New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 8

*Britain ACES OF THE QUARED CRCLE Sometimgs Comes n £y ¥you want to fight, come e and I'll fight you.” rave challenge, for the d’e it was only sixteen, eet seven inches in height, d only about 135 pounds, ‘ospective opponent was a t, big. and brawny, a rofession, and necessarily well developed muscles. the London street they g porter and the slender Jet black hair, dark, lust- | d prominent nose clearly Israelite.’ The year was 8n. London was even more £0 the lust of fighting than '8 crowd quickly gathered as | @nd boy squared off in bel- ttitude. arrel had commenced in a ‘here the young Jew, Daniel by name, was employed as Boy. The porter had con- sly rejected the tip offered , and had demanded double Hot words followed, and, orter threatened to admin- hing to the owner of the Daniel issued his brave as quickly formed in the | the pair went at each grim fashion, For three- ‘an hour they fought, but lebrew was so clever that Scarcely a blow, and the forced to give in and admit those ‘vho had happened fight began was “‘Gentle- d Humphries, who, al- d ‘mever fought in the most accomplished and Ing instructor in all the entleman” was much im- the Jew's fighting ability, hll: and gave him a knee 44 he cumstance altered Daniel i whole career, He was n, of Spanish-Jewish a8 a boy had' been the @ school he attended. At had been apprenticed to a r, but he resented the in- master's son so effec- is job, and became), for the tea merchant If he fought the battle g porter. Hes was 50 well pleased with endoza's ability that he im with a burly coal heaver, r ‘& battle of two hours the jumphed. Daniel received shillings for this long con- as pugilism did not offer i living, he became a traveler co dealer. In his wander- ght several battles ‘/for on one occasion bested who attacked him, After il nce as a confectioner in ipton, he returned to London ' tched with Tom Tyne for fint equal to $25 a side. " This Hebrew boy was defeated, eturn match he turned the won theistake of $100 by f Tyne. “’“‘ ws was Mendoza's next ‘and the bout was witnessed ‘sonage than the ‘Wales,| The heir apparent fnglish throne was an enthu- oxing ‘fan, and he took quite to the young Jew, The prince . pupil of Richard Humphries, @& praised the Jew so highly, in ce of the “Gentleman,” that ter becam jealous of his pro- | Fearing that Mendoza would him in the royal favor, ‘arranged a pretty scheme ‘the tide of the Hebrew's ris- unes, When the time came idoza to train for his next bout, took him to a place in the hich was a veritable nest a den of iniquity. The ™ hoped that in such’sur- the Jew 'would fall a Vic- ipation, but the canny diately left the place. snraged Humphries then induced /s patron to call off the bout. ‘afterward the Jew and the " met in a public house, umphries vilely insulted his i pupil. Mendoza swallowed all ~but his dark eyes flashed » that boded 111 for Humphries. of the “‘Gentleman’s” inter- 6 Jew retained the confl- the prince of Wales, and that tchmaker matched him with ‘bruiser known as Martin, the tcher, a sturdy bulldog of a hile Mendoza was then only . middleweight. Mendoza's vic- tablished him as one of the thting men of his time, and in iars he became the champion nd, the first Jew to hold that 8 Star of the East,” as Mendoza called, was the first Hebrew to P pugilism as a profession, al- even after 'his victory over he followed the trade of a aker and other occupations he was able to make his Hving his fists. In 1738 Mendoza ‘his enemy, Humphries, but an dent deprived him of the victory. 4 had all thg best of the milling, iMpped on the wet turf and nehed his ankle so badly that he uid pot stand. They soon fought 2 al this time the “Gentleman’ ch puaishment that he de- 8 "™ Joce liberately quit., In a third contest with Humphries, Mendoza totally out- classed his enemy, and compléted his revenge for past insults by stopping the “Gentleman” in fifteen minutes. The. career of the pioneer of the hundreds of Jews who have attained to pugilistic fame was replete with romantic incidents and adventures. On one occasion Mendoza was thrown into King's Bench prison for debt, and spent four vears in that resort, s0 graphically described by Charles Dickens. By turns he was an actor, a showman, and a publican, as well as an instructor in boxing. His ca- reer as a champion aroused the pugil- i{stic ardor of the English Jews, and | he goon had scores of his race seeking to emulate his example. He gained his last victory in 1806, when he de- | fented Harry Lee, although he was then forty-two years old. For many vears after his retirement the black- haired old Hebrew was a prominent fisure in pugilistic circles, and often acted as trainer and second to young battlers, « He died in 1886, at tha nipe old age of seventy-three, p 3 | On one occasion, when the Stdr of {the East was acting as a boxing in- structor in Dublin, an Irish gentleman ! who had a wide reputation as an ama- teur fighter challenged Mendoza to battle. The Hibernian was a giant in stature, and he had scant regard for the reputation of the slender Hebrew, and thought he could easily vanquish him. = Mendoza was content with blocking his opponet's wild blows and did not attempt to fight back, until the Irishman, exasperated by his tactics, let loose a remark reflect- ing upon all Jews in general and Mendoza in particular. Daniel was a staunch defender of his people, a2xd the insult had no sooner left the lips of the Irishman than they were crammed down 'his throat hy Men- doza's fist. The Hibernian took an awful slashing and at length ‘‘hol- lered 'mough,” apologized to Mendoza for his offensive language, and thence- forth became one of the Hebraw's staunchest patrons. NEW BRITAIN SOCCER - CLUB 1N ELM Y Will Play New Haven: Aggregation : for Sprag Cup. New Haven, May 1.-—A soccer game that is exciting wide spréad intérest amongst followers of the’ association game, will be played at Annex fleld tomorrow afternoon between the New Haven and /New Britaln teams, who will face each other in' the compe- tition. for the American association spring cup. The game will be made doubly in- teresting from the fact that the same teams will meet each other the fol- lowing Sunday in the final game for the Budd Challenge cup. New Haven defeated Manchester United for the Spring cup last year, and all the present holders of the trophy. Man- ager Montgomery will place hia full Cup tle team in the fleld tomorrow {and Captain Downie will bring his strongest team to face them. The con- test Will undoubtely be the fastest that has been seen here this season, ‘lnd the fans are eagerly waiting for | the sound of the referes’s whiatle. The New Haven team will place a new man by the name of Gillespie, between the uprights. He is said to be a 'crack goal tender. Suttawaite, the new forward, will also be in the ranks of the Blues. The kickoft will take place at 2:45, and the following players will represent New Haven: Gillespie, goal; Jenkins, (Capt.) and Montgomery, full backs; Valentine, IClVe and Cooper, half backs; For- sythe, Griffin, Stephens, Black and Suttwaite, forwards. Reserves, Eyles, |Wlkefleld and 8mith, BOWLING| Pawnees TLobsters. 136 121 108 142 187 143 | Prell ....... W. Schrodel . Pechont . ... M. Wagner Mitchell 117— 374 114~ 813 128— 376 178 419 107— 369 6341851 03 111 109 119 664 558 Oysters. 145 145 133 136 108 23 Neurath .... A. Wagner .. Dummy .... Winger ..... 122 82 ¥, Schrodel ..126 161 681 807 159— 449 183— 402 107 306 138— 339 186— 462 7201978 BOWLING AT BOSTON, “White Way” Team of Lowell Leads With 1626, Boston, May 1,—The White Way ieam of Lowell, made the best score last night in the flve man duck pin competition of the Atlantic Coast Bowling assoclation's annual tourna- ment. Thelr pin fall totalled 1626, Martell was high roller of the team with 345, In the individual duckpin contest F. A, Hardy of this city led with 322, The Boston amateur teatn set a new tournament mark in the five man candlepin class with 1501, Other leaders’ marks of the day and night were: @ Two men candlepins: Osborne and Jldridge, Boston, 634; two-men. ten pins, 8. Willlams and L. W. Marston, Idoston, 1025; inlividual Marston, 471, y ) “FEleven to Play Iron Man' ;‘C;'aombs Puts Another Dent in Phillies-- National Le Benny Kauff Started a Pretty Row in His Sensational Leap to the Giants New York, May 1.—Benny Kauff, | the Ty Cobb of the Federal leagc, who jumped from the Brooklyn Fed- eral league club to the Giants will not be permitted to play in the National league until the national commission | has passed upon his case, and it is not at all unlikely that he will not be per- mitted to play at all for a.year or two at least. Kauff's case presents a knot- ty problem to the high sachems of 0. B.—one which will require a shrewd interpYretation of baseball-laws to solve. Kauff is not, in the true sense of the term, a contract jumper, He refused to report to the Indlanap- olis American association team, ' to which club he was sent from Hartford and he cast his lot with the Indianap- olis Federal league team. That organ- ization “‘blew up” during th'e past win- ter, and he was shifted to the Brook- feds. He signed a contract drawn up by the business manager of that team, but the terms did not suit President Robert B, Ward, and he would not sanction it. , 'Ward made repeated ef- forts to have Kauff sign another con- tract, but to no avail. Manager Mc- Graw of the Glants knew all the facts FOURNIER - AND - GROH TOP LEAGUE BATTERS Former Hasfl:m Average and Latter .429 - Chicago, May 1.—Jacques Fournier of the White 8ox, with 'an average of .463, tops the batters of the Ameri- can, league, according to averages published here today. The league's veterans are well to the front, with Cobb, Detroit, hitting .420 and closely pushing Veach, his team mate, with .428, for second place. Others among the leaders are Lapp, Philadel- phia, .417; Jacobson, Detrott, .400; Crawford, Detroit .386; Strunk, Phil- adelphia .378; Meclnnis, Philadelphia .378; Turner, Cleveland .348. With nine thefts to his credit, Cobb leads the base stealers. The averages, which include games of last Wednesday, show that five pitchers in the league have two or more victorjes without a defeat. Dauss, Detroit, leads with four wins; Fisher, New York, is next with three, and then come Boland, Detroit, Benz, Chicago, and Caldwell, New York with two each. Heins Groth, Cincinnati, is setting the batting pace in the National, His average {s .429 and his closest rivals are Luderus, Philadelphia .425; Connolly, Boston .407; Whitted, Phil- adelphia .400; Schmidt, Boston .396; Clarke, Cincinnati .376. . Base stealing honors go to Snod- grass, New York, and Beecher, 8t. Louis with five. Grover Alexander, with four straight victories, leads the National's pitchers. Next the Philadelphian are 8chneider, Cincinnati; Chalmers, Phil- adelphia, and Pierce, Chicago, credited with two wins each and, like Alexan- der, charged with no defeats. Bddle Lennox, Pittsburg, leads the batters of the TFederal league. In #even games he has been up six times and made three hits, for a’percentage of .500, IL.d by Allen of Pittsburg with four wins to his oredit, there are 81X undefeated pitchers in the Federa! league. The others are Kaidserling, Newark, three viectories;. McConnell, Chicago, two; Mullin, Newark, two, Prendergast, Chicago, one and Finner- an, Brooklyn, one. CORNELL 4, DARTMOUTH 2. Hanover, N. H., May 1-—Dartmouth’s baseball team took the short end of an- other close game yesterday losing to | Boston .. | New York Cornell by 4 to 2. Score: o A W 200000020—4¢ . 5 1 Dartmouth ...., 020000000—2 7 2 ten Dln:,l Batteries—Bryant and Clary; Doyle, Parrott and Wanamaker, Baseball in a Nutshell NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 1. Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 1. St, Louis 6, Cincinnati 2. New York-Boston—Rain. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost Philadelphia . vee1l Cincinnati . Chicago S§t. Louis ... Brooklyn Pittsburgh . New York Games Today. New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Brooklyn, Chicago at Pittsburgh, Cincinnatl at St. Louis, AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. Washington 6, Philadelphia 1. Chicago 4, Detroit 1, 3 Other games postponed—Rain, Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost P.C. 706 667 588 587 455 487 .308 .250 Détroit Chicago Clevelana . Fhiladelphia St. Louis .. Games Today, Philadelphia at New York, ‘Washington at Boston, St. Louis at Cleveland. Detroit at Chicago. FEDERAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results, Kansas City 2, Baltimore 0. Other games postponed-—Rain. Newark Chicago Brooklyn ... Pittsburgh Kunsas City Buftalo .. Baltimore ' Bt. Touth (.o i Games Today, Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, St. Louls at Newark. Chicago at Buffalo. Kansas City at Bal nal Sporting News Kleven. on in the case when he signed Benny up for three years, and there is not a doubt that he sincerely believed that he was acting well within his rights in doing 0. From where the majority of experts sits it looks as if a rule which will finally decde Kauff's status is that which blacklists a player who deserts a club, protected by the na- tional agreément, to play with an out- law organization, INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. The Jersey City-Rochester game game was postponed on account of wet grounds, Other games not scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost ool P.C. 1.000 1.000 667 .500 .500 388 .000 .000 Jersey City ..... Montreal e Toronto ... Providence Buffalo Richmond . Newark Rochester o 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 Games Today, Montreal at Newark, TRochester at Jersey City. Buffalo at Providence. Toronto at Rochester. e e e VIRGINIA WINS IN RAIN. Providence, R. I, May 1.—Play- ing in drizzling rain, the University of Virginia defeated Brown yesterday 5 to 4. Errors were responsible for most of the runs. The score by in- nings: r. h Virginia +.102200000—5 Brown .000001300—4 Batteries—Calloway and Cram and Feinberg. e. 6 5 5 5 Frey; B, Sy & NATIONAL LEAGUE HEADS BAR KAUFF Decids e Most Wait Thres YGZISX Before Return. | New York, May 1.—The Glants con- tinued their losing streak in the game of battledore and shuttlecock with the Breooklyn Feds over the services of . Benny Kauff and finished second best. Benny will very shortly be holding down his center field berth at Wash- ington Park. Judging from the dis- cussion which has taken place over the case, the only things which seem to prevent Benny playing with the Giants are the Constitution . of the United States, the traffic rules and regulations, and Hoyle. President Tener yesterday held an impromptu meeting in his office with several National league club owners. President Hempstead of the Gilants, Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg, James | E. Gaffney of the Braves, Charles H. | Ebbets of Brooklyn, and President | Willlam F. Baker of the Phillies chat- ted and smoked cigars with Mr. Tener. | It was decided at the meeting that the iron-clad laws of the National commiseion automatically operate against the engagement of Kauff with | the Giants. As an “outlaw” he may | apply for reinstatement, but he can- not be taken back in the fold until | three years after his offense of jump- ing to the Federals was committed, He jumped a year ago, so he cannot | be restored to good standing for twn years more. The rule which covers this point is No. 20, and is as follows: ‘A player who falls to report to or deserts the club having titleto his ser- vices shall be declared and promulgat- ed to be disqualified as a National Agreement player until restored to good standing on his application by the commission, if a major league player, or by the National Board if a minor league players. In all cases of failure to report or desertion, offiend- er may be/reinstated, with or with- out a fine, in the discretion of the tri- bunal having jurisdiction, provided, however, that if the player shall have joined an outlaw team his application for the removal of his disability shall not be acted on within three vears af- ter the commission of the offense.” President Tener also yesterday set aside the decision of Umpire Elmer Quigley in forfeiting the game Thurs- day to the Giants, so the game will go on record as it was played, a victory for Boston by the score of 18 to 8. That ought to be cheerful news for the many who have Boston in the baseball pools this week. Both President Tener and President Hempstead answered Robert 3. Ward's telegram yesterday in relation to Kauff. President Tener stated that Kauff would not be permitted to plav in the National league at this time. President Hempstead assured Mr. Ward that Kauff had been signed with the Glants with the understand- ing that he was not under contract with the Brooklyn Feds. He alswo stated that if Kauff was under con- tract with the Brookfeds, the Giants would not think of retaining him from his regular job. It is understood that the officlals of the Glants and the Brooklyn Feds had a conference yesterday and came to a perfect understanding in the case, If Mr. Ward will produce Kauff's con- tract, the New York club will assume that they have been misinformed in the e and that it will probably be the end of it. SENATORS GET CONNELLY. Connelly, the star shortstop of the Georgetown university nine, will re- port to the Washington club of the American league at the end of the college baseball season. Connelly Iis regarded as one of the leading lhort-I stops in college baseball and his stel- TSCHERS oW in New Haven--Cobb Second in American League Batting Averages; ague Magnates Confer on Kauff GOOMBS BEATS PHILS IN SEASON'S. DEBUT "y “iron Man” Inviccie Uatil [be Ninth 1 ning. Philadelphia, May’'1—Jhkk Coorhtl who oneé upon a time known the Iron Man of the Athletics, hurled the Brooklyn Dodgers to Victory ovef the Phillies yesterday, score 2 to. I, It was only fn the ninth Inning that & Phillie reached the home plate. ‘That #core would have tied up the had not Becker muffed Schuitz's o) fiy in the sixth that 18t jn Coombs recelved a ny_‘l’I from the few mmr(l_ ns L game, and when he poléd out 4 _pair of hits he was furthér chéered Coombs did some pitching all afternoon, H to do so, for he was i fHe hole Ma times. < However, he fgeaped in all | stances except the night yound, w! a walk to Dugey, foljoWed by two gles, pushed a man_ hotne. 1 fourth some good fiplding by !n‘qh at third saved Coombs &Ad In . fifth and eighth double plays came ;’ | his rescue, 5 Eppa Rixey was 8h the mound the home team. He diff some KO huriing with his southpaw slantss Bcore: y ) 2 r g Brooklyn 006811080-—2 1’{ Philadglphia ....000000001—1" % '3 Batteries—Coombs and MeCarty; Rixey and Killifer, 4 gy, Pittsburg Battors 'Not There, * Pittsburg, May 1.-—~The' Cul feated the Pirates on thefr nrfi‘ pearance of the seasbn here, ‘bp' re of 4 to 1. Zabel allowed ne hit up to the ninth {bning, wi Cooper was hit hard, ‘eepsc: fourth inning, when two sing . triple scored two runt, afid agath In the eighth, when three singles and & base on balls scored twa more. ‘The, Pirates were saved from -hut'g‘h ) | the ninth inning, when Baird tripied | to center and scored om Wagn sacrifice. Score; LA b r. Chicago ........000200020—4 8. Pittsburg ..000000001—~1 Batterfes—Zabel and B Cooper, Mamaux and Gibson, Schan§. Cards Pilfer Seven Sacks/ "'4n 8t. Louis, May 1.—Rube Be: was knocked out of the box in fourth inning and the Ci trimmed the Reds, 6 to 2. Hub Pur due scattered the nine hits off ‘hini. H was o fence buster with ° triple and a home run and the Clr? stole seven bases on Wingo, 5 r. h Cincinnati ......000011000-—2 10 St. Louts 20210100%—86 1274 Batteries—Benton, Brown and Wins 80, Perdue and Snyder. ' HAMIUTON BEATEN, s Rochester, May 1.—University ' Rochester, put it over the Hamifbs nine here yesterday 4 to 2. WRIE Schieble, the Rochester catcher, a homer in the fourth, with nons ahead of him. Willls, tirst base) for Rochester, drove in the two W ning runs in the ninth with a th bagger and was thrown out st f plate trying to stretch his hit. score: 4 % roh. e Hamflton . 000000200—2 8 2 ‘Rochester ..... 0001001024 2 Batteries—Hamilton, Wh n Miller; Rochester, en m?cm. ble. . ] - lar work during the past two sons has helped Georgetown gri in chalking up victories. In qglass or bottled at your dealers. An olden tyme brew* ydu'll enjoy. ( Brewed by The Hubert Escher Brewery at Hartford.Comn. On tap at Charles F. Dehm, Hotel . 3. W . Beloin, Kcevers, Hormun Schmarr, et e A