New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1916, Page 8

NEW, WRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1916. onference Will Meet Again Tomorrow--Reports Say Sinclair on Way East to Buy Giants--Y. M. C. A. | ° Basketball League Plans Completed--Zeller Gets Option on Hampden Park | SINCLAIR HURRYING EAST TO BUY GIANTS (F CONFERENCE EETS TONORROW jal Commission Announces te for Clearing Up Details | | So says Chicago Report—Sces Ball | and Hedges in St. Louis. Chicago, Jan. 4—It was learned here yesterday that Harry Sinclair, the Oklahoma capitalist, is making ¢ : : .., | New York, with the. intention of .dis+ innati, . Ohio, Jan. &—The ' o550 'he purchase of the New York ttee appointed at the recent National league club. g of the baseball peace confer- | Charles Weeghman, while denying ave to settle the dispute be- knowledge of the status of the nego- the Federal and International | tiations, said he knew Sinclair would s will meet here next Wednes- | be ple noon. This decision was and said that in a 3 at o meeting of the members | Versation with him National commission here yes- Louls, Sinclair said | way to New York. telephone con- vesterday at St. he was on his il committee is composed of Pres- James A. Gilmore of the. Fed- ague, President Edward Barrow International league, a repre- ve of the Baltimore Federal club, a represe) tative of the Hederal league club, and the | of the National Baseball ssion he meeting here yesterday vari- St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 4—Hary Sin- clair arrived here yesterday en route to New York. About the same time E. J. McDiarmid, a stockholder in from his home, Sinclair, Robert Lee Hedges, St Louis Americans, began a con- ference, at which it was expected the atters that bave to do with the | geal for the sale of the team to Ball stment of baschall affairs to |and his Federal league associates m with the reeent treaty of |would be completed. were discussed informally and Ball, about a week ago, paid $30,- han the annourcement that the | 000 as carnest money in the deal for Ind place of the committee meet- | the Browns. Sinclair’s participation d been fixed, no news of a |in yesterday's conference gave e character came {rom the |tc the rumor that he would have a he room. | financial interest in the St. Louls known semi-officially, however, | club. he waiver question, r as erns the Federal league players, | hken up, thoroughly gone into, en laid over to be decided fi- v the joint commi*tee on Wed- Cincinnatl. insc S s————— YALE COACH STORY A RUMOR. Dr. H. L. Willilams Says No Agree- ment Has Been Reached. g Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 4—Dr. H. B also known that there are aly, wijlliams, University of Minnesota r of small matters that will be [ foothall coach, returned to Minneapol-~ d at the meeting of the Jjoint | s yesterday after two weeks' visit m littee other than *he walver ques- | the east. When questioned relative [nd the International league dis- | to a report that the Yale committee appointed to select a coach for 1916 had decided to name him for the work he said he believed the report was pre- mature, as no agreement had been reached. “It is true,” he said, “that the Yale committee requested me to meet it in New York on Dec. 21 and talk over the situation. This was done. I have not met with the committee since. At this time it is uncertain that any prop- osition will be made to me, and also equally uncertain whether if made it would be such as I could accept.’ Rt the matters arc was not al- to be divulged, tut one man n baseball circles sald: ere are a number of details that conflict when peace is declared en the two bodies. None of | details are of importance other hat they must be. attended to. kvo big questions to come up. of | , will be that of the dispute of | pderal and National leagues and aiver question. Tn so far as the | r is concerned I can say very but in regard to the waiver on I believe this will be decided after the situation is explained ! of those concerned.” pther meetng of the - National ission will be held tcmorrow and probable that the officers for the ill be chosen ar 1).at time. grams were sent out last night | hrry F. Sinclair and Thomas | hgton, president of the American | ation, requesting t!era to be in nati on Wednesday. bers of the Naticna' commission ssed themselves as being disap- when informed that President pre could not be' present at the b committee meeting, but said, it | not interfere with the meeting | when called. RAY COLLINS RETIRES. Red Sox Hurler Faces Cut in Salary He Likes Farming. Burlington, Vt., Jan. 4—Probably prompted by the fact that he s confronted with a big cut in salary, Ray Collins, pitcher of the Red Sox, | announced his retirement from base- ball. No explanation is made by Collins of his present frame of mind, but it is said the southpaw 1s discouraged over his failure to show old-time form with the Red Sox last year. He his career and was batted hard gen- erally when he was sent into the hill. At present Collins is devoting all his time to farming. 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McCARTHY. hurried trip direct from St. Louls to | | American League. sed to take over the Giants, | the St. Louis Americans, arrived here | | McDiarmid, Phil Ball and | president of the | | football { cinnati alumni_team, against the uni- rise | | try. suffered the most disastrous season in | TERSE SPORTING NOTES. The St. Louls Feds paid Marsans a big bonus and $10,000 salary for making 22 base hits, an average of about $500 per hit; Baltimore paid | Chiet Bender $6,666 for winning four ball games, an average cost of $1,666 per game, and the Braves paid Bill James $7,000 for spending the sum- | mer in the hospital. And yet Con- | nie Mack got McInnes, Collins, Barry | and Baker at a total cost of $750 and | railroad ticekts. “Doc’ Johnston, sold by Cleveland to Pittsburgh last winter, never was a wonder with the bludgeon in But in the Na- tional he slapped Grover Cleveland offerings around the lot for an aver- age of .409. Otis Clymer and Dave Altizer have announced their retirement baseball to engage in business. Alti- zer played with Harrisburg, Wash- ington, Cleveland and Minneapolis as shortstop. Clymer played with ‘Washington, the Chicago Minneapolis as outfielder. Pittsburgh, Cubs and Harry Buchanan, home in Newport, Ky., recently. of spinal meningitis, caused by being kicked in the head while playing with the University of Cin- 24, died at his versity squad last fall. the tallest football player in the coun- His last name is Turner, and of course, he is called “Babe.” Turner measured 6 feet 7 inches in i his stockings and weighs 238 pounds. He is 19 years of age. Ed Roush, formerly a member of the Indianapolis (Federal League) ball team and last season a star with the Newark team of the Federals, is Just now wondering where he is at in organized baseball. When the peace agreement was signed Roush had not signed a con- tract, and is thus probably left a free agent. He jumped to the ¥ederals from the Wichita team of the Western League, to which he was farmed by the Chicago White Sox. Roush is wanted by the New York Nationals. He is one of the best out- fielders developed by the Feds. Garland (Jake) Stahl, former man- ager of the Boston and Washington clubs of the American League, will purchase the Cleveland Americans, it was reported, if satisfactory financial terms can be arranged. Robert McRoy, former secretary of the American League, and at one time part owner of the Boston Amer- the venture, it was said. Vincent Campbell has retired from baseball, according to the statement of friends. He drew down some- thing like $7,000 from the Newark stick to his automobile business here. Jim Rice, provided he can secure a release from Columbia, is likely to be the next rowing coach at Cornell, according to a report in Harvard rowing circles, and it is further stated that Rice would like to succeed oarsmen report at Ithaca than at Co- lumbia. For a time conditions were thought favorable for Courtney to resume coaching by spring, but the injury to his head, received prior to the Pough- keepsie regatta last June, is still trou- bling him. He is 67 years old, and had intended to give up coaching at the close of next season. Rice has a long-term contract at Columbia, and one which he may find hard to break should he decide to do so. Nine brothers make up a ball team | in Bode, Towa. The family name is | Sorlein. The oldest member of the team'is 34; the youngest 15. Three of the boys are cashiers of | banks; another is president of a bank. | Three are ‘farmers and two others are students. Tootball in the East has degener- ]atod into a combination of basketball | and rugby, if the Syracuse eleven is a | sample of top-notch Iastern football, wrote Dr. T. W. Ross to the Portland Oregonian after seeing Syracuse beat the Oregon Aggies, 28-0. Thi is | what Dr. Ross has to say “The Oregon Aggies lacked in every department of the game—poor tack- ling, poor defense and no interfer- ence. “The Syracuse team is a wonder- fully coached ordinary team; in fact, the best coached offensive bunch ever seen here, and right there “The Syracuse defense was ! to test just enouzh to show | Washington State Un | gon or Dobie’s Univers | ington could beat them at touchdowns. me that y of Ore- ty of Wash- least two ATHLETES FAIL TO FILE BRIEF. 1 | Kiviat and Smith Debarment Caso Now Considered Lost. 4—The long- Abel Kiviat and virtually closed New York, Jan. standing case against Harry J. Smith v yesterday when counsel for the ath- letes failed to present their br to the special committee of the N tional Amateur Athletic union, which several weeks ago heard the ath- letes’ appeal from the decision of the Metropolitan association declar- ing them ineligible for further com- petition in amateur sports. The ath- letes were found guilty of demanding excessive expense money to compete in a set of games in Troy, N. Y., last September. a- the | from | Arkansas University claims to have | icans, will be associated with Stahl in | Feds last season, but has decided to | Courtney, as a much larger squad of | The Real Tom Shevlin, ! Since Tom Shevlin had such a vivid soul and pos d such a vital spark stories of his career are sure to ca | unending interest. Here are a few ir side lights upon the late Yale hero, given to us by one who went to Hill school with him and played on his 1905 Yale team. These silelights fur- nish authentic data as to what Tom | Shevlin really was: “Tom gave all credit for his afh- Jetic ability to Mike Sweeney, of the Hill school, and Mike Murphy, of Yale. His last desire for Yale ath- letics was to bring Sweeney to Yale | and have him installed, not as a direct coach of any team, but more as a ‘general athletic director, connected with the faculty, to advise and help in all branches. He regarded Sweeney, as he said at the banquet of the 1905 | team at Cambridge, as ‘the world's preatest brain on all forms of ath letics.’ | High Brow Staggercd. | “At one time Tom tried to get Mike | Murphy taken on the Yale faculty, hut was informed when he nmmzlred’ before that body to press Murr“y’s cause that there would probably be | some opposition to him. Tom chose | to put his own interpretation on the | | | | remark, and with a grin answered that he was sure he could overcome Murphy's objections at having to serve on a faculty which had so many narrow-minded men on it, which | answer staggered some of the high- brows severely. “Tom was always a very high stand student indeed and never flunked an examination. T don't believe he ever | took a drink in his life. | “Many remarks were attributed, un- | ! fortunately, to Tom which he never made; the worst, perhaps, of these “vas that he was supposed to have sald in his freshman year: ‘Look at me now and think what I'll be when I'm a senior.” The public never knew | the best side of his nature and char- | acter. Incidentally, there are several men, not athletes, either, who owe their college education to Tom, and i he was always a friend to those in | trouble. “He was a wonderfully fast skater, !a fine baseball player and a remark- able boxer, but concentrated on foot- hall and hammer-throwing at college. ccnfidence served two purposes—i made him greater, just as it makes Ty Cobb, and it made every man on his team carry the same spirit: ‘that the other fellow is awful good, but ou are the best in the world. An Invulnerable End. “The scrub-team in 1905 was the best Yale ever had, for in those days 'the subs were used on it, as well as ineligibles and star freshmen, yet it was a red letter day when we gained i two yards around his end in practice, &nd we lost more ground by far in’ | 1ying him than we ever gained, de- spite aur plotting and planning. “He played against his tackle, not | out, and I have seen him leave his position entirely after a signal was BOWLI RESULT! Vulcan As Usual Easy Picking—Lan- ders Win The following is games in the Factor: last evening on the Landers No. i. Johnson . 95 90 Jurgen . wen 103 104 Two Games. the result of Bowling league Aetna Alleys: 36 . Yale of more than thirty yards when | i filled.” ‘“His tremendous self-assurance and | T 82 91 Duke o ale | Gaudette | Middleton Wright 85 87 84 106— 190 447 450 46 Russel and Erwin. [ W. Kilduff 81 9 Walker 87 84 Gregor > Ziry 11 Nichols 85 Nyack . 86 McIntyre 100 86 95 418 458 Stanley Works. 89 103 88 17 108 86 89 96 8 101 457 462 463—1 Vulcan. 70 23 96 109 86 76 72 444 441—1315 98— 8 B 10 92— Lantone 285 i Molyneaux Bertini Dickman Morse 82 Gustafson Brayne Warner Haugh Spencer 84 80 86 223 408 435—1287 DOESN'T BAR CHASE, Rowland Comiskey Say May Jumper Hal. Chicago, Jan. 4.—Hal Chase. first baseman, who left the Americans in midseason to Buffalo Federals, will find no bar raised against him by owner Comis- key of the White Sox, who said yes- terday that Manager Rowland was free to sign any player from the Fed- eral league whom he cculd get. Manager Rowland is expected here from his home in Dubugue today to talk over the season’s c: mpaign with | Comisicey. sign the Chicago join the ZELLER GETS OPTION ON HAMPDEN PARK PORT | Former Pittsficld Magnate Announces “War Move”"—Will O’Connor | LIGHT Arantland Rice given and go behind the other guard. Iiespite this unselfish play, I neve saw him outguessed but once; that was when Dil Starr got around him at Cambridge in 1905 for six yar but Tom caught him and threw him over the substitutes’ bench on the side Ines. I have played whole games when his end was never attempted at all. At running back kick-offs from Tullback position he will never have an equal. “He used to say: ‘There are no $0od backs; they all look alike when they are on the ground; if you stop them they are all bad; never let these fast bird bac tarted; shoot them on the ground.” You can count on one hand the runs made against Take Kranchise? Springfield, Mass,, Jan. 4.—John A. Zeller, present league manager of the Eastern baseball association, admit- ted vesterday he red an op- tion on a year's > of Hampden park. And in that connection he also admitted Paddy O’Connor of Windsor Locks, former catcher for the Spring- field club of the old Connecticut league and later with the National American association and al league v ‘being consid- ered” for the Springfield franchise of the Kastern association All this news leaked out pre ably from the Hampden park end, for Mr. Zeller was not yet ready to make any announce- ment of park or coming Springfield franchise-holder. It is interesting that the league manager is satisfied to call the option on the park and its by-plays a ‘“‘war move.” He said last night that the { option did not necessarily mean that | Eastern association haseball would be | played on Hampden park, nor did it | mean that Eastern association would | not be played at League park. He was | not prepared to discuss the case at | length. However, it wa. ted in an evening paper that ‘“Zeller already hz plans in the making for improvemen of no small nature at Hampden park, including the putting of the grand stand in shape, with a new roof, etc., and the installation of additional seating facilities.” William E. Carey, former holder of the Springfield franchise, could not be reached last night, but he Tom played. “Tom sometimes Lut never his head. When the Hill heat Villanova college in 1901 Tom | Vwas actually crying with rage, but played the headiest and by far the best game on the field. Under the most trying conditions he never played Toul or slugged; he was rough enough as it was. Tom as Jailbird. “Once in Philadelphia Tom was ar- rested, I believe for speeding in an auto, in 1902, on the day Hill school opened for the spring term, so he sent a wire to the head-master some- lost his temper, did state | Y.M.C. A LEAGUE READY T0 START Tour Fast Teams fo Compete Every Saturday Evening the opens basketball Final ing league held rooms arrangements the M. C. completed for A at a of were meeting last evening in the association It was decided to have a four club league instead of five, as the Pls ¢ rates found. it impossible to get theiy combination in shape in time to wars rant starting the seasom. The announcement of the makeups of the the teams were given as fole lows: Pioneers, Warner ger; Dave Ellison, C. son, Stevie Dudack, Nutting. West Ends, Lowell ger; Kieswetter, W Stepanian, Sandberg and Hulfgren. Viking A, C., G. Fresen, manager; W. Nelson, C. Miller, A. Abrahamson, T. Bengston, A. Brink, E. Siegrist and A. Peterson. The announcement of the lineup ot the New Britain High school alumni team will be made later in the week and tryouts for the team will be held | Wednesday evening:. | The opening game will be called | Saturday evening at 8:15 o'clock and | will be between the Vikings and the” Alumni teams. At 9 o'clock the secs | ond game between the Pioneers and | the West Ends will sart. | Physical Director Slater will be the official referee. Johnson, Cook, Moody mana- Vic Lars and H. . Pickop, manas Ithers, Jacobson, Saturday night that should Mr. Zeller thing like this: ‘Sorry cannot be with L or anybody else attempt to run BEast- You at opening of school; in jail.’ “Don’t ever let any one say that tnere ever lived or ever will live a better end than Tom: he had them all beaten at everything—weight, speed, strength, instinct, endurance, luck, mental attitude, football knowledge, ability to read the other fellow, ability as a fleld general, level-headedness, spirit, brains and everything else which a man could have. Not only was he the best end but I believe he played his position better than any rean has ever played any position. “He leaves a vacant place in the football world that can never be, a hot issue out of it Mr. Carey further would make the civil courts. Hampden park move that defeat ac- cording to baseball law did not mean fight “invaders” in the courts to pro- tect his local bhaseball investment. 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