New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1928, Page 16

MERIDEN ENDEES TO MEET LOCAL QUINTET THURSDAY First Inter-City Basketball Game of Season to Take Place On Thanksgiving Night—Silver City Combin- ation Considered Strongest of All Time—Manager Clarence Lanpher Cuts New Britain Squad to Seven Men—Holst and Restellli Kept As Reserves. BOYS' CLUB WINS IN ONE QUARTER EGofla and Grusha Star—Re- serves Start Too Late One big period was enough to win {for the Boys' club last night, giving ithe local quintet a 26-17 victory |over the Speedboys of New Haven lafter a wretched start. Trailing at New Britain basketball fans will get their first inter-city competition of the season Thursday night at the Stanley Arcna on Church street when the revamped and strength- ened Meriden Endees make their first appearance here this year. New | Britain has already scored two vi tories in its first two games played having taken the Connecticut Yan- icces into camp a week ago Saturday and the Arcola Bears of Bayonne, N. J. by nine points last Saturday night. The Silver City quintet, always one of the leading court combinations in the state, is a formidable machine this year. Possessed with the keen desire to capture state season, Manager gathered what is considered to be the strongest team ever to wear the Meriden Endee colors. Curry has three forwards, all of them crack men in their position. Billy Cook is a veteran of many a campaign with the Endees. Griffin is another who showed plenty of stuff last Saturday nigh®. Jack Rothenfeld, tormer Columbia Uni- versity star, rounds out the trio. He played last season with Waterbury and with the Atlas of New Haven. Jerry Conway, known throughout Connecticut as one of the best pivo- tal men in the game in these parts, is at center. Cohen, one of the last year's Atlas quintet, has been signed by the Silver C crew and he will play guard. With him will be “Red” Lingner, well known star and McCarthy, another ace of court. Zykwicz is a reserve usually stationed at forward. Last Saturday night, this combina- tion opened the scason by handing the Alpines of Bridgeport a fine trouncidg by the score of 50 to 17. Cohen with seven baskets and Ling- ner with six, led the team in scor- ing intimating that the locals will have to watch the guards in the shooting line. Manager Clarence Lanpher an- nounced today that he had cut the New Britain squad to seven men. Besides the regulars, Sloman, Mc- Elwain, Zakzewski., Sheehan and Leary, he has retained Holst, last year's reserve center and “Hope” Restelli. This secason sees the turn of Restelli to major basketball after a season's layoff. ‘“Hope" has played in the first two games and he has shown plenty of form. He can fill in at any position. This gives New Britain two big men for serves and this will probably con- stitute the squad for the remainder of the season. Thursday night's game will not only be a holiday attraction but it will be a blue banner game. Rivalry hetween New DBritain and Meriden has always been at a high pitch in basketball and there should plenty of action all through the con- test. Saturday night the locals %ill meet the Brownsville Favorites of Brook- lyn, N. Y. This is one of the crack teams of the Metropolitan and will inaugurate the policy adopt- ed by Manager Clarence Lanpher for the coming year of two games a week, The game Thursday start promptly at dancing will follow. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Arsociated Prese, Cojumbug, O.—Johnny Columbus, cutpointed Cudd co, Pittsburgh, 2. Ken Louisville, outpointed maine, Columbus, 8. Oklahoma City—Angus Snyder, Dodge City, Kansas, knocked out Homer Smith, Kalamazoo, Mich., 6. Newcastle, Pa. — Jimmy Reed. FErie, Pa., outpointed, Joey Good man, Norfolk, Va., 10. Philadelphia—Davey Abad, Pana- ma, outpointed Pete Nebo, Florida 10. New York—Tim ha, outpointed Bob! Iyn, 10. Andy Mitc maintsays of man ro- night will 9 o'clock and O'Keefe de Mar- th Shuc Clyde Tre- ny Grogan, Omia- ¢ Burns, Brook ell. Long Beach outpointed George Hoffman New York, 6. Leo Mitchell, Long Beach, knocked out Al Braddock. New Brunswick, N. J., 3. Andy Sat- . outpointed Joe . Mexico City, 6 Chicago— cago, ontpo cago, 8. cisco, out France, § outpoin 6. k ocked ky, Chi- rard, Chi- San Fran- 1ted Henry L Johnn: By Senega nd Kerwin, ¢ Rockford, eth Hunt, irns, ago, Cuba. ici {1 Des Lt out Ker n, Boston 10. Tony la Rose, pointed Johr rie. Pa., 6. ng nny Mellow Detroit, outy gerald, Young:t Salt Lake Pocatelo, Rogers, (T Hawley Thinks Grid Rules Are ANl Right Chicago, Nov. 27 (P —Jrss Hanl Partmouth ¢ t Tdaho, 20, 6 are fine the spectator €an't afford fo have gnesses, honors this | Jack Curry has the | re- | be | district | Zappo. | 6-1 at the end of the first period, the club fought back to within one {point, at 10-9 by the half, and in the third period the New Britaln quintet launched a driving attack which scored 11 points while the visitors were being | held scoreless. Mainly responsible for this savage offense and for the vic- [tory were Joe Goffa and Walter |Grusha. Gofta, as he had done the {week before, was high scorer with five field goals, while Gusha, in ad- dition to getting six points, proved himslf a stalwart guard and time and again broky up Speedboy at- [tacks by agile work and sure grasp upon the ball. Arida, New Haven forward, took |the hall away from Goffa and drib- [bled in for the first score and the visitors soon had a -0 lead. Grusha made the club’s first point with only 10 seconds of the quarter to go. A jumping follow-up of a long shot gave Kerelejza New Britain's first basket, and the locals managed to tie the score at 8-, only to have the Speedboys slip out in front again at |the half. Then came the crushing third quarter, when Compagnone put ithe home team ahead, Goffa came |charging through for three baskets !in succession, and Grusha added |three points for a 20-10 score. The {1ast period found the visitors taking |all manner of desperate shots and | making some of them good. The club's attack lacked a real |scoring punch except when Goffa |came roaring through, and it ap- pears that the team must build its offensive around him. He and | Grusha last night seemed to have overcome their foul-comthitting ten- Idencies which had led to disqualifi- cation the previous week, and Goffa ' | went through the game without a | | personal. Coptain Compagnone was again a scoring threat, but Kerelejza hmarr were too anxious and veral shots. The work of | Rafter, visiting center, was a fea- re. The summa Boys' Club Fld. Fl. Tt | Schmarr, rf. . T Kerelejza, If. Parparian, If Gotta, c. : |Compagnone, vg. |Grusha, 1g. o Haven Speedboy: ynn, tf. O'Keete, r Arida, If. Rafter, c. Larkin, rg. | Blakeslee, King, Ig. New SwwLe Personal fouls: Schmarr 2, Kere- e; Compagnone 3, Grusha 2—8 eefe 3, Arida 3, Rfater 2, Larkin Blakeslee 2, King—: free tries: hmarr 4, Kerelejz Goffa Compagnone 3, Grusha H 3, O'Keefe 2, Rafter, Larkin —10. Referee, Tobin. Timer, Paluch. Scorer, Parker. Reserves Beaten Club Reserves |too late and lost to the Phantom Reserves by 20-19. The first half was a slow, one-sided affair, with the started winners getting the upper hand at | 9-3. This advantage was maintained into the last period, when the Phan- |toms were in front at 14-6. Then the club team came suddenly to life and. with Rametta and Bancovich leading the way, battered its way up to a tie score and, after Truhan had nut one in from past mid-floor, to tie again and take the lead at 18-16 Here George Baylock, who had just gone into the game, took a hand. He sank one basket to deadlock the count and a second to win the game for his team, and ZenfBrowski made 200d only one of the two free tries rded him just at the whistle. 1t a wild and exciting finish. The 1mary Phantom Reserves Fld. Michalowski, rf. ...... 1 O'Rrien, 1f. . G. Paylock, Derkowit a Kowaleski, r, Rancovich, rg. Paluch. g, Normant, Personal O'Brien 2 fouls: Mich Jerkowitz, 1 Truhan 2—13; Ramett. Kowaleski, Normant O'Brien, Baylock Falk, Baldesari. Truhan mbrowski Andrews 2, . Kownleski 3. Ranovich T, 21 Gill. Timer | Boehnert Paluch sari 2 kutis 2 Frae frie witz, Perk Refored Scorer, close of the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1928 2853050 522L586568 5088000 SELEIELDOLDIEOCEEEL LD ILVLHHOLBLIDLD LEGCSOD 2 5LLDBDEIE08850030600CLSLDOPSELELBBLOLLEL 2 280 UNDEFEATED TEAMS TO BATTLE TONIGHT IN INDUSTRIAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE—NEW BRITAIN BASKETBALL TEAM TO MEET MERIDEN ENDEES THURSDAY AND BROWNSVILLE FAVORITES SATURDAY NIGHT—BOYS' CLUB TEAM DEFEATS NEW HAVEN . PP POITOITCTCICILOTIDCIVIOLTVICIPITIDIGVLVIVITISTIIDOT NOTRE DAME's BACKFIELD STARS |RFID OF HARVARD |ALUMNI TEAM TO BATTLE (GRID CAPTAINTO BE CHOSEN SOON Joe Potts or Al Niddleton May Receive High School Honor Present indications are that either Joe Potts, guard, or Al Middleton, guard and halfback, will be the cap- tain of next year's New Britain high school football team. Potts is a member of the Delta Xi fraternity and was just nosed out for the captaincy of the baseball team by two votes when Captain- elect Bill Mangan won the honor. Joe is still a member of the first vear class and will have two more | vears of football ahead of him. He is the son of Dr. Joseph H. Potts and Mrs. Potts of 19 Madison street. Middleton entered the New Britain high school a month after the term began in September and in less than three weeks he made up the ;month's work and became eligible tor the team. He played halfback on | the offense and fullback on the de- fense ‘in the first game against Adems high school team. He is a strong defensive player and was the choice of Coach Cassidy for the left guard position when injuries left ¢ Bill Kuhs on the side lines in the Hartford game. He is a junior and twill have one more year of school, “Pmflously he attended Suffield pre- paratory school and Dean academ He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Middleton of 48 Barnett street. Lose Eight Regulars Graduations in February and June will take from the team eight regu- lars as follows: Frank Casale, cen- ter; Bill Kuhs, guard; John Szyman- ski, tackle; Gunnard Nelson, end; Captain Louis Landino, quarterback; Alexander Zaleski and Michael Grip, back. Practically the only substitute who will be leaving the school is Henry Kraszewski, halfback. Those who will be left to build up the team are Billy Ross, quarter- back; Herby Carlson, who will prob- ably be the fullback and punter; Al Middieton, who will probably be a backfield man, and Bill Mangan, who next year will be valuable either as a halfback, quarterback or end. 1In the line will be Joe Bogdanski, |right end; Joe Potts. right guard: | place center; Henry Gwiazda, who ican be used either at guard or cen- ter; “Penoke” Ludwinowicz, left tackle; Johnny Grohol, “Patsy” Pat- tisankis or ike” Baylock, ends. Those who are expected to make a strong bid for line O'Brien, Ritter, Johnson, Kayeski and Pittsinger. It is expected that Vitty Mikalauskas will be a strong ndidate for a guard position. Although the New Britain High school team won the championship with one victory over ,did not win the cup offered by Mr. | Flelscher because of its tie game with Hillhouse. !rules state that the team must have | two victories, no defeats and no ties. Hartford and New Haven are worse than New Britain, each having & defeat. Last vear both Hartford and New Haven tecams conquered New Brit- ain but they played a 6 to 6 tie when {they met each other in Hartford. ©On Bulkeley Field Hartford High never defeated New Britain on the Bulkeley fleld. They met on the field when it was ! known as Clarkin field in 1924 and Captain Henry Zehrer and his team ran rough shod cver Hartford. The next occasion was in 1926 and Cap- (tain Tim Claire’s team won a vic- ;107)’. Then the surprise of last Sat- |urday when New Britain conquered the heavier Hartford team by a 7 to 0 victory. . | Hartfora High may call Bulkeley | Stadium its “jinx" field. It has only been successful in winning one game there and that was over Bulkeley High school this year. Was Team Made? is a general impression the city that the High school team was already made when it came to Coach Cassidy this year. The feeling was that there were so many veterans and so heavy men that there was no need of a coach. This impression is not correct. If Coach Cassidy's team was already made, then so was Coach John Newell's Hartford High school team. Newell had three of his four regular backficld men from last year and he had a backfield sub- stitute for the fourth position. In the line he had a veteran end, tackle and guard and was only forced to find a center, guard, tackle and end. | Yet New Britain defeated that team. | Coach Cassidy had three veteran regular backs and a veteran subsf tute to fill in for the fourth position. He had a guard and a center and {he had to fill in all the other places with new men. It might be said that both coaches kad an “even break” except that well had one more veteran line- an. But consideration must be Kiven the fact that the veteran team which Newell had was the outfit that swamped the Hardware City at Wil- fow Brook park the year before. At left end Coach Cassidy used ard Nelson, a member of last ¥ second team who had seen very little actual servic He came ihrough. At left tackle he wused ‘Fenoke” Ludwinowicz who last year was a niediocre member of the sec- tcam. At left guard Bill Kuhs, one of the two veterans was used and at center, Frank Casale, the other veteran, was stationed. At right guard Coach Cassidy used Joe Potts, a freshman, John Dumin, a center on last year's team. and Mikalaus- a rookie. At right tackle, John ski who was fair on the sec- m line, was given the as- nt. At right end was Joe ki who was plaving football first time There about for th The Equitable building, New York, 1 has 24,000,000 cubic feet of space. halfbacks, and Edward Sowka, full- | | John Dumin, who will undoubtedly | positions are | Triangular | Hartford and a tie game with New ; Haven Hillhouse, under the rules it | The cup had to be ' held over for the second time. The | many new ! “the poor horsemen.” Then they wheeled about and ran rough shod over the Army's husky team, showing enough in that them worthy successors te “the four horsemen.” TI right: Chevigny, halfback; Collins, fullback; Niemic, halfbacl in front, Brady, 140-pound quarterback, UNDEFEATED TEAMS WILL MEET IN DUSTY LEAGUE |One of Five Quintets Will Be Driven Out of Class In Games Tonight—Best Quintets In Circuit Schedul- ed to Clash — P. & F. Corbin to Play Fafnir— Stanley Rule Battles Corbin Screw—Russell & Er- win to Tangle With Landers — Billy Coyle to Referee. and Saxe and Nyborg, guards. Pet The first game will atart at 7:30 M“;lo'clack. Billy Coyle will referee. - ASTERN TEAMS STIL T0 PLAY New York University Tackles Oregon Aggies Thanksgiving 000 000 Russell & Erwin . 000 Landers By 000 At least cne of the five undefeated teams in the Y. M. C. A. Industrial Baskethall league will go out of the undefeated class in the three games played at the Stanley Arcna tonight and at least one of the teams that has been defeated in every start this| + 5 year will go into the victory column. | New York, Nov. 27 (A—Three of the east's greatest elevens have chosen to pick intersectional foes for the grand finale of the football season. New York university. with as great an all-around aggregation as there is in this sector, tackles the Oregon Aggles on Thanksgiving Day at the Yankee Stadium. The Army, another eleven that has known de- feat only once this season, meets Tonight's games should easily be the feature of the early season. Four of the best teams in the league are featured on the program in the first two games. The last game will see the tail-enders in a battle to stay out Stanford in the big battle of the east on Saturday. On the same day Georgetown, turned back only by Carnegie Tech, goes into the west to wind up the season with a battle against Detroft, one of the very of last place. In the first game P. | & F. Corbin and Fafnir Bearing, ticd | for second place as the league came {to an end last year, will battle for | supremacy. The second game will small company of unbeaten and un- tied teams. Special interest attaches to the N. Y. U.-Oregon Aggles game for it will mark the last collegiate appearance i be a contest between two teams un- defeated to date. Stanley Rule and of Ken Strong, powerful battering ram of the Violets' attack. N. Y. U. Corbin Screw. The last game of the will be favored to turn back the in- night will see the Russell & Erwin vaders for the Aggies have had a and Landers quintets in conflict. The | games will be played at the Stanley {Arena and all will be men's con- | tests. Every team in the league which is given even an outside chance to win the championship will be in lin action tonight in the first two {games. The only possible excep- tion, the experts say, is the Stanley | Works team. Before the season opened, Dusty |gpotty season, having lost to South- ern California, Washington State and Oregon in the Pacific Coast confer- ence. Stanford's array will test Army's mettle to the limit at the Polo Grounds, and Brazil and Connell will need to be at their best to help De- troit beat Georgetown. Saturday’s other outstanding fea- ture is the traditional battle between Boston college and Holy Cross. The league fans figured that Corbin Screw, last year's champion, P. & Eagles of Boston College stand alone in this section in that they have es- F. Corbins and Fafnir Bearing were caped defeat and tle. |the favorites to battle for the title. This opinion prevailed until a rec- Holy Cross has been beaten by Fordham and Brown and tied by lord crowd saw the Stanley Rule & Harvard and Marquette, but records !Level team in action at the Tabs' ‘hall and then another was added are tossed into the discard when these two old rivals meet. to the list. The Rulers, cellar |champs of last year, further cor-| Aside from the New York Univer- sity-Oregon Aggies fray, and Tufts’ invasion of Indianapolis to meet Butler, the Thanksgiving Day sched- ule is marked by a renewal of an- cient rivalries. . Cornell is conceded lottle or no chance of halting Paul Scull and the rest of Pennsylvania’s backfield and West Virginia's Mountaineers are fa- vored to trim Washington and Jef- terson, whose followers need to go back quite some time to find a sea- son as disastrous as the present onc has been for the Presidents. Pittsburgh, which trounced Syra- cuse and held Nebraska to a score- less tie, figures to handle Penn State without much trouble. Two of the most closely contested battles of the day, it would seem, will bring together Columbia and Syracuse at Baker Field, New York, and Brown and Colgate at Provi- dence. Columbia and Syracuse have had little to cheer about this season. Syracuse started out well enough but the one point defeat by Nebraska seemed to take a lot out of the or- ange machine which never has func- | In the final game of the mnight it|tioned well since. Columbia’s biggest ’m expected that the Landers’ lineup |tragedy came when Hank Kumpf, | which piayed so well in the second |the bone crushing fullback, suffered { half of the Stanley Works zame will |a broken ankle in the fourth game |be started. Chotkowski will be the | of the season. Colgate, because of its center; Marseli and Anderson, for-|difficult schedule, probably will be wards, and Bucheri, larson and|favored over Brown which has lost IT’rMstur_ guards, only to Yale | Russen Ersin's team tonight = will be the following: Morelli, cen- lter; Link and Karbonic, forwards. Men's Industrial League W. L. Stanley Works . 2 [ Corbin Cabinet. Corbin Screw . Stanley Rule 3 | Fafnir Bearing . |P. & F. Corbin N. B. Machine |vinced the fans when they defeated |P. & F. Corbins in the last few sec- jonds of the game. The first game of the night will {see P. & F. Corbins make an at- {tempt to get into the winning col- |umn. The following lineup will {start: Holst, center; Captain Jasper ! {and Luke, forwards; and Paris and |Heinzmann, guards. Gorman wiil! |be reserve center or forward, and | Hallin and Feldman will be reserve |guards. Fafnir Bearing will line up with the following team: McGrath will be the center; Havlick and Belser, forwards; Matulis and Mieczkowski. guards. Possibly Micczkowski will shift to forward in place of Belser !who will move to guard. The re- |serves will be Beloin, Gicrochowski |and Anderson. Corbin Screw will try for its sec- ond victory, with the samc lineup {which carried it through in the first {game. Saunders and Lut: will di- | vide at center; Joe Luke and Yaku- |bowicz, forwards, and Arbour and | Darrow, guards. Several members !of the team are troubled with boils| and although the rcgulars might | \start they may not be at their best {form. The reserves will be Joe | Meehan and Kilduff | stanley Rule will ing lineup: Kley, center; Morey and |Gill, forwards; Saunders and Cor- {azz0, guards. Murphy, Schaefer and | Morrison will in reserve. tart the follow- & in many are productng rubber tires. 1S RAGING CHAP Beats Oat Bill Cox of Pean in (ross Gountry Classic New York, Nov. 27 UP—Jimmy Reid of Harvard, young man with a sense of humor and the ability to carry on a running fire of remarks, while loping along at about 12 miles | an hour is the new champion of the east at the Spartan sport of college cross country running. In his dressing room after the race over the six-mile course at Van Cortlandt Park yesterday in which he beat out Bill Cox of Penn State, champion ofr two years, as well as Francis Londsy of the Uni.| versity of Maine, the party of the| second part in the unusual conver- sation, little Jimmy told what they were talking about. “We were just making remarks 50 Cox could hear us” said Reld with a grin as he stuffed his crim- | son togs into & canvas bag for the journey back to Cambridge. Strong Coterie of Playe! 0’Clock. THREE GAMES IN HOCKEY CIRCUIT Changes Expected in League Standing in Tonight's Contests New York, Nov. 27 (P—Only three games are scheduled for Na- tional hockey league teams tonight but all of them may produce im- “Lindsay would say to me: ‘Sure, that's all right, let him go ahead and break the wind for us.’ Then again he would turn and say: ‘Come on, here's where we go out and! pass the champion.’ “We were about half way around | then and we could hear the cham. pion breathing rd. We were both pretty fresh ahd I guess we had a confident feeling”. While this was going on the three were running stride for stride far in half of the six-mile route. Over the rougher going after pass- ing under a trestle and through a field, Reid and Lindsay alternated in | the lead with Cox who was plodding | along, dour and grim, head down and long legs working methodically. Not once did he reply. He appar- ently knew he had no breath to spare. “Just before we started to go over the hills on the second time around,” said Reid, *“Cox sprinted and went ahead about twelve yards.” “‘That's just a bluff,’ Lindsay called out as he went by, “We'l collar him on the hill.” The happy &0-lucky Maine boy, his heavy shock of hair flying in the breeze s do- ing most of the talking and grinning broadly much of the time. On the hills they did not pass Cox and when they straightened out into the Jong level homestretch the champion was forty yards behina them, a beaten man: There was no more talking for Cox's ears after that and Reid and Lindsay saved their breath for the business of beating each other. Stride for stride they dashed vards from home Reid, to the rear, jumped Lindsay and shot ahead. “It was a lot farther to the tape than T thought,” said Reid. *There were a lot of people along the course and I thought they were at tne finish, but it was quite a bit far- ther on. 1 had to keep going though.” Reid's time was thirty minutes and eleven seconds, which is 25 4-5 seconds faster than Cox made in winning in 1926. It is the fastest Reid ever traveled and will stand as a course record, as a permanent new route was used yesterday for the first time, although Cox in 1925 cov- ered the old course in 30:04. The victory was a logican climax to Reid's cross-country career, as well as a disappointing end to that of Cox who had hoped to make it three straight in this his last year. Loth are seniors. Reid was thir- teenth in 1925, his first varsity sea- son; third last year and now finally first. Jimmy comes from Somerville, Mass, home of other famous ath- letes. “l was in the same high school graduating class with MacFayden, now a pitcher jor the Red Sox, and Hogan who catches for the Giants, the Harvard runner said. Reid's one regret was that the team of which he is leader did not do better in the chase for team laurels. ard was sixth while Cox's Penn State team, well-balane- {ed, won the championship for the third time in three years. And Maine was second and Cornell third. The University of Pennsylvania won both team and individual hon- {ors in the freshman race which also | contajned plenty of drama. With hands clasped, Dan Dean, Bill Mec- {Kniff and Roland Ritchie, all of | Penn, crossed the line in a three-way tie for the title while Carl Coan, u | teammate was fitth. Lawrence Belanger in fourth plau, was the leader of a Syracuse team ich finished only four points be- hind Penn to take second honora { while third place went to Penn State’s Nittany Lion cubs. The win. ning time was 15 minutes and 11 |seconds for three miles, which ac- centuates the speed of the varsity race in which the winner covered twice as much ground in less thau twice as much time. | EAGLES BEAT. BULLDOGS New Haven, Nov. 27 (UP)—With a display of teamwork that went like a well-olled machine, the New Haven Eagles swept the Newark Bulldogs from the ice to the tune of 6 t6 2 in a Canadian-American league hockey game here last night. Two of the New Haven scores were made on passes and three from re- bounds. Captain Eddy Bouchard ef the Eagles tallied twic SOUCER AT THE BOWL New Haven, Nov. 27 (UP)—For [the first time in three vears a game jother than football will be played | in the Yale bowl. The Yale A. A. has sanctioned use of the huge Eif football stadium for the Thanksgiv- ing day soccer game between the undefeated Yale tcam and the Army. The A. A. reports a heavy advanee ticket sale. ithe season and of deciding the lead- advance of the field, across the| parade grounds that mark the first| across the parade grounds and 220 | who had | Leen content to hang a yard or two | portait changes in the league stand- ing as well as plenty of thrills for the spectators. In New York, the Americans and the Ottawa Senators have before them the task of settling their tie game played on the opening day of ership of the international group. Neither team has lost a game this season. Ottawa has won two and tied three to take first place with seven points. Two victories and two have given the Americans sec- ond place with six, in a tie with Toronto. Flat Walsh, who was borrowed | to fill the American goal while Ver- | non Forbes was ill, ,robably will be in the nets again. Walsh was re- turned a few days ago, but yesterday | Manager Tommy Gorman decided Forbes was not in shape to work and borrowed Walsh again by tele- phone. He lefy Montreal last night. | There Is a strong probability that h* will remain in New York for the season, subject to recall any time the Maroons need him. The Montreal forum will see th Maroons, who are in an unaccus- tomed position af the bottom of the international group, try to vault to a higher place over Toronto. A vic- ltory for the Maroons would put them on equal terms withh the Leafs and ahead of Montreal's other team, Les Canadien. Pittsburgh's battling Pirates go to | Boston for an attempt to disturb the | American group sanding. The Bruins | hold third place in the group by their stirring overtime victory over the Pirates at Pittsburgh and a pair of ties. Pittsburgh is one point be- hind, but is out to avenge the de- feat and at the same time to climb into a tie with Detroit for second place by reversing he decision to- night. A victory for Boston would give them an undisputed hold on second place while a tie would put them on even terms wi*" Detroit. PLENTY OF POST SEASON CHATTER Future of Jack Wilce, Ohio| State Coach, Is Uncertain Chicago, Nov. 27 () Ten's 1928 football npionshi campaign is over, but the futur plans of Coach Jack Wilce of Ohio State, next seasons’ heavy schedule, election of captains, claims for all- | American and ali-conference honors | and the forthcoming conclave of | athletic officials provided plenty of | post-season chatter today. | Just as i the hectic race itself, | it was a big chance for second guess- | ing all over the conference, and only the schedules secmed certain. Beyond admifting he had several “attractive offers,” Coach Wilce, who resigned as Ohlo State’s mentor fol- | lowing the stbrm of alumni eriticism last year, refuscd to comment on re- ports he had been oftered posts at | | Harvard, Nebraska, Dartmouth, and even another chance at Ohio % “There are meny things to be con- | tidered,” Wilce said, “but I am not lat liberty to speak. I am fond of | Columbus and perhaps would not care to move from here. 1 have my { medical profession and may decide |to devote my full time to it. Just | now it is too early to say what I am going to do.” A survey of the 1829 schedules, | which have been virtually complet- | — The | ¢d, reveals an ambitious programn for Big Ten teams. Aside from the us- imal number of conference 8, |four important intersectional games [have heen scheduled with eastern | teams. Harvard will come west to play Michigan, the Army will invade | | Lllinois, Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg | [will take his Chicago elevens to Colgate and Wisconsin will clash at Madison. After a lapse of several years, Indiana will meet Notre Dame. Brother ofNHans Wagner Succumbs in Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Nov. 27 ) — Albert { Wagner, brother of the famous Hon- |us, and himself a diamond star of ‘[:w years ago, died in a hospital here Jast night, a victim of apoplexy. Wagner. 58 preceded his famous bow-legged brother, breaking into the national game with the Eastern Icague. Later he played with Tor- |onto, Providence, and Montreal in {the International league and with Kansas City in the American associa- {ticn. He also was a member of the Washington and Brooklyn clubs when the National league was a 12 ctub circnit. An injured knee put him ont of baseball at a time when his brother Honus was fust striking his stride. |is predicted for the crew that Princeton to battle the Tigers, and | HIGH SCHOOL THURSDAY Annual Gridiron Scrap Between Present and Former Red & Gold Stars Scheduled For Thanksgiving Day Morning — Manager Fred Gennette Assembling rs For Contest—1927 Regu- lars All to Get Into Action — Kickoff at 10:30 Once again the old grads of the New Britain high school will gath- er together to watch the present year's high school eleven battle against a team representing the alumni. Arrangements have been completed for a game to be played Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock between the 1928 high school eleven and a team composed of former wearers of the Red and Gold. Fred Gennette, himself once a star of the high school gridiron, is acting as manager of the alumni squad and he will have plenty of material from which to pick a strong team. Those who reported last night for the game are as fol. lows: Linemen, Politis, Beloin, Roger and James Scully, Arnold Reckert, Harold Bruce, Jim Gordon and “Red” Miller; backfleld, “Tur- key” Claire, Al Fengler, “Red™ Matulis and Gennette. 8everal others are also planning to report for the game. ‘The alumni team went through its first practice session last night working up signals and plays to be used against the high school team in the game. The former stars worked nicely together and plenty of trouble last Saturday turned in a glorious victory over Hartford. The regular lineup of the high school team will be used against the alumni. The annual battles between the high school regulars and the alumni teams were revived in 1924. In the first game, a real scrap between the two elevens, the high school won out by a point, the score being 7 to 6. The next year the alumni tied the count. In 1926, the game resulted in a scoreless tie and in 1927, the alumni won by a margin of three touchdowns. Thursday morning. the regulars will have the opportunity of knotting up the count again in games player and a real scrap is In prospect. Officials will he chosen for fthe contest today or tomorrow. The kick- oft will take place promptly at 10:30 o'clock. Prosper Lacava i8 in charge of general arrangements. ALL-STAR QUINTET 10 PLAY HARTFORD TEAM Gorbin Screw Rasketball Combina- tion to Meet Battey Five In Preliminary Game. Preliminary to the Meriden-New Britain game Thanksgiving eve, Ken Saunders' All-Stare, composed of the entire personnel of the Corbin Screw team, champlons of the Industrial league last season, will clash with the fast Battey five of Hartford. The Hartford aggregation is made up of former Trinity college and Bulkeley High school players and 18 one of the strongest in the state. The team carries two complete squads so that the locals will have to travel fast if they hope to annex a victor: Among the visitors will be seen Ki v, Taute, Dalton, O'Connor, 'Brien, Carlin, Sheehan, Sanford, "arrell and Kapike. The All-Stars will line up with Luke and Yacobowicz, forwards: Fred Saunders, center; Darrow and Arbour, guards. The rest of the team will see plenty of action dur- ing the game. Georgia Tech May Meet California on Gridiron Los Angeles, Nov. 27 (UP)—The Georgia “Tech and California univer- sity football teams probably will meet here New Year's day in the Tournament of Roses game, it wam reported today. That California, defeated only by the University of Southern Califor- nia, would accept the invitation seemed certain. George Tech has yet to meet Ala- bama Poly and Georgia before fin- ithing its conference schedule. The strong showing of Tech, indicated it would be selected to represent the east and south. Students Battle But “Prexy” Is the Loser Providence, R. I, Nov. 27 (M— The freshmen and the sophomores at. Rhode Island State college had a I bit of a battle last night and Dr. Howard B. Edwards, president of the college, lost. President Edwards appeared in- cogito in the midst of the contend- ing forces in an effort to restors bigger and better calm on the cam- pus. A stream of water from a fire hose was directed at him, or, on | the other hand, he may have stepped |in front of the hose. The students who attended the | demonstration lost all interest in it, |as soen as they recognized the | drenched ‘‘prexy.” SECLUDED AT GOLF CLUB Philadelphia, Nov. 27 (UP)—~The University of Pennsylvania football team will retire to the seclusion of {a golf club near Philadelphia today [to remain until the game with Cor- Inell Thursday. Coach Young has |been drilling his men strenuously |to avold any chance that Cornell ! might &pring a surprise victory. ecial Notice Rarber shops will close all day on | Thanksgiving Day and will be open juntl & o'clock the previous eve- jning, Wed. Nov. 28.—advt. . ¢