New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 12

National League Commences Its Forty-first Year--Suspended Baseball Rules During War, are Re-| stored--Yale Football and Baseball Schedules Announced--Drew’s Legs Give Out and He Quils USPENDED RULES ARE RESTORED Bose Relating to Dralting and Purchasing of Players Cincinnati, Feb. = 4.-—Rules and | of the National Commis had been suspended ever nce the war with the Federal league ' @s started are once more in force. arry Herrmann made this declara- on yesterday, and ‘issued notices to at effect to 2ll the clubs which are [overned by the national agreement. Only a fow of the rules were sus ended, mainly relating to the draft- g and purchase of players, which ias attended with some hazard when Feds were Itkely ‘to cut in and ab the athletes before they were gned up with the purchasing club. The drafting season remains the hme, namely, fram September 15 to | (of each year, and. the draft price ‘players from the several classes is 5 follows: Class AA, $2,500: Class b $1,500; Class B, $1,200; Class C, 50, and Class D; $500. Only one | yer can he 'drafted by major ue clubs from the two highest isses, but the draft is unrestricted Om the three lower classes, gulations fion, which h To Proteet Players. Minor league ¢lubs are not allowed ell any players for twenty days eding the opening of the draft| Ice Harness Horsemen Now Having T heir Inning on Northern Circuit on on September 15, or for ty days prior to the close of their wing season. Players can be pur- sed at any other time except dur- g this period of twenty days. Any er purchased from a Class AA must report at once to the pur- Ice trotting, a winter sport which, although indulged in by few, never- theless interests thousands of racing advocates in the northern cities where ice covers the lakes and rivers during the greater part of the winter months. Toronto and Montreal have their grand circuit meets, but the devotee i of the sport in the United States citics are mainly local enthusiasts. Photo shows the finish of a race on the ice. fng club, this rule being adopted iprevent the practice of covering 8! valuable players and preventing r advance to the higher leagues. [ player can be sent back to the B finors by a major league club until | Heywood Brown Hands Out the Dope I other major league clubs in both i g ! leagues have waived claim on Right About “Making Up” Sport- This rule protects the plaver| . | prevents any talk of his being| D& Page. ed unfairly. Tf he is not wanted | any one of the sixteen major gue clubs, it is a sure sign that he fnot of good enough calibre to re- in on the big line. Draft Price Must Be Paid. dn the case of drafted players on dom waivers are asked, if they are Jpimed by a club of the same league Bich asks waivers on them, the ft priceishall be pald. If they go “the other major league the draft 48, plus $250, shall be the amount id \With all the ain in force smal pastime sition which uel baseball s alikc hts and ping to =et Qutfielder 7S NO SNALL TASK It wishes to is a sport in which everybody | amateur standing as possible. The judgment | , the ingenuity of Haughton, | of Drew the patience | of Connie Mack may all be set to ser- | vice in this game. Making up a sport- | ing section on Saturday night is half | arduous as wrestling and more than | wice as thrilling as tennis Imagine that-somebody has set a jig saw puzzle in front of you and | announced that unless it is properly assembled within half an hour some- thing will happen. One day we are going to find out what happens, but just now we are too much afraid of | the foreman of the composing room to court the knowledge. In this or that fashion the puzzle comes out every evening. We always marvel at ourself for being able to do it. Our wonder lessens when we look at the first edition and observe that what we took to be the sum- mary of the Harvard-Princeton hockey game is in reality a bit of fugitive agate from the real estate page. The simile about the jig saw puz- zle may be carried only just so far The hand of fate hovers over the puzzle expert. He exercises no selec- Makeup is different. The effi- on a newspaper has discovered that after we have solved our puzzle we not infrequently have a large num- ber of pieces left over. That is where the fun comes in. It is much bet- ter to be a sporting editor than a dramatic critic—better even than to be the Czar of all the Russias. The Czar, poor fellow, is merely the lord of life and death over persoms. The sporting editor can slay or save words. There they lie in type, para- graph upon paragraph, simile, trope, maybe a solecism or so, possibly a split infinitive, perchance a double negative. Good words, bad words, in- i this case has different ones, they are ready for h;u:;g‘t,:; (;i.;s‘m;fife:m. dafe to | eXistence, but the sporting editor, wild e it there indefinitely. Herrmann | With the lust of make-up, says “kill | that there will be no change in | them. And they are killed. The | commission for some time to|800d words, the bad words and the in- e, if’at all. Johnson’s personal | different ones die together in the melt- oiifment of Sam Crawford to a | mi pot. : e on the commission does not | q;orf\e words and phrases die game. ¢ with Garry's favor, considering | ~Fink of condition” always fights for Bt Crawford, during the American | life. So doc “the initial sack.” ue war, was one of the most Signed up” has been known to grow btorious contract jumpers Sam’s | €loquent in its own defence. = Rut vy hitting has helped him to live they go to the meiting pot just the | jwn his record at that time, but ';;]“”“h"" the sporting editor says axcely fits him for a ]»ln' e lose his as quickly of Watson the speed and commission rules the status of the na- is restored to the occupied before the war. Players and re fully protected in their privileges, and no one is the worst of anv deal, Welly of the Pittsburg pds: called on Herrmann to find out ere he stands in the baseball brid. Kelly has just received his heonditional release from the Pitt- s, who are getting rid of their yers as rapidly as possible. He nted to know whether he was a agent or not. [Urider the regulations of the peace feement all Fed players who are onditionally released revert to the | @b which last! had title to their ser- | s when they jumped to the out-: 8 That is, such club has first| on their services. In the case | P elly, for instance, he must find I€ whether the Pittsburgh Nationals it him or not, as it was that club which he leaped. In case the ate officials do not hanker for his vices he becomes a free agent. un- they desire to send him some- ere | Objects to Crawford. Pl errmann does not seem to be at affected by the timidity of Ban mson on the question of the fail- of the Feds to withdraw their ¢ in Judge Landis’ court. Judging they lie, these words, in a lead until they aro lled back to type again because a ng has died, a dreadnought found- . or the Stuyvesant High school basketball team has won a close con- test from De Witt Clinton. Of all the democracies in the world | there is none so broad as that of lead. This ounce may be used one night to | indicate the batting average of Larry | Doyle and on the morrow be no more than an adjective in a dramatic criti. cism. And so it goes with lead folk. It is up in the Conning Tower or down in the kennel ads. The sole duty of {lead is to fill. ; éma BB\illiné All?w | And here lies this sporting page on BOCALS PLAY TN HARTIFORD. he AN-D Britain basketball Jam will meet the strong Delphi five Hartford this evening at Riverview, k8¢ Harttord. The game will be the | ond meeting of the quintets this | ®on, the home boyvs having beaten iy Capitol City rivals earlier in the gon, and hope to repeat this eve- lhg. Representing this city will be following star performers. Kopf, irson, Jacobson, Ellison, Walthe Juitgren and Martin. A large dele- tion of fans will accompany the am. Stecher tosses the Masked Marvel | twice in fifteen minutes “Lead” and dd Lead” and “B copy” ana “Add all” troop forward. With as the patchwork is shaped into contin- uity . Only a small space empty now. If there form might remain on ajar until the finish in that 600-yard run at those games some place or other, but the presses are getting impatient. There is nothing in the world so impatient as a printing press, unless it be a managing editor. This is no time for delay. A printer abhors a vacuum From an emergency galley he seize: an item just of the requisite size. He jams it in below the racquet story. “‘Strange Marriage Customs of the Cingalese” reads the head. “All right,” s: the make-up man, and another Sunday sporting section has been horn into the world. sporting editor has many oppor- tunities to exercise his judgment Only last week we received the fol- lowing query: “Winsted, Conn.—For- mer White Sox ball player wants fat wife with dark eves. How much up to 1,000 ?—Ston: BOWLING RESULTS Peanuts Break Record for Pinfall in in the page is was time the Nut League at Actna Alleys—Team Furnish Excellent Squirrel Food. A new record for total pinfall was established in the Nut league at the Actna Alleys last evening, when the Peanut quintet rounded out 1,350 folr their night’s work. The fine work of Peplau and Krause aided materially in the performance. The Hickory nuts proved easy picking for the Pe: nuts losing three games. he Butternuts took two games from the Chestnuts in hotly contest- ed fray Windisch's work for the losers was the’feature of the contest. The scores: Peanuts, H. Puppel Hines Krause A. Puppel Peplau Mackoltz Sattler . B. Nelson Weare Lemeris League record. Butternuts. 90 90 86 J. Jurgen Wright Gaudette C. Nelson Jurgen - 111 101 154 442 Chestnuts. 80 90 87 97 81 85 81 95 86 81 428 ‘Wagner . Huck Windish Thompson Gregory 296 242 174 420—1283 5 4 ILLARD TO FIGHT MORAN. Chicago, Feb. 4—Jess Willard signed a contract here today to meet Frank Moran at Madison Square Gar- den, New York, March 17, in a ten round match. The agreement was reached between Dave Lewisohn, rep- resenting Tex Rickard, the California promoter, and Tom Jones for Je Willard. The terms are that Willard is to receive $47,500 and 51 per cent. of the moving picture concession. a Saturday night as full of holes as a “mnrderod Caesar. Up comes the £ 10 Alleys 6 Tables i 3 Church Street Telephone | chess and one wound is stanched. Joe | shoot and swim and soccer and dogs, Moran is to get §$20,000. 165 | SOME SHORT RING BATTLES Matthews-McPartland Said to Record—One Punch Makes a Chanpion. New York, Feb. 4—Awarding d it it be, of ‘hn\'im: been the victim of the quick- | est knockout in these parts of Kid McPartland, aroused considerable discussion yesterday. Several counter- claims for the speed record in this section were presented, but from the best authority, it can be said that the Matty Matthews-McPartland go was the shortest big bout staged here. One onlooker asserted the other day that it lasted less than ten seconds. There have been many other short scraps here. On September 2, 1912 Eddie McGoorty knocked out Dav Smith, middleweight champion of Australia, in just two minutes. On New Year's day, 1914, McGoorty turned a similar trick against Smith in Sydney. i Then there was the bout in which Al McCoy took the middlewelght honors from George Chip, at the Broadway S. That lasted a little more than one minute. Another memorable scrap that failed to go one round, was the ban- tamweight championship meeting be- tween Terry McGovern and Pedlar Palmer of England, at Tuckahoe, on September 12, 189 McGovern put the Briton to sleep in about a minute and a half. Only the year before. Tom Sharkey knocked out the lats Gus Ruhlin with only one punch the Coney Island A. C. They that took less than one minute. There was one rather malodorous two-minute knockout here. It oc- curred in the Tommy Murphy-Knoc out Brown hout at the Harlem river Casino, in 1911 Mike Gibbons recently knocked out Young Ahearn in less than one min- ute at St. Paul, Minn. the tinction, such at Texas Collegian Despite Disadvantage Plays Wonderful Fielding Game. Dick Hooper, of Te { has only one arm, but is one of the best college baseball players in the country. He is captain of the team Hooper is an outfielder. He wears a glove on his right hand, the only one he has. After he catches a ball he tosses into the air and slaps the glove under what is left of his left arm Then he grabs the ball out of the air and throws it. Hooper goes through the whole operation with such speed he can get a ball started toward the diamond, after making a catch, almost quickly as an outfielder with hanc Last season Hooper threw out | runners at the plate He had 105 { chances in the field and did not make an error. He is a good batter. He uses a hort, thick bat. Last season he hi safely in 16 consecutive games, malk- |ing a better record than most of hi teammates. This is Hooper's last year at Texas university. He plans to enter Dart- mouth next year. university, two WANTS TO BE REIN Chicago, Feb. Stovall, manager of the Kansas City Federal League Club, called at B. B. John- son’s office yesterday. It was said he had asked Mr. Johnson to be rein- stated {n the American League circuit, but the league head would not discuss i this matter. TATED. 4.—George | fab PORT LIGHT Grantland Rice 7 Y ted in the first the no onc Ode to February, O festive month that ends the drouth Of winter's non-elastic dop. “When once again the bunch south And pop-eyed bugs no longer mobpe; When there is something more than junk To fill the ever yawning space, And all this snow-encrusted bunk No longer stares one in the face. :go Ed Konetchy main star, or one of them, » corral. But he has been et for a month now and has started bidding vel. was I on swings | “President hopes to arouse ' The simplest way is to name cleven Eastern football players for an wli-American team. It never fails. McGraw’s trip to Cuba will bring no loud cheering from the Antipodean caddies. Mac's goldfish idea is to allop the ball and then pursue it at ull speed for another blow. What does he play around in? About minutes for the 18 holes. The Giant leader should try out Zolf some day at Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y., or Jackson Park, Chicago, the two leading public courses. It would be interesting to see how many dead a#rd wounded and mangled he would leave in his wake, O Big League month of rare repute, Here's back at you both aft and fore; Come on, jam in the Bush recruit And skid along unto the score; What matter if the same old fluff Brings back again the same smear, Come on and douse this winter And disinfect the atmosphereé. 1 old | stuff We have forgotten the exact figures of the Mathewson-Brown debate, but we recall th 1l their meetings Brown s ahead. ot that Brownie, as great as he was, had anything on Matty as a server of elusive stuff, but when the three-fingered star was do- ing most of his pitching, from 1905 to | 1910, he happened to be working in conjunction with such people as Chance, Evers, Tinker, Steinfeldt, Schulte, Slagle, Hofman, Sheckard and Kling. The Big Leagues altout peace; now if some one who could stick to the circus— ARE ON WATER WAGON have there make was only Willard Brownie is at least three oicer than Matty, and 1 season | while the Giant premier Agging badly the old Cub was winning sixty per cent of his gam But 1915 hap- pened to be Matty’s one off year, vears Ball Players No Longer ‘Sip” From Bowl That Cheers to Former Ex- tent—Sobriety Now Features. Dave ball lac president of Player iternity, uppreciation of broadly speaking, as well mon sense of performers in the hig arena, as well as in the minot leagues, writes N. B. Beasley. in Detroit Jour Ful ccording to the latest calling upon the members of the Fraternity—and players in general— to refrain from spirituous liquors. Tn other words, Fultz favors complete 50~ briety, in season and out, for the diamond performers. Fultz ceased being an active play- er some years ago; at that time it is the apparentl the the com- Fultz 3ase- Haughton and Stalling: 2 The news that Haughton had signed Stallings to a five year contract ie casily digested by those who recall an incident last spring. When Haughton took charge of the Harvard baseball team he went to the Frave manager for advice regarding certain details. Stallings gave s0 much help and made such an im- pression upon Haughton that the Harvard coach probably for the first {ime began to think of owning the Braves. There is practically no vhflm‘o‘ for v ' i vee: the wo. epeot for Stallings ability, but no one | were not active exponents of the pro- e better than the Harvard coach | hibition movement. In recent years phes m»' (fr' (;v\r‘-nh\n rule however, there has been a wave of Sl Uinderstanding. No longer do major leaguers stand up to bars and im- bibe freely and whole-heartedly of the bowl that cheers. In the first place, fast that dissipation is prohibited the minds of those who seek morals, the edict, is Mack and Baker. 1f Frank Baker expects Mack to yield finally and give up £10,000 of the purchase price the Trappe slugger will be forced to dally cutside the fold for many a crimson | cess. Ninety-nine per cent, of the m moon. jor league ball players of this da Mack blames a large part of hifikr‘cn,flzn that their present living 1915 cave-in on Baker, and so feels | well as their future to a great extent, accordingly. He had no idea I’If;d(‘}')(‘flflfi upon the quickness of eye, wrecking his machine when he let|the deftness of hand and the sureness Collins go, but expected still to have ‘ of foot, a fine infield with McInnis, Lajoie| They are in the game for what Barry and Baker. When Baker re-! holds for them. They want to st fused to fulfill his contract, and|as long as they can. The only W (hereby broke up the infleld, Mack |they can realize on their hopes i decided to have a housecleaning, and | to maintain a strict code of living. so let Barry go. But if Baker had reported Barry would still be a mem- ber of the Athletic line-up. So John Franklin’s chance of collecting any xale from Connie is as good as if he had requested the gift of $10,000 from William J. Bryan. Connie the game is so in suc- it DREW STOPS IN RACE Negro Sprinter Suddenly Stops in Sev- enty Yard Dash in New “Just Once More “Gotch,” Claimed Muscles Tightened. sporting enough nst sir: writer, “will 38 to re Stecher at 5 Bad logic. No matter how old they get, there is always the idea they are food enough for one more victory. Nlo champion believes he can be heaten until it is too lg Jeffries | had been out of commission seven vears. He was in no shape to fight. But he thought he still had that “one | last” battle under his belt, Gotch | will fall for the same line of reason- ing. Being human, he can't help it. CHTNDE says a not be foolish enter the arena New York, Feb. -Howard Drew, world's /record holder for yards disappointed a fairsized gather- 4 enty-first Infantry A. A. in its East by virtually quitting in the 70-yard bandicap dash, which was one of the feature open events of the meeting In the third heat of this race, in which he started from ch, the colored sprinter, competing for the University of Southern California, pulled up after running the first fifty yards as though he were out to win and crossed the finish line almost last “Retiring unbeaten” seems to be an | NO suspicion w impossible job. They all n\nk(-‘.\_v U. officials to this occurrence, threats in this direction, only to be |View of the fact that Drew after the lured out once too often. race explained that the sudden change Sl in the weather had tightened the 1ttached by A in Ssave made it as | | But save me | When Joe Tinke 10 Us a Sex muscles of his legs and im- 15 Wrllesd. sheulal anaily | possible for him to be best s, ot ) etV In the Millrose A I don’t think that vou Drew ran a sensation: Mo Dreakinzlazichtiles toEo! equaling the world's indoor record for SN % S the distance, and Cubs hit the town, | 1ast night was, therefore, there if it costs me | Unexpected. The colored he can start shoes with them, for he was jat the crack of the gun, and at twenty-five vards was running well He picked up a bit in the next twenty- five vards, but, evidently ~ecing ne had but little chance to win. he stop- ped practically in his tracks hefore reaching the tape at his promise el o week or will ¢ his poor showing the mor gotta be my hair When Matty Brown. For I boy demonstrated well without t spiked off meets Three-finger as If Stecher and Gotch ever wrassle, As part of a title-fringed reel, I might drop around—and I mightn’t, Depending on how I might feel; 1 wouldn’t surrender a finger To see ecither grappler put down, But I'll give my right hand for seat in the stand When Matty meets Mordecai a = =L PURDUE WANTS O'DONNEL Everett, M , Feb. 4.—Cleo O'Don nell, coach of the Everett High School football team, stated yesterday that he had received an offer to coach Purdue University football eleven next vear, but that he had not decided whether he would accept. The offer he said, was made by Oliver Cutts, di- rector of athleti Brown. | “Awake, Columbi advises the Colonel, idea? Doesn’t he know bia won ever ame schedule st fall? and prepare,” | What's the that Colum- on her football There is no longer any Time moves along doubt about it. Two years the | the | brought | York— 100 | ing at the annual games of the Sev- | | Thirty-fourth Street armory last night | the | NATIONAL LEAGUE OFF ON 41ST YEAR Commemorate Exercises fo Be Held Next Week in New York | New Feh 4 arred York, Cauliflowe eared and Dbattle-s but very much alive, the National lea has just completed its fortieth miles stone. Although the banquet in New York, which will the of i commemorate | rounding oldest will not be out two score years by, | the of baseball organizations, pulled off until next weel this is the actual anniversary, as it | Groundhog was on Day in 1876, the centenary of American independence, that the magnates in the olJ New York of thz met Broadway Central to complete the | circuit. A secret ball moguls had ville about a the preliminary hotel in organization ssion of the b been held in Louis- month before, when plans were decided, but the New York gathering mark- | ed the actual launching of the bases | ball ‘ship which has since weathered S0 many gales. Of the modern stars of the majors, | very few .ere alive when the Na- tional league was born. Honus Wag- ner was nearly two y that | time, and Napoleon La | Plank were arms of the Young, who game so long bered by even then attained ecight. Of National 1e few are Ii G nd Army vited to take the big feed birthday nce league three G came lowed s old at and “bawl mothers. hasn’t but joie Eddig in tha old “cy' of the remems ad of players of thig a comparative of the 1 have been ing prominent part the National leaguep playing been that he the younge the mature the original ue, only ing. There of Baseb: a at party out ns, vets its orzanization 1 eight secretaries. The Buckeley of Hartford the laté Hurry by T. Lynch Conn., who was John K. Tener who was elected the National presidents angs Hon. Morgal Conn Pullian of New later has olg g "y officiatingy [P it succeeded at present the first chief of league at the meeting forty served but one year bert Chicago, the the league and the prime its organization, died was succeeded by A New York. The latter's administras tion lasted two when Nichola 5. Young. of Washington, who had been ary of the league froma the fi 1cceeded to the presider BUSY SEASON AHEAD FOR YALE TEAMS vears ago} William A. Huls real father -aof mover ’if§ 1882, anl Mills _aof in (e} | vears, secre Baseball Nine Has Twenty-seven GamCs Scheduled—Footbail Man- agement Announces Schedule. New schedule Haven, Feb. 4 of the Yale T ball this spring, announced yesterday tains twenty- Conn., 1S teaiq con- sven games, with pro- vision for a third with ase of & me Harvard and Princeton, eries. On account of the the Easter recess this ye: son will start at home, the ter trip South not starting 20 and closing April :1»{ the home games will t pearance of the New Y The schedule April 8, Amherst 11, New York Giants 12, Fordham at New { umbia at New Haven | Easter Trip—April kins at Baltimore at Baltimore: 22, tesville 24, Catholic Washington; 25, Holy ington Georgetown ton April Haven! Haver 6 in tie the ot in lateness r, the usual E until Ap; A fe th at Haven; 20, Johns Hop- Pennsylvania at Charlot iversity at Was Washing. 26 at 29, Pennsylv: ¥ :3, Holy Cros Georgetown at N Virginia at New Haven; Dartmouth at New Haven at Worcester: 17. Brow 20, Cornell at Ithaca New Haven Princeton Haven; 31, 1t N t N at Ne Hay May 13 at s N w n: 1 Holy N Cross 1 n Haven t liams New ven Cornell June Pennsylvania Tufts at New Princeton at 2] Phi ver Pr ti 20. Harvard ard phia; 7 Princeton at Ne Brown | New H bric | York | Yale's | season two changes over negie Institute University of Polytechnic Springfield The latte Friday oration of :the removal Saybrook to will be Jin the Bowl Saturday, Oct ! | With the exception of the Princeton ;ame, which will be played at |ton, N 11l the games the Bowl. The schedule follc Sept. 30, Carnegie Institutc | University of 14 | 20, Virginia Polytechnic Ir Washington & Jeff Nov. 4 te; 11, Brown; Harvard. 1t York Providence H: Harvard tie (in at ven r o4 (in 1t ( it Boston or case of football announced schedule fou vesterda last vear taking the Maine and Institute Mk me will he as a pageant in the 200th of Yale New on displ placir ege played - 3 gs n commem- anniversary Haven held Prinoe will be in E Virginis Lehigh Tnstitu rson 18 Princeton;