New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1915, Page 5

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REGATTA HAS FINE ENTRIES National Association of Amateur Oarsmen to Compete New York, Aug. 7.—Judging from the number of entries received .the 43rd regatta of the National associa- tion of Amateur Oarsmen of the United States, to be held on the Con- nécticiit river at Springfield next Fri- day and Saturcay should be one of the most successful in the history of the organization. Nearly every promi- nent ‘club east of the Rockies is rep- resented, while the Canadian contin- gent headed by Robert Dibble of Tor- onto, the holder is larger than antici- éhampionship, is larger than antici- pated, in view of the war. The National Regatta returns to Springfield after a perlod of seven years. The races last year were held at Philadelphia where the first. reg- gatta was rowed in 1873. The Na- tional Asseciation was formed the year previous in New York to bring the sport under the supervision of a recognized governing board. Up to that time oarsmen who rowed for sport ‘only, frequently indulged in races with professionals for cash prizes and even Harvard university crews were compelled to enter such events in order ‘to race. President emeritus, ChHarles W. Eliot, ‘of Har- vard rowed on a crimson crew as a student for a cash prize, and under a strict interpretation would still be called a professional. It is recorded however, .that the winnings <of ' such Harvard crews avere always over to_charity. p The Springfield regatta will be held on the wast side of the Connecticut river -below the-old toll bridge. The river runs apout three quarters of a mile an hour, but high water this summer has slightly increased . the speed of the current. The program in- cludes, quarter mile," intermediate, association, and championship events for singleés sculls; intermediate and senior doubles; quadruple sculls; in- | termediate and senior paired shélls; genior international four oared shells; and intermediate junior and senior eights. The association singles will be held on Friday, which will enable the winner to obtain a full day’s rest for the championship singles. The sing- les, doubles and intermediate and senior four races will be 1 1-4 miles with a turn. The others will be same distance but straight'away! There are problems in all kinds of sports. The baseball magnates are always on the alert to increase at- tendance at their parks while the col- lege football executives are constant- ly worried by the necessity of caring for many more spectators than their stadiums will seat. The situation at Cambridge is an example. When the Harvard stadiums was built in 1903, turned it was expected that the vast horse- | shoe would equal a]l seating demands for years to come. In just twelve years Harvard finds herself in the position where there is talk of shift- ing the annual Yale-Harvard game to New Haven unless” the Boston building Commission = will permit the erection of large temporary stands for the big game next Novem- ber. In 1913 some 45,000 spectators saw this game at Cambridge. Last autnmn close to 70,000 paid $137,000 to wit- .ness the Crimson defeat the Blue 36 to 0. Now the same 70,000 and some additional thousands want to see what Yale can do in the way of a come- back. While ‘coach Percy Haughton Is worrying about a substitute for Charley Brickley, Graduate-Manager Moore is trying to figure out how to put 70,000 spectators in a stadium never meant to seat more than half that number. George Perring of the Kansas city Federals, is batting around .250 with a bat said to have been in his family For Protection against the serious sickness so likely to follow an ailmentof the digestive organs,—bilousness or inactive bowels, you can rely on the best known corrective Beechams fii“s - e Lo B e Mk 05Xe8 for more than thirty years. The bat, so the story goes, was handed down to George by his father, who had it made from a piece of the old Ohio State penitentiary scaffold. Some players would think that there was a dead man'’s curse on a bat that didn't get them better hitting figures than these. Gun clubs are just awakening - to the fact that grounds that have been shot over a number of yéars are veritable lead mines. One western club has recently taken out more than twenty-five tons of shot and be- lieves that as much more remains to be mined. With lead at seventy dol- lars a ton the returns are well worth the' labor involved. It is now quite possible that some clever American men may buy up the European bat- tleflelds after the war, for the old lead and steel buried in the soil. When Garry Herrmann head that the New York Americans had pur- chased Dan Tipple, the pitching sen- sation of the Indianapolis A. A. club, he stated; “There is a working agree- ment between the -Cincinnati and Indianapolis clubs which gives = the | Reds first chance oves the other big | league clubs for Tipple’s services.” Evidently Herrmann did not see fit to exercise his option, since the latest bulletin of the National Association of Professional Baseball leagues show that Tipple has been purchased by the Yankess. The Rutgers college football squad has been .training for some weeks on a specially hired farm with the idea of being in perfect shape, both from a physical and gridiron standpoint, when the season opens next month. Just what Princeton will say about carrying the “Bagk to the Farm™ campaign to. this extreme, in case Rutgers, .defeats the .Tigers on Octo- ber 2, should prove .interesting read- ing, AR Some novel ideas are being advanc- ed in connection with the proposed re- organization of the South Michigan baseball league for 1916, One plan calls for a $2,600 appropriation from each city represented, together with the assurance ‘lhat at least 1,100 sea- son tickets at five dollars each wiil be sold before the club signs its play- ers for the season. In return the club agrees to play free baseball every day in the week except Saturdays and Sundays, whn a nominal admission charge will be made. Municipal -parks and piers are not new but baseball clubs - under practically the same classification are a bit-advance to say the least. It may, however, be but the forerunner of Government owner- ship of the big leagues. . Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago Federals, had not reached the free or municipal owned baseball club but he does believe that the general scale of prices in the big leagues stand a little paring down. He sug- gests that the traiff range as follows: Box seats, 75c; grand stand 50c; pa- vilion 25¢; bleachers 15¢. Elaborating on this idea, Tinker says: ‘““The time i sure to come when the fans \will not be asked to pay such high prices for seeing baseball. 1t is asking too much of the public to pay 26, 50, 75 cents and $1 every day to see a baseball game, which lasts less than two hours. I believe if the price of the bleachers was reduced to 15 cents it would be more than double the patronage, and the same would hold good in the pavilions, grand stand and box seats. ‘“Almost any one can afford a dime or a quarter, but ask them to give up 75 cents and $1 and they turn a deaf ear. If I were the president of the Federal league I would cut the admission fee down to the prices I have suggested, and I believe it would pay two-fold at the box office, es- pecially when the new league is put- ‘ting up just as good an article of ball as any other hig league.” Trainer Jack Moakley arises to re- mark what the performance of Nor- man Taber in breaking the world’s record for the mile shows that what the college athlete can do when he has sufficient time in which to train. Assuming that Moakley’s contention is correct A. A. U. officlals are un- derstood to favor the closing of all American colleges at least six months previous to the next Olympic games. Otis Crandall, formerly of the New York Nationals and now pitching for the St. Louls Federals is credited with the invention of a new delivery which has beén named the “Snake ball,” While the ball does not bite the batter it is said to be almost as fearsome. According to the reports of opposing batsmen, the sphere; floats up to the plate in a series of eccen- tric circles that give hickory swingers the staggers trying to follow its course. If the tale be true it is small ! Building Inspector Will wonder that Fielder Jones Kicked about the brand of umpiring his team received recently. One answer to “What's the Matter | with Baseball?” was given by the fans of Boston, New York, Philadel- | phia and Brooklyn, recently, when more than 125,000 paid admission to the ball parks or these cities in two | days. { BLAME CONTRACTOR FOR FAULTY WALLS Investigate Structure Owned by Henry Fen- ski of Beaver Street. Blame for the unsanitary condi- tion of the cellar at the brick block on Beaver street owned by Henry Fen- ski, who is being vrosectmed by the . board of health for violating a health ordinance, may be placed on the con- tractor who erected the structure, ac- cording to Lawyer F. B. Hungerford who represents the accused. On his request the case was continued to- day until August 23 when it came up in court today. It is charged that the cellar of Fen- ski's house is partly inundated and that the water seeps through the masonry. ' Lawyer Hungerford said that the contractor who built the block failed in other respects and | may have failed in making the cellar walls waterproof as was required by the specifications. He has had Build- | ing Inspector Rutherford look at the | walls and he will investigate. | It is algo possible that water from the sewer sets back into the. cellar during heavy rains. The case aguinst Rudolph Becker. charged with drunkenness and as- saulting Helena Papelau, was con- tinued until a week from today as the victim is still confined to her bed. ADDITIONAL SPORTS, IS BRITTON AFRAID? Dundee’s Manager Says He Is, But Jack’s Friends Laugh at Remarks. Can Jack Britton be afraid of John- i ny Dundee? Scotty Montieth declares | he is, and there are many fans who agree with him. Johnny's manager contends that the réason Britton gave Marry Mac, b g (Carmichael). for calling the bout off was merely a subterfuge to avoid a meeting with the little Scotch-Wop. | “ her as | Britton gave the hot weather I SiBTaa g Patohen | bt (Teon: an excuse for cancelling the match,” says Scotty. ‘“He said it made him {1l Did not Dundee suffer from the heat, too? If Britton cannot make the weight in this weather, how would he manage to make it a month from now? It's far easier to reduce in hot weather than in cold. It wasn’t the weather that moved Britton to crawl out of the bout. It was the knowl- édge that he was in for a sure defeat at weight. “It was the weight question that caused thé postponement. Dundee is a legitimate lightweight and will meet anybody at the recognized weight limit for. the class. If Britton isn’'t a lightweight we don’t want to box him. He should battle welterweights. He doesn’t belong among the 133-pound men. “I insisted that a forfeit be put up in cash, and gave Britton to under- stand that if he failed to make the weight T would either take the for- feit or refuse to box. If Britton real- ly means to fight Dundee on the ad- vanced date, why did he not post his forfeit and leave it up as a guaran- tee of his intention to fulfill his con- tract next month?. “Britton knows better than anyone, for he is an excellent judge of box- ing, that the day he steps into the ring with Johnny he will get the worst lacing of his career. Three years ago he and Dundee trained to- geéther at the New West Side A. C, and then Johnny could hold his own with him in sparring matches. Dun- dee has improved greatly since then. Britton hasn’t. If anything, he may not be quite as good now as he was then. “If Morgan and his fighter are really sincere about meeting Dundee in Sep- tember, let them post $500 with any reliable sporting man in New York, and I will cover it within twenty-four hours.” FAVORITES WIN. Heavy Track at Holyoke Makes Go- ing Slow and No Records are Broken Holyoke, Mass.,, Aug. 7.—After two | Solitaire, ch g (Dunbar).... | Bettina, b m (Lanahan)...... days of postponements, the Bay State short ship circuit horses got into ac- tion in four events vesterday, the fa- vorites winning in straight heats in Canadians on Transports Practice With Life Preservers Near Danger Zone Every transport ith troops that leaves this side Canadian takes a echance of meeting a German sub- marine. In order to be prepared for any emergency there is a daily life each. The track was heavy and time slow. The summary. 2:24 Trot—Purse $500. Le Restina, blk m, (Dore) Somersworth Boy, b g (Bolduc) Also started, Otta Hall Time—2:18%; 2:17%; 2:20. 2:20 Trot—Purse $500. Axide, b m (Bhurgess). .. The Verdict, b m (Fox) Montbert, b h 1 3 (Madison).... 2 4 Time—2:203%; 2:20%; 2:24%, 2:21 Pace—Purse $500. Maintime, b h (Kingsley).. 1 © ard) . . Dr. Billings b g (Carter).. Mabel Converse, b m (War- man) crenea. .2 Time—. 11-4; 2:20 1-4; 16 Pace—Purse $500. John R. Hal, b h (Crozier)... Birdie Alcyo, b m (Carney).. Lady Hart, ch m (Leonard).. Manola, b s (Gillies) Also started: Silver Heels. Time—2:14%; 2:13 3-4; 2:1414, VANITIE BEATS RESOLUTE, arion, Mass., Aug. 7.—In what is considered the supreme test of sailing, windward work, Alexander Smith Cochran's Vanitie yesterday defeated the sydicate cup defender Resolute by 10 minutes 55 seconds actual time and 9 minutes 31 seconds corrected time. It was ir a run of thirty-three miles from the Brentons Reer Lightship, off Newport Harbor, to & msrk set in the dumping ground in Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass. The race was a dead heat to windward of twenty-one miles from Brentons Reef Lightship to the 4 2 8 3 entrance to Buzzards Bay in a lighti easterly wind of about eight knots. This softened a bit just after the com- peting craft passed West Island, and shifted to east-southeast, increasing to about twelve knots as the racers en- tered *the mouth of the bay. There they found a fair tide running and were able to lay their course direct to the finish, giving both a close reach for the last twelve miiles of the run- WARDS WEEDING OUT PLAYERS. Hartford, Conn., Aug. 7—Announce- ment was made here last night that Pitcher Harry Billiard of the Hartford Colonial league team has been recalled and that Outfielder Phil Choulnard has been served wit¥a ten day notice of release by the Wards of the Brook- lyn Federals. Chouinard, is is said, will leave the Hartford team at the expiration of that time. Pitcher So- mers of the New Haven Colonial team it is understood has also received a ten-day notice of release from the Brooklyn Federals. i | championship of Philadelphia. {in the afternoon a total of 148 for | { | preserver drill aboard ship. The ac- companying photograph gives an idea cf what it is like. SPEED KINGS MEET. Chicago, Aug. 7.—Barney Oldfield, Dario Resta, Bob Burman and Earl Cooper will settle a long disputed question of supremacy on the Chicago speedway today. the wheel of a Delage, Resta and Burman will drive Peugeots and Cooper wil go after the challenge cup with a Stutz. The prize money is said to total $10,000. How it will be di- vided is a secret, but it is rumored the four drivers will split the purse equal- ly. The wiseacres look for a victorious Italian-French drive. Resta's Peugeot on past performances looks to be the.! fastest rig in the fleld. It has shown a speed of 110 miles an hour and is at least five miles faster than the other three cars entered. The prediction is common that the 100 miles will be covered in less than an hour. JENNINGS WANTS PITCHERS., Philadelphia, Aug. 7—Manager Jen- : nings of the Détroit Americans, it was learned yesterday, has made an offer to Manager Rickey of- the St, Louls Americans for either Pitcher James | or Pitcher Hamilton. Jennings, it is understood, offered a large sum for James, ut Rickey would not consider a deal for him without consulting President Hedges of the St. Louis club. Rickey, it is said, offered Pitchers Hamilton to Detroit for $5,000 and Players Jacobs and Hellman of the Detroit club. Jacobs at present is Oldfield will ‘be at | the Eastern association in 1014, will report to the New York September 8. He team RECORDS ARE BROKEN, Junior A, A. U. Championships Open, at Pan-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, Aug 7.—Sensation- al performances marked the junior national championship of the Ama- teur Athletic Union at the Panam: Pacific exposition stadium yesterday, but owing to a strong wind which fa- vored the runners;, none of the ath- letes will be credited with new rec- ords One world's record was broken and another equalled, while six national junior A. A. U, records were bettered In the 220-yard dash R. E. McBride of the Denver Athletic club, fiashed down the track in the phenomenal time of 21 seconds, beating the for- mer world’s record by a fifth of & second. The long standing record in the 440-yard dash was equalled by F. Sloman, of the Olympic elub of San Francisco, when he went the distance in 47 seconds. The junior national A. A, U, ree- ords broken were in the 100-yard dash, discuss throw, 220-yard hurdies, 440-yard hurdles and hop, step and | jump. R. Morse, Salem Crescent A. A., New York, took the ..100-yard dash in 0.09 4-5, breaking the junior record of 10 seconds. The discuss playing as an outfielder with the San | Francisco club. Jennings is also after | Ayres of the Washmgton club, and | expects to make an offer for him when | he reaches the national capital on Sat- : urday night, 1 i TOM M'NAMARA WINS. Philadelphia, Aug. 7.—Thomas Mc- Namara, the Boston professional, with a total of 296 strokes for the 72 holes, yesterday won the open golf Tak- ing 73 for the morning round and 75 36 holes, McNarama duplicated his score of yesterday when the first half of the tournament was played. | James Barnes of White Marsh, and | C. H. Hoffner, of the Philadelphia | Country club, tied for second with | cards of 303, while E. W. Loos of | Pocono Manor, and James Thomson, Philadelphia C. C., with 304 each, di- vided fourth and fifth money. Fred McLeon, of Washington, was sixth with 305. | J. J. McDermott, former national title holder, dropped out in the morn- ing round, as did eight othér play- ers. GIANTS GET NEW OUTFIELDER. Lewiston, Me., Aug. 6.—Martin Becker, center flelder on the Lewiston New Engand league club, was sold to the New York Nationals yesterday. Becker played with New London of throw was won by C. W. Bachman, University of Notre Dame; distance 181 feet 3-4 inch, breaking punior record of 129 feet 6 inches. W, Bur- seh, N. Y. A. C., won the 220-yard hurdles in 0:24 1-5; old junior record 0:25 2-56. Th 440-yard hurdles were | taken by A. F. Muenter, Olympie | club, San,Francisco; time 0:54, break-~ ing junior record of 0:61 1-5. The hop, step and jump was won by 8, Landers, Chicago A. A. distanct 47 feet 1-2 inch. The former junior rec ord was 45 feet nine inches. The five leading point winners were: Olympic club, San Francisco, 28; Chicago Athletic association 27; Los Angeles Athletic club 24: - Young Mens Gym, New Orleans, 21; New York Athletic club 14. The A. A. U. senior national championships will be held today. "BARROW NAILS THIS ONE, New York, Aug. 7.—~President Bd- ward Barrow of the International league denied yesterday the report that the Jersev City was goinng to be shifted to New London for the remainder of the season. The re- port was circulated yesterday that Morton F. Plant would back the team to play in the Nutmeg State. ‘““There is not a word of truth in it,” Barrow said today. “The Jersey eity | club is drawing well during the week aren't especially so on Bundays. 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KEATING ON New York, Aug. 7. who has been under a local physician for leaves today for his port, and will remain out the season. Kea N is giving him » feels able :o""u"fi"m nings, but "on thé sician he 'must stay BOXING AGAIN, The Pleasure A. known as T. “No club is planning to season on August plan of the noted present. Fay gave season and at the ¢l boxing public was exhibitions as he was has not ds yet & hold the ‘shows; ‘but mediate need -of theater judging from thi is being manifested in " TRIBUNES VS, © The Tribune A. €. Colliers at the Coll 4 day. The winners p A. C. the following game will be.calléd at 3 mers and Scharff are for the Tribunes. MODEL STATE OO Atlanta, Ga., Aug. tually have been o nounced here today ment of & model state & near Atlanta under pices of the local ¢ ers and the United good roads. A supervise the camp' the work of the P ’ ways. 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