New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1928, Page 17

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928 IHONEST AMATEURS |FETERAX cLFees o ARE VERY SCARCE| _ PLAY IN TORNAMENT for Semior Professional Asso- Governing Bodies Are Too Nar- Among the early favorites are ciation Event Being Made row Minded OWOr RUES | wco vork ;e 15 imveterase! Ao, (1 ooty foverites are at Flatbush Club. |of the professional golf ranks are|High, Twink. Kougish Eyes and BY BILLY EVANS | planning to have their fling at tour- | Chestnut Oak. What constitutes an amateur in |N2Ment play. Plans for a senlor pro-| pyyry planks will be sent out in | fesslonal association, with the quatl-| oy CHTTE U DS TR BAL {fications for membership based ON | .o are announced the future books length of service, are being mudrv‘wm be opened under the play o h pay system. S CAMIIENS DLANK CHICAGD SEXTET a 19-day meeting here with the Derby on May 18. The commission is practically certain to give its ap- proval. With -50,000 again added to the entrance and starting fees, the win- ner's purse is certain to go above $60,000. The race, as usual, will be run over a niile and & quarter. | course. WITH THE BOWLERS Speaking of Sports STANLEY RULE MEN'S LEAGUE KElee Drills Strom 7— 3 Benedict C. Maler Brooks Hickey Myers 77— 242 100— 321 101— 285 80— 244 17— 355 The proposed amateur ice hockey league being formed in this city has ' gotten off to an auspicious -tarfl.‘ Four bona-fide entries have been re- ceived from a quartet of teams. Be-| g sides these, a large number of indi-| jacobson vidual players have been inquiring | Draper Morrison as to the prospects of the league. | JOrHeer | Moffitt The teams already entered arc| the Shuttle Meadow Rink club, the| Switt & Upsog Lumber Co. the Whippets and a team recruited from 'Arch street entered by John Gibson. 572—1719 95— 96— 76— 102— 81— 90— 307 240 216 sports, §°V4 Of late, this question has been re- it 1‘ ceiving much serious consideration, 540—166¢ | a8 the result of Bill Tilden being i barred from the tennis elite becauss 1| e wrote for pay something about a Siegler . 312 tennis tournament in which he par- « o« s | ticipated. s : 23| Tilden took issue with the tennis — ——_|hody over the decision reached as 563—1643 | to his status as an amateur. He was 86— 244 | SUspended and will not be reinstat- 107— 250 | ©d until he shows what the tennis 288 | I elub. | According to McCarthy's plan. jonly those who have served as pro- |fessionals for 20 years will be {eligible, A regular tournament pro- | {gram for the veterans is included in | (the plan. For the present it is ex- | pected that the organization will be | a metropolitan affair but later it will' 0. Maier Peretta . Individuals who send in their names will be divided into two groups of players and two or mors | teams will be formed according to | Burkhardt the numbers received. Persons Ritchie wishing to get on teams in the mak- | ing can mail their names and appli- cations to this office or they can telephone them to H. Van Oppen at| 845. | The board of park commissioners will be approached at a speci®l’ meeting to be held Thursday night by those interested in the league and if the commissioners will allow the league to play either at Willow Brook park or North End park. a meeting of the managers will he| called for next week. Those interested in the formation | of the league are hoping that some generous-hearted sportsman will donate a trophy for the encourage- | ment of the league. | We got in on a ruther heated ar-| gument yesterday as to which| branch of athletics calls for the| greatest endurance. Art Pilz, well | known former all-around athlete | and now superintendent of the Mer- 1den Boys' club, states that the six- day bicycle riders must have the| most endurance, Others say that a fighter must have the most endnr- | ance while still others favor other! <ports, | John L. Sultivan, well known vio- | Iinist, law student, orchestra lead- er and candy salesman, makes a positive statement that marathen dancers and violinists run a close| race. He is undecided whether the dancers need more stamina than the musicians who play for them. This is an Intercsting svhject and we are planning on getting the| opinions of several well-known | sportsmen with regard to it. | | The sport world starts again to- | morrow night when the New Bed-| ford roller hockey club comes here | to play New Britain. The Industrial | league basketball teams will swing| into action Friday night. The New | Britain basketball team will meet the All-Collegiate team Saturday | night while New Britain will play| roller hockey again Sunday a(!(‘r-i Thorstenson Knowles Cohen Rode 103— 9— 167 5521555 Sp Shaves Leupold 3 Partyka Valentine Rund Tummy Dummy 1 209 569—1606 290 253 31 Thompson sSanford Art_Johnson A1 Johnson . Argoey Parker Thorpe Lawless. Sulick Odman Campbell 556 5311741 Tool Cabinetw Bruno G & MeRBriarty Murphy Hinehliffe Heury Vileox 101— Parker Thorpe Lawless lick . Odman Campbell 293 103— 559—108 Burkhardt Cohen Ritchie Rode Thorstenson Krnowles 86— 261 5 Spoke Partyka 1 Leupoid Rund Jaco! Dummy 307 315 101— 258 517—1501 19— 343 15— 321 104— 300 101— 258 109 313 MeBriarty Murphy. Hinchliffe Henry Wilcox ssociation pirit. | Recentiy In discussing the teur situation with a famous °h, he remarked: he honest-sure-enough amateur in sport is a rare species, that i tast dying out. Really, if one hewed trictly to the line, it would be pos- sible to make a case against 75 per cent of the amateurs and ‘prove | them professionals. | “Athletes, according to amateur rules, are prevented from using their ability in their chosen sport to | make money. In other words, they | cannot capitalize on thelr athletic ability unless they want to join the pro class, Yet, by subterfuge these same athletes in many ways receive handsome compensation for doing little or nothing at some other job as a_coverup for their sport work. “The trouble with the governing Lodies of most amateur sports is the | fact they are too narrow minded. The rules and standards they are so severe that a majority of the amateurs seek to beat them through various forms of deception. In other words, the rules make cheaters out of athletes who are able to capitalize | more on their ablility in sports than in any other line.” The comment of the famous foot- ball coach interested me because Guring the past summer 1 have run mto any number of conditions which bear out the thoughts ex- | pressed above. From major league scouts T get the information | throughout the country there arc many star college players perform- ing on the diamond under assumed names. Many of these players repre- sent the leading colleges of our country, both east and west. A good many of the players are poor boys | Who, because of their baseball abil- | ity. are able to make good money | during the summer to aid them to | vay their college expenses. T think ‘it is a serious mistake to considers a penitent ama- grid baseball | | set | | Westchester-Baltimore be extended. McCarthy said that about 100 pros would be eligible under the 20 year rule, among them Marty Mc- Loughlin of Plainfleld, N. J.,, Jack Mackie of Inwood, Alex Boyd of Fox Hills. Mackie has been 'a professional for 30 years. ENTHUSIASM EYOKED BY | University Rowing Circles Pleased at | Choice for Yale Freshman t Crew Mentor, ‘npboln(m(‘nl of Fred Spuhn as Yale freshman coach of rowing was dis- cussed with enthusiasm in university rowing circles today. Spuhn, who |gives up a head coaching berth at the University of Pennsylvania to hecome yearling mentor at Yale, was 'termed by Head Coach Ed Leader {“one of the best—it not the best— carsmen Washington ever had.” Spuhn, like Leader, Sam Shaw ‘and Don Grant of the Yale rowing !staff, was a member of the Univer- |sity of Washington crew. | ceeds George W. (Mike) Murphy, a | former Washington man, who leaves in February to become head coach Smith of | and Tom! APPOINTMENT OF SPUHN, New Haven, Dec. 19 (UP)—The He suc- | Fast Skating Montreal Stars Hold Hawks Helpless Chicago, Dec. 19 (P—TLed by the speedy Howard Morenz.the Montreal Canadiens whitewashed the Chicago | Black Hawks 5 to 0 last night before |a crowd of 5,000, Outskated and outchecked the Hawks were unable to cope with the fast skating Canadiens. Morenz was everywhere on the ice, scoring two |goals, assisting in another and ! checking many of the Hawk's drives before they got past the blue line. The Canadiens counted once in the first period, twice in the second and twice in the third. Morenz scor- ed both of the third period goals !from the blue line and passed to |Gagne in the sccond period, who counted the third goal. Two rookies, Howard March and Vic Ripley. led the Hawk's attack but their speedy skating was not cnough to offset the flashy work of the entire Canadien’s forward line. The ifncup: Chicago {Gardiner .. . | goal | Hoftinger Canadiens Hainsworth g : Burke right defense | Wentworth S i left defense McKinnon ... Mantha Morenz | of crew at the University of Wiscon- | | sin, KENTUCKY DERBY 10 BE that ! STAGED IN MAY IN 1029, Date for Turf Classic Must Be Ap- | proved By State Racing ’ Commission. ! Louisville, Ky. Dec. 19 (UP)— | 52y a college player cannot play ball i rhe Kentucky Derby will be run on during the summer for pay, provid- May 18 in 1929, pending the ap- | ed the club he is connected With 18 | proval of the Kentucky state racing no part of organized prorcnslunal120,,.,‘,xg,ion_ % ¥ i | Gottselig . Joliat left win Chicago spares:—March, Coture, Ripley, Arbour, Loughlin, Taylor. Canadiens’ spares:—Carson, Gon- {dreault, Ledue, Lepine, Larochelle, Patterson, Officials:—Redden and O'Hara, Summary:—TFirst period goals— Canadiel Patterson, 8:30. No pen- alties. 8econd period—Canadiens, Ladue, 13:05; Canadiens, Gagne, from Patterson 3 Penalties, Nar- bour, Patterson, Third period— Canadiens, Morenz from Patterson |15:45, Morenz 1:10. Penalties— For health and happiness, —for sheer delight on Christmas day and a thou- sand days to come—choose a new Buick with Master- piece Bodies by Fisher. 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Heard, Boston architect, who has been denied passports for a Euro- pean trip by the state department because he could not produce proof | of his birth and hence of citizenship, | although he served through the World War as a licutenant in the American army, will petition the next legislature “to have Massachu- setts accept him as one of its recog- nized citizens.” Heard thinks he has the right to become a citizen but lacks proof necessary to show that he was born Lere or anywhere although he had always supposed he was born in Bos- ton in ¥887. He was reared by Mr. and Mrs. Horace P. Heard of Weston and until he was in his teens he had thought himeelf their son. Heard, the Herald says, was after- ward told he was Ralph Costello, an fllegitimate child and is now wonder- ing it he may have been the son of & waitress born out of wedlock. His case attracted considerable in- terest when it became known that the state department had denied him passports although all his life-he had believed he was a natural born citi- zen. TILDEN IS SILENT ON DOINGS AT CONFERENCE Former Tennis Champion Refuses to | Discuss What Went on in Executive Session. New York, Dec. 19 (UP)—Willlam T. Tilden, former national tennis champion who is under suspension from amateur competition, had noth- ing to say today about a conference yesterday with officials of the United Etates Lawn Tennis Association. Tilden's application for reinstate- ment was referred to the amateur rules committee by the exccutive committee at the annual meeting here Dec. 8 and the committee is ex- peeted to make its report at 'flon(fln“ ¥eb, 8, the day before the nnnual‘ meeting of the USS. L. T. A. Tilden planned to leave tonight for Philadelphia to spend the Christmas | holidays. He has been touring the | country in a road show, “Dracula.” | HARD T0 BEAT Tootball teams at Southern Cali- ! fornia during the four years Howard | Jones has coached there have won | 36 games, lost five and tied two. Two teams of Stanford, Notre Dame | and Washington State only have beaten Jones' teams. THIS 1 Three football stars of the past «cagon. have been named Rhodes scholarship winners for this year. They are Al Cornsweet of Brown, ¥Fred Hoyde of Minnesota and Rob- art Hickman of Tllinois. 11 | | D Grose Zerlot Dummy 104— 284 91— 294 89— 254 11— 301 7— 284 107— 334 Jacobson Stotts raper Morrison Burdick Moffitt 669 533 599—1751 Electric Drills 9 8 |strom ...l 84— 251 108— 285 79— 250 106— 281 98— 299 74—1645 Benedict C. Maier Brooks Hickey Myers Thompson 102— 269 Al Johnson Sanford Art Johnson Ritter Argosy 94— 306 90— 265 100— 292 560—1658 90 530 JACK DELANEY 13 UNDER SUSPENSION Claims Illness Prevents His Mecting With Slattery New York, Dec. 19 (#—The New York State Athletic commission yes- terday suspended Jack Delaney, for- mer light heavywelght champion, for 60 days for reporting that illness would prevent him from going through with an engagement against Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo. The commission today entered into a working agreément with the On- tario athletic commission to take ef- fect immediately. The Ontario com- mission, represented by Thomas A. Murphy, withdrew from the National Boxing Association, following the convention of the N. B. A. at Toron- to when Murphy was not permitted to become a candidate for president. The N. B. A. took the position that although the Canadian federa- tion was affiliated with it, it was an American organization and under the by-laws a Canadian could not be cligible for the presidency. Paul Prehn, Chicago, was elected presi- dent. The agreement between New York and Ontario bodies provides for mutual recognition of contracts filed with the respective commissions and a 30 day written notice of intent to withdraw from the agreement. Each commission wjll conduct its own af- fairs and reserve the right of review but contracts, fines and suspensions will be recognized 568 COCHRAN 1S LEADING New York, Dec. 19 (UP)—Welker Cochran held a lead of 1.200 to 969 over Jake Schaefer when play was. resumed in their 4,800-point 18.2 balkline billiard match today. Schaefer won the third block yes- terday, 784 to 400. NICE JOB FOR DIEGEL Leo Diegel has been signed as professional for the new golf course at Agua Callente, Calif. He is to get $15,000 a year on his new job, it is reported, and will have all the concessions of the golf shop. | times that amount of money simply 8. because they are good ball players. | 533—1070 | A number of colleges permit gum- | raer baseball but they are greatly in | the minority. Thewe colleges are to be commended for their broad mind- edness, Just to show what unpleasant situations can develop from ama- teur deception T am going to clte | the case of a college player | recently reinstated | Braces of organiz:d baseball. | " This player, a member of one of | Coast colleges, | the leading Pacific | started on a tour of the east in |a dilapidated “flivver.” {the middle west, about to his destination, the “flivver” showed signs of needing repairs and the bank account was low. The coast star decided to etaoi The coast star decided he would |use his baseball ability to earn isome money. 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