New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1929, Page 15

PEICIGETCOBETOTITIPOITIEY Speaking of Sports The basketball season, as far as the New Britain Basketball team is concerned, is over, according to an announcement made today by Man. ager Clarence Lanpher. Negotiations with the Celtics in New York for a game here next Saturday, elicited the information that the Celtics could play here only on April 20. 20, This date is altogether too far back in the month to make it worth while playing so the local manager has decided to call it quits and rest until the opening of the season next fall, | | Originally Manager Lanpher de- cided to close out the year with last Saturday’s game against the Chica- §o Bruins bat due to the fact that the Celtics were anxious to, come here and because many of the fans at last Saturday's game urged an- other, he decided to try to get the| Celtic team here, Another baseball team in the northwest section of the city will be formed, according to tentative plans | made known today. It will be known | as the Holy Cross nine. Whatever happened to the Corbin rew Basketball team last night in its game w,th the Conde-Nast quin- tet of Greenwich, will remain a mystery to both the fans who saw the game and the players on the lo- cal team. After practically running awny! With the game in the first half the | team went back a spin and lost out by a one-point margin. The Screw Shop has a chance to still win the scrics by beating the Conde-Nast by a bigger margin in the second game, Total points for the both games will decide the winner, The much-mooted question of handball superiority between Louis Vogel and Doc Waskowitz, was set- tled the other night at the Y courts when Vogel, taking on the medico | for the first time, handed him a| pasting in two straight games, t Vogel took the first in easy fash- jon by a 21-13 score. In the second he allowed the Doc to run his score to 20 and then Vogel put on steam and won out 21-20, | { Vogel now refuses to play Was- Kowitz again asserting that the Doc | will have to show a little better form | before he can hope to play in Vo- | Eel's class. | Because of the showing of the two | n, Vogel has been picked by the | 1dges to play singles against the | Springfield Y representatives here Saturday night. Waskowitz was to Yiave plaved but Vogel's superiority 10w is unquestioned. TEX HAMER T0 APPEAR MONDAY AS A BOXER| Star of Philadelphia Yellow Jacket | Foothall Team to Meet Bos- to Heavyweight. Philadelphia, April 10 (#—A Toot- hull star and a baseball hero are on the boxing card for 10-round bouts at the Arena next Monday night. Tex Hamer, captain' of tle Uni- versity of Pennsylvania football NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, T THE BOVLERS |BOSTON AND NEW |BILLY REEVES MAY TURN ROGER§ ALLEYS STANLEY RULE LEAGUE 5831724 216 261 241 282 La Pointt Maier Lewisky Peritta, Brown Bruno Schiedler Siegler 311 261 242 482—1628 Moffatt Hicchelift Groman Henry Brooks Argosey 93— 285 Burkharde Cohen Kardokos Hickey 2 Ritter 304 131 5411556 283 25° Valentine Benjman Lawiess Odman Knowles Odell o Maidd Thorpe Albrecht Leopold Campbell Grose 551—1815 291 185 3 2 McBriaity Thompson 478 JUNIOR LEAGLE L. V. 8 Satula lewicki Newfleld Cardox Valentine I 361 Flovey H. Broff Val Gay Goodrow Makowski Wagnet Kloss Wesoly Fron: Broski Wagnet Storrs Luzette Blllle Andy .. Ranaldi Angelo 496 GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Stanley Rule 1 : Thirty-Two Boxers Remain in |Francisco each had three qualifiers —_ 5 turned to defend 2| when Joe Lillich, 3| weight contest with Clarence WISCONSIN TEAM . |ler, was the he 3 | winner, 503—1449 | YORK TEANS TIED Semi-Finals of Amateur Tourney Boston, April 10 UP—Thirty-two boxers from 13 widely scattered cities today remained in the semi- final round of the national amateur boxing championships, which start- ed here Monday night with 125 con- testants steiving for eight boxing titles. When the sccond series of three round- contests ended early this morning, the New York and Boston teams were tied for first honors. Both had five boxers qualified for four of the eight classes. The team (of battlers from Grand Rapids, | Mich., made the next best showing, | placing four of its men in as many of tonight's semi-final bouts. Buffalo, Philadelphia and San jand seven other cities had either| or (w0 representatives who | | able to live through two nights | |of rugged going. | There were bouts settled last |night and early this morning, 10 o |them ending in knockouts. To- | Inight's program called for 16 semi- |final contests and the eight cham- pionship events. | The only 1928 champion who re-| his title, Steve| |Halaiko of Buffalo, promised to bw! |a certain victor in the 135-pound | class. He gained an impressive vic- | tory last night by outpointing rug- ged Mickey Merkin of San Fran- cisco, and the only other battler in that division who threatened to give him any kind of opposition was Joe |Bernal, another 8an Francisco vouth, who advanced to the semi-! finals by scoring the only knockont in the 135-pound class to date. The elimination of the last two| collegian boxers came last night a Holy Cross freshman, received the wrong end of a dubious decision in his heavy. Doyl of | Francisco. Cecil Lee Sgring Hill college, Mobile, Ala., u| 160-pounder, was knocked out dur-| ing the second round of his hout| with Ray Lopez of Boston. lor San LEADS GONGRESS Carries O Most Prizes in- Na-| tional Bowling Tourney Chicago, April 10 (P —Wiscon. maple trundlers carried away largest of $107,700 | melon the the by slice offered prize | Americar 2| Bowling Congress for its 1929 tour- | |nament, | | The tournament, which attract al 113,000 bowlers and which lasted 34| days, closed last night. | A. Unke, veteran Milwaukee keg-| viest individual prize | collecting $300 for rolling 728 to capture the singles title and | $175 for winning second place in the | Other Badger bowlers | ¢ hundreds of dollars by | e of the leading ten| places in the five man competitio land placing high up in the other events, Illinois was second to Wisconsin | 3|in collective winnings, PRO AFTER FRIDAY NIGHT| Vith Jimmy Clinch in Feature of Amateur Tour- : Battle nament at Stanley Arena Will Probably be His Last | as a Simon Pure — Jack Beasley of New Haven Scheduled to Clash With Jersey City Puncher— Jack Johnson, Former World’s Champ, to Referee. LUTHERANS MEET " BRIDGEPORT TEAM {Church Basketball Fives to Clash Friday at Local Y r coming through a prelimin- Billy Reeves, known in the ama- teur boxing ring as the Bristol Bearcat, one of the leading middle- weights among the simon pures, will fight his last battle as an amateu Friday night when he meets Johnny, Clinch of this city in the featur bout of the amateur tournament to be conducted by the Stanley A. C.| An announcement was made to this | effect today by Matchmaker C. Wagneg, Reeves has about cleared up all competition in his weight class in the | " 0L COUEE LI mateur game and he Jeels that the ¥ S0 ES Sl time is ripe for him to step into the | basketball team “of Hartford an professional class and make a liv. | LN€Teby becoming church champions 105 Tan Eiedr {of the district. the First Lutherans It Johnny Clinch has anything to ©f this city will battle the champions do with it. Reeves will make the [©f the Bridgeport Church league at change with the stigma of a defeat | the local ¥ Friday night in his last amateur appearance, &t $:30 o'clock. P hanging over him. Clinch, hear- The winner of this game will ad- ing that Reeves could secure no;‘ance into the semi-final round of opponent and despite the fact that the state church title race. Joseph he hovers around the welterweight Santerson, a neutral referce, will limit, emulated Mickey Walker. ate at the game. world's middleweight champion by | The contest was originally challenging the dusky Bristol bat-[uled to be played at the New Haven tler at cateh weights. |gymnasium but because the place is The match has been in the mak- not availuble, it was decided to stage ing for several wecks because both|it in this city. hoys have been anxious to get into| The local quintet is anxious to win the finest fiighting trim possible. | as it figures that it has an excellent Because both are anxious to win, a | opportunity of coming through to terrific scrap appears to be on the|win the state championship. Man- cards. Clinch is supremely confident | uger I. Ahlgren will have his squad that he will beat Reeves. His|out for several practice sessions be- camp reports that Johnny has been | fore the date of the game arrives, CRISSAZ o eoR WAYNESBURG of whom have adopted a style simi- Contestants in Pyle’s Bunion Derby hed- lar to that used by Reeves. Reeves, one the other hand, fig- ures Johnny as an easy mark to shoot at. The battle Friday night will show which is right A co-frature bout has been pre- pared by Matchmaker Wagner in the clash between Jack Beasley of New Haven and Kid Brown of Jer- sey City. These two boys both scals | in the heavyweight ranks at 175 pounds. Beasley will be remember- ed as being the most vicious punch- | er in the amateur ranks and with his added weight, he should make Brown do a lot of fighting to win. The remainder of the card is be- ing prepared by Matchmaker Wag- ned to make the tournament th Start Out on 11th Leg of Journey Across Country. Uniontown, Px April 10 (BP— With the toughest grind ont oute behind them until they cross the desert. C. C. Pyle's plodding , pil- grims headed today for Wayneshurg, |33 miles distant on the 11th leg of their 3,400 mile trek. The runners have covered 437 miles. Yesterday they traveled 63 miles from Cum- erland, Md. to Uniontown, climb- blue banner of the season. An-|iug to a height of 2,500 feet in sur- nouncements on other entries wil) jmounting the peaks of the Al made in the very near future | ghanies. The long hills f(frc: 4 Nel. As an added attraction for the | Neils go, out of the race. fans who plan to attend Friday | , sturdy Seattle negro night's fiesta of fisticuffs, the club |star. continued to show the way officials have arranged for the ap- | . He tops Johnny Salo, pearance here of Jack Johnson, for- | by one mer world’s heavyweight ehampion. | He will referee the bouts on the| tournament card. This card of fights will be the last before the statd amateur amateur Loxing code | goes into effect cutting the rounds from three to two minutes. be hour, 13 salo lolds an advantage of 1 over Peter Gavuzzi, England, in third place. 1 who ) MANAGE manager of th expected 1o be t manager in the Pa- ific Coast I.eague this son. H s a shortstop. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Press. Chicago—Al Gresnfleld, outpointed Willie Michell (10). Sailor Fay Kosk n Fran- |ander, rookie cisco, won on foul over Johnny | Of the shye: O'Keefe, Columbus, Ohio, (8). Clyde | hardest-hitting rooki Chastain, Dallas, as. knocked | majors in recent year out Jack Horner, St. Louis, (5). Chicago. Belgium, | Detroit players Ale is ons of the y Dale first baseman lows, but o to r ONLY TWO PLAYING BOSSE Cleveland—Gorilla Jones, A Bucky Harris at Detroit and Biily WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, itral Baptist | h the | 1924 PANTHERS CONQUER WHIPPETS, %-23 | (Continued from Preceding Page) may be counted upon to give the | Panthers an interesting evening even |it it does not reverse the dope. The senior and intermediate finals will be played tomorrow night, be- ginning at 8 o'clock. \EXTRA! SPEEDER ADMITS | Shea'and Wiehn brought the count to 23-13. In the last period the losers mo | ed up ugain on Morley's toss and a | [ foul by O'Brien. The club braced | {and pushed away when Kovaleski| | and Winters counted from the field, | the latter.on a pretty execution of | |the pivot play. Morley's foul was | followed by baskets by Puzzo and | | Kovaleski, and’ O'Brien ended the i New London Man Frankly Upholds Charge He Was Hurrying Along. Leo G. Baker, 21, of New lLondon. n automobile speeder by his o admission and according to the ob servations of Mgtorcycle Officer W, 8. Strolls, but he is an unusual type. Instead of denying that he stepped on the gas while driving through st Main street about 5:10 last ev ning, being in a hurry to keep a busi- riess appointment, he listened at- tentively to Officer Strolls' testimony until he was called on by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Green- stein, and then he remarked, simply “All he saidis true.” game with another distance toss. Puzzo played a beautiful game for | the winners, breaking up the Dublin passwork time and again and giving his team possession of the ball dur- ing most of the encounter. Rametta got three baskets off Wiehn and stopped the scoring spree of the Dublin star. while Kovalesk! came ithrough with four baskets from | guard. Morley was high man for the Dub- [tins, and O'Brien made two pretty According to the officer, aker. ilong shots. The summary: i who is a salesman, was cutting 1 Boys' Club Reserves 'and out of a line of traffic head 4 Fl {cast on East Main street and passed speed of 30 miles ‘it to 38 as he Judge Trace: $10 and cos! Tago Azelin, 27, of 422 Main street, pleaded not gty to 1 charge of reckless driving and the case was continued until tomorrow on request of Attorney M. A. Sexton. state Officer Kaminski made the ar- last evening on Hartford road er a slight aceident. Azelin Britain and at a point about 1,000 yards east of the Paragon Inn, a " motorcycle going in the same direc- Park-liion came to a stop to allow Oliver | Johnson of Church street, one of L o : | the riders, to retrieve his hat which he ermediate semi-finals ®ill| had blown off. As he was walking 3;:}:2*:[2\; l;{fil;_;en?"‘o‘?"fhr};"@- hac';{ tov\"ar:u : his motlorcyl"clT a g clock. Arst— | fender of Azelin's car struck him and probably the better—game of | ,nd knoeked him down. eausing : mn‘?:n:h;afionif‘cfmbn!{:jsf;fsfifii bruises about the leg. Azelin brought i 1 be : nd bitte o . {Noither team wil have aquite its | jh, 2°Cidents and notifled Azelin to same line-up tonight, as both wer: e - weakened Por:uewhil By viils to make | S048E Tmoceid ordered Apeliu to the class weight in the tourney, but POt @ bond of $100 but later rele comparative strength remains about | «d him in custody of Attorney f even and personal rivalry added to ‘°™ thirst for the title will speed up both quintets. Each has two tour- nament victories to its credit. and ach has been rated a favorite, that tonight's battle will be teams of undoubted strength and with followings of rabid partisans. The Panthers will face the Celtics !in the second encounter. After their performance against the Whippets last night, the Panthers must be Irated heavy favorites, as they have speed of attack. strength of defense, and accuracy o But the more deliberate Celtic teamn has shown it is 10 team 1o be trificd with, and it T | Rametta, rf | Puzzo, If, rf . | Andrews, | Rakutis, ¢ | Winters, rg . [Kmulesl\l‘ ] ed Olive strect. i imposed & finc of P | | Dublins | Souney, rf. rg | Morley, 1t .. 'Shea. ¢ . 2 | O'Brien, rz, 5 Wiehn, 1g 4 10 | Referee Scorer Aronson. AGAIN BEAT NTS Augusta, Ga., April 10 (®i—Walt:r Johnson and his Senators from Washington gave the New York , Giants another sound thrashing yes- terday 7 to 3. They battered ¥Fred Fitzimnions for six runs in the se ong inning. MAY CATCH FOR GIANT Ray Schalk, former White Sox cher an now coach with th v York Giants, may be pres service in . some games 1his POLICEMAN WAS RIGHT| was driving towards New | WAKE PLANS FOR BOVLING TOURNEY 'Play in Newly Organized Circait Will Start May 6 | At a meeting of the owners of | several Connecticut bowling alleys held in Waterbury yesterday, plans | were perfected for the formation of a circuit which will stage the first lannual Connecticut duckpin tourna- ment. Play will be started Monday. May each team will have a special on which ita home games will erbury will have the e Brass City alleys. ight teams representing a lik. number of cities will be represent- tournament. They are Danbury, Torrington geport, New Haven, Hartford, New Britain and Meriden. The pick of duckpin howlers in each of t ities will be entered in the H s which the other ir home baili- as follows: Torring- ghts on 1l bowl i and Satur- ain, Meriden. rrange to bowl dates will be " Hartford ntinue unti) all the entri. met each other. SHOW REAL BASEBALL After Clowning for Most of Spring | Training Season, Yanks Play a Dashing Game. Ark.. April 10 W— their way through spring training cam- | paign, the world's champion New York Yankees selected Little Rock for their firs: real demonstration of first class baseball. Against the Lit- tle Tock Travelers yesterday, the Yaukees plaved a dashing game in the 1 and got some excellent pitching from Gordon Rhodes and George Pipgras to boot. The Yan- kee batters found Woolfolk, a left hander, quite 4 puzzle but eventual- Iy they got 1o him for a three to jone victory. Babe Ruth got one hit, a double. on which he subsequently scored the first Ynkee run on an- scored the first Yankee run on an- lattle Rock, After clowning | most of tle MISSED TWICE IN TWO YEARS Larl Averill, Cleveland rookie out- ficlder, says he missed only two |¥ames in two seasons of play in the Facific Coast League, MAY GET JOB AT GEORGIA M Miles, former Princeton backfield star, is said to have been as backfield coach Tech to succeed Don t Georgi. Miller, ' OUR BOARDING HOUSE ~= HAVE Ko colcERN ABoUT THE « HAVE PATING AND HANGING OF THE wWilpow SCREENS, MRS. HooPLE ! ~1 HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS A PAINTER BY TRADE,w AND HE OWES ME $9, wae I HAVE MADE A DEAL WITH HiM, SN You ANY FRIENDS WHo oWE You Moley WHO ARE RUG- BEATERS, w Wiklbow WASHERS, « AND WooDWOoRK CLEANERS 2 wav IF You HAVE, THeW You ARe NIcELY ELIMINATED FROM MY SPRING WHEREBY HE witL PAINT AND HANG THE ScreeNs W PAYMEUT OF THE DEBT [ S AN SE-CLEANING PROGRAM ! w OTHERWISE THE NOBLE > HOOPLE CoAT-OF-ARMS ARE ) Otto Stein. Jr., of 8t. Louls, who {topped the all events class with 1.-| 1974 pins won $180 while the Hub | Recreations of Jotiet, IIL, split $1.- outhworth at St. Louis may be the | only playing managers in the ma- | rs this year, and neither one of | m is certain of playing regularly, :am in 1923 and later a member of the Frankford Yellow Jackets, a| professional gridiron teatn, will step | Ohio, and Tommy Freeman i.. draw (12). Panl Pirron land, stopped Russic Leroy, Fargo, \ out as a pugilist in a bout with Al Mason, Boston heavyweight. Yormerly a star pitch on the 83 st s — 160 Shamokin team, of the New Yorke| ennsylvania baseball league, Ralph | ‘Kid" Wagner, of Sunbury, Pa., will| ot Juck McVey, negro middle- weight of New York. Wagner has imade quite a record in the ring as & knockerout. | | | | | Hamer, possessed of a powerful ’ ue, is starting in the Loxing| at an age that is considered bit t00 old for a beginner. He i 28, However, he s optimistic about | his chances to progress. He has been | in training several months and says he is in perfect condition. Collectors in Favor Of Gas Tax Increase Middictown, April 10 (®—A pro-| posal before the general asserubly for removal of a local property tax on automobiles and introduction of gasoline tax increase, has given approval by the advisory com mittee of the assessors and tax col lectors of Connecticut. The mittee are tax collectors H, €. Halll of Meriden, . L. Phelpsof Middlc- | town, W Smith of Avon and As sessors Thomas Linder of New Brit- ain and W. . port, The committee has issued a sta ment in support of its views in which a summary is that the plan has| many advantages to the automobile owner and will serve to correct abuses now prgvalent, under the| present practice of including motor | vehicles with othe real property in local grand list The hearing upon the bill will held at the state capitol tomorrow afternoon. “ beet v Stoutenborough, former Poly star hurler, is tr with Birmingham in t Southern League. It seems a cinch that Lis name will be shortened for hox score purposes if he makes the gra tng out CHICAGO COUNTS ON LOTT George Lott, third ranking te nis player, is expected 1o pitch for the University of Chicago b ball team this year. Being a heavy?] hitter, he may play the outfield in some games. PAYS TO BE SMART Joe Schaaf, Don Noble, Normag Saxer and Dick Hanson, Penn ath letes whose grades avera better, are allowed unlimited cuts in all classes by school off READ HERALD CLASSIFIED AbS ‘ -1 413 Stanley Works R. Jol 9 [ L N 116 . Galatt A, MeAl AL Welch Corbin_ . 99 M. ) R! 1000 for winning the five with a 3,063 sco |Joliet team also were awarded dia- mond medals, | First place in the doubles and a $500 prize fell to W. Klecz and P, | Butler of Chicago, who hung up a 1,358 count. The 1829 tournam largest und most suc 29 years of play. SIMMONS LAID UP | man event | Members of th. | i was sful in | Leading Batter of Philadelphia Ath- | letics Has Rheumatism in the | M T. R N. B. Machine L. 85 176 3 179 - 180 | 201 Connelly of Bridge- 50 Tyler cowa Leupold Wrig TRAVEL A LONG DISTANCE Punahou Academy of Honolulu has entered a team in the coming Penn relays and will travel a great- er distance to get to the relay car- nival than any other entry. EOXING Stanley Arena FRIDAY, APRIL 12 10 BOUTS MAIN BOUT JOHNNY CLINCH vs. BILLY REEVES Jack Johnson, Referee Rescrved Seats at Hotel Staniey i lout of the o1 Ankles. ! Philadelphia, April Al Simmons, leading batsman with the | | ’hiladelphia Athleties. has rheuma- | tism of the ankles, and is definitely ame for at least two °ks,' probably longer. | Summa will play in the outfield| during Simmons’ absence. | Joe Boyle, regular shortstop. is {Tid of his sore arm and will be ready | for opening day. Manager Shotton of the Phillies) said there was no truth to the re |port that Catcher Spud Davis would be traded to the Boston Braves for| Shortstop Eddie Farrell, | | we |N. D. (5). Hagerstown, —Joe Belmont Baltimore, outpointed Kid Williams, ew York, (8). Milwaukee—Tony Canzoneri, New | York. outpointed ILddie Anderson, “hicago, (10). Portland, Me.—Babe McGorgary, | Oklahoma. and Homer Robertson, Boston, draw (12). Minneapolis—Harry Dilon, Winni- peg. knocked out Billy Freas, In- dianapolis, (3). Tom Sayres, Detroit, outpointed Tim Derry, Dublin, (6). D.—Billy Petrolle, Brown, Sioux Falls, 8. rgo, stopped Norman iicago, (4). ¥ [& — Harry (Kid) =1phia, outpointed , Chicago, (S). Tndianapolis Brown, Phil Paul Pantale ) Rent A Mystery Book 3 c A Day BEACON BOOK AND GIFT SHOP MEN ! (Minimam charge 10 cents. 85 West Main St. 'SALESMAN SAM BY GOLLY, BASEBALL FANS HAVENT ANY SYMOATHY aT ALLY (TS A DERN SHAME! e EGAD,, wav I THUST Yod REALIZE THAT THE TrRASACTION 1S A cosTLY SACRIFICE o MY HEY, WAIT & MINUTE, BaTTER ! OON'T (LET TH' CROWD GET e’ GOAT! IN FOR A LOT OF gLBow WorK /. THERE wiLL BE A BRIEF PAUSE IN L HE PROGRAM , Al You witt HEAR FRoM JUST TAKE THIS AN’ SHOW ‘€M Y& REALLY CAN HIT!