New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 11

THURSDAY, MARCH §&, 1928, i Speakin of Sports NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, | Rudelph, Chiicago, was idle after 3 § RUNNERS ENTER [ ™2 Boviess CoppENTIER JY T IO MR DTS iz MOJAVE DESERT e STAGE COMEBACK| ™ EATERTOURNKMENT st o i .":ullt“ : £ ;’ lO "c Innlngu befor: ()um;‘m»x: Many Starters Drop Out Alter +— =+ Dempsey’s Retirement Has Put| Yesterday's Grind | <~ New Lile Into Gorgeous Georges ‘wnn. 125 to 103 25— 303 | foroed Haurry 10 extend himself to de- |Two of last year's regulars and ene Wood. Duluth, 125 to rookie were on the casualty list of the Pittsburgh Pirates today. Pitch- 1 Ray Kremer, with a sore throat, and John Miljus, with a boil on his =ck were the regulars. Dick Bartell, young infielder, twisted his right knee, while alidding into nd yesterday. Xew York, won the other 1 g Peter the Duroc Arnold L L SEAYYYYY Co. H. Quintet Seeking City Basket- ball Honors—Has Strong Lineup Paso Robles, Cal, March & With enly two days more fIn o which entries 1n e ity maskeral OUR BOARDING HOUSE tournament may be filed, the num- !ber of teams in quest of the senior | title has been increased to seven by the entrance of the quintet repre- senting Co. H, C. N. G. This is an- | |other “unbeatcn team, the manage. | iment states, the combination ha ing captured all eight of its starts. Its biggest triumph was a surpris {win over the Meriden Boys' club. ll\ CASUALTY LINT iie Greenleaf had ! tle |Andrew Ponzi, Ph ade trouble with et Dalley die | Tonens Basketball game between attending the Stanley wondering about the 4 for the hanis Holman from the game in period. Asked point blank, Dick Dillon answered to th 6 mn him out because of ti * Mo went on fur reaso {Joe Reney Burstow, Cal, Mareh § UP—The I00%Y - 3| New York, M:'mh § (UP)—From ‘marathon ruancrs blazing a trail |Casmo it $3_ 215 | Mgerla where Georges Carpentler i across the contnent, turned their | singing and dancing in a music hall hac upon civilization today te licomes sand sthad Biheg irenchman | vlunge still dacper into the Mojave stone ; [nay attempt another comeback. i For epeculation's sake, a battle 23) | betweern Gene Tunney and Georges Carpentier, say in London, might N{EGAD, + BLESS You MY CAILDREN! -1 HAVE JUST HEARD THE HAPPY NEWS ! v CONGRATULATIONS 0 Nou BOTH!'-« MY WORD, —x use her to CANT WE Fix T UP SOME WAY To CHARGE T To Nou e Caited :!‘arlnna 10 . ~s WERE JUST, ER,~ \mk T said m ¢ in ordin to Dick Dil- the foul catler Hor Ton in connection wit on Davv Bank: it the 1 different light. Certainly the take away mn 1 game. Dick Dilio thought to he st person whom the could not overaws episods mnch to Personally, we h oved 1 two feam a ance iid ract won 1vo gumes from hut beeause hotl would venturo 1 Britain dustrial 1 Detwes girls, resuliing i the of the son in to be played off 1 the echedule could he decmed fin od. The date Tuesday pl were ting ams enterad Three I at the arena two prelin auintets will mect tilt. The winners of these two will Y'H' in the nal and the ultimate ner will 3 declared the cham- nship tram of fhe 'l'hf-]vx'w eeds of the game are to br devoted to the players in the leag for a blowout to end the season, Schalk Plans Comeback Behind Bat This Year Shreveport, La., March S.—(P— Manager Ray Schalk, vet. £0 White Sox eatcher, plans a come- back season behind the bat this sea- ron. Last ecason Schialk caught only 16 games because of an injured finger. The member is healed now and Schalk belfeves he is still good enough to beat the large number of anxious rookies for the hackstop job. The White Sox list of missing dwindled to four yeeterday when Bib Valk, elugzing outfielder, joined the squad. Those still absent are Mostil, Borrett, Hunpefield and Barnabe., Henducks Hurt When Hit hy Pitched Ball Orlando, Fla, March S——(P— Manager Jack Hendricke, of ths Cincinnat! Reds suffered an inf knee yesterday when he was A pitched ball while acting as an ob kerver behind the home plate. Kolp pitched one through Coach Grover Tand and hit Hendricks on the left A Southpaw Ed Williams of the Vir- ginia Military Institute will be re- leased. Myatt to Stage Big Attempt at Comeback New Orleans, La., March §.—(— luke Sewell won't do all the catch- ing for the Cleveland Indians this «-ason if Flenn M ou his comeback promises at the Now Orleans training grounds. Myatt, a star in 1924, slumped bodly the following season and then has tgken second place to ideas are heeded, he year when a right der pltches for the opposition nd Sewel will face the southpaws. Cardinals Satisfied With Win Over Senators Avon Park, Fla., March S—(®— Vlere today to play host to the W ington Scnators, the St. Louis Cardi- 1als viewed yesterday's victory over Red Sox at Bradentown with action. The 8 to 1 score wa largely to the work of Frank risch and “Sunny Jim"” Bottomley lllsch in his first timo up rrarkpd out a double. John “Pepper” Martin #1:0 helped greatly to pace the Carde 1o victory. in the city. FIGHTS LAST N Wilmington, Cal.—Paul de Hate, 1.08 Angeles, beat Willie Greb, ranton, Pa., (10). Amateur Boxing Friday Night, March 9 Y.M.T. A. & B. Hall Leo Larrivier Waterbury V8. Billy Taylor Hartford For Unofficial State Welter- weight Title Reserved Seats 75 cents Tickets on sale at Bridgett’s Smoke Shop, State Lunch, Sheehan’s Smoke Shop and Billie’s Smoke Shop.” an Chica- | tt makes good | part of the $147,000 offer- rs of the 3.400 mile grind | Angeles to New York city. |Romas he survivors of this tonight at Mojave Wells, from Barstow. Ten miles out from Barstow the weled roadway, | 'ts the foot from | v's lin: Gf thos. Lup. s Wiliie Nicls o, up th Ly's 56 mille dos mainen, strained a tendon sen was forced out hecause ien tendons and arches up of starters lucked who participated i Most noted of the Kolchmainen and | Finnish speciste many sterday Koleh- and Niel- of swel- fron Arizona, was expected to in- 1 over the rest of the sprained an ankle and re- 1 to Victariville. It was not | known by ofttefals whether he would continue. He was privileged how- cver, to resume by returning to the spot where he suffered his injury nl start from there, 10 smallest entrant in the r Wuntinen, 96 pound Finn , won the honor of having lowest total elapsed time for th 133 1-10 miles hetween here and Los Angles, Ed Gardner, Seattle Negro, pace - fourth lap, negotiat- vept stretch in five fifteen minutes and 30 see. Arthur Newton, 44 year old British ath’ finished second in five liours, inutes The five leaders in elap, follows: 1—Ollis Wantinen, ing th hours, 4 um Finland, 190:- Seattle, Wash., |forward, stll has a ten-point |while Clifford Bell, Ericksen, Finland, rthur Newton, England, 19 J. Salo, Passaic, N, J, 20:49: PLAY THO GAMES New Britain High Basketball Quin- | tet to Play in Winsted and Hart- ford Over Week-End. | A double-header out-of-town at- traction is en the books for the New Britain High school basketball team this week-end. Tomorrow night the feam goes to Winsted to play the Gilbert High school team and Satur- day afternoon it goes to Hartford to play St. Thomas Seminary five. The game with the Winsted ((‘am‘ was arranged yesterday when Prin- | cipal Louis P. flade agreed to allow the contest to he added to the schedule after the permission of School Superintendent §. H. Holmes had been received. The game is to be played to help Giltbert High school get the balance of $160 which would be used for a school's scholar- ship fund ! The Red and Gold feam will be | out to accomplish something which has not taken place o far this sea- son—to score three successive vie- toriex. Twice the team was able to win two games fn succession, but on the third occasfon another team came in and broke the run. A vie- tomorrow night will make it |three in a row. Incidentally these two games will be the last played before the Hart- ford game in the Stanley Arena on March 16. CHANCETOWIN | Princeton Basketball Team Has Op- | portunity to Win College Pennant from Pennsylvania. New York, March 8.—(P—With | but one game to go in the Eastern | Intercolleglate Basketball league schedule for 1928, the Princeton igors today had its only chance to win the lag from Pennsylvania. One of ths final hattles of the vear will bring the hoopsters of Penn and the Tiger together Saturday | night. The Phlladelphia squad has won ven ganies and Jost two. Princeton has won six and dropped three, and a victory for the jungle cat shooters in the closing contest will bring about a tie and the neces- | |®ary of a play-off to determine the te. | Princeton had little trouble down- ing Columybia last night on the houu court. The play was slow with the Tigers leading throughout to pile up \ 2 36 to 26 advantage. Penn had | more trouble vanquishing Yale 39 to 33 when the Eli defense tightened considerable after half time. At no time, however, did Yale take the lead. The standing of the teams today: Pet. T8 .668 556 656 333 | Jd11 Penn ......., Princeton . Dartmouth Cornell Yale . Columbia ORI SIX ARE INJURED Meriden, March 8 UP—Six persons |were sightly injured near here last | night when an automobile in which | they were riding skidded and over- turned on the Meriden-Milldale road. | |Charles Connelly of New Britain and Miss Mary Curtin, of Meriden, were |being kept overnight at the Meri- |den hospital, four others, all of them | from being discharged after | recewving treatmént. The machine was driven by John & McMahen, io- | feal trucking contractor. Among the passcngers was James Curtin, well | known local druggist. ) |lsague playets. !committing of fouls, should be a good one. ‘shouldercd Texan, prove us good a hox-office attraction a Tunney. 17 46 Porker Backer Thons [T 245 Gus, 163 4491321 | 59 81 Gregor | Paul Plorson 115— 303 103 1 ek Rackliffe Ofice 2% £ 33 Home Wet \\G n ! Brof MOREY CATCHES BELL IN SCORING CONTEST But Billy Preisser Still Leads South Church Forwards—South Meets Swedish Bethany Tonight Morey's spurt carried for second place in t) or scoring honors in the 1 1 ledgue as a result of sames played during the past week, ! this advance of the South church captain being the featurc of s play. Billy Preisser, St. wee lead, | Morey’s mate on | the South Church, clung to the sgc- - ond position deadlock. Neither ot these men was able to do much Sat-| urday night, Preisser gotting but | four points and Bell six, enabling | !Morey to &wcep up to within threat- ening distance. Wally Anderson was | icld to five pointsbut kept in fourth | Oscar Erickson stay- spite the fact that he falled to score. | There scems to be a relation bee | tween the number of personal foul made by and upon Inter-Church | Srickson has been tied by Wally Anderson for the lead | in foul-shoeting, each having while the latter has displaced !hu Lutheran eenter as “leader” in the having 16 ‘o his “credit.”” The five leading scor- ors: 1 Fld. FL Tt | 39 9 G. W. Preisser, St. M Bell, South Cong .. 28 7 Morey, South Cong. 33 11 W. Anderson. 8. B. . 3T n Q. Erickson, ¥, L. .0 22 11 Tonight Bell, Morey and Anderson | will have their chance to gain on | Prelsser, for the South and Swedish Bethany churches will meet at the Boys' Club at & o'clock to play off the second of the postponed games between these teams. The Bethany team gave the champions thelr clos “st run when the quintets played be- fore, and ctonight's contest also The South Chureh, while lcading by a zdlnc-i and a half. still requires two victor- | tes out of three gamcs in order to ciinch the pennaat. | ROBINS DOWN T0 YIORK mwuhn and Yannigans Ordered m' Fall on Each Other in Practice Games Daily. Clearwater, Fla, March 8.—P— | The pleasant experlence of loufing and getting paid for it has departed from the camp of the Brooklyn Dodgere. The vacation scason ended today with Uncle Wilbert Robinson's declaration that henceforth the regulars and Yannigans will fail up- on each other in dally prac | games in addition to morning T outs. Hitherto in the morning the boys have limbered their muscles for {an hour or two and spent the afte! noon golfing, fishing, and swimmin; Max West, a decp-chested, broad looks good to Robbie as an outfielder. The regu- lars walloped the Yannigans yester- day 12 1o 6 in a lively ecrub match. as | country. ! worth as a fighter he has more col- |mer star of the same school, of the state irs listed by Manager Thomas Kilduff are as follows: Frank Kenneth Frost, | [John Saxe. Thomas Kilduff, Cliftord | IO [} rogt and William Ross. blanks zre outstanding, and these must be ro. | Saturday eor the will fall to qualify for play in the tourney. All entries must be handed & Boys' club before Satur- | manager: of this. weighing rs in the intermediate, junior, | and mideet divisions to make sure | teams properly belong in classifications. weighing-in announced later. LEAD IN TOURNEY Vour of 10 Billlard Stars Head List | | the or than the present pack of challen- of gers and a couple will cover slns, Jack Dempsi retirement. a multitude o has put “Gorgeous Georges™ € 288 [ing forward ain. AP put entler to bother aglia. “I shall Ame £ends 2o seck . Where T will find men of and o fer propos wr is still 1 it may seem vy i the th holis three most One of th in most persist nost ren s of all tin completely through, 34 vears old, onr Dempsey. Carpentfer started flywelght who has fought velght from 112 pounds to the un- limited division. 109 bouts, 1908 as a flighter 4 in knockouts, nd Carpentier o the chin a onds look next D r 1 for -Risko ‘s announcem: to entering the ring | gloves on word to A1 “and I certainly shall, with a bouquillon, with a schmelling nor even a zor& who can of- jisdain nt « year, He h losin, nd five bout in this {Johnny Sax abs of color !¢t The pla fIENUNE | 13" W, Hattings, |Jutins Misczkowski, nt of new 1ife and he is look- Numerous entry |turned by it will at th day night, and ke due notice will be devoted play bon- to a combat times more to respective dates for the arpen- fwill he ht champion of Jxers whom are his Ulenger arkabie fig itler may He is o more th S of FEntrants with 5 Revords so Far. his career in and is the only at ever Chicago, Lilliard champions: at the top of the pe -—~undefeated. Frank N. 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