New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
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 Tomorrow night the Hartford Dix
 les return for their third engage
 ment at the armory. Two victories
 have graced the efforts of the Hart
 ford boys here thus far and as deter
 mined as they are to make 1t three
 straight. the locals are just as do- termined to take at least one game.
 The Meriden Endees close their season tomorrow night with the Att las as their little playmates. From here it looks as If the Endees stood a good chance of closing with . defeat.
 The Merlden West Sides dropped to Middletown last night 25-21. At that, the West Sides who were afraid to meet the Guards last night, put up e better game against the River City boys than did the Mats the night before.
 E. Dickson, a prominent New London baseball player, is to seek a berth with the Hartford Eastern league.
 Shimkia, the Underwood's right forward, had a great night from the foul line against the Corbin boys. He sunk nine free tries, which Is not so bad. This was one more than the entire Corbin team dropped in from the 15 foot mark.
 The Boys club concludes its sea- son Monday night, playing the Will
 imantic All Stars. a picked team of some of the best league players.
 Exoneration of the Olympic mid dle distance champion, Paavo Nur- mi, for failure to appear in a meet ct Hartford, Conn.,, March 14,, as de- cided upon yesterday by the regis tration committee of the metropoli- tan district of the Amateur Athletic Union, has failed to satisfy the Connecticut representative at the hearing. The Nurmi case very likely will go to national authorities, he said.
 The metropolitan chairman pre- sented a doctors certificate to prove that Nurmi was i'll and therefore un- able to compete on the night in question.
 Alex Smith, who came out of Scotland in the early part of the century to show Americans how to | play golf, yesterday was appointed | professional at the Westchester- Bilt. more Country Club of Rye, N. Y. Twenty years ago Smith was an open champion, title which he obtained twice and during his residence in America he has worn nineteen golf crowns. Smith is also professional for the new Miami Biltmore Country club in Florida.
 Frank J. Marshall, United States chess champion, and Carlos Tore, New York state champion, will sail tomorrow for Europe to take part in the Masters tournament beginning April 15 at Baden Baden, Germany. Another tournament will follow a week later at Marienbad, Czecho- slovakia,
 Sid Ferris, New York lightweight. may cancel his bout with Rocky Kansas of Buffalo, scheduled for April IS, because of an injury to his felt hand suffered while training for his contest with Lew Paluso of Salt Lake City this week in New York. { Ferris went through the match with Paluso and gained close decision.
 American army officers who will meet leading poloists of Great Brit ain in a series of matches In June, { will sail from New York today. i Pinky Mitchell of Milwaukee. Wis, g welterweight, brother of Ritchie | Mitchell. will engage In his first | bout since July, 1924, tonight when c he meets Red Herring in ten round | contest in Detroit Mitchell has I been on the pugiistic shelf as re- T suit of a broken arm. He has lined up several bouts. Charley (PhiD Rosenberg, new ll worlds bantamwcight champion | probably will be matched 10 box z, Harold Smith of Chicago in tho first 9 show of the season in the open air e arena at Aurora. H., May %. Smith, ., n whose hand was broken in the semi a final of the New York bout in which z, Rosenberg defeated Cannonhall Ed I die Martin for the title, will be Q ready to box by that date. a