New Britain herald., 1922-08-25

The local Lutherans are confden
 Of beading the Meriden nine in the de
 ciding~game for the championship O
 the Luther League to be played at thu
 Ellis street grounds here tomorrow af
 ternoon.
 The corhin baseball nine are out tt win the first game of the series iron the Kaeeys Sunday Followers of tn, Corbin nine are stalking their Ions green that their team will win with. out fall
 A large crowd is expected to watch the battle between the Pirates. junior champions, and the Independents champions of the Hardware City league. Charley Miller's charges have been playing good ball all this season and are out to beat their older rivals
 Tom Feeney will again be seen in action at the Meriden field meet to- morrow afternoon. He is entered in all the sprint races on the card. and the local men are anxious to see him cop | prize.
 The Corbin baseball nine will stack up against the Meriden Cutlery Go. team in tho rubber game of a three game series at Walnut Hill park to- morrow afternoon. Manager Tobin ex- poets that his charges will come across with win in this. the deciding game.
 Fnnthal1 a n o mt ho field of sports again, seeing that the baseball season in this section is com ing to close. News from the colleges state that they are all preparing to call out their candidates early next month.
 The members of the athletic team of the Private Walter J. Smith Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars and their rooters, are requested to the present in front of Turner Hall on Arch street leave by truck for Meriden at o'clock sharp. All those who are to at- tend will kindly appear in uniform.
 Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight champion is willing to go to South America either this fall or next spring to meet Luis Angel Tirpo, holder of the South American crown and Tex | Rickard is willing to stage the bout.
 Baseball fans in Akron, O., are en- deavoring today to learn whether Jim Vaughan, pitcher of an industrial ho este record or two Within ten days Vaughan has pitched forty-seven con- secutive scoreless innings in four games. He has famed fifty-two bats men in the games an average of better than one an inning. Last sun- day Vaughan pitched twenty inning shut-out game.
 The Nutmeg Juniors will hold prac- ttce tonight at 6 o'clock at Vibberts field. There will also be-a election of officers. The manager of the team is Ellie Cohen.
 Tut Jackson. negro heavyweight of Washington Court House, Ohio, will finish training in New York for his ulLcGA-TOUIlu CCHLSSJ ucAL u0SQdy with Harry Wills, challenger for Jack Dempsey's title. Jackson is expected in New York tomorrow.
 Kay Beach, pitcher of the Cairo team of the Kitty (Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee) League, pitched no-hlt no-run game yesterday against Mad | isonville, Ind.
 The Stronghearts won forfeited | game from the Dublins yesterday at Walnut Hill park. The Stronghearts and Dublins are tied for champion ship of city.
 The watch Cara Mia of the Royal Canadian Yacht club again defeated the Patricia of the Eastern Yacht club of Marblehead, Mass. in the in- terclub races yesterday and the score now stands four to one in favor of the Canadians. The Cara Mia won by one minute, f1fty-six seconds
 Johnny Dundee resents the state ment of Pepper Martin that the latter will knock him out inside of six or seven rounds when they meet at the velodrome next Monday night. Martin caused a sensation in the Garden last winter by stopping the clever Babe Herman in one round and has won all of his last sixteen fights, five of them by the knockout route.
 Dundee, who Is working out at Mamie Seamons gym, finished a hard afternoons grind yesterday and weighed 124 pounds ,ater his boxing session. Tt makes me laugh to hear this fellow Martin making statements that he will stop me Monday night" said Johnny while getting his rub.
 Nineteen of. the leading long dis tance swimmers of the east will com pete tomorrow afternoon in the eight mile swim under the auspices of the Park Inn Baths A. A. The start will be of Far Rockaway point and the finish in front of the baths. The swimmers and their pilots have been ordered to report sharp at noon.
 Representatives from the American Legion headquarters called on Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion of Ehe world yesterday in an effort to sign him to meet Eugene Criqui, champion of France, in a twenty round bout at New Orleans Oct. IS. he opening day of the national con
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