New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1916, Page 9

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916. AFTER YALE'S GOAT Crimson Students Have Evolved a Song Set to the Famous “Boola- - Boola™ Music, Cambridge “Boo Boola” song of be so inspiring to the the new Harvard pa New Haven The mores, susceptible nthusiastic team, te’the * cause not of Eli after has sifted to Harvard sopho- the muse for the Crimson football > evolved a song to be sung Boola™ strains that will considerably more hilarity in Cambridge than in New Haven The parody was sung the first time at the March banquet of the sophomore class, and it made such a hit that there is a possibility that the Harvard cheering section will band play the “Boola Boola" music in the Yale Bowl at New Haven next fall for the Harvard-Yale football game, thereby iting the Yale men to it with their own song. The Harvard men call the new song the “Bowla-Bowla,” and it in memory of 1914. It runs as follows: for Well, again we seem To have the best team, And it's nobody’s funeral but Yale's. They've shot their bolt -4 and got such a jolt You can pick them up bargain sales. opened up their bowl proud they could Now through the Bathed in_tears, a monument to at all the They brand new As be. vears, as It's Harvard victory. Chorus, */Bowla, Bowla We took a stroll Bout. their Bowla, Bowla, Bowla. Our steam roller Christened the Bowla You can't console her, Poor old Yale SPORTS NO DETRIMENT In Scholarships Ample Evidence— But One Athlete “Flunked.” Ithaca, N, Y., March 4.—Convinc- ing Evidence that participation in ath- letics is not detrimental w s in a s the holarship was furnished atement issued vesterday by Cornell Uni- ¥ Athletic Association covering the records made by football players and cross-country runners at the close of the first term in February. This statement follows: “Statistics show that 93 per cent. of the tniversity work taken by the foot- ball men who won their C's, includ- ing the two managers, was passed. This does not include, however, the two men who left college, one on ac- count of sickness. Eighty-four per cent. of the university work taken by the cross-country men who won their C's was passed. For the football team .3 per cent. of the work taken was conditioned and only 1.7 per cent. was not passed. Of the eleven substitutes | who received their C’'s second, 86.5 per cent. was conditioned, and 4.5 per cent. was not passed. Out of the thir- ty-four men, including the above sta- tistics, only one man was dropped, and_not a single man was placed on probation for failure in his wor KISS AND MAKE UP. Ann Arbor, Mich., March 4.—Track athletic relations between Cornell and Michigan universities will be resumed this season after a lapse of a year, it was officially announced nere vester- day. No dual meet has been sched- uledabut the colleges will meet in a two-mile relay race at Buffalo on March 18: racuse has been dropped from the Michigan track schedule this season A misunderstanding regarding dates is sald to be responsible. and | i have | TW! BOUTS ARRANGED. Atlas A. C. to Introduce Lewis and Masked Marvel to Hartford Fans. Hartford, March 4.—Interest is | srowing in the coming wrestling exhi- bition to be held at Parsons’ theater next Wednesday evening under the | auspices of the Atlas A. C. A clever ard has been arranged by the man- agement, and it is expected that the bouts will produce enough interest in the game, to place the Capitol City on the map Ns one of the sporting centers in the East. | While interest centers in the ap- | pearance of “Strangler” Lewis and the | “Masked Marvel,” there is many of the local followers of the game who | will attend the exhibition to tender | to Hialme | of this city in the halcyon days of | wrestling, warm welcome. Tn Draak, Lewis will face an opponent | who will prove a tough nut to crack, while many are looking for “Farmer’ Bayley to wrest the laurels away from | the “Masked Marvel.” Santelle who | meets Lundin is a new comer to the | game but in his recent matches he has shown plenty of knowledge of the game. | ossers Will Strive Hard For Victory Tonight. | The hoop-tossers representing New Britain High schuol go to New Haven tonight to try to duplicate their last contest with this High school. As | New Haven is one of he teams in the | triangle league of this state the local | rooters are anxious as to the outcome of tonight's game All the teams in this league now tied for first place =o interest by no means lacking Hartford was | beaten by New Haven, who were de- feated by the locals but the latter failed to take Hartford into camp. A large crowd accompanied the team. The line-up for the home boys will probably be: Schmidt and Brecken- ridge, forwards Cabelus, center, Buell and Solomon, guards. YALE SWIMMERS WIN. | Blue Tank Team Gets Back At Penn | | For Previous Defeat. New Haven, March 4.—By defeat- | ing University of Pennsylvania 32 points to 21 last night Yale turned the tables on the Quakers for the Elis’ de- feat in Philadelphia last month. Ever race was intensely exciting and close, each university winning three event Yale outscored the visitors by taking more minor places. In the team relay the rival Captains met, Schlaet of Yale defeating Shry- | | ach-ache, Lundin a former resident |, |had been in EVEN CROSS, SICK CHILDREN LOVE SYRUP OF FIGS Look at tongue! constipated, take no chances. “California Syrup of Figs” can’t harm tender stomach, liver, bowel scold your fretful, peevish child. See if tongue is coated; *his is sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn’t eat, sleep or act naturally, has stom- indigestion, -diarrhoea, give poonful of “California Syrup of and in a few hours all the foul waste, the sour bile and fermenting food passes out of the bowels anl you have a well and playful child again. Children love this harmless “fruit la: ative,” and mothers can rest casy after giving it, because it r fails to make their little “insides” clean and sweet: Keep it handy, Mother! A little given today saves a sick child tomor- row, but get the genuine.- druggist for a 50-cent bottle of fornia Syrup of Figs,” which has di- rections for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Remember there are counter- feits sold here, so surely look and see that yours is made by the “California Iig Syrup Company. Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. — SPANISH WAR VETERAN DEAD, of Soldiers’ Home I'rozen to Death. Don’t Inmate Found Stamford, March 4.—Francis Mec- Brien, aged 36, unmarried, whose heme was given as 16 Locust street, New Haven, was found dead on the Post road in Noroton, toda He had Leen an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home nd left vesterday. He was not seen again and may have been returning when overtaken by the storm. He poor health with heart trouble. McBrien's record shows that he cerved with the First United States Volunteer Fngineers in the Spanish- American war. He had been at the home for three Number Increases From 23,000, Wireless to fair at Leipsic The number of Buyers 15,700 to Berlin, March ayville—The spring will open on March 6. ock by two inches. In the fancy div- ing the judges favored Benjamin of | le over Coons of the visitors by | the smallest of margins. Adams of | Yale made the longest distance plunge | of the season, floating 69 feet 6 inches, | Simonton, Shryock, and Watts Pennsylvania won the 50, 220, | 100 yard swims. | — | | WOMAN WIN PLAC : San Francisco, March 4.—The | democratic committee that selected at | a meeting early this week nominees for the California delegation to the St. Louis national convention, an- nounced today that in addition to three women candidates nominated, | the name of Mrs. Bird E. Hobdy,*of Til Centro, had been substituted for that of one of the male nominees. This action w taken, it wa ex- plained, because of criticism of women who attended the meeting that they were not given a fair hear- ing. METHOD! ENDOWMENT., Washington, March 4.—An endow- ment of $50,000 to support graduate fellowships for Canadians w an- nounced today by the American Uni- versity, the Methodist national insti- tution here. The endowment was made by the estate of the late Hart of Toronto, who desired to if possible, some link be- Methodists in Canada and tween the of | than and | fairs at Leipsic during the war. | ber cf buyers who have reduced railroad far compared with 15, withstanding the difficulties of cr ing the frontier, the number of buy- ers from neutral countries is larger on the occasions of the former The largest number come from the United States. These buyers are interested principally in toys. Others .come from Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Hunzary and Scandinavia. The num- of exhibitors is 2,500 compared 200 last fall, applied for the 23,000 as with RESOLUTIONS ON SHEVLIN. New Haven, March 4.—The { resolutions on the death of Thomas Shevlin, 1906, adopted by the Yz University Athletic association made public today, say in part: “Thomas Shevlin’s influence at all times re- fiected his own personality—powerful and clean. By his own example he inspired others to succe: He in- variably taught fair play to those as- cociated with him and never the gospel of winning at any cost.” CALLED TO STAMFORD. Stamford, March 4.—Rev. Dr. Ciarence Hill Frank, pastor of Timanuel Baptist church, Brooklyn, has been called to the Stamford Bap- tist church to take the place of Rev. J. W. Richardson who recently went to Belfast, Majne. It is expected Mr. Frank will accept the the United States. As Usual, The Unusual Bock. The use of IMPORTED BOHEMIAN Hops exclusively assures the On highest quality. Tap or in Bottles. At Dealer's—or for Family Trade— of our Bottling Department. The Hubert Fischer Brewery, HARTFORD, CONN. Connecticut’'s Leading Brewery. ON TAP AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTEL BELOIN, KEEVERS & CO, ReN. MANN SCHMARR, W. J. McCARTHY. If feverish, bilious, | runly ing the [ SHIMMON DESCRIBES HORRORS IN PERSIA Missionary Will Speak Tomorrow at St. Mark’s Church the English will tell of the ma res in Urmi the services at Episc church tomorrow ng. Shimmon, while a native of Persia, a graduate of Columbia university and the General Theological Semin- ary of New York and it is expected his talk will prove very interesting. He comes to this city through the in- vitation of Rev. Elisha Adams ard will speak to the members of the latter's Syrian class tomorrow eve:- ing. Describing his experiences in Persia, Mr. Shimmon s - “I am in New York at last. a marvel. I cannot write of all my past life in Persia, but I will en- deavor to give @ bare outline of the past year. “On January 1915, the Rus regiments at Urmi in northwester Persia. suddenly withdrew. To escape being held for ransom money and even the worst, a few well known persons and I stole out at night with the retreating army. No rear guard action, however, took place, nor were our communications actually cut off as we had greatly feared. We made for Tiflis in the i and wer there and in parts of Russo-Pers frontiers following the now new advancing Russian columns they reached again to Urmi on 24, 1915. “Before leaving Urmi, however, 1 had just time to take my family to the city, a five minutes walk from our home. They stayed at the howme of my brother-in-law which is sep- arated from the American Mission premises by a wall, thus putting them all under the American flag. * They remained there for four and one-half months, witnessing fearful tragedies never leaving the house. Loses Fifteen Relatives. “The Kurds and Turks immediat ly took possession of the entire pl: and city. The beautiful villages were all plundered, many burned to the ground and one thousand persons killed in the first few days of Janu- ary, 1915. My stepmoth and her two children were among the 2,000 iu Geogtapa who were saved by an American missionary. The old home- stead has been burned. Some fifteen of my near relatives were killed in one or two instances burned or died of typhoid and destitution. I used to pray that if God would spare or or possibly two of the members my family I would feel that I w the most fortunate man. But thank God they are all safe and living. At one time a dozen were down with t phoid in our house, four were in one when just in the fe rowded Ame vards p were dying every by the My wife was down for thirt \s with typhoid but pul through last. 1 am sorry to that Mrs. and Miss Neesan died, the latter through fear of ported impending massacre: “I joined my family in N and stayed in Urmi till August, devoting myself to the work of restoration of property and visiting the ruined vil- Jages one after another. “On the second flight of all Christians from Urmi on August 1915, my family left ahead of I wa the country and by the time I returned all had gone. I found the house empty and doors standing open. The harness left for me to hitch some cart to was taken away and I was compelled to ride on hor: back day and night until T reached them some forty miles away making for Russian border. The peopl were however sent back by the Ru sian general and promise was given to leave sufficient forces to keep Urmi safe, which I am glad to 1 proved true, but the people are pa the winter with hunger actu: staring them in the S Aid Refuged come to America the Patriarch to help in the com- the refugees. We came Caucasus where I left my little girl with my brother's wifs nd other relatives. My brother, Ag- hasie, however came to Americ Trom Tiflis we passed by the Caspean Sea to Rastov, Moscow, Petrograd, Finland, Sweden to Christiana, and through the wonderful mountains of Norway to Bergen from where we took steamer through the North Sea. escaping mines and submarines tll at last we reached England on Oc- tober 11th. “We stayed in London months. During the time there over $25,000 was raised sent for the relief the (Syrian or Nestor Archbishop of Canterbury special appeal, as did the lord May- ors Armenian Refugees committec for the 35,000 newly arrived refugees of Mar Shimun's mountain flock, of whom the British consul had tele- graphed the English foreign office. There are altogether 80,000 destitute Paul Shimmon, of Church Mission staff, recent terrible It is till May room, 1CTOSS an ple day scores. two ¢ botin re- the 6, me. Here to at of the decided to instance of yrian church non cause of to Tiflis in the three were and for we W in Price. JOHNA. OLD ALSO GIVE Closed as Illustrated Above The light running treadle FREE that the best doctors everywhere- in any position that is comfortable to you. Convenient when open. 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And in addi- tion to this liberal offer, the Free Sew- ing Machine Co., through their repre- sentative, Mr. Wilson, will give a $10.00 Hall & Borchert Adjustable Dress Form, eight sections, to every purchaser, for this week only. Also Sold on Terms as Low as $1.00 a Week LET US DEMONSTRATE THE FREE SEWING MACHIN It’s the Best Sewing Machine in the World The stitch is so perfect that every woman is proud to show her sewing to her friends, The case is so handsome that it adorns any room. $1.00 a Week For few weeks pays the dif ference between your old ma- chine and the FREE machine. Then think of the fact that you also receive a $10.00 Hall & Borchert Dress Form free. This unusual offer is being made only during the introduc- tion of the 1916 model. week only- to be restored to her Mauretania served the government a hospital ship in the Dardanelles campaign. Her release indicates that the British government does not look | for emergencies from the allied expe- | owners. he as dition to Macedonia which might nec- essitate the further use of the liner. It is expected the Mauretani will be remstated in her former sery- ice plying between Liverpool and New York. northwesctern Persia. We reached York on Jan. I have jus taken my two boys, Langdon and Geo to a very excellent academy at Newton, N. J and with my wif, am ready to e up the cause of my perishing compatriots. My greut New York friend, Woodbury G Langdon, 59 . 59th street, has been willing to act treasurer for the purpose. in New While Am- “Orps. Br in bulance Honored for March 4—1Jo- M. Mellen, Harvard junior, whose home is in Garden City, N. 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