New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 13

Speaking of Sports Although the fans at the basket- ball game Saturday night were un- aware of it, the game between New Britain and the Elm City : Five nearly finished after the first half. This was due to a demand '‘made of Manager Clarence Lanpher by the New Haven manager for the team's guarantee at the rest period accompanied by the threat that the team wouldn't go on the floor if it didn't get it. The demand ‘Was made in the dressing room and Manager Lan- pher's answer. was prompt. He noti- fied the New Haven pilot that his team could dress up right away and g0 home for all he cared becausc the guarantee wouldn't be paid un- til after the game was completed. Not once has any team manager had to question the integrity of the local team manager. Never has any complaint come to our ears about his failure to be prompt in paying the guarantee due to the visiting teams. The Celtics, Brooklyn Visi- tations, Johnny Beckman's All- Stars, Lou Gehrig's team and all the rest, big leaguers every one, have come to this city and have had no kick on the treatment accorded them. Then a combination like that of last Saturday night has the nerve to demand its guarantee after the first half has been played. If it was a question of good faith, why didn't the New Haven manager hold good to his promise to bring the team here that he advertised? “Zeke" Zhadys was to have played here as was “Pookie” Alderman, both former Atlas stars. Chadys played in Bristol and was missed in New Britain. Alderman also was among the missing. That doesn't ap- pear to be good faith. It is our opinion that Manager Clarence Lanpher will be a “chump” if he bothers with the New Haven crowd again. Bristol had the same cxperience with the so-called Atlas tcam scheduled to play there last Saturday night. If that was the At- las team, then basketball has cer- tainly gone bad in Connecticut. An article appeared in a Hartford paper today wailing about the fact that Managers Lanpher of New Britain, Curry of Meriden and Car- roll of Bristol are hard presscd for #ames. This inference, as we take it, is because there is no state league this year. As far as we know, Manager Lan- | pher has no trouble in getting cnough games for the present sea- son. It is true that there are fewer state teams than usual but that doesn't mean that there aren't enough basketball attractions around. It is our belief that the fans of this city are hotter than ever about basketball and about the competi- tion New Britain has reccived so far | this year. Just because Manager Lanpher has refused to play Santa Claus to the | other teams which were in the state lvague last year, it appears that bas- ketball is about to die. That may be true in the rest of the state but as far as New Britain is concerned, it is far from being a fact. When all the other teams in the state have withdrawn from the sield, we believe that New Britain will be sailing screncly on, playing the best teams in the country To our minds, the fault lies with the cities which were entered in the state basketball league last year. The managers in those various places made no secrious attempts to get strong teams together. On the other hand, Meriden, Bristol and New Britain have builded strong combi- uations and they are still in the run- ning. And the rivalry between the fans 18 just as hot as ever. This feeling is even reflected in the attendance at the Industrial league sames played so far. Four times this year the attendance record has been broken. This doesn’t make it appear as if interest, in this city at least, is dying out. After New Britai fourth defeat in roller hockey yesterday afternoon, it might be well for Manager Frank McDonough to make sure that “Kid" Williams will be with New Britain this week. Had he been in the game vesterday, there would have been nothing to it. With Doherty, ‘Thompson and Perregrin playing like they did against Fall River, New Britain, with Williams in the lineup, will make things hum for every club in the circuit. As we understood the situation, Williams has a milk business in his home town and he has heen break- ing in assistants to take care of it while he is away. This necessarily takes time. In the meantime, New Britain has been making & poor showing all around. This necessarily doesn't help out on the box office end. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS SKATE AND SHOE OUTFITS COMPLETE $3.95 up to $18.50 {[FOTBALL TUMULT FNALLY STILED Experts Now Busy Picking All- America Selections By Allan J. Gould Associated Press Sports Editor New York, Dec. 10 M—Except for a few echoing post-season shouts in the far west, the college football tumult for 1928 is stilled. The experts, as soon as they have finished dodging the All-America re- bounds, may turn their attention from now on, among other affairs of sport, to baseball palaver as well as such burning questions as whether Dempsey will stage a come-back, Nurm! turn pro or Tilden be re- instated. Oft hand the answer to all three of these issues inclines to the affirmative, but for the moment they have nothing to de with summing up the gridiron grist. Ths south has had the last few | words in the foothall debate, so far as the regular season is concerned, but also will have a full share of interest in the main post-season argument as well. Georgia Tech is going to Pasadena New Year's day to play California and attempt to succeed where no outfit east of the | Mississippl has won thus far this year against far western opposition. The Tornado of Tech figures to do {h\‘ttf'r than any entry from this side of the country for it goes west with as fine a record of achievement as any team has shown this season. There are only a half dozen major teams with unheaten records and Tech—a powerful array has a strong claim to the tep of this list. Here's how this select half dozen finished: T. 0 0 Team Georgla Tech . Boston College | Tennessee 8o. California ... Unv. of Utah . The argument, 80 far as these six |are concerned, rests with the figures because there isn't any other avail- {able or reliable yardstick by which to measure their comparative merits. ‘Tech occupies the spotlight for a hasn’t a monopoly of the southern honors. Tennessee's talented young band’ finished its second successive season with only a tie to mar the | victorious sweep of the volunteers. Over a three year stretch Tennessce has only one defeat on its record in 28 games. Twenty-four triumphs two ties and one sctback testify to the results obtained under the West Point system of Major Bob Neyland. Florida, even though upset by this Tennessee team in the final game at Knoxville last Saturday, enjoys the | distinction of scoring the highest total of points of any major team in the country. The Gators, drop- ping their final game by a single point after winning eight in a row, ran up 336 points. Tech has turnished most of the | south’s contributions to the all-star |argument, the Tornado stalwarts monopolize all southern selections, taking four of the eleven places on the Associated Press consensus team. They also.-have appeared prominent- |1y in every All-America group sub- mitted thus far, To show how dif- ficult it has been for the experts to name any single man to stand above the rest, Frank Speer, Peter Pund and Warner Mizell all have been selected as first cholce on one or more All-American arrays. No oth- |er team can show such a contribu- | tion. By winning the Southern Confer- ence championship for the second straight year, Tech shares in anoth- er distinction in a year chiefly con- spicuous for its upsets on the grid- iron and the overthrow of 1927 | championship teams. Only Tilinois in the Big Ten and Southern Call- fornia on the Pacific coast, among the others, managed to stay on top. Utah in the Rocky Mountaln area, Texas in the southwest, and Nebras- | ka in the new Big Six group all have known what it is to collect the vic- tors' spoils but they are back on i top again this year after varying in- | tervals of less successful campaign- {ing. 1In the east where no single |team has an undisputed claim to | sectional honors. Boston College at |1ast boasts the best record of con- ! sistency. WITH THE BOWLERS TRATERNITY ALLEYS CHUKCH STATE LEAGUE Bridgeport Girls . Heske 78 93 93— Brissmon Anderson Heske . Jorgenson §3— 235 i 50— 200 Nielson Benke . Casswell Ponerliete Heske Schnieder Auth 83— 313 365—1148 Bernston Nielson Worries How to Get Rid of $1,000 a Day Chicago, Dec. 10 (P—How to spend $1,000 a day was the ques- tion ringing in Philip Challenger's ears today. A few weeks ago he worried over how to live on his cub reporter’s salary of $18 a week. A $6,000,000 estate, which he he- ceived on his 21st birthday under his grandfather's will, had set Chal- lenger planning a five-year trip around the world. His income from the inhegitance will approximate $1,000 a day. Chal- lenger has assigned control of the estate to his father, Dr. . O. Chal- lenger of Santa Barbara, Cal. The young man's grandfather, F. W. Matthiessen, & zinc manufactur- er of Lasalle, Ill, died in 1919. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS variety of reasons even though it; NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1928 TILDEN WILL HAYE 10 WAIT UNTIL FEBRUARY Executive Committee Hands Over Reinstatement to Amateur . Rules Body. New York, Dec. 10 (UP)—William T. Tilden's application fot rein- statement has been placed in the hands of the amateur rules commit- tee of the United States Lawn Ten- nis association by the executive com- mittee of that body and the former national tennis champion will have to wait until the next meeting at Boston February 8 to learn his fate. It was indicated by members of the executive committee at the an- rual meeting here Saturday that Til- den would be restored to amateur standing if he informes the amateur rules committee that he will adhere to the strict letter of the rules in the future, Tilden was suspended August 24 for violation of the player-writer provision of the amateur rule and his application for reinstatement was tabled at the 8eptember meeting. It was recommended by the Davis cup committee that the United States challenge for the Davis cup in the American zone in 1929, It was also recommended that the United States challenge for the Wightman womien players last season. PEACE EXPECTED AT LEAGUE MEET Yery Little to Be Done When National Solons Gather | New York, Dec. 10 (®—If there are any fireworks at the National ,1eague’s annual meeting, the experts | will have lost the last measure of what self-confidence remains with them, They have taken it on the chin with monotonous regularity when they attempted to pick winners in actual sport competition. But most of them have predicted, and with some show of confidence, that all will be calm and peaceful when Na- tional league officials open their two- day session at the Waldorf-Astoria today. Offhand it appears that aside from the election of a president, the league has little to do that is other- wise than rountine procedure. As & matter of fact the presidential elec- tion can be ¢lassed as routine bus- iness. John A. Heydler, it is expect- ed, will be re-elected for a long | term of years and may get a prema- ture Christmas present in the form of & raise in the $25,000 salary he already recel PLAY BILLIARDS cup, which was won by the Engmh[ ‘The 8t. Louis Cardinals officially will be named the 1928 league cham- pions, but it is somewhat doubtful whether any mention will be made of the late world series, which was the cause of considerable lamenta- tion on the part of National league followers. Plans also will be made for the joint meeting with the Amer- ican league in Chicago next Thurs- day. With thig achedule, it would ap- pear that a few trades will have to come to the rescue of the baseball writers. At the minor league meet- ing in Toronto last week it was in- dicated that the majors have com- pleted several outstanding deals that they preferred to keep unéer their collective hat until the time came for their own league meetings. ‘These may comc to light in the next two days, or perhaps not until Thursday at the joint Chicago meet- ing. There is at least one trade, either made or in the making, by which the New York Giants would add a good righthanded pitcher to their somewhat shaky mound staff. Rumor has had it that John Mec- Graw would not object to finding Pete Donohue or 'Dolf Lugue, or both, in a Giant uniform next sea- son. The Pittsburgh Pirates also are on the hunt for pitchers and may be persuaded to part with Glenn Wright, a great shortstop no more Stevens said he wanted to offer no alibis, but that he did feel the fra- | uestion was one of the most to the football ternity serious bandicaps squad. “Fraternity activities” sald Stev- ens, “cut heavily into our work dur- ing three weeks of the season which® were devoted to “frat rushing.” For years members of the faculty have |1ege work but it seems to h: & demonstration of their harmful ef- fects on football to arouse Yale to a realization that they must be cur- tailed. Next season I am assured. they will be, so that is one less worry on our shoulders.” Stevens opened his address with the comment that he had intended ito go to the Georgia-Georgia Tech game at Atlanta but that he did not want “anybody to get the idea that 1 am dodging any of my critics.” “80 Ducky Pond is in Georgia to see what should he seen in prepara- {tion for our Georgla game next sea- son,” he added, “and T am here, with my chin up and a chip on my shoulder.” Most Married Women Work of Necessity ‘Washington, Dec. 10 (#—Twice as been complaining of the encroach- | ments of fraternity activities on col- | ve taken | scarcely worth considering” the bureau’s statement said. Census figures show that of all the married women in the country, one in eleven work in 1920, as compared to one on twenty-two in 1890, GIVEN PLATE OF DOLLARS Friends Surprise Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. A. Johnson On Thelr Sliver Wedding Anniversary. A pleasant surprise party was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. A. Johnson of 23 Thorniley strect, Sat- urday evening in honor of their 25th wedding anniversary. A plate of silver dollars was given them by their relatives and friends from this city and Hartford, Portland, Kens- _ington and Berlin. ON POLICE BLOTTER { Earl Carlson of 65 Garden street| reported to the police at 0 last right that his car struck a parked |car on West Main street, near High street, and he was willing to settle | with the owner for the damage done. | | He took the registration numbe ! the damaged car. | Complaint has been made that a ddg at 23 Belden street is left out r of than two years ago. The Chicago Many married women work in the of doors without any shelter. Cubs, it is supposed, will make a grab for any third baseman that can hit. It may be that all the National league's sensations will be developed at a meeting of the Brooklyn club at Ebbets field today. Wilbert Rob- inson, president-manager, the target for some very plain spoken criticism from Stephen Mec- Keever and members of his sup- porting stockholding faction. There have been many rumors that Robin- son was to be ousted from one or both of his jobs, although his salary of $25,000 would be pald his con- tract expires. McKeever, however, has made it rather plain that he will ‘wait until next year before going after Rabinson's scalp. The Brook- 1yn club, he says. can't afford to pay Robinson his contract salary and give someone else a big saum to do the work Robinaon is pald for. Be- sides, Robinson is certain that he is not going to step down until his con- tract expires, FRATERNITY ACTIVITY HURT YALE FOOTBALL Mal Stevens Airs Views On Unsuc- cessful Gridiron Work the Present Scason Montclair, N J., Dec. 10 (#—Mal Sevens, Yale's football coach, thinks the increase in fraternity activities was one impogtant factor in Yale's unsuccessful gridiron season. Speaking at the annual Yale rally in Nick Robert's barn at Montclair, Exercise derived from competitive sport is exercise in sts most bene- ficial form. And the best of com- petitive sports is billiards— for the game systematically played has benefited the health of more men than any invented, . other game ever Rogers Recreation Bldg. 22 Tables HIGH PRESSURE PETE Guess ':ou ANy StANs 1 Te TaR ONE. GUESS WITH EacH PURCHASE. —_— e iUnited States now as in 1890, not| because they want to but because they have to, is the conclusion reached in the annual report Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the women's bureau. “The number of married women bile in his garage in Berlin Friday jand she not only did so like to stay at home, or hecause they {desire to follow some chasen occu- John Turnwall of 201 Henry street reported the theft of a spare {tire from his automobile, which was of | parked on Lake street Friday night. stre Baba Pera reported the theft of a ioml and coil box out of his automo- has been Who work solely because they do not | night. | parked all night in front of 27 Clitt street. Jt was learned that James |Lapidus of 263 Windsor avenue, | Hartford, owns the machine and had abandoned it temporarily on account of the weather. He agreed to re- move it. A report was received at 9 o'clock yesterday morning that a man had fallen at the corner of Pearl and Orchard atreets and was unable to get up. When Officers Meehan and Hayes arrived, however, there was no trace of the fellow. Fred Guenther of 220 Curtis street complained yesterday that a dog at every time he passes. A. W. Alberg of 151 Wall street, Waterbury, reported shortly after midnight vesterday that his car wa struck while parked in front of T42 West Main street and the spare tire rack bent into the body of the ca SNATCHES WOMAN'S PURSE The police are looking for a man | wearing a_sheepskin coat, who is {leged to have snatched a handbaz | from Rose Angello of 35 TReave street as she was waling on Main street Saturday nicht. 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