New Britain herald., 1930-04-02
Spea king of Sports

The question of how professional | basketball compares with baseball | with regard to salaries paid, is one | that is often mulled over by basket | ball fans. The answer is that the top-notch | court performer gets about as much | per season as the major league base | ball players of fair ability. The court | performers get something like s1,- 500 a month. As the basketball sea- i son, including preliminary training, | covers four and a half months, the | big shots of the American Pro | league cash in to the tune of s7,500. | Besides getting this money, the l basketball players have most of the year free in which to spend this | money or to engage in other occu- pations. Take the members of the World | Champion Cleveland Rosenblunls | They follow variety of occupations at other times of the year. Joe Lapchick, center, has charge Of a. swimming pool in Yonkers, his home town. Carl Husta, guard, goes in for baseball. He was formerly with the Athletics and moro recently man. aged a club in the Piedmont league. Red Skurnick, forward, helps run . summer camp. Ray Dickerson, forward, is an Oklahoma cowboy and spends his vacations from the court in round ing up stray cattle.
 Pete Barry, forward, runs a sum- mer hotel in Rockaway, N. Y.
 Johnny Beckman, forward. goes in for shingling roofs in a big way.
 Dutch Dehnert follows the horses and Dave Kerr, the manager, is salesman.
 Apparently the only thing these men have in common is basketball.
 The Corbin Screw basketball team steps out Saturday in it's first tourna- ment games in the State Industrial Basketball championship play. The locals this season, are being counted on to give a good account of them- selves in the state competition.
 They tell us that P. r. McDonough, democratic candidate for mayor, was star football player during his high school days. We are waiting for some heckler to ask him if he remembers the days when he was a prominent member of the "Corned Beef and Cabbage" eleven.
 On that same team were Dick Buckley, the Flannery brothers and a good number of others whose names slip the memory just at pres everything in sight.
 "Pat" Rose has been released by the Springfield team of the Eastern Baseball league. He tried out for an outfield position and was the last of the rockies to be released.
 Rose impressed the owners of the Springfield team and is to be given a tryout with some nine in the New England league. Pat" is determined to capture a steady position and is not discouraged over his failure with the Ponies.
 Rumors have it that Jerry Grit fin, star pitcher of the Industrial league during the 1920 season and holder of the title of "strikeout king" is palnning to make a come back during the coming season after layoff of many years.
 Jerry" is in good health but whether the old soup bone will re- spond is another question. Baseball fans will follow his activities with interest.
 Art Pilz of this city, superintendI ent of the Meriden Boys club, has just hit the high mark in his career as a director. During the present week, he staged a circus at the club which was in the nature of an exhi- bition of what the boys are learn- ing under his direction. Games stunts and feats of all sorts were performed.
 The affair was described in Meri- den newspapers as the finest eXhibi- ton ever given in the history of the city of Meriden. Mr. Pilz is regard ed as one of the best instructors ever to hold down the position at the Meriden Boys club.
 MEET IN SECOND GAME
 Providence, R. l., April (UP)- The Providence Reds and Boston Tigers were to meet here tonight in the second game of the series for the Canadian American Hockey league championship and the Fon- taine cup. The Reds are strong fla vorites because of their victory in the first game of the series in Bos- ton Monday night.
 SPIRES REACHING FORM
 Dallas, Tex. April 9 LP-A?t Shires is reaching mid-season form The White Sox first baseman yes tcrday played his first full practice game and got a double, single and a walk-and bantered with the spec. tators.
 The Sox today had a game with the Fort Worth club at Fort Worth.