New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 17

FOUR TEAMS HURT | BY POOR TRADES Evans Says Baseball Mistakes of 1088 Form Big Chapter BY BILLY EVANS ‘The baseball mistakes of 1928. They form quite a chapter in the final outcome of the two major league pennant races. Never a sea- mson pamses but what several man- agers regret winter tradeg. Baseball is a big gamble and if you take a long chance you are either a hero or a dumb Dora according to _re- sults, | The biggest mistakes of 1928 cen- tered around the pitching in the majors, Things would have been different in New York if John Mc- Graw had kept Burleigh Grimes in- stead- of passing him on to Pitts- burgh for Vic Aldridge. Connie Mack would have made it far more interesting if he had not sent 8an Gray to the 8t. Louis Browna ‘Washington would have been a more important factor in the race if Crowder had been kept instead of being passed to St. Louis. Aside from the pitching St. Louis bene- fited and Detroit suffered a serious handicap by the deal that took | “Heinie" Manush and Lu Blue from the Tigers to the Browns. The surprise of the 1928 race in both major leagues was the unex- pected, we might say the sensa- tional showing of the St Louis| Browns, One only needs to digest thoroughly the ahove paragraph to understand why St. Louis made so much trouble last season. It bene- fited by three of the four trades that resulted in unexpected reversal of form on the part of the players involved. Crowder, who was passed along by Washington and Gray, who came to 8t. Louis via Philadelphia won better than 40 games for the Browns. That was some pitching .on the part of two discards. Statis- tics show that the winning of 90 sames makes a club a strong pen- nant contender. Crowder and Gray between them won almost that many. “Heinle” Manush the former De- troit outfielder, had the greatest year of his career with St. Louis ‘last season. He batted close to .400 most of the scason. man, ex-Tiger, also had a big year for the Browns. To make matters worse for Detroit, Rice, a great out- fielder, secured in the Manush trade, slumped at the bat, while none of | the players Detroit figured to take Blue's place were able to fill the bill. ) McGraw with just a fair pitching staff, featuring Benton as the star, was always a pennant contender, due to the manner in which the ag- gressive leader of the Giants han- dled the material at hand. Had he ‘been able to add the 25 games| Grimes won for Pittsburgh, the Giants would have romped in to a National league pennant. “I went the lmit with Gray and finally decided he would never help The,” is the way Connie Mack ex- plains the departure of Sam Gray. “I didn't think Crowder strong enough physically to be a consistent winner in the American league,” ex- plains Griffith. “During his entire stay with our club he suffered from | stomach trouble.” George Uhle recently traded by Cleveland to Detroit, comes in the Sam Gray class. He had reached the stage in his career where for various reasons he was figured to have passed his usefulness. He has the stuff to win 20 games for De- troit if he tends to his knitting. That would place him in the mis- takes of 1929, but one must gamble 1n baseball. 73 Years Old. Dives Into Orean Fverv Day New York, Jan. 4 (M—Here's a 93 year old man who for the last seven years has been diving into the #ea seven times every day except on religious holidays. He s Rabbi Nahun Weisman of Blue first base- | | studied 2:30 a. m., spends an hour in pray- er, drinks & punch, drapes a coat over his naked form, dons a fur cap—in winter weather—walks to a Coney Island breakwater and plunges into the ocean seven times. He usually stays in the water 15 minutes. Then he lights a fire from newspapers on the beach, dries himself, puts on his clothes, goes back home and attends to his offi- cial duties. He has been ill only one day in seven years. SCHOOL LIBRARIAN SUED FOR 13000 ' Mrs. Helen P. Smith in Aecident at Yergennes, V¢, - Mrs. Helen Fisher 8mith, librar- ian at the senior high school, was named defendant today in two suits totalling $18,000, based on allega- tions that she had operated her automobile in a negligent and care- less manner on Christmas night in the town of Vergennes, Vt. The suits were entered today in Rutland county court. Plaintiffs are Mrs. Doris 8pear of North Clar- endon, who is in & critical condition | in a Vergennes hospital with her whole body paralyzed, and Ora | Haradon, a farmer, Mrs, Smith was driving north on a main highway near Vergennes on Christmas night, where she was going to visit her sister for the holidays, when she lost control of the car. The machine shot across the road into a ditch and careened back across the highway striking a small touring car in which the plaintifts were riding. The Haradon car was 8o com- pletely wrecked that it was neces- sary to use a crowbar to extricate Haradon and Mrs. Spear. At the hospital Mrs. Spear was found to have cuts over her entire body, injuries to her left arm, hip, leg and side and a spinal injury which her attorneys say will make her an invalid for life. Mrs. Spear asks $11,000 and Haradon $2,000. They claim negli- gent and careless driving on the | part of the New Britain woman. Haradon and Mrs. S8mith suffered but minor injuries. Mrs. Smith's car was considerably damaged. Mrs. Smith is corsidered one of the most valuable members of the local teaching staff. She came here in 1924 to organize the senfor high school library and was prevailed upon to stay and supervise it. She took up library work after the death of her husband, who was pro- fessor of history at Blair. She is a native of Vergennes and a graduate of Vergennes high school. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a Ph. B. degree and taught school in Vermont for two years, at the Hillhouse high school in New Haven for six years and in schools in northern New Jersey and East Orange. in Harvard, Cornell and Columbia universities, SHINWARIS REBELS QUIT Terms' Effected Between Afghanis- tan Ruler and Malcontents—Col- Hsion With Others Anticipated. New Delphi, India, Jan. 4 (®— Advices from Kabul, Afghanistan, today sald that peace had been patched up in Jalallabad with the re belllous Shinwaris. The negotlations were carried on by Al Ahmed Jan, former governor of Kabul. The terms of the treaty were not divulg- ed. Therc were indications that an- other collision might be expected shortly between rebels under Bachat Sakao and Afghan troops. The telegraph line between Quetta and Kandahar has been cut. Com- munications between India and Ka- bul were being handled today by wireless. Brooklyn. Every day he arises at 861 MAIN ST. — OPP. MYRTLE Half Yearly Clearance Sale of SUITS and OVERCOATS 20% REDUCTION 20% She has | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY ¢, GOES BACK 500 Y. 10 PROVE HIS CASE Claimant o Scottish Barony Delves Deep Into Reconds London, Jan. 4—Musty records 500 years old form part of the evid- ence in the claim of 8ir Bruce Gor- don Seton to the ancient Scottish barony of Gordon. ‘The barony is now held by Lord Huntly, head of the Gordon clan and known among the Scots as “Cock of the North.” He disputes the claim. It is up to the House of Lords to adjudicate the matter and it now is in the hands of the committee of privileges. The whole thing hinges upon whether a marriage contracted be- ifore the discovery of America was {valid or not, Sir Bruce is a direct descendant of Alexander de Seton, to whom the barony was granted in, or be- fore, the year 1429 by King James L Alexander de Seton's son, Alex- ander, married Egidia Hay, a great heiress, and had one son, but the {marriage was said to have been declared null and void - on the ground of consanguinity under ec- iclesiastical law then operative, Alexander de Scton afterwards married a daughter of the Chanc {lor of Scotland, through whose in- fluence he was created Earl of Huntly. That title descended through the present day. The claim of Sir Bruce is based [on the fact that recently there was discovered in the Vatican archives a copy of a mandate from the Pope issued to the Bishop of Moray de- claring that first marriage has not been invali- dated and was legal and the son of that marriage was legal and binding, and the son of that marriage was legitimate, Egidia it is alleged pined and dled, and apparently the mandate was lllp- pressed. Mr. McPhail, in submitting that a barony of Gor- don was in existence, said that a “rubbing” had been taken of the in Elgin Cathedral, tion of this was “Here lies a noble and potent lord, Alexander Gordon. |first Earl of Huntlie, Lord of Gor- don and of Badenoch, who dled at Huntlle 15 July, 1470." iquis of Scotland, has ten other titles besides that of Baron Gordon |Tady Huntly recently took stepr to adopt two little girls from Ch: (cago, the daghters of a relative She is an American. Bullt to hold 150 guests, a Rotel in Autrim, England, which is be- coming quite a popular holiday re- sort, has not a single bathroom. The town {tself has no public water sup- ply. The Store for You . $3L.95 .o $35.85 .. $39.95 We have laid out & number of Suits, broken lots, one of a kind which for- merly sold for $30 and $35, and marked them $19.45,. This is far below cost and so it will be worth while for you to look these over be- fore you buy elsewhere. the eldest son of that marriage to! Alexander de Seton's ; and’ binding. | Latin inscription on a sarcophagus | and a transla. | K. C. for 8ir Bruce. ' Tord Huntly, the premier Mar. FIREMEN WILL PLEAD SALARY CASE TONIGHT Petitioners for Largest Item om Schodule Will Attend Committee Mecting—Other Hearings The common council committee on salaries will be in seasion at 7:45 tonight at City hall to conclude the hearings on petitions for salary in- creases for city officials and em- | Baumes statute of New York take | ployes. It is expected that a date will be set at this time for the final meeting, at which a report to the council will be prepared. Tonight's achedule is as follows: 7:45, public works department; 8:15, fire department; 8:45, city clerk's office; 9, tax collector's office; 9:15, health department; 9:30, building, department. Members of the board of fire commissioners, Chief W. J. Noble and a committee of firemen ' consisting of Captains Michael W, Butler, Fred Smith and William H. | Porter will represent the fire de- partment. NEW BENDIX STATIONS Chicago, Jan. 4 UW—The Bendix | corporation has announced forma- tion of the Bendix Service corpora- tion, capitalized for $1,000,000, The r ‘v company expects to build & chain of automobile super-service statios cut the country. in the larger cities through- | IRHODE ISLAND Similar to Baumes $tatute Providence, R. I, Jan. 4 P—On the ground that laws similar to the {from courts the right to determine the lemgth of sentence imposed on convicted habitual criminals’ and the ‘pruent laws of Rhode Island are | sufficiently severe to discourage of- | fenders from repeating crimes, two superior court judges here today declared their opposition to the pro- posed campaign to obtain for this !state an habitual criminal code pat- !terned after that of New York. In the opinion of Judge J. Jerome Hahn, laws of that type do not take into account the degree of moral | turpitude involved but place third or fourth stantially the same class. Juries often refuse to convict, he believes. | because to thelr minds the punish- ! ment that must be meted out is not | in proportion to the crime. Reviewing present state laws that |provide heavy penalties for man. crimes, Judge Charles' A. Walsh stated that distinct improvement is JUDGES OPPOSED Two of Them Disapprove of Law all ' offenders in sub- | being made in courts of the atate, | and criminals are learning they can | expect little mercy when brought, to justice. Under the Baumes law, Judge Walsh said, there always is a chance that injustice may be visited on an innocent man. The proposed move to obtain pas- sage of such a law will be launched jat a meeting of the Rhode Island | Police Chiefs’' association Tuesday by Chief Ellis A. Cranston of War- wick, president of the New England | Police Chiefs’ association. | Liquor offenses, Chief Cranston' | explained yesterday, are not to be included in the list of crimes for which habitual criminals may be sentenced to life imprisonment. | Local Y Handballers 1 Beat Waterbury Teams Waterbury sent over six doubles teams of handballers to meet the local “Y" crew last night and all {six teams went down to defeat. The summary: Dressel-Crowe, New Brit- ‘Mn defeated Lynch-Jackson 21-1 21-14, 21-16. Hawkins-8. Mag de- |feated Brummel-Baum 21-11, 21. 21-10. E. Mag-8Strong defeated Velte-Steers, 21-14, 21-13, 21-11. loomis-Regan defeated Walsh-Card 121-17, 21-18, 21-15. Dressel-Never- ck defeated Walsh-Baum 21-15, 18, 21-17. Hergstrom-Anderson defeated Apperian-Wall 14-21, 21-17, 21-13, | Herald Classified Ads are little : ‘wonders, \ | telegram | observance DURANT BLAMES BUSINESS LEADERS Tells Hearst That Big Men Promote Bootlegging New York, Jan. 4 (UP)—Busi- ness leaders of the country “bear a | heavy responsibility for the wide- spread disobedience” of prohibition laws, W. C. Durant said today in a to William Randolph Hearst. that our business leaders ave read; to rally behind the leadership .o Herbert Hoover for the law. 1 bo lieve that for the first time we an going to see tne government pro ceed against the bootleg industn with a wholly honest and effectiv enforcement system. In other wordy I think that the law at last is going to have a fair trial. “The mass of American people whe do not get into newspapel headlines, have become the moy sober, contented and prosperou people on earth.” Durant, who recently awarded a $25.000 prize for the best plan to enforce the 1§th amendment, sent his telegram in continuance of the discussion he and Hearst have been holding recently. Hearst has offered $25,000 for the best plan to repeal the 18th amendment. “Bootleg liquor,” Durant said, become the most widely ad- | vertised factor in the social life of men whose names are synonymous with success, wealth and power in | their communities. The contagion ‘of their lawlessness spreads through | the entire population . . . citizens who have the largest stake in law | have takén the lead in! law defiance. | “I believe that this is a phase that is already passing. 1 belie: TRY Alo \ form of Piles. Woxld, famous for re- FULLER’S AFTER-INVENTORY SALE v RUGS We have finished the annual inventory in our Big Rug Department. It discloses the fact that we are over-stocked on several grades and that there are too many’duplicates of certain patterns. days only. With the idea of placing this department in better balance, we are holding this limited sale—for a few As an inducement for quick buying we offer, Free, with any room size rug, a good carpet sweeper. Note the extremely easy terms also; only a $5.00 payment will place in your home any rug you select. This applies regardless of price, even including the very highest grade. 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