New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 9

Speakfnd of Sports The New Haven Atlas last night barely staved off defeat at the hands of the Meriden Endees in a league game in the Eim City, The Siiver City aggregation staged a spirited rally in the second half to end four points short of a te. The Atlas team led at the end of the first half by the score of 17 to 9. A recapitulation of the foul shoot- ing by the individual members of the New Britain team shows that every member of th\niud is badly in need of practicing‘in whirling in points from the free throw line. Totaling up for the 19 games al- ready played we find the following statistics in this respect: Sloman #cored 50 foul points out of 9¢ shots. Rubenstein caged 24 out ef 60. Zak- sewski counted 31 out of 65, Shee- han made six out of 15, Leary caged.| 156 out of 48. Sturm scored 8 out of 22. Kilduff made one out of 8, Holst made two out of nine while Dessinger score one out of two. This is & glaring weakness on the local team and one that should be corrected without delay. 8o many misses per bame means only a fair average of victories. At least, the players should be able to score let- ter than 50 per cent of their foul shots and practice will enable them to do this. ‘The team is as good as most of them in the league in getting points from .tbe .foar. . These scores aided By a number of foul points, would give New Btitain a commanding edge over all opposition and we think that stress should be laid on the foul shooting department, ‘The Bristol Rolier Hockey club made a disastrous beginning last night when it invaded Hartford for its first game under the Bell Town's colors. However, the old saying is “First winners, last losers” and this may work out in the case of the Bristol club. New Britain was beaten in Merl- den in a fierce battle. A last per- fod rush of the local club almost up- st a 5 to 2 lead secured by the Maroons in the first two sessions but the final whistle left New Britain one point short of a tle score. The Hardware City quintet will have a chance for revenge on Meri- den tomorrow afternoon Wwhen the Maroons visit the Stanley Arenma In & return game. New Britain is trail- ing Meriden for first place by only 1wo games. PLAY GAME TODAY | New Britain High Basketball Quin- tet Meeta Collegiate Prep of New | Haven This Afternoon, An attempt will be made by the New 'Britain High school basketball team te better its .500 fark for the season when it takes on the Collegi- ate Preparatory school team of New Haven at the school gymnasium on Franklin square this afternoon at 3 o'clock, This will be the Hardware City team’s first home game. Last year it only lost two home games and these came lmmediately after the team was broken up when several of 1ts members violated faculty rules. Collegiate Prep suffercd its first defeat against Roxbury Preparatory school Thursday and now that the winning streak of 10 games is brok- en the incentive which has moved the Elm City team onward will be gone to a great extent. 8am Pite, former Yale star and a member of the New Haven Atlas, is the team's coach. The Collegiate team played again Sast night and scored its 11th victory over the Sterling team of the New TRADE SCHOOL LOSES Looal Basketball Quintet Meets De- foat by 32 to 38 Scort at Hands of Collinsville High Team. The New Britaln Trade s5chood{through. Mike, who ftwice was! basketball quintet met defeat at the | crowned hands of the Collinsville High schoot team yesterday by the score of 3. to 28. New Britain, playing on the high school gymnasium floor here, led by a 17 to 14 score in the first half but the visitors climbed stead- ly onward in the second frame und mosed out the locals in a wild finish. Pond excelled for New Britain, getting seven ficld baskets and two fouls for a total of 16 points. Richt- | myer and“Anderson also proved good | Tnvoluntary Aetions Amuse Fans Watching on Sidelines Athletes are the most eccentric peopte in the world when it comes down to the matter of winning sames. Practically every one of them bas & secret little trick they prac. | tice Lefore and during the game. Members of the teams in New Brit- ain bear this point out well. A list of well known athletes and thelr favorite whims is as follows: “Jimmy” Zaksewski of the All . New Dritain basketball team will toothpick firmly entrendgd between his teeth. Johnny 8heshan will fight, if nec- ersary, to be the aecond man in line when his team goes onto the floor before a basketball game. Ruby Rubenstein will not play a | they are a thing of the past. “Jimmy" Murphy of the 8tanley Works team will always pul} up his rants after a basket has been scored by a teammate. | “Al"'-Havlick and “Red" Matulis number on their jersey in the front. Joe Adams, formerly of the South church five, always persisted in | wearing a teammates helt. ‘Wilton Morey takes the floor with & rabbit foot hid on his person. Ray Holst plays a poor game un- til . the third personal is called on him. The minute the third foul is recorded his playing changes en- tirely. “Red” Matulls keeps up a con- tinual muttering to himself through- out the game. Al Sloman finds the going hard until he cages his firat basket. Joe Jasper always wears a pair of orange stockings while playing baseball. “Yigga” Patrus will never bat with any bat except a black one, | “Huggy” Carlson walks around in a small circle befdre pitching the | next ball, Johnny Tobin stuffs his mouth with grass while his team is on the fleld. Charlie Miller ®pits every t'me his team gets into a tight hole dur- ing a baseball game. Dick Dillon always looks for a i plece of gum before officlating at « basketball game. Frank McGrath keeps up a con- tinual chatter with his opponent during a football game. ay Holst will l:oller *go in” at the ball when the game is close, Mert Taylor will never smile vfter caging a basket for fear of spolling his Juck. “8i” Budnick, ecaptain of the| | Falcons, will never let the bat boy | put any bats In the bag until the | last “out” has heen made. | WTIGUE BEATEN BY LEO LOMSKI | Stop Rushes of Aberdeen Boy | New York, Feb, 4 UP—Ruggea | Leo Lomaki has sent the title aspir- | ations of Michael Francis McT!gue | ! spinning out of the pubilistic spners | | today. | In a ten round bout In Madison | Bquare Garden last night, lLogski severely punished the pride of Erin who however, held on to the last bell through a stout heart and var iant courage. McTigue's ring experience of some 150 battles falled to stop the reck- lcss abandon of Lomeki's flying fists which whipped tirclessly to the Cer- tic fighter's head and body. | ‘With a powerful body smash, the Aberdeen, Wash., boxer was cu the | verge of a knockout victory on sev- eral occasions but the bell proved to be the life saver for Mike. | Lomscki wae the agressor all tlm‘ way while McTigue appeared content | to use his wiles to carry him champion of the light. i | heavyweight ranks, beat a hasty re- | treat before Lomski's advances in, |the fizst threc rounds. As the |crowd booed displeasure of these | tactics in the fourth round, McTigue | | cut loose with rights to the head | which openad an old wound over | Lomski's left eye. Lomski kept| | pressing his rival, however, and in| a mix up at clore quarters had Me- Tigue faltering badly as the round never go on the floor until he has a |5, gsamse without knee guards, although 8 of the Fafair team always wear the |8 | Nelwon Johnson | steaman Gacelc Vetran's Enperience Fals 10 | Stemplen NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1928, Tz nowLzs BRITTON ENTERS CAMP OF TUNNEY Indicates That Dempsey Will Not Be Champ's Next Opponeat BY HENRY L. FARRELL NEA 8ervice Bports Writer 3t appeared recently in the publie prints that a freight train had deliv- ered to Miami Beach a crate of box- 72— 27| ing gloves, some big bags, little s | bags, soveral sets of ahoes, some pul- lcys and some other thingw. Also that a more fashionable |model of common carrier had de- | posited in the vicinity of Gene Tun- ney -one Lou Fink, his trainer and one JacK Britton, a boxer and a for- | mer champion of national repute. ’ | _ The two items were all a part of the day's news and no editor would |become aroused over a fighter get- ting a lot of fighting equipment, a trainer and a skilled sparring part- ner, so no reader would call up his neighbor to give him the news about it. | But that reference to Jack Britton ‘;,_“‘_' | was significant, when you come to |think of it. If Britton is going to 285 | work with Tunney, and he says he { has been refained in the capacity of |an adviser and sparring parther, it z |must mecan that Tunney is going to — ' meet a boxer in the first of his sum. |mer fights and the world knows that Jack Dempsey is no boxer. { _Tex Rickard has been enjoying the 239 | Florida sunshine for some time and 79— 207 | ne has been talking to Tunney about 73 | the summer program and there must be two fighte on that program if | Tunney has his way. Before Rickard left New York he intimated he intended to wheel ! Dempsey into one of the corners in 3| June for the first Tunney engage- | ment of the season and that the sec- ond opponent could be taken care of {during the summer. Rickard had * | discussed the stuation with Demp- | 261 |sey and Dempsey replied he would | | 80 in June or 8cptember. | | The angle brought up by Britton's | | prescace around the Tunney winter | | estate, therefore, creates a rather {broad hunch that Tunney wants to brush up on his boxing and, as has been pointed out before, he wouldn't e starting practice witn a welter- | | weight boxing master if he intended ! ito fight a slugger in his first en- gagement. | As matters now stand in that elim- | ination thing Rickard hax been pro- (moting, Jack Delaney, Johnny Risko | |or.Jack Sharkey may come through 5| for the honor ‘of eating Tunney's| [left hand in the first bout. | Delancy and Bharkey are boxers. | | Risko isn't a sclentific work of art, | but even Mr. Tunney might not | * /make much of a dent in his rubber 09 291 282 12— 301 51— 258 94— 270 7— 253 11— 285 90— 294 4631300 93— 26 94— 250 38— 378 $1— 345 86— 245 113 Alexandsr Drammond . Corr Squires Bcheyd 90— 91— $1— i eheddes FRATERNITY ALLEYS SWEDISH T C. LEAGU 33 18 B . Anderson il s rare W. Anderson F. Benson Lindborg Low Bcore M. Anderson H. Anderson Magnuson Heland Rarbranch P. Hanson E. Anderson Ryden SPECIAL MATCH New Dritain Juniors 111 103 100 16 N. Tronski Grogor Howarth and would have to outbox him. | Perhaps it is tiresome to see so {much written about Jack Britton by i i this writer, but he likes him so in- |tensely that he quotes him from Gannon La Compe Warner Maher ... Counerford 459 B36—115) LEAGUE habit. Not only that. When Britton | says something he says a mouthful. | He knows what he is talking about and he is the best analyet of any‘ | ! Pelligring Peterson Godlewskl Droaill Ohlson. hter we know, | "“Two or three years ago Tunney and I were spending the winter in Miami,” Britton sald some time ago. “Tunney at that time was signed to 3 | fight Young Stribling and he wasn't considered such a hot prospect ror{ 5 |the heavyweight champlonshfp. Tun- | ney asked me to come over and work with him. Whether I am fight- | ing or not, I go to the gymnasium | almost every day and I was glad to | | accept the invitation. | “I always liked Tunney and con- sidered him a good fighter but I | {thought all the more of him when | he said—<Jack, T want you to show me some things. If you see any bad | faults in my work point them out | and help me correct them.’ | 3 “That is the kind of talk that any one likes to hear and I was glad to | oblige. The first fine thing I noticed about Tunney was that he could go | back better nnd faster than any big man I ever saw before and that in going back he was always on balance nd in position to hit. “I.don’t want to be misunderstood. | Tn talking about going back I don't | mean getting on the bicycle. Every { fighter has to go back a lot of times | in a fight and not one of the hes 285 | weights today can do it skilltully. 85— %1 | Sharkey falls all over himself when «55—135 | he has to go back. Dempaey opens himself when he has to go back and {not one of them, with the exception | of Tunney, can counter-punch’ef- | 5 fectively when they are going back. “That ability to punch effectively while going back saved Tunney in | the seventh round of the last Demp- | - 247 | sey fight. I don't say he ran awa: " 3;, | He didn't. He fought at every step | 0s and he fought Dempsey off him until 263 | he had Dempsecy stepping back. It's 102 303 | 106— 313 495—1435 4521390 Cony Bcagliolo Biackenberg Lindherg Soitel 453 New Packing Sztabm ] Washy ] Feltl 0 | Storrs Koch Poplasii Neverick McCabe Patudin Presser Dery Katzung Tuttles Petani Dummy Lynch Feske Zaleski . 6 Goodrow B : i Odman Frank Recano Huck He still doesn't use his head snough. He ought to duck merc punches than he does but he's & stand-up fighter and he wants to see his man every second. That {8 not & fatal fault for a man with such fine feot- work and the strength that he has. “T have thought sometimes that he doean’t shoot quick enough at an opening, but that fraction of & sec- ond can be reduced by practice. “Frankly, I don't think there is much to improve about Tuaney. But | h & boxer always can tune bimself by working with a good man and if he ever asks me to’ help him again I will. T sent him a telegram before the Dempeey fight volunteering to work for him, hut I know he never ot the telegram. Some of the fellows around him don't like me and thought 1 wanted a lot of money or New York—Leo Lomaki, Aber- deen, Wash., won from Mike Mc- Tigue, New York, (10). Maxie Rosenbloom, New York, defeated K. O. Phil Kaplan, New York, (3). Willie Lavin, Buffalo, won from Jul- ian Moran, 8pain, (10). Bobby Dot. son, Aberdeen, Wash.,, and Jimmy McNamara, New York, draw, (8). Detroit—8tanislaus Loaysa, Chile, defeated Phil McGraw, Detroit, (10). Jackie Nochols, Detroit, outpointed Johnny Fillucel, New York, (10), Carlo Mazsolo, Detroit, technically knocked out Edlie Gold, Buffalo, (6). Tommy Lane, Toledo, out- pointed Mannie Wexler, New York, (). Copenhagen—Knud Larsen, mark, and Quadrini, Italy, (18). Den- draw, Byracuse, N, Y.—Bucky Lawless, Auburn, defeated Jack Sparr, Los Angeles, (6). Jimmy Trannett, Cleveland, outpointed Kid Blair, Utica, ¢6). Dayton, O.—-Eddie O'Dowd, Co- lumbus, won from Al Derosa, l.os Angeles, (10). Larry Privett, In. dianapolis, outprinted Mickey Flan- nigan, Springfield, O,, (8). Hot Springs, Ark.—Jack Gibbs, Detroit, and Al Walthers, Canton, 0., draw, (10). Eddie Gilmore, Peoria, 11, knocked out Tommy Till. | man, Texarkans, (6). Minneapolis, Minn.—Big Boy Pe- terson, Kilna, Miss., defeated Cecil Harris, Chicago, (10). Jack Paim- cr, Minneapolls, won from Honey Boy Cenroy, Bt. Paul, (4). ¥reeman, Minneapolis, knocked out Jack Carroll, Minneaoptis, (3). ' Hollywood, Cul.—Bammy Haker, New York, knocked out Gilbert At- tell, S8an Francisco, (8). Davenport, la.—“Kayo” White, { New Orleans, sutpointed Red Uhlan, California, (10), May 13, 23, 38 Jl.‘v 33,44 Aug. 30, 31, Sept. 1 April 2¢, 27, 28 :u: 23, 38, 26, Sept. 5,3, 4, 5 Sept. 10,11,13, 13 June 6,7, 8,9 July 38, 38, 30, 31 Sept. 24, 28, 26 June 1,2, 4% Aug. 3 Sept. 19, 30,31, 2 CINCINNATS Juse 15, 16, 18, 13 July 25, 26, 27 Bept. 14, 15,17, 13 Bill | ended. | In the (ifth stanza, Lomski show- cred McTigue'a head with fefts and | rights, ripping a cut on the fore- | head and over Mike's left eye, Lom- rki bored in unflinchingly but ran inte McTigue's left which ripped n | cut an inch long under the right 0| cve. [ The coast fighter forced a. hard 0| page in the sixth but received atub- .— | borh fesistance from his opponent. 28 | McTigué with his 35 years tumbling heavily about his sheulders crumpl- Tu,‘cd under a heavy assault in the | & | ®eventh and continued to stagger in 12| the next round. b McTigue enjoyed a brief rally in 4| the ninth but was unable to match 0| the speed of his younger foeman. 6 Lomski forced McTigue to retreat — ! lLefore a hard two-fisted bombard- nent in the tenth. Lomsk! weighed 1701, pounds, McTigue 17315. A crowd of 12,000 paid §40,158 to | see the fight. . ~ES | PONFIDENT OF SUCCESS i ———— B:rt Shotten, new manager of the | LONGEST FOOTBALL PACT Phillles, believes his club will finish | Two fraternities at the University higher up this season than it did of Klerida have agreed to play each last ycar. | other an annual football game for nine years, believed to be the long- WANT LEFT HAND HURLERS st pact ever made. The New York Yankees, always alert for new players, now are maid | RETAIN WITHAM AS COACH 10 be on the lookout for two addi-| The University of Colorado, tional left handed pitchers. | changing plans made immediately —_— after football season, will retain ANOTHER NEGRO CHAMPION | Myron Witham as football coach | Walk Miller, who managed the next season. late Tiger Flowers, says Jimmy — | Moore, Cincinnatl negro middle-| Hector Mendes, Argentine consul weight now in his charge, is & com- | to Baltimore, is one of the leading ing ch\mokm. amateur fighters of that city. men in getting scores. Kanthe of | the visiting team was high scorer for | Collinsville with 12 points, The summary: New Britain Fld. Tl | 16} 5 Pond, rf .. Richtmyer, Knowles, ¢ ... Anderson, 1€ . Abel, 1g...o.e Barcelon, rf Kanthe, If . Carpenter, G. Eddy, T8 .. W. Eddy, 1€ .. Curry, 18 ... 4 Britain 17, ixon. Score at half time, New Collinsville 14. Referee —1387 HAD GOOD START James Battle, rookie third base- man who will try out with the White Box this spring, played in six game for them last season and bat- ted .376 In those six games. | pretty smart, you know, for a fight- |er to have ekill and grace enough | |to make a tired man follow him around the ring and give him a past- | ing while he is trying to catch up. | “Well, us I said, I noticed his fine | footwork first and - thought there jwun‘t much more fault in his style. HIGH PRESSURE PETE Jume 11, 13, 13, u 1,334 mun Avg. Sept. ING NONEY HORSE Josola's Worthy, Winner of Hamble- tenian Stakes, Woa Aggregate To- tal of $35,183.43. New York, Feb. ¢ UP—Tosola's Worthy, winner of the Hambleton. | lan stakes, was the leading money | on the light harness turf in| 1 The mare had aggregate earn- ings of $53,485.45 to her credit. Jomola's Worthy was bred by Fred F. Fleld of Brockton, Mass., and was developed by Ben White, At the be- ginning of the racing season last! year, she was sold to E. J. Merkle of Columbus, O., for $10,000. At the close of the season, Merkle consigned the mare to the New Yotk sale where she was purchased by | Dr. Ogden M. 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