New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1928, Page 12

“ZEV” GRAHAM SIGNED TO PLAY WITH HARTFORD GIANTS AGAINST NUTMEGS NEXT SUNDAY - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928, — BASKETBALL TEAM- TO GET REAL TEST IN OPENING CONTEST—NEW BRITAIN HIGH FOOTBALL TEAM TO MEET HILLHOUSE NEW HAVEN SATURDAY NEW HAVEN HILLHOUSE TO (DENIES NURMI IS BATTLE LOCALS SATURDAY| 1 Coach Cassidy Secures Agreement of Vermont Acad- emy Officials to Postponement of Scheduled Game Saturday—Elm City Crew Eager to Cop Tiangular League Honors—New Britain to Get Most Severe Test of Entire Season—Squad Being Drilled Every Day. New Haven Hillhouse high school will play the New Britain high school football team in a Triangular league game at Willow Brook park Saturday afternoon. The fon is Since aturday when it was found that Hillhouse high school team could not be played until this morning, a final decision as to whether Vermont Academy or New Haven high school was to come here was undecided. The Vermont team was scheduled to play here Saturday, but efforts to have the game changed did not meet with success at first. However, Coach Cassidy won a can- cellation of the Vermont game and he immediately got in touch with Hilllouse high school and arranged its appearance herc. A trip to Ver- mont by the New Britain coach ac- complished what a multituce of let- ters and telegrams failed to do. The public of New Britain is prob- ably satisficd that the game of greater interest is to be played. It New Britain wins it will tave first leg on the William F. Fleischer cnp, but if the Elm City team wins New settled at last. Britain will be put out of the run- | ning. Because of its def« hands of the Hartford Pul team New Haven is out of the ning already. Realizing that there wi turday re 5 of wlhich team played, Coach tid not allow his team to let up a mimite in its practice ions. One afternoon when Mr. Cassidy was out of iown working on the game, William Hamm, physical director of the Na- than Hale school, was in charge. The same lineup which played so well against ‘Adams high scheol of Massachusetts will be used. Zoe Potts and Vitty Mikalauskas, first substitute linemen and Alex Zalesk first substitute backfield man, will be ready for service if they are needed. The entire team is in bet- ter physical condition than at any other time this year. WEIGHT RIG HANDICAP it at the high run- ull be a FOR TRA™ “"H00L FIVE, Quintet Agaln § 1 n Farming- ton Valley | nt Out of County “¥” Play, The State Trade school hasket- ball team, under Coach Walter E. Schober, is preparing for the com- ing season but has an uncertain out- look because of the team's lack of weight. It is hoped that the quintet will possess speed enough to offset its lightness and that it will come through in spite of its handicap. The Trade school has again en- tered the Farmington Valley league of high schools, but it will not par- ticipate in County *“Y" play this win- ter as the “Y" league will be too heavy for it. Games will also be booked with other trade scliools about the state and with others of the local school’s old rivals. JACK BRITTON SCORES WIN OVER BRIGNOLIA ht Champion Shows All Old Time Skill 1n Former Welterw Defeating Cambridze Youth, Boston, Nov. 15 (I'P)—Continu- ing his come-back campaign, Jack Britton of New York. onetime world welterw#ght champion, outpointed larry Brignolia of nbridge in & GRLS’ LEAGUE T0 START TOHORROW Industrial Basketball Teams Are Ready to Begin Campaign Landers vs. P. & F. Corbin (girls). Stanley Rule vs. P. & F. Corbin (men). Fafnirs vs. Russell & Erwin (men) Tomorrow will mark the opening |of the Girls' Industrial basketball |league games which are to be play- ed this year at the Y. M. T. A. & B | society hall. Landers and P. & F. Corbin girls who last year finished | lin a tie for the league lead ap the | season ended, will oppose each other. | Corbins won the championship in .a | playoft. | The games tomorrow appear, on paper at least, to be better than those put on 4t the Stanley Arena last Tuesday night. Stanley Rule men are represented this year by a much hetter team than that which swept before it all opposition to linch the cellar position last year John Kley who was able to play | center last year only when the Bo: [ club would allow him, is slated to start in that position and Dave Mor- rison will be ready for center duty |if Kley is not going zood. In the forwards will be found | Wilton Morey. captain and leading scorer of the South church team, |and Nick Gill, captain and leading scorer of the Boys' club team last year. Tony Garro will he ready for | substitute duty. At guard will be | found “Darby” Corazzo and Benny Saunders, a former member of the | Fafnir Bearing and National Guard Junior teams. Merwin Schaefer and Coach Jimmy Murphy will be ready to step into the game as will Wal- ter Duker. P. & F. Corbin man will be with- out the services of Harry Mills but will have the following other vet- |erans who will start their fdurth year as a unit: Holst, center; Mike Luke and Joe Jasper, forwards and Ben Parie, guard. It was plafined to start George Heinzmann but he I may lie between Feldman, George Hallin and Dick Gorman. Fafnir Bearing team will prob- |ably start with the following lineup: ¥rank McGrath, center; Howard Belser and Al Havlick, forwards, and Julius Fieczkowski, Matulis or Wil- son, guards. Russell & Erwin team | will probably be the same as that which started last Tuesday with Link and Karbonic, forwards; Morelli, center; Nyborg and Saxe, guards. P. & 1. Corbin girls' team will be without two of its regulars, Mary Pi- hiel, whose place will probably be taken by Miss Kehoe, a new mem- | ber of the team, and Ada Grossman. The rest of the team will consist of | Pirtkerwicz, center; Kulik who is to take the vacancy at forward, and Mary Motyka, left forward; Misses Olzowy and Kehoe, guards. | which represented the concern last vear as follows: Jacobs, center; Sar- tinsky and Terwilliger, forwards; ynch and Drayer, guards. | \NAME NEW PRESIDENT OF GOLF ASSOCIATION Finlay Douglas of New York | Nominated to Succeed Melvin A. Traylor of Chicago | has an injured finger and the choice ' Landers will probably have the same lineup ! BECONE PRO Manager of Famous Runner Flatly Scouts Widespread Rumor New York, Nov. 15 UP—The skep- tical gentlemen who see the dollar sign in most athletic moves and counter-moves these days may be in for a shock when the celebrated phantom of Finland, Paavo Nurmi, returns to the United States in a few weeks for an indefinite visit. The supposition that Paave is coming over with the definite inten- tion of running professional, there- by’ capitalizing one of the greatest running careers of all time, is flatly scouted by Hugo Quist. And Iiugo ought to know. He is perhaps closer |to Nurmi than anyone in this coun- try. He managed the peerless one's famous tour here in 1925, spent some time with him in Finland and | Amsterdam Iast summer and has | been in communication with him oec- casionally since. “Nurmi, so far as I know, and | feel pretty sure of my ground, has not the slightest intention of turn- ing pro. He probably will run in this country, a few races indoors, but his main idea is to make a con- certed attack on outdoor distance records up to 25 kilometers next spring before ending his career as an amateur and as a runner." This is Quist's statement of the ase to the Associated Press. It puts quite a different light on the situa- tion, where hasty conclusions had been drawn that Paavo at last had yielded to “get rich quick™ offers. Perhaps he will yield, but only the stoical Paavo can give a definite an- swer to that. To anyone who has followed Nur. mi's career from the time he first ran to Olympic fame in 1920 at Ant. werp it is all quite logical. The f: mous Finn always has been intense- ly proud of his record as an ama- teur. When he was in this country three years ago there was much talk of profit-taking in the barnstorming tour of Nurmi, but the actual faets are that Paavo turned down every commercial proposition offered him —ofters that, if accepted, would have netted the Finn around $250,- 000 all told. “Nurmi, so far as I know, has ery proposal to turn pro- said Quist. “'He has had no dealings with Tex Rickard or any other promoter, nor has he given me the least idea that he in- tends to quite amateur ranks. “He wants to do some more run- ning, but that is not pis chief pur- pose in coming here. He has taken an interest in a combined automo- bile and-garage business”in Finland and wants to build up some connec- tions here. He also is much inter- ested in continuing the development of track athletics in Finland and considers he has reached a point here he can do more good by coaching than competing. “You will recall that Nurmi was, in effect, the captain and coach of Finlard's Olympic runners last sum- mer. Even during the races he kept coaching along the young runners like Loukola and Anderson. He planned the strategy by which Larva won the 1,500 meter race in a fine exhibition of team work with Porje. “Nurmi I think. will spend a good deal of time here visiting colleges and schools to add to his knowledge of athletic training and development. “As for his own career I would not be surprised to see him quit next vear and not attempt to continue in ompetition until the 1932 Olympics. He has no ambitions to become a marathon runner. He told me he considered that just a grind, without any thrill. “Nurmi wants to make one more hig splash in the record hook, how- ever, hefore he quits. He is confi- | dent that with adequate preparations he can break all outdoor records from two miles to 25 kilometers, also hang up a new one hour record. 1 think he would make a mistake to try too much indoor racing again. Tt proved a severe strain for him three years ago, strong as he always BY HENRY L. FARRELL NEA Service Sports Writer No difficulty of any kind attends the selection of the outstanding ten- nis stars of 1928. The process re- quires no heavy thinking and in- volves no manipulation of mathe- matics. The ritual of crowning Henri Co- chet as the tennis king of the year and Helen Willg;as the queen war- rants no more ceremony than the mere writing of their names on the ticket. Because there was no oon=.| test and there is something drab | about acclaiming someone on an acclamation ballot In the case of M. Cochet there is a mental warning against rash judgment in giving him the honor without a struggle and in lingering hunch that he didn't knock every rival dead. The records show that he was beaten at Wimbledon in the British | championship tournament by Rene | Lacoste, who was the 1927 king be- vond a dispute. But the records show that just previous to the British show Lacoste was trimmed by Co- chet, in the French national cham- pionships, and that in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, Cochet was the hero in repelling the American challenge and that Lacoste was beat- en in one of his singles matches. Lacoste might have made much in a rubber match at Forest Hills, but his father became too serious for the father of a world's champion and or- dered his boy to take his mind off tennis and go to work in his auto- mobile factory. Lacoste, under the circumstances, had to make the most of a compromise. He succeeded in reaching the United States, but his 'wa. TForest Hills tournament. and nis association had forgotten Cochet had won the American trict championships. The critics who take their tennis | seriously, however. are willing to | accept Cochet as the hest performer of 1925, even though they might not admit that he_was a champion to compare with Tilden and Lacoste when they were enjoying their best Three 'hawks and the New |cans, will give their new teams a | first test against:Toronto and Otta- HOGKEY LEAGUE STARTS TONIGHT ‘New Faces Will Be Seen on | Nearly Every Team in Gircuit | New York, Nov. 15 (#—With new faces to be seen team, the 1928-29 season of the Na- tional Hockey league will get under | way tonight. A brisk trading season "h\! fall has brought changes to all |but the Montreal Maroons and the | Bosten Bruins, and promises to add interest to what officials predict will be a record breaking season. the five opening guns | {will be fired in Canada. At Montreal |the Maroons and Canadiens will play |the first game Ivivalry that attracted crowds in the league last year. on nearly every of their the intra-city largest tly revamped tail-enders t year, the Chicago York Ameri- . The world’s champion New York | | Rangers play their first game at De- troit with the hope of getting a good |start toward the Stanly cup play- |offs this season. The brought the Roach, one of the finest goa the league, from Toronto, as well as | |several other deals, v 4 cned the New York arrival was just a casual event that |y o i s oceurred weeks and weeks after the | with most of the honors. Boston £0 trailing only the Rangers in the pre- many weeks after, In fact; that all |yeagon predictions, opened against | but the official recorders of the ten- | Benny Leonard's Pittsburgh team, |will be back in the Indiana linenp that |one of the unknowns of the league. | when it meets Northwestern. A last championship and a lot of other dis- | Flat Walsh, sub goal tender of the | Maroons, in the Americans’ net for trade which John Ross es in Rangers ave strength- feam to a point a favorite to walk off minute change will put Black- | RANKING TENNIS KING AND QUEEN the opening game. Jakie Forbes, regular American net minder, 8 laid up with a cold, while their sub- stifute, Joe Miller, has been loaned to Pittsburgh to replace the holdout, Roy Worters. Walsh comes to the New Yorkers as a loar. under the new rule which empowers President Frank Clader to select a substitute to fill such vacancies. EIGHTEEN CITIES APPLY FOR PLACES IN LEAGUE Great Interest Is Being Shown in Organization of New Massa- chusetts Bascball League. Boston, Nov. 15 (UP)—Eighteen cities have applied for representa- tion in the Eastern Massachusetts Baschall league, plans for which were made public this week, Presi- dent Claude Davidson of the New | England leagte, announced today. | Davidson, who is organizing the {new league, stated that he did not |wish to divuige the names of these |cities until organization of the league had been consummated. He indicated, however, that the eight cities which will have clubs in the Eastern Massachusetts league al- ready had been virtually chosen. Heightening of interest in base- {ball by the recent adoption of the !Sunday sports referendum in Mas- sachusetts was believed by Davidson to be responsible for the warm re- ception accorded the plan for creat- |ing the new league. VETERANS RETU Blooniington, Ind.,, Nov. 15 (UP$ —~Several injured veterans probably Cap- | tain Bennett seems to be back in his old form and Matthew has returned to his post as guard. ' Movie of A Man Who Has Just Bought A Radio. “ZEV” GRAHAM WILL PLAY WITH HARTFORD SUNDAY Fordham Flash and Quarterback With New Britain Last Year, Added to Capital City Outfit — Other Backfield Stars Will Probably Be Secured Before Sunday—New Britain Practices Tonight For Sec- ond Game of Series—Winner Will Probably Play Providence Steam Rollers. SEVERE TEST FOR BASKETBALL FIVE Bridgeport Quintet of Brothers to Furnish Stilf Opposition A severe test awaits the New Britain basketball team in its open- ing game of the oncoming season Saturday night. The Connecticut Yankees of Bridgeport, a team com- posed of five brothers, h been picked by Manager Clarence Lan- pher as the opening number on the court program and from all reports, New Britain is in for a tough tussel if the season is to be started right. The visiting quintet, of which all the members are of the same fam- ily, is playing as a unit for the first time. The reputation eof the Ahl- strand boys, however, is well known in Bridgeport and where they all starred individually with various other teams, as a combination all its own, it is at once unique and strong. New Britain has a strong settifig also for the coming season. Forti- fled with four of last year's team, Sloman, Zakzewski, Sheehan and Leary this quartet has been rounded out by the addition of Willlams, formerly of the Conn. Aggies five. Willlams is a native of Danielson, Conn. He is a gridiron star as well as a court expert and at the present time is first fullback on the.Provi- dence Steam Rollers in the National league. He plays either guard or center. To fill in the gap left by the qQe- fection from the ranks of Ruben- stein, last year's forward, McElwain, a star in the American Basketball league last season, has been added to the squad of candidates. He is one of the high point acorers in the big league and his presence in the lineup should more than make up for the loss tq be felt by the ab- sence of Rubenstein. The reserve squad is composed of Ray Holst, “Butsy” Sturm, Carl Re- stelli, Mert Taylor and many others, all of whom have an equal chance to land on the team. A large crowd is going to be present at the opening game Satur- day to greet the return of the most popular indoor sport in this city. The New Britain girls team will start a preliminary game at 8 o'clock against the Manchester Recreation Five and the main contest will be- gin at 9 o'clock. Dancing will follow. Pawnees to Stage Hard Practice Drill Tonight All members of the Pawnee foot- ball team are asked to attend a practice session at the Faat street field ftonight at 7:30 o'clock. Coaches Gianotta and Turner are rlanning to put the squad through the entire repertoire of plays in preparation for the game with All- Burnside at the East Hartford Velo- drome Sunday, but more particularly for the game with the New Britaln Blues the following Sunday. All of the plays will be tried out against Burnside Sunday. The starting line- up will probably be chosen tonight. “Zev" Graham, Fordham flash of two years ago and last year quarter- back with the All-New Britain foot. ball team, has been signed by the Hartford Giants t» play against the Nutmegs of this city in the second clash of the state championship ser- ies at Memorial field in Willow Brook park Sunday afternoon. Gra- ham was signed by Manager George Brott yesterday and will be with the Giants in a practice session before the game is called. Brott has also strings out for one of the Rooney brothers who starred with Johnny Nevers' Duluth Eskimos and there is a possibility taht Johnny Grip will also be with the Hartford team. This puts an entirely different light on the prospects for the game Sunday. New Britain fans are well aware of the ability of Graham as a ball carrier and the New Britain players will be watching him all through the contest. He is probably the biggest threat that Hartford will have in its lineup and as such, will be the center of attraction for local fans bul more 8o for the local play. crs. New Britain practices tonight for Hartford. ' Perfection of some of the offensive plays will be attempted in the workout. The defense worked perfectly in the game against Stapleton last S8unday and the same line will face the Hartford team in the second game of the series. The local players are anxious to Kkill the series in the game Sunday because of the report spread abroad that the winner will challenge, the Providence Eteam Rollers to a game or a series of games for the cham- pionship of New England. The sea- son is past the half way mark now and in order to get in the games, New Britain will have to win Sun- day. A victory then will close out the series and will put New Britain in position to challenge the Provi- dence team. New Britain is far from overcon- fident. Last season. the All-New Britain tean appeared to have a big cdge on the Hartford Giants only to have this wiped out by the attack of the Capital City team. This was the surprise of the season to all the fans who had followed New Brit- ain’s successes through the year. ‘This season, the New Britain eleven will watch its step every inch of the way and will work hard to clean up the seéries. 'Hartford, with its padded lineup, will be in a posi- tion to seriously contest these ambi- tions and a bitter battle is being an- ticipated. New Britain will use the same lineup as faced Stapleton last Sunday. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Amsociated Press. New York — George Courtney, | Oklahoma, knpcked out Paul Swid- erski, Syracuse, N. Y., (8); George Hoppman, New York, outpointed Larry Benson, New York, (6). Detroit — Billy 8haw, Detreit, won on foul over Archie Bell, New York, (8); Jim O'Brien. Bridgeport, Conn., outpointed Chuck Minnella, Linten, Ind., (8). Boston—Jack Britton, New York, outpointed Larry Brignola, Cam- bridge, Mass, (10); Tony Shmucco, Boston, outpointed Johnny Capser, Lansing, Mich, (6); Joe Cabana, Falmouth, Mass., knocked out Dan Zabull, Milwaukee, (4). By BRIGGS brilliant battle here last night. Brignolia pitted his youth, speed and stamina against the experience has been." TEARS OUT OF WIS OFFICE AAD DASHES UP mAIN S-EGT Ot el ENDANGERING LIVES OF vears. 1t is quite probable however, that CoMEeS BUSTIN' AnD PUFFIN' v York, Nov. 15 (UP)—Findlay ! AROUND BTH AND WALNUT of the old master, and the clever at- tack and evasive defense of the vet- eran triumphed. At times, notably in the fifth and six founds, Britton appearcd almost played out. His blows lacked power and accuracy. But it 2 subsequent developments was only a faked we the remainder the battered though he son, and Br trate the v Britton wa most every rou aki Britton opponent as 1 boxing les- «d to pene- in al- TWO STARS OUT Middletown, Conn., Nov. 15 (UP) towdomn out Smith ired 1 clash with I [ Charter House— Young Men's Clothing TAILORED BY FASHION PARK $25.00 to $45.00 Fitch-Jones Co. Douglas of New York will suc- ceed Melvin A. Traylor of Chicago as president of the United States Golf association at the annual meet- ing in January. ting committee ap- rounce rday and the nominations amount to election Other officers nominated follow. Vica dents: H. H. Ramsay. New York, and Roger D. Larham, San Francisco; secrctary, Prescott 8. Bush, New York; treasurer, Charles H. Sabin, National Golf Links of America; counsel, John G. Jackson Deepdale Golf Among the prominent golfers nominated for the committee is Harrison R. Johnston of Minneapolis. port yes pre: amateur executive (Jimmy) New Champion Assured In Cross Country Race New York, Nov. 15 (UP)—With Willie Ritola, winner of the cross country title five times in the last t vears, not entered a new champion is assured when tHe Na- tional A. A. 1. senior cross country run is held at Van Cortlandt Park Sunday afternoon. Ritola did not enter because he has had to devote all of his time lately to his trade as a carpenter and had no time to train Yanks Not to Trade ehrie for Cochrane New York. Nov. 15 (UP)—The New York Yankees will not trade I.ou Geohrig to the Philadelphia Ath leties for Mickey Cochrane as heen reported, Fd Rarrow. husincss manager of the Yankees, announced ipon his return from a hunting trip in the Canadian woods “We'd like to have Rarrow said, “'hnt we wouldnt give up Gehrig to get him.” has Cochrane rom now on until they arrive at the S* BoDY, INNOCENT PEDESTRIANS ripe old age where the legs go, Co- chet will continue to be No. 1 rank- NAVY RECEIVES COLD " time arrived when he had to cease making tennis a business and go to work, Cochet found conditions would permit him to quit hard work and make tennis his chief husiness. Corhet is his own hoss. He is the pronrietor of a string of sports g00ds stores, and after a life of ear- Iy hardships he has reached the noint where his bhusiness works for him. And Lacoste is in a factory. The crowning of Helen Wills in the years following the retirement of Suzanne Lenglsn is a chore like winding a clock. She is so far ahead of the fiald against her that the only chance. for them to catch up is for her to run Aawr She won evel Attempts to Open Negotistions for a Truce in Athletics Ignored by Military Academy. New York, Nov. 15 (UP) — The Navy move to open negotiations for a truce with the Army has been given the “cold sheulder” by au- thorities of the United States Mili- tary academy. Practically all chance of the two service academies meeting in foot- ball in 1929 or 1930 was removed yesterday when the West Point publicity department issued a state- ment saying all “key” games for | both years had been filled. “Because the contract for football | games between the Army and the Navy was arbitrarily broken by the Navy, officers and cadets here are unable to understand why the Navy | reserves a date for a football game or any other athletic activity for the Arm the statement reads. “On September 5, Major P. B. Tleming announced that the 1929 foothall schedule. listing with Harvard, Yale, Illinois. Dame and Stanford had been com- pleted and closed. The Notre Dame zame is scheduled on the last Sat- urday in November. This announca- ment received wide publicity and stated that ecither contracts or agreements had been completed for cach game. Officers are out- spoken in statements that these ar- rangements cannot be broken or violated. It is, therefore. impossible { for the gervice institutions to meet in athietics. All the key games for 2 1930 have also been arranged and | READ B7PATD o7 AGIVIED ALS .agreements signed.” FOR BEST RESULTS chatpionship in 1928 that she cared to zo after, and <he made a very indicious chelce nf her annearances. She fits her ten- nis In with her husiness as an artist and as long as she can arrange her schedule <o conveniontly she will centinte to he the chamnion. The California girl will probably reien as long as Mile. Lenglen did. unless she gots tirsd of the game, and that would he very poor busi- ness Miss Wills has intimated that <he will retire after one more campaien and Jevote hereclf entirely to the pursuit of art. but it may not be im- pertinent or unkind te advance the opinfon that tennis is the greatest art of the very attractive young lady. anAd that to retire from the game would convines her anickly that her tennis is f00 hle a talent to cast i nff for a fvnewriter or 2 drawing hoard here Deao ? COMES RiP- ROAR I’ INTp HoME (i;&??‘, AT UNABATED PACE ONLY Six Seconns i SLOW = HEX HEM