New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1928, Page 21

Speaking of Sports COOVOVINITTTIITIVIVIT Y As a sidelight on the play of the New Britain basetball team, we searched through the records of this season's play to try and discover just | A what was the reason for the team dropping so many contests both i | and out of the league by one or two | points and we have found it without | much trouble. ©Of all the games that New nmm' has lost, there are only two that | could not have been won, had theq players been on their toes. Those two were the palr played against the At- Jas and a difference in the scorcs might have been realized had the | players had their shooting eyes with | them. We arc speaking especially of the team's ability from the foul line, Investigation shows us that New | Britain has played 19 games t season so far. The team has won 12| of them and has lost seven. Most of | the losses came as a matter of only & few separating points and a re- view of the play shows that the | sharp shooting of the opposing team | from the foul line and the poor | work of the New Britaln squad was the cause of the defeat, | Tn all, the New Britain team has | had for the season so far a total of 336 free shots for the basket from the complimentary stripe, As n team, not speaking of individuals because all are about the same in this re. speet, only 138 * points have been made from these shots. This leaves a total of 198 misses from the foul | line, The team has averaged better than 10 points in misses per game. n the first game against the Bridgeport Laurels, New Britain won. It had 19 free tries and | made four. Against the Hebrew Giants of New York, the team won. It had 18 free tries and made nine. | Agalnst the Renaissance Five the |n first time, it won and had 14 free tries and caged five. Agalust the Yankees of Hnrllordl the team won but shot only 13 fouls of 29 tries. It lost to Plainfiel] by two points but caged only 10 of 20} free tries. It was defeated by the Atlas 38 to 24 making four points out of 10 free tries. The fouls would have made no same, Against Waterbury another vie- tory was scored but only nine of 17 free tries were made. Again New Britain defeated Waterbury but made only 10 out of 21 tries. Beven | out of 23 was the result of the| team’s best efforts when it lost to| the Hartford Yankees in this eity 26 to 25. It defeated Bristol 33 to 25 making five out of 18 shots. Against Bristol again, another victory, the team scored nine out of 21 tries from the foul line. Meriden defeated New Britain 28 to 24 while the locals were caging 10 out of 20 tries from the gift stripe, Meriden downed New Britain 33 to |y 32 in Meriden with New Britain cag- | ing eight out of 16 free tries. The Atlas won here 32 to 18, New Britain making six out of 14 foul shots. | Against the Holvoke Mohawks who were defeated, New Britain scored six out of ten trics from the foul line, | e | Only two fouls out of 12 shots | were scored as New Britain beat Meriden, a narrow squeak 22 fo 19. Beating Bristol the team caged seve | en out of 20, | Defeating the Renaissance Five of | New York last Saturday night, the | locals scored 11 points out of 21 shots. In Bristol Wednesday night the New Britain team was defeated 26 to 24 simply because only three fou) shots out of 13 were caged. ‘This record is nothing less than terrible. Time after time the fans here have watched the New Britain players play rings around the oppo- sition only to be nosed out by one or two points. New Britain gets every chance in the world to win but flubs the opportunities through weakness from the foul stripe What is the answer to this? We think it is insistence by the manager that the individual players spend more time gauging the distance to the basket from the complimentary stripe. Practice makes perfect and if the local team should score a major- | ity of its foul shots, it would be hard | '* to beat. We would certainly like to mee this glaring fault corrected and we only echo the sentiments of the basketball public as a whole. ‘We belicve this to be constructive eriticism of the team because it is only laxity that allows the squad to g0 on time after time and miss 80 many shots from the foul line, Every team should be efficient in this de- partment of play because it is an jm- portant one in turning in victories, All the great coaches of the country arc always harping on foul shooting and the same should be done with the New Britain team. What we| want is better foul shooting and that should be the slogan of the New | Britain quintet from now on. { The New Britain Electric Light & | Power Co. basketball team lost to Norwalk 11 to 9 last night in an- other of the series of basketball games played between company teums. A combination of circumstances forced the postponement of the basketball game scheduled in Water- bury last night between the Hart- ford Yankees and the Waterbury Tabs. The Yankees arrived at the playing hall at 9:30 o'clock and Manager Cunningham of the Water- bury team acceded to the demands of the fans that the game be started or their monecy be returned. He re- funded all admissions. The game will be played a talater date. Meriden has been going on the tocks as far as basketball is con- Endees will play thefr next game against New Britain | in this city next Wednesday night. The game was originally scheduled te be played in Meriden. | Augusting S of the year difference in thls | [a WITH THE BOWLERS st g PALACE ALLEVS RUMELL ENWIN LEAGUE Lywme | Mansey | Prank ayes 9 100~ 319 3681107 65— 244 77— 247 30 Vicinus hony | Rengston Vright icara Krawita o 354—1120 Larry Ventiy 290 231 month ago when the western terror | 85 83 % 266 43 360--1055 251 249 10 255 Jennie Bill Jim 303 243 221 36| McTigue wan knocked out recently | 7| middleweight champion, Renock Turner M. Dumn Carlson A, 83 99 55 F. Young Halloran . Kelly Kiley M. Murphy M. Kenney Shen ... Low Score Josephaon Rullivan C. Larson Foley .. 20 3 Metropolitan Moskus sz 12 Charmut Plochar Coftcy . 3 310 ‘Washingtonian A. Valkonls ....... 72 1S Gorman B. Vallonis Huck ... G. Richter Nelson ... M.. Beckman Kenney a..eeen G. Dery Kasprow 304—1034 LEAGUE H. Little B. Bruemmer E. Koerber E. Parsons 302 14— 616 Fiying Clowls ¥ . 81— 1.. Ringwood M. Hoglund H. Barrows A. Thompson M. Linn 51— 159 12 135 ar 14z . Ziegler 1. iichards A. Quinn § A, Marive CORBIN CABINET 1OCK Thunderbeit, G. Corrigan 1. Ringquist i Low 8core 57— 114 21 64— 145 57— 133 84— 159 V. Lundin 1. Jackson M. Kilbourne 205— 437 53— 156 78— 117 161~ 303 M. King .. A. Ringquist R. Igoe . G. Mycroft BOSTON TIGERS WIN. Boston, Feb. 3 (UP)--The Boston Tigers defeated New Haven, 3 to 0, in a Canadian-American league hockey game here last night. '} Beaten by many second rate fight- | Blackburne, who held the technica! | 23 | leagues in 1927, with one time at NEW. BRITAIN' DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1928, NEW HAYEN TOURNEY Crowd of 4,000 Fans Watch Ama- Battlers in Action—Dick Gray Gets Presentation. New Haven, Feb. 3 P-—A card of 12 amateur bouts drew a crowd of 4,000 fight fans to the Arena here First of Light Heavyweight Ehm‘mmfls at Gmm last night. In addition to viewing |the bouts, the crowd was privileged New York, Feb, 3 (UP)—The first |10 Witnuss the presentation of an "of the light-heavyweight elimination | ¢!K'S tooth to MMatchmaker —Dick bouts, to provide an opponent for who recently joined the Tommy Loughran, the champion, on ered brethren, March 16, will take place in Madison | Square Garden tonight when Leo Lomski, the Aberdeen (Wash.) as- samin, meets Mike McTigue, the | tormer 175-pound title-holder, in a | scheduled 10-round bout. beat A1 Houstiis, Derby. ; | The light-hcavyweight tille was 5 ‘Xu".x;,c::“q:.‘»‘,j(;::: \p“““‘:“’::" within Lomski's grasp less than a Ichsea dlenencs, Now Heveh knocked Loughran down twice in|Walter Perway, Derby {the first round, but Tommy got up | ‘l”—\or{vtln Korsus 'and by masterful boxing took the Phia. beat Eteve Vane, Derby. decision at the end of 15 rounds. | 140—Jack Carson, New Haven, Lomski is bent on iwinning the beat Frank Wilson, New Haven. !175-pound title and then entering | 145—Alex Touraine w Haven, (he heavyweight division. {beat Fritz Adamson. New Haven, “Aftor I beat MeTigue and Rlat-| 128—Herman $kiff, Philadelphia, | [tery Tl get Loughran in the ring “h:w!od Johmny Andrews, New Ha- again,” he sald. “I won't be so anx- Ven- - s | |:ul“lh:|l) and I'll correct the mis- | 128—Tony Valenti, New Haven, | LOMSKI T0 FIGHT MTIGUE TONIGHT teur nco, New Ha- sat Carmen Lichitelli, New 145—Nelson Mays, New Haven, blonde westerner is almost a replica! Heavyweight—Larry James, Der- plunges into action to get his man third. In his five years in the ring, win-| 130—Tobby Hamilton, Philadel- | Tigue has been fighting for 15 years | FIEHTINE MAR!NES | came near advancing into a com- | {Jack Sharkey. Ahead on points, Mc- vessel and the bout was awarded lol ki and an- Nicaragua today indicated that an| A terrific body puncher, Lomski an American marine patrol, Lomski is & 5 to 2 favorite and {ters that seven rebels were known final between Maxie Rosenbloom and |marines were unable to determine | d key Walker's middlewcight |A wounded pack animal was the only | | Roger W. Peard consisted of 80 men. takes I made the first time.” knocked out Charlie liogers, Phla- | A great admirer of Dempsey, the |dclphia, first, | : action. | by, won on a technical knockeut of the former champion in action. |b¥. With a wallop in both fists, Lomski over Bishop Hart, Philadelphia, 1185—Tommy Dwyer, Philadelphia, 18 s00n as possible. | « LLomski, now 24, has had 63 fights beat Joo Masselli, New Haven. 1 Ining 33 of them Ly knockouts. He [Phia, beat Red Kaight, New Haven., has lost only four decisions. | back with a remarkable victory, Mec- and refuses to quit. Twlcs he has | | held the 175-pound title and he| | manding position among the heav: a I ’ weights last year in his bout wit Ith Graves ]fld]cfltfi TOI Takefl | Tigue had to stop in the 12th round Fahad ‘ {when an artificial tooth cut a blood | in Nlumg“au War Sharkey. Managua, Nic., Feb. 3 (P—Fresh in Chicago by Mickey Walker, the graves along the trails of northern | lother knockout might cause the indeterminate number of rebels had | canny Celt to retire. been slain in recent encounters with | may hammer the game Irishman | Known Dead into ring oblivion tonight, | The patrol reported to headquar- | the odds seem cntircly Justified. |to have been killed and four wound- | The winner of the 10-round semi- cd in five engagements, but that the | | Phil (K. 0.) Kaplan will be recog- |the exact number of casualtics since ! as a logical contender for |the rebels carrled off their wounded. | patrol casualty. | e The marine patrol under Captain It left San Albino mine, once the |headquarters of General Augustino | [Sandino, rebel leader, January 20, | Russell “Lena” Blackbure s Re- going south to Buena Vista. They returned to Ban Albino two days tained By Chicago White Sox 88 (|ater after five engagements with! . - rebels. Marines believed that the | Menor for Nest Xear, |rebels encountered were on sniping reb, 3 U ‘Lena’ | expeditions. i Chicago, Feb, 3 Russell ‘Lena’ i e et Soaut Work 2 | | Scouting airplanes flew over the the major| ion ot the fighting yesterday | {after belated reports of it were re- | | batting lcadership of bat and one hit on the firat pitched Philadel- | The project proclaimed that only | |one party existe in ball, waa signed today by the Chica- go White Sox to coach again this | year. Manager 8chalk was banished one ceived at marine headquarters. There | was no evidence of rebel activity. | In ono attack o rebel approached |an advance squad of marinc shouting | “Amigo” (friend), Ho was shot | DRASTIC BILL IS APPROVED INITALY Fascist Party Desires to Abolish Universal Sulfrage. Fome, Feb. 3.—(P—A bill abolish- | {ing universal suffrage in Jtaly and | | bestowing the right to vote only | {upon those who contribute to the | | progress of the nation was approved | today hy the grand council of the | Fascist party. The project also makea Italy a one party nation. Premier Mussolini took a leading |part in the debate which preceded {adoption of the plan and presided | lat the councll meeting. | { The grand council of the Fascist | pat lust November ordered the {minister of justice to draft a law | | which would effect a revolutionary | |change in the government of Italy. | Italy, namely | Fasclsm, and therefore there will be | but one electoral ticket. The eon- | ception of the right of franchise as | outlined at that time was that ft | was a privilege to be won by public service. The would-be voter must | first prove that he was worthy to take a share in shaping the nation's destiny, The council proposed: To unify the country's economic | forces vinto 13 great gullds of pro- ducers and workers, To form the entire territory of the nation into a single electoral college. To grant the right to vote only to those who on the basis of their eyndicalist contributions showed themselves to be active elements in the life of the nation and those who i1re useful to the nation collective- y. To reduce the number of deputies from 560 to 400, REBELS AND PRIEST BIE SAY MEXICAN DISPATCHES i Battle for Move Than Three Hours | With Presidential Guards in | Hills Near Cotija. Mexico City, Feb, 3 P — Dis. | ratches from Guadalajara today said | that General Anselmo Garcia, \ln-‘\ der chief of the presidential guards, | announced that & Catholic priest, Crescenclo Esparza, and 45 rebels were Killed in a clash with federal soldicrs on the hills near Cotija, | state of Jalisco, Wednesday. | 8ix hundred rebels commanded by Esparza and Luis Guizar Morfin fought with the presidential guards in & battle lasting more than three | hours. Tbe rebels were forced to withdraw, abandoning 28 dead ana carrying off many wounded, fnclud- ing Guizar Morfin. The priest and 17 others tried to escape by crossing a river and were drowned. The federal horses, several munition. The residents of Cotija permission to recover body for burlal. General Aneelmo Tliguero, mill- forces captured 102 guns and some am- asked Esparzan 3 }cd out to the Bridgeport Bears last | day last ycar, Blackburne lllu'ccrwllm. down in his tracks by Licutenant W. to the authority temporarily, hen | ¢ " RBrown, a pinch hitter was needed, Black- skt [ burae put himwelt into the pinch | pepely attacked the patrol just an |and delivered a timely single, iy o “Big Ed" Walsh. pitching ace of ypo morning of its first day out from | the Sox a dozen years ago, has been |yig page, The marincs had not pack | signed to coach the pitching staft. |oq their machine guns upon the | Imulcs. These were immediately turned on the rebels who were con- cealed in the Jungle. Happy Days Suffering From a Cut Tendon | “ryree other brushes between the Montreal, Que., Feb. 3 P—"Hap- |rebels and Captain Peard’s patrol py" Day, captain and defense player |took place en route to Buena Vista of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey land the other as the marines were team, was in the Western hospital | jmaking their way back to San Al- 5 today suffering with a cut ankle ten- | pino. don. He received the injury in a| Along the trails on the way back scramble in the contest with the the marines noticed many fresh Canadiens here last night and prob- | graves indicating that the rebel dead ably will be oft the ice for six weeks. |had mounted beyond the seven they had counted. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. | —ee Akron, 0. — California Joe Lynch | YALE INCOME $1,104,359 and Gaston Charles, Cleveland, New Haven, Conn., Feb. § (U P')— drew, 10. Christner, Akron, knocked | Gross income from athletics at Yale out Joe Mulroy, Brooklyn, 1. | university during 1927 totalled $1,- Fort Thomaa, Ky. — Gypsy Wil- | 104,359, according to the annual re- {liams, Toledo, 0., outpointed Willie | port of the Yale Athletic association. Yap. Indianapolis, 10. | Football grossed $1,015,705, with Miami, Fla. — Frankie Garcia, |a net income of $545,062.35, and, as Memphis, Tenn., won from Andy in past years, was the only Yale Bowen, Washington, D. C., 12. | sport that earned a net profit during | McCook, Neb. Lew Terry, | the year. |Grand Island, defeated Ted Blatt,| Track showed a deficit of $64,811; Minneapolis, 10. |crew, $64,615; baseball, $14,013, and hovkey, § Conn., Feb. 3 m—‘ |Sale of Johnny Roser, left-handed | slugging outflelder who was option. | TO TAX COMPLIM| New London, Conn., ¥eb. 3 (UP) Complimentary tickets to profes- ional boxing bouts in Connecticut iseason, to the Fort Worth team of | will be taxed 25 cents, it was an. | the Texas league was announced to- nounced last night by Thomas . | day by George M. Weiss, president ot | Donahue, state boxing commission- the New Haven Profs. No price|cr. The tax, to be put in operation was mentioned in the deal, which | within a few weeks, will be set aside |was on a cash basis. |as a tund for needy boxers. itary commandant of Jalisco, rejected |a petition by residents of the Los Altos district asking that he use his good offices to prevent the concen- tration in the large cities of all peaceful citizens. This concentration was ordered by General Amora, sec- retary of war, as part of the active {campaign he is personally dirccting against the rebels. t | General Figuero declared the }ronccn'ralhn must be carried out {but ordered all leaders to afford (full protection to law ahiding citl- |2ens and to grant amnesty to all |rebels willing to surrender. {Man Badly Injured by Explosion of Dynamite Burlington, Vt., Feb. 3 P—By the premature explosion of a stick of dynamite which was being used to break up ice on the Winoosk! river here yesterday Sergeant Stewart A. Littlefleld, one of a party of army engineers was severely injured. His | right arm was severed and bis head | and body lacerated. Lieut. Leslie R. Groves, Jr, and Private George Watson suffered minor Injuries. The men were engaged in break- |ing the ice in the river near the temporary pontoon bridge between {Burlington and Winooski which re- | placed a steel bridge swept away in {the floods of last November. 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