New Britain herald., 1924-04-08

al come to New Britain.
 Harry gave them a new slant on the olympies when he said that Aherica Will have to look out for rihiahd this year. He thinks the tlnns have progressed faster in ath- leties than any other race.
 Coach Hiliman also told a story of the time the Olympic games were held Tn Athens and the starters gave the signal Tn Greek. He told of one Am eriean athlete who took his mark and when the starter gave the word in Greek the American athlete stood up ana looked at him in amazement, and while he was looking at the starter the race started and the American athlete found that he had come 5000 miles for nothing.
 speaking of gameness in athletes MT. Hillman told of student at Dartmouth who had lost the use of both his legs due to infantile paralysis and because of this handicap could not take part in most branches Of athletics. Mir. Hillman said that this student took up work on the travel ing rings, in which branch of sport his handicap was not serious, and that last year in the intercollegiate he captured one of the highest honors in that branch of sport.
 Knoxville fans turned out en masse yesterday to see Babe Ruth hit homer. He disappointed them in that respect but-he got a double and triple. Meusel also gave them a good show when he hit a homer and two triples.
 Homers also featured the Giants win yesterday when Gowdy and Kelly celebrated McGraw's birthday with circuit taps.
 Roland Todd, hailed as Britain's best boxing bet, has proved a fiivver and will return to his native heath after losing to Malone and Loughran.
 Watsrbury's baseball park is inun- dated by the floods. The bleachers ere undermined, the teams road and homo uniforms destroyed but not the mascot The mascot was rescued.
 Vincent Richards announces he is to quit tennis, a la Tiiden, If the ban on players writing for the press is en- forced.
 Hopps defends his title against Horsmans tonight. The match is an 1900 point event.
 Msrriman, the Waterbury golfer. won the Pinehurst medal yesterday scoring i5o while Brown, his closest rival took 1ss in the North and South event. Merriman was the winner in 1921.
 The Atlas and the Dixles meet in Hartford tonight in the first Of their three game series for the state and New England basketball title.
 Yais's baseball team plays four games this week, meeting Providence, New York, New Haven and Columbia.
 Wesleyan opens its baseball season Saturday with Rhode Island State for an opponent.
 Ty Cobb says that he regards the veteran George Dauss of the Tyger staff as the best curve ball pitcher in the American league. Some praise.
 Baseball experts who have been George sisler perform in the south are skeptical ss to his chances to play regularly. There are some who don't think that he will even start.
 Rogers Hornsby Is going to find the going much tougher in the Na- tionsl league this year. Both Eddie Rousch and Frankie Frisch announce they are in ahs field for batting honors.
 Veterans As . rule hit poorly in the spring. but it seldom bothers the youngsters. However, April and May are usually the worst months of the year te the youthful Frankie Frisch, star of the Gianta
 JoHn hcUfAWs Hks III OlueF ndn- sgers, admits thsk pitching is his problem. He says there will be noth- ing to it but the Giants if his team gets even fair support from the twiriing staf.
 Harry Heilmann. hardhitting out fielder of the Detrok Tygers, is the only righthandsd batter to lead the American League eiubbers since 1905. Heilmann has topped the pack tuice-in 1891 and 1893. He is also one of the few to bat over 400 for the season.
 Tn 1905, Larry Lajoie. then with Cleveland, was sSstting champion. The Frenehmsn was a righthanded swinger.
 Then came George Stone. Ty Cohb. Speaker and sisler to claim highest hitting henors. All of them were CT gre southpaw eIouters. or this quarter. Cobb and sisler have both turned 400 and over. Cobb has got into that class on three oe- casions and sisler twice.
 Is the spitbal1 hard on the arm?