New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916. 0 ?owling League Races Getting Closer--Pennsy Gains for Intercollegiate Basket Ball Honors--O’ Rourke Admits Eastern Appeal Against Merger is Off--Pioneers and Vikings Win--Eli and Tigers Tied RACES GROW CLOSE Berli Teamwcrowding Union * Works Five for First Place The recent good work on the alleys by the Berlin Contruction five coupled ‘with the slump of the Union Works guintet, has added materially to the jntercst in the race for the champion- ship of the factory league. While the focal ball and pin artists are slightly in the lead at present, it means that they shall have to regain the form that they displayed earlier in the season if they are to grab off the champion- #hip honors. The Stanley Works representatives have also showed some classy work of Jate, and are not out of the race for first place honors by any means. Twenty-one members of the league arc at present rolling over a 90 aver- aze, with Harold Bertini of the Stan- ley Works continuing to lead with an average of 98. Lantone and W. W. AWright are having a pretty fight for #econd place, with marks of 94 each. The single score of 128 made by W.| Wright some time ago, is stiil unbeat- | en, and the high three string score is: in the hands of Bertini with 343 Eigh team: single score honors to date Belong o the Union Works quintet | wvhile the Stanley Works seem to hold & first mortgage on high team total, with a 1497 score. The complete figures of the league are as follows: W. L. P.C. Ave .37 14 723 456 .31 17 647 443 32 19 627 461 Tnion Mfg. Berlin Cons - ‘Stanley Works . ... f Russell & Erwin..28° 23 549 445 ders No. 2....27 24 529 430 f Landers No. 1 .26 25 509 447 Vulcan s atd 398 39 235 417 | North & Judd .... 8 40 167 418 | High single, W. Wright, 128. High three string, Bertini, 343. High team string, Union Mfg., 544. High team total, Stanley Works, 1497, High Average Men. | . A8 1 94 94 93 Bertini Lantone W. Wright yack ON LOGAL ALLEYS { 12 -lx:ight. Yale evened its hockey series with Princeton. will be played here next Wednesday. | Yale scored first and led, 2 to 1, at intermission. alties the game was stubbornly: con- MAY ALLOW DECISIONS New York Promoters Back of Bill to Allow Decision Bouts—Would Form a Commission—Game Going Bad. Boston, Mass., Feb. 21—It became known yesterday that several New York promoters, Dan Morgan and John Reisler among them, were e- hind the bill to creat a Boxing Com- mission, introduced recently in the Massachusetts Legislature. The Dill provides for twenty-round out to a de- cision and a commission of three members and a secretary, each of whom is to be paid $3,000 a year. The commission is to supervise not only boxing, but wrestling and horse and bicycle racing. The state is to ! get 5 per cent. of the receipts. The invasion of New Yorkers the Hub’s sacred precincts has aroused considerable opposition to the bill, especially by the Watch and Ward society. The New York men have made some big offers for the Arena, the skating rink ,and the Me- chanics building, Boston’s Madison Square Garden. Boxing in these two buildings might -pay, but the game as it is now conducted in the Hub is a losing proposition. There are only two clubs in Bos- ton, the Atlas A. A. and the Business Men's A. A. of Roxbury. The Atlas club, which has been running shows in the Hippodrome, is reported to have gone out of business, having made money on only two shows this winter. The Roxbury club has been experiencing a lot of trouble too, and | is also said to be on the rocks. It would, therefore, appear as if those | who would invade Boston on money making in boxing bent had better go slowly. It's a two bits town. WILL BE-SOME BATTLE Yale Ties Princeton in Hockey Series and Deciding Battle Will Be Played Wednesday—Burgess Forced Out. into New Haven, Feb. 21.—By defeating he Tigers 3 to 1 at hockey Saturday The' deciding game In roughness and pen- ested. Captain Bunny Burgess of the Yale team reopened an old wound a it nd was compelled to rTetire before he first period ended. Captain LEADERS MARCH ON TOWARD PENNANT Pioneers Continue On March Toward Championship— Alumni Qut of Race. the championship of the Saturday Saturday evening when they easily disposed of the West End A. C., quin- tet, score 48 to 24. The winners were In fine shape and seemed to lo- cate the baskets with ease, Ellison, Larson and Moody piling up points with some classy shots. I'or the los- ers Hultgren was the star point get- | ter. The summary: PIONEERS Dudack WEST-ENDS . Hultgren Ellison ‘Walthers ... Pickop | Jacobson Stepanian Right guard. Score—Pioneers 48, West-Ends 24 goals from field, Williams, Dudack 3, Ellison 5, Larson 6, Moody 4, Nut- ting 3, Hultgren 4, Walthers 2, Pick- op 2, Stepanian 3; goals from fouls, | Larson 6, Hultgren 2. 1 Loy | The New Britain High school | alumni five were practically elimi- nated as a championship possibility, when they went down before the su- | perior work of the Viking A. C., score | 39 to 31. Charlie Miller for the | victors put up a sensational game scoring 8 field goals and Sandberg his | team mate was also a “finx” for the | former students. ‘“‘Shad"” Schade and ! Martin excelled for'the losers. The ' summary: VIKINGS Peterson, Brink Right forward. H. S. ALUMNTI' Martin Nelson Smith I Hultgren, Miller Left guard. Siegrist . . .. Right guard Score—Vikings 39, Alumni 31; goals from fleld, Peterson 2, Brink, Nelson 3, Sandberg 5, Miller 8, Martin, Smith 2, Jones 3, Johnson 3, Schade 6; goals from fouls, Sandberg, Schade. Night league at the Y. M. C. A., last | jat Victorious | The Pioneers crept a step nearer | ! The Great When. When the first man steps to bat And swings with a Justy clout; When the first hit streaks its flight, Or the first long fly goes out; The ghosts of the old gods come To earth from their place in the sun, And the blue gets back in the s When the call comes out of the air To reach for the iron keen, To seek through the melting snows he way of the ancient green. Gray ghosts of the graves arise With a dream that will never die, ‘When the pink gets back in the sun, Ana the blue gets back in the sky. When the white-marked courts are fixed, Ard the first serve rings an ace; When the first clean smash goes true, A flash to an open space; Then for a breath of spring Even the dead must sigh, en the pink gets back in the sun, And the blue gets back in the sky. Precedents. have been Bakerian arious opinions pressed as to Baker's ability to return | with a .300 glint in his batting eye. But why should one off-season affect his Walloping Orb. There are least two eminent precedents to cover the Baker case. In 1905 Jimmy Callahan quit the White Sox. He quit with a batting average of .272 For the next five vears he paddled around with a semi- pro club. Then in 1911 he rejoined his old major league camp and batted 281, 9 points higher than he had batted when he left off, In 1907 Mike Donlin Gients. Michael ceased with an average of .314 in 1906. In 1911 he Cecided to return, and that year with Boston and New York batted .316, a gain of two points, left the Now It Baker—— So if J. Franklin Baker follows the Callahan-Donlin system of quitting £nd returning he should bat better this season than he did in 1914, his | baseball, | | ! | 1 Princeton an Grantlond Rice | $110,000 with McInnis left, and Stuffy is worth 5,000 beyond debate, i And that $135,000 infield cost Con- | nie less than $2,000. If you can pick | the right ones, a gold mine isn't in | the same class. | We have only one wager to launch on the Willard- Moran fight. And that is that on the eve of battle both fighters will be ‘‘confident of ning.”” Any takers? YALE GOLF CAN BOWL TOO. New Haven, Feb. 21.—The four members of the Yale bowling teams, who late Saturday night completed the first continuous 24 hour match ever held in the history of college bowling, narrowly missed smashing | | the world’s record of. fifty games in a | similar match. W. H. Gardner, 2d, | captain of the Yale golf team, made high’score with an average of 190.1 ! pins for forty-eight games. win- TORONTO ¢ BLACKBURN. Chicago, "eb. —Russell Black- | burn, infielder, was released Saturday to the Toronto team of the Intern tional league by the Chicago Ameri cans. He came to the White Sox originally from Providence and later was sold to Milwaukee, whence Com- iskey brought him back, it was said, for $8,500, and two players CALDWELL SHOWS SPEED. New York, Feb. 21.—Dave Caldwell bolder of the 1,000-yard record, won | | that event at the games of the Ozan- am A. A, here Saturday evening. Joe Higgins of Holy Cross college was second, and Ted Merideth, University of Penn ania, third; time 2 minutes 21 1-5 seconds. ALTIZER RECONSIDERS, Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 21.—David Altizer, veteran infielder, who recent- Iy announced his retirement from has signed a 1916 contract with the Minneapolis club of the American Association, Manager Can- tillon said last night. | ies for Princeton and Cornell and | of the' teams | next fortnight. | is a combination | Kinne PENNSY PASSERS HEADED FOR TITLE ci MI on Leaders Trail—Looks Bad for Yale New Haven, Feb. 21—General flank movements resulting in close victor- an ia against the Dartmouth, the commandir fight it out shall have otector Basketbz casy win for Pennsylva respective opponents of Yale and Columbia brought first named colleges into positions this weel three where they to decide whicl the right to exercise a over the Intercollegiate league trophy for onc y While on the face of the 1sylvania seems have already inscribed its name on the cup, basketball critics think the Quakers are counting their chickens before they are hatched. Most of the old-time players think that Cornell will make a grand splurge within the The Ithacan quintet of veterans whi has been lying low for several week With an easy game mouth tonight and night against Columbi; side Heights, Dr. Sharp’s expected to move up to within strik- ing distance of the flying Quakers. The feature game of the week will be at Philadelphia Saturday night. wh the league leaders and Yale cla In the individual standing to another Mornin c Eddie scoring McNichol, the doughty Penn captain, | three points. Yale is pressing him hard for the honors and may take the lead away from the Irish Quaker. Kinney has been crecping up every week. Brown, last year's leader, is in tenth place, but he has plaved thr games less than Kinney and hol. He may come up to the elec: circle in the next two weeks. Barl Williams, the dimuniutive Dartmouth forward, gradually is down the ladder. Williams last week was supplanted as a regular by Rau. He h slumped noticeably in his playing in the last three weeks. In the first te scorers PPennsylvan- ia, Columbia, Dartmouth and Prince- ton are represented by two men each. For Dartmouth to have such good s nothing, holds on to his lead by mon MecNia- | being pushed | fou hoth got when up there high than Calder longer, mouth in the season more comy now Columbia’y Dwyer, are playing Williams of Dart- the bench. early scores were they and while is warming are two, no BROWNS RELE. PLAYERS/ - - Ficlder Jones Sends Four to Rochess ter Club. St. Louis, Feb. 21.—The sale ,of r members of the St. Louis Ameri can league club to the Rochester, N. Y. club of the International leagug announced by Fielder Jones, manager of the Browns, The transferred players are Walter Leverenz and Harry Hoch, pitchers; Geoge Hale, catcher, and Yale Sloan, outfielder. The terms of the sale wers not made publie, but it was announced Jones reserves the right to recall any of the player: was last night CORNELL TRIUMPHS, New Haven, Feb, 21,—After defegt. ing Princeton and Pennsylvania here by a single point, Yale fell before the Cornell basketball flve by the. same margin Saturday night. Cornell.led 1¢ to 9, when the first. half termi- nated and 21 to 20 when the curtain fell on the second. Seven times the lead changed, Yale.leading on three ond Cornell on four occasions.. Dur- ing the first half Kinney scored gjl {Yale’s nine points,. He registered, during the gave, twelve, of the Elj's nineteen tallies. During the secomd f he failed at four of his tries for goal and from foul his inability to toss the difficult goals costing his side a victor; WILL BE SOME TE. Watertown, Me., Feb. 21.—This eity be the only one in the country which will boast of a team of onés armed ball players. Louis Johnson, & one-armed lad and captain of the Watertown High school nine, is ors ganizing a team. He has three boys already, and by the time spring comes | is confident that he will have coms pleted the roster. When at high school Johnson was rated as one’uf | the best in the school and much bet- ter than many boys who had two arms. SCHANG LEAVES GIANTS. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21-—The purchase of Catcher Bobby Schang from the New York . Nationals was announced Saturday night by James C. McGill, owner of the Indianapolis | American association club. The con- dition was not made public. Peacock of the visitors and York, the Yale goal, collided so flercely in the isecond half that both were knocked Myers Powers Neurath 93 93 93 iast year out where he popped away | Co. B, C. N. G, had an easy time [among the leaders, Middleton Hoffman Hogan Dickman McQueeney Blanchard . Anderson Gaudette Trevethin 9 . Hickey . Thompson Walker Rawlings 93 93 93 92 92 92 92 92 91 91 91 90 90 o4 Trinity’s Out In Front. The three-cornered tie in the Baraca ‘class league, has at last been broken, “and the Trinity five are now nestled | in first place. However their lead Is ~but a slight one, and on top of their heels comes the Athenians who are | erowding the leaders for the honor. Jones' consistent bowling of late has boosted his average, and he now leads his league mates with the average of #5. Robinson is a close second with 3 and Cook and Carlson are fight- 5 ing it out for third place with marks of 92 each. The standing and averages follow: V. Ny P.C. 15 583 16 555 18 500 23 361 Trinitys _ Athenians Epworths sleyans High single, Stotts, 128. iligh three string, Robinson, 314. High team string, Wesleyane, 466. High team total, Epworth, 1269. Indtvidual Standing. Jones ~1Robinson Cook Carlson Thomas A. Stotts . . Wilcox .. ‘Walker Burr Camp Shepard ... 1. Wileox .. H. Stotts Hancock ... H, Johnson Smith . Redding Scofield Westlake CRIMSON HOCKEYISTS Boston, Feb, 21.—The Harvard col- lége seven defeated the crack St. Nicholas Hockey club team of New York Saturday night, four goals to fwo. Harvard's defensive combina- tion wag largely responsible for its success. The Crescent club of New York won from the Boston Athletic Association, 8 to 3. This game was sart of the championship series of the league, Aetna Bowling Alleys 10 High Grade Alleys. New Patrons Welcome. Give us a visit. 83 Church Street. t t i enseless. Peacock was carried from he floor, but insisted upon finishing he game when it was found that his njury was only a bruise. JAKE WOULD TAKE MANAGERIAL BERTH Rourke Throws Up Sponge in Pro- posed Fight Against New Merger League—Boultes Wants Job, Bridgeport, Feb. 21.—Now that Bridgeport is certain to be represent- ed in the Eestern League, many candi- dates for manager have bobbed up. Jake Boultes, who acted as pilot in 1914, is making a qelemined cam- paign for the place. He writes from his home in St, Louis that he is anx- ious to return to Bridgeport. He played with St. Louis, Mo., in the Western league last seascn and has a chance to return there but likes the Fast bet- ter. Owner John H. Freeman will carefully consider applicants before announcing his decision. It was learned for certainty vester- day that the Eastern Association will make no further attempt to hold up the new league. O’Rourke admits the appeal will be dropped: He says Zel- ler did not wish to carry on the fight and Bridgeport is also tired of the squabble. “It would be possible to make trou- ble for the new league by going to court,” he says, “but the wisdom of this course is doubtful and besides my assoclates and myself do not wish to deprive the fans of baseball this season.” Although O’Rourke would not admit the fact, it is understood that the Eastern association meeting planned for this week will not be held. NEAR TIGERS LET OUT. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 21-—Frank J. Navin, president of the Detroit Amer- ican league baseball club, Saturday, announced the release of several league recruits to minor league clubs. This cuts down the club roster to twenty-nine players Catcher Yelle, purchased from the London, Omnt., team, goes to Providence, of the In- ternational league. Shortstop Ellison, Outfielder Nicholson and Pitchers Ry- nearson and Jess Haines go to West- ern clubs. 1t is probable that only twenty-eight players will go South. Frank Ful- ler, a young infielder, may not be talken along. BROWN GYMNASTS BEATEN. New Haven, Feb. 21—The Yale gymnastic team defeated Brown Sat- urday night, 33 to 21 Captain Mat- tison of the visitors starred with bril- liant performances which netted him firsts on the horizontal bar and on the rings, and third in the parallel bar competitions. Weiner of Yale ex- celled in the tumbling. PENNSYLVANIA 22, COLUMBIA 9. Philadelphia, Feb. 21—The Univer- sity of Pennsylvania defeated Coluni- bia, 22 to 9, in an Intercollegiate league basketball game here Saturday night. with the Sagamores of Middletown Saturday evening at the state armory, winning 36 to 19. Paul of the homa * team was the bright star of the game, scoring 22 points, twelve from the fleld and ten from the foul line. The summary: COMPANY E Bloom, Thompson Left forward. Duplin, Zehrer Right forward. | ..Barry, Butterworth SAGAMORES Murphy | Paul Right guard IBIIIbY S o nan e Carlson Left guard Score—Company E 36, Sagamores 12; goals from field, Bloom 3, Thomp- son, Paul 6, Duplin 3; Murphy, Ruf- | fin, Blumin, Carlson; goals from fouls, Paul 10, Blumin 2: Carlson 2; referee, Bretschneider; timer, Gre;-\ ory. Ludwig, ——l CORNELL HOLDS VAN ORMAN. Football Coach Signs Contract to Re- main Two Years. Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 21.—Ray Van Orman will remain on Cornell’s foot- ball coaching staff two years more, | according to an announcement of the Cornell Athletic association yesterday. | Van Orman has signed a contract. | He is one of the most successful | end coaches in the country, having tu‘rned out such stars as Shelton, O'Hearn, Eyrich and Fritz. Van Orman, who was graduated from Cor- nell in 1908, was a great end while on the Cornell team. JESS SUFFERS RELAP: Willard Ordered Back to Bed By Phy- sician—Bout May Be Postponed. Chicago, Feb. 20.—Jess Willard was ordered to Led by his physicians yes- terday and, according to information given out later, he may not be able to fight Frank Moran at Madison Square Garden on March 25, to which date their meeting was postponed on = count of the condition of the heavy- weight champion. Willard suffered a relapse on Sat- urday, it was said, and while his phy- sicians do not consider his illness se- rious they belicve it were wise for him to remain in bed until he is well enough to resume light training. SMASHES HURDLE RECORD. South Bend, Ind., Feb. 21.—Wuldo Ames of Illinois broke the world's rec- ord for the 40-yard high hurdles in the track ineet here Saturday night which Illinois won from Notre Dame 49 to 32. Ames made the hurdles in 51-5 seconds. The former record of 5 2-5 seconds was made at Notre Dame in 1907 by Forestg Smithson. J. J. Scales and ¥. Fletcher and by T. N. Richards at Lafayette, Ind., in 1911. O'Meara of Illinois collided with a spectator in the relay race and was insensible fifteen minutes. Referee Delany forfeited the race to Notre Dame, but Notre Dame refused to ac- cept the five points. O’Meara’s in- J()n Forty-seven thousand dollar: ! carnest athlete, A useful thing for citizen, whether he taseman or a shoe clerk. Two Grip Varietics. The grip has laid Jess Willard low Cbserve how loudly Tom Jones hollers; I only wish 7 had the grip the be indus a thirad Koko The Smoke Ball King. Joe Wood, the Smoke Ball King of the Red Sox, believes the final kink has left his arm and that he will be ready to pick up in 1916 where he left off in 1912. Wood, a fine, clean type of ' the is one of the great pitchers of the game. You failed to hear as much about him- last season as many others, and vet with an arm that was only slowly working into shape he worked in 25 games and was the most effective pitcher in his cir- cuit, allowing fewer earned runs to the start than even that Nonpareil from Weiser, Idaho, and Washington, D. C.—Walter Johnson. Wood has been training intelligent- 1y all winter. He is starting his ninth season with the Red Sox, and yet today is only twent yvears old. If he can iron away that one kink in the old whip he should be good for another ten years. The Greatest Staff, If Wood is at his best the Red Sox staff should be the greatest that base- tall ever knew—greater than the club staff of 1906: the Mackian staff that included Bender, Coombs Plank at their best; the Giant staff that knew Mathewson, Marquard and Tesreau; even the old Pirate staff that had Chesbro, Tannehill, Leever and Phillippe. Cuba doesn’'t have to face the Proposition of preparedness. Sohn McGraw and Germany Schaefer had Feen playing Zolf there for the last three weeks, and the Antipodean i~ndscape is now fitted out with trenches deeper and broader than those which run southward from the North Sea. “T have sold my last ball player.” C. Mack. ‘“Not quite yet. Haven't you still got Stuffy McInnis? Re-echoes. Form may not be an essential but it is one grand little island in case of shipwreck. . The wise entry is content to win and save something for the next start. With too many superficial obser- vers the amount of money involved makes the class of the field. 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