New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1916, Page 8

NEW, sRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1016. Fabulous Sums Are Paid For Ball Players--]Jones and Sweeney Choice of Committee For Yale Coaches-- Ex-Governor Is Braves Vice-President-- Reinstatement of Barred Players Asked For--Bowling Results ANTS BAN TAKEN OFF VALE ATHLETES niversity Paper Urges Reinstate- ment of Disqualified Ball Players New Haven, Feb. 3.—For the first ime in Yale history, the Yale Dail News has made a demand upon the thictic Committee of the university yesterday asked the committee {0 ginstate Le Gore, Milburn, Pumpelly, hett and Easton, the athletes who lere barred last September on a Sum- her baseball technicality. It quotes jhe Harvard Crimson as voicing the gme demand. The News insists that the univer- ity not the men, are to blame. In this connection the story was told I good authority that at the hear- fig last Friday before the Yale-Har- rd-Princeton Eligibility Committee flarry Le Gore made the statement @t he had made his vacation plans | pr last Summer and was to t | itended trip with relatives w jelals of the Baseball A Bme to him and urged him to join squad of ball players at Quogue, | 1. He told them that he had aned to take an all-Summor trip d had practically declined to ogue when George B. Case, sradu- fe baseball advisor added his request that of the other officials Le Gore says that he changed h lans and went to Quogue, relying on e arrangements made for the nmodation of the baseball pla hd Dbel when the board of players was' paid the first two ks, that they were the versonal sts of one of the owners of the ogue nine. e Gore does not believe that Case fany Yale baseball official had an Ing to do with the giving of free Brd to the five players, but ne i that he regarded himself a: hands of the baseball nfficials ille the players were at Quogue. h Sommers of the nine and Cap- | Milburn were in charge of the | ad while there. The editorial in | News today is, in part, as fui-" ke | | [Once again the Harvard “rimson, | n editorial which we print else- | re, has given expression to the & (‘ jide of Harvard men as to the oligi- y of the five Yale men who played ball at Quogue last Summer. In | v belief they should be reinstated. | lis a belief not based on sentiment | e have had amplo evidence of > 1o ac- pi ir good sportsmanship before—but | in the golfing world here. | Philip Carter Now the Big Sensation inthe Golfing World Pinehurst, N. C Feb. 3—Philip Carter, the metropolitan junior cham- the reigning sensation This is ion, is now an unprejudiced consideralion of | due to the fact that for the past weck case “ in the light of pure jus- |h e has been on a golf rampage. Re- je. justice not of the letter, but of | cently Carter broke all golf records spirit.” As such it carries great | a ght. | t Pinehurst. Even those of Vardon, | same | Redden CHURCH LEAGUE RACE STILL A HOT ONE {Throe Corncred Tie Is Broken in Baraca Leaguc—Tailenders Win Three Times in Adkins League. E the Bowling was broken last evening, and as a result the Trinity and Epworth quintets are now battiing for the premier honors. The Wesleyans succeeded in captur- :ng one of the games from the Trin- itys while the Athenians had the luck against the Epworths. Wesleyans was high triple tie in | tital score man of the evening, while I high 109. ncock copped the onors with a string of scores follow: Trinitys. T.. Wilcox Stotts Jones E. Wilcox Wesleyan: 37 76 86 103 Hancock Mason Lawyer Robinson Cook T 107 89 352 Athenians, 70 80 Westlake 74 Burr Walker Hancock 324 329 441—1094 Epworths 80 74 94 Scoficld Smith Sitotts Carlson Camp 87— 295 78— 78 841 416—1117 Adkins ILreague. The Composing room team Adkins league received a surp last evening when the lowly Press room five lived up to their prediction 1o “come back” and handed the of the | Ouimet, Travers and Gardner were [ completely eclipscd. irter made a record of 66 on No. 2 championship course, playing with against Herbert James Wilson. returned in 33, making par on five holes. Lagerblade and better than It is a question of whether Yale | Bht to mete out justice to five vic- | §8 of her qwn athletic system or | her she should sacrifice them on ! faltar of her own building in the | fie of clean athletics. individual justice in this fisla condone for Yale's past laxn fregard to Summer baseball, or if | would fi her future conduct, | e mi ounds for hesitation, fdoes, however, neither. ¥e can see but one course open to Yale athletic authorities: Admit | le's own guilt, reinstate tne men i then take such steps as will gua e in the future a system that will Jude the possibility of laxness cn part of the authorities and ignor Pe on the part of the player fliiate jonger? ase OFFER HUMMEL JOB. esbarre Player-Managership Is John's If 1le Wants It. prinzfield, Feb. 3.—John Hummel is city., who has just been given § unconditional release by the bklyn Nationals, vesterday was of- the job as' manager of the esbarre, (Pa.) club of the New ate league the offer came from one who de- | id himself a stockholder of the and he was particularly anxious ure Hummel as playing mana- jons. - One of them is that Hum- s a rattling good ball player, and he has today as ever a fine eye e ball, and another reason is that well qualified with his ten years hig league experience and a few ire years of minor league service the side to fit him as manager club. kesbarre evidently noted these sons and one more and that is that hn Hummel hails from and used to ly down in Pennsylvania and is a l-snown baseball character in kesbarre. HARVARD TO PLAY RED SOX. oston, Feb. —An exhibition he between tne Boston Americans, ball champions of the world, and b Harvard University nine to be ‘ed April 10, at Fenway Park, was | ounced yesterday. feorge Davis, one of the pitchers he Boston Nationals returned his tract, unsigned to the club head- rte; It is Davis' intention to sh his course at Harvard Law 001 before rejoining the team. etna Bowling Alleys (10 Alleys 6 Tables | Johnson Declares O. baseball league | ana allege: {PLANK NOT A FREE AGENT, SAYS BAN Reserve Clause of Federals—Sto- vall and Chase Not Wanted. ior Springs, Mo., Feb. ty is going to be in a within two yea Johnson, pr the American League, who is ing here. He a4 Kansas Cit “a major league city right now. thought it would fit into the new American League better than the Na- tional, and intimated one of the St. Louis clubs might be involved in such a move. President Johnson left here last night for Chicago, where within the next few days a move probably will be made to dismiss the anti-trust suit of the Federal League, still before Judge Landis. ng to Ban League players, President Jcohnson id George Stovall and Hal Chase never could return to the American League. ““There’s no blacklist,” said he, “but Stovall and Chase are not the kind of men the American League wants.” A decision of the National Base- ball Commission soon to be announced will be a shock to many a Federal League ball player who now believe: himself to be a free agent, Mr. John- son said. A number of former Federal league players, whose contracts have expired, have contended that they were free agents. Among the most famous of these players are Benny Kauff, recently bought by the New York Giants at a big figure, and Ed- die Rousch, formerly of the Newark Federals, who also is said to he slated for the Giants. Kauff claims he is a free agent, he was not under contract last season, while Rousch, having served out his contract, claims re is free to dicker with any club that wants him. Tt is believed that Johnson was talking of such players, and that they will be told they must be good little boys and go wherever they are sent, whether their Federal League con- tracts have expired or not. The decision is in the case of Ed- die Plank, pitcher who appealed to the commission to be made a free agent. Plank claimed his contract with the St. Louis Federals had ex- pired and that when he had signed that contract all the American Feague and National League clubs had waived Church Street Telephone on him. “All the clubs had not waived on | recognize the reserve clause of B. Recognizes | ident of rest- | vending | Discussing the future of Federa!' Plank,” said Mr. Johnson. and Cincirnail in the National both claimed him, but that does not affect the case. Organized baseball will the Federal League. All players whose contracts have expired are under re- | serve by their clubs, whether in the | Federal League or not. Hence Plank | belongs to St. Louls.” 'JONES AND SWEENEY NAMED BY COMMITTEE | Yale Football Committee Select Phil- ips Exeter Academy Star For 3 Year Term. | | New Haven, Conn., Feb. 3.—Theo- dore A. D. Jones of Excello, Ohtd, for the past four years football coach at Phillips Exeter Academy was last | night formally named as Yale's head football coach for the vears. The Yale Athletic Committee ra#/fied Jones' appointment, which was made by the special football committee consisting of Vance Mec- Cormick, Brink Thorne and John Kil- patrick. The appointment of Michael F. Sweeney, for fifteen years athletic di- rector of the Hill School, Pottstown, Penn., as general athletic adviser at | Yale for two year s also ratified. The plan to continue the special committee in charge of reorganizing Yale football was carried out and two former players, Walter Camp, the vet- eran Yale athletic adviser, and Jo- seph R. Swan of Albany head coach in 1901, were added to the committee. Coach Jones was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 190, He was 'Varsity quarterback for three years, and in his senior yvear was | Captain of the baseball team. Jror the last few vears he has successfuily coached the eleven of Phillips Exeter | Academy. | No action was taken concerning proposed revised eligibility rules for Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. It was reported unofficially that a deci- sion as to the ellgibility of five Yale baseball players would be announced within the next two weeks. next three WANTS TO MEET SEMMY. “Jack” Rollinson of Shelton is the latest fighter to hurl a defi at Semmy ‘Waltz of Hartford. Manager Mec- Mahon, his manager, writes the Herald that his protege is ready to give battle to the Hartford boy at any time. “Boston | leaders a three time defeat. The Bindery five trimmed the office force two out of three games. The scores follow: Composing Room, 64 62 75 86 Middleton Paonessa Plude Dummy Peters 78— 84— ugene Wogan | He went out in 33 and | O’Connell | Hoffelder Dummy | Peters 249 Office. 72 69 81 248 | ! Pape Shepard Johnson Bengston 81— 96— 96— 278— 741 72 236 250 183 86 73 87 222 246 Bindery. 76 73 81 230 | DIRECTORS CHOSEN 79 90 99 79— 85— 84— 234 248 264 Plude | Peters Clancy 268 Most Impressive Board, Both Finan- cially and Socially, Is Chosen—For- mer Governor on Board. Boston, Feb. 3.—The transfer of the Boston Natiohal baseball club to a syndicate headed by Percy D. Haughton, the former Harvard foot- ball coach, was still further perfect- i ed yesterday by the election of a new | board of directors. The new board includes former Governor David 1. Walsh, who is also made vice president; former Lieu- tenant Governor Louis A. Frothings ham; A. Paul Keith, president of the ! Boston Athletic association; Colonol | Edward E. Logan of the Ninth Regi- iment of state militia; Charles Pfaff, a Tetired bigadier general of the militia; | William ¥. Garcelon, and Manager George P. Stallings. Walter E. Hapgood, who scrved as secretary under President Gaffney, was re-elected. ighton and A. C. Wise were made president and tr urer respectively at the time of the transfer of the club last month, This board is one of the most im- | preasive, both socially and financially in baseb: It is truly repr of the best clement of Boston. celon is the former graduate manager of athletics at Harvard and is now head of the athletic system at Bates college. It is understocd that all the | directors are vitally interested finan- ' cially in the syndicate which owns the club. COMMY A BRICKLAYER. Chicago, Feb. 3.—Charles Comis- owner of the Chicago White Sox was notified yvesterday that he had been made a member of the Brick- layers’ union. At a meeting of the lo- cal union Tuesday night Comiskey was made a member with full privi- leges and a union card was issued in his name in appreciation of his per- mitting the union to build a clubhouse on land adjoining the White Sox park. FOR BOSTON BRAVES PORT O éy Grantland Rice The Big League and the Bush. | The Big Leag Cities make The Bush Towns are a shine; The Big League is the only fish That dangles from the line; But Ty Cobb is a Royston boy— A town you never knew; 4nd Mathewson’s from Factoryville, And Crawford from Wahoo. | 'the Big League Towns buila up the 1 sport; The Bush Towns hardly count; The Big Town is the only place Where turnstile records mount; But Hubbard City ,Texas, looks On Speaker as its boy; And Collins comes from | Ana Bvers lives at Troy. Millerton, It goes of course without debate The Big Town the smoke; The Bush Town isn’t worth a rap, Unless you like a joke: But Miner Brown's from Ind., Where tourists seldom go, nd Walter Johnson started out At Weiser, Idaho. Nyesville, 1 might keep on along this line Upon an endl path, Through Jackson, Alexander, Dovyle, Or Wagner and Cravath; And yet T think you make the dope Which trickles from my pen— The Big League Cities have the Kz "The Bush Towns have the men. To a Big Town devotee who thinks we are wrong, we'd like to have him pick a Big Town team to nmieet one like this, born and bred in towns of less than 10,000: Catchers, Schalk and Schang; pitchers, John- son, Alexander, Shore; infield, Dau- bert, Collins, Maranville, Baker; out- field, Cobb, Speaker, Jackson. Craw- ford. Shoot. ale “Switch your dope,” advises S. K. H., hout Gotch ever having been faster than Stecher. Stecher is faster than Gotch ever thought of being at his best. It is this differ- ence of opinion which will build up that $200,000 house when the two meet. R. F. J—All we can say definitely is that Yale's new football coach will be announced before the next Har- ard-Yale or possibly before the next Yale-Princeton game. Davey Robertson, of the Lasn't still young. Give him a chance. $5,500 a Round. The reported offer of $55,000 for a ten-round Willard-Moran bout is be- | yond the limit of farcedom. This would mean $5,500 a round— or something over $1,800 a minute— for two slow-moving, not particularly <killed, boxers, with very little chance to produce any thrill or anything else | worth a fifth of $55,000. would have to be taxed, and while attendance isn't compulsory, a high uzamission price that wasn't followed by a delivery of the goods paid for would be a hard blow at the game. No Willard-Moran nor Willard- Anybodyelse bout at ten rounds is worth anything like $55,000. The bout might draw in $75,000. But if only $10,000 worth of stuff was | shown, the after effects on boxing can be well enough understood. Haughton’s Record. | If Percy Haughton could main- | tain the same average with the Braves that he has anade with Har- vard he would soon dismantle the Natonal league. In the eight years that he has been with Harvard Haughton has won 64 games and lost 4. His eight years' average is .941. TImagine a ball club travelling at that clip for eight cam- paigns. Maxims of the 19th Hole, It is better to dwell with a brawl- ing woman in a narrow house than with a golfer who has just developed a slice. He that without cursing or a hero, heeleth his mashie is either shot a jellyfish Two Feds. If Claude Hendrix and Tom Seaton pitch the same variety of ball for Joe Tinker they once pitched for Pitts- burgh and Philadelphia, respectively, Joseph has two stars on hand. But {he case of Seaton and drix stands as one of the mysteries of the game. As ost major league ball players who drifted to the Feds did better wor in the new organization, where com- retition was not so keen as in the old. Hendrix and Seaton reversed this condition. Seaton was on a par with Alexander while working for the Thils. Hendrix, with Pittsburg, was cne of the stars of the league. But last season, with the Chicago Ted flag winning organization; Hendrix was far down the list, with 16 victories, 15 defeats and a yield of carned runs above 3 to the game. Seaton was even worse. With the Brooklyn-Newark combination he won 14, lost 17 and allowed nearly 4 carned tallies to the contest. These two should have been Hen- double a rule the the | Giants, broken his neck yet, but he is To obtain this amount the public | LIGHT They were t Just remains for league's leading pitchers not even among the fir [ whae 1916 will develop | 1916 to show. in may head “Joe Jackson m ced White Sox outfleld.” And Yale aname the Masked Marvel as football coach. | The Fan Chant. “ome on, snow, rain, sleet or drouth— s the month the clubs start South. . exports last month, $90,000,- Wonder if Willard would fight e? or that little? 600" for that much chan HUB GETS TOURNAMENT Championship to be Decided Junc 5-10 on a Course to be Sclected Later Boston, Feb. 3.—Miss Louis: | Wells, secretary of the Women's Bast- | ern Golf announced ihe | dates for the holding of the women's Es ociation, tern championship for June 5-10, | on some Boston course which will he | selected in the near future. It is | Boston’s turn to hold the champion- ship as New York held it in 1914 and Philadelphia in 1915. Mrs. C. IL Vanderbeck, present national cham pion, is also the holder of the Ka ern title. The championship is decided at thirty-six holes medal play and will be contested June 5 and 6, while the other three days will be devoted to the tri-city matches between New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, for the Griscom Cup. The Women's Metropolitan Golf Association has been waiting for the dates of ' the Iastern championship before deciding on the dates of the metropolitan championship in order to keep the dates from conflicting and to insurc a good representation of New York | women on the metropolitan team in | the tri-city matches. | LITTLE BITS OF SPORT. ! George Horine, former world's rec- | ord holder and present running high- | jJump champion of America, has re. tired from athletics, according to a letter received in New York by friend. Horine says henceforth he will de- vote all his attentions to his ranch in ‘Winton, Cal. | Horine is known a in track athletics | as the originator of the half-roll form !in running high jumping. Horine, | using this form, set a record in 1912 | at 6 feet 7 inches. This record was broken in 1914 by | Beson, also retired, who set the new mark at 6 feet 7 5-16 inches. Miquel Finn, former manager of the Memphis and Mobile clubs of the Southern association and Waterbury of the Eastern ociation has signed a contract manager of the Beau- mont club of tne Texas league, Colgate’'s 1916 football schedule as announced contains nine games. The eleven will meet Susquehanna, Maine, Illinois, Rhode Island State, Spring- | fleld Y. M. C. A., Colgate, Yale, Roch- ester, Syracuse and Brown. Manager Bill Donovan, of the Yan- kees, has gone to Macon, (Ga., to super- intend the work of getting the club's training camp in shape for the first squad; which will leave New York February 20. has asked for waivers on Brisoce Lord former big leaguer, who managed the team in 1915. Waivers also were asked on Out- fielder Charley Stewart. Pitcher Goulait has been Wilkesbarre, Pa., for $250. With a jump of seventy feet and three inches, Burger Malmquist of Virginia won the ski jumping cham- pionship of America at the meet of all the crack jumpers of the United States and Canada, held at Cleveland. Clarance Hamilton of Chicago holds a new world's record for roller skat- ing. He did a mile in 61-5, 11-5 seconds better than the old mark. Gloom was thrown into the Univer- sity of Tennessee ball camp Saturday when a telegram was received from Clark B. Shaughnessy at New Orleans announcing that he would not he able to accept position as assistant football coach at Tennessee next fall. It was tentatively agreed this week that Shaughnessy would come here to succeed Miller Pontius who recently resigned from this position. Dr. Paul Withington, of Harvard, has been elected coach of the 1916 University of Wisconsin football team at a special meetng of the board of regents. His salary will be §2,600 a scason. G. Harris (Doc.) White has been signed to manage the Denver Western league club for 1916. White formerly was a member of the Chicago Ameri- can Springfield Y. M. C. A. college has begun indoor baseball practice and Ray Fisher, a pitcher of the New York Americans, will have charge of the battery candidates until it is time for him to report to the Yankees in the Southern training camp at Macon Bill Roper, the former Princeton sold to The Memphis Southern league club FRENZIED FINANGE ENTERS BASEBALL Five Club Owners Pay $126,000 For Fed League Players - New York, Feb. 3.—Following the reace agreement between the Federal lcague and Organized Baseball it waf stated by the big league magnates that baseball salaries and expense§ would be revised downward. Players' salaries were to be reduced and their contracts issued from year to year in place of the long term agreements in vogue during the conflict between OfZ ganized and Independent Interests. It was pointed out that the ma- jority of the clubs could ngt meet ex- penses under the conditions existing and that it would be recessary to cur- tail salaries, expenses, training trips and in general bring to bear & modern business efficiency system in er that professional baseball might placed on a paying basis again. While it is possible that the mag- nates may be planning to inaugurate fuch a system there certainly is na ign of such a movement &t the pres- ent time. In the matter of preparing for the 1916 baseball season the magnates hoth old and new appear to have taken a leaf from the book of the promoters of the proposed Willards Moran bout and entered the field of, frenzied finance. In buying baseball club stock, securing Federal league stars and signing managers the sums srent surpass all previous records and it will require some very clever retrenchment in the months to comé if the magnates expect to reach the financial plane outlined only a foff months ago. Five clubs in the National and American leagues alone, have paj more than $120,000 for the privilegs of assuming the top-heavy contrac of ten of the Federal league stars, If credence can be placed in the saldl figures announced to the press, I addition to paying large sums for th ncquirement of these players, the: clubs are legally obligated to cons: tinue the salaries agreed on betweer the former Federal league magnatés and their star players and thés§ salaries are known to be extrémel high. i | The average purchase price of | these ten plavers is & trifle ovef | $12,000 and since it i& certain’ thal { their average yearly salary Is at least $6,000 the initial year’'s outlay will be about $175,000, can be seen from the following list of players anff iheir sale price: Flayer Club Kauff, B. New York (N) Rariden, W. New York (N) Arderson, F. New York (N) Magee, Lee. New York (A) Cullop, Nick. New York (A) Gedeon, Joe. New York (A) #rickson, Detroit (A) Seaton, Thos. Chicago (N) Johnston, J. Brooklyn (N) Rousch, E. New York (N) The big money has not been exclusively for Federal league stars for retiring baseball magnates have sold their club stock for many times what it cost them a few years ago. The sale of the Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, St. Louls Browns and the New York Americans, brought closés to $2,000,000, which was more tha double what the previous owners paid for these clubs. Now Managef George T. Stallings, of the Boston Nationals has just closed a five yeas contract with that club at an annual salary reported to be $20,000. Just where retrenchment and econom come in is not apparent, unless the magnates plan to require the everage big league player to pay for the privilege of playing on the team STANFORD BARS Changes Attitude Athletics May Meet California Agai, Stanford University, Cal., Fab. Students of Leland Stanford Univerd sity yesterday rescinded their stand in favor of allowing freshmen to par- ticipate in intercollegiate games, Their previous position caused a rup- ture of relations with the University of California and notably the donment by California of Rugby ball in favor of the American Stanford still plays rugby Today’s action by the student makes possible the annual boat and a renewal of all other meets except football Prick $35,000 10,008 10,000 12,500 FRESHMEN, on and 2han- foot- game. body racd § athletie TE] RMS FOR MATCH. Will' Play Sutten or Cassignol $2,500 to 810,000 a Side, Milwaukee, Wis., eb. 8.—Williep Hoppe, the billiard champion, in re- plying to challenges from George Suts ton and Firman Cassignol, the French champion, said yesterday through his ¥ manager, R. B. Benjamin “I will make a mateh with Sutton or Cassignol or any other player in the | world for $2,500 to $10,000 a side, the | match to take place if Sutton accepts, in Detroit, and if Cassignol accepts 1 St. Louis, the winner to take all, Iff Cassignol actepts I will guarantee that the winner's share shall not be under $2,500, the match to take mmece next HOPPE For football coach, has been re-engaged to instruct the Swarthmore eleven season Roper developed a good team last fall and won five of the eight games played, 1n-' cluding the Haverford contest.