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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
3
In St Louis on December 29, Matt Malley won an $850 bid for 1923 privileges to retrieve golf balls from municipal links. He hires boys to recover balls, paying five cents per ball if found after players leave, then repaints and resells them for 10 to 40 cents.
McCarten stars in the American League with a 105 average and 346 in three strings while Collins tops the National League with 102 and 327. Detroit leads both leagues with a 517 team total. Official records and averages follow.
The case details a Danbury man James Healy killed by a Connecticut company bus in Glen Crook. A flask of whiskey was found under his body, witnesses told Coroner J. J. Phelan during the inquiry. Healy, an orderly at Solfers Home Noroton Heights, died in the bus accident.
New York December 29 The American Intercollegiate Football Rules committee warns that outside influences threaten the sport's prestige and amateur ideals. Dartmouth’s F K Hall reads the 1922 report noting pressure on players and authorities to win and urging clubs to enforce standards and remove institutions failing to uphold fair play.
Patsy Kline, once a top lightweight, hovers between life and death from pneumonia. A $175 collection was raised at a New York fight show. The card features Wee Wille Spencer, Irish John Curtin, Pancho Villa, Terry Martin, Hughey Hutchinson, Babe Herman, Charlie White, Rocky Kansas, Pepper Martin, Jack Bernstein, and Joe Wagner guiding boxers and vaudeville engagements.
Muriel G Wickenden, Girl Golf Champion of England, argues Americans excel at putting due to consistent greens and climate. She notes English greens vary daily, undermining confidence, and stresses that putting is about confidence, not a single style, warning against swaying and urging players to adopt and stick with a suited stance.
Hartford dispatch reports Governor elect Charles A Teepleton says he has not considered anyone for the state highway commissioner post. Commissioner Bennett’s term ends July 1 and only the new governor can name a successor for a four year term. Bennett told the governor elect he might have misgivings about a reappointment due to salary and uncertain prospects. no decision has been made.
The Kelly Kids and Dinty Moores swept all games in the P A League. Lineup fans name Moss Sheehy McCarten Peterson Reed Collins Phillips as top timber. Woypowages lead standings while records and averages shine in Red Men Elks Poorhouse and YMCA leagues.
Daniel Mc Auliffe formerly a Hertford police officer and head of the Irish Free State Secret Service has been back in America to negotiate release of five million dollars held in New York banks for Irish bonds. He arrived in Hartford Christmas night and carries assurances of non molestation from Washington.
The Algonquin club hosts a New Year’s Eve program from 9 pm to 4 am featuring the New Haven Symphony Orchestra with soloists and entertainers. A fireworks display, confetti and Mardi Gras tributes will precede dancing to Broadway Jones’ Coconut Grove orchestra.
Clarence Queening of Greenwich is injured in the foot yesterday when his Christmas present, a .22 Winchester rifle, discharged by accident. The incident occurred while the boy was handling the gun, leading to a minor injury and prompting local safety warnings.
SPORT SNAPSHOTS reports Penn State under coach Huso Bezdeck focusing on defense at the Rose Bowl ahead of the New Year game with USC. It notes PSU's 1923 football schedule includes West Virginia North Carolina and Georgia Tech among nine contests.
More than 100 people including graduates crowded Hilltop gym seeking entry to a scheduled Bridgeport High versus Congress High basketball game. The doors were locked and the game was canceled indefinitely amid rumors of an athletics director overstepping the principal and school board.
The national championships will be held at the Arena in New Haven on February 15 and 16. Local committee chairman Heaton R. Robertson will handle entry blanks from 728 Chamber of Commerce Building, New Haven. Events include women and men junior and senior championships, school figures, free skating, pair skating, and the waltzing championship. Noted champions Sherman C. Badger, Mrs Teresa Weld Blanchard, Petros Wahimen, Miss Beatrice Loughran, and Mrs. Nay W. Niles are named from Boston and New York skating clubs.
John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, donated an autographed baseball to 13 year old John Sedarford of 92 River Street New Rochelle. Sedarford won the item at a Christmas party for 100 children in the high school auditorium where McGraw acted as Santa Claus for the New Rochelle Rotary Club.
Princeton defeated Harvard this year as the B team mastered Crimson backfield moves. Tackle Herb Treat credited coaches and advance instructions for exposing key Harvard plays. Guard Howdy Gray and center George Owen of Harvard were noted as tough matchups in the interview.
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