New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1929, Page 13

Speaklng of Sports xm«u Endee Baskbtball team wight in Bristol by winning 34 before ‘one ! ‘0f the ‘largest crowds to gather at the Bristol State Armory In several moons. The Bristel team ‘played ‘a- :lm kipd of a game ggainst Liad cxg‘ quintet as New Britain did when the Meridenites played a week ago Ssturdsy night, Every effort wad devoted towards stopping thy scoring attack of of Cohen.. The Beliet ot mll Clarence Laupher and Joe Carroll that Meris deh 18 only ordinary without the help ustally ‘given the team in the scoring lists by “Herb™ Cohen, has beelborm out in the. last two gamea. New Britain stopped Cohen and New Britain won, Bristol did the same last Saturday night and Bris- | won, Another . case, of “When !uthmm-loflu!l koes." “Gas-House" m Gazings wins the blue ribbon for the abllity to make the most ferocious faces while a polo game is.in progress. Bo intent is Pete on winning the ball game that he wears a perpetual frown. Jimmy Purcell of the Fall River team, diminutive cage guardian who is mere commonly known as “Corky Hill," s about-as colorful & goalie as there is in the American Roller Hocley league, Short of stature and with.no great sise to him, *Corky” all but stands on his head as he makes his stops before the cage. He is one of the best in the league, Because of his early season rusti- ness, Pete Weich is .down in the standing among the goal tenders. His werk at the present time brands him among the leaders. Very few shots get by Pete these days Davies and Blount have quit Wa. terbur7. Some say it is because of sympaihy for “Red” Donnelly who was rileascd. The atory of the real inside dope on the situation’ is that when the manageres agreed to end the seson on March 8, the two de- mandid six weeks' pay. Naturally they were told to “try and get it." We cinnot vouch for the truth in this sory. Maager Frank McDouough s thinkng about adding “Bib” Bou- cher ;0 the New Britain team for the postseason series which will most probibly be played with Albany for the championship of the league. Be- caus; of the loss of Barney Doherty and the improbability that he will play again this scason with his in. jurel leg, New Britain has to get an extn man. Boucher should be a pop- ularaddition to the local quintgt. !.’nher!y will probably be able to getback into his togs again in a shat time, but it will be taking too grat a chance to allow him to play aftir suffering the severe injury that hedid in Albany last Wednesday night. t was a funny situation that anse Saturday night which led Res- tell and Kravchak to stage a short duplay of fisticuffs. The whdle af- far was started by Ray Holst. Restelll was after the ball at the west end of the court with Krav- aiak right behind him. Holst came wnning up behind Kravehak and in tirning, he gave the Russian a thove. Kravchak, impelled forward, hit Restelli like a ton of brick and Carl did a nose dive into the crowd. By this time, Holst was at the other end of the court so that Xravchak didn't know who pushed him. He started running towards the other end of the court to get into the play when Restelli, with fire in his eyes, leaped on him, caught him by the neck and tried to tear his head off. Kravchak, still in a fog, turned to defend himself and Res- telli swung. 'The funny part of it all was that Referee Clyde Waters turned just in time to see Restelli go for Kravchak, No scrious harm was done and the incident - was more comical than it was serious. Both' men were ban- fshed from the game but the referee decided to allow them to finish as there were only two minutes to go. + For the benefit of those fans who attended the boxing bouts last Mon- day night, we wish to inform them that they will have the pleasure of seeing in action {tonight the great boxing team from the “City of Massachusetts.” With the advent of the Albany team here mext Thursday night in the American Roller Hockey league wame, fans here will get an idea of how the teams will compare in the play-off series which will take place immediately after the leaguc closes. The Swift & Upson ice hockey team defeated the Spads yesterday at the North End park by a 3 to 0 score. No details of the game are available. SCHAAF IN LEAD Captain of Pennsylvania Basketball Team Takes Advantage of Rival's Idieness, New York, Feb. 25 UM—Taking advantage of the idleness of his chief rival, Charley Hyatt, of the University of Pittsburgh, Joey Bchaaf captain of Pennsylvania's five has jumped into the lead in the race for individual scoring honors’ among ecastern college basketball players. Schaaf has scored 90 ficld goals and 69 fouls for a grand total of 249 points in 23 games. Hyatt, idle all week, saw himseit relcgated to fourth place bchind Ed Wineapple of Providence. Glenn has scored 23 points: Wineapple. 229 and Hyatt 227. Glenn leads In field goals with 204 and Schaaf'in fouls with ¢9. dlorll-msu?.l New York, Feb. 3§ (M—Unless he can find & good alibl for his non- eppearance at the National A. A, U. championshipa, ’uv' Nurmi ‘may |k 4o & competitive “fade out” for the here | next siz menths, by request. Thero 18 ne reason. to doubt thut A, A U, officials are more than o Itttle incenssd over the “Phantom ¥inn's” failure to run In their own championships tion, A. A. U, te explain why Be withdraw from the two miile steeple- chase an hour before that event was to be run, Unless Paavo can ofter what the committes considers a legi- timate excuse, the chances are that he will be plastered with a long sus- pension, possibly as long as six monthas, A8 & matter of fact, Nurmi's side of the story remains to be told. The Finn, an even more elusive figure off the track than he ever was on it, had disappeared again and curious sports writers have not yet been able to track him down. Hugo Quist, who fs generalissimo of Nurmi's campaign, satd on Satur. day that Nurmi had gone stale and that the famous runner also was suf- fering from & bad cold, But seme critics of the great Finn have another explanation for Paav failure to run. These observers de- clare that Quist learned on Satur- umm x-oun.mnmhw Behind in Second Half of Game e 2 . 4 The Lions nosed out the St. Mat- Glerman ] [ startod the Lions at the opening whistle and Louls Mareell kept M team in the running, but the accur- ate distanee shoeting of Becker and Kiopp' m work frem the foul- line ¢, Matts & 1311 lead at the l‘f Dnm the seochd hal? the 8¢t, Matts were wmable to make & alngle basket, and Luke, Frits Mar. soll and Aregs dropped in four baskets whick gave the Liens a win, although it was not until 30 seconds remained that the deciding goa! was made, Luke and L. Marselj led the win. mere’ attack. Becker's shooting and the unerring work of Klopp from the 316-foot mark were the outstand- ing features of the B8t. Matts' play. The'summary: F. Marsell, rg ... Luke, Ig "ol wmomun 8, Matthew's l-thsn- Reckert, rf ..... thke. ll “ elecwsrs alearnaos ol avswan’ olornue Referee—Aronson. REDS OFF FOR.CANP day afternoon that Eino Purje, an- | other young Finn, would start in the steeplechase instead of in the two mile flat race in 'which he was to have met Edvin Wide, the Swedish schoolmaster, Nurmi al been charged with el duel with Wide when he entered the steeplechase, and some critics con- tended that Paavo, rather than face 80 formidable a rival as Purje in the steeplechase, decided not to run at all. Purje broke the world's record for the steeplechase by four seconds and Wide, in winning the two mile flat race, covered the distance in 9 min- utes and seven seconds, much bet. ter time than anything Nurmi has done on his present tour, At any rate, Paavo will not run in the special mile and one-half at the Warinaneco A. C. games at Eliza. beth, N, J., tonight. His place will be taken by Wide, provided the Swede can gain the necessary per- mission from A. A. U. officials. Purje is tentatively entered in a three-mile event, but he also first must obtain sanction to run, FINAL HOCKEY DRIVES Leaders in Two Divistons of National League Prepare for Hard Fight to Finish. New York, Feb, 25.—(UP)—More closely bunched than at any time since the race actually got under way, leaders in the two divisions of the National Hockey league today prepared to make their final drives to the finish, The New York Rangers and Les Canadiens of Montreal, lcaders in the American and international divi- slons, respectively, held a bare one point margin over their closest pur- suers, Playing a 2-2 tie before a crowd of. 14,000 in Madison Square Garden last night, the New York Americans and Boston Bruins each moved tq within one point of the leaders, Toronto halted the winning spurt of Les Canadiens with a 3 to 1 defeat and the Chicago Black Hawks and the detroit Cougars played a score- less overtime tio in two other im. portant games, In a fourth game the Ottawa Benators trimmed the Pitts- burgh Pirates, 8 to 0. e BOYS' CLUB COMETS WIN The Boya' Club Comets swamped the Y Olympics in basketball Satur- day at the Boys' Club gym by & 24 to 10 score. Bendsa and Wowinski while Hi a4 well for Bendza, rf . Donati, 1f .... Zdeinsqukas, ¢ Carison, ¢ .. Rowl Jarvis, Ferony, rf .. Stanley, 1t Milter, ¢ . Hattings, rg Pequitte, Ig Score at half-time, 14-3, Comets. Referee, Paluch. Timer, Capodice. Scorer~Zdeincqukas, SPORTS— LAVRELS WIN GAME The Laurels defeated the Y Intef. mediates 31 to 16 at the Y. M. C. A. Baturday. - Baylock was”the big gun for the winners while Hultberg starred for the losers. Squillaciote and Kalkowski alsp played well. The summary: Hultberg. rf . Devtch, ¥ . Mutner, ¢ 8t ngrence 9 Rimizzi, rg Squillaciote, Ig Referee—Lipman. E‘ourm‘ of Cincinnati's Prime Baseball Performers lhudy For Spring Work. Cincinnati, Ohio, Fourteen of Cincinnati's prime bage- ball performers. m up the con- tingent of Reds joining other actors in the greatest-show on earth down south today, and when the players arrive at Orlando, Fla,, after the long ride the spring tralning camp will Douse the club's principals in the 1929 pennant drive. Players going are Pitchers Ash, Harrington, Johnaton, Kolp, Meer and Smith; Catchers Sukeforth and Dixon, Infielders Lutzke, Pihp, Bhisil and Johnson, and Outfielders Crab- tree and Swanson. Manager Jack Hendricks and Business Manager Frank W. Behle are the bosses on the ship. New players in the club are Pitcher Joe 8mith, purchased from the North Platte club; Walter Lutzke, drafted from Newark, and Victor 8heill, first sacker from Mc- Cook, Neb, Players already at the camp intlude Pid Purdy and Ethan Allen, outfielders, and Pitchers Epa Rixey, Peter Donohue, and Rod Lueas, WANERS ARE HOLDOUTS Lioyd and Paul Will Play With Pittsburgh Pirates Or Not At All This Scason. Paso Robles. Cal, Keb, 26 (P— Lloyd and Paul Waner, star out- fielders, who have failed to sign con- tracts, “will play with the Pitts- burgh Pirates this year, or they won't play at all,” 8am W, Dreyfuss, club treasurer, announced today & the Pirates resumed spring training. Dreyfuss denied that John McGraw had offered $210,000 for the broth. ors. The club treasurer intimated that drastiq action might be taken again Fred Fussell, left handed pitcher who failed to report at camp. Fussell signed his contract and was due here last Thursday. Donie Bush put the Pirates to work yesterday instead of giving them the usual holiday. The pitch- ers threw 'ew fast, straight balls, but only Jess Petty, southpaw, ob- tained from Brooklyn, tried any curves, Feb. 26 M- RISKS HIS TITLE Chicago, Feb, 25 M—Gus Sonnen- berg risks his new hravyweight wrestling title against the Polish strong mi Stanislaus Stasiask at the Coliseum tonight. Dan Koloft, & stablemate of Sta- slask's meets Jim McMillan, former University of Illinois football star, in the semi-windup, WHITE 80X START Chicago, Feb. 25 M—This is get- away week for Manager “Lena” Blackburne and his White Hox. With their hopes pinned largely on & big crop of promising rookies, the White Sox will entrain for their spring training camp at Dallas, Texas, Thuraday. T ISPLACED RIB Battle With dack Sbarkey Was Nearly Called 01 Miaml Bea¢h, Fla., Feb, 35 (M= By way of adding another fantastic touch to this strangest of fistic af- fairs, it may be told in detdll today how a displaced rib came close to dislocating the Stribling-Sharkey ‘heavywelght bout from ita expensive moorings, “W. L. 'will be in there to fight 8harkey it we have to take him up the aisle in a wheel chair, but we won't need to, and W. L. will be in shape to give Bharkey the fight of his life.” Thus did “Pa” Stribling. looking proudly at his tall blackhaired son, conclude his description to the As- sociated -Press today of an injury that “W. L" met in training four days ago and which came close to upsetting completely the carefully 1aid plans for the ten-round match to referee's decision, acheduled this Wedneaday night at Flamingo Park, ‘The essentials now are that Strib- 1ing. in apite of several days of acute pain from the rib injury, is pro- nounced by physicians as fully fit to fight; that there will be no necessity to try to subatitute Paulino Uscudun or any one else for the southerner: or face a pomible postponement. But there have been a flock of anxious moments for the principals as well as Promoter Jack Dempsey. “It all happened during a brisk workout last Wednesday,” sald “Pa" 8Stribling, “W. L, let loose a terrific right. He felt some twinges at the time, I think, but continued, and we did .not discover until an examina- tion afterward that he had displaced an upper rib—only about an eighth of an inch—but enough to be ex- tremely painful and dangerous. “It naturally affected W. L.'s nerves and to make matters worso neuritis in his right arm. We worked on him with massages. It. was very painful and I don't mind admitting now we were mighty worried. But he has come around fine. I think his workout yesterday demonstrated that there is absolutely nothing to worry about. It was the most satis- factory he had. Also, he has re- gained the slight amount of weight he lost as a result of the accident. “There’s nothing the matter with W. L.'s right hand, You saw him hit and hit plenty with it yesterday. He is ready to go now. He will fight and he will win." 80 seriously did those backing the battle regard Stribling's injury that actual overtures were made to John- ny Buckley, 8harkey's manager, looking toward the substitution of Paulino. Buckley, however, flatly re- jected the idea, holding that' his man had trained especially to meet a boxer of Stribling’s type, Bharkey, according to his manager, is willing to fight Paulino or any other out- standing contender, providing he beats the southerner. Paulino will be here today., anyway. He was named by Tex Rickard alternate, The absorbing angle to the Strib- ling rib story is what effect it will have on the southern idol’s chances. The erstwhile Georgia school hoy's following through Florida, his home state and Dixie as a whole has been strong in spite of the somewhat gen- jeral belief among the assembled crit- ics that Bharkey has the better chance to win, The prospects now point to a slight lengthening of odds in Bharkey's favor. Both fighters were as impressive in their Jast strenuous drills yester. day as they have been at any time, but there was no mistaking the ad- vantage to which Bharkey showed. ‘The Boston sailor works and pynches with utmost confidence. He has weight and greater experience in faster company in his favor. There seems nothing lacking in his physi. cal equipment or mental attitude. Stribling, more nervous and more in- cfined to do the unexpected, appears strong, even though a bit drawn and hollow cheeked. There is no mistak- ing the danger in his right hand. There i8 & refreshing lack of mys- tery so far as the box office is con- cerned. No matter what the artistic result may be, it is & financial suc- cess now and promoters don’t care who knows it. The actual cash in the bank was nearly $300,000 before the start of business today, $40,000 more than is needed to cover the maxi- mum expense of promotion. As & result and contrary to previ- ous announcements, the fight pro- gram will be broadcast over a net- work of stations by the Nationai Broadcasting company. Graham McNamee and Bill Munday, the lat- ter a sports writer on the staff of the Atlanta Journal, will be at the microphone, 8o far, according to the broadcasting company’s announce. ment, the following stations are par- ticipating: WJZ, New York: WBZ, Springfield, Mass.; WBZA, Boston, HIGH PRESSURE PETE WHAM, Rocheater, N. Y.; WBAL, Baltimore; WLW, Cincinnati KDKA, Pittsburgh; WJR, Detroit; KYW, Chicago and WREN, Kansas City. The broadcast will start at 9:30 p. m., eastern standard time.. The main bout {s acheduled for ten o'clock. BOXING WAR OFF Decision (o Postpone Light Heavy- Weight Battle: Results in Armis- \ Uce Hetween Promoters, Chicago, Feb, 35 UM—Threats of a “boxing war” in Chicago had sub- sided today. Decision of the Chicago stadium officials to postpone the proposed light - heavyweight championship match between Tommy Loughran and Mickey Walker from March 13 to 28 resulted in the urmistice be- tween promoters Paddy Harmon and Jim Mullen, who has Tom Heency, New Zealan® heavyweight, and Otio Von Porat of Chicago matched for & bout, March 12, Harmon said his date was chang- ed because the new stadium cannot be completed i~ time. WITH THE BOWLERS FIIATEII\I'I‘Y BOWLING ALLEYS Hrital Tronsky ... THE RECORD -BREAKING NEW NASH *lukitis, vt .. fiRflUP B CRGUIT FINISHES SEASON Arrows Win 19 as Boge Cloh|” League Comes to End Tinal Stay Arrows . Shooting i Goose Goslins Tigers .. IMive Aces Nutmegs . Speedboys Boys' Club Junior The Group B Intermediate Das ketball league the Boys' club wound up hedule Saturday af- ternoon, with the champion Arrows ning their 12th game by an 11-4 over the Nutmegs. Gebela and 8. Reo were hest for the winners, while Dobel and Skrzypek made the Nutmeg points. The summary: Pts. A. Paluch, If .. Mirzewski, rf 0 Gebela, ¢ ... 2 Ucknavich, rg 8. Reo, Ig ... Nutmegs Rametts, If Dodati, ¢ . Dobeg, rg Skrzypeg, Ig . 0N)uly 1, 1928, Nash stood ninth in dol- larsand cents volume of sales, exclusive of Ford, according to the official figures for the year ending at that date. On January 1, 1929, just six months later, atcording to the same official figures, Nash stood fosrth, In this very brief period the new Nash 400" has completely changed the automobile picture of America. With unmistakable enthusiasm, motorists everywhere have placed their stamp of ap- proval upon this new Nash—making it, by a pN'NASH 400’ IMPORTANT “400” FEATURES—/N0 OTHER CAR HAS THEM ALL Twin-Igaition motor 12 Aircraft-type spark plugs High compression New double drop frame Oae-piece Salon feaders VO THE HoT-0065 7 Houdaille and Lovejoy shock 2| Heinzman, ¢ .. - | Gavin, Danek, 1g .... absorbers (exciusive Nash mownting) Aluminum alloy pistons (Isver Stvass) 7-bearing crankshaft (bellsw crawk pius) Bijur centralized chassis lubrication The. Mu Stare finished in sec- ond place by virtue of a 13-3 wal- loping which they haunded the Goese Goslinu. 3 Zdanczukts and Golawals made all but one of the winners' points, white Norkie made the -only basket scored by the lossrs. The Gotawala, rf Zippo, It . J. Zdaneczuk: Lopes, Tg .. V. Zdanczukas, 5 Goose Goslins ckosdi it Tobek, If . Norkie. ¢ . 7| Greger, rg Danse, 1g .. 10 The Five Aces handed a 20-12 de- Teat to the tail-end Boys’ Club Ju- niors. Cartelli and Heinzman were high scorers for the Five Aces, with A. Heinzman guarding effectively. Nappi and Masionis led the cellar occupants. The summary: Five Aces Fld. Pts. Cartelli, rf .. . Modusis, If . A. Heinzman, rg . . Lucithl, 18 ..ovnie 5 8 4 6 o 2 10 20 Boys’ Club Jrs. Pts. Nappi, rf ... it . Spudulis, ¢ . Masionis, rg e saga fiobais et I The Tigers ran up the biggest 6 in just months ! Jarvis, ¢ Mangan, rg ... Pienrski, Ig . Glerpen, Ig . READY FOR PRACTICE Vanguard of Detrolt Tigers i Arte zona Camp to Start Spring Woeke outs Today. Phoenix, Ariz, Feb. 25 (M==The first major league team ever to ®e: lect Arizona for its spring training camp—the Detroit club of the American league—had the vanguard of its baseball squad here today. ready for practice, Manager Stanley Harris, the new Tiger pilot, found George Uhle, vets cran pitcher, ‘and two youngsters waiting here for him when he are rived yesterday, Uhle, obtained from Cleveland, has been having his pitching arm treated by a Los ARe geles specialist, and is expected to regain some of his old time form. The youngsters, Leo Fitterer and Champ Alloway. come from the Fort Worth club of the Texas league. “s00" IN DOLLARS AND CENTS VOLUME, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL FIGURES { Forsd Evedudod ) tremendous margin, the outstanding motor car success of modern automobile history, Why? 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