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New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
ATHLETES GATHER
 FOR COLLEGE MEET
Track and Field Championships
 to Be Decided This Week

Philadelphia. May 2o P0College
 athletes started their invasion of Philadelphia today in quest of hon. ors at the intercollegiate track and field championships on Friday and
 Saturday.
 Heading the procession was the University of California squad,
 which arrived shortly after mid night. Two other Pacific coast teams, the University of Southern
 California, defending titleholder and Leland Stanford. were due
 later in the day. Arrangements had
 been made for all three teams to work out on Frankli field during the day.
 The Southern California squad includes only four men who scored
 points in last years competition at Cambridge which was won by the Trojans with 35 1-2 points. They are Cliff Reynolds, who will be in the high hurdles and broad jump;
 Lee Barnes. pole vault; Joe Aleski.
 weights, and Henry Coggeshall, high jump.
 Leland Stanford has one of its strongest teams in years and Is ex- pected to make a strong bid for the championship. The Palo Alto ath- letes recently triumphed over the Trojans in a dual meet 75 to 56 and earlier in the spring they beat the University of California 90 2-3 to 40 1-3. In the Stanford and
 Southern California squads are 15
 men each, while California will de- pend upon eight.
 Eastern teams. including Har-
 yard, indoor champions, Yale,
 Princeton. Penn State, Cornell, Pennsylvania. Georgetown. Syracuse
 and Dartmouth. are not ready to
 concede another title 10 the Pacific coast and are marshaling their
 strength to turn back the western invaders.
 No championship claims are made by Michigan state. one of the newcomers in the intercollegiate A.. X. A. A., but the middle westerners figure on cutting heavily on some of the points in the title games.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
RECORD ENTRY LIST
Total Of 200 More Golfers Than Last Year 10 Compete for National Open at OakmOnt.

New York, May 9 LP) - Beating last years total by exactly 200, the entry list for the sectional uuali- flying rounds of the national open golf championship al the Oakmonr Country club, Pittsburgh, June II and 1G, numbers S94. the largest field that ever competed for golf ing honors anywhere.
 Many of the most prominent contenders for the national title teed off today in the metropolitan open championship at Wykagyl Country club, New Rochelle, N. '. Because of illness. Macdonald smith, last years Met" winner, is not competing. but the field in- cludes Gene Sarazen, who lost 10 Smith in last years play-off and held th" title the previous year; and Walter Hagen, three times winner Of the crown.
 Inc the women's metropolitan now on at Roslyn, N. Y. Miss Naureen Orcutt, Miss Marion Rollins. Miss Marie Jenney and Miss Dorothy Clemons, the outstanding favorites. all came through the first round yesterday
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
TO MEET ElVDEES
 IN TWIN BILL ON MONDAY
Play In Bristol In Morning and Home Ih Afternoon Meet New Haven Hudsons Sunday Afternoon Pirates to Open Season at Willow Brook Park Corbin Red Sox Start Play In Central League Against Southington Pextos-Plenty of Action

The Falcon baseball team of this city will be host to the Bristol New Departure club in this city at St. Mary's field Monday afternoon when the second game of twin bill for Memorial Day will be played be- tween the two teams. The first game of the double header will be staged at Muzzy field, Bristol. in tho morning.
 In meeting the Bell Towners twice in the one day, the local club is talk ing on its toughest assignment of tho year. The Bristol club has been recognized for several years as the leading semf-professional team of the state and although it got away to a late start this year, the team has shown in its last few games that it is in nearly mid-season form and ready to tackle the best opposition available.
 The Falcons have yet to taste de. feat this year. Sweeping all oppo- sition aside. the team has been rlay- ing the best brand of baseball in the history of the club and present inc dications are that it will keep up tho good work.
 The two games on Monday will make a trio of hard contests which the local players will be called on to play over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon at St. Mary's field. the Falcons will meet the strong Hud. son team of New Haven at St. Marys field in the weekly game staged there. The Hudsons. always nifty baseball club. will have Farmer" Bucholz on the mound and this means trouble for the local outfit. Bucholz was poison" to the Falcons last year when he pitched for the kensington team in victory over the Falcons and in the first game between the two this year, Bucholz was in good form though beaten.
 The Pirates will open the 1927 baseball season Sunday afternoon against the strong St. Johns team of Meriden. The game will be play ed at Willow Brook park. The Sil- yer City combination is rated as ono of the strongest teams in that city and with Casey Nagel in the box. the Pirates are in for plenty of trouble.
 The team is made up for the most part of members of last years Mo- hawk team which captured the semi-pro title of Meriden. The Pirates will have strong lineup to represent them. The probable bat tery of the locals for the opening game will find either "Huggy" Carl son or Johnny Sheehan in the box and O'Connell on the receiving end.
 The Pirates will practice Thurs day and Friday evenings at Willow Brook park and all candidates should be on hand because Coach Charlie Miller plans to pick the opening lineup from the squad. Start League Play
 The Corbin Red Sox will play tho opening game of the Central Con- necticut Baseball league against tho Southington Pextos in that town Sunday afternoon. The town team will he a strong one because the the management is making a big attempt to stage victory in it's first start. The game will be played at the Sand Hill grounds in kensington and Buckland will probably serve them up for the locals because of the ankle injury which Berg suf- 1 fered last Sunday.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
AFTER NURMPS RECORD
Edwin Wide, Swedish Distance Star, to Make Determined At tempt In Mile Run.

Los Angeles, May 25 P-A de- Nurmi's world record of four min utes, 10 2-5 seconds for the mile run will be made here next Satur- day when Edwin Wide, Swedish distance star. will race four laps against Henry Lunney and Nick Carter of the Los Angeles Athletic club.
 Wide has been showing consid- crable speed in his daily workouts at Bovard field at the University of Southern California. Yesterday he ran two miles in 9 minutes. 30 sec onds, considerably under the Pa cific coast record.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT

Los Angeles - Dave Shade. San Francisco. beat Bert Colima, Whit tier, Cal. 10.
 San Francisco -- Boy Wally, of Singapore, defeated Frankie Murray, Philadelphia, 10.
 Madison. Wis - King Tut. Min Gcapolis, knocked out Tony Com pagno. Brooklyn. I
 Jacksonville. Fla Roy Potter Marietta. Ohio. scored a technical knockout over Lou Vida. St. Aug justine. l. Joe slovan secured judges decision over Eddie Burl, s.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
(BY NEA SERNICE)

Philadelphia, May 25.-Connie Mack's winter plans for winning the American league pennant in 1927 are already pretty we'll shattered, with the season less than two months old. He figured to do it with veteran stars. Apparently 1t just can't be done that way.
 The Athletics with Eddie Collins and Ty Cobb in the lineup have plenty of offensive power but must be classed as the slowest club in their league, there being several others on the team not noted for speed. Each day slows Cobb and Collins up perceptibly.
 Ty Cobb during the first month of play showed enough speed on the bases and in the field to get him by. Then he suffered leg injury in an exhibition game at Buffalo that has slowed him up to whisper. par ticularly in the field.
 It is really pitiable to sec the once great Cobb, playing on only one good leg. trying to cover ground. Balls are dropping safe in the Ath- letics. right field territory that should be the easiest of outs. Naturally such breaks make no great hit with the pitchers.
 While Eddie Collins hasn't slowed up to the extent that Cobb has, he can cover only small portion Of the ground that once made him the greatest second sacker of all time. Hits now escape Collins by a step or two that five years ago would have been soft chances for him.
 Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins still can hit the ball as we'll as ever They are two of the smartest players the game has ever produced. In fortunately the weakened legs will not carry out the dictates Of the mind and the power of the arms.
 The bases are clogged. 10 use a baseball expression. when these two stars get on the bases. players who 10 years ago were rated as two Of the greatest base runners in the business.
 Once noted for stretching singles into doubles and doubles into triples they are now taking only one base on what would have been a double in the old days and being satisfied with a double on what should have been a triple.
 Zach Wheat has disappointed like Cobb and Collins as to his legs. II, derpinnings fail him in the field anG on the bases.
 Too many stars and too littlr speed tells tho story Of the failure
 Of the Athletics to keep close on tn, heels Of the fast-stepping Yankees Connie Macks plans to win ths pennant through sheer power witt
 q veteran lineup Of great hittcr' , evidently won't work out. No doub Connie has come to that conclusion Probably Collins can continue il the lineup for some time but Cobb I with his bad leg. that causes hin
 to line up at every step, would be o more value 10 the team sitting or the bench as q pinch hitter. Three other things have handi
 capped the Athletics, broker finger suffered by Joe Boley. cN pected 10 star at short; the failur,
 or Del Brapom, the highly toutet first sackor. to hit big league pitch ing, and the cratic showing Of wha 1 was believed 10 he the best pitchin. staff in the American league. Connie Mack must consilc ra bl,
 alter his plans if he Is 10 win tn, American league pcnnant. the Ath lctics can only he rrjuvcnated b. youth and speed speed, speed.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
PITCHER RECOVERING

Chicago, May 25 P,-rercy Lee Jones. star left hand pitcher Of the Cubs. who underwent an operation for th" removal Of a small piece of bone from the elbow Of his pitching arm. is rapidly recovering the use of if. He expects to be able to take his turn on the hill in the near fu turn
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
WANTS MATCH WITH HOppE

New York. May g [P-Not con- tent with winning tho worlds pocket billiard ponship from Erwin Rudolph a few weeks ago Tommy Huoston. 40 year old Newark cue artist, has posted Sioo for forfeit for a special three cushion billiard match with Willie Hoppe. Hucston formerly held the three cushion title.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
JOSEPH HOWARD DIES

Waterbury, May 25 P) - Joseph Howard. captain of the Waterbury Brassies in the state soccer league for the past three years, died follow- ing an operation for appendicitis to- day. Howard has been a member of the Waterbury club for four years.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
COBB NOT OUT TO
 SQUAWk THIS YEAR
Georgia Peach" Will "Play His
 Head Of for Connie Mack"
By tho Associated Press.

By tho Associated Prem
 New York. May 25 G% - ryrus Raymond Cobb wants it set down that he isn't out there to 'squawk" this year but exclusively for the purpose of playing his head off" for Connie Mack and helping the Athletics win the American league pennant.
 The great Georgian admitted ly glad to fan bit and rest up the old legs" during a rainy day was expounding a viewpoint con- trasting sharply with the days of his fiery aggressiyeness.
 The old fire is still there as we'll a the old batting eye and not a little Of the old speed - but let Ty put it his own way.
 You know I started out this year with an entirely different idea simply to play the game. have the very best year could and work my head off for Connie. one of the finest leaders this game has ever had.
 q made up my mind I wouldn't stir up any fuss or do anything tbat might arouse criticism. You see I've got a wife and five kids to think about, anyway. And the fans all had been so good to me that I felt it was up to me to make good, on their account, as well as my own. Then too. l was rid of any managing worries, free to put my mind down to just putting everything 1 had in the game.
 That's why it made me so hot to be fined and suspended as re- suit of that Boston rumpus when. as a matter of fact, l didn't pro- test Ormsby's decision on my bat ted ball or do thing to warrant being put out. No suspension was ever more unjust than the one l received for that. There was one time in my life when l wasn't guilty of a thing.''
 After a swing around the circuit. Cobb still shares the somewhat general opinion that the main bat tie will be between the Yankees and the Athletics. The White Sox. he thinks. is the only western club to be seriously reckoned with. be- cause of their fine young string Of pitchers.
 Pitching. of course, is our chief concern,' Ty added. Outside ol Ehmke. the staff has been pretty rocky but we expect Grove, Rom- mel. Gray. Walberg and the others to be going strong soon."
 Psychology, the camp followers believe, has been at the root of Connie Mack's pitching troubles AS one expert puts it:
 south in fine shape, rarin' to go Then they hit bad weather and some setbacks. Some were a bit over-anXious. The result was lot of Encouragement but don't think the slump will last long. They may all turn around and go like house atire at once.
 Rogers Hornsby, who Is quan- fled to speak with some authority on this subject. says, "The St. Louis Cards have probably received the best pitching seen in the National league and they can expect more of the same all year,
 Rogers won pennant with this particular brand of pitching last year and this year was able to touch it only for ,a50 batting mark when he looked it over for the first time.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
C1.ENEI.A .AND
Totals
for Karr In Sth.

I-Rattrd Tor Klrr Tn Nth.
 zz-Batted for Shaute in Eth. Detroit ........ 200 iho O00-5 Cleveland .............ooo hnH 0@l-"
 Two base hits-Tavener, Ifodapp. Three tase hit-Gehriuger, ,Iamieson. Home iun-M Manush. Saciifice-W Wineo. Losing pltcher-Uhle, l'mpires-Evans Ormsby aud Geisel. Tims--l .2S.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

Cincinnati .......... 000 o0o l00-- 1 Two base hits-L. Waner, Drcssen. liar ris @. Grautham. Traynor. P. Waner. Three base hits--Cuyler. Pipp. Losing pitcher-Donohue. Gmpires-Pfrman Jorda and Rigier. Tlniee fo game-l:45.
 BROOKLYN
 AB. E. H. 20. A. E.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

Brooklyn ............100 Oi0 ll1-s Philadelphia ..........000 2on 0l0-5
 Two base hts-Carey. Herman, Jon- nard. Three base hits-Hendrcl., Sand. Thompson. Sacrifices-Partridge, Herman. Wild pitch-Callson. Winning pitcher Doak. Losing pitcher-Carlson. Empires Moran. Quigley and Hart. Time of Eame-2:03.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
B\STH\LI'S BT(, FOUR
Averages

G nited Press) ne four horscmcn of the dia nond were idle because of rain.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
 OF
WALTER JOHNSON READY
 TO RETURN TO SENATOR'S

Experts Believe "Old Barney" Will Give Team Punch to Bring It Back to First Division = Pittsburgh Pirates Pound Out 19 Hits to Trounce Cincinnati Reds - Robins Wallop Phillies - Detroit Tigers Blast Ambitions of Cleveland Indians.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
PHILADELPHIA

TVIdTS 19 IT z-Batted for Carlson in sth.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-01
SCANDAL MENACES
 SINCLAIR OFFICE
Times Reports Efforts to Bar Him From Petroleum Institute

New York Dec. P-The New York Times today says that an eff fort to block the reelection of Harry F. Sinclair and l.. L. Doheny ss di- rectors of the American Petroleum Institute because of their connection with the government oil lease scan dals will come to 6 head at the or sanization's annual meeting in Chi cago beginning Tuesday
 Prominent members of the Pe- troleum Institute have been circu- larized from New York by a group that is opposing the reelection of Sinclair and Doheny.
 Doheny will probably decline re- election 10 the board 0, councillors, who make the nominations and in whose meeting the fight will be made, the Times says, but friends of Sinclair will probably make a fight for his reelection.
 The newspaper indicates the op- position includes many independent oil operators who fear that the in dustry vii lsuffer in public esteem unless 1t goes on record as dlsa D. proving of Snclair's. and Doheny's part in the Teapot Dome and Elks Hills lease cases.
 The Petroleum Institute includes in it's membership virtually all Of the important factors in the indus try.
 
 Both Sinclair and Doheny have been prominent in the affairs of the institute for many years,
New Britain herald., 1927-12-01
CLASSES OF WINDS,
 GALE ID CYCLONE
National Geographic Tells When
 Storm Wind Is Tornado

Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.-Ac- cording to the National Geographic Society:
 A gale Is strong, straight wind.
 Whirlwind: An eddy Of air which WhislIs up dust; or a stronger whirl of air such as that which strips leaves from a cornfield and sends them hundreds of feet aloft.
 Tornado: A violent, powerful whirlwind. covering a small area, that sucks up heavy objects or twists them from their moorings. Is vertical forces are more impor- tant than it's horizontal ones.
 Hurricane: A violent circular svs- tenn of winds in the Tropics and semi-Tropics of the Atlantic and Caribbean. covering a considerable area and moving long distances These are the strongest of the pre- donlinantly horizontal winds. One hundred miles an hour is their usl- al maximum for the winds toward the center of circulation.
 Typhoon. A hurricane in the trop- ical waters of the Pacific.
 Waterspout: A tornado or violent whirlwind over water.
 Cyclone: A continually misused term. In popular parlance any de-
New Britain herald., 1927-12-01

states was PIP, almost as great as the list of 245 dead in the Mississ- sippi valley floods, and property damage was assessed at upward of 100000.
 Three state capitals were flooded -Montpelier. Vt; Concord, N. H, and Hartford, Conn. The little Wi nooski river of Vermont became torrent overnight, and the dead in it's valley alone were counted at 75.
 Loss Of livestock in both regions mounted 10 thousands Of head. h. tangible losses due to consequent stagnation of business added 10 the total, and in the central south and the middle west at least 5000 square miles of farm lands were 50 washed by flood waters that they could not be tiled in the summer.
 The Red Cross received for Mis- sissippi Valley relief more than S17000,000, of which it had expend- cd in late October some s15,500,000 Although 1t was called upon for less assistance in New England 1t ap- propriated s75,000 for immediate re- lief there, received s35.oo0 in volun- tarv contributions, and found Its re- lief work supplemented by the Yer mont and Massachusetts societies Of New York, which sent s65,0oO and s5o,oGo respectively into their own states
New Britain herald., 1927-12-01

cften in the afternoon, and almost always take a path from southwest to northeast. This direction in the United States results from the fact that lows" drift across the eastern part of the continent almost always from southwest to northeast and that the tornado Ga secondary dis turbance attached to the 'low") takes the same direction. The rapid ly swirling column of air which is the heart of the tornado Is usually marked by a funnel-shaped, black cloud of vapor. This whirling mass sucks air from all sides to its low CT end and then upward. Even heavy objects fly toward the column as dust particles and bits of paper fly into the throat of a vacuum cleaner.
 Amazing Velocities Reached
 The winds created do not blow for any great distance horizontally. but in their brief dash for the fun nel they move at amazing speeds - sometimes with the velocity of rifle bullet. It is these tremendous velocities that bring about the freakish antics of tornadoes; quills and straws penetrate boards and blanks are driven through trees.
 Most of the destructiveness of tornadoes Is traceable to their re- duction of air pressures when their centers pass over or by an area. The pressure being suddenly reduced outside building, the air inside # expands and pushes the walls down or the roofs up-the buildings real ly explode because of the release of what amounts for the moment to the compressed" air within them.
 Clouds Skip and Bounce
 Sometimes tornado clouds go skipping or bouncing along. working havoc where the lower end touches the ground, and leaving everything uninjured where the end lifts.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-01
FRENCH PEOPLE
 USE LESS LIQUOR
Their Abstinence Alarms Wine
 Dealers

Eparnay France. Dec. 1. tPl-The e champagne appetite throughout the world has diminished 50 great ly In 1927, especially in France. that shippers of this region have become alarmed. They are plan hing an intensive campaign to advertise the bubbling vintage in 1928, in conjunction with a reduc- ton of prices.
 The dininution in dome estic shipments for the first six months of the year was nearly 68 per cent, and the total diminution on do- mestic and foreign shipments was 4s per cent under the figures for the similar period last year.
 Hard times in the champagne consuming countries and high prices are blamed largely for the diminution in purchases. But there are other contributing req sons, say some dealers who point out that the sale of all kinds of wine in France has dropped con- siderably in the last year or so, while that of beer and cider and other inexpensive drinks of the ''bubbly' variety has increased. Beer, particularly, has gained enor- mously In public favor.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-01
Makes Fat People Slim
New York Physician Perfects Sim- pie and Easy Method of Re
 duCing Weight

Dr. R. Newman, d licensed prac- ticing physician, of 2S6 Fifth Ave nue, New York. announces that he has perfected a treatment which has quickly rid fat people of excess weight. What is more remarkable is the Doctors statement that he has successfully treated thousands of patients for fat reduction with out unnecessary change Of diet or burdensome exercise. He also says that fat people who suffer from chronic rheumatism, gout, asthma anl high blood pressure obtain great relief from the reduction of their superfuous flesh. Realizing that this sounds almost too good to be true. the Doctor has offered to send with out charge 10 anyone who will write him, a free trial treatment to prove his claims. as well as his Pay reduced" plan. If you want to rid yourself of superfuous fat, write him today, addressing Dr. F. Newman. 286 Fifth Avenue. New York City, Dept. R.