New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1928, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN NUTMEGS LOSE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON TO SEASON STARTS WITH THREE MENS GAMES TOMORROW NlG!-lT—TRlS SPEAKER TO | WHEN NOTRE DAME BEAT SCRAMBLE TIGHTENS FOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP| N COMING GAMES Carnegie Tech Stands Out Among Eastern Teams— Georgia Tech Leads In the South—Iowa and Ne- braska are Heading the Pack In the Middle West— Notre Dame Through Back Into Competition—Plenty of Opposi Victory Over Army, Comes Work Ahead for All Elevens. New York, Nov. 12 (A—National championship football have been blown about in none too gentle fashion thus far but when it comes to measuring the qualifica- tions of contenders, none stands out any more today than Carnegic Tech in the east, Georgia Tech in the south and Iowa and Nebraska in the middle west. There are others clamoring for recognition among the slim slate of the unbeaten, such as Florida; Ten- nessce, Detroit, Ohio Wesleyan and Boston College. There are still more, such as West Virginia and now Notre Dame, that have gathered fresh headway after faltering in the early stages. The final returns al not yet in and they deby anyway, but just now none has & better claim to recognition aspirations than Carnegie, Georgia Tech, Towa | and Nebraska. Jowa and Nebraska have had close calls, one point victories which the Hawkeyes gained over Minnesota and the Cornhusker over Syracu but they have decisively whipp their other foes. Carnegie and Geor- gla Tech have been equally impres. bowling over ull opposition in a season where consistency has not been an outstanding virtue. Georgia Tech's mighty line and ons of the g all-around backs in the country in Warner Mizell, has just about as fine & record so far as any team in the land. It takes on added lustre through Notre Dame's thrilli tory over the hitherto unbeaten Army. Tech's great forwards smear- ed Notre Dame a few weeks ago on Grant Field, decisively whipping the some Hoosier array that ripped the stalwart West Point defense to shreds Saturday before a howling of 000 at the Yankee Stadium. White this was going on, Mizell and ¢ her Tech terrors were playing havoe with Vanderbilt and crushing the previously unbeaten They take on Alabama's Crimson tide this week at Atlanta. Carnegie's claims to the top flight were well buttressed Saturday when the Tartans took Georgetown, an- other unbeaten array, into camp in clean cut fashion and just to prove that they have no fears about stak- ing their reputation on any field. Carnegie roams out to South Bend this Saturday to mingle with the re- Juvenated Norte Dame eleven. 1If the Tartans get by this rugzed test they have only to dispose New York University juggernaut the following week to finish with a clean and perhaps earn a jaunt to the Pacific coast for interscctional honors. There 1sn’'t much rest in sigh either, for Jowa and Nebraska. T Ingwersen's Hawkeyes ride the * Ten"” crest now, as a result of by ing Ohio State, but they clash with Wisconsin this Saturday in an- other crucial contest. The only thing that mars Wieconsin's slate is a tie with Purdue sa that there i anything but a soft assignment in prospect for McLain, Pygpe and other Iowa aces. Nebraska. with the about clinched, turns to interse tional foes tor the next two weeks, playing Pittsburgh this Saturday ut Lincoln before coming to West Point. The Cornhusker charge, led by the famous Blue Howell, is at its peak now but it will need to st there to survive the impending tes The classic touch to program is furnished by Princeton affair but it a great deal of bearing champlonship situation. have been bumped much than the Tigers. They v by Maryland Saturday in one day's outstanding reversals, of a previous defeat Princeton has heen tied Virginia and Ohio State, hut otl wise the Tigers have a if not overly unimpressi West Virginia, which coming along like u winning s i v the opening game to Davis and Bl- Lins, runs into Georg: this week. Missouri comes cast 1o play New York Usniversity and spotlight with as Columbia-Pennsyly Dartmouth, Colgat. Harvard-Holy Cross. Tennessee must and Florida must dispe son to keep step with G assuming the Tornado is 1 for Alabama in the § ence race. thr a merry right though Tech appears to b edge Southern Methodist is er a Lot fight to hold the Conference lead tied by the Texas A plays Baylor this wee University of Texas Christ Utah, a tie with Creighton in an in tional game, returns to the Rocky Mountain Conference this weelk, vored to beat Brizhan You keep the lead while Colorado co lege battles Colorado Unis Southern California the Pacific coast lead with Califor nia, may find a in Wash State hut the Trojans will b ites as will be California over vada and Stanford over Washington Southern California may have to be reckoned with in the final awar} of national laurcis, even though 11 Trojana were held fo a fie by Cali fornia. 1f thev zet hy the rest o the program &nccessiiily, the with Netre Dame at Los Angeies o Decemher 8 mav furnish an indica- tor to the final rating. Vs te this w the Yal won't have the Ellis rder . upset of the on top on Tiie by twice A ar Ssi dowin such ot rsity no 2 [ ay take a lot of | tornado, with a Commodors. | of the | big six crown | TRIS SPEAKER IS * NEWARK MANAGER New York, Nov. 12 (UP)—Trin Speaker, one of the greatest out- |tielders baseball has known, return- ed to the minor leagues yesterday player and manager. He will manager the Newark In- ternational league club. major league Sinnott has brought to his club in the past two years. | Walter Johnson, of the premier pitchers of tio~ Speaker mow holds to return to Washington as manager. | Assuming the role of player- manager, Speaker plans to occupy | his old positien in center field during the coming season, This plan, how- cver, will be discarded if he finds promising outficjder for sale ‘or trade at the meeting of Interna- |tional league teams at Toronto next month. g | At that time Speaker plans to ne- gotiate severals dcals in players which may help him to place a |winning team on thd field next |spring. He hopes to strengthen sev- eral weak spots in the Bears' line- up before the training trip to St. Augustine, 1la. | Speaker's big league carecr, divid- le* for the most part between the | Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland | Indians, time. | 'the game has 1nown better bat- {ters, better men on the base lines, and greater throwing arms than |Speaker boasted. But few if any lof the greatest outfielders could | match Tris in covering the outfield and sureness in holding a fly ball once his hand touched it. His league carcer began in 1906 when he played with Cleburne in the old North Texas league. The fol- |towing season he’ played with Hous- ton in the Texas circuit and with | Boston in the American league, He was not considered ready when he first reached the big show and | Boston loaned him to Little Rock of the Southern league for further sea- soning. Before the end of 1908 the ted Sox found a regular place for him and he spent the next seven years with that team. His ficlding and that i were |in the championships {won in 1912 and 1915, A In 1916 Cleveland bought him for la repute¢ $25,000 and two players. |After three ycars with the Indians |he succeeded Lee Fohl as manager in mid-1919 and led the team to a world'’s championship that fall. He spent 11 years with Cleveland before his unconditional release in Pebruary, 1927, after he had been 1 of charges of conspiring to me, oy offered him a con- tract and he spent a year with the Ser Connie Mack signed him W year ago after he again was re- leased unconditionally. He saw lit- ction with Philadelphia, occu- the Lench with Ty Cobb and e Colli |BOSTON COLLEGE MEETS hitting during great factors ne Red Sox clea throw W | TORDHAM ELEVEN TODAY Bit Gridivon Rivals Clash in An- nual ne Before 35,000 Fans at Fenway Park Boston, Nov. 12 (UP)—Boston unbeaten and untied this was b0 defend its spotless record inst Fordham before expected crowd of 35,000 fans Fenway park this afternoon. cool weather was in With Dirke senson, at prospect. over Navy and its credit, the Boston eleven, cred on of the most powerful teams in the east, reigned hi favorite st in the game was height- the fact that Major William IFordnam coach, former- College. 1t was that young ATERORE . B ich of his foothall victol to con ble Boston College Dixon lineups: Fordham R Kloppenburg Left End Herman @ . Cannella Left Tackle Wilczewski .. . Tracy Teft Guard Kilroy sl Siano Center Shechan Beloin Right Guard McGuirk be i Right Tackle Murphy : Wash Ltight knd Woest Diaillaire Quarterback Smith ... c . ilen Left Halfback Fontana | Right Halfhacl Pieculowicz Fullback Classified Ad dept to serve you. The He | stands rea , nlnd; Veteran Major League Star to ‘Succeed Walter Johnson as Pilot |after 21 years in the big show as Speaker is the second outstanding | for 20 years one the | American league, resigned the posi- mps him as one of the | greatest defensive outfielders of all} Clear. | Joe | Foley | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1928, 00 5045665000000005600000000000000000600 50000000000000000000000000000 5600000000000 004000000 205000 PLENTY OF COLOR Traditional Rivals Scheduled to Meet on Glid_irou Saturday New York, Nov, 12 (P—Eastern fans will have to fall back upon the pomp and circumstance of tradi- tional rivalries for football amuse- ment next Saturday. There is noth- ing to offer in the way of a “cru- cial” game upon which a national championship will hinge. Carnegie Tech, at present the leading eastern nominee for the na- tion’s football throne, goes to South Bend, Ind., where their six-game winning streak will encounter se- clous danger from the Notre Dame | Stalwarts, conquerors of the previ- {ously unbeaten army eleven. Boston college, the only other un- beaten and untied team in the east, tackles at Buffalo little Canisius, un- | deteatea but tied once. Before they lcan take a clean record into the Canisius game, however, Boston college must dispose of Fordham's Maroons at Boston today. But if championship hopes are not hanging in the balance any- where else in this section, there will be color, sensation and thrills a-plenty in such battles as Yale- Princeton, Columbia-Pennsylvania, Dartmouth-Cornell, ‘olgate-Syra- cuse, Detroit-Fordham, Missouri- New York university, Holy Cross- Harvard, Williams-Amherst, Penn State-Lafayette, ~ West Virginia- Georgetown, and Bucknell-Washing- ton and Jefferson. Neither Yale nor Princeton can offer much that is impressive so far as football records for the scason g0, but all the usual pageantry will be there when Bulldog meets Tiger at Princeton, Princeton appears destined to enter the battle a favo- rite since the Tigers, although tied twice, have not been defeated Yale, on the other hand, has lost to Army and Maryland and now will take the fleld without Johnny Garvey, the Ell backfield flash who suffered a sprained ankle in the Maryland game and may not even get into the game against Harvard November 24. On the strength of the Red and Blue's victory over a highly touted Harvard cleven, Pennsylvania will 1be picked to beat Columbia, which narrowly escaped defeat or tie at the hands of a fighting Johns Hop- king team Saturday. Dartmouth up- [set by Brown, and Cornell, ticd by | 8t. Bonaventure for the second year in succession, will fight it out at Ithaca in a game that might well be classed as ‘“consolation.” Al- [though beaten twice, Colgate even jat that has a better “paper” record |than a Syracuse cleven trampled by Nebraska, Pittsburgh and Ohio Wesleyan and tied by Penn State, Incidentally, Pittsburgh is a par- ticipant in one of the big interscc- tional battles of the day. the Pan- thers going to Lincoln, Neb., to at- tempt to stop the undefeated Corn- huskers of Nebraska. Army en- gages in still another intersectional battle against Carleton at West Point. Williams is favored to defeat Am- herst and win the, “Little Three title. Williams defeated Wesleyan Saturday and needs only to stop Amberst to clinch the title. West Virginia's fast traveling mountain- eers may be able to “take” George- town, whose winning streak was snapped by Carnegie at Albany Sat- urday. Kordham, after meeting un- defeated Boston college today, tackles another undefeated aggrega- tion in Detroit this Saturday. Mis- | souri's light crew hardly figures to give N. Y. U. more than-a little trouble but Bucknell appears des- tined to make an already unsuc- cessful Washington and Jefferson. The Penn State-Lafayette struggle looms an extremely evenly contested af- fair, JOHNNY DUNDEE MEETS | Former Featherweight King Emerges From Retirement When He Faces Gaston Charles New York, Nov, 12 ny Dundee, former featherweight king. returns from retircment to- night to meet Gaston Charles of France in a ten round bout at the Broadway Arena. Although he has engaged in some 400 fights, Dundee feels the pinch of financial necessity and returns to th |ring as a club fighter for the sake lof a few hundred dollars. Johnny (insists he will quit when they start knocking him out, but says he al- ways could beat Frenchmen He won the title from Criqui and retired undefeated, only to return and meet defeat at the hands of |Tony Canzoneri. Tony in his turn st inipionship 1o Andre another French boxer, this (UP)—John i tr | Routis, year. Chicago. Nov of speeding cyclists, by a margin of poin tod in Chic: international six d which began last n senm track, In a night replete with jams and spills, 37 laps were gained by vari- ous teams up to the scvinth hour of riding. The Italian-Amercan Georgetti and Beckman with iles. six laps. held a seant lead points at that time. Wal- and Dmelberg. and Letourner nd Brocardo were even with them mileage. Following the old of 15 teams Vo a eadier grind the first hours of the race when 29 lap were stolen. . led the field go's twentieth bicycle race t on the Coli- early initial the settled purts la g in contrast to scason a_liitle more so for | as | FRENCH BOXER TONIGHT heat a confident field on the kickoff nd previousl y undefeated West t the openi ng whistle, TLowc to watch Notre Dame is running down the action in the f POWERFUL STAPLETON ELEVEN SUCCEED WALTER JOHNSON—SPORTS | THE ARMY NEA New York Burcau. In'the upper photo you see part of the crowd of 80, 0100 spectators who tilled Yankee Staduim in New York Point squad, 12-6. The cadet eleven r photo shows a bit of hard-fought t period, when the Army and the Yrish kicked and plunged in aggressive fashion without a score. O'KKecfe, West Point left half, has just plun ged through tackle for a four-ya¥d gain. START TOMORROW NIGHT| Baskethall Scason to Open at Stanley Arcra — Three | Games In Men’s Division to Feature Evening of | Play—Former Champions to Meet Stanley Works Team In First Contest—Landers to Battle Corbin | Cahinet Lock — New Britain Machine and Corbin Russell & rwin e e WARTLANDVCTIR Indusivial League Program Stanley 1 fal 1 y Aven: Three men's g2mcs the opening of tie In ketball league at the tomorrow night This will also marl the basketball scason The first game cf be between the It team, champions of i and the Stanley Wor the Industrial championship last R & E. team &id not p! league last year, ready to win the title Last year the Stanley Works te wasn't given even an oufsid to cop the chumpion will Bhiat o o'clock. - Losers Faully in Al Depart: e meais—Snyder Great Fullback | Wt will | Erwin G soason | v1:0 copped | 21 league | tions Saturday afternoon for the sec- The | ond a week when a in the § oo urageously | determined Maryland bt it has returned b profited by Yale's many griev- | ons misplays, battled its way out of [ihe consequences of its own, and , 6-0, its first real victory over v 2 the New Haven cleven. Two years Comoll, dota e t started on |, ., )0 southerners took n 15-0 de- A innite which nearly | Ggon from a Yale team which at no placed {he feam on fop of the heap. | O A & Vi et o e uttmakers who defeated |1y 0 oy Saturday Maryland, champions = and i Gy only three substitutions, out- nning streak of that| qp, 0" gy of s best men as they sprang from the resorvoir of the sidelincs in a constant stream of fresh biood which struggled in [vain to wear down the invaders. Maryland brought a husky-looking line which gave Yale's famed for- ward wall all and more than it had to offer in return. And it bronght in ti the n (8pocial to the Herald ey pocial to the Herald) N¢ llaven, Nov. 12—The “Selid outh® wraught havoc with predic- time within { the Corbin & broke a long W team. nee process of organ ups have not b Landers vs. ( In the second game of the night | he Landers and Corbin Cabinet | Lock teams will meet. Landers is ached this by “Jimmy” Reynolds, former high school and professional Lasketball player. The team finished about half way down | » leozue ladder last year duc to [ slump which bezan about the { midadle d sted Corbin Cabi- | nted last ye by a very poor m and it barely wosed out the Stanley Rule team Many of the players wio were on |last ir's teams will azain the lincups. N. B. Mackine w5 Corh When the prond last year, the Co take the f to d four of ¥ T the lincup. | chine team the same qu ast year st 10 1 center: A rd ink these the, line- teams are in tion detini arranged, Cabinet Locl n vear in the Bowl this fall. Snyder came to New Haven last year and wrote his name into history by dashing 90 vards for (he longest run ever made in the Bowl. Dut that was just a mild warning of what he did on this appearance. He needed no holes— he just exploded himself {hrough the Yale line and raced or fought his way on for onc long gain after nother. leaving behind him be- | wilderod men who had made good but had been shaken off in =nd threes by this humau Snyder also proved adept at , receiving numerous nees and scoring the i T points of the game by snaring hos . ' toss and racing nine yards through 1wo faili The 1e completely bu passes went over the ind longer heaves travelled deep “Hammy” 1 are the | into the defenders’ ground, but the four veteran r who will prob- | 1ig southern acrial threat was the ably hold down tieir positions this|pass over end fo Snyder—substan- year. Joe Luke who cntered the|tially the same play with which factory's employ will be the fifth| Brown fooled Yale. The losers com- an. Fred Saunders will also be | peted two pretty Hoben-to-McEwen ready for center duiy pas-gs in the first quarter and thew It i probable that the Jost @1l potency in the air, throwing hrothers, Hugo and Eric pitiful hobbing 190pers or overshoot- down regular position: ing the intended recefver by wide Rickmeyer, Nick Arer marzins Rockwell, former Yale did everytiing wrong. Hoben players, as fellow foan proved a complete failure—a liabil- who will probahi ity—and had to removed twice. He lineup appeared afraid to cateh punts and And [1ost many yards by this neglect, while he tossed away the game in the third quarter when, in his inde- he allowed a bounding kick: iiim. for Madigan, Maryland yeed on it and his team vs later. Wilson was on punts, but his very e his skill and he eh end the title, | am will be Iy ng attack had aloed. Short Yaku- crimmage line , forw Arbour and Anderson will hold | ith Frank and Henry Jor a T Covie the scorer 7 of is to gford timer os of | be local | cision pag to to center, 1 scored o aphical Africa mor the !l positinng the auth |are the recerse in the hest fullback who has been seen | play. Loud was uncertain at hand. ling the ball and lost time, yards, or hall by juggling on numerous oc- casions. And the team was run with poor judgment at critical times— siuch as when, after battering its way to the four-yard line in the last minute, the losers gave up their rather successful line-smashing and went into the air—and lost the ball. The line stood up rather well and soon figured out the Maryland criss- cross on which Roberts tried to sneak off tackle, but it could net hoid that battering ram, Snyder. Greene again was in the thick of things on the defense and had a iarge proportion of the tackles. The whole line charged in well on passes tand kicks and blocked Roberts' punts twice, only to see the backs tail 1o turn this work & Yale' vantage. A fiying tackle early in the game | brought Johnny Garvey down hard with an injured knee, and the Yale star was carried off the ficld. Loud, when he held the ball, ripped through with almost inspired fervor ior steady gainm, but always Mary- land braced as the goal line neared and there was no passage when dan- ger threatened it. Breaks were plenty and evenly di- vided, but Yale could not avail it- self of its lucky turns. Bested at | rushing, passing and tackling bad- iy outgeneraled, and even outgamed for once, Yale played a sad game indeed and must show immeasurably better form if it is even to mal Gecent stand against Princeton and Harvard. Outside of one very clever tullback named Snyder, Yale, through overconfidence, staleness, or iniple failure to get started, had to consider itsclf largely vesponsible tor its own defeat. FOOTBALL SURYEY Saturday's Games Necessitates Re- vision of ftanding Among Un- beaten College Elevens, By the Associated Press, East — Carnegie, victor over | Georgetown, leads unbeaten list, {closely followed by Boston College. the only other eastern team neither beaten nor tied. B. C. plays Ford- ham today in effort to remain in running. Army defeated for first time by Notre Dame, while Yale bowed to Maryland in Saturday's big upsets. Western Conference “Big Ten"— University of lowa holds undisputed leadership through victory over Ohio State and plays this Saturday against Wisconsin, which has only a tie to mar record, . Missouri Valley “Blg Six"—Ne- braska, scoring fourth straight con- ference victory over Oklahoma, dominates this group. Southern Conference — Georgia Tech, Florida and Tennessee, each with four victories in as many con- ference games and spotless slates al- together, head the parade as a con- sequence of conquests over Vandes- bile, Georgia and Sewanee, respec- tively. Virginia Poly and Louisiana state also unbeaten In conference race. Southwestern conference — Bouth- ern Methodist, despite tie with Texa: Aggies, clings to lead in close race, followed by Arkansas and Univer- sity of Texas. 8. M. U. plays Bay- lor and Texas meets Texas Christian in main tilts this week. Rocky Mountain cenference—Uni- versity of Utah, tied by Creighton in nen-confercnce game, holds undis- puted lead, with Colorade university and Colorade college, epponents in major event this week, next in standing. Pacific Coast conferencq—Cali- fornia, hy heating Washington. con- tinnes to share lead with Southern United States. !made one bad fumbled on such a California. i —INDUSTRIAL NUTMEGS ARE BASKETBALL m'.} DEFEATED BY STAPLETON ELEVEN Ark Newton and Frank Briante Crash Over For Only Two Scores of the Game—New Britain First Team of the Year to Hold “Stapes” Scoreless In First Half —Fumbled Punt Gives Staten Island Team Chance . to Drive For Goal Line — Hardware City Team , Held at 3-Yard Line. Fighting valiantly every inch of| the way against @ team that by every possible oonception should bhe at least five touthdowns better than they were, the Nutmega of this city| suffered their first defeat of the sca- son at the hands of the Stapleton Football team in Stapleton yesterday afternoon by a 12 to 0 score. It was not only the first loss for New Brit- ain but also the first time that the docal team had been scored on this year. To even the score up a bit, New | Britain was the first tcam this year to hold the powerful Stapleton team scoreless in the first half and only through what might be termed un. fortunate “breaks” was Stapleton | able to start its scoring drive while New Britain missed out in scoring | only through the excitement of play that caused the local players to fall on a fumbled ball Instead of picking | it up and carrying it about 10 yards | for a touchdown. Stapleton has strength enough to make even the most formidable team in the country tremble with dread at & meeting with the Staten gllnd team. With a roster of names that makes even the best college teams in action today look like sec- ond raters; with a lineup that con- taing the names of players who have made immortal football fame in their college days; th a line as impregnable alimost as the stone wall set up by the immortal Jackson; with & backfleld, fleet and slippery, powerful and strong; with a repu- tation of having lost ony one game | this scason and that to the famed Yellow Jackets of I'rankford, Pa., by & 14 to 13 scorc—with _all of these, Stapleton even by its manager and other officials of the club, by its players and by its fans, was termed mighty lucky to have white- washed the local aggregation in the game played yesterday. It was a battle of two powefful defensive elevens all through. Both fought on even terms for the first half and a slip by Radzewich in the second and a questionable forward pass, gave Stapleton its two oppor- tunities. Needless to say, the Staten Island eleven was equal to them and first Ark Newton went over from the three-yard line for the first score and Frank Briante, former N. Y. U. star, went over from the two-yard line for the second count. After battling back and forth with neither side showing any great su- periority in the first half, Radze- wich kicked off to start the second half to Kucze, Stapleton's great quarterback. He was downed on his own 15 yard line. After {neffectual attempts to puncture through New Britain’s defense. Stapleton kicked to the mid-field stripe. Here, Radzewich attempted to catch the punt and run the ball. Had he done so0, he would have pulled the most spectacular play of the 8ame. As it was, he fumbled the ball and 8am Stein fell on it. On the next play, Martin carrled the ball to the 36 yard line and two plays after, Newton made first down on the 18 yard line, Martin made seven yards and then a forward pass was in. complete, Martin skirted through tackle for first down on the three yard line and Newton went over for the score. The kick for the point after failed. In the fourth quarter, Kuczo hurled a pass out to the end for 30 yards. This was the only question. able play of the game. Stein, Staple. ton end and Radzewich, New Britain quarterback, both caught the ball. Captain “Red” O'Neil argued that Radzewich had caught the pass but the officials ruled otherwise. After the game, the two officials, referee and umpire, admitted they were in doubt as to which man had made the catch and thercfore, the play should have been run over. The ball then rested on the two yard line as the quarter ended and on the first play In the last quarter, Briante tore through center for the second score. Again the placement kick failed. In this period after an exchange of kicks, “Jumbo” Gnasdow nailed Kuczo as he was starting an end run. As Kuczo went cown, hé fumbled the ball. Five New Brit- ain men went after it and although no Stapleton man was near and one of them could without interference have picked up the ball and made 15 yards to a touchdown, each man thought the one next to him was a Stapleton player and one finally snared the bobbing, jumping oval and downed it on Stapleton's 18 yard mark. From here, New Britain drove the ball to the three yard mark but the team could go no further and Sta- pleton took the ball on downs and then kicked out to safety. Tributes were given to New Brit- ain’s play on all sides by the Sta- pleton management and the more than 5,000 fans who witnessed the play. Outside of the Yellow Jacket game, yesterday's contest was the first real battle the “Stapes” have had this year. The Staten Island team was favored to win by at least a score of 50 to 0 over the locals. “Silent ohn"” Davis stood out prominently as the star of the New Britain backfield. He tackled the Stapleton runners time after time for losses and made appreciable gains through the e. Stapleton scored 12 first downs, five in the first half and seven in the second te three for New Britain, all scored in the first half. There was no star on the line. Every man played a whale of a game, Radzewich direct~ ed the locals nicely from the quar- This was Johnny, Grip's first game with New Britain. It was one af the cleanest games seen at the Sta- pleton field this year, not a single penalty being given ‘or any inf ic- tion of the rules other than offside. For Stapleton, Kuczo. quarter- back of Villanova, a teammate of Burns of the local feam, wus the outstanding star. He was a flush and a good field general. Wyckoft and Newton, Martin and Nevin, all In turn starred while Wrank Briante proved to be one of the hardest line buckers the local players have ever stood up against. After watching the battle yester- day. it is a unanimous opinion that only the vcry best ¢ teams will he able to beat or even score on Sta- pleton this year. The suhmary: Stapleton, Stein New Britain Left End. Williams ..... ... Conklin Skudin Gnasdow Dunn ..... . Rogers Smith .. Humphrey Miller ... Worwatse Murray . . Burns Kuczo Radzewich Briante Davis Touchdowns: Newton and Briante. Stapleton .............0 0 6 6—12 New Britain a0 0 0 0— 0 Substitutions: Stapleton, Martin for Wyckoff, Runyon for Skudin, Newton for Nevin, Goodwin for Miller, Black for Murray, Wyckoff for Nevin, Nevin for Briante, Bri ante for Martin. New Britain, Nan- feldt for Conklin, O'Neil for Brink, Conklin for Nanfeldt, Brink for O'Neil, O'Neil or Rogers, Keenan for Humphrey, Belonki for Davis, Offi~ cials, Rom Thorp (Columbia), ref- eree; J. Kelly (Villanova), umpire; L. Hogan (Villanova), head linesman, TEX RICKARD T0 TALK BUSINESS WITH DEMPSEY Possibility of a Return to Ring of Former Champion Provides Real Thrill For Fang, New York, Nov. 13 (UP)—Tex Rickard is to talk business with Jack Dempsey this week. The pre- moter arrives from Miam{ Beach tomorrow morning. To millions of fight fans disgusted with the present lot of heavyweight pretenders, the possibility of the re- turn of the former champion to 'the ring provides a real thrill, There is good reason to believe Dempsey will bs persuaded to re- turn. Jack needs money, and he would like to be champion in. His return to the ring probably would give him both his desires. Rickard had given up hope ef Dempsey's ever fighting again, but that was before Gene Tunney's re- tiiement. With Tunney out of the way, the situation depands Demp- sey's reappearance. NATIONAL HOCKEY PLAY WILL OPEN ON THURSDAY ny of Ice Teams to Present Changed Lineups As a Result of Winter Trades New York, Nov. 12 (UP)—Pro- fessional ice hockey makes its bow on Thursday, when the Natlonal Hockey lcague season opens. Many of the teams will present changed lincups as a resu't of win- ter trades and deals and the pro ise of more public support than ever. The Pittsburgh Pirates have thre: players under suspension, due te their refusal to accept contracts ef- fered by Benny Leonard, the new manager. As a result, the Pirates will take the ice with a lineup in- cluding men borrowed from other teams, terback berth and Grip and Buck- ley played nicely in their positions. 3 2