New Britain herald., 1924-01-05
s p e akin g of Sports


 Promising linemen from last falls freshman football squad at Ohio State will be given wrestling as a prelim- mary to their reporting for spring practice. A dozen or 15 of the most likely linemen will be given careful training this winter, under the watch full eye of Coach Al Haft, varsity mat tutor.
 Georgetown university today was given the vacant date, November S.. on the University of Pennsylvania's s 1924 football schedule. The game will be played on Franklin field. The re- mainder of the schedule was approved last month by the council on athletics
 Willie Ritola, Of the Finnish -Ameri- can A. C., one of the greatest distance runners ever developed in this coun- try, sailed for Finland, the land of his birth, yesterday on the Scandina- vian-American liner Oscar II, for the purpose of joining the 1924 Finnish Olympic team.
 Cleveland inaugursted its United States Amateur hockey league sea son last night by defeating the Du- luth teams to Q. The locals goals were scored in the first two periods.
 Slow motion pictures as a means of showing to the University of Michigan Urestlers, the assortment of holds Coach Richard Barker wants them to apply to their opponents will be shown the class tomorrow.
 Outfelder Ed Roush will be in Cincinnati Tuesday to confer with President August Hermann and directors of the Cincinnati club TO- garding his playing contract for the coming season. Ronsh was a hold out for more salary last year and the year before.
 Harry Kipke, Michigan's star thrnc- letter man. said today he was con sidering several offers from universi- ties and colleges which had asked him to serve in coaching capacities. Kip Ike. who is football, baseball and
  had not yet decided whirn offer he would accept. He completes his col lege work here in February.
 Despite tho fact that this is leap year Rogers Hornsby denies he will jump to the semi-pros,
 Battling siki has been barred from Michigan, cheekup revealing that therc is barely enough liquor to go around as it is.
 Events of extraordinary magnitude | are predicted for the new year. but | it would probably be too much to | hope that the nah jongg craze final- ly reaches China. If it is true. as Hans Wagner writes. | that baseball has dcgeneratcd into a gentleman's game, isn't if time that | someone put Casey Sengel wise? Golf balls will be larger and lighcr | neN year. Heads of golfers | making holes in one will be the same | way. Gere Sarazrn has decided not to | marry after all. <. Preferring the | links of golf to the chains of matri- mony.
 Iris Speaker broke batting slump last season by changing his hat. We know some players who could change everything and still go hitless.
 Pitcher Shockcr took his wife with him on baseball trip and Judge l.andis doesn't know what to do about it. Ought to have his head. eX- amined.
 \ test in higher mathematics is to be found in the news that tho Yale eleven will lose 23 players next fall.
 The Chicago Cubs have adopted drastic policy in. regard to holdouts. They will not pay them one cent more than they have to.
  One of the astonishing facts that seems to stand out in the sport page reviews Of the past year is that Babe Ruth enjoyed big comeback.
 And it's all we can do to rcpress our stupcfaction when we read that Zev proved to bc the best thrce-year- old horse in the country.
  Delaney kayOs Clark in
 Battle Down in Park City