New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 14

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CORBIN SCREW AND ELMWOOD ENDEE BASKETBALL QUINTETS MEET TONIGHT IN LAST GAME OF ELIMINATION SERIES — ALBANY ROLLER HOCKEY QUINTET DEFEATS TEAM OF ALL-STARS—BRISTOL ENDEES TO INVADE CITY IN FINAL GAME SSeSOSEELE08D ALBANY WINS OVERTIME : GAME FROM ALL-STARS| | | League Champions Score 8 to 7 Victory Over Picked | Up Aggregation—Contest is Staged Before Small- | est Crowd on Record—Lunderville Pokes in Decid- ing Counter — Played as Benefit for Fred Jean— | Steve Pierce is Outstanding Player on Floor. | JANGHESTER TEAM PLAYS BURRITTS <o Jupior Recreation Quintet to < Appear Here Saturday Night t basketball talent ester will be in the ecreation Five bas ch is scheduled to in pre- Britain-Bristol Stanley Arena the ew game the ¥ night. and Quish, members of nior recreation team which the Lanphermen in South »‘er will be in the lincup of Both are former high New Britain will e r Holland who cap- baskctball team which E of 16 New ritain high school players for play- . teams during the ago. - vlick, Burritts, was d at the sc! . he will be es- lly anxious to defeat the team ich Holland is playing ts " “ve an impressive r, having won 20 vic- The only losses re to two Meriden teams, the ¥ and Laurel quintets but return games the Hardware City team got its revenge and defeated cach of these two rivala. BRUINS T0 MEET RANGERS TONIGHT captain Boston and New York Hockey - Teams to Open Series 7. 1 successio ready to a con records d s wers e two t s post season play and On thely t Ottawa in e cup SHITH HAKING FORTUNE 4T GOLF Youthful Star Disproving State- ment of Walter Hagen New York, March 28 (® — No than the great Walter Hagen has said that playing golf for a is a rather un- profitable business, but Hort, Smith, the sensation of the professional field, has gone a way toward disproving this ment. The brilliant Joplin, Mo who will not attain voting a thcr two months, has collected sized fortune since last No. ber by the simple expedient of g open golf tournaments are various estimates of his but most of these ag re lcose to $15,000. single prize was $5,000, f in the rich La Gore Miami Beach, where he :ad of a fine flel Yesterday the young pro $700 more to the total by beatin out almost the same group of stars| to win the annual north and south | open at Pinehurst. | Smith has only two years of pro-| fessional expericnce and not much | more of competition among the good | amateurs. His first appearance in the competitive fleld was in 1924, when he got to the semi-final round of the western junior champion- hip. Since then he has finished well | a good many events, but he never broke into the limelight until last fall, when he reached the semi-final of the P. G. A. championship Baltimore. ] Since then Smith’s consistent play been a constant source of mazement to golf followers; competed in 1S open tournaments and finished out of the money only four t Seven victories are the list 2 with the Okla} v ope November, Mis souri has come hon head in the Catalina, Pensacolt Fort Myers, La Gorce and Nort! and South opens. He also tied the top but lost « less an authority living latest long state- There 1 on yungster 100! third place 1 tied for fourth at I. to. By t Sac + open a open be LEADING SCORFRS i t MEET INBATTLE First Lutherans and Sonth Church Teams Clash Tonight u; $5808. CHAMPION MEETS CHAMPION IN CHICAGO TOMMY LOUGHRAN LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Chicazo's new $7.000.000 indeor stadium will be dedicated, March 25, with a 10-round title bout he- it heay yweight champion, -and Mickey Walkcr, middleweight champion. STARS TO BATTLE "~ FOR SWIM CROI Johnny Weismuller's Title Main scen Tommy Loughran, 1i By CHARLES W. DUNKLEY s Nports Writer) Associated Pr P o toy bt cha o »eens Goal in Water Championships t iost He won the z Iudkins in itle, ruling I 1l ew pior orld 10 tercd for ths big key leweight D T cacon or Ace n Tuffy Grf . recog challenger p t 2 e 5 | | ioor sw East, f Th have it may be other Weissmuller comes a N York ersity snould put ub a great b The immer t of a » features » show. 0 was t 100 an looms as one odds a ! the crowns, the yard he Olymy wise style even's breaststrok and th Koiac pion e match last y 0 free sty Clapp, nd 2 e whil few ate ruler of @ profissional red up a his would-be keep e of fopal in-le 5 Dt championships hetc Tuesday. r west and middle their star ere; a new E 1am promises to the west and many a moon hefore rida piash while rdley. 8 1 Joe kker. an Aust and “lapp of ter I m am nt f entere all ¢ ting : vac style title. gainst any one Weissmuller's 20 and w thi at 100, nd hoa conple of them ic enough to try it, thr ed at the A. A. U ¥ Tamp Flowers, baseman, ake Shore A. C. flas runner-np to Weissmul 1 vards last r and of likcliest of the " 4 tonsils it a wa vhile are th | pretenders for the 100, 220 and 500 yard free style y medle is at ce of who swam on team at Amsterdam, like.|and New Britain pulled out a victory is entered also in which he in the throne, is after d backstroke and | In the last tw)| un ada’s P thre free varl| is cham the medley. who was 1 Olympie record whi Woh!, other collegi is A. €., which won the champlonship last year, has A water polo team only, its | swimming forees having been ruined | by the loss of Weissmuller, WON'T UNDER , Fla,, Brooklyn's has hout havirg his arpendix removed. | Richman, Flowers found Tlen b | con have another hack at him ‘)xx!\-r will chose his team from Slo- the second in eight minutes, M ble to win a is out for the and the back. | who knocked r leg on the ! ter relay feam that at Am ve the water in the i, 20, 500 and medley. In nddition 1o these stars, ereollegia team, led by the entered intact of Towa is reprose . hooked for the anford's lone Yale s champion 4 Howlanq, is | the University ran ntry, Clapp h sprinter back- ns en- Syracuse | dreds of them coming from ¥ | will attend the gam OPERATION rch "8 (P —Jaks only sccond changed his mind operation on y and decided fore letting to | the | lost BRIS TOL ENDEES INVADE NEW BRITAIN SATURDAY Game Which Will Decide State Championship to Be Staged at Stanley Arena—Locals Have Scored One Victory Over Bell Towners in Series Already— Hardware City Crew Stands Favorite to Win— Immense Crowd of Fans to Watch Spectacular Battle. Saturday night at the Stanley Arena on Church street, the two basketball quintets remaining in the state title chase, will clash in the final game of the last series to de- termine the winner of the laurels. The Bristol Endees, runner-up for the past two seasons to New Britain will be the invading team Saturday night against New Britain, defending ‘champions and favorite in the game. New Dritain's edge over Dristol was gaincd in the last game between the two played at the Bristol state armory. This was the first meeting i g JIMMY PICK of the quintets in the final serics )y the of Bristol's combi ing defeat hen went score 2 1o 16, atjon, after meet- at New RBritain’s hands, up against Meriden and when Bd Wincapple ran wild on a scoring rampage. This debacle took place last Thursday night in Meriden but m a return game in istol last Saturday, Bristol turned tablee, held Meriden to 19 points and scored 54 itself to win the most decisive victory of the en- tire v The srising return to form of the Bed Town Endees has given the backers of the New Britain team plenty of food for thought. Although the fast encounter between the two auintefs was a close battle, - Britain had a slight cdge. With a slightly revamped lineup, the local crew is in for a hard session when Bristol comes hers An fmmense cro the d of fans, hun. Already the are practically sold e is the talk of the Britain partisa ot reserved sed out and the ga town. New course, are depending on their stal- warts 10 come through but the Bris- | tol fans are just as sure that the last victory of New Britain was an aceident pure and simple. dristol will nave Picken, Cullom. Rithemyer, Waterman, Manning, Marchinek, Malcolm and Carncy from which to pick its squad while Manager Clarence Lan- istol, | FRANK DOUGHERTY. man, Zakzewsi, “Jiggs" Donoghue, Arburr, Doughesty, Leary, S8hechan, Holst and Restelli. The Burrits will meet a junior | | team of Manchester Recreation in a preliminary encounter. GIANTS END TRAINING | Manager McGraw Finally Decides That His Squad Looks Fit to Start H 1 This Year's Campaign. San Antonio, Tex., March 2§ (P — 'he Giants are through with their | |training grind, and Manager Mc- yGraw has finally <:cided they form la good ball team, “The club is much stronger than last year on paper,” he said, “but you don't w.in pennants on paper. My pitching is stionger. T have at t five pitchers I ecan fignr: on working regul O'Farrell is in | better co on and will hit better. {My re: strength is greater than 1628, Tl > sccond team, now on the road, probably best second team that ever played in the south. All of the players are in good con- diticn ar1 will be fit for the open- ing day of the seascn is the Condition of fienxe's | Arm Worries Shotton Winter Haven, Fla ch 28 (P —The condition of Ray Benge's arin is the chicf worry just now of Manuger Shotton of the Phillies. Benge was the most successful © the club's pitchers last year, until his arm went bad late in the season. When Benge tricd to cut loose |against the St. Louis Cardinals Tues- v something slipped in his elbow d he quit the game. The other Phillies boxmen, how- ever, are getting better every day, Shotton said, and are causing him no worry. Yesterday the Phillies and Louis Americans quit even, 3 to 3 in 14 inning: | SON NBER! FENDS TITLE | St Paul, Minn., March 28.—(UP) —Gus Sonnenberg successfully de- | ended his heavyweight wretling championship last night by defeating Charlie Hanson in two falls. The first fall was won in 53 minutes and a scoreld tie in the first of two games. Last year an- jther scoreless tie opened nd then the Rangers reserved the iecision. ubsequently they beat the Montreal Maroons for the cup. Tomorrow the teams will play dison Square Garden in the s¢ two out of threc if necessary, April SENECAS T0 WORKOUT | O, Mant! First Bascball Practice of the Sea- | son to Be Held at Willow Brook | BY BRIGGS AND THEN THERE'S THE SCOTCHMAN WHO GAVE UP GOLF FOR FooTBALL BECALSE HE- HE#® HA-HA-HA - HE THOUSKT QUARTERBACK MEANT A REPUAD Yow- HA -HA-HA THAT'S RICH series appears to have the indi «d, for he is o 10ld Recl the DiDJA HEAR ABOUT THE SCOTCH CHILDREN WHo SHOT THEIR PARENTS SO THEY CoULD GO To THE CRPHANS PICNIC ?!! DID You HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE ScOTCHMAN WHO GAVE HLS FRIEND A PRESENT OF A COUPLE J .o ? HOMING PIGEONS P —"0C Matt forward, and more Afternoon. and can hardly s foe tonigl w fter- | 12 points behind Brook | hope to o ke Both men will he but they will know nce of the e and will their own g respective man in ton Rangers | for toach Boston €, Thon poi the McTnerney, SHore endroski and . Johnson y for ‘The third Hitch ... Abel Defense . F. Cook player, who the leaders The First L game from the So and both tea WO league games. If the Swedes come through again this evening t league will be all over and they will |have regained their championship| honors of three years ago, but if the South church wins the league lead will deadlocked and a play-off will be necessitated. The game will start at 7:30 o'clock. The five leading Suffering From |lcague are as follows i G. Fla. {Swanson, 1st Luth.. 5 40 Reckert, St. Matt ... 9 35 usually troubles Morey, South Cong.. 6 35 S A or “tly tue Rockwell, So. Cong. 8 28§ wo Red Sox regulars here, Phil W. Stohl, Stan Mem. 9 23 Todt and Billy Regan, are still con- | Shulza, ¢ fired to their rooms. In Todt's ab- Detroit Tigers Hand |sprafke, sence, however, Bill ~arrigan yes- | A s 1C.Thi terday tried B-b Barrett at {n—st} Chicago Cubs Beating base on team " which upset! Phoenix, Ariz, March 28 w— am “B" 6 to § in five innings. Bar. After puffing up the Cubs as the| proved willing and made & good Xreatest baseball team ever to take m-reset s the ficld, Bucky Harris and his 1 s, 1. \ " Doug Taitt, hard-hitting outficld- | troit Tigers licked them yesterday. . 77; Welch, 46. Foul, Gazzinga. Ref- cr, had his first workout in severai | It was the first victory for the Kr -zewski, c . eree, Rorty. days after an ankle injury received Tigers in six games with the Cubs. Ppac, in the Braves-Red Sox battle at St. The score was 11 to 10. Chicago Brnj who is active &5 Petersburg. “As soon as I get to pushed over 5 runs in the ninth in- ie, Md., today, 18 swinging. that old hickory again I'll |ning to tle the score but lost the He claims to be the |start knocking down fences” he |game on two hits and a wild throw oldest jockey still in active service. | promised, belligerently. in the Tiger's half of that inning. ed by Dr. And Both of | only Boucher a junior . W. Cook th church before, all their other | g, e this n will piay on the | Gainor, per, Owen. P. Thompson, Bourgeault Mackey. | Rangers’ Murdoch, LOSE GAME s baskethall | er to thel| st night at | gym by the For the first | THE ScoTen : RACE - LETS HAVE ANOTHER SUNBURN IN MARCH First Period be thre the mfortable 1 session, the 1o Lack of experience cause of de at. Th Meriden Con RUN THE HOUSE ON TEN DOLLARS A WEEK= THE PRICES ARE DON'T TaLk EXPENSES I'M NEARLY THiS HoUsSE oN WHAT “You ALLOW ME& - AND NO= BODY ELSE CouLD EITHER Two Red Sox Regulars Are Confined | | scorers in AFFORD VT+ I'm yP AGAINST (T to Their Rooms el 92 91 801 60 Ef cts of Heat Rays. Peiad entown, Fla., March 28 (P— B, second All-Stars Pierce All-Stars S. Plerce Third Period W. Wi W. Williams 8. Pierce Overtime [] 8 Koski, rf 9 59 Kocin, If Albany Albany All-8tars % 15 5 New PBritain Dlues 5 Albany Fld 1 Recano, rf | Zaleski, 11 | st wme 2 o wlooune S I Score at half time, New Britain 16, Meriden 12. Referee, Jasper,