New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1928, Page 13

Speaking of Sports BEIITECITTTVVCVTVVDOPOS0Y Although in this scction of the country it is a little too carly for baseball, down in Alabama, the ther s apparently ideal for the' sport. Today, we rcceived a clip- ping from the Age Herald of Birm- , which gives especial > diamond ability of Hal agle, a New Britain boy, who fs a junior at Birmingham-Southern col- I Beagle, cation vorted around first base, but he has been converted into a shortstop by the college coach and he is more than making good ut the position. while in thi Writing in the Birmingham news- paper, Heney Vanee has the follow- ing to say ahout the local boy:— The Panthers have a kid shortstop who is one of the most finished col- Iége shortstops I have ” scen in some time. Some Class A club is making a mistake in not signing him, Beagle is his name and not only did he play sional game the shortfield but he collected a couple of wallops off Barton pitching. One of these was a Babe Ruth special to orchoard in left-center for four Beagle is a ball hound for fair on the shortfield, a good hitter, and it Monday's work is any criter- jon would fit into the picture in Class A baschall right now. Saturday nizht's game at the Stan- Iy Arena, according to Manager Clarence Lanpher of the New Brit- ain basketball team, will be the last of the scason. Already the court rin this city has gone beyond the | ¥ usual closing time hecause of the in- tense inte shown by the fans in the sport. It will be a fitting close to a hee- tic seuson to sce the local team battle the Celtics who only week or two ago again captured the world's bas- ketball championship. las decided to play here Saturday night, the scason would have prob- &bly gonc over another week Many fans of the opinion that the season conld he prolonged until the end of this month, but the man- ager states that he Thas to get ba 1o norm again and he stated Jositively today that Saturday's game would be the lJast of the year, The scason just passing has been one of the most successful ever ex- perienced in this city and prepara- tions will be made immediately to Javg as good ar next year as the past one has been. CHANGE PLACES IN INDUSTRIAL LoOP Continued from preceding page.) ¥ changed the score from 24 to 23 Corbins; to 34 to 24, Corbins, as the game ended. Holst scored in the first 10 sec- onds and it was 2-0. Matulis made it 2 to 2. Luke slipped down the court tor the first of his many field goals and P. & F. was in the lead again, Matulis made a foul goal, l.uke made it 5 to 3, but LaHar tied the score at 5-all. son, scored and it was 10 to 5, P. & Havlick and Wilson cut it to 10-8. Jasper made it 12 to 8; and Matulis made it 12 to 9 and 12 to 10 when he was fouled in the act of shooting. Havlick tied the score within two minutes of the end of the Yalf but Luk foul goal gave P. & )%, Corbins the edge at half time. The score was 13 to 12, Corbins. Wilson made it 13 to 13, and Luks found the hoop to make it 15 to 13. | Havlick tied it at 15 all and LaHar broke the tie to put Fafnirs in the fead, 17 to 15. Gierochowski put he Bearing Makers further in the icad 19 to 15 on a fleld goal but Jasper and Tuke scored two field roals and the score was tied at 19-all within seven minutes of the end. Luke made a ficld goal and foul goal leaving Captain LaHar's men in the rear by three points. Giero- chowski scored a fleld goal and Hav- lick a foul goal to tie the score at 23-all. Just three minutes hefore the end, Carlson made a foul tally and his team was in the lead once more. Then it was Luke, Holst, Tuke, Holst and Holst and the game ended. ‘Mickey” Luke furnished the of- fensive features of the game and he was greatly aided in the final offen- sive dash by Holst who also had a #ood night. The best plece of work on the defensive was that of “Hug- gYy" Carlson’s in holding LaHar to a low score. Havlick and Matulis seomed to be the most consistent players on the losing quintet, The summary: P. & F. Corbins i = Jasper, rf Tuke, 1t Holst, e . Mills, e-rf Carlson, 18 . Paris, 1g . PR IR Totals Jlalar, rf Havlick, 1f .. 3 B 3 2 @ E o Reloin, rg Matulis, Iz ... st Totals Referec, Dillon scorer, Bntler. Into Maine Platform Waterville, Me,, April 4 (UP)—A prohibition plank has been inserted in the platform adopted by the democratic state convention, which vesterday voted to send Maine’s 12 delegates to the democratic nation- al convention, pledged to Governor Alfred Smith. “We stand for the 18th amend- ment: and for the efficient, vigorous Thonest and sincere enforcement of the laws enactad thereunder as well as all other laws,” the plank read. ) N Had the At-| Paris and Carl- | | the traftic vice-president of the Bos- WITH THE BOWLERS FRATERNITY ALLEYS TUNNEY MANAGES HIS OWN AFFAIS Tell Commisson That He Lets 225 Promoter Pick His Opponents Schaffer Leupold New York, April 4 (®—The fist events of the past few days have furnished convincing evidence that Gene Tunney not only is managing his own affairs but doing pretty well at it for a young fellow whose chief aim in life not long ago| LADIES seemed to he the mastery of £oven- | e syllable words, | Meakin Gene still has commund of an ex- | Richards tensive and often effective vocabu- | Gorman la But his latest word to the | 4% boxing commission, in addition to being noteworthy as a diplomatic | rejoinder, contains no word in cx- ! cess of five syllables, and only two of those. It proves that the simple language can he, and often s, more_effective forceful than | complicated phrascology i “While T have received no official | « i communication from the New Yor . state boxing commission A ges- |} ture of reproof in tha® line, obvious- ly. Further on: 'he commission knows me well enough to know T have never lected my opponent but have always left that detait to the promoter.” A gentle touch of irony here, perhaps. Time was, and not so long ago, when Gene Tunney, then only a fair to middlin’ light heavyweight, {needed a manager and some good ring advice if he was to get any- where, The veteran Billy Gibson filled both requirements, steered Tunney into the American light- heavyweight title and paved the | way for the Dempsey mateh in 1926 hat brought Tunney to the peak. |1 Gene wasn't champion of the|{{ok0t world more than a few days, how- | ever, before lie decided Yo handle | his own affairs. He has done so| ever since. Gibson, even if his| voice in the champion's business is | 4 no longer above a whisper, at least shares, financially in Gene's success. | Tunney got the title but little else | at Philadelphia in 1926. He had to | {80 on a vaudeville tour to make | some money. He has made a pretty fair job since then of managing his | 3o} own affairs. He collected close 10 ' 1are | a million at Chicago and has had |J. Foldan his own way, it appeared, in select- | ing Heeney as well as o July date | ! for his first and perhaps only 1925 | engagement, | Kramer Heinzman . Walker H. May Needh o n sy . rkowski ybowski ito Skinner Chuck B€- | zimmerman 2 73 | May Hall Hausman MeGulre | Burke Yuretkonis 291 & Judd Dunn 53 L. Perschy Stanley Works North S olchan MEN" g Corbin 13 I a0 a9 99 —— Long No study of the spring exhibitiion | A%, Ir(sulls would provide any cluc 10! wara the fact that the Yankees and Pi- rates were champlons of their re- | | spective major leagues last year. | The showing of the two title holding | elubs in fact has been as poor, if {not poorer, as that of any other outfit in training. The Yankees have dropped most of théir games while |the Pirates were floored five times {in a row by the up and coming| | Chicago Cubs. 100— 100 453 500 Corbln_ Screw A 23 510—1493 201 259 Squires Berg Murp Davi | Zaleskt | Goodrow siefel Valharat Those new scoop-like oars of the | University of Washingtow crew will {have their first test this Saturday |peterson in the annual Pacific coast cham- . pionship race with the California Golden Bears. As the first big college regatta of a year that has the Olympic goal in the offing for the fastest crew at a distance of 2,000 meters the | far western event has more than ordinary interest. No matter how it turns out both colleges are ex- pected to send their varsity boat- loads east for the big tests. California upset Washington on Pacific coast waters last spring, but |the Huskies turned the tables at| Poughkeepsie, although neither western entry was able to catch Columbia, | PAYS RECORD PRICE $77,000 is Offered For Alice in Won. derland Manuscript—Transatlantic Phome Service Used. London, April 4 (M—A record sight unseen offer for the manu- script of Lewis Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland” has been made by transatlantic telephone, Dr. A, 8. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia, who purchased it at auction said today. Dr. Rosenbach, who patd £15,400 (roughly $77,000) for Alice’s adven- tures, added: “I have alrcady had many pro- posals from the other alde by tela- phone and also cable, but I pledged my word not to make any move until I return from the continent in a fortnigh The dictors of the British museum will meet this afternoon- to deter mine the possibilities of raising auf- ficient money to accept Dr. Rosen- bach’s suggestion that he would per- mit the British nation to have the manuscript at the price he paid for it. Valentine Adamaits Gran | Anastasio Gerlander e 453 Stanley Rule 105 88 Krowles x Myers Charmut Bell Ges Josephson Kenny Linm . Neverick e o 108 s 444 439 4941427 MURDER UNSOLVED Concord, Mass, April 4 (UP)— The body of Miss Marguerite I. Stewart, 27-year-old school supervis- or, was to be buried in Sleepy Hol- low cemetery today, the mystery of her murder still unsolved. Hope, that a safety deposit box, which the victim had rented at a Beverly bank, might contain the name or picture of Miss Stewart's swebtheart, was abandoned vester- day when the box was opened. It held several insurance policics and a small sum of money, but nothing which would aid the investigators. —_— NO VACATION New Haven, April 4 (P—All Yale oarsmen will be held here during the Easter vacation that daily practice may be held on the Housatonic river course at Derby. Vacation began this noon. The baseball team lcft | cn its usual southern trip. WOMAN’S GOLF TOURNEY Farmington, April ¢ UP—Farming- ton Country club course will be the place of the annual woman's cham- pionship golf tournament which will | open June 4. The final matches will be on June 9. There will he 10 one-day tournaments with team matches. New York, April 4 P —The $37,- 000 which Dr. A. & W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia paid for “Alice in Wonderland” at auction in London right world shadows stretching across the for the their halt of the Yankees fo Win Ball Game @ — the b Babe ¢ York, April that part of inhabited by are singing, grass has come, for tt 1 Inspired perhaps by the of ' Lookout lot in the 11th innin s game between the n and Chattanooga. lig & hit his tirst home run sine lofty mountain Chattanooga 1 out . HOMER OF SEASON Drive Is Not Enough to Enable’ Ruth’s home run was not cnough Lookouts tied tiwe 11th h, 3 to scor win in the loss of the game was incidental world ; |out ; |more the cumpaign, especially when Ba Ruth hit a home played the only ¢ of the day and werc the leaguers champions have dropp: 14 spring games and means little at of to fall before this stage and went on th The gue outfit, The Giants exten treak to ten gan Washington Senator 8 1o 2. Andy Cohen came o life at the bat with 2 bang, hing out two triples and ting that possibly he Ltogers Hor Billy one base, getting double. sished in in farm, wobbly offset by Ha wson's b d their winning downing the 4 his job. pointed Cohen by two triples Brooklyn Mace pite of liscues were ing. Charlic his Tast. se by steali fron of 9 to in fielding, the tight pitch- caves equalled «© running record | Mempl he eveloped 43 hicago White and 26 ssociation 1 with 11 May was § : the s in one John Clancy the runs Southern s ching He nd month too soon, for did two 1 Color 11 {; on two count- spring in- Is it hville (fering lall the of Oscar way for Blades, Friseh and the way at bat Dan Howley's St hits, w . 1o scor Fuhr ,who went the Volunteers. lafcy showed 110-Pound Class Loa Standing broad jump—T. Curylo, |4 ft. € in.; H. Schmarr, ¢ ft. 6 f.; ich they may noed 7 geet, 5 inches; T. Parys, 7 feet, § |J- Nedbala, 4 ft. 5 in.; W, Fredericks, 2 ware 45 yuns while Tul- inches; 1. Attardo, 7 fest, 4 inches; |4 1t 4 in.; V. Baylock, 4 ft. 2 in.; &, Tl Lias dient “ !']{i:fi . '\\As M. Paluch, 7 feet, 2 inches; W. Lak- | Puzzo, 4 ft. 1 in.; T. Annunnziata, 4 s e imdicated thap | MOWSKi, 7 feet, 1 inch; T. Jaworski, ft 1 in.: total 30 ft. 2 fn. he TS made i€ it o start s 5 (0% § dnches: T. Abucewicz, 6| _Standing hop, step, and jump=J, : B haeHt wiu s art his g inches. Total 48 feet, 10 |Nedbala, 24 ft. 9 in.; M. Putterman, HIE L St T |23 ft. 8 in; M. Nappi, 22 1t.; M. t k, 21 ft. 4 in.; T. Annunnziata, ft. 6 in.; A. Andre, 21 ft. 8 in.; Louis Browns | ling e « hom % Loth LOCAL BOYS HAY IMPR MANU!N (Continued f T. Curylo, 4 feet, uches; M. Paluch, 4 feet, 3 juch 7 inches; M. Andrews, | Pull-up—M. Nappl, 16; J. Ned- inches; J. Koziool, 3 fect, bala 16: W. Fredericks 12; T. An- feet, 6 inches, nunnziata 12: 8. Zembrowski 11; P. Standing hop, step and jump—T. Faluch 10; M. Grieco 10; total §7. wrylo, 22 feet; T. Jaworski, 21 feet, Basketball shooting—J. Nedbala inches; Par: 21 feet, 4 A. Rametta 15; P. Paluch 14; M. Paluch, 20 tfeet, 6 inches; S Block 13: V. Baylock 13; T. An- Nappi, 20 feet, 3 inches; W. Dunnziata 13; M. Nappi 12; total 96. Kulinowski, 20 feet, 3 niches: J. Winkle, 19 feet, 6 inches. Tot 145 feet, S inches. worski, 3 feet, feet, 3 T rom Pre § TENCED FOR PERJURY R ineh AT : New Haven, April 4 ®—Thomas “ull-up—T. Curylo 15, L. Olewnik | gy o0 i 15, A, sartinsky 13, M. Paluch 11, k), of Oraugs, pleaged iy I. Juworski 10, T. Attardo 8, W. | Suberior court yesterday to perjury Kalinowski 6. Total—78. |in giving evidence to Coroner Mix 1l shooting—AM. Paluch |in the death of Eric W. Peterson, irylo A. Sartinski 11, T. [of Hartford, killed on the Milford T 11, 1. Mott 11, C. Wojak | turnpike last August. He had sworn Attardo 9. Total—84. [that he knew nothing of the death. ; 125-Pound Class | Milford police a few weeks ago Standing board jump—T. - |learned that Bilinski was in the car nunnziata, 8 ft. 4 1 in.; J. Ned- | which struck Peterson. A three ] la. S ft. 3 in.; M. Nappi, 7ft. 7 in.; |months’ jail sentence suspended, was Lo 15, A, Andrews, 7 ft. 7 in.; W. Frcder-’imposhd. | | Bi Basket Toe Faworski . Nappi 7. Z If you smoke for pleasure ©1928, R._J. Reynolds Tobaces Compasy, Winsten-Salem, N. C. —Camels lead the way. The winnin answer is “T LIKE ’EM.” Camels yesterday is the highest ever paid for an author’s original manuscript. Whether the manuscript will re- main in London or be brought to this country depends on the attitude of the British public. * NEW FREIGHT AGENT New Haven, April 4 ®—Appoint- ment of H. A. Poveleite as assistant general freight agent and commerce assistant of the New Haven road, effective April 1, was announced to- day. He will have his headquarters here, Mr. Poveleite went to the United States railrcad administration in 1921 as chief traffic assistant, In 1925 he became special assistant to ToNIGHRT WD -GAME HONTING CaNADaN ton and Maine railroad, in which po- sition he remained until accepting the appointment with the New. Ha- ven railroad. NAVY A CRITICIZED. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 4 (®—Dr, W. Armistead Gills of Richmond, Va., retired surgeon of the United States navy, declared in an address before the Health Colony club yes- terday that the “loss of life in the 8-4 disaster was negligible when compared with the navy'; losses through the antiquated methods of the navy health department.” HIGH PRESSURE PETE The cigarette best-liked by so many smokers, it leads by billions