New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 8

T —— SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM IS SWAMPED BY HARTFORD QUINTET—LAHAR LEADS INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE HOW WEATHER CONDITIONS AFFECT ATHLETES NEW BRITAIN TO BATTLE MERIDEN ENDEES TONIGHT Hardware City Basketball Quintet Ready for Tough Game at Stanley Arena—First Contest of Second ) H H ” Round of Schedule—Hope to Dispel “Indian Sign Tonight—Visitors Possess a Powerful Combination e 2 2 Yy —First Place Battle in Girls’ League. 5 Tonight at the Stanley arena, the Meriden Endees and the New Britain second round of the Connecticut State Basketball league. The two quintets are bitter rivals and this feeling has been intensified because | of two defeats administered to New | o Britain by the Silver City club dur- | . . ing the first half of the season. |H[l'fl0m Ql]mm Shows sflmfl- | game slump, returned to form last | Saturday night to defeat the Mo- hawks of Holyoke and the team is) anxious to win tonight in order that | guccoss in athletics at the New they might dispel the peychologlcal | pripayy pjgh school begins to appear bugaboo known ns the “Indian sign” | g e SO R Cond. athle- over the locals for the past two sea- | © i AT igh schesl inibelbar: Sons, g ketball game in Hartford last night, Merlden has a strong ~comblna- |y, pigorg outplayed and outfoxed tion even with its weakeat lineup in | (AFUOE OUREACE R PR the game and though doubt has been E 5 ®ant on whether Jerry Conway, star AUHARCLL Fake 404 PUE 83 resy tonight, his presence in the lineup - will make the visiting team doubly :i\o‘f*hn::ui':d“fflhflr;"'::: "::’3;‘ ':::; strong. The entire squad is com- | muc posed of some of the best basketball | in their first basketball meeting of talent in the Silver City and many |the year. At times during the of them will be given the opportuni- | game, a Capital City player 'n:ll:d e basketball teams will open up the New Britain, after being in a three Omy 0"]' ms il! Gllm which Meriden has apparently held | |, "3 0.t o¢ the season from Hart- center will be with the quintet here Although the score looks large, it ty to display their wares here to- | dash in, take the ball out of night. ! hands of the New Britain player, New Britain will probably start | dribble in and score. Sloman and Rubenstein in at the The Hardware City team was forward positions and Zakzewski at | handicapped to a great extent by the center while the choice for guards|absence of Henry Kraszewski, regu- rests among Shechan, Leary and|lar forward, who was declared in- Sturm. This combination started off | eligible by the faculty. Coach Cas- last Saturday night and made the | sidy had to shift Landino from game with Holyoke a runaway affair. | gusrd to forward and put Seully, Manager Clarence Lanpher has re- | first ubstitute in at guard. Later talned the squad of nine men he|\joy (he team was not going so used last weck and in an emergen- | wop, Scully was shifted to center, ¢y, the local five will be fortified | gyngers to forward and Landino to with plenty of substitutes. Many of | gyppq. them may get a chance o play 10| " yany of the alumni members who night. Preliminary Game _terday asked themselves the ques- ~The P. & F. Corbin and Landers'| yon wwhero is the old fighting Red girls' teams will battle In the pre- | o8 oo L MO L Fotten Hminary game for first place. A vie- tory for the Corbin outfit will place | the team in a tie with the Uni some time?” It was gone. The team took its defeat and instead of versals. Corbins has lost only on game during the present season and | CI8EINE its toes into the floor and this, incidentally was to Landers |Playing harder, it played worse. Since that time, the Corbin team has| Hartford ran up a 5 to 0 lead and et and defeated all opposition, The | beld New Britain scoreless for the universals are unbeaten so far an seven minutes of the game. The Totals 13 New Britain. Zaleski, vf .. 0., ndino, 1f, rg unders, e, If Seully, rg. ¢ . Sowka, Ig . Totals 5 7 1 Score at half time—Hartford :w Britain 9. Referee—Dillon, Win 25th Straight. Junior Reserves quintet its marvelous straight wins by winning its 25th ! consecutive victory at the expense of the Hartford High school Seconds in the praliminary game yesterday. The game was a fierecly fought affair the prospects are for a hard fight|I*d and Gold team tied the score tonight. The first game will start|but then Hartford went on a ram- ot 8 o'clock with the main contest | page that gave it a 23 to 9 lead at gelting under way at about 9 o'clock. | half time, 1In the second half the e |Hardware City tcam showed no {more improvement and Hartford three starts and it was New Britain's second successive defeat. | Yesterday's game was the last for | Scully, and for Zehrer, and Hewett, AT IS - I1t was also Giraitis' last game. ‘ys ‘me utm 0[ w“ i Hariford Public High. | Fld. FL Tt Sernational shooting by Paul La-, Mallinowski, 1f ... 13 Har in Fafnir's victory over the |Giraitis, rf .... 12 New Britain Machine team in the | Wilkins, rf Y. M. C. A. Industrial basketbail | Hayes, ¢ league brought him from sixth | Dolan, Ig . top of the list. In his climb he | Shortell, rg passed Datrow, na, Floden, | Bengston and Bucheri. Previous to Tuesday'’s game he bad 30 points, but he went on n; tear and scored 18 points. He is with 48 points. “Stanley” Arena is second on the list and is tied with his running mate on the Britain Machine team, Axel Floden, for honors in foul shooting. Arena has scored onc him second place over Floden, with whom he was tied last we “Hammy” Darrow, who led th league last week, is now in fourth placs and “Mickyy” Bureheri is just staying within the select circle with finished the game with substitutes. 'Sensational Sbooting i Tues- Sorss ons i cmmm ors Bt place to among the scorers to the | Kerwin. re. now leading the league m. oring | more field goal and this has given 36 points, The ereased in- followed the team to Hartford yes- | heard quoted but haven't seen for| record of | (BY BILLY EVANS) Docs thet nag like a muddy track ? That eéxpression is often heard just before a running race, when a heavy rain storm coming out of & clear sky has rendered a fast track very slow. Does the rain affect his control? One hears that remark time and again during the summer, wWhen a light rain often sets in late in the ame, but in the opinion of the | umpire play is still possible, | That wind plays havoe with tee shots is common talk in golf circles prior to a big match, when the ex- iperts realize they must tee off against @ heavy wind that often has a disastroud effect on the style of play of many of the stars. Weather conditions often play a prominent part in the results of many of our leading sports events. No system that figures to pick the winners fails to take into considera- tion the possible effect of the weather on the various contenders. A great many horses stmply can- not do their best on a siow track, while others revel in the hea going. Rain and wind conditions often play havoc with the control of & big league pitcher. A majority of golfers prefer to have the wind at their backs rather than blowing directly into their faces. In the days when a great many major league pitchers featured the epithall, no wise manager ever started such a pitcher in a game with & slight rain falling, while others often refused to call on a spitball pitcher if rain even threat- | ened. It is obvious that a pitcher who depended on the mostening of a slight spot on the ball to produce a deceptive break, would be seriousl handicapped in trying to pitch a ball soggy with rain. It is a known fact, that 99 out of every 1100 spit- ball pitchers have been effective-in rain. Since there are only a few moist ball pitchers still in the ma- jors, managers are no longer| worrying much on that angle of! strategy. | | However, there are still many star | pitchers in the majorse who work | their best under favorable con- ditione, That is true of most twirl- ers who boast a good change of UMEN TUE ELEMENTS ARE O.!2,} TTUESE BOYS ARE RIGHT/ SHEELY RETURNS (T oA WIS \‘ i HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY League Leaders to Battle N Time as On Thursday ITHREE GAMES IN CHURCH LEAGU Every Contest Has Elements of Interest o Followers Center Cong. Teinity M. Brown, ©f .......... If, D, Hewett Ericson, 8lade, 1f R .o If, A. Hewett, Fengle) . ¢, Heinzman rg, Karbonik . I8, Gross Matthew's . If, Becker . rf, G. Preisser 3 ¢, Litke Lockwood, Derrick, rg. Bradley, 1g .. Swedish Bethany Carlson, It ... W. Anderson, Johnson ¢ . 'H., Anderson, rg . D, Swanson, Ig . South Cong Bell, Osborne rf . Floden, Benson Morey, 1f If, Berglund Wessels, ¢ . ¢, Erickson Barta, May, rg, rg, Larson, Johnson Parker, Hattiigs, Ig . 1g, Nordgren A three-fold program will be of- fered 1 the Inter-Church basket- ball league at the Y. M. C. A, to- i night, every one of the trio of games | contuining clements of interest. In i the first encounter, scheduled for I o'clock, the Center Congrega- {tionalists will meet the Trinity | Mcthodists. The former team has {lost both starts but has on each try {shown unexpected power during the | first half. If it can develop stamina In every sport there are thorough- breds, who are always in the run- ning, regardless of weather or turf conditions, but they are greatly in the minority, most of the stars be- ing subject to the whims of the weather, LEAD' DOG RACE Leonhard Seppala of Alaskan Fame, Mushes Into First Place in Lake | Pncia Events. Lake Placid, N. Y., Jan. 21 (P-— Leonhard Scppala, dog team driver Berkeley, Cal.—The University of California defeated the basketball game, Denver, Col.—The Denver univer- =ity basketball team defeated the other contestants struggling Chicugo, Jan. 21 (UP)—Earl onds. Trailing him by 23 minutes back to the minors and Charley ! SPORT TABLOIDS ing marked the end of Comiskey | Miami, Fla—J. E. Junkin, Jr., of Weaver, from his lincup, rather 8o he paid the Colorado university team, 36 to 22. s todaw to defend the advantage | %ained yesterday in the first annual dog sled derby. Seppala mushed into m—— |first place yesterday over a 15 mile, Enumd l i m G bl { bllzzard-swept course, leaving six ‘lom am [ng behind. Today's race, covering the wmk’j whiu sox same distance, was to be the con- cluding event of the derby. PSR The Alaskan covercd the course in one hour, 26 minutes and 17 sec- Sheely, the last member of the |\was Mrs. E. P. Ricker, Jr., of Po- minor league infield which suddenly |1and Spring, Me., who placed second. found itself a major league outfit |One team falled to finish, that driven when gambling: wrecked the Chi- by Walter Channing of Boston. cago White Sox in 1920 has gonc e Comiskey knows now that you can't | By the United Press. manufacture a big league inffell, Corvallis, Ore.—The Orcgon Ag- Sheely was releated outright to |Eies defeated Idaho university 31 to the Sacramento club-of the Pacific 25, in & basketbull game. Coast Leaguo yesterday. His pass- =5 dream to lift an irfield out of the | Mlami. won the Miaml mid-winte league ball, |amateur golf title by defeating When the “Back Sox* exposc|W. Palmer of Miami, § and 10, torced Comiskey to drop Chick T Gandil, Bwede Risterg and Buck than bring an assortment of ball players to try for the positions, he decided to bring three boys up who were accustomed to playing to- gether. $75,000 for Sheely, Ernie Johnson and Eddie Mulligan. Mulligan soon | proved to Comiskey that the plan would’t work. So Eddie was lect out, Johnson, as game a ball player as Salt Lake club Tuscaloosa, Ala.—Olson's Nordics, professional basketball team, defeat- then drifted on. Sheely, a great natural ball-player was ruined by a prank of fate. Early | in his career he broke an ankle and never recovered his speed. He was =old, but there have heen of Alaskan fame, put his team in its | along | University | of Southern Culiornia 28 to 15 in a | FRED You'vE BEGN A MIGHTY HARD WORKING A it will make trouble for the other jed the University of Alabama 56 | quintets in the clrcuit. The Metho- to 30, dists, after dropping their initial game, came back last week with an mpressive victory over the First Lutherans and are ranked as dan- gerous. They will also be strengthen- «d tonight by the addition of Alden | Hewett, who wi i Chicago—TLoyola university of | Froyrey, WO Wil pair up with bis Chicago defeated the Michigan State | The Swedish Bethany team ‘_““ Reskptball AU Re 1 |face the $t. Matthew's Lutherans in S S S |the second contest, which will get under way at 8:30 o'clock. The Bethany outfit has plenty of ma- terial but it failed to work togeth- |er in its first games, With some of Pittsburgh—The University of | the needed experience now acquired, Pigtsburgh basketball team won its |it OUBhL to be a hard foe for the | ninth consecutive victory by defear- | St. Matts to conquer, The 8t. Matts, !ing the West Virginia university |owever, have come through with Iteam 51 to 26, two rather easy triumphs and, with a veteran linc-up, are favorites to- night, In the nightcap, which will start at 9:15 o'clock, the South Congrega. | tionalists will play the First Luth Stillwater, Okla.—The Oklahoma |erans. The South church is now en- | Aggies wrestling team defeated Towa |8aged in the business of defending | Btate college 12 to 11, its championship and has a team | of veterans which breezed through | San Francisco—Tony Lazzeri, New |it first game without trouble. The York Yankee second baseman, was |first Lutheran line-up is uncert:in, |to coach the St. Ignatius college but a strong team with both old baseball team during February. |and young material s being gather- |ered and the Swedes are by, no Naperville, Ill.—North Central col- | means a set-up array. {lege defeated Mount Morris college |20 t0 9 in a basketball ganje. | i s Stanley L. Robinson, former All- ARE TWO-SPORT ME America quarterback at Colgate, will Carl Husta and Rusty Saunders, coach the University of Mississippi both pro cage stars, spend the sum- | foothall team next scason. mer as professional ball players. Husta will be with Toledo next year BIG STAR IN MINORS {and Saunders with Dallas. | Nick Cullop. recently sent by | et |Cleveland to 'Buffalo, enjoys the | There are more than 400,000 maps 'reputation of a great minor league in the archives of the military in- players who cannot make good in i telligence division of the U, §. army. X"m majors, ~ Cincinnati, O.—S8t. Xavier collefc | dedicated a new $375,000 ficld house defeating Centre collcge 40 to 13 |In & basketball game, | . New York—Willie Hoppe, lost to ! Alfred De Oro, 50 to 48, and missed a chance to a tie for first place in | ‘lhe American three cushion league. St. Touls, Mo—Missour! univer- sity defeated Washington university 35 to 24 In a basketball game, WILL COACH GRID TEAM wr opeea tomeeret v s Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling Now 1 wnow You ARE A NUT ON GolLF™ AWD You $0- 'ORERS—SPORTS evoto0rereesresererreseseesessersessevere M\ERIDEN MAROONS WILL OPEN UP SUNDAY HOCKEY » v - » I ¢ ew Britain at Stanley Arena Tomérrow—New Britain Plays in Waterbury To- night — Silver City Club Not to Have So Easy a — Preliminary Gamé to Be Started at 2:30 o’Clock and Main Game at 3:30. ‘The Meriden Maroons, leaders in the American Roller Hockey league, will return to this city Sunday aft- jernoon 'to engage the New Britain {team in another Jeague contest. |feriden handed the locals a pasting ,here Thursday night to the tune of I8 to 1 but the visitors will, it is ex: | pected, meet stiffer opposition in the game tomorrow. { This will be the first contest under ]fllo new regulations allowing the isport to be played on Sunday after- i noons, The measure passed the com- . |mon council at its meeting Wednes- Edl gay evening. | Meriden 15 considered the strong- j est team in the league at the present jtime, Its two rushes, Willlams and teve Plerce are rated as :.mong the !fastest that ever have been in the ,game. Lundeville, Meriden boy, is filling in nicely at center while the defensive duet of Morrison and Pur- jcell is as good as there is in the league. New Britain will play Waterbury n Waterbury tonight. The Brass City outfit captured the champfon- hip of the first part of the league nd at the present time, is going &t |a fast pace. The local team, after its poor | showing on Thursday night, will be in better form for a hard battle S8un- day afternoon. Meriden will not find the opposition as easy tomorrow as it. did during the week. The local i crew was very much off form in that game but it will be expected to show better stuff tomorrow., s The preliminary game will be started at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow |afternoon and the main feature will be staged at 3:30 o'clock. The doors of the arena will be opened at 2 | o'clock. DELANEY DEFEATS BELGIAN FIGHTER Fight Is- Stopped fn Sixth Round t0 Save Humbeck Boston, Jan. 21 (M — Another “logical contender” went the way of many others when Jack Delaney, clashing Bridgeport, Conn., aspirant to heavyweight champlonship honors battered down Jack Humbeck of Belglum here last night before a crowd of 12,000 fans, Humbeck was saved from further punishment when the referee stop- ped the bout in the sixth round of what was to have been a 10 round fray. The fact that Delaney had conceded 21 pounds to his heftier opponent seemed to have made litti: difterence. When the mill was halted, the big blonde Belgian had his right ey closed tightly and was otherwise in no shape to continue. Humbeck Wwas sent to the canvass in the fifth by a wicked right smash to the jaw and after that Delaney scored almost at will although the Belgian was never completely out of the pleture. Humbeck’s heavy swings fre- quently found Delaney's bedy but seemed to have inflicted no substan- tial damagé. His gameness in the face of overwhelming odds, however, brought him & big hand gt the end of the fight. Delaney weighed 178 pounds and Humbeck 199. In a fast elght round semi-final, George Manolian of Boston annexed the decision from Joey Knapp 1 WANT You B GET The standing in the is as follows: 78 PACKED UP AND BEAT (T. : sacm" N To FLORIDA AND PLAY AROUND THERG MR A WAILE THEN Go oM oVUT To CALIFORNIA STOPPING OFF AT SAW AuTONID « g HAVE NEVEBR HAD A CHuanCE o GO SoUTH DURWG THE WINTER o PLAY ON SomME OF THOSE VJONDERFVL. COURSES pace, a very necessary asset 1o modern hurlers. MAN SINCE You'VE Been 1N Trus ORGAN- 1ZATION AND t'Mm Going To SHOW You How ¢ APPRECIATE 1T - with the locals coming through to win after a tough serap. The sum- | mary, | tew first basemen who could .take bad throws from inficlders as hc In this respect. T have In mind | could. A great hittcr, his only draw- [ two mighty clever American league | hack was his slownes of foot. 1 stars, Ted Lyons and Ed Rommel. | Jour years ago, the club wanted | Berkowitz, tt Lyons, one of the smartest pitchers | yim to have the ankle re-hrokem Was, If . 2 2!T have ever worked behind, can|,ng ro.set. He was afraid to take A e 3 make the ball perform almost a8 he g cpance preforring to stick wishes, He has fwo distinct styles| 51 0ung a long as he could by rea- | of curve ball pitching. & change of | S0 ST IS SE pace that offers much mystery and| a0 ohg came this year when Bud a good fast ball, when he wants to| o 8 €0 SO B e O nore. | | make use of 1. Yet. pitchers ke | AR SRS P T EneEv ons and Rommel suffer consider- won fast i {ably from nir resistance. Tn other | W8 fart i a )| words, pitching directly into a stitf | S0 Earl b e [ with him go the last remnants of | wind takes sométhing off their ball | “!'N . Very often with the wind at their | COMiskey’s idea of manufacturing » | Lig. leagne infield. i | back the ball dips all the more | erazily, O eI dom't believe T ever saw pitcifer more handicapped by ad- 5 | verso weather conditions than ¥4 <! Rommel. His hest fooler is a | 2 - ¢, | knvckle ball, or perhaps to be more | N¢W York—Ace Hudkins, Nebras- { correct. a finger nail ball. * 1 have | k# won from Lew Tendler, Phila- i Rommelstrick delivery break | d¢iphia, 10. Andy Divcdi, New York, S Fa. FL T LaHar, V. : 15 48 Arena, N b 15 12 Floden, N. B. M. ....14 Darrow . = 17 Buchert, L. .. T Darrow will hav of regaining top place among scorers for the third time this orbin - Serew-Corhin Cabinet Toials o lLock @ume next Tuesday night. Hartford Seconds, None ot the other leading scorers Fla. FL ere playing. 65 T Tuesday night's will b . - tween the Staniey Works . VA 5 0 Y Rulk Stanioy New Britain. the opportun season in zames ria; Andrew, e . Kelly. g Ward, r Corbin trame., “ramily Tuesday night night” NEYERS T0 COACH will n the league, Totuls ENTERED IN MEET Hahn and Karl Widermuth Be OF COURSE Yhu UNDERSTAUD | THIS 'S ALL AT Tye CoMPANY'S EXPENSE -+ AND WES'RE NOT QoivG o LiMIT YU AS & E- JUST HAVE A GOoD | #0 gharply that his catcher wouldn't {d«feated Charli@Rcaen, New York, even get the ball into his glove. He |10, Routier Parra, Chile, knocked would stop It with some part of hix lout Tommy Minty, New York, 7. . bounce it off his chest pro- | Nick Testo, Troy, N. Y., knocked out teetor. | Arturo Bpreckles, Belgium, 2. Walter ”L'" Rl"'"‘"'h‘;l l;"f‘}(l a Hogy with | Babrock, Jersey Cilty, N. J., knock- he wind at his back and he i prac- | “ (UT)—L10vd | ticuaty nnbeatuble, but If the wing i | ©0 Ut Joe Namo, Detrolt, 1. America’s | iowing directly at him, the air re-| Doston—Jdack Delaney! Bridge- and Karl | gigtance removes much of the wave POrt. Conn., won a technical knock- 1ding per- | 4nd dip from his ball and he is not | OUt over Jack Humbeck, Belgium, 6. nual in- | nenriy so effectiy Al Walker, New Haven, Conn., won t0- | Ground and weather conditions | on a foul from Jeff Clark, Florida, 2. play as important a part in goif as' Chicago —— Eddie 8hea, Chicago, in baseball. A crack golfer who won from Tgnacio Fernandez, Philip- hits a long ball. but is inclined to!pines, 10. Jack Sparr, Los Angeles, | he erratie, §8 always handicapped b | jugeated Buck Lawless, Syracuse, N, | I'narrow fairway AT enter-| Some golfers In gotting dist ¢ H ¥ d Rochester, N M en- b arc | Lit a rather low ball and rely on the o 0 “‘\_ "" ‘.”V "*{\fl‘; ,“0;""1 | elub. =chool- | roll. 17 the turf is fast. all 18 well ' Evans, Youngstown, 0. 19 Playinz on a which liy slow, or coatied Hollywood. Cal, Pete August by rain. sneh a player is at a de- Bridzeport. Conn.. beat Dick Hoppe. | cided disadvantage. Glendale, Cal.. 10 I tanford University Wants Vormer | PR LAND SAKE STP TuAT m‘;&l:' i » WUR ‘ALD GET UP AnD CLOSE THE WINDOW AND FOC TR . FURNACE = ITLL Scon) BE TimE R Star to Take oy Grid Mentor, Berth as Assistant To ding Performers in Palo Alto, Calif. Jan, 21 (Up)— | Vrookisn College Games. Stanford University athletic o B New are negobtiating with Ernie All-American fulib: piteher for the St Louis Rrowns, in an effort to have him take the pos tion of assistuat football coach the eoilog: Never: has that he will foothall and & lumni would lition York, Jan. 21 Hahn, of Nebraska, one of premicr mile runners Wildermuth will be the 1 | formees in the fourteenth | door mect of Brooklyn college | night. Huhn will attempt to break the world's record for 1044 yards while Wildermuth will make an assault on threa sprint mark More than §¢ ed in the Uready nounced abandon professional anford stulents and | veleome him as an coaching -stafl. 1t 4 as possible that Nevers | 101 to the permanent assisting in lasket- nsehall as well as foothall sturrcd in all three sports for Stanford. to the <indy o is a conrse READ HERALD ron IED ADS