New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1928, Page 8

LIONS AND PHANTOMS MEET IN FINAL GAME FOR CITY BASKETBALL TITLE TONIGHT — CHICAGO BRUINS DEFEAT NEW BRITAIN IN HECTIC GAME AT STANLEY ARENA — GIRLS' TEAMS TO BATTLE FOR INDUSTRIAL CHAMPIONSHIP TOMORROW HEENEY ANXIOUS (CITY BASKETBALL TITLES TIPEEEOTIFOEE T EPEIOOOS CHICAGO BRUINS DEFEAT : LOCALS IN HECTIC GAME Johnny Beckman’s All-Stars Barely Win by Three-Point Margin — Visitors Included Some of American League’s Best Players — Rubenstein Plays One of Greatest Games of Carcer — New Britain Team Compares Favorably With Opposition—Atlas Play Here Saturday Night. e In a sizzling basketball ga tured by the closeness of t all the way through, the Brulns, a coterie of all the Amierican Yrofessio ball league, the m game in this countr New Britain team of thc cut State league at the St Saturday night by the to 35, The visitors Beckman, consid; basketball pla up far better tl in the leagne name and incl other whose nan the first five in basketha The contest was to the manner of pl can league. T rule was waiv nstein zed on oor that von by S to re. Atlas Neaxt Week New I 1 aceo the Ame team to American league t all who witnessed th locals would be top-no major circuit. At 1o time did either team have & decided advantage over the other. The big league team led at t tir:t halt conclusion by a two-point mar- gin, 15 to 13 and at the finish of | 15 the game it was able to i this | Chicago Bruins by only one point. The contest was Roxbury, rf. e one of the most thrilling games ever | By seen on the local floor. I mient was added in the second hall when Sloman and Kennedy squared off and | Zakgewski went to the floor with the visiting guard. | Kennedy and Grody, the visiting guard and conter, respectively fur- nished the bulk of the sco power for the Chicago team. Deckmun got two brilliant long shots and another fleld goal for a total of three fro the floor. The floor play of the vis tors proved them to he a whirlwind | combination that took advantage of every opportunity to score but they had & tough battle on their hands all the way through. Rubeastein the Star OQutstanding in the play of New Britain team was the offensive work of Rubenstein and the defen sive play of Tom Leary. Sloma Sheehan and Zakzewski were their best and aided in keeping the local team in the running all night Rubenstein kicked it with seven field goals, everyone of them a sen- sational shot while he completely outplayed his guard and cqually in cleverness and ability the best that the Chicago tcam could offer. Leary eovered Roxbury, one of the leud- ing scorers in the western scction of the American league so completely that he went scor from the floor and hardly got a free shot at the basket all night. No fan in New DBritain has ever seen Rubenstein better than he was Saturday night. This proves con- clusively, after his 1lent showing agalnst the Celtics and the Drooklyn Visitations, that “Iuby” can cas be classed among the best court § fermers in the countr: The visitors exuded class in every movement. All smart players, they played team work that la- tion to every lover of ball present at the game. 158 R eb) ot work, clever shoo 1Y Town y r team ah work on the floor S e experts 1r Account of € Baskets by Shechan ski gave New Britain of four points ! 10 seconds acored, a foul basket being Brennan. Iour additior from the complimne the Chicago teann i point. Baskets Kennedy gat At the hroke th a gensation another 15-minute the Jead a frea shot vith one loose for a the lead 12 to 11 Agaln Gro. Johnr n 13 with a pretty = by Grody ) 15 to 1% compete with | ams, it proved to battle that th ors in the RULE GIRLS LOSE T0 SIL TOWNERS the Win Out in Last Quarter of Game A scrappy girls' team from South Manehe Rule Irad in the last two minutes of \he third er played ster overcame a Stanley ot Stanley Arena Satur- lay nig in the through to win by 4 13 to § The guintet wore the spangles of the Manchester Recreation five. His team cripp through the loss of Itose Paul whose back w strained and “Pat" Dashner who has sore foot, Coach “Jimmy” Murphy aders’ girls in his lineup, Sartinsky and Jean Drayer, Stanley Itule led in the first quar- to 0 on a ficld and foul goal Mary Jurnot and b to 2 in the nd quarter when tinsky's f 1l matched that Hale. In rd quar Giblin, one of the snappi 3 1 in a ba her team within a point and 1wo Mand last quarter it came score, toss a rey of a tie f closed an ¢ v min 1 Giblin won the ield ¢ stripe by of goals in sucees hary Recreation Vive n ot follow sceonid Half Ten sece resumed, 7 DEFEND SWIM TITLES Britain 2 and Kennedy follov making the count 21 Britain, Rubenstein wi display of floor pl bhasket. The with two shots Johnny Weismuller and - Walter X 5 spence to Appear in Chicazo A AL n K Mect Tonight. B ) Britaln in the leg co of Brooklys battle, Tirennan car long : £0 = threc-point edge :d with another 8 total 20 Chicago. New rally. hasket and “Tw <ioman and Kenned cach other and a doul alled Eloman scored b | | | rgrecment, | " {Oison, 1 . { Kniffin, Iz a basketball game | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APxIL 2, 163 LOCAL TEAM OUT |GIRLS’ TEAMS TO SETTLE OF TITLE RACE Soath Church Quintet Falls Be- fore East Haven Combination cregational chureh | Il team of this city, was stute champion- afternoon Fafnirs. Girls Post Season Standing Won Lost 0 0 . 6 1 | Championship honors in the Girls' o fee o it | Industrial Basketball league will br was tho third game | dccided in the Stanley Rule-P & 17 the « Britain | COrbin game tomorrow night at the ers lacked lige | StANIeY Arepa. {ino el | This is the first contest on 2 four- | same program which has been in us cven, hut by | i W Haven way|VoRUG for the past threo rond 11 Jn tin seeond per. | Weeks and it will be called at 7:30 ound his eye, but Relgger | 2/°10¢k. The sccond game [rom May Tor five bas. |niEht will see Landers and Stanley A O bt biw|Works rivalry enacted, the third e < i fron: |Rame will feature Stanley Rule and New Britain Machine teams, and the fourth game, the feature of the men's contest, will bo a game be- tween P. & I Corbin's and Fafnir Dearing teams. This will decide second plac P.C. 1.000 000 000 ! stani | P. & F. Corbin irned out” and | Landers ... cost it the| winning team pla quarter { the half ¥ Tt 1 od Mot the poir on loi 1 the ambi to do much | 1 passing. R r and h men for their imary sides | , for neither | Girls' Game | The winner of tomorrow ), | game between the P. & F. Corbin and Stanley Rule girls will be ¢ | officially termed the champions of | the girls’ league for 1927-28 and the loser will be in a second place tie as the season ends These two are Fast Haven Congregational Fid 1 Swanson Sansone, rg .. Bartlette rg in a triple first place tle as the season ended about two weeks ago. The third team, Landers, was elimi- rated by Stanlcy Rule in the first of the post-season games last week. Twice before have these two teams met and twice have P. & F. Corbina been the winners, On the first occasion, the score was 5 to 4 P. & F. and on the ond meet- ing it was 11 hins. “Jimmy" Murphy, @ no alibis for his team’s two def but he is thoroughly convinced that his team is the better of the two. On that particular point Clarence Coons disegrees. Needless to sa Coons is the Corbin coach. Last year these two tcams ere entered in the girls' industrial league. Stanley Rule finished second, a short distan. behind the champions from the American Hos- iery. With one exception the lineup is the same as that which wore the blus and white stripes last year. That place is at guard, where 1'lor- lence Speck is playing in place of Helen Kelly. On the other hand coached a team which finished in last place. Many claimed gome of the best-looking girls in the league were in the lineup, but as basketball players they are not there. Determined to have a winning team “Pat” went through the fag tory in scarch of basketball material and from ‘every nook and corner he picked players. When his n came on the floor this year only two f las «quad were in the line- Captain Ada Gross- man and y Pihicl. In the la few games he had a third member, Ruth Johnson, lust year's captain. Amoug the new members are Mary Motyka who won high scor- ing honors in her first scason of hasketball; Anna Dirtkerwitz, fourth leading scorer who is also playing her st seasen, and hanic Olszowy who Coons claims is the player i the league, Landers Hitting the Bumips. nders men have been skidding in the last month and every game scems to find the team playing wor did before. Frank the team’s coach, is trying tely to Congregzational 14 Sooth Torey, if .. Rockwell, 1f- Wess iarta, Parl Ma 8¢ TS eats, Personal fouls— Bartlette rickson rickeon 2, Bell 2, Mor: RACNG STABLE Irwin of Piladelohia An- nounced as New Ovwner B “Pat" mae mnes h Philzdelphia, April 2 zreat racing stable oil mezznate, ) — The of Harry F. Sin- has been pur- sed by James Irvin, local repub- lican politician and contractor. Mr. Irvin a »d that the deal had been closed a month ago and nother Philadelphian way asso- th him. He declined ho the name of his cal any of the details tion. | ports that Snelair contempl: selling Dis stable had been e sinee his hor were barred Marylind tracks by the Mary innd comin 1se of his con- cetion with the Teapot Dome oil in- tion. Many of the horses in incoc bl hiad been enter- in the Marylund spring meets for 1o the han. Local horsemen apinion t1 on he an it Nester, despe expressed the would nullify ing commission | '°turn to winning from against the it entered by | Stanley Works. would he cligible. The Stanley Works team has not Announcement of the purchase by | been keeping up to serateh in the lican leader of the 48th | 1ast fow wecks, Althongh it stays Yig surprise here, up amonz the leaders it loses at ved that it Mr. Sin- | times when opportunities are golden. of his stable, his|If it wins tonight it is surc of at e Hildre would come | t a tie for third pla it. The reticence Corbins loses in 1) (used speculation as | Stanley Works I go cal was an outright | place r provision was made | pla h ot the horses by hould he so desire | TUBERCULASIS ssion of in ¢ into th will resn Stanley Anothe B. Machine, neenient is possible Britain Machine te & Stanley Iial i Landers for fitth anders lose to Stanley Newmatie five has been playing a fine type of baskothall in the last few games and it has ad- anced steadily. It is possible for it 0 lead the second division in 1t | standing 1 it continues. It will 1 April BT | impossible for the Rule Shop team it veteran baseball | to finish better tham fn the cellar it victim to tuber- | it loses tonizht. =et at rest here P. & F. Corbin-Fafnirs. the illness | This is Fafnir's last stand, If the | team wins from P & F. Corbins it will have a fine chance for second place, at kast, but if it is defeated will not since 1t has only one more 1fter tonorrow night. TN it Walter Johmson’s Physician Denies Rumors Afloat Since Pitcher En- | tered Hospital, issued last personat ninztor 1er Wa nager of the | said X-rays | s have failed to itest indication ure. On the other | ar cxaminations, tory test the most dangerous threat the Serew 15 in the race for the pen. . The reason, more than uny thing clse is that the Lockmakers | have games to play than the others. After lonizht the opponents P. & F.owill play are just as *e: s those which are 1eft for the € Shop team. Both teams will play the Rul: Shop and Landers and the Serew Ehop will also play Corbin binet Lock. of of low . the ki poisons of of fliness is any in- tions Walfer himgelf again short while,” | as brought here last | 1 Jucksonville, Fla., suf-| r effeets of \ttack. He was place hospital where Dr £ of staff and where under- on nor itection of from the 5 ty nd complics e BILLIARD TOURNTY. Chicago, April 2 (&) ine of the ation’s leading cur (nother tourney today for Otto Re It's national three-cushion bill mpionship. The tournament last until April 14 with two blocks of ) points cach twico | Hoppe, long monarch of the 152 malkline artists, wau considered Rel- wlt's ~hint threat o 1s of of the! night's| two of three teams which finished] Coons | but if Farnirs lose, a third m as great an oppor- | The P. & F. Corbin five is about | LEAGUE TITLE TOMORROW Stanley Rule & Level and P. & F. Corbin Basketball Quintets in Final Contest for Championship—Four Battles Carded at Stanley Arena — Landers and Stanley Works Clash in First of Men’s Meetings— Rulers and Newmatics Carded to Play—Corbins vs. CUBS WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY Pirates Again Fall Victims fo Attack of Chicago Team 2 New York, April 2 (P—Four straight over tho Pittsburgh Pirates, National league champlons of 1927, |st00d out today as the achiovement |of the Chicago Cubs in the pre-sea- !son skirmishes at the mujor league | training camps. The Angeles yesterday by 7 to 5, Kiki Cuyler taking a prominent part in the downfall of his former team- {mates, contributing a homer with one on base. Babe Ruth came close to produc- | ing his homer No. 1 of the exhibition |at Montgomery, but it went only for |a three-bagger and it didn't count the two made by the Lions. The 1928 model of the Robins was {at St. Augustine, thercby ending e | winning streak of five games. Brook- |lyn was not the only big league out- |1it to falter before the attack of the minors, howcver. The cards were on the short end against Chattanooga 4 to 3, whilc Nashville polished the Reds 3 to 2. Kansas City whipped the Browns Ly 4 to 2, and at I"ort Worth, De- itroit dropped the final engagements lof a serics by 3 to 1. | Pitcher Alphonse Thomas eased the Shreveport sports down with | » [four hits while the Chicago White ' |Sox made oft with a 5 to 9 triumph. The Memphis Chicks were chased |by the New York Giants 2 to 1, Travis Jackson driving two runhers |across tho plate n the first fnning with a terrific triple. | The Philadelphia Athleties invad. cd Jersey City and blanked the In. |ternational league representatives {there by 5 to 0, Pill Sheres and 'John Lyons restricting the Jer: | City players to three hits. HAHN VISITS HOME Middle Distanco Track Star Taking Rest Before Starting Training for Olymplcs. | Falls City, Neb., April 2 UM—Lloyd Hahn hung up his track shoes and other einder path attire today while {he loafed about his old home town and gossiped with his hoyhood | chums. After a victorious | which he lowered several middle |distance track records, Hahn {home for a two months' rest, when season, In he will go into training at the Bos-| [ton Athletic ! Olympic games. When the interna- natlonal games are over, he intends {to quit the cinder path. sociation for Pirates surrendercd at Los| in any of the 10 pans scored nnlnuti stopped by the Newark Bears, 6 to 8, | 10 HEET TONNEY New Zealander Confident of Win- ning World's Heavy Title (Copyright 1928 by United Press) Paris, April 2—*“All I have to |say is that Tunney'll know he's been in a fight, rumbled Tom Heeney with characteristic, good- natured modesty, when discovercd {by the United Press correspondent E!n a Paris restaurant. | The New Zealander, who has ibeen named as the heavyweight {champion’s mnext opponent, came here a few days ago with his Brit- ish manager, Bernard Mortimer. The latter was with him today, and i with characteristic volubility sup- \ported the promises which the |quiet, self-effacing Heeney de- | clined to make. “Why, | ney's block off,” crowed Mertimer. i{The boasting did not seery pala- {table to the big heavywelght, who tried to further efface himself | while TFrenchmen and foreignersat | neighboring tables stared curiously. | “Here's the way to look at it,” ‘continued Mortimer. ‘ryone . knows what Tom can do. He's had nine fights recently and won them all. What has Tunney ever done? | He's only got one good fight to his | name. | “When Tunney and Jack Demp- !uv crawled through the ropes at | Philadelphia they were betting 10 {to 1 against Gene, but look what {ha did to Mr. Dempsey. When Tom enters the ring-in July, the odds certainly will favor Tunney, but the boxing fans are due for another { upsct, That's certain.” “How do you feel gbout being chosen ahead of all the other con- |tenders?” the correapondent asked | Heeney, who was squirming un- comfortably as the little FEnglish. | man rattled on with considerabie | disregard for facts. “Why, I'd fight the whole list of | American heavyweights over again I1f 7 had to get a fght with Tun. i ney,"” replicd Tom. { Mortimer broke in to veluntesr held in the United States. “After studying the situation {over here and in England.” he eontinued, “I'm convinced that New | York, Chicago er Philadelphia 'mult be counted upon to pay the big price necessary to obtain the fight | "Even with Paris, Berlin and |other European capitals to draw i from, London hardly could do it.| Thess British syndicates, you knew, lare not offering a purse. They { merely are bidding for the right to stage the battle on a percentage basis.” The Heeney-Tunney fight will draw a $2,000,000 “gate,” Mortimer | belicves. None of the British syn- dicates could guarantes one-half | that sum. | “What brought yeu te Paris?” Ithe correspondent asked the silent | Heeney. | "On, sai4 Tom, with a grin, "I | came over to buy some silk shirts. | BEAT NEWINGTON TEAM | The Diamond A. C. baseball team jurday by the score of 8 to 3. Man. {cherilla, Jake Marzibanian, “Babe” Listro, Paul Messina, *Mickey'* Len- tine and “Kitte” Cifalu. The lecal my man will knock Tun.| the opinion that the bout will be | included such '’ | T900000Q TO BE DECIDED TONIGHT | Evening. Saturday’s Results Junior division—Whippets First Lutheran Juniors 12, Intermediate division—DBoys' Clt Reserves 28, Ilashes 14; Pyth 51, Eagles 21, Games This Afterroon Midget division Eagle Juniors {vs. Hula Hulas. Junior division Panthers vs. Whippets. Games This Eyening Reserves vs. Pythons, § |sion—Lions va. Phanton nior divi- One of the fiercest |citing games of the w ball scason is in stor. ton the Lions and ’hantoms meet at the Doys' club in the final ga senfor championship in the ment conducted under of the club, Both team through the carly re s of play by showing wonderful 1skethall and polishing off ona favorite after an- jother until the two teams, prac- |tically unknown a short while ago, today stand on the threshold of the city title, Both have crowds of wild- ly enthusiastic followers, rivalry be- tourna- the ansp have come terrific battle Is predicted for the evening. The Boys' club Reserves guished the Flashes by onesided game Saturd. and the Pythons continued their re- markable play by swamping the Eagles, 51-21, these two teams |thereby winning the right to play in {the final game for the intermediate championship tonight in the pre. liminary to the Lion-Phantom bat- [tle. In the opening game Saturd nother upsct occurred when the Whippets badly outplayed the f: vored IMrst Lutheran Juniors and {climinated them by 25-12. . B. C. Rescrves 28, Flashes 14 | Holding their opponent from the floor the Boys' club Rescrves rode to an casy 28-14 win over the Flashes in the first intermediate game of the afternoon. The Reserves took the floor with a revised line-up, Parpar- ian having been shifted to forward and Sam Mirigliant dropped back to guard. The new combination proved a winning one, for not only did the Reserves go well on the offense but they also held the Flashes in check all the way and limited them to three baskets, X Zujko scored the first basket, Zembowski added a point and Par- parfan shot a long one through the hoop. Marholin added another two- pojnter and Parparian brought the connt to 8.0 for the quarter. Ho made another basket to start the second period. After 12 minutes of play Murphy made the first point for the Flashes and then added a sccond, both coming from the foul line. A foul by Mirigliani and Mar. holin's field goal from mid-floor fin- extin. 14 in a | brought the tally to 13-2. A distance shot by Parparian and 13! jeteated the Newir_ton Juniers Sat- a pretty push-up by Boukus kept th The | club going in the third quarter. Par. | parian added two fouls and then | Boukus cut through to make the {eount 21.3. Again the Flashes had been held scoreless for the period. Free tosses by Zujko and Mirig. Intermediate division—lioys' Club ' tween them is running high, and a ! v afterneon, | / | Grace scoreless | for 25 1-2 minutes, | ished the scoring for the half and | Sizzling Battle Between Lions and Phantoms for Senior Championship—Boys’ Club Reserves and Pythons Win Way to Intermediate Finals—Whippets Upset First Lutheran Juniors — Tournament Closes This long range, and Mangan added a foul. Zujke and Boukus sent the club's total to 27, and then Walfer and McNamara made points for the the game drew to a The winners clearly demonstrated their superiority, Parparian leading his men 1o victory and Boukus play- a fine game in the sccond half. Little Car Marholin held Murphy nd Mirigltani allowed only one hasket. The losers i1 good work from the foul line, but they did no scoring from afield began 10 pepper the with long shots in the lust four minutes. The summary: Boys' Club Reserves Fi4 11Tl o 1 6 Zambrowski, rf 10 Flashes rid Murphy, rf . .0 Wolfer, If . Grace, | Weir, rg | McNamara, Mangan, lg 3! S X‘orsinul fouls—Parparian, Znjl Mirigliani 3, Marholin 3, |—11; Murphy 2, Wolfe, | Welr 4, Man, 14 ki Boukus 8 ion 6, Zujko {1in, Boukus—15; Murphy . Wolfer, , Weir 4, Mangan 3, MeNa- ma Referces—Nixon and Lobin. Timer—Andrews. Scorer-— |Anderson. Time—Four eight min- ute period Pythons 31, Eagles 21 After a slow start the Pythons came back with a rush and buried the Eagles under a 51-21 coun'. The Eagles, who had been fortu- ;nale enough to draw a bye In th: | first round, shot off at the opening | Whistle and ran up three points by the work of C. Ferony and A. Pau- retta from the foul line. Kosswift ade a point for the eventual win- ners and Schmarr tied the scors ‘.fflth a field goal. Ferony again put in an awarded toss, but Schmarr tled the scors with a field goal. Ferony egain put in an awarded jtoss, but Schmarr landed asnother |hook in the net and the Pythons |were ahead to stay, Rakutis mak- ing it 7.4 as the period closed. A left-handed hook by Kosswig began |the mecond canto, after which A. | Paretts scored his team's only bar- ket of the half. Kosswig and Pa- luch then ran the tabulatien 1o 16-6, Two more baskets by Koeswi: icame at the opening of the secon:l half, but then Ferony and P, Pa- retta arched shots through tho hoop. Schmarr whirled a heok fron: the corner, and after Kosswig hai scored the tall forward duplieatcl {his own performance and then icrashed through with a neat follow - {up to make the score 28.10. Feronv |and A. Paretta had success with helr shots during the remainder of | While here visiting his father, Dr. tanm would lke to arrange games 'liant started the scorer's work in the the period, but Paluch and Winters {1 I, Hahn, few oceasions and /help Ralph Androws, they will be to Ialls City high {school coach, in drilling his prote- | READ WERALD CLASSIFIED ADS |fleld goal- Wolfer immediately fol. | ges In track. pull the quintet to- | ther and he hopes he will see it | . The Days of Real Sport | : - | 1 BUCK- LOOK [e] AT THuUH 8 erts started | daily. Willie | oo — BALL Y he expects to run on 4| with any teams averaging 14 to 16 last perfod. years of age. FOR BEST RESULTS iz LOOK AT ’. G )4 i BUCK PARY- SHoOT AN' EVER'THING /. Mangan made it 23-3, |and then, after 28 1-2 minutes of play, Grace scored the loscrs’ first {lowed with another, both being from THE |ran the count to 34-16. A. Paretts |developed & quarrelsome streaic |after Kosswig's score in the fourti, (Continued on following Page.) By BRIGGS AH-H-H SHUCKS - Don'T SEE NO BAH-LOON "APRIL FoolL" You CouLD ALWAYS DEPEND ON BUCK To FALL FoR THIS _ONE - . - [BRGC T