New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 15

bbb 8oEEELEEEHEEESE0abDE | Speaking} of Sports AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Yesterday l New York 8, Philadelphia § St. Louis 4, Detroit 1. Serious consideration of the en-| (yoramny & o trance of New Britain into the| Vas| American Basketball League is be. | ' oTnStOn § Boston 4 ing made by Manager Clarence Lan- pher and it is possible that he may attend the meeting of the leaguc | b moguls which will be held in New |New York York in the near future. St. Louis .. Cleveland 1 1 1 Washington . 1 Roston . 1 Philadelphiy .... o Detroit Chicago Standing w Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 500 SO0 000 000 000 Johuny Beckman's All-Stars, the team that played here under the name of the Chicago Druins, re anxious to make a second appes: ance in this city this coming Satur- Jday night but following Manager Lanpher's decision to close out th present scason, the offer was turncd down, i Games Today + New York at Philadelphia. Louis at Detroit. *veland at Chicago. Washington at Boston NATIONAL LEAGU The All-Kensington bas will start practice Sund: ternoon 1 Avenue grounds. A gencral invitation has been issued to any and all candi- dates who would like to make a bid| for the berths,on the nine, Games Yesterday St. Louis 14, Pittsburgh 1 New York 5, Roston 2. ¢incinnati 4, Chicago 1. I'hiladelphia 4, Brooklyn 3 Kensington will be a hotter b: - - ball town than ever this year cording to the sentiment being ex- pressed in sporting circles in the 'st. e South End community. Gathered | w York .. around on the corners during the |Cincinnadi warm days of last weck, groups of Philadelphia ) fn-the-wool fans started the Pittsburgh .. “gas” going about the prospects for | Boston . the coming yecar, Chicago Brooklyn Standing i w Pet. 1.000 1000 1.000 1.000 000 “000 L0000 000 Definite action was taken Tue day night at the meeting of the Ken- sington A. . when it was decided to atage the first practice Sunday aft- ernoon and the call for candidat has been irsued. Games Today Titisburgh at St. Louis. | Boston at New York. 5| Chicago at Cincinnati. | Philadelphia at Brooklyy. CHILLY WEATHER The Corbin Red Sox and the Fal- | cons, having got oft to a start last | week, will be out Saturday and Sun. | day for their workouts. Both tcams | are planning on a big season and | both will he out to form the stroug- | WITH FIGHT GAME Appears in New Yok a5, Wealthy, Well-Fod Business Man| New York, April 12 P—Jack Dempsey, once a lean, hungry youth, i who years ago rode the brake-beams | te fight for ham and egg money, was | |in town today, a wealthy, well fed | business man with his fistic future Lehind him, | His arrival was a far cry to the | day in 1916 when the bronzed youngster from the mining camps of Colorado rode into the Metropolis in search of fame. If there was a din- ing car on that train, it was in the caboose and therc was no place | there for a Dempsey to work out the kinks that came of “riding the | rods.” Dempsey then would fight hnyone —and he did. His sweeping fists, the | lure of his ring personality and ferocity, and the courage that pulled | him back to score & knockout after Luis Firpo hammerad him out of the | ring, made Jack the greatest draw- ing card in the history of wport. With him came million dgllar crowds, then $2,600,000, and finally a gate of close to $3.000,000 for his last stand & Gene Tunncy in Chicago last Now, Demps major part of the 2,500,000 hi granite fists have earned, believes the time has come to quit the game for good, before the thudding gloves of a Tunpey or the punches of n vounger man strip him of both |Won 13 games and lost five, health and reason. Standing, left to right: Martinchek, Bell, vich, Belomyzy. Waterbury, Meriden and New Champs 1927 Ankuda, Hamilla Jr., Hamilla Sr., Sitting: Stankewicz, Rev. Joseph Danke- Pictured above is the bowling team representing Russian Orthodox Christian Association w tured the championship of a league in wh The circuit was composed of four teams including, six weeks’ duration and during that time, the New Britain team { Baseball Standing|JEMPSEY IS DONE [RUSSIAN BOWLING CHAMPIONS A the Young | hich has just cap- ich it was entered. Bridgeport, Britain. The schedule was of Ring history is full of examples | of men who stayed beyond their | N“ RWETS WILL time, for “just one more big purse’” —and ended their days ‘cutting raper dolls in a psycopathic ward. | Dempsey's career now has s(rrtrhwll B IN NEw T w R through 18 ycars—"long enough,” he | v G declares, Ever since his first engagement, |DORIC COUNCI, . & 5. N, " BLECTS K. W, GEE MASTER [ Officrs Chosen at Annual Meeting | and Inducted into Chalrs—Gifts est possible combinations. Preparations are being made in other sections to get an carly start in baseball and there will he plenty of diamond acti¥ity during the com- ing summer months in this city. CLOSE ON LEADER Margin of Little More Than an Hour Separates Payne and Gavuzzi in Pyle Marathon. Bridgeport, Okla., April 12 (U'I") -A margin of little more than one hour separated the two leaders in (', . Pyle’s Los Angeles to New York foot race today. Andrew Payne, Claremore, Okla.. leader and Peter Gavuzzi, England, his nearest rival, finished in a dead heat for honors in yesterday's 1 mile run here from Clinton. Their time was 5:28:30, Eighty-fi remaining contestants Ieft here today on the 40th lap, a 35 mile race to El Reno. John Salo, Passaic, N, J., third in ipred time standing, was 20 hours behind the two leade Standings of the time leaders: Andrew . Claremore, Okla., 2 107, Gavuzzi, Southampton, Eng., Jess Sweetser, Apparently Recovered | from Hiness, Hopes for Another Golf Title, e trom the illness that k- him after he had won the amateur championship in . Juss Sweetser plans a come- Dack a 5 year that he hopes will lcad him to another na- tional amateur golf title. He has mapped out . p m that will Lring him inte three tournaments this summer, with the amateur as his ehlef ohjective, ser will play in the Gold tournament at Newport and ker cup matehes at Chieago in addition 1o the National Amateur., ppenrance in the Walker cup atches, of course. Is contingent on Lis sclection by the United States Golt association. FIRST AIR RACE Students from S American Col- lezes Meet to Formulate Rules for Novel Event, New York, April 12— —Twen- | ty-one students representing six American colleges which have fly- ing clubs met today to formula rules for the first intercollegiate air ace for a trophy offered bhy=Grover C. Loening, manufacturer of amphi- bian planes. The race will take place June at. Mitchel Field, under the auspices of the National Aeronautical asso- ciation. A silver trophy will be awarded the college climbs a mile in the fastest time, and $2.500 will be distributed among the pilots. FAYORITES BEATEN - Willic Hoppe and Jdohn Layton, Former Champions, Scek to Re- gain First Place Tie, Chicago, April 12 M—Two former leaders in the national three-cush- ion billlards tournament, Willie Hoppe, and John A.ayton today sought to regain first place after last night’s disastrous games, Layton was tumbled from the top tic by Allen Hall of St. Louis, who was in fifth place, while Hoppe lost to Otto Refselt, defending champion, in a close match. Reiselt and Gus *opulos, cach with five victories and fwo defeats, were at the head of the | Jist. whose plane | FOR FIRST DAY Continucd from preceding page.) Nixon, 1t ompson cach, of o 1he 1ot eye that o | and since has led to the report that { sight, however. although Jack lost hitadelpi Brookiys ¥ Two lase 1 Hmpson. itcher Jorda, Home Peury, Time run-—Hen- drick Umpires i of game— CHTCA rooA Sieior 1 Wilson, IRy T8 8 ' AP0 oA n Dre 0 o [ Allen, a nrdy, Kelly Wall on, g 4 Hargrave, o I | Luagie, Totals ¥ —Batted for A--Baited f Chicage ity 552 o hase Tits 0 Home run—Muui rman_ and Ve Time of gam. n Root in Tih. G, Bush R 00 02x Wilson, Ford. Cmpjres —Quigley. Lokt pitehier— win 400 091 ier WITH THE BOWLERS PADDOCK INVITED Famous Sprinter May Appear in Feature Race at University ‘ Peansylvania Carnival. { Philadelphia, April 12 (®—Char. lley Paddock, famous sprinter, has { been invited to run at the University |of Penmsylvania relay carnival on | April 27 ad zs. Lawson Robertson, Penn coach, announced taday that Paddock, who has heen training for some time for |the Olympic games, would take a | workout on Franklin Field next ‘} Monday and that he probably would | give his final answer then regarding . Paddock-at present s in €, of the University of notitied the relay man- | ag:ment thdt he would send nearly | his entire track team to the games. | GOLDMAN SHOWS PROMISE ! Jonuah Geldman, former Syracusc University baseball star, has shown Isuch talent with the Cleveland In- dians this spring that he is likely | to be -carried the whole season. | The governor of Michoncan, Mexi- | co. has ordered all owners of indus- [trial mining and agricultural es- tablishments to maintain elems ntary schools whenever there are more than 50 children of school age In the vicinity. . | persons than those associated with |spaced three 1 | | well removed from under them by | | will be fighting all the harder to tie | ;| to decide the issuc. the Rangers also | of | fear of going blind has haunted emgres™ arer Atavs an o | WEAGING (0 Eliminate This in ke (o punchen for th ' Yale Structme take two punches for the chance to T r T, ning at Masonic hall. Annual re- | land one, the n}auled Manassa maul- Haven, April 12, (R-—Yale | ports were read and officers for the | er was a mark for Tunney's sharp- ' shooting right hand the night he | New read and of v students and faculty will | Year Were elocted as follows: iy . ) |~ Thrice Tustrious Master, Harold lost the title to the scholarly marine | ypivers i e down at Philadelphia. | o 2 | T\“n,l..h,|.:::“.'u?r?,:l‘., d])u:psoy fi‘;mnl | not be disturbed by the clatter Of |y "Gee: fliustrious deputy master, two weeks in a dark room with the | Tiveting machines when the 18-stofy | W, E. iay; principal conductor of | lcft side of his face a green and | book tower of the Sterling Memo- | work, B. O. Holt; treasurcr, W. E. | purpl: mass of bruised flesh, rial library is erected, The fifteen | Buker; recorder, A. H. Parker; Again at Chicago last Scptember | miles of steel columns that are to |trustee for three years, H. E. Sche uy; Dempsey's eyes were cut and torn. | form the atacks in the 00,000 | Masonic hall representative, W, W. In the tenth round Tunney's head | building will be electrically welded, | Pease; captain of guard, ¢ Berry: ripped oven a triangular gash over | climinating jobs for 100,000 rivets. | conductor, I. W. Mott; grand stew. ! severed a tendon, “Are welding, instead of riveting, | ard, F ippler; pianist, J. Mac- will be employed to join these col- ' Arthur; sentinel, ¥. A. Goddard. going | umns together because double the The new oflicers wese installed by | blind. The injury did not impair his | Sliffuess can be secured in this | O A, sh, acting as deputy grand ’ manner,” says the consulting engi- | master and W. W. Pease, deputy neer, Ga D. Fish, of the Westing- | grand marshal. The retiring master, | house company. “The channel shap- | H. E. Scheuy was presented with a eveball. ed beams carrying the hook shelves { past master's jewel by 1. H. Doch- | " But it's hard to discourage a skep- aud the suges are five inches renwend and a life membership card {tic and there are fow more skeptical | duep. 1f rivets Were used, only two, | by inches apart, could | | the prize ving. They wouldn't believe | bu employed for each joint. where- | | Dempsey when he announced his re- | 25 With the electric process the | [ tircment out for Retiring Leaders. The annual meeting of Doric coun- il R, and 8. M., was held last eve- 1 |the former champlon was control of his eyelid for a time and uifered hemorrhages behind the on the Pacific Coast, | entire depth of five inches can be | | Some even remained skeptical today H“"Hg'!y welded to the adjoining mem- | Ithough the ground appeared pretty | i b8 e the tallest structure of its kind in | | “I wouldn’t fight again for $50.- | the world. 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