New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1915, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1915, ) 1o Quit Federal League for New York Giants-- Willie Ritchie Lays Plans to Recaptv’ ght Crown From Freddie Welsh--Eli and Tigers Meet in Basketball Classic-- Bowling. IN FIGHT FOR TITLE DESERT 0 GANTS Game Tomorrow Night May Decide Feieral Ty Cobb of Federal Leaguc Wanis College Championship. tranchise trom the hanas o owner | {0 WoIK for Jawn MoGrew said that he would know the result = of this effort within a week, and that if it fell through, Owner Freeman | would probably decide to run the NEW BRITAIN BVATEN. Ball Players Call Wagner Greatest of All Players Scecond | sketball Week Ganc Bridgeport, March 8.—Real pepper St injected into the long out attempt sell the Bridgeport baseball franchise when Secretary Hugh I'. Reddy announced that a lo- cal man, a chap with a littie green stuff to his credit, is now at work organ- izing a stock company to take the imford trounced New Britair High in was drawn at basketball i1 unless Saturday evening The seeing e Stamford, game was Kelley in uninteresting baskets New showing in the der A. A. 1 ond period were in force, Stamford, the terloo drop in could he called teresting Britain made a first half rules tin hen th which arc l# met good playing un the coliegiate ec- rules fami to their Wa Revenge-— uppermost Princeton and Yale, still neck and neck for the lead in the intercollegiate Bennie Kauff, outfielder of the In dianapolis club and the all-round sta Thy Bnsup of the Federal league, within the last . 5"y g (25) amford f Ritchic when the art matci s0n Square After titing return ad " higit, fting, \Willi Rampion, who fwn to \Welsh in I, will have o kill against his s regain the in- went to Freddy the deci the pond. itchie has often not win on his ed 1epeatedly to ks thot he was e majority of don battle and pridering the ver- IMany Americans , nowever, came t that the Cali- eaten by ver Freddy Right In. p bout Ritchie egret taat We far boxing outpointed h almost every tead of fighting pd the same line sh, with the re- man had no dif- jpper hand. s Dout, Ritchie long a different at We. when has few super- pnmonstrated taat recent bouts. in quite a few g the world the popular ver- ons has been nglishman has he can box rings of lightweights. has decided a ack. According ar in' from the his way to v fon declares that | be one betwcen er, and that the gelf, will come flying. Willie can regain By landing a e cou he has o be > proper Ibe seen, however, ldefensive tactics to carry out his ig certain—the world’s cham- jcan title holder and a good scrap e. as STIC ANNALS.” jifrey knocked out round at Prov- te” Godfrey was pecl_fighters of the fhough he weighed lds, whipped man Ibut was defea Jake Kilrain and Cardiff was «a ighter, with lots [but he didn’t have craw. He wasn't Jgamec of that per- fould shine today labout boxing h ff once had the n his grasp, n L. Sullivan in [ the latter broke papletely at Pats, rve and personal- it out, although at juld have landed a have put Sully to ut heart for fight- chance in thos2 ad nearly ecvery in defeated Joe ds at Watertown, immons h round knocked at New Fiffo apd Jimmy pd draw at Boston. RNAMIINT. # to Fight It Out gen Cloth, fletic club and the jociety will settle a jite regarding their horrow night at the ke and a battle i i1l [B1oom Haugh, and Hol- artists from the Andrew Liebler, feorge Tredericks, Wiliiam Regan. play THE G h Bowlers Welsh | t no time did it | was the | for | the | B | PmrsmrceimERENLY giwfiiifififisi'flifl 5 { 1 | 1 Pittsburg, March 8.—The fuss made b_y his | friends in Carnegie, Pa., upon his at- | taining his forty-first birthday must | | tave warmed the cockles of the | | Dutchman’s heart. It i eldom, in- | dced, that a ball playver is honored as | Wagner has been. However, it is not | | for his baseball ability alone that | Wagner is to be commended. © Much { of that is natural, and in using it as he has done he has not overstepped over Hans Wagner recently the boundaries of his bounden duty. Eut his attitude toward his employe kad to be acquired, and he is to be praised for the way he has conducted himself on and off the diamond. Wagner has always amenable to discipline. In this re- spect he was vastly differen from some other stars who might be mentioned. Wagner was never what is known as a ‘“record player.” With him the team’s interests’ were alway mount. He has dodged the limelight wherever and whenever possible and has always refusesd to use his base- ball reputation for his own personal aggrandizement, aside from the salary which he legitimately earned. Johnny Evers hit the nail squarelyson the head in his letter which was read at the Wagner dinner, when he wrote: “You h about ‘second’ Cobbs, ‘an- other’ Lajoie, but vou never hear about second’ Wagners. Why? Simply because there never will be a second Wagner. He is in a closs by himself, This was a greceful, but well deserved compliment. | | | | BOWLING | LEAGUE. FACTORY Standing s W, N B. Machine 15 L, & C. 14 &, Works, No. 12 S. Works, No. : 10 P. & F. Corbin ... 10 Corbin Screw ... 8 North & Juda . 8 Union Mfg. Co. T High single—Blanchard, High three strings—I. 316. High team string- 513. High team total—Landers, 1,445. P.C. .T14 .381 .381 .333 124. Anderson, Landers, Individual Averages. ¥.. Anderson Middleton inchard Lantone Screen S,i)&rtogr;zphyl BY “GRAVY.” Of all the fistic knights who have won fame and glory in the ring since James Figg introduced the ‘“‘manly art” nearly two centuries ago, prac- tically all have retired into obscurity after their fighting days were over. Dissipation has claimed many of them as early victims, although a surprising number of ring heroes have lived to a ripe old age, aithough reduced to a humble position in life. Of the few pugilistic champions who have gained honors in other lines of endeavor after quitting the ring John Gully was perhaps the most conspicu- ous and brilliant. ‘He became a mem- ber of the British Parliament—the only pugilist to hold a seat in that body. Only one other bruiser ever at- tained so exalted a position as a law- maker, and that was John Morrissey, who was champion of America in the '50s, and afterward made a fortune on the turf and was clected to the Unit- ed States congr There are a num- ber, of ex-boxers in state legislatures, Farnest Falk Dickman Jertini Lundin | Puppel i RNAL LEAGUE, Standing. P.C. 704 667 Ave. 828 816 815 813 T80 658 1 000 High High High Miner, 612. team string—1. O, O, F., 1,015. team total-—Moose, 2,689, Individual Averages . Miner Fcote Leupold Fgan F. Jurgen T. Walker Heinzman ! Larson (. Warker . Fehnke G. Zwic Mcrse Fchinson Zehner Parker. . L0 L aRg et o 1 Norton .. B 5 . e 9 Qldershaw 9 | his including Bddie Santry in TIllinois and Marty McCue in New York, but Mor- | rissey was the only fighter elected:fo | congress. Tomorrow will be the fifty-second i anniversary of the death of John Gul- | 1y, at the age of eighty, full of years and honors. He had won the cham- | pionship of England, and in after life ' twice hors nd sat in Parliament two sessions. As a mine-owner he amassed i a fortune of several millions. When he died on March 9, 1863, an immense concourse of people, including the mayor and corporation of Pontefract, followed the coffin to its last resting place. Gull career was full of romance. He was the son of a publican, and in his youth supported his mother by working as a butcher. Becoming in- volved in debt he left Bristol and went to Loondon, where he was thrown into the Marshalsea prison for debt- ors. He was rescued by Henry Pearce “the Game Chicken,” who w cham- | pion of Tingland in 1805." Soon after | his release Gully fought = his friend | Pearce in the ring, and was defeated after a memorable battle. In 1807 { Gully became champion by whipping | Bob Gregson and in the following year l Gully was again the victor. After that Gully retired from the ring and became a bookmaker. He made large sums on the turf and in- vested his winnigs in mining land, which, providing very valuable, made him a millionaire. He then bought some of the greatest race horses of that period, and in 1846 he won the Derby with Pyrrhis the First, and the Oaks with Mendicant. In 1854 he again captured the Derby with dover. In 1832 he was elected Parliament from Pontefract. twice married, and had twelve child- ren. So popular was he that when he stood for Parliament his opponent. Lord Mexborough, withdrew and left him a clear field. Charles Greville, in his “Memoirs,” described Gully. 'as, “remarkably graceful and even dignified in his ac- to He was been absolutely | para- | captured the classic Derby with | An- | basketball Jeague race, will settle the question of supremacy in an all de- ve game tomorrow night when the It will not | game of the year for either ci pair meet in New Haven. be the la team but each is equally sure of win- its final encounter that to- morrow’s game will without question decide the title holder. By defeating Pennsylvania while Princeton was trouncing Dartmouth on Saturday, Yale maintained itself in the tie for first place a deadlock which neither team has been able to break for three weeks., IBach has won and lost two gam Cornell assured itself of at least a tic for second place in the league standing by defeating Columbia at Ithaca on Friday. The Ithacans wind | up their season tonight when they face Dartmouth at Ithaca, and should have little difficulty in wipning at the ex pense of the hapless Green fivi ning S0 | Columbia by reason of a bad reversal | of form, will find worse lodgment than | it has ever had in the league since it was organized. Fourth place is the Lest the tean from New York can get and it Jooks as if it will finish the season Wwith only an even break but it can hardly be expected to defeat the all-powerful Tiger five when the two meet at Princeton on Friday. Pennsylvania brought its season to end in the game with Yale, and only three victories out starts to its credit. The Quakers beat an Dartmouth twice and Columbia once. | That is the extent of their prowess as conquerers. Dartmouth is the most unfortunate team that ever played in the league and there is little prospect that it will win a game in its sea- son’s work. It meets Cornell and Yale this week and defeat in each game seems a foregone conclusion, Dartmouth has eight defeats in eight starts as its unenviable record. Team Standing. Won Princeton ... = Sres, Yale Cornell C'olumbia FPennsylvania Dartmouth Lost MAGEE BARS CIGARETTES. Browns Wells, Miss., March 8.—Be- lieving that he was not violating the edict of Robert B. Ward, president of the Brooklyn FKederal league club in regard to the Tip Tops giving ex- hibitions of baseball on Sundays, Manager Magee had his squad of twen- tyv-four ball tc rs out upon the dia- mond yesterday, and although the weather was a bit chilly the entire squad had a three-hour workout. Grover Land, the big catcher, received a slight injury over his right eye waen a bat slipped from the hands of Jim Delehanty, who was hitting fungoes to the outfielders. Manager Magee has laid down a set of rules that should tend to keep the players good shape throughout the season, cigarettes and the drinking of toxicants are barred, and the must be in bed at midnight, men Advertised Letters. The following is a list of advertised at New Britain, Conn., post office March 8, 1915: Miss Helen M. White. Miss Keidy Kruba. Miss Caroline Candidue, Bessie B. Davis, Mary Murcinak. Lil O. Connor, Kthel Hughes. . & Lyons. James Roehmer. Joseph Boyle, Lillian R. Atwood. Ketcham, Mrs. A. 1. Parker. M L. F. Smith. S. Mozden. Antoni Starinski. H. S. Morton. Adam Freiheit. Wallace B. Goodwin, Mr, John Bergeson, Zdwart Freyton. Geo. R. B. Pickop. John Crow. F. P. Corbin Tewejor Donarjian, Stephen Bonner. P, Christian, Mr. Frank Zielinski, Mr, E. John H. Clark. J. Stewart Cla Ask for advertised mention date of list. IRA E. HICKS, Postmaster. letters and ; totally without ed- trong sense, discre- tion, reserve, and a species of good taste which has prevented, in the height of his fortunes his behavior from ever transgressing the bonds of modesty and respect.” About ten vears before his death Gully sold his studd and retired to ucation, Corking Hall, near Durham, where he lived the life of a country gentleman. of ten { in in- | letters i , club again. Owner John has clipped quite a little off his figures compared to what he wanted for the franchise a vear ago. At that time he claimed it was worth $8,000 ang he refused to sell for anything less, but now he will accept $6,000 for the club and be satisfied to quit baseball. Secretary Reddy, who carries all negotiations for Mr. said that he had if possible. In the event that the lat- est scheme does not go through it is likely that Mr. Freeman will take another chance. He likes the game but can't afford | to humor hisithobby when it costs him as much as it has during the last two seasons. TO FIGHT AT HAVANA, Johnson and Willard Contest Set For First Week in April. El Paso, Texas, March 8.—The Johnson-Willard fight for the heavy- weight championship of the world will be staged at Havana, Cuba, dur- ing the first week of April, according to announcement made heer by Wil- lard’s manger. Willard, who is now in Los Angeles, | is expected to leave soon for Havana. YANNIGANS BAT HARD, Daytona, Fla., March 8.—Manager Robinson’s Regulars and Yannigans indulged in a hot batting bec yester- day afternoon. The Daytonas, or second team, took the lead beginning and held it to the end. The score was Daytonas 14, regulars 9. Considering the high wind, which blew from the west all afternoon, { there were many pretty plays made by both sides. on | Freeman | instructions to sell | | obtain one of the most at the week has made overtures to John Mc- Graw with the idea of joining the Giants. Pretty positive information to effect comes from Indianapolis. Kautf has sent his contract to the New York club and Harry Hempstead's lawyers are examining the document for a loophole through which Kauff can rc- turn to organized baseball. Should the New York club find it visable to make a fight for Kauff the legal battle will not devolve upon the Giants’ management, but ostensibly upon the Indianapolis club of the American association, from which Kauff jumped. After he has been signed by his old club Kauff will e sold or traded to the Giants. Jack Hendricks, manager of the Indianap- olis American association club some time ago asserted that he had arrang- ed with McGraw for a dicker that would hold good in the event Bennie made the flop back. Kauff has been referred to as a sec- ond Ty Cobb, but such a comparison is rather too enthusiastic. However there is no denying that Bennie last sea- son developed into one of the fastest and best hitting outfielders in the bus- iness, and his addition to McGraw's staff would make the Giants’ pennant hopes considerably brighter. O. B. Has Double Incentive. The New York club, as a represen- tative of organized baseball, has a double incentive in its desire to gzet Kauff. In the first place, it would uable play- ers in the game, who has been adver- tised throughout the country and who would be a big drawing card. In the second place, it would take from the Feds their one, bright particular star. Kauff has a fine record last season In addition to leading the league in hitting, with a percentage of .366 he stole 75 bases, as against 52 for his nearest rival, Bill McKechnie of the Hoofeds. 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