New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1928, Page 12

i BLUES CAMPAIGNING FOR SEMI-PRO FOOTBALL TACKLE HARTFORD—BOXING WAR STILL HAVE FIGHT FANS PUZZLED—NEWTON SETS NEW BOWLING RECORD — SPORTS REORGANIZED BACKFIELD AT |FIGHT GAME SEEMS WORKING WELL Captain ; HIGH SCHOOL Two New Backs Add Pep and Regulars Put Over Two Touchdowns on Scrubs—Captain Also Is Shifted — Ineligibility of Mangan Loss to Squad. A backfield which consisted of two new men worked with the reg- ular New Britain High school team yesterday afternoon and in the first twenty minutes of play scored two touchdowns on the second team. ‘The new additions to the back- field were Billy Ross, quarterback, and Al Middleton, half back. Ross has been running the second team all season and he was put in the regular lineup in place of Captain Louis Landino who was shifted to half back. Although last night's workout was not much of a test to determine whether Ross would make good, it appears as if Lan- dino is better off as a half back be- cause he can get away for end runs better than in the quarterback posi- tion. Sowka was the only backfield man who stayed in his position. The first touchdown was scored by Sowka who hit the right side of the line and crossed the goal from the one-foot line. The second touch- down was scored by Joe Bogdanski, | right end, who covered a distance of approximately 10 yards after he caught a forward pass. “Gunny” Nelson, left end, staved in school and studied so was not out for practice yesterday after- noon. Baylock took his place at end. Nevulis was not out and Mi- kalauskas took over the guard po- sition. Frank Casale, center, is still bothered with his hands and he gave way to John Dumin. The rest of the line, including Kuhs, guard, Ludinowicz and Symanski, tackles and Bogdanski, end, were on hand. Henry Kraszewski, substitute half back, Alex Zaleski and Mike Grip, regular half backs so far this sea- son were not in uniform. Zaleski is suffering with an injured side and Grip has an injured shoulder. Even though three of its regulars were got playing the line appeared to be Bs strong as ever. The strongest man on the gecond team was Bill Mangan, who is in- eligible to take part in sports for the entire season. Playing a quar- terback position be threw the pass- es, punted, and Treceived punts. At one time in the game he intercepted a first team pass and ran 25 vards He was stopped- just as he was breaking for an open field. It is expected that Coach Cassidy will experiment further before he makes a tinal decision on his line- up for the game with the Coast Guard Junior Varsity. It is sched- uled to be played at Willow Brook Park field Saturday afternoon. JOE Z0TTER WILL BE ON HARTFORD BOXING CARD New Britain Leather Pusher Booked to Show His Wares There Friday Evening. Hartford, Oct. 25 — Bat Bafta- lino, hard punching featherweight boxer of this city will pay homage to the much more experienced Jules Sombathy of Bridgeport in the star ten round bout booked for Foot Guard hall on this coming Friday night. There is great rivalry be- tween these fwo rising feather- weights and each would like to add the other's name to their st of vic- tims. Sombathy is the more experienced battler, having met more stiffer com- petition and having more battles in his career; Sombathy has defeated the tough Joe Curry of New York on two eccasions, while Battalino was held to a draw by Curry in & slashing bout at New Haven some few months azo Sombathy will come here Friday after a busy cam paign in the New York armorieg, while Battalino has not boxed since he scored a victory over Miito Cohen of New York some six wecks ago. The Battalino and Sombathy bont seven hout program 3% rounds of the fans' Joe Zotter, classy lightweizht, of New Britain, along with Johnny Earra, bantam. Del Pouliot, junior feather, and Kid Thomas, middle weight, will be paired with rival competition that will make in- teresting under card of six honis Sir George Grierson has reduced 179 languazes and 534 dialects of India to writinz Charter House— Yonng Men's Clothing TAILORED BY FASHION PARK $25.00 to $45.00 Fitch-Jones Co. | | | | Jack Kirkpatrick. who leads Lehigh University football team. HARVARD'S PLAYS BEATEN BY GREEN —{ther Elevens Active By the Amciated Press Dartmouth beat Harvard yester- day, but it was in thelr practice sessions, net in a game. The Crim- son scrubs, using Dartmouth plays been scouting at Hanover, over- whelmed the varsity. At Hanover, Jim Donnelly, likewise a scout, | taught the scrubs Harvard's forma- tions, but the varsity had little trouble stopping them. When the Navy's luck isn't bad it's worse, Yesterday, Oscar Hag- berg, a new end prospect received a broken leg in scrimmage and Hard- in, center, was definitely counted out of the Penn game because of older injuries. Tuss McLaughry, Brown coach, is not yet through .shaking up his team. In a scrimmage yesterday the third team overwhelmed the sec- ond, which had four men recently shaksn off the varsity, and now Tuss is ready to make more changes. For one of the highest scoring teams in the east Pennsylvania is having a hard time in practice. The entire first team was benched yes- terday when it headway against the scrubs. Too much preliminary hard work was the coaches’ explanation. With a plentiful supply of good backs, Bill Roper keeps on finding more in his Princeton squad. May Wheeler, a sophomore, celebrated his promotion to the varsity yester- day by starring in twe scrimmage sions, for the varsity against the “all-tars” and the second team against the treshmen. The dog days have Come for the Army coaching staff. With five men on the casualty list and Yale next on the schedule they have to stop the plays in scrimmage before they | are finished so as not to risk more | inyuries. The Yale squad had a whole sea- son’s practice in one afternoon yes terday. It started with a drill in blocking and tackling and worked up to a scrimmage. Coach Tate of Lehigh finally has lended his experimenting with his 1squad. He thinks he has found the | best combination of his green play- | #r« and from now on intends to on developing a fast powerful Wwith them | _ A real kicking duel is on _the chedule for tha Colgate-New York game Saturday. Ken Strong of N. Y. U| has been prac- ird m hopes of out-distanc- riuce Dumont of (Colgate. L] ‘.v 1t | University Last Hard Scrimmage For Yale Set for Today New Haven, Oct. 25 (UP)—A last crimmage was echeduled for 11l team before Sat. game Yesterday Head Mal Stevens drilled Garvey. Hubbard, Dunn and Cruick- shank in drop and piace kicking aft- er it as learned that Oldt, left end and only reliable point kicker on the team would be unable to | play Saturday hecause of a bad {knes Yale's other cripples have re- | turned to the Hneup. urday’s Army Coach HOFFMAN WINS BOUT New York, Oct. 25 (P—George | Hoffman, former national amateur | heavyweight champion. outpointed | Jack Humbeck of Belgium in the {six round main bont at the Manhat- tan Casino last night. Dartmonth Practices on SCrubs |>>5n" 2rcct sor "rrummnss wont | weight champlon won't fight Amer- could not make | 4 DEAD AND BURIED At Loast as Idle as Joe Beckett Upon the Canvas The fight game is as idle as & paitted Joe Beckett upon a painted canvas. The good ship “Fisticuffs,” which for seven seasons sailed the seven seas of financial success with golden salls a-billow and the hatches fair- ly popping with prosperity, is in the doldrums. Captain Tex has gone be- low and the crew doesn’t know what ‘o do about it. The honey-laden breezes stirred up by the demand of the cash cus- tomers for seats, which used to keep the cauliflower craft cleaving the crest of one wave of certified checks after another, have died away. From 1921, when Rickard intro- duced his irst “battle of the century” to & $1,626,680 audience, until 1928, when the three leading boxing pro- moters of the United States all lost heavy money, the Yight game reach. ed its peak and then fell flatter than a British heavyweight. Right at the moment, there'is but one champion prepared to defend his title, anly one promoter able to pay him to do so, and probably very one way or another. There is no heavywelght cham- pion, and if all the contenders were put together, ‘“retatning the best features of each,” the result wouldn't be so much. The light heavyweight champion won't fight in his class and the mid. dleweight champion cah't. Joe Dundee, welterweight cham- pion, has agreed to meet Young Jack Thompson in Madison Square Garden on November 16, but the titleholder and his hand-carved man. ager, Maxie Waxman, still are fass- ing about the ticket prices. Thomp- son, coming in over the welterweight limit, flattened Dundee in Chicago a few weeks ago, only to have his own woolly head all but knocked off by Little Jackie Fields shortly there- after. 8o the first of the indoor sea- son's championshjp fights is no | particular bargain, even at the more | fight lightwelghts and the feather- icans and there is less public inter- test in the still lighter divisions than n the middle name of Abdel B. El Ouafi. Tex Rickard. who is by no means stone deat where the tinkle of a cash register is concerned, has strained his ears for sounds of pub- lic enthusiasm until they are as imuch like caulifiowers as those of any of his performers. In the midst of “a silence you ‘most could hear,” the great promoter folded his golf pants and stole away to Florida, That is the difference between Rick- 2rd and the other promoters who do it for a living. All his eggs do not necessarily need to be golden: ‘There once was a superstition in fistic circles that the public “always falls for heavyweights,” especially it the heavyweight are of the sort to do a little falling themselves. At the moment, not even the prospect of modified Mastodon murder evokes enthusiasm with a cash background. The first of the indoor shows of the season on November 5 features Paulino Uzeudun, the bungling Basque, and Otto Von Porat, and when one hears that the Norwegian is being billed as ‘‘the deadliest puncher in the heavyweight divi- sion” one realizes that the poor old ion has cértainly lost its wal- 1op. Roberto Roberti, who works for Humbert J. Fugazy, the Ebbets tield optimist, in the summer time, has been offered a sum of real money to meet Knute Hansen under Rickard's auspices, but has just about decided to go home and be decorated by Mussolini before los- ing any more ribs or teeth in his newly chosen profession. Jack Sharkey is coveniently incapacitated. Leo Lomeki. an expectant father, has retired until Decémber, George | Godfrey is taboo with Tex and Tom | Heeney still has pocket money. The fight game, admitting there 18 any necessity fordt at all, needs a tonic. A certain young thespian is tearful of his job. There is men- tion of Jack Dempsey appearing in the talking movies, but not among those who have heard him talk. It would not be Dempsey, who, a few weeks ago ad- mitted that his retirement was not necessarily permanant, would permit himself to be persuaded to return to the ring next vear. When Jack was fighting or even falking about it, or even keeping silent about it, the whele game was prosperous. Its decline dates with his departure, not with Tunney's. 10 MANAGE TORONTO Steve O'Nefl Also Will Be First String Catcher on the Team When 1t Starts Season in Spring Toronte, Ont., Oct. 25 (A—Steve O'Neil, former Toronto catche: ~ the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2 > President Bunn Toronto International League base- ball club announced yesterday. He also will be a first string catcher on the loral team. O'Neil was a former catcher with the Leafs. but has been with the St. Louis American League team for | the past two vears He is to be play- ing manager and guarantee to catch at least 100 games during the com- ing zeason It 18 expect=d that Bill O'Hara, present manager of the Toronto team, will manage Newark next sea- son. succeeding Walter Johnson ~ho will g0 to Washington O'Hara however, has haen given the sppor- tunity to remain with the Teafs as surprising 1f | of the | YOUNG HEAVIES MAKE BOW; |PLAYING MANAGERS |15 VON PORAT TPS NEWCOMERS| ARF DISAPPEARING New and unmarked faces will tew fight fans who care very much : the Indoor scason opens next month. Topping the ed from the west is Otto Von Porat New York, Oct. 25.—(#—Fresh foes for the metropolitan heavy- weight favorites are being imported from the provinces. The latest consignment consists of Otto Von Porat, Chicago; Tiny Roe- buck, Kansas City and Tuffy Gr"'- tith, Sioux City, Ia. Von Porat and Roebuck are heavyweights and Grit- fith 18 a light-heavyweight. All three are booked for early en- gagements, scheduled as prelim- inaries to Tex Riekard's big elimi- nation tournament, which will be under headway by December. Outstanding among the new mem. bers of Gotham’s big fistic family is Otto Von Perat, who held the heavy- weight championship of Norway when he came to America three years ago. Hard-boiled Yankee promoters fatled to fall for the Norway cham- pionship racket, asserting their ig- norance of boxing championships in the Nordie region, #o Otto has had to get himselt & reputation in Amer- fea. This he apparently has done. Mak- ing his headquarters in Chicago, Von Porat won nine of his last 18 fights by knockouts and is heralded by Chicago critics as the hardest hitting young heavyweight in the land. Otto will have every opportunity to prove his vaunted hitting ability when he makes his metropolitan debut in a 15-round bout with Pau- lino Uzcudun, November 5. If his blows make any impression on the Basque wood cutter then local skep- tics may fall in line. Paulino himself is somewhat of a hitter. He recent- 1y chopped down Big Boy Peterson, who holds a newspaper decision over Otto, only to lose the fight on a foul. Peterson also has figured in the past of Tiny Roebuck, who makes his local bow in one of the prelimi- pary bouts on the Paulino-Von Porat program. Tiny rapped Big Boy to sleep in P5 seconds in Kansas City last winter, but the Big one subse- quently took a newspaper decision from Tiny. Tiny and his followers stoutly in- sist the former Haskell tackle has lived down the disgrace of losing to Peterson. The Madison Square Ga den corporation, which has a con- tract with Roebuck, hopes it was all a mistake, for with Tiny's football reputation and the red skin angle they vision vast opportunities for some high-pressure ballyhoo. Grifith has no Indian blood nor, has he ever held any championships, real or imanginary, but if there is anything in a name then his future is assured. Tuffy, they say, has been handling the boys right roughly in and around Chicago. With this in mind the matchmakers signed him with rugged Pete Latzo, but Latze had his jaw fractured. They now are angling for Jack Delaney. And the Rapier of the north, still somewhat of a fighter against the second-raters, may bring out just how tough Tuffy is. CALDWELL PICKS YALE T0 DEFEAT ARMY TEAM ers Year Ago Thinks Jinx St Works New Yerk. Caldwell, Oct. 25 |the Eli jinx will be again en Saturday and will the Army may have on paper. “The Army | because it has more ed on tice with his pro eleven, a quality of coming against the Army eve dope is the other way.” The star whe was the center of all eyep in this zame last vear ex- pects to he Just one of 75000 spec- tators when the teams take the flald this time when ANOTHER IRISH CASUALTY Seuth Bend. Ind. Oct. 25 (1'P)— Another Notre Dame football player 1% on the sidelines injured. Tommy Murphy. right end, hurt in serim maga. prebably will he missing €at- urdas when the Irish lin¢ up against business manager next year. Drake, . seems to have an edge B\ TUFPY GRIFFITHI greet metropolitan hoving fans when heavies draft- who meets Paulino Uscuden, Nov. 5. Tiny Roebuck, heavyweight, appears on the same card. Tufly Griftith, light-heavyweight, may meet Jack Delaney, late November. NUTMES, STRONG AS EYER, READY FOR CRUCIAL GAME Lineup Intact for Series With Hart- ford Team to Determine Inter City Title With its lineup intact, the Nut- meg football team is now ready for any oposition to its claiming the state professional champlonship. To |do thig it must beat the Hartford Blues in two of a three gamé® ser- ies which is to start next Sunday at the Velodrome in East Hartford. If the Hardware City team is able {to win this game and the second |game of the series in New Britain |a week from that date there won't be any need of a third game which would have been played on either field on November 18. Both téams are strong. The full- backs are “Silent John" Davis of the New Britain outfit and “Butsy” Sturm of the Giants. While Davis was hammering the Sub Base line, Sturm was socking the line of the Newark Pres. Both men will face strong lines this week, however. The halfbacks on the New Britain team compare favorably with the speedy backs of the Giants. Hart- ford’s backs are Captain (Hobby) Hobson and “Shrimp” Foley. New Britain's backs are Belonki Buckley. New Britain's quarterback appears to have an edge on the Hartford field general. Vic Radze- wich has proven a sensation this year. Druehl does not appear to be in a class with the Torrington boy. Although the Hartford line s supposed to be a stonewall combin- ation it will have te be mighty strong to push over the New Brit- ain team’s line with its Gnasdow, Humphrey, Rogers, O'Neil, Wer- waiss, Conklin, Conley, Brink, and Burns. Hartferd linemen are Leary, Seng- er, ends, and Scully, guard. MAY REJOIN TEAM Philadelphia, Oct. 25 (UP)—Ralph Monk, regular Pennsylvania left guard who has been nursing a boil on his arm, may be able to play against navy Saturday, Dr. Light, the team physician indicated today. | and | Hornsby May Be Last of Once Popular Directors New York, Oct. 3§ (P—It Rogers Hornasby goes to the Chicago Cubs, to concentrate upon second-basing and his habit of roiling up big bat- ting averages, the major league campaigns next spring may start without & playing manager on any fleld for the first time in as many moons as can be recalled, offhand. Even it the .Rambling Rajah should retain the helm at Boston or grasp it elsewhere, the situation would be in sharp contrast to tbat of & few years ago, when & ma- jority of the American league pilots were daily or almost dally perform- ers and about half of the entire group of master minds in active hat . There was an epidemic of play. ing mansgers a few seasons ago, ‘when George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Bucky Harris, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Ray Bchalk, Dave Bancroft and Hornsby took whirls at hand- ling the managerial reins here and there. 8o far as results were con- cerned, Bpeaker, Hornsby and Har- ris not only won pennants but world’s ¢ ashpmionihsp. & cmfw I world's championships. Now, however, the magnates seem to prefer to have the heavy think- ing done and strategy directed by managers whose energies are con- centrated upon the bench, or no farther afleld than the coaching lines. . Bucky Harris, who has shifted his responsibility from Washington to Detroit, still has some good play- ing days before him, but he has in- dicated he expects to see little, if any action, especlally with so spry & second baseman qlready on hand 4 as Gehringer, one of the outstand- of the Tiger club. succespor at the capital, Walter Johnson, thinks he may make & return te the mound but this idea s more than likely sen- Old Barney's pitching days are over, for all practical pur- Pposes. Roger Peckinpaugh stays in uni- form at Cleveland but he cannot be considered a member of the active list. He doesn't need to at- tempt any shortstopping with Joe Bewell around. There has been talk of Tris Speaker returning to Boston to mangge the Braves it Hornsby goes, but Tris, too, has reached the stage where his experience, not his play- ing ability, is his main asset to a major leagye club. The 7 major league races were dominated by sych managers with Hornsby and Harris not only out- numbered but oytgeneralled in the pennant tussies. Harris managed to get in the first four, trailing the outfits led by Huggins, Mack and Howley but Horns Braves trail- ed the pack in the national demi. nated by McKechnie, MeCarthy, Bush and Hendricks. FIGRTS LAST NIGAT By the Amociated Press. New York—George Hoffman, New York, outpointed Jack Humbeck, Belgium (6). Cincinngti—Davey Abdad, Cleve- land, eutpointed Chuck Feldman, Toledo (10); Jack Hotiernan, Pitts- burgh, , outpointed Freddie Mia- daugh, Detroit (6). PAWNEES TO PRACTICE ‘The Pawnee football team will hold a practice session tonight‘at the field on East street. Practice will begin promptly at 7:30 o'eleck and all the players have been asked COLLEGE ELEVENS NOT YET BEATEN OR EVEN TIED Penn State Coach This Week-End Completes First Half of Season and Some Damage Is Sure to Be Done in Elect Circles on Saturday, Especially at New Haven. . New York, Oct. 35 UM—Next Sat- urday ends the first half of the pres. ent football season and fifteen . ern colleges approach it without having been defeated or tied. Nine more are on the unbeaten list but have had their records damaged by no decision games. Of the teams with perfect records six, Duquesne, Haverford, Temple, Tufts, Willlams and Villanova, can be classed as small colleges and eliminated from consideration for big time honors, although some of their performances have come close “|te lifting them to a higher rank. MULDODN 0PPOS BIG BOAING BaDY Thinks Proposed International Gronp Too Unwieldly New York, Oct. 25 —The New York state athletic commission will not join the propesed new interna- tional bexing association or any cther nation-wide governing body it William Muldoon has anything to say about it. Working agreements with separ- ate states are all right but a def- inite alliance with a national body 1s out of the question, the veteran commissioner said yesterday. “We have no affiliation with any boxing body of national scope mor, 80 long as I can prevent it, will be undertaken,” Muldoon said. “Our situation today is what it always has been. We are ready to help other boxing bodies throughout the coun- try when and if need arises and we welcome a reciprocal arrangement with our commission. “'Our state law imposes on us the responsibility for administering the statute under which boxing is con- ducted in this state. It does not give authority to assunie alliance with erganization or {institutions whose object is to control or supervise box- ing throughout the country.” In addition to the legal bar to joining a national organization and his belief that voluntary aid to other states is best. Muldoon said that a nation-wide organization is too unwiedly to be effective and that one trouble maker in such an or- ganization coud upset the whole machine, Farrell and nge:\_ Are To Have Another Match New York, Oct. 25 (UP)—Johnny Farrell, national open golf cham- pion, was to leave today for 8t. Louis where he will meet Walter Hagen, British open champion, in the fifth and deciding match of their series; for the werld's uvmcial golf cham- pionship. Hagen“won the first two matches and Farrell the next two. The fitth match will be played Sat- urday. On Sunday Hagen and Far- rell will play Ed Dudley and Hor- ten Bmith at Joplin, Mo, on the start of a tour that will take them The Army-Yale and Cornell- Princeton encounters are certain to see some damage done to the ellte on Baturday. The Cadets and Yale meet with untarnished records and one or the other doubtless will be eliminated. Army 1s a slight fav- erite except for the traditional Yale jinx which has cost them all but four of the 27 games they have played against the Blue. Opinion likewise favors Princeton, held to & scoreless tie by Virginia, over Cor- nell which has won three straight. Georgetown and Boston College are the only big colleges that seem certain of maintaining clean slates. They meet comparatively weak op- ponents in Duke and Boston Uni- versity. Pennsylvania also has goed pros- pects of continuing undefeated un- less Navy suddenly finds itselt and turns on the Red and Blue to score one of the season’'s numerous up- sets. Among the small colleges Ha- verford and Villanova seem sfYe, playing St. John's of Annapolis and Lebanon Valley. ‘The posibility of a wide swath be- ing cut in the ranks of the unbeat- en elevens lies in the three remain- ing battles. Dartmouth goes to Cam- bridge a favorite to beat Harvard but the Crimson will be no setup even after a defeat by Army last week. Newk York University will have a tough time with Colgate, which held the Violet to a scoreless tie last year and did enough dam- age to cripple the New York team for its remaining gamas. Carnegie Tech and Pjttsburgh wil'stage their annual eity ~champiésahlp Dbattle. hard feught and 'ungertain even when one team is theoretically far better than the other. Rgch has had one hard gyme, Ca beating Washington and Jefferson and Pitt losing to West Virginia. Williams and Tufts go somewhere out et their class to play Columbia and Brown but they are not yet definitely slated for defeats. Both have fine records while their op- ponents have lost to stronger teams. Temple and Dugquesne, the two re- maining unbeaten and untied teams, meet opponents of their own calibre in Providenceand Geneva. Besides Princeton among the teams whose records have been marred only by ties, Lafayette and Bucknell stand out. They played & scoreless game last Saturday. La- fayette has caught a tartar in West Virginia which has fought its way back into contendership for eastern honors after a defeat by Davis and Elkins. Bucknell has a dangerous although outclassed opponent it Gettysburs. through the northwest and to the Paeific coast. Farrell plans to re- te be on hand. That Guiltiest Feeling oo-o-a-wowt 1S THAT The HoT STUFF OR NoT ¥ Now I'LL SOCK THAT oLD PiLL INTo ™ Nex' Athlete Who Defeated West Point- ) —Bruce whose accurate toe kick- Ped the deciding points for Yale in the Army game of a vear ago, thinks functioning more than counterbalance anyv advantage BABY! COUNTY ! ? A, experienced | material,” said Caldwell as he pull- ° his cleated shoes for prac- the New York Giants, “but Yale teams have throuzh the 1 LA .,\fi':,\, PN fifl: ce -~ WYRAGYC e 2 i ( S . ! lae 0} ISYOVIL. 77 /2; 2 !HAA. turn east in December. Although the finterest ‘l. Satur- (Continued on Following Page) 7y ""z ~ K o ;’? WHEN, YOUR CONVIVIAL FRIEND, WHO 18 ALSO YouR GUEST, TAKES A SHOT OF HIP OIL AND LETS LOOSE , JUST AS THe LEADING DRY OF TeeE CLUB 'S ALL SET FOR HIS DRwe