New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1928, Page 15

Speaking of Sports We wonder If Hartferd is satisfied how. Evidently, from a Hartford standpoint, yesterday's game be- tween the Giants and the Nutmegs ‘was & drowsy affair. With New Brit. ain outplaying the Capital City crew in every department, we don't won- der that the Hartford funs might fall asleep. If ever one team was better than another, the Nutmegs have cer- tainly pushed the Hartford Giants right out of the picture. Whether yesterday's game ends the mcason for the Nutmegs or noj-s # question that will be decided with. in the next few days. There has been & great deal of talk about a game be- tween the Nutmegs and the Provi. dence Steam Rollers but as far as we know, there is nothing but talk to this, 1f the weather is at all as good a8 it wa yesterday, the Nutmegs might play at home next Sunday with some attraction such as the Orange team led by Eddie Tryon or some other outfit. Then again, the weather might not be so good and the season might end. Stapleton continued its string of victories yesterday, by defeating the Pottsville team 15 to 6. Tom Leary was in yesterday's game and he did & creditable job. Tom has been play- ing end for the Stapleton team for the past three games and he is prov- ing to be a big number, Once again we have been asked if the famous “Four Horsemen" of the Notre Dame team ever played to- gcther in Hartford. Once again we must answer that they did not. Two of them played against New Brjtain in October 1925. They were Harry Btubldreher and Don Miller. There seems to be a general argument loos: about this question and if those people who are arguing. will come to the Herald office, we will #how them the account of the gume. Harry Stuhldreher, by the way, has an undefeated football team Viilunova where he Is coaching. He is Ninging challenges to all parts of the country but no teams seem anxious to pick up the guuntlet. New Britain's basketball quintet Baturday night showed its pdorest form of the reason againat the best team yet to come here. The local quintet won, but it played little bas. ketball during the contest. The oppo- sition, called the Brownsville Favor- ites, was the fastest and the tough- est met vo far this year, New Britain plays the Elm City Five of New Haven next Staurday night, successor to the Atlas Five. Zeke Chadys is a leading member of the outfit and he has asked to be ! placed In guard against Sloman. The New York manuger pulled a fast one on New Britain Saturday night. Between the halves he and Manager Clarence Lanpher agreed that no more players were to be tak- en from the game on personal fouls. Bhortly after play was resumed, Zukzewski had the fourth foul called on him and the New York manager scized a whistle and blew. Zakzew- skl went out of the game and the New Yorker said it was a misunde standing. A misunderstanding almost happened but no one was hurt tinally, LASSMAN UNLUCKY New York-—Al Lassman, New York University captain, finds play- Ing tackle & hazardous business. He broke a leg last year and was kicked :In the head this year, necessitating @ stay in the hospital. Stewarville, Minn Dee. 3 (P— The local high school football team set two state records this season. It scored 426 points in nine games and ran its string of consecutive shutout victories to 11. ANDY SHOWS 'EM New York, UP—They wouldn't let Andy Mitchell, of Long Beach, Cal., fight & Garden main event because he was an unknown, whereupon Andy stepped out and beat George Hoffman, a metropolitan favorite. PLKINGTON HEETS | DUNDEE TONIGHT Formgr Featherweight Cbampion Appears in New Haven Ring New Haven, Dec. 3—Jackie Pil- kington, youngest brother of Charlie Pilkington, of Meriden, is a 6 to ¢ favorite to defcat Johnny Dundee, mn their ten round star bout on the Arena A. C. card to be staged at the New Hyven Aerna tonight. Dundee's ability is respected. He i known as the former feather- weight champion of the world :nd one of the best men who ever wore the leather. Even at this advanted date his boxing ability is respected. But his attempts to pull out of the signed bout with Pilkington, and the fine work of the 8ilver City youngster since he decided to follow in the footsteps of his big brother. all count against the Scotch Wop and the majority of the followers of the ring are looking toward his de- teat topight. This main bout is but one of the three ten-rounders on the card ar- arranged by Matchmaker Al Weill. In the semi-final spot on the card Arthur De Champlaine, of Walling- ford, wili take on Tony Leto, or Tampa, Pla. Both of these me sharpshooters. Both have appeared in winning form in New Haven— and their ten round meeting prom- ises to develop some interesting min- utes before the final gong. In the third ten rounder on the program Pete Lucci, a dogged little Italicg from Clinton, Massachusetts, will take on Lou FKeltman, of New York. Feltman is rated as one o: the best Hebrew club fighters in the business in Gotham and he promisen to give and take with Luccl through- out the tilt. Lucci can give plenty— and take plenty—as evidenced in his goes with Al Beauregard of Taftville in various citics in Connecticut. The sbow will open with two four- round bouts. In the opener Nick Florentino, of New Haven, will staca up against Pete Filo, of Derby. Both of these are former rivals in the amateur ranks. In the other four rounder Rene Loubler, of New Ha- ven, i8 bracketed with Red De Rosa, of Derby. READY T0 RENEW BASHETBALL WaR Southern Quintets Have Enough Stars Back to Assure Rivalry Atlanta, Dec. 3 (P)—Southern col- lege basketball, perhaps at a peak last year with high-powered teams in all sections of Dixie, will have enough old stars back to assure an- other battle to the finish. Aside from playing extensive sec. tional schedules, many of the teams ar: planning to cerry the court war into the east and middlewest. With many of the schzdules complete, a tendency to ramble into intersection. al territory Is evident withh the Tar- heels of North Caroline probably taking the longest hop. Coach Jim Ashmore's veteran quintet will play Ohio State, Cincin- nati and others on an extended in- vasion. The Tarheel have won the Bouthern Conference title four times in the past six yecars. The “University of Mississippi championship team will rely on ad- versaries nearer home to prepare for the annual conference tournament Ole Miss will have four of the five men on the title team back. Ary and Cary Phillips, twins, one & guard and the others forward, are return ed. Laird will be back at the pivo’ position “and Allan Selby will again handle the other forward. The Wildcats of Kentucky wili also be back strong. They play Notre Dame at South Bend as their principal intersectional foe. ‘The outlook is far from bright however, in the camp of the Au byrn Plainsmen, runners-up for the: title a year ago. Only ene veteran Is left of the great 1927.28 team Captain Dubose is returned for the center position, but successors must be found for the James twins, Ebb and Fob, as well as Akin and Craw Union _ Hand-made NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAID MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 192¢. ford, crack forwards. f Coach George Bohler, an alum- nus of Washington ~ate College, &iven to building great court teams and may be able to bring the Orangemen through. As coach at Minsiasippl college last year, he pro- duced the championship team of the 8 uthern Intercollegiate Athletic as- soclation. HAHN HAD 00 MUH AT STAKE Had Nothing to Gain But Every- thing o Lose at Olympics Wickersdorf, Thuringi, Dec. 3 UP —One reason why Lloyd Hahn, Sera Martin, and Melmut Koernig did not win the golden medals at the Am- sterdam Olympics that their sup- porters expected them to gather in is the fact that these men had too much at stake. This is the opinion of Otto Peltxer, leader of the worlds record for the 1500 meter distance. “In sporting circles the question is much argued whether hard or light training is the better means of preparing. for big contesjs.” Peltzer observes. “I have been chiticized for training as hard as I do. But what of the Finns, who proportionately develop more and better athletes than any other nation? They know how to train harder than any nation, “The question isin my opinion not one of the relative merits of two methods of training, but of a sen- sible attilude toward competition in sports. I don't believe that Martin, Lloyd and Hahn or Koernig really trained too hard. They could not achieve victory at Amsterdam be-. cause they were too high favorites, because they had hardly anything to guin over thelr previous records b on the contrary had much to lose.” Peltzer believea that the best way to gain the right psychological frame of mind for achieving out- standing successcs is to appear in contest after contest, cven if one knows in advance that one will be beaten. “Only if one has become used to defeats will one's nerves be in conditien at decisive moments to do the big ting,” he believes, Referring to his own failure at Amsterdam, Peltzer says the doctors told him before the Olympics that he was in no condition to win. But he entered nevertheless in order to get his nerves used to defeat. “My recent experiences has anew convinced me that numerous com- petitions do mnot interfere with the quality of one's performances,” Peltzer concludes. “Within ten d 1 won five international victories and secured two good seconds. “If one can enter every contest unconcerned as to victory or defeat, numerous competitions won't hurt. On the other hand, if one must every time go through the nervous suspense of contests that are adver- tised in an exaggerated manner as sensations, a few races a year cal completely ruin a track athlete. One reagon why Williams, the Olymplic 200 meter victor, wins is because he is entirely unconcerned DOESN'T SEEM FAIR Oklahoma City in the Western League had the highest percentage of games won and lost for the entire season but didn’t win the pennant. The league played a split season ana Oklahoma City won the first half but not the second and was defeated in the play-off series by Tulsa. : METEORIC SEASON COMES T0 CLOSE Upsets Featured Games Played During the Past Few Months New York, Dec. 3 M—Except for a few sparkling and decisive tests |m the south and far west, the 1928 college foothall scason has closed an unprecedented and meteoric course along the chalk-marked bat- tieflelds. 1ts chief developments have in- cluded record-smashing attendance and gate receipts for the fifth straight yeur, an extraordinary suc- cession of upsets feuturing the 'dnwnrull of champions and teams rarely out ot the top fight—in short, a bewildering whirl climaxed by three crushing triumphs for the tar west over legions east of the | Mississippi. From the spectacular viewpoint, the early season crowd of 122,000 that witnessed the Navy-Notre Dame game in Chicago was the high spot. smashing all football records. New marks in attendance also were set in the cast and southwest, while every other section contributed to {an outpouring over the country from Scptember to December ap- proximating 25,000,000 to 30,000, 000, From the angle of sheer playing accomplishments, represcntatives of the Pacific coast and the south take jthe major share of the season’s laurels, a situation that will find its appropriate climax in the New IYear's day engugement between \arcs, California and Georgia Tech, in the Rose bowl at Pasudena. The golden west has & double armlock and half nelson on inter- sectional glory as a result of the nensational victories of Stanford over the Army, Oregon State over New York university, and Sputhern California over Notre Dame within a three-duy period. Whatever claims Ithe east hoped to stake in the Iscramble for national title honors were wiped out by the crushing set- backs administered to the Army land N. Y. U. on the same gridiron by {cama that came 3,000 miles like twin tornadocs to rip up everything in sight. Two of the forcmost teams of the year, Georgia Tech and Florida, lead the south's drive for national recognition with fine records of achievement against all opposition. Neither has been beaten nor tled, but each has one more sectional ob- stacle to hurdle this week, with Tech playing Georgia at Atlanta and Florida meeting another undefeated foe, Tennessee, at Knoxville. No team from any area has an unchallenged claim to national champlonship heights in & year that has acen so many sudden reversals. 80 many unexpected turns and days where otherwise brilliant outtits met misfortune. 8o far as the records of major colleges g0, only four can boast |spotiess slates. Boston college. the jonly team neither beaten nor tied in the east, and Detroit. enjoying the same distinction in the middle weat, share this honor with the southern pair, Florida and Georgia Tech. Boston college and Detroit both |two of the foremost teams of these | have finished fine seasons. Their records stand without the chance of blemish now. Each wound up its campaign in brilliant style Saturday. Detroit with a 33 to 13 victory over Georgetown and Boston college with a 19-0 triumph over its old rival, Holy Cross. But there are others to consider. Southern California, Utah and Ten- nessee have been tied but are un- beaten. California has bowed to no college foe although tied by Stan- ford and Southern California. Stan- ford lost to Southern Californis but gave an exhibition of attacking power Saturduy against the Army that has not heen surpassed this season in big league competition. It is a strange if not unprecedent- ed season when - such ordinarily mighty machines as Yale, Michigan and Notre Dame each suffer the humiliation of four defeats. Yet they | were only the main victims in the surge that at some time or another upset nearly every major team, Every eleven in the Big ‘fen mot at least one defeat during the sea- 8on, so keen was the competition, and Chicago was beaten no less [lhl" seven times. Every member of the new Big Six Conference, | well as the Southwestern Conferén: |also suffered at least one reverse. [Only Ulah survived in the Rocky Mountain Conference zone and the {Indians were tied twige, One after another the castern favorites were knocked off, except Boston college. Army's strcak was stopped by Notre Dame and the Cadets were finally crushed by Stanford. Carne- gie swpoped along unbeaten until it struck the fierce charge of New York University which on that day formidable force in the east. Yet} a week later it was drubbed by Ore- gon State. The Navy dropped its first three games before upsetting Pennsylvania, which otherwise turn- ed in one of the best rccords in this scetion. Champions were overthrown in five of the major fields of action. Stanford shared the Pacific coast last year with Southern California but the Trojans occupy the top alone this scason. Utah displaced the Colo- rado Aggies in the Rocky Mountain |Conference and Texas ousted the 'exas Aggies from the southwestern conterence title, Nebraska won the first Big Six crown in a group that was led by Missouri last year. Bos- |ton College finished with the hest custern record where Yale and Pitts- burgh shared the 1927 leadership. Tllinofs, in a race decided on the last day, successfully defended the Big Ten champlonship. Georgia Tech appears likely to stay at the top of the southern conference, even if forced to share the leadership with Florida or perhaps Tennessee. All three of these southern teamm are still in the running. The spread ot radio hook-ups for hig games throughout the country failed to cut down the attendance. | Besides the record-breaking out- pouring of 122,000 at Soldier Field jon Oct. 13 for the Navy-Notre Dame |game, the east reached new high ‘r)ark with crowds of 86,000 filling |the Yankee Stadium in New York for each of the Army's battles with {Norte Dame and Stanford. Throngs | of close to 80,000 or more witnessed spectacles at Ohio State and Michi- gan while 90,000 saw the Stanford- | California game at Berkeley and 80,. | 000 the Southern California-Notre | Dame contest at Los Angeles. In the southwest, a new record was set by the crowd of 45,000 for the game in which Texas clinched the section- al title by defeating Texas Aggics. Play Billiards Ease the mind, relax the body. Inexpensive but entertaining. Fine equipment, kept right. A large place, but a club atmosphere. Billiards is a gentleman’s game at 1 WoN wa:u"‘ 1\ GoN' OVe TH DacTorR Now The Regers Recreation Building The Home of Clean Sport HANA — GOTTR © see - WHY , PeTe WHAT @E - AL You cRrav?'! You SITTING ON THAT Hol sTove e ? #t Pittsbuigh, looked like the most ' : ARMY ONE OF TOP - RANKING ELEVENS Navy won one (Penn). Army). Harvard won one (Brown). Lost three, (Dartmouth, Penn, Yale). Columbia won none, lost three, (Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn). Tied one (Cornell.) Brown won none, lost four, (Penn. Lost one sm Mmp in m w]m Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard.) Navy Despite Defeats New York, Dec. 3 UP—Badly beat- en though it was at the hands of Stanford’s mighty men, the Army foothall eleven haa finished the sea- s0n &8 one of two top-ranking teams in what might be called an unofficial “Big Ten of the East." Strangely enough the Army shares leadership with the Navy, its tradi- tional rival uatil relations were broken off this season. After the service elevens which lost not a single game in “confer- ence” competition, but did not meet each other, come Pennsylvanta, Princeton, Harvard Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell n that order. Last season Yale was first wita five victories and no defeats in games within this group, vhile Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Army, Princeton, Navy, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Brown were next in line. There are enough major college football elevens in the east to make several such “Big Tens.” The ten named here play a goodly share of their games against one another and al if unpremeditateu although none has ever been organized among then: and probably never will. - In fact, seems to be the other 'h fractures of relations as those hectween the Army ana Navy, and Princeton and Harvard. ‘The following standings show how this roughly outlined conferene. shaped up this season in compari- son with the year before: Army won 2 (Harvard, and Yale), lost none. y won Princeton), lost none. Pennsylvania won 3 (Harvard, Co- lumbia, Cornell). Lost 1 (Navy.) Princeton won (Cornell, Yale) lost 1 (Navy,) Harvard won 2 (Dartmouth, Yale) lost 2 (Army, Penn.) Brown won 1 (Dartmouth) 1 (Yale.) Yale won 2, (Brown, Dartmouth) lost (Army, Princeton, Harvard). Dartmouth won 2, (Columbia, Cor- rell) lost 3, (Harvard, Yale, Brown.) Columbia won none, lost 2, (Dart- mouth, Penn) tied one (Cornell). Cornell won none, lost. 3 (Prince- ton, Dartmouth, Penn) tied one, (Columbia.) Final 1927 Standing Yale won § (Brown, Army, Dart- mouth, Princeton, Harvard.) Pennsylvania won 4 (Brown, Har- vard, Columbia, Cornell). Lost one, (Navy). Dartmouth won three (Harvard, Brown, Cornell.) l.ost one, (Yale.) Army won one (Navy). Lost one, (Yalej. Princeton won one (Cornell). Lost one (Yale). (Pennsylvania, lost | | | i \ford; 2, HARTFORD WINNER IN SHIHHING NEET Capital City Mermen Deleat Competitors in Gounty ‘Y’ Trials | (Special to the Verald) Hartford, Dec. 3—The Hartford County Y. M. C. A. won the state in- ter-county *Y' mming meet for the fourth time in succession Satur- day afternoon when it won from Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in an interesting meet at the Hartford *Y" pool. Hartford county made its biggest sweep in the prep class and also took the senior competition and made a good show- ing in the junior. The standings by group and in total, were as follows: Hfd. ¥fld Lfld N.H .7 28 5 .19 20 .24 0 .5 [J .34 0 Total .89 61 The summary of events: 8core by events: Cadet class, 80 yard relay. 1, Fairfield county: 2, Litchfield coun- ty; 3, New Haven county. Time, 1 minute, 58 4-5 seconds. 20 yard backstroke, 1, Meeker, Fairfleld; 2, Malone, Hartford; 3, Roberg, Litchfield; ¢, Raymond, Litchfield. TNme, 16 2-5 scconds. 20 yard free style, 1, Meeker, Fairfield; 2, Connie, Fairfleld; 3, Dillon, Litchfield; ¢, Werner, Litch- field. Time 12 seconds. Diying, 1, Brown, Hartford: Johngon, FFairfield; Roberg, fleld; Ehrhart, Fairfield; New Haven, tied for 3rd. Junior class: 160 yard relay, 1, county; 2, Litchfield county. 2 minutes, 11 4-15 seconds. 40 yard backstroke, 1, Turdin New Haven: 2, Grassia, Hartford: 3, Toohie, Hartford. Time, 35 sec- onds. 40 yard free style, 1, Hicking, Hartford; 2, Treat, Hartford: 3. Smoot, New Haven; 4, Turdin, New Haven. Time, 24 4-5 seconds. Diving, 1, Bicking, Hartford; 2, B. Sabo, New Haven: J. 8avo, New Haven; . Litchfield, tied for 3rd place. Prep class: 60 yard backstroke, Hartford; 2, BStevens, Time 49 2-5 seconds. 60 yard free style, 1, Bielitz, Hart- Cowles, Hartford: 3, E. Litchfield: 4, Visconte. Cadet . Junior Prep .. Intermediate . Senior ..... 23 2 2, C. Litch- New Haven Time, 1, Bielitz, Hartford. Johnson, Fairfield. Time 36 3.5 scconds. OUR BOARDING HOUSE EGAD,« CAN VYou FANCY -He DocToR PSTTING ME BSOLUTE 5 | Boys' Club Gwynne, | Dobeck, Hartford; Cox, | Toe GLASSES OF o AQ Al FAST oF NoTHIkG BT ORANGE TUICE ! <« BAH!! e WHY, “His IS “THE STUFF A GoLDEN FIZZ IS MADE OF ! cannnnn UELL, Diving—1st, Cowles, Hartlord; 2d, Lithwinski, 3d, Nash, Fairfield; ¢th, Swanburg, Litchfield. Intermediate Class—80-yard backs stroke. 1st, Taylor, Hartford; 2d, Hodgson, Fairticld; 3d, Morse, Litch. field; 4th, Moore, Fairfield. Time, 1 min. 11 4-5 sec. 80-yard freestyle — 1st, Evans, Litchtield; 2d, Deno, Litchfield. Time, 61 4-5 sec. Diving—lst, L. Evans, Litchfield; 2d, Wight, Fairfield; 3d, Loewe, airfield; 4th, Jarlett, Litchfield. Senfor Class—100-yd. breaststroke —1st, Sheridan, Hartford; 2d, Scott, airfield. Time 1 min. 31 sec. d. freestyle—Ist, Davenport, Fairfield; 2d, Burr, Hartford: 3d, Reynolds, Fairfield. Time, 3 min. 19 2-5 sec. 100-yd. freestyle—1st, Reynolds, Fairficld; 24. Burr, Hartford; 3d. J. Maguda, Hartford; 4th, Repole, Fairfield. Time, 14 4-5 sec. 40-yd. freestyle — 1st, Hicking. Hartfy 2d, Main, Hartford; 3d, Repole, Fairfield. Time, 22 4-5 se | 100-yd. backstroke — 1st, Buc land, Hartford; 2d, Scott, Fairfield. Time 1 min. 24 2-5 sec. | Diving—1st, Markley, '2a, Main, Hartford; 3d, | Fairfield. BOYS' CLUB QUINTET 10 BATTLE EAST HARTFORD Local Basketball Team Seeks Third Straight Victory in Game Here Toulght Hartford; Danting, | 8t. Roses Powell A. Thayer Nagle | Schmarr St | Kerelejza . | Goffa Compagnone ‘Taylor | Grusha g Bjorklund | Subs, Parparian, Winters, Boukus; Taylor, Balf, J. Nagle. ¥resh from two straight victeries, {the Boys' club basketball team to- night will meet the 8t Roses of East | Hartford in the regular weekly game in the local gym. Many of the visiting players have appeared here in past seasons, but the outfit has been strengthened this season by the addition of Powell, one of the big scorers among the Hartford high schools last year, and the outfit is reported as primed to give New Brit- ain a battle. The home team will start its reg- ular line-up and is looking for a other win. The substitutes have not seen service in the last two games, but it is expected they will shed their wraps for at least a portion of the game this evening and the crowd will have a chance to see what the reserve material looks like. 8, Josolowitz of Bristol will referee. The preliminary game will be be- tween the Boys' Club Reserves and the Mohawks. Dancing will follow the main game for about an hour and a half. “ Larry Bettencourt, an All-America | center last year, had a job as assist- {ant coach at 8t. Mary's in Californta, his alma mater, during football sca- son. MACK LAST Alai I WwisH I HAD el LisTiNGS ol -TH' STocK MARKET “THAT CoULY Go RoBoDY WILL EVER KEEP FROM e s BN SOVE 1= it F I MM EXPIRE FROM EATING, AL g UNDER “THE RoOM “TABLE “THAN WITH MY HEAD IN-THE - g \ce-BoX !/ DocTor BLD ME To GO anD DRINK TWwo HOT MILK —