New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1916 It’s Good Night to the New England League--One Legged Ball Player Who is a Good One--Inter-City Bowlers Set Fast Pace--Landers Bowlers Defeat Tailenders--A Fight Promoter With a Kick L] GLESS PLAYER - IN NEW ORLEANS Xteen Yearsrrbrld a[;cl Is Regular Shortstop on King Stars | t New: Orleans, Feb. 1-——It is a good that every ball fan has heard of fus Cobh. It is also a good bet only a few of the multitude '\;e heard of or seen Salvador Spi- v Perhaps the comparison is not fair Tyrus. Perhaps it is not fair to Ivadore. It is doubtful, though, ether either would enter an ob- tion because they both love ba: ll, and the thing that has i pbb the greatest of them all Pught little Spizeal out of pths and made his lot, which been very sad, de has G has a happy 3 Run Over by Train. [Bight years ago little Salv ne ball player. dor wns but in crossing the lroad one day he fell and reight train cut off both his le # months he hovered between lijo id death, and then gradually the nds healed and his strength re- ed. After o long while he left hospita on his miniature hand- Fhen Salvadore pital he furn was taken to hed the fellows fl corner with a problem, for him the team was crippled. When kame out he furnished them with Bther and more perplexing problem. b wanted to play on the team. [hey thought that was out of the estion. Who ever heard of a leg- ball player? How was he going [Fun, bat and fleld They were sorr; Jt Salvadore was out of the range feandidates. But they reckoned without the firt of Salvadore. He has lots of irt, and most of it is wrapped up fhaseball. His not having any legs il not make any difference; his rt was in the game, and 3 ly is everything. fnd so he set about to convince In that he was without .a peer in | short fleld.. ‘And Belhg ffike Ty b, he sooh “provedtd ‘the fellows he could play balll “Dwas a bitter it under a big handicap, but the rt was there and he won. ; Is Regular Shortstop. Now he is the regular shortstop the King Stars, a New Orleans am- ur team, and when he isn't & 001 he is on a ball lot. And there 't any 16-year-old boy who has hance to beat him out of his po- on. [Prue, he cannot run, but it is easy arrange with the rival club to e a teammate do the base Tun- € He can hit that ball and is emon infielder, You should see him paring liners—he has wonderful mgth in his arms—or rolling like Billiken, to this side or that, to | her hard hit grotinders and to get | lo position for a heave to first. | NEW HOLASTIC LEAGUE. Bridzeport, Conn., Feb. 1.—The thwestern Connecticut Interschol e Athletic association has been ed by the leading high schools Fairfield county, and includes as chart members Greenwich, mford, Norwalk, Danbury, Bridge- | t, Milford and Ansonia. The new | gue will hold competitions in all B major sports, but will lay particu- stress upon baseball. Officers cted for a period of one year are as lows: President, J. M. Ricker, | dgeport; vice president, Howard I. mstock, Norwalk; secretary, Ed- fd L. Casey, Bridgeport; treasurer, liam B. Appleton, Milford. the t E. 1 J. Todmfs the to enj oy s Meriden er-City interesting lis to date the Casino five of Meriden has had thing: and a were, £z age pursuit Bristol s Starlight, Meriden New Southington Middletown Bristol, Connor: C., Foote, N. B, Habershon, S. M Hagerty, S. M. Pullan, W. Collett, W, Coughlin, W. Sitnick, Robertson, S. | Klikie, B. | Difabio, A. INTER-CITY LEAGUE SETTING FAST PACE Team Has Shown Class Far—Welch and Hoffses Pretty Battle, The end of the first week of the Bowling league, furnishes of figures and aver pretty weil their own w a result has a clean slate ictories. In however, forced to roll in f shion, acquiring the high team sin- gle, also the string divided ton and Hoffses of Br leading for three strings with a score of 354 while the Bell Cityite has 131 for the high single string score. high total The individual between for th honors Welch of Southi: Welch is also leader for high av Wwith 118 with Hoffses in cl with 114. The local art have been slow to get started, with “Joe" so far. of 104. with Foote He has Eddie Anderson IFollowed by right with 90 and A. “G Anderson next with 73. The complet owing the best fo is secc 97. Won Lost P.C. A sino, Meriden B0 allingford Britain 0 individual single, a1 High Hoffs Having a accomplishing this they tol, the former | reached the average Brennecke standing and averag 507 489 470 481 its | SHOULD BE CAREFUL .000.000 | GOING DOWN | North & Judd Bowlers Fight S for a Victory, But Jinx Is Still in So Pursuit. Landers, Frary & Clark No. 2 bow- lers had a hard battle last evening at Aetna alleys, when they stacked up against the North & Judd five the the cellar occupants of the league. While the Cutlers were the winners it was by the hardest kind of work, and sitated a roll off of the game which resulted in a tie. In- an ges nes of third ine Bauer who entered the game for the 108 in the third game was the high ree a ng- T A. Blanchard of the losers also put up a fine game. For the victors Huck and Weare starred. The scores: | North & Judd. | A. Blanchard ..103 99 { Selander .... 80 88 ! Johnson 5 94 81 (Garey e e 76 84 F. Blanchard 86 91 Bauer 90— 81— 80— 96— 117— 292 249 er- ose ists 240 273 117 439 443 Landers No. 2 78 87 80 94 88 o2 464—1346 ond | pyilips Huck Anderson Weare Thompson Sandquist 78 289 109— 93— 82— 93— 87— 93 88 o7 87 84 ot- 273 268 171 40 ges vg. 427 *Won roll off. 449 *464— | { e | FOR MAC’S FEELINGS es, | High individual three string, Welch, Southington, 354, High team single, 531. High team three string, Meriden, 1529. Individual Averages, South .o 1 .1 M. £ - ol oA Sl W. v B, M Anderson, N. Asch, S. M. Greene, C. M. Campbell, South, Byron, South. .. Waynor, South. Nolan. S. M. Driscoll, Brennecke, N. B, McMahon, C M. . Hills, B. B. Wright, N. South. Anderson, N. B, RANGERS LEAGU! The opening games 7 TO OPEN. in the me: | bers bowling league of the Rangers club will be held this evening at the Aetna Alley league consists of four clubs, blers, Shamrocks, | Emeralds. The makeup of t Ben Hurs and tl W AETNA ALLEYS | Pin Men Always on Hand Bowl in the Day Time Casino, Meriden, Casino, 114 | 105 Ram- The schedule calls for fif- | teen weeks of play, and at the close | yiny any | prizes will be awarded to the ners, Someone Has Got “Al's Goat” So He Immediately Get’s Busy to Deny Naughty Allegations. Offering alibis is one of the accomplished things most in the lives of managers of boxers especially those of the present crop of alleged mil- |lers, so in accordance a person an- swering to the monicker of Al Me- Murray, has taken his pen in hand to send the following lamentation for 99 his bread winner: o5 Sporting Editor, | Dear Sir: Several rumors have | reached me in reference to the fight | between Walter Nelson and Sammy | Waltz, to the effect that the Walter Nelson that I brought to Hartford was not the original Walter Nelson who beat Battling Lahn, also an- other one wi that if it w Nelson then he was under a pull. 31 Now let me state that I have been 93 | for years furnishing talent in Con- | necticut and have never been accused 0l of sending in a fighter other than the 90 | one the contract called for. If the 85 | fighter that fought Waltz was not 84 | Nelson, why' did not such men as 73 | Billy Crowley, Jack Eagan, Jim Ken- nedy, Red Rorty and inany other fight fans say something? You will m- | remember Harry Condon who fought Pierce the following Friday was in our corner swinging a towel. Nelsoa and Condon train together here. I even sent pictures of Nelson a week ahead so as public could see who was to fight. As to the pulling of Nelson in this fight perish the idea. Do von o sane man would take the | beating Nelson did to give another fighter a chance to make a reputa- tion? It would be beyond human indurance, Nelson fought hard, toolk a good beating and met & much bet- {ter man than he thought he was to fight. The fight he had with Abe Friedman the Saturday before he met Waltz may have stiffened him up as it was ten gruelling rounds and Friedman's first defeat. 1 have accepted an offer from Jack 18 14 04 02 01 01| 99 he he | | dalj a foami“fl ?lass or two of RS GERS Connecticuts Best Brewed by The HubertFischerBrewery at Hortford ON TAP AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTEL BELOI W. J. McCARTHY. N SCHMARR, KEEVERS & CO, A?X. Eagan of the New Britain club for Nelson to fight Waltz again Feb. 18 and in this fight I shall insigt that Waltz be at 122 pounds ringside If these boys meet again I shall he compelled to place a little bet on the Brooklyn boy, thanking you for past favors, Yours truly, AL McMURRAY. The sporting editor of the Herald will soon establish a library so as to be able to answer such questions as McMurray asks, but at present he 13 forced to admit, that Mac has him stumped. FATHER MALLALY RETIRE Rev. Charles O'Connor New Faculty Athletic Director at Fordham. New York, Feb. 1.—Athletics at Fordham university will be under a new administration, IS, beginning today, as a result of a change in faculty di- rectors made yesterday. The Rev. Charles Mallaly, who has been at the head for the last year and a half, has been succeeded by the Rev. Charles O'Connor, S. J., formerly director at Brooklyn college. Father Mallaly put athletics on a firm financial basis during his term of directorship, and also took every means possible to keep the teams on a strictly amateur basis, refusing sev- eral athletes admission at Fordham who are now representing large uni- versities. During the past few months Father Mallaly has been in poor health, and it was decided to select a successor. The Rev. O’Connor, who will start his work today, made athletics prom- inent at Brooklyn college despite the infancy of the institution, and excel- lent results are expected at Fordham. His first big event will be the Ford- ham games at the Twenty-second Regiment armory on February 11. Hard 1 of the night with a mark of 117. | 175 | 261 | There is now, in polite sporting circles, the case of | Stecher, of Dodge City, Neb., and one Gotch, of Iowa the ex- maintained by any first one and by | Prank lended zone circus. ! Sooner or later—or in the interim —these two, Joseph and Frank, west- ern born and bred, are to meet in a wrestling match that will. decide the (hampionship of the world and will attract something over $100,000 at the gate. So, as a sporting spectacle, It is worth early consideration. The Case of Frank Gotch, We first saw Frank Gotch wrestle back in 1905—11 years ago. He was then 27 years old, the American | champion, with only Hackenschmidt in his way to a world titl Gotch at 27 and Stecher at 23 stand as entirely different types. | Stecher’s face is almost expression- | les: Whatever emotion may dwell | in his manly breast, the same doesn’t show through his frontispiece. He gives one the impression of being a wonderfully perfected ‘machine. jotch was, and is, a different (ype. Gotch is the Doc. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of wrasslers. With a pleasing, open face, an attractive smile, a bundle of magnetism, he might be figured as the hest natured man in the game. But his heart is the heart of the jungle. No limit of cruelty would ever stop him from beating bhis man the quickest possible way. Kid McCoy, smilingly cutting an opponent to ribbons, had nothing on the Towa grappler. Age has undoubtedly slowed Gotch up and has taken something away, but even if Stecher should win he would be quite willing to testify that it was the roughest evening of his young but spicy career. Gotch asks no mercy—and gives none—not even to the beaten. The old Spanish In- quisition could have gathered in some valuable stuff by watching Gotch at work. Tn the Way of Speed, Stecher at 23 may be some faster ‘than Gotch at 38, But Stecher at 28 isn't as fast as Gotch was at 27. He isn’t as fast as Gotch was six ars ago at 32—the last time we saw him work. For while Stecher fast, a marvel with movement and his shifting hody, Cotch some years ago was a human streak, so cat-like that it was almost Iipossible to follow his movements with the eyes. You saw him shift from one spot or from one grip to another, and yet the movement was more a blur than an actual operation. Tt was a shift of such rapidity that few ‘could tell just what happened. The Gotch Ingredients. Gotch carried these main ingredi- ents Unusual speed: great physical power, both in his arms and legs: a high order of courage and cunning, unlimited stamina, complete know- ledge of his game through hard and intelligent study. For Gotch has as much brain as he has muscle, so far as his game Is cencerned, anyway, and he has al- ways been blessed with an athletic instinct that only belongs to the champion. In meeting the Russian Lion for the first time he soon saw that here was an opponent too powerful to be thrown, for Hackenschmidt was the most powerful entry of the entire lot. So Gotch switched his tactics and literally tortured his man into sub- mission, as the big Russian quit after | two hours' punishment. In Stecher's Favor, If Stecher had come along ten years ago, just as good as he is to. day, we would have esteemed it much pleasure to have had our last shirt on | Iowa against Nebraska in the Wrest- ling Sweepstakes. | But 1906 and 1916 apart. In meeting Stecher, | will face the best man he He will tackle a man who h is abnormally his quick leg decade Gotch r met. beaten are a speed degree. Judging from what those say who | have wrestled Stecher, who have | scen him work and what he had to | show against the Masked Marvel, the | Nebraskan is well worthy of the throne. He has all the and power to a champion’s Former “Homc Run King" However Wants Portion of Sale Price. Philadelphia, Feb. 1 Baker, the self-outlawed *“home-run” | king, will play with either the Yan- | kees or the Chicago American league | team this year, provided Connie Mack gives him part of the proceeds of his | sale. ! ker made ly in Chester, from his farm { tend a banquet ty this statement recent- Pa., where he camo in Trappe, Mr., to at- of the Delaware Coun- Baseball league. Baker furthermore stated that he had reached an agreement with Capt Huston, of the New York Americans | last December, and that all that stood {in the way of his playing big league ball again was Connie Magk himself. Baker reiterated his statement that Mack had agreed verbally to let him go at the end of the 1914 sea- son, despite the fact that his con- tract called for two more years. | Joseph | most of the best—one who has both | Franklin i | I 1l Ay Grantlend Rice Another VFactor, Ana then, of them 1in, all there is the main to be considered | wtecher otch is 38 her is coming; Goteh is going away. Gotch has ruled unbeaten for over ten years, And ten years is a long time at top of the pile, Doc Time is the greatest collector of them all. He insists on being paid to the full kopeck. Gotch will have to give away 15 years—and 15 years covers the pitching span of Mathew- son. Fifteen years can stand as no small gift. Gotch may look to be as fast, as strong s he ever war. He may 30 minutes. But what about the end of a champion- +hip hour, or two hou of the hard- est game of them all? STALLINGS GETS A RAISE ! factor for the fi “Miracle Yea ar Boston, ings has signed a new owners of the to manage the team was announced last ary, considerably in excess of that which he obtained under the previ- ous contract, said to be greater than that ever paid any manager or player, except possibly Manger J. J. McGraw of the Giants. It is esti- mated that the figure approximates $20,000 a year. The manager of the Braves Man” Contract Tive sal- Affixes at Advance to in T. Stall- with the Feb. 1.—George contract Boston for five ye night. His sal- rs it was team for two more years, but the new owners, headed by President Percy D. Haughton, wanted to be sured of his services for a longer term, according to Business Manager Walter E. Hapgood. The subject was discussed during Stalling’s recent visit here, but it was only yesterday that his signed contract for the new engagement was received the | already under agreement to direct the | RECTOR A FAST BOY, HIS MGR. SAYS SO Boxers Tryinz to Hide Themselves Should Give This City a Wide Berth Or » Challenge Will Follow. Several da ago the Herald ed that a Kid boxer named was to take up his re in the city governed by George Quigley and without a safety board, and quickly following comes & challenge from one of the Noa Yawk | fight mana his prot s asking for a fight for before our new fellow citizen h I an opportunity of seeing the municipal ice house, Billy Keeve or Mike White's palaces. The de received is as foliows: | New York 30, Jan., 1916 Sporting The New Dear one of issues of your paper, ed to mnote that Kohoma Kid who recently lived in New York, intend- ed to make your city his future home, and that he was going to go after all the featherweights around this section of country. | On behalf of Young Rector of Jer- ey City, I wish to challenge {homa Kid, and if he cares to mingle with Rector, it will suit me immense- ly. Rector met Kohoma Kid at Rrowns gymnasium, N. Y., and the fight sulted in such a terrific contest that the boys were immediately rematched, and the result the second time was a gruelling draw. If Kohoma Kid does not care another meeting with Rector, I am willing to match Rector with any fea- therweight in the country. Among the boys Rector has popular decision over are ¥rankie Burns, Dutch Brandt, John- nic Drummie, Young Cohen of Ens., Eddie Wallace, Kohoma Kid, and | the best performance against Frankie Callahan of Brooklyn, with whom be hoxed a draw, just previous to Callahan’s K. O. of Joe Rivers. If the promoters of New Britain could match Rector with any boy, | don't care who it may be, I am sure | that what I say of this fellow’s abil- ity will substantiated. your recent I was interest- Ko- th Very truly yours, FRED J. A. | 439 West Glst street, | New York City. i LORME, an- | the Ko- Britain | ro- | listed: | L ROAD 1S CLEAR FOR New England Leagué Dishands— Clubs Can Dicker With Eastern B existence Timothy meet~ The New of President \ | Boston, Feb. 1 | | 1e passed out night, when | its annual Murnane adjourned recons in an effort t3 i with the Hastes | ern Association, but adjournment waf | taken without action | ing. This meeting had been vened several times accomplish a merger o committee, headed by | Louis Pieper of Lynn, which favored | the proposed merger. Opinion gen- erally was in favor of the plan, ul- though representatives of the Man- chester, Fitchburg and Lewiston clubs | which are not inclhided in the project- | ed consolidation, entered claims for, more substantial settlements than had previously been mentioned. Action on the merger was impos- sible, it was said, owing to the [lack of a report from J. H. Farrell of Auburn, N. Y., chairman of the Na- tional Minor League Committee, which has been considering the mat- ter. This report is expected in about a week An a special was made by clubs to obtain the election of John | Donnelly of Lowell as president to | succeed Murnane, but the latter ruled | the motion out of order. When the club owners meet effort several again . | to discuss the merger proposal it will be ag independent club representas tives, the five-year agreement which bound the New England League haye! ing expired. Murnane reported that all debts were paid, the league closd ing its books evenly balanced. |‘ 1 RYAN TO MEET BUNYAN Owing to the refusal of Young | Mack of Meriden to face Joe Ryan the lme\nngement of the Liberty A. Ci | club has been forced to make a change in its program for February: 8, and in his stead they have secured “Kid” Bunyan of New Haven to méet the local battler In the preliminary. Ask for FREE package of “‘papers’ with each 5c sack. GENUINE PP . d “Bull” Durham. GENUINE The Smoke of the Active! There’s one fashion that never changes—the refreshing, whole- some, youthful, spirited fashion of *rolling your own” for a lively smoke with good ol In no other way can you get a cigarette so fres}‘l‘ and f.ragran’t; so full of vigor, energy and action. 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