New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1928, Page 21

Speaking .of Sports The New Britain roller hockey team's work against Meriden last night was perfect to watch. The contest itself compares favorably with the wonder game of the year, the battle staged New Year's night between New Britain and Water-| bury. The victory was all the more sat- isfactory because of the fact that | “Mollic” Morrison was back again | Wwith the Meriden team. He was re. instated in the league. through the endorsement of Owner Harry Starkie of the Hartford team, a creditable piece of work on Starkie's part. Meriden could have no alibi for last night's game. The time of the periods appeared to be OK and there wasn't any complaint that the per- lods were lengthened to allow New Britain to win, Waterbury tackles Meriden to- night and if the Brass City contin. gent wins, New Britain will be rid- ing pretty in firat placc. After last night's game, only a fraction of a point separates New Britain and| Meriden and a hectic battle 18 prom- ised here Sunday afternoon when the Bilver City aggregation returns here for & game. Manager Clarence Lanpher an- nounced the coming schedule for the New Britain basketball team. Starting tomorrow night, New Brit- aln plays Hartford. Next week, probably en Thursday night, New Britaln goes to Waterbury. A week from tomorrow Plalhfield makes its | Willis prize fight here yesterday, HELEN WILLS N0 PRIZE FIGHT FAN Woman Tennis Champion Wants| " foSeeNo lom‘llonts ~ San Francisco, Feb. 24 M—Helen Wills, woman tennis champlion, who attended the Mickey Walker-Jack made known today that she never wanted to see another ring battle. ‘Unless,” she added, “T might have | the opportunity to see Mr. Tunney some day. I understand he boxes, | and does not fight. I think I qu'hli like that.” H . Miss Wills attended the Walker- | Willis bout after she received the approval of her parents that it was | “perfectly all right for women to at- tend prize fights It they wanted to, “The fight was very interesting, said Miss Wills, “But I do not want | to wo again. Tennis is the only game, and I do not believe that anyone who really loves tennis like I do could ever become a fight fan. The two sports arc &o different, it 1is hard to talk about them together. ‘But I really was agreeably. T- prised at the way .things were handled. It was 80 much nicér and much more comfortable than I ex- pected ft would be, but I was sur- prised that there were so few wom- en there, “What particalarly interested and | fascinated me was the beautiful play of muscles displayed during the fight, .and the foot work. “Yea T am glad I went, but I am NEW BRITAJN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, LATE ARRIVALS - Boston Players Trickling Into Train- ing Camp to Augment Large Boston, Feb. 24 (I—d.ate arrivals | trickled into the camps of both Bos- ! ton big league clubs now in training | in the south. Pitchers Pete Traynor and Charles 8mall reported to Man- ager Carrigam at the Red Sox head- | quarters at Bradenton, Fla., and! brought his hurling staff up to 17. Both the newcomers are recruits | and both wear glasses giving the | Sox three hespectacled hurlers. | Traynor came from Portland, Ore., | while Small claims Gloucester, Me. his home town. High temperatures | held yesterday's battery practice to | a minimum, . At St. Petersburg, the ¢Braves' training squad was augmented by Eddle Farrell, the Binghamton den- | tist. His arrival gave Manager Jack Slattery his first chance to get a real infleld combination at work. Fd| Brown was at first, Rogers Horns- | by at second and Doc Gautreau at | third while Farrell took short. Far- | rell and Hornsby are considered | fixtures at their respective posts but | the other two will have to demon- strate their ability to hold their jobs. | There are so many new players in| camp that Coach Arthur Devlin has assigned number to some of the re- | cruits until they became bettter ac- | quainted, RESIGNS AS JUDGE | John Glacken, Rated as Efficlent Official, mission. Resents Actions of Com- i N FEBRUARY HOCKEY FANS FICKLE Hugh ( Red) Rorty, Once Tarket for Bleacherites, Now is Ome of Most Popular Officials, Roller hockey fans are the most fickle in the world. Some 16 years ago, Hugh Rorty, as a referee of the game, got his share of razzing every | time he appeared on the floor of | Hanna's armory. It appeared that| Hugh knew the strength of the lo-| cal team, composed of Ired Jean, ' “Soxie” Lyons, Bill Bannon, Mercer and Harkins, He gave the visiting team the benefit of the doubt, for after all, there was not a team in the country which could stand up against the powerful New Britain, last night. | machine. The crowd howled for, For two rounds it scemed that|rough stuff and Rorty made it a| Fields was due to repeat his victory, ] point to *nip it in the bud,” which | MANDELL SCORES WIN OVER FIELD Lightweight Cbampion Evens Gount With California Battler Chicago, Feb, 24 (P—Lightweight Champion Sammy Mandell has evened the score with Jackie Fields, California junior welterweight, by a decisive yictory, Fields won a newspaper decision over Sammy last May in Los Angeles; Mandell turned the tables before a packed coliseum | for Sammy was receiving consider- | didn’t go too good with the fans. | able body bombardment. Mandell| When Rorty stepped into the' however, began to gét the range in arcna, his first appearance hcre for: the third, and. his long lunging left |some time, everybody gave him a oon had one headlight dimmed for | hand and he has been getting one ! the coast lad. ever since. He has reversed himself The champion’s repeated shots at ' in the cyes of the fans, and New | that left optic kept Fields mostly on | Britain is one of Lis best hoosters. the defensive and the last half of |].ooking back over the files of the the battle saw considerable Infight | {erald, it was quite the thing those ing and clinching. There was N0t & | days to blame the referce for any mark on the lightweight king at the | (hing that went wrong. That's what nd of the ten rounds when Referee |ine fang wanted and that's what d Purdy raised Mandell's hand as!ypoy got, Sportsmanship has taken took over the pace-setting. Flelds | i tried to turn the tide in the ninth, | with rights just as the bell rang and | - | the referee had to tear them apart Connie Mack Hopes that He Will| the winner. | the i ‘i < : {the place of this attitude with the After Fields' early spurt, Mandell | 80 % "betier time is had by | which wound up in a_furious ex_ change at the bell. Tields clipped the champion twice on the head | to end the round. | { Mandell tripped once in the! Develop Into a Star Pitcher Dur- | seventh and went down, and in the | |400 horse power Stutz Bla 24, 1928, SPEED MARKS SET BY HOTOR RACERS {6il Anderson Sets New Record in sm_u Stock Car Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 23 (Ph— Luminaries of the motor racin world were departing from the hard- packed sands of this beach today, leaving new standards of speed for earth-bound vehicles behind them, Topping the list of achievements was that of Captain Malcolm Camp- bell, who set last Sunday a world mark for automobiles of any speci- cations with a specd of 206.9 miles an hour. Gil Anderson, of Indianapolis, en- livened yesterday, the last da the 25th arnual r with a record of 106 hour for stock cars, m: Wilbur Shaw of Indianap forced to drive bis Whippet into the ocean to quench flames which burst from his motor and cut short his effort at a record for four cylinder cars. In coming away victorious in the triangular contest among the high powered leviathans of rapid motion, Captain Campbell was threatened by Frank Lockhart, youthful Indian- apolis driver, who is now convalesc- | ing from injuries sustained when his Wk special catapulted from the heach Wednesday and crashed among the breakers. Lockhart said yesterday he would rebuild his automobile and make another effort as soon as pos- sible. J. M. White, whose Gargantuan 8-cylinder Triplex special rolled | Panlino for a uncontrollable | Promotar Jim Mullen, who still ,ol popular approval for the navy e cherishes hopes of landing one heavy weight championship match for Chi- cago next summer, said today he fig- ured Paulino as the best prospect of all the current heavyweight contend- ers. Mullen also figures that the |annual layoff between fights in which iTunney has indulged the past two |years has done the champion no zood. No boxer can fight once a year ond stay good,” Mullen said. “No nount of training camp practice n get him into his best condition. iere is nearly three inches differ- i'ence between the thickness of gloves lin title fights, and gloves in training sessions. That three inches means the difference Letween a hit and a |mass, when a fighter gets into the Iring. Remember how many of Tun- imly's right swings went around Dempsey's neck? They landed in ithe training camp with bLig gloves lon the fists, but they don’t land with | tight ring gloves. | *I have hopes now of signing up avyweight mateh if ¢ next week." |he ‘takes’ Godfr Cleveland Indians in Training for Season Cleveland, Feb., 24 (P)—Roger Peckinpaugh's Cleveland Indians have begun their American league baseball campaign at their New Or- leans training camp. An auspicious start was yesterday with a short throwing sesslon after two ady rain. pitchers, elght of them k an easy workout. Bil yne, former St. Louis Brown cently was drafted from Tor- onto, will compete with nine recruits for the two remaining places among the ten men Peckinpaugh plans to carry. Thinks Public Opinion Was partment's proposals. Ascribing the recent reduction of the British - cr program to the influence of publie opinion also, the paper argues thiy opposition of both peoples to thelp respective governments is “happy augury for the solution of the prob»- |lem which emerged at Geneva when the time comes for its resumption.” CHEVROLET MAKES A NE RECDRD Over 91,000 Cars Manulactured ; in January Detroit, Mich., Feb, 24—All pre- vious January production record: |were shattered here last month by the Chevrolet Motor company when the total output for the thisty-day !period reached 91,584 units, W, 8. Knudsen, president and general manager, announced today. This figure topped by nearly 20, 0 units the 73,676 cars and (trucks produced in January, 1927, jand more than doubled the outlet {for the corresponding month in 1926 when only 46,437 units Were manufactured. As a result of this tremendous volume, production in January was exceeded by that of only four jother months in the entire history of the company. | The tentative production sched- {ule for February is 112,475 units, |as against 85,000 units last Febru- jary, while actual production for |the month this year is certain to {exceed the tentative schedule by a | zomfortable margin, Mr. Knadsen said. Tentative plans for March oo g it Boston, Feb. 24 (P—John Glack- | closing round Ficlds fell in Man. W8 the Coming Season. lover the sands yesterday at an un.| _Cause of Cut in Navy | quite sure 1 shall never go to an- aecond appearance here. The fol. lowing Friday, New Britain goes to New Haven for the last game of the year, meeting the Atlas five. The Celtica are scheduled to pl in this city on Saturday night, March 17. Quite appropriate. We'd hate to be the man who was delegated to hold bets on the KaplawMays bout the other night. We'd also hate to be on the side that had bet that Kaplan would win. With the draw decislon rendered at the end of the fight, beta were set- tled. Then two days afterwards, the referee, reverses himself and de. clares him the winper. Let the bet. tors try and collect. What should be an exciting battle will be staged at the Stanley Arema tomorrow night when the Hartford Yankees clash with the New Brit- ain basketball team. Hartford “won here the last time but we .doubt very much it the team will be abte to come through again tomorrow night. Hartford and New Britain will again be featured tonight when Johnny Clinch and Billy Taylor go 1o it in the feature hout of the ama- teur fight tournament. Taylor seems to be the favorite hut Clinch is no easy mark for him or anyone else. TEANS 70 ENGAGE IN AT CLASHES Waterbary “" Wrestling Crow Noets New}riuin Tomorrow About two wecks ago the local ‘Y’ wrestling team went to Watdr. bury and lost one of the hardest fought and most gruelling mects to be promoted in recent years in 'Y’ tournaments. Four bouts went the| limit to & draw and the contestants ware forced to wrestle two overtime periods in order to detcrmine a win. ner, Tomorrow afternoon Waterbury will come here in a return meet and the local grapplers arc out to wipt out the defeat chalked against their record this season. Waterbury will send over six wrestlers at different welghts, and chief’ among this delegation are the three Crane brothers, clever and ag- gremsive. Also in thelr crew is Hickok, ex-Yale varsity wrestler, who was grappling on Yale’s cham- plonship team last year; Battisto, ex- service: wrestler, who secured a de- cision over Casalengo (Hercules), local man and Wallace, 160 pound matman. Hovenisian, Covaleski, Cansellanri, Aldrich, David, Casalengo, Hick, Crowley, Nimro, Baldersari, Deodor- fan and Westergren make up the local ‘Y’ team and from this group will be selected the wrestlers to op- pose Waterbury's best. Two or three extra bouts will be staged to deter- mine who shall represent the local ‘Y’ in the state meet on March 8. Crowley and Nimro will stage a bout to determine the best man in the 115 pound class. The match between Waterbury and New Britain Satur- day is open to the public. Enterfainment Tonight In Lobby of Y. M. C. A. At the regular Friday evening so- cial to be held\in the lobby of the men’s department of the Y. M. C. A. this evening, George Gillette of Hart- ford will the the entertainer. Mr. Gillette plays a number of novelty instruments iacluding the invisible bulbs, Chinese doll, ordinary bottles filled with water, sleigh bells, rub- ber balloons, ocarina, the saw, Chi- | nese musette, harmonica and others. | Refreshments will be served. One-Armed Cue Expert Will Give Exhibition Frank “S8hakespeare” McKervey, one-hand pocket billlard expert, will kive & demonstration of his prowess from 8 to 10 o’clock Monday night at John Guiden's pool room on East Main street, only one i maising his shots and holds a world's record through a ron of 17 without allowing his cue 1) touch the tuble rail. MeKervey vl : wme with John Vac billiard star, a demonstration of i other fight. You know, T have yet to sce a six-day bicycle e and an ice hockey game. I want to see every- thing in the line of sports, at least once.” FIGHTS LAST NIGHT New York — Tony Camzomeri, ! world’s featherweight champion, | won from Pete Passafiume, 4, Jzzy | Schwartz, New York, defeated Benny Hall, 8t. Louls, 4. Eddie (Kid) Wag- ner, Philadelphla, outpointed Bruce | Flowers, New Rochelle, 4. lzzy Grove, New York, won by a techni- cal knockout over Benny Moseley, Detroit, 3. - Chicago Sammy Mandell, world's lightwelght champion, de- feated Jackie Fields, Los Angeles, 10. Al Isoz, Rockford, won from Eddie Ballentine, Chicago, 5. Paul Wangley, St. Paul. won from Tom- my O'Neil, Cleveland, 5. Frankie Bauman, Brooklyn, and Harry Db blinsky, Chicago, drew, 5. Al Fore. | man Washington, defeated Don Da- vis, Chicago, 5. Montgomery, Ala. W. L. (Young) S8tribling, Macon, Ga., knocked out Joe Clancy, Atlanta, 2. Charlotte N. C. — Johnny Rob- erts, Charlotte, wén from Billy Strickler, Washington, 10. * Fort Thomas, Ky. — Jimmy Har- ris, Cincinnati, defeated Al De Rose, | Indianapolis, 10, DaVenport, Ja. — Jock Malone, 8t. Pul, won from Kayo White, W Orleans, 10. Kid Jap, Chicago, and Charlie Genaro, drew, 10 TERRIS V5. McLARNIN —_— New York Fast side Idol and Los Angeles Battler (0 Meet at Madi- son Square Tonight. | New York, Feb. 24 M—8id Terris, idol of New York's East Side, and Jimmy McLarnin of Los Angeles are to meet for 10 rounds in Madison Bquare Garden tonight with pros- pects of the winner gaining an op- portunity to challcnge Sammy Man. dell for lightweight championship honors. McLarnin is reputed to be a heavy puncher and many enthusiasts have switched allegiance from Terris to him for this “go." Nevertheless, the | Ghetto flash rules an § to 5 favorite, McLarnin’s most recent outstand- ing achievement was a knockout in Chicago of Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden, Conn., former world's featherweight champlon. Although there has been talk that McLarnin would have difficulty in making the class weight of 135 pounds, he scaled 136 1-2 yesterday and said he expected to have no trouble in shedding extra pound and a halt for the official weighing in this afternoon. Terris tipped the beam at 132 1-2 yesterday and prob- ably will scale at 133 pounds. The remi-final on the card brings together Sammy Dorfman and Chick Buggs in eight rounds. TOPEL LEADS SCORERS Rochester Player Successfally De- fends Position Professional | Basketball League. New York, Feb. 2¢ UP—Harry Topel of Rachester has successfully countered every attempt to oust him from his position as leading scorer of the American Profegsional Basketball league. He Las a lead of nine points over Nut Hickey, Cleve- land, for games up to and including February 21. In 41 games, Topel has tossed in 12° field goals and 78 fouls for a total of 326 points. Hickey, in 39 games, has made 129 two pointers and 59 free tries for 317 markers Dave Banks, diminutive forward for the New York Celtics, is in third place, ten points back eof Hickey. Benny Borgeman of Fort Wayne, trails in fourth position with 302, four points hetter than Tom Barlow | of Philadelphia. Hungary Sorry It Can’t Comply With the Request Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 24 UP— Premier Bethlen of , Hungary has telegraphed to Geneva saying his governnent is unable to comply with the Leagne of Nations request that he suspend the sale of machine gun jmnlh of the recent Jack Humbeck- | Jack Demave heavyweight hout en, rated in aport circles as one of | the best official judges of Loxing in Massachusetts, has sent his resigna- ton to the boxing commission with | request that it be effective at once. | Glacken's action. was an after- in | which Demave was given the deci- | slon. The verdict was unpopular | with the crowd and a few minutes after the decision was announced, | the boxing commission ordered a | further announcement that Hum- | beck, the loser, would box Roberto Roberti, Italian fighter, at a future date. Action by the commission was | seen in effect as a reversal of the Jjudgment of the officials at the ring. The fight was admitted to have been close but a number of experts who witnessed the affair agreed with the Judges. “I could not retain my self-respect and my license from commission” said Mr. Glacken making public his resignation. YANKEES OFF T0 CAMP First Contingent of New York | Amcricans Headed by Ruth and Gelirig Start For St. Petersburg. | New York, Feb. 24 (P—Headed | by the famous home run combina- tion of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, the first contingent of the world champion Yankees will depart for | the southern training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., tonight. Other | members of the band which will | leave at 6:40 o'clock out of Penn- | sylvania station are Catchers John | Grabowski and Bill Eisemann and | Infielder Leo Durocher. Pitcher Myles Thomas will joln the party at Washington. The vanguard of the Brooklyn Robins started for Clearwater, Fla., yesterday, four players making the Journey. They were Harry Riconda, Overton Tremper, Charlie Har- greaves and Del Bissonette. in{ 4l AMATEUR Wrestling Meet WATERBURY VS, NEW BRITAIN at Y. M. C. A. Gym Saturday, Feb. 25 4P.M 115 Ih. 135 1b. 145 1b. 158 Ib. 175 1b. Admission—Adults 35¢ Boys Under 15 yrs. 15¢- 125 b, the boxing 'Stanley dell's corner as he missed the cham- | pion with a wild swing. PALACE ALLEYS | RUSSELL FRW i Strikes 1 81 241 268 293 | 2906 Tarey Tenry Bengston Augusiine —1096 | | 269 246 E a7 | Frank SPECIAL M Hartford A, Loraine Ang. Thompson sandy Buckley Dempsey Scott, 4001388 | players arrived. official clocked time of 203.73 mil an hour, expects to fix his machine with a reverse gear which will ma |it conform to American Automobilr |assoclation standards and attack Philadelphia, Feb. 24 (F'—An Ok- lahoma Indian who, Manager Con- nie’ Mack hopes, will develop into star_pltcher, has joined the Ph delphia_Athletics squad at Fort | 5 Myers, Fla. Campbell's record later. | Campbell made two exhibition He is Lee Danfy, a product of | ; Haskell institute. Known as Chief T8 in his chpmplon Blue Bird spe- Whitehorn, the new recruit {s 22 years old. He is nearly six feet hl]i and welghs 172 pounds. He pitched for three years at Haskell and sturt- | MeJor . O. . Begrave siso « 1925 with the Nebraska 1ndlans.me s]ml'm CHAMPION GENE TUNNEY Last year he pitched for several semi-pro teams in Kansas City. Promoter Jim Mullen Has Hopes of the time with which he Sunday dis- placed the former record held by Mack says he looks like a *“comer.” Reports from the Athletics’ train- ing camp today said the squad in- cluded 16 pitchers, four catchers and two infielders. Warming up| exercise and batting practice will i plonshi| constitute most of the workouts un- Aroms n¢ Onaty Almach til arrival of the full squad next for Chicago. week. | Manager Shotton reported from | Chicago, Feb. 24 (P—The Basque the southern camp of the Philadel. | Woodchopper, Paulino Uzcudun, who phia Nationals at Winter Haven,|has turned his back on the Tex ¥la., that his pitchers and eatchers |Rickard heavywelght elimination were gradually working out the win. (series and is matched with George ter kinks and would be ready for Godfrey in Los Angeles next week, two drills a day when the other |would be welcomed as a prospective Most of the men 'opponent in Chicago for Gene Tun- are expected by Tuesday. ney. OUR BOARDING HOUSE ld PATROL WAGONS, B NoU HAD AN EDGE K on HIM For LOOKS! 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