New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1929, Page 13

Speaking of Sports PSPPI PPVPPPNVPIVOIIPS | A decided change in the owner- ship of Sequin Golt ¢lub is being contemplated according to an. ' an- nouncement by officials of the club and the proposition may go through it favorable action is taken at the meeting next month. The question is whether the physical assets of the club shall be turned over to a hold- ing company. The plan as told by Dr. W. W. Stockwell, president of the clyb, will make the club comprised of two distinct bodies. One will be the Sequin Realty Co. which will own the clubhouse, course and all things accruing to it and the other will be the Bequin Golf club which will exist solely for the purpose of playing golf and will hold no property interests. Tt is understood that the sum of $115,000 will be required to make the ehange and practically all of this amount in stock has already becn taken up. A New Britain team of boxers will appear for the first time tonight in fmateur bouts in New Haven. The team will consist of Bernard Flood, Mike Sinko, Fred Bergenetti, Jae Ryan, George Hadden and others. All of the roller polo fans in town will turn out tonight to watch “Red” Donnelly and his Waterbury club in action against New Britain, With the sppearance of the Waterbury team here, it is almost an assured fact that the fans will be treated to a few spectacles of fisticuffs along with the polo game. Every time these two clubs clash, it is a case of the greatest point getter in the league clashing with the best gozl tender in the circuit. Williams aguinst Rlount makes a great hattle any old time. Waterbury wants to dump New Britain out of first place simply be- cause the team has a grudge against the Hardware City entry. Whether it can do it or not is another ques- tion and a horse of a different color. Harry Thompson has found it necessary {o undergo trcatment for a bang in the chest he received last Sundsy afternoon at the hands of “Gig” Brown. It is doubtful if Harry will be able to g2t into the game tonizht. He was strapped up vesterday and may be in shape for tonight. New Britain's old quintet of Rub- enstein, Sloman, Zakzewski, Sheehan and Leary will be in action again Saturday night. Rubenstein has rigned and will play his first game Saturday. Zakzewski's bum ankle has mended and he will be in per- fect trim. The team meets one of the hest in the country in Olson’s Terrible Swedes. The word “terrible” In that name docsn’t apply te them as basketball players but to the feeling the visi. tors Inspire in opposing quintets. An X-ray examination of the in- jured leg of Fred Saunders yester- day showed that he is suffering from water on the knee. He was ordered to remain in bed by Dr. Donnelly. Tred has decided te hang up his &hoes for g0od and will not be seen on the haskethall court any more. At the time of his iInjury he was playing on the Corhin Screw anl Burritt teams. He was the leading scorer en the Rurritt team but his best work on toth teams was his ability to get the -jump. He captained last vear's Tigh school team. The high school five will clash with the Gilbert high team at Win ated Baturday evening. The game was originally scheduled to he play- ed last evening. A boy watching the Burritt- Southington “game’ last ovening innoeently inquired if the local boys were bell-hops at the Burritt hotel. in taking the ball “Pat” Rose, outside, bumped against a radiator | and jumped about five feet in the air. He received a bad burn on his Jeg. Havlick was cut on the leg while Gill is nursing & bump on his head. ORIGINAL CELTICS WIN The Original Celtics basketball team won its fourth successive game Jast night when it defeated the Cel- tics of Broadbrook In a fast and in- teresting contest. ‘The scere was .9 to 20. New Rritain led at half time by a count of 13 to 6 but Broad- brook tied the count at 17 all by long shots. Zaleski, Hubay and «'Brien starred for the locals with » wick and Kristoys being the big guns for the Broadbrook team. The score: Original Celtics Fl. T Zaleski, rf - < 11 10 O'Brien, Ig Broadbrook Fid. Krissigi, rf .. Redfern, rf Kristrop, 1f Referec READY FOR BOUT New York, Jan. 10 (UP)—Jimmy MclLarnin, Vancouver, B. (.. light- weight, and Joe Glick, Brooklyn, were in fine shape today for their 10-roynd bout in Madison Square Garden Friday night. They met yesterday at Tex Rickard's funeral services. It will be the first ap- pearance of McLarnin in New York eince he was knocked out by Ray Miller in Detroit recently. |a light-heavyweight |Jack Payne, Australian RICKARD FUNERAL SIWPLE CERENONY Crowds View Last Remains of Noted Sports Promoter New Yeork, Jan. 10 M—With a last big crewd to bid him farewell, Tex Rickard has gone to his rest in Woodlawn cemetery. For three hours yesterday a long line of mour- ners, drawn {rem every walk of life, passed through Madison BSquare Garden to pay their final tribute te the deac promoter and 10,000 of them remained in the black draped |arena for the simple funeral serv- |ices. Another crowd viewing the funeral procession lined the street outside the building that atands as a monument to the man who could conceive and conduct sports on such | a great scalc as it required and yet be a friend to the least of the pre- liminary fighters. The Rev. George Caleb Moor, pas- tor of the Madison Avenue Baptist church, pronounced the final bene- diction, saying “He was a man with- out a meanness, a counselor without | concei And in thelr own words [the “boys™ echoed the sentiment, | “He was a good guy.” | Many others added their tributes, | spoken and silent, to this. The Rev. | Cranston Brenton of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, for which Rickard had helped to raise funds, represented Bishep William Man- ning, who could not attend because of iliness. He ended his brief eulogy: “He fought a good fight and gave happiness and pleasure to thou- sands.” Dudley Field Malene added. “In | the hearts of millions will be found his memorial.” Today the black and purple dra- peries were ordered taken down and Maison Square Garden again was| | transferred into the huge arena| | Rickard built. \LEADING GOLF STARS ; ENTERED IN TOURNEY Los Angeles Opon Event Begins To- | morrow Over the Famous | Riviera Course. Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 10 (UP) —The $10,000 Los Angeles open golf | tournament begins tomorrow over ;the Riviera course with many of the leading stars of the country entered. Walter Hagen, fresh from his vic tory in the Long Beach tournament | which netted him $1,600, will com. ! pete in this event for the first time. Another headliner is MacDonald Smith, last year's winner of the event. He has been turning in fine work in practice rounds. The same may be said for Leo Diegel, profes- sieal golf awmeciation champion. Harry Cooper also has been playing fine golf. Two leading professionals who will not be in the tournament are Johnny Farrell and Gene Sarazen, both of whom are wintering in Florida. First place in the tournament carries a prize of $3,500. ADONIS AND KONGHINA T0 BATTLE TOMORROW Leading Middicweights to Clash In Star Bout at Foot Guard Hall in Hartford. Hartford, Jan. 10—Eddie Adonis | of Athol, Mass., and Frankie Kon- |china of New York report in fine shape for their | Guard hall tomorrow night. Both Adonis and Konchina fought Frank- ie O'Brien here and made a great | hit with the fans-boxing O'Brien, | who is a left hander. It has been suggested fo the club to match these two hard hitting right hand- ers by numeraus fans of the boxing public Who relate that everything will happen in this bout and it | should be the best of the season for action and what not. “The Adonis and Konchina bout tops an all-star card of 40 rounds of boxing that will get under way at 8:15 p. m. BLUES BEAT WILLIMANTIC The Blues hasketball team scored its second victory in {hree starts last night at the Sacred Heast school gym when it toppled the Willimantic team by a 41 to 21 score. The Blues led at half time by a 22 10 8 count. Adams and Zembrowski starred for the Blues with Dawson and Southworth being the big guns for the losers. Fhe score: New Britain Blues v, TOL. Zembroski, rf ¢ 14 Covey, It .. Adauws, ¢ . Pac, 1%, ¢ . Benjamin, Ig . Kaczynski, 1f . Pihiel, rt Senk, 1t . Zeigler, 1g e suuruwa - 1 Wiltimantic ¥id. Dubrent, rf .. = Dawson, If . 1 3 Bouthworth, ¢ .. 3 [3 0 o an T | Nelson, rg | Tetage, 1g . | o . FIGHT MONPAY NIGHT New York, Jan. 10 (UP)—George Courtney, Oklahoma cowboy who recently deserted the middleweight |ranks, will make his third start ss against Tiger negro, at the St. Nicholas arena Monday night. WINS HOCKEY SERI Boston, Jan. 10 (UP)—The Ri- deaus of Ottawa beat the University NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, CELTICS DROP CLOSE GAME TO NEW HAVENERS New Britain Basketball Team Nosed Out by Two Points tm In a battle that contained gll the thrills possible to basketball, the Celtics of this city emerged on the wrong end of the score against the Evening Commercial High school quintet of New Haven last night in New Haven. The winners had a de- cided advantage in height over the locals and this served to impede the ‘Nov Britain players in their sh ng. Friend, aix and a halt foot cen- ter of the New Haven team, proved to be the nemests of the Celtics. He stood under the New .Haven basket and dropped in basket after basket while the local players made vain attempts to stop him. Glik and Friend led the New Ha- ven'attack which made the same appear first as a runaway. However, a tight defense by the locals brought the score down to 17-11 at half time, The second salf was & zig-zag af- fair with the lead constantly chang- ing. With only five geconds te go. a foul try by Marholln tied the count at 28 all, This necessitated an overtime period. A brace of bas- kets by the Elm City five proved too much despite a fleld goal by “Chick" Baylock. The Celtics played an even all around game. The sum. mary: Celtics = | a 2 | commet Marholin, rt ... Baylock, It Daniels, ¢ Recano, rg Adkinson, Ig | wiowwn ol raswny c S Commercial " £3" McDermelt, re Hart, It .. Keich, 1t . Friend, e Pelatowski, rg Kany, rg .. Glick, 18 ... Amom e ! 16 32 Sco_rc at halt time—New Haven 17, New Britain 11. Referee, Carr; scorer, Anthony. WITH THE BOWLERS FRATERNITY ALLEYS ODD FELLOWS' Andres B. Lindborg G. Anderson Dahlstrom Frisk . K. Lindberg 9T—2464 Griswold Buechner Leupold W. Newton V. Anderson 11— 327 Haussler Squires Carlson H. Newton SOUTH Caswell ... Heinzman T. Walker Leupold Morton Schafer Schleicher slugfest at ¥oot |7 290— 841 Collom Renominated As Tennis President New York, Jan. 10 (UP)—=8amuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, president of the United States Lawn Tennis association, has again been nomin- ated for that office, the current is- sue of the official bulletin of the association says. Nomination is al- most equal to election. Louis B. Daley of New York has been named for vice president and James C. Stewart of Chicago as suc- cessor to Harry §. Knox as secre- tary. .LAUREL TEAM WINS The Laurel A. C. basketball team defeated the New Britain Blue Jun- iors last night at the Sacred Heart scheol gym. The final score was 24 to 12. The Laurels jumped into the lead in the first féw minytes of play. Baylock and Pihiel starred for their teams. READ RERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS " |tuture plana today. 2000 guarantee and a percentage. 7| Fitzsimmons and Dempscy have al- ; genius of the late promoter | Y | funeral cortege wended its way up- | DENPSEY TO MAKE HIS PLANS KNOWN Faces Most Tmportant Decision of His Entire Career New York, Jan. 10 (UP)—His pal and counselor, Tex Riokard, dead and buried, Jack Dempsey to- day was a forlorn figure trying to grepe his way to the mest import. ant decision of his cireer. He promised to make public his After days and nights filled with grief and torment, Dempsey vent to bed last night termented by the same old problem—to fight or not to fight. Dempsey would like to stay away from the ring, but boxing needs him now as it never did before. Demp- sey necds the money, but he is not consideping that angle now as he did when he promised Rickard he would Teet the winner of his 1929 elimination tournament in Septem- ber. They ars telling Dempsey he owes it to his departed friend to make one last glorious gesture for him. Dempsey doesnt’ know what to do. “I can’t think funeral. “Tex's know what to do.” Dempsey’s only announcement te- day muay be that he plans to leave for California Saturday, instead of returning to Miami Beach, Fla. The former champion talked to his wire over the long distance telephone last night and it is understood he told her he is starting for Los An- | geles saturday. 1t Dempsey goes back te Call- fornia the chances are that the| ‘Shu.rk(')’-\?trihlin[ fight schedule: | [for ¥ebruary 27 at Miami Beach, Fla., will never be held. There| |seems to be some doubt as to | whether Sharkey has signed a con- | itract for the Miami Beach bout and |it not he may not. Here for Rick: | jard’s funeral yesterday Sharkey in- dicated he would demand a $109,- * he sald after the | gone. I dont don’t know whether they ean {put the fight on like Tex would have,” Sharkey said. “Dempsey (would help some.” | With Rickard gone, Madison Square Garden has ne hold on | Dempsey and 1¢ Jack decides to re- turn to the ring he may do his | ighting for semcone else. Floyd | Fitzsimmons, Detroit promoter and | close friend of Dempsey, would be in line for promoting a return bout. ways been friends and Dempsey al- most fought Harry Wills for him. | It was a strange crowd that paid | its last respects to Rjckard. Among | the 10,000 who sat silently in tha| vast ampitheater reared by tha were millionaires in high, silk hats, ex.| pugs in tattered sweaters, beautifu! actresses, weeping women and | |curious men. They formed a line | land filed past the coffin. : | The servises at the Garden were | brief. | The cofin was borne away from | the Garden Tex loved =m0 well on | |the shoulders of 22 men. Traffic | halted along Broadway as the [town and over the Harlem river to | | Woodlawn ecemetery. | | After the services at the ramfl'orv[ ‘hapel were over and the crowd of | 2,000 dispersed, a death mask of | Rickard was made. Irom this a| | bronze bust will be made and placed |in the Garden as a memorial. leersl; Is Leading In Billiard Tourney | New York, Jan. 10 P—Frank Ta- | berski, werld’s pocket billiard cham- | pion, reduced the lead of Charles | | Seaback in their 750 point match | by taking the fourth block last | night 196 to 113, after the Canadian champlon had won the third 136 to 92. Seaback now leads in fotal | |points by 503 to 457. Taberski| played ateadily to win tonight's | block. His high run was only 22 | while Seaback ran up 38 points. | The match lasted 30 innings. In | the atternoon Seaback, aided by an- | other 38 point run, made his 136 | points in 17 innings. ‘Taberski's | best mark for the third block w 30, 30, {Hockey Game Postponed | In Honor of Rickard New York, Jan. 10 (P—At a meeting here of officials of the Na- tional Hockey League today it was decided that the game between the | New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens, which was postponed | last Tuesday, will be played off Feb. 9. The night before the next scheduled appearance of the flying Frenchmen. ‘With twe games on successive days, Leon Dandurand, president of the Csnadiens, said that 250 sup, portery of the train would make the trip on a specigl train, HIGH PRESSURE PETE club 5 to 3 in the first game of a two-game hockey scries here last uight. DPete Howe starred for the €Canadians. scoring two goals and assisting his brother, 8vd, with an- other. THURSDAY, JANUARY RICKARD HANDLED MEN WITHOUT GUN Tex Made a Reputation for Him- self as City Marshal CHAPTER 11. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY (United Press Staff Correspondent) (Copyright, 1929, by United Press) Tex Rickard made a reputation for bimself as city marshal of Hen- rietta, Tex., for his ability to handle men without gun play. Old timers cannat recall a single instance dur- ing his more than a year in office when he was forced to use his gun on a bad man. Cattle rustlers, skylarking cow- boys who had a “hankerin'"” to shoot up the town and drunkards were the principal customers Rick ard dealt with in his capacity as marshal. He received ne stipulated salary for the job, but made his money in fees. Each drunk arrested brought $2.50 and cach loose hog or stray dog $1. It was while serving as city mar- | weather was 60 below zero and me; shal that Rickard marrvied his first wife, Leona Bittick. They had ene child, the Henrietta cemetery. Time almost obscured all tr: Rickard's first marriage and i not generally known that he was married three times. Rickard never talked about his private life. Life as city marshal soon gre 10, 1929. |ard was sitting around the steve $n'and Rickard rode the crest of the 'came s by-werd ameng gamblers in |a Henrietta saloon when a cowboy lcame in with a | Roberts. a former Texas caw hand. | who wrote glowingly of life in the Klondike. Roberts told about flour selling for $1 a pound and about miners carrying their gold in toma- to can | 1 headin® for that |boys.” Rickard told the group. |four is that high there must plenty of loose money and country, 3 be stake and buy 1,000 vearlin, | Obtaining a menth's leave from |his post as city marshal, Rickard | started north early in 1895 with Wil- lia Stack, a yeung man with the | wanderlust. Tt was on the trip north | |from Seattle that Rickard got his |nickname of “Tex” from a sailor who asked him where he was from. The pair landed at Juneau broke {and with only a few scanty posses- |sions early in the spring of 1895. | From Juneau they drifted from place to place. In July 1896, when the first Klon- {dike strike was made, Rickard was a bartender at Circle City, 300 miles below on the Yukon. Dogs and pro- isions were scarce, but Rickard finally got his outfit together and hit the trail fo Dawson. He had no dogs | and had to pull his own sieigh. The |snow waist deep in the drifts. | “We made Dawson City, however, a boy. The child died carly in the vanguard of the onrushing | Dawson closed and is buried beside his mother fn |army, most of whom had to come |Northern, and the faro dealers and | {south over Chilkoot Pass," Rickard a giant could have made it.” There were only one or two houses and a dozen or so tents when Rick- letter from Jim | not | much flour. I'm going to get me a| | boom into his first big money. He staked out two claims—No. 8 | with Jagk Dodson and'No. ¢ with Al Mayo on the Bonanza Creek. Both claims were ‘strikes” but along with | his good fortune came his first big mistake, He sold his interest in No. 3 for $17.000, but in so doing lost | fortune. His successors reaped $300.- 000 out of No. 3. He sold his interest |in No. 4 for $40,000. Little more than a year after he | reached Alaska. Rickard, only 26, a stake of almost $100,000 he open- jed his first gambling venture, the famous Northern Saloon and | Gambling Palace in Dawson City. The saloon prespered and soon be- came fameus as the only straight gambling house in Alaska. Tt was next door to Rickard's saloon that | | Billy Wallace, the Cleveiland light- weight contender was horn. Wal- {lace’s mother in a visit to New York lin 1925 recalled many of Rickard's | deeds of kindness during his days in | Dawson. “He never refused anyone help ;and he had a way of doing it with- leut really letting you know that he | was helping you." she recalled. | broke again. His policy of playing “square” | even with gamblers led to his down- | fall. The other gambling houses in earlier | card sharps from those places would ce of jonce related. “*When I think of that come to Rickard's place to play their was | journey I don't see how anyone but | winnings. Rickard played them 50-50 |and they broke him. | But Rickard made his fame as a | “square shooter” and it never de- had amassed his first fortune. With | In less than a year Rickard was | than the {the far. irozen north aad lstes 8 by- word among millionaires.” | Ole Eiliott and Kid Nighley be- came Rickard's partners in his sec- ond gambling hall and salesn at Nome. Rickard's reputation as & “square shooter”” helped business and for four years the place earned ahout $100.00 a year. Tex conducted & bank on the side for the “sour deughs™ jand they'd straggie iute his smieon from the gold Selds with thely nug- | gets and say: “Keep my stuff, Tex,” and walk |away without bothering fer & re- | ceipt. | The bitter Alaskan winters made {the thin-hlooded westerney suffer, innd Tex left Alaska for Califernia. “I'm going where a fellow can keep warm,” he said, | (End Chapter I1.) | Temorrow's chapter will ¢es! with | Rickard's second marriage and his !gambling days at GoldSeld, GODFREY FINED $1,000 Philadelphia, Jan. 10 (UP)— !George Godfrey, negre heavyweight, today found himaelf shy $1,900 and under suspension by the Pemnsyl- {vania state athletic commission. Godfrey fouled Al Walker in & bout here Monday night and the com- mission yesterday fined him $1,000 out of his purse of $4,734.3% In ad- dition to suspension, LOOKING FOR GAMES The Mohawk basketball team of this city wants to meet sny team in the state or city sversging 17 |years of age. Address commwnica- tions to Russell Schwab, P. O. Box 1029, New DBritain. rd arrived at Dawson. It grew over- | serted him, although fortunes came | dull for Tex. One winter night Rick- |night into & tawdry frontier town jand went. “Rickard's square” be- READ HERALD CLASSIVTED ADS $45 $50 $50 $55 $60 $65 Not this Worsteds Worsteds . 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