New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 22

EASTERN GRIDIRONS TO BE SCENE OF SOME GRUELLING GAMES TOMORROW—SOLONS OF HOCKEY LEAGUE PREPARING FOR WINTER EVENTS—NUTMEGS WILL GET REAL OFFENSIVE TEST SUNDAY—GRIPP DROPPED FROM FORDHAM SQUAD BY COACH “LITTLE THREE” ELEVENS PROFESSIONAL MARATHONS BACK AFTER TWO DECADES Joie Ray Starts Off in Sunday Night's Endur- ance Grind at Madison Square Garden as Favor- ite Over the Entire Field of Runners — Olympic Winner Will Be One Competitor. New York, Oct. 19.—(UP)—On a tan-bark track in Madison Bquare Garden Sunday night, professional marathon running will be reintro- duced to the American public after & lapse of two decades. If one excepts the Pyle bunion derby, which was neither a financial nor artistic success, distance run- ning for hire has been practically a dead issue in this country since the days in 1908 when Dorando and Hayes put on their famous pursuit act. It is the idea of Bill Pickens, the sports impresario, that professional athon races can be popularized, and so he is introducing Abdel El Quafi, the 1928 Olympic champion, Jole Ray, America's chestiest con- tender, and a polyglot host of dis- tance runners who will compete for prizes aggregating $6,500 next Sun- day. Ever since El Quafi, the little chocolate colored Algerian, swung in through the marathon gate in the big red brick stadlum at Amsterdam, winner over a big field at the ninth ;Olympiad, American promoters have harbored the idea that such a spectacular performance might very .well be commercialized. To suport their contention, Joie Ray, who finished fifth at Amster- dam, maintained that he could take .the measure of the Algerian in a re- turn race. Ray recently turned pro- fessional for the purpose of meeting El Quafi, who gave up his amateur standing immediately after the Olympic games. What started out to be a grudge race, appropriately sponsored by the promoters, developed into a real marathon run when two Finns, an Estonian, an Italian, an Englishman, a Jew ad a Bwede were added to the list of starters. It was felt that with only Ray and El Quafi competing, the affair might turn into a fiasco through the collapse or complete failure of one of the pair. Accordingly, on Sunday night, nine runners will face the starter, who will be none other than Miss Eleanora Sears, Boston's soclety pedestrian. In addition to Ray and El Quafi, there will be Willle Koleh- mainen, who holds the world's rec- ord for the marathon distance of 26 miles 385 yards, Jurl Lossman, the Esthonian who was second in the 1920 marathon at Antwerp, Ollie Wattinen, a 90 pound Finn, Giusto Umeck of Italy, Arthur Newton, British distance runner, 8am Rich- man, champion of the Ghetto, and Gunner Knausland of Sweden. A tan-bark track, ten laps to the mile, has been laid down in Madison Bquare Garden, and the contestants have been training in the vicinity for several days. Joie Ray will start a favorite, largely because more is known about him than about the others, and be- cause of a feeling that the track, with its sharp turns, will be better suited to his style of running than to the others who are accustomed to competing outdoors, El Quafi, despite’ some astute adr vertising, has run just one good race in his life, and that last summer, when he breezed past the laboring léaders along the canal bank at Amsterdam and led the way to the finish of the Olympic marathon by several hundred yards. There is no ignoring the fact that professional marathon running naturally falls under suspicion, in view of the simplicity with which things might be “arranged.” “Nothing of that sort will be pos- sible this time,” Bill Pickens says blandly. “These runners can't talk each other's language.” JOHNNY GRIP DROPPED FROM FORDHAM SQUAD New Britain Athlete Pays Penalty for Not Obeying Rules Pro- muigated by Coach. (Special to the Herald) New York, Oct. 19.—Johnny Grip | of New Britain, Conn., star halfback on the Fordham football team for the last three years and the only ‘veteran back on this year's squad, ‘was dropped from the squad yester- day by Coach Major Cavanaugh for disciplinary reasons. Grip's loss will be a severe one to the team as the veteran back was usged for punting and forward pa ing and was one of the best plung- ing backs in the east. He led Ford- ham’s attack last year and all of the Maroon's plays this year were centered about him as the rest of the backfield is composed of sopho- football | mores who experience. The New Britain boy had been playing sensational football np until this week and Cavanaugh's action in dropping him from the squad proved a bombshell among the students and followers of the team Grip was dropped from the baseball team in both 1927 and 1928 for disciplinary reasons. lack college WESLEYAN READY Middletown, Oct. 19 (UP)—-Coach Bill Wood’s Wesleyan eleven wound up preparation for the Rochester game with a hard scrimmage against | the freshmen. Mott Peck probably will run the team tomorrow, 1 orado college (36). SATURDAYS GAMES HEREWITH LISTED Scores of Last Season's Contests Make Good Comparisons Outstanding football games sched- uled for tomorrow in the various sections of the country are printed below. The following table shows place of game and with scores last year when same teams met: East Amherst, Mass.—Amherst (40) vs. Hamilton (0). Cambridge, Mass.—Army vs. Har- vard. New Haven, Conn.—Brown (0) vs. Yale (19). Lewisburg, Pa.—Bucknell vs. Lat- ayette, Pittsburgh—Carnegie Tech (6) vs. Washington & Jefferson (19), Hanover, N. H. — Columbia va. Dartmouth. ‘Worcester, Mass. — Fordham (2) vs. Holy Cross (7). Washington—Georgetown vs. West Virginia Wesleyan. Princeton, N. J.—Lehigh (0) vs. Princeton (42). Durham, N. H.—Maine (13) New Hampshire (6). Annapolis, Md. — Navy Duke (6). New York—New York University vs. Rutgers (6). Philade!phia — Pennsylvania (0) vs. Penn Stat> (20). Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh Allegheny (0). Williamstown, Mass. — Williams (34) vs. Rensselaer (7). Mid-West Minneapolis—Chicago vs. Minne- sota. Des Moines — Haskell (15) vs. Des Moines (0). Champaign, 1lL.—Illinois diana. Iowa City, Ja.—Iowa vs. Ripon. Columbia, Mo. — Iowa State (6) vs. Missouri (13). va. (32) vs. (52) vs. Indians vs. In- Manhattan, Kan.—Kansas (2) VA | while miles to the Kansas State college (13). Milwaukee, Wis.—Marquette vs. Oklahoma Aggies. East Lansing, Mich. — Michigan State vs. Colgate. Columbus, O.—Michigan Ohio State (0). Evanston, IlIl. — Kentucky vs. Northwestern. Lafayette, Ind. — Wisconsin (12) vs. Purdue (6). Lincoln, Neb.—S8yracuse Nebraska (21). Grand Forks, N. D.—South Da- kota vs. North Dakota. Des Moines, la.—Grinnell (6) vs. Drake (26). Omaha, Ncb.—Creighton (13) vs. Oklahoma (13). South ‘Tuscaloosa, Tenn.—Tennessce Alabama. Gainesville, Fla.—Florida (32) vs. Mercer (6). Athens, Ga. — Georgia (32) vs. Furman (0). Atlanta, Ga.—Notre Dame vs. Georgla Tech (7). Jackson, Miss. — Louisiana State (9) vs. Miss. A. & M. (7). Oxford, Miss.—Auburn vs. Miss sippi. Chapel Hill, N. C.—Virginia Poly vs. North Carolina. Sewanee, Tenn. — BSewanee Cumberland. Austin, Tex.—Arkansas vs. Texas. Colloge Station, Tex—Texas Chris- tion (0) vs. Texas Aggies (0). New Orleans, La.—Tulane (0) vs. anderbilt (32). Lexington, Va.—Virginia M. L (8) vs. Virginia (13). Charleston, W. Va.—Washington & Lee (6) vs. West Virginia (6). Williamsburg, Va.—Willlam and Mary (0) vs. Catholic U. (12). Shreveport, La, — Centenary (9) vs. Baylor (6). Dallas, Tex.—Southern Methodist (34) vs. Rice (6). West Spokane, Wash.—Gonzaga vs. St. Charles. 8 Berkeley, Cal.—California (0) vs. U. Southgrn California (13). Missoula, Mont. — Montana Montana School of Mines. Portland, Ore. — Oregon (0) vs. ‘Washington (7). Pullman, Wash.—Oregon Aggles (13) vs. Wash. State college (6). Salt Lake City—Utah (0) vs. Col- orado Aggies (12). Boulder, Colo.—Colorado (28) vs. Colorado Mines (18). Denver, Colo.—Denver (7) vs. Col- (21) vs. ) vs vs. (26) vs. vs. Los Angeles, Cal.—Univ. Cal at Los Angeles (7) vs. Pomona (7). Reno, Nev.—Nevada vs. College of Pacitic Ogden, Utah — Utah Aggies Wyoming. B nan — Colorado Teachers vs. vs. | Montana State. FA ll:’ OF GOLFERS Three Take Three Titles in Three Fairmont. NATION'S LEADING TEAMS PAIRED IN SATURDAY’S GAMES Football fandom will throb with excitement this week as powerful teams clash in annual battles over sectional and inter-sectional su- Southern California. The day's schedule brings together Army and Harvard, Notre Dame and Georgia Tech, Nebraska and Syracuse, and California and Above are outstanding stars of the comneting elevens, All but Nave and Harper are captains. Other leading games of the day draw into combat Indiana and Ilinois, Penn and Penn State, Dartmouth and Columbia and Tulane and Vanderbilt, New York, Oct. 19.—(#—Travel- ing fast in mid-season stride, the more “or less irresistible forces of football collide this Saturday at widely separated points. With an.impact that will be heard from coast to coast the “rambling wrecks” of Georgia Tech clash with Notre Dame's horsemen at Atlanta north Harvard and the Army join battle for the | first time since 1910. Far to the west, out past the country’s mid-section where the landscape is dotted with Big Ten battles, California and Southern California lock horns in a game that may go far toward deciding superi- ority on the coast. In the Big Kast vs. West attrac- tion of the day, one of Ncbrasl giant teams entertains an ambi- tious young Syracuse outfit in the new memorial stadlum at Lincoln where a year ago the home team buffeted its way to a 21 to 0 win. A great many of the games that promise to make October 20 mem- orable are clean-cut “naturals” and among these may be listed the Georgia Tech-Notre-Dame, Harvard- | Army and California-Southern Cal- ifornia games. The Syracuse-Ne- braska fray on the surface appears | a bit easier to pick, Nebras stnding out as an indubitable fav- orite partly on the strength of its shutout victory of a year ago. ‘With most of the 1927 vers still on deck and the team bolstered by such reinforcements as a 205-pound sophomore quarterback, Captain Blue Howell and his mates hope to hurl Syracuse back as decisively as they did last season. Syracuse is one of the few teams that has won more games from the Cornhuskers than it has lost and Nebraska will not be happy until it has evened the ac- count. The Orange, on the other hand, is considerably stronger in the line this year and has shown a run- ning attack with which to back up the great forward passing of Captain Hal Baysinger. The chances of the Army appear stronger than those of Harvard, largely because the Crimson has only two games, both of them against fairly easy opponents, under its belt at this stage, while the Cadets have had three games, includ. ing a real testing at the hands of Southern Methodist. Yet Harvard, featuring Captain French, Harper, Gilligan and Quarnaccia in the hack- field, was the material for one of the best Crimson teams since the war and will cause trouble if the linec can battle the Army forwards on anywhere nearly even terms. Georgia Tech, having stopped V. M. I. and Tulane without having a point scored a a it, has at least an even chance ith Notre Dame, The handicap of making the long trip may be too much for Rockne's men to overcome have been beaten already, fumbling sadly against Wisconsin, and they showed little in nosing out the Navy by a touchdown at (‘hicago. In Stumpy Thomason, Tech has as formidable as Notre Dame" field cracl John Niemic and John Chevigny. The Southerners h: 26 to 7 beating, suffered last year, to remember. Southern California heat the Gold- en Bears, 13 to 0, in 1927, but it may Tries Minn., Oct. 19 (UP)— | be different this time. > ither team Fairmont claims the champion golf | has lost a game and hoth are strong. family of the state. How closely they are mafched may The Earl Nefler family of thre. |be indicated by their performances walked off with golf honors in Fair- mont this year when they took the ' thus far—st en's handicap, ladies handicap and | Californians downed jies' championships of the local Interlaken Golf course. Mrs. Nefler's recent victory over Mrs. Frank Hunting in the final match for women wrested the la- dies' championghip from the latter. Audrey, the 14 year old daughter, copped the handicap cup when she |team engage a Michican defeated Mrs. Bertha Young, 69, a [bas yetto win a game. grandmother and oldest woman member of the club. Aurey had de- feated her mother handicap match by a scant margin. Nefler stepped out home “pa’s part of the bacon™ for against the one team hoth have met Mary's. The Southern this doughty litt® adversary, 19 to 6, and Cali- fornia blanked the same eleven, |70 0 and brought | games on the day" In the western nois, 1927 winner, tackles Indiana which spilled Michigan last Satur- day, while a rampaging Ohio State conference, i utfit which The Ohioans who appear headed for a hig sea- on have an excellent chance to wipe in a previous |oft a 21 to 0 reverse of a year ago. There are dozens of other great bill. the family when he won the men's | READ HERALD CL bhandicap. FOR BEST RESULTS *{ conference, ‘BIG TEAM’ GAMES ALL HEADLINERS Tomorrow’s Conests Choice Bits or Grid Fans Chicago, Oct. 19 (UP)—Football epicureans of the middle west are provided with another choice menu s | for Saturday. The presence of a dozen “big” games and several times as many of |lesser importance assured that near- ly a quarter million fans will desert offices to watch squads of huskies decide gridiron supremacy. Knute Rockne's Notre Dame squad deserts the midwest to start its annual ramblings and while the Irish are playing at Georgia Tech the Big Ten conference will monopolize the stage in this section. Light of the wostern conference |elevens will sce action against con- ference fo | Ilinois and Indiana head the Big |Ten schedule with the only contest {between undefeated teams. Indlana defeated Michigan, 6 to 0, in its only conference game to date, while the Hoosicr battle will be the first con- {ference enzagement for the Tilini, {Coach Bob Zuppke's Illini are out- standing favorites to again win the conference title. He has a veteran ach Pat Page of Indiana, also 18 d with veteran material and but for the fact that the Hosiers are playing an almost impossible sched- |ule of six conference games they would be one of the strong favorites, Another particularly interesting conference game is billed at Lafay- ette, Ind., where Glen Thistlewaite's Wisconsin Badgers open their Big {Ten season against Jimmy Phelan's | Purdue eleven. Wisconsin is highly Iregarded, chicfly because of its 22- 6 win over Notre Dame, Minnesota’s “bone crushing” eleven is rated as the most power- ful in the loop and should have {little trouble in downing Chicago at Minneapolis. Chicago was an easy | victim for Iowa last week. | Michigan, with its poorest team |in years, is scheduled to play Ohio, at Columbus. The DBuckeyes won their opener from Northwestern and appear to be stronger than for the past several years. On “dope” they |should have little trouble in defeat- |ing the Wolverines. This game ap- | pears to be the k's best chance for an “‘upset.” Northwestern's ®Vildcats play an intersectional game with Kentucky. Towa also plays a non-conference foe, meeting Ripon in a “breather"” previous to next Saturday’s tilt with Minnesota. Ripon defeated Chicago, and also trimmed North- s reserves. a, a leader in the Big Six entert Syracuse n nt intersec- the week. Syracuse remembers a 21 1o 0 defeat last fall at the hands of the Huskers and plan to obtain revenge wee the west's most impert tionzl game of Roller Hockey League i Will Meet on Sunday | Th will be a4 meeting of the American Roller-Hockey league at Hartford Sunday evening when the present magnates will pass on the merits of offers .or franchises from other cities thronzhout Massachu- setts, Rhode Island and New York state «If the league is Gefinitely formed it this session. whh six or efzht clubs in the race, players may be assigned and frad. 1 to the various clubs. New Britan, Meriden and Waterbury are certain to retain their franchises but Harttord may trans- lfflr to some other city and Bristol 18 | likely to do the same thing. UNDERDOG ELEVENS BECOME FAVORITES Tomorrow's Battles Bring Abont Unusual Contrasts New York, Oct. 19 UP—Teams that have taken the most lickings over periods of years stand out as favorites to win in many of the tra- ditional rivalries to be renewed by castern football teams on Saturday. The ancient history shows that Rutgers has more than held its own N. Y. U, yet no one but a reckless plunger or an extra loyal Rutgers man would offer more than 1 to 10 on the New Brunswick eleven against the violet-clad team coached by Chick Meehan. The coming of Meehan from Byra- cuse saw a sudden change in the fortunes of this old rivalry. Rut. gers had taken seven straight games between 1914 and 1925, one of them by a 70-0 score. Meehan turned the tide the other way with victories by 30 to 0 and 60 to 6 in 1926 and 1927, Another strange situation exists in regard to the Harvard-Army game. The Army was able to score but six points in 13 games against the Crimson prior to the severing of re- lations in 1910. Yet the experienc- ed cadet team of 1928 with its pow- erful line stands out as a clear-cut favorite. Washington and Jefferson has lost to Carnegie Tech only once, but on the basis of the President's defeat at the hands of Dequesne last Satur- day they enter the battle on no bet. ter than even terms. Nebraska rates as a heavy favor- ite over Syracuse partly because of its shutout victory of last year, yet the New York state boys are on the long end of the series, having won in 1917, 1920 and 1925, The Holy Cross-Fordham game finds the Worcester team ahead in the series and also the favorite, But not by a large margin. The same applies to Pennaylvania over Penn State. Yale occupies a somewhat exceptional position of being a more consistent winner and also a favor- ite in its annual contest with Brow Here are the facts and figures on some of the outstanding series, showing when they were started and how the games have gone: Rutgers has won 12 games and New York Uuniversity 10 with one tie since 1895. » Harvard has won 13 games and Army none since 1895. Washington and Jefferson has won ten games and Carnegie Tech one with two ties, since 1906, Syracuse has won three games and Nebraska two since 1917. Holy Cross has won eight games and Fordham seven, with one tie since 1901 Yale has won 27 games and Brown four with one tie since 1880. Pennsylvania has won 20 games, Penn Btate seven and two were tied since 1890. FOUR PLAYERS SUSPENDED 8torrs, Oct. 19 (!1;)—Coach Sum- ner Dole has suspended four Aggle football players for smoking. One was Leo Fisher, said to be Connecti- cut Aggies’ best running back. The| names of the others were not re- vealed. Aggie meets Lowell Tex- tile at Lowell tomorrow. There’s At Least Qne in Every Office Tou Fellows THAT Live N THE CITY Don'T Know WHAT YOU'RE MISSING TAESE AUTUMN DAYS - THE COUNTRYS(De 1S SIMILY MAGNIFICENT GLDRY - IN HARD GAMES TOMORROW NUTHEGS NOW FACE GREAT DEFENSIVE Will Get Real Workout Against th Base Eleven A test against a defensive team will be given the Nutmeg team Sun- day when it plays the heavy sailor team from the New London Subma- rine Base. The team has not been & sensation in scoring but it has been able to hold every team it played this year. With & backfield which is work- ing to perfection the New Britain team should score many points on the New London team, a feat which has not been done previously this season, even by the Hartford Giants eleven, ‘The 8ub Base is coached by Cap- tain Morse of the U. 8. M. C. He played several seasons with the Quantico Marine and is qualified as an expert in football. The 8Sub Base team has a pair of speedy ends in Cravens and Aziotes who stopped every effort of the Giants' backs to circle them when the two tear.s played last week. From tackle to tackle the team averages between 185 and 190 pounds. There are Weidorn, cen- ter; Schaperow and Wainer, guards and Rogers and “Great” Scott, tackles. The backfield has been a weak portion of the team so far this sea- son. It seemed to lack an organiz- ed offense but the coach has been drilling the team hard and this part of the team will be greatly im- proved, he predicts. The backfield consists of Marker, quarterback; Lowery and Kirkconnell, halfbacks, and Hertzig, fullback. Hartford Contracts Signed After a conference between Man- ager Henry Zehrer and Bernie Con- ley of the New Britain team and Manager Brott and “Hobby” Hob- son of the Hartford team held yes- terday afternoon in Attorney Wil- llam Hagearty's office, ncgotiatiom were completed for the series which is expected to decide the state pro- fessional championship. The first game will be played in Hartford on Octoher 28 and the sec- ond will be played in New Britain on November 11 and:the hird game, it one is necessary, will be decided upon later. All terras have been agreed upon and it seems unlikely that a dispute will' arise between the two managements. Probably the major agreement be- tween the two was not to use a player who has scen service with the rival club. This is a good plan be- icause it will prevent the player from “tipping off” the plays to his mates. Blues are Ready Every member of the New Britain Blues team is ready to do his part in the contest with the Hartford Ploneers which is to be the first game of a double header. The Hart- ford team has been holding practice every night at Colt's park. Hartford will be strengthened with the addition of Labeski, quarterback; Stanton, fullback., and Bobby Young, halt back. Other players who will be on the Hartford team will be the following: Priore, Macriski, Ward, O'Laughlin, “Larry” Reardon, Bostin, King, Callahan, Bard, Dubajsky, Sullivan, Barnes, Midura, Carey, Budda, Barry, and “Red” Reardon. New Britain's chances will depend on its backficld; Fengler, Belser, Kayeski, and Casperine, and its line; Westman, Beck, Argosy, Schultze, N T TRees AnD SHRUBS ARR IN THER AUTUMAAL IS SO WIVID - OVE woulD THINK A PAINTER HAD DIPPED THE LEAVES a) Negrolli, L. Puppel and Anstatio. THE CoLoRING RED AVD ORANGE, o THINK AUTUMN N Tua COUNTRY (S A RARE TREAT --. THa LEAvVES ARE GORG®oUS IN REDS, ORANGE BROWN, YELLW - OH You BovS IV Tha O You miSS THe PesT PART]| | Williams Tackles R. P. L, Wesleyan Will Take on Rochester, and Amherst Plays Hamilton — Penn- sylvania Also Sees Some Likely Matches as Well as New England. New York, Oct. 19 UP—New Eng- land and Pennsylvania in a less de- gree, get all the breaks in tomor. row's eastern collegiate football achedule, New England will be the Mecca for Atlantic seaboard pigskin fol- rowers ‘with such outstanding at- tractions as the Army-Harvard, Brown-Yale, Columbia-Dartmouth and Fordham-Holy Cross games. The Army, given a rather large dose of forward passes by Southern Methodist two weeks ago, will get similar treatment at Cambridge, where Arnold Horween has been spending the week developing an aerial offensive. The cadets nosed out Southern Methodist by one point, but Horween has hopes of bettering the Texans' record. After Yale's defeat of Georgia, there are few to give Brown more than an outside chance to beat the Elis at New Haven, for Tuss Mc- Laughry's eleven was not especial- ly effective against Dayton. Columbia must stop Al Marsters and a well-planned aerial attack if she hopes to conquer Dartmouth at Hanover. Fordham's problem, on the other hand, will be to stop the hard plunging Holy Cross backs. The “Little Three” These four battles lead New Eng- land's program, but there are others. The ittle Three” all will be at home. Willlams tackles Glenn Kil- inger's Rensselaer Poly teamg Rochester travels to Middletown, Conn., to meet Wesleyan, while still, another New York state team, Hame« fiton, faces Amherst on hostile ter- ritory, Tufts and Bowdoin offer a little classic all their own at Brun: wick, Me. What New England fails to get in the way of football publicity tomor- row will fall to Pennsylvania, where such games ad Penn State-Pennsyl- vania, Bucknell-Lafayetto, Washing- ton and Jefferson-Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh-Allegheny, Loyol, Mary. land-Duquesne and Gettysbury-Villa. nova, are on the program. Pennsylvania stands out as & fave orite to defeat the Nittany Lions, just as they did a year ago. But Bezdek's eleven upset the dope in 1927 and reglstered a 20 to 0 vie- tory. Bucknell, on the strength of its victory over Penn State last week, is given a chance, in some quarters at least, to stop Lafayette's triumphant advance. Carnegie Tech would rule a heavy favorite over Washington-Jeft but for the fact that the Presidents seem to have the “Indian sign” on that eleven, | Carnegie has scorcd only one vie- tory over W. and J. since 1906. Out in the west, SByracuse and Colgate will carry the Empire State's banner into intersectional conflict. Syracuse, unbeaten so. far, will need all its strength te turn back Nebraska at Lincoln. Colgate, playing a heavy intersec. tional achedule, attacks Michigan State. The urge to go north or west leaves New York state without & single outstanding contest. New York university will enter. tain Rutgers at the Yankee stadium (Continued on Following Page) By BRIGGS OF LIFE=~- Tue TANG OF THE AUTUMN AR 1S LiIKE A ToNc- s