New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1929, Page 9

Speaking of Sports Joe Breanan who appears here tonight #s a forward with the Brookiyn Visitations, is regarded as one of the hest basketball players in the game today and a perusual of his record hears out this conten- tion. He is a college graduate. He played with &. Francis' college in Brooklyn and upon graduation he went into the banking busin While playing with the institution's teani, he was watched closely by Manager Donlon of the Visitation Five. His progress was so good that he was signed in 1923 as a guard. This was when the Visita- tion team entered the New York Btate League. He covered his posi- tion ta perfection, but he became such a scorer that he was shifted to forward and he performed there Just as good as at guard. Drennan was leading acorver In the American Basketball League in 1926 and 1927 and at the present time holds top honors. In five games just played, Dren- nan has scored 66 points. On New Year's night he caged 19 points egainst the = Renaissance Five, world's colored champions. In the tontest with the Hakoah, playing the peerless Nat Holman, Bremnan eaged 12 points. Against Benny Rorgeman in the Fort Wayne team, he scored 13 points. Playing Dutech Dehnert on the Cleveland Roses, Brennan sank 11 points and against the giant Rabe Harlow with Trenton, he slipped in eight against Johnny Beckman on the Rochester club, Joe caged seven counters. He and Dutch Dehnert were des- eribed by the Associated Press edi- tor as being two of the greatest all- around basketball players in the United States. To date, Brennan has scored 165 points in Jeague games only. Count- ing his scoring for all games in- eluding both league and exhibition, his total amounts to well over 300 points. The Visitation team has played 61, games including «xhibi- tion contests this season and it haa won 51 of them and lost only 10, The team plays every night in the week. Tn the last week, the Visitation Five has jumped from last place to four in the American League stand. ing and the team is going faster towards the top. McElwain who started the season as a forward for the New Rritain team, got into the game with Fort Wayne against the Visitations. He ncored two opints. The Visitations won 24 to 185. = " Boucher, star forward on fhe New Britain roller hockey team Iast season, played his first game as 2 member of the FFall River club last night and had a big hand in defeat- ing the'locals, 8 to 7 in an over- time game. Boucher will play with Fall River in this city tomorrow afternoon, ac- cording to a message sent here by Manager Frank McDonough. He has heen out of the game for some time with a broken bone in his ankle. Boucher gives the Fall River team the punch it has been lacking and we expect to see the weak ter of the league pick right up from now on, 2 Gunnard Carlson of this city has made the ice hockey squad at the United States Military academy at ‘West Point and he stands an excel- lent chance of a place on the Army team. “Gunnie” appeared at practice one @ay and skated around for only a few minutes when the coach corner- ed him, gave him a uniform and a pair of heckey skates and put him on the second team. He has been showing up to advan- fage in practice and in a recent scrimmage, he scored the only goal sgainst the varsity. Walter Armes, a new bowler in town, has caused all the vets of the alleys to sit up and take notice. He won the cigarette case offered at Rogers Recreation alleys. This is no mean feat because of the stiff com- petition found on the lanes there. Armes halls from up Boston way, but he surely knows how to topple the timbers. The scores that won the prize, and they are some scores, were as follows: 173, 165, 161, 189, 162. 'Total, §20. DEAL SEPARATES BUDDIES 0 YEARS Bascball Duo Originating on Sandlots Broken Up Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 6. P~ -A bascball duo that had its origin more than a decade ago on the sand lots of Grove Hill, Ala., wi scvercd when the Washington Sen- ators traded Grant Gillis, inficlder, to the Boston Jled Box. Emil (Ied) Barnes, Washington outficlder, the buddy left behind, and Gillls were stars of the Greve Hill High achool nine. Later they transferred their athletic prowess to University of Alabama. Hoth rose to heights as colleginte base. ball and foothall players. it was around Gillls and Barnes that Coach Wallace Wade bullt his great Alabama football team tha twice gained national gridiron ree. ognition in the annugl Rose Bowi games at Pasadena. eran manager, they formed (e nucleus fer the hard hitting 1937 Baron tearht, They did so well that at the close of the season they were sold to the Benators as twe of the finds of the season in the Southern Assoclation. Gillis was traded to Boston in the Buddy Myers deal. Barnes will remain with Griffith's elub. IRISHHAN' Wi STANPEDES ENENY Where Brawn Had Failed Keen Brain Won Grid Game Pittsburgh, Jan. 5. UP—The wit of an Irishman that saved the day in a foothall game where his brawn had failed Is the subject of a tale told by Coach Jock Butherland of the University of Pittaburgh. The Irishmén was a member of & professional team against which Coach Sutherland was playing aft- er the close of the season at La- fayette college in Butherland's col- legiate football days. The son of Old Erin was nyned Haggerty, and Mr. Haggerty had gained such a name for himself the crowd a tending the game gave him credit on every play by shouting his name loud and long. Hhggerty was play- ing opposite Butherland at guard. was the original big credit man,” says the Pitt mentor. “If a fumble was recovered, Haggerty got- the credit. If a kick was | blocked, Hagserty got the credit. It his team made a gain, Haggerty got the credit.” During the course of the hard- fought game Butherland’s team slowly advanced toward its goal ond a hue and cry was set up for Haggerty to “hold that line.” “Hold that line, Haggerty! Hold that line, Haggerty! Hold that line, H ort: the crowd yelled, The Irishman became irked and rose from his position to listen to the cries. Suddenly he opened his mouth and boomed across the field: “Go on wit' yez! Hold that line, Haggerty! Hold that line, Hagger- ty! Is that all yes can say? What do yez think I am, a telephone op- er-ra-tor?” Butherland says mambers of hoth teams joined in a bhig laugh. “After that we didn’t care whether we got that touchdown or not, and we didn’t get 1t.” DUNDEE AT END OF FISTIC ROAD Yeteran of Ring Beaten by Char- ley Phil Rosenberg New York, Jan. 5 M—The end of the road, a long and honorable way [that has wound through fistiana |for more than 18 years, appeared today in the sight of Johnny Dun. dee, brave little warrior who has fought them alil. Hcartbroken that he was not con- sidered a fit oppohent, despite his 36 years and over 400 ring battles, for young Al Singer, latest of the lightwelght sensations, the bounding Bcotch-Wop asked a chance to prove his worth against a lesser op- ponent. He got it' last night and went down to defeat, beaten to the decision by Charley Phil Rosenbe.g, former bantamweight king, in a 10 round semi-final at Madison Square Garden. There is little left of the ring technique of one of the greatest Mt tle warriors of all times, a cham- plon in both the. featherweight and Junior lightweight divisions. The heart of the little Italian, big enough and game enough fer & heavyweight, still carried on, driv- ing him on into a loaing battle, but the flesh has given way to age. At times Johnny baffled the rugged Rosenberg, 10 years his junior and five pounds heavier, with the lightning left heoks, the bound. ing footwork, and cagey swapding at close quarters that made him famous. A few times Dundee ftried his old trick of bounding backward into the ropes, leaping forth again to spear his opponent off-balance. But Iast night this maneuver, & trick Johnny himself invented, was just a slow motien exhibition of how it used to be done with speed. At the close of the bout, Dundee, who fought Benny Leonard six times in no decision bouts, Johnny Kilbane, Freddy Welsh and Frankie Burns, was just a tired old man, his black thatch, now thinning tangled over wecary eyes, his face lined with marks of fatigue, there was a blotch of blood above his right eye, souvenir of a sharp right to the temple in the third round. Although Johnny was beaten solidly about the body at times at long range, where he once was in- vineible, he had the satisfaction of flooring Rosenberg for no count in the sixth round with a right to the chin, thus adding in perhaps his final engagement, to the reputation he has always borne for light hit- ting. The main bout, overshadowed in sentimental iIntercst at least by the battle of the former champlen, add- ed morc impetus to the surge of the young German heavyweight, Max Bchmeling, who easily trounced Joe Bekyra, blonde Bohemian from Day- ton. Schmeling. whe is almost a dupli- cate In appearance of Jack Demp- sey—the same cast of countenance, lowered black brows, long slim muscles, and bobby weave—fought for the second time in America. In his first engagement he knocked out Joe Monte of Boston and last night did all but that to Rekyra. The Dayton youth was blood- drenched and wobbling at the close from the shoert hooks Schemling threw from a crouch to his head. He rarely played for Sckyra's body jand might have knocked him out $0— 150 456— 52 Low Score WITH THE BOWLERS ROGERS ALLEYS LANDERS CLUB LEAGUE Beaves 42 FRATERNITY ALLEYS AUNTRIAN fitrko Yonharg . Bride Holcowsd | Hillstrana Carlson Belter .. F. Pellegrini Shiffort .. Blovetski Kiiton . Q. Peterpon Ruch COUNTY'Y LODKS FACK ON BIG YEAR : | Hartford County Captured Three of Five 1938 State Titles The year 1938 .as a banner year in the history of the Hartford coun- ty Y. M. C. A, athletics. TFor the first time in its history and the first time in the history of any county in the state the Hartford coun- ssociation came away with thr M. C. A. cham- championship Chidpey - Ward . Butler . Nelsen Davis .. Palinlus Btorrs .. low Bcore Cozy Dery Staba Avery ty state inter-county Y. pionships out of fiv contests held. The champlonships won were: Indoor track at Meriden Y, Febru- ary 4, for the second consecutive time. Score—Hartford county 71% points. rest contestant, New London, 47% points. Outdoor track, Westport, May 26. Score—Hartford | (county 41 points. Nearest con- | | testant, Windham county, 58 points. | Swimming, Hartford Y. M. C. A.. smber for the fourth con- secutive Score — Hartford county Nearest con- Fairficld county, 61 points. » Hartford county “Y" team the runner-up in the senior tournament, losing a tough game in the finals at the Waterbury Y. M. March 17, to Windham coun- y to 27. Due to changes at a late hour in the er.rance re- | quirements in the intermediate sec- tion, Hartford county had no entry. | This tournament was won by Mid-| dlesex county. | Y| the Hartford county Y. M. C. A. | | holds the lurgest number of state |inter-county Y. M. . A. athletic [records Jor the year, * >lding 18 out |of 52 records as follows: i Swimming—Junior class: A Bie- | [litz, 80 yard tree style—1 minute 5/ | seconds. | | Senior class: G. R. Marsh, 100 yard breast stroke—1 minute 28 seconds. Leslie Buckland, 40 |vard free style—23 -oconds. Leslie | 101 {Buckland, 100 yard back stroke—1 | 166 | minute 5 seconds. W. Warnock, | 183 | aving. § | Indoor athletics—Cadet H.| | Doolittle, 20 yar® dash—3 2-5 sec- 859 londs. H. Doolittle, running broad 187 |Jump—14 feet 2 inches. 40 yard re- . Rarrows 94— 117 | lay team-— 3-5 secords M. Jakubowics 59— m% Junior class: L. Kennedy, 20 yard ! Coxy 5 1. Franke Konopka Vollhart Hoyle Schmelter Lynch Hayward Lin tberg Low Score 1, time. S5 points. Grip Dayon Goodroy/ Lindberg Deminaki Katzung .. P. & F. CORPIN 1. Nchrafts Meskill Tutko 8. Zebro Richarda G. Zebrows! 168 132 152 133 | 17 Holstrom Bentley Pryor Wentland Heckman Koerher . Bmedberg H. Little 4 yard relay conds. —M. Mikan, running broad jump, 18 feet 4 inches. L. Main, running high jump, 5 feet 133 inches. Outdoor track and field: Junior class — Rushon, dash, § 4-5 second M. Benton, running high jump, 4 feet 8% inches. $ Intermediate class: — L. Gross. $-1b. shot put, 54 feet 9 1-4 inches. Senior class — H. Wakeman, 100- 283 1vd. dash, 10 1-5 seconds. $80-yd. re- lay team. 1 minute 36 45 seconds. L. Main, mile run, 4 minutes 36 3-5 secondg. The athletic affairs of the Hart. ford County Y. M. C. A. are run by a board of commissioncrs. Promi- nent among the new commissioners during the year is T. K. Cureton, head of the physical educational de- partment of Suffield school and | holder of Yale swimming records. Championships within the €ounty Y. M. C. A. have been well spread around among the towns of the county, ag follows: Swimming — Manchester Hi-Y. Tennis — Singles, Kensington; doubles, East Berlin. Baseball — Kensington. Indoor track — Southington. Outdoor track — Sufficld. Junior basketball — Broad Brook. Intermediate basketball — New Pritain Lions. Senfor basketball — New Dtitain South Church, The indoor season is now in full swing. In the three bLasketball leagues Plainville is leading in the southern senior section, Broad Irook in the Rorthern seiior section, and Kensington in the intermediate. In [the scason immediately ahead_volley ball competitions are to be revived, the county indoor track meet will be held in Manchester on January 19, state inter-county track meet at New London on February 2, state indoor athletics on February 16, county outdoor track championship in New Britain in May, and state outdoor track (inter-county) at Wesleyan in May. The county tennis tournament will be held in June. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Assoclated Press. Toronto—Albert Belanger, Toron- to, outpointed Steve Rocco, Toronto, 10 Chicago—Iiddie Shea, Chicago, stopped Tony Mandell, Boston, 3. Roy Williams, Chicago, knocked out Benny Ross, Buffalo, 5. Al Green- field, Chicago, outpointed Dixie La Hood, Butte, Mont., 8. Mike Es- posito, Chicago, outpointed Johnny Rhan, Boston, 5. Don Buchard, De- troit, drew with Jack Denny, Chi- cago, 5. New York—Max Schmeling, Ger- m outpointed Joe Sekyra, Day- ton, Pa, 10. Charley Phil Rosen- berg, New York, outpointed Johnny Dundee, New York, 10. St. Paul—M. Sullivan outpointed Bobby Tracey, 10, Bridgeport — Battling Levinsky outpointed Pletro Corrie, Austria, 10, St. Paul, Buffalo, OUR BOARDING HOUSE ¥a4D JAVID,~ PERFECT /- PERFECT!! wcAS A LONDOMER, NoU SHoULY BE AT ~THiS MOMENT IN HYDE PARK ! By AHERN AN’ I'LL DROP SIX FeeT ) \F YOUR WIFE GETS HEP !+ I -THINK Nou'D NEW BRITAIN BASKETEERS READY FOR GAME TONIGHT d‘iCru:Inl Quintet From Brooklyn, N. 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