New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1915, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN rinity Men Talk of Forming New Football League---Somers Gets Offer for Cleveland Franchise; Reports From Windy City Say Baker Will Join White Sox--- Results in Bowling League R WILL PLAY ITH WHITE S0X pi Comiskey Makes State- ment in New York [fork, Dec. 10.—J. Franklin ome run king of Connie ormer pennant trust will wear ¥ of the Chicago White Sox r. This positive declara- made yesterday by a bosom f Charles A. Comiskey, who is on bhusiness. The transac- 1 be announced officially at erican League meeting in next week, it was stated. The nt insisted that his identity not be disclosed. e conferences between Baker Yankees and hbetween J. and the Federal League are | joke to one on the inside,” | cago man declared. “Home | pker will be with our Sox as spring comes. It is all cut ed. I do mnot believe Lhat pn Johnson is wise to the in- y. But I know that Connie nd the Old Roman thoroughly and each other. matter has gone so far that jhas practically accepted terms jhicago. It was for this very that the Maryland farmer terms to Capt. Huston and novan that would have scared one. er has a natural preference jicago. His team mate of the jhletic days, Eddie Collins, is No club could better Com- terms in the matter of salary. th the White Sox Baker figures easonably sure of a share of 1’'s world’s series money. Is After the Pennant. Connie Mack it is a question ness rather than sentiment. ey is willing to pay $50,000 for s release. New York would not y more than half that sum. er saw Federal League agents P you may be sure it was for le purpose of masking the de- pf Connie Mack and Charles A. ey. The Old Roman is out for 16 pennant, even if he has to a fortune to buy it.” foregoing statements, printed ir face value should make in- ng reading for Ban Johnsen, lent of the American League. any chance Ban has counten- such a secret transaction he be very sure that the fans of [vork will not nourish any warm H for the American League in al. maters now stand Johnson has ed three of his eight clubs to e such strength from their er opopnents as to make the field tely too heavy. If Baker goes icago five American League might just as well padlock their For them the race will be i by Memorial Day. . Ruppert and Capt. Huston, by asing a few questionable bail rs last spring, saved Mr. Johnson olleageus and the American 'ue from a most embarrassing po- They came pretty close to the league. They were prom- all sort of assistance at the time uilding up a strong contender . So far that talked of help [been conspicuous by its absence. 1s refused to sell the New York Inates even bench warmers. he American League has a golden prtunity to prove to New York om that it appreciates the re- 1 of interest in the Yankees occa- led in their purchase by Col. ppert and Capt. Huston. It can go only in one way. Because of sensational batting in two world’s les against the Giants Baker is a hter idol in New York than in any er major league city. By force ircumstance he just naturally be- es to this town, where he would be ource of financial return not only [New York, but every other Amer- In League team ' as well. The perican League can take no surer ans of committing suicide than to ! 'mit Baker’s transfer from the letics to any but the New York b. A POOR EXHIBITION. uth Manchester Boxing Exhibition Come to Sudden Termination. South Manchester, Dec. 10.—Poor htchmaking caused the boxing exhi- jon held last evening under the spices of the Orford A. C., to be imewhat disappointing to the crowd at assembled to see the scheduled 'teen round battle between Frankie ack of Boston, Mass, and Frankie oore, of Providence, R. I. The boy om the Bay state had it all over his |Jim Rice On ..HM RICE New York, Dec. 10.—The merits of the Jim Rice controversy, now caus- ing widespread interest at Columbia university and in collegiate rowing circles, cannot be passed upon, for the outsider cannot possibly in close enough touch with conditions to pass judgment. But one thing is cer- tain, Jim Rice has some mighty fine crews since he was placed in charge of rowing there, and Columbia’s rowing history for some years prior to that time was not re- plete with any outstanding collec- tion of victories. It has been as- | Rice given Columbia - e of the Greatest Rowing Coaches serted that Rice has discouraged row- ing candidates from further effort be- fore some of these candidates have been sufficiently tried out to furnish a decisive line on their ability. Yot has fairly, consistently molded together a crew that has been cap- able of rendering a pretty fair count of itself in the annual collegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie. If Rice has been overlooking or turning down an y promising material it will be a surprise to those who know him and know him to bhe a competent rowing coach to find it out. BISCUIT MAKERS AGAIN DISAPPOINT PURCHASER FOUND FOR SOMERS’ CLUB Electric Light Team ~ Gets Forfeited Games When Opponents Fail to Show Up. The National Biscuit bowling five, or the aggregation that formerly rep- resented that concern, lived up to the reputation that they have ac- quired recently by failing to put in an appearance, to meet opponents as scheduled in the Mercantile league, and as a result the United Electric Light & Water company team captur- ed three games by the forfeit route last evening. Other members of the league are about disgusted with the actions of the National Biscuit com- pany team, and it is reported that an effort is to be made to get other team to take its place. Electric Light five bowled with the following results: Electric Light. 80 88 70 77 76 70 83— 251 McCarthy .. Riley . Hickok Smith Dunlay 76 76 82 81 403 — 153 87— 239 80— 232 T4— 155 373 406—1182 The Red Men's league met last eve- ning and the following scores were registered: Scouts. Molander .. 82 OBerg ... o Y 88 Sandstron 89 94 F. Robertson . 112 8 360 354 Warriors. 87 95— 70— 86— 96— 347—1061 264 235 269 293 Nelson Fusari Leupold Foberg 35 82 i 5 101 104 95— 263 271 pponent and the referee stopped the illing in the third round, when it as seen that Moore was hopelessly telassed. The semi-final between Joe Dill-| orth of this town and Joe iTerney of lizabeth, N. J., was also a one-sided | ffair, the boy from Jersey licking | he local pride in decisive fashion in ree rounds, causing Referee Vennart o call it off. Now In Operation SKEE BALL at the Aetna Bowling Alleys b | Sandstron i Beieri 341 Braves. 88 91 88 78 356—1024 92 85 93 67 73— 253 88— 264 81— 262 76— 85— Earnest ... Berlin .. Salbert 168 40?——1 168 345 420 . Sannaps. Transon 1. Logan E. Olson . A. Robertson Abrahamson 84— 80— T6— 78— 81— 164 246 84 7 s 87 67 85 385 334 399—1118 ADDITIONAL SPORTS PAGE 18, some | The | 82 —162 | 221§ | Hopkins, Cleveland Capitalist Makes Tentative Plans for Purchase of Indians Franchise. Cleveland, O., Dec. 10.—A tentative offer for the purchase of the Cleve- land American baseball club has been tendered the bankers' charge of the financial affairs of C. ‘W. Somers, present owner, by F. Hopkins, local capitalist. Hopkins, who is promoting the Cleveland subway and is chalrman ot the committee appointed by Mayor Baker to look after the affairs of the Cleveland Amateur Baseball as- sociation, declared tonight that the preliminary steps toward his gaining { control of the Cleveland club have been taken. However, before control passes to him a number of important | details must be settled. Hopkins in- sists upon several radical changes in the terms of the sale as proposed by the bankers’ committee. President Byron Bancroft Johnson |of the American league, George Steele, representing the bankers’ committee, and Owner Somers held a conference last night and it is in- timated that the deal for the sale of the club either to Hopkins or some one else will be closed before John- son leaves for Chicago tomorrow. One of the hard knots which the prospective purchaser and the bank- ers’ committee will have to unravel is association club, also owned ! Somers. It has been declared for me time that the American asso- ciation team will be where it originally was located; but whether it will be sold to Toledo cap- italists or whether the league will op- | erate the club is not known. Just what will be done regarding the play- ers on the American association team who are the property of the Cleveland | American team is a problem yet un- : solved. “The bankers’ committee will have ! to wrestle with the American asso- ciation team problem,” | last night. He as well as Johnson and Steele declined to discuss either the American or American association club situations. BROWN WANTS BASKFETBALL. Providence, R, 1., Dec. 10.—More than half the undergraduate body of Brown has signed a petition addressed to the athletic authorities asking for a reinstatement of basketball as a varsity sport- The game was dropped some few years ago from the list of major sports owing to the limited space on the gymnasium floor, The Six-Day Race. 4 The grind and grind around the ring, circle or ellipse: And here or there one g And here or there another slips: And then the winning One Best Bet Who here and there so swiftly darts furlongs does He finishes just where he starts. | | | | How many i couldn’t So in this little Modern football temperamental touch, temperamental detail the olive must ; be slipped i lost to Princeton, conquerors of Yale, 38 to 0 score to Whirl called Life We grind along by dusk and dawn, We spin around the Span of Strife And think how ver And then a winner—or a bust— A spinning drift of weary hearts We reach the end—dust unto dust— Fach one to finish where he starts. far we've gone; carries but Syracuse. on then smashed Is preparedness worth while? vard was prepared and Yale wasn't. Write your own answer. The Trojan. A day or two ago we note from Johnny Evers in he get? a decided , and then Dartmouth, | Through the West Syracuse smeared | the powerful Oregon Aggies, but could | | only tie Montana, a line-up bereft of any fame. received a fling, in this Syracuse | the Har- a which he Grantland Rice sames. But he expects to be ready for his fourteenth season always with one eye on Where the next wallop will fall. Is there Yale is waiting to seleci. her next foot- ball coach until she sees how Coach Ford’s blocking and operate against the ‘We wonder, European The Glory That Was Cap Anson, Dear Sir: played nineteen years, vears and Anson twenty-two years. Now, 1 take decided exception to the next April, Fate to see any truth in the rumor that interference war? | You say that Wagner hasg Lajoie twenty ut the Game itself can always ham- 1mer more. Maxims of the 19th Hole. He that hitteth with a clear eye and a steady hand, hitteth with a club of the finest steel. A puty that stops two inches short may add 200 yards to the length of the hole. Fate is the Bunker that catches our shots, but Nerve is the Niblick that gets us clear gain. Any Wagers? R. L. F. desires to know All-Time All-America eleven line up. We don’t know, but we'd be willing enough to let any outfit shoot against this picked army—Center, Sichulz, Michigan: guards, Heffelfinger, | Yale; Hare, tackles, Hogan, Yale: Michigan: ends. Hinkey and Shevlin or Kilpatrick Yale: quarterback, Eckersall, Chicago; halfbacks, Mahan, Harvard; Thorpe, Carlisle; fullback, Coy, Yale. From this line-up Yale gets men, Heffelfinger, Hogan, the cr.ds, and Ted Coy. You can judge from this how Yale's football descent has been how the five two great would | | twenty-two. record you give Anson. Anson played though all records only give him He played five years in the old National Association, 1871- 1875. And twenty-two vears after that in the National league. TIf you|; togs out this association you will have ' +0 throw out the records of such men as Spalding, Barnes, McVey, White, Andy Leonard, Fisher and others. Taking Anson's record from the time Tie started with the Athleti you will have to add at least 300 hits to his 3,013. This will still leave Cap well ahead of Wagner's total of 2,565 hits. R. G. M'CONNELL. We gladly accept the amendment. Not for all the glory of the ages would we take away from Old Cap one day / . “Under every twenty-seven in the major league, al- | merson, We still maintain that 't one-tenth as interested spending a new club as batting .320 allowing earned run per game. magnate latnch Doyle | Lon It was the fine spirit and money Charley Somers that made the Ameri- can league and keen petition possible. drifting toward the breakers. uncertainty of baseball upon the playing field. deep,” wrote Mr B lower deep opens a | Which is no sort of news to break to Messrs. C. Mack and J. J. McGraw, the public in some $2,000,000 it is in Larry or Walter John- a shade over one to only of baseball com- And now Somers is All the isn't banked HOCKEY PLAYERS READY. Collarmakers Have e Prospects For Coming Season. Troy, N. Y., Dec. 10.—The Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute hockey team will have their first practice, on ice, Saturday, December 11, according to Captain Patterson, as It is expect- ed by that time the ring will Le in good shape. Everything points to a good team this year. Over thirty- eight men are out for the winter sport_and nine of the old letter men are back. McQuide will probably hold his old position of 1 tender this year, and with Patterson at point, Kraehm at center, and Kelly and Graves at the forwards, Coach Foun- tain should be able to bring out a winning team. “Eddy” Dion, one of the old players on the “tute's” star 1910 team, has been helping the men work out in the gym. West Point is expected to be the strongest op- ponent, as they have all of their last vear's team still at the Academy. Willilams is the first on the schedule and is practically an unknown quan tity, as no announcement has been made by the athletic authorities® there as to the eligibility of their last vear's squad man. Complete schedule as filed today is as follows: Decem- ber 18th, Willlams College at Troy; January Sth, Massachusetts Agricul- tural College at Amherst; Jan y 15th; Trinity College at Troy; Janu- ary 22nd, Springfield Training School at Troy;February 5th, Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Troy; Fehs ruary 12th, West Point at West Point. GIVES UP INDOOR GAME According to advices received from Baltimore yesterday it is probable that the indoor championship meet- ing of the Amateur Athletic union w not be held in that city. Shortly HV('? the annual meeting of the A, A, U., { was announced that Baltimore had applied for the indoor games, which were conducted at a loss in New York last season. With Baltimore out of the field the games probably will be held in this city, but in an armory in- stead of in Madison Square Garden as heretofore. said that, while still playing ball, he was far from being in first-class The record stands—1871 to 1898—in health. i the Big League. Let only him who The Trojan is one of the most re- | can bathe in the fabled fountain of inarkable characters that ever played eternal youth shoot against the mark. the game. Although weighing le: R than 150 pounds—a Human Splinter— a bundle of nerves, hit harder by Fate than any man in the game, Evers is still under the Big Tent after thirteen campaigns. Only a vital spark of excessive| Ranking the football teams or the golfers or the lawn tennis players is quite a bit like stating off-hand that the moon is composed exclusively of pink soapsuds. No one can furnish any definite proof that you're a liar. of his playing career or one base hit. TIGERS' FOOTBALI, MANAGERS. Princeton, N. J., Dec. 10.—Charles Ramsey Arrott of Sewickley, Pa., wa's celected vesterday for the position of sssistant manager to the Princeton ‘varsity football team and Sanford Lawton of Long Meadow, Mass., Experience. “No man's knowledge,” said Locke, “can go beyond his ence.” As applied to sport, line was ever penned. In For All-American Draw-Back—W. Bryan (all further nominations clcsed.) John | 7. experi- no truer football, man- REISIGL WITH SALT LAKE. inter- | committee in ; Ben | flame—a rare spirit—could have held | baseball, boxing, golf, tennis op as the Trojan has, fighting him- | rest of them, Experience is self, Fate. the umpires, the opposing | greatest coach or instructor club. He was supposed to he all {ali through, a nervous five vears A good 2go when he forty-f ur | of stuff into and the still the of them ager for the freshman team Arrott came to Princeton from St Paul's school. He played quarterback on the Princeton freshman team last year Lawton comes from the Berkshi echool. 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