Champions B ou buy are in the o ion cartons. Mrs. Bennett admits | the |s (highway which, it is estimated, will | NWEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1927 Sixty years ago this month, New Britain’s pioneer baseball team lost the state championship to the fam- ous Pequots of New London who had won the championship from the Charter Oaks of Hartford, cham- pions of 1865 and 1866. The New Britain boys thought they had a good team and they challenged the champion Pequots to play for the state title. The chal- lenge was accepted and the first game was played in New London. The Pequots won by the score of 48 to 47. A large crowd watched the second game played ‘n New Britain. The local club won this contest by the score of 60 to 40. F. Rhodes was the pitcher and E. A. Kinney the catcher. Smith, right fielder on the New Britain team, was the Babe Ruth of the game, hitting a home run. D. S. Birdsall of the Unions of Morrisinni was the umpire. The game Jasted over three hours and the excited fans sat on the grass to watch the contest. The ball used was the famous Ross ball which was 90 per cent rubber. Home runs and long hits were plenty. Fouls and flies were out on the bound. The fielders had to hunt leather in those days. The third game, the “rubber game,” was played on a neutral field, the old Hamilton Trotting park in New Haven, on August 20, 1867. Yale university staged |its baseball games there. A large crowd of ‘royal rooters” and local fans (we had them then) went down with the team and saw a |good game. The Pequots won 18 to 115. The contest was really decided don batted out nine runs. The Hartford Times said that 12,000 saw the game. A big delega |tion came from New London to cheer the Pequots. The box score is unique. R stands for runs and O for outs. The score New Britain Bowers, 2b . { Andrews, ss . |Kinney, ¢ .. Rhodes, 1b .. Dewey, If . F. Rhodes, Kent, 3b Smith, rf [ eSS e e Soteldo Spencer, 1t Hoskins, ¢ Potter, 2b ... McMullen. ss Patchen, rf ... Roe. 3b Smith, ef ... |E. Marsh. p 1b | hwwmnsnme0 £y Runs each inning: New Britain 13 21120 1 4—15 Pequot 90101302218 Time of game, 3 hours. Umplre, J. Grum of Eckford club of Brook- Iyn. Scorers, Geo. Fenton for New Britain, Walter Learnard for Pe- quots. New Highway Will Cost Henry Ford One Dollar Boston, Aug. 24 (UP) — Henry Ford will build a mile and a half of model highway in Sudbury, near his famous Wayside inn estate, for $1. In exchange for this nominal sum, which he will receive from ate, Ford will construct a strip of {cost him $280,000. The manufac- turer's general secretary, E. S. Lei- |bold, signed the contract at the de- !partment of public works here. | The new road will lead the heavy | Boston-Worcester traffic away from ivhe entrance of Wayside inn. Prox- |imity of the road to the inn has | |long been considered a menace to the safety of visitors. ON POLICE BLOTTER James Calderone of 52 Belden street reported to the police last night the theft of a disc wheel and tire from his automobile on Lake street, near Washington. 7 Lucius Carrier of 146 Maple street |comeone was prowling about the at- tic at his home, but Officer Hellberg was unable to locate anyone. i M. A. Belkin reported this morn- ing that his fruit and produce house, cpposite the police station on Com- mercial street, was entered last night. Nothing was taken, he said. Michael Belkin of 318 Main street reported at 11:55 last night the theft of his car from a Washington street parking place. in the first inning when New Lon- | .| hibitions 1) the | | reported at 1:15 this morning that| TONNEY EXPECTS T0 LEAVE GAWP | Champion Plans to Be in Chicago Near End of Month Speculator, N. Y., Aug. 24 (& — Gene Tunney expects to leave his |training camp here for Chicago .“some time near the end of the month.” | \ Asked if he had considered the | trip to Chicago by airplane, the \means by which he reached Phila- delphia last year, Tunney said there was no need for that. fight isn't he added. | e put on nine rounds of box- | ing yesterday, five with the light| bags and four with his partners. Al- though he withheld severe punish- ment to Paul Cavalier and Billy | Vidabeck, both were victims of a | rapid fire of punches t reeling around the rir The champion was 1 his hitting. Cavalier s | the start of thelr mi but the ti- | | tieholder went right on after his| | man, hooking and crossing and land- |ing blows before his sparring part- ner could even set himself for the attack. Tunney was studring his punches more when he faced Vidabeck. He aid not set out after his op- ponent in the same manner that | marked his workout with Cavalier. | He hit and countered with the re- sult that Vidabeck was wholl able to penetrate Gene's d Prior to a week ago, Tunney's ex- free, but the ¢ pion now is charging for his r inees. The money is given to char- ity, a Catholic church, a Methodist | church and the Speculator Wi Sports club being the recipients PRINCE UNSUCCESSFUL AT {mportant ‘e a flash in | ung Gene at | | | |Former Crown Prince Geerge of Serbia Alleged to Have Tried to Take His Own Life, Austria, Aug spaper despatch fr says it is reported from Nis slavia, the former Crow George of Serbia made an attempt | at suicide, inflicting serious wounds | from which he is not expected to| recover. | George, elder brother of King Alexander of Jugoslavia, renounced | his rights of succession in 1909, He was wounded in the war and ever since has been in feeble health, re- quiring constant care. | Sacco Strikers Lose Positions on Railroad | London, Aug. 24 (A — An E {change Telegraph despatch from | |Sydney, New South Wales, reports that the railway commissioners haye dismissed more than a thou sand workmen engaged in railw: I construction who ceased work yes- terday to participate In a Sacco- | Vanzetti demonstration. The city council is said to have | dismissed 800 men employed in a power house for the same reason | Commeodore Cup Race To Be Staged Today Newport, R. L, Aug. 24 (P—Al- though the annual cruise of the| New York Yacht club was officially at an end today, the Commodore's | cup race, which was to have been sailed yesterday, will be staged to- | of a three day regatta for Class M| and Class R sloops. FOOTBALL MEETING The first meeting of the Rangers| Football team will be held Friday evening at §:30 o'clock at the Ran- | ger club rooms on Church street. Dr. | Frank Zwick will be the speaker. Plans will be made for the starting | of the season. Manager William May wishes all former Ranger pla ers to be on hand, also anyone in- terested in playing football. “Adam and Evil” begins Sunday at | Strand, with augmented Jazz Orch. | —advt. HIGH PRESSURE PETE WELL LETS LAnD , PETE- Lo ) LIGHT ENOVGH TLL LANO day in connection with the opening S It | family LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday games scheduled — open The Standing w. . 82 68 66 66 55 51 47 36 New York .. Detroit A Washington Philadelphia Chicago Cleveland St. Louis Boston A9 05 308 Games Today New York at Detroit Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday 8t. Louis 13, Philadelphia 3 Chicago-Boston, rain. (Other clubs not scheduled) The Standing w. Pet. Chicago 70 67 o i - 4 42 Games Today ! enoula yracuse Newark Ealtimore | Toronto Games Today Jersey City at Syracu Newark at Roch Baltimore at Buffalo. Reading at Toronto. xchange 6 lub to-gl‘ing Children Home Again Members of the New Britain E change club will leave this city on Tuesday morning to bring back chil- ren now staying at the Camp in Burlington, Albert Scrip- tu chairman of the committee in of the arrangements an- last evening at the regular ceting of the club. About cars will make the trip to the Burlington camp and will bring back about 30 children. Joseph Ward gave a report of the activities of the Civic M ic associ- ation which was followed by a re- port by Herbert Woods on the pro- s of the committee in charge of the U. S Marine band concert. Rev. A. D. Heininger, assistant pastor of the Center church, gave an interest- ing address on conditions in China. August Klein gave several vocal celoctions including “The Blind Beg- “Tommy Lad” and “Smiling Through.’ 1 MISS BROWN SHOWERED Miss Margaret Brown of 73 Ru | street was pleasantly surprised girls of the England Telephone v who gave her a miscellan- cous shower. Miss Brown received many beautiful gifts. She will be- come the bride of George Sullivan at Mary's church on August 29, compa BECOMES ILL IN NEW YORK Swan Parson of 194 Jubilee street is in Bellevue hospital, New York. for servation, according to word received by the local police last eve- ning from Chief Inspector Lahey of the New York police. Parson’s s2id he left for New York yesterday morning to obtain employ- | ment as a carpenter, and they were surprised to learn that he had been taken ill. for TH LOUA MIHE—THERE'S OLD WON LUNG Erom L. S e HEY . WUN LUN HECK ARE You OUER HERE. 5|~ WHAT TR DoNG 1WAY, W CHINAT $10 event. esh Air; third place with 147, and Eugene Homans with a 77 tied for fourth with Clark Corkran of Philadelphia at 148. The Canadian champion, Don Carrick, tied at 151 with Francis Ouimet of Boston, George Rotan of Houston, and Paul Haviland of Bridgeport, Conn. The former ichampion, Max Marston of Phila- |delphia, had 152, as did Dick Jones of New York and Allan Moser of Los Angeles. Harry Legg of Min- {neapolis, several times trans-Missis- Aug. |¢ippi champion and Billy Sixty of all v | Milwaukee had 153 each, while players, 32 survivors of the quali- |bracketed with Von Elm at 154 fying rounds were paired off today were Densmore Shute of Hunting- for match play in competition for ton, W. Va, John McKinlay of the national amateur golf cham- Chicago and O. F. Willing of Port- pionship at Minikahda club. {land RINGSIDE SEATS the first match to defend his title, | ;ha\ing gained admission to hole | Mysterious Committee of Five to Meet on Friday GEORGE VON FLN LEADING FIELD (ualitiers Paired O1f in Tourney at Minikahda 24 of | competition by virtue of a hard| learned 134, just two strokes ms!del |the limit of 156 at which 11 golfers {tied for the last 7 places. | At the bottom of the lower bracket was Bobby Jones, but he | jwas there through a scintillating | performance that equalled the rec- | ord of 142 for medal play in the Jones stood out head and shoul- | ders above the qualifiers after hi record of 31-36—67 yesterday, but today ‘faced the possibility that a | momentary slump on his part might meet the best game of an unher- alded player in the 18 hole matches | and cost him further chance to re- |deem the title he lost to Von Elm last year. jthat, if no other reason 1lis first match is with Maurics feCarthy of New York, and if he survives that he must face either Frank Dolp, of Portland, Oregon, day and undertake its job, jlast year's western champion. or George F. Getz, nominal promoter Eugene Homans of New York, a| Rickard, |vouth who outstripped Bobby on i hicago, Aug. 24 (A — One hun- ed and eight distinguished indi- viduals will form the select inner about the ringside at the ¥ championship n Soldier field next month. There are just 108 seats in th spectators’ row and those who get them will be distinguished for which has the task of determining ho gets those choice seats is to {the first day and led the fleld with | a | “personal ance” that there would be ny business” in th the choic assur- “no fun- distribution of Meanwhile, the ordinary fans formed long |lines before the windows at the | Palmer house to buy tickets “sight the assurance onl heir seats would be some- inside the stadium. e have the tentative plan of e stadium seating arrangements said Mr. Getz, “but when the seats are put up the engineers may find it necessary to alter some of the arrangements. Therefore we are holding out large blocks of the cheaper seats, to see whether t fill be a change, “There are to be 108 seats in the first row of spectators’ seats. The committee will be asked to consid- er carefully the assignment of these seats. While I am making no rec- British open champion could not ommendations I imagine that these | maintain this pace on the home- {108 seats will be used to fill the ward nine, but he took one stroke |orders of the 16 state governors off par ther: with a 36 to set a who have applied for tickets, mem- new course record from the back bers of the South Park board, tees in competition and take a lead which controls the stadium, mayors hat could not be overcome. |of the largest cities, prominent Later, however, Phillips Finlay |citizens such as John J. Mitchell of New York, who had been sec- and J. P. Morgan, and several ond in the first round with a par|other notables from abroad came home with a 75 to clalm| Mr. Getz intimated that the blue- OUR BOARDING HOUSE WALT Now,«1 WAS LAVING o oN MY APPROACH oHoT- A" I HOLED oUsT| | W TWo <+ 50 \ou CAN puT ME DOWA FoR A QUARTETTE!: Elm was no better last year n qualifying play and yet went through to lick Jones in the finals. His first match is with John Mec- y of Chicago. and his second, he survive, with either 2udy Knetper of v, Towa, or Harry Legg of Minneapolie | hectic toward ., for up to late afternoon. Chick Evans had stood in the van | with 150, joined later Dave [Martin of Los Angeles, Arthur | Yates of Rochester and Art Sw of Chi ong came Jimmie Johnston of home club with 2 71 and took ad by five strokes, but he had cached the final green before |word spread that Bobby Jones was | burning up the course with a mar- | !velous 31 on the first nine. The LEMME SEE Now, «« A DRIVE, s~ BRASSIE,w MUM DG~ BMM «+ AR’ “TWo PUTTS, weVEH< ~n GIVE ME A FNE, vt HM-M- 1 BLEW UP oM -THis HOLE!- G010 (VWO " conty o, Slpe A, JSEaem YOU'RE N mysterious committee of five | prints of the stadium probably wiil " remain another secret right up to |the moment of the fight. Ticket: buyers will not know until they go to the stadium just where their seats will be. Rain or shine, Dempsey planned a hard workout today. A dreary drizzle yesterday restricted his ac-: tivities to three miles of jogging on’ the “treadmill,” a mechanical |walker. Today, however, road work, |shadow boxing and several rounds |with the punching bags were on Ihis program, to loosen him up aft- |er a ten day lay-off en route to’the |camp from Los Angeles. MOTHER'S DEATH 1S LAID T0 SON Body Found Baried Under Pave- ment in Gellar Chicago, Aug. 24 (P—A charge of | matricide today pursued 21-year-old Harry Hill around Chicago as plans j'went ahead in his home town of Streator, IIl., for the funeral of the mother he is accused of having slain. | Young Hill—"The Fish,” they call- |ed him in Streator because of | gambling and spendthrift habits for | which his mother was said to have | upbraided him—was known to have |been in Chicago Monday night, | spending the evening at a friend's From there the trail disap- | home. | peared. | Dr. H. C. Hill, a well-to-do Streat. {or oculist, was responsible for dis- covery of the body of the wife from | whom he had been estranged for |seven yvears. Learning that Mrs. | Hill had not been seen since August |4, he asked officers to accompany | him to the home in which she ard her son lived. In the basement they came upon |newly laid bricks. Digging, they | came upon the tody of the §5-year- old woman. It was clad thinly in | under-garments, and there were-two bullet holes in the head. Mrs. HIIl had been dead about three weeks. On the back porch was found a [pair of young Hill's shoes, and on |them was dried clay. such as that * |in which Mrs. Hill's body was found. | As a motive for the slaying ofi- cers pointed to several gambling oB- |ligations Hill had contracted. They |said that since August 4, he -had been living at a Streator hotel, ex- | plaining that his mother was away on vacation. A bank was said to |have cashed several checks drawn | by Hill against his mother's account, accepting his explanation of her absence. ) Mrs. Hill lived a retired life fol- {lowing her separation from her hus- | band, almost her sole interests be- |ing her church and temperance ac- | tivities. Prosecuting officers were told that mother and son recently {had been in sharp disagreement over | the youth’s plan to marry a Streator irl. and also over his reputed sambling habits. By Ahern At IF IS WAS INcoME ) “TAY, EACH OF Yol WouLD "} “T!' PEN FOR A VEAR!:/ -TH' BoTH OF Vou comint' | DowWN -TH FAIRWAY, -TassING OFF STROKES LIKE A CHANKEL SWIMMER, AN'-THENTURN (N A FIVE AN' FOUR!wae TLL - GIVE NoU EACH A TEN,~ ALLOWING TFoR EVAPORATION YoUR OWD HOME-