New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 17

Spenk‘i-ng of Sports A rumor to the effect that Bou- | cher, last year's star with the New | Britain holler hockey club, would join the team again this year, has been denied by Manager Frank M- | Donofigh. | | In talking about the matter, Man- | ager McDonough stated that he| would have had Boucher as a mem- | ber of the local team had the star' not broken a bone in his ankle just before the season opened. The man- ager stated that many thought he was talking hot air when he came home from a trip and reported the | accident. | However, although it was an- nounced that Boucher was a mem« ber of the Fall River club, he has| not yet appeared in the lineup. Doc- tors attending him stated that ft| WITH THE BOWLERS ROGERS ALLEYS STANLEY WORKS Pritchards Skar ... [ Wendroski Cabay Senk Wilcox McConn Politis Cur Fazzina Molyneux Merline Staubly Rozansky Forstand ter Rowlings Miller Heinzman would be five or six weeks before he A would be able to pia The transfer of the Meriden club to Albany should help out in New | Britain to some extent, especially | when the Albany team comes here | to play. The Meriden players are a popular lot in the Silver City and on their appearances here, there should | be plenty of Meriden fans attend the | games. Jack Curry, genial manager of the | Meriden Endee basketball team, is chairman of a committee which is arranging to present the annual | minstrel show for the Christmas | fund of the Meriden Elks. ! i Toretsky and Perlstein, owners of the Stanley Hotel and the Stanley | Arena, are going heavily into the | sports promotion game. They are al- ready the head officials of the Stan- ley Arena A. C. fight organization and now they have become part| owners of the New Britain roller hockey club. 4‘ ‘There will be no Industrial league | basketball games at the Stanley | Arena tonight and for the rest of | December, for that matter. The reg- | ularly scheduled ganfes ,will be played as usual at the Tabs' hall on Friday night. | The next amateur boxing tourna- ment to be conducted here will take place after New Year's. The card is being arranged at the present time. The Boys' club basketball teams | are peculiar in one respect. They scem to do hetter on the road than at home. The Meriden Trade school | and Middletown “Y" scored victories over the club here, but in each case the New Britain team won the game played on its rivals floor. The local Reserves did the same stunt with the Meriden Community Juniors. In fact, in four starts, the club teams have won all their road games. | LEWIS WALKS 0UT OF RING IN FIRST ROUND Eighteen Years of Fistic Activity Have Failed to Cure Him of Temperament. Toronto, Ont., Dec. 18 (A—Eigh- teen years of fistic activity apparent- ly have not sufficed to cure Ted (Kid) Lewis, former welterweight champlon, of ‘temperament.” The veteran English boxer walked out of the ring in the first round of a 10 round bout with Charley Be- langer, Canadian light heavyweight champlon, here last night when he became *peeved” at Referee Lou Marsh. ‘The men had hardly squared off when Marsh ordered Lewis to re- move a rubber mouthplece. After some dispute the Briton obeyed. Then Marsh was forced to warn Lewis for holding. The veteran of 250 or more ring encounters paid little or no attention and when Marsh broke up several clinches by main strength, Tewis held up his hands, hopped through the ropes and stalked away to his dressing room. Belanger was awarded the decision and the boxing commission announced Lewis' end of the purse would be turned over to charity. | So unexpected was Lewis’ action | that the fans failed to recover from the shock in time to give vent to their protests whila the Briton still was within hearing range. RENEWS HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH LOREN MURCHISON Paavo Nurmi Arrives in This Comn- try For Anothet Sensational Campaign New York, Dec. 18 ()—A strange friendship between two athletes who | do nct even know one another's la.iguage and who have little more in common than exceptional running ability has been renewed with the arrival of Paavo Nurmi in this country. One of the first to ferret out the | secretive Finn and probably the only | American to bring anything like a | smile of pleasure to Paavo's flat and stoical features was Loren Murchi- son, the Tllinois A. C. sprinter, who was stricken with cerebral spinal meningitis a year ago and recovered after being unconse’ *'s for 21 days. | Murchison and Nurmi first met on | the field of friendly contest at Paris in 1924. Their fricndship was re- newed when Nurmi made his famous tour of American tracks in 192 often running on the same bill with Murchison. remember over in 1925, said Hugo Quist, Finnish- American fricnd of both, “when some girl wanted to have her picture | taken with Paavo and he would not permit it until Loren got into the picture too.” Murchison, who is 30, about Nur- mi's age, says he hopes to stage a k in Kaminsky H. Bertini W. Johnsun Scoville Patterson H. Johnson Gangloft Moonan Swanson Lynch Walters Grail Adams Storrs Salak Quenk FAFNIR_ ME) Inspection Lindgren . Griswold Pepin Frick Low Man Da Gata Kaweckl Belanger Swanson Carlson Elton Callahan | Peletier Fucy Schenk Jerry Naples XKopok Delamarre Zucchi | Warner Larson Ely Cooper Knowles Berg, Burr Beloln Bernier Keehner Rosenwelg Leonard Culley Whippets A. Molchan M. Merlint C. Galati Dummy A. Btingle J. Janick A. zyn H. Murzyn A. McAloon Hudsons A. Homkohl . I Bancroft M. Domahue . G. Wood Dummy K. Whalen P. Hyland L. Liegey D. Gunterman F. Messinger M. Ludort Foldan . McNamara . Humason M. Leupold Rowe | A Welcn G. Kiein F. Darrow Crann Nelson . Beloin L. Jones Dummy . 8. Madone L. Madone A. Jurgen . Fisher . From Kozlowski . Symolon Odenwaldt 8 Martin F. & F. CORBI halmers Howarth hnings Goglin comeback, and if Nurmi stays until spring these two again may be scen | on the me track, the Finnish | Damon providin. the distance run- ning fireworks and the American Pythias the sprinting sparks. I MEN'S LEAGUE 6 1 97— 31 LEAGUE 79 116 129 129 81 STANLEY WORKS GIRLS' 394 Chandlers FRATERNITY ALLEYR LEAGUE Machine Room A FAMILY AFFAIR Seven brothers of the Kruse fam- ‘ix) in Tol:do, Ohio, have organized j their own basketball team this year. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, INJURIES HAY O G00D FOR TEAMS Loss of a Player Is Sometimes Blessing in Disguise BY BILLY EVANS | ! Three big bugaboos always on the | %% trail of a college foottmll coach are 504—1501 | injury, illness and ineligibility—the | |three I's, as ‘it were. They are very apt to pop up when | 201 least expected, raising particular 10iZ 3l |havoe with a mentor's well-laid 1 |Plans, and turning what started out — 154 as a successful season into a most dismal one. However, there are times when | the unexpected loss of a player| proves a sort of blessing in disguise to the coach and team, too, for that matter. For it has on various oc- casions been the means of uncover- ing a star of the first degree, Take the case of Stanley Hozer, | Michigan fullback. Hozer during | his high school days at Muskegon ' was a topnotch player. to Michigan but fog some reason or other couldn't seem to get going. Came the Thursday hefore the game with Navy. line plunger and the fellow whose placekick beat Illinois the week pre- | 11— 335 89— 294 200 | 99— 310 | 305 | 458—1506 | 310 vious, was taken to the hospital for |three former Pexto and Kacey play- | PICMm an appendicitis operation. Michigan, ' ers in the line-up, Southington had | apparently had lost its best bet. | The fllness of Gembis, however, | gave Hozer his chance. And it was ' due to Stanley's great work in the third and fourth quarters that the | Maize and Blue was able to eke out a 6 to 6 tie with the Midshipmen. Hozer's cfforts gained him regular job on the team. More than that, he hecame -me of the most dependable boys on the squad—a hard line bucker, fast |afoot and a clever chap on defense. | Hozer, by the way, comes from |the same school that turned out | Bennie Oosterbaan, Flop Flora and | i lother gridiron greats during more § tecent seasons. | S| Michigan, incidentally, has been quite fortunate in unecarthing star| replacements following the loss, of certaln regulars. For instance, [there was Irwin U quarter- back during the 1921-23 period. Uteritz got his chance when Banks was Injured in the Michigan Aggle ‘Tz_m?romost early in the campaign. Uter- |itz not only made good but develop ed into one of the greatest quarter- backs in Michigan's history. three scasons he starred on Wolver- |ine elevens that lost only one game. that being to Ohio State in 1921, Uteritz’ first as a regular. | Uteritz was one of the best safety | [faen of his period. He was.a sur and hard tackler and certain catch- | er of punts. An injury gave him a | chance to prove his worth. — —| 0daly enough, a broken ankle put 549—1611 |an end to Uteritz’ career and en-! 206 |abled Tod Rock to break in 205 |regularly. *“Utz” suffered his injury in the game with the Marines late in the 1922 campaign. Rockwell was shoved into the breach. The following weck he crashed into the spotlight by virtue of his famous |75-yard gallop in the final minutes | against Wisconsin to give the Maize | {and Blue a hard-carned 6 to 3 vie- | S| tory. From then on Rockwell, vir-| tually an unknown, was the out- | standing ball carrier on the Michi- gan team. Then there was the case of Jack Blott, Michigan's great center of a | few years ago. Blott, in fact fell | the week after Uteritz went out. A | broken ankle also put Blott on the bench. 493—1593 202 | 106— 212 97— 109— 104— 104— For | 100— 83— 84— 85— 3 96— 308 443—1372 109— 218 — 90 103— 305 95— 53— Blott's replacement was Bob | | Brown. Brown made good, playing | |the next two seasons and mmain-{ ing Michigan's sensational 1925 team | chich had but three points scored | |against it. He was close to an All- | | America selection, | Those instances are just a few ! I recall wherein Michigan has un-| covered future greats to take ftho!| place of regulars lost to the team | | for various reasons. The old bugaboos sometimes work out quite advantageously, it seems. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT | By the Associated Press. . | Chicago Tommy Toughran, | Philadelphia, outpointed ‘Big Boy” % | Peterson, New Orleans (10). Arman- do Santiago, Cuba, knocked out Joey | Sangor, Milwaukee (2). Ted Ross, | Chicago, stopped Shuffle Callahan, | Chicago. (7). Walter Madey, Chi- | cago, knocked out Joe Green, Phila- o4 delphia (2). Hershie Wilson, Dan- it {ville, TIL, and Danny Delmont, Chi- To— 136 | cago, drew (5). 94— 174 | 431— 835 | 55— 165 | 162 164 89— 164 400— 806 | New York — Kid Chocolate, Cuba, stopped Emil Paluso, Salt Lake City (8). Jose Gonzales, Cuba, and Nock Carlino, Albany, N. Y., drew (6). George Daggett, New York, out- ~ 1io| pointde Relampago Saguero, Cuba ——1(6). Jack Dessimos, Canada, out-| 406— 890 pointed Charley Nepner, Bridgefleld, | N. J. (4). Jack Smith, New York, 83— 19 154 | outpointed Jerry Pavelic, smh-k 158 " HIGH PRESSURE 335 266 282 205 11— 316 —1434 ampton, (4). Joe Glick, New York, outpointed t’eley Mack, Jersey City Chile, stopped Mickey Blair, Cam- den, N. J., (8). Lake City, stopped Frankie Lafaye, | Albany, N. Y., (9). ser, Terre Haute, outpointed Young {o'clock the YoO'RE A HIT, PeTE- EUERY KID IN HEAE WTH THER PREND & SEE > (10). Philadelphia — Stanislaus Loyaza, Holyoke, Mass. — Les Paluso, Salt | | Terre Haute, Ind. — Johnny Nas- | Dencio, Chicago, (10). | Wichita, Kas. — Red Fitzsimmons | s Angeles, knocked out Sully/ | Montgomery, Fort Worth, Tex. (8). ie\'cry time for the pitcher hardly will SOUTH CHURCH TO PLAY SOUTHINGTON QUINTET Locals Invade Home of Leadcrs of Hartford County ¥ Basket- ball League. The South Church basketball team | will invade the territory of the' TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1928, RODKIES SHOULD | BE GIVEN CHANCE Rules Are Al Right as They, Stand, According to Opinions | BY HENRY L. FARRELL NEA Service Sports Writer The suggestion ¢f John A. Heyd- ler that a pinch hitter be sent up Le written into an amendment to the rules soon. The National league ac- cepted it politely as a suggestion coming from its dignified and ret spected president but the American league laughed it right out of the | meeting. Baschall men, taking a lesson from the meanderings of the football rule makers think the game is pretty £00d as it stands and if the sport needs improvement it could be best improved by improving the breed of the player and not writing down the rules to fit inferior mechanics. County “Y" league leaders tomorrow right, when it will meet the South- | He went ington Y. M. C. A. quintet at the |talking about the Southington town hall. The local | five has broken even in its two starts | Was introduced and in the Heydler to date., while Southington has won | Joe Gembis, big ' Loth of the games played so far and | t0 satisfy a demand for hitting that of the strongest the league. With is considered ona aggregations in visions of an easy sweep of the league, but influenza has shattered its ranks in the past week and it is reported that two of its stars, Cush- ing and Connors, will he unable to play tomorrow night. The local team 13 expected to be at full strength nd plans to give the lcaders a bat- tle. The game is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock. The Pexto Office club is aving a special night, and efforts I be made to get the game going on time in order that there may be as long a period for dancinglas Is possible The South church team o'clock. Plainville, the other undefeated team in the league, will be here to- night to meet the climbing Kensing- | ton Bo; school. On club at the Senior High Thursday afternoon at 5 South Church Junio will hicet the Cardinals at the Boys' club. BE GOOD THIS TIME “Yam" Yaryan, catcher with the | Birmingham, Ala., club was operat- | ed on for appendicitis recently, the second time he has had this done in the past year. IT MUST BE NICE Dwight Blackwood, who played several years ago with the Cleveland Arkansas now. / PLAY Bl The old-timers never will stop terrific blunder hat was pulled when the rabbit ball suggestion they see another attémpt the players can't meet without more | tinkering with the rules or the im- ents in use. very man in baseball and every | customer who takes the trouble to "think about it knows what is the I matter with bascball—if there really |is anything wrong,” Jack McAllister, former manager of the Cleveland In- | ! dians and a smart baseball man, said | { recently. 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