New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1915, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1915. ace Agreement Ready for Sigrnatures--Penn Committee Confers With Coach Possibilities--Yale is Beaten at Baskeiball-- Results in Factory Bowling League--N. B. H. S. Five Plays Tonight AGREEMENT T0 BE SIGNED| nd Jones to Be Given ths as Managers rk, Dec. 18.—Peace in or- seball apparently was in last night at New York a conference between the commission, representing hnd American leagues, and ee from the Fecd#ral league n end. The chief point of at the meeting was the concluding an agreement dge K. M. Landis hands ecision in the suit brought by the Federal league. for both sides gave assur- vever, that there were no les in the way, but ad- t. Judge Landis be consult- a settlement is signed. league attorneys, it is un- will get in touch with Judge the earliest to obtain his 0 a dismissal of the case, ch another meeting will be ew York to ratify terms of nference adjourned at 11:45 st night until 10 o’clock this ‘While no official announce- s made, the impression was at Judge Landis raises no 11 that will remain to do will rk out the details of a treaty ! ill put an end to the strife hs rent professional baseball. eral league will be represent- s conference by James A. Gil- arry Sinclair and Charles an. of the terms of the tentative an in the baseball world ob- st night.from an authorita- rec at York are: Seventy-two who now have iron-bound s with the IFederal league are ployed by organized baseball in full. All other Federal players to receive the usual notice. George S. Ward of fooklyn Federals has been as- at there will be only one club klyn and that he will be paid use of Washington park there years.. . The Chicago National and Federal league clubs to olidated and ' also the St ationals and Federals. [Cinker, now manager of the Federals, is to be manager merged Chicago club, and Jones to manage the merged is club. Roger Bresnahan, as' a two-years’ contract with icago Nationals, to be paid in 4 assisted.to buy the Cleveland an association club and take to Toledo, his home town. Huggins, manager of the St. Nationals, ‘to be assisted to e St. Paul American associa- jub. There are to be Internation- gue clubs in Pittsburgh, Balti- Buffalo and Newark. The pro- f Harry F. Sinclair’s purchase New. York Nationals to be n abeyance until peace terms ed, after which he may buy an interest in or control of lub. somewhat complicated series ferences which led to the de- to vest the national commis- with treatymaking power began in the afternoon. Representa- of the National and Federal es and the minor organizations ogether for an informal meet- pt 5 o’clock. The American jers appeared and the represen- of the Federals and - minors requested to withdraw while the s of 'organized baseball con- d. Present at: ithis conference Meesrs. Tener, Johnsons Her- n, Hempstead, ‘Gaffney, Ruppert, in, Minor, Dreyfuss and Attorney e. agreement was reached to ap- e the tentative peace plan enter- nto between the National and eral léagues, the draft of which carried to the American league ession at Chicago by Barney Drey- The special committee ap- ted to confer with the Federals n was discharged and the details peace negotiations were turned r to the national commission, posed of (farry Herrmann, chair- n, and Presidents Jonhson and i'le the TFederal cohorts [re cooling their heels in a hallway a_hotel, which is the headquarters the baseball powers. After wait. some time theyv declared the! ention of going to dinner. They re still dining at 8:45 o’clock, thr arters of an hour after the na mnal commission went into session, t went into the conference at 9:10 he delegates who attended were: Na- pnal league, John K. Tener, Barney eyfuss, Garry Herrmann, Harry N. lempstead and James E. Gaffne; jmerican league. B. B. jharles A. Comiskey, Benjamin Min- , Jacob Ruppert and Joseph J. Lan- n; Federal league, James A Gil- jore, Harry F Sinclair, Charles eeghman and Carroll W. Rasin; Tn- rnational and minor leagues. Ed- pard G. Barrow, John H. Farrell and omas Chivington. Prior to the meeting President Gil- ore of the Federals declared he was pot on hand to drive a bargain. He tated his league had certain con- 83 Church Street. 10 High Grade Alleys. Patrons Welcome. us a visit. | Johnson, New Give EHobey ’b’akef i HODBEY New York, Dec. 18.—Hobey Baker still continues to shine in the sporting world. The former captain of the Princeton football and hockey teams, who is playing center on the St. Nicholas Ice Hockey club of the Ama- teur Ice Hockey league of New York, recently amazed the ice enthusiasts of Montreal, Canada, by his brilliant all around playing and which was instru- mental in defeating the Canadian All Stars by a score of 6 to 2. "His all around work featured the contest and | | | | | | crete propositions to lay before or- ganized baseball, the acceptance of which would mean peace. Declining to state the number or nature of the proposals he mentioned the players who have thrown in their lot ~with the Federals. “Those men,” he said, “and I guess they number 175, will have to be rein- stated and given a chance to play in major league company if they are worth it. Their contracts with us must be lived up to.” Mr. Gilmore declined to talk of his plans for the future or to comment on the report of an offer to head the Chicago Na- tionals if they are acquired by Mr. Weeghman. Mr. Sinclair, who has bepresented as the coming owner of the New York Nationals, declared the rumor ridiculous. He said he neither had bought nor would buy the team. YALE CHAMPION CAN'T RUN Sprains Ankle on Eve of Big Cross- country Event. Those who expected to see the inter- collegiate cross-country champion meet the best of the club athletes in the senior championship this after- noon will be disappointed. Freder- ick W. Rubien, chairman of the A. A. U. championship committee, received a telephone call last night from Jchn ‘W. Overton, the Yale runner who won the intercollegiate title. Overton said he had sprained his ankle in h last practice spin and would be able to compete. The meeting of the man who beaten the noted Cornell runners with mainen, had been looked forward to, but under the circumstances Chair- man Rubien could do nothing but ac- cept the reason and sympathize with the Yale runner. WELSH-WIITE BOUT OFF. Excelsior Springs, Mo., Dec. 18.— Charley White, the Chicago light- weight, announced last night that he had reccived a telegram from his manager in New York informing him | that his match with Champion Fred- | die Welsh had been called off. No reasons were given, according to White. A RECORD TRIP. Brown university’s football team will establish a record in travel for a single game when it goes to Pasa- dena, Cal., next Wednesday to play the undefeated team of Washington State university on New Year's day as a feature of the annual Tournament of Roses. The round-trip distance will ‘ be 6,000 miles. had | the world’s champion, Hannes Koleh- | of St. Nicks Up to Old Tricks in Hockey DAKER. earned for the elusive center rounds of applause. The consensus of opin- ion among the experts was that never before has an amateur appeared in | a contest in Montreal who showed as | much class as Baker. He was here, there and everywhere. Time and again he evaded his pursuers, often dodging through the entire field. Al-~ though Baker tallied only two of his team’s goals he was directly respon- sible for the other four goals scored by Bod Ellis, right wing. S LEAGUE OPENS TONIGHT. Captain Schmidt’s Basket Ball Tossers to Mingle With Bristol H. S. Five. New Eritain High school basket ball team will play the opening league game tonight with Bristol High as its opponents. Although the first two games were lost by a small margin to their opponents they expect to make a real comeback stunt when they meet the Bell town tribe. With Dudack, the star halfback of the football team playing his first game of the season Bristol will undoubtedly prove easy prey for the locals. He will have as his running mate Buell. These two make an exceptionally good pair of guards, for they are both fast and keep their eyes on their opponents during the entire contest. Cabelus will play center with Schmidt and Brekenridge as forwards. Solomoh will not appear on account of illness. There will be a preliminary game between the local second team and Lewis High school team of Southing- ton. The big game will start at 8:30 o’'clock. YALE COACH REPORT UNTRUE. Al Sharpe Not Football Choice Says S. B. Thorne. In spite of reports to the contrary, {no coach has been selected for the Yale football team. S. Brinckerhoff Thorne, a member of the committee, discussing the selection of the new coach, stated last night that there was no truth in the report from New Haven that Dr. Al Sharpe, Corneil mentor, had been selected for the job. Thorne further declared that no decision had been reached by the committee and none would be reach- ed for some time. TIGERS TRIM CORNELL. Princeton, N. J., Dec. 18.—Prince- ton captured the first game of the in- | Dingee, | | of his games, lost 11 and tied 1 He ‘route 82 times. | Former Champ Gets Awful tercollegiate basketball league series here last night by defeating Cornell 19 to 17. The game was one of the Dbest ever seen on the Princeton floor, wtih the lead constantly fluctuating from one team to the other. Twice the score was tied, and the final vie- tory was not decided until almost the last moment of play, when McTigue caged a difficult goal which broke the tie and won for Princeton. The International players to the Feds. Jack Doyle of Holyoke is trying to land a jobh as umpire in the Pacific Coast league. Johnny Evers wants to sell his share of stock in the Troy club of the New lost 50 league York state league. !the first two rounds and the former YALE FIVE BOWS TO METROPOLIS TEAM Sons of Eli Hoop Shooters Bow to Crescent A. C. Five, Score, 31-27, New York, Dec. 18.—The Crescent Athletic club’s basketball team de- feated Yale last night in the Second ' Signal Corps Armory by a score of | 31 to 27. The game wes a fast one and very rough and fouls were called azainst several players. Dingee was the chief offender and he was ruled | out of the game in the first half. At the end of the first half Yale led by 14 to 13, but the Cerscents took the lcad about the middle of the sec- ond half and kept it to the end. For Yale, Kinney was the star. In the first half he scored 7 out of 11 goals from the foul line and in the second three field goals and threce foul goals. Charley Taft, son of the President, played a clever defen- sive game and scored a field goal three minutes before the end of the contest. The lineup: Yale Weiner Olsen Baker Dingee Butler Left guard. ! Score—Crescent A. C., 31; Yale, 27, Goals from field, Crescent, Halstead, 3; Davidson 3; Calder, 2; Beavers, Butler, Eaton, H. Halstead, Tuthill, Yale, Kinney, 3; Weiner, 2; Baker, 2; Taft, Goals from fouls, Crescent Halstead Eaton, Davidson, Yale, Kinney, 11. Substitutes, Crescent Davidson for Beavers, Eaton for Cal- der, Heath for Eaton, H. Halstead for Dingee, Steinbugler for Butler. Yale, Conway for Olsen, Clarke for Baker, Mallin for Conway. Referee, O’Shea, St. John's. Umpire, E. D. Goate, Boys H. 8. NO COACH YET CHOSEN FOR PENN. Hollenbach, Falwell and Dr. Bennett led in Consultation By Committec. | i Philadelphia, Dec. 18.—The Univer- sity of Pennsylvania football commit- tee which will select a head coach for | next year's eleven held a long meet- | ing yesterday but failed to make a se- | lection. William M. Hallenbach, who | coached at Pennsylvania State Col- lege; Robert Folwell, coach at the Washington and Jefferson College team and Dr. M. Bennett, another former Pennsylvania varsity player, who has been coaching at Haverford college, were called in consultation by the committee, Each of these men has been suggested as possible can- didates by students who are urging a change in football methods at the uni- versity. In addition to discussing the ceach- ing situation, the committee consid- ered the question of next year's schedule. Nine games will be played. The season will open with either Get- tysburg or Ursinus and will close with Cornell here. Michigan will be played in this city while Dartmouth will again be played in Boston. Ar- rangements for a game with either the University of Illinois or the Uni- versity of Wisconsin are pending and contests with Pennsylvania State Col- lege, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Virginia are also be- ing considered. PLANK AND DAVENPORT SHINE. Federal League Pitchers Made Good Records Last Season. New York, Dec. 18.—Eddie Plank, the former star of the Athletics, was the most effective pitcher in the ranks of the Federal leaguers during the past season, according to the records just made public. Plank was on the mound in thirty-three games, working for the St. Louis team, and in that time had an average of only 2.01 runs per game scored against him. Plank pitched 269 innings, had 60 runs scored against him, won 21 struck out 1345 bases on balls. Davenport, another St. Louis pit- cher, played in 55 games, going the He won 18, lost 12 and tied two games, with an average of 2.09 runs scored against him per game. Davenport led league in strike- outs, with 228 victims to his credit. He gave 93 bases on balls and hit five batsmen. men and gave 58 CROSS TRIMS WOLGAST. Beating Trom East Side Dentist. New York, Dec. 18.—Benny Leon- ard of New York, knocked out Joe Mandot of New Orleans, in the seventh round of a ten round match here last night. Leonard weighed 133 and Mandot 134%. Ad Wolgast of Cadil- lac, Mich., was unable to toe the mark in the seventh round of a ten rounc match with Leach Cross of this city. Wolgast entered the ring with a patch over one eye, the result of a cut re- ceived in a recent fight. Cross took champion the fourth and fifth. Wol- gast received a severe beating in the last round and was unable to con- tinue. Joe Welling of Chicago out- pointed Young Brown of this city in | ten rounds. - the league. | openers, the tricksters and the second PORT 4 You will hear it echoed in polite (if there are any) baseball circles that the Feds have whipped the National league. For this the Feds deserve as much credit as Jess Willard would get for knocking out Kid Broad. The Na- tional league whipped itself, ana it began the whipping process at least four years ago, when it refused to | stand by many of its best bal] players and let two or three cut-throats, yegg- | men and thugs dictate the policy of A Cinch Battle, In beating the National league the Feds won the softest battle ever fought. They were up against an in- | stitution that had begun to rot both | at the top and at the base some years | ago. They were up against an insti- tution that had two or three high class club owners, but that, in the | main, outside of these two or three, didn't assay enough sporting blood to | keep a gnat from being anaemic. Other Counts, There were other counts against the old league which we have brought out from time to time. Their yearly meatings, than one occasion, were but little above barroom brawls. They were fighting among themselves vear after vear with a selfish disregard of the best interests of sports that was un- pelievable. The two or three sportsmen in the | league who had a voice of protest to raise once in a while were howled ' down by the clamor of the wine on more story sports, Started the Feds. | LIGHT Grantland Rice its record crop of cheap sports. There are still high class men in the game, but they are deep in the minority. The only basic strength of the game still left is the tradition of the players—the public regard for guch men as Mathewson, Wagner, Johnson, Cobb, Herzog, Evers, Plank, Collins and dozens of others. The player has always been square. In the last two years he was led off the right track by the money-lust of those above him, but after all the player has been the one saving feature of the game in late vears. ! Baseball to be carried back to its old height needs more than any peace declaration. It needs cleaning out from top to bottom, from roof to cel- lar. It needs a man at the head like : John Heydler, just a plain honest | citizen who would have the best in- terests of the game at heart. The day of the prize stew and the political trick stuff in baseball is over —if baseball is to live. Which are a few additional details the three leagues may consider at their gathering in New York, left | MAY HAVE THREE TEAMS. Murphy Says Lease on West Side Park May Be a Barrier in Cubs Salc. Chicago, Dec, 18.—Charles W. Mur- phy, former president of the Chicago Nationals, intimated yesterday that there might be difficulty in transfer- ring the Chicago Nationals from their old home to the park of the Chicago Federals as proposed in plans for baseball peace. “The Cubs have an eighty-year lease on the west side ball park,” said Mr. Murphy. “Mr. Taft has a half in- It was through this decaying wall in the National league that the Feds got started. The National league put the | eds on the map by showing what a | wonderful opening there was for any body ame by shoving a sick man off the sidewalk. But for this inside National weakness, this soul-corruption clder circuit, the Feds would league of the never who cared to break into t.he; | terest in the grounds énd I have the other half. If the Nationals try to move to other grounds immediately arrangements wil have to be made to pay the rental under the present lease. The West Side park s valued at | $700,000.” Discussion of possibilities which might follow a declaration of peace between the National, the American | and the Federal leagues yesterday have lasted out the year. | brought out a statement credited to They were poorly organized, poorly | handled and their cause didn’t de- | tative source, that next year Chicago | serve any particular success. They | gave out the Teason for their entrance as rushing to the help of the down- trodden ball player, whereas they were merely a collection of cold- blooded, cagy business men, who sunk a lot of foolish money on this occa- sion through ignorance ond for the most part because of greed. The Uplift? Where. The Feds out to uplift the game? ‘Where do you get that layout? Give them credit for hanging on where they couldn’t turn loose, but when peace was first mentioned, what was the first quoted statement of Mr. Sin- clair, their main backer? He prob- ably took up the ethics of a case for a brief debate? Yes—like Kelley did. “I’m not in this game,” he said, “for glory or for my health. Where do I get off?” Give him credit anyway for not sub- poenaing the bull. That much belongs his way. Fine Smear. Yes, it was a fine little smear, this baseball war. It was almost as fra- grant as a mixture of garlic and cheese. Neither the Feds nor Organized ball had any thought of the ultimate good | of the game. The Feds would have | wrecked the sport for an extra $5 bill. | = And so would O. Don’t get that part of it twisted. Hughey Keough called the turn before he died:— B. “Sing a song of dollar marks reaching to the skies; When they talk of millions now causes no surprise. Magnates on the inside, counting up their tin, Grafters on the outside, get in. Stories of the big wads backing other leagues; Darkly hinting treachery, treason and intrigues. Guesses that are that mislead; Just an ounce of sportsmanship to twenty tons of greed. Money—money—money, till you can- not rest; Reaching for the kale seed! t'ell with all the rest.” The Game Itself. Only the proven honesty of the players and the inherent strength of the game itself have kept baseball on the map. Any other sport, football, boxing, etc., under similar conditions would have been throttled years ago. Baseball fioundered and struggled on in spite of those running it. It lived in spite of the National Commis- | sion, worse than a joke. That was a fine spectacle that Governor Tener presented, when he was issuing de- nials right and left of truths thet he knew to be truths. There have been enough lies spilled around the Wal- dorf in the last day or two to make Munchausen and Ananias semi-pros or only summer-playing liars. The truth? Why most of those guys wouldn’t tell the truth if it means it honing to crazy, statements what was declared to be an authori- would have three baseball clubs but that an American association club would replace the Federal league players here. | The report said that it was more | than likely that the Cleveland fran- chise would be transferred to Chicago thus permitting Charles Somers to come here with his team so as to take care of the long term lease on the West Side grounds. In that event Charles Weeghman and the partner, who is credited with an intention of joining him in buying the Chicago Nationals, would have no difficulty in moving the Cubs' fran- chise to the North Side ball park. COLLEGES SEVER RELATIONS. Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 18—Foot | ball relations between the University of West Virginia and Washington and | Lee University have been severed ac- cording to a message received here from Manager Robert B. McDougle | of the latter football team. The teams | have met for the last three years at Charlestown, West Va., but owing to | differences resulting from the forfeit- ing of the game last fall in the last | few minutes of play by West Virginia officials, to game will be played in | 1916. . { won a hard battle from the North & | Gustafson FACTORY LEAGUE BOWLING RESULTS Lockmakers Trim Buckleworkers ' A. P. G. League Scores The Russell & Erwin bowling five Judd team at the Aetna alleys last «vening, taking two out of three games. T. Blanchard for the losers rolled cormisistently, but his teams< nates were slightly off color, and his good work went for naught. The Landers, Frary & Clark No. 2 team had an easy time with the Vulcan Iron Works five, winning all the games in one-sided fashion. Th, scores: Landers No, 2, 86 79 8 85 97 84 98 88 84 87 443 423 409—1 Vulcan Iron. 61 268 “ 262 244 270 254 285 Sandquist Thompson Kuehne .. Weare .. O’Connell 89— 84— 83— 65— 84— 74— 14— 82— 387 379—1128 E. 7 80 84 126 60 243 Lunberg Hulbert ... Demarest Shisler . 60 - 76 70 . 89 86 360 R. and 78 90 85 104 97 454 North & A. Blanchard .. 78 Eeuer .... 94 Whiteley . Moran Osland T. Blanchard 83 ‘Warner ... 97— 84— 85— 91 91— 286 72 108 272 406 4601320 Judd. 9 95 0 254 2644 254 W. Kilduff Jones ‘Walker Nyark Powers 74— 102— 82— T1— 111 440—1326 251 291 172 14 16 310 71 8 106 82 3 459 427 A, P. G. League Results. The A. P. G. bowlers enjoyed a fine evening’s sport on the local alleys and the following is the result of the pames: D. 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