New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 14

WATERBURY HOCKEY TEAM DEFEATED WEAKENED NEW BRITAIN QUINTET 5 TO 1— RALPH BARBARA TO FEATURE ON FRIDAY NIGHT'S AMATEUR FIGHT CARD—INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE TEAMS MEET TOMORROW—ELM CITY QUINTET CONFIDENT RALPH BARBARA TO MEET “JOE SMITH HERE FRIDAY Undefeated New Haven Middleweight Faces Tough Customer at Stanley Arena—Two Other Headliner Bouts Carded for Amateur Tournament — Friskki and Palmer to Settle Private Feud—Vincent La- Bella In Great Shape for Go With Byra. With thrce headliner bouts on the program, amateur fight fans of this city will have plenty of opportunity to cheer Friday night when the Stanley Arena A. C. stages the sec- ond of its tournaments at the Stan- ley Arena on Church street. Plenty of intercst is being ex- pressed in the first appearance here of Ralph Barbar: undefeated middleweight. He mects Joe Smith of Bristol in one of the main at- tractions on the card. Barbara has » c———— VINCE LABELLA had mearly 50 fights and in all of them he has come {hrough as the victor, He is being rated as an apt suceessor to Joo Howard of Hart- ford, former state middleweight champion, who, When in his prime, cleaned up v all classes, Of equal interest on the card are the other two bouts billed as main | tractions. Tn the one, Dominick skki of this city battles Ernie Talmer of Waterbury in the 120 pound c These two boys fought on the first card staged here with a dra cision resulting. Kach is out to win Friday night and there should be plenty of fireworks in the three rounds. In the other feature bout, Vincent LaBella of Middletown will meet Johnny Byra of Hartford who de- feated Vincent Gullo of Meriden in the main scrap on the first card. Byra is predicting that he will knock out the Middletown scrapper but to do this he will first have to land. LaBella will be mbered by the fans who took in the ama- teur shows in past scasons, as one of the cleverest hoxers on the cards. He appeared in this city on many oceasions and he won his full share of fights, There on the pr Haven, Bristol a will he a total of 10 Louts wand teams from New erbury, Middletown, Hurtford will take part Home of the hoxers who will be seen in action arc: Hartford, Johnny Byra, 126 pounds: Frank Vozzola. 128 pounds; Joe Sicilly, 130 pounds, and Tom Gec New Haven Ralph Burir 2 nds I be represented by ) pennds; Carmen 5 pounds; " i 130 pounds pounds S Maor 38 12 pounds and Tim pounds, i consist of Al W Rogers, Stone, 1 126 pound 160 pounds and Mickey younds; Mike « Joe Smiil Todd, 1 The bont 30 0'clock. “Honest will referee and will announee 5 poi first will e for ] John™ Willis Samucl Sablotsky s Plainville Plues Want Game With Local Team The Plainville Rines football team has allenge to the New Brita pions of New Brit a game in Plaimville tain for Sun- day. Dic nager of the ; &le. Wash Plainville issued u It 1 YALE w Haver ball will inaugu sports season t varsity quint Afir the Blis will face cludes Hol Georgetow members league. 3ALL 6 (1'T") —Dasket- b s winter iight. The Upsaia school, the le which in- Y. U. and to regular intercollegiate WE WANT A SANTOR His father 12 capta Lichmond university, a halfback, is in lin taincy of th IT WAS NEW 1O Hiv When 1 Thuck- time in aw one first Bucknell rs hav at othall Ne for the cap- ieorzotown dotoat vy assumed scored first but lost. t Sanford, | IBASEBALL BATTLE READY T0 START First Day of Convention Given Over to Organization ! Toronto, Ont., Dec. 6 (P—It was 'game time today for the National ! Association® of Professional Baseball 8 meeting in annual convention. Infield practice was held at the opening session yesterday. The first day was given over to organization. With the minors, big and little, sharply divided on the question of selection of players by the majors from the minors, the new name for drafting athletes, the baseball stage !was set for decision with the league | presidents, players and umpires too. The leagues below Class “A" were )understood to be in favor of an un-. .restrained or unlimited selection while the three Class “AA" circuita and one Class “A" organization—the western—behind the modified se- lection which permits only players to he drafted who were sent to the minors by the majors, with a chance to gain a return ticket. W. G. Cranham, Durham, N. C., president of the South Atlantic as. {sociation, Piedmont and ILastern Carolina lcague. leader of the forces fighting for a full and frec draft, said hefore the convention opened that he would demand a vote on every section of a resolution propos- ing & number of amendments in- tended to make the selection laws more liberal. John Conway Toole, New York, prosident of the International league, rezurded as the spokesman for the modified draft contingent, was in a no league now outside the draft can be forced to enter the agreement. The defeat of the amendments will leave the way open to intro- | duction of the so-called “Branham resolution” which would decree that lonce under the draft aways a pos- |sible draft Leneficlary so far as the | player is concerned. President Hran. Iham's proposed amendment declares {that if a player signs originally in & |leigue where the draft is in opera- tion he will always be subject to s lection, even if he later graduates te a leaguc where the rule against wholesale selection i in iron clad. {Mr. Branham sald he would insist ‘on a roll call vote on his resolution. Trades and new connections con- tinued to be a major part of the session’s activities, Birmingham of the Southern association purchased the release: of Outfielder Herschel Hennett, formerly of the St. Louis Browns, from the Milwaukee, Amer- {ican association club. The Barons also bought the re- lease of Pitchers Arthur Wois and William Ludolph from the Mission club of the Pacific Coast league. They were with Little Rock last year. Pitcher Robert K. Hasty, who pitched for Birmingham last year, wus bought from Oakland. Infielder Ray Vivens was sold by Topeka of the Western association to Terre Haute of the I. I. I league. Denver of the Western league purchased the release of Catcher Andy Vargas from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast league. Benny Meyer, who was a coach for the Philadelphia Nationals under administration of Manager Art I“letcher, returned 1o baseball by signing to act as coach for Detroit. 1t was announced today that Rochester of the International league would transfer its spring ining camp from Monroe, la.. to nt City, Fla. The Ited Wings will nsfer their training base to take advantage of inereascd opportunity {o hook exhibition games in Florida The three major league clubs to train in the the Pirates and Cubs in California anc gers ot { Phoenix, A have arranged an Lambitions schedule of spring games lin California, Arizona and Texas. ' IGHTH GRADE TEAM WINS | ST, JOE'S SCHOOL TITLE Intra-Class Football Title is Decided west, Beiween Elevens By a 12 to 6 Score The St. Joseph's Eighth Grade football team defeated the Seventh Grade team for the school cham- pionship Tuesday afternoon in the second game of a series of two, first being played on Tuesday o1 last week. Last week's score waa 16 to 0 and yesterday's, 12 to 6. | The lineup of the champions is as !follows: Left end, Charles Goletz, !jeft tackle, W. McKeon: left guard. “Peewce” Hopkins; center, |scully; right guard, Edward Me- | Keon; quarterback, Edward Calla han: left half, J. McGuire; right Griffen. The members of the team have Iso organized a basketball team and want some games. Those de- siring games are asked to call Rod- |erick Linnehan of 86 Winthrop ! LIKES HIS VKULELE \aner, who is said to have n sent away from the Red Sox a years hack heeause he played ulele too much. will be with the Cineinnati Reds next summer. He's an outfielder. | position to block the amendments, as | Joseph | half. R. Linnehan; fullback, Thomas ol ! 0 Iy [ [ TRONG * NS YORK U First Team Left end, ¥ tackle, Getto, Pittsburgh; left guard, Westra, Towa; center, Pund, Geor- gia Tech, right gua Post, Stan- ford; right tackle, 1ibbs, Southern California; right end, Vansickle, Florida; quarterback, Harpster, Car- negie Tech; left halfback, Strong,. N, Y. 1 right halfba Cagle, Army; fullback, Scull, Pennsylvania. Second Team Left end, Frankian, St {left tackle, Steele, Florida guard, Lobesky, Stanford; 1Howe, Princeton; right 5 Burke, Navy; right tackle, Lassman, N Y. right end, Rosenzweig, Carnegie Tech; quarterback, Hol- man, Ohio Stat ¢ll, Georgia Tec) right Carroll, Washington; fullback, Thomas, Southern alifornia. Third ‘lcam Left end, Barrabee, Y. U.; fefi tackle, Pommerening, Michigan; left guard, Gibson, Minnesota; cen- ter, Presaley, Clemson; right guard, | McMillan, Nebraska; right l.ong, Detroit; right end, Minnesota; quarterbacl Florida: left halfback, Towa; right halfback. Sloan, ka; fullback, Lumpkin, halfback, T anne Georgia ' : There i3 one thing unfortunafe about the business of picking an All- America football feam aside the futility of trying to name eleven men out of eleven hundred who are the best players in the country. The unfortunate thing is thaf, while the All-America teams are treated with scant seriousncss by the public at large, the selections are taken most seriously by the young athletes themselves. The football writer who travels around extensively meets some of the finest boys in the world. Valu- able friendships are and it is no pleasure 1o sit down at typewriter and write a good friend and a young man you admire ex- tremely out of a place that he would give a part of his hide to You may laugh at the idea that anyone can have his feelings hurt by the opinion of an alleged expert. We laughed at the idea until we met a lot of the boys in later years who had been named or omitted from the teams that the manutacturer of this piece had to pick in his line of routine duty. The point is illustrated in ghe casc of Al Lassman, the New Ybrk Uni- versity tackle. He is one of the finest luds that ever stepped into a shee. He has every characteristic of a gentleman and a sportsman and he i3 a4 great foothall player. But he is not on the first team. Ie may never tknow that he wasn't and certainly | wouldn't care mueh if it hapnened to be brought to his attention. But it is painful to leave him off. And the same applies to Pommerening, the Michigan tackle. But, you may be asking. what ha this to do with the business at hand. And the answer is nothing. It isn't exactly an alibi because All-America teams can’t be allibted. process of picking an ave, similar to that recommended by an | American league pitcher in handling pitch and then duck. There doesn’t have to be mu plaining about three of the pi: lin the backficld of the accompany ing selections. Harpster, Strong and | Cagle named themselves. The full- ack position probably will bring about a wide divergence of opinion nong the critics. liecause four of the best coaches in | the east assured us that he is one of the greatest all-round bhacks of | vears. He is a big. fast fellow who can run, pas and he is perhaps the best defensive back and blocker in the & Lou Young the Pennsylvania c rates him as the best fullback he ever handled land there have been All-America { bucks before him in the Pennsyl- vania squad. Mizell ought team but he w | team becans h ex- ne. to the first put on the sccond © wasn't room on some very £00d three men in action said that Strong and Cagl were bigger and faster than Mizel) ‘and that Strong and Cagle were judges who sler, Ohio Statg; left ! eft halfback, Miz- | tackle, | established | All-America team s | the Ruth person. All you can do is| ions ! o Scull | ve Susivere R e aasatl] IMPORTANT -CONTESTS IN DUSTY LEAGUE TOMORROW P. & F. Corbin Quintet to Meet Corbin Screw—Stanley Rule and Fafnirs to Battle In Second Game—North & Judd Girls to Play Corbin Five—All Teams En- gaged Are Thick In Race for Championship—Bear- ing Makers Are Undefcated. GHET IRWIN T0 INSTRUCT. IN"GOLF Popular Instructor fo Again Have School at Y. M. C. A, ’ Chet Irwin, pro at the Pequabuck |Golt club in Terryville, has again taken cuarters in the Y. M. C. A. {buildiry ©t Court and Main st where he will condlict a golf during the winter months. ted his teaching today fairly large sized class. H> has rigzed w» an indoor co by which he can instruct very ef Chet with a i In every game they| played and Mizell had plenty of help | from Thomason and Lumpkin. | Iesler was given the honor wing position on personal opinion through | observation and also on the judg- | ment of Western Conference coaches | who all said he rated the first team. | Vansickle was given the ofher posi- | tion bes of the splen: recom- menda it came from eve out in the south. ] The tackle positions presented a ditticult problem. There were more good tackles than there {guards. Hibbs was good enough for | the All-America last year was just as good this yea 1o i perhaps the Teast known star in | the country but there is no doubt that he was among the best and | perhaps the very hest of the year. | Westra was a personal selection [but he was an alnost uninimous choice for the All-Western Confer- and he was highly rec ational rating by the 1 don't see how a | been | {marked men was | Big Ten coache guard could have Ulie was this year. Pund was the oufstanding ter of the year although some of the southern experts thought that Pres ley was better. Tt was a winority opinion, however. Towe was a Iril- liant pivot man’ but he wasn't the | all-round performer that Pand w With the exception of the b Hield men, center and deft cnd the men on the second team are there | lurgely because there w {Toom on the first team. The linemen lof the second team might switch | I places with the men on the fi {team without doing At damge ;mm the third team perhaps is a | kood as the second. There is 1o way of telling but therc are plenty o ways 1o get an argument about it | |and the best way is to pick thres from the better than | con- t enough These teams picked and we | now take the big duck. BIDDLE RECOMES FIGHT MANAGER | Wealthy Son of Famaus Family i Buys De Vos Contract York, G P | French phones tinkled unliecded on Biddle, s family. worried fash- lion in and out of his luxurious affice, walled with ancient tupestries {and floored with a carpet {deep. The youthful fimancier ed neither phones, s nor a “two-way market” that should have | commanded cvery bit ot his atten- tion. Instead he lolled in a soft desk chair, or rose 10 strefeh his six feet of brawn and muscle as he paced up | and down the carpet and the subject | that lured this aihletic scion of the “Biddlcs of Philadelphia” for hours from the manifold duties of a mod- { ern multi-millionaire was boxing— {a game that has fascinated and {lured to its fold the male Biddles trom the first “Nick” down. Atthe moment “Tony"—you'll find him listed as Anthony Joseph Drexel Riddle, Jr., in “Who's Who"—is the | center of the latest fistic tion. 1A few days ago he paid $20.000 for | the managerial contract of Rene de Vos, crack Belgian challenger for "the middleweight championship. Then Tony turned the batiler over to Jimmy Bronson, chief second of Gene Tunne: Tony will advise and Jimmy will manaze, and between | them they expect to land the blond fox of Belgiun throne now ceeupied by Mich allier. | . however the lof Bronson in the quest of the heavyweight ¢ pion. Tony ! purchase any 1 r il upon whou " Tt o tiny the des “Tony" inches | heed secrety The disnosal nest will in ision | ironso 1 he stamp they oy rmore tion of o protit to provide perfect quarters for any boxers, {rainers, munagers or promoters Lo meet a nominal portion of the expenses. A inz cmpo; Tony calls it. Alih o ‘ne probably doesn't know it and it isn't in the contract, the boxr has acquired a potential tner in his new owner. amateur heav e whipped the pugilistic © for the amatenr mpion- ship of in In Gene Tunney's last training eamp. Bvery day finds hitn in Sme gymnasiup swapping leather with the best available, velling in “the finest, cleanest sport in the orld.” It a family, like a people, can be said fo_lave a *“national sport,” a pair of trossed hoxing gloves would h.ve 50 e place in the Biddle coat of arms. father, Ma/~r An- thony J. Biddle, § is @ s for sport withh anyene, Tery perforce larned to hox almest gs soon ¢ he could Bold his hands up. Down on {he Phitudélphia there barn that once how thoroughbred horses and carriages that preceded the garoline era. When Tony was 10 the floor was forn up a ring pitched and seats scommodate 300 of Philadel- most fashionable society erceted there, The three followed were great . To that rebuilt barn, before an always ca- acity gathering, Major Biddle brought the ring masters of the time, Philadelphia Ja O'Brien. Kid Griffo, Frank Irne, Kid Wil- liams, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Bob Iitzsimmons and Jim Corbett all displayed their prowess to the fashionable crowd. And always Ma- jor Biddle was the apponent. After the hoxing therc were buf- fot suppers and the celebrities of xociety met the celebrities of the ring on an cqual social footing. As conscquence Tony believes that Biddfe estate n was an old d the splendid Dhi we that glorified box- | | boxing gained & tremendous num- |ber ot converts. He still sees some of these converts cheering lustily in |front row seats al Madison Square Garden. Big, democratic and affable, Tony frankly is “crazy” about boxing. He Lelicves the entry of modern patrons of the sport to boxing “will add intcrest to our own lives and possibly strengthen the sport.” With owners such as Biddle, there ncver would be the possibility of pushing a youngster ahcad too fast because of financial necessity.e “It wouldn’t surprise me” he raid as the stock ticker clicked in [the next room and there was a flurry of excitement everywhere but in his chair, “if many others fol- lowed the same trall. Boxing stables ay replace racing stables. Spruillc BraXien and Walter Chrysler al- iready have bought Knute Hansen— [ ‘ently in all departments by golly, T must call Walter and !game. His lessons include teaching kid him about Knute's knockout|i® driving, play wit hthe irons and |by Christner in Cleveland!" putting. The veriety of the course is FIGHTS LAST NIGH ("2 . v O IRWIN will he enabled to learn enong about the game to i mp out of the “dumb duffers’ " clars when they goet on a course, or the finished golfer By the Assciated W will be erabled to keep up his pr Detroit — Carlo Mazzola, Detroit, |tice and 1" form for the open outpointed Mickey Goldberg, Mil- of th 50N next year. waukee, (10). Joie Katkish, Pitts-| Chet has achieved a high degree burgh, and Joe Inglis, Detroit, of populari’y whercver he has been drew, (10). | stationed. He first brought himsels Duluth — Andy Pugllasi, Duluth, |i1 to prominence in golfing circles by and Russie Leroy, Farge, N. D, jwinning the junior championship of {drew, (10). Joe Cabana, Chelsea,| Rhode Island. Then he went to Mass., knocked out Mike Kalinas, 'IFFlorida where he gained a thorough Duluth, (3). Charlie Ratzlaff, Su-|kno-. ledge of the latest metlods in perfor. Wis., knocked out Jack Shan- | teuc’ ‘ng. non, §t. Paul, (2). Billy Norton, Far-{ Two seasons ago, he was a &0, N. D., knocked out Irish Wynn, |to V.1 Flood at Shuftle M . Paul, (1). | e was regarded as’one of the most Springfleld, 1il. — Tom Sayers, De- | effi itioit, outpointed George Gemas, I'0 ition. Philadelphia, (10). | generally known that he had several San Francisco — Johnny Cline, |offers to take positions until he |1 resno, Cal., stopped Marcel Thury, |decided to go to Terryville. France, (6). | He has already signed vp over 50 pupils for the course and most of This tussian traders landed in Alaska | these were with him last yea jas carly as 1760, golf instructor at the Y. M. C. A. 65, Wl:/lan ! . EXPENCES AWFUL THESE i ) [ = ( \ \ A GUY HAS T HAVE SoMmE FUN ~- MONEY) I1SNT EVERY-. an ideal trs | skirts of the ci on the ont- un without | CRAP GAME TH' OTHER NIGHT AND GOT NICKED FOR. A CouPLA HUNDRED - BV WHAT OF IT- | | teams, | Crobin, will open the program. | Shop t i\\.»-\n-s ago there has been a special rh of the | nt instructors ever to hold the | His reputation became so | will he his second successive year as What should be two of the best games played between men's teams |in the Industrial Basketball League |50 far this season, will be played at the Tabs' hall on Main street to. morrow night when the P. & . Cor- bin team meets the Corbin Screw outfit and Stanley Rule will play A game between two girls North & Judd and P. & F. | Fatnic Although the Fafnir-8tantey Rule game might be the better of the two games, the contest between the members of the Corbin family will ring out more spirited rivalry than any other games on the scheduls his v Ever since the Screw ed the league two v Detween the two, very year they have met twice ind on each occasion Corbin Screw | won the first game andg P. & I, Cor- bin, the second. Previous to the en- try of the Screw Shop team the Lockmakers were the “hig shots™ in the le ind had won the cham. | pionship the year before. Since then [the Corbin Screw team has tied its | rival for sccond place and last year, finished fivst ahead of P, & ¥. Cor- is quite apparent that | “Hank™ Arbour and his crew hava |stolen some of P. & I. Corbin's ‘”\H"l]rr. | Arbour played, with the Peekmak- lers when they/won the cham: The next year e played Stanley Rule when hat team the hest in the leagne althoug . it did not win the champlonship due fo the loss of four games carly in the season. Tle played on Corbin Senw foam Iast year when it won the championship and he is on the | nindefeated team this year, “afnirs Undefeated only three undefeater teams in the loagnue at present, Faf- . Corhin Screw and the Stanley At the present time Stanley a slight edge with threa | victories and if the other two wish 10 keep the pace set by the Workers it will he necessary that they win tomorrow night. I'afnirs will have a tough assign- ment inst Coach Jimmy Murphy's ung Stanley Rule team, The game will be a battle between |former high school players and | players from the amateur ranks of {the city. With one exception the ‘l“afmr team is made up of former Red and Gold stars. On the Rule Shop team are two former Boys' club players, a former South Church player and two who have played immnt the Y. M. C. A. considerably. s0 it There .| The first game will start at 7:30 o'clock and dancing will follow the | 1ast game which should bs brought {to a close shortly before 11 o'elock. " AMATEUR BOXING 10 Bouts Friday, Dee. 7 STANLEY ARENA Tickets For Sale BRIDGETT’S SMOKE SHOP Church Street ! Hotel Stanley FRED | SAT IN A GAME LAST NIGHT ANAD DROPPED HUNDRED BUCK mv Dear! FRED AND t DoN'T Know Hew To MAKE ENDS MEET ANY MORE THAT Year | WAS TELLING RALPH ONLY THIS MORNING WE SIMPLY CANNOT GIVE PRESENTS THIS AND MEET OUR BILLS Too HERE'S CHRISTMAS | ONLY A FEW DAYS OFF AND \ HAVEN'T ANY SHEPPING DonE - | MUST GeT SOMETHING FOR THE CHILDREN AT TH(s TiME| OF YEAR FRED | HAVEN'T . DoNE A LICK of || CAN'T B8R SHOPPING AND WHAT'S MoRE | DON'T INTEND T& | JusT GIVE 1T W sure- T Done