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Speaking of Sports Arthur (Kid) Williama, first rush 3n the New Britain roller hockey club, equalled the world's record last night for getting a goal in quick time. In the second period, he took the ball eff the spot and drove it inlo Albany's cage for & goal. The time was exactly two seconds. According to Hugh (Red) Rorty, probably the greatest authority on roller polo in the country, the only time another player was given credit for making a goal in two seconds was more than 30 years ago when Tom Cotter, playing at the old arm- ory in Hartford, caged a counter from the apot. He is also the authority for the time in this way. He, last scason, stated that the watch starts when the ball leaves the spot, not when the referes blows his whistle. Wil- liams tipped the ball to the left and drove it in with a suddcnness that startied last night, Williams may also have created & world’s record last night by cag- ing 12 goals in a singte game. We cannot call on our youthful memory for the exactness of this statement, but we will try to find out if possib| Several fans sent us a query on the subject this morning and if we can verity the record, we will claim it for the local star, After last night's exhibition, we don’t believe that there is a team in the league that has a chance of beating New Britain out for the championship this season. Albany furnishes the biggest threat and New Britain tipped the team over last aight in easy fashion. We are rathér fed up on sports in genersl but there was certainly a wonderful kick in that game for us last night. Every man on the New Britain team played in champlon. ship form and mere words of praise could never give them the credit dus to them. New Britain goes to Fall River to play tonight while Fall River re- turns here Sunday afternoon, Another incident of the game last night was the fact that the close- ness of the race for coring honors hetween Willlams and Steve Plerce was wiped out when Willlams got 12 goals and Bteve Plerce caged four. M Willlams was leading him by three goals before last night's me, Willlams has an 11-point ad- vantage now, _— Pete Gazzinga is making the road trips with the team this week so New Britain will face all opposition with its full strength. The locals are in first place and every fan in this city is rooting for the team to stay there. “Kid” Williams has ‘pasted a new name on Pete Gazzinga. There scems to be so much difficulty in the referees pronouncing the local cen- ter's name that Williams settled on the happy medium of “Gas House. Being duely cliristened, (Gazzinga will now be known as “Gas House" Gazzinga. Put that one in the book. Somie fine scores were rolled in the tndustrial Bowling league last night. P. & F. Corbin defeated Fafnirs in three games. For its total the Corbin team had 1767 while Fafnirs, with & total of 1667. failed to win any of the three games. ‘This §s most un- usual when such fine rolling is done. Jimmy Ward of the . & I team made a triplc strike in his last game scoring 136 for the string. New Britain Machine piled up & total of 1709 for three games. An- derson hit for 350 with Gacck hit- ting 370. Howarth, high average man of the league with 4 mark of .124, rolled for a total of 391 in his thrce games last night. WILL MAKE SCHMELLING PULFIL HIS GONTRACT Promoter Eddic Mack of Boston to Demand German's Ap- pearance in Hub, Boston, Icb. 8 M—Armed with tho support of the Massachusetts boxing commission, 1ddie Mack. boxing promoter at the Boston Gar- den, left here today for New York to force Max Schmelling, German heavywcight, to fulfill his contract to meet Con O'Kelly of Ircland herc on Iebruary 15. Mack was preparcd to make a final demand on Schmelling and his advisers to go through with the O'Kelly bout and, if rcfused. intend- cd to ask the federal court for an injunction restraining the German from lcaving the country. The Boston promoter appcared before the Massachusctts boxing commission yesterday and that body declared that his contracts with Schmelling were ironclad. Mack said he signed Schmelling to fight in Boston long before the German became an attraction of conscquence and he claimed that the boxer and his managers have since become satisficd with the 20 per cent guarantee he agreed to give them for the O'Kelly bout. Before leaving for Necw York. Mack had a long conference with Col. John Hammond and James 1. Brush, directors of the Madison Square Garden corporation, during which he refused thelr request to cancel Schmelling's contract for the Boston bout. Cyclist—(‘;(s Verdict In Parking Collision New Haven, Feb. § (UP)—-John R. Walker, Jr. cyclist. has been awarded $3.000 jydgment against Professor James D). Trask of Yale university after testimony in suber. for court that the pedant's automo- hile was “recklessly” parked, far out from the curh and unlighted when Walker eollided with it at nizht. BOSTON SCANDAL AGAIN TO FRONT Gase Is Put in Hands of District Attorney Foley Boston, Feb. 8 (M—Investigation into this city's Sunday baseball scandal today passed from the Bes- ton finance commission to the office of District Attorney William J. Foley, The commission described revelations it hecard duritng the re- cent and lengthy hearings as *an array of very suspicious circum- stances” but declared that “it was not within its province to pass upon the guilt of the parties involved.” It announced, however, that it would forward the report to the dis- trict attorney “for such further in- vestigation und action .as he may deem proper.” With it will go a transcript of the evidence replete with charges and counter charges by Boston Braves officials and city council members, Emil Fuchs, president of the Braves, had allcged that Council- man William G. Lynch had demand. ed bribes of $5,000 apiece for him- self and 12 other councilmen in re- turn for favorable action on the measure permitting professignal sports on Sunday. _The demand wus made, Fuchs testiied when Lynch, accompanied by Daniel J. Camoll, a boxing promoter, visited him in his hotel room on the night of Novem- ber 23 last. Lynch, on the other band, while admitting the visit, denied that he had demanded money and said that Fuchs, who had arranged the inter- view had attempted to threaten him into a favorable attitude toward the Sunday sports measure. In its report made public yester- day the commission said, “Lynch’s credibility 1s affected by the fact that he, a yiember of the city coun- cil which was to pass upon the measure, made a visit in the night time to the rooms of the persons most interested in having the bill passed.” Commenting on evidence that wembers of the city council had sent out notices for a special meeting of the council to consider the bill from Fuchs’ rooms the commission held that while (he state regulates the procedure of lobbyists before the legislature “it is evident that in Boston cegtain counciimen do not wait for the lobhyist to come to city hall.” The commission reported that the epithets “racketeer, blackmailer and blackjacker” applied by Fuchs were not substantiated evidence whereas, comn by prominent men of Fuchs' char ter and integrity had been entered on the record. % Two men who were not principais in the investigation, Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols and Mylcs McSweeney, Boston sportwrite, ame in for sharp criticism. The mayor waa de- clared “guilty of a grave breach of official propricty” fer sayving, admit- tedly without basis, that the council- lors were “u little bunch of orphans who want & Christmas free and aven't got one.” McSweeney was denounced for “his outrageous conduct in manu- facturing charges against members of the council.” According to testi- mony he told 1'uchs that he had in- formation concerning two city conn- cilmen “sufficient to hang them.” Later he admitted that his statement was without foundation. The commission made but iwo findings: First, that there was no evidence that any of the other 12 councilmen alleged to have been named by Lynch authorized him to use their names; second, that the name of cvery city councilman al- leged to have been 80 named, had voted to table the Sunday bascball measure at a council meeting on November 30. MAKE WAY FOR YOUTHS Vetcran Tennis Stars Planning In- ternational Jaunt of Their Own This Year, L Big Bill Tilden and Frank Hunter, mainstays of several Davis cup teams, will sage an international jaunt of their own this ycar, instead of helping the American team through the pre- Liminary competition in the Ameri- can zone. Believing that Tilden will be reinstated by the exccutive com- mittee of the United States Lawn ‘Tennis association at its meeting in Boston today, they have laid plans for a southern trip starting this month to prepare them for an in- on of Kuropean courts in May. hey will sail for Europe May 8, Hunter said yesterday, and play in the Irench championships at Paris, May 29, and the British champion- ips at Wimbledon, June 24, as well n soveral less important cvents. This program would make it im- possible for them to participate in the American zone Davis cup match- cs. Whether they will join the team in Europe in cast it reachch the in- terzone final has not been decided. “Wa want to give the young fel- lows a chance.” Hunter explained. “Qur help is not needed in the American zonc. There are a half Cozen players available without us who can win in this part of the Davis cup play. The competition afterward in Furope is a different matter, and Bill and 1 may or may not be used over there.” Last year Tilden and Hunter did rot defend the British doubles title they won in 1927 because of Big Bill's duties as captain ¢f the Davis cup team. York T. L. 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Gus" Sorfnenbers, the Illinois state Sonnenberg will FForbes of New York in an match while commission watch his hold. 1f it wins he may risk his title .in soon, BOWLERS §0. CHURCH JUNIORS INVADERS DEFEAT AMERICAN STARS "™ | Wide and Williams Again Sho| Their Athletic Prowess New York, Feb. § UP—It seoms to be an open qquestion whether American runners are enjoying the present indoor track season as much as they have in some past | years. It was bad cnough four ycars ago A When Paavo Nurmi came, saw and conquered in what turncd out to be the greatest individual invasion 101~ 292 track history had scen. Nurmi is Z 319 back again, a bit slower, perhaps. 28— 303 | hut still good ¢nough to run rings 153 35 |around anything that has been sct |against him so far. nd Juseph 105— 344 521—-1651 jed to form last night and han [ 46-20 beating to the Y™ All in & vrapid-tice hut o1 ball game at the Boys' win ran up 11 point All-Sturs broke into the lan, Ifirst halt was 27-8 93— 310 club, by scori 104— 299 13— 349 13 Although on the floor during the second $90—1709 | to an e “Red” Hattings was high for both teums. making 11 7 while Joseph und Captain Roy {lick were only one point L VHavtick, i particular, nade Perhaps the home-breds wouldi't | er of pretty. thota A heen mind o much if Paavo were alone | yome ice pussing in this current invasion. but he has|he socond halr. degided help from his sh rival. | covered up well, Anderson {Edwin Wide, and from the sprink |his man wiihout a basket, marvel, Percy Williams of Vancou- | Jimmy onis topped the ver, I ( | Stars with five points, While Nurmi was resting up for 'spectacular shot from the first mile race of his campaign |floor. Eugene Coylo at the Millrose games tomorrow | from the foul-linc, night, Wie and Williams were | e South Chureh treating American runners and | been entered in (he track fans to another exhibition of |ment of the Martford County their prowess at the Newark A. C. | 1d will play in the first s last night. aturday afternoon at Jewell | Lunning without spiked shoes for | Hartford. s sumr the first time, Williams won a 60- | rd handicap sprint in the fast | time of six and two-fifths scconds. | Joseph, rf [ Within @ fifth of a sccond of the | Havlick, If [ world's indoor record. Bob Wiese, | Whecler, If, of the New York A. C.. and Charley | Hattings, « Huguenin, of New York university, | Andurson, 1z ch with a vard start on th-|Merza, Iz Olympic sprint champion, were sec- Stanley, Ig ond and third respectively | Wide distanced the field in a two- {mile hanicap run, winning by half a lap frem Irving Totten. Millrose A. A, in nine minutes, 17 1-5 onds. Running on the e tra week ago and under almost e sy win., d shooti; wi was exe Juniors tAN- | Melingonia, tf, Ig 2 ed. covered the ditance in 9:19 3.5, |11 Wile's time, incidentally, sot-a new | record for the 113th Regiment un. | banked track | | These well-carned victories thus | will enable Williams and Wide bhoth to enter the Millrose games with a | record of two victories in as l||av>_\" 102 309 89— 285 time 27 Wiheeler; at half timer, E St y starts in their American invasions Wide is entered in the two mile miss-and-out race at the Millros: % land Williams in the sprint series, Indications now are that Nurmi may not got as much opposition in the Millrose mile as he expected from Ray Conger, the national 1,00) '\,\ rd champion, a favorite at that | idistance in the Newark A. C. games. Conger was soundly bea Martin of the Boston A. immy Kennedy, Georgrtown man. The time, 2 minutes, 15 seconds, was exceedingly fast i |der the conditions. Johnny Gibson, |former 440 yard hurdles champion, loutraced a crack field in the special | D00 yard invitation run, sing | 4361350 27 108 109 il 9 Ranking List Again Boston, Feh, 8 P - un. | that William “Big Bill” Tilden [standing by the United States Tennis association were given iy arriving for (b gani - DOWN “Y" ALL-STARS Heavily as Team Regaius Form— | Meligonis Sars for Losers The South Church Juniors return- |/ ded a ided bask fore tho 1d the count ut the end of the were never more than three regulars jthe Church quintet continued to out- score its opponents and pressed on| Wheele The church guards making on: | well up BE REINSTATED Former Champion Will Also Top Assurances | be reinstated as an amateur in good Score Hita s The ! ng at there hatr. | scorer | points. | Hav- | hind him nuw- | rodid | ns o} holding ! Littie ! All- | the ellent | have junior toutna Y. M roun hai, | Ty would Lawn today at or been ton h natior 'BURRITTS 0 BATTLE Basketball Team With Strong Repu- | With Burri ed in both citics, and Bos- 1o bag its 14th victory and its 10th as again put in @ bid for the [straight win of 1he season toHIOITOW nal doubles play evening at the Mley Arena when it clashes with th> undefeated Terry- ville Maple Euls. The locals are their list of victims 30 as to be in perfect shape for the important |game with the Mcriden Communi- |tics Wednesday evening. The Terryville uggregation has been enjoying an unususl good sea- son and have defeated all the teams in its class in the distiict of Water- bury. The team is con 13 wins under its belt, the | can stop the winning stre: 1 basketball team &ill attempt | Burvitts and will put its strongest TERRYYILLE QUINTET tation to Face Locals To- morrow Night. {determined 1o add the \isitors to | {lineup on the flour. The Rurritig will etait thelr ssuag lineup. 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Olive Proudlock of the Newark A e C. and Herbert ltobinson, Univer- | tne side of tennis authoritics during sity of Virginia. to win in the fast{most of his long court time of 61 seconds. appeared cortain of toppi [tional ranking list again based on the 14 Ihave been made up se ligo and withheld pending pproval of the tennis body. T. Hunter of New Ro- .. Tilden's doubles mat v xpected to be given the No. 2 ieind of George M. Lott |and John E. Hennessey. 1t was also {stated wnofficially that Helen N Wills again would head the women's ranking list. The tirst event on th | program tonight's meeting of isithe U, 8. LT, AL exceutive commit- tee, du which final action was | expected on fhe Tilden case, the rankings and the 1429 schedule of championship o The general mecting has heen set for tomorrow afternoon, when the Ldelegates will elect the sssociation's With the exception of Walter Ha- | offi and pass on the reconmen- &en and Johnny Farrell, most of the |dations made by the executive com- best known golfers of the couhtry [ miitee. are entered. Hagen declared lic| The committee mecting would not enter the carly Florida | pected to be a quict affair but sev- tournaments this year and Farrcll [cral groups have threstencd to clash wired yesterday from St. Augustine fcver schedule recoumendations at that he was indisposed. the general mecting. 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