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Sheaking of Sporh; And s0 the Faicon ang Kensington baseball fans comtinue to battle over whether or net the Falcons are the champlons. It seems peculiar thut & toam which was defeated in three straight games should be called the champions, but at that the Kensing- ton team is mot from this city and thers is some weight to the argu- ment. Wilcox R What the Kensington team should | & get before its next season starts is some gvod fatherly advise. Before (s It plays ita games it must ask itself the question: “What champlonship em l:playing these games for, and 4t T win do I get the honor?” N The Falcons had the champion- ship all the time, it seems, but they were foolish enough to bother play- ing for a title which they already had. We guess the saying—every- thing goes in baseball is a good one apd the other saying take nothing for granted in baseball is a darn Ppoor one. H H Now that we have disposed of that question for the time being at least let us turn our attention to Benny Leonard, one of the many busineas men we have found in the boxing game in. modern times, Benny, it seems. has bought a || hackey team. It's hard for a man to break away from the habit of mayhem. ‘The -board of governors in charge of the Y. M. C. A. industrial hasket- ball leagues will meet this after- noon at b o'clock to make a final decision as to arrangements for the scason which ia to start on Friday, November 15 at the-Y. M. T. A. & B. society hall. There is talk of running the gumes two nights. Tuesday night at the 8tanley Arena where three men's games are to be played and Friday night at the Tabs where a girls’ game and two men's games are to. be played. Nine teams are in the men's league and four teams are to make up the girls league. Our congratulatious to Bill Clancy eoach of the Kensington team this year. He coacned his team to what- ever championship they are eligible to claim this year and last year while coaching the Corbin Red Sox his team won the championship. Fans certainly ought to see enough football Sunday when the || Blues and Nutmegs take on tcams at Willow Brook park, It is. pleasing to hear that omc's life time ambition is realized. It must have been pleasing for Walter Johngon when he signed his name on the dotted line to a three year contract to manage the Washington Senators. Kor 21 ycars he pitched for that team and he always looked to the time when he would be its manager. Cy Bchoonmaker, the cop wao p; patrols Willow Brook park is cer- tainly popular with the high school boys and the fans who look in on the practice session, He is one of *the boys” and he accomplishes more that way than “riding” them. He helps get material for the teums during the practice sessions and personally sees that all recom- mendation for the comfort of tha players is cagried through. Charley McGrath is also dnc of “the boys" at Walnut Hill park. The police department is ccrtainly well represented in the parks. Clyde ENlingwood, park superin- tendent, ., certainly made a nice job of it when he laid out the gridiron at Memorial Field in Willow Brook park. I'ans can determine the ,lay casily. He had it marked in five| yard strips to the goal line which he marked in double line. The 10 yard spuce - betwcen the goal line: and the goal posts is marked dlag- onally. The lines are numbered every 10 yarde. This is the official way of marking them, too. The voice of the long-suffering re- porter finally has been heard at Yale. An editorial in the Yale News yesterday pleaded with the Athletic Association to build a shelter for the press box to protect the newspaper- men from rains such as the one that drenched them Saturday. When Weslcyan-Rochester meet next S8aturday it will be a wise spec- tator who fknows who is the coach of each tedm. The mentors are twin brothers, Lr, lidgar Iauver at Wes- leyan and Dr. Edwin Fauver at Rochester, and it takes a second look for even their friends to dis- tinguish between them. Even the 74,000 eecats in the Yale Bowl are not enough to accommo- date the fans who want to see the Elis play Army October 27. The mark of 85,000 applications already has been reached and they still are coming in. Many and varied are the ways of celebrating a football victory. The Mountaineers of West Virginia siaged a formal ceremony in com- mencement hall yesterday after beating Pittsburgh and followed it with a reception and dance while the ‘Bucknell ragoters let off steamn after their defe of Penn State by setting the freshmen to work col-' lecting wood for a bonfire that.is to burn for three f:yl - About this tlme of the year the lure of football grows too strong for a numbet of young men who intend- ed to stay close to- their studies. James Peterson, star of lust year's Pennsylvania freshman team. ot rid of a few hours of work that were keeping him off the gridiron and re. ported yesterday. likewise Chick #hea of Dartmouth decided to turn out for the team. ‘The season’s crop of upsets has begun .to rankle in the minds of the defented coaches. Hugo Bezdek of Penn State followed Saturday’s loss R. . Grobstein . Walters Miller Rawlings Heinzman Christ w. Patterson Scoville Low 8core . | Gacek . Politis . Curtis Fazzine Molyneus . i McConn A Rates Kammsky 1 Ro Koper La Flamme | Warner . | Reloin Burr Swanson Relanger Elton Carlson Dagata Tabertson Murphy Pelettier Schenk Facy . Freemn Varson Davidson Helyar . Gorman . Temple . Wendrowski . Stingle . Murzyn . Murzyn . McAloon . Whalen 4. Folden . Carlmon . MeNa €. Humason . Jones .. . MeCrann M. Christopher 93 | . Madone . Jurgan WITH THE BOWLERS STANLEY WORKS MEN'S LEAGUE FE Pritchards ic! it . —1463 Storrs Quenk Schwab Haigls — 329 95 Lyach 103 294 11— 293 535—1496 Bertini 10— 293 Beitini Jehnson Johnaon Christs 106 538—1544 | 280 Emmans 104— 3 11— 191 95— 18 07 98 9 461 8 [IIRE | 6 1o 102 Carlson 8 9 97— 205 | Havlick Molehan orth Plerce Arre Merline Denis Tohneon Packard Janick I SRS o1 | Towe Welch Teupold Klefn Dairow Nelson Reloin Madone Charter House— Young Men's Clothing TAILORED BY FASHION PARK $25.00 to $45.00 Fitch-Jones Co. 3% | faults by the aid - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928 JIGGER REVIENS GOLFING SEASON 1 You've Improved You're in the Great Minority (BY JIGGER) It won't be long now before the old bag of clubs will be put away to await the coming of spring. Already the afternoons are almost too short for a full round of golf. And other sports are calling the golfer away from his favorite game. Saturday afternoons football demands atten- tion and it is open season for game and birds. Only a few of the most » | faithful still follow the erratic course of the white sphere, with the same urge they felt a few weeks ago. Many have divided their allegiance and give late season golf only half- } | hearted attention on Bundays. Now is a good time to review the long season that stretches back to April when the courses opened early this year. What about your gamec? Is it 'better now that crimson leaves clutter up the fairways than it was when the trees began to bud in green? Have your spring hopes for a befter game been realized in mid- ummer, Can you drive, play your rons, make brassie shots, approach the putt better in 1928 than in previ- | ous years? Has your handicap been reduced ? The Great Minority It you have made some marked progress with your game you are in the select minority. Most of those whom we have observed and played with during May, June, July, August and September are rather disa pointed that on Columbus Day they were playing no better a game than on Memorial Day. True some of them can drive bet- ter, appreach or putt more accurate- |y but their scoring ability has not | improved to an extent that has % (caused the tournament committee to 2 |lower their handicaps. Not that a re- duced handicap is any real ad tage but show us a man who would not like to take strokes off his aver- | age score, It is unfortunate that everyone {cannot make at least a little progress | with his game cach year. Golf is only a game but most people take it serlously enough to want to play it better. Why don't we learn to do =0? Much as we would like to break 100, 90, 80 or 75, as the case may be, we are not willing to go through the process that would enable us to play a far better game than we do, Les- sons and practice loom up as ex- pensive in money and time as well as being tedious. Aside from that is the fear that by taking lessons, what game we have acquired will be ruin- ed. 8o about all we do in regard to the matter is to play round after rcund, repeating the same error and trying rather vainly to correct our locker room ad- vice and golf writers’' instructions. Knowing that the bulk of golfers will not take lessons from thelr pro or practice them long enough to learn them if they do indulge in in- struction, we will pass that point, 7 isadly, but as an unalterable situation. | |'As to the 9th hole advice, take it or leave it, it costs nothing. But if a man is to be his own golf doctor he should have a record or & series of records of his games in or- der to get at the facts. He needs to know how many poor shots and how few good shots he makes per round. He cun get such records by going ov his score card. Then he will have a working basis for his diagno- sis. 1f it is the driver, brassie, mid- iron. mashie or putter that is de- priving him of a good score he knows on which club he is weak. Then he must take the means he dcems best to corrcct his stroke. An Avcrage Case Here is a case that probably is not | far from the average. A player, with a handicap of 14, scored 86, or one over his rating. On analysis it was found that he had made 64 pretty good shots and had played 22 which ranged from poor to awful. Classify- |ing the poor ones it was found that | | four drives were failures. Three long | irons went astray. Five approaches went over or fell short of the greens. Two tce shots with irons did not |reach the greens and he made nine miscrable putts. As the player is not a good driver his four poor wood shots from the tees are about as good as he can cx- peet. He felt lucky. that he did not miss more of them. But he felt that he had no cxcuse to dub his irons and putts. As he is a falr putter his work on {he greens gave him con- cern. He went out and did some practicing on the short game with g0od results. The next day he only took 26 putts for 18 holes. Those who depend upon informa- tion gained through print to help thelr game find plenty of advice. Doubtless the bulk of it is sound. Most of it is written by expert golf- ers. The difficulty is to understand it and apply it. It is hard enough to % |sce what a pro does when he plays | | | | ot let alone v written account. About the best you can expect i to pick up a helpful hint now and then and if it works for you adopt it. We have found some valuable ad- vice in print. And we have worked out a couple of things for ourselves, Probably every other golfer has done likewise. But with all their honest inten- tion to tell the whole story while instructing pupils or setting on paper full instructions, the pro still con- ceals an indefinite something which gives the final touch to his stroke. Something that makes it sound and the ball act differently than it does when the average player hits the lall. The professional’s stroke is the dispair of those he would teach. He gets a “click” nd the ball jumps. We get a “thud” and the ball rises too quickly or else runs, when we make the iron shots. The mystery may be hidden in the manner the ball is stroked. “Hit the ball first,” is the pro's injunc- tion. Sure, but not on it's top side as we found out when we tried to heed the command. Most of the Trouble Most of us expericnce a lot of trouble with the action of the body, arms, shoulders and wrists. Just how they may be aided to do their part in the swing and really aid in getting the club head into the ball may lie, to a great extent, in the po- sition of the feet, Anyway Grant- land Rice thinks so and he suggests that iron shots he made with the heels touching and tee shots made with the feet close together, He thinks that stance will make the arms and wrists do the work they should. Some day we are going to try out his suggestion. Going back to where we startéd, we note by the old score cards that we made fair scores early in the spring, gradually got worse until mid mmer when we had a couple of weeks when we played better than ever before. Then the tide turned and not until last week oid we approach the scores we made in August. An up and down game, mostly down, secms to be a common experi- ence among us who do not get our stance and stroke standardized. Most of the scason we play poorly or only averagingly well. On a rare occasion, with luck as an al we score, think we have made the grade, do a little bragging, try to duplicate the feat and get a rude awakening to the fact that we are still dubs. But golf is a great ga about cven if we can’t pla another year is coming when we all hope to do bette alize it from & e to talk NEW YORK AMERICANS HOCKEY OUTFIT READY Team Which Represents Club This Will Be Almost Winter Entirely New New York, Oct, 16 (A—The New York Americans of the National Professional Hockey league will present a virtually new lineup when the puck season opens November 16. They finished last in the ten-club race last season® but hope be in a contending position this time. Only five of last year's squad re- main—Jake Forbes, Billy Burch, Lionel Canacher, Norman Himes and Leo Recese. Red Green has been traded to the Doston Bruins for Harry Connors; Alex McKinnon to the Chicago Blackhawks for Rabbit McVey; Johnny Sheppard has been bought for $12,000 frem the Detroit Cougars; Harry (Punch) Nroadbent has been purchased from the Ottawa Senators for $10,000 and one player; Jess Spring has been recalled from Niagara Falls. Joe Simpson and Irank Boucher have been sent to New Haven. Sanction for these changes was voted at a meeting of the lcague board of governors hcre yesterday. Twd rule changes were adopted. One is designed to prevent “stall- g.” The other abolishes the “sudden death” period after a game is drawn at the end of regulation time and substitutes a ten-minute overtime period. If the overtime fails to break the tie the game then is to be declarced a draw. D SEVERELY Ind., Oct. 16 (UP) — versity's Boilermakers were considerably bruised in last week's Minnesota game, but are be- in, rounded into shape for the game with Wisconsin here next Saturday. Coach Jimmy Phelan has given his first strong men light workouts and is attempting to remedy the mis- takes made in the Gopher tilt. TRISH REGULA' Notre Dame, Ind., Oct. 16 (UP) — The Notre Dame university regulars w.re given a rest yesterday after their hard game wi™n the Navy. Jack Chevigny will rcst several more days to let an injury heal, but prob- ably will get into the game with Georgia Tech. ANl other players | came through the Navy game un- injured. HIGH PRESSURE PETE (V3 T e & ANY OF THOE. ACLIDENTS — | SUPPesE THOYE T X HE HALF WS ) 3,To M'CYEY COCHRAN . VALUABLE PLAYER (Continued from Preceding Page) Joseph Juilg: base, 7. Anthony Lazzeri, New York, sec- ond base, William Kamm, base, 15. Leon Goslin, Washington, outfield, 13 Earle Combs, New York, outfield, 3 Charles Gehringer, Detroit, sccond base, 12. Charles Myer. Boston, third base, Washington, first Chicago, third 1. Waite Hovt, New York, pitcher, 8§ James Foxx, Philadelphia, catch- er, first, third, Joe Sewell, Cleveland, short, third, 6 Lule Sewell, Cleveland. catcher, 6. Ira Flagstead, Boston, outfield, 5. Edward Morris, Roston. pitcher, 4. Harry Heilmann, Detroit, outfield, Carl Lind, Cleveland, second base, William Cissell, Chicago, short- stop, 4. Owen Carroll. Detroit, pitcher, 3. Harry Rice, Detroit, outfield, *. Lew Fonseca. Cleveland. utility. Lyons, Chicago, pitcher, 2 n Hodapp, Cleveland, third Doston, Alex Metzler, 'hic William Regan, base, 1. second INDIANA SHOWS IMPROVEMENT Bloomington, Ind. Oct. 16 (UP)— The general play of the Indiana University ends and tackles Is show- ing & marked fmprovement this week as the Hoosicrs train for their game with Tlinois. Coach Pat Page yesterday donned a uniform and showed his men a few tricks of blocking. IOWA HAS SECRET PRACTIC Towa City, Tla. Oet. 16 (UP)— Coach Burt Ingwersen again is drill- ing his men behind barred gates this week. 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