New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1916, Page 17

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1916. 17 — This has been a decided 'OFFICERS’ FINE SERVICE TERSE SPORT NOTES. Baseball magnates come and go all | most rapidly players Here i Percy Haughton, newest of magnate in Boston, where changes have beel frequent the last few ye: Sind the time of the triumvirate, Dove Russell, Ward, Gaffney also made of the different agencies of | work and uplift in our community. | These included the work of the Y. M. C. A.,, Y. W. C. A., Charity Or- ganization, sewing school of the city, daily vacation school, boys’ Thurs day club, etc, After our Sunday evening meetings publishers. gain. ‘We have also added to our plan of work a curriculum of service parallel to the curriculum of study. Every grade in the school has a definite as- signment for training. In Kkeeping with this plan the Junior C. BE. society Secretary—Miss Francis Whittlesey. Treasurer—»Mrs. Stanley T. Goss. Furnishing Fund-——Mrs. Charles J. Parker. b Visitor's Pease. Entertainment Arthur Bacon. Committee—Miss Mary Committee — Mrs. - RECOGNIZED BY MEMBERS Soclal Committee—AaTrs, B. Chamberlain, Jr. The obligations of the society amount by a membership fee of twen- Valentine was converted into a Junior Service league, auxiliary to the junior depart- ment of the Sunday school. Ivery Monday each grade of the department the plan of serving refreshm been so favorable that tinue the same, thereby ha we still ents has con- ving a | Haughton, and noW have been at the head © the club. Since John B. Day’s time thi Giants have had Talcott, Freedmat chance to work out our policy of | Brush and Hempstead. The Yanks meets to work for a specific object. Two troops of Scouts, one for girls and one for boys, have been estab- “‘everyone knowing everyone els and enjoying a social hour together. On March Gth we held an enter- talnment, making sixty-four dollars, ty-five cents and the attendance at their meetins. The all day sewing meeting for tho their short life have had Farrel then Huston and Ruppert. In quic) succession the Cubs have had Mup OF FIRST CONGL. CHURCH General phy, Re-elections Are Features at Annual Meeting Held Last Night--Herbert D. Litchfield Succeeds E. C. Goodwin, Whom Rules Force to Retire The annual meeting of the Tirst Church 0f Christ was held in the chapel of the church last night. Re- ports of the activities of the church societies were given and in every case showed the work had increased over that of the preceding year. There was a gain in membership of 122. Rev. H. W. Maier, pastor of the ; church, presided at the meeting and in the absence of Clerk W. C. Hun- gerford, Miss Jennie Haugh acted as clerk. The term of E. C. Goodwin as deacon of the church expired and as it is contrary to the rules of the church to re-elect to the same posi tion, a ballot was taken and Herbert D. Litchfield was chosen to fill Dr. Goodwin's place. - His term of office 1l last five vears. "Officers of the Sunday school for the ensuing year were chosen as fol- Tow | Minister—Henry W. Maier. | Director of Religious Education— Elmer T. Thienes. Superintendent of Adult, diate and Normal Divisions Thienes. Superintendent —E. G. Bradley. Assistant Superintendent Junior Department—Miss Edith Bradley. Superintendent Boys' Department— A. Tyson Hancock. Superintendent Prima ment—Mrs. William Wells Assistant Superintendent Primary Department—Mrs. W. E. Parker. Superintendent Beginners’ Depart- ment—Miss Bertha Chamberlain. Assistant Superintendent Beginners' Department—Miss Cornelia Chamber- lain. i Superintendent Cradle Roll—DMiss Mary Whittlesey. Superintendent Home —Mrs. Louis J. Muller. Director of Manual Bertha Ramage. Director of Missionary —Miss Minnie Nowland. Director of Music—Mrs. Ernest Hoyle. Secretaries—General, Litchfield, Classification, Miss Elsie Hess, Junior, Miss Mary Lockwood, Elementary, Miss C. E. Bentley, Home Department, Mr: G. Bradley. Treasurer—W. E. Ingham. Assistant Treasurer—F. W. berg. Librarian—Edward B. Weeks. Assistant TLibrarians—Irving Brad- v, Leon Bradley, Howard Smith, ncis Deschene: Library Committee—Edward . Weeks, Rev. H. W. Maier, Miss Ad- | die Banister, Mrs. C. F. Bennett, Miss L. F. Clary, Miss Minnie Pease, . . Platt, Mrs. Marcus White. Scout Master—Dwight Skinner. Assistant—Samuel Burns Director of Girl Scouts—Mrs. ward Parsons. Assistant—Miss sey . Interme- Slmer T. | Junior Department Depart- i Department Work—>Miss Tnstruction Foi | Herbert i o Ross- Ho- Frances Whittle- E Pastor's Report., .The pastor told of his work as fol- lows: “The annual report of the must of necessity be largely a tition from vear to vear of the nary activities of the church. To measure the gains and losses in tho | «Jife of a given church is not an easy taklc “The ordinary processes church have continued as in the years that have passed. The morning ser- vice has been well attended; the Bible school has developed along lines laid out from year to vear. Of the par- ticulars of this work Mr. Thienes will report. The Missionary societies and | the Young People all make separate reports, thus I need not dwell upon them. “T would say this, that success has attended the work, and we would give thanks to God and bring a word of | encouragement to all those who through faithful service have helped make this success. “The pastor has been able in the last vear to visit at least once at each home in the parish. As the church grows this task becomes more and mere arduous. The pastor has| officiated at twenty-five funerals and fifteen weddings. A notable condition js Tevealed in the fact that only| ceven members of this church died | auring the yvear. The pastor in be- | half of the church would extend the | sympathy of the church to all who ! have suffered loss. “There are two facts of special in- terést to which your attention should | We called. One is the large number ! that have united with the church during the year 1915. Only once in | (ke history of the church has the] number been exceeded. In the year| 1821, ninety-four years ago, 123 per- sons united with the First church and 4uring this last year 122 united. The other item of interest is attempt to bring the church and the Bible school into closer relations. This includes the effort to increase | church attendance among our Bible cehool scholars. Tt is still in the trial | stage and some time will have to cJapse before we can measure its benefits. We have great hopes of the ultimate success of this movement. &'The pastor wishes to thank all | «who have so generously helped with time and money and service. pastor | repe- ordi- of the ) the | { For Church Charities. . . weould like to make the recommendation “First. That as rapidly as feasible the church adopt the budget plan of finances. And that we make a beginning this year with the Bible school and the monies devoted to church uses. “We ask therefore, that the amount of $400 be set aside for the school and the same amount church uses. “Second. nineteenth of April be following it js for That a Sunday near set aside the Bible | as | of Christ McCall Mission . ... Special offering for work of Rev. George C. Reynolds. Connecticut Home Missionary | Society 3 American Board Comm. For- | elgn Missions—from §. .. . American Board Commis- | sioners Foreign Missions. . . Congregational S. §. & Pub- | lishings Society Congregational Building Society REV. H. W. MAIER. Pastor First Congregational Church. Perpetuation Day, for the purp receiving special gifts toward the en- dowment of the church. The de-| riands on a modern church are so | many that the living givers find it! hard to do all that offers. By this | rmethod we would hope to collect an | endowment that would permit the | church to do all that she ought in| every condition. | In connection with this let me urge that you consider the perpetua- tion of your support to the church after your death, Third. Recommendation that all crganizations make quarterly finan- | cial reports to the officers of these or- ganization | Many New the absence of Hungerford, Miss Jennie sented her report, which follows: The total membership of church on January 1st, 1915, 1041, of whom 415 were males and ' 626 were females. During the year there have been added, on confession of faith, 76 and by letter, 46, making the total number received during the i vear, 122. There have been remov- | ed, by letter, 21, by death, 7, making | the total number removed during the vear 28, showing a gain in membe ship for the year of 94 persons. The total membership on January 1, 1916 was 1,135, of whom 452 were males and 683 females. “The total number of baptisms of whom there were 17 adults infants; 14 members of church were married during vear. On Children’s Sunday, June 13, 29 children received Bibles from the church.. On January 28, Mr. Emil A. Shjerden was appointed deacon, to serve for a period of five years. The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Woman's Home Missionary so- ciety was observed with appropriate exercises on December 9. On vote of the church, your clerk has extended an invitation to the State Conference of Congregational Churches to meet with this church in November, 1916, which occasion is the fiftieth anniversary of the found- ing of that organization. tespectfully submitted, Wm. C. HUNGERFORD, Church Clerk. Report. Stanley, treasurer of the his report as fol- Members. In Clerk W c Haugh pre- th was ( was and the the e Treasurer’ presented Philip church, lows: RECEIPTS. Balance hand Jan. 1, 1915 5 -3 rom Church Collections and Pledges s From Individu Offerings 3 Interest on Sarah Fund N Interest on Loan to 1st Eccl. Society From Sunday 1% (% 7k on A. Strong School for C. DISBURSEME! For Church uses For Sunda New Britain pital New Britain Milk Station. .. General Conference of Con- gregational Churches Connecticut Sunday School Association 3 Vacation School Wor uiae Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy School General Hos- “In closing this report the pastor I ty, REV. E. T. THIENES. Director of Religious Education. Congregational Board Ministerial Relief American Missionar; ciation of $3,991 STANLEY Treasurer. Report. A digest of the report of the Mis- sionary committee, read by . G. Platt is as follows Apportionment for the Seven cieties, $4,400.00. American Board Foreign Apportionment, $2,024.00. Congregational Home Missions Society, Apportionment, $880.00. American Missionary Apportionment, $660.00. Church RBuilding Society, tionment, $352.00. Congregational Educational Apportionment, $198.00. Congregational Sunday School Publishing Society, $176.00. Ministerial Relief society, tionment, $110.00. In addition to the above the church treasurer has paid: For church use: $498.21; church charities, $168.97; Sunday school, $475; N. B. Milk - tion, $100; N. B. General hospital $27.29; Vacation school work, $25 school of Religious Pedagogy, $10; Federal Council of churches, $10; Gen’l Conference of Cong'l churche of Conn., $72.87; McCall Mission, $25 for work of Rev. Geo. C. Raynolds, $5.86; total, $1,418.20. The Sunday school has paid: War Chlidren’s Xmas fund, $14.40; Mt. Carmel Children’s home, $21.10; American International college, $15 Waldensian work, $20; N. B. Chil- dren’s home, $21.23; N. B. General hospital, $16.93; Cromwell Children home, $10; 8chool of Religious Peda- gogy, $10; total, $128.66 Special for church charities, $132; special for church at Phelps, N. (T $126; total, $258. W. F. M. Department. The report of the Women'’s Foreign Missionary department follows: During the last year the Foreign Mlssl_onary department has held eight meetings, the attendance varying at each meeting. The officers are the same as last year; President, Mrs. Marcus White, vice president, Mrs. IH. S. Blake; secretary, Mrs. W. E. P ker; treasurer, Mrs. F. A. Porter. ¢ Last year we devoted part of our time to study of Mrs. Platt's book “The Child in Our Mdi The re- remainder of the time was given to study of some of the countries of Asia and Europe. This year we have no definite study book, but are taking some home mission fields as well as those of the foreign. Our program presents an innovation in the fact that three of the meetings are com- ‘hlned with the Young Women's s clety, which will make them most interesting. In November a delight- ful pageant written and directed hy Mrs. Arthur Bacon was given in place of the Thursday evening meet- ing The treasurer reports that $394.72 { has been contributed during the ye Women’s Society Report. The woman’s society read by Miss follows: The woman's society of the first church of Christ has a membership for the year 1915—1916 of three hun- dred and eighteen. The office for the coming year are: President—Mrs. Henry W. Vice-President—Mrs, V PHILIP B. Missionary So- Missions, = Appor- Socie- & Apportionment, Appor- report Frances Whittle W sey Maier. liam Federal Council of Churches Parker | deiwvor society | D | | Comfortabl, Association, | { report with what has been | the | city which is sponsor for the city training | | ideals for the school, | tendents and general Hospital -held the first Iri- dey in October. Ladies Night held the first Friday fn November and the annual meeting held the first Friday in January. The balance in- the vear is $174.40 which according to custom is divided between the For- eign and Home Missionary Societies. Respectfully submitted. FRANCESofiy FRANCES WHITTLESEY, Secretary. treasury this January 13, 1916. Reports were also received from the ! Philathea class, Junior Christian En- and the Armenian de- partment. Women’s Home Missionary Socicty. The Women's Home M society’s report was read Dby Herbert D, Litchfield as follows: fonary Mrs. Officers. President—Miss T.. J. Hine. Vice President—Mrs. J. D. Hahn. Treasurer—Mrs, Secretary and B Litchfield. Fleven meetings were held during the year with an average attendance of eighteen. The three lines of work have been carried on as usual: (a.) Sewing for local charit (b.) Making domestic articles. (c.) Preparing missionary box. We made comfortables, sheets and night gowns for the Children’s Home, money for material being .taken from our “home work” fund. We tacked several comfortables and from our work on these and from the sale of domestic articles we realized $47. At our last meeting in the spring Miss Alice G. Stanley presented the society with a beautiful samovar, which was greatly appreciated. When our meetings started in the fall we worked for the local hospital. On December 9 the one hundredth anniversary of our society was ob- served. Miss Alice G. Stanley read a paper covering the first eighty-two vears of the society’s existence and Mrs, Theresa Stanlty read a paper covering the last eighteen. Tt proved a most interesting meeting. On November 12 we pacl valued at $150, for J. Munson, Florida. Receipts Talance ked a bo: Stewart, | Pledges ilome work Sale of domestic 37 s 10. 85. articles Woman's society Total receipts .. Disbursements t to Union = Miss Montgomery's work L.ocal work Sewing mater Missionary During Year. al hox Flewers and incidentals Total disbursements Balance Sunday Schgol Repor Rev, Blmer T. Thienes presented his report as director of religious educa- It follows: The work of religious education tion. is | such a recent thing that it seems the | most obvious place for your director of religious education to begin in hi inter the church at large in the aims of the church school. In line with the plan of some other schools, a bulletin was published this fall with the plan of grading the school, the aims of eacH department and the s and methods used to develop in keeping with the aim. This bulletin has assisted the teachers in defining the work of each de and has been the means of showing church just what we are seek ing to accomplish. One of the great essentials present ambition for thorough in the church school is training teacher: ing classes preparing future teachers. In addition this church has been active in promoting a community training school for teacher Three members of the church serve on the board of religious in our work for school, you pastor is on the faculty, and some twenty-five teachers of the | school are enrolled. Our monthly round table for Sunday school wor ! ers has been another strong factor in | training. TIdeals for the school were suggested and were made concrete in these democratic sessions. Twenty- five volumes of books on child study psychology, child training, etc., have been added to the teachers’ libr: These have been used freely by our teachers. In addition your director has sought to prepare more effective leadership by enrolling for advanced work in the Hartford School of Religious Pedagog) In addition to increasing the aration of our teachers we sought to promote efficiency the school Most of us have high but it is not al- them into the this month we prep- to build Consequently ways school. casy have established a Sunday school cab- inet,—a monthly meeting of superin- officers to 3 mutual eriticism and suggestion for the work of the school Your officers have endeavored to make more effective the work of the school by strengthening the curri- culum. A number of years ago a thoroughly graded system was adopt- ed This was the first attempt at gradation. Some of the cou have been excelled by cou from other publishers. This year have re- placed of the desirable cours better courses from other we some less by | we gathered together three classes of ! and 60.00 | Smallest attendance, June 20.... | Largest attendance, | Adult done to We have two teacher-train- | education, § ( iotv during the past year has been himself for | | the city and held outdoor services at have within | | examinations | o ! these people live in, or we might say | lished as the training agencies for the younger members of the intermediate department. These have both flour- ished. For the older members of the school the Young People’s society has provided training through the Thursday club for boys, the Sewing school for girls, the Children’s Home and the Daily Vacation Bible school. All of these have engaged the services of our Sunday school people. As the Junior Service league provides train- ing in service for the junior depart- ment, so the Boy and Girl Scouts and the Young People's society provide training for the intermediate and senior departments of the school. Two other important advances in the educational work of the church should be mentioned. ¥or some time we have been disturbed by the prob- lem of work for young men. In or- der that we might develop that work young men and formed them into a Strong class of young men with Mr. Con as leader. The class took the name Baraca, thus continuing the name of a Strong work for young men in the past. The second advance is the change of the Sunday school hour to twenty minutes of ten. This matter was suggested to our teachers in order that we might not make the mistake so many churches have made—the failure to bind the Sunday school pupil to the church. In the three Sunda; that the plan has been in operation practically every member of the school has attended the church service. This is an unusual record, a feature that we expect much from. In conclusion let me commend two things to you: (1) The aim of the school—the all around development of ' Christian character of our young people by seeing the needs of every stage of development of the pupil's life and by seeking to satisfy those needs by the most thorough work we can do. (2) The loyalty They are conscientious, trained, in- telligent, ecager to make their work more effective by any means avail- able. The school, with such a purpose, and such teachers, should have intel- ligent and hearty support from every member of the church. Very respectfully submitted, ELMER T. THIENES. Report of Secretary. of sessions attendance of our teachers. 41 379 | 232 450 303 420 Number Average Dec. 19 lest monthly average, June. Largest monthly average, Feb... Enrollment. Department. Beginners Primary Juniox Boys En Intermediate Senior Scholars. 68 78 129 55 89 134 605 63 668 160 Officers and teachers Cradle roll Home department Total enrollment H. D. LITCHFIELD, Secretary. Report of Librarian. Total mumber of books given out 920 Average per Sunday Number of scholars books, about Library —now volumes G Respectfully, L. B GIBSON. The report of the treasurer of the sunday school showed receipts of 82.44, and disbursements of $459.66 the expense account; receipts of 52, and disbursements the same the benevolence account, and re- ipts of $35.65, and disbursements of $10.67 in the home department. The report was prepared by W. BE. Ingham the treasurer. Young People’s Socicties. The reports of the Young People’s society follows: The aim of our in in Young People's to make our Sunday evening meet- ings full of interest and enthusiasm, having some good outside speakers, also training our younger members to lead; to make our society the center of social intercourse; to have all mem- s kept busy throughout the entire in some branch of our Service and to raise money s for financing the be: vear Committee work to pay all expens same. We have at present an enrollment eighty-nine with an average at- tendance of from forty to fifty. Meet- ings have been held every Sunday eve- ning at 6 p. m. with the exception of the summer months at which time we joined with the other societies of of Walnut Hill Park. One new feature in our evening meetings has been the neighborhood survey reports. The poorer sections of our city were thoroughly investi- gated by our members, some mak of the exterior and some the interior of the homes. At the completion of these surveys tho society had a very good conception just what the conditions in our arc at the present time The Charity Organization also gave great deal of information and : tance in this work Discussions were brought up as to the homes some of envi the! live in, what their surroundings are, otc., also what is being present to help better these Reports and surveys were on- tn try ment tionality, done at conditions. to and ($64.00) clear profit, which was to be | Browns have had Hedges and Thomas and Weeghman. ' Th{ Balll used entirely for the support of the |the Phillies Potter, Locke and Bake Daily Vacation School. Under the | supervision of Rev. E. T. Thienes the school was held again (making the second term) for six weeks, five days a week, during the summer v: and proved to be even more of a s cess than formerly. The enrollment this year was 300 against 288 summer before, the average atten- dance 187 against 127. Many our members took part a in the different departments which included basketry, raffia work, sew- ing, hammock weaving, etc., ®nd also had charge of the kindergarten the younger ones. Among the chil- dren were fourteen different nation- | the Bre alities. The parents seemed to rea- and the Lannin To Percy Red Sox Taylor, McAleer an( Haughton, welcome. *f | ought to be a helpful addition to th | Ana ! well for | an | ney’s lead ot | football teachers | yet cation, | ranks of magnates, and, on the othe! uc- | hand, | who'll the | #@ssociating with him as he will them| he'll find honor him men in quite those as rank much 1y How he's going to coach the squad before Ostober 15 and pay attention to the exactim of magnating we don't know there's one thing it would by if he’'d not let slip his mind fof instant. That is, to follow Gaffl and suppress rowdyism b ves, umpire baiten vear. Incidentall Harvar duties who were and nauseam last lize more this year than ever before | Mr. Haughton comes from foothall @ | a better sport fore them in thus being able to keep | their children off from the streets and | what a splendid opportunity was be- attend a school where their lives would surely be broadened and their | Br of | Ar- |of minds kept busy on the source work which was accomplished. rangements are now being made for another entertainment for the same purpose of running the Daily Vaca- tion school this coming summer. A number of changes have made in the Boys’ Thursday club Instead of having just a lecture and playing games, read magazines, etc. they now also have a department of carpentry work. A large number of all sorts of tools, jig saws, etc., have so kindly been given to the club for this work and thus enables the boys to spend their Thursday afternoons in making good use of their time at work which interests almost all boys of this age. They have already com- pleted a work bench and are busily engaged in the manual work. Tast winter we conducted a girls sewing school and although nothing is being done with this at present w will resume these meetin ver shortly on Monday afternoon W expect quite a number of girls, in cluding many from the Children's home, all of whom seemed to enjoy the meetings held before and are very anxious to continue the work. The third Sunday in very our society takes charge of services at the Town Farm. Quite a number of the inmates attend these meeting regularly and seem to appreciate hav- ing a group of young people come in who try to make the day somewhat brighter for them by singing songs and leading a short service. We also take charge of the Burritt Mission the third Wednesday in every month. This too, is a place where we are now trying to get the people in that section interested in the Mission and hope in time to make quite a bid of headway in the work we are now striving to do in this vicinity. Another new branch of outlook work has been brought up before the society for which plans are now being worked out. Thi: under the head of City Survey wor! Every members in the society is to be re- sponsible for keeping in close touch with the residents of a certain sec- tion, of the city around his own home, and reports or investigations are to be made in cases of sickness, or if a family does not attend a church in this city to try and get them interest- ed, also report if any members of the church who live in this particu- lar section move out of town or if any new people come to New Britain to live. In this way the records can he more accurately kept and new peo- ple brought into the church. A number of socials have been held throughout the vear, including a Committeemen’s Tea in January, al- 50 one in October. The purpose of these teas was to get all the chair- men together with their committees and discuss the plans which they tended to work out during their term of office. On May 19th a banquet was held. The toastmaster was Miss Ruth Schade and our principal Rev. Irving H. Berg of the South Congregational church of Hartford. A large number were present and many from our society responded io the toasts. We have had throughout the tire yvear a good live society lots of enthusiasm and push behind it and are at present in the midst of a great deal to be accomplished. TO OPEN SEASON. The Worthington A. C., basketball team will open its home season the Berlin Town Hall on next Thurs day evening having as thelr oppon ents the fast Highlanders of ford. The second team will Middletown team game which will o'clock. The ma meet 2 commence at 8:15 agement is arrang- been | month | spealker, | with | of work which is stii! | Hart- | in the preliminary | ing a schedule whereby it is hoped to | have a home game each on Thursday or Friday week either evenings. ISBELL MAY HAVE BROWN DIS- CARI St. Louis, Jan. 14.—Manager Fielder Jones of the new Browns announced | | in- | | player, Cobb is The Boston Nationals have heen i turn Beaneaters, Doves es. They may whatever Rustle in be Haughty's no they'll be, the horro another nicknaming campaign, § upon us but full “It will be the owners,” says Mr. was of President Gaffney, gthen the Braves whenever to the end that the Br: participate in the 1916. policy Haughton, of the to stren possib) ves muy agal world’s series o Some hustler, Haughto ably the only aware that cipated in nd-prob man extant who wa any team had yet parti the world’s series of 191 Haughton again: “Boston is every) where recognized as the ! fairest city in the country tion. Everywhere Boston, but no whit New st ang Excep maybe York. in fairer than “Call it a tossup and Cobh,” is also a Hardly, Speaker between Speake! opinio great ball Boston is genius. just L Then again vender represent| two extremes of pitching. Last sea) son he shut the Giants out without hit in one game, and in another wal nailed by Heinie Groh for two sing les, one double, one triple and ony home run Cornell represents two extremes ol football—first in the American collegy game and last in soccer Callings for which it hasn't bee necessary to define an a rd hoisting safés, steeplejackin ang stoking on a troop transport in way time. ! atenr The Army he tive football games from the and seven straight baseball The midshipmen in consequence ough to take on the West Pointers at row ing or challenge them to a game o shuffleboard on a submarine s won three cong a Ambherst wanted to beat Dartmouf! at basketball in order to wipe ouf “at least partially, the defeat incurm ed in football a few months agod Such is the relative standing in th community of basketball and footbal that a victory at the former would bring such a partial wiping out as td leave a vast expanse still unwiped. JLSON BEATEN. Boxer Who Appears Here Next W Cries About Poor Condition. Mass., Jan. 14—Franki defeated Franki Lawrence, Mack of Boston, Velson of Brooklyn in the secom: round of their star bout here Ilas night. Mack was In good conditiol and was confldent of repeating hi victory when he meets Harry Wil liams at the Casino in New Haven on February 7. Nelson showed up rather badly and his manager claim ed poor condition. BASEBALL MEN START. Providence, R. I, Jan. 14.—Tha 3rown baseball team began its pre: liminary work in preparation for the regular season vesterday, when il candidates for battery positions re. ported to Captain Johnson in the cage for short workouts. This is the ear liest beginning of baseball at Brows in years and is due to the fact that new staff of pitchers must be d oped for this spring. There is cong siderable material in college for the| coaches work with and from the numerous candidates it hoped to find at least two men of varsity calis to is | ver. SYRACUSE yracuse, N members of the were declared ine athletic authorities of the last night because they participated in an unsanctioned game at Roche last November. Two of them g members of the varsity team. A let IRS. —Five basketball ible the university "BARS PLAY . - cuse squad by | ter will be sent to Yale offering to fo! vesterday that the Des Moines \\'93!-" ern League club would serve farm for 1916. Manager Isbell of the Des Moines club may have all the sur- plus players not claimed by the major leagues In the waiver process. Jones also announced that his official list totals sixty-five player as CARDINALS TURNED LOOSE. St. Louis, Jan. 14.—Manager Mil- ler Huggins of the Ca®dinals has dis carded nine membe of his team. All of them likely will go to the minors. The players dropped were Catchers Glen and Roche; Pitchers Perdue, Lamline and Robinson; In- fielders Nash and Brannigan and Out- fielders Iyatt and Neusel. December 8 to feit the game played which Syracuse won, METCALF SIGNS UP. York, N. Y., January 14 Metchalf has been reay pointed head coach of the Columb football team for 1916. Harry Fisher, graduate manager of athletics, made this announcement t nights Metcalf's remarkable record of five victories and no defea last season made his selection as coach at Colum= bia for another y rely a matter of routine. New T. Nelson MIDDIE va., Jan. was made. yester- U. OF V. ON Clarksburg, W. cial announcement day that the United States Naval Academy and the University of West Virginia teams will play in Annapolis, Md., on October 21.