New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1916, Page 8

NEW RRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1916. | Yale Commences Work For Princeton Contest---New Ruling May Mean Fraternity End---Carter Quils | EIi Athletics---Fulton Outclassed By Condon---With the Bowlers on Aetna Allies---Brown at the Top YALE TUNING UP FOR TIGER BATTLE Squad 15 Put Through Long Sig- nal Drill--Jacques in Uniform New Haven, Nov. put 14.—Yale's foot- ball team through long ignal drill vesterday afternoon and hard will be the preparation for t championship game with the Le- son and Braden were rest and substitutes took the signal drill. The which went through on hour’s actice composed of Mose- Comerford, ends; Taft and k and Fox, Smith, quar- and Neville, halfbacks fullback. returned to the team for ime in almost three weeks >4 considerable life. He is » stronge the was a today a scrimiage order of the day in the 1 Tigers in Princeton on Saturday. gore, Hutch given a da the cam and ack; land Jacques Jacques the fir and The big full- nto the Prince- 2 a first substitute ho will be kept in for his ; xie, is rounding into | eondition, and with him in the game | the right end of the line should be | strengthened per cent. It now looks as though all the cripples with > of Sheldon and Bing- | oth out of the game for good, would te in e play Saturday. | Sheldon practice yesterday for the firs! time in three weeks. He came out of the infirmary a few days rying to Stop Fumbling. 11 the Princeton football ved in the Harvard 3 ; afternoon and turned his attention to a brisk serim- mage between the second varsity and the scrub teams, Two Princ Baker and Eddic charze of the scrub Instilled enough enable them to second varsity. and ‘Gillespie at serimmage and feature. Ames and Eddy had a drill in re- ceiving punts and Winne and Funk were running down under kicks. | Rush is endeavoring to eliminate the | most glaring faults of Saturday’s con- test and fumbling kicks was probably old stars, Hobey art, were given team and they life into the men to walk right over the Latrobe at tackle end were the their work a in was men on the de- | New Haven, Nov. the defeat of the Yale eleven Brown last Saturday, Harvard thinks itself reasonably sure of an- other victory over the blue. How- ever, it should reflect on what might have happened if Brown and not Princeton had faced the crimson Nov. 11. The impression exists in well informed football circles that Brown would have whipped Harvard. The game was just such a test in which a fine runner like Pollard or Legore 14—In view of by now the most noticeable. In order to en- ter the Yale game on an equal foot- | Ing\with the Blue the Tigers must be | able to handle LeGore’s punts fault- lessly | With an inferior offence Rush's | men cannot afford lose a lot of ground by fumbling. Halsey, who re- placed McGraw at tackle Saturday, played brilliantly and in consequence | there will be a fight for that position this week, with McGraw, La- | trobe and Hal as chief contenders | and Kaufman as a strong possibility. Latrobe had the call for this position arly in the season, but an injury put him out of the running for several weeks | to Harvard Regulars Rost. ! Mass., Nov. regnlar football players all had off yesterday afternoon, the only men on the field who played the game with Princeton last Satur- | doy being Flower and Bond. Both | worked in combination with Bond at | halfback and Robinson at quarter. The men engaged a signal drill and n the short and very light serimmage in which mostly subs were used, The return of Robinson means that the ficht agaln is on between him and Murray for varsity quarterback. Har- vard, from its work vesterday, is like- Iy to continue in its intention to play the substitutes against Brown this week. Most of the first team came F“down to the field for Haughton's blackboard talk, and a few of them followed the drill in the Stadlum. Dadman, Thacher and Murray were among the latter. Snowstorm at Hanover. Hanover, N. H,, Nov. 14.—A driving mow storm lasting all afternoon forced the varsity squad to practice Inside the baseball cage when it be- gan the last week of drill of the year yesterday. All came out of the Pennsylvania contest without any se- rious injuries, although Neely and Youngstrom have minor hurts that will keep them on the side lines for a day or two. An extended lecture on the faults of Baturday’'s game was followed by a half hour of light signal practice, in which the varsity line was used with SMOKE - OXMOOR | ASANT ~e CIGAB ABaLn, e BO‘WE EARLY orx ©Oii That Cold fretna Allies II STREE | board of | earned victory for the blue. ! speedsters of the gridiron. | Kenan led the Wesleyan squad light practice | would have enjoyed a carnival. On the eve of its two big tests Yale certainly is in a bad fix. It expected a lot of trouble from Brown, which many leading scouts rate the best team in the east. However, the Yale strategy looked for a hard Evident- ly it reckoned without Pollard, who is econd only to Billy Moore among Jones Plans Some Changes In Yale For Princeton Evidently the impre Yale team gained by the Colgate coach, was well founded. Iec declared that the blue line w not a first class one and that it allowed the opposition backs to slip through pretty regular- ly. After holding the Brunonians at bay for a half Yale relaxed its ance and Pollard did the rest. Some folks who have been watching the El- lis closely declare the trouble at Yale too much beef along the line. They i said that the predilecton for pound- age has been favored to the detri- ment of speed. If such be the case there had better be a quick change for the Harvard game. ., It is said that Coach Jones will make some changes for the Princeton game. Hutchinson, who played center again Colgate, will who played ¢enter against Colgate, will be shifted. Photo show sHutchin- I son kicking. of the Rankhart, over a week ago second string backs. All the first choice backfield was given a rest. Wesleyan Getting Ready. Middletown, Nov. 14.—Coach Dan out for a short drill and yesterday afternoon in preparation i for the Columbia game on Saturday. ; There was no scrimmage, but there scrimmages tomorrow, ! Wednesday and hursday. Lawson, who broke his shoulder in the Con- necticut Aggies game, is back at quar- terback and Webb has been put at halfback with Harmon. While Capt. Deetjen has gone to fullback. Brown sitll is out of the game with tonsilitis, but is expected out in a day or so. | will be stiff Syracuse in Shape. Syracuse, Nov. 14.—The Syracuse football squad came out of the car- nival with Susquehanna in fine con- dition. The light Pennsylvania eleven was no match even for the second and third stringers of Bill Hallen- back’s squad and the locals are in fairly good fettle to begin prepara- tions for the biggest contest of the season, the annual game with Colgate. Syracuse scouts saw Colgate play Rochester and allow the Rochester team a touchdown, but there is an impression that Colgate did not exert itself unduly to stop Rochester. Sharpe Lectures Players. Ithaca, N. Y. Nov. 14.—The Cor- nell training table squad met Head Coach Sharpe after dinner last even- |ing and after the squad had listened to frank criticism of certain faults manifested in the Michigan game, the football players were given their in- structions for the final two weeks work for the Pennsylvania game on | Thanksgiving day- This is the prin- | ciple Cornell objective now. 3 The coaches hope to eliminate the | poor tackling that cropped out last Saturday and they are seeking to got | more drive into the attack. With the i team in good condition physically and play materfally improved and team work hetter than before the football wtion here is much brighter than was immediately after the defeat Harvard. sit it Ty Berry Now a Regular. Philadelphia, Nov. 14— Howard Berry, now again is a regular on the University of Pennsylvania football team He will bg a fi string back field man in the remaining games on the Red and Blue schedule. This was the verdict of Head Coach Folwell at the end of the Penn-Dartmouth game last Saturday, when Berry made the touchdown that paved the way for a Penn draw. In the practice on Franklin fleld yesterday afternoon Berry was at fullback, Bell at quarter, with Derr {and Williams holding down the thalf- | back posts. This does not mean, ne- | cessarily, t Light has been de- | posed, but it does signify that either Light, Williams or Derr must give ‘way to the soldier athlete who came through the game Saturday in ex- cellent condition. ATNA ALLEYS' RESULTS Automatic Operators Hands of N, Defeat TLathe B, Machine Company— Hickey’s Work a Feature, The lathe hands of the New Britain Machine company defeated the auto- matic operators two out of three games at the Aetna alleys last even.- | ing. Hickey of the winners was high | man for the match with a total of 4298 and high single of 127. Tryon's work was the feature of the losers. The Monday afternoon matinee of the L. L. G. club produced some very interesting bowling from the bers assembled. The scores in leagues are as follows: Automatics. 73 i 70 80 8 90 79 Bertz . Duffy . Syng .. Tryon Robertson 404 Boyle ... Anderson Linn .. Logan Hickey 58 41 50 45 S 61 48—197 47 Mrs, L, G. Howard Mrs. W. Heyers mem- | both | { P., went down to defeat at the hands | BROWN ON ToP | Providence Eleven Prevents all Op- ponents I'rom Crossing Goal Line— Pittsburgh and Army Unbeaten. Brown, Pittsburgh and West Point stand in the front rank of the college foothall elevens, Their defeat, slates are not smirche” by nd leaders Brown is alc not having ¢ in its goal line da. Al its opponents has re- sulted from s from the field. Rutgers and le having scored the Brunonians by the toe route. Saturday’s results recorded the first def of the season for Princeton and Yale, the former losing to Har- vard and the Rlis falling under the swift attack of Brown. Another un- expected happening on Saturday was the defeat of Tufts hy Sprinsdeld Y. M. C. A. college, the latter trimming the Medford eleven with a marvelous display of npen play. The seaon is drawing to a close, and indications point to another in- teresting number of games this ap- proaching Saturday. Dartmouth ends its season in a minor game with West Virginia Wesleyan this week. The Green' has just passed through a schedule which carried it away from home on four successive Saturdays in games against exceptionally strong elevens in Georgetown, Princeton, Syracuse and Pennsylvania. been cross the | scoring done by on GARTER QUITS YALE Displeasure With Athletic Reorganiza- tion Plans Given as Cause of Action w 20 Years of Service, New Carter, Haven, Nov. Yale's 14.—Walter pitcher, 1895, baseball F. and member former since his graduation in of the Yale mittee, veste graduate com- v sent his resignation Robert N. Corwin, chair- Yale board of control. na secret of the fact that to Professor man of the Carter made reorganization plans. He spoke his mind plainly regarding them and de- ned to continue as a baseball ad- Carter heen for twenty R ale’s leading haseball advise No other old athlete has had such continuous service in conpnection with Yale athletic committees except Wal- ter Camp. Carter is law of Charles has a Svans Hughes, He wrate a heated letter to the Yale offi- ' cials last May protesting against their allowing Mme, Gadski to sing in the Yale bowl, on ground that her hus- band was a German spy and that her sentiments on the Huropean war should bar her from being received at Yale. While in college Carter caught, pitched and played first base years for the Yale nine. WEEGHMAN IS RE-ELECTED. Chosen President of Cubs—Tinker Still in Dark. Chicago, Nov. of the Chicago Nationals met here vesterday, but they failed to take the expected action in the Joe Tinker. Tinker still is as to whether he will be continued as manager of the Cubs or handed his release. The annual meeting of the club did not cause any baseball excitement. Charles Weeghman was re-elected president of the club and progress was reported in upbuilding the team It is understood that the managerial case of question has been leff to the discre- | {tion of Weeghman. JAPS WELL PLEASED. While no have from Ishiya Kumagae Hachis- hiro Mikami, the Japanese tennis player, that they will return here next summer, they have written here of | their complete satisfaction over treatment accorded them during their tour of the country last summer. Quite a number of men prominent in tennis circles have received from the Japanese and among them is Julian 8. Myrick, president of the West Side Tennis clnb, where the Or- ientals played in thn national tourna- | ment. assurances come and PYTHIANS B Washington L. Morgan lodge, K. of of the Phoenix lodge, 1. O. O. pet bowlers on the Fraternal | rinks last evening, score 60 to 37. sults on each rink were as fol- s: Rink 1, K. of P., Skip Redding , L. 0. O. ., Skip Danberg 17; Rink <. of P., Skip Dolan 12, I. 0. O. F., Nettleton 13; Rink 3, K. of P., Barbour 5, I O. O .F. Skip vick 30. Tonight P. O. 8. of A. will v the Sons of St. George. F., car- league MOTORCYCLE Phoenix, A Nov. 14—Don Johns. of Pasadena, Cal- ,broke the world's motorcycle record for five miles on a circular dirt track at the state fair grounds here yesterday. ‘His time was 3 minutes 58 seconds. | BREAKS RECORD 102 88111 93—405 © Miss A, Clark . Mrs, F. L. Hart ... BLIZZARD FOR YATE GAME. New Haven, Nov. 14.—Weather Forecaster Horace Johnson predicts a blizzard for Yale-Harvard football day, November 2 he is not pleased with Yale's athletic brother-in- i four 14—The stockholders | in the dark | the | letters | PORT 2y of the three | The Law of the Wild The Yak can’t whip the Elephant Along the jungle wa The Digdig doesn’t like to hold The Buffala at bay; | The Leopard is a husky beast Along the wild d\\ule, Ana vet he In a Gorill: The Zebra, when he meets the Lion, Is set against the squall; But the Tiger finds the Bulldog is The toughest dish of all. The Tiger has a noble swipe In either regal hoof; | He's not the type of animal A stranger likes to spoof; And most of those in Jungleville, From Elephant to Toad, Will give him all the right of way He needs along the road; Not even Lions or Rhinos drive The Tiger to the wall, But he finds the bally Bullddog Is the toughest of 'em all. The Record. The abave lyrical outburst is writ- ten, not in behalf of Yale, but rather in behalf of the Record. In the last dozen years, had had many better football teams than Yale has known. But in the last dozen years Prince-' ton has beaten Yale but once. That ! event took place in 1911, and even | that ane Tiger victory was more of an | individual triumph for Sammy White | thdn it was for Princeton. Princeton undoubtedly should have ' beaten Yale In 1910, in 1912, in 1914 and in 1915, Yet Yale won three of these games and tied up the other. Taking no credit from Yale, so happened that Yale has been at her best against Princeton and Prince- ton at her lowest ebb against Yale. Last fall no one would have recog- nized the Princeton team that faced Yale as the same machine that gave Harvard's fine eleven an even fight the turday before. What happened was merely another | chapter in an old book. The Last Upset. Princeton last season should have ‘beaten Yale at least 15 to 0. The | Tiger then was beyond debate, 15 points better than his Bulldog rival. But for all that, Yale won again. | Princeton can generally be counted upon to give the best she has against , Harvard. 1 But when Yale comes along, every- IIall it was fumbles, that cost over 400 yards, more ground than both teams were able to gain by rushing. But if it hasn’'t been one thing, has 'generally been another. And whatever happened as a rule has al- ways found Yale on top, Once within twelve years has Princeton upset the dope, and this time it was Yale who made the. de- cisive fumble, The Next Test, No one has realized more than Rush the bad psychology that follows | Princeton into her Yale games, The Tiger coach realized last year that his men, not through any lack of courage of determination, were look- ing for something to happen that would bring disaster, They were looking for the worst because, know- ing tradition, they remembered that the worst had always broken in the past. With too many Princeton teams playing Yale it hasn’t been a matter of speed, power, caurage or skill, but Fate. And it is poor psychology to enter a | battle wondering just where Fate will decide to break up the game. Knowing all this, Rush has been working hard to exterminate the germs of such a psychology. Princeton’s mental attitude toward is Yale game, and he believes that he has succeeded. Princeton’s Chance. Despite an unfavorable psychology, which Rush may have eliminated by new, we look for Princeton to be at her best in this coming game. If Yale wins, which Yale may do, it will be because she had a better eleven | —not because Princeton cracked Rush has brought his eleven along at a much slower clip, and instead of | being at the crest against Harvard facing down hill, it should be at its ! best for this final game. Up to the Tiger Now. There is move at stake for Prince- {ton in this game than there is for Yale. Yale has the memory of only one Princeton defeat in over a foot- ball decade; whereas Princeton has the memory of one victory. Some- ting more—Princeton has the closer memory of last year to erase—the roughest defeat in Nassau annals. The bitter memory of that contest | still lingers with Princeton camp followers, who went to New Haven | looking for a romp. Most of the men who faced Yale in that Nassau disaster are back this fall So they still have a chance, against a much better Yale team, to make partial restitution to the pained { recallections of those who have mnot yet been able to forget that Blue carnival. Princeton has this to remember Princeton | soiraal thing seems to happen in a lump, Last | a matter of eight Tiger | it He has been warking hard to change ‘ LIGHT Grantland Rice also: She must face a far better Yale eleven this next week than the one she met last year. improved conditions at last 40 per cent. and with Le Gore around to lead an attack, the Yale offence will not be forced to depend upan hap- hazard smashes, waiting for & Prince- ton mistake. In addition to which, Yale has the confidence that comes from a high average against her old rival from Tigertown. And this con- fidence keeps an eleven hustling hard, even when it for an uphill fight, STAR BOUT FIZZLES Young Fulton Proves That He Is a Bad Speculation For Conn. Boxing Promoters—Brindisi Beaten. New York proved to, the entire satis- | faction of about 1,800 fight fans that bringing him to Connecticut to meet rivals is a bad speculation, and it is probable that Meriden and other cities where pugilism is permitted has seen the last of this one time favorite. Billed to meet Harry Condon of Brooklyn in the star bout last eve- ning, Fulton made a sorry showing and at the end of the tenth round Referee Fitzgerald stopped the fray and awarded the decision to Con- | don. This was a humanitarian act, for although it was said that Fulton was able to continue, it was a grue- some spectacle to watch Condon bat- ter him from pillar to post and at times the features of Fulton were un- recognizable on account of the pro- fuse flow of gore from a bad wound over his left eye. On a previous oc- casinn Fulton was ruled out of the ring for foul fighting, and it appeared s if he intended to lost last night's battle by the same route. Twice in the sixth round he hit his opponent very low and amid the jeers of the | crowd Referee Fitzgerald warned him. So bad did Fulton become that Mike Doran a member of the Lenox A. C. stepped into his corner and | warned him that if his actions con- tinued no money would be forthcom- ing. Condon as in the previous battlea in Meriden tried his level best to make the affair satisfactory but the other | fellow simply refused to fight, except { when like a rat he was cornered. When the bout was stopped no one seemed displeased as it was too one- sided to be interesting and fears that | something might happen that would | injure the game in the Silver City tended to allay any resentment. The feature battle of the evening was between Chick McCormack of Hartford and Frank Brindisi of New Haven and was won by the Capitol City boy on points, his knowledge of the game overshadowing the willing- ness of his opponent to mix it up. Prior to the mill it was announced that “Semky” Waltz would llke to meet the winner. Can you imagine a ‘“‘champ” issuing challenges or what would happen if either Brindisi or McCormack takes this fellow serious. The smile worn by Jimmy Welton of Meriden in all of his previous ap- pearances in the ring, faded away last evening when he encountered Jack Flynn of Middletown. The vis- jtor, while unacquainted with many of the tricks of the padded circle game, was able to connect very frequently on his much lighter opponent, and at the end of the fray, it looked like a draw. e OLD BALL PLAYER DIES. Binghamton, N Y., Nov. 14.—Mich- ael Roach, one of the prominent fig- ures in State league baseball until a ago, dled in New York last night, following an operation. He was formerly catcher for the Washington team in the American as- soclation and later was connected | with Ilion and ‘Wilkesbarre, being half owner and manager of the Bing- hamton State league tcam several | vears ago. 1 short time PENNSYLVANIA PLAYER DEAD. Harold B. Watson, died in a hos- pital at Meadeville, Pa., yesterday from injuries sustained in a football game Friday. He had been forbidden to play, it is stated, and when he suf- fered an internal injury, said nothing about it until the pain became so in- tense he was compelled to secure medical assistance. | which Millard J. HANDBALL RESULT The final games in the second round of the handball tournament at the Y. M. C. A. last evening resulted as follows: Dudack defeated Noren, 21 to 15, 21 to 20; Norfeldt defeated Andler, 21 to 13, and 21 to 11; Mar- don defeated Ekstrand, 21 to 16 and 21 to 17; Molyneaux defeated Wash- burn, 21 to 16 and 21 to 16. The semi-finals will be played tomorrow night. Tad Jones has | | Fraternity is thrown to the rear | Meriden, Nov. 14—Young Fulton of | | 1ttle fellows. NEW RULING MAY BREAK FRATERNITY Players Apt to Get Monthly Pay- ments, Twelve Months in Year It is said that the death blow to encroachment will be struck with a proposed change in cgn- tract form. At present baseball play- ers under contract, the most strict interpretation of the sense of the word, for but six months of the year. During that time only, in semis monthly instalments, do they receive their salaries in full. It has been pro- posed to change this system in at least so far as the major leagues are com- cerned. The idea is a form of contract thot will continue in operation through- out the twelve months of the year. It is belleved that such contractural terms would tend to closer business interests mutually. Players would be answerable for their athletic life dur- ing the off season. Certain it is that the minor league problem of today calls for certain t€r- ritorial adjustments. Last season was a rather unprofitable one for the Many of the leagues of humble classification were forced to dishand. A few of those highly rated had a hard struggle to complete their seasons. The chief problem for re-organization, of course, is to util- ize the fertile territory while ecopo= mizing on mileage. Two distant causes contributed to financial losses in the minor league world in 1916. The chief one was unusually unfavorable weather the first three months of the playing sea- son. The other was inflated playing values, an afterclap of the late base- ball war. The chief source of minor leagué revenue lies in the development and sale of players to clubs of higher rating. The 1916 major league mar- ket had already been glutted as a re- sult of the death of the Federal leagu® This unexpected twist came after the major leagues had loaded up for 1916 with the customary wealth from the minor league material. When the players of a near-third league were absorbed by the American apd National circuits, there, to ake room for the seasoned Federal talent, had to turn back the 1915 fall erop. Consequently there was little buying last year. OLD GUARD PLANS T0 HEAD OFF T. R. Leaders Alarmed by Possiilities Four Years from Now - New York, Nov. 14—Theodors Roosevelt’s characterization of reports | that he might seek the republican nomination for president in 1920 as & “pipe dream,” contained in a des spatch from Oyster Bay, cau a8 much interest in republican circles as any piece of political news ye-’ are in terday. The effect of Mr. Roosevelt’s statel ment may be Jjudged when it known that it was followed almo immediately by a report that a coms bination of “Old Guard” republicans who have been connected with na- tional headquarters already had ®be- gun to get together to forestall such a contingency, just as they did afteg the defeat of President Taft in 1912, One-time progressives who have been connected with republican heads quarters were openly jubilant over the Roosevelt boom. “They wouldn't take our man fin 1912,” sald one. “They wouldn't take him this year. See what happened. Tt will be the same thing if they don’t in 1920, and maybe those op- posed to him won't have any choice in the matter.” George W. Perkins was at his desk at republican headquarters for & short time during the day. He des clined to discuss the result of the election or his call on Mr. Roosevelt Saturday. Seven Mistakes, Count "Em. Seven mistakes are given as the reason for the defeat of Charles E. Hughes for president in the current issue of the New York Progressive, of Bloomer {s editor. These, the Progressive states, were the failure of the republicans to nomin- ate Theodore Roosevelt at Chicago, the failure to nominate a progressive like John M. Parker or Hiram John- son for vice president, the failure to choose a “live’” national chairman, the failure to select wise and effl- cient members of the campaign com= mittee from the “Old Guard”, the mistake of not recognizing the im= portance of the progressive vote in the west, the failure of Mr. Hughes to recognize the progressives in Cal- ifornja and the erroneous assump- tion that the farmer vote would be republican as usual. Mr. Roosevelt is suggested as a pos- sibility for 1920. ‘‘Many persons will be thinking,” says the Progressive, “that, after all, Mr. Rooseveit is the best timber in the country for a real, live president, who knows how .46 make us feel that we are -real Ilve Americans with backbones and cols sciences.”