New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 14

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928 26553 26080660 6060558 INDUSTRIAL, LEAGUE GAMES POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY- NIGHT—PHANTOMS BASKETBALL CLOSES SUCCESSFUL SEASON g —CHILLY WEATHER CUTS DOWN ATTENDANCE AT FIRST BASEBALL GAMES—DEMPSEY IS THROUGH WITH FIGHT GAME § haadaa s d Saadadaaa b gl l Ly )l NOPPPPOP I 9IITE ¢ CHILLY WEATHER DAMPENS TO PLAY DUSTY | HEENEY MAY GO BACK WITH MILLION [PHANTOMS BRING TO END INTEREST IN FIRST DAY| GAMES SATUR[]AW BRILLIANT COURT SEASON Recruits Shine as Stars in Opening Games — Yankees | . City Amateur Champions Scored 17 Wins in 21 Games Smother Athletics — Pirates Bow to St. Louis— | Troplnes Are Offred for ngh&S( During the Past Year — Meriden Boys’ Club Only Giants Vanquish Braves—Phillies Down Robins—‘ Individual Scorers in lflglles fj%%gfi%fi 0%;% o ‘ ' i ! Quintet to Score Two Wins Over Locals — Cohen s ~ SR . . ’ //// M’ i P SR A “ 2 Chicago Cubs Lose to Cincinnati Reds—Indians Top| siTEean e e L] %Z/ YIABLY COSY Hid : ] Led Individual Scorers—Sensations of Title Tour. White Sox — Browns Beat Tigers — Senators Lick o™ /i i finnine tontne " on nament—Club Plalfl Put Baseball Team in Field. Red Sox. e the Men's I!’lwlui\‘iri:xl Basketball 2 %f« W%f’% ?/2?// »//; T COBB BREAKS league of the Y. M. C. A, will be played at the Stanley Arena Satur- | Another successful basketball ' ) 31 lday night instead of tonight, the ason has just been brought to a her more suitable for | s 1 0 % o olathletic authorities of the league the gridiron than the diamond, 14| Shane o ot 2 o 0 fhave decided. Although these will bascball teams yes annual bid for 1he awaiting chamy 1y began their | Ble Sawmnn e s sl ne and fortune | MeN |close by the Phantoms A. C., this ‘117 wins out of a total of 21 games played. The success of the season is 1o ‘; O be the last games of the league, has- 1 Keti@l will not be off the sport | i " 3 olecalendur for the vear. Two games | ons of the Na- tionul and An an leagues i b0 o) 1 0lfor the Lenefit of the € ity | (Y0 -all the mor emarka H- becaus sthors, Wasninzton i e A {Breaks Hitting, at Bat and Tofal oniy"four “sames "wero piavea i Arena next Tuesc admission will be fr The zame Saturday order of their appe | tollows: Landers vs. Stanley Rule vs. P’ & I, 1| Carbin Cabinet Lock v "1 Works; Fafirs vs. N. B, Machine This is the fivst time this scason in | L which every team in the leaguc will | LR have taken part ~in gawmes on the AR same night. | Tucsday night's contes = imnu\\.\ Community Fiv i team of South Manchester vs. I, & | | sht to which | | home. Games Marks Yes[erday During the season of 1926-27 the P’hantoms won 28 out of 31 games B S and annexed the County Y™ title, By the A K In two seasons, the team lost oniy Ty s in the first fn- seven games while it won 45 con- ning of the game at Philadelphia sts. The climax of the present sca- was his 4,078th safety from mujor son was the capturing of the senior lcague pitching. He went to bat amateur title of the city. Although (three times during the game and the tean had little hope of even |ran his total appearances at bat to surviving the first round, throe of 11,079 in 2,939 games. All these are the strongest opposing teams were records, brushed aside. Only one quintet was able to beat the Phantoms twice this year. That Hornby in the battle of was the Meriden Boy They had stolen a march o1 by making their openin pennantward on Tuesday Nearly 200, the ecight gamcs. r the condi- tions that was a croditable showing but it fell far t of the anticipated ns witnesse only scven ganmics The rirst gen brought with it recruits hasked light that tomorro leave them in the Andy Cohen scored a over Roger decided —Batted for Stoner in 9 F. Corbin girls. champions of the 15 skill; betore pitel | club five ;3[‘_;:;“;":'”;;i’“,“y:‘\,‘ Sl e e n for \:‘nv.;«:.:\ in o0n | Girte mansirins Loague; Hantiord second basemen at the Polo coached by Arthur Pilz, director. Grove and Lyons a1l had nothing to 00 11 Rubber Wor state industrial | Grounds. Andy was off ahcad when The Phantoms scored one win over show for their first day's work but 100 | champions vs n all r team from lvlf! threw the great Rajah out on his t! & "o in the lost column | 1“:\'}}'* Mon's Industiial league., The first appearance at bat. Hornsl Phantoms plan to Wild and unsteady, Grove, the| Umpires— Hilde- Teferce, timer and scorer are offer- | ymd» one hit in four times up while go out on a 1..«« r scale, gpeedball expert, lasted only three in- | o vie [ it sorvicds free, the orchestra | | nis youthful successor made threc — The club will have a baseball team nings against the New York Yankeos | i for dancing will probably be donated and figured in al! the Giant scoring, in the field this year and the oficials who mowed down Connie Mack's | 5LAND and use of the § |sending two of his mates home With hope fo make as good a showing on Athletics at Philadelpbia, 8 to 3, as| ABRCH PO AT | given gratis for the night. No ad- |2 double after he had scored the first diamond as they did on the partial proof of their assertion that | A ol ion will be charged, but a col- New York run. He tallicd again Iked court. The team finighed the games that count were the ones | 22 Bl oS | on will be taken up during the | |later. tied for second place last year in the they would win. The world's cham- G R bt | e 44 .ijm.: City league. ‘The first y pions were Leaten consistently dur-| U B B SO A third matter of interest to fol- { Rube Bressler proved a potent tice session is beinz held today wit ing the spring training eeason but | 3 % a o 1 ollowers of the Industrial League is {pinch hitter for Brooklyn although another workout scheduled for Sat- they showed no signs of Dbeing, e AR e e jeweler, who | jthe Robins fell before the Phillies lurday. *“punch drunk’ vesterd: Grove, | |- ”Mn’“, g B 1 1 o @ u]supplied the gold hasketballs for the and Jimmy Ring. The fornfer Cin-| The team's record for the sr ason Shores and Fowers were reached for - - --|champions in the girls' and men's| cinnati Red went in to bat for Pefty w s follows: 10 satetics, while Herb Pennock | Totals @ 813 3 130 {leagues, will contributc trophies fo ind smacked o double with the Phantoms Om,flm‘m‘ southpawed his way the routc forj CHICAGO 1 _ithe highest individual scorer in both | bases full, scoring two runs, LG S A eniden R En 1 the Yankees, giving up seven scat-| 1L B0 A Blicagues. They represent u figure of | — 25 . Glastoubury A tered hits. | Kamm, 3 0 o 1 ofa basketballplayer. { In connceting for 16 hits against . Simsbury L N.T. .. One of these, and 1wo walks, went | 2 4 1 0l Mary Moytka will be awarded the | a \'urir(y of Pittsburgh pitching " ristol Bluclay, to Ty Cobb but that other veteran, I‘ l 0 “‘igirls high scoring honor but at . Louis Cardinal in the game Spfld. Tmperials Tris Speaker, went hitless. Babe b s o n‘pr(-svnl the winner in the men's £ cmmml with at lcast one safe- i . Tristol Keystones . Ruth hit no home runs, but a triple 3 4 o 2lleaguc lo a toss-up. Paul LaHar Hartford G, W and a pair of passcs, cnabled him to “‘ g n 0‘ who has been leading for practically | 2 S rwich ¥ Emps score {hrice. Mccurdy, § 1 1 §|threc-quarters of the scason is just| (BY HENEY L FARREGLL) | = Chalmers Cissel, the expens Norwich Y ¥mps The Pittsburgh Tirates, defending | Connally, p ........0 0@ 0 0 1]five points ahead of Nick Arena. NEA Service Spors Writer | out, of Pirpo when some Brazilian BIG LEAGUE HOME RUN White Sox shortstop, is trying 1o Pristol € g thelr National league crown, run into { Hunctield, 2z ......1 0 9 0 © .aHar has 98 points and Arena has| «jrom a Dime to # Million,” waiters from a coffee house in New {ure out whether he was a hero or o {1 | Will. Y an avalanche of hits at St. Louts| .. s % 93, Vollowinz close behind are|jt might be written by Luis Angel| York told Firpo that De Forest | w GMN e e Sl ! and bowed to the Cardinals, 14 to 7. tted for Morgan in Sth. | Jasper, Yakubowitz and Luke. | ¥irpo and Thomas Heeney, is a tale | would double-cross Rim. RACE UNDER AY A linfielder got threc hits but was guilty vev... Bristol Keystones Ray Kremer, Plrate Ace, was knock- “,f“,,"," ‘;“"’" Y = - [that has many high pots in com-| They told him that De Forest was | [of two boui field. Pristol Celiics ] d out of the box. Irisch and Bot-} ., J0trted Tt CUEINGL Too PLAN FOR SEASON mon. It isn’t a matter of officlal heart and soul a Dempsey man, that | | S ol 1 tomley got s "ot' l‘;n..nnul]a 16 s .n_wr aga ok = record that cither had as much as’ he would school him l“ ro!;g .’\.llh] be- Six Circuit Drives are Pounded Out | While the Yankees were ing Meriden Roys' Club 43 ties, cach poling out a home run.| Two base hi—J. Sowell, Ui, S dime when they arrived in this ' tray him and Firpo left De Forest. | iat Philadelphia, their groundkeeper i i ¥ Although he was hit hard, Jess) Tl s vh:,‘ .m,'f",r{('fi"”.,f,,"'”” pitcher | » untry. There is a record in the It isn't too much to believe that if | in Opening Games in Two (o ias i PNl ah ek (o ot 1 Haines went the full distance for |1 NG o™ Mg of gamo—z:06. | BUFFt A C. Making Preparations | ;- Internal Revenue Tureau, irpo had stuck with De Forest he Major Circuits. to every New York fan, was being Al Staia 8t. Louis. = o Oaiiba 1 wover, that shows Firpo was a would have won the championship. B . _'buried at the Metropolis. b Led by Andy Cohen, young Jewish | nosTON | for & Busy Campaign on the Dia- | OVEeEr (08 B0 the Unitcd | In is fight with Dempsey, Firpo o ‘f‘[k‘;nmf;;"'h;,;‘f‘,fi":’c‘fig Slugging honors of the day went i i siar, John McGraw's New York| ABF PTO MYl mond This Yoar. States. Perhaps Heency will have was beaten considerably in his own [IF lenEucs annna’ Rome B T0et | Ticen Witliams of the It o, i Glants vanquished the Boston Diraves | Jiurtle 5t cf § 5 3§ 0 as much when he retarns to the corner by amatcurish handling. [} Soeer oY BETR RS TR who drove out o home run and two at the Polo Grounds, 5 to 2. Cohen o 0 0 o 1 o Plansare heing made by the Bur- | packsmith shop in New Zealand. | When Heeney arrived in this| 'h"" m‘“ dearias { doubles, Irankie Frisch, of the Car- Indiviluals Suorin playing in the spot graced last y 401 8 3 5 §fritt A C, champlons of the City| Fortune, in the contribution of country, he, too hooked up with an ° q”} c';,_m'" drives fixured in the |dinals, tallied four times to lead the ! The rocords of the individerl by Rogers Hornsby, accounted for ® o i 1 ¢|Baschall league for the past two!gpnortunitics to Firpo, certainly was old-timer, Charley Harvey. But he ; § cul e e dnthe }run brie e et i L four of the Giants' runs and starred 3 0 0 2 3 ofyears, for the coming season. Prac-|pind to him and Hceney may be stuck with him against all tempta- "‘:" s“’l";' oLy (’, :"’; ”'"‘ ':o"“;:; The scason was (wo innings old Coley i afleld. Larry Benton was charry of | Logell, aeil 0| tically cvery member of last year's | blessed with even more of a golden tions to throw him over and thercin (" but noric of them went to the |, oo 4 “\iancrs put on their act (poy ; ] hits and might have had a shutout | Taitt, A ; © 5 {team will be on hand agzin this year | smile from the fates. By the minute may be the difference. credit oynn' \\;) ens b L, R e ST but for the fact that he grooved one 0 1 o o o and the Burritts expect to have one | sraction of an inch Firpo failed to| Lo ‘:v;:‘:‘;\;:bonlo(:n‘hn.;;acn":’nfv:: ‘nn" [lnEion ann It mconan o rothaiy ot S SRSl ‘ for Bob Smith, Braves' pitcher, who | tusscht, 0 0 1 0 0lof the strongest teams In the city. |in the heavyweight championship LOOKING FOR GAMES. F e ha Ambrioan and. Oy Wilinme | Paul's safety of the samd caliber. | Carr propelled it into the hleachers with Morris, ;m,' s PR S ',; Although nothing definite has been | of he world when he slugged Jack! The Aces Daseball team of South oo p 0 ANGIEE (0 L o e TR e e one man on basc. Wikiom, B 10N 8§ § 3 | done vet towards organtzing the teani | Dempeey clear out of the Fing In Manchester has a few open dates on o Hack Wilson in the Xational. | e bl Jimmy Ring outpitched Jess Petty | jtolling 1 1 3 0 oftwo practices have been held by |New York, Heeney s coming into {ne sehedule for the season and the ' Cy: OWever. can’t be blamed for he v to give the Phillics a 4 to 3 decision e candidates for the team. | s big chance to win the millions ottt 08 08 OO s r;id‘?‘t‘ go!)lnto the Phillies' opening y o over Brooklyn at Ebbets field. Petty A 3 A large squad reported for practice | tnat go wth the heavyweight cham- My iU WO (8 6 T day tincup. A y : GO!N Flbfll“’ retired in the seventh to give Rube oW z|on Good Friday, among them being pionship and the decision of the iy 4y semi-pro teams in this | ational league batsmen account Bressler o chance to double With [ West, of . T Marian Zaleski, last scason's catcher, | fates will have to await his battle | Y L M5 fq for five of the half-dozen home | il S — " : twi g, | ik, ar Op e i section cspecially the Falcons and yyne Those went to Frankie Frisch | Trout Season Opens April 15th PLAY IV FOT N three men on base, &coring two runs, 0513 who is making a strong bid for the | ir” Gene Tunney. SRchon el i Tevong o) - o P Harvey Hendrick accounted for the 4 catcher's position on the Tordham | ¢ played in Dempsey's favor Lo COrPIn 1ied Sox. Communieations yna Jim Bottomley of the t. Louis | fiat Sous Tocis Saw | i i # cther Dodger tally with a home run. G freshman nine. “Johnny” RosC, | hon he fell out of the ring on to e ooy naEel Cardinals, Freddy Maguiro, Chicaro i 1 tonranii P Celley a ‘hitney, | 1 T g ace o 5, o ; l.ouis Neron, 591 Center street, cups' recruit infielder, Harvey Hend- | creaiion Forwrs, G Two recruits, Kelley and Whitn lucae 11 pitching ace of the Burritts, is cX- | ypo press table in New York in ¢olh (Ferdih b ; jon T starred at the plate and in the field, | jyarje, 2n i1 lpcctcd to be on the mound agatn this | gyoh a position that he could pull * A 3 inr-l;'r( (‘!_;o ];!roo]rr(‘lyn ):nhu;'n :nd Bol : . O he Phils. Marberry, 01 year. ? he ring in time 5 = o Smith, Boston Braves' pitcher vt g 1 T omis min by Treddy Maguire, e = The locals arc aiming towards ,“;'“";i‘,fiu‘;;;“,,':,‘,g HE LG e PHILLIES GET NEW CATCHER | Ken Williams, long a power at the . iy rookie second baseman, saved thul e s Sunday baseball this year on a large | 4 raingt Dempsey in Chicago last| The Phil ,.d.»]phu: National league plate, saved the American leaguc i iy nd Hais e Chicago Cubs from a shutout defc xx— Latted for Wilson in’ $th, plan. The team has played Sunday |gopiomyer when Tunney was per-| Club acquired Walter Lerian, | from complete humilintion by trot- | e i Auother o at the hands ot Cincinnati Reds at| xxxc-Totd for Hofmann in 9th, | games during other years but not 10| nisteq to doze for fourteen seconds Cafcher, from the Eastern leaguc ting all the wav arennd the hases | 15 MAIN STREET [ 1 i i Cinctnnatt, The Reds hit Charlic) prineton - 008 840 W0—% lany great extent. They hobe 10| cier having been smashed to the Just prior to the opening of the sca- {after getting hold _of the “right” (} /. .~ Gl 5 thae iy Koot opportunely to win, 5 to 1. L.u- hits—Gilils, 3. Williams (2), |Schedule a steady list of Sunday!g 0. son. He will be carried this sea. one, served up by Marberry of th.: | BA & for Sy fie | t i i ¢ que, giving the Cubs only seven hits, D hit-West.Tome run [ battles during the coming season. If|""pyinaps tn the workings of those | |as a reserve backstopper. Watifngton Senators, ! out, Cincinnati got only five off 55: i " |able that the Burritts will enter and | (0™ 0 "anq Heeney may get the ! Root but they came after Cub er- e strive to capture the title for the|ycioge” Oh, M 1 rors and that hurt. | third year in succession. TFirpo crawled out of the hold of an. JE Dainpe Cile et o 7 A Topniation) Khis BAnas BEADKead |4 Nap ) American liner on the Jer- | torn to form, the ('le Indians | around the state has fallen to the | . 'uiqe of the New York port. He battered Ted Lyons and G | lot of the Burritts because of its |} a1t had his clothes off in days heavy hitting powers and its excel- | ang the only article of apparel he | cago White Sox at C | \ g |lent pitching. With two years of |yoa 45 distinguish him from a vaga- | Uhle held the Sox bat inder | o experience behind them the locals|yooa woc's rubber collar that he | Tue Fromt Pacc control throughout. 0 should prove to be a hard team to| oot a'in a water trough on the = Forty thousand, the rowd J Leat this season. A meeting will be | ;o0 | of the day, saw the rovam Louis Browns heat Detroit at Tizse land, 4 to 1. Bach team got but hits but Detroit’s i more costly than the B At Boston, the Washi tors avenged tl at the 1t mering out i Bill Carriga Sox hurlers § to little or ro ¢ hitting was the held Sunday afternoon at tho Bur- He had no great reputation as a | ritt club rooms to make final h",fizhln‘r His size and physical rangements for the season regarding | yvonoth his mblance to o wild | the captain, manager and uniforms. | "S5 Ty own ability to ab- | All the members of the club are re- | o) punishment were his only as- | quested to be present so that some- | (o1~ Byt he couldn't tell anyone | thing definite can be accomplished. | pout jt. He couldn't speak English. ! Rather panic-stricken in a big | FIGHTS LAST NIGHT i Firvo took refust in.a cctir under a second-hand store in New- | ark, sharing quarters with a . big| negro who was willing to accept his | olecossosacsn d Sox by ham- to 4 victory By the Afsociated Pre ] New York — Jack Smith, New | unsociable society for coffee money. Alub Hewpolot iz 22 1 Olyerk, and Pietro Corri, Italy (16). | Firpo first attracted attention | run and two doubles i < 5 Enst &t Lonis, 1ll, — Chuek Wig- | When some one carried the news to | o Rostor coonE Y 3i=%|&ina, Indianapolis, knocked out Sol- Jimmy De Forest that 'Ih"r" was a| American Leacue om0 o G Duck, Lowtsville (2). i e i nere NEW b 5 t e i Newark, & guy who | I Umg Kansas City — Battling Levinsky, | {n 2 cellar in D ' X e : Philadelphia, and Tiny Roebuck, | ¥anted to fight. ~De Forest, an | 5 S Kansas City, drew (10). §id Terrls, | 0ld-timer, the best trainer in the | 1 ITTSRUF X 5 |Chapel Hill, N. C. technically | country and a skilled handler of| N a fighters, had been for years in the | 2“{‘!‘:"“(4 out Jack Caywood, Omaha. | B UHC V54 wnknown heavyweight | | “Cincinnati — Harry McCarthy, | that every old-timer 15 secking. Dugan, Ugteior, 2b ..oui--8 : 3 7 % " ! De Forest was in a run of bad| & Ry 5 S f";‘“"““i.,“°:‘],')“°;"h ,'“lja;;""{‘:; luck. He thought he was set for | FINANCIAL VPAGE O I B T R A ey g life when he hooked up with Jack Pennoc s Dempsey in 1919, He trained Chicago (6). Whitey Clark, Cincin- |1 ; ki) oiitpointed Samnly Masce; Do 1 L HIDREY 0L ML CHERL Uwith - gees Willard in Toledo and no more su- " 1 | aianapolis, defeated Moan Bauger, | 0 0 ‘Totals 2 H i 1 TO A T {troit (6). Jimmy Neal, Dayton, Won o 4,0t iined and physically con- Bishop, b EERRS J f"_“'m Jackie Patvis, Indianapolis| gitioneq athlete ever stepped into a i Cobb, 2y (6). ing than the Dempsey wonder whi 9 6 3 0 O ‘ : ring than the Dempsey wonder who 3 “',:;',f",."“', 13 % e ‘| Paris — Spider Pradner, Euro- | () B 8 P e of the 0.0 o 0 A ¥ pcan bantamweight champion, Won p ... willard and won the world's 1g (Tl U by technical knockout over Giovanni cpambionship TR T e sill, Ttaly (6). i Luck didn’t stay with De Forest, A _ Goldsboro, N. C. — W. L. (Young) | powever. Jack Kearns thought o o 0 ) Stribling, Macon, Ga., knocked out ha¢ pempsey and De Forest were | g R George Gemas, Philadelphia (3). too friendly. He charged De Forest | g, 0 W e Oakland, Cal. — Jimmy Duffy, wijth attempting to steal Dcmpsey | Oakland, won on foul from Jack away from him and fired him bodily -rnul‘llM £ Thompson, Oakland (9). Jimmy | out of the camp. He not only for- ::";::m 2 . Jones, Omaha, defeated Gilbert At-|bhade him the liberty of Dempsey's | New York ¢ 0L tell, San Fraacisco (4). Bllly Defoe, | company but did everything he| Philadelphia . It - Paul, and Billy Burke, San Iran- | could to discredit the part De Forest . Tostox « drew (4). Joe Gordon, St.|had taken in making Dempsey. Dinneen, Na'l 8 stopped Joe Durham, San De Forest. accepting the tip on! = rpo, dug the huge South Ameri-| — Les Marriner, Chi- { can out of the cellar. staked him, | v cago, knocked out Joe Baker, St.|few him and put him up in his o Rburke, 1, (Conunucd on Vollowing Page.) fouls (1). home. He was making a fighter