New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1916, Page 14

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Federal league and popularily the opin- on of public managers and players So the 1916 American and league season, beginning the life Eliminating April 12, starts in with every prom- ise of public favor| drawback is of the older leagues are beginning their last sea- son after many of these may be Hans Wagner, i i | | Everyone Expects 1916 Big League Season to | Be Best in Game’s History famous Pittsburgher, who is slowing up a bit. But Honus says he's going to remain in the game as long as he can. He's No. 1 in the pictures. No big | 2 shows a scene in a recent game in New York and. No. 3 is the great and unequalled Detroit star, Ty Cobb, the best of them all, many fans think. being a record breaker in Possibly the only the probability that some stars in the two One the years of fame. 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Davis. 9—A good block a lacrosse game in Canada. 10— rs. Anna Vogel. 11.—A London oman cricket player ready to make swing at the ball. By TOMMY CLARK. AVE you noticed how the women are coming ‘o the i fore in the athletic world of late? If you haven’'t, just k over the recent doings in the majority of them put up a sprewdaia ex- hibition, and the games are largely at- tended. Later we may hear of a won- derful woman Grace on the cricket grounds in England. Not alone have the women abroad prting world, and for further infor-|taken up cricket, but the more strenu- tion glance at the athletic guides|ous game of lacrosse. In many Cana- you'll see they are playing a promi- | dian cities these sports are also played t part in the things that require | by the women. While they are fairly length and skill. Not alone this, but | proficient, it will take them a long time y will be more conspicuous than|to come anyway near the pace set by r in the future. During the past two | jirs more women have taken up ath- fics than ever before. their brothers. | In the United States there are thou- Not alone in |sands of women who play competitive all way, but in one which means golf and tennis, and play it well too. y are 1o go in on a larger scale.|For instance, take tennis. There are ly recently women golfers in the|few men who can outplay Miss Bjur- ited States announced they are |stedt, the national lawn tennis cham- kdy to handle their own affairs on | pion; Miss Marie Wagner or Miss May links, tourney, etc. How they will | Sutton (now Mrs. Thomas Bundy) in e can only be answered in time, but | the racket game. Each is capable of p chances are that they will be suc- | putting up a strong game. Miss Sut- sful and blossom out stronger than | ton and Miss Bjurstedt have won many pr. Recently at Wellesley, Mass,, an | tourneys and have beaten many men in ercollegiate athletic council com- | competition. The same applies to Miss ked of the presidents of women stu- | Wagner, who has also won a number nts' associations of nine colleges in|of matches. All three women have w England was held to discuss a|mapped out a strenuous campaign for imber of athletic meets. | the coming season. There s no doubt ast season the women in England|that they will help make lawn tennis ized a cricket league. Right now | history this year. Miss Bjurstedt and is almost as Jarge as that of the| Miss Sutton are to play @ series of bn. Of course the majority of the | matches this season. The egmtests are | Ln are on the firing line in France @ | sure to attract widespread attention. ewhere and cannot play, but the| Last year more women were inter- | ances are when they return the|ested in vachting than ever hefore, ;md1 bmen’s league will have grown to| this season a greater number may be | ge proportions. - While the ciass of | expecte: M Dorothy Davis of the | cket as played by the woiven is noti Atl acht club of New York has to the standard set by the men, the ! the distinction of handling her sma) all craft as skillfully as any man, summer she and this season she intends to enter her yachts in a numbar of regattas and will handle the boats herself. Last This should be a xreat year for wom- won a number of races,|en trap shooters. enter the different events throughout |capable of making the greatest men | the country than ever | the IN ATHLETIC WORLD S | ble of giving any man in the world a|right now Miss Trehowski Davies, a® splendid race anywhere from fifteen up to fifty miles in any kind of water or | weather. outclassed by the women. In various centers women have taken | up handball, basketball, running, jump- ing, rowing and wrestling and several other branches of sport scale, and we may hear of a marvel in their special line. nese style of wrestling, seems to have taken a firm Barnard college hundreds of girls have taken up this bone breaking sport and are proving to be apt pupils. For several years we have had any number of great and some daring aviators. shooting championship takes place next August we may expect to hear of some | new marks. There are not many men | in America who can hit the mark as| often as Mrs. Anna Vogel, who has cap- tured many prizes with her accurate handling of the gun. In the swimming line the women folks have been holding their own with the men for some time. Such women as Miss Elaine Goldman, Rose Pitonoff, | More women are to | Mrs. Howard and several others aré | themselves. Many before. When swimmers extend annual national women's English aviatrice, takes her daily flight, § not for any monetary consideration, men are | but just for her health and the sport § there is in it. Mi es is thinking seriously of starting an aviation club in London for women. A few years § from now we may hear of the women in London doing their shopping in aeroplanes. Stranger things have hap- pened. | Of course we will never see or hear | of any member of the “weaker” sex starring in a football or baseball game, nor in a boxing match, but outside of these extremely strenuous sports we may expect to read of some great deeds | performed by women in sporting lines this season. As for diving, the on a large| Jiujitsu, the Japa- hold on the girls. At utomobile drivers In London | may bring his crack pacer Our Thorpe | to this country this year to try its speed Our Thorpe has been pacer in New started trap | experts believe Miss Goldman is capa- | from one mile to two miles and a half, | difference New iealan;l lfi’acerr Ma;' Race In Uin'zrt‘;i States VW. J. FLEMING, a prominent light and finished first on five occasions. Our Thorpe's most notable performance was encompassing the defeat of Coun. try Belle, a mare that smashed the Australasian mile record of 2:08 3.5, setting a new mark of 2:07 1-5. Ip Anstralia they have the system of “tanding starts, and it makes quite g in the time. harness patron of New Zealand, against United States pacers. a sensational Last season it all distances land times, eight at