New Britain herald., 1924-10-10

 flash back into It's old-tlme form.
 The Mohawks held brisk prac- tice last night in preparation for their game Sunday with All Thomas ton in .Thomaston. The Mohawks have new outfits, orange colored jerseys featuring.
 Although it is reported that the Meriden Guard team is not getting good support and may not finish the season, Manager Boardman has booked George Mulligans Water bury Blues for his Sunday card. Also, he announces that Eddie Barnikow has recovered sufficiently to play.
 Kid Kaplan and Diaz do their stuff in the main bout at Madison Square Garden tonight.
 Weaver High of Hartford tackles West Hartford this afternoon.
 Yale will send practically a new team against Georgia tomorrow. Bench will go in at quarter and the entire line will be changed about. The backfield will see Failing and Allen in action.
 The famous hit by Manager Harris yesterday has been aptly named the $140,000 wallop. This is the sum that comes into the coffers of the club as the result of Washington's win.
 The team leading at the end of the fifth game of a four-out- of seven world series has, without exception finally captured baseball's highest honor.
 Prior to this season, 19 out of 20 series had run five games or more, but of these four--in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921-were five out of nine game propositions. in whiclr of course, a to ? lead is not so for midable as in a four out of seven set.
 In the 15 series the ultimate loser of the series has won the fifth game only twice. in each case where its opponent had 10 1 lead and won the series the next day,
 The Giants in 1911 and the Cubs of 1918, each of which lost three of the first four games were fifth game winners who did not finally come through in a five out of seven series.
 @ Peckinpaugh being out of the game is severe loss for the Sen ators. This veteran world series star has held the team together as no one else seems capable of doing. He knows what to do, does it at the right time and refuses to get fused.
 The sportwriters are pretty un- reasonable in their raging of Mill Ter, who went to third the other day for Bluege. when the latter went to short. The youngster certainly did his best and what more could he do. If he did not measure up, it was no fault of his.
 British critics complain their polo players were poorly picked. :. Yet they can hardly deny they were easy pickings for us.
 Branch Hickey threatens to quit as manager and St. Louis fans are alarmed . . They fear he may change his mind.
 Well, anyway the Cincinnati Reds were the first team to win the pen nant last April.
 tirpo will spend Christmas in this country. You cant blame him for believing Santa Claus lives here,
 The collegian may have his faults. but haggling over an upper or lower berth on the varsity is not one of them.
 While Everett Scott has had very few days off, his off days seem to come with great regularity.
 Frisch of the Giants is troubled with petrified finger The number of ball players troubled with petrified noodles will probably never be known.
 London courts have agreed that Tommy Gibbons has $4O.OOO coming to him Now all Tommy has to do is collect it.
 It Is said that nobody could ever get rise out of Jim Jcffries :. Maybe that's why he never went in for aviation.
 When you come away from one Of the Dempsey movies, please re. member that the champion isn't such bad actor of the screen.
 4 congressman's son is playing on tne fale eleven Proving there Is no class distinction in the big colleges.
 No matter how much they change football, a moral victory will always