New Britain herald., 1925-04-25

Mrs. Babe Ruth now is in st. Vim cents hospital in New York. She collapsed yesterday while going to visit her hubby. Nervous broak- down." says the doe. }
 Joe Jablonowski of the Terryyille high school twirled a no-hit. no-run game against Litchfeld high yester- day The game was called in the seventh with Terryville leading 70. Jablonowski famed 14 of the 2l batsmen who faced him.
 Billy Kline Yale first baseman, has hit .4.a in seven games and Gushing is second on the Yale nine with .S4S.
 Yale has dropped four out of sev. en games and tackles Penn this af- t.rnoon. Ducky Pond is slated 10 twirl for Yale and Long for Pcnnsy,
 Economy in procuring only re- plscem ents in preference to buy ing new uniforms for Pittsfeld play CTS at the opening of the season, probably cost the Hillies the decision in the 10 10 game with the Brass cos in Waterbury yesterday. In the third inning with the bases jammed with Waterbury players, "one away and Pittsfeld leading ? to i. Jiggs Donahue grounded to the mound ,,,I.n ,,I- 1ohnrinD ball slipped from Howe's grasp slid into a. rift in his pants and resisted all efforts on the part of the .tluster- cd pitcher 10 remove it, while Fitch romped over the plate with the tie- ing score, Howe finally disengaged the ball l from his undics and tossed it to third, where Poole had retreated at f fer dashing for the plate and reVers- ing, as he seemingly sensed a trick l on the part of the former Red SoX | heayer. Yordy was on the bag and was tagged out.
 Howe would have made unlque . ,utout if he had dashed for the plate i and touched it. for the force play was there.
 The Yale and Harvard crews will | row LID stream this year instead ot down stream. =. Ana 8ct' so'n0 people say college boys have an easy fife.
  Big Mum is still young man and inc chances are that he will be able 1 to live down the disgrace that he once held the heavyweight wrestling title.
 A law prohibiting prize fighting has stopped the bout between Firpo | and Person in Stockholm. This cau be interpreted only as , compliment to Firpo, who was never . accused of being prizeiishter m this country,
 As usual. the Athletics got away l to a running start this season. =. Only in the present instance they seem to be running in the right direction. Babe Ruth was operated on the . other day and American League pItchcrs are wondering if the sur | seon took any home runs out of him,
 
 nr. Tanner, Derby candidate, is listed as a .s10oo-to?$t shot. One ventures th4 doctor will have | to be shot with some magical juice to get any where,
 Tail note; The Red sox and EVavcs.
 The largest crowd in the history Of the Kentucky Derby is expected . to be OH hand at the fiftyfirst re- ncyal of the American turf classic , on May re. There are t39 horses Y eligible to stapt. though it is prob # able but score of them will face 1 the barrier. | Coach Yost has issued call for , spring football practice at Michigan About 300 candidates are expected . out, ono of the largest groups in the history of the Maize and Blue insti- i tuition. | Yale has q great athlete in "Ducky" Pond, sensational football !, star and baseball pitcher. He's cap ! tain of the Bulldog diamond teapr for this season and is expected to be { one Of the university's lending hurl- ! ITS. I Many of the star hurlers in the naior leagues got away to anything put suspicious starts in their initial 1925 appearances. For instance, Joe Bush of the Browns was given 4 sound laeinE in the opener with Cleveland. lasting but few innings, while WhitehilI of the Tygers was taken for eight solid smacks in four frames by the White Sox. The same may be said of Wilbur Cooper, making his debut in Chi cago Cub uniform: Ring of the Phil lies, Jones, Yankees and the highly toted Lefty" Groves of the Ath- ietics. All of them were pasted to nlcety. A few of the exceptions were Pete ponohue and Adolfo Luque of the CincinuatlS Reds; Uhle. Cleveland; Jess Barnes Braves and pazzy Vance