New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1916. ap Anson Broke All Records as Cub Manager--All-New Britain Basketball Players Defeat Del- phis; Pittsfieid Blocks Proposed Merger--Factory League Bowlers Get Surprise ON LEADS ALL 5 CUBS MANAGER ap” Adrian Saw 20 Years’ Service at Helm York, Jan. 11.—The change in hip of the Chicago National Baseball club which will be ted on Jan. 20 when Charles W. Men and his associates pay to P. Taft $400,000 balance due half million transaction, marks ch in the history of one of the | E clubs of professional baseball he Chicago club was organized b it has always held a prominent n the professional game. Dur- existence of forty years many ionship pennants have been to its flagpole. Probably no lub in the senior major league en so fortunate financially, as | or the lack of it has never | d the Chicago management. At | es the owners of this organiza- | ave endeavored to secure the | & of great players regardless of | b the roster shows and this has | pne of the strongest factors in | ub’s succes In forty vears | x men have held the majority | n the club, the recent deal hav- pnsferred control into the hands arles W. Weezhman, so that of the team have been few. A. Hulbert and the late Al- palding organized the team Later James A. Hart, pur- a controlling interest from g and held it for fourteen Then, in 1905, came Charles rphy with $125,000 and in out Hart's interest the club into joint possession of Mur- nd Charles P. Taft, Frank o w \de manager in 1906. 5 the ing five years Chicago €A together the greatest team it ad, wi ng four pennants and orld ries. i nce resigned in 1912, but after perience of nearly two seasons he w York Americans the | nian, who was regarded as one | greatest leaders in the national | quit major league baseball and | ed to his orange groves at Glen- | Cal. Johnny Evers succeeded | e in Chicago as manager but | & wrangle with Murphy was to Boston. Then “Hank"” | , the veteran umpire, became ‘'ubs’ pilot, but after a single | p’s handling of the steering was deposed and Roger Bres- was placed in charge, to be fol- L in all probability, by Joe Tink- t season. point of continuous service, how- Captain Adrian C. Anson holds icago record as manager. An- bas apopinted in 1877 and held psition until 1897, during which the club won five pennants. An- last championship victory oc- in 1886 and it was not until twenty years later, that the nt visited Chicago again through lorts of Frank Chance. pon was succeeded as manager | omas E. Burns in 1897 and two later Thomas J. Loftus took up nanagerial reins and held them similar period. The late Frank took the team in hand in 1902 hey finished at the top of the | d division that season. In the following years under Selee’s | gement the Cubs finished, third, d and third in the pennant races hen Chance steped in to bring to the front in 1906. | n 6. Westerners Disappointed. otball fololwers In the middle | are disappointed that the name ! pne of the eleven universities of section appear upon the schedule e Harvard eleven for next season. rently the Crimson favors the rather than the west for the ersity of Virginia and North ina University both play at Cam- Be next autumn. Virginia was | ited 9 to 0 last fall but North lina is a new comer. Amateur Bouts Soon. e leading amateur athletic clubs ew York, Pittsburg and Boston agreed to enter their best boxers round robin tournament, the s to be held in the three cities n)g the latter part of the present th. Pity Poor Yale. ith the ré#lval of boxing at Har- | eastern college sparrers are look- | forward to the formati>n of an | rcollegiate boxing league. The e(‘t_ has been considered at several 8 In the past b never went be- | the discussion stage. The facul- | at the few institutions shere | e competition is permitted, yned upon the plan although the | ng coaches warmly advocated the | position and pointed out that the | ous English universitics, Oxford Cambridge sanctioned an annual ting between the boxers in classes of the two universities and t although knockouts occasionally rred the intervarsity sport was eedingly popular among the stu. | ts and apparently without bad ef- [ 8. best ARK MANAGER GET: eeling, W. Va., Jan. 1 jith, former catcher of the Pitts- gh' Pirates and later Manager of Newark (N. J.y club of the Tntcr- fonal League, yesterday was chosen nager of the Wheeling team of the Jotral League. | Wright Frank Goich A;zxious fo Take on All Candidates he added that about two only were worth while considering. The cham- pion wishes to announce that if any Humboldt, la., Jan. 11—Frank Gotch ,the world’s champion wrestler, is hot under the collar. This uneas- in is caused by the fact that every Tom, Dick and Harry has been gei- ting all kinds of publicity at his ex- pense. Gotch stated recently that he figured that at least 100 challen- ges are hurled at him monthly, and will meet any man-in the world at catch-as-catch-can style, Joe Stecher preferred. Gotch states he is in | work under his belt he would be in | wonderful shape. GAFFNEY ADMITS HE WOULD BUY GIANTS UNIO N MFG. FIVE ! GET A SURPRISE League Leaders Bow to Defeat At Davis Who Also Disposed of Boston Hands of Tailenders—Ianders Braves Holdings, Wauts ‘Wins Three. to Buy. New York, Jan, 11—James E. Gaff- ney and Robert H. Davis, who dis- posed of their holdings in the Bos- ton Braves last week, have joined with Harry F. Sinclair, the Fed leader, in an attempt to obtain control of the Giants. So much was admitted by Mr. Gaffney last night. not been concluded that would trans- fer Mr. Gaffney’s baseball interests from Boston to New York, but in re- ply to a question he said: “I will go in with Mr. Sinclair if the Giants. I think he is a very fine fellow, and one who will al- work for the best interests of seball.” That Mr. Gaffney intended to make this move was news to the officlals of the Giants. For some time Mr. Sinclair has been dickering for the club, but even that is admitted in only a half hearted way by the pres- ident of the Giants. In a statement issued yesterday President Harry N. Hempstead of the Giants said: “From many different quarters comes the statement that the control of the New York Giants is about to pass from present to several differ- ent interests. I would like to state that neither Mr. Gaffney, nor any of his representatives has ever ap- proached me regarding the purchase of the New York club. “It has been a number since Mr. Sinclair has taken ject up with me; therefore, lic may be assured that so know no sale of the Giants ing. “The citizens of New York city have more than appreciated my ef- forts. I have no thought of tired of baseball, as suggested. Fur- thermore, there are no differences between Mr. McGraw and myself.” The Union Manufacturing five re-‘ ceived a surprise last evening at the Aetna Alle; when they encountered the Vulcan lron Works bowlers, who administered to them a defeat in round fashion, taking two out of three games. The winners displayed the best form shown this season, An- derson, Gustafson and Oldershaw contributing some classy bowling. Hoffman of the losers worked hard for his team mates but his efforts were not aided by his teammates. Once more the North & Judd five were forced to bow to the superior prowess of their opponents, thistime it was the Landers No. 2 team that trimmed the Bucklemakers three con- secutive games. Wright of the vic- tors was the star man with 301 for his night’s work. The scores: Union Mfg. 83 173 78 90 96 78 98 107 92 95 447 Vulcan. 87 92 91 89 87 99— 85— 76— 81— 89— 429—1319 255 263 249 286 276 Hogan Gaudette Clark Hoffman Myers 443 95 94 85 85 90 176 275 251 259 Danielson Gustafson ‘Warner Haugh Anderson Oldershaw 89— 76— 85— 124— 301 104— 104 477—1366 of weeks this sub- the pub- far as I is pend- 440 449 Landers No. 1. 79 84 . 76 99 SLITR 101 80 89 83 86 429 North & Johnson Duke 92— 91— 89— 82— 79— 433—1321 255 266 301 251 248 Jurgen Middleton 242 METZGER TO COACH W. & J. 167 e e 263 Former Penn Star Succeeds Folwell 249 ag Football Instr 262 81 | 84 87 71 93 99— 80— 78— 81— Whitely J. Johnson Bauer Osland T. Blanc tor. Washington, Penn., Jan. 11.—Sol Metzger, former star football player | of the U Pennsylvania, | and for two years coach of the West | Virginia University squad, was yes- terday signed to coach the Washing- | ton and Jefferson football team. The announcement, made by R. T Murphy, graduate manager, caused 413—1264 iversity of WISCONSIN FOR BASEBALL. Faculty Vote Shows 62 for and Against the Sport. Madison, Wis., Jan. 11.—By a vote of 62 to 36 the faculty of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin yesterday decided that baseball should be retained. Ath- letic Director G. W. Ehler did not vote. President Van Hise spoke in favor of retaining baseball on the uni- versity program. The proposal to do away with this sport was made by a conference of the Wisconsin fac- ulty recently. | 6 that Metzger was being considered for the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Robert Folwell to become coach at the University of Pennsylva- nia. PHILLIES SELL PITCHER. Philadelphia, Jan. 11-—The man- | agement of the Philadelphia Nation- Aetna Bowllng Alleys ' als announced yesterday that Pitcher 10 High Grade Alleys. New Mattison had sold outright tec Patrons Welcome. Give us a visit. 83 Church Street. been team. The purchase price was not announced. Mattison came to city in 1914 from Dubois, Penn, where he played independent ball. ALL-NEW BRITAIN DEFEAT DELPHIS Delphis Lose to Locals in Fast Game; Kopf and Jacobson Star For Victors. Hartford, oxciting game, { basketball Jan. the quintet 11—In a fast and All-New Britain defeated the Del- the North- Brit- last night 26 to phi | west gym team at The New iain team came to the city with sev- | famous clubs { che cral players who are during the sum- mer in the national two of the country. “Billy” d at left forward for member of Connle Athletics and is vounger members from which Mz is expecting to build a team which he expects in several 3 rs to be another champion. V n Billy is i baseball he usuaily alternates veen shortstop and third base although the former posi- tion is where h- scems to shine most brilliantly. His work the past year for Mack has earned him a regular berth and with the experience he has gained in facing such wonderful pit- it is expected that he will im- prove in his batting which was by nn means of an inferior quaiity the past season. In watching Kopf play the basketball one is impressed work and it is interesting to months engaged bascball, with of the pastime, Kopf, who play New Brit Macks of rejuvenated one the game of wit | exceedingly fast tin promoter will cffer a suitable purse he and while i fine on him condition and with a month's hard of a rule. being | 1in a professional | tion. ta good follow him around the hall. He is and can dribble the ball continuou from one end of the floor to the other and equally as well with either hand. His quickness dodging an opponent about to block him is of the best and such work has not been seen on a local floor in sometime. Kopf has good judgment in his direction of his shots Johnson of the Delphi's secured more goals, Kopf lost sev- eral as a result of fouls being called for an apparent infraction Several of his throws were exceptionally classy. In his work it can easily be seen that while he is an exceptionally clever player and is prominent throughtout the game he does not fail to fit in with the team | work and it was due to his effort in passing and working the bail | along the floor that the New Britain team was able to win out. Jacobson is the other player on the New Britain team that indulges way with baseball. He is now a membher of the Giants and while he may not secure a reg- ular position he has experienced sev- eral seasons in minor baseball, being with the New England league at onc time and the late Colonial organiza- Jacobson is lefthanded and shows it in all of his work. He bats from the portside and in playing an outfield position throws with his left hand and uses that member in pass- |ing the ball during the indoor game. Negotiations have | Last evening he played center and while failing to score a point played defensive game. Owing to the ability of Tarson, one of the guards, to shoot keenly and play a guard forward game, Jacobson was delegated to play a back court game and defend his goal. The lineup: Delphi Johnson New Britain Cronin Ellison Jacobson Center Escholtz b Right Scofield Left guard. Score—All-New Britain 23; field goals, Kopf 3, BIl son 3, Martin, Johnson 5, Cronin 3; goals from fouls, Larson 6, Crpnin 6, Scofield; referee, Oates; umpire, Bin- ery; timer, Johnston. guard. ‘Whitney, Delpht 30 BASEBALL TILTS | FOR HARVARD TEAM Usual Series With Yale and Princeton —Haughton May Coach Again. Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 11.—The first meeting of the year of the Har- much surprise as it was not known . this | ! vard athletic committee was held last | evening, the most important jssue be- ing the university baseball schedule. This when finally adopted comprised thirty games, two more than Har- vard has been in the habit of playing. Eleven of the games will be played away from home, and six of these will compr the spring Southern trip. The schedule is practically the same as last year, the most important shift being, however, a game with the Uni- versity of Virginia at Charlotteville in April. As usual the Yale games will played in June and at New Haven and Cambridge on successive days. Arrangements also have been made ; for the playing off of any ties that | may occur in the Yale and Princeton series, but no grounds have been chosen. The athletic committee also last night ratified some of the minor sport schedules and ratified the foot- ball list as published. The foctball committee has not re- ported on the Haughton situation, but | it is believed more n_ ever that the Syracuse New York State leaguoc | Haughton will be retained at least as advisory football coach. Haughton said today that he hoped to arrange Iis business affairs 5o as to remain as coach, PORT g Two eminent citizens of sportland | a ds or two ago became engaged in a brisk discussion as to which type succeeded the better on competitive play— 1. 'The Or ake-up. There heth type: the leadir nervous the high-strung type. serene, phlegmatic | of course, no answer, as | are well represented among successes of the game, Two Types, | aseball. Here in the serene, | cd types we have Christy Mathewson, Hans Wagner, Chief Eender and Walter Johnson as leaders. These four rarely give way to any mental or physical flurries. They tnke the game as it comes and they take it without a quiver. They are rarely wrought up to any breaking pitch of excitement. Mathewson and Bender stand as the two greatest | money pitchers the game has ever lcnown—for the simple reason that no matter what the test their serenity leaves them in condition to face the issuc. One might say this type w. the better of the two. But then again there is Tyrus Raymond Cobb, one of 1he most highly nervous men that ever played baseball. Cobb is a bundle of nerves, and this nervous energy is like fuel in carrying him along. Even more ncrvous than Cobb s John J. Evers, of Boston and Troy. Evers’ nervous system is close to the surface. We doubt very much if any first class player in any game was ever as nervous as Evers is upon an average. Art Fletcher, of the Giants, is a highly nervous type, and sq is Walter Maranville, of the Braves. Eddie Collins is another'with a taut nervous system. s LIGHT Grantland Rice championships through sheer ability, through no fault of their own are out | of gear at the time the big test comes. To be keyed exactly right on the day of battle is partly a matter of proper conditioning—and partly a matter of raw luck. For top form is o very brief interval, as some one has said, between getting ready and going stale. One of the many details that help make Percy Haughton such a wonder is that he has the knack of getting is eloven mentaily and physically primed to an cyelash for the big games Againsi: Princeton and Yale his team is right to play the best foot- ball that it has in its system—far hetter football than it is able to show at any other parts of the campalgn. This takes no credit from Cornell, for Cornell, in the same way, was point- ing for Michigan and Penn. Mr. Willlam Howard Taft may be a most learned judge and a statesman cf excellent repute. But in the field of sport he has no part nor plea—for | evidently, to judge from his remarks, the red blood of the game is beyond ig vision. When Mr. Taft classes professionals as muckers and worse, as he did, he speaks with an under- standing that could only be developed from the soul of a sponge. Professionals upon the average have as high a degree of ethics as ama- teurs. Probably a trifle more so. And they play as hard and as clean to win, more than unfair for one to speak upon a subject of this sort who knows as little about professional sport as Mr. William H. Taft. For it is more than evident that in this field his ignorance is amazing and com- plete. 8o one doesn’t get very far here in ! proving that any one system surpasses | the other in effectiveness.| Other Fields. In lawn tennis Norman Brookes was | one of the most nervous men that ever played—possessed with more auivers than a cat jumping sidewise. And Brookes was one of the great stars of the game. | Au Contraire, as President Poin- | care might say-—and then again he! might not—Wilding was exactly the | opposite of Brookes—cool, poised, self-possessed and always ease, even under fire. McLoughlin burns up a bale of ner- vcus energy, and so does young John- ston. But Bill Larned was about as nervous as the Sphinx. And Bill in his day could play about all the iawn tennis there was around. at Turthermore. | Neither does golf settle tho debate. | Walter J. Travis and Francis Ouimet are both of the phlegmatic type Oulmet is more casygoing than the 014 Man, but neither ever gives vent | to any fluttering duck fits. i But Jerry Travers has an exceeding- | iy nervous nature one. He holds his | nerves well under control, but for all that he is constantly fighting a net- work of live nerves. Hilton is even more nervous than Travers, whereas Johnny Ball, winner of eight British amateur championships, doesn’t know what a nervous system is. No Proof. No man can go into the records of the game and find any proof to show which nervous system is the be.ter. There are certain types that scem to require a lot of nervous energy to keep them alive and alert. There are other types that break before nervou ness, lacking the necessary nerve | control. 1 When one can go back and find champions lined up on both sides the | argument seems to fade out. There never were two more nervous ' managers than John J. McGraw and George Stallings. Their hearts arc almost torn out in the stress of com- Lat. There never was a more quiet subdued, unemotional manager thar Connie Mack. And Mack and Mc Graw, almost exactly opposite types. have won eleven big league pennants between them in the last twelve years. The Case of Alexander. fhere is a strong chance tha* Grover Cleveland Alexander may hav been unjustly treated by the Fa Colony at large in the last world series. Big Alex's showing Ribbon was far below his expectc form. It was far below the best wor he did through the Natinal leag: campaign. But while he is too muc’ of a sportsman to make any complaini those on the inside say that his arm picked up a number of kinks sever: weeks before the season closed, and that he was no part of the real Al ender when he stepped out against the Red Sox. This being true, it would be unfair to rate him as any world series failure. In 1908, when Matty pitched that final game agains! the Cubs, the big Glant's arm was s weary from overwork that he coul pardly get the ball up as far as th plate on numerous occasions. He w» Deaten. But in 1905, when he w» right, the Mackmen couldn't score « him in twenty-seven innings. For the Test. There are numerous occasions sport when those who deserve to win | in that Blu ! ing up the good Whatever else happens, 1916 will be | one of the great baseball campaigns | of the decade if | Christy Mathewson can meet in only Miner Brown and cne old-fashioned duel. Great pitch- ers have fought their fights before, but no two carry any greater tra- gition than the old Cub star and the Giant premier. NOTES OF SPORTLAND. Nice Weather. The boys scheduled for the training camps must chuckle these days. Wagner Released, says headline. No, it was not John Honus, it was Char- lie, 80 calm yourself. The atmospheric conditions are not the only thing that has got the grip on a number of persons. If you don’t believe us visit the Aetna Al- leys. “Bill” Kopf and ‘Jake" Jacobson, are conditioning themselves playing basketball. Bet “Connie” and “Jawn” will smile when they see them Te- port. © Didn’t hear of “Bill” Scinski at- tending the merger meeting. What will the faithful four fans think of him? “Jack” Johnson's golden smile has faded, but we still have “Jim” Clark- in’s with us again. Haven't heard of Manager “Jigger” Healey answering that polo challenge yet. The “Bearcat” is getting anx- ous. Jigger. When are the alumni teams of Hartford and New Britain to play that basketball game? Hurry boys sum- mer will soon be here. Manager, Norton of the Pioneers, promises some fast baseball for next season. The information is pleasing to the fans who turn in the three jit- neys Sundays at the East Ellis street dlamond. The High school basketball team is beginning to show evidences of keep- work of Dunn, Scheuy, Tuthill, Dudack, et al. Let it continue boy: BASEBALL MERGER NOT A MONOPOLY ' Baltimore Federals Cannot Sue to Retain Franchise Washington, Jan. 11-—In response | to an inquiry submitted by Represen~ Charles Linthicum of Maryland seeking information as to whether Federal laws could be in- voked in the situation growing out of the recent compromise between the ational, American, and Federal league, the Department of Justice has given an opinion that the Sher~ man law was not viplated when the leaders of organized baseball wiped Baltimore off the major league map in the agreement for the elimination of the Federal league, which includ- cd the Baltimore franchise. The activity of Representative Lin- thicum in the matter was in response to appeals from some of the leading baseball fans in Baltimore. They complained that the baseball com- promise would eliminate Baltimore "as a major league city, and urged him to take the matter up with the De- partment of Justice. In his letter to the Attorney General, Mr. Linthicum said: “The question which prompts this letter is the one whether or not this is a question coming under the Sher= man law, and, if so, whether thera is not some government control which could be enforced to prevent such a monopoly” The response of the Department of Justice, signed by G. Caroll Todd, As- sistant to the Attorney General, gava the opinion of the department as fol: lows: “The department has reccived your letter of the 81st ult., inclosing a letter from J. H. Strohmeyer of Baltimore, Md., complaining of an alleged compact between certain rev- resentatives of the Federal leagua ,and the leaders of so-called organized | baseball, one result of which will ba | to eliminate Baltimore as a majox¥ league city. “I regret to have to advise that the transaction complained of does not appear to constitute any ground for action by the departs ment.” tative J. you MERGER PLANS ARE THWARTED Pittsficld Asks $8,000 For Franchise— Eastern Refuses To Accept Plant’s Resignation. Jan. 11.—The high price asked for the franchise of the Pittsfield, Mass., baseball club of the Eastern Association proved a stumb- ling block in the merger plans of the New England League and stern Association at meetings of or- ranizations here yesterda) The Bastern club owners wanted $9,600 for the Pittsfleld franchise, but this amount was rejected. Included in the price asked was an item of $1,600 for back salary and other services of James H. O'Rourke of Bridgeport, President of the Eastern Association. After a long discussion, the meeting adjourned without taking any import- ant action. Those who favored the merger were representatives from Hartford, New Haven, New London and Lynn, Mass., and Portland, Me. In the meantime, the Bridgeport and Pittsfleld representatives of the Eastern Association met and decided on plans for the coming season. Fran- chises in Hartford and Springfield, Mass., weore awarded to John T. Irwin of Worcester, Mass., and T. F. O'Con- nor of Springfield, respectively. The assoclation refused to accept the res- ignation of New London from the league. It was said that there wera applications for franchises from Wa- terbury and New Haven parties. Hartford, Conn,, tha A nickel at you Brewers at H Lok AL LU MANN SCHMARR, Dbesd Malt beverages above the average in quality--never above the average in price. Beverages you Can Afford to Enjoy. 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