New Britain herald., 1926-12-02
Speaking of Sports

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 George Mulligan has been success full in demanding that Harry Pers- son. Swedish heavyweight. sensation. go through with his contract for a bout with Pat Mccarthy of Boston In Hartford. The new date for the bout has been set for Thursday, De- cember, 13.
 Persson is to appear in New York at Madison Square Garden on the Christmas fund card and 1t is thought that his manager fears an upset be- fore this bout goes through. Mulli- gan, however. insisted that the fight be held in this state before the New York fight and as Athletic Com missioner Thomas Donohue backed him up with the powers of his of- flee. there was nothing for the Swe- dish fighter to do. but agree to fight here.
 Hundreds of tickets have. been sold for this fight which was to nave been held here last month but which was called off, Person claiming that he had suffered 2 fractured thumb. Mccarthy is awaiting his chance against Persson and the pout will be a sweet one in every way.
 Carl Restella, last years center on inc National Guard five, is playing with the Elmwood Endees. Last night against the Meriden insilco team he scored seven points, three field goals and | foul. It mas nov haen stated whether he will be with the Elmwood quintet regularly tnls season or not.
 Hugh J. Rorty,, better known as "Red", was signally honored las. nieht in Westfield by 2 group or Hartford polo fans who appreclats the work Rorty accomplished Tn re- v,ving the sport of 25 years ago. Rorty was presented with g gift or s45o in gold and Harry starR'e' nls assistant in tho work, received LII immense basket of roses.
 Frank Gargan, coach at FordnaM University, has resigned his posltioh there. it is announced today. uat- can will long be remembered in thls o;tv a. the man who broke in the local boys who are so prominent II, Tordham athletics. It is understooa that Gargan has been troubled ~ltn a nervous illness and could not con 1inue his work as mentor or ehe teams.
 1ou,s Kid" Kaplan, former worlds featherweight champion. meets Eddie Wallace of CleVeiaho in that city tonight. Wallace Is one of the hardest hitting lightweights in the game but kaplan's 1fiehus arc confident that the Merlden pat tier will come home g. winner. Ihls will be Kaplans first appearance Ill Cleveland.
 The National guards suffered thelr first defeat in Plainfield last night. The game was played under protes- sional rules which made 1t as differ- ent from the amateur game as black is from white. Sloman, who was brought up in the professional school scintillated in the contest. but the rules were new to the other four members of the quintet and that is probably the reason why the locals did not come out the victors.
 On the way into Plainfield last night, the team went out ofsits way and went nearly into Providence be- fore the mistake was discovered. It was necessary to come all the way back and when New Britain arrived there. the hour was late and the players were obliged to start right in to play.
 The Plainfield team will play return game at the state armory Ill this city in January but in this city, the amateur rules will prevail. This should turn the tables on the Plain field team.
 The Guards were ahead with three minutes to play. the score being "A to 22 when the Plainfielders shot Tn some long counters that gave them the edge for the night.
 The Mcriden insicos who play the National Guards at the armory Saturday night, won out from the Elmwood Endees in hard fought battle last night by the score of 32 to 31.
 The Insilcos have lost only one game and that was to Sam Pite's Collegians. This aggregation is fay- ored to win the state champlonshlp in basketball but the Guards will be out to measure them Saturday night.
 Up to the time of this writing, no information had been received from Manager Edward J. Daley of the All-New Britain football team re- garding game next Sunday. Pro- moter Peter Perakos is in favor of hrinpiner a team here Sunday to play