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NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUDIL 4, 1916. 11 e A g i T W e e TS s 2 Mr. Roesch quoted! he < Baylis with being in a conspira NILES ON EASTERN TEAM. up and shot by two robbers at Breg- | the Springficld hospital by Capt. John ylis to arrange the entertain- | Baylis, T uoted h 'r”“’ ilaircatt ihe' cormmisstoc i rEecHony FsReTins 0 > Springfie erday rning, b o identifica- s | He kopt the checks in a pile on his the public. Choscolmthig aabon G ibestional| S uma o oB el el i ne el e e i gl e Izoston and to interest the socially | dc 4; :|]m] on one occasion 1 spoke t S. Zanko de Primo, an Italiam | hospital soon after 6 o’'clock last cv tior s made. Mr. Pollard was suf Tennis Matehes. 108pita z : on was made. ) : : e o work of the cc el finel rac a told him that [ - oluntecred to sing @ Tenul The wound in the abdomen re- | fering intense pain at the time, ana, | Prominent in the work of the commis- | pyy of the fact and told him t no voluntecred to sing at @ ning New York, Au E haniel W. | sulted in internal hemorrhages, which | while he looked at the men, declined | sion, appeared at the district attor- | they ought to be deposited in thc Asbury Park, ga Assistand Niles of the Longwood Cricket Club, | were the dircct cause of death. An |to state positively whether his assail- 3 office and practically made | bank immediately. “I saw cash dona- | trict Attorney Markowich a ched oston, vesterday was chosen fifth | auiopsy performed by Associate Med- | ant was present. He asked for an- | charges against the minister, She | tions coming in the letters also | B0 maichibesald b aa mon the Eastern tennis team in fjeqy miner S. A. Ryan, City other opportunity to see them, butsaid she had seen Dr. Baylis on Irs, ¢ said that Dr. Bayli | from Dr. Bay is for m; ekxn | rsectional series which starts | siclan William J. Leonard and Med- | fate decrced that this should mnever | several occasions while he was open- | had expressed his atification over | When he presented the checs t Side Ten- | jcal Examiner John H. C. Gallagher | be granted. the it bundles of letters re-|the slze and frequency of the con- | bank De Primo i he was told i ], 33 t this afternoon at the We : ank Do Primo said | na 1014 " NO Aflefilpl 10 SIOp BOO\IGS fl {1 Ciub courts, Forest Hills, L. L | at Sampson’s undertaking room last Genuine disappointment was felt by | ceived from contributors and that he | tributions. Her testimony was cor- 1, Nr\\lvn;‘l qx hand w n Niles was to have played Theodore | evening showed that the bullet en- |the police over the death of Mr. Pol- | frequently put bills of large denami- [ roborated by Buck, who was engaged y a salicitor at $50 a week, Mrs. 3 Roesch will continue t W]'Hima[]Qe[[ T[ack Roosevelt Pell yesterday for the pl tered the abdomen, took a downward | lard. ration in his pock t ; e on the team, but Pell was forced to | course toward the left side and “Many checks were received by Dr, nger and Buck were charged by Dr. | ves fon today ) default on account of business pre lodged in the deep flesh of the left | T £ S : ¢ sure. buttock. The intestines were ounc N =8 = E % g s 5 v Willin t, Mass., Aug. The el e tured in several places, the bladder | — T —— R o . *“boakies’ T t the meetir of was penetrated, and a number of blood T SN T POLLARD DIES, A | : IT IS NOT ALONE THE QUESTION OF 2 : i The death of Mr. Pollard removes H SRy , ALLIES’ RELIFF FUND S e VICTIM OF THUGS | ¢ siignt nope which the police hela | SAVENG MONEY S e e i of connecting William Sullivan of Woodstock, Ill, Emory A. Byrnes of 3 5 - : But also the knowledge that only Home FPurnishings of the Highest Quality are offered that is making Our ters. A regular betting establishment | Springficld Police Lose Hope of Cor- S et i necting Three Suspeets With Easton, Pa., with the crime. Tho plete with the Moncy-Saving Valucs we offer. s three men were arrested in New 1la- “Dhi iof? Shooting in Saloon. e o SEE THE BIG SAVINGS YOU _1 Sh Wednedny e et Smry 0[ Phllanlhl‘oplsl COME IN AND SEE THE BIG SAVINGS YOU MAKE. rin 1d, Aug 4.—Mic 21 J. | were brought to this city early yes- $31.50 Quartered Oak Buffet, in plain sigl The “bookies™ | | were | I on their stands yelling off the chances and the ¢ s on the different harses, Everything was complete for the bet- | pollard, the wine clerk who was held | terday morning. They were taken to .75 Buffet, Now ting and the place was well filled be- | _ : New York, Aug. 4—The Rev. Dr. et i Uieen thoneals : e Charles T. Baylis, self-appointed | ; $39.00 Buffet, Now ; Seasealony “Director General” of the Allies' Ho: ottempt w wde to go behind closed | > 7 RIS FRITZ g A6/ | i e R % i) ST iy it | ‘ Dining Tables doors. A wide barn door furnished : S e | the entrance ta the place and from RSN 5 i’ ) lected $7,000, not a penny of which 3 t15:95 5 o ! co | 5 g 2 A B ) ) $12.08 Solid Oak Table ... ; $ .08 Lo e e Sheea e o 2 cver reached the Allies, will have until | § | $14.50 Bolid Oak Table ...... 5 e $1L80 : = : 3 tonight to appear before Assistant | i $17.50 Quartered Oak Table $13.50 arnd heard. The bettors flocked into i the place laid down their bets, re ) 7 2 District Attorneys George F. Roesch | i 4 g‘i‘“"'"""‘ Oaloiratle . $17.08 a ceived tickets on their horses and then 5 > > and Samuel Markewich to explain cer- | ¢ f tLA i (@uacterod SO ° - - $19.50 ain flocked outside to sec their . { tain features of the :i¢ddled affairs of | choices perfarm The crowd of bet- Z the commission. tors kept this up all afternoon. Con- g “I intend givin, ¥/r. Baylis a chance | s 5 versing with one another about their ~ to make geod the statomeant that when | | Dr‘)';:,?:»"::;?.r«} ok : $1.30 bets was so plainly heard among the 2 he visited me the £5* tne T carefully @ A e pie. spectator. swept aside evilaac support his ASS BEDS i . .. sz’n Five policemen were within sight charges againsi Groom R. Buck, 5 T+ :h post -inch top rail s EETRPRE 3 Richard Arthux, nid Wi Edith F. e - velvet finish August ) s ; and earshot of the happening, but na | % 1 > : y . was made by any one of them f: ” P 3 : Sow S m s s u e to stop the betting. A police sergeant . rn!sainn,. said W c g posted at the opposite side of the X The district itornes ound the “di- | § Srise : s g 7 i2.00 dstand and he did not move from rector general by ieigdhone at the | Y s 33 position. Police officers guarded | office of th> co.amission in the “'(;vl_ C, - L i : .0 O ck at difivre: laces i ront | worth Building 1ind was informed that i : ! L!;‘ '::"" r:flfljz;[m]‘ l‘\‘!t\v‘of‘ \'hwx)v": Il::n‘\]; Dr. Bayliz vvov.d raerain there all day. Dressers, Chiffoniers and Dressing Tables, All Woods, , Fin- 3 d Ten minutes latcr Mr, Rocsch called ishes and Periods. so atationed that he seemingly could b Now [l 55 % ; WTHEN lunch or supper up again, but Dr. Baylis had left and 9 It Sprnnog 5 3 3 $22.00 Dresser, Now' <..: . 82150 nly see the actions of the bettors Andkthe hookis hey o loverr seems a long time off R el O S e e o | Rk Sh Al SR bt thing but th. betting d 5 i his whereabouts could be obtained. : Now ... . . - S1L26 | o750 Dresser, Now .. . $19.50 i > and you re nungry, eat e Dr. William H, Tollman of Brook- X Steol Sprin S R S e L oy When seen last night Marshal . . X v SRt 2 T 4 nes of Chicopee said that he had | Uneeda Biscuit. : Ivn, whom Dr. Baylis accused of try- § < s 7 BonchomsoAncaotbEspREEaT $45.00 Dresser, now S0 $32.50 visited the track an Wednesday in . / e 0o gj‘,”".w postyok ’dlrmlnr eens 7 R CHAIRS AND ROC! $15.60 Chiffonter, Now . . $1L.e8 time to see the final heat of the races JUSt enough to Satley—tO Sralifaway from Shim fhadfaflons talici 30 G 1e Leather Rocker ..... ceee - $17.95 Chiffonier, Now . $18.25 meNoEss ih heaton E I £ il = 5 o with Mr. Roesch on the the telephone, od G Loather Rocker .... . . . 22.50 Chiffonter, Now 5 $16.75 aRdathat el Ld mohs had s en no| keep you going till meal time He said he had left the commission B 3700 & Leather Rocker LT e s S porec Sl m et oe 7 e G| —but so light and crisp and > : ARott ”‘“""‘ “"”‘l G becsuscipiio | Ay Rl ey e B3 B - Z g could not tolerate the “libe manner — e = 1}}‘“ ”'!,”1]‘( n“:]» )\ltti;’lli[‘\\\"\<hr('\x:.nk 2 flaky that theY RZORIC spofl ; in which Dr. Baylis handled the g STORE CLOSES AT NOON FRIDAYS DURING AUGUST. = R kel = your appetite. fands.” He added that both R. J " - 3D 8 £ 5 Caldwell, a member of the finance | P > s there was betting at the races he Ry DP:! Complete Homefurnisher, would take immediate steps to stop it = : ) P B oal ¢ gl 5 B today. Marshal Burnes also said that | 3 / e mv‘!lr(vl. and ,::1’:{“ f ha a ,(l(nlrvt‘l(wl; K 1052-58 Main Street, bk e Eie state polic | g cn several occasions to get a state- | @ Thomas Bligh, the state poli : 2 Near Morgan, Hartford ment from Dr, Baylis concerning the 1ived in Chicopee last nigh 2 Z S % ) | k not been to the races vester i ] ; \ ¢ ‘ m»{‘;"m”l hare otihisicommlisslon foun Treight Paid to All Points Not Reached by Our Trucks. f 3 3 t 3 : X without result, 5 ) ly go there to = e s o 4 Mrs. Ranger, who was engaged by — R s SEVERAL GOOD BALL PLAYERS GAIN FAME BY CLEVERNESS| Pacific Coast Produces Great Athletic Family UR little knot of serious thinkers|continue to invent schemes which re- ;may be an artistic triumph, but it has|a concrete walk apt to have all the | JVHE golden west has given to the] who meet sion on rainy | quire something other than a natural [ been shown that the public wants to | roughness ne ary to make it ideal athletic world another family of‘ days to pick flaws in the national pas- | delivery of the ball it is going to re- | o hi The fan demands action | for the emery 11 deliver; 't tes. time were discussing pitchers and their | sult soon 1In legislation which will | in his eball, just as he does in hi; all get al 7 with i nefarious and unnatural devices for|force the pitcher to work without a|drama and his best seller, and base S ‘ 5 1 Donovan. il deceiving the or when we drew | glove, thus depriving him of his best | hits make for action in baseball £00d pitcher doesn’t have to use quite an impor prediction from | means for practicing deception. Those who have been in regular at-| trick: Look down the list of g = i = 2 “Wild Bill” Donovan, manager of the| “That is the only way they will ever |tendance have probably noticed the fre- | pitchers and how many of them were | RODert Lindley, Fred and Frank Mur- Yankees and esteemed member of the | successfully curb the fllegal and freak | quent examinations the umpires make | spitball or emery ball pitchers? Not|ray household. Robert, Fred and t deliveries that are complained about,” | of the ball. They stop the game while | many. There are only a few men who | Frank are genuine chips of the old ‘Wild Bill” was considered one of the | says Bill. “For, to a pitcher who has | managers and players gather and give | stand out prominently who used such |block, for father Augustus was an ac- greatest pitc s to resort to tricks with the ball, a|the little sphere the curious up and|deliveries. Ed Walsh, Tesreau, Rus-|complished football and tennis player in points with pride to the fact that he | glove is as necessary as a jimmy is to [down. It is not a practice designed to | sell Ford and two or three others make hl’s vounger days. gained hi ccess entirely by the use | a porch climber.” prolong the game. The umpires are| up all the pitchers who ever were suc-| The eldest of the three Murray boys, of his n al advantage. Therefore he| The tendency of baseball legislation |acting under instructions not to per- | cessful with the freak stuff. Such men |Robert Lindley, twenty-three years of looks down with professional scorn|has been toward the abolition of the |mit the use of anything that resembles | as Mathewson, Johnson, Addie Joss|age, holds the national indoor tennis upon the spitballers and the emery ball | freak devices of the pitchers. The ban | the emery ball. and the dozen of other stars of the|title and metropolitan sles cham- artists and regards them as mere | has been placed on the emery ball, and | It is the modern concrete stand that | game never resorted to it, and you will | pi P of 1915. Twenty-two-year- tricksters, who cast a taint upon the|only the spitball of the breuks remain- | makes the precaution necessary. It|hear about them long after the other red is accounted to be one of a real art of pitching. ing legal. Primarily the object is to|affords a rough surface that scuffs the | fellows have been forgotten.” few of the greatest hurdlers ever 1t is Bill's opinion that if pitchers | keep up the hitting. A pitcher's battle | ball. A ball that has been hit against| It was Russell Ford of the Yankees |known, who introduced the emery ball into the| At the recent intercollegiate cham- big league, but it had undoubtedly been | pionships he “flew” over 120 yards high o in existence in its natural state around | sticks in fiftc conds, establishing a. O a“ WO 0 ]S an S the town lots for vears, and, like the|new college mark. He as crowned electricity in the lightning, just wait- | national hurdles champion at San ing for a Benjamin Franklin to come > last summer, on which oc- along and hitch the harness to it. No ion he lowered the =olors of Fred doubt many a kid has pitched a freak | Kelly and one or two other accom- | curve with a scuffed ball and wonder- | plished timber trooper ed how he did it. ink, nineteen years, threatens to Ford became the Ben Franklin quite | become one of the best hammer throw- by an accident. He and Ed Sweeney |ers in the college ranks. With the were battery mates in Atlanta. One, graduation of Fred the Murray name day hie got hold of a ball that had just | will remain at the Leland tord, Jr., struck o rough spot and noticed that it | university, nk is t: up an took a weird curve. He got to experi- | engin nk has thrown menting and then kept his et. Aslthe sixteen pound hammer over 150 he couldn’t depend on bouncing the ball | feet. F against a rough spot he substituted the| In baseball the name of the Dela- emery paper and kept it in his glove. |hantys will live long in the memories He had a great year with the Yankees | of fans, and football enthusiasts never in 1910 and no one could nunderstand |forget the Poes, wl . Corbett how he got the peculiar curve on the | brothers ruled supreme in their par- ball. When they began to inquire he | ticular lines of endeavor, Jim being arranged so that the emery paper was | former heavywei :hampfon and Joe attached to a ring on his finger and| Corbett champion pitcher of the old came off when he pulled the glove off. | Baltimores Consequently when one examined the| It will be years before another com.- | glove there was no evidence. However, | bization such as the Murray family they flnally got on to Ford, and he |represents will be developed. never had a big year again. He didn’t] The Ko \ro have enough of the natural stuff to get | family of distance runnc by on, and when they took his trick |ing the acknowledged : away from him they ruined him. ! pion from five to fifteen miles = = | Willis is one of the best prof “CONFIDENT RECRUIT,” BUT HE | marathoners in the world. WAS LET OUT. | = = — JIMMY CALLAHAN, manager of the ROBERTSON = CAN SPEED ON Pittsburgh Pirates, said that he | PATHS. liked to see a young ball player confi- | JF Dave Robertson of the New York dent and self possessed, but that he | Giants ever is of a mind to go by American Press Assoclation. had one recruit while he was manag- | against the circling the base record, | ing the White Sox who had a little too | which is now held by Hans Lobert at ROBERT LINDLEY MURRAY. much self confldence. |8 minutes 4-15 seconds, Gotham ex “I remember,” said Jimmy, “that this | perts are of the opinion that he can | = - = EEeS = fellow was highly opinionated and that ! beat the mark easily. P B H H 1 S h T BHGRER R et (NG ha| rbOmim i e Ty Cobb, Max | ress lg eip to tec er came along. In fact, he knew so much | Carey, Clyde Milan and other base run- | about baseball that wo decided the big ners celebrated for their speed look | JOE STECHER, the phenomenal |my bouts, Iknow and use other holds, throt the records n‘n(‘,‘ s to find anything to approach the | ot | Temarkable prowess of the Augustus, leagues hadn’t caught up to his stand- | slow. He probably could not only lead voung wrestler brought from ob-|just like other wrestlers do. Half the ard and that we ought to struggle|any one of them by ten feet in going |livion by the revival of the mat game, | time I do not have to think about along without him. around the bases, but he looks a foot|says many of his matches have been |ing the scissors, because my opponent, “He picked up a sclentiflc paper one | faster going to first than any man in|won for him by newspapers. in protecting himself from the grip, time and read the account of one of | the big show today. | “On account of the dope written |lets me slam en the hel¢ Nelson or some those big wrecks they were pulling off Bert Shotton of the St. Louis Browns | about me I am known as the chap with | other good hold.” on one of the eastern roads a few |is a streak going to first. He pulls the | a wonderful leg scissors hold,” says| Stecher is just a big boy, only twen- years ago. In this same paper was the f average infield in ten feet when he is| Stecher. “It has been written that I two years of age. In street clothes announcement that a reward was of-|at bat. That is necessary be have a squeezing pressure of several | he looks Mke a schuolbaw, but beneati fered by the railroad of $10,000 to anyJun ordinary bounder the infleld cannot | thousands pounds in my logs and that |his littie checcersd cap are more one who would invent a device that|complete the mechanics of his play—|the hold I use is deadly, In fact, the | brains than the averaze wrestler has. MEYERS, ROBINSON, MARQUARD. would absolutely prohibit wrecks. the flelding and throwing of the ball—| leg scissors has becomo as famous as| Stecher is called the “baey in over- “This fellow dldn't waste a minute.|fast enough to intercept Shotton at|the Gotch toe hold alls.” He was raise on a farm near JPICTURE shows Manager Wilbert Robinson, in center, and Chief Mevers at left, and Pitcher Rubo Marquard at [There was a telegraph offico in the | first when playing back. | “Consequent'y every wrestler I meet | Dodge, Neb. right. Robby says much credit should be given to these two veterans for the great showing of the Drooklyn [lobby, and he promptly wired to the| Robertson s faster than Shotton. A|is on the lookout for the sclssor grip,| “The unexpected counts in wrestling, m this season. Meyers' good all around playing has done much to keep the Superbas in the running this year, raflroad: “‘T accept your offer. Send |race bstween the two on the bunt uudiu.nd he leaves openings for other holds. | boxing, baseball or business,” says on that check. " 2 - lrun to first would be entertaining. “I have not used the scissors in half | Stecher, Photo by American Press Assoclation. while Marquard's pitching hay won many games for his team.