New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1916, Page 16

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1016. Trinity Takes Action on Athletic Rules, Brickley to Be 3arred--Tigers Arrange Baseball Schedule --Major Leagues to Open Season April 12 NE-YFAR RULE FOR Aberg, Champion Wrestler, TRINITY ATHLETICS I ickley Case Causes Sweeping & Changes in System Hartford, nges in Trinity ide were announced last night e College Athletic Advisory Com ittee which has been considerin: Conn., Jan. 14.—Radica 1 College’s athletic by rmaulating a new set of rules since w York and Columbia Universities | November cancelled footbal mes with Trinity, which contend- | that Charles Brickley once a mem- s r of Connie Mack's Athletics, w gible to play fullback for Trinity. The new rules, which exempt mem- | its of the senior, junior and sopho- ore classes from the consequences 2ay past act, bar from participation | any reg- who been a member of any classified e baseball team, who has com- ted In track athletics for money or h prizes, who has competed under intercollegiate athletics student In good standing assumed name, who has not been Trinity at least one full year, or 0 has already represented Trinity any other college In athletics for jur years. In addition to these provisions, the ost important of which seems to be e summer baseball disqualification is declared that no student shall eligible for the football team who reached the age of 26 yvears and @ new set of rules, the first Trin- has ever formally adopted and 'ted, are as follows: From and after January 1, 1916, bject to the rules of the faculty, any igular undergraduate student od standing shall be eligible to rep- sent the college in intercollegiate hletics with the following excep- bns: “No student, shall be eligible as bove who is shown by the offical list have been a member of a base- 1l team belonging to a classified gue or association under the so- led National Association of Base- 11 Leagues. “No student shall be eligible who s played football or basket ball as member of a State team or com- ed in track athletics for pay or for sh prizes during an academic year jhile a student at Trinity College. “No student shall be eligible who hs competed in any branch of ath- tics under an assumed name since s registration as a student of Trin- b College. i “No student shall be eligible as! bove who has represented another | plicge or university in inter-collegi- | © athletics until he shall have been | regular student at Trinity College r at least one full college year, aft- | % 50 representing such other college | university. “No student shall be eligible as jove who has already represented | ther Trinity or any other college in itercollegiate athletics during an ag- egate period of four college years. ““These exceptions shall not, how- ver, apply to such members of the asses of 1916, 1917, 1918 on account any past act. “No student shall be eligible for the potball team who has reached the ge of 26 years. “If at some future time the total mber of regular undergraduate stu- lents enrolled at Trinity equals or ex- eds 350, then and after that time, | jo one shall be eligible to represent e college on 'Varsity teams until he all have been a regular student Trinity College for one full college ear." ROCCO IS BEATEN. Tierney Outpoints Hartford Box- er—Ames Gets Slumber Trip in | 1 New York, Jan. 14.—The announce- ment that Champion Frank Gotch has consented to come out of his retire-: ment to meet Joe Stecher of Nebraska | Beems to have stirred up other cham- ! The latest one to challenge | pions. the is Aberg holder of the Greco-Roman title. The big Finn states that he has $5,000 to bet that he can defeat any man in the world at the Greco-Roman style of wrest- ling. world Challenges The challenge is open to any ° the {man in the world who is willing to | put up the money. Aberg has held the title at his own style for a num- i ber of years and won the internation- al tourney at the Manhattan Opero House here. He also is the leader of the tournament now going on there. Aberg has participated in a number of catch as catch matches, but does not shine at this styvle as well as he does in Greco-Ro- man. Photo on left shows Aberg , executing a half-nelson and crotch hold on an opponent. TWENTY-NINE GAMES ON TIGERS’ SCHEDULE Negotiations Are Still Pending for a Contest With the Yankees—Drop | Triangular Series. Ny Tan schedule of the Princeton baseball team of this season was announced yesterday by Manager B. Bullock, 3d. It contains twenty-nine games. Sevén teams have been dropped and four, Seton, Hall, Holy Cross, Maryland Ag- | riculturnl and Union added. Ten games have been dropped and four, Seton Hall, Holy Cross, Maryland Ag- | ricultural and Union added. Ten games are to be played away from | home, three of these being on the | Princeton, .13.—The | | Southern trip taken during the Easter | recess. The triangular serles between Har- vard, Yale and Princeton has been discontinued after a year's trial, and this season the third game will be played only on condition that each team wins one of the other two con- tests. Negotiations are pending for a game with the New York Ameri- Hartford, Jan. 14.—Joe Rocco and pe Tierney put up a rather tame ttle at Riverview last evening, and the end of the twelfth round, the oy from Jersey had secured encugh d to earn him a decision on points. Phe local boy disappointed his friends h his showing, lacking the. snap Ind *‘pep”, that has characterized his ippearances in other bouts. Jack Kershaw, one of the recent ntries into the boxing game came rough with an easy win over “Red’” m who boarded the “Slumber- and Special” in the fifth round, for trip of ten seconds by the referce oute. The bout was a slashing af- air, with Ames always on the short nd. NEAL BALL WANTS JOB. Former Big Leaguer Would Manage Bridgeport Club. Bridgeport, Jan. 14—The port club has received an om Neal Ball, former Red Sox in- flelder, who wants to manage the jub in the Fastern association. Ball has been a Bridgeport resident for everal years, and had a good sea- son. During his big league career he played with Cleveland and New York l[Americans, in addition to the Red Box, and loca] fans are booming him or the manager’s job. Bridge- application AME ARRANGED. Pl'.tsbu!'xh. Pa., Jan. 14.—Another Pitt-Syracuse meeting has been added ' 0 the list of athletic events of 1916 4n the scheduling of a baseball game petween these two universities for April 24. This is one of the Blue and Gold’s most important home en- gagements. cans, but the date has not yet been decided on. The schedule follows: March 25, Gettysburg at Princeton; 21, Seton Hall at Princeton. April 1, Villanova at Princeton; 5, Holy Cross at Princeton; 6, Fordham at Princeton; 8, Ursinus at Princeton; 11, Williams at Princeton; 12, Rut- gers at Princeton; 15. Brown at Prov- | idence; 20, Maryland Agricultural col- lege at College Park, Md.; 21, Vir- ginia at Charlottesville; 22, George- town at Washington; 26, Union at Princeton; 29, Cornell at Princeton. May 1, Lawrenceville at Lawrence- ville; 3, Virginia at PFrinceton; 6, Cor nell at Ithaca; 10, Williams at Prince- ton; 13 Pennsylvania at Princeton; 17, Dartmouth at Princeton; 20 Harvard at Princeton; 24, Brown at Princeton; 27, Yale at New Haven; 30, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. June 3, Harvard at Cambridge; 7, Amherst at Princeton; 10, Yale at Princeton; 14, Yale at New York (in case of tie); 16, Harvard at New York (in case of tie). GRANT RICE A WINNER. Pinehurst, N. C., Jan. 13.—Grant- land Rice of Englewood, with a score of 337 for 72 holes of medal play, has won the Class A championship of the advertising men’s tournament, which started here Monday. By his victory he deposed E. T. Manson of Framing- 1 ham, the winner of the event last year, | who finished second to Rice In the present event, with a card for four s play of 341. C. T. Russell of ley won the Class B champlon- | ship and F. B. Nye of Dunwoodie | made the best record in Class C. (Other Sporting News on Following Page.) PLAN MEMORIAL FOR JOHNNY POE Classmates at Princeton to Build Ath- letic Field in His Honor—To Be Called After Hero. Princeton, N. J., Jan. 14.—Should present plans carry through, Johnny Poe, one of the best known of Prince- ton’s football heroes and a famous sol- dfer of fortune, who met death while fighting as a member of the Black Watch in France, will be commemor- ated I versity. The board of trustees at its annual meeting yesterday granted per- mission to Poe’s class of '95 to raise subscriptions for the building of the fleld. John Poe was a member of the fa- mous Poe family that has contributed 80 many athletes to the Princeton teams. He was a member of the foot- and track teams while in college, graduating in '95. After graduation he found business impossible, and even gold mining proved somewhat tame. He became a soldier of fortune and played a conspicuous role in sev~ eral American “wars". At the outbreak of the present war he volunteered for the cause of the Allfes, and was a member of the Black Watch when he met death in a charge on the German trenches. Tt is planned to have the field situ- ated west of the present Brokaw Ath- letic Field and south of Goldie Field. It is probable that the field will serve as a general recreation fleld for the undergraduates rather than as a field for any specific team. It will be called Poe Field. REDS HAVE BIG CHEDULE. Will Meet N. Y. Americans Three Times on Spring Training Trip. Cincinnati, Jan. 14, —According to the officlal announcement made here vesterday, not more than twenty-flve players will be taken south on the spring training trip of the Cincinnati baseball club. The playing itinerary of the trip is as follows: St. Louis Americans at Shreveport, March 22; New Orleans at New Orleans, March 25; Cleveland at New Orleans, March 26; New Orleans at New Orleans, March 27; Cleveland Americans at New Orleans, March 28, 29, 30; New York Americans at Memphis, March 31; New York Americans at Cincin- nati, April 1 and 2; American Asso- ciation clubs, April 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Cleve- land Americans at Cincinnati, April 8,91 Aetna Bowling Alleys 10 High Grade Alleys. New Patrons Welcome. Give us a visit. 83 Church Street. 1 World can | v an athletic field at his old uni- | e Yy Around one of the campfires of sport a night or two ago a number of keen students of many games were attempting to pick the greatest all- around athletic marvel this common- wealth has ever produced. ! The subject is one of abiding inter- est, for there have ‘been many who followed varied sporting activities and who in these various lines reached high Dlaces. One There is, for an often used example, Christy Mathewson, cne of the three Familiar Case. Mathewson s | greatest pitchers that ever lived. By many he is listed | as the greatest. His place in base- | ball is at the top. At Bucknell he was a first class fullback; so at foot- ball, another major sport, his rank is well up. He isn’t a star golfer, but he is a good one. He is a good trap-shooter and, if that might be classed as a sport, a chess player of unusual| ability. So here is Mathewson’s fleld | —baseball, football, golf, trap shoot- ipg, chess and checkers. Other Ball Players. Charles Albert Bender, the Chip- rewa chief, holds a place, but not as high as Mathewson. Bender excels at aseball, golf and trap shooting. His average here is high, but his range isn't as wide. Ty Cobb doesn’t hold a high place in all-around play. The world’s greatest ball player gives most of his time and energy to the one game that has fired his name around the uni- verse, L The Collegiate Array. The colleges show more all-around talent than the big leagues. Charley Brickley was a star football player, a good baseball player, and sufficiently adept at track and field play to make the Olympic team. Tom Shevlin was an all-around | star, but neither Shevlin nor Brickley | holds as high a rank as Elmer Oli- | rhant, the West Point wonder, who | is a star entry at football, baseball, | basketball and track. Oliphant is the | | best all-around athlete now in col- lege. He hasn't an equal for wide- spread efficiency. The Case of Snow, Undoubtedly, one of the greatest was the late Neil Snow, of Michagan. Snow stood as one of the great foot- ball players of the game. He was an all-American end and a g plunging fullback. As a ball player he batted over .390 for Michigan his last two years, gnd recelved at least three good cffers from big league clubs. He was one of the best college first baseman that ever lived. PORT ! who upset the social status of Sweden LIGHT Grantlend Rice On the track Snow could high jump around six feet; he could put the shot ferty-five feet; he was a fine hurdler. Taking both quality and quantity, we should say that Snow was the equal at least of any man that has been mentioned. Thorpe the King. But if the crown is to be awarded, the man entitled to the best claim is Jim Thorpe, the renowned Indis and rent asunder the A, A, U. Thorpe must be listed as one of the greatest football player: More than one will give him place, even above the magic of Mahan or the power of Ted €Coy. He could Iick, Tun, pass, block, tackle, duck, dodge and smash. In baseball-he was good enough to reach'the big league. In track work he was good enough to win the all-around ‘championship of the planet upon which we are making a brief and stormy abode. He was a fine runner and a great jumper. He could peg the javelin and toss the discus, Wherever placed he was a star. Thorpe's athletic average was un- dcubtedly the highest of the lot. He could not do quite as many things as Mathewson, but his range was nearly broad, and in the major flelds of held a trifle sportive endeavor he higher place. Beyond Protest. Colonel W. B. Hanna, the Pinehurst reer, evolved the theory that there was at least one sport wherein all gon- cerned were professionals, and there- fore beyond protest, viz, the gentle ari of grave digging. All grave diggers are professionals. There are no amateurs that we have cver seen. For that matter, we never heard of an amateur preacher or an amateur lawyer. Many of ther don’t get paid, Lut they are willing to, which is the answer. But, strictly speaking, say that grave dinning professional of all sports. we should s the most Forced Marches, More than one entry has drawn a yeputation for being a high class, sportsman who w: merely never | tempted sufficiently. It is generally supposed that when the race is fairly run the best man alw wins. But the best man for the yvear doesn’t always win through the one week of championship play that counts. After thinking it over, we know two or three morose blokes who would probably be glad to take the job of grave digging for the pure love of the game. veteran umpire would more than likely esteem this job, even without pay, if he could operate in a cemetery where only ball rlayers were interred. For example, a Evers or Heinie Zim wouldn't mind the job if placed in a burying ground where only the re- mains of umpires were brought for eternal sleep. And Johnny The Record. Of that all sad frame, saddest words crown the The “I'm off my Stallings is trying to locate a first class hotel with a first class chef for his club, probably on the accepted theory that ‘“‘none but the Braves de- serve the fare.” are game."” Tt's just our luck. Joe Tinker ha players for sale have laid supply. We notice where thirty-three ball cost, just as we in our spring and summer BASEBALL SEASON TO OPEN APRIL 12 So Says Ban Johnson, Who Is To Mect Dreyfuss Soon and Draft Schedule. Chicago, Jan. 14.—According to President Johnson of the American League, April 12 is the day the 1916 baseball season will open. Within the next few days Johnson expects to meet Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pitts- burg club of the National League, and the two will frame a schedule of games for both major leagues. It has been customary for many years to have Dreyfuss of the National and Johnson of the American draw up schedules and then present them to the two leagues for adoption at their February meetings. Since the Federal League has passed away, the American and National Lea- gues will have no trouble in arrang- ing playing dates. Although no official action has been taken yet, it is almost sure that the White Sox will open the season on their home grounds and the Cubs undoubtedly will open in Cincin- nati. Last season the Sox opened on the road and the Cubs started at home, so the order will be reversed. There was the usual talk this win- ter of starting the season at a later date, but such talk is evidently groundless. After years of experience, the baseball magnates have concluded that the best time to start playing ball is the second week of April, and though they sometimes are compelled to start in extremely cold weather it often happens that they have better weather just at that time than they find even a month later. Golfers in the North have used frozen water hazards for skating, but a lot of them by not playing across the ice are missing the one chance of their lives to drive the ball over the hazard. | “EDDIE” ANDER BOWLING BOSS Local Star Smashes Aetna Alley Ma I'I»..' Spilling The Pins For a Total of 152. bowler of tablished a Aetna Al- in a ¢ “Eddie” Anderson x the Tigers bowling five, new alley record for the leys last evening when tition match he secured a mark 152, beating the former record of C. Rogers mark of 151. Anderson is one of the best and most consistent bowler in the ci He is, usually selected as a representative of the a ley team when out of town teams meet the locals. The Nut league held last evening and scores were registered: ympe- of another ses- sion the following Peanuts. 85 78 89 Stagis | Rittner H. Puppell A. Puppell 82 90 80 86 98 84 348 Sattler Sandquist Lemeris Weare 81 82 76— 2 98 78 327—1018 B. Jurgen Wright J. Jurgen Berry Butternuts, 83 83 95 99 76 91 336 360 Chestnuts. 81 98 94 88 A Huck Thompson Gregory M. Wagner 8 79 98 68 GS COMING NORTH. Manager and New Owner to Discuss Bolster for Braves, Joston, Jan. lings of the 14 —Manager Stals Braves is going to leave the Sunny South on Saturday and will He to that a con- reach the grip belt Sunday night wired P. D .Haughton effect and they plan to ference Monday morning. The subject of the Monday confab will be the plans for the spring train ing trip and methods to be employed }in strengthening weak places on the ' team. It is thought p ible that the training site may be changed from Miami to some place nearer Stallings' plantation in Georgia. Proposed exhi- bition contests will be discussed and the itinerary for the northern journey is likely to be mapped out. Business Manager Hapgood says :l"rmfldcnt Gaffney and Director Davis reached here late last night for the annual meeting of the club, schedulgd for today. toaay hold LIVE WIRE SYSTEM Overcoat at Origina Your Choice of Any Suit or | Marked Price, Another of Equal Value 1c. Make Your Selection Early. NEW YORK B. F. 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