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New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
SINGER VS. FERNANDEZ
Lightweight Idol of the Bronx Will Get Chance Friday to Ayenge Only kayo of Career.

New York, March S1 Pl-Al Singer, lightweight idol of the Bronx, will get a chance to avenge the only knockout of his career when he meets Ignacio Fernandez, Filipino, at Madison Square Garden Friday night.
 Last year. Singer carelessly dropped his guard in the third round in a bout with Fernandez and the Filipino drove home a right that sprawled Singer on the canvas and ended the fight.
 Singer recovered quickly from the. sting of that unexpected reverse and in a dozen matches since has been beaten only once, Kid Choco- late, Cuban featherweight, gaining a close decision over him.
 Vince Ounce, Baltimore welter- weight, and Ben Jeby of New York, clashed in the ten-round semi-final.
 Elsewhere in the country there is little in prospect to enthuse fight followers. The only other bout of any important general interest is Tuffy Griffiths' encounter with Jack Gagnon of Boston, at Philadelphia tonight.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
mission of their church from

mission of their church from a worldwide viewpoint
 Meriden-Condition of Big Ed" Walsh. former White Sox pitching star operated upon Thursday. report ed satisfactory.
 Boston-Monthly review of Fed erai Reserve bank of Boston says rate of New England industrial ac- tivity in February unchanged from low level of December and Janu- ary.
 Burlington, Nt.-Mrs. Jennie Ga- mache injured in fire which sweeps three story brick block with sl25,000 loss and drives out 27 tenants.
 Boston-Registrar of motor vehi- cles reports 14 persons killed in au- tomobile accidents in state last week,
 Hartford Revolver with one cartridge exploded found near scene of fatal shooting Saturday night Of Reuben Rome. IT year old high school student
 CXbridge. Mass.-Sheriffs and state police break up crowd of 100 men at cock fight and arrest 10.-
 Providence, R. L-Fifteen hun dred Greeks from over New Eng land meet to celebrate centennial of their country's freedom from Turk Ish rule.
 Portland. Me.-Lyle C. Nicols, 8 Scarboro farmer, drowns when truck crashes through bridge railing into river.
 Berlin, N. H.-Matthew Ryan, city solicitor, leaves for Sydney. N. S, to act as counsel for Ingvald "Bing" Anderson, former eastern ski cham pion now under sentence of death
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
TEAMS READY FOR
 OPENING BATTLES
Baseball Campaign to Start Two
 Weeks From Today

New York, March 31 (UP)-Two weeks from today the 1880 major league baseball season will open with preliminary game between the Red Sox and Senators at Washington.
 After this game before President Hoover and other celebrities on April fl, the remainder of the ma jor league clubs will swing into action the following day.
 Many strange things have hap pened at the training camps thls spring:
 The Boston Braves considered one fits, has been the hardest team to beat in exhibition games. The Chicago Cubs, National League champions, lost three straight games to Pittsburgh before they finally won Sunday, 13-7.
 The world champion Philadelphia Athletics have been able to win only six out of , exhibition games against the Cardinals, Braves, Reds Phillies and Robins. The Braves took four out of five from the Atl- letics.
 With Babe Herman, Brooklyn outfielder signed, only four hold outs remain. They are Burleigh Grimes, Pittsburgh pitcher; Goose Goslin; Washington outfielder; El Roush, New York Giants outfielder; and George Blaeholdcr, St. Louis Browns pitcher.
 Grimes is demanding a one-yea~ contract at s22,00O or a two-year contract at soo,0oo per season. Washington may trade Goslin, who terms s1o,ooo salary ridiculous. A number of young players ap- pear to hSve won regular jobs. Among this group are Allen (Dusty) Cooke and Ben Chapman, both from St. Paul, who have been named by Manager Bob ShaHkef, third base. respectively for the New | York Yankees.
 Smead Jolly, San Francisco out fielder, has made good with the Chicago White SoX and his team . mate, Gus Suhr, hard-hitting first baseman, has won a regular place with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Three rookies probably will start | the season for the Boston Braves. They are Randolph Moore, who came up from Dallas an outfieldsr but who has been converted into q third basenan; Johnny Neun from | Baltimore, who formerly played first base for Detroit; and Walt Berger from the Los Angeles Pa cific Coast League club. One of the big surprises is tn , great playing of Barney Fribery,
 who threatens to crowd Captain Fresco Thompson off his regular place at second base with the Phil lies. Fribers, who has played prac- tically every position with the Phils apparently has found his real position at last and has tempor- arily been named to start the sea- son at second, in place of Thomp- son, who was a holdout and late in reporting.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

surprise a lot of ball teams this year with our pitching. Wait and see.'
 I did not ask Shotton about his infleld. He isn't tinkering with it. There will be no changes in the in field with Hurst at first, Thompson at second. Tommy Thevenow and Bernie lTriberg a short and Pinkie tinker with an infield like that? I asked about catchers. I've got five" Burt replied, but we'll carry three out of that number. You saw Speedy Davis work last year. He's young but he's picking
 up tricks back there every day that
 he works. Then I've got Harry Me
 Curdy-got him from the Cards by trade. Harry didn't do a thing but hit 1925 for Toledo last year. Quite
 a story in Harry McCurdy some day. He came from the University of llli- nois and Houston sold him to the White Sox for S25,O0o once"
 Burt is Reputed Trader From the fund of ready informa- ton at the tip of Burt Shotton' $ tongue, I began to understand why he has gained reputation as a master at the gentle art of trading ball players.
 k i've got Pete Cooper from Birm- insham, too,' said Burt. He has
 been hitting pretty good this spring and he's ranGy and fast"
 At all the southern training camps. there is the greatest of respect fol
 tho Phils. A dozen times I have
 heard, you ought to sec those Phis there's a team that's going to be in there this year"
 | I believe the Phils are a pennant i threat this year. The only question | they haven't answered for me entire 1 ly is that of pitching. If Burt Shotton
 could only manager to trade a couple
 of bat boys for George Earnshaw or Lefty Grove.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Overnight News
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. Domestic:
 Tucson. Ariz. Hawks finishes 40o-mile first leg of transcontinental glider tour, 12 hours after start at San Diego.
 New York-Allyn King. musical comedy star who dieted to keep thin, dies of injuries received in leap from | window.
 couple, awakened by rumble of trucks, cause arrest of seven and seizure of soooooO cognac.
 Richmond, Ky.-Farmer fleeing after liquor raid shot to death by deputy sheriff.
 Boston-Ten arrested and .50 cas- es of liquor and sloop seized.
 Kettle Island, ky.-Rescue squads approach place where l 6 men are believed trapped after coal mine eX- plosion.
 1 Washing ngton-Tilson charges dem- ocratic leaders concealed facts in 1 public discussion of Hoover's first ! year as president. | Brownsville, Ky.-James Meredith and two nephews, Isaac and Floyd | Duvall, shot to death; Curley John- son. son in law of Meredith, arrested. Washington - Navy department opposes retirement of Lieut.. Will liams. speed aviator, with rank of captain: says it would hurt morale. 1 St. Helens, Ore.-Four killed, 1o injured when excursion boat is rammed by steamer.
 Foreign:
 London-Spokcsman says Britain IS willing to do everything for peace she can at naval barley. Shanghai--Three foreign mission aries reported captured by bandits in kiangsi province; three others reported fleeing into mountains
 Monte Carlo-Mayor Marquet's party, supporting Prince Pierre as heir to Monaco throne, carries Monaco elections.
 Rome-Maria Sarto, sister oi late Pope Plus x, dies.
 karachi, India-Pir c'saint"} Pagharo Sahib, 2o, charged with murder and theft after 1l5 officer; raid his stronghold.
 New England
 Nanceboro, Me.--Louie Acker oi St. Stephen, N. B.. killed and Thorn. as Cook of Devoid Corner, N. B. l severely injured when train hits auto.
 Providence, E. I.-Right Rev James De Wolf Perry. newly elected presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, in first public ad' dress urges communicants to regard
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Cochrane Has to Watch
 Twenty Base Runners

St. Augustine, Fla, March 5l P) - Mickey Cochrane, sparkplug catcher for the Philadelphia Athle- tics, says there are about 20 Ameri- can leaguers who arc always Il threat when on base. Those most likely to try to steal, he says, are: Yankees, Lazzeri and Combs: Wash Bluege; Boston, Rothrock and Bar ret; Chicago, Gissel, Hunnefeld and Metzler; Cleveland. Morgan, Fonse- ca and Jamieson; St. Louis, Blue and Manush: Detroit. Gehringer and Johnson. Of the Athletics, Coch- rane lists Miller as the most danger ous on the paths.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
LOCAL TEAMS LOSE
 l IN T' TOURNAMENT
Enfield Edges Out South Church Broad Brook Smears Baptists

Both New Britain teams in the junior County "Y" basketball tour nament were eliminated in the semi final round Saturday afternoon and the Broad Brook Tigers and Enfield High school five were scheduled to meet for the championship this af- ternoon at the East Side Recreation center in Manchester. The South Church Juniors made a great bid for Saturdays game but were forced to accept a 34-27 defeat from a heavier Enfield team after four per iods of dingdons basketball. The Baptist Boys club, second Hardware City competitor, proved no match for the bigger and more experience ed Broad Brook quintet and was smothered under a 65-12 score.
 Enfield Downs Churchmen
 The work of Angelica, big forward of. the Enfield quintet, carried his team to victory over the South church youngsters. He scored 10 field goals and led the fourth quar- ISl oSSodIG VI liiNl OuSllL llo VIC tory to his team. The first quarter was evenly Haged, with a one-hand flip by Stanley featuring it. The sec. ond period was another closely con. tested one. but Cormier came through towards the end and brought the locals out into a 1S-1- lead.
 Enfield rallied during the thirt session and forged into the van bl lone point, and then in the f1na one Angelica burst loose with a ser. ies of pretty shots which gave hi! team a 33-22 lead, New Britain ral lied sharply at the end but could no overtake its conqueror.
 Angelica's 20 points made hin the star of the game. Wells also fig ured prominently in the Enfield SCOT ing, while Cormier and Ferony top ped the locals in this respect. Eigh teen personals were called on New Britain and i on Enfield, the local making nine out of 5 shots and tho winners six out of c2. The summary Enfield High School
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Giants Find Opposition
 Easy During the Spring

Dallas, Texas, March 3l R-The New York Giants may be pardone if they hope the opposition in the National league is no tougher than that provided in spring exhibitions by the Chicago White SoX. The two teams have played nine games so far. Each has won four and one was tied. The Giants had a seven run lead in yesterdays bat . tie and then just barely managed to win, 10-S.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

Held scoreless from the floor throughout the first half, the Bap- lists took one of the worst trimmings of the tournament from the Broad Brook outfit. Tyler, the tall center on the upstate team. scored 36 points in a grand scoring splash. The losers were absolutely unable to stop him. and he counted no less than IT times from the field.
 Filing up a SS4 lead in the first half, the Broad Brook team hoped to keep it's basket free from Baptist floor shots throughout the game, but Russell tossed one during the third quarter and Miller followed imme- diately with another. Carlson and Fleming found the hoop before the game ended.
 The summary:
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Yankees Have Found
 Their Hitting Eyes

Dallas, Texas, March S1 tR>-Ii Manager Bob ShaWkey was begin ming to view with alarm the fact that his New York Yankees were doing very little hitting this spring he should be feeling a bit relieved now.
 In their last two games the Tanks have made 29 hits, fair share of them for extra bases. Babe Ruth pounded out four safe hits in Sat urday's game and then went hitless against Houston yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
MAY BE SUBSTITUTE
Lester Bell Who Was Obtained to Do Regular Third Base Duty For Cubs, May Not Land.

Los Angeles, March 31 P>-Lester Bell, who was obtained to do regu- lar third base duty for the Chicago Cubs, may turn out to be a substi- ute for Clarence Blair.
 Blair, tho handy man of the 1929 National league championship Cubs, was sent to third base last week when Bells arm went wrong, and all during the Pittsburgh series his play, both batting and fielding, out shone that of any man on the club. The Cubs finally got the combina- tion yesterday and defeated the Pirates, 13 to ', but were idle today.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
IIfNIOE EI-N WINS

The Junior Hi-Y basketball team swamped the Belvidere Blues for the third consecutive time Saturday at the Y. M. C. A. by the score of 42 to 26. The Y team as a whole, played nice basketball. L. Carlson was outstanding with some feature shots. J. Boyle led the Blues of fense. The score:
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
CantWelI to Pitch
 Against Jacksonville

JacksonviIle, Fla. March 3l P- Ben Cantwell who was bought from the Jacksonville Tars several years ago by the New York Giants for 25,000, returns to town today in a Braves uniform and will pitch for the Boston men against the local team. Rube Marquard, famous portsider of other days, manages the Jacksonville boys.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Spea king of Sports

With all of the under the sur- city with regard to the amateur basketball championship of the state, there isn't any question but that the St. Stanislaus basketball team of Meriden, winner of the Platnfield tournament, is rightful owner Of the title.
 No matter what claims are ad- vanced by other quintets about the state, no matter what alibis or eX- cuses are offered, the fact stands that the teams which would make a claim to the state championship had the very same chance and right to enter the tournament. By virtue of the fact that the St. Stanislaus team went through the tournament, met the opposition furnished there, and won out. then the champion ship of the state and also of south ern New England goes to the Silver City quintet.
 The Burritts and Orioles of this city were at first entered, or prac- tically entered, in the Plainfield play. Both teams withdrew because of the many handicaps offered, es- pecially in the number of games to be played in one day. This elimi- mated them from consideration for state championship Ionors because, being the only tournament conduct ed that was open to all teams in the class. it was the only organized chance to find the best team in the lot.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
FAREWELL TO CAMP

Orlando, Fla, March 3l P,-The Cincinnati Reds said farewell to their Orlando training camp today and set out for the north and the championship eason.
 Manager Dan HoWley said his athletes were in excellent condition The team will reach Atlanta tomor- row for two day stand with the Crackers
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
By WILLIAM BRAUCHER (NFA Service Shorts Fditor)

(NEA Service Sports Editor)
 Winter Haven, Fla, March G1.- Burt Shotton, manager of the team formerly called the Phaltcrins Phils. is all het up.'
 He sounded d warning here the other day to all other National league bosses. Here are his words of wisdom:
 Am I optimistic? I should say I am. Look at that team out there the most total bases, the most long hit, the most extra bases on long hits and the most home runs last year.
 Look at Lefty ODoul-254 hits last year. Look at Chuck Klein. playing practically his first year in baseball-4S home runs
 With an outfield like O'Doul, Klein. Southern and Tripp Sigman, the kid who moved in last year and batted over 500 in the flag end of the season. I think I've got as good an outfield as there is in the busi- ness. In ten games this Sigman kid, from Canton, batted .517."
 agreed with Burt that he has an outfeld par excellence as far as crashing the old potato is concerned. The team as whole is a fence- busting bunch. They have been knocking down all the fences in Florida during the spring training season. There is not a doubt in the world the Phils will continue to hit this season as they did last But
 How about your pitchers, Burt, any better than last year?" l asked him.
 Pitchcrs!! Oh, Yes, Pitchers!
 He gave me sharp glance.
 T am hopeful of the pitcher,' he replied. "Old Aleck has been teach ing the young fellows and you would be surprised how they are picking up stuff from Grover. There he is over there with a couple of the boys now. Never saw such kind and obligins fellow. And he can teach pitchers in a way so they'll understand, They'll listen to Aleck. They know he's not handing 'cm any balonoy. Kindest fellow in the world
 I'm going to carry about ten pitchers, guess. Got to get a. cou- pie of good ones out of the new fel- lows. Aleck will win games for us, too. I'm hoping Elliott, Smyhe and Daley come through. Lester Sweetland improved rapidly last sea son. That boys only 29 years old, and he won Is and lost II last sea- son and showed improvement toward the last that was remarkable.
 Watch Willoughby. too. He didn't do much better than break even last year, but he's going to come through for us with more games than that this season. Ray Benge finished in the red last year, but he lost a lot of hard luck games. He's young and still learning.
 Phil Collins, from New Orleans figure will help us lot this year. He was sick part of last season and didn't get going right.
 Pulled Two Games From Fire we got Harry Smythe from Ashe- vile, in the Sally league. I'll never 1 forget the first day he worked for n1e-against the Pirates-as a relief | pitcher in both ends of a double header and held 'em hitless and run less and won both games. Harry is the lad who put the Pirates out of the running for the championship Patsy O'Rourkc, the scout, dug him up.
 Then there's Sam Dailcy-they call him Sad Sam; young kid from Missouri. Guess they'll have to show Sam. I like the way he's learning :! things.
 Say, we're just as likely as not to
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
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Baptist Boys Club
Babe Herman Finally
 Surrenders to Robins

Clearwater, Fla, March 3t Pl- Babe Herman, a hardy holdout all spring, finally has surrendered 10 the Brooklyn Robins and accepted one year contract at 5000. The Babe originally had asked for $e5.- 900. With Herman in the fold and Del Bissonnette recovered from an attack of boils, Manager Wilbert Robinson can put on the heaviest hitting team Brooklyn has seen in Nears.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Hallahan May Land
 As Cardinal Hurlel

Bradenton, Fla, March 31 Pl- Bill Hallahan, carried by the St. Louis Cardinals for his potential pitching, seems destined to come through this season on the basis of his cocoanut league hurling. In two trials Sweet William" has blossom
 cd forth in good style one time whiting ten of the fifteen batsmen to face him.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
WOMEN TO COMPETE

New York, March 31 R-For the States will have a Uoman's public parks tennis champion in 1880.
 The United States Lawn Tennis association announces that it has been decided to have competition for both men and women at the 1880 public parks tournament to be held at Washington.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
SHE BOWLS 'ENf OVER

Compiling an average of 190 pins per game last year in exhibitions or strange alleys in practically every bowling center of note in this coun try. Mrs. F. J. McCutcheon o; Pueblo, Colo, established herself a: one of the ranking women bowling stars of all time.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
VAN SICKEL TO COACH

Miami, March 31 CP-Dale Van Sickel All America football end il 1925, will join the Florida coaching staff next fall to assist in football basketball and baseball. He is a stal in all three sports at the Gatol school, where he is a senior.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
800 POINTS IN ONE SEASON

Napoleon, O., March S1 LPD-All but 153 of the 65S points scored by the Administration girls basketball team were netted by Miss Eleanor Heckler. She averaged 25 points a game for 20 games.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
NEW MARKS AT MIAMI

Every track record from five anC a half furlongs to one and hal, miles was smashed at the winte, meeting Of the Miami Jockey clul. which came to an end recently, in. dicating that a better class of horses competed than ever before.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
PIRATES PLAY TODAY

Tucson, Ariz., March 3l P- homeWard bound waiter weeks of spring training on the Pacific coast which they climaNed with three vic tories out of four exhibition games against the champion Chicago Cubs, the Pittsburgh Pirates came here today for a practice contest Big Jess Petty probably will start the game for the Pirates.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

Followers of local teams may ar que otherwise but their arguments, except for the weight they will carry among themselves, will fall on deaf ears. As far as we are con- cerned, the winning of the Plain- field tournament is sufficient to cause us to recognize the Meriden quintet, the St. Stanislaus team, as the state championship quintet.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

Doctorlns up a record is not in accordance with the ethics of good sportsmanship and if the charges as stated above are correct then the Orioles should be counted out, with out question, of any claim to state title honors.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

An action of this kind to simply claim a silly and empty honor that has no bearing or standing in off, cial records is childish, foolish and In very bad taste.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
South Church Juniors
Baptists Badly Beaten

Referee, Nelson. Timer, Thienes.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

According to an investigation con- ducted by some of those interested in the matter, the record of the Orioles basketball team of this city, as claimed by Manager Tex Zevin in the final accounting for the sea- son, is not correct. If the charges as contained in the reports are cor rect, then Manager zevin is guilty of a gross misrepresentation.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

It is claimed that the Orioles lost more than one game during the year. Manager Zevin claimed that his team was defeated only by the St. Cyrils of Hartford. The Orioles were defeated by the Middletown Twilight quintet and a New Britain athlete claims that he saw the Ori- oles lose in Meriden. There were no published reports of this Meriden game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
BANKRUPTCY LAWS.

BALTIMORE, September 2 (SpeciaD
Maryland is free from abuses Of
bankruptcy laws reported to exist in
New York City, according to bulletin
just issued by the Baltimore Association
of Credit Men.
Referring to President Hoover's order
for a commission to study bankruptcy
conditions throughout the country, the
association says the action was inspired
by a report by William j. Donovan,
formerly Assistant Attorney General in
the Coolidge administration. Selected by
bar associations in New York to make a
general investigation, Mr.. Donovan
made a report indicating deplorable
conditions, but the credit mems bulletin
says much of the Donovan report can
not be applied to districts outside Of
New York.