New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 25

Speaking of Sports Last night among the circle which includes the died-in-the-wool roller hockey fans, the talk was all about the possible transfer of the New Bedford club to Meriden to take the place of the team which after to- night departs for Albany, its new home town. The players on the New Bedford quintet natarally are vitally inter- ested in the rumor. Following the prolonged strike in the mills in the town made famous by old time whalers, money has been very scarce and as a consejuence the attendance at the hockey games therc has suf- fered considerably. Whether Wwill be transferred to Meriden or not is & question that will be decided in the very near future. When decided to quit the town that has given him unexcelled support for two seasons and imade the Empire State, a group of business men in the Silver City who were interested in securing the franchise for the teain from Owner Tves, becanie interested in securing another team. Meriden, after having a quintet that has for two successive ycars captured the championship of the American Roller Hockey leagus. must needs have a winning team if the interest of the fans is to be sus- tained. New blood and new faces should bring the fans into the arena in numbers fully as large as they fo:. merly were ceming in. “Kid” Dug- gan, Archie Muirhead, Bill Jette and the other members of the teamn would fit in just about right in tho Silver City. Keloe, who played second rush on the New Bedford team last night !s A well known football efficial. Tw vears ago, he oefficiated at the Tartford-New Britain championship game in Hartford. He also referecd here in this city at the time the Yollow Jackets from Frankford. Pa.. nlayed here last season. Many of the fans in attendance at the game last night recognized him. dic Rarnikow has hecome the or player of the entire league, Admiration fon “Rarncy” as a foot- ball player has made him & papular fizure with the heckey plavers throughout the elrenit. His wm'*( in tha cage for Meriden has certainlv been of the very hest sinee the sea- son started. In New. Bedford the it hefore last, he had $2 stops in the second period alone. Al hy Dimself, he savad Meriden from the worst licking that team ever re- celved. According to reliable information, Herman Schmarr who is plaving center for the Boys' club basketball team, is considering leaving the club for a try at a place on the New Brit- ain high school quintet. In our opinlon, Schmarr can gain more by playving with the school five, He is & good proapect for three let- ters. He is a good baseball player, 2 pitcher and a first baseman and is already being groomed for a place on the nine. He would make a good end in football because of his height | and the team will be in need of an end for mext year. ‘Then again he would be the only Righ echool regular left after the mid-year graduation. He would un- doubtedly make & center position and when the others leave the school at graduation, he would most prob- | ably be acting leave him the chosen captain year. captain. This would opportunity to be There are great doings daily on the Indoor golf course set up by Chet Irwin in the Y. M. C. A. builld- ing. Chet, known as one of the most likeable and efficient teachers of the anclent Scotch game, is conducting & winter golf school there and he has @t present, almost & hundred pupils. Fordham handed Yale a classical trouncing in basketball last night in the game played in New York. Zaleski and Politis got into the game. Monjue scored one basket and “Toots” went scoreless. the New Bedford club | Tves | for the following | HEYDLER STILL IN | FAVOROF CHGE Thinks Idea of Batter in Place: of Pitcher a Good One | New York, Dec. 21.—{—John A. Heydler, president of the Nation- |al league, believes in the old saying, | “1f at first you don't succeed, try, ‘try. again.” He has not abandoned | his idea of having a batsman for the ! pitcher and thinks that eventually | his proposal may find a place in the | ' gume of baseball. | | T still think it's a good idea.” said President Heydler. “And I'm not alone in this position, either. I have had a basket full of letters endors. ing the suggestion, “We may not be ready fer it now. | but T have thought that we may yet get aronnd to it. | “Innovations are slow to catch on. | |1 remember there was a tremendous uproar when an order went out that the pitcher must keep his foot on the rubber. The pitchers had been start- ing their deliveries away round to {one side of the pitching rubber, giv- |Ing a cross-fire effect to every pitch. vitchers said they could not pitch it they had to stand on the rubber |and one would have thought the game would be just about ruined. The late Harry Pulliam, president of the National league at the time, said the order would stand and if ex- | perience in the spring exhibition games showed that it would not | work, it would be rescinded. When the plan was tried it was found simple and no effort has been made 'since to have the pitcher hop all around the infield. “As & time-saver alone, the plan of having the pitcher relieved of batting responsibilitics would e worth while in my opinion. Now a pinch hitter is sent in for the pitcher, and may be, if he is a left-handed ! batsman, the opposing manager will decide to counter with a left-handed pitcher. This takes both the pitchers out of the game. If the relicf pitchers are warming up in a corner of the outficld, as they do in some parks. the new man has to be sum- moned, sometimes with a wild wav. ing of arms and shouting. The piteher is finally brought in and the | game resumed. And then when thic side is retired the whole thing is to be done all over again, “igures showing how pinch hitters are used in a svason for pitchers are amazing. “I am not discouraged at the | failure of the rather revolutionary plan of having a batsman for thc, [pitcher 1o be enthusiastically em- {braced by both the major leagu:s lat its first proposal. Baschall will (g0 on, and if there is a place for |the scheme it will finally be adopt- |ed.” President Heydler thinks one of |the greatest developments of b [ball is in the umpiring. There is| |no comparison between the umpir- ing of today and yesterday, he said. n the old days,” commented the niscent mood, “only a big man had | a chance to hecome a successful umpire, that ia, a man big in stature. “He had to look down over the| catcher to see the ball and decid:| whether it went over the plate not, The idea of following a curve was not known then, He fol- he does make a good nmpire. lowa the ball and if it curves seex {t, “There are great and little, but size ciding factor.” umpires, Is not the hig Umpiring baseball games is dif- ficult and sometimes hazardous but [ The number of first elass nmpires s not enough to supply the majnr leagues, and scouts for the National and Amarican leaguen are busy dur- ling the season watching the um- Ipiray in the minors. The umpirinz lend of haschall is not the least de- |xirable opening in the profession. | The umpires do mot get as much [money as the star players. but they last Tonger. and as Tim Hurst sald: “You can’t beat the hours.” WIN IN MIDDLETOWN New Britain Celties Swamp Sacred | Natlonal league executive in a remi- | or | K de- | {there i plenty of room at the top.| - Heart Team By the Score or‘_ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WITH THE BOWLERS S ALLEY Ki Kelpins tiion jon . e Colvin ayes V. Negrini Kroll ... iKenure Joln Liss | Cardinals SOUTH CHURCH JUNIORS- SMEARED BY CARDINALS and Kominos Star slow Game—Wheeler Does | Domkowskl in g 1 Well for Losers. The South Church Juniors fell back into their slump last evening and took a severe 32-17 beating from the Caidinals in a rather slow game played at the Boys' club. The passed and dribbled by the church defense and set up a guarding wall of their own that the |losers found hard to penetrate. The church Juniors were too slow and hesitant about their passing and lost many an opportunity through | wasted seconds. | During the first part of the game Joseph kept the church in the run- ning, but at the quarter the score g Was 8-4, Cardinals. The second pe- riod was exceptionally rapid, only three points being made to make the total 10-5. The Cardinals ran ” |their tally to 22 in the third period Buckholtz Mazzali Riesner Gaffuey o ' Timer: many | 455 Capitol Montotani Tie: b tella Tnsephin Cliase Mo AR Cmloff 15— 11— 1 10 4 Co. o1 0 528 Parker Buckley LS9 Audres Tralart “Nowadays a little fellow can and|s: IMPROVED New Yor 1 ar Al assman, New York university foot- aptain, was reported as “fur ther improved™” at the French hos pital today. He was iniu N. Y. U.-Carnegie Tech Pittsburgh, ~ November brought here last Irid NIEHOFE TO RELP McGRAW Bert Niehoff, who gained great as manager of the Atlanta will be an assistant to John McGraw next summnrer, SKATES SHARPENED AS THEY SHOULD BE © Josaph. rf and then final held off a rally in the stanza. Domkowski featured for the losers, with Kominos scor- | ing three sensational baskets in the late moments. ¥For the losers, Joseph and Wheeler did some nice shooting. with Hattings and Walrath playing a good floor game. The summary: Cardinals Fid. FL Tt Zujko. rf n Domkowski, 1f 5 0 Musso, I, 1f . e [ ‘apodice, ¢ Kobela, rg. e Tochnert g, rg Kominos, Ig ) 10 6 2 o 15 South Church Juniors 4. 1, 3 5 TH -0 f Havlic T sooa 1 3 Dy And Merza Walrath, TH, 0 0 0 0 0 L/ 3 17 tsonal foulst Joscph, Hattings Ander Capodice, shela 2 Tilea kA Hat- Kobel: fou P Reeano s r on 2 h 0. Iree Havliek wski 3 Joseph 2. Wiheeler, Dol Kominos—17 Hattings nical Kolla = Terwiltiger Neat Seorer Wi churet Iome stoand secon | the Bays' elnb in return ams will elush fivst zames, The t A eteloek it duled Tt ims an o vreh fo play he in FISHTS LAST NIGHT Al Llo. TLowell Vinee Dindee, Roston — \fa Autnainted Balti- nare. (10 i Yorl reinnati — Tabe Herman won ovey lie Andorso Wyo. foul. (3). Billy Sullivan Cineinnati, enfpointed Sailoy 13 (6) Macon. Ga Macon, knockod ont Castana, Fla. MeKeosport, P, ornia Joo Gary, Tnd.. outpointed Dom- inick Profio, Pittshurgh, (10). hop 1 onisville Youne Stiibtine Non Panciio 1mp () FISURE ON le Actions speak louder than words. hour’s spin in any of our guaranteed cars will convince you and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928. WOGOLS DISELSS " FIGHT SITUATION Rickard Wants Elimination Fought Among Hoavies New York, Dec, 21 (UP)—Some-. thing's got to be done about the heavyweights to get them elimin- |ated and Tex Rickard gathered four wise and wary men around & lunch. teon table today for that very pur- | pose. It was the first meeting of -mem- bers of the Tunny-Muldoon trophy committee members and Tex Rick- |ard asked them to make a rule forc- |ing all the contenders to enter an | climination tournament and fight it out for the vacated heavyweight title, Besides Rickard, the committes is composed of John McEtee Bowman, | hotel owner; Judge Jeremiah T. Ma- | honey; Bernard Gimbel, merchant | millionaire and close friend of Gene { Tunney; and Herbert Bayard Bwope, | editor of the New York Werld. | When a fellow like Jim Maloney |is back knocking at the door of the I heavyweight elimination tournament, the situation could hardly be what | one would describe deal. Ma- | loney, knocked out by Jack Sharkey, George Godfrey and Tom Heeney Iess than two years ago, fights Con ! O'Kelly, Irish importation, in & 10- | round bout at Madison Square Gar- den tonight. And if he wins who can deny him a place in the tour- nament? Sharkey knocked out' Maloney n five rounds in his climb to a match with Dempsey and everyone wrote Maloney out of the heavyweight pic- ture. The Boston fat hoy went from to worse and was flattened in one round by Godfrey and Heeney. These who saw Maloney eome out of his corner like a scared rabbit Heenew can never picture among the contenders. almost there on the strength of a victory over Johnuy Riske in Roston recently and a knoekout over Andy Mitchell, Jack KKearns heavyweight hope. | Maloney is an § to § favorite. but | many shrewd boxing men who have vatehed O'Kelly closely in the oniy | two bouts he's had in this country welieve the latter has what it takes 1o et Maloney out of the way. lickard, explaining the present dilfleultics among the heavyweigl said, “they all want to fight Risko and then meet Dempsey.” i Evervene figures Risko, who mads so much trouble last winter, s (hrough as a dangerous fighter and it looks like everyone is almost Yet he's or old Tom Heeney thinls <'s entitled 1o a mateh with Denn v for the heavyweight champion <hip. Charlie Harvey, Heeney's mi lager, hias been worrying Ricgard for ays about the match, but Tex won't cven talk to him. Johnny Buckley, zor, was due to listen to Riel arkey to fight Young Stribling at tiami Resch, Fla., Fehruary o7 or 28, but there was some donbt hether he would sign. There feema T Sherkey erond about fightir 1 in Florifa Sharkey's man town teduy 10 some suspicion among the ling. a sowtherner PROVIDENCE BEATS BOSTON Providencs, R. 1., Dee. 21.—(UP) | ~The Providence Reds squeezed out asing W e A half the wife that we can’t s a Tigers to 1 victory over the Boston in a Canadian-American Hockey league game here last night, when Arthur Chapiman, Providence center, scored a goal which broke a third-period dead- lock. It was Boston's first defeat on the road this season. WINS ON FOUL Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 21 (®—Babe Herman, lightweight, New York. | profession: was awardad the decision over Ed- die Anderson, Cody. Wyo.. in thw third round of a 10-round match here last night. on a foul. Ander- son's purse was withheld. Knocked down in the seconi round, Herman took a coun! of eight protesting the blow as (uw. TO PLAY IN TOURNEYS New York, Dee. 21 (UP)—Bobby Cruickshank, Progress Golf club today was on his way to the Pacific coast to play in the annual winter golf teurnaments there. He plans to return te New | York in February and ssil for Eng- land February 33 te play in the British open championship. ) STARS ON MAT Leo Draveling, Bruce Hulbert and Al Steinke, members of Michigan’ tootball team this fall, are candi- dates for the Ann Arbor wrestin team now. “AMERRY” CHRISTMAS To“ALL RG.SullivanInc. 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His play s considered responsible for the good showing of the line in all of the games, his sophomore mates be- ing aided by his good performance.” “According to Major Frank Cavanaugh, Beloin is the greatest lineman whom he has ever coached. The compliment takes on propor- tions in view of the fact that Cavanaugh has handled a great number of good forwards while coach at Holy Cross, Dartmeuth and Boston College.” IRISH VS, IRISH dimmy Maloney of Boston and Con O’Kelly of New York to Meet To- might at Garden. New York, Dec. 21 (P—With the assurance that the Irish can't lose, Jimmy Maloney and Con O'Kelly meet in a 10 round bout at Madison 8quare Garden tonight. Maloney has ged a sensational comeback in recent weeks, outpoint- ing Johnny Risko and stopping An- dy Mitchell in his last two starts. He probably will be & 7 to 5 favorite at ring time, for O'Kelly doer not figure to have enough experience to cope with the Boston fighter. O'Kelly, who came to this coultry recently from Ireland, has made two starts here, defeating Al Friedman and Jack Gagnen on points. Tuffy Griffiths. . 8oux City, Ta. slugger, who was knocked out in two rounds by James J. Braddock in his tern debut, will seck to redeem himaclf in the ten round semi-final at the expense of Charley Relanger, Canadian light heavyweight. | Ruth, ! tion WIZ of the National Broadeast- | Britain Celtics basketball team last | night swamped the Sacred Heart | quintet of Middletown in Middie: | |town by a score of 20 to 5. The passwork of the winners complete- ly baffled the losers. The low score of the Asylum City [team was the r sult of close guard- ling by the Celties. A coincidence of [the game was the fact *hat the Sa- [cred Hearts gnade the first and last | | baskets of the game, both being long | |shots. Beylock and Zaleski starred for the winners with Benjamin scin- [tillating in the back court. Tuvillo and Morello starred for Middletown. 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