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

NE\V, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1916. Wankee Regulars Report to ““Wild Bill”--Boys” Club Hoop Tossers Trim Pilgrim A. C. Five--Former Pirate Player to Lead Springfield--Langford Gives Trin ity Some Pointed Views--Training Camp Notes | ANKEE REI]—U[Aflé Champion Jess Willard Surprises ARRIVE AT MAGON, Bee, Peckinpauglfi Fisher and Maisel Reach Camp jiGon, Ga.. March 1—The rookies have had their anust now step ide and permit ‘regul;ns to their place at Most of the boys upon whom rest fate of the new Yunkees fito. camp vesterda hst as the Botel for Leopold Magee; ( h, Roy Yan- inning, take flutter- players v their after Hoerns aptain Hartzell, ¥Frank Gilhooley finnati, Cleveland its west However, glers were fe in the fter dinnc re ieaving con prac hmeyer, W blew in Toledo and Tusty parti workout rrow New hally not invite afternoon’s Harry Spa Snanager. steered t! e into camp. It ori & of Ray Fisher and Pr correspondents figth as it proceeded picked up Bob l, Lute Boone to busi York con- news- but gained conditiori. | as bossing Brool- Wells, Miss.. a l scem Maze at to who oo be back i nxous to show the as hard in he did in Lec which *V but would the lie Pipp B, and seems 6 face than oks heavier but said he ds the [Will begrudge extra pounds. inseparable ¥, and both 5. Peck is as ruddy be much fuller he was last season. | than he was Jast gained five winter, and no the human lath a Hartzell and Peck, pals, came in expect to have says he I winter, and it puble, but he is anxious to sce it feels when he starts playir L All of the veterans are highiy with the ney ite of affairs Yank hiflin;:‘ku'(mrm and pys are very optimistic. Some b can almost smell World fough. hitic ¢ ¥ voor to New 1.—Jess Willard, the heavyweight champion, who is to meet Frank Moran in a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden on the night of March continues to York March only during sood rested 5 has given him which he is working out for the big mill at the Pioneer Athletic club here. The general opinion among is that Willard has improved fully 50 per cent. since he showed here a year ago. In his last hout here Jess was about as awkward as a giraffe, but now it's different. He blocks in ra- ther remarkable style and leads and hits with both han His uppercut | used to travel in an arc of about two feet. Now it may not go more than two inches, but it is the kind of stinger that hurts. When he first ar- rived here he sprang a surprise on the critics. They expected to see a big fellow with plenty of beef and a good sized paunch, but he fooled them. He has little fat around the stomach, fieir usual workout and then | although his chest and arms are well Bbunts. Late yvesterday the | covered with layers of fatty tissue. i began to warm up and it | However, fighters try to heap weight e cold spell over. | upon their chests, and this onovan said that prac- | poundage undoubtedly will as has decided on what players much good as harm to Willard. Wil- skeep, and that the majority lard's legs and hip: e symmetrically [foungsters will never see New almost perfect. doubtful if he S However, for res- ;carries more than a pound of extra Bill will not give hist | weight on his lower extremities. In e boys who will until | fact, his legs seem to be perfectly ready to ship The only | under control It now His jowls to keep ball hustling | and han bul, out with fat, but a e spring is him think | couple weeks will remove this jhas a o - a regular - { handicap, if it is a hand From collaps Trederal le: e | outward app: 3 the champion ed all our plans 1id Wild | is right now almost in condition to box #or we never would have this |ten rounds with any of his aspiring of bMshers on our hands Of | opponents. Pictures show how Wil- fe weseould not f the | lard looks today in upper ral league’'s demise bought up ex jor we eould our hands on any Reookics to Be Lot Ont. nce W& purchased Baker. Magee, lon and@¥Cullop there will hardly bom some of the prospects jaid BI& money for. Keating to foBm. and the purch ey late last season also f us tellet out 4 “handed pitchers we has nditions A heavy hout the night and poor shape, while it remain- and cioudy. The morning € was called off entirely, and afternoon the players worked and did not venture mond. The vpitchers ain were rain fell left th is he do 1t obvious a out the be canned them ) B! a yver a Ap One ery good minor compares with I foot { partner, Walter Monahan. | Willard star left after shift ! picture sho how J | when he first arrived here MODERATE BOXING PRICES six spa get many he | “Ted” Lewis Amazed at Amount g have several o ements wit) | Prices Asked in U, P league’ clubs, two with Inter- nal league clubs and one with | is, and Jate in March we will | to ship fhem players direct, as | buld be too biz an expense 1o this mob throush our entire ng season.” ile Donovan doe: ames of the Int ls he is fenown ond Prices in England. v New York, March 1.—Ted Lew: the Inglish thing: fighter, says one not rnational league | pumber of rounds a spectator is al- s dickering with, — the¥ jowed to see for his money. In Eng- to he Newark and, Lewis you can see 69 clubsg ounds and sor an admission of A | nearly consists ) bout of rounds, a semi-final of 15 rcunds, two of 10 rounds each 1d six bouts of four rounds each. e vesterday, John 1 On me occ s a tournament of 0., beat Edward 15 bouts, each lasting three Tounds, own, N. J 100 to !p)'o\'lxl(-rl in addition to the regular Fink of Philadelphia [card. And the whole show, can be Chapman of Chic seen for cents. In the United to 65 States the prices range from $§1 ——r = == | for a main bout of from six to twenty SMOKE | ounds with a few short prelims. 7 ‘ LV 4 HI1LD, PLEASANT he £ ays, BILLIARD TOURNEY. March In the after of the national po 1pionship contest, now K eago, garm d cl ways ket s bou infa o h of Hj, d Mor ited | ;and, according to Lewis. They are Lield every week or so and it is in tournaments that the English 's get their starts. I Lewis started boxing in tourna- | ments when he was 16 years of age. |He weighed 98 pounds. As he won * [ his way through tournaments he was Jtart | €iven better bouts and finally fought Start | for and won the featherweight cham- pionship of England and Europe. | Lewis has been busier than any | toxer in the country during the past . | 3 ALLEYS | two months and is making so much = money he plans to bring his father, s Resf)rve‘.i for Mixed | mother ana th isters to the Stateg Parties. | to live. I s CIGAR the Time to pring Leagues TNA BOWLING 0=\ tonish his friends by the manner in | experts | a | extra | left son, | of layout shows how the champion | fa i N On right Bust appeared Tournaments are popular in Bng- | R Ring Experts by His Splendid Form SRR, i | I THREE QUESTIONS FANS ARE ASKING How Will Matty, Benny and Lee Fare This Season? New Yo the success of the retail hatte k, March 1.—Presumably 1916 fall season in New York is going be predicated upon three more or less opposite questions. Somewhat in the order of their importar they are: 1. Will Matty come 2. Will Leec Magece hit with the Yankecs? 3. Will Benny Kauft more in the National league? One may find the affirmative and tive sides of these highly acad- propositions backed, not only by Itless logic, but by fall 1 wherever the diamond virus ha gun asserting itself. “Matty will come gentleman into whose to back? 280 or more hit 310 or emic oney, be- back,” ‘declared a crept voic | g0 of | —Bargain | i of the that surprised him most when ¢ came to the United States was the mention {55mission charged for bouts and the | Theretore, 100 rounds for | show | he main | that he can jump back into the win- | Weak up | | | | | said an unmistakable challeng Giants' office yesterday ‘They never do,” returne ditor, dismally. He pointed out the f: had waitcd patiently in the au- et that Chica- as a subway ssenger for a seat, in the hope that | Walsh would Walsh come r. Spalding’ ble to discove There was this diffrence flipped his | morgue by Metty, into the applied to Matty would coyldn’t. Wise Benny Matty was a pitchi may continue to a come back. back” t so mpeccable though, into iy 12d ball £pit ball. had delvea lies the use hoev sty horse the Heie hydrau leathei. back, as come where W Tallks. exception and so much so ning pitcher a averages and exper ewson's success se m, ave he traditions surroundi Big league bats hs from that psveholo hitters have Confidence S i the laws of Much of Mat during the last few the mere nar e, parated advan rod days orf Matty. TIOW de. a path of thorns. “I was talkihg to J other days,” sald a scribe. “Dienm ‘And so they thing Magee Avill hit .300 in the Americai league. Oh my! Listen! Magec won’t hit .27 in the American lcaguc. On the level, they gave him hits in' Brooklyn last ar when he coull have thrown out by Mrs. on nny Kauff the with hits n staling 300, I redited beg it and be c infielde It M one hop when the Field's stuff. hit .580." " Kony’s Views. Benny's mouologue might be dis- carded as purely an ex-parte opin- ion, and not a very clubby one at that, i { And | tae | 1 based upon the | their Matty’s way back is admittedly | been | Pankhurst. T | | seen Magee hit "em Lo an infielder on | {were it not for the fact thai he s | time when a i backed i by ‘statistics. Records 1 ito show that Magee cver hit .300 in the National league, admittedly an casier league to slam in than the American. Magee wus a .260-.280 hitter in the National league and never uaccounted of the wulloping type. He was, and is, 1 turn-over hitter and the power was lacking in the left shoulder, it is with so many batters who aitect a left-footed stance that they may reach first base more quickly. “But,” Ed Koney, said some ago, “Magee, in all his career, has hit so terrificaliy inst left- | handed pitching as he did in the Na- | tional leagu He simpiy murdered outhpaws.” ide from Magee's ability, or lack to hit .300 in the American le, he will be valuable in the ccl- | umn of aggression. If he hits 5 he will be of great value to the Yan- kees, for he is a dangerous man once abase. Magee will be a bigger equa- tion with the Yanks than the mere figures will show. What Kauff Should Do. Benny Kauff is more of Benny never played in league, vet all experts who have scen him agree he is one of the most nat- ural hitters in the game. Benny can golf 'em off his ankles or intercept | bean halls with an accurate swing of his bat that made him a .344 terror to the Federal league pitchers last on. On hitting form alone Kauff should | be a .3 ter in the National | league unless eccentricities yet to be | observed intrude them upon his | work at bat. Th self-suflicient Ben- | jamin will go into the Natinnal league a marked man and If any one pitcher the National league discovers a kness in his hitting h the undereround ing his brother here that weaknes: as time never problem. incinerate wires ad precisely w posed to e 1 Federal le: Ao it. Kauff was free swinging hitter and not much concerined as to what kind of a ball he hil, they found In other worc no bvitcker pulled Benny out of joint making him go after bad ones. The ball had to be | at least in the congressional district with the before l‘.el would offer it. Mathewson, the object training clubmen is sup- pitchers failed to ne late and Kauff will J study during Magee he | the play DENTE! March RUMORS. 1—Dave L. president of the Baseball Fraternity, when asked yes- about the statement of James the PULTZ New York, Tultz, former president of that there might be Gilmore, | 17ederal | a baseball players’ strike early in the denied absolutely that contemplated. He of no such mat- |ter even being discussed, and he !said thut he certainly would know of it if the fraternity has any such plans. Mr. Fultz laughingly re- marked that Mr. Gilmore might be leaguc, coming season such w d he knew PORT Jimmy McAleer, one of the greatest | cf all outfielders, big league manager l 2nd big league club owner for many years, was, as the novelist might say “smoking a meditative cigar.” Or you might call it a contem- plative cigar; or a reminiscent cigar, if vou cared to. At any rate, smoking and meditating at one the same moment. “The Good Old Days. “The time has passed,” remarked Jimmy, “when a poor man or a man of moderate means has any business promoting or managing any branch of sport. This goes for war or pi- neochle, football or che ‘If you haven’t got the money you needn't ccme around’ is the popular song of the day. Take the Buropean war. It is costing at least ten times as much £s any war in history. A billion now lasts about twenty-three minutes by an accurate stop watc Ten billion a mere nothing. Yet there was a | guy with fon billion could finance a pretty good little war for a vear or two and still have cigarette money left.” Same in Baseball, “I recall the day, not so very long ago,” continued the veteran, “when a Tian with $50,000 was a welcome ad- dition to any baseball circle. But $50,000 today won't much more than get you in the park. With anything less than a half million you can't even start. It is no longer a poor man’s game—from the owning end.” Boxing Also. The same holds true for the boxing game. Forty thousand dollars more than covered the purse and expenses of the Sullivan-Corbett fight—a finish | fight between the most popular of all | heavyweights and the cleverest. | But $40,000 today will hardly take | care of a -round prelim. To put | on a ten round, no decision contest Tex Rickard must stand a tap of $90,000—far more money than it cost to put on the Sullivan-Corbett | Mr. McAleer was and | for and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons battles ! PRITZ KREISLER ! World-famous Violinist I have certainly found in Tuxedo the one and only tobacco that measures up to all my requirements, rich in fra- grance, always cool smoking and so mild_that I can smoke pipeful after pipeful at a sitting.”” Convenient, glassine wrapped, 5 moisture-proof pouch C “n Tin Humidors, 40c and 80c any the THE AMERICAN contemplating a strike among ball riayers, but if so he himself knew nothing about it. LIGHT Grantland Rice combined, where both were (o finish, with championships at stake. Basebs fans a s Cost. appreciate the modern big league take for 1916 the Huston and Colonel terrific baseball. case of Ruppert, Few cost of We will Captain { Yankee owners, this So far they have invest season §130,000 for new player two-thirds of whom will be sent back {10 the bush Their Polo Ground rent for the year 2lary with Baker and Magee added, will be at least §110,000. Training camp cxpenses will be an- other $6,000. Hotel bills other incidental costs belp—which isn't incid another $50,000 at least, Total this and you find two Yank owners are up 1ere matter of $351,000, reighborhood. The Tu the money and others will Tist, ravelling expenses and including office ntal—will be what the against—a or in that mstile Need, for be Baler, invest- As Magee spent an Inent for more than one vear, $51,000 1night be knocked from this amount 1916. This leaves an expense account of $200,000 for the year. At an average of 50 cents each, the fan attendance, for the two owners to break even, will have to be in the neighborhood of 600,000—or about 8,000 paid admis- sions to each These figures may be a trifle high— but we doubt it. For most of the ex- penses recounted are known to the exact figure. Fine Chance, Indeed. You can see from this what chance a loser or a second division club has of making any money. You can un- derstand now why Connie Mack could put over four winners in five years and still lose money. Imagine losing money on a daily attendance of 5,000—where a few years ago from 3,000 to 4,000 every day meant a tidy little profit. Then you can understand what The Perfect Tobacco IR other tobacco. No other manufacturer knows “Tuxedo Process”; that’s why no imitator ever equals Tuxedo! 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Ty Cobb,/tne | grecatest of all players on attack, at {least, sets $15,000 for 150 gamigg (Frank Moran, almost unknown as |boxer two vears ago, gets $22,500 fy,, a thirty-minute match. And Willara {the champion, gets $47,500 for thirty { minutes of endeavor, ! | If Willard | | $47,600 and for one ap-* s worth | can get Moran can get $22,500 | pearance, certainly Cobb $15,000 for 150 appearances. Cobb works 150 games of 100 rainutes each—15,000 minutes for $15,000 dollar minute. Willard is to get $1,500 a minute. Quite a difference, since the margin of pay is 1,500 to 1. a From the above the fact that therc are lights to baseball that fon has never considered. you might deduce several side- the average , About the only thing that doesn't cest in these financial-tinted days the period beyond the first six months sfter you are dead. Having rested in ) the sepulchre for six months, you can begin to figure on at least an cven break. CORNELL PASSERS LOSE. Ithaca, March 1.—Cornell lost te Dartmouth in an Intercollegiate Bas- ketball league game here last night by a score of 29 to 24 Charles M. Winchester, owner ol the Albany club of the New York State Baseball League yesterday sold the club to Dr. F. N. Tate of Albany for $4,000. The transaction included only the franchise and players. Dr. Tate < announced that he had leased Chad- i Park for the coming season, No, Philburt, I am not a-arguing with you. Pm just a-telling you when you want a rea/ smoke, get behind a pipeful of Tuxedo and watch all the big and little Worries that have been a-besieging you, evacuate their trenches and make a rushin’ advance to the rear. 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