New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 2

" NEN WITH PUNCH Athietic Fans Especially Want Golor in Their Favorite Sport Almost daily, In the fleld of busi- ness and the professions, and every- where in the realm of sports is seen convincing proof of the value of the driving power, the aggressive- ness, commonly referred to as ‘the punch.” It is something that gives its possessors the distinction make them outstanding among their fellows, setting them high upon the padestal of public admira- tion and placing within their reach the compensations and recognitions that come only to those who ac- complish the things that others must be satisfied to aim at. The athlete with the punch is al- ways in demand. It is he who at- tracts the overflowing crowds to the baseball parks in the summer, and fills the galleries of the indoor arenas in the winter, and when th: time arrives for his salary check signer and himself to get together in the matter of a new contract, nothing has a more important bear- ing on the details than that same punch. They Had the Punch Twenty years back, Wwhen Connecticut league operated in Britain, Springfield, Hartford, terbury and several other witih more or less success, the greatest Zvawing cards Louis Padron, the Cuban; “Swat” McCabe, “Bill” Luby, “Shauno" Collins, *J. Casey and some others. They were wont to learn against a bascball with reck- less abandon and knock it out of all the parks in the circuit. Padron was a fair pitcher. McCabe was a good enough outfielder to play on any team in the league, but the fans went to sec him hit, not catch flies. Luby, who is an attorney in Meriden, was one of the most nat- ural hitters ever to step to the plate in any league. He was a pitcher, first baseman and outfielder, but principally a hitter. It was a treat to watch him in batting prac- tice before a game. He knack of perfect timing, and with plenty of beef in his shoulders, he the W a. places among were could rattle the beards in the dis- | tant fences almost at will. All kinds of pitching looked good to him. “Shauno” Collins, who is manage of the Pittsfield Hillies in the East ern league after a decade in th. American league, most of the time being with the Chicago White Sox, was a solid hitter. He played a nice game at second base, being graceful and sure in his handling of all kinds of balls, but at the plate he looked better than any place else. Casey, who caught for Hartford and later went to Detroit in the Amer- fcan league, was among the reall classy backstops of his time, nni one of the hardest hitters ever to perform at Electric field, Punch Necded in Roller Hocke; The. sports followers in New Britain have seen many roller hockey players who carry the punch. Sometimes it is called “the wallop,” “the old sock,” or “the kick,” but like the rose by any other name, it is still the punch. Tom Cotter, the king of polo play- ers two decades ago, had such power in his drives that the other players feared to block the ball when he swung at close range. *Look out,” they used to cry when the king got set for a hard sm: and the goal tender who stopped it never had any doubts as to the welocity of the ball. After Cotter came F Jean, who has sinc: reigned. Whether he hit harder than Cotter or not has often been Webated and probably never will be declded, for there are far more funs in touch with the game who have ®een Jean in action, and the old timers who give Cotter the edge would never submit to correction by any means. Undoubtedly the hardest hitter among the active players this season is Arthur “Kid” Williams of New Britain Panthers. He swings that | Arthur | trom either side with equal force, making him dangerous at all t.mes, and the zip with which the ball skims over the floor or flies through the air when propelied by his stick gives the crowds in the bleachers the thrill they turn out to see. Many players of more powerful stature that Williams cannot begin to slug the way he does. “Bib” Boucher of the Fall River club, who was with New Britain last season, is another hard hitter. Miller's Hitting Recalled The Babe Ruth of amateur base- ball in New Britain some years back was Charley Miller, who atill retains his interest in athletics, al- though he hung up his basketbail and baseball shoes several years !2go. Few players of the present day |in New Britain can hit a baseball |as Miller could. His clout that car- {ried over the large tree in _right | field on Diamond No. 2 at Walnut | Hill park in a Ward League game | will never be forgotten by those who | witnessed it. | Merwin Jacobson of this city, who |has played in the International | League several seasons, obtained his |start in professional ball through | his ability to hit, and his slugging | prowess kept him in the lineup wth Baltmore day in and day out for a rumber of seasors. He was always |a natural hitter, of the free-swing’ ling type, stepping up to the plate and taking his “cut” with a. the nonchalance of a champion. He ldom worried about the delivery, |10 matter who was pitching to him. He could hit any and all kinds of | pitching, and, for that matter, he ill has that knack, although a blow in the head with a pitched ball slowed him up considerably a few seasons back. | In Basketball's Realm Basketball teams need a scoring |punch, no matter how effective their defense may be. Some quin- tets work towards a form of attack that is centered around one man, to {whom th: others “feed” the ball. | Others have two high scoring ‘or- | wards or one forward and the cen- ter. When “Vic" Larson, well known in basketball circles about the state, was in his prime, he seldom aver- aged less than four baskets a | game, although he always played guard. He had the advantage f height and physique, which helped | him get into scoring position quick- |1y and safely, and at the same time |he had the speed and the strength to take care of his opponent. Lar- !son had a punch and he had color, | | which made him a star in his class. Naturally the boxing game has ‘ts stars with the punch. John L. 8ul- livan had it, and so did Jeffries. Jack Johnson, a clever boxer, could | also hit, and Dempsey, the Kkiller, 13 | aid to have a punch yet. Thousands t boxers throughout the world | might be champlons or at least firat raters but for their inability to hit. They can hold thelr own with the | leaders in ring generalship and in traight sparring but the roar of the ! rowd, which 18 music to the ath- lete, seidom sounds above a whisper |if the occupants of the squaned cir- icle can do nothing more than feint, {dodge and tap. ANDY EXPERINENTS AT LG DANGING Various Impedimenta to His | Pedal Extremitis Ofler } (Contributed) | Dear Mary Ann: I didn’t call for you last night because I was practising my clog dance which I'm scheduled to do at an entertainment at our lodge where |I'm a member even though 3 months | behind in dues. The lad in charge |of the entertainment has me do my tuff to sec whether I'm good enough d when I'd finished he says, “What you need most of is practice, to get rid of the rheumatism that's hothering you.” No rheumatism was | bothering me, it only looked that way. He says any dumbbell can | practice and so I goes home to do {my stuff in the Kitchen. My dance had more difficult steps the than a winding stairway and as I'm | the family protests, claiming I'm wearing the designs off the linoleum, shaking the photo of grandpop in knickers off the wall, and making the table legs s0 nervous they trembled like a couple of Chevie tenders, 1 clogs my way into the parlor until the family downstairs complains about the plaster falling from the celling and how one large piece splashed » the goldfish bow! and washed ¢ of the pets overboard. “For the luva Make,” exclalms Alma, my kid sister, as T almost hoists & mcan hoof into her lap, “quit kicking like a mule, stop wor- rying the carpets like a terrier and do your practicing in the garage.” I tells her there's no room in the garage on account of the discarded baby carriages and magasines being piled in the corners and its too much like work to push the flivver out- side as the tires were flat and frozen to the ground. The only place I could practice without disturbing everybody and getting yelled at was in the cellar. After closing the door to the coal bin so's I wouldn't fall in and keeping as far away from the hot furnace as posible, I begins manecuvering about when I misses a few difficult steps and while going back after them my hoofs got tangled with the garden hose. As the cement floor rises and kisses me on the back of the cran- jum it didn't take me long to realize I'd lost all of my balance and most of my breath. I tries again and is improving with every other step or 80 until I goes through the whole dance with only 7 or 8 mistakes and then gives one final kick for the finishing touches. That last kick al- most finithed me. It seems 1 tried to keep both hoofs in the air at the same time or something but one got tired and come down faster than a falling comet, landing heavily on our old carpet sweeper that wasn't equipped with brakes and which goes for a ride without waiting for the rest of me. The next thing Y remembers is bumping against a shclf containing canned goods and .8 they tumbles Gown I dodges only to land.in a wheelbarrow which turns turtle, pinning me under so's I could only hold up one mitt for the “stop sig- nal.”” To pull mysell from under- neath 1 grabs a box that was placed on a nearby chair and in so doing made a bigger mistake than the drugstore cowhoy who flirted with the jealous prize fighter's jane. It wouldn't have been so tough if the box hadn't been filled with ashes. I'm greeted with a shower such as is never handed to newly engaged parties and in lcss time than it takes 1o smother a laugh I'm looking and feeling like something that was dragged in after having been left out all night. In dusting myself off I finds that my silk shirt which I'd got ut a bargain sale one-half off, was all the way off, and swears that the next time I'm fool enough to practice it'll be in a large hall or a 10 acre lot, ANDY DALE. MOSQUITO NAMED FOR LOCAL MAN {C. H. Bath's Discovery Is On Government Record C. H. Bath, who has added an- i other species of mosquito to the list which already numbers more than | 140 types in federal government rec- | ords, is a native of this city. The dlscovery of the new type was made in the Panama Canal zone where the former New Britainite is employed as a government sanitary NOTICE TheMountain Inn | Foot of Waterbury Mt. EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER and DANCE Entertainment. $1.50 (No Cover Charge) Music By i}l WALLER'S ORCHESTRA | Phone Southington 18-14 manipulating a wicked pair of hoofs ' Pathetic Figures By Fontaine Fo; THE ¢ .Y CHAP WHO MAPE THE STATEMENT over IN (& EAS. TOONERVILLE THAT THIS WAS A LOoT GROUND HOG BUSINESS OF BUNK . lc. NEW BRITAIN DA inspector. In his honor, the insect has been entered in the records of biology as anopheles chagasia bath- anus. Mr. Bath left New Britain at the age of 19 years and joined the Unit- ed States army, going into active service in the Spanish-American war. When the war was concluded, he remained in the Philippines where he conducted a shooting gal- lery for two years, later removing to Panama. He arrived before op- erations were begun on the Panama Canal. ‘The war agaiust mosquitoes was at its height at the tyme and he | obtained employment as & govern- went sanitary inspector, a. position e held for 25 years. While in New Britain, Mr. Bath attended St Mark's Episcopal church, and was prominent in activities of the Y. M. . A The story of the mosquito discov- ered by Mr. Bath, despite a quarter of a century of careful observation in the canal sone, is told by Dr. H. P. Curry, assistant chiet health offi- cer of the sone in a paper publish- ed by the American 8ociety of Trop- ical Medicine, Mr. Bath found his mosquito as & well developed larva in a “pothole” in the rocky bed of one’of the amall streams from the hills above the Agua Clura reservolr, which had teen drained only a short time be- fore. They apparently breed only in rapid streams and have remark- able power of resisting flood, wave end current. The scarcity of such streams near the settled parts of the canal zone and the difficuity of reaching them through the jungle, even when a trail has been cut, probably accounts for the late dis- covery of the species. KRAKATOA IN ERUPTION Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Feb. (UP—The Krakatoa volcano con- tinues active with numerous erup- 2 tions in the last 24 hours. The edge | of the crater on the eastern side has risen 50 feet above sea level and the northern edge is becoming visible. Immigration to Canada from the United States last year was 25 per cent greater than the year previous. Frankly, the New Pontiac Big Six was designed to appeal to a certain group. True, every motor car owner in America will find in it many things to admire. Two-car families will find it an ideal second ear. But the group for which it is primarily intended is made up of people who are beginning to move up in the world. Many of them will soon make the first important sgep up in the quality of their ears. All are progressive. The New Pontiac Big Six was designed for them. It comes to them entirely new in appear- ance. Stunning new bodies by Fisher con- Congress? A. It recommends that the pres- ident propose an international eon- ference to adopt a new calendar. Q. 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