New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1930, Page 9

Speaking of Sports With all of the “under the sur- face” argument going on in this with regard to the amateur cetball championship of the Btate, there isn't any question but that the St. Stanislaus basketball team of Meriden, winner of the Plainfield tournament, is righttul owner of the title. No matter what claims are ad- vanced by other quintets about the state, no matter what alibis or ex- cuses are offered, the fact stands that the teams which would make a claim to the state championship had the very same chance and right | to’ enter the tournament. By virtue of the fact that the St. anisiaus team went through the tournament, met the opposition furnished there, | and won out. then the champion- ship of the state and also of south- ern New England goes to the Silver| City quintet. The Burritts and Orioles of this city were at first entered, or prac- tically entered, in the Plainficld play. Both teams withdrew because of the many handicaps offered, es- pecially in the number of games to be played in one day. This elimi- nated them from considcration for state champicnship honors because, being the only tournament conduct- ed that was open to all teams in the class, it was the only organized | chance to find the best team in the lot. Followers of local teams may ar- Kue otherwise but their arguments, except for the welght they will | carry among themselves, will fall on deaf ears. As far as we are con- eérned, the winning of the Plain- fleld tournament is sufficient to cause us to recognize the Meriden quintet, the St. Stanislaus team, as the state championship quintet. According to an investigation con- ducted by some of those interested in the matter, the record of the Orioles basketball team of this ¢ as claimed by Manager Tex Zevin in the final accounting for the sea- son, is not correct. If the charges as contained in the reports are cor- | heavier Enfield team after four per- LOCAL TEAMS LOSE INY’ TOURNAMENT Entield Edges Out South Church —Broad Brook Smears Baptists Both New Britain teams in the junior County “Y” basketball tour- nament were eliminated in the semi- final round Saturday afternoon and the Broad Brook Tigers and Enfleld High school five were scheduled to meet for the championship this af- ternoon at the Last Side Recreation center in Manchester. The South Church Juniors made a great bid for Saturday’s game but were forced i to accept a 54- defeat from a iods of dingdong basketball. The Baptist Boys' club, sccond Hardware | City competitor. proved no match for the bigger and more cxperienc- ed Broad Brook quintet and was smothered under a 65-12 score. Tnfield Downs Churchmen The work of Angelica, big forward of. the Enfield quintet, carried his team to victory over the South church youngsters. IHe scored 10 field goals and led the fourth-quar- ter assault which brought the vic- tory to his team. The first quarter was evenly waged, with a one-hand flip by Stanley featuring it. The sec- ond period was another closely con- tested one. but Cormier came through towards the end and brought the locals out into a 13-12 lead. Enfield rallied during the third session and forged into the van by a lone point, and then in the final one Angelica burst loose with a ger jes of pretty shots which gave his team a 33-22 lead, New Britain ral- lied sharply at the end but could not overtake its conqueror. Angelica’s 20 points made him the star of the game. Wells also fig- | ured prominently in the Enfield scor- | ing. while Cormier and Ferony top- ped the locals in this respect. Eigh- teen personals were called on New Britain and 11 on Enfield, the locals making nine out of 15 shots and the winners six out of 22. The summary: Enfield High School Wells. rf. 5 Angelica, If ... NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MAY BE SUBSTITUTE Lester Bell Who Was Obtained to Do Regular Third Base Duty For Cubs, May Not Land. Los Angeles, March 31 (—Lester Bell, who was obtained to do regu- lar third base duty for the Chicago Cubs, may turn out to be a substi- tute for Clarence Blair, Blair, the handy man of the 1929 National league championship Cubs, was sent to third base last week when Bell's arm went wrong, and all during the Pittsburgh scries his play, both batting and fielding, out- shone that of any man on the club. The Cubs finally got the combina- tion yesterday and defeated the Pirates, 13 to 7, but were idle today. TEAMS READY FOR OPENING BATTLES Baseball Gampaign to Start Two Weeks From Today New York, March 31 (UP)—Two weeks from today the 1330 major league baseball season will open with a preliminary game between the Ted Sox and Senators at Washington. After this game before President Hoover and other celebrities on April 14, the remainder of the ma- jor league clubs will awing into action the following day. Many strange things pened at the training spring: The Boston Braves considered one the weakest major league ou!- has been the hardest team to exhibition games. Chicago Cubs, National League champions,/ lost thres straight games to Pittsburgh before they finally won Sunday, 13-7. The world champion Philadelphia Athletics have been able to win only six out of 15 exhibition games against the Cardinals, Braves, Reds Phillies and Rlobins. The Braves| took four out of five from the Ati- letie: With have hap- camps this Babe MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930. SHOTTON IS OPTIMiSTIC OVER PHILLIES this layout. On the left are Burt § to set a league record, and Lefty to hit .398 to lead the senior By WILLIAM BRAUCHER (NEA Sery Sports Winter Haven, I Ma Burt Shotton, mana of the team formerly called the Phaltering Phils is “all het up.” He sounded a warning other day to all other league bos Here are his of wisdom: “Am I optimistic? T should T am. Look at that team out the here the hit, the most extra b on long hits circuit at 1 the Phillies; and Don Hurst, young first sack National | words —the most total bases, the most m;} Lo hotton’s slug O'Doul ose ° Four of the National League's outstanding ball-players, all members of the Phillics, are pictured in twins. Chuck Klein (left), who hit 43 home runs last se; 4hits constituted a new league mark and enabled hiw Rightare Fresco Thompson, top r and abatsman of more than ordinary a l | By the Assoclated Press. ! Domestic: Tucson, 400-mile first leg of transcontinental clider tour, San Diego. New York—Allyn comedy star who dieted to keep thin, | dies of injuries received in leap from | window. Keasbey, awakened by cause arrest of seven and | seizure of §200 Richmend, | atter liquor raid shot to death by | deputy sheriff. Boston—Ten arrested and 250 cas- ¢s of liquor and sloop seized. Kettle Island, Ky.—Rescue squads | pproach place where belicved trapped after coal mine cx- | couple, | truck plosion Washington—Tilson charges dem- | leaders public discussion of Hoover's first vear as president. | Brownsville, Ky.—James Meredith | and two nephews, \' Duvall, shot to death; Curley John-| | son. son-in-law of Meredith, arrested. | Washington — Navy department | opposes retirement of liams, speed aviator, with rank of | | captain: says it would hurt morale. | Helens, Ore.—Four killed, 12| ocratic Sst. injured Foreign: n—Spokesman says Britain Lo 1s willin she can at naval parley. Shanghai—Three foreign mission- aries reported captured by bandits in Kiangsi reported fleeing into mountains. Monte party, supporting Prince Pierre as to Monaco elections. son second base and captain of ability. hel a lot of ball teams this year | i pitching. Wait and se | T did not ask Shotton about h He isn't tinkering with it. will he no changes in the in-| eld with Hurst at first, Thompson nd. Tommy Thevenow and berg at short and Pinkie | ¢ at third. What need to [tinker with an infield like that? 1 about catcher: 8 “I've got five,” Burt replied, “but tic: st can threat when on base. likely to try | Yankees, Lazzeri and Combs ington, |Cochrane Has to Watch () — Mickey catcher for the Philadelphia Athle-| Twenty Base Runners Augustine, Fla. March 31| U7 Cochrane. sparkplug| ys there are about 20 Ameri- leaguers who are always | Those most | to steal. he says, are: Wash- Rice. Goslin, Myers and | auto. Overnight News when rammed by steamer. Rome—Maria late Pope Plus X Karachi, | Pagharo | { murder and theft after 113 officers| his stronghold Vanceboro. St. Stephen, N. B., as Cook of Dewold Corner, | severely injured Providence, James De Wolf Perry. newly clected | competed than ever before, ,misslon of their church from a worldwide viewpoint. Meriden—Condition of “Big Ed” Walsh, former White Sox pitching star operated upon Thursday, report- ed satisfactory. Boston—Monthly review of Fed- eral Reserve bapk' of Boston says rate of New England industrial ac- tivity in February unchanged from ow level of December and Janu- ary. Burlington, Vt.—Mrs. Jennie Ga- mache injured in fire which sweeps three story brick block with $125,000 loss and drives out 27 tenants. Boston—Registrar of motor vehi- cles reports 14 persons killed in au- tomobile accidents in state last week Hartford — Revolver with one | cartridge exploded found near scene | of fatal shooting Saturday night or | Reuben Rome, year old higl | school student. Uxbridge, M state police break up crowd of | men at cock fight and arrest 10. | Providence, R. I.—Fifteen | dred Greeks from over New | land meet to celebrate centennial of their country’s freedom from Turk 1sh rule. Portland. Me.—Lyle C. Nicols, 53 Scarboro farmer, drowns when truck crashes through bridge railing into river. Berlin, N. H.—Matthew Ryan, cily solicitor, leaves for Sydney S.. act as counsel for Ingvald “Bing" Anderson, former eastern ski cham pion now under sentence of death. Ariz. — Hawks finishes 12 hours after start at King, musica DD — Honeymoon rumble of 0 cognac. K Farmer flecing and 16 men are concealed facts in Isaac and Floyd | Lieut. Wil- excursion boat is VAN SICKEL TO COACH Miami, March 31 (P)—Dale Var Sickel All-Amecrica football end 1 1928, will join the Florida coaching staff next fall to assist in football basketball and baseball. He is a sta: in all three sports at the Gato school, where he is a senior. to do everything for p province; three others Carlo—Mayor Marquet” SHE BOWLS 'EM OVER | Compiling an average of 190 pinx per game last year in exhibitions on strange alleys in practically every bowling center of note in this coun try, Mrs. R. J. McCutcheon o: Pueblo, Colo., established herself a one of the ranking women bowling | stars of all time Monaco threne, carrics o, of dies. —Pir (“Saint"} " charged with | sister Indi Sahib, 2 New Ingland AT MIAMI Me.—Louie Acker of | y track record from five and Killed and Thom- {a half furlongs to one and a hal N. B. !miles was smashed at the winte: hits | meeting of the Miami Jockey clul | which came to an end recently, in Rev. | dicating that a better class of horse: when train R. L—Right Brooklyn four hold- Burleigh Herman, cutfielder, signed, only outs remain. They are Crimes, Pittsburgh pitcher; Goose Gos ‘Washington outfielder; ki | we'll carry three out of that number., {You saw Speedy Davis work last {year. He's young but he's picking up tricks < there every day that |he works. Then T've got Harry Me- | Bluege: Boston. Rothrock and Bar-| irett: Chicago. Gissel, Hunnefeld and | Metzler: Cleveland, Morgan, Fonse- {ca and Jamieson: St. Lou l?luA,‘ |and Manush: Detroit. Gehringer and | and the most home runs las “Look at Lefty O'Doul— last year! Look at Chuck Klein, playing practically his first year in Rarus, If . Mitchell. ¢ Nosal. 18 . Piorek, Iz ... presiding bishop of the Protestant | Episcopal church, in first public ad- | FOR B RESULTS dress urges communicants to regard |USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS rect, then Manager Zevin is guilty of a gross misreprescntation. Tt is claimed that the Orioles lost more than onec game during the vear. Manager Zevin claimed that his team was defeated only by the St. Cyril's of Hartford. The Orioles were defeated by the Middletown Twilight quintet and a New Britain athlete claims that he saw the Ori- oles lose in Meriden, There were no published reports of this Meriden game. Doctoring up a record is not in accordance with the ethics of good sportsmanship and if the charges as stated above are correct then the Orioles should be counted out, with- out question, of any claim to state title honors. An action of this kind to simply claim a silly and empty honor that has no bearing or standing in offi- cial records is childish, foolish and in very bad taste. SINGER VS. FERNANDEZ Lightweight Idol of the Bronx Will Get Chance Friday to Avenge Only Kayo of Career. New York, March 31 (®—Al Singer, lightweight idol of the Bronx, will get a chance to avenge the only knockout of his career en he meets Ignacio Fernandez, pino, at Madison Square Garden Iriday night, Last year, Singer carelessly dropped his guard in the third round in a bout with Fernandez and the Filipino drove home a right that sprawled Singer on the canvas and ended the fight. Singer recovered quickly from the, sting of that unexpected reverse and in a dozen matches since has been beaten only once, Kid Choco- late, Cuban featherweight, gaining a close decision over him. Vince Dunee, Baltimore welter- weight, and Ben Jeby of New York, clashed in the ten-round semi-final. Elsewhere in the country there is little in prospect to enthuse fight followers. The only other bout of any important general interest is Tuffy Griffiths’ encounter with Jack Gagnon of Boston, at Philadelphia tonight. . FAREWELI, TO CAMP Orlando, Fla.,, March 31 (#—The Cincinnati Reds caid farewell to their Orlando training camp today and set out for the north and the championship season. Manager Dan Howley said his athletes were in excellent condition. The team wil] reach Atlanta tomor- row for a two day stand with the Crackers. 500 POIN OoN As Napoleon, 0., March 31 (P—All but 153 of the 653 points scored by the Malinta-Grelton girls' basketball team were netted by Miss Eleanor Heckler. She averaged game for 20 games. 25 points a —DAILY— EXPRESS 2 50 ONE s3.75 “1(*)1-?1‘;') WAY Retarn ticket guod 30 days Brand New Latest Type Parlor Car Coaches Comfortably Heated—Bonded—Insured We Guarantee Your Comfort Leave Crowell’s Drug Store 77 West Main St, 10:25 A, M, 2:15 P. M., 5:30 P. M. Beginning March 16 Dally and Sunday Phone 1951 Make Reservations Early YANKEE STAGES, Inc. | spring, finally | Boyle. South Church Juniors Fld. FL Meligonis. rf Ferony. rf Wheeler, 1f E If .. Dickinson. ¢ .. Cormier, rg . Stanley, 1g .. 0 4 5 Referee, Nelson. Timer, Thicnes. Scorer. Parker. Baptists Badly Deaten Held scoreless from the floor throughout the first half, the Bap- tists took one of the worst trimmings of the tournament from the Broad Brook outfit. Tyler, the tall center ‘on the up-state team, scored 36 points in a grand scoring splash. The losers were absolutely unable to stop him, and he counted no less than 17 times from the field. Piling up a $3-4 lead in the first half, the Broad Brook team hoped to keep its basket free from Baptist floor shots throughout the game, but Russell tossed one during the third quarter and Miller followed imme- diately with another. Carlson and Fleming found the hoop before the game ended. The summary: Broad Brook Tigers 1d Fl Geissler, rf Kristofak, rg . Hoffman, . Muska, i § Club d 1 Russell, 0 Carlson, E Miller, ¢ Steele, rg Fleming, lIg-rt Recor, 13 Totals Refere: Babe Herman Finally Surrenders to Robins Clearwater, Tla., March 31 (#— Babe Herman. a hardy holdout all has surrendered to the Brooklyn Robins and accepted a one year contract at $15,000, The Babe originally had asked for $25,- 000. With Herman in the fold and Del Bissonnette recovered from an attack of boils, Manager Wilbert Robinson can put on the heaviest hitting team Brooklyn has scen in elson. JUNIOR HILY WINS The Junior Hi-Y basketball team swamped the Belvidere Blues for the third consecutive time Saturday at the Y. M. C. A. by the score of 42 to 26, The Y team as a whole, played nice basketball. L. Carlson was outstanding with some feature shots. J. Boyle led the Blues’ of- fense. The score: Junior Hi-¥ Fld. ¥l Maguire, ©f. ... ; L. Carlson, rf. . 3 13 Recano, 1f. Bakanas, If, Miller, . W. Burke, c. Merza, rg. . R. Burke, rg. .. Coyle, Ig. . E. Carlson, lg. . 13 Belviderc Blues ¥ld. Chester, rf. Rio, rf. . Larson, 1f. . Anderson, Bell, . T s Malloy, 1g. +...., Score al half time 35-17 Hi-Y. | contract Pta. Roush., New York Giants outfielder. and George Blacholder, St. Louis Browns' pitcher. Grimes is demanding contract at $22,000 or a two-year| at £20,000 per son. Washington may trade Goslin, who terms a $10,000 salary ridiculous. A number of young players ap- pear to have won regular jobs. Among this group are Allen (Dusty) Cooke and Ben Chapman, both from St. Paul, who have been named by Manager Bob Shawkey, to start the season in left field, and third base, respectively for the New York Yankees. Sniead Jolly, San Francisco out- fielder, has made good with the Chicago White Sox and his team- mate, Gus Suhr, hard-hitting fi baseman, has won a regular place with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Three rookizs probably will stait the season for the Boston Braves. They are Randolph Moore, who came up from Dallas an outfieldsr but who has been converted into a third baseman; Johnny Neun from Baltimore, who formerly playel first base for Detroit; and Wal Berger from the Los Angeles Pa- cific Coast League club. One of the big surprises is th: great playing of Barney Fribery, who threatens to crowd Captain Fresco Thompson off his regular place at second base with the Phil- lies. Friberg. who has played prac- tically every position with the Phils apparently has found his real position at last and has tempor- arily been named to start the sea- son at second, in place of Thomp- son, who was a holdout and late in reporting. a onc-yea-| | Giants Find Opposition Easy During the Spring Dallas, Texas, March 31 (A—The New York Giants may be pardoned if they hope the opposition in the National league is no tougher than that provided in spring exhibitions by the Chicago White Sox. The two teams have played nine games so far. KEach has won four and one was tled. The Giants had a seven run lead in yesterday's bat- tle and then just barely managed to win, 10-8. Cantwell to Pitch Against Jacksonville Jacksonville, ¥ March 31 (P— Ben Cantwell, who was bought from the Jacksonville Tars several years dgo by the New York' Giants for 25,000, returns to town today in a Braves' uniform and will pitch for the Boston men against the local teant. Rube Marquard, famous portsider of other days, manages the Jacksonville boys. baseball—43 home runs!: “With an outfield like O’'Doul, Klein, Southern and Tripp Sigman, batted over .500 in the fa the season, I think I've ot as good an outfield as there is in the ness. In ten games this Sigman kid, from Canton, batted .517.” T agreed with Burt that he has an outfield par excellence as far as crashing the old potato is concerncid. The team as a whole is a fence- busting bunch. They have been knocking down all the fences in Florida during the spring training season. There is not world the Phils will continue to hit this season as they did last. But— “How about your pitchers, Burt, any better than last year him. Pitchers!! Oh, He gave me a sharp glance. Yes, Pitchers! replied. “Old Aleck has been teach- ing the young fellows and you would be surprised how they are picking up stuff from Grover. There he is over there with a couple of the boys now. Never saw such a kind and obliging fellow. And he can teach pitcher in a way so they'll understand They'll listen to Aleck. They know he's not handing 'em any baloncy. Kindest fellow in the world. “I'm going to carry about ten pitchers, I guess. Got to get a cou- ple of good ones out of the new fel- lows. Aleck will win games for us too. I'm hoping Elliott, Smyh and Dailey come through. Lester Sweetland improved rapidly last sea- son. That boy's only 29 years old, and he won 13 and lost 11 last sea- son and showed improvement toward the last that was remarkable. “Watch Willoughby, too. He didn’t do much better than break even last year, but he's going to come through for us with more games than that this season. Ray Benge finished in the red last year, but he lost a lot of hard luck games. He's young and still learning. “Phil Collins, from New Orleans, 1 figure will help us a lot this year. He was sick part of last season and didn’t get going right. Pulled Two Games From Fire *We got Harry Smythe from Ashe- ville, in the Sally league. forget the first day he worked for me—against the Pirates—as a relief pitcher in both ends of a double header and held "em hitless and rur less and won hoth games. Harry is the lad who put the Pirates out of the running for the championship. Patsy O'Rtourke, the scout, dug him up. “Then there's call him Sad Missouri. Guess t Sam. I like the things. “Say, we're just as likely as not to s Dailey —they young kid frou ey’'ll have to shov way he's learning n the kid who moved in last year and | end of |} busi- | S ltongue, I doubt in“the | “I am hopeful of the pitcher,” he | Il never | Curdy—got him from the Cards by trade. Harry didnt do a thing but hit 525 for Toledo last year. Quite a story in Harry McCurdy some day. | came from the University of Illi- | nois and Houston sold him to the | White Sox for § 0 once.” Burt is Reputed Trader From the fund of ready informa- ition at the tip of Burt Shotton's| began to understand why | he has gained a reputation as a master at the gentle art of trading ball player t Pete Cooper from Birn 100, said Burt. “He has been hitting pretty good this spring, and he's rangy and fast.” t all the southern training camps. | ham, | Johnson. rane lists Miller as the most danger- |ous on the pathe. New York, March §1 (P—For the | first time States will parks tennis champion in 1830. The United States ssociation announces that | been decided to | for [ 1930 public held at W |use Of the Athletics, Coch- WOMEN TO COMPETE in history, the United | have a woman's public Tennis it has| competition | women at the parks tournament to be nington. Lawn have both men and FOR BEST RESULTS | HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS JOHNSTON & MURPHY FITCH-JONES COMPANY MEN’'S SHOES STETSON 'e is the greatest of respect for | A dozen times I have ou ought to see those Phils team that's going to be | in there this year.” I 1 believe the Phils are a pennant | threat this year. The only question | {they 1 n't answered for me entire- | |1y is that of pitching. 1f Burt Shotton | |could only manager to trade a couple of bat hoys for George Earnshaw or } Lefty Grove! | = R | Yankees Have Found Their Hitting Eye Texas, March 31 (P | Mana Bob Shawkey was begi ning to view with alarm the t| v(hu' his New York Yankees uM""E jdoing very little hitting this spring| {he should be feeling a bit relieved | now. | In their last two games the Yanks {have made 29 hits, a fair share of them for extra bases. Babe Ruth! pounded out four safe hits in Sat- urday's game and then went hitless against Houston yesterday:. Hallahan May Land | As Cardinal Hurler | | Bradenton, Fla., March 31 (P | Bill Hallahan, carried by the St | Louis Cardinals for his potential pitching, seems destined to come . through this season on the basis of his cocoanut league hurling. In two trials “Sweet William™ has blossom- | ed forth in good one fime whiffing ten of the fifteen batsmen | to face him | Dallas, | | style | PIRATES PLAY TODAY | Ma [ | homewar md waft ceks of spring training on the Pacific coa: | which they climaxed with three tories out of four exhibition inst the champion Chicago Cubs Pittsburgh Pirates came here | today for a practice Jess Petty probably {game for the Pirates a contest will start Big the | FOR BEST RESUL | USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | 'OUT OUR WAY GOOD GOSH ! FOR , IF vou CANT DO NOTHIN' IN AT ? S 1 RS Mg~ nea.u.s.par.orr. WHUTS A HOME By WILLIAMS WELL, T WONT HAVE QUITE SO MUCH TO DO IN AT ~~ F You eAT YOUR LEANING -TOWER OF (CRALKERED BUTTER IN THE WITCHEN. € TRwilliams, 3.37 ©1890 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. SALESMAN SAM AWELL G272, TH' TaBLES \YEP! | WAS UP TILL ALL HOURS ARE TURNED ~ UsualLy 't (ATE aN'NowW TS ou — LAST NIGHT-WENT To & RECITAL!, Going One Better \T WasS & PlaNo Rec(TaL BY PROF. UPRIGHT - aN' COULD HE PLAY ? 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