New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1928, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD,’ THURSDAY; FEBRUARY. 3, 1028 . { NEW BRITAIN HOCKEY TEAM CLASHES WITH MERIDEN MAROONS TONIGHT—CLINCH AND TAYLOR '§ CONNECTICUT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT TOMORROW NIGHT—HARTFORD YANKEES TO SEEK REVENGE HERE SATURDAY NIGHT CLINCH AND TAYLOR ARE GETTING READY FOR BOUT New Britain and Hartford Amateurs to Baitle for Northern Connecticut Welterweight Title Tomor- row Night — All-Heavyweight Card to Be Blue Banner Feature of Boxing Season—Three Matches Planned in Lighter Weight Classes—Time of Tour- ney. Reports from the camps of both Johnny Clinch, New Britain ace, and Billy Taylor of Hartford, state that the two will be in ‘excellent shape for their battle for the amateur welterweight championship of north- ern Connecticut at the Tabs' hall in this city tomorrow night. Interest in the bout is at fever heat both here and in Hartford as the two fighters are considered the best in cither community. Included with Clinch and Taylor is Leo Larrivier of Waterbury in the selection of the fight fans of the *hm outstanding welterweights in e state and Friday night’s meet- ing between Clinch and Taylor will |competitive start in more than five ba in the nature of an elimination |years in an attempt at a track come- 800 imeter run, feature of the Masonic | bout to determine the best welter among the three hoys. Taylor has yet to lose a decision but his fights have been few. He is games last night. Pincus Sober won, considered one of the most Cle\'el‘({l\‘o yards ahead of Ed Swinburne. | Cutbil was | hoxers in the business and it has been through this abllity that he has 'BRIEF GLIMPSES OF SPORTS ITEMS | Jottings of Various . Holiday Events | ST | By the Assoctated Press, | back, finished third in the The time was 1:57 1.5. clocked at 2:00 2, track records were lyn last night. Dan Brooklyn Central “Y" two new marks, making the yards in 24 seconds. H. Hammett set the 440 yard run record at 54 New York—Rev. Harold C. Cut- | protest against Dartmouth's victory bill, Boston A. A. making his first [in a league game New York—Three Y. M. C. A.| broken at the national Y. M. C. A. meet in Brook- D'Auria ot established 100 vards in 10 4-5 seconds and the 220 His teammate, 1-5 seconds. Brooklyn | COLLEGE HOOPSTER LOOP NOT GHANGED Standing of Leagae Not Allcted by Games Played New York, Feb. 23 UP—The standing of the clubs in the eastern collegiate basketball league remain- ed unchanged today after a tripie bill over the holiday in which Dart- | mouth, the current pacemaker, handed Columbia a 26 to 5Q drub- | bing. Penn and Princeton continued in ! |a deadlock for sccond place as the Quakers repulsed Cornell by 28 te | 26 while the Tigers whipped Yale, |47 to 24. The Hanoverlans have won five games in six starts white | Penn and Princeton have taken four | out of six each. Pennsylvania has withdrawn its 1 | | | at Philadelphia {¥eb. 17, in which it was alleged the offical scorers omitted crediting Schaaf with a free try which would have made the count at the end of the regular playing time 30-all. “The ofticial score shows Dart- mouth to have won the game and we are perfectly willing to let mat- terg rest that way,” Ernest D. Co- |sens, graduate manager of athletics t Penn, advised the Dartmouth au- thorities, thereby ending bickerings which were down for an airing at an executive committee meeting of the league here today. “We feel that the winning or the losing of any contest is insignificant to cordial relations with sister insti- { tutions,” Cozens added. NAMED AS MAJOR UMPIRES DOLLY STARK AND New York, Feb, 23 (®—In Sher- wood Magee and Albert (“Dolly”) Stark, recently named as umpires, the National league has one of the most colorful ball players in its history and the youngest ump in the big leagues serving it as arbiters, One of the new umpires was play- ing big league ball while the other was learning his A B C's. SHERRY MAGEE. He was a fast, sure outfielder and a conslstent batsman in the National league from 1904 to 1919, when he went to the minors. 8ince 1925 he bas been umpiring in the leaser leagues. He will be ¢4 in August. Stark, the baby of the big league umpiring corps, had a tryout with the Senators at shortstop in 1920. Buckey Harris beat him out, and he did most of his playing in the In- SWEDISH BETHANY Lougae Game Tonght—Pressrs HaveBig Scarng Wosk The Inter-Church basketball league lead may change tonight as the result of the South Congrega. tional-S8wedish Bethany church game which will be played at 6 o'clock at o Boys' club. The Bouth church now in front with four victories in as many games, but if it loses tonight it will fall behind the St. Matthew's German Lutherans, who have taken five out of six. A victory for the Bethany aggregation will put that team in fourth place, and so it is out to stop the defending chani- pions. To do so it must block the leaders’ heavy-scoring trio of Bell, Morey, and Weasels, who have made 119 points in four games, an average of almost 30 to the game. The South church must stop Wally Anderson, one of the high {nrwn of the league, it 1t 18 to win. >With so many of the big point-makers®in the game, the contest figures to be an interest- ing and exciting one. There will be a preliminary game at 5 o'clock be- tween the South church Juniors and the Farmington Grammar school quintet. With the Leading Scorers Last week was a sort of *Preisser week,” Billy running up 16 points to increase his lead in the scoring race to 26 points, and “Goody” making 13 to push his way into a tle for second place. The two 8t. Matt brother-forwards now have a total pointage of 120 between them, Billy showing the way with 73. Clifford Bell, South church forward, still clings to a tie for second place, while Oscar Erickson, First Lutheran cen- | | 700000000 S0, CHURCH NEETS |NEW BRITAIN TO CLASH WITH MERIDEN TONIGHT Crucial Game in American Hockey League at Stanley Arena — May Have Important Bearing on Second Half Champiofiship — Locals in Second Place Be- hind Silver City Quintet—Bitter Battle Expected— Dodge Meets Poritiac in Preliminary. JAPS’ TENNIS MEN WILL BE CHANGED Davis Cup Team Likely o Be of New Players New York, Feb. 23 UP—Japan, in the forefront of international ten- nis for the past decade with such | notables as IcHiya Kumagae, Zenzo Shimizu and Takeichl Harada lead- ing its teams, will be dependent to a great extent upon a new group of | players in its forthcoming Davis cup engagements, Although Harada has been named captath of this year's cup team which plays in the American zone, there is some doubt, owing to busi- neas in Japan, whether he will be In such a contingency Japanese' tcam's play in America would fall on the Teizo and possibly avallable, the onus of the shoulders of Yoshiro Ohta, Toba, Timio Abe ‘Thumio Tawara. Ohta, Tawara and Toba played the Japanese cup with Harada in teams matches here last year and acquitted themselves creditably. is said their technique has improved It League W. Meriden ..., 18 New Britain.. 18 Waterbury .. 18 Hartford .. 16 Bristol ...... 14 Games Meriden at New Britain. Last Night's Result Waterbury 6, Bristol 3. L. 14 16 16 18 19 Another important step either torward or backward, will be taken by the New Britain roller hockey team at the Stanley Arena tonight when it clashes with the Meriden Maroons in a regularly scheduled game. A win for New Britain will put the local team within' two points of first place with an averaga of .543 while Meriden will just top the locals with an average of ,645. With the end of the season only A& little more than a” week away, both teams will be in a desperate mood for a flerce struggle. New Britaln wants to win while Meriden Just as eager to bear the palm of victery in tonight's game. The teams are evenly matched and a tough game is in prospect. Meriden's great rush line Williams and Plerce, is in great shape whi Lundeville is playing a stellar game at center. The loss of Morri- son at halfback, however, is being keenly felt because Gaszinga does not rate with him in playing ability though Jimmy Purcell is playing & sensational game In' goal. New Britain's team, after a se: sational victory over Waterbury la Monday night, will be out to win again tonight. Alexander and Boucher flashed plenty of speed Monday night while Brown, Muir- head and Blount were in exception. al form. Game First place in the Automobile league will be settled tonight when the Dodge team clashes with the Pontiacs. Both are tied with four wins and two lésses each and the preliminary game should be a fea- ture in itself. The first contest will be started at 8§ o'clock while the second will be staged about 9 o'clock. ternational. Turning umpire he made a good showing last year in the Eastern league. Magee, the veteran, was a great hitter in his day, leading the league ip 1910 as a member of the Phillles. HARTFORD YANKEES SEEK REVENGE HERE SATURDAY |Capital City Basketball Quintet Set to Beat New Brit- ain—Locals Primed for a Hard Battle—Atlas Nose Out Bristol Endees — Meriden Five to Meet New morning that he had “nothing fur- | Haven Tonight — Title Race Nearing End — New- I night fn reversing the draw decision matic and Stanley Rule Girls in Preliminary. of fhe bout in favor of Kaplan. \ | According to Gerrity a re-check 'Hale Still Proving won the meet with 47 points. Cin- cinnati Central was second with 26. ter, has wormed his way to within one point of the deadlock existing for runner-up position. Wally An- derson of the Swedish Bethany team has fallen to fifth place, while Wil- ton Morey of the South church has dropped from the ranks of the “first five.” The South and Swedish Beth- any teams did not play last week, Billy Preisser still ‘has shot the most foul goals, 9, but Art Ander- son and Erickson of the First Luth- eraps and Deming Hewett of the Trinity Methodists are close behind with 8 each. Erickson increased his | “lead” in personal fouls and now has | made 13, while Amil Karbonic of the Methodists hax tied Otto Barta of the South church for second place with 11 apiece. The leading five seorers: and that they could present a more formidable threat in the approach- ing international clashes. Abe, a student of Waseda Univer- sity of Tokio, ranked among the leading players of Japan last year, being a member of one of its fors- most doubles combinations. He s now en voyage to the United States. All of these younger Nipopnese give promise of developing into as great stars as their predecessors, Kumage and Shimizu. At any rate, the Japanese contin- gent is coming to the United States this year, with high hopes and certainly with an excellent chance for greater glorty“than jn 1927, when Papan defeated Mexico and Canada, only to be beaten by that conquering group from France. The greatest approach of Japan to world supremacy in tennis was reached in 1921 when Shimizu and REFEREE DECLARES HAPLAN BEAT MAYS Gerrity Reverses Decision Alter (Checking Up Points Scored Bridgeport, Feb, 23 (P—Henry J. Gerrity, (Young McAuliffe,) referee of the recent Kaplan-Mays boxing contest in New Haven, stated this morning that he had “nothing fur- Quebee, Que.—Twenty-one vear old Emile St. Goddard won the sixth eastern international Quebec dog derby, 123 miles, in 11 hours, 14 minutes and 17 seconds, breaking the record he established last year by 23 minutes and 18 seconds. Leonard Seppala, 50 year old Nome, Alaska, racer was second with a| time of 11 hours, 17 minutes, 30 sec- | onds. Ashton, Idaho—Tud Kent won the annual Ashton dog derby against a fleld of 17 starters, covering a 25 mile route in two hours, 13 minutes and 37 seconds. Boston—Clarence Cecil Pell, New York Racquet and Tennis club, re- tained his American racquet title by ' vanquishing C. N. Bruce of England fid. 11, ttl, 32 9 21 W. Preisser, St. M. .. of his score card showed that Kap- Bell, B. Cong. League Standing. w. N in the final match of the nationa singles champlonship, 15-8, 15-11, 15-13. - Philadelphia—Plerre of Paris won the national slonal court tennis from Jock Soutar, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 Buffalo, N. Y. Etchebaster profes- championship Cleanor Holm, 14 | (lan had one more point than Mays and was entitled to the dccision, Gerrity alleged that a mistake in addition causcd him to give both boys a total of 41 points at the ¢Jose of the ninth round, when corrceted figures showed Kaplan to be in the lead, 42 to 41. Gerrity awarded both boys five points fin the last round and called the bout a draw. 1 New Britain .. New Haven . Bristol Meriden Hartford Waterbury 4 5 .5 4 . 3 Another close bagketball battle will be fought at the Stanley Arena { A Persistent Holdout | Philadelphia, Feb. 23 (P)—8ammy |Hale, third baseman, is proving the most pronounced holdout the Ath- |letics have had in years, according |to news received today from the !club's training camp at Fort Myers, Fla. Connie Mack told the scribes that Hale had not signed and that he would either play for the salary G. Preisser, 8t. M. .. 0. Erickson, 1st Luth, W. Anderson, 8. Beth. The Bt. Matts have 22 [3 6 4 6 1 5 3 8 [} 7 made 182 points, while the South church, al- | though it has played two less games, is second with 170, church has made only 8¢ points in {McGraw Denies He Is 7 games. The Center | Kumagae threw aside all competi- tors in the preliminary contests but lost to one of ,America’s great- est teams, William Tilden, William M. Johnston, Richard N. Williams and Watson M. Washburn, in the challenge rounds. Boston Braves Are Stiff After Day’s Practicing Boaton, Feb. 23 (P—The Braves were stiff and sorc today after a holiday that was a loaf to every- one but them at thelr 8t. Peters- burg, Fla., ball park. Doc Gautrean worked out at third base ayt Ed. |Brown at first. Whether the former will be given the hot corner remains “The declsfon hurts neither boxer |On Church _strect Saturday DiEWt gifered or remain in the Texas pan- fn my opinion,” Gerrity said today. | when the Hartford Yankees come 'handle among his oll wells. “1 mado & mistake and Sl WG | here primed. for revenge over New 1‘ “1 want Hale, and I want him to to take full blame, but I am big |, . et ‘s dufeat e Satisficd with our terms,” Mac! enough to admit my fault and de- | OF ‘“l‘l"‘”’;f‘d desday lf;_’i‘f’.‘i‘“' ;]1; 'H‘:‘) sald. I guess he will be here later. clare Kaplan the winner.” i e e GSaniged 8T oq |However, if he thinks he can make |contest in the Capital City, noscd 50, money at something else I'm out tho Hartford crew in the last willing for him to try.” five minutes of play and the v | Mack also announced receipt of & ors of Saturday night are confident Angling for Ty Cobb New York, Feb. 28 (P—Ty Cobb's future has Manager McGraw up in the air cven though he’'says he doesn’t intend to, sign the Georgia Peach. Out at the Glants' camp at Hot |Bpfings, Ark, McGraw is busily denying reports that the veteran Ty years old of the Women's Swimming association of New York, establish- ed a world’s record in the 300 yard medley swim for women of four | minutes, 26 1-2 seconds. She defeat- ed a teammate, Adelaide Lambert, the defending titleholder. The old time was 4:29 4-5. Martha Noreli- | us, also of the W. 8. A, lost her title to be seen but indications were that Jack Slattery means to allow him his chance to make good. Brown's status is more doubtful {if Burrus shows any sort of form. Moore could probably beat him out while Farrell, it is conceded, could have {the job over both of them but just now it looks as it the former is go- AMATEUR BOXING FRIDAY NIGHT, FEB. 34, AT JOHNNY CLINCH scored most of his victories. Clinch Scarch Waste For Donohue's C(ard. ew Haven, Feb, 23 (A—The has won and lost but in his recent fights he proved himself to be one of the butstanding challengers for the welterwelght championship of the state. Both boys have their backers, Taylor with a legion of Hartford ad- mirers and Clinch the favorite of New Britain. The old rivalry bte- tween the two citics will be boiling over again tomorrow night. The card in its entirety will be an exceptional one for foliowers of amateur fighting in this eity cause of the fact that, with the e ception of the Clinch-Taylor go and the Frisco-Cavalieri bout, all matches will be in either the mid- dleweight, light heavywelght classes, This parade of big fellows should result in plenty of action as as it is a novelty for New Britain it is con- sidered the blue-banner tournament of the year. rds of this sort in Hartford draw ti cause of the chances for numerous kayoes during the fighting. In the last one conducted in the Capital City, fans by the hundreds were turned away at the box office. Bome of the most devastating punchers in the amateur ranks a included in the list of entries. [k Elie of Springfield, ziem- rickle of Springficid, ski of Springfield. Bill Bruno and Walter Krass of Windsor Locks, all with a list of knockouts to their credit. are entered in the middie- weight class while such men i Carlson of Terryville, Lucien Lar rivier of Waterbury, Barney Fox of Windsor Locks and others are tered tn the light heavy class Mike Raffacle of Springfield and I'rank Miller of Dristol are matched for the one ht battl the night. To around pounds. This will be the first legiti- atte heavyweight cncounter scen in this ci The first bout of the night sta bout 9 o'clock be the Lenten services to be in the churches. > starting hour will not then int with t ten regulations of the f British and French Vv of will e 1se of conducted Boxers Are Returning | b. Wi ow York, F English heavy Routis, French featherweight rned for another invas can rings. Scott landed ester- day from the steamship Olymple and expects to box in Toronto and sev- eral eastern cities. Routis announc- ol he mtended 1o file zainst on featherw the New tomorrow. (F—1"hil Scott, ht, amd a challengs ri fer the Fanipior with Commission have | on of ‘Lacke, Ilinois W. A. C. Central *6,” set the {yard medley swimming | 11:43 4-5., New Haven— { York_Boys' club, |mark for th corge made Kojac, The previous WINS TRACK M § TRACK MEET heavyweight or | Brooklyn Central ¥. M. €. A Scores 17 Points to Take Team Chai pionship. i Ne York, Feb, 28 (UP)—DBrooklyn won the most interest be- (team championship in the National track and field cham- Central, with 47 points, Y. M. ¢ A | pionship mret in Brook. ‘\'h veland Central Y. sccond with 26 points. | Dan D'Auria, of Brooklyn Cen tral was the star performer of th meet by shattering the s100- | dash ma ing 1t Geor i last night AL C.A, ard mark of 0:24 3 . of the feated R. F. Brown of Central in the mile run, time was 4:34 4-5. Melvin Dankert scored again for Cincinnati team when $80-yard run in 2:01 4-5. . of Cincinnati of he worn the 1 in the wrong race before he was stopped him after he h Shortly afterwards, the v veteran faced the starter in another won in two-mile race which he nnati's relay medley defeated the Y. M. C ilo in §:02 he Lea- | BASKE:BALL Stanley Arsna SATURDAY NIGH B Hartiord Yankees New Britain Rescrved Seats Tel 26108 in the 100 yard free style to Ethel Boston—Walter Spence, Brooklyn world's 150 record at 1:41 1-5 against a former mark of New world 160 yard back stroke rd was of 0:11 and then lower- Cincin- nati Central team won the feature cvent of the evening when he de- Brooklyn Plerkuck’s provided Eames 1. score card which figured so prom- | inently in the Kid Kaplan-Bobby | ays decision was the object of a “button, button, whose got the hut- ton” scarch at the Hotel Taft yes- | terday which, befoge it ended. found | State Athletic Commissioner Thomas | Donohue, Manager Lavin of the Taft several maids, janitors and inter- :sted spectators, down on their | hands and knees in a corridor of | the hotel sorting out paper scraps. | It happened in this way—Dono- hue left the card on a dresser in | Liis room at the Taft while he dined | downstairs. A Taft maid entercd the room with her passkey, etraightened up the place and picked up all the stray papers she found, including the all important score card. The papers she threw in a Basket which she then emptied in a crate in the hall. | Meanwhile Donohue returned started searching for the card finding it b alled a maid and ask- ed her w she had done with it She said th the don who ha< cleaned his roomn was gone for the day and that he would in all prob- find the papers taken from his room in the crate in the hall. Out in the hall went Donohue and wii him went the maid only to find that the crate had heen dump- ed into a basket janitor and that the hasket was two flights doun. Down they went A 2 1 the janitor to dump out the cont: of the hasket on the floor. He fused to comply and 80 Mana Lavin was called into the «i The upshot of the thing w | within a few minutes n present was searching v throngh the luge pile of w pa- | per for the score card and every one | breathed a sigh of lief whe one of the party emerged trinmphantly from the mountain of paper, way the card, nd ahility by a s that ev one Statement ¥ New Lond Commissioner of this city tod Referee Henry his score of t Mays bout he d v de necticut coged accordi m originated ire point National » com Gerrity th but the score was t all time. The score the actual decision and {never heen changed.” nd his manager. yesterday <, wher the card co that ins has Joe Con for M i not e 3 tement, ! that hey can reverse the decision. Although practically out of the running, the Hartford team wil tempt to sct New Britain back a peg in the state ra Today the local quintet occupies first position in the standing in the state league and it has become the target for all the teams in the circuit. Saturday night's game will be a crucial one for New Britaln because of the fact that only a matter of ohe game either a win or loss #epa- | rates the local club and the New Haven Atlas. Last night the Atlas nosed out the Bristol Endees 37 to a1t 24 in New Haven in’a hard-fought attle. Tcnight the New crew takes on Meriden in Merlden in what should prove te be a tough encouater for the green and white, New Britain will be ready for the Hartford Yankees by Saturd: In Tuesday’s game, the team appar- ently didn't hit its stride until wen into the second half coming game, cvery player will be out to pile up the score in rapid or- der, Hartford will nse the as in Tuesday night's game while v night. but in the | Inng letter from Ty Cobb and sald he “wouldn’t be surprised” if the Georgian was with the team again this year. *“It is possible he may fool mgq and sign elsewhere,” Mack said, “but I really think he is going | to be with us again. T don’t care how many gawmes he plays, just so lie is on the team. I'm sure Ty {wants to play ball another season.” Scventeen pitchers are in camp | and all were slated to get down to | ctive training today. Ior the pres- nt practice will be limited to morn- ling sessions, with two workouts daily beginning next week with the Y.M.T.A.&B. HALL Johnny Clinch New Britain ALY Billy Taylor Hartford ALL-HEAVYWEIGHT CARD Reserved Seats 78 Cents Tickets on sale at Bridgett's Smoke Shop, State Lunch, Shee- han's Smoke Shop and Billie's Smoke Shop. 1 of most of the regulars, Haven | ‘Movie of a Man Without Paper, Cigar, TME To BUY Cuaie PAPER S same lineup New Britain's regnlprs will take the | floor in opposition Preliminary ¢ e. : Newmatic and Stanley Rule ms will mect in the prolim- v contest, ame in the Girls' Indust # race s tightening up with only about four games to go and a real, exciting battle is anticipated, ~ BILLIRD WATCH Don Holmes te Play Home and Heme Serics. With of Waterbury Nest Week. Don Holm iritain billiardist well known New Will represent Ro- rlors in a special ch against Danny next week, A s been ar- Martin of Waterbu home and home af zed with the f teh being A hiere next ¥ nizht and sccond in Waterbury Thursday night. 2 Both players are above the aver- e dn skill. Tlolmes has played in the state . tpurnament representing the Holland Billiard Academy Lridgeport. Martin shoots zame and the match should be interesting one. A purse will offered 1o the winner, Last night Holmes lost to Gregor 100 10 Holmes lost 514 balls dur- ing the match on scrateles, Foljow ing the match between the two. will t Martin probably during the March 5. a £00¢ Gire gor m sck of ny Martin a regularly scheduled | 1 league, | SEES PASSENGER OPPOSITE THROW AwWAY]| NEWSPAPER AND . LEAVE, | | HURRIE® S0 FAST To CATCH TRAIN HAD No FEELS 1IN POCKET, FoR CtoAR. NG | REACHEC S AVIDLY | FoR DISTARDED PAPER | Yorkers involve {ver lefthandcr, Who strained a ten- !don in the right leg, and Leo Man- | gum who has a sore knee, duc to & | will appear in a New York uniform in the coming struggle. “I have not even spoken to Cobb,” said McGraw “and I certainly have not signed him.” However, the Giants' pilot swamped by inqgiries, cnused by reports that Cobb will work out with the McGrawmen at Augusta. The first casualties to the New Bill Walker, Den- mountain hike. The’ injuries are minor, COULD FIND NO CIGAR... LOOKS AT NEWSPAPER HEADLINES (N DAPER OF PASSENGER IN SEAT AHEAD DISCoVERS 'T To Ba A SWEDISH, OR SoME-* THing, PATER: probably |ing to the outfleld and Farrell to short. Over in Bradenton the Red Sox pulled in and were groeted by a brass band and & healthy delegation of local enthusi, The roll show- ed 22 of Carrigan’s boys on hand, ail the squad except Ruffing and S8lim Harriss, who has a cold. 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