New Britain herald., 1926-10-20


 ships of all weights rests are far be- low the group that head the honors q year ago.
 It is our opinion that the Demp- sey of a couple of years ago was a better man than Gene Tunney Is today.
 The present champions in the other classes are Jack Delaney, light heavyweight; Tiger Flowers, middleweight; Pete Latzo, welter- weight; Sammy Mandell, light weight; featherweight. open; Bud Taylor, bantamweight; Fidel La Barba, flyweight.
 The only champion that seems to be an improvement over last years king is Jack Delaney in the light heavyweight ranks.
 The middleweight championship crown which has rested on the heads of more cheese champions than any of the other weights, is now resting on the head of Tiger Flowers, a second rater.
 All the titles with the exception of one, have changed within the last year, the worst year for title holders in the history of the game. Little Fidel LaBarba, f1yweight, has succeeded in holding his title to date.
 Kid Kaplan, featherweight, ex- perienced great difficulty in mak- ing the featherweight poundage so he retired 10 seek the lightweight crown.
 Old timers who used to be regular attendants at polo matches in this city in the good old days will be pleased to hear that New Britain has been entered in the American Polo league, a siX-club organization.
 First news of the league was an- nounced yesterday. Manager Ed ward J. Daley of the All-New Brit ain football team was named head of the new organization.
 The games are to be played at q new hall in this city. Besides New Britain, Meriden Hartford, Spring field and Iolyoke will be in the battle. Another team is to be en- tered later.
 At one time polo was the main sport in this city Football, basket ball and baseball were back num- bers, especially the second-named sport.
 Up until this year, d fight would not pay, a baseball game certainly would not pay for there were too many first class gate crashers, a 1 promoter would not think of start 1 ing a team in a polo league, an in | dustrial league in basketball was out | of the question because the games | would not be patronized. Football ! alone was the only paying sport. i
 Now the All-New Britain team is 1 welcomed as an out of town attrac- ton because of the large following | it has. The high school pays its sport bills for the whole year on the money it takes in from the Hart ford-New Britain high school game alone.
 Not only are there two semi professional teams on the field in basketball this year, but there is the industrial league which will have games on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The high school will play Friday and Saturday afternoons, and the National Guard team will play Saturday evening. The other semi professional team, the American Le- zion five, is also scheduled for number of road games.
 The Y. M. C. A. and the industrial council combined their efforts in putting over a successful industrial track meet during the early part of September.
 Success always was something for cign to track in this city.
 Now the amateur fights are being ( well patronized, a polo league is being formed and two amatuer : football teams, the Rangers Fall cons, and All-New Britain teams are going strong. Then a soccer team is entered | from this city in the Manchester district soccer league and will play Saturday against South Manchester in the opening game of the league The greatest move in the direction I of better sporting town is the ad- $ dition to the city of the athletic fields at Willow Brook park. Park superintendent Ralph B. Wainright l has willingly constructed a soccer ! field for the accommodation of the ' fans. and In an effort to allow the J high school team the privilege of using field for practice he has laid out special field in the rear of Memorial field.
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