New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1915, Page 8

ol 00 Fa t to Make Impression Against Welsh and Tires Early in Bout---Dave Fultz Calls Or- Ball Agreement Criminal--College Teams Being Pruned for Coming Season--Lustig a W hirlwind F i NTY FAR 0 on His Part an Easy Bout. 27.—If Willie almost as soft ‘as Fatima, the 0f Mahomet, Fred- fhtweight cham- | n handed a sur- | ~en round bout | Garden last night. own in the fourth pugh, sturdy, little S0 savagely with | rights to the body title holder was d hang on to save her was almost as er at a county fair early, Welsh tak- ds after the fifth ppular” decision by | of the ten rounds and fifth. The | labout even, Welsh | © sixth, seventh, enth. jot tired and @ Briton a tough sidering the fact took on the match Bt of the fistic ex- he opinion that other crack at leg jed Up Well. oubtful if Beech- ondition, ever will jhowing against ast night. It took ds to solve Willie's [did get the East | jade him look fool- peets Welsh again in carrying a ging clip to the P way. Welsh ap- ‘whatever rugged- Isess, and a tough, t can slug hard liable to get him. | mer Tennis Champion at Front '(}RIMlNh[ 10 KEEP As English Lieutenant‘ PLAYER FROM WORK ANTHONY F.NILDING Anthony F. Wilding, who played tennis in the United States last sum- and in association with Brooke won the Davis cup, is a lieutenant in Sportography BY “GRAVY.” 8 made one mis- ‘Willie to confine dy. Willie reached | g smashes and al- Jaw with good ef- ~during the early ‘Willie, overhand,” d in the latter structions, Willie | d started swinging the result that clever ducks and e East Sider miss le also was plainly of Beecher's' body | '8 body battering lie's speed. Beech- pad allowed Frea- s Greyhound. more than any- won for Welsh. peent training hara ntered the ring in was as lean nk and limbs, per body st s. He beam me., p to scale 140 'he ever-blooming he mill informed illie was in good been training hard t with Shugrue.” ,* however, that a glove on in a as a the anding was an- at 136 1-4 a paunch iike blls of superfluous ers. The clean were missing. cherubic face ap- at he has been eman.” S CONTRACT. m. 27.—Charles P. of the Brooklyn ht signed a two- y with that team. | the grappling game for | to the world’s leadership in the Frank Gotch, the world’'s champion wr . who was recently reported to be thinking— Yes, yes Algeron, of course a wres'- ler can think— To be thinking of defending his honors, has held the American title at just eleven years, for it was on Jan. 27, 1904, that he grabbed the laurels from the manly brow of Tom Jenkins. Subsequently the Hawkeye State agriculturalist defeated the best grap- plers of effete Kurope and annexed such glory and increment as attaches old sport invented by the ancient Gree Despite the paucity of popular in- terest in the grapling game, Gotch is supposed to have made a the practice of his peculiar fortune in profession and, moreover, he is a successful farmer. The bout between Gotch and Jenk- ins eleven vears ago today, by which Frank attained stellar honors, was pulled off in Bellingham, Wash., and was one of the most ferocious con- ever staged. The hippodrome performances which so often pass for restling matches, and which have usted the sports, and put the ki- bosh on grappling entertainments, bear no relation to that Bellingham rookus. ' The fans who had gathered from all over the Pacific ccast, and had paid as high as twenty-five beans to see the trouble, were not disappointed Jenkins had held the title five or six annums, and he had no desire to part with so lucrative a possession: He had defeated Gotch in Cleveland the year before, and he was out to repeat a speedily as possible. He outweighed the lowa farmer by twenty-fi pounds_and he had all the advantage of experience and prestige. ‘ Jenkins made a noise like a pugna- cious bull who had lamped a red rag when Tom Davis gave the word. Such a wild and furious mix-up has not CONNOISSEURS glass next time iate why Fischer Brewery, Pharles F. Schmarr, Dehm, W. vs AL LAGERS 314 J and you will quickly they are so popular. Hartford, Conn. Hotel Beloin, Keevers, Hecrman J. McCarthy. the English army and is on the firing line in France. One of the pictures shows him as a tennis player and the other was made a few days ago in the French war zone. been seen since the gods used to gath- er at Olympia, Wash., to watch the combats of the ancient gladiators. In the end Gotch pinnéd Jenkins to the mat, and in the second bout Tom lost of a foul, which gave the Humboldt hero the title and four thousand round men. After quitting the game Jenkins be- came wrestling instructor at the Unit- ed States Military Academy at W Point ard instructed Uncle Sammy’s future generals in the fine the oldest of manly sports. Tom tried to pull off a come-back last year and was matched with Vladek Zbyszko. Jenkins proved that he had not lost his knowledge of the fine points of the game, but he wasn’'t there with the old slam-bang and rough-house stuff which he used to pull on his op- ponents, and he had to give in to tho younger man. If the mat game had a few more men like Gotch and Jenkins and George Bothner, who recently pulled a Patti in his forthy-eighth year, wrestling wouldn’t be as defunct as it is now. Only a month or two > the venerable Bothner, one of the squarest and most scientific wrestlers defeated Tarro Miyake in New York, and announced his final retirement Bothner has been wrestling since he was thirteen, and became a ‘‘pro” in 1892. He has taken part in over 200 bouts, and, although a lightweight, tackled many good heavyweights. And he grappled every bout on the square. TWO MINOR LEAGUES. Once Will Be Formed By Federals in This Section, Chicago, Jan. 27.—Surplus ball players of the Federal league will be taken care of in two minor leagues, it was announced by President Gil- mecre. One will be organized, it is planned, at a meeting in New Haven next Saturday, which Gilmpre will at- tend, and the other is an organiza- tion already operating under organ- ized ball. The name of the latter Gilmore would not give, but said it had proposed coming under jurisdic- tion of the Federals, New competition for the Interna- tional league is likely, according to the plans for the makeup of the new circuit. It will include Providence, Hartford, New Haven, and possibly Trenton, N. J., among its eight cities. EARTHQUAKES SHAKE DPANAMA, Panama, Jan. 27.—Three skarp earthquakes have shaken the Isthmus of Panama in the last three days, a third one occurring y None of the shocks did any damage, though the inha ants were much alarmed. Reports from points along the canal show that the shock caused no ill effects. $150,000 PENNSYLVANIA FIRE, South Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. Fire which broke out here ye destroyed Caffrey’s Cafe, seven other business places and a number of dwellings in the center of the cit | The total loss was estimatea at §150. { 000, For a time the flames, fanned by a high wind, threatened the business section. JOIN THE Afternocn Bowlers AT THE Aetna Alleys Business and Professional Men o terday ! when he no longer is legally held by [ to both players and club owners. short, | | Grand erday. | | of | Tuesday | American Ag | pany at Roos: | deputy entire Tha's Dave Fuiz’s Opinion of “Gentlemen’s Agreement.” New York, Jan. —1If ball player is legally a free agent, and has sufficient to is not 2 a ability yet em- ployment by clubs in Organized Base- ball because of a gentleman's agree- ment between the various clubs not to help a major league club, offered do business with a player because of an alleged claim to that player by one of its clubs, it is criminal con- spiracy, punishable under tae laws of | the land,” was the pointed statement of David Fultz, president of the Base- | ball Players’' fraternlty vesterday. Dave Fultz, the former star Yankee outfielder, desired to discuss an in- terview with John B. Foster printed last Sunday, in which the secrctary of the Giants said the reserve clause Wwas in reality a gentleman's ag ment between the various clubs Organized Baseball not to touch = player to which another club had claim, even though that player to legal sense a free agent. Foster’'s definition of a free agent is a playver who is no longer bound by | reserve to a club, but whose club still is desirous of his services. “Such a player,” said Foster, “is free to sign with any semi-professional, or in- dependent league team, but no club in Organized Baseball could hire hini | unless the club which had employed him gave it permission.” Not Opinion of O. B.” “I cannot believe that this is the opinion held by the high officials of Organized Baseball on the reserve clause and the status of a free agent any that club,” continued Fultz, “I believe that Attorney Pepper, who represented Organized Baseball at the recent Fed anti-trust suit, stat- ed the case correctly, and in my opin- ion he made an important admission. He argued that if a player under an option agreement does not come to terms at the end of a year with his club, that contract runs on for another vear, and at the end of that time that player is a free agent. “I agree wih Pepper, but he is a free agent in every sense of the word. I understand Mr. IFoster said such player would be a free agent, mere- | ly to deal with any club outside of the | jurisdiction of Organized Baseball. Tf such is the case, and such a player could not find employment in the major leagug, T would call it a clear | conspiracy, which is one of | t offenses hefore the law. “Do yvou know that under the pres- | ent remodelled reserve contract, any | player can become an absolute free agent in two vears' time, no matter how valuable he is to his club? ‘“The latest rescrve clause is a mis- take, and 1 do not like it because it has no legal nhold on a ball player for more than two vyears. T believe a limited reserve is necessary to the success of baseball-—1 should say for four or five yvears, which would be fair a TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS- 1893—Tommy Tracey knocked out Billy Gallagher in the nineteenth | ound at San Francisco. Tracey had | t arrived in America from Austrnl- ia, his native land, and his bout with Gallagher, a clever fighter and a sort of trial horse for the California A. * was his t on this side. In /<istralia Tommy had whipped Dummy Mace and other good men, and was consid ered a comer. He was a welterweight and a foster brother of Dan Creedcn, the Australian middleweight, who : so came to America. In 1894 Tominy ' was knocked out by Joe Walcott and later lost to Tommy Ryan and George Green. He afterward fought two draws with Joe Walcott. Tracey's last important bout was with Kid La- vigne, who defeated him in twenty rounds at San Francisco in 1898. Af- ter retiring from the ring Tracey be- came a boxing instructor in Portland, Ore. 1896 | Dan Creedon stopped Jemn [ Smith in second round at London. | im Williams defeated Ped- ‘ almer in two rounds at TLondon. | 1905—Sandy Ferguson defeated | Jim McCormick in five rounds at Hot | Springs, Ark ’ | | | | | TAKING TE: Jury Taking IKvidence in Roosevelt Shooting Fray New Brunswick, N. J. Jan. 27—The Middlesex county grand jury assem- | bled here vesterday to take testimony | nearly one hundred witnesses tn the shooting of nineteen strikers last at the lLiebig plant of the ricultural Chemical com- | by armed guarding the nineteen died sher wo of the wounds. Twenty-seven of the locked up in the county jail under charges of fi degree murder await the verdict of the grand jury. of deputies are o PROVIDES FOR MERGER. Boston, Jan ~The trustees of the B m and Maine railroad issued vesterday draft of the proposed bill by which legislative authority is ed for the reorganization of the road. The bill provided for a merger of the company the 36 lines it op- erates under lease. and | serted BILL BRADLEY SOLD. Exiled to Kansas City By Brookfed Management. Brooklyn, Jan, —In addition being deposed as manager of the Brooklyn Federal league club in favor of Lee Magee, Bill Bradley wili no longer be with the Brookfeds. Robert B, Ward yesterday admitted that Bradley had been transferred to the Kansas City club, and that he would go wherever the francaise was shifted. Bradley has been released outright to the Kawfeds, and his case presents a novel situation. It is not every day that a former manager is presented to another club without any considera- tion, The Kawfeds did not even give Ward a bird dog for Bill There is another strange angle to the affair. A private communication from Kan- sas City yesterday had it that the Kawfed officials were not pleased over the belated Santa Claus act of Ward, and that they would refuse to be- come the beneficiaries of the Brook- l¥n club’s generosity. ta MARSANS SNUBS McGRAW, Says He Is Content to Remain With Federals. Cuba, Jan, 27.—It whether Manager John J. of the Giants, who is here will be able to sign up Marsans, the outfielder, who de- the Cincinnati Reds for the Feds and later was restrained from carrying out his contract with the so- called outlaws. McGraw has made Marsans an offer to join the Giants or any otner club in organized base- ball, Marsans declares that the Feds have taken good care of him and that he doesn’t care to quit them now. A new arrival here is Fielder Jones, manager of the St. Louis Feds. Jones is seeking spring training quarters for his ball club. Havana, doubtful McGraw for a vacation, 15 PHOENIX MAY JUMP. Swatter of Murnane Circult Wants More Money. Boston, Mass., Jan. 27.—If the Lew- iston New England league club doesn’'t meet his demands for an in- crease of salary, Billy Phoenix, sec- ond sacker of that team, will jump to 'the Federal minor league and ac- cept a berth as manager of one of the teams in that circuit. Last year Phoenix drove in more runs and had more assists than any other second baseman in the New England league. He poled out seven ‘home runs. Star COLLEGE BASEBALL CLINBING ON STAGE Not Long Before It Will Be the Ceater of Altraction. men are now approach- The college baseball getting ready for the fast It won't be indoor long before Yale, ing season. they start Harvard and Princeton, who'll play three games with both of their ri- vals, have bright prospects for good | nines, particularly the Blue, which will have seven Y’ men back. The greatest blow to the Yale team is the loas of Brown and Gile, pitchers. Harvard’'s infield has been somewhat broken up, while Princeton has been affected by a loss in batting strength due “to the graduation of heavy hit- ters. Way, who won hig letter last year, will probably be the star box- man for Yale this season In additian to losing two pitchers Yale has lost Swihart at first base, Cornish at second base, Captain Blos- som at shortstop and Falsey at left field. Pumpelly will likely fill Swi- hart’'s place and Captain Middlebrook and Haines may be brought into the infield to fill the places left vacant ! by Blossom and Cornish Coach practice. LEIFTELD IS RELEASED, Famous Player Is Canned By Harry Wolverton. San 27 (Albert Francigco, Jan Lefty" L.) Leifield, one-time star heaver with the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National league and for the past two s ong connected with the San Francisco Seals, has been granted his unconditional release This announcement wag Manager Harry Wolverton, who de- clared that he believed Leifield, in view of his long association with base- ball, was entitled to that much con- sideration. Wolverton speaks highaly of Lelfield as a ball player and a man, but states that he believes the com- bination he expects to get together will work far more effectively, % made by PING BODIE GOES BACK Fence Breaker Agaln on Frisco Pay- roll. Chicago, Jan. 27 “Ping” Bodle, outfielder for the Chicago team of the American league since 1811, has been sold to the San Francisco club of* the Pacific Coast league. After an erratic yvears in the big league, back to the team from which he was graduated San Francisco s=old him to the White Sox Bodie is an Ttaljan and his real name is Francisco Pi. | zola, career of four Bodle comes BOXING FOR JERSEY. Bill Introduced Into the Skeeter Leg- islature, Quinby expects to get some excellent material from the freshman class Harvard Loses Five. Of last year’s Harvard team Wingate, shortstop; Clark, base; Millholland, center field; Hitch. cock, pitcher, and Osborr, catcher, have graduated. Wingate and Clark, who have alternated at second base for two years, will be most seriously missed. Clark was one of the strong- est batters in collegiate ranks last vear, while both were excellent field- ers. was not so valuable a pitcher as sev- eral who remain. Frye, Mahan and Whitney should prove the mainstays of the pitching staff, as all three performed well last year. Wilcox, who was last vear's freshmen catchers, has also shown considerable ability in fall practice. Fitzgibbons, 1915, who has had no experience on the 'varsity team, but who has shown up well in practice, will also be eligible. Capt. second Waterman, who caught regularly on REX BEACH Famous Author, says: “l have smoked Tuxedo in sub- Arctic Alaska, at Panama and every- where — would not smoke another kind”— fFeast, Tuxedo—a Tobacco For Wise Smokers Rex Beach has lived his books. In personality he is much like his own heroes—a red-blooded, clean-cut, strong young fellow, fond of the healthy ways of out- door life. His tobacco is Tuxedo—a mild yet rich tobacco that is healthful, wholesome, refreshing and beneficial in every way. Hitchcock was very erratic and | the best of | Trenton, N. J.,/Jan, 27 A boxing bill was®introduced in the house last evening by Assemblyman Singer of Jersey City The bill provides for | the creation of the office of a state athletic commissioner at a salary of | 82,500 a year, and vesting in sufa | commissioner the supervision of box- | ing Assemblyman | ducea bill to | Sunae also infro- baseball on Singer a legalize {(hp ‘varsity, together with Harte, the 1917 catcher will take care of all the |work behind the bat Harris iast | vear batted over .400 for the season, and much is expected of him | Nash at first base, Captain Ayres at | third base, Harwick in left field and Gannett in right field, all were reg- ular members of last year's team and will probably hold their positions this | vear. Second base, shortstop apd | center field are the positions (o be ifillod, | You get some Tuxedo today and you’ll find your experience with it tallies with Rex Beach’s. The Perfect Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarette Never was a smoke. as good as Tuxedo—the pipe and cigarette tobac- co without a sting, and with the most pleasant aroma. It’s man’s taste because the famous original friendly to every it's produced by Tuxedo Process™ that first put the sensitive tongue folks on speaking terms with No imitation can be a a pipe. s good as Tuxedo— because no imitator can use the famous, exclusive, original Tuxed « » o “process. YOU CAN BUY TUXEDO EVERYWHERE Convenient, glassine wrapped, moisture- proof pouch . . . 5c In Tin Humidors 40c and 80c Famous Green Tin with gold lettering, curved to fit pocket In Glass Humidors 50¢ and 90c 10c THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY