New Britain herald., 1927-06-27

three-flngered. the index finger of his throwing hand being missing. This last proved of little handicap to him, but he had a hard time trying to get out from behind right-handed batters in order to catch stealing base runners. Morse Richtmyer. speedboy pitcher. is ono of those very unusual players who throw left and bat right-hand- ed.
 Old Red" Campbell threw an- other deh in the face of time by repeating his performance of last year and celebrating the league opening with home run. This is getting to be sort of annual oc- currence with New Britain's vet eran baseball player. and Red" will probably still be observing it along in 1857 when the youngsters who play against him today have hung up their uniforms and gone south to- cure their rheumatism.
 
 rying all the way from Diamond No. 2 to the road in right field. McAloon was in hot pursuit. and Mac is A fast man, but the blow was too far-reaching and Campbell was too speedy himself. so that he was over the plate almost before the ball had been picked up.
 Two bespectAcled players made their appearance in the league. Henry Pagan of the Speedboys fooled the fans who derided him. getting three-bagger and drivine in two runs. but Walter Turner ot the Rangers struck out twice. 1n- cidentally, there Is whole family of Turner's, three to be exact, on the Ranger roster.
 What a team of youngsters the West Ends put in the field Satur- day! Will someone please add the ages of "Red" Campbell, George Campbell. Billy" Clancy and Billy" Cormier, subtract from the total the batting average of Red" Makula, who was catching. and multiply by two. Nevertheless, Red Campbell got his home run just as he did ip the opening game :, last season. and the other veterans played good ball.
 Mickey Noonan and Adam sul- lick had great fun at the West !; End-Pirate game, especially when Clancy was at bat. Once when Clancy sped down towards first base after 8 tap to the infield. ] Mickey encouraged him with a shout to "get that man off your back" and Sullick seemed to think ] an elephant had climbed on Clancy 1 and was holding him back.
 Red" Makula, catching for the West Ends. made a peach of a l throw to second on one occasion. That is, it would have been a peach l had the bag been 20 feet over to- wards the first base side of the l diamond. Once after that when "Red' seemed to feel another throw coming over him, Clancy. playing second. advised him | against it. Save that arm. Red" he shouted. and Red" saved it. i
 Jack sharkey is by far the flaw orite to beat Jack Dempsey in their l coming battle in New York on July | 12. but there are quite few who l feel that Dempsey is making a real |, comeback and that the former champion. in anything of the shape | that he used to be in. is too good a man for the Boston fighter.
 Because of his antics against Jim | Maloney in their recent fight, Shar- key. is anything but popular while Dempsey. once the most despised l fighter in the ring, is now at the top i lung of the ladder which brines him the adulation of . hero- o-worshipping l public.
 However. crit5os of the ring are unanimous in saying that Sharkey is the best fighter that Dempsey has ever met in the ring and Dempsey will have to be in the best of con- dition to even make a showing.
 The air of mystery that surrounds the former champion especially since his defeat by Tunney at Phila- delphia has many fight fans up . tree. The question arises as to whether Dempsey was at his best that night or whether he was all l through. Neither can be answered until after his fight with Jack Shar- key early next month.
 "Kid" Kaplan rules slight favor- ite over Bruce Flowers in their match at New York tomorrow night. kaplan has trained hard for the l bout and is confident that he will l