New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 23

of Sports New Britain basketball team 1s ar- ranging & road trip for his feam, according to his announcement last night. He has received a numbher of offers for games through New York state and he states that the quintet will probably make a tour during Easter week. Glens Fall is especially anxious to see the New Britain five in action. This is Frank Dougherty’s home town and the basketball moguls there are hot for a game with New Britain providing the Fordham star plays in the lineup, ‘The tentative plans of the local manager call for three games dur- ing the week, one in Glens Falls, another against Vic Hanson's Syra cuse quintet and the third agai t Hudson, Al Sloman’s home town | erew. I the guarantees are found to be sufficient, Manager Lanpher states that he expects to make definite ar- rangements for the tour. Officials of the Stanley A. C. an- nounced today that they will stage a pro fight card at the Stanley Arena on Monday, March 18. Billy teeves, Bristol Bearcat, will be one of the principals ‘n the feature bout of the night but his opponent has ®ot yet been named. Matchmaker Wagner is arranging the various matches on the card st the present time and he will have some definite information on the card in the néar future. He plans to use all of the favorites who ap-| peared on the amateur tournament cards during the present season. The Stanley A. C. in line with oth- er clubs about this state who were conducting amateur fight tourna- ments, was prevented from staging any show last Monday night or next Monday night because of the sage of the bill and its signature by Governor John M. Trumbull, putting amateur boxing under the control Thomas Donohue, An amateur card was conducted | purnham in New Haven last night despite th injunction restraining the commis. sioner from interfering with the proposed card. This action was forccast at the| meeting in New Haven Wednesday | called Ly the commissioner for help- | ful suggestions as to a new amateur R code of rules he plans to hring into and others interested im the ama- teur game and received no helpful | suggestions at all. Tt 13 not expected that the acuun!::mrm taken by the New Haven Arena of-| ficials in securing an injunction against the state commissioner will he repeated In any other city. “Kid" Willams, star rush on the New Britain roller hockey quintet. produced a number of laughs last |\ night when, in & reminiscent mood, | he began to describe life in ‘Henry, JlL, the home of his brother “Red. two brothers were walking down Main strect, the fire alarm sounded and with their usual dash, the fire trucks swept through the streets in answer. | “Red” got all excited and he | Merzkowal shouted to his brother "Kid,” “Come | Mehowshi on, let's follow them." id"” Wil- liams caught hold of his brother's| arm and restrained him, saying. | ““We have fire trucks in the city, not | a contraption like you have out in Tilinois.” The explanation contains the in-| " formation that “Red” is a member of the Henry fire department. ‘This is | a volunteer organization. When they anawer a fire, the volunteers rush to | the fire house, one of the many harns in the town, and whirl the ap- paratus through the streets. The +quipment is all hand drawn and the motive power is furnished by the | members of the fire company. Speakings Corhin 3 108 20 114 124 125 tate Athletic Commissioner | rders of the state commissioner but | the officlals of the New Haven| Avena during the day. sccured 4n|Gaiafano ) Ruckholtz being. The commissioner met Aan|yen entirely hostile crowd of promoters | stont | Gorman | Cadrain | Rinson The aubject was brought up by the | Fillion fact that the other day while the“;‘l'””' | Kenure | & Matulan FRATERMITY A BUSINESS M “Kid" says it is a great to ace his brother “Red” with his hands on the shaft, his fire helmet crammed on his head and his clarion call sound- ing out urging his fellows on. | 8 an official of the fire de- partment. He is nozzleman on the | hose. “He's a pretty good fircman at | Mar that, ays “Kid.” { “Red” is also an umpire of parts. | yaci<on He is expecting to land a berth in | Recius the Three-I league this coming sea- | B mon. He conducts a billiard parlor In| 1 w score Henry. Barney Doherty, injured halfback expects 1o leave for home in Bristol, N. H., next Sunda progressed favorably so that he is| able to drive fairly well. He plans to | take a drive to Florida soon fo| spend a month there, and then he will settle down in Bristol. — | Chase . The Burritt basketball team will| McAulifte not enter the city tournament to be | conducted at the Stanley Arena. ac- cording to Manager Kenneth Saun ders. The players on the team are playing too much basketball in his!| yewitt opinion and they will have only add- | Dery ed work if the team enters the championship tournament. Offers Increases to Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates sald today he % had offered Paul Waner a $1,000 increase over last year of $12,509 and had mentioned $8.000 for 11 a $1.500 "icrease. This figure is $9 - 000 under the Waners' demand Traynor has suffered a recur of his hip injury and may be out of | wractice until Monday, | Ranm on the New Britain roller polo club. | snawman His knee has |} | Slattory | Tzewtella Capitol Walel kil N Both Waner Brothers|, ....onom Paso Robles, Cal. March 8 ®— INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE 502 ' Corkin Nerew 3 16 139 84 14 561 LEA MATCH A. Hartford Girls [T a3 S LEAGLE 501 03 [0 466 9114-2 ~|appeared safcly in front. But the | penetrable in the first half. Roth poor play. The summary: Church Reserves 2 TS 1 I T 196 | Jozeph, Tf, rg ... 1 " 2 . Wosilus, If .. 1 1 3 Harwood, t S 0 & EYS | Bexison, wf ol i d 0 T16 | E. Anderson, i | | Refere | Joe Guyon, after » num of 05 ¥ears in the minors, has decided {to quit baseball and devote all his time to coaching collrge teams. He o Irecently accepted a job at Clemson * |in South Carolina. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, _— WITH THE BOWLERS ERS ALLEYS Herc i “n old-time training camp | scene. 11 was taken shortly before; July 4, 1910, in the Montczuma | Mountains near Las Vegas, N. M. group of old-timers such as these | | was often seen twenty or thirly/ years ago, but not now. | | On that memorable Fourth of July in 1910, Jim Flynn, the only [ man credited with knocking out| Jack Dempsey, met Jack Johnson, | then the world’s heavyweight cham- | pion, at Las Vegas. | Herewith are pictured a gathering of camp visitors and attaches. Read- ing from left to right, they are:| € IFarley, town official: Leon 1 gado, sheriff; Sccretary of St mera; Burns, dishwasher; €. Cole- wan, cook; Jim Ilynn, the hero; Al | Williams, his spirring partner, and Perey Holman, a young man who tried to be a fighter and failed Delgado and Romera, appearing for all the world like a pair of mov- ing picture comedy artists, per- formed their official duties with such zeal that they were forced to get new guns. Their old ones had so many notches that the handles had nearly vanished. 1In their efforts to keep the wild and woolly west froe of outlaws, both Delgado and Ro- mera had killed more than ten men when this picture was taken. Times have changed since then Flynn now runs a garage and still is put in the spotlight every o often as the man who stopped Demps.y It may as well be stated, however, that the Flynn-Dempsey bout is to- day generally recognized as “one of those things” Al Williams s still connect with the fight business, heing an #ructor at the Olympia A. ¢ Francisco. Flynn was highly regarded at the time this jolly zroup gathercd to- gether hefore the camera, but his fight with Johnson, held shortly after this photograph was taken was not a suceess. I was stopped in the ninth round by state polics who claimed it had developed into a prize fight. eferee Ed Smith gave the decision to Johnson. CHURCH RF “Red"” Hattings defeated the Iirst Lutheran Reserves almost single- handed last night at the Y. M. ¢, A when he ran up 14 points as the South Church Reserves won a 23-1y decision. The game was a peculinr one. Hattings began the scoring adter which . Anderson got the only Swede basket in the first half. Then the winners proceeded to run up a count, and at intermission they third quarter saw Hultberg and C. | Anderson breaking loose, and short- Iy after the opening of the last quarter they were close behind at 18-16. Then Hatting: stepped on the gas again and his team pulled away. The winners' defense was fin- teams passed the ball around well a1 times. and both also had streaks of B. Wosilus, rg Hattings, Ig. 1f . Merza, lg 6 3 14 First Luther: n Reserves Fld TRISSR(] Hultberg, If . €. Anderson, Bengtson, ¢ 0. Anderson QUITS BASEBALL FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929. until the end when the New | teams are primed {f fight and are anxious to bring s is bound to crop up this eve- vill fight with all their abi Britain holds point win over the and White this season and out this blot. ford will be striving to scor its first atheltic Red & Gold serfes, the Capitol regations in fwo sen- Hartford team has remained on stepping along & form and with boti anxious to end the season with a victory ley Arvena should be jammed with two teams take the Coach George Cassidy will prob- Carlson and Hartford will start Gunthers at forward, Kelly and Schofield A preliminary game between the The main at- traction will follow ¥ WELL ,PElE- WEVE GOTA GET OowN TO BUSINESS AND FIND A SUITABLE- PLARE To OFEN UP ANOTHER SToWE.— wE WANT T BE NEAR THE- CHEETUM B0%., 50 WELL TY TH' OTHER S10€ of Town RIVAL HIGH SCHOOLS TO BATTLE IN FINAL GAME New Britain Quintet Meets Ancient Rivals From Hart- ford Tonight at Stanley Arena—Both Teams Ap- ' pearing for Last Time This Year — Clubs Primed for Bitter Contest—Locals Anxious to Clean Slate With Win Over Capital City. 'BARBUTI WILL REMAIN ON SUSPENDED LISTS Olympic Chaimpion Must Identify A A. U. Official Whom He Has Accused. New Yok, March 8 (®—Ray Ba: buti, Olympic 4v0-meter champior will remain suspended from amatous cempetition until he identifies the A. A U. official he has charg knew that certain track and few athletes were receiving more monuy than their expenses required. A four-hour session of the regis tation committee of the Metropoli 1an Association, A. A. U. last nigiit. with Barbuti and several newspaper men as witnesses, failed to develup any new facts which might has. permitied the suspension to b lifted. Barbuti denied many of the pub lished statements attributed to hin but stoutly insisted his charges as LG Over-paymient on cxpense v counts were true and that a ‘“cer tain A. A. U. official” knew of it. Repeated efforts by the commit tee “prosecutor.” Joseph A. Reiliy president of the association, to & Barbuti to identify this official met with failure. 1T counsel and for the further reason (hat it would be very unsportsman- like," was the incvituble reply Bar- along that line. Detroit Pitchers Cut Loose for First Time March 8 (P—De- | Phoenix, Ariz., troit Tiger pitchers were permitted to cut loose yesterday for the first time since the training season open- ed. Ot the veterans, Lil Stoner look- +d especially good. while Johnny Prudhomme and Lefiy Barnes, re- cruits. also pleased Manager Harris. Roy Johnson finally put in ap- | pearance. Chick Galloway was the only missing hand today. The S.¢F. MOTOR SALES CORP. 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