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Speaking It is doubtful “elimination *tournament,” DEMPSEY MAY BE it even the which now takes on new importance in the eyes of Tex Rickard and the cham. GROUP A LEADERS Nappl, rg Winters, Ig . 0 ® 0 0 Wener of Philadeiphia, owner of the Arrow Hockey league, **“I know nothing about the deal | Annunsiata, Noys' Club seenads, y Totals ....... 5 [} 16 V' - of S i ' THROUGH IN RING =t s | Pl {5 Wowe e e i : ports §, . e e e Fian st e o il e S | 2— 201 v ‘s | 283 | Niynarsk, 1f ... ] 2! " » — | 2 ' sold. . ¢ LR bust Gl i sy ot Here in New York it is believed | B [Baplotk o .., b 2| 0The Piratcs Bave. pnde mencrl B Bl % ramer, business that if '] 'y gel . Hey . 'ry i P i e ney | Bayl 3 e hrmer. business manager of L Hacx {Former Champion's Future De- 2 i mom Hecney et s Dook Dikies and Cyclones Lose in /Free™ . [ 3|gucn vear they have been in profea. | Block, It . ¥ Ketball champlons of the world, Is [next month, Ttickard will take the AT — —|onal hockey w0 why should I sell | Karbanle, ¢ ] in again and, in our opinion, b m on E’e IISOIG {opportunity to ulfill his ambition to BO S' Clllb 1 i T 3 U dui o ot e moner e i AR = Tates as the real time “alib) king.” /gy, stage & championship bout tn 1o 6 | jclub in not 18sing money, we will | J. Gotowala, ig . H Again he breaks Into the columns of | Kormag |don thix year. e e ST o DEMES SALE oF cwn |w:"“: Cataer, "13.'. A Total n the Springfield Union wi Andrew Los Ange b, 2.+UM—Jack | 1 | : ; | rank Calder, peesident of the iyl co‘vfinmulm lom 1 -Il‘lhl):o ‘l:.lll Adtees e el ‘,:::;v '!":; e ||o!’afk~ 101{'he presence of crowds at the Group A Stamding ;anon-l league also denied the sale ¥, : C A Insermdistes, ) ers on liis team were neerly dead on ' s 16— 316 | through with the fight game it all ‘u\:";f.::lf‘::: mn;‘al(m;md:‘mynnd “1‘ Alpines \;V o sz p \ L[S0 ne Mieaiae ibpt et i L > nee. 0187 | ! 1 | ches in France |- . 20 %0 X the night of their appearance in this M= 187 gepends on an cye muscle, would be an adaitional incentive for | Uyclones 7 3 700 |OWRer of Pittsburgh Hockey Team '?fi.’:fii-.'l"l'n‘a“ ;hp;l:: fl."‘.’u’?fi.‘o‘ ' 4 city, f #58-1430 | The former heavyweight cham- |Rickard. And Tunney is said to | PIies 6 4 600! Koows Nothing About Ilemr«\I] o ui SO Ao e '|l\.lo|| admitted that he had notified have a yen for Piccadilly, ‘»‘l'llm'“k- 5 5 500 g ’ COMETS WIN GAME L | i o — 307 is. | S B L Comets. ., rchase . 3 2 “L don't (hink that T am convinecd | sk B N T Saeart e il | Lo oo S I W e PR T o that New Britain Js superior to the fam c{and declared that the main reason | | Both leading teams rcceived | Pittsburgh, Pa, Feb, 3 (cp)_:l(j;'fll::d n'lheh % \“ l‘nte{.m.a,:ns quin- 0o 4 'l:‘zn:hlanc:, utlled mlha Ereatest | Kreeders 210 for his retirement was the trouble (e nctbacky In the Group A In-|Horace Townsend, owner of ‘hcimm Baslock Sharodla good ..::’: 15t Britain's first victory over the Ren- |Prudnhon Ltfis ers ntate ia not :e':-':m:;llfit'n: LI“NS wIN R e e e Teoge tolay Ao et | e S e Tt o Al oot B g Sinante: in e Sainion, wes » Auke ‘L_‘:,_“ ek 1oep, Bl b et ithe oy 21V [night were played. The Alpines loat il(n4-kr)' league, today denied reports | Comets would like to hear from the | Timer, Ginsburg. Score ot Ml . 3 v al [ e e ke e " - Yo 2 | e d them with a d ULl of injurien e tipr heoemen - enfirsly | (Continped from Provedina-Pags)s |18 drabbing. | Adbiie e ' et “Blocum the captain, and Mayers, | puna the brilliant guard, have been out!ly, Reney of the lincup for the past three|T. Reney weeks, Sanders, our center man, h‘;"“:’fl suffering with two injured anklcs | ™ and Jenkins is in 11l health. Were | it not for the fact that these gamen | el | Church Juniors Wi were contracted several weeks ahead |Jim 323 (1oUdeTn fop tho Grawn worn by Gene | p i Sninss Win in the| of time, they would never have been | His B :‘!” : first half, the South Church Juniors booked or played beause we cannot | Tony 3 Even If his conncction with the jdefeated the Kensington Juniors by give our best efforts to the public | Bteve | fiEht gamo from the stangpoint of | 26.14 In the preliminary game af the when we cannot present our full i_ry-|an actual participation e severed. |Roys' elub. The Wosilus brothers e | {e=10ts Dempaey Ty sure of one thing. and |ran wild in the first fwo porieds I caraon {:rrm t"mh:v nevey. wlm I:e his in- collecting 16 points. while all {ha AN e ekl | teres he prise ring. He is defl- 'Kensington made was a baskot by team, prub-“;l‘ynone of ‘(ha ;’;."w,:{,':{f;" | Pite in thie, saying “Whether I fight Don Lewis. In the second half Bave played againet fn our 70 0dd I maneah aguin or not, I'll always keep up my | things were reversed, the church games 30 far this season. This is an open invitation to the manager of | the New Britain team that we will {p ..\ 133—13us fare heing considered as logical con. |SMIth and Baker. 4381330 | | well, T probably will re-enter the | ring.” 2 The ex-champlon dlecounted any poseible report that age had taken Griffith 8, Urban 2, Malone 2 {fatt—13, Free trics—Pond 4, Szy- | connection with the fight game.” Dempsey added, that whatever he did about the fight game, would be | making but four points while the losers amawsed ten. These largcly on excellent foul shooting by be pleased to entertain his team ut | Mecus. 16T 3 [/l Fight” with bis wite, Etelle |B: Clark and a pair of baskets by our hall in New York any Sunday |Jackson’ 100 3ci | Taylor of the moview, Seatvon,” e \Bidk . Dillon-dali night he may desire and will play |F Backlite $7— 42| “Bhe mever Interferes with my |[Sfereeing of Morey fentured. Bernie amateur rules the full 40 minutes, | <> U= 361 hukinesa and I .don't Interfere with | \Wonlus Minscd seven foul shots. slthough we always play profession- (161361 | Bern” he eoncluded, " Routh Church Juntors al rules at our home court. » | This tere Rickard standing on his | ™d ol T noGERS AL1EVS | announcement that | “We will also give New Britain a - 5 due to Demp- | Joseph, rf ... g 0 1 fticial, Peter Sinnot, called the FAFNIR LEAGUE (86’8 retivement, Gene Tunney |Zetterman. rf ... 0 o 0 g00d ofticlal, . i ettons | would defend his heavyweight title |Havlick, 1f-rf ... 1 ) 2! best referee in the business today. Owen cee+ 97 88 56— 261 {in June against the winner of D W 2l He is an American leagne referee | Fledor | Q00 Ahe | I Wosiing, v 4 ! i d two week handled the City | Warner 1 Bharkey-Risko, Heeny-Delancy elim- | B. Wosilus, rg-lf 3 o 6 .n" IoFm:'hl ago 1:;0 o overy | Lipets w— s7; | ination contest planned by the W, Hattings, rg o o 0 g:de"‘le.nu‘:ll-lfn::?fi"nflfi s hx’u De Colvin 71— 235 New York promoter, Ritter, 1g n 1 1 Ldtye satotian Mo A hus | To all of which Tunney, at Miami | Totals 12 2 20 e olie Ny Tomk | [ replied hia chier concern at present Kensington B. . Juntors Dity” aollage-N nsidnss $2 »ay N8 Dis golt game. He explained dm Ty U. game in New York. et 1) | that it was up to Rickard to supply | D Lowls. rf 2 1 I S e R Do 197 Ly the boxers and he would do the Greeo. rf ... 0 [ ° The Renalmsange Fivo apparently | Buruiam 0o otz 0 B e o . : dldn't suffer greatly because of the | » M, rg 0 a 0l logs of Captain Slocum. In the firat | foore J:::""‘,ff‘ podos jral & A n I game here, he falled to acore. RIcks , Koper 2 b ol BB A | aor s, 2 0 1 Who took his place got five points Lasky 1ii | nouncement ‘of Jack Dempsey's fn. | 1* . 2 | Inst Saturdsy night, Jenkins must |Beesy 160 avillty to fight In June—whether it | o\ S e have been sick in the first gamo fpirootd o A ellreiment grom o P2 TR et here also because he only acored nine | Do Lorenso s Just temporary—recalls |, O Ritter 5, Hottings | points. Last Baturday night he scor- ed 10 points. Sanders with his weak | ankleg, only got four foul points n | y4.0, the first game but he scored three Newman n field goals and two foulu for a total | Kroi 100 of eight points last Saturday night. P:!’l':lhr :: ol The alibi given hecause of the first v e defeat couldn't work after Baturday | ¥ night's game because Manager Lan- |&wift = ... 3 - pher called off the four personal|p,q.. 906 i foul rule in the game and none of [Engelbretsen 7 e the Renaissance players were eject- |W. Beguy 7 ed because of this. Jenkins had (Achwab cight fouls and Baltch had five in the B Willilnme De haven't any way of saying that ‘;;;"M‘-M . Manager lanpher will accept the 'Marnwaki “open invitation to come to Harlem. | Anderson We believe, in fact we know, that Kenure Manager Kramer has Manager Lan- pher's address and we cal see the necd for any basketball manager in- | Rosenswi viting & New Britain, Conn., team |Wheoler to play in New York city through o px. the medium of a Bpringfield, Mass., | Gaftney newspaper, Mr. Kramer's ideas on the game ..., last Saturday night can’t be worth imton ... a great deal. He falled to put in an ',)gn‘mu . appearance to watch his charges in l\::":;:':. ? action. If his team was crippled Saturday night and not playing in form, then we are all sorts of pink elephants. SPORT TARLOIDS By the United Press. Annapolis, Md.—The United States Naval Academy defeated Dickinson College 24 to 22 in a basketball same. ‘Waterbury will furnish the opposi- #lon for New Britain at the Rtanley Arena Baturday night. Waterbury has McNamara, the lanky center, back with the team again and Guen- ther the professional league star is soing big in the Brass city., The visitors will present an entirely dif- ferent team against the locals in the | ecoming game. San Antonio, ' Texas.—More than 100 leading professional golf players were entered in the apaual Texas open golf tourney over the Willow Bpring course today. Medal play competition was to open tomorrow. Meriden comes here next Weanu-i day night and the following Satur- day, Lou Gehrig's combination of all-stars will play its first game in! New Britain. New York.—The signed centract man, was received at the offices of the New York Giants. Cohen is the man expected to replace Rogers The Canadian amateur fight team | HOrnsby. 2 is scheduled to appear in New Brit- afh & week from Friday night. This will be one of the best possible at- | ftractions available in the stmon pure fight game. Announcements will be made later. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Press. 8an Francisco—Boy Wally, Singa- pore, won from ‘Kid” Williams, New Pricans, (10). Pinehurst, N. C.—Miss Glenna | Collett, of Providence. R. I, led | the fleld of 5¢ women goifers in the | qualifying round of the first wom- en's mid-south open golf tourna- ment. New York—Plerre Etchebaster, French professional tennis cham- pion, arrived to play Jack Soutar, Americen titieholder, for the world's championship. The matches will be played at Philadelphia, February 20, 22 and 28, . Miami, Fla.—Charies A. Reberts, of New York, defeated James W. West, of Atianta, in the second round of the annual Miami Beach championship tournament. Peoria, Ill. —Leas Marriner, Unj- versity of Illinels, defeated Harvey Motrenson, Chicago, (10). Jimmy Mahoney, Chicago, won from Harry Roberta, Chicago, (8). Bud McDow- ell, 8t. Paul, outpointed Tommy Bambrough, Springfield, 11, (6). West Point, N. Y.~~The United States military Academy defeated Stephena College 34 to 23 in o basketball game. ‘Worcester, Masa.—Fordham Uni- versity defeated Hely Croes ¢2 to 33 in a basketball game. West Peint, N. Y—The junior varsity pole team defeated the Brookiyn Riding a3d Driving club Tto & Eugene, Ore.—The University of Oregon defeated the University of Waseda (Japan) 70 to 20 In a bas- ketball game. Oakland, Cal.—Charley Leng, Omaha, and Frankie Denny of Oak- land, draw, (10). Wilmington, Cai—3Midget Mike O’Dowd, Ohio, won from Young Na- tionalista, Filipine, (10). Giants Not Angling For Philly Players New York, Feb. 2 UP—Reports that the New York Giants were angling for Catcher Jimmy Wilson and Second Baseman Fresco ‘Thompson of the Philadelphia Na- tionls have been denied by Gerald Nugent, assistant to William F. Baker, president of the Phillies who #ald neither the Giants ner any other National League club have Portland, Ore.—Teq Thye, Port- land light heavyweight, defeated Rudy Warner, of Omaha, Neb., by two straight falls in a wrestling match, made overtures for either Wilson or — Thompeon. Nugent added that the Appleton, Wis.—A new college Phillles were “set for the season™ | genjetic ference composed of Beloit, Carroll, Lawrence and Ripon and that ne trades were being con- dered. colleges was organized. p [ ., 2 [ his two fists, 7 [ ber. but T won't fight in June.” *»| Dempsey agreed he would bo un- of Andy Cohen, Jewish second base- | dramatic episodes in the career of | o 2 [the man from Manassa, the first |~ Lewls 4. Clark 2. Tart 2, Tsaac. ot , Greeo—10. Technical fonl—D. [prer o win & million dollars with |\Gouius. Fete trieesD, Westhun, . | Wosilus 7. Ritter 2, Hattin=s, Zetter- | {man 2—13: Lewlis 3, Rin 2, Clark 4, Hart, Tsancson—11. R:ferre—Chot- | | kownkl, Morey. Timer, Zetterman. | |Scorers, Parker and Bakcr. Dempsey 18 quoted Angeles as saying: “I may never fight again. T can't ;tell Just now. But I haven't definite- {1y retired. T don’t know what T am going to do. I may fight tn Septem- frow Los WINNING STREAK BROKEN | | Phantom Basketball Team Toses to | Dristol Celtics in Game n Bell | | Town Last Night. ! An 11-game winning streak of the | Thantom baskatball team of this | |eity was snappd last night when | |the Bristol Celties measured the | | New Britain team by the score of 22 to 13 In the praliminary to the New | Britain-Endee gamo at the Bristol | high school. The locals were away | {'oft form scoring only The first intimation that Dempscy |might be through with the ring came from Tex Rickard at Miami Beach that Dempsey had definitely retired as a champlonship contender and some other opponent would have to be found for Gene Tunncy | for & bout fn June. able to fight in June, owing to « trouble, but fallowed with the stat | ment regarding permanent retir | ment, Many in New York boxing circles were disinclined to believe that Dempacy had permanently forsaken boxing—which he had helped build from an ordinary sport to a million dollar business, three fiel ! goals. Tt was the second loss in 13 | | giumes for the Phantoma. | G. A'exat, giant Bristol forward From the time when Dempsey | Was on a rampage scoring four field poked a cautious, stubbled chin out | goals. The Bristol team dispiayed from beneath a freight car from the | nice passwork. Next week the Phan- west, until the day when he cut |toms will meet the Hartford Bruins down Big Jess Willard at Toledo, | on Tuesday and the New Haven Jack was just one more prize fighter | Hillhouse Midgets on Wedncs'ay. in & motley herd. | From Toledo to today, Dempsey | has been a picturesque figure of the | TH. | | American prize ring, yiclding the |Carr, rf ... H ralm only to John L. Sullivan in | Cohen, rf 0 | this respect, | Crana, it . 2 Indicted as a war time slacker, |1kowitz, ¢ i married to one of the acreen’s love- | Hewett, rg . 2 lieat actremses, hounded from state | Yankowitz, Ig .... | {to state by a mediocre *colored | Levine, Ig 5 | heavyweight, trilumphant over all | - | heavywelght oppopents from 1919 to ' Totals 13 1926, the butt of lawyers and the | | toast of fight fans, Jack Dempsey | . T, had a varigated career. | Lasher, rf . 0 2| Just how much money he made, | G. Alexai, It [ ] it 18 impomible to say, because the | McCarthy, ¢ 0, 52 { truth in such matters is elusive. But | Neweity, ¢ .. 0 2 Dempsey netted more than $1.000,- ! P. Alexai, rg o 4 000 from the two losing fights he Goulette, Ig o 4 fought with Gene Tunney. | —_— - i New York, which knew Dempsey | Totala 11 0 only occasionally, only took him to ite heart after his defeat. Then, for the first time, Dempsey became | pepular here. | " That his departure from the list | ©of possible opponents for Gene Tu: Scorc at half time, Bristol §, New | DBritain 4. Refcree, Zetarski. NOTRE DAME CAPTAIN South Bend. Ind., Feb. 2 UP— - | Fred aMiller, a tackle, from Milwau- ney in June has cost the heavy- | kee, Wis.. was clected captain of the weight situation and those who 1928 Notr> Dame University football benefit therefrom at least $1,000,000 | team at the annual banquet of foot- goes without saying. | ball men last night. [#ta toll. “My legs are am good as|™MaNSKL Anderson 3, Abel §—14; | ever,” he aswerted, “and 1 think that |VTPan 2 Malone 24, teferee, An. | {1 can whip mont of the men e |derson.” Timer, Schober. Scorers, came | for the losers, The summary: Zcmbrowskd, rf Tuzzo, I .. Kovelski, ¢ . Adams, rg . Amenta, Ig . | |- Pomde iiaios, Gotowala, If Gourson, ¢ . Lekutis, g | Bancavich, 1g The Cyclone: place, went onto the floor against the Comets with a determination to win, but the latter team. lowly as it 1s in the race, proved tougher lhnn‘ cxpeeted and set tack by a 16-14 score, Block led their respective |Nappi and Winters held the Cyclone | forwards scoreless. Dennis, of ..., Annuziata, 1f .. Karbonie, ¢ .... |#kl, and Amenta featured for the Chotkowski 3, Wright, Groes. aos. | Ners and Gotowala, and Kakutis Dixies ) s 0 o 0 1 1 0 J 8 1 0 0 0 [ knowing they had | a chance to tie the Alpines for fln" the Comets B 3 runners-up Dennis and teams, 3 GREASE PAINT OF CcuPIp, 41 A" START Ad AFFAIR 4 BETWEEN MISS CHURCH a AN TAKE ' MATORS CHICAGO ST. LoUls DETROIT CLEVELAND WASHINGTON PHILADELP'A NEW YORK ‘ BOSTON AT : cuicaso | or4Bom | oeflorr Avril 26, 37, 38,1 Apr33,33,24,25 | April 18, 19, 20, ) 30 [ May 28, 29, 30, | June 23, 2¢, 35, | June 19, 20, 21, 30, 31 3 2 Bept. 13, 14 |Bept.20,11 [ Sept. 6, April 14, 15, 16, April 11,12 13[ April 30, il My |18 July 8,3, 4, ¢ Aug. 10, 11, 13 April 30, May Sept. 3,8, ¢, § April 11, 12, 13 May 22, 23 June 28, 2, 30, July 1 Sept. 1, 3 June 6,7, 8,9 July 28, 29, 30, 31 Bept. 23, 24, 25 June 2,3, 4,6 July 28, 26,27 Sept. 21, 28, 29, 30 Jupe 10, 11, 12, 13 Aug. 4, 5,6, 7 Sept. 20, 21, 22 June 14, 15, 16, 17 Aug. 1,2, 3 Sept. 15, 16, 17, 13 July 1 AT f June 23, 29, 30, | May34,35,9¢,3' OUR BOARDING HOUSE « B WHAT-THIS HOUSE LACKS 4 | N ROMANCE, ITMAKES o { UP YoR il FooD AN’ ARGUMENTS ! e ARNHOW, T'M GOMNA PuUT ON -TH® OPEA UP IF HE WAS TH* GATUN LOCKS fanmnr :::(:tnl\'loh'n\ continued ']’:rir ruul? BROTHER ! How'LL by winning their fitth game in suc- d “THAT BE TOR MATCHING ccssion. Schmare was high man = - ? with eight points, while Remata = "\‘OLV COINS {guarded effectively. Kosswig topped "< SINM the losers In scoring. The summary: Mohawks Schmarr, 1t . 0 3 Kobela, If . 0 2 Reo, If ... 0 of , Normant, ¢ 0 2 < Marholin, rg 0 4 »” W Remata, 1g .. 0 & Totals 0 18 Sartinsky, ©f ..., 0 1 1] Nabela, If . 1 0 2| Komswig, ¢ . 2 0 4 Helm, rg . 1 o 2| |Andrews, 1g ..... 0 0 ol e e Totals ..... ‘ 1 9 15 July 6,7, 8,9 M7 ey 4,8, 6,7 |May J-;; 14, 15, 16, 2 Muy 12, 13, 14, “|F HE BOUGHT A STicK oF Coupon Arna il CAVALRY O¥FicER I H* MoHAWK WAARRE R 2 07 rrrrerree My 17, 18, 19 July 10, 11, 13, 13 Official American League Baseball Schedule, 1928 b May 4.6,6, 7 |Mep 8,0, 30, 13 Jely 18, 19, 82, uun Aug. 31,33, 33/ 4K 38, 37, 88, 1o 34, 15, 26/ ang; 39, 30, 90 Apr 18,19, 30.3) June 19, 39, 31, 1 Au.’ll. Sept. 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