New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1915, Page 8

Bral MEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 1015. League’s Future Hangs in Balance Today at Mecting of Magnates---Jim Coffey Has Eyes on Jack Johnson’s Crown and Will Challenge Winner of Juarez Bout fotl BUT DAL PLAYER b sums Up Red Dectased. .—Although the | player, especially tho 3 ever momentary, [érk on the mound of | linger long with Wa- | p learned to revere ther than in spite of, | st the local club in Finn’ ler a bitter eport club struggle dville the day before in which Red Wal- , was the hero. In lity and the failure re of himself which his death last week, ition and a cour 2 il ost of friends about e than once in 1910 | re more than ordi- | f days after he had lom New Haven, one affair, in one after- n sent him against double header at | the s on, when | the game, and/ With all » d i ly. 1 br a repetition of his | and Sandy Bann { b figured in thrilling | went along nip and Seven innings, with petter of the argu- his opponents ):it- Hoover, the local lho broke up more ther member of the e fact that he wus dropped a neat sin- | i, spoiling Red’s no- would probably h the game then if fone to pieces he- | atever else ma be | e can never be ac- | ben anything but | ip reached 2 nged on one game hy before the end of | pwd of nearly 5,000 orners of the Reid- ed had worked the | bal fans figured that | leasier with him umv{ ister was the logi- | erbury and the wise r Chief Snyder E big Swede, as his anson suddenly de- Snyder had a lamo ¥y other member of paciated in one way jXcept . Red. Non jat ‘he. was licked in and it didn't take p the situation. fork, Gene Waller quiet way Red 7" pough to give the they ought to have fas the reply story is well known, ns will never forget ister was battercd er the Bridgeporter: pset by bunting ot didn't get to Tobasco Tom to the cue and cs down while Stub | 8n’'t good enough for | d the ball into the shions often enough the game and the eaten, but not d ld proved his gamo. | htes faltered in ‘h'*‘ ays a star when as his disregard fo N o I arding of his health ! chance for major | B he went south with | B07. He worked n number of yeurs | ke was active in the nanagement of ind his last work ihe in | en he pitched a few | ondon in 1913. ay not have heen a | he was a dead game M. LEAGUE, g ILost P.C. 611 7 611 11 3x9 B 11 lark, 255 ings—Clark, ing—Red ptal—Star Ave 01 bn Bowlers THE team won the | which ! Ik on a fine Septem- | | | Phenomenal Boy Pool Player, Issues Challenge LOUIS KREUTER. New York, Feb. 15.—A phenomenon in the pool world has popped up in the person of Louis Kreuter, the sixteen-year-old young- ster of thig city. Experts who have watched this youngster perform are of the opinion that it is only ques- tion of time when he will make the champions of the green cloth look to new boy has been was nine Kreuter since he their laurels, ‘handling cue vears old and is now classed with the serts. His highest run in prac- tice is 120 straight and in open com- petition ninety-four. Kreuter has won every tournament in which he has competed. He now issues a chal- lenge to any hoy plaver in America, Nettleton Peterson Bottomly Clock Beach C. Wilcox Bull Connor: Andres Jones RED MEN LEAGUE. Won POy 538 Lost Sannaps Braves Warriors Scouts High High High High 38 Berlin, 138. Three Strings—Berlin, b n String—Scouts Team Total—Scouts, Individual Averages. Singl 1296, Wright Leupold F. Logan Fobherg eee L Robertson Berlin Abramson Oberg 1.. T.ogan A. Rober Olson Sandstrom . Gronback 4. Nelson Molande Briere Dagle G. Gronback H. Gronhack Peters Pfieffer Ave. 824 811 R B. 0 ingle—Ner Three Stri Team Strir .eupeld, ©F o) Team Total—I1. individual Averages. T.arson Leupold Mors e T. Walke G. Zwick 1. Jurgen Behnk Zehner Parker Robinson Olde W Heinz 158 Piechert i FACTORY LEAGUE. Won Lost P.C. N. B. Maga, Co. 667 S. Works No. 1 583 & Landers P. & F. Corbin 8. Works No. 2 Union M. Co. Corbin Screw. 10 High Single—Screen 123, High Three Strings-—. 316. Ave. 447 449 439 114 430 23 421 408 Morse, 167 and Anderson, Alleys ‘ Professional Men High Team Machine Co., String—New Britain 496. High Team Total—Staniey Works | 50,000 to 100,000 fans often wit- Lua"k' the Fighting Ghost, | | 1,384, Individual E. Anderson T. Blanchard Lantone Screen 1. Ande Dickman G. Fobet Morse Middleton Iralk Bertini No. 1, Averages. a0 0 90 88 Earnest Linn Riley Lundin Puppel 8 HERALD LEAGUE. Won Lost Allies Dreadnaughts Submarine. Zeppelines High Single—Edwar High Three S High Team String—Allie: High Team Total—Allies, Individual Averages. Edwards Wallen O'Brien “hom Moran Pouzzner Drago McEvoy McAllister | Hovem ot | 75;i)orlagr a[)hy 2 inds of John 160 | heen having its effect Smith 3 “GRAV American profess ['he in a bad way, financially, | ‘ £ i ional baseball may but it is " | riot so hard hit as British soccer foot- popular sport of the Rull. Mars has taken of the game, and the at- figures for the month there has been a ipts of about the 1v Lall, the great {a fall out | tendance | show that in gate rec cent. During scason the attendan R to normal, but the crusade carried on by prominent men and nearly all the newspapers soon had its effect. On all sides both players and spectato were lambasted for not abandoning the sport and going to the front. At many of the games speakers exhorted the soccer fans to join the colors, but, while the crowd listened respectfully, few manifested any disposition to Yeed the advice so liberally given. During the I two or three menths, however, the crusade has Many promi- enlisted in the the up part of P n | nent players have 156 | army, and the fans have followed their example in large numbers, with the ! result that the football magnates have received a severe blow in the region | of the pocketbook. The figures for the soccer season up to the first of this vear show an attendance at the games of the three chief ‘“major’ leagues of 3,000,000, as compared | with 5,144,000 in the same period of ihe previous season, decrease of 2,134,000. The Second and Southern leagues also show great decrease in attendance, and several of the “minor” leagues were wiped out of existence. All of the leagues, instead of paying big dividends, are almost certain to have serious deficits. JFrom 88 | | winner, | show {tion against Patsey nessed past years, past. One d an aver- its home only the big games it such crowds are of the big London club which h: age of 60,000 spectators at games in 1913-1914, averaged 18,000 this season { Up to the beginning of the war the | Football qassociation, the governing { body of the Bri | rrofessional and { professional clubs | ciubs enrolled. imy of nearly in amateur, had ind 75,000 amateuy These represented an 800,000 men and boys bunch of athletes who should be to make quite a dent if they | could be induced to buck the German | line. 1n re peaceful times, about | 8,000 soccer matches were | every week in England durir | season, and about many, ticnately to population, in Scotland, Wales and lreland. The pr onal clubs usually paid good dividends, some as high fifteen cent., their stockholders, | Football has heen a popular in England since the tenth century, | when, according to legend, the citizens Chester captured a efully separating his head from his hody, kicked the former about with their feet. This sport became very popular, but, when the supply of heads gave out, & “ball of leather, called a feote-ball,” was substituted, Soccer now played in England is a comparatively harmless sport, but ij“ the old days the British brand of | feotball was even more hazardous than the an intercollegiate ’:-')mll In eenth century a fooiball played rarely escaped a severe | injury, “so as he dveth of it else | escapeth very hardly.” i { | a i I me as propor- s i | | per or DUBLIN GIANT GOING AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP Jm Coffey to Challenge Winner of Johnser-Wikiard Baut. New York, Feh. 15.— Thursday night, Jack (Twin) virmont A, ( the Irish | route which he Beginning next Coffey the will when Jim Sullivan at Billy champion s will land him the Gibson | sena over | heavyweight campionship of the world | within been working with Bob Armstrong,” a year. “Caffey, since he has s the Bronx promoter, “is even | better than I thought he was, and I “‘dnn'( think there is any doubt about don't care Willard are going after the {us getting that title. I {who wins the bout between Johnson, and we The other star bout at this special will see Benny Leonard in Cline, as fast a boxer as Jem Driscoll. “I'll have two champions before long,” vs Gibson. “Leonard can whip any lightweight right now who will get into the ring with him. have to toe the mark before long.” The Broadway Sporting club Brooklyn staged its fifth matinee boxing show this afternoon at 3 o’clock, in which Joe (“Twin”) Me- Carty, brothet of the Montana cow- boy, Tom MecCarty, boxed Jack Rey- nolds, the hard-hitting heavyweight of Ridgewood, who gave Frank Moran a tough argument. ished to furnish the real articie fisticuffs, both appeared capable of giving and taking unlimited pun- ishment, v Grupp vs. Glover. We of The ( Athletic will m pic club, on 125th street, stage one Billy and bhest shows tonight, avhen the clever middleweight ex-welterweight clash in the of Grupp Al toughest fight the middleweight cham- Glover, champion, rounds. the ain bout ten recently gave McCoy been training hard in his gymnasium. 1f Grupp beats Glover he will challenge Young Ahearn when the latter rc- turns from Cuba. = Al Rudolph MeCoy weight champion, who knocked « George Chip, will risk his title in « ten-round bout at the Broadway Sporting club of Brooklyn tomorrow night with his local the Al McCoy Roth men tr: hard for the fray to be in the possible condition, and a real ging contest which will deligt fans is sure to result. The Ne Coy confident that he will wi by b and will force the pace from start to finish. The ten-round semi- vindup between Young Zulu Kid Brooklyn and Young Marino of New | York will also be a hummer. Happy Ricker and Willie Chandler, Sparrow and Kid Libush will the special six-round ions Jack Dillon, the Indianapolis fighter, who he is the middleweight and light heavyweight champion, will rive in town for his ten-round bout with Frank Mantell of Pawtucket at the Federal A. C.. on Thursday night. Dillon is anxious to himself for the exhibition and Frank Klaus put up ago at the Garden Dillon and Mantell irmory of Boston last although Dillon received the d the fans who the bout that the worst decision pion has had, and has since the middle- rival, have ed hes the M- is (03, of box in says ar- today poor he some time hoxed at October, and >cision, thought Referee sAW Flaherty should have handed out was | Mantell has been boxing in | ) draw. | great form lately, having | Bearcat Tom McMahon defeated | ish soccer game, both | 400 | to | sport | Dane and, after ' ;'ls determined to the { own class as he believes ac- | said to be'! But they'll! of | The bout prom- | in | s Grupp, | Billy | New | | slug- Kia redeem | the | and Jcfl’l “JOE” RYAN. If “Tippy" Fay is successful in se- curing a permit to hold a boxing show in this city he will present as one of the attractions of the night the warin local favorite, “Joe” Ryan. Fay has not selected Ryan's opponent but he get him in “Joe" has a big following who would like to see him in action again. Tt is many the | | squared circle with some man of his moons since Ryan haq. appeared in boxing togs in a New Britain ring He originally scheduled to box “Kid” Logan in Myer P. Caplan’s show Turner hall but Joe Rocco of Waterbury substi tuted. While Rocco account of himself pointment to many face Logan BARROW & C0. GETS LT OF SYMPATHY But That is Poor Con i Paying Bal! Players. was at was wve an excellent it that was a disap Ryan did not New York, International this Febh., 15.- league The the perhaps be henchmen o will decided afternoon, when the Jarrow meet in their accustomed haunt in the Hotel Im perial to hold their spring meeti This is the time of the year when the Internationals usually adopt their schedule, but for the present the schedule must wait, pending the settlement of affairs vital to the very existence of the league. Barrow still thinks he can get into The Bronx, and hopes to be able to convince those who are opposing the move that it is in the best interests of O. B. to permit the Internationals to invade that ter- ritory. It would he useless to deny that the league is in a sad plight. When recalled that a little over a Barrow had the third best league the country, with plants worth Ingh as $200,000, with players draw- irg almost big league it must be admitted that baseball war can > as much (what Mr. Sherman d) as the real kind All They Got Was Sympathy. Barrow's league has playved the part of poor Belgium. Their sympathies were with the baseball allies, old O B., but when the Feds shot them full of holes O. B. helped them with a lot of encouraging conversation, but that was all. The Internationals all along had the good wishes of organized baseball, but O. B. never even sent them a food ship. War Fund a Bloomer, The much advertised war fund has turned out to be a bloomer, and one magnate pointed out: “We can't tax our clubs to help out Barrow, when all of us had such a bad seeason it is year ago in mone as | ion | ba fate of | € ]:‘w players’ salaries having douMel ind tripled | President for not tionals into Hemps has his rea ng the Interna and severa)] of He points out the Yanks can't of New York Internationa battle with th v that thie Barrow | sens permit the Bronx very good and them that keep what | league common Yet it an exceptional case the ire his Fed chance if club team out will ha enem an team must be mitted | is and if oposition he it regards Bronx | Iife for his permitted to likely knock under the Interr willing to go ir ing chance they Whether am will pe of doubt. Barrow that a lot of folks en't cents pay me will cent ball league as a should be prop et saver league try it. If the last it is from they are, a fight flivver to ationals the Bronx If the chance alone will be In in the the an ernational lefgue Bronx, is a mat- is of the opin in this city to see a big ad 1o see an established te Ly ie ter gue yet be and g 50 AA in Cla DUNDEFE AND MANDOT DRAW, Former's Manager Angry and Clafms Sixteen Rounds New Feb, 14 York Orleans, La the New Mandot Johnnie ightweight city Dundee Joe of this fought and twenty rounds to a atternoon It w the pair. ail the were the up A draw that draw yesterday the and sec meeting betwean a fast hput as if Dunded but Mandot! aggressiveness fair decisiog md they It put up looked more cle for was made that in the only could be given otty Montieth very sore last night ‘Dundec Manc rounds, Dundee’s the dec mar m ger, . over He said and outboxed ot tw¥nty called it fight outfought sixteen and yet the If ever a won a Dundee beat Mandot I have posgted $2.000 forfeit for a return match, but Mandot's manager refuses to accept the weights—Dundee 126 pound Mandot 133 pounds at 10 a, m out ¢ referee in a draw hoy ELLER HAS CANNING BEE, | Manager Zeller of Pittsfield has fired all his players Prysock, shortstop, and his Uhrig, catcher, is one of the Uhrig bas written the Lowell club for a job, sayving he is a great man behind the bat and a hitter He “keeps early hours R« to Sunday school. 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