New Britain herald., 1930-10-14
S;pe king of Sports

Reports of an exhibition game be- tween members of the world cham pionship Philadelphia Athletics indi- cate that George Earnshaw was one of the players whose home runs broke up the game. Although Earn shaw was the hero in the world series, it was his pitching not his hitting that brought him the honors.
 Not all pitchers are poor hitters. When Frank ALefty) O'Doul was playing with the New York Yankees several years ago he was a pitcher. On many occasions he was brought into the game as a pinch hitter. He failed to made the grade as pitch CT, SO he was sent back to the minors. While playing on the Pa cific coast, injuries made 1t neces- sary that he be used in the outfeld for the Vernon club.
 His hitting earned him the regular outflelders job and he hit consist ently for a league record. Soon he was called back to the major leagues UuI do dtl oOlllCl0Cl. 1lC pldyCO WltH the Giants but Is now with the Phil lies and will be with Brooklyn next year.
 Coach George M. Cassidy of the New Britain High school team has been appointed coach of the New Britain Machine basketball quintet. He took charge of the Corbin Screw basketball team in its first year of existence and its success in the past few years is attributed to MT. Cas- sidy by his friends.
 Louis Squillaciote of 58 Cottage place, weighing 147 pounds, an- nounced at the Y. M. c. A. he could put anybody his weight on his back within five minutes of a wrestling match. He challenged many but no one would take up his offer. Out of clear sky a little fellow, Felix Meyer, tumbler from the "Y" &C., cepted the challenge. He weighs 125 pounds.
 The bout was staged and Felix was the winner. He pinned Louis shoulders on the mat in five min- utes and 14 seconds It is reported that Louis promised he would leave town for a month. He hasn't been seen so 1t is believed he kept his promise or is in hiding.
 Football players at Rutgers do not demonstrate intelligence equal to that of the non-athletes, says q pro- lessor. They would die for dear old Rutgers but darned If they'll study.
 The question of whether or not hte city of New Britain will be rep resented in the American Roller Hockey league this year Is still un- answered. A meeting scheduled for Sunday was postponed until a later date.
 It Is unknown as yet whether or not the games would be played at the state armory or Tabs hall. If the military officials will allow the use of a special floor over the one that would be used for dancing. basketball and drilling, it is prob , able that roller hockey will be play ed at the armory.
 Negotiations are being conducted between Manager Al Politis of the New Britain Rams and the Sokol- Rosebuds of Bridgeport for a game to be played in Bridgeport next Sun day. The Bridgeport team is not the same outfit that played the Paw nees Sunday.
 The complicated condition in which the football rules now find themselves Is evidenced anew by the discovery that Yale scored an illegal touchdown against Georgia Satur- day and that-here's the joker four very capable officials on the field failed to detect the illegality.
 Barre's run for score after stab ping ball which had popped out of Georgia backs arms on the kick off should have been disallowed, it now develops, as the kicking team may only fall on the ball and may not run with 1t on a kickoff. But Barres didn't know it. Georgia didn't know it, the corps of officials didn't know it-and it took even the post mortem rule experts more than AS hours to discover their error.
 Again in the same game Georgia man recovered Yale tumble during a scrimmage and started to run with 1t in direct violation of the ruling that the ball is dead at ooint of re- covery in these circumstances. The referee called the ball back, but the fact that the player ran with it shows again that there is doubt over the rules.
 When the rules relating to fum- bles were remade year ago to take some of the chance out of the game. the alterations also removed the ne- cessity for faultless execution of daring plays by minimizing the pen alty for failure. And they also seem to have left players, officials, and spectators in somewhat of a haze.
 In the old days a ball was dead when-and only when-it actually stopped to move around the grid iron. Now the referees whistle de- termines whether or not the ball IS in play, and the rules even go so far as to tell just when a kick stops be- ing a kick. All this may make for clarification of the code, but 1t seems to be taking an unusually long time to get used to the new rulings and definitions.
 New York can't "see" Kid Kaplan at all. If he loses his coming bout urith Sua reg the Latin will get Sh Qt