New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1928, Page 15

of Sports - New Britain basketball fans are|Facy .. in for a treat here Saturday night when the Washington Palace Five of Washington, D. C., one of the leading quintets in the American basketball league, makes its Initial appearance against New Britain, The visiting quintet is a combina- tion of classical basketball talent that is expected to hand New Brit- .ain its first defeat of the year. The players on the squad are all experi- enced men who have been leaders in the game for several seasons. B B Among the visiting delegation will | be Kennedy who appeared here twice, once with the Brooklyn Visi- tations and another time with an- other New York team. He drew down plenty of razzing from the fans because of his method of play. However, he is classed as one of the hest players in the country. le I~ The owners of the All-New Brit- | aln football team will appear before the New Britain park board tonight with a request for the use of Memorial Ficld in Willow Brook park for football next season. The owners, if their request is granted. plan to enter a newly formed Conneeticut - Massachusetts footbail league. This movement-appears to be the most ble one attempted in many seasons, that is, the formation of the league. This wil' give the fans of all the cities entered plenty of Interesting games and rivalry is Lound to develop. | ¢ se = Tt is almost certain that the Own-lf‘ ers of the Nutmeg eleven and New Britain Blues will also be rep- resented at the meeting tonight. M One of the best foul shooters in iy the Industrial basketball league is |y “Hammy” Darrow who has not|H missed a shot in the three games ' the Corbin Screw team has played | this scason, In the opening game | of the scason ‘W Brit- ain Machine te fouls in six chances. ny in the Stanley Rule game be- K cause he was not allowed a foul| shot. Tn the P. & F. Corbin game| he made two out of two. ¢ b} Officials of the league were well |5t m he to: H. | Flood Low De WITH THE BOWLERS ROGERS ALLEYS FAFNIR MEN'S LEAGUE Toal ‘allahan Schenk Da Gata Montana Kawecki Swanson Carlson cloin Bernier Leonard Kechner ully urr Alex, | Red urlick aples ucchi Warner Mason Hedenherg Robertson 2on ouper rbin the | Ia; olyneux ertini iller wlings cinzman rist a in six | A He did not get | ¢y, nrane aminsky il udnick orrs pleased with the cooperation given qu by the P. & F. Corbin and North &i Judd girls last Triday when they appeared on the floor several min- |y utes before game time and the con- | w Bertin C. Carison Peletier t test started promptly at 7:30 o’clock. | Patterson An effort will be made to have the | first men's game started on time to- | night. | Skar Before this season Howard Belser, | wendrowski Ca captain and coach of the Fafnir! team, was banished only once from | a basketball game because of four [V personal fouls. This year his team | played three games and he was forced to leave the first two. He committed three fouls in the halt of the third game but managed |G fo stay in for the remainder of the |1 contest. 8t COURT GANE 1S PREMIER SPORT |H W Wheat and Cotton Belt where the corn beit mects the wheat ! belt and where wheat ficlds adioin cotton ficlds, turns to hasKetball for its premier winter sport. Vagaries of the weather, peculiar educational conditions and adapt- | of the sport to buildings | vailable for indoor play combine to | make basketball the suprcme winter | game of this section, particularly in |J. Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. | Basketball was invented by a Kan- san, Dr. James T. Na'smith, who still is a member of the University of Kansus faculty, and the game has a firmes grip on the sunflower state, perhaps, than on any other. Practice begins in the midst of the football season and the final! turnaments are never completed be- fore early April. Kansas and Missouri two score small colleges and uni- versities, and Oklahoma nearly many. Al *have teams and riv is intense Small enrollment is not a handi- cap, as in football, baseball and other xports that require many men bac by b g ’ re ¥8 enough play squad: of cight, including three J Women, too, have teams at many colleges, while high schools find so much enthusiasm among girls that they arrange special tourna ts for them. i he game is economically possibie because equipment is not costly, few expensive trips are taken and the admission price is low, since games are played almost nightly. ixpensive gymnasiums are not necessary, although desired at the larger colleges and universities. | Pasketball is played in town halls, | on dance floors, in opera houses and | M auditoriums and in “cracker box” |2 gyms. Every town, no matter how small. has from one to a dozen teams. A high school squad is always the pride of the village, and in the larger town, there may be an independent team or two of old high school or s, while college towns literally swarm with teams. Sunday schools, too, have basketball leagues. A ban on football in Kansas City scveral years ago, because of an un- veually large number of gridiron casualties, brought the cage game to the fore here. High schools took up basketball as an outlet for emo- tions engendered by student loyalty. Many of the stars at the univer- sities of Kansas and Missouri we trained on high school teams Kansas City or its suburbs. each have Iry | D. 1= Christopher Columbus the equivalent of $320 for discover- ' fng America. | ov L Johm ileox ars aubley i ‘alters Man La Flamme Lamarre Bennetts 110 104 an Wiburs L1088 Johnson Kings STANLEY WORKS GIRLS' Baskethall Main Attraction in . Packards SEes iy i Syinolan Odenwaldt Lundin Martin Humason * Diennis Merline er Hornkohl L Meminger Gunterman Hyland Leupold . Rowe Welch Kiein Low Bcore Darrow I. North . Gorman Temple 10 Whippets 110— 335 115— 309 36— 280 96— 282 17— 302 524—1505 (M. 96— S1— 264 259 259 133— 373 132— 85— “8— 251 109— 323 % | National NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1928, FRATERNITY ALLEYS SPECIAL NATCH Wallace Barmes Girls, Diristel Bosst .. L1883 si— 35— 256 109— 284 107— 279 92— 287 4911356 Girls. 269 Engles . Sencrac . Osgood . Weeks 4 429 New Britaln Machine Co. L. Perschy ...... 88 . Droucher Sauia . Farmer . Linn V. Persine 212 256 4 465—132¢ Walluce Barnes Norton 11 Lynch Busso Hynds Lovejoy Joerras 333 354 357 329 18— 118 576—1729 Mea 100— 95— 99— 14— 342 125— 316 567 New Britain Machine Co, Cusack 115105 Piotroski 116 Haines 136 Fuoote 18 Anderson .9 320 300 580 517 B36—1633 . NATIONAL LEAGUE MOGULS T0 MEET Begin Serious and Oficial Busi- ness of Session Today New York, Dec. 11 B — With a five-hour talk-fest under their belts, league magnates were | primed for the serious and official | Lusiness of the annual winter meet- ing today. ‘Their dinformal discussion of yes- terday lasted well into the evening, but the chances are that today's s sions will be short and snappy. They'll have to be if the club own- ers and officials want to get to Chi- cago in comfort and in time for the Joint meeting with the American lcague on Thursday. Aside from the re-clection of John Heydler as pres- ident, a report on finances, and offi- | cial announcement that the St. Louis Cardinals won the 1928 pennant, there appearcd to be nothing for the magnates to do. Out of the welter of conversation at their initial session, the club own- | ers' most important pronouncement concerned the draft, a vexatious iquestion to some buseball officials. |"me National league had been in- {1ormed by J. H. Farrell, secretary of | the National Association of Profes- {sional Baseball leagues, that major 5 | Icague representatives would be wel- CHARTER OAK ALLEYS 1. Newfleld Lewisky SPECIAL MATCH of 104— 299 — 234 o West Baden next month. | come at the minor league conference |on the draft at West Baden, Ind., | Jan. 10, but the National league de- cided that it would not care to be represented. “We do not feel that we should £0 to any conference,” said Mr. |Heydler. “We will be glad to re- ceive any communication from the | conference when some proposition | can be submitted to us.” | “There were indications at Chicago 31 that the American league, which be- gins its annual sessions there toduy would adopt a similar attitude, The majors fecl that the mext move in the draft fight must come from the minors. At the recent National As- soclation convention in Toronto, the major-minor submitted many pro- _posed amendments to the major- | ninor agrecment but the whole mat- ter was tabled for consideration at Aside from this matter, the Na- {the joint meeting at Chicago that the majors continue their support of the boys' baseball tournament spon- sored with success last summer by the Americanization committee of the American Legion; discussed pro and con the possible effect on base- Fall attendance of radio broadeasting of games; talked over the rules; an- nounced the league schedule meeting would be held at New York Feb. 5, a week earlier than last year; and received a report from the Profes- |sional Baseball Players' association which aids destitute players. Only one trade was announced, of Will just about muke his ball club !tional league decided to suggest to, SHARKEY IN COMEBACK HANDS DEKUH LACING Boston Loudspeaker Falls to Im- press in Scoring Victory Over Big Italian. Boston, Dec. 11 P —Jack Sharky, | Boston heavyweight, was away to & comeback campaign today by virtue of an unimpressive decision victory here last night over Arthur Dekuh, a third rate New York heavy. Bharkey gave DeKuh a terrific beating in thenr 10 round encoun- ter at the Arena, but the erstwhile champlonship contender lacked punch and finesse. He was heavy and slow, and his timing was woe- fully off with the result that he seemed unable to land his hooks cleanly. . Although DeKuh appeared par- alyzed with fright when the bout started and contented himself throughout with merely staying the limit, he took all Sharkey had and never seemed in danger except in the sixth when Sharkey had him down for the count of nine. But it took seven left hooks to the jaw and a hard right uppercut to turn the trick and send the towering Italian to the canvas. | 1t was ‘s first fight since | his meeting in New York last April with Jack Delancy. He weighed 194 pounds while DeKuh carried 204. GEORGE HOFFMAN MEETS SCHOONER Former Olympic Champio Fights in Hartford Thursday MAGNATES FACE HARD SITUATIONS Trying to Do Something About It During Winter BY HENRY L. FARRELL Between now and the time when i something more important comes |along some words may have to be wasted and the baseball situation, when the Yanks aren’t rampagi iand Sam Breadon, isn't firing pen- inant winning managers, is & good | jeubject for idle chatter. The owers and managers of the major league clubs, have taken stock since October or earlier, know that something should be done about their situation and, according to the word passed on to their customers, they are trying to do something about it. | The weeks between the final game of the world series and the annual 'winter meetings in December offer valuable hours for working up and | completing trades, but up to the time of this writing there have been only a few of the many expected deals announced. Cubs Didu’t Waste Time The alert Chicago Cubs were right cut in front with the deal that Lrought Rogers Hornshy from Bos- | ton at the expense of many collec- | tions from the chewing gum ma- chineg and some rookies and near rookies. The Giants relieved the Phillies of Fred Leach and separated them- selves from Lefty O'Doul and some cash. They also gave the orphan, Ray Schalk, a new home, The Tigers assumed a new man- ager in Bucky Harris and a $70,- 000 Coast League outfielder, Roy Johnson. The Cleveland Indians unloaded (about $90,000 for Dick Porter, an outfielder from Baltimore and Farl|may of Ne York, former Olympic Averill, an outfielder from 8an|champion boxer and the past six Francisco. months in the professional end of Giants and Indians Improve |the sport, his bouts including the John McGraw thinks that Leach (gemi-final to the Tunney-Heency |battle, will make his first profes- fonal appearance in Connecticut Thursday night at Foot Guard hall. | He will he a regular workman, at {least, and the Giant boss will not be ;forced to use a different combina- | His opponent will be Al Schooner tion. every day in the week. {of Boston and formerly of veland's greatest weakness haw | Hampton, a 195 pounder who is one heen corrected if the two young out- | of Jack Sharkey’s sparring partners. ticlders deliver and the club may| Hoffman fought twice as an ama- get some field help for George |teur in Hartford, beating Joe Wood Uhle. | decisively on both occasions and put- The situation on the other clubs | e to be: . Louis Browns—A nice left-over team from last scason and a prom- iving new catcher in Ferrell. | Chicago White Sox—Only need a | !sccond baseman, an outficlder and a | catcher and won’t trade Hunnefield, | ! Lyons or Thomas. | | Philadelphia Athletics—A heart' | can't be bought. They also| need an outfielder since Cobb. | _Speaker and French have departed. Swell pitchers when the Yanks aren't batting them. Detroit Tigers—Not so bad. Prom- ising with a new manager, Need a | ,first baseman even if Master Harris says Hellmann could fleld as well as Gehrig. New York Yankees—Huggins never satisfied. Wouldn't scorn a third baseman, shortstop. anf four sensational pitchers, Roston Red Sox—Getting the pick of the eastern college boys and can spend some money for higher- priced players when they get a couple of Bunday gates. Two elegant pitchers and a willingness to trade for the proper break. Washington Senators—A spot for Sir Walter. Cincinnati Reds—Haven't said a word. Pittsburgh Pirates—Glenn Wright for what have you. Wouldn't laugh off a pitcher, a catchar and a first baseman. i | St. Louis Cardinals—Bill South-| {worth in the middle. Hafey and! | Douthit hanging by a string. And a | tough | GEORGE HOFFMAN Hartford, Dec. 11.—Georgie Hoft- | Tris Speaker, new manager of the Newark club of the Internatfonal| league, announcing the Phillles—A young Can't Philadelphia purchase | hall club that may be better. 3 ifrom the New York Gilants, of \'ic‘,h‘, worse. Giant money to buy some | Aldridge, right hunded pitcher, and | material if thé butcher and grocer lot of faith in two rookies inflelders. | ting on display before the Hartford fans the best left hand any amateur ever unleashed here. Schooner, too, is a former ama- ’I(uu\‘ll Wrightstone, the well-known Jack ®of all trades. The club owners. will wind up {heir sessions today and leave to- morrow for Chicago. MIDDLETOWN TEAM DOWNS BOYS' GLUB (Continued from Preceding Page) 3 liries—Andrews 2, Zembrowski 4, Ra- metta 2, Normant, Karosis, Wilk nik 2—9. Schmar: Rakutis 2, Bancovich 2, Paluch 3—16; Wojack, 2, Sartinsky 3, Olew- Referee, Gill; timer, scorer, Paluch. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS | didn't get it. | Brooklyn Robins—All shot. Ele- | kant pitchers but five first bascmen |trying to play other places. Vance or Petty may go for dough. | Chicago Cubs—With Hornsby — | GREAT. | Boston Braves—Have mercy | us! teur. He has been fighting profes- sionally more than a year and has a number of kayoes to his credit. It he beats Hoffman, he will be O'Kelly or Jim Maloney. " lin which two keen Hartford rivals, Brownie Tucker and Joey Flynn will clash. sensation. Five four rounders, with SOUNDS LIKE A RECORD North Dakota and Tennessec made what may be a season’s rec- lord by running back two kickoffs for touchdowns. North Dakota, oached by Jack West, won its | first championship in the North | Central Conference. —_— { POPULAR BOYS AT FLORIDA { Dale Vansickle, Florida's great lend, was voted the handsomest {man on the squad; Rainey Caw- {thon, the most popular, and Mike | Houser, the pepplest. ticipants, make up the card. 1Chet Thomas of Boston, another of harkey’'s entourage. !lap of Westerly takes on Jim Me- Carthy of New Have! o Hartford battles Vic Carlson of Teryville, Gunner Gordon of East Hartford meets Hy Diamond of Hartford and John..: Walker of Boston tangles with Eddie Llic of Springfield. 'HIGH PRESSURE PETE matched at Boston with either Con | There will be a six round special | Ray Sanborn | TRADES EXPECTED AS SOLONS NEET Peace and Harmony Prevail at American League Session Chicago, Dec. 11 UP—The old {strategy of the would-be David | Harums, to get a bushel for a peck, was present again today as Ameri- |can league magnates and officials as- {sembled for their annual business |conference. In contrast to the situation when 'and the usual trading bee in the [lobbies was expected to provide th only news. Business procedure called for of: |ficlally naming the New York Yan- Ikees as champions for 1928 and {questions of policy on which a de Inite agrecment is understood to b {held. There were rumors that the !draft question and the move of the iminors to force the major league | clubs to sell their “farms™ may com |up, but President E. 8, Buarnard dic not think they would. | More than a hundred American league players were on the trading block and plenty of action was ex pected in the player mart. |" New York, Washington and Bos- ton are involved in a rumored {trade, which, if completed, woull |mecan a decided shakeup in thes |three clubs. Ossic Bluege, Washing- {ton third bascman, was slated to Ban Johnson presided, nothing but /| {peace and harmony was anticipated | WATERBURY TEAM HERE THURSDAY (Continued from Preceding Page) | total of 72 stops during the game. The Pierce brothers, as usual, did the bulk of Meriden's scoring. The | summary: | Meriden | E. Plerce S. Pierce Lunderville Morrison Barnikow . ; | First Period Goal Won by Scored by Meriden Lunderville I River arkins Fall River Harkins Meriden §. Picrce Meriden Lunderville Meriden Accidental Meriden S. Pierce Fall River Harkins Meriden S. Pierce Second Period Fall River Harkins Meriden Pierce Meriden 2. Pierce Meriden K. Pierce Fall River Harkins Third Period Meriden % Pierce 2:72 Meriden 8. Pierce §:08 Stops: Purcell Darnikow 46; shes: E. Pierce 14, B. Peregrin 5. foul: Lunderville; referee, McDonald Fall River B. Perrigrin . Harkins 3rown | . Cusick Purcell Slraey Time 1:45 02 DARTHOUTH SWIH $TAR REPORTS FOR PRACTICE !move from the Senators to the Yan- | i {ton would go back to the Senators and five unnamed players from New | |York and Washington would be ship- |ped to Boston. The Yankees also {were in the market for big E |ris, the Boston pitcher who won 19 land lost 15 games for the cellar | champions last season. The White Sox also were ready 1o barter for added strength—if it can be done without releasing Pitcher | Thomas and Lyons and one or two {other mainstays. At Toronto last week Cleveland indicated it would ade Pitcher Uhle and Catcher Au- for Bib Falk and Bill Hunne. ficld, but Manager “Lena” Black- burne put his foot down on the re- lease of these two. | Cleveland has fortified itself with several outstanding purchases from the minors since the close of the scason but Manager Billy Evans was ready to go still deeper into the | pockets of the owners if he could 'get players he wanted. The junior circuit goes meeting with every club having signed its manager. Russell “Lena” Blackburne completed the 1929 man- ager roster yeste when into its age the White S | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED AD! FOR BEST RESULTS kees. Infielder Buddy Myer of Bos- | Mor- | he signed a one-year contract to man- | Carl Michael Decides to Enter Al Home Meets But Refuses to Go on Trips. | Hanover, N. H., Dec Carl Michael, Dartmouth imming star and former intercol- |legiate diving champion who sur- prised his swimming mates here this vear by announcing that he had de- clded to forego water sports in or- der to devote more time to his glee club activities, has compromised with his desires. Michacl yesterday ch Sid Haz ent some the spring reported to iton at the pool and time at practice from board. He said that he would participate in the water con- tests held at home and possibly in the intercollegiate meet. | Michael, who had been counted upon as onc of the strongest mem- bers of the Dartmouth swimming iteam this year had previously an- nounced that, as leader of the col- lege glee club, his time greatly occupied with singing to de- vote himself to water sports, | Pennsylvania, {ball champions ! play Indiana, gan and Notre eastern basket- last season, will Ohio State, Michl- Dame on a holiday {trip through the middlewest, ' OUR BOARDING w\oU WILL HAVE «~ OH, USE o SOME s HA-. HA- ~n Tucker is the local colored heavy- | weights and middleweights as par- i Jack Kelly of Waterbury will fight | Big Boy Bur- | HOUSE HELLO! <« OH VES, MRS. DAUIS, waee \Es,~] HEARD -THE LADIES’ CHURCH GUILD WAS GOING T GIWE A BAZAAR~ wan WHY VES, TLL DONATE SOMETHING [ CHARGE oF -THE WHHE ELEPHANT BooTH 2 v Nou, WHAT I8 -THE WORLD IS -THAT 2 e ue ARTICLES “HAT WE HAVE AROUND -THE House -THAT ARE USELESS ,ws BUT MIGHT BE &F BODY ELSE, wann wr oH YES,~ I SEE, ~~r WELL, TLL PONATE THE MATOR /- OH SAY, MRs. | with th would be | GRAT OCONNELL 1 ALL-TIHE END Herb Treat Names Him Best Ever at Boston College (Special to the Herald) Bristol, Dec. 11 — Grattan 0'Con- nell, recognized as the best football ¢nd ever developed in this city, has been picked by Herb Treat, all- American tackle at Princeton and football expert of the Boston Amer- icany the right end of the all time Boston College team with Murphy of eleven as wing mate, even during his high Lool days exihibited marked talent in the gridiron sport. He entered oston coliege in 1422 and was made & regnlar in his first year. During the four years that he spent with Boston, h rted every one of the 5 encounters on his team's scheduls and on only two occasions called for time out on account of injuries. At the completion of his last year, he tured in Ripley's “Believe It t" cartoons and in papers ut the country was pro- claimed the “Iron Man" of football. During his student days with B. C. he played the major part of ev contest, scoring touchdowns against Holy Cross, Georgetown, Haskell In- Fordham and other strong elevens. Major Frank Cav- , now head coach at Ford- s coach for the four years Grat” served at end and Joe McKenney, who this year earned the title of “Miracle Man” as coach of ton College team ack during thr graduating la ing the Hub university, ed with the old Hart- National league, ry game of the team'’s and playing the whole time in cvery contest but two. From Hartford he went to Providence where he played two games, one Lpainst t New York Giants, who failed to make a yvard around his end. He then returned to Hartford. playing with the Hartford Giants, who hiroke even in a two game series All New Britain eleven. r “Grat” was signed ax h of the New Britain After playing one game. er, he joined the reportorial staff of the Hartford Courant and s obliged to sever his connections vith the Nutmegs. During the sea- con just ended, however, he served as « football official in this and other ies in the state. “Grat,” when questioned about his football career, is inclined to be altogether 100 modest and non-com- mitta nd our interview with him was rather unproductive, possibly due to his having adopted the news- paperman’s attitude of asking ques- tions rather than answering them. IFacts are stubborn things, however, schedul, = z—>22 g [ s 1 @ TURKEY TREE S GUESS voW ANy