New Britain herald., 1928-07-06

Crowley. rated as among the best IN
the city. leaves New Britain to 60
to Newark. N. j.. entering a new
field of endeavor in his private life.
Eddie has been meeting with great
success in the insurance field for
several years and he has been Of
fered a tempting position with an
old-time company He will be in the
New jersey city for approximately
three months and il he meets with
success, he will be given a territory
in this vicinity. not necessarily in
New Britain.
He has been working the games In
kensington this year and the fans
there have become used to having
expert and prompt decisions rend-
cred during the games there. His
work has always been efficient and
of the highest order and when he
leaves the city, he will be missed in
baseball circles.
We have a letter here for Man.
ager William Lasky of the Burritt
A. C. baseball team. We will be glad
10 transmit it to him if he or his
representative should call at the Of
lice during our working hours.
Bobby Garcia. the Baltimore SOL
iier, makes his first appearance in
Hartford since Louis {kid) Kaplan
knocked him out a few years ago
IN kaplan's last fight as a feather
weight. Monday night. Garcia has
won his way back to where he used
o be among the featherweights and
many will be interested in seeing
him in action.
In talking with Patsy Bridget
about the defeat of Eaplan by Man.
uel Quintero, we had one of the
best explanations of kaplan's show
ing that we have heard in some
line.
Bridget is recognized in this city
and throughout the state as a real
student OF the boxing game. He has
followed fights for years and he
hasn't missed many in which kap-
Ian was one of the principals.
"kaplan fought as good as he ev-
er fought last Monday night, but he
would never be able to beat Quin-
ZERO the best day he lived" Patsy
these fellows like Quintero are too
big for kaplan. They are not fight
RS who remain in the lightweight
class. They are too tall, too rangy
md too big. For a year or SO they
light as lightweie hts, but as they
grow older they take on flesh and
they soon outweigh the lighter clas-
ses"
Bridget said that Quntero was
so rangy that he could easily keep
llaplan away and stave off his rush
rs and then peck at the Meriden
hoy at will. kaplan might have
slipped a little bit, in his estimation,
hut not such a great deal that he
SHOWS IL very IHuCH.
kaplan's stature works against
him. He is short and his arms are in
proportion. When he meets rangy
fellow, he is up against not only an
opponent with pair of fists. but he
faces physical handicaps that are
hard to overcome. He is like a base
ball team going into another town
to play where the lineup is nine men
on side plus the home town UNI
pire. There are these handicaps of
height and reach even before he
steps into the ring
Therefore. as Bridget sees it,
kaplan deserves all the more credit
because of his showing in the light
weight ranks. "kaplan's head just
about reached Quintero's chest
Bridget said in discussing the two
as they squared off IN the ring. II
think kaplan will still show that he
is to be rated as contender for
titular honors, despite the frequent
setba cks he has been encountering
in many of his recent fights
We have always admired kaplan
In the ring but we have also al
ways felt that he met an unfortu
nate "break" when because of his
inability to make the featherweight
limit he was forced TO give up that
class and enter the lightweight |
ranks. He was king among the 1875
FOUNDERS but he has been far from
that among the 1875 pound babies.
We distinctly remember the night
kaplan put Garcia away in Hartford
at the velodrome. There, the fight
was so uninteresting that almost ev
eryone was looking at other things
besides the two boxehs in the ring.
Suddenly. kaplan sent a right to the
stomach and a left to the jaw and
Garcia went down. He got up and
went down again. He got up and
again he went down but it was in
evitable that the referee would step
in and separate the two.
By the way, a good suggestion for
State Athletic Commissioner Thorn
as f. Donohue would be to get ad-
ding machines for his referees if
they persist in making wrong ad-
ditions of points scored during the
rounds. Some one told us yesterday |
that Young McAuliffe got out of the
fourth grade only because someone
burned the school down.
He first called the kaplan- Mays
a draw. after a nights sleep. re-
versed his decision. The other night |
at the kaplan- Quintero battle, he