New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1928, Page 8

HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1928, NUTMEG A. C. AND HARTFORD GIANTS SET FOR DECIDING GAME OF SERIES—BLUES AND PAWNEES SET FOR TITLE C TOMORROW—EXCELLENT AMATEUR CARD ‘FURNISHED AT STANLEY ARENA—BAYONNE QUINTET 'MEETS LOCALS TONIGHT BLUES AND PAWNEES IN JOHNNY BYRA WINS FROM GULLO IN GRUDGE FIGHT Small Crowd Sees Whirlwind Bout That Winds Up Snappy Amateur Fight Card — Al Gainer Clubs Way to Win Over Al Marino — Johnny Andrews Drops Decision to Vozzolo—Frisco Battles to Three Round Draw With Palmer of Waterbury — More Fights Next Week. Three rounds of fighting that only a grudge can produce brought a de- cision to Johnny Byra of Hartford, in his battle with Vincent Gullo of Meriden, in the featured bout of an amateur boxing card presented last night at the Stanley Arena by the Stanley Athletic club. Byra and Gullo were brought to- gether for the third time in a “rub- ber” match, each having won a ver- dict over the other in previous meet. ings. Byra, cool, calculating Pole, with head up and with piercing eyes, is a fighter somewhat in contrast with Gullo, the dark skinned Italian, who peers through squinty eyes out of a head buried turtle-like in his shoulders. Their first round was fast, both showing a disposition to get in, mix it and, if possible, have it over with no formalitics. Byra appeared to have the edge. The second was one of those humdinger affairs where every patron stands up, ducks, swings, jabs, feints and crouches with every corresponding move of his favorite in the bout. It might have been call- ed an cven exchange. In the third, Byra went out to kill and neurly accomplished his objective. A thump on the button as Gullo advanced took the starch out of the Meriden Jad and he dropped to the floor, his knees und forchead striking at pre. cisely the same instant, Gullo's bes | efforts from that point on were de- fensive and Honest John Willis had no difficulty picking the winner. Al Gainer, New Haven darky and Al Merino of Waterbury, both standing over six feet in height, put on a longshoremen's act for three rounds, after which the referee se- lected the colored man as the victor. There was little to choose between them, both being equipped with natural buldgeons which they wield- ed with apparently little concern as to the consequences. Jimmie Moe, also a gentleman of color, took a one round technical knockout from Eddie Stillman of Hartford, and those at the ringside were perfectly satisfied to have it over. Stillman was chock full of confidence until the shifty New Haven boy nearly put his head on backwards with onc of his open gloved roundhouses. The Hartford boxer appeared to have no control over his neck muscles, each chop on the jaw spinning his head around like the revolving door at city hall. Johnny Andrews lost a dccision to Frank Vozzolo of Hartford, when he should have won easily. Content to amble about the ring and fight lazily for two rounds, Andrews sct out to do what everybody in the house thought he could do, finish it in third. But he found Vozzolo rvauy for his assault and in his shell 1o the most part. He tied the N.w Haven slugger until it was too late. Andrews shook his head resigncay when the decision was given, uppar- erntly realizing that he had pulled a boner in not getting into his working togs at the first bell. Charles Newman of this city, with white hair, white skin, white trunks and white tennis shoes, hit the white canvas after two minutes of figting, and the white towel fluttered in from his corner, giving Lou Richatelli of Meriden & decision that will never send him into the ring at Madison Square Garden. The feast said about what caused Newman to decorate the canvas, the better. Joey King of Wallingford, hacked at the cool Tom George of Hartford, for three rounds, but mark often enough to get the deci- sion. King, a rugged chap, went to his corner sick at the close of a flur- ry which marked the end of the second round, but apparently forgot his illness in the third and came back like a composite of Johnny Dundee and Kid Kaplan. The only draw decision of the night came after Domonic Krisco of and Ernie Palmer of v, had fought three fast Ithough the house was in general agreement that the decision might well have gone 1o Frisco, Palmer registered violent indign. when he found he was not selected by Willis. Frisco looks like on best bets turned out in local ama- teurs in some time, surprising if he muke larger type before t closes, With a bad start to overcome, Joe Brighton of Hartford, arose from a nine count to hold Joe Sicily of Hartford in check for three rounds, but Sicily'’s opening attack enough to him the Sam Schrebnick of New hard-hitter convinced Joe Waterbury that he is just that, and in the first round Rocco took re- course in the padded flooring until his seconds ended it with the towel. Tel Flowers of Meriden, won from Frank Stone of Bristol, while F: fanucci of Wallingford lost to Mandez on a close decision. Tanuce his tongue sticking ont through the entire fight, gave patrons the horrors s 1) ited the re- sults of a punch on the chin, which fortunately did 1 BRISTOL TEAM The Berlin Panthers Bristol West Ends fomorrow noon in what is expects hardest game of the s Berdin aggregation. The rated as one of th pro teams in the stat some of the hest elevens current season was give Haven, a Rocco of ringside M after 10 be the son for the West Ends are hest semi The West Vinds will be withont the serviecs of their star halfbacl jred some weeks ag 1 game for 1l o cason. The game will be plaved o Muzzy field in Bristol and s calle for 2:30 o'clock. ho was in- i ot of hacked his | : of the | nd it will not be ! his way into | ision. | Joe | vill meet the | having met | FAVORITES GOP IN DUSTY LEAGUE Gorbin Cabinet Lock and Stanl Works Win Their Games League Standing Pct. 1.000 1.000 Stanley Works . Corbin Cabinet . Cerbin Screw . Stanley Rule .. Fafnir Bearing . P. & F. Corbin . N. B. Machine . Russell & Erwin .. Landers . Both the Corbin Cabinet Lock and Stanley Works basketball teams were returned victorious in the In- ,dustrial league games played at the iY. M. T. A. & B. society hall last |night. Corbin Cabinet defeated the Newmatics 33 to 18 while the Butt- makers scored a 26 to 20 win over anders. he games were directly opposite {those played last week. Except for sational shooting by members of |the two winning teams and a de- termined though unsuc:essful uphill fight by Landers in the second half, there was little exciting about the contests. The crowd of spectators was nearly as large as was that of last week. Cabinets Score Heavily In scoring its 33 to 18 victory over the New Britain Machine team in the second game last night, Cor- bin Cabinet Lock team ran up a large score. The forwards, Captain Phil Walther and Stohl were the high scorers with the exact number {of points, five field goals each. In- 1.000 1.000 .000 000 000 000 w 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 [ S ) for Cabinet Lock and the second game in which Stohl was starred. The New Britain Machine team was without the services of Nick Arena and the team missed him greatly. Augustino, one of his run. ning mates, tried his hardest to make up the difference but he fell short by a wide margin. his team’s star with three field goals and three foul goals besides playing a fine floor game. The summary: Corbin Cabinct Fld - "Walther, rf . Stohl, I Klopp, . 1§ . O'Toole, ¢ .... larson, rg | Yankaskas, Sluvcsone 2~ % olveenes New Britain 1 4 b} wesmemw" Augustine, rf . Richtmyer, 1f . H. Anderson ., | Rockwell, ¢ .... Swanson, rg Ernie Anderson, rg 0 }Enc Anderson, Ig .. 1 5 L] 18 timer, S8ikora; mceow Referce, Coyle; scorer, Butler. Strong Comeback After being outplayed hopelessly in the first half of the third game of the night, Landers changed its lineup at intermission and came | within two points of a tie with five {minutes to go. Then the Stanley Works men found themselves and crashed through for a 26 to 20 vic- tory. . The score at half time was 16 to 7, Stanley Works. Coach Reynolds continued Chikowski at center and scut “Whitey” Anderson to forward to work with Marseli, who was shift- ed to forward from guard. Oscar | Larson went in at guard and Bu- Icheri was put in as his running | mate on a shift from forward. ‘K It was Marsell who led his team in the second half drive, but he was lof Larson on the foul line. Larson had a perfect night, scoring three points in three chancen. Haigis, Emory and Swanson form- !ed a good offensive combination for the Stanley Works. Summary: Stanley Works ¥l FL Emory, tf. ... 1 Merline, rf wanson, 1f . Hauigis, ¢ Hewett, | Iteckert, 1g Abramowicz, Carlson, 1g ! ilis, rg Tt 3 3| 1 Coyle; time, 26 Referee, Sikora; cor- er, Butler. | FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the A=mociated Pr New York—Harry Ebbets, Free- port, N won over K. O. Phil | Kuplan, New York, foul (4). Arthur e Kuh, Italy stopped Johnnic Widd Sweden (1). Max Sehmelling, Ger- many. knqeked out Joc Monte, Bos- ton (%) Berlin—Carl Carter, United States and Ernest Rocsenmann. Germany, drew (10). | Malifax, N S- gium, and Roy M {drew (10) san Francisc Kuocked out R cisco (8). dack Humbeek, chell, Halifax la Barba Videl KRavini, cidentally this is th= second victory | Chapman, Hartford’s left halfback, He was|a big run and a and this was the final score. {down the field. 2 lain H. . GRID RIVALRY BEGAN BACK IN 0 Hartford Drew First Blood, 13 10 6, in Hard Battle Little did the small group of some 100 people know one morning way back on October 17, 1891 that the same played between the football teams of Hartford Public High school and the New Britain High school eleven was to be the first of a series which has covered a period of 37 years. The Herald of that date did not “play up” the game. It was just an ordinary game in those days and the loss would not cause tears or the vic- tory would not be the cause of great celcbration. This game, the first play- cd between the two teams, was so unimportant that it was staged in the morning at 10 o'clock. Hart- | ford High school won 12 to 6. Here is the account of the game, in full: artford, Oct. 17 — An interest- ing game of football played this High school.team and the Hartford Public High school eleven on the Ward street grounds. The game was called at 10 o'clock and the men lined up as follows: Hartford Pinney .... 5 Left En Captain F. Haven Left Tackle J. Gunning . ... Oldershaw Left Guard New Britain ... Klett Lamb . . Yost Buckley .. B Woodward’....... Right Tackle McManus Right End Cheney .. S . Pullman Quarterback Captain Young Left Halfback 8. Haven . Chapman Swain Mitchell .. vere.. Wessels y liback “The tcams were quite evenly matched. The New Britain High school men were ht in the rush line and the Hartford team has had more practice and out-played them in team work. The only score made by the team in the first half was by who got awauy with the ball and by a magnificent run took it away down the fleld and made a touch- down. He falled, however, to kick the goal and the score stood ¢ to 0 in Hartford's favor. “The only score by New Britain was won by Walter Hart who made touchdown from which a goal was kicked. This made the score 12 to 6, Hartford's favor, (The reporter omitted to explain how Hartford made its other points.) “Young of New Britain did some remarkable good work. The best work for Hartford was done by Gunning, Bulkeley and F. Havens."” Considered Legalized Murder That was all. There was just a handful of people in New Britain who followed any type‘of football. Women were not interested and many of the men and women con- sidered it legalized murder. Perhaps the game was as near to murder as a game could be. Those were the days of the flying wedges, flying tackles, kicking, wrestling, fighting and any tactics possible as long as the man carrying the ball went 1t was a hard rough game and it was the survival of the fittest. Un- less one weighed a great deal he was not efficient. The forward pass, the lateral pass and the trick running plays were unheard of. It was a case of hammer your opponent into sub- mission. When these warriors fought they did net have the uniforms of the present day. They picked up their uniforms wherever they could get them and it was not uncommon to | see a team with various uniforms and colors lined up. The team in the 90’s were not the acme of neatness. There were no hands playing at the annual game. There were no red and gold and blue and white colors on the stands. The games were not colorful. They were the rough and tumble exhibition of football played by men who loved a scrappy con- test, lLong accounts of the games could aided considerable by the good work ! 1ot be found in the papera. Probably | the foregoing notice was the largest given to any team during the period. They carried on without encourage- ment and were the real pioneers of the present game which with the possible exception of baschall is America’s most popular sport. And 25 Years Ago Twenty-five years ago, in spite of the undeveloped state of modern de- vices for working up enthusiasm nd enmity to all opponents, the gridiron rivalry between New Brit- nd Hartford High schools ex- isted in fully the intensity present day. It has been a thing of immortality, surviving two wyrs and remaining unabated even in these days when the local student body takes little interest in any other game on the schedule. Alwayz, whether the teams were ¢ matched, or not. whether they we fighting for a league title or settling a private argument. Hartford and New Britain High schools have bat- tied furlously against cach other. Curtin's Men Sought 25 years ago New Britain was aiming at the state championship. and the game with Hartford w doubly important. for the winner was to enter the finals of the Trinity league tournament and receive fhe trophy which symbolized suprem: Tt w: peculiar season at the local institution. It started poorly with a defeat In Meriden, but just one week tater Capfain Curtin's hoys cvened matters by downing the Meride en But (Continued on Following Page) Zakzewski READY TO MEET DARTMOUTH TODAY 1.000 | forenoon between the New Britain [\ Two feotball clevens, this season by opponents, will stage one of the tersectional battles today when Dartmouth invades the Both teams have heen mid-west to pla Northwestern. weakened by injuries this sc final game with all of its members in fit condition. Coach Dick Hanley's team is functioning at its strong- ach beaten at least fwice on ant est now at. Ier big in- H 1 hope to enter this | ness this year; Griftin, halfback Baker, an end. Hanley thinks is one of the best fullbacks tn the busi Yatz i and hopes to give Jess Hawley's eleven an- Here are five stars of the Northwestern olmer, fullback and captain, who Levison, quarterback, and Will ; Mickey Erickson, center, and Frank BASKETBALL TEAM READY TO MEET BAYONNE FIVE New Jersey Combination Rated As One of Best In State Locals In Fine Shape for Tough Tussle—Regulars to Be Sent In at Start—Vi ning. New Britain Sloman 8hechan . Leary ... Bayonne, N. J., will scnd its best McElwain ....... s TEANS T0 DECIDE STATE inant Lovac | .‘....'/]\'-Il Schiffer Hecker tors Confident of Win- | | SOCCER TITLE TOMORROW Hartford United and Waterbury to Mcet in New Haven Vor Championship Honors the Iferald) (Special to tion has chosen the place for the tinal round of the competition. Andy Yorke, ot Torrington has been se- lected to handle the game. The linesmen will be J. Watt, of Hart- ford and J. Rutherford of Stamford. Waterbury holds the state cham- pionship cup and has not been de- feated for two seasons. The team climinated the Hartford Scandias in the semi-final by 5 to 0. Hartford defeated the New Haven Thistles in the same round by 5 to 1. These teams will battle to a finish to de- termine the winner. The United team will be selected from the following: Marsh, Dickson, ‘erguson, Buchanan, Manson, Dev- Campbell, Houston (captain), dsman, Fregau, Keefe, Montgom- Marley and Bramley. This is the only soccer game to be played tomorrow in the state. SOLE PROVES FATAL Hartfor ov. basketball combination to this city | United and Wyterbury soccer clubs tonight to stack up against the pow- | erful New Britain team at the ley Arena. The game will be s as the feature game of the evening, | at 9 o'clock. The visiting delegation is rated as among the championship fives of | an- | aged will battle for the Connecticut state championship, Sunday afternoon, at the Hamden Park grounds, Dixwell avenue, New Haven. The kickoff is ot for 2 o'clock sharp. The | Connecticut State Football associa- | New Jersey. It has met and defeated | some o the best teams in the coun-| [Vfe and Mine try and plays big-league all through the scason. bers of its teams are all basketball | The mem- veterans —The Hartford | Nancy France, Nov 24 (UP)— ! Abelard Dupont, an old fisherman, caught a small sole the other day. He placed it between his tecth to keep it still as he proceeded to free | w his hook. The fish leaped and went down Dupont’s throat. He died a few minutes later of. suffoca- tion, | Caaa oo * TITLE BATTLE TOMORROW Local Football Elevens Girded For Semi-pro Champien- ship Clash—Memorial Field In Willow Brook Park to Be Scene of Conflict — East Siders Depend (n Speed to Offset Weight Handicap—Backers of Both Teams Confident of Victory—Kickoff at 2:30. GRLS QUINTET MEETS INSEC0S New Britain Basketball Team Faces Experienced Grew Tonight Tonight at 8 o'clock at the Stan- ley Arena, the New Britain Girls Basketball team will meet the In- silco Girls of Meriden. This will be the second game of the year for the locals and although they were defeated by the Manchester Recrea- tions last Saturday night in their ini- tial start, members of the team, coaches and officials are looking for- ward to a victory in tonight's game. The Insilcos have been a member of the strong Girls State League for the past few seasons. In the stand- ings each year, the Silver City quin- tet has been among the leaders. The team has been recruited from among the ranks of the best girl basketball players in Meriden. Catherine Brys the captain plays one of the forwards. She played that postition ori the championship high school team of 1926. Bhe has been with the Insilcos for the past two years and is one of the mainstays of the team. Grace Gustafson, another forward was center on the Contelcos last year but has joined the Insilcos family this season. Elsic Olson was captain of the high school team last jvear and is newcomer with the In- silcos. Catherine Baldwin has had much experience on various teams. She was center for the Travelers team two years ago and piayed with the Contelcos last season. She is regular pivot on the Tnsilcos. Clara Chap- man, one of the guards, was a mate of Miss Brys on the championship high school team. She also, has been with the Insilcos for two years. Dora Sanderson is an Insilco veteran guard. Dot Horrifian, manager and guard on last year's squad will alter- nate with Baldwin at center. The team has already a schedule facing it of 10 games against teams of the best sort in the country. These include Yonkers, N. Y., Stam- ford, Ossining American Tegion, Harrision, N. Y., Dunmore, Pa., and others. The New Britain team, following its defeat at the hands of the South Manchester team last week. has bet- tered its team play and will be able to give the Meridenites a terrific battle. For the first half of last weck’s game, the Hardware City five heid the Manchester team to a mini- mum of points and only for the cen- ter, would have stood a good chance of winning. The Manchester pivot caged almost all of her team’s goals. The appearance of the Insilcos here tonight should prove to be one of the best attractions of the pres- NGE FOR BLUES The South End football team of Meriden throws down the gauntlet to the New Britain Blues for a game to be played on Thanksgiving day. [ The team manager. Joe Swedo post a forfeit of $100 for ap- pearance. Manager Swedock can be | reached in Meriden if idanager Wil- liam Mays wishes to pick up the iron glove. left tackle Anastasio ... left guara ....... seese.. Barta center J. Argosy . Chester .... +++s Collossa right guard ..ees Malone right tackle +..+s Lindgren right end Fengler ..... Negrilli . Bratton ... .. Ostertag Rehm ..... . left halfback <.vee. Miske K ++ Quartf saseaas .. Spitko fullbacl Reserves—Blues, Kolpak, Sobieck, Schultz, G. Puppsal, Casperini and Westergren. Pawnses, Hatting., Ber- tilini, Fraccoso, Turner, Leonard, Gianotta, Ravagnani, Kunze, Burke hardt and Mauro. With the stage ail sct for the sete tling of the semi-pro football cham- pionship of the city tomorrow after- noon, both the New Britain Blues and the Pawnees, the two teams which are scheduled to clash for the title, will wind up their training with spirited practice sessions to- morrow morning. o As the date for the game draws nearer, the followers of each com- bination express mores confiden than ever in the chances of their f vorites to win. The Blues'are count. ed on to have an advantage over their rivals because of thelr superior weight but the Pawness claim that they possess superior speed and that this will wipe out any advantage which the Blues might actually have. Both teams have fast and shifty backfields and it is a question to the non-interested parties which pos- sesses the more speed. The Blues v . " have a heavier line but the Pawnce | line, through a season in which the team played against handicaps such as they will be under tomarrow, came through to victory. Both teams have been coached in cvery detail of the game, the Paw- nees by Messrs. Turner and Qianotta and the Blues by Dr. Zwick, A comparison of the record of the two tecams makes their chances of winning against each ether, more even. Both have met and defeated some of the best teama in this section while both have suffered losses by a lone ‘touchdown. t The kickolf tomorrow will take place exactly at 2:30 o'clock so that the game might be flnished beforc darkness descends on the fleld. A large crowd of partisan rooters will be out to watch the struggle. NEW TYPE STREET CAR 8t. Louis, No (UP)—A new type street car a light weight four- wheel coach, .scating 39 persol with a combination of automotive and trolfey features, was exhibited to nearly 100 out-of-town railway cxecutives by a local car manufac- turing company recently. The car has autometive axles rubber - insu- lated steel’ wheels and the latest street car features. \ FLAMINGO LOSS FEARED Havana, Cuba, Nov. 24 (®—1ear is expressed that the flamingoes of Cuba will be extinct within a few vears, unless governmental protece tion is provided them. of the | scasoried in campaigns that sched- uled the Renaissance Five, Yonkors, { Paterson, Newark and other teams |of like calibre. | The New Britain team started off 1its season by swamping the Connceti- cut Yankees of Bridgeport last urday night. Appearing as a combi ation for the first time th regular quintet worked to p: and flashed mid-season form. The regular five will be sent in at | the start of tonight's game and a royal battle should follow. Sloman and McElwain will be used to each other by tonight and this pair. fleet land shifty as they are. should pile {up the points. 7 i will play | center, with She and Leary n | the guards. | Manager Lanpher hasn't announc ed up to date any cut in the and is probable that the s re- serve squad will be on hand tonight | Last week, the reserves did as well |as the regulars in piling up an ad- | vantage. The game tonight will be preceded {by a preliminary between the New | Britain Girls and the Insilco girls of han squad ¢ | Meriden. It will be followed by dine- ing. Billy Coyle INSURED EARLY Des Moines, Ta., Nov. 24 (1'P)— Marion Jeanette McQuillan, daugh- ter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Quillan, of New Glarus, Wis ably holds the distinction of the youngest person to whom surance policy cver was Marfon's father applicd for 2 { endowment on his daughter when she wi hours old. The issued by a Des Moines will referce. Me- prob- heing policy policy was company FESTIVAL Of ote, Neh 1 work PANCARLS Nov., 24 UP) KAz L two shift | made | 4:00% pancakes for visitors to the ~AND ThaE Crete two-day corn show. PI-ANNY FELL RIGHT OGN ME MITT AND SMASHED Th BoNnES To PECES- | WAS OFF ThE JoB FOR Two MONT'S ) )l )4 ll[lmllmmi’ = /] ) usSTen JErRY- WAs (Yun EVER BUMPED BY. A RAILROAD ENGING ! WELL | \WwAS AND GoT ELF ALL (SMASHED DAT AIN'T NOTT:N,’ LISTEN -~ A Big SAFE WOT WE WAS HISTIN' BUSTS LOOSE AmD SOCKED ME ON THE BUTTON AN' | WAS IN THE HORSPITAL Six WHAT A NOWE BiLL HAS To TAKE UP ME GooD TiME BRAGGIN' ABOVT HISSELF! | SPOSE You DIDN'T HEAR HOW | WAS SOCKED ONCT BY A AUTY Trucw! WELL- | WAS SSTTANDIN' BY ME OWN BUS, WINDIN' ‘ER UP SEE- AN- JERRY CAN'T KID ME WIT' HIS WIND! HE TALKS Too MuCH ABUT JERRY To SUIT ME- THAT BIRD- PHooy - L)