New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 13

Speaking of Sports There seems to be & difference of opinion regarding the causes leading up to the clash between Tony Welch aad Bill Blount in the roller hock- qumntheflunlqmulut“ night. A claim was made in a morning paper that Blount started the affair by taking a “vicious swing with his stick” at Welch. The tale goes on that Weich retallated and that Blount didn't like it so much 80 that he came out of his cage, took off his mask and got a [ hetty right hand punch on the jaw from Welch that sent him to the floor. This version of the affair was cortainly something entirely differ- ent from what was seen by the writer, though the angles from which it was seen might have been very different thereby changing the point of view, What we mw and we happened to be looking in that direction at the time, was Blount throw his stick at the ball and trip Welch. We saw no ‘“viclous swing” of Blount's stick. Welch eaught his, balance, turned apd with stick up- raised in both hands, he rushed at Blount and missed him as he swung. Thereupon Blount rushed out, swung and hit Welch in the face with his left hand. As he swung he tripped and heavily sat on the floor. Daley Referes Rorty after the game stated that he was making no alibis because he called a foul on Bloun for his part in the affair. As he viewed the action, he atated, he saw ‘Welch swing the stick at Blount but as long as it didn’t land, there was no occasion to call a foul. But when Blount struck Welch, he made himself liable for & penalty. There wasn't any damage done but as Rorty statedg “If Weich's stick had as much as touched Blount when he swung it, he would have gone off that floor in & second and I would have brought charges inst him to have him put out of the game.” Referee Rorty, who seems to have the knack of using more common sense in & game than any other of- flc!ll. paid high tribute to the play- ors in their style of play, saying that when the ball bounces high in the air instead of taking & cut at the ball as they used to do, they all are a little careful so that no one has suffered serious injury. In speaking with the famous referee last night, he stated, “You know, I don’t know whether it is the way I feel in this city, but the polo games here always seem bet- ter to me than anywhere else. It seems that teams that go poor away from New Britain always play great hockey here. I give the credit to the spectators because they are about as enthusiastic as any I have ever seen. New Britain is a great sports town and believe me, I fear no contradiction when I make that statement.” Well, there's only one answer to | that and we think we will have | many to agree with us when we| say that as much as Rorty likes New Britain, New Britain likes him Just & little Dbit better. Nothing Bengston Charles Krawits Tomlia Augustino Hayes Massey Miss Richter Nelson . Miss Beckman Kenney Miss Bocsky N Miss Sc: Charmunt Mise Kasprow ... Miss Bengston Neverick ... Mise A. Valkonis .. Gorman . i Miss V. Valkonis . Huck Miss E. | Albano {a1rs. Low Score |Mise A | Turner Miss M. Dunn Carlson ™ Charmut Miss Plochal Coftey Mtss Renock | Kenney | Miss | Shea 325—1014 RUSSELL ERWIN LEAGUE Enflells 87 97— 23 §0 75— 180 73 78— 240 79 85— 351 338— 93¢ ) 110— 90— 313 309 —land with Bill Carrigan at the helm | ¥ Bamnes Henry Larry Vantine Frank 4311315 NORTH & JUDD (‘mlm AND GENTS 30 54 69— 94— 8 T . 106 102— 3. 5 |only seven games | Miss Keny Kiley 64— 200 80— 231 79— 294 102— 277 8y 325— 952 79 52 Dery 104 47 Wasbingtonlan 90 6 9! H 300— 963 235 225 1 0 333 304 Black Dinmond Valkonis kx4 Cadraln .83 6 | Miss Josephson Sullivan Miss Larson [13 84 50 95 77— 218 $0— 236 17— 243 1 ‘Wol Penock ... a2 Metropolitan Moskus 9 98 336—1037 T8 80— 73— 98— 224 s 235 Murphy 53 319 326— 950 P. & F. CORBIN GIRLS' LEAGUE Dianas 69 68— 137 Richards would please the fans here moref_\_ Quinn than to have him here at every game. We take our individual hats off to the man who was once the most hated officlal ever to come to | this city. E Jack Lash, one of the greatest | rooters the New Britain team has, returned to his rightful plage last | night and he certainly looked good ing fun at the players. We would | rather watch the crowd in the East 8ide bleachers than anything else in | the hall. | i The Renalssance Five defeated |" the Eagles basketball team of Pitte- fleld in the Massachusetts city last night by the score of 58 to 36. The || colored stars passed and played in |} sensational style and word from the Berkshire town states that the team | was the best ever to be scen there. M. [ B. |H. M. a5 he joined with the crowd in pok- |A. M. L. L. Linn Holmstrom 1. Atwater oW Score Giddix 74— 162 Konopka Killlan Marins Flying Clouds Young FAAE Peterson Ringwood low Score 1 Bruemmer Koerber ™. The New York team plays in Hol- yoke against the Mohawks tonight. | The Mohawks along with New Brit- | ain defeated the Renaissance a few |wendrowski weeks ago. The New York team |} takes the two teams it has lost to in | successive nights. The champs are here tomorrow night. i A friend of S8ammy Vetrano writes | us from Notre Dame University to . tell us that the local boy has be- | come the {dol of those who associate | with him. 8ammy has been playing |; an inspiring brand of basketball and | has led his team to numerous vic- torfes. He gives promise of making bis mark on the track. New York — Phil Edwards, negro middle distance runner of New York university, and Oliver Proudlock, of the Newark A. C., were to meet Sat- urday in a speclal 00-yard race at | Brooklyn. Amateur Boxing Y.M.T. A &B. Hall Tonight PHILADELPHIA TEAM vs. PICK OF CONNECTICUT Card of 10 Bouts Planned Al seats reserved at 75c. Tickets op sale at Bridgest's Smoke Shop, State Lunch, Shechan's Smoke Shop and Billy's Smoke Shop. colored | w) | senic | Locke J. A. Welch B. Landgren 8. Scheyd i iB. 0Osgood Stanley Works Teinzman lak el cox 107 190 ‘104 491 49 Wallace Burnes Lovejoy i a7 e 107— 107 545 4931505 Stauley Works Molchan -..... 20 North Folden A. i o) SIS R 8 88 421 a8 Walace Barmes Girls wasaiam 90 84 7 9 9 51 Senesc Reynolds Engels Woeks NEBRASKA V5. ARMY Reports on Arrangemxcnts For Foot- ball Game Next Season Not Con- firmed By Officials. Chicago, Jan. 27 UP—Although reports were cutrent today that the University of Ncbraska and the Army :ootball elevens will meet in Soldier Ficld next fall, the athletic - officials at Lincoln, Neb, refused to verify the reports. Nebraska has been angling for the game and is said to have offered ! the Army $75,000 to meet the Corn- | buskers on the la ter's field The game, if played, would prob- ably be on November 24, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928, SPEAKER MAY G0 BACK 10 BOSTON Red Sox and Giants New York, Jan. 27 (M—Baseball tides which shifted the new derelict Tris Speaker to various major league ports appeared in a position today to carry “Spoke” back to his first love on the Fen of Boston. Coincident with the news of the veteran outfielder's release from the Senators were the reports that Speaker was being sought by the Red Sox and Giants. The Boston setting would bring his start to fame on the big circuit he would be under the orders of his old boss during the pennant days of 1915. er to assist the fence busting Ken | Williams in providing inspiration for his promising band of youngsters, kthero is little doubt that the combi- {nation would supply & menace of |substantial proportions to the other | American league clubs, Boston. And it is an American league club as well that might en- tice him. On several occasions, he has been sought by the National mo- guls but in his shiftings his alle- giance has been with the junior or- ganization, He was purchased from the Hous- ton club of the Texas league by the | Red Sox for $400 in 1907. He played in that season and in 1908 he began with Little Rock of the Southern association. The current swept him back to Bos- ton, however, late in that campaign, the Red Sox paying $500 for his re- purchase. By 1309, he had become a regu- lar outtielder for the Red Stockings and forthwith started his climb to fame as one of the greatest players in the majors, Speaker took part in two cham- pionships with the Red Sox, in 1912 and 1915. On April 12, 1916, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians for Thomas and Jones and a cash con- sideration said to be $55,000. His de- parture from Boston brought con- siderable protest from the fans but in spite of his loss, Carrigan went other pennant for the Hub. In 1919, Speaker replaced Lee Fohl as pilot of the Indians and in the following year he brought Cleve- land the American league pennant and a world's championship. Speak- er resigned as manager of Cleveland atter 1926, and from there the tide swept him to the Senators, While the fortunes of the Red Sox Carrigan again leading the march, and a possibility of bringing “8poke" back home revives an old time spirit. The Red Sox have fared poorly in recent years, but at the same time there is one record which promises to stand the big league barrage for at least a couple of campalgns. The Red Sox have won five world cham- pionships in modern baseball. Speak- er was on the championship team of 1913 pilotted by J. Garland Stahl, and on the 1915 club managed by Carrigan. The latter also won the blue ribbon in 1916, while Ed Bar- row, the present business manager of the Yankees, was manager of the pennant winning nine of 1918. Jim- my Collins led the Red Sox of 1903 to the world's champlonship. SANDE ARRIVES HOME Famous Jockey, Back After Vaca- tion in Europe, is Anxious to Get Back Into Haruess, New York, Jan. home after a vacation in Europe, Earl 8ande, famous jockey, declar- ed he was anxious to “harness’ once more. Bande arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner, Aquitania. Johnny Loftus, former jockey and now a trainer, returned with Sande. Sande expects to remain There about a week to attend to his busi- ness affairs and confer with his em- ployer, Joseph E. Widener. While reticent about his plans on seeking reinstatement as a rider, he said he planned to apply to the Maryland State Racing commission shortly for a license. He was suspended by the Mary- land commission last November on a charge of fouling Reigh Count when he ning of the Pimlico futurity. New York — Rupert B. Thomas, Jr., of Princeton, was appointed referee of the indoor track and fleld championships of the Intercollegiate A. A. A A, at the 102nd armory March 3. HIGH PRESSURE \ GOTTA BEYORE TR ! Tris back to the club where he mada It Carrigan should acquire Speak- | Speaker has a great following in | out that same year and annexed an- have been mirages since 1918, with | 27 (®—Back | get back in | up on Bateau in the run- | SOrEMING TO LIONS VICTORIOUS (Continued from Preceding Page) the church moved into a 7-4 lead by the half, but this lead had melt- ed to two points at 9-7 by the end of the third period. Karoais put his team four points ahead, but Zetter- man, Joseph, and Havlick sent the church back into a one-point lead. With a minute left Karosis flung the ball over his head and it landed in the hoop. Karosis and Joseph featured for their respective teams. The summary: All-Stars Olewnik, rf .... (Domknwsky. 1-g . ' Sartinsky, ¢ .... I a 3 e ERRET | Joseph, rf-1g-12 | Zetterman, rf Havlick, 1t .. D. Wosilus, ¢ ... Ritter, rg ... Anderson, lg-rt wloroowme | covotomomt 14 Referee—Parker. Timer—Zetter- man. Scorer—May. | MEETIN FINALS :‘Gnnunnd Rice and Ray Maxwell | Tecing Off Today in Writers’ As- | sociation Championship. | Palm Beach, Fla,, Jan. 27 (UP)— Grantland Rice, New York sports | writer, and Ray G. Maxwell, also of New York, will tee off early today {in the finals of the winter cham- and Writers Golf asoctation. Rice degfeated Perley Boone, New York writer, one up, while Maxwell | eliminated Rex Beach, one up in a | thrilling twenty-one hole mateh in { the semi-final rovnds. Beach had earlier captured the | medal with a 79 and had won hi | first two matches with 79 and | but yesterday's play was far off fo'm tand the novelist lapsed to an 81. Clare Briggs deteated Clarence Budington Relland in the second | sixteen semi-final, two up. SPORT TABLOIDS. By the United Pross. New York — The New York Rangers defeated the Detroit Cou- gars, 3 to 0, in a National hockey hockey game. Oxterd, Miss. — Loufsiana State university defeated the University ot | Missigsippi, 34 to 33, in a basketball | game. | New York — The signed contract |of Melvin, Ott, outflelder, was re- cefved at the offices of the New York Giants. Lincoln, Neb. — Spencer Abbott, {owner of the Lincoln club of the Western League, said Pueblo, Colo. | had the preference for the future lo- cation of the club. Paris — Denmark entered the avis cup challcnge round in the ropean zone. Twenty-three coun- tries have entered the Kuropean zone and four in the American. Miami, Fla. — Charles A, Roberts, jof New York, defeated James H. West of Atlanta, two up, in the sec ond |trophy tournament. ‘Walla Walla, Wash. — The Whit- |man college basketball team de- i feated Washington State college, 42 | to 21, in a basket ball game, | 'Sterling History Head To Go to Oslo, Norway New Haven, Jan. 27 (UP)—Pro- fessor Michael L Rostovtzeff, Sterl- ing professor of ancient history and ciassical archacology at Yale, will represent the unmversity at the inter- nationai of historians at Oslo, ~“or- | way, next August, it was announc- [ed today. | He also will represent the uni- | versity at the international congress !of Orientalists at Oxford University, England, during the same month. | Professor Rostovtzeft will sail for | Paris tomerrow. There he will con- fer with the French academy of in- scriptions and with Maurice Pillet | and Professor [, Cumeont relative |to the Yale excavations to be made | next spring at Dura, Syria. HURT IN PLANE CRASH Mclean, Texas, ald Moring and William Miller, high is#:h()cvl students, were Kkilled and their pilot Harold English, of Amar- |illo, was slightly injured l-& night ! in which crashed to {when the biplane | were “stunting” | ground. they the PETE GET S0ME_CLOWES e WND' en . [that he credited with putting him plonship tournament of the Artists ' *|from the pitching staff will make round of the Glenn H. Curtis @ en. 27 (P—Don- | RUTH IS CARELESS FOR SEVENTH TIME| ABOUT CONDITIO! Trainer Wants Him fo Resume Gymnasium Activities New York, Jan. 27 UP—Babe Ruth seems to have grown a bit careless about adhering to his program of conditioning for the coming season. | "1n spite of the glowing reports of | Ithe Yankee slugger's condition, his jardor for golf and duck-hunting, it develops that the big fellow has neglected the gymnasium training back on his feet after his famous 1925 collapse, and also with putti him in shape for his record 1927 home-run campaign. Ruth, down close to normal play- ing weight, may consider his activ ties with the shot gun and niblick enough to keep in condition but his trainer, Artie McGovern, is a bit skeptical, Several weeks ago the Babe pro- claimed to all within hearing that| he was about to knuckle down to| hard work for several weeks, taking | systematic exercise designed to send him south in top trim. “Even last year 1 got off a little | slo’ the Babe explained. “I hit| only four homers in April. I'm not going to overlook any bets this sea- son, Put it down that I'll be in shape to start off at a faster clip.” But the Bambino hasn't knuckled down to any rigorous work of the sort he stuck to last winter. He pooh-poohs any suggestion that he needs much of it or that he is grow- jing careless but baseball alley along Forty-second street 1s beginning to | ishake its head and wonder whether | it was a good idea, after all, when the Yankees signed Babe to a three- | year contract. With Ruth assured | his $70,000 for 1928 and 1929, the! | experts see the possibility of the big | i hitter losing some of his incentive {and yielding to a desire to take life | and his baseball easier. On the other hand, those famillar ! with Ruth’s impulses realize there is | |nothing dearer to the Babe's heart | |than his home runs. No youth see- | ing his first big league game got any | more thrill out of it than Ruth when | |he stapped No. 60 out of the park | {1ast September, | “Boy, I got a kick out of that,” {sald the Babe. | So it is likely that no great alarm {need be stirred up now over what (Ruth will or will not do this season. |He will, as he puts it himself, very |likely be in there *“smackin’ 'em."” Youth may now have the call in |the Washington club's reorganization {as Clark Griffith proclaims, but the Ifact remains that age won two pen- ynants for the Senators. | _Even with Tris Speaker cut adrift, {tho Washington lineup isn't com- | posed exactly of the up and coming Ltype. | " Judge, Harris, Bluege, Rice, Gos- lin, Ruel, Zachary, Marberry and |others all are veterans of the 1924-25 | championship outfit while such addi- !tions as George Sisler haven't |brought the age average down. | The absence of Walter Johnson | the biggest difference in the appear- ance of the Senators, After 20 years lit won't seem like the same club | without “Old Barney” taking his |regular or occasional turn on the {mound or counselling on the team's Istrategy. Johnson’s keen knowledge of tac- {ties as well as his ability to get |along with the players, should give him a running start in his first man- rial venture with the Newark In- tionals. “We all look up to Johnson,” | Bucky Harris once said of the great pitcher. “There isn't a player on ithe club who hasn't real affection for Barney." Harris was the manager but his ladmiration for Johnson was much | the same as that of the smail boy on the sandlots. It has heen an off season of | strange events in major league bases Iball. A year or even a few months |ago it would have been put down as fantastic to suggest that within a short time such figures as Cobb and Speaker would be unconditionally released, Hornsby traded for two virtual unknowns, Sisler sold for $15,000 and Johnson released to a { minor league job. Saturday at Stanley Arena Renaissance Ve, e New Britain State League Game Reserved Seats 75 cents Telephone 2641 JOEY RAY PRACTICING undomnpluc'n-ud"flu to Square Things With Nurmi ' Bring Star Out of Retiremeat. | Chicago, Jan. 27 UM—The lure of | the 1928 Olympic games and a de- | termination to square accounts with | Nurmi, have brought Joie Ray, one of America’s fastest milers out of | his two-year athletic retirement. ! Shortly after Ray's defeat by Nur- | mi, bhe announced his retirement from the track and found emp oy- ment in the stecl mills at Gary, Ind. | But the spell of the track was tos much for him, nowever, and every morning after work he reports to his coach, Johnny Behr of the Illinois Athletic club for practice. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Boston—Izzy Schwartz, New York, outpointed Harry Goldstein, New England flyweight champion, 10. Ruby Bradley, Holyoke, won from Harry Soo, Seattle, Wash,, 10. | Savannah, Ga.—Pinky May, New | York, and Pete Sarron, Birmingham, Ala., draw 10. Fort Thomas, Ky.—Sailor Lareen, | Moline, 1ll, won from Jimmy Har- riss, Cincinnati, 10, Lansing, Mich.—Chuck Wiggins, | Indianapolls, defeated Bob Lawson, 10, McKeesport, Pa.—Luis Carpen- tero, Toledo, 0., won from Jackey Rodgers, Pittsburgh, 10, Smith and Reed Being Discussed in Arizona Phoenix, Ariz, Jan. 27 (UP) — Two prominent democrats—Gover- nor Alfred Smith of New York and | Senator James Reed of Missouri— were discussed at public gatherings here. Senator Reed was eulogized at a meeting of former Missouri demo- crats in what was called the “open- ing up” of the Reed campaign in this state. Governor Smith, however, was ac- corded adverse mention at a state meeting of the anti-saloon league. Dr, Richard E. Day, pastor of the First Baptist church, urged the league members to desert the dem- ocratic standard if Smith were nominated. 3 Months Bride Held For Murdering Husband Boston, Jan. 21 (UP)—A bride of three months was held on a murder charge here today after killing her | husband with a potato knife. | Mrs. Florizel Dopwell, 18, was ar- rested after her husband, Arthur Dopwell, 31, of the South End, had died at a hospital. According to the young woman, |automobite ariven by Louis F. Hu- = —— she stabbed her husband after she | Smalley street from | had suffered several beatings at his |made it impossible for him to e hands. the man, who was about in the ter of the street. 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