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Evening sentinel, Tuesday, March 27, 1917 · page 8

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wants to- meet
Brown in New Haven next
month. Zhe match will probably be.
made. Kunz wants 850 long greens to
tight the New Haven lad. but Brown
only wants to give him $750. No doubt
the difference will be split and Kunz

Battling Kunz
"Chick"

will get $801.1 for his share of the pro—‘

weeds.
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Freddy \‘l'clsh Emma 11 fine. exhibition
of the tango last night. Too bud that
he didn't 11111'1111-1usit to dance. to.

Yale's crew is a ‘rtady )‘ptcpaiing an

alibi. (1.11m that more. weight is need-
ul in the shell.

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l as 11.11 G1 is bound that he will cntm
'Slnckcr" willlphyslquo And 11 but is more he is well

:lp- ring. Tonight the.‘

cm as one of K (‘.Jall’et1.51'conds.JnI-'

2‘ 11 i5 11111111121 Aug}: “21111111 at 111cm” itbo lilo out of him overytimo be ap- no

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Spol'ling club. ~ A
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'lln [11"111115 are optimistic

r1.» 111 bellow that the Giants ar'e

goinu to win the 'pcnnant. With tl' '1ir

1511mm staff of pitchers and Ewrs on
.51410'1d

They re .
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LINDSEY TO BOWL CHICAGO
STAR FOR BIG SIDE WAGER
.\'l‘\\' ll .‘illi‘N, March .mlliort
I lndscy ,ltiug of X1111 llul'cn bowlers.
1.51.5' (11131111! 11011111. ll: ' made a hurried
trip to llallimuic after his bowling
111111 11111 11011 announces that ho is
lame to sta1'.S111'ol'al weeks also
‘1. 111115113 announred that he planned to
::"l11 up the bowling game to enter the
automobile til'c business, but a recent
turn of 111111111: has caused him to defer
«ct-islon. Ilo holds a halt lntercst in
the Palace Alloys in Bridgeport.
liflorts art- now being made to ar~
range a match between Lindsey and
g . .Iimmy llluin, of Chicago. 11110 of the
foremost bowlers of the wool. It ill
1111111111111 lo iuakc the notion a homo
and 11011111 affair. is panics to be rolled.
lore. and in at Chicago.
bide hot 11'.“ bo put up and admirers
of Lindsey will be given the oppor-
tunity to placc part of it. This match
:rhouid serve as a crowning cvent to
thc bowling season. which, from a
mortlng standpoint, luau; boon one of
the host Ncw llavcn has enjoyed in
rct'cnt years, Lindscy and Bluin have
rinslv'ui bc‘forc, 1111011 111111111: won «'1 5'"-
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Welterweight Titleholder Scores
Ten Round Contest

CINCINNATI. March 27.—-—.Iack Brit-
ton, 11ccogniacd Amcrican welt-crwclgbt
«barnpion. outpointcd Tod Lewis of
England in on fast rounds here last
11.1.2111, according to the sport writers
:11 111-;1 ringside. Up to the eighth
round the fight was fairly even, with
'Ihitlon apparently landing tllc‘clean-
. cr blows with n'lcft jab. E

"In the last tbrcc rounds, however,
'Ilritlon opcncd up and appenrcd to
have. a clear advantage at tho end. In
the eicbth and ninth I111. repeatedly
shook up Lewis with hard left jabs
and solid right crosses.

ZBYSZKO A WINNER

BOSTON. March 27—‘1’ladek Zbysz-
Ito defeated Ivan Lino“ in two straight
falls in a wrestling bout last night
The first fall 11 as soot/ed 111th a head
’t‘JlltllCGry hold in 1 hour 6 minutes and

20 StCOIIdS anti the second came in 16
minutes and 10 seconds on a revolt: 12
Nelson.

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can't blame them at all. A

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A substantial _

,bul. thc majority of

Battling Kunz didn‘t box in Pitts
field last night, as he expected to. Ban;

was to mcct Al Thomas of New York,:
but be caught a bad cold shortly bc~j

fore. papcrs were to be signed, and

called the deal off.
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‘ Bill" Perkins says that Kunz is the.i

imost unfortunate boy in the slate. ling
'clalms that the champ has‘boen cheat-1

ed right and left by tight 11:'111:10tor'<.
Perkins mentioned several of (Tic 1.1-
caslons on which the Battier lb- .1
money and from his account. It 11111.».
as though there was some truth in 111.

”gm
.lth' Tcsreau is uman of htfty

aware of thc fact, for the c1"011d"kids'

1111111111 in the box.

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Th1: “l1‘livc.1"' will be real popular in
W115 1\'l1'ginia hereafter. 'l‘nis .Tlillf‘ is

to fix the litcnst fee on an auto by
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“MINOR LEAGUERS FIND lT HARD
TO GET PAYING CITIES.

Each ycai seems to bting more and.
greater difficulties for tho mino:
league magnatcs to combat, and the
very existence of professional {11511
ball sooms tbrcutonod in all but lii1~
larger cities. The class AA circuits
may look forward to a prospcl'ilils
season was very small for a class. A
not yet fully rccovcrcd from the rar-
ages of the Federal League war. The
Southern League is strongly lnlrcnch-
ad. but the. ’Wcstern ins had many
vicissitudes and changes in the last
few years, and the attcndancc last
season was very mail for a class A
league. Olllaha, Lincoln and Wichita
being tho only cltlcs to attract more
than 60,001) customers.

Nearly all of. the class It loagncs
have had more or loss difficulty in lin-,
111'; up their circuits. Many of tho
cltlca now without professional ball.
or forccd to b.- contcul Milt-class I}
teams, OIICe loomcd large on the
buscbull map.

'l‘roy. home of the famous old “11.1-
Inaltcrs anti once a. National Leagnu
town. in now without rcprcscntulimi
in organized ball. and so is the ncigh '
l1oiing city of Albany. Syracuse i1;
now ln class ll company. although at.

Iono timc in the lilaiol's, and tho (tins:

ll Eastern Li's-attuc also has in llarl~
ford and Worcester two former Na-
tional League cities. Jersey City is
now 11111 largest city without a league
club. l'ut scores of other big towns
which 011cc supported league teams
arc now b11yond the. pale. 1

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Tondlm' Surprises New York Light-
weight in Philadcpphia Bout

PIIILAl’lh‘LPHlA, 'Méu'ch 27.—~Lew
Tcndicr of this city surprised Johnny
IJ-nndet- last night at the Olympia
Athlctic Club byllolding the New York
lightweight to an even break. On 5101'-
cml occasions Dundee kept boring in.
times Tendler,
.cool and collected, generally connect
ed. with :1. job which 11"0r1i3d Dundee1
all through lbp bout.

Dundee did some. sterling work at
short range. punishing the local lad
with hard rights and lofts to his mid-
'seution which counted heavily. but
Tendler c1 ened up tbe‘milllng through“
Ills 1 '13101‘ 1. or k in cor noctlng with his
jabs.

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Opinions and Gossip

3v IRISH 1
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1il11ilht111 put.
Idrlvnm and 011cc had Hayes rocking.

of Bridgeport.
sloppcd the bout in thc middle of lbc

lKilbanc tricd to start smnethinu,
‘hc found Wallace a willing mixer and
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fective blows. That Kilbane played
a waiting game. as well as bringing
ring generalship into play, was
evidenced by the pace be set near the
end After Wallace had played him-
self out by his peppery work in thei

Ifourth. fifth. sixth and se\'.enth Kil-

Brooklyn lightweight Wins Four!
Rounds, Four Were Even and;
Featherweight Champion llasi
Edge' in Same Number of IltiuntisI
— Hughes Easily Outpnints Hayes

—Silea Wins from Best and Mo}

Malian Stops Murphy
dbl". ~121y lilibanc, the 111atberwcight1
1-1‘.1 p 111 111 the world was held to a:
1.»: night by Eddie Wallace 015
1:11 111111 in the main bout of l"

1i1"1.1.

lrouuds at the Park 'l‘lxt'zitlc Bridge, 1 Hughcs' du1 km to knock out a whole

port. 'lhc champion leafed ills wayg
through the earlv part of the fight
and no: 1r tlic middlc 11 as outclassed by:
his Hull “1'1 made a wonderful rally"
at the end. punishin;r Wallace He-
\"'.(‘!t‘l) 'l‘lu1 first 1hr. (1 rounds 11'-erc‘.
11vcn \lallacc bobbed up with u lcftf
jab 11111111 found its “111' to Kllbnae‘s
fact. and be uscd it eff-ettivell fori
four straight iounds. Wallace 113.1. ‘1ch
licst of 11111 fourth fiftl1,sixtn and sev-
Thc eighth was oven and the
last four 1111111 to Kilbanc by a good
margin.
Other Bouts

Tommy Shea of New llavcn had a
big load of Ziobnny Best of Scotland
at the end of ten rounds in tho semi-
final. Shea piled up a big lead on
his awkward opponcnt and twice dur-
ing the bout had him rcclinu. llcst
took some hard swats, but managed
to woestle his way through. The best
bout of 11111 cvenlnu served to intro-
duce llllly Hughes, the California
featherweight champion. He met and

dcfcalcd Johnny Hayes, the New
York fcatliorweight. Hayes fouurl

uamcly, but was up against
worker in 11111 youth from
acress some rent

a cagcy
the Wool.
pi it!

no worked slow' and cautiously and
madc good cycry 1111111 ho started a
blow. I11 the preliminary, Young
.\Ic.\lnbon 0f Stralford scored 11
lcchnical knockout over Kid Murphy
Refcrcc Torry 1.11.11.

from
n "1111'-

lo save Murphy
incidentally

second round
taking the. count.
riblv? boating.
Deserves Credit

Wallacc is untitled to credit for his
splcndid showing. 'l‘hc litllu Brook-l
lyn boy 1111111 boring in at his op~
pnncnt and shut across some real:
hard 51111151105: He made a wonder-E
ful stand in 1111- se1'1-111th when I111. jub-l

bcd Iiilbanc all ovcr with ills left.
The champion tried to offset the
blow, but was unable. In the eighth,

Illll
held to a standstill. Wallace.
shone with his left throughout. the.
bout, It was the only good blow
that he had. He was outclassed at
infighting, and fared poorly when he
11'ch to box his man. Near the. end
of the bout be was all in as a result
of tho fast pace he. set during tho
early rounds. Kllbnnc was very
fresh and piled up a load big enough
to get an even break.
Disappointed Fans
Kilbn‘ne didn't fight in his
form. He evidently didn‘t want
ldkc any chances with bumping into
0111.1 of Wallace's blow at the start
of thr- bout, as he contented himself
with doing a two step a la. Welsh.
Wallace on thenthcr hand kept after

usdal
to

the champ and scored some vex’y of 1~

 

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; Gotham boy to tho puutb cvcl'y tinlc
'aull '.~'1raluhl1ucd him up with terrific"

bané'cut loose Wallace managed to
hold his own with him in the eighth,
but in the last four sessions he took
a load of terrific blows. Kllbane
realized that the Brooklyn boy had
lost the steam in his punches and
Hook the aggressive at the end, hav-
ing nothing to fear

The real thriller of the evening was
between Hughes and Hayes. The for-
mer, who recently moved from the
Pacific coast to Bridgeport made a
hit with the fans by his allaround
wo1k..ll11madeilay19s look like a
11mite.’lbe Gotham pug threw
'11nough blows away as a result of

rc glint nt. Hughes appcared ver\' 1
"‘tlulllb'ty at tho start of the first round.
live was ncrlouS, it being his first

 

bout in the tll1. As the fight pro
grossed he warmed up and displaved:
a‘ flnc knowledge of boxing llc is :1",
(1111111' defensive wol'.k11r 101 ering welli
and despite 1111 slowness (11'f1'11,i.5' a
w'ondcnul offensive worker

Hayes was a niche toy In his hauls
aflcr 1111 first round width was even. i
Hughes look 11111'11tl1iug that his op-
ponent had to offer and than l‘tllll‘llt'll'
il in double doses. lIc beat tht‘

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rights and lifts to tlwlaw.llay:11.

011111plai111.1tl of llughos holding. but‘
in rculity it was hlmsolf who tlid most ~
of tho wrestling. llughcs had u bin.
loud at tho 11nd of 111‘c1'y round nftcr
11111. first. 111 the sewnth .5'1".~'.5lon, he
cut loosc and baltcrt'd ayes nll twer

the ring. 111 this round. h~.~1 puffed the
Now Yorker's nose and brought the
claret. in tho eighth round ho had
llaycs going. 'I‘hc New Yorkcr run
into a tcrrlhlc loft ~11ppcrrut. which
nearly llftnl him on his feet. Ilt-

played solos and ran into a clincll.'
llughcs bangcd him to tho ropc'a and
tried for a knockout, but lluycs
managed to duck his way out-of
troublc. In 11111 ninth scsslon. Hughes
showed his keen knowledge. He
brought the hollsc to its fort by side
stopping .11. rush made by Hayes and
caught his man plump on the jaw. lie
knockcd llayes' guard down and then
shot across rights and lofts. I11 the
tenth Hayes triad to come back, but

he was up against too good 11 man for
go rally.

Hughes outpolntetl and out-i
slugged him in thc round. .

 

 

jRUBE scuauEn ONE OF

FEW RUSSIANS WHO GOT

INTO NATIONAL PASTIME

NEW YORK. March 27 ~Rubo
Schaucr late of the Giants and Louis-i
ville. and now selected by the Athlet-
lc1 for l‘ll'i labors, bad to also some
papers with his real name "1:1 (IIII‘31‘
d111, and sign them in about a dozcn
places. As. \Ir.Scba11er's legal name
is Dimitri Ivannovitch Dimitrlhoff,

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most of the day elapsed before all the

formalities were completed. 1

Schnncr and Jake Gettman. former.‘
ly a. big league outfielder, arc prob
ably the only Russian in professional
ball. Gettman s Russian name is said
to have been so long they never ev on
tried to spell it. ‘.

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Tho. Harvard freshman football
scltcdnlc. just announced shows
; 11111.11: :thh Andover, Worcester‘ 1

'Atadcniy. IExetcr, Dean Academy and

Yale. lrcshmcn. Worcestcr is back;
0:1 the list nftcr being dropped for,

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one year.

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SlilEIN SHOIS

The following games have been
been played by the Norwalk team this
season. Twenty-eight games have

 

 

YAIE- llAlllAllll 80M
RACE MAY lit EANCEIIED

CAMBRIDGE, Mas-'15:.

been played during the course of the,The Yale-Harvard boat race this year
will be cancelled at once in the event

regular se'ason scheduled, and out of,

this number the locals have come OBI
victorious in twenty-one contests.
Seven games have been dropped to the
opponents.

Norwalk 41. Yonkers 19.

Norwalk 37, Yonkers 14.

Norwalk 43. Laulers 13.

Norwaik 13, Greenville C. C. 22.

Norwalk 19, Manhatta A. C. 17.

Norwalk 37, New Canaan l3.

Norwulk 22, Harrison 2].

Norwalk 49, Harrison 20.

Norwalk 511, Brooklyn Nationals

Norwalk ‘50. New Canaan. ll.

Nnrwalk 24. Stamford, 17.

Kuwait; 9, Danbul'y 5

Norwalk Stamford 139.

Norwalk 1.. A l Collegiates 211.

Norwalk .‘ . Knlckcrlnu-kcrs ‘23.

Norwalk 3 . R1 .lding “"’.

Norwalk . llanbury ‘22

.\‘or11'.llk l . llanbury 2S.

.\'11r11'alk‘.Jaspl'rs St.

Norwalk -1. Danbury 35.

Norwalk - Nulllit'nkc 1‘2.

Norwalk ‘_ . IIIULLIRIAIIIOIIS 21.

Norwalk ‘, lllnc ll’libbona 25

.\'1.-rwulk . llluc Ribbons l9.

Norwalk ., Illtu- Ribbons 22.

Ntl'nalk' All St'lrs ‘ll.

.T's'til'tl'alk‘ . 81111 1‘, lb 111115 ZR.

Norwalk 1.. I"11~,\ 21,1.

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all-1111111113; :11 till'
last evcniug was .ion Hrcyfuss, the
“Mnnbuttcn Marvel." All cfforts on
the part of 1hr1 local nulnngcmcnt to
hnvc .loe go out and be introduced to
tho crowd failed. howcver, Joe prev
ferrlng to remain inconspicuous dur-
ing; thc evening.

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Since his last appcarancc in this city
Jack lnglia has taken on considerable
weight. The vctcran dlsplaycti frev
uncut bursts of speed last cvcn
lng. however, which reminded the
fans of what he was in his more. youth
ful days.

1)

O

Alnonu H111 game

._..._.

“Ecky” (Taldcr certainly cclcbralcd
his return to the gamc In good stylc
last evening. Six different field goals
were rung up by the blonde forward
against Mullcr.

.54.-.-

"Chief" Mullcr took some big

‘cbnnccs on putting baskcts from all

angles last evening. The “t‘llief” sue.
cecdcd in some Instances but 11111 long
shots don‘t alllays go true.

.0...

According to the way the situation
looks at the present time it scents
probable that Ihf.‘ \‘orwalk- Blue Rib-
bon game will be pla1 ed in Dnnbury
Saturday evening

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CUT THIS 0UT~IT l8 WORTH
MONEY

x“

Don’t miss this. Cut out this slip,
enclose with" .11: and mail it to Foley
& 00., 2835 Sheffield avenue, Chicago.
111.. writing your name and address
clcarly. You will receive In return a
1trial package containing Foley‘s Hon-
cy and Tar Compound. for coughs,
colds and cream Foley Kidney Pills,
for pain in sides and back, rheuma-
tism, backache, kidney and bladder

sllmcnts; and Foley Calharlic Tab“

ILJ“, a wholesome and'
catbl' rtic,

headaches and slngxilsh

thoroughly

billonsness,
bow els. —Adv.

‘and fixe-sixtccnths

rough.

for constipation, 1

of a declaration of war by Congress,
Fred . Moore, graduate treasurer of
athletics at Harvard University, said

,today. Other athletic events also will
:be cancelled, he said. although such

competitions may be decided on Har-
vard's home. fields, when the prepare.
t-ion does not involve extensive train-

ing, will be played. The probability
10f similar action by other colleges may
jfurther reduce these contents.

No formal agreement has yet been

. reached regarding the Yale Harvard
guns at New
ibioore said, although then1 has been
inn inforinal exchanga of views the
ltwoen‘ the graduate atblctic commit-'
[1111's of both universities. The crew 11c
ltivities would be lhc first to bti aban-
fdon. according to the treasurer.
because of the1 preparation necessary

London on June 22.

both

and the fact that every member of the
varsity crew and most of the members

.of the second eight, arc enlisted for
'some form of military or naval train
‘lng.

PENN caews SHOW SPEED
Coach Wright Has Fast Time Trial
for ’Varslty Eights
l'llIlAlihl. l'lllA, Malt‘h 3'7 ~(‘ouch

 

Lino \I'r ichl has started 1111» final two

1111-.1115 of driving to not his Pennsyl-
vania oarsmun in the boa-'1 of condition

for the Yale races. which will be hold_
iclcs around his two opponents. bear!"

on lhc Schuylkill course April 7. The
Rod and Blue coach sent his 'I'arsity
out on the river at 4 o'clock yesterday
aflcl‘nonn. They went upstream at a
slow pace until they reached tbc head
of thc course, and then the Quaker

tinl'slli1en wore scnt downstream with

full speed ahead in a lime trial. Al-
though Coach Wright would not an-
nounce the figures that his stopwatch

showed. it was rumored that the
Pennsylvanians beat their time of
Saturday. when they rowed theI mile

in 6:37.

Tbt1 junior crewggot a similar kind
of workout, first being allowed to take
things easy, and then being rush-ed in
a time trial. Wright has said little
about his freshmen eight. It. is the
heaviest first~year crcw ever seen at
the college boathous‘e, but most of
thc men have never rowed in a shell
before, and although the. combination
has a lot of power its bladmvork is

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BENNIE MCCOY A WINNER

Baltimore Bantam Beats Battling
Chuck in Brooklyn Ring

Bennie McCoy, the Baltimore ban
tum, gave Battling Chuckahoxinglen
sen last night at the Vanderbilt A. C'..
in Brooklyn. , Chuck wash willing
worker, but be was outclassed in sci-
ence and was beaten from gong to
gong.

McCoy used a straight. left with an~
noying effect on Chuck's nose and var
led this with a. right to the body. While
Chuck stood up well under the bom-
bardment he was not in the hunt at
any time. McCoy emerged from thc
combat without a mark. while Chuck‘s
countenance was disfigured.

In the other bout, between Joe For
and Frankie Ryan. hostilities were
halted in the fourth round. Ryan

fractured a bone in his right hand.
A good adv. pays.- best in the be‘
paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Scare Was 37 to 26~Montauh
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in the lust 11011113 31111.11 of the sett—
son played last niclu 1.1 the local ar~

J'lut‘)’, 11:1 XOI‘Walks humbled 1M -'
miguy ’ basketball warriors lyf' _'
the score of 37 to 21;. From the tap— ;.

but Norwalk. Fast team and flair
work combined with accurate shoots.
ing on the part of the. local cohorts
spelled disaster for the visitors, who
presented a lineup formidable cuoudx
to be called world‘s champions. Ln»
cal fans bailed with delight the. W"
turn of “Faulty" Calder, the speedy
Norwalk forward who has been kept.
out of the game for the past two
weeks with illness. "Ecky during his:
layoff however appurantly lost none:-
of his cunning, for playing against the»
rekuowen “Chief” Muller, the littlet
blonde managed to toss six field 118% ‘
11913, which evened things up as far as
the scoring went, vvitr the “Chief"...
himsclf. The romaininiz players of thoo
local team. especially Mike Sundial:
and Cup. J. Ashmead also travelled at; ,
a breakneck pace, and succeeded ill _
playing their opponents off of their". .
feet. Muller, Inglis, and Grimstcatl
played the best ball for the visitors”
the “Chief” netting six baskets during:
the course of the contest. After last
nights showing by the. locals, Noiwalk'
fans are more convinced than ever"
that .\0r1valk is reprt's scntcd this nea~
team than the Blurr-
aggregatlon will ‘
play the Blue Ribbons in Colonial
Hull tonight. ‘
“Chris" Leonard was the. only Norm
walk player who was outscored by"
his opponent last evening. 'l‘bl't fact.
could suulracl no creditafifrom thi‘
game of the big local pivotal man:
however, inasmuch as be played cir—

and Grimstead on the floor and was un—
strumcntal 1n brcaking up the rapid .
paszing of the visitors. Time “(1'
again the T1';'o. players would attempt;
a. long pass only to have Leonanl
throw himself in the path of the fish

lng leather, ..nd pull it down out of tho

I'.
InMike Smolick 11': .. as usnm ‘11 the-1
game cv cry moment, shining particuh
nrly in close plays under the net. ‘_
Mike drew as his opponnnts during that .
evening, both the giant Grlmstead;
and Ripley, but the “Harlem Thunders- ‘
bolt" succeeded in playing both of hit-‘-
opponents to 11 standstill. Mike hung:
up two baskets against Grlmutoad’sonta
in the first half, and netted two field.
goals against Ripley’s none in the 11905
0nd.

Nat Holman played a good game».
against .Suils, caglng three field goals:
during the course of the evening, ant] ,
holding his opponent scoreless. _,
"Ecky Calder was really Norwalk'sxw
big smoke.” Playing 11. guard poefilcnz"
against “Chief" Mulitr, the local [on
ward kept. th c"Chief" after hit}!
every minute.es:1d before the final
gong had sounded "Ecky" had sdcceerl-_'
ed in ringing up. six field goals to bus,
credit. Muller caged a like number?" .14

Joe Ashmead was lined up again
the veteran Jack Inglis. and be sue-
ceedcd in covering the “Pride of Troy’ff
in a very excellent manner. Joe tows.
ed four field goals before the evening’ii
festivities had drawn to-a close, fl
against Inglis‘ lone basket, and throat
fr 211 shots.

A few seconds after the game but
started. Thorp called a foul omepv'
and Nat Holman caged the first ban-1'
hat of any description of the evening"
Grimstead tossed a basket. for the." “"
visitors a few moments later and that
score then seésawed back and forth.
with first one team and than another?
leading by one point, until finally than
total fa1ored Norvalk at 10 to 9. Ah
ter this polnt‘had béen reached how
___cver, the locals warmed up to work,
and succeeded in getting some foam
work 11110 play Baskets were1rung'mp
in quick order, and after this,.1\'m-
walk was never headed An interests
lng sidcllght t0 the first half was a“;
hot but short-lived fistic encounter bu-
tween “Chlef” Muller and "W‘
Calder. which while it lasted tumul-
ed excltment aplenty. Tom Thorn M
the players separated the combo.
In a. few seconds however. and M'
scrap as declared a draw. '
NORWALK galley two

Norwalk-continuad to pile info for!
towards the close ,of the opening In!
and when the bell ended the first 6.1
alon; the score favored the locals ‘

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

22 to 15. 1‘,
The second half was a ropetllon
the first period. "Bin mum“

 

who had oppoaad' “Chris" {can ,
inn the first half. retired from Lil
lost In favor of R111lcy.L~ Girl

 
 

 

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