New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1915, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1915. pague Contest Scheduled for Friday Night When New Britain and Hartford Meet---How | k. Britton Gor His Nom De Guerre---"Home Run” Baker Is Through With Baseball 1tes Christened This Ctty. #=—‘They’re afraidl : | tn excuse of many e would digr for a moment . Breslin, or Jack justified in mak- it faded from tho rarely mentioncd the much talked . vet he is one THIS best) light- 1. He is mor: shunning. Lit- pnotch won't as had to fight pointed (‘hampion casily and @y at Duffly both nes, d of a K. a 20-round deci ue in pcked out Young has outpointed ugrue and Welsh. ‘White an unmer- opped him in 18 a year ago. call him Jack 1 name is William itton, the Chicago n in New York fonnecticut Whut it ? the name of his Britain was the place. The first f no consequencé, m we should say fourteen years of e first thin Mr. pwed their son on ko was the schooi y of Chicago life right up to the e corner of Guv- bts. uh name the $ gang. nswered voung all he would say thed ' little mi e became fright- n o an' greeting vas all they could y-eyed little s him that from the school- ot of about ten 5 held their gan:c they boxed—whe e gloves. ain’ cue. Tha’ in; and when 1 vent out. He soon a good fighter 1 and became u ranching out, yvou schoolboy he had lot.. but as a ght all over town. a job in the cir- of a Chicago pa- ‘Ogressing, as now e news alley, with e looking on. boy came down ““he sporting edi- im. old Bill tain ac Phelon he powlers Alleys ofesslonal Meu Australia | New York, Febh. 16.—Followers track and field sports view with cecre regreét the retirement, twelve and one-half years of petition, of Melvin Sheppard, greatest middle distancer Peerless Mel as he is known, has competed in of sin- after com- the of all time. popularly champion- Peerless Mel Sheppard Will Be Missed From the Ranks | portunity | | | | | MEL SHEPPARD | St Gt ot { | | tains Flynn | wi ship meets in this country, Canada and Irance and in Olympiads in Lon- | don and Stockholm, and he has set up national and Olympic records that are likely to stand for many years Several colleges and athletic clubs are after Sheppard's athletic coach. services as upstalrs. sporting nes ~omm ain all right. “Want a tight, “Sure “A friend of mine who is running a hoxing show wanted me to get him a boy to act as ‘a substitute tonight. What is your name?" “They call be Britain.” Bill Phelon, who is cditor of the Cincinnati r and head of the Boxing <ion of that city, wanted Brit- now kid?' he said.’ | “HOME “And your first name?” “Why—er—they just call be n—that's all ck’ is always a good name. Jack Britain?" right.” abbed the the promoter. “I got a kid for you, fight too! His name- Oh—listen and I'll spell it for you: J-A-C-K B-R-1-T-T-O-N. Got it?" Brit- ‘'phone and .called and he can RUN" BAKER I'hiladelphia, Ifeb. THROUGH. 17.—"“Home- eman of the league base. tun' Baker, star tird ba 'hiladelphia ball has decided to retire from the diamond, and will not appear with the team next season, according to an announcement made here last night by dinner of the Philadelphia ‘Writer's association. American team, Sporting ONNOISSEURS PREFER glus next time and you will quickly by U 314 jate why they are so popular. Fischer Brewery, [Charles K. Dehm, Schmarr, W, Hartford, Conn. Hotel Beloh\, J. McCo—" Manager (‘onnie Mack at a | REARDON AFTER CLUB, Dennis M. Reardon of Holyoke, = former ball player and at one time supervisor of umpires in the old Con- necticut league, has made the di- rectors of the Keene (N, H.) base- ball franchise a substantial offer for their franchise in the Twin-State | league. It is understood that the of- fer has been accepted and that a few more minor details are all that st in the way before the franchise turned over to him. In case deal goes through, the directors of the Twin-State league will he asked for permission to remove the club to Holyoke. and is the NEW FED Promoters of team in New Haven RAL the PLAN Federal league have dug up a | day BASKETBALL CLASSIC ON FRIDAY EVENING |New Britain and Hartord Highs in Thir Annoal C ash. Hartford High school will invade this city to meet the New basket- Fri- The ball team evening | High basketball quintet gymnasium. This High school school at the game ! promises to be a contest that will ex | { W been | doubt | game | for | Titans. | these parts, { games which can even be | trouncing | locals will never forget. | day ! ain . most equal strength. | fora captain new site for a ball to a New Haven the correct term. land” in a river, par According paper “dug uj The plant is “r swamp along the We: QUICK, Powers, the WATSO, Bill “iron man” New London club, is keeping his ey by doing de- for the New York Cen- Might use you in New peeled during the winter tective work ailroad. FAIR PROMOTERS Hartford, Feb. 17.—Pre secretaries of the various fair associa- MEET. idents and tions of the state to discuss amendments law governing gambling The gathering was under dices of the state fair a tion and the state board of agricul- ture. A legislative committee was ap- pointed. Dinner taken at Hotel Garde. met at the capitol yesterday ting to at cia- 1 was LAST SUPPLY BII Fortifications Appropriation Measurce Ready to Be Presented to House. Feb. 17.—The cations appropriation bill carrying ap- proximately $5,000,000, virtually ready to be reported tb the hl)\l day from committee. The mes: the last, but one, of the annus II sup- ply bills, to come hefore the house Only the general deficiency bill now remains in committee. Of the fifteen annual supply thirteen have been reported to house and ten have been passed sent to the senate. Only two bhills Washington, fortifi- was » to- ire is hills, the ana Keevers, Hermun l | the District of Columbia and the ur- gent deficiency—have passed the senate and the latter is the only mea- sure thus far signed by President Wil- son, the district Dill now being in conference. 1 liminary of the | ! be fanciful, hopes of the most particular When Hartford and New Britain oppose each other, the best battle imaginable will surely take place. In the past it has al- and when they clash the game will without much be the best one in which the schools have ever played. One must when he associates the of Hartford High and New Britain High in any athletic contest, the strife of such a game sur- passes the battles of the mythological The Hartford-New Britain the Yale-Harvard contest of and there are very few compared highest fans. ceed the S0 riday mo is with this annual encounter. It was late in last October Hartford High school footbali team gave the New Britain High an awful and it was one that the From the the New Ti:it- been centered on The first op- Friday evening, New Britain plans to make the of it. In one of the best teams the school has ever turned out, the New Britain people place their hopes. It will be the one big evnt of the week in New Britain and a crowd of almost 1,000 is expected. The Hartford and New Brit school teams compare ver ably and on paper seem to have al- Often the weak contests has returned a of that beating thoughts have a complete revenge. will come and most that team in past | victor because of an indomitable spir- | it, and spirit | of these contests. is never lacking at any As the date of the big zame approaches the respective coaches of the two teams are putting shing touches on their partic- quintets, and everything points battle ‘omparing man, hardly tage for either royal. the teams, man for any distinctive advan- team is manifest. Cap- ind th for- highest oth two sea real- Schade are | the veterans of 1y depended rds of " ms and and they e can ocecasions. players be on relinbie upon | Schade has outscored Flynn and is the the Hart- wonderful- times. right brilliant player, but may play a and fast game Schmidt, respective forwards of the Hartford and New Britain teams, are both men of great speed but Smith is the most lustrous of the two. The centers, both large men, seem almost alike in ability with perhaps a shade for Tuthill. Al- though Hogden is a steady man and fully as fas Tuthill, he does not figure as much in the scoring which counts a great deal. The New Britain guards, Ginsburg and Dudack, are a stronger combination than the Hart- ford pair. Phoenix and Echoltz. The New Britain team taken collec~ tively, seems to be a stronger aggre~ gation than that of the Capitol City boys. but forecasts on paper go very little toward winning championship basketbal] game: The second teams of the two schools will turnish plenty of excitement in the preliminary for they, like the respective regular teams, are evenly matched. This game will start at 7:45 and there will be a second pre- hetween two school teams at 7:15 P. M. The oilicial more 1y strong Smith and records of the I, Goals. team Foul. Pts Schade 26 Tuthill Sehmidt Dudack ‘\L\mn j ing the | tory the i especially in | boy's. ! rouna 1 anding to date couni- tain-South Manchest- South Manchester vic- The lexgue New er game as a is: Won Naugatuck S ol D New Bri Waterbury Hartford So. Manchester Middletown Lost P.C. 600 TODAY IN 1884—Kid boxer, born Scaler wi PU Scaler, the in Worcester, prominent in the the nortawest anada, for more than a He started his ring career and featherweight de- Jiddie Santry and other good In 1906 he fought a twenty- draw with Maurice Thompson, the Danish lightweight. The next year he knocked out Tommy Sullivan at Goldfield, Kid Ogleshy at Helena, and Billy Tham Sacramento, but was defeated by Johnny Murphy at San Francisco. In 1909 Kid per- formed principally in western Can- ada, but afterward fought a twenty- round draw with Danny Goodman at | Sacramento. Scale last important bout we fifteen-round affair with | Freddie Welsh at dmonton, Alta., in 1915, in which the veteran went fuil route, although outpointed the RBritish champion, 57—Jem Mace defeated Thorpe in ecighteen rounds at way, Eng. - 1910—Willie Lewis and Harry Lewis fought twenty-round draw at Paris. lightweight Mass ring and in western decade. in 1903 feated as a by Bill Med- Britain | when the | \Sportog rqphy Steve vans, who found bat- Feder: Kauff a swatting born in Feh- front his with the Brooklyn | gave Benny | hard run for the premier honors of the circuit, was { Cleveland thirty vears ago today, | ruary 1885 real | name, conferred upon ‘him by his parents, was Louis, but the rude ball players with whom he associated in his youth re-christened him Steve, and Steve he has been ever since. Evans broke into the professional game in 1907, when he covered the | outer garden for the Dayton club of the Central league, He had only a brief experience in the Cash Register City, and in 1908 bhroke into faster company with the Montreal team of the Eastérn league. Steve played the initial bag for the Roy , and did it quite nicely, although by trainin inclination he is an cutfielder. 1909 he was given a tryout by Cardinals, and made so favorable an impression that he was made a reg- ular outfielder right from the jump. He remained with St. Louis five sea- son nd made a reputation as one of the best outfielders of the National league. Last vear he made the big jump to the Ifeds and played the en- tire on with the Brooklyn Tip i | | ting eve last vear and Steve's batting record with the Feds proves either that he had vastly im- proved or taat Fed twirlers were much easier than those of the ancient circuit, With the s batted .259 in 1909, 1 the ! next year, and hung up his high rec- ord in 1911, when he swatted the pellet at a .294 gait. In 1912 his batting average was .283, and in 1913 it was .249. With the Feds last year he batted .348, standing second to Kauff, the Hoosier slugger, among the players who took part in more than a hundred games. During the season he got 177 hits from 509 times at bat, and scored ninety-three runs. He led the league as an extra base hit- ter, with grand average of 6. His long clouts included forty two- baggers, fifteen threc-base hits and a round dozen home runs. For the home run honors of the Federal league, however, he is surpassed by Zwilling of Chicago, who knocked out sixteen hits good for complete cir- cuits, and by Kentworthy, of Kansas | City, who got fifteen home runs. P er a anniversary of for a champion- the great 174th battle { This I the first Up! “Ee—yah!’ u life, making those Tuxedo, same as Cardinals | 4~h\,. in tiic of modern pugil ism, for it was on February 17, 1741, that Broughton defeated Stevenson in a terrific battle evenson, a a romantic protege of Frederick and trained for in the dissolute the later’s court, women and other George Stevenson was in no tion to meet the great Jack Brough ton, the pupil and successor of Figg, the fir champion Stevenson fought bravely, terrible drubbing, but at length cumbed the rain of blov ecred upon him by Broughton The first pugilistic championship battle had a tragic result, for Stevenson died within a month. Broughton then | declared that he would never fight again, and pugilism seemed destined die a-borning, but Jack later re his decision and returned after making a of eliminated many the the history Yorkshireman with had prince the atmosphere What with dissipation, giant become Wale contest of wine histor of of and took s to show to considered to the ring rules which brutalities of code of sport NEW H. JAGUE FAVORED. New Britain, Hartford and New Hav- en in Athletic Circuit. Athletic considered The met last High school council evening and fav- w Haven, Hartford and New Brit- ain. There will be three sports foot- ball, basket ball and base ball, but af- ter the league gets under hockey may be adopted as one of the sports No definite action was taken but the principals of the three schools will confer on KFebruary 27 tion plans will be discussed. Manager Knight read a rough foot ball sched- ule which will probably be drawn up clearly by the close of the school year in June. way NO FED MINOR LEAGUE, Abandons Plans He Had for New England Circult, Baltimore, Md., Feb. 17—James A Gilmore, president of the Federal league, who passed through Baltimore last night on his way to Pinehurst, C., anfounced that the proposition to place a minor league in New England had been temporarily abandoned He explained that he had received a report from Hugh McKinnon, his league’s New England representative, | just as he was leaving New York and that on the way to Baltimore he had considered it. Gilmore < g Hughie Jennings Manager of*Detroit ‘“Tigers’’, says “After a red hot finish in a ball game a pipe full of Tuxedo makes victory sweeter, or defeat more endurable. Ee—yah for Tuxedo.” Kopde “Come on, boys—Smoke With TUXEDO!” That’s Hughie Jennings’ battlecry, out there on the coaching line by third base. He's one of the pepperiest, gin- geriest men in baseball; always on his toes, rooting for dear runs come m. Jennings does. with nature’'s weapons. | BOWLIN Wallingford | Lantone Ccughlin Coll Scmple Bertini Richardg Brennecke IRogers VUL Stufford Demarest Calvert Sunburn Oldershaw Beecher Hurlburt | Warner Green Spencer Holtman orably entering a triangular league of Scharff Schroeder Petchout Windish Chalmers and organiza- | Fretschneider McKay Wagner | Root | Plueker Hopking Beach Wilcox Pleucker Stewart Rollins Johns Smith Linn Berry Hnlnk«-hl Mack The Perfect Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarette 98 111 189 488 New Britain 116 81 T4 94 AN x 10 106 499 IRON WORKS Oftice 164 127 147 716 6 698 Foremen 128 664 138 147 111 666 Pawnees 146 161 146 119 136 698 108 142 166 110 100 626 Tribunes 131 650 698 Sovercigns 126 121 140 100 h84 144 115 121 109 121 610 Armours. 110 135 100 126 160 116 Want to get sor'lc of that old snappy fee]mg yourse]" Smoke It’ll boost you right up into the zmgdooey class of fellows who are always on the go, tull of vim and good nature, piling up success. Tuxedo is mild and wholesome. That’s why all these athletes use Tuxedo. It can’t bite your tongue be- cause the famous “Tuxedo Process” has removed all irritation from the natural leaf—what you get is the gentle, mild, Kentucky Burley, rich and fra- grant and wholesome. “Ee-yah!” Get some Tuxedo today and get that happy feeling. YOU CAN BUY TUXEDO EVERYWHERE Convenient, glassine wrapped, moisture- In Tin Humidors 40c and 80c Famous Green Tin with gold lettering, curved to fit pocket In Glass Humidors 50c and 90¢ THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY 10c e