New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 17

Speaking of Sports | Either Steve Pierce or Harry Thompson will be seen in action with thé Amsterdam Roller Hockey club tonight when that team meéts the Meriden Greyhounds in the Ameri- can Roller Hockey league. This will be the first Friday night game inI Meriden. | Despite Steve Pierce's announce- ment that he would not return to | the game of rollers, he has agreed to play with the Amsterdam contingent starting after the first of the year. Steve will try to join the Amsterdam team for tonight's contest in the Sil- | ver City but there is nothing certain about his appearance | well placed jabs from Old Lady Mis- Meriden went into third place in the league by defeating Amsterdam in an overtime game last night 8 to 7. “Bib” Boucher's shot after four | minutes of pla closed a thrilling | chapter in the American Roller Hockey league play this season. The Bame alternated all the time with | first one team leading and then the | other. At the end of the regulation playing periods, the teams were | deadlocked. Harry Thompson will palr up with Povi tonight in Meriden if Pierce docs not play with Amsterdam. Lundeville will play center with Doherty at halfback and ¢ in the goal. Merid team will be Williams and Earl Pierce at the rushes, Bib Boucher at | center, “Gid” Brown at halfback and Frochel in goal | The New Britaln Bearcats will | face a Meriden amateur quintet in | the preliminary contest. Charles Kebert, bowling champion f South Manchester, and Joe Gacek who lays claim to the title in this city, will clash tonight at the Palace Alleys on Main street in this city in the first leg of a home ar home series to determine superiority be- tween the two. The second leg will be played next Wednesday night in South Manchester. eil's Coca Cola team of East Hartford will bowl Heslin's Trolley Co. team of this city tonight at the Palace Alleys and the Telephone Co league will roll the al Friday night games. The importance of foul shooting was never better demonstrated than in the the Stanley Rule & in the Industrial basketball league last Tuesday night. The Stanley Rule team won the game through its ability to cage fouls. The Gascos acored nine ficld goals to eight for | the Rulers but caged only two foul shots to six for the Rulers, The two points by which the Rulers won, were contained in the foul shots. The same situation occurred in the game between the Russwin and Corbin Cabinet Lock Co. teams. The | Cabinet crew got 10 field goals to | eight for the Russwins but scored only three frec tries to 11 for the Russwins. The Russwins won the contest. Corbin Screw scored one more field goal and one more foul than the Newmatics in the game be- tween those two. former Ne r, is one of the iagara college “Big Jim” Scul Britain high school st main cogs on the quitet. So far this season he has sveraged over ten points a game. Beully is playing at center. BLUES PLAY TONIGHT | New Britain Basketball Team to Travel to South Willington to Mcet Town Court Quintet. ! were cnough led up 2 | team, | bea | rying NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1930. 17 SCALZI GOAT OF GEDRGETONN TEAW Misfortune Has Dogged Steps of Sterling Quarterback EA Service. Should anyone pick an All-Ameri- ca hard luck cleven, Johnny Scalzi, Georgetown's stubby quarterback, would probably ‘be first on the list. For the past two scasons Scalzi | has been Georgetown's outstanding scoring threat, yet because of a few fortune, his brilliant playing has been so overshadowed that he is more often’ referred ‘to as the Hill- top goat, This year Scalzi has won games single-handed on some occasions, and on others:spurred the team on to victory, yet two outstanding| breaks—the unfortunate kind—have | made folks forget his real value to | the team. Scalzi scored the winning touch- down in Georgetown's first game of the season after a beautiful piece of broken field running. His field goal from the 37 yard line gave the Hill- | top eleven the points that clinched its second game of the year. In the third game of the season inst West Virginia Wesleyan, Scalzi scored three touchdowns in the first period, all on runs of more than 50 yards. Those points to win the game, al- though it later proved to be a walk- ove Then Came Misfortune Finally Georgetown tackled the | tough West Virginia Mountaincers | things JOHNNY SCALZI | n Johnny got his first frown | from the fates | Bartrug West Virginia got off a long punt to Ncalzi, who was play- | ing safety The ball looked as though it would bound over the goal line, so the G. U. quarterback et it roll. The ball deceitfully slow- it ne d the goal line, and a Mountaineer came thundering down the field, intent upon downing as n the goal line as ar alzi did the thing that appear- wisest to him. He threw him- «lf in front of his opponent, in an «ffort to block him off until the ball could roll over the goal line. As he id so, his foot hit 1" ball and sent it skidding over the last white line ybody's ball. A West Virginia player trium- phantly flopped on the pigskin, the Moun ers had their winning touchdown, and Scalzi had a lot to live down in the eyes of the football world Atonement Against Spartans The next week Georgetown took the undefeated Michigan State that had tied Michigan and ten Colgate. Late in the first half Scalzi caught a short pass and t for the goal line in a tearing He crossed it some 47 with a horde of Spartans s behind. They got there on 'in time to watch him kick the extra The New Britain Blues ba team will travel to South Willing- ton tonight to tackle the fast town team tonight. The South Willing- | ton crew boasts of an exceptionally strong lineup. It has already play. ed 11 games and has suffercd only one defeat. Despite their poor showing in their first game against the St. Stan- islaus team in Meriden, the Bluos hope to come through with a win, | Manager Harry Adams will start his strongest lineup. Jasper and Zem- browski will play the forwards with Zaleski at center and Grusha and Kresge guards. On the rese list will be Adams, Pihicl, Hubay and Kovaleski. | rve South Church to Seek | | Victory in West Avon | A victory over West Avon will be the goal of the South Church senior basketball team this evening when the locals travel over into the Farm- ington Valley for a County Y. M. C, A. league game. With only one win in three starts to date, the church team r izes that it is time for it to start a victorious run if it is to make good defense of its four-time county championship. It has had dif- ficulty in finding the proper com- bination this season, as none of those tried worked with the old-time precision, but the players are keep- | ing at their task of building a new! machine and hope that it wiil start to function this evening. The players will meet at 8 o'clock at the New Britain Y. M. C. A. and will travel by automobile. t week the locals will have no league game, as Highland Park, against whh’h‘ team it is scheduled, has withdrawn from the league because of the theft of all its equipment. MAN DIES OF EXPOSURE | Washington, Dec. 26 (UP)—A man suffering from lack of food and exposure collapsed and died just as he began to eat a bountiful Christ- | mas dinner provided by alms givers. He was about 50 years old and un- identified alabaster mine in Ttaly that has been worked continu- ously since it was opened by the Itruscans more than 2,000 years 2go. There is an point of the second half in the kickoff, cut and then depart- He passcd the mic vith a burst of specd and op- start Scalzi gathered for the sidelines ed for the goal dle of the field that made his interference ponents drop far to the rear. and scored after a 95 yard . a. He again kicked the extra point—Georgetown won, 14 to 13 | Then the Hilltoppers tackled Bos- ton College. Scalzi was again the outstanding star in victory. Iolks we inning to forget that | West Virginia game, when Scalzi got his worst break in the annual tilt with New York University. The two teams struggled three periods on a SOgRY, ous ficld. with neither Grorgetown completely outp foe, inopportunc fumbles cvery scoring gesturd 'wo Points Were Gifts | 1 in the period N. Y. U.| recovered umble on the rge- | town line. They gained | just U. took stripe, goal line fall away out of the automotic University, game, 2-0 Now, instead of Hero Johnny, they call him Scalzi the Hilltop goat. That is—the common folks speak | thus disrespectfully. The players call | hii the best quarterback on the | squad. Scalzi just calls it no(h\ug| through | treacher- | scoring, | ayed its | last six vard four yards on four the ball on its two vard Scalzi dropped back of his | to punt. As he got the he inadvertently stepped end zone, r.gistering an safety for New York | The Violets won the 1t all and changes the subject. ROLLER HOCKEY TONIGHT—S8:30 At Meriden Amsterdam Meriden Admission 40c | teur title of Quee ruining | plays, so G. | _AN OLD TIMERS 18Y TIM McGRATH & punch” right into and are The “kidney fight conversation at some of the arenas, loud “boos” when some fighte bring their fists down on an op ponent’s back or sidc during a clinch. But the real Kidney brought over from Australia by George Dawson, a great welter- weight. Dawson, who won the ama- nsland in 1885, 1»; the only man I've ever seen use it and he n it one of the most ¢ fective of attacks. Danny Needham, Minneapolis lad, who already fought a 100 round fight with Patsy Kerrigan and a 76 round bout with Tommy Ryan, was Dawson's first | American opponent. They fought in San Francisco's famous old Cali- club. With the late Bdd Graney, 1 was in Dawson’s corner. |y Ncedham got the upper hand S when he broke Dawson's nose in the | o= ot f B second round. We were unable to| G- stop the blood for several rounds. | But Dawson begged us not to throw in the sponge. After the blood stopped. Dawson began pounding Needham on the | side, just above the belt. Not in clinches, mind you, but “from range;" sharp, clean blows to the side after feinting Needham into po- sition. creeps along, there punch was BILL JOHNSON Apparentl vashed sas wl rr anc regained good have a a Johnsor cetball stars T ALABAMA ELEVEN FAVORED T0 Wi Southerners Given Edge Over Washington State in Game | i Eeato b | Graney and 1 were worried. Tn vain told Dawson he was just wearing himself out; that he was al- ready behind; that Needham would hook him a t we iin and put him out if he didn’t hit for the stomach or chin instead of the side. Dawson paid no attention, Soon we hegan to learn The perpetual pounding brought a bright red spot to Needham's side Be began to wince when a hblow landed these, to give more time to guarding his sidc than to fighting. He began to lean. Dawson now ftore in knocking Needham down with blows to the head. Danny would again—then Dz on would work on his side. In the 25th rou Young Mitchell, one of seconds. tossed the sponge ring. Needham was le ner, like a broken tears flowin That's the t Kidney punch. No other that d nor since—could to Dawson's effectivencss ion to affecting the the air down out of the lu time is landed Dawson, after a n fights, taught boxing A. 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