New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 9

Speaking of Sports Two roller polo teams, the Albany five and a quintet of picked stars frcm the various clubs in the Ameri- can Roller Hockey league, will meet tomorrow night at the Stanley Al’tl in this city, in & benefit game for Fred Jean, veteran polo star who has been confined to a hospital in Fall River since about the middle of the season. Jean has for years been one of the outstanding players in the circuit and he has been hit hard financially during the past few years. Earning his livelihood from rolier polo, he probably will be unable to play again and the outlook for him is very dark. Manager Frank McDonough of the local team is arranging details for the game. The owners of the hall are giving the Arena free and offi- cials and others are donating their services. The players are all offer- ing their services with few excep- tions. The all-star team will e picked from among such players as Bou- cher, St. Aubin, Harkins, Duggan, Welch, Gazzinga, “Red” Williams and many others who will want to play. The game should be a good exhibition as the pick of the league will be opposing the champions, Louis G. Black who acted as man- sger of the Palisades club of New York made up of former New York N. ¢ players, has written a let- tor expressing appi iation for the treatment. accorded his team while in this city. In his message to Manager Clarence Lanpher, he says: “In hehalf of the members of the Palisades club basketball team and *If, may I take the liberty of anking you for the splendid way in which our game was run oft and the treatment we received hoth prior | ter the game by your manage- | and ment and the fans. “New more power to you and your team. We shall he more than pleased to pay a return visit next season and £ood lick for your impending state championship meeting with next Saturday evening.” The New Britain teain will jour- ney to Glens Ialls, N. Y., next week on Tuesday night to meet the bas- ketball team of that city. This will be a great attraction tor the fans as it is the home of Frank Dough- erty, forner YFordham guard and at present one of the siars of the New Britain team. The game had to he arranged during vacations so that Zakzewski, Dougherty and Sloman would bhe able to play. BILLIARD MATCHES Several Good Games Are Played in the Partnership League at Rogers | carlors. Several games were played in the partnership billiard le ers last night. The Red Sox, and Neri, defeated the Pirates, Kasprow and Zeigler, Yanks, Olson and Sarra, sct down the Robins, Stewart and Stokes, to 43. The Panthers, Mack and Mi- chaels. beat the Senators, Pilarski and Savoie, 75 to 66. The Braves Jost their f game to the Giants, 75 to 49. After winning one the Giant Scapellati and Connors, lost to the White Sox, Wa Norton, 75 to 70, Vaughan, ying at rst me. the instructor defeated lost to Gregor in the evening 75 to 69. There will be a return match between these two. The ed Eagles lost their title last night when the Panthe took a fall out of them in b ball at the Nathan Hale school gym Ly the score of 28 to 26. The Bagles had a weight advantage and af n fast start, had a lead of 16 to The Panthers soon filled the gap and the Eagles led by 20 to 15 at the half. After two haskets in the sec- ond half, the Eagles, were unable to =core from the tfloor. The Pan- thers staged a rally that gave them the game. The summary: Panthers O'Frien, rf Marietta, 1f Squillacote, ¢ Deutsch, rg Ziegler, 1g Ferony, Tt Stohl, If Keely Colwick, ¢ P. Paretta, g . A. Paretta, Ig ... 11 Score at half time, liagles teferee, Bacon. Timer, fcorcr, Pamarella. 20- Naples. . BLUES V&, COMMUNITIES The New Britain Blues basketball team will play the Meriden Com- munities at the Sacred Heart school gym tomorrow night. The Blue Juniors will meet the Phantom Re- serves in the preliminary. The pro- gram will start at 7:30 o'clock. Muddy Ruel, Washington catcher, fs a graduate of the University of Missouri and plans to practice law when he finishes with bascball, DR. KEITH DENTIST 300 MAIN ST. TEL. 3440 New Leonard Bidg. Britain is a great city and |5 Bristol | Rog- |! 75 to 66. The | and | 4| altiough none was s ! |start of the trouble was that MANY INJURED IN RIOT AT FIGHT Panic Seizes Crowds at Fields- Thompson Battle in Chicago Chicago, March 26 (#)—Panic broke out at the Coliseum last night during the Jackie Ficlds-Young Jack Thompson boxing match. Two score persons were injured in the resultant pandemonium. Two of them were hurt so seriously that they may die. There were 8,500 men and women in the building when a fight started in the cast balcony. Cries of “fight” went up. By many the cry was un- derstood as “fire,” and the crowd be- came panic stricken. The fight between the Chicagoan, Fields, and the California negro, Thompson, was in the eighth round, The battle itself had roused the ithe furore broke out in the balcony it spread quickly. Plank seats piled in the balcony in anticipation of the opening in thé Coliseum of a circus, were knocked over, and their clatter added to the crowds’ frenzy. Mest of those pres- [ent knew that the circus was soon to open at the Coliseum, and that | some of the animals alrcady were quartered there. Shouts went up that boa constric- tors and a lion had escaped from their cages and -were loose in the {main floor. The fact that the build- ing was in darkness save for the the ring itself added to the uncer- tainty of what had happened. , Thousands of radio listeners tuncd in on WGN and KYW listened in on the tumult, although the micro- phones through which the broad. casts were being made were knocked to the floor in the first wild rush. Telegraph wires to newspaper of- |fices were cut off, and first word of what was happening reached the outside through radio loudspeakers. A pall of smoke from a photo- pher's flashlight hung low over ringsiders, lending substance to the crics of “fire.” Some of those near- est the exits rushed outside and {turned in an alarm, ana it was fire- men who later took the injured from the huilding to a hospital. Judge IFrancis Bore!li was among those trampled, though his injurics were not scrious. Teddy Hayes, trainer for Mickey Walker, was scated with Walker, the middle- weight champion, in the fifth row ously hurt, The most seriously Injured, it was stated today at St. Luke's hospital, were Samuel Schurman, whose l:gs were crushed and who was injured internally when pushed over the balcony; Samuel Shayne whose legs rushed; Isaac Binber, inter- nally injured and Henry Lansfield. The latter two may not survive, it was said at the hospital. Several horscs, quartered by ing in their stalls, adding to the din. tire main floor crowd concentrate upon the clevated ring as the one place of safety. They shed forward, trampling ove chairs, leuping upon the reporteis’ |press table, wr ing microphones epinning to flcor. So quickly did the surge forward, that there were sev- 1l score persons in the ring be- fore the fighters realized what was zoing on and were tighting by the referee. To the thousands of radio listen- e1s the affair teemed with drama. I"or several minutes the microphones carried to listeners such confusion of sound as to indicate that some dis- er had taken place. As soon a3 the KYW announcer, Gene Rouse, recovered his micro- |phone, he called upon his listencrs |to notify fircmen and police. At |that time it was not clear to those |inside the Coliseum what had hap- i pened—whether it was fire, a riot, |or whether, as one carly report said, | [the gunmen had apoeared and had | started to shoot it cut. | lover the radio during the early hysteria was that some of the crowd had shouted that a bnll was loose |among the spectators | Paul Prehn, head of the state box. ;:m: comm on ang | of the Nationul Boxiig association, ‘\\‘ one of the first to ciimb into | ving and it was larzely through his !shouted appeals Jor order and ris rtion that there w | seum office | piled high with hats and e and lother clathing forgoiten in the rush for safety. Women ieported the loss of furs, jewels and purs Several police officors were amog | the injured, and the list included 50 the names of half 4czen women, riously hurt. of th: actual two negrocs, one with a knife, the other | with a pistol, startc1 to fight. There was a general pushing away from | the fighters, and the cry of “fight,” misunderstood as “fire,” went up. An usher in the trouble zone said one of the ncgroes had offerel to het on Fields, the white hoxer, and that this had angored the other negro. The best account MAY BE SUBSTITUTE PSSR Sam Rice, Veteran of Many Cam- paigns, May Be Left on the Out- side of Regular Lincup. Ortampa, Fla., March 26 P — Sam Rice, veteran of many cam- paigns in the Washington outfield and a consistent .300 hitter, prob- ably will occupy the role of a sub- |stitute this scason. Manager John- son has decided that Goslin, Barnes |ana West—the latter two youngsters —will compose the regular outfield. | Starting today the Nats became |hosts to the Brooklyn Dodgers for two days at their fraining camp here and from now on until the regular season opens life will be just one exhibition game after an- other for the club. crowd to high excitment, .and when | brilliant light which was centered on | and was reported to have been seri- | the | circus in the building, began stamp. | At the outhreak of alarm, the en- | scemed to | King typewriters | nd telegraph instruments and send- | the | crowd | stopped from | One announcement that went out | also president | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1920, DOMINICK FRISCO DEFEATS THOMAS IN SLASHING BOUT, New Britain Battler Outpunches Bantam Champion in | Best Match on Amateur Card—Gullo Takes Rather Tame Clash From Cromack — Berny Flood Scores First Round Knockout Over Fred Ianucci of New | | There are a number of ncgroes who have been outstanding perform- ers in various sports, but do you {know who was the first colored | man to achieve national prominence as a foothall player? In 1892, Har- vard's center was Lewis, who was ica eleven that year. Lewis wi the first of his race ever to be hon- ored in that manner. After gradua- tion, he praticed law in Boston ani | became prominent. LOGALS GETTING | OET FOR BRISTOL {New Britain Basketball Quintet Meets Endees Saturday Faced with the prospect of carry- |ing oft the state basketball cham | pionship for the third"succe: time, the New Britain basketball | team is getting ready for its final | game in the series with the Bristol Endees. This battle will take place | next Saturday night at the Stanley | Arena before one of the | crowds of fans on rccord here. Meriden has been eliminated from the state title race and this has been made doubly sure by the fact that Jack Curry has given up all claim to state honors. This leaves New { Britain and Bristol in the fleld | alone. At the present time, New Britain stands one game up on Bristol in the present scries but Bristol stands with three wins to two for Ne Britain in the five games played this son. Saturday night's game, if won by New Britain, will give the locals a clear claim to the title be- cause of the fact that New Britain had already eliminated Meriden. Managers Clarence Lanpher and Joe Casroll of New Britain and Bristol respectively, met yesterday at the Stanley Hotcl and made final arrangements for the game. Neither team will take on any “ringers” for the contest but will face their fate | with the lincups that have been in laction in the series, New Britain stands the favorite in |the game although Bristol backers are depending on their quintet to spring an upsct here Saturday. Bris- tol won from New Britain on the local floor and ® the Bell Towner feel confident that they can dupl cate this feat. Bristol took New Britain into camp first on New Year's day in this city. New Britain a victory at night in Bristol. Subse- quently, Bristol took two games in a week from New Britain winning here and in Bristol. A couple of weeks ago, New Britain, strengthen- ed by the addition of Frank Dougherty, defeated Bristol 22 to 16 in Bristol. The outlook for Saturday night is that there will be a terrific fight on tap in this city. Bristol will have Jimmy Cullom and Jimmy Picken as forwards, Sid Richman as center and myer and Waterman as guards with Man- ning, Marchinek, Malcolm and Car- ney in reserve. ew Britain will have Sloman and Zakzewski as for- wards, Donoghue at center and Arburr and Dougherty as guards. The local rescrve force will consist |of Leary, Shechan, Holst and Restelli. Gus Winters of Springfield has been named as the referee. BOASTS STRON: SQUAD Stanford will have one of the |strongest college tennis teams in the {country this year with Johnny Doeg as its outstanding player. HIGH PRESSURE named on Walter Camp's All-Amvr.‘ largest | returned the compliment by taking | 9AY, YOUNG MAN=— “TWO OF THOSE APPLES | HOU $0L0 1€ YESEADAY, LERE. ROTIEN — | Dominick Frisco, hard hitting Haven—Silverman Smashes Out Win Over Fornica. | | southpaw amateur battler of this | LOUGHRAN ls READY !city, fighting one of the greatest P —— |bouts of his career last night, | Light Heayyweight Champion Satis- {pounded his way to a clear d Ision over Johnny Thomas of New | Haven, state bantamweight cham- | | pion in the best fight of the night | on the amateur card conducted last | night at the battle was a hair-raiser from star to finish with both boys sending in everything they had in every punch | The decision rendered in the local {boy's favor was a hair-line judg- | ment. Dominick secured his edge {in the second round and increased L it slightly in the third. There was no | training immediately. | great margin to choose from but the | m just set for Walker now and concensus of opinion was that th {I'l just wait for the bell,” Loughran | local boy had a clear win. Thomas |s#id. "I now weign so close to the proved to be the toughest opponent | limit. pounds, that 1 can make Irisco has met and he fought like it With a few setting up exercis: |a champion. Frisco, however, kept | Walker's 7 to 5 odds were report- |sending in a shower of lefts ficd with Condition and Will End | Training. | | Chicago, March 26 —(P—Tommy | Loughran ids his light | heavyweight championship against | Mickey Walker in the new Chicago | stadium ‘Thursday night announced | |last night, three days before the | fight, that he was so satisfied with | his condition that he would end his and |ed to have dwindled to even money. | rights to the head and body and al- —— though he received plenty of the {same kind in return, he outpunched | PH]LL[ES NOT HlTT[NG I his Elm City rival to gain the deci- | sion. | Vincent Gullo of Meriden defeated | Al Cromack of Unionville in th | final and feature contest on the hill. | Some Reason Why His Team The bout was rather slow due 1o the | fact that neither boy would lead but | they both got steamed up in the| | third round and some pretty punch- | ling was the result. Gullo scored a | wide margin of points over his rival and clearly pounded his way to vic- tory. Kid Carter gat a mighty Incky de cision from Referee John Willis in his bout with Carmen Knapp of } Haven in the 132 pound Knapp had Carter woozy near the end of the second round and used 'y a right hand uppercut to the stom- |ach effectively all through the fight. howl of disappointment went up |from the assembled fans when Car- ter was awarded the bout. “Sunny Boy” Hayden of Bristol continued his winning streak when he polished Jackie Dillon of New Haven in the 118 pound class. Hay- | them Wil hit when the season opens. | den took some surprising jolts in the | e ———eer. first round but he soon solved Dil-| lon's style and immediately started | SITUATION GLOOMY in to pound outa win. : Showing a world of stuff an o Coowe x| [ hard puneh. Barny Flood of this city Going Into Last Weck in Training | | knocked out Fred Ianucci of New 5 a A 5 {Saten in /(e tast Tounal of ineir | o ok TEiNone 00 icod | bout at 114 pounds. Tanucci was| | counted out just two seconds before the round was up. Flood fought Yort Myers, Fla. March 26 (BP— | cautiously for a time using & left Going into the last week in the {jab but he suddenly let loose with |training camp, the situation is none | a terrific right that caught lanucci too alluring so far as the Philadel- square on the button. Many of t phia Athletics are concerned. fans present didn’t see the blow. Gy ol Al e f R Bill Casey, a big, lumbering, awk- none too well, the makeup of the ward battler from North Kinsston.|infild stil ia uncertain, and on top N. Y. was defeated in three rounds of that George Farnshaw, right by Jack Reneault of*New Haven in |handed pitcher, still is in Hot the 144 pound class. Casey started |gprings undergoing treatment for an out with a left jab that bothered the | [y 1 Elm City boy for a time but Re- i ocqnire neault gave Casey a terrific 1acing ' joo Boley, regular shortstop, fs before the fight ended. _lstill unable to throw to first base | Vor two rounds, Joe King of New |y, ;60 of a sore arm. Hessler will |Haven and Irank Lelevier of Bris- g%, a4 hort. The indications are |tol fought on even terms but I8 the |4 orwoll will start the season at third canto, King took the starch|q . pighop wilt be at second. Foxx, out of the Bell Towner with hard ™ e anenes. Mo was given the | DYkes and Hale will fight it out for the third base job. decision, Ben Persky of New Haven in the had little troubis | Should De | | Called Silent. i I Winter Haven, ¥la., March 26— (#—Base hits have heen so few and ar between recently that Manager Shotton is about r there is some justification in calling | his team the silent Phillies, The pitching staff has improved during | the last week, but in the last four games the Phillies have uncovered a ss. “When it isn't one thing in base- its another,” Shotton said 've been wailing about out pitching all spring, but now that is coming around all right we can't hit Shotton, however, says there are | a halt dozen good clubbers with the | Phillies and he is confident all of | for the Athletics. ! Manager Shotton Believes There is | I 1dy to admit |, batting slump. | 1 a ball out of the infield.” |1 and will remain there 126 pound class, lin winning a decision over Jerry V lenti of this city. Valenti, afraid of getting hurt, constantly ducked and folded his arms over his face al- lowing Persky to hit him at will. In |the brief and few exchanges, Vale more than held his own and had he |fought a standup battle, Valenti might have won. Bill Silverman, having taken a | beating in his last two starts, re- turned to the wars last night against Sol Fornica of New Haven in the 112 pound class. Using a pile driv- |ing right and left punch, Silver- | man knocked his opponcnt down for the count of nine three times in a |row in the first round and again in | the second. Fornica made a come- | back in the third but his opponent |had too big an edge on him. | Johnny Maynard of this city was |awarded a three-round decision over Joey Louis of New Haven in the |curtain raiser at 126 pounds. May- nard, appearing clumsy at the fir took a few socks on the beezer a then began to fight, Louis wa apparently the winner by a wid margin but the local hoy was award- ed the verdict. 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