New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1928, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928 WWWWW ROPER ON RAMPAGE AT PRINCETON—HORNSBY SLATED FOR CUBS—ATHLETICS CATCHER VOTED MOST VALUABLE PLAYER *—RED AND GOLD PREPARING TO BATTLE STAMFORD—HANDBALL CIRCUIT OPENS AT Y—MARSTERS AND GARYEY BATTLE TWO GAMES LISTED [MICKEY COCHRAN IS VOTED - OST VALUABLE PLAYER TO TEAM IN AMERICAN LEAGUE STAMFORD HIGH, RIVALS. OF MANY YEARS AGO, TO CLASH WITH LOCALS ON SATURDAY Middleton May Be In New Britain Lineup—Monday’s EASTERN ELEVENS Practice Short and Snappy—Final Scrimmage On Wednesday—Down Sta te Eleven Always Has Fast and Aggressive Aggregation. Undoubtedly the New Britain High school team will meet the strongest obstacle in its path to the state schoolboy title Saturday when it plays the Stamford High school team, which has not been on the New Britain school schedule in more than 15 years. The game will be played in Stamford. Stamford has always had a pow- erful team, and because of this, it has found the Connecticut high school teams avoiding it. New Britain High school was no excep- tion to this rule until this year, but in taking on the Stamford showed up several other teams| about the state. | Stamford is a team of which little §s heard until toward the end of the season and then it usually has a record and is always a thorn in the side of some high school team which has already counted itself as the state high school champlon. Be. cause of the fact that Stamford plays teams from New York state, the dopesters do not always regard its claim for honors. About the same time every year when the ennual Hartford-New Britain game is played, Stamford and Bridgeport Central High school are holding their annual struggle. Bince few teams from that section of the state play teams from this section, there is always an argument as to which teams are the strongest. There should be no doubt left after the New Britain-Stamford game. Middleton May Be In Lineup There is a possibility that Al Middleton, husky back who came to the high school from Dean academy last week, may have dove-tailed his studies in the school so that he will be eligible to play Saturday. It he has, Coach Cassidy undoubtedly will use him and will drop one of the two halfbacks who have been hold- Ing positions since the beginning of the season. At practice last night Eddie Sow- ka was not present and Middleton was sent to fullback in his place. Every time he took the ball he gain- ed at least five yards and when one of his teammates carried it he dump- ed one and two would-be tacklers at a clip. Yestorday afternoon's practice was short, but while it lasted it was in- teresting. The first team carried the ball down the field and scored on & forward pass to Nelson. This was the only score of the game. Wil- liam A. Hamm of the Nathan Hale Junior High school, was in charge of the second team and his encour- agement to the men brought out their best efforts. Two other member of the squad were out of the lineup because of injuries received in Saturday's game. They were Bill KKuhs and John Du- min. Both men have injured ankles. “Chick” Gwasda went into Kuhs' place at guar d and Ritter, a fresh- man who is showing a lot of prom- ice, was put in at guard in Gwas- da’s place. Krom took Dumin's place at center on the second team. Henry Kraszewski replaced Mike Grip in the latter part of the scrim- wmage. John Szymanski's jaw was dislo- cated for a few minutes after a scrimmage, but Dr. Joseph Potts was on hand and in short order he _had the jaw bone back where it be- longed. It is expected that the last scrim- snage will be held Wednesday night. ‘The team's sores and wounds will be healed in time for Saturday's im- portant game, it is expected. The team will make the trip by bus and it will leave the high school early S8aturday morning. HARTFORD BOWLERS BEST IN MATCH WITH ROGERS’ Charter Oak Five Takes Two Out | of Threc and Also Total Pinfall. Charter Oak bowling team of Hartford defeated the Rogers Recreation five two games out of | three and also on a total pinfall at Rogers Recrcation Alleys last night in the State ue gan The Hartford feam won the first two games, but the Hardware City team came back to capture the set. The summary: Rogers Rec. et N. Tronoski Gaceck Geller Howard Walsh Frisk PREPARING FOR CHICAGO Minneapolis. Minn., Oct. 16 (UP) —Leroy Timm, Minnesota University halfback, is g-tting only light work- | outs this week as Coach o5 wants him in shape for the Chica- | g0 game Saturday. Timm suffered | an injury to his leg in last week's tussle with Purdue. Spears told his men yesterday they could expec plenty of opposition from Chicago. BACK IN HARNESS | Evanston, 1. Oct. 16 (UP)— Levison. Northwestern Uni- v, will be hack at his old quar < position when the Purple clash with Kentucky University here Saturday. Bruder and Calderwood at the halves and Capt. Holmer at fullback will complete the backr)r‘ld.( team it | |ven, i last { | the sophomore Princeton Captain Chuck Howe leads the Princeton 1928 football team. He played cen- ter last year but is being shifted to guard, ARSTERS-GARVEY DUEL COMING SOON Star Eastern Backs Will Oppose Bach Other York, Oct. 16 (UP)—Bril- liant backficld stars already have begun to twinkle in the east. Bruce Caldwell of Yale, Gibby Welch of Pittsburgh, Jack Connor of New York University, Myles Lane of Dartmouth and many others have gained their last yard in college |football, but this year's crop of backfleld talent bids fair to surpass last year's. Johnny Garvey, who doubled for Caldwell last year when the latter was hurt and later when he was ruled ineligible, look like one of the most promising backs of the season in the Yale-Georgia game. Garvey carried the ball nine times and gain- ed 117 yards. His longest gains were 42, 24, 22 and 11 yards. Fast Man Weighing around 150 pounds, fast and hard to knock oft his feet, Gar- vey gives every indictaion of sur- passing Caldwell’s achievements as a ball carrier. Garvey, however, is cnly a fair passer and a poor punt- er whereas Caldwell was proficient in both departments. Alton Marsters, the “tight-rope alker,” is the nearest thing to a d” Grange the east has ever produced. Last year as a sophomore at Dartmouth, Marsters gained more ground than any other eastern back. Although a marked man this season, Marsters promises to eclipse his feats of a year ago., In the three game he has played Marsters has scored eight touchdowns and kicked one goal for a total of 49 points, leading all other castern players in this respert Follows Sidelines Marsters has an uncanny knack of running parallel with the side- lines and scldom stepping over the border line. He runs in a deceptive loping gait and has a change of pace that makes it difficult for a tackler to time. The duel between Garvey and ers will be the featurc of the Yale-Dartmouth game at November 3. Garve prominence in the Dartmouth game st year, when us a substitute for Idwell, he slashed the Dartmouth to picces and scored Yale's three teuckdowns, Cagle Brilliant A star no less brilliant than Gar- vey and Marsters is Chris Cagle. Army's curly-haired flash, Once past the line of scrimmage, Cagle is per- haps the niost difticult of all eastern stop. He is built low on 1 and is fast as a streak. New bucks to the sround Hacvard has three fine backs this season in Captain Art French, Dve Gu and Tommy Gilligan, ar. All three ripped vardage against North of Princeton, is | among the ! the Tine, but he d by injuries. Kenneth strong, New York Uni- sity's ponderous halfback, is one s biggest and fa ball rong was erratic last sea- has heen handicap- carricrs son, but he Fordham game last week, rolling up 16 points alone. wo Good Backs a has two exceptional hacks in Dick Gentle, considered the find of the scason by Coach Lou Young, and Captain Scull, who is u star ronner, passer and Kicker. aul Kumpf, Columbia’s fullback, s exhibited unusual promise in rly scason scoring 37 points in three Boston College has a brilliant run- ner in Weston, who performed sen- sationally against Duke last week. | Willis. | dey. Chicago, knocked out Morgan two of | at gaining through | secmed to find himself | New York, Oct. 15 (P—Bill Ro- per's on the rampage and when the one-time Philadelphia alderman i in that state ferocious Princeton football tigers curl up and “play dead.” Bill's plainly disgusted with the way his Tigers behaved against Vir- ginia’s cavallers and he's taking some drastic steps to locate the punch that was so badly missing in last Saturday's scoreless draw. First and foremost, Roper ordered Lis squad to return to the huddle system of calling signals aftcr a two weeks' experiment with the old “vo- cal” method. The Tigers had too much trouble hearing their quarter- back call the signals, so the huddle will be revived. Bill's changes didn’t stop there. He plans to send Duck Pendergast to right end in place of Morrison; Hockenbury to right tackle for Moore; Levine to left guard for Byles, and Graham Jones into the backfield for Requardt. Against Le- high this Baturday, Jack Fanshaw will be at fullback in place of the injured Mike Miles, and Digk Mes- tres is to fill the guard position. Roper expects few difficulties with jLehigh, but after the Tigers' show- ing against Virginia he probably fecls that anything can happen. The east will watch Princeton's fray with Lehigh with no more than half an eye. There are too many first-rank games for anything more than that. Army vs. Harvard Army gets its second “shot” at & major rival when the cadets travel to Cambridge to battle Harvard. Army was forced to reveal most of its bag of tricks to pull tre Southern Methodist game out of the fire, while Harvard was not particularly extended to down Springfield and North Carolina, The Army game should prove beyond a doubt just how much is to be expected of the Crimson this season. Yale Is Favorite Yale, on the basis of its surpris- ingly easy victory over Georgia, !} rules a heavy favorite to turn back !Brown, which was troubled to nose out Dayton by a single touchdown last Saturday. Dartmouth’s defense already has been plerced by Norwich and Alle- gheny and Columbia hopes the Green's line will show no improve- sylvania meets Penn State which met defeat by Bucknell last week. |State, however, points out that the Nitanny Lions bowed to Bucknell last year, but came on to defeat Pennsylvania just the same. Intersectional Slate The intersectional slate is not so heavy as last week's but four out- standing games will see Syracuse meeting Nebraska at Lincoln; Col- gate traveling to Lansing to battle Michigan State; Duke invading An- napolis to take on the discouraged Navy while Washington and Lee and West Virginia adjourn to neutral ground at Charlestown, W. V., to have their argument out. Washington and Jefferson, beaten by little Duquesne, takes on another tartar in Carnegie Tech and Lafay- ette faces its first real test against Bucknell. After its decisive defeat by New York university, Fordham sces little hope of turning back Holy Cross at Worcester. N. Y. U, how- ever, meets mipor opposition in Rut- gers. Georgetown should have little trouble with West Virginia Wesleyan although the Washington collcgians will find scoring harder than it was against Susquehanna and Lebanon Valley. Pitt, still suffering from shock after West Virginia's triumph, has a breathing spell against Alle- gheny. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Assoclated Press. Chicago — Dave 8hade, S8an Fran- cisco, outpointed “Cowboy” Jack n Antonio, 10, Walter Ma- | Gardner, Chicago, 3. Toronto — Frankie Genaro, New York, outpointed Frenchy Belanger, Toronto, 10. Bobby Clark, Toledo, , outpointed Alexburlie, Toronto, 6. Art McCann, Philadelphia, outpoint- {cd Tommy Mitchell, Toronto, 6. New York -— George Courtney, Oklahoma, knocked out Wilson Yar- 9. Lou Barba, New Rocky Knight, | bo, Cleveland, | York, outpointed | England, 10. Oklahoma ity — Babe Hunt, Ponca City, Okla.. outpointed Martin Burke, New Orleans, 10. | Cedar Rapids, Ja. — Eddie Ma- paul, and Henry Falegano, Sun Francisco, drew, 10. Philadelphia — Eddie Shea, Chi- ago, and Davie Abad, | drew, 10. Cincinnati — Cecil Hayne, Louis- ville, knocked out Eddie Morgan, Iloston, 3. Billy Ryan, Cincinnati, knocked out Jimmy Evans, Boston, 1. Jimmy Hackley, Los Angeles, stopped Paul Allen, Chicago, 7. Pittsburgh — Johnny Mellon. De- troit, outpointed Phil Gildstein, Pittsburgh, 10. Rudy Ceder, Taren- tum. Pa.. outpointed Tony La Rose, | Cincinnati, 10. Baltimore — Henri Dewancker, | 1Prance, stopped Bobby Garcia, Bal- timore, 3. | Milwaukee — Spug Myers, cago, outpointed Harry Kahn, Chi- Mil Mil- Chi- waukee, 10. Mickey O'Neill, waukee, outpointed Jack Kane, cago, 6. ment at Hanover. Unbeaten Penn- | gO. Penama, | CAPTAINS COLUMBIA TEAM ‘Willlam Adler, captain of the 1928 Columbia University football team, during workout at Baker's field, DELANEY FACING REAL T0UGH JoB Attempted Comeback Not fo Be So Basy Jack Delaney, whose real name is Ovila Chapdelaine, is back on the pugilistic map today after an ab- sence from the ring for nearly five months. A crowd of 6,600 witnessed the return of the Bridgeport fighter re- cently at Ebbets feld, Delaney retired light-heavyweight champion, again secks the title,. The first| hurdle was cleared when he won a technical knockout over Nando Tassi, Jtallan school teacher, in eleven rounds of a scheduled fifteen round battle, When Delaney crawled through the ropes that night tradition was on his side. It was in the same park that he made his metropolitan debut some seven years ago, when he knocked out Bert Collins in the semi-finals of the Weinert-Journee Delaney demonstrated he still re- tains the punch,that won him the light-heavyweighh title from Paul Berlenbach in 1926. Tassl was down for a count of eight in the first round and was on the receiv- | ing end of Delaney's left hooks and | right uppercuts until the fight was stopped by the referee in the elev- enth. The Italian's nose was split in the tenth and Delaney rained blows upon the injured member until the crowd cried: “Stop it,"” Sharkey Trimmed Him Last year Delaney was regarded as one of the favorites to survive Tex Rickard's complicated heavy- weight elimination contest. Delan- ey was a great puncher but the ex- perts wisely shook thelr heads, say- ing, “He may be a great puncher in the light-he: division but he will find his right hand wallop is merely a tap when he mixes with bigger and stronger fellows.” Even at that, Delaney, who began ming- ling with heavyweights in 1926, has scored knockouts over Bailor Mar- tin, Tom Roper, Quintin Romero- Rojas and Bud Gorman. He won de- cisions from Young Bob Fitzsim- mons, Johnny Risko, and King Solo- mon. Jack Sharkey, Boston sallor, wrote “finis” to the heavywelght career of the Bridgeport fighter on May 1 of this vear. ,A terrific two fisted attack beat Delaney to the canvas and knocked him out after one minute and 13 seconds of the first round. “in the Bag” Talk Cutting loose with savage swings to the jaw at the opening bell, the | Bostonian drove the bewildered De- laney about the ring. Delaney man- aged to land only one_ blow, a right, which slightly bruised Sharkey's collarbone. A succession of rights to Delancy’s head and jaw caused Bridgeport Jack's knces to sag and he clutched for his opponent. Shar- key drove a terrilic right to the body and sent his opponent o the cany. There were some hints that the fight “in the bag.” James A. | Farley, chairman of the boxing board, called Referce Lou Ma lia over to the side of the rope said, “Tell those two felloy [there are wicked yarns going about concerning the fight, I won't stand for one crooked move. 1If I see a false step or a halting punch I'll have them thrown from the ring.” | After#he fight there was an in- | vestigation, but it was concluded | | that Sharkey's victory was fairly | | earned. Back in his own class Delaney will find the opposition a bit | rougher than when he retired as champion. Tommy Loughran as | title-holder is one of the cleverest | fighters in the game. Delaney will find the Philadelphian a different opponent than thc one he won a decision over in 1 Jimmy Slat- | tery, who canno termed an | 'actual contender won from Delaney | in 1924 and again in 1925, I | Delaney has a lifc time record of participating in seventy-four fights. | He won thirty-two by the knockout route and has been knocked out twice. Thirty-one were won by the decision route, no decision w: awarded in two of the fights, six | decision went against him and two were draws, he There are now nearly 250 British HORNSBY REPORTED SLATED FOR CUBS Chicago Tribune Asserts Deal Is Pending Chicago, Oct, 16.—(M—The Tri- bune today said that Rogers Horns- by, second baseman and manager of the Boston Braves, will be traded to the Chicago Cubs as soon as the Boston club names its price for him: The deal, previously denied by presidents of both clul now is “positively under way,"” the paper said. The price to be paid for Horns- by may run as high as $200,000, plus two or more players the Tribune stated. Hornsby recently told a news- papergan, the paper continued, that he expected to he moved to Chicago. Hornsby's transfer may not be ef- fected for some time, however, ac- cording to the Tribune, until the price is agreed upon and the Braves' management agrees on a player or players to be received in return. The Tribune mald negotiations were begun a month ago when Wil- llam Veeck, the Cubs president, went to New York to discuss the trade with President Emil Fuchs of the Braves. A tentative agreement was sald to have been made at that time. Hornsby told Veeck he would wel- come a chance to play in Chicago, the paper said. Yost Leaves Michi;an For Trip to Tennessee Ann Arbor, Oct. 16 —Consider- able speculation is manifest in Uni- versity of Michigan circles following the announcement that Coach Field- ing H. Yost had lett here for an in- definite stay in Nashville, Tenn., where his brother-in-law, Dan Mec- Gugin, is coaching the Vanderbilt football team. ‘When questioned, Yost's sccretary said he did not know when the Michigan football mentor would re- turn and declined to say how long Yost had been in the south. The Michigan team, literally hanging on the ropes, after success- ive drubbings by Ohlo Wesleyan and Indiana, is tn charge of Head Coach Tad Welman. Yost had been devot- ing his efforts exclusively to training kickers and passers, Oh, Man! DARLING! 1M Going To VOTE Tiis YEAR - ALL TuE GIRLS ARE GoING TO VoTE - S SMITH A peers without sons, including two marquises. > FOR SUNDAY FANS Sub Bass and Pioneers Play in New Britain A double-header will be the ban- ner attraction for the football fans of this city next Siuhday when the Nutmegs will piay the Sub Base team and the Blues will play the Pioneers of Hartford. The Blues game will start at 1:30 o'clock and the Nutmeg game at 2:45 o'clock. This Sunday was to be the Blues' date under the park board's ar- rangement, but an agreement was reached between Managers May and Zehrer whereby they combined the attractions for the day. The Nutmeg team has started playing a sensational brand of foot- ball and the fans believe the team will be one of the strongest in state gor-lonll football this year. ather than leave an open date, the management agreed to combine this week. The Blues have been strengthened with the addition of two former high school players, Al Fengler and Howard Belser. The team has proved dangerous with its forward passes. It has won one game, lost one, and tied one. The Nutmeg lineup is practically set, with the exception of its ends. Manager Zehrer has signed a Villa- nova end for this Bunday who was a star at his college last year. The team will practice at Willow Brook park Thursday afternoon of this week, CLANCY SAYS HE LAUGHS Coach of Kensington Nine Takes Parting Shot at Championship Claims of Faloons Team The following communication, ad- dreased to the sports editer has been received: Sporting Editor, Dear S8ir. Kindly allow me a small space in your valuable sporting page. After reading the account of the Kensington and Falcon ball game which decided the city title, it makes me laugh to hear the Falcons crying that they are the “champions.” Now there is no question in the minds of the baseball fans who are really the champions, but as long as the Fal- cons want the title why not let them have it, On paper they are real champions, but it took the Kensington club fust three games to show them how good they were, and if they still think they can beat the Kensington club, the only way they can do it, is on paper, ‘The Kensington team has played the best teams this year and al- though it has been beaten it has yet to offer an alibi. On behalf of myself and the mem- bers of the Kensington ball team we wish the “Falcons City Champions” the best of luck for 1929, Yours in sports, Coach Bill Clancey, - Kensifigton Ball Team. STAGG HAS LITTLE HOPE Chicago, Oct. 16 (UP)—Coach Alonzo 8tagg's Maroons have little hope of spoiling Minnesota’s home- coming next {aturday. The Maroons, who have not shown much strength #s0 far, are further weakened this week by injuries which have caused the temporary retirement of four backs, Rudy Leyers, Hugh Menden- hall, Vin Libby, and Anatol Raysson. All but Leyers probably will be able to play Saturday, but have not yet re- ported for practice this week. IT'S KAY-OH WITH ME- WHO You GOING B Vot For ¢ |{ SoMeTiImES e Wow ! aup You'RE @OING To :;y Athletics’ Backstop Gets Honor By Narrow Margin of Two Votes Over Manush, St. Louis Outfielder— Lazzeri and Hoyt Likewise Receive Some Recogni- tion in the Voting. Penn Threat You will be reading a lot this season about the young man who is charging with the ball in the accom- panying photograph. He {s Paul Scull, captain and star back of the University of Pennsylvania eleven. He also has an educated toe that will account for a lot of points this fall, HERGSTROM AND YOGEL LOSE OPENING MATCHES Hawkins and Parker Prove Too| Much For Them in Y. M. C. A. Handball League Joe Hergstrom and Louis Vogel got off to a bad start as a team in the National league of hand ballers at the Y. M. C. A. and they lost two of the three game set 1o the Haw- kins-Parker team, 7-21, 21-10 and 21-18. Greenstein and Rosenberg also lost to 1ddie Mag and Leonard Appell 21-17, 21-14 and 21 to 283. The next teams which are slated to try their skill on the court are the Dunn-Mangan team which is to battle the Stearns-Anderson outfit. The Waskowitz-Strong team s waiting for its chance to start. Under the rules defeated players have the opportunity to reorganize with other players until December 15. Hergstrom picked Bert Loomis as his partner, Rosenberg has chosen Joe Roche, and Greenberg has chos- en Louls Vogél. It Is the plans of Physical Direc- tor Hergstrom to select players for an American and Federal leagues al- 80, Last year the Hawkins-E. Mag team won the National league cham- pionship, Nelson-Conlin won the American league; and Berkquist- Alderman teams won the Federal SMITH AND SomE - TiME S HooveR league championship. Chicago, Oct. 16 (M—Gordon “Mickey"” Cochran, twelity-five year old catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, today was named as 'the | most valuable player to his club in the American league's 1928 @ason, Cochrane won the award by & mare gin of only two points over Heinle | Manush, 8t. Louis outfielder. In addition to having his name inscribed on the junmlor circuit's honor role along with tive previous winWers, Cochrane will receive $1,- 000 in cash. The award wad made by a commission of baseball writers from each city in the league. In the votigg, Cochrane received 53 points while Manush, who finish- .ed second in the American league' individual batting race, received 51, Every member of the commission voted for Manush, two placing him firat, one second, four third.and one fifth, 8econd Bas:man Tony Laz- zerl and Pitcher Waite Hoyt of the New York Yankees came in for one first place ranking each. Cochrane, who joined the Athl tica in 1925 and immediately broke into the regular lineup, ranked fourth last year with 18 votes after receiving four votes in 1926. Mickey came up to the Connie Mack club from Portland, Ore., of the Pacific coast circuit where he started his professional baseball career after an eventful baseball and football ca- reer at Boston university, He caught in 130 games in the seasen just closed. While only hitting .293 Cochrane was ranked by members of the commission as being largely re- sponsible for the showing of the Athletey during the closing days of the campaign. His throwing arm and ability to take runners out at the plate placed him high in the estimation of the baseball writers. Manush polled 16 votes two years ago when he led the league in bat- ting but slumped in the eyes of the commission last year and did not recelve a vote. There was a tie for third place be. tween first baseman Joe Judge and | Lazzeri of the Yankees, each receiv- |ing 27 votes. In the fifth place was | Willle Kamm, Chicago White Sox captain and third baseman, while Leon Goslin bf Washington, cham- plon hitter of the circuit, and Earle Combs of New York were tied for sixth place. Under the American league's most |valuable player award conditions, none of those who previously had won the honors was eligible for con- slderation. The previous winners were: George Sisler, 8t. Louis, 1922; Babe Ruth, New York, 1023; Walter Johnson, Washington, 1924; George Burns, Cleveland, 1926; and Lou Gehrig, New York, 1927. The commission, making the 'se. lection, was composed of Paul Shannon, Boston Post; Harry Neily, Chicago American; Ed Bang, Cleve- land News; H. G. Salsinger, Detroit New W. B. Hanna, New York Her. {ald-Tribune; James Isaminger, | Philadelphia Inquirer; J. D. Wray, | 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch and Dennan ‘Thompson, Washington Star. The official vote follows: The player and club, position and points follow:— Gordon Cochrane, catcher, 53. Henry Manush, St. Louis, outfield, 51, Philadelphia, (Continued on Following Page) OW GOSH Harvey I DoN'T Kmnow - s GoinG JUST FOR THAT V8 A GooD NoTION To VOTE MR. HoovER Jo voTE FoR DEARr 7