New Britain herald., 1925-09-03
s p e a kin g of Sports

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 Lieut.. Chris Harmon of the Wa terbury police department, an au- thority on boxing, expressed the opinion yesterday whilo attending the New Britain -Meridcn police baseball game, that the decision in the Kaplan-Herman fight was fair Lieut.. Harmon never misses a good bout and he sat at the ringside while kapan and Herman went at it. The lieutenant is a Herman fan. "I was for Herman but don't think he whipped Ksplan," he said. Tn the 14th round Kaplan hit Herman point blank on the jaw and the boy from California never did a thing after that. Kaplan almost had him put to sleep at that moment"
 Another visitor at the police game was "Bill" Miller. formerly with the Waterbury and Detroit baseball teams "Bill', a graduate of the University of Vermont, was swing ing along nicely in the professional baseball world when he decided to go In for professional football. He received a bang on the shoulder which put him out of business and was forced to give up both sports "Bill' and Lieut.. Harmon are going on fishing trip down in Maine In few weeks and threaten to exter- minate all tho little and big fishes in those parts.
 The Kensington team will prac- tice tomorrow night (Friday) at 6:30 o'clock instead of tonight as was announced before. The grounds will probably be wet for tonight's session so Manager Buckley has postponed the session until tomorrow night.
 The police team now real con- tender with any department team in the state, was barely nosed out yes- terday afternoon at St. Mary's field and had not Pete Cabelus taken a long chance on third base and been caught, out the game would have gone extra innings.
 None were out in the ninth and Cahelus was on third with Neley on second. Cabelus kept running down with klincs pitch and he did this | snce to often. McGrath snapped a | short throw to kurcon and Cabelus | was caught off mile. A moment l later, O'Mara, batting for Carroll, 1 lined single into right field and l Neley scored. Had Cabelus played l safe, the score would have been l tied.
 In contrast 10 what the games ! used to be, yesterdays tilt was a. real contest from beginning to end. Snappy plays were given in almost 1 all the innings, and good pitching was the order of the day. Bill Kline, diminutjve twirler for the Meriden nine, was in fine form and | he kept the locals subdued until that | hectic ninth inning. Then the fire works started and the spectators figured New Britain would come through with a win.
 The Industrial meet at Memorial Field on September 12, is attracting the attention of all factory ath- letes. We wish to announce again that the factories in Berlin and Plainville will both be allowed to enter teams of athletes. This should answer the queries received in this office from both places.
 The echoes of the Kaplan- Herman bout still rebound through the val leys of Connecticut but after all is said and done it seems that opinions on the fight and Referee Jack sheehan's decision are about evenly divided. The Boston mans judg- ing of the fight is reeiving appro- bation On one side while the other side howls about rotten verdict"
 Without any doubt at all, the en- tire question will not be decided until either kaplan or Herman lays the other flat for 8 count of ten IT the return bout takes place in New York it may be that an adverse decision or worse than that handed out in Waterbury may be handed ; down, This has been done in New York and no later than last Monday night. The worst decision of them ell was that rendered against Mike l Mc1igue which caused him to lose his title of light heavyweight cham pion,
 Many expressions of admiration have been heard over the actions of z Manager Patsy Buckley of Kensing- ton in securing free transportation rom Cpsons corner to the Percivsl avenue baseball field next Sunday !, for the first game between the Cor Y Din Red SoX and the kensinston , teams This will assure the fans , Of comfort throughout tho afternoon ( and corns and blisters will not be in evidence during the day. Both teams are well popped up for the first game and without q doubt all will be in fine shape for the fray. The Red sox has been out practicing this wcck and Ken sinston is rounding out all curves in the infield and outtield.
 It is expected that one of the