New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1929, Page 11

Heckey club will be transferred next week o the Sfiver City. It is under- stoed that negotiations for the swap , re practically complete the approval of the league is lacking to put it through. Manager Harry Starkie has been lobking over several places in which to put his team and it is understesd that he has arrived at satisfactery terms for the use of the Meriden rink. At the same time, Markie, it is re- ported, in planning on dropping Dy- won and from his team. He will try te secure “Bib” Beucher for lis rush Hne with Frobel, Meriden Loy, tending geal. Frebel 18 now sixth man for the Albany team. If Boucher cannot be taken from Fall River, then, it is said, Starkie plans to get George Hart instead. For the first time in his career, Jack Kelly of Waterbury, fermer middleweight amateur champion, was knocked out last night by Tut Juckson, & New York negro in a Waterbury bout. The sieep pro- ducer was put over in the first round of a acheduled eight-round bout. With Albany and New Britain in & tie for first place in the American Roller Hockey league, the two games betwcen the teams, one to- morrow and the other on Monda promisc to be among the mest sensa- tpnal in the entire season. Tocal fans are banking on “Kid” Willia & Co., to take at least one of the two encounters. Bridgeport will play here mext Wednesday night with Albany here Friday. Providence is due here a week from tomorrow. New Hritain will probably face Al- bany with Williams and Thompson on the rush line, Gazzinga in center and Doherty at halfback and Welch in the goal If Gaszinga doesn’t make the trip, Thompson will drop back to center and Perregrin will be at second rush. The two games will be battles be- tween the fermer partners on the Meriden team, Wiljams and Steve Pierce. Both are aces in thelr re- spective posithe Willlams s the oring ace while Pierce Is the clas- siest handler of the ball in the same. The New Britain players leave this eity with the utmost confidence In their ability to come through with two straight viel They have defeated Albany they feel well abl o it again temor- row and Monday. The Albany rink s the biggest in the cirouit. Jimmy Scully, playing center for the Connecticut Aggies freshman team last night, scered 13 peints in the game against the Collegiate Prep of New en. Scully got feur field baskets and five fouls. ALBANY IS AGHIN IN FRST PLACE New Brilasin Facss Crochl Games Sunday aod Nosday Last Night's Resukts Albany 7, Fall River 4. Staadings New Britain Albany .. ‘Waterbury | Previdence Bridgeport Fall River Games Albany at Providence. New Britain at Waterbury. Two flerce Datties in the American Reller Hockey league are in pros- pect SBunday and Monday in Albany when the New Britain team meets the Albany quintet. Following its victory last night over the Fall River club by & 7 to ¢ acore, the Albany quintet once again 18 in a first place tie with New Brit- ain. Both clubs have won 14 games and have lost eight. The games tomorrow and Mon- day will decide which team is to oc- cupy the first place position, al- though a split will leave them in the fdentical position in which they are now found. The teams are about evenly matched and the only regret is that they are being played in Al- bany and not in this eity. The score of last nigh as follows: Albany. Fall River. 8. Pierce ..... eeaeaas ++ G. Hart First Rush. E. Plerce ................ Harkins Secend Rush. Lunderville « Boucher Morrison ... seses Brown Maltbaek. BArnikOw ....coc.cacsienes. Jeane 1m:11 2:12 1:18 1:54 s:21 113 1:19 E. Pierce 8. Plerce Harkins Lunderville Pertod Albany Fall River Albany s ’ 10 1 Fall River Albany Fall River s:21 Fall River Harkine 0:4¢ Ruches won by Hart 6, E. Plerce 3, 8. Plerce &. Stopa, Jean 20, Barnikow 5. Ref- eree, Cusick. “ . 'K TO BE SOLI Clevelémd, Ohio, Jan. 12 (/P)— Thistledown race track in North Randall, near here, the largest run- ning race track in Ohio, will be sold by the shefiff to' the highest bidder on January 26, it was announced to- day. The track has been in the hands of the receivers for the last two years THOUGHT RICKARD WAS JUST A NUT Joo Humpbries Never Answersl B Wi o P CHAPTER 1V BY GEOROE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspendent Copyright 1939 by the United Press “Just a mwt whe's gome crazy sesrching for geld.” Jee Humphries remarked when he received Tex Rickard's telegram offering $13,000 for & return mateh between Terry McGevern and Jimmy Britt at Geld- field, Nev., Laber Day, 1906. Humphries net only had never heard of Rickard, but when he went to leek up Geldfield he could- n't find the beem town en the map. He never teok the trouble to an- swer the wire, It was a great joke to _{umphries and he spread the stery aleng Broadway ef the “crazy miner who is offering 915,000 for a McGovern- Britt mateh in the Nevada desert.” Undaunted by Humphries' fallure to answer, Rickard began preparations fer bringing another big fight to Geldfield. Before Tex ceuld make another move, luck played right into nis hands. Billy Nolan, manager of Battling Nelson, the fumous light- weight, picked up copy the Geldfield Sun in the lobby of a Salt Lake City hetel and read an “ad" placed in that paper by Jack €I ferd, & fair lightweight of that time, | who wanted an opponent for Labur, Day. % Nolan wired the Goldfield paper | for more details and the wire found | its way into Rickard's hands. Rickard wired Nelan asking him | how much he wanted for Nelson to meet Cliftord. “A guarantee of $5,000 and a sidc bet of $3.000 for a finish fight,” No- lan wired back. “That shewed me that Nelsen was open for a preposition,” Rickard said in recalling the negotiations, “s0 T wired hack thet the Cliftard hout was out, hut that we'd give 815,000 for Nelsen to meet Joe Gann.” “Post $30.000 in escrow and Nel- son will fight,” Nolan answered. | Meanwhile, Gans, who was will- |Ing to meet Nelson on any terms.| had agreed to a $10,000 purse, Rickard new had both fighters In line for the match but had net rais- ed the money for their guarantees. Got the ng ‘Tex, hawever, quickly enlisted the ald of the “big business” men of | Goldfield whe wanted to put their | town en the map and the guaran- | tees wei raised by subscription, with Al Meyers, the disceverer of meney. Suspieious of Rickard's . tactics, Nolan and Nelson hurr! to Gold- making | 5! Geldfield, contributing $10,000, Rick- | ‘“ ard risked enly 95,000 of his ewn weight.” Despite the stupendous success of the bout, Rickard did not attempt te promete anether fight until four| years later. Although Rickard never did say so. it is understood from many sources that he was net im-, premed with the poasibilities of the prometien of boxing matches. | “I't never promete another fight.,” Rickard is quoted as having said after the Gans-Nelson bout. WITH THE BOWLE LANDERE CLUB LEAGUE Plrates Sehmelter Lymch . Hayward K. Lindberg 105 " Elevetski Kelton G. Puters Lindberg Deminski Katzong .. Cor. K. R Volthart > Avery Staba Deary Roilard Venberg Holcomb | LEAGUE 101 209 CHAMBER OF COMMENCE oot C Arming Daley Howarth gton M B resinki Clark Perry McAulifte Rengston Moehan Johnson ‘Swanson Rasstord Dechunt . Barrows Holmstros Rin . Smidb 2 Koerl m 00d verg er. . Brueminer 1 e . Parsons A, Moski n 5. Zebrowski Park & Tilford annon /abrowski Jot HE WRECKS THE TEAM York swimming fans sec in Weismuller' New Johnny that has 5 Second heen Hune | Chicagq's ? | aguatic world for the past 20 years. ' comes from Omaha of the West They think Weismuller's retirement lcague where he won 17 games wi \will wreck the Illinois A. C. squad. !another mediocre club, %~ 197 98— 170 OF HARD HITTERS| ~ BY FARMINGTO Manager McCarthy at Loss fo New Britain Baskeball Five Arrange Batting Order Loses by Close Score Chicago, Jan. 12 UM—The 'old lady | Last night at the new high school in the shoe, who had so many chil- 'at Unionville, the New Britain State dren she didn't know what to do, has | Trade school basketbull team lost nothing on ®Marse Joe” McCarthy, (one of the hardest fought games of the rotund pilot of William Wrigley's | the season to Farmington High hy pennant chasing Cubs. |the close score of to 17. The McCarthy has so many powerful | game was nip and tuck throuzhout ht hand hitters, among them the | but it was especially fast and furious greatest socker in the National lea- |in the final quarter. gue, Rogers Hornsby, that he doesn’t | Odlum. Farmington | know how to arrange his batting or- |the stumbling block for the Ger. | crew. New Britain was un: “It's got me stumped cven though hold him and he scored a numi |it does sound funny,” McCarthy |cawy sucker shots. |moans. “Just look over that list of | E. Beckius, o of the ight handed fence busters—Horns- | guards on the New Britain team, was | by, Kiki Cuyler, Hack Wilson, Riggs jout of the lineup with an injured 7| Stephenson, Woody English, Gabby |forefinger reccived several days ago — | Hartnett and the rest. No foolin’; | and he will not be available for some | ot me guessing. How am I 10!tiiae, This, coupled with a 1 5 i start them off 2" |of near-shots of the heart-br | But Wrigley merely chuckles. | can see nothing but a pennant for his |down to defeat. Time after time the “ubs in 1929, barring accidents. Ro- ball was placed on the rim only fo gers Hornsby, he is confident, will huve it roll off on the wrong side. provide the punch to push the Cubs| Next Wednesday afternoon, Jan- center local e mhber {leep them up there at the finish. Tt | to Bridgeport to meet the Lridgeport 3| cost Wrigley approximately a half <raders and New | miltion dollars in cash and players|pin 4 doteat on that : — 133 [0 get the “Rajah” from Boston, but | Nuw Rritain lost to the Darl 310 sas | he thinks he is worth it. | quintet by a small margin a | With Hartnett catching, Grimm at | weeks ago. The 150 | tirst. Hornsby at second, English ac | X 155 chortatop and Wilson, Cuyler and | ondiciale 19 | Stephenson in the outfield, and one 143 of the best pitching staffs in the -— | Heydler circuit, the 1929 crop of Cub | 33| rookies will have to play some class Pt sl 154 Of baseball to stick with McCarthy's | QUIneIN, 176 squad. The only possible openings | GTe8Ory. T& .. 143 | arc on the pitching staff and at third | Yrendenburgh, rg . | [Cilllzza, 1g ....... | Clyde Peck played the hot corncr | ltetano, 1g ... 313/ most of last season, but hia batting was impotent and McCarthy is seck- | ing somebody for that spot. Two vromising rookies will he tried for | ! the position, Clarence Blair of Littlc Rock and Danny Taylor of Memphis. Bair hit 294 and led the Southern ociation infielding season. or, who can play cither third se or the outfield, batted .374 in and was one of the best base runners in the south. In addition to their staff of hurling 1 { veterans, Charlie Root, Sheriff Blake, : 3 Guy Bush, Art Nehf, Pat Malone and 285 | ~ 103 | Carlson, several promising mound ar- 31 | tists will try out with the Cubs dur- ing the training season. Among the inost promising is Mike Cvengros, who earned his third try-out with the {majors by pitching great ball for Wichita IFalls in 1928; Be who comes from Jerscy Anderson, Przybryz, Knowles, 533 0 5261626 s turning pro in the 'und 17 defeats, and Clyde Day m th fleld. When they arrived they found $30,000 in $30 gold pleces stacked in the windew of a wooden shack. The purse of §30,000 was an un- heard of sum in the bexing werld in those days and was mere than any heavyweight had ever received up to that time, including Sullivan, Cor- bett and Fitzsimmons, Both fighters started training in Geidfield and the beut began te at- tract considerable attention to the little desert mining tewn. Then Rickard begun building his first fight arena, & crude affair half a mile from the main street. De- spite the fact that voluntary labor was largely recruited to build the rena, it cost in the neighborhood ot $10,000, Fans Poured in Fight fans from all ever the coun- try poured iInte Goldfield long be- fore the day ef the fight. A San Francisco newspaper sent two staff men, Rube Goldberg and W. O. Me- Geehan, to cever the fight, and Rickard made his first eontact with the organ with which he was later te enlist in baliyhoe for his million dollar gates. It was quite a surprise to Rick- ard when McGeehan and Goldberg iowed their credentials to him, as he had never dreamed that the fight would attract half so much at- tention. MeGeehan asked him to pose fer his first newspaper photograph and Goldberg did the first sketch of him. Embarrassed, Rickard posed for the photograph behind & livery stable because he didn’t want any- One to see him befere the camera. ‘The $30,000 in gold in the win- dow was left unguarded night and day, but was mever melested. Mc- Geehan and Geldberg made much of this tale of the unguarded gold and it gave Rickard an i{dea he was later to uee in prometing his sec- ond beut. One of the principal rea- sons ne ene cver attempted to steal the gold was that it was too heavy to carry across the barren desert. The fight was held September 3, and the receipts of §69,718 established & new world's record. Neloon received $23.000 and Gans $11,000. When all expenses were pald, the prefit was aréund $11,000, Rickard ¢id not receive all of this. Gens Won the Fight Gans wen the fight en a feul in the 424 reund when George Biler, the referes, disqualified Neloon for Nitting low. The treubles and drawbacks which atteaded the prometion eof every big beut Rickard put en made their appesrance in his very first eftort. Even the day befere the fight, there was sei bt a8 te where it would be held. Billy Nelan caused Rickard mest of the treuble. “Nelan caused me meére worry than any other fighter or manager ever did,” Rickard said once. “Al- mest every day Nolan would an- neunce, ‘I'm threugh with this hell hole; we’'re leaving town tonight.’ Finally I had the two roughest dep- uty sheriffs in town go to Nolan and tell him that he would never leave town in good health. That quieted him down but he went off on an- other tack and almost prevented the fight by digging up un old rule which stipulated the lightweight limit was 133 pounda He insisted fo the last that Gans make 133 pounds. The severe training weak- ened Gans and contributed te his later death. 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