New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1915, Page 10

2seball Man in New Haven Tells »f Plans of Federals to Grab Patronage in Connecticut; Ritehie Comes Qut of His Chrysalis---Stamford High Basketball Team Here Tonight VT St INASION 66 to Reports a_dsrals. _“There Is 'no o Not a bit,” es H. O'Rourke uestion regard- pf.stories which about Eastern ite to the effect j21 league club W England next or Feds, it at all” he nowledge there ch a move in part of Gilmore t appears ridic- to suppose that pther a league at a great ex- main business gue, is not yet 4 \ hey will finally g a third major stion. Yet it is running his pess proposition, sn’t stretch ont r buy up doubt- the main fissuc paying basis, be- failure. Tha hg these rumors permen. ome of the arti- peared in state they were the a few sporting lhave to fill their hing in the ofr & this means of cularly to Hait- papers. These btbed of fakism tion just as is ona] league. imor or scandal league which pss of the coun- rectly to Pitts- h newspapers pvery wild sto eircuit. Some ford or Spring- of it, touch on 8 league direc- lent said in con- | o it will be only ay. -The meet- iwith other af- ftance.” DHNSON; IERRMANN Seeing These Beball —Affidavits in made in the filed in the Chicago by the Bt so-called ‘‘or- re to be made ague conference Gates, counsel the Indianapolis order to obtaiun jubstantiation of pplaint prepared st the older or- nference is ex- several da of the Chicago who attended he meeting. He are planning to housecleaning,” Proposition. jcate the ‘busi- e and put in no sman. We are ball Tun by two nd Garry Herr- d he thinks the Inal league club John M. Ward, efused to discuss 0 assist the Feda- n the anti-trust occodings. All of the de- brought by the st the National National and gues were to he by atorneys re- mal Commission, eceived here by resident of the m August Herr- Il Commission. . Thomas said, gs and eliminate teen lawyers to elubs joined in at the National eet here next plans for combati- ue suit, which s before Federal probably be dis- Sportography BY “GRAVY.” Gus Ruhlin, who was a star among the heavyweights in the days when that ‘division had such good men .as Corbett, Fitzsimmons,' Sharkey, Jef- fries, Maher and McCoy, was born in Canton, O., just forty-three years ago today, Jan. 8, 1872, Gus died in 1912, at the age of forty, but his memory will be honored ‘as long as the annals of ‘the ring are preserved. Although he took part in many famous bouts, Gus never got away with much coin, and his entire ring earnings were not over $60,000. When. he quit the game ten years ago he settled in Brooklyn and opened a cafe, which became noted hecause of the suffrage sentiments hung on- the walls. Gus’ wife was an ardent suffragist, and .she made his place a center of propagan- da for “the cause.” A suffrage leaflet was. given out with every drink. Ruhlin was always a great family man. With his first ring earnings he bought a home for ‘his parents in Akron, O., and he left his widow a fortune estimated at $30,000. Although' born in Canton, Ruhlin began his pugilistic career in Akron, and he was ever after known as ‘‘the Akron Giant.’ He was a giant [ in height, standing six feet two, but he seldom weighed over 185 pounds in his fighting clothes. His first ring bout was in Akron in 1896, when he defeated Jim Wood. He was then matched with another big fighter, Con Tobin, and the battle was pulled off at Barberton. Tobin was a New Yorker and had had much ring experience, while Gus was a novice, but the Akron lad had the advantage of the sage counsel of Kid McCoy. The Hoosler boxer had taken quite a shi to Gus, and thought he had the mak ings' of a great fighter. Tobin made Gus look like a boob in the first round, and the second was about the same, but under McCey’'s coaching the Akron giant woke up in the thira and got in a few good slams. McCoy noticed that Tobin showed no special fondness for body blows, so he in- stfucted Gus to devote all his atten- tion to Con's midriff. Ruhlin fol- lowed instructions, and in the fifth vound Tobin quit, declaring his arm W broken. After a couple more battles, Billy Madden came to Akron with Steve O’Donnell. Gus gave Steve a good lac- ing in ten rounds, and this so im- | pressed Madden that he took Ruhlin under his wing. \In 1897 Gus was matched with Jim Jeffries at San Francisco and held him to a draw in twenty rounds. Gus then made a trip through the south, whipping Tut Ryan at New Orleans, “Tex” Smith at Hot Springs, and Woolf Bendorff at Baltimore. Ahout this time Gus got the notion that he was good enough to lick his former teather, Kid McCoy, and so expressed himself. The Hoosier in- vited his former pupil to go to it, and they met in Syracuse early in 1898. The bout was for twenty rounds, and McCoy let it go the full limit. During that period the Kid amused himself by making Gus' map over to suit himself, and the clumsy Ruhlin never once landed a solid blow on his tormentor. A little later, when his face had healed, Gus fought Tom Sharkey at Coney Island, and the sailor knocked him out in the first round. Gus revenged himself on Sharkey in 1900, putting the sailor away .in the fifteenth, and in 1902 he knocked out Peter Maher, the Irish champion, in Philadelphia. He was knocked out by Bob Fitzsimmons in 1900, In his last battle, about ten years ago at Colma, Ruhlin knocked out Jim MecCormick in the eighteenth round. TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS. 1875 —Frank KErne, former light- weight champion of the world, born at Zurich, Switzerland. Erne is the only Swiss in ring history to hold a pugilistic although several other natives of the mountain 1epublic have made fair reputations in the game. Krne's father emigrated tc America and settled in Buffalo, where Frank started his money-mak- ing career as a pin-boy in a bowling alley. Tt was just twenty-one years ago yesterday that Erne made his ring debut against the little lad whose monaker was John L. Sullivan, Jr. The famous old John L. had no rea to be proud of his namesake, for stopped him in two rounds. then defeated George Fiddons the famous “Iron Man,” and fought a draw with Solly Smith, and then went to New York, where he twice knocked out Jack Skelly and fought draws with George Dixon and Young Griffo. Hce annexed the lightweight title by defeating George ILavigne in Buffalo in 1899, but lost the title in 1902 to Joe Gans, who knocked him out in the first round at Fort Erie, 1872—Gus Ruhlin, long famous as heavyweight, born in Canton, O. 1897—Casper Leon defeated Jack McKeck in three rounds at Troy, N. e championship, a GIVES UP THE GHOST. New York State basketball hag disbanded. Poor attend- ance in Johnstown, Gloversville and several other cities caused the break. That will throw a lot of star players on the market. "~ JOIN THE Afternoon Bowlers AT THE Aetna Alleys eyl 3o om3 Jo A®pyYnIq oyl ST SIUT The league Business and Profcssional Meu JINGLE OF DUCATS MUSIC TO RITCHIE Wilic Waals to Meet Leach Cross in the Garden: New York, Jan. 8.—The boxing earnings of Freddie Welsh, Charley White and Joe Shugrue the past few months has had its effect on Willie Ritchie, former lightweight cham- pion, who has decided to re-enter the Ting and gather another fortune, ac- cording to a letter received by Match- maker Jimmy Johnson, of the Gar- den. Since beating Ritchie for the title Freddie Welsh has gathered $40,- 000 in a half dozen bouts, while White has earned $20,000 since boxing | Ritchie at Milwaukee. Shugrue has added $7,600 in the five fights he has tralia. !allowed until Ritchie will start his new campaign in New York, having accepted the terms of Jimmy Johnson for a fight at the Garden. Ritchie states in his | letter that he would like to have ! Leach Cross for his first opponent early in February and providing Cross makes good with his prediction that he will defeat Shugrue at the Garden next Wednesday night, Man- | ager Johnson will agree to stage the | match. Ritchie and Cross produced | the best lightweight match at the Garden in many years a year ago last November, drawing a $20,000 house. It is now up to Cross to show enough alllity against Shugrue next Wednes- day night to entitle him to a return match. Gibson’s Bid Too Low. New York, Jan. 8.-—The battle- ground for the next heavyweight championship fight, between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, will be de- cided today. The choice lies between Juarez, Mexico, and Havana, Cuba. A conference was held yesterday, when the representatives of the various in- terests desirous of staging this event made their offers to Jack Curle, The Gecision will be made after Billy Gib- son has made a supplementary offer te hold the fight at the Havana base- Tall park. Gibson's first offer yester- day did not satisfy Curley, and he was noon today to better terms. The offers of John McKee of Cin- cinnati, representing Curley Brown's Havana racing interests, and James Coffroth’ were not favorably received. Jack Curley is understood to Juarez for March 8, at which the southwestern cattlemen hold their convention in that city. He is, how- ever, not committed to Juarez, and if Gibson makes a satisfactory offer he will get the fight. Owing to Johnson's the federal authorities, he will not fight in the United States. He is at present giving exhibitions at Buenos Aires, but is scheduled to sail for Cuba or Mexico within a week. ‘Willard is at present in New York, but will leave for the West with Jack Curley as soon as the details for the match are completed. trouble with SEASON 1S SHORTENED. Week Less of Agony. Boston, Jan. S.—The league, at an adjourned annual meeting yesterday, play a schedule of the coming season. ed April 30, ana wi da The number of games is the same as was played last vear, but the season has been shortened one week. The league decided that any sale of a club or trading in players must be ratified by the executive board with the consent of the president, or the secretary It was said that Daniel Noonan of Lawrence, who holds tae TLawrence and Haverhill franchises, would sell one club hefore the season started, Umpires mum salary holidays. It is expected that meet again in schedule. England sion of its voted to 126 games during Play wil be start- 1l close on Labor will be allowed a maxi- of $8 a day with $16 for the February league will to adopt a McCANN SIGNS MAHONEY. Larry Mahoney has signed his 1913 contract with New IL.ondon ang N ager McCann has one less worry. The former Lawrence player, secured in sent to the Massachusetts city, came here yesterday, lunched with McCann at the Mohican and then went and gave the town the once « . What he saw evidently satisfied kim that New London was not the worst place in the world to play ball, after a short talk with McCann second sacker announced himself satisfied with the terms offered, w . tied up for next season. out, ror the “MATTY” AN OF New York, Jan. 8 Mathewson was one of the at the Sportsmen’s Show in Madison Square Garden last night. He acted as one of the judges in the 120-yurd swim for men. The race had an usually large entry. being run in iive heats and a final. The winner turned up in the most consistent win- ner of the week, Charles Kaufman of the American Life Saving =ocicly. Kaufman, with a handicap of tweniy- one seconds, covered the distance in 1.25 1-8. G. B. Nodine, de Y. M. C. A. (thirty seconds), was ond and 8. Lothian, West Side C.. A. (sixteen seconds), third. Christy onloolk un- engaged in since returning from Aus- | propose | favor | time | | ers fellows had better look out. | scores: : Molander the trade by which Jake Warner was | . | Warner Demaree and Stock Figured In the Trade for Lobert 1 DEMAREE O OSSR STOCK =+ New York, Jan. S.—-Who got the best of the big trade made by the Glants and the Phillies? Only time can give a definite answer, but to the | ordinary observer it looks like Mana- ger Moran got the best of Manager | McGraw. He traded Hans Lobert for | Pitcher Demaree, Infielder Stock and | Recruit Catcher Adams. Last season ILobert batted .2756 and Stock batted .276 .263. Not much difference there. Lobert also had a shadc on Stock in | bases stolen and in sacrifice hits. But Stock is a much younger man than Lotert and ought to improve, while ‘BOWLING | aternal League Gets Good Start. Lobert did not do nearly as well last jear as h.. didl in 1918, when he bat- ted .300 or in 19i2, when he batted .827. Demaree was bought by the Giants from Mobile in the fall of 1912. He pitched a few games that year, and in 1913 he won thirteen and lost four. l.ast year he won ten and lost seventeen. seven or eight innings, especially if the game is close. Demaree is not | able to pitch many games, but he is effective so long as his strength lasts, and he ought to make a valuable re- lief twirler. He needs a long rest be- tween games. T2 389 412 4 Goods Mfg. Co. 0% 80 225 1219 Shaw Paper Bernard TLancaster McCabe . 80 | Haywood o X 5 $0 100 91 76 91 78 2356 234 233 o The Fraternal league is off to what is expected to be a good season. The sharpshooters are shooting sharper than cver before and the crash of the pins is musie to their ear Most of the important fraternities in town are represented and some warm battles are promised before the season ends. The strikes and spares are be- ginning to bud and before the season is well under way they should blos- som forth as the eye and the arm re- gain their old skill and cunning. Many of the Fraternal league bowl- are old time alley sharps and they hit their stride the young Rice 5o Segalowitz ¥is 418 408 362 H. S. BASKETBALL FIVE IN HARD GAME Stamford High Quintet Always a SR Tough Proposition and Is Expect- The Moose collected a basketful of ed to Prove Troublesome Tonight. honors last night, cleaning up the T. ; Although many regard the Stam- A. B. quintet in three straight. The ford game this evening as a pre- liminary game, since it is not a league game, it is one of the most important contests on the whole New Britain High school hedule. The invad- ing Stamford team has held the state basketball championship several times during recent years and is a very strong contender for the champion- ship this season. It not very often that Stamford High plays up-state, but when it does it is ure thing that it is out to win. Thig is evidenced hy the fact that after their request for the use of the New Britain gymnasium afternoon had been granted, the in- vaders held an hour's practice taere in order that they might not placed at no disadvantage by playving on a strange floor. The New Britain team will be the same as that which played the last game in Winsted, Capt. Schade and Anderson will be the forwards and Tuthill will play center, Ginsberg and Dudack, guards, are expect- ed to keep the visitors' score down. For substitutes thae local hasketball team is not wanting, with Root, Mar tin and Schmidt to cail upon. The Juniors, champions in the terclass league, will contend with the second team for second honors in the school, This game will start at and a larger attendance than at former game is anticipated. Moose. Leupold Zenner Basso Naughton McGrath a Callahan Wilson Daley Kenefick MecAloon it 115 161 603 ¥. Logay 1.. Logan » 440 | Scouts Pfeifer Nelson G. Gronl Berlin Robertson | ARE SIGNED, Ruppert and Huston Make Their S Jan. 8.—DMr. Tennyson's brook ran on forever the Yankee sale, though brook a good Tun for The Yank deal had a to finish The which came yesterday, was 67 o \ a frayed-out, bedraggled climax, 99 : | that the big characters in the deal ) «id not even give out a statement that bo the stuff was all i The final “‘poipers | !thie Hotel Walcott carly vesterday | | ternoon, a short whole before Tsar alin | i { Johnson hopped the 2 o'clock train for * League record. Farrell, Braves, | Foberg Olson Niles Abramson New famous Not it sccond York, littie with the money o it had gave | 309 start have a Sannaps sh, Daigle Sandstrom A. Robertson over., IBarnest signed at af were Special Match. Chicago His Imperial Highnes: Berlin Construction | however, likely hop oft agair 90 ) {when his train Cleveland, as | he remarked to the other | day before returning to.his palace in Chi. to leaves the writer is Tredethan Moore | Hickey He is not very strong | physically and usually weakens after | this | be | in- | the | that he had another stop to make | 'FEDERAL AGENT ON SCOUT IN ELM CITY Says Connecticut Wil Surely See Outiaw Ball This Year. of in New Haven, Jan. 8 the Federal league yent yesterda consultation with several well known amusement park men and in a day or two it will probably officiall announced that New Haven will tainly have Federal league This man, who is the same who vis ed Jim Clarkin, Bill Carey and Burkett lately, gave out the inform tion of his presence here and his plans only upon condition his name would not be used. He is well known to baseball however, and particularly well to James O'Rourke, president of the Eastern association The Federal agent arrived here early in the morn- ing. He is very favorably impressed with the local field and is particular- ly anxious to place a club here Will Surely Have Club There. “l cannot tell our plans at ent,” he you can say much and it is correct, the Federal league will have league in this territory this summer and we will compete with the Eastern. Many people mistake our purpose. We are not out to disrupt baseball and destroy other leagues. | We are not in the field to exterminate | the Eastern association or the New England league. “We simply believe there is a field for the Federal league in this terri- tory and not recognizing the right of the organized ball forces to control evervthing, we think we have a right to put clubs in the fleld and give the people baseball of our brand. Of course if it proves better than that of organized ball clubs and the support our games then it is right | up to organized ball. If the fans | g0 to organized ball games and neg- | lect our games that, of course, is up | to us. “We will to! and give An nt be cer- club. it a men, known of pre this much of said, “‘but bank that course, | | place clubs this terri- the fans real baseball. I cannot show you the list of players we intend to place up in this part the country and especially in Connec- | ticut but they are all good men and | far better than those yvou now have |in the Eastern Waterbury to Be Represented. “In a day or so you will hear thing from Waterbury 1 spent terday there looking over the park at Reidville and recently 1 have met Mr Durant. Today 1 will get into com. munication with several New Haven men and an announcement of in- terest will follow shortly We are keeping our own coungel until after the Eastern association meeting here “There talk of consolidation of the Eastern and the New England organization That is another thing we are waiting to see considered. The higher powers of the Federal league have decided to invade this territory and there will be a league here this summer We are going right ahead and not considering the New Haven baseball club at all We have made our plans and intend to put a club here. Good day!" in some- ves- is World If there is anything new sun, the chances are that it's in the World Almanac. This a sweeping statement. For its justification one may point with much confidence to the files of this most regular of an- | nuale. For particular and current | intances, reference is recommended to the issue for 1915, now just at hand As one reads this hook, the time seems very far removed, indeed, when an almanac was merely a hooklet of calendar pages, with wise remarks about the sun, the moon, a few plan- , the tides and the best time for anting various kinds of seeds. Here set forth, besides election and census returns, sporting records, industrial and financial repor a New York city gazeteer, and the countless form- al informatory departments to which the years have accustomed readers of the Y7orld Almanac review the war in Europe; notes on the wars of the world: the political state plat forms of 1914: details of the special | or emergency tax; analysis of the pri- son population; workmen's compensation { pations in the United | Federal Reserve Act | Trade Commission; eign born population States: a description of the Mex n situation; facts about the Chinese re- | public; a paper on the aeroplane and | aviation generally in war, and many other things to receive even | reviewer's bare mention.—advt Almanac, under the are a of factory statistics; laws States; the oceu- the Federal statisties of for- in the United 400 were FIRES, There 100 this year or the natio forests of Utah, southerr I¢aho, western Wyoming, and Nevada or fiffeen than in the astrous of 1910 cost of extinguishing one-third and the thirtieth of that the The difference due ganization now, and trails and telephones fires most dis Yet the was only more season them only damage one | earlier to more 1 of is vear better or to 1ds 2,000,000 SHEET sheep annually grazed in the state of Utah, more than | | a million are on the national | or, including lambs which are fatten- ing for the forest ranges over a three-quarters Of two million forests market million and fans | of | | fences | co-operation HARVARD COACH PUTS 0. . ON SUMMER BALL | Endorses It as Long as Profes- sional Leagues are Avaided Dr. Harvard Jan 8 the Cambridge Mass Frank Sexton, coach of has indorsed “summer” advocated an baseball team ball for collegians and annual round-robin series between the leading college nines of the coun- try to decide the championship. Dr. Sexton I am a summer’ should nine if department limit side of organized “Eligibility for varsity enjoyed by all based scholarship and conduct. I favor the formation of a national intercolleginte hasebal association to be divided into the New gland, middle western - . he says in the indorsement baseball This T do not keep a man off a 'varsity qualifies in every scholastia Of course I would seball to teams outs gues beljever feel he summer be les teams should fide dents requirements be bona *t on states and Nev could made Brown Dartm Cross and other “The middle = strong with Pennsylvania and others “The western should have such institutions Chicago, Ilinoig, Michigan and Minnesota “Each group could play its sched: ule, with winners to play a triangular series for the champlonehip, an honor that has always been a matter of opinion “I am enjoying football | ence ion Yale, Holy glani of Harva Wi ABROC be ip d uth liams ites section would Princeton Cornolly Columbia, West Point be section as strongly in fa of coaches a place on the bench, as do coaches There is no diffes between the two. Sitting on the | bench with the team hag never vés | flected on a college that ple an honorable game. An honorable coach will never tolerate anything but the l best of conduct or Half Madison, 50 per cent. of the tending the [University are unfit physically letics, according to | out by Director of Ehler. | The of Wis., Jan. 8 Unfit More than students 2t- of Wiscond'n to compete in ath- the figures given Athletics G W Badgers male the last report of letics shows that 2,195 male students re university., Of this nu freshment and not eligible for varsity | athletics. Of the 1,867 students eligl- | ble for varsity athletics. Director Eh- ler's report shows that 50 per cent, were barred from athletics because of physical disabilities director of there rixtered ath- were at the 1,048 wehe vear nber Football at W, and J Washington, 'a followers of football and Jefferson college in the rearrangemoent ~ia's gridiron affairs a and J. getting on the Penn schedule elther in 191 916 They point out that (‘oach 0 O 3 o e Folwell of W. and J. and the former Quaker who has n elevated to re sponsibility on board, the friends and that Cozens can expected to his influence to place the red and black on the red and blue card Jan 8 at Clowe Washington profess to se Pennsylvans likelihood of W or 1 Bob Ernest Cozens, he Penn's strategy bosom be use Ce mbia New York, J games has been arranged for the umbia nine this year | most all of the eastern colleges aps | peared on the hedule. It hl!n\\"; March N. ¥ south Fleld; : n's ( Field April | Penn South Schedule . 8.—A long list of Col Al baseball Penn at South Field Field; 5, Holy « Field; 10, N. Y. U. at So | Colgate at South Field “HV South ield; 17 South Field; 21 3, Cornell at vard at South Philadelphi: May 1, Wesle Lafayette at South South Field 12 ' Field; 13, « at ity South Fordham; 31 Meld June South Fleld Anr at herst at South ith Field; 18, 14, Willlams Dartmouth at Yale at Haven: South Ifield: 24, Hup- Iield; 28 at I enn in at South § Field Stevens eld Fordham at South Ithaca 2, Trin- Field; 29, Fordham at at South rnell yracuse Penn at Soutk AN UMPIRE, Old for Trouble, R Hickma Charley n, Player, Look- ing | | eveland, © Jan Charicy of liek, s Hi the kman old Bradley the “Cheerfu) days when I ind Hick around the wants r umpire tten ¥ Johns« effect Charle ted a last seasor it it looks now as if the Clevel down the list of ind depend more managers with Charley™ joie used to batter American leg circuit, leaguc dent Americdn Vi re and s finted scout for the Naps nters whom 1200 TRE aboretum in Rock The ington established at Wasi- Creek Park, through between the forest mser- vice and the District of Columbia, now contains 1,200 comprising ninety-two different species trees