New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1928, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, IONDAY; Ry FEBRUARY 20, 1988 it NEW BRITAIN DEFEATS ATLAS OF NEW HAVEN AND LEADS STATE LEAGUE—HARDWARE CITY HOCKEY QUINTET EASILY BEATS BRISTOL FIVE —HIGH SCHOOL GOES DOWN FIGHTING BEFORE LAUREL BUSINESS COLLEGE OF MERIDEN—SPORTS 'HARDWARE CITY QUINTET DOWNS NEW HAVEN ATLAS Elm City Team Ends Game Wi Floor—Poor Officiating T: from Spectacle — Visitors in Poor Form — Close Battle Until Middle of Second Half—Victory Puts New Britain in Lead in League Standing w 4 Pet 667 “625 | 571 500 333 | 1333 | New Britain Bristol Hartford ‘Waterbury Playing what at its best was a | poor and boresome brand of basket- | bal, the New Britain and Atlas quintets met Saturday night at the Stanley Arena with the result that the Hardware City quintet sprang the surprise of the season by pin- ning 8 32 to 18 defeat on its Elm City rival, putting New Britain in firat place in the league. The Atlas | team arrived in this city minus Gor- don, star guard, and it was forced to end up the contest with only four men on the foor. Early In the first halt, Lyman, regular center on the | team, injured his ankle reverely and he was foreed to hobble paintully to the dressing room. Then in the sec- ond peried, Wexler, substitute center and Botwinick were banished on four personal fouls. Manager Sam Balley was forced to don a uniform and enter the contest. Besldes these, Chadys and Pite both had four per- sopal fouls before the contest end- ed but they were allowed to remain in the game. ‘Two officials were used during the contest. Efforts of Manager Clar- ence Lanpher of the local team to secure the services of Dick Dillon or | “Red” Ball for the contest proved | Useless as both men had previous engagements. Late into Friday night and up to Saturday afternoon, he telephoned everywhere for officials without success. Frank Barnikow of Meriden and Holm of Hartford acted as referee and umpire yespec- tively. Both officials came in for generous rounds of razzing from the large gathering of fans during the | | | Fame. The Atlas team was only a shell @t the quintet that ran away with New Britain in the last game be- tween the two in this city. The New Britaln team itself was not at its| best but it was able to score suffi- cient points to win. Not only half of the second period had been play- ed, however, did the Hardware City crew draw away {rom the opposition and pile up the sizeablo lead it had at the finish. Cohen was the only member of the visiting aggregation that was in form. In the first half, he scored four fleld goals and kept the New Haveners in the running. New Brit- ain led at half time by & 15 to 11| score. New Britain's guards were the stars of the home club's play. Leary kept S8ammy Pite scorless for the entire game while Johnny Shee- han held Botwinick to one basket, » long shot from the center of the floer, The Game Sheehan opened the scoring with & basket for the home team 40 sec- | onds after play had started. The locals then scored four more points before the Atlas started to work. At the 4:30 mark, Botwinick score a free try making the count 6 to 1 for New Britain. Cohen followed him with a long toss but Leary equalled this when he broke to cage a nice field goal. Bot and Sloman scored foul points mak- ing the count 9 to 4 for New Brit- ain. Chadys sank a free try and Cohen followed with two long cts tying the score at 9 all with nine minutes already played. Zakzewski and Ru- benatein tossed in complimentary shots and Sloman added another point from the foul line. Johnny | ,Bheehan tossed in a field goal and | Zakzewski added a point from the free throw line. Cohen's basket for | the Atlas left the score at half time 15 to 11 in favor of New Britain. | Second Half | The Atlas with a substitute cen- ter in the game, resorted to long shets in the second frame but most of them were misses. Wexler open- ed the scoring with a foul shot. Zak- zewskl was sent out on four per- sonal fouls. Holst cclebrated his en- trance into the game with a beauti- ful long shot. Wexler scored another free throw but Rubenstein scored one for New Britain. Botwinick tossed a pretty long shot through the nct but Slo- man equalled this with one for New Britain. Sheehan added another field goal for the home ' club and Holst added a point on a foul try. Cohen tossed in another long pop but Holst scored one over the rim for New Britain leaving the count 25 to 17 in favor of New Britain. Sloman added a point from the complimentary stripe and Holst dropped in two. Sam Bailey scored a point through th means for New Haven. Slom wnd Holst added points for New Britain and Sheehan ended the game by popping in a basket for v Britain. Hartford Tuesday Night New Britain meets the Hartford Yankees in Hartford Tuesday night in the first of a home and home series of games during the next week. Hartford will play in this city next Saturday night. METHODISTS GOME FROM REAR TO WIN Make Second-Hall Rally—St. Matts Earn Filth Vietory Inter-Church Standing w. |Soutn Cong.... ¢ nly Four Men on the Away a Great Deal State League. P.C. 1.000 The summary: New Britain Rubenstein, rt Sloman, ¥f . Zakzewski, ¢ . .833 .800 | St. Matthew's., 5 | Trinity M. E. .. 8 First Lutheran. 3 Swedish Beth... 2 |Center Cong.... 0 ki 000 A strong comeback after an un- L. [ 1 2 4 3 Holst, ¢ .. Sheehan, rg . 8 ‘c(-rl;\m start gave the Trinity Meth. odist church basketball team a 429 |y 400 |y Leary, Ig . al 222-15 victory over the First Luther- —|ans in a close but slowly and care- 32 {fully waged basketball game in the | Inter-Church basketball league at Ttlthe Y. M. C. A. Saturday night. 4 Both teams threw up defenses O which could not be punctured, and ¥ |the scoring was confined mostly to ¢ |shots from the middle of the floor tosses. kie” Erickson, Swede center mado seven points in succession at the start of the game by cutting in |and shooting brilliantly. The Meth- {odists took time out and rearranged {their lineup to have Alden Lewatt {watch Erlckson. Then they began ® slow climb, Heinzman, Johnston |and Deming Hewett making six |fouls between them and Karbonik |making his team’s only field goal of {the period. Berlin's basket gave {the Lutherans a 9-8 lead at the half. The second halt saw the Method- ists working better. Heinzman {arched three beautiful long shots {through the hoop - and Karbonik {made a pair, while *“Merky” John- |ston cut iIn for two more. Baskets Atlas A. C. Fld Botwinick, rf . Pite, 22 .. Lyman, ¢ Wexler, ¢ . Chadys, rg Cohen, Ig, rf . Bailey, g 6 Score at half time-—New Britain 15, Atlas 11. Referee, Barnikow; umpire, Holm. LANDERS IN WIN OVER SCREW SHoP Rally Fails to Bring Victory o | the final period. High Street Girls Girls' League Standing. Landers 0 1.000 Stanley Rule ... .833 P. & F. Corbin .6 2750 Corbin Screw ..3 333 N. B. Machine ..1 143 Stanley Works ..1 7 .143 | A strong come-back.staged by the Corbin Screw girls' team in the Y. M. C. A. Industrial basketball league | failed to bring home a victory and | in the last few minutes Landers girls !rollcd up enough points to settle the game by a 12 to 8 score. The | contest was the preliminary to the All-New Britain-New Haven Atlas game at the Stanley Arena Saturday night. The foul shooting of the Univer- | | sals saved the day for them, Corbin | | Screw outscored its opponets from | the field by a three to two count, but Landers girls had a great time on the foul line and scored eight | cut of 12 chances. In the first halr everyone of its four chances were | made and in the second frame ft ' scored four out of eight. The score at the end of the first quarter was 5 to 1, Landers, und at half time it was 6 to 5, Landers. One | of Walicki's two field goals was scored in the third quarter and al- though Jacobs scored a foul goal, the teams were tied at 7-all at the end of this period. It was all Landers in | 2 6 6 The summary: Lauders. Fld. FL Ttl. ° Terwilliger, f . rtinsky, 1f . cohs, ¢ Lynch, rg ... Drayer, Ig . Urban, Ig .. ooimai wlosmans o Totals Corbin Sci o 3 wlosommor =} iy csomwal So50orua Waliekt, rf .. Hudak, If smith, ¢ . Adams, rg Micha Kaminic, ls, 18 . 1 ! Totals Referce, Nixon; scorer, Butler. CRAWED CHAMPIONS Olympic Winners in Winter Sports Carnival Awarded Medals at Im- » 2 5 au g 3 z, 2.1 time: pressive Ceremon St. Moritz, Switzerland, Feb. 20 (P—Olympic winners in the winter sports carnival just closed were crowned champions and awarded medals at an impressive ceremony in St. Moritz stadium last evening. Members of a brass band became bre playing the Norwegian national anthem six times and the Star Spangled Banner and the na tional tunes of Sweden and Finland twice. When nd the ‘rance w the graceful Andree Joly alwart Pierre Brunet of called to the presiden- the band struck up the Hear discord pectators gasped, an't you play th Haise 7" itz Reichel, secretary of nch Olympic committee be at the band macter, | “It has been so long since you won an O} rie event we had for- tten it,” replied the Swiss German ima bland e 16 square fect of skin on the avera There & Roller Hockey Waterbury vs To Preliminary Gam . New Britain ‘ght e At 8:00 o’Clock Admission 50c—75¢ CALL 2644 FOR RESERVED SEATS by Berlin and Anderson and a pair of fouls tossed by Berglund were all the Lutherans could gather in this half, and they fell further and fur- ther behind. The victory gave the Methodists undisputed possession of {third place. The shooting of Heinz- man and the defensive work of Alden Hewett stood out for the winners, while Erickson featured for the Swedes. The summary: Trinity Methodist. Fld. . [ Ttl. Karbonik, rf, 1g D. Hewett, If .. Heinzman, ¢, rg A. Hewett, rg, ¢ .. "‘Johnston. g, of .. | A . Slocens 3 0 8 First Lutheran Linar Johnson, rf 0 C. Anderson, rf .. 1 Berglund, If . 0. Erickson, ¢ . Lerlin, rg Larson, 1g .. casweo el sommss alcwuns =1 Personal fouls, Karbonik 2, John- ston 2, D. Hewett, Heinzman, A. Hewett 2—. Serlin, Erickson, Berg- lund, Jo! on 3—6. Technical fou —A. Hewett. Free tries, Johnston 2, D. Hewett Heinzman 5, Kar- bonik 4—13; Larcon, Berlin 2. Erickson 2, Berglund 6—11. Ref- eree, 'Tobin; timers, Litke and Park- er; scorer, Karbor 2 ‘The St. German Luth- erans took their fifth lecogue game by trouncing the ccllar champions, the Cenfer Congrogational church outfit, 40-18. The losers put up a game fight but the Bt. Matts, even though they were not going at thelr best speed, were far too much for | them. Klopp scored on the first play and then Billy Preisser, the league's 1eading scorer, began to run up his total, getting five baskets in the first and three in the second. Brown car- e Center church along, mak- most spectacular shot of the cvening with a bee-line flip from the far foul-line, the ball going in | the playcrs The half- a'most hefore ized it. time count was 19-10. In the second half “Goody™ Prels ser got under way and made 11 points, while his mates gave him plenty of help, Bradley came through with a pair of goals for the losers in this ession. The Preissers, Brown and Brad were the out- standing players of the gontest. The summary: Mztthews’ Lutheran. Fld. TL cl Visitors Have Lead at End P.C. 567 531 531 452 419 13 15 15 17 . 18 Games Tonight Hartford at Meriden. Waterbury at New Britain. Saturday’s Results Waterbury 6, Bristol 3, Sunday’s Results New Britain 8, Bristol 6. Waterbury 5, Hartford 4. Waterbury Hartford Bristol ... Completely outplaying thejr op- ponents yesterday afternoon in the three periods the five men who com- pose the New Britain Roller Hockey team, defeated the Bristol quintet by the score of 8 to 5. The local crew appeared to have a walkaway of the game in the first two periods but a rally by the visitors in the final stanza of play brought them up to |within three points of the total of |the local team, A faster or harder-played first per- iod has not been scen here this sea- son than the oné€ staged in the game yesterday afternoon. At its cen- clusion, Bristol led by the score of 2 to 1. Both teams started off at a terrific pace and this was kept up until the bell brought the hectic ses- sion to a close. Bristol in this frame showed its best tcam work of the en- tire contest, In the second period, however, the New Britain team hit its stride and five consecutive goals resulted. On the defense, the Bristol forwards found the combination of Brown, Muirhead and Blount altogether too much for them and they went score- less. Alexander and Boucher di- vided honors in this session, Boucher geting three and Alexander two. Brown's play in the game was of exceptional order. He broke tip pass after pass and messed up Bristol's attempts to get into scoring posi- tion. He drove accurately and his bank-passing was one of the features of the game. Muirhead before the cage was on the alert all the time and his numerous stops caused Blount to have a total of only 41 for the game. The third period saw Bristol get an edge on New Britaln in the num- ber of goals scored. Duggan, Hardy and Pierce all three poked in scores in this frame but Bristol's best ef- forts failed to make New Britain ex- tend itself, Duggan easily starred for Bristol with Thompson a close second in the race for playing honors. Earl Pierce played a nice floor game but he was hampered by the exceilent defente work of “Gid” Brown. Conley in |the goal had a total of 64 stops, but despite this, the New Britain team |scored eight counters through him. He was bombarded by every kind of a drive and shot. Boucher and Alexander, aided by the timely work of Brown, worked nicely togcther and they ccged all of |New Pritain's goals. Both gave a | preity exhibition of pass work on the floor. Duggan started scoring in the a nice shot giving Bristol one goal. Five minutes aftcrwards, |Boucher scored with a screaming ! drive for New Britain, Near the end of the period, however, Duggan scooped one into the side of the cage to give Dristol the advantage going into the second period. | The sccond frame found the New game with | Britain team ready for a rezl assault on Bristol's cage. The local players |sped around the Bristol defense men d five goals were poked in. Duggan opened the third frame th a pretty goal and Hardy fol- |1owed him 15 seconds later with an- 'other. Alexander then caged two in succession off pretty passes from Boucher. Pierce caught Bill Blount oft guard when the local goalle fell |and scored the lo-t goal of the game. aterbury Jere Tonight Local fans are due to sce a real battle staged at the Stanley Arena tonight when the Waterbury 8ham- O take on the Ncw Britain team a leogue game. The return of 4| Fredie Harkins to the gatie despite 'r Congrezat sial. Fid FL Drainerd, rf . o ade, 1f Lockwor Brown, verricl :me Postponcd. ame hetween the Swedish and South Congregational ms was postponed at the t of the I nanagement, crs on that team being worn game tha previous night. t will be played off at 6 Thursday at the Boys' chib. COLD WAVE New York, Feb. (UP)—Rain with moderating temporature, pre dicted for today. was cxpected fo break the week-end cold wave which sent New York thermometers ceurr 12 d grecs and in directly the diath of two percons in tra peerds nte A light snow which accompanicd cold wave quickly froze <idewalks and strects and impeded traffic. Scores were reported injured by falls on the ice. ny te evening D 20 rg down cause h on the | | warnings by his physician has Waterbury back all of its o sth. Jette and Lovegieen, goal rs for Waterbury and Hartford sepectively, have been exchanged Lovegieen will be scen here to- it for the first time in a Water- uniform. he victory yesterday of the New Dritain team puts it in a position where, if it beats the Waterbury crew tonight, it will be directly be- hind the riden Maroons in the race for the sccond half charipion- <hip. © Prelminary Game The Dodge team took the measure of the Caryrlers in the Automobile league in the preliminary ga d yesterday, The score was 9 Tonight the Pontiac and Narh ms will clash in the preliminary. The surimary: New Dritain Alexander . Doucher . Rrown Muirhead Blount Bristol ... Duggan Plerce . Thompson . Hardy . Conley Time 114 27 119 | Goals Scored by Dristol New Britain Dristol Serond P New Britain New Dritain New Britain New Dritain Doucher New Pritain Alexander Third Perfod Rristol Durgan Pristol Hardy New Piritain Alexander New Britain Alexander Caged by Duggan Toucher Duggan eriod 00 50 16 122 07 xander Boucher oucher 138 :18 5 of First Period But Five Goals in Second Give Locals Good Edge—Hardware City Five Clearly Outplays Bell Towners—Water bury Shamrocks to Clash With McDonough’s Crew Tonight—Dodge Beats Chryslers. Bristol Plerce 1:05 Rushes—Alexander 9, Duggan 1. Stops—Blount (7, Conley 64. Referee—Rorty. CORBIN SREW T0 PLAY BUTTHAKER First and Second Place Teams Battle in Dusty League Tomorrow night will be Corbin Screw-Stanley Works night in the! Y. M. C. A. Industrial basketball league. The game between Corbin Sorew men, holders of second place, will be on the card as the star at- traction. The first game of the night will be the Carbin Scrcw girls and 8tan. ley Works girls in what sheuld be 13 a pretty even battle, Incidentally w this is the Screw shop team's last Cl appearance of the season, If it wina tonight it will be assurred of at least a tie for fourth place in the final standing, The last game of the evening should be a mighty close and hard- BEATEN BY NEW BRITAIN| JUNIOR RESERVES High School Second Toam Downs Meriden Commanity Seconds By its 13 ta 10 vietery over the Community Juniors of Meriden Sat- urday in the preliminary to the New Britain High-Laurel Business school basketball game, the Junior Re- serves of the high schoel scored its third victory of the season. The team's record for the past five years is now 27 victories in 28 starts. Coach Cassidy kept changing his Itneup and every member of the Red and as &iven a chance. There are many on the team who are ahowing promise of doing great things in the future. The best offensive work BSaturday was by John Reld who scored three baskets and two fouls. Reckert and Vetrano of football fame proved towers of strength at the guard position. Vetrano kicked in with nice fleld goal. Incidentally the group of forwards who played went score- less until the last few minutes eof tho game when Lipman saved the day by tossing in a field goal from a fair distance up the floor. The summary: Junior Fld, Pack, If, ¢ ...... 0 Berkowitz, 1f . = << Biekler, c Reckert, Iz . Vetrano, rg Potts, rg BRISTOL HOCKEY QUINTET . |ANOTHER WIN FOR |HIGH SCHOOL TEAM LOSES TO LAURELS OF MERIDEN Visiting Aggregation Puts Across Win in Last Twe Minutes of Play—Local Quintet Fights Every See- ond of the Game—Captain Fred Saunders Stars in Defeat — Opposing Guards Big Numbers in Silver City Success—Fast Scoring Recorded. Five stalwart youths who are re- business school's favor. Within (W presenting the New Britaln High seconds, Saunders tied the count at sehool in basketball this year gave' 25 te 25. Smith was fouled and ha their all in an attempt to score & -made his two chances good. There victory Saturday afternoon, but their | were just about four minutes left best was not quite enough and Lau- when Zaleski tied the score at 27-all, rel Business School of Meriden won ; Smith broke through and broke the in the last two minutes of play by tie and the count was 29 to 27. Ea~ a 33 to 29 score, This was the Hardware City team's fivst defeat on ita home floor this season. An {dea of how close the battle was waged may be gotten from the fact that the teams were tied seven times before the Silver! City team came through for a vie- tory. The score was tied at 2, 2;6, 6; 11, 11; 21, 21; 28, 23; 26, 25; 27, 27; and 29, 29. From the time when Timer Al Fengler announced there were seven minutes left until the two minutes mark, nine baskets were made all within eeconds of each other. Bpecial mention must be made of Captain Fred Saunders who played the best game of his career, especial- Iy in the second half. Although Fred went inte the game with a cold, a strapped ankle and a patched knee and shoulder, he scored heavily. Five times he put the ball through the netting and each time it was for points thaf were sorely needed. Fighting it out in the backcourt was Eddie Sowka who shunned all leaki was fouled and he made both chances good. This happened just 30 aeconds later. Within the next minute and a half the Meriden team scored two successlve field goals. It was a vietory for the visiting team. This leaves both teams even for the season, Earlier in the year the New. Britaln team played in Meriden and it won after three overtime riods had been played. Leonard R. Nixon refereed the game and he did a mighty good job. /The summary; New Britain Krasjewski, rf Landine, It , Raunders, o . Bowka, rg . Zaleski, Ig .., Total Tomkiewics, pf .... 8mith, f, o . Mastriano, It Treloar, ¢ . fought contest, P. & F. Corbins who will probably have to finish the sea~ son without the services of Mickey: Luke will have it out with the New Britain Machina team, Rene, Stanley, rf . chances of individual glory to kecep the Meriden team from scoring. He had Meriden's best bet, Mastriano, to guard and he was after the Silver City flash every minute of the game. elorncuncoo ol conwoncsons Community Juniors i®... {landed in Bingapore Sunday, | pleting the trip from London in the | ymade by one man. If the Stanley Works team is suc- cessful in winning tonight it will be within atriking distance of first place with @ victories and 2 defeats. However, it it loses, it will be in a third place tie with Landers and Fafnirs. After losing its first two starts, the Buttmakers have been coming along at a very rapid clip. They won five games in succession and ad- vanced from a tie for last place te second place. Their opponents of the night, the Corbin Screw team. are one of the two teams that has beaten them this year. Backers of every team in the league will be at the Arena temor- rowrow night to root against the 8crew 8hop team. The reasen ia natural. A defeat for the proud league-leaders will give many of them a chance for top place. Cor- bin 8crew has been razzed before, but the assault has been equally met by the large following of rooters which the High street gang enjoys. It has the best following in the league. HINKLER AT SINGAPORE London, Feb. 20 (UP)—Captain | Bert Hinkler, Australian fiyer at- | tempting to establish a record for a flight from London te Australia, com- record time of 13 daya The flight was 7,900 miles and established a record for the jongeat single fight There are more telephones in Ne- braska than in all of Great Britain. 24-HOUR SERVICE $1.00 MONTLLY VENTING PLAN By Experts e ew Britain Radio Service Radies and Napplies Telephone 5468, | |a sensational comeback after a poor ;Cougars are next with 30, itie the pirates lip by last night in Kay, ot . Frans, rf Edwards, Flyn, & Brewster, 1§ alwsonoor 10 Ssore at halt time, 10 to 7, New Britain; referee, Nixon; timer, Fengler; scorer, Saunders. CLUBS CLOSELY BUNCHED FOR HOCKEY LEAGUE LEAD Boston Bruins in Firet Place After Scoring Victory Over New York Rangers New York, Feb. 20 (P—With about & month and a half left in the National Hockey League drive, all the clubs in the American group with the exception of Chicago were closely bunched for the peak posi- tion today. ‘The Boston Bruins occupied com- plete poasession ef first place knock- ing the Rangers out of a tie in & 2 to 0 victory over the New Yorkers at Madison Square Garden last night. ‘The defeat placed the Rangers two points behind the Bruins who | have acoumulated a total of 87. The | Pittsburgh Pirates who have made start trail in third place only three points from the Rangers while the Detroit allowed an opportunity to bowing before the tail end Black Hawks by 3 to 1. In the Internatienal group, ‘Montreal Candadiens continue {head the clubs with ¢4 peints. The next threo sextets in the standing {are within two points of one an- {other, Ottawa in second place with 36 points, the Maroons with 35 and | the to | | the Toronto Leafs with 34, It was Mastriano and Meriden's guards that spelled defeat for New Britain. E. Johnson and H. Johnson made points at dangerous moments. | It was mostly through the work of these two men that the Laurel team got its jump. The feature of the game was the long shots of the Mer- iden team and two field goals which Saunders made toward the latter part of the third quarter. Fred made one from the side-middle that flicked the straps on the hoop. A minute later there was a jump ball and he tapped it into the hoop from the foul line, Play By Play Saunders scored a field goal, but E. Johnson's long shot tied the score. Saunders and Krasjewsk! scored in succession but Smith and Mastriano tied the score at 8-all as the first quarter ended. Henry John- son and Mastriano put their team up to mine points. Krasjewski made & foul gaol but E. Johnson came through again and the score was 11 to 5. Landino and Krasjewekl scored in succession and the score was tled again, At thls point Smith and H. Johneon led an attack that put the | Laure] team in a 17 to 13 point Jead at half time. Sccond Half Through the work of Saunders in scoring his two sensational fleld goals, New Britain managed to cut the Meriden lead slightly in the third quarter. It was 21 to 18 at the end. An Exciting Period Zaleski had started at suaw t came back to forward at hal "Xe and he proved to be in his right place. He put New Britain within two points of Meriden on a field goal. The score was 21 to 19. Kras- jewsekl tied the score at 21-all with seven ‘minutes to go. Thirty scconds later, Mastriano dribbled in and scored, but Zaleski tied the score within a half a minute. It was now 23 to 23. Just 25 seconds later, Mastriano came through to break the tie in the When a Fellow Needs a Friend I'™M AFRAID WHY JuNIoR wiLL GeEorRGE TiELL ‘ing QL AL Dap moTh DossSN'T il ‘v.m T SR SAYS H. Jehneon, rg . {E. Johnson, Ig ... Total 38 Score at half time, Meriden 17, New DBritain 13. Referee, Nixoa, WRESTLERS MEET TONIGHT 10 SETTLE CHAMPIONSHIP Lewis and Stecher to Settle Dispute of Sevon Years Standing Tonight 8t. Louls, Feb. 20 (—Before the rousters start crowing in the dawn of tomorrow, the world's heavys welght wrestling throne will have & legitimate occupant for the first time in seven years Ed “Strangler" Lewis and Joe Stecher, two of the foremost grap- plers of the heavyweight division, each claiming the title. will wrestla to a finish here tonight to settle their dispute over the champlonship. ‘The bout will be ataged in the col- iseum. When the Rev, Billy Sunday's lust prayer died away last night, a force of carpenters swarmed into the place to transform the bullding into an arena. The match will be to a finish, with the winner to get two falls. There will be no time limit, Harry 8. Sharpe of St. Louis, a ring efficial of 25 years experience, will refcree, Stecher and Lewjs wrestled in Oma- ha in 1916 for five hours, without a winner being declared. When they last met in New York in 1920, Lewls won the title in a one-fall match. There has been little or no betting on the outcome of tonight's mateh, although Stecher, because of Ms 'frequent matches in 8. Louls, hag been installed a sWght favorite. Nel. ther will have a weight advantags, Lewis intends going into the ri weighing about 226 paunds, whily Stecher expecta to scale about 228, The 1. 8. government, sole proy ducer of helium, is forbidden by law to sell this gas. By BRIGGS You KNOW WHERE DANNY 1S ... 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