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New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
SPEED MARKS SET l BY MOTOR RACERS
Gil Anderson Sets New Record in Stutz Stock Car

Daytona Beach, Fla. Feb. ai R- Lumlnaries of the motor racing world were departing from the hard packed sands of this beach today, leaving new standards of speed for earth-bound vehicles behind them.
 Topping the list of achievements was that of Captain Malcolm Camp bell. who set last Sunday a world mark for automobiles of any speci- cations with a speed of a0G.9 miles an hour.
 GlI Anderson, of Indianapolis, en- iivened yesterday. the last day of the .5th annual racing meet here. with Q record of 106.5o4G3 miles an hour for stock cars, made in S,utz.
 Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis was forced to drive his Whippet into the ocean to quench uncomfortable flames which burst from his motor and cut short his effort at a record for four cylinder cars.
 In coming away victorious in the triangular contest among the high powered leviathans of rapid motion, Captain Campbell was threatened by Frank Lockhart. youthful Indian apolis driver. who is now convalesc- ing from injuries sustained when his 400 horse power Stutz Blackhawk special catapulted from the beach Wednesday and crashed among the breakers. Lockhart said yesterday he would rebuild his automobile and make another effort as soon as pos sible.
 J. M. White. whose Gargantuan S6-cylinder Triplex special rolled over the sands yesterday at an un- official clocked time of o0s.73 miles an hour. expects to fix his machine with a reverse gear which will make it conform to American Automobile association standards and attack Campbells record later.
 Campbell made two exhibition runs in his champion Blue Bird spe- cial yesterday, but failed to better the time with which he Sunday dis. placed the former record held by Major H. o. D. Segrave also of Eng land, at 2O3.6 miles an hour.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT

New York - Tony Camzomeri, worlds featherweight champion. won from Pete Passafiume, {. lazy Schwartz, New York. defeated Benny Hall, St. Louis. {. Eddie (Kid) Wag- ner. Philadelphia, outpotnted Bruce Flowers. New Rochelle. {. lazy Grove. New York. won by techni- cal knockout over Benny Moseley. Detroit, 5.
 Chicago Sammy Mandell, worlds lightweight champion, de- feated Jackie Fields. Los Angeles. 10. Al Isoz. Rockford. won from Eddie Ballentine. Chicago. 5. Paul Wangley. St. Paul. won from Tom my O'Neil. Cleveland, 5. Frankie Bauman, Brooklyn. and Harry Dd> blinsky Chicago. drew. 5. Al Fore man Washington, defeated Don Da- wis. Chicago, 5.
 Montgomery. Ala. w. l.. (Young) stribling, Macon. Ga, knocked out Joe Clancy. Atlanta, ?.
 Charlotte N. c. Johnny Rob- erts. Charlotte. won from Billy strickler. Washington, 10.
 Fort Thomas, ky. - Jimmy liar ris. Cincinnati. defeated Al De Rose, Indianapolis. 10.
 Davenport, Ia- - Jock Malone. St. Put. won from Kayo White. New Orleans. 10. Kid Jap, Chicago, and Charlie Genaro. drew, 10
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
CHEVROLET MAKES
 A NEW RECORD
Over 91,@0 Cars Manufactured in January

Detroit, Mich. Feb. 24-All pre- vious January production record. were shattered here last month by the Chevrolet Motor company when the total output for the thirty-day period reached s1.5s4 units. W. s. Knudsen. president and general manager announced today. This figure topped by nearly :o,. 900 units the 73.676 cars and trucks produced in January. 1927, and more than doubled the outlet for the corresponding month in 1926 when only 46,437 units wers manufactured.
 As a result of this tremendous volume. production in January was exceeded by that of only four other months in the entire history Of the company
 The tentative production sched- ule for February is 112,475 units. as against S5.0o0 units last Febru- ary. while actual production for the month this year is certain to exceed the tentative schedule by . comfortable margin. MT. Kn1dsen said. Tentative plans for March call for the building of moro than 1e7.o0o units, which will establish | new all-time monthly record for the manufacture of gear shift cara e. cording to Mir. Knudsen. f
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
FERRIS YS. McLARNIN

New York East Side Idol and Los
 Angeles Battlcr to Meet at Msdt.
 son Square Tonight.
 New York. Feb. 2t ND-sid Ferris. idol of New York's East Side, and Jimmy McLarnin of Los Angeles are to meet for 10 rounds in Madison Square Garden tonight with pros- pects of the winner gaining an op- portunity to challenge Sammy Man. dell for lightweight championship p honors.
 McLarnin Is reputed to be a heavy puncher and many enthusiasts have switched allegiance from Ferris to him for this 'so." Nevertheless. the Ghetto flash rules an to 5 favorite.
 Mcl.arnin's most recent outstand- ing achievement was knockout in Chicago of Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden. Conn.,. former worlds featherweight champion.
 Although there has been talk that McLarnin would have difficulty in making the class weight of 135 pounds. he sealed 136 l.: yesterday and said he expected to have no trouble in shedding extra pound and a half for the official weighing in this afternoon. Ferris tipped the beam at 132 1-2 yesterday and prob- ably will scale at 133 pounds.
 The semi final on the card brings together Sammy Dorfman and Chick Suggs in eight rounds.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

Promoter Jim Mullen. who still cherishes hopes of landing one heavy weight cham pionship match for Chi- cago next summer, said today he fig ured Pauline as the best prospect of all the current heavyweight contend CTS. Mullen also figures that the annual layoff between fights in which Tunney has indulged the past two years has done the champion no good.
 No boxer can fight once year and stay good.' Mullen said. No amount of training camp practice can get him into his best condition. There is nearly three inches differ ence between the thickness of gloves in title fights, and gloves in training sessions. That three inches means the difference between a hit and a mass. when a fighter gets into the ring. Remember how many of Tun- ney's right swings went around Dempsey's neck? They landed in the training camp with big gloves on the fists, but they don't land with tight ring gloves.
 "I have hopes now of signing up Paulino for a heavyweight match if he takes Godfrey next week"
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
HOCKEY FANS PICKLE
Hugh { Red) Rorty, Once Tarket for BleaC1lerites, Now Is One of Most Popular Officials.

bieANNscf1teS, NOW A Onc Ot MOSt
 Popular Officials.
 Roller hockey fans are the most fickle in the world. Some 16 years ago, Hugh Rorty, as a referee of the game. got his share of razzing every time he appeared on the floor of Hanna's armory. It appeared that Hugh knew the strength of the To- cal team. composed of Fred Jean. "Soxie" Lyons. Bill Bannon. Mercer and Harkins. He gave the visiting team the benefit of the doubt. for after all. there was not team in the country which could stand up against the powerful New Britain machine. The crowd howled for rough stuff and Rorty made it a point to "nip it in the bud" which didn't go too good with the fans. When Rorty stepped into the arena, his first appearance here for some time, everybody gave him a hand and he has been getting one ever since. He has reversed himself in the eyes of the fans, and New Britain is one of his best boosters. Looking back over the files of the Herald. it was quite the thing those days to blame the referee for any, thing that went wrong. That's what the fans wanted and that's what they got. sportsmanship has taken the place of this attitude with the result, that "a better time is had by all"
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
INDIAN JOINS TEAM
Connie Mack Hopes that He Will Develop Into . Star Pitcher Dur ing the Coming Season.

Philadelphia. Feb. 24 tP-An Ok. lahoma Indian who, Manager Con- nie Mack hopes. will develop into a star pitcher. has joined the Phila- delphia Athletics squad at Fort Myers, Fla.
 He Is Lee Danfy. . product of Haskell institute. Known as Chief Whitehorn, the new recruit is P years old. He Is nearly six feet tall and weighs l72 pounds. He pitched for three years at Haskell and start ed his semi mi-professional career in 1925 with the Nebraska Indians. Last year he pitched for several semi-pro teams in Kansas City. Mack says he locks like a 'comer."
 Reports from the Athletics train- ing camp today said the squad in- cluded 16 pitchers. four catchers and two infielders. Warming up exercise and batting practice will constitute most of the workouts un- til arrival of the full squad next week.
 Manager shotton reported from the southern camp of the Philadel- phia Nationals at Winter Haven, Fla, that his pitchers and catchers were gradually working out the win- ter kinks and would be ready for two drills day when the other players arrived. Most of the men are expected by Tuesday.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
|MANDELL SCORES
 WIN. OVER FIELDS
Lightweight Champion Evens Count With California Battler

Chicago, Feb. 24 R-Lishtweigh Champion Sammy Mandell has evened the score with Jackie Fields, California junior welterweight. by Q decisive victory. Fields won a newspaper decision over Sammy last May in Los Angeles; Mandell turned the tables before packed coliseum last night.
 For two rounds it seemed that Fields was due to repeat his victory, for Sammy was receiving consider able body bombardment. Mandell however. began to get the range in the third. and his long lunging left soon had one headlight dimmed for the coast lad.
 The champions repeated shots at that left optic kept Fields mostly on the defensive and the last half of the battle saw considerable might ing and clinching. There was not a mark on the lightweight king at the end of the ten rounds when Referee Ed Purdy raised Mandells hand as the winner.
 After Fields early spurt. Mandell took over the pace-setting. Fields tried to turn the tide in the ninth, which wound up in a furious ex- change at the bell. Fields clipped the champion twice on the head with rights just as the bell rang and the referee had to tear them apart to end the round.
 Mandell tripped once in the seventh and went down. and in the closing round Fields fell in Man. dell's corner as he missed the cham pion with wild swing.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
TEAMS TO ENGAGE
 IN MAT CLASHES
Waterbury "Y" Wrestling CrsV Meets New Britain Tomorrow

About two weeks ago the local " wrestling team went to Water- bury and lost one of the hardest fought and most sruelling meets 10 be promoted in recent years in " tournaments. Four bouts went the limit to | draw and the contestants were forced to wrestle two overtime periods in order to determine win- ner.
 Tomorrow afternoon Waterbury will come here in a return meet and tho local Erapplers are out to wipe out the defeat chalked against their record this season.
 Waterbury will send over six wrestlers at different weights. and chief among this delegation are the three Crane brothers. clever and ag- gressive. Also in their crew Is Hickok, ex-Yale varsity wrestler. who was srappling on Yale'a cham pionahip team last year: Battisto. ex- service wrestler. who secured a de- cision over Casalengo (Hercules). |. local man and Wallace, r60 pound matman.
 Hovenisian. Covaleski. Canzellanri. Aldrich. David, Casalengo, Hick. Crowley, Nimro, Baldersari. Deodor. ian and Westergren make up the local " team and from this group will be selected the wrestlers to op- pose Waterbury's best. Two or three extra bouts will be staged to deter mine who ehall represent the local " in the state meet on March .. Crowley and Nimro will stage a bout to determine the best man in the 1lE pound class. The match between Waterbury and New Britain satur- day is open to the public.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
LATE ARRIVALS
Boston Players Trickling Into Train

bo6t0n FNyerS TrScthnG Into Tratn-
 ing Camp to Augment Large
 Squads There. --
 Boston. Feb. c4 U,-4.ate arrivals trickled into the camps of both Bos- ton biz league clubs now in training in the south. Pitchers Pete Traynor and Charles Small reported to Man. ager CarrigaA at the Red Sox head quarters at Bradenton, Fla, and brought his hurling staff up to IT. Both the newcomers are recruits and both wear glasses giving the Sox three bespectacled hurlers. Traynor came from Portland. Ore. while Small claims Gloucester, Me-, his home town. High temperatures held yesterdays battery practice to . minimum. "
 At St. Petersburg. the Graves training squad was augmented by Eddie Farrell, the Binghamton den- tist. His arrival gave Manager Jack Slattery his first chance to get real infleld combination at work. Ed Brown was at first. Rogers Horns by at second and Doc Gautreau al third while Farrell took short. Far rell and Hornsby are considered fixtures at their respective posts but the other two will have to demon strate their ability to hold their jobs There are 50 many new players in camp that Coach Arthur Devlin has assigned number to some of the re- cruits until they became better ac- quainted.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
One-Armed Cue Expert
 Will Give Exhibition

Frank "Shakespeare" McKervey, cne-hand pocket billiard expert, will
 give . demonstration of his prowess
 from s to 10 o'clock Monday night at
 John Guiden's pool room on East Main street, Plainville. McKervey. while possessed of two hands. uses only one in making his shots and
 holds a worlds record through q run Of i7 without allowing his cue ip touch the table rail. Mckervey N i'll play d a5-pcint game with John PIacobeliis. Plainville billiard star, land linen give a demonstration of 1 , -lck shots.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
Entertainment Tonight
 In Lobby of Y. M. C, A,

At the regular Friday evening so- cial to be held'in the lobby of the mems department of the Y. NJ. C. A. this evening. George Gillette of Hart ford will the the entertainer. Mir. Gillette plays 2 number of novelty instruments including the invisible bulbs, Chinese doll. ordinary bottles filled with water. sleigh bells rub- Der balloons. ocarina. the saw. Chi- nese musette. harmonica and others. Refreshments will be served.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
HELEN WILLS NO
 PRIZE FIGHT FAN
Woman Tennis Champion Wants
 to Sc No Iore Bouts


 San Francisco. Feb. :4 N-Helen Wills, woman tennis champion. who attended the Mickey Walker-Jack Willis prize fight here yesterday. made known today that she never wanted to see another ring battle.
 Unless" she added. Y might have the opportunity to sec Mir. Tunney some day. I understand he boxes, and does not fight. I think I might like that"
 Miss Wills attended the Walker Willis bout after she received the approval of her parents that it was perfectly all right for women to att tend prize fights if they wanted to.
 The fight was very interesting" :" said Miss Wills But I do not want to 70 again. Tennis is the only game, and l do not believe that anyone who really loves tennis like I do could ever become | fight fan. The two sports are so different. it Is hard to talk about them together.
 But l really was agreeably sur- prised at the way things were handled. It was 80 much nicer and much more comfortable than I ex. pected 1t would be, but I was sur prised that there were 50 few wom- en there.
 What particularly interested and fascinated me was the beautiful play of muscles displayed during the fight, and the foot work.
 Yes am glad l went. but I am quite sure I shall never 90 to an- other light. You know. I have yet to see a stx-day bicycle race and an ice hockey game. I want to see every thing in tho line of sports, at least once." 'a
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
Cleveland Indians in
 Training for Season

Cleveland, Feb. Fl LP-Roger Peckinpaugh's Cleveland Indians have begun their American league baseball campaign at their New Or leans training camp. An suspicious start was made yesterday with a short throwing session after two days of steady rain.
 Eighteen pitchers, eight Of them veterans, tobk an easy workout. Bil ly Bayne. former St. Louis Brown who recently was drafted from Tor onto. will compete with nine recruits for the two remaining places among the ten men Peckinpaugh plans to carry.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
Hungary Sorry It Can't
 Comply With the Request

Premier Bethlen of Hungary has telegrapbed 10 Geneva saying his government is unable 10 comply with the League of Nations request that he suspend the sale of machine gun parts recently seized at the Hungar- ian frontier. He said the parts were broken and the scrap will be auc- toned.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

of popular approval for the navy tey partment's proposals. Ascsibing Ao recent reduction of the British eyufak CT program to the influence of puhl3o opinion also. the paper arguas thiU opposition of both peoples to theis respective governments is happy augury for the solution of the prob lem which emerged at Gensva when the time comes for it's resum ption."
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
RESIGNS AS JUDGE
John Glackcn, Rated as Efficient
 Official, Resents Actions of Con-

mission.
 Boston. Feb. a4 Lp--John Glack- en. rated in sport circles as one of the best official judges of boxing in Massachusetts. has sent his resigna- ton to the boxing commission with A request that 1t be effective at once. ' Glacken's action was an after math of the recent Jack Humbeck- Jack Demave heavyweight bout in which Demave was given the deci- sion. The verdict was unpopular with the crowd and few minutes after the decision was announced, the boxing commission ordered a further announcement that Hum- beck, the loser. would box Roberto Roberti. Italian fighter, at a future date.
 Action by the commission was seen in effect as a reversal of the judgment of the officials at the ring. The fight was admitted to have been close but a number of experts who witnessed the affair agreed with the judges.
 Il could not retain my self-respect and my license from the boxing commission" said Mir. Glacken in making public his resignation.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
MAY SIGN PAULlNO WITH
 CHAMPION GENE TUNNEY
Promoter Jim Mullen Has Hopes of Arranging Championship Match
 for ChicaEo

Chicago, Feb. e4 R-The Basque woodchopper. Pauline Uzcudun. who has turned his back on the Tex Rickard heavyweight elimination series and Is matched with George Godfrey in Los Angeles next week, would be welcomed as a prospective opponent in Chicago for Gene Tun- ney.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
Thinks Public Opinion Was Cause of Cut in Navy

London. Feb. 24 Pl-Commenting on the house naval committees cut ting the United States naval building
 program. the Daily News today at-
 tributed this cut to the withholding
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
YANKEES OFF TO CAMP
First Contingent of New York
 Americans Headed by Ruth and
 Gel,rig Start For St. Petersburg.

AuCTlCAuS HSuutN Uy 1tltIl anu
 Gel,rig Start For St. Petersburg.
 New York. Feb. 24 LP-Headed by the famous home run combina- tion of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, the first contingent of the world champion Yankees will depart for the southern training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla. tonight. Other members of the band which will leave at $40 o'clock out of Penn- sylvania station are Catchers John GrabowsM and Bill Eisemann and 1nfielder Leo Durocher. Pitcher MyIes Thomas will join the party at Washington. The vanguard of the Brooklyn Robins started for Clearwater, Fla, yesterday. four players making the journey. They were Harry Riconda, Overton Tremper. Charlie Har- greaves and Del Bissonette.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
TOpEL LEADS SCORERS
Rochester Player Successfully Tlc- fends Position in Professional Basketball League.

New York. Feb. ~ R-Harry Topel of Rochester has successfully countered every attempt to oust him from his position as leading scorer of the American Professional Basketball league. He las q lead of nine points over Nat Hickey. Cleve- land. for games up to and including February 21.
 In fl games, Topel has tossed in 1: field goals and 7S fouls for . total of 326 points. Hickey. in 39 games. has made 1cs two pointers and bs free tries for 3l7 markers. Dave Banks, diminutive forward for the New York Celtics. is in third place, ten points back of Hickey. Benny Borgeman of Fort Wayne. trails in fourth position with 3O2. four points better than Tom Barlow of Philadelphia.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

Manager Clarence Lanpher an- nounced the coming schedule for the New Britain basketball team. Starting tomorrow night, NeE Brit ain plays Hartford. Next week, probably on Thursday night. New Britain goes to Waterbury. A week from tomorrow Plaihfeld makes its second appearance here. The fol- lowing Friday. New Britain goes to New Haven for the last game of tho year, meeting the Atlas i've.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

Meriden could have no alibi for last nights game. The time of the periods appeared to be OK and there wasn't any complaint that the per- iods were heightened to allow New Britain to win.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

Waterbury tackles Meriden to- night and if the Brass City contin. gent wins. New Britain will be rid ing pretty in first place. After last nights game, only fraction of a point separates New Britain and Meridsn and hectic battle Is prom ised here Sunday afternoon when tho Silver City aggregation returns hero for [ game.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
The Celttcs are scheduled to play In this city on Saturday night. March IT. Quite appropriate.

We'd hate to be the man who was delegated to hold bets on the KaplaNMays bout the other night. We'd also hate to be on the side that had bet that Kaplan would win. With the draw decision rendered al the end of tho light. bets were set. tied. Then two days afterwards, the referee. reverses himself and de- cIares him the winner. Let the bet- tors try and collect.
 What should be an exciting battle will bo staged at the Stanley Arena tomorrow night when the Hartford Yankees clash with the New Brit ain basketball team. Hartford won here the last time but we doubt very much if the team will be able 10 come through again tomorrow night.
 Hartford and New Britain will again be featured tonight when Johnny Clinch and Billy Taylor go 10 it in the feature bout of the anna teur fight tournament. Taylor seems to be the favorite but Clinch Is no easy mark for him or anyone else.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

The victory was all the more sat isfactory because of the fact that "Mollie" Morrison was back again with the Meriden team. He was re- instated in the league through the endorsement Of Owner Harry Starkie of the Hartford team, . creditable piece of work on Starkie's part.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
Speakins of Sports

Tho New Britain roller hockey teams work against Meridcn last night was perfect to watch. The contest itself compares fayorably with the wonder game of the year. the battle staged New Years night between New Britain and Water- bury.
Nogales international., 1928-05-18
MOTHERS DAY PROGRAM
AT METHODIST CHURCH

The Mothers Day program CIV
en- at the Methodist church Sun
day morning was exceptionally
good. Mrs. Duane Bird sang "To
NV Mother" (Per Wingle). Mr..
r. f. Carter sang "That Wonder
full Mother of Mine," (Walter
Goodwin. Miss Geraldine Hen
derson gave a combination read
inc and solo "When Mother Sang
to Me-" Henry S. Sawyer). Mr..
Will III. Walker, recited in a man
ner that touched every heart,
"Those Old Fashioned Songs That
Ny Mother Used to Sing" The
choir sang an anthem, "To Serve
My Mothers God" Ira B. Viii
SOM. Those composing the choir
we're Miss Ardelia Paulson, plan
ist, Mrs. Harold Payne, Sr, violin.
ist. Mrs. Olga Vivian Crutchfield,
cellist. Altos, Miss Eleanor Davis
and Mrs. Dorothy K. Owen,
soprano, Mrs. Louis Hudgin +;
bassos A. J. Dodd and Reverend
James Crutchfield. Tenors, Messrs.
T. E. Carter, Richard Dickerson
and I. D. Owen.