New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 15

3 Speaking of Sports The roller hockey season is over, and 1.0 question about , at least as far as New Britain is concerned. The fact was clearly demonstrated at the Arena ‘ast night, when only a cory -gal's guard turned out for Frc' J.:'s benefit game. The in. tcrest ccased \© ~n Albany won the championship. Gillette, who has attracted atten- tion in the amateur ranks, looks like u comer. He teamed up with Steve TORMY LOUGHRAN T0 DEFEND TITLE Light Heavyweight Crown af Stake in Chicago Tonight Chicago, March 28 UP—This is how Tommy Loughran and Mickey Walker will compare physlcally when they clash for the light heavy- | weight title tonight: i\\'nlker 26 166 Loughran | 26 175 Age Weight NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. PIRATES NEED STRENGTH Manager Domie Bush Thinks His Crew Needs a Lot of Repairing | San Antonia, Texas, March 28 (P | —Skipper Donic Bush has decided his Pittsburgh Pirate brig still nndli a lot of repairing before his crew sets out in quest of pennant gold and glory. BSome idea of the sort of weather he'll encounter in this year's Na- tional league cruise will be gleaned in the exhibition game with the Giants here today. Donie has deter- mined to try another shift in an in. | field which some observers have CORBIN SCREW BATTLES ENDEES AGAIN TONIGHT |Local Industrial Basketball League Champions Have Chance to Win Elimination Series in Hartford— Have 13 Point Margin Over ElImwood Team—Total Points to Decide Semi-Finalist—Both Quintets Off Form in First Game—Expect Hard Fight. With a2 13 point margin to work on in the Industrial Basketball league series which will eliminate one of the Hartford county teams in the home and home series for the !threats on the team. The center is especially dangerous and it was he who did the best work for his team | Tuesday. His brother, Captain Jack | Barton, was a mile . off form but Pierce on the All-Stars rush line| last night and played ice hockey althersh lacking the finesse of his csteemed partner. Pierce fed him 51t S in. 151 42 Height 5 ft. 113 Neck Chest Expanded | Chest Normal 8 in. 16 | predicted would scuttle the ship. Grantham has been switched from Tray- |nor, still ailing from a hip injury the outfield to second base. state dusty title, the Corbin Screw |when he returns to the Y. M. C. A.| plant team will go to Hartford to- {gymnasium he should find himself, night to attempt to increase its lead jfollowers predict. in points and thus eliminate the| The gallery should be packed with the ball when he had chances to, aud Gillette several times worked a Reach i Biceps | &oes from short to third and Sparky Adams, with a bad knee, will be on | Capital City champions, the Elm-. wood Endees. partisan crowds of New Britain and Hartford fans and the old Hartford- “hook” that got the play past “Mol- |» Thigh | 1y Morrison. “Red"” Yilllams missed a surc xoal as openly as some lasketball players .ave been known to flub shots when unguarded under the basket. Welch left the cage during a scrimmage ¢Z to one side and Williams get a perfect pass. There was the cage, yawning wide opgen, but “Red” walloped the ball « ainst the back bank some three feet from ihe terget. Pete Gazzinga, who managed to et some kind of a baag or bump in practically every game all season. 1ook & hard s 1t on the jaw with 1he bull in th second period. He 1 : time out and rcsumed play after rubbing his complexion and giving the jaw muscles a little workout with the other players looking on. The pinochle championship of Daly Council, K. of C, will be set- tled Saturday afternoon when Fred Russéll, Jim Crowley and John (Skeeter) O'Brien clash on the ofl cloth surface in a three-handed cut throat battle. The winner of the best two out of three will be declar- ed the champion of the Franklin Square clubhouse. Mcmbers of the club are picking ir favorite to win. Crowley is n an edge because he has been hitting at .300 for the past scveral weeks. Fred Russell is favored in some quarters because he can talk a great game while O'Brien is count- «d on to win because he can mani- pulate the cards very cleverly, Only a limited space is provided for spectators but If the interest in 1he contests kecps up, plags will be snade to have a bulletin board placed on the front lawn so that returns can he received immediately after cach flip of a pasteboard. Officials in charge of the sale of reserved tickets for the Bristol-New Britain game Saturd:y night are lit- vrally snamped with applications for seats. Manager Joe Carroll of Bris- 10l wanted the entire side of the bal- cony for his customers but the local man refused. He took a large block Lack home with him, however. Because of the intense interest being shown in the game, a record crowd of fans is expected to attend. J.ocal fans should be on deck early. ew Britain goes to Glens Falls, . Monday to meet the team ere. This will be one of the ban- ner games of the season for the New York efty because of the appearance there of Frank Dougherty, a rative. BILLIARD RESULTS Matches Are Played Off in Indus- trial Tourney—Vaughan Finishes Exhibitions. Results in the Industrial Billiard | tournament matches at Rogers last night were as follows: P. & F. Cor- bin beat Corbin Screw by default; New Rritain Machine heat Stanley Rule 150 to 68; Stanley Works de- feated Hart & Cooley 150 to 68; Corbin Cabinet won over Fafnir 149 to 148. In the threcwman tournament, J. Gregor, Spitzell and Arendt defeat- «d Olson, Squillaclote and J. Zucchi 50 to 35. Grace, Hills and Gleason, a trio of red heads, beat Wallace, Pallatront and Prestia 50 to 21. One | match will be plaved tonight and others will he played Monday. Carl A. Vaughan gave his last ex- hibition last night. Yesterday after- noon, Vaugban and Gregor met in a return game and Gregor won 100 to €9. Vaughan goes to Waterbury today and he has invited Gregor to meet him there on April 5. New Note of Optimism In Camp of Nationals Tampa, FI March 28 P—A new note of optimism has appeared in the training camp of the Washing- ton Nationals. Ten triumphs out of 12 starts in the sunshine circuit has not served to discourage the club und on top of that “Goose” Goslin lias cut loose with his throwing arm tor the first time and shown that it is as strong as it was before it went lame early last season. The Nats had a day of rest today but starting tomorrow with a game with the St. Louis Cardinals life will be just one exhibition after another until the season’s baseball curtain rises next month. WANT! Fort Myers, Fla., M rch 28 (P— Walter French, who renounced base ball several months fer business, wants to play with the Athletics again and Manager Mack is ready 10 him back as an additional outficlder should Baseball Commis- sioner Landis reinstate him. The Boston Nationals handed the Mack- men their second straight defeat v, winning § to 4. USES OP! West Palm Beach, Fla,, March 28 (P—What is cxpected to be the 8t. Louis Browns' open’ presented in yesterday's 14 inning hurling duel wi‘h the Philadelphia Nationals, which ecnded tied up. Lach time the attack threatened, the six moundsmen, who allowed 27 players only 22 hits, werc superior. lneup was | | Forearm 188 Waist |11t Calf |9 Ankle 8l | Mickey Walker, the middleweight | champion looking for more worlds | to conquer, tonight will attempt to | match the triple title record of the | his light | Tommy Loughran from heavyweight throne. | The battle, billed to go 10 rounis | to a decision at the light hea\'y-‘ weight limit of 175 pounds, will open | the largest and most luxurious sports amphitheater in the world, Paddy Harmon's §7,000,000 Chicnza‘ tadium, With» both fighters superbly trained and confident of the out- | come, betting odds vacillated to Walker and then to Loughran today, but at ring time tonight, approsi- | mately 10 p. m. Central Standard time they are expected to be even. For Walker, the match carries not only gold but the glory of equalling | Fitzsimmons’ record. Mickey once | held the welterweight championship | and the middleweight crown now [rests jauntily on his head. Tonight, 1' ¢ seeks a new coronet for his Irish | brow. For Loughran, the fight means vastly ‘'more than the light heavy- weight titie,. The Philadelphia Adonis is out to succeed Gene Tun- ney on the heavyweight throne and defeat tonight would drop him sev-| |eral notches from his rank as a | lcading contender. From the standpoint of fighting, | the match was simply a vest pocket ! edition of the Tunncy-Dempsey bat- | tle. Loughran, likec Tunney, is a' brilliant boxer. He is not a heavy hitter, but a cutting jabber. If Loughran pursues his usual tactics, {he will stab and dance out, stopping the New Jersey bulldog's rushes with |his straight left, | | - Walker, like Dempsey, is a hard puncher and invariably launches a | telling body attack. Tonight, he | says he plans to carry the battle to | the champion, get inside the careful | leads and land a knockout punch, 1f | possible, | Walker has fought eight ring bat- | tles in Chicago, and won them all. | Loughran is to receive 65 per cent | of the gross receipts. Out of this he | must pay $50,000 to Walker if he wing or $10,000 to Walker it hej loses his title. In addition, he must pgy suitable purses to I.eo Lomsiti and Tuffy Griffith, who fight in the preliminaries. Therefore Harmon tonight. The fans who like a sluggirg match a la John L. Sullivan, the 10- round, semi-windup tonight between Griffith and Lomski, has dreated |considerable interest. With the win- | ner promised a shot at tonight's vic- tor for the light heavyweight cro a stirring ,two-fisted battle is antici- | pated. | ‘The main event will be broadcast | over the National Broadcasting com- | {pany's chain. Five Chicago stations. ! WMAQ, WLS and| > on the air with the | PHANTOM RESERVES WIN f The Phantom Resc es basketball | {tcam swamped the Blue Reserves i1ast night at the Sacred Heart school | gym by the score of 30 to 12. The Phantoms started off fast and piled up a 16 to 6 lead at half time, The Blues fafled to threaten. This eve- ning the Phantoms will travel to, Waterbury to meet the Washington Hill Juniors. The summary: Phantom Reserves Fld F1 TH| G. Baylock. rf .. [ | V. Baylock, ¢ . Truhan, rg . Falk, 1g 4 Blue Reserves | 114 |Adams, r? Sonk. rf . {Sapkowski, {Nedbala, © |Zelglelr, rg . Dumin, Ig F1 5 2 12 | Score at baif time, 16-6, Phantom Reserves. Ileleree, Zembrowski. BASKETBALL AND DANCE SATURDAY, MARCH 30 BOYS' CLUB GYM Boys’ Club of New York Boys’ Club of N. Britain Admision 35¢ DR. KEITH DENTIST PAINLESS EXTRACTION 300 MAIN ST. TEL. 3440 KNew short. There were unmistakable signs an |8 O 8. soon would be sent to Ok- H |lahoma City asking Paul Waner to come in for a confal BREAK TRAINING CAMP great Bob Fitzsimmons by toppling 'President asd Manager Emil E| Fuchs Thinks Braves Are a Bet. | ter Team Than Last Seasonm, Under the plan used the team |New Britain spirit should prevail which score the highest number of |tonight. Corbin Screw followers are points in & home and home series |expected to be on hand and will be |ia declared eligible to continue in | accompanied by fans who have heen |the battle for the state champion- |following the other Industrial league {=hip. At the Stanley Arena Tues- [teams this vear. |day night Corbin Screw won by a! One matter which should be en- 30 to 17 score and it will play a re- |couraging to the team followers Is |turn game with the New Departure {the fine showing of the three Screw team at the Hartford Y. M. C. A. Shop substitutes who were called in | gymnasium tonight. !to finish the first game of the serles. Both teams apepared to be off |Fred Gennette was called upon twice {form in the game Tuesday, but the land he came through on each oc- |Screw Shop men began to click in | casion. Meehan and Kiiduff also did the second half and it was during |a good job with the tisk laid before St. Petersberg, Fla.,, March 28 (9 | —The Braves have broken training | camp, a better team in the opinion | of Emil E. Fuchg, their president | and manager, than any Boston outfit that has worked out here in six| years. Baseball men are notoriously | superstititous and it may be that the | Braves' §-4 win over the puissant| Philadelphia Athletics yesterday had something to do with his optimism. Neutral observers proclaimed it th best contest of the training camp campaign, at least from the stand.| point of the tribe. | Brandt and Cunningham were a| trifie wild but they were also effec- | tive when necessary while Rich- | bourg, Sisler and Harper showed ' they had no difficulty in finding the fast ones. WITH THE BOWLERS | FRATERNITY ALLEYS | ODD FELLOWS' LEAGUE Comstock 101— 292 Squ 302 Carlwon H. Newton Low Score this period that they ran up the ad- vantage upon which they will be working tonight. The ElImwood team failed to show form at any time during the game but those who have seen it in previous games declare the team is capable of much better basketball, ¢ The Barton brothers are the big Ithem. There will be two others ready if they arc called, Walicki and | Wetzke. | The regular lineup will {follows: Luty, center; Luke and | Yakubowicz, forwards and Arburr iand Darrow guards. | The game will start short |8 o'clock. start as y after Western Union Settles Kentucky | Rail Suit With $1,741,000 Check Louisille, Ky., March 28 UP—A check for $1,741,000 given yesterday road Co. by the Western Union Telegraph Co., ended litigation of 17 years standing, believed to be unique and of unprecedented proportions. The check is for rent claimed by t! railroad for the telegraph company occupancy of its right of way with poles and wires during the contro- versy. Announcement of the settlement and his assoclates are certain to win |}’ | McConkey, 1g .. « | Britain; referee, Gustafson. |READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS — |came from general offices of the 485 | railroad here yesterday. The settle- q ,|ment wae made in New York by 23 | Whiteford R. Cole, preaident of the railroad; Newcomb Cariton, presi- dent of the telegraph company and | ) attorneys for both corporations. ts3—1¢s2, The check was paid in compro- ! mise and settlement of a judgment | 131 348 rendered by Judge A. M. J. Coch-| 11 ran, of the federal court of the east- ern district of Kentucky, which was | appealedt o the United States circuit | S0—13m court of@mppeals at Cincinnat! and | |argued there a year ago. Due to| 234/ the death of a judge the case was ordered up for new argumnents which | L/ iDdis were to have been heard April 11. | Sletel . The suit was brought by the L.| —— & N. to recover for the Western | 6\ Unton's use and occupation with its | | poles and wires of the rallroad com- /| pany’s rights of way during the | |time tbe telegraph company was | _ 150, Seeking to condemn the right to re- | 7 main on the raillroad company's 94— 214 | property. By the settlement $2,300.- | 1337 398/000 in round numbers was allowed | Z7 2| for rental, from which was deduct- | 607—1465 ! ed approximately $540,000 repre. | scnting an admitted account held by | [the Western Unfon against the L. & N, for services and facilities render- | ;— 283 ed during the period of controversy. | $6— 21 he remainder is the amount for, = which the check referred to was given. | The litigation was precipitated by | SUNSHINE CLEANERS & DYERS 57 CHURCH ST. Tel. 5610 New Britain’s Best Work Called for and Delivered Satisfaction Guaranteed JOHN J. KINIRY Proprietor ' ¥ Anderson i 15— 324 i E. Lindverg Anderson Frisk ... K. Lindberg Low Ecore A. Odman Linn L. Odman 478 Undertakers S 85 8 . Walickt teczny 8. Pinkowski LOCAL DEMOLAYS WIN The New Britain DeMolay basket- | ball team swamped the Manchester | quintet in Manchester last evening | by a 41 *o 25 score. Osborne was the | big number on the defense with Knowles and Lricson starring on the | defense. This was New Britain's sec- ond victory over Manchester. The summary: ! New Britain Osborne, Stahl., 1f Clark, 1f . Knowles, ¢ ... Ericsson, T€ ... Hewitt, 1g .... Joknson, Ig ..... " B B Totals . . 18 Manchester Murphy, tf Bissell, ¢ Dowa, rg ... i | omom s Totals .11 me, 16-12, New | FOR BEST RESULTS | i HIGH PRESSURE PETE unooni. N 1RO ME DOWN D H5 HOME TRk ONeR TONIGHT — INT oeTen lfleflt{_n HOME - COOHED ! the action of the Western Union in cancelling its contract with the I. | to the Louisville and Nashville Rail- | & N. in 1912 and the’ tiling of con- | demnation proceedings to acquire n {right in perpetulty along the rail- road company's properties. When “thu Western Union thus cancelled fts contract it was notified by the L. & | N. to vacate 1ts properties. This it | refused to do and obtained injunc- | tions restraining the railroad from | ejecting it. Tt was for the occupancy protected in these injunctions that !the L. & N. filed suit which is now settled. The Western Union and the L. & N. last August entered into a con- tract under which the former's poles were removed from the latter's property and the telegraph company allowed to rent attachment space for its wires on the poles of the rafl. road company. In the same con- tract provision was made for the for Style, Comfort and Long ‘struct the telegraph company to furnish serv- ice to residents of some 500 of Lhe railroad’s stations. An indication of the magnitude of past litigation petween the corpora- [ tions is the fact that in condemna- | | tion and injunction suits there have | been 44 appeals to the state and | federal appellate courts, seven of | them being to the supreme court of | the United States. Wins Audience’s Acclair | The annual minstrel show was | produced at the Boys' club last eve- | ning with Arthur Berg of th wanis club as director and inferloc- | utor. The show was well received | by the audience, the work of th four end men being particul good. These were Mike Paluch, Tony Kerelejza, Andy Kobela, and | Joe Boukus, a quartet who kept| things moving all during the produc- | tion, There were solo numbers by Walter Grusha, Paluch, Kobela and Kerelejza, as well as by the inter- | locutor. Kerelejza and Paluch did | a soft shoe dance. A harmon s0lo by Fredericks was a feature of the evening and he joined with thr others in a harmonica quartet. Other instrumental numbers included a banjo-mandolin duet and two num- bers by “Sousa’s hand,” a kazoo band composed of Kiwanians. Stur- man Dyson accompanied the singers and players at the piano. Dancing followed the minstrel show. Boston and Hull May | Have 8-Mile Bridge | TBoston, March £8.—(UP)—Plans | for one of the longest bridges in the | world—an eight-mile span connect- ing City Point and Hull—have been | announced by Chester T. Campbell of | Quiney. A petition for authority to con- bridge, which would | represent a $10,000,000 investment, | lias been filed with the legislative committee on highways and motor vehicles. It was estimated that the proposed bridge would reduce by 15 miles motoring distance between the state house and Pemberton, and shorten by five miles the distance between Boston and Nantasket. The span would be bulilt by a pri- vate corporation to be known Boston Shore Brid, compa would he a toll bridge which, after | a reasonable time, would be turned | over to the commonwealth, {Free Church Leader Is Dead in England Bournemouth, Eng., March 28 (® | —Rev. Frederick B. Meyer, noted free church leader who was widely known in the United States, died shortly after noon today. The body will be taktn to L ,for funeral services at Christ c! | Westminster, where he was minister for many years. The body then will be brought back to Bournemouth for ‘iimermen! beside that of his wife. Service . . . 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March 28 UP) blows were wasted. —With long 1z ing tour just! - ahead, Babe I getting ready MANAGER SATISFIED to give the fans an exhibition of how ! Orlande, Fla, March 28 (P— hits home ru The first step in Manager Jack Hendricks, surveying the preparations is to cure his blis- the spring training of the Cincinnati tered hands. This annual affliction Reds today expressed satisfaction has just reached its height and Ruth | with the progress 1aade. A game king his customary rest cu heduled with the Montreal club oy #oing fishing without trying to calch Tinkc- field today marked the close ny fish. He expects the blisters to of drill, and the squad will break ar in @ day or two and then camp tomorrow. able 1o hold his bat right for hitting home runs. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED [ > The S.¢E MOTOR SALES CORP. 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