New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1928, Page 14

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11; 1928, 20055850050650000206008303060D65E0SDOHOOGEILLIIDEBISSIOITLOOLTHODSILOBOE L6060 00 0ELEELIOSPICLESIBELITEIDDEVELDLEI0LLL80666860800800000800 5005006020000 0005008058080 CHANGES EXPECTED IN INDUSTRAIL LEAGUE STANDING AFTER TONIGHT'S GAMES—WATERBURY HOCKEY TEAM TO APPEAR HERE THURSDAY NIGHT—JOHNNY CLINCH TO MEET FRANK NICHOLAS FRIDAY—MIDDLETOWN BEATS BOYS CLUB—SPORTS EXPECT LEAGUE CHANGES AFTER INDUSTRIAL GAMES MIDDLETOWN TEAM DOWNS BOYY' CLUB Locals Lose Fierce See-Saw Game—Reserves Beat Whippets | . M. C. AL with the am last 1 Britair ious s New 1 The ) ed its club baskethail it defeated the N by 28 on the club floor. won by 81-21 n the in Middletown on T night, but last evening the presented a rearrang line-up with Wilc Acaden threat. the locals oifv led much of the ors had an aver tage of fully 40 pounds and gradually wore down the team. It was three Lroke the ice with a | shot, and then Gustafson, New Britain hoy, spun through. Middictown went before Kereles: first score with from mid-floor. and then making it quarter. K ond period shot. Wilcox made or was the only one his team s the quarter, and then G full ®harg: all scor two baskets and two foi New Britain a 1 closed. Kerele iz der for cusy sl as the third Grusha went ont on fouls and dletown started to come § Hanson, Parsons ha score at 1 A shot by Schmarr from the ner sent the club ahead Gustafson tied things onc the visitors took 19 Schmarr brought New B within three points twice durin 3 last period and Parparian did t same once, but that was as near the locals conld getf. The game a o at times almost took on the scm blance of a battle. Dunn and Wil cox had their own jdeas about the game should De run and fre- quently told ihe refer were. Middlctown split i quite evenly, each rezular ttir two baskets. Kereleiza bore New Britain on his accurate Grusha again form. 1In the 1 again began fo hook in {he sensational shots which mas sensation in the city tour year. Goffa outjumped taller Hanson. while although scoreless for this year, held the slipper two baskets. New Diritain's ir to make its fouls factor. The summary Middictown Y. M. C. seric 5 in a fur whe home mi S hefor nn hook former a long to with another wor was o onc 1t ey seoring the his long ‘Wilcox, rf. Erbal, rf. .. Fountain, rf. Dunn, If. ... Hanson, c. Gustafson, rg. . Parsons, lg. . Pnr])n.rmn. l‘ Goffa, c. . Combagnone, rg. Grusha, Iz ‘Winters, Ig. Personal fouls: Wi Dunn 3, Hanson sons 3—15; Schn Parparian, Goffa 2, Compagno Grusha 4, Winters 3 Tech foul: Hanson. Dunn 2, H 5 Schmarr, Kereleiza Goffa 4, Compagnon Winters 2—1¢ Ttet Timer, Paluch. Scorr Reserves Win The Boys' Club Reserves won slam-bang - from the Whi by a 2 score he 192 term ¢ and junior city met. The first hal ended with the teams lead b & their defens not score ag was hlowir club att amiq hot teams fo guarded effect, star affa en rr obs on 1} Boys' Cluh Reeryes W hipper 1 fouls Kowaleski, | Wojack 1, Alewnik standing of the tean Is in the Civic bowl meed today by the Chamber The report shows 1 Ic 1ding the 1 of the wee of am Standing W, i 84 o5 1 1 i 4 1 1 BOWLING FIGURES FOR GIVIC LEAGUE Lions No. 1 Team Continues fo Set Pinfall Pace us and in- ing leag Secretary of Com- ions team ague was a Rotary A4 14 444 Indiiidual Standings Dunn to Woods, Macauley W Vozel . ford L individual string, ndividual average, total pinfall team . Lion: and Bassford, Horvath, . Lions, No. | s No. 1— incinding | RESL’RT TRAINER Battle for 147 Pound won the 9 we now is hak Tommy Williams Won First Crown first Iterweight a condi- Ithy bus- resort from Coney been herc nd feather- and at champion ormer npion, im in of ex- inded ms ex- of time that BURRITTS WILL PLAY IN SIMSBURY TOMORROW Local Basketball Team to Continue Its Drive Towards Semi- Pro Title, Contipuing its drive toward the state semi-pro basketball title, the Burritt quintet will take to the road tomorrow evening when it will clash wtih the strong Simsbury town team i‘" the Simsbury High school at §:30 The Simsbury aggregation considers itself above the class of the locals but the Burritts are con- | fident of giving the upstaters a good | battle. Although the local team ap- prared stale last Saturday evening at the Stanley Arena, Manager Ken Saunders expects his men to return to form in the Simsbury battle. Simsbury captured the champion- ship in the second half of the Farm- ngton Valley league last year. The team is made up of tall, heavy men and the local guards will find it hard to stop O'Donnell and Eno, the stars of the upstaters, The Burritts will play a return game with the Sims- bury team at the Stanley Arena Saturday evening. Manager Saunders will start his strongest lineup consisting of Yaku- bowicz and Havlick, forwards; Fred Saunders, center; Arbour and Dar- row, guards. Joe Jasper and Luty will also see plenty of action. The above players are asked to be in front of the nesday sharp, The fans Washington evening will be games by Manager Saunde in Dbooking the appear here. BLACKBURNE HAS CHANCE 70 BEGOME MIRACLE MAN Man of Action Has Opportunity To Lead White Sox Out of Base- ball Wilderness Chicago, Dec. 11 (P)— “Lena” Blackburne, man of action, at last has his big chance—a chance to d Chicago's once mighty White 0x out of basebnll's wilderness. As manager in his own right of the team which was tumbled from {its pinnacle by the notorious “Black ox Scandal” of 1919, the flery, lender “Lena” has a chance to be- come the miracle man of present day baseball. After applying his mastery of strategy as infieider and then coach }Vu the faltering team for more than v decade, Blackburne was called on to pilot the team last July when | Ray Schalk resigned. But while the | die was seemingly cast for another | poor season, did wonders with the machinery left him by pi- loting it to 5 baseball. His re- erday, when he was named as manager for 1929 and giv- en as free a hand as any White Sox manager ever had. Chicago fans were elated by the news and the general prediction was |that “Lena” was the man to turn {the trick. Tf he does, the turnstiles at Comiskey Park, a giant stadium holding 65,000, probably will do a land office business again for the t time since the scandal. | FIGHTS LAST NIGHT o'clock. evening at 6:30 o'clock t the New game Saturday action o Assaciated Press, Boston — Jackey Shark ton, outpointed Arthur De Kuh, New York (10). Lou Bogash, Boston, Jnocked out Archic Skinner, Mon- 1(2). Ruifalo, Ruitalo, . Chi outpointed (10). lelphia — Benny Bass phia, ontpointed Gaston (10) TRos- N. Y. — Jimmy Siatter ontpointed Jimmy M 120 (10). Kid Chocolate, Johnny Helstein, Phil- “harles, Marictta, nati, o. knock: Freddie Miller, Cine out Jess Me- M y Charlotte. . — Johnuy Rob- W. Va. stopped erts, ton Har ry Lingo, Little Mexico. Louis, oints 4 Lencho, Stedman, Mexico, Tampa, Johnny Gerarden, nocked out Bob Martin, D. — Billy Light, ont )nw ed Meyer Grace, (am. Nitti, §t. Paul, 1 Kid toe, Si x City, 4, (8) ILethbridge, Alta. — Lew Keissler, Lethbridge, technically knocked out |Carl Augustine, St. Paul, (8). Burritt club rooms Wed- |, Britain- | treated to two fast | Simsbury team lo: BY BILLY EVANS Who are the seven greatest play- ers in the history of legue? Naming the “Big Seven” of the junior organization is unquestion- ubly a real task. Few people would | care to tackle it and, as a matter of factonly a limited number are really competent to express an important opinion. While fanning with, Connic Mack one day last summer, the thought occurred to me, “Here is the one 'man who is in a position to express a really worth while opinion on the iseven greatest players that have graced the American league since it entered the flold.” In matters pertaining to baseball I | have the greatest regard for the judgment of Connie Mack. He pioneered with the American league and has seen it grow from a wWeak- ling into a great organization that has kept pace with the Natioi which for years Mad the major league field all to ftself. Incidentally, Mack, aside from being a great manager, starred in his days as a | {player. 5 Here was a man who for nearly 30 | years had seen hundreds of stars nd near-stars come and go. During that time he developed many out- standing players and won pennants and world champions. I made up | my mind I was going to get his opin- | ion on a question 8o often asked me: | “Who are the seven greatest players in the history of the American league?” Mack smiled, then held up both hands in horror at the very idea. No one can answer that one with |any real degree of accuracy,” he! {finally answered. “After all, thosc| all-star things are just a matter of | personal opinion. Ask any six prom- (inent baseball experts to answer such & question and no two will agree, 80 great is the difference of | opinion of the relative merits of the various players.” However, I continued to press| Connie for his opinion, He finally | agreed to give it, all the time stress- ing that his ideas about the matter meant no more than any well versed fan. After a few minutes of study, in which he seemed to be recalling the stars of the last 30 years, he re- plied: “Ty Cobb is my first choice. I think he is not only the 'greatest player in the history of the Ameri- can league but the greatest of all time. His achievements have been 50 notable that I doubt if the game ever produces his equal, certainly not his superior. Cobb didn't have a weakness as a player. “Babe Ruth is my second choice. He isn't far behind Cobb. I am sure there are some people who will con- sider him even greater. Ruth is more colorful and the greatest draw- ing card in the history of the game. He does some things better ‘than Cobb, others not so good. “Eddie Collins is choice number three with Larry Lajoie in the num- ber four berth. two greatest second basemen I have ever seen in action, with little to choose between them. Collins had more speed. “Tris Speaker fis Walter Johnson number six and George Sisler number seven. Speaker I rate the best outfielder I have ever seen; there never was a man who could cover more terri- tory. Johnson is my idea of what a great pitcher should be. Chasc alone compa with Sisler in the are of first baseing. It is unfortu- nate that eye trouble beset Sisler at the very height of his carcer. “There you have my idea of the ‘Big Seven' of the American league; yours is perhaps just as good.” am inclined to think few disagree with Connie. the American | number five, Leo Diegel Accepts Position in Mexico New York, | 11 (A—Leo Die- *l, professional the Country club. White Plain: for the past three vcars, will repre- sent the New Agua Caliente club near Tijuana, Mexico, next season. In addition to a reported salary of $15,000 a year, DicgeMs contract, signed yesterday, gives him all the golf shop. The | announcing the Bolivian refusal said | that country ,|and declined intervention Here we have the | {BOLIVIA REJECTS OFFER OF GONDRA MEDIATION Permanent Arbitration Committee Sct Up by Accord Refused by South American Country. Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 11 (#) —Bolivia has rejected an offer of mediation made by the permanent arbitration committee sct up by the | Gondra accord, which provides for | a permanent commission of inquiry | to avoid and prevent armed conflict between American nations. | Fortuna Vega, president of the commission, which meeting here, in had hoth refused to name delegates to the commission by the| commission. Paraguay announced that Eusebio Ayala, who headed its commission to {the conference at Buenos Aires | which failed to settle the boundary | dispute with Bolivia, and Manuel | Monte De Oca, Argentine statesman, would represent her on the commis- | sion. i Dr. Vega cxpressed optimism however, that the dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia would be set- tled peaceably, This opinion was shared by Juan Pedro Paz-Soldan, Peruvian member of the commission. Bolivia's reply to the commission was not made public but Dr. Vega | announced that he would lay it be- fore that hody for discussion. He said it was likely that the commis- sfon would reply to the Bolivian re- | fusal. Billiard Tournament Entering Final Week'! Going into the last week of play) ith six contests still on the sched- ule,” the three cushion billiard tour- nament at Rogers finds Tony in the | lead with a halt dozen wins and no losses, Milton is second with three| wins and two defeats. ‘Wallace stands third with the count in his favor 5 to 3 while Kasprow and Mack are tied with four wins and three losses. The last two have yet to meet each other and a great bat- tle is expected. Tony also leads for points with Kasprow, Wallace and Milton running him closely. Wallace defeated Mack 25 to 13 last night and then took on Wallace to nose him out 25 to 21. Milton beat Peter- son 25 to 21 SR ey ARE THERE ANY MORE? The physical education course at Texas A. & M. College, under the direction of W. L. Penbe-thy, has 972 freshmen taking part in one or more of the mine sports offered in the course. WATERBURY TEAM HERE, THURSDAY alficbons Brass City Hockey Combination {0 Battle New Britain One of the leading contenders for |the roller hockey championship last season and a strong bidder for hono gain this year. will be seen in action in this city next Thursday night when the Waterbury Sham- |rocks invade the city to clash with {the New Britain quintet at the Stan- ey Arena on Church street. The Shamrocks as the Brass City outfit is termed, will present a fast and speedy lineup against the local shooters in their first appearance here this year. Davies will play first rush while Xddie McAloon, junior, son of the veteran of roller polo, will make his initial appear- ance as a professional in his home city. “Red” Donnelly will be at cen- ter with Hebert at halfback. Bill Blount, rated as the best goal tender in the circnit and mainstay of the New DBritain club last season, will appear in goal. This combination has all the ear- marks of being onc of the fastest combinations tn the league. The (team has started off with a whirl- wind rush and New Britain will have a touch time in turning it back in the game, After developing an offense that was altogether satisfactory last Sun- day against New Bedford, the local auintet is working out in practice daily on a defense. Weak as the combination was in its first few starts, it is expected that the crew !will show a surprising difference in its play Thursday night. Manager McDonough has recelved no definite word as yet concerning | “Kid” Willlams. The star rusher, it is hoped, will he with the team for {the first time Thursday night and 'his presence in the lineup should give the local team the necessary punch to win. Meriden Wins Game Standings w. New Bedford .. Meriden ! waterbury | Bridgeport .. Fall River .. New Britain Games Toniaht Bridgeport at Fall River. Meriden got back into its winning | stride last night on its home floor S s .000 to 6. Jimmy Purcell continued his great work in the cage piling up a (Continued on Following Page) WHEN THE MORNI THROUGH concessions in the | Agua Caliente course, which will not be ready for play until next summer, is the center of a large resoft to be | built near the Mexican racing center. - Memberg of Blues Will ‘| Hold Banquet Saturday | Members of the New Britain Blues | football team which captured the city semi-pro championship for the 1,»-« four years, will gather once | more for their final battle Saturday | night at § o'clock at the Blue Room Cafeteria. With the excellent team | work displaved during the year, the team members will tackls “Old Man Turkey” in an annual banquet. Man- ager Billy May has arranged to have the Tusedo entertainérs furnish mu- | sic and fongs. All players who have played with the Blues are invited and urged to attend. DI'SCLOSES A KICK FROM A CUSTOMER THAT GOOPS HAVE NOT ARRIVED , ORPERED TWO WEEKS AGO —AND You SEARCH FRANTICALLY THE FILE FOR THE ORIGINAL ORDER Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling NG MAIL and defeated the Fall River team 10 | -~ AND Tue Boss APPENDS HIS STERMN- ABOLUT THIS" = AND THEN You DISCoveER THAT THE ORDER WAS FILLED AND SHIPPED NEXT DAY AF TER RECEIPT, PUTTING T UP Corbin Screw and Stanley Second Encounter. JOHNAY CLINGH 10 BOX_ FRIDAY Local -Amatgur Fighter to Ap- * pear in Feature Bout Johnny Clinch who sported the title of “Ace of New Britain ama- teur fighters,” will return to the warg in the main bout of the ama- teur card to be presented at the Stanley Arena Friday night. Johnny hasn't appearcd recently in bouts about the state but he has been at work continually at “Kid" Kaplan's training camp in Meriden and is in perfect shape. At first efforts were made to match Clinch with Ray Dolan of Waterbury but the Brass City battler is unavailable. Clinch has been matched instead with Frank Nicholas of Hartford. Nicholas last Friday night handed Jimmy Moe, colored New Haven battler, a classical lacing over the three round route. He and Clinch will scale at 147 pounds, the welter- weight poundage, in !hflr bout Fri- day night. Another feature on the card will be Dominick I#iskki of this city |against Jimmy Smith of Northamp- |ton. Friskki last week handed Ernie Palmer of Waterbury a terrific lac- ing in the feature bout of the card. He displayed a kayo wallop but due to over cautiousness, he failed to| put the Brass City boy away. 8mith |is considered to be considerably better than Palmer and he shoull provide Friskkl with his most se- vere test. An All-New Britain team of box- ers has entered for the tourney here ¥riday. Besides Clinch and Friskki, nine other boys have submitted ap- plications for places on the card. Tommy Angelo and Jack Oakes, glant negro, have entered. Charley Rivers and Joec Ryan, pocket edi- tion of the former well-known box- er, are seeking matches while Benes nett Flood and Joe Silverman are |counted among those to appear. {Jack Walsh who proved to be the outstanding feature of last week's card against Jerry Monahan of Hol- yoke, will make his second showing here. Mike Sinko fills out the team. Hartford, New Haven and ®other cities and towns about the state will be represented by teams and the card is expected to be fully as |thrilling as the one furnished last | week. {High Score Is Played erally understood that professional | golfers are pretty good but things |begin to look different when they require as many as 52 strokes to ne- gotiate a course only 443 feet long. That was the high score in the Metropolitan Professional Golfers® | association indoor tournament yes- |terday. With a field as good as many an outdoor event can offer, Phil | Turnesa, Elmsford pro. and Jim Dante _of Braidburn tied for first place, Each had a score of 75 for 36 holes over the minlature course. Turnesa won the 3G-hole playoft with a 76 against 79 for Dante. - AND WHAT MANA PERHA On Indoor Golf Course | New York, Dec. 11 (®—It is gen- | Works Basketball Quintets to Battle For First Place In Standing—New Britain Machine and Stanley Rule to Open Program—Rus- sell & Erwin and Corbin Clblnet Lock to Clash In . Men's Industrial League w. P.C. Corbin Screw. . Stanley Works. Stanley Rule Fafnirs Corbin Cabinet. Russwin IN. B. Machine. . P. & F. Corbin Landers a... Several changes In the standing of the men's Industrial basketball league will probably be made after the three-game program tonight at the Stanley Arena. Probably' th most important change will involve the Corbin Screw and Stanley Works teams who are to battle for first lace. The Screw Shop team, champlon of last year's league, has won three games in three starts and is tled with the Stanley Works, one of its most dangerous rivals last year. In fact, both teams met under similar circumstances last season and the Stanley Works gave the Screw Shop its first defeat of the season. This will be the final contest on the program. The first game of the night brings together the New Brit- ain Machine and Stanley Rule rep- resentaives. Both are fast outfits and have strengthened lineups since |last year. Stanley Rule is in a tie for third place with Fafnirs and Corbin Cabinet and if it wins it will be sure of a second place tie with the loser of the Stanley Works-Cor- bin Screw game. If it loses it will be tied for fourth place with seve eral other teams. A similar condition exists Ip the ilpcond game of the night which will be a battle between Russell & Er- ‘“m and Corbin Cabinet Lock team. Either team that wins will be tied for second place with the loser of the Stanley Works-Corbin ‘Screw game. ‘The lineups in the Stanley Rule. New Britain Machine game will be as follows: Stanley Rule, Kley, cen- ter; Gill and Morey, forward: Saunders and Corazzo, guards; New Brltain Machine, Eric Anderson, center; Richtmyer and Arent, for- Augustino and 8wanson, 3 3 2 3 1 1 [J guards. Russell & Erwin will send the same lineup into the game, as fol- lows: Morelli, center; Garbonic and Link, forwards; Nyborg and Saxe, guards. Its opponent, Corbin Cabinet, will be represented by the following: Klopp, center; Walther and Stohl, forwards; Yankaskas and Larson, guards. Both regular teams are ready for |the all-important first place battle, Corbin Screw will use Saunders at center; Yakubowicz and Luke for- wards, and Arbour and Darrow, guards. The twin-team play will be used by the Stanley Works, but it is expected that the strongest team {will start. Captain “Rus” Haigia will be center; Swanson and Emory will be the forwards; and Reckert |and Carlson. guards. Alden Hewett will be center on the other team, Mgrline and Joe Charlow will be forwards, and Flis is to be the {guard. It is not known definitely whether or not “Two Poing” Abram- {owicz will be able to play. He fell |oft the grandstand at the Hartford- New Britain high school game and suffered a severe arm injury. For |a time it was thoughs that the mem. |ber was fractured. |READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS By BRIGGS CoLD TERROR CLUTCHES You, AS TRAFFIC GER, FOR FEAR THAT | PS SOMETHING HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED STRICTLY To Tue RAILROAD COMPANY ,on-n-H- Boy! At v ‘A GRR.-R.RARD AND GLOR-R-R-RIOUS FEELIN'?