New Britain herald., 1924-05-20

Dan o'Dowd will fight Young
 Stripllng In Atlanta, Ga, tonight.
 Urban Shocker, star twirier of the
 St. Louis American baseball team, left
 the team at Washington yesterday to
 so to Cleveland on receiving word of
 the death of his mother in that city.
 Sixteen of the best women golfers
 in the country survived the qualifying
 round of the women's metropolitan
 golf championship yesterday at Cher
 ry Valley Club. Miss Marion Rollins
 of Westbrook, Long Island, won the
 qualifying medal with score of S4.
 Catcher Bubbles Hargraye, who was hit in the hand with pitched ball
 In recent game will probably be out
 Of the Cincinnati Reds lineup for five
 or six weeks according to club officials.
 The Yale golf team defeated Dart
 mouth 6-3 in an intercollegiate golf
 match at Bridgeport yesterday. Yale
 won all the doubles and divided the singles.
 Arthur 'Dazzy' Vance, Nebraska boy, who as 9 moundsman for the Brooklyn Robins has held the Ma tional league strikeout record for two years, says he fears Rogers Hornsby, St. Louis, more than any other batter in pinch.
 Ken Williams, after beating Babe Ruth out for the home-run honors Tn the American league in 1922, hit upon an idea that he felt sure would send him far out ahead of Ruth in 1928. He added six ounces to the weight of the bat he eHas using. h. stead of helping him it slowed his swing up and handicapped his slug ging ability.
 Dudley Lee of the Boston Red Sox is the best fielding shortstop to break in the American league in years" That is the compliment paid the Bos- ton recruit by Everett Scott of the | Yankees, the iron man inflelder of the | game.
 Despite the fact that he is slipping, that he had a poor year at the bat and his throwing arm isn't quite as good as 1t used to be, Ray Schalk is still about the most valuable catcher in the American league. Wonderful mechanical ability back of the bat and great head tell the story.
 Since Jimmy Burke, who acted as assistant to Frank Chance at Boston last year, has also been let out. it is almost certainty that Leo Fs<,l. tho new manager of the Red Sox, - "s Lefty" Liefleld, who was a very yalu- able man for Tohl at St. Louis.
 rntidy, great little Ally of the Whit ney stable, has not been training we'll this spring and will be retired for all time. untidy has always suffered from a bad knee.
 Word from inside sources Is to the l effect that the much discussed change l to lighter golf ball will be authoriz- l cd shortly and will be put in effect I with the start of the 1924 season. An international whippet race will s be held in June, the first of its kind. ] The fastest whippets in America will be pitted against the fastest whippets in Canada. Montreal will be the scene.
 Walter Johnson predicts great things for Pitcher Marberry. Wash ngton recruit. Marberry is a big right handler, built on the lines of Johnson, and has great stuff. Eddie Collins. premier second sack N, sr Of the American league. and captain ot the Chicago White sox was today put In charge of the club as acting manager. He succeeds Johnny Evers rho k i'll at his home in Troy, N. Y, where he recently underwent an opor- ,tion for appendicitis :, n Hartford High school dropped ~ .ame to the LaSaletts school of the :. anne city by a score Of 4-s yesterday. N' The feature of the game was the fast o ielding of both the teams ', V AltTeu IuIuerB OI tuc ANeHIOfl, hoSSs -. Iish school today won the Yale inter U" cholastic tennis tournament by de- , eating Malcolm Hill, national boys ,I. sl hampton, of Loomls Institute, Wind ,ri or. 6-4,4-s. s-o. e-3. The match was nl contested and the stamina ~. as [ the Massachusetts High school boy ", " roved the deciding factor. li The Trinity college baseball team, Di -hich has proved the most cratic sseball team in these parts, will lclSle the Connecticut Aggies team at torrs tomorrow. Coach Stone may bt, Ut Newsholms, former third baseman rr n the slab. m,
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