New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1916, Page 8

I" NEW BRITAIN DAI LN e — Tom” Burns Giass Arm Brough: H:m $12,000-- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916. > -Swar Kinos Reigned In 1887---Nutmegs to Meet Fas Winchester Team Tomorvow---Breaking Records Gecoming Popular With Local Bowlers---Other Sports GLASS ARMS WERE EXPENSIVE ONCE “Tom” Burns Proved This to Pittsburgh Club's Satislaction Charles & court of the effect that a glass arm is of club than Whether Whitc merely Com 1z key in to once offered ‘expert a thira testimony”’ baseman with more value to a ball with wing! pr of the belief he one a glassle the sent owner Sox expresscq such a as a joke, tually meant it, ha tery for or whether ac- 5 remained a mys- twenty-four remains that the something t the fact an did malke such a declara- ind that it undoubtedly helped to ice a judge in rendering a ver- baseball suit involving § like 000 Ba Chasce Nat k along Temple als, hc - once in 1892, when William owned the Pittsburgh decided to sign up Tom time member of Cap stonewal!l infield. How- ever, beforc the deal finally was put through, Temple tipped that Burns had a glas (In baseball parlance that mean throwing arm which as become kinky and stiff, and, therefore, is useless in a base- ball way.) Temple, arm a howeyer, refused to pass up Burns, merely on the strength of that report. And so he wired Burns somcthing like this “Will contract you for three years | at salary $4,000 per year upon condi- | tion that your throwing arm is in per- ! fect condition. Unless you can guar- | ante condition of your arm, des is off!" ! Burns wired back: “My arm in perfect condition. Will | guarantee it."” | Temple then cd Burns, only to find ouf within a short time that the reports concerning tha flinging fin of Rurns had been true that the arm of the former of the Chicago team was dead as far as baseball use- | fulness was concerned. there was nothing left for to do but to release Burns, ple Burns immediately afterward filed it for £12.000—three vears’ salary— against the Pittsburgh club. summon- ing Comiskey. among others to testi- fy in his hehalf. The trial came up before a Chicago judge who regarded b ling as a | sort of roughneck occupation, and knew little more abonut the game than cannibal island chiefts ey, who then was famous | 1 player and manager of the four-time champion §t. Louis Browns, was called the stand. i Have heard used in your { baseball business the expression, | ‘glass arm’?” Comiskey was asked. | Oh, yes, ¢ir; I have one myself,” | was the reply. H “Do you think star, S0 me said Tem- you ever that the possession of a so-called arm is a handi- | cap to a ball player? Would it af- | fect the usefulness of a player?” “I do not think it would affect the fulness of am“Mflelder.” Why not?" Comiskey, without the flicker of a smile on his face, then made this remarkable reply, in substance: “Well, Your Honor, the position played by an infielder uires him to make what is known as snap throws. As vou surely must know, glass brittle and snaps easily. Therefore, a third baseman with a ‘glass arm’ would seem to be of more value to a ball club than one who didn’t have a glass arm. Do I make myself clear?” “Perfectly, sir,” answered judge; “I get your point exactly.” And then the judicial person ver- bally flayed the Pittsburgh club own- ers for their stand that a ‘“glass armed” player was a rather useless person and ruled that the club should pay Burns the $12,000 and the costs of the case as well. Objection was taken to the ruling, however, but the club owners lost. The suit finally was settled by the Pirate owners paying Burns six weeks' salary, the period from the date of his relcase, untll the suit was decided. i It was during the same trial that “Cap” Anson, who also testified that he had a “glass arm,” got the rudest shock of his lengthy career. “Cap,” just then the most talked- about plaver in the United States, took his place in the witness chair FOOTBALL Winchester Arms, N. Haven Vs, Nutmegs, New Britain Fraternal League Grounds SUNDAY, 2:30 P. M. SMOKE OXMOOR AXT 5¢ CIGAB as; u the A MILD, BOWL FARLY Weis O.f That Cold PLE. Dt A ol Taik of Experts This Season ! the NUTHEGS 10 FACE FAST ELM GITY TEAM Winchester A. C. With Former Now ing thint ihe excitement pertain- the 2 election has abated and contest ready to into nistory, the c of local football world turn back to the grid- iron where the stirring battie are soon great pass to 1ck | man i} view, and the judge said West Point, N, 11.—Elmer branches Oliphant of the Army team is in the wear ro:r(}ir:atx}:c\t\]-;tsfi u:«”i‘;k;?"']; S yery center of the calcium in eastern on them at the same time if ho should foothall circles at present. He Is not care to. Bascball, track, baskoies only the best of the Army's plgskin and football are the sports in. c'(l Tl performers, but is rated as one of the he, has excelled to an alphabetiy Lo Pest halfbacks playing football today. gree. And he wan them ol b oo And this talk about Ris football short space of & venr ant o togr ability Is no idle rumar emanating There is only one othor = Irom the minds of his friends, for be vhich Oliphant can possibly I said that most ably did this player another letter while at the Acadorsy Jemonstra falthisESprowessil in i rianylir (Sl e cice v o i e Lo SGSi games this season and especially In speedy skater—who knowe? | - - the game with Villa Nova. i Holaiahwhat ronab i e Tn addition to starring on the foot- ball, baseball and basketball teams, ! will do this year, score forty-five |- points in one game. In this game in 'IS remarkable athlcte has fought his which the Army emerged victarious V2V into the finals of the heavyweight by the score of 69 to 7, Oliphant was DOXIN& class on two a veritable demon both on offense ana ‘NS defense, crushing the oncoming at- _ Oliphant is the son of Marion F tacks with case and a ily bowling Olibhant of Bruceville, Ind. He was through the line or around an end for born in Bloomficld, in the same state, a substantial gain, for a total of six (Wenty-five years ago. All during his touchdowns. life the Hoosier boy excelled in all Although football is of chief, in- forms of athleti He hecame famous st just now, it is by no means the ! Purdue university before coming t of Oliphant’s abilities. In fact, he has captained the football, hase football is just one of his accomplish- ball, basketball, indcor pushball and ments. Oliphant is the only four “A™ tug-of-war teams of thaf “hool in West Point history. This Photo shows Oliphant kicking a goal means’that he is the only man who te West Point. At one time or other | ever won his letter in four different from placement. the sport in obtain different occa- with the air of a matinec idol on re- | F. Robertson Connor | Peterson the | J. Wright pride. sir, ame, please. 1 am Cap Anson,” returned diamond star with a show of “I want your full name, commanded the judge. : “Adrian Anson. Captain @l Anson, of the Chicago team, the ball Nelson player, you know; of course you've I'. Nelson heard of me,” answered Anson, in Dummy : tone that was a rebuke to the judge | A. L. Sandstrom for his seeming ignorance. A. Robertson “The name In no wise is familiar to me. I never have heard of you," icily returned the judge. Where- | upon, kind and loving friends of Cap Anson rushed forward with smelling salts, pure ammonia and other prep- arations from a state of collapse. 0y a 12 | | 107 Oftice. 104 95 101 McGrath North Thornton ON THE BOWLING LANES Breaking Records Becoming Popular 300 Kahms Bloom Bowers Feature at Aetna Alleys—Skinner Chuck Company Leaders Jolted. Shipping. League records continue to be > smashed at the Aetna alleys the latest player to join the list of high mark men is F. Robertson of the Warriors | quintet in the Red Men’s league. Rob- ertson last evening spilled the pins for a 119 score in the game between | his team and the Braves. The ac- | complishment however did not ap- parently feaze the Warriors who took | two of the three games rolled. In the second game in the league series the Scouts won from the Sannaps two out of three. The Tool Room flve of the Skinner Chuck company league struck a snag when they encountered the Office quintet who put across two victories in decisive fashion. The Drill Chuck team also fell before the superiority rolling of the Shipping Room team, losing two games. In the A. P. G. league the All-Amer- icans defeated the D. T. team and the Bones five won from the Russians. The scores: . 82 106 79 267 Root Hultgren Burr 249 Drill Chuck. 82 80 Gustafson Helander Trevethan 77— 80— 245 89— 244 78— 244 Goldenberg | Rice McMurray Lancaster 93 302 340 All-Americans. 13 66 92 85 72 Malarney ... .. McCabe! . cvsas s Wright Braves B. BEmerson A. R. Sandstrom 90 Fusari - 93 Nygren . 88 Woerdlin 91 Berlin 101 163 470 Warriors. 100 336— 998 98 — 332 89 85 101 97 2173 91— 81- 86— 94— Hutchinson 8. Johnson J. Johnson F. McMurray 466—1399 97 362—1095 67 89 82 95 99— 88— 89— 113— 85 Poppel Youknot Logan F. Robertson 296 213 256 314 280 Russians. 96 100 91 79 271 270 Benardo O’Connell J. Emerson Orsie ..... 130 metna Allies CITURCII STREET. Sannap: 86 84 | than ! eleven | to | sames re: | champion | proclaimed by the team |5 ha i for | erack eleven of New found | earned | of | Gibbons led in sis | slons went to Dillon, | the agreed | Dillon really | fectively | ten he fought by the c clevens of the leading colleges. Lovers of the game in this city do not have the op- portunity of root for these gladia- tors except from an interest nd- point for their is no institution other High school which plays games long these lines. hut 1e so-called semi-professional circles: there is an that is fast working its way toward the right to contest for state honors. the Nutinegs of this city: In the fizht for these honors the local Loys have not picked any soft teams battle with and if the comir ult favorably for them, the hip should be shtfully do What is conceded to be the best at- traction ever arranged for this city, heen clinched Manager Clinton tomorrow afternoon, when the Winchester eleven, conceded to be the Haven will stack Fraternal 30 o'ciock. will be have mem- inst the locals at 1d on Stanley street at the lineup of the visitors several players who enviable reputations as of college elevens in seasons The management of the Nut- in its attempts to give the fans hest obtainable, has gone to con- able expense in booking the Win chesters and mammoth crowd should be on hand when the referce s time. That there will be nc kicking or bbling, efforts are heing madc ure Coach Browr the High school or Dr. Zwick tc refc The visitors will alsc presented by an official The lineup of the teams lows: Winchester's, Shepard of Yale left end; Goode, of Minnesota, lef tackle; Nealon, left guard; Sherma center; Fitzgerald of Minnesota, righ Eai 1 ullivan of Rens er Poly technic Institute, right tackle: Rii¢ of University of Virginia, right end Coogan, quarterback; “H. Milliken right halfback; J. Milliken, left half back; Lawlor, formerly captain of Trinity, fullback. Nutmegs, J. Gorman, right Gorman and Winniger, rizht Delaney, right guard: Griffen, center: Bonenfant, left guard; I'ickop Mahauley, left tackle; Koplowits right end: Scott, rback; Breen, left halfback; Larson, right halfback; Nelson, fullback. up a n bers past meg the side a s to is as fol end; T tackle and quar Cardinals; trengthened everal new ace the Car- after- that as Meet With an eleven greatly by the acquisition of players, the Tigers will f dinals of Hartford tomorrow noon at Traut’s field, in a game should be replete with fast pla hoth teams are noted for their speed and intricate playing. The hoys from the Capitol City are coming here with an excellent rcputation and should prove to be formidable foes for the Tigers. Their record shows victories over fast teams this season and not once has their goal line been crossed. With “‘Bullet’” Krause, Neu- rath and Shrager in the Tiger lineup, the home lads should be in a position to accomplish the scoring stunt how- ever, as these boys who formerly starred for the Pawnees are ground gainers of considerable value. The kickoff wll take place at 2:30 o'clock Pigers to | and a big crowd will no doubt be on hand. The visitors will be accom- panied by the entire rooting squad of the Cardinal A. C. club. GIBBONS EASY VICTOR. St. Dillon Paul Phantom Leads Throughout 10 Round Bout. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 10.—Mlke Gibbons of St. Paul outpointed Jack | Dillon of Indianapolis in a ten-round | last night. rounds. Three ses- and the other m. yesterday Gib- and Dillon under no-decision contest here was even. At 3 p. bons weighed in at 168% at 162, the latter one pound weight. From the start of the contest Gib- bons' wonderful cleverness was shown in his ability to evade the aggressive rushes of the TIndianapolis boxer. Time and again Dillon essayed to get close to his adversary in order to land effectively to the face or the stomach, but Gibbons kept the Hoosler light- weight at a safe distance from the start. Only in the tenth session did reach his opponent ef- Then it was too late to ac- complish anything gainst the over- whelming lead piled up by Gibbons. LEONARD HAS BIG MARGIN. New York, Nov. 11.—Benny Leon- ard, the wonderful Harlem light- welght, last night shattered another championship bubble, the victim this time being Stanley Yoakum, a Den- ver boxer with aspirations for Freddie Welsh's championship laurels. For rounds at the Harlem Sporting club, in 135th street, the local light- weight battered and drove the West- ern boxer all about the ring, but al- though he won with a decisive margin | in his favor, the wonderful ability for | asstmilating punishment | the Denverite robbed Leonard of the shown by glory of a knockout. several | | feated Young Rector of PORT Y All-Americans, \ 1y serene, football As Full many a Coy The unknown c bear; ull many a Thorpe is born to buck for of purest mpuses of unseen And waste his rushes on the small town air Ik Son Sir: Enter Natick Sons of Ma { chusetts | Mike Murphy— (Deceased.) World's ccatest trainer. ! Tommy Connolly—Am. League um- | rire. | Pooch Donovan—Harv Piper Donovan—FProf ning champion. Keene [Fitzpatrick — Trainer Princeton, Eddie Mah, Eddie (a Bill Mur rd trainer. ional run- | at n—The Harvard wizard. —Harvard star. i Harvard quarterback. o Is IFootball Popular? On the twenty-fifth of November there will be two football spectacles of fairly popular interest. One will be Harvard vs. Yale, The cther will be West Point Annapolis. It was thought at one time that these would so conflict that only small crowd would popular event. The impending statistics are sMghtly different, The Yale Bowl, with its \dditional seating capacity, can take e of 70,000 spectators. The rounds, rigged to the limit, 1y~ (wo gam L comparatively witness the les: can ndle 47,000, I T'his, apparently, should be enough ating space to accommodate vo-game crowd 3ut the facts in the case polnt along nother wa Already, 88,000 have pplied for Yale-Harvard tickets, and ver 60,000 have made motions to- ard getting Army-Navy tickets. As it is, over 120,000 people will see o two games, and if the room was here 200,000 wonld be glad enough pay the price—an average of 100,- to the game, There are many thousands more ho would be glad enough to pay the 1x if thev could figure any chance of ing accommodated—of baging, as )1a Frank Adams would satirize, “the veted pasteboards.” If each person who was willing to rroduce the price to sec the Yale- Fiarvard and Army-Navy games knew ihere was room enough for all, the attendance would undoubtedly n close to 250,000 for Saturday \fternoon's sport Any doubt as to the popularity of fcothall can he answered by the above figures. . e one Harvard's Total. By the end of the ~d team will have pla 000 spectators, The Crimson games against Cornell, Princeton, Brown and Yale with total over 125,000 paid admissions—leav- on the Har- ed to at least | dope today we Polo | the | LIGHT Grantland Rice ing Harvard over $100,000 profit on Tootball alone. But as this money is used, in the main, to build up other sports, there in be no complaint that foctball is | overplayed. All Records to Go, The Yale-Harvard game will smash all records for ottendance, The greatest crowd that ever saw a zam this fall football New Haven two years ago. This season the total count is pretty sure to run above 70,000, with the re- ceipts around $150,000. Old Man Plank, back through some old run acrg a box score world series that Eddie against the Giants in Drifting of the last Plank pitched, 1913, The score showed that only twenty- | eight Giants faced Plank, and of these only one get a clean blow. Plank will be forty-two vears old this year, and the wonder of it is that he is still a star at forty-two, with Matty, Walsh and others with far huskier physiques, all through at thirty-six. For some reason or « ther the elastic has never worn aut in Plank’'s left shoulder, although his pitching mo- tion is labored. It is merely one of those things beyond the far borders of the dope. Between the Trenches, Stlence—and Shadow—and Sleep— No gleam from a starless sky, Out where the dark of the night i deep) ‘And the winds of the world drift by Winds of the world that bear Frcem the silver vales of light, A last good-bye on the breath prayer {To those asleep in the night. is of Here, at the Inn of Life, | We see but the lonely mound; { Yet there is peace from the storm and strife Under the lilies crowned; And no one shall miss the light Nor care that the dark is deep At rest in the Tavern beyond the fight Where only the low winds creep. When the “m cut for Harvard, twenty-five yards between the tackle hty it round the end “What does the Great Zim do in the no umpires around ?" asks Buzzer. Bvery Why wintey scason, when there are , true artist not Heinie? needs a vacation. The repert that Speedy Tad Jones had caught “n off-year is true enougk Dodgers caught the absence of Tris Speaker and Jack Barry. Haughton AT IT AGAIN. Coach Courtney Back in Harness at Cornell. Ithaca, Nov. 11.—Coach Charles E Courtney has been making a bu week of it at the Cornell boathouse, with five varsity and freshman com- binations on the water. The Old Man who had been keeping away from the ter up to this week, has been in ly attendance, and seems to gain in health by it instead of losing, as some thought he would. With As- sistant Coach Collyer, the shells have been on the inlet each afternoon, fine weather favoring the oarsmen. In the first boat Courtney now has Morgan at bow, Calder and Kingsland alternating at No. 2, Bacon at er at 7, and Kingsland and Russell alternating at stroke, with Kephart, who has just returned from the for- estry camp in the Adirondacks, as coxswain. W. AND J. WINS AGAIN. Lewiston, Me., Nov. 11.—The Uni- versity of Maine’s cross country team which has not lost & race in five years won the fifth annual state champion- ship yesterday over a five mile course, with 24 points. Other scores were: 3ates 46, Bowdoin 62, and Colby 90. Herrick of Maine was the individual winner in 28 minutes, 15 seconds. COLGATE TO WEAR NUMBERS. Hamilton, N. Y., Nov. 11.—Colgate authorities were pretty well satisfled with the experiment of numbering players, which was tried out in the Yale game. If nothing occurs to change the views of the officials the players will keep thelr respective numbers throughout the rest of the schedule. PHILLIES DROP HURLERS. Philadelphia, Nov. 11.—Manager Moran started to cut out the dead wood from the Phillies and has be- gun by selling Pitchers George Mc- Quillan and George Chalmers to the Kansas City American Association club. 3 BEATS RECTOR. 11.—Young Me- | decisively de- ew York in a 15-round bout here last night. From the ninth round until the finish, “Mc- McAUL Bridgeport, Nov. Aulffie of Bridgeport Brickerhoff at 4, Webster at 5, Ack- | er and Calder alternating at 6, Brow- | | soals. WATERWAGON MEN WIN. | ! Temple of Honor Has FEasy Time i With Plainville Masons, The Phoenix Temple of Honor car- pet bowling team the game with B e AL M evening and record when against results on the Rink 1, Temple of Honor, skip Ander- 20, had a walkover in Frederick lodge, A. team of Plainville last incidentally set they piled 24 for their cpponents. a The rinks were as follows | son | Rink mons, third Masons, Temple Masons, skip Robertson, of Honor, skip 1- skip McGernan, 9; ank, Temple of Honor, skip , 25, Masons, skip Seymour 7. There will be no league game tonight. | Monday night Phoenis lodge, I. O. O. F., will play W. L. Morgan lodge, | K. of P. HONOR FOR JOHN COLLYER. N. Y., Nov. 11.—John Coll- stant coach of the Chelsea-on-Hudson, has of the Cornell ty un- Ithaca, ver, Cornell crew, from been elected president Student Council, the univers dergraduating board. TIC BEAT HARVARD. Cambridge, Ma Nov. 11— Princeton defeated Harvard at soc- cer yesterday by a score of 4 to 2. Preyel, the visitors' center, was the individual star, and scored all four Cooke and Rice scored Har- vard’s points. RS HANDBALL RESULTS, The first round in the handball se- ries was brought to a close at the Y. MG, resulted as follows: 17; Dudack 21, Gross 14; Molyneux 21, Calvert 13; Molyneux 21, Calvert 14. The semi-finals will be played next week, A, last evening, when the games Dudack 21, Gross FRESHMEN BEATEN. The High school freshmen down to a 43 to 6 defeat at the hands of the sophomore eleven at Walnut went Auliffe had his opponent in a bad Sy, Hill park this morning. before ran slightly over 60,000, | strikes is generally for or Rush and in Just as the the Red Sox crippled new | up 70 points | | 8 | (887 PRODUCED SOME SWATTERS Fiiteen Players Slammed Pill -at 400 and Over Clip What do you know about a baseball season that produced fifteen pastimers | with a batting average of 400 or bet- ter? You guessed right. It hap- pened in the olden days of big league pastiming in the days of which grand- father likes to tell of how they pickled the pill. Thirty years ago the National league and the American association held the spotlight in baseball, as do the Na- American leagues today. to be exact— tional and It was then—in 18 that the hardest hitting on record came to pass. that the American association records showed In year cleven players with a batting average | of .400 or better. | O'Neil, Caruthers and Robinson, of | st. Louis; Mack ‘of | Louisville; Lyons and Stovey, of the | Athletics; Bedford and Orr, of the Metropolitans; of Baltimors, and Burch, of Brooklyn. The same ason the National league kicked in with a quartet hit- ting in the .400 set, the players being Anson of Chicago, Ferguson of Phida- delphia, and Brouthers and Thomp- son of Detroit, Only once since that memorable season of 1887 has there been more than two .400 wallopers in one year. In 1894 Duffy of Boston, Thompson of Detrolt, and Delehanty and Turner of Philadelphia, slugged their way into the champion circle. Since 1913, the last time Ty Cobb turned the trick, no big time leader has hit for .400. It would seem that the National league gave up the business of devel- oping .400 swatters when the Amer- ican league came into existence. The parent organization hasn't owned g .400 hitter since 1899 when Ed Dele- hanty and Jesse Burkett hit for the high mark. Three American leaguers, Lajole, Cobb and Jackson, havd turned in a season’s batting card with an average of .400 or better. All told there have been 31 pas- timers who have hit for .400 or bet- ter since the big show was organized ter since the big show was organized. Seven have been repeaters, among them Ross Barnes and Jesse Burkett, who stayed in the .400 set three sea- sons, and Ty Cobb, Ed Delehanty, Sam Thompson, “Pop” Anson and Harry Stovey, with records of two seasons each, Ty Cobb is the only player who stacks up with the ald- time sluggers. Ty may not be so wicked with the bludgeon, but even grandfather will have to admit that bis batting average year by year coms« rares favorably with those of the old toys. The players were Browning and Burns, present day Today a .400 clouter is indeed a rare bird. Perhaps some pastimer of the tuture will hit his way to fame, but in all probability when Tyrus passes out of the big yard he will take back to Georgia the last of the major lcague’s .400 batting marks Batsmen who have made age of .400 or better: Club St. Louis Browning, Louisville Lyons, Athletics Caruthers, St. Louis Barnes, Chicago Duffy, Boston Keeler, Baltimore Robinson, St. Louis Turner, Philadelphia Burkett, Cleveland Wright, Boston .... Lajoie, Philadelphia | Anson, Chicago Dunlap, St. Louls Cobb, Detroit Erouthers, Detroit cees Ferguson, Philadelphia .. Mack, Louisville Cabb, Detroit Burkett, Cleveland v enzel, Pittsburgh o Delehanty, Philadelphia. ... Esterbrook, Metropolitan Anson, Chicago rke, Pittsburgh Thompson, Detroit Jackson, Cleveland Radford, Metropolitan Stovey, Athletics | Barnes, Chicago Rarnes, Chicago Sa Meyerle, Philadelphia . 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