New Britain herald., 1926-07-27

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 Tonight will be a momentous one for Jimmy Clinch of this city because it is the date of his first appearance as professional in the fight game. He meets Bill Cunningham of Hart ford tonight in the curtain raiser of a four bout card being put on by George Mulligan at the new velo- drome.
 The card features the appearance of the Paluso brothers, two of the best attractions available among the lower ranks. The main go will be between Lou Paluso and Mike Dun dee of Rock Island, Ill. The semi final will find Erwin Bige, highly touted coast fighter and Joe Tiplitz of Philadelphia mixing it up.
 The second bout of the night will find Emil Paluso and Ruby Bradley the colored boy from Holyoke ap- bearing In 10 rounder. These two are we'll known to fistic followers in this section of the state and as the Holyoke darky has been giving Some excellent exhibitions in Hartford rings, his efforts will be sure to please.
 Fans in this city who are avidly interested in baseball will have the opportunity to satisfy their desires in great measure tonight and to- morrow night at two twilight games which are to be staged. kensington will meet the Sons of Italy team of South Manchester tonight in Ken sington.
 The agreement for the game was closed last night about 5:30 o'clock and despite the short notice, there is sure to be large crowd on hand to witness it. The Sons of Italy are a strong aggregation of ball tossers and have been going at a good rate this year while Kensington is playing great baseball the last month.
 The second opportunity one that has proved to be a rare one this sea son, will be the appearance of the Corbin Red Sox against the Aetna Fire team, Hartford, tomorrow night at Willow Brook park. This will be the first attempt of the Sox to play twilight baseball there and, incident ally 1t will be the first home ap- pearance of the local team this year.
 Fans who feel that they would like to back up the Red Sox in the city championship play again this year. will have an opportunity to size uL the entire team tomorrow night. Every man who has played with the team during the present season will be sent into action tomorrow night including the three pitchers, Berg, Flynn and Lefty" Buckland who last year was the mainstay of the Corbin team,
 The one exception in the game will be Billy Woiack who is out of the lineup for some time with a bad knee. All other players will do theh stuff for the edification of the fans and there will be sure to be a large crowd on hand when the game is played.
 Kensington on August S, the day On which the city championship play starts, will play the Meriden Endees in Meriden. The team which is the "off'' team while the other two are struggling in the city champion ship play, has the privilege of book ing games out of town on their idle Sundays.
 Manager Bucvkley makes the pre- diction that his team will come through with a win over Jack Cur rvs nine and he promises that his team will be strong contender against the Corbin Bed Sox and the Falcons.
 All three managers are banking on winning the city championship, although a large number of the fans are already picking tho Corbin Red Sox because of the teams efforts in capturing the championship last year.
 However, the sentiment about the city is plainly evenly divided among the three teams. The Falcons have the entire Northwest section of the city solidly behind them, while | kensington has the favor of a large portion Of the south end population besides the entire population of tht home town. The teams are exceptionally strong this year. Each has fine fielding inheld combination with a heavy hitting outfield and the city championship play will surely be the little big league attraction in this l city.
 The Landers baseball team is anxious to get a game with the 1 kensington team. The teams had | hooked up for battle at twilight | but rain spoiled the chances of its !! being held.
 The Landers crew believes that il l has the better of the argument with | kensington, but whether its efforts l in that direction will avail the man. asement anything is another story.