New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1928, Page 9

ey ) NEW BRITALL DALY HERALD, 2L, APRIL 30, 1928, P T PADDOCK SURE HE [Baseball Stancing [EXPEGTS TO PLAY |22l City Teems | SARAZEN RATES v than th other fellovws 1 am not The Falcons-St. Anthony game was sense that I can hit the w1l an Postponed yesterday on account o b annsn. AMERICAN LEAGUE . No. 7, Sons and wet grounds. HOME RUN ¢ —_— of Sports- Rain again broke up the sports program for this city over the week- end. Baseball games and other out- |BY the Unitod Press, door activities had to be suspended American L over the last two days because of Ruth, Yankees the deluge of Saturday and the soak- |Hauser, Athletic ed condition of fields yesterday. |K. Willlams. Red Sox Easterling, Tigers The Falcons were forced to call [Goslin, Senators ©If their game with the St. Anthony | team of Hartford yesterday because ; O'Doul, Giants . of wet grounds at St. Mary's field. ' F'risch, Cardinals Manager John Cabay stated this Wilson, Cubs . morning that he will probably sign 'Bissonetto, Iobins the St. Anthony team for nest Sun-'Webb, Cubs ., .. .. day as he considers the Caplital City Htndricks, Robins crew a good attraction for the Grantham, Pirates opening game. —- | Ruth, Yankces rry, Giants ott, Giants Kensington also lad to remain idle vesterday due to wet grounds. The Kensington team was scheduled to 80 to New London und play the Fort | Brown, Braves Trumbull A. C. team there. The man- | issonette, agement in the South End was noti- | Hendrick: fied that the New London diamond was soaked and unfit to play on. National America.n Shuttle Meadow had to postpone its official start of the golfing #on Saturday. This created plenty of | disappointment for those who had ' planned to cnter the four ball beat | ball event scheduled. The opening Will take place nest Saturday with match play against par. This should Prove to be a severe fest for all as ar is the best golfer in the Total i The two Jacks, Sharkey and De. Taney ave due to fight it out over the 15 round rout: tonight at Madison Bquare Garden in New York. We wonder if they will be the cautious pair of recent fights or whether they will put up a real serap. Sharkey an $ to 5 favorite but Delaney pre- dicts that he will kayo the Boston &ailor in the carly sessions. Smith, p Totaly Roush, As far as we can judge, there is littlc interest in the fight here in New Britain. The two have been fiziles in recent engagements and fans hercabouts are a little tired of hearing them ballyhooed before a 1ight only to have them fold up when the actual battle takes place. Harper,” Cohen, ! itagan, P | x—Batted for Genewich i We have been asked many times about the future of amateur boxing in this city. We know no more about | it than anyone else. No one can pre- | dict just what will happen after the | A6 present reorganization of the State A. A. U. is finished. The sport flourished here and the fans are anxions to have more tournaments. However, with the boxing committee and the registra- tlon hoard both completely cleaned out, it will be a question as to just what will happen in the near future with regard to any more shows in this cit | Toston N ote, o¥—Klem, —1:40, 030 (Peter Gavuzzi Has Four Hour Edge in continental Race, Butsy Hall, who catehes for the Pirates during the summer, is play- ing a great game in right fleld for | the Pratt Institute team. . T, April 30 led Andrew Payne, of ey day in the Dyle Hall broke a finger on his right |footrace. hand early in the season and was| The Anglo-Ttalian switehed from catel: to right fleld be- [his held on first place cause of his heavy hitting. day's lap In a game against Cpthedral col- lege Vriday, Butsy banged out four hits and scored four runs. of that he stole three bases the rovered the was second. |negro, tied for third in His single in sixth time: Peter Gavuzzl, Southa 9:15: Andrew Payne, Clare 7 win for hix team Nelson. another New Rritain boy, | is covering center ficld for I'ratt. In |3 the Cathedral game he came throngh | with two hits and scored a run. Johuny Grip played a part of the game for Fordham fn its hattle against £t. John's of Brooklyn Fri- 398:54:11. Mike attle, William 25:08. Giusto Umek, Trieste, Kerr, Lm.fls Perrella, {416:33:17. John Cronick, 417:53:38. RACING SEASON guc. National League Yesterday's Homers League Totals ROBINS DREAM OF WINNING PENNANT (Continucd from Preceding Tage) xxx—Ran for J. Smith in Sth . 060 009 Lasing pi Sucond Game. 300 LEADS IN MARATHON uthampton, Eng., entrant, |Okla., by more than four hours to- transcontinental from Staunton SR :47:02. Glusto Umeck, Trieste, Italy, 44.4 mile On top [Philip Granville, Hamilton, Ont., The team lcaders and thelr elap- Minncapolis, 409:- Albany, Saskatoon, WILL MAKE TEAW W o caoman Far Fom Through as Track Star New York, April 30 (U'P)—Char- ley Paddock’s running days a from over and the lLlonde Ca nfan s quite lkekly 1o Lob up of the cight sprinters o American Olympic team. Yollowing his spuctacular pe mance in cstablishing a new werl record Yor the 175 yards In thirty-fourth annual University of Pennsylvanta relay carnival Satur- day, Paddock is confident that h can make Lis third Olympic team. “I am in great shape and my per- formance in the 175 yards Satur- day convinced me that the Olympic team {s my goal,” Paddock said. To concentrate on an effort for winning the Olympic berth, Paddocl has announced his intention of for #aking his widely advertised meet- ing with Charley Borah, the Univer. sity of Southern California star, in| “the sprint of the ages. g The race between Paddock and Borah was scifeduled for next month on the Pacific coast, but Paddock plans to remain in the east to con- dition himself for the final Olympic tryouts at Boston in July. | Through mud and slush ankle deep and past a pile of bricks, stone and humanity, Paddock raced 175 vards in 17 2-5 seconds at the Penn carnival surpassing his former | world’s mark of 17 4-5 seconds made in Salt Lake City last year. anwhile, Borah was doing the ard dash in 9 3-5 seconds in the west coast relays at Fresno, Cal- ifornia. Pitted against Paddock were Fol- well Scull, University of Pennsylvan- fa football star and one of the best collegiate sprinters in the east, and two other Penn runners. They were all left far arrears as Paddock cati- pulated down the treacherous trac Two scctions of the 10 foot wall between the track and stands col- lapsed in front of the runners and onto the track just as they came tearing out of the chute. Paddock running in the lane next to the wall |was the only one menaced by the crumbling bricks and struggling hu- mans, and had to swerve and shift his stride to keep from colliding with a man. “I started to stop,” Paddock s “but 1 heard Scull's feet poun louder and louder fn my ears and I | made up my mind to keep on. 1 had to jump an old man and T fig- ure that cost me a fraction of a s cond.” | Paddock at 27 is one of the run-| | 3 | | lsoouom wlozosans IS -TOPa, | o coy, coowsesol wloomu Bleosa wlez n 8th. 060 201 Rrown. MeCormick and 210 611 020 205 More Than Pylc Trans- | competing for 14 years, having won | | his first medal at 13. Twice a mem- | | ber of the Olympic team, he e nol“ be counted out of the competition for the Amsterdam squad until some of the younger group conquer his flying feot \ Another scrious candidate for the sprint squad was uncovered fn the meet fn George Simpson, a scarlet! bullet from Ohio State. His victory in the century in 10 1-5 seconds com on top of his § 3.5 time in the mud at the Ohlo State relays establishes him as one of the best dash men in the east and middle west Tom Plansky's victory in the de- cathlon practically cinched the burly Pole’s place on the four man Olym- pic decathlon squad. Plansky, a for- mer Georgetown football star, won | the gruelling ten even contest with 7142.273 points with Kenncth Do-| herty of the City College of Detroit | second with 7041.338 points. Sabin Carr of Yale set a new pole vamult mark of 13 feet, but this was | .|overshadowed hy Lee Barnes' 14 feet, 1 3-4 inches fn the west coast | relays. Carr vaulted 14 feet, 1 inch indoors last winter. The University of Chicago was the | victim of the most heart-rending break of the carnival when the ma- | roon quartet was deprived of a well daeflerved victory in the one-mile re- | lay because Gist, achor man, dropped } Ithe baton 25 yards from the tape. | A courageous spurt by Gist swept | him past the finish line a scant half | (UP)—Pcter Claremore, strengthened by winning in in and run Payne 6:20:31. mpton, Eng., more, okm..] N. J.. 396:. 409:15 , Ttaly, 413 N. ¥, Sask, OPENS ning marvels of the age. Ho has been | JOTREY s Vestenday Washington 5. is 5, Chicago 2 7, Cleveland ¢ (10 innings.) (Other clubs not seheduled), | Philadelphia St Louis Washington . Games Today New York at Washington, 1 i iladelphia at Boston Dieiroit at Chicago. S Louis at Cleveland Gang New Yoik Philadelphia Tomorrow t Washington at Boston. TTONAL LEAGUE es Yesterday . St. Louis 5. L& Cincago (12 inni ) Cinelnnati Pittshurgh Boston 7-5. New York 3-12 Brooklyn i-2. Philadelphia 1-0 Standing w Pet Brooklyn o New York . t. Louis Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburzgh oston Philadelp! Games Today Brooklyn at New York. Roston at Philadelphia. Chicago at Pittsburgh. Cincinnati at St. Louis. Games Tomorrow Boston at Philadelphia Brooklyn ut New York 1 Lo INTERNATIONAL LEAGUL Games Yesterday Ruffalo 2, N Rochester 15, Reading 2. Toronto 10-11, Baltimore Jersey City Montr Rochester Toronto Newarl Montreal Baltimore Buffalo er: Games Today Toronto at Baltimore. Buffalo at Newark. Rochester at Reading. Montreal at Jersey City EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Waterbury o, Pittsfield 0. (Other games postponed, rain and wet grounds.) Standing w INew Haven Pittstield |Hartford . Bridgeport Springficld Providence Waterb: {Albany Games Today New Haven at Hartford. Pittsfield at Waterbury. Bridgeport at Albany. Springfield at Providence Games Tomorrow Springfield at Hartford. at Pittsfield dence at Waterbury. New Haven at Bridgeport SOCCER IS EXCITING - G0DGOLFAT40 ‘Bobby Jones Even Agrees That | He May bea “Mild Threat” | S yeurs of age and with championship compcti- years behind him, ex- | sonably good golf” 12 peets to play rged with bLeing too conserva- tive since he is today pl demandd: s profession do not | make 100 great inroads on his game, ond 45 the Atlanta wizard has Reminded that Harry Var- the ch replied up in modes | not Varden.™ ly own hope that he will b malify for some of the big | fouslips when he is 40, ger icnds to be entirely Ssion to father tim man par. Even so if e a serious ball o 00 zreat or ol never hits he has passod | Wo score years in age he will brealk |V {the record of another | gian, Tyrus Raymond Cob Tunanimously in Georgia large majority in other sections of the country, the greatest player Lase- I ball Lias produced : and by a Ty i3 now plaving his 24th jof major le Lall more than 40, When Rok 3 Jones is 40 he will have played ma- 1 jor league golf for 26 yoars, The Boh- by of today is hotter than was the | Bobby of five years ugo when he won | | his first champlonship. George Dun- | can, the fast moving Scot, predictec in 1922 that Jomes at 30 would be a | better golfer than he was at 20. With four years o go, “Rubbertire” as the | pros call him apparentl about {10 show that Duncan’s forcasts are as good as s advice to putters to “hit the ball and knock it in the hole.” e base at sl J Is Much Heavier Bobby at the moment | neavier than he will {steps on the first tee i is much (1 be when he at Olympia | Ids to make another bid for the| National Open championship, *I put it on in thq winter and golf it off in the summer,” he explained. “Not all of it fales away from \vnlk!ns| cither. The nervous energy expend- {ed in serious competition burns a [1ot of flosh away. In this Bobhy finds himse in agreement with | Frank Frisch, The former Fordham and Giant star, and now doing his flashing for St. Louis. Frisch was happy when he was able to start the current season overweight when {most of his fellows were trying to get the pounds off. “Golf, you know, is played up here,”” sald Bobby, pointing to his head. “I do not think one’s physical condition is very important. ot course the eyesight must be good but {if you can ses and think a little bit, it seems to me you can play. I don’t worry about my weight. T lct that take, care of itself. Tt always has—so far.” Bobby, who Is plaving a scries of exhibition matches for the benefit of the Olympic games fund, may lose much of his excess poundage befors | 1 he gtarts to warm up for the year's big championships. He puffed his way over the mountainous course of the Baltimore Country club Sunday nd was glad to call it a day at the eighteenth green although with Watts Gunn he was all square with Warren Corkran and Roland Mac- Kenzie. The aftractive though pun- ishing Baltimore course muat have made him think of his native Geor- zia where Sidney Lanier sang of the hilla of Habersham and the marshes of Glynn. The hills grew and three days of rain furnished the marshes. i Apologized for Game | Tn his match at Baltimore he played like Jones until he got to the |greens but viewed from a normal |Jones angle he might as well have {left his famous putter, “Calamity |Jane” at home. He took 38 putts will |1carned + 3 jon a sodi ¢ he t 1500 yards with Isie and be from the oo i g this year . ML April 38 0P Bob- | first time not pla kYl ican pe | and every {stana at Dritish triumphs 1o |at 1 tampionship | has 1 “but I'm | pr ‘l knockout in mects “nited for New York this would b big goh from I in pounds. T pounds e said Ia After four played 15 holis o way Countr hit refus |meney. Just keep on going. 1 huvent Winthrop Coun vertheless the ball 0 @ bras- 310 yards holt befor il ARt golf to play | Wed e o'clock Liberty, 4 Wednesday o1 Jr. O, U, A, M. will folloyw. at 1 5 o'clock The Miita rtain sday af t ot members and rnoon from : Armory. @ caught up with his Bobby las u lot of of fend his Dritish of in in spi i at s o'elock, major chi v the open Walker € 10 her home Catholic will be il follow Jon 1h cust the ey of St Mggk's b 1 to postpone the hold a rnoon urch s mornir Zvgray of ime althongh i pro. who was said of Jones jave was called off mort after a e club wil SEEKS EARLY KNOCKOUT aney of Bridgeport (o Play for Kayo in First_Rounds of Bout With Sharkey. Bridgeport - IRy LY of Aren f the ke of Arenberg and Croy marred today with both civil ous rites vil ceremony in the royal Federzoni actin i official, and Senator president of the upper ¢ ber, as crown ‘nota At the ceremony and queen of Italy, the Duke and the Duke and 1, Count of Turin, the Yolunda, Giovan s of King Vietor Em s Yolanda's Ivi de Bergolo: the P s of MHesse ands Pri Immacolata of Austria, Delaney’s o Jaek v > Garden tonight. the envyweight chianipio P bt o1 1 Lo was per e Min s D sail his plin to carry the toni nit st Brid, this port rnoon were the Prince T expeets to 1 a few fore cniering ring, he | Aosta, Fear of overtr ey to put in Princess For the Maria Lyeeum Mystery Clock, Charl Hall Durant Cars—adyt OUR BOARDING HOUSE 14 DIDNT T —TELL Nou DISTIRCILY, NOT 1-To PLAY “THAT BIG MEGAPHONE OF NOURS 1 O 0BR AEW NEIGHBORS 2« TELLING MR. WENDELL YoU ARE IN “THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE » AND SPEND M0ST OF YOUR -TIME ABROAD ! “ AND HIS WIFE IMAGINES -THAT I ACCOMPARY Nou -To EUROPE oM NoUR DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS !« WHAT A SPOT You PUT ME IN' wee HMF ~ You BiG BELLOWS !+~ ALL RIGHT,« TLL STAY HOME “THE NEXT -TIME COOLIDGE SENDS Nou ABROAD, ~<4 AND Youl CAN EXPLAIN “To -THE WENDELLS, WHER W “THEY - DISCOVER Vou will hold a Order of Lizards will friends ill he held Wednes- | 1leck of 26 Rhodes will visit Berlin incess Lydia Marry D5 ANNUAL GOLF TOURNEY Duchess Duchess a and Mari husband, ning bal, " ENGLISH GOLFERS { Mitchell and Compston Best Bets in Championship Tourney — DY GENE SARAZEN (Copyright 1928 by United Press) Sandwich. Eng., April 30—I come sider Abe: Mitchell, the veteran Brite ish professional, and Archie Comp- sten, who conquered Walter Hagen at Moor Park, the two best bets in © British opcn golf championship, which starts here next Monday. It may be that some one of the {Americans who are at Sandwich |Will win the title, but the chamces 10 § The with rnish night Wom - k. liness of one of the |t less than during the past two Girls |} " we had Bobby Jones to purcn | SHOW the way. vo-| Tommy Armour, our national .. | champion, is playing wonderful golf |and hitting them a mile. He will d to, for the course herc is ex- 8 1y long. S a | Bill Mehihorn also has been g0~ P& ling strong, and Hagen will show us oday what he can do with the shampionship fairways and greens. Barnes has not heen playing practice, but he is getting bet- ch day, and there always is a «|chance that he may repeat his 1925 - |triumph TORU- | trey Wil- | x to ainy and windy, Natur- v this hasn't assisted us In our |practice rounds. | Thers are two courses Man- qualifying rounds—tie |Georges and the Prince’s. I am d with Bill Melhorn for the irst round 01 Monday over the for- oday, |mer course. The nest day we play telo- | Prince's, U re- | There Is a young Argentine golf- here who should do well. His me is Jurado. While he fs light 1 small he gets remarkable power 0 his shof for the Noyal St nin we an re | Lvent of Lastern Interscholastic As- sociation 10 be Staged at Greea- wich Club. orm- | nister | public Tit New York, April 50 ()--The an- ham. ! ual tournament of the Eastern In- | terscholastic Golf assoctation is to be {played at the Greenwich Country club, Greenwich, Conn., May 14-16. of | The tournament, open to students of |in private or public scheols in the Prin- feastern states will begin Monday, May . {14, with a 36-hole qualifying round. man- | Play in the first and second rounds will be held on Tuesday with the semi-finals and finals on Wednesd: Phillips Finlay, winner of the 1927 tourney, will not be eligible to com- |pete this year since he has been igraduated from Phillips-Exeter rademy king {um- rince cess es T 1 WHAT Qe Wiy, T RECALL Mo SucH-Topic I8 MY MEETING WITH WENDELL ' I FACT, 1 DID ALL OF THE LISTENING, « EGAD WHAT A LoQuACiouS PERSON HE (S, AND A SHAMELESS BRAGG s BOASTS -THAT HE HAS BEEN EMPLOVED BY “THE SAME FiRM N 4 cLoSING, 1 o i T A ARDE e \\g\r"-‘i«:\.m‘ W N T 7 Two Near Riots §0od enough for the rank and file, j rale, who was | Two Fist Fights, |3ard ahead of Ross of Yaie, ovjiowas . but 80 bad for “Rubber Tire" he felt — Inaugural Feature in Illinols Will be Handicap at a Milc With Nincteea Entries. Aurora, 1l.—The Illinois racing ‘season will open here tomorrow. The b 2 4 inaugural feature will be a handi- i A Speeding ? “No, your honor, just hur- rying to get a couple of new tires from the Union Store. “Their WHOLE - YEAR e GUARANTEE sourded | r ¢ almost 100 good to be true, | rondon -- Ten Americans, inclu- 80 I hustled to get there -ding Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, ir [Jim Barncs, Bill Mchlhorn and Tim- ;ei{:’;?' B Ci g S my Armour, arc entered in the Brit- Chicago -— Of 136 mnominations |for the Kentucky derby, 106 have Ibeen named for the American derby at Arlington Park, June 9. It is the largest number ever made for the h | a step in front of Barbuti of Syra- | cuse, but Yale was awarded the race | and Record becanse Gist finished without the ba- | geopcloss Tie, ton. | for Fouls Feature | New York. April P)—Roccor has become a serious niatter in the INDS WITH MEETING Cincinntati, 0., April 30 (®— |metropolitan arca Observance of the 100th anniversary | Two fist fights, two near riots and of the founding of the . O. O. I, [the calling of 50 fouls were sidc-at- ended last night with a maas meet- | tractions yesterday as the New York ing and initiation of a large class in | Giants and New York Nationals bat- the Samaritan, the play section of |tled to a scoreless draw in an Amer- the order. jican Soccer league engagement. Mengorial services for deccased | The number of fouls called—50 in members, was a feature of the aft- ian minutes—was belicved to have ernoon program. General Will C.|cstablished @ new record. Miller of Augusta, Maine, command- | Thirty police had their hands full er in chief of the patriarchs mili- | restraining the more impetuous sup- tant, placed a wreath on the monu- | porters of the rival teams. ment, | A special service was held at) Tt will pay you to giance over the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church. | Herald classifled ads. {1t necessary to apologize to his hosts for bis “miserable golf.” He used up 77 strokes in 18 holes. At the Columbla club in Washing- ton on his two-match trip he waded | | through a combination of rain, slect |and snow, with some of the fairways | budding rivers and the greens mini- ature lakes in a 73. Both at Wash- ington and Baltimore his long shots | were all carry and he was on some | three shot holes in two in spite of | the opposition of the elements. y friends expect too much of me,” Bobby eald when surprise was | expressed that he had taken a driv- {er on a hole only 251 yards. Mem- |bers of a gallery had wagered that | he would take a spoon or a driving {iron. “My shots don't travel nearly |0 far as some think or as I would | | OUR GUARANTEE IS TRUE, and we are not changing our mind! WE GUARA E OUR GENUINE LA SALLE TIRES against glass cuts, stone bruises, rim cuts, blow outs, and defective work- manship for one entire year whether you run your car 1,000 miles or 25,000! Best of all, you can buy these tires at REASO ABLE PRICES AND ON EASY TERMS. Investigate before you invest! Near E. Main New Britain ORI ish open champlonship starting at |Sandwich, Monday, May 7. The en- ltry list totals 271, including 57 am- ateurs. Among the missing are Bob- by Jones, titlc holder, and Cyril J. Tolley. Managers to Discuss l | Forming Ball League The Inter-Church league man- |azers will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the Y. M. C. A. and discuss the prospects of a baseball lcague dur- ing the coming summer. For the ithree years‘of the organization's ex- istdnce the church teams have ustd the soft Lall on the diamond, but | there is known to be wome leaning toward the regular hard ball and | this question will be the most im- portant problem for discussion if it is declded to conduct a league. It in hoped by the league officials that all "teams which played last summer will be represcnied and that any addi- tional. churches desiring to place team in the field will have represen- tatives at the Y. M. C. A. tonight. HIGH PRESSURE BEAUTIFUL- HOW O DID Yo EVER GUES! | WAS THREE-SPORTS STAR ! Grant Gillls, rockie shortstop with § !the Washington Senators. was a [three-sport star at the University of Alabama. 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