New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1928, Page 9

— -<-~—\-_,.—‘-' 53 Speaking Of course when a team in any Une of sports loses a game especial 1y when it appears to be slightly off | 1 critics spring up on all sides | 494 name the faults and = reasons | therefor. We do not wish to appear | in this light but we do believe con. structive criticism of any team is not | only allowable but should be offered. ‘We ascribe two reasons for the up- | st at'the Btanley Arena Saturday ! night for the loss New Britain suf- fored at tho hands of the Waterbury | team. These, we think, caused the team to show glaring weaknesscs in The first | of these, we think, was a bit of over- contidence on the part of the New Britain players. At the start of the game, we were impressed with the | | e = fact that New Britain figured it was| The veteran outfielder who was; playing an casy team in Water- Félcased a few days ago by the| all branches of the game. bury, Waterbury enjoyed an exception ally good night and New could get going in its real stride on. ly near the end of the second half. The sccond fault, we find in Sat urday night's game, was the indi vidual playing or the efforts of cel tain players in the team to star by their lonesome. Al 8loman, probably the league scoring list, was the biggest offender in this respect. There were ! plenty of times when he could have fired with the desire to lead passed the ball to other players ou the team and scores which were bad- 1y need, this because many of th schouting at the player balL." right awa 0000000000000040000000000 atcd at the Corbin Screw-New of Sports SISV ITLTITVIPEIETY g4 E2c was especially good. He has) Pritain ight have been made. The fans in ‘the bleachcrs were hep to N kept 'ass the Britain Machine girlsa game in the ipreliminary to the Waterbury-New Britain professional game Baturday night at the Stanley arena. Tony Cansomeri Figures That Fast Work tn the Ring Wil Enable Him to Boat Beuny Bass. New York, Feb, ¢ (UP)—Tony Cansoneri of Brooklyn will depend |upon speed to bring him victery {over Beany Bass of Philadelphia in itheir 15-round bout :in ‘Madison ! 8quare Garden Fridsy night for the ;(eatherwel‘ht championship. | “I am going to devote the rest of |my training to developing specd, {Canzoncri sald. “I have a lot of re- |spect for Bass' punching power, but His work in the High school | | been making a reputation in games about the smaller towns in Con- necticut during the present season. ! I don't think he'll be able to hit me Yetsran Outfelder Comes to souy- ™" ™ 7" * ™ ™ H s 1s |ze as 3 260- ‘pound champlon by the National Terms With Gonnie Mack | poue, <hameien b, e oo - 'is recognized as the leading feather- | New York, Feb, 6§ (I — This | WVeight by the New York state ath- Speaker has landed with the Phila- | !tic commission. delphia Athletice. I\\'(mhhu;(m) Senator came to terms | with Connfe Mack over the long dis- | tance telephone and will report at' the Athletics' training quarters at Fort Meyers, March 1. | Speaker arrived fn New York | {from.a hunting trip through the {south yesterday afternoon and later | | | LEAGUE ONCE MORE Prolit by Defeat of All-Stars i Boys' Club Play in the day arranged details by tele- | phone with Mack who is vacation. | ing at Monnt Plymouth, Fla, | Mack's signing of Speaker fills a | Group B. Standing gap made in the Philadelphia out- RD: Hant fleld by the releasc of Ty Cobb and | Leaping Fiv : Zach Wheat. Last scason, “Spok ping Five .. 9 3 WJ27 wan sald to have reccived a salary | Bulldogs 5 546 | from the Senators - rangink from | Gagien | i 455 $40,000 to $80.000 which price was ' cyciores 1 64 an obstacle this year for a renewal | prantoms ... 1 10 ‘091 of contract. {Clark Griffith of the Washington |in the Boys' club Group B Interme- that the ex-pilot of the L . Indians | epnoon when the Ali-Stars col signed for a fancy figure. |betore the attack of the Neither Tris nor Mack would | Each man on the Leaping Five scor- jcomment on the salary arrangement. |ed four points of more, with Avit- “I'm satisfied with the terms and |able ru.ning up 14 and Slepski 12. of scorers but we feel sure that the | Mack paid Cobb a huge sum last | mary: fans of this eity would rather see New Britain at the top in the stand- ing columnn than Sloman the best|\hich would be $10,000 under Bahe point-getter, The team did better Saturday night from the foul line. Out of 19 shots, 11 were made good. There was a question raised about which would have tied the score. The ti- mer's whistle blew before Zakzew- ski shot the ball and the score did not count. Many upbraided the tim- or for blowing the whistle when he let the #ame go & few seconds and New the last shot by Zakzewski did saying he could have Britain would have won. That argument is unequivocally “out.” If the local team ecan't win its games in the allotted time for play, then certainly it s in a bad WaY. Bocanse of the objection raised by President Willlam' Lee. of the Connecticut State Basketball League, the game between New Britain a:d o pluyed n this city next Wednesday the Meriden Endees will not night as was previousiy announced. 1t will be staged in Meriden Thurs- day night. This information was| furnished Saturday to Manager Clarence Lanpher by Manger Jack Curry of Meriden. The next home attraction for the basketball fans of the city will be | om "ol “oo oo the sppearance here Saturday night of “Buster Lou" Gehrig, stellar first baseman of the New York Yankee | Dbaseball team, and his team of all- | Kobela led the losers. The sum- year, some reports quoting his serv- Leaping Five ices commanding as high as $60,000, Fl. FL Tu. Paluch, rg ...... 8 o [} Ruths’ annual check from Col. Rup- | Slepski, 1t ...... 6 o 12 pert. {Camp. ¢ .. e 4 [ 8 The addition of Speaker to thc |Avitable, rg 0 1 Philadelphia roster with give Mack |Curylo, Ig ... 0, 4 a veteran outfield with Tris at cen- e S ter, Al Simmons at left and Bing | 22 o U Miller in the right corner. | Phantoms Speaker commented on his stay | Domkowski, rf ... 1 9 3 | with the Senators as a most pleasant | Attardo, 1t ... 1 0 2 relationship and referred to Bucky | Kobela, ¢ 2 i ! Harris as one of the greatest mana. | Falf. ©& . 3 i ¢ gers in bascball, | Schwartz, 1g 1 0 2 As to his _new affilfations the e o b5 “Gray Eagle” declared the Athletics 8 i The Bulldogs disposed of the Cy- clones by 24-10 and kept their hold on third position. Nappl had a big |afternoon, making 14 pointa. Row- |inski featured for the Cycloncs. The | have fine prospects and that he look- ed forward to playing under Mack with great satisfactiotn. Asked what he thought of the ap- proaching pennant scramble and the Yankees, Tris replied: summary: “Of course the Yankees are a Cyclones great machine but the Athletics and | Fld. FL TH other members of the circuit are Cartelli, vf ...... 0 [ 0 bound to furnish plenty of opposi- | Rowinski, It ..... 8 o 6 tion. The Athletics were second last | Dennis, ¢ ... 1 0 2 year and like the other elubs they | Adamowicz, rg ... 1 o 2 will be out for the championship.” | Todzio, 1§ ....... L] L] L} Speaker was born in Hubbard — = = City, near Dallas, Texas, August 24, 0 10 1883. From the Houston club, Speaker went to the Boston Red Sox appl, rf ... L 14 {1n 1907 for his first major league as- | C. Mingel, If 0 ? signment. The Box paid $400 for|Capedice, ¢ . 0 ‘ Speaker at the time and the follow- 5 0 2 ing season sent him to Little Rock | Jaworski, Ig .. 0 0 and then repurchased him in the - = = By 1909, he' 1 0 was a regular. The Eagles surprised with a 21- After the 1915 season, Speaker win from the All-Stars, dropping was traded to the Cleveland India for Thomas and Jones and a cash |that team out of the tic for first place. Fesiak and Bellomo were the stars. This game will be played at|consideration of $55,000. In the lcading scorers for their respective | the Stanley arena next Saturday imiddle of the 1919 campaign, |teams. | night. | Speaker was made manager of the| The summary: . | Indians succeeding Lee Fohl. It was All-Stars Bristel plays here tonight in|Speaker's first experience as a play- | Fld ¥l | voller hockey and Meriden plays »|er-manager and for the frst and |Karosis, rf ... 1 0% n 2E soturn engagement here next |only time in his carcer as a regular | 8pezialo, 1f . o o 0! Thursdsy night. Plenty of action is|Player for about 20 years, his bat-|Bocnhert, ¢ . o1 0 2 n store for the hockey fans. ting average slumped below the .300 Olewnik, rg . 2 0 4l mark. His average for 1919 was Bellomo, 1§ ...... 3 0 [ -296. = i “tcm m‘"::'“::: ‘:":m;: The following year, 1920, Speaker | Totals ) 14} gy night in the .m_xmlde a big comeback and enjoyed ' ! s ‘m'“”“ t0 be staged at the | O0¢ Of his best seasons in bascball, FI - Pts nwmm by the Mohawk A. C. A |DMting .88 in the dash of the fedor, rf .. 31 ol - U+ | Cleveland club to an American | Bendza, If . o | Cansdian team of four meR 18|100gue pennant and a world's cham. | Fesiak, ¢ 1 o scheduled to fight here. Those ap- | hionship after a series with the Muaso, rg . o e 2 pearing with the Dominion team | Brookiyn Robins. Tris exceeded his|Zuko, 18 1 3 are as follows: Jean Rittelle, 1751920 average with the Indians in S { pounds, light heavyweight cham-|1925 with a mark of .389. | Totals ] o 2 plon of Canada; Harry Smith, wel-| After the 1926 campaign, Speaker | Junior Loague ! terweight champion and one of the most clever fighters ever scen in thig section; Harry Chevere, 155 pounds, and Ed Bolkart, 135 pounds. The oppenments for these men will be selected during the next few days. This will be the first appear- ance of the Canadian boxing team in this eity. The battlers from the north have appeared in Hartford twice already and many from here have seen them in action. They will certainly give the Connecticut boys :‘ht will face them plenty of trou- ™ The Corbin Screw men's team in the Industrial basketball league op- poses splitting the present season inte two parts. The reasons given state that the plan should have besn made up before the start of tha year. The Screw 8hop team has a sizeable lead in the league at the present time and the players don't #°4 any justice in another coming through in a playoff to best them for the championship. It is understood that the tcam will withdraw from the league if the plan is put through. Leonard R. Dixon, New Britain basketball referec, had a week-end of unusual activity when he refer- eed five games, four of which werc in the gymnasium of the Senior High school where he is a teacher | Friday night he officiated at a game between the New Britain State Trade school and Collinsville, Baturday morning the first and sec- ond teams of the played against two teams Bouth Manchester and he was the 11th man on the floor on both oc- caslons. Saturday afternoon the New Britain High school team played Colleglate Preparatory school of New Haven and he again ap- peared” on the floor. He concluded his great weck-end when ke offici- team | Trade school | from | The All-Stars lost a full game in! the Junior League Saturday night ed in 142 games for a batting aver- | hut still have a two-game advantage | jage of .327. | over their nearest competitors. They | Speaker has played in three world | weére nosed out by the Speedboys, | series, two as a member of the Red |86, in7a game that was a thriller! |8ox in 1912 and 1915 and the other from start to finish. The Hurri-! | with the Indians. canes made a supreme effort to win! their second game of the year but | resigned from the Indians and join- | | ed the Senators with whom he pla finally loat an 8-7 decision to the Fhantoms. The Pirates trounced | the Wildcats by 16-1. The standing: W 1 pC ASFIMLSSTART % ¢ % ; |Pirates ..c..coc.. 7 & 838 P | Phantoms ¥ 4 636 . | Specaboys 7T 4 .636 Engla]]d and America Dead- ! wnacats 3 3 .82 Hurricanes 1 10 091 locked in Racquet Series : i New York, Feb, ¢ W—EnlflnndlmGH Pkmm and America entered the second and | concluding day’s play in their in- | ternational ‘racquets series today all | | square. | The teams split even in two dou- bles matches in the opening day's ,competition yesterday. J. C. F. i Simpson and C. N. Bruce, the crack { British pair, defeated Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer of | INew York, in threc straight sets, | |18-14, 15-10, 15-11. Simpson and | | Bruce on Saturday dethroned Pell | and Mortimer as national doublen champlons after the Americans had {held the title since 1915, | Charles J. Culter and Hewitt Morgan of New York brought the internationzl series to a tie by de- feating the British team of P. W. Kemp-Welch and George Huban in |a_ five game match, 6-15, 18-13, [15-10, 9-15, 15-11. | Three singles matches closa the competition today. . Pell is paired ainst Rimpson: Mortimer against Bruce and Morgan aaginst Kemp- ! Weten. | To the team winning three of .the { five matches will go an internati trophy put into competition for the first time by the Racquets and Ten- nis club. ; /stricting Peltzer to a 14-day com-“ The Bethany forwards paired off points Pounding out & 44-10 win over | As Speaker declined to accept a|the Phantoms, the Leaping Five re- | {2 reduction in wages as suggested by | gained sole possession of first placo | ¢lub some time ago, it was believed | giate hasketball league Eaturday aft- | This condition should be corrected | because the main point in any player's mind should be to win basketball games, not to make & scoring record. Sloman, as it hap- pens, is second in the league's list (5o is Connle,” Speaker said. . | Swe ~iin the showers, and three other men _"!tioned almost Personal fouls: G. Preisser ¢, Lit- ke, Klopp, E. Preisser 3, W. Preis- PLTZER FEB. 28 | ser—10; Erickson 3, Berglund 3, Anderson, Berlin 4, Larson—12. Technical foul: Klopp. Free tries: \American Star Refuses to ‘Go st lor inas A, G- Games New York, Feb. 6 UM—The long- Bethany Takes Socond {anticipated clash between Dr. Otto| The Swedish Bethany team won Peltzer and Lloyd Hahn will come“na second victory in a row, submerg- in the Knights of Columbus meet {ing the Center Congregationalista at Madison Square Garden Feb. 29 |under a 49-12 score, the most lop- lor not at all, it was indicated today. |sided of the season. The foul shoot- With Hahn's refusal to go west :ing of the winning team was perfect. (for the lilinois A. C. games at Chi- | The Swedes had nine free tries and cago Feb. 10, the K. of C. carnival | made every one of them good—an {apparently offers the only chance for | excellent performance in these days Klopp ¢, E. Preisser 2, W. Preisser 7—13; Erickson 2, Benson 3, An. derson 2, Berlin 3, Larson—11. Referee, Tobin. Timers, Karbonik and Levin. Scorers, Feldman, ia meeting between the rival mmdlo{ar poor tossing from the 15-foot !distance stars, | Dr. Peltzer strip. makes his second| The first half saw the winners |American appearance in the Illinots | whirl away to a 20-3 lead. Wally A. C. games in a 1,000 meter run.|Anderson featured this period with {He has indicated that he would run nine points, receiving valuable as- in the K.'of C. meet in his farewell sistance from Carlson and Elmer or return to Germany without mak- | Johnson. Brown made all three of ing the third appearance allowed |the Center church's points. In the thim by athletic autborities of his|second period Harold Carlson took |native land. Hahn is aiready entered | the offensive in earnest, rolling up 11 'in the casey mile at the K. of . ear- | points. W. Anderson also kept up his nival and negotiations are under way | attack, while every member of the ito have the Teuton enter the same | winning team poined in the bom- jevent. | bardment of the Center church bas- | Whether this can be arranged or | ket. The losers 4id better than in the {not apparently rests with the Ama- | first half, Brown getting two baskets teur Athletic Union of ficlals. They |and Slade one, while Lockwood and | have interpreted a cable German au- | Bradley made good on some free {thoritics sent them Saturday as re- | tries. {potitive period in this country. Pelt- | excellently and ecored 15 zer, however, maintains that this 14- {apiece, with Johnson working nicely day period refers «imply to the time at center and Dave Swanson on the {during which his expenses will bedefense. Brown was high man for Philadel; { paid. {the losers. The sumamry: ‘There 18 no restriction, he insists, Swedish Bethany 50 far as time goes, it he decides to Fld. FL. Tu pay his own expensce. He has cabled | C'arlson, rf . ¢ 3 15 German authorities for a flat an- | W. Anderson, If ...... 6 3 18 swer as to whether he may enter the | Elmer Johnson, ¢ ... 4 ¢ 8 K. of C. meet. , . Swanson, rg ...... 1 2 4 | The cable received Raturday ad- Swanson, rg . oo 1 1 3 vised Peltzer to do everything possi- | 1{. Anderson, 1§ .. H 0 ¢ {ble to conform with the wishes of | - - - {the A. A. U. Jt the American offi- | 20 9 49 icials hold fast to their interpretation | Center Congregational iof the time limit angle of the Ger- | Fid. FL Tt man star’s invasion there appears to | Brown, rf L 1 g |wilt voluntarily restrict mmselt 1o !Slade, rf . 1 9 2 ibe a strong probability that DPeltzer ' Scott, If DA I two appearances instead of three. Brainerd, If ..... 0 0 a e —age o Boardman, c. 6 0 0 Lockwood, rg-c . 0 2 2 Derrick, rg .. O | . Bradley, Ig . 0 1 1 | 4 4 12 Personal fouls—Carlson, W. An- | derson, Johnson 2, H. Anderson 2— 6; Scott 4, Lockwood, Bradley 2—T. Free trics—Carlson , D. 8wanson 2, . Brown 3, Boardman, Lockwood 2, Bradley—T7. feree—Tobin. Timer Bell. Scorer—Feldman, Game postponed | Inter-Church Standing The game between the South Con- . L. PC. |gregational and Trinity Methodist [J 1.000 |teams was postponed at the request 300 [of the latter team, which had sev- 500 eral men playing out of town and .500 would have been unable to put five .400 players on the floor. This contest |Center Cong. .... .000 land the deferred South-Swedish The 8t. Matthew's German Luth- | Bethany combat will be played off !erans earncd a 34-24 decision over | before the end of the season. {the First Lutherans in the Inter- To—BMTl“E Swanson— (6rasp Second Place Firmly— 'Swedish Bethany Swamps Center { | 8outh Cong. ....... St thew's ..... Bethany .. | Pirst Lutheran . PRTRerS ETT R o | church league play at the Y. M. C. | | &. Saturday night and thereby re- !tained possecssion of second place. ! The Firet Lutheran youngsters put up a good scrap against their more | Jake Schacfer, Billiard Champlon, to experienced foes but could not hold | them in check. Billy Preisser | flashed through the Swede defense for four baskets in the first half and | Klopp for an cqual number, while | “Goody" Preisser caged a pair haefer, world 18.2 balkline billlard Erickson and Berglund were doing champion, ias unnounced he will ine work for the Swedes during this gefend his titls againat Edouard period, but the S8t. Matt trio gave |yloremians, Belgian challengcr, at their team a 23-15 edge. san Francisco in April. The sccond halt was even closcr, Schaefer has arranged his sched Francisco, New York, Tch. 6 (UP)—Jake down. Goody Preisser featured 10r San Francisco just prior to the date Iis team until he went out on fouls, for the title match. Horemans also after which Billy again took up the jiax outlined an exhibition tour burden. Larson and Erickson toped | hjch will take him to the Pacific the Swedes in this half, which Was ousr. a real battle all the way, Berlin, | First Lutheran guard, joined Goody | SPORT TABLOIDS Los Angeles—Red Grange's necded but one personal apiece 10 | York Yankees defeated Benny Frieds make a party out of it. man’s Cleveland Bulldogs, 13 to 6, The two elder Preissers and Ernst iy o professional football game, | Kiopp did all the scoring for the winners, the St. Matt center having | Kansas City—Bernard “Poco” a particularly good night. After the 'jazier, University of Kansas track firat. half. the German guards func- car, and Melvin 8himek, former uni- perfectly and the \yersity track star, were to meet Sat- losers could not overcome the St. urday Feb. 1, in the Kansas City Matts' cagly lead. Erickeon's shoot- [Athletic club annual invitational ing and the guarding of Berlin fea- meot. tured for the Swedes. The sum- S5 mary: New York--The Chicaga Black St. Matthew’s Lautheran 'Hawks defeated the New York | Fld. FL. Tt. Americans b to 0 in a national hoc- | G. Prefaser, rf. ... 4 [ § [key league game. { Litke, If., 1g. . 0 [ 0 i Klopp, c. 5 2 12| San Antonie, Texas—Ed Dudley, of Il Preisser, re. .... 0 0 ' Hollywood, Calif., led tho field in the Brussick, rg. If. ... 0 [ 015 holes of the seventh annual Texas W. Preieser, 4 14 open wolf champiouship. Dudley’s| - - -~ score was 72. 1 11 6 34 - | FirFst Lutheran Detroit, Mich.—The Hollay Car- O. Erickson, rf. .... 4 2 10 buretor's soceer team was eliminated Berglund, If. .. 2 n 4 fromi national competition by the| Tienson, 1f. ... 0 o 0 Sparta club of Chicago, 4 to 3. | C. Anderson, c. 1 2 1! Berlin. re. .. 0 0 0, Chicago—The bricklayers defeat- | lengston, re. ... 0 0 Meet Edouard Horemans in San | 3, W. Anderson ' tional soccer cup game. C. deleated the Penn. A. C. § to ¢ in a two-day indoor tennis match. phia—The New York A.| .. Herman: York—The Brooklyn wand-|Club of New 0 in an American soccer Bear Mountain, of the { league | ski-jumping champlonship. won the Class A |national chalienge eup seccer tie, NASH Leads the World in Motor Car Valse A. G. HAWKER 58 Elm St. Associate Dealer: OUR § | with the guards keeping the scoring | yle so that he will close his tour at | | 0 od the Buda A. 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