New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1928, Page 13

- * iSpeaking i of Sports g v will Lan- his controvers Bailey of the Basketball tans in this city be behind nager Clarence pher to man in with Manager Sam Atlas quintet of New Haven con- ing the final game to be played between the two teumns. Offers of orts by Lanpher met refusal by " giving the impression that ¢w Haven pilot has been af- With a serious case of “cold o play crew anxious are the New Britain to get at the New Haven that each man on the offered to stake his pay game and a little more as a ainst a like amount to be up by New Haven, winner to tke all. The playe: Play the game anywhere including New Haven and they are sure that They can win, It looks as it the New Haven team is about convinced of Tor the purSe put Man, r Clarence Lanpher has al- offered to put up a stake that Britain will win the game but Just brought a laugh from r Bailey. This is ng oo, when one considers the tact that in the game played in New Haven, béts of two to one with the Aftlas team the faviorite were being offered. Manager Lanpher plans to insist that the -game be plaved although looks very much like a case of Haven not being tickled to death to play. a New! At first, it appeared that Bailey would agree to hwve the game staged in Meriden but after things were in- vestigated there, this was abandon- ed. To our way of thinking, there is no earthly reason why New Bri- iain fans should go to Meriden to sce the New Britain team play bas- kethall, 1t the game is to be staged ot all, it should be played in this New Haven it be 1 again, of course, is w right to demand that 1l Janplhier wuestion. will be played or none at all, the is through arguing the win chiampionship quintet. Joe Carrol and Luke Owens, man- | ager and scorckeeper of the Bristol Iindees, respectively, who witnessed game last Saturday night, stated Wt there was no comparison n New Britain and New Haven. sider thé Hardware City team far ahead of the Atlas, be- The city b tball tournament games last evening were productive | of some fast and heated play, and those who watched them were the opinion that the semi-final i final contests would be wows.” All of the teams are keyed p to that pitch where they were playing over their heads” and there was no picking of winners un- til the final whistle, so shifting w the fortunes of play as first team and then the other rallied. Jack Tobin and Leonard Nixon, who are handling the games, placed themselves on the unfamiliar end of the coin-toss before the opening same when a penny was spun to <ve which of them would have the lonor of tossing up the first ball. “Tobin cailed the toss correctly and {hrew the sphere up between Peck 14 Grace, The appearance of Fred and Sam Mirigliani on opposing teams last night aroused considerable comment from the spectators, On several oc- casions the brothers were ealled up- on to jump against each other, while once Fred fouled Sam by hacking nim from the rear. Both were cloge- Iy guarded and unable to do much in | the way of scoring. A super-shot was made last night by Harold Peck of the South Church Juniors. Standing on the far foul- tine, fully 55 feet from the basket, cck flung a distance try Which went far up, barely skimmed the high beams of the roof, and finally ame down cleanly in the hoop. It 1e believed to be the longest shot ever made on the club floor in the course of a game. CALLAHAN WINS BOUT Junior Welterweight Proves Himself Master of Veteran Dick Hoppe in Bout. Los Angeles, March 28 (P —Mushy Callahan, junior welterweight cham- pion, proved himself the master of | veteran Dick Hoppe of Glendale, here last night in a 10 rourd bout. In the opinion of ringsiders Calla- han won seven of the ien rounds. The fight was termed by Calla- han as the first of a “comeback” campaign. He was knocked out sev- cral months ago by Sammy Baker | of New York and lost a decision to Hoppe in their last meeting. Calla- han’s tile was not at stake in either of those bouts. Amateur Boxing Friday Night Y.M.T. A. &B. Hall Worcester, Mass. v Connecticut Reserved Seats 75 cents Tickets on sale at Bridgett’s Smoke Shop, State Lunch, B. & B. Smoke Shop and Billie’s Smoke Shop. are willing to | strange | ed on a nentral floor. Manager | He states that one game | 1er to be recognized as the state | real | oue | Champion | ¢ NEW YORK NOTTD | - HAVETITLE FIGHT' Bat H, Walth tle Between Commission and | | | | New York, | campaign to muke | March (P—The New York safe | from the devastating influence of a championship fight seems likely to be suc ul again. | The struggle between the lm\lll‘;“ commission, on th Tex Rickard hampion' on | | heavyweight one hand, and | and the heavyweight ! the other hand, faces hother deadlock, seemingly design- cd to foree the promoter to other fields. The only difference between | the present dispute and the dis- | agrecments of the previous few | vears is that the s | are being s In the past th [ for summer view. | The probability is that Rickard, | | although ostensibly planning to hold | { the big title fight or fights in New | York this year by leasing the two | main ball parks, all along has had lan eve pecled to windward Chicago and Philadelphia ave been reserved | of 1ti | tury” in 1 | battlcgroun bis crown Gotham, Jerscy boxing laws have hee | changed this year to provide for 9 round bouts to a decision, the same |« in New York. Boyle's Thirty s, the once historic wooden sau- cer across the river, is no more, but Rickard is understood to have di cussed plans for erecting a bi {crete arena in Jersey. Thus, threat of taking his shots” ide New first “Battle of looms as the 1f Tunney is to defend anywhere outside of n ures, - a money by the metrope horities. o fur, hows ats haver inst stats SINg attitude boxing uch he who sit building. in As Mg r an injured ankle up his mind whe with Joe Judge, first class first of the Washington Sisler has played so + spring that it scems r conclude that he enthusiastic and Judge as the clul baseman. Both Ju nd Sisler are left handed all t » hitting and throwing, so they can not be used in | a companionate arrangement at lhn‘ | base, Bucky he n to do, if anything, now of roster Marris ¥ e making nators. Geory ell dn the | onable to | 1 the working regular first Other elubs, notably the Cleveland { Indians, would like to have Judge. | Miller Huggins would take him for { the Yanke A shift to New York, I n . Is ualikely, for the oppo- sition is not helping the champlon Judge would not ohjeet 1o joinin his old friend, Roger Peckinpaugh, at Cleveland, and as George B |18 a bit weary with the years and would appreciate a little rest, the | Washington veteran may finally join | the Indian: | The Yani in the market for an understudy for Lou Gehrig, | would take on Burns to hit two bas hits in a pinch and play first should Larruping Lou Gelirig necd assist- |ance. But advices from the Cleyve. {land camp at New Orleans are that | this can be thrown out. Even if | Judge brings his bat and pap to the Indians Burns will stay. Cleveland | expects 1o need a lot of two- hits during the summer. | There may be a demand for loud fer and funnier baschall storics hut | there is also an cpidemic of miore | and tougher styles of hasehall del le The had news A Leagie batsmen this spring seems to be that several of th stars have stayed up lafe newer and trickicr all. Lefty Grove, the Athletics’ speed- | ball southpaw, has added a puzzling | hook to his repertoire while Wiley | Moore has developed a curve to mix | i ris ns, for an twirling It twists on 1l with his sinker that baftled the bats- men most of last | teammate, Howard ¥hmke, is re- |ported perfecting a “hesitation | | pltch” desinged to keep the batter | guessing at much as possible. | This hesitation stuff will be all right if it docsn't run afoul of the | new American League rules limiting | the pitcher’s delivery to 20 scconds. | BRANDS STORY FALSE son. Grove's Conude Mack, Manager of Athletics, Says Cobb Will Be When Wife Recovers, Fort Myers, Fla., March {Connie Mack, manager of the Phil- adelphia Athletics dropped the role of “the eilent leader,” tempor- | arily at least | Today he made it lis personal | |business to brand canard a | story that Ty Cobb is at his home | {in Georgia and would not be back | With the Athletics this year hecause | his legs had given out. ot af thing to the yarn,” Mack declared. | “Cobb will be with us just as !.mml |28 Mrs. Cobb, who has heen ill, re- | gains her health.” Mack yesterday gave his players a iecture that brought results, for the Athletics went into the last pre-sea- |son game and stopped the Boston Braves 11 to 2. Grove pitched the |full nine innings and struck out 11. |The club breaks camp today. Carl Mays Has Attack _Of Ptomaine Poisoning >ctersburg, Fla., March 28 (P Pitcher Carl Mays was left hers {on account of an attack of ptomaine | poisoning, when the Cineinnati R took a train for Birmingham, Al |1ast night. | Mays is under the care of a phys |eian and will remain at St {burg un observation miorrow. Clarence Rowland, relased as an American league umpire, has con- | ferred with President C. J. Mec- Diarmid and Manager Jack Hen- dricks of the Reds and it w.s under- stood he would be signed as a scout. | With Team o8 (P | | | | Peters- er until to- Tex Rickard Has Been Started ic 3 Necaham 5 5 30— 260 | Le {to put them on « i e —— NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1928, WITH THE BOWLERS FRATERNITY START 26TH LAP | LLEY | OF MARATHON RUN “Bunion Derby” Contestants Still Grinding Out Miles N. M, 3 runners walkers started out from here ay for Seve Spring, N. M miles’ distant on the 26th lap of ¢ Pyle's cross- continent race Arne Souminen, Detroit Finn, con- Itinued to hold his elapsed time lead {for the race. Today's r stly _lover paved road he lcosiparatively the thletes. Thi st to yesterda s run rcad traversed > the adverse highway and Peter Gavu g., covered the guna to Los Lunas in 7:2 ip honors. his win Gavuzzi clim} place in elapsed tim Andrew Payne, Clarcmore, sovtn v i crs Cramer an cupold | Los Lun Ninety-five p)y c. AL Works m tly in contr when a sand Southamp- 49 miles from By “on nla 1Okl St into | | | 1 ng en, An- ville, | ominen finished the lap in s position, with Ol nt York Finn, in third plac Payne and PBhilip Gra milton, Ont., d next #| The 15 lead; times for the $55 miles from ond dre finish Gavpzzi, 46: Andr 2., 1472 atoon, 142 tatir, Manist Philip Granvills N.J Spattle, . Minneapolis Wilson, Harry he ding Page) Namara $—S; . B. Wosilus 4s technical | rphy €, | langan— Hattings 2 | Nixo CORBIN LEAGUE Columbians P& ¥ and scorers, Tobin imer, umin wnd McCourt; time, four eig Although t} in cored the first points of t t when t ¢ 15t tournan Ko crnoon gam jort end of vamped by enom big scor: Pant baskets first ha tive a Zeig-| 1 inter- the count 23-4. 1 wild and sank eight oals in the second half, wh igler made four more and the los- ors were held to one basket. Zeig- | ler, Squillaciote and O'Brien featur- | i a hard | summary: | 5 Tt 19 4| 0 18| 14 ler four in the mission foun Syuillaciote r | 354 field | Granbys | Puritans AL Fl. 1 Grooming Pitchers to Work in First Games New Orleans, March 28 (P - Confident that the Cleveland In dians’ moundsmen have rounded into shape, Man r Peckinpaugh i grooming Uhle, * ute and Hudlin to work the first three games of the season’s opening series at Chicago in the order named H This trio has been designated the Personal “Big Three” and will t oV 1l the nine inning r in exhibitions fou! foul. Freneh = aciote; fere Benjamin; x-minute Speedboys 16 A basket by Denteh in - the sccond overtimo d gave the peedboys a 16-14 victory over the sent f the 1 b iment} that scor Meanwhile, showing Rurns start expe Fonseca at ctory m George d Peck to Hodappor four au Tyin w. ne c veters Romeos 11 at first post. World War Veterans, Attention! Your companions of the service want you to join the Eddy-Glover Post, No. 6, American Legion. A drive is now being conducted to make New Britain the largest pos in the state. Let’s all help put New Britain over the toy Drop in the Legion home on Washington street any eve ning and talk it over with a member. EDDY GLOVER POST, American Legion, New Britain, Conn. Flying Romeos in a hectic encoun- ter. Deutch gave his team a 3-1 lead in the first quarter, but then Rich- ter, Finance, and Terwilliger put the Flying Romeos in front by 7-5 dur- ing the sccond period. Mingel's work allosw. 2 Speedboys to gain one point the third session, but Richter made the and it stood there with than a minute to play scored, and in 1 Sexton, little more Then Deutch closing seconds, titute guard, flipped in tying basket. The first over- time period was unproductive, Deutel’s missed foul shot being the nearest thing to a score. In the sce- ond, how he cut in under th hoop and swept the ball through for winnin Deutch, Mingel, Pinanc lliger played the best basketball. The summary: Speedboy 3| George De xton, Romeos Fld. Richter, r Linance, Linn, Burk. 4 Deuteh, Minge Richter, Fin- Terwilliger 2— ch 3, Mingel 2 rson Parker. quarts OXIra two-minute periods, ./ Tonight's Game: Pupil will match wits against tu- when the Lions take the floor t the Roys' club quintet in ir first round match for the sen- hampionship tonight. Pete erelejz coach of the Lions, ac- quired his basketball knowledge un- der the direction of Ray Anderson, who, as club physical director, all the teams of the Iast Main strect organization and tonight will have the opportunity of dis- through the showing made m, how apt a pupil he Pete might still be playing th the chrb team but for an un- Time, and two ior coaches closing by his count 14-10 | 2 | sue the Kerelejza family on the bas- {swept away Harttord's blg lead, and jalmost won the game. As the winner of the two-game fortunate accident in practice last year, when he slipped and injured | iors, who substituted for their older his knee so severely that he is no | brethren and made a fine showing longer able to participate in the |against more experienced teams fnserics will be that team which game. He accordingly turned his |the Inter-Church league. In the |scores the most points, New Britain |knowledge into the channel of | second game the Wkhippets and Cel- needs only a three-point margin | coaching and the Lions have had a [tics, a pair of snappy teams \«imiwnigm to carry it to Meriden Sat. Pposition in the First Lutheran Jun- ar under his dance. good records, will pl ach other. |urday for the semi-final game with The cvening's program tomorrow | New Haven. The game tonight {8 of pla Wwill be a combination affair. In the |scheduled for 9 o'clock at the ¥. M, at the start of the | first game the Phantom Reserves|C. A. H Lions are and nknown scason, not possessed of a some | were da, ems to pur- ketball court has Boys' club team younger brother, Tony, was taken ill | the floor in Boston Muturday | 1d is out of the tourney. His loss | will be minimized, however, by use | of either Joe Goffa or Walter Grusha in his place and the return of “Long John" Kley to his old post {in the central eircle. Nick Gill, Al- ! bert Benjamin, and “Red” Compag- I none will make up the balance of |the club team. The game between | these two teams will be the feature of the first round, and there are | even some who believe that the city | championship will be decided at | | their meeting tonight. | The first game of the evening, | starting at 7:15 o'clock, will bring |together Co. H and the Emeialde. | The militiamen will stake their | hopes on the offensive play of Julius | Mieczkowski and the defensive work of Johnny Saxe, and they have | strong belicf that they will run up their ninth -consecutive vicguy to- night. The Emeralds, a product of the Tabs' league, are a “dark horse” entry, but great things are predicted | by them by Manager Jack McGuire, the well-known “big” sports follow- | er. | At 4 o'clock tomorrow atternoon the lower half of the junior class will play. The Aces, a promising young quintet, will face strong op- weakened the in, for Pete's | of something like 18 straight. The | Wil be a senior game between the |that of the machine. The result is e {ternoon, “ombination of League. | Bucherri, Fritz and Louis Marseli, “weastle, Pa.—Harry Crisp, 8t.|team, The hoodoo which Detroit, 10 | at Short are the best men at reeling City, outpointed Mike Vasquez, kI !NFOWINg arms and neither one Billings, Mont.—Herman Rathlafy, | The training grind hcre ended yes- to Play in Semi-Finals, |ford, and the home team won a 25- | himself. present Yot the quintet has | Will play the Pythons in the inter- won ail its games, making a record | Wediate class, while the nighteap reason for this success is found in | Phantoms and the South Church. the teamwork of the squad. Every |Both encounters appear to have player fights to the lust minute and | considerable importance. Manager Shotton of Phillics Says |submerges his own personality in| The second round will open Fri- Team Has Champion Double Play |a smooth-runaing combination built = on the lines of the old Boys' club "GHTS MST “IGHT 5 [team with which Pete played. The Winter Haven, Fla., March 25 (P squad includes George Luke, Mickey A |—As the Phillles prepared for the MG TS . | homeward journey today Manage: | Emil Karbonik, “Chick” Charlow. VIGLTS TASY HIGHY | Shiticn m:de on:' ; x, : % :flr unis, George Heinzman, | Shetes sl gt By |and “Toots™ Zembko, all hard work- 4 = 4 el | ers. ‘(,mm:“‘g"-dr' to., and Carl Cavelll | "oy muverfio chumoitn: 2o “Indianapolis - Roy Wallace, In. |P'3Y combination in baseball” he |dianapolis, shaded Billy Peterson, | %3d: “Thompson at secord and Sand Kansas City, Kas.—Tiny Tlor»hnrk“,‘l’,(h’! double plays I buve ever Seen; Kansas City, outpointed Mike Ar. | Di8 pair doubles up runners with nold, Denver, 10. apparent ease, Both are demons on San Franclsco—Kid Ruiz, Mexico | ET0Und balls. They bLave first rate Paos, 10 wastes a second's time in handling | "Denver—Big Boy Peterson, Min. |the ball. They should pull the Phil- Incapolis, won from Cowboy Bill|lies out of many tizht places this |Owens, Guthrie, 10, | season.:: {Minot, N.'D., defeated Young Demp. | terday and the Phillies were direct- | sey, Billings, 8 | ed to board a north-bound train at iz e | noon today. Thirty-two players com- | prise the party. The loss of Frank OUT FOR REVENGE Ulrich, star pitcher, because of fi- | ness, is the only misfortune suffered | by the club thus far this season. South Church Basketball Team 3 Meet Hartford team For Chance | MCGraw Likes Double Set of Outfielders Augusta, Ga., March 28 UP—Man. The South Congregational church | ager John McG:aw likes his pro- basketball team will seck revenge icct of a double set of outfielders {tonight upon the St. Paul's Methodist [ for the coming championship. |church quintet of Hartford and will | Against right-handed pitching, he | endeavor to turn the tables on meilntvnd- to use O'Doul, Roush and Capital City five and move past it | Harper, but when southpaws occupy {into the semi-finals of the tourna- |the peak, he will substitute Mann |ment for the state church title, | for Harper, Jahn for O'Doul while Last week the teams met in Hart. | Roush will e elected to replace 23 victorg by virtue of getting an| Andy Cohen. Giants’ second basc. “omy lead. It was decidedly an “off” | man, has been given a four-day va- night for the locals, but they ral- |cation. 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