New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 19i6. Jacobson, Local Member of Giants, Stricken With Tonsilitis at Marlin--Once Famed Joe Wood on Way to Bush League With Other Red Sox Players--Captain Oler to Lead Yale Track Athletes DMOKY JOE’ PASSES IN TOWARD MINORS amous Hurler of Red Sox Passed Up By All Clubs 4 Boston, March 1—Nobody wants & Wood. The Red Sox announced faterday that all the major league ubs had “waived claim to Joseph 0od, pitcher.” Not so long since he moky Joe, and there was no d then to name his position, not Netwv York at any rate. | Where there s0 much smoke iere must be some fire, is the motto Joseph Lannin. The owner of pe Red Sox can send Wood to the inors now if he has a mind to. Joe was too good to last. He urn- his name in baseball fame and pnsumed his arm in doing it. Wood as never a man to study a batter. hat did he care for the weaknes this player or the strength of the t? Outside, inside, low or high, it ade no difference to Joe. He knew hat the ball would get by right pough if only it had within it the hward urge of his shoulders and e parting godspeed of his wrist. | Wood came into the Americaa e wearing his cap atilt. He took poundings now and again, but bbody ever hit him hard enough to it the cap straight. If he goes to e little leagues Joe will go jaunti Batters wont forget Wood in a rry. Those whom he has hit will member him always. To interfi the progress of the Smoky one’s ball was to be scared to the ul itself. The Yankees were the best pals lood ever had. Even in his more less shaky career of the last few ars he could win = from the New | prk Americans at any time. In fact B could have thrown strikes against | lem from center field and they ight have preferred the innovation. 'Wood's record was not bad since won fifteen games and lost five. ¢ allowed only 1.49 runs per game, ich was the best mark he ever set, ht 1o finished the season with a sorc and took no part in the world” sjes. His best year was 1912, when son 34 games and lost only five. er that strenuous season he played | part in winning from the Giants in big series, although he was ! what overshadowed by Hugh | dient. [Wood had a good contract with | ston during the baseball war, but at has expired now and Lannin in- that the pitcher must take a cut or go down to the leagues pre the gra is tall and the pay short. [Other veteran members of the Red have been waived out of the hgue Forrest Cady and Chester fomas, catchers, and Ray Collins, her, are slated to go onward. | 5ITY CREW FOR FORDHAM. onx University Will Have Repre- centative Team for First Time. March 2—Fordham is Coach Mul- yes- ew York, have a varsity crew. lhy made the announcement day to a squad of twenty ca Hates who appeared in the crew lom in answer to his unexpected fii for men. t will be the first varsity crew at e Bronx universit In previous lars Fordham contended itself with prep and freshman team. The de- Lion to have a varsity crew came a big surprise. Only last week seph A. McAleenan and Charles A: htfield resigned from the alumni Jhletic committee because of the Jure to sanction a crew. It is e eted nmow that they will reconsider Jeir action. fiThe candidates for d some experience, fving on the prep and freshman bws. Simultaneously with Coach leahy’s apnouncement sixteen ma- fnes were fitted out in the mnew room. The Atlanta Boat club peen secured for training quar- on the Harlem. Assisting Coach in his work will be James the team have most of them cahy ‘'ormack. Tttt K S POST ENTRY WINS. Chicago, March 4.—In the me of the National Pocket Billiards ampionship tournament here ve Charles Weston of Chicago, added entrant, defeated J. L. hapman, of Chicago, 100 to 40. e second game was won by Joseph bncannon of Jersey City from F. berski of Schenectady, N. Y. by PO to 61. first rd; also LEWIS BEATS STONE. March 2.—Ted Lewis England was awardel a referee's clsion over Harry Swone of New 1 of their twenty-round night. By his victe 35" welterweight the world. 3MOKE OXMOOR CIGAR New Orlear A MILD, PLE/ Sc ow Is the Time to Start Spring Leagues AETNA BOWLING ALLEYS blleys Reserved for Mixed Penn’s Strong Philadelphia, March 2.—It now looks as if another great athlete is to cast aside his athletic togs shortly. He is Dorizas, Penn's strong arm and one of the greatest wrestlers ever turned out in any college. Although Man is To Quit Athletics Soon the husky Greek recently competed against a Princeton man in the in- tercollegiate mat tourney, it is said that he is tired of athletics and quit | the sport for good after the close of { the college season. BASEBALL BRIEFS, Five former members of the Pitts- burgh Federal league club have been released and told to find berths for the coming season, according to an an- nouncement by Business Manager William T. McCullough vyesterday. The players are Pitchers Cy Barger, Ralph Comstock and Bunny Hearne, Catcher Patrick O’Connor and In- fielder James Savage. The players, under the laws of organized baseball, now revent to the lubs from which they joined. O’Connor will have to g0 back to the Louis Nationals Hearne to the Giants, Comstock to Providence and Barger to the Newark club. The first squad of the Washington American league baseball club left yesterday for their training camp at Charlottesville, Va. All of the pitch- ers except Walter Johnson were in the party. Others were Ray Morgan, who will play second base ‘the coming season; Horace Milan, a recruit out- fielder, and Charrity; a Tecruit catcher. The second squad will reach Charlottesville on March 9. Pitcher George Kaiserling was notified at his home here yesterday that he has been sold by the Newark Federal league club to the Detroit Americans. Trainer Hart joined the Brooklvn players at Hot Springs yesterday and will be with them during the re- mainder of their stay at the Arkan- sas Spa. Hart was hoth surprised and delighted at the condition of the men. The baths have done wonders tfor Rucker and Myers and they are baving no trouble whatever in re- ducing. All of the players, Coombs stated, will be in great shape when they reach the Florida training camps. Light practice will be in- dulged in tomorrow. Business Man- aged Rickey of the St. Louis Ameri- cans announced vesterday that a deal {had been closed for the release of Third Baseman Wals Outfielder Drake, Catcher Buell, and Pitchers willett and Tillman to the Memphi club of the Southern league. The €t. Louis team retains an option on Tillman. Rickey plans to place |twelve more players with minor | league clubs. | A squad of fourteen people, in ad- {dition to the battery candidates al- ready out, reported to Coach Davis for the first baseball practice yesterd: A much larger number of men is ex- pected to appear for the practice to- da Among the veterans who ap- | peared vesterday were Rome of ookiyn, right field; Widmayer of w York, outfielder and first base- an; Seasmans, outfielder, and Good- rich of Taunton, Mass., third base- E Parties. roan. Last vear’s men who are ex- |pected to report today are Captain Goodridge, Washburn, and Monroe. The Cleveland American league base- ball team began spring training at New Orleans yesterday on the Southern Association grounds. Man- ager Fohl, with eight regulars, ar- rived Tuesday night, joining other rlayers) and recruits who had arrived singly. Barbare, Graney, Evans and Howard, the only absent members, +will go South within a few days. The New Orleans team will work out with Cleveland. Jawn Hess, star pitcher of the Springfield club of the Connecticut league a few years ago, has achieved s me more fame. Jawn has just been added to the traffic force of the Har- risburg (Pa.) police force, which is quite a distinction in that settlement. When Jawn left Springfield he decided to become a cop and just as soon as the folks at home got wise to his am- bition they placed him on the de- partment, The Hartford club has yet to name its manager. Terms have been offered to several applicants, but yet nothing definite has been accom- rlished. Heine Wagner is among tlose sceking the Hartford job. Milton Herbert Baker of 212 West 114th street, New York, through his attorney, Albert Cohen of 115 Broad- vesterday served the New York American league club with papers in an action to recover $900, which he alleges is due him on a contract made in October of 1914. He alleges that ke signed with Frank Farrell at $900 a year, but never played for the Yankees and neither did he receive any compensation, for which he sues, Bcsides being a pitcher, Baker song writer. FTER THIS GAME. SORE SHI Harvard Club and Arena Scven Play Rough Game. Boston, March members of the team did not night's game Rough work by IHarvard club hockey help them any in Just with the Arena hockey club seven, the latter winning 4 to 2. So many penalties were imposed for illegal checking and use of sticks that the players were filing in and out of the rink pretty regularly. The Arenas played much better hockey than their opponents; excel- ling them in speed and stick work. Small's work defending his goal was excellent. le made 22 stops to 9 by Sagar. After five minutes lively work the Arenas got busy and Synnott scored the first goal on a pass from Sequin, face off and by fine dribbling got by the Harvard points for a score. Sequin on a pass from Synnott early in the second half drove the rubber into the cage from a difficult angle. Harvard scored then twice in rapid succession. iRECORDS GO SOARING (K12 Middleton IN ADKINS LEAGUE New Marks Set For Single Score, High Three String And Total Pinfall—Mecter Readers Win. Three records were smashed in the Adkins bowling league at the Aetna alleys last evening when “Bill” Clan- cy set a new high single score of | in the Bindery and Composing | room teams. The Bindery team to- ' taled a pinfall of 807 which the high total so far in the leaguc and O’Connell of the Press room team se- cured a half nelson on the threc string high mark with .286. The Bindery boys took two out of three games from their opponents while the Press room ailey stars handed the pencil pushers in the office a three time walloping. The scores: | Bindery. | 97 86 89 Plude 80 | Clancy | Rockwell 4—3807 25 Holfelder Paonesss Shepard | Crean | Bengston | United Electric Light & Water com- | | evening at the Aetna alleys. . boys | The scores follow: | O’Connell | the outpunching Johnson Pape Shepard i = 216— 696 eague record. Lightning Employes Bowl. The meter readers force of the pany won from the office force last | ) The | in the “brainery department’” won two out of three games, but the | total pin fall which was decided upon ' as the wining method was captured by the boys who figure up your billL" | Meter Room. Priggiing =gty ot 19 1o 387—1186 Hibbard Coats ! margin in poin s spot, likely the punch will be a wrecking | i halycon e 4 Charles Francis Moran is a game, intelligent citizen. Moreover, he has attached untto his system a wallop of unusual potency. He is honest, earnest and or, as I P. A. wight asifable But considering his weight, power, speed, reach and skill in comparison with Jess Willard's, only a vivid agination can depict Moran in a vic- tor’s role for the night of March About Willard. along the highway can figure it out in likable— put it~— of this To move logic, you fashion: Willard, with an almost impreg- nable jaw, that long, prodding left nd a staunch defense—with greater reach, greater speed and more skill-— is almost sure to outpoint Moran over the ten-round route, In the first fight Jim Coffey had landed three blows to one until Moran nocked him out. In the second fight Coffey w; until th rived in the vicinity old haymaker of his jaw. ar- Moran can hardly outpoint Willard | if both last the ten rounds. He isn’t kind. With both men on their feet at the finish it is 4 to 1 that Willard will have the lead The Knock-Out, To win, therefore, lknock Willard out. out a man in ten rounds that no onc has ever been able to knock down: a man that Johnson couldn’t knock out in twenty-five rounds; a man greatly improved in boxing science and de- fensive tactics. There is always the course; but no chance we'd care to back with any kale. For Willard, unlike Coffey, can take a earload of punishing blows without wilting. He will be hard to hit in any vulnerable but even if reached it is un- Moran must chance, of wffair. The New Willard. We saw Willard give battle in the white hope days to Morris, et al. a sketch as the ring has known. he had little but mere hulk, We saw Willard again in his first workouts for the Moran engagement. But it wasn’t the same Willard. The new Willard was n pounds heavier. But he was er, with an 80 per cent, improvement in his Dunlay Hickok Troupe 89 401 362—1176 CAPTAIN OLER BACK ON TRACK AGAIN Yale Leader Recovers From Recent Injury—Blue Will Send 45 Men to New York Meet. New Haven, March 2.—Yale's new athletic policy of sending larger squads into more athletic meets ot every kinds, will be put into operation Saturday when forty-five track stars will compete in the New York games which decide the indoor champion- ships. The games will mark the first appearance of Captain Oler at the head of his men. Since he was elect- ed to head the Eli team last June, Oler has kept out of competition. He did not enter the fall track games and he has taken no part in the winter games in which his team has com- peted. He has been in training since the opening of the winter term under Coach John Mack in the broad and in the high jumps, and it was believed that he would not do indoor jumping, but he has decided to enter the indoor championships because of his in- creased strengtn. Because of a slight muscle strain incident to the Olympic games, in which he won the high jump three vears ago, he has been handled with great care. It will be recalled that he was out of active track ath- letics, with tihe exception of two week: in 1914. Oler’s present form indicates that he will be a keen competitor for first place in both the broad and the high jumps at the intercollegiates in May. He will enter only the high event Saturday. Yale will make the strongest kind of a bid for the six-lap relay race and the fact that Captain Johnny Overton of the distance squad will be used as anchor man in the event indicates that the strongest quartet here will be started. With a possible single ex- ception the same team that met Har- vard at the Boston A. A. games three weeks ago will come to the scratch. Cy Young won the mile run at the Hartford games last week, displaying unusual form, and may be given a regular place on the relay team. At any rate, he will go to New York as substitute or regular. Barker, Coop- er, Rolfe and Overton are the regu- lar quartet. Joanny Farwell, Yale's promising hurdler, and captain of the freshman track teamb last season, will start in his first competition of this season Saturday, and Heaton Treadway, who is llkely to prove Yale's first string sprinter of this season, will start in the two dashes. Yale expects to uncover something of a surprise in the broad | fighting style. He isn’t any Corbett, Fitzsimmons or Jeffries vet in ring speed or ring ¢hill. But he is far beyond the range of the old lumbering giant of two years ago. Moran’s Job. How can Moran slip by that left of lard’s? That 80-inch reach, tap- ping, prodding, always in the way if RECORD ENTRY FOR DERBY American Classic Will Be Staged at Churchill Downs, Kentucky, With East Opposing West. Louisville, Ky., March 2.—Entries to the forty-second annual renewal of the Kentucky Derby closed at mid- night last night with what horsemen predict will be the largest number of post horses in the history of the stake. The list, however, probably will not be announced for two or three weeks. 1t is known that it will include all of last year's two year old stars. The race this year, with $10,000 added money, will be worth approxi mately $15,000 to the winner. The Kentucky Racing commission has not yet announced racing dates for the various tracks but the Derby will be run at Churchill Downs probably May 6 or May 13. The Derby this year, as was the case last year when Harry Payne Whitney’s Filly Regret was the win- ner, apparently will be a contest be- tween eastern and western owned horses. Among the many turfmen who probably will have entries in the event are: Harry Payne Whitney, James Butler, G. A. Cochran, E. B. Cassett, Andrew Miller, Jefferson Liv- ingston, John W. Schorr, Schuyler Prasons, George J. Long, Thomas McDowell, J. E. Madden, Foxhall P. Keene, August Belmont, George M. Hendrie, and H. Mackay. The Derby is at a mile and a quar- ter for three year olds. PASS BOXING BILL IN JERSEY HOUSE Provides For Amateur Exhibition of Not More Than Iour Rounds— Now Goes to the Scnate, Trenton, N. J., March The Du- gan bill to allow boxing exhibitions in New Jersey was passed by the house today, 37 to 14, after members from | Hudson and Essex counties had spok- | en in favor of the “manly art of self- defense.” The bill, waich will now go to the senate, provides that it shall be law- PORT im- | leading by the same wide | He must knock | He was about as sad | Then ! JACOBSON 1S 1L IN GIANTS CAMP LIGHT i Local Major League Candidate Grantlend Rice Out of Game With Tonsilitis To§ hot two March 2 of the putting in playing a Marlin, Texi Giants took advantage ! weather yesterday by | hours at practice and inning game between picked teams 1t was the warmest day Marlin has | offered for training purpo in three vears. This afternoon a blazing sun drove spectators into the shade and forced the temperature up to 85 | The players, after two hours hard work this morning, we | ther spiritless until McGraw the afternoon practice game | took their minds off the weather and ! brought back their enthusiasm The few pitchers here are getting plenty of work in batting practice, er. | o McGraw called for volunteer | There is liable to be a strong drift | \yirlers this afternoon. Bddie Bran- loward defensive fighting—which is | pjck, business manager of the expe- | poor stuff for a ten-round exhibition. | gition, took the box for a team ct . This alone can make the match a |{ained by himself, and outfielder Roe wood one—the realization on the part | ynger undertook the same task fér {of both that they are on trial—that | 5 nine bossed by Catcher Wendell | cver §100,000 has been paid in to see | Roesinger was knocked out of the | what they have to offer—that they |box in one inning, but Brannick are to get $70,000 for thirty linutes’ | weathered a shower of hits and work—over $2,000 a minute. | side won in the sixth by a score | Realizing this, it should be up to |11 to 10, after the Wendell's !Loth men to start from the gong and | (ied the score by two home runs {go to it—pack all the action possible | There was not much real basebalf lin those thirty costly minutes in an | pyt plenty of action, which is what attempt to win as decisively as | pMeGraw is after. poesih ey Doyle and Cole furnished the bat- ting features. The amateur star from Cleveland contributed two doubles. & ! single and a home run, and his field- ing for the losing team was high class. Doyle also made four hits, on being a home run. The two tea made twenty-five hits for a total forty-four bases Rube Benton, the ported this afternoon, a few days | advance of the other veterans. | came direct from his home in North Carolina. The two Cuban recruits, Palmero and Rodriguez, came in on the same train. Both are in shape as they have been playing baseball all winter. Outfielder Sharman put on form this afternoon, but he lame and can perform only light training stunts. Outfielder Jacobson and first baseman Hunter are on the list, the former with tonsilitis the latter with a heavy cold | { { i | | i fan advance? For the Willard left land the Coffey left are not the same. |The Kansan has jolting power in {these lefis beyond any other boxer, now that Johnson has passed on and cut. A few of these planted on Moran's frontispiece are likely to {have a blurring, hazing cffect, how- | ever game the blonde might be. As to the Fight, the chance for hoxers of the poor. Rugged, good Willard- Ordinarily fight between Moran type would Moran is slow ting, game—but Willard, no speed best—is a slow starter. | the artillery carried hard hit- marvel at his Iiach respects by the other. p- his of had Will They? they? We don't know. The {tendency to play it safe with no |1eferee’s decision awaiting is a strong |cne. It is the system that Freddie | {Walsh has been following for a long | time. | McFarland and Gibbons had over isxo‘ouo to fight for—both knew. the {1eputation of their own game was at | stake—and vyet neither took the | temblance of a chance. | In this coming case the word {both men has been given that {1oafing tacties will be employed. And With Tex Rickard promoting the |affair there is still less likelihood that | !eny half-hearted sketch will be put | win of Sar n He left hander, of no a uni- is still Willard If Willard starts at top speed, as | he says he is going to do, Moran | 1 will have the battle of his life to hang {on for ten rounds. He is giving aw. too much in speed, weight, power and ; and skill. Moran will do a lot of | {fiehting. He will give everything he | bas. And with an opening for a wallop he will jolt Willard as the {Kansan has never been jolted before. But Willard js good at covering up— | has jawbone, over six feet above the | resin, will be no easy target to reach, 1 And nothing short of a terrific wal- |1op, started from the grotto, would ever drop him for the count. The cne to beat Willard must have a punishing wallop and the skill to plant it often enough fo batter him down. | Should Win. | sick ; and A WIFE CRTER. Nogro Sprinter Fails to Contest Cowr't Action in Springfield. Springfield, Mass., March Claiming desertion, Mrs. Kthel Drew, wife of Howard P. Drew; tional amateur champion sprinter, was granted the temporary custody of her children by Judge Charles L. Long in Probate Court. She petitioned for separate support, but no date was fixed for a hearing. The petition was uncontested. Mrs. Drew told the court husband, whom she had not seen or heard from since last summer, had deserted her and falled to contribute to her support. She, however, re- ceived a small sum from Drew’s rela- tives up to last September. When he left to take a course in the University of California she stated that Drew told her that he expected to receive money from newspaper sources. Subsequently, however, she re- ceived word from him to the effect that he was receiving only $5 a week. and was unable to send her any money. Mrs. Drew is satisfied that Drew has been earning good money' as an express porter on Southern railway. May that her standing to conduct fri with gloves under the s the municipal police authoritie contests are to be regulated by Amateur Athletic union or Intercol- legiate Athletic ociation and are to be conducted with gloves of not less than eight ounces for not more than four round The contes are to conducted purely as amateur exhibitions of skill. The police are to issue permits and shall vrevent disorder, brutality or S xhibitions. i ssemblyman Dugan of Hudson county, the bill's sponsor, said the measure was patterned after the New York state law and had the approval of the Amateur Athletic union. be a Hugh Bradley is among those seek- ing a job as playing manager in the Fastern league. He has hopes of catching on with some club, but as yet has received no bid. GNS HOUCK. Portland, Ore., March 2.—An- nouncement was made today that Byron Houck, a pitcher formerly with the Philadelphia Americans and for the past two seasons with the Brook- lyn Federals, had been signed by the Portland Coast league team. | PORTLAND HAS WELFARE AGE Southern Joins Railroad Company Tal As we are going out of Uplift Movement, business, our entire stock of Atlanta, Ga., M .—The South- Men’s Clothing, Furnish- ern Railway company announced here ;‘ s, Hal o teday welfare | Auction to the highest bid- agent at der, Friday, March 3rd at to “provide its 1 p m opportunities for industrial uplift.” The Rev. Charles L. Bass, Methodist preacher, formerly a law -er and member of the Georgia leg lature, was given the position. ch the appointment of a alary of $3,600 per year with better | social and | a employes moral, Stock will be sold in a lump; fixtures will be sold cparately. A cash deposit of per cent. of the purchase price will be requirea at the time of sale, balance before goods Jeave the store. A reasonable length of time will be given to remove stock and fixtures, FOOD STRIK IN SPAIN. Ceneral Demand for Government to Lower Prices, Madrid, Vi; P (Delayed.) — Store will be open from 9 a. m. Friday, March 3rd, for inspection of stock, The Farrell & 0’Connor Co. 271 MAIN STREE 1, and 2:45 | dis; | | | | | | | | G iy turbances have the the occurred most of | result of of food A gen- eral strike was proclaimed in Valencia, where serious rioting took place, one person being killed and many injured There is a general demand that the government take steps to lower the in provinces of Spain as a increased price jump in F. M. Hampton, who is leap- per plava to twenty-two feet. ) ful for any incorporated organization or association of at least three yeais prices of food and to provide labor tor the umemployed.