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NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, Big Fellows” to Take Part in Coming Tournament in Washington--New Britain High Basketball eam Gets Things Done to Them in Waterbury--Union Works Bowlers Tighten Hold on First Place . PORT L0GALS NO MATGH LIGHT | ORCROSHY ik | Gigar Store IndiénsWWould Have | Done as Well as Schmidt’s Five D BOWLERS IN | Nearly a Million Dollars’ Worth | [i T[]URNAMENT Of Dogs Benched at Westminster Bresident Marshall aud br Clark to Display Ability ington, D. C., Feb. 26.—A | check on the teams from this t.will complete in the Atlan- st' Bowling association’s tourn- [ starting April 3, reveals the at least 150 quintets will | Yy Grantland Rice A queer freak of nature it is how |to show the Kid every trick of the habit or memory hangs on. . It takes just a bit of a Man You have read in lyrical verse how !to go out and try to help some one For the sccond time this season the <ome John, obtaining a whiff of r who is after your job. New Britain High school basketba or mignoncite, suddenly recalled with | team fell before the superior work of amazing tenderness some Jane of other years. Any one who figures that tr Or it may have been that some {cymp life for the athlete is a playful | whelming asper heard an old-fashioned melody | romp has another guess due. Up be- | ware City boys were never in nd the Crosby High team of Waterbur going down last evening by the ove score of 55 to 18 “he Har pate. As practically every nd straightway before his vision | fore m., at the gym, by 9 and | after assuming sife lead the Bra _of these teams will compete ‘me Bessie or some Ethel drifted by, | then a two-mile walk to the orchard. | city management put in stitute singles and doubles of this To borrow an illustration from the |as Larry Doyle calls it And then | teamn late Orth Siein— hustle—and work. By late afternoon | The game started off with rush porting affair, this means that | la1 capital alone will put in en- | money $12,760. This figure b at least trebled by the bowl- | hms fron out of Washington, | giabout 450 teams, and the en- foney $37,250. ‘A truly Te- ble figure for ‘a bowling asso- | but two years old. how these 150 teams from | jngton are to be organized makes ‘ Fting reading. - Letters to the sommittee this week from \'ice! lent Marshall and Speaker Clark | eh the presiding officer of the b'ana ' nuse, respectively, prom- | tual icipation in the open- | th rney, give rise to the | lthat ¢ “least one Congressional | will roll in the affair. There great number of bowlers in the | i and a- “‘Congressional” night | staged in the event that a | ! {he athlete is ready to eat the cover | and at the end of the first period Cros- st nieht as I leaned from my |cff the dining room table, and by 10 | by was in the lead score 29 to 17. Phe o'clock he is poised for a running | lan the star forward who put a crimp art toward the grand old hay The | in New Britain vwhen the te A song came floating upward, | t week in camp life is a week of | clashed in this city, again proved an Broken and incomplete— |acony—of sore muscles, of hing | enigma, and while he remained in tie | arms, of throbbing legs | game he piled up 10 goals a total of | Smoking is cut down to 2 {ho entive. ox What ghost of the yester nothing: a few may take a glass of | posing team secured. P "Twas something sweet a . | beer at the end of the last workout, | “Baby" Borden played stellar basket tears.’ but nothing stronger, and water is the ! pall, their guarding and breaking up e n:ain camp beverage all around the team work of the visitors featur You get the idea. So with us. For | Hustling for your bread and mes ne come reason or other each breath of v eover the enterprise, is rarely | Breckenridge of the locals was t waning February brings back again frolic. | only player whose work is worthy o the fr: t odor of baseball. Tt | —— | mention. This game little plaver may have been from the fact that | The manager's job is the toughest | cureq 15 of the total score for th when we were, a.bit of a lad, bud |of them all. For the first part of the { nome team, five goals from ‘the field Lo part of a bonny one, each passing stay the recruits look better than the 4 five from the foul lina. Tebruary brought the instinctive de- vecteran Tor they have Youth, the he score and summary sire to get out and throw baseball. incomparable in sport, and are able ' croghy That desire has never passed, and :to work at top speed before the Vet | HL window, High ovcr the da street, most | 20 points, more t “What delicate wraith of p: arson and New Britain »ns, Phelan Schmiat enters from the ranks of the ‘ if we were up around Baffin's Bay in s quit limping or nursing a throb- i kenridge pEers. | February it would be the same. For ling shoulder. And for two or three | Right forwar Elks and K. of CO’s. ! {he last days of February are the out- | weeks the .205 hitter is tearing down | pjerpont, A. Phelan Harton . | 5 ¢ sprin a w o ba ye fences, while the .310 star is old Stephania Washitigton ‘Afmerican’ League posts of spring. And when the ball the fences, while {h 0 ; | i phanian ‘will; have two 'teams, one C’xp-‘l’ club starts South and you are one of Angus W. Pop-up, lucky to hit one | Left forward i by shortstop- George McBride | the party, vou and spring have met over the plate, much less over the | Beard, Smybert . Bachulus half-way fence, Seigrist he other by Walter Johnson, | I o o ymous pitcher. The local lodge | = h = % A | enter ) & will have ten teams, Knights A Big League training trip is quite | There are two important affairs in | porden, James ...... ... Buoel an insittuiion, To the casual inspec. comb life. Oneis ihe armi the other Right gu flumbus bowlers will enter a like s the Leg. - Solomor per, while the Masonic League of tor it is mostly routine. But beyond IS1he BCE Lo woep | Waldyka, Moran ] olomon 20 teams— that it is a good deal more. ne earnest athiete Jucan SRSED Left ¢ e e e these two affairs in order, the game | guore— Crosby 5 - Britath 1 It is a very human section of life. There is nothing else just lilke it. Here are forty yvoung and middle- for him is a grand little institution. | oo\ eom floor, Par But a ball player wit sore arm is | 3 Phelan 1, Beard je biggest bowling leagues ever hized—will have all of its quints whert 1, Bor- & tourney i _arm s le entrance of teams as a whole | aged men working and living together ;num:.la; f]'hl‘m n;\. and as happy as & | gen 4, James 2, Schmidt 1, Brecken- 4 seace and happiness. Yet twenty: |wounded leoparg ridge 5 »a ym fouls, Parsons 6 R tae clty: he . Distrieti, . | at the recent show. No. 1 shows Tim- the world. Wireboy did not compete ' gther twenty's jobs. And only twenty fhe ball plaver than the Leg, because | jon e will enter all ten of its teams, | New York, Feb. 26—The Westmin- | reth, winner of the English bulldog | in the regular classes, where his son i ’”,‘.N !‘,h.‘; A o o onew 1 the mechanism of the Arm is more ; s - ritrance fee being pald by the |ster dog show, held here in Madison | class; No. 2, Wireboy of Paignton: | carried all before hira, and it was al oo e Satney B e ar Sone casily disarranged. And once the Old | gARVARD BOXERS IN RING. i¢' instead of awarding, as is the | Square Garden, was one of the most | winner of the variety class. Father | shock to some fanciers when he l)u(‘]lx Agdm”t‘n( ”‘]:‘ ;}‘"‘“ . P,:m‘r ® \Wing begins to flap and flutter—Good | A i custom, iz v | successful ever held. There was near- | beat son i his 3 - i Y 2 . more year or for his @ J s | = P & 18 to: prize money to the | c 1ere was near eat son in this cla even though proudly bore off the ribbon in the var-! ¢ the Busher sticks and the Vet Night. Also Farewell. Kirkpatrick Wins Heavyweight Titlé ers. ‘"The Royal team, the prob- | ly a million dollars’ worth of dogs | that son was the $6,000 Conejo V y ¢ . No. 3, Afon Bolo, cha | winner in this league, and whieh | benched, and the classes were the hest | collar Boy, which has the distinction | pion Pomeraniant No o i O ol & Araw down abeut $90 for the | in the country. The layout shows four | of being highest priced wire haired | winner of the blue ribbon in the Rus- “ill contribute all this toward | of the leading dogs which took prizes ' fox ferrier in the country, it mot inJ sian wolf hound clz i [éntrance fees, while the team at | P Bottom, which would receive only will get the benefit of the W1|’|§- IANDERS’ PIN MEN k money. It is this spirit on the | of the Washington bowlers that | DROP THREE GAMES | TO CLASH IN NEW YORK baking for the tremendous success 5 he A. C. B. A. tournament. fadesfoutiNIciianotatie ratien et hiar mosel| i Pxom Bigeiw ot Foolbell o the honor of making a college team. t i : s Il players fade out through bad | Cambridge, Ms I{ is a matter of meat and bread, of ; 3 2 f ovms or through bad legs, taking the | Kirkpatrick of = - the Missus and the Kids, of a profes- n ad ns ; " entire allotment, which of course in- ' and prominent : S it o (e o) 0 e v OAERD R W G SR R R e 4 Fale: thivd ohi S e TSt ¢ < s. e s a say b bl ; s-Exete @ UNCLE SAM’S BOYS Yale; third, Shipman, Princeton. Dis- ©f one's prime. ms probably dumped most of them, | becam¢ the heavyweight champion tance ”\r ubsteteny (0 G O < most pitchers go by that route. | Harvard university tonight when hé T UsTard Suin s oniy Bad legs probably cut down more in- | forced J. L. Bigelow of the football T second, Hopkins, Yale: third, ficlders than bad arms—a good many ' squad to quit in the second round of celen hrindston el ; miore. Frank Chance, Art Devlin, Al | a three-round bout in the fina 100-Yard Swim—Won by Burchen- Priawell, Bill Bradley—are a few star | the college boxing tournament Feb. 26—O0. G Antonio, Tex ght throwe Tn a training trip ther is the humor and the tragedy of many life- ) times We will take the c: e of an aver- dies to Oqupete. League Leaders Tighten Grip on First | Representatives of Academics Chose [al, Princeton; second, Schalet, Yale; | 786 Veleran. He has a family, and, ;014 0 torced out by yielding | Two champiéns were won during ere wlil be several ladies’ teams Chind Mowe Vil Tine 0@ e [P PT DoviE been alpreal g b e { e oveting. Ry A: 7. Wontherhedlh red, the fair sex bowlers taking Place in Factory League—Gau- Polo Grounds For Coming Contests & - |iias earnea just about enough to break | PTOPS: | the t\lmwn_ . d »\\v itherhend i chances along with the men. | 5 A b | B cven on the living game, with a| e | who played end on the Varsity foot- I it bswlors Inck 15 dette and Hogan’s Fine Work. —No Coach Yet For Cadets. NO REST FOR WEARY thousand or so loft over. He knows [ The most complete Iraming camp L e e 55 ponnd ‘et B they more than make up in| The Union Works bowlers, leaders | West Point, N. Y., Feb. 26.—Lieu- A s :ieh'i“h:L’:‘l?t:(‘::o{‘h;rz“;(:n]:':t)‘, dvesn’t even take it for granted that | when he got the decision over Matty knows how to pitch. | Cobb, a man of his own weight — | be took on a heavier man in the FOUR CLEVELAND PLAYERS GO, | pound class and in the finals awarded the victory over P. H. H isiasm, and “Ladies night” will e big-occasion. entries in the tournament close in the Factory league, took a firmer | tenant James B. Crawford, Secretary i ) > c N Wi s < siart in other profes ns, he will be and treasurer of the Army Athletic [“Wild Bill” Keeps His Hirclings in \\,mfmu 5 r,,.'(,(l(\“inn or a trade. Council, announced yesterday that the light gray grip on the position last evening at Action Despite Poor Weather Con- |, If, YOu are looking for ich 25, and there are already sev- |the Aetna alleys, when a three time 7 oo v ady sev- s Army and Navy football games this . e : G > i : Y 3 shs athos you can find it Cleveland, Feb. 26—The first change 3 tet?ms entered. There will be | defeat was handed to the Landers No. | year and in 1917 will be played at et : hade of p\(vhn you fl‘n 1_‘_ in | \el%nd. eb. ’[:ht 1|f~t (hfn ® @ctition in the tourney, which |» = il ; ditions—Gowdy of Braves Spectator. | that Veteran's eyes as he sits on the | in the ranks of the Cleveland base- | e N BEAY 3. atternoor and e |2 team. The games were hotly con- | the Polo Grounds in New York, This R e e s v alcnins | 1 iclublunder) tho ! new ownersnip| In the other finals E. F. Cahill Bly two ocoaslons. when sattes. | t5ted, ‘@ mersin of the one poiny.|ls in 9“’0"‘“"0? with the agrecmont" Macon, Ga., Feb. 26.—Cold weather | some Kid of 22 pegging them om a | came yesterday. Robert McRov, | W07 rom 0 “." oorown e R e e erating ths | teams Lin ihe firef w]m]xl\o(;n (ny::; 1:;(;1&:\1'!‘('\ i]o:nmd n'?ife thez made no difference in the plans of the |line from third to first the second | Cleveland representative for Owner !;mn‘w: ‘4“;.1\'; W 4‘>.y1|v‘nyn ; de oo - day the Elks parade, and the |game. Gaudette and Hogan were in | a conference held in New York on | ¢W York American league baseball i(r‘a} 1;)“(': HL} i 1}: mm'dtmlmf‘l' :m: ?"“(i& D‘;n":\']” dr\]" k xI - (m'\m( o | class, L. H. Beier defeated O. R 2 v 7 i s = % i G i ‘he me bein e can defend 1 Kirke, ’itcher scar 3 3 PS8 o i o = el;r;or::mof(h:p:uj 20, when Wash- |top notch form, the former securing | Wednesday. Dlayers yesterday. They missed | i s soro atm and a oharley-horsed | cher Ben Egan and Outfiel ad, Cal- | Howe in the 125-pound class, and ejuvenated Yankees [a 317 score of the three strings while | The Army was given the choice of | Thursday from their work and Man- | thigh. Yet we have seen this type of | Wille have been let out. Either Ivan | W. —Heflinge SR N. P 2 i Meyer in the 115-pound class. Excer y open the local baseball s v i 3 i - i i eball season. lb'!eorg&nT::SI:&:rP:j ih;iféhofsit:;en::n the site for the game in 1917 and the | ager Donovan did not intend to lose ! Veteran on many an c@wasien to go | Howard or Chick Gandil will suc- - 5 West Pointers chose New York. The |two days in succes: 3 s exper d coachi ry. | ce Cirke, i . 1 ays in succession. o out by experienced coaching try | ceed Kirke. BIRMINGHAM FIXED UP. Otr the match, rolling 120 in the final | Navy will have the choice in 1918. plu,\'g.‘ out 31"&":7:21"1 pal;-{l: l‘:j,(:k,fi:s i 3 i B : uw:‘rx}](ge.r rOPetz':hnmr’mn was the best Under the new arrangements the!a cold and strong wind. ’fhere were d Cleveland Manager Draws r the losers. Navy will occupy the south side of | twenty-nine of them. Charles Mullen, | {in the heavyweight division the awards were made on bpoints. $20,000. fio-:S ’;:‘; 123}::;*“;0':':::%?‘1&“9;2; the Polo Grounds this vear and the | the infielder, and Herman Schaefer. | ! Army will be seated in | e ia ac S Gleveland, Feb. 26.—Joe Birming. |*0Unds in the Good Fellowship league | stand. SHERIE e e s eveliand) m, deposed manager of the Clevs. | Were rolled. The league is made up e |5 S o et e Lot en il o)) 2 The question of head coach and| Yankees in training at Maco 1 mericans yvesterday settled his | Of three men teams and promises to S 2 [ LOE Oy Sacon. it for $20,000 b £ g o trainer for the Army team has as vet| -Donovan took His men out i ¥ ack salary and dam. |pToduce some interesting contests. : T 5 5 3 £ Lyl = L4 to be decided. Lieutenant Charles B. | morning and afternoon and & th Charles Somers, former | The scores follow: | 5 4 [ and put them B ¢ 'Gie b By comp, rmer " | Daly, who has been coach for the last | through batting and pitching practice. B surn hie’ will Tecelyo ’:T’mmismg- Union Mfg. Co. two vears, will not be able to officiate | The cold wave did not cause the man- , B n ote was ot ai- | crank 96 81 9 269 | this Fall, and Harry Tuthill, the Army | ager to shorten the work, but the | Bilits Bumthgham askea for | Gaudette 90 115 112— 317 | trainer has signea with the University | 4rill is still wholly elementary and | B0 back salary and 38 03; da{:‘!‘ Hogan ... 90 106 120— 316 | of Michigan for next season. | confined to individual conditioning. 2 s - | ¥ — ing ractics i o " itie lutt @1 Tiot include $io . | CoreT s = — (IS Ineiiattnat Dracticoinftho faior: B ik Budagham . loancd e el e | noon. which also meant practice for = ; T | YALE SWINMERS WIN [Bicwers e ionetis™ #iuct Birmingham refused to discuss +he Teues o, - jeas e MeCovern fCedson Sl ettlement. - In @iscussing his future | Penniman o SR oo Jnder, and Nunamaker, and they did Bsil that e ‘Bitends to play center., | Weare 92 89— 266 { Princefon Aquatic Team Wins Four | jog yioiong Off the pitching of Cul- eld on the Toronto club of the Inter- | ~hompson 79 — 165 3 I‘l(“l A'nx:rm_g(\ Keating, Brady, Piercy, J e otiat Teasue, which o will mensse | Anderson 1 s 32| Events to Two For Yale—Sensa- | Pieh and Markle. Piercy used more his season. Huck 98— 98 : L. speed than any of the other: It was i s tional Finish by Yale Wins Relay. | 100 frosts for one to test his arm ! S | The ball was hammered hard by FILLIS NEW CHAMPION | 864 268 387—1099 New Haven, Feb. 26.—Yale defeat- | short and agile youth, .\‘1:‘(:(:“\(}1&5 ———— [— . ed Princeton last nisht, 31 points to| Hank Gowdy, catcher of the Bost IDefcats Dé Oro for Thiee-Cushion | COOP FVELDROWSHIP LEAGUE. o) oot annual s\\‘in\mi(:)g meot. | Braves. looked on and expressea the Billiard Title. Starlights. R s e opmm_n! that the batting was carried £ : ey e R o s Sl O j lon with a good deal of asperity. Charles Bilis of Pittsburgh won the | Britt ... S s | e e e Clo T e Sl D e RO N I e ma e i (Wl er s B were e hree-cushion - billard championship |J. Jurgen g0 Ral o (glisnperiorityginisecond fandichindinlagelli teye Sl i itchin BEGE vih o s ade e |2 uree 80 5 70 | winners. Yale took the relay race d(‘,,.i,w}‘l,:\‘_"l',,("“,’,l"z]l‘:“,‘ e Rl night by defeating Alfredo de Oro the e ——— | and won first and second in the fur- & proltactecy sl ogs RHothat BRG] 262 288 270 260 247 |long swim. Tor Princeton, Burch- m":hi‘:_,"‘l S longWorkouc Jp schiacter When the third and, final block of | Ponics. enal starred by finishing first in the | Muten at conal Sport, Gedeon and the match was begun last night, the | W. Jurgen . 92 108 93 79 | 50 and 100 vards swims. No other | way the infield line- Ceoyesugata st A U l score stood 100 to 80 in favor of De | Wagner 81 84 86 91 | competitor on either captured two| = The veteran J;',;\',":f il | S sual, Oro, but Bllis made 61 points while |Scharff .... 91 93 9 gs | first places. Captain Friesell of | in excellent condition, bunted ] the titlehoider was scoring 29. The S RS e ceron Vol ol er sl B (S L s e O ana The Unusual BOCk. Pittspurgl ‘played had high runs of 274 285 255 274 258 |tion of fancy diving. Captain Scha- | not pitched fnca :Eoin }mu 'of"n e 10 g twer five’s while De Oro’s best let of Yale won the team relay race | tice. He is going slowly, as bofits a | : p | LA s e effofts were runs of four and three. i by a remarkable sprint at the finish. | S S TN S g ! Hops exclusively assures the Er e 3 i 4 es. 5 veteran who does not unlimber his § | highest qualit; Seventy Innings were played in last [gijlqutr 78 77T 107 Princeton won the water polo game 01 arm as early as recruits. Caldwell's \ . - nigit’s Hloek, making a total for the | Freeman 87 90 104 to 1. The summary: | weight now is 190 pounds, but there On Tap or in Bottles. | three blocks of 198 innings. e G 600-Feet Relay—Won by Yale, |is no surplus flesh. He still look . . Drett ...... 93 (Ferguson, Thomas, Howe and Scha- | lean, for he has a big frame to fill A At D?al“;;fl'.f“'uhm‘ly Trade— e jisenrot dieghaniabie = of our Bottling Department. - = s firs e he reported to the 5 Now Is the Time to Start 58 268 292 24 ney Diving—Won by Friesell, | Yank i o 7 W = { The Hubert Fischer Brewer Spring Leagues LT Princeton; second, Benjamin, Yale; | weighed only 160 pounc S S = e HARTFORD, CONN. L AE Core Hee . _ | tnira, Scobey, Yale. | S Connecticut’'s Leading Brewery. - TNA BOWLING ATEy e ol s 0 s 50-Yard Swim—Won by Burchenal, | 0o 2 Za 2 ; ALLEYS e A Princeton; second, Captain Schalet, SPEAKER SIGNS CONTRACT., . rodel .. 93 100 Yale: third, Thomas, Yale. Time Houston, Tex., Feb. 26.—Tris Speak Alleys Reserved for Mixed |[Neurath .. 82 84 86 | 0:26 3-5 er, outfielder of the B Americans % 2 T Plunge for Distance—Won by Nor v > 4 T iR O P, ' 3 Parties, 5 & announced here last night that he had ON P AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTE L. BELOI FRS & C 3 DS ity e ad » BELOIN, RS & CO., HER- - 0 lris, Princeton; sccond, Landstreet, | signed a contract for next season, MANN SCHMARR, W.J. McCARTHY. * -