New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1916, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916, Nutmegs and Tigers Have Strong Opponents Tomorrow---Cadet Oliphant Has Achieved Wonderful Record---Fultz Still Talking About Fining of Players--—-What the Bowlers Did Last Even ing PADET OLIPHANT [ A GREAT ATHLETE West Point Star Only Four “A” Man in Ingtitution’s History Cadet Elmer Quillen Oliphant is pne example at least of preparedness the United States army. He is soldier who is prepared for anything anything in the athletic e at east. Oliphant is just now the cen- er of caicium on the West Point ootball field. He is not only the best pf the Army’s skin performers, but is rated as one of the best half- backs playing football to-day Although football is of chief inter- st just now, it is by no means the imit of Oliphant’s abilities. In fact, football is just one of his accomplish- ents. 'Oliphant is the only four-“A" an in West Point history. Th jmeans that he is the only man who ever won his letter in four diflerent branches of athletics. Oliphant can wear four jerseys with the initial “A” lon them at the same time , if he should care to. Baseball, track, bas- ketball and football are the sports in fwhich he has excelled to an alpha- betic degree. And he won them all lin the space of a year and a half. There is only one other sport in lwhich Oliphant can possibly obtain mnother letter while at the academy. It is in hockey. speedy skater—who knows? Oliphant is the catcher of the Army | baseball team. Sammy Strang, the famous coach of the cadets, says that the doughty Hoosier could make the big leagues If he decided to take up the game professionally. He was the battery mate of Bob Neyland, (Army. pitcher, who won straight games for Uncle Sam. Oliphant holds ‘several trac rec- ords at the academy. His best ghowings in miscellaneous events are as follow: Pole vault, inches; quarter-mile, 51 seconds; one- ‘half mile 2:02; mile, 4:31; 220-yard yard hurdl Jjump, 21 feet 4 inches. In addition to starring on the foot- ! ball, baseball and basketball teams this remarkable athlete his way into the finals of the heavy weight boxing class on two different occasions Oliphant of Bruceville, Ind. He was Oliphant of Bruceville, Ind He was born in Bloomfield in the same state twenty-three-years ago. All dur- ing his life the Hoosler boy excelled in all forms of athletics. He became famous at Purdue university before ‘coming to West Point. At one time or other he has captained the foot- ball, baseball, basketball, indoor base- ball and tug-of-war teams of that school. Oliphant is a great believer in a regular code of living and moral conduct. In the high school days he was president of a Bible class, and at the present time is secretary of the Sunday school at West Point. ELM CITY BOUTS, Shands and Palitz Shades K. O. Moran, i | New Haven, Oct, 28.—Hughey Ross of Bridgeport, who has a victory to his credit over Al McCoy, middle weight champion, was given the de sion over Cowboy Charley Shands of E1 Paso, Texas, in the star bout of 15 rounds staged at the Arena last night under the direction of the Na tional Athletic club. Ross capturel honors In practically every round by forcing the fighting and landing where he pleased. Shands fought a poor fight devoting most of his time to clinching and covering up methods. In the semi-final round .Dave Palitz of New London decisively out- pointed K. O. Moran of Bridgeport !n a 10 round tilt. Palitz and Moran furnished plenty of action in round. geen here this season. Both boya slugged away at one another in most Ross Beats every round, which met with the ap- | Moran left the head nos proval of the crowd. ring badly beaten about the and body while Palitz showed effects from the battle. ENDS LONG WAL Indian Pedestrian Completes 13,000 Mile Walk in Chicago. Chicago, Oct. Hagle, Comanche Ind:an, is in CLicago today at the end of a 13,000-mile walk, for which he sald he was to re- celve a prize of $10,000 but he has been unable since his arrival yester- day to find the men who were to pay him the money. agle and two companions go, October 16, 19 walked to New York and back to San Fran- eisco where the companions quit and finished the trip alone. he had worn out thirty- five pairs of shoes FOOTBALL OPENING GAME UNDAY AFTERNOON NUTMEGS VS. TIGERS of Hartford FRATERNAL LEAGUE GROUNDS KICK OFF AT 8 O’CLOCK And as Elmer is a’ the | twenty | 11 feet 6 | 25 seconds, and broad | has fought | every | The fight was one of the hest | 28.—Clarence White | Boston, Oct. 28.—Harvard is better | fixed for ends this season than any other football team in the east. So Isay the crimson gridiron experts. addition to the regular ends, Harte and C. Coolidge, the Cambridga ibold down these positions in brilliant style. O You Romany! Slip me the rag and paek, | The world-wide, open track, The ,trail that leads from dawn dusk across the heart of life; Only a song to sing | In light heart wandering | By vale and hill and mountainside | beyond the endless strife. | to Where is the heart to stay When the west wind calls “Away”— When tho east wind and the north wind and the south wind in re- frain Plead in the early light— | Call through the gloom of night | Of byways and of highways through the sunshine and the rain? No one to wonder when 1 come this way again, No one to watch and wait for me when I have passed beyond; | No weary tears to shed Because some dream is dead Where every dawn shall send dream to every vagabond. its Where dnll care leaves the mind Free from the sodden grind, | Free as the Jjrifting winds that romp by heather and oy foam, | While no set lamp shall burn {70 wait for my return, | Yet each far strand T touch shall be the Port of Home. Mole fur is said to be the vogue this season. But if they are all as hard to catch as Maulbetsch, of Michi- gan, no wonder the prices are up. Those who picked All- baseball teams this season Buck Herzog off the left the best infielder out of the count. to Cobb American and left infield merely in the game Herzog runs third and Speaker for all-around value, and trailing these two super Sons of Swat is about the same as not being quite as rich as John D, Rockefeller. The Case for Ncbraska, Dear Sir: Will you let me call your attention to the University of Nebras- ka football team? The Cornhuskers raven’t lost a game in four years, and they have already cleaned up this season the strong Oregon Aggies. They have whipped Notre Dame twice znd have toppled over such husky opponents as Minnesota and the Michigan Aggles. The Cornhuskers last fall, T am confident, were fully as strong as Harvard or Princton. | Chamberlain, last year's feature with ip the ka game. rs of In my opinion, the east, say In | Harte is Dick | field boxed out of the cleven has two or three men who can | tionally | usses. PORT oy | hearted way. rank with the great ' Dick Harte of Harvard One of Best Ends of Year Harte is one of the speediest men in and many football experts the best end of the season. a hard tackler fast down the under kicks and is not easily play. He is excep- catching forward he i clever LIGHT Grantland Rice he was fully the equal of Mahan, and L saw both play. These things are mentioned to give credit to a uni- Versity that hasn't lost a game in four years—a record that deserves to be widely known. C. E. E. (Minneapolis.) What you you above, the difference Nebraska University and one Nebraska’s leading sons? Simple enough. One hasn't lost a start in four years and the other has started anything but losses in twenty years, All-Americans and Such, say Mention of Chamberlain recalls again the futility of the All-American in football, Few in the East had ever heard of Chamberlain. Yet good football judges who saw him play tell us that on an BEastern eleven he would have dérawn fully as much notice as Mahan, Barrett or Le Gore—that he would bave been crowned as one of the greatest of the truly great. McGraw, the Giants—and Brooklyn. Any number of fans have upheld Ban Johnson’s contention that John McGraw should be harshly treated for that Brooklyn episode, where he left the field. Many of these fans, especially from Brooklyn, have tossed the keen har- poon our way for suggesting that McGraw also had a side to his case. Suppose McGraw had stuck it out, making no comment? Who would have been the official goat? Who would have been panned and flouted | “throwing games to his ald pal, for Robby?” And with McGraw the goat—after | its quickly would Ban Johnson and the fans at Le had begged his team to hazrdest in this series—how fight large have come to John J.'s help? The odds are that Ban would have | called on the league to punish McGraw | for not trying to win from a friend. McGraw, knowing in advance that he was going to be “goated” if the Giants | fell down, made a special plea to his men to do their best. worst—and all in less than Whereupon, McGraw merely let the blame fall where it belonged as he ducked from under. Maxims of the 19th Hole, The duffer that hitteth one long wallop from the tee is frequently con- tent though his score be 146: For he hath sufficient material then to pad out his conversation for a week, a half- The Woodland club, in its fight to have Francis Ouimet reinstated. has after the | was between | of never | They did their | the majority of golfers upon its side. But the tip that the majority rules in this country is very frequently bunk. { There isn’t one galfer in twenty who believes that Ouimet is a professional. | But how many amateur tournaments | did the Boston star enter this season? There’s where the answer enters. The Red Sox have been fined for tarnstorming after the world series ended. But we haven’'t heard vyet that the Brooklyn club has been fined for barnstorming during the series. Or have we overlooked a piece of news? “Jess Willard to fight Dillon or Levinsky.” Why not Dillon and Levinsky, if the word ‘fight” is to be cmployed? One Reason Being— 0l1d King Cole was a jolly old soul, A jolly old soul was he; But he never took five on a doggone hole When he had a putt for a three. Hal Chase, after ten vea: { American league, led the league in his first year with that cir- cvit. Glory, in a good many cases, { depends largely where you happen to nght. MAJOR LEAGUERS HIT HIGH SPOTS ' Both-National and American Cir-| ouits See Many Strange Gontests| The baseball season of 1916, notable | for the number of unusual features in | major league pennant play, developed a number of games in which heavy i hitting, run scoring and base stealing | were prominent featur A careful | scrutiny of the box scores for the en- | tire period discloses a cluster of odd | | records that might also be termed! | freaks of big league baseball play. | { The American league statistics show that during the season every | club in the organization figured in at | | lcast one game in which the times-at- | | hat numbered more than 40; runs| equaled or stolen bases In the National league | the highest at-bats ranged from 49 to | runs, 10 to 13: hits, 15 to 23, and | stolen bases, 5 to 11. X Figures indicate that Tied € 61 times at bat, while sccond with 59, and St. Louis third | | with 57. The New York Americans | made the greatest number of runs in any one game, accumulating 19, while | Boston and Detroit were tied for second place in this respect with 17. The Chicago White Sox won first place in hitting with 20, while the Detroit nd New York clubs divided second honors with 19. Boston, Cleveland, Washington and Philadelphia all hammered out 17 hits in at least one game during the pennant race. In siolen bases, the New York Ameri- cans were also leaders. pilfering nine n one contest, while St. Louis and De- troit were tied for second place with cight each, In the National league the Chicago | Cubs took first place in times at bat in one game with 62. Pittsburgh was second with 61, and Brooklyn third ith 58. New York and Brooklyn viere tied in the greatest number of runs, each scoring 13, and it is of | interest to note that the Giants’ record seore in this respect was made against | Pittsburgh in the onening game of the string of 17 victori~s which the club | | piled up early in the season and pre- | vious to its record-breaking Tun of 26 | games. Cincinnati was next with 12 runs. In hitting, St. Touis came first { with 23 safe drives, Brooklyn second | { with 21, and New York and Cincin- nati tied for third with 19. St. Louis | | ensily led the National league in the | | number of stolen bases in any one | game, having collected 11, while New !York and Brooklyn qualified for | second place with seven each, Boston | {and Pittsburgh being third with six The following compilations show | the greatest number of at-bats, runs hits and stolen bases made by each | club in the American and National | {leagues in any one game during the| play for the pennants: | | the Boston | ox led the American league with Chicago was | American League. ab. Boston .. New York Chicago Detroit Cleveland | Washington | Philadelphia | St. Louis Natianal ab. 62 T 10 13 13 10 10 5! 11 : 10 12 Chicago New York Brooklyn St. Louis Philadelphia Foston ‘PH\:;l)\H';:h ! Cincinnati ACME A, C, WANTS GAMF The Acme A. C. football Bridgeport would like to 80-90 pounds team of New _Game to be played in New | Arrangements for game can be made by writing Charles Hoyt, 30 Roosevelt street, Bridgeport, Conu, team of | y any Britain. Britain. LIETTER FOR PION EERS. | The sporting editer of the Herald is in receipt of a letter for the man ager of the Pioneer foothall team of city. Same can be had by calling at office. exceeded 10; hits 15, and | alley ‘¥. S. Robertson 104 i Perlin | Helander HcLean of Tigers One of Best Ta Princeton, N. J., Oct. 28.—“Talk about your tackles! Show me one who has anything on McLean of the Tigers,” said a veteran footballer who had watched the work of the big Princetonian in the game with Lafay- ette recently “Why, that boy is a demon. He here and there and everyvwhere. McLean is easily the best tackle in the east this season, bar is ! ckles of Season “In made none,” continued the veteran. the game with Lafayette he | when f est TWO BIG GRIDIRON GAMES TOMORROW | Capital City Elevens will Face Tigers and Nutmegs Tomorrow’s big attraction in local football circles will lead the crowd to Traut's park, where the crack Tigers of this city will lineup the Corinthians of Hartford, of the fastest teams in the City. ‘That the locals will be forced to the limit to secure a win over their hued opponents assured, the record of the is scanned for this ses ans will have their best tomorrow, as they are anxious to win from the Tigers. The locals have drilled hard ths week for tomorrow’s game and Manager arn- reports his team as being in th® pink of condition. A number of new been worked out this K, will used against the Corinthians tomorrow, The attend- dance at the game should be of rec- ord breaking proportions, for the management has gone to much e pense in hooking the Corinthians, The Tirer: in their opening game last Sunday proved that they are to be rated as one of the best teams ever selected from h'ome talent, and the schedule that has been arranged with i the proper support should treat lovers of football to some fine sport | Several years ago the Nutmeg foot: | ball eleven attained statewide rep= a s rated dusky is visitor The Corin- in uniform particularly son. plays have we and be more down field tackles than ends. He should be placed on every All American eleven this fall. Mc Lean will be the big Tiger man for Yale and Harvard to wate con- cluded the old timer. Photo shows McLean ready to jump at his oppo- « nent. did the WITH THE BOWLERS Fred Men and Skinner Chuck Com- pany Leagues Keep the Pin Boy at the Actna Alleys on the Jump. Some fast bowling featured the Red Men league last evening on the Aetna lanes, when the Warriors trim- 1ied the Scouts twice and the San- naps scalped the Braves a duo games. The other contests last trought teams of the Skinner Chuck company league with the Tool Room ! and the Office trios winning from the Drill Chuck and the Shipping room representati The scores follow: Jacobs 72— 237 103— 284 2 67— 807 T6— 97— 107— 280— 271 . 87 287 263 Braves. 92 86 107 90 375 Sannaps. 83 83 103 92 361 Itusari A. N. Sandstrom Woerdlin 1 284 9 345 346—1066 1 90 101 84 111 386 106— Bl— 85— 89— 361—110% Robertson Connors T’eterson J. Wright KINNER CHUCK LEAGUE. Office. 93 Thornton 84 91 79 4 Wilcox Hultgren Burr 246 Tool Room 97 94 95 104 85 80 278 Chuck 89 90 96 Kahms Bloom Bowers 273— 828 277 Drill 79— 119— 99— 249 290 273 Gustafson . 8 Trevethan ... 7 240 275 297— 812 MEREDITH WOOD IS CAPTAIN- New Haven, Oct. 28.—Meredith B. 1ood of New York city was elected captain of the Yale soccer football team yesterday at New Haven, He | succeeds G. S. Haskall, who resigned on account of ill-health. TENNEY Former Sacker Gives up Newark, N. J.. will not manag Newark In- ternations] league team next season, according to an announcement made I'y President James Price yesterday. Y price said that no effort has been made to appoint a successor to Ten- ney. Tenney notified Price that he wished to retire from the game and would not consider leading the New- ork team next season. Tenney el i the club “‘has been taken care o 92— 286 | 235 | 262 | | to the national comn | Fred Ten- ! a -“ording to Pric statement. The Indian president already is making preparations for the 1917 season and of promsing player: TIGERS WIN AT SOCCER- Ithaca, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Cornell lost {the first intercollegiate league soccer ! match with Princeton by 5 to 0 ves ,terday in a hard-played game on { Alumni Field. Through a managerial nmix-up the Corneil manager had no Ccach Harold Holden :apacity. The first half ended 1 0. Cameron played brilliantly for the | winners. | STILL ARGUING | . e | Fultz States Lannin Put O. K. on Plans of the Men to Play Colonials | Optimistic About Fining. | New York, Oct. 28.—David L. Fultz president of the Baseball Players' Fraternity, stated last night that tha contr had never been by him as president or by the fraternity as a body, because the con- tracts never have been submitted to him beforehand. In the event of ! the Boston players being fined by the national commission, Mr. Fultz stated | that the fraternity had not decided upon what action they would take. He refused to admit that they would | take the matter to the courts. M aid that he did not think that vers would be fined and that the matter would blow over. lic stated that President Johnson evi- dently did not know the real circum- stances of the case. According to Mr. Fultz, the ton players recelved permission from | President Lannin to play the game at New Haven and al! arrangements had been completed when on the evening before the game the permis- sion was withdrawn It was then too late for the players to withdraw their obligation to play the zame. Owner Lannin he did know that the pla were going \ play at New Haven. would not have jection to the men going to play, but did not know anything about it,” said the presidgnt of the world champions, The Boslon club owner has written on and while playérs should have re- | celved permission, he says their cases | are no different from those of Ty { Cobb and others who played on Sun- | days during the season at New Haven {and after the world serle: cts Bos- to said not ers to any ob- he says the { | DIES. | PROMINENT New HORSE! York, 28.—Joseph W. Ogden, | ! well known in financial circles, for- . merly a director and vice president of the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad, a director of several ilau‘gc manufacturing concerns, and a | former vice president of the National | Horse Show association, died here last | night. Mr. Ogden was about 70 years {old and made his home in Mort town, N. J., where he bred many prize | winning hor of A. WINS, | Camp, No. 9, P, O. S, Washington Morga last night at carpet | The scores follow: Mitchell Skip, P. O. 8. of A, Snyder Skip, 14; Rink K. of P., Dolan Skip, 7; P. 0., | A., Redden Skip, 17; Rink K P., Barbour Skip, 15; P. O of | A.. Ludwig Skip, 17. Phoenix Lodsge, I 01 0. F. and New Bri Lodge, O. U. A. M., wil play tonight. ) | P. O, Washington of A.. defeated Lodge B 29, K. of 48 to | e howls, Rink 1, of of s is endeavoring to round up a number | | iously | vera utation throughout Connecticut for its | prowess but of late the ho; have | been spht up that no eleven has , been placed in the field. Through the efforts of Jimmy Clinton, however, & a collection of former of the gridiron have been gotten together | this on, and the prospects at | present indicate that the of {the green sweaters will regain the prestige on the gridiron that it once boasted. To attain this end the management has secured some of the noted gridiron warriors in the Nut- te to meet the locals during with the prospects of a | successful outcome of these contests in sight. To pry off the lid Manager | Clinton has booked the famed Tigers | A. C. team of Hartford to stack up against his pets at the Fraternal Pascball field tomorrow afternoon, at 12:30 o'clock. Followers of foothall weare: soon | meg | the season, of i ¢flicial league referee on hand, and |in this vieinity need no information of the Tigers | evening | y a5 allowed to take the field in that | Wwith an eye on the s 3 to | as to the ability of the Hartford ; ate champion- { ship, the Capitol City eleven secured George Brickley of Trinity college fame as the coach and the brother of the Harvard drop kicker is rapidly rounding the team into mid-season form Some of the faces that will,be seen in the Tigers lineup are: Me- Mahon, Anderson, Courtney, Captain Lawson, Johnson a former star of Louisville university and Joe Smith last year a star performer for the H. P. H, Word received this morning from the Tigers management indicated that the locals may have to face Brickley who it understood will be pressed into service by ‘the visitors. The scene of the game is in the rear of the stone quarry. across the street from the New Catholie cemetery, and may be reached by the north end trolley car The Annex A. C. will Rockyille tomorrow to lineup against the Rovers of that city. The trip will be made in an auto truck leaving the corner of Church and Stanley street at 11:30 o’clock. The team will hold practice at Banning’s field. boy journey to REPORTS 6,000 SOLD. Advance Sale of I rtmouth-Syracuse is La One: Springfield, Oct. 28.—One of the nbers of the football committee of the board of trade which is hand- ling the Svracuse-Dartmouth game's advance timated yesterday that more than 6,000 seats to the big contest had already been assigned to 1ill applications and that several hun- dred letters containing more applica= tions were in the hands of the oflice force unopened. The letters have been rolling in thick and fast the past two days in order to reach their destina- tion before the advance termin- aies this noon. The envelopes are heing carefully numbered in the or- Ger of reception by those handling the applications, and each is being taken care of in its proper order. Two so0d days preceding the game next week, the committee thinks, will practically assure a capacity house The Springfield Young Men's Chri tian association has extended the pr vileges of its showers and swimming 100l to the visiting athletes of both {cams. This will prove particularly handy to the Syracuse men, wko will be stopping at the Hotel Kimball and who will work out on Pratt field ¥ri- v afternoon. Tickets e ™m sale, e sale FIGHT AT FOOTBALL GAME Jackson, Miss, Oct 28—A fight vhich players on both sides and mo: than an hundred spectators partic! pated broke up the Tulane-Mississippl college game here yesterday, shortly «fter the fourth period 1 started. “he game was called as as the police could restore quiet the cfficial scorekeeper declared Tulane the victor, 13 to was s hurt 1d 500 and No one HARVARD BEATS M. L T, Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 2 Har- easily won a dual track meet from Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nclogy yesterday takingg first place jn ine of the eleven c o ords broken. ent No were