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

ble Won't Protest Captain Mahan--Blue and Crimson Elevens Rest on Eve of Battle --Local Bowlers| - Heet Waterloo in Meriden--Youthful Football Player Dies of Heart Trouble ® WILL NOT PROTEST MAHAN That Athletic Authorities ild Ask Removal Denied Haven, Nov. 19.—In reference 'eport current here yesterday ale would protest the playing ptain Mahan of the Harvard n the game on Saturday on ac- of alleged infringement of the summer. baseball rule that de- Legore from participating in thietics this year it was stated prominent Yale graduate who is ch- with all the moves being by the Yale Athletic association hat Yale would not make the hove in the matter. members of the Yale Athletic ation have refused to discuss the on of the eligibility of any of potball players outside of Yale. eaking of this attitude of Yale’s p matter this Yale graduate said day: “It never has been Yalebs , o matter what facts might be hands, to meddle in the affairs er Harvard or Princeton by di- drawing the attention of the Is of either university to any al- violation of eligibility rules or g the attention of some graduate rvard or Princeton to a situation at kind so that Yale has kept ands clean. Yale always has ained that each university ld manage its own athletic affairs, here will be no departure this from that stand. As a matter ct, Harvard has no connection lever with the eligibility incident this year except to express re- that the Yale men could not en preéssed for a reply to the on as .to. whether or mnot the ler of the eligibility of Mahan to this year on the Harvard team | come up for discussion among | football players and coaches, he | : “I know that the subject has; discussed among the players and allegations have been made that same rile that worked against players if .applied at Cambridge la disqualify Captain Mahan, but has been bound to come to the t Of course there are people | claim that they have the facts in case, but as to the truth of that lould be hard to determine. ‘he fact that the matter has been ussed more or less among Yale Huates, and undergraduates for matter, cannot be denied, but it’s hly improbable that at this stage | e season anything will be done ut it. As a matter of fact I can- see on what ground Harvard 1d consider taking any action just the eve of a championship game, nuch as Captdin Mahan has yed through the season. It would unprecedented to debar any player this late date, and especially a btain, unless some formal protest s made by the opposing team. And re will be no protest by Yale. “In ‘this whole eligibility matter it st not be forgotten that while the ee colleges Yale, Harvard and nceton have had practically the e eligibility rules gdverning them, a matter of fact they have worked ry dNfferently in the three universi- ks. It has been been the desire here Yale that some changes should be ade in the rules that should so ap- ly to all the colleges that hereafter player at one college should not be squalified from playing, while at other the same technical violation a rule should be overloked: That what it is hoped will be accom- lished by this committee from the hree colleges that will take up this ligibility -question at the close of the ootball season this year.” Another former college football layer, who has followed the game =t Fale, Harvard and Princeton for wenty-years or more, although not a raduate of any of these universities, vas asked today if it was tirue tha the jiuestion of Captain Mahan’s eligibili- p had been discussed among football oaches and others in the game out- kide of the Yale camp, and he said: T have heard all sorts of stories re- garding the question discussed here and in New York and Boston, but as o what the real facts are in the case fthat is'a question. But whatever they are it’s a safe bet that the Harvard officials know them—at least some of them do, anyway. The story that Captain Mahan received $600 for mowing a lawn at some Harvard camp may be just a figment of the jmagination, probably is, but if this eligibility rule . were enforced as strictly at Harvard and Princeton as it has been at Yale I am inclined to think that both teams would lose players “While Yale men as a rule will have nothing to say for publication about the infringements of this eligibility ‘rule on the part of Princeton and Harvard. it s well known on the out- side that Princeton especially has " been notorious in this regard. So much so that many football men who Were on the fence, 80 to speak, have Marveled at it. Yale, however, Lo my knowledge, never has mude any move against either Princeton or Har- vard, preferring to let these colleges 1ake care of their own affairs. At Ilarvard conditions have been better, but even at that men have got by there who would have been held up at Yale: While the graduates and the ' officials of these colleges dodge any < on of this it is well known by : |Coffin Has Been Shifted West Point, N. Y., Nov. 19.—The Army team is busily cngaged putting the finishing touches on for the big battle wth the Navy ecleven at the Polo - Grounds, Nov. 27. Coach Daly says the Army squad is in per- fect condition. The slightest detail or point in the development of the Army eleven is not being overlooked by the coaches, and when the ca- dets face the middies the mentors plan to send a team into action that can play the old and new style of To Full Back on Army 11 football with equal success. Coffin, who was tried out at quarter, has been placed at fullback and will play there in the game with the Navy. Coffin’s kicking, among other things, has been a feature of the drills this week. Coffin’s punting during the past week was the best showing he has made this season. His kick had plenty of height and carry tc them, and the oval had a nasty spiral twist that made it extremely hard to catch. the officials at all three of these col- leges that for years Yale has had pretty clean hands in the matter of players. “And another thing that graduates of other colleges are aware of is that there is no concentrated effort on the part of Yale alumni to canvass the prep schools for good athletes, a thing that has been practiced at the two other “universities, according to pret- ty reliable gossip. Good athletes in the prep schools have had little diffi- culty in finding the necessary schol- arships paid by a graduate or gra®- uates of the other colleges, an al- most unheard of thing at Yale. And Yale has lost some good athletes in this way, as thie Yale men themselves know- In any question of the eligi- bility of her players neither Princeton or Harvard has anything on Yale.” HEART DISEASE KILLS YOUNG PLAYER Park City Lad Who Sustained Injury Sometime Ago Succumbs to Heart Trouble. Bridgeport, Nov, 19.—Stricken by an attack of heart failure brought on by an injury to the breast sus- tained in a football game about =a month ago, l4-year-old Harry Me- Grath of 674 Howard avenue, and a clerk in the West End store of Vin- cent Bros., at 1370 State street, was transferred to St, Vincent’s hospital in the Emergency ambulance at 9:20 yesterday morning where he suc- cumbed at 9:30. The stricken parents are all the more sorrowful because until 1910, Peter Francis, then the same age as Harry, died in the same manner. He w stricken with heart failure and died within 24 hours. i was received in a foot- game played on the circus lot about two week ago. McGrath was a fullback on the Crasho, Jr and in circling the right end of the Bengul eleven the opposing team, McGrath thrown heavily to the ground, sustaining a possible concussion of the brain. Harry attended clerk in the store to his duties as for the last two weeks unmindful of the seriousness of | the injury received during the foot- ball game and while at work this morning was suddenly stricken = with a fatal attack of heart failure. He was beyond all medical aid when the ambulance corps responded and Dr. J. H. Beaudry ordered his removal to St. Vincent’s hospital where he died a few minutes after his arrival at the institution. The body of younyg McGrath is held at St Vincent's hospital where Cor- oner John J. Phelan will investigate the cause of the death. Medical Examiner S. M. Garlick says it is his belief that the attack of heart failure was brought on by the heavy blow Harry received on his breast when he was the victim of a flying tackle in the football game two weeks ago. TIGERS VS. PEQUOTS- The Tiger A. C. will play the fast Pequot of Hartford Sunday. At the East End ball diamond, Newington road. Kickoff 3:00 sharp. The Tigers would like to arrange games With any teams in the state, averaging from 125-130 pounds. Address Man- ager George Jones, Milliard street, New Britain- SOX GET NESS. San Francisco, Nov. 19.—Jack Ness, first baseman of the Oakland Coast League Club and holder of the world's record for hits made in consecutive games, has signed a contract for next vear with the Chicago American League club, according to a state- ment of Danny Long, representing the White Sox, made public here yester- day. CONN. BOY HEADS EXETER. Exeter, H., Nov. 19.—Arthur H. Braman of Torrington, Conn.,, was ! elected captain of next year's Phillips- Exeter Academy football team last night. He played right tackle on this season's eleven. UNION SELECTS CAPTAIN Schenectady, N. Y., Nov. 19.—Wil- fred Rosecrans of this city was to- , night elected captain of the Union i College football team for 1916, Tle | is a halfback. WE DO. -New Britain please take Trinity wants a game with high for Thanksgiving. notice: Meriden SILVER CITY BOWLERS BEAT LOCAL TEAMS Local Teams Find Going to Hard ‘When They Meet Meriden— Other League Results. “Wild Bill” Brennecke in a bowling contest against Meriden last evening rolled three of the best scores ever registerd on the Meriden alleys when he secured a grand total of 354 for the night. His best work was done in the second gdme when he knocked the pine down for a total of 138. The Meridenites were in fine fettle and succeeded in taking two out of three games from the locals. New Britain .105 87 .118 - 90 89 111 . .103 79 .. 114 138 A. Anderson C. Larson ., Judd .... Lantone Brennecke 81— 273 108— 311 91— 291 88— 270 102— 354 470—1499 524 505 Meriden 84 125 114 106 o 91 106 10113 92 90 540 Quinn . Cone Kennedy Connor Brooks 116— 104— 101— 98— 109— 325 324 298 331 291 501 528—1569 No. 2 Team Beaten: New Britain 87 91 102 102 102 Pluecnker ‘Wagner . Wright Foote .. E. Anderson 257 256 284 321 310 85— 83— 99— 116— 119— 453 484 501—1428 Meriden 88 85 95 93 95 109 85 104 486 94— 106— 85— 136— 97— 518—1463 Slade .. Martin Boris .. o Hagerty . .100 McMahon ...... 91 459 275 286 289 321 292 Red Men’s League. The following games were in the Red Men’s league. Sannaps. 118 85 70 85 rolled 69 87 95— 85— 75— 88— 85— 431—1285 Fransen Olson Dummy A. Robertson Abrahamson 82 7 78 393 162 Braves. 770 75 75 85 85 Briere Bronback Berlin Dummy Mute Molanter . Daigle ..... 97 72 86 81— 17— 96— 248 224 257 85 — 85 82— 152 T4— 143 410—1194 70 69 398 394 Scouts. Oberg ......... 81 Calvert ........ 92 Sandstrom . 96 ¥. Robertson 92 361 366 ‘Warriors. 95 92 . 81 8 346 80 93 86 106 97— 91— 87— 103— 378—1104 258 276 269 301 Nelson ........ Fusari .. . F. Logan .. Foberg 85 93 83 92 353 97— 2177 96— 281 98— 262 94— 264 385—1036 MERCANTILE LEAGUE, Heinie Hornkohll's Veribest came through last evening and beat the Freight Office five in the Mercantile league two games. The scores. The National Biscuit team had no trouble beating the Electric Light five. The scores: Armour. 83 102 62 83 118 93 S5 95 98 434 446 Freight Office- 81 80 78 93 82 76 Berry Wacker Troy Dummy Hornkohl 82— 81— T4— T6— 89— 402—1283 Shea. Rahaley Maerz | Neuratn Keleher 91— 82— 78— 242 90— 256 76— 233 417—1220 252 237 410 National Biscuit. Wallace ... 86 99 79— Jones . 82 81 78— Skinner 81 75 80— Meclntyre 86 89 89— Glenn .. 77 91 80— 2484 241 236 2614 248 412 435 406—1253 Electric Light. = 81 718 65 74 89 88 88— 70— 79— 256 79 95 86— 260 77 70 82—22y 391 405 4056—1201 DUBLINS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE The Dublin football team have challenged the Pawnees and was re- fused for what reason is not known. It they have a reputation let their manager communicate with either manager of the following elevens: Senecas or West Ends of Bristol; South Ends or North Ends of Middletown or Tiger Cubs of Meriden. It looks as though they are afraid of getting a beaten by a home team on their own grounds. Mgr. Iver Ander- 247 Riley 209 O’Connell Hayes Dunlay . When will the awakening happen?. son. ! some one to beat him within the next To Eddie Mahan, Three years you've fought your way to fame. Three years the prints your name— Anrd now you play your final game. haye sung Your fame is fixed—so they will say— : And yet, for those who leave the play, How soon the purple fades to gray. ' First Heston held the all-star fling, Then Coy and Thorpe had more to bring, And each King. in turn was called The ‘And then across the autumn zone You fell heir to the all-star throne And made the royal crown your own. And so next year across the glade Another heads the long parade Of “greatest stars that ever played.” But while another soon may come ‘With stuff to keep your boosters mum— I At least he'll have to Travel Some. “Before football experts place Pitts- burg up with Cornell,”” pens a By- stander, “hadn’t they just as well wait until Pittsburg meets Penn. State? This eleven, though beaten, looked just as powerful as Harvard and it would not surprise a lot of folks on the inside to see it beat War- ner’s team.” Luther Price, the old Princeton star, stands sponsor for the dope that Haxall, of Princeton, kicked a goal from.the 65-yard line against Yale in Grantland Rice be to adopt an attitude that will turn the Sprinx into a chatter box by com- parison. “The coaching system small part of football,” writes F. F. L “The material is at least three- fourths of the answer.” 80, how about Yale, with some of the best football material we have lamped ir a decade? is only a 'BLUE AND CRIMSON READY FOR BATTLE Harvard Rules Slight Favorite at b-4—Yale Team Near Battlefield Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 19.—The football elevens of Harvard and Yale, having completed physical prepara- tion for their combat of next Satur- day, last night sought mental relaxa- tion in new surroundings. The Yale squad arrived at its temporary head- | quarters in Newton, within a few miles of the Stadium, almost at the same time that the Harvard players left for Tyngsboro, forsaking the scenes of their season’s training. The Crimson representatives were given a loud voiced send-off by their fellow undergraduates, who paraded to the Stadium, and there massed be- 1882, Others deny the distance. Isn’t there some ohe in the audience with definite proof? No, Igmatz, that mournful cadence irsuing from Yale and Princeton is not a threnodic dirge being sung be- cause Mahan on Saturday plays his final game. Not precisely. Heavyweight Competition, In the last fifteen years the world zt large seems to have lost the knack of producing more than one good heavyweight for every half-decade. From 1900 to 1905 there was no one to even give Jeffries a light debate. Then Jeff retired. He started back again, but never arrived. Johnson ruled from 1910 to 1915—another five-year span—with no one around 10 keep him warmed up. Whether Willard will carry -out a five-year rule remains to be observed —but the scout who can discover vyear or two will be on his way to a fortune. The main drawback being that even the keenest scout around the landscape has a hard time dis- covering gold in a salt mine. lat hind a band to see their team in practice for the first time in weeks. As the eleven went through a few easy motions of play, the students cheered the players in turn, and Coach Haughton and members of his staff also received tributes. The un- der-graduates marched away as they came, practicing the tunes and the This being | - readiness as a first string reserve for either this or the centre position. Elis in Good Condition. The Yale men settled period of rest before the much the same manner. During the early evening Trainer Johnny Mack led them on a short walking trip, and at his direction they retired early. Mack sald there was not a man fn the squad off form, except Weide- mann, the end, Who was injured in the Princeton game. Allen, it was be- lieved, would be the choice of the Blue coaches for his place Saturday, although Higginbotham undoubtedly will be called into play during the game. . To become accustomed to the air currents and lights and shades of the Stadium, the Yale players went there this morning for a short workout. Dr. William T. Bull, Yale's kicking coach, will direct the practice of Guernsey, whose kicking is relied on by the Yale advisers to remove an ad- vantage which Harvard has enjoyed in most of the games this year through Mahan's successful booting. Yale Team Leaves, Forty Yale football players departed on the 1:40 train yesterday afternoon for Auburndale, near the Harvard Stadium, and about 3,000 alumni and undergraduates ‘marched behind a brass band to the railroad station to give the gridders a rousing send-off. The line-up announced last night was the same as that used against Princa- tcn last Saturfay. Professor Robert Corwin, chairman of the Yale Ath- letic committee, asserted that neither Yale nor Harvard would protest a single player of the other. The time for protesting to the dual eligibility committee, Otto T. Bannard and Robert Wrenn of New York city, ex- rired last week. Betting odds when the team de- parted favored Harvard by only g. E-to-4 margin. Tickets to the game advanced to $50 each here today, or $125 for two together. Yale took seven ends, eleven tackles, five guards, three centers, seven halfbacks and two fullbacks on the trip. into their game in WESLEYAN FAVORITE. Wesleyan is preparing to meet Trin- ity at Hartford on Saturday, and is favorite at present. A team posed of the ineligibles and coaches including Kan Kenan, last year's cap- tain an assistant coach com- is maxing cheers that have been kept for the game with Yale. Rollins Back With Squad. At Tyngs Island last night the Har- vard men, after dinner, took a brisk walk and then listened to a short blackboard talk from Coach Haugh- ton, after which they had a few in- door games for diversion, Harvard’'s strength was said to be its full measure last night, with due exception of the loss of Enwright, due to scholastic difficulties. Rol- lins was back with the squad in good shape. Cowan has assured himself of the place at left guard which he was called upon to fill when Taylor strained his back, but Taylor is in the regulars work hard, Weslewan 'hns the best team that has repre- sented the college for ten years. | Deetien and Harman are expected to outshine Brickley of Trinity. Deet- jen has made more yards on end runs than any other man, while Har- man holds the record for the longest run, 95 yards against Williams, AGGIES ELECT CAPTAIN, East Lansing, Mich.,, Nov, s19.— Ralph Henning of Bay City, was elected captain of the 1916 Michigan Agricultural football eleven, here yes- terday. Henning played right end this year and has been a star for three seasons. None of those now floundering as heavyweights seem to have a chance with Willard. And to go and get a rew man will require at least three or four years of experience. So the Kansas delegate has better than an even chance to Teign as long as Jeff and Johnson did before him. i b | Some debate originator has opened an argument as to the greatest foot- ball ends that ever played. We have five nominations to make—practically on a par—Hinkey, Shevlin and Kil- patrick, of Yale; Campbell, of Har- vard, and Snow, of Michigan, “Thorpe's greatest game,” says a “RBooster for Eddie Mahan,” “wis the one he played at Cambridge and his boosters have but that one game to prove their claim.” On what is quite the contrary, Thorpe played quite a bit better football against the Army and Penn. than he did against Har- vard. And another of his greatest ex- kibitions was against Brown, where he was the star in beating a powerful Brown eleven 33 to 0. The Sportive Pendulum. Ten years ago Yale and Pennsyl- vania had the best coaching systems in the East. Yale and Penn. knew more football than any others by 10 or 20 leagues. Their annual diet consisted of Harvard and Cornell. Today Harvard and Cornell have the two best coaching systems in the East, with Yale and Penn. at the other end of the trail. Sport is loaded down with these shifts, showing the fiickle- ness of sportive fortune—showing how quickly success can run to failure and how quickly failure can be turned into success with the proper method | adopted. Egotism. No wise man who follows sport for | any time should ever carry a touch of egotism. When men like Mack and McGraw can finish last—when footbal] svstemg like those of Yale and Penn. can go to seed with such swiftness, the briefness and fickleness of fame can be understood. The champion of today is only a punching bag for some one already | on the way. Tt is merely a question of how long. If Messrs. Johnson, Tener and Gil- more have the good of baseball at heart the best move they can make for the next three or four months will || A NEW OVERCOAT! LY The cut shows one of the ' season’s most popular new styles in Overcoats. Cut form-fitting of medi- um length, double breasted. and made with handsome ve ch Ivet collar. 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