New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1916, Page 7

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST ¢4, 1916. G.FOX & CO. HARTFORD WE SPECIALIZE IN WINDOW SHADES. LET US SEND OUR MAN TO FIGURE ON, YOUR NEW HOUSE. A3 Judging from the sales of the opening day of our Great August values we are offering are appreciated for the stocks are larger, the selections are bet- ter than ever before and the prices will ap- Furniture Sale the peal to you who are studying the word economy. STORE CLOSES FRIDAYS AT NOON UNTIL SEPTEMBER 8th, INCLUSIVE. AUGUST SALE of RUGS and DRAPERIE. In connection with our big Furniture Sale wo are offering a special sale in our Rug and Drapery department. or future wants. Body lots in this sale are the accumulation of the season's business and are to be closed out at prices that cannot be duplicated. We have been notified by the leading rug manufacturers that another advance in the price of Rugs will take place August the 10th which is assurance that prices will not be as low for some time to come. This is the opportunity to supply your immediate Brussels Rugs for the Dining Room 9x12 Body Brussels Rugs, Regular $32.50 Grade, Sale Price . PORTIERE SPECIALS A selection of beautiful wood Silk Portieres in the prevailing colors. Priced for this sale as follows: $ 8.50 PORTIERES, SALE PRICE $11.00 PORTI BRIE $15.00 PORTI ISPRIEE $19.50 PORTIERE RERIEE $5.00 Green and Brown Armure Portiere $6.50 Edge Armure Portieres .$ 6.50 $ 9.00 ...$12.50 5 .$16.50 , sale price $4.25 sale price SPECIAL COUCH COVERS. $2.50 Couch Covers, Sale price CARPETS. and Stair $1.75, sale $1.59 Brussels Stair Carpet, reg. $1.45 grade, sale price $1.25 Velvet Carpets, reg. $1.25 grade, sale price Tapestry Stair Carpets, reg. 79c grade, sale price..69c Axminster Hall and Stair Larp(t\ reg. $2.00 grade, sale price $1.59 Columbia Brussels Carpet, reg 98¢ grade, sale price 85¢c Fibre Matting, reg. 29c grade, sale p Fibre Matting, reg. 45c grade, sale price ... Japanese Matting, reg. 29c grade, sale price Japanese Matting, reg. 35c grade, sale price Japanese Matting, reg. 59c grade, sale price Remnants of Carpets, 2 to 15 yards, worth as ]nzh as $1.00 per yard, sale price 69c per yard. Wilton Velvet Hall Garpet, reg. BAMBOO PORCH SHADES 6 foot natural Bamboo Porch Shades, reg. sale price &5 8 foot natural Bamboo Porch Shades, reg. sale price 10 fopt natural Bamboo Porch sale price $2.00 grade, .$1.75 50 grade, .$2.19 Shades, $3.50 grade, reg. TAPESTRY RUGS 2 TAPESTRY BRUSSELS RUGS, sale price $ 9.98 9x12 TAPESTRY BRUS LS RUGS, sale price $10.50 9x12 TAPESTRY BRUSSELS RUGS, sale price $13.50 SMALL RUGS 27x54 Axminster Rugs, reg. $2.50 grade, sale price $1.89 36x63 Axminster Rugs, reg. $3.50 grade, sale price $2.98 36x70 Axminster Rugs, reg. $4.50 grade, sale price $3.75 X 4 Mottled Rugs, reg. $2.25 grade, sale price ....31.75 36x72 Smyrna Rugs, reg. $5.00 grade, sale price $3.50 WOOL AND FIBRE RUGS ON SALE 4TH FLOOR, SOUTH STORE. 9x12 Wool Fiber Rugs, reg. $9.50 grade, sale price $7.50 6x% Wool Fiber Rugs, reg. $5.00 grade, sale price $4.00 9x12 Shirvan Reversible Rugs, reg. $14.50, sale price e $12.50 Shirvan Reversible I\ugs, lcg $ sale price $6.50 Wool Rugs, reg. $9.50 grade, sale price . .$8.00 Wool Rugs, re. $7.00 grade, sale price ..$5.75 9x12 Bordered Grass Rugs, reg. $9.50, sale prlce $7.50 8x10 Bordered Grass Rugs, reg. $7.00, sale price $5.50 6x9 Bordered Grass Rugs, reg. $4.504 sale price $3.50 36x72 Bordered Grass Rugs, reg. $1.25, sale price 98¢ 6x12 9x1R 6x9 INLAID LINOLEUMS We are showing an especially fine line of these on our floor, south store, at the following special prices: 98c Inlaid Linoleums, sale price $1.25 Inlaid Linoleums, sale price $1.65 Inlaid Linoleums, sale price $1.75 Inlaid Linoleums, sale price Remnants of Linoleums at 69c Printed Linoleums at 59c Printed Linoleums at 49¢ Printed Linoleums at MANY COLLEGE MEN O b Photo by American Press Association. PIE WAY, FORMER YALE PITCHER, NOW WITH NEW YORK GIANTS. N unusual number of college | been sweetened down there would ap- ENTER dents of baseball he has ever met. He is always considering how to improve his game and will develop swiftly, Coakley thinks. It is reported in New Haven that Mahan will sign with the Yankees, but Ernest Soucy said in New London recently that Mahan was not going to play professional ball. “He turned down an offer from the Boston Braves to my personal knowl- edge,” said Soucy, “and I don’t think he will play ball unless he receives an of- fer of a salary much larger than he has yet received.” Jing Johnson, the Ursinus pitcher, made his debut recently, pitching for the Athletids against the Red Sox, and received a fearful lambasting. “Red” Carroll, the Tufts catcher, however, made a fine impression, catching John- son in fine style and nipping three men who attempted to steal second. “One or two of the above players with whom I have talked the past year,” sald a baseball expert recently, “say it is not to make of baseball an end, but merely a means either to complet- ing their education or of laying asid means to assist them in business proj ects, but others, it is to be feared, have not looked into the future—at least not beyond the immediate future. Baseball, if they make good, will pay them more at the outset than they could reasonably expect to earn in business, and that is the lure. “A few will probably catch on at once; others eventually will be trans- ferred to the minor leagues for “de- velopment.” Very few college men ever return from the so called bushes. Even assuming they succeed not only, but become famous as professional baseball players, what does it all amount to in | the end? Some years ago one of the| colleges had a brilliant baseball player. He was also a brilliant student. His inclinations were toward law, but he went into the big leagues, where his value was established at once. He stayed with one club a number of years; then he went to another, and after twenty years of service slowed down. Now he is running a minor league team. As he looks back into | the past and asks what baseball has done for him he must find the answer rather depressing. His professors when he left college agreed that he had |in it in him to succeed in almost anything to which he directed his mind. “But the quick money and the evan- other on big Photo by American Press Assoclation. GEORGE SMITH, NEW ADDITION TO GIANTS’ TWIRLING STAFF. league managers from whom they expect a handsome gratuity return for student ball should be suppressed, and promptly. “Go to a college game in which play- ers who stand out above the average In going through stock we find a few Rugs left from our fire adjustment sale which disposed of the entire Iot in a few days with the following exceptions. The fire damage in these is practically unnoticeable. Two 9x12 Wilton Rugs, reg. $47.50, sale price ....$35.00 One 9x12 Wilton Rug, reg. $50.00, sale price . .$39.50 One 9x12 Seamless Wilton Rug, reg. $60, sale price $42.50 Two 9x12 Hartford Saxony Rugs, reg. $67.50, sale $42.50 One 9x12 Bigelow Arlington Rug, reg. $45, sale $32.50 One 9x12 Royal Kashan Rug, reg. $ 5, sale $52.50 RAG RUGS IN ASSORTED COLORS Rugs, reg. $1.00 grade, sale price .... Rugs, reg. $1.25 grade, sale price ..... 36x72 Rag Rugs, reg. $1.59 grade, sale price ..$1.35 6x9 Rag Rugs, reg. $8.50 grade, sale price .$7.50 Japanese Braided Rugs, 3x3, reg. $2.50 grade, sale $2.00 Japanese Braided Rug: 3, reg. $5.00 grade, sale $4.50 CONGOLEUM ART RUGS—We are showing a fine a sortment of these one-piece Rugs at the following prices 6x9 Congoleum Art Rugs . $ 5.50 9x10-6 Congoleum Art Rugs . . $10.00 9x12 Congoleum Art Rugs . . $11.00 89c -$1.00 27x54 Rag 30x60 Rag AEROLUX PORCH SHADES We are showing a full assortment of these beautiful Porch Shades which are shown in the soft wood colors and green. e have all the new whipcord attachment and are specially priced for this sale as follows: 5 foot size, regular $3.00, sale price ...... 6 foot size, regular $3.50, sale price .. 7 foot size, regular $4.00, sale price . 8 foot size, regular $4.50, sale price ... 9 foot size, regular $5.25, sale price ... 10 foot size, regular $5.75, sale price the young westerner’s debut in cham- plonship competition. His appearance at the national title meet held on the fair grounds at San Francisco is now recalled. Except for a friend or two not a person of the 12,000 spectators in the stands on the eventful Saturday of July last year understood Simp- son’s temerity to race against Fred | Murray and Fred Kelly over the 120 yards high sticks. Simpson knew he couldn't lick his | skilled competitors. The idea of beat- ing Kelly and Murray was furthest from his mind. He was there to learn the art of hurdling, and after the race —Simpson was. lucky to finish third— | he lost no time in studying the forms of the men he idolized in his pet stunt. That evening he purchased the final sports editions of all the papers he could lay his hands on. In one of them he spotted a corking picture of the final of the high hurdles. He saw the way Kelly and Murray choppea over their hurdles, shaving them so close that they almost appeared to sit on them. Kelly, in fact, was so close that he knocked down three of the | hurdles and was disqualified. Simpson thought awhile. He asked some of the boys who were guests of the Olympic club at a banquet to show him the difference in the style of hurdling of Kelly andyMurray and his | (Simpson’s) manner of going over the | sticks. Sure enough one of them informed | him that, while Kelly and Murray | leaped s0 close to the hurdle that they | would brush a match stick off. Simp- | son allowed a liberal siretch of day- | llight between him and the hurdles. The result was that while Simpson was having a glorious time in the air Kelly and Murray were going away from him. Simpson spent three hours going over the photographs in the company of Harold Smith, the sprinter and Michigan captain; Bachman, the Notre Dame weight man, and Arlte Mucks, champlon discus thrower of Wiscon- sin university. The four made a critical examination of the pictures and studied out where Simpson’s form dif- fered from Kelly's and what Simpson should do to acquire Kelly's form. | When the party broke up Simpson | sald simply: “I've got the idea. playe Many Simpson went too high in the air in|nique of hurdling. the Frisco race. | ‘When I get back | to a hurdle he seemed to hesitate and | action goes, for he has the thi to Kansas I will put up a hurdle on the | leap high. G.FOX &CO HARTFORD THIS IS THE OPPORTUNE TIME TO HAVE YOUR OLD FURNITURE REUP- HOLSTERED AND RESTORED. COME IN AND LOOK OVER OUR LINE OF COVER- INGS AND GET ESTIMATES ON WORK. $24.50 SCRIM CURTAINS IN TWO AND THREE PAIR LOTS AT CLEARY ANCE PRICES 5 Some of these are with edge only, others with edging and insertion and valance. Two pairs of White Curtains, $1.75 sale $1.26 sale $2.49 abian Curtains, reg. reg grade, price Son Two pairs of Arabian Curtains, reg. 50 grade, $3.75 grade, sale price ... . $2.49 Three pairs Ivory Curtains, reg. $4 grade, sale price $298) Three pairs of Ivory Curtains, regular $1.25 Two pairs of Hand-drawn A -t flg 85¢ sale $2.98 grade $2.49 rade, sale $1.50 reg $5.00 grade, . $3.50 00 grade, sale Three pairs of Arabian Curtains, reg. price Two pairs of W hnc \nt\q“c Curtains, r $3.50 sale price 5 Two pairs of White Edge Curtains, reg Three pairs of Ivory sale price .. Two pairs of Ivory ngc ( urtains, reg. price . 5.00 Lacette Curtains, sale price 6.50 Lacette Curtains, sale price .. 7.50 Lacette Curtains, sale price . 5 9.50 Lacette Curtains, sale price . 5.00 Lacette Panels, sale price $10.00 Lacette Panels, sale price $12.50 Lacette Panels, sale price s MPSON LEARNED HOW T() HURDLE FROM NEWSPAPER PICTURES Photo by American Press Assoclation. ROBERT SIMPSON GOING OVER THE HURDLES. Simpson 1s likely to Every time he came |revolutionize hurdling as far as arm | to perfection baseoall players have entered the big leagues this summer. How many will be prominent by the time the big league season ends? If the usual average obtains, the suc- cessful ones will be in a minority. Yet, egain, some of the neophytes have dis- played ability on the university dia- | mond which bespeaks at least a certain “mount of success. George Smith of bia, for example. | youth, After he has| pear to be strong likelihood of his being a valuable memtber of the Giant pitch- ing squad. And Ple Way has also gone to McGraw's team. Way is a husky who has speed, control and curves. He may develop into a big league star. Watt, the Columbla cap- tain, has signea with Detroit, and Andy Coakley says he has no doubt that this player will make good in big company. Watt, he says, Is one of the closest stu- escent fame of the professional dla- mond were too alluring to be resisted. It would be well if the colleges and universities took steps to combat this annual descent upon thelr players of big league managers, whose only thoughts are selfish, whose only ideals are mercenary. “College coaches who work with one eve on the teams they coach and the to are competing and you will see scouts from professional nines watching every move of the men whom they expect to sign, studying them and sizing up their points as though they were live stock. The whole atmosphere is disgusting, and if the abandonment of the whole policy of professional coaching would ameliorate conditions it would be well bring this about.” farm and practice the rest of the sum- Results show he has changed his style for the better. Today he is the acknowledged champlon hurdler of the world. Perseverance in the case of | Stmpson triumphed for the good, and athletic fans the country over are marveling at his wonderful form and the great records he is establishing. At the Penn relay carnival some time ago, where he raced over the 120 high in 15 seconds flat, on the grass, he exhibited an entirely new form ,of competition. Six feet three inches in height, Simp- son has an {deal build for a hurdler. In many ways he resembles Forrest Smithson, the daddy of them all a fow years back. He has mastered the joch | | 5 It was a treat to see him h to the sticks with his a. Philadelphia. . Instead of sh x arm straight out in front of them, most of the other hurdlers, when they rise to the hurdle, raise both arms to th side like cutstretched w Murray, Thompson and Kelly all do it just like Smit rwnu Shaw, Kraenzlein, Chase