New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1928, Page 8

?ANUNAH.ETOPUTTOUGHMTMMAWAYNW—-NEWWANWMWEWTW 'IN OVERTIME . STRUGGLE—ATLAS QUINTET OF NEW HAVEN TO PLAY LOCAIS\HERE TONIGHT — CHURCH LEAGUE onms BOUCHER SCORES GOAL T0 'ATLAS AND NEW BRITAIN READY FOR COURT CLASH New Haven Team Has Already Captured Championship of First Half of Schedule — Locals to Present Re- organized Lineup ih Game — Visitors Have Best Team to Represent Club in Several Years—Corbin Screw and Stanley Wollh Girls in Preliminary, League Standing w. New Haven . Bristol .. New Britain ... Hartford Meriden Waterbury . Last Night's Results New Haven 31, Meriden Tonight’s Game New Haven at New Britain. Manager Clarence Lanpher of the New Britain basketball team anneunced today that he had signed Dessinger, star forward on_the Plainfield Pros to fill the | place made vacant when Ruben- stein left the local squad last week, Dessigner is well known to New Britain basketball fans and hia appearance here will be greeted with enthusiasm. He will play as a running mate to Al Sloman in forward and will | appear in tonight's game against the Atlas A, C. five of New Haven, ual O 19, Lineups New Britain Adlas | Sloman .... Pite Right Forward | Sheehan ... Cohen | Left Forw rd Zakzowski ....... «+.. Trupin Center Sturm . . Chadys Gordon Lelt Guard Tonight at the Stanley Arena thc Atlas A. C. basketball team of New Haven will make its first appearance of the season against the New Brit- ain quintet in a regularly scheduled Connecticut State Basketball league game, This will be the last contest of the season for the home club be- | cause tonight for New Britain, at least, the first half of the schedule will be finished. The Atlas have already cinched the championship for the first round of play. Having gone through the | ranks of teams in the league with | only one defeat chalked up against it, the New Haven team cannot be beaten for first honors in the stand- ing. This,-however, will not effect tonight's game because the Atlas and New Britaln teams are deadly court rivals, Probably the greatest crowd of fans ever to assemble at the Church | street sports emporium will be on hand to watch this battle of two classy court combinations. Interest n the game has been heightened un- |school. [hard at the beginning, while Sims- | bury started with a rush and, led by |by the end of | Bracing suddenly in the second per- 1 UPHILL ENCOUNTER Defeat Simsbury High by 30-19 ~Seconds Beaten A wretched start meant nothing {to the State Trade school basketball team last night, and it came from far in the rear to hand the S8imsbury |High school quintet a decisive 30-19 Valley | trouncing in a Farmington league contest at the Benior High The locals found the going Laskauskas, had piled up a 10-4 lead the iod, the Traders began an attack in which every man scored, Pond lead- ing the way with three field goals. Simsbury made but two baskets in this session, and the half found the school on top by 18-14. One fleld goal apiece was all the teams could manage in the third quarter, but Richtmyer put in two free shots to increase the locals’ lead to 22-16. Pond broke away again in the final stanza and the game became almoss | a rout. The work of Pond featured the Traders, attack, while Abel played a great defensive game and held his man scoreless. Anderson’s injury was healed enough to permit him to play once more and his rgturn bol- first quarter. | SCOUTING FOR GOOD MIDDLE DISTANCE TALENT (BY HENRY L. FARRELL) Feeling fairly well set for the | sprint races with such stars as Pad- dock, Borah, Locke, Bowman, Hus- sey and McAllister, the American Olympic committee is setting its glasses on the indoor tracks, acout- ing for good middle-distance talent. Since time too humiliating to re- call, the United States has failed to win a race of more than 200 meters in the Olympic games amd in 1924 the sacred ground was trespassed when Harold Abrahams of England won the 100-meter race from a flock of the best sprinters that c\‘er‘ represented America. For years Lawson Robertson, head | |stered the South Main street team's |play. Kalauskas starred for Sims. | €93¢h of the American team, has 1 Abel, bury. The summar State Trade School . 1. Pond, rf .... Richtmyer, 1If Anderson, ¢ . Knowles, © ... Frost, g . g .. 8 13 0 1 4 3 4 Stmsbury HiKII School Jacobsen, rf .... Kaslauskas, If- g DeGarmo, c-If .. Jigger, g ... | Eady, lsc 19 Personal fouls: T Richtmyer Pts. | 183 { door trials. £ Hahn recently resumed training | |after a long rest and Romig a few Dbeen praying for youngsters to go in for the quarter-mile, the half and the mile, but enly a few have had the tenacity to stick to it and the field from which to pick the 1928 runners necessarily will be smaller, Three of the best of the Ameri- can flock—Lloyd Hahn, Bill Cox and Blondy Romig—are now in training for the indoor season and will continue through for the out- days ago put on his togs and won o cross-country raco mnear Philadel- phia. Cox, a student at Penn State collcge, has been in almost continu- | ous training. Hahn, because of the many races he won last year indoors and the | records he set, is considered to be | PAAVO NURMI, RUNNING HIS FIRST RACE IN THE 1920 ANTWERP OLYMPIC GAMES =-THAT STARTED HIM TO FAME=-= CAVANAUGH PROVES TO BE PUNCHING BAG FOR TASSI TOMMY LOUGHRAN DEFEATS LOMSKI Coast Battler Has chammon Down Twice lor Gount of Nine New York, Jan. 7 UP—Tommy lLolllhrll\ continued to hold sway DEFEAT MERIDEN MAROONS anfluhwqumwmmcmby 6 to 5 Score—Locals Overcome 6 to 2 Lead to Tie Count at End of Contest—Alexander Stars on Of- fmn-flmwnandmolnthmflwm fense—Both Teams Lose Goal on Three Fouls. CHURCH LEAGUE . OPENS TONIGHT Thrw Schoid Gumes 1 Bt Stagedat Y. M.C. A, Three games which bid fair to be interesting will be played at the Y. M. C. A. tonight as the third season of the Infer-Church. basketball 'l\ ague swings into action. The de- | fending champions, the Bouth Con- | gregationalists, will open the sched- ule when they meet theit old rivals, |the Center Congregationalists at {7:45 o’clock. The champs havg with them every man of the team which won the title last year, and several ing the team a leading contender again. The piayer list submitted by this team is as follows: Otto Bar- ta, Cliford Bell, Donald Hattings, Howard May, Wilton Morey, Geol Osborne, Kermet Parker, Joseph Potts, Henry Rockwell, Theodore Wessels. The Center church has not | yet gent in its .ist, but it will prob- ably have Leon Bradley, Eugene | Brown, Russell Haigis, John Eric- son, George Howe, Euclld Hartung, |and several others, On paper it & the weaker team, but this church has the habit of upsetting the dope when it plays ihe Bouth, The two B8wedish entrics | will new players have been added, make | {over the light heavyweight domain I meet at 8:30 o'clock in what should today but only after a florce struggle ' .. gne of the closest games of the in which chalienger Leo Lomski at one time had the pride of Philadel- | phia flat on his back. Two battering fists, packed with dynamite, knocked Loughran down | itwice for the count of nine in the first round of a 15 round title en- gagement in Madison Square Garden last night while a packed patronage of 15,000 enthusiasts roared at the prospective crowning of a new cham- pion. But a cdurageous heart and ring mastery served the Philadelghian well, tiding him over the bad start and eventually enabling him to wear Lomski.down in ten of the remaining rounds to take the decision and re- tain the title. ! As Loughran said afterwards, it was the most vicious battle of his | | ] n evening. The First Lutherans, whe are out to repeat their pennant-win- ning feat of two years ago, have the following players from whom to choose their team: Hilding Bengston, ! H. Anderson, Eric Anderson, Axel | Floden, George Hallm, Oscar Erick- son, A. Anderson, Loren Larsen, and W. Berglund. Against this formid- able array the Swedish church has a second strong team to | pit. Tt embraces Paul Swanson, Hare old Carlson, Bwen Swanson, Gus Dahlman, Walter Anderson, Herbert | Anderson, Elmer Johnson, Carl Sea- | berg, David Bwanson, and Clarence Olson. In the third game, which is to get vnder way at 9:16 o'clock. The 8t. Matthew's German Lutherans, run- Bethany | wq KTANDING w | Meriden ‘Wallingford . ‘Waterbury | Holyoke . P e Games Tanight Holyoke at Waterbury, ! Meridea at Wallingford. { Meriden, Jan. 7—Bib Toucher kept New Britain at tite top of the i econd-half standing in the Ameri- ' can Roller-Hockey league by driving | home the goal that defeated Meei- tden's Maroons, ¢ to 5, in a hectie overtime struggle at the Pold Rink last night, Boucher's shot climaxed a great third-period New Britain rally that overcame & € to 2 Moriden lead, Each team lost one goal on fouls, Brown and Morrison committing four each and Bill Alexander draw- ing one penalty. Meriden was away to & 3-2 lead In the first period, Kid Willlame out. scoring Boucher in a personal acor- ing duel. Lee Lunderville added ane other in the second frame and New Britain lost a goal en fouls to send the locals out in front by 4 to 1 margin, Starting the third period, Alexander clicked one past Purcell but Plerce and Willlamu retorted jwith brijliant ecores that ralsed the ante to 8 to 2, but here Meriden lost a goal on fouls when Morrison com- mitted his third misdemeanor. The Panthers came storming back to the attack, Alexander registering two goals in quick succession but Purcell kept kicking them away un- til Boucher tied the score with less than two minutes remaining to the final whistle, Then Bib sewed up the verdict by driving one into the cage after 43 neconds of scrimmaging in the extra period. Boucher's all-around game and Bill Blount's exceptienal goal-tend- |ing featured New Britain's play, | With Archie Muirhead leading & |strong defense. Williams and Lunderville were the Maroons' best performers. The summary:— eriden New Britatn 1r .... Alexander Boucher Muirbead +.» Brown ++. Blount ‘Willlams Willlams New Britain Boucher il it has reached the plane of belng |2, Anderson, Frost 2, Abel 2— Italian Battler Unable to Put Bridgeport Boy Away—|carcer and he had to call upon gl | ncrs-up laat year, will face the Trin- NewBritain - Bascher the blue banner attraction of thc Year, The viritors are bringing to !hlu city the best collection of basketball talent to represent the New Haven club in several years. Sammy Pite. | former Yale star and mainstay of the Atlas team in its leanest years, and Cohen, a newly arrived star on the basketball horizon, pair up in a| neat forward combination. 7 jumps center and he is efficient and fast, Chadys, he who has been known as “Zeke,” and Gordon are | the guards and no team has a better | pair at the present time. New Britain will present its line \mj $ two, and by 18-15 with Johnny Sheehan plugging the hole at forward as Sloman's running mate, Jimmy Zakzewskl will jump | center with Captain “But urm and Tom Leary in the back court. New Britain fell before the al- tack of the Atlas in the' first game played at New Haven this yeur b spectators at the contest fult th the local club played on the floor us well as the winning tmni'lnuium.‘ However the game may rosult. night's contest is sure 10 be a battic. The Corbin Serew and Stanl Works girls will meet in the prelim inary game, a contest in the Girls Industrial league. This will start ut | S o'clock with the main game "l- ting under way at 9 o'clock. BILLIARD TOURNEY Wolfe Who Led List in irst Rousd | Continnes Winning - Ways by feating Wallace. first round of | ent being Wolfe who led the the earom billiard tournan played at started the second a vietory over Wall the acore of 100 to § gave his opponent a handic points bhut came through to win. the other games played downed Adams 100 to 3 g I andi: of 15 pointe Kack defs in a very ¢l ame 100 1o ¥ overcame point lead only to lose out in the last few pla of the game. Wol then turned about and beat Adams in another tight contest, the score heing 100 to $6. Olson beat out Stewart 100 to | 45. The enthuiasm of the spectators | : matches last night gives evi- | dence that billiards is due to replace | the pocket game in popularity in the future. T matches at will be econtinued with t ting closcr after e round play last night he leader 15 1n Kasprow ing "HAM IS HONORED A. Stoncham, part own- of the New York Giants b badl club, was elected recently as viee president of the Amcrican Soccer League. He 18 president id part owner of the New York Nationals, a member of the league which playe at the I‘nlu grounds. | Il(\l\ of Walter ing in Wash- WILL MISS BiC The familiar face Johinzon will Be mi: ingten next year in more than 2, years. i apin | ¢ to- | for the first time |« Jacobsen 2, I)c(:.umo. Kaslauskas Technical fouls: Pond, Richt- Anderson 3, Frost—9; De- Kaslauskas 7, Eddy 2—11. Referce, Tohin, 'rm'mn, Buck and Schober. Scorers, Buck and Smith. “Indies” Even Count a ool ies with the Trade c Seconds in the preliminary game when they defeated them by 24-17 and avenged last week's de- feat, The game was close all the way, but the Independenis ledoby after one period, by 16-12 after after myer 4, e three, away. The second tured by close guarding. 1 well halt was Koplowitz for onds. The swnmar; S, T. S Tadependents ¥id. " 1 0 | Beckiu: S, rf. rf. isecila, | Iinson, , I, 7 e rg. 5 3 Hubbell, Knowles, rranchis 0 17 Perconal fouls: Fruscella, Szyman- | Hubbell 4. Koplowitz Becking la 4, Szyme Wasilewski- Koplowitz 3, Kulesick 2, 13. Referee, Tobin. av Scorer, Smith. YHIBITION GAMES All in Los An- Knowles 4—12; W \:.Ifl 4. rowles Cavalari, 1. Becking Timer, Nineteen Contests, geles, Will e Played by Chiczgo Cubs Before Scason. 7 (P —Nineteen exe all in Los Angeles ption of four with the Amerlcan association Chic hibition gam with the an, club « the Chicago Cubs. s Angeles and Hollywood will of- er the opposition in the Los An- mes, starting on March 10 with his trainer ana Chic pitchers, February 12, catchers, the for the Catalina will 1es o hruary 21. Warner, nd o5 at coached Nevers when who Ernie his b valuable man. vas the morc Tndependents | | [ Pittsburgh, | gor Joe McCarthy will leave | training eamp on | The others | the firet | Amsterdam it can be taken to mean | Then they rallied and pulled | that he will train in Holland and fea- | will be out there trying. the | winners and Szymanski for the Scc- | of them may be Johnny Zola, cab-(¢ha Park City boy took everything 1 21 off the hooks the great Ku- | | world, { form. Jim NV\II‘SK | should be | Canaat the best chance for American points in Amsterdam. His victory over Edvin Widde, the Swedish star, disccunted, however, be cause none of the foreign runners know much about the wooden track. Bill Cox, however, may be the leader of the American squad. He is one of the greatest cross-country athletes developed in years, having won the champiosship two years in succes- | slon and he fs now. training strictly | for the flat races. ! tomig, also a Penn State product, | was an ace runner and a veteran of | the 1924 team and if he goes to There, of course, will be more run- ners appointed to' the team and one itain of Wisconsin's crosa-countr; [team and the winner of *the last | Wertern Conference race, Zola at least ix serious in his am- | bition to mate the team as he left | the class room after the mid-winter | examinations and went to work so that he would have enough money to fipance himself in the event that he made the squad. The Amcrican middle distanee | runners will have some of the best | runners in the world to beat at Am- sterdam, including Germany's great | star, Dr. Otto Pelzer; Paavo Nur-| mi, Finland's champion, and Edvin | Wide, the great Swed Hahn has beaten Wide, Nurmi has | beaten Hahn and Wide and Peltzer | have beaten Nurmi and also wipea | records of | Ted MMeredith. But these performances will count 50 much when they line up in Amsterdath. Huhn, Wide and Nur- mi always will be good runners, may be betier than they ever have heen this summer, so past form annot be taken 100 much as evi- | not | any fears that D w in the Tnited § a trip around the himselt out That remzing to be seen. One thing can be take for granted, Nurmi did not relish the | defeat he suffered by the German | and he will not do anything to| throw himeelf off. | INVADE NEW HAVEN Reds Peltzer, who is contemplating will travel of | Providence Scheduled to a| Meet Lagles in Eim Arena Sunday Night, City |1y but managed to hold The Providence Reds, rapidly be- | coming dangerous contenders in the | n-American hockey league | ranks, are due to invade New Ha-' ven tomorrow night to mect Lagles in a regularly scheduled | contest. Jimmy Gardiner, eoach of the Providence puck chasers, sends the | word ahcad of his outfit that the! men are all primed for a victory | and that the Eagles will have no| chance of repeating the 8 to 2 vie- tory which was scored over Phila-| delphia last Sunday night. e o A |of blows would wear down an jaction against Murr; ey and | | the six round scmi-final, was over- | .|sank into a corner. | first time either could show was ralsed as victor. Park City Scrapper: Gets “Long Count” in Third Round — Kaufman Kayoes Jackie Ryan in Second Canto—Buster Nadeau and Joe Triano Stage Best Bout on Card—Mickey Roberts Gets Decision Over Chabhot, national intercollegiate | Either the toughest man in the boy hit harder and fought less wild- |right to Lomski's head in the elghth world has been discovered in the|ly than he has been wont to do as person of Frankie Cavanaugh of lan amateur. Bridgeport, or Nando Tassi, student- | In the ecurtain raiser Mickey Ro- pug of New Haven, hasn't enough of |berts of Hartford, was given a de- © punch to crack an egg. {cision over Reny Chabot of Holyoke. Ruch was the conclusion of fight While therc was no great outcry, followers at the close of the Tassi- Uiere were many in the arcna who ‘avanaugh eight round affair last!i¢lt @ draw verdict would have been Inight at the Stanley Arena. Tassi|more satisfactory. hit Cavanaugh with cverything but | his Hallan university diploma, but| ~A AKRON JOLTED DARTMOUTH Dartmouth, doped as winners of {and smiled. Several times when it| (e sastern colleglate basketball | seomed that o rapid a succession|iitle lost to Akroa and Pittsburgh man. fon a recent western trip. |Cavanaugh would come up smiling and drive away at Nando, Twice during the fight {went to the mat, once in the third round when he took a “long nine” from Referee Joe Curry, and again in the eighth when he was rising from the floor when the final gong | sounded. Tassi’s Inability to k.o. Cavanaugh | was something of a disappointment. In the few minutes he was seen in Gitlitz he showed signs of a very liefty wallop and the fans last night looked for a | real slugfest. The New Haven Ial- | ian worked hard and took every round—but he also took a few stiff | ones on his protruding chin. Cavar {augh welghed 1651, and Tassi 1 | pounds, Pinky Kaufman, making his first "local appearance a professional hoxer, knocked out Jackie Ityan of Igeport, in the second round of what was to be a six-round bout. Both are former champions of the amateur welterweight class in Con- inceticut. Pinky had a wide lead at the close of the first. Coming out in the second round he boxed for a minute, then like a bolt, shot a stiff | left to the stomach and three more | to the jaw as Ryan went down, and | out. Andy Williams, who was o have | met Frankie O'Brien of Hartford, in Frankic e |Oh, Man! | WHERE'LL WE J WHaT'S PLAY GoL# bk THE WINTER w“::';:;f The BesT | EVER DiD) SNAPPY WAs 125 / 136 AT P ht and was not allowed 1o go on. Walker, colored, of New York ubstituted and lost to O'Brien. Walker started off fast, but took a few j_nl'l after which he gracefully After taking & short count he moved more cautious- a draw at the end of the first ronnd. In the second round his claim of foul blow was not allowed and he went through the remainuer of the show, now and then showing a spurt, but for the most part playing safe. Buster Nadeau of Holyoke, and Joe Trlano of New Haven went six rounds to furnish the best bout of ithe evening. This was the third: meeting of the two former rivals in the amateur ranks and it was the super- | Buster's hand The Holyake iority. l.ast night i | WELL Jake '\ Tuat's the science of his trade to pull him through. The knockdowns were the first scored against Loughran since he was floored by Gene Tunney in a bout at Philadelphia some five years ago. Lomski, a Polish .scrapper from Aberdeen, Wash,, waged a furious combat, tiring somewhat in the clos- ing stanzas. Loughran ripped a solid round which opened cut under | Leo's left eye. The wound bled, freely and slowed up the challeng- | er's attack. | Loughran, who won the light heavyweight title by whipping the venerable Mike McTigue last fall, successfully defended the standard against Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo, | N. Y., about a month ago. | The title holder declares he fis | willing to accept all challengers and | that after he disposed of all op- i ponents in his devision he plans to (Continued on following page.) ' we've PLAYEE MIAML AND A LoT HAs 7o SLAVE | NEVER won A cuP N {ity Methodists. The Bt. Matts will | probably have Gustave, Willlam, and Edmund Prejsser and several others from the old team, while the quin- tet is said to have been strengthened by the addition of William Yankas- kas and “Chief” Larson. The Metho- dist team, which always puts up & good scrap, will be selected from the following: M. Gross, L. Gross, Alden Hewett, Deming Hewett, George Heinzman, Merwin Johnston, A. Karbonic, and Willlam Semmens. Jack Tobin will referee all three games, SEEKS OLYMPIO CHANCE Folwell Scull, start football player, has joined the squad which s training for the Olympic games at the University of Pennaylvanla un- der Lawson Roberston, head coach of the American team. Barney Ber- | linger, a freshman, has been a sen- i sation in the decathlon events and is sure of a chance. PLAYED A HARD COURSE Meriden Willlams Perlod Meriden Lunderville Third Perlod Meriden Meriden ‘Wil New Britain Al% New Britain Al New Britain Beucher Period New Britain Boucher : Rushes, Alexander 9, Williams 7. | Stops, Blount 86, Purcell 6. Feuls, RBrown 4, Alexander Morrison ¢. Referes Lush. New Britain Alexander Pletos AL TROUBLES OF CAILOW Tmmaturity and lack of weight are the reasons forthe fallure of many eastern eolIoJu 16 develop great rowing crews, accerding to Rusty Callow, Pennsylvania, eoach. He says older studenta at the Navy and westorn universities give them an advantage. GEe - ('LL Be GLAD WHEN WINTER (S OVER, SO (| CAMN PLAY A LITTLE. GOoLF