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Evening star., 1929-11-30
Athletics Did Not Need Tips.

"The Athletics did not need to have
the signs caught" he said. "Of course,
I did not see the games pitched, but
think the Chicago pitchers did not vary
their style enough. If Root had been
wild for q minute or two and given q
base on balls he might have been nore
successful than he was. I lust figure
that he kept the ball on the plate too
much"
when you were a pitcher what
catcher did you find the most skillful
In giving signals to the pitcher?"
thinner Of Cleveland. It was almost
impossible to read him. He had a way
OF STOPPING behind home plate and
holding his hands between his knees
that fooled all of the So-calIed sign de.
SELF
IF there Is a weakness In pitchina
In these days as compared With the old,
where would you say it WASP"
There is too much hurry after the
pitchers get two strikes on the batter
IN these days. Instead Of working him
they try to strike him out on the next
ball, and the batters set their toes Ia
the ground and swing for all they've
got. II the ball is on top of the plate,
you can bet they are going to hit It. A
pitcher should have good enough con.
troll to play with the batter If he can
get two strikes on him and one or two
called balls"
(Copyrisht. 1929
Evening star., 1929-11-30

League pennanC race. Hail S
average Of 108 gives him a big margin
over his teammates.
Hughes of Ninth No. is out front in
the individual competition with an av-
erage Of ITO. Following are the latest
figures. including those Of boWlers who
have rolled three sets or more:
Evening star., 1929-11-30
AUDIT REVIEW LEAGUE.

High team game-Oil and Mining, 54s;
Section ca. 545.
High team set-Special Adjustment, 1867
~, las.
High individual set-Middlekauf Especial
Adtustment), 367.
High Individual ayerages-Budjako (sec-
ton GID. l07-20; Lucas (Section CID,
l04-zl; Men (Teehntcal staf No. j., Io3-1s.
Evening star., 1929-11-30

Auto Bodies, Radiators, Tenders
Repaired; also New Radiators
Harrison Radiators and Cores In Steel
Wittstatts, 1909 18th. North I'M
Also $40 18th. VI Block Below Ave.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
Can Help Place Batter.

Give q rlgnC-nanQ DaCCer q curve
outside and he will try to put It in right
field and If you give a left-hand bat
ter curve on the outside he will prob
ably try to hit to left field and cross
the nelders on the other team. A clever
sign detector who can get what the
catcher has signaled for will help q
place batter great deal. II the batter
Is r1ght-hander he will enable him to
hit behind the runner on an outside
curve, and II he can do that with q
man on first base he is sure to advance
the runner and may catch the flelders
out OF position and get a safe hit"
"Do you think the Athletics caught
the signals Of the Chicago pitchers In
the world series?"
Some Of them, maybe. I don't be.
lieve they got all Of them
Then, Welch told something about
the world series that demonstrated his
pitching instinct. He did not see the
last two games in Philadelphia, but he
heard them described and from his
knowledge Of pitching skill he told al
most to a dot the kind Of balls that
Root and Malone were giving to the
Athletics.
Evening star., 1929-11-30

"It Is not so necessary" he told
this correspondent, ito get the
height of the ball that is about to
be pitched as it is the kind of ball
that the pitcher may throw. AL
most all batterS can hit a high or
low ball If it is over the plate
Maybe they hit the high one bet-
ter than the low one and perhaps
it is the other way around, but
they can manage to hit 1t, and If
they are lucky they may hit
safely.
"The thing to try to inform the bat-
ter Is whether it is q straight ball OF
a curve ball. II it Is a straight ball
with speed the batter will not change
his stance much, but If 1t is a curve
outside he will step forward, and II he
is clever with his bat he will poke the
ball to one field or the other where II
will do damage.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
Team Standing.


Hish individual average-Hughes. i1o-l1.
High individual same-Hall, 16l.
High individual set-Appel, 3S5.
High individual spares-W. Koontz, 79.
High individual strikes-Weber, l3.
High team game-Douglas No. 2. 600.
High team set-Douglas No. 2, 1,719.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
T'Uo Douglas Teams Out Front
In East Washington Church Loop

OUGLAS NO. 2, with Hall as
the big gun, has a three-game
lead over Douglas No. / In
the East Washington Church
Iaar1Ie nennant rare HALLS
Evening star., 1929-11-30

AnotheN postponement Of the paotes-
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
.C0Rb|N TEAMS TO
 FINISH SEASON
Screw Shop and Cabinet Lock End Dusty League Play Tonight

Tonights games in the Industrial Basketball league will mark the close of the season for two members of the Corbin family. Corbin Screw, league champions, will play the Stanley Works and Corbin Cabinet Lock will play Russell & Erwin. Tine final of the three games 10 be played at the Tabs hall will bring together the New Britain Machine and Stan ley Rule teams.
 There are still four teams in po- sition 10 capture the second place position as follows: Stanley Rule, l'afnir Bearing, Russell & Erwin and Stanley Works. Three of these teams are playing tonight. A de feat at this stage of the race will be a bad blow to the aspirants and in some cases il will mean elimina- ton.
 Stanley Works has the hardest task of the night because it is sched- uled to play the Corbin Screw team The Screw shop outfit will he ap- bearing in it's last game and if will be in the best of spirits after hay ing cinched the pennant. Stanley Works will play on each of the three remaining nights on the schedule and if it wins tonight it will be hard to stop in the other games.
 Russell X Erwin is tied with tho Stanley Works for fourth place 1T the standing and it has a chance tt move into the place exclusively if i wins over Corbin Cabinet Lock whil' the Stanley Works may be losing tr Corbin Screw. Captain "Nibby' ! Nyborg's R. & l.. team is playin:
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
SENATORS LOOK GOOD
Washington Nationals Seem Destined For Higher Place In Standing This Year.

Tampa, Fla, March 15 P-E com parisons mean anything. the fourth place Washington Nationals of last year are headed for higher things in the American League.
 Three straight victories have been chalked up in the Grapefruit League, including one yesterday against the National League champ ion Cardinals. whereas at this period last season the Mats had lost their first two starts and had got no bet ter than d draw in their third con- test with the Boston Braves. Man. ager Johnson was particularly pleased at the showing yesterday Of Bumps" Madley, who toiled three innings on the mound and allowed but two hits. Sad Sam" Jones signed his contract. Whether the club or Jones gave ground over salary was not revealed.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

r. won seven out of 1o indepen- dent games and ran up 20S points to 1e4 for its opponents. making its to- tai pointase for the season 4QG as against o66 for its foes.
 Yves" Chotkowski was the lead ing scorer ot the team, making v points in the eight County "1' ga mes, John Gotowala and Captain Don Lewis followed him, while the guards were far behind. But the in dividual scoring records fail badly at telling the story Of the team $ son would be complete without giv- ing full credit 10 the sterling defen- sive play Of the team, especially Of Isaacson and Clark. These two con- tented themselves with staying in the backcourt and breaking up the plays of the opposing teams, and they did their job well. So consist ently did Clark stick 10 this seldom appreciated but vitally necessary role that he did not score a field goal all SedSOh. ret lllrOusH soHl' relenting of a kindly fate, it was Clark who was fouled and put in the point which won the state cham pionship for his team.
 Oddly, out of the 28 foul shots by the team, fl came in the final two ga mes, when they were desperately needed. In these games ChotkoWski made seven out of eight tries and dividual scoring records of the play CTS in the County "Y' games fol ioWs.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

early part Of the second half start. ed the locals off on a scoring spurt that lasted throughout the rest of the game. The Fordham captain caged three one handed shots, in the meanwhile holding Cook and Roth. enfield to one basket apiece. "Jiggs' Donoghue battled on even terms at center with Jerry" Conway and fed his team mates with the ball for . number of their baskets.
 Sloman and Zakzewski continued their machine like play at the for. ward positions and caged 20 Of tho locals 36 points between them. Slo. man topped his teammates in SCOT. ing, dropping in II points. With three minutes to so. Manager Ian. pher sent in his entire reserve force.
 New Briatin tallied 13 baskets from the floor while holding Meri. den to five. Both teams scored ten free tries apiece. The game was handled very we'll by Ball and Coyle, although there were numerous pro- tests made against the laxity of Coyle in calling travelling.
 Details of Game
 The teams battled for four min. utes before Zakzewski dropped in . foul point. Arburr made it 20 with another foul at the 4:3O mark. Hen. ny Cohen got Meriden's first point at the 6.20 mark on a foul. Gilkenson put the Endec3 ahead shortly after on basket. At the II minute mark, Sloman tied the score at all with a basket. New Brtain's first Of the game. Zakzewski caged twin counter to put New Britain ahead at the l4 minute mark. From then on the locals began to draw away from the Endees and held 14 to 9 advantage at the half.
 Second Half
 New Britain started off like a cy. clone in the second half and with baskets by Sloman, Dougherty and ZakzewAli, ran up 25 to IS lead at the seven minute mark. Here tho Endees called time out but on tho resumption of play, the orange jerseyed men literally filled the Meriden basket with points.
 This victory put New Britain out in front in the race for the state championship. In the elimination series, the local have scored victor- ies over both Bristol and Meriden. Bristol has split in two games while Meriden has lost two games. Meri- den and New Britain will meet in a return game at the Stanley Arena Saturday evening. The Endees' lineup will be bolstered by the ad. dtion of Wineapple. All-America college guard.
 The summary:
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
NER|DEN TEAMS
 ID PLAY LOCALS
Silver City Handballels Invade
 This City Tonight

Neriden handball teams will in- wade this city tonight to battle lo- cal combinations. There will be sev- eral matches on tap that call for spirited action. Mag and Hawkins. New Britain, will try conclusions with the Warner brothers team. state doubles champions.
 In feature match, Doe Wasko- witz, local product, will meet Emil Rader of N,eriden, state singles champion. Whether Doe" can un- cover a bag of handball tricks that will startle the state champ re- mains 10 be seen.
 The Bear-Cats will undoubtedly be over and the team that toes the scratch-line against them is in for very warm session. Bert Loomis, chairman of the handball commit tee. is making all the arrangements.
 The annual open doubles cham pionship is nearly over with four teams jockeying for safe positions. Dunn and Mangan added three more games to their credit without loss, and so did the Dressel-Crowe team The -Hergstrom team IS still in fourth position doing abso- lutely nothing due to lack of com- petition and the disinclination of the Mag Ha wkins team to accept 3 challenge.
 For four weeks the Terrible Swedes have been on the Mag Hawks trail but for some reason or other the latter team has dodged the issue. Now the Swedes issue it again this time through the newspaper column. They want the Mag Hawks 10 meet them next Wednesday night March 20 at 4:30 ?. m.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

Conway and Gilkenson were made to look like schoolboys as the New Britain team passed the ball around the floor with perfect timing and beautiful accuracy. So completely was New Britain the master Of the Endces that practically all of it's baskets were made inside the foul line. the players cutting for the bas- ket to make easy goals time after time.
 SlOman Scores First
 The game started off at a fast pace and for the first ten minutes was strictly q defensive game. neither aggregation being able to pierce the stone wall defense of it's opponents. At the II minute mark, Sloman caged New Britain's first basket of inc game and that was the signal for furious attack on the Endees' basket. From that point on Meri- den was never in the running, being absolutely powerless 10 do anything in the way of scoring and showing little ability on the defense. The local players hurried the shots of the Meriden five at every turn and before the middle of the second half. the Endces were missing even the blackboard.
 The work of the entire team fea- tured the work of the locals. It was a treat 10 watch the short, snappy passes of the New Britain team that eventually led to easy scores. How | ever. the fans must once again take off their hats to Hank" Arburr New Britain's sterling guard. Fitted against the clever Cohen, consider ed one of the best court perform CTS in this section of the country. Arbur1 completely tied him up in knot and i held him scoreless from the floor In two games, Cohen has been able ! to score only one basket on Arburr
 Doc 'Dougherty's work in the
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

With it's back 10 the wall in the pIayoff for the championship Of the American Roller Hockey league, the New Britain team last night went at Albany tooth and nail with deter minarion to win that could not be denied and after a terrific battle at the stanley Arena, the Hardware City crew emerged the victor m the fifth game by the score Of s to 5. As on the previous occasion when New Britain scored its other victory in the series. the local team snow ed absolute superiority over its op- ponents and this time had d five point advantage at the finish.
 On the offensive. it was the Will Hams brothers who did the scoring with Kid Williams, leading scorer Of the league, playing one Of his greatest games. It was his work in the first period when the score vas
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

the greatest basketball in the league at the present time and on four sue cossive victories il has advanced from a loWly position in the second division 10 be q contender for second place. The secret of the success Of the team lies in the addition of two new guards. George Luke and Beck CT, 10 th clincup. the shift of Ny borg 10 forward to play with kar- honic and the steady influence of the veteran Johnny SaXe at center,
 If Corhin Cabinet Lock wins to- night ii will have an even break in wins and losses for the season, eight Of each.
 Stanley Rule is now tied with Fafnirs for second place, a situation which has occurred several times this season. A chance to gain the place exclusively for the time being, at least. will be afforded Jimmy Murphy's team. Tho Rule shop uuintot is a young team but in its first season Of play Jimmy. Murphy has worked wonders with it. The principal trouble IS that some of the players are inclined to take matters too lightly and in several games thls season inferior teams have either defeated il or came close 10 it be- cause of this attitude.
 If New Britain Machine does not win another game before the sea son ends and Landers, the tailender. wins the two games left on its schedule, the Newmatics will find themselves in last place tie. New Britain Machine has had enough of that place in the first three years of the league history and if does not wish 10 again gain the honor. P. & F. Corbin is also in q position where it might slip into the cellar with I Tapdarc
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
 IN
TEAMS GETTING
 SET FOR BATTLE
Burritts and Phantonas to Clash
 at Arena Saturday Night

Intra city basketball competition will get underway Saturday evening at the Stanley Arena when the Bur- rirts and Phantoms meet in the first battle of d three game series. Both aggregations are primed for hard game and will place their strongest lipeups on the floor. Although no snecjaI sienifcance is attached to the series fans are promised plenty ol fast basketball when the two Quln- tets meet.
 Ken Saunders five has crashed through for IS victories over some Of the leading teams in the state and has only met defeat twice. However, Tn return games, the Burritts aveng- cd the blots against their record by scoring wins. Included in the Bur ritts' list of victims are the SaVltt Gems of Hartford, last years city champions; the Simsbury town team, champions of the Pennington Valley league last season and the Meriden Communities, last year $ state junior champions.
 The Phantoms, following thelr spectacular wins in the Boys cup tournament last year. kept up thelr good work this season and have scored victories over a number of strong aggregauons. the team IS known for its fighting spirit and mas ! drawn many q battle out Of the nre when defeat was impending. { Neither manager has announced his starting lineup. It IS expected l that the Burritts will start with Yakubowicz and HaNlick, forwards: Luty, center; Darrow and Carlson, guards The phantoms will probably lineup with Cohen and Crane, for
 wards; Hewitt. center; Levine and i 1ankowitz, guards.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
ROOT GETS TEST TODAY

Los Angeles, Cal, March 15 P- Charlie Root. ace Of all Cub pitch CTS in 1927 and one of the big dis appointments in 1928, was to re- ceive his first real test of the season today.
 Manager Joe Mccarthy announced he would use Root against the Los Angeles club in the opening game of their 2S game schedule, begin ming here today.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
ShOtt0n Pleased With
 Showing of phiIlieS

Winter Haven. March h Pl- Manager Shotton is well pleased with the condition of the Philadelphia Nationals, despite the loss of their first exhibition contest yesterday against a major league opponent the Philadelphia Athletics. He was particularly impressed by the work of Tommy Theyenow, former Cardi- nal, whose baseball career was inn perilled by a broken leg. Thevenow handled eight chances without a slip.
 The Phillies were tc 20 to Fort Myers today 10 play q return engage ment with the Athletics.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
SHORTSl0P FIND
Rookie Bill Narlcsky Will Have To Be Given Serious Consideration This season.

BradentoWn, Fla, March 15 Pt- The Red Sox have a short stop find. Rookie Bill Narlesky yesterday dem onstrated against the Cincinnati Reds that he would have 10 be given serious consideration for regular infeld job.
 Narlesky relieved Hal Rhyme. who was playing well, half way through the game and handled four seeming ly impossible chances perfectly. He raced over back Of second to pick up a fast bounder and his throw nipped the runner at first. Later. after Mking 8 pair Of screaming drives in stride, he dropped back into short left field 10 catch a twist ing high fly that might have eluded the best shortstop in either league.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
Dykes Receives Injury
 In Practice Contest

Fort Myers, Fla. March 15 P)- Jimmy Dykes, veteran second base man, was injured in yesterdays tilt with the Philles at Winter Haven when Lefty O'Doul slid into second. One Of his fingers was cut so badly that it is feared he will not be able to play for at least two weeks.
 His place probably will be taken by Max Bishop, who signed his con- tract Wednesday night.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
MERIDEN OUTCLASSED BY
 HARDWARE CITY QUINTET
Almost Perfect Teamwork of New Britain Team Com. pletely Dazzles Silver City Opponents - Arburr Holds Herm Cohen Scoreless Throughout Game Final Count is 36 to 2O-Locas Held Scoreess for First II Minutes-Sloman is High Scorer.

After being held scoreless from the floor for l minutes in the first half last night, the almost perfect basketball machine wearing Hard ware City colors began functioning and from then on the Meriden En- dees were completely outplayed in every department of the game. Dazzling passes wonderful f1oorwork and deadly shooting by New Britain proved more than enough for the Endees to contend with and. as re- suit, the orange e-jerseyed five rolled up 36 to 20 score in the first game of a home and home series played in Meriden. It was the worst defeat that Meriden has received on its own floor in years.
 The Meriden aggregation left the court a badly beaten and subdued team. Stars of the caliber of Cohen.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
THREE GAME SERIES

Fort Worth, Tex, March 15 R- Boosting four straight exhibition victories over the Dallas Steers. the White Sox moved upon the Fort Worth Cats for a three-game se- ries today.
 Most of the White Sox are in good condition, except Outf1elder Johnny Mostil. whose infected toe is caus- ing him some trouble.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

The day of miracIes-in basket ball. at least--is not past, for a group of young Kensington players with but little experience on the court stepped out suddenly this year and brought a wonderful sea son to climax last season by win ming the state county Y. NJ. C. A. in- termediate championship. rms group, the Kensington Boys club Intermediates, won 15 games in IS starts and was undefeated in its eight league and state tournament games.
 For several years Rev. Vernon |" Phillips, pastor of the hensinStoh Congregational church, coach ana director of the Kensington Boys club, has been experimenting with basketball teams, but lack of eXperl- ence and absence of a playing floor have severely handicapped his play CTS. This year the Boys cluo senior team finished the season with it. usual string of defeats, but the intermediate quintet, imbued with a fine spirit which never left II nh'ii the state title was safely won, began to take hold and win games from the very start of the season.
 Entered in the Hartford County "Y" intermediate league, the Ken
 l. { 1, sngton entry swept through the CIT cult without loss, winning the right to represent Hartford county in the state tourney. Drawing a default in the first round, the team travelled 10 Danbury and defeated Fairfield county in fast game ny two points, and then 1t capped Its campaign by winning the final game from Woodstock Academy last Sat = urday afternoon in wild overtime contest in MiddletoWn.
 The teams record in league and
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
8 S 2S-53 1gs

Gotowala made 2l personal fouls, 1G. Lewis 12, 1ssacson, 12, Clark, 8; Myers, l, and Hall, l.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
COURT LEAGUE ID
 CLOSE SATURDAY
Saturday Afternoon Circuit
 Schedules Final Games

The Y. NJ. c. A, Saturday After close this Saturday with the Bear cats opposing the Partners in the first game and the COrsairs attempt ing 10 heard the Tigers in their lair in the second game.
 The championship Bearcat team has yet to he defeated, having won eight games and losing none, In the past three weeks the team has managed to sqquecze out a victory by only two or three points. As this will b. the last opportunity 10 put dent in the champs record, the Panthors are all primed to feast on bear meat so the first game should be a hummer.
 Three times have the Bearcats clipped the claws of the Tigers and as many times have they sunk the Corsairs, Twice have they sent the oanthers away starved Whether they can repeat will be answered Saturday afternoon.
 Lineup:
 Bearcats Partners ScayiIlo-Osborne .......... Fresen
 Left Forward N Parretta Firnhaber
 Chester ......... Terrence Right Forward Rakowski .............. ColwiCk
 Center Balcunis .......,. Armenia -Alvord
 Left Guard Hergstrom ....... Hughes Salvocki
 Right Guard
 second Game COrsairs Tigers Franks ,..-..-,.,,.,..- Saunders
 Left Forward Lienhard ...........,... Aronson Right Forward Cucio .......,.,. Sandstrom Davis
 Center kochan ,............. ?. Parretta Right Guard Ginsberg ........,,..,.. Meligonis i Left Guard
New Britain herald., 1929-03-15

Score at half time, 1l-9. New Britain. Referee. Ball. Umpire, Coyle. Timer, Burns. Scorer. Saun. ders.