New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1915, Page 12

NEW BRITA DAILY HERALD, ' - ’ - V ' - 7 Vngh Expressed for Successful Opening of Eastern Association Hartford and New Britain hools Clash Tonzght in Basketball---Jim Coffey Whips Another Cripple---Bowling N BritdinVs. -Hartford Grahame- White and Other English Fliers - i‘jpaflo raphjr BY “GRAVYX” ‘f MUDDLE Big State Ebens Tonight In Campaign to Offset Submarme Attack b | British devotees of soccer, boxing and other sports have lately come ir | for much criticism because they have | persisted in indulging in their fznzfim i pastimes while the nation i in ger. While many of the leading boxers of England have enlisted, the igame still flourishes more or less, It was always thus, for British love of sport is mighty hard to eradieate History affords a noteworthy instance for when Napoleon was threatening |to invade England, just as the Ger mans are now doing, the sports of the tight little island refused® to vandon their pastimes | It was just 110 vears ago, come to- [ morrow, on February 20, 1805, that | King George ITI, frightened to the {depths of his Teuton soul by the { threats of Bonaparte, called upon all | his subjects to fast and pray, in or der that the T.ord might Jook with !mv.-r upon them The old mon- arch spent most of his time onjhis knees, begging the Almighty to stay the invasion of This realms. The masses of the English people, while vigorously preparing to resist the enemy, which had already raided the | mouth of the Bristol channel @nd bt the Leagus Start. b. 19.—So much of a e has been written seball situation in fans are beginning g as a fake. They Federal league in- New England, that p suspected of being ganized ball, that pd here, there and Ind that those very t obtained, that the B a great opportuni- t has none unless it parties, and now decided to “‘tempor- 'w England. Condit the desires of fans the baseball season strong. Baseball | captured a number of British mer eldom or rarely this ! chant ships, were not inclined to fol- d a longing for the o | low the king’s advice that they abar mes. The passage 5 | - SOM - . TOMBARDED TOWN = {don all spoerts and amusements for the southern o " i < !PD!CATEDHU“DERUNE = i On the day of the solemn fast hp ons stirred up the srnse Rarlwmegs —_— pointed by the king, the Lords and fow ball clubs may e Crzar 4 2 Commons listened to sermons, becaus and the fact does ‘ - - % ste %, , they had to, and two aldermen ac- ed. M1 DVE - : { companied the Lord Mayor to thé Ty concerning the 3> . o . . i} ; services at St. Paul's Very ' few oning” of the Fed ; - E ? 3 3 " 2 . males attended the meetings held in h looks a strategic 3 : % ' oo — % e % | chapels all over the kingdom, and the ent. Gilmore. The # 3 5 bt AHAR G G . " # : king became so indignant that he ptended to bluff or- - = : g Sanbel 3 ; ; i » declared war upon all sports, but Ineral, ‘or those fel- | ° 9 f Ke 5 o = 5 especially prize-figthing . pney for flopping to % . 4 — b 2 . 0 td % 2 4 The very day appointed by King league. Anyway, = o & . 5 o . George for fasting witnessed many is held up, but that o\ l % private pugilistic bouts and meetings demolished. What g i e / : f : 5 of convivial souls to arrange for other ough is the East- TUTHILD, C. DUDACK d this may be a £ ] & 3 B matches. The laws against irreligion kbandoning.” What- TWO OF NEW BRITAIN'S STARS ' ; i1 oy oy el these meetings : . . o g had to be hedged about with secrecy p Federal plan, the > - e e o o - 7 ey & o 7 s One of these sessions of sporting men t the FEastern asso- y A nlaced be- ou s Ry : 55 i g 2 S R 7 was held ‘in the upstairs roomg of . ig i cul- ' second tier of benches placed | : # RES s Rgiiasi 9 g S s 4 t of business if injasrcsapbatie iy Wmc,h S 1 ;eath the balcony. The usual large | ¥ 1 3 T ; Lo the “Jolly Brewers,” a place of liquid prd and New Haven | minates the High school basketbal Hartford delegation is anticipated | ; 4 2 2 % 3 e $ ot e . refreshment then kept by Jem Bel Of the same qpin- | season the New Britain High will meet i ” i) “constderably augment the | : < cher, the former champion, who had continue in ' the g e woma e | their o1a rivae, Harttora. T same Weniance, 71 M U e e SHAKING | ~FANDS WITH FRIEND o7 AEROPLANF] been forced to retire. from the ting : by the loss of one of his eyes. Among e fenting g this cvenins'e. contest will | Coach Zwick of New Britain announce | the boxing bugs who thus 4id violencs Zeelingland his FySiLugs, cortes lineups as follows: London, Feb. 18.—Thirty-four Brit- | mander, and Lieutenant Cyril Porte, tack, and that Grahame-White fell|to the king’s wishes were many not. e il - . the | Who was to have made an attempt to | into the sea off Nieuport on the re- | ables, including Lord Saye and Sele, 15 seablancsfanntacioblanessatiiclil 58 B e ItlekHe i odkuar | Gich ane wii's tanibl for ihs ehemy’s | Tonl Maathe Harry Vane Tem- Wanamaker’s fiying boat-Americd, but | gung unfil he Was ' tesctustl. by & | Doty ABE s aer S . whe hurried home to resume his rank | French warship. Grahame-White was | later distinguished themselves in the > sailed acr e when war was declared. The Amer- | taken to Dunkirk, little the worse for | field. The purpose of the anage! i i i L 08don : channel - ade a sue 'k |ica was subsequently bought by the |his mishap and joyful over the suc- |ing was to make a match fiething Ios, been acg:;mlu?)gg?f‘tr}?g‘};rlgsesfrg?\i:{‘g u.:{ > . : 1::‘\“:;?-:‘1 L:::V‘"n:’l‘]:l lh-\;‘l‘\nn. R ee e P for $25.000 All | cessful work of the aerial fleet. When | Hen Pearce, “the Game Chicken,” i BIRVEEE- | Cver sttended a basket ball game af ; Ginsburg .... B oen o o e lbelicy o o be leatabs heh ey intorslany thein observers re- | he got there he learned that the|who then held the title, and Hlias sy the local High school and an audi- ! Right Guard. lishing marine stations for raiding |turned safely to the British base. | British air men with the expedition- | Spray, a young coppersmith swhose he Springfield ball f almost 1,000 is expected, Ex- Dudack ................... BChOItZ | gritigh mercantile shipping. The ex- | The onlywmishaps were that two ma- [ ary army had likewise performed a | pusilistic ability had attracted the st Fhat he might A b Trovided and al Left Guard. pedition was under command of | chines were damaged by the hail of [ notable feat in driving off a large | tention of some of the gentlemen B 1n Pho wayige/| [re chairs have been pr S A ~wam——w | Wing Commander Samson, who had |shot which the Germans fired at the | German aerial fleet that had attempt- | present. With pipes and cigars snd jE ! oo he did ngh i S with him such noted fiiers as Claude | squadron when they had recovered |ed an attack on that city the night | plentiful grog the Corinthians in, owner of the| p,ven the big chief stated with em- KING COLE IS FIT. ' cel Grahame-White, now a flight com- |from the surprise caused by the at- | before, brated the “fast” and made arrange- not only been | nags that the Feds were in New SR he will refuse to en- ments for the match. Several wagers England to stay. Has the fighting |Ready to Jump Right Onto the | — ix-6lub Eastern as- were made, including one of $3,500 Mr. Gilmore quit before jumping into Mound, Clark 79 letic Union, who are eligible to A. A. | against $2,000, with the But that Hartford ! e e i 1 odds favor- the ring? | Griswold ... 83 83 . cards, how to obtain same, hog 0 | ing the “Chicken.” 2 E , Ark., Feb. 19.—Slow-"l l ety o o0 SusneE * X ltiea:?‘ fhla sea.so]x(:. Mr. Gilmore has stated that the | II)“):‘ 2::§Lr;g’thertardye athletes \ghn | 30 W ING ' limetz. .. .. vondu(vt closed or open games under Rumors of this affair reached the h in those remarks | ,, Lo bocknse | 1Y y | A. A. U. rules, how to lay out running | king, and he organized a horse pa- to have the fapt | ~temporary abandoning” is were ordered by Manager Bill Dono- p R Py is to ave e fas Daciterd of the malvidiais clubs,. are Y - o 418 lv:a(’k um_l the lil_{z-. Novices u_m] be- | trol charged with suppressing prize I‘l“bih‘:hf*‘:;::i'e:: Aotientiatled: with the fimancial ont- ::‘;”‘J“ "elé‘filrg‘ ‘ifotloeq‘t‘f_;:({ev';’tzrdfif FRATERNAL LEAGUE. Newsboys. ginners will be given opportunity (o |fights. The ingenuity of the sports 2 a < o, Jr. O. U. A. M. Wallen ....... &9 i ] 260 | compete apart from top-notchers, or|was greater than the vigilance of the pros? Certainly not. [ 100K- The Feds want to come here, | 1,1 "aiigornia, where he spent part s U = & & s . i . 56 544 | Pouzzner ..... T 2 239 | with them in handicaps to even uv |authorities, however, and the batt) for in addition to getting help in the e " - { Foote 8¢ 166 > & | 8 itles, ho a h attle h professional base- Bt bt siagnis saldiies Torithe brcecs of the winter, and the Yankee squad 78 4 | was staged at Mouls Hurst—the first : 70 Bachom ...... 78 58— 227 | {heir chances to win, and anyone, who i ; Ser o Oldershaw . 178 47 ac = s players, those players would be kept at | Will Pe ‘D'f“’l““‘;l““h_ “:9 ”h”“” l‘]" Williams .. . 142 471\ O'Brien ...... 81 s has it in him, can end up with World | of many notable battles fought on work and developed for them. Then Lty Chhel, 970 & AR e T Behnke .. 1 181 496 | Xawards ..... 78 234 | athletic honors in the Olympic games. | that spot Pearce bested the cop- again the branch would boom and ad- | Monday. - persmith in thirty.iive minutes In May cma UG 179 5 486 — — = — {"A olnt office keeps s and vertise the general Fed league plan, | Cole arrived wearing a heavy coat 7 i 99 399 1198 | addre of athletes lubs, and | gpite of the prohibition of the king | perhaps because of it—three other Lat- DTN [\ gfield is concerncd sRa i n told of any plan be no exception. The respective their e coming season. In | Schools have exceptionally strong, fast ' ‘S\chlrsnltll{\ S. Hartfor flSInlw‘xg(:: s 5 I e ot ths Fiast. | 20 heaxy teams, this gear and grhen | i orward. greatest force of aerial craft ever as- | here are managers they clash in the greatest indoor sport ! Senadet oty nnl(eanty S : e i let i better game will never be -seen. chade . . semblec or a hostile purpose signed if there is |2 oo A 'he riv: i st kind. = | 1 orward, their base at Dover. weihae ssociation this sea- | The rivalry is of the keenes I r base a over between fiation Gone Up. he Springfield club for the six-club n and neither does | my o pranch is a great thing for tne |°f tan, and declares that he those who wish to go further can, for both should refuse Feds, but not for the “backers” just i shape to begin the se: Slks ~ |'a nomtaa fee, secure notices of all | jeg for the champlonship, as well ks they forfeit their | 1, 0" myere may be some little bit of ! were necessary. He also declares I Morsel® o - 3 COMMUNICATED. i athletic meets held throughout the |geores of minor ,,,',,”qv “Lr, fought in to Jim O'Roufke | 5 tifr petween the ‘“backers” and |that he has set out to make this an- + 2700 S e N e Inam NS e that memorable vear of 1805. And ert on baseball | v Gilmore and other Feds. Maybe | Other big vear like the one he haa £a8a% - 26 5 To the Yaoung Men of Connacticut: || This s as far as I feel at LDty 10 | Nunolest #ever set-Hbr Tbt on British dent of the East- | i1 ore's strategy requires that he | With the Cubs when he led the Na- s e i i 5 Many of you, who have competed in | ask space to go into details here. Fur- soll, George Cameron, | ;rotenq not to give a rap and let {he | tional league pitchers. » i S the amateur athletic games conducted | ther particulars in full can be ob. Haven- club, issaid | hackers come around to his way of e R during the past seve ars by our | tained by writing me, Room 313, No. -way as Springfield | hinking. SHORTENS SCHEDULE. 5—26 ?v\\’ Haven Ai. ;\. have lr;nnnnm(‘ to | 69 Church ~‘I or |u-!. nl.. ,\'m;‘ Ha- “he does and all % el o E ime expressed to me, as manager 6 ' ven, Conn. rinted details will be | 1 ok Ooll . X R o start the' season fickerstWany Sone Philadelpbia Dropped From Cubs' ILLUMINATING LEAGUE | these games, your appreciation of the ' sent, and personal letters, when necos- | """”'l‘ ';" - |'_ s r ""7""' r, Decides i i e ' g J 3 CAZEDE o e e cing st e e g 2 o Continue s &4 ' 3:‘:‘3:{;31 SlSaR e S R et tah g R Smie seuonfri Electrlc Light Co. ISR S Rl e e L R . who cares to, can ¥ New York, Feb. 19.— liteve™ Rbyes bg jb_dperate under | - feelithat theyishosliiine pf"d Chicago, Feb, 19.—Because he be- | JONeS 2 ;] & pecially track and field games, on the : s about himself, what | the crack pitcher McGraw drew from afion, With Spring- | MOney by the Feds. The proposed |jeyeq he could develop his youngstens | Willimetz ... 75 9 .~ -73 ! map in Connecticut and your wish | he can .lqfl. is intercsted in, his age, | Hamilton college last spring, has de Haven balk- | league is to take forty eight players at | faster with fewer exhibition games | TTOOP -+« -+ that we might have more state-wde | occupation and the like. Ten cents | cided not to sign with the Giants for “be left, but $200 a month, really cutting down the {and more regular drill, Manager Bres- | 233 263 248 263 1007 ;u_n:nour athletics of vU'.r same sort | jn 1 ct. stamps or dime should be in- | the coming season, giving as his rea Eastern associa- | expenses of Federal league clubs |Lahan has eliminated from the Chi- o ! with more system, business, unity and | closed to pay for printing, letters, reg- | son a desire to continue his law studios pts to explain ‘the v cago Nationals’ ante-season schedule co-operation of athletes and glubs. | sterng name, and the like. in the New York Law school. Royee N mess. $9,600. And that is not the only ex- the games with the Philadelphia Na. worked with the Giants last summer of the Federni | Penditure. The backers are supposed 3 following his graduation from H x tionals, dated for March 24 and 25. in New York Tues- | to throw away franchises that cost This was done with the consent of hings were going 5 good money. The backers have been | the Philadelphians, with whom the pr the Feds in New given no bargain. Probably they feel | Cubs still have two contests carded in jld McKinnon would n'New England yes- ‘night, when ais LAW VS, BASEBALL Gas Comparn Lynch ce. 70 f;‘,* fgg We are now prepared to make a be- Very sincerely yours Ri gpoTE o i S“uf b ginning in doing this through what T JOHN C. COLLIN Erickson ... 0 = | think is a workable plan. Chairman Managing Committee, | ilton, and was urged to renow His con- This plan increases the opportunity | The New Haven, Amateur Athletes. | tract, He announced his refusal re- of the comparatively few competing | _— cently to John B. Foster, socrotary TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS., | of the club, Foster wrote 1o Royee and are holding up for cash. Gilmore |local club will leave for its Tampa 1909—Abe Attell and Jem Driscoll | telling him the New York club re- e Mr: Gilmbde | has repeatedly stated the ‘backers" |training camp February 26. Poters P 205 ilfi\l’llll):tii:‘dn?he::(lt}\]’e liz?‘! (0(‘:\")‘:4‘*?1"?1‘1"" xed 10-round draw at New Youlk.| Svetel 1,.q“g‘;;‘. {vlnll‘l:vg“‘nh but \u.v:.a imore, Mr. wil P o S aeen 3 o8 v sort, es ally S st ieg o e v . gla e during the next two ha would be “tem- | A S S WARRANT FOR COOMB Olson ... o 2 track and fleld games, to cvery young onboseryes o ] e ad | years to slgniiin -ap abouie - Roy oy the Teds. He | to Brookiyn the day before the Gil- i y :“;’““’“ : ; »N“‘({w I e state, who has In(erest | st sensational glove affairs in ring | change his mind, Foster cautioned uring the train re o4 T . o ! Fol ;el: 9 b in the game, and it sets lubs, | & e T % g itcher strongly 2ins et talked thins over ot 1w wand | May Be Accused of Violating Maine : | small or latge, with few members o |Mstory. | The little Hebrew and the | the bitcher etrongly” against Joinide sement may be ab- | the official pocketbook of the Fedaral Game Laws, ~— | many in which clean, up-to-date an:- “n( Telght, speed, experience and tinge| Royes creutedli Miisten 3 Gk Yet one must give | jecague. Mr. Ward said no cash w Portland, Me., Feb. 19.—It Is re- EOME D Al s il o LS and the fans who gathered at|1ege baseball last spring by making - strategist. TN? | promised the club owners. There has | ported that a game warden will swear & I AR s e T ek (o Hm old National Sporting club to see | @ record of 100 strike-outs while cap- #=ed (ball beaten in | peen little to indicate that the Feds |out a warrant for tho arrest of Jack | Norten Suners S tmaid Ractentimetenriathieups That theroi o s Got el siin’ for thiel raonay | (mitgehy Yoeveitee: CORETPEEE T when it comes to | intend to put cash into the New Eng- | Coombs, who was recently released by | Dummy ... b5 et nanviend ares benesis b0 Ll s ettt e | Getval it ettt e Rimore is the brains | Jand project. Maybe Mr. Gilmore 15 | Connie Mack, for illegally killing two | Briere 2 uel atileten A e O Now Toni bosiit o T ht] sosots’ Tonksetat s the "ol jthe famous New Ha- | uging his stratepy on the ‘backers deer when he and a party of other | A. Robertson : 82 S Eations Tt progldes fchigtly) for Iio lovar nad ,,\,T,,‘”,[,m"v‘r;.l they used | Reds, Chicago White Sox, Washifg jald the policy of the | and not on organized ball in general. | ball players were hunting in . the | Barnest .... R SE e o B oioroc, |1t WhiGh Is' 100 infreaueritly the Gase]ton Amssibiug. Biston Hed fex. B [ iust be kept 5¢-.| The publicity campalen of the New | Maine woods last Novernber. Sandstrom ... : S (Epa oSty those o oL T L e tope] Yankees and Giants k would have to be | England I'cds has run to the ridicul- In Coombs’ party were Bab Shaw- 3 ©uren) GGl MLy SREH I R that the details | oy ; for.a while.. Mr. Gil- and strengthens existing athletic | 1 | | i they would be buncoed by the scheme | the south. The main body of the | : S athletes in the state, co-operates with | 1 3 96 zi hem i . last analysis what |notchers. Driscoll has had few s - T v 1R 5. There has been too much bunk. | key, Jack Lapp and Herbert Pennock Wacsior f,“‘pc (‘1.‘:,(';1‘ 4.‘:(1“]}(:11.«;:» fellow now has | equals in cleverness, and in his career FORTY “MIDDIES” OUT. This may or may not be known to Mr. | of the Mackmen, and Danny Murphy ATTIgx A 2 i e e lan ; 5— 2 ight that he should have, but no less lightweighis of Great Britain, Fruance [ 9f forty candidates for the Naval B as, starting Zat | mean the publicity end of it when he |is a member of the Brooklsn National | F- Logan S { an xi h Hhab hte young fellow ‘who |and Americs m is said to have | Academy baseball team responded i 1 g said in New York Tuesday night that | league team, | Molander ..... ! S TIERD T sl 2 | coupglfvo;: C“:cs Tor SRRy ! Wright : reasonably small, and with funds |now be fighting at the front gan preliminary practice in the were given out. For | nims s a Fe ster. No fs as ’ /righ sielor 113 Kb 9 | reasons sty > i armory cage or the direction of [lidien; the Ty | oot s s R 0 S BURKETT GIVES UP. ffom admission to games, or what-| 1892—Jim Lawson knocked out | 8rmor ge under the direction of 1 i headquarters with C- : . oy gland for awhile yet. | to stay on the job. McKinnon has | Worcester, Mass, headed by Jesse __* New record. al gain but solely under the rules of lat Los Angeles " ‘] ok \‘] ql"""“['y‘r:" A"‘Hfl"_?‘ , he stated, was to | worked hard for the new league. Burkett, the former big league star, © Scouts. the Amateur Athletic Union of thoe 1900—Tom Sharkey knocked out g ) .’“‘ WhS “"‘H B "l“' all in the dark. Thus McKinnon is charged by some with | have left New York for their homes ' Pfeiffer Tt R b 24 United States to promote amateur [Jim Jeffords in second round at Le- o " . the i : w & $165 i sante : . ironback .. 5 26 ! cut young men. Additional to track | 1903—Aurelio Herrera knocked out 5 — McKinnon have made “breaks.” Prac- | $15,000 if they wanted to take over . Gronbac cut 3 Hes oD - y I = | tically everybody conmected with the | the Jersey Clty International fran-|Berlin ..... 89 93 3 | and fleld games, athletics will include | jack Madden in fourteenth round a¢| PICK HARVARD RELAY 11”"‘;;'{ i THE Federal leagie scheme in New Eng- | Chise. The delegation arrived on | Fk. mlmnwn E ¢ 87 26 baseball, football and so far as prac- | Gireat Falls, Mont. ‘ ge, Mass, he = ; A o 5 SRz ke etition through leagnes T will meet the University of Penniyl- that the whole undertaking is of a |the SIS orern: but were informed by sl ;‘j";;'l‘h_'"l"‘i“‘,,l]l il o1 i ! PEPE WANTS RELEASI, iia team at the Naval Militia ath- i atur AT e sl President Barrows that the price of = as in baseball, bask 2 ir- ; 3 : i wb tion is certainly anything but cheerful | pay, and Worcester will remain in the ; Gaines - one 83 5 ] pertaining to amateur sports, espe- | holding down two infield jobs at the J»:\‘llv}t'ux Pennypacker will act as fo1r ary b6y Soncernad i prssball’ New England league, ¥ stopss .o 98 S 262 | cially the rules of the Amateur Ath- | same time, substitute. e o x s 1 Annapolis, Md 19 A squad i = 7 g - super ance, ich it is all | fought the best featherweights and \ . 1 Gilmore and he probably did mnot|of the Brooklyn Federals. ~ Coombs | I+ losan ..... 78 : in superabundance, and whic king too much. Tt | ; o call 3 oy Hugh McKinnon did not compare with | Oberg . S - works should also have. I“ees arc [enlisted in a Welsh regiment and may | 1he call yesterday afternoon and Ye- ould not show their | Kinnon thus far, for he has been told The members of the delegation from 39 5 | ever source, are used not for person- | George La Blanche in seventh round 1 er who i S s £ sne c acti- | troi itchers eded in this. At New | “making breaks.” But others besides | after learning it would cost them TLeupold cee - athletics for the benefit of Connecti- | troit. aas 2 s, wi increased | Inrys n sit play team, ¢ B l land has made breaks, for the reason | Mond and made several offers {0r s ticable, other sports, with increased | o Harvard university re i, Which n owiers spread the bunk. The general situa is was more than they would Fast Berli operation in anything and everything | the New Haven club. Ie is tired of | consist of Capper, Minot, Binghan Alleys Tion Is certainly anyinine bt eheortud | par. ester il remary