New Britain herald., 1924-12-20

tage.
 The preliminary game at the armory tonight, it is promised by the man. asement. will be better regulated one than the farce of week ago. Next Saturday night there will be
 real game at the armory with the Washington Colleglates opposing the
 Mats. These boys defeated the To-
 calls week ago.
 Already the reputation Of the Mats
 is becoming statewide, and the Ly. rics of Hartford called off their
 game set for earlier in the week be-
 cause they considered the Mats were
 too fast for them at this stage of the game.
 When Walter Johnson finished the
 1924 campaign 1t won for him an-
 other unique distinction. He is the
 only pitcher to remain IS years in
 one league. Previously he and Ma
 thewson were tied for IT years. sully Montgomery, the former Centre college football star who |
 surprised by holding Romero Rojas to a draw, is to get return bout |
 with the Chilean heavyweight.
 Paul Berlenbach, who won much | publicity as a knockout artist last |
 winter is about ready for another strenuous campaign. He says his |, hands are as good as ever. In picking an All-America foot ball team the 1924 idea seems to be to see how many obscure players you can nominate. The failure Of the magnates to in- yestigate the O'ConneIl- Dolan base ball scandal was a biz surprise. '"" It was if you are easily surprised, In connection with all the reforms introduced in baseball by Ty Cobb, we'd like to know if he was also tho first player to shout. T have 1t" Old Pop Geers was even more human than the world ever imagin- ed. $ The records show he was once fined for loafing. A French boxer has been expelled A were always quick to copy American customs.
 The tennis officials have voted that Mr. Tilden may accept s1o,000 for his newspaper writings and still be an amateur. We insist, how ever, theer is nothing amatcurish about sl0,QOO check We\see by the papers department stores are putting on extra help for tha holidays, and we suppose boot leggers are doing the same thing. At least Kid McCoys cruelty as a fighter did not extend to the specta- tors, who usually saw fight that was fight.
 The story of how StanIay Harris was picked up by Washington from the minors, adds another link to pinch-hitting reputation of the bril- liant young second baseman and manager of the worlds champion Senators.
 Harris vas playing with the Buff falo club of the International league one day late in the 1919 season when he learned that Clarke Grif- fth, Washington president, and Joe Engle, the clubs scout, were in the stands to watch him perform. With big league eyes on him and his fu- ture possibility at stake-a situation which might have shaken the nerve of most recruits-Harris played one of the greatest games of his life in the field and banged out six hits in as many times at bat in the double header that afternoon. Griffith lost no time signing up Harris and he joined the Senators before the close of the 1919 season.
 Harris himself vouches for this story and says it is one of inc in- delibls marks in his career. Claire c. Csyward, of Seneca Castle, \. r.. is credited with being the first four-letter man in the ath- letie history of Vermont university. He starred in track, baseball, foot ball and basketball, playing four
 straight years in the last named sport and explaining the Vermont five twice.
 Walter Hagen, to whom golf championships must have become monotonous, performed in his cus- tomary exhibition manner in his ap- nearance against the Britishers Dun- can and Mitchell, in Florida recently.
 Hagen slips, as do all champions
 but he seems to fall at the right
 time. carrying his invincibility into
 title play.
 All Goullet. veterans of bicycle
 tracks, Is willing to try again. From