New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 32

UNBEATEN TEAMS DEFEND SLATES TOMORROW Five College Elevens to Meet Tough Opposition Over Week-end—Quartet Takes On Competitors Tomor- row—DBoston College Meets Fordham Monday—C. . Y. Appears to Be In Particular Danger— Other Three Should Come Through With Easy Vic- CLEAR C.N tories. #P—The ¥ of the current tootball campaign will carry ounly a handful of unbeaten teams into bat- tle. Most of the headliners already lave tasted the dregs of defeat and now are concerned chiefly with save ing what they can from the wreck- age. Four of the five undefeated and untied elevens swing into action, Boston College waiting until Monday to battle Fordham. Georgetown and Carnegie Tech stage at Albany, N. Y, the only game of the day be- tween teams neither beaten nor tied. Georgetown's chict victory was over New York University. Carnegie has beaten Pittsburgh. Army, heading for an castern and perhaps @ national championship, will need to be at its best to subduc Notre Dame at the Yankee Stadium. Villanova, fifth on the list of lead- ers, tackles Temple. Among the teams tied but not beaten, only C. C. N. Y. seems ia particular danger. The New York- ers must take on Norwich and find a way to stop Grey Coane, star end of the Vermont eleven, who now stands 16th among the eastern scor- ers. Princeton, twice tied, should win decisively from Washington and Lee. All the rest of those who got nu worse than a draw Lowel Textile, Grove City, Canisius and the Connecticut Aggies. One of the feature battles of the day, incidentally, brings together Navy and Michigan which have shared seven defeats between them. New seventh York, Satu These two rivals meet at Baltimore | with the midshipmen confessing to three defeats and the Wolverines to four, Harvard entertains Pennsylvania at Cambrige in another outstanding battle while the other members of the one-time “Big Three,” Yale and Princeton are taking on Maryland and Washington and Lee. Dartmouth trounced Brown by 19 to 7 last season but may find the going more difficult this year. Jesee Hawley will have most of his regu- lars back in the lineup but Tess Mc- Laughry has a much better team at Brown than he had last year. The Oklahoma Aggies-West Virginia and cuse-Ohio Wesleyan ganies eom- plete the intersectional card. Three ancient rivalries will be re- newed in as many states. travels to New Brunswick to meet TRutgers; Washington and Jefferson invades the Pantfers’ lair to battle Pittsburgh, and Wesleyan and Wil liams will put on the second “Little Three' duel of the scason at Wil liamstown. Bucknell. gomewhat bat- tered by Villanova, hopes to regain winning form at Lehigh's expense. Most of the other major colleges are taking time out to get their sccond wind. Corncll plays St Bonaventure; Columbia tackles Johns Hopkins; Colgate will take on a pretty good Hobart aggregation N. Y. U. would like to run up an other 86 to 0 score on Alfred; Penn State hopes to win hy more than two touchdowns against George should win— | Lafayette | 08683 5332500 HIGH SCHOOL BATTLES HILLHOUSE OF NEW HAVEN HERE TOMORROW—NUTMEGS STAGE LAST PRACTICE IN PREPARATION FOR GAME IN STAPLETON—BLUES TO MEET MOHICANS OF MERIDEN ON SUNDAY—BASKETBALL SEASON TO OPEN NOV. 17 COOETRIITITE S0 S MAY BE ALL-AMERICA HALFBACK | | GADETS GET READY FOR NOTRE DAME Bili” Jones Driving Squad for Important Game Tomorrow West Point, N. Y., Nov. 8. —#— !On a dull grey afternoon with the {sombre but stately buildings of the | [United States military academy | | seeming to frown on the whole pro- {ceedings 76 voung men were in & | most undignified position. i They were flat on their backs with their legs waving in the air as & massive figure in a sweat shirt stood amongst therg and showed no dis- position to be reasonable. The leg waving figures were |Cadets getting ready to play Notre {Dame an important football game tomorrow afternoon and the only man on the premises on his feet was “Biff" Jones, the head coach, who for the moment had forgotten every | word in the English language except \ “more." | “Bift.* who to the army is Cap- tain Lawrence M. Jones, and appro- priately enough belongs to the pow- |erful 75, fleld artillery, never sends his football players into practice | without their quota of calisthenics. The warming up prepares them for the strenuous work to follow. The Army footballers have to g0 at & | fast and furious pace when they get under way, for they do not have much time for practice. By using searchlights the squads get in about | two hours three times a week but the {rest of the time classes permit only |about an hour, too short time for | any real work. This gives the coaches | |a chance to practice oratory. The practice yesterday afternoon | was the last the Cadets will have at home before going to New York this |afternoon, so there was more zest |than usual in the leg waving, body twisting and other drills of Coach | Jones, . Army has no idea that Notre Dame will be a push over “Biff” was asked for an expression. | “Rockne’s still coach, isn't he?" Well ‘Rock’ may have a poor team part of the time but he won't have one all the time. 1 saw Notre Dame play Penn State and it looked like a good team to me. The re- turn of Collins pepped up the whole crowd and we have no idea up here that we can go down to the Yankee Stadium and do as we please. | “If my information is correct i Notre Dame's limit of losses since | Rockne has been there has been two to a season and this year's team has used up that quota. Netre Dame also has a rule against losing two games in two years to the same |team ,and you know we beat them last year, so that will be in opera- tion against us. No, we are not looking for a dull afternoon. o | NEW BRITAIN ERICSON A STAR ON VIRGINIA TEAM Former N. B. H. S. Captain Going Good on Freshman Eieven John Ericson, captain of the 1927 New Britain High school footbail cleven, is starring as center on the Virginia Polytechnical institute freshman eleven and LEarle Scott, another New Britain youth, Is mak- ing good headway on the squad in spite of his lack of experience, ac- cording to word coming out of Blacksburg, Va. Ericson welghs 178 pounds, but he is the lightest man in the line from end to end—the ends weigh 185 and 190, the tackles 205 and 200, and the guards 190 and 195. Despite his being the lightweight of the line, he is show- ing brilliant form, playing a great defensive game as roving center lst l ) | JOHN ERICSON Friday as his team rode roughshod over the Roanoke college treshmen by 25-0. The only defeat sufiered by his team came when two fumbles handed a 12-0 victory to the Wash- ington and Lee frosh, who have since downed the University of West Virginia first year men by 26-0, The | University of Virginia freshmen were scheduled to oppose the V. . L frosh today. { Coach Redd of the V. P. I. fresh- men is hopeful thing of Scott. arle is handicap- | per by never having played foot- ball hefore, but the coach thinks he can be taught the finer polnts of the gridiron sport and developed in- to a good player. He was on the B. H. tr squad for two ears. son was a guard and| ackle on the High school footbail team and captained the eleven last fall. The two local boys are playing in fast company. The V. P, L fresh-| man team has in its lineup such | stars as Haggerty of Tome school who was considered All-Ameri prep school fullback last year; Wo who captained the national cham- pionship Ashland, Kentucky high school basketball team last winter; and Stark, all-Virginia tackle for three vears, and Swart, another all- state man who is described as “as big as Bliss Clark and as fast as Joe Szabo.” | | | y t. T s the son of Mr. and John A. Ericson of 10 Sefton Drive, while rle is the son of of making some-|! | with the DAILY HERALD,: W\ AS ES KN HES KNO LQ)ERV *SPECIAL DEI I e B0% | SAMP AM A Mael B "AL ARSTCLASS - BY NEA BOR MA Service Sports Writer During those years when Red Grange was doing his famous gal- loping for Illinois, the task of se- lecting a couple of halfbacks {o at- tach the All-America tag to was atively simple. The job was 50 per cent easier than it has been since he deserted the Illinois campus. When about to ick an All-America squad in those iays, one automatically started with the halfback berths and immediate- 1y dropped the name Grange at one spot. Oy snth of the job was done. Por two-clevenths, for cther halthack really didn’t matter. since those days, ing All-America captions on just two halfbacks has been | hard and it seems to be getting harder cach HERNE s, The 1926 selections were not eas- ily made, 1 ps Morton Kacr of Southern California was a favorite majority of experts, but making a decision from the rest of the ficld was yather difficnlt, liked Bak of Northwestern, Bogue of Stanford, Wilcox of Pur- due, Montana and Wilson of Latayeite just as nauch as Kaer. Even in 1927, when Gibby Welch and Bruce Caldwell ran away with practically all the nominations, the ob involyved some discrction, Mar- Sters of Dartmouth, Flinagan of Notre Dame, Presnell of Nebraska ) others had their pa Kelly of and a flock of Job of plac- Some | AGANST CORKELL LAST NEAR MARSTERS TOSSED (4 (COMPLETED (s “RESUITED Merry Battle Under Way For Regular Places On Team | —Bridgeport Combination of Brothers to Oppose | Locals In Opening Game — Important Practice to ! FOUR OF \WHICH IN TOUCHDOWNS NEW BRITAIN QUINTET T0 | START PLAY NOVEMBER 17 Be Staged Sunday Morning—Girls to Begin Cam- paign Against Manchester Recreations i Basketball will be started here professionally, on Saturday evening, November 17, according to an an- nouncement made today by Manager | Clarence Lanpher. A~ quintet of brothers from Bridgeport will fur- nish the opposition for the locals in their first game of the approaching season. The team, unique in that all the players on it are members of the same family, is composed of Arthur, Gordon, Harry, Charles and Elwood Ahlstrand, all residents of Bridge- port and all brothers. They have sthrred on several various semi- pro teams and some college quintets. ‘This is their first season as a combi- nation, but reports from the Park City state that they will be in the running for state honors. | The New Dritain team will prac- fcan league. The third is Williams, former guard and center on the (‘on- necticut Aggies quintet. At present he is playing fullback on the Provi- dence Steamrollers football team, Besides these, the four vets of last |vear's squad, Cloman, Zakzewski, Sheehan and Leary, will be out working for places on the team, while a merry scramble tween Holst, S8turm, Restelll, Taylor, Mickey Luke and Belser for places on the quintet or on the reserve. The New Britain Girls' team will open the season on the same night as the men, playing the Manchester Recreations. This team took the measure of several Industrial league combinations last scason. The girls will practice Monday night and at that time the squad will probably | | is on be- | HIGH SCHOOL TEAM SET FOR WIN OVER HILLHOUSE Victory For New Britain Will Keep It In Running For State Title—New Haven Eleven Will Give Locals Hard Battle — Forward Passing to Take Big Part In Offense of Both Combinations—Contest to Start at 2:30 o’Clock at Willow Brook Park—Details of BLUES READY FOR B GID BATRLE New Brifain Football Team Moets Meriden Mohicans Sunday The New Britain Blues football team is ready for its hardest game of the season against the Mohicans of Meriden in this city Sunday aft- ernoon. The game will be staged promptly at 2:30 o'clock at Me- morial fleld in Willow Brook park. Both teams have showed exceptional strength against its opponents this season and both are anxious to win Sunday. Meriden is stronger this season than ever before. In the lineup will be “Skip” Whitehead, flashy half- back and Kutzon, quarterback. Both were stars on the Meriden high school eleven. The Meriden line is made up of strong and sturdy men who will have plenty of fight in them. The team has been coached by “Happy"” Olflinger, a former col- lege star. His work with the squad has shown in the games played so far this season. The Mohicans haven't lost & game and they have battled their way into the same class with the Falcons of the Silver City. These two outfits will, in the near future, clash for the championship of Meriden, The Blues are determined to win Sunday. They have been trained and developed under the experienced eye of Coach Zwick and more head- way has been made this season than in many years. “Doc" Bray, who starred with the | New Britain high achool team a few iyears ago, has practiced with the Blues and he may join the team and occupy & backfleld position. The Blues will practice tonight at | 8:30 o'clock and again Sunday morn- {ing at 9 o'clock sharp. ‘The Blues expect a large crowd at the game as |the Nutmegs are playing in Staple- | ton Sunday. Major League Seasons To Be Started Later New York, Nov. 9 (®—Under | present plans, the major league baseball campaigns will start a week i later in 1929 than they did this year. John Heydler, president of the Na. | tional League, said it was expected to open the season in both leagues April 16 and close it Bept. 29. The | 1928 season opened on April 11 and closed Sept. 29 but weather condi- | tions especially in the east, cancelled {any advantages there might have been In the early opening. Baby Joe Gans Seeks Knockout Over Glick Realizing that a victory will give it further recognition in the race for the state high school football cham- pionship and that it will keep it in the running for the Willlam F, Fleischer cup, the New Britain team will give all it has to score a victory {over New Haven Hillhouse High ,8chool team in a Triangular league |game at Willow Brook park tomor- row afternoon. The game will start at 2:30 o'clock. Bevond any question of a doubt ithe New Haven team should give New Britain & hard battle and if New Britain does not play up to its best form it will take a beating. On thing should' be impressed on the minds of the boysand thatisto con- tinue fighting even though the New Haven team has scored a touchdown, New Britain's chances in the game will depend first on the line, In this department the followers can feel fairly confident that this will be well taken care of by the seven men chosen for the task. The second will depend upon how well the backfleld conducts its line smashing attack. In this respect the chances do not ap- pear to be s0 bright because the New Haven line is reputed to be a strong forward wall. This third chance of victory will depend on the forward- passing attack between Sowka and Landino who alternate at thrower and receiver. The fourth will be the off-tackle smashes of Al Middleton and the fifth is the end-running of Billy Ross who, according to Coach George M. Cassidy, is the fastest backfield man on the squad. The sixth chance is Bowka's ability to out-punt Lis opponent, but it is hop- ed that this attack . will not be overdone because it will work to the disadvantage of the New Britain team defensively. It New Britain displays a heavy, strong line defense, it will invite & forward passing attack from New Haven just as it did in the Stamford game. Incidently the Stamford team accepted the invitation and scored a victory in the last quarter. If New Britain is not strong in its defense of the forward pass it will find his- tory repeating itselt in the game to- imorrow, The time is growing short hefore |the Hartford High'achool game. Two weks from tomorrow the New Brit- ain team will play Hartford on its own field. A comparison of the two teams may be made by tomorrow's game. g Stevens Faces Serious Problems With Injuries New Haven, Nov. 9 (UP)—Mal Stevens is faced with the necessity of playing half-mended regulars or third-stringers in several positions in tomotrow's Maryland game in the Bowl. The trainers announced yes- |terday that Loeser, substitute center, would be unable to play before the Princeton game a week hence, and that Ellfs, subquarter, would be out of the Maryland game with a wrenched leg. Practice was elimi- nated yesterday by rain. New York, Nov. 9 ‘Washington and thus improve the 13-0 score of 1927; and Holy C'ross, after a defeat and a tle, should get basa on the right side of the hooks with a victory over Boston Univer- sity, AL HAVLICK RETURNS 10 SOUTH CHURCH QUINTET Is Expected to Occupy a Regular Forward Berth as Mate of Bell and Rockwell. (UP)—Baby Joe Gans, inspired by the fact that TICKET SPECULATION % % « |Jack Dempsey has purchased a fi-| New York, Nov. 9 (UP)—With Red” Dall will officiate here &t nancial interest in him, will attempt |the 80,000 tickets to the Notre the opening game. He will probably ,to knock out Joe Glick, when the | Dame-Army game sold for weeks, e ibe the regular official throughout pair meet in a lightweight bout in|speculators today were asking $26 & by three newcomers. One is Kamp- ithe year, splitting the work with Madison 8quare Garden No. 16. pair for ordinary $4 seats to the meyer, former center on the Dart-|Billy Coyle of Wallingford. Music | The winner of the Gans-Glick |game Saturday at Yankee Stadium. mouth University team. Another {8 for the dancing following the games 'bout probably will get a chance at |Yard line seats (what line is not McElwain, last year a forward on will be furnished by various local Sammy Mandell's lightweight title mentioned) are quoted at $50 & the Fort Wayne*tecam in the Amer- orchestras. |early mext year. pair. Me al_ld Mine job, in fac thinking and ticular booster (I itated gathering This v thanks to Al Marsters at Dartmouth, the task scems to be as casy as during tie good old days of Ited Grang A to Iy “Our players are in good shape. Nothing to worry about there and T know we have a good team. I also that we will need i have some good Kickers, Murrell and Cagle are above the average, but it is quite possible that neither will be the best punter on the field Saturday afternoon.” The coach was asked if he has| found the Army's terrifically hard | schedule working well in operation. His answer was ycs and no. “It keeps the team in shape any- way,” he suggested, “of course it's tough to have to play two hard games on successive Saturdays,” he added, “but, it probably will work Albert Havlick to | out all right.” senior basketball | The Army team and the election of his younger | mistic as n brother, Roy. Havlick, to the cap- |in unguar tainey of the junior quintet were the Optimisti highlights of the practice sessions| The Army foothall those teams at the Boys' club | vided into two groups “A” the var- ning. Al played for two vears Sity and “B” th 1 string men. § with the church guintet, one at guard | I'layers are promoted as they show and the other as one half of the Merit. Bort Muse, the highest rank- Havlick-Adams forward combi ing cadet officer in Two years ago he played bu squad, is the latest games with the team and last vear | Muse. who is none at the High 00l, Tfafnir " 1108k EBergedr Bearing, and Durritt teams claiming | and won his services ing hose s acadeniy This winter tack ently unuble ¢ has been church fold regularly at he chosen. About 15 candidates have | been striving hard for places. Mr. and Mrs, Charles I7. Scott of | 1493 Stanley street. A third New Britain youth, Hugh Reid Derric won many peints for the V. P. 1 freshman track team last spring, his specialty being the mile which he participated while at H. 8. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs Clarence Derrick of fton drive, the three boys living within few yards of each other and having been pals for many ¥ FOURTEEN TEAMS ENTER HARTFORD COUNTY LOCP "tice at the Stanley Arena Sunday morning. The same candidates as turned out last week will be en hand again this coming Sabbath, while the squad will be augmented a lot of sure, is not certain s chosen Ali-America unani- but who, may ask, I8 any more certain of a4 berth on that juad than the big gal- o st mid-scason and all haven't been heard from but some of the good d include Garvey Georgia 'l mously, we loper of i This is precinets in halfbac arou Yale, Mizcll of roll of Washin lue, Drazil « Army M. M sary to Divide Circuit Into i i ke Two Groups, unles this race, The return of the South churc! m, W BiLL- MY WiFg 1S m. PROBABLY THE FINEST it 1| Coowr N Towwn- Sme it foilow. { CAN MAKE A MINCE | | PIE TuaT wouLd meLT Many e itl tell you than 14 teams are ex- timt Macs Ft ind lted | i IN YoUR. MOU T ¢ today. oach is not so pessi- ny coaches. At times d moments he is almost THERE'S VERY FEw COooKkS BILL THAT Walow HOW Yo MAKE A S00-FLAY| LIKE MY WIFE GREAT BIG PUFFS LIKE THAaT. OH-u-BoY. SHE'S A \MARVEL W THE CUE -~ SE€éN DEPARTMENT SA-a-ay! mv wirs 18 A MARVEL Too--t DoN'T KNOW How SHe DoEs 1T- AT JUST SEEmMS T BE A KNACK - - HER MOTHER WAS A GREAT CooK SO SHE INHERITS IT - Sumerous Quintets Make it Neces- an e squad seco No fewer | pected to compete this year for the senior hasketball championship of the football j tpo Fartford County “Y™ Athletic to advance. | held by the South cadet captain, w 1 this city regular army | appointment 1o the | g ice in Haweii. He || P nds a bit over | ineh. | outside Gran ven ith mention vith G Mat , McMillan, otoer back y he can | ister and | cver did. | will association, now " Congregational church of and it has been found necessary to de the play into a northern of eight teams and a southern sc the & sons. st Ll renit T! the | tne daf nding champion CBUd™ L Ghupen, as well as the the wy» and the Plainville PTOMOT- 41} of which have definitely ficuten- 4 pounced plans to play. There | her possibilitics to dat neington Boy's club, the cegational church, and | Farminzton Triangles, runners-up [last winter. The northern soction #s expeeted to include the Broad Brook A Simshury “Y,” Simshury Highland Park. Wapping “Y.” North Granby, West Av and Seantie. Cups will be offered in vach league and the winners will meet for the county trophy and the right to represent the county the state t imen local South e Burritts appar- 1 floor, he into the of six. southern section will include ith 6§ feet, Anoti sthall promotion le and captain of who has b it to cadet FIGHTS LAST NIGAT ted 10 play fullen fo out last ) Bell and Sprag Ly of them en pro a forward he are vards just | the Bristol the un when this but pneumonia inter ko thall Vim rly m b In i the e 14 com- ell, four away fr “ 2 piand BiLL Ges ma A BIG PAIN: ALWAYS BRAGGING ABOUT HiS wiFe . 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LEAVES FOR CAMBRIDGE Philadelphia, Nov. 9 (I'P)—The ansylvania foothall squad left for Ige last night for their first of Soldiers’ Ficld for th Har 1904 when Bob Torreyv's m won, 11 rin tie Al of re the schools s been just s last year K built tmouth has iwive power re and not team wa as follows: forwards Merza and Anderson outfit smearcd a sccon: posed of Wheelor forwards; Dary, center, Stanley, guards th senior : practice games in is he the connty church has two i th nec: ¢ legs on the cup, necding but one more {ory o secure permanent posses Last year it won its way fo the Is of the state tourney but was iten in the last encounter, The county swimming meet will be the Hartford Y™ pool on afternoon. November 17, In the cvening the annual mecting of the association will he held, There vl e clection of oilicers, | K by President on the Olympic | balf « fiwo v innati— Wyoming, (10) Ky.. of hown tr when M physically With perforin “leven com 1w s in 1l mar ind May and ton ou vi handic it il T cardle 1 Indianapo sion iy to Hanover in all toughness Phys the ome hi 1 junior teams ha soked for Monday night, when they will play the senior and reserve teams of the Dovs” club younzer quintets will mix at 7 o'clock and their elders inmediately afterward 1 he mh Suturday il touzh likel vion that the All-Ameri Just one- n the past o 1sion . i sines Captain ton | Iations b + Languet 1 READ NEALD CLASSIE FOR BEST RESULTS | it games. Abs 1w two n han it hias b Penn wou, 24 to 0. .