New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1915, Page 8

;ty Football Championship Baitle Tomorrow--Union Works Bowlers Get a Surprise--Basket Ball . Rules are Discussed--College Athletic Heads to Discuss Amateurism in New York Dec. 3rd and 4th DSELECTED FOR FEDS PARK or Noo Yawk Feds Will Be Ideally Sitnated York, Nov. 27.—Federal e park, or Gilmore Field, as the pome of the New York Federals ply to be called, will be located th street and XLenox avenue, ill comprise the three blocks ed by Lenox avenue, 145th the Harlem river, Fifth avenue 42nd street. has been known for some time his is the site Colonel Gilmore een hinting at, but the cat Pd out of the bag before Jim come to town. yever, through real estate circles me known that the Federal has either purchased or pro- long term leases on the various s of land comprising the entire ty. Checks for large sums al- have been passed over to pr owners of the parcels of land. ether the Federals can make a their New York enterprise re- s to be seen, but it must be con- d that they have obtained one he finest sites on Manhattan , and one of the most accessible ons in the Greater city. Biggest Park in Country. Feds also have landed a fleld nough to build one of the largest in the country. The property frontage of 900 feet on its ern' boundary on 142nd etreet, xtends 720 feet on Lenox avenue fion of the subway, and only two s from the 145th street station he Sixth and Ninth avenue ted lines. can be reached by many surface , including the Columbus avenue Broadway and the Lexington, x and Broadway lines, which run t to 145th street and Lenox ue, 4nd are tapped by all cross- h lines. The park will also be d by the 145th street Manhattan Ltown, the 149th street Bronx town, and the new 145th street, erdam avenue and Broadway which connects with the Third ue ltnes. Varlous other Bronx come in at 135th street, only n blocks south of the park, while Bighth avenue surface line and h and Sixth avenue elevated s are only two blocks away. Gilmore Still Away. plonel Jim Gilmore, of the Federal ue, still was absent from the city erday, but was expected back to- as he had wired for Army-Navy let reservations. However, Gil- e, through his New York repre- ative, Hi Brewer, let it be known he would be obliged to withhold former details of his club, which had promised for late this week, ng to an unexpected hitch, seems that a man who holds a el of the field above described has n in Europe. He sent a cablegram t he would arrive here last Mon- , but did 'not appear. It was ired that he may have been torpe- d by the submarine O, B,, but the Heral league has received informa- ‘that he is now on the high seas, will land next Monday. 'he leagug¢ has a letter from this n agreeing to sell this property, as the league has not a deed to parcel, Gilmore felt it advisable withhold the official announcement. s the Federal league owns the en- e three blocks, there will “be no ficulty from city officials in closing e streets, and the league has been vised by the proper authorities at there would be no objection to em closing these streets. Hi Brewer, the only Federal pguer in town, was in no position to e any information regarding the bnox avenue field. I guess it is as pod a guess as any,” he said. ‘A Heavy Burden,” Says Huston. In discussing the new Federal lague site, Captain Huston, half ner of the Yankees, said he could bt possibly see how the Feds could ord it. Huston said that the ‘ankees considered the site, and know il about it, but that jt was too expen- lve for them to take up. He said the Ircperty was owned by an estate. “Though the property is not worth me of the fabulous sums reported;” aid Huston, “by the time you do your Jling and grading you would be out bout a million dollars. It will cost 100,000 to fill in some of the land. v the time you build your stand you re saddled with yearly overhead harges of $100,000 before you spend penny for salaries. There isn't inough in the business to warrant his. 'Why, we flgure that in an estab- ished league, and with a club which SKEE - BALL ALLEYS the new amusement which became so popular in the large cities last winter, will be installed at the AETNA LALLEYS within a few days. | Four Football Players Who |INTERESTING LIGHT Made Gridiron History New York, Nov. 27.—With the 1915 football season about over the experts will now have ample oppor- tunity to review the work of the star players and select their All-American team elevens. While there are hun- dreds of teams picked by the critics there are few that meet with the favor of the general run of the fol- lowers of the gridiron game. 11 v o It has its favorite rooters. labor under the impression that should be or five players lMa.ha'n of Harvard at fullb: This | Barrett of Cornell is due to the fact that every college | These men stand out in their respec- And some |tive positions and are the great stars at |of the 1915 season. cast one of their favorite eleven given a place on the all- There are at least four whose playing war- on They are ack, Spears f Dartmouth,at guard, Maulbetsch of ar team. ants the experts placing them n All-American team. Michigan at one of the halfback posi- lons. Peck of Pittsburg at center and at quarterback. has a following, we can't make any money paying $55,000 a year rental for the Polo Grounds. Then how can these fellows expect to get anywhere near an even break, with $100,000 overhead charges, and at least $100,- 000 in salaries, to say nothing of {raveling expenses, etc?” Property Valuable. It is pointed out, on the other hand, that should Sinclair, or whoever else is putting up the money, buys this prop- | erty for cash, it might prove an ex- cellent investment, as the property has a large waterfront, and in ten or fifteen years will probably be worth at least $2,000,000. In the event that this ball club fails, Sinclair still would have his most valuable asset, the plot cf ground. But from a strictly base- ball standpoint, there seems no chance for the club to make expenses for a good many years. Yet the Feds are willing to take a chance, and they are the most con- cerned. UNIFORM RULES FOR BASKETBALL ew Regulations Are Interpreted f()l'; Benefits For Those Interested In Game. | combined Amateur Athletic Union, Intercollegiate and Young Men’s Christian Association basketball rules committees held their first joint rules interpretation meet- ing at the Hotel Astor last night and explained for the enlightenment of changes that have been effected in the playing code for the coming basket- | ball year. Although the rules of the three con- | trolling bodies have been thrown to- gether in order to get a uniform set of regulations, the result is not so con- fusing as might at first be.imagined This fact was made evident by the‘ | The recently shortness of time required to explain the code. Whie the intercollegiate | body used up a whole afternoon in ! other years, th combined committees | with Dr. J. P. Roycroft in the chair, | representing the intercollegiate boady, | was less than four hours in complet- | ing the task. 1 The greatest amount of clarifica- | tion was called for where rules of one ! organization were transplanted bod- ily to the new code. Chief among these was the revision borrowed from the A. A, U. rules which hold that | neither centres may touch the ball 'flftc!‘ it has been put into play until it ).uxs been touched by a third player- This rule will govern on all jump balls. The confusion in the rule re- sulted from the use of the word catch instead of touch. It was suggested in connection with this rule ®at a ten-foot zone be es- tablished inside of whid. players save the centers may come in on a jump ball. As to the requirement taken from the college rujes that the centers must have their hands behind and in con- tact with their backs ve°n jumping the Amateur Athletic Union officials needed much enlightenment. It was ruled too, that facing the basket means facing with the entire body and not merely looking at the bas- ket. b Another collega rule novel to the Amateur Athletic Union players was that permitting shogting for the goal after a dribble. Heretofore in Ama- teur Athletic Union games the player after a dribble had to pass_the Dall— and was not permitted to take a shot at the goal. The Amateur Athletic Union regulation for deciding a tie game is now overruled by the college rule whereby an extra period is played off, rather than letting the play go on until one side has scored. In or- der to prevent coaching there must be no talkir’g between players and persons on the side lines. In plays on the side line several in- terpretations were made, On thrown- up balls the players are to be two or three feet in from the side line. If a ball is out of bounds and held by a player on the side not entitled to it, there is a technical foul. Further- more, on putting a ball into play from the side lines the man throwing the ball is to have a free space of at least three feet in front of him. The Amateur Athletic Union rule forbidding guarding the man with the ball from behind was incorporated into the new code and interpreted to mean that the man with the ball can be guarded only from in front. DECLINES TO BE CAPTAIN. ‘Washington, Penn., Nov. 27.—Mau- rice N. Witherspoon of Chambers- burg, Penn., yesterday elected Capt- ain of the Washington and Jefferson football team of 1916, today declined the honor. He explained that he ex- pected to enter McCormick Theologi- cal Seminary at Chicago next Fall, and would not be available for the team. Witherspoon played with the "Varsity team three years. ON NATIONAL SPORT Facts and Figures About Stunts Accomplished in Past Season ? New York, Nov. —Special com- | pilations covering the baseball season Play in the National, American and | Federal leagues gisclose a number of | | interesting features in connection | with the struggle for the pennants of | the respective organizations. i The no- | hit games were pitched in ‘the Na- | tional; none in the American and four | in the Federal league. The record of one-hit games shows that nine occurred in the National, twelve in the | | American and six in the Federal | league. Two-hit contests were more | | frequent, the American league lead- "ing with twenty: the National | | cecond with twenty-five and ‘the Federals third with seventeen. Two nineteen inning games the longest contests of the season, cne being played in the National league and the other in the American. A sixteen inning struggle was ‘the feature match in this respect in the Federal organization. The National league also led in the heavy hitting department of the game, two twenty- four hit contests being recorded. The Federals were next with one twenty- | two hit game and the Americans third with two twenty-one hit games. All three organizations boast one geme in which the total runs reached | the twenty-seven mark. In the Na- tional league Chicago won a game from St. Louis 14 to 13; the Boston /£ mericans defeated the Detroit | Americans 15 to 12 and the Baltimore Federals won from the Kansas City Feds 17 to 12. In extreme scores the National league also takes the palm for Boston defeated St. Louis 20 to 1; the American league was next with a 16 to 0 game won by Chicago from | 8t. Louis, whiie the Federal league’s hest offering in this respect was the &{. Louis triumph over Buffalo by a 12 to 0 score. English Racing Ends. The curtailed racing just ended in Jiugland is regarded as satisfactory, | even from the point of view of racing | men. The figures for attendance at Newmarket show that at the ordinary meetings there was an increase of ! vieitors, while all the extra fixtures were well patronized. With the meetings at Epsom, Ascot, Goodwood, and Doncaster abandoned, the prize money. for the season naturally showed a big falling-off. The list of winning owners is headed by Ludwig Neumann with total earn- ings of $67,000; last year J. P. Joel led with $155,000. Other owners who figure well up in this year's prize list are: Sol Joel with 356,000; J. B. Joel $49,000; E. Hulton $42,000; Lord Toseberry $40,000; Lord Derby $24,- 000; August Belmont $15,000; and Mortimer Singer $12,500. The King had a very lean year, his horses earn- ing only $4,875. Polymelus heads the list of winning <ires, his progeny haing taken sixteen races of the value of $89,000. TUn- doubtedly Pommern was the best {hree-year-old of the season, and turf critics believe that he will turn out to be a horse far above the ordinary classic standard. The list of winning jockeys, with percentage of firsts to their credit, includes the following: F. Rickaby, 17.76; S. Donoghue, 16.35; W. Hux- ley, 13.66; M. Wing, 11.83. The lead- ley, 13.66; M. Wing, 11.88. The lead- | ing trainers, with the amount of their | winnings, are: C. Peck $76,000; P. P. Gilpin $75,000; R. C. Dawson, $70- 000; G. Lambton, $52,000. were From Harvard Graduate. A Harvard graduate writing on the Alumni Bulleétin attacks “Summer Baseball” from a novel angle. His letter s, in part, as follows: “The endless discussion of ‘Summer baseball’ is rendered all the more tiresome because the real point at is- sue is usually missed. It is not a matter of social distinctions, as | some newspapers intimate; nor is it even a question of tearing down the fence between the amateur and pro- fessional paddocks. The real danger is, that ‘summer baseabll’ or any form of it should be allowed, it would soon be considered desirable. Under the pressure of intercollegiate com- petition, members of the baseball squad would soon come to feel an ifmplied obligation to devote their summers to the game in order to insure victorious teams. This situa- tion would be a scandal in itself, and the cause of endless dissatisfaction.” Tie Will be Broken. The winner of the Army-Navy football game in New York City this afternoon once again goes into the lead in the race for gridiron hono between the two service academies. At the present time the elevens of the soldiers and sailors have each won nine games while on resulted in a 6 to 6 tie. Since the series started in 1890 nineteen game have been played, breaks having occurred from 1894 to 1899 and again from 1908 to 1910. In total number of points the Cadets lead with 202 against the Middies 139, The highest score ever made in an Army-Navy | game was that of 1903 when the Ca. | dets defeated the Midshipmen 40 1o | 5. On two occasions the Navy won by the narrow margin of a field goa! the aerial score being the only points registered in these two contests. - Y The All-Star Eleven—1915. Center—Gun Cotton., I Right Guard—Poisonous Gas. Left Guard—Hand Grenades. Right Tackle—Gangrene. Left Tackle—Battle Ship. Right End—Shrapnel. | cieven, but Left 1nd—Torpedo. | enough Quarterback (and captain)—Death, | Right Half—44 Centimeters, Left Half—French 75's, Fullback—Dynamite, ‘ho al There age or brai | way. | | This eleven is not only strong on | defense, but it is also the greatest | offensive machine ever known. | 1t is a wonderful ground gainer, as the Germans at one time, using the above combinatiun, carried the ball 1,925 miles through the bleak steppes of Russia. The line is especially strong. be counted upon to open up any opposing formation, and if ‘the line | fails the backfield is pretty likely to | 10 on through anyway, especially the | right halfback named. The right half selected is especially useful to gain the necessary ground when a short distance is needed on the fourth down. It can | legs, You cxpert We have named no punter or drop | What kicker for this eleven, as a punter and | skift pla: a drop kicker are not needed. Why | punt or drop kick when you can carry the ball over for a touchdown each | time you start? The Star. This eleven also has the greatest quarterback ever known. He has never yet missed a tackle. No one has ever gotten by him for a gain. The greatest and hardest runners in the world are sure to be thrown for a loss once he slips within reach. He throws them all—the high and the low, the lean and fat, the short and tall, the poor and rich, the big and small, the mean and good, the stars and the dubs. the goal. ard get henna. power work in a purely machine-like sort of It has what is sometimes known | as the punch or the wallop. Grantland Rice | Sometimes he works swiftly loafs on the job, 's gets there at the finish cther times he is no great s in the make-up of this it needs and This great eleven mes prescribed rules of conduct. other team can ively of summer ball players and can { do all the slugging, kicking and goug- ing it cares to makes no complaint to | But in return it leaves anywhere from 10,000 to 200,000 dead on the field and ten times that number cyes and faces | What, will read where this or picks this or that , all-star line- up. But what chance would all of those | who will be picked have against any | | <ne we have named? chance s have against that line? 3 What chance would circling those two end | What chance would Spears or Gil- | man or Buck have checking the rush | of that backfield ? | And always playing back, covering | A. G. Sandstrom. 94 kicks, covering short bucks, covering | leng runs, overthrowing all combina- | tions with one hand behind his back | —cool, reliable, certain, always there | A. is Captain Death blocking the way to Others may pick a line-up, but to do so they will have to | have this morbid their enlistments from Ge- | CHUCKMAKERS HAND R. & E. A BEATING | Union Mfg. Five Get prise of Sea- - son When R, & E. Hands | Them a Beating. i | In night the Factory lea Russell & Erwin second division, gave the company team a surprise the first two strings by Previously in eighteen Union Mfg. bowlers had los FACTORY LEAGI Russell & ¥ 91 93 ch last aders of the Union Mtg by taking good margine strings the but ont® and at but amount of cour- | W. Kilduff Walker Jones .. Powers Nyack Wagner 1t do has the neither. speed to 109 87 94 86 82 461 458 Union Mfg. Co. 84 87 87 114 411 449 RED MEN'S LEAC 96 89 we have where ——o picked S 443—1362 there are The be composed excly Gaudette 97— Walker Hogan .. Myers . Hoffmar 260 269 259 cleven 259 refegee. chosen the Our 480—1340 minus arms, SUE. | ¥ransen that 71, Logan his . Olson A. Robertson . 371—1107 Indecd? star for | Warr .100 93 84 89 366 338 Scouts. 82 ors. 98 85 102 73 89— 82 7 3560— 1064 87 286 280 716 243 | Nelson Connors ¥. Log Foberg would Haughton's Mahan have 86 93 103 281 101— 268 93— 281 98— 295 292— 844 - Oberg ¥. Robertson 271 Braves. Sandstrom. 76 .108 81 265 81 04 108 283 79— 236 98— 300 84— 273 N Earnest | Berlin stronger still e s 261— 809 SHARPE WOULD COACH YALE. universe we know | | But There Is No Indication That divergence NNEX-PAWNEES READY FOR BIG GAME | —_— [ City Football Championship to Be forcement. Decided Tomorrow—Warriors Clash at Traut’s ciation. Park. “At The Pawnees and Annex will battle | for the championship of the city Sun- day afternoon at Traut's park in what | should be one of the greatest games of the year. The Annex will out- | weigh the Pawnees, who have a light team, but the Pawnees have a nun.- | ber of trick plays, combined with their | speed, should make up for what they | lack in weight. The Pawnees have not been scored on by any New Britain team in the last two seasons and will try to keep the heavy Annex team | from securing a score when they mect Sunday. There should be one of the largest crowds on hand when the game starts that ever attended a football game in the city, as this game should be a hard fought game from the start to the finish. The Pawnees have scored 134 points this season to their opponents 21,i having defeated some of the best teams in the state. The following games have been played by the Pawnees: Pawnees 6, Southington 0; Pawnees 13, Ramblers of Hartford Pawnees 21, Columbias of Hartford 0; Pawnees 0, West Ends at Bristol 6; Pawnees 55, Watersides of New Haven 0; Pawnees 14, Tiger Cubs of Meriden 0; Pawnees 6, Tigers of Hartford 15; Pawnees 19, Corinth- ians of Hartford 0; total, Pawnees 134, opponents 21. The kickoff for Sunday be at 2:30 o’clock.- COLLEGE OFFICIALS TO MEET IN N. Y. Question of College Amateurism Will procedure, universities to defined. Univers season, it 's game will ! Be Discussed at Yale Club Dec. 3 and 4 New Haven, Nov. 27.—It was an- nounced last night by Professor Cor- win, chairman of the Yale University athletic committee, that the Joint meeting between representatives of Harvard, Princeton and Yale, to ef- fect a general revision of the eligibil- ity rules, would be held in New York at the Yale Club on December 3 and 4. The Harvard and Princeton repre- sentatives will be guests of the Yale men at dinner on the night of De- cember 3, and the discussion will cover two days. The o egates will not confine themselves to the eligibil- ity question alone, but will consider | the whole matter of amateurism, ac- cording to an outline of the plan of | procedure given out her last night by Professor Corwin. The meeting is | a partial outgrowth of Yale's action in disqualifying Harry Le Gore and | four other star Yale athletes early this month, Profesor Corwin’s statement garding the meeting follows: “This meeting will be in a certain | sense the culmination of negotiations ‘between Harvard, Princeton and Yale begun last June. It was found at that re- | ON TAP AT | time that there was rather a wide | both the rules on eligibility and their en- In Briggs, of Harvard, and Dean McLen- ahan, of Princeton, held a conference | in New Haven with the chairman and treasurer of the Yale Athletic Asso- this conference general discussion of the problems in- volved, and a general understanding was reached as to the best method of “At the conference the Yale Club December 3 proposed to discus the whole question of eligibility a represented baseball is only one of the questions be brought forward matter of professionalism professionalism must be more clearly | Miss Mary Likewise rules and defini- tions must be established which shall ellminate from performances which have no place In | college activities.” MONTCLAIR BOY Middletown, Conn., demer Deetjen of Montclair, N. been elected Captain of the Wesleyvan football team for the next wag announced last night. He played half back this vear, = Ells Want Cornell Mentor- Philadelphia, Nov. 27.—Dr. Albert H. Sharpe, coach of Cornell’s unde- feated team, in answer to a question vesterday regarding a rumor that he would coach Yale, said he knew nothing about the report. He sald that he wag content with his position at Cornell and would like to stay. %Hg added he was under a five-year con- tract with Cornell and had just finish- ed one year of it. When asked if he would go to Yale if Cornell released him from his con« tract, Dr. Sharpe said “Inasmuch as I am a Yale man and owe my first allegiance to my alma mater, of course I w@ld go to Yile if that were in the wording of | November Dean there was a to be held at and 4 it is s it affects the three Summer posaible BUNDY D K. Vanquishes Former Tennis Champion, Beach, Cal, Nov. 27.—Mist Mary K. Brown, three times national woman tennis champlon, yestéiday defeated Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, ans | other former titleholder. 6-4, 6-3, in an exhibiton match of W invitation | tennis tournament herg, Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the present champion, #0n from Miss Florence Sutton, 6-4, 6-3. The tournament will close today with matches between Miss Brown and, Miss Bjurstedt and Miss May Sutton | and Mrs. Bundy. The MR TED, or whole semi- | = rown Long sport practices and | CAPTAIN, Nov. 27.—Wal- J., has ~ Todag's the dalj to enj oy a :foaminfl jlass or two of il ISC RS ALES~LAGERS E Connecticuts Best LO Brewed b The Hubert Fischergnwarg at Hortford UIS W. FODT, Hoy BELOIN, KE ; Heaiptaudnl) 4 IN, KEEVERS & 00, HER- MANN SCHMARR, W. J, McCARTHY.