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Speaking i of Sports, e Five baseball games are sched- wled to be played in this city to- night, two in the City League, one n the Junior City League. One in the Industrial League and one in the state American Legion league. Hartford and Naugatuck have chosen this city as the neutral ground on which they meet in the elimination game for the state Legion championship. The game will be played tonight at 6 o'cleck on Diamond No. 1 at Willow Brook park, The Rangers and West Ends will battle for first place in the Uity League at Watnut Hill park at 6 o'clock tonight. This game will be played on Diamond No. 2. The American Legion team wiil meet the Laurels on Diamond No. 1 at Walnut Hill park at 6 o'clock to- night. This will be a Junior City League contest. The Rangers and Tabs will meet at 6 o'clock at Willow Brock park in a City League game R. & E. will mect 8t. Mary's field at & an Industrial Leagus poned from last night Landers at o'clock in game post- The umpires for the contests are #s follows: Lynch and Paul at the Pirates-West Iind Campbell et the Junior me. Baitter at the Tab: Yitzpatrick at the E. game and Holm of Hs Mangan of New Hartford-Naugatuck Britain Legion at the game. An Umpire argument over a ruling by Mike Lynch in the Ameri- can Paper Goods-Fafnir game last night has caused Manager Mcieon of the Kensington team to decide to protest the contest. It wes the occa- sion on which Frguson scored a home run when the ball he struck a child on the ter ficld. Kensington fielders child's side, forgetting the Ferguson, unaware that the ball had caused any damage, turned th: pla into a home run The Kensington playvers protested saying that time should be called but Umpire Lynch ruled that the ball was in play and fime could not The to the ball and be called until no furiher play was | possible. that he Rule with Manager states will protest game under 74, Section which deals *Buspension of play.” Section 2 reads as follows: ease of an accident which incapaci tates him or a player from servic in the field, or in order to remove from the grounds any player or spec- tator who has violated the rules, or in case of fire or panic or other ex traordinagy circumstances, Provided, that in case of accident to a player or players in an attempt to make a | play on either a batted or thrown ball, “time” shall not be called until, in the judgment of, the umpire, no further play is possible.” Umpire Lynch claims his way made sentence in this rule wherein it says that “time™ shall not be called unti! no tfurther play is possible. lLast night, when Ferguson hit the ball which struck the child in the he: -1t was a continuous play av the rules, the umpire could not suspend p ball had been brought bac diamond and the action had stopped. ruling 1t was an unusual case and for- tunately no serious results have de- velope at that, for the proper officiuly to take steps to make spectators at the baseball games at Walnut Hill parl;, keep off the playing field. Walker Is Termed the Sixty Per Cent Mayor | New York, July 25.—@—) James J. Walker was termed sixty per cent mayor” by MeAlister Coleman, socialist candidate for V. 8. senator, in a radio address over WEVD last night. Out of the 805 working days P———— tford and rushed | on the strength of the last | It is time now) and late | since | | Mayor Walker took office, said Cole- man; he has spent” 215 days away from the city and more than 100 “welcoming so-called distinguished visitors.”” He renewed the demand on {Governor Smith for an investigation | of the Walker administration. Baseball Standing AMERICAN LFEAGUE | New York | (Other clubs not Eastern teams on way cheduled — vest.) I ¢ The Standing ‘\'~ w York Philadelphia 8t Louis . Chicago ... Washinzton Cleveland Toston Detroit ... res Today New York Detroit | Philadelphia at Chicago. | Boston at Cleyeland. | Washington at t. Louis. | Games Tomorrow | Washington at St. Louis. | Philadelphia at Chicago. | New York at Detroit, | Boston at Cleveland. | NATIONAL LEAGUE | Yesterday's Results | St Louis 2, Brooklyn 1. | New York &, Pittsburgh 8. | 5. Philadelphia 1. | Cincinnati 5, (Other clubs not scheduled.) The Standing A} St. Louis . Chicago | Cincinnati [ New York Brooklyn | Pittsburgh Boston | Philadelphia | Games Today St. Louis at Brooklyn Pittsburgh at New York Chicago at Boston. Cineinnati at Philadelphia. 2. | Games Tomorrow Chicago at Boston. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at New York | INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE | Yesterday's Results Jersey City 3, Reading s.) . Baltimore 6-2. 9-0, Toronto 4-4. Rochester 5. Newark 1 | Montreal | Buffalo 13 | | “In| | Toronto | Rochester | Reading | Montreal Newark Baltimore Games Today Reading at Jersey City. Toronto at Montreal. Buffalo at Rochester. (Other clubs not scheduled. EASTERN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Bridgeport 4-5, Hartford 3-7. New Haven 2, Pittsfield 1. Providence Springfield Albany 2, Waterbury 1. The Standing 2 61 48 4 40 44 45 44 New Haven | Providen | Hartford Pittstield Springfield . Bridgeport mes Today Hartford at Bridgeport. Pittsficld at New Haven, Springfield at Providence. Waterbury at Albany. | Games Tomorrow | Pittsfield at New Haven. Springfield at Hartford. Waterbeury at Albany, Bridgeport at Providence. The'fire test™~ ’ of cigar Quality Test for your- self the cool, mild Havana fragrance and the distinctive flavor of a NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1928. BOOTLEGGERS ARE *SCORED IN REPORT 'Bar Association Hears Crime | Syndicate Is Financed by Them Seattle, July 25 () — With the I picture of an alloged criminal syn- dicate in many United § centers dominated and financed by the bootlegging industry before them today, delegates to the Amer ican Bar association eonvention planned to hear the annual ud- dress of Bilas H. Btrawn, president, and other official reperts and elect nembers, Growing lack of confidence in integrity of public ofticia cause of “bribery and co in public office” by bootle was depicted in a report r night by Jacob M. Lashly, president of the St. Louis Bar in ithe absence of his brother, Arthur | V. Lashly, St. Louis, the author. Bootleggers Blamed Lashly, whose report was based on a_ symposium of opinions of of- ficials, publishers and Jaw enforce- ment agents in many representative large cities, placed “the real prob- lem of crime und failure of justice |in many parts of the country” di- rectly at the deor of the bootleg- ging indust '8 urban by uption ociation, |come commen occurrenc he lsaid, “bocause the cupidity of poli- | ticians and state and government ofiicials generally has b by the enormous profits of bootleg- ging, which, Deing ‘mlawful, are considered legitimate prey.” By-products of the thug. bombing and hi-jack- ing gangs, often utilize their spare moments in influencing elections by terrorism, and in extortion schemes, murders, other major trimes chargeable to this source, Lashly reported more or less in- | discriminate trafiicking of intoxi- cants in violation of the law large majority of American of 100,000 population and over | A vigilant and informed publ insisting on honesty in office, w |the prime remedy suggested. Per- {manent imprisonment of habitual {law violators, organized burcaus of {criminal statistics to aid in deter- (mining those offenders, rigid en- | forcement or repeal of the prohihi- tion laws, and breaking up of gang |rule and corruption of ofticials wer |other suggestions for ¢ ing with |the_professional criminal clase, Rap New York and Chicago New York and Chicago were called leading crime centers, while conditions in other cities were given detailed study. Cities con- tirbuting reports for the symposium included Washington, Boston, De- troit. St. Louis, San Francieco, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, holdups anl directly cities “Bribery and corruption have be- | N excited | the ijlegal indus- | in a| Scattle, Denver, Buffalo, Indianapo- Providence, Toledo, Akron. Memphis, St. Paul, Charleston, & C.. Oklahoma City, Fort Worth and | Dallas. American lawyers in Paris who been charged there with morally reprehensible conduct” in rushing American divorces through French courts, drew the five of {President Strawn, who summary punishment by jcourts for such oifenders. “The French courts can remedy | conditions by refusing to grant di- |vorces to Americans where pro- ‘ceedings appear ireegular,” he said. Or course we Know there | those vultures who call 1 |awy and prey upon susceptibic wealthy Americans desiring Paris divorces, but it is beyond our ‘lr"\\flr to restrain them." ‘GOOLIDGE NOW 1S Ilu. ! 1 have are msely Tris His Luck in Open Waters _gl Lake Superior, Wis, July »— | Breaking into new fishing groun. | President Coolidge has proved his worth as an angler in the open waters of Wisconsin lukes, With Mrs. Coolidge, his guide and secret service men as his only spe tators, the chief exccutive abandoned the Brule river lata yesterday and |in an expedition which lasted till after sunset traveled 20 in quest of bass on Island 14 Porsaking his regular dinner j{hour ant breaking all precedent, MF. Coolidge stayed on the water till darkness counseled return te Cedar Island lodge, but net before could hoast of a catch of 10 bass. After working till late yester afternoon, President Coolidge | miles ke. he in- nd watch him try his luck on Is- {land lake. With little notice to his expedition was organized {#nd Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge started in their car for the lake, They ked in canoes at alf hidden in the fol inging trees, a se of inaw, Khaki breeches and laced high boots. placed himself at the bow of noe with Mrs. Coolidge in the Another canoe with two secret serv- ice operatives followed. For two hours, until abeut 8:15 | o'clock Mr. Coolidge cast continuous- Iy and tirclessly. The lake bass sclence he has acquired in his in- tensive fishing experience this sum. mer to land them. He was cheered in his efforts by Mrs, Coolidge, who, although not fishing herself ap- peared interested in the procecdings. in New Britain is 925, NEARS AGO[wev 1 AROUN' US BEGIN EIGHT FEET DEEP, BUMPIK' MY HAID AW Dol — WHEN TH' HEW ARE YA GONNA MPAEY ME. 2 Demana’in | A BOX-CAR FULL OF PIGS, AN WUE RUMN INTO A CLOUDBUST e ALL WAS SWIMMIN' WITH PlGs AN’ 4 OF ~TH’ BOX-CAR wast SINCE DEM I AINT GoT No USE Fo’ WATER OR PiGS " Our Boarding House MONEY COULDNT GIT ME ~To Go IN WATER, MISTAH MATOR, No SUH, « ['M WATER-SHY,«w EVAH SINCE I HAD A ACCIDENT SEBEM WAS RIDINT 1N -To BE FLOODED «u AN THERE [ AGIN -TH' Roo™ For EXPERT FISHERMAN | vited Mrs. Coolidge to go with him | The ehief execu- | {tive, in a fishing costume of mack- | center and the guide in the stern. | were game, although plentiful, and | Mr. Coolidge had te resort to all the | The best known telephone number TusH,TusH SAsoN,« L AM AS MUCH AT EASE IN WATERE AS A SEAL!«+E6AD, 1 CARRIED AWAY -THE AQUATIC HoMoRS 1N THREE OLYMPIADS! s INTERNATIONAL OLNMPIC CHAMPION ¥oR FLOATING, ~+PLAIN AND FAMCY WADING, «+ AND RECORD BREAKER FoR HOLDING BREATH UNDER WATER! THRILLING RACE OF RIVER BOATS Revival of Oid Oip Clasic Staged Today | | 25 @) ¥s when fre- mboat New Richmond, A revival of th quent and spiri Ohio, July d races river river men vietory Ohio i Ann e was | over the The Chris nds of spectat of the rive {across the gang p river rivalry g out the Betsy 1zht thous lined the yesterday s who Ann, was by | £ < ohat r. by two 1 B up the Ohio The winniy mil com-! s and | 25 minutes ave proximately | cight miles an hour. was ne ¢ five miles an hour fess than the | | recor by the Robert E. lee, | | when it rac=d the Natchez from New | Orloans up the Mississippi to St | Louis in June 1870 | | The Chris Greene already has two | | (hallenges for races for the pair of | gilded elk horns h the Betsy Ann, packet of the Pittshurgh and | Cincinnati Packet company, had won |in hard fought battles on the Mis- | sissippi. | One from the Tom Greene, flag- ship of the Greene line, and the other from Cap 0. Trvin, master cf the Cordhill of | Pittsbur, Crowds of cheering spectators greeted the racers as they pulled up |here at dusk last wight. The two steamers were belching clouds of Mlack smoke from their twin fun- I nels and their whistles were shriek- ing. When the boats were hrought te a stop, Frederick Way, president of the packet company, ch the Chris Greene, brought horns aboard the rival and present- ed them to Captain Christ Greene, who had commanded his own craft. The race started at Cincinnati at 5:05 o'clock. The Chris Greene had been at anchor there awaiting her rival. The Betsy Ann pulled up on the starboard side and finally nosed | up even with the Chris Greene. With |sirens shrieking wildly, both vessels started forward, The race began neck but the Chris Greene lead and incre whic Senator and neck, soon took a sed it to two lengths |at the half way mark. It was 800 [feet ahead ‘at New Palestine, five miles farther on, but Capt. Charles| Ellsworth of the Betsy Ann cut it down again to two lengths, the mar- gin of victory, The contest followed a challengs by way after Greene boasted he could beat the Betsy Ann “any time.” He made the boast when newspapers reported a victory of his boat over the Betsy Ann last week. 12 2| | which they OLYMPIC CHAMPION CULTIVATORS § V'D LIKE 5 POT IN AN 0ER FoR QS\.TI VATOR,, ~ , PLEASE. In making the challenge Way of-! fered the gilt cdge horns as a tro- phy for victory The Betsy Ann was 1915 and m She carried Chris Greene taunched ries 250 passengers {7 HOURNERS HURT AS PINZZA DROS AT Hurled Vit L§5) KE n to cound From ird Story in Boston—1 men Called Out Boston. July While them worner night when the thir were sitting The Mothers' buried in th firemen and police wus 1 extricate the inju Those most Mrs, Mary Iitzgerald, and Mrs. I all of Charlestown; McAloon of | taken to a hospita 1ccover, Twelve other W hurled to the ground 1 piazza fell were treated at the scens wor mbors and I th a Plain - Al wers 1 but probat al 1y will women who when two About 30 women had arrived at | Kiihy D. ftone declarod the the house carlier in the evening to|of the biggest to be il the wake for the late Mrs. | this section of the nrictta Hawking, After pausing alcohel was of pure t the bier they filcd onte the rear (and was said to have h the house already| was er because owded. had the last of stepped onto the piazza when there was Searcely them | England, principal point for distribution te @ brief crackling of wasted tim- | the “retail trade.” E a large portion of the porch| The distribution, it was learned, way shing down onto the ! often took the form of carload ship- a piazza and carrying !ents to various peints in Connecti- B iEmoxinit {cut, Rhode 1Island and this state. receive the alcohol in this city as of 1 floor 1so, to | supposed agent for the fictitious | companies to which it had been bill- led and to transport it clsewhere or Million Dollar store it here. Of the stuff scized here, §,000 ¥ gallons were taken in the Congress 1 Stores warchouse; 1,820 in a freight car in the East Cambridge yards and the same amount in another car on Commercial wharf. Jumes Pettit and Johy O'Brien were the agents who uncovered the ring. Boston and Vici i Jollar” mifie: villion rum ring 2 probed by federal agents t of scizure of approxi- | » gallons of alcohol. | tes of 12 other men con. | ayndicate were suid vown and would be presented ral grand jury for in- following the s he REV. DR. DAVIS TO sPEAK Rev. Dr. Jotin L. Davis will speak at the Community church ut Stony Creek Sunday morning at 10:48. A year ago be spoke there and the church was crowded. A large number of New Britain people will B0 and summer residents from New London to New Haven along the Shore are expected to speak. Dr, Davis owns a summer home at Eteny Creek. 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