New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1928, Page 12

SIX UNDEFEATED TEAMS TO MEET ON GRIDIRON SATURDAY Plenty of Hot Football for Fans This Week—Yale- Army Battle Probably Will Be Outstanding Contest. Ry ALAN J. GOULD (Associated P'ress Sports Editor.) The intersectional angle that has been 50 conspicuous so far in col- Jege football fades into the back- ground this week. The spotlight turns on at least a dozen games of outstanding importance to confer- ence or scctional championship as- pirations in the east, south and middle west. Six Undefeated Teams The east'’s big spectacle will see West Point's cadets charging upon Yale before some 75,000 spectators in the Bowl at New Haven. Minnesota’s Juggernaut ‘Jowa’s stronghold for the all-impor- tant “Big Ten” clash of the day. Thoae ancient Missouri valley rivals, Missouri and = Nebraska, furnish a third vital attraction at Lincoln with the leadership of the new “Big Bix” at stake. A few others should be mentioned. Two of the three unbeaten Rocky Mouotains conference elevens, Utah land University of Colorado, will INght it out to see who will stay with Colorado college at the top. In the south, where the main con- ference race is getting hotter every |week, two of the pace-setters, Clem- son and South Carolina, renew an ancient feud on Thursday, in ad- vance of such other important bat- tles on Saturday as Georgia Tech- North Carolina, Vanderbilt-Virginia, Georgia-Tulane and Tennessee- Washington and Lee. Yale vs. Army There will be no more color any- where nor probably any more ac- tion, than in the clash between Ca- \det and Bulldog in the Yale Bowl. [The fight between these two con- ‘tenders for eastern honors also in- volves the rivalry of two of the out- standing backs of that section— John Garvey of Old Eli and Red ‘Cagel of West Point and old Louis ana. Army aims to do somethirg Mo college but Princeton has done n recent years—beat Harvard and Yale in succession. " The rest of the castern program §s somewhat overshadowed by the Yale-Army affair. It will be fea- tured nevertheless by the first se- vere test for New York university's hizh scoring machine agatnst Col- rote; Carnegie's attempt to down t-burgh and keep In the top ht; Dartmouth's effort to main- n a winning streck agatnst Har- Pennsylvania’s att upon e, batter Navy crew, and Cornell's invasion of the Princeton Tiger's lair. invades the Mid-Wese Towa's famous Indiana fullback will have a rugged Minnesota de- fense to crack in the outstanding “big” game, as well as rival con- fenders for ball carrywng honors in the Gopher stars, Nagurski and Hovde. On the comparative sceres. Minnesota is favored because of a 83-7 victory over Chicago, which lost to Towa by 13-, Illinois and Ohio State, two other hindefeated “Big Ten" arrays. beek to stay in the race by dispos- ¥ng of Northwestern and Indiana ¥espectively. The Missourl Tigers, having eliminated one title rival in Iowa Btate, are out to prove their one point victory over Nebraska last year was no fluke. These valley rivals appear well matched and the uflma!e “Bix Six" champion may determined by this week's win- her. Tennessee scrambled the South- krn conference race and simultane- :us!y boosted its own stock by up- ctting Alabama, aided by the sen- Batiomal exploits of Jimmy McEver, sophomore b k, whose main stunt was to grab a kickoff and run 98| yards for touchdown. This weck the Volunteerg hope to extend their win- %ing streak at the cxpense of Wash- | ington and Lee, Georgla Tech Strong Geergia Tech exhibiting a great fine in downing Notre Dame for the ¥irst time, is the favorite over North Carolina. Vanderbilt another lead- ing title aspirant, will be tested by Virginia Military next Saturda In the southwest, the Texas Aggies 1927 champions, virtually have been put out of this season’s conference race at the start by de hands of Texas Christian. play Arkansas this week while University top by beating Rice. All three of the undefeated Pacific koat conference contenders mect non onference foes this weck. As a re- sult of the scoreless tie betweon California and Southern California, the only undefeated and unticd eleven in conference competition is Stanford. WANT ((l\\l N New York. Oct ('P)—Thirty hine of the 86 candidates for con- s frgm. New York state ®1id they' favor submitting the ques tion ¢f repemn of the 18th amend- ment to a convention of the torate, ording to a tompleted by the wor commit- tee for repeal of the 1Sth amend- survey just are dero. and two Oct. ’l —The Honordble Andrew Fisher, former bremier of Australia, died at his London residence this morning, he was 66 years old. Mr. Fisher served as premier of Australia from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913 and from 1914 to 1915, He was Awstralian hizh commis- tioner in England from 1916 to J‘.’g. ’ Right will | at the | seems to stay around the New Britain Boy ' Dartmouth Star i GABRIEL BROMBERG Gabriel Bromberg, erstwhile New Britain high school player, who now tips the beams at 192 pounds, | won the cheers of his classmates at Dartmouth Saturday in the battle against Columbia. The Big Green won 21-7. TRrom- berg. during the short time he was in the game, played stellar foot- ball. Time and again the giant guard crashed through the Blue and White forward wall and nailed the Lion's hacks befare they got started. The New Britain boy stands a fair chance of winning his letter this year at Hanover. If not this year he will surcly win it in 1929. Several Columbia players sat all over Bromberg after the New Britainite had been playing for seven minutes. He was taken from the game following a hard bang on the head. But he was not the only man to leave the game. Kumpf, Columbia’s star back, is out the rest of the season with a torn ligament and Campbell, Lion center was taken from the melee. At various times Briethut, Black and Harris were knocked out in the Dartmouth line-up. The game was one of the hardest played that Hanover has seen in many years. Though the fight was rough and hard it was cleanly fought. NEW BRITAIN PAWNEES LOSE IN MIDDLETOWN of Arc On Small End 12-2 score When Final Whistle is sonnded Sunday Outplayed by a faster team, the New Britain Pawnee football team suffered in second successive defeat this season when the Tufts team of Middletown used an overhead attack to advantage. The final score was 12 to 2. Tufts made five first downs to seven for the Pawnees throughout the game. Four of the seven came in the last quarter when the Pawnees outplayed the Middlctown outfit. Tufts scores came on a long forward pass Giviella to Dowling and on Gill's line smashes. The Pawnees made their only score when they | nailed Kulas behind his own goal line. The summary: TURTS TAWNE o e e McCormack Left End ! DeMerlo S . Goble | Left Tuckle Civatello .. : 3aldesori | oft Guard Dunn . S Pavagnani Center dox e Malone Right Guard T SR Loonard Right Tackle Dowling ......... . Keefer ght End Masellt L Ostertag | Quarterhack dviella ... A Quarti Left halfback Kulas Giannotta Right halfbag Spitko | Itutes, Paw- ting. Lindgren, rkhart. din, Mayro Automobile Pr oduction Shows Slizht Decline Washington. Oct (P —Ameri- can_automobile production showed a slight seasonal decline in Septem- ontput, as reported by the » department, was 413.7 5 in August. | in September last year. | e months of 1425 fo date the | ion has amount- inst 2,906,- period witomobile production ounted to 16,57 rs and 4,621 frucks | <en car var in the | in Canada senger 274 trucks in Augus ger ears and ! tember last year. 81 trucks P in | AP (me@ W, atches To Radio Ogerators West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct (P)—Formal recognition of a public service by two amateur radio oper- 1 ators v recorded here yesterday | when Ralph Hollis and Forrest W. | Dana were awarded handsome gifts from the Associated watches, | Ludwinowicz played + him |ea | poor and none of the team's most loyal rooters can feel confident when | | coaching any of the high school teams in the STAMFORD CRUSHES HIGH SCHOOL TEAM Smash Through for Victory in Final Quarter, 36-6 Uncorking & whirlwind forward passing attack when it had failed for three quarters of the game to knife through the New Britain high school line, the Stamford high school foot- ball team, with the aid of two bad punts was able to break a 6 to 6 tie and score thrce touchdowns to win 26 to 6 in a zame played at Cum- mings park, & unford, Saturday aft- ernoon. The New Biituin high school team, the underdog, the crippled aquad of football talemt, the lighter and slower team, had a golden opportu- nity to win the game or to tie the score but the better team found New Britain’s weakness and the better team won. New DBritain's weakness is its backfield. This fact has been notice- able not only in the Stamford game but also in every game to date, The backfield has little punch on the offense. It has been slow on the de- fense and its principal weapon of offense, the line plunge, is not very effective when it is called upon toe often. There seems to be no end running ability in the backfield. Poor judgment in the second half had a great deal to de with the de- feat. Every time New Britain would gain possession of the ball after its hard-working line had held for downs, it would punt back and the task of holding Stamford was again left with the New Britain forwards. In this way Stamford had plenty of opportunity to see just what part of the line was weak and to decide upon the most effective attack. It soon found out it could do nothing on line plunges or off-tackle plays and the only other means of gaining would be to try to out-punt the op- ponent or fo throw forward passes. Sowka was out-punting his Stamford rival and the forward passing at- k was decided upon, and Oh! what a fatal decision this was for New Britain. The 6 to 6 tle stood until the final rinute in the third quarter when Stamford carried the ball across the goal line on straight football in a march from midfield where Sowka had kicked offside. Tn the final quarter the bottom fell out of the game. Three times did the Stamford team cross the New Britain goal line and two of these times counted as scores. On the third occasion the team was called back for a 15-yard penalty for hold- ing. lione whe with Hanrahan were Stamford's offensive stars, car- ried the ball across the goal line on a forward pass but it did not count. Hanrahan took the ball and circled New Britain right end and Hender- son, colored end, scored the feature touchdown when he took a 35-yard pass and ran 15 yards for a touch- down, The two scores which kept the feams deadlocked through three quarters of the game came In the £ccond period. Stamford was hope- lessly outplayed in the first half and New Pritain had scored four first downs to one, but a lucky break came to Stamford in the form of an intercepted pass. Lione gathered in the ball on New Eritain’s first forward pass and ran from his own 15 yard line to the goal line for a touchdown. New Britain came right back and march- ed from Stamford's 45 yard line to the goal line and scored on its fourth down. All the credit in the world should B0 to the New Britain line. The center, Frank Casale, had about (wo hours’ sleep the night before with an infected finger nail which made it necessary that he hold it | straight. Despite the handicap he made only onc bad pass during the game. He was up against one of Stamford's star men, its center, who was tall, rangy, and heavy, The two guards, Dumin and Mik- alauskas, were in there substituting for Nevulis and Kuhs, who were out for the day and they were towers of strength on the defense, The tackles, Szymanski and Ludwinowicz were strong on the defense, but much of Szymanski's good work in crashing through was marred be- cause of his high tackling. “Penoke" the best game ason and with Nelson beside t end the Stamford team stay- away from that part of the line as much possible. Bogdanski played well at times, but his inexper- itnce causcd him to make plays which will not be made by him in future gamecs, it is expected. The backfield could not scem to this s defend the forward passing attack of | Stamford and when a Stamford man ught a pass none of the backs were fast cnough to cateh him. Their method of handling punts is very the hail comes to the receiver. Give the New Britain team some in ta training and greatly improved of- fensive play it should be as good as 10 be the best bet for the state title. It has a backficld of “four horse- men” who are shifty and clever but the line is not as good. The down state team won despite fhe handi- caps of penzitivs. Stamford team was penaiized for a total of 85 yards, 15 yard penaliics and two pen- for offside. 1t sco to four for 2 Britain. All of New Britain's first downs came in he first half and only one was col- lected by Stamford in that part of the v account: First Quarter Pr in appreciation of their work in mairtaining communications he- | tween this peint and the outside world following the hurricane of September 16, !wind in back. Sowka kicked off to mford won the toss and 1t chose to receive with™a heavy west ling and with loyal | mford at the present fime looks | y d six first | A senior, playing his last year, | and a sophomore, playing his first season of collegiate football, are putting the punch in the Harvard backfield this year. The senior hi Art French, speedy halfback and captain, who handles the punting| task for John Marvard a great deal. The sophomore, a former hero, is Tommy Gilligan. Exeter He bhas been used at quarterback In early season games and has caused much | favorable comment by his educated toe. He also happens to have a smart head on his shoulders and is a shifty runner, SING SING TEAM DEFEATS FALCONY Locals Come Home at Small End of 6-5 Tally In a game featured by heavy bitting and good flelding, the Sing Sing nine of Ossing, N. Y., defeated the Jalcons of New Dritain Satur- day afternoon after a closc battle, the final score being € to 5, “Russ” Visher of Hartford was on the mound for the locals and hurled a sweet game, The Falcons took an early 3 to 0 lead but the prison nine came back to tie the count at 3 all in the fourth. From then on both teams battled cvenly, a two-run rally in the eighth de- clding the issue in favor of the Sing Sing team, Mikan, Rielly, Soule, Rose Fisher each connected for two wallops. Iour of the winners connected twice. Soule's long cuit clout featured the game, The summary: FALCONS A. C. and safe also cir- Patrus, Mikan, Rielly, ss Sipples, ss Mills, 1b Saule, rf Zapatka, rt Nooman, « McKfeinan Gaida, It P. Rose, Fisher £ 2 ot Totals SING BING r Field 1 0 Center " Right Field 1 Second Base 1 Shortstop " Catele Left Field Totale Falcons Sing sing Two base hits: Mik Three base hits: P. er, Second Home rifice hits: 8 s 3, F on hails Strike outs: By Visher 1 Hit by pitched ball: B Field. Left on bases: sing 11. 001 02x—# First Pitch- s ishior 2, i by Pitcher Fisher, ;Panther}u_fimrs Ready For Basketball Season | The Panther Juniors basketball team have reorganized for the sca- son. last year the team won 13 | games and lost two to finish second | in the junior city championship. Dressed in suits of red and gold the team expeets to be the leaders in the series this year. The team in- cludes Marictta, . Ziegler J. | O'Brien. Deutsch, J. Dignacak, and B. fquillaciote, Out of town with any team games are wanted averaging 15 or 16 mes get in touch 200 Cherry street, telephone 4 |Georg|a Rankfi (-anev As Good as Caldwell Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 22—Bruce well was a great back for Yale | season but the Elis have an even | greater back this year in Johnny | Garvey, members of Georgi eleven believe. Harry Mehre, Georgia's also thinks the same. “Garvey 18 much faster and smarter and picks his holes better ald- last coach, YALE FIRST TEAM SAVED FOR CADETS Gets Jump on Brown and Leaves Rest to Second Eleven (Special to thie Herald) New Haven, Oct. 22—Yale's fi team hammered its way to a 13-0 lead In 12 minutes of play at the Bowl Saturday and then retired to rest up for the Army game and game with the score still all in Yale's favor at 32-14. It was a game marred by more fumbles than two teams of the caliber of Yale and Brown should have made, but it was enlivened and made th-illing by long runs on both sides and by the success of Brown's aerial attack had against the Yale subs. The Blue regulars were at their best. Garvey chuarned his way to two teuchdowns and took an ecarly shower. Decker played an even shorter period than Garvey, but in that time he intercepted a Brown forward pas: and made a neat run that started Yale towards ‘s sccond | score, Hoben was another who played but a few minutes, Hubbard being the only starting back to re- main long in the game. This quar- tet of backs easily broke up Brown's (Continued on Following Page) leave the Eli seconds to finish the| RUTH THROUGH AS THE GREATEST Signs of Age and Infirmities Noticeable BY HENRY L. PFARRELL NEA Service Sports Writer | While he was hitting all those | { home runs, making all those herolc catches and playfully razzing his| fans with all those defiant gestures | in the late world series, it may have been that the Babe was making his last glorious baseball stand. In retrospection now it scems manifest to not a few of those whe saw the Babe in the last game in 8t. Louis that he was inspired to super-cfforts by something miore than the mere love of doing the things that he has been doing for so mar s, The personal way in which he acted toward the crowd, especially his fans in the bleachers, secmed to have in it the act of a great artist | who knew he was in his last big mo- ment and who was taking his loved | ones right to his bosom. His man- | nerisms had in them the attitude of | | the big star who says: “Boys, this is | my last big act and I'm making it a good one.” He didn't act that way in the other three games nor in any ( Continucd on ¥ llowing Page) | NEW BRITAIN TEAMS WININ ONE-SIDED GAMES SUNDAY Blues Defeat Pawnées of Hartford to the Tune of 13-0—Show Strong Of- fensive Play and Good Defense, A shortened third and fourth period in the New Britain Blues- Hartford Pioneer game was all that kept a powerful New Britain team from running up a large one-sided acore in the first game of a double- header program at Willow Brook park yesterday afternoon. The Blues made two touchdowns for a winning score of 13 to 0, Throughout the game the Capitol City team seemed to be satisfied to stay on the defense While the four hard-hitting backs of New Britain ripped its rivals line to pieces. The New Hritain team might have scored a third touchdown had it not been for a fluke. Al Fengler, quarterback on the Blues, ran back and threw a long forward pass to Westman who received it on his own 35 yard lige and ran to within four yards of the goal before he was downed. The ball was called back because the headlinesman's horn had sounded in the middle of the play. The reason for the horn-blow= ing was due to the fact that the measuring line had broken. The Blues scored nine first downs to two for Hartford. The first score came after “Buf- falo” Sobiek had blocked a kick and recovered it for the Blues on the Pioneers' 30 yard Mne. It took a short time for the hard line plunging of Kayeski and Fengler to effect a re. sult and after scoring three first downs in the march, the Blues quarterback, Fengler scored the points, Kayeskl, Fengler and Rhem car- ried the ball in turn on a march to a second touchdown in the second quarter and they were aided great. ly on a 17 yard gain in a forward pass caught by Louis Puppell. Argosy also helped when he caught a pass on the seven yard line, Fengler again carried it over for his team's second score. The teams were handicapped in the last two periods because they were shortened to five minutes cach so that the Nutmeg game could be started, Kayeski, Fengler, and Westman were stars for the Blues. N. B. Blucs, Hartford Piloneers Westman .., . .. Reardon Jeft end +++ Dubajsky lofl tackle Anastasio . Bard Argosy ... .. Midura Sobiek Maeriski right guard Negrolli .. .. O'Laughlin right tackle L. Puppell +++ Labesky Fengler S . Young King Gasperini Stanton Kayeskl Priore fullback Score:—Blucs, 13; Ploneers, 0. Substitutes, Blues—G. Puppell for Sobiek; Schultze for Anastasio, Brat- ton for 1. Puppell, Krause for West- man, Wilson for Rhem. Officials, George M. Cassidy, referee; Parker, umpire; Ginsberg, head linesman. Your heart beats because it is ive; it beats about 72 times a min- ute, which represents about 38 million times a year or two thousand million times in a life of 50 years. 55 Yard Drop Kick by Radzewich One of Fea- tures of thing' of Steam Rollers by 29-0 Tally. A 55 yard drop kick by Vie Radzewich, beautiful end runs Lone-crushing line crashes, and per- fect interference and defensive play combined to give approximately 1, 500 fans the thrill of their lives at the Nutmnbeg-Sub Base football game at Willow Brook park yestere day afternoon. New Britain's pro- fessional team carried away the vies tory by a 29 to 0 score. By the victory, the New Britain team hus shown itself, on paper at least, to be many points ahead of the Hartford Giants, the last ob. stacle in the path of the New Brite ain team to the so-called state pro- fessional title, The Hartford Giants defeated the sailors 3 to 0 in a game played at Hartford last week, The Nutmegs scored 15 first downs to two for the New London team and thcse two came in the final minutes of the game. Twice did “Silent John" Davis grab for. ward passes and cross the goal line, A third touchdown was made by Buckley on a forward pass and & fouth touchdown was made by Bel. onki who intercepted a forward pass and ran 30 yards for a touchdown, Once more New Britain offensive combination, which is running rough shod over every team it has played, scored a one-sided victory. Every member or the backfield Radzewich Buckley, Belonki, and Davis scored points. The two extra points after touchdown were made by Radze- wich on a drop kick and Buckley on a forward pass. For a time it began to look as it the powerful defense which held the Hartford Giants to a drop kick would again be at the disposal of the Sub Base eleven. In the early part of the game the New Britain team was unable to make a first down and later when it was able to get toward the goal line it was stop- ped. On the first occasion New Brit. ain was penalized for unnecessary roughness on the part of “Jumbo™ Gnasdow and on the second occasion it fumbled. The New Britain team was handf- capped also by the number of ine juries it suffered. After about two plays Buckley was injured. Later he was hurt again and he was taken out and “Happy"” Griswold went into game. 'Happy"” suffered an injury to his ankle and he was carried off the field. Werwaiss suffered a pe- culiar injury when a narrow slit was made in the skin between two of hi fingers, The cut was deep and he could not continue in pla; Joe Rogers' nose was ‘the target for somebody's foot and he also left the game. Four players were injured in the first half and Dr. L. B. Slysz, the team's physician, had a busy afternoon. Conlcy Runs 43 Yards The fans w given an carly thrill when “Unk” Conley ran 48 vards on the kickoff and placed the ball in Sub Base territory. John Davis was like a wild man, He smashed the line successively and gained a first down, but his team lost the ball, and when the S8ub Base could not gain it kicked to Radze- wich. Later the team, led by Davis and Belonkl, carried the ball to the shadows of the goal line where it was lost, due principally to a five yard penalty, When New Britain lost the ball on downs it w on the one-foot line, New London took the ball and om (Continued on Following Page) H N A | WONDER WHAT He'D GIVE RIGHT Now To Sock IT A COUPLE HUNDRED YARDS oR MORE - [} THOUGH HE HAD AGAINST THE BALL THINK HE'S PETRIFIED - HE WASN'T MOVED INCH - the Tense Moment 1 SAW A LooKs AS THAN THAT ONCE BUT CAN'T JUST REMEMBER WHEN 1T WAS GRUDGE GET TE STANCE GeT THE STANCE HE AS HE HE ACTS AS THOUGH THE AN WHeEN You STAND UP By BRIGGS ON ONE OF THOS® WORSE STANCE | ELEVATED TEES IN VIEW OF T € WHOLE WORLD 'T SEEMS AND IMAGINE REMARKS OF THE SPECTATORS - IN A WHISPERING CAMPAIGN. | than Caldwell did." Mehre 'S, | The players say he hasn't the [ drive that Caldwell had but his (Contlnued on Following Page) speed makes up for that missing asset.