New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1928, Page 12

FALCONS AND KENSINGTON TO MEET AGAIN SUNDAY—GIRLS' STATE LEAGUE BASKETBALL TEAM TO HOLD FIRST PRACTICE —NUTMEG ELEVEN PREPARING FOR ALL-BRIDGEPORT—HUGGINS THINKS OVER-CONFIDENCE OVER-CONFIDENCE CAUSE OF CARDINALS' DEFEAT| yA|[ABLE PLAYER Miller Huggins Gives ilis Vi iews On Reasons for Sorry Showing of St. Louis—Experts Had Predicted Easy Win for National League Team — Betting Odds | Were Against Yankees, 3 to 1 — Took Too Much Stock In Story About C New York, Oct. 11 (P—The boys were on the last lap of the long | jaunt from St. Louis with the world's champion Yankees. They were still talking basshall, now passing over the horizon for the season when the ususually taciturn Miller Huggins spoke up. “Do you know what licked the | Cardinals?” he inquired. This was | enough in itself to produce an im- | mediate silence. The boys had their own ideas op the subject, but here was the sient leader of the cham- plons ready to give his views. “Over confidence, from the fact that they had been made as high as 3 to 1 favorites and the fact that Alexander was whipped in his first start—that's what beat them,” said “Hug.” He elaborated: “They had heard we were a lot of cripples, little short of pushovers. They watched us practice, noticed perhaps that a few of us limped and that Lazeri’s throwing arm was bad, but, and this is important—we neemed to be able to play a little | snappy ball. “We gotthe jump at the start, be- hind Hoyt, and they became even more convinced all that had been sald about us in advance wasn't quite true. This upset them. “Then to cap the climax, Alex upon whom they banked so heavil didn't show us a thing. He had trimmed us before, and 1 think the Cardinals counted on him more than | any other pitcher. They didn't get over that setback.” “Well, Hug,” some one suggested, “your outfit ought to be sitting pret- ty well mext year after getting through this tough season.” “Maybe,” replied "Hug,” he again was conservative and taciturn, side- stepping any predictions. “You never can tell what will happen. Maybe we will be all right, and maybe we won't. A lot can hap- pen. I'm not going to do any worry- ing about that for some time. I've had enough worries to last me for the winter.” The little Yankee boss is known to be considering some rebuilding, nev- ertheless. At least he intends to have the second line ready whenever any of the regulars slip. A change at third base, the prob- able replacement of one oy two of the present reserve backstops, Gra- bowski and Collins, as well as addi- | tions to the pitching corps, will be considered later on. | The Yankees have two young in- fleld recruits coming from the Ouk- land club of the Pacific Coast league —Lyn Lary and Jimmy Recse, They have other talent marked for future delivery. Anything can happen, as “Hug” points out, but it is quite cleasr that the Yankeces do not intend te ' sit back and enjoy their laurels. When the roll call is sounded next spring Huggins will demand to be shown before he leads the boys into another pennant tussle. LEAGUE GHAMPS T0 BE HONORED West Ends o Be Guests at Ban- quet on Saturday Night - Plans were completed last evening for the banquet to I rippled Players. NUTHEG ELEVEN GETTING READY Local Football Eleven Scheduled to Moet Bridgeport Sunday With All-Bridgeport coming here Sunday with one of the strongest {football teams assembled in recent years in the Park City, the Nutmeg eleven of this city will have to be at the peak of form to keep up its winning streak. The visitors have a hneup that would impress even the most skeptical grid fan and every player on the team is anxious to defeat the New Britain club, Tonight at 7:30, the Nutmegs will practice at Willow Brook park in preparation for the game. Signal drill will occupy the attention of the team fop the most part as this s the most important item in the cam- paign of the Nutmegs, he local team is about set for the cason now. The barkfield will most probably start with Belenki and Buckley at the halves and Davis at fuilback, Radzewich will call sig- nals and will pay in the safety po- sition. The line from end to end is strong and capable, On the offense the forward wall can charge to per- fection while it takes a really good backficld man to get through for any appreciable gains. Bridgeport, directed by Jacka- bowsky, former Villanova star, has a crack sct of backs who will cause the locals plenty of trouble. ®Eross, last year's veteran, tore through the All-New Britain line for plenty of gains in the game played in Bridge- port. Paired up with Boyan, he was last season. tullback and he is known as one of the best line plungers in the busi- ness, The line compares favorably with that of New Britain. A sprinkling of college stars mixed with efficient professional players gives the team o offense and defense as strong as the best the Nutmegs can put in. Both teams r to be equal in all departments of the game. Several bus loads of fans will ac-: company the team from Bridgeport. Remembering the crowd that went to Bridgeport last scason, the Park City fans are anxious and eager to return the compliment . The game will be started ‘promptly at ©'clock. GR1D UNDERDOGS FAVORED T0 WIN Football Doormats of West Have Chance for Firgt Time Chicago, Oct. 11 (P—The football doormats of the western conference will have their chance Saturday to prove that no longer are they step- ping stones to gridiron titles. For the first time in recent years Indi- ana, Ohio State and Towa will enter thelr first conference game, not only favorites to win but as contend- ers for the Big Ten championship. Despite bear stories out of the In- day evening at 8 o'cloc grill in honor of th baseball team, winr Baseball league during tie won. The league had a very, suc- | cessful year and this is the first time that an affair of this kind has been attempted. The guests of honor will be James Naughton, chairman of the public amusement commission, and organizer of the City league; Ken- S0 ont of the | league for the manager of the | astasio, treasurcr of the league at Fallon’s | Wes | of the ( past sea- | n Lasky, manager of the Daiecy, manager of the dinals, and J. McGuire and I 3Me- Inerney, managers of the Tabs. | The champions who will be pres- | ent are: William Cormier, s of the league this year and playing manager of the W . William Campbell, coach, ( 8 ampbell, captain, John Smithwick, Tommy Blanchard, Johnny Shechan, William Jumes Kelly, Tommy Basil, | J. Elander, J. Liss and %, Bjorklund J. Fr i . A Recor E. Hayes and ino will be special guests of the 1 for their untir ing work for the promotion of the league du the These men took ecur s matters during the zame that the officers could not find time to do. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Al Foreman, C1 George Chabot, suntmer. tl 120, Mon- Montreal — knocked out treal, 4. New York Cuba, outpoints of of | Chocc die O'Dowe New York. ! Tol-do, 10. outpointed rre Haute, Ind. 10 n — Joe Sekyra, Day- outy a4 Emmett Rocco, B City, O, 10. Jack M’ Pittsburgh, outpointed Wal alifornia, Pa., 6. Kersch Duff ton. wood man Dickerson, r- | diana camp, the Hoosiers are' given the edge o cr the rookie Michigan ¥ leleven that went down to defeat last week at the hands of Ohio Wesleyan. Trebaugh, veteran Indiana guard, is fefinjgely out of the game, and it is loubtful 1t Reinhardt, who scored the only touchdown against Okla- homa last Saturday, will be in the lineup. Though lowa has managed to de- at Chicago only once and tie the aroons on another occasion in their gridiron contests, she will enter ' a slight favorite. comes because of Mayes McLain, 210 pound Indian fuliback, and the much heavier Towa forward wall. McLain scored 2 points in 13 games at Haskell 1526 and showed some of his old tir » form against Monmouth last week, although in the game only a few minutes. Of the threr Ohio State appears h: rdest assignment i Dici Hanley's Northwestern Wildcats, Jack Wilce will be pitting a strong liné against Hanley's versatile backfield. Injuries took its toll in the Ohio camp ay when Hard, 'ruskamp, full- back, who only recently returned to squad after a knee injury, again injured the knee and was declared out of 5 What st” Welch and Purdue will do to Minnesota is more or less conjecture. « Much depends on elch’s knee that did not perforin ¥ too well after being injured last on. But that injury was the boilermaker back ripped the Harvard line three downs. He is to be form this fall While Coach been sending Minnesota play trying to determine field at Minnc:polis ko Nagurskl ap; line and the next day Spe he would be more valuable backfield. in erstwhile door mats, to have the for aid Jimmy TPhelan has his varsity against . Dr. Spe has been his best in the should be the same streak that he |didate is Harry Manush of the Mead will be a! 2:30) WRITERS T0 PICK Yearly Award of Hoor and Cash o Be Made Soon New York, Oct. 11 UP—Juries are eut in the cades of the most valu- able players in the American and National leagues and verdicts soon will be returned. A writer in each city represented i3 the two major leagues has mail- o8 a rating of- the most valuable players as he sees them to league headquarters and the one named as the_head man will get $1,000 and ha» %is name placed on the honor roll, The announcement cannot be made before the world series. It was not always so. In 1925 Roger Peck- inpaugh, now manager of the Cleve- land Indians, then playing shortstop for Washington, was declared the most useful to his team and the announcement was made with a flare and a blare of trumpets great- ly to Peck's embarrassment a few days later. In the world series he was the “goat” of the big shot, mak- |ing eight errors and batting a pal- try .250. Since then the votes have been mailed before the series starts but the winners are not announced until the tumuit and shouting of the Inter-league play has died away, The writers and league officlam are very secretive about the voting jand only guesses may be made as to the winners. The writers In fact, not being able to make a guess themselves unless .they go into a huddle and compare notes. Many suggestions have been made of players in the two leagues worthy of the honor but three in each league seem to be leading in advance calculations. Waite Hoyt's pitching was a big factor in the win- ning f the Yankees' third succes- sive pennant, and while pitchers are in the minority in the official hall of fame, one in each league has been honored, Walter Johnson in the American and Dazzy Vance in the National, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are ineligible since they have won it and the American league rules do not permit encores. A favored can- St. Louis Browns. The former Detroit outfielder led the league in hitting {when he was a Tiger and was only one point out of the leadership th year on the basis of unofficial fig- ures. He was a powerful figure in the astounding jump of the Browns from a lowly second division berth to third place. Lefty Grove, star pitcher of the Philadelphia Athletics, soundly and consistently trimmed every club in the league except the Yankees and his pitching placed the A's in the competition extending through the stretch to the finish. The fact that the crack southpaw could not make an impression on the champions may mitigate against his chances. In the National Freddy Lindstrom of the Glants, Jim Bottomley of the Cardinals and Hughie Critz of the Reds, all inficlders, have figured in pre-choice discussion. Lindstrom great play, offensively and defensive- ly, was a decided factor in the Mc- Graw Clan success. Bottomley led the league with runs batted in, the most important feature of play. The brilliant Critz not only fielded in his usual sensational style, having a large share in the record breaking number of double plays made by Cincinnati, but batted well. Although it perhaps just happens 80, a player on a pennant winning team has an edge in the balloting. Last year Gehrig of the Yankees and Paul Waner of the Pirates were slected. In 1926 O'Farrell of the pennant winning Cardinals won. The American League honor, ho ever, went to a player on a non- winner, George Burns of Cleveland. The American League honor roll system was started in 1922 when George Sisler was named, but it was made retroactive to include Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins and Tris Speak- ler. Dabe Ruth took his place with {the other distinguished baseball fig- jures in 19 and Walter Johnson | followed ¥n 1924 when Washington | won its first pennant. The National League joined in the movement in 1924 and Rogers Hornsby was crowned in 1925 after Vance had been placed at the top the year before. ! The winners in the two leagues: American 1922—George Sisler, 1b., Browns. 3—Babe Ruth, Of., 1924—Walter Johnson, Senators. 1926—George Burns, 1b.. Indians. 1927—Lou Gehrig, 1b., Yankees. National 1924—Dazzy Vance, —Rogers Hornsby, P., Brooklyn. 2h., Car- | dinals. 1926—Rob O'Farrell, C., Cardinals. 1327—Paul Waner, Of., Pirates. fRozers—BO\\'Iing ‘Team Loses Three Straight Rogers Recreation howlers expefi- enced a digastrous evening in state league play with the Walling- | ford team night when the vis matches and won tors took th in total pinfall by a margin of 85 pins. The New Britainites were not in their usual spectacular form and dropped down considerably in thelr team play. J. Saunders hit high single with a mark of 138 while Crean hit 369 for high thr This gave Wallingford tof | for the night The scores: Wallingford S 342 11 i 568—1650 the | " of the examination he took recently | GOODBYE BASEBALL! HELLO FOOTBALL! WELL, MOVE ALONS! - { WANT SweEP ™ ve! YANKEES GREETED BY GREAT CROWDS Triumphant Champions Get, Wonderful Greeting in New York New York, Oct. 11 (#—Babe Ruth and the World's Champlon Yankees are home again, bringing with them their unequalled string of records made in their second successive world's series triumph and received the adulation of thousands of base- | ball fans, young and old, After a journey from St. that was a long series of hero-wor- shipping trying to catch a glimpse of the champions and the champion ‘ot champions—the Babe, the ath- letes arrived in New -York at rine o'clock last night to be met with a demonstration that outshone all the rest. A crowd of about 3,000 cheer- ing fans was on hand when the spe- cial train reached the Grand Central terminal and the players had to fight their way through the throng to the Hotel Biltmore, where Gover- nor Smith was waiting to add his greetings. Six sturdy policemen were required to disentangle Ruth from the crowd while such unimportant persons as Col. Jacob Ruppert, own- of the team, and Miller Huggins who guided the Yankees to victory, were swept aside in the rush. Governor Smith, dressing to start on a campaign tour, held his collar and tle in his left hand while he grasped Ruth's hand with his right. | ongratulations on those hits,” he said. “If 1 could count on as| many votes as you have kids yelling for you, I'd be sure I'm going to be ! elected,” the governor continued. As he put on his collar and tie, the goverinor asked Ruth if he were | all through for the season. “All except a little barnstorming,” | Ruth replicd. “That's what I'm going to do t00,” | Smith said,” cxcept that instead of hitting the ball I've got,to hit the candidatc.’ After greeting the rest of the team and posing for photographers, the governor left to catch his train and the playgs silpped from the hotel in small groups, trying to avoid the crowd that still was present. Ruth’'s barnstorming tour, in which his home run partner, Lou Gehrig, will take part, stars tomor- row in Brookly1 and will take them |as far west as Om After tomor- row's game the Babe will lead one team and Lou will oppose him with another. The othcr members of the team cxpect to go back to their winter occupations within a short time. | Bob Meusel left the team at St. Louis to go to California and Jchn Grabowsli collly dropped off the {train at Schenectady, N. Y.| where | {he works during the | General Herb Pennock Pipgras | nd Earle Combs are leading the | back to the soll movement in Penn- sylvania, Minnesota and Kentucky. | while Benny Bengongh departs in la few days to join a group of other !big leaguers on a hunting trip in Canada. Miller Huggins and Henry | Johnson expect to start for the south for a winter of golf and Waite Lloyt goes only as far as Brooklyn, | ¥here he will await the outcome | Louis 2, ito become a qualified mortician, 4 2 RACTICE The Pawnee foothall team |practice Thursday night at 7:30 lo'clock at the East st ot field. Al fast workout under the direction of | Coaches Gianotta and Turner is on |the program. Manager F. Quarti| is without a game for Sunday but! he is in communication with several | clubs abest o and. expects| to schedule a tc ! will | might be finished before night falls. FALCONS AND KENSINGTON MEET AGAIN NEXT SUNDAY {Third Game of ity Title Series to Be Staged at St. Mary’s Field—South Enders Have Already Taken Two Victories—Hardware City Club With Back to the Wall—Woodman and Nichols Probable Pitch- ing Selections—Contest Once again the two local baseball teams which are battling it out for the championship of the city, the Falcons and All-Kensington, will meet, this time at St. Mary's Field in this city Sunday afternoon. This may be the final and deciding game of the battle between the two. Kensington has taken two victor- ies in two straight games. Both con- tests were closely fought and the third will be no exception. A win for Kensington will finish the question and make that team the champion- ship outfit. A win for the Falcons will stave off the Kensington rush and will give the Hardware City nine a new lease on life, Without any announcements hav- ing been made by either of the managers, the pitching selections for Sunday's game will probably be Nichols for the KFalcons and Wood- man for the Kensington erew. “Lefty” Atwood was shelled off the mound in Kensington last Sunday and Nichols had to relieve him. Nichols pitched nice ball for the re- mainder of the game, The squabble over the decision rendered by Umpire McKeon at third base when Darrow dropped the ball in tagging a runner, still y. The Falcons claim sion killed a rally that wus sure to put their team in the | lead. The time of starting Sunday's contest has been set ahead due to the return to standard time. The game will start promptly at 2:15 o'clock 80 that the entire affair 'BRIEN EXPECTS 10 WIN TOMGHT Battles Konchina of New York | at Hartford Foot Guard Hall Hartford, Oct. O'Drien, who pattles Frankie Kon- china of New York in the star bout of the new-talent boxing show at Foot Guard hall tonight, is confident of winning over the New Yorker on a knockout. | O'Brien has been training several weeks getting in shape for bouts that were never held because of rain and because of injuries to prospec- tive opponents, is in superb condi- tion and is hitting harder than ever, according to his manager, Dinny Mc- Mahon Konchina is known in Metropoli- tan circles as a hard hitter, his last kayo having besn scored over Billy Moved To LEONARD BUILDING 300 MAIN ST. Specializing in Painless Tooth Extraction 11—Frankie | to Start at 2:15 o’Clock. Franklin. TFranklin had just de- feated Rene Devoos, the Belgian who a few weeks ago defeated Dave Shade, ‘I mas never in better shape and was never @o eager to get in the ring for real action,” O'Brien said today. “I feel confident of winning and expect to score a kayo. I hope to fneet Ebbets again and to get & return bout with Al Mello.” The O'Brien-Konchina bout is for ten rounds and there are several six- rounders on the under card. Mickey Travars, veteran New Havener, who recently knocked out Ray Hogan in one round, will meet Billy Fitz of Waterbury; Brownic Tucker, Hartford colored bantam, will meet Frankie Marchese of New York; Vic Morley of Hartford clashes with Billy Johnson of Bouth Deerfield, Mass., and Vic Carlson of Terryville takes on Jack Slattery of New Haven, The first bout is set for 8:18, Radio Call DENNE to Be Used by Zeppelin New York, Oct. 11 M—The Graf Zeppelin in its flight across the At- lantic to Lakehurst, N, J., will use the radio call DENNE. In case help is needed she will use a wave length of 600 meters. The dirigible also will use a long wave length of 1,800 to 2.400 meters for regular broadcasting. CAUSED CARDINALS' DOWNFALL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL- mm. | | STAGES FIRST PRACTICE | Candidates for State League Quintet to Work Out To- night at Stanley Arena—Lists Open to All Players In the City—Leading Industrial League Stars and Others to Make a Try for Places On Squad—Man- ___ager Ralph Recano to Be In Charge of Session. GEORGIA' FAVORED T0 DEFEAT YALE Eli Football Team Wil be Short of First String Mea New York, Oct. 11 (P—The chances for a second triumph of the Georgia Bulldog over the Yale Bull- dog secem to be increasing daily. A year ago Georgia deprived Yale of a possible claim on eastern champlon- ship honors by & 14 to 10 defeat. Next Saturday their meeting may bring about the same situation. The Elis probably will go into the Georgia game suffering from an acute shortage of first string play- ers. Their team will be made up of reserves or, if the regulars get in, of men who have not had enough hard work to prepare them for a big game. Bince their opening victory over Maine, the Yale players have not had one good drill, and many of the regulars have not been in uniform at all. Coach Mal Stevens planned a long scrimmage for yesterday but only one of his regulars appeared. Twelve of the first string players were in the hospital, suffering from colds or minor injuries. How many of these men will be able to play against Georgia is doubtful, and if they should play their performance is equally uncertain. Stevens is not able to make plans for his practice sessions for the rest of the week and does not dare risk a scrimmage for fear of injuring his few remain- ing able bodied men. Should Elis get safely by the Georgla menace, how- ever, they should be well on the way to a good season, as none of the casualties is seriously hurt, While the attention of the east- ern fans is attracted by the mid- scason atmosphere of such big games as the Yale-Georgia, Navy- Notre Dame and Pitts-West Virginia encounters, most of the leading clevens will ‘be going along the smooth roag of early season games with little to fear from BSaturday's opponents. Princeton, with a team that shows signs of great power, meets Virginia, which took a severe drubbing from South Carolina last week. While the Tigers are not like- ly to duplicate thelr. 50 to nothing victory over Vermont they should win easily from the southerners. Harvard may have a closer strugsle with North Carolina, for the Tar Heels flashed some fine play in the last few minutes to beat Maryland |last Saturday, while the Crimson has not yet reached its best form. The Army gets a rest after its ter- rific struggle with Southern Metho- dist in a game with Providence col- lege. Dartmouth encounters Alle- ghany, a small college aggregation that sometimes causes a lot of trou- ble, but Jess Hawley is not taking the game lightly as he took care in yesterday's practice to see that his men were well drilled in the funda- mentals that make or break a team. Cornell, still uncertain as to its line- up, has a potentially weak opponent in Hampden Sidney. Lafayette and Georgetown, two of the high scoring teams of the early season, have opponents that should help fatten their totals. George Washington, beaten last {week by Fordham, comes to Easton, iwhile the Hilltoppers entertain Lebanon Valley. Other games that seem more likely to produce big scores than upsets are the Pennsyl- vania-Swarthmore, Columbia-Wes- leyan, Colgate-Virginia-Poly, - Tonight at 7 e'clock, the candi- dates for places on the girls' basket- ball team which will probably rep. resent this city in the state league, will assemble for their first work- out and trial. The practice session will be held under the direction of Manager Ralph Recano. An invitation has been issued to art girls in the city who have played basketball to be present at the meeting. It is the plan and aim of the manager to select absolutely the best material available so that the local team will have the strongest representation possible for the com. ing season. Although the first to announce tcam were a number of stars om the various Industrial league teams, several others outside this realm have also made plans to attend the workout tonight. It is expected that 20 or more candidates will be pres- ent tonight, Manager Clarence Lanpher of the the squad will be called together next week or the week following to start work for this year's campaign, Beveral players have already been signed for the team and many more are seeking places on the squad. ing star of local professional teams, will be & candidate for a place on the squad and it is entirely likely that Mert will be signed as a utility man. Manager Lanpher is preparing one of the most ambitions schedules ever undertaken by a local team. He has already had negotia. tions with and may sign the Wash- ington Palace Five, former cham- pions of the American league; the Renaissance Five, colored [plons of the world; the Celtics, world's champions; the Visitation Five of Brooklyn, N. Y., which ap- peared here last year; Johnny Beck- man's All-Stars, also on last year's schedule; the Hoboken Germans who played the Bristol Endees in Bristol last year, and several others, Competition in the state will be cut down with regard to the number of * teams in action this season, 8o far as is known Meriden and Bris- tol Endees will be represented as will Plainville while the Springtield Y. M. H. A will be on the local on the court this year. in this city is one in which Johnny Hayes, local boy and Lehigh star, is intcrested. His roommate in New York, Lou Gordon one of the lead- ing basketball players in the coun- try; Donald Jack, formerly of Wes- leyan, Middletown;. Jim Thorpe, famous Indian and others are mem- bers of the quintet, It is being pro- moted by Howard Cann of Spald- inng Brothers. SHAW LETTERS BOU Londen, Mail says that letters written by George Bernard S8haw to an unnam- ed individual over a ten year perlod have been purchased for a consid- erable sum by Gabriel Wells, New York dealer, and are en route to the United States, It is said that Shaw has learned of the sale and intends to use every legal means to prevent publication, GHT CLERICAL TRANSFERS | Hartford, Oct. 11 (P — Bishop {John J, Nilan of _the diocese of Hartford today °announced _ the transters of the Rev. John A. Dowd of ft. Michael's church, Hartford, to the pastorate of St. Bernard’s church, Sharon, ar i Rev. James T. McDonald of St. Bernard’s, Sharon, to St. Matthew's church, Forest- ville, HAR-TH' Wingr STooPS TO PicK UP CARBAGE! A HINT T SUPPOSE, “THAT A CERTAIN PARTY 1S STANDIN' AROUND “TOO MUCH. NO ~T THINK THATS | -0 SEE iF A CERTAN, | PARTY AINT SITTIN, |. . Yoo io AWMOST HAFTA HAVE | AXRAY TTELLIFA. T GUM IN THEM OVERSIZE OVERALLS 1S SITIN TRW\ iame : Qiions. ov ma smwvice, me. /028" New Britain team stated today that H Mert Taylor, for years the outstand- | basketball | cham- § team's schedule, The Atlas A. C., it | is understood, will not be represented } Another tcam that might appear ' Oct, 11 (A—The Daily | their intentions of trying cui for the |