New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 16

Springtield will attempt to wrest “the amateur fight honors fram Con- neeticut simon-pures tomorrow night at the tournament to be conducted by the Mohawk A. C. at the Tabs' hall on Main street. Seven boxers from the City of Homes are carded to appear in the various bouts scheduled for the tourney. A battle between heavyweights scaling 180 pounds will be the feature bout of the night. Mike Rae- fello of Springtield, a heavy punch- er and a good fighter, will meet ~ APPEAR HERE TOMORROW {Bout Between Heavywelghts to Feature Fight Tourna- |President of Braves Denies © ment at Tabs’ Hall—Johnny Clinch and Vic Morley Carded to Battle — Program of 10 All-Star Bouts Planned—Lucien Larrivier and Herman Fink are Finally Signed to Meet—Favorites Entered. GUESSING REASON - OF HORNSBY DEAL Baseball Experts Not Satisflad‘ With Official Statement New York, Jan. 13 (M—Earnest either Barney Fox or Joe Hessel of ‘Windsor Locks. The applications of the three boxers have been recelv- | “ ed by the Mohawk club officials and the draw will settle on the Spring- | field boy's opponent. ! Leo Larrivier and Bill Lieberman of Springtield will meet in another of the bouts on the card. Larrivier, recognized as the leading welter- welght of the etate since Pinkey Kaufman stepped into the pro ranks, will have a tough time beating Lie- berman whese prowess as a puncher | is well-known in this city. Two middleweights who have avoided each other for some time, Lucien Larrivier and Herman Fink, are scheduled to battle tonight. Aft- ‘et much persuasion, both men sent in applications for the tournament and they will probably be matched. A fight of local interest is sched- uled to take place when Johnny ~Clinch of this city and Vic Morley of FHartford face each other. Clinch 1 got & close decision over Morley in | - Windsor Locks a short time ago in a | a bout in which Morley thought he | should have received a draw. Morley wants revenge and his opportunity | will come tomorrow night. R Joe Dignal, lghtniug-like rapler of the Franco-American club of | Waterbury, 18 carded to battle Marino Pagon! of Springfieid. This should be a spectacle of two fast! boxers, both possessing good left hands, in an exciting bout. " Five other bouts will make up a card of 10 fights in all to com- plets the tournament. A number of | favorites will be seen in action with Springtield and Waterbury boxers predominating. The entire list of entries according to weight classes, is as follows: 180 | pounds, Mike Raefello, Springfield, | Barney Fox, Windsor Locks and Joe | “¥essel, Windsor Locks 147 pounds, Leo Larrivier, Waterbury and Bill Lieberman, 8pringfield; 160 pounds, Lucien Larrivier, Waterbury gand Herman Fink, Hartford; 145 “pounds, Johnny Clinch, New Britain fand Vie Morley, Hartford; 135 _pounds, Joe Dignal, Waterbury and Marino Pagonl, Springfield. 118 pounds, Tony Korman, Spring- | fleld and Bob Morrison, Waterbury; 140 pounds, Henry Miner, Glaston- | bury and Charley Shea, Springficld; 110 pounds, Jack Harman, Water- | bury and Joe Cilento, Hartford; 120 pounds, Al Annone, Springfield and | George Krar, Glastonbury; 115! pounds, Harry O'Sit, Springfield and Pete Biller, Glastonbury. The first bout. will be staged at $:30 o'clock. SVAPPY PRACTICE SESSION IS HELD New Britain Basketball Team Ready fo Meet Holyoke Cemplete reversal of form was dis- played by the members of the New Britain basketball team in a prac- tice session held last night at the Stanley Arena on Church street. The , members of the team went through a snappy workout and passwork and shooting showed great improvement. At the conclusion, the team was de- clared fit and ready for the Mo- hawks of Holyoke whom the locals meet Saturday night at the arena. The visitors are coming here con- fident that they will be on the heavy end of the score. Only recently the | team defeated the Renaissance Five of Harlem, New York, colored cham- pions of the world, and since that time, #t has been undefeated. New Britain also defeated the col- ored team recently and Saturday night's spectacle will be a clash be- tween the two outfits to declde su- premacy. Both quintets are report- ed to be in excellent shape for the game and although it is not a state leagus encounter.. plenty of interest 18 being shown in the outcome. Holyoke will be directed in fts floor play by Jerry Conway, reput- ed to be one of the leadin, ball cent#fs i this section o country. Jerry's great work the Meriden Endees has brougt to the front as one of the best play- ers in the Connecticut State leogne The two Cassidy brother: Trank and Jim, will be the forwards and because they have 7y cd many vears Together, they forni a fust and shifty attacking combinati The guards will be Graeher and Torno. two fast men and accurate shots, éw Britain's lincup will not he decided until the very last minute, Manager Lanpher s d. his selection will depend on t dition of the play 7 Any quintet ths tion, he feels, v to the visitors and a good expectag, The preliminary g will be a battle between Lande and XN Lritain Machine girls' tear will start at § o'clock with t contest being staged at 9 o'clock. Dick Dillon will probably referee., [ o tlive teams, v hand goal. seekers for the “inside dope’ behind the Hornsby trade have found a dozen or so answers 80 far with flome of the outlying counties yet to | be heard from. Unsatisfled with | the official statements promulgated ; |by New York Giants headquarters, | the baseball experts have been doing some “heavy guessing” in thel forts to learn just why Rogers” should have been senf “up the coast” to Boston for two com- paratively unknown youngsters. - Officlally, the trade which brings Frank Hogan, and Jimmy Welsh, outfielder, to the Giants in exchange for a fine second baseman and one of the greatest hitters the game has . ever' known, was “made for the best interests” of the Giants and “to avoid any future conflict in management” of the club. That was the substance of statements issued by the Giants’ two | powers-that-be. The first was over | the signatures of both President Charles A. 8toneham and Manager John McGraw. The second, by Stoneham alone, was intended as & further “explanation” of. the deal which stood the baseball world on, its head on Tuesday night and so' far, has left it there. In his second communique, Mr. Stoneham recalled that statements had been made that Hornsby would be the next manager of the club, and then added: “I have never been consulted re- garding this and have had no con- ference about the selection of a manager as Mr. McGraw retains the management of the New York club”. The sports writers contended that the only fault with Mr. Stoneham’s | “explanation’” was that it didn't “‘explain”. If some managerial | conflict was to be feared, they asked, why did McGraw, when he was I, !appoint Hornsby as acting manager {during the hottest part of the Na- tional league pennant chase last summer? Hornsby, himself, in 8t. Louls, de- nied he had had any trouble with McGraw or had attempted to “‘un- dermine” the “Little Napoleon". Buggestions that the Giants had an interest in strengthening the Boston club were denied by officials and scouted by most observers. The idea, advanced in several quarters, that the suit for gambling debts against Hornsby had played a part in the trade, met with a similar re- ception. Hornshy won this suit by court verdict recently. Another view, held by several sports writers, that the deal was ar- ranged because of personal differ- ences with President Stoneham, also ‘was put before the fans. Its spon- sors believed the trade was made without the entire approval of Mc- Graw despite the fact that his sig- nature was attached to the original announcement. Neither McGraw nor Stoneham could be reached for a further statement. Although there were rumors that the club was angling for Hughie Critz, star second-sacker of the Cin- cinnati Reds, it was indicated that Andy Cohen, sensation in the Inter- national league last year, would get the call to fill Hornsby's shoes. L{ONS TAKE FIRM HOLD OF TOP RUNG 'Win Whirlwind Game From South Church Intermediates Intermediate “Y” Standing L. 0 2 Pct. 1.000 .600 400 Lions - South Church Trade School . Kensington ssisna B 5 .000 The Lions won their fifth straight victory in the Intermediate County “Y" basketball league and in- creased their lead to two full games when they won a fast and exciting | game from the South Church In- termediates at the Nathan Hale Junior High school last evening The finnl score of 28-22 does not tell how evenly matched the team: were and how hard they fought through three periods before the Lions finally manazed to pull away trom their ris Two tough brea turned the tide against the losers, but the Lions plaved a great gam and deserve full credit for their splendid win. Fired by the knowledge that a victory would tie them with the Lions for league lead, th m started offt with well and Luke scored th baskets for thelr respee but the forr more help, parti Iy liant play where y teok the ball away from a Lion and scored a one The church led by $-4 at the quarter. The second period was a beautiful demonstration of (Continued on following page.) the rush. Roc opening promising catcher, | SAYS GIANTS GaT ™ AN EQUAL TRADE Syodicats Owns Team Boston, Jan. 13 UP—If there is anything to the story that “syndi- cate” baseball brought Rogers Hornsby to Boston from the New York Giants, President Emil E. Fuchs of the Braves doesn't know it. “No man who is interested in any way with the Giants owns & nickel's | worth et stock in the Braves” he declared in spiking rumors enamat- ing from New York that the Giant | star had been traded here to help Tolster up a club which was falling doww finanelally. i He took oocasion at the same time to assert that when the New York cluh got Francis Hogan, Bostons’ star catcher and Outfielder Jimmy { Welsh, it was taking no loser's end. | Fuchs sald he valyed the pair at $150,000 ahd considered them worth tully that to the Gianta. “If ‘Hogan and Welsh were to be sold by the Braves I would ask | $150,000 for them. That's their value to me and any statement such as one I have heard from New York that ‘Rogers Hornaby, a $200,000 player, | was traded for $25,000 worth of ma- terial is absurd. A deal has been | made with the Giants, the same as any other club :n the lehgue., Why there should be any criticism or ‘mystery’ over this particular one is beyond me.” Discussing the financial setup of the club, President Fuch said: “Out- side of the controlling shares whicn I hold, the remainder is owned by reputable Boston people with the ex- | ception of one share, I belleve, which | is owned by a former manager, and a block of 80 shares which is held by friends of mine in Watertown, N. Y. “Furthermore 1 do not owe one penny to anyone connected with the ownership of the Glants and the only financial exchange I have ever had with the club was eight years ago when I accepted a fee for legal services renderad.” Boston Is Happy. New York may be stunned by tha trade which sent Rogers Hornsby from the Giants to the Braves but Boston's fandom is just plain happy. The deluge of “whys" and “where- fores,” mostly speculative, . which Lave left followers of the aport here cold. Apparently their only inter- est is in the fact that “the Rajh® himselt {5 to hold down the second sack out in the Allston Wigwam and that is sufficient, Even the club management, from President Emil E. Fuchs, down, was in something like & delirious mood notwithstanding the fact that it took a lot of figuring to see how the outfit could buy Hornsby's $40,000, contract in the face of the poor gate receipts that have been the rule in recent seasons. There, however, was where the strategy of Charles F. Adams, the comparatively new vice president of the Braves, came 1n, according to the view taken in certain quarters of informed fandom. It is an open secret that Adams has spent money and spent it freely to bring & championship contending hockey team to Boston in the Bruins of the National Hockey League :nd the public has reciprocated by giving the local puck chasers an enthusi- astic patronage. When the announcement was made last summer that Adams has put some of his money into the trib- al management there were predic- tions that new and outstanding faces might be expected on the playing rolls. While there was general regret that it had besn necessary to part with such promising youngsters as Catcher Frank Hogan and Outflelder Jimmy Welsh in the no-cash trade for the former Cardinal manager, sporting writers held hope that Ho- gan’s place, at least, would be satis- factorily filled by an experienced big leaguer now under option. The club, of course, has plenty of secon- dary material available. Depend on Hitting. Hornby's terrific hitting cbilities were seen as & promise that all of the home runs scored at Braves field next summer would not bé by the visiting clubs as has been the c.se of late. The Rajah is expected to put that punch into the team which the Braves have 8o notably lacked, and it 1s taken for granted that he will captain the team in the field. In answer to the suggestion from New York that one of the reasons | behind the trade was a fear of con- flict between the manager, John J. McGraw and the possible managerial aspirations of his ertswhile captain. local fandom saw no likelihood of such a conflict > views here. Expect Co-operation. It was expected that Jack Slat tery. the Tribe's new manager, and Hornshy would work hand in hand iornsby, it was pointed out, had Leen under an obvious strain as a player whlie piloting the Cardianls and probably would not desire an- ‘her such berth here. On the other hand, Elattery is nown to have played an imr 8 tant sart i the negotiations to bring Rogers to Boston and to be looking forward to the guidance that Horns- by undoubtedly will be able to give him. President Fuchs anticipates no difficulty in coming to a fall agree- ment with Horasby over the latter's reported desire for at least a two car eontract. The Braves president does not helieve 'n long term azree- ments but he Is satisficd that his new star has swallowed his disap- peintment in beine traded from the Giants and has promised to do his best for Boston this year. The contract * qnestion cari’ wait juntil he sees Hornsby, Mr. Fuchs believed have accompanied news of the deal, (BY HENRY L. FARRELL) NEA Bervice 8ports Writer Comparison of the ability of pro- fessionals and amateurs in any given line of athletics is an easy way to get into a controversy, but it's not the getting in that counts so much as the getting out., Anyone can start a fight. Two divisions of sport are out of it, however, There is no doubt that & professional baseball team could beat an amateur team with less than the number of players the rules re- quire on a diamond, and it is equal- ly certain that an amateur fighter would be risking his health to en- gage in a real fight with a first- i class protessional, There are other minor sports in which the superiority of the prefes- sionals is beyond dispute, but among the popular games that do bring differing expressions of opinion are football and basketball. Red Grange, Benny Friedman and Ernie Nevers, who graduated from the highest rank of the college stars into the professional class, Insist that the football played by the hired athletes is a much harder game, much more advanced in technique and much harder to play against. These opinions, however, might be taken as a kind word from them for a business that has been pretty good to them. They hardly would take a slam at & pastime that has made for Grange a small fortune, for Friedman enough to start in busi- ness in Detroit without prostrating himself before a banker, and for Nevers, whose private affairs have not been so publicized, at least enough to keep him away from the more laborious classes of labor. They do not hesitate to tell you that a first class pro football team could beat a first class college team because the pro players are more matured, more rugged, higher skilled and less foolish. By foolish, they mean that college boys will kill themselves on chances that are 100 to 1 against them and that | when the sight time comes for the i break their power is spent. Fried- man, one of the smartest quarter- ! backs of all time, says he has found | by experience that the chance for |the break always comes eventually and when it comes you have to ha the power to meet it. When it comes to basketball, there isn’t the slightest doubt of the { superiority of the professional game, !in the opinion of Vic Hanson, three- sport star and captain at the Uni- | versity of Syracuse and later one of | {the big stars of the American Bas- | ketball league. “I'm certain,” Hanson said, “that | a professional basketball team could beat any cqllege team in the coun- try. For two reasons—the pro game s much more scientific and the teams are as nearly perfect as possible in each position. You will find that the best of collage teams have a weakness some place, but the pro teams have the means ot strengthening any position that may be weak. “The big difference between the game as played by the professionals and the collegians is in the running |attack. The college players run and dribble the ball all over the floor to keep it in motion. The pro players move easily about the floor in organized formation. They will pass the ball around as if they were killing time until they find the right #ngle and then they will charge into it. It is a highly scientific game. @ Another difference is that there is much meore personal contact in the professional game and for that reason a pro team might commit a great number of fouls against col- lcge opponents, but even with that handicap T believe that the same re- sult would happen. 1If the rules ore equalized & collcge team wouldn’t have & chance against a pro team.” This oninfon of Hanson's is not an | expression of love trom an adopted child because Hanson left the Cleve- OF HOLYOKE—HIGH SCHOOL IN 1and professional club in mid-sea- son. It was said that the other Cleveland players were jealous of him and wouldn't pass the ball to him, fearing that he would male so many goals he would get into Babe Ruth money next season, Hanson denfed the {ntimation flat- ly. “I never played with a finer bunch of fellows. My differences were with the management. I had reason to know I was not getting a fair deal and fortunately I was in a position to quit. I do not have to depend upon pro basketball for a living." - His observations about the jeal- ousy angle were pertinent, as it has been said that pro athletes in all sports didn't like to give one player all the glory and put him in the limelight. “Because of fraternities and other things there may be more of that in the college gam Hanson said. “I never saw any it in the pro game.” Hanson is going south this apring with the New York Yankees and unlike many college stars who have played football, basketball, hockey and bageball he says he likes base- ball best of all. He is an assistant football coach at Syracuse in the fall. CAPTAIN OF OARSMEN New York, Jan. 12 UP—Alutair MacBain of Closter, N. J., has been elected captain of the oarsmen of Columbia university. MacBain, who is only 19 years old, was number 2 on the Columbia boat which won the intercollegiate rowing champlonship last summer, THE OTHER SALESMEN HAVE THE SAME CHANCE BUT T4EY | COULD SELL AN OLD STEAMER — - Yoo Hoo- HERE COMES LACK PEREoLALITY! - FIGHT IN HARTFORD immnmmmdum from New York Scheduled to Bat- tle in Oapital City. Hartford, Jan. 13 — A four-man New York amateur boxing team will be seen in the feature bouts of the Massasoit A. C.s weekly ama- teur ‘boxing show in Foot Guard hall tonight. In addition to these four inter- state battles, there will be more than half a dozen bouts, bringing together leading amateurs of Hol- yoke, Windsor Locks, Rockville, Wallingford and Hartford, many of these inter-city clashes finding keen rivals pitted against each other. Heavyweight bouts have great vogue just now and one that prom- ises & lot of action is on this eard. The bout will find Eddie Provost of Holyoke, now a real heavyweight, pitted against Joe Hemsell of Wal- lingford, who recently has been scoring a lot of knockouts in the southerly end of the state. LEADS POLO TEAM New York, Jan. 13 UP—Tommy Hitchcock, America’s polo ase, will lead the complete SBands Point team, winner of the national open tourna- ment last season, in an {nvasion of California late this winter. The New York quartet includes J. Cheever Cowdoin and Louis E. 8toddard, prominent in international polo. DANDY UTTLE SALES- ?\Q\. T T hor BE TriLLinG! ‘M SO PROUD Bic DAY Soup Two Coofs AND A COUPLA TOURINGS HONESTLY MASEL THAT )/ oM You CAR WE'RE SELLING S A LOTTA Junw - BUT wWe SELL IT BECAUSE IT LOOKS PRETTY- HARTFORD TEAM TONIGHT Fred Jean to Lead Stalwarts Against Captain Archie Muirhead's Crew—Fierce Battle is Expected—Vis- iting Center Was Once Idol of Hardware City Hockey Fans—Large Delegation From Capital City to See Game—Old Times to Be Reenacted. BOSTON GOB IS SILENT ON BOUT Starkey Modestl: St Tha Be Tk B Wl ¥ New York, Jan. 12 (P—aAn alir of patient silence hung heavily today about truculent Jack SBharkey whose new year resolution of ‘“no more blood and thunder” outbursis ex- cluded even a prediction as to what dire happenings would be visited upon Tom Heeney in the Madison Square Garden ring Friday night. | The almost demure edition of the | Boston heavyweight trekked into New York last night to report for ex m of his hands today be-' fore the New York state athletic commission, questioned .as to the outcome of his 13 round melee with the brawny New Zealander, Jack only smiled modestly and said in a small voice: “I think I will win."” He felt quite “all right.” 3 ! But through the veil of reticence | that has fallen so suddenly over the massive form of the lithe Lithuanian, there came occasional flashes of the old Sharkey—the cocky youth who: “gave the eye” to anclent Mike Mc- | Tigue and Jimmy Maloney, and even tried to stare out of countenance Jack 'Dempsey, before falling before thg | former champion's sledge-like body ramming in the Yankee stadium last sammer. “Why should I spend thousands of dollars training for a little guy like Heeney it I intended to run out a few days before the fight,” he de- manded, pounding on the edge of a chair the left hand fractured in training for the original match with the Anzac, postponed from late in 1927, 1 should give up sixty grand for fighting him? Oh, no! no!” All references to Sharkey's gener- al condition and the present state of the injury—an incomplete fracture of a bone just back of the little fin- ger—were answered vehemently by Johnny Buckley, manager of the; former gob, and Jimmy Johnson, New York fight manager, who re- cently acquired 10 per cent of the battler and with it a license to 99 per cent of his talking. Bharkey has no agreement with Rickard for any fight to follow the Heeney match, Buckley declared, and there will be no talk of a fight with Tunney until the obstacle just ahead has been cleared. The Boston youngster, who fought his way In boisterous fashion past George Godfrey, Harry Wills, Mc- Tigue and Delaney before Dempsey stopped him short of & title match, declared that over-training cost him the victory over the former heavy- ‘weight king. “I came back to New York to train for that fight with only two days’ rest in Boston and & short trip to the woods before starting the grind for Dempsey in the stifling | heat of the Madison Square Garden gymnasium,” he sald. “That's what | licked me before the bout ever start- ed.” Los Angeles—Jack Kea former manager of Jack Dempsey, and pres. ent manager of Mickey Walker, is recuperating from a minor operajion here. Real Folks At Home (An Automobile Salesman) WHY You wgn-oeeruL Bov! Teww ME ABOUT X_IT maventy |l ) o0ca (F WE | sether until Boucher's AFTER ALL MABEL TS P!nsoum.:rn\s’ S C e mm;‘l' ) TSAY (T MYSELF STANDING w New Britain ', Meriden ... ‘Waterbury . Hartford at New Britain, Last Night's Result Wallingford 8, Waterbury 6. Old time scenes and old time cheers will be seen and heard to- night at the Stanley Arena on Church street when - the Hartford roller hockey team invades the city to battle the New Britain quintet, Not oniy the team is coming here but & large delegdtion of Capital City rooters is also planning to come to this city to lend their raucous shouts to the rumble of the rollers on the floor. The greatest attraction of all in the game will be the appearance of Fred Jean, former idol of New Brit- ain roller hockey fans, in the role of captain of the invading team, In the old days, Jean's delight was to beat Hartford. Tonight, coming here as captain of a Hartford team, he will be devoting all his efforts to defeat- /ing the team for which he once slav- ed. ‘With the giant center will be St. Aubin and Hart, two of the crack rushers in the league. Hart is a former resident of Kensington and is a member of a family made fa- mous through its connections with athletics. 8t. Aubin was the first playing partner Boucher, star rush on the New Britain team, had. Both of these broké in together and play- ed together for seven years, finally splitting up to take positions on various other teams. Arriuda, the halfback, is one of the most promising youngsters to break into the game this season. He is a giant in stature and a great man on defense, Lovegreen, the goal tender, is one of the youngest and most efficient goalles in the circuit. New Britain's team will be at full strength. Alexander and Boucher will be at the forward positions, This pair has worked in nicely to- great floor work has become the sensation of the league and Alexander's scoring power has increased until-he {s near the top. Captain Archie Muirhead will be at center while “Gid” Brown, recognized as one of the greatest de- tensive halfbacks in the game, plac- ed before Bill Blount. Blount will tend goal in his inimitable fashion jand little will get by him tonight. A preliminary game will be played with the great Harry Kieffer star- ring in his usual role. It will start at 8 o'clock with the main feature be- ing staged at 9 o'clock. BOWLING RECORD World's Five-Maa Alley Mark tn Held By the New York A. C. Offi- clals of Club Clatm. New York, Jan. 12 (A—The world’s record for five-man bowling teams is held by the New York A. C. and not by the Peoria Life Insurance Company as claimed by the latter, officials of the local organization say. Commenting on a score of 3,548 rolled by the Peoria combinatiou last Monday night, representatives of the New York A. C. sald their team had tallied 3,366 in a tournament By BRIGGS COURSK || or You HAVE | HARRY. - ('VE| Aum\? 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