New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1915, Page 12

s 7 g tfts Made in Yale Eights----Jim Coffey Toys With Arthur Pelky and Referee Stops Bout---- ¢ 5.—Manager, ittsfield Blec- list of signed etary of the [ There are five & list. The men manager are g, Paul Sher- firds and Dennis three players fore .in the Berk- phile the last two ern association. ttsfleld at the be- the close of last butfielder, and al- rn up the league Inks he is worthy summer was onal ball, Otto club during the d some very good hd, though he did at home. Pitte- the pitcher will year. Paul Sher- wirler secured by June. He dis- omise during the the management 1. him. He will bre this year with fme as Rettig. Pirate. /& new - one in i 8trongly recom- | n” Troy of the | . was with tae | during the clos- son, but was Pirates at the | He was on the | th the Federals rg by Troy, who aining with the signing up with too, is a pitcher, prove_ a valuable | sfield staff. Sa~ member of the utfielder, and his jal. . He played in the home of that the Pitts- exhibition games jinternationals at and 25, while on eiphia to Bridge- of the Indians s to Mr. Zeller. 'or the Ironsides | City league a 1 undoubtedly be games. STIC ANNALS. 'and Joe Goss in Monmouth- ttle is of interest first meeting of ho afterward emi- | and . battled for “the New World. conflict, lasting fid ‘both men be- that they had to this fight Allen d fought his way g the American bnship, Joe Goss, defeated by Jem ght a draw with decided to follow 1876 Goss chal- for the American Covington, K foul in 53 min- the American when he was Ryan. gh.. «(Fred Hall boxer, born at , French mid- “born in Paris. t, Irish-Ttalian ‘in Rock Island, [ORE MUD, March 5.—Bad ‘her, mud and ixed in together lants. There was than good, with h equal quantities It was an un- ‘in the forenoon, day McGraw was other right after- gain. the first in 8 work. A little wind , improved foot as the day thile the players “ifooting decent ball about, but as+had before PAGE. former Pony in- eonditionally re- geles club of the e because 'he is bad arm. Page for two years. e - | Bowlers Smashed By Unknowns in A. A. U. Meet----Zeller Announces New Players----Bowling. Sportography)| Welsh and Ritchie Reads For Their Ten Round Bout BY “GRAVY.” ‘We have with us today Mr. F. H, Thomas, the champion eater of gar- den sass and lightweight pugilist of the universe. Mr. Thomas will 8in his thirtieth year toda; for he was born March 1886, at Ponty- pridd, 'Wales. In those circles where Kknockouts and blocks and leads and right swings and left hooks an’ sich are staples of conversation Mr. Thomas is known as Freddie Welsh, a4 nom de ring based on his nation- ality. During the last few month: since he took the title away from ‘Willie ‘Ritchie, the Welshman has not added vastly to his reputation as a fighting man, but he has annexed enough of the long green to keep his table supplied with carrots and rad. ishes and cabbages.and pertaties for the rest of his life. It is estimated that he has at least a hundred thou- sand dollars salted away, but it was not so very long ago when he looked upon a five-spot with envy. Freddie first visited America when he was sixteen, but after a few months of hobo life, during whic he car- ried the banner and often ‘“hit the back doors” and ‘“mooched” the free lunch counters for eats, he returned to good old Pontypridd. There he decie to become a professional wrest- ler, but he didn’t shine at the mat game, and soon gave it up. In 1905 Freddie decided to have another whack at America. He worked as a japitor, peddled pins and needles in Philadelphia, and washed sweaters for the athletes at Brown’s “gym” in New York. Then :he went to Montreal and worked as a me- chanical engineer, which he:had se- lected .as his trade.. The : Wander- lust was still on him, however, and he made his way w traveling in “side-door Pullmans” and’ toiled in be- 5, { the harvest fields of western Canada and the Dakotas. It was in the west that Freddie had his first fight. A gang of toughs tried to hold him up for his sav- ings. Freddie objected, and used his fists so vigorously that, he put his three assailants to flight. When he got back to New York he read an ad in a paper calling for an ath- letic instructor in a ‘“‘gym.” There were about a dozen applicants, and the “boss” had them fight for the job. Freddie knocked out his man, a husky middleweight, and landed the position at a salary of $15 per week. Freddie’s ring debut was made in Philadelphia in 1905, when 'he knocked out Young Wililams in the third round at the Broadway A. C. In his early battles the little Welsh- man often got as little as two dol- lars, but even that looked like easy money to him after his experience in the western harvest fields, and he stuck to the game. Now that he holds the title, after chasing Willie Ritchie several thousand miles, Fred- die isnt’ taking any chances of losing it by mixing things with his oppo- nents. Freddie Welsh is not the only sport- ing celebrity born on the fifth of March. On this date away back in 1854 George Slosson, the billiardist, was born in DeKalb, N. Y. It was more than forty_five years ago that the old cue veteran, then a lad of sixteen, made his bow in a billiard tournament. S8amuel A. Thompson, the once famous slugger of the De- troit and Philadelphia Nationals, was born in Danville, Ind., fiftv-five vears ago today. He began his league career with Evansville, and from 1885 to 1898 he was in the major circuit. This is also the birthday of Marcel Moreau, the former middle- weight champion of France, who twenty-seven. COLLEGE STAR I'OR WINGS, New Haven, March 5.—Word frem George Cameron’s Chicago headquar- ters were received last night to the effect that the owner of the New,| Haven club hdd come to an agree- ment with Jim Sheridan, last year’s captain and star pitcher of the N agara college baseball team, and that the former univers twirler would be a member of the local pitching staff this season. An announcement that proved premature was made last spring which stated that Sheridan would work for Cameron during the 1914 season, but the college stai studies interfered with Cameron's plans and Sheridan was unable to re- | port. The signing of Sheridan will be received with joy by all local fans who are acquainted with the brand of pitching 'he delivered last season, and it is expected that his presence on the local staff will prove a ma- terial uplift in the team’s champion- ship prospects. TINKER GOES TO SECOND. Joseph B. Tinker, manager of the Chicago Federals, after playing at shortstop from the start of his long career in the major leagues, has de- cided to switch to second = base. Tinker asserts that his place in tae short field will be taken by James Smith, a nineteen-years-old star, who uired his baseball knowledge at Duquesne university, Pittsburg. Smith was Signed late last fall. COLLINS HITS HOMER. Los Angeles, March 5.-——The Chi- cago Americans took the opening game of their exhibition series here from the Los Angeles Coast league team yesterday by good hitting. Score, 7 to 5. Eddie Collins, playing second for the White Sox, made a mome run in the sixth inning, and Ray Schalk made a perfect average, ]W LSH New York, March b5.—Freddie Welsh, the lightweight champion of the world, and Willie Ritchie, the former holder of the title, are now ready for their ten round bout to be held in Madison Square Garden, March 11. ‘The battle should result in one of the best ten round battles held here in some time. Welsh has been beating all comers at the short | distance route and has been fighting well. Ritchie has not engaged in:any | bout for some time, but is fresh and | in good condition. Upper picture s Referee Billy Roche on left watching Ritchie show Welsh's meth- ods of holding, to which he objected | in his last battle with Welsh. BIG SHAKE UP MADE IN THE YALE CREWS “Hunt” Merse at Stroke of First Eight--Oher Changes. New Haven, March | kalls westerda celebrated ad- | vent with the Yale oarsmen by shak- ing up the two va crews radical- ly. Huntington Morse, brother of former captain Dick Morse, was in- | stalled as stroke of the first eight. Henry Coe, who has been stroke all the fall, is suffering from a slight operation. Seth Low and Meyer, the only var- sity veterans in cpllege, were given | varsity seats. Captain Denegre, who rowed in the second boat son, was given a place in the eight. Bennitt, former second crew stroke, was assigned No. 2 and Gilfillan, who | s stroke of the second eight, went | bow in the second crew. | The two eights: First—Stroke, Morse; No. 7, Low; No. 6, Mever; 0. 5, Sturtevant; No. | 4, Sheldon; No. 3, Capt. Denegre; No. 2. Bennitt; bow, Coe. cond—Stroke, Atkins; No. 7, Wi- No. 6. Fox; No. 5, Whittlesey; 1 Kositzk No. Gamble; No. 2, Munson; bow, Gilfillan. There is satisfaction here over the arrival of Guy Nickalls and the as- surances that the plans for the de- velopment of the Yale crew will be carried out according to’' schedule. Nickalls demonstrated last year to the satisfaction of a majority of sup- porters of the Blue that he had prac- tical knowledge of watermanship and the knack of getting results from good material, a working combina- tion which had been lacking at New Haven for some years. Nickalls Has Real Job. ckalls faces a task in 1915 more difficult than a year ago, as far s the opposition is concerned. Har- {vard has never boasted such an abun- dance of strong and finished oars- men. With the championship Hen- ley eight almost intact, and the vet- erans of the crew which represented the Crimson on the Thames, seems little reason for doubting that Harvard will have one of the most formidable crews in the rowing his- tory of the institution. In Nickalls’ favor is the fact that this spring he returns to something which can be called a system. A year ago he un- dertook to develop a crew with oars- men who had been taught just enough about all varieties of rowing his Wi to there | to know nothing about any of them. Yale may helieve that the effective- with a triple and three singles in four times at bat. ness of a system well grounded can be relied upon to do better under | Nickalls' supervision than in 1914, | BOWLING | "RATERNAL LEAGUE. Foaote Williams Oldershaw Rehnke May Callahan Gaffney McAloon 669—2037 RED MEF LEAGUE. Scouts 83 96 76 76— 2 76— C. Nelson Gronback .. C. Gronback .. Sandstrom A. Rober Joarnest Norton 180 444—1301 Swanson B tobert: Glson Foberg - Abrahamson . Logan Briere Molander Oberg T. Wright . ... New Britain Herald 84 101— 69— 88 Fouzzner Moran Bachom Vance Fawards 439 Hartford Post 84 66 80 81 8 .73 101 416 Tevlin De Luco Burns 384-—1191 BROWN WITH WHALES, Mordecai Brown, who last year managed the St. Louis Federals ana at the end of the season played with the Brooklyn Feds, is to play year with the Chicago Whales i By Torpedoes in English Channel, Says announcement was made yesterda after he had Vv ed President Charles Weeghman of the Chicago clup, A A U MARKS GO; NEW STARS SHINE Former Chempions Humbled by Stripings in Big Mest. Marca 5.—Athletic his- no such startling series of form reversals as marked the an- nual senior indoor track and field championships of the Amateur Ath- letic union, contested in Madison Square Garden last night. Seven of the men who won titles last year were sent back to the ranks, while taree others declined to defend their laurels. Pat McDonald, Platt Adams, and Tom Halpin were the only title- | holding athletes of last year who sur vived the onslaugints of the outsiders Adams, triple victor last year, camec off with a single title, the pole vault for distance; McDonald retained his | twenty-four-pound shotput crown, and Halpin again proved best in the | 600-yard run. Among the cham- pions who were shorn of their titles | were some who were considered the | surest victors entered in the meet- | ing. New York, tory record Young Marvel Shincs. To W. H. Taylor, a comparatively unknown athlete from the Illinois A. C., Chicago, fell the indfvidual laurels of the meet. Twice the little western boy took the measure of Platt Adams, and on each occasion he hung up a new record for the senior champion- ships. In the standing nigh jump Taylor outdid Adams, jumping five feet four inches, beating the cham- pionship record of five feet two, and in the standing broad jump he again took the measure:of the New Yorker, who has held Olympic as well as na- tional jumping championships in this'| cvent. His mark was eleven feet two | inches, better by half an inch than tay Ewry's long standing champion- ship record. iddie Renz, the Mohawk A. C. walker, vies with Taylor in the rec- crd breaking, hanging up the splen- did time of 14:053-5 for the two- mile walk and clipping twenty-seven seconds Off the previous best mark. Mike Devanney, unattached, in win- ning the two-mile run had to give the best track exHibitiot of the games. For nearly a mile he ran behind Sid- ney Leslie of the Long Island A. C., | after receiving a nasty fall while on ninth lap, but despite this acci- | dent he pc ssed the better spri when it came to the final lap, and he | fan Leslie off his feet to win by ten | vards, Leslie, with a burst of speed just before the last Jap started, gained an advantage of about five yards, but half way around Devanney caught and passed him. Irish-Americans Win Mect. The point banner was again won by e representatives of the Irish-Ame ican A. C. with thirty-five points. The Boston A. A. was sccond with twenty- three, and the New York A. third was fourteen, Other org: tions scoring points were Illinois A. C., twelve; Yale university, eight; Millrose A. A., six; Mohawk A. C., Colby college, five; Long Island , five; Dartmouth university, five; Bronx Church House, five; Irish- American A. C. of Boston, four; Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology two;. Michigan university, points were recorded by unattached athletes. his si one, ¢ PRINGFIELD JUST HEARD IT. Farrell of the national has announced that the Eastern has dropped the New Britain and Waterbury territories, “Bill” Scinski also dropped New ~ Britain some time last summer.—Springfield 2epublican. ecretary association GEIST GOES WE Clyde Gelist was bought from the Hartford club of the Eastern associa- tion by the Wichita (Kan.) Western league club, it was announced yester- day. TO MANAGE FITCHBURG. J. McCune, who played on the Worcester team of the New Eng- | land league last season, has signed as player-manager of the Fitchburg club, it was announced yesterday. DESTROYED. Hugh TWO FREIGHTERS Another of Cur Famous Sales of Men’s and Youth’s Nearly 5000 Splendid $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00 Garments in One Big Sale [ PANTS This is the kind of effer you read about. No know- ledge is necessary—for you are absolutely safe no matter what pair your select. We will refund you money willingly if after you get home you don’t like the pants you selected. 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Bremen, Via London, March 7, | 2:40 a. m.—The destruction of two freighters by torpedoes in the Eng- | lish Channel was witnessed by the | captain of the American tank steamer | Gulflight from Galveston February for Bremen which arrived in the Weser Thursday morning with a cargo of cotton, according to a story printed in the Morgenpost. The captain qouted by the newspaper as saying | the ships were attacked by a sub_| marine. One of them is reported have been loaded with rice and other with coal. The captain, says the Morgenpost, asserted that he passed safely through the mine fields by following directions issued by the is | i to | the German admiralty. i ARIZONA APPEALS. Washington, March ‘The of Arizona appealed to the court yesterday from the the federal district court, unconstitutional the Arizona anti- alien employment Iaw against which Great Britain and Ttaly had protested a violation of treaty rights, 5.— states supreme decision of which hela as thére was little question as to the result. Coffey was the master of the situation, and administered enough punishment in the two rounds to or- dinarily fill ten rounds. He knew he | had a hard-hitting opponent in front of him who lacked science, and, keep- ing out of the way of wild swings and hard punches for the body, was able to hit his man almost at will Pelky Tries For K. O. After the first few moments of the opening round Coffey began his stiff- | left jabs, which dazed the New Eng- land boxer. Pelky quickly realized he was no match for Coffey as a boxer, and tried to land a knockout blow. He was winded at the bell. Coffey went right after Pelky in the second round and soon had him at his mercy. 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