New Britain herald., 1925-02-19

ing America. and J. 0. Anderson and lJ, E. Hawkes. of Australia. will be able to visualize the type of contest \ played at Melbourne. Tilden and I Williams defeated Anderson and Hawkes. by scores of i7-i5, 1i-l3, 2-6, 6-3. 6.2, after a battle which occupied virtually the entire after noon.
 Bobby Walthour, Jr, and Freddie Spencer, have been paired for tho March siy-day bicycle race in Madi- son Square Garden, Walthour won the recent esant In Chicago with Reggie McNamara as partner. Two lads just out Of the amateurs will be together in tho coming Garden grind, Dick Schneider and Willie l Tenn.
 Alan llelffrich, Penn State star. 1 who has been scoring cleanup in middle distance races is' anxious, to match strides with Paavo Nurmi at a half mile. The Finn is willing to ' accept the challenge, according to his trainer. Hugo Quist, but wants time 10 1t himself for so short a distance before doing so,
 Eighteen major and class "A" minor league clubs will invade Flo- rida for the spring training season. l I'hA itut inHlY1aS tI, National and American leagues, be- sides one Southern association, four American association and three h. ternational clubs.
 Joie Ray will attempt to lower Jimmy connolly's worlds indoor record of 2:4S 3.5 for two-thirds of . mile next Tuesday at the indoor meet at Madison Square Garden for the benefit of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Connolly will de- fend his record laurels, while Lloyd Hahn, Leo Larrivee and Willie Goodwin are also being sought as entrants.
 Managers for two Eastern league baseball teams are expected to come from the meeting in Springfield Mass. today. Bridgeport and New Haven are without pilots. Clyde Milan, former Washington speedster now in Memphis, handled New Ha- ven last season and Dick Hoblitzeil who earned fame as a first baseman for Cincinnati and the Boston Red Sox, reigred in Bridgeport for the larger part of the campaign.
 Sherwood Magee, rough and ready ou1ielder, still bats we'll up in the .Soo's as high class minor league performer after 23 years fin profess sional baseball.
 Wrestling followers found q good basis for comparison of Wayne cBig') Mum, new heavyweight wrestling champion, and Ed. "strangler" Lewis, former titlehold- CT. In Munn's appearance against Mike Romano, Italian heavyweight. in Chicago last night, Mum lifted Romano with crotch and half nelson and smashed him to the mat twice in less than seven minutes. Romano lost three contests to Lewis only after hours of gruelling mat work, Too big; too strong" eX- plained Romano. himself husky of six feet and 2t0 pounds. as he ex-, plained his defeat by the six feet, six inch 25o pound Mum.
 Jock Malone, St. Paul's master boxer. has gone to Hot Springs for l three weeks to show Babe Ruth the easiest way to take off weight. Malone says he has taken off about two tons during training grinds dur ing the last three years. The St. Paul boxers matches with Jack Delaney and Tiger Flowers have been postponed until March, as he still is under suspension by the New York commission for boxing Mickey Walker.
 sammy Mandell, Rockford. 1lI., lightweight title claimant, will be out ot the boxing ring a month, &C., cording to Eddie Kane. his man. ager. Handel pulled muscle in his left shoulder while boxing in California. He is taking treatment in Chicago.
 Babe Ruth alone represented the baseball colony today in the ssmt% finals of the annual Hot Springs golf tournament. He teed off an even money 4avorite to get in the finals. Everett Scott of the New York Yankees survived until late yesterday,
 Players who break into the Kanks of professional baseball under as- assumed names are not uncommon. but 1t is unusual for two such men to appear on one club at the same time. The Cleveland Indians have this destinction at present although each of the men has taken his cor rect name, Fred Sturgeon and Rob ert Rhode.
 Sturgeon started his professional career under the name Jackson" for no particular reason, he says while Rhode had the college players alibi for a couple of years.
 PRINCETON SWIMMERS WIN
 Princeton, N. J., Feb, 19.--Wip- ming all but two first places the Princeton swimming team continued on the road to the intercollegiate | champonship by defeating Columbia 4s to 16 in the Brokaw pool here last night.