New Britain herald., 1926-04-29

 will hop off to a good start Sunday 1 when the Mohawks of Meriden will | oppose the locals in tho first game | of the season here. The Falcons | have boen working out faithfully in | weekly practices and are set right now to tackle the best teams in the state.
 The Mohawks will prove 10 be q tough opening outfit for the Fal- cons. They are rated as one Of the best teams in the Silver City and have always been near the top in the race for honors there. Manager Joe Venish of the Falcons. however, has adopted a policy this year of securing whenever possible, the hardest teams in the state for his team and that he means business is proved by the fact that he has con tracted for the appearance here of ,he strong Meriden team.
 The game will be staged at St. Mary's field which again this year will be the home of tho Falcons. It will be started at 3 o'clock and al though no definite decision has been made on the lineup, this will be ar ranged today. Just who Manager Ncniski will use in the box Sunday, is a question that he hasn't yet de- c!ded because he will have to wait until Sunday to see how his twirlers are.
 Manager Jack Haggerty of the Community team of Meriden would like to get in touch with the mana ger of the Ranger A. C. baseball team. Mir. Haggerty's telephone number is available in the New Haven exchange and he can be reached almost any evening. If the Rangers are interested, he would like to hear from them very soon.
 Eddie Anderson, state champion, went over to Torrington last night and took the riding of his life at the hands Of the bowling fans in that city. He was matched against Otto, the Torrington representative in the state duckpin league and had him four games to one. Then Otto cam" back and aided greatly by the good sports" club of Otto's home city. he beat Eddie with one pin two pins. one pin and two pins In four straight games.
 Otto will be here tonight at the Casino alleys and his gang is com ing with him. They are bringing lots of dough with which they will back up their man against the local boy. the champion. To show ho" far they are going, a telephone call came through this morning to the Herald" to inform the bowling fans in this city that Torrington will bo here strong tonight and the fans who are coming here will go thu limit in betting that Otto beats An dcrson.
 Anderson confirmed the story that the Torrington crowd gave him q fierce riding. In fact, the croWo went beyond the limit and cause1 Anderson to get off his game afte' the first five had been rolled. Andy SAYS he'll get even tonight with his home crowd to back him up an there isn't any doubt at all but "ha the Torrington sports will have tf pine down when the Hardware CltN rooters start going. Anderson state that the margin tonight will be wei over five to four in his favor an, with him feeling this way his back CTS will have something good tc work on.
 In all lines of sport, Torrington i q hot place. Fond memories of soy eral years ago come floating to min' when a certain baseball team play ed there and upon winning the gam were stoned out of town by abou 800 kids. New Britain fans don do that, They meet the opposition and trim them and send them hom .humbled. That's what Anderson vii do tonight.
 Louis (Kid) Kaplan Of Meriden i meeting with the favor of Connectl cut fight fans by getting ready [ kick over the traces laced on hin by the New York state boxing com mission. That august body has bee putting Kaplan around for som time, in fact, ever since the elimin alton tournament in New York 1 which Kaplan won his title. Nov the triumvirate of athletic czars ar ordering Louie about again. hu Louie won't take any more buffctins Eapan's business Is prize fight ing and as a businessman, he looking to the receipts more tha anything else.
 Kaplan knows that bout wit Garcia for the championship i Hartford would draw more and pa him more than the same bout any where in Now York. GarCa's 5 man
 ager also admits this but he says h won't get square deal in ConneC ticut.
 Commissioner Tom Donohue 1 remarking about this statemcI calls attention 10 the fact that Gal cia has come into Connecticut man times and he asks if he has eve had anything but square deal this state. Garcia cannot say thf he didn't get fair treatment and he should fight kaplan here, |
 would also get fair treatment.
 The factory league is all set fc