New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 13

‘Speaking of Sports Almost every roller polo fan has a favorite player whom he thinks to be the best ever in the game. Some have mentioned Dicky Pierce, some Ferdie Harkins, some Soxy Lyons and many others. Barney Doherty expressed his opinion in no uncertain terms after yesterday's game at the Stanley Arena. Barney belleves that the player who gets the ball into the cage the | most times is the best player. He says that a goal getter who can skate and play good all around, will outrank a clever handler of the ball on the floor but & poor scorer. He related that he had played on teams with every one of the old stars. He had the opportunity of one player to judge another from a player’s and an expert's viewpoint. Without equivocation, | Barney stated that the greatest player of all time, in his opinion, was “Kid" Williama who, at present, is playing first yush on the New Britain team. Barney sald that many would nof agree with him hut that was his idea and he would argue it with anyone, He recalled when Williams first started in to play. He said that he was a wonder then and he has lost nothing in the intervening years. He s by far the best driver in the game today and for all around scoring ability, ho has them all beat. Reller polo is not being played in $his section of the country alone. We have noticed clippings from New Jersey about roller polo games there and also from Poughkeepsic. The latest information given to us about the game comes from Okla- homa where the game is flourishing in great style. One of the fine things about roller polo is the way the really great pl ers coach along the youngsters. A great example of this was given in yesterday's game when Willlams and Peregrin teamed up on the rush line in the third period against 1all River. Williams time after time passed to Peregrin to give him a chance to score but Peregrin was evidently nervous and he missed. Peregrin plays al the road games for New Britain and “Kid" Wiliams is authority for the statement that Peregrin has the makings of an ex- ceptionally good player. Williams he- lieves in giving & likely looking youngster all the coaching possibie and he has started this with Pere grin. =, New Britain stands in first place In the American league today and the fans of this city are totally be- hind the team. The largest crowd of the season turned out to watch the game yeserday afternoon and the crowd went wild during the en- rounter. “Bib” Boucher, who starred for New Britain last season, got a great hand from the fans when he first appeared on the floor. He was a popular player here with the polo loving public and he still has the admiration of most of the folks here. He is a hit rusty in his play due to his long layoff with a broken ankle but he will develop his usual #peed in a short time, We see where they are trying to dub *“Molly” Morrison of Albany with the name “Cowboy.” This is a plain steal because Harry Thompson is the orlginal cowboy and the only one of the lot who really comes from the ranges. Harry is a great horseman. If you don't helieve us, ask him. How many remember Barney TDoherty and his riding academy- at Hanna's armory? Who remembers who tied the rope to the church bell and woke the town up about 2 a. m. one morning? Who remembers Barney's bicycls repair shop in the cellar of the Bronson hotel? Barney Doherty and Patsy Cor- hett were inseparable friends in the old days and another crony was the late Tom McMahon owner of Maple- croft farm on the West Hartford road. High Lights In Rickard’s Life By the Asmociated Press. 1871—Born in Kansas City, . 1875—Family moved to Bherman, ‘Texas. 1881—Cow puncher on range near Cambridge, Texas. 1894—Town marshal of Henrietta, Texas, 1895—Joined gold rush to Kion- dike. 1896—@ambling hall proprietor at Dawson. 1899—Established at Nome. 1903—Established gambling hall st Goldfield, Nevada. 1906—8taged Gana-Nelson fight at Golafield, purse $30,000. 1910 — Staged Johnson-Jeffries fight at Reno, Nev., purse $101,000. 1918 — Staged Willard-Dempsey fight at Toledo, purse $125,000. 1920—DMoved to New York to take charge of old Madison Square Gar den. . 19%1—8taged Dempsey-Carpentier fight at Jersey City, purse $500.000. 1923 — Staged Dempsey-Firpo match at New York, purse $700,000. 1926—Staged first Dempsey-Tun- ney match at Philadelphia, purse $900,000. 1927—Staged second Dempsey- Tunney match, purse $1,500,000. Million Dollar Gates 1921 — Dempsecy-Carpentier, 1923—Dempsey-Firpo, 1926—Dempscy-Tunney, 3. 1927—Dempscy-Sharkey, $1.08 gambling hall $1.- 62 $1,888, $1.89 IN CHURCHLEAGUE 'Swedes, St. Matts, and South Church Wi First Games Inter-Church smu:g w Pet. First Lutheran .. 1 0 1000 St. Matthew's .... 1 0 1.000 South Cong. ..... 1 0 1.000 Stanley Memorial . 0 1 000 IE, B. C. sovevees 0 1 000 |St. Mark's «..oeni 0 1 .000 ‘The Inter-Church basketball lcague got under way Saturday night lat the Y. M. C. A. before a good- Isiaed opening night crowd. The !thrce games were more or less one- !sided. The first one was more %o, the First Lutherans walloping the St. Mark’s Episcopal team by 58-11. | The St. Matthéw's German Luther- jans then buried the Everyman's | Bible Class under a 29-11 score, | while the evening's play was brought to a close with a closer contest in which the South Congregational |church disposed of the Stanley | t | Memorial quintet by 30-17. | Swaunson Runs Wild Jllmer Swanson, First Lutheran |left forward, scored the league's first | points of the year shortly after the | game between his team and the St. s had begun, and he kept go- {ing until he had piled up 11 fleld |goals and given his team a great |start toward its 58-11 win. He made 116 points in the first half, He was having a “night,” and everything he let go went in, and all the 8t. Mark's | together could not block his accurate |shooting. All the members of the |Swede “kid" team were in great Ishooting form, however, and the bull popped in with great regularity |as overyone of the eight players broke into the scoring. Loren lar- son was second to Swanson in total | points. | The St. Mark's team - showed lack of practice and also underwent !the bewildering experience of facing 'a team that was having an almost verfect night with its shots. Al Middleton scored more than half the |loscrs’ points, but only his first fleld goal was clearly carned. Greenhalgh did good work. The game was | all Swedish in aspect from beginning |to end, the half time score being | 24-3. The summary: First Lutheran ¥id. FIL. T | Berglund, rf-rg . [ 4 | Benson, rf . o 6 | Swanson, 1 . D Hulthe 1f-rg . " 6 Anderson, ¢ 0 4 Johnson, ¢ .. [ 4 | Berlin, v ... 0 2 Larson, lg . [ 10 9 0 b8 St. Mark's Episcopal F1. Ttl. | Krom, rf 0 1 1 Middleton, 3 0 6 Greenhalgh, ¢ 1 0 2 Sinith, 1€ ... 0 1 1 Hance, Ig 0 1 1 Weare, 1g . 0 o 0 4 3 11 Personal fouls—Berglund, Swan- son, Hultberg, Johnson 4, Berlin, Larson—3%; Middleton 3, Greenhalgh 2——5. Free tries—Berglund 2, Swan- son, Anderson, Johnson—b; Krom ddleton ¢, Smith 4, Hance—12. Referee, Aronson; timers, Weir and Parker; scorer, Zetterman, St, Matts Show Speed The S§t. ‘Matts' victory over the Bible class was a brilllant one, the winners flashing a speedy attack and maintaining a stalwart defense at all stages of the contest. Reckert and Klopp, aided by a spectacular shot by Litke, sent the winners far ahead in the first half, which closed with the tally 15-6. The 8t. Matt machine kept up its pace in the final period, with Billy Preisser showing the way and Reckert again scoring a pair of field goals. Reckert and Billy Prelsser featur- ed for the winners on the attack, while the latter also held two men scoreless from the fleld. Klopp's work at center was of high caliber. “Goody" Preiser returned to the floor in the second half and appeared to suffer but little from the effects of his recently injured ankle. The teum looked very good. Bucheri did more than half of the E. B. C. scoring. The summary: St. Matthew's Lutheran 1 Everyman's Bible Class Fld. FL Tt Bucherl, rf . e, Fengler, 1t . i 3 Matteo, If w. 1050 Hewett, ¢ w... 0 0 Elton, ¢ .. [ Johnstone, rg 1 11 Balciunas, Ig «. 0 0 Weir, 1§ ..... o 2 L3 3 11 Personal fouls—Regkert, Litke 2. W. Preisser 2—5; Bucherl, Fengler, Matteo, Hewett, Johnstone ¢, Bal- clunas 2, Weir—11. Free tries— Reckert 8, Litke 2, G. Preisser 32, { W. Preisser 2, Brussick—13; Bu- cheri, Fengler 2, Hewett, Johnstone 2—6. Refcree, Aronson; timer, Hat- tings; scorer, Zetterman. South Church Wins ‘The South church met with some stern first-halt opposition from the tanmors, Stohl started the losers with a basket, but then Bell came | through with two goals before Yan- kaskas put the screws on him for |{good. Wessels and May lifted the ! winners into an 11-3 lead, only to |nave Stohl, Yankaskas and Ritter pull up to 11-9 just as the whistle ,sounded. Saunders tled the score at the beginning of the second half, but the South church finally found itself and, with Rockwell breaking away from Saunders to score ten 8 points in the 15 minutes, it quickly 1927 — Dempsey-Tunney, $2.658,- ran up its total and had a com- 660, jmanding lead at the end. A basket e by Wessels started the rally and Bobhy Hook gia football star may turn to bosing as a profession. He Is @ lght heavyweight. » University of Geor-'was followed by “Rocky's” bom. for three years, | bardment. Rockwell and Wessels carried the jbrunt of the winners' attack. Bell Fld. FIL T | Reckert, rf 4 2 10 Litke, 1If ... 1 1 3 |G. Preisser, If nieees 0 1 1 KIOPP, € cvvnvenvese 2 0 4 W. Preisser, rg +..... 3 1 7 Brussick, rg . [ 0 0 5. Preisser, 1§ .co0vn 2, 0 4 Becker, 18 ... o o0 o H 5 29 |floor work was a big factor in the victory, The defense was good, ythe Stanmors scoring mosty on long shots. The guarding of Yankaskas featured the losers' play, with Fred Ritter playing what was probably the best game of his life. The sum- mary: NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929. OPENING CONTESTS 5<% 345,25 % NEW BRITAIN DEFEATED RICKARD GREATEST BY VISITATION QUINTET Hardware City Basketball Team Shows Poorest Form of Entire Season—Visitors Give Classy Exhibition South Congregational b ) - MiaavEl sy of Court Play — Victory Made Easy by Terrible Bell, ©f ... 20 ¢ Work of Local Combination—Joe Brennan Emerges Rockwell, If .,... 5 0 10 - . . | Wemels, e 101 3 1 7 High Scorer.of the Night—Other Stars. |May, rg . ool 2 ¢ Parker, ceees v, B, € . .u i 5 — | entire year, the New Britain basket- [pyoy ") 4 4 12 s 30 |Pall team Saturday night practically |rerlihy, ¢ i N made & gift of the game to the Serill, rg . A 5 Stanley Memorial Visitation Five of Brooklyn, N. Y. |Brennan, Ig . 4 1 Ritter, rf ... 2 €|at the Stanley Arena. The visiting q 3 10 36 W, Btol, 1t e 4 |team, one of the leading quintets in | gcore at half time: New Britain, {Carroll, ¢ .. .0 2/the American league, showed all of | 7, Visitation, 16. Referce, Ball: Saunders, rg . 1 3ithe class for which it is noted but Timer, Saunders; scorer, Crean. Yankaskas, 1g . {] 2 |its way was made a great deal easier 1 _‘ ; by the fact that the home club gave Personal fouls, Bell 3, Rockwe!l 3, May, Parker, Barta—39; Ritter 3, Stohl, Carroll 2, Saunders, Yankas- kas 3-—10; free tries, Bell 3, Rock- well 3, Wessels, May 2, Parker ¢— 13; Ritter 3, Stohl 2, Saunders 2, Yankaskas 2—11. Referee, Aron- ison. Timer, Morey. 8corer, Zet- terman. Managers' Mecting The St. Matts played their game with the Bible Class under protest, asscrting that the latter had several ineligible players in the lineup. A similar allegation led the South church to play under protest against the Stanmors. Questions seem to have arisen as to the league's eligi- bility rules, and a meeting of the team managers has been called for| 7:30 o'cloek Thursday evening at the Y. My C. A. LOGAL ANATEURS AGAIN DEFEATED | Glastonbury All-Americans Too, Strong for All-Stars Glastonbury has become the banc | of existence for New Dritain ama- teur reller hockey tcams in the past tew weeks. Twice, up to yesterday, the All-Americans from that town had decisively measured an aggre- gation of local stars and yesterday, | the visitors added another victory to their string when they again won from a comfbination of amateur league stars by the score of 5 to 1. The New Britain team played under the name of Durke's All Stars and it included some of the hest amateur roller hockey talent in the city. The spirited attack and the fine team play of the visiting dele- gation, however, was too much for the unorganized quintet in this city and the Glastonbury outfit found the going rather easy. Only in the first period did local crew keep the opposition in tow. Each team scored a goal. Tn the second, however, the Glaston- bury team scored four goals in suc- cession while blanking the New Britain contingent and lead at the end of the frame by the score | which eventually proved to be the final count. A real battle was staged in the third period with the locals de-| veloping nice team work but the de- | fense on both quqintets was excel- | lent and resulted in no score for the period. The summary: Lincups New Britain Glastonbury | Casperini .............. E. Dickan | First Rush | the Gillette ... ... Connery Second Rush % L ORI Henry Center Burkhardt .......... .. A. Dickan Halfback BRVAT S s s e e T Hofr | Goal | Goals Scored by Caged hy Time 1 Glastonbury B. Dickan 3 New DBritain Gillette First Period 3 Glastonbury Counery Second Period i 4 Glastonbury Connery 5 Gilastonbury Henry 6 Glastonbury E. Dican Third Period No score. Rushes, Casperini 8. sfops, Bayer 41, Hoff lette, Casperini. Dickan 2 fouls, Gil- | Referee, Kaplan. | POPULAR ROYAL ATHLETE Prince Pierre of Greece, grand- [son of the assassinated King| |George of Greece, is one of the best | |heckey players and most popular | athletes in France today. He is 20| years old. HE DOES THIS WELL, TOO Lloyd Thomas, who gained all sorts of praise a back for South- ern California this year, is captain of the Trojan basketball team and regarded as one of the best players on the Pacific coast. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS a disorganized cxhibition and failed at any time to resemble the club that has represented this city since the season opened. The final score was 36 to 25 In favor of the visitors. It is unusual for an entire team to be as poor in form as New Britain was Saturday night. One or two players might go badly but New Britain was simply a second rate outfit in this instance with little to be said for its yplay against the Brooklyn team. Had the quintet rot been in such excellent shape ni previous games, Saturday night's game might have appealod, but as |noon Basketball league at the Y. M it was, the club was nothing like it |C: A. over the week-cnd. The Col has been and the less said about its | 8airs started off on the right foot essraaiialinioad i by handing the Panthers a 34 to 23 Led by Joo Brenmanm one of the |12¢in& while the Bear Cats defeated 1 j : '® | the Tigers in a close and rough most clever players to appear in this | o, o1t count of 15 to 17, city this year, the Visitations | o i a hopped into an carly lead and were | The 00d work of Ierony an never threatened during the entire | 'ranks was responsible for the win contest. Only once, &t the begin, |°f the Corsairs while Colwick ning of the second half, did the local | Starred for the losers. Toth teams club do any real honest-to-goodness | SHOWed the need of practice in foul work and this only served to bring | $100!iNE ds only ene out of 19 trics the score to 18 to 13 in favor of the | V23 Made. visitors for a second time. Joe Hergstrom returncd to the At this point, the Visitations put | E1Me &iter a long absence to get on steam and quickly drew away | M0 @ rough and tumble affray be- from New Britain and ended. (ny | teen the Bear Cats and Tigers. The game with an 11-point lead, the final |3/-2round play of count being 36 to 25. | Aronson featured work of Hergstrom. SATURDAY [EAGUE OPENS IN'Y Y Gorsairs and Bear Cats Start Season With Victories Two good games were played at the opening of the Saturday After- Rakowski and along with the Brennan proved to he the big | point getter for the visiting com- bination. He scored four field bas- kets and as many fouls for a total | The scores: Panthers rid. 1. . o [0 of 12 points, Conaty, forward, was | 1 1 second highest in the scoring lists s o with a total of five field baskets or e ten points. i : L Gadosh, 1. (e ey New Britain started without the | y1\orq. 1a. R St services of Za i, regular cen- ter, who suffered an injury te his | ankle in Bristol last Tuesday night. Valentine, rf. . 11 1 Holst who took the place, played a Corsairs very good game. Zakzewski got Into | yavony, rf. ; 9 0 18 the play mear the end of the first |y o o e T balf and e scored six points. Holst | aeym. | N, was high man with eight points and | oo 50 10 he plaved against Herlihy in fine | g, =p shape during the game. ?'"",h"rf'] ‘ :‘, :: : The New Britain team lacked fes | o on e & - PN e R usual dash and pepper and was 117 0o 34 away off form on its shots. Time after time, instead of working the ball down the floor, the team tried long pops which went wide of their mark. On the other hand, the Brooklyn team plaved nice pass work all through the contest an! guarded the locals closely and won the game handily. Next Saturday night. Olson's Terrible Swedes, a combination from Referee, Jasper. Tigers Aronson, rf. plan, rf. 1. Knowles, ¢. Hancock. c. . P. Parretta, rg. 1 Joplin, Mo., will oppose the New | i Britain team. et s S The scor: AT New Rritain iR ¥id. Kl s ot Stoman. rf ... ¢ | Paleunis, rg. . . 2 Williams, rf . \ | Hergstrom, 1g oAyt Uy Holst, « . & | Seavillo, 1g. ... ) Zakzewski, e . Ol R Sheehan, rg . 1| ‘Referee, Neverick. Leary, Ig e 4 el £ . _-| 7The North Dakota hasketball a2 7 team, North-Central Conference Visitation Five champions, traveled 5500 miles on ¥id. FL Tt |a holiday barnstorming tour. - S—- Place your confidence in records, not promises. Buy a used car where business integrity is a habit and where expertenced mechanics appraise and recondi- tion cars. Beloin Nlofor Sales 125 CHURCH STREET PHONE4560 NEW BRITAIN ) | HIGH PRESSURE PETE SHAKE A& LEG, HANK — AND I'LL_DRIVE VA TOWN TA WOoRK A, e ok N SNG NOY_LE>S ‘flrfl ONE_ CUSTO . ithe promoter. - we_seL Anvio-- i DONT &0 NexT AND SET CHRAI — COME. HERE_— SOUVENIERS EREE Rickard got his biggest thrill out of the crowd of around 130,000 that paid nearly $2,000,000 to see the | first Dempsey-Tunney fight in the rain at Philadelphia. | ‘ “I shall never forget that sight,” he said often, “as I looked back Leaves Behind Unparalleed (v, .15t v Record of Success in Boxing the chills up and down my back.” The chief reason Rickard took the ew York, Yan. 7 ®—A aream. cr whose dreams came true, yet & sezond Dempsey-Tunney fight to § man of action with the born spirit | lof a gambler, passed on with the death of George Lewis (Tex) Rick- ard. The most dominating as well as most daring individual promoter in |the history of professional sports leaves behind him, 3 after over 22 years connection with boxing, an unparalleled record of achievement and success. In urd entered boxing when ft| was generally taboo, an outlaw sport for the most part, harried by the law. Yot even then, in 1906, his flair for the spectacular prompted | him to offer a_purse of $31,000 for the famous Gans-Nelson fight at Goldficld, Nevada. He leaves the sport on a big busi ness scale, a hobby of society and | fashion, in an era of million-dollar purses for its heavyweight princi-, pals and of costly, almost luxurious arenas for its setting. | Rickard needed rare courage of his convictions, the vision of a path- | finder and the skill of a diplomat, s well as the chance-taking spirit of a gambler to lift boxing above it rowdy. disreputable level of years ago. He had them all. He could not separate from the game all its un- | desirable elements or features, but he developed it in New York to a point where white shirt fronts and evening gowns became conspicuous | at the ringside; and where the stock | (1ot ‘at Rickard’s shows they could of its Madison Square Garden Cor-| e B EE L e space their poration obtained standing in Wall| ,t00ard specified and actually sce street. | what was going on. Tex had a care- | fully trained corps of aides who be- came expert in the handling of big as a keen-eyed, keen-sighted pro-ferowds quickly. He spent hours moter of extravaganzas; a - leal, |yimgelf on the seating plans and was ;-‘ron‘z(‘d| figure wm:':-lg:‘r‘ u‘n':”'m"q“»‘ (uick to remedy any complaints. is busine ciates knew As| " One of his biggest disappointments a visionary who also had practical |yas in the famaus Dempacy ideas; boxing managers as a shrewd | 21t of 1923 at the Polo Grounds, handler olr sif"-'rmo"s ; nd - Keen v ore thousands who held ringside analyst of box office values. | seats failed to see much, if anything, To newspapermen, Rickard's door {o¢ the hricf ring action hecause of whether to his old fower quarters it | (o confusion and sloping ch {the_original garden or in the more | of fho I I field. Ric |luxiirious suite of the new garden. |{urned thousands of dollars 4 |always was open. To old time boxers | qisfied patrons because of this, and and old associates, men with their| o did it without hesitation, fortunes gonc, Tex was a ready-| Royle's Thirly Acres, the Yamous handed Triend. of all heavyweight extravaganza was his desire to attract the biggest rowd in history. He succeeded, and the mark of nearly §3,000.000 for the ate” from some 145,000 spec- |tators may stand indefinitely. Monument to Work | From the time he came to New | York until the new Madison Square |Garden was completed and opened in 1923, Rick ged this mod- n sports palace as monument to hievements. Years before it was realized or even considered more than a dream, Rickard over pluns and specificatio took years for him to convince his financial backers and partners that it was worth while. * tickard was intensely proud that walks of life came to boxing matches as he raised the standards of their promotion. He often spoke of this as one of his outstanding achieve- ments. His slogan, when he first under- took to promote the game on a big scale in New York, was “a scat for ery customer and every customer in his own seat.” To this perk more than to any other idea was due his success in the grcat outdoor spectacles he put on. The patrons of hoxing who used 1o be lucky to get inside some of the old arenas, much less get the seats their tickets called for, came to realize and appreciate As Public Knew Him The general public knew Rickard Jersey City bowl erected for the Rickard always was more inter-|pempgey-Carpentier fight in 1821, lested in the spectacular side of his|wug Rickard’s own model. Jrom a | ventures, in the size of his crowds g land magnitude of the undertaking, than in the actual fights them- selves. He possessed an uncanny ability to anticipate popular interest [duced the principals to sign for a In his match-making; especially|$500,000 purse, an unheard of among the heavyweights. He was a|amount, but the gate from 90,000 past master at what is NOw TCCOE- |spectators exceeded $1,600,000. ¢ I nized as the art of the ballyhoo. pentler was “built up” as But it was the arena and its hu-|tender, when as a matter of fact he man inpouring that chiefly interested | was not a match for the smashing Dempeey. OUR BOARDING HOUSE ator's viewpoint, it was as near perfect as any. This fight was in many respects Rickard's most suc- cessful piece of promotion. He in HetLo ! NES, ~THIS 1S MASOR HooPLE /v WHO 2 v EH 2 o CARTWRIGHT 22+ WELLY . . WELL,wv EGAD, SIR ANTHOAY, .. WHAT ARE Vol DoING IN -THIS CoUNTRY 2 «e oM VouR WAY To AUSTRALIA ! «s WHERE ARE Voo NowW 2 «s OH, AT -THE DEPOT, e WELL, NoU WAIT UNTIL I COoME DowWN AND GET Nou /«wa WHY, NOU'RE COMING oUT -To mY HOUSE ! « BUT I WSIST, SIR ASTHONY ! wen \ES - L, MaN OUTTA V'L 8uR dier Field, Chicago, for the greatest | |the big men of Wall street supported | him and that important people in all | 1tirpo 1 con- | T s SIR ARTH WHAT/ .« SIR_ARTHONY Wil | = 2 ST e e e HE'S RINGING I WHo'LL BROAD ‘A” EVERYTHIMG N T PLACE DOWN !~ I'LL LICK TROSE S5 To A eATLE —ETC S\ Pleaded With Dempeey Rickard himself was so fearful of | the possible outcome thyt ke went {to Dempsey's dressing room before - the match and pleaded with Jack “not to hit the Frenchman teo hard.” and to let the fight go a few rounds at least so that the recerd- breaking crowd would get something jof a run for its money. | *“I was afraid Dempsey would kill | Carpentier if he hit him too hard,” i ‘um promoter admitted later. Rickard regarded Jim Jeffries as (the greatest of all heavyweight champions, but his interest in and admiration for Dempsqy's fighting qualities was great. For one thing Dempsey's and Rickard's fortunes were closely entwined. Rickard pro. ! moted six of Dempeey's eight cham- pionship fights, made the Manassa Mauler a millional and the great- est drawing card of them all. Some idea of the influence of Dempsey in Rickard’s prometion scheme may be gained from the fact that of the something more than $10,000,000 in gute receipts {from all the big fights Rickard has promoted, approximately $8,000,000 has been realized in the six Dempeey battles—two with Tunney and ene leach with Brennan, Firpo, Carpen- tier and Sharkey. It is a strange turn that Keeps Rickard from the arena at & time when he planned Dempsey's farewell to the ring, the old Mauler's last cffort to regain the heights and be the only modern champion te win back the crown. The *“racket” will miss Rickard. He fought it, bargained with it and outwitted it from the time he eame {to New York. He made cnemies as well as friends. But what a manager, who had reason o be antagonistic to the promoter, once said of him, is | significant: 'SOUTH CHURCH T0 MEET PLAINVILLE TOMORROW Local Basketball Team Faces Biggest Task in Meeting Undefeated Quintet, South church will make its effort in the Scnior Hart- ford County Y. M. C. A. league to- morrow night when it meets the un- | defeated Plainville “Y™ quintet on ' club floor at 7 . Plainville has captured by overwhelmingly large scores the three games it has played to date and is riding serencly along in first place. The ehurch five has taken [tiree out of four, its only loss hav- {ing heen at the hands of Plainville when the teams met in that town. New Britain was short-handed that Inight and hopes to turn the tables | tomorrow when it brings its full strength dnto play, but Plainville has |always been a tough team for the |locals to beat and the game s ex- |pected to be a hard one all the way. |1ts outcome will have an important ring on the championship, for a iinville victory would virtually clinch the title for that team and a * Inew Britain win would give the jehurch a hold on first place. By AHERN WHAT fow 7 Wl ARTURIGHT, wans TLL BuT T’ Foop ! -~ ~1VE SEEM I'THAPPEA BEFORE ,~ JusST A TH' DIRTY _CROOKS — TRYIN' TR PUT AN WOWEST PUSNESS — |'LL AR "EM = 'L UNDEASELL 'EM . IF | HAOE TO GIUE ' STUEE AWAY