New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1916, Page 12

ANUARY 3, 1916. Discuss Federal Players Status at Meeting Today--McCormack Says Yale is Still Looking for Football Coach--Coffey and Moran to Battle Friday Night--Many Athletes Now at War Front ERAL LEAGUE AYERS’ STANDING al Commission Will Dis- cuss Status of Men nnati, Ohio, Jan. 3.—The Na- baseball commission which held al meeting here today will electing officers for the en- vear, take up two matters pertain to the peace treaty, re- figned here, that will be taken e supreme court of baseball. ly the most interesting mat- be discussed will be the status players formerly connected flle St. Louis Federal league club players of the Chicago Fed- gue club in case the Chicago 1 league club is purchased by Weeghman, former president hicago Federals. is some doubt as to whether Jvers of these two Iederal clubs will be subject to the rule of orzanized baseball. It nded by some that the pur f the St. Louis Americans by 11 and his associates, former of the St, Louis Federals, he purpose of consolidating o teams. Therefore, it is con- the Federal league players be subject to the waiver rule of erican league. In other words, from each American league buld have to be obtained on layer of the St. Louis Browns hey could be disposed of out- t league. The same condition, tended, will apply to the Chi- tional league club in case it is ed by Charles Weeghman. s, however, maintain that all league players were made eli- organized baseball, and that all players were vested in the league as a league and not as al clubs. If this contention is according to a high baseball , then it will become neces- the St. Louis Americans to e, in case they desire to do so, yers of the St. Louis Federal lub in open competition. Tt is by this same authority that if pheld the waiver rule will not b any Federal league player. her matter which has to do e peace treaty will be the fix- @ate and a place of meeting committee appointed to thrash séttle the difficulties which etween the Federal and Inter- leagues concerning the Bal- and Buffalo Federal league This, committee was to have e today but fhe meeting was ged indefinitely and it was an- i vesterday in New York that hmission would fix the place of and the date. man Angust Herrman an- f today that a large number of ould be discussed by the com- today, but there were none of [ptional nature. SUBJECT TO WAIVER. il Does Not Believe St. Louis layers Come Under Rule. ouis, Jan. 3.—Phil Ball, pr yner of the St. Louis Federals, head of the St. Louis Am id last night it was his under- that the players of the St. ederal leagie cluh would not subject to the waiver Tule of ed baseball through his pur- the Browns. hermore,” he added, “that understanding with which 7. Sinclair and the other club f'Who represented the Federal n the reéent peace negotiations nnati came away from the at which they signed the greement.” pose the National commission decide that the St. Louis Fec yers are subject to the waiver puld that.deter vou from buj Browns?” Mr. Ball was asked. ave ' “already bought the he answered. t if the Federal league (which an active corporation) should y half the St. Louis Federal 'to' the Browns?"” he continued, this half be subjected to the rule and the. unsold half, not jubject? Would the National sion make 1i¢h of the one and It the other? It is:my belief ganized baseball agreed to per- thout waiver, thef sale of any league player tg:ary Amer:! iNational league 7’team which OT IN DEAL, 0, Jan. 3.—Roger Bresnahan pr-of .the Chicago Nationals, in ment vesterday announced he fo nothing toward purchasing eland American association se for the purpose of transfer- to Toledo until his status with icago ¢lub had been cleared up. ‘Weeghman, ow ‘ederals,. had pre iously an d that Joe -Tinker, mans e e “ B o | man, from the point of the the deal club to derals, would head e had completed N RELAY TEAM DAT! ridge, Mass., Jan. 3—The win- Jedule of Harvard's relay team ng four dates, was annnounc- night as follow! ary 29, Coast Artillery games. ¥Feb. 5, Cornell and Yale, at on Athlétic:association games; i, University of Pennsylvania, jrd, Conn., March 4, intercoll- games, New York. e WRIE'th MORAN-COFFEY BOUT |MANY ATHLETES ON FRIDAY IGET ARE IN THE WAR Each Scrapper Confident of Victory— | Representatives of Scveral Branches i l | | Public Opinion a 50-50 Choice. New York, usual interest ing this week district, as a the heavyweight championship be seen in action on Madison Square Garden, Moran of Pittsburgh and Jim the Roscommon Giant, will pl turn ten-round engagement. fir: knocked out Coffey in three ro Since that time, however, the battler has established himself Jan. 3.—More attaches in the metrop itself to Friday night when F t contest between the pair Mor than box- bolitan probable contender for will at ank ffey, re- und Irish with the followers of boxing by knocking out Gunboat Smith. The one incentive of the pair likelihood of being signed up bout with- Jess Willard, the weight champion, and for son, if not for any other be plenty of action m tne ring. pite his previous defeat there is the for a heavy- this there rea- will s are many close observers of boxing who believe that Coffey will redeem him- self when he faces his vanquisher for the second time. It will be a contest between a er and a boxer. Moran does not pretend to be a boxer, the only sure route to victory the knockout route, and keeps fusillade of sledgehammer blows fight- even but believes is by up a on his opponent’s body and jaw until the right one lands, which means the finish of the contest. | invariably | It In the | inent = hesitation. Jf Sports Now Under Fire at The Front. of nations branch the gaged in the war has been materially the conflict, athletes offered Almost every sporting competition in now en- affected by for the nu- have their countries merous services to their without Many of Kurope's prom- killed automobiling, athletes have heen or Athletics, wrestling, wounded. boxing, hockey, tennis, baseball, aviation and golf——all these | branches of sport have been affected. Prominent among the followers of sport now at the battlefronts are Georges Carpentier, holder of the dleweight and heavyweight cham- pionships of France; Bombardier Wells, formerly heavyweight cham- pion of ngland; Jimmy Britt, the California lightweight; Jack Monroe | of Canada a heavyweight fighter and Frank the pioneer da was a top-notch P. Slavin of England, who, in s of the boxing game, boxer. Carpentier joined the French Army shortly after the beginning of the war, and has seen considerable service in the thick tached to the aviation corps at pres- ent. the Army, work he of the fighting. He is at- At one time he has attached to signal service of the and while engaged in this branch of the service, had his apparatus blown away in his French | | ishing holds, wore his opponent down | r of the Chi- | | succumbed was this style of boxing that carried Moran to a successful issue in his first encounter with the Roscommon Giant. Coftey is a clever boxer and is lightning fast for a big man. His| left glove keeps popping away like a machine gun. and seldom misses, but it lacks real power. Jim’s right is more deadly, and it is .possible that | he may reach Moran's jaw with it, in which case he may turn the tables | on the Pittsburgher. The big handi- cap for Coffey is that he naturally will fear taking the count again. And in the history of the ring a man who “comes back” under these conditions is considered a marvel. As to the outcome, the men have divergent ideas. Moran calmly an- nounces that he expects to win by a knockout again. Coffey says he will follow an entirely different line of bat- tle and will triumph through sheer skill. There are several interesting con- tests scheduled at the other clubs, but none of sufficient importance to warrant special attention. NEW BRITAIN BEATEN. High School HOop Shooters Out. classed by Gilbert High Five. The New Britain High school bas- Ketball team journeyed to Winsted New Year's afternoon where they | were taken into camp in easy fashion, | by the Gilbert High school five, score 32 to 22. Theplay was fast at all times, and was marred by the bad feeling between players on both teams. “Tommy” Cabelus, center for the locals, and Hayes, center of Gilbert, were removed from the game in the first half for engaging in a fight. Brown was the star for the win- ners, while Breckenridge for New Britain was particularly good on foul zoal shooting. The lineup and sum- mary: Gilbert Brown, rf. G. Hayes, If. W. Hayes, c. N. B. H. S. lg. Bachulus-Peterson rg, Solomon abelus-Bachulus- Siegrist . If. Breckenridge rf. Schmidt Raynsford, Tg. B. Hayes, If. Biggins, rg. Goals from field, Brown 5, G. Hayes 4, B. Hayes 3, Raynsford 3, Brecken- ridge 3, Schmidt 2, Peterson, Bachu- lus; goals from fouls, Brown, W. Hayes, Breckenridge referee, Wheeler; timer, Pickett; time, two 20-minute halve: ABERG THE CL. Gracco-Roman Champ Seems to Be | Peer of All That Style. New York, Jan. 3—The decisive manner in which Alexander the Great, | otherwise Aberg, has disposed of his rivals in the Graeco-Roman competi- tion has been the feature of the wrestling tournament at the Manhat- tan Opera house. Two of the most formidable of his opponents for the Graeco-Roman championship— Lew- is and the Masked Marvel—have been beaten so thoroughly that both were | practically knocked out at the clo.e of their contests with the champion. In the case of Lewis, “The Strangler” was slammed to the mat with such force that he was groggy and stagger- ng when he was going off the stage. In the matter of the Marvel, the champion, by the application of pun- | to the point of exhaustion before he and was pinned to the s the most wonderful | strength and stamina, that has been seen on the | mat in many a year and the wrestler that can hold him on even terms 1n a Graeco-Roman contest has yet to be discovered., mat. Aberg Aetna Bowling Alleys 10 High Grade Alleys. New Patrons Welcome. Give us a visit. | winner on the Indianapoli | sensational game at | his position with | regiments of the twice by German shells. | Frank Slavin, who was at _the | height of his boxing career about a generation ago, when the bare knuckle style of fighting was in vogue, has joined a regiment formed in Victoria, B. C. It is composed principally of engineers and frontiers- men, and is known as the Sixtv-Sev- | enth Western Scots, Slavin holds the | rank of Sergeant. Two prominent international auto- mobile drivers are now engaged in the war. Rene Thomas, a Derby track, and | Jean Porporato, who finished among | the leaders in the 500-mile race at | Maywood last June. The famous Victoria hockey seven, champions of the Ontario Flockey As- sociation, have disbanded since almost every member of the team has enlist- ! ed for service. Jack Gooch, Captain is now a Lieutenant in a Canadian Field Battery, and is on his way to the front. Hugh Aird, another member of the team, who plaved a | wing, is now on | duty in France, attached to the Royal Naval Flying Corps. George Hackenschmidt, the wrest- ler has enlisted and last reports con- | veyed the news that he was a pris- | oner of war, Eilly O'Hara, a for- mer outfielder of the St. Louis Card- inals and New York Giants, was re- cently granted a commission in the Royal Navy Alr Service. He left the Montreal Club and s now undergoing a course of ! training in England. AMERICUS MAY MEET STECHER. Gus Schoenlein of Baltimore, is better known in wrestling circles as who “Americus,” and Henry Ordeman, the famous catch-as-catch-can grapp- ler of the West, are being considered as possible opponents for champion Joe Stecher in a match in New York the latter part of this month. Stecher beat “Americus” last year with the use of his wonderful s the Baltimorean is anx other trial. ous for an- HEAVIER MARCHING SHOES FOR TROOPS Present Footgear Would Not Test of Campaign Service Says Inspector-General Garlington. ors hold, but | Stand | Y To Which We Take an Oath: Through the germ-embroidered ages You can seize this as a tip— ! | “Better fifty years of smallpox i Than a fortnight with the grip’: Better fifty years in hellfire Where a million devils gloat— Getter fifty vears of trench life Than an ulcerated throat. Great football players are scarce where good ones gather in the pack. Of the great ones in the last few years Neil Snow, Tom Shevlin, Gordon Lrown, Jim Hogan and Stillman have passed on. Which is no great boost for football as a builder of the human | system. | Another Twist, Two years ago at this date, when Britain was able to rush her best | | fighting forces to the ringside, America | maintained the entire output of cham- | pionships. But now that Britain has sent | has prepared to send 4,000,000 of her | best fighting men to the front, when every fighter in her realm is sup- posed to be ‘tied down to a bigger | job, up she bobs with a couple of fighting championships, established by Freddie Welsh and Ted Lewi Dr, Watson may be able to make something from this queer twist, but it rests well out beyond our brief reach. We wonder just how much Messrs. Welsh and Lewis, as fighting Erglishman, will be able to get on their titles back upon British soil when the Red Carnival ends, in the shadow of five million graves? or The Next Lap. We've skidded along and have stalled | and quit; We've bungled the called it Fate; ‘We've made ten errors to each clean hit: old Doc plate; ‘With the goal ahead we have looked behind Or piked along with but half a heart: We've lost thetrack where we charged | in blind— | But—here’s the chance start. job—and have As Time kept cutting the; for another We've got our bumps where it hurt the most As we dug for the Grand Old Alibi: Or we've charged head down ‘through the broken host With never a turn ery; We've floundered boggy stew, Rut old Doc Tempus part, He has slipped us a leaf that is clean | and new, | So—here’s a chance for another start. for an old pal’ through many a has done his making the | wrestling | it Tf the practice of athletes is transferred from to baseball, how many masks will require to disguise Hans Wagner? Or how many ma would Ty Cobb require when his batting and base- running averages began to be printed? vards of maskage Johnny . had de- decision | Also, how many would it take to diszuise | Tivers after some umpire | posited an unfavorable around second base? 1915’s High Mark. What was 1915’s great cporting achievement? Badie Mahan scoring | azainst Yale? Young William Johnston heating Behr, Williams and McLoughlin in ion for the lawn tennis title? | s Willard knocking out Jack | Johnson? | The work of Duffy | worla series? Cornell’s victory over Harvard, individual 29 points Lewis in the Jan. 3.—Heavier reinforced with hob- the foot Washington, marching shoes, for ils are recommended army by his annual port, made public While rerior in design to any previous pat- tern, the report says, the present foot- the test of E. A in re- toda Garlington su- gear would not stand campaign service. Shortage of line officers is a serious menace to the service, the report serts, because of increasing demands upon the line for other duties. A corps of officers for instruction of militia and other duties away from the troops is urged. The inspector general the abandonment of the annual test | ride for officers as having “failed to accomplish any good purpose,” and | that officers over 45 years of age be cxcused from annual obstacle riding. In general the report finds the | regular army well equipped, efficient, | well-fed organization, and has only minor recommendations to male. i BOWLING, Cinbs and Private Parles Accommodated. as- recommends 83 Church Street. 1 Hilding Nelson 172-174 ARCH STREET. Inspector ' | with Barrett missing most of the way? Nor an Taber's record mark for the mile? v They are all worth a vote, but we should say the great individual | chievement was Ty Cobb's leading Toth Jeague t at for the ninth suc- cessive vear while establishing a | record base-running mark just at the time he w upposed to be slowing vp under the ferrific strain of ten campaigns. | | | Onside Kicks, | Tom Stevlin should stand as a great | boost for an extended life on beyond the grave. Tt is impossible:to figure a soul as vivid as his blotted out by as small a thing as death. i The hest preparation for any new year sfart is to get set against the | | bumps. i | If there is any possible chance, the | American league should protect Char- | tey Somers, the Cleveland magnate. | Somers in the old days proved to be | the gamest man bascball has ever known by putting over $500,000 for | the A. L. where he stood to lose the | entire. amount without a chance of | making a cent's profit. It was Char- | ley Somers, above any other one man, who made the American league. Ue[ deserves its fullest protection now. ! By the time Joe Tinker figures out his new Cub combination from the fifty-five athletes he can pick from, | whe PORT LIGHT Grantland Rice Cubland’s place upon the map should he as lofty perch as it was under the banner of Chance. Tinker has the stuff at hand to mould a copy than anything in James reports in Stallings. sight unless Bill first class shape to the In lifting Willard-Fulton grapple from New Orleans that proud | and the was ancient citadel way of Nineveh a terrible blow suspecting city that prepared for any such death-dealing blow. Suppose you lived in a town vou expected to have a chance to see Willard and Fulton then suppose without warning there is enough tragedy in this without piling any more on. ONE-ARMED HURLER will probably and Tyre, to deal an was in no sense go It but world | Dailey, With Cleveland Club 32 Years Ago, Pitched No-Hit, No-Run Game. more interesting feat Probably no 3 of been recorded in the history game of baseball than that ac- complished by Pitcher Dailey of the Cleveland club, then in the National league, who thirty-two years ago e tablished a record by pitching a no- hit, no-run game against the Phila- delphia team. Some of the pitcher: have placed their names in baseball's hall of fame by their ability to pull through nine innings of baseball without allowing a batter to reach first base. Dailey’s performance appears, on the surface of things, to have no more material value to the average base- ball enthusiast than that of several pennant- | { hghting machine, a ball club that on | paper looks to be a shade better ! un- | fight, and l | jured member would have to be am- | MADE FINE RECORD | other pitchers who have duplicated | his feat. But the fact that Dailey, al- | though a fi pitcher in his | day, was possessed of only one arm | adds to the importance of his accom- | plishment. There YALE LOOKING FOR FOOTBALL COACH Chairman MeCormick Reports El- forts of Special Committee -class few baseball have been pitchers or other and Dailey must neces ed alone as the only cher in the history attain such heights those attend the winner of a no-hit, game. Lee Meadows, the St. ai pitcher, is considered somewhat the light of a fri k because of fact his eyes are weak and nec tate his wearing glasses on the base- ball field, but such a handicap cannot just be compared with that of the oll the Cleveland pitcher. e to report the progre It is'a fact, although it is not gen- | the committee has made. He received erally known, that Jimmy Archer, the ' cordial inces that the university famous Chicago Cub catcher, s a bodies the efforts weak arm, and it is his right the consists of This member of Archer’s anatomy Cormick, Thorne, and fully an inch shorter than his left | Kilpatrick arm and it is badly scarred. When | McCormick he was about 19 years of age Archer, | report of the committee then an immigrant from Dublin, wus | coach whom they will recommend ) working in a cocoperage shop in Tor- | not immediately at hand, although onto, While discharging his duties ons | they realize that winter practice must day Jimmie slipped and fell so that begin soon. He stated that efforts his right arm was plunged into a vai failed to secure Dr. Al Sharpe, of boiling sap. .. |director of athletics at Cornell. This The skin and quite a part of the | feature of the report is a keen disap- flesh were torn away when the cloth- | pointment at Yale, and a prominent ing was removed, .and for weeks |university official said last night that Archer was in a hospital, where it | Sharpe was just the man needed to was thought for a time that the in- | establish a definite and permanent de- partment of athletics e, effi- ciently organized like the Departments of Latin, Biology, or Mathmatics At the conference between McCor- mick and the ty officials it was pointed out the committee | of three, who are recommending a new head coach, will retain their ganization till football is placed a well-organized basis at Yale. A plan which is likely to be an- nounced shortly is the addition of two more members to the committee in charge of the reorganization of Yal football. It was understood, when the committee of three was named re cently, that they might add to their number if they desired, and it wull be a committee of five before long, if present plans are carried out. one-arme player rily be plac one-armed of baseball which | no-run | | | | 1| g = Loouis Cardin- : in | New Haven Jan the | McCormick, Chairman st- | special committee in charge mending a new football left here after a visit discuss tuation with the university offi nce” the Yale of recoin- coach, ha Ve to and on assu heartily support committee, which Brinck Mc- John h rm, too. that the to the made it clear as have at putated. However, the surgeons man- aged to save the arm, but Archer still | es the scars. BASKETBALL AT Y. M. C. Junior League to Start Saturday Aftt- on’ ernoon—Association League Opening Basketball League will M. C. A. Saturday aft- o'cloc The Swedish Mark’'s the Church The Junior start at the Y. at 2 Lutherans Baptists will play and the South will dists. The Y. M. C. A. Basketball League will meet tonight to complete ar- rangements for the opening Saturday night. The league will include the following team, the High School alumni, Pirates, West Ends, Pioneers and Viking A. C. Games will be played each Saturday night. ernoon will play St. the Center play the Metho- ) MATCHED. Regiment Ath WELSH AND DU The Seventy-first letic Association will open its boxing on on the night of Jan. 18 with Freddie Welsh, the lightweight cham- pion of the world, and Johnny Dun- ” makings”. The “Clubby” Smoke —“Bull” Durham You start something lively when you produce “Bull” Durham in a crowd of live-wires and start “rolling your own’’. mellow-sweet fragrance of “Bull” makes everyone reach for “the A hand-rolled “Bull” Durham cigarette brims over with zest and snap and the sparkle of sprightly spirits. ‘BULL DURHAM SMOKING TOBACCO Made of rich, ripe Virginia-North Carolina leaf, “Bull” Durham is the mildest, NV TR T That fresh, GENUINE most enjoyable tobacco in the world. 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