New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1916, Page 12

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 16 1916. Caldwell--Harvard Encouraged by Baseball Prospects--Adkins Bowlers Display Wares--Pioneers Lose s wFielder Jones, Browns’ New Leader, Has Wonderful Record--Johnnie Overton Shows His Heels 10 gi I IELDER JONES A ~ NATURAL LEADER mBrowns New Manager, Hard as iDiamond Point=Has Fine Record Fielder Alanson Jones, manager of e St. is just now a most interesting American” to people vho love baseball. * Curious chap, “this man Jones.” He B 45 years old, stern as Draco, cold as e, hard as a diamond point. Withal is face' is 1he soft face of a boy. His | outh is a benevolent one. His sage is quiet and contemplative. His iye is cold blue. His hair is f: sposed to wave and curl It i fhe soft, sheeny hair of a young man. Iniso far as he impresses you as be- ng quiet, his aspect truthfully be- peaks the inner man. He is benevo- BBE. too. . Withal he is the most ten- | cious, enduring, ‘“hanging-on.’ 1 For all his fair face there is not an | pire who has dealt with him who | I not assure you that “this man | ones”’ is the persopification of the | end! himself. B & won jléagie and world’s h ohships just the same. He man- | ged the White Sox for five seasons, on the American league pennant nd the world’s champlonship in 1908, second in'1905 and third in 1904- p7-08. When he did not finish in first | place he finished within a few decimal points of it.. He was always in the | hlc lof %fiq!‘cé fightHe always made el Louis Browns, 3 far Comiskey, who wnefl the cfl% - The "White Sox finished place in 1903 close third in 1904. Fe econd in 1905. He v He finished third oints behind Detroit, rst. in seventh | the up to | was a close | t in 1906. just .09 finished ! Jones took which Can Be Hard As Steel Soft as melasses in general speech nd placid as'a garden pool in geners behavior, “this man Jones” can be arder than steel when it comes to aking a decision and holding on to his position. He is the very acme of efficiency on fhe field- He is not a baseball politi- bian., He cares little for the jockey- pg of the club owners and club man- | ers for small political advantage. He pays less attention to securing star layrs for himself than any manager | baseball. As a matter of fact, he feally never had a team composed of | Eood players i He wag willing to “fake a chance” nd play for a share of the Chicago merican league club but Owner Eomiskey would not sell. He refused tremendous salary, some $12,000 a Fear, and went into the lumber busi- | fress. The Chicago White Sox lburth in 1909 under Billy Sullivan, jixth in 1910 uhder Hugh Duffy, purth in 1911 under the same Duffy, ourth in 1912 under James J. Calla- an and fifth in 1913 under the same Eallahan, seventh in 1914 under Calla- fan. The White Sox were alway e race to the very last week of the | ason under Jones. After arted they never were in Rifter July 15 | It is notable, too, that ed less men than any other mana- ger in any major league. His average pumber of plavers on the White Sox was nineteen. After his departure he White Sox began to carry from Jtwenty-five“to thirty players. f. He is a harg, bitter ballplayer, “this an Jones*‘'a hdrd fighter and hard an on his fighters. When he led fthe White Sox he.wore himself thirty pounds uader his normal“weight. I8 After three months of fighting on fhe basebal] fitld, Jones begins to take n the appearance of a Serbian refu- fce. His face becomes lean, drawn, | fhaggard. . His rotund abdomen be- mes concave. His face gets scratch- | and full of lines. His hands be- | ome sore. He limps with both legs. | 3 Great Field Marshal. | ki Jonés'is a director of games, a field arshal. He has never been known an._organizer of great teams Tenacity is the gallent characteri & if “this man Jone: He is not a [iggressive player, like McGraw, greamt organizerclike Hanlon, Mack for the*late’Selee. Jones ina baseball game is what .8 barbed wire | | c 11 |t i1 < v it El s B e wire- finished q « c Jones de- | the race Jones car- a entanglement is in war- fare. You ‘start to lick”’him and you must fight your way through the barb- ed wire entanglements of his tenacity. You torward to fight him, to fmake runs against him. At every Bstep you run.i the cruel barbs of f his tenacity They tear your clothes, | Fyour vour flesh, they your P bones and they destroy your equi- | fPoise and judgment H Jones Breg -fensive | nsive rush skin, is a play vpiayer, Spec1a! Ratesto Ladles Afternoons AETNA BOWL ALLEYS TELEPHONE. H 1ay be a S‘VIOKE A MILD, PLEASA 5¢ CIGAR March nearly been but he had no chance to demonstrate who will give hours to playing a game tell tales and *“fan.” in | baseball field twenty-five member where, when, by what and by whom they were lost and won. | of Chicago over | Weston’, | binl | was thought that it had an excellent New York March 16—The ac- ompanying picture gives a splendid dea of how Frank Moran, shown on he left, and Jess Willard, on the right, will appear in the ring in Mad- son Square Garden on the night of Willard tops Moran in height, weight and reach. They are of equal age, Moran having born on March 18, 1887, and Villard on Dec. 29 of the same year. Willard, when he enters the ring, w tower full five inches over his op- ponent, who measures 6 feet 1 inch, and as to weight Moran will have to concede at least forty pounds. He generally enters the ring weighing a couple of pounds over the 200 mark, | while Willard in all likelihood will | not be very much under 250 pounds. Willard's enormous reach of eight three and one-half inches, as com- 1| pared with Moran’s seventy-eight a handicap which the Pittsburgher will have to overcome in order ‘o have a chance of outpointing his big adversary. That Moran is the pos- ssor of courage, stamina and punch effective f knockout 1 been demonstrated in several of h ring battles. Moran has been anxious to meet Willard ever since the latter won the championship from Jack s hat he was so while with the Whitc 0 It is true thdt in the world’'s eries with the Cubs in 1906 he did how flashes of brilliant offense. How- ver, his reputation is built on barbed In the off season he is a pleasant, uiet sort of chap, studious, a man »f checkers. little. He listens much Withal, and he can joke and He has a mar for occurrences of the He can recall the | games he played | vears ago, and can re~= ous memory lient plays of Changes on Ball Field. His character changes with the sea- | son. The wear and tear makes him nervous and irritable and fall. But he is and patient with h the people he meets. He is not popular like Comiskey or Callahan, his compeers in the White Sox. His players do not idolize him. Nei p do any players dislike him. Jones i the golden mean. His players always like him, and have fullest confidcn-e in_him. Jones never an argument or a fight from his players. . They never challenge anything he may do. He does not lavish endearments on the brilliant one, nor does he lacerate the dull one.. He knows better than any man in baseball the value of a close mouth. in the summer always courteous players and with — SCORES VICTORY. Chicago, March 16.—John Layton f Sedalia, Mo., defeated Joe Con- :annon of Jers y, 100 to 69, in a pocket billiard tournament yester- lay ‘afternoon. Layton scored the gh run, 17, and went out in 41 iuning LAYTON afternoon > game re- sulted in a victor, for Charles Weston Frank Taberski of Y., by 100 to Ss. run was 20, and The game lasted 83 Schenectady, N, high Tabe: 13. inming: Ralph Greenleaf, old Manmouth, Til, player, s the sixteen-year- pocket billiard 1l leads the players. BOXING BILL KILLED. Frankfort, March. to license boxing exhibitions and providing for a state athletic boara of control, late Tuesday 12. Iy Ky night by a vote of 16 to The proposed measure previous- had passed the lower house and it chance to pass in the Senate. proposed to permit bouts. It was fifteen-round MURRAY HOCKEY CAPTAIN, New Haven, March 16.—L,. e of New York city, clected captain of the . Mur- was vesterday e 16.—The | was defeated in the Senate | hockey | \Row Champion Jess Willard and Challenger Frank Moran Will Appear in Ring March 2 55 Johnson, nearly basing his chances on the showi he made against Johnson at Paris in 1914, Moran believes he has the abil- ity and force to wear down Willar even in a limited bout of ten round Moran is a stockier man than Willard and he is regarded being the bhot- ter boxer. Moran is several inches larger around the chest, his arms are bigger. a vear ago, PORT LIGHT | Grantland Rice did Willard against a returns great He He of come in to ring master of On Mr. of shoulad Where stand up this type? You remember what happened. The Turn Again, So today we are shown with logical | directness, with simple deductions, that Moran hasn’t a chance to beat Willard ? Which Willard. i Which one is the faster? Willard. Which one knows more about box ing Willard. Which one lard. Which the face Willard trouble in beating has all the physical advantages. the champicn Nine ten are picking him But there favor, prophetic have Mr. no Moran, is men to win. something in this— out Moran's also. It Back Over the Highway, We recall a certain twenty-four years ago. back 'to it as “through a glass daryly,” as through a dim, wavering vista, whatsoever a vista might be. For our youth was then extreme, being even the vouth of Penrod. But | ve still recall in a dim, wavering the advance notice that a J. J. Corbett had no sort of a chance against John Lawrence Sullivan. Sul- livan was to win in a comic canter, | He shouldn’t. But—as suggested be- fighting with one hand while he used |{fcre—remember what has happened the other to stiffle a yawn. Corbett |in the past. was doomed to a far greater extent | “The than Moran is doomed in advance tod bt You remembered what And Then, And then there of a Fitzsimmons, ing Corbett, the 18 is the bigger of the two? September, We look is the stronger? Wil- | one is champion? Willard. Upon what argument should Moran have even an outside chance to win? No argument at all. Why should he have a fair chance? of All Flesh, The of all ring flesh is defeat at the appointed hour. Willard isn’t invincible. Sticking lons enough, he will go as Sullivan, Corbett, F im - mons, Jefferies and Johnson went be- for him, But it Way happened. R the temerity weight 156, tackl- cha pion, Bap Fesht reasonably o sup- o quickly. is hardly | pose that he will go Sullivan ruled for vears. Corbett was champion four year: Fitz was cbampion over three vear Fitz also was doomed an outside chance, vance dope. He had only to peruse the ad- You remember Even More So. further along there of the raw, untutored, Mr. Jefferfes, tossed in mmons, the championo. What a Joke. Jeff was to be cut to piecces and | Willard has been champion then knocked colder than an Artic |than a year. This is his f dawn Fitz knew too much for the |ufter reaching the far heights, big, lumbering Californian. If he is beaten in this battle it will The men who had copquered the [pe the first event of the sort ever conqueror of Sullivan was not to be |recorded in heavyweight ring his- annoved by any such second rater |tory. as James J. Jefferies. | And, as Willard is no You remembered what happened. |pion, you can figure what On and On. sre upon his defeat—defeat Ana what chance had Jess Willard, |brief eleven-month occupancy an overgrown White Hope, against jcrest. the crafty and powerful Zulu? i What had Willard done? He had lest a decision to Gunboat Smith and Pearcat McMahon, both second raters, |any unusual cleve s or speed. He had failed to do anything with | 1le must show 1ething entirely Carl Morris, the Captain Gorgonzola | new to outpoint Willard The two of the ring— e., the greatest cheese |battles that he fought against Coff {ef all. {will leave him far in the rear, Willard big. but what else | His main and only chance could he do? Johnsom was a trifle |finish first is theold Sleep what happened ies held the crown and then retired, to Still unbeaten, years later on. Johnson held a five-year reign. S0 no heavyweight champion been dethroned under a irule. five or six still was the Sgppeat flounder- against - case e has three-year less start dub cham- the odds after a of the Rare Odds. Moran, a mighty puncher game-hearted fighter, has yet to show and a wits to Maker. team for next season. He cover point for two years. has played have a ancient, but w still clever and |And, though Moran might | to wear cvafty and he could still hit. chance at twenty-five rounds the one finally spot, Kansan down through to a vital above reports that we have what are the odds that a champion will be knocked out in ten rounds cr less by a lighter, slower and less skilful opponent, before said cham- pion has maintained his authority one full calendric year, dating from April 1o April? We don’t know what they are, nor Wwhat they ought to be, but we are rot going to take them, whatever the price. Not this week nor vet and from the next. PIONEERS LOSE CLOSE GAM Local Basket Tossers Show limantic Fans Some of Their Speed. The Pioneers, champions of the journeyed to Willimantic last evening Where they tackled the fast Emeralds of the Thread City, and after one of the most brilliant games that has ever been witne; that place, the locals came out on the short end of 35 to The Hardware City lads set the pace and led at the end of the first half, 18 to 12, but the Emeralds came back strong in the last few minutes of play, and grabbed the contest from the fire. “Dick” Anderson and “Jeck' Martin were the stars for the locals. The big tow headed center lo a and floor work of Martin stood - out in . prominence, Moody also made some pretty shots Por the winners Higgins was a tower of strength, caging the ball on eizht Chappell made thirteen his team. while the passing oce: poin summa Emeralds. Chappell ons, for Pioneers Dudack Higgins Martin Lewis Anderson W. Kierns Stevens Right guard. Stevens. ... Left guard. Score—Iimeralds 35, Pioneers goals from floor, Chappell 5, 8 Lewis 2, Stevens 1, Dudack 3, M tin 2, Anderson 5, Moody 4, Stepanian ; goals from fouls, Chappell 3§: referee, Kelly; time of halves, minutes. Stepanian J. Kierns, WA PRIVATE TRAINING. Albany, N. Y., March 16.—The state athletic commission yesterday lifted the suspension of Athletic Club of New York. pended indefinitely mer western New York boxer to ¢ out . contract Jamestown Athletic club. Chairman Wencke's action in fusing to permit the Pioneer Athletie Club to charge admission to see Wil lard train when Al Reich, advertised to with the champion, failed to be put on, w. unanimously The commission recommended that future Willard train in private. Deane, for It with the spar in and, | shoot | shown, | Wil- ‘V ited | the basket net five times for points, | The score and | .Stepanian | Higgins | 20 the Pioneer | It sus- | al upheld. | y UVERTUN TRIOMPHS | Yale Athlete i)eieats Field in Jas- per Three-quarter Mile Contest New March Yale, champion, 16.— Ww. cross- Yor John Overton of intercollegiate ed five last country re other rivals into submission the mile run, which features the sames of Manhattan college Twenty-second Re The intercollegiate champion went into the ieead after the first lap and set the pace to the finish, He won by almost twenty yards His time of 3.07 3-5 only was three-fifths of a second behind the best indoor made by Mike Driscoll in the Seventy- fourth R went armory of Buffalo several ye g0 Dave Caldwell, ociation star, met his first on the indoor tracks this when he finished second Pressing him closely, two yards behind, came Sydney L. Leslie of the Long Athletic club. Three other starter, but were never contenders. , They were Mike A De- vanney of the Millrose Athletic asso- ciation, James W. Power: ing the Boston Athletic and Homer Baker, now Devanney leaped away in the start, with Caldwell second, ton third, and the remaining Lunched behind. of the second lap’the Yale had moved in front, with Devanney second and Caldwell running in third | position. They ran in this order until the final lap, when Overton sprinted and never was headed. Stephenson Wins Frank L. Stephenson, the Military League sprint champion of the Trin- ity club, a n proved that he was in- vincible at the short sprints, by win- ning the 75-yard dash from atch, { He caught his opponcnts at half | point and won by almost vards 8 5 seconds. Tanhattan college was easily « anced by the College of the of New York in its match relay ot one mile The Green runners lacked stamina pand speed For a lap and a half of the first relay the Manhattan team showed in front. Tt was never a contender thereafter. The City College boys took the lead [at the end of the first relay and to the end it w: regular procession, | with Manhattan far behind. at the finish. night and easily won Jasper annual o at the iment armory the Boston Athletic defeat season, I faced the dangerou runners ociation, unattached. Sprint. sc the two out- City a | ADKINS OFFICE BOYS SHOW PRINTERS UP “Collar and Necktie” Boys Can Bowl As Well As They Keep Books— League Leaders Win, The Office bowling team Printing league, won two games from at after teams battled to the second game, “the pencil push- with enough skill and the mateh. a feature ‘for | the Composinz room quintet Aetna Alleys battle. | tie score ‘of in but on the roll off, | ers” came through |to ‘land the string Bengston's work was the winne The Bindery team three time walloping to the Press room representatives, in games that were featured by close finishes. Plude with two scores of over the century mark was the star performer for the | winner while O’Connell of the losers also distinguished himself by i rolling a strong game. The scores Room. 71 92 the last The evening, a | hot a administered "n Composi Holfelder | Rosenberg | Paonessa g 79— 236 73— 241 | Shepard | Pape i | : off. Bindery. a5 110 79 *Won roll ! Middletown Plude Clancy 84 104 ST 284 Press Room. Rockwell Crean O’Connell RUTGERS CHOOSE:! Summerrill College Gymnasium to Lead New Jersey Athletes, March 16.—Fred elected captain of the Rutger gymnasium team at a meeting vesterday afternoon, He | {did the bulk of the’ club nging for | the team this vear and is a brother of ithe 1914 intercollegiate champion, ‘\‘\illh\m Summerrill. He is the fir New Brunswick, F. 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