New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 13

Speaking of Sports It ever a.team gained the honors for being a good finisher, it is the New Britain roller hockey quintet following its games Thursday and last pight. In both instances, al- most ‘the same picture was present- ed.” The opposing club was leading by several goals but the local crew came through to tie the count, throw the game into qvertime and then win out, ‘Thursday night's contest in this city was a thriller but the game in Fall River last night was an exact duplication. Williams and Thomp- son did the damage last night and they performed the same act Thurs- day in this city. Meriden swamped New Bedford 9 to 3 in Meriden iast night. This was Meridne's final home game the team now goes to Albany, Y., where it will open play next Tuesday night. v ‘The system of selling scason tick- ets for the Industrial League bas- ketball game; has proved to be such a success in this city that it may be adopted by the National Y. M. C. A. for its Industrial League | throughout the country. The tdea was_introduced in this ity by Bryce Long. Y. M. C. A. industrial secretary and an official of the local industrial league. The ticket provides basketball enter- tainment for the entire schedule at one dollar. Figuring this out, cach ‘game costs oply a few cents. By adopting this plan, the finan- clal security of the league was as- sured before the first game was played. Besides this, the worry of other years were eliminated. Pre- viously, the industrial secretary has heen forced to struggle along through the season untila fortunate hreak in the last few games, pulled the league out of the hole. Tast weason, except for the gener- osity of the owners of the Stanley | Arena, the league would have wound up with a deficit. Resides all of this, the season ticket has made hundreds of addi- tional basketball fans. This is a known fact because of the attend- ance at the games. Records are being continually broken and the games being played weekly are meeting with unprecedented suc- cess, 8o successful has the plan been found to be that the Inter-Church Basketball League has voted to adopt it and the Boys' club is sell. ing tickets to iis members for its Monday night gam ‘We have h=>rd mar~ athletes ex- Main their philosophy, if so it may he called, but to our minds, Mec- Iilwain, flashy forward on the New Britain basketball team expressed some of the best dope we have heard in some time, In discussing his point scoring, he tossed off the fact that he wasn't standing high as regards the mak- ing of points. He sald that his idea «f any sport in which he participat- cd was that the team should win. *“To me,” he sald, “it isn't so much who gets the baskets but how many points the teamn scores. Any man Wwho can play basketball, can make u drive for high scores and probably zet there if he wants to play an in- Gividual game, I belleve, and I make it my business to play the xame that way, that the man wHo sets loose 18 the man who should 1op for the hoop. A clear shot is always much Retter than one that is hurried and a basket in & pinch goes A great way towards winning a ball same.” 4 “I know that most fans look to the fellow who gets the baskets but I have been in this game too long to care much about the plaudits of the crowds. One night you are a hero and the next night you are just the opposite. Almost in every game, one man on the team has a big night. The common sense thing to do en these occasions, is to play that man for all he is worth. That's the way to win basketball games and after all that's what we fellows are on the team for.” It every player on the local team has the same idea in his mind, the success of the New Britain team thus far this year is explained. Five men playing with only one idea in their minds, win the ball game, gives the opposition something to think about, The case of “Hermy” Schmarr is creating quite a controversy and much interest, the point at issue be- ing whether this stellar young bas- ketball player shall continue with the Boys’ club team or transfer his energies to tho high school squad. Coach Ray Anderson of the Boys club has asked us to correct the im- pression which secms to be in circu- lation, that he is trying to force Schmarr to play with him and to pass up the opportunity to win let- ters at high achool. At the very, Peginning of the practice season An- derson assumed that Schmarr would later try out for the school team, so | he was cold te “Hermy's” expressed desire to scek a place on the club Guintet. It was only when Schmarr gave assurance that he would not go out for the school team that Anderson consented to take him on the Boys' club squad. Taking the player at his word, Ray has speat months in working on him and de- veloping him, but even now he will' make no effort to hold him if Schmarr wishes to change teams. He told Schmarr Thursday night that he was free to choose but that be wanted 1o know the deci #0 that he might act accordingly in Luilding his team. Schmarr told him then and also the writer that he pre rred to remain at the club. He is finding himself torn between two allegiances, and it will be best for him and all concerned. if it is left to hinm to make the fi decision himself, threc | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928, HANPS REPEATED "IN YEAR OF I8 Jooes, Hagen, Gollett and Diegel -~ Were High in 6ol ‘Walker Cup Defended The Walker Cup was ably defend- ed by.a team headed by Robert T. Jones, Jr., the invading British ama- leurs being repulsed 11 to 1. A. Torrance won the lone point scored by the Britiah. | There was no international pro- | fessional team ple:’ in 1928 but pros from the United States will go to England in April to compete for the | Ryder cup, now held in the United | States. Walter Hagen will lead the best of the American homebreds into the overseas fight, including Johnny Farrell, the champion of champions at the moment, and Leo Diegel, P. G. A. titleist, who insisted that Hagen |act as team leader, although the aptaincy under ordinary circum- stances would go with the pro title. | “The Haig," of course, will carry his | British championship with him. Ryder Cup Battle The Ryder cup matches in Eng- |land will make Muirfleld a veal attlefield at the British open in y for all the members of the United States team and perhaps dozen other native and adopted | Americans will compete with the | British, who have not concealed their unrest at the continued absence of | their most prized trophy. The golf goose hangs high in the United States for the new year. Golf history will be made on many fronts. For the first t:me the Amateur will |vbe played om the Pacific slope, Del Monte, C‘al., getting the prize. The profescionals will have their annual |slug fest at Santa Barbara and the | Open will be fought over the rugged ‘Winged Foot course at Mamaroneck, N. Y. The women will play at Oak- |1ana Hills, near Detroit. Scored Great Triumph The 1928 Open will go down in the records as a great triumph for | the brilliant Johnny Farrell and a tragedy for an ill fated young goll- | er, Roland Hancock, son of a pro- fesslonal and a pro in his own right as a menace has come to be taken for granted over the years and he is news only when he is not one-two, as was the case at Oakmont in 1927. Hancock came to the last two | holes at Olympla IFields with Far- 294, the New Yorker having come om seven strokes behind to tie the Georgla magiclan. The Wilmington Iad needed 6-6 on the last two holes to make it a triple tie or anything better than these liberal figures to |win withiout further struggle. surging crowd all over the course and almost on top of his ball un- nerved the young pro and he used 12 terrible strokes to play the final holes, divided six each. DINIE HAS EDGE ON CALIFDRNA Georgia Tech Favored: to Win Toursament of Roses Game By HENRY L. FARRELL NEA Service Sports Writer The tennis players say it is smart stuft to lay back until your fellow is winded and then slam them in be- fore he gets his breath. The same strategy might be applied by the literary athlete who has to play around with words about football teams. It has been found to be a clever defense to sneak over the All-Amer- ica team on the customers, get them talking out of breath and then shoot get their second wind. Under the conditions that prevail this year it would be more sensible to wait until Georgia Tech plays California to deliver a powerful piece on the leading teams of 1928, but football won't be very hot reading in the middle of January. And it may be that the resuit of the Tournament of Roses game will not force a change In any opinion that may be offered now. It Georgia Tech wins from Cali- fornia, the southerners will merely cinch a first place, to which they have at least a half title now. If California should win the game we cannot be convinced that California would be the national champion be- | cause the season’s record as a whole simply must be considered above one game. If teams were to be rated on the |one game in which they reached their peak—and there is only one perfect game a season for any one team—you could be argued to death that Carnegie Tech, New York Uni- versity, Notre Dame, Stanford, Ten- nessec and the Oregon Aggies all had equal rights to first place on the ranking' list. All these teams, and more, too, had one game in which they looked like a team that couldn’t be beaten. Considering their records, their teams as a playing upit, their con- istency and the opposition they met, we would rank the teeams as follows: 1. Georgia Tech and Southern Cal- | ifornia. 2. Army. 3. Detroit, Pennsylvania. | 4. Stanford, Tennessee and Flor- | ida. | This method of ranking the teams | seems to be piling a lot of football players in a short space, but if we knew ary more Boston College and rdlfl\‘l\ that way. There being no prizes awarded for scconds, thirds, fourths and fifths, it is not a binding obligation to men- i tion the teams that werz not one or two. e oncs that know they | were not will not have much to say | about it. | There's a lot of reverse English on the ball when you start to rank the teams. The reasons why a team shouldn’t be placed first are as casy {to find as reasons why they should. | and approaching it negatively we c2n’t find any valid weason why at Wilmington, N. C. Bobby Jones | {rell and Jones all finished, tied at| Al accurate way of | putting, them down one under an- | ofher 4 a list we would put them Georgia Tech and Southern Cali- fornis shouldn't be your choice for first, | We favor Georgia Tech because the team was neither tied nor beaten, |and Southern California was held to | |a tie by California. Tech played a | representative achedule in ita own isection, and so did Southern Cali- |fornie. Each team beat Notre Dame. f Georgia Tech did not play Florida ior Tennessee, two of the strongest [teams of the south, but Tech didn’t duck them. accuse of ducking, and it is quite certain that Florida and Tennessce | would have been on the schedule if T. | the schedule makers had known they were going to be so good. And this must be considered. There was just as much chance for Tech to be knocked off by one of {these easy-looking tcaizs on the schedule as there was for the Army to take it on the chin from Notre |Dame, New York University to be |smacked by the Orcgon Aggies. | Southern California, perhaps, beat some stronger teams in fts section than Georgia Tech did in the south, and it surely was more than a very good team in beating Stanford, and a Notre Dame team that must have Ibeen a little better for its experi- | {ence than it was when it was beaten |by Georgia Tech. There is, though. the tie game with California, and |even if the California boys may have | aprayed the field before the game, it |stands on the record as a tie game. The Army certainly is up there. Tt not the best team of the year, it was perhaps the most outstanding |because of the terrific schedule it {went through with the loss of only |two games. | Detroit and Boston College didn’t |lose & game. They shouldn't have {lost a game on the schedule they |had. If Tennessee had not been tied | by Kentucky and if Florida had not |been beaten by Tennessce these two southern teams would deserve an cqual rating with Detroit and B. C. | Pennaylvania lost only one game in a hard schedule, and because of its harder schedule we ranked Penn |above the two southern teams. MALONEY BATTLES DKELLY T0 DRAW Irish Pair Fights Slow and Un- interesting Bout in Garden New York, Dee. 22 (UP)—The heavywelght situation was ne nearer solution today than at 9:45 o'clock last night when Jim Malouney, Boxs- ton heavyweight crawled through the ropes at Madison Square Garden to meet Con O'Kelly, a native Irish- man. The battle, or rather the bout, ended in a draw and served only to excite suspicion that the pair had succceded in eliminating themselves from further scrious consideration by the Muldoon-Tunney trophy committee which is to name the next heavyweight champion of the world. Maloney appeared In better shape than in some of his previous bouts but the improvement was carried no further. He fought a slow. uninter- esting fight which excited adverse comment from the gallery. O'Kelly was willing but lacked 'His defensive skill was not great and Maloney hit him several times | but was unable to do more than open a small cut over his left eye in | the second round. The one big threat O'Kelly made |came in the first round when hc landed two hard blows on Malon: | jaw, rocking him back on his heels. | He was unable to follow up this ad- | vantage, however, and soon lapsed into a series of futile attempts to find a vulnerable spot in Jim's ab- domen. the fight, was visibly tired during o some 12,000 hooed his attempts {to clinch and hold onto his adver- sary. | In the seml-windup Tuffy Grif- | fiths who is seeking to change his | rame to “Jerry,” made a successful comeback attempt against Charley Belanger, Camadian light-heavy champ, wihning the ten round bout on points. Griffiths, despite his victory, was a disappointment to his followers for he was obviously lacking in ring technique and was unable to avoid Belanger's right cross. He display- ed a willingness to fight and carried the issue through the 10 round He also stopped several hagd blows without visible discomfiture. Tuffy made a desperate cffort fo floor his opponent without success however, surprise. Yale Okum., New York, light heavyweight, won the decision from | round_bout of the night. Yesferday failed to shed any light on the proposed bout hetween Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling at Miami late in February. Johnny BEST WATLH- NO CROOK'UL. GET AN TS HOUSE. WHILE HE'S Tech never has been | the punch to drop the Bostonian. | in the national ranking before they | (3¢ 128t two rounds and the crowd and the decision was no | Tom Kerby, Boston. in the first 10 EM, DRD-TH' SDRENEEPER SAD HE'S : - DOG N TH' COUNTRV— NTHING Buckley, Sharkey's manager, failed to arrive from Boston to confer with Tex Rickard regarding the fight and the promoter declared he would never stage the bout if Shar- y insisted on a guarantee of $150,000 as he is said to have done. Should the Boston heavyweight continue his refusal to meet Rick- ard's terms, it is thought probable | that Paolino Uzcudun may be sub- stituted as Stribling’s opponent. Rickard is said to have set Mon- day night as the final date upon which he will consider terms with Sharkey or Buckley. The Muldoon-Tunney committee held its yesterday without accomplishing |much of importance. The design | for the trophy was approved and | Bernard Gimbel was named chair- |man of the boedy. Jeremiah T. Ma- | honey, former supreme court justice | was authorized to draw up a deed of trust, and to draft by-laws gov- {erning future activitics of the com- | mittee, i No trophy first meeting rules or regulations were drawn up to govern the selection of | Ithe heavyweight to swcceed Gene | Tunney although it was announced {that no organized *“tournaments” | would e held. In a statement issued after the meeting, the committee said: “Tex Rickard, as a member of |the committee, will confer from {time to time with his associates as to matches best calculated to bring out & man who will be generally rccognized as Tunney's successor— the committee will watch the ree- {ords of contenders and consult with boxing experts before arrviving at a decision as to who is entitled to have his name inscribed on the |trophy with those champions from McEntee Bowman. William |doon is an honerary member. JINNY ZINN GETS HIS THIRD CHANCE ‘Kansas City Pitcher to Repon {0 Cleveland Next Year Kansas City, P)—Santa | Claus, making an carly descent at Jimmy Zinn's fireplace. gave the | Kansas City pitcher a third chance in the majors. He will report. to the Cleveland Indians of the American Jeague next spring. Zinn went to the Philadelphia | Athletics in 1915, and was sent to the Wichita Falls club of the Texas league that fall. Pittsburgh of the National league bought him in Aug ust, 1920, and kept him until June, 1922, when he came down to the American associafion. For seven scasons Zinn has been a consistent hurler for Kansas City. Last seasan he won 23 and lost 13 games for & .639 average in the American association, ranking sec- ond. In 1927 he won the samc number and led the league in the lowest carned run average per game. | Jimmy also 18 a valuable pinch hit- | ter. Zinn almost made | the closing wecks of the last seu- {son. The New York Yankees, while |about to skid from their topmost perch, were on the lookout for a good hurler. Zinn and Fred Hei- mach of St. Paul were leading pos- |sibilities. The day a scout watch- | ed Zinn the big right hander was { hounded from the mound and the | Yanks took Heimuch. It is understood Cleveland paid about $40,000 in cash and players for Zinn. ‘GIANTS WILL PLAY % | EXHIBITION CONTESTS Mul- | the grade in Maloney, a 2 to 1 favorite before | New York Nations to Face Univ ity of Texas Tcam In First Game of 1929 New York, Dec. (UP)—Joln 1. McGraw's New York Giants will | play 24 exhibition games during the 929 spring training season, accord- | ing to the spring schedule announc- !¢d here yesterday. | The Giants will face the Univer- sity o | the first game of the s on, and the Houston team of the Texas league | on | Will be their second opponent, | March 16, at Houston. | Games follow with Beaumont. San ! Antonio. Pittsburgh, Chicago Amer icans, Shreveport, Cleveland, Toledo and Memphis before the annual spring scries with the Washington Senators. The first of the seven game series {will be played April 8 at Birming- ham, Ala., with games at Augusta, Ga., and Charlotte, N. (., on ceeding days. Two games will be played in Washington and two at the Polo Grounds here hefore the sue- nts g0 to West Point, April 15, to| conclude their trip with a game with | Army. HIGH PRESSURE PETE WELL FIND OJT HENE_ John L. Sullivan down to Tunney.” | Other members of the committer | are Herbert Bayard Swope and John | Texas at Austin, March 6, in ' TASSHAN ANTDOL, OFLOCAL FRIENDS Big Football Player of N. Y. IL1 Has Many Admirers Here | ekl | Just a big, jolly, good-natured chap who would do anything in the world for you 1nd who couldn’t hokt | a grievance against you if. he tried. | He is “Big Al" Lassman, tackle and | captain of New York University | football team who is known by sev F"l people in New, Britain. Some became acquainted with him when Ihe was employed as bell hop at the | Montowese hotel in Indian Neck | during the summers of 1924 and 1925, and othe.s met him when he | played at Cushing Academy. | Reservoir of Energy When he worked at the Connec- iticut hotel he was six feet four inches and was still growing. ¢ weighed more thon 200 pounds ani {had the strength of a bull. It was !the system at the hotel to have four {bell hops, all of whom would be cn duty in the morning. after which {two were relicved. The task would {then be left to the other two who | would work from moon until 11 lo'clock at night. Some days thg work would be enough to tax the cn-' ergy of two ordinary boys and Al's co-worker would be no exception to- |ward the latter part of the day when he would show signs of tiring. Al on the other hand, would he still fresh and he would do the double work to allow his friend {o have a rest. Trunk Juggler The principal task for the bell nd of stairs. Be- cause of Lassman’s strength he was alone, Like liops was to carry trunks up |down three flights able to carry trunks many of the summer hotels there were very few conveniences and among those which were not present was an elevator. | | One New Dritainite worked at the | Ihotel during the summer of 1924 Several times during his three |months stay Al would ask him: | “How's ‘Dixie’ Griffin?" or “Have vou heard from Emil Muche?” These two men were fellow members of the Cushing Academy foothall {team where they went after playing on th state championship > | Britain high school football team of 11921, Both of these players were heroes {in the eye of Al Lassman, and he often told of the wonderful feat of broken-field running displayed by |Griffin and the great catching of forward passes by Muche. Clever With His “Dukes' | In his spare time at the hotel Alf {used to “put on the gloves” with the {other bell hops and on occasion | with some of the colored Kitchbn help.-All the colored boys had an at- | fection for the big bell hop. | He entered New York University and will be graduated this year after one of the greatest athletic careers | ever enjoyed by one of the N. Y. | U.'s sons. He won the boxing cham- plonship two vears in succession and was never defeated in college. He | starred on the football team and led his team fnto battle until he suffers | ed a serious injury in the New York U.-Carnegie Tech game. | He suffffered a concussion of the | brain and lay at a Pittsburgh hos- | pital for many days in a serious con- dition. At first it was thought that he had suftered a fracturcd skull. | | He was tuken to New York last week and §s now recovering. | Practically every football expert | and sports writer has picked Al for at least a place on the second All-| America football team if not the | first. He is recognized as onc of the | outstanding lincmen in the east. | It is Al's ambition to become the | heavyweight boxing champion of the ‘ {world. His friends in this city will| be pulling for him to come through | as well as he has in th 2 (UP)—Juds- to- New Haven, ling by advance ticket sale for morrow night's Boston Tigers-. Haven Eagles Canadian-Amer lcague hockey game never offends a ho Lioston's last visit, a pitch batt sulted and police reserves had fo | be called in to quell the mob. 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