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

o - 89 $H$ES S 58 PSSS88 8504, P PEFTPVPPTVIP PIPIY WATERBURY TAKES CLOSE TABS ARE READY ROLLER HOCKEY BATTLE FOR TOUGH GAME = | Goal by Davies With Eight Seconds to Go Puts Brass . T | o iHorth End Team Goes Through Spirited Workont at Hall City in Lead—Winners Lose One Goal on Foul New Britain Scores Most of Its Points in Seconw! Period—Quintet Showing Immense Improvemem?| in Floor Play—Large Crowd Attends. [ of the Tabs lasketball | team went through three hours of | | practice at the Y. M. T. A. & B. ty hal sht in preparation | the turday with the Only two memb: bsent, and Fr tor ~ ALSTARSIOSE the Industrial Le n in Standing Middletown cere New Britain Wal our, & Clark team of furnished op- | ctice tilt. The | Tabs at th art nter; Berry and Taylor, torwards; Jimmy Reynolds and Res telll, guards. Later Tommy Reyn- olls took Taylors' place at forward | 1 Johin Sheehan went in uard \ place of Jimmy The pick of jast combination was Restelli, cen- Tommy Reynolds and Taylor, orwards; Jimmy Reynolds and cehan, guards The three comb most at will against the Unive Vaige seemed to have worked his way into form and was playing | great part in the pass work b onnecting with hoop o cccasions. Berry, b playe in the session His floor work was cspecially good. | 1t definitely stated by Man- \ger James Luby that the team will | play the Plainficld team tomorrow . nge to Wednesday | made it would not | this Manager | er, was inclined to think | ion of a change in 1g nights would not take place | ime. Nothing has been bro; the team in a Mr. Luby said. Plainficld team victory over th which last week suffc 3 16 defeat from the Judging by comparative scor Tahs are an even bet in the game | tomorrow evening. According to Irives for the |the Insilco manager, Plainfield de- 1 not get|fcated the Insilcos when the game going last t and in the first|was being played under professional | period gave poor exhibition of [rules. In defeating the Silver City Poal temding. His work picked up |team in a game played under ama- e HalE dotang a|teur rules, the Tabs accomplished third periods he looked something |a greater feat. like the Holyoke regular of a week| There is no doubt but Pl | Tabs will have to reach the et form of the season, if 11 put a victory on the books tomorrow | The result will depend to a great | extent, on how well {he starting sombination is chosen. The hest | of the squad of nine player must be in the game at the start. The Burritt A. e will play Polish-American of ompsonville in the eliminary the pr New Britain Amateurs Show Class in First Time on Floor score t remai inst the n t night in the 3 Arena to ¢ Britain-Waterbury game combination a couple of workours like last night and it won't long quintet will be ring The was 12 | ter tions scored al- v score ¢ game was in i For a group of for th men who played st time, the quin- | t a better from Meri- | en am took the floor with | Vete Fusari and Jimmy Clinton at | the Yushes, Jack Fusari at center, | Prank Hoole at halfback and George | er at goal. | intet flashed snappy pass- work that would do credit to one of the league teams and Jimmy Clin- ton's work especially caused him to | tand out as the most finished player he floor. Hoole's defensive work alfback the nsation of the game and his neat work with f! stick in breaking up passes was one features of the game, he Merfden team showed all through the contest or and Boehle especially star- rine. Hill ayed a 1 » game at goal for the r City combination and stopped plenty nets. Bayer cou 1 its third lead unt at nd e work of week Britain was o o i that the play er the this crowd on edge ork sirst fore formal Jves as yet holds a Meride and he Britain'e stances. The miich Meeting into the ept his n shots in good 35 to Per- | New Br impro n men: te i 1ke" veriod m showed its play until well cond the team orked the ball down the floor time r time only e something | happen to spoil chances of u score. Tt w ctition of Mon- day night" against Holyoke with New Britain taking the wrong side of “Lady Luck” for the night. Waterbury team, strengthen- | ed with the addition of Davie flashy youngster; Harkins, veteran star and “Red” Donnelly of the d funct New Haven team, worked in 106t feet coordination. Davies hooked and sliced the ball from a pair ¥ sil 0 George the n 16 o me a in that t e score was as follows wish to Merd rrin Bochle hlctte.| iazzinga Hill 1n T s and 1 a da all times. Wat orm ed into the ¢ First Period the m DENIES APPOINTMENT Billy Evans States That He Has Not ector and bou When it lande into New Brit trouble, on ende Bouch w B one Rlount's ¢ ed into t visted its e withou . hows had scored Diavic Britain Water- Even Conferred With Art Fletcher goals N¢ ad added making the bury, Ne v About Managership. for for count 5 to 2 . ) A rti- n Cleveland, O of the Cl I gue baseball ¢ who will direct the team next sea- pondering on a telo- received yesterday from Billy ral manager of the club. Me wired friends here that contrary previous reports confirming his tment of Art Fletcher, present York Yankee coach, he had not conferred with Il and when any announcement was would comé*from President Dec. land il 1o know w Britaln came s 1 frame. Al fore Waterbury's ¢ rived into the Davies foll nd dr into its own in 1 Britain Third son, today wert gram 1 New Brit- period from 1 a foul n that BURRITTS VICTORS New Britain Rasketball Quintet De- Alva Bradley. Meanwhile Evans, who is en route Fere from a meeting of the National Association of Professional Baseball clubs at Dallas arrived yes- terday in St. Louis, with Bill Fricl, manager of the Louis Browns, but he disappearcd after a confer- in office and efforts to | find him unava He thought on his here. 1 several times la kinpaugh Chi- Sox inficlder and coach, re. “Muddy” Ruel, nators, e opin- while had not feats Thomp=omville Five by 30 to 5 Score e Lodrictl: Fricls’ ling. way were was to be wame when ericans | defen- | The lo- brilliant to whose liome is he catcher for the W also is being considered, in t jon of local baschall Fleteher, after say X heen approached Iy inclined toward 18 s 1 that only er would draw him 1if New York, w im as coach Ingt late ingte lead men, T the extr 0 Cleve- willing to 1 scont. nad no ! ne and an ordi Hp their men List of 20 Pluers Selected to Play rhury New Britain On SWest” Team in Benefit Game December 26, Burritis Second Perviod " Phomponyille it W South Hunt, ngton Meth- Age Mevker, M Itutcher” nr acks 1S pic, terbury ) i, Irull- W Waterbury Waterbury 7, Davie Pie Jette fouls, M Donnelly 3, Dohe Rorty. 1 nd Seors West Coast Army rushes e on at ) ecttle gloves. 16 federal T th, Kas., oft es with boxin Blou Boucher referce, ¥ | ketba | | CHARLIE ANDREWS, L EFT, AND LOU When Charlie Andrews and Louis | Rockford, Til,, high school team and | Behr, forwards on the Wisconsin basketball team, hang up their ba togs at the end of this s son ill be the culmination play together for eight seasons. The two were sta s for four years on the | Big Ten conference. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927. NEW BRITAIN T Locals to Stage First Home I#ague Game Tomorrow Night | The New Britain basketball team | goes to New Haven tonight to tackle game at the New Haven arena. Both teams are tied for first place hav- {ing won the first game played in the | circult. The Atlas five, always a strong contender for state championship honors, has Leen strengthened this year by the addition of several new men. Pite, formerly of Yale fame |and Cohen form one of the best for- ward combinations in state lcague jcircles while Trupin, who appeared in this city with a number of teams {from New York city, is regarded a ja center of extraordinary abilit | The guards Gordon and Captain Chadys are known as two of the strictest guardians of their basket. The battle tonight will be not only it will also be a battle for suprei cy between the two quintets. The |New Britain team won its first |league game by taking the Hartford Yankees in an overtime encounter fn [ Hartford last week and it will have to travel at top speed to get by the Elm City crew tonight aturday night, the team will play first home game in the league na- |its position. Waterbury is coming here | with one of the strongest teams ever |to represent the Brass City. It start- | ed the league by dropping the Merl- den Endees in a hectic its second game to the Atlas. Old £avorites are in the Brass City lineup. Dunn and “Hefnie” Carring- ton are playing forwards with “Lefty” M ara at center. Mag- ner and Sheehy are at the guard | positions and- the quintet forms court combination that s formida- ble and dangerous. In both tonight's game | morrow night's encounter, New Brit- |ain will use its first string lincup. BEHR are now playing their fourth together at Wisconsin, Andrews weighs only 135 pounds but, like Tehr, who is captain of the team, is one of the best point-makers in the and to LIONS WINSECOND: BEAT §0. CHURCH Marselli Stars in Tntermediate County “Y” League Game League Standing w 0 .000 te Trade School .... 0 The Lion defeated the church entry in the County Y. M A. Intermediate basketball league last ev ng at the Boys' club, ge 1o an ¢ lead and hol ing their advantage to win by 26-17. 1t was the second victory in a row for Lions, who showed superi- in all departments and out- the church team all the way. appeared to he and their handling of the very unsure. Ili started the Lions with 1d goals in a row, while Rell for church. The South ting away ority fou 000 | |increasing number irst quarter | . Marsclli winners' the half. The church rallicd in the final half and outscor- ed ils conquerors, but it could not cut down the Lions' murgin to any wppreciable extent Marsclli and 2 Lions, the ng «rhonie featured former scorlng 14 getting some 1 Morey to one church offense K basket with Bel Potts game. Th Lions I Intermediates (0] Juniors Wallop uth ( rker. urch Juniors lee in the p t quarter wi but ti reak rt ing from the [ IFrom then Paretta rolled ith but little 2les had no form & do the op one nee < to make the | Bernard the basket ed most of the losers ummary Fagles I Cilnic Josephs, the church on up re- | wallop- | limin- | Sloman and Rubenstein will pair up |at forwards with Jimmy Zakzewski lat center and Captain Sturm and Leary at guards. This quintet with |Kilduft, Cassidy and serve will carry through hoth games. : i | A preliminary game will be pla e A 9 Oleq at the Stanley arena Saturday § et Inight between the two Stanley girls' {teams. The Stanley Rule quintet |will battle the Stanley Works and this in itself will be a real feature. The prelim will start at § o'clock |with the main game starting about o'clock. Dancing will follow. terman, Havlick, 1f D. Wosilus, B. Wosi Stanley, rg rt c (Capt.) 1S, TE . fouls—Feron Free tries—Ierony 2, Josephs 2. Referee— etterman and Personal 2, Hattings. A. Paretta, Parker. A Ritter. Scorer: NO DECISION GAMES | Perplexing Problem of Tie Contests prac Josephs HURCHISON NEAR DEATH Faces Official of the Hockey| fering from Influenza and Compli- League, oations. | New York, Dec. 9 (P-—The per- | plexing problem of tic contests in | various fields of sport had raised a furore in hockey circles today for definite measures to eliminate the of no decision Decatur, 11, Dec. 9 (A—TLoren Murchison, ruler of the indoor sprints for nearly a decade, hovered between life and death at St. Mary's | hospital today, with his condition taking a slight turn for the better. |He is suffering from influenza and | complications, so grave that his !father, Rod Murchison, was sum- moned from St. Louis yesterday. | Starting in 1918 when Murchison Irepresented the Great Lakes N: Training statioff in a A. U, compe- tition, there were few who could take his measure on indoor tracks games. President Charles C. Clapp of the ‘anadian-American hockey league, sts a wider net as a means of combatiing draw contests, and pro- poses to present the issue to the National Hockey league rules com- mittee. With a view of speeding up the ice sport, changes made be- fore the opening of the current cam- paign calling for a shorter stick, de- - in goul keeper's pads and the forward pass rule in.the de- fensive zone. Nevertheless, tle heen &s apparent as were |of the cxceptional speed of his arts. He has not raced since he | completed a world tour with Charlle Paddock after the 1924 Olympiad. He became suddenly i1l at his ho- contests have |yo) weanesday morning and was ever if not more | tayen to a hospital at noon that day. new - PUYATLASFIVE the Atlas quintet in a state league |an ordinary state league contest but | with the Waterbury team as the op- | encounter | and then turned about and dropped ] Holst in re-| Star in Decatur Hospital Suf- val lat distances up to 300 yards, because | 90666660 BOSTON AMATEUR BATTLERS INVADE THIS CITY TONIGHT—WATERBURY TAKES CLOSE HOCKEY GAME FROM NEW BRITAIN —LOCAL BASKETBALL QUINTET PLAYS IN NEW HAVEN TONIGHT—BURRITTS WIN FROM THOMPSONVILLE TEAM — SPORTS PEPICPIPIFITIIIIIIIITPOIIP 49 ' EIGHT YEARS AS FORWARDS K3 PIPPIIEII BATTLES BOSTON SLUGGER HERE TONIGHT i Galaxy of Amateur Fight Stars Carded to Appear at | Tabs’ Hall—Bay State Invaders to Be Met by How- ard, Seeche and Clinch — Inter-city Bouts Feature Program — State Champion Matched With Man Who Knocked Out Beasley—Twelve Bouts Planned. KELLY 1 | Jack Kelly, amateur ¢ s his hard- est test tonight in the feature of the lamatenr fight tournament to be staged at the Tabs hall under the auspices of the Mohawk A. C. when he meets FFrank Rychlak of Boston, er who last week youd asley of New Haven rated as king of the statr yehlak s one of in the g: state middleweight face pin a defeat on the all plenty of fireworks in this other and from ampion, indications, there should be ession. nk Keenan of this city will meet Art Buck-of Hartford in the 150 pound class. These two boys are Loth of the hard litting type and they should furnish plenty of action while t in the r battlers from Bristol will ap- pear for the first time in New Britain amateur ring. They are Nick Christie, Al Taylor, Pat Cleary and Joe Fost iveryone of them has had experience in the ring and they are rated men. Lucicn Gregory of W ry is set to meet Ray Strong of Hartford. This has all the earmarks of being a real slugging bee. BEddie Camp of Hart- Joe Coc New Eritain, Joe Harris of Hartford and others will be scen in action.. There are bouts on the and the officials of the C. hope to furnish the fans with an cvening of real fistic entertdinment. The card is one of the most expen- sive attempted in this city and every cffort has been made to make it the best of the This will be the last tournament to be saged In 1927, & next being carded for January. The first bout tonight will take place at $:30 o'clock. e ey successor a weights. T ft. punchers today and he it is said, out all opposition in the Bay Kelly is reported to be in excel- lent tonight's battle a pre-action statement coming from the Franco-American club of Wa- | midal 5 a the he st shape for card Mohawk A. Jack Delancy and Paul Berlen- bach Clash For Vourth Time in | OSCAR It Chicago Ring. Iterbury of which he is a member, | tes that Kelly's hackers are confi- dent that he is going to come out a | Joo Howard weight Hartford and |Clinch, ace of New Brita amater re carded to take on the other thre {members of the Bean Town team to- |night. Howard meets Oscar Record, | {a boys whose reputation is well |known throughout the New England |stat Seeche mets Johnny Walker, {considered the peer of 150 pounders Chicago, Dec. % (T laney and Paul Berlenb former light heavyweight pions, mix in their fourth meeting tonight, with considerably more at stake than a mere ten rounds of milling. The match is one of the steps in Chicago’s eifort to build up an opponent for Gene Tunney, and Delaney is the likely opponent, if he can convince the ience tonight Tunney has said he would like to fight again in Chicago. He likely will talk terms with Promoter Jini Mullen here nest weck, and De- laney may get the big “shot” it his showing is impres | Berlenbach count campalign De- both cham- Jack ch, t middle- Seeche, Johnny h | s this Delaney [ alle with a statement that | he is fighting the top notchers only L to prove to a certain New York | clique that he s not “through.’” De- i laney onee knocked out “Punch-Em" wl, as Berlenbach used to be 1 known, in four rounds, but the next j two encounters were dividedly even- ! g 1y. | Indications were they would draw la gate of approximately $50,000 in contrast with the $442,000 at theh st combat in Ebbets fleld, Brook- lyn. Delancy has gained only couple of pounds since he tossed off the 175 pound title to invade the {heavyweight ranks, while Berlen- bach will probably weigh fin about five pounds lighter. JIMMY WALKER tts while Clinch bat- ult in the 140 pound . ; j iBegin Conferences on Summer Racing Dates Chicago, Dec. 9 (P—Operators of the five race tracks circling Chicago have begun conferences on dates for | next summer’s race programs, with Taylor of Terryville, Dignal is a | the lkelihood according to Col. Matt | member of the now famous Franco- [J- Winn, general manager of the American club of Waterbury while | Ldncoln Ficlds course, that a com- lor is a blonde-thatched mitt | plete schedule from May to Nov. 1, slinger from one of the Naugatuck | will be ready to submit to a meeting valley towns. Both are anxious to | of the Illinois Turf Association soon. inter-state bouts, | city scraps featur- | |ing some of the best boys in this| isection, are on the program. Head- ing this list is tl meting between Joe Dignal of Waterbury and Besides the: jeight other inte) Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling WHEN You coMe HOME TIRED AND HUNGRY FROM A HARD DAY IN THE OFFICE You WITH Tne CooK gcLock AND You LIVE IN Thue SUBURBS AND THERE IS NO HOTEL WITHIN MILES GUESTS WH THEM You BET YouR SWEET LIFE WE'LL <« AND THE WIFE GREETS -AND THEN —~ YOUR WEALTRY NEIGHBOR CALLS UP AND ASKS You AS A SPECIAL FAVOR To COME To A FormMAL DINNER AND Take THE PLACE OF Two By BRIGGS - AND Tue BUTCHER DIDN'T SEND ANY MEAT AMD THE KITCREN \S ALL UPSET THE NEWS THAT LEFT AT FOUR OH-H-H-BQY!! AIN'T 1T A GR-R-R-RAND AND GLOR-R*Riovg FEsLIN'? Tata 0 HAVE DISAPPOINTED