New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1928, Page 13

Speaking| fof Sport: Roller polo fans all ghrough the circuit which comprises the Ameri- can Roller Hockey League, are shocked and grieved at the untime- ly passing of Mossey Connelly, goal tender last year for the Wallingford and Bristol clubs. He died Saturday night at his home from heart fail- urc. He had been in,failing health all summer and his condition was aggravated by the death of his mother in whom he was entirely wrapped up, just recently. He spefit the summer at his home in Brockton, Mass., and according 1o his brother, on and oft he has een seized with attacks of faint- ing. There was no suspicion that he was suffering from a weak heart. Manager Frank McDonough talked on the telephone with him Friday and he said that he wasn't feellng “ust right but be expected to start playing polo again soon. Just before the New Hritain-Wa terbury game at the Stanley Arena 2 ay afternoon, amid a hushed crowd of polo fans, Referee Si Mc- Donald announced the death of the popular goal tender, terming him a | goal tender and a squal shooter.”” Ile requested all present o stand a moment out of respect to his memory. “fine can well attest to that *Mossey” was a “square shooter” of the finest type. While a member of the Bristol team last reason, he lived at the Stanley Ho- tel in this city and we had the op- portunity of becoming closely ac- quainted with him. polo floor. he was a gentleman and the best tribute we can give him is We that we will miss him sorely and we | hope that he will regt in peace. forward on the tor. the McElwain, star Britain basketball team, minated his connections with club Saturday night victory over the All-Collegian quin fet. He has been living in New Ha- ven while playing here hut he has heen out of cmployment. He re- coived a flattering offer from friends fn Tort Wayne, Ind., and he has decided to accept. His less will ba keenly the New Britain team. Just at the present time, the quintet had devel- oped into a nice combination with splendid team work, Manager Clar- ence Lanpher will be hard put to it to fill his plice. Manager Lanpher and Mrs. Lan- pher are spending the Christmas holidays at the home of Mrs. Lan- pher in Portland, M New Britain plays Meriden in Meriden Tuesday night. id” Williams, star rush on the New Britain roller hockey team, asked us to correct the story pub. lished about the game in Fall River Iriday night in which New Britain won an evertime victory. The scere, as published. credited Gazzinga with scoring the winning goal. We chang- cd this to read Thompsen. As a matter of fact, it was Perre. grin who scored the goal. Accerd- ing to Williams, Perregrin was the entire works that night. “He played a wonderful game,” William: “and you can say that T sald so. deserves all the credit in the world | for his part in that battle and he ought to get it.” fam Wolfer whe claims the pinochle championship of fire head- quarters on Commercial street, and I'rank Leist who disputes the claim, 'ven though he says it docsn't mean much as good card playing goes, met twice over the week.end. ¥rank had a merry time of it Sat- urday night when he romped away with an easy win. Sam howled for a return match and was given a thorough shellacking yestcrday. Wolfer will be given aonther shot at “the title” during the and meanwhile, there are two wins that “Ducky” Egan has to his credit that must be considered before either Sam or Frank lay aside the bicycle pack and rest on their laurels. THREE HILEED N STATES WEEK-£ND Two Die in Accidental Aufomo- bile Crashes 24 (P—Three twe of them New Haven, Dec. accidental deaths, caused by automobiles were reported in Connecticut over the week-end. Both aute crash victims were chile dren, one & 12-year.old girl and the other g five-year-old boy. Harold G. Clark, the enly gréwn person te meet a violent death ever the week-end, crashed te the pave- ment frem the second floor window of a Waterbury hotel. It is be. lieved that his death was accidental and _that he fell threugh the cas- ing after forcing the window open. Rose Zimmitti, 12, hurrying to ehurch with peveral compawions hes came confused while crossing a Miq- dlctown street in nt of an suto- mobile and was sfruck and fatally injnred by the car, Arnold Tele: the driver, was cleared of blame for the accident by the police. Peter Uleinzkas, 5. of Warchouse Point, was struck by an automobile driven by a woman bhelieved to be rs. Florence Lewis of Waterbury. The boy suffered a concussion and possible fracture of the skull and although rushed five miles to a doc- | tor's office in another machine, later died of his injuries. Tn one of the serious but not fatal accidents around the state. four Tiridgeport persons were sent o Grace hospital here in an accident in which James 1. Murphy, the Ariver of the car, the only one 8 cscape Injury. the fact | On and off (he | following the | felt by | holidays, | WRIGLEY OWNER OF THREE CLUBS . |Chewing Gum Magnate Has a $6,000,000 Baseball Hobby Chigago, Dec. 34 P — William Wrigley, jr., is a man with a $6,- 000,000 hobby. Wrigley, who built ene of Amer- ica’s largest fortunes on a stick ol’] chewing gum, has perhaps the most | expensive hobby in the world. It is bascball. Six million dollars has William Wrigley, jr., invested in this hobby through ownership of three basc. ball clubs, the Chicago Cubs; the Los Angeles Pacific Coast league club and the Reading Internation- als, yet ha admits he has never banked a cent on his investment for himself. He wanta just one return — thrill. And he hopes to get his big- | gest thrill next season by cheu‘ln(\ his Cubs to a National league pen- nant. Not since 1918 have the Cubs ! won a pennant, but with Rogers Hornsby in their lineup, Wrigley visions the prize all but won. Postponing a business conference, | Wrigley, a husky man with a per- | petual overflow of enthusiasm, tol-l the Assoclated Press of his dream for a pennant, why he loves base. ball, why he gets such a thrill out of it and why he thinks it is the greatest sport. “I have approximately $8,000,000 invested in baseball, but 1 wouldn't &t out of it for $60,000,000 be. causc I love the game and because it supplies me with thrills every |time I watch a game,” he said. | “White I have never received L3 cent for myself from baseball, I {have received thrills that money cannot buy. And think of the fun| millions of other people get out of | he game! “M® ambition, naturally, is to have the Cubs win the National league pennant next year, and | be- lieve we have got the goods this time, barring injuries te two or three gf our best players. “Let the critics condemn Horns- | by if they want to. T belicve he has been sinned against more tha he has sinned. T think Rogers | Hornsby is not only the greatest hit- ter in baseball—greater even than Babe Ruth the figures will show- but also that he is one of the clean- est men and one of the greatest | characters in baseball. Rogers Hornsby wants only one thing on the diamond. That is victery. Tt cost me almost a half million dol- s in money and players to get Rogera. But he is worth it.” “Nothing that I can help can stop me frem seeing & baseball game, | last summer, T turned dewn bank directers’ meetinga to watch baseball gamen. Wrigley likes fast games. but he weuld rather sec a game end § to 3 than 1 to 0, “A pitche battle is a treat for some peaple,” he said, “but persen- ally 1 like to see them clip that ap- owner of the Cubs. Wrigley to remain in the background as h as possiblp. “I can aee nethin future for basebal cluded. "It is getting greater every vear. Better haseball is being played and a better sportmanship | prevails. T'm in the game as long as I live” SUSPENDED SOCCER CLUBS | but a bright | Wrigley con- Former Members of Two Assacin- tions Plan to Organize on Nation- al Scale. 1 New York, Decc. 24 (P—Following | |their plan of organizing on a na- tional scale, the clubs of the Amer- | ican Soccer league and the Southern | New York State Football association | which were suspended by the United States 1"ootball association, have formed an independent association {kinown as the American Soccer asso- ciation. The organization, formed |at a meeting here yesterday, is to! be on the same order as the U. §. F. A. and affiliation with the Inter- national Football federation will be sought. James Duff, president of the \'e\\l Jeraey association was elected presi- | dent and John B. Farrell of Phila- delphia first vice president, Plans| also were laid to conduct a cup com- potition and it was announced that || 30 clubs, including several members of the American league, had signi- fled their intention of entering. McHURRAY REMOVED 10 ANOTHER JAIL IN ILL. Fear Violence in Connection With Slaying of Miss Ann Preher in Carmi Paris, 11, Dec. 24 (UP)—Heyt McMurray, 30-year-old negro ®r- rested in copnection with the mur~ der of Miss Ann Preher, 45, grade achool teacher at Carmi, 1ll., was in the Fairfield, IIL., jail today, after having been removed from Paris as a precaution against violence. McMurray, a hotel porter at Car- mi, sald he fled from there Satur. day in fear of the consequencen when he was told by his . father, Granville McMurray. that he had been pected of the crime. Au- thorities said he denied the accusa- tion, Miss Preher’s body, almost deca- pitated, was found in her home late | Friday. Evidence of a violent strug- zle were found by .authoritics. A blood-stained coat was discovered in {the McMurray home, officers at Car- mi said. The negro’s father was reported to have increased the suspicion against his son when he told officers “when you find him I hope you find him dead.” The suspect, according to weord recefved here frem Carmi. served prison terms at Joliet and Michigan City, Ind., for burglary. FORM INDEPENDENT BODY » NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER NEW BRITAIN COMES BACK TO WIN IN SECOND HALF| REA[]Y F[]R GAMES! Basketball Quintet After Trailing at Rest Period De-| feats Collegians 42 to 25—McElwain Terminates Membership With Local Club—Bewildering Rally In Closing Session Results In Big Score for Home Team—Sloman Is High Scorer. After a desultory first half in which the visitors had the edge all the way through, the New Britain basketball team Saturday night at {the Stanley arena staged a whirl- wind attack in the second half that gave it its seventh consecutive vic- tory of the season by the score of 42 to 25. The latest quintet to fall a victim to the sensational play of the Hardware City team was the All-Collegians, an aggregation of college stars who have bandeld themselves together into a formida- | ble basketball combination. The visiting quintet showed its best basketball in the first half and New Britain displayed its worst | brand of play. Only spasmodically were the locals anything like they have been during the present wea- son in other games. However, after | conaulting for ills and ailments gur- | ing the rest period, the five returned |te the floor and proceeded to make the All-Collegians look like begin- | ners. Despite the charges made in a publication yesterday that enly one of the advertised players ap- peared with the invaders every man who was announced beforehand as being a member of the All-Col- legian team, was on hand to play the game last night. The New Britain team was for. | tunate to Keep step with the Col- legians in the first half. Only ence in the session was the Hardware City crew ahead in the score and this was after three minutes and 50 | seconds had been played. The count stood 3 to 2 for New Britain. At the four-minute mark, lewever, the visitors took the lead and kept it until the period was over. The score at the end of the half was 17 to 13 in favor of the visitors. The visitors battled fiercely to hold their slim lead at the resump- tion of play. Immediately the New Britain team started to play organ- zed basketball and an apparent difference was noted. to the close guarding of the oppo- sition, it was seven minutes and 10 seconds before the locals were able | to overtake the Cellegians and take the lead for the second time in the game. At thia point, it was two foul shots and a pretty field goal tossed by McElwain that gape the New Britain five a one peint edge, 23 to ““This was the signal for the home | club to start a bewildering rally that carried them completely and overwhelmingly te victery. Sloman and Zakzewski, in rapid succession, sank fleld baskets. This pair again came back to make the count 3} to 23 in favor of the home team. Mc- | Elwain and Sheehan chimed in with points and the count stood 36 to! 23. McElwain pepped in two more | fouls, Zakzewski added a basket and McElwain closed the game with a | final fleld goal. Al Sleman was the high scorer of the night. He scored 13 points. McElwain was second with 11 and Zakzewski a close third with 10, The game marked McElwain's last appearance here as a member of the New Britain quintet. He has just risen to the positien of being a sensation with the locals when he has reached the decision to return to Fort Wayne, Ind., to assume a lucrative position which will allow him to play basketball as a side- Haven but could not find congenial employment there, Saturday night, the combination {of Sleman and McElwain showed to better advantage than ever be- | tore. Especially in the second half When the two started their bewil- dering passing game, were they ex- ceptional. Zakzewski, after a poor start, made up for the lack of co. hesion by coming through like a whirlwind te cage four buskets and a foul shot in the second frame. Shechan and Leary. pitted against two fast men, played great basket- ' ball. Both men kept their charges safely under cover especially in the vinches. Morris starred for the visl- | tors. New Britain plays Meriden in Meriden Christmas night. The score: },.m, charged various articles 1o his | New Britain ¥ L. Pts. 12 11 i Sloman, McElwain, 1If | Zakzewski, ¢ Shechan, rg | Leary, 1g . d gfE 4 v 8 4 a 1 15 All-Collegians Fld 4 Summers, | Bingham, Clark, c Morris, & .. l»ucw. Is .. ¢ 5 i L] However, due | ine. He has been residing in New | pts. | (White, Ig New Dritain Ball; Score at half time: 13, Collegians 17. Referee, {timer, Saunders; scorer, Crean. GOLFERS SEEKING in Santa Catalina Event Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Cal., Dec. 24 P—The army of win- ter golfers hoaded back te the Cali- fornia mainland teday In search of other battlegrounds with Suith, one of its younger members, |holding major honars in the $2.500 |Santa Catalina Island open golf tournament which closed yesterday. Smith, Joplin, Mo., professional, blazed as noteworthy a golfing trail |as southern California ever has seen |to win first honors. With golf that was faultless, the 21-year-old Mis. sourian clubbed his way to \icto ‘mnr Walter Hagen by one stroke |and other nationally known ama- teurs and professionals by 11. He \toured the short but difficult 9-hole layout in the par-smashing aggre- gate of 245 strokes. 11 under the |par fgure .for the 72 holes. His card, 63-58-61-63, gave him as the victor's prize. While the slender Joplin pro's margin of victory was slight it was {considered more noteworthy in that “the Haig"” was on his heels yester- | ay and was considered a sure bet to overhaul Bmith in the final round. (Hagen made a desperate finsh, but |despite his brilliant golf he was forced to watch the young Mis- sourian crowned with the laurels of victory. Hagen turned in & card of 62-62-60.62—246 for second prize, 1$300. He had a chance to tie Smith on the fifth heole of his final round, | but a missed 18-inch pated his hopes. I'ay Coleman, young Los Angeles {amateur and holder of the south- |ern California amateur champion- ship. surprised all by lifting him- |self into & tie for third place with Dan Willlams of Shackamaxon, N. Y. They were 11 strokes |Smith, however, each getting a 256 | Henri Cuici, Rridgeport, Cenp Charles Guest of the Tam O'Shan- [ter club of Detroit, Tom Stevens, | veteran international of Los Angeles, land George Martin of Long Beach fnished in a dead heat for honors. The golf troupe moves on now to putt dissi- 257 NEW BATTLEFIELD {Horton Smith Captures Honors| Horton | $300 | behind | 2, GRIDIRON TEAMS {Season o Wmd Up With Flour- ishes on Pacific Goast New York, Dec. 24 (P—The foot- ball scason winds up with a few ap? propriate flourishes on the Pacitic coast within the next fortnight. The East-West fray, assuming something of the proportions of an America convention, will revive this | | Saturday the argument that Stan- | ford and Oregon State started in New York. The New Year's Day | classic at Pasadena between Georgiu Tech and California will have con- siderable to do with the final rank- ing of major teams for 1 The all-star game at San Francis- co, played for the benefit of the Shriners’ hospital for crippled ehil- dren, is of more than usual interes us @ test hetween the talent of east and west, who will elash head-on in |spite of all that Kipling had to say about it. Howard Harpster of Carnegie, the ast's greatest quarterback, will di- vect the eastern attack which not only hopes to offset the string of sev- (eral well known defeats this year but turn the tables on the west for [the Arst time in this all-star event. |The east has been marshalling its |forces at the Golden Gate for the past three years without a victory to |show for its efforts. Harpster has a formidable [to manipulate. with Getto, Huyeraft, Thompson. McMullen, Gihson, No- wack, Raskowski, Weston and Howell among his plavmatoes. way be regretted that the Carnegie ace himself will not have the rivalry |of at least one of the west's ont- |standing three quarterbacks—Duteh 1o College, All- America field general. Don Williams of Southern (‘alifornia or Howard Maple of Orcgon State. This would likely furnish a tactical and pa exhibition of spectacular order the two Texas hoys. Walker and Cowan, may carry on where Joel Hunt and Gerald Mann left off last | year to furnish the east a holiday |surprise package. Hunt and the rest of the Texas talent had a lot to do with handing the castern all-stars their third stri & last winter. i fare 1 few outstanding precedents worth anything, Geor; Teeh will not need te worry about the “Au* and injuries that have hit the | Yellow Jacket gridiron squad. The crippled and worn-out New York Yankees leapt upen the un suspecting Cardinals with all the rohust energy of able-bodied men when the world's geries came along. The memory is even fresher of the “fu-stricken” Oregon State foothall |team that came across country fo [upset New York university as well as the dope. California, regard as exagge of Tech troubles, even with such stars as I'rank Speer, Warner Mi- |7l and Stumpy Thomason on the hospital lis [ ed the |an amateur professional Journament | at San Gabriel Country club on the mainland Wednesday for a purse of $1.000 and then to the Long Beach /85,000 open which begins December ‘buspect Young Woman Believing that a number of frauds perpetrated in local stores recently may be explained by her, the police today are searching for a young store Saturday night. Accerding to the story told to Po- store, the young womuan effered to pay dewn $5 on the watch and sign the necessary installment plan papers. She gave her name as Mary Watts and that of her father as John Watts. She sald that she lived at 10 Pine street. dress was found to be fictitious but |she explained that they had just {moved there recently. | Before anything further could be done, she decided that she would not make the purchase and she withdrew |her $5. Later John Watts was lo- cated but he said th-t the woman was unknown to him but that she Wi | Start Where Other Ends | Morgantown, W. Va., Dec. 24 (® —Ira E. Rodgers. head coach |tootball at West Virginia universi s in favor of starting the secon | hate of foothall games at the roint| where the first half ends. He said 'he would advocate a rule to make 6 the third quarter a continuation of 1|the second period before a meeting 9 of football conches and athletic di- 0 {rectors at New Orleans this week | | Of Attempting Flimflam | woman who attempted to get a $50 | watch for $5 in the Albren Jewelry The Pine strect ad- | of | The two games on the Pacific coast will closc football's mest pro- fitable season. The gridiron game had another hoom year that stands |out conspicuously because its two main rivals in gate receipts, base- ball and boxing, experienced some- {thing of a relapse in 1929. The biggest “gate” was collected for the Navy-Notre Dame game at Soldier ficld, where the receipts probably totalled in excess of $500,- 000 from a crowd of 120,000, Yale, DPennsylvania, Army and | {liceman Day by the manager of the ' |Winter Gas The best winter gas has the lowest initial, thereby || possessing best starting qualities. Franklin No-knock has the lowest initial of any sold here, TRY 1T RACKLIFFE OIL Co. 1—1'vaoklin Sq. Fi 2—West Main, Cor. 3=k g Mation hin Ave. ¢ Main, Cor. Stanley St. HIGH PRESSURE PETE BUY ME_THOUMOS 0F RIOR UNFRTUNRS WIALKING TH' sTeeety TONIGHT, T Nflafl“‘“ CHRISTANS BUE. ERANS Al array | Ity hut | it therefore, may as welt | reports , 1928, Navy led the list of money-makers in the cast as they played before the biggest crowds of them all cons | mlatemh Ohio State, Michigan and | Notre Dame probably topped the | {middle western field in gate receipts our the season’s stretch while \l:lmnrfll. California and Southern | California played to big “houses™ on the Pacific coast. Boxing failed to muster {a million dollar spectacle for |year s the Tunney-Heeney bout {tell short of Rickard's expec- ;mnnna Bascbull attendance fell oft a trifie here and there and the Yan- kee sweep cut short a possible world's series harvest but the b gest crowd of all time packed the [ Yankee stadium for a Septemd {double-header betwaen the rpmn! and Athleti SUITOVER THEATER DECIDED BY COLRT {Lessees Cannot Collect $30,000 From P. §. McMahon Estate | Judge L. P. Wallo Marvin in a {decision handed down i superior | court has rendered judgiment for the defendant in the $30.000 action of Mrs. Anna M. Schoen and dward J. McMahon, former s of the Empire theater in Harttord, against the New Britain Trust Co. trust of the estate of the late Iatrick McMahon, of this eity. even up the | cham- s, The lessees claimed that they were nlaw fully evieted from the premises by the Teasf company whiclh se- cured the ey v reason of a indgment in Octo v 19 froimn the {city court of Hurte he plain- tiffs leased the theater 10 years at $15,000 a year, advancing $15,000 | whieh was to he applied on the last year's p | The tes Mumnnq that they, were [ umable o apply the 815,000 on o | posit in the wanuer provided in the ed for the return of ogethier with a similar sum {which they elaimed they had in- |vested in the property for altera. \||m\l and imporeyements. In decidiug the ci vin stated that “the badly in this case one looks at it.” for Judge Mar- plaintiifs fare whichever way 1f the deposit of $15,000 was to be regavded as se- | curity. it should 1 heen sought | from McMahon's estate, the judg | said “It seems to the court that it reasonable to regard the sum rent. Had this theater hecome idle | during the last years of the term of [the tease, it might have heen dif- | ficult for the owners to secure a new tenant and MeMahon doubtless fore- saw this difficnlty and meant to pro- vide for it in advance the judge said. Speaking of the Marvin said: “The re; v eviction Judge qualifications im- {tor the = ——0—-___ . - posed Ly the Luilding cemmission of the City of Hartford upon the right to continue the operation of the theater were met by the owners tn fair way and in a way wh Ie t'the time. approved. 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