New Britain herald., 1925-02-14

Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania have agreed to enter their leading athletes in the track meet in Madi- son Square Garden. February 24 arranged by Secretary Frederick w. Rubien of the Amateur Athletic union to help swell the fund of si5o,oOO which the sporting world will furnish toward the building of the cathedral of st. John the Divine in New York. Nurmi. Ritola, Ray, Plant and Frigerlo are to appear at the games.
 Tn addition to Mr. Kearns it may now be said Mir. Dempsey has Es- telle to support.
 We suppose Miss Taylor agreed to take the champion for better or worse and yet he could hardly be any worse than he was the night he fought Bill Brennan.
 If Mir. Dempsey is to become a successful Romeo he will have to do more clinching than he usually does in the ring.
 Mir. Dempsey says this, his second marriage, will be his last.--In other words, 1t Is a wind-up bout.
 MT. Dempsey says he really does love to hang around the house-es- pecially when the house aggregates S6oO,000.
 Miss Taylor had to get a divorce to get Dempsey-Gibbons and Wills are still wondering what they'll have to do to get him.
 For the first time in his life MT. Dempsey appeared for an important engagement without his red sweater and butter-rubbed whiskers.
 You probably noticed that Firpo was not the best man.-1ndeed, he was not the best man at previous affair in which Mir. Dempsey parti- cipated.
 Joe Wood, in the heyday of his career, was great pitcher. AS a member of the Boston Red Sox in 1912, Wood won 34 games and lost but five, a record in the majors that still stands.
 Wood was also considerable of strikeout artist, his smoke" ball be- ing especially tough to hit. In game played on June 5, 1911, against the White sox, Wood was at his best. Sent in as a relief pitcher, Smoky Joe" struck out three pinch-hltters in succession in the ninth inning.
 This unusual feat permitted Boston to win, 5 to 4. The Sox players who fell before the offerings of the speedy Wood were, Pat Dougherty, patt'hg for Roy Corhan; Freddie Payne, bat ting for Billy Sullivan, and Jimmy Block, batting for Frank olmsteau'
 Irniyersity of Pennsylvania athletic teams will engage in their busies' lov of the indoor season today with inc varsity and junior varsity pas- ketball teams meeting SWarthnore ouintets and the freshmen engaging York Collegiate. The boxers ana swimmers meet Yale at New Haven the wrestleps grapple with Columbia, the fencers oppose the Army ana 70 track men are entered in New YorK A. (. meet. Mad Halter, winner of the Latonia | championship and other classic horse races at the age of three, is still one | of the soundest horses the tracks eeer saw. He was purchased recent ly for a stallion by Harry Payne Whitney from the Ranoccas stable. It was Mad Halter and his Kind that rave the nursery stud its reputation. He won few races at two, but after | passing to the Rancocas establish ment he won nearly every pronlin- ent event offered in the east and | earned reputation for ruggedness second 10 none.
 The inter-circuit championship polo tournament, an event which i will be added to the schedule this season, will have its start next week when play begins in the southwest ern circuit at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Each of tho eight circuits into which the United States Polo association has been divided will hold its own eliminations and the winners will be elibigle for the na- tional title play in September at Philadelphia.
 Hundreds of northern duffers waiting for spring so they can get out on the links have been sighing in jealousy over the feats on south ern courses, such as Miss Glenna Collett doing q ~ at Belleair and Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel be-