New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1916, Page 12

NEW, BRITAIN DAI ) LY HERALD, Barney Dreyfus Gives Information Regarding Last Year’s Poor Financial Results--Gwinner is Dick- ering for the Purchase of Indians--Stoddard Will Have to Be Shown by Both Sides INNER ANXIOUS T0BUY INDIANS ner Fed Owner Hurries to New York o See Gilmore tsburgh, Pa., Jan. Bwinner, president of al league team, call from Jam in es a train ‘for 'New k' yesterday. —BEdward the local answer to a M. Gilmore York at 1 From one of the ers of the Rebels it was learned that Gwinner is to meet his per, C. M. Comstock, and Harry in New York and with Presi- Gilmore the purchase pland Indians will be d of the scussed. er the conference with Gilmore, ner and Comstock he will accom- Gwinner and.Comstock to Cleve- this evening, where negotiations ecuring control of the Cleveland will be lers’ committee take: n whi the con- up with ¢h now the club because of a $350,000 e. pay, left jmstock, who was . in for Cleveland ing and was’ in ‘that city esday afternoon. Ward interests, Comstock is said pve arranged with a well known pland financier to Pittsburgh Tuesday until Representing accept the [dency of the Indians in the event nner and himself securing con- pf the club. [fore leaving this city Gwinner ad- d ' that he will r of last year i Rebel Oake Federal team, has been since pments.” Monday for hold ntact for eventual- ma; “awaiting his club nager of the in this de- EGE ATHLETIC NOTE I Hollenback, who was a candi- coach of the Pennsylvania all team, has been chosen to in- t the Washington and Jefferson n, a place made vacant when [Folwell left- Wasaington and Jef- to go to Penn as football men- Folwell has not selected his as- t coaches, but it is said in Phil- phia that he favors the retention . Buck Wharton as coach of the pen, and wants Harold Gaston, a . graduate, to take charge of the There on, team. i By Dick last a possibility vear's field ,, may be selected to handle the fieia men. ected in place of Dickson, imored about the that the former coach Should some one else it campus at may be En as graduate manager of ath- thus E manager. tant University of Brown's best pn’s ago, has sent that n is 'n aced this season.” the referee of th pn State game at 1, said that filling the by Robeson Lea Perot, the re- coach Sprackling eleven, pl word “Washington State College the strongest F P he position left of the who was ayers a few from the team Brown Walter Ecker- sh- on Brown-Wa Pasadena the later eleven was as strong hs Cornell's which is { as the champlonship team of the try. though athletics at University of onsin are were recently ittee, there i g at’the Badge: = in a chaotic condition, | investigated a movement fison to renew intercollegiate crew | by a at College, but the faculty‘opposed to the sport not probable that much will be mplished for a long time. Coach Vail “and Commodore Jamieson ‘crew have b to Chicago, e an h, een hold a Western Northwestern, | and one or more other col-| ree of Harvard” have come out f for working on regatta Min- ootball boxing, play- and lexpected to compete in the Crim- late win tournament , and end, ht clgss, both. tackles, = are in enter and Parson the month. the light- and Bige- expected to jpete in ‘the heavyweight class, F ” Iniv y | fshington ‘and Lee University of | nia has made futile attempts to fon the football schedules of Har- Yale and Cornell, Washing- and Lee is big and strong on the iron, kn early game with the ‘“generals theérefore they goo hard, ake them on. hicago Nelson Colorado e ve hing fien, who was is to be or S Jetball : k games jes. in an De Bar: capt: thharles and University -letter athletes in the last two or h ), a and these colleges regard- declined as had two orgren, nd now Paul Des duated last June ssistant coach to Football, | d the field events in 1\\!‘: J Cornell’s it ¥ Di- baseball, irdien’s football the Fall was st of honor at a luncheon given by of Cornell, Western duates tmouth, Ya Reserve 1le Princeton, Kenyon Case at Cleveland on Monday. Kketball team played The showing is re- factory, seven games istmas recess 'ded a: 4 e demonstration: ell Garfield ppany the team fakened it iwe-has~lised the P for trying a lal pstitutes, and whi leup of Weiner was and his considerably. u pre rge Te and four of the won during for the team of promise, nable to aec- absence Coach liminary sea- number of the veteran Olsen for- | Hrunter is work | several | have graduated. league sea Fifty-five Years Old But Still Runs Strong | New York, Jan. 7—Owen S. Weeks, the sturdy fifty-five year old long distance runner of this city, is out with a challenge to run any man in this section from ten up to twent- miles. He says age does not make any difference to him, but would pre- fer one near his own. Weeks ha wards: Garfield, center, and Taft and Kinney, guards, will be maintained for the present, Haughton and Mal- lon, as forwards; Baker and Clark, centers, and Conway and Brush, guards, are all possibilities for regu- lar positicns. Baker, at center, is a genuine find. The five is regarded as strongsr at the present stage of the season than was last year’s, which won the intercollegiate championship. Wesleyan athletes have resumed practice following the holidays, and basketball is expected to be the chief activity for some time. The Middle- town school will not have nearly so strong a team last season, as several of last v squad are in- gible, and others cannot come out because of college work. Coach ng with the relay men, handicapped by Swimming is popu- is probable represented and finds himself lack of veterans. jar at Wesleyan, and it that the college may be by a hockey team. The Rutgers management is not going to take any chances on having a good football team spoiling for sames, such as was the case last fall, The management is busy beoking games for next season. The latest contribution to the schedule is a game with West Virginia arranged for November 11 at New Brunswick. Among the innovations already put on the Rutgers football schedule game between Foster Sanford’ cohorts and the Brown University eleven. These institutions have never met on the gridiron. A contest with Holy Cross to be played in this city is also talked about. John A. Stroud, graduate manager of the University of California, is on his way East for the purpose of en- football coach for the Uni- It is said that a number of Billy Lush will coach the baseball team of Fordham University next spring. It is expected that Dick Kudolph, a former Maroon student and now a member of the Boston will assist in the early train- of the candidates. Practice will the first week in February. members of last year's team start Many prominent athletes have sent in their entries for the annual indoor games of Brooklyn college, which will be held in the Fourteenth Regi- ment armory on January 15. The five-mile A. A. U. event will be one of the features of the program. Coincident with the opening of the n tonight, when Dart- Columbia, Coach Harry of the Columbia basketball reduced the squad to four- The following have been Captain Dwyer, Kornsand, Burghard, Laird, Wilbur, Latour, Roberts, Littauer, mouth pl A. Fisher team has teen man. retained: Calder, Healey, e been running a number of years, but, with wine, he seems to improve with age, and some experts predict he will break records for time and dis- tance by the time he is sixty. It no one accepts his challenge Weeks says he will compete in every long distance race held in this section. Haaren, Newman, Baxter, and Leon- ard. Ed Burghard, center, has re- sumed practice after two weeks' ill- ness. Kornsand, a-veteran, will play left forward, and Haaren and Laird will be sent in at the guards. Manager W. P. Preiffer of the Columbia track squad has entered the team in three indoor meets to be held in the next two months. The schedule has not been definitely announced, and there may be one or more events added to the list, including meets held by the National Guard regiment The season will open February 5 at the Boston A. A. games, when Colum- bia will run a one-mile Telay race at the New York A. games on Feb- ruary 8. The class of '17 won last year by a yard, and will enter pra tically the same team again. The season will close on March 4 with the indoor collegiate meet at Madison | Sauare Garden. Holy Cross baschall management is making an effort to secure “Kit Bransfleld, the old National leaguer, as coach for the coming season. Last year Bransfield umpired in the New ngland league, but is one of the men President Tener of the National ieague has in mind for 1916. University of North Carolina foot- Lall team has some barnstorming cut out for it early in the fall. One of its first games will be played against the Tigers at Princeton on November 7, ana a weel later the team will fill an engagement with the Harvard team in the stadium at Cambridge. The team hopes that it will be able to Temain in the North between the matches. The late Tom Shevlin rushed back to New York on November 20 last, and immediately after the close of the Harvard-Yale football game. That he @id not take the defeat to heart so much as many would think indi- cated by the following story, which is vouched for as authenti On a train a Princeton man and an old friend of Tom’s, sald to him: “Why is it that your team could beat Princeton and then fall down so hard against Har- vard?” And Shevlin replied: “That’s ecasy. TIt's impossible to make two lemonades out of one lemon.’ Massachusetts Agricultural college | has scheduled a difficult football pro- | gram for next se: n. Games have | been contracted with Connecticut Agricultural college, Dartmouth, Har- | vard, Worcester Tech., Tufts, Wil- liams, Cornell, and Springfield Y. M. C. A. college. A novice wrestling tournament is to be held at Columbia University next Tuesday and Wednesday, and open to all students who have never won in a wrestling competition. Captain Pas- carella of the 'Varsity team is the only grappler barred from the tournament. “the | John's college tomorro | ing a motorcy BOWLING RESULTS. and ut League Hold Sway at Aetna Alleys. Factory The following,is the results in last .evening’s bowling games at the Aetna Alleys STANLEY TOOL Ice Pick LEAG Stotts Campbell Barnett 85 88 85 88 79 T2 91 Peterson Platt o O. Anderson . Young 30 Volz Smith Nelson Sandstron 70 66 87 87 320 305 Add Jobs. 67 76 T4 19 296 308 NUT LEAGUE. Peanuts. TRoache i Jones Connor MecBriarty 71 Rittner Kraus Puppel Stagis Peplau 69 109 i 81 95 131 Butternuts. 89 79 84 70 80 Wright . A. Rittn J Jurgen Berry 3. Jurgen NER CHUCK MATCH. Office. 84 K1} W Thornton Hausman 396—1213 Tool Makers. 87 88 78 76 89 Gustafson Hubbard Johnson Kahmns Bowers Ramblers of Middletown Fall Victims to Fast Berlin —The Ramblers were defeated by the Worthingtons in the T B. hall by a score of 25 to 17. The Middletown boys put up a hard fight, making the game fast and in- teresting all the wa Nourse starred for the Worthingtons, caging the ball four times, and Murphy starred for tamblers with a total of three. The lineup: ‘Worthingtons Bunce-Lofgren Left Forward Five. Berlin, Jan. 7 Ramblers Murphy Gibney £ Griffin Right Forward Nourse-Rawlings Center McCabe McKeon Lo e Bride Left Guard Burdick-Nourse .... 3 Right Guard ore, Worthingtons 17; baskets from floor, Nourse 4, Bunce 3, Gibne Lofgren 2, Mc= Keon 1, Burdick 1, Murphy 3, Griffin 2, McCabe 2, Bride 1; goals from foul Bunce 1, Duff 1; referee Kid- Ramblers: line, | Went | Speaking of curves, s Love Sonnets of a Son of Swat. T. Frisk it from me, this Single League’s a shine; heart got today— Tor when we met the Dope says right away: She bats .400 'a draft her would sign And help me divvy up a season’s pay. I pegged this at her, but my grand- stand play | My batted from the box on the Pippin ne.' now if I thought she i wild. Saye she: league mutt for mine.” No bush Say, she’s the Big League Kid a skate, For every time I come up, Zip that— She shoots those lamps of hers the plate, i And T strike out like Casey on a bat, I'or when she curves one over from those ey | “Three strikes and out” is just about ' my size. or I'm —like across | it | , on the level, Bo, She’d make big Shore look dinky-dink Alexander's kink, For she’s all curve from feet below: curves and in a row, Compared to hers, Ed Plank's are on | the blink. If Hughey Jennings sees her 1 don't think Young Dauss next year will chance to show, like a And straight, without a ' neck four Qut- in-shoots—all there get a I've played some games that T tried hard to win, Dut this is my World's Series Cham- pionship, And if T lose, back to the Class D bin For your punk uncle—that's my one best tip. Tonight I'll freeze By showing her just how to work the Squeeze. ] call and risk a record TI1. lemon-leaguer Say, I'm the slump; In Love's ball where T sit: T couldn’'t foul a hit, tie the game up with thump; I had a chance to make good on the jump, But when T trieid mitt, 1 dropped it first, and then I fumbled it Piaying the game headed chump. on a game the bench is one, much less make or a timely to grab her little like some bone- And when at last T hit tried To work the Squeeze, she coached me to my place— “@Get back!” she warbled. 1 bonehead, slide! Don’t take too long a your base: Just play it safe, you mutt—first time at bat Is not the place to spring. a play like that.” my form and Slide, you | lead from off IV. 0O, Love, indeed you game; are a dopeless ey: umpire, Elton. ARE PUFFED. Athletics ManagCr Makes Some Tart Remarks Concerning Moran’s Team. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. —“The Phillies are poor sports.. We are ab--. solutely through with them, and there will be no more interleague game with them so long as I am connected | with the Athletics.”” This statement | was made erday by the usually quiet and taciturn Connie Mack, | leader of the former world’s cham- pion Athletics. Mack declared that Pat Moran's National league cham- | pions were puffed up over winning th pennant and do not want a spring series with the White Flephants, as a defeat might interfere with open- ing their season in a blaze of glory. “When the Athletics were winning championships the Phillies were anx- ious for the city series,” Mack sad, ! “as then they had all to gain and nothing to lose by winning from the champion PHILLIE! BAKER QUITS 8 Homer Baker, international half- mile champion, announced yesterday that he would no longer compete for the New York Athletic club. He will run unattached in the games of St. This will Le Baker’s first indoor appearance | nce he got: water on the knee follow- cle accident at Travers Island last spring. . X AL PITCHER “KING” COLE DEAD. Bay City, Mich., Jan. 7.—Leonard | J. (“King") Cole, pitcher on the New York American League baseball team and formerly with the Chicago Na- tional League club, died at his home here yesterday. He had bheen seri- ously ill for seevral weeks. i You i We'd have with Lardlord on the Rival !Yours for a steady joh . Who knows The gong rings out—the umpire yells, “Play ball!”— rush out gavly till you hear Her call: “Back up—back up—your whip is lame”— What batting average vour name In Dun’s or Bradstreet’s little Guide to AN? i can't tag Love wall— Minus the gate receipts—not with this dame.” salary stands against You inside a cottage “Nix, not for mine,” chance to win says she. “Fine Team, With Grocer, Butcher fielding up our tin And smashing voung dream! liners into TLove's nd no fatigue Before 1 sign with any Fireside League.” V. Much like the boob with well in sight Who sprints on his stride, Bringing the tieing run with bulging pride, As hope once more soars upward like a kite— home plate in like T. Cobb at he’s got it beat all right, all right, While thousands clamor: “Hit the dirt there—slide!"— When over all the wide The Umpire shriek in wild delight. tumult far and “You're Ou So I got mine in true OLoughlin style: Just when T thought the game would be a tie— 1 Jrantlend Rice Her out { old man yelled, ‘“You're about a mile!” waved me back with his eye. “T'm Willlam Klem in this here park,’ ays he, So don't me.” And murder you slip no Evers stuff to 2 S0 moves Life’s game may go; every base and waits, A delegate, shipped earthward by Fates, Who have below; rather vell: “You're get more dough, And though we know eyes ain't mates, What doo debates When what he s show ? wherever we At some umpire stands the it in for players He'd out!” than the robber's ¥s is all the records T've jumped the Love League the dream went vain For love turns bush when cornered In some den; though I the Jane, bally Peace again; Tarewell to easy larks— We'll have to parks. now— And own a fancy towards The mags have yanked back kale and old time pay admission to their MINOR LEAGUES SEEKING STAR “Bushers” on Outlook For a Number of Cast Off Big Leaguers—Cubs Rclease Weiss. Chicago, man, Weegh- Chicago club, returned vesterday and Jan. -Charles purchaser of the tional L.eague Baseball home from Cincinnati immediately went with Manager Joseph Tinker. “Until we can decide on our ers and see what we can acquire in exchange we will have no list of names to give out,” Mr. Weeghman said. ‘“We will have a lot of players to dispose of Dbefore long. The minor leagues are eager for men, de- siring to revive interest by getting hold of stars.” The first player to be formally re- leased because of the purchase of the Chicago Nationals by Mr. Weeghman was Joseph Weiss, who played first base several times last season for the Chicago Federals. Weiss was today transferred to the Minneapolis Amer- ican Association club. Weeghman and Tinker remained in conference much of the day deciding what players should be placed on the waiver list. It was announced that the final meeting of the Federal League would be held Jan. 12 at New York, and thar the schedule meeting of the National League will be held in the same city Jan. 14, s Na- into conference play- to be taken up at the meeting of the IFederal League last season will have the decision to withdraw the suit against organized baseball, which has been pending for a year before Judge K. M. Landis in the United States District here. According to Mr. Weeghman, every owner who has connected with the Federal Leageu las sent giving counsel the right to with- draw the case ceedings can be dismissed. Clarence Rowland, manager of the Chicago American League team, terday discussed the needs of team with President Comiskey, after the conference said that would make no bids for League playe: B. B. Johnson, American League, from Cincinnati He said fairs of the Cleveland club American T.eague were and that he knew of purchaser. ves- the and he any of the vesterday the of President returned TO PLAY IN HARTFORD The All-New Britains, composed the select among the basket t in this city, will Journey to Hartford next Monday evening where they will stack up agaiast the Delphis of that place, in the Nortiiwes hool Gym- nasium, the following players - will constitute the locals’ lincup: W. Kopf, Larson, Hultgren, Anderson, Walthers and Ellison. Yump Johnson well- known in this city for, his baske {ossing prowess, is & member of the Delphis. ssers TERS GAME 6—F CHANCE RE-F Los Angeles, C: Jan, Chance, former manager of the Chica- go ational League team and New York Americans, will mana Los Angeles Pacific coast team this year, it w announct night by John F. Powers, of the local club e the legue d las president as Additional Sporting News on Page 14. Chance will purchase a one-third interest in the club, Powers stated. in | here | that get you in your bum | One of the most important matters | the ! | | | | DREYFUS HOPEFUL OF 1916 SEASON Pirate Manager Says Last Season Was Precarious New Haven, Conn., y Dreyfus, owner of National league club, Yale Daily News, past season was the National looks forward Jan. 7—Bar- the Pittsburgh writing in The that the precarious one for league, but he nox to a revival of interest in baseball because of the settlement of the war conditions brought on by the Federal league. Nearly every club in organized baseball, he says;, wns obliged to increase its salary list ow- ing to the discontent of players, and in the case of the Pittsburgh club alone this amounted to $44,000 in ex- cess of the payment in normal time: Some of the clubs had a salary list The Federal league, he $3,000,000 away from and American leagues justment due to peace, Dreyfus predicts a reduction of the high salaries and at the same tima better play for the public. The good players in the Federal league, he thinks, should be distributed that the four second division clubs of the National league would be strengthen- ed, thus bringing about another close race, which he =ay the thing that saved the National last year. Dreyfus touches upon of Summer basel and says that it is a good thing. average college player, according his view, has to be developed befo he cdn become proficient bhig league man and summer eball helps in this regeneration more than any other feature. BURKF admits a s took the National In the ad so s only league the quest 11 for the collegia 10 a b TT IS THROUGH. Worcester, Jan. 7.—Progress was made in straightening out the affairs of the Worcester baseball club yes- terday. Paul McHale is now in charge of the affairs of the club and it will be up to him to make the proper moves that will lead to a final settlement that now seems fair- ly well assured. Jesse Burkett and John J. O'Donnell, the other two stockholders of the club, signed over their shares to McHale and the lat- ter is to arrange for the wiping out of the $6,700 debt of the club and, the ultimate sale Jess Burkett draws a check for $500 and steps out of the club and later, when the is arranged, he will draw his share, of the net sale proceeds Burkett® owns 43 shares, O'Donnell and McHale 15 MAYOR STODDARD IS FROM MISSOURI sale 4 New Haven Sportsman Wants to Be, Shown Facts Before Falling In Line. New Haven, ball those them ““The indefinite to pledge go into it," last night4 ba for Jan. 7. situation is 1 too whom represent present to said Ez Bronson Bronson, who is a city alderman, one of thé owners of the Hotel Taft and personal representative of the capitz E Louis E. Stoddard, declined discuss the situation detail. From other sources it learned that Maj. Stoddard heads a which stands ready to Haven franchise as soon body with to offer along. . Stoddard and the other members of the com- to in was syndicate the New “some-y take as it Bronson season will have | ler or Jim ( to attach his name to a letter of con- | thing tangible yet to offer | eral | Federal | | nue, af- | bringing the | minutes unchanged, | has no financial no prospective | 18 | town pany do not believe either Jack Zel- rkin has much of any- In other words, the row must be before the legal pro- | fought out before the Stoddard sup- be enlisted. The situation Haven has not changed. Mrs M ameron, widow of the® of the New Haven nine for sev- asons till his death controls the Savin Rock grounds No available and propo- sition to buy land and erect buildings and them out Dixwell the Winchester factories grounds to within 10 the center of the city backers. This plan crowd, repS port in New George can owne f s last others are the stands on ave- ond the from be advocated resenting the If Zeller dard eight-club Stoddard grounds out Dixwell the Savin Rock Cameron. If plete new stands be built. The Lighthouse minutes from by Zeller's Eastern could assur in association Maj first Stod- Maj such as to buy Mrs conf- membership league, would a however build wenue grounds from bought immediately s as soon these must Point grounds are the city and will never, because of their distance, prove profitable, although they can be used for Sunday games. An ad- vantage of the Dixwell avenue grounds would be that they would bay over the New Haven city line in the of Hamden and would there- also be available.Sundays, Aetna Bowling Alleys 10 High Grade Alleys. New Patrons Welcome. Give us a visit. 9@ 83 Church Street. 35 fore )