New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916. olleges 10 Have Strong Track Teams at Many Games This Year--Sinclair Asks Prohibitive Prices for Kauff and Magee--Several are After Penn. Coaching Jobs--Crosby High to Play Here Saturday SY SEASONFOR | Gibbons Bros. A. A. U. ATHLETES, al Gdll—egg—Plan Strong ms for Big Meets Arranged | w York, Jan. re- d at the national headquarters le Amateur Athletic Union in this indicate a remarkable season of ty on both indoor and outdoor Ap- tions for sanctions are being re- d from all parts of the countr: it is predicted that 1916 will wi more track meets, both open and d, than any previous ygar in the | ry of the union. | ores of sanctions for the holdiny i ames in almost every zection of | jpation have been granted by | T the national or divisional asso- | bns of the A. A. U. and there ap- M to be no let-up irn the demand. ® meets taken in conjunction with arious games planned by the col- universities and intercollegiate | form a schedule which pro- | board or cinder track competi- | in some portion of the country jilmost every day of the next six 13.—Reports s during the coming year. ong the more important meets the date and piace for the hold- pf the contests are the following: pis A. C., indoor, Chicago, Jan. fillrose A. A., indoor, New York, 26; Junior A. A. U. champion. | , indoor, New York, Jan. 29: n A. A ndoor, Boston, Feb. s / Hopkins university, indoo: more, Feb. 12; Georgetown uni- ¥, indoor, Washington, Feb. 19; collegiate A. A. A. A., indoor, York, March 4; open air meet, Orleans, March 6 and 12; mid- est conference, indoor, Evanston, March 17-18; Senior A. A. U. ppionships, indoor, New York, h 18; Missouri A. A., indoor, St. | k, March 18. | llowing these meets and a host inor games will come the dual Take Up New Training Methods por track contests between the ge teams of all parts of the states. , May and the early portion of will witness hundreds of these and triangular competitions all g up to the final championship ps of the various sections of the ry. Not satisfied with the pros- of winning honors in their own ory several of the stronger col- track and fleld teams are al- planning to invade territory far ed from their own campus and intersectional tests of speed and | gth promise to be one of the most | esting features of the coming | n. Adee Football Player. the mind of the average follower ort there is a wide gulf between pall and tennis, yet a number of | v collegians spend their spring ummer in wielding a racquet and themselves fit in the fall for luous season of ‘varsity gridiron ! This is no new angle to the game for twenty years ago the [ge athlete was mixing football ennis but not to the extent that | pils today. Robert D. VVrenn.! etiring president of the National h Tennis association, and George dee, who is slated to succeed were rival quarterbacks in the | us Yale-Harvard game at Spring- in 1894. Wrenn gave the sig- for Harvard while Adee acted eld general for Yale and made | 11-American eleven of that year. ! teran football enthusiasts, will r forget that game. Yale won, p 4, but only after a battle which more like modern warfare than pall. Players were carried off gridiron in relays and the side- resembled a field hospital. As' sult of the conflict the two uni- ties decided that they had enough 11 to last for several years and ard and Yale did not meet on diron again until 1897. | | | st. Paul, Minn,, Jan. 13.—Mike and Tommy Gibbons, the two famous St. Paul fighters, have adopted a new method of training for a bout. They have taken up skiing, the ancient Norwegian sport. This is absolutely |new to pugilists, and they both say ;they have found it beneficial in pre- paring themselves for a battle. Mike, who fights Young Ahearn, the Euro- MANY ARE AFTER PENN. COACHING JOBS Mercer Yants Football Position; Kraezlc.. Out for Track Coach, Others Also in Line. Philadelphia, Jan. 13.—The se- lection of a track coach and football trainer for the University of Penn- sylvania is enveloped in vards and yards of red tape. The track com- mittee, of which Louis C. Madeira, 34d, | is chairman, yesterday decided that two names would be proposed to The football committee and then the lat- ter body would pass judgement, for the new track coach will also act in the capacity of football trainer. After the football committee has indorsed the candidates the namcs will then be presented to the hoard of directors of the athletic associa- tion. Then the faculty committee passes on the aspirants, and if ac- ceptable to all the committees and the directors the track committee will then pick the man for the posi- tion. Several men have been mentioned for the post. Dr. Le Roy Mercer, a former Penn All-American fullback, intercollegiate broad jump champion, sprinter and quarter-miler and pres- ent trainer at Swarthmore College, among those most seriously consia- ered. Others who are in line are Alvin Kraezlein, former Michigan, Mercers- burg and German Olympic team Art Smith, who turned out a championsghip cross-country team at the Univorsity of Maine, last fall; Dr, George W. Orton, present coach at Penn, and Lawson Robertson, coach of the Irish-American A. C. of New York. YALE HOCKEY VICTORY. w Haven, Conn., Jan. 13.—Al- gh the Amherst Agricultural Col- held Yale to a tie score at one each during the first half last t in opening the Yale hockey sea- at home, a rally in the second netted the home seven four. Am- it's defense bothered the EIli at- , Armour missing several passes. Nostrand, the football quarter , shone in the Yael attack in the d half, timely passing by Cap- Bunny Burgess from the rover ion giving him the puck. Ross jhe visitors was compelled to re- 12 the second half with a scalp GOTCH WANTS HIS WAY. New York, Jan. 13.—Frank Gotch, retired world’s champion catch-as- catch-can wrestler, has refused the $15,000 offer of Harry Pollok and Jack Curley for a match with Joe Stecher in New York. Gotch as- serts that the bout would draw a larger crowd in one of the Western cities, and he insists on a percentage of the gate receipts as his share. The retired champion is willing to come to New York if the purse is large e last night. The Marnon five enough, but the promoters have given ed the scoring and led at the, up hope of being able to comply with of the first half. | his demands. Stecher is coming to apt. Hale of the Rochester teain | New York shortly and will be match- ited a rally at the beginning of the | ed up with some other strong oppo- md half with three field goals in | nent. bic succession. Stewart and Van Al- | == e were the Colgate stars, with six Aetna Bowling Alleys goals each. The Colgate team is 10 High Grade Alleys. New lering from an epidemic of grip substitutes replaced the regulars s e Patrons Welcome. Give us a visit. ing the second half in order to 83 Church Street. ATE OUTPLAY. ptitutes Fill in on Winning Team In Second Half. jamilton, N. Y., Jan. 13.—Colgate ated the University of Rochester, 0 24, in a hard fought basketball TER p the team in shape for the trip Dartmouth, Springficld Wes- hn next week. anad pean champion, at the Capital City { A. C. here January 18, is shown on the left of the picture with his arms in fighting attitude. Mike has entire- ly recovered from his recent illness and is in fine condition. He expects to knock out Ahearn in jig time. Tom, his brother, who is shown on the right of the picture, has also a num- ber of bouts on in the near future. ‘ RUTGERS ELEVEN IS DROPPED BY TIGERS i Princeton Belicves Old Football 13 Too Strong for Practice Game— Dartmouth is Retained on Schedule. Princeton, N. J.,, Jan. 13.—No of- cial confirmation could be obtained here yesterday of the report that Princeton was to drop Rutgers as a football opponent next fall. However, it can be stated on the best of au- thority that Rutgers will not appear on the schedule of the Princeton eleven, which will be completed in a few weeks. The advisability of plac- ing the Tigers' time-honored foe, Rutgers, on the schedule for next fall has been under consideration since early last fall, and the question was not definitely settled until re- cently. The reason for the omission of Rut- gers from the schedule is that the Princeton management decided that with Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale, the eleven had a sufficient number of hard games. For a while the athletic authorities at Princeton thought of dropping Dartmouth instead of Rutgers. The Princeton-Rutgers game was usually played early in the season, ang since the advent of Foster Sanford into the Rutgers football circle, the game has been one of the hardest on the Tigers’ schedule and necessitated ere training in the early part of the sea. son which was anything but heneficial to the players. WILL TRAIN AT TAMPA. Cubs Going Back to Old Camp Down in Florida. Chicago, Jan. 13.-——The Chicago Na- tionals will once more train at Tampa. Fla., carrying out the plans made by Manager Bresnahan and President Thomas before the sale of the team to Charles H. Weeghman. Four games will be played there by the Cubs and the Philadelphia Na- tionals March 18-22. On April 1 and 2 the Cubs and the New Orleans team will play at New Orleans and on the same dates the Cubs’ second team and the Cincin- nati Nationals will play at Shreve- port, La. The Cubs are to leave for the Tampa training grounds March 5 on a special train and are due to arrive March 7, eleven days before the day of their first game with Philadelphia. TWO BASKETBALL GAMES, Two basketball games will be played in the league at the Y. M. C. A. gym. Saturday night. The High school Alumni will play the Pioneers and the West Ends will play the Vikings. | | FOR FIRESIDE FANS. Molla Bjurstedt, women’s national lawn tennis champion, lays down three rules for those who would suc- ceed in lawn tennis: First, hit the ball hard; second, hit it where your opponent, cannot get it; third, keep your temper, and your tongue between your teeth. Ty Cobb agree with but not with the last. Johnny Kvers obeying the first two, Ana picture Section 2 | Rule 3. | the Harry Sinclair is threatened with politics. The republican party wants him to accept the nomination for mayor of the city of Tulsa. Sinclair runs about everything in Tulsa as it is, so why bother. He owns the bank, newspaper, most of the oil and | some few other things | inflelders in the game today. Steve Yerkes, once with the Boston Red Sox, is sought by the Chicago Cubs. Steve played with the Pitts- burgh Rebels last season, and Joe Tinker says that he is one of the best He may the Cubs replace McCarthy, whom | bought from the Pirates, Harry Sinclair says that Lee Magee | will not be sold for any such paltry sum at $15,000. Any one who is not | prepared to bid at least $20,000 for | the star second sacker of the Tip Tops | spoke to me? had better save their time. The St. Louis Browns have marched right down on’ Palestine, Tex., and capture dit without a shot being fired in its defence. It was whispered for a while that the Brooklyn Superbas would train there if the diamond at Daytona was not in proper con No, Phineus, all the nuts are not left-handers. There is George Baum- | gardner, of the Browns, who clamors | for consideration. It is fortunate that Baumie never kept a squirrel. One day last season the Browns had just arried in a city as the Cleve- land Indlans were leaving. Joe Jack- son saw Baumgardner and spoke to | him, but the latter ignored the greet- Later in the night he asked “Who was that guy who Some fresh busher, I suppose.” “Oh, he was just Joe Jackson, of the Indians” replied Leary; “he got a couple of hits off you last week.” “You know,” said Baumgardner, “I thought I had seen his face somewhere, but I couldn’t place him.” ing. Jack Larry: One of the questions of absorbing interest in Chicago is whether Joe Tinker will play next summer or whether he will manage from the bench, Joe says that he may play third base at times. He is evidently prepared for a few of Heinie Zimmer- man'’s enforced vacations. 1 The Boston Braves will have their chance to decide whether or not Wal- ter Johnson is a good pitcher. They will play two games with the Sen- aters in Washington this spring. April 5 and 6 are the dates. Dave Davenport and Eddie Plank have not affixed their signatures to contracts with the St. Louis Field- Browns, but Fielder Jones is not wor- rying. Jimmy Callahan used to be a plumber in his youth. Just as soon as a man becomes famous some one starts rattling the skeleton. How much more romantic if Jimmy “just growed up a bali player.” Shoot Bill Donovan at sunrise for this: Bill Hannigan said to him yes- terday: “Will you give $15,000 for Baker, now, Bill? And Wwild Wil- liam replied: “Fifteen thousand dol- lars is a lot of dough for any baker.” CROSBY TO MEET LOCALS. Captain Schmidt’s Hoop Rollers Ready for Visitors—Warning Sent. The New Britain High school bas- ketball shooters, face one of the toughest opponents of the season Sat- urday evening at the local gymnasium, when the Crosby High school five of Waterbury, will journey to this city with the avowed purpose of taking Captain Schmidt’s team into camp. In vears gone by followers of basket- ball will no doubt remember the hot battles that representatives of both schools have put up in the Lasketball court, and judging from the relative playing of both teams this season. the coming game will he no exception. The contest was originally sched- uled for Friday evening, but the de- nate arranged for that evening has nused a change in the date. It has ‘ome to the attention of the local management that several of the play- “rs that will represent the visitors on turday evening are not eligible to viay on account of claims of profes- sonalism, so in accordance Manager Rortini has written the manager of the visitors warning him not to tempt to play any player whose stand- ing is not strictly amateur. The local boys are in fine shape and are practicing daily in the anti- cipation of a hard contest. The prospects were never brighter than this season for garnering a cham- plonship, and as the team is enter- ed in two leagues, the hopes of the followers of the team are that they will be successful in both circuits. YALE CUBS KEPT AT HOME. West Point, N. Y.. Jan. 13.—Yale’s ireshmen seven, which was to have played the Army hockey team here vesterday, cancelled the game with the soldiers as permission could not be obtained from the Yale authori- ties to make the trip from New Haven. The game may be played on next , Saturday. ion. at- | PORT 4 Success Equals Fat. Too much success—too much ea and victory—produces fatness, soft- of proper fibre. s statement is important as re- gards the present status of this nation, frequently known as the U. S. of A A Few Proofs, | We think we can prove the ahove ! statement. Take the five star ball ciubs of the past fiftcen years—the Pirates of 1901-1903; the Cubs of 1906-1910; the Pirates of 1907-1909; the Athletics of 1910-1914, and the Giants of 1911-1913, These were all ' great They weresconsidered well vincible. machines. nigh in- But after two or three sea- sons. of constant ‘victory—of good luck—they went soft, stale and were cascily dismantled. ‘You may recall hew the old Cubs caved in and blew. You) certainly remember how the famed Mackmen - went to the mush when they were étill a young club and supposed to be at their best. They | went bad through the softness brought on by too much prosperity. Fair Samples, These are all fair samples of clubs or clans who were wrecked mainly be- cause they lost their pep and am- bition—because they hadn’t suffered | sufficiently to become strong and | hardy again. This proof can be extended to foot- | tall. Ten years ago Yale was beating Harvard with consummate ease. Penn. was trimming Cornell as regu- larly as the arrival of each frosty Thanksgiving. All this time Yale and Penn. were | srowing soft and fat and careless from | t0o much victory. All this time Har- | vard and Cornell were learning bitter hut valued lessons from defeat and suffering and hard luck. You may recall what has happened in the last few years since Yale and | Penn. began to pay the penalty. You | may recall what has happened—nobt | to Harvard and Cornell, but to Yale | and Penn. It was the most natural ! thing in the world. For it followed tain as life and the death that follows i which wrecked the law of the game as sure and cer- | life. Applied to a Nation. This same law works for a nation as it does for an individual or for a club. You couldn’t make the average citizen believe it if you crammed his system full of proof from heel to head, but the same law which hit Pirates, Cubs, Giants, Mackmen, Yale ard Penn. has now hit the U. S. of A. This country as a virile, hardy nation hLas gone soft and fat. The old hardi- bood and capacity for suffering is gone. One only has to read a few congressional speeches to know how far back this nation has slipped. Too much prosperity has produced the disease that is sure to bring disaster— s.ftness, heart fatness and lack of the right flbre. The time is coming when this will be proven. But no one could make the average citizen believe it— just as no one could make Cubs, Tigers, Mackmen, Giants, Yale or Penn. believe it. When you are up there you are un- Leatable; Fitz was unbeatable; Jeffries znd Johmson were unbeatable—until the right time came. Prosperity seems to be a very fine thing. But it so happens that no one man or no one nation can develop the right sort of inner strength on an abundance of prosperity. The best {rainer in the world is hard luck. The Test conditioner for seasons on be- vond is defeat. These are great in- structors of the game for those who are worth while. Yale and Penn, = Yale and Penn., as remarked be- fore, have pald the penalty of their long years of suc They have paid 1o the limit. The price was high. But now they are to profit again for the pings and sorrows they have known. WWhat they have been through in the Just few years will have its effect. Through defecat and hard luck they are sure to come out strengthened and ready, either by next fall or the year after. You can bank upon it to a certainty that both Yale and Penn. next fall will be well on their way back. They may not beat Harvard and Cornell. But ithe margin will be closer than it has been for some time. The Law of the Game, Men—teams—and nations all great By pain, defeat and sacrifice; Hard Luck alone is Triumph's mate, Defeat brings in the greater prize; Conquest is sweet-—but out the year ‘The day of reckoning is near. grow Today the winners take their plac Nor heed the softness of their hearts; Fut by tomorrow in the race ‘I'heir roles have dropped to minor parts; How soon reign— Trained by Hard Luck and paced by Pain. the new King comes to Jimmy Archer is another keen ball-playing golfer. If James can only lay a mashie shot as close to the cup laa he can place that peg of his to LIGHT Grantland Rice sccond base he should be able to start Jerry Travers 7 up and beat him. Fred Merkle took up golf last winter and improved his batting ex- v 40 points. This winter Fred s been playing even more golf, and 11 the system prevails again he should lead the league. The late King Cole had one of the niost sky-rockety careers of the game. He stepped from a barber shop to the Cubs in 1910 and led the league. As we recall he won something like {wenty-one games and dropped only three. This was the sky-rocket por- tion of his career, and 1910 was the height of the flame. From that point his decline was gradual. His run of tardom lasted but a yetr. He had the stuff, but not enough of it got over the plate. The New Cubs. With Messrs. Taft and ciiminated and Weeghman Murphy installed | as Cub owner, the heavy shadow that has hovered over the property is at last baseball For fine removed. | Weeghman has proved to be the right sort of sportsman and the troubles old Cub machine v.ill never develop again ~under his ownership. It will be intercsting to see just what Colonel Joseph Faversham Tin- ker can do as a manager back in his cid circuit. Joseph had tough sled- ding with the Reds, but so would Nzpoleon, Wellington or Alexander. He was a success with the Feds, but it may be that the Feds and National league competition are not one and the same. This is another little detail which 1916 is to show, Sport has its quitters—but the greatest cowards in the world are mcney and prosperity. The blood of toth runs white. What sort of a mask would it take to disguise Walter Johnson when that first fasi one of his skipped over the | rlate? NO YALE COACH NAMED Committee Defers Action on Foot- ball and Eligibility Cases. New Haven, Jan. 13.—Predictions that the Yale Athletic committee would not last night decide the eligi- bility case of the five baseball playors who were recently barred for playing summer ball and would not settle the question of a new football coaching system, were verified when Secretary Bunker announced, after a three hour’s session of the committee, that action on the eligibility matter was deferred. The special football committee ported that its choices had been re- duced to four men, whom they did not name. They are belioved to be Har- ry Williams, Tad Jon#s, Fred Daly, and Arthur Brides. The special committee’s report will probably be presented at the next meeting of the General Athletic com- mittee. A committee was appointed la night to draft resolutions appropriate ly commemorating the late Tom Shevlin’s athletic services at Yale 'EX OFFERS BIG PURSE. New York, Jan. 13.—Tex Rickard, who staged the championship battle between Jim Jeffries and Jack John- son at Reno, July 4, 1910, is back in the promoting game. He has formed B partnership with Samuel Me- Cracken, a circus owner, and offered $45,000 for a ten-round bout in New York city between Champion Jess ‘Willard and Frank Moran. Rickard says Tom Jones, manager of Willard, has accepted a guarantec of $30,000, while Moran has expressed a willing- ness to tackle Willard for § 000, The contest is scheduled for March 1 and, according to Rickard, articles will be signed in a few days. CLEVELAND STILL UNSOLD Chicago, Jan. 13.—President John- son of the American league returned yesterday and said there was virtual- Iy no change in the status of negotia- tions for the sale of the Cleveland Baseball club. “It would be safe to say that a little progress has been made,” said Johnson. “I am going to return to Cleveland tomorrow.” DE ORO LEADS JEVNE Boston, Jan. 13.—Alfredo De Oro world's champion three-cushion hil- liardist, led Lloyd Jevne of Los Ange- les tonight at the end of the block of a match for the title. He scored 50 points to his opponent's 25 in forty-six innings. The second and third blocks of the match will be played tomorrow and Friday. WESLEYAN'S NEW LEADER Middletown, Conn., Jan. 13.--Ei- ward L. Markthaler of Elizabeth, N, J. has been elected captain of the Wes- leyan University baseball team it was announced last night. He sve- ceeds Lester A. Lanning, who resigned recently and signed with the Athletics. Markthaler is a first baseman. 2! first | 580,000 FOR KAUFF, ALL SINCLAIR ASKS Also Asks Mere Pittancé of 860, 000 for Lee Magee of Brookieds Chicago, Jan. 13.—That Harry Sin- clair is interested in a deal for the Giants and Benny Kauff is indicated by the prohibitive prices Sinclair has placed on the stars. President Weeghman, of the Con- solidated Cub-Whale machine, leaves Chicago tomorrow on a man-hunting expedition to New York. He decided to make the journey after a telephone conversation with Sinclair, who, after quoting fancy prices for the services of Magee and Kauff, suggested that the North Side Moguls speed eastward to talk things over. Weeghman has landed Steve Yerkes, Pit, Fed. second-sacker, and now is angling for Fred Anderson, spitball hurler of thé Buffeds, before rcturning to Chicago. Sinclair sprung a, record price for _ the services of Magee when he asked a plain $60,000 and added that Kauff, { so-called Ty Cobb of the Federal League, would be knocked down to the gent bidding $80,000. According to Joe Tinker, the Cubs ate now con- fronted by a pay roll of $150,00 and he is up to his neck in the work trim- ming expenses, hence it seems un- likely that Magee or Kauff will be asked to cavort in Cub spangles, The movement in favor of snaring Yerkes and Anderson was set going after Weeghman and Tinker had been closeted for several hours working on the list of men available from other Fed clubs. | Artle Hofman chanced into club headquarters shortly after the confab. Hofman {8 a free agent, his contract with the Buffeds having expired. He is undecided in his plans j for the coming campaign, but has three propositions in sight. He wired last night to his old lead- er, Frank Chance, asking for a berth !on the Los Angeles club.. If the P, L. cannot place Artie the latter will organize a semi-pro team and play games on the old West Side Park. | | (c the YALE'S TRACK SCHEDULE Elis’ Season in Competition Opens Jan. 28 and Closes May 27, Ne Haven, Conn., Jan, 18— Yale's track dates for the season were { announced yesterday showing the ein- der path team entered in nine events before the short season closes May 27. Aside from the list publishet to- day, Yale will have a Spring meot for the track team and will hold inter- ‘ scholastic contests for the preparatory school athletes of the East, making a total of eleven events for the season. , The schedule follows: . Indoor—Jan. 26, Millrose meet, New York City; Feb. 5, Boston A, A, meet, Boston; 19, Georgetown meet, Washington; 21, Hartford A. A. meet, Hartford; March 4, Intercollegitte, L New York City. Outdoor—April 27-29, University of Pennsylvania relay games, Philadels phla; May 6, Yale-Princeton Anal games, Yale Field; 13, Harvard dual games, Yale Field; 26-27, Intercol-- | legiate meet, place undecided. | | FOLLOW OUIMET'S EXAMPLE. McLoughlin and Bundy Plan to Open | Sporting Goods Store. 1 San Francisco, Jan. 13.—Maurice B. | McLoughlin and Thomas C., Bundy" | have decided to go into partnership and sell athletic supplies in Los An- geles, There is some doubt as to whether this step will effect the ama- teur status of these great tennis players, but they are upheld by the officlals of the Pacific States Lawn Tennis assoclation. McLoughlin said yesterday that he had received a telegram from an Eastern official which expressed re- gret over the step he had decided to take. The wire admitted, however, that no rule exists “now"” to make his proposed adventure a bar to ms fur. ther competition as an amateur, BADER GOES TO RED S0% Boston, Jan. 13.—Manager Carri- gan of the World’s Champion Red Sox, last night announced that L. V. Bader, formerly of the Buffalo Intc nationals, had been added to the pitching staff. He is a right-handed twirler and once got a trial with the Giants. | SAVED BY PET DOG. Bridgeport, Jan. 18.—In real motion picture style, an unmasked burglar, walked into the office of the Pequot Poultry company in Southport and after putting a gag Into the mouth of Harriet E. Taylor, sister of William Taylor, owner of the busines then tying her to a chair, st rifie the safe. The girl chewed the | sag enough to eject it from her | mouth, and yelled for help. A pet dog came in and the would-be burg-¢ lar, scared at the yelling and dog, dived through a window and es- BOWLING, Cilubs and Private Parles Accommodated. 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