New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 14

RUBENSTEIN SIGNED TO PLAY WITH NEW BRITAIN BASKETBALL TEAM—SOUTH CHURCH QUINTET GOES INTO FIRST PLACE IN HARTFORD COUNTY “Y” LEAGUE—WATERBURY ROLLER HOCKEY CLUB BATTLES LOCALS TOMORROW NIGHT — SPORTS 0. CHURCH TAKES LEAD IN COUNTY “Y” CIRCUIT| Hands Unmerciful 51-27 Walloping to Plainville Y. M. C. A. Basketball Quintet—Holds Visitors Scoreless In First Period—Morey Returns to Game and Piles Up 22 Points — Defeat Plainville’s First—Locals Lead by Half Game. Connty Tritain ville >uthington .. S00 66T 667 200 000 ving by far its best form of the season and completely outplay- ing its opponents in every depact- ment, the New Britain South church basketball team overwhelmed the Plainville Y, M. . A. quintet by a 51-27 score at the Boys' club last night and swarmed into first place in the County “Y" league, knocking the Plainville team off that pin- nacle. Tt was the first defeat of the scason for the visitors, who never had a chance and were on the short | ond of & hopelass score befoce the gume had fairly begun, for X Diritain worked to departments and swepts its ‘o>s off their feet from on: whistle to the other. New Rock- and Britain sta 1 with 1 Morey as forwards tain Bell on ths sidelines. The game was stil very joung when Morey hooked in two shots for the first scores, and, wi.h Barta and Parker throwing up a stone wall de- fense, the church held Plaiavill2 pointless and led by 8-0 at quarter. In the second period Caul- field broke Plainvilie's jinx with a free toss, but the tally was 12-3 be- fore the visitors scored from the field on a basket by Nelson. Stil! playing a passing and game of deadly accuracy, the win- ners added nina more points and led by 21-5 at the half. Bell went in for New Britain in the second half. Plainville, with Geetersloh and sensational shots from the middle of the floor, found itself at last and rallied strongly, knocking two points off the locals’ lead during the quarter. But New Britain more than met the challenge and, In- creasing even the pace it had been setting, it wound up the game by a smashing fourth-period attack which left Plainville helpless and pinned upen it the worst defeat It has suffered in the four years of competition with the South church. Wilton Morey signalled his return to the floor after a lengthy illness b nearly equalling the entire Plain- viile team's score and caging 22 points. Itockwell worked excellent- Iy with him and Bell, taking the ficor only in the last half, carried cn in similar fashion. Wessels did good floorwork, and the guaras maintained an impregnable defense, holding the Plainville forwards to a lone basket and forcing the visi- tors to do all their scoring from well out on the floor. Barta and May took turns at watching Freddy Miller, the higgest Plainville threat and the sccond highest scorer in the league, and they ran him ragged ond held him without a single ficld The spectacular second-hatt #hooting of Caulfield and Geetersioh featured the play of the Plainville team. The summary: New Britain South Church Fld. FL THL Rockwell, f, & 6 Bell, rf perfection i all | the | shooting | Caulfied making | | 8 EAPECT DENPSEY 70 FIGHT AGAIN Former Champion Will Carry Out Rickard's Wishes New York, Jan. 9 (P —Jack | Dempsey s expected to announce definitely tomorrow he has decided to carry out Tex Rickard's wish that he return to the ring this year in an attempt to regain the heavyweight championship of the world. At first perhaps inclined to give up all thought of a come-back ow- ing to the shock of losing the man who played so big a part in shaping his fighting destiny, Dempsey now seems to think that * he could do nothing more appropriate than carry fon as the promoter would have wished. His feeling perhaps is that with Rickard's passing it is more | binding on him than before to carry out the promoter's desire that he | fight once more. | Unless there is a shake-up in the program. this means Dempsey's next | |and probably last fight will take | place at the Yankee Stadium some | {time fu September, more than 10 years after he won the heavyweight itle from Jess Willard and three | years, to the month, after he lost it to Gene Tunney. His opponent will be selected, 1if | Rickard's well-laid plans go through from an elimination process invelv- ng four men. Two of them, Young | Stribling and Jack Sharkey, will {fight the first test match at Miami Deach February 27 in a bout which {will find Dempsey in a promoter's role for the first time. Paulino |Uzcudun and Tom Heeney, unless [the latter decides not to compete, | will meet in a second elimination contest in May, the winner to box the victor of the Sharkey-Stribling match to decide Dempsey's oppo- | nent. Hecney's place may be filled by | |some other contender, but three pre- {liminaries to the grand climax are | planned. “Rickard did a lot for me In the years we worked together.” said | Dempsey. “I have had great confi- dence in his judgment and great re- |spect for his friendship from the [time I first met him at Goldfield back about 1911, when 1 was just a [kid and boxing only:now and then as an amateur. He never gave me |a bad steer. | “The best thing I can think of to |do is to carry on as 1 knew he | wanted me to do. We shared a finan- |clal interest in this Miami Beach |fight, and that's one reason why I |am going back there to try to put it |over.” | Dempsey may qualify his an- | nouncement of a forthcoming come- |back to the extent of saying it de- ‘pendu on whether he can regain his old fighting condition. Those close to him, however, do not believe any |serious obstacles will arise. The directors of Madison Square LINCH WILL GO " ON STAND ToAY ' Boston Councilman Expected to Answer Charges of Bribery | 9 (# — Councilman William G. Lynch was due to take |the stand today before the Boston | finance commission to answer the | charge of Emil Fuchs, president of the Boston National league club, that le had solicited bribes of $5,000 for himself and 12 other councilien to vote for local ratification of the law pernniting Sunday professional | sports. | =Fuchs' charge was branded “a fa fairy tale superinduced by Ernest J. Goulston, advertising man, in testimony : the commission yesterday. | Goulston, who said he was a friend of Dan 11, tight man r alleg- | ¢d to have uccompanicd Lynch when {he made the bribery proposal, de- [clared that Charles 1. Adams, vice | president of the Braves, told him of |the alleged incident over the phone land that he (Goulston) did not be- [lieve it. While the finance commission’s hearings continued yesterday, a par- allel investigation conducted by the ttorney general's office reached out 10 include State Representise James T. Twohig of South Boston. An official return of the receipts and | expenditures of the Outdoor Recrea- |tion league, sponsor of the Sunday eporta bill, was discovered vester- day to contain a record of $500 paid |to Twohig “for speaking to rallies, and expenses.” Assistant Attorney General Gerald Callahan, who is investigating charges that the list of contributors to the league's $30.000 fund is false |and that Fuchs really contributed all the money, said that he would in- | vestigate the payment listed to Two- | nig to dstermine if there had bcen ny violation of a clause in the cor- | rupt practices act which says, “No | member of the general court shall promote or opposc for a valuable consideration, other than expenses {actually incurred, the acceptance by voters of any law...." Callahan will continue today ques- fioning those listed as contributors to the league. He will also call Walter Jackson, Braves' ficld announcer and unsuccesful opponant of ex-Senator Thomas H. Bilodeau who had veted against Sunday sports, in the repub- lican primaries last September. Jack- son, it is alleged, was supplied with | rge number of free tickets to | Braves' field with the inscription {“Vote for Jackson” on the backs. Jackson's return of expenditures with [the secretary of state whow contri- butions totaliing 400 from Adams, it | was revealed yesterday, Two other wilnesses heard by the finance commission yesterday failed |to support Fuchs' charges. Myles T. | MecSweeney, a Boston sports writer, | admitted that ‘when he told Fuchs that ““he had enough on two council- | men to herg them,” he was acting on | |a “meve presumption”. He said: *1 | was just fishing for a story.” | President Thomas H. Green of the | | city council, waid he never believed | that Lynch had accused him of re- ceiving money for favoring the bill, as Fuchs had previously testified. |Green also said that he called a spe- | cial meeting of the city council to | | consider the Sunday sports bill of his | own volition and that the fact that | | notices for the meeting were sent| out from Fuchs' room in a Boston | hotel was “pure accident.” | Boston, Jan. OLSON'S SWEDES PLAY HERE SATURDAY |WATERBURY ANXIOUS TO BEAT LOCALS THURSDAY “Red” Donnelly and Mates Groomed for Fierce Battle at Stanley Arena—Shamrocks Eager to Put New Brit- ain Out of First Place—Hardware City Crew Ha Taken Five Straight Games From Brass Cityites— “Kid” Williams & Co. Ready. . -, number of | per- Rubenstein, for a years one of the outstanding pormers on the ball team, has signed up to play again with the locals, according to an announcement made by Manager Clarence Lanpher today. The player and manger came to an agreement last night over the tclephone and Rubenstein will make his first ap- pearance this season with the local team at the Stanley Arena Saturday night. “Ruby" started the present sea- son as a member of Viec Hanson's Syracuse team. He was with great success but the urge to rejoin New Britain 2nd ho severed connections with the New York ciub last week. His presence in the lineup will, it is hoped, compensate for the loss to | the locals of McElwain, Fort Wayne star, who defected a few weeks ago. | Rubenstein ig in excellent shape he should fit back with the old crowd as nicely as he used to in the years gone hy, | Simultaneously with the nouncement of the acquisition was too great | Rubensteln to the tcam, | announcement from the local man- | ager that “Pop” Williams, footbail | star, had been relcased. the team after McElwain's depart- ure and did good work. He did not | just fit in the combination, however, | {and because of the tcam's greater nced for a forward there was no w | Clevel, BONNIE STEWART Aui-A MERICAN FORWAR e ARL CAMP 2 figufa:rlzi RUBENSTEIN WILL PLAY | WITH NEW BRITAIN TEAM Known Until Spring Former Star Forward Comes to Terms With Manager Clarence Lanpher In Conference Held Last Night— | Has Been Playing With Syracuse Team — “Pop” | Williams Is Given His Release—Reorganized Team | to Meet Olson’s Swedes From Kansas. L ATHETIS ARE " PUZZLE TO FANS Strength of Team Will Not Be: Philadelphia, Jan. 9 (A—Manager oeting |Connie Mack, of the Philadelphia | from Farnshaw, € | Americans, has added an outficlder |and weeded out & material, lot of med iocre but the strength of the {1929 Athletics must remain somo- |what of a puzzle to major leaguc baseball fana until he iooks over his team in spring tra‘ting, or executos After a ana, He joined [the veteran Homer Samnna undisclosed cash pr |the Athletics |Simmons, Bing Mitlr, ker, win red ny hias month’s Manage 1, Mack thus g four ou a few more trades to plug up snp.{ 4RO [posedly weak spots | The Athle an outf |Ty Cobb and Tris & an-|Who retired last fall, and of | French, utility fly eame the |went on the volantary S most pressing noed | ateo | list., with | obtained | t an wing Muls Haas. | and Summa, Tt appears certa'n that Mack will PR P4 EOWIN MARTENEY, OLSON ALL"OKLAHOMA GUARD MANAGER & FORWARD -y was catching for Pittsburgh many | years ago. Those released included Joe Bush, veteraa pitcher, Joe Hauser, first baseman, and scveral youngsters. Fddie Collins is back as captain and principal adviser, with Kid Glea. son, Ira Thomas and Earl Mack es assistants to the lanky leader. The only significant announcemen: made by Manager Mack recently was that Ossie Orwall, slugging left handded pitcher, would ne ‘onger be used in the box. Orwall probably will play first base or substitute in the outfield, his place on the opitching staff having been taken %y Carroll Yerkes, nephew of Steva Yerkes, the old Red Sox second baseman. Jimmy Foxx probablv will replace Sammy Hale on third base, leaving Orwall and Dykes to fight it out for first. Either can os used in the out- field. Jack Boley at zhort-stop and Max Bishop, second baseman, are fix- tures at the middle defense, with Hale and Joe Hassler as inficld re- servists. The pitching staff virtvally is un- | changed. Mack expects great thinge who was not in good playing condition when pur- !chased by the Athletizs from Baiti- more last June. | The batterymen will leave Febru. ary 22 for Fort Myers, Fla., where !the team will train for the fifth consecutive year. The Athletics’ Pitchers—Quinn, !shaw, FEhmke, Shores, Grove and Yerkes. Catchers—Cochrane, | 0'Rourke. Inficlders—Foxx, Orwall, Blshop, | Boley, Dykes and Hassler. | Outfielders—Simmons, Haas, Mil- roster follows: Rommel, Farn- Perkins and |ler and Summi Chicazo Cubs to Stand Pat on Their Lineup Chicago, Jan. 8 (P—Indicating that the Chicago Cubs would stand pat on their present lincup, Presi- Nalherg, | BURRITTS PLAY IN SOUTHINGTON Fast Battle Is Expected When Quintets Clash A fast battle is expected this eve- ning at the town hall in Southington when the Burritt and Southington h basketball fives clash in the first game of a two game series. This will be the first time that the two aggregations have met and both are anxious to get the jump in the series by annexing tonight's battle. The game will start about 8:30 ©'clock. The Burritts are in the midst of a winning streak and have won thejr last four games. So far this sesson the locals have captured eight out of nine games and hope to bring their string of wins to ten by the end of the week with double victories over the Bouthington aggregation. the call to start at forwards. Luty will take care of the pivot position. Carlson and Darrow will be the suardians of the back court. Gill and Rose will also see plenty of ac- tion, Bouthington will start its usual lineup which has cut a wide figure in the Hartford County ‘'Y” bas- ketball league. It is expected that the battle will be witnessed by a large crowd. The Burritt players will leave from the Y. M. C. A. bulld- ing at 7:30 o'clock. Manager Ken Saunders is map- ping out a busy schedule for the next two months and is planning to bring teams here from Willimantic, Manchester, Torrington and Meriden. The locals have defeated the best .:.umum- that Hartford has to offer, Garden Suffered Loss For Past Six Months New York, Jan. 9 UP—Madison Square Garden suffered a net loss of nearly $335,000 for the six months |ending Nov. 30, published financial reports reveal. The actual loss was $233,121 compared with & net profit 117; Q,Ill.nos for the same period of 27, For the quarter ending Novem- ber 30, the Garden showed a net profit of $75,327 compared to a net profit of §319,013 for the same pe- riod in 1927, The losses can be attributed to |the failure of the Tunney-Heeney and Mandell-McLarnin bouts to arouse the popular interest that the Dempsey-Tunney and Dempsey- Sharkey bouts did in 1927, READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS Havlick and Yakubowics will get | It ever the New Rritain roller hockey *club was in for & hot ses. sion, it will experlence one tomor- row night when the Waterbury Shamrocks fired by a fierce desire to tumble the locals from first place, invade this city. The yisitors, led by Captain “Red" Donnelly, will be full of fight in this instance and the New Britain skaters will have to be at their best to repel the invasion. Not only is Waterbury eager to win because it will enhance its chances of going into firat place, but the green-clad team wants to wipe out the record created by the New Britain team of wins over the Brass City contingent. In six meetings, New Britain has defeated Waterbury five times and the locals are hope- ful of turning the trick once in tomorrow night. The feeling that Donnelly holds against the local club was not one whit lessened by the graceful act of his admirers in presenting him with a bouquet of roses last week. Don. nelly expressed his appreciation of the gift but he is anxious to win ball gamea for his team and he will play for all he is worth tomorrow night, New Britain, in & tie for the lead. ing position with Albany, will have its strongest offense and defense in the game. Williams and Thompson will be on the rush line with Gazzin. &a in center. Doherty will be at half- back and Pete Weich will be in the goal. Waterbury will have Davies and Mulligan as rushes with Donnelly in center. Herbert will be at halfback with the spectacular Blount in the goal. ‘The eontest will start promptly at 9 o'clock. PHANTOMS LOSE Looal Baskethall Team Drops Hard. Fought Contest to Communities of Meriden. ‘The Phantom basketball team lost a tough encounter to the Community Five of Meriden in that city last night, the final score being 33 to 22 The New Britain team got away to a good start and led at the end of the first quarter by a 7 te § acore. Baskets by Crane, Yankowits and Cohen made the lead possible. Three quick baskets by thé Communities with two minutes to go in the sec- ond quarter left the Meriden team in the lead at half time by a count of 14 to 12. Both teams played evenly in the third period and the Meridenites again led 21 to 18. The Communi- ties then proceeded to put the game on ice in the final period. Kocin and Koski starred for Meriden with Cohen and Crane being the big guns for the Phantoms. The score; Phantoms Fld. Cohen, ¥ wummomosx Crane. I u:aomanaroe 8 Howitt, @ . uosuzmus Tkowits, €-18 ssewmmom | Levine, rg .....pmwox Yankowits, 1g ,x.xwee -] 2 H loacwsas 22 |Garden, whether or not they have w | their eye on Dempsey as a possible 7| successor to Rickard's titular role in 4 | boxing, are understood to favor 1| fighting come-back by the former negotiate another ical or two. if will | Possible, before he s satisfied with |the outfit that finish-d orly a |games behind the mpion New “This will be the :.York Yankees last y Morey, If D. Wosilus, If . Wessels, ¢ . Barta, rg, 18 May, rg .. dent William T.. Veeck, has packed his grips and left for California for a vacation on Catalina Tsland. President Veeck has indicated that the Cubs are not Interested 1in ac. | place for him New Britain, Saturday night, meet Olson’s Terrible Swedes, a combination of Scandi: ans from Communities Raden, rg u.,. 3 Koskl, rt qvmrmpaens 8 Kocin, It maprmmones ¢ OWEN IN INITIAL - 0 Hattings, rg Parker, 1g 51 Plainville Y. M. C. Fid. o o Tt Caulficld, 1, ¢ . 12 Nelson, rf . Miller, 1f Martin, 1If . it e Wilkinson, rg . R. Schwab, rg . Personal fouls—Rockwell Wessels 3, Barta 3 *1d 3, Miller 4, Martin, Frost 4, Nelson, Wilkinson 3, Schwab 2— 18, Technical fouls—Bell. Free tries—Bell 2, Morey 4, Wessels 5, Tarta 5, May 3, Parker- field, 5, Miller Will Schwah, Geeterslo! IN sketball team ATrows ¢ (o] 1o ) overwhelmed the terday at the hool gy e summary Scorer, B. Gordor EARNS EXPENSES BY BOXING Bob amsey, medical student at i t trom Mem- expenses to at- ing in the mid- bascball games ley. veteran N handled in Japan, beadquarters here. 1tiona e umpice, he wrote lcague champion. For one thing, they are anxious to further Rickard's pro- gram for a revival of heavyweight inferest by crowning Tunney’s Buc- cessor, at the same time endeavor- ling to recoup the losses suffered in 19 ! Without I Dempse fes of 1 duce a generally pion or develop fproiit. the participation of it is not believed any ser- avyweight tests would pro- recognized cham much financial FIGHTS LAST NIGHT | el Mty Grimitl ioux e G . | the Ballatine, | ( Philadelphia, pped Chicago, sto | cago, (3). Jack Moore, (hi- rry Cappo. Kan- Himey Gar- 10). Kansas City—I Salt Gutpointed finkle, Cleveland—Gorilla Jone ed out Arturo (1); Armando Schackels Jo s, Tiel- et draw, and am y Kaufra Read, Par Belgiun Mexico, Detroit, ( Rosy Swede Johnson 19 outpointua ~title). Lddie Tod Morgan, (1), Mack (Not Borde, Tndianapolis outpointed (10); Harry mie Fierro, ¢ z0, Frane outpol , Ind., hic Ha La Eiler, 7 John Louisvill jock Maloy tpointed Tom Pruitt, S tarbara, (10) attle, stopped i, (1) BACK IN VAL Atking, 20 1 out la Worth. is back on the Itian varsity basketball who stave son to p! IFort Texas Chris PRO HOCKEY GAWE \Former Harvard Athletic Star| Appears With Boston Bruins | | Jan. 9 (A—George Owen, | vhale | Boston former Harvard hero, had a lof a time.” in his first professionas | hockey game with the Boston | Bruins here st night against the | Toronto Maple leafs. : “1 had a whale of a time,” Owen |said at the end of the game, during {which he performed brilliantly on the defense and so well on offense |that he succeeded in making one of Bruins' five goals, “I know T am going to like pre- he continuey, in T will be able tc T did last night. | fessional hetter s a bit 4s T becoms ofessional r than the play than I off acelimated hockey is much cur game. 1 always knew that but 1 never real- ized just Tow much margin there s Detween (hem unttl last night. The itest difference seemed 10 1 { specd the opposing for- ward in coming at you. Ama- stoppea [ teurs always slow up when they hit | the inerease o dofensemen hut profession- als ar to their speed as they erash into the opposition.” teammates agreed a wonderful start. ryone that came his 00d many that did and drew a pe do you want?” they Owen's new he made eheeked ¢ W a Owen was one of Harvard's most noted athletie figures 1y recog a - greatest American college since the days of im- Hobey Tiaker signed a contract with 1he Bruins with the stipulation that have to sever with the Doston with which he has t e '3 and has gen- heen hock- player al ar not his re. investment on aduatod sine vas UMBERS TO BOWI, Pettain Master Plumn o will e noin Meriden to- lock in A the regula Mastes mateh in | Plumbers” Bowling League. en but that will wear | as probably | affili- | in | Coffeyville, Kansas. first game in the East for a combin- | ation that has reached high stages of fame for the past eight ye The visitors come here with an imposing record. In eight years of play, the quintet has played a total | of 515 games and has won 441 of | them. During the 1927-28 season, | the Swedes played 106 contests, and | won 94 of them. The team is rated as one of the fastest 1 bines to appear in the The team will start a tour of the castern section of the country Sat- ht when it meets New nes have heen arranged | with Unien City. N. J. Plainficld, | stamford, the Visitations of Brook- Iyn and many other well known quintets. | sketball com- | ‘Question Mark Crew | Receives Invitations Angeles, 9 (®—Invita- ¢ cities urging the to visit famous today npon who ended flight .\|on-i | TLos tions in th crew of the them and bring mount, were the five army their record breaking day. Major Carl "z, erred the invitition to the partment. Lias orders fly the planc to San Dicgo k. After undergoing minor pairs there it s to fly ton, manned 1. i The time of its departure and th rout= to be taken have not becn de- cided. The five a round of wil States, uestion M, lonz their showered fl conn alrcady fliers today festivitics here e guests at a han were in for They uct tonight. BEST SINCE D CHRISTY | Felix J. McCormick. Bucknell sen- for, is said by authoriti of the I 8chool to L the greatest all-round athlete since the days of Christy Mathewsor, THEY FAVOR POOL GAME Officinls in New York announced | | recently that more pors wore is sued during 1928 for pool halls than any other indoor sport 1T SEEMS A NEAT PROI Athletic authorit Nel raska Another John O'Rourke | who will be third string cat is a son new player siznc ttle v of Tim O'Roirke, played with Louisviile whiie say that the athletic | henefited 158,208 by rece | the 1525 footbull scuson. ury was ipts from d s outh, r. He who Mack quiring Lester Bell of the Braves, |who is supposed to be on the market, or Joe Dugan, who recently hopped from the Yankees to Boston /by the waiver route. 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